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CV4OU  picture  the  Irresistible  woman  before  you 
O  see  her.  She  appears  in  a  halo  of  exquisite 
fragrance.  Men  are  instinctively  drawn  to  her.  The 
power  to  attract,  to  fascinate  is  the  secret  of 
IRRESISTIBLE  PERFUME.  Let  it  be  yours,  too 

On  your  next  adventure  apply  a  touch  of  Irresistible 
Perfume  to  your  hair,  on  your  lips,  your  throat 
and  behind  your  ears.  A  drop,  too,  on  your  lingerie 
is  so  feminine  and  so  exciting. 

Millions  of  women  everywhere  —  on  Park  Avenue, 
along  Broadway,  in  countries  throughout  the  world 
.  .  .  prefer  IRRESISTIBLE  PERFUME  for  its  exotic, 
lasting  fragrance. 

To  be  completely  ravishing  use  all  of  the  Irresistible 
J/KK^^  Beauty  Aids.  Each  has  some  spe- 

^^jjm  cial  feature  which  gives  you  glo- 

^WpHKj-  rious  new  loveliness.  Certified  pure, 
•^Jljs^^^k     laboratory  tested  and  approved. 


Only  10c  each  »t  all  5  &  10c  Stores 


RRESISTIBLE  UP  LURE-THE  NEW  GLOWING  VIBRANT  LIPSTICK 


RADIO  STARS 


POLITE  SOCIETY 


a  SOCIALITE  'Q.  y  i  jjl^  • 

AND  A  DENTIST  CLASH 
OVER  A  LAMB  CHOP  *'°°"""'^"»^'7^ 


(Bat  t/ie  civilized  way  to  build  firm  gums  is  IPANA  and  MASSAGE) 


You're  RlCHT-quite  right.  This  is  a 
social  crime!  The  girl  is  a  barbarian 
—a  social  outlaw!  But  before  you  dismiss 
her— before  you  turn  the  page— listen  to 
the  frank  opinion  of  a  modern  dentist. 

"A  crime.'  Nonsense!  I  hope  millions 
of  people  see  this  picture!  It  may  be 
shocking  to  some  people  but,  from  my 
professional  viewpoint,  it's  a  perfect  les- 
son in  the  proper  care  of  the  teeth  and 
gums.  If  more  people  chewed  as  vigor- 
ously, there  would  be  a  lot  less  evidence 
of  tender,  ailing  gums— of  that  serious 
dental  warning— 'pink  tooth  brush'." 


Today's  soft  foods  rob  our  gums  of  the 
vigorous  chewing  they  need  for  sturdy 
health.  Denied  this  natural  work  and 
exercise,  they  grow  flabby,  tender,  sensi- 
tive! And  when  they  signal  tiiat  sensi- 
tiveness, when  they  flash  tliat  warning 
"tinge  of  pink"— see  your  dentist. 

"Pink  tooth  brush"  doesn't  always 
mean  that  you  are  in  for  serious  trouble 
—hut  your  dentist  should  he  the  judge. 
Usually  it  only  means  gums  under- 
worked and  over-sensitive- gums  that 
need  exercise— gums  that  will  quickly 
respond  to  the  healthful  stimulation 


of  Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage. 

It  is  very  simple  to  rub  a  little  extra 
Ipana  into  your  gums  every  time  you 
brush  your  teeth.  You'll  soon  feel  a  tin- 
gle of  new  circulation— new  life.  Gums 
look  better,  feel  firmer.  They  show  a 
grateful  response  to  this  new  stimulation. 
For  Ipana  is  especially  made  to  benefit 
your  gums  as  well  as  clean  your  teeth. 

Young  or  old— play  safe.  Even  before 
you  have  a  first  warning  of  danger. adopt 
this  modern  denial  health  routine.  You'll 
certainly  be  far  safer  from  the  really  seri- 
ous gum  troubles. 


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RADIO  STARS 


Rhapsody  in  flowers.  That  is 
Blue  Waltz  Perfume.  Not  just 
ihe  fragrance  of  one  flower,  ^ 
but  a  myriad  of  flowers  ...  not  ''t " 
of  one  mood,  but  many  moods. 
Its  blended  bouquet  adapts 
itself  to  you  and  your  person-  ^) 
alily.  Use  it  to  be  gay,  allur-  £^ 
^  ing,  utterly  feminine!  Wear '^'^ 
it  for  the  one  you  love  best. 


RADIO  STARS 


THEL  M.  POMEROy.  Associa 


ABR!L  LAMARQUE.  Art  Editor 


LESTER  C  GRADY,  Editoi 


26  STORIES,  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


STORIES 


Dom  Caldwell  Davis  \6 


2,000  MILES  THROUGH  RADIO  CITY 

(A  Radio  City  Page  Boy  looks  at  celebrities)  

THE  MAJOR  ON  PARADE 

(Meet  the  real  Major  Bowes)  Miriam    RogerS  20 

"IF  MUSIC  BE  THE  FOOD  OF  LOVE  " 

(What  love  means  to  Lily  Pons)    Nancy  Barrows  22 

A  DATE  WITH  RUDY  VALLEE 

(Before  the  Vagabond  Lover  became  famous)  None+te    Kutner  24 

DO  YOU  WANT  ME  ON  THE  AIR? 

(Clark  Gable  ponders  a  perplexing  question)  Gladys   Hall  28 

RADIO'S  REBEL  CHILD 

(The  March  of  Time  submits  to  no  censorship)  Mory  WatlcinS  RceveS  30 

WALLINGTON  MEETS  HIS  WATERLOO 

(/I  ^/>/— and  her  name /a  Betty  Jane  Cooper)  William    L.  Vallee  32 

RADIO  AND  THE  RACE  TRACK 

(What  Bryan  Field  does  for  "the  sport  of  kings")  Tom    Meony  36 

YOU  .MUST  MEET  MY  SISTER 

(Each  tells  all  about  the  other)  Rosemory  ond  Priscilla  Lane  38 

A  HECTIC  BUT  HAPPY  MATING 

(Helen  Hayes  and  Charles  MacArthur  make  a  pattern  for  marriage)  Mildred    MoS+in  40 

DYNAMO— PINT  SIZE 

(Unique  Ireene  Wicker,  The  Singing  Lady)    Leslie   Eaton  43 

IN  HIS  GRANDFATHER'S  FOOTSTEPS 

(Ted  Hammersfein  o/ The  Music  Hall)   Miriam    RogerS  45 

AT  HOME  WITH  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY 

(A  visit  with  the  cast  of  a  popular  program)    Franc    Dillon  46 

WINCHELL  THROUGH  A  KEYHOLE 

(Here's  the  low-down  on  Walter!)  Joclc    Honley  49 

WE'RE  ALL  SCHOLARS  NOW 

(Radio  is  our  college,  says  Rupert  Hughes)   Faith   Service  50 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 

19 


Radio   Ramblinss   6 

The  Radio  Hostess   8 

Fall— From  Head  to  Foot   10 

Keep  Young  and  Beautiful   12 

Board  of  Review   14 


For  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   26 

Between   Broadcasts   34 

Juvenile  Jamboree   42 

Tuning  up  the  Show  Boat   44 


Pinch  Hitters  Supreme   53 

Cover  by  EARL  CHRISTY 


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WALTZ 

PERFUME- FACE  POWDfcR 
LIPSTICK  •  BRILLIANTINE 
COLD  CREAM  •  TALCUM 

lOc  at  5  &  100  Stores 


RADIO  STARS 


NORMA  SHEARER 'LESLIE  HOWARD 


am  CO  and 


JOHN  BARRYMORE 

EDNA  MAY  OLIVER  •  BASIL  RATHBONE  •  C.  AUBREY  SMITH 
ANDY  DEVINE* RALPH  FORBES  •  REGINALD  DENNY* CONWAY 
TEARLE  •  ROBERT  WARWICK  -  VIOLET  KEMBLE-COOPER 
• 

You've  heard  about  it  for  months!  You've  read  about 
It  everywhere!  It's  all  true.  This  is  the  greatest  love 
drama,  the  mightiest  entertainment  of  our  time.  Every 
moment  throbs  as  sparks  fly,  as  steel  meets  steel . . . 
and  the  crimson  follows  the  rapier's  thrust... Lovers  meet 
...and  dream. ..and  plan.  Pomp  and  grandeur  sweep 
by  in  spectacular  pageantry.  Here  are  thrills,  sus- 
pense to  spur  the  pulse. ..tender  romance  to  charm 
the  heart. ..beauty  to  fill  the  eye.  A  love  story  deep 
in  the  heart  of  the  world  forever,  now  given  enthralling^ 
life  in  such  a  picture  as  the  screen  has  never  known. 

A  Metro-Go/dwyn-Mayer  Triumph 
Directed  by  George  Cukor 


"Swept  off  Jny  tmet"    —  Robert  imathley 

"A  far  greater  fttm  Ihon  'Mutiny   on  the  Bounty  " 
  -)<m  r 

"Lijt  if  among  the  jcrten's  mojor  octiievements  " 

  —  Wolfer  W.nchc 

"I  think  the  modem  Ameiicon  girl  hos  mony  Ihrngj  tc 
leom  from  the  Juliet  of  Normo  Sheorer,  and  I  odvije 
her  to  go  about  leorning  fhem  right  away  "— Anito  loos 


RADIO  STARS 


Your  radio  reporter  listens  in  — tells  all! 


Autumn — as  ever  ^^m!  It's  hard 
to  believe  it — but  the  cover  on  the 
magacine  says  October  .  .  .  So 
Autumn  it  is! 

And  Autumn  chans^cs  arc  in  the 
air-waves,  as  well  as  in  the  air  .  .  . 
But  we  won't  go  into  that.  Program 
l)sychology  being  what  it  is.  what's 
news  today  may  be  a  headache  to- 
morrow ! 

In  our  August  Ramblings,  for  ex- 
ample, we  remarked  that  Edward 
MacHugh  was  making  a  visit  to  his 
boyhood  home,  Dundee,  Scotland, 
and  that  he  would  resume  his  regu- 
lar broadcasts  on  August  third.  Then 
along  came  a  sponsor,  impressed  by 
NBC's  Gospel  Singer's  volume  of  fan 
mail — and  MacHugh  and  his  bride 
had  to  forego  their  vacation.  On 
July  sixth  he  started  his  first  network 
commercial  series,  on  the  NBC-Blue 
network. 


So  Zk.'c'll  stay  where  we're  safe- — 
and  Major  Bowes  and  Rudy  Vallee 
and  Kate  Smith  and  Frank  Fay  and 
all  the  others  will  have  to  take  their 
Autumn  places  without  a  bow  from 


SUMMER  MEMORIES 

Listening  to  Frank  Fay,  througli 
the  summer,  we  found  at  times  that 
a  litde  of  the  Elf  of  the  Ether  was 
enough.  Still,  we'd  rather  have  too 
much  Fay  than  none  at  all.  Fay  has 
a  delightfully  i)leasing  radio  person- 
ality. And  we  still  recall  with  de- 
light his  Romeo  to  ]ane  Cowl's 
Juliet. 

Another  delightful  remembrance 
from  the  summer  is  Ed  Wynn's  Sir 
Peter  Teazle,  with  Ethel  Barrymore 
as  Lady  Teazle.  For  once,  we  felt 
Sheridan's  School  For  Scandal  was 


George  Sivot,  noted  "Greek 
Ambassador,"  with  Doris 
Robbins   and    Ben  Pollack. 


Do  you  recognize  Grade 
Allen  in  her  new  hair-do? 
She's  gone  glamorous  on  us! 

done  as  it  should  be  done!  Both 
Ed  and  Ethel  were  in  top  form — 
and  a  madder,  merrier  bit  never 
came  over  the  air. 

-♦- 

Fred  Waring,  zvho  has  been  suffer- 
ing from  hay-fever  this  summer,  re- 
ceived from  a  fan  in  Maine  a  box 
of  pine  needles,  to  be  smoked  in  a 
pipe  as  a  cure.  Fred  isn't  a  smoker, 
but  he  immediately  borrowed  a  pipe 
and  tried  it  out.  No7V  he's  looking 
for  more  pine  needles! 

-*~ 

Pat  I'adgelt,  of  Pick  and  Pat 
(Molasses  'n  January  of  Show 
1 1  oat),  recently  has  purchased  a 
country  home  near  Smallwood,  New 


W  ide  World 

Maestro  Rublnoff  and  Eileen 
O'Connor  in  an  impromptu 
act  aboard  the  Queen  Mary. 

York.  You've  probably  heard — or 
guessed — its  name.  Yes,  it's  Chitlin 
Switch,  after  the  imaginary  Georgia 
crossroads  town  in  their  broadcasts. 

Pick  Malone  and  Pat  Padgett  have 
been  together  for  more  than  seven 
years.  In  height  and  weight  they  are 
almost  identical,  but  Pick  is  dark  of 
hair  and  complexion,  while  Pat  is 
sandy-haired  and  fair.  They  are 
one  of  radio's  happiest  teams — and 
call  each  other  "Willie." 

— 

Tzvo  other  favorites,  Honeyboy 
and  Sassafras,  zvore  derby  hats  all 
through  the  hot  spell.  No,  they 
weren't  mad — they  had  rubber  ice 
bags,  filled  with  ice,  inside  tlieir 
derbies! 

Phil  Baker,  on  a  personal  appear- 
ance tour,  stopped  at  summer  resorts 
whenever  possible,  to  get  away  from 
the  heat.  It  was  a  great  success — 
liis  last  resort  hotel  bill,  he  reports, 
snowed  him  under  ! 

NO  VACATION  FOR  VIVIAN 

A  birthday  girl  of  this  month  is 
Vivian  Delia  Chiesa,  who  has  spent 
a  busy  summer  learning  three  new 
operas  to  add  to  her  original  reper- 
toire of  seven,  for  her  debut  next 
season  with  the  Chicago  Civic  Opera. 
(Continued  on  page  72) 


RADIO  STARS 


Gracie  Alien  has  Jack  Benny  and  her  pal,  George  Burns,  in 
a  dither  as  the  cameras  start  cranking  on  "The  Big  Broadcast.' 


The  big  show  is  on  the  way 

Paramount's 
^THE  BIG  BROADCAST 
OF  1937 

with  Jack  Benny,  George  Burns  and 
Gracie  Allen,  Bob  Burns,  Martha 
Raye,  Benny  Goodman  and  his 

Orchestra,  Shirley  Ross,  Ray  Milland,  Frank 
Forest,  Benny  Fields  and  specialties  by  the 
following:  LEOPOLD  STOKOWSKI  and  his 
Symphony  Orchestra,  Louis  DaPron,  Eleanore 
Whitney,  Larry  Adier,  Virginia  (Pigtails) 
Weidler,  David  Holt,  Billy  Lee  .  .  .  Directed  by 
Mitchell  Leisen  ...  A  Paramount  Picture. 


No  less  than  the  King  of  Symphony  Music,  the  incomparable 
Leopold  Stokowski,and  the  King  of  Swing,  Benny  Goodman, 
preparing  to  delight  your  ears  in 'The  Big  Broadcast  of  1937" 


Here  they  are... the  biggest  bunch  of  stars  ever  assem- 
bled in  any  motion  picture ...  and  every  one  a  screen 
or  radio  favorite  .  .  . 


RADIO  STARS 


THE  RADIO  HOSTESS,  NANCY  WOOD,  PRESENTS 


Pet  its  foidts  form  the  ideal 
accompaniment  to  the  Hawai- 
ian Pineapple  Sundae — one  of 
Wayne  King's  favorite  desserts. 


On  a  hot  day  at  the  Waldorf, 
Wayne  King  seeks  cooling  re- 
freshment in  another  of  his 
favorite  ices,  Cherry  Almond 
Sundae. 


WAYNE  KING 


What  Wayne  King,  famous  band-leader,  likes  to  eat 


THE  soft  strains  of  a  waltz.  .  . 
Lovely  ladies  floating  dreamily  by, 
in  the  arms  of  their  escorts.  .  . 
Faces  smiling  u])  at  the  ()rche.stra 
leader,  smiling  at  the  joy  they  find 
in  dancing  to  his  mu.sic.  .  .  The 
haunting,  enchanting  music  of 
Wayne  King,  on  the  Starlight  Roof 
of  the  Waldorf-Astoria. 

There  the  recent  Xew  York  sum- 
mer engagement  of  Radio's  well 
known  il'altc  King  added  prestige 
to  his  already  tremendous  pop- 
ularity.    Like   Caesar,   "he  came, 


he  saw,  he  conquered,"  for  blase 
New  Yorkers,  who  so  often  turn 
thumbs  down  on  Chicago  favorites, 
acclaimed  the  unassuming  person- 
ality and  the  smooth,  quiet  music  of 
this  Middle  Western  maestro. 
Naturally  his  listeners  were  more 
receptive,  more  eager  to  dance  to 
the  pleasing  strains  of  his  dance 
tunes  because  of  the  i)leasure  they 
already  had  found  in  hearing  the 
Lady  Esther  Seromdes  conducted 
by  Wayne  King  over  the  air— once, 
twice  and  now  three  times  weekly. 


So  the  patrons  of  this  smart  ren- 
dezvous in  the  skies  were  prepared 
in  advance  to  like  this  leader  and 
his  band.  Not  surprising  then  that 
they  did  like  him — and  for  that 
matter,  so  did  L 

For  here,  I  discovered,  is  a  man 
who  is  devoid  of  pretense  and  who, 
though  necessarily  in  the  public 
eye,  dislikes  personal  publicity  so 
greatly  that  he  avoids  interviews 
whenever  i)ossible.  Yet  when  he  is 
interviewed,  he  is  gracious  and 
friendly  and  frank.  Or  so  I  found 
him,  when  we  discussed  the  subject 
on  which  I  had  come  to  see  him — 
his  favorite  foods. 

Wayne.  I  soon  discovered,  is  a 
family  man — one  who  would  rather 
have  you  enthuse  over  the  pictures 
of  his  lovely  wife  and  children  than 
congratulate  him  on  having  placed 
his  signature  at  the  bottom  of  one 
the  largest  contracts  ever  to  have 
been  signed  by  an  orchestra 
leader. 

And  what  a  charming  family  is 
that  of  Wayne  King.'    His  wife. 


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I  149  Madison  Ave,.  New  York  City  or  two  of  the  following  leaflets  if  I 


j  Please  send  me— ABSOLUTE- 
I  LY  FREE — recipes  for  Wayne 
I  King's  favorite  foods,  including 
I  the  Waldorf-Astoria  recipes. 


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RADIO  STARS 


beautiful  Dorothy  Janis,  once  of 
the  silver  screen.  His  older  child, 
a  precious  three-year-old  daugh- 
ter named  Penelope  but  called 
"Penny,  just  Penny."  for  short 
— a  curly  haired  miss  whose 
photographs  show  her  to  be 
equally  devastating  in  serious  or 
joyous  mood.  And  a  boy  of  less 
than  six  months  called  Wayne 
King  also — a  fine  youngster,  too, 
judging  by  his  pictures  and  his 
proud  daddy's  words. 

For  you  see,  my  information 
came  entirely  from  \\'a\ne 
King's  enthusiastic  descriptions 
and  from  photographs,  for  his 
family  did  not  accompany  him  to 
the  East. 

"They  went  instead  to  our 
farm  in  \\"isconsin,"  he  ex- 
plained, "where  it  is  always  cool 
nights  and  they  can  be  sure  of 
sound,  restful  sleep.  I'll  rejoin 
them  soon  for  my  vacation,"  and 
he  broke  into  a  broad  grin  at 
the  happy  prospect  of  the  re- 
union. 

But  pleased  though  1  was  over 
the  chance  to  talk  with  Mr. 
King  about  his  farm  and  his 
family,  I  remembered  my  duties 
as  culinary  reporter  and  brought 
up  the  subject  of  foods  and  cook- 
ing— with  some  trepidation,  I 
must  confess.  Perhaps  Wayne 
"did  not  give  a  hang  what  he 
ate!"  Worse  still,  perhaps  long 
experience  as  orchestra  leader  in 
hotels  and  smart  night  clubs  had 
so  influenced  his  eating  habits 
that  you  and  I  could  never  hope 
to  follow  any  of  his  suggestions ! 
Maybe  {Continued  on  page  94) 


HEY,  YOU  SISSIES!  THAT'S  NO 

GHOST  IT'S  JACK  KINNEY. 

TURN  AROUND  AND  CHASE  HIM 


Listen,  little  Susie — tell  everybody  that 
Fels-Naptha  Soap  is  safer,  too.  Won- 
derful for  daintiest  silk  things.  And 
easier  on  hands  because  every  golden 
bar  holds  soothing  glycerine. 


©  1936    PELS  a  CO. 


Banish  "Tattle-Tale  Gray" 
with  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP! 


RADIO  STARS 


This  hat  must  be  worn  with 
a  knowing  flair  and  is  de- 
signed for   a   piquant  face. 


By  Elizabeth 
Ellis 


A  sporty  number,  with  hat 
of  rust  brown;  tan  tweed 
jacket  checked  in  brown; 
and  brown  or  green  skirt. 
Below,  for  dinner  or  tea- 
dance,  a  black  satin  dress, 
collarless  ermine  jacket 
and  halo  hat  with  a  veil. 


FALL 

Ikead  to  -foot 

Something  smart  from  tip  to  toe 
for  fall,  shown  by  Betty  Wragge 


RECENTLY  a  well-known  screen 
star  remarked  to  me  that  she 
hates  hats  and  only  wears  one 
when  convention  absolutely  de- 
mands it.  Even  then  she  has  a 
habit  of  snatchinjj  it  off  the  mo- 
ment that  she  gets  indoors.  I 
thought  to  myself  what  a  lot  of 
fun  she  is  missing  and  doesn't 
know  it !  Es])ccially  this  fall  when 
hats  are  gayer  and  more  interest- 
ing looking  than  they  have  been  in 
a  long  while. 

Perhaps  that's  one  of  the  rea- 
sons why  I  found  Betty  Wragge 
such  a  treat.  I  had  discovered  a 
whole  batch  of  new  hats  that  were 
knockout  looking  and  I  wanted  to 
have  .someone  try  them  on  who 
appreciated  them  as  much  as  I 
did.  So,  having  a  date  with  Betty 
to  take  pictures  and  talk  over 
fashion  business,  I  called  her  up  to 
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suggest  that  she  meet  me  at  the 
milliners.  It  didn't  take  any  urg- 
ing. And  after  she  had  tried  on 
the  first  few  models,  it  was  obvi- 
ous that  I  had  picked  the  right 
girl — Betty  has  a  weakness  for 
hats. 

With  a  sweeping  gesture  we 
picked  hats— .sophisticated  ones 
with  sharp  lines  and  unusual  trim- 
mings, youthful  ones  with  becom- 
ing lines  that  anyone  could  wear. 
The  amazing  part  of  it  was  that 
Betty  could  switch  from  one 
style  to  the  other  with  vcr.siitile 
ease.  So  many  girls  who  can 
wear  very  youthful  hats,  can't 
wear  the  more  extreme  styles.  But 
not  Betty.  With  a  pull  here  and  a 
brushing  back  of  her  hair  there, 
she  seemed  to  make  each  one  look 
as  if  it  were  designed  for  her. 
Well,  the  result  of  all  this  mad 


RADIO  STARS 


(Above)  An  off-the-face 
hat  of  green  stitched  wool. 
(Below)  a  perfect  bag  for 
cocktail  or  dinner  costume. 


battery  was  that  we  finally  arrived 
at  the  NBC  studio  with  enough  hats 
in  tow  to  keep  the  photographer  busy 
for  hours ! 

But  don't  think  we  just  stopped  at 
hats.  Betty  decided  that  she  couldn't 
have  new  hats  without  something  be- 
ing done  about  shoes.  Shoes  led  to 
handbags,  handbags  to  jewelry — and 
the  whole  shopping  binge  would  have 
led  to  a  flat  pocketbook  if  we  hadn't 
called  quits ! 

You'd  have  to  know  young  Betty 
Wragge  to  appreciate  what  fun  she 
is  to  photograph  in  smart  fashions. 
In  the  first  place,  she  has  a  feeling 
for  clothes.  She  likes  youthful 
things  best  but  she  doesn't  hesitate  to 
take  a  flyer  with  more  sophisticated 
fashions  and  make  them  look  per- 
fectly suited  to  her.  She's  pretty 
and  chic  looking  without  being  con- 
scious of  the  fact.  You  know  her 
type,  five  feet  five,  with  a  lovely  slen- 
der figure,  natural  blonde  hair  and 
the  deepest  blue  eyes.  Her  smile  is 
friendly  and  {Continued  on  page  90) 


re  fou  as  strict 
as  your  doctor  in 
ckoosing  a  laxative? 


TODAY,  the  doctor  studies  'Trevention" 
as  closely  as  anything  in  his  profes- 
sion. He  tries  to  guard  his  patients  from 
even  a  single  error  which  may  affect  their 
health. 

Before  approving  a  laxative,  for  in- 
stance, he  sets  up  a  strict  standard  of  re- 
quirements which  must  be  fully  met.  This 
code  is  printed  below,  point  by  point.  And 
every  point  is  important  to  your  welfare. 

WHAT  DOCTORS  DEMAND  OF  A  LAXATIVE: 

It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proven  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 

It  should  not  over-act. 

It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 

It  should  not  nauseate  or  upset  digestion. 

EX-LAX  CHECKS  ON  EVERY  POINT 

You  need  not  memorize  the  list  above. 
But  remember  this  one  fact:  Ex-Lax 
checks  on  each  and  every  point  the  doctor 
looks  for  in  a  laxative. 

Physicians  everywhere  use  Ex-Lax  in 
their  own  homes  for  their  own  families. 
For  more  than  30  years,  mothers  have 
given  it  to  their  children  with  perfect 

When  Nature  forgets  -  remember 

EX- LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


trust.  Since  Ex-Lax  was  first  introduced, 
many  laxatives  have  come  and  gone.  Yet 
Ex-Lax  remains  the  outstanding  leader. 
It  is  the  largest-selling  laxative  in  the 
whole,  wide  world. 

CONVINCE  YOURSELF  OF  THE  FACTS 

Try  Ex-Lax  the  next  time  you  need  a 
laxative  and  see  how  accurately  it  meets 
the  doctor's  requirements.  It  is  gentle.  It 
is  thorough.  It  is  not  upsetting.  Not  nau- 
seating. Not  habit-forming— no  increased 
dosage  necessary. 

Ex-Lax  does  not  work  like  a  strong,  vio- 
lent purgative.  Its  action  so  closely  ap- 
proximates normal  that,  except  for  the 
relief  you  enjoy,  you  scarcely  know  you 
have  taken  a  laxative. 

A  REAL  PLEASURE  TO  TAKE 

Unlike  harsh,  bitter  purgatives,  Ex-Lax 
tastes  just  like  pure,  delicious  chocolate. 
It's  pleasant  for  anyone  to  take,  especially 
the  youngsters.  And  it  is  equally  effective 
for  children  and  grown-ups. 

At  all  drug  stores  in  10c  and  25c  sizes. 
Or  if  you  prefer  to  try  Ex-Lax  at  our  ex- 
pense, mail  the  coupon  below. 


-•TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!  

(I'asfe  Uiis  on  a  pcnn.v  postcard) 
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iies-Plaza  Station.  Urookljn.  X.  Y. 
:  want  to  try  Ex-Lax.  Please  send  free  sample. 


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For  Real  Beauty,  You  Must  Have 
a  Soft,  Alluring  Skin  —  Free 
From  Pimples  and  Blemishes 


S' 


|MOOTH,  satiny  shoulders — lovely 
skin  "all  over" — a  radiantly  clear, 
youthful  complexion — men  admire  them  and 
modern  style  demands  them. 
To  be  truly  lovely,  you  must  rid  all  your  skin 
of  ugly  blemishes — end  pimples  and  eruptions 
on  face  and  body — have  a  lovely  complexion 
from  head  to  toe.  And  thousands  are  doing  it, 
with  complete  success. 

Doctors  know  that  the  real  cause  of  ugly 
blemishes  is  often  a  lack  of  Vitamin  B  Com- 
plex. With  this  vital  element  lacking,  intestinal 
nerves  and  muscles  become  weak  and  sluggish. 
Poisons  accumulate  in  the  body.  And  constant 
skin  eruptions  result  to  rob  you  of  beauty. 
In  such  cases,  pleasant-tasting  Yeast  Foam 
Tablets  work  wonders.  This  pure,  dry  yeast 
supplies  Vitamin  B  Complex  in  ample  quanti- 
ties— strengthens  intestinal  nerves  and  muscles, 
and  restores  natural  functions.  Poisons  are 
thrown  off.  And  the  skin  quickly  clears — be- 
comes smooth  and  lovely. 
Start  now  to  win  real,  alluring  beauty.  Try 
Yeast  Foam  Tablets  to  restore  your  skin  to 
youthful  loveliness,  as  they  have  brought  beauty 
to  so  many  others. 

Ask  your  druggist  for  Yeast  Foam 
Tablets  today  —  and  refuse 


for  Trial  Sample 


NOirrH  WESTERN  YEAST  CO. 
1750  N.  Ashland  Av.,  Chicago,  III. 
Please  send  FREE  TRIAL  sample  of  Yeast 
Foam  Tablets.  .v/M  10-30 


Name  

Address. 


KEEP  YOUNG 

Joan  Marsh  of  The  Flying  Red  Horse 
Tavern  offers  autumn  charm  hints 


SHE  adores  perfumes,  likes  chewing 
gum,  does  her  own  hair,  and  hates 
being  spectacular.  She  is,  in  fact,  a 
very  "regular"  sort  of  person,  as 
well  as  a  very  decorative  one.  She  is 
Joan  Marsh,  of  Hollywood,  of  The 
Flying  Red  Horse  Tavern,  and  of 
considerable  artistic  talent  as  her  own 
hairdresser.  So  when  she  got  to- 
gether with  Robert  of  Fifth  Avenue, 
famous  hairdresser  of  celebrities,  I 
thought  that  the  results  would  be 
considerably  worth  our  while  in  the 
way  of  a  timely  fall  hairdressing 
article.  At  least,-  that  was  the  plot, 
but  the  plot  would  have  worked  out 
more  successfully  if  we  hadn't  got 
sidetracked  first,  as  is  the  way  and 
prerogative  of  women,  at  Robert's 
fascinating  perfume  bar. 

Did  you  ever  hear  of  a  perfume 
bar?  Well,  Robert's  is  something 
entirely  unique.  You  sit  on  a  high 
stool  at  the  fragrant  counter,  and 
beguile  your  nose  with  heady  per- 
fume cocktails  and  bedazzle  your 
eyes  with  vanity  cases  of  every  shape, 
size  and  sparkle.  Robert  brought 
out  perfume  for  every  mood  and 
fancy  for  us  to  sniff  at  and  swoon. 

One  perfume  that  Joan  especially 
liked  made  you  think  of  rhythm  and 


By  Mary 
B  i  d  d  1  e 


Joan  Marsh  has  a  flair 
for  styling  her  own 
hair.  Robert  adds  a 
sophisticated  touch  to 
Joan's  arrangement  of 
her   ash-blonde  tresses. 


bursting  blossoms,  of  little  red  heels 
tapping  in  the  dance,  of  the  woman 
of  delicious  impudence  with  a  laugh- 
ing imp  in  her  eyes ;  in  fact,  of  the 
dance-gifted  Joan  Marsh  herself.  But 
another  of  her  favorites  was  a  per- 
fume of  exactly  opposite  mood.  It 
was  the  exotic,  perilous  expression 
of  swirls  of  incense  rising  on  still  soft 
air,  of  temple  gardens,  veils  of  mys- 
tery, and  the  clash  of  golden  anklets. 

Joan  explained  that  she  liked  her 
perfume  not  so  much  to  "fit  her 
type"  as  to  express  her  moods.  She 
hates  being  "typed"  in  anything: 
.screen,  radio,  or  i^crftime.  One  of 
the  reasons  she  likes  radio  so  much 
is  because  it  is  such  a  pliable  me- 
dium for  her  talent,  offering  much 
wider  scope  for  variable  develop- 
ment than  does  the  screen.  Perfume 
to  fit  your  mood,  says  Joan.  Well, 
after  all,  any  woman  who  has  any 
femininity  is  not  just  one  type,  but 
a  dozen  dif¥erent  types  in  one ;  she 
is  a  woman  of  not  one  mood  but  a 
hundred  moods.  The  most  fascinat- 
ing woman  always  is  the  most  vola- 
tile and  changeable  ...  the  impudent 
coquette,  the  wide-eyed  debutante, 
and  the  languorous  sophisticate,  all 
in  one. 


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AND  BEAUTIFUL 


Certainly  most  of  us  can't  afford  to  turn  our  dressin<i- 
tables  into  perfume  bars.  Nor  would  most  of  our  budgets 
accommodate  expensive  moods  in  perfume.  Perhaps, 
however,  we-  can  splurtje  on  one  "very  special"  perfume 
for  our  fall  trium])hs.  and  for  the  rest,  there  are  an 
infinite  number  of  truly  delightful  and  inexpensive  i)er 
fumes  on  the  market  that  will  fit  a  variety  of  biul^xts 
and  a  variety  of  moods.  It  is  becoming  more  and  mow 
popular  nowadays  to  buy  perfumes  in  small  containers, 
so  that  we  can  expefinient  to  our  heart's  (or  mood's  ) 
content.  While  the  floral  perfumes  are  popular  in  the 
summer,  the  more  crisp,  definite  odors  gain  popularity  at 
this  season.  I  can  think  of  just  the  one  to  suggest,  if 
you're  in  the  mood  for  a  fresh,  zestful  lift  to  your  fall 
spirits. 

Robert  has  the  sensitiveness  of  the  perfume  artist  whd 
really  knows  perfumes — how  to  make  them,  how  to  use 
them.  He  explained  that  perfume  must  be  used  on  the 
skin,  not  only  because  the  warmth  of  the  flesh  brings  oul 
the  full  beauty  of  the  perfume,  but  because  certain  dress 
materials  have  low-keyed  scents  of  their  own  to  conflict 
with  the  scent  of  the  perfume.  This  is  especially  true  of 
the  fall  tweeds  and  woolens  which  we  are  getting  ready 
to  don ;  such  materials  have  very  definite  low-keyed  scents. 
Robert  suggests  just  a  tiny  spray  of  perfume  on  the  hair 
for  a  scented  halo,  then  a  touch   (Continued  on  page  73) 


Mix  your  powders  thoroughly  in  a  large 
bowl  to  get  the  right  blend  for  your 
natural    skin    tone,    says   Joan  Marsh. 


*°\rTWeton'-»*;tl^  colors  eaV* 


^votedthe^ 
points  map 


tinted  nails  ere  her  own  individual 
care. 

With  F-O  Nail  Polish  in  si>  magni- 
ficent shades  (creme  or  transpa- 
rent), you,  too,  can  have  the  finger 
tips  that  attract  and  held  admira- 
tion. It's  a  matter  of  seconds  with 
F-O  Oily  Polish  Remover  to  pre- 
pare for  a  new  shade,  and  this 
corrective  remover  will  heep  your 
noils  from  becoming  brittle.  Learn 


RADIO  STARS 


BOARD  OF  BEVKW 


Andrew  W.  Smith 

News  &  Age-Herald. 
Birmingham,  Ala. 
Richard  Peters 
Knoxville  News-Sentinel 
Knoxville.  Tenn. 


Lecta  Rider 

Houston  Chronicle.  Houston.  Texas 

Si  Steinhauser 
Pittsburgh  Press.  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 
Leo  Miller 
Bridgeport  Herald.  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Richard  G.  Moffet 
Florida  Times-Union, 
Jacksonville.  Fla. 
James  Sullivan 
Louisville  Times,  Louisville,  Ky. 
C.  L.  Kern 
Indianapolis  Star,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Larry  Wolfers 
Chicago  Tribune,  Chicago.  III. 


James  E.  Chinn 

Evening  and  Sunday  Star. 
Washington.  D.  C. 
H.  Dean  Fitier 
Kansas  City  Star.  Kansas  City.  Mo. 

Vivian  M.  Gardner 
Wisconsin  News,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Joe  Haeffner 
ButTalo  Evening  News.  Buffalo.  N.  Y. 

Andrew  W.  Foppe 
Cincinnati  Enquirer.  Cincinnati,  0. 

Oscar  H.  Fernbach 
San  Francisco  Examiner.  San  Fran- 
cisco. Cal. 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  percentages 
on  the  assumption  that  all  radio  programs 
are  divided  into  four  basic  parts:  material, 
artists,  presentation  and  announcements, 
each  consisting  of  25%  and  making  the 
perfect  program  of  100%.  These  ratings 
are  a  consensus  of  opinions  of  our  Board 
of  Review  and  do  not  necessarily  agree 
with  the  editorial  opinion  of  Radio  Stars 
Magazine.  Programs  outstanding  as  to 
artists  and  material,  often  suffer  because 
of  poor  presentation  or  exaggerated  com- 
mercial announcements.  There  have  been 
many  changes  in  program  for  the  summer 
months.  I'he  Board  reviewed  as  many  of 
the  current  major  programs  as  it  possibly 
could  before  this  issue  went  to  press. 


1.  LUX  RADIO  THEATRE   (CBS)  .79.8 

Starring  HoUyivood' s  b'uiiicst  names  in  its 
"radio  movies"  made  this  the  air's  most  popu- 
lar program. 

2.  FRED  WARING'S  PENNSYLVANIANS 
(CBS  and   NBC)  79.5 

BeiiK,  featured  vn  both  niajur  nct-aorks  has 
doubled  this  versatile  ornanizatioH  s  popularity. 

3.  MARCH  OF  TIME  (CBS)  79.4 

rnccitsored  and  thrill, ny  d,  amatizations  of 
the  iie-i'S. 

4.  CAMEL  CARAVAN — RUPERT  HUGHES, 
GOODMAN  BAND,  SHILKRET  ORCHESTRA 
(CBS)   77.7 

Also  going  in  strongly  for   Holly-vood  eeleb- 

5.  ci'TIES  SERVICE  CONCERT  —  JESSICA 
DRAGONETTE  (NBC»   77.S 

A  dionified  hour  zi'ith  Jessiea's  hell-like  so- 
prano Its  h,„hlu,hi. 

6.  FLEISCHMANN'S  VARIETY  HOUR — 
RUDY  VALLEE  (NBO  76.8 

Its  entertainment  -.■alue  is  unsurpassed. 

7.  THE  JERGENS  PROGRAM  —  CORNELIA 
OTIS  SKINNER  (NBC)  76.8 

Miss  Skinner's  skilful  characterizations  arc  a 
refreshing  change  from  the  usual  radio  fare. 

8.  STADIUM  SYMPHONY  CONCERT  (MBS) 
.  .  .76.7 

Prominent   guest   conductors    lend    added  in- 

9.  ANDRE  KOSTELANETZ  ORCHESTRA 
(CBS)   76.6 

Dance  your  cares  a-ivav' 

10.  THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA  (NBC).. 75.7 

Going  in  more  for  symphonic  programs  and 
letting  variety  and  novelty  rest  n-vh,lc 

11.  EVERYBODY'S  MUSIC — HOWARD  BAR- 


LOW (CBS)   75.3 

//    you    would    learn    and    better  appreciate 

12.  KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROSBY, 
DORSEY  ORCHESTRA  (NBC)  75.0 

Unassumuui  Bnui  and  high-priced  guest  stars. 

13.  THE  FLYING  RED  HORSE  TAVERN 
(CBS)   74.5 

Joan  Marsh,  and  Walter  U'oolf  King  heading 
a  lively,  musical  prooram. 

14.  ED   WYNN    (NBC)  69.5 

Recent  u'inner  of  our  Distinguished  Service 
Award. 

15.  AMERICAN  ALBUM  OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC  (NBC)   74.0 

Frank  Munn,  Lucy  Monroe  and  the  Haensehen 
orchestra  rendering  the  best  loved  musical 
numbers  as  only  they  can  render  them. 

16.  THE  VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE  (NBC)  . 71.8 

Margaret  Speaks,  with  William  Daly's  or- 
chestra, is  a  Monday  evening  treat  no}  to  be 
missed. 

17.  AMOS  'N'  ANDY   (NBC)  71.5 

"Roll  on.  Mississippi,  roll  on.  .  .  ." 

18.  GOLDMAN  BAND  CONCERT  (NBC). 71.3 
Operatic  and  martial  airs  direct  from  Central 
Park  in  Nc.v  York  City. 

19.  A  &  P  GYPSIES  (NBC)  71.2 

One  of  the  pioneer  pro</rams. 

20.  MAXWELL  HOUSE  SHOW  BOAT  (NBC) 

.  .  .71.2 

I.anny  Ross  is  due  back  soon. 

21.  WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  (CBS  and 
NBC)   71.2 

Soothina  and  distinctive. 
2->.  BEN    BERNIE    AND    ALL    THE  LADS 
(NBC)   71.1 

Pen's  pcrsonalilv  is  still  tops. 

23.  HOLLYWOOD    HOTEL    (CBS)  70.7 

licttin.i  hca-.'x  competition  from  Camel  Cara- 
van and  I  u.r  Theatre. 

24.  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY  (NBC)  70.3 

Continuing  as  the  air's  most  interesting  and 
believable  serial. 

25.  STUDEBAKER  CHAMPIONS — RICHARD 
HIMBER   (NBC)   70.2 

For  lovers  of  the  dance  and  good  mu.uc. 

26.  THE  SINGING  LADY  (NBC)  70.0 

Ireenc  Wicker,  enliveninti  the  imagination  of 
all  who  listen. 

27.  RADIO  CITY  MUSIC  HALL  WOODWIND 
ENSEMBLE  (NBC)   74.4 

Symphonic  delights. 

28.  CONTENTED  PROGRAM  (NBC)  69.3 

Dr.  Allan  Roy  Dafoe  has  been  an  occasional 
guest  of  late.' 

29.  HUMAN  SIDE  OF  THE  NEWS — EDWIN 
C.   HILL   (NBC)  69.2 

More  of  the  heartbeats  and  less  of  the  cold, 
colorless  facts. 

30.  TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT— STOOPNAGLE 
AND  BUDD  WITH  VAN  STEEDEN'S  ORCHES- 

(Continued  on  page  98) 


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NOBODY  ASKS 

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I  FOUND  HER  CR-YIN6  HEB 
EYES  OUT.  it's  A  SHAME -BUT 
YOU  KNOW  HEO  FACE  IS  SO 
BROKEN  OUX  "THE  BOYS  DON't^ 

LIKE  TO  TAKE  HER 


/  ISN'T  IT  A  DARLING  DCESS  ? 
Cy^X  OH,  I'm  so  THRIULED^  AND  IT''S 
JUST  MAR-VEL-OUS  NOT  TO 

HAVE  ANV  MORE 
OF  THOSE  OLD 
PIMPLES.' 


't  let  Adolescent  Pimples  make 
YOU  feel  neglected  and  forlorn 

PIMPLES  are  often  a  real  calamity  to  girls  and 
boys  after  the  beginning  of  adolescence — from 
about  13  to  25  years  of  age,  or  even  longer. 

During  this  period,  important  glands  develop 
and  final  growth  takes  place.  This  causes  disturb- 
ances throughout  the  entire  system.  The  skin  be- 
comes oversensitive.  Waste  poisons  in  the  blood 
irritate  this  sensitive  skin.  Pimples  break  out. 

Fleischmann's  fresh  Yeast  is  an  effective  rem- 
edy for  adolescent  pimples.  It  clears  these  skin 
irritants  out  of  the  blood.  Then— with  the  cause 
removed — the  pimples  vanish! 

Eat  3  cakes  of  Fleischmann's  Yeast  regularly 
—a  cake  about  one-half  hour  before  each  meal. 
Eat  it  plain,  or  in  a  little  water  until  your  skin  is 
entirely  clear.  Start  today. 


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YOU  can't  help  feeling  sorry  for  her 
— the  girl  who  seems  to  be  "in 
wong"  with  everyone. 

She's  pretty  —  but  men  avoid  her. 
She's  good  company — but  girls  let  her 
alone.  She's  simply  out  of  things.  And 
why? 

Well,  bluntly,  because  underarm  per- 
spiration odor  makes  her  unpleasant  to 
be  near. 

And  the  pity  of  it  is,  she  has  nobody 
to  blame  but  herself.  For  it's  so  easy, 
these  days,  to  keep  the  underarms  fresh, 
free  from  odor  all  day  long.  With  Mum! 

It  takes  just  half  a  minute  to  use 
Mum.  And  you  can  use  it  any  time — 
before  dressing  or  afterwards.  Mum  is 
harmless  to  clothing,  you  know. 

It's  soothing  to  the  skin,  too.  You  can 
use  it  right  after  shaving  the  underarms. 

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Dom  Davis,  NBC  guide, 
and  author  of  this  story. 


Groucho  Marx  heckled 
the  Radio  City  guide. 


2.000  MILES 
THRODGH  RADIO  CITY 


An  NBC  guide  tells  amusing  stories 
of  celebrities  who  visit  Radio  City 

By    Dom    Caldwell  Davis 


DURING  the  past  two  years  over  a 
million  people  have  come  to  Radio 
City  in  New  York  to  see  the  broad- 
casting studios  and  to  look  behind  the 
scenes  in  radio  programs.  As  one  of 
the  forty-five  guides  of  the  National 
Broadcasting  Company,  I  have 
walked  approximately  two  thousand 
miles,  conducting  these  X^isitors 
through  the  studios  and  ex])laining 
the' intricacies  of  radio  broadcasting 
in  a  manner  simple  and  understand- 
able to  the  ordinary  layman.  Con- 
trary to  common  belief,  this  business 
of  guiding  and,  more  or  less,  telling 
the  same  story  several  times  a  day, 
(lav  in  and  day  out,  is,  to  me,  far 
from  being  tedious  work,  for  as  an 
XBC  guide  I  have  met  many  inter- 
esting people  and  great  celebrities 
and  I  have  had  numerous  exciting 
and  memorable  exi)eriences.  Once 
I  got  lost  in  the  winding  maze  of 
corridors  around  the  studios,  in  the 
company  of  none  other  than  the 
glamorous  actress,  Gloria  Swanson ; 


I  have  seen  Groucho  Marx  heckle  a 
guide,  during  the  tour,  before  twenty- 
five  other  visitors  without  being  rec- 
ognized ;  I  have  watched  James  J. 
Walker  and  Fred  Allen  try  to  outdo 
each  other  in  wise-cracking ;  I  have 
spent  a  whole  hour  with  Marlene 
Dietrich  without  knowing  it ;  I  have 
fought  for  and  lost  the  honor  and 
the  pleasure  of  guiding  for  Carole 
Lombard ;  I  have  had  the  honor  of 
meeting  a  Spanish  princess  and  I 
had  the  extreme  pleasure  of  seeing 
her  pull  a  fast  one  on  an  NBC 
executive — it  was  the  neatest  little 
trick  I  have  ever  seen  pulled  in  Radio 
City — but  I'll  tell  you  more  about 
that  later  on. 

My  daily  tours  through  the  studios 
have  been  like  a  tour  around  the 
world,  for  all  kinds  of  people  have 
beaten  a  path  to  this  city  within  a 
city,  to  pay  homage  to  one  of  the 
modern  wonders  of  the  world.  I  have 
explained  the  mystery  of  radio 
broadcasting  and  the  operations  &i 


RADIO  STARS 


Gloria  Swanson,  movie  star, 
got  lost  in  Radio  City. 


Jascha  Heifetz,  distin- 
guished Russian  violinist. 


our  plant  to  al^out  twenty  thousand 
people  from  all  parts  of  the  world, 
the  peoples  of  which  have  been 
brought  closer  together  by  the  mod- 
ern means  of  transportation  and  com- 
munication. I  can  remember  many 
of  their  faces — the  swarthy  face  of 
a  farmer  from  Kansas ;  the  awe- 
stricken  face  of  a  little  dark  man 
from  the  West  Indies ;  the  pert  face 
of  a  coquettish  blonde,  conspicuously 
unaccompanied :  the  placid  look  of  a 
fat  German  tourist,  carrying  a 
camera  strapped  over  his  shoulder ; 
and  the  less  placid  and  thinner  face 
of  a  Jewish  refugee  from  the  land  of 
the  Nazi ;  the  proud  mien  of  a  heav- 
ily-jeweled maharajah  from  India; 
the  pale  and  greenish  face  of  a  Jew- 
ish storekeeper  from  the  Bowery ; 
the  dignified  mien  of  a  prosperously- 
dressed  Elk  from  Chicago  fhis  Elk 
pin  shone  brightly  on  the  wide  lapel 
of  his  double-breasted  blue  suit)  ; 
and  many,  many  fat  women  who 
gasped  at  (Continued  on  page  84) 


MY  BOSS  HARDLY  EVER  GIVES  ME  DiCrATION 
PERSONALLY.  AND  I  THINK  HE'S  SO  NICE. 


I'M  NO  ADVICE-TO-THE-IOVELORN 
EXPERT,  ANNE,  BUT  TRY  MAVIS. 
FRENCHWOMEN  USE  IT  TO 
KEEP  DAINTY 
ALLURING, 


JUST  ONE  MORE  LETTER, MISS  MARSH, 
. . .  ER  . . .  ER  . .  ."DsoJLTllL&^TTlarLik-: 


0-0-H,MR.HALL!..  MY 
ANSWER  IS  "S'A  r 

2au£  ta !" 


M-M-M  M  LOVELY!  I'LL  ALWAYS  USE 
MAVIS' ALL-OVER  FRAGRANCE 
BEFORE  I  DRESS.  MAYBE  HE'LL 
UKE  WORKING  NEAR  ME  NOW. 


S/X  \Nf  t/CS  MTf 


ANNE  MARSH.YOU'RE  FIRED!  YOU'RE 
SO  SWEET,  I'VE  GOT  A  BETTER  JOB 
FOR  YOU.  MARRY  ME,  DEAR  ! 


HELP  ROMANCE  ALON 
remember  MAVIS'  allu 

Walk  in  hoauty — surrouiulcd  by  the 
glamour  Mavis  gives  you  .  .  .  that  "cer- 
tain something"  men  adore!  French- 
women know  the  allure  of  constant 
flower-fresh  daintiness.  Make  their 
charm  secret  your  own ! 

After  every  bath — before  you  dress — 
clothe  yourself  in  softly  fragrant  clouds 
of  Mavis  Talcum.  The  delicate  scent 
keeps  you  fresh  for  hours.  Its  velvety 


ring 


,  Before  you  dress, 
all-over  fragrance 


touch  soothes  your  skin — ahsorhs  dis- 
turbing body  moisture . . .  Don't  forget ! 
Mavis  safeguards  your  daintiness.  Its 
delightful  fragrance  lingers  .  .  .  and  in 
men's  memories,  too.  Try  Mavis  today. 
Absolutely  pure. 

Mavis  Talcum  in  ioi,  bOi  and  $1  sizes  at 
drug  and  department  stores — convenient 
lOe  size  at  j-and-lOe  stores.  White  or  flesh. 


MAVIS 

IN    THE    RED  CONTAINER 


RADIO  STARS 


Six  Beauty  Experts  witness  the  proof 

that  Glazo  does  not  thicken!* 


HAS  anything  ever  made  you  madder 
than  trying  to  get  a  decent  manicure 
from  a  partly  used  bottle  of  nail  polish 
turned  thick  and  gummy  ? 

Amazingly,  almost  unbelievably,  that 
problem  has  been  solved  ...  by  Glazo. 
Given  just  ordinary  care,  Glazo  now 
stays  completely  perfect  and  usable  right 
down  to  the  last  drop  in  the  bottle. 

All  stores  now  have  this  marvelous, 
perfected,  non-thickening  Glazo.  Recog- 
nized as  the  loveliest  of  nail  polishes... 


world-famous  for  its  fashion-approved 
colors,  for  its  extra  days  of  long,  un- 
blemished wear,  without  chipping,  peel- 
ing or  cracking. 

Profit  by  the  nail  polish  experience  of 
fashion  experts,  beauty  authorities  and 
millions  of  other  smart  women.  Choose 
Glazo  for  its  un- 
equalled beauty. 
You'll  remain  a  Glazo 
enthusiast  for  its  per- 
fection of  quality. 


Expensive  internationally  known  nail 
polishes  and  popular  domestic  brands 
alike  were  hopelessly  lost  when  compet- 
ing with  Glazo  in  the  "thickening"  test. 
(See  the  box  below.) 

Almost  as  amazing . . .  Glazo  beauty, 
Glazo  quality,  costs  you  only  20  cents. 


GLAZO 


now 


only  20^ 


*  PROOF  (what  the  beauty  experts  saw) :  In  identical 
bottles,  left  open  for  12  days,  Glazo  was  tested  against 
ten  other  brands.  Glazo  stayed  as  perfect,  as  usable  as 
ever ...  evaporated  less  than  10%.  Every  one  of  the 
others  became  thick,  gummy,  unfit  to  use . . .  evaporated 
an  average  of  45%.  These  other  brands  ranged  all  the 
way  from  expensive,  internationally  known  lines  to  well- 
known  popular  domestic  polishes. 


RADIO  STARS 


FOR  DISTINGUISHED 
SERVICE  TO  RADIO 


To  give  listeners  a  dance  program  refreshingly  different  from  all  others  was  Chesterfield's 
difficult  demand  of  Andre  Kostelanetz. 

But  his  genius  for  striking  arrangements,  evident  throughout  the  Lily  Pons-Nino  Martini 
series,  gave  glowing  response,  as  did  his  musicians,  and  the  request  of  his  sponsor  was 
gratifyingly  fulfilled. 

Musical  conductors  vary  considerably.  The  importance  of  a  conductor  cannot  be 
emphasized  too  strongly.  The  fate  of  an  orchestra  is  in  his  baton. 

Fortunately,  the  Kostelanetz  orchestra  is  composed  of  the  finest  musicians  on  the  air. 
So  naturally,  with  his  direction,  his  arrangements,  his  judgment  and  personality  there  is  nothing 
musical  of  which  they  are  incapable. 

Whether  you  prefer  swing  time  to  waltz  time;  slow  tempo  to  fast,  your  wishes,  and 
Chesterfield's,  are  met  Wednesday  and  Friday  evenings  when  Andre  Kostelanetz  and  his 
dance  orchestra  go  on  the  air.  His  vocalists,  Kay  Thompson,  Ray  Heatherton,  the  Rhythm 
singers  and  Announcer  David  Ross  are  under  the  same  magic  spell  as  his  musicians,  as 
they  do  achieve  a  dance  program  refreshingly  different. 

To  Andre  Kostelanetz  for  his  musical  genius,  RADIO  STARS  Magazine  is  happy  to 
present  its  award  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


Andre  Kos+elaneh 


19 


Maj,  Edward  Bowes. 
What  is  he  really 
like — ^this  man  whose 
name  is  upon  every 
tongue — who  is  the 
idol  of  amateurs  and 
JH^^^H  of  audiences  who 
'^'PPI^r  continue  to  throng 
to  his  broadcasts? 


Ike, 

MAJOR  ON  PARADE 


IMAGINATIONS  have  been  stirred 
more  by  the  amateur  hour  than  by 
any  other  program  and  more  l)y  tlie 
man  in  charge,  the  suave  and  genial 
critic,  the  gentle  striker  of  gongs, 
than  by  any  other  man  in  radio. 

W^hat  is  he  really  like,  this  man 
whose  name  is  on  every  tongue,  idol, 
with  amazingly  few  exceptions,  of 
amateurs  and  audiences  alike? 

Does  he  earn  the  tremendous  sal- 
ary that  is  his  for  the  asking?  Is  he 
the  kindly  being  we  imjigine  him  to 
be,  generous,  big-souled.  Destiny  per- 
sonified for  those  eager  aspirants  for 
fame  and  fortune  who  storm  his 
doors,  begging,  demanding,  pleading 
for  a  helping  hand? 

Or  is  he  a  quite  diflferent  sort  of 
being,  with  unseen  tail  and  horns — 
])rofiteer,  slave-driver,  money-mad. 
building  his  own  success  upon  the 
sacrificial  olTerings  of  deluded  hu- 
manity ? 

Or  is  he,  perhaps,  merely  a  man, 
a  little  bewildered  by  his  own  amaz- 
ing popularity,  unquestionably  proud 
of  his  own  surprising  achievements? 

As  I  sat  waiting  to  be  escorted  to 
the  inner  sanctum,  I  thought  of  all 
1  had  heard  aiiout  him,  as  ardent 
lover  of  music;  as  connoisseur  of 
art,  with  a  splendid  gallery  of  mas- 
terpieces to  prove  the  excellence  of 
his  taste;  as  world  traveler  and  as 
successful  business  man.  There  must 


By  Miriam 
Rogers 

AH  the  world's  a 


stage— and  all  the 
men  and  women 
merely  players..." 
And  the  director? 
Major  Edward 
Bowes ! 


Major  Bowes  presents  his 
amateurs,  aspirants  for 
fame  or  the  fateful  gong! 


lie  something.  I  thought,  -behind  all 
the  legends,  a  germ  of  truth.  At  the 
very  least,  a  distinctive  personality. 

I  found  him  seated  at  his  desk  in 
the  bedroom  of  his  suite,  which  is 
his  retreat  from  the  turmoil  and 
bustle  that  beset  his  days — a  retreat 
considerably  modified  by  three  tele- 
phones and  a  push-button  with  which 
he  toyed  as  he  talked.  He  rose  and 
greeted  me  courteously,  with  a  mur- 
mured apology  for  making  an  office 
of  his  bedroom,  the  need  to  get  away 
from  it  all.  Pose?  Perhaps — but  a 
pleasant  place  to  work  ! 

He  is  a  big  man,  his  very  aspect 
impressive.  The  head  is  large,  the 
big  nose  and  heavy  chin  and  noble 
forehead  giving  an  impression  of  in- 
ward strength  and  power.  It  is  the 
face  of  a  leader,  strong,  dominant. 
Not  handsome,  certainly,  but  a  head 
a  sculptor  would  love  to  model,  with 
its  vigorous  character  and  decisive 
planes. 

But  the  preliminaries,  the  long 
wait,  the  difficulties  in  obtaining  an 
audience,  had  put  me  on  the  defen- 
sive. I  felt  a  certain  haughtiness, 
condescension,  in  his  bearing  that  I 
did  not  like,  as  if  I  were  a  peasant 
being  granted  an  audience  with  the 
Grand  High  Mogul.  Time,  it  was 
indicated,  was  scarcer  than  rubies, 
words  were  diamonds — but  1  was 
within  the  (Continued  on  page  S^) 


Panouche,  the  Skye  terrier,  poses 
with  his  mistress,  Lily  Pons,  in  the 
studio  of  her  home  at  Silvermine, 
Connecticut.  But  he  would  very 
much   prefer  to  go  for  a  walk. 


IF  MUSIC 


By   Nancy  Barrows 

Lily  Pons,  singing  star  of 
fourfold  fame,  would  like  to 


have  some  time  for  romance 


PANOUCHE  is  going  to  be  married.  .  . 

Panouche  is  a  handsome  young  gentleman,  two  years 
old.  He  is  Lily  Pons'  Skye  terrier,  and  of  a  romantic 
nature.  And  because  his  mistress  has  an  understanding 
heart,  the  problems  of  Panouche  are  simple  and  easily 
solved. 

But  the  problems  of  Lily  Pons  are  more  complex. 
And  her  mistresses  more  numerous.  Their  names  are 
Music  and  Career,  and  Opera,  Concert,  Radio  and  Movies. 
Relentlessly  demanding  they  are.    Quite  hostile  to  the 


Wearing  a  simple  tailored  blouse, 
she  looks  more  like  a  young  girl, 
just  home  from  school,  than  a 
world-famous  prima  donna  of 
opera,  concert,  radio  and  movies. 


With  her  musical  director,  Andre 
Kostelanetz,  conductor  of  the 
Chesterfield  program,  Lily  made 
her  first  air  voyage  recently, 
from  Grand  Rapids  to  New  York. 


BE  THE  FOOD  OF  LOVE-" 


romance  of  slim,  small,  wistful-eyed  Lily  Pons- 

Between  them  they  arrange  Lily's  life  with  stern  ex- 
actitude. She  must  study.  She  must  practise.  She  must 
go  to  Hollywood  to  make  a  movie.  She  must  make  con- 
cert tours  to  the  far  ends  of  the  earth.  She  must  sing 
throughout  the  opera  season  at  the  Metropolitan,  in  New 
York.    She  must  fulfill  radio  engagements. 

And,  to  complicate  matters  further,  the  object  of  her 
affection-s  also  is  a  talented  young  musician,  with  a  sim- 
ilarly demanding  career. 

As  long  ago  as  last  fall,  rumors  were  rife  that  romance 
had  entered  Lily  Pons'  life  in  the  person  of  the  gifted 
Andre  Kostelanetz,  composer  and  conductor  of  the  Ches- 
terfield radio  program.  But  when  I  asked  her  about  it 
then,  she  answered  with  convincing  frankness : 

"Where  is  there  any  time  for  marriage?" 

But,  granting  an  ardent  suitor  and,  moreover,  one 
whose  life  follows  a  pattern  similar  to  her  own,  whose 
devotion  to  music  equals  hers,  whose  special  musical 
gifts  supplement  her  own — I  wondered  if  she  still  would 
give  me  the  same  answer  now. 

Radio  columnists  have  proclaimed  that  Lily  Pons  and 
Andre  Kostelanetz  are  married-  Had  romance,  I  won- 
dered, found  at  last  its  starry  hours?  Would  she,  I 
wondered,  tell  me  about  it  ? 

We  sat  now  in  the  lovely  studio  of  her  hilltop  home 
in  Silvermine,  Connecticut.  In  a  tailored  blouse,  with  a 
blue  scarf  knotted  about  her  neck,  gray  flannel  slacks  and 


diminutive  gray  brogues  and  short  white  socks,  Lily  Pons 
looked  more  like  a  young  schoolgirl,  home  on  vacation, 
than  a  world-famous  prima  donna. 

The  room  was  two  stories  high.  Across  one  end  hung 
a  balcony  of  ancient  whitewashed  beams.  Between  the 
wide  rails  Panouche,  the  terrier,  thrust  his  shaggy  head 
and  gazed  curiously  down  upon  us. 

"Come — come — cotne — come!"  trilled  Lily. 

And  sol)erly  Panouche  descended  the  winding  stair.  He 
came  up  to  inspect  me.  Apparently  he  found  me  satis- 
factory, assured  by  mystic  signs  known  only  to  dogdom, 
that  1.  too,  possessed  a  dog. 

"I  have  a  friend  who  has  a  beautiful  lady  Skye,"  said 
Lily.    "So,  next  week.  Panouche  will  be  married!" 

"And  how  about  your  marriage?"  I  ventured.  "The 
papers  are  making  considerable  talk  of  it.  .  ." 

Her  dark  eyes  shadowed.  "The  papers !  They  ask  me 
what  I  do  not  know  myself!  I  tell  them  I  do  not  know 
— and  they  print  what  they  want  to,  anyway."  She 
shrugged  expressively. 

"Always  they  want  to  talk  about  the  intimate,  the  per- 
sonal things.  .  .  Because  I  am  a  singer,  they  do  not  want 
me  to  have  any  private  life.  •  .  I  nmst  keep  nothing  to 
myself.  .  .  I  do  not  like  it!" 

I  understand  her  feeling.  I  agree  with  her'  that  it  is 
more  than  unkind,  this  j>eeping  and  prying  into  the  lives 
of  those  who  give  so  freely  of  themselves  for  our  enter- 
tainment and  pleasure.  It  is  a  (Continued  on  page  68) 

23 


Revealing  what  a  popular  radio  star  like  Rudy  Vallee 


WE  were  seated  around  the  Vallee  dinner  table,  an 
English  theatrical  magnate,  a  pretty  girl  who  works  in 
radio,  Rudy  Vallee,  myself. 

And,  as,  people  do  after  they  have  dined  well,  we  slowly 
sipped  our  coflFee,  talking  without  self -consciousness  or 
restraint. 

The  magnate  recalled  the  Vallee  he  used  to  know,  when 
Rudy,  then  a  kid  in  his  'teens,  had  taken  a  year  oflf  from 
Yale  to  play  the  saxophone  at  The  Savoy  Hotel  in 
Lx)ndon. 

"I  was  lonely,"  said  Vallee.  There 
was  something  simple  and  engagingly  _ 
honest  about  the  way  he  said  this.        D  y 
"You  have  no  idea  how  lonely,"  said 
he.    "It  wasn't  easy,  getting  a  date 
in  those  days." 

Then  he  told  us.    And,  before  I 
descrilje  the  rest  of  my  date  with  Rudy,  you  must  hear 
this  story. 

He  wanted  a  girl  in  London,  a  girl  with  whom  he  could 
talk,  with  whom  he  could  dance  and  see  the  sights. 

"But  there  was  no  one,"  he  admitted.  "And  no  way  of 
meeting  anyone,"  he  added. 

He  described  an  unforgettable  afternoon  when  he  was 
playing  the  cocktail  shift.  As  his  fingers  wandered  over 
the  shining  keys,  his  eyes  glanced  about  the  room  and 
caught  the  eyes  of  a  girl  who  danced  by  the  raised  plat- 
form. While  she  danced  she  kept  staring  at  Rudy,  star- 
ing over  the  broad  shoulder  of  her  partner.  And  Rudy 
24 


N  a 
K  u  t 


kept  staring  back. 

She  looked  like  such  a  nice,  friendly  girl.  He  thought 
that  maybe  she  would  let  him  take  her  to  the  theater,  or 
perhaps  dancing.  He  was  very  young,  and  he,  too. 
wanted  to  enjoy  music  from  the  other  side  of  the  plat- 
form. He  knew  he  had  no  business  speaking  to  a  strange 
girl,  but  what  can  a  young  man  do  when  he  is  alone  in  a 
foreign  country  ?  Besides,  the  girl  was  an  American. 
He  knew  from  the  way  she  talked,  for  he  could  hear  her 
voice  as  she  and  her  partner  glided  past.  So  during  the 
next  intermission  he  strolled  into  the 
lobby.  There  stood  the  girl,  the 
laughing  center  of  a  gay  young 
group.  Again  she  stared  at  him. 
But  this  time  her  eyes  seemed  to 
harden  into  little  lumps  of  ice. 
Thoroughly  squelched,  Rudy  red- 
dened and  quietly  walked  back  to  the  band. 

He  saw  her  again,  aboard  ship,  when  they  sailed  for 
home,  he  in  second  class,  she  in  first.  One  evening  as  he 
stood  alone  on  deck  he  looked  up.  Above  him  stood  the 
girl.  Their  eyes  met,  but  only  for  an  instant.  Then  she 
turned  her  back.  She  couldn't  be  bothered  with  an  un- 
known boy  who  played  the  saxophone. 
"I  met  her  years  later,"  he  told  us. 
She  was  seated  with  Jock  Whitney's  party  at  a  fash^ 
ionable  New  York  night  club.  Rudy,  now  a  success, 
wealthy,  sought-after,  was  introduced. 

He  took  her  out  that  same  week  and  told  her  how 


n  e  t  t  e 


n  e  r 


does  in  the  way  of  entertaining  when  he  "dates"  a  girl 


happy     she     could     have     made     him     in  London. 

"We  would  have  had  such  fun  together,"  he  confided 
to  us,  "but  by  the  time  we  did  meet,  it  was  too  late."  He 
shrugged  his  shoulders. 

He  told  us  more  about  those  early  London  days. 

He  lived  in  a  tiny  flat  on  a  dismal  sidestreet.  The  flat 
was  on  the  fourth  floor ;  the  second  and  third  were 
vacant ;  the  first  was  occupied  by  the  shop  of  a  man  who 
repaired  watches..  There  was  a  small  white  card  tacked 
to  the  molding  on  the  ground  floor.  And  on  this  card  was 
printed  in  neat  black  letters : 

RUDY  VALLEE 
SAXOPHONE  LESSONS 

Between  the  hours  spent  at  The  Savoy  he  taught  young 
Englishmen  the  secrets  of  American  jazz.  He  could  well 
use  the  extra  fees.  Money  was  tight  for  him  in  those 
days.  Rudy  stinted  himself,  saving  his  pounds  and  hiding 
them  in  the  bottom  of  his  trunk.  It  was  this  money  he 
intended  to  use  toward  paying  his  tuition  for  the  follow- 
ing final,  delayed  year  at  Yale.  It  was  this  money  that 
was  stolen.  Arriving  home  from  The  Savoy  late  one 
night,  he  found  his  door  open,  the  trunk  ransacked,  the 
money  gone. 

"I  walked  the  streets  until  dawn,"  he  told  us.  "I  was 
nearly  crazy.  I  don't  think  I  would  have  felt  it  so  much 
if  I  only  had  had  someone  to  talk  to  .  .  . 

"When  I  got  back  to  America,  circumstances  weren't 
improved.  That  season  spent  in  London  had  put  me  a 
term  behind  my  own  college  class." 


However,  upon  his  return,  he  met  a  wealthy  young 
man  who  went  out  of  his  way  to  be  nice  to  Rudy.  One 
day  he  showed  him  the  photograph  of  a  very  pretty  girl, 
a  girl  with  black  hair  and  blue  eyes  and  a  tip-tilted  nose. 

"She's  in  The  Follies,"  he  said.  "She's  a  friend  of  my 
girl  friend.   How'd  you  like  to  meet  her?" 

Rudy's  heart  must  have  missed  a  beat.  He  wanted  a 
girl  of  his  own.  And  here  was  a  pretty  girl,  plus  the 
glamor  of  Ziegfeld. 

Rudy's  friend  introduced  them  via  the  mails.  Rudy 
wrote  her  a  letter.  The  girl  answered.  A  long  corre- 
spondence ensued.    Finally  they  made  a  date. 

Their  momentous  meeting  was  to  take  place  during  his 
Easter  vacation.  He  planned  to  come  to  New  York  for 
the  week-end.  His  New  England  conscience  told  him  he 
had  no  right  to  spend  money  for  the  trip  from  New 
Haven,  for  the  New  York  hotel  room  and  all  the  inci- 
dentals for  a  week-end.  Still,  spring  was  in  the  air ;  Rudy 
was  young ;  this  last  college  year  had  been  an  arduous  one. 
So  he  spent  five  dollars  on  a  dress  shirt  and  bought  a 
l)ottle  of  perfume  for  the  girl.  Then  jamming  his  new 
possessions  into  his  bag,  he  took  the  train  to  New  York. 

Unpacking,  he  discovered  that  the  perfume  bottle  had 
broken,  spilling  its  contents  over  the  dress  shirt.  This 
meant  a  last  minute  rushing  around  to  buy  a  second  one, 
another  five  dollar  layout,  another  bottle  of  perfume.  Hot 
and  breathless  he  arrived  back  at  the  hotel,  just  in  time  to 
telephone  the  girl. 

Her  voice  .sounded  cool,  as  {Continued  on  page  71) 

25 


John  Hamilton,  Governor 
London's  campaign  man- 
ager, at  the  microphone. 


Chairman  Jim  Farley  on 
the  air  tor  the  President 
Roosevelt  torces. 


Eddie  Cantor  re- 
hearses with  Parkyakor- 
kus  for  their  new  show. 


26 


RADIO  SPOTLIGHT 

microphone  favorites  as  the  summer  season  slowly  ends 


Kay  Thompson  whispers 
to  Roy  Hecther+on  on 
the  Kos+elone+2  holf-hour. 
Right:  Dick  Powell  sur- 
rounded by  a  bevy  of 
Stage  Struck  beouties. 


DO    YOU    WANT  ME 
ON   THE   AIR  ? 

By  GLADYS  HALL 


"I'D  LIKE  to  take  a  shot  at  asking  the  Public  a  question 
tiiis  time,"  Clark  told  me,  mopping  the  'blood'  from  his 
temple.  "I'd  like  to  interview  the  fans  for  a  change.  I'd 
like  to  turn  the  tables  and  give  them  a  dose  of  their  own 
medicine.  I'd  like  them  to  play  Truth  with  me,  and  I 
wish  they'd  tell  me  the  truth,  the  whole  truth  and  nothing 
but  the  truth,  so  help  them  God.  I  can  take  it !" 

Clark  looked  as  though  he  could  "take  it,"  whatever 
it  might  be.  We  were  on  the  back  lot  of  the  MGM 
studio.  They  had  been  making  some  post-picture  stills 
of  San  Frtmcisco  before  the  devastated  street  was  dis- 
mantled. We  stood  in  the  earthquake  debris  among  piles 
of  bride  and  stone  and  mortar,  the  ghosts  of  pale  children 
laid  out  in  doorways,  the  echoes  of  wailing  voices  still 
knifing  the  air,  the  priestly  figure  of  Spencer  Tracy  in 
the  distance — and  Clark,  in  tattered  evening  clothes,  his 
temjJe  gory,  dusty,  dishevelled — and  smiling. 

Clark  usually  is  smiling. 

"It's  this,"  he  said,  as  we  lit  companionable  cigarettes 
and  parked  under  the  teetering  roof  of  a  lop-sided  house. 
"It's  about  radio.  It's  whether  or  not  the  fans,  as  a 
whole,  want  me  on  the  air.  Would  they  rather  have  me 
do  plays  on  the  air  or  wotild  they  rather  have  me  c<Mitinue 
in  pictures — or  both  ?" 

"Naturally  th^'U  say  'both',"  I  remarked,  "since  it  is 
good  old  human  nature  to  want  all  you  can  get  of  any- 
thing or  anyone,  in  every  way." 

"But  that  is  not  the  game  of  Truth  I  am  pJaying,"  ex- 
plained Qark,  "I  am  going  now  on  the  hypothesis  that 


rd  do  one  or  the  other.  That  I'd  be  in  pictures  or  on 
the  air.  And  I  want  the  fan  reaction.  I  want  to  know 
whether  the  fans  would  be  interested  in  me — for  any 
length  of  time — on  the  air.  And  if  so,  why?  And  how? 
And  what  ?" 

"The  Gable  face  or  the  Gable  voice,  which?  Is  that 
it  ?"  I  asked,  as  a  couple  of  bricks  tobogganed  down  and 
nearly  laid  us  low.  Clark  brushed  them  to  one  side 
with  one  powerful  hand.  He  has  the  most  powerful 
hands  I  have  ever  seen.  He  didn't,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
want  or  try  or  even  think  of  trying  to  take  out  a  boxer's 
license,  as  the  papers  had  it  some  time  ago.  He  didn't 
have  it  in  mind  to  take  on  Maxie  Baer.  It  was  a  publicity 
story.  But  one  look  at  those  hands,  fitter  to  rivet  steel 
than  to  hold  a  lady's  hand,  and  one  has  the  clue  to  how 
the  story  started. 

"That's  about  it,"  ginned  Clark,  "and  if  they  do  want 
me  on  the  air — if  the  'ayes'  have  it — then  what  would 
they  want  me  to  do?  Fight?  Make  love?  Speak  Little 
Pieces?  What? 

"I  can't  sing,  for  the  luvva  Mike!  I  can't  tap  dance! 
I'm  not  a  comic — or  am  I?  All  I  can  do,  so  far  as  I 
know,  is  what  I've  already  done  as  a  guest  artist  now  and 
then.  Like  doing  the  play  The  Legionnaire  and  The  Lady 
with  Marlene — or  scenes  from  Men  In  White,  and 
so  on. 

"[  don't  think  I  belong  on  the  air.  I  don't  know  why 
I'm  doing  any  thinking  about  it,  since  no  one  has  asked 
me  to  give  my  art  to  the  air  for  {^Continued  on  pageSS) 


The  Legionnaire  and  the  Lady,  first  Cecil  B.  De-  Cecil  B.  DeMille,  famous  movie  director  and  now  the 

Miile  production  on  tlie  air  of  Lux  Radio  Theatre  in  producer  of  the  weekly  Lux  Radio  Theatre  pro- 

Hollywood,  starred  Marlene  Dietrich  and  Oark  Gable.  gram,  chats  with  Clark  Gable  before  the  broadcast. 


The  March  of  Time — Radio's  only  uncensored  program 


IF  IT  wanted  to,  The  March  Of  Time  program  could 
say:  "Phooey  to  you  from  us!"  to  its  sponsor — and 
not  a  thing  would  happen !  In  fact,  if  it  wanted  to, 
it  might  even  go  so  far  as  to  hurl  a  loud  raspberry  in 
the  general  direction  of  the  chewing  gum  concern  that 
foots  the  ether  Time's  expenses — and  still  march  on  as 
usual  in  perfect  safety  and  good  will. 

And  that,  if  you  know  your  radio,  is  a  Very  Strange 
Fact. 

Take  John  Funnyman,  for  instance.  His  sponsor 
insists  on  okaying  every  word  of  the  comedian's  script 
before  it  goes  on  the  air.  Let  John  pull  one  joke,  one 
phrase,  that  his  boss  blue-pencilled  and  he'll  find  him- 
self bounced  out  of  radio's  back  door  without  a  job.  That 
quaint  old  custom  goes  for  all  John  Funnymen  as  well 
as  singers  and  actors  and  orchestras  and  the  rest. 

Yet  nobody  can  tell  the  March  Of  Time  what  it  can 
and  can't  broadcast.  It  can  even,  as  it  did  not  so  long 
ago,  make  its  sponsor  look  a  little  ridiculous  to  some 
ten  million  listeners.  Still  its  enormous  bills  went  on 
being  paid  with  generosity  and  satisfaction  and  there 
were  no  hard  feelings.  Which  certainly  puts  America's 
foremost  news  program  right  up  in  a  class  with  this 
world's  Privileged  Characters. 
30 


There's  a  reason  for  that.  And  the  reason  is  that 
first,  foremost  and  always,  the  March  Of  Time  must 
bring  you  a  completely  accurate  presentation  of  the  news 
— sponsors,  even  presidents  and  kings  and  nations  not- 
withstanding. And  it  is  clearly  understood  and  agreed 
in  the  contract  with  its  sponsor  that  the  first  minute  said 
sponsor  accepts  censorship  of  any  kind  the  contract  is 
immediately  void. 

Now  no  advertiser  who  has  the  money  and  the  good 
fortune  to  keep  Time  on  the  air  is  going  to  tamper  with 
any  of  its  doings  and  promptly  kill  the  goose  that  lays 
the  golden  egg.  Here  is  a  program  that  is  a  nightly 
newspaper  for  millions  of  people  the  globe  around — 
people  who  at  the  same  time  receive  a  tasty  bit  of  chew- 
ing gum  advertising  inserted  between  the  columns  of 
world  events.  During  its  five  years  on  the  air.  Time 
has  attained  an  inestimable  amount  of  international 
importance.  It  is  so  important  that  it  is  banned  in  Ger- 
many, disapproved  in  Italy.  Herr  Hitler,  realizing  how 
powerful  a  swayer  of  public  opinion  it  is,  has  every 
single  broadcast  taken  down  by  a  fast  typist  at  the  Ger- 
man Embassy  in  Washington,  translated  and  rushed  to 
him  immediately  by  cable.  None  of  the  Hearst  papers 
is  allowed  to  list  the  program  {Continued  on  page  80) 


RADIO'S 
REBEL 
CHILD 


It's  mar 
riage  again 
for  Jimmy  Wal- 
lington— and  the 
name  of  the  lady  is 
Betty  Jane  Cooper 


THE  phone  rang  and  Swiggs.  my 
faithful  butler,  answered  it. 

"It's  for  you,  sir,"  1  said  to  my- 
self, for  1  have  to  play  Swiggs,  too. 
"It's  that  Jimmy  Wallin^ton  per- 
son ..." 

"Hi-ya.  Jimmy,"  I  said.  I  suppose 
you're  going  to  tell  me  that  you've 
inherited  a  fortune  or  that  you're  go- 
ing to  get  married  ..." 

"Hey!"  he  snarled.  "Who's  been 
talking 

Well,  sir,  I'll  have  you  know,  1 
was  into  the  tweeds  and  over  at  Sig- 
nor  Wallington's  hotel  suite  in  less 
time  than  it  takes  to  tell  about  it. 

"Whadda  ya  want,  bum?"  he 
snapped  through  a  crack  in  the  door, 
thereby  proving  that  radio  an- 


nouncers, in  their  bathrobes,  talk  like 
you  and  me. 

"Listen,  pal,  I  know  you  won't  in- 
herit any  money,  so  what's  this  about 
marriage  ?"  1  asked,  pushmg  my  way 
past  him.  "Where  is  she?  Where  are 
you  hiding  her'" 

"Take  it  easy,  my  friend."  he 
answered,  "take  it  easy.  Now  sit 
down  and  listen  to  me  for  a  minute. 

"In  the  first  place  I'm  not  marrie<l 
— yet — but  I'm  gomg  to  be.  In  the 
second  place  she  isn't  in  this  place — " 
He  thought  that  was  very  funny! 
"But  she's  coming  over  to  lunch  es- 
pecially to  meet  you  because  I  told  her 
that  1  wanted  you  to  have  the  story 
first.  Why,"  looking  cautiously  out 
into  the  hall,  "no  one,  not  even  Can- 


tor, knows  about  this — except  you." 

"What !"  1  must  have  hollered  it 
because  he  put  his  fingers  to  his  ears. 
"Do  you  mean  I've  got  an  exclusive 
on  this,  a  scooj)  ^" 

"I  guess  that's  what  you  feller; 
would  call  it.  you'll  have  the  scoop 
and  I'll  have  the  girl — and  ivhat  a 
girH" 

"Jimmy,"  I  asked,  as  he  started  to 
lather  his  chin,  "how  did  you  happen 
to  meet  her,  who  is  she,  and  why 
should  any  girl  want — " 

He  grinned.   "One  at  a  time,  old 


WALLINGTON  MEETS 


Announcer  James 
Walling+on  has  known 
fame  and  success  and 
tragedy  and  despair. 
Now,  once  more,  he  knows 
complete   happiness   in  his 
marriage  to  lovely  Betty  Jane 
Cooper  of  the  Scandals  and 
Collegiate.     Betty  will  abandon 
the  stage  to  keep  house  for  Jimmy. 


William 


Vallee 


one  at  a  time !  Now  sit  over  there  in 
that  chair,  relax  and  I'll  tell  you  how 
it  all  happened.  As  for  her  name, 
you'll  just  have  to  wait  until  lunch 
time.  Now  listen  with  both  ears  and 
I'll  begin  at  the  beginning. 

"You  remember  that  in  1935  I  lost 
the  lovely  girl  I  had  married — Anita, 
Anita  Fuhrmann.  You  remember 
how  happy  we  were,  the  plans  we  had 
made  and — "  his  voice  broke,  "how 
she  died  after  a  long  and  terrible  siege 
of  peritonitis.  Her  death  left  me  the 
victim  of  a  strange  and  almost  stupe- 


fymg  melancholia.  I  was  bewildered, 
dazed.  Oh,  I  don't  mean  I  didn't  keep 
up;  I  worked  every  day  just  as  hard 
as  I  could,  but  nothing  looked  right, 
nothing  was  right. 

"Then  Eddie  Cantor  bustled  me 
off  to  the  Coast  with  him  so  we  could 
carry  on  his  air  show  from  there, 
while  he  made  a  picture.  There,  I 
thought,  I  can  get  back  to  normal.  I 
should  have  only  I  didn't!" 
"Well,  what — "  I  tried  to  say. 
"Keep  still,  mugg,"  he  said,  point- 
ing his  razor  at  me.  "In  desperation 
I  finally  went  to  Cantor  and  laid  all 
of  my  troubles  at  his  feet.  He  was 
sympathetic ;  1  knew  he'd  be.  He's  the 
best  friend  I  have  in  the  world.  Be- 
sides, he's  one  of  the  most  intelligent 


men  I  know  and  the  Cantor  heart  is 
notoriously  as  big  as  Gibraltar. 
'Jimmy,'  he  said,  'I  sympathize  with 
you.'  Then  he  went  on  to  say  that 
he  knew  just  how  I  felt  but  that  I 
was  still  a  young  man  and  that  1  had 
a  lot  of  life  to  face  yet.  I  must 
carry  on  because  Anita  wouldn't  want 
things  the  way  they  were. 

"I  admitted  that  he  was  right  so 
I  asked  him  what  I  should  do.  That 
was  easy  for  him.  He  told  me  to 
dress  and  get  out  every  night,  to  play 
and  play  hard.  He  said  1  must  talk 
to  everyone,  anyone,  in  fact,  who 
would  listen  to  me.  He  finished  up 
by  swearing  that  if  I  didn't  take  his 
advice  I'd  end  up  by  going  insane. 
(  Continued  on  page  86) 


HIS  WATERLOO  . .  ! 


Doris  Kerr, 
CBS  song- 
stress, is  one 
of  radioland's 
very  loveliest 
lassies. 


BETWEEN 


I 


Latest  picture  news  of  some  prominent  radio  personalities, 
showing  what  they  do  when  not  entertaining  on  the  air 

BROADCASTS 


RADIO 
AND  THE 
RACETRACK 


By    TOM  MEANY 


RACING  has  been  called  The 
Sport  of  Kings  since  the  days  of 
the  dim  and  dusty  past,  when 
chariots  careened  around  the  arenas 
of  Rome  for  the  personal  entertain- 
ment of  the  Caesars.  Today  in 
America,  in  the  paddock  or  on  the 
clubhouse  lawn  of  any  race  course, 
you  can  see  the  flower  and  cream 
of  this  nation's  aristocracy,  the 
pillars  of  its  society,  the  backbone 
of  its  financial  world  and  the  stars 
of  its  stage,  screen  and  radio. 

Look  a  little  closer,  however,  and 
you  will  se6,  too,  the  warlords  of 
its  rackets,  the  emperors  of  its  vice 
rings,  the  tricksters  and  the  sharp- 
sters,  the  muscle-men  and  the  mob- 
sters. For  The  Sport  of  Kings 
attracts  both  the  very  top  and  the 


very  bottom,  with  but  scant  repre- 
sentation of  the  great  middle  class, 
where  other  sports,  such  as  base- 
ball, for  instance,  make  their  great- 
est appeal  and  draw  the  majority 
of  their  patronage. 

Nor  was  the  turf  uplifted  by  its 
tremendous  expansion  in  the  last 
four  years,  which  now  sees  racing 
legalized  in  twenty-seven  states  in- 
stead of  seven,  as  was  the  case  in 
1932,  for  few  of  the  latter-day 
converts  entertain  the  proper  ideals 
regarding  racing,  seeing  in  it  only  a 
source  of  revenue  to  treasuries 
being  drained  by  relief  demands. 

It  was  obvious  to  the  millionaire 
sportsman  of  the  turf  that  an  ap- 
peal must  be  made  to  America's 
middle  class,  if  the  sport  were  to 


Bryan  R 
ace  racing 
broadcaster, 
"calling"  the 
horses  from 
the  booth  at 
Belmont 
Park. 


stay  clean  and  healthy,  an  appeal  Joseph    E.    Witlener,    owner  of 

not  alone  to  the  readers  of  the  Brevity,  and  John  E.  Giwdin,  a 

sports  pages  of  the  daily  news-  player  on   the   first  international 

papers,  but  to  that  portion  of  the  polo  team,  are  officers.  Admiral 

public  which  was  not  partial  to  Gary  T.  Grayson,  head  of  the  Red 

sports,  and  particularly  not  partial  Cross,  C.  V.  and  J.  H.  Whitney, 

to  racing.  Richard  Whitney,  Ogden  Mills  and 

Then  it  was  that  the  conserva-  Ogden  Phipps  are  a  few  of  the 

tive  Jockey  Qub  and  the  five  Rac-  members. 

ing  Associations  went  to  bat,  turn-  The  leaders  in  racing  decided  to 

ing  to  radio  as  the  channel  through  offer  the  privil^e  of  broadcasting 

which  to  reach  America's  middle  races  free  to  the  National  Broad- 

class.    The  Jockey  Qub's  member-  casting  Chain  and  the  Columbia 

ship  rolls  carry  the  names  of  some  Broadcasting  System.    C.  V.  Whit- 

of  the  biggest  men  in  the  country,  ney,  owner  of  Equipoise,  went  to 

Millionaires   (yes,  there  are  still  them   and   got  cooperation   to  a 

some  left)  are  a  dime-a-dozen  in  small  d^^ee,  a  very  small  degree, 

that  conservative  body.     William  The  big  radio  chains  took  only  the 

Woodward,  banker  and  owner  of  cream  of  the  metroixjlitan  races 

that   great    race    horse,    Omaha;  (Continued  on  page  92) 


YOD  MOST  MEET 


ROSEHABY 

I  CAN  see  right  now  that  this  is  go- 
ing to  be  a  tough  assignment.  Talking 
al)out  Rosemary,  I  mean.  Because 
when  a  sister  talks  about  a  sister 
there's  just  no  such  thing  as  being  ab- 
solutely impartial — no  matter  how 
hard  you  try  you'll  end  up  saying 
things  that  are  too  swell  or  not  swell 
enough.  So  you  might  as  well  decide 


from  the  start  which  you're  going 
to  do  and  stick  to  it. 

Personally,  I'll  choose  too  swell, 
since  I  honestly  think  nothing  said 
about  Rosemary  can  really  be  that 
way.  Call  it  sisterly  love  if  you  want 
to,  but  all  I  know  is  she's  one  of  my 
very  most  favorite  persons  out  of 
all  the  people  I  know.  It's  been  that 
way  ever  since  my  first  recollection 
of  her,  laboriously  wheeling  me 
around  the  front  yard  in  a  little 
brown  soapbox  wagon  in  4ndianola, 
Iowa,  our  home  town.  We've  al- 
ways been  inseparable,  Rosemary 
and  I.  Aside  from  the  fact  that  we 
like  each  other  a  lot,  I  think  another 
reason  for  that  is  the  gap  of  eight 
years  in  age  between  us  and  our 
next  older  .sister.  There  are  three 
more  girls  in  the  family,  you  see. 
Lo,  or  Lolo,  who  used  to  be  in  pic- 
tures and  is  married  now  to  director 


Al  Hall;  Le,  or  Leota,  a  musical 
comedy  star;  and  Martha  who's 
married  to  an  English  professor  at 
the  University  of  Illinois. 

One  thing  I've  always  sort  of 
secretly  adored  Rosemary  for  is 
that  although  I'm  a  year  and  two 
months  younger  than  she  (she's 
twenty)  she's  never  treated  me  like 
a  'kid  sis.'  There've  been  plenty  of 
times  when  she's  had  chances  to — 
and  probably  should  have — you 
know,  times  when  we've  thought 
differently  about  important  de- 
cisions, or  times  when  we've  had  to 
divide  things  or  take  choices  be- 
tween dresses  or  something.  It's 
always  made  me  terribly  proud  that 
Rosemary  never  exercised  a  big  sis- 
ter's rights  of  priority ;  she  invari- 
ably fixed  it  so  that  we  took  turns 
or  drew  straws  or  tossed  a  penny — 
and  came  {Continued  on  page  74) 


Gay  and  beguiling 
Lane  of  the  Pennsyl 
about  each  other  in 


Left,  Rosemary  Lane,  of 
rodio's  lovely  Lanes,  and 
below,  with  Priscilla,  on  a 
visit  to  Frank  Buck's  Jungle 
Camp,  making  friends  with 
a  cheetah. 


MY  SISTER  ! 


I  CALL  her  Pat.  When  I  was  tiny 
"Priscilla"   was  too  much  to  pro- 

I  nounce,  so  I  cut  it  down  to  one  syl- 
lable and  it's  stayed  that  way  ever 
since.     The  odd  thing  is  that  the 

I  name  fits  her  to  perfection.  She 

'  isn't  a  pit  prissy  Prisciila-ish  at  all. 
She's  everything  that  Pat  implies — 
vivacious  and  modern  and  very 
much  on  the  sporty,  rather  than  the 
frilly,  side  of  being  feminine.  I 
think  that'll  give  you  a  picture,  right 
off,  of  my  little  sister. 

But  I  could  never  put  Pat  in  the 
traditional  little  sister's  niche!  She's 
an  inch  taller  than  I  am  and  weighs 
four  pounds  more  and  despite  the 

i  fact  that  she  is  fourteen  months 
my  junior,  she  has  always  been  and 
always  will  be.  I  suppose,  my  grand- 
mother! It's  the  funniest  thing  in 
the  world  the  way  she  undertakes 
to  look  out  for  me.  "Now,  Rosemary, 


I  think  so-and-so,"  and  "Rosemary, 
if  I  were  you  I  wouldn't  do  so-and- 
so,"  are  everyday  occurrences.  I'm 
afraid  I  don't  uphold  tradition, 
either,  because  I  usually  come  around 
to  seeing  things  Pat's  way  before  the 
issue  is  finished. 

Tom  Waring  has  often  said  to 
me,  "How  is  it  you  and  Pat  don't 
fight  ?  Look  at  all  these  other  kids  and 
the  trouble  they  have  getting  along 
together!"  Well  I  really  don't  know 
how  to  explain  that,  except  that  we 
hate  fusses.  We  never  have  had 
one — a  big  one.  If  either  of  us  is 
angry  we  always  keep  quiet  until 
things  straighten  out  and  I  think 
that  must  be  attributed  to  a  strong 
sense  of  family  loyalty  that  mother 
instilled  in  us  as  children.  Fred 
Waring,  our  boss,  often  teases  us 
about  our  odd  behavior  at  rehear- 
■sals ;  he  says  if  he  blows  up  at  Pris- 


PRISCILLA 

cilia  about  something,  Rosemary's  the 
one  who  gets  mad  and  leaves  the  room 
in  a  huff,  and  vice  versa,  so  he  never 
can  decide  whom  his  bawling  out  does 
the  most  good ! 

It's  hard  to  jump  right  in  and  talk 
about  Pat  without  letting  you  in  on 
they  way  she  used  to  be  back  in 
Indianola.    {Continued  on  page  75) 


Rosemary  and  Priscilla 
vanians  "tell  all" 
this  diverting  tale 


Below,  Priscilla,  younger 
sister  of  Rosemary.  Right, 
Fred   Waring,    with  whose 
Pennsylvanians  the  girls 
captivating  stars. 


Helen  Hayes,  stage  and 
film  star,  with  her  hus- 
band, Charles  MacAr- 
thur,  playwright  and  mo- 
tion picture  producer,  on 
a  brief  holiday  together. 


THE  most  important  thinj^  in  the  world  to 
Helen  Hayes  is  her  partnershij)  with  Charles 
MacArthur. 

It  began  to  be  very  important  one  scorch- 
ing August  afternoon  eight  years  ago,  when 
they  went,  hand  in  hand,  into  a  stuffy  little 
office  to  be  married.  Charlie  nervously  jan- 
gling a  bunch  of  keys,  Helen  twirling  a 
tiny  bouquet  of  rosebuds.  Charlie  fumbling 
frantically  for  the  wedding  ring,  flelen  dis- 
covering that  she  already  had  it  on  her 
finger,  taking  it  off,  giving  it  back  to  him, 
and  Charlie  rei)lacing  it. 

The  partnershij)  became  more  important 
a  year  later  when,  on  a  l)right  September 
morning  Helen  lay  exhausted  and  happy,  a 
40 


A  HECTIC.  BUT 


HAPPY,  MATING 


By    Mildred  Mastin 


new  baby  beside  her,  and  Charlie,  grinning 
a  little  foolishly  but  looking  pretty  proud, 
tiptoed  out  to  greet  the  boys  from  the 
papers. 

"It's  a  girl."  he  announced.  "And  she's 
more  beautiful  than  the  Brooklyn  Bridge." 
"Blonde?"  they  a.sked. 
He  nodded  and,  with  a  combination  of 
wit,  sentimentality  and  charm  that  is  char- 
acteristic of  him,  he  added :  "She  has  blue 
eyes  and  looked  at  me  resentfully.  You 
know — the  same  look  that  every  young  ac- 
tress turns  on  a  playwright.  I  hope  she  will 
grow  up  to  be  a  handsome  girl  with  good 
manners  and  able  to  read  and  write — though 
not  too  much.    I  suppose  the  law  compels 


RADIO  STARS 

Helen  Hayes  and  husband  Charles  MacArthur 
reach  the  greatest  heights  in  their  separate 


professions  when  each  assists  the  other 


us  to  send  her  to  school,  although  she 
mij^ht  get  more  out  of  life  just 
hanging  around  the  house." 

The  Hayes-MacArtliur  partnership 
grew  in  importance  when,  a  year  and 
a  half  later,  Helen  went  to  Holly- 
wood to  join  her  ])laywright  hus- 
hand.  and  he  persuaded  her  to  go 
into  pictures.  It  was  a  daring  step 
for  Helen.  She  had  been  afraid  of 
pictures.  She  never  before  had  de- 
parted seriously  from  the  stage.  A 
thousand  doubts  tortured  her.  Char- 
lie laughed  her  worries  away.  He 
was  writing  a  movie  script :  The  Sin 
of  Madelon  Claudet.  The  role  was  a 
'natural'  for  her.  She  would  catch 
on  to  movie  technique  in  no  time. 
No  need  to  be  frightened  of  Holly- 
wood ! 

So  she  took  the  role,  speaking  the 
lines  he  had  written,  bolstered  by  his 
faith  and  assurance.  Her  perform- 
ance as  Madelon  won  for  her  the 
Academy  Award. 


And  when,  a  few  years  later, 
Charlie  launched  his  motion  picture 
career  in  the  East  as  a  producer- 
director  for  Paramount,  llelen  was 
on  the  set,  playing  small,  nameless 
extra  roles,  laughing  with  him,  en- 
couraging him,  helping  in  any  way 
she  could  to  make  his  first  produc- 
tion, Crime  Without  Passion,  a 
success. 

In  their  work,  in  their  play,  at 
home,  in  the  theater,  everywhere, 
these  two  have  been  perfect  part- 
ners. Everywhere,  that  is,  except  on 
the  air. 

Their  partnership  never  has  ex- 
tended to  radio.  Last  year  each  of 
them,  separately,  launched  radio 
careers.  And  neither  of  them  was 
})articularly  .successful. 

Helen  Hayes,  in  The  New  Penny 
series  last  winter,  never  once  touched 
the  heights  she  has  reached  many 
times  on  stage  and  screen.  And 
Charlie,  as  {Continued  on  page  66) 


Left,  Helen  Hayes  broad- 
casts her  radio  program. 
Above,  with  Neil  Hamil- 
ton in  The  Sin  of  Mad- 
elon Claudet,  which  won 
her  the  Academy  award. 


41 


\mm  JAMBOREE 


Paul  Whiteman 
auditions  talented 
children  for  his 

Musical  Varieties 


Each  Tuesday  morning  at 
welcomes  ombif.ous  young 
amateurs.  And  e^^^^^^^ 
Warner  Brothers  se  ects  one 
for  a  screen  test.  Little 
Jeanme  Porrillo  tells  her 
hopes  to  Paul. 


Upper  picture.  J" '^j  .  • 
42  And    the    sailor    lodd.e  .s 

Juliet's  brother  Charles. 


Center,  Frances  Lane  and 
rolleen  Stimson.  Above. 


Ifsalong  way  to  the  m.c- 
hone-but  Dor^  Von  See 
^  will  reach  itl 


DYNAMO-PINT  SIZE 

Ireene  Wicker,  The  Singing  Lady,  unique  in  her  own  field 


Leff,  Ireene  Wicker,  one 
of  radio's  most  distin- 
guished artists,  has 
repeatedly  been  hon- 
ored for  her  children's 
progranns.  And  (right) 
with  her  husband,  Wal- 
ter Wicker,  writer  and 
mennber  of  the  cast  of 
Song  of  the  City,  co- 
author and  mennber  of 
the  cast  of  Todavs 


Leslie  Eaton 


CHILDREN'S  programs  conic 
and  go.  good,  bad  and  indilTer- 
ent.  But  among  thcin  all.  one 
stands  out  with  starlike  bril- 
liance, not  only  from  the  stand- 
point of  parents  and  teachers, 
but  from  the  point  of  view  ol 
the  most  important  critics,  the 
children  themselves. 

The  creator  of  these  partic- 
ularly delightful  songs  and  stories 
is  Ireene  \\  icker.  talented  author 
and  actress  and  successful  wife 
and  mother,  too.  Her  Singing 
Lady  program,  on  the  air  five 
days  a  week,  tifty-two  weeks  a 
year  at  5  :30  p.m  L.D.T..  under 
the  sponsorshi])  of  the  Kellogg 
Company,  has  withstood  every 
test,  every  demand  of  children 
and  educators  alike.  In  a  recent 
national  poll,  this  program  led 
the  field  by  a  large  margin.  For 
three  successive  years,  it  has  won 
the  World-Telegram  award.  The 
National  Federation  of  Women's 
Clubs  found  its  popularity  greater 
than  that  of  any  other  children's 
program  and  radio  magazines 
and  critics  unite  in  acclaiming  its 
merited  success. 


One  rea.son  for  the  outstand- 
ing quality  of  Miss  Wicker's 
work  is  that  she  does  not  write 
down  to  children.  Having  a 
growing  boy  and  girl  of  her  own. 
she  is  aware  of  their  quick  in- 
telligence, their  innate  good  taste, 
their  wide  and  varie(l  interests. 
She  admits  their  desire  for 
drama,  their  need  for  something 
to  stimulate  as  well  as  entertain. 
Love  for  adventure,  for  mystery, 
is  legitimate — but  can  be  met 
with  .something  besides  machine 
guns ! 

She  allows  for  the  varied  ages 
and  interests  of  her  small  listen- 
ers all  over  the  country  by  vary- 
ing her  program  from  day  to 
day.  On  Monda}-.  for  instance, 
she  ])lans  an  original  story  and 
song  based  on  Mother  Goose  or 
some  familiar  fairy  tale.  On 
Tuesday,  slie  tells  an  original 
story  of  Nancy  and  Charlie  and 
their  travels — last  winter  they 
were  in  Bermuda  and  had  some 
exciting  .sea-adventures  with  Pr. 
William  Beebe.  At  present  they 
are  in  China,  and  a  vivid  jMCture 
of  that  {Continued  on  paijc  W) 
43 


Familiar  friends  rehearse 
their  roles  for  the  weekly 
sailing  of  the  Show  Boat 

Rosaline  Greene  iMary  Lou),  Irene  Hubbard 
(Maria)  and  Frank  Mcln+yre  (Captain  Henry) 
study  their  scripts.  Gus  Haenschen  leads  his  or- 
chestra. Next  Lanny  Ross  rehearses  a  tender 
song.  And  now  Mary  Lou  and  Maria  run 
through  their  lines  before  the  nnike.  Allen  and 
Louise  Massey,  of  The  Westerners,  rehearse  a 
plaintive  western  ditty.  And  then  Captain  Henry 
reads  his  role. 


RADIO  STARS 


IN  HIS  aHANDFATHEE'S  FOOTSTEPS 

Ted  Hammerstein,  of  The  Music  Hall  of  the  Air,  aims  high 


THE  old  Manhattan  Opera  House  is  gone  and  all  but 
forgotten,  but  names  it  made  famous  still  ring  in  our 
ears  and  some  of  them  still  shine  in  bright  lights.  Mary 
Garden,  Tetrazzini,  Lina  Cavalieri,  John  McCormack  and 
many  others  first  tasted  success  on  the  stage  of  Oscar 
Hammerstein's  ojjera  house,  the  old  Victoria.  And  so 
formidable  was  the  success  of  this  greatest  venture  of 
the  famous  impresario  that 
the  directors  of  the  Metro- 
politan Opera.  Company  of- 
fered Hammerstein  one  mil- 
lion dollars  to  quit  and  leave 
the  field  to  them. 

Oscar  accepted  their  offer, 
confident  that  his  star  would 
remain  in  the  ascendancy. 
But  in  the  next  years,  he  was 
to  know  keen  disappointment 
and  heart-breaking  defeat. 

Today  young  Ted  Ham- 
merstein is  the  brightest  link 
with  the  unforgettable  past. 
In  his  Music  Hall  of  the 
Air,  broadcast  over  the  CBS 
network  every  Tuesday 
night  at  8  p.  m.,  E.D.T., 
young  Ted  not  only  presents 
famous  artists  who  once 
played  on  the  stage  of  his 
grandfather's  opera  house, 
but  endeavors  to  give  the 
kind  of  show  for  which  the 
elder  Hammerstein  was 
famous. 

"It  is  the  last  frontier  of 
vaudeville,"  he  explained  to 
me.  "We  try  to  give  a  real 
variety  show — and  we  think 
the  old  and  the  new  make  an 
interesting  contrast." 

"But  so  many  of  these  old- 
timers  must  be  almost  for- 
gotten, and  quite  unknown  to 

the  younger  generation.  Do  you  find  them  popular?"  I 
inquired. 

"Very  much  so  with  those  who  remember.  They  get 
a  great  thrill  out  of  hearing  their  old-time  favorites  again. 
And  we  have  plenty  to  offer  the  other  listeners.  We 
have  something  different  every  week,  for  variety, 
and  Lucy  Laughlin  and  our  band  to  carry  on  regularly. 
Lucy  is  the  daijghter  of  Anna  Laughlin  and  is  very  pop- 
ular. Each  group  appeals  to  its  own  audience  and  both 
groups  buy  toothpaste,  you  know !" 

Ted  laughed.  He  is  a  gay,  debonair  young  man  with 
the  most  ebullient  spirits.  If  he  ever  takes  anything 
seriously,  I  failed  to  discover  what,  during  our  somewhat 
hectic  meetings-  He  has  an  office  in  the  I'alacc  Theatre 
building  and  his  radio  program  is  rehearsed  and  pro- 
duced, appropriately  enough,  in  the  okl  Amsterdam  roof, 
where  some  of  his  guest  stars  were  once  reigning  fa- 
vorites. I  had  followed  him  from  the  Palace  to  the 
Amsterdam  and  back  again,  finally  catching  up  with  him 
in  his  ofiice  between  rehearsal  and  the  evening  show.  1 
was  impressed  by  the  fact  that,  busy  as  he  was,  he  still 
had  time  to  be  cordial  and  generous  with  what  time  he  had. 


By  Miriam  Rogers 


Ted  Hammerstein,  youthful  the- 
atrical producer  and  grandson  of 
the  famous  Oscar  Hammerstein. 


Ted's  grandfather,  after  relinquishing  his  opera  house, 
engaged  in  a  number  of  enterprises  which  eventually  re- 
duced him  almost  to  penury.  He  built  scores  of  theatres 
in  New  York  and  Europe,  but  the  Midas-touch  was  gone 
and  he  tasted  the  bitter  fruit  of  failure.  His  four  sons 
shared  his  ill  luck  as  a  fortune  variously  estimated  at 
from  five  to  twenty  millions  dwindled  to  nothing.  Three 
of  the  sons  died  within  short 
intervals  and  Oscar  has  him- 
self been  dead  so  long  that 
Ted's  memories  of  him  arc 
few  and  dim. 

"He  had  severed  all  con- 
nections with  the  theatre," 
Ted  said.  "I  can  remember 
— or  think  I  do — seeing  him 
putter  around  a  dusty  little 
old  office.  He  had  invented 
some  sort  of  a  cigar-vending 
machine  and  of  course  he 
thought  he  was  going  to  re- 
coup his  fortune.  I  was  all 
dressed  up  in  Buster  Brown 
suits  in  those  days  and  my 
grandfather  loathed  them— 
he'd  give  me  a  nickel  for  let- 
ting him  write  on  the  stiff 
white  collars !" 

But  somehow  in  those 
days,  the  old  man  must  have 
imbued  the  little  boy  with 
something  of  his  own  ambi- 
tion and  his  own  unquench- 
able spirit.  Certainly  he  was 
steeped  in  the  old  the- 
atrical traditions  and  had  no 
thought  outside  of  that  glam- 
orous world. 

For  a  young  man,  Ted 
Hammerstein  has  a  long  list 
of  failures  as  well  as  suc- 
cesses behind  him,  but  thev 
never  fazed  him  for  a  mo- 
ment. He  was  always  ready  to  tackle  the  next  job,  to 
try  something  else.  Ted  was  born  in  1902  and  at  four- 
teen, left  school,  determined  upon  a  stage  career  and 
prepared,  whatever  befell,  never  to  stop  trying.  His  first 
()pix)rtunities  were  engineered  by  a  skillful  forging  of 
his  grandfather's  name  on  letters  of  introduction  neatly 
written  on  the  elder  Hammer.stein's  stationery!  Actually, 
his  debut,  if  you  could  call  it  that,  was  in  a  play  called 
Aricona,  with  a  stock  company  in  the  Bronx. 

"I  was  supposed  to  stand  in  the  wings  and  hold  a 
horse  by  the  bridle.  At  the  ])ro])er  moment,  I  was  to 
give  him  a  slap  on  the  flank  and  send  him  galloping 
onstage.  I  was  terrified  and  stood  as  far  from  him  as  mv 
arm  could  stretch!  Of  course  I  was  never  seen  by  the 
audience,  but  1  received  $6.00  a  week  and  thought  mv 
career  was  well  begun !  1  had  been  with  them  about 
cigiit  weeks,  with  slightly  better  parts  hut  no  more  money, 
wlien  the  company  went  broke." 
"And  then?"  I  suggested. 

"Well,  I  think  it  was  somewhere  around  that  time 
that  I  ran  off  to  join  the  navy,  but  I  was  under  age  and  mv 
]);irents  refu.sed  consent  and  {Continued  on  payc  54) 

45 


{Left  to  right)  Page  Gilman  [Jack],  Minetta  Ellen  [Fanny],  Walter  Patterson  \Capt. 
Man's  Family),  Kathleen  Wilson  [Claudia),  Barton  Yarborough  [Cliff],  Winifred' 

. .  AT  HOME  WITH 


J.  Anthony  Smythe 
Minetta  Ellen 


By     Franc  Dillon 


FOR  years  my  pet  aversion  has  been  the 
radio  progratii  known  as  One  Man's 
Family.  It  seemed  to  me  that  my  peace- 
ful pursuits  were  forever  i)einn  inter- 
fered with  by  this  play.  My  friends  will 
drop  everything  when  it  is  time  for  this 
program,  and  sit  listening  with  rai)t 
ex])ressions. 

"It's  my  favorite  program!"  they  ex- 
claim. "I  wouldn't  think  of  missing  a 
chapter." 

Did  I  anticipate  a  ((uiet  game  of 
bridge?  One  Man's  family  would  inter- 
rupt. Did  I  plan  a  trip,  call  on  a  neigh- 
bor or  wish  to  listen  to  a  symphony  con- 
cert ?  One  Man's  Family  was  on  the  air. 
It  would  be  no  more  than  a  mild  exag- 
geration to  .say  that  One  Man's  Family 
was  making  my  life  mi.serablc. 

Of  course  I  never  listened  to  it.  I 
wouldn't  like  it  if  it  was  good!  And  it 
seemed  as  if  Fate  had  taken  a  hand,  when 
I  foimd  myself  doing  a  little  piece  about 
it.  The  only  nice  angle  was  that  it  pro- 
vided a  good  excuse  to  visit  San  I'Van- 


cisco,  the  home  town  of  the  Family. 

I  i^lanned  to  be  there  on  Sunday  and 
it  happened  that  on  that  particular  Sun- 
day, Carlton  Morse,  the  author  of  the 
play,  had  inX'ited  the  whole  Family  to  his 
country  home  for  the  day  and  I  was 
taken  along. 

Did  you  ever  attend  a  real  old-fash- 
ioned family  reunion?  You  know  the 
kind  I  mean.  .'\11  the  fathers  and  mothers 
and  relatives  attend  and  it  is  u.sually  held 
at  the  home  of  the  grandparents.  That 
is  the  kind  of  party  this  was.  and  held 
at  the  home  of  the  grandparents,  too.  for 
Carlton  Morse  is  really  the  granddaddy 
of  the  play,  although  astonishingly  young 
in  years. 

You  won  t  be  at  all  flattered  when  I 
tell  you  how  he  happened  to  write  this 
serial,  although  you  mu.st  admit  his  rea- 
soning was  sound.  It  was  when  radio 
was  in  its  infancy  and,  having  written 
exciting  mystery  plays  and  thrillers, 
which  he  .sold  to  radio,  he  decided  there 
must  be  .some  new  idea;  an  idea  that 
would  ap|)eal  to  everyone.  He  asked 
himself  what  j^eople  were  most  interested 
in  and  the  answer  was,  naturally,  "them- 


Meet  the  cast  of  an  ever  popular  radio  pro- 


icky),  Bernice  Berwin  [Hazel],  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carlton  E.  Morse  (the  author  of  One 
'oKe  [Teddy],  J.Anthony  Smythe  [Henry  Barbour],  at  the  home  of  Carlton  E.  Morse. 


m  NANS  FAMILY 


Ives."  And  so  he  wrote  the  first  epi- 
des  of  One  Man's  Family — an  inti- 
ate  story  dealing  with  real  human  be- 
gs— and  it's  been  going  on  ever  since. 
Of  course  in  real  life  the  members  of 
is  family  aren't  related,  but  that  makes 

much  easier  for  them  to  be  gomi 
iends !  /\nd  they  are  good  friends,  too. 
ich  member  of  the  group  is  interested 
the  others ;  in  the  romances,  husbands, 
ives,  babies  and  divorces.  I  don't  be- 
ve  there  is  a  jealous  thought  in  the 
cup.  No  one  is  the  star  of  the  piece. 

one  member  is  more  imix)rtant  than 
e  others  in  one  broadcast,  another  mem- 
r  will  be  the  prominent  one  the  next 
-'ck.  And  that,  I  believe,  is  one  of  the 
iIX)rtant  contributing  factors  in  making 
is  the  most  popular  play  on  the  air  as 
goes  along  in  its  fifth  year. 
It  was  a  beautiful  forty-mile  drive 
mg  the  skyline  boulevard  to  our  des- 
lation,  where  we  gained  admis.sion  by 
iging  a  ship's  bell  outsi<le  the  gate  and 
und  ourselves  at  one  of  the  most 
arming  mountain  homes  I've  ever  seen. 

the  center  of  a  forest  of  huge  pines, 
idrones  and  other  evergreen  trees,  is  a 


glorified  cabin  built  on  six  levels  and 
clinging  precariously  near  the  top  of  a 
very  high  mountain. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morse  and  two  beautijul 
collies  came  running  down  dozens  of 
steps  to  meet  us,  Mrs.  Morse  a.s.suring 
everyone  that  there  were  pots  and  pots 
of  coffee  coming  up.  Tiny,  blonde  and 
dainty,  she  declares  she  is  just  the  guinea 
pig  of  the  family  because  her  husband 
always  submits  his  scripts  to  her  before 
the  final  editing.  If  she  a^iproves  they 
go  on  the  air. 

Bernice  Berwin,  who  plays  Hazel,  and 
her  husband,  a  San  Francisco  attorney, 
were  the  next  arrivals,  and  the  first  ques- 
tions fired  at  her  were  concerning  her 
baby — the  first  baby  born  in  the  family 
circle. 

Iwery  member  of  the  cast  is  given  two 
weeks'  vacation  every  year  and  it  takes 
no  little  ingenuity  on  the  part  of  Mr. 
Morse  to  arrange  his  plot  to  allow  for 
absences  at  the  right  time.  He  always 
manages  it,  but  hasn't  yet  figured  out  a 
way  to  get  a  vacation  for  himself. 
.Strangely  enough,  no  one  ever  asks  to 
be  written  out   (Continued  on  page  61) 


ram  in  one  of  their  merry  family  reunions 


By  Jack  Hanley 


ONQE  upon  a  time,  many  years  ago, 
before  sound  had  complicated  movie 
making  and  swept  live  performers 
from  the  boards  of  vaudeville  the- 
atres across  the  country,  there  was 
a  hoofer.  There  were,  in  fact,  lots 
of  hoofers,  all  making  a  more  or  less 
precarious  living,  but  there  was  one 
in  particular  with  a  terrific  yen  to  be 
a  newspaperman. 

Nobody  might  ever  have  known; 
there  was  nothing  much  to  distin- 
guish this  particular  hoofer  f ram  the 
legion  of  other  man-and-woman 
teams  who  plugged  along  for  a  salary 
of  a  hundred-wld  dollars  a  week,  do- 
ing songs,  dances  and  patter;  play- 
ing the  pan  time  or  the  Interstate  or 
the  Loew  Southern  circuits  of  the 
time;  as  often  as  not  "deucing  it" — 
which  meant  going  on  second,  after 
the  acrobats. 

But,  in  the  theatres  this  hoofer 
played,  an  embryo  newspaper  called 
the  Daily  News-Sense  appeared  on 
the  bulletin  board  backstage.  It  was 
only  two  typed  pages;  quips,  gags 
and  theatrical  gossip,  tacked  up  next 
to  the  mailbox  beside  the  local  hotel 
ads,  laundry  solicitations,  rehearsal 
notices  and  fire  warnings.  It  was 
Walter  Winchell's  first  journalistic 
enterprite,  with  a  circulation  limited 
to  the  handful  of  vaudevillians  play- 
ing one  particular  theatre  each  we€Jc. 

That  Glenn  Condon,  editor  of  the 
trade  weekly  Vaudeville  News  saw 
the  Daily  News-Sense  and  offered 
Winchell  a  job,  was  a  break.  The 
rest  was  Winchell.  It's  a  far  cry 
from  the  young  hoofer  who  was  will- 
ing to  drop  to  twenty-five  dollars  a 
week  to  make  his  first  actual  contact 
with  printer's  ink,  to  the  Winchell 
of  today  with  hundreds  of  papers 
syndicating  his  column  and  a  radio 
audience  of  millions.  Not  to  mention 
the  tremendous  ballooning  of  that 
twenty-five  dollar  stipend  to  about  as 
many  hundreds  for  his  radio  contract 
alone. 

Many  things  have  happened  since 
Winchell  sang  in  a  Harlem  orchestra 
pit  with  Eddie  Cantor  and  Georgie 
Jessel  as:  Lawrence,  McKinley  and 
Stanley,  the  Singing  Ushers.  Win- 
chell was  Lawrence  and  it  was  this 
same  trio  that  Gus  Edwards  put  into 
one  of  his  early  revues  with  the 
Newsboys  Sextette. 

Ever  since  his  beating-up  some 
months  ago,  attributed  to  Nazi  sym- 
pathizers, Winchell  is  accompanied 


THROUGH  A  KEYHOLE 


by  a  bodyguard,  convoyed  by  an  assorted  train  of  friends 
and  stooges.  A  person  of  power  and  influence,  he  is 
besieged  by  mail,  waylaid  in  favorite  haunts,  pestered  by 
phone.  An  army  of  favor-seekers  offers  him  news,  makes 
bids  for  a  line  in  the  column.  His  function  now  is,  per- 
haps, primarily  an  editorial  one,  with  sources  established 
and  an  eager  horde  of  contributors. 

But  Winchell,  himself,  is  basically  the  same.  Back  in 
1924,  exultant  over  his  first  column  on  the  now  defunct 
Dcaly  Graphic,  he  would  buttonhole  everybody  and  any- 
body to  ask  them  about  the  column ;  how  did  they  like 
such  and  such  an  item  ?  Did  they  see  his  line  about  so  and 
so?  He  was  all  over  the  plant,  from  advertising  office  to 
composing  room,  soliciting  comment  and  compliment. 
Hardly  a  day  went  by  that  Winchell  did  not  have  some 
gag,  too  blue  to  print,  which  he  carried  about  with  the 
plea  of :  "How  can  I  clean  it  up  ?"  His  enthusiam  was  im- 
j>ervious  to  sneers  or  snickers;  an  ingenuous,  childlike 
eagerness;  a  complete  absorption  with  himself  that  was 
wholly  naive  rather  than  conceited. 

Recently,  at  Winchell's 
eat  broadcast,  the  an- 

uncer  mentioned  to 
ium  that  he  had  an- 
iKiunced  a  swing  music 
concert  between  the  two 
broadcasts.  Winchell 
looked  up  with  a  single 
query: 

"Did  you  say  anything 
almut  me?"  he  asked. 

That,  perhaps,  is  one 
of  the  keynotes  of  the 
Winchell  make  up;  has 
always  been.    Back  in 

1 1924.  he  started  on  the 
Graphic  at  $100.00  a 
week,  as  columnist, 
amusement  editor  and 
drama  reviewer.  The 
dramatic  critic's  job, 
t  however,  consisted  in 
y  merely  accompanying  guest  critics — readers  of  the  paper 
I-  who  gave  their  reviews.  After  a  year,  Winchell  l)egan 
i  receiving  offers  from  Hearst  and  though  his  contract  had 
1  not  yet  run  out,  he  was  given  a  raise,  then  a  second  raise. 
1  It  was  supposed  to  be  kept  secret,  to  avoid  dissatisfaction 
■»  among  the  rest  of  the  staff.  But  Winchell,  opening  his 
envelope  to  find  $190.00  in  it  one  week,  could  not  stifle 

0  his  enthusiasm  and  juvenile  glee  at  what  was  then  big 
t  money  to  him.  The  whole  force  knew  of  it  in  short  order, 
A  and  though  it  was  never  discovered  who  had  revealed  the 
tl   secret,  it  is  a  fairly  safe  conjecture  that  Walter,  himself, 

was  the  leak.  The  Your  Broadway  and  Mine  column  was 
:t  offered,  along  with  many  other  Graphic  features,  for  syn- 
»  dication  in  those  early  days  and  was  turned  down.  Later, 

1  when  the  Graphic,  itself,  began  syndicating  him,  he  was, 
1^  to  quote  those  who  worked  with  him,  like  a  kid  with  a 
n-  new  toy  every  time  a  new  paper  was  added  to  the  syn- 
liJ  dicate  string.  He  still  mentions  each  new  paper  taking 
to   his  stuff  in  the  column. 

be  In  1930  he  commented  that  the  old  saw:  ■'Once  a 
trouper  always  a  trouper,"  did  not  apply  to  him.  He  was, 
ne  he  said,  out  of  show  business  and  he  mentioned  exult- 
s-  antly  that  one  manager,  who  had  played  him  in  his  vaude- 
(d   ville  days  none  too  enthusiastically  at  $100  a  week,  was 


offering  him  $2500  to  play  the  same  theatre,  which  he 
refused.  Nevertheless  he  did  play  a  few  theatre  dates  in 
1934  and  appeared  not  long  ago  with  Ben  Bernie  in  a 
stage  version  of  their  mock  feud.  But  not  for  $100  a 
week. 

His  first  radio  show  was  heard  shortly  after  he  signed 
with  the  Daily  Mirror  in  1930.  He  was  contracted  for 
13  weeks  by  the  Saks  Stores  for  a  purely  local  program 
— New  York  only.  At  the  end  of  the  contract  it  wasn't 
renewed  and  he  began  casting  about  for  another  sponsor. 
A  shoe  company  signed  him  for  another  13  weeks  which 
went  a  bit  better;  fan  mail  and  comment  began  drifting 
in  and  led  to  his  engagement  at  $1,000  weekly  on  a 
national  CBS  hookup.  It  was  steady  upgrade  from  then 
on.  Lucky  Strike  paid  him  $3,500  and  paid  $1,000  weekly 
to  his  sponsors  to  release  the  "exclusive"  clause  in  his 
contract  and  so,  for  a  time,  he  broadcast  for  two  sponsors 
simultaneously. 

After  over  six  years  on  the  air,  Winchell  is  still 
nervous  at  the  mike.  With  his  copy  ready,  he  puffs  in 
staccato  tempo  at  a  for- 
bidden cigarette  until  the 
go  ahead  signal;  takes 
off  his  jacket,  of>ens  his 
collar  and  sits  down  at 
the  microphone  with  his 
hat  pushed  to  the  back 
of  his  head,  a  glass  of 
water  at  his  elbow.  His 
copy  is  passed  on  and 
okayed  before  the  broad- 
cast, but  he  does  no  re- 
hearsal. The  sound  ef- 
fects—  telegraph  ticker 
and  piping  of  radio  code 
— he  works  himself  in- 
stead of  leaving  it  to 
sound-effects  men.  He 
sets  the  rapid  fire  tempo 
of  his  broadcast  that 
way,  fingers  jiggling  the 
"bug"  keys  at  exactly 
the  .split  -second  he  wants  them.  He  doesn't  know  code — 
sends  what  telegraphers  call  "hash,"  but  once,  presumably 
through  accident,  his  fingers  tapi)ed  out  a  garbled  "go  to 
hell.  "  As  the  key  sends  its  staccato  rhythmic  interludes 
to  machine-gun  verbal  delivery,  Winchell's  foot  keeps 
tapping  rhythmically  with  it;  it  is  as  though  the  whole 
broadcast  were  set  to  a  metronomic,  rapid  tempo,  as  in- 
deed it  is. 

He  works  to  no  studio  audience,  but  there  usually  are 
a  few  hangers-on  or  friends  present  during  the  broadcast. 
We  obviously  enjoys  the  small  group  who  do  attend. 

On  an  occasion  one  of  his  "flashes"  contained  the  scoop 
that  Joan  Crawford  and  Franchot  Tone  had  been  mar- 
ried. Winchell  was  in  the  control-room,  before  broadcast- 
time,  and  Ben  Grauer,  his  announcer,  happened  to  glance 
at  tiie  script  and,  noting  the  news,  read  a  few  lines  to 
fri.:nds  in  the  studio.  Winchell  came  storming  out  of  the 
control-room  in  a  towering  rage  and  snapped:  "Where 'd 
you  get  that?  Who  told  you  to  read  that?"  Hearing  it 
come  through  the  open  mike  to  the  control-room  si)caker 
he  thought,  for  a  moment,  that  it  had  gone  on  the  air 
and  that  someone  else  had  broadcast  it,  scooping  him. 

But  even  when  he  learned,  from  the  flabbergasted  and 
amiable  Grauer,  that  it  had  gone  {Continued  on  page  64) 


Walter  Winchell,  of  the  Jer- 
gens  program,  has  given  us 
the  lowdown  on  just  about 
every  one  else,  but  here's 
where  you  get  the  absolute 
lowdown  on  Walter,  himself! 


By  Faith 
Service 


BEFORE  radio,"  said  Rupert  Hughes,  "or  before  mov- 
ies, there  were  relatively  few  persons  who  were  in- 
formed, within  limits,  of  the  past  and  the  present.  But 
now — now  in  this  great  age,  the  women  in  our  kitchens, 
women  and  men  and  girls  on  isolated  farms,  the  inhabit- 
ants of  small  town.s — everywhere — can  hear  Mussolini 
speak,  understand  the  meaning  of  Stalinism,  hear  Hitler 
speak,  listen  to  the  President  of  the  United  States,  arc 
familiar  with  symphonic  music  or  jazz,  .hear  lectures  once 
available  only  to  university  students — stand  with  their 
ears  to  the  very  making  of  history,  the  development  of 
science,  the  world  they  live  in. 

"The  vocabularies  of  people  everywhere  have  been  in- 
creased and  enriched.  So  much  so  that  I  often  think 
movies  and  radio  play  down  to  their  audiences,  too  far 
down.  Such  words  as  masochism  and  sadism,  for  instance, 
words  that  were  familiar,  a  few  years  ago,  only  to 
students  of  Freud,  are  now  common  conversational  coin. 

"Table  manners  have  imj)roved.  For  in  the  movies,  we 
have  seen  the  Gilded  Great  being  served  and  need  no 
))enefit  of  family  Post.  How  many,  in  the  past,  read  books 
of  Etiquette,  anyway?  Only  a  handful.  Manners  of  all 
kinds  have  inijiroved.  Graces  once  given  only  to  a  favored 
few  now  make  silken  the  texture  of  many  lives. 

"The  Swedish  washerwoman  in  your  kitchen  or  mine — 
my  God,  think  of  the  emotions  of  which  she  is  capable- — 
the  great  scale  of  love  and  lust  ami  murder  and  sacrifices 
50 


and  tenderness.  Nothing  is  less  vital  in  her,  no  major 
experience  is  denied  her  because  she  has  not  read  a  few 

books." 

1  was  talking  to  Mr.  Hughes  in  the  library  of  his 
Hollywood  home.  He  was  surrounded  by  some  eight  to 
ten  thousand  books,  ranging  anywhere  from  the  works  of 
Aristotle  to  the  works  of  Harold  Bell  Wright,  from  prict 
less  folios  and  first  editions  to  the  cardboard-coverct 
editions  of  modern  libraries. 

"1  love  books,"  he  continued.  "I  have  been  an  oni 
nivorous  reader  all  of  my  life.  Fd  read  most  of  tlu 
classics  through  by  the  time  1  was  out  of  my  'teens. 
Perhai)s.  if  there  had  been  motion  pictures  and  radio  in 
those  days,  1  might  not  have  read  quite  so  exhaustively. 
I'm  not  sure  thai  it  would  ha7'c  mattered  (jreatly.  Tooi 
many  jxjoplc  read  a  few  books,  visit  a  few  cities,  see  a 
few  paintings  and  are  then  disposed  to  look  down  their 
noses  at  the  rest  of  humanity,  at  everything  'jjopular.'  at 
all  things  modern  and  contemporary. 

"For  it  is  customary,  you  know,  to  look  down  upon  any- 
thing contemporary.  And  yet  the  now  revered  classicists 
were  the  'hot  moments'  the  'hot  breaths'  of  their  day, 
frowned  U]x>n  by  the  Tories.  Socrates  was  put  to  death 
for  endangering  the  morals  of  the  young.  Today  we  touch 
our  foreheads  to  the  ground  when  we  mention  hmi. 

"It  is  so  with  radio  and  with  movies.  Tho.se  who  are 
j)lcased   to   call   themselves    {Continued   on   page   7<V  I 


Dinner  notes  jotted  down 
a  famed  Baltimore  Hostess 


A  few  of  the  distinguished  women 
who  prefer  Camel's  costlier  tobaccos: 
MRS.  NICHOLAS  BIDDLE.  Philadelphia 
MISS  MARY  BYRD,  Kuhmond 
MRS.  POWELL  CABOT,  Boston  . 
MRS.  THOMAS  M.  CARNEGIE.  JR.,  Aeu,  York 
MRS.  J.  G.\RDNER  COOLIDGE,  II,  Boston 
MRS.  ERNEST  dl-  PONT,  JR..  TTilmington 
MRS.  WILLIAM  I.  HOLLING?^^  ORTH,  JR.,  tos  ^npr/. 
MRS.  CHISWELL  DABNEV  LANGHORNE,  Virginia 
MRS.  JASPER  MORGAN,  .Veti-  York 
MRS.  LANGDON  POST,  .Veic  York 
MISS  LUCY  SAUNDERS,  AVu.  York 
MRS.  BROOKFIELD  VAN  RENSSELAER,  Aeu.  York 


COSTLIER  TOBACCOS! 

.  .  .  Camels  are  made  from  finer,  MORE 
EXPENSIVE  TOBACCOS... Turkish  and 
Domestic... than  any  other  popular  brand. 


MRS.  NICHOLAS 
GRIFFITH   PENNIMAN  III 


Mrs.  Penniman  is  a  descendant  of  two 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. Another  forefather  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Bachelors'  Cotillion, 
exclusive  to  Baltimore's  first  families. 
Mrs.  Penniman  is  widely  known  as  a 
charming  hostess,  a  genius  in  fine  South- 
ern cookery.  "\^1ien  entertaining,"  she 
says,  "I  always  serve  plenty  of  Camels. 
Between  courses  and  after.  Camels  taste 
so  good.  I've  noticed  that  they  help  di- 
gestion and  add  so  much  to  that  satis- 
fying sense  of  having  dined  well!" 


l'r,i,idvnlial  Kuuin.  Mi)l!ouer  Hold,  II  ,ishin(:ton,  D.  C  ^ays  Fred  II  icsin,:,  .'.  lu.iilr.-  .l  li.M.  l: 
"fFe  serve  a  cosmopolitan  clientele  of  noted  diplomats  and  gourmets  tvho  favor  Camels." 

Smoking  Camels  beticeen  meals  ami  after 
has  a  ii  elcome  effect  on  digestion 


The  excitement  of  having  a  good  time  — 
whether  at  home  or  "abroad  "— often  keys  up 
the  nervous  system.  Tenseness  results,  slow- 
ing down  the  activity  of  digestive  fluids. 

Scientists  have  shown  that  the  supply  of 
these  fluids  — alkaline  digestive  fluids  — is 
helped  back  to  normal  hy  smoking  Camels. 


Definitely,  Camels  encourage  good  digestion 
. .  .  give  a  generous  "lift."  Their  costlier  to- 
baccos furnish  a  fitting  accompaniment  to 
the  subtle  flavors  of  fine  food.  Being  mild. 
Camels  never  tire  your  taste.  So,  hostess 
or  guest,  let  Camels  give  you  pleasure  dur- 
ing meals  and  after.  They  set  you  right! 


PGR  DIGESTIONS  SAKE 


SMOKE  CAMELS 


Does  your  Noil  Polish  get  Thick  and  Gummy? 


6eoo»Y"        popul°'  Used  Hig*'' 

Solon  Priced  French  Priced 

Brond        ,   Rtond  Bfond  Bto"''  j 

Evopo'o'*'*   l^opo^o^ei     j^^po.oted  j,„poroted 


Personol  j^ediu-n-  j^,,,)  E*?""''"® 

Demon-  p,iced  inlerno-  5^,100 

strotion  g,ond  ,ionolW      .  grond 

Evopo'o'^"    j^opototed  j^oporoled  j^^porote 


50%     35*^      50*?^      35%      50%      40%      40%  60% 


In  14-day  test,  8  popular 
Brands  of  Polish  became 
thick  and  unusable, 
Evaporated  35%  to  60% 


The  NEW  Cutex  Polish  is  usable  to  the  last  drop 

/fs  Evaporation  is  less  than  half  as  much  as  ordinary  Polish 


ft  do*^^  "Te  co\or«- 


WH  dclil.crat.'ly  inucrkr.l  10  Lotties 
(if  nail  ]i(>lisli  — '2  of  our  New  Cutex 
—  Clear  and  Crenie,  and  8  po])ular  rival 
brands— and  let  their  c  ontents  stand  ex- 
posed to  the  air  for  14  days. 

The  result  was  amazing!  The  8  rival  brands 
dearly  showed  an  evaporation  of  S.V/o 
to  00'  '<  I  All  were  found  to  be  thick 
and  {.'uiimi.\'.  But  the  New  Cutex  Polish 
evajxirated  /r.v.v  than  half  as  much  as  the 
competitive  brands.  Came  through  the 
test  as  smooth-Howing,  as  ea.sy  to  apply, 
a.s  ever! 

Think  what  this  means  to  yoii  in  terms 
of  nail-polish  value!  J'ractically  no  loss 
by  evaporation  — even  when  standing  for 
manv  flavs  in  an  entirely  uncorked  bottle. 


No  thickening  and  drying  while  stand- 
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Proving  that  they  can  be  as  "wacky"  to  the  eye  as  they 
are  to  the  ear  on  their  Sunday  evening  Jell-O  summer 
sliow  which  airs  the  antics  of  the  already  famous  Wacky 
family,  Tim  and  his  wife,  Irene,  give  you  a  camera's  eye 
view  of  at  least  three  reasons  why  they  should  be  able 
to  hold  their  own  in  movies  as  well  as  radio.  They  hove 
been  so  successful  at  filling  the  spot  left  open  when 
Jack  Benny  departed  for  his  summer  vacation  that  they 
hove  been  signed  for  a  series  of  two-reel  shorts.  Tune 
in  on  them  7:00  P.M.  E.D.S.T.  Sunday  evening  for  a  half- 
hour   of   delightful   foolishness   with   the   Wacky  family. 


PINCH  HITTERS 
SUPREME ! 

Tim  Ryan  and  Irene  Noblette 
show  they  can  fill  the  bill 


RADIO  STARS 


IN  HIS  GRANDFATHER'S  FOOTSTEPS 


FORYOUwYOUR 
BABY 

but  our  HOME-GROWN 
Vegetables  Can  Help 
You  Both! 

Let  us  save  you  the  time  and  energy  you'd 
spend  in  drudgery  if  you  prepared  your 
baby's  strained  vegetables!  Let  us  help  your 
baby  — more  than  most  market-bought  veg- 
etables could,  because: 

Gerber's  are  raised  in  selected  soils,  from 
pedigreed  seed,  under  supervision;  sun- 
ripened  and  picked  just  ripe;  then  — since 
time  would  steal  special  values  — rus/ied  to 
our  kitchens,  within  one  hour's  trucking  dis- 
tance; cooked  with  air  kept  out  and  natural 
moisture  kept  in,  retaining  in  high  degree 
the  precious  vitamins  and  mineral  salts. 

Also,  because  packed  so  fresh,  they  are  left 
i/nseasoned;  you  add  salt  and  sugar  at  your 
doctor's  wish. 

See,  too,  if  you  don't  think  our  Shaker- 
Cooking  keeps  colors  i^^W, 
natural,  flavors  fresher. 


Shaker-Cooked  Strained  Foods 


STRAINED  TOMATOES,  GREEN  BEANS,  BEETS, 
CARROTS,  PEAS,  SPINACH,  VEGETABLE  SOUP. 
ALSO,    STRAINED    PRUNES    AND  CEREAL. 


i 


10* 

CIT^   -ra  'booklet  o-;;^' 

54 


(Continued  from  page  45) 


hauled  ine  home." 

He  grinned  boyishly.  "The  next  move 
was  obviously  to  forge  another  letter, 
grandfather's  name  being  about  all  I  had 
to  offer.  I  tried  it  on  Morris  Gest,  who 
was  supervisor  for  my  Uncle  Arthur's 
productions  at  that  time.  Gest  turned  me 
over  to  Ray  Comstock  and  Comstock  de- 
livered me  to  the  stage  manager,  Dave 
Bennett,  who  yielded  me  up  to  the  assistant 
stage  manager.  I  forget  the  rest,  but 
somehow  I  wound  up  as  understudy  to 
the  chorus  boys !" 

I  must  have  looked  slightly  incredulous, 
because  his  grin  widened.  "Yes,  actually 
— and  received  $18.00  a  week  for  same. 
I'd  come  up  in  the  world  a  bit,  you  see." 

The  show  was  Very  Good,  Eddie, 
starring  Ernest  Truex  and  a  certain  prom- 
ising young  juvenile  named  Oscar  Shaw. 
For  six  months,  Ted  had  little  to  do  but 
chat  with  the  old  colored  stage  door  man. 
But  when  the  show  finished  in  New  York 
and  prepared  for  a  road  run,  Ted  quit, 
worn  out  with  inactivity. 

But  he  wasn't  through  with  ]'ery  Good, 
Eddie.  Truex  fell  ill  and  Ted's  uncle 
Arthur  discovered  the  boy  had  learned  all 
the  parts  during  his  otherwise  idle  con- 
nection with  the  play  and  shipped  him  out 
to  play  the  lead.  Truex,  however,  incon- 
siderately recovered  and  Ted  decided  to 
carry  on  with  his  job  as  understudy.  Fate 
relented  slightly  now,  a  chorus  boy  left 
the  sliow  to  get  married  and  Ted  stepped 
into  his  place.  For  the  first  time  in  his 
eight  months  with  the  show,  he  actually 
appeared  on  the  stage !  The  show  was  a 
hit  and  traveled  to  the  west  coast  and 
back.  Eventually,  after  months  of  hoof- 
ing, Ted  played  Truex's  role  with  a  one- 
night-stand  company  and  enjoyed  eighteen 
more  weeks  of  touring. 

His  next  step  up  the  uncertain  ladder 
of  fame  was  as  a  dancer  in  another  Arthur 
Hammerstein  production,  starring  Vivienne 
Segal  Ted's  partner  was  the  lovely  Con- 
stance Binney,  then  unknown,  and  he  re- 
ceived the  princely  sum  of  forty  dollars 
a  week. 

"My  first  big  opportunity  was  with 
Tickle  Me,  another  of  my  uncle's  shows. 
I  had  a  real  part,  but  the  flu  germ  laid 
me  low  and  my  hopes  went  lower.  Natu- 
rally the  part  wasn't  held  open  for  me — I 
was  in  bed  for  months." 

But  the  past,  with  its  ups  and  downs, 
plays  a  very  small  part  in  Ted's  life  or 
consciousness  these  days.  He  recalls  it  with 
effort  and  regards  it  all  as  a  great  joke. 
He  is  too  young  and  too  forward-looking 
to  care  much  about  the  details  of  his  youth 
or  the  difficulties  that  beset  his  path.  Such 
moinents  of  depression  as  he  may  have  had, 
must  have  been  very  few  and  quickly  for- 
gotten. 

)r  a  couple  of  years  after  his  abortive 
efforts  to  win  renown  on  the  stage,  he 
tried  the  theatrical  agency  business  with 
Chainberlin  Brown,  tlien  the  biggest  agent 
on  Broadway. 

"After  I  left  Brown,"  Ted  recalled,  "I 
tf)ok  a  job  with  another  agent  and  was 
^I)ecially  elected  to  keep  all  pests  away  from 
the  boss's  door.    I  did  very  well — under 


his  careful  instruction,  I  kept  out  of  his 
sight  such  unpromising  material  as  Ed- 
ward Robinson,  Williain  Powell,  Richard 
Dix,  Jim  Barton,  Chester  Morris  and  Ben 
Lyon !  I  might  have  my  grandfather's  name, 
but  I  am  afraid  I  lacked  his  perspicacity ! 
You  might  say  I  am  famous  for  the  great 
people  I  didn't  discover !" 

"And  after  that?"  I  prompted. 

He  grabbed  up  a  leather  case  of  shaving 
materials  neatly  engraved'  with  his  initials 
and  darted  into  the  next  room. 

"I've  got  to  dress,  but  we  can  keep  on 
talking.  Let's  see — "  he  came  in,  grabbed 
up  something  and  disappeared  again. 
"Where  were  we?"  A  disembodied  voice 
went  on  with  the  tale.  "I  had  a  fling  at 
producing — a  musical  comedy  called  Bye, 
Bye  Barbara.  My  first  attempt,  but  I  had 
seven  partners  to  share  the  burden !  We 
iTianaged  to  get  the  thing  on  to  Broadway 
for  three  thousand  dollars,  and  in  those 
days  it  was  nothing  to  drop  sixty  thou- 
sand on  a  show.  So  we  had  something  to 
be  proud  of,  even  if  Barbara  flopped — as  it 
did,  hard  and  fast,  in  less  than  two  weeks !" 

Next,  young  Ted  stage-inanaged  a  show 
called  Ginger  which  folded  in  a  scant  four 
weeks. 

"I  went  back  into  the  agency  business 
and  managed  to  build  up  a  little  bankroll. 
Enough  to  produce  When  Summer  Comes 
with  Jim  Barton  and  Louella  Gear  in  the 
leading  roles.  Did  you  ask  me  if  it 
flopped?  Need  you  ask?  Well,  I  got  it  as 
far  as  Washington,  anyway.  And  by  the 
way,  that  was  the  time  I  sent  for  a  four- 
brother  act  that,  had  been  knocking  around 
vaudeville,  thinking  it  might  bolster  up  the 
show.  The  four  brothers  weren't  so  bad, 
but  it  was  too  late — the  poor  play  died. 
The  four  brothers?  They  were  the  Marx 
brothers !" 

But  at  long  last,  Ted  was  to  savor  the 
delights  of  having  a  hit  on  Broadway. 
He  was  stage  manager  of  The  Girl  Friend, 
a  big  hit,  and  in  the  next  four  years,  stage 
manager  for  such  triumphs  as  Pciigy  Anne, 
Hit  the  D.eck,  Present  Arms  and  Connect- 
icut Yankee  in  King  Arlhitr's  Court. 

He  next  directed  The  I'anderbilt  Re- 
rue,  starring  Joe  Penner,  Ruby  Keeler  and 
Lulu  McConnell.  But  the  Revue  flopped 
and  Ted  was  footloose  once  more. 

He  was  meditating  going  to  Hollywood 
to  direct  pictures  for  Fox  when  he  hap- 
pened upon  a  play  script  called  Thorough- 
bred. It  struck  a  responsive  chord  and  the 
Fox  contract  went  overboard.  This  was 
his  big  chance,  he  thought.  This  would 
make  him! 

The  play  was  produced,  with  Florence 
Reed  starring,  and  the  critics  agreed  with 
Ted — but  not  the  public.  An  artistic  suc- 
cess, the  play  flopped  badly.  And  a  play 
by  Achmed  Abdullah  and  Faith  Baldwin 
failed  to  mend  the  situation. 

But  Ted's  spirits  were  not  dampened  and 
in  the  meantime  he  had  been  very  success- 
ful with  summer  theatres  .  .  . 

He  was  back  in  the  room  where  I  was 
now,  immaculate  in  evening  clothes,  ready 
for  the  evening  performance. 

"In  the  back  of  my  mind,  for  a  long 
{Continued  on  page  56) 


RADIO  STARS 


nil 

Miss  Katharine  Aldridge — "I  keep  my  po 

Wi^e/J  you  keep  your  UNDER  SfON  working 


km  frtv.ll  looking,  wilh  I'on.l's  Cold  Crt«m." 


YOU  can  have  the  prettiest  features 
in  the  world  — but  if  your  skin 
is  spotty  with  little  faults,  nobody 
calls  you  "a  pretty  girl." 

And  girls  with  less  claim  to  good 
features  are  "good  looking" — simply 
because  they  have  a  clear ^  fresh  skin'. 

You  can  have  a  clear,  fresh  skin, 
too!  Fight  lines  and  blackheads  and 
coarse  pores  where  they  start — just 
under  your  skin ! 

Rousing . . .  deep  down ! 

Skin  faults  appear  when  tiny  hidden 
glands,  blood  vessels  and  cells  in  your 
underskin  function  poorly.  It's  their 
work  to  keep  your  outer  skin  glowing 


and  young.  You  must  keep  them  at 
it!  And  you  can— by  faithful  use  of 
Pond's  invigorating  deep-skin  treat- 
ment. 

Pond's  Cold  Cream,  with  its  spe- 
cially processed  oils,  travels  deep  into 
the  pores.  Right  away  it  floats  out 
the  dirt.  Your  skin  feels  wonderfully 
clean — is  wonderfully  clean! 

Now  pat  in  more  Pond's  Cold  Cream 
for  a  brisk,  rousing 
deep-skin  treatment. 
Feel  the  blood  tin- 
gling? . . .  Face  glow- 
ing? A  sign  you're 
rousing  lazy  glands, 
cells,  blood  vessels  to 
a  fresh  start! 

Do  this  regularly. 
Note  the  quick  im- 
provement! At  once 
vour  color  is  livened. 
Your  skin  is  toned. 


Soon  pores  are  looking  smaller,  lines 
softening  into  smooth  skin.  Those 
blackheads  you  used  to  dread,  come 
less  and  less. 

Remember  this 
Here's  the  simple  tiaily  treatment  worked 
out  by  Pond's.  It  does  more  than  cleanse 
your  skin. 

Every  night,  pat  in  Pond's  Cold  Cream 
to  loosen  dirt,  make-up.  Wipe  it  all  off. 
Pat  in  more  cream  briskly — to  rouse  your 
underskin.,  keep  it  working  properly,  so 
annoying  little  faults  ca«'/spoiI  your  looks. 
Every  morning,  and  during  the  day,  re- 
peat this  treatment  with  Pond's  Cold 
Cream.  Your  skin  becomes  softer  every 
time — smoother  for  powder.  You  are 
pretty  now — simply  because  your  skin  is 
so  good  looking! 

Start  in  at  once.  The  coupon  brings  a 
special  9-treatment  tube  of  Pond's  Cold 
Cream. 

SPECIAL  9-TREATMENT  TUBE 

and  3  other  Pond's  Heauty  Aids 


I'ONO  S,  Dept.  K128  Clinton,  Conn.  Rush  special  tuSe 
of  Pond's  Cold  Cream,  enough  for  9  treatments,  with 
generous  samples  of  2  other  Pond's  Creams  and  5  differ- 
ent shades  of  Pond's  Kacc  Powder.  I  enclose  lot  to  cover 

postage  a 

nd  packing. 

City 

CopytUlil.  PouU's  l^xlrart 


55 


RADIO  STARS 


fXCUSf 

MY 
BUBBLE 


fee  im 


ha 


ppy 


I've  had  my 
MENNEN  OIL  RUB 
like  hospitals  give 


"Pardon  my  enthusiasm — but  I  can't  help 
bubbling  over  with  satisfaction.  Why? 
'Cause  mother  just  gave  me  my  daily  body 
rub  with  Mennen  Oil.  That's  the  Antisep- 
tic oil  they  use  in  hospitals. *And  boy,  do 
germs  hate  it!  As  near  as  I  can  figure  out, 
this  oil  covers  me  with  a  film  of  safety  .  .  . 
from  head  to  foot.  It  gets  down  into  my 
skin  folds  and  creases  .  .  .  where  germs 
love  to  hide  and  start  trouble.  My  doctor 
says  that  Mennen  Oil  keeps  me  safer  and 
healthier.  Am  I  glad?  Cosh,  yes.  Knil  your 
baby  will  be,  too,  if  you  rub  him  daily 
with  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil." 

*Nearly  all  hospitals  important  in  mater- 
nity work  use  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil  on 
their  babies  daily.  Your  baby  deserves  it,  too. 


56 


IN  HIS  GRANDFATHER'S  FOOTSTEPS 

(Continued  from  page  54) 


time,"  he  continued  his  story.  "I  had  had 
an  idea  for  a  radio  program  featuring 
some  of  the  stars  of  my  grandfather's  day. 
And  about  this  time,  Frank  Hummert,  one 
of  the  executives  of  Blackett,  Sample  and 
Hummert,  got  the  same  idea.  He's  de- 
veIoi)ed  and  created  more  radio  shows  than 
anyone  I  know  of — Ea.'iy  .Ices.  I'iir-Slar 
Jojies,  Backstage  Wife—  any  number  of 
them.  He  looked  me  up,  and  that  was  the 
beginning  of  our  Music  Hall." 

"And  how  in  the  world  did  you  find  these 
older  people  you've  been  featuring?"  I  de- 
manded. 

"My  grandfather's  scrapbook  was  my 
talent  scout,  if  you  want  to  call  it  that.  I 
finally  traced  both  down  George  May,  an 
old  German  musician  who  was  orchestra 
leader  of  the  old  Victoria  and  he  had  the 
scrapbook  in  his  possession.  After  that, 
it  was  largely  a  matter  of  tracing  down 
the  former  stars,  many  of  whom  had  re- 
tired." 

"How  do  they  react  tn  the  microphone, 
tlK~r  old-timers?"  I  wondered. 

"I'.etter  than  the  average  radio  perform- 
er. They  seem  to  have  no  fear  of  the 
microphone,  no  particular  awareness  of 
it.  They  are  all  thrilled  to  get  back,  of 
course,  to  appear  before  an  audience  again. 
They  seem  to  be  completely  at  ease — much 
more  so  than  I  am !  It  is  something  of 
a  responsibility,  you  know,  to  drag  them 
out  of  their  retirement  and  thrust  them 
before  the  public  again.  I  am  always  shak- 
ing in  my  boots  for  fear  they  won't  get 
there  on  time  or  won't  be  able  to  sing  or 
will  get  sick,  or  something !  I  mean,  of 
course,  the  older  ones — Jim  Thornton,  for 
instance,  is  well  over  eighty.  But  I  really 
needn't  worry  about  them — they're  won- 
derful, really." 

"Have  many  of  them  been  that  old?" 

He  smiled.  "Some  of  them  are  young 
enough  not  to  want  dates  and  ages  men- 
tioned, but  the  real  old-timers  are  proud 
of  it.  Old  W.  C.  Handy,  for  instance, 
the  writer  of  the  St.  Louis'  Blues—  he's 
in  his  late  seventies,  I  think.  We  had  a 
time  getting  him  here  because  his  manager 
had  signed  him  up  for  a  performance  in 
Harlem  that  same  night — W.  C.  Handy 
and  his  orchestra.  But  the  old  man  said 
he'd  be  here.  He  was  scheduled  to  open 
the  show  at  eight  o'clock  and  I  got  pretty 
nervous,  but  he  was  there  at  three  minutes 
of! 

"h^arly  this  summer,"  he  went  on,  "we 
had  Josephine  Sable,  who  is  seventy-nine — 
she  used  to  be  what  they  called  a  low- 
down  blues  singer.  Of  course  lots  of  them 
ha\e  been  much  younger  than  that.  And 
some  of  them  lia\e  m:\(\v  a  real  comeback 
through  our  program.  ]*"ritzi  Sclieff,  for 
instance,  appeared  with  us  and  now  has 
her  own  network  program.  And  Benny 
Mcld's  comeback  was  begun  the  night  he 
went  nn  with  us.    John  Steele,  too — he  was 


at  the  Amsterdam  Room  at  the  height 
of  his  popularity,  so  it  seemed  particularly 
fitting  he  should  start  on  the  up-grade 
again  with  us." 

I  knew  from  listening  to  the  program 
that  old  songs  were  often  featured,  too. 

Ted  nodded.  "They're  always  popular. 
"We've  had  quite  a  few  song  writers  on 
the  program,  too — Joe  Howard,  most 
famous  for  I  Wonder  ll'ho's  Kissing  Her 
.Woze,  Joe  Frink,  who  wrote  The  Curse  of 
an  .-idling  Heart  and  Jack  Norworth,  com- 
poser of  Shine  on,  Haricsl  Moon.  Real 
old-timers,  they  are.  .  .  ." 

"It  seems  wonderful  that  there  are  so 
many  links  with  your  grandfather's  glam- 
orous times,"  I  commented.  "Your  pro- 
gram really  is  the  sort  of  show  he  used  to 
present,  isn't  it?" 

"That's  our  aim,  of  course.  We  include 
sports  a  bit  as  he  did,  too.  We've  had  Earl 
Sande  and  Jack  Dempsey — Grandfather 
had  Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons.  I'll  tell  you 
the  sort  of  thing  the  old  man  liked  to  do. 
too — he  would  have  had  Mrs.  Hauptmann 
on  his  stage  the  day  after  the  trial  ended  !" 

Ted  Hammcrstein  was  married  five 
years  ago  to  Dorothy  Underbill,  whom  he 
met  in  the  chorus.  They  have  a  lovely 
home  in  Westchester.  For  a  while  Ted 
tried  driving  to  town  but  he  found  the 
trains  gave  better  service  and  resulted  in 
fewer  summonses ! 

"We  live  just  about  a  Nezcs  and  a  Mir- 
ror from  Broadway,"  he  laughed. 

His  radio  program  requires  his  attention 
about  two  half  days  and  one  evening  a 
week — they  rehearse  on  Friday  for  half 
a  day  and  again  on  Tuesday,  for  their 
performance  Tuesday  night.  That  leaves 
quite  a  bit  of  time  for  his  work  as  a  pro- 
ducer. This  is  the  first  season  in  some 
time  that  he  has  not  had  a  summer  theatre, 
but  he  has  been  reading  play  scripts 
tirelessly  in  the  hope  of  finding  the  one 
he  wants  for  production  this  fall. 

His  is  a  full  program,  but  it  is  going 
to  be  still  more  so,  for  he  is  soon  to  make 
his  debut  as  an  orchestra  leader  with  his 
own  band. 

"I'm  a  protege  of  Abe  Lyman's."  he  ex- 
plained. "I'm  looking  forward  to  it — I 
think  it  will  be  fun." 

Of  course  it  will  be  fun  for  anyone  with 
the  zestful  personality  of  this  >iiung  man. 
He  has  g,iict\-,  enthusiasm,  efficiency,  as 
well  as  critical  ability  to  gi\e  to  his  work. 
His  diversified  experience  stands  him  in 
good  stead  today,  his  pleasant  voice  and 
effervescent  personal  charm  make  him  a 
delightful  master  of  ceremonies. 

All  in  all,  it  seems  that  after  a  lot  of 
hard  work  and  many  disappointments,  the 
road  ahead  promises  to  be  a  triumphal 
progress  and  Ted  might  well  be  as  proud 
today  of  his  own  signature  as  he  once  was 
of  his  imitation  of  his  grandfather's! 


YOU  MUST  READ  ABOUT 

FRANK  BUCK'S 

ASTOUNDING  EXPERIENCES  WITH   RADIO  IN  THE  JUNGLES 
—in  the  November  Issue  of  RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  STARS 


(nvn 


What  a  grand  start  a  modern  youngster  gets!  Everything  specially 
for  him... even  a  special  laxative! 


MOTHER  .  .  .  Isn't  it  logical  that  a 
baby  will  thri\-e  best  on  special 
care?  After  all,  his  system  is  a  delicate 
thing.  Tender.  Still  growing. 

That's  why  you  probably  have  a 
Specialhuhy  tub  for  your  bab)'  .  .  .  use 
special  ?.oAY>  ■  ■  ■  special  powticr  .  .  .  and 
a  special  food  formula,  of  course. 


Doctors  say  the  same  logic  should  fol- 
low in  the  laxative  field. They  say  a  babv 
should  have  a  .t/)<?f7'rt/ laxative,  too.  I'oi 
it  stands  to  reason  that  if  his  system  is 
too  delicate  for  adult  food,  it  is  also  loo 
delicate  for  "adult"  laxativesl  That's 
why  doctors  recommend  Fletcher's 
Castoria — the  laxative  made  especially 
and  only  for  children. 


Fletcher's  Castoria  is  mild  .  .  .  gentle 
.  .  .  and  above  all,  SAFE.  It  will  never 

upset  \  our  babv's  stomach  because  it 
works  cha-riN-  in  the  lower  bowel.  It 
won't  cause  cramping  pains  because  it 
contains  no  harsh  drugs. 

It  contains  no  purginir  irritants  -no 
narcotKs  n-rhniu'  ihar  oniKl  harm  the 
tiniest  mt.iiit  s\si(.-m.  in  t.Kt.a  t.imous 
child  specialist  said  he  couldn't  write 
a  better  prescription  than  Fletcher's 
Castoria. 

^'ou'll  be  -lad  to  kiH.w  that  chiUlren 


CASTORIA 

The  laxative  made  espccLilly 
for  babies  and  growing  children 


love  the  taste  ot  Metcher's  Castoria. 
They  take  it  willingly  -without  the 
least  complaint.  And  that  is  most  im- 
portant. Because,  as  you  know,  the 
fight  a  child  puts  up  against  a  laxative 
he  hates  can  upset  his  entire  nervous 
and  digestive  system! 


So,  mother,  think  twice  when  your 
chilli  next  needs  a  laxative.  Give  him 
the  laxative  millions  of  mothers  have 
faith  in  .  .  .  the  laxative  maiie  espe- 
cially for  children  .  .  .  FLFTCHKR'S 
CASTORIA.  Thousands  of  doctors 
prescribe  it.  F.very  drug  store  sells  it. 
\Vhy  not  get  the  economical  Family- 
Si7.e  bottle  tonight — it  saves  you  money. 
The  signature  Chas.  II.  I<"letcher 
appears  on  every  carton. 


57 


RADIO  STARS 


So  often  we  learn  too  late  that 
beauty  may  be  ruined  by  half- 
way care  of  the  teeth.  We  ignore 
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There  is  no  excuse  for  taking 
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and  brightens  teeth  and  at  the 
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Forhan's  is  different  from  all 
other  toothpastes.  It  was  cre- 
ated by  an  eminent  dental  sur- 
geon. When  you  clean  teeth  and 
massage  gums  with  Forhan's 
you  are  doing  exactly  what  so 
many  dentists  advise.  Phone  for 
a  tube  now.  Costs  no  more  than 
most  ordinary  toothpastes,  and 
ordinary  half-way  care. 


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DO  YOU  WANT  ME  ON  THE  AIR? 


(Coiilinued  from  page  29) 


any  consecutive  length  of  time.  But  you 
can't  be  conscious  today  and  not  hear  and 
think  about  radio.  And  since  you've  asked 
nie  to  talk  for  Radio  Stars  I'll  talk— with 
question  marks. 

"I  don't  think  I  have  any  place  on  the 
air.  I  don't  think  I  have  anything  to  con- 
tribute. But  I'd  like  to  know  how  other 
people  feel  about  it.  Because  I  may  be 
wrong.  I  often  am. 

"I  just  don't  think  I  can  give  anything 
to  radio  that  I  can't  give  as  well,  or  tet- 
ter, in  pictures.  I  don't  think  radio  has 
anything  to  ofTer  me  that  pictures  can't 
offer  me  as  well,  or  better.  More  money 
doesn't  mean  a  thing  these  days.  You  know 
where  that  goes  when  it  gets  into  the  very 
high  brackets. 

"There  are  some  things  about  broad- 
casting I'd  like — other  things  I  wouldn't 
like.  It's  easy  for  me.  I  have  no  fear  of  it, 
no  'mike-fright.'  Why  should  I  have?  I  talk 
into  a  mike  all  day  in  pictures.  The  mike 
is  simply  transplanted  to  another  kind  of 
studio,  that's  all.  There  are  always  people 
hanging  around  the  sets  watching  us  work. 
There'd  be  people  watching  us  work  in  the 
broadcasting  station  or  theatre.  No,  I 
haven't  any  self-consciousness  on  the  air. 
I'm  never  afraid  that  I'll  stumble  or, 
rather,  fumble  my  lines,  miss  my  place  in 
the  script,  read  a  few  words  incorrectly. 
Atatter  of  fact,  I  think  it's  rather  a  good 
idea  not  to  be  too  letter  perfect.  Good  idea 
to  ad  lib  a  bit.  After  all,  ordinary  people 
in  ordinary  conversation  don't  say  every- 
thing perfectly  and  precisely.  They  make 
slips  of  the  tongue  every  now  and  again. 
They  falter  and  correct  themselves,  sub- 
stitute one  word  for  another.  It  sounds 
more  real,  more  spontaneous,  more  human, 
if  we  do  make  an  occasional  slip  of  the 
tongue. 

"I  like  the  work.  It's  easy.  I  like  the 
idea  of  not  having  to  be  dressed  up,  bother 
about  how  you  look.  On  the  other  hand, 
I  wouldn't  like  to  be  tied  down  to  a 
weekly  broadcast.  That  would  cut  in  more 
than  pictures  do,  on  my  taking  off  for 
foreign  parts  on  the  spur  of  the  moment. 

"But  the  point  is,"  Clark  said  seriously, 
being  as  serious  as  Clark  ever  is  when  he 
discusses  himself  or  any  of  his  plans, 
"the  point  is,  that,  it  seems  to  me,  the  man 
who  can  sing  is  the  only  man  who  has 
a  definite  and  desirable  spot  on  the  air. 
Or,  rather,  he  has  the  most  definite  and 
most  desirable  spot.  A  Nelson  Eddy,  an 
Allen  Jones,  a  Tibbett — yes.  For  music, 
to  my  way  of  thinking,  is  the  natural 
element  of  the  air.  It  is  the  one  thing  that 
only  ears  are  needed  for.  And  ears  are 
all  you've  got,  when  it  comes  to  radio. 

"Singers  and  dance  orchestras — swell! 
But  I'm  not  a  singer  and  I  don't  think 
leading  a  band  would  be  among  my  talents  I 

"And  comics— I  think  that  comedy  be- 
longs on  the  air.  And  for  much  the  same 
reason  as  music.  People  listen  to  funny 
stories,  wisecracks,  gags,  puns,  plays  on 
words.  And  the  funny  stories,  the  gags  and 
wisecracks  are  sufficient  unto  themselves. 
An  undertaker  with  the  sourest  puss  in  the 
world  could  tell  a  funny  story  and,  if  it 
was  funny  enough,  he'd  get  a  belly  laugh. 


It  doesn't  matter  what  the  funster  looks 
like.  VoH  don't  have  to  see  him  at  all. 
You  get  your  laugh  out  of  what  he  is 
saying.  The  visual  sense,  as  in  music,  is 
unnecessary.  That's  why  comedy  is  aces 
high  on  the  air. 

"And  so,  along  with  Nelson  Eddy  and 
Tibbett  and  other  singers,  rate  Eddie  Can- 
tor, Ed  Wynn,  Burns  and  Allen.  Jack 
Benny  and  Amos  and  Andy  fall  in  the  top- 
notcher's  category,  too.  They  are  not  comics 
in  the  sense  the  others  are — they're  sort  of 
home  folks.  They're  unique,  anyway. 
They've  made  themselves  part  of  the  home 
life  of  the  people.  They're  like  your  next 
door  neighbor  who  drops  in  every  eve- 
ning and  recounts  the  happenings  of  the 
day.  You  come  to  expect  them.  You'd  feel 
lost  without  them. 

"But  I'm  not  a  comedian  of  words  and 
I'm  not,"  said  Clark  with  a  laugh,  "I'm  not 
exactly  'home  folks.' 

"Then  there  are  the  news  commentators. 
They  belong  on  the  air,  too.  For  they  are 
telling  you  about  world  events,  where  the 
visual  sense  is  not  so  unnecessary  as  it 
is  impossible.  You  can't  very  well  see  what 
goes  on  in  Ethiopia,  in  Pekin,  on  Holly- 
wood Boulevard.  Not  all  at  once,  certainly. 
And  so  the  news  commentator  gives  you 
the  news  events  on  the  air,  which  is  as 
near  as  you  can  come  to  being  on  the  spot, 
giving  them  more  reality  than  the  printed 
page. 

"I'm  a  great  admirer  of  Walter  Win- 
chell.  Not  because  he  talks  about  us,  here 
in  Hollywood.  But  because  I  like  the  way 
he  gets  into  his  stufif.  I  like  his  style,  his 
delivery,  his  pep.   I  always  listen  to  him. 

"But  me — where  do  I  come  in  under 
any  of  these  headings?  I  can't  sing.  I'm 
not  a  professional  wisecracker.  I  couldn't 
very  well  dub  in  for  an  Amos  or  an  Andy. 
I'm  not  a  news  commentator.  I  have  no 
nose  for  news.  I  couldn't  make  other 
people's  business  mine,  even  if  I  tried.  And 
so,  what  could  I  do  on  the  air?" 

"You  could  make  love,"  I  suggested. 

"Yeah,"  said  Clark — then  he  added: 
"Believe  it  or  not,  you've  said  something. 
That's  just  about  the  one  thing  I  could 
get  across  on  the  air — making  love." 

"Meaning,"  I  said,  "that  you  could 
smack  'em  down  on  the  air?" 

"That,  too,"  laughed  Clark,  "and  what's 
more,  the  sound-efTects  men  could  take  care 
of  the  smacking  for  me !  I  could  be  a 
gentleman  in  a  broadcasting  station  and  get 
the  same  'rough  and  brutal'  effect  with- 
out having  to  let  the  lady  feel  the  back  of 
my  hand.  As  you  don't  even  have  to  kiss 
a  girl  when  you're  doing  a  love  scene  over 
the  air,  neither  would  you  have  to  lay 
rough  hands  on  her  when  the  rough  stuff 
is  called  for." 

"Wouldn't  you  have  to  change  your 
technique  of  love  making  on  the  air?" 

"Assuming  that  I  have  any  technique," 
said  Clark,  "no — I  wouldn't  act  any  differ- 
ently from,  the  way  I  do  on  the  screen. 
Only  thing  I  know  about  technique  is  that 
the  whole  emotional  value  of  a  love  scene 
is  in  the  voice.  When  I  do  a  love  scene 
on  the  screen  I  never  think  about  my  face 
at  all.  And  very  often  the  faces  of  the 


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players  ruin  the  effect  of  a  love  scene. 

"The  thing  is,  ive  can  control  our 
voices.  And  our  voices  control  our  faces, 
our  facial  expressions,  or  are  supposed  to. 
But  sometimes  they  don't.  I've  seen  love 
scenes  and  I've  probably  done  some  my- 
self, in  which  the  voice  said  one  thing 
and  the  eyes  said  something  else.  The 
two  didn't  gibe.  And  the  illusion  was 
poiled.  An  actor  may  speak  beautiful 
and  tender  words  in  an  emotional  and 
stirring  voice  and,  if  you  couldn't  see  him, 
the  illusion  would  be  emotional  and  stir- 
ing.  But  you  do  see  him  and  the  voice 
is  issuing  from  a  clo.se-up  in  which  the 
eyes  are  palpably  wondering  how  the  stock 
exchange  is  going. 

"But — when,  over  the  air,  a  love  scene 
is  given,  there  is  ndthiii;;  to  distract  from 
it.  The  actor  may  be  .sayin<;  7  lot'e  yon' 
with  his  eyes  like  cold  boiled  fish.  You 
don't  know  it.  The  audience  can  close  its 
eyes,  do  its  own  visualizing  or  imagining, 
if  it  wants  to,  and  listen  undisturbed,  in  the 
grip  of  the  engendered  emotion,  to  the 
words  of  the  radio  lovers. 

"Love,"  said  Clark,  "is  a  pretty  in- 
timate emotion.  Or  should  be.  The  more 
intimate  we  can  keep  it,  the  more  compel- 
ling it  is.  And  if  we  only  overhear  a  love 
scene  instead  of  seeing  it,  too,  that's  all 
to  the  good. 

"I  like  to  make  love  on  the  air,"  said 
Clark. 

"But  do  you  think,"  I  said,  "that  you 
get  as  much  of  your  personality  over  on 
the  air  as  you  do  on  the  screen?" 

"No,"  Clark  said,  "I  do  not.  But  I 
can't  really  tell,  of  course.  I  can't  hear 
myself.  I  know  how  I  look  and  sound 
on  the  screen.    I  don't  know  how  I  sound 


on  the  air.  That's  why  I'm  asking.  But 
I  have  an  idea  that,  not  being  an  espe- 
cially articulate  person,  I  need  the  face 
to  work  for  me. 

"And  don't  believe  it,  when  people  say 
that  the  life  of  the  radio  artist  is  longer 
than  the  life  of  the  screen  artist.  Why 
should  it  be?  There  is  certainly  more 
danger  of  monotony  when  there  is  only 
the  voice  to  work  with  than  when  there 
are  the  face,  chassis,  backgrounds,  cos- 
tumes, everything.  I  have  a  pretty  good 
idea  that,  if  I  were  on  the  air  often,  the 
fans  w-ould  get  fed  up  with  me  in  no 
time.  How  about  it,  fans?  On  the  screen 
I  can  make  all  kinds  of  faces,  do  all 
kinds  of  stunts,  dress  like  a  stevedore  or 
a  gent — but  the  Gable  voice,  alone  and 
unaided,  well — what  do  y<iii  think:" 

"Why  do  you  suppose  it  is,"  1  saiil, 
"that  there  are  so  many  more  men  than 
women  on  the  air?  Why  are  there  so 
few  beautiful  women  in  radio?" 

"What  do  you  mean,  few  beautiful 
women  in  radio?"  scoffed  Clark.  "All  the 
girls  I've  seen  on  the  air  have  been  darned 
good  looking.  Not  so  many  of  them  as  on 
stage  and  screen — yeah.  But  there's  an 
obvious  reason  for  that.  Beautiful  wo- 
men, naturally,  want  to  be  seen  rather  than 
heard.  You  can't  hear  beauty.  And  why 
should  tiie  faces  that  can  'launch  a  mil- 
lion ships'  be  confined  to  broadcasting 
stations  with,  at  best,  a  flesh  and  blood 
audience  of  a  few  hundred  people? 

"What  can  be  done  about  it  is — tele- 
vision. When  television  comes  in,  there 
will  be  another  tale  to  tell.  But  until  it 
does,  beautiful  women  are  going  to  want 
to  be  where  they  can  be  seen.  That  is 
what  beauty  is  for.    They  want  to  w-ear 


clothes,  don't  they  ?  And  you  can't  twar 
clothes,  either.  They  want  to  show  off 
their  clwthes  and  figures  and  hair  and 
jewels.  Beautiful  women  on  the  air  are 
like  beautiful  women  married  to  blind  men. 

"If  a  beautiful  woman  has  a  beautiful 
voice — if  she  is  well  known  on  the  screen 
as  well  as  the  air,  that's  different.  That's 
okay.  Girls  like  Jeanette  MacDonald  and 
Grace  Moore  and  Gladys  Swarthout,  for 
instance.  The  fans  know  how  they  look 
because  of  their  pictures.  They  are  not 
wasting  their  beauty  on  the  desert  air. 
They  are  giving  the  beauty  of  their 
voices  and  the  fans  can  visualize  their 
physical  beauty. 

"But  why  should  a  girl  like  Jean  Har- 
low want  her  figure  to  be  wasted  on  the 
iM<li(i  air?  Why  should  a  Crawford  hide 
l,er  beauty  under  a  broadcasting  bushel? 
It  wouldn't  be  natural  for  them  to  want 
to.  And  that's  why  the  number  of  beau- 
tiful women  on  the  air  is  as  small  as  it 
is— they  don't  want  to  be  lost  to  sight! 

"Radio,"  Clark  said,  "does  seem  to  be 
more  of  a  man's  medium  than  a  woman's. 
Partly  for  the  reasons  I've  just  men- 
tioned. Partly  because  men's  voices, 
speaking  voices,  come  over  the  air  better 
than  women's  do.  And  that's  probably 
because  men,  as  a  race,  are  not  self-con- 
scious. We  all  think  we're  so  darned 
good  that  we  can  just  be  nurselves,  make 
little  or  no  effort  and  we'll  still  be  good. 
The  only  time  the  average  man  is  self- 
conscious  is  li'hen  he's  being  looked  at. 
Men  aren't  used  to  being  looked  at.  They 
haven't  been  looked  at  for  generations — 
not  since  the  cave-men  were  the  exhi- 
bitionists whci  wore  the  paint  and  feath- 
ers and  lion  skins  and  got  the  big  hand. 


YonW  never  know 


NEW  COLOR- "NEW  '  DRESS 

Only  you  and  Rit  will  know 
it's  an  old  dress— your  mirror 
will  say  it's  lovely  today! 


FADED  LINGERIE  SPARKLES 

Tint  underthings  quickly  and  //.' 
beautifully,  with  Rit  colors  that 
resist  washing! 


FRESH  TONES  FOR  HOSIERY 

Save  odd  stockings  by 
matching  their  color  with  ^ 
Rit ...  or  revive  faded  hose 
with  new  shades. 


GLOWING  TABLE  LINEN  CSTl 

Rit  makes  luncheon  and  ^5?V,,''.'v> 
bridge  linens  so  gay  and 
festive.  You  can  change 
them  at  will. 

^rrsSMARTLY  COLORED  BED  LINEN 

Spreads,  sheets  and  pil- 
jJ^J    low  cases  can  have  the 
loveliest  shades— and 
still  launderbeautifully! 


how  easy  ^eing  is 
until  jon  use  RIT 


Dyeing  is  a  "laughing  matter"  now— you  do  it 
with  a  smile  on  your  face  because  Rit  has  elim- 
inated the  muggy,  steaming  boiling  that's  so 
hard  on  you  and  on  your  clothes!  There's  one 
ingredient  in  Rit  found  in  no  other  tint  or  dye  that 
makes  colors  soak  in  deeper  . . .  faster  . . .  easier. 

And  the  results  are  glorious!  Radiant  clear 
color  without  a  smudge  or  streak!  Shades  that 
you  thought  only  a  profes- 
sional dyer  could  create. 
All  at  a  cost  of  only  a  few 
pennies. 

Try  Rit  soon— and  you'll 
bless  the  chemist  who 
made  dyeing  so  easy! 

Dissolves  instanlly!  Rit  is  a 
powder  wafer— easier  to  meas- 
ure, won't  sift  out  of  the  package 


TO  FRESHEN  CURTAINS 

French  Ecru  Rit  gives  curtai 
the  sunniest  color  that  never 
seems  to  wash  out!  Not  a  "sur 
face  color"  that  has  to  be  re 
newed  each  time! 


like  loose  powder  dyes. 


1 

1 

ALSO  WHITE  RIT  COLOR  REMOVER  . 
safe,  sure  way  to  take  OtTT  colM.  Jtmavc 

RADIO  STARS 


FEMININE  HYGIENE 

'tltdtcS 

CREASELESS 

•  ZONITORS,  snowy-white. antiseptic, ffrcase- 
less,  are  not  only  easier  to  use  than  ordinary 
preparations  but  are  coynpJetehj  removable  with 
water.  For  that  reason  alone  thousands  of 
women  now  prefer  them  to  messy,  greasy  sup- 
positories. Soothing — harmless  to  tissue.  En- 
tirely ready  for  use,  requiring  no  mixing  or 
clumsy  apparatus.  Odorless  —  and  ideal  as  a 
deodorant. 

•  More  and  more  women  are  ending  the  nuisance 
of  greasy  suppositories,  thanks  to  the  exclusive  new 
grease/ess  Zonitors  for  modern  feminine  hygiene. 

There  is  positively  nothing  else  like  Zonitors  for 
daintiness,  easy  application  and  easy  removal,  yet 
they  maintain  the  long,  effective  antiseptic  contact 
physicians  recommend. 

Zonitors  make  use  of  the  world  famous  Zonite 
antiseptic  principle  favored  in  medical  circles 
because  of  its  antiseptic  power  and  freedom  from 
"burn"  danger  to  delicate  tissues. 

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Until  movie  actors  came  aking-  ...  It  goes 
against  the  grain  with  the  average  man, 
to  be  on  visual  display.  But  if  he  knows 
that  he's  merely  being  listened  to  and 
not  seen,  he  hasn't  an  inhibition. 

"Women,  on  the  other  hand,  are  what 
might  be  called  conscious  of  self  rather 
than  self-conscious.  Which  is  something 
else  again — and  this  is  pretty  good  go- 
ing, pretty  good  analysis  for  uld  man 
Gable,  boy — and  that  goes  fur  their  voices, 
too. 

"Women  doll  up  their  voices,  so  to 
speak.  They  instinctively  doll  up  their 
voices  as  they  doll  up  their  faces.  Men 
don't  use  make-up  on  their  faces — like 
Spencer  and  me — we  don't  even  use  it  for 
the  screen.  I'd  rather  face  a  tempera- 
mental Bengal  tiger  than  a  powder  puff. 
But  women  'make  up'  their  voices  when 
they  go  on  the  air  as  they  make  up  their 
faces  when  they  go  on  the  screen  or  the 
street.  They  'act'  with  their  voices.  And 
the  voice  is  the  one  thing  which  must  be 
natural,  genuine,  unaffected.  Now  and 
again  there  is  a  Helen  Hayes  on  the  air. 
But  for  the  most  part  women  comediennes 
are  the  most  successful  women  on  the  air. 
Witness  Jack  Benny's  Mary,  and  Gracie 
Allen  as  notable  examples.  They're  just 
trying  to  make  you  laugh,  you  see,  not 
to  impress  you  with  their  elegant  diction, 
their  ree-fined  enunciation  .  .  . 

"The  one  great  advantage  of  radio  over 
the  screen,  by  the  way — I  want  to  mention 
this  before  I  forget  it — and  it's  a  great 
advantage — is  that  on  the  air,  the  actor 
can  reach  sick  kids  in  hospitals,  old  peo- 
ple who  can't  get  out  to  go  to  the  mov- 
ies, invalids,  the  blind,  the  shut-ins  every- 
where.    I'd  go  for  that.     You  can  help 


people  an  awful  lot  more  on  the  air  than 
you  can  on  the  screen.  And  more,  you 
help  the  people  who  really  need  to  be 
helped,  who  need  entertaining.  I  like  to 
believe,"  Clark  said,  brusquely,  "that  en- 
tertaining is  help  .  .  ." 

I  said :  "Clark,  are  yuu  one  of  those 
who  believe  that  television  is  going  to 
sound  the  death  knell  of  pictures  and  of 
picture  personalities?" 

"I  am  not,"  Clark  said,  "for  when  tele- 
vision comes  in  they're  going  to  need 
artists,  aren't  they?'' 

"Of  course." 

"And  where  are  they  going  to  get  them? 
Where  are  all  the  artists,  singers,  danc- 
ers, dramatic  stars,  playwrights,  comedians, 
heavies,  ingenues?" 

"In  Hollywood." 

"And  who  'owns'  us  all  ?" 

"Why,  the  studios,"  I  said. 

"Right,"  said  Clark,  "go  right  to  the 
head  of  the  class.  And  so,  Hollywood  will 
provide  the  stars  of  television.  The 
screen  players  of  today  will  be  the  tele- 
vision Thespians  of  tomorrow.  I  have  a 
television  clause  in  my  MGM  contract 
right  now.  A  lot  of  us  have  the  same.  So 
that,  if  and  when  television  comes  in,  our 
television  'rights'  belong  to  our  respec- 
tive studios.  And  they  will  supply  tele- 
vision with  its  stars,  even  as  they  supply 
the  screen  today. 

"But  we're  talking  now  of  radio.  Let 
me  put  it  this  way,  straight  from  my 
shoulder  to  the  shoulders  of  the  fans : 

"Do  you  zmnt  mc  on  the  air?  If  so, 
what  kind  of  thing  would  you  want  me  to 
do?     Come  on,  now,  the  truth!" 

So — tell  him  the  truth,  everyone.  He's 
asking  for  it.    He  really  wants  it. 


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AT  HOME  WITH 
ONE  MAN'S 
FAMILY 

(Continued  from  page  47) 


for  extra  vacations. 

"We're  always  afraid  he  zvill  write  us 
out,"  Bernice  assured  me. 

Betting  began  almost  immediately  as  to 
who  the  next  arrival  would  be  and  there 
were  no  takers  when  Mrs.  Morse  wanted 
to  bet  that  Barton  Yarborough,  who  plays 
Cliff,  would  be  the  last. 

"He  drives  ninety  miles  an  hour  but  he's 
always  late,"  I  was  told. 

The  arrival  of  the  next  car  was  greeted 
with  screams :  "Did  you  bring  the  lemon 
tarts?"  to  which  Minetta  Ellen  (Mother 
Barbour)  replied,  as  she  jumped  out  of 
tlij  car:  "Yes,  and  cookies,  too,"  which 
seemed  to  be  the  right  answer.  Later  I 
knew  why,  when  I  had  an  opportunity  to 
taste  her  delicious  little  pastries. 

It  is  generally  agreed  that  she  is  the 
youngest  member  of  the  Family,  despite 
her  white  hair  and  grown  children.  \\'hen 
we  climbed  down  the  side  of  the  mountain 
to  the  creek,  it  was  she  who  failed  to  puff 
or  pant  and  who  wondered  if  it  would  kill 
the  fish  if  she  went  wading!  Every  spare 
moment  she  worked  on  an  afghan  she  was 
crochettiiig  for  Michael  Raffetto,  or  Paul, 
as  you  know  him. 

"I  crochet  because  it's  more  frivolous 
than  knitting,"  she  explained.  "When  I 
get  old  I'll  take  up  knitting." 

All  her  life  she  wanted  to  be  an  actress, 
but  in  her  early  girlhood  parental  objec- 
tions prevented.  Later,  marriage  and  chil- 
dren occupied  her  time.  Now,  a  widow, 
her  children  grown  and  married,  she  is 
doing  exactly  what  she  wants  to  do.  She 
began  her  career  playing  mother  roles 
with  the  University  of  California  Little 
Theater  group.  From  there  it  was  but  a 
step  to  stock  and  then  to  radio.  Inde- 
pendent financially,  free  from  family  re- 
sponsibilities, she  is  enjoying  life  to  the 
fullest. 

"Oh,  j'ou  came  the  back  way,"  Mr. 
Morse  greeted  Page  Oilman,  who  plays 
Jack,  when  he  arrived  late  and  admitted 
he  had  had  trouble  finding  his  way  in. 

"Well,  is  there  a  front  way?"  he 
demanded. 

Page  is  a  fine  example  of  a  boy  who 
had  and  has  the  best  chance  in  the  world 
to  be  a  spoiled  brat.  His  father  is  the  boss, 
Don  Oilman,  vice-president  of  NBC  in 
charge  of  \\'estern  activities,  and  Page 
has  been  on  the  air  in  various  programs 
since  he  was  nine  years  old.  And  for  nine 
years  he  has  been  self-supporting. 

Without  his  father's  knowledge,  he  was 
taken  to  the  station  for  an  audition  by 
his  grammar  school  dramatic  teacher,  when 
a  young  boy  was  needed  in  a  radio  play. 
And  when  he  made  good  he  was  kept  on 
over  his  father's  objections.  He  gets  no 
more  consideration  than  any  other  member 
of  the  group  but  he  is  a  favorite  with 
his  associates  by  virtue  of  his  own  per- 
sonality and  the  fact  that  he  is  a  regular 
person. 

He  is   just  eighteen,   a  sophomore  at 


•  "Well—tvell!  It  looked  like  tee  were  going  to  have  a  kind 
of  unexciting  morning— but  see  tchat  brother^s  just  found 
. .  .a  can  of  Johnson's  Baby  Pouder!  Goody!. . .  I'll  see  if  I 
can^t  sicap  my  spoon  for  a  sprinkle  from  his  ran!.  . 


•  ^^Empty! . . .  Jf'e  might  have  knoicn  it  — it  uas  too  good 
to  be  true!  I  teas  almost  beginning  to  feel  that  lovely,  silky 
powder  sliding  doicn  my  back,  and  all  smooth  and  tickly 
under  my  chin.  Just  a  dream  — that's  o//." 


•  "Look— do  you  see  uhat  I  see?  Mother  coming  tvith  the 
honest-to-goodness,  full-up  Johnson's  can.  S/ir's  shaking 
some  potvdor  into  her  hand— bet  she  likes  the  feel  of  it,  too! 
Baby! ..  .the  dtirkest  hour  is  just  before  the  dawn!'' 

•  "I'm  Johnson's  Baby  Powder— I  keep  a  baby's  skin 
soft  and  smooth  as  a  rose-petal— protected  from 
chafing  and  rashes.  I'm  made  of  the  softest,  finest 
Italian  talc— no  gritty  particles  attd  no  iirris-root . . . 
Johnson's  Baby  Soap  and  Baby  Cream  make  b(d}ies 
happier,  too.  And  don't  forget  Johnson's  Baby  Oil 
for  tiny  babies!"  Jv^^l^cfji^ 

61 


RADIO  STARS 


OME  are  born  beautiful  —  others  acquire 
beauty.  If  you  aren't  a  natural  beauty,  then 
the  most  natural  thing  in  the  world  is  to 
acquire  beauty.  Encourage  yourself  I  Begin 
with  your  most  important  beauty  feature — 
your  eyes.  Make  your  eyelashes  look  twice 
as  long,  twice  as  luxuriant — quickly,  easily, 
with  a  few  deft  brush  strokes  of  Maybelline. 
Dark,  soft,  silky  lashes  add  a  sparkling 
depth  to  eyes,  which  heightens  the  whole 
charm  and  expression  of  the  face.  Do  as  the 
most  exquisitely  groomed  women  of  Paris 
and  New  York  do — choose  pure  Maybelline 
Mascara,  in  either  the  new  Cream  form  or 
the  ever-popular  Solid  form. 

The  smoothness  and  ease  of  application 
of  Maybelline  Mascaras,  their  naturalness 
of  color  and  lack  of  gumminess,  have  won 
them  unequalled  popularity  among  beauty- 
wise  women  the  world  over.  Tear-proof. 
Harmless.  Not  beady  on  the  lashes. 

Open  your  eyes  to  a  new  and  lovelier 
beauty — with  Maybelline  Eye  Beauty  Aids. 
Obtainable  at  leading  toilet  goods  counters. 
Generous  introductory  sizes  at  leading  ten 
cent  stores.  Try  them — you'll  discover  a 
totally  new  and  enjoyable  beauty  experience. 


Eye  ShaAmv 


The  World's  Largest  Helling  Eye  Beauty  Aids 
62 


I  Stanford  University,  as  he  is  in  the  play, 
and  he  is  a  very  good  student.  He  is 
majoring  in  chemistry  hut  wants  to  be  a 
cartoonist.  His  drawings  appear  in  the 
.Stanford  paper.  One  of  his  hobbies  is 
photography. 

"I  haven't  all  the  effect  lenses,"  he  told 
me.  "You  can't  buy  much  with  five  dol- 
ars  a  week." 

And  I  learned  that  five  dollars  repre- 
sents his  income  from  his  investments.  So 
far  he  has  paid  his  own  way  through 
school  and  all  his  money  over  his  actual 
expenses  has  been  invested  in  sound  stocks 
and  bonds. 

The  chief  topic  of  conversation  during 
the  day  concerned  the  motion  picture  which 
the  faiiiily  is  to  make  soon  for  Paramount, 
but  Page  confessed  he  wasn't  very  fa- 
miliar with  pictures. 

"We  don't  go  to  pictures  much  at  school, 
except  during  finals,"  he  said,  and  at  my 
puzzled  look  explained:  "Well,  if  you 
know  your  stuff  you  don't  have  to  study 
during  finals  and  you  have  time  to  go  to 
picture  shows.  If  you  don't  know  your 
stuff,  it's  too  late  to  study  and  you  may 
as  well  go  to  pictures." 

He  doesn't  think  making  pictures  is  such 
a  good  idea  for  him  "because  I  have  too 
many  fraternity  brothers  in  Los  Angeles," 
he  explained.  "But  seriously,"  he  added, 
"it  will  be  a  wonderful  opportunity  to  earn 
money.  If  I  keep  on,  by  the  time  I'm 
through  college  I  can  start  in  business 
with  my  own  capital.  That  part  of  it  is 
grand." 

"We  won't  admit  it,"  said  Miss  Ellen 
slyly,  "but  everyone  of  us  is  thrilled  at 
the  prospect  of  makitig  a  picture.  It's  a 
ttle  late  for  me  to  begin  a  new  career, 
however,"  she  continued.  "I'm  happy.  I 
lave  just  enough  work  to  do  so  that  I  can 
enjoy  it  and  my  leisure,  too.  I  don't  know 
that  I  want  to  begin  to  struggle  for  fame 
and  money.  I'm  independent.  No  one  has 
to  worry  about  me." 

Just  then  everyone  arrived  and  by  every- 
one I  mean  the  actual  members  of  the 
Family  and  their  families,  because  of 
course,  in  real  life,  each  one  has  a  hus- 
band, wife  or  sweetheart. 

There  was  Walter  Patterson,  a  young 
Englishman,  who  plays  Nicky  in  the  play, 
accompanied  by  his  fiancee,  who,  by  the 
time  you  read  this,  will  be  Mrs.  Patterson. 
They  were  planning  to  be  married  "a  week 
from  Friday,  and  I've  paid  a  deposit  on 
a  cottage  at  Carmel  for  our  honeymoon," 
he  declared  happily. 

Pat,  as  they  call  him,  is  counting  his 
pennies.  He  remembers  well  his  first,  hard, 
lean  days  in  this  country,  when  his  allow- 
ance didn't  arrive  promptly  and,  unable  to 
get  acting  to  do,  he  went  from  door  to 
door  as  a  salesman ;  when  he  worked  at  a 
fruit  stand ;  when  he  packed  Christmas 
boxes  of  California  fruits  and  sold  them 
on  a  small  commission ;  when  he  did  any- 
thing he  could  find  to  do  to  earn  a  dollar 
and  keep  his  self  respect  until  he  was  able 
to  get  a  foothold  in  liis  own  profession. 
I'A-en  nf)w  he  isn't  reall\-  a  member  of 
the  Family,  being  onl\-  ('hiudia's  husband, 
hut  his  fan  folhjwin.^  i.^  a  large  one  and 
ina>mtich  as  One  Man's  Family  is  cast  by 
I.ulilic  approval,  it  looks  as  if  Nicky  is  in 


There  was  I^^ill  Aiidr 
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makes  you  willing,  even  eager,  to  listen 
to  him  tell  you  about  Tender  Leaf  Tea. 
Mrs.  Andrews  is  Helen  Musselman,  a 
pretty  blonde  who  has  been  introduced  in 
recent  broadcasts  as  Sally,  one  of  the 
contest  girls. 

Then  came  Michael  Raffetto  and  his 
lovely  blonde  wife,  a  non-professional.  In 
the  play,  Michael,  who  plays  Paul,  the 
eldest  Barbour  son,  has  been  absent  for 
si.x  months  on  rnysterious  business,  but 
actually  he  lay  ill  in  a  sanitarium  fighting 
for  his  life.  Well  again,  he  is  back  in  the 
cast  to  the  great  joy  of  every  member  of 
the  Family  as  well  as  his  public. 

A  lawyer  by  profession,  he  practiced  for 
a  time,  successfully,  in  the  California 
courts.  But  each  law  case  seemed  to  him 
most  interesting  from  a  dramatic  stand- 
point and  he  was  continually  writing 
sketches  and  plays,  using  his  court  expe- 
riences for  plot  material.  He  tried  Holly- 
wood but  found  it  unresponsive,  although 
when  talkies  arrived  he  became  one  of 
that  silent  army  who  taught  many  estab- 
lished stars  how  to  talk. 

"I  swore  I'd  never  go  back  to  Holly- 
wood without  a  contract,"  he  told  me, 
and  is  now  chuckling  over  the  fact  that 
his  next  appearance  there  will  be,  through 
radio,  with  a  contract  written  on  his  own 
terms. 

It  seems  a  pity  that  J.  Anthony  Smythe, 
the  delightful  Father  Barbour  of  the  play, 
is  really  a  confirmed  old  bachelor.  How- 
ever, he  declares  his  single  blessedness  is 
not  necessarily  his  own  choice  but  that  a 
large  number  of  sisters,  nieces  and 
nephews  keep  him  too  busy  to  think  of 
having  a  family  of  his  own.  His  ex- 
periences with  them  have  no  doubt  added 
to  the  realism  of  his  performances  on  the 
radio,  although  that  is  no  aspersion  on  his 
ability  as  an  actor.  He  was  a  popular 
matinee  idol  in  stock  companies  for  years 
before  he  took  up  radio  work. 

At  informal  gatherings  such  as  this 
party,  he  is  apt  to  be  on  the  receiving 
end  of  a  barrage  of  kidding  from  Mother 
Barbour,  who  loves  to  tease. 

"Henry,"  she  demanded,  looking  up  at 
him  with  an  impish  expression,  "why  don't 
you  ever  make  up  to  me?" 

"But  Minetta,"  he  replied  in  confusion, 
"I  do." 

"I  don't  mean  in  the  play.  I  mean 
really,"  she  replied,  which  sent  poor  Mr. 
Smythe  into  a  blushing  retreat  and  the  rest 
of  the  company  into  hysterics. 

Winifred  Wolfe,  adopted  Teddy  in  the 
play,  arrived  with  her  mother,  and  there 
is  one  stage  mother  who  will  never  incur 
the  wrath  of  Hollywood  reporters.  Wini- 
fred is  an  only  child  but  not  a  spoiled 
one  and,  outside  of  her  radio  activities,  is 
a  school  girl  "in  high  ninth  next  term," 
she  told  me. 

Winifred  is  a  big  help  to  her  father's 
business,  he  says,  for  frequently  he  makes 
valuable  business  contacts  with  people  who 
listen  to  One  Man's  Family  and  know 
that  Winifred  is  his  daughter. 

"Here  comes  Bart !"  called  Page  Gil- 
man.  "He  never  breaks  his  record  of 
being  the  last  to  arrive."  .\nd  sure  enough, 
Barton  Yarborough,  Cliff  in  the  play,  had 
arrived,  bubbling  over  with  excuses  and 
adding  a  lot  of  noise  and  good  humor  to 
the  party.  He  had,  he  said,  been  working 
on  a  play  the  night  before  and  didn't 
wake  up  tnitil  noon. 


RADIO  STARS 


"I  don't  know  how  Carlton  can  write 
in  the  morning,"  he  said.  "I  can't  write 
until  everyone  has  gone  to  bed  and  it's 
quiet  and  I've  finished  with  everything 
else." 

His  methods  must  be  the  right  ones, 
for  him  at  least,  for  he  has  written  ever 
so  many  sketches  and  plays  and  is  just 
now  a  little  upset  because,  an  enthusiastic 
Bohemian  Club  member,  he  can"t  hear  the 
thought  of  missing  the  famous  Hi-Jinks, 
which  will  come  off  just  when  the  rainily 
is  expected  to  be  in  Hdllywood  niakiiiL; 
tests  for  the  picture.  He  still  refuses  to 
believe  they  ever  will  make  a  picture. 

"When  I  see  the  contract,  I'll  know 
it's  true,"  he  declared. 

Four  years  of  the  security  of  a  radio 
engagement  with  none  of  the  trials  and 
troubles  of  the  picture  actor;  w-ith  time 
to  play  golf,  write  a  play  now  and  then 
and  even  to  take  care  of  a  dramatic  school 
which  was  wished  on  him  by  a  friend, 
make  it  possible  for  him  to  view  with 
calmness  the  prospect  of  making  pictures. 

"I  don't  make  as  much  money  as  pic- 
ture actors,  but  I  have  a  lot  more  fun 
and  ten  times  the  security  and  content- 
ment," he  declared. 

He  is  an  Englishman  with  the  "English" 
rubbed  off,  if  you  know  what  I  mean. 
At  least  the  accent  has  disappeared.  A 
prime  favorite  with  everyone  who  know^s 
him,  he  is  sure  to  be  welcome  in  Holly- 
wood, particularly  as  he  is  a  very  eligible 
bachelor — the  only  one  in  the  Family, 
Page  not  yet  being  interested  in  marriage. 

After  the  climb  down  to  the  creek  and 
back,  we  were  more  than  ready  for  the 
delicious  lunch,  which  was  served  in  the 
patio.  "Bart"  took  moving  pictures  of 
everyone  and  later  showed  the  pictures  he 
had  made  at  the  last  party.  About  three 
o'clock  everyone  suddenly  grew  restless. 
There  was  some  glancing  at  watches,  but- 
toning up  of  shirts  and  rolling  down  of 
sleeves  and  then  the  whole  crowd  piled 
into  cars  and  started  back  to  San  Fran- 
cisco for  the  Sunday  night  broadcast. 

Paul  Carson,  the  organist  who  plays 
those  little  interludes  between  scenes  in 
the  play,  was  showing  witii  great  pride 
a  huge  Black  Widow  spider  in  a  glass  jar, 
which  he  had  found  that  day  in  one  of 
the  pipes  in  the  organ  at  his  mountain 
cabin.  Imagine  having  a  pipe  organ  in  a 
mountain  cabin,  anyway !  Radio  must  be 
the  thing! 

The  broadcast  was  scarcely  over  when 
news  came  that  Kathleen  Wilson  had  just 
given  birth  to  the  long-expected  baby. 
Everyone  heaved  a  sigh  of  relief,  because 
it  had  seemed  to  the  rest  of  the  Family 
that  Claudia  had  been  in  Europe  for  a 
long  time. 

There  were  two  rehearsals,  which  I 
saw,  and  then  came  the  zero  hour.  One 
Man's  Family  was  on  the  air.  Did  I  listen? 
Don't  be  funny.  I'm  a  One  Man's  Family 
fan! 


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CHE  R.AMY 

April 
SkoW€rs 

/^TALC 

I 


y 


There's  glorious  {itigtAnce  —  the  perfume 
of  youth  — in  April  Showers  Talc.  There's 
luxury  supreme  in  its  soothing,  smoothing 
touch.  Yet  the  cost  is  low  for  quality  so  high. 

No  wonder  it's  the  most  famous  and 
best  loved  talcum  powder  in  the  world! 

^SKjqjuIyAJjLe  •  •  •  buit 


WINCHELL  THROUGH  A  KEYHOLE 


{Continued  from  page  49) 


no  further  than  the  studio,  Walter  was 
still  angry.  He  was  irked  that  the  sur- 
prise item  had  been  tipped  oft'  to  even  the 
few  persons  present  before  he  could  read 
it  into  the  microphone. 

His  complete  and  utter  absorption  in 
himself  has  stimulated  resentment  in 
many  and  prompted  many  of  the  gibes  di- 
rected at  him.  But  Winchell's  self  back- 
patting  over  scoops  and  utter  disregard 
of  those  around  him  is  ingenuous  rather 
than  contemptuous ;  naivete  rather  than 
conceit.  To  call  Walter  Winchell  naive 
and  ingenuous  may  seem,  on  the  face  of  it, 
ridiculous.  Winchell — the  super-sophisti- 
cate, the  Man  About  Town,  the  Great 
Gabber,  the  guy  with  the  low-down  on 
everybody,  the  voice  of  Broadway  itself. 
Yet  only  a  fundamental  naivete  could 
motivate  most  of  his  actions  ;  simulate  the 
keen  interest  that  sharpens  his  reportorial 
instincts  and  makes  him  see  a  story  in  an 
insignificant  article. 

For  Winchell  is  an  excellent  reporter. 
His  curiosity  is  his  "nose  for  news";  he 
wants  to  know  about  things — and  he 
usually  finds  out.  He  no  longer  spends 
nights  wandering  around  the  night  clubs ; 
now  he  is  more  likely  to  pick  a  favor- 
ite spot  and  spend  considerable  time  there. 
There  items  come  to  him,  though  he  may 
not  go  there  for  any  other  reason  than 
because  he  likes  the  place. 

More  often  than  not  he  fails  to  credit 
contributors.  He  seldom  has  the  same 
set  of  contributors  for  any  length  of  time. 
It  may  be  because  they  tire  of  supplying 
items  for  the  column,  it  may  be  that  the 
various  stooges  who  give  him  items  run 
out  of  material.  He  seldom  is  grateful 
for  a  line  or  a  catch-phrase,  many  of 
which  he  has  appropriated  with  no  credits. 
Yet  in  the  position  he  now  occupies, 
with  an  army  of  publicity-seekers  over- 
eager  to  have  him  print  their  offerings,  he 
finds  himself  with  much  more  than  he  can 
use ;  so  much  is  pressed  on  him  that  it 
apparently  never  occurs  to  him  to  be  ap- 
preciative for  a  line  or  item  he  does  use. 
More  than  likely  he  feels  that  he  is  con- 
ferring a  favor  to  print  a  contribution, 
even  without  credit. 

He  never  will  take  an  item  from  any- 
one who  has  once  given  him  a  wrong  steer, 
no  matter  how  innocently.  He  claims  he 
nc\cr  has  paid  for  an  item  and  it  is  en- 
tirely possible  that  he  never  has,  in  money. 
As  the  ranks  of  his  stooges  come  and 
go,  there  always  are  plenty  who  are  more 
than  willing  to  contribute  for  glory  or 
possible  favors. 

About  these  he  is  under  no  illusions, 
c<jmmenting  often  in  his  column  on  how 
many  friends  a  columnist  ha.s — so  long  as 
as  he  has  the  c<jlumn. 

He  has  battled  the  Press  Radio  Bureau 
in  the  past  over  items  they  wanted  to  de- 
lete— such  as  Winchell's  exclusive  scoop 
on  the  killing  of  Pretty  Boy  i-'loyd.  The 
Press  Radio  Bureau,  before  the  broad- 
cast, claimed  the  item  nuist  he  false,  since 
no  iicwN  Inireau  could  conl'inn  it.  But 
Winihrll  won;  sent  it  ovct  the  air  and 
an  hour  and  a  (|uartcr  later  the  first 
confirmation  came  in. 


He  does  a  certain  amount  of  "log  roll- 
ing'' for  persons  and  places  he  feels  like 
plugging.  He  will  give  no  one  a  plug 
if  he  thinks  one  wants  it.  And  he  never 
boosts  a  show  unless  he  really  thinks  it  is 
good,  taking  his  drama  reviews  seriously. 

He  is  one  of  the  inost  highly-keyed  men 
alive.  His  eyes  are  alive,  darting  about 
continually,  his  movements  quick  and  al- 
most femininely  graceful.  There  is  no  re- 
pose in  him  and  associates  wonder  at  the 
vitality  that  keeps  him  going,  hour  after 
hour,  for  years,  at  the  same  high-tension 
rate.  Yet  his  race-horse  tension  is  not  the 
jittery  nervousness  that  makes  one  un- 
comfortable ;  he  seems  to  live  at  a  faster, 
all-around  pace  than  most  men. 

Formerly  he  was  kidded  about  his  pal- 
lor, but  today  Winchell  is  fit  looking, 
tanned,  with  an  excellent  complexion,  grey 
hair  and  carefully,  but  soberly,  dressed. 
He  lives  frugally,  as  a  man  with  a  sal- 
ary of  $100  a  week  might  live.  He  is  sel- 
dom alone  in  working  hours  and  never 
thinks  to  pay  checks  or  taxi  bills.  There 
always  are  stooges  enough  around  who 
jump  at  the  chance  and  from  long  habit 
he  seldom  has  to  put  his  hand  in  his 
pocket. 

His  closest  companions  and  friends  are 
mostly  a  group  of  newspaper  men; 
smaller-time  columnists,  editors  of  small 
papers.  There  is  not  a.  "name"  among 
them  and  they  seem,  on  the  whole,  almost 
an  inconsequential  group.  Some  feel  that 
Winchell  hangs  out  with  this  group  because 
he  can  be  the  kingpin — the  Big  Shot. 
However,  it  may  be  just  because  he  hap- 
pens to  like  them,  for  he  is  known  to  be 
loyal  to  his  friends  just  as  he  is  never 
impressed  by  celebrities.  He  will  give 
the  same  greeting  to  a  commonplace  friend 
of  an  announcer  as  he  gives  to  David 
Sarnoff,  the  chain  head. 

He  has  been  called  everything  from  "rat" 
and  "coward"  to  "yellow"  and  "snivelling." 
But  he  is  utterly  courageous  about  his 
work  and  lets  nothing  stop  him  from 
printing  anything  he  wants  to  print.  Physi- 
cally he  is  no  more  courageous  than  any 
average  man  his  size,  faced  with  the  pos- 
sibility of  physical  danger. 

At  the  loss  of  his  little  girl  some  time 
ago,  Winchell  was  terribly  broken  up;  yet 
he  carried  on  the  trouper's  axiom  by  go- 
ing on  with  his  show.  Liking  him  or  not, 
observers  who  knew  his  devotion  to  her 
were  compelled  to  admire  his  fortitude. 
He  lives  as  normal  a  home  life  as  his 
erratic  existence  permits  and  there  never 
has  been  any  breath  of  scandal  about  his 
private  life. 

He  enjoys  radio  work  and  is  as  en- 
thusiastic as  a  kid  over  short-wave  broad- 
casts. He  has  a  short-wave  radio  in  his 
car,  on  which  he  picks  up  police  radio  car 
calls  as  he  drives  about.  Sometimes,  when 
one  sounds  interesting,  he  follows  it  up 
as  a  fire-buff  chases  the  engines.  It's 
part  little  boy,  playing  cops  and  robbers, 
and  part  reporter. 

The  Girl  Friday  column,  which  is  os- 
tensibly written  to  him  by  his  secretar}-, 
is  really  done  by  Winchell  himself.  It's 
another  way  he  can  get  around  the  awk- 


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!I\\V 


-ranees  Longford,  of  Hollywood  Hotel, 
iuns  herself  with  a  couple  of  friends 
in  her  penthouse  garden. 


print  it 


tlic 


wardncss  of  praising  himself  by  putting 
the  words  into  his  secretary's  typewriter. 

For  all  the  invccti\e  that  lias  been 
hurled  against  him,  few  who  know  him 
really  dislike  him.  His  stooges  "yes"  him, 
his  friends  are  as  loyal  to  him  as  he  is  to 
them,  yet  when  the  occasion  suits  him 
he  can  be  completely  oblivious  to  all  of 
them  to  the  point  of  brusqueness. 

He  made  no  attempt  to  defend  himself 
against  tirades  agai 
In  1930,  in  an  article,  W  iiulu  ll 

.  .  They  aciiisi-  iiic  n] 
body's  (-()///?(/(■;((  r  tiiid  inakuni  stnrtly  pi  t 
vote   affiiiis   piih'.ii.      Till'    l<iii  is  I, 

get  the  iicivs  bcfm-c  the  ,>tlicr  ,/iiy.  as  oftci 
as  possible.    Xcws  iilt^'ny 
promise  people  that  I  rcd/; 

cireiiiiistaiices  icill  I 
with  a  defense  nf  my 
He  feels  pretty  nuRh 
There  is,  perhaps,  less  local  gossip  than 
formerly;  more  news  of  national  sc<ii)c. 
He  makes  fewer  slip-ups,  as  in  the  early 
days  when  he  printed : 

".  .  .  He  stood  It  pan  the  Paris  tvater- 
front  and  (jazed  aeross  the  ocean,"  a  geo- 
graphical slip  that  his  former  editor, 
Emile  Gavreau,  with  whom  he  carried  on 
a  perpetual  feud,  allowed  to  go  through. 

He  no  longer  has  to  a>k  friends  and 
acquaintances  coming  home  fmm  trips, 
who  was  on  the  boat,  whom  were  tlic>- 
with — in  search  of  an  item.  They  come 
to  him  now.  He  still  refuses  to  print 
gossip  that  would  link  a  married  man 
with  another  woman  or  vice  versa.  Other- 
wise he  has  few  taboos.  He  has  battled, 
in  print,  with  O.  O.  Mclntvre,  Marlen 
Pew.  Earl  Carroll,  Louis  Sobol,  Ed  Sul- 
livan, the  Shuberts  and  others.  And  most 
find  him  an  antagonist  to  be  wary  of. 

He  is  the  hardest  man  in  the  world  to 
reach;  keeps  going  at  the  same  terrilic 
pace  always  .  .  .  and  apparentlv  never 
tires  of  it.  He  doesn't  like  to  be  'called  a 
"keyhole  peeper."  About  his  sources  he  says  : 
"You  can  always  find  a  leak  in  a  person 
who  promised  not  to  tell." 


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A  HECTIC  BUT  HAPPY  MATING 

{Continued  from  page  41) 


co-author  of  the  Jumbo  program,  got  dis- 
gusted with  the  way  things  went  and 
walked  out.  As  the  radio  heroine.  Penny, 
Miss  Hayes'  voice  was  beautiful,  her  act- 
ing pleasing.  But  there  was  no  fire,  no 
brilliance.  The  story  was  sweet,  the  lines 
were  simple.  But  she  needed  something 
more.  MacArthur  would  have  given  them 
sparkle,  power,  sharp  laughter,  and  made 
the  lines  come  alive.  But  Charlie  was  busy 
at  another  studio.  The  partnership  wasn't 
in  operation. 

Now  a  partnership — whether  profession- 
al or  marital — with  a  man  like  Charlie 
MacArthur  isn't  all  smooth  sailing.  And 
no  one  knows  better  than  Helen  that  the 
charming  and  brilliant  Mr.  MacArthur  can 
be  disconcertingly  unpredictable.  He  prom- 
ised her  long  ago  that  if  she  married 
him  she  would  never  be  bored.  And  she 
never  has  been. 

There  was,  for  example,  a  radio  script 
that  Charlie  MacArthur  wrote  for  Helen 
several  years  ago  which  she  will  never  for- 
get. That  was  before  either  of  them  ever 
had  considered  going  into  radio  commer- 
cially. Miss  Hayes  had  been  invited  to 
speak  over  the  air.  Charlie  offered  to  write 
the  script.  When  the  day  of  the  broadcast 
dawned,  he  still  hadn't  produced  it.  As  the 
hour  for  her  to  go  on  the  air  drew  closer, 
Helen  became  more  and  more  panicked. 
She  went  to  the  studio  at  the  appointed 
time,  scriptless  and  on  the  verge  of  tears. 

Charlie  was  waiting.  He  handed  her 
the  typed  pages  of  her  speech  as  she  walked 
up  to  the  microphone.  She  threw  him  a 
grateful  smile  and  began  to  read.  As  the 
words  tumbled  from  her  lips,  a  deep  flush 
spread  over  her  cheeks  and  her  throat 
tightened.  Charlie  had  written  her  a  tirade 
against  the  dramatic  critics !  Should  she 
stop  reading?  No.  Leaving  the  mike 
would  be  unforgiveable.  She  stumbled 
through  it.  Outside,  Charlie  grinned.  He 
thought  it  was  a  lovely  joke  to  have  an 
actress  read  the  riot  act  to  the  critics. 
Critics  were  always  berating  actors ;  why 
not  turn  the  tables?  The  idea  had  amused 
him  so,  it  hadn't  occurred  to  him  how  ser- 
ious his  joke  might  be.  For  a  lesser  actress 
it  might  well  have  meant  the  end  of  her 
stage  career.  Helen,  a  gracious  woman 
as  well  as  a  great  artist,  was  able  finally 
to  make  her  peace  with  the  critics.  But  the 
furore  that  followed  that  broadcast  was 
agonizingly  embarrassing  for  her. 

Many  a  marriage  has  been  wrecked  over 
a  more  trivial  incident.  But  Helen  Hayes 
has  a  great  heart  and  a  wise  head.  She 
prizes  highly  her  partnership  with  Charles 
MacArthur.  And  she  permits  nothing  to 
break  the  charmed  circle  of  hers  and 
Charlie's  and  little  Mary's  happiness  to- 
gether. 

It  was  to  protect  this  happiness  and 
keep  the  charmed  circle  intact  that  Helen 
Hayes  recently  demanded  that  Carol 
P'rink's  alienation  of  affections  suit  against 
her  be  brought  to  trial.  She  knew  that, 
for  her,  the  trial  would  be  a  heartbreak. 

She  was  willing  to  take  the  punishment 
because,  by  her  own  admission,  she  wanted 
to  clear  her  husband  of  any  possible  blame. 
Whatever  the  price,  she  was  willing  to  pay 


it  in  order  to  lift  the  cloud  of  litigation 
that  had  been  hanging  over  them  ever  since 
their  engagement  was  announced,  nearly 
ten  years  ago. 

For  it  was  back  in  1927  that  MacArthur's 
first  wife,  Carol  Frink,  first  threatened 
Helen  and  Charlie's  happiness  by  suing  to 
reopen  the  Frink-MacArthur  divorce. 
Helen  and  Charlie  had  to  postpone  their 
marriage  until  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court 
affirmed  his  first  divorce.  They  had  had 
one  year  of  comparative  peace  from  court 
actions  when,  just  before  baby  Mary  was 
born,  Miss  Frink  sued  again,  this  time  to 
have  the  divorce  annulled.  She  contended 
that  the  divorce  had  been  granted  against 
her  will. 

Helen  Hayes  was  frantic.  If  Miss  Frink 
should  win  the  suit,  it  meant  that  the 
Hayes-MacArthur  marriage  was  invalid. 
That,  in  the  eyes  of  the  law,  Charlie  was 
not  her  husband.  What  of  the  child  soon 
to  come? 

Charlie  reassured  her :  "Why,  the  most 
law-abiding  lawyer  since  Lincoln  gave  me 
his  full  approval  and  blessing  and  a  su- 
perior court  upheld  the  decree.  It  can't 
affect  us." 

Charlie  was  right.  The  suit  failed  and 
again  the  MacArthurs  breathed  in  peace 
for  a  short  space  of  time.  Until  the  in- 
defatigable Miss  Frink  brought  a  third 
suit,  this  time  against  Miss  Hayes,  accus- 
ing Helen  of  "wrongfully  obtaining  the 
confidence  and  love  of  Charles  Mac- 
Arthur." 

This  suit  dangled  over  them,  threatening- 
ly, for  years.  It  ended  early  this  summer, 
when  Helen  brought  it  to  a  crashing  cli- 
max by  demanding  that  it  be  fought  out 
openly  in  court. 

She  had  a  home  whose  security  was  be- 
ing threatened  and  in  that  home  a  child 
growing  up.  It  must  be  established  be- 
yond a  doubt  that  Charlie  MacArthur  was 
not  culpable. 

It  was  Helen  who  sat  in  the  courtroom 
through  that  trial,  fighting  back  tears, 
twisting  a  handkerchief  with  nervous,  shak- 
ing fingers.  The  plump,  blonde  Miss 
Frink  was  wise-cracking  and  satisfied. 
MacArthur  grinned  sheepishly  and  seemed 
at  times  amused. 

It  was  Helen's  heartbreak  when  the  love 
letters  were  read — passionate,  foolish  let- 
ters that  the  youthful  Charlie  had  written 
Carol  Frink  fifteen  years  ago.  It  was 
Helen  who  winced  when  Miss  Frink,  asked 
if  she  still  wanted  AlacArthur,  said :  "I 
wouldn't  have  him  now  if  he  came  in  a 
box  of  Crackerjack." 

Three  days  of  torture  for  Helen  Hayes. 
On  the  third  day.  Miss  Frink,  unable  to 
produce  any  evidence  against  Miss  Hayes, 
dropped  the  case.  Her  lawyer  explained 
that  Carol  Frink  had  had  her  day  in  court. 
She  had  told  her  story  to  the  public.  That 
was  all  she  wanted. 

The  case  ended,  Carol  Frink  said  grand- 
ly :  "I  withdraw  all  my  nasty  cracks."  But 
she  couldn't  withdraw  them.  For  they  were 
burned  deep  into  Helen  Hayes'  heart.  The 
love  letters  which  she  insisted  on  reading 
weren't  even  accepted  as  evidence.  But 
they   had   brought   tears   of   anguish  to 


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:iclen  Hayes'  eyes. 

The  case  ended.  Charles  MacArtlnir 
aid:  "Phooey  to  this  idiotic  trial.  I'm 
;lad  I  was  the  goat  and  not  Miss  Hayes." 

Helen  was  silent.  Her  husband  had 
Dcen  cleared.  That  was  all  she  asked. 
She  apparently  felt  no  bitterness  toward 
the  woman  who  had  hurt  her  so  needless- 
ly. She  voiced  no  criticism  of  the  law 
which  permits  a  person  access  to  the  courts 
merely  to  gratify  an  old  grudge.  She  went 
back  to  her  home  in  Nyack.  Xcw  York, 
with  Charlie,  where  their  child  waitrd, 
and  where  more  than  a  thousand  trlegranis 
of  congratulations  were  pouring  in  from 
friends  and  admirers.  She  went  back  with 
her  family,  to  forget  the  three  days  of 
torture  and  let  the  heartaches  heal.  The 
bond  between  them  had  been  strengthened, 
not  weakened  by  the  ordeal.  A  cloud  was 
lifted.    The  partnership  was  secure. 

But  no  matter  how  secure  the  partner- 
ship may  be,  life  liand-in-hand  with 
Charlie  MacArthur.  you  may  he  certain, 
will  never  become  monotonous.  Mac.Vrthur, 
you  may  remember,  is  the  chap  who  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  pouring  a  dozen  pack- 
ages of  raspberry  Jello  into  a  friend's 
bathtub  and  filling  it  with  hot  water.  It 
was  he,  who,  required  to  employ  two  as- 
sistants for  a  Plollywood  director  while 
producing  a  picture  in  the  East,  went  to 
Coney  Island  and  hired  two  idiot  "wild 
men"  from  a  side  show.  The  director  found 
them  jibbering  in  his  office  when  he  started 
work  one  bright  Monday  morning.  Mac- 
Arthur  will  spend  any  amount  of  time 
and  money  and  go  to  any  amount  of  trou- 
ble for  the  sake  of  a  good  gag. 

But  beneath  this  clowning  is  a  brilliant 
mind  and  a  w^arm  heart.  It's  part  of  his 
charm  that,  even  at  the  most  serious  mo- 
ment, he  takes  time  for  humor.  He  finds 
no  problem  so  important  that  it  can't  be 
treated  lightly. 

Perhaps  these  are  the  qualities  that  make 
him  a  valuable  partner  for  Helen.  Where 
she  worries,  he  laughs.  He  spoofs  away 
small  anxieties  and  ribs  people  who  get  in 
his  way. 

Helen,  on  the  other  hand,  is  a  marvelous 
balance  wheel  for  the  irrespfinsiblc,  mad- 
cap Charlie.  He  is  impulsive;  she  is 
patient.  His  talent  blazes  forth  in  sudden, 
brilliant  flames.  Hers  burns  steadily,  clear 
and  pure.  She  is  gracious ;  he  is  witty. 
Each  is  a  perfect  complement  to  the  other. 

The  last  of  September  Helen  Hayes  goes 
on  the  air  again,  for  another  series  of 
dramatic  programs.  As  this  is  being  writ- 
ten no  author  has  been  chosen  to  write  her 
scripts.  When,  last  winter,  IMac.\rtliur 
walked  out,  angry  and  disgusted,  on  the 
Jumbo  program,  he  swore  he  w-as  through 
with  radio,  washed  up.  But  perhaps  he 
could  be  persuaded  to  try  it  again  on 
a  partnership  basis. 

His  radio  experience  might  be  different 
with  Helen  Hayes'  steadying  influence. 
Just  as  her  first  commercial  series  might 
have  burned  more  brightly  if  it  had  been 
lighted  with  a  spark  from  Mac.A.rthur's 
brilliant  pen.  It's  a  magic  combination — 
that  of  Helen  Hayes  and  Ciiarlie  Mac- 
.Arthur. 


Will  Radio  Civilize  the  Wilds  of 
Africa?    Frank  Buck  Gives  the 
Answer- 
in  the  November  issue  of  Radio  Stars 


FAMILY  DOCTORS  KNOW  THAT  VERY  OFTEN. 


#/ 


"Incoahpatiblb 


For  years,  countless  women  hove 
depended  on  "Lysol"  as  a  means 
of  antiseptic  feminine  hygiene  .  .  . 
Doctors,  clinics,  nurses,  know 
"Lysol"  as  a  dependable  germicide 

IF  YOUNG  wives  would  only  turn  a  deaf 
ear  to  "bridge  table  advice"  which  is 
usually  more  friendly  than  informed — 
and  talk  to  reputable  authorities,  they 
would  have  the  advantage  of  facts  and 
knowledge. .  .They  would  know  that  the 
"Lysol"  method  of  antiseptic  feminine 
hygiene  is  one  recommended  by  many 
leading  experts. 

It  is  important  to  follow  a  method  of 
feminine  hygiene  which  you  can  use 
with  confidence.  "Lysol"  has  earned 
the  confidence  of  countless  women... 
probably  no  other  preparation  is  so 
widely  used  for  this  purpose. 


"Lysol"  is  a  dependable  germicide,  used 
by  doctors,  hospitals,  clinics  and  nurses, 
the  world  o\  er,  because  of  these  six  qual- 
ities that  also  make  it  especially  valu- 
able for  feminine  hygiene: — 

The  6  Special  Features  of  "Lysol" 

1.  XoN-cAi  sTic..." Lysol"  in  the  proper  di- 
lutions is  gentle  and  reliable.  It  contains  no 
harmful  tree  caustic  alkali. 

2.  Effectiveness. .."Lysol"  is  a  true  germi- 
cide, active  under  practical  conditions... in 
the  presence  of  organic  matter  (dirt,  mucus, 
scrum, etc.)  when  some  other  preparations  fail. 

3.  Penetration. .."Lysol"  solutions  spread 
because  of  their  low  surface  tension,  and  thus 
virtually  search  out  germs. 

4.  Economy. .."Lysol",  because  it  is  concen- 
trated, costs  less  than  one  cent  an  application 
in  the  proper  solution  for  feminine  hygiene. 

5.  Odor.. .The  cleanly  odor  of  "Lysol"  dis- 
appears very  soon  after  use. 

(>.  Stahuitv... "Lysol"  keeps  full  strength,  no 
matter  how  long  kept,  or  how  often  uncorked. 
DR.  DAFOE  ON  THE  RADIO  I  BcginningOct.  Sth, 
■"Lysol"  presents  the  famous  doctor  of  the 
quintuplets,  on  "Modern  Child  Care",  .\!on., 
W  ed.,  Fri.  mornings  on  Columbia  Network. 

FACTS   ALL   WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

Ixhn  &  Fink  Products  Corp.,  Dept.  RS  lO 
BltKjmficU,  N.  J. 

Please  send  me  the  book  called  "LYSOL  vs.  GERMS", 
with  facts  about  feminine  hygiene  and  other  utci  ol 

"Lysol". 

Sa  me  


Street  , 


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cruel  thing  that  the  price  of  fame  sliould 
be  the  loss  of  personal  liberty.  Often  it 
is  a  bitter  price  to  pay.  Sometimes  a 
tragic  price. 

There  is  a  familiar  proverb:  "W'Jwm 
the  gods  zvould  dcsti-ny.  tliry  first  make 
mad." 

'  But  nowadays  it  is  we  who  are  mad 
— we  who  make  gods  of  our  favorites  and 
then  destroy  them,  with  our  mania  to 
share  their  every  move,  to  penetrate  their 
innermost  private  thoughts,  to  know — even 
before  they  know  themsehes — what  they 
are  going  to  do,  and  why,  and  how  ! 

"I  hate  to  ask  personal  questions,"  I  said. 
"But  is  there  anything  you  would  care 
to  tell  me  about  it?" 

"I  would  like  to  be  married,"  Lily  Pons 
mused  dreamily.  "But  for  that  there  must 
be  some  lime  .  .  . 

"Now  my  mother  is  here  with  me,  and 
I  am  getting  packed  to  go  to  Hollywood. 
Aly  teacher  is  here.  I  work  with  him  two 
hours  every  day.  Mr.  Kostelanetz  is  here 
now — "  she  glanced  t.iwanl  a  door  at  the 
end  of  the  room,  thriiu-li  which  she  had 
come  to  meet  me.  "Hut  he  is  uDrking  very 
hard  on  the  mu.sic  for  my  concert  in  the 
Hollywood  Bowl  on  Augn^t  scxentli   .  .  . 

"He  is  going  out  to  Hollywoixl  with 
me.  We  are  going  to  fly  out  together, 
on  the  first  day  of  August.  He  is  going 
to  arrange  and  direct  all  the  music  for 
my  picture.  He  will  be  working  ...  I 
will  be  working — perhaps  from  seven  in 
the  morning  till  seven  at  night  .  .  .  Al- 
ways,  in   Hollywood,  you  are  busy  .  .  . 

"He  has  only  lour  weeks  leave  of  ab- 
sence from  the  Chesterfield  program,"  she 
explained.    "While  he  is  away,  the  first 


violinist  will  conduct  for  him.  Then  he 
must  return.  He  must  be  in  New  York 
for  the  radio  programs,  Wednesdays  and 
Fridays.  After  that — "  her  eyes  lighted 
like  those  of  any  young  girl  in  love,  "he 
will  fly  back  for  a  few  days  in  Hollywood 
each  week.  And  I  shall  have  two  days 
each  week  for  rest.    It  is  in  my  contract. 

"We  hoped — "  she  spoke  wistfully,  "that 
they  would  take  a  vacation  this  summer — 
the  Chesterfield  people — but  if  they  do 
not  keep  the  time  all  summer,  they  cannot 
have  the  same  time  in  the  winter.  So  the 
program  must  go  on." 

"But  at  least,"  I  offered,  "when  you  and 
Mr.  Kostelanetz  do  marry,  there  will  be 
no  barrier  between  you,  no  conflict  be- 
tween marriage  and  career,  because  you 
both  are  musicians." 

"He  is  a  very  fine  musician,"  said  Lily 
Pons  proudly.  "He  has  great  gifts.  And 
he  understands  my  music,  my  voice — every- 
thing .  .  .  This  next  picture  I  am  making 
will  be  so  much  better,  because  he  is 
directing  the  music.  Before,  there  was 
no  one  who  understood. 

"And  we  have  similar  tastes  in  every- 
thing," she  added.  "In  music,  books, 
friends  .  .  .  He  loves  the  country  as  I 
do  .  .  . 

"If  you  are  married  to  a  man  who  does 
not  understand  music,  always — always 
there  is  a  barrier — a  wall  between  .  .  ." 
Lily  si)okc  from  experience,  having  made 
one  such  marriage  and  seen  its  end  in 
divorce,  because  of  her  career.  ".Mways 
there  is  something  you  cannot  talk  about 
— something  you  cannot  share.  It  is — " 
she  sought  in  a  somew^hat  limited  English 
vocabulary  for  the  word,  " — very  worry- 


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ing  .  .  ."  she  sighed. 

"But,"  she  went  on  soberly,  as  one  who 
has  pondered  the  problem  over  and  over 
and  found  no  happy  solution,  "always 
there  is  the  work!  And  if  you  are  sep- 
arated, it  hurts  the  work — and  it  hurts 
here!"  She  laid  a  slim  hand  on  her 
heart. 

"We  have  some  time  together,  maybe 
.  .  .  Perhaps,  if  I  make  a  concert  tour  in 
some  cities  not  far  away,  he  can  take  a 
little  vacation.  But  if  I  iiave  to  go  to 
South  America,  to  Russia,  maybe — he  can- 
not go.  too."  She  shook  her  head  sadly. 
"It  is  very  worrying." 

To  you  and  me,  more  ordinary  folk,  the 
idea  that  little  Miss  Pons  and  Mr.  Kos- 
telanetz  cannot  tind  time  to  marry  seems 
almost  beyond  belief.  What  of  her  two 
months'  vacation  at  Silvermine  this  sum- 
mer? After  all,  most  of  us  who  follow 
some  profession,  or  work  in  an  oftice  or 
at  home,  may  have  no  more  than  a  couple 
of  weeks'  summer  holiday  in  which  to 
cram  the  fulfillment  of  our  dearest  dreams. 
We  fall  in  love,  but — as  in  Lily's  case — 
the  work  must  go  on.  Then  comes  our 
summer  vacation — one  week,  two,  maybe,  or 
three — and  we  get  married  and  have  our 
hectic  honeymoon — then  back  to  work 
again. 

Why  is  it  so  diflferent  with  her?  True, 
she  is  a  famous  prima  donna.  True,  she 
has  a  rare,  unrivalled  coloratura  voice 
which  the  world  would  miss,  were  she  to 
cease  her  singing.  Still,  we  can  think  of 
quite  a  few  great  ones  who  have  abandoned 
their  careers  for  marriage  and  found  it 
no  sacrifice. 

She  can't  reallj'  love  him,  you  think  .  .  . 
Or,  perhaps,  he  doesn't  really  love  her 
enough.  .  .  .  Perhaps  he  wants  her  to  give 
up  her  career — but  she  is  not  willing  to  be 
just  a  wife — she  who  is  a  greater  star  than 
ever  he  could  be.  .  .  .  Or,  perhaps  she  would 
marry  him  and  continue  her  career,  but 
he  is  fearful  of  being  "Mr.  Lily  Pons." 

We  can't  know  all  the  circumstances  that 
condition  any  two  people — you  and  your 
best  beloved  or  Lily  and  Andre.  Still, 
thinking  of  the  various  things  that  we  do 
know,  we  can  understand,  you  and  I,  how- 
it  may  be  different  for  them  than  for  us. 
Perhaps  Lily's  managers  do  not  wish  her 
to  marry,  or  to  announce  her  marriage  if 
it  occurs.  There  is  more  glamour,  so  it  is 
believed,  in  an  unattached  star. 

And,  too,  Lily  is  young  enough  to  get 
a  thrill  from  the  success  that  is  hers. 

"It  is  very  wonderful,"  she  confessed, 
"to  get  the  letters  from  the  fans.  The 
movie  fans  are  best.  .  .  .  Before,  when  I 
sing  only  in  opera  and  in  concert,  only  a 
few  people  know  me.  Then,  on  the  radio, 
more  people  hear  my  voice.  Now,  in  the 
movies,  they  see  me  and  hear  me  and 
know  me.  Everywhere  the  pictures  go. 
Everywhere  they  know  me  now.  In 
Tokio,  in  Japan,  my  first  picture  was 
played  for  two  months.    It  is  wonderful ! 

"Did  you  hear  me  sing  at  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention  in  Philadelphia?"  she 
asked  eagerly.  "When  I  went  in  the  Con- 
vention Hall,  I  was  terrified.  One  hun- 
dred thousand  people!  And  such  noise — 
you  could  not  hear  yourself  think!  I 
wanted  to  run  away.  No  one  could  hear 
me  sing.  .  .  . 

"But  when  I  began  to  sing,  it  was  so 
quiet— not  a  sound— it  was  like  singing 
to  one  person.  It  was  very  thrilling !  Never  1 


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NOTHrNG  COULD  BE  EASIER 

Norforms  are  small,  conven- 
ient, antiseptic  suppositories 
completely  ready  for  use.  They 
require  no  awkward  apparatus 
for  application.  They  leave  no 
lingering  antiseptic  smell 
around  the  room  or  about  your 
person.  They  are  dainry  and 
feminine,  soothing  and  deodor- 
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Every  day,  more  and  more  wo- 
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of  feminine  hygiene. 

Norforms  are  easy-to-use  antiseptic 
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have  I  sung  to  such  a  big  audience  before !" 

Yes,  Lily  gets  a  thrill  out  of  her  career. 
And  why  shouldn't  she?  She  doesn't  refer 
to  it  as  a  career.  She  calls  it  "my  work" 
— just  as  you  or  I  inight  speak  of  ours, 
whether  it  be  pounding  the  typewriter  or 
washing  the  baby's  panties.  And  she  en- 
joys the  lovely  things  her  work  makes 
possible — her  country  home :  the  oppor- 
tunity to  help  her  mother  and  sisters ; 
smart,  pretty  clothes.  .  .  .  Why  not?  Who 
wouldn't  enjoy  it? 

Even  if  it  doesn't  give  her  time  to 
marry,  life  still  is  exciting  as  well  as  exact- 
ing.   Life  is  very  pleasant.  .  .  . 

Love  is  pleasant,  too.  Lily  knows  that. 
Some  day  she  will  fit  it  into  the  pattern 
of  her  life — into  that  part  of  her  life  that 
should  be  private,  if  we  would  permit  it 
to  be  so. 

Considering  her  fourfold  career,  it  is 
easy  to  see  how  pitifully  meagre  a  chance 
Lily  Pons  actually  has  for  any  private 
life.  She  will  spend  the  next  four  months 
ir  making  her  picture  in  Hollywood.  Work- 
ing, as  she  says,  perhaps,  from  seven^  in 
the  morning  till  seven  at  night — save  for 
lier  two  days  rest  each  week — rest  sorely 
needed  to  preserve  her  health  and  her 
voice  for  future  demands.  On  November 
fifteenth  her  picture  will  be  finished.  On 
November  twentieth,  she  sings  in  Lakme, 
her  favorite  opera,  in  the  Chicago  Opera 
House.  Following  that,  there  will  be  con- 
certs in  St.  Louis,  in  Memphis.  In  De- 
cember she  makes  personal  appearances 
for  the  movie,  which  will  be  released  at 
Christmas  time.  On  December  twentieth 
she  makes  her  debut  for  the  season  at  the 
Metropolitan  in  Rimsky-Korsakoff's  lovely 
opera,  Le  Coq  d'Or.  January  fifteenth 
she  sings  in  concert  at  Carnegie  Hall. 
Following  the  opera  season,  she  expects 
to  resume  her  radio  work  on  the  Chester- 
field program. 

Only    briefly,    in    her   beloved  country 
I  cottage,  can  she  enjoy  the  simple  sort  of 
j  care-fi-ee  days  for  which  she  yearns.  In 
her  native  Basque  country  she  grew  up  in 
wide  and  lovely  gardens.    So  here,  in  the 
gardens  surrounding  her  Norman  Provin- 
cial cottage  in  Connecticut,  she  seeks  to 
recapture  that  lost  childhood  with  its  free- 
!  dom  and  its  peace. 

"But  even  here,"  said  Lily  Pons,  "I  work 
.  .  .  Always  I  work  .  .  .  Every  day  I 
learn  .  .  .  With  my  teacher  I  am  studying 
Le  Coq  d'Or.  I  am  practising  the  other 
operas  of  my  repertoires — Lucia,  Lakme, 
Rigoletfo,  Barbier  de  Seville,  I  sing  ten 
performances  at  the  opera  tliis  season.  In 
the  other  seasons,  1931  to  1935,  I  sing 
tliirty  performances  each  season.  But  this 
.season  only  ten.  This  year  will  be  the 
first  time  in  many  years  they  have  given 
Le  Coq  d'Or  complete.  It  is  very  beauti- 
ful ..  . 

"But  I  rest  here,  too,"  she  added.  "It 
is  so  lovely,  so  calm,  so  quiet  ...  I  love 
to  be  out  of  doors.  Every  day  I  work 
in  the  gardens.  I  weed  them.  I  water 
them.  I  gather  the  flowers  ...  I  walk 
with  my  dog.  Sometimes  I  ride  for  two 
hours  in  the  morning.  A  friend  of  mine 
here  has  some  horses.  I  love  all  animals," 
said  Lily  enthusiastically.  "In  the  fields 
are  little  wild  rabbits.  Panouche  chases 
them,  but  just  to  play.  He  would  not 
catch  them.    Oh,  I  hope  not !" 

"And  do  you  find  time,  too,  for  some 
social  life — for  parties?"  I  asked. 


She  smiled  ruefully.  "One,  two,  maybe. 
But  many  times  I  must  say :  'No,  no — 
I  am  so  sorry — I  cannot  come.' 

"I  had  a  big  party  Saturday !"  Her 
brown  eyes  shone.  "Such  nice  party! 
Sixty-five  people.  And  I  was  lucky.  It 
looked — you  know — to  rain.  Cocktails 
were  at  six.  Then  dinner.  The  tables 
were  out  on  the  lawn."  She  led  me  to 
the  window  to  show  me  the  terraced  gar- 
dens where  the  small  tables  had  been  set. 

"They  were  so  pretty,"  Lily  said  eager- 
ly. "All  dififerent  colors,  you  know — 
cloths  and  napkins  .  .  . 

"At  nine-thirty  we  were  just  finished 
dinner — and  then,  so  sudden,  came  such  a 
storm  !  Everyone  rushed  in  here — sixty- 
five  people  in  this  little  room !  But  it  was 
fun!"  Lily  laughed  reminiscently  "We 
didn't  mind.  It  was  so — impromptu.  I 
was  lucky  it  didn't  rain  too  soon !" 

I  glanced  about  the  room,  picturing  the 
gay  scene.  The  room  isn't  exactly  little. 
Still,  sixty-five  people  could  easily  make 
it  seem  small.  It  is  a  long  room,  gra- 
ciously furnished  with  deep  sofas,  com- 
fortable chairs,  small  tables  and,  of  course, 
a  concert  grand  piano.  Flowers  stood 
everywhere  in  bowls  and  vases,  testify- 
ing to  her  fondness  for  them.  On  a  low 
round  table  a  huge  bowl  of  yellow  roses — 
Lily's  favorite  flower.  Elsewhere,  great 
masses  of  delphinium,  of  larkspur,  of 
gladioli,  or  wild  flowers,  brought  the  charm 
of  the  gardens  into  the  quiet  room. 

On  the  piano  stood  a  life-sized  bronze 
rooster,  its  back  a  basket  filled  with  roses. 

"Frank  La  Forge  gave  it  to  me  the 
other  day,"  Lily  said.  "He  saw  it  in  a 
little  shop  and  thought  he  must  get  it  for 
me — because  I  am  to  sing  Le  Coq  d'Or." 

"Shall  you  come  back  here  next  spring?" 
I  asked. 

"Oh,  yes  !"  Lily  Pons  said  ferveiitly.  "1 
have  taken  an  apartment  in  New  York. 
It  will  be  my  permanent  home.  I  have 
had  my  own  furniture  sent  over,  from 
Paris.  I  am  afraid  to  stay  here- in  the 
winter — the  weather,  you  know — sometimes 
it  is  severe.  I  must  not  risk  taking  cold. 
So  when  I  sing  in  opera,  I  live  in  New 
York.  But  when  I  sing  on  the  radio,  I 
stay  over  night  in  the  apartment.  Then 
I  come  out  here  next  morning.  Always  I 
come  back  here !"  She  glanced  happily 
about  the  friendly  room  with  its  wide 
Norman  windows,  its  deep-set  doors,  its 
massive  hand-hewn  whitewashed  beams. 
Gazed  out  through  the  windows  at  the 
rolling  hills,  the  pattern  of  bright  colors 
in  the  terraced  gardens.  "I  love  it  here," 
she  said  simply.    "Always  I  come  back." 

And  I  hope  that,  some  day,  when  Lily 
Pons  comes  back,  to  cultivate  her  gar- 
dens, to  walk  the  woodland  roads,  to 
frolic  with  her  dog,  the  man  she  loves  will 
come,  too,  to  make  the  Eden  perfect.  I 
hope  that  Fate,  some  day,  will  give  them 
the  longed-for  "time" — to  make  their 
happy  dreams  come  true. 

Panouche  strolled  out.  On  him  the 
problems  of  music  and  marriage  laid  no 
burden.  His  '  nose  a-quiver  with  some 
thrilling  scent,  he  sought  the  shining 
fields. 

But  Lily  Pons  rose  to  prepare  for  her 
lesson  with  her  teacher. 

"//  music  be  the  food  of  love,  play 
on!"  is  all  very  well  for  lovers. 

But  what  of  the  musicians?  ^^'hen  will 
their  time  .come  ? 


RADIO  STARS 


A  DATE  WITH  RUDY  VALLEE 


if  she  were  almost  unaware  of  his  name. 

He  felt  his  tongue  thicken,  but  he  man- 
aged to  say :  "Where  would  you  like  to 
have  dinner?" 

"I  can  t,"  she  answered.  "I  have  a  date." 

"But  you  said  tonight!  You  said  six- 
thirty,"  he  began. 

Then  he  heard  a  click.  The  young  lady 
had  settled  matters  by  hanging  up  the 
receiver. 

And.  as  we  sat  there  in  the  V'allee 
dining  room  while  Rudy  described  these 
incidents,  I  suddenly  had  a  clearer  under- 
standing of  his  relationships  with  women. 

I  have  dined  often  at  the  \'allee  apart- 
ment. Each  time  his  particular  lady 
guest  would  be  a  curls-hanging-to-the- 
shoulders  girl  in  her  later  'teens.  Each 
time  she  was  a  different  little  girl,  but 
always  she  was  essentially  the  same  per- 
son, a  little  girl  who  worked  in  an  adver- 
tising office,  a  little  girl  with  a  minor 
part  in  radio,  a  little  girl  who  danced  in 
a  chorus  or  was  secretary  to  some  great 
star.  And  always  \'allee  was  helping  the 
little  girl,  giving  her  a  chance  to  a  bet- 
ter job.  a  bigger  salarj'. 

I  know  now.  of  this  I  am  sure,  that 
the  reason  he  prefers  the  very  young,  ob- 
scure type  to  the  successful  independent 
woman  is  that  little  girls  are  bound  to 
look  up  to  him.  And  he  must  have  his 
worship,  because  deep  within  his  soul  he 
is  still  hurt.    And.  although  he  never  will 


acknowledge  it,  not  even  to  himself,  he  is 
still  afraid  of  a  snub. 

Xot  that  there  is  the  slightest  danger 
of  any  woman's  turning  down  a  date  with 
the  \'allee  of  today,  whose  dinner  invita- 
tions have  become  privileges. 

He  reminds  me  of  another  slim,  sunny 
haired  young  man,  who,  landing  after  the 
historic  flight,  naively  introduced  himself 
as  Colonel  Lindbergh.  So  it  is  when 
\'allee  telephones.  Just  as  if  anyone 
could  fail  to  recognize  that  velvet  voice. 
Xevertheless,  he  murmurs  your  first  name, 
then  he  says :  "This  is  Rudy  \'allee.  ' 

And  he  invites  you  to  dinner.  And  he 
sends  his  car,  a  limousine,  dark,  smooth- 
running,  powerful,  manned  by  Ralph,  the 
chauffeur,  who  boyishly  addresses  Rudy 
by  his  first  name,  for  between  Vallee  and 
his  employees  there  exists  a  genial  spirit 
of  comradeship.  As  an  employer,  \^allee 
is  the  most  loyal  of  men,  refusing,  in  any 
circumstances,  to  listen  to  a  word  against 
his  workers.  They,  in  turn,  adore  the  boss 
and.  wherever  possible,  follow  his  example. 

Such  as  that  Sunday  afternoon  when, 
CH  route,  to  the  Vallee  apartment,  I  sat 
alone  in  the  back  of  his  car  and  Ralph 
suddenly  turned  on  the  radio. 

"If  you  don't  mind,"  he  said,  "I  want 
to  catch  Father  Coughlin.  Rudy  likes  to 
hear  him." 

Usually  you  don't  sit  alone.    Rudy  calls 


himself.  Then,  when  driving,  you  sit  be- 
tween him  and  Ralph,  because  Rudy  will 
not  sit  in  the  back  of  the  car. 

"It  makes  me  sick,  '  he  admits.  "So  do 
trains  and  boats." 

When  he  is  in  the  car  the  radio  is 
turned  on,  but  never  to  crooners.  As  he 
puts  it:  "Don't  I  get  enough  of  thatl" 

With  the  exception  of  a  certain  Italian 
restaurant  in  Xew  York  City,  he  rarely 
dines  out,  so  we  drive  to  the  V'allee 
apartment  which  overlooks  Manhattan's 
East  River. 

Arriving,  a  neat  maid  ushers  you  into 
a  guest  room,  where,  spread  upon  the 
mirrored  dressing-table,  is  a  silver-backed 
comb,  brush,  powder-box,  everything  at 
your  service. 

And  on  the  way  to  the  front  of  the 
apartment,  a  peep  into  \'allee's  own  room. 
On  the  chiffonier  still  stand  two  mini- 
atures of  Alice  Faye. 

In  the  living-room  the  butler  is  serving 
from  a  cart  that  carries  liquor.  There  is 
a  liberal  variety.  You  take  your  choice, 
but  V'allee  will  have  none  of  it.  While 
you  sip  your  cocktail,  he  nibbles  pop  corn 
or  hors-d'oeitvrcs  in  the  shape  of  tiny 
frankfurters  squeezed  between  miniature 
rolls. 

Sometimes,  waiting  for  dinner  to  be 
announced  and  especially  if  there  are  new- 

(  Cotit  'uirtcd  on  paiic  /T) 


RADIO  STARS 


wlause 


When  the  last  ripple  of  applause 
has  ended  —  and  you've  turned 
off  the  radio  for  the  evening  — 
then  is  the  time  for  a  big  bowl  of 
Kellogg's  Corn  Flakes.  They're 
ideal  for  that  hungry  feeling  at 
bedtime.  Delicious  and  satisfy- 
ing, they  digest  easily  —  let  you 
sleep.  Sold  by  all  grocers. 

You'll  enjoy  these  programs: 

"GIRL  ALONE".  The  story  of  one  girl'* 
quest  for  true  romance.  Every  day  except 
Saturday  and  Sunday  12:00  to  12:15 
Eastern  Daylight  Time  over  stations 
WMAQ,  Chicago;  WLW,  Cincinnati; 
WTAM,  Cleveland;  WCAE.  Pittsburgh; 
WBEN,  Buffalo;  WEAF,  New  York; 
KYW,  PhUadelphia:  WWJ,  Detroit 

KELLOGG'S  SINGING  LADY:  Every  day 
except  Saturday  and  Sunday — 5;.'.0  to 
5:45  over  the  N.  IJ.  C.  Basic  Blue  Network. 

Nothing  takes  the  place  of 

CORN  FLAKES 


Only  eyes  with  natural-looking 
beauty  win  men's  admiration 


PiNAUD  S  SIX-TWELVE 

CREAMY  MASCARA  ^9 
beautifies  eyes  naturally!  JP^jjj^ 

Win  admiration,  when  your  eyes  look  as  if 
Kature  herself  had  given  them  a  luxuriant, 
dark  fringe  of  lashes!  Do  it  with  Pinaud's  Six- 
Twelve  Creamy  Mascara.  It  never  makes  you 
look  "ma<le-ui)"I  Black,  brown,  blue,  green. 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

(Continued  from  page  6) 


THE 
HOUSE  OF 


PINAUD 


PARIS 
NEW  YORK 


Vivian  was  born  in  Ch  icago,  October 
9tb,  1915.  Her  grandfather  was  a  sym- 
phony conductor  in  Italy  and  her  mother 
is  an  accomplished  pianist.  In  addition 
to  singing,  Vivian  plays  both  violin  and 
piano. 


She  zvtll  make  her  debut  as  Alimi  in 
La  Boheme. 


NEWS  NOTES 

Jacques  Renard  will  take  no  more 
razzing  from  Gracie  Allen.  He  has  been 
engaged  as  music  conductor  of  Eddie  Can- 
tor's new  series  of  weekly  programs,  start- 
ing Sunday,  September  20th,  over  the 
Columbia  network.  (8:30-9:00  p.  m., 
EDST.) 


Before  coming  to  radio,  where  he  now 
is  one  of  the  top-flight  conductors,  Renard 
was  widely  known  for  his  distinctive  dance 
orchestrations.  He  operated  two  clubs  of 
his  own  in  Boston,  and  was  in  great  de- 
mand at  other  hotels  and  night  clubs. 

On  September  27th  Nelson  Eddy  begins 
his  weekly  programs  over  the  Columbia 
network.  For  fifteen  weeks  these  programs 
will  originate  in  Hollywood,  while  Eddy 
is  completing  his  picture,  Maytime.  The 
next  broadcasts  are  scheduled  from  Port- 
land, Salt  Lake  City,  Kansas  City,  Cincin- 
nati and  Chicago,  as  the  blonde  star  of 
radio,  screen,  opera  and  concert  stage 
moves  eastward  on  a  concert  tour.  After 
that  the  programs  will  originate  in  New 
York 

-♦- 

Josej  Pasternack's  Orchestra  and  guest 
stars  also  will  be  features  of  the  Eddv 
programs. 

Louise  Massey  and  The  Westerners, 
familiar  to  followers  of  the  Shon'  Boat, 
will  debut  in  their  own  program  this  fall 
over  the  NBC-Blue  network.  The  name  of 
the  series  planned  for  them  is  Log  Cabin 
Bar  Z  Ranch — a  musical  narrative,  to  be 
heard  Tuesdays,  beginning  September  29th. 


Authentic  Western  ballads  will  have  a 
prominent  place  in  these  broadcasts- 
familiar  music  for  the  Masseys  (Louise 
and  her  brothers,  Allen  and  Dott)  and 
Milt  Maltbie,  all  of  whom  hail  from  K- 
Bar  Ranch.  Lincoln  County,  New  Mexico 
And  Larry  Wellington  comes  from  South- 
ern California  and  spent  his  boyhood  on 
cattle  ranches  in  the  Southwest. 


On  the  Massey  ranch  in  New  Mexico 
their  broadcasts  are  regarded  as  the  social 
event  of  the  iveek.  Family  and  ranch  hands 
listen  in,  all  garbed  for  the  occasion  in 
their  colorful  best. 


Speaking  of  cowboys,  Carson  Kobison, 
:hief    hillbilly    of    The    Buckaroos  spent 


most  of  his  childhood  riding  the  range 
and  spent  all  his  pin  money  buying  daz- 
zling cowboy  regalia  for  himself  and  his 
boss. 

Carson  can't  write  songs  of  the  faraway 
plains  and  his  native  west  in  his  city  apart- 
ment— so  he  has  acquired  a  lodge  in  the 
Adirondacks.  There  he  can  dream  dreams 
of  the  lone  prairie,  and  write  his  plaintive 
Western  songs. 

Don't  look  for  him  under  a  ten-gallon 
hat  in  town,  however — there  he  dresses 
conservatively,  in  true  city  style. 

-♦- 

NOTES  TO  FANS 

Lennie  Hayton,  NBC  maestro,  saves 
match  covers.  He  now  has  over  a  thou- 
sand .  . .  Joan  Blaine  has  sun-tanned  her 
initials  on  her  leg  .  .  .  John  Charles 
Thomas  has  grown  a  moustachio,  a  la 
Ronald  Colman  .  .  .  Marian  (Molly  Mc- 
Gee)  Jordan  collects  Chinese  prints  .  . 
Lulu  Belle,  of  the  National  Barn  Dance, 
collects  turtle  neck  sweaters  and  has  more 
than  twenty-five  of  them  .  .  .  Alec  Temple- 
ton  is  an  autograph  hound  .  .  .  Pat  (Uncle 
Ezra)  Barrett  has  an  aversion  to  slightly 
worn  shoes  and  won't  go  on  a  show  with- 
out a  fairly  new  pair  .  .  .  Robert  Sim- 
mons, tenor  of  the  Jessica  Dragonette  hour, 
was  christened  William  Simmons.  He 
changed  his  name  because  the  baritone  of 
a  church  quartette  which  he  joined  was 
also  William  Simmons  .  .  Phil  Regan, 
handsome  film-radio  tenor,  has  fan  clubs 
in  every  country  in  the  world.  Phil  has 
been  signed  for  another  movie,  and  flies  to 
the  Coast  September  19th  .  Margaret 
Speaks,  one  of  the  busiest  personalities  in 
radio,  answers  all  her  fan  mail.  Although 
she  is  almost  literally  swamped  by  letters 
from  admirers,  Margaret  says : 

"I  feel  it  is  my  duty  personally  to 
answer  the  letters  that  are  so  gra- 
ciously sent  me  by  my  friends  of  the 
air.  They  have  shown  good  faith  in 
me  for  a  long  time  and  I  am  going 
to  do  my  best  to  fulfill  the  obligations 
that  I  owe  them.  It  does  take  ever  so 
much  time,  but  as  long  as  I  can  send 
personal  replies  without  interfering 
with  my  music,  I  intend  to  do  so." 

RADIO  INTERNATIONALISTS 

Igor  Gorin,  CBS  Hollywood  Hotel  bari- 
tone, is  toying  with  the  idea  of  forming  a 
musical  Foreign  Legion  among  Columbia 
radio  stars.  Possible  members  include,  Lily 
Pons,  born  in  Cannes,  France;  Jacques 
Renard,  Kiev,  Russia;  Nino  Martini, 
Verona,  Italy;  Anne  Jamison,  Belfast, 
Ireland;  Ray  Block,  Alsace-Lorraine;  Boake 
Carter,  South  Russia  <of  British  parents^; 
Armida,  La  Colorado,  Mexico;  Alexander 
Semmler,  Dortmund,  Germany;  Vladimir 
Hcifetz,  Chashiniky,  Russia;  Andre  Kos- 
telanetz,  St.  Petersburg  and  E.  Robert 
Schmidt,  Paris.  Igor  hails  from  Odessa, 
Ukraine. 

(Continued  on  page  97) 


72 


RADIO  STARS 


KEEP  YOUNG 
AND  BEAUTIFUL 

(Continued  from  f^agc  13) 


on  the  lobes  of  the  ears,  across  the  upper 
lip,  and  on  the  wrists. 

Joan  suggests  the  use  of  sachet  powder, 
rubbed  directly  on  the  skin  as  a  subtle 
method  of  perfuming.  A  tiny  sachet 
sewed  into  the  neckline  of  a  decollete 
gown  is  another  nice  touch.  Or  if  you 
are  dancing,  sprinkle  a  little  sachet  pow- 
der around  the  hem  of  your  dance  frock, 
and  you  will  dance  in  a  swirl  of  fragrance. 

Now  that  our  skins  are  beginning  to 
look  dingy  after  the  warm  glow  of  suntan 
has  faded  a  little,  it  would  be  a  good  idea 
for  us  to  do  some  experimentation  with 
powder-blending  ourselves.  I  have  found 
that  a  certain  brunette  shade  of  powder 
when  blended  with  the  rachel  shade 
achieves  just  the  right  tone  of  powder  for 
many  after-suntan  skins.  At  Robert's 
there  are  enormous  bowls  of  powder  con- 
taining every  shade  of  powder  for  every 
possible  nuance  of  shading.  The  mi.xing 
is  done  in  a  large  wooden  bowl. 

Joan  uses  vivid  lipstick  and  no  rouge. 
She  mascaras  her  ejelashes  and  leaves  her 
eyebrows  a  la  natural.  One  trick  of 
making  lips  look  alluringly  shiny  is  to  use 
a  small  camel's  hair  beauty  brush  for  ap- 
plying your  lipstick.  Dip  the  brush  in  a 
little  cold  cream  first. 

And  now  we  can't  leave  a  discussion  of 


Robert's  Salon  with  "everything  to  make 
\ou  beautiful,"  without  the  instructions  for 
one  good  fall  facial  that  you  can  give 
\ourself  at  home.  If  your  skin  is  dry  and 
rough  textured  and  a  wee  bit  sallow,  as 
after-summer  skins  are  apt  to  be,  then  this 
facial  is  ideal  for  you.  It  is  both  soften- 
ing and  mildly  bleaching.  It  is  an  oatmeal 
facial — and  even  our  grandmothers  knew 
that  oatmeal  possessed  marvelous  skin- 
softening  powers.  This  is  a  refined  and 
improved  oatmeal  which  smells  almost  like 
lavendar  in  its  package  and  comes  in  a 
decorative  big  (or  little)  turquoise  blue 
can.  You  take  a  small  amount  of  the  oat- 
meal into  the  palm  of  your  hand,  add 
enough  lukewarm  milk  to  make  a  creamy 
lotion  and  apply  the  lotion  all  over  your 
face  and  neck.  Allow  it  to  dry ;  then  rinse 
off  with  warm  water,  finishing  with  a 
grand  splash  of  cold  water.  Your  skin  will 
feel  as  smooth  as  a  flower  petal. 

Certainly  if  the  skin  has  reaped  the  har- 
vest of  a  summer  of  sun,  sea  and  sand  ex- 
posure, your  hair  has  suffered  even  more. 
But  get  to  work  with  your  hairbrush, 
your  fingertips  and  a  goodly  supply  of  re- 
conditioning oil.  Brushing,  scalp  manipu- 
lation, and  hot  oil  shampoos  at  home,  or 
under  the  vigorous  administration  of  an 
expert  beauty  salon  operator,  will  bring 
your  hair  back  to  life  and  lustre — to  a 
state  where  it  will  respond  to  the  glory  of 
a  new  fall  coiffure.  (I'll  be  glad  to  scn<l 
\ou  my  complete  bulletin  on  recon(liii( >n- 
ing  the  hair,  which  gives  exact  instruc- 
tions for  a  hot  oil  shampoo  and  other  top- 
knot glorifying  aids.) 

Joan  Marsh  always  shampoos  her  own 
hair  with  soapless  oil  shampoos. 


Joan,  Robert  admiringly  declares,  as  one 
confrere  to  another,  has  a  natural  gift  for 
styling  her  own  hair.  We  watched  in 
admiration  as,  with  almost  professional 
skill,  she  curled  her  hair  into  a  clever  up- 
turned roll  around  her  head,  a  saucy 
halo  effect.  Robert  added  a  few  extra 
touches,  sweeping  the  side  hair  back  from 
the  cheeks  for  sophisticated  effect. 

Robert  believes  that  you  should  dress 
your  hair  always  according  to  your  face 
rather  than  according  to  a  style.  The  coif- 
fure that  does  not  take  into  consideration 
your  individual  features  cannot  be  suc- 
ceessful.  Of  course  some  consideration 
must  be  given  to  the  prevailing  hairdress- 
ing  styles,  dress  and  millinery  fashions  and 
the  individual  styles  adapted  to  them.  An 
interesting  keynote  of  fall  hairdressing 
styles  will  be  height,  curls  to  the  top. 
That  is  because  high  necklines  will  be 
fashionable  for  fall. 

You  will  want  my  little  booklet  con- 
taining pictorial  illustrations  of  the  attrac- 
tive coiffures  of  various  celebrities.  It  is 
replete  with  pictures  and  instructions  and 
will  help  \ou  select  and  style  yourself  a 
grand  new  fall  coiffure. 


Mary  Biddle 
RADIO  STARS, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  your  booklet  on 
"  Pictorial  Hairdresses". 

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DO  YOU  TAKE  HEARTS  BY  STORM 

—because  your  make-up's  natural? 


WHAT  IS  BEAUTY  FOR 

—  if  not  to  set  masculine  hearts  athrob 

—  if  not  to  bring  the  thrill  of  conquests  — 
if  not  to  sing  little  songs  of  happiness  in 
your  heart  when  he  admires?  Make-up's 
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There's  nothing  beautiful  about  rouge  that 

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All  over  the  world  smartly-groomed  women  say 
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it  is  Princess  Pat — most  likely  is  one  flat  tone.  But 
Princess  Pat  rouge  is  duo-tone. 

There's  an  undertone  that  blends  with  an 

overtone,  to  change  magically  on  your  skin.  It  becomes 
richly  beautiful,  vital,  real— no  outline.  The  almost 
incredible,  astounding  effect  is  that  of  color  coming 
from  within  the  skin,  just  like  a  natural  blush.  You'll 
be  a  glamorous  person  with  Princess  Pat  rouge- 
irresistible.  Try  it — and  see. 

PRINCESS  PAT  ROUGE 

PRINCESS  PAT,  Dept.  42-A,  2709  S.  Wells  St.,  Chicago. 

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out  exactly  even  on  the  deal.  And  that 
means  a  lot  to  somebody  who,  through 
no  fault  of  her  own,  finds  she's  the  baby  of 
the  family. 

I  think  the  best  way  to  relate  what  an- 
other person  is  like,  is  to  tell  the  'mosts' 
about  her.  The  thing  Rosemary  wants 
most  is  go  into  pictures.  Ever  since  we 
were  old  enough  to  know  what  an  ambi- 
tion was  she's  talked  and  dreamed  incess- 
antly about  being  an  actress.  Her  first 
move  after  we  were  established  as  singers 
with  Fred  Waring's  band  was  to  enroll 
herself  and  me,  too,  for  a  course  in  dra- 
matics under  Frances  Robinson-Duff,  who 
coached  Helen  Hayes  and  Katharine  Hep- 
burn and  lots  of  other  famous  actresses 
and  she's  really  wonderful.  We  were 
started  on  Shakespeare  three  years  ago 
and  now  we're  just  getting  into  studying 
the  modern  plays.  Rosemary  takes  her 
work  very  seriously.  She  reads  scads  of 
books  on  the  theatre  and  somehow  man- 
ages— radio  notwithstanding — to  get  to 
every  one  of  the  legit  shows  produced  on 
Broadway,  often  seeing  the  best  ones  two 
and  three  times  to  study  them  from  dif- 
ferent angles.  I  really  think  some  day 
she'll  be  one  of  the  outstanding  stars  in 
Hollywood ;  I  just  believe  she  has  it  in  her. 

What  she  likes  most  is  anything  con- 
nected with  outdoor  sports.  She's  a  grand 
swimmer,  her  hiking  endurance  is  some- 
thing I  could  never  aspire  to,  and  she  has 
a  wicked  backhand  that  licks  me  nearly 
every  time  we  play  tennis.  For  a  year 
now,  excepting  bitter  winter  weather  and 
road  tours  with  the  band,  we've  spent  all 
our  week-ends  at  a  ranch  on  the  Delaware 
River  in  New  Jersey,  driving  out  after 
the  repeat  broadcast  on  Friday  nights  and 
not  coming  back  to  New  York  until  Mon- 
day in  time  for  rehearsal.  They  have  real 
cowboys  from  the  West  out  there,  the 
scenery  is  so  gorgeous  it  looks  like  a 
Mielziner  backdrop,  and  we  love  everything 
about  the  place,  including  kerosene  lamps 
and  no  bathtubs.  We  thought  we  could 
ride  until  we  started  going  to  the  ranch 
but  we  had  to  learn  all  over  again !  We 
learned  the  real  cowgirl  way,  on  mustangs 
and  pintos,  wearing  chaps  and  jeans  and 
overalls.  Rosemary's  down  at  the  corral 
at  the  crack  of  dawn  on  Saturdays  and, 
rain  or  shine,  she  rides  her  pony  until 
the  last  gasp  from  both  of  them. 

Of  course  you've  seen  pictures  of  her, 
so  I  don't  have  to  go  into  detail  about 
what  she  looks  like.  Honest  and  truly 
she's  every  speck  as  pretty  as  her  photo- 
graphs. In  fact,  no  picture  I've  ever  seen 
has  quite  captured  what  is  to  me  the  most 
attractive  thing  about  her :  a  certain  lovely 
unhaste,  which  is  something  I  wish  I  had. 
Rosemary's  always  so  calm  about  things, 
she  moves  with  such  a  tranquil  kind  of 
grace  and  no  matter  how  excited  she  be- 
comes, she's  always  master  of  the  situa- 
tion and  her  voice  n ni.iiiis  Inw  and  warm. 
Do  you  understand  what  i  mean?  I  say 
unhaste  but  it's  sort  of  liard  tn  define;  it 
may  be  a  mental  attitude  she  has,  or  it 
may  be  just  the  way  she  docs  things.  Any- 


way she's  beautifully  poised  and  possessed 
in  every  emergency,  she  thinks  with  her 
brains  and  not  her  emotions. 

As  for  clothes,  she's  a  complete  femin- 
ist. She  loves  high  high  heels  all  the  time 
and  poofy  sheer  blouses  with  big  sleeves 
and  fine  lace  and  bows  and  furs  and  fluffy 
hair-dos  and  evening  dresses  that  swish 
and  the  most  frivolously  sheer  stockings 
money  can  buy.  Oh,  Rosemary's  terribly 
crazy  about  sophisticated  froufrou  things. 
Plain  or  mannishly  tailored  clothes — never ! 
She  loathes  them.  But  soft  angora  suits 
and  pastel  silks  and  taffeta  petticoats  and 
luxurious  perfumes  she  adores.  All  of 
which  is  very  like  her.  Even  if  you  should 
meet  her  for  the  first  time  and  she'd  be 
wearing  English  tweeds,  you'd  know  she 
didn't  belong  to  them.  Her  type's  defi- 
nitely a  sort  of  soft  smartness. 

The  most  annoying  thing  about  the  elder 
Lane — see,  I'm  being  frank — is  that  she's 
the  slowest  dresser  east  of  Indianola ;  I'm 
perfectly  sure  of  it.  I  was  always  one  to 
throw  on  my  clothes  and  let's  go — it  kills 
me  to  wait  for  people  I  So  you  can 
imagine  how  Rosemary  can  drive  me  prac- 
tically crazy !  She'll  take  an  hour,  well 
fifteen  minutes  anyway,  to  fix  the  back  of 
her  bob  and  then  not  like  it  and  do  it 
over  again,  while  I  sit  and  just  simmer! 
She's  a  toothpaste-cap-loser  of  the  first 
water  too — when  we're  on  the  road  I  never 
know  whether  I'm  fresh  out  of  cold 
cream  or  fresh  in  mascara  unless  I  look 
underneath  sixteen  towels  and  packages 
and  music  sheets  and  assorted  junk.  I've 
tried  to  reform  her  for  lo!  these  nineteen 
jears  now  and  so  has  mother  but  it  hasn't 
done  a  speck  of  good ! 

Being  a  sister  team — well,  we  used  to  be 
that  but  we're  getting  away  from  it  more 
and  more — certainly  has  its  advantages. 
Besides  having  somebody  around  to  have 
fun  with  all  the  time  you  also  get — no 
extra  charge — a  merciless  but  helpful  critic 
in  the  bargain.  Like  the  time,  not  long 
ago,  when  we  are  going  into  the  Paramount 
Theater  for  a  week  and  Fred  said  I  was 
to  do  my  first  solo  dance  with  the  band. 
I  was  excited  and  scared  to  death  and  put 
off  the  whole  works  until  about  a  week 
beforehand;  then  I  rented  a  practise  hall 
and  got  down  to  serious  business.  Such 
business !  I  thought  I  could  cook  up  a  little 
Truckin'  number  just  like  that,  but  after 
three  days  of  dancing  myself  into  a  dither 
I  was  still  manufacturing  the  first  step. 

Rosemary's  not  a  dancer,  I  mean  she 
hasn't  specialized  in  it  the  way  I  have, 
but  she's  a  swell  critic  of  it  just  the  same. 
So  when  I  came  home  to  lunch  one  day 
in  the  dumps  about  my  solo  number  she 
chucked  all  her  engagements  for  the  rest 
of  the  week  and  got  down  to  work  with 
me.  She  sat  on  a  bench  at  the  hall  for 
hours  and  said  'awful !'  or  'O.  K.'  and 
made  suggestions  and  helped  me  fit  the 
routine  to  the  music  which  is  a  terrible 
job — brasses  in  this  break,  tacit  in  this  one, 
and  so  on.  When  F"red  saw  the  dance  and 
passed  on  it  I  felt  like  doing  something 
{Continued  on  page  76) 


RADIO  STARS 


YOU  MUST  MEET  MY  SISTER 
(PRISCILLA) 


A  DU/aOUS  BREAKFAST 


(Continued  fi 


Nlir  39) 


The  story  of  how  we  got  on  the  air, 
how  we  were  visiting  in  New  York  and 
Fred  heard  us  sing  and  offered  us  jobs, 
has  been  done  to  death  so  I  won't  go  into 
that  again.  We've  been  terribly  lucky  and 
we  realize  it ;  but  we've  had  to  work 
terribly  hard  to  stay  lucky  so  I  guess  that 
about  balances  things. 

Pat's  always  been  the  tomboy  of  the 
Lane  sisters.  She  never  wanted  to  stay 
on  the  ground  and  play  dolls.  Her  favor- 
ite haunts  were  roofs  and  trapezes  and 
trees — once  mother  found  her  fast  asleep 
in  the  top  of  a  tree,  resting  between  two 
boughs !  She  never  would  practise  her 
music  or  bring  her  arithmetic  book  home 
because  she  disliked  both  subjects  so 
violently.  And  she's  always  been  a  natural 
comedian,  getting  into  ludicrous  scrapes 
where  only  Pat  could  manage  to  entangle 
herself. 

When  we  first  started  with  the  Waring 
band  four  years  ago  we  were  about  as 
green  as  two  kids  from  the  country  could 
be.  The  Westernisms  in  our  speech — 
'waygon'  for  wagon  and  'ayshes'  for  ashes 
and  so  on —  had  to  be  got  out  of  us  by 
the  combined  efforts  of  our  dramatic  coach 
and  mother  and  ourselves.  It  was  harder 
for  Pat  than  for  me  because  she  hated 
our  elocution  lessons  back  home  and  I'd 
liked  them ;  poor  thing,  she'd  try  her  best 
to  stop  saying :  'Oh  gee',  'Oil  gosh',  'Boy 
oh  boy',  'Isn't  that  keen?'  and  all  the  other 
slang  expressions  we'd  used  at  school  and 
she'd  miss  every  time.  I'll  have  to  hand 
it  to  her,  she  worked  like  a  trouper  to 
perfect  the  clear  diction  she  has  now ;  con- 
sidering the  braces  put  on  our  teeth  just 
after  we  began  our  careers  (and  they've 
just  been  taken  off,  thank  heaven!)  it 
was  doubly  hard  to  enunciate  some  words, 
such  as  'inexcusable'  and  'sufficient',  as 
perfectly  as  you  must  enunciate  them  for 
good  radio  work. 

We  like  to  think  we  haven't  a  trace  of 
accent  left  now.  When  we  go  back  to 
Indianola  some  day  I  only  hope  the  folks 
don't  think  our  speech  is  affected;  it 
isn't  affected,  it's  necessary! 

Pat  was  the  most  thrilled  thing  with 
New  York  I've  ever  seen  and  she's  never 
lost  her  wonder  and  spontaneous  enjoy- 
ment in  everything  we  do  for  work  or  re- 
laxation. She  loves  to  be  alone  and  she 
loves  to  read.  Afternoons  when  we  aren't 
rehearsing  she  sits  around  the  apartment  in 
tailored  lounging  pajamas  and  flat-soled 
huaraches  and  plays  with  her  white  cat 
and  has  the  time  of  her  life  doing  noth- 
ing at  all.  But  when  we're  working,  she's 
much  more  of  a  demon  at  it  than  I ;  I 
usually  get  away  from  night  rehearsals 
about  twelve  but  Pat  works  with  the 
Noveleers  (they  do  the  lyrics  and  ar- 
rangements for  the  novelty  numbers)  who 
stay  on  after  the  others  have  gone,  often 
until  three  in  the  morning.  She  doesn't 
seem  to  mind  that  a  bit  except  that  when 
she  does  get  home  she's  so  keyed  up  it 
takes  an  hour  or  so  to  go  to  sleep. 

Consequently    her    hours    are  usually 


harder  on  her  than  mine  are  on  me.  We 
sleep  until  noon,  have  two  meals  a  day 
with  plenty  of  milk  in  bet\wen ;  we  re- 
hearse five  afternoons  and  nights  a  week, 
do  four  broadcasts  (two  of  them  repeats) 
and  there  isn't  a  minute  left !  It  may 
sound  like  a  stiff  routine  to  you.  but  add 
five  shows  a  day  seven  days  a  week  to 
that,  which  is  what  we  do  when  the  band's 
on  tour,  and  there  you  really  do  have  a 
stiff  routine! 

Pat's  a  scream  on  the  road.  She  loves 
to  eat  better  than  most  anything  and  on 
broadcast  days  none  of  us  have  time  to 
take  off  our  make-up  and  go  out  to  a 
restaurant.  Fred  has  a  caterer  come  in 
and  spread  a  table  backstage ;  you  sort 
of  eat  a  sandwich  between  nunilier^.  thr<i\v 
on  your  coat  and  dash.  All  dt  u>  exeept 
Pat  have  become  reconciled  to  'skinny' 
Tuesdays  and  Fridays,  but  she  mutters 
between  her  teeth  continuously  that  she 
doesn't  mind  working  herself  absolutely  to 
death  between  meals  but  when  the  time 
comes  to  eat,  people  ougiit  to  stop  and  eat! 

Of  course  we  don't  have  time  to  shop 
for  ourselves  or  attend  to  any  business 
or  anything,  but  luckily  mother  is  a  dar- 
ling and  a  gem  at  managing  that  side  of 
our  lives.  She  knows  so  exactly  our  dif- 
fering tastes  that  she  can  have  five  hats 
sent  home  on  approval  and  we'll  keep 
them  all ;  now  and  then  Lo  has  gowns 
sent  us  from  Hollywood  but  most  of  our 
things  come  from  the  New  York  shops. 
Pat  loves  simple  dresses,  tailored  suits, 
smart  saucy  little  hats  and  tons  of  active 
sportswear — bathing  suits  and  tennis 
frocks,  shorts,  pajamas  and  riding  clothes. 
She's  a  stickler  for  quality,  she  never 
wears  jewelry  and  seldom  perfumes. 
Sometimes  we  dress  alike  for  personal 
appearances  but  we  never  do  elsewhere. 
F)Oth  of  us  turn  over  all  our  financial 
affairs  to  mother;  we  get  an  allowance 
for  spending  money  and  stay  within  it. 

I  think  Pat  inherited  mother's  knack 
for  knowing  so  perfectly  how  to  please 
another  person's  tastes.  On  mother's 
birthday  we  couldn't  decide  what  to  give 
her,  we  thought  of  a  thousand  possibilities 
and  discarded  them  and  finally  Pat  sui^- 
gested  that  I  leave  it  entirely  to  her.  She 
went  over  on  Fifth  Avenue,  picked  out  a 
beautifully  simple  and  lovely  purse — and 
if  we'd  given  mother  a  car  or  a  fur  she 
wouldn't  have  loved  it  more.  She  was 
completely  delighted.  It  was  Pat's  idea 
last  year  that  we  give  mother  a  type- 
writer and  it  tickled  licr  pink — I  never 
would  have  thought  of  that. 

I'm  sure  she's  told  you  about  the  ranch 
where  we  spend  our  week-ends.  We  adore 
it.  Pat's  much  more  in  her  element  when 
she's  outdoors  roughing  it  than  I  am ;  she's 
a  champion  horse-shoe-pitcher  and  dive> 
with  the  most  facile  acrobatic  grace  I've 
ever  seen  in  an  amateur.  For  the  past  few 
Saturdays  we've  spent  a  lot  of  time 
planting  potatoes  out  there.  It's  exactly 
like  Pat  not  to  have  a  sore  muscle  to  show 
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wonderful  and  generous  for  Rosemary.  1 
did.  I  let  her  use  my  most  private  of 
private  possessions,  my  beloved  new  tennis 
racquet  with  blue  and  white  strings,  that  I 
would  sooner  die  than  let  somebody  else 
bang  balls  afound  with. 

If  the  comedy  lyrics  and  recitations  I 
use  on  the  Ford  programs  are  funny — 
they're  mostly  supposed  to  be  anyway — 
much  of  the  credit  goes  to  Rosemary.  I 
have  to  write  my  own  material  when  I 
use  words  that  are  different  or  variations 
on  the  regular  sheet  music  score ;  I  sit  in 
my  room  for  hours  and  hours  and  scribble 
reams  of  stuff,  then  I  try  it  out  on  Rose- 
mary at  the  dinner  table.  The  ones  she 
laughs  at  I  use  on  the  air,  the  others  I 
discard.  It's  hard  to  be  funny  on  order 
twice  a  week.  Sometimes  when  she  sits 
there  like  the  Greek  Stone  Face  and 
doesn't  get  a  grin  out  of  a  tableful  I  be- 
gin to  seriously  doubt  her  sense  of  humor ; 
but  she's  usually  right. 

For  an  inexcusable  tease  I  certainly 
pulled  a  good  sister  to  have  around  to 
practice  on.  She  doesn't  take  kidding  very 
well  until  she's  sure  it's  just  a  joke.  (The 
boys  in  the  band  call  her  'Raspberry'  some- 
times and  it  makes  her  furious.)  I  remem- 
ber how  I  teased  her  when  she  introduced 
Tiny  Little  Fingerprints  on  our  broadcasts. 
She  was  so  excited  about  it  because  it  was 
one  of  her  first  solos.  She  rehearsed  and 
rehearsed  for  the  big  event  and  the  minute 
it  was  finished  she  dashed  backstage  to  ask 
me  how  it  went  over. 

I  told  her  very  seriously  that  she  had 
entirely  overdone  the  sentimental  tiny- 
tiny-little-fingerprint  motif,  that  I  was 
afraid  she'd  dirty-hands-dirty-faced  her 
listeners  into  a  coast-to-coast  bawl.  She 
immediately  froze  up  like  somebody  had 
opened  the  ice-house  door  in  her  face  and 
was  very  sensitive  ab<iut  that  solo  till  I 
convinced  her  I'd  only  been  fooling. 

About  beaux  and  dates  and  romance 
(those  are  the  questions  interviewers  are 
always  asking  us)  Rosemary  would  kill 
me  if  I  told  any  more  than  the  actual 
truth — that  she  has  no  great  love  in  her 
life,  no  secret  shattered  affair  de  cociir, 
not  even  a  Current  Thrill.  She  just  likes 
nice  young  men,  hates  the  Broadway  brand 
of  night  club  but  loves  to  go  dancing  to 
good  music  at  gentce!  places.  The  two  of 
us  aren't  attracted  to  the  same  types  of 
boys,  which  is  a  distinct  blessing,  or  else 
we  might  be  getting  in  each  other's  hair  all 
the  time.  We  have  far  less  leisure  for 
dates  than  we'd  like:  wc  reliearse  with  the 
band  five  nights  a  week  until  after  mid- 
night and  by  that  time  a  night  club  doesn't 
seem  half  as  alluring  as  a  glass  of  warm 
milk  and  bed. 

Do  you  see  Rosemary  Lane  now  ?  That's 
about  all  I  can  say  of  her  except  for  these : 
that  lots  of  times  when  she's  made  a  date 
and  I  haven't,  or  her  date  has  a  car  and 
mine  hasn't,  she  insists  that  I  come  along 
and  make  it  a  threesome  or  a  foursome. 
She  even  lets  me  christen  her  new  hats 
(sometimes)  by  wearing  them  before  she 
has  a  chance  to.  She  even  loves  my  pre- 
cious white  cat  like  a  doting  auntie.  Now 
that's  what  I  call  being  a  sister! 


PRISCILLA 

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for  it  while  I — well  I'm  nursing  a  chronic 
distaste  right  now  for  all  potatoes,  au 
nature!  or  baked ! 

I  think  the  things  I  envy  her  most  are 
her  mikeside  manner  and  her  hair  and  her 
big  serious  blue  eyes.  Pat  has  a  wonder- 
ful mikeside  manner.  It's  so  contagious. 
She  has  so  much  pep  and  so  little  self- 
consciousness  and  she  seems  to  be  having 
such  a  grand  time  working  that  everybody 
who  watches  her  has  a  grand  time,  too. 

Her  hair  is  always  commented  upon  by 
every  hairdresser  we  go  to ;  it's  a  soft 
pale  blonde  that's  more  silvery  or  ashen 
than  yellow  and  that's  its  own  natural 
color.  Under  stage  lighting  it  looks  almost 
exactly  like  milkweed — and  to  one  who's 
always  wanted  to  be  a  pure  blonde  but 
got  brown  hair  and  gray-green  eyes  in- 
stead, that's  cause  for  outright  jealousy. 

I  really  don't  know  what  I'd  do  without 
Pat  at  program  rehearsals.  Every  time  I 
sing  a  number  she  sits  in  the  control- 
toom,  makes  notes  on  my  diction  and  the 
spots  where  I  blast  and  emerges  with  lots 
of  suggestions  for  improvement.  She's  a 
strict  critic,  too.  If  she  says  a  song's  O.K. 
I  know  it's  not  as  good  as  I  ought  to  be 
making  it.  Pat  has  to  say  'Perfect,  Rose- 
mary!' then  I'm  satisfied  with  myself. 

It  pleases  both  of  us  that  we're  sisters 
who  are  inseparable  without  taking  it  too 
far.  I've  often  known  brothers,  or  sisters 
and  brothers,  who  were  inseparable  to  the 
extent  that  they  were  completely  depend- 
ent on  each  other  for  work  and  play  alike ; 
and  that,  I  believe,  is  not  a  happy  thing. 
If  Pat  wants  to  go  somewhere  or  do 
something  I  don't  want  to  do,  we  never 
coax  each  other.  We  had  entirely  differ- 
ent 'crowds'  at  school  and  now  we  have 
a  great  many  mutual  friends  but  we  also 
have  separate  friends,  too.  I  like  that.  I 
think  it  promotes  growth  of  the  individual. 
If  the  two  of  us  were  separated  tomorrow 
we'd  miss  each  other  terribly  but  we 
wouldn't  be  totally  lost. 

We  sometimes  date  together  but  not  as 
a  usual  thing.  Pat's  beaued  around  a  lot 
and  loves  the  companionship  of  boys,  but  I 
don't  believe  serious  romance  has  ever 
entered  her  head.  "I  guess  I'm  too  hard 
to  please,"  she  often  says,  but  secretly  I 
don't  think  that's  actually  true.  I  think 
when  the  right  man  comes  along,  I'll  see 
Pat  totally,  hopelessly  head  over  heels! 

Incidentally,  she's  the  dyed-in-the-wool 
jokester  of  the  family.  Because  our 
voices  are  almost  identical  over  the  tele- 
phone, she's  always  saying  she's  Rosemary 
and  playing  pranks.  Once  a  boy  called, 
thought  he  was  talking  to  me,  and  made 
a  date.  Pat  forgot  (?)  to  tell  me  what 
she'd  done  and  when  he  came  I  had  an- 
other date  in  the  livingroom.  It  was  aw- 
fully embarrassing  but  too  funny  to  get 
upset  over.  I  paid  Pat  back.  The  next 
week  I  completely  overlooked  ( ?)  giving 
her  a  long-looked-for  special  delivery 
letter  until  several  hours  after  it  arrived. 
But  of  course  my  stunt  didn't  reform  her. 
She's  an  incurable. 

That's  Pat.  My  be.st  friend,  confidante 
and  severest  critic — all  of  which  is  terribly 
nice  to  have  right  in  the  family. 


RADIO  STARS 


A  DATE  WITH 
RUDY  VALLEE 

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comers  present,  he  shows  off  his  dogs. 

"What  do  you  think  of  my  singing?" 
he  asks  the  largest  Doberman-Pincher. 

And  that  worthy  places  a  paw  to  his 
nose. 

At  dinner  \'allee  does  not  sit  at  the 
head  of  his  table.  He  sits  to  the  right  of 
the  head,  on  his  right  the  current  little  girl, 
and  at  the  head,  the  honored  guest  whom 
he  asks  to  preside. 

There  is  wine  at  dinner  and  this  he 
drinks.  The  dishes,  napery,  silver,  glass- 
ware are  a  delight  to  the  eyes,  and  the 
food  is  beautifully  served.  It  is  simple  fare 
— cream  soups,  several  fresh  vegetables, 
meats  like  individual  steaks,  desserts  like 
floating  island.  There  are  side  dishes  of 
salted  nuts  which  Rudy  relishes,  for  he  in- 
variably manages  to  do  away  with  his 
neighbor's  as  well  as  his  own.  And  every- 
time  I've  been  there  they  served  creamed 
corn,  so  I  gather  that  particular  vegetable 
must  be  his  favorite.  Often  there  is  an 
extra  homelike  touch  to  the  meal,  such  as 
the  evening  we  had  Boston  brown  bread, 
freshly  baked  by  Rudy's  sister  and  sent  to 
him  parcel  post. 

After  dinner  the  entertainment  varies. 
If  you  are  lucky,  it  is  an  evening  when 
Vallee  feels  like  singing.  Then  the  guests 
gather  in  the  den  and  with  his  accompan- 
ist, Elliot  Benjamin  at  the  piano,  Vallee 
sings  song  after  song  for  the  sheer 
pleasure  of  it.  Or,  with  Ralph  as  camera- 
man, he  shows  movies  in  the  living-room. 
He  owns  one  of  the  finest  private  film 
collections  in  this  country  and  is  justly 
proud  of  having  directed  most  of  them. 

I  remember  sitting  on  a  comfortable 
sofa  and  watching  natural  color  motion 
picture  views  of  Vallee's  home  in  Maine, 
with  its  great  lodges,  large  enough  to 
accommodate  fifty  guests.  In  fact,  over 
some  week-ends,  he  has  been  known  to 
take  up  all  the  members  of  his  orchestr.i, 
with  their  wives. 

The  pictures  are  a  vivid  record  of  his 
days.  And  I  study  them  as  they  go  by, 
now  fast,  now  slow,  with  Ralph  turned  into 
a  home  edition  of  Graham  McXamee  as 
he  proudly  explains  each  shot. 

"There's  the  house  Rudy  was  born  in ! 
There's  his  father's  pharmacy  .  .  ." 

So  passes  a  dinner  date  with  Rudy 
Vallee.  And  at  the  end  of  the  evening, 
when  it  is  time  to  go,  his  car  drives  you 
to  your  door. 

Although  he  lives  in  the  center  of  Mew 
York  City,  with  its  millions  of  hectic  lives, 
there  is  a  peaceful  something  about  that 
home  of  his  and  while  they  are  with  him 
his  guests  sense  that  peace.  For  Rudy 
Vallee  has  learned  the  art  of  simplicity; 
he  practices  it  in  his  living  as  well  as  in  his 
songs.  Thus,  he  never  is  lacking  friends, 
his  table  is  a  gay,  cheerful  board,  and  he, 
himself,  a  far,  far  cry  from  the  young 
Vallee  of  only  a  few  years  ago  who  sat 
in  a  tiny  hotel  room  alone  and  disconsolate 
because  a  Follies  girl  had  given  him  a 
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the  Intelligentsia  (hoiv  docs  anyone  dare?) 
affect  to  look  down  upon  the  screen,  the  air. 
Nonsense!  If  I  could  genuinely  entertain 
one  hundred  million  people  by  any  means 
whatsoever,  novels,  pictures,  radio,  I  could 
bear  to  endure  the  criticism  of  a  few  book- 
ish people. 

"It  is  always  'the  thing'  to  deride  any- 
thing popular,  to  believe  that  if  a  book  or 
a  play  is  best-selling  it  msut  needs  be  of 
inferior  calibre.  Because  the  millions  enjoy 
the  radio  and  the  movies  the  Few  feel 
called  upon  to  disdain  them,  or  to  say  so. 

"I  don't  believe  it.  I  know  that  I  have 
always  found  myself  liking  enormously 
anything  or  anyone  held  in  popular  esteem. 
I  enjoy  Jack  Benny  on  the  air.  I  like  his 
style,  his  way  of  doing  things.  I  like  Amos 
and  Andy,  Ed  Wynn,  Greta  Garbo,  jazz 
music,  modern  novels,  Clark  Gable — I  en- 
joy them,  each  and  everyone." 

"Does  radio  menace  the  novel  ?"  I  asked. 

I  knew,  of  course,  that  Mr.  Hughes  is 
Master  of  Ceremonies  on  the  Camel  Car- 
avan Program,  coming  out  of  Hollywood 
over  CBS.  I  knew  that  he  is  lending  his 
potent  pen  to  the  adapting  of  the  stories 
and  plays  given  over  the  Camel  hour.  I 
knew,  too,  that  he  was  adapting  a  Life  of 
Washington  for  the  screen. 

I  had  frequently  seen  Mr.  Hughes  at 
previews,  premieres,  lunching  with  Mrs. 
Hughes  and  picture  celebrities  at  the 
Broim  Derby,  the  Vcndome,  the  Troca- 
dcro  and  other  favorites  haunts  of  Holly- 
wood. I  had  heard  him  over  the  air  in  the 
frc-Camcl  Caravan  days. 

And  yet,  in  spite  of  all  this  trafficking 
with  radio  and  movies  I  had  felt  sure  that 
this  book-loving,  book-writing  man  would 
confess  that  he  deplores  the  new,  sighs  for 
the  old  days  when  literature  offered  almost 
the  only  "escape"  for  the  "prisoners  of 
Life,"  when  movies  and  radio  were  not. 

I  was  completely  mistaken. 

Rupert  Hughes,  as  you  have  guessed,  is 
one  hundred  per  cent,  for  contemporary 
days  and  ways.  He  is  enthusiastically  for 
radio  and  movies  and  jazz,  music  and  best- 
selling  novels.  He  is  in  the  rooter's  stand 
for  all  things  and  all  persons  who  enter- 
tain the  millions.  He  believes  that  the  en- 
lightenment of  the  many  is  worth  infinitelj' 
more  than  the  precious  knowledge  of  a 
few  who  have  "read  a  book"  and  little  else. 

He  considers  it  far  more  valuable  to 
know  what  Mussolini  is  doing  now  than 
to  read  what  Imperial  Caesar  did  several 
hundred  years  ago. 

And  so  Mr.  Hughes  threw  back  his  head 
and  laughed  when  I  asked,  "Does  radio 
menace  the  novel?" 

"Evcrylhiug  menaces  the  novel,"  he 
said,  "and  always  has.  First  it  was  the 
theatre.  The  theatre,  it  was  said,  would 
be  'the  death  of  the  novel,'  an  end  to  fire- 
side reading.  For  people  would  get  their 
fiction  across  the  footlights.  But  .still  the 
publishers  kept  on  publishing  books  and 
not  for  love  alone,  you  may  be  sure.  Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin,  David  Harum,  the  first 
novels  of  Robert  W.  Chambers,  the  novels 
of  Harold  Bell  Wright  were  sold  by  the 
hundreds     of    thousands.     Harold  Bell 


Wright  books  sold  as  many  as  a  million 
copies  per  novel — a  gigantic  sale  for  any 
book.  Of  the  some  one  hundred  and  twenty 
million  people  in  the  country  one  million 
were  reading  his  novels.  The  other  hun- 
dred and  ninteen  million  didn't.  So  even 
such  success  as  his  was  small  compared  to 
the  far-reaching  success  of  the  radio. 

"Still,  the  novel  survived,  rather  lustily, 
the  menace  of  the  theatre.  Then  came  the 
bicycle.  And  that,  too,  was  said  to  be  a 
menace  to  the  novel  and  the  theatre.  People, 
it  was  solemnly  declared,  would  spend  their 
days  and  evenings  riding  in  the  open  air. 
They  would  neither  stay  at  home  and 
read  nor  would  they  foregather  in  stuffy 
theatres.  And  the  publishers  kept  right  on 
publishing — presumably  at  a  profit ! 

"The  phonograph,  the  automobile,  each 
new  device,  each  new  form  of  entertain- 
ment has  been  hailed  as  the  death  knell  of 
the  novel, 

"Then  came  the  movies — and  they 
'menaced'  the  theatre  and  the  novel.  The 
novel  keeps  right  on  being  written  and 
published  and  the  theatre  seems  to  be  re- 
viving healthily. 

"Radio  came  along  and  menaced  the 
movies,  the  theatre  and  the  novel.  And 
now,  we  are  told,  television  will  soon 
menace  all  four,  the  novel,  the  theatre, 
the  movies  and  the  radio, 

"Everything  menaces  everything  else," 
smiled  Rupert  Hughes  "and  nothing  is, 
actually,  a  menace  to  anything  else,  for 
one  thing  feeds  the  other. 

"True,  people  will  sit  comfortably  in 
their  arm-chairs  listening  to  their  radio .. 
But  over  their  radios  zvill  come  mention  O/ 
'a'orth  while  old  books  or  equally  worth 
ivhile  neic  ones  .  .  .  books  of  which  the 
average  person  might  never  have  hear.: 
and  would  almost  certainly  never  ha\e 
bought  if  he  had  not  been  listening  in.  B.-i 
he  does  listen  in  and  he  hears  someone  hr 
admires  recommending  some  certain  boo.: 
and  he  goes  forth  and  buys  that  book  and 
reads  it. 

"Far  from  menacing  the  novel  the  radio 
is  the  best  salesman,  the  most  skilled  log 
roller,  the  greatest  inciter  to  the  reading 
of  novels  that  the  novel  ever  has  had. 

"There  are  any  number  of  people  who 
would  never  hear  of  certain  novels  and 
plays  unless  they  heard  them  discussed 
over  the  air.  To  radio  and  to  radio  alone 
do  I  attribute  the  fact  that,  today,  you  can 
observe  any  number  of  young  girls  going 
about  with  copies  of  The  Story  Of  Plv- 
hsol^hy  or  Santayana's  new  novel  tucked 
under  their  arms.  Girls  who  would  not, 
one  knows,  be  liable  to  read  book  reviews. 
Girls  who  do  listen  to  radio. 

"People  are  reading  more,  not  less,  be- 
cause of  the  radio.  They  hear  about  books 
on  the  air,  you  see. 

"I  have  gone,  on  more  than  one  occasion, 
to  a  movie  adapted  from  a  novel  or  a  play 
and  have  become  sufficiently  interested  in 
the  story  or  in  the  characters  to  go  out 
and  buy  that  book  or  that  play  and  read  it. 

"I  also  have  heard  excerpts  from  plays, 
readings  from  books  given  over  the  air, 
and  have  got  the  same  reaction — sufficient 


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interest  stimulated  by  the  brief  reading  to 
buy  the  book  or  the  play  and  to  read  it  in 
full.  And  I  am  not  alone  in  this. 

"The  radio  makes  persons  book-conscious 
who  have  never  been  book-conscious  be- 
fore. The  movies,  in  a  less  direct  way,  do 
very  mucii  tiie  same. 

"There  are  some  poor  things  on  the  air, 
some  bad  things  in  movies,  of  course.  How 
could  it  be  otherwise?  But  if  I  do  not  like 
a  thing,  a  book,  a  play,  a  personality,  I  do 
not  take  this  dislike  unto  myself  as  a  mark 
of  distinction,  an  evidence  of  my  personal 
superiority.  I  am  not  proud  of  myself.  I 
am  ashamed  of  myself.  The  worst  book 
ever  written  should  interest  us  enormously 
— because  of  the  heartache,  the  labor,  the 
effort  to  which  the  author  must  have  gone 
when  he  tried  to  get  what  he  wanted  to 
say  onto  paper. 

"Those  of  us  who  are  bookishly  inclined 
will  continue  to  be  so  inclined.  And  those 
of  us  who  are  not  bookishly  inclined  will 
be  informed,  enlightened,  stimulated,  in 
touch  with  the  world  as  never  before  in 
the  history  of  the  world.  Thanks  to  radio 
and  movies. 

"It  is  far  more  important,  far  more  val- 
uable to  listen  to  King  Edward  the  Eighth 
on  the  air  than  it  is  to  read  about  King 
Henry  the  Eighth  in  text  books.  Radio 
and  pictures  may  take  liberties  with  his- 
tory and  with  historical  characters,  but 
literature  also  takes  liberties. 

"Modes  of  living  have  improved.  Per- 
sons who  never  leave  their  farmhouse 
kitchens  or  their  small  towns  move  at  ease 
in  the  homes  of  luxury,  in  the  palaces  of 
Kings.  We  can  see  and  hear  now,  all  of 
us,  how  'the  other  half  lives. 

"I,"  smiled  Mr.  Hughes,  "without  need- 


ing to  leave  Hollywood,  I  have  been  pre- 
sented at  the  Court  of  St.  James  and  at 
most  of  the  remaining  courts  of  Europe. 
1  have  come  to  know  Stalin  in  many  of  his 
moods,  conferring  with  officials  of  the 
U.S.S.R.,  presenting  gifts  to  little  chil- 
dren. I  have  rubbed  eltx)ws  with  Musso- 
lini, on  the  parade  ground,  in  the  bosom  of 
his  family.  T  have  seen  Hitler  and  I  have 
heard  him.  And  I  have  a  fairly  thorough, 
fairly  comprehensive  knowledge  of  such 
men,  such  history-makers  as  these,  their 
manners,  their  qualities,  their  character- 
istics. Think  what  this  would  have  done 
for  me  when  I  wrote  the  Washington  bi- 
ography—if there  had  been  movies  in  those 
days,  or  electrical  transcriptions ! 

"Morals  have  improved — or,  rather,  the 
fastidiousness  of  morals.  Time  was  when 
the  loutish  farm  boy  wrestled  with  his  girl 
on  the  hay-mow.  Ko  more.  For  she  and 
he  have  seen  Robert  Taylor  sweep  Barbara 
Stanwyck  into  his  arms  and  that  vision 
awakens  in  them  a  distaste,  a  nostalgia 
for  something  finer  and  more  flavorous 
than  they  have  ever  known.  Or  they  have 
heard  the  gentle  voice  of  Helen  Hayes 
come  over  the  air,  speaking  words  of  love 
with  such  a  tenderness  as  makes  them  for- 
ever ashamed  of  their  rough  terms  of  en- 
dearment." 

I  said,  then :  "But,  Mr.  Hughes,  while  all 
of  this  is  true,  isn't  it  also  true  that  the 
movies  and  the  radio  make  for  a  super- 
ficiality of  knowledge,  a  smattering  of  this 
and  that,  a  little  of  everything  and  not 
much  of  any  one  thing?" 

"A  smattering,"  said  Mr.  Hughes,  with 
his  wise  and  kindly  smile,-  with  a  twinkle 
in  his  eyes,  "a  smattering  is  all  that  any 
of  us  ever  acquire.  The  scholar  kiiows  how 


little  he  knows.  The  layman  can  only 
deceive  himself.  I  read  exhaustively 
in  writing  the  Washington  biography.  1 
should  know  more  about  W  ashington  than 
any  man  alive.  And  yet  seldom  a  week 
and  never  a  month  goes  by  that  some  chili] 
of  nine  or  so  doesn't  ask  me  a  question  I 
can't  answer ! 

"One  of  my  gotxl  friends  is  a  scientist 
who  has  devoted  fifteen  years  of  his  life  to 
the  study  of  the  lobster,  to  one  particular 
species  of  lobster  in  one  particular  place. 
One  time  I  remarked  to  him  that  it  must  be 
marvellously  satisfying  to  know  everything 
there  is  to  know  about  any  one  subject  or 
thing,  .-^nd  my  friend  looked  at  me  m 
pitying  contempt  and  remarked  that  he  had 
studied  one  little  lobster  that  grows  at 
\\'ood's  Hole  and  nowhere  else.  For  fifteen 
years  he  had  studied  it  and  knew  only  a 
very  little  about  it.  For  one  man  to  know  all 
about  lobsters  was,  he  said,  inconceivable! 

"And  so,"  said  Mr.  Hughes,  "we  can 
never  know  all  about  the  lobster.  We  can 
never  begin  to  read  all  the  books  there  are 
tJ  read.  A  very  famous  and  learned  as- 
tronomer told  me  recently  that  each  new 
telescope  he  builds  serves  only  to  show  him 
the  things  he  cannot  know.  However  deeply 
we  may  delve  we  never  can  reach  China. 

"But  we  can,  thanks  to  radio  and 
movies,  we  can  keep  pace  with  the  Present. 
We  can  know  something  of  music  and 
science  and  literature  and  art — we  can  have 
a  sensible  'smattering'  of  biology,  eco- 
nomics, industrial  conditions,  history  in 
the  making.  We  can  speak  with  many 
tongues  and  know  many  men  and  matter* 
if,"  smiled  Mr.  Hughes,  "if  we  do  not  look 
down  our  noses  at  'popular'  entertainment,  if 
we  do  not  kill  Socrates  in  every  generation !" 


SK//vrs  SO 

TOlVDEi^ 
"OtTCHES" 


For  a  smooth,  lasting 
make-up  .  .  .  First  melt 
away  roughness 

ALL  READY  to  go  out  .  .  .  then  you  start  to 
powder.  But,  somehow,  vour  powder 
just  won't  go  on  smoothly.  It  ''catches"  on 
every  tiny  roughness  on  yoiu-  skin. 

Do  you  know,  you  can  smooth  off  tlio.se 
roughnesses  —  in  an  instant  —  by  simply 
Melting  them! 

Those  "powder  catchers"  are  really  dried- 
out  cells  on  top  of  your  skin  .  .  .  old,  dea<l 
ones.  As  your  skin  keeps  drying  out,  they 
flake  off  part  way.  And  there  they  clin-;. 
loose  and  harsh  .  .  . 

But  one  application  of  a  keratolytic  cream 
(Vanishing  Cream)  melts  them  right  awas 
—  and  out  comes  your  true,  smooth  skin! 

A  prominent  dermatologist  explains:  "  The 
instant    a    keratolytic   cream  (V'anislung 


Mrs. 

hol,h 

Cream)  touches  dried-out  cells  on  surface 
skin,  these  cells  melt  away.  New  cells  come 
into  view,  that  give  the  skin  a  smooth, 
fresh  appearance. 

"Moreover,"  he  ad<ls.  "Vanishing  Creani. 
r.-L'uhirlv  applie.l.  li.lps  to  keep  the  skin 

Outer  Skin 


THAT/NA 
SECOA/Pf 


in  a  constantlx  -ofic  n.-.l  (  imiliiioii.' 

.Now  you  know  \\\\\  I'oiid's  Vanishing 
Cream  is  an  in.'-lant  skin  softener,  a  marvel- 
ous powder  base. 

For  a  smooth  make-up— After  cleansing, 
put  on  a  film  of  Pond's  \'anishing  Creani. 
It  gi>es  a  line-texture  look,  a  wonderful 
smootluu-ss.  Powder  and  roiif;e  go  on  evenly. 
Nil  need  to  make  up  a;;aiii  for  iiours! 

Overnight  for  lasting  softness— To  keep 
>  our  skin  softeneil  at  all  times,  apply  P«>nd*s 
Vanishing  Cream  every  ni"ht  after  cleans- 
ing. It  won't  smear  the  pillowcase.  As  you 
sleep,  your  skin  gets  softer  by  the  minute! 

Eugene  UuPo.vr  lll:  "Pond's  I  finishing  Cream 
powder,  too — keeps  my  make-up  fresh." 


8-Piece 


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(TcnrroiiH  Miniplrii  of  2  other  Pond*i* 
Cri'.iiiii-  ^iiiil  '>  ilifTrrcnt  nhaileii  of  Pond'n  h'arr  Powdrr. 
I  I'lu'lom-  lOr  for  iKMlagc  and  packinit. 


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on  its  radio  page.  Publisher  Hearst  and 
the  anti-communists  denounce  it  as  com- 
munist. The  communists  themselves  pro- 
claim it  to  be  fascist.  Germany  says  it's 
pro-Jew  and  the  Jews  say  it's  pro-Ger- 
man. 

So  it  goes.  In  its  duration  the  broad- 
casts have  enraged  practically  every  coun- 
try in  the  world,  scores  of  large  organized 
grou]is,  innumerable  famous  and  unknown 
individuals. 

Because  it  tells  the  truth  regardless  of 
whom  the  truth  ofifends.  It  has  no  ta- 
boos, it  takes  no  sides,  it  is  under  no  politi- 
cal banner,  it  neither  exaggerates  nor  un- 
derestimates, it  is  devoid  of  propaganda. 
It  dramatizes  accurately  and  quotes  ver- 
batim the  happenings  and  utterances  that 
make  news — let  the  chips  fall  where  they 
may. 

Of  course  they  do  fall,  tons  of  them! 
That's  what  this  story  is  about,  the  amus- 
ing and  amazing  scrapes  the  March  Of 
Time  has  got  into,  the  unprecedented 
pranks  it  has  played  that  no  other  pro- 
gram would  ever  dare  to.  For  treading 
on  the  toes  of  everything  from  persons 
to  powers  it's  radio's  Number  One  Rebel 
Child.  It  just  doesn't  go  around  spreading 
universal  good  will,  the  way  broadcasting 
in  its  purest  form  is  supposed  to  do. 

Most  of  the  chips  fall  on  the  capable 
broad  shoulders  of  Mr.  William  Geer,  who 
holds  the  responsible  position  of  Editor  of 
March  Of  Time  programs.  The  minor 
arguments  that  arise  from  not-too-impor- 
tant persons  or  countries  are  handled  by 
what  the  program's  creators  have  jocular- 
ly nicknamed  the  'Molasses  Department' 
—a  regularly  maintained  group  of  diplo- 
mats who  are  suave  at  smoothing  out 
things,  sort  of  professional  trouble-shoot- 
ers. But  when  some  really  iinportant  ire 
is  aroused,  it's  Mr.  Geer  who  goes  to  lunch 
with  the  Minister  froin  Norway  or  the 
leader  of  the  Socialist  party  or  whoever 
is  currently  incensed,  to  restore  amicable 
feeling  if  possible,  since  Geer  is  the  sole 
dictator  of  what  news  shall  or  shall  not 
be  re-enacted  on  the  broadcasts. 

Necessarily,  in  order  to  maintain  the 
honest  impartiality  listeners  know  they  re- 
ceive from  Time's  presentations,  the  pro- 
gram's editor  must  be  a  man  without  fear. 
He  will  put  on  the  air  a  skit  (called  'act' 
in  the  terminology  of  radio)  which  he 
knows  full  well  will  bring  an  avalanche  of 
lambasting  letters  and  voiced  protest.  But 
it  must  go  on  exactly  as  it  happened  be- 
cause it  did  happen  and  it's  news. 

Perhaps  you've  already  read,  if  this  is 
one  of  your  favorite  programs,  how  it  is 
prepared  for  the  air.  But  for  those  who 
haven't  the  rest  of  our  story  will  be  more 
enjoyable  if  we  briefly  explain  the  behind- 
the-scenes  angle. 

On  the  fifteenth  floor  of  the  Columbia 
Broadcasting  System  Building  the  March 
Of  Time  office  is  situated.  As  a  news 
source  it  has  the  galley  proofs  and  printed 
pages  of  Time  Magazine  and  the  services 
of  the  United  Press.  At  noon  each  broad- 
cast day  Mr.  Geer  selects  the  dozen  news 
items  of  the  past  thirteen  hours  that  he 
considers  of  the  greatest  significance,  puts 


his  staff  of  trained  writers  to  work  on 
them.  By  five  o'clock  the  acts  are  ready 
and  the  dramatic  stafT  of  the  program  is 
going  through  its  preliminary  readings  in 
the  studio.  Howard  Barlow  is  conducting 
his  orchestra  in  the  music  they  will  play 
between  acts.  The  two  directors,  Homer 
Fickett  and  William  Spier,  have  arrived. 

Time's  actors  are  a  versatile  group  with 
an  incredible  range  of  voices,  dialects  and 
characterizations.  They  work  on  salaries 
of  $150  a  week  and  within  the  group  there 
is  sufficient  talent  and  ability  to  produce 
an  almost  perfect  imitation  of  any  needed 
human  voice  from  a  president's  to  a  movie 
star's,  or  a  nameless  tot's.  They  rehearse, 
attended  by  direction  and  an  expert  sound- 
effects  department,  straight  through  until 
dress  rehearsal  at  ten  o'clock.  Frequently 
late  news  flashes  of  great  importance  are 
hastily  written  and  put  in  at  the  last  mo- 
ment, discarding  some  long-worked-over 
act. 

There  never  is  a  moment  of  let-up.  Some 
sixty  people  work  a  total  of  four  hun- 
dred hours  to  prepare  the  broadcast  for 
its  airing — four  hundred  hours  five  times 
a  week.  Production  cost  alone  for  each 
program  mounts  into  thousands  of  dollars. 
Nerves  are  on  edge,  fatigue  is  apparent. 
When  the  studio  clock  reaches  twenty  sec- 
onds past  10:30  E.D.S.T.,  a  great  tremor 
of  excitement  sweeps  through  the  studio. 
Time  Marches  On.   The  news  liz'cs! 

And  partisan  listeners  can  be  pleased  or 
not. 

As  an  instance,  take  the  incident  that 
occurred  some  time  ago  when  the  pro- 
gram was  being  sponsored  by  Remington- 
Rand.  Mr.  Rand,  president  of  the  com- 
pany, had  appeared  before  the  House  of 
Representatives  Committee  in  Washington 
to  read  a  letter  received  by  him  from  one 
Dr.  William  Wirt,  a  school  teacher,  who 
accused  certain  New  Dealers  of  being  com- 
munists and  stirring  up  a  revolution  be- 
hind the  scenes,  using  Roosevelt  as  a  step- 
ping stone.  The  story  blazed  on  the  front 
pages  of  newspapers  everywhere  for  days. 
Finally  Dr.  Wirt  was  called  to  Washing- 
ton, his  accusations  were  disproved  and 
it  was  found  that  he  had  been  kidded  along 
by  the  people  who  were  the  source  of  his 
information.  Then  of  course  Mr.  Rand, 
who  had  thought  he  had  something  im- 
portant to  disclose  to  the  authorities,  was 
made  to  look  rather  ridiculous  in  the  eyes 
of  the  nation. 

Now  his  own  program  could  have  done 
something  about  that.  They  could  have 
smoothed  it  over,  they  could  have  omitted 
it  from  the  air  altogether.  But  they  didn't. 
They  dramatized  the  incident,  had  one  of 
their  actors  give  a  perfect  imitation  of 
Mr.  Rand's  voice,  and  millions  of  listeners 
leaned  back  in  their  arinchairs  and  chuckled 
at  the  txpcwriter  magnate's  fizzle.  Yet  Mr. 
Rand  made  no  protest.  What  he  had  done 
had  made  news  and  the  March  Of  Time 
had  presented  that  news  accurately— as  was 
its  right  and  agreetnent. 

A  more  amusing  sample  of  Time's  fear- 
lessness and  fast  last-minute  work  occurred 
very  recently  in  connection  with  Mr.  Earl 
Browder,  outstanding  United  States  com- 


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THIS  VALUE  HAS 
IN  TRAVEL 


Robert  L  (Believe-lt-Or-Not)  Ripley  is 
seeking  more  wonders. 


munist.  The  Columbia  Broadcasting  Sys- 
tem in  accordance  witli  its  policy  of  allow- 
ing all  political  parties  to  have  an  equal 
say  over  its  network,  and  having  already 
given  air  time  to  the  Democratic,  Repub- 
lican and  Socialist  leaders,  announced  that 
it  was  I'^rmitting  Mr.  Browder,  Commun- 
ist ca:xl  date  ior  the  presidency,  to  speak 
over  CBS  stations  at  10:45  E.D.S.T.  on  a 
certain  evening.  That  announcement  stirred 
up  a  hot-bed  of  furor.  Hearst  blasted  CBS 
for  its  move.  The  subject  was  brought  up 
on  the  floor  of  Congress  and  much  angry 
feeling  was  let  loose.  Groups  and  indi- 
viduals all  over  the  country  were  raging. 
And  the  total  fury  came  to  a  head  on  the 
day  of  the  broadcast  when  news  was  re- 
ceived that  anti-communists  were  going 
to  picket  the  network's  building. 

True  enough  at  mid-afternoon  there 
they  were  in  front  of  485  Madison  Ave- 
nue, hundreds  of  picketers  carrying  their 
Get  Browder  placards  and  banners.  They 
made  known  their  intentions  to  keep  the 
communist  leader,  by  physical  force,  from 
going  into  the  broadcasting  building.  The 
newspapers  got  the  story  and  a  nation  sat 
down  after  supper  and  read  all  about  it. 
Was  Browder  going  to  broadcast  or  g.-t 
beaten  up?    And  how  would  it  all  happen? 

To  the  March  Of  Time,  then  rehearsing 
in  the  building,  here  was  news  happening 
at  its  own  doorstep.  Here  was  a  chance 
to  scoop  all  the  papers  everywhere,  to 
give  its  listeners  something  novel  in  the 
way  of  a  thrill.  In  case  there  should  be 
a  fight  downstairs  on  the  sidewalk,  they 
had  witnesses  and  writers  stationed  out- 
side to  get  material  for  the  prompt  re- 
enactment  of  that  fight  on  the  broadcast 
at  10:30.  If  there  should  not  be  a  fight, 
they  were  prepared  to  reenact  the  events 
leading  up  to  the  picketing — prepared,  that 
is,  except  for  an  imitation  of  Browdcr's 
voice;  no  one  on  the  program  had  ever 
heard  him  talk. 

Fortunately  CBS  tipped  off  Time's  di- 
rectors, a  few  hours  before  the  program 
deadline,  that  they  had  stationed  the  com- 
munist leader  at  one  of  their  playhouses 
in  the  mid- Forties,  only  a  stone's  throw 
from  the  network  building,  and  that  his 
speech  would  originate  there  instead  of 
at  the  Madison  Avenue  studios.  In  great 
secrecy  they  even  piped  Browder's  speech 
rehearsal  into  a  small  studio  at  CBS  head- 
quarters, giving  the  Time  acttjrs  a  chance 


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to  study  his  voice.  Everything  was  all  set 
for  a  surprise,  but  no  one  knew  it  outside 
the  closed  doors  of  the  March  of  Time  re- 
hearsal. 

At  10:30  the  picketers  had  reached  such 
a  stage  of  agitation  the  CBS  officials  were 
afraid  some  mob  violence  might  break  out, 
so  they  invited  them  to  take  elevators  up 
into  one  of  the  large  reception-rooms,  sit 
down  comfortably  and  wait.  For  their 
entertainment  a  loudspeaker  in  the  room 
was  tuned  to  the  March  Of  Time.  They 
sat  there  listening,  waiting  for  Browder, 
and  did  not  notice  in  their  excitement  that 
at  10:41  a  musical  record  cut  into  the 
Time  broadcast  for  two  minutes  or  so, 
theii  the  program  signed  of¥  as  usual.  But 
during  that  two  minutes  Time  had  drama- 
tized for  a  nation  the  scene  of  the  angry 
picketers  sitting  impatiently  in  the  recep- 
tion-room, waiting  for  their  prey  unmindful 
that  he  was  stationed  at  another  studio 
several  blocks  away  and  that  he  would 
be  on  the  air  as  formerly  announced  a  few 
seconds  after  the  present  broadcast  signed 
oflf. 

Again  a  nation  sat  back  and  chuckled. 
Millions  of  people  knew  where  Browder 
was — except  the  few  who  wanted  to  find 
him!  Millions  heard  his  talk,  while  his 
enemies  were  hearing  a  blues  singer.  It 
was  not  until  the  next  morning  that  the 
picketers  read  in  their  papers  how  they 
had  been  fooled.  Of  course  they  vented 
their  chagrin  and  anger.  But  what  they 
had  attempted  was  news — and  as  such  it 
was  accurately  presented  by  the  March  Of 
Time.  It  would  have  been  presented  so, 
regardless  of  what  party  the  picketers  rep- 
resented. 

Of  course  the  March  Of  Time  is  not 
infallible.  Every  precaution  is  taken  for 
perfect  accuracy,  research  people  are  kept 
busy  from  morning  till  night,  the  United 
Press  wires  are  used  constantly  to  check 
back  on  everything  taken  from  them  for 
dramatization.  But  occasionally  a  small 
mistake  will  leak  through  and  when  that 
occurs  Time  does  as  any  decent  news- 
dispenser  would  do,  and  makes  a  correc- 
tion. An  example  of  this  happened  a  few 
months  back  when  the  program  referred 
to  Kansas  City's  police  chief  as  an  "ex- 
jailbird."  A  libel  suit  was  immediately 
slapped  on  them  and  tliey  discovered  that 
the  "ex-jailbird"  police  chief  had  resigned 
three  days  before  and  his  successor  was 
pretty  hot  under  the  collar  about  being 
wrongly  classified.  Ti)iie  made  amends 
and  the  suit  was  dropped. 

Recently  the  program  caused  a  great 
deal  of  trouble  and  was  caused  a  great 
deal  of  embarrassment  by  a  spectacularly 
incorrect  news  report.  The  whole  story 
originated  with  the  departure  of  a  fishing 
trawler,  the  Girl  Pat,  bound  from  Liver- 
l)ool  with  five  men  aboard  for  the  fishing 
banks  north  of  England  on  a  one  week 
pleasure  trip.  Suddi-nly  it  turned  up  in 
Spain,  ordered  a  full  n\  supplies,  had 
the  bill -sent"  to  the  Cirl  I'al's  owner  in 
England  -  and  fiuickly  sailed  away.  The 
owner  got  Lloyd's  to  canvass  every  port 
in  the  world  with  orders  to  hold  the  ship 
if  she  put  in.  She  did  put  in,  many  weeks 
later,  at  Dakar,  South  Africa,  was  held 
by  police  authorities  but  sneaked  out  mys- 
teriously in  the  middle  of  the  night,  de- 
spite a  dearth  of  food  and  fuel  supplies. 

Next,  months  later,  she  was  sighted  in 
the  middle  of  the  Pacific  Ocean— and  by 


the  time  that  news  had  been  made  known, 
newspaper  readers  everywhere  were  largely 
following  the  romantic  story  of  the  ghost 
boat.  What  was  she  doing?  Treasure- 
hunting?  None  of  the  men  had  communi- 
cated with  their  families  and  it  was  sus- 
pected they  were  trying  to  sell  the  Girl 
Pat  and  make  of¥  with  the  money.  In- 
terest was  so  great  in  the  story  that  the 
March  Of  Time  dramatized  each  bit  of 
news  as  it  was  received  from  time  to  time 
when  the  mystery  ship  bobbed  up  and  im- 
mediately set  ofif  again  at  its  strange  and 
widely  separated  ports  of  call.  One  night, 
shortly  before  program  time,  the  wire  ser- 
vice clicked  out  a  message  that  some 
yachtsmen  in  the  Bahamas  had  found  a 
trawler  shipwrecked  on  a  reef  and  four 
bodies  in  the  sand.  They  had  identified  the 
trawler  as  the  Girl  Pat  and  buried  the 
bodies. 

Time  immediately  dropped  everything, 
discarded  two  of  its  acts  and  hastily  gath- 
ered all  hands  to  produce  a  reenactment 
of  the  yachtsmen's  discovery  and  the 
burials,  as  a  super-thrill  for  its  regular 
listeners  who  had  followed  the  story  all 
along.  The  program  was  re-broadcast  by 
short  wave  to  England  and  the  families  of 
the  trawler's  crew  heard  the  horrible  news 
dramatized  in  America  only  a  few  hours 
after  it  had  taken  place  in  the  Bahamas. 

So  you  can  imagine  the  mixed  trouble, 
joy  and  embarrassment  that  was  experi- 
enced by  the  program  stafif  and  the  Eng- 
lishmen's families  when  the  Girl  Pat  was 
captured  in  Georgetown,  British  Guiana, 
two  days  later !  The  whole  aflfair  had  been 
a  case  of  mistaken  identity  by  the  Bahama 
discoverers  of  the  shipwreck. 

All  of  Time's  little  human  interest 
stories  that  you  hear  reenacted  are  by  no 
means  purveyors  of  bad  news,  however. 
There  was  the  case  of  the  poverty-stricken 
San  Francisco  widow,  mother  of  a  small 
son,  who  announced  that  out  of  despera- 
tion she  was  going  to  take  her  child  to 
Pitcairn  Island  and  live  there  so  that  they 
might  at  least  have  wild  fruit  from  trees 
to  eat  and  warmth  of  climate.  If  you  have 
read  Mutiny  On  The  Bounty,  or  seen  it 
in  the  movies,  you  will  know  that  Pitcairn 
is  a  tiny  dot  of  a  lonely  island  far  out  in 
the  Pacific  where  Fletcher  Christian  and 
his  mutineers  settled  and  intermarried  with 
the  natives.  The  San  I'Vancisco  woman's 
husband  had  been  a  great-great-grandson 
of  Fletcher  Christian  himself. 

This  bit  of  news  was  considered  im- 
portant enough  for  dramatization  because 
it  was  a  miniature  picture  of  the  condi- 
tions of  thousands  of  poverty-stricken 
widows  in  our  land.  And  the  story  of  the 
woman  going  to  the  island  was  so  colorful 
and  pathetic  it  appealed  strongly  to  the 
listeners  of  Time.  Thousands  of  letters 
were  received  by  CBS  from  the  people 
who  wanted  to  send  the  mother  and  her 
child  gifts  to  take  with  them  to  their 
new  home.  Packages  began  to  pour  in. 
Time  investigated  and  found  that  the  only 
forwarding  address  the  woman  would  have 
was  simply  Pitcairn  Island,  Pacific  Ocean 
— that  mail  must  be  posted  to  Panama, 
where  it  would  be  held  until  one  of  the 
two  boats  a  year  that  stop  of?  at  the  island 
would  pick  it  up.  The  finding  of  that  in- 
formation was  dramatized  on  the  news 
broadcasts  and  generous  listeners  were 
warned  not  to  send  perishables. 

As  a  result,  one  of  these  months  a  boat 


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Lovely  Irene  Dunne,  whonn  you  heard 
on  the  air  in  the  Radio  Theatre's  pro- 
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will  anchor  off  Pitcairn  with  more  than 
seven  thousand  gifts  as  a  surprise  for  the 
widow  from  San  Francisco  and  her  son. 

I  mentioned  a  while  back  that  the  March 
Of  Time  has  no  taboos.  Nevertheless  there 
is  one — not  a  taboo  exactly  but  merely  a 
courtesy  the  program  extends  to  Franklin 
D.  Roosevelt ;  they  no  longer  imitate  his 
voice.  Formerly  they  did  so  frequently 
and  the  chief  executive  received  quantities 
of  mail  from  confused  listeners  asking 
why  no  announcement  had  been  made  that 
he  was  going  to  speak.  The  President 
decided  he  would  like  to  be  the  sole  speak- 
er of  his  words,  had  his  secretary,  Stephen 
Early,  make  that  request  of  Time  and  it 
was  immediately  granted.  Most  disap- 
pointed of  all  was  actor  Bill  Adams,  who 
enjoyed  giving  his  flawless  imitations  of 
Roosevelt's  voice.  Mind  you  though,  the 
March  Of  Time  could  imitate  the  chief 
executive's  voice  on  the  air.  For  a  voice, 
as  a  face,  is  a  public  domain  by  law. 

So  you  see  radio's  Number  One  Rebel 
Child  doesn't  quite  live  up  to  its  title.  It 
treads  indiscriminately  on  all  toes — but  in 
the  long  run  it  treads  equally.  Careful 
statistics  have  been  kept  of  protests  and 
praise  and  it  is  found  that  they  weigh  out 
to  an  almost  perfect  balance;  for  every 
letter  that  says  Time  is  anti-New  Deal, 
another  letter  at  another  date  says  it's  anti- 
Republican.  For  every  country  that  claims 
Time  sways  favorable  opinion  toward  its 
enemy  the  enemy  sometimes  claims  it  sways 
favorable  opinion  toward  its  enemy.  The 
program  has  been  identified  with  every  fac- 
tion and  cause  and  right  and  wrong  it  has 
presented.  It  is  allied  with  none  at  all.  It 
presents  pure  news,  whether  it  looks  good 
for  this  person  and  bad  for  that  or  helps 
this  cause  and  doesn't  help  that  one. 

Mr.  William  Geer  summed  it  up  when 
he  said  to  me,  the  other  day: 

"Our  listeners  could  soon  tell  if  we 
started  being  partisan  and  the  March  Of 
Ttwe  would  lose  its  value.  Without  hon- 
esty we  might  as  well  have  no  program." 

Which  is  certainly  reassuring  to  know, 
if  you  like  your  news  to  be  pure  news— 
and  are  aware  that  from  every  side  we're 
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everything  I  said  or  showed  them. 

One  of  my  most  embarrassing  experi- 
ences happened  the  second  week  of  my  em- 
ployment as  a  guide.  I  was  assigned  to 
escort  Gloria  Swanson,  after  her  broad- 
cast, to  a  private  artists'  elevator,  in  order 
to  avoid  a  large  crowd  of  admirers  and 
autograph-seekers  who  had  gathered  at  the 
main  studio  entrance  to  see  her  come  out. 
I  was  a  bit  nervous  because  it  was  my 
first  important  assignment — so  nervous 
that  I  lost  my  way  in  the  complicated  mass 
of  corridors  around  the  studios  on  the 
eighth  floor.  It  was  Miss  Swanson's  first 
American  appearance  after  a  long  sojourn 
in  Europe  and  she,  too — trouper  that  she 
is — was  somewhat  nervous  and  concerned 
about  the  success  of  what  was  her  first 
radio  appearance  as  a  singer.  The  situ- 
ation we  found  ourselves  in  did  not  help 
our  nerves  any.  She  became  quite  exasper- 
ated but  she  kept  her  temper  under  control 
while  we  walked  around  in  circles.  Cold 
beads  of  perspiration  were  streaming 
down  my  forehead,  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  the  building  is  air-conditioned,  when  I 
spotted  a  musician  carrying  his  violin.  I 
knew  that  he,  too,  was  going  to  the  same 
elevator,  so  I  followed  him  to  it.  It  turned 
out  that  my  troubles  were  in  vain  because 
someone  had  tipped  off  the  waiting  crowd 
and  when  we  reached  the  ground  floor 
the  entrance  was  completely  blocked. 

Radio  City  also  has  lured  and  fascinated 
the  nobility.  One  of  the  most  memorable 
visits  was  that  of  Prince  Torlonia  and  his 
then  new  bride  the  Infanta  Beatriz  of 
Spain.  The  young  bluebloods  were  in  New 
York  on  their  honeymoon  trip  and  Radio 
City  was  one  of  the  city's  attractions 
which  Prince  Torlonia  wanted  to  show  his 
bride.  Being  the  Spanish-speaking  guide, 
I  was  asked  to  show  them  through  the 
studios.  I  was  surprised  to  find  thein  both 
simple  and  charming  people.  The  Princess 
acted  like  any  other  girl  and  she  looked 
and  listened  with  great  interest  to  every- 
thing we  saw.  Her  attitude  was  unsophis- 
ticated— at  times,  exclaiming  with  delight 
at  the  photographic  murals,  the  rehearsal 
of  a  dramatic  program  with  sound  effects, 
and  at  jazz  orchestras  playing  rhumba 
music.  She  laughed  with  childlike  delight 
when  I  showed  her  how  we  produced  the 
sound  of  a  horse  galloping  by  rhythmically 
pounding  two  plumber's  rubber  plungers 
on  my  chest.  At  the  end  of  the  tour  she 
said  she  was  having  such  a  lovely  time 
that  she  would  like  to  telephone  her  father 
to  tell  him  how  wonderful  was  Radio 
City.  One  of  our  executives  graciously 
offered  the  telephone  in  his  office.  The 
Princess  picked  up  the  phone  and  non- 
chalantly asked  the  operator  for  King  Al- 
fonso XIII  in  Paris!  Her  conversation 
with  King  Alfonso  was  rapid  and  excited. 
She  told  him  what  a  wonderful  time  she 
was  having  and  then  they  talked  about 
the  weather  for  a  while,  after  which  they 
exchanged  affectionate  farewells.  The 
charges  were  $56.75  and  NBC  paid  the  bill. 

One  day  I  had  the  unusual  experience 
of  wheeling  through  the  studios  a  young 
girl  whose  legs  were  paralyzed.  She  was 
unable  to  walk,  even  with  crutches,  so  she 


had  to  take  the  tour  in  a  wheel-chair.  At 
first  I  felt  a  bit  awkward  about  her  par- 
alyzed condition  and  I  felt  myself  address- 
ing and  treathig  her  with  condescending 
pity.  But  her  unaffected  manner,  her  cheer- 
fulness and  her  bravery  soon  made  me 
forget  her  crippled  state.  Her  enthusiasm 
and  interest  in  everything  that  she  saw 
was  so  great  and  infectious  that  I  soon 
fell  into  an  intimate  and  interesting  con- 
versation with  her — it  no  longer  was  a 
staccato  stereotyped  "tour"  but  more  like 
an  exciting  visit  with  an  old  friend.  She 
had  been  paralyzed  three  years  and  the 
radio  was  one  of  the  few  sources  of  her 
entertainment.  Her  visit  to  the  studios 
was  like  a  dream  come  true.  Her  excite- 
ment was  great  and  it  came  to  a  peak 
when  I  introduced  her  to  Lanny  Ross  who 
happened  to  be  hurrying  by,  on  his  way 
to  a  rehearsal.  He  shook  hands  with  her 
and  readily  gave  her  his  autograph  when 
she  asked  for  it.  Incidentally,  Lanny  Ross 
is  one  of  the  nicest  stars  in  radio.  He  is 
youthful,  gay,  and  unsophisticated;  he  has 
none  of  the  affectations  found  in  many 
of  our  popular  entertainers  of  stage,  screen, 
and  radio.  I  never  shall  forget  the  happy 
look  on  that  little  girl's  face. 

Among  the  great  leaders  of  our  country 
whom  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting 
in  Radio  City  is  General  James  G.  Har- 
bord.  He  was  one  of  our  greatest  generals 
during  the  World  War.  Recently  he  wrote 
the  latest  book  about  the  last  war,  The 
Atnerican  Army  in  France.  I  expected  him 
to  be  an  aloof  and  severe  person,  with  mil- 
itary sternness ;  but,  instead,  I  met  a  genial 
old  man  with  kind  blue  eyes  and  a  quiet, 
pleasant  smile.  His  only  obvious  military 
aspect  was  his  erect  posture  and  the  way 
he  stood,  with  both  feet  flat  on  the  ground. 
He  is  a  good  listener  and  he  does  not  say 
much.  When  he  does  speak  he  speaks 
briefly  and  succinctly.  What  I  liked  about 
him  is  that,  within  a  few  minutes  after  I'd 
been  with  him,  I  forgot  that  I  was  ad- 
dressing a  great  general. 

One  celebrity  whom  I  would  like  to  have 
met  but  whom  I  will  never  regret  not  hav- 
ing had  the  pleasure  (or  otherwise)  of 
conducting  through  the  radio  studios  is 
Groucho  Marx  of  the  well-known  Marx 
Brothers.  Although  he  could  have  had  a 
special  guide  for  the  asking,  he  preferred 
to  go,  unnoticed,  with  the  regular  tourist 
group.  During  the  tour  the  guide  was 
annoyed  by  a  heckler  whom  he  could  not 
squelch.  This  particular  guide  is  well- 
known  among  the  other  boys  as  a  capable 
man  when  it  comes  to  matching  wits  with 
hecklers — in  fact,  as  a  rule,  he  could  shut 
them  up  in  no  time.  But,  this  time,  it 
seemed  that  he  had  run  up  against  a  man 
whose  wit  obviously  moved  with  a  con- 
siderably greater  tempo  than  his.  He  tried 
every  means  of  squelching  this  unrecog- 
nized intruder  but  the  latter  never  failed 
to  turn  the  cards  and  get  the  laugh  on  the 
increasingly  flustered  guide.  The  other 
guests  were  kept  in  a  continuous  state  of 
laughter  at  the  expense  of  the  guide.  The 
heckler  culminated  his  antics,  towards  the 
end  of  the  tour,  by  grabbing  the  pointer 
from  the  guide  and  showing  him  how  to  do 


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KAUlU  bTARS 


his  job.  This  happened  in  one  of  the  ex- 
hibit rooms  where  we  explain  and  show 
how  a  radio  set  works.  With  his  hands 
clasped  behind  him,  cigar  in  his  mouth,  bis 
head  bent  forward  in  his  cliar.utrnstic 
pose,  he  gave  the  most  incorrect  .\cl  ilic 
funniest  explanation  of  that  cxhiliii,  as  he 
paced  back  and  forth  in  front  of  the 
amazed  and  laughing  crowd.  Then,  and  only 
thfn,  did  they  recognize  the  lifckK  r  to  lie 
Groucbo  Marx,  without  tin-  lamih.ii- 
painted  moustache  and  rimmed  .-Li--e.-.  At 
this  point  he  ceased  his  comedy  and  apol- 
ogized to  the  guide,  whose  anger  disap- 
peared when  he  knew  who  it  was.  After 
all,  few  people  ever  have  tlie  |irivilege  of 
matching  wits  with  Ciruiu  li.  i  Marx.  The 
guide  now  cherishes  a  jier-.  .nally  inscribed 
and  autogra|)Iied  piitiire  .il  (.rduflid. 

Not  long  ag...  jasi-ha  lleitel/.  wlnle  on 
his  way  to  Smith  .Viiierica  from  his  native 
countr.\-,  Ru^M.i,  -.tniiped  at  New  York  long 
enough  for  a  >ingle  appearance  on  the 
radio.  I  was  asked  by  my  supervisor  if  I 
knew  Heifetz  when  I  saw  huu,  and.  fol- 
lowing my  own  policy  ne\er  tu  say  "no" 
in  my  work,  I  answered  in  the  aftirmative, 
although  I  didn't  know  Heifetz  from  Ru- 
binoff.  .After  warning  nie  of  the  Heifetz 
ego  and  temperan^T.t  he  assigned  me  to 
greet  Heifetz  and  to  conduct  him  to  his 
dressing-room.  Once  at  my  post  at  the 
main  entrance  I  wondered  what  Heifetz 
really  looked  like.  I  asked  many  persons 
but  no  one  seemed  to  be  able  to  descrilie 
him  and  there  were  no  pictures  of  him  on 
hand.  I  was  picturing  him  as  dark,  with 
long  black  hair,  deep  dark  eyes.  Suddenly, 
there  appeared  a  man  answering  to  that 


very  description.  I'urthermore.  he  w.is 
carrying  an  e.xpcnsive-hjoking  violin  case. 
Here,  I  thought,  was  my  man,  and  1 
walked  up  and  inquired:  "Mr.  Heifetz?" 

"Yes,"  he  answered,  rather  vaguely.  1 
offered  to  carry  his  violin  but  he  refused 
the  offer,  holding  the  valuable  Stradivarius 
closer  to  hiin. 

At  that  point  I  noticed  the  two  other 
]ii.ili|e  with  him — one  a  lovely  woman, 
I  lie  other  .i  taller  man  with  wavy  light  hair 
.Hid  a  small  moustache,  whom  I  took  to  be 
Mr.  Heifetz'  accompanist. 

"But,"  I  thought,  "why  is  the  accompan- 
ist dressed  in  full  evening  dress,  while  the 
great  maestro  merely  wears  a  tuxedo?" 

But  there  wasn't  much  time  for  such 
musings,  so  I  left  my  own  (|uestion  un- 
answered, as  I  led  my  party  iiUo  an  ele- 
vator. There  again  I  noticed  a  sljoht  dis- 
crepancy; the  accompanist  entered  the  ear 
before  the  dark  genius  with  the  violin.  1 
addressed  all  my  reiuarks  to  the  man  with 
the  violin,  ignoring  the  other  man,  who 
did  not  seem  to  like  mc. 

In  fact  he  openly  scowled  at  me — much 
to    my    surprise — when    1    introduced  the 


violin-carrier  as  Mr.  Heiiet/  t-  a  couple 
of  NIJC  executives  whom  we  met  mi  our 
way  to  the  studio.  When  we  reached  the 
dressing-room  the  taller  man  with  the 
moustache  scowled  at  me  once  more  and 
slammed  the  door  in  my  face,  leaving  me 
out  in  the  liallway  witli  the  lovely  lady 
I  noticed  that  she  seemed  to  be  quite 
amused,  as  she  turned  asking  me  to  take 
her  to  the  studio  observation  rooin. 

"Mr.  .  .  .  ah  .  .  .  the  accompanist  isn't 
feeling  very  cheerful  tonight,  is  he?"  I  re- 


marked as  I  led  the  way. 

"That  man  with  the  moustache  isn't  the 
accompanist,"  she  said  laughingly.  "That 
was  Jascha  Heifetz  and  1  am  his  wife, 
h'lorence  Vidor.  The  man  you  thought  was 
Mr.  Heifetz  is  iny  husband's  man  servant!" 

Recently,  when  James  J.  Walker,  former 
mayor  of  New  York  City,  returned  to  this 
country  from  his  self-imposed  exile  in 
Europe,  he  was  invited  to  visit  the  studios 
by  Richard  C.  Patterson,  Jr.,  at  that  time 
executive  vice-president  of  the  Xatioiial 
Broadcastiny  Com['an\,  and,  at  one  time, 
Comiuissioner  of  Correction  under  the 
Walker  regime.  Jimmy  Walker  read'ly  ac- 
cepted the  invitation  and  brought  with  him 
his  lovely  wife,  the  former  actress,  Betty 
Comi)ton.  Xeedless  to  sa\-  1  was  more  than 
pleaseil  w  hen   I   w;i,  uuted  to  be  their 

guide.  1  w  as  )Mt  di '.ipi>' iii itcd  in  my  high 
expectations;  the  Walkers  w^ere  very 
charninig  ,nid  witt\  during  the  entire  tour. 


.Mrs 

those  of  her  famous  hu- 
heard  that  her  okl  friend 
rehearsing  somewhen-  in 
asked  me  to  t.'ike  them  t' 


quips  equalled 
id.  When  she 
red  -Mien,  was 
■  building,  she 
s  s,,,.l!M.  .After 

exclKUCjKie  :irir.ti..Il,.tr  .jre,  tin-  wltll  Fred 
.\llen  she  imr-duced  liini  to  lier  liUsband. 

■■How  do  y-u  do:-^^  said  .Mr.  Walker. 

■Tm  so  busy,  I'xe  got  i\\i<  tellow  s  taking 
aspirin  tor  \uv."  w.is  I'Ved  -Mien's  answer. 

To  which  Jimmy  W'.alker's  miick  retort 
was:  "I  should  think  \\>u'd  he  feeding 
them  Sal  Heiialica  instead  oi  aspirin!" 

The  laughter  had  hardly  subs;. led  when 
Betty    Com|itoi)    (|uiell\-  remarked: 

"Jimmy  ought  to  know,  by  now.  what's 
good  for  headaches  !" 


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"I  took  his  advice  literally.  I  hunted  up 
our  Sound  man  and  went  out  one  night. 
I  must  have  talked  for  two  hours  straight, 
to  a  man  I'd  never  seen  before.  Result? 
Nothing.  Next  night  I  went  out  with 
two  Sound  men — same  result.  Third  night 
I  went  to  a  party  at  the  palatial  home  of 
a  movie  star  and  listened  to  gabbling  about 
parts  and  salaries  until  I  was  blue  in 
the  face.  Very  distasteful,  besides,  they 
wouldn't  let  mc  talk  about  my  salary.  Then 
came  the  fourth  night. 

"I  was  with  Brad  and  Anne  Whitlock, 
two  old  Eastern  friends,  at  the  'Troc' 
During  the  course  of  the  evening,  a  blonde 
young  lady  walked  in  and  in  two  seconds 
I  had  met  her  and  was  dancing  with  her. 
We  were  both  a  little  surprised,  but  she 
didn't  seem  to  mind.  Her  name,  it  turned 
out,  was  Jean  Rogers  and  she  was  making 
pictures  over  at  Universal  studios." 

"So  you're  going  to  marry  Jean  Rogers  !" 

"No,  Jean  Rogers  and  I  are  not  going 
to  get  married,  although  for  a  while  we 
thought  so.  We  were  terribly  attracted 
to  each  other,  for  she  is  a  most  under- 
standing person. 

"We  rode  together,  walked  together,  ate 
together  and  flew  together.  This  treat- 
ment was  so  effective  that  is  was  hardly  a 
month  before  I  was  able  to  sleep  a  decent 
night's  sleep  and  I  was  cheerful  most  of 
the  time.  Believe  me  I  am  properly  grate- 
ful to  Jean. 

"Then,  one  day  at  Catalina,  where  we 
had  rowed  in  the  famous  glass-bottomed 
boats,  we  lunched  at  a  table  under  the 
trees.  I  asked  her  to  marry  me  and  she 
accepted." 

"Jimmy,"  I  said,  "can't  I  phone  to  a 
certain  magazine  editor — " 

"Then  I  returned  East,"  he  went  on  as 
though  he  hadn't  heard  me,  "with  her 
memory  deep  in  my  heart.  Even  so  I 
began  to  wonder  if  it  was  the  fair  thing 
for  her.  Wasn't  she  one  of  Universal's 
bright  hopes?  Could  I,  in  all  fairness, 
take  her  away  from  her  golden  opportu- 
nity ? 

"I  was  debating  this  when  I  joined  Ed- 
die Cantor  and  his  unit  in  Cleveland. 
When  I  walked  on  to  the  stage,  the  first 
afternoon,  I  saw  someone  I  hadn't  seen 
in  three  years,  someone  I  hardly  remem- 
bered. She,"  he  grinned  out  of  a  towel, 
"she  is  the  girl." 

I  groaned. 

"Hello,"  he  answered  the  phone.  "That 
you,  Wack?  Hello,  darling.  We'll  be 
right  down." 

"Wack."'  I  muttered  to  myself.  "Miss 
Wack?" 

He  motioned  me  into  the  hall  and  an 
express  elevator  rushed  us  down  to  the 
lobby  where  I  pushed  and  shoved  him 
along,  the  quicker  to  meet  "Miss  Wack." 

"Wack,"  he  said,  pointing  to  a  really 
beautiful  girl  who  stood  smiling  at  us. 
"Miss  Cooper,  may  I  present,  Mr. 
Vallee?" 

"Cooper!"  I  gasped.  "Betty  Jane 
Cooper,  of  the  Scandals?" 

"None  other,"  answered  a  grinning 
Jimmy.    "Wack  Cooper  of  the  Scandals 


and  the  picture  Collegiate.  Remember?" 

"I  should  say  I  do,"  I  said.  "She  did 
a  swell  job."  I  would  have  said  more, 
except  that  we  were  being  shown  to  a 
side  table  and  I  was  vainly  looking  for 
a  phone. 

While  Jimmy  ordered,  I  studied  Betty 
Jane.  At  tirst  glance  you  would  take  her 
for  a  titled  English  girl,  like  those  you 
see  in  the  Yardley  advertisements.  At 
second  glance,  you'd  say  the  same  with 
pleasant  additions.  Such  as :  refined, 
sweet,  ladylike  and  lovely.  She  stands 
about  five-feet-six  to  Jimmy's  six-feet-two. 
She  told  me  later  that  she  was  twenty- 
three,  previously  married  and  amicablx-  di- 
vorced. You  could  lift  her  easily  because 
she  weighs  only  122  but  don't  try  it  on 
Jimmy,  who  tips  the  scales  at  197  and 
swears  he's  twenty-eight. 

I'd  like  to  say  she  had  been  smiling  into 
my  face  but  honesty  bids  me  say  that  her 
whole  attention  was  directed  at  lucky 
Jimmy.  When  he  finished  ordering,  he 
looked  up  to  find  her  eyes  on  him  so  he 
reached  over  and  covered  her  dainty  hand 
with  his.  After  a  while  I  banged  a  spoon 
noisily  against  a  glass  but  they  paid  no 
attention  to  me.  I  stepped  heavily  on 
Jimmy's  foot  and  after  several  minutes  he 
looked  up  and  said :  "Hello.  Who  are 
you?   What  do — oh,  yes!" 

"How  did  you  two  ever  come  to  fall 
in  love  and  what  about  Jean  Rogers,  eh?" 

"Jimmy  and  I  met  in  1933,"  Betty  be- 
gan, "but  he  didn't  pay  very  much  atten- 
tion to  me  then.  I  was  dancing  with  Ed 
Sullivan's  show  at  the  Paramount  and 
Jimmy  appeared  as  a  guest  artist." 

Jimmy  regretfully  let  go  of  her  hand 
for  a  moment,  to  talk.  After  all  you 
can't  keep  a  radio  announcer  quiet  for 
long. 

"Funny,  but  our  second  meeting  three 
years  later  occurred  under  almost  the  same 
circumstances.  I  walked  on  to  the  stage 
at  Cleveland  as  master  of  ceremonies,  onlj' 
to  find  Betty  Jane  Cooper  there.  Then — " 

"We  decided  that  maybe  we  liked  each 
other,"  cut  in  a  girl  made  of  sterner  stuff, 
one  who  wasn't  going  to  let  even  a  radio 
announcer  get  away  with  all  of  the  talk- 
ing. "We  found  we  danced  well  together 
and  after  'most  every  show  we'd  get  Lou 
Gress,  our  orchestra  leader,  and  go  next 
door  to  Mayfair  where  they  had  a  nice 
band.  They  (Jimmy  and  Lou)  liked  me 
so  much  they  even  admitted  me  to  the 
Wacks." 

"What,"  I  broke  in,  "is  a  Wack?" 

"The  Wacks."  Jimmy  explained,  pa- 
tiently, "are  a  little  gang  of  five  of  us 
who  admit  we're  slightly  cracked,  nutty, 
ergo  ivacky.  Lou  Gress,  h'rank  Gill,  Betty 
Garde,  Betty  Jane  Cooper  and  me — all 
Wacks.  We  call  each  other  Wack,  ad- 
dress letters  to  Wack  so-and-so  and  in  gen- 
eral act  wacky."  He  suited  the  action  to 
the  word  by  brazenly  holding  her  hand, 
totally  ignoring  a  steaming  cup  of  pea 
soup.  I  am  not  a  Wack.  I  drank  mine, 
every  bit. 

Eventually  he  remembered  that  I  was 
sitting  there. 


RADIO  STARS 


"Yes,"  he  said,  "we  spent  so  much  time 
together  dancing  that  even  Cantor  got  wise 
and  told  the  audience  about  us.  Said  he 
couldn't  tell  them  the  girl's  name  because 
he  had  promised  he  wouldn't ;  of  course 
her  name  was  the  same  as  Gary  Cooper's 
but  the  word  of  a  Cantor  was  the  word  of 
a  Cantor  and  he  would  remain  as  silent  as 
the  grave.    My  pal !" 

Then  he  told  me  more  about  Jean 
Rogers.  It  seems  he  had  flown  to  the 
Coast  after  the  unit  had  broken  up.  All 
the  way  out  he  turned  the  situation  over 
and  over  in  his  mind.  Would  Jean  and 
he  be  happy  together  if  marriage  broke 
up  her  career? 

He  didn't  want  to  hurt  her  in  any  way. 
She  had  saved  his  life  and  he  w^ouldn't  for- 
get that,  ever. 

Jean  solved  the  problem.  She  had  been 
thinking  along  the  same  lines.  She  knew 
that  Jimmy  wanted  his  wife  to  give  up 
her  work.  She  understood  that  wish  but 
she'd  worked  so  hard  to  get  where  she 
was  in  pictures  and  the  real  breaks  were 
just  coming  her  way.  Perhaps  they'd 
better  not  marry. 

"W'e  parted  the  best  of  friends,"  said 
Jimmy.  "I  want  Betty  and  Jean  to  be 
good  friends  and  I  know  they  will  be." 

"And  now?" 

"And  now  Betty  and  I  are  going  to  be 
married,  on  August  twelfth,  in  the  Roches- 
ter Brick  Presbyterian  Church  and  I  think 
M'ack  Gress  will  be  best  man.  My  folks? 
My  Dad  is  so  crazy  about  her  that  he  told 
me  if  I  didn't  marry  her,  he  would  him- 
self!" 

I  asked  Betty  if  she  really  loved  Jimmy. 

"I'm  from  St.  Jo,  Missouri,  and  I  was 
shown,"  she  answered.  "I'm  just  giving 
up  the  theatre  for  him.  I'm  just  going 
to  cook  for  him,  darn  his  socks  and  toss  my 
dancing  shoes  right  out  of  the  window — 
that's  all!" 

"We're  taking  a  cruise  to  South  America 
for  our  honeymoon,"  put  in  Jimmy,  "then 
we're  going  to  live  in  Holly woiid.  If  a 
convenient  picture  offer  pops  up,  I  imagine 
Betty  will  accept  it  but  we  agree  that 
this  two-a-day  theatre  stuff  doesn't  make 
for  successful  marriages." 

Betty  Jane  was  paged  and  left  to  answer 
the  call.    Jimmy  turned  to  me. 

"Isn't  she  lovely  ?"  he  demanded.  "Do 
you  know.  Bill,  if  I  could  have  a  girl 
made  to  order,  she  would  be  exactly  like 
Betty.  She's  well-nigh  perfect,  has  a  swell 
sense  of  humor  and — just  listen  to  this — ." 
He  drew  a  well-worn  letter  from  his 
pocket.  "Here's  something  she  wrote  me 
after  she'd  refused  a  Shubert  contract : 

.  .  .  the  nice  thing  about  getting  this  con- 
tract and  refusing  it,  is  that  I  have  some- 
thing really  big  to  give  up  for  you,  dear." 

"Isn't  that  something?" 

"One  more  question,  this  is  really  a  test- 
question,"  I  said.  "Betty,  will  you  ride 
with  Jimmy  when  he's  at  the  controls  of 
a  plane?" 

"Will  I?"  she  grinned.  "I  have  al- 
ready !" 

Then  she  held  my  hand,  but  only  to  say 
goodbye  and: 

"We'll  never  forget  you,  Bill,  because 
this  is  really  the  first  time  we've  sat  down 
together  and  opened  our  hearts  to  anyone 
about  our  marriage.  .  .  ."  She  smiled  at 
Jimmy,  that  smile,  and  he  took  her  hand. 
They  were  miles  away  from  me. 


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THE  MAJOR  ON  PARADE 

(Continued  from  page  21) 


sacred  walls  at  last,  his  Highness  would 
speak.  .  .  .  He  seemed  a  kindly  person 
with  a  nice  sense  of  humor,  friendly,  al- 
together pleasing  to  listen  to.  .  .  . 

There  are  those  who  believe  no  man  can 
attain  the  heights  of  fame  and  fortune 
honestly  and  deservedly,  but  while  the 
major's  success  seemed  to  many  to  be  of 
the  over-night  variety,  I  knew  his  original 
amateur  program  dated  back  ten  years  and 
that  he  had  worked  long  and  hard  to  get 
and  to  maintain  the  position  now  his.  It 
was  less  a  fluke  of  circumstance  than  faith 
in  an  idea  which  had  finall}'  put  him  on  the 
pinnacle  and  undoubtedly  it  must  take 
courage  and  determination  and  a  lot  of 
hard  work  to  keep  him  there. 

And  all  evidence  seems  to  point  to  the 
fact  that  Major  Bowes  is  indefatigable. 
The  amateur  hour  itself  requires  a  lot  of 
titne  and  thought  and  in  addition  there  are 
the  movie  shorts  and  the  fourteen  units 
moving  about  the  country. 

"And  not  orderly  units  of  trained  and 
experienced  theatrical  people,"  the  major 
mused,  "but  units  of  wild  mustangs!" 

All  this  and  much  more  he  keeps  at  his 
finger-tips.  It  is,  in  spite  of  the  size  of 
the  organization,  in  a  strict  sense  a  one- 
man  business.  And  the  man  who  holds 
so  many  reins  so  competently  must  be 
something  of  a  wizard. 

"I  bear  the  expense  of  all  the  units  my- 
self," he  explained.  "If  I  lose  money,  it  is 
my  personal  loss  and  I  can't  afford  to  lose. 
Too  much  is  at  stake  for  me  to  relax,  to 
leave  any  of  it  to  someone  else." 

"It  doesn't  seem  to  be  too  much  of  a 
strain,"  I  commented.  "You  look  younger 
than  I  expected  you  to  and  in  the  very 
pink  of  condition.   How  do  you  do  it?" 

"I  never  worry,"  he  stated  simply.  "And 
I  love  it — we  all  work  hard,  but  I  sin- 
cerely believe  everyone  in  the  organization 
'  wes  it,  too  !" 

I  wonder  if  they  really  do  love  it.  .  .  . 
The  breathless  'Yes,  Major',  'No,  Major', 
'Thank  you.  Major'  attitude  had  been  very 
evident  throughout  the  nffice.  It  irked  me, 
I  thought  it  too  subservient,  too  obsequi- 
ous. Such  awe  and  reverence  are  a  little 
startling  to  an  outsider.  Could  they  be 
sincere?  In  any  case,  the  machinery  runs 
smoothly,  well-oiled  with  an  obvious  de- 
votion to  tlie  man  at  the  head. 

Not  that  the  major  is  above  criticism — 
or  lacks  it.  In  fact,  his  fans  refuse  to  let 
him  make  the  most  tniiior  mistake. 

"Once,  instead  of  saying,  as  I  intended, 
that  a  certain  river  was  the  only  one  in 
.America  to  flow  nortli  for  two  hundred 
and  fifty  miles,"  he  told  me,  "I  said  it  was 
the  only  river  in  America  to  flow  north! 
I  was  deluged,  submerged  by  a  flood  of 
letters  correcting  me!" 

,'\t  least  he  could  smile  at  his  own  mis- 
takes, ring  the  gong  on  himself! 

Fan  mail,  of  course,  is  a  decisive  factor  in 
gauging  the  success  of  an  amateur  program. 

"People  like  to  feel  that  they  are  the 
judges,"  he  maintained,  "h'veryoiie  con- 
siders himself  a  critic.  l-Lveryone  likes  to 
have  part  in  a  show.  (Jur  listeners  love  the 
feeling  that  they  are  heli)iiig,  that  their 
votes  decide  the  issue,  that  they  are  a  vital 


part  of  every  program." 

"You  must  relax  sometimes,  play  golf, 
devote  yourself  to  your  hobbies — "  I  said. 

He  smiled.  "I  thought  I  had  lots  of 
hobbies,  but  I  don't  seem  to  have  much 
time  for  them  these  days.  I  do  play  golf 
occasionally — am  even  a  one-hole  man. 
And  I  have  a  lovely  garden  at  my  place 
in  Westchester.  We  raised  some  beautiful 
gardenias  this  year.  But  the  only  time  I 
can  spend  there  is  from  Sunday  night  to 
Monday  night." 

"And  during  the  rest  of   the  week?" 

"My  work-day  begins  when  I  am  in  the 
shower,"  he  answered,  "at  about  8  a.m. 
And  it  ends  at  about  2  a.m. ! 

"I  used  to  ride  horseback  a  lot,"  he  went 
on  reminiscently,  "but  it  is  too  dangerous 
nowadays.  My  wife  loved  it — we  always 
had  spirited  horses.  There  is  no  pleasure 
in  it  if  they  are  not  spirited !  Today,  there 
is  too  much  traffic  and  nowhere  to  ride, 
except  in  parks.  I  did  try  bicycling  re- 
cently." He  chuckled.  "My  chaufifeur  went 
along  in  the  station  wagon,  so  that  I  could 
quit  when  I  got  tired.  At  first  I  thought 
I'd  fall  every  time  I  saw  the  car,  but  I  did 
pretty  well  at  that— went  quite  a  distance. 
And  I  am  not  so  young,  you  know!"  His 
eyes  twinkled.  "They  sent  me  a  bathing 
suit  from  Ocean  Beach  this  summer — the 
office  boy  could  wear  it !  I'm  past  forty, 
alas,  and  past  Sice  40,  too!" 

His  titles,  his  badges,  his  trophies  would 
fill  a  museum.  Everything  you  could  think 
of  and  a  lot  besides,  from  a  gorgeous 
western  saddle  to  a  fireman's  hat,  from 
Texas  ranger  to  the  mayor-for-a-day  of 
elite  Palm  Beach. 

"I've  got  my  car  lined  with  badges  of 
every  description — some  day  I  am  going  to 
fill  a  truck  with  them  and  with  my 
souvenirs  and  send  it  out  to  tour  the  coun- 
try," he  promised.  "Everyone  is  interested 
to  see  them  and  they  are  worth  seeing." 

As  everyone  knows.  Major  Bowes  is 
changing  sponsors  and  is  to  be  on  the  air 
Thursdays  at  9  p.  m.,  under  the  sponsor- 
ship of  the  Chrysler  Corporation.  I  won- 
dered if  the  program  itself  would  undergo 
any  change.  Frequently  one  hears  the  re- 
mark that  interest  in  the  amateur  program 
is  waning,  that  response  to  it  will  die  out. 

The  Major  denied  it  emphatically.  "We 
have  a  bigger  response  every  week — bigger 
sales,  more  telephone  calls,  more  letters. 
And  we  lead  the  field,  outdistance  it  by  a 
considerable  margin.  Why  should  we 
make  any  change?" 

"What  about  material — do  the  amateurs 
themselves  seem  to  be  unlimited?" 

"We  have  thousands  of  applications 
every  week,  which  we  have  to  weed  out. 
We  have  to  make  arbitrary  selections — " 

Dame  Fortune  turns  her  wheel — or  is  it 
Major  Bowes  who  turns  it?  Aud  these 
people,  caught  up  from  their  various  walks 
of  life,  thrust  with  little  preparation  into 
a  strange  new  world — does  Dame  Fortune 
know  or  care  what  becomes  of  them — or 
does  Major  Bowes? 

What  does  it  feel  like  to  wield  so  much 
power,  to  sit  in  a  chair  and  press  a  button 
that  controls  the  fate,  the  very  lives  of 
eager  thousands?   A  word  spoken  or  not 


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in  the  balance.  It  doesn't  take  much  im- 
agination to  see  it  like  that,  with  young- 
sters hitch-hiking  from  all  over  the  coun- 
try, staking  everything  they  can  save  or 
beg  or  borrow  on  this  one  throw,  in  hopes 
of  gaining  an  audience  with  the  famous 
potentate.  Only  one  among  many  will  get 
the  opportunity  he  seeks — the  others  will 
go  away  discouraged,  heart-broken.  In  a 
radio-conscious  world,  the  Major's  power 
seems  dangerous.  But  obviously  he  does 
not  look  at  it  that  way. 

"Of  all  those  who  appear  on  our  pro- 
gram, I  believe  that  fifty  per  cent,  will  be 
successful,  and  of  that  tifty,  six  per  cent, 
will  be  famous — which  is  adecjuate  return 
for  our  labors.  The  amateur  hour  will 
endure — what  other  way  is  there  for  young 
people  to  get  a  luariim.  to  get  a  chance? 

"People  are  al\\,n-  a-king  me  why  I 
don't  take  a  vac  iti.  n.  lu  continued.  "1 
don't  want  to.  I  vc  traveled  enough — I've 
been  everywhere.  And  it  is  good  to  have 
work  to  do  and  to  know  that  it  is  worth 
while.  It  is  completely  satisfying  to  know 
that  what  one  is  doing  is  important,  vital. 
In  the  beginning,  radio  necessarily  drew 
upon  stage  and  screen  for  its  artists. 
Everjone  fished  in  the  same  pool  because 
there  was  no  other.  Vaudeville  was  fin- 
ished, the  old-time  vaudeville  performers 
scattered.  How  were  young  people  to 
break  into  the  new  field?  However  am- 
bitious they  were,  however  talented,  they 
had  to  start  somewhere,  had  to  get  the  es- 
sential training  and  experience  that  actors 
used  to  get  in  vaudeville.  The  amateur 
program  was  the  obvious  answer." 

"And  the  gong — do  you  still  feel  it  must 


be  a  part  of  the  program?" 

"It  lends  added  interest,  suspense — the 
audience  likes  it.  And  it  works  out  all 
right.  I  gave  the  gong  to  a  girl  one  night 
and  letters  milled  in,  protesting.  So  I  gave 
her  another  chance — and  had  as  many  let- 
ters, saying  that  she  never  should  have 
been  put  on.  One  said  she  shouldn't  have 
got  the  gong — she  should  have  been  shot !" 

"But  why  put  them  on,  if  they  are  so 
bad?"  I  demanded. 

"They  aren't  always  bad.  It  is  hard  to 
tell.  Their  letters  of  application  are  very 
informative — I  insist  on  that — and  fre- 
quently it  seems  that  they  have  personality, 
they  have  talent— and  yet,  when  I  get  them 
before  an  audience,  they  go  all  to  pieces. 

"It  is  a  tricky  business,  this  handling 
amateurs.  If  I  see  they  are  nervous,  I  talk 
to  them  a  little  longer,  try  to  quiet  them, 
to  give  them  confidence.  I  try  to  feel  when 
they  are  ready,  to  put  them  on  at  just  the 
right  moment.  But  some  break  down  com- 
pletely. You  can  understand  that — imagine 
how  you  would  feel  yourself." 

I  laughed.  "I'd  get  the  gong  all  right — 
but  it  does  seem  a  sort  of  Roman  holiday." 

"No,  not  that.  It  gives  a  feeling  of  un- 
certainly, an  added  zest.  The  performers  try 
harder  and  the  audience,  tiie  voters,  listen 
more  closely.  It  isn't  all  cut  and  dried  " 

"And  do  you  feel  there  is  equal  oppor- 
tunity for  girls  on  your  program?"  I 
asked.  "How  do  they  show  up  as  compared 
with  the  boys?" 

"W'e  have  a  good  many  more  men  than 
girls  on  the  program.  For  one  ih'mg,  they 
play  more  musical  instrument  than  girls 
do.  Girls  are  more  limited  to  singing  and 
dancing  and  perhaps  playing  the  piano.  I 


should  say  that  we  have  an  equal  number 
of  men  and  women  dancers,  more  women 
impersonators,  perhaps,  but  a  much  larger 
number  of  men  instrumentalists.  And  as 
a  rule,  the  boys  have  much  more  poise, 
more  self-confidence,  are  much  less  ner- 
vous than  the  girls  .  .  ." 

"And  among  the  girls  who've  appeared 
on  the  program,  have  there  been  any  really 
oustanding,  really  successful?" 

"It  is  early  to  tell.  People  forget  that  it 
has  been  only  a  little  over  a  year,  that  our 
first  unit  is  still  on  the  road.  But  there  is 
Doris  Webster — she  went  to  the  Rainbow 
Room  four  days  alter  her  appearance  here 
and  is  now  being  considered  for  the  movies. 
Doris  dramatized  songs  brilliantly — I  re- 
member William  Brady  was  in  the  audience 
that  night  and  shouted:  'Bravo!'  There 
are  several  picture  possibilities  among  our 
youngsters.  And  Eva  Ortega  went  from 
one  of  our  units  to  the  Rainbow.  .  .  . 

"We  have,  in  addition  to  our  units,  a 
showboat  troupe  playing  on  the  Ohio  and 
an  orchestra  here  in  New  York.  Most  of 
our  people  are  earnest  seekers  after  fame 
and  success.  Some  obviously  are  not,  but 
the  mere  notoriety  seekers  are  soon  left 
behind.  I  should  say  that  considering  the 
brief  time  and  lack  of  experience,  our 
youngsters  are  doing  very  creditably." 

He  looked  at  me  challengingly.  "You  can 
see  how  fascinating  it  must  be — the  endless 
variety.  No  two  days,  no  two  programs, 
no  two  people  the  same !" 

"How  about  the  dancing?"  I  wondered. 
"Does  that  craze  seem  to  be  dying  out?" 

"No,  it  is  very  popular.  And  with  the 
radio  fans  as  much  as,  if  not  more  than, 
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gay.  There'.'i  none  of  that  silly  bored  ex- 
pression on  her  face,  as  if  to  let  you  think 
that  she  is  quite  weary  of  being  interviewed 
and  photographed.  And  she  could  act  that 
way  if  she  wanted  to  because  she  is  one 
of  the  most  promising  young  dramatic 
stars  on  the  air.  Her  role  of  Peggy 
Young,  on  the  Pepper  ]'oitiu/'s  Family 
program,  is  an  important  one  for  a  nine- 
teen-year-old. But  Betty  is  much  too  real 
to  have  her  head  turned — maybe  the  fact 
that  she  has  been  on  the  air  ever  since 
she  was  a  child  has  a  lot  to  do  with  it. 

Betty  likes  sports  clothes  and  it  is  under- 
standable because  she  is  quite  athletic — 
goes  in  for  plenty  of  swimming,  riding  and 
golf.  Not  to  mention  her  indoor  activities, 
which  include  arduous  hours  of  mastering 
tap  and  ballet  steps ! 

Even  her  suits  take  a  sporty  turn.  For 
instance,  there's  her  favorite  jacket  and 
skirt  combination,  for  which  she  selected 
the  rust  brown  bowler  hat  and  square 
toed  and  heeled  oxfords.  Her  jacket  is  a 
tan  tweed  widely  checked  in  brown.  One 
day  she  wears  this  with  a  dark  brown 
wool  skirt,  another  day  with  a  deep  but 
bright  green  one.  She  adds  a  novelty  knit 
sweater  in  the  same  rust  brown  shade  as 
lier  hat  and  thus  makes  an  outfit  that  is 
popular  on  college  campuses  the  country 
over.  Betty  knows  her  campus  clothes 
because  she  is  just  young  enough  to  be 
bid  to  football  games  and  proms  by  admir- 
ing swains. 

Take  a  close  look  at  the  hat  she  wears 
with  this  suit  because  its  shape  is  new 
for  this  type  hat — shallow,  slightly 
rounded  crown  with  a  brim  that  rolls  up 
gently  from  the  face.  A  bright  feather 
sticks  through  the  crown  at  front.  A 
becoming  style  for  almost  everyone. 

And  her  oxfords  are  the  very  latest 
trend  in  smart  walking  shoes.  Rust  color 
i)ucko  with  square  leather  heels  and  flat- 
tering squared  off  toe.  The  tongue  detail 
is  tricky,  being  laced  down  with  metal 
eyelets  through  which  the  strings  pull. 
Notice  how  the  contrasting  stitching  gives 
a  graceful  curving  line  to  the  foot.  Betty 
was  crazy  about  these  and  liked  them  also 
in  a  very  swank  new  color  of  sinokey 
gray,  the  stitching  being  in  a  lighter 
shade  and  the  heels  in  black  leather.  This 
model  is  called  "Tongue  Tied"  and  isn't 
it  apt? 

A  hat  that  is  an  equally  youthful  vein 
with  the  rust  brown  bowler  is  an  off-the- 
face  green  stitched  wool  one  which 
Betty  fell  for  completely.  It  might  be 
dubbed  "Campus  Sweetheart"  or  some 
such,  because  a  bright  red  heart,  sewed 
to  the  wide  halo  brim,  is  its  giddy  trim- 
ming. One  of  the  reasons  Betty  wanted 
this  was  because  it  looked  so  smart  with 
a  light  green  tweed  jacket  and  green 
wool  skirt  which  she  wears  a  lot.  Green, 
incidentally,  is  one  of  the  big  color  fa- 
vorites for  this  fall  and  coming  winter. 
And  is  Betty  glad  because  she  looks 
stunning  in  nearly  all  shades  of  it. 

From  the  almost  naive  simplicity  of 
little  brimmed  hats  and  school-girl  tweeds, 
Miss  W.  came  slinking  forth  in  gleaming 
black  satin  and  one  of  those  new  toppers 


that  has  to  be  worn  with  a  knowing 
flair.  I  think  of  all  the  hats  we  picked,  she 
liked  this  the  most.  And  no  wonder !  It 
was  designed  for  just  such  a  piquant  face 
as  hers.  A  shallow  little  affair  in  a  bright, 
deep  blue  felt,  it  carries  a  whole  bright 
green  feathered  bird  perched  almost  pre- 
cariously over  the  front  of  the  brim !  The 
bird  is  a  dizzy  one  having  its  tail  feathers 
pointing  upward  and  its  bright  red  beak 
jutting  out  as  if  to  point  out  how  closely 
it  matches  the  wearer's  lipstick !  A  fabric 
bow  serves  to  hold  this  nestling  firmly  to 
the  brim. 

Don't  feel  shy  about  trying  some  of 
these  uniquely  trimmed  hats.  You'll  find 
you  have  plenty  of  company,  for  the 
majority  of  new  top-pieces  have  ribbons, 
feathers  and  veils  to  make  them  look 
more  than  "just  a  hat."  Shapes  are  in- 
finitely varied,  too.  From  the  flat,  almost 
crownless  style  of  Betty's  hat,  they  rise 
to  heights  in  the  high,  tapered  crowns  of 
the  more  tailored  hats  derived  from  the 
Empire  period  of  dressing.  Then  there  are 
turbans,  with  fetching  bows  flaring  out 
as  front  decoration.  And  a  whole  group 
of  hats  copied  from  the  hats  the  great 
Napoleon  Bonaparte  wore.  And  how  could 
those  look  like  anything,  you  ask?  Really 
very  wearable  and  smart,  with  cockades  of 
colored  ribbons  for  trim  and  lines  modified 
to  be  quite  becoming  to  the  average  face. 

On  a  fall  afternoon,  when  Betty's 
through  with  her  daily  program,  she  likes 
to  go  tea  dancing  or,  later,  dinner  and 
theater  with  a  special  beau.  For  such  an 
occasion  she  dresses  up  a  bit — wears  a 
black  satin  dress,  a  beautiful  white  ermine 
jacket  and  selects  her  accessories  with 
an  eye  to  greater  formality. 

You  see  her  wearing  just  such  a  cos- 
tume. Her  dress  is  simply  made  with  a 
princess  line,  giving  her  slender  figure  a 
snug  fit  through  the  waist  and  a  flare  to 
her  skirt.  Her  jacket  is  collarless  with  a 
flared  back  and  widely  flared  sleeves.  She 
told  me  to  be  sure  to  mention  that,  al- 
though her  jacket  is  in  luxurious  ermine, 
it  can  look  equally  as  smart  when  made 
up  in  the  less  expensive  furs. 

Her  halo  hat  of  tightly  curled  cello- 
phane ribbon  has  a  crown  of  the  same 
veiling  which  covers  her  face.  In  her  hand, 
Betty  carries  one  of  the  smartest  bags 
I've  seen ;  it's  ribbed  satin  in  an  amusing, 
irregular  pouch  shape  with  a  tiny  strap 
for  handle  ai;d  bright  jeweled  knobs  for 
clasp. 

On  her  feet,  she  wears  the  new  high- 
cut  step-in  pumps  of  black  suede.  The 
shiny  details  of  hat  and  costume  are 
high-lighted  by  the  laced  patent  leather 
tongue  and  side  detail  of  the  shoe.  The 
heels  are  patent  leather,  too,  and  the  shoe 
is  designed  with  a  grand  high  arch  cut 
that  gives  a  graceful  yet  supix)rting  line 
to  the  foot. 

In  talking  about  accessories  in  par- 
ticular. Betty  said  she  was  tired  of  formal 
bags  that  are  too  small  to  hold  anything. 
Her  idea  of  a  perfect  bag  for  cocktail  and 
dinner  costumes  is  the  one  photographed. 
It  is  fashioned  of  black  chiffon,  closely 
shirred,  with  rolls  of  the  shirring  run- 


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handle  and  the  stunning  crystal  clasp.  On 
her  arm,  Betty  is  wearing  a  striking,  i 
Heavy-link  bracelet  of  black  catalin  bar- 
rels ringed  with  rhinestones. 

She  likes  to  wear  pearls.  Sometimes 
just  a  single  strand,  nicely  graduated. 
Right  now  she  is  intrigued  with  the  new 
multi-strand  pearl  necklaces  that  give  such 
a  lift  to  high  necklines  on  dark  winter 
dresses.  She  wears  one  of  these  with  a 
black  satin  afternoon  dress  which  has  a 
very  high  draped  scarf,  it's  quite  a 
dramatic  accent. 

Another  of  the  more  formal  hats  which 
we  selected  and  which  Betty  liked  tre- 
mendously, was  a  small  felt  hat  in  a 
lovely  shade  of  soft  green.  It  fitted  her 
head  like  a  cap  and  a  great  bunch  of 
curls,  made  of  the  felt,  trimmed  the  hat 
right  in  front,  giving  the  effect  of  a  high 
bang.  You'll  find  quite  a  number  of  hats 
which  seem  to  use  coiffure  details  in  trim- 
ming— it's  an  amusing  idea  and  surpris- 
ingly becoming. 

When  it  comes  to  evening  clothes, 
Betty  told  me  that  she  doesn't  care  for 
sophistication  at  all.  She  likes  simple, 
youthful  styles  without  any  very  bizarre 
details  or  cuts.  I  found  her  whole  atti- 
tude on  clothes  one  of  saneness,  with  just 
enough  enthusiasm  for  new  tricks  and 
ideas.  I  would  say  that  she  is  a  good  type 
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eyed  and  of  medium  height.  Her  dis- 
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fad  and  fancy  which  cumes  along. 

So  many  of  you  write  in  to  me,  asking 
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and  rendered  merely  lip-service  on  the 
others. 

Finally  help  appeared  from  an  unex- 
pected (|uarter.  Fred  Weber,  of  the  Mu- 
liial  Broadcasting  System,  said: 

"We'll  liroadcast  every  stake  race  in  tlie 
metropolitan  season."  And  since  the  met- 
ropolitan season  embraces  a  period  of  from 
April  15th  to  October  31st,  a  total  of  172 
racing  days  at  Saratoga,  Jamaica,  Bel- 
mont Park,  Aqueduct  and  Empire  City,  it 
forms  the  backbone  of  American  racing. 

Tlie  Mutual  System  gave  racing  its  great 
('l)]inrtunit\',  with  the  broadcasting  of  ap- 
proximately three  stake  races  a  week,  plus 
a  F'riday  night  racing  feature,  which  in- 
cluded a  preview  of  the  card  for  the  fol- 
lowing day.  All  Mutual  asked  in  return 
was  exclusive  rights,  wliich  it  received, 
much  to  the  indignation  of  NBC  and  CBS, 
which  had  been  offered  the  saine  chance, 
but  had  turned  it  down. 

Since  a  horse  race  rarely  is  longer  than 
two  minutes  in  the  running,  its  briefness 
makes  it  ideal  for  radio.  Where  a  base- 
l;all  game  lasts  two  hours,  a  boxing  match 
an  hour,  a  football  game  two  and  a  half 
iiours,  the  entire  story  of  a  race,  its  set- 
ting, course  and  finish,  can  be  polished  off 
in  fifteen  minutes. 

When  the  Racing  Associations  and  the 
Mutual  System  reached  this  agreement,  the 
racing  folk  said:  "Bryan  h'ield  is  the  man 
to  handle  the  entire  thing."  And  Mutual 
agreed,  with  Field,  racing  writer  for  the 
New  York  Times,  receiving  carte  blanche 
in  all  details  of  the  broadcasting. 

Field  went  to  work  with  a  will.  His 
success  is  evidenced  by  the  increased  at- 
tendance at  racing  this  summer. 

The  Friday  night  programs  of  Field 
lean  heavily  on  guest  stars,  but  guest  stars 
who  mean  something  to  racing.  Babe  Han- 
lord,  who  rode  Bold  I 'ml are  to  its  sensa- 
tional victory  in  the  Kentucky  Derby  last 
May;  Mary  Hirsch,  trainer  of  Bold  Ven- 
ture and  the  only  woman  racing  trainer  in 
the  country ;  Rigan  AlcKinney,  29-year-old 
millionaire  steeplechase  jockey;  Alfred 
Gwynne  Vanderbilt,  owner  of  Discovery: 
Jack  Campbell,  leading  handicapper  of  the 
cnimtry,  and  Joiui  Sloan,  nf  the  New  York 
State  Racing  Commission,  are  some  of  th.e 
turf  notables  F'ield  has  hail  on  tiie  air. 

F~ield  has  been  covering  racing  for  the 
New  Yr)rk  Times  since  1928  and  has  mas- 
tered tiie  difficult  art  of  "calling,"  an  es- 
sential for  any  turf  writer.  Without  this 
gift,  for  "calling"  is  truly  an  instinctive 
gift,  no  announcer  can  ixipe  to  do  a  suc- 
cessful job  of  l)roadi-asting.  "Calling"  is 
placing  the  horses  as  the\'  pass  tlie  various 
distance  poles  in  a  race,  calling  their  posi- 
tions in  relation  to  the  positions  of  the 
other  iiorses  in  tlie  race^  It  is  the  "callers" 
who  make        the  charts  which  constitute 


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You  eventually  get  so  tliat  the  Ininch  of 
a  jockey,  the  shape  of  a  horse's  head,  its 
gait,  enable  you  to  identify  immediately 


horse  and  jockey.  Even  if  it  comes  up 
mud,  as  we  say  at  the  track,  you  still  can 
call  'em,  despite  the  fact  that  their  silks 
may  be  one  gray  smear  of  mud,  rather 
than  any  particular  color." 

An  instance  of  Field's  ability,  as  a 
trained  sports  reporter,  to  tell  what  is  hap- 
pening at  the  second  or  split-second  it 
happens,  was  illustrated  by  his  work  at 
the  start  of  the  Kentucky  Derby  this  year. 
At  the  outset  of  this  event,  the  most  publi- 
cized race  in  America,  there  was  a  terrific 
jam.  It  was  the  roughest  start  of  a  stake 
race  in  this  country's  history.  Breinty,  the 
top- favorite,  was  sloughed  at  the  outset 
and  knocked  almost  to  his  knees.  Another 
well-backed  choice,  Granville,  lost  its  rider. 

Field  had  to  make  an  instantaneous  de- 
cision. Should  he  describe  the  wreckage 
at  the  start  and  pick  up  the  race  later,  or 
should  he  dismiss  it  with  a  "Somcthing's- 
liappcucd-back-thcrc-zvc'll-give-yoti-the-de- 
tails-lalcr."  His  trained  eye  immediately 
picked  up  the  fact  that  Brcz'ity,  the  fa- 
vorite, and  therefore  the  horse  in  which 
most  people  were  interested,  had  met  with 
interference  and  he  promptly  described  the 
misiiap  in  its  entirety,  picking  up  the  other 
horses  just  as  they  hit  the  first  turn. 

That  his  judgment  was  correct  in  de- 
scribing the  rough  start  was  borne  out 
later  by  the  fact  that  the  stewards  sus- 
pended three  jockeys,  including  Babe  Han- 
ford,  who  rode  the  winner.  Bold  Venture. 
And  Field's  account  of  the  jam  received 
100  per  cent,  corroboration  in  the  papers 
next  day,  although  his  description  was 
given  on  the  spot,  while  the  writers  had 
a  chance  to  interview  stewards,  starters 
and  jockeys  before  writing  their  version. 

You  may  have  listened  to  a  racing  broad- 
caster some  few  years  ago  who  went  un- 
der the  name  of  Thomas  Bryan  George. 
That  was  Bryan  Field  in  the  early  days, 
who  adapted  that  name  from  his  own  first 
naine,  his  son's  first  name  and  his  pet 
name  for  Mrs.  Field,  who  was  christened 
Georgiana. 

Field  drifted  into  racing  announcing  by 
accident.  Graham  McNamee  had  broadcast 
some  races  for  A'^i?C  in  1929  and  when 
the  important  Belmont  Stakes  came  up, 
one  of  the  racing  moguls  told  Grahain  he 
had  better  get  some  expert  help  for  the 
c\  ent.  McNamee  asked  whom  could  he  get 
and  w;is  told  that  I-'ield,  who  was  standing 
ncar!)y,  would  be  "as  giiod  as  any."  So 
Bryan  got  his  first  taste  of  broadcasting. 

The  following  year.  Herl)ert  B.  Glover 
of  the  Columbia  iietwurk.  signed  Field  to 
assist  Ted  ilusin-  in  hrc laik'asting  some  of 
tiie  iiirtrcjpolilaii  stake  events.  During  the 
running  "f  the  Alal)ani:i  Stakes  at  Sara- 
toga that  summer,  l-'ield  had  to  speak  for 
nearly  an  huur,  ins(eaii  of  ten  minutes,  as 
Franklin  D.  Konsevelt,  then  governor  of 
New  Vcuk  State,  was  sliut  off  the  air 
t]ir(JUi;li  a  niix-up  in  signals. 

A  niicropliune  had  been  set  up  near  the 
top  nl  the  stands  for  (ioveriior  Roose- 
velt, while  h'ielil  was  to  bro;uk'ast  the  race 
from  the  \ery  top.  Throu.uh  an  error,  the 
(iovenior  never  went  on  the  air  and  Br}an 
had  to  keel)  tl't  mike  going  the  entire  time. 

Tills  convinced  Glover  that  Field  was 


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tlie  mail  for  raciiis;  and  Bryan  did  a  com- 
plete schedule  in  1931,  which  season  saw 
CBS  begin  to  take  the  play  away  from 
the  A'alifliial  Chain,  which  had  been  ex- 
ploiting Clem  McCarthy  on  its  larger  net- 
work and  was  practically  without  com- 
petition until  the  entrance  of  Field. 

Field  worked  on  until  1933,  but  grad- 
ually was  getting  fed  up  with  his  poorly- 
paid  radio  duties,  particularly  when  Glover 
left  the  organization  and  the  iin  anises  he 
had  made  to  Bryan  were  cancelled.  He 
was  ready  to  quit  after  the  Kentucky 
Derby  of  1933,  but  his  success  in  that 
broadcast  buoyed  him  up. 

That  was  the  Derby  in  which  Broker's 
Tip  and  Head  Play  came  down  the  stretch 
neck-and-neck,  with  their  jocke>s  fightin.y 
each  other  tooth  and  nail.  The  tactics  of 
the  two  riders  should  iiave  led  to  their 
disqualification,  which  would  have  made 
the  third  horse,  Charlie  O.,  the  winner. 
Field  called  the  fouls  as  he  saw  them  com- 
mitted, but  the  NBC  announcer  made  no 
mention  of  them  at  all. 

Although  there  were  no  disqualifications, 
the  papers  ne.xt  day  were  full  of  the  fouls. 
Harvey  Ro\  le.  sports  columnist  i>f  the 
Pittsburgh  Post-C^iazette.  de\otccl  an  entue 
Monday  column  t'l  the  incompetence  of 
racing  broadcasters,  pointing  out  that  he 
had  listened  to  the  X'BC  broadcast  and 
heard  no  mention  of  the  fouls,  which  were 
described  in  every  newspaper  account. 

By  noon  next  day,  Boyle  received  nearly 
100  letters  from  readers,  wh.o  told  him, 
in  efTect,  "he  had  been  listening  to  the 
wrong  guy"  and  telling  of  the  excellent 
descriptive  job  that  Thomas  Bryan  George 
had  done  on  CBS. 

The  tremendous  sweep  of  approbation 
Field  received  after  this  race  induced  him 
to  continue.  Failure  of  CBS  to  follow  his 
suggestions  in  the  winter  of  1934-35  again 
had  Bryan  on  the  point  of  quitting.  He 
outlined  a  plan  whereby  CBS  could  obtain 
exclusive  rights  to  the  broadcast  of  the 
$100,000  Santa  Anita  Handicap,  which  was 
being  run  for  the  first  time.  Columbia 
officials  paid  him  no  heed,  with  the  result 
that  NBC  sewed  it  up  for  an  exclusixe. 

Field  grew  critical  and  told  his  bosses 
they  should  endeavor  to  retaliate  by  get- 
ting an  exclusive  on  the  Kentucky  Derh.w 
They  laughed  at  him  and  he  immediate'., 
said  he  himself  would  attempt  to  land  such 
a  contract  for  the  chain,  asking  only  that 
they  pay  his  expenses,  while  he  contributed 
his  time  free. 

Field  went  first  to  Chicago  and  then  to 
Louisville  and  succeeded  in  swinging 
Colonel  Matt  Winn  into  line.  The  result 
was  that  he  landed  both  an  exclusive  for 
the  Derby  and  a  commercial  sponsor — Kool 
Cigarettes.  It  was  the  first  time  in  history 
that  a  commercial  sponsor  was  obtained  for 
any  horse  race — and  the  Derby  had  been 
going  on  the  air  since  1924,  when  Credo 
Harris,  over  IVH.AS.  Louisville,  broad- 
cast the  story  of  Blaek  Cold's  victory. 

Despite  this  success  of  Field,  Columlna 
still  failed  to  heed  his  urgings  for  a  com- 
mercial sponsor,  and  now,  1936,  finds 
Bryan  aligned  with  Mutual — and  racing 
getting  its  best  break  from  radio. 

Field's  broadcast  of  the  stake  meetings 
of  the  metropolitan  season  puts  the  races 
before  the  listening  public  as  they  really 
are,  without  embellishments,  without  false 
drama  or  the  hysterical  flub-dub  so  often 
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(Continued  from  page  9) 


he  w  ould  enthuse  only  over  such  things  as 
Muslironiiis  sous  Cloche,  Bouillabaisse 
Speciale.  or  Crepes  Suaclt£ — those  gusta- 
tory delights  that  are  "simply  elegant"  to 
cat  but  far  from  "elegantly  simple"  to 
make ! 

Fortunately,  however,  such  was  not  the 
case  for  all  the  foods  he  mentioned — even 
several  Waldorf  specialties — are  easy  to 
prepare  and  feature  every-day-ordinary 
things  such  as  chicken  and  eggs  and  ice 
cream,  and  home-made  cinnamon  buns. 

And  the  best  news  of  all,  doubtless,  is 
that  I  was  able  to  get  recipes  for  all  of 
these  Wayne  King  favorites,  which  I  in- 
tend to  pass  on  to  you.  You'll  find  kitchen- 
tested  recipes  for  them  all  in  this  month's 
free  Radio  Hostess  Leaflet.  So  why  not 
send  in,  now,  for  your  copy? 

(By  the  way,  the  coupon,  this  month, 
will  also  bring  you  two  additional  recipe 
leaflets  w-hicb  you  may  not  have  sent  for 
before.  These  are  some  that  we  happen 
to  have  left  from  previous  offers  and  that 
we'll  be  pleased  to  let  you  have  as  long 
as  the  rather  limited  supply  lasts.  Per- 
haps it  would  be  well  to  mark  on  the 
coupon  your  order  of  preference  for  we 
can  only  send  two  of  these  "extras"  with 
each  new  Wayne  King  leaflet.) 

And  now  let  me  tell  you  briefly  about 
the  foods  suggested  by  Mr.  King — starting 
our  discussion  as  he  starts  his  day,  with 
a  hearty  breakfast  featuring  yeast-raised 
Cinnamon  Buns. 

"They  are  made  for  us  by  our  colored 
servant  who  took  care  of  my  wife  when 
she  was  a  child  and  still  is  busily  and 
proudly  looking  out  for  her  welfare  and 
that  of  the  present  generation  of  children. 
I'll  ask  her  to  send  you  the  recipe,"  Wayne 
promised.  "These  buns  are  ec|ually  good 
fresh  or  toasted  and  great  favorites  with 
us  all,  especially  with  Penny,"  he  went  on 
while  I  made  a  mental  note  to  call  them 
Penny  Buns.  They  quite  live  up  to  Mr. 
King's  description,  too,  as  I  discovered 
subsequently  upon  testing  the  recipe. 
You'll  find  them  amazingly  easy  to  "mix 
and  set  to  rise,"  with  a  new  tzvist  that 
makes  me  believe  that  the  King's  cook 
keeps  up  with  the  trend  of  the  times. 

Then  there's  a  recipe  in  the  leaflet  for 
a  special  scrambled  egii  concoction.  This 
dish  is  one  that  Mr.  King  himself  knows 
how  to  prepare.  You  know  how  it  is  with 
men  !  Just  give  them  a  f  r_\  ing  pan,  a  lump 
of  butter,  some  ci^u-  and  fixings  and 
they'll  declare  llRnisrl\ cs  able  to  turn  out 
the  world's  finest  I'unny  part  of  it 

is,  that  sometimes  the.\  "re  al)soliitel\'  right! 
In  this  case,  for  instance,  Wa>ne  has  hit 
upon  a  real  idea  and  liis  I:ii!is  a  la  Kiiifi 
can  be  the  food-success  of  your  next  late- 
supi)er  party  or  just  \-our  la\iirite  stand- 
in  the  future.  Full  directions  for  mak- 
ing them  will  be  found  on  one  of  the  rec- 

Of  course  Wayne  also  spoke  with  the 
greatest  enthusiasm  of  some  of  tlie  dishes 
he  had  eaten  during  his  pleasant  stay  at 
the  Waldorf.    But  even  these  dishes  were 


not  of  the  type  to  test  our  skill,  though 
they  do  reflect  in  their  perfection  the  art 
of  the  chef  who  gave  me  his  very  own 
recipes  for  preparing  them. 

For,  as  you  can  well  imagine,  Wayne 
King's  recommendation  piqued  my  curios- 
ity and  I  was  determined  to  get  those  rec- 
ipes from  the  Waldorf-Astoria's  famous 
Chcf-de-cnisinc,  Gabriel  Lugot.  And  get 
them  I  did.  One  is  for  Chicken  Oscar — 
Oscar  being  the  gentleman  who  has  been 
so  closely  identified  with  the  history  of 
that  hotel  that  his  name  has  a  way  of 
popping  up  frequently  around  there.  It  is 
not  surprising,  therefore,  to  find  the  name 
"Oscar"  given  to  a  sauce — Sauce  Oscar, 
suggested  by  Wayne  King  as  the  ideal 
steak  or  shrimp  seasoning — and  also  to 
this  truly  tempting  way  of  cooking 
chicken  en  casserole.  Tlie  skill  of  a  French 
chef  is  apparent  in  the  directions  for  pre- 
paring this  dish,  but  the  most  amateurish 
of  American  cooks  can  follow  the  recipe. 

I  also  was  able  to  get  two  other  Wal- 
dorf recipes  .  .  .  both  for  Petits  Fours. 
Petits  Fours,  you  know,  are  an  assortment 
of  very  small  cakes  and  cookies.  The  two 
for  which  I  snared  mixing  and  baking  di- 
rections are  comparatively  simple  even 
though  they  do  boast  of  such  names  as 
Rosane  Normande  and  Palais  de  Dame. 
Oo,  la!  la!  How  fancy!  But  don't  let 
the  French  terminology  frighten  you. 
They're  just  cookies,  after  all,  though  par- 
ticularly tasty  ones  naturally. 

You'll  want  to  know  how  to  fix  all 
these  Waldorf  specialties,  I'm  sure,  for 
it's  a  rare  treat,  indeed,  to  be  able  to  get 
a  Master  Chef  to  part  with  any  of  his 
treasured  secrets.  (A  bit  temperamental, 
these  fellows,  though  don't  ever  say  it 
was  I  who  told  you!)  So  it  is  with  real 
pride  that  I  announce  that  you'll  find  Mr. 
Lugot's  recipes  for  these  food  favorites 
of  Wayne  King's  in  this  month's  free 
leaflet  which  contains  directions  for  pre- 
paring the  Egys  a  la  King  and  the  Penny 
Buns  already  mentioned,  as  well  as  for  the 
Chicken  Oscar  and  the  two  Petits  Fours. 
These  last,  by  the  way,  make  an  ideal 
sweet  to  serve  with  coffee,  or  better  still 
they  are  the  perfect  ice  cream  accompani- 
ment. And  you  couldn't  possibly  write  an 
article  about  Wayne  King's  food  prefer- 
ences without  mentioning  ice  cream  in 
some  form. 

For  here,  indeed,  is  an  ice  cream  en- 
thusiast !  On  the  warm  day  when  I  met 
Mr.  King,  for  example,  he  was  enjoying 
one  of  his  favorite  ice  cream  concoctions 
— undoubtedly  one  of  the  simplest  of 
ideas,  yet  one  of  the  most  delicious. 
Simply  put  a  scoop  of  ice  cream  in  the 
bottom  of  a  tall  glass  and  fill  the  glass 
with  plain  milk  —  almost  a  pint  of  it. 
Then  stir  with  a  spoon. 

"Stirriny  is  part  of  the  fun,"  declared 
Wayne  suitinu  the  action  to  the  word  and 
bus\ing  liinisklf  with  the  job,  smiling 
nierril>'  the  while.  ".\ow  taste  it,"  he 
suggested.  "\\\'  call  it  the  lozca  Special," 
he  went  on.  "Penny  adores  it.     And  isn't 


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it  a  fine  way  to  get  a  kid  to  drink  a  greater 
amount  of  milk?" 

It  is,  indeed,  and  I  suggest  that  you  try 
it  out  as  an  after-school  lunch  for  your 
child  or  a  mid-afternoon  pick-me-up  for 
yourself.    Don't  add  any  flavoring. 

Two  other  easily  made  ice  cream  treats 
also  appeal  to  Mr.  King,  Cherry-Almond 
and  Hawaiian  Sundaes.  Both  call  for 
vanilla  ice  cream  to  begin  with.  For  the 
first,  large  black  canned  cherries  are  used. 
These  are  drained  and  placed  around  the 
cream.  The  whole  is  then  topped  with 
finely  chopped  or  shredded  almonds. 
Salted  almonds  may  be  used. 

The  second  sundae  is  made  by  arranging 
wedges  of  canned  pineapple  attractively 
on  top  of  individual  servings  of  ice  cream. 
Place  a  cherry  (red  or  green  maraschino) 
in  the  center  for  color  contrast  and  pour 
a  little  of  the  juice  from  the  can  into 
each  dish.  Well,  those  suggestions  are 
certainly  easy,  aren't  they?  And  remem- 
ber, ice  cream  is  a  universal  favorite  the 
year  around. 

There's  just  room  left  to  give  you 
recipe  for  the  salad  to  which  the  Waldorf 
gave  its  name  more  years  ago  than  you 
and  I  would  care  to  remember.  Ideal  for 
the  fall  when  apples  are  in  season.  Be 
sure  to  try  this  recipe  and  be  equally  cer- 
tain to  send  for  the  leaflet  featuring 
Wayne  King's  favorite  foods — with  two 
of  the  three  extra  leaflets  included  •  for 
those  who  care  to  have  them. 

WALDORF  SALAD 

lyi  cup  diced  celery 

3  tablespoons  levion  juice 
2  tablespoons  sugar 
a  dash  of  salt 
IVi  cups  diced  apples 
%  cup  mayonnaise 
14  cup  cream,  whipped 


Place  celer 


tee  icater  to  get  crisp. 


Drain  and  dry  thoroughly.  Add  lemon 
juice,  sugar  and  salt  to  diced  apples. 
Chill  in  refrigerator  10  minutes.  Add 
celery.  Combine  mayonnaise  and  whipped 
cream..  Add  to  celery  and  apple  mi.vture 
and  toss  lightly  with  salad  fork  and  spoon, 
until  thoroughly  blended.  Serve  on  crisp 
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THE  MAJOR  ON 
PARADE 

{Continued  from  page  89) 


with  the  studio  audieiicfs.  And  I  have 
iKwr  seen  such  audiences  a.s  we  have  had 
l;itcl.\-.  The\'ve  been  wonderful,  marvelous. 
The  dancing  goes  over  very  well  indeed — 
I  introduced  tap  dancing,  you  know,  over 
the  air  on  my  original  amateur  program 
ten  or  twelve  years  ago.  It  went  over 
fairly  well  even  then."  lie  laughed.  "I  re- 
member saying  that  tap  dancing  had  gone 
over  so  well,  I  thought  I'd  try  putting  a 
prestidigitator  on  the  air  and  got  some 
very  serious  letters  from  people  who  won- 
dered how  they  would  get  the  point  of 
tricks  they  couldn't  see!" 

Yes,  they've  always  taken  the  Major  seri- 
ously and  always  will.  Partly,  no  doubt, 
because  in  spite  of  a  rich  Irish  sense  of 
humor,  he  takes  himself  very  seriously  and 
his  work  more  so. 

Work  was  his  panacea  when  he  lost  his 
beloved  wife.  It  fills  his  life  today  and 
brings  a  rich  contentment,  not  only  be- 
cause it  brings  a  fabulous  reward  finan- 
cially, nor  merely  because  it  keeps  him 
occupied  day  in  and  day  out,  but  because 
he  himself  thinks  it  is  essentially  con- 
structive and  worth  while  work.  And  be- 
cause he  was  born  to  lead,  to  dominate, 
and  revels  in  the  sense  of  power  his  posi- 
tion gives  him.  You  could  not  conceive  of 
his  being  content  with  a  passive,  quiet 
life.  He  has  indeed  been  lucky  in  finding 
an  outlet  for  his  energy,  his  strength,  his 
imagination,  his  varied  talents.  And  we 
cannot  sneer  at  a  man  who  has  brought 
delight  not  only  to  aspirants  for  fame  and 
fortune  who  have  profited  through  him, 
but  to  the  radio  audiences  from  Nome, 
Alaska  to  Liberia,  Africa! 

If  it  enables  him  to  line  his  walls  with 
magnificent  paintings — and  my  feet  loi- 
tered in  the  halls  as  I  reluctantly  walked 
through  them,  unwilling  to  leave  them 
with  only  a  casual  glance:  if  in  his  home 
he  enjoys  beautiful  things,  is  particularly 
proud  of  his  antique  silver;  if  he  loves 
to  wander  in  a  garden  redolent  with  the 
sweet  perfume  of  gardenias — after  all,  why 
not  ?  They  are  his !  And  if  he  revels  in 
the  adulation,  thrives  on  the  applause, 
thrills  to  his  position  as  No.  1  man  in  the 
entertainment  world — it  would  be  very 
curious  if  he  didn't! 

He  seems  to  have  an  unquenchable  thirst 
for  work.  It  keeps  you  young,  he  says — 
and  he  can  say  it,  for  he  works  tirelessly 
anrl  looks  much  younger  than  his  years, 
much  younger  than  his  pictures. 

In  talking  to  him,  I  sought  for  honesty 
of  purpose,  for  integrity,  for  sincerity, 
idealism — and  I  i)elie\e  these  qualities  are 
there,  that  in  no  other  way  could  you  ac- 
count for  the  integrated,  delightful  per- 
sonality that  dominates  the  radio  world 
today — and  dominates  it  very  jileasantly  in- 
deed. I  saw  no  tail  and  horns.  And  if  he 
is  a  little  pompous,  a  bit  vain — no  one 
has  seriously  challenged  his  position. 

We  would  conceivably  find  it  harder  to 
forgive  so  much  conceit  in  a  lesser  man, 
but  the  stage  the  Major  struts  is  big  and 
his  audience  world-wide!  Let's  not  be 
small  enough  to  begrudge  it  to  him! 


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RADIO  STARS 


RADIO 
RAMBLINGS 

(Continued  from  page  72) 

MUSIC  ON  THE  AIR 

We've  often  zvondcred  if  radio  had  not 
superseded  the  use  of  musical  instruments 
ill  the  average  home.  We  find  tcr  are 
wrong.  _^ 

According  to  piano  executives,  radio  is 
responsible  for  a  300  per  cent  increase  in 
piano  sales.  Stimulating  music  apprecia- 
tion and  promoting  general  music  culture 
in  millions  of  listeners,  it  has  produced  a 
natural  desire  to  create  music — and  thus 
has  provided  a  notable  increase  in  the 
sale  of  musical  instruments. 


POLITICS  ON  THE  AIR 

According  to  Hcywood  Broun,  in  hi. 
page  in  The  X'ation,  the  only  clmjucnl  Xci 
Deal  commentator  over  the  air  is  fninkli 
D.  Roose-velt.  Edivin  C.  Hill,  Boakc  Car 
ter  and  Lowell  Thomas,  top  nctiy.'ork  coi, 
inentators,  are  anti-Nezv  Deal. 


NEW  HONORS 

Enric  Madriguera,  the  gifted  young 
maestro,  is  winning  new  honors  in  the 
world  of  dance  music.  Having  established 
himself  as  the  Tango  King,  Madriguera 
was  quick  to  realize  that  this  type  of  music 
had  become  a  drug  on  the  market.  Ac- 
cordingly he  set  out  to  establish  himself 
as  one  of  the  leading  exponents  of  the  soft 
rhythmic  dance  music  of  the  American 
type.  That  he  has  succeeded  is  evidenced 
by  his  continued  popularity  with  New 
York's  smart  dance  set.  His  broadcasts 
are  heard  regularly  over  WOR. 

DESTINY'S  CHILDREN 

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milliner  .  .  .  Kenny  Baker's  dad  cx-pec^ed 
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family  planned  for  him  a  future  as  a  Wall 
Street  financier  .  .  .  Shepper))ian  zcas 
scheduled  to  be  a  lazvyer  .  .  .  Don  Wilson's 
folks  hoped  he  zvould  be  a  missionary  .  .  . 
Parks  Johnson's  father  and  grandfather  be- 
fore him  zvere  preachers,  but  Parks  felt 
no  urge  to  mount  the  pulpit.  He  does, 
however,  carry  on  the  family  tradition  in 
part — by  holding  a  stezmrdship  in  a  church 
in  his  home  tozi-n  in  Texas  .  .  .  Lozcell 
Thomas,  NBC  commentator,  has  been  about 
everything  from  cozi'puneher  to  college  pro- 
fessor .  .  .  Graham  McNamee  broke  azi'ay 
as  soon  as  he  could  from  his  destined  ca- 
reer as  concert  baritone  .  .  .  George  Hicks, 
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makcr^  haberdashery  salesman,  hardzvare 
clerk  and  truck  driver  .  .  .  At  the  age  of 
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J', mill  I!  fine  job  in  Fred  Allen's  absence. 

31.  YOUR    HIT   PARADE    (NBC  and  CBS) 

.  .  .68.8 

The  fifteen  most  popular  tunes  of  the  ZL'cek 
and  Zi'C  dare  you  not  to  dance. 

32.  THE  SHELL  CHATEAU— SMITH  BAL- 
LEW,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  (NBC)  68.4 

Smith  Ballcw  has  one  of  the  finest  person- 
alities and  voices  you'll  hear.  Guest  stars 
a  plenty. 

33.  SPORT  PARADE — THORNTON  FISHER 
(NBC)   68.3 

Kapid-firc  reports  of  zi'hat's  nc:o  in  the  sport- 
in,,  -.i'orld  bv  the  'vell-known  cartoonist. 

34.  LEO    REISMAN'S    ORCHESTRA  (NBC) 

.  .  .67.4 

"Call  for  Philip  Morris!" 

35.  MAJOR  BOWES'  CAPITOL  FAMILY 
(NBC)  67.2 

/(  u'ouldn't  be  Sunday  '.eithout  this  long- 
established  favorite. 

36.  PAUL  WHITEMAN'S  MUSICAL  VARIE- 
TIES  (NBC)   67.0 

Bx  all  means,  tune  in. 

37.  LAVENDER    AND    OLD    LACE  (NBC) 

,  .  .67.0 

Frank  Miinn  and  Lucv  Monroe  again. 

38.  LOWELL  THOMAS'  (NBC)  66.8 

The  news  under  a  microscope. 

39.  MELODIANA  (NBC)   66.2 

Melody  is  supreme. 

40.  THE  GOLDBERGS    (CBS)  66.0 

One  Man's  Family's  closest  rival. 

41.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  (NBC) 

.  .  .  65.8 

Just  the  thing  when  the  jitters  have  you 
jumping  

42.  RY-KRISP  PRESENTS  MARION  TALLEY 
(NBC)   65.7 

The  former  Metropolitan  opera  star's  voice  is 
ideally  suited  for  the  microphone. 

43.  ALEMITE  HALF  HOUR  WITH  HEIDT'S 
BRIGADIERS  (CBS)   65.5 

One  of  the  best  and  qcttinq  even  better. 

44.  GABRIEL   HEATTER    (MBS)  65.5 

A  convincina  commentator. 

45.  CRUMIT  AND  S  A  N  D  E  R  S  O  N  — H  A  L 
KEMP'S   ORCHESTRA   (CBS)  65.2 

Their  motive  is  to  make  you  happy  and  in- 
variably  they  succeed. 

46.  TEA  TIME  TUNES — RAMONA  AND 
SHILKRET'S  ORCHESTRA   (CBS)  64.8 

Ramona's  soni/s  and  piano  playimi  have  the 
zip  and  bounce   you've  been  scarc'hin,,  for. 

47.  BOAKE  CARTER    (CBS)  64.7 

Most  fearless  of  the  commentators,  but  he 
draos  111  the  commercials  bv  the  ears. 

48.  KALTENBORN  EDITS  THE  NEWS  (CBS) 

.  .  .  64.4 

Aton,/  the  lines  of  Edwin  C.  Hilt. 

49.  DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS   (NBC)  64.2 

Fxactlx  as  you  would  suppose. 

50.  AMERICA  DANCES— LUD  GLUSKIN'S 
ORCHESTRA    (CBS)  64.0 

Impossible  to  dance  to  .some  of  the  unusual 
Gluskm   arranucmcnts,   but   always  a  deliyht 

51.  TED  HUSING  AND  THE  CHARIOTEERS 
(CBS)   64.0 

Ted  can't  wuil  fnr  fr„ibali  to  start. 

52.  CLEM  McCarthy  — SPORTS  SHOTS 
(NBC)   63.7 

His  voice  makes  the  most  inconsequential  golf 

53.  BENNy''"fIELd¥— VoUR^ 

MAN  (CBS)   63.5 

Song  and  sentiment  salesman  and  you're 
bound  to  he  sold. 

54.  FOLLIES  DE  PAREE  WITH  WILLIE  AND 
EUGENE  HOWARD  AND  FIFI  D'ORSAY 
(NBC)   63.4 

Good  fun  by  the  Howard  Brothers  and  Fifi's 

55.  CAREFREE  CARNIVAL  (NBC)  62.4 

Merriment  and  melodies. 

56.  SALT  LAKE  CITY  TABERNACLE  AND 
ORGAN  (CBS)   61.8 

For  our  better  sides. 

57.  HAMMERSTEIN    MUSIC    HALL  (CBS) 

.  .  .61.2 

BriniTnui  back  the  stars  of  the  qood  old  days. 

58.  MUSICAL  TOAST  — JERRY  COOPER, 
SALLY  SCHERMERHORN,  RAY  BLOCK'S 
ORCHESTRA  (CBS)   61.0 

1  he  tricky  arranqcment s  of  Ray  Block's  or- 
chestra are  somcthina  to  hear. 

59.  EASY  ACES   (NBC)  60.8 

Jane  and  Goodman  Ace  ahoays  can  be  de- 
pended upon  for  oenuinc  laiiqhs. 

60.  KATE  SMITH'S  BAND  (CBS)  60.4 

Doinq  nicclx  'oliilc  Kale  enjoys  a  vacation. 

61  YOU— GILBERT  SELDES  (NBC)  60.3 

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62  MAJOR  BOWES'  ORIGINAL  AMATEUR 
HOUR  (NBC)   ;""c  ';'®°; 

The  result  of  the  change  from  Sunday  to 
Thursday  evening  will  be  interesting  to  see. 


63.  NATIONAL  AMATEUR  NIGHT — BENNY 
RUBIN  (MBS)   60.0 

Benny    makes  a    qrand   master-of -ceremonies. 

64.  NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE  (NBC).. 59.8 
Best  of  the  rural  frolics. 

65.  TIM  RYAN  AND  IRENE  NOBLETTE 
WITH  DON  VOORHEES  ORCHESTRA  (NBC) 

Jack  Benny's  understudies. 

66.  GANG  BUSTERS  (CBS)  59.5 

Phillips  Lord,  with  e.rciting  crime  yarns  and 
unusual  quest  stars. 

67.  FRANK  FAY  CALLING  (NBC)  59.4 

Awfully  qood  at  times. 

68.  FRIGIDAIRE  FROLICS— CLARA,  LU  'N' 
EM   (NBC)   59.4 

Housewiz'es  can  be  so  amusing. 

69.  MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND 
(NBC)   59.0 

Rachel  Carlay  heads  the  merrymakers. 

70.  BURNS  AND  ALLEN — DUCHIN  OR- 
CHESTRA  (CBS)   58.8 

You  can't  get  enough  of  Grade's  humor — so 
why  must  she  sinq? 

71.  TODAY'S  CHILDREN   (NBC)  58.4 

And  today's  problems. 

72.  FIBBER    McGEE    AND    MOLLY  (NBC) 

.  .  .58.0 

Fibber's  fame  is  qatning. 

73.  IRENE  RICH  (NBC)  58.0 

Dramatic  tidbits  starrinq  Irene. 

74.  MARTHA  DEANE  (MBS)  58.0 

Ramblmqs. 

75.  TED  MALONE'S  BETWEEN  THE  BOOK- 
ENDS   (CBS)   58.0 

Yon  needn't  be  a  book-a'orm  to  enjoy  Ted. 

76.  VOX  POP— THE  VOICE  OF  THE  PEO- 
PLE  (NBC)   58.0 

Nothing  is  more  interesting  than  the  voice  of 
the  people,  as  guided  by  Jerry  Belcher  and 
Parks  Johnson. 

77.  BROADWAY  VARIETIES  (CBS)  57.3 

Diverting. 

78.  LAUGH    WITH    KEN    MURRAY  (CBS) 

...57.2 

A'l'ii  has  a  wealth  of  amusing  material  every 
time,  so  be  prepared  to  laugh. 

79.  GREATER  SINCLAIR  MINSTRELS  (NBC) 

.  .  .56.8 

Gus  Van  in  cliarqe. 

80.  THE  ATLANTIC  FAMILY — BOB  HOPE, 
NICHOLS  ORCHESTRA   (CBS)  56.3 

Bob   Hope  and  "Honey  Chile"  form  a  swell 

81.  AMERICAN  PAGEANT  OF  YOUTH 
(NBC)   55.8 

Glorifvinq  the  youngsters. 

82.  CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  (CBS).. 55.2 

The  United  States  in  the  making. 

83.  HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  (NBC)  55.0 

Marital  problems  publicly  and  entertainly 
aired. 

84.  WILDERNESS  ROAD  (CBS)  55.0 

Cowboys  and  Indians. 

85.  LITTLE  ORPHAN  ANNIE  (NBC)... 54.8 
Our  younqer  li.stencrs  enthuse  no  end. 

86.  LUM  AND  ABNER  (NBC)  54.8 

Rustic  funsters. 

87.  VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  (NBC)  54.5 

A  Icadinq  soprano  of  the  air. 

88.  EDWARD  MacHUGH  — THE  GOSPEL 
SINGER    (NBC)  54.4 

Hymns  and  common  sense. 

89.  TOM  HOWARD'S  MEL-O-ROL  JAM- 
BOREE (NBC)   53.5 

I  om  and  Georqc  Shelton  getting  things  hilari- 
ously confused. 

90.  Pick  AND  PAT  (CBS)  52.6 

Minstrel  dace. 

91.  THE  LAMPLIGHTER  — JACOB  TARSH- 
ISH  (NBC)   52.5 

Subbinii  for  the  Voice  of  E.rperience. 

92.  THE  O'NEILLS  (NBC)  52.5 

Family  fiction. 

93.  DAVID  HARUM  (NBC)  51.7 

Love  and  adventure. 

94.  MA  PERKINS  (NBC)  51.0 

An  old  lady  philosophizes. 

95    RENFRE'W   OF   THE   MOUNTED  (CBS) 
.  .  .50.6 

E.x-citinq  and  instructive. 

96.  VIC   AND  SADE   (NBC)  50.5 

Funniest  of  the  "family  group". 

97.  UNCLE  DON  (MBS)  50.4 

Kid  favorite. 

98.  FIVE  STAR  JONES  (NBC)  50.3 

Newsdom  drama. 

99.  BOBBY   BENSON    (CBS)  50.2 

Aimed  especially  at  the  gro-wing  young  boy. 
but  popular  'with  their  dads,  as  well. 

100    UNCLE   EZRA'S   RADIO  STATICJN 

lOl.  EDGAR"  A.  GUE^^^  IN  WELCOME  VAL- 
LEY  (NBC)   ..47.0 

America's  best  loved  and  best  paid  poet. 


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strange,  mysterious  country  is  laid  before 
her  audience.  Nancy  and  Charlie  are  real 
children.  They  are.  in  fact.  Xancy  and 
Charlie  Wicker  (Charlie's  real  name  is 
Walter  Wicker,  Junior,  but  he  never  is 
called  anything  but  Charlie)  and  they 
are  nine  and  eleven  respectively.  These 
attractive  youngsters  are  their  mother's 
inspiration  and  are  the  reason  why  her 
stories  are  so  true  to  life,  so  exactly 
what  children  love  to  hear. 

"Wednesday  and  Thursday."  Miss 
Wicker  explained.  "I  usually  devote  to 
fairy  tales,  but  sometimes  on  Thursday,  I 
tell  a  true  story  based  on  the  life  of  some 
famous  artist.  Friday,  a  true  story,  about 
some  well-known  person  .  .  .  ' 

When  she  began  this  series.  Miss 
Wicker  featured  famous  musicians  and 
artists  of  other  days,  but  more  recently 
she  has  been  telling  the  inspiring  true 
stories  of  the  early  years  of  some  of  our 
most  successful  moderns — Lawrence  Tib- 
bett.  Mme.  Schumann-Heink,  Helen 
Hayes,   Mary   Pickford.  and  others. 

There  is  really  no  age  limit  to  those 
who  tune  in  and  are  charmed  with  the 
Singing  Lady's  program.  I  told  Miss 
Wicker  about  a  man  I  knew,  the  father  of 
a  family  of  four,  who  loved  to  listen  to 
her  program  and  who  was  enthralled  with 
the  quality  of  her  speaking  and  singing 
voice.    Ireene  was  delighted. 

"Isn't  that  nice?"  she  cried.  "And  do 
you  know.  I  have  other  good  friends  who 
have  written  me  fan  letters — friends  who 
have  no  children  of  their  own,  or  whose 
children  are  grown.  One  is  a  little  old 
man  in  Florida — he  is  eighty-five  years 
old  and  writes  me  the  nicest  letters.  And 
another  is  the  Bishop  of  the  Arctic.  He 
writes  and  tells  me  about  his  work.  And 
one  woman,  whose  daughter  is  a  mis- 
sionary in  China,  wrote  me  and  asked 
me  if  some  of  my  scripts  couldn't  be  sent 
over  there.  The  Kellogg  people  arranged 
it  and  now  they  are  broadcast  over  a  mi- 
crophone in  China,  in  English  and  Chinese." 

"You  really  get  sonicthins  out  of  your 
fan  mail,  don't  you—Sdiiiething  more  than 
just  the  number  uf  letters?" 

"Oh,  much  more !  It  is  so  inspiring — 
and  it  makes  up  for  the  direct  contact, 
the  lift  an  actor  gets  from  an  audience." 

"And  didn't  it  surprise  you  at  first  to 
get  letters  from  grown-ups.  too?" 

"Yes.  but  I  think  it  is  a  matter  of  tem- 
perament," Ireene  answered  thoughtfully. 
"The  stories  appeal— or  they  don't.  People 
who  are  bored  would  be  bored  whether 
they  are  two  or  eighty— and  if  they  iike 
them,  they  are  thrilled  whether  they  are 
two  or  eighty  I" 

I  think  that  is  the  real  secret  of  Ireene 
Wicker's  success.  Her  stories  are  simply 
written,  simply  told.  They  have  the 
beauty  of  clarity,  of  directness,  of  sim- 
plicity. They  have  drama,  they  have 
emotional  appeal,  but  they  don't  plav  on 
the  emotions— the  appeal  is  an  integral 
part  of  the  story  and  it  is  a  universal,  age- 
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a  fifteen-minute  broadcast,  each  is  per- 
fect in  its  way,  whether  it  i<  liistmy  or 
travel,  a  fairy  story  or  a  nurser\-  rhyme. 

She  reads  as  if  to  a  uron]!  oi  children 
gathered  at  her  knee  and  as  if  she 

were  singins  a  luUahy  to  a  bahy  in  her 
arms.    \\'ithout  effort,  witlunit  pose. 

Ireene  herself  is  a  tin\.  f,iir\-like  per- 
son. \\'lien  I  met  her  slie  was  smartly 
dressed  from  the  crown  of  the  perky  beret 
atop  her  chestnut  curls  to  the  soles  of  her 
toeless,  high-heeled  patent  leather  san- 
dals. She  has  enormous  dark  c\  t  -;,  a  w ule, 
generous  mouth  and  a  sweet,  unaffected 
manner.  I  knew  she  was  married  and 
the  mother  of  two  children  who  now  are 
almost  as  big  as  she  is,  but  she  seemed  to 
me  like  a  little  girl,  as  starry-eyed,  as 
eager  as  her  daughter.  I  hope  she  never 
loses  that  quality  of  youth  and  I  don't 
think  she  ever  will  because  it  is  an  in- 
tegral part  of  herself.  It  is.  I  think,  what 
gives  her  such  complete  understanding 
of  children. 

Xot  that  she  isn't  young — she  was  mar- 
ried when  she  was  barely  seventeen — but 
it  is  something  at  once  younger  and  more 
permanent  than  mere  youth. 

As  a  small  child,  there  was  only  one 
thing  that  Ireene  wanted  and  that  was  to 
be  an  actress.  And  opportunity  came  her 
way  at  a  very  early  age.  For  she  was  only 
eleven,  and  in  the  first  year  of  high 
school,  when  she  had  her  first  theatrical 
engagement. 

"My  family  were  terribly  against  it — 
they  had  the  old-fashioned  idea  that  the 
stage  was  worse  than  death !  But  the 
manager  of  our  local  stock  company  had 
approached  me  and  I  had  agreed  to  play 
the  part  he  wanted  me  for,  before  he  saw 
my  parents — I  fought  tooth  and  nail  and 
finally  convinced  them  that  I  couldn't  go 
back  on  my  word!  I  played  with  that 
company  for  the  next  three  summers— 
and  loved  it !" 

"1  suppose  your  family  is  reconciled 
now — they  couldn't,  of  course,  take  excep- 
tion to  the  lovely  work  you  do.  " 

She  smiled.  "Well,  people  feel  differ- 
ently about  radio.  They  don't  realize  it  is 
just  tlie  same  as  a  stage  career." 

".\nd  are  you  satisfied  with  it,  or  do 
yiiu  still  have  stage  ambitions?"  I  asked. 

"I  love  it  and  at  present  am  completely 
satisfied.  It  keeps  me  busy,  you  know- 
gathering  material,  writing  the  scripts, 
doing  five  programs  a  week — but  that 
doesn't  mean  I  wouldn't  like  to  make  a 
picture,  if  I  could  find  the  right  vehicle. 
And  I'd  I. JVC  a  jiart  in  a  play,  if  I  could 
find   a   rule  like   Marijnt's   in  Wuilcrset." 

I  a^kL-d  her  lir.w  lar  aliea<l  she  pre- 
])arcd   her   -cripls   and   she  lau.^lu-d. 

■d<i;;ht  now  they  are  written  uiJ  for  six 
weeks,  and  I  have  the  most  marvelous 
footloose,  carefree  feeling !  But  that  was 
because  of  shifting  the  program  from 
Chicago  to  New  York,  you  know —  or- 
dinarily I'm  not  so  forehanded!" 

The  last  of  June  brought  the  removal 
of  the  Wicker  family  to  Xew  \'ork,  btU 
without  a  break  in  the  Snuinn/  Ijiily  pro- 
gram, now  broadcast   ironi  th(  east. 

Ireene  and  Walter  Wk  l.rr  met  when 
they  were  atlendm-  ilie  l/nmi-Miy  of 
■Wisconsin,  fell  head  over  heels  in  love 
and  were  married.  She  was  seventeen, 
he  not  quite  twenty-one. 

Ireene  was  born  in  Quincy,  Illinois,  and 
■Walter  in  Morgan  Park,  Illinois.  When 

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they  left  college,  they  gravitated  quite 
naturally  to  Chicago. 

Walter  originally  had  no  particular 
leanings  toward  a  theatrical  career  but  he 
must  have  caught  something  of  Ireene's 
enthusiasm.  Eventually,  after  repeated 
auditions  had  i)rought  repeated  disappoint- 
ments and  the  only  opportunities  offered 
to  Ireene  were  parts  with  road  shows, 
which  she  could  not  accept,  she  found  her 
great  chance,  winning  the  Kellogg  Com- 
pany's audition  for  a  children's  program. 
Walter  was  to  find  his  biggest  opportunity 
in  Today's  Children.  He  had  played  many 
parts  behind  the  radio  scenes,  as  writer 
and  producer  and  mechanical  expert,  be- 
fore he  appeared  as  Bob  Crane  on  this 
program.  He  and  Irna  Phillips  write  the 
continuity  and  Walter  does  other  script 
writing,  too,  but  today  he  is  well  launched 
on  his  career  as  an  actor  and  quite  keen 
about  it  and  very  popular  with  the  fans. 
Ireene  played  the  part  of  Eileen  on  this 
program,  but  just  prior  to  her  leaving  for 
Xew  York,  Eileen  was  married  and  thus 
written  out  of  the  program. 

"However,  I  hope  she  will  be  written  in 
occasionally  this  winter,'  Ireene  re- 
marked, "when  things  are  adjusted  and  I 
have  a  little  more  time.  It  is  a  grand 
part,  ex(|uisitely  written — a  part  any  ac- 
tress would  love.  I  think  Walter  and  Miss 
Phillips  have  done  a  beautiful  story." 

The  change  from  west  to  east  was  ac- 
complished with  much  zest  and  enthusiasm 
The  entire  Wicker  family,  including 
Ireene's  faithful  secretary,  made  the  trip 
in  their  car,  stopping  over  night  en  route 
so  that  they  wouldn't  be  too  tired,  and 
enjoying  it  thoroughly.  The  summer  plans 
included  the  renting  of  a  furnished  home 
in  the  suburbs,  with  swimming  and  horse- 
back riding  for  the  children.  In  the  winter, 
Ireene  plans  to  live  in  New  York,  for  the 
children  will  be  in  private  school.  Ireene's 
main  ambition,  where  the  children  are 
concerned,  is  to  keep  them  unspoiled. 

"I've  seen  the  nicest  children  spoiled  in 
the  unnatural  environment  of  the  theatre 
and  radio,"  she  said  simply.  "It's  such  an 
artificial  life  I  I'd  hate  to  see  my  children 
changed  that  way.  They've  only  l)een  on 
the  air  once.  Last  spring  we  let  them  ap- 
pear on  a  program  and  I  saw  then  how 
easily  a  taste  for  it,  for  the  excitement, 
the  public  adulation,  could  be  cultivated. 
Of  course,  if  they  want  to  do  it  later  on, 
we  won't  object,  but  I  don't  want  them 
to  until  they  are  old  enough  to  decide 
for  themselves — and  not  to  be  spoiled!" 

Gathering  and  preparing  material  takes 
a  lot  of  Ireene's  time.  When  she  first  be- 
gan to  write  these  stories,  she  also  began 
to  collect  books,  in  those  early  days  haunt- 
ing the  second-hand  liookstores,  and  now 
she  has  a  splendid  library  which  is  in- 
valuable to  her. 

The  Wickers  have  not  had  time  to 
travel  as  much  as  they  would  like.  Once 
they  spent  a  sunnner  in  Europe  with 
Walter's  mother,  who  is  an  artist  and  lives 
in  the  south  of  France.  And  they  made  a 
trip  to  Burmuda,  which  provided  Ireene 
with  a  wealth  of  material  for  the  Nancy 
and  Charlie  episodes. 

.'\mong  the  most  charming  of  her  crea- 
tions are  the  Indian  legends. 

"Some  day,"  she  declared  earnestly,  "I 
want  to  bring  out  a  book  of  my  Indian 
stories.  Not  as  they  have  to  be  prepared 
for  radio,  but  in  real  story  form."  She 


looked  at  me  shyly.  "I  want  to  do  so  many 
things !  I  want  to  study  more — both 
piano  and  voice.  I've  studied  singing  a 
little,  but  I  particularly  want  to  study 
theory  and  comixjsition,  so  that  I  can  write 
my  own  songs.  You  saw  how  it  was  at 
rehearsal — I  hum  or  sing  the  melody  to  my 
accompanist  and  he  writes  the  music,  but 
I  want  to  be  able  to  do  it  all  myself." 

She  will,  too,  because  she  is,  in  spite 
of  being  pint-size,  a  dynamo  of  energy. 
She  has  inspiration,  imagination,  creative 
ability,  all  kinds  of  talent  and  there  will 
be  a  way  somehow  for  her  to  work  these 
things  into  her  schedule — the  studying 
and  composing  of  music,  acting  in  plays, 
writing  books !  A  large  schedule  for  a 
small  person !  But  there  is  nothing  small 
about  Ireene's  ambitions  or  her  gifts  and 
she  has  the  sort  of  character,  the  essential 
drive  and  energy  to  make  her  accom- 
plish what  she  sets  out  to  do. 

She  finds  time,  for  instance,  to  inter- 
view celebrities  she  features  in  her  stories. 

"It's  been  such  fun  meeting  them.  And 
they've  all  been  wonderful.  The  greater 
they  are,  the  simpler  and  more  sincere 
they  seem  to  be.  I  think  meeting  Rach- 
maninoff was  one  of  the  greatest  thrills 
I've  ever  had.  And  interviewing  Helen 
Hayes  and  Mary  Pick  ford  .  .  . 

"What  I'd  like  to  feel  I  am  doing  with 
my  stories,"  she  went  on,  "is  creating 
something  beautiful  and  inspiring  as  well 
as  entertaining.  Of  course  I  fall  far 
short,  often,  but  it  is  what  I  want,  what  I 
strive  for.  And  I  want  to  write  a  book 
some  day,  too — not  only  the  Indian  legend 
book,  but  another — that  will  be  lovely  and 
lasting — truly  beautiful.  Something  like 
IVind  in  the  JVdhws!" 

"But  my  family  will  always  come  first," 
she  added  simply.  "You  know  how  it  is 
when  you  have  children.  I  love  to  work, 
but  if  it  came  between  them  and  me,  I'd 
give  it  up  without  a  qualm.  I  do  my  best 
to  give  my  husband  and  children  a  well- 
rounded,  normal  life.  We've  been  for- 
tunate so  far — everything  has  worked  out 
beautifully.  Even  this  move  to  New  York 
— we  are  all  pleased.  But  I'd  give  it  all  up 
in  a  minute  if  I  felt  I  was  stinting  them.  ' 

Ireene  creates,  differentiates  as  many  as 
fifty  characters  in  her  sketches,  but  she 
restricts  them  as  far  as  possible  to  no 
more  than  three  or  four  on  a  program, 
believing  that  more  would  confuse  the 
children.  She  plays  Hansel  and  Gretel  and 
the  old  witch  as  well.  One  moment  she 
is  Nancy  or  Charlie  and  the  next  an  old 
sea  captain.  She  plays  the  boy  Lawrence 
Tibbett  and  the  little  girl  whose  golden 
voice  has  made  Jessica  Dragonette  famous. 
All  these  aixl  many  more  characters  of 
fact  and  fiction  become  real  for  her  young 
listeners  through  the  medium  of  her  able 

She  has  a  very  clear  eoneeption  of  what 
she  is  doing  and  her  success  is  something 
she  has  every  ri.nht  to  he  i.mud  of,  but 
something  whic  h  has  come  about  naturally, 
inevitably  almost.  l-'or  elidilren  to  her 
are  an  absorbmu  iiitere-t  and  in  creating 
stories  for  them,  m  sin^.^ing  to  them,  she 
meets  them  on  ilieir  own  ground,  as  one 
of  them.  She  does  not  sit  down  and  write 
a  simi)le  little  story  for  a  simple  little 
child!  Instead,  she  telK  in  beautiful  prose 
the  best,  most  interesting  stones  she  has 
been  able  to  find  in  folk-lore,  in  history, 
in  the  world  of  art,  of  music. 

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savagely  red 
warmly  moist 
tenderly  soft 

W'lien  lips  arc  a  Savayc  red, 
llie  spirit  of  junolc  adven- 
ture prevails  .  .  .  and  hearts 
too  easily  are  caused  to  skip 
a  beat!  For,  the  five  Savage 
reds  were  purposely  created 
to  he  excilino.  And  they  are! 

But,  it  s  lolly  lor  lips  to 
tempt  unless  their  caress 
proves  warm,  moist  and 
tender.  So  .  .  .  Savage  Lip- 
stick also  softens  lips  .  . 
makes  them  solter  even  than 
Nature  does;  assurance  that 
Savage  lips  will  always  ful- 
fill the  promise  their  Savage 
color  makes. 

And  Savage  is  really  in- 
dclihle,  too.  It  clings  sav- 
agely ...  as  long  as  lips  are 
wished  to  lin-e...and  longer. 
None  other  is  like  Savage! 
Select  Irom  these  five  shades: 

TANGERINE   •    FI.AME    •  NATURAL 
BLLSIl    •  JtNGI.E 

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PERMANENT 


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Smoke  to  Your  Throat's  Content 

Many  smokers  have  chosen  Lucky  Strike-;  sirii|)l\  Ixm  aiisc 
they  taste  better.  Then  as  the  days  go  1(\  I  Ik 
Luckies  make  smoother  going  for  their  ihroals— ihal  llie\ 
are  a  Light  Smoke.  Certain  acids  and  (jther  heavv.  hat^h 
irritants  naturally  present  in  all  tobacco  are  removed 
by  the  famous  process  — It's  Toasted."  Only  Luckies 
are  "Toasted."  Smoke  Luckies  fo  vour  throat's  content. 


OF  RICH,  RIPE-BODIED  TOBACCO  -  DITl  T(Q)^g?[l© 


VM  IIMl/Fll  DR.  &AFOE  RtVEALS  HOW  RADIO  WAY  SAVt 
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She  evades 

It's  only  human  na-  destroy  her 

ture  to  wait  breath- 
lessly for  such  a  lovely  girl  to  turn  her 
proud  head— to  reward  your  admiration 
with  the  glory  of  her  smile! 

And  it's  only  human  nature  to  resent 
it,  like  a  physical  blow,  when  she  does 
turn,  when  she  does  smile— and  all  her 
loveliness  turns  to  ashes!  For  when  a 
smile  betrays  dull  and  dingy  teeth— ten- 
der and  ailing  gums— no  glory  of  eyes  or 
hair  can  save  loveliness. 


all  close-ups ...  Dingy  teeth  and  tender  gums 
charm. ..She  ignored  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 


NEVER  NEGLECT  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 

Too  many  soft  foods . . .  too  little  work  and 
resistance  for  the  natural  health  of  our 


teeth  and  gums— there  arc  the  reasons 
why  that  dental  warning  "pink  tooth 
brush"  is  so  often  in  evidence. 

And  for  the  sake  of  your  oicn  loveli- 
ness and  your  own  health— if  you  see  that 
"tinge  of  pink"  on  your  own  tooth  brush, 
see  your  dentist.  You  may  be  in  for  serious 
trouble.  But  he  is  far  more  likely  to  ex- 
plain the  menace  of  our  "modern  menus" 
—to  tell  you  to  take  better  care  of  your 
gums,  to  give  them  more  exercise.  And  he 
may  tell  you— he  often  docs— to  switch  to 
Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage. 

Play  safe— get  Ipana  today.  Rub  a  lit- 


tle extra  Ipana  into 
your  gums  every  time 
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well  as  clean  your  teeth.  You'll  soon  no- 
tice an  improvement  in  the  health  of 
your  gums.  New  circulation  wakens  lazy 
tissues.  Gums  grow  stronger.  They  feel 
firmer.  They  look  better.  And  they'll  cer- 
tainly be  far  safer  from  the  threat  and 
danger  of  serious  gum  troubles. 

The  first  ten  days  of  Ipana  and  mas- 
sage will  show  an  improvement.  And 
thirty  days  will  convince  you  that  you 
should  have  changed  to  this  modern,  sen- 
sible health  measure  long  ago. 


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IS  MARLENE'S  ALLURE  FOR  THE  EYE  ALONE? 

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DR.  DAFOE  REVEALS  HOW  RADIO  MAY  SAVE  YOUR  BABY 

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IF  RADIO  WERE  UNDER  CAROLE'S  THUMB 

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HE'S  RADIO'S  GIFT  TO  ROMANCE 

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ARE  GUEST  STARS  A  NECESSARY  EVIL? 

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HE  DOES  EVERYTHING  BUT  TAKE  THE  TICKETS! 

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THE  GOOD  WILL  COURT  ON  TRIAL 

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JUNGLE  BEASTS  AT  YOUR  FIRESIDE 

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NO,  NO,  A  HUNDRED  TIMES  NO! 

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DON'T  DARE  CALL  ME  THAT! 

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IF  ONLY  THEY  HADN'T  LAUGHED! 

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SENSATION  ON  THE  AIR 

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She  Wears  What  She  Likes   14 

Radio   Romblinss   18 

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Ranch  Revelry   42 

Radio  Goes  Hollywood   48 

The  Radio  Hostess   53 

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FRED  WARING  S  PENNSYLVANIANS  .79.9 

NBC   9:00    P.M.    EST  Fri.:    NBC  9:00 
P  \1  PST:  CBS  0:00  P.M.  EST  Tues. 
MARCH  OF  TIME  79.3 
CBS  10:30  P.M.  EST  M-T-U'-T-F 
CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— JESSICA 
DRAGONETTE  78.8 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Fri.   

FLEISCHMANN'S   VARIETY  HOUR- 
RUDY  VALLEE  78.6 

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TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT-STOOP- 
NAGLE  AND  BUDD,  VAN  STEEDEN 
ORCHESTRA  . ,  ^^-^ 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  IIVJ.;  NBC  9:00  P.M. 

THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA  77.7 

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ANDRE  KOSTELANETZ  ORCHESTRA  77.5 

CBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  n'ed.:  CBS  10:00  P.M. 
EST  Fri. 

LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  77.2 

CBS  0:(HI  P.M.  EST  Mon. 

THE  JERGENS  PROGRAM— CORNELIA 

OTIS  SKINNER   76.4 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Sun.;  NBC  8:15  P.M. 
Sun. 

KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROSBY, 
DORSEY  ORCHESTRA  74.4 

NBC  10:00  P.M.  EST  Thur. 

BURNS  AND  ALLEN,  DUCHIN  ORCH  71.6 

CBS  8:30  P.M.  EST  Wed.;  CBS  9:30  P.M. 
PST  Wed. 

AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC  71.6 

NBC  9:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS  71.3 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Tues. 
RADIO   CITY   MUSIC    HALL  WOOD- 
WIND ENSEMBLE  71.1 

NBC  12:30  P.M.  E.^T  Sun. 
CAMEL  CARAVAN    RUPERT  HUGHES, 
GOODMAN  BAND,  SHILKRET  ORCH  71.0 
CBS  9:311  P.M.  I-:.S'T  Tues. 
STUDEBAKER     CHAMPIONS  —RICH- 
ARD HIMBER   70.8 

NBC  9:30  P.M.  E.ST  Man.;  NBC  9:30  P.M. 

P.ST  Mon.;  NBC  10:00  P.M.  PST  Fri. 
HUMAN  SIDE  OF  THE  NEWS— EDWIN 
C.  HILL  70.8 

NBC   7:.y)   P.M.  EST  M-W-T 

LOWELL  THOMAS   70.5 

NBC   6:'f5    P.M.   E.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

AMOS 'N'  ANDY  70.5 

NBC   7.00    P.M.   EST    M-T-W-T-F;  NBC 

8:00    }\M.    PST  M-T-W-T-F 

ALEMITE  HALF-HOUR  WITH  HEIDT'S 

BRIGADIERS   70.4 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  E.ST  Mon. 


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22.  GABRIEL  HEATTER   70.3  45 

MBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  M-W-T 

23.  PAUL        WHITEMAN'S         MUSICAL  46 

VARIETIES  70.2 

NBC  9:15  P.M.  EST  Sun.;  NBC  8:30  P.M. 

PST  Sun.  47, 

24.  EVERYBODY'S     MUSIC  —  HOWARD 

BARLOW  69.5  48 

CBS  3:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

25.  A.  &  P.  GYPSIES— HARRY  HORLICK,  .69.2  *^ 
NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Mon. 

26.  VOX    POP  —  THE    VOICE    OF  THE 

PEOPLE  68.6 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Tues. 

27.  LEO  REISMAN'S  ORCHESTRA  68.5  51 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Tues.;  NBC  8:30  P.M. 

PST  Tues. 

28.  THE  VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE  68.3  52. 

NBC  8:30  P.M.  EST  Mon.;  NBC  8:30  P.M. 

PST  Mon.  53, 

29.  HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL  67.3 

CBS  9:00  P.M.  E.ST  Fri.  54, 

30.  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY  66.3 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Wed.;  NBC  9:30  P.M.  55. 
P.ST  Sun. 

31.  CONTENTED  PROGRAM  66.0 

NHC  10:00  P.M.  EST  .Man.  56. 

32.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  65.6 
AV.-f  9:H()  E.ST  Fri. 

33.  RACING    BRYAN  FIELD  G5.0 

MBS  10:15  I'.M .  EST  Fri.  rg 

34.  GANG  BUSTERS   C4.6 

(  Vi.S  111:00  I'.M.  E.ST  Wed. 

35.  BOAKE  CARTER   £4.3  59 

CBS    7:^5    P.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T 

36.  MAJOR  BOWES'  CAPITOL  FAMILY  64.1 

AVif  11:.W  EST  ,s»h.  60. 

37.  CRUMIT       AND  SANDERSON-HAL 
KEMP'S  ORCHESTRA  64.0 

CBS  7:30  P.M.  FIST  Sun.  61. 

38.  MAXWELL  HOUSE  SHOWBOAT  63.9 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  E.ST  Thurs.;  NBC  8:15  P.M.  62. 
I'ST  Thur. 

39.  MAJOR  BOWES'  ORIGINAL  AMATEUR  63. 
HOUR  63.9 

,\7J(  ■  8:00  I'.  M.  EST  Sn  n.  64. 

40.  TIM   RYAN  AND   IRENE  NOBLETTE, 
VOORHEES  ORCHESTRA  63.7  65. 

NBC  7:00  P.M.  EST  Sun.;  NBC  8:30  P.M. 
'  P.ST  Sun. 

41.  LAUGH  WITH  KEN  MURRAY  63.0  66. 

CBS  8:30  P.M.  EST  Tues.;  CBS  8:30  P.M. 

P.ST  Tues.  67. 

42.  WAYNE'S  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  62.7 

NBC  8:.W  P.M.  EST  T-W 

43.  MARTHA  DEANE  62.6  68. 

MhS    2:011    I'.M    l:Sr    .\1-I-W-T-F;  MBS 
11:45  .\..\L  I:.SI  \„i 

44.  THE  SINGING  LADY   62.6  69. 

NBC  5:30  P.M.  M-T-W-T-F 


MELODIANA  62.0 

NBC  8:30  P.M.  E.ST  Mon. 

VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  62.0 

NBC  7:45  P.M.  E.ST  Tues.;  NBC  10:30  P.M. 
F:.ST  Fri. 

SHERLOCK  HOLMES  61.8 

MBS  8:30  P.M.  EST  Sat. 

HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  61.6 

NBC  7:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

TED     MALONE'S     BETWEEN  THE 

BOOKENDS  61.6 

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CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  shots  .61.6 

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AMERICA  DANCES— LUD  GLUSKIN'S 

ORCHESTRA  61.2 

CBS  8.00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  61.2 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Wed. 

YOU— GILBERT  SELDES  61.2 

NBC  3:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

LAVENDER  AND  OLD  LACE   60.8 

NBC  8:30  V.M.  EST  Wol. 

FRIGIDAIRE  FROLICS— CLARA,  LU  'N' 

EM  60.8 

NBC  9:30  P.M.  E.ST  Fri. 
THE  SHELL  CHATEAU— SMITH  BAL- 

LEW,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA   60.7 

MBC  9:30  P.M.  EST  Sal. 

THE  ATLANTIC  FAMILY— BOB  HOPE, 

NICHOLS  ORCHESTRA  60.6 

CBS  7:00  P.M.  EST  Thur. 

FOLIES     DE     PAREE     WITH  THE 

HOWARDS  AND  FIFI  D'ORSAY  60.4 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Wed. 

TEA    TIME    TUNES— RAMONA  AND 

SHILKRET'S  ORCHESTRA  60.3 

CBS  5:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

RY-KRISP        PRESENTS  MARION 

TALLEY  60.3 

NBC  5:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

EASY  ACES  60.0 

NBC  7:00  P.M.  EST  T-W-T 

MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND.  . .  .59.8 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

CAREFREE  CARNIVAL  59.8 

NBC  9:30  I'.M.  EST  Mon. 

THE  O'NEILLS   59.4 

NBC  3:45  I'.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  59.2 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Mon.;  NBC  9:00  P.M. 
PST  Mon. 

HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC  HALL  58.6 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Tues. 

LUM  AND  ABNER  58.6 

NBC  7:30   P.M.  EST   M-T-W-T-F;  NBC 
8:15   P.M.   PST  M-T-W-T-F 
NATIONAL       AMATEUR  NIGHT- 
BENNY  RUBIN   58.5 

MTS  f,:00  P.M.  EST.  Sun. 

IRENE  RICH   58.2 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Fri. 


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RADIO  STARS 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  percentages 
on  the  assumption  that  all  radio  programs 
are  divided  into  four  basic  parts:  material, 
artists,  presentation  and  announcements, 
each  consisting  of  25%  and  making  the 
perfect  program  of  100%.  These  ratings 
are  a  consensus  of  opinions  of  our  Board 
■  •i  Review  and  do  not  necessarily  agree 
with  the  editorial  opinion  of  R.^Dio  Stars 
Magazine.  Programs  outstanding  as  to 
artists  and  material,  often  suffer  because 
of  poor  presentation  or  exaggerated  com- 
mercial announcements.  There  have  been 
many  changes  in  program  for  the  summer 
months.  The  Board  reviewed  as  many  of 
the  current  major  programs  as  it  possibly 
could  before  this  issue  went  to  press. 


.  AMERICAN  PAGEANT  OF  YOUTH  .  57.4 

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.KATE  SMITH'S  BAND   57.3 

CBS   7:30    P.M.  E.-'T   Tucs.  Thur. 
.  NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE   56.0 

SBC  9:30  I'M.  Es!  S.i:.:  \BC  S:00  P.M. 
/'>T  .Sd.'. 

.  UNCLE  EZRA'S  RADIO  STATION  56.0 

XBC  7:1?  P.M.  EST  M-W-F 
.  THE  FLYING  RED  HORSE  TAVERN  .55.8 

CHS  /i.OO  P.M.  EST  F,i. 
.  EDWARD   MACHUGH,    THE  GOSPEL 

SINGER  55.8 

XBC  11:43  .\.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 
.  SPORT  PARADE— THORNTON  FISHER  55.6 
SBC  7:4?  P.M.  EST  Sat. 

SALT  LAKE  CITY  TABERNACLE  AND 

ORGAN  55.0 

CBS  11:30  .\.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

WILDERNESS  ROAD   5S.0 

CBS  5:45  P.M.  £>T  M-T-IV-T-F 

BOBBY  BENSON   55.0 

CBS  f>:15  P..\I.F:.ST  .IMI  -F 

GREATER  SINCLAIR  MINSTRELS    .  54.6 

SBC  9:(M)  P.M.  E.^T  .\In„. 

JUDY  STARR  AND  THE  CHARIOTEERS  54.5 

CBS  7:30  P.M.  E.<T  .\lun. 

TODAY'S  CHILDREN   54.4 

SBC  10:45  A.M.  EST  .M-T-W-T-F 
BROADWAY  VARIETIES  54.0 

CBS  S:JO  P.M.  EST  Fn. 

DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  54.0 

NBC  9:00  P..M.  EST  Thur. 

PICK  AND  PAT   53.3 

CBS  8:30  P.M.  EST  Mon.:  CBS  8:30  P.M. 
P.ST  Mon. 

BENNY    FIELDS,    YOUR  MINSTREL 
MAN   53.2 

CBS  7:30  P  .M.  II  -F 

MUSICAL  TOAST— JERRY  COOPER, 
SALLY  SCHERMERHORN,  RAY 
BLOCK  S  ORCHESTRA   50.0 

CBS  7.00  P.M.  EST  Tiu-.. 

DAVID  HARUM   49.8 

SBC  11:00  .\.M.  EST  .M-T-\f  -T-F 
VIC  AND  SADE  48.6 

SBC  3:30  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F:  SBC 
11:30  .\.M.  Est  M-T-W-T-F  stations  WJZ 
WSYR.  liX-S,  H7/.4.U 

EDGAR  GUEST  IN  WELCOME  VALLEY  48.6 

SBC  8:30  P.M.  £>T  Tues. 

FIVE  STAR  JONES  47.8 

SBC  10:15  .\.M.  E.^T  M-T-W-T-F 

MA  PERKINS    47.2 

SBC  3:15  P  .M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

UNCLE  DON  READS  THE  FUNNIES  46.7 

MBS  6:00  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F.  Soon  Sun. 

RENFREW  OF  THE  MOUNTED   46.0 

CBS  0.45  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F:  CBS  8:15 
P.M.    PST  .M-T-W-T-F 

LITTLE  ORPHAN  ANNIE  40.0 

SBC  5:45  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 


liat  are  tne 
8"MUSTS^'  doctors 
demand  of  a  laxative  ? 


YOUR  doctor's  deepest  concern  is  your 
health.  And  any  medicinal  product 
even  remotely  connected  with  your  health 
assumes  great  importance  in  his  mind. 

You  will  discover,  for  instance,  that 
physicians  have  a  definite  standard  of  re- 
quirements for  a  laxative  before  giving  it 
tlieir  approval.  Read  these  8  points  care- 
fully. They  are  very  important. 

WHAT  DOCTORS  REQUIRE  OF  A  LAXATIVE: 

It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proven  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 

It  should  not  over-act. 

It  should  not  cause  stomach  pain<. 

It  should  not  nauseate,  or  upset  diixestion. 

EX-LAX  MEETS  THE  DOCTOR'S 
REQUIREMENTS 

Ex-Lax  checks  on  every  point  the  doctor 
looks  for  in  a  laxative.  Not  merely  on  one 
or  two.  But  on  all  the  points  that  the  med- 
ical profession  includes  in  its  code.  You 
can  have  no  better  proof  of  tlie  confidence 
Ex-Lax  enjoys  than  the  fact  that  many 
physicians  use  it  in  their  own  homes. 

When  Nature  forgets  — 
remember 

EX- LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


For  over  30  years  mothers  and  grand- 
mothers have  given  Ex-Lax  to  their  chil- 
dren. \^'hy?  .  .  .  Because  the  very  qual- 
ities that  make  Ex-Lax  an  ideal  laxative 
for  you  are  doubly  important  to  a  child's 
welfare.  Ex-Lax  has  proved  so  satisfac- 
tory in  millions  of  cases  that  it  has  become 
the  largest-selling  laxative  in  the  world. 
CHECK  THE  DOCTOR'S  FINDINGS  YOURSELF 

Try  Ex-Lax  the  next  time  you  need  a 
laxative,  and  you  will  see  how  right  the 
doctor  is.  For  Ex-Lax  is  mild  and  gentle. 
It  works  thoroughly,  but  without  the 
slightest  discomfort.  You'll  experience 
no  stomach  pains,  no  nausea,  no  weak 
"dragged  down"  feeling.  And  Ex-Lax  will 
not  form  a  habit  — you  don't  have  to  keep 
on  increasing  the  dose  to  get  results. 

A  REAL  PLEASURE  TO  TAKE 

Ex-Lax  tastes  just  like  pure,  delicious 
chocolate  ...  so  different  from  harsh, 
nasty-tasting  cathartics.  It's  the  perfect 
laxative  for  all  — children  and  grown-ups 
alike.  All  drug  stores  have  Ex-Lax  in 
10c  and  25c  sizes.  Or  if  you  prefer  to  try 
Ex-Lax  at  our  .'xponse,  mail  the  coupon. 

 TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!  . 

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I  Tini.>  l'laz»  Station.  llrookl>-n.  N.  T.  | 
I       I  want  to  try  Ex-Lai.  Please  send  free  sample.  | 

I  Name  I 
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RADIO  STARS 


KEEP  YOUNG  AND  BEAUTIFUL 


Honey  Chile,  Bob 
Hope's  Sleepy-time 
Stooge,  who  really  is 
Iviargaret  Johnson, 
faithfully  follows 
a  cleansing  routine 
every  night  before 
she  goes  to  sleep. 


A  special  nnake-up 
scarf,  whisked  over 
your  dress,  nnakes 
your  powdering  and 
brushing  a  pleasure, 
says  Honey  Chile. 
The  scarf  snaps  on 
one  shoulder. 


BEAUTY  HINTS  FROM  BOB  HOPE'S  HONEY 
CHILE -THE  BLUEBONNET  CLAMOUR  CIRL 


IT'S  smart  to  be  lazy,  says  Honey  Chile,  and  we  believe 
lu  T.  l-Or  Honev  Chile  to  you,  and  Margaret  Johnson  to 
her  Texan  family,  has  laziness  down  to  a  fine  art.  She 
actually  puts  it  to  work  for  her,  in  keeping  "young  and 
beautiful." 

Yes,  ma'am.  Honey  Chile  may  claim  to  be  one  of  the 
laziest  gals  south  of  the  Mason-Dixon  line,  but  we  claim 
that  she  is  also  one  of  the  loveliest.  She  is  a  tall,  willowy 
blonde,  with  h(ine\-colored  hair,  the  proverbial  Southern 
b(Ik'>  iicachc^-and-cream  complexion,  and  eyes  a  deeper 
lihic-  than  a  whole  field  of  Texas  blucbonnets.  Inciden- 
tally, she  flew  to  Dallas.  'J"ex;is,  recently  to  reign  as  <  Hieen 
of  the  P>lue1)onni-t -  at  the  Te\a>  Centennial,  which  is  our 
idea  ni  tlie  perfect  joli  for  Money  Cliik\  next  to  being 
Bob  Hope's  stiH  ige  111  7'lir  .  llhtnlic  /•'ainily. 

There  is  a  radiance  about  this  (lini])led.  laughter-loving 
Hone\-  (  hile  which  reminds  me  of  the  di'Tiiiitioii  of  glam- 
our gi\  en  bv  a  famous  Hollywoofl  director,  lie  >aid  :  "I'm 
going  to  take  the  i)oetic  license  of  Carl  ,'-^;nidl)tirg.  who 
defined  poetry  a^  ri  s\iitliesis  of  li\;icimhs  and  biscuits;  1 
sav  that  glamour  is  a  synthesis  of  sunshine  and  laiigiiter." 

But  we  were  back  where  glamour  began  with  a  )awn. 
Honey  Chile  has  a  perfectly  grand  s}steni  for  kee])ing 
beautiful  and  lazy  all  at  the  same  time.  She  lo\cs  lu'^  ing 
her  hair  brushed  and,  if  put  to  it,  will  brush  it  herself,  but 
a  l^lan  she  likes  better  is  to  have  her  sister  or  girl  friend 
brush  it  for  her,  and  then  she  reciprocates  by  manicuring 
the  sister's  or  girl  friend's  nails,  which  requires  less  elbow 
grease,  but  more  talent. 

Honey  Chile's  own  nails  are  meticulously  manicured. 
She  does  them  herself.  She  is  superstitious,  too,  about 
10 


her  nail  polish !  She  thinks  it  is  bad  luck  to  wear  the 
same  shade  twice  in  succession  !  She  has  a  lot  of  super- 
stitions, but  that  is  the  only  one  she  would  tell.  Maybe 
part  of  that  superstition  might  be  accounted  for  sub- 
consciously, in  the  fact  that  she  adores  bright  shades  of 
polish,  and  likes  an  excuse  for  changing  shades  as  often 
as  possible.  When  we  took  the  photographs,  she  was 
wearing  a  rust  shade  of  polish  which  blended  in  beauti- 
fully with  her  ])cach  negligee  and  the  bright  ribbon  tied 
around  her  bonny  blonde  hair.  (It's  too  bad  we  couldn't 
have  hafl  color  photography  in  this  case.)  She  was  going 
to  don  a  dark  blue  knitted  suit  with  a  perky  bandana  next, 
so  her  next  change  of  nail  polish  was  to  be  a  new  bandana 
red. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  Honey  Chile  maintains  staunch- 
ly that  every  bone  in  her  body  is  lazy,  evidence  will  slip 
out  now  and  again  that  denies  it.  'bake  the  suit,  very 
beautifully  done,  that  she  knitted  herself;  and  the  evening 
gown  she  showed  me.  ."^he  admits  that,  as  befits  a 
.Southern  lady,  she  can  "do  anything"  with  a  needle.  From 
authoritatixe  hearsay,  too,  1  understand  that  .she  can  do 
right  nobly  with  a  skillet  and  some  good  old  Southern 
cooking  ideas.  In  fact,  her  idea  of  a  perfect  day  off  is  to 
spend  it  making  jiies  ami  things. 

Hone\-  Chile  is  a  girl  .after  our  own  hearts.  She  loves 
to  eat.  l{speciall\-  Sotithcrn  smothered  chicken!  She  has 
what  she  calls  lu  r  lazy  way  of  keeping  her  figure,  never- 
theless, because  not  e\  en  Honey  Chile  can  eat  her  cake 
all  the  time,  and  lune  "it",  too.  Her  way  is  very  simple. 
^Ou  can  follow  it.  too.  As  soon  as  she  gets  up  in  the 
morning,  she  has  a  large  glass  of  orange  juice.    Then  all 


RADIO  STARS 


BY  MARY 
B   I    D   D   L  E 


My  skin  was  never  lovelier 


Milk  and  sleep  are  Honey 
Chile's  only  recipe  for  keep- 
ing   young    and  beautiful. 


she  has  for  breakfast  is  a  glass  of 
milk.  You  coifee  drinkers  would  no 
doubt  have  to  substitute  the  coffee 
for  the  milk.  For  lunch,  this 
Southern  food-lover  contents  herself 
with  another  glass  of  milk,  and  a  raw 
vegetable  salad,  or  a  vegetable  plate. 
(If  you  want  a  non-calorie  dressing, 
you  reducing  gals,  here  it  is.  Just 
plain  mineral  oil.  plus  lemon  juice,  a 
dash  of  Worcestershire  sauce  and 
maybe  a  pinch  of  mustard.)  For 
dinner,  Honey  Chile  indulges  herself, 
Southern  smothered  chicken  and  all, 
but  she  never  takes  second  helpings, 
and  she  never  eats  both  bread  and 
potatoes.  So  you  have  a  shining  ex- 
ample of  will  power  in  the  luscious 
Honey  Chile,  who  maintains  that  her 
grandfather  was  a  Confederate  sol- 
dier, "because  the  food  was  better." 

Honey  Chile  loves  milk.  And  right 
here  and  now  we  want  to  squelch  the 
widespread  belief  that  milk  is  fatten- 
ing. Any  food  is  fattening,  if  you 
have  enough  of  it.  Just  on  calorie 
count,  for  example,  you  will  find  that 
milk  hasn't  nearly  the  heavy  caloric 
content  that  certain  other  common 
foods  have.  One  glass  of  milk  has 
only  about  (^Continued  on  page  63) 


HiLD.\  WADE  is  even  lovelier  than 
her  picture.  This  gracious  bride 
has  a  perfect  complexion — smooth, 
clear,  fresh.  "A  tribute  to  Camay  s 
excellent  care,"  she  says. 

Your  skin,  too,  should  have 
Camay's  perfect  care.  For  Camay 
has  a  mild,  gentle  way  of  bringiiij); 
out  the  true  loveliness  of  your  com- 
plexion. Camay'screamy.rich  lather 
soothes  the  skin.  Camay's  tiny  bub- 
bles work  energetically  —  cleansing 


CAMAY 


right  down  to  every  pore.  In  no  time 
at  all,  your  skin  will  have  a  loveli- 
ness all  the  world  can  admire. 

The  magic  of  Camay  ?  Its  mild- 
ness. Camay  is  definitely, provably 
milder  than  other  leading  beauty 
soaps.  Try  Camav  todav.  Order  half 
a  dozen  cakes.  Its  price  is  very  low. 

Let  Camay  bring  your  loveliness  to  light. 


RADIO  STARS 


Have  a  L  ear 

LOVELY  SKIN 


S  /      Moil  Coupon 

for  Trial  Sample 


NORTHWESTERN  YEAST  CO. 
1750  N.  Ashland  Av..  Chicago,  111. 
I  Please  send  FREE  TRIAL  sample  of  Yeast  Foam 
I  Tablets.  (Only  1  sample  per  family.)      MM  JJ-36 

I  Name      

I  Address     __. 

I  CUy   Stale.  


GET  rid  of  blemishes,  spots  and  pimples. 
Give  your  arms,  your  throat,  your 
shoulders — as  well  as  your  face — the  radiant, 
youthful  beauty  that  men  admire  so  much. 

Disfiguring  eruptions  vanish  magically  i  f  you 
remove  their  real  cause.  And  the  cause  in  thou- 
sands of  cases — perhaps  in  yours — is  poisons 
that  have  accumulated  within  your  body  and 
tainted  your  blood. 

To  win  the  beauty  you  want — you  must  rid 
your  system  of  these  poisons  at  once.  So  do  as 
thousands  have  done— and  try  pleasant-tasting 
Yeast  Foam  Tablets  today. 

Yeast  Foam  Tablets  are  pure,  wholesome 
yeast — one  of  the  richest  known  natural  sources 
of  Vitamin  B  Complex.  And  this  precious  natu- 
ral food  substance  works  in  nature's  own  way. 
It  tends  to  strengthen  and  tone  intestinal  or- 
gans— helps  rid  the  body  easily  and  naturally 
of  poisonous  wastes.  Then — your  skin  has  the 
chance  to  become  truly  lovely. 

Get  Yeast  Foam  Tablets  today.  End  the  fre- 
quent cause  of  ugly  blemishes — and  strive  to 
make  all  your  skin  enchantingly  lovely. 

Ask  your  druggist  forYeast  Foam 
lUfS^        Tablets  today — and  refuse 
substitutes. 


TED:  I  tell  you  Rudy,  I  can  paint 
men  and  women. 

RUDY:    So — yoit're  a  portrait  painter. 

TED:  No — yon  are  ignoramipnss.  I 
paint  MEN  on  one  door  and  WOMEN  on 
tlic  other. 

(  TED   BERGMAN  on    Vallee  Vari- 

rlies.) 

TIM:  Why  isn't  your  mother  here 
tonight? 

IRENE:     She's  home  singing  a  duet. 
TIM:     With  whom? 
IRENE:    With  me. 
TIM:     But  you're  here. 
IRENE:    I  knoiv,  but  I  finished  first. 
{TIM    RYAN    and    IRENE  NOB- 
LETTE,  Jello  Program.) 

JACK:  Mary,  what  do  you  want  to  do 
with  your  vacation? 

MARY:  I'd  like  to  go  to  Chicago  and 
see  the  World's  Fair. 

JACK:  The  World's  Fair!  Why,  that 
closed  two  years  ago! 

MARY:  I  told  you  it  wouldn't  last! 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIV- 
INGSTONE, Jello  Program.) 

KEN:  You'd  be  surprised,  Fred.  All 
the  girls  in  my  home  town  don't  ivant  to 
marry. 

AN  NCR:    How  do  you  know? 

KEN:  I  asked  them?  .  .  .  So,  I  came 
back  yesterday  feeling  a  little  blue  and 
went  to  see  the  "Gold  Diggers  of  1936." 

AN  NCR:     You  mean  the  picture? 

KEN:  No — the  Income  Tax  Depart- 
ment? 

{KEN  MURRAY,  Rinso  Program.) 

MILTON:  I  phoned  down  to  the  clerk 
and  said :  "There's  a  rat  in  my  room." 
And  he  said:  "Sorry,  but  he'll  have  to 
come  down  and  register." 

ANNC'R:  And  did  you  register  Mil- 
ton? 

{MILTON  BERLE,  Follies  of  the 
Air.)  _^ 

TED:  I  am  a  great  Russian  lecturer. 
STRAIGHT:  Did  you  ever  speak  before 
a  large  crowd? 

TED:  Smertainly!    I  said  "Not  Guilty!" 
STRAIGHT:  Not  guilty? 
TED:  I  said  it  .  .  .  but  the  jury  didn't. 
(TEDDY  BERGMAN,  Vallee  Varieties.) 

FRED:  I'm  sure  gonna  miss  Maiv 
around  here.  I  reckon  I  ivon't  do  much 
eatin . 

JACK:  You  ain't  aintin'  to  let  your 
grief  interfere  with  you're  eatin'? 

FRED:  'Taint  that  .  .  .  Mazi''s  took 
our  teeth! 

{FRED  ALLEN  and  JACK  SMART. 
Town  Hall  Tonight.) 


RADIO 


WILLIE:     Wanna  buy  a  sweepstakes 

ticket? 

GENE:     Yeah— how  much? 

WILLIE:    Tzt'enty  cents. 

GENE:  Tiventy  cents!  I  thought  they 
cost  tivo  dollars  apiece. 

WILLIE:    They  do. 

GENE:  Then  hoiv  can  you  sell  'em. 
for  Izccnty  cents? 

JVILLIE:  Easy.  You  see,  the  race 
zc'oj  last  zveek! 

{WILLIE  and  EUGENE  HOWARD, 
Folies  de  Parec.) 


PHIL :  Good  morning,  Agnes.  I  would 
have  been  here  earlier,  but  I  took  the 
elevator  to  the  fortieth  floor. 

AGNES :  But  Phil,  our  studio  is  on 
the  third  floor. 

PHIL:  I  know  ...  I  like  to  slide 
down  banisters. 

{PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 


BOB:  My  uncle  went  to  see  Pagliacci  in 
Little  Rock  once,  and  went  out  and  asked 
for  his  money  back  because  he  wasn't  goin* 
to  pay  his  good  money  to  have  a  fellow 
laugh  at  him  for  ten  minutes.  When  the 
management  saw  him  they  gave  him  his 
money,  because  they  knew  that  tenor  wasn't 
just  singin'  a  song! 

(BOB  BURNS,  Kraft  Music  Hall.) 


TIM  :  Say,  Irene,  you  look  swell  to- 
night, but  I  notice  you're  wearing  one 
black  shoe  and  one  brown  one. 

IRENE:  Isn't  that  funny?  My  sister 
had  the  same  trouble  this  morning! 

{TIM  RYAN  and  IRENE  NOB- 
LETTE,  Jello  Program.) 


OSWALD :    I  fell  on  my  gun  and  the 
gun  went  of¥. 
KEN:  Yes? 

OSWALD :  Yes  ...  the  bullet  went  in 
my  chest  and  came  out  of  my  back. 

KEN  :  Wait  a  minute  .  .  .  you  can't 
tell  me  that  the  bullet  went  in  your  chest 
and  came  out  your  back  .  .  .  why,  it  would 
go  through  your  heart  and  kill  you! 

OSWALD:  Oh,  no! 

KEN:    Why  not? 

OSWALD :  My  heart  was  in  my 
mouth  I 

{KEN  MURRAY,  Rinso  Program.) 


12 


LAUGHS 


CHEERILY:  It  is  so  cute  to  watch  the 
mamma  kangaroos  as  they  carry  their 
young  around  in  their  pouches. 

YAHBUT:  What  if  they  get  indiges- 
tion? 

CHEERILY:  Why?  What  do  you 
mean? 

YAHBUT:  Can't  keep  anything  on 
their  stomachs? 


RADIO  STARS 


Selected  Snickers  from  Popular 
Programs 


(YAHBUT  and  CHEERILY,  Vallie 
Varieties.) 


FRED:  How  are  things  at  your  cousin's 
corset  shop,  Portland? 

PORTLAND:  She  closed  up  her  corset 
shop.    It  turned  out  to  be  a  bloomer. 

FRED:  She  closed  it  in  the  knicker  time, 
eh? 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

Can  you  remember 


FIGGSBOTTLE. 
vhcn  roil  7ccre  born? 

FISH  FACE:  I  nvs  just  a  baby 
-luw  could  I  remember? 


then 


(FISHFACE  and  FIGGSBOTTLE 
N.B.C.) 

MILTON:  In  my  hotel,  rooms  are 
one ^  dollar  and  up  .  .  .  One  dollar  and 
you're  up  all  night! 

{MILTON  BERLE.  Follies  of  the 
Air.) 


PORTLAND:  Why  are  they  building 
boats  so  big  these  days? 

FRED:  I  don't  know  .  .  .  unless  it's  to 
bring  over  more  sweepstakes  tickets. 

(FRED  ALLEN,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 


WILLIE:  You  know,  Gene,  Ive  got 
a  lucky  charm  that  keeps  me  from  going 
broke. 

GENE:  Nonsense,  I  don't  believe  in 
lucky  charms. 

WILLIE:  I  know  what  I  know!  With 
my  charm  I'll  always  have  money  in  my 
pocket. 

GENE:    What  is  this  charm? 
WILLIE:  A  hundred-dollar  gold  piece! 
(WILLIE  and  EUGENE  HOWARD. 
Folies  dc  Paree.) 

{Continued  on  page  106) 


I  hate  to  show  up  all 
powdery  in  strong  light 

„  lioht    And  showing  too 

"alare-proof  — catcu  oniy  special  ingre- 

c       ^  „      j^^r"  in  strongest  iignt.  rs.  =f  <- 

rare  utry  fresh  looking  fo.  hours. 


5  -Glare-Proof' Shades 


(This  off«  expire.  J".  1. 


Name 


l^evcrloolis  powdery— 
rUngs 

^i.otcdthe2mostimjwrtant 


RADIO  STARS 


SHE  WEARS  WHAT 


Gladys  Swarthout 
shows  Fall  smartness  in 
gray  wool  stripes, 
with  brown  accessories. 


Misty  tulle  for  evening  wear,  with 
the  daisy  nnotif  that  is  one  of 
Gladys  Swarthout's  preferences.  You 
will  see  this  in  C hompagne  Waltz. 


BY  ELIZABETH 
ELLIS 

GLADYS  SWARTHOUT  is  back 
in  Hollywood,  which  means  that  all 
you  who  are  her  screen  and  radio 
fans  will  be  able  to  feast  your  eyes 
upon  her  once  again  and  can  tune 
your  ears  to  her  charming  voice. 

She  is  busy  making  Champagne 
Waltc,  but  she  will  find  time,  of¥- 
screen,  to  satisfy  the  demands  of  her 
air  fans  as  well.  To  me,  Gladys  is 
the  true  example  of  that  very  over- 
worked description  "A  typical  Ameri- 
can." Not  only  in  her  perfectly 
groomed  good  looks,  but  in  her  per- 
sonality and  the  |)cr^cvc'rancc  be- 
hind it.  She  has  worki-d  hard  to 
achieve  a  three-fold  fame,  in  (libera, 
screen  and  radio.  She  doesn't  affect 
a  foreign  exoticism,  instead  she  is 
animated  and  interesting-looking  in 
that  special  way  which  makes  Ameri- 
can women  distinctive  the  world  over. 
She  is  lovely-looking  but,  quite  aside 


A  typical  Swarthout  effect. 
Chic  homespun  jacket  of 
green,  brown  and  beige,  and 
flaring    beige    tweed  skirt. 


Clamorous  Gladys  Swarthout  in  a  fas 


HE  glamour  of  exquisite 
finger  tips  may  be  yours 
for  so  little  with  Chic.  This  lux- 
urious quality  polish  in  an  artistic 
oversized  bottle  is  a  real  economy 
to  use.  It's  the  perfect  polish  — 
easy  to  apply  and  long  wearing. 
With  Chic  only  10c  you'll  want 
several  shades  to  highlight  any' 
mood— grave  or  gay— as  you  wish. 
Chic  polish  is  obtainable  in  either 
transparent  or  creme.  Chic  Pol- 
ish Remover— plain,  or  oily  for 
brittle  nails,  makes  a  change  of 
polish  utterly  simple.  Chic  Cuticle 
Remover  completes  a  perfect  five 
minute  manicure  at  your  own 
dressing  table. 


Chic  Manicure  Requisites  art 
sold  in  all  Five  and  Ten  Centi 
Stores  at  10c  each.  J 


14 


RADIO  STARS 


SHE  LIKES 


Another  suit  of  beige  and 
gray  blended  wool,  with  a 
peaked-crown  hat  of  gray 
and  a  matching  pouch  bag. 

from  that  great  asset,  she  has  a 
smartness  and  vivacity  that  is  within 
the  easy  reach  of  every  one  of  you. 
Gladys  is  a  home-thrown  product  that 
all  of  us  can  be  ])rou(l  to  copy! 

The  Swarthout  wardrobe  always  is 
an  interesting  one  and  especially  so 
in  this  current  season  of  changing 
silhouette  and  detail.  In  color,  her 
clothes  are  adapted  to  the  California 
brand  of  a  milder  fall  and  winter, 
but  in  lines  and  details,  they  are  just 
what  all  of  us  will  be  looking  for  to 
wear  through  the  Indian  summer 
days  of  October  and,  later,  snuggly 
hidden  beneath  our  heavy  topcoats. 

Gladys,  like  so  many  Hollywood 
stars,  is  a  suit  fiend.  '  Spring  and 
fall  she  adds  several  new  ones  to  her 
already  large  wardrobe.  While  her 
suits  are  tailored,  they  usually  have 
some  trick  to  the  cut  that  gives  them 
a  feminine  silhouette.  Often  she 
chooses  the  same  material  as  her 
husband's  suits  for  her  own  favorite 
skirts  and  jackets.  She  has  her 
skirts  tailored  in  a  certain  way  that 
makes  them  keep  a  perfect  shape. 
She  likes    {Continued  on  page  86) 

cinating  fall  outfit 


Mr 


A  BODY  BEAUTIFUL  witK 
tlie  LINIT  BEAUTY  BATH 

Just  dissolve  some  Linit  in  a  tub  of  warm  water 
and  bathe  as  usual.  After  drying,  feel  your  skin  — 
it  will  be  delightfully  smooth  and  soft  —  And  the 
Linit  bath  does  away  with  the  damp  or  semi-dry 
feeling  of  the  skin  that  usually  follows  an  ordinary 
bath  . . .  Make  it  a  habit  to  take 
a  Linit  Beauty  Bath  and  join  the 
many  thousands  of  women  who 
daily  enjoy  its  refreshing  luxury. 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 


Tales,  tall  or  short,  as  you  like 
them,  from  the  broadcasting  byways 


Jack  Ben 


ny 


Autumn  greetings! 

Comes  noiv  tlic  seasonal  change. 
Tlie  frost  on  the  pumpkin  and  the 
corn— if  any — in  the  shock.  The 
new-lit  leaf.  New  zest  in  the  air. 
New  radio  programs — and  old 
ones  in  gay  ncxv  colors. 

There's  the  new  stream-lined 
Show  Boat,  presenting  one  of  the 
largest  regular  casts  on  the  air. 
Helen  Jepson  is  the  soprano  star. 
And  how  do  you  like  its  new 
comedian,  Horace  Nimble?  He's 
Sam  Hearn,  and  formerly  was 
Schlepperman,  with  Jack  Benny. 

Helen  Hayes  comes  back  in  a 
new  dramatic  series,  Monday 
nights.  And  the  Firestone  con- 
certs once  more  star  Richard 
Crooks.  .  .  .  Guy  Lombardo  and 
his  Royal  Canadians  start  a  second 
season  at  the  Roosevelt  Grill.  .  .  . 
Nelson  Eddy  begins  his  weekly 
program  for  Vick's.  .  .  .  Marion 
Talley  changes  her  program 
schedule  to  Sundays,  5:30  EST 
on  the  NBC-Red  Network.  .  .  . 
Walter  Winchell  returns  to  the 
Jergens  program.  .  .  . 


We  can't  begin  to  list  all  the  ex- 
citing offerings  that  beckon  us  to 
the  dials  this  season.  Only  one 
thing  shows  no  zvelcome  change — 
the  coninicrcial  announcements! 

"TIGER,  TIGEJ^.f 

"Burning  bright,  in  the  forests 
of  tJie  night,"  those  commercial 
announcements  still  remain  a 
menace  to  enthusiasm  for  radio 
entertainment.  Just  when  the 
program  is  in  full  swing,  the  mood 
pleasantly  established,  comes  an 
abrupt  break — the  killer  is  stalk- 
ing its  prey!  Quickly  the  illusion 
is  slain.  .  .  .  Perhaps  it  can  be 
restored  in  the  next  few  minutes 
— more  often  it  is  past  rescuing. 
And  the  destruction  of  illusion  is 
not  even  mercifully  brief.  It  is 
played  with,  tossed  and  tortured, 
wearied  to  death ! 

We  can't  quarrel  with  the  spon- 
sors' purpose  to  present  their 
products.  But  in  the  right  places, 
and  with  a  little  more  restraint. 
.  .  .  Why  can't  they  all  get  to- 
gether and  take  this  matter  up? 
Bring  illusion  back  alive! 
{Continued  on  page  97) 


Below,  Sing  Me  a  Love  Song — Zasu  Ethel  Barrymore,  First  Lady  of  the 
Pitts.  James  Melton,  Patricia  Ellis.     American  Stage,  with  Ben  Bernle. 


BRIDE  CRIES  over  burnt 
bacon,  kitchen  hands!  So 
much  to  do  —  only  two 
hands  to  do  it  with — and 
both  those  hands  getting 
"sick  and  tired."  Skin  so 
dry,  it's  cracking.  Natural 
softness  dried  out  by  oven- 
heat  and  soapy  work!  Put 
softness  back  again  with 
Hinds.  It's  quicker-acting 
— not  watery.  Every  creamy 
drop  does  good! 


IT'S  FUN  to  he  oiKcloois, 
but  no  kindness  to  your 
skin.  Face  and  hands 
lose  their  niccness  eci 
coarse,  dry,  and  rough. 
Smooth  them  -sooner 
— with  Hinds.  Its  pre- 
cious softeners  soak  into 
skin — stay  there  too. 
Youc  skin  wins  back 
lasting  smoothness 
not  just  a  half  hour's 
slickness.  Try  Hinds  in 
the  50c  size  with  the 
new,  free  one-piece  dis- 
penser. Read  all  about 
it  below. 


(/'//)  SOFT  HANDS  are 

sweet  music  to  his 
eager  touch.  Keep 
yours  in  the  very- 
much-wanted  class 
— by  using  Hinds.  It 
isn't  watery.  Every 
rich,  creamy  drop 
works  better — soft- 
ening and  whitening 
dry,  red  skin. 


IN  HOT  WATER  and  out— all  day  long.  Hand, 
pucker  up,  chap  and  crack.  Put  softness  back 
into  your  hands  with  Hinds.  Its  precious  lubri- 
cants soak  into  dry  abused  skin,  restoring  nat- 
ural smoothness — not  just  a  surface  slickness. 
Hands  freshen  up  with  a  sweet  smell,  a  cool 
soft  look.  Use  Hinds  regularly.  It  s  creamy  — 
not  watery.  Every  drop  works! 


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JT  JlVIjJII*  in  the  stores  now: 

The  new  perfect  1 -piece  lotion  dispenser!  Free  on 
the  Hinds  50c-sizc  bottle!  Ready  to  use.  Nothing 
to  take  apart  or  put  together.  Works  instantly. 
Simply  turn  bottle  upside  down — press — out  comes 
Hinds  quicker-acting  lotion!  Every  drop  creamy — 
not  watery.  Keeps  your  hands  feeling  good,  look- 
ing grand !  Hinds  comes  in  $1 , 50c,  25c,  and  lOc  sizes. 


H  I  N  D  S      QuiAer- A5fc|...  Ute 


HONEY  AND  ALMOND  CREAM 


Crtj 


19 


UST  the  other  day  we  asked  ourself : 
"What  about  glamour  on  the  air?" 

"Is  it  possible,"  we  wondered,  "to  take  a 
glamour  girl  from  the  screen,  put  her  on 
a  regular  radio  program  and  recapture  that 
same  elusive  something  which  the  lady  possesses  in 
pictures?"  We  decided  to  ask  for  opinions  on  this, 
from  people  who  should  know. 

First,  of  course,  we  must  pick  our  glamour  girl. 
Hollywood,  glamour's  major  stronghold,  has  two  out- 
standing examples.  Ask  the  man  on  the  street  and 
he'll  tell  you  Garbo  and  Dietrich.  Well,  Garbo  won't 
talk — there  are  days  when  she  doesn't  even  speak  to 
herself — and  since  talk,  or  sound  effects  of  some  kind, 
are  essential  to  radio,  our  subject  will  be  Marlene* 
Dietrich. 

Perhaps  you  heard  Marlene  with  Clark  Gable  on 
the  opening  program  of  the  Lux  Radio  Hour  series. 
This  hour's  sponsors  spend  thousands  of  dollars  every 
week  on  their  program.  They  can  obtain  the  best — 
or  at  least  the  most  expensive — talent  money  can  buy. 
Naturally,  they  wanted  to  inaugurate  the  series  in  as 
auspicious  a  manner  as  possible.  So — this  question 
comes  up : 

Did  they  engage  Marlene  Dietrich  because  she  was 
a  "name"  or  did  they  believe  her  radio  histrionics 
would  add  materially  to  the  entertainment  value  of 
the  program?     We  put  that  question  to  Cecil  B. 


DeMille,  one  of  Hollywood's  pioneer  movie  -makers, 
who  directs  the  Lux  shows. 

"Of  course,"  said  Mr.  DeMille,  "for  our  opening 
program  we  wanted  the  biggest  names  we  could  find. 
But  that  doesn't  imply  that  we  were  in  the  market 
for  names  alone.  Entertainment  is  the  keynote  of  our 
program;  if  we  don't  furnish  it  we  can  expect  no  audi- 
ence. We  selected  Marlene  Dietrich  and  Clark  Gable 
because  we  felt  they  could  give  our  audience  the  sort 
of  entertainment  to  which  it  is  entitled. 

"Does  Marlene  Dietrich's  personality  register  on  the 
air?  I  am  definitely  of  the  opinion  that  it  does.  For 
Marlene  not  only  has  glamour  of  person,  she  has 
glamour  of  voice.  She  can  express  an  emotion  with 
a  word.  To  me,  her  voice  is  one  of  the  most  glamorous 
qualities  about  her." 

And  Mr.  DeMille  should  know  his  actresses.  He 
was  in  Hollywood  almost  before  the  town  itself  ar- 
rived. With  Jesse  Lasky,  as  far  back  as  1915,  he  made 
The  Squaw  Man,  a  major  epic  of  its  day,  an  enter- 
prise which  started  a  brand  new  California  gold  rush. 
Since  those  days  Hollywood  has  grown  up,  pretty  faces 
have  been  wired  for  so'und,  matinee  idols  who  stamped 
their  footprints  in  the  forecourt  of  Grauman's  Chinese 
Theatre  have  long  since  been  forgotten,  but  C.  B. 
DeMille  remains  one  of  Hollywood's  most  important 
personages.  For  that  reason  alone,  one  can  take  his 
word  as  the  word  of   {Continued  on    page  54) 


CAN  RADIO 
TRANSLATE  THE 
CHARM  OF  MAR- 


LENE DIETRICH? 


Marlene  Dietrich  with 
Charles  Boyer  in  The 
Garden   of  Allah 


Another  of  the  many 
beautiful  scenes  fronn 
the  sanr>e  motion  picture. 


A  desert  rendezvous  for  the  hapless 
lovers  in  The  Garden  of  Allah,  star- 
ring Marlene  Dietrich,  with  Charles  Boyer. 


IS  MARLENES  ALLURE 
FOR  THE  EYE  ALONE? 


BY    LEO  TOWNSEND 


HENRY 


ALBERT  PHILLIPS 


World  Copyright.  1<'.!6,  \EA  Service.  Tnc. 

Dr.  Dafoe  with  the  Quintuplets  at  their  wading  pool.  The  babies,  rrom  lett  to  right,  are:  Yvonne,  Marie, 
Annette,  Emilie,  and  Cecile.  They  take  to  the  pool  in  a  big  way,  says  the  Doctor  proudly. 


"SUPPOSE  an  epidemic  should  break  out  in  a  neiglibor- 
hood.  .  .  .  They  do,  sometimes — especially  where  people 
are  not  over  sanitary  and  careful.  .  .  .  What  a  wonderful 
thing  it  would  be,  if  we  could  have  a  community  service 
radio !  Then  your  doctor  could  sit  right  in  his  office  and 
give  directions  to  all  of  the  sufferers  at  once — tell  them 
what  regimen  to  follow,  what  precautions  to  take.  ..." 

Dr.  Dafoe  knocked  the  ashes  from  his  pipe  and  nodded 
thoughtfully.  "To  minister  to  a  whole  community  over 
the  radio,"  he  went  on,  "not  only  would  save  the  doctor, 
but  his  patients  as  well.  And  it  would  be  as  efficacious  in 
large  cities  as  it  would  in  small,  scattered  communities, 
such  as  ours  is  here  in  Callander.  Here  they  live  so  far 
apart,  it's  a  problem  to  reach  them  when  the  snows  set  in. 


"People,"  the  Quintuplets'  physician  mused,  "seldom 
follow  printed  instructions  precisely.  But  the  human 
voice,  from  the  radio,  reaches  their  hearts,  their  brains — 
calls  on  their  common  sense.  .  .  .  Reading  is  not  always 
believing,  but  hearing  is — especially  if  it  is  the  doctor 
speaking ! 

"Speaking  thus,  over  the  air,"  said  the  grizzled  small 
man  who,  on  a  dismal  May  morning,  two  years  ago,  be- 
came world  famous,  "your  doctor,  any  doctor,  may  be 
able  to  save  the  lives  of  other  babies  as  the  Quintuplets 
were  saved.  If  it  hadn't  been  for  radio,"  said  Dr.  Dafoe 
with  conviction,  "the  whole  present-day  happy  picture  of 
the  Quintuplets  might  have  been  radically  changed."  He 
looked  at  me  over  the  top  of  his  spectacles.   "Radio,"  he 


DR.  DAFOE   NURSES   A   DREAM  OF  BEING  ABLE 

22 


DAFOE  REVEALS 

RADIO  MAY  SAVE  YOUR 
AS  IT  DID  THE  QUINTUPLETS! 


Wide  World  I'hotos 


The  world-famous  country  doctor — Dr. 
Allan  Roy  Dafoe  of  Callander,  Ont., 
now  to  be  heard  on  the  Lysol  program. 


Dr.  Dafoe  being  congratulated  by  Dr,  James  S.  McLester, 
president  of  the  American  Medical  Association  and  Dr.  J.  C. 
Mealtins,  president  of  the  Canadian  Medical  Association. 


minded  me,  "broadcast  to  the  four  corners  of  the  earth 
>  phenomenal  birth  and  made  this  remote,  unknown 
ilement  in  the  lumber  region  of  Canada's  far  north  the 
lis  of  world  interest.    To  be  sure,  the  jjress  did  its 
;  t,  but  millions  who  seldom  or  never  saw  a  newspaper 
lined  of  the  event,  in  their  homes  or  huts  or  cabins, 
in  the  voice  oti  the  air.    And  the  Quintuplets  were 
ipted  by  the  world.    Their  preservation  and  welfare 
I  ame  a  matter  of  jjublic  concern." 
A'e  were  sitting  in  the  tiny  "ofificc"  of  Dr.  Dafoe's 
niple  home,  in  Callander,  Ontario.  Canada.    This  was 
'u  office  to  which  he  had  hurried,  half-dressed,  in  the 
middle  of  that  memorable  night,  and  found  a  treml)ling 
little  man  who  pleaded  with  him  to  hasten  out  to  the 


Dionne  farm — some  four  miles  away.  The  expected  baity 
was  about  to  arrive — prematurely,  and  Mrs.  Dionne  was 
vcrv,  very  ill. 

■■(  )nly  God  and  Nature  could  give  us  any  helji  during 
those  tir.st  few  terrible  weeks,"  Dr.  Dafoe  continued,  "ancl 
they  both  did.  It  was  no  time  for  talking — onlv  for  im- 
mediate decisions  and  action.  We  had  a  sick  mo'her  and 
five  i)rcmature,  under-nourished  and  barely-b  eathing 
babies  on  our  hands.  The  parents  were  poor  and  had 
very  little  equipment  for  such  extraordinary  and  criti- 
cal circumstances.  For  a  long  time,  there  were  twenty- 
two  ])er.sons  living  and  stewing  and  fretting  in  tiiat  little 
bVench  Canadian  farmhou.se.  Several  of  us  were  desper- 
ately fighting  to  save  the  lives   {Continued  on  page  68) 


TO  SERVE   A  WHOLE  COMMUNITY  OVER  THE  AIR 

23 


lamorous  Carole  Lombard 
would  make  some  startling 
changes  in  our  broadcasts! 


Coroio  Lombard 


HAVING  heard  beforehand  that  she  is  a  young  lady 
with  definite  opinions  and  knowing  that  she  is  one  of  the 
most  gracious  gals  in  Hollywood,  we  walked  into  our 
Carole  Lombard  interview  date  with  head  and  notebook 
held  high,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  it  was  one  of  those 
Mondays  when  you  wake  up  wondering  what  ever  be- 
came of  Sunday. 

Radio  is  a  fine  thing,  we  thought  to  ourself,  even  on 
this  bluest  of  all  possible  Mondays  and  Carole  Lombard 
is  a  fine  girl.  In  fact,  anyone  who  submits  herself  to  the 
ordeal  of  an  interview  on  Monday,  any  Monday,  is  not 
only  fine  and  beautiful — she  is  positively  astounding.  And 
well  fight  the  man  who  says  she  isn't — only  not  on  a 
Monday,  if  you  don't  mind. 

By  the  time  we  had  run  all  this  through  our  so-called 
mind  we  found  ourself  seated  in  the  Lombard  dressing 
room,  reaching  for  the  Lombard  cigarettes.  (It  is  an 
unwritten  law,  strictly  adhered  to,  that  no  interviewer 
smokes  his  own.  He  just  sits  there,  mooching  and  listen- 
ing. They  whisper  of  a  case,  several  years  ago,  when  a 
writer  new  to  Hollywood  actually  bought  a  drink  for  the 
interviewee.  Naturally,  he  was  promptly  tossed  out  of 
the  press  club,  shorn  of  his  credentials,  and  shot  the  next 
morning  at  sunrise.) 

Now  that  we  all  know  how  interviews  are  conaucted, 
and  who  pays,  let's  get  on  with  this  one. 

"I  understand  from  the  first  paragraph  that  you're  a 
young  lady  with  definite  opinions,"  we  began.  "Do  you 
suppose  you  could  tell  your  public  what  you'd  do  if  you 
suddenly  found  yourself  ruler  of  the  air  waves?" 

"My  first  definite  opinion,"  said  the  lovely  Miss  L.,  "is 
that  I  shouldn't  care  to  inherit  that  throne.   Of  course  if 


BY     WILFRED  HEALY 

...  IF  RADIO  WERE 
UNDER  CAROLE  S  THUMB 


it  were  forced  on  me  and  the  salary  were  okay,  I'd  start 
right  at  home  and  do  something  about  guest  prc^frams. 

"With  four  or  five  national  radio  hours  emanating  from 
Holl)rwood  using  picture  personalities  as  guest  stars,  it 
seems  highly  implausible  to  me  that  the  sponsors  can  dig 
up  enough  good  material  with  which  to  surround  all  their 
expensive  tSent. 

"For  instance,  I've  had  several  offers  to  appear  and  so 
far  I've  turned  them  all  down,  simply  because  I  haven't 
found  a  suitable  vehicle.  I  don't  like  radio  versions  of 
last  year's  pictures,  because  I  don't  think  people  want  to 
hear  a  rehash  of  something  they  might  not  have  liked  in 
the  first  place.  A  good  radio  dramatization  of  a  current 
picture,  if  that  picture  lends  itself  to  radio  adaptation,  is 
swell,  but  in  my  own  case,  The  Princess  Comes  Across 
is  the  only  one  of  my  recent  pictures  which  would  fit  radio 
requirements.  My  Man  Godfrey  is  a  good  comedy  and 
screen  audiences  like  it,  but  I'm  sure  that  kind  of  comedy 
on  the  air  would  sound  like  something  just  out  of  Major 
Bowes." 

Carole  Lombard,  as  you  might  well  imagine,  prefers 
comedy  to  any  other  type  of  radio  program.  She  wouldn't 
be  averse  to  doing  a  comedy  series  herself  if  the  right 
script  and  the  right  offer  came  along.  Anyone  who  saw 
her  grand  Garbo  impersonation  in  The  Princess  Comes 
Across  knows  what  Carole  can  do  with  comedy.  She  was 
so  good  in  that  role  that  a  haughty  foreign  star  on  her 
own  lot — Paramount — held  a  private  showing  of  the  pic- 
ture just  to  make  sure  it  ivas  Garbo  Carole  was  mimicking. 

"With  radio  under  my  thumb  I  would  proclaim  Jack 
Benny  as  my  favorite  comedian,"  Miss  Lx>mbard  con- 
tin\ied.    "His  delivery  is  perfect,  his  diction  is  smooth 


and  he's  a  natural  master  of  ceremonies.  Besides,  he 
advertises  his  sponsor's  product  in  the  most  painless 
method  possible.  For  instance,  I  never  touch  Jell-O,  but 
I  buy  loads  of  it  simply  because  of  Jack  Benny. 

"One  of  the  major  faults  with  radio  programs  is  that 
there  is  not  enough  painless  propaganda.  That,  of  course, 
will  all  be  change!  when  I'm  queen  of  the  air.  One  of  the 
first  of  my  royal  edicts  will  be  this :  Every  sponsor  in  the 
country  will  listen  to  a  command  performance  of  Fred 
Waring's  Ford  show.  That's  my  Utopia  of  all  radio 
programs.  The  music  is  swell,  the  program  has  vitality 
and  Mr.  Ford  mentions  his  product  only  twice  in  the  en- 
tire session.  'Watch  the  Fords  go  by'  tells  just  as  much 
about  a  product  as  an  announcer's  saccharine  speech  about 
the  tremendous  merits  of  so-and-so's  salad  dressing,  and, 
as  I  mentioned  before,  it's  painless.  At  this  moment,  for 
instance,  I  have  a  garage  full  of  Fords  and  I'll  bet  you 
can  ransack  the  house  for  even  a  drop  of  so-and-so's  high 
pressured  salad  dressing. 

"If  I  wtre  ruler  of  the  air,  I  would  certainly  add  Fred 
Allen  to  £he  list  of  my  favorite  court  jesters.  His  pro- 
grams are  fresh  and,  aside  from  his  amateurs,  very  funny. 
Offhand,  I  can't  think  of  any  radio  comedians  who  can 
be  classed  with  Benny  and  Allen.  They  are,  to  coin  a 
word,  terrific," 

There  are  other  programs  which  would  also  win  regal 
favor.  For  instance : 

The  Hollywood  Hotel  program.  Miss  Lombard  has 
appeared  on  it  twice,  doing  radio  versions  of  her  current 
screen  hits.  She  particularly  admires  Bill  Bacher,  the 
program's  director,  for  his  knowledge  of  radio  and  his 
ability  to  get  the  utmost  out  of  (Continued  on  page  98) 


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ARE  GUE5T  STARS 
A  NECESSARY  EVIL  ? 


Would  some  radio  programs  be  more  entertaining  if  high- 
priced  indifferent  "visiting  firemen"  were  excluded? 


BY  NANCY 
BARROWS 


They  had  a  lot  of  guests  come  to  the  house  one  night, 
Bob  (Bazooka)  Burns  recounted  in  his  engaging  drawl. 
They  didn't  have  room  to  put  'em  all  up.  So  Pop  went 
outside. 

It  was  a  mighty  cold  night  and  by  and  by  the  folks  got 
kinda  ivorried  about  Pop.  They  went  looking  for  him 
and  found  him  out  in  the  barn,  under  a  wagon.  He  was 
shivering  till  his  teeth  clicked. 

"Cain't  rve  do  something  ter  make  yer  more  comfort- 
able, Pop?"  they  asked  him. 

"W ell,"  Pop  said,  "yer  might  throw  on  another  wagon." 

WE  HEARD  Bob  tell  this  story  on  Bing  Crosby's  Kraft 
Music  Hall  program — and  we  couldn't  help  drawing  a 
deadly  parallel. 

In  just  this  selfsame  fashion  the  radio  programs  troop 
home  with  their  glittering  guests — guests  whose  very 
names  imply  exorbitant  remuneration — clamoring  for  ac- 
commodation for  them  at  the  expense  of  the  whole  radio 
family.  And  Pop — and  Brother  and  Sister,  too — are 
crowded  out  in  the  cold. 

There's  not  even  an  extra  wagon  to  throw  over  them. 
All  the  wagons  are  hitched  to  the  stars ! 

It  just  doesn't  make  sense!  It  doesn't  make  good  radio 
entertainment  nor  good  radio  entertainers.  We  believe 
that  radio  should,  as  it  did  in  its  early  days,  develop  its 
own  artists. 

William  Lohr,  president  of  the  National  Broadcasting 
Company,  supports  our  contention. 

"This  guest-staj-  craze,"  said  Mr.  Lohr,  "has  got  to  stop. 


It's  not  making  successful  radio  programs.  It's  not 
pleasing  the  public.  It's  not  satisfying  the  sponsors.  The 
sponsors  are  paying  out  extravagant  sums  for  something 
that  doesn't  sell  their  product.    They  don't  like  it. 

"Radio  programs,"  he  reiterated,  "are  defeating  their 
own  ends,  with  this  influx  of  guest  stars — all  of  them 
costing  a  great  deal  of  money.  All  of  them  contributing 
little  of  entertainment  value.  AH  of  them  alien  to  the 
sphere  in  which  they  suddenly  find  themselves.  Shoul- 
dering aside  talented  folk  who  might  become  genuine 
radio  artists." 

It's  a  curious  feature  of  our  psychology,  that  we  all  try 
to  be  just  like  everybody  else,  instead  of  seeking  ways 
to  be  different,  to  achieve  something  original,  unique. 
If  one  stage  play  featuring  an  erring  husband  or  wife  is 
a  hit,  we  will  have  a  baker's  dozen  of  such.  If  a  movie 
dealing  with  the  more  naive  period  of  our  history  grosses 
a  tidy  sum,  out  come  all  the  films  in  covered  wagons!  Or 
they're  all  concerned  with  the  careers  of  crooks.  Or  all 
gunning  with  G-Men. 

And  if  one  radio  program  puts  on  a  guest  star,  all  radio 
programs  must  have  guest  stars! 

Listening  to  a  series  of  radio  programs,  one  is  im- 
pressed with  a  sense  of  repetition,  of  ennui,  or  growing 
distaste.  There  is  Kate  Smith's  program.  .  ...  Having 
rounded  up  all  discoverable  champions,  she  now  hunts 
notables  in  any  line.  Arthur  Hammerstein  disinters  dead 
days  with  stars  his  grandfather  made  famous.  Hollyzvood 
Hotel  brings  on  movie  biggies — and  stars  whom  we  know 
and  delight  in  on  the  screen  seem  {Continued  on  page  72) 


31 


Fred  presents 
his  own  program 
on  the  air  now. 
He  comes  to  us, 
too,  in  the  new 
RKO-Radio  movie, 
Swing  Time,  his 
sixth  co-sta  r- 
ring  movie  with 
Singer  Rogers. 


WHEN  the  new  Packard  show  went  on  the  air  last  month, 
it  came  under  the  guiding  hand — or  is  it  feet? — of 
radio's  newest  star.  Having  achieved  considerable  fame 
on  the  stage  and  on  the  screen,  it  is  only  natural  that  Fred 
Astaire  should  come  to  radio.  In  this  particular  case, 
however,  radio  came  to  Fred  Astaire.  And  radio  hopes 
he  likes  it  well  enough  to  stay  for  awhile. 

The  Astaire  bank  account,  as  you  may  well  imagine, 
32 


If 

A 

He  does 


FRED  ASTAIRE  TAKES 
OFF!  HE  SINGS,  HE 
DANCES,  HE  BROAD- 
CASTS-HE'S TOPSI 


is  in  no  need  of  refurbishing.  It's  a  streamlined  affair 
with  all  the  latest  improvements — meaning  money — and 
it  took  a  lot  of  persuasion  to  convince  Fred  Astaire  that 
an  hour  a  week  on  the  air  would  add  immeasureably  to 
his  own  personal  happiness. 

For  an  hour  a  week  on  the  air,  to  a  performer  as  thor- 
ough and  as  sincere  as  Fred  Astaire,  means  many  hours 
of  hard  work.  He's  not  the  kind  of  guy  who  can  grab 
his  script  on  the  way  into  the  studio,  rattle  it  off  and  rush 
over  to  the  pay  window  for  the  fabulous  check.  Astaire's 
been  too  many  years  in  show  business  to  think  a  person- 


Ray  Fairbault 


EVERYTHING 
but  take  the  tickets 


ality  can  click  on  name  only.  He  knows  a  performer  is 
;i>  ijood  as  his  last  performance,  and  for  that  reason  you'll 
prohahly  find  that  the  Astaire  radio  show  will  turn  out 
to  be  one  of  the  smoothest  on  this  fall's  air  lanes. 

For  one  thing,  it  is  undoubtedly  the  biggest  one-man 
show  on  the  air,  for  the  Astaire  duties  cover  a  wide  ter- 
ritory. He's  not  only  starring  in  the  show,  but  has  to  sing, 
go  into  his  dance,  and.  besides,  ])lay  the  piano.  He  plays 
a  couple  of  other  instruments  which  he  can't  remember 
ofiE  hand,  but  the  minute  he  thinks  of  them  they'll  get 
their  moment  at  the  mike. 

In  addition  to  the  Astaire  activities,  there  is  Johnny 
Green  with  the  largest  band  he's  ever  put  on  the  air,  ])lus 
a  group  of  guest  performers  each  week.  In  spite  of  the 
fact  that  the  ji)rogram  originates  in  Hollywood,  the  guest 
performers  will  not  be  movie  stars  doing  dramatic  skits. 
For  a  Hollywood  show  such  a  departure  must  be  looked 
upon  with  horror  by  the  boys  who  plan  the  programs 
and,  perhaps,  by  the  movie  stars  themselves,  who  have 
been  knocking  oflf  from  one  to  five  thousand  dollars  each 


time  they  give  the  public  the  privilege  of  hearing  them 
without  seeing  them. 

"Our  plan  isn't  exactly  a  new  one,"  says  Fred  Astaire, 
"but  we  think  it  makes  for  good  entertainment.  Although 
from  time  to  time  we'll  have  picture  stars  on  our  program, 
our  guests  as  a  rule  will  be  neither  stars  nor  amateurs. 
But  between  those  two  extremes  there  is  a  Targe  group 
of  entertainers  here  in  Hollywood  who  are  good  per- 
formers and  who  have  .something  to  oflfer.  They're  the 
people  we're  going  to  put  on  our  i)rogram." 

"A  sort  of  'Give  the  professional  a  chance'  movement?" 
I  suggested. 

"Let's  not  call  it  that,"  said  Astaire.  "I'm  not  against 
amateur  shows,  for  they  have  brought  attention  to  a  num- 
ber of  ])er.sons  who  otherwise  would  still  be  s^inging  their 
songs  or  playing  their  piccolos  in  ob.scurity.  On  the  other 
hand,  there  are  cx])erienced  performers  sitting  around  in 
the  .same  ob.scurity.  We  hope  to  dig  them  out  of  their 
hiding  places." 

Fred   Astaire   wants   it    {Continued   on   page  88) 

33 


Left  to  right.  ■  ^ 
Alma  Saunders, 
George  White, 
Don  McNeill  and 
Peggy  Body. 


V^-  i  J 


Eddie  Duchin 
with  Jimmy  New- 
",  Grade  Allen 
nd  Gracie't 
George  Burns. 


1  Jl^^. 


•  Between 


INFORMAL  VIEWS 
OF  SOME  FAVOR- 
ITES OF  THE  AIR 


Gertrude  Niesen,  gla- 
morous CBS  star,  is  one 
of  the  most  photographed 
girls  in  radio.  She  has 
dark  hair  and  gray-green 
eyes  and  takes  her  fame 
lightly. 


ARE  THESE  STORIES  OF 


Elizabeth 


Ben 


n  e  c 


Pete 


IS  life  with  all  its  jumbled  elements  of  starkness  and 
pathos  and  humor  and  tragedy,  as  presented  on  the  Good 
Will  Court,  the  thing  you  listeners  want  in  the  way 
of  radio  entertainment?  Whether  or  not  Chase  and  San- 
bom  has  picked  a  worthy  successor  to  Major  Bowes  and 
his  Amateur  H our is  -  now  being  decided  by  you 
listeners. 

'  A  year  ago  it  was  the  Major  and  his  amateurs  every- 
one was  talking  about.  Starting  on  one  of  the  smaller 
New  York  stations,  this  program  was  snapped  up  by 
Chase  and  Sanborn  and  given  the  coveted  eight  to  nine 
hour  on  Sunday  evening.  The  hour  which  statistics  prove 
to  be  the  one  in  which  most  people  tune  in  their  radios 
and  settle  back  to  be  entertained.  Now  the  Good  Will 
Court  has  taken  the  Major's  place  on  this  important  NBC 
hour. 

Like  the  Amateur  Hour,  the  Good  Will  Court  won 
its  popularity  on  a  small  New  York  station.  Lik^  the 
Amateur  Hour  its  principal  actors  come  to  you  with  no 
stage  experience,  no  recognized  aCting  talent,  nb  box , 
office  appeal,  no  salaries. 


GOOD 


HUMAN  SUFFERING  ENTERTAINING  RADIO  FARE? 


t  )ld.s  itself  without  l)enefit  of  script  or  gag  writers. 

But  will  it  achieve  the  popularity  of  its  predecessor, 
tlie  Major  and  his  amateurs? 

A.  L.  Alexander  who  is  the  mediator  for  the  Good  Will 
Court  believes  it  will. 

"The  Good  Will  Court  begins  where  the  Amateur 
Hour  stopped."  he  said.  "You  might  add  that  I  am  reluc- 
tant to  make  a  comparison  but  our  program  shows  the 
end  of  the  story,  the  other  the  beginning  and  I  feel  that 
everylwdy  is  more  curious  concerning  the  end  of  a  story 
than  they  are*  concerning  the  beginning." 

But  of  course  it  is  you  listeners  who  will  decide  if 
this  program,  based  as  it  is  on  the  broad  cross-section  of 
life  itself,  is  here  to  stay. 

It  was  an  absorbing  experience  watching  the  program 
unfold.  Sitting  in  straight-backed  wooden  chairs  were 
the  twenty-odd  people  who  had  come  to  this  court  of 
the  air  for  guidance.  Most  of  them  shabby,  some  tragic- 
eyed,  some  jaunty  and  a  little  excited  at  the  prosi)ect  of 
telling  their  stories  over  the  radio  and  all  of  them  in 
trouble  of  some  sort.  Real  trouble  in  .some  cases,  only  fan- 


cied in  others,  minor  annoyances  and  tragic  happenings 
all  brought  to  the  court  to  lie  weighed  and  decided  upon. 

Sitting  at  a  plain  wooden  table  were  two  men.  They 
were  the  judges  invited  for  that  evening  to  counsel  those 
seeking  help.  Jonah  J.  Goldstein,  judge  of  General  Ses- 
sions. County  of  New  York,  to  hear  cases  involving  do- 
mestic relations,  and  J.  Raymond  Tiffany,  former  assis- 
tant Attorney  General  and  District  Court  judge  of  the 
State  of  New  Jersey,  to  listen  to  those  involving  civil 
litigation. 

The  first  case  was  called.  She  was  a  girl,  young  and 
rather  pretty,  wearing  smoked  glasses  to  further  the  pro- 
tection of  privacy  the  Good  Will  Court  gives  to  every- 
one who  comes  to  it  seeking  help.  A  tragic  story  hers. 
A  mock  marriage  and  the  man  who  had  betraved  her  dis- 
ap;>earing  shortly  afterward  and  then  the  baby  born  to 
her  and  the  parents  who  would  not  forgive  her  the  dis- 
grace she  had  brought  u|)on  herself  and  them.  Thev 
refused  to  help  her  in  any  way  and  she  could  not  see 
her  baby  starve.  So  she  had  a  police  record.  A  sordid 
one.  And  now  she  had  reached  (Continued  on  page  89) 


COURT  ON  TRIAL 

.17 


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ESIDE 


FRANK  BUCK,  who  has  been  rubbing  elbows  with 
flcath-dealing  carnivora  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and 
has  i)ictures  to  i^rove  it,  was  warning  us  of  the  dangers 
of  Hstcning  to  salesmen-  Buck  would  sooner  meet  a 
lion  in  hand-to-hand  conflict,  or  grapple  with  a  python, 
than  be  stalked  by  a  salesman ! 

Tune  in  on  Buck,  as  he  sits  in  his  ofifice  in  the  General 
Motors  Building,  overlooking  New  York's  Columbus 
Circle  and  Central  Park.  He  is  far  away  from  the 
African  veldt  or  the  jungles  of  Sumatra,  but  he  is  ap- 
j)r<li(nsiv(Iy  alert,  lest  he  fall  a  victim  to  that  scourge  of 
civilization — the  salesman. 

"A  few  years  ago,"  commented  Buck,  "I  allowed  a 
smart  salesman  to  talk  me  into  taking  a  radio  receiving 
.set  into  the  Far  East  with  me.  It  was  against  my  better 
judgment,  but  my  better  judgment,  if  any,  seems  to 
melt  before  the  blandishments  of  a  salesman.  J  le  told  me 
that  with  this  radio  I  would  be  able  to  tune  in  on  New 
Yf)rk  j)rograms  every  night. 

"The  radio  was  packed,  despite  the  fact  that  in  travel- 
ing through  the  jungles  you  need  every  inch  of 
s|)ace  and  have  no  room  for  anything  which  isn't  strictly 
utilitarian. 

"When  we  made  our  camp  deep  in  the  jungles,  I  had 
one  of  my  camera  men,  who  was  both  a  good  mechanic 
and  an  expert  electrician,  set  up  the  radio.    He  drove  a 
,38 


pipe  forty  feet  into  the  earth,  so  as  to  secure  a  good 
ground  for  reception. 

"Picture  our  party,  now.  We  are  weeks  from  civ- 
ilization, with  no  way  of  knowing  what  is  going  on  in 
the  outside  world.  Eagerly  we  .set  up  the  set  and  eagerly 
we  await  the  tuning-in.  Will  we  get  a  jazz  band,  baseball 
scores  or  what?  >  The  answer,  friend,  is  that  we  got 
nothing — not  a  jjeep.  Not  even  the  harsh  crackle 
static.  We'd  have  been  willing  to  listen  to  some  political 
speech,  even,  l)ut  not  a  sound  came  out  of  that  radio.  And 
none  ever  tlid.  regardless  of  what  electrical  tricks  my 
camera-man  tried." 

Buck  paused  and  permitted  himself  a  quiet  chuckle. 
"Now  for  the  sequel,"  he  resumed.  "About  two  years 
later  I  was  here  in  New  York,  idly  tuning  in  a  radio.  I 
hai)pcned  to  hit  the  commercial  plug  for  a  radio  .set,  the 
same  brand  that  the  convincing  salesman  had  virtually 
fore  c(l  me  to  lug  to  the  Far  East  with  me. 

"And  Iktc's  what  the  announcer  was  saying: 

"  'This  is  the  sinnc  type  of  radio  7vhich  Frank  Puck 
carried  into  the  jungle  with  him.  And  C7'ery  night  when 
the  explorer  was  through  with  his  sircvuons  chases  after 
elephants,  lions,  tigers  and  what-twt,  he  would  relax  by 
tuning  in  this  .<;el  and  enjoy  the  fine  programs  from  Ne7V 
York,  Chicago  and  Hollyivood!' 

"Now,  what  can  you  do  with  a  guy  like  that?" 


FRANK  BUCK 
"BRINGS  EM 
BACK  ALIVE/' 
TO  OUR  HOMES 


BY  TOM  MEANY 


Atmospheric  conditions  in  the  jun- 
gle are  such  that  broadcasts  are  not 
possible  yet.  Buck  once  tried  to  make 
one  for  King  Features,  while  he  was 
there  filming  his  second  picture,  IVild 
Cargo.  King  Features  cabled  him  at 
Singapore  that  they  wanted  him  to 
make  a  Christmas  broadcast  for  Sta- 
tion WINS. 

"The  only  place  in  the  hills  with  a 
radio  station  was  at  Bonhong,  in  Java," 
explained  Buck.  "This  station  was 
operated  by  the  Dutch  government  and 
was  in  touch  with  Holland.  Virtually 
all  the  government  business  was  trans- 
acted via  the  radio,  but  it  was  not 
available  for  private  use. 

"The  station  at  Bonhong  could  reach 
Sydney,  Australia,  and  Sydney  was  in 
almost  constant  communication  with 
the  big  station  at  Schenectady,  New 
York. 

"It  would,  however,  take  all  the  in- 
fluence of  King  Features  to  get  per- 
mission from  the  Dutch  government 
to  use  the  (Continued  on  page  82) 


Frank  Buck  with 
some  of  his  many 
jungle  captives. 
The  python 
trapped  himself 
by  slipping  into 
the  pig-pen  and 
devouring  the 
pig.  Then  he 
found  himself  un- 
able to  get  out! 


HUNDRED  TIMES  NO! 

TELLS  WHY  SHE  REFUSES  TO  SAY  YES  TO  MARRIAGE 


SINCE  the  days  when  movies  were  flickery  shadows  cast 
on  bedsheets,  Hollywood  has  given  the  world  it  girls,  and 
glamour  girls  and  exotic  orchid-girls.  Indeed,  it  has 
become  a  part  of  our  folklore  that  Hollywood  has  a 
monopoly  on  that  elusive  feminine  quality  called  glamour. 
But  now  radio,  the  screen's  little  Cinderella  sister,  is  put- 
ting on  long  dresses.  The  motion  pictures'  loveliest  ladies 
are  being  lured  to  the  microphone..  And,  as  a  crowning 
achievement,  radio  can  now  boast  her  own,  her  very  own, 
sophisticated  lady — gorgeous,  baffling  Kay  Thompson. 
She  has  out-Hollywooded  Hollywood.  She  has  said 
"No"  a  hundred  times  to  a  hundred  importunate  men's 
propKJsals  of  marriage.  There's  a  score  for  the  Garbos, 
the  Dietrichs,  the  Lombards  to  shoot  at ! 

"I've  been  telling  men  I  don't  want  to  get  married, 
ever  since  I  was  sixteen,"  she  confided,  waving  a  fork  for 
emphasis  over  a  lobster  thermidor,  "but  they  just 
wouldn't  believe  me!" 

She  sighed  prettily — but  long  exotic  lashes  dropped 
over  one  eye  in  an  unmistakable  wink.  There  was  a 
mischievous  gleam  in  the  other  larkspur  blue  orb. 

"In  love?  I'm  in  love  all  the  time!  It's  fun!  It's  the 
salt  and  pepper  of  life — and  I  adore  salt  and  pepper!" 
She  laughed  gaily.  "I  want  my  whole  life  to  be  highly 
seasoned.  Oh,  I've  been  in  love,  all  right — but  so  far," 
she  made  a  rueful  move,  "I  haven't  ^ot  beyond  the  stage 
of  being  in  love  with  love." 

Kay  is  afraid  of  marriage.  Nothing  in  the  world 
ever  has  frightened  her — save  boredom.  She's  appalled 
at  the  thought  of  seeing,  every  morning,  the  same  face 
across  the  breakfast  table,  of  watching  the  same  man  put 


the   same  number  of   lumps  of   sugar   in   his  cofTee. 

"And  I'm  not  the  maternal  type,  either,  I'm  afraid," 
she  lamented. 

"Well,  how  did  it  happen — ah — all  these  men — " 

"Oh,  I  know  what  you're  trying  to  say,"  Kay  came  to 
the  rescue.  "You  mean,  if  I  didn't  want  any  men,  how 
did  it  happen  that  there  always  were  so  njany  around  ? 

"To  begin  at  the  very  beginning,  I  did  care  about  men 
— or  rather,  I  did  care  ab^t  having  men  around.  That 
was  because  then  I  was  the  official  ugly  duckling  of  the 
family.  My  sisters,  Blanche  and  Marion,  were  both 
beauties,  but  all  our  relatives  used  to  say :  'Isn't  it  a 
shame  about  Kay?'  When  I  reached  the  dating  age 
Blanche  was  awfully  sweet.  She  always  used  to  make 
her  date  bring  along  a  man,  reluctant  or  otherwise, 
for  me. 

"Now  I  was  an  independent  sort  of  kid.  It  made  me 
mad  as  a  hornet.  I  wanted  to  show  'em  all.  And  I 
saw  that,  in  this  man  business,  if  a  girl  hadn't  beauty, 
she'd  better  learn  to  use  her  head.  Well,  here's  one  ex- 
ample. When  we  went  to  parties.  I  was  always  the  one 
to  play  the  piano  while  the  others  danced.  Of  course  the 
ones  that  danced  got  the  men.  So  I  hit  on  this  scheme: 
I'd  sit  down  at  the  piano  and  sing  blues.  The  tempo  was 
impossible  for  dancing.  Pretty  soon  all  the  men  would 
be  grouped  around  the  piano — and  the  other  girls  would 
l)e  thinking  of  forming  an  organization  to  work  for  tb.e 
repeal  of  the  existing  laws  governing  homicide. 

"All  of  which  is  highly  unimportant,  really,  except  that 
it  started  me  off  on  two  definite  roads.  One  led  to  a  sing- 
ing career — and  the  other  which  {Continued  o>i  page  92) 

41 


RANCH  REVELRY 

LOUISE  MASSEY  AND  THE  WESTERNERS  ARE  HERE! 


Above,  Louise,  MiK  Mabte,  Henry  Auerwcrter,  Larry 
Weflington,  Jim  Bobcock  and  DoH  ond  Allan  Massey. 
Below,  Larry,  Doft,  Louise,  Allan,  and  MiH  Mabie. 


Above,  fime  for  grub,  and,  boy,  how  good  that 
cofFee  smelisl  Henry  and  Louise  are  the  cooks. 
Below,  who  wouldn't  yearn  for  boots  and  saddle  I 


DON'T 
DARf 
(ALL 
ME 
THAT! 


SAYS  FIBBER  (JIM 
JORDAN)  OF  FIBBER 
McCEE  AND  MOLLY 


Fibber  McGt* 
goM  on  oir. 
When  tdUr  tdM 
or*  told.  Pibbtr 
will  fall  them. 


THERE  are  some  people  who  can't  eat  strav\  l)erries  with- 
out breaking  out  in  a  rash  and  there  are  others  who  swell 
up  like  the  Hindenburg  after  tackling  a  delicacy  like 
sword-fish.  AH  of  which  is  a  round  alx)Ut  way  of  saying 
what  one  of  the  early  philosophers  said,  back  in  the  days 
of  crystal  sets:  "One  man's  dish  is. another  man's  poison." 

So  it  is  with  the  word  Munchausen  to  Jim  Jordan.  Fib- 
ber McGce  of  Fibber  McGec  and  Molly  and  the  husband 
of  Marian  Jordan,  who  is  Molly  of  the  act,  in  case  you 
haven't  guessed.  All  you  have  to  do  to  start  Jim  is  to  say 
MUnclmusen!  It's  like  waving  a  red  flag  at  a  bull,  or 
throwing  a  slow  ball  to  Jimmy  Fox.x — you've  got  to  duck 
immediately.  I  found  that  out ! 

It  was  one  of  those  hot  nights  in  Chicago,  when  even  the 
air-conditioned  stmlio  of  NBC,  in  the  Merchants  Mart 
building,  was  little  help.  Marian  and  Jim  Jordan  had  just 
concluded  their  66th  conseaitive  Fibber  McGee  and  Molly 
program  and  were  killing  the  four-hour  interval,  l)efore  the 


re|)eat  broadcast,  by  jxtsing  for  a  series  of  jiublicity  ))ic- 
tures.  As  1  said,  and  as  the  thermometer  also  said,  it  was 
a  hot  night  and  the  arduous  waits  under  the  glaring  Kleig- 
lights  set  up  by  the  studio  camera-men  weren't  making  it 
any  cooler. 

Interviewing  the  radio  comics  under  the.se  conditions 
was  more  than  a  little  difticult.  I  was  trying  to  squeeze 
in  a  tew  questions  between  takes  and  was  getting  nowhere 
rapidly.  Jordan  was  willing,  but  tired.  I  hap})ened  to 
ask :  "How  did  you  come  to  select  the  character  of  a  rura! 
Munchausen?"  .And  we  were  off!  It  was  like  dropping 
a  coin  in  a  slot  machine  and  hitting  the  jack-jx)t.  The 
conversation  flowed  from  Jordan,  clear,  conci.se  and  in- 
telligent 

"Miinchausen!"  said  Jim.  "Munchausen!  That's  one 
word  I  can't  stand.  Neither  our  program  nor  my  character 
resembles  Jack  Pearl's  Baron  in  any  way,  shafie  or  form. 
I've  never  copied  anylxxly's  style  (Continued  on  page  58) 

43 


Is  this  the  elusive  Beetle,  shaking  hands  with  Phil? 


Baker  and  McNaughton  {Bottle)  toast  a  new' contract. 


By  RUTH  GERI 


IT  WAS  a  social  call,  pure 
and  simple.  I  hadn't  ex- 
pected to  run  into  a  story ; 
wasn't  looking  for  one.  I 
had  stumbled  through  the  semi- 
darkness  of  the  backstage  laby- 
rinth in  a  Philadelphia  theater, 
found  a  battered  door  with  a  gilt 
piaper  star  pasted  on  its  outside. 
Two  of  the  star's  points  hung 
frayed  and  torn.  I  knocked  and 
a  shadowy  figure  in  a  worn  dress- 
ing-gown opened  the  door  a  cautious 
few  inches  and  peeked  out.  Inside  I 
saw  two  other  figures  perched  pre- 
cariously on  rickety  chairs.  Hastily  I 
apologized  for  the  intrusion. 

"Oh,  that's  all  right.  Come  on  in- 
just  a  couple  of  friends  of  mine." 

Phil  Baker  threw  open  the  door. 
Then  as  I  entered  the  tiny  dressing- 
room,  one  of  the  visitors  arose  po- 
litely and  gave  me  a  seat.   Phil  in- 


ONLY  THEY 


troduced    me    to    the  two 
youngsters.  They  were  from 
a  Philadelphia  school  paper, 
and  they  had  been  assigned 
to  interview  a  visiting  celeb- 
rity.   The  senior,  a  serious- 
faced  boy   of  about 
thirteen,  overcame  a 
seeming  tendency  of 
his  Adam's  apple  to 
leap  up  and  down  and 
proceeded   where  he 
had  left  oflf  at 
my  interruption. 

"Mr.  Baker,"  I 
he  asked  (his 
voice  a  mixture  of  bass  and  so-  j 
prano,  so,  in  the  dim-lit  room, 
it  might  have  been  two  people 
speaking)  ;  "can  you  give  us 
your  formula  for  success?" 

A  startled  light  leaped  into  Phil's 
sad  eyes.  An  absent  look  succeeded  it. 
His  Adam's  apple  did  acrobatics. 

"Success!"  he  echoed,  and  looked 
through  and  beyond  the  two  boys.  "I 
don't  know.  You  see,  I — I  never  had 


it."     His  voice  vibrated  sincerity. 

The  two  youngsters  gawked.  Their 
busy  pencils  stayed  poised  in  mid- 
air. You  could  read  their  startled 
thoughts.  This  was  a  funny  man ! 
Maybe  this  was  a  gag.  Maybe  you 
ought  to  laugh.  Phil  realized  the 
consternation  into  which  he  had 
plunged  them.  He  straightened  in  his 
chair.  ' 

"Oh,  don't  mind  me,  boys.  I  was 
just  kidding,"  he  reassured  them 
gently.  The  budding 
young  reporters,  re- 
lieved  but  still  puz- 
zled, trotted  out  ten 
minutes  more  of  ques- 
tions, to  which  Phil 
patiently  replied.  They 
glowed  with  pride  as 
they  stammered  their 
thanks  and  adieux.  Phil  sent  out  for 
two  bottles  of  sarsaparilla  and,  while 
we  drank  it  from  the  bottles,  kid- 
fashion,  I  started  right  in  to  take 
him  to  task. 

"What  was  the  big  idea,"  I  de- 


PHIL  BAKER'S  WHOLE  CAREER  WOULD  HAVE  BEEN 


Phil  Baker  with  his  justly  famous  accordion. 


Phil  enjoys  a  quiet  evening  with  his  wife.  i/^^^ 


HADN'T  LAUGHED.! 


manded,  "of  kidding  those  boys  like 
that?  What  do  you  mean,  you  never 
had  any  success?  There  is  a  nice 
gokl  star  out  there  on  the  door,  even 
if  it  is  torn.  In  show  business, 
that's—" 

"Wait  a  minute.  Wait  a  minute," 
he  interrupted.  "I  wasn't  kidding.  I 
just  wasn't  thinking,  I  guess — and  I 
blurted  out  the  truth  instead  of  what 
those  youngsters  wanted  me  to  say. 
But  that  is  the  truth." 

Now  even  if  you've  never  seen 
Phil  in  person — although  most  thea- 
ter-goers have — certainly  you've  seen 
his  pictures  often  enough.  You  know 
those  sweetly  sad  eyes — sort  of  like 
a  spaniel's.  (/  hope  he  won't  mivd 
that!)  Well,  at  any  rate,  they  sud- 
denly, if  you  can  imagine 
the  transformation,  turned 
from  soft,  sad  eyes  to 
hard,  bitter  ones. 

"Success!"  he  sneered. 
"Baloney  !  Say,  let  me  tell 
you  what  I  mean.  You 
know,  I  looked  that  up  in 


But 


the  dictionary  once,  and  I've 
never  forgotten  what  it  said. 
You  know  what  the  word  'suc- 
ceed' means?  What  the  dic- 
tionary says  ?" 

No,  I  didn't  know  that 
that  seemed  to  be  get 
ting  a  little  technical. 
To  succeed  was  to  get 
somewhere ;  to  make  a 
lot  of  money ;  to  be  fa- 
mous, wasn't  it  ? 

"Oh,  no.  Not  at  all ! 
You're  'way  off.  Here's 
what  the  book  .say^ : 
'To  obtain  one's  wishes : 
to  accomplish  something  attempted.' 
All  right.  There  you  arc.  I  haven't 
<lone  that  yet.  Sure.  I've  made  some 
dough.  But  that's  luck.  But 
you  know  what  I've  always 
wanted?  Wanted  ever  since  I 
was  a  dirty- faced  little  kid  on 
the  east  side  in  New  ^'ork ' 
Why,  I  wanted  to  be  a  musi- 
cian .  .  .  And  1  can't  read  a 
note !" 


hie  paused  to  let  that 
sink  in. 

"I  wanted  to  be  a 
musician — and  I  can't 
read  a  note!"  He 
laughed  hollowly.  "If 
that's  success,  they  had 
better  hire  a  new  defi- 
nition man  for  the  dictionary! 
.And  here's  a  funny  thing  : 

"Last  winter  I  was  at  a  din- 
ner where  Jascha  Heifetz  was 
the  guest  of  honor.  I  met  his 
accompanist.  Mr.  Aarons.  and 
1  happened  to  mention  to  him 
that  I  can't  read  music.  1  was 
sitting  at  the  ])iano,  playing  snatches 
of  this  and  that — all  by  ear.  the 
way  1  ])lay  everything.  'Why,  Mr. 
Baker,  that's  a  great  pity.'  he  said 
'You  have  real  talent,  musician.shi)) 
You  should  learn.  It  isn't  toe 
late.' 

"You  know,  I'd  rather  have  heard 
him  tell  me  that  than  have  my  spon- 
sor give  me  a  rai.'^e!" 

{Continued  on  page  80) 


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should  tou  ^  ^ 


In  the  Paramount  picture, 
The  Big  Broadcast  of 
1927,  Grade  Allen  (right) 
shines  anew.  And  over  be- 
yond is  Sam  Hearn,  famous 
radio  comic,  who  brightens 
the  show  in  the  rib-tickling 
role  of  Schleppy.  Also  in  the 
cast  are  Jack  Benny,  Martha 
Raye,  and  others. 


A  CROUP  OF  STARS 
FROM  PARAMOUNT'S 
NEW  FILM,  "THE  BIG 
BROADCAST  OF  1937" 


Between  Gracie  Allen  and  Martha  Raye,  Bob 
Burns  (below]  doesn't  know  whether  to  laugh, 
scream,  cry  Tor  help  or  yawn.  But  it's  all  for  a 
scene  in  The  Big  Broadcast  of  1937.  And 
next  beyond  Is  song-maestro  Benny  Fields,  who 
recently  achieved  over-night  fame  in  New  York, 
via  radio  and  the  night  clubs.  Benny  comes 
back  to  Hollywood  for  a  featured  role  in  the 
new  motion  picture. 


GOES 


On  the  opposite  page  Grade  Allen  does  her 
stuff.  Gracie,  you  know,  always  gets  her  man! 
This  time  the  somewhat  reluctant  suitor  is  Jack 
Benny.  We're  so  sorry  for  poor  Jackl  But  look 
at  the  next  picture!  One  suitor  isn't  enough  for 
our  Gracie,  it  would  seem!  Here  she  is  expos- 
ing herself  to  a  couple  of  Burns(es),  Bob,  who 
has  swapped  his  bazooka  for  a  straw  and 
George,  complete  with  tails! 


HOilVWOOD 


Harry  Von  Zefl.  at  work  on  the 
script  for  the  Town  Hall  pro- 
gram, checking  the  finol  details. 


Above.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Von  ZeH  en- 
pying  a  game  of  table  tennis. 
Below.  Harry  with  his  wife  and 
the  children,  Kenneth  and  Jeanne. 


m 

Success  and  happinessi 
Harry  Von  Zell,  when 


FOUND. 
A  WAY. J 

By      Mirianf?*^,  Gibson 


THE  rise  of  Harry  Von  Zell  is  the 
story  of  a  wife's  devotion. 

"We  were  only  nineteen  when  we 
were  married,"  says  Harry  with  an 
affectionate  glow  in  his  eyes.  "We 
had  met  two  years  Ijefore,  at  a  dance 
at  the  Venice  Polytechnic  High 
School.  That  was  in  Los  Angeles. 
California.  A  friend  of  my  wife's, 
Jeanne  Meade,  for  whom  our  little 
girl  is  named,  introduced  us.  We 
were  married  on  Octoter  20th,  1925, 
in  a  little  Methodist  Church  in  Cul- 
ver City.  Jeanne,  and  Kenneth  de- 
Land,  now  a  director  at  Paramount 
Pictures,  were  our  attendants.  My 
father  gave  us  two  hundred  dollars 
for  a  wedding  gift.  We  used  it  to 
furnish  a  two-room  apartment." 

Then  the  Von  Zell  struggle  began. 
Harry's  has  been  no  overnight  suc- 
cess. It  has  been  a  hard  road  with 
much  heartache.  "But  Mickey  (his 
pet  name  for  the  missus)  always  has 
been  a  good  sport  about  my  work," 
he  quickly  explains. 

When  they  were  first  married, 
Harry  worked  for  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  in  California  for  less  than 
twenty-five  dollars  a  week.  His  wife 
had  a  secretarial  job  to  help  the  fam- 
ily finances.  His  first  radio  job  paid 
him  ten  dollars  a  week  for*  a  fifteen- 
minute  period,  in  which  he  sang, 
played  the  ukelele  and  did  his  own 
announcing.  His  next  step  took  him 
to  announcing,  from  seven  in  the 
morning  to  twelve  at  night,  at  thirty- 
five  dollars  a  week.  He  received  an 
extra  five  dollars  for  arriving  at  the 
studio  at  six  A.  m.  to  announce  the 
opening  programs  of  the  day.  A 
talent  contest  brought  him  a  spon- 
sored ])r<)grani  at  fifty  a  week.  The 
early  Paul  Whiteman  show  was  his 
next  stej).  He  finally  substituted  for 
Bing  Crosby  as  singer  for  a  short 


time.  During  this  time  Harry  also  ■ 
was  manager  of  the  radio  station. 
His  working  hours  were  sixteen 
hours  a  day,  including  Sunday.  He 
never  saw  his  baby,  except  when  the 
child  was  asleep ! 

In  1930,  Harry  was  earning  seven- 
ty-five dollars  a  week  An  agency  man 
became  interested  in  him,  believed 
that  here  was  a  man  who  had  the 
stuff  of  which  success  is  made.  He 
brought  the  Von  Zell  name  to  the 
attention  of  a  Columbia  Broadcast- 
ing System  official.  An  offer  to  join 
the  staff  in  New  York  was  made,  at 
a  salary  of  sixty  dollars  a  week. 

At  this  turning  point  in  his  career, 
Harry  did  not  know  what  to  do.  He 
had  a  wife  and  a  baby  less  than  a 
year  old.  Was  it  fair  to  them  to 
take  such  a  chance?  To  leave  them 
in  California  and  go  three  thousand 
miles  away?  In  CaHfornia  he  was 
buying  a  house.  He  had  bought  a 
small  car  on  installments.  Would 
New  York  offer  the  golden  egg 
which  meant  financial  security  for 
him  and  his  family  ? 

"It  was  Mickey  who  made  me  de- 
cide at  that  crucial  moment,"  he 
says.  "In  that  fifteen  minutes  in 
which  I  had  to  make  up  my  mind, 
she  made  me  take  the  road  which 
we  now  are  traveling. 

"Poor  Mickey!  That  was  a  ter- 
rible moment  for  her.  I  would  have 
to  leave  her  in  our  home  in  Califor- 
nia, with  her  sister  Beulah  who  lives 
with  us,  and  our  baby  Kenneth. 
Leave  her,  on  a  fifteen-minute  deci- 
sion to  earn  a  salary  of  sixty  dollars 
instead  of  the  seventy-five  I  was 
making  on  the  coast.  But  Mickey 
never  hesitated. 

"  'Your  future  lies  in  New  York, 
dear,'  she  said,  'and  the  baby  and 
I  will  be  all  (Continued  on  page  84) 


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-Anne  C.  Korkefelle 


Add  to  the  joy  of  good  digestion 
by  Smoking  Camels 

REMEMBER  the  friendly  touches  that  make 
Anne  Rockefeller's  dinners  so  charming. 
A  simple  menu,  plenty  of  Camels.  Smoking 
Camels,  scientists  agree,  stimulates  the  flow  of 
digestive  fluids  —  alkaline  digestive  fluids  that 
play  such  a  welcome  part  in  good  digestion. 

Smoke  as  many  Camels  as  you  wish,  during 
meals  and  after.  As  Frank,  head  waiter  of  The 
Waldorf's  Sert  Room,  says:  "Excellent  food 
calls  for  costlier  tobaccos.  In  the  Sert  Room, 
where  discriminating  people  gather.  Camels  are 
the  favorite."  Their  delicate  flavor  gives  each 
succeeding  Camel  a  never- tiring  taste.  And, 
being  mild,  Camels  never  get  on  your  nerves. 
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Miss  Anne  C.  Rockefeller,  of  the  distinguished 
New  York  family,  enjoys  entertaining  in  a  casual, 
unpretentious  way — intimate  little  dinners  with  a  few 
friends  who  share  her  interest  in  the  arts.  Good 
conversation,  unhurried  pleasure  .  .  .  the  menu  itself 
kept  very  simple.  Just  soup  and  entree ...  a  pause 
for  a  Camel . . .  followed  by  a  green  salad,  dessert, 
and  coffee . . .  wth  Camels  between  courses  and  after 
to  accent  subtle  flavors.  "Smoking  Camels,"  Miss 
Rockefeller  says,  "makes  the  choicest  deUcacy  taste 
that  much  lictter.  They  help  digestion,  too,  and  bring 
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RADIO  STARS 


A  POPULAR  JAVMESE  DISH 

REQUIRES  ZO  WAITERS  TO  SERVE  IT 


THE  RADIO  HOSTESS,  NANCY  WOOD,  PRESENTS 


ROBERT  L RIPLEY 


from  France 
presides  in 
the  kitchen 
of  Ripley's 
country  home. 


Right,  one  of 
Bob's  rare 
treasures  is 
this  wooden 
bucket  from 
remote  Goust. 


IT  was  Webster  who  said :  "There 
is  nothing  so  powerful  as  truth — 
and  often  nothing  so  strange,"  to 
which  Robert  Ripley  has  added 
"and  nothing  half  so  interesting!" 

With  that  thought  in  mind,  Bob 
has  spent  the  last  dozen  years  or 
more  collecting  incidents  and  facts 
that  could  be  described  by  such  terms 
as  odd.  strange,  amazing,  phe- 
nomenal and  even  incredil)le !  But 
never  a  one  has  he  used  unless  he 
has  on  hand  indisputable  proof  of 
the  truth  of  his  statement. 

Because  of  the  interest  that  the 
world  at  large  has  taken  in  these 
"truthful  phenomena,"  Bob  has 
earned  and  long  held  an  enviable 
place  in  the  public's  offtimes  fickle 


aflfections.  Starting  his  career  as  a 
sports  cartoonist,  he  since  lias  become 
one  of  the  most  copied  arti-'t^  in  the 
world  and  his  is  one  of  tlic  most 
widely  sviulicalcd  of  newspaper  fea- 
tures. Xot  siniin-in^,  then,  that 
now.  tlironi^h  the  medium  of  popular 
dramatizations  of  some  of  the  most 
intcre>tin.u  of  the  tales  he  has  to  tell, 
he  also  lias  become  one  of  the  best 
known  names  on  the  air  waves. 

But  interest  in  his  sketches  and  his 
stories  should  not  make  us  forget 
that  the  man  himself  is  astonishing. 
His  insatiable  curiosity,  his  ever  alert 
interest  in  anything  and  everything, 
the  things  he  knows  and  the  very 
way  he  lives  also  are  a  part  of  the 
present  day  success  story  that  we 


know  as  Bob  "Believe-lt-Or-Xot" 
Ripley. 

Xor  did  /  overlook  the  fact — in  my 
amazement  and  interest — that  my 
real  duty  as  Radio  Hostess  lies  in 
telling  you  what  Bob  likes  to  eat  and 
how  you  can  secure  recipes  for  these 
unusual  dishes  of  his.  You  can  rest 
assured,  therefore,  that  I  went  into 
the  subject  of  his  food  preferences 
most  thoroughly  and  found  Bob  as 
interesting  on  that  question  as  on  all 
others.  So  you'll  find,  at  the  end  of 
this  article,  a  convenient  litde  coupon 
which  will  bring  you  a  free  copy  of 
this  month's  Radio  Stars  recipe  leaf- 
let which  contains  s])ecific  directions 
for  preparing  Robert  Ripley's  favor- 
ite foods.    {Continued  on  page  56) 


And,  belieye  it  or  not.  Bob  knows  some  delightful  dishes! 

S3 


RADIO  STARS 


HINTS  for  the 

EYES  OF  WIVES! 

by  '^cum  ^ieath 

•  Unless  you  have  one  of  the  rare  hus- 
bands who  is  amused  to  watch  mysterious 
beauty  rites,  it's  up  to  you  to  join  the  secret 
association  of  KuRLASH  enthusiasts.  These 
wise  ladies  keep  a  httle  private  cache  of 
KuRLASH  products  and  sHp  away  for  a  few 
minutes'  beauty  conference  with  them  daily. 
Husbands  are  entranced  with  the  results — 
and  never  knoKi^  why  wives  look  prettier. 

You  can  whisk  your  lashes  into  Kurlash 
($1  at  good  stores)  in  a  split  second.  When 
they  emerge,  they'll  be  curled  back  soul- 
fully — looking  longer  and  darker,  making 
your  eyes  larger.  No  heat;  no  cosmetics — 
nothing  to  arouse  husbandly  suspicions.  Do 
not  hesitate  to  use  these  other  absolutely  un- 
detectable Kurlash  products  also.  Try  them 
in  private  •  .  .  and  give  your  husband  a 
BEAUTIFUL  Surprise  today. 


•  Lathtint  Compact. 

A  patented  mas- 
cara  case  with  a 
little  sponge,  ensure 
ingjusl  the  right  con- 
sistency  to  darken 
the  lashes  naturally 
without  stiffening  op 
caking  them.  Water- 
f.  In  black, 
or  blue.  $1. 


•  Kurlene,  Dresses  the  lashes, 
keeps  them  soft  and  silky, 
darkens  them,  tends  to  make 
them  grow  longer  and  thicker 
— and,  either  alone  or  mixed 
with  a  little  Shadette  (not  illus- 
trated, $1)  in  a  shade  to  match 
your  eyes,  gives  the  youthful 
shiny-lidded  look  that  is  so 
flattering.  50c  and  $1  sizes. 


•    Twiisors.  The  little  miracle 
tweezer  with  curved  scissor-handles 
trim  brows  accu- 


lets  .yuu 
rately.  Only  25c 


/fn'te  Jane  Heath  /ar  advice  about  eye  beauty.  Gtve 
your  coloring  Jor  personal  beauty  plan.  Addres.r  Dept. 
MMlly  Xhe  Kurlajh  Company,  Hochester ,  N .  Y.  Tlic 
Kuriath  Company  of  Canada,  at  Toronto,  J. 


IS  MARLENE'S  ALLURE  FOR 
THE  EYE  ALONE? 


(Co>iliiiucd  from  page  21) 


one  who  knows. 

The  next  question  we  put  to  Clark 
Gable,  who  co-starred  with  Marlene  on 
the  Lux  program : 

"Granted  that  you  were  a  radio  fan, 
would  you  tune  in  on  Marlene  Dietrich 
if  she  were  on  a  weekly  program?" 

"My  answer  is  'yes,'  "  said  Clark,  "if 
I  didn't  happen  to  be  tied  up  in  front  of 
a  camera,  which  seems  to  be  my  fate 
whenever  there  is  something  good  on  the 
air.  I've  never  appeared  with  Miss 
Dietrich  in  pictures,  so  naturally  I  watched 
her  work  closely  when  we  did  our  radio 
skit.  From  where  I  was  standing,  Mar- 
lene Dietrich  has  the  same  vital  quality 
on  the  air  that  she  has  in  person — some- 
thing a  number  of  her  pictures  hasn't 
caught." 

And  Mr.  Gable,  too,  should  know  about 
glamour.  In  his  meteoric  screen  career 
he  has  appeared  with  most  of  Hollywood's 
smouldering  sirens.  So  let's  place  his 
opinion  along  with  Mr.  DeMille's. 

We  asked  Danny  Danker,  the  man  be- 
hind the  Lux  program  (he  produces  the 
show  and  signs  all  the  talent)  about  the 
listeners'   reaction   to   Miss  Dietrich. 

"We  were,"  said  Mr.  Danker,  "es- 
pecially anxious  to  hear  what  our  radio 
audience  had  to  say  about  our  opening 
program.  We,  who  are  so  close  to  a 
program's  source,  sometimes  feel  that  we 
don't  have  the  proper  perspective  for 
judging  audience  reaction,  so  we  read 
every  letter  carefully. 

"The  vast  majority  of  listeners  who 
wrote  in  congratulated  us  on  securing 
Marlene  Dietrich  for  the  program.  Most 
of  them  had  heard  her  on  the  air  for 
the  first  time,  and  practically  all  of  them 
asked  that  we  engage  her  for  another 
performance." 

All  of  this  literary  hand-clapping  for 
Marlene  must  mean  that  the  listeners  want 
to  hear  more  of  her.  But  our  quest  was 
not  yet  ended.  We  still  wanted  to  talk 
to  the  man  on  the  street.     Here  he  is : 

He  will,  of  course,  remain  anonymous. 
For  want  of  a  worse  name  we  shall  call 
him  Homer  J.  Quibble. 

"Mr.  Quibble,"  we  said,  "as  a  man  who 
heard  Marlene  Dietrich  on  the  air,  what 
is  your  honest  opinion?" 

"Frankly,"  said  Mr.  Q.,  "my  answer  is 
mostly  yes  and  a  little  bit  no.  What 
I  mean  is  this :  In  her  dramatic  skit  Miss 
Dietrich  was  swell,  but  I  can't  say  I  liked 
her  singing  of  Falling  in  Love  Again. 
Her  speaking  voice  has  everything,  but 
her  singing  either  hasn't  enough  quality 
or  it  simply  isn't  adjusted  to  radio  re- 
quirements." 

Mr.  Quibble  probably  is  right  about  the 
Dietrich  vocal  departments.  Her  singing, 
to  those  of  us  who  sazv  as  well  as  heard 
her,  was  highly  pleasing.  For  the  unseen 
and  unseeing  audience,  Inowever,  it  needs 
more  study  of  radio  technique. 

Thus  the  jury  has  returned,  as  it  were, 
a  verdict  in  favor  of  Marlene.  At  the 
moment,  however,  she's  not  around  to 
hear  it.     She  and  her  daughter,  Maria, 


Marlene  Dietrich  has  glamour  in 
her  every  word,  her  every  breath. 

are  abroad  on  a  vacation  and  visiting 
Marlene's  husband,  Rudolph  Seiber — 
which  means  that  the  Dietrich  radio  fans 
won't  hear  the  lady's  voice  on  the  air- 
waves for  a  month  or  two,  at  least.  Then 
she'll  probably  play  a  return  engagement 
at  the  Ln.v  Radio  Theatre  or  on  some 
other  program  featuring  Hollywood  stars. 

In  the  meantime,  what  would  you  like 
to  hear  as  her  next  radio  vehicle?  Her 
last.  The  Legionnaire  and  the  Lady,  was 
a  shortened  version  of  Morocco,  a  Dietrich 
picture  of  several  years  ago.  Should  she 
enact  a  version  of  one  of  her  other 
pictures?  Or  would  you  prefer  her  in 
original  dramas  written  for  radio? 

This  is  purely  personal,  but  we  should 
like  to  hear  Marlene  put  The  Dine  Angel 
on  the  air.  Made  in  Germany,  it  brought 
her  instant  acclaim  and  led  her,  of  course, 
to  Hollywood.  In  The  Blue  Angel,  un- 
like some  of  her  more  recent  pictures, 
she  was  alive,  full  of  the  joy  of  living; 
she  had  a  warmth  and  a  compelling  qual- 
ity about  her  which  won  every  audience. 
Can  she  repeat  that  on  the  air? 

Some  of  Marlene's  more  recent  screen 
roles  have  given  us  nothing  more  than 
a  series  of  beautiful  photographs ;  they've 
made  her  almost  an  inanimate  object — 
beautiful  but  cold  and  lifeless,  and  not  at 
all  like  the  off-screen  Dietrich.  Actually 
she  is  much  more  like  the  Dietrich  of 
The  Blue  Angel,  and  it  is  our  guess  that 
Marlene  would  welcome  an  opportunity 
to  prove  it  to  the  radio  audience. 

The  answer,  in  our  opinion,  is  that 
some  of  the  glamour  girls  of  Hollywood 
can  translate  their  appeal  into  terms  of 
radio,  while  others  would  doubtless  get 
themselves  tuned  off  in  favor  of  Uncle 
Don  or  the  So-and-So  Mountaineers. 
Glamour  is  sometimes  only  skin  deep, 
but  it  must  have  been  born  in  Marlene 
Dietrich,  for  she  has  it  in  her  every 
word,  almost  in  her  every  breath. 

Everyone  admits  she's  Hollywood's 
most  beautiful  woman.  Everyone  says 
she  has  that  certain  something — they  used 
to  term  it  a.:  now  it's  whatever  you 
want  to  call  it.  Whatever  it  is,  it  sounds 
swell  on  the  networks.  So  climb  onto  the 
airwaves,  Marlene — unless  you're  holding 
out  for  television! 


RADIO  STARS 


YOUR  FACE  IS 


Faults  that  start  in  your 

UNDER  SKIN 


A SINGLE  blemish  can  dim  the 
freshness  of  your  skin  . . .  make 
you  look  older  than  you  are. 

A  few  coarse  pores  say,  "  She's  get- 
ting on  in  years" — just  as  loudly  as 
lines  and  wrinkles  say  it.  Stubborn 
things— that  keep  on  getting  worse 
till  you  learn  their  real  cause  and  the 
real  way  to  treat  them. 

Deep-skin  rousing  needed 
The  truth  is,  almost  all  skin  faults 
get  their  start,  not  on  the  surface, 


Miss  Jane  Mellon 

"Pond*s  Cold  Cream 
keeps  my  skin  soft 


but  in  your  underskin. 

In  your  underskin  are  little  hidden 
glands  and  cells  and  blood  vessels. 
These  are  the  foundation  of  your 
outer  skin's  health.  The  minute  they 
function  poorly,  pores  begin  to  clog. 
And  then  blemishes  come.  Even  lines 
are  really  nothing  but  creasings  in 
your  outer  skin,  caused  by  failing 
tissues  underneath. 

But — you  can  rouse  that  underskin 
to  healthy  vigor— by  the  regular  use 
of  Pond's  invigorating 
deep-skin  treatment. 

Twice  daily— for  a 
fault-free  skin 

Ponti's  Ci^ld  Creani  goes  deep 
into  the  pores.  Its  specially 
processed  oils  loosen  every 
particle  of  dirt.  Easy  to  wipe 
it  all  oflf. 

Now  the  rousing  treatment 
—  more  Pond's  Cold  Cream 


briskly  patted  in.  How  wonderful  it  feels. 
Blood  tingling.  Skin  glowing  .  .  .  and  so 
much  softer!  You  are  waking  up  that 
underskin. 


top.  Kiep  them  active— 
and  you  ktip  skin  faults 
away. 


Every  night,  pat  in  Pond's  Cold  Cream  to 
loosen  dirt,  make-up.  Wipe  off.  Pat  in 
more  cream  briskly  —  to  rouse  your  under- 
skin, keep  it  working  properly,  so  annoy- 
ing little  faults  caiiU  age  your  skin. 
Every  morning,  and  during  the  day,  re- 
peat this  treatment  with  Pond's  Cold 
Cream.  Your  skin  becomes  softer  every 
time— looks  younger.  And  it's  all  smooth 
for  your  powder. 

SPECIAL  9-TREATMENT  TUBE 

and  3  other  Pond's  Beauty  Aids 

mWYS.  IXpt.UuS.CIinton.  Conn.  Rush  ^hcliI  lulu- 
of  I'ond's  Cold  Cream,  enoush  for  o  inatmints,  \Mtli 
generous  samples  of  2  other  Pond's  Creams  and  5  diftVr- 
ent  shades  of  Pond's  Face  Powder.  I  enclose  lo*  to  cover 
postage  and  packing. 


Street. 
C.ty_ 


right,  lasii.  ronJ  s  Kx 


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RADIO  STARS 


THE  RADIO  HOSTESS 

{Continued  front  j^ayc  53) 


''The  Queen 
Has  a 
Most  Excellent  Taste 
for  Tea" 

SOME  gracious  Victorian  lady  may 
well  have  ventured  such  an  opin- 
ion, for  it  was  known  that  England's 
great  Queen  Victoria  had  had  her  pri- 
vate tea  blended  specially  to  her  taste 
by  the  famous  tea  house  of  the  time — 
Ridgways  (Est.  1836). 

Since  1900  all  the  world  has  been 
able  to  taste  and  enjoy  Queen  Vic- 
toria's private  tea — now  known  as 
Ridgways  "Her  Majesty's  Blend". 

For  100  years  Ridgways  have  been 
the  world's  Foremost  Quality  Teas. 
Today  Ridgways  offers  teas  for  almost 
every  taste  and  purse.  The  experience 
of  100  years,  in  selecting  and  blending 
fine  teas,  assures  the  deliciousness  and 
quality  of  the  Ridgways  Tea  you  may 
choose — 

Ridgways  Gold  Label— 100%  Orange 
Pekoe 

Ridgways    "Her  Majesty's   Blend"  (or 
"H.M.B.") 

Ridgways    S    O'Clock — delicious  Ceylon 
Darjeeling 

Ridgways  Orange  Label — now  in  a  gen- 
erous 10c  size 

Ridgways  Teas 

Praised  the  World  Over  for  Their  Flavor 
1836  —  Ridgways  One  Hundredth   Year  —  1936 

56 


But  before  discussing  culinary  matters  1 
want  to  tell  you  about  the  fascinating 
house  in  which  our  host  lives. 

Ripley,  when  not  on  one  of  his  trips 
to  far-ofif  lands,  lives  on  an  island  in 
Long-  Island  Sound,  conveniently  near  to 
New  York's  broadcasting  studios  and  to 
his  favorite  golf  courses!  Bob  has  named 
his  place  Bion  Island.  Just  take  the  first 
letters  of  those  now  famous  words  of  his, 
Bclicvc-ll-Or-Not,  and  you'll  know  the 
reason  for  the  name. 

The  estate  is  reached  by  crossing  an 
ordinary  bridge  from  the  mainland,  but 
in  time,  I  understand,  there  will  be  a  draw- 
bridge to  satisfy  the  owner's  liking  for 
privacy  and  the  bizarre !  As  you  approach 
Bion  Island  the  house,  from  the  outside, 
looks  for  all  the  world  like  the  prosaic 
home  of  a  retired  banker.  But  step  in- 
side the  front  door  and  I  guarantee  that 
your  eyes  will  fairly  pop!  Then,  if  you 
are  lucky  enough  to  have  Bob  himself  as 
guide,  I'll  guarantee  further  that  you  are 
sure  to  spend  the  most  absorbing  after- 
noon of  your  life — listening  to  his  stories 
about  the  fascinating  things  that  sur- 
round }(iu  on  every  side. 

Tiie  rug  in  the  hall,  he  would  tell  you, 
is  a  priceless  one  from  far-off  India.  The 
lamp  above  it  a  most  rare  example  of  the 
glass  and  metal  work  of  ancient  Spain. 
The  wood  carvings  in  the  Tap  Room  are 
'Primitives'  from  darkest  Africa.  The 
tin\-  muinmificd  head  on  the  side  table  of 
the  living-room  comes  from  South  Amer- 
ica and  is  the  best  example  of  its  kind  that 
Bob  has  ever  found.  The  buffet  in  the 
dining-room  is  an  old  hand-carved  wood- 
en altar.  The  scarf  on  the  dining-room 
table  once  was  a  Mohammedan  woman's 
veil  with  a  black  patch  in  the  centre 
which  served  as  a  none-too-transparent 
face  covering  for  this  unknown  beauty  of 
the  harem  when  she  walked  abroad.  The 
wooden  bucket,  filled  with  good  old  Amer- 
ican cheese  popcorn,  was  originally  a  milk 
pail  in  Gouse — one  of  the  least  known  and 
least  visited  spots  in  the  entire  world, 
situated  as  it  is  on  a  plateau  high  in  the 
Pyrennes,  with  a  language  that  rivals  that 
of  the  Basques  for  tongue  twisters. 

These  are  but  a  few  of  the  countless 
strange  things  I  saw,  scattered  about  the 
house.  Then  finally  we  went  into  the 
Museum  Room  and  here,  indeed,  I  felt 
like  -Mice  in  Wonderland  with  everything 
growing  "curiouscr  and  curiouser." 

And  as  I  listened  td  Bcil)  describe  every 
item  in  the  fascinating  collection  which 
he  has  placed  in  that  l()vel\-  room  with  its 
star-studded  ceiling,  I  realized  more  fully 
what  an  inexhaustil)U'  well  of  information 
is  his  mind — from  which  lie  can  draw  at 
will  whole  buckets ful  of  related  and  un- 
related facts.  Just  mention  an>  country 
on  this  globe  of  ours  and  he  can  tell  you 
some  strange*  tale  about  its  history  and  its 
people.  He  has  visited  one  hundred  and 
eight \-five  countries,  including  places  like 
Djerba  and  Zar;i  of  which  I  dare  say  few 
of  us  have  heard  !  In  fact,  according  to 
Bob,  not  man\  ]icople  can  even  name  fifty 
countries — hciici'c-il -or-nol — so  you  might 
try  it  out  as  a  brain  teaser  some  time  and 


sec  if  he's  right. 

Ask  Bob  about  food,  too,  as  I  did  and 
he'll  surprise  you  by  being  equally  well 
informed,  with  facts  about  more  strange 
native  dishes  than  any  mere  culinary  re- 
porter could  hope  to  remember — much  less 
describe.  However  I  did  take  notes  on 
some  of  them,  which  I  shall  pass  on  to 
you. 

But  first,  let's  discuss  Bob's  favorite 
dish.     And   what  do  you  think  that  is? 

Stn<<! 

"Wherever  you  go,"  said  Ripley,  "you 
are  sure  to  find  that  the  most  tasty  and 
typical  dish  of  the  country  you  are  visit- 
ing is  the  local  version  of  Stew.  In 
other  words  it  is  meat  prepared  and  sea- 
soned in  a  characteristic  fashion,  placed 
in  a  pot  with  the  vegetables  that  grow 
in  that  particular  region  and  cooked  until 
the  whole  thing  is  tender.  The  cooking 
vessel  may  be  a  three-foot  iron  one,  such 
as  is  used  by  the  gauchos  in  South  Amer- 
ica :  in  which  case  the  Stew  would  be 
called  ['tichcro  and  would  be  as  good  as 
anything  you've  ever  tasted.  Ask  for 
Rollout  in  France,  Goulash  in  Hungary, 
Sukiyaki  (pronounced  Skee-ya-kee  by 
Bob,  if  I  remember  rightly)  in  Japan — 
and  it's  still  Stew !  And  chances  are,  the 
world  over,  that  it  will  be  fresh  and 
flavorsome.  But  don't  ask  for  Chop  Sucy 
in  China,"  he  added  laughing,  "for  they've 
never  heard  of  it ! 

"In  my  opinion,"  Bob  continued,  "the 
best  cooks  in  the  world  are  the  Japanese. 
Much  charm  is  added  to  their  foods,  too, 
because  you  usually  see  what  you  are 
going  to  eat  before  it  is  cooked,  as  it  is 
prepared  right  at  the  table  before  your 
eyes. 

"The  Chinese  also  have  a  deserved 
reputation  as  good  cooks.  And,  of  course, 
it  would  be  wrong  to  overlook  the  French. 
It  would  be  particularly  foolish  of  me  to 
do  so  because  my  French  chef,  Louis, 
might  feel  slighted  by  such  an  omission 
on  my  part !  Funny  thing,  my  chef  doesn't 
talk  English  and  I  don't  talk  French !  Yet 
we  get  along  famously.  Of  course  the 
love  of  good  food  can  be  expressed  with- 
out words — an  approving  smile  and  a 
smack  of  the  lips  after  a  good  meal  being 
a  language  that  is  more  universally  under- 
stood than  Esperanto  could  ever  hope  to 
be! 

"I'm  as  curious  about  the  foods  of  for- 
eign countries  as  I  am  about  their  cus- 
toms," Bob  went  on.  "And  I'm  always 
ready  to  try  anything  in  the  food  line 
once!  In  Java,  for  instance,  I  enjoyed 
eating  tlicir  characteristic  dish,  called 
Rijsttafcl.  This  re(|uires  the  services  of 
twenty  waiters  and  consists  of  a  basic 
mixture  of  rice  wiiicii  is  brought  in  on 
a  large  plate.  Presently  the  procession  of 
waiters  appears,  each  bearing  a  platter 
laden  with  every  conceivable  kind  of  meat 
and  vegetable. 

"As  they  file  past,  each  transfers  some 
of  his  load  to  your  plate,  until  you  have 
in  front  of  you  a  pile  of  mammoth  pro- 
pf)rtions,  consisting  of  rice,  curry,  saus- 
ages, gravy,  chicken,  green  peppers, 
minced  meat,  fried  eggs,  beef  hash,  ba- 


RADIO  STARS 


^yi/(^i!^ '  A  delicious  quick  meal 
^packed  full  of  nourishment 

—and  it  costs  less  than  3*  a  portion 


GEE,  MOM, 
THIS  TASTES 

SWELL/ 


nanas,  fried  fish,  olives,  pickled  eggs,  beef 
stew  and  cucumbers !    The  whole  thing  is 
then  stirred  together  vigorously  and  each 
diner  is  supposed  to  eat  all  that  is  set 
before  him.     Thi<   i-.   :i    furmidahlc  task, 
indeed,  for  a  novicr,  ultli' ui^li  dunn'^  niy 
stay  in  Java  I  saw  many  a  tlainiy  IhiUli 
id    Miss   absorb   about   half   her   weight  in 
II   Rijsttafcl  at  a  single  sitting! 
It       "But  I  never  bothered  asking  for  cook- 
;.    ing  directions,"  Bob  concluded, 
i       "But    haven't   you    some    recipes  filed 
a    aw-ay  in  your  collection  of  oddities,  that 
)    I  might  be  able  to  use?"  I  inquired. 

"I  imagine  we  can  get  a  couple  of  good 
:  ones  from  the  ctu  I."  Vn>U  agreed  help- 
'  fully,  "that  is  if  ymi  can  i'uilcz  Francais 
sufficiently  to  understand  hini.  He  ought 
to  be  able  to  give  you  a  good  Ragout 
recipe  and  one  for  French  Pancakes — 
about  the  only  sweet  I  cat.  Then  I'm 
sure  my  secretary  can  find  you  some 
others  in  my  files.  How  about  Lonan 
Soii/y  from  Greece?  And  Bavarian  Cab- 
bage, cooked  with  apples,  believe-it-or- 
not!  Or  England's  justly  famous  York- 
shire Pudding,  which  isn't  a  pudding  at 
all,  if  you  think  of  the  word  as  applying 
to  a  dessert.  And  there  is  India's  Curry 
of  Chicken  and  Rice,  which  with  some 
modifications  and  considerably  less  curry 
will  please  the  average  taste." 

You  will  find  the  recipes  for  these  very 
dishes  that  Bob  mentioned  in  this  month's 
leaflet.  All  are  unusual,  it  is  true,  but 
none  so  strange  that  it  would  not  appeal 
to  anyone  who  is  not  a  slave  to  habit. 

Nor  does  a  single  one  of  them  call  for 
ingredients  that  could  not  be  found  on  the 
shelves  of  any  well  stocked  pantry.  So 
send  for  your  set  now — just  to  be  differ- 
ent! You  are  sure  to  enjo}'  making  and 
eating  tliese  characteristic  culinary  favor- 
ites of  India,  Greece,  England  and  France. 

Included  also  in  this  month's  leaflet  are 
some  amusing  food  facts  culled  from  Bob 
Ripley's  files,  which  serve  as  footnotes  to 
his  recipes.  These  Belicve-It-Or-Nots  of 
Bob's  inspired  me  to  make  a  somewhat 
similar   collection — strictly    on   my  own. 

The  first  positive  evidence  in  regard  to 
cooking  equipment  dates  from  Egypt 
about  6,000  years  ago.  Among  the  paint- 
ing on  the  walls  of  their  rock  tombs  along 
the  Nile  there  are  a  number  illustrating 
the  preparation  of  meals.  About  1600  B.C., 
the  kitchen  had  become  a  department 
of  great  importance,  as  shown  by  paint- 
ings of  the  royal  bakery  and  kitchen  of 
Rameses  III. 

The  Barbecue  of  today  may  be  traced 
back  to  Homer's  time,  when  meat  was 
roasted  over  the  fire  in  similar  style. 

The  Queen  of  Sheba  included  several 
camel  loads  of  spices  among  the  gifts 
she  presented  to  King  Solomon. 

One  fruit  supplies  the  world  with  two 
widely  different  spices,  Mace  and  Nutmeg. 
Mace  is  the  brightly  hued  inner  lining  of 
the  shell  and  Nutmeg  is  the  seed. 

Clove  derives  its  name  from  the  French 
word  Clou — meaning  nail — which  describes 
its  shape. 

Rice  was  considered  the  symbol  of 
fertility  and  happiness  in  ancient  coun- 
tries. From  this  grew  our  custom  of 
throwing  rice  at  brides.  Rice,  in  some 
parts  of  the  Orient,  was  and  still  is  the 
medium  of  exchange  for  debts,  taxes  and 
even  wages. 

{Continued  on  page  79) 


They're  growing  fast,  playing  hard 
—  those  lively,  lovable  youngsters 
of  yours.  They're  burning  up  energy  all 
day  long.  They  need  good,  hearty,  sat- 
isfying food  and  plenty  of  it! 

Give  them  Franco -American  Spa- 
ghetti often.  It's  rich  in  vital  food 
elements.  It  supplies,  at  low  cost,  body- 
building  proteins  — energy-giving 
carbohydrates  —  valuable  vitamins  in 
its  delicious  cheese-and -tomato  sauce. 
Children  love  it  and  it's  so  easy  for  you 
to  prepare.  No  cooking  or  fussing.  Just 
heat  and  bring  to  the  table. 


The  whole  family  will  enjoy  Franco- 
American.  Its  rich,  savory  cheese-and- 
tomato  sauce,  containing  eleven  differ- 
ent ingredients,  makes  it  taste  different 
as  can  be  from  ordinary  ready-cooked 
spaghetti.  "It's  far  better  than  I  could 
make,"  women  tell  us.  And  costs  less! 

A  can  is  usually  no  more  than  ten 
cents — less  than  30  a  portion.  You 
couldn't  buy  uncooked  spaghetti  and 
all  your  ingredients  and  prepare  it  your- 
self for  so  little.  Order  Franco-American 
Spaghetti  from  .r-s^ 
your  grocer  today.  il^^^v^N^ 


rranco-^merican 

SPAGHETTI 


THE    KIND    WITH  THE 


GOOD  SAUCE 


MADE  BY  THE  MAKERS  OF  CAMPBELL'S  SOUPS 


RADIO  STARS 


I 


Forhan's  is  different  from  other 
tooth  pastes.  It  was  created  by 
an  eminent  dental  surgeon  to  do 
both  jobs.  With  it  you  clean  and 
brighten  teeth;  and  at  the  same 
time  you  massage  gums,  just  as 
so  many  dentists  advise.  Get 
Forhan's,  today.  It  costs  no  more 
than  most  ordinary  tooth  pastes 
— yet  endsordinary  half-way  care. 

Canada.  \  ^ 


ASK 
YOUR 
DOCTOR 


CHECKS  BODY  ODORS 
SUm,£ASIBHWAy! 


Merwood  looks  like  a  compact, 
but  sliodts  a  fine  spray  of  in- 
Manlly  deodorizing  powder 
-,    wlien  iiressed   between  fin- 
t,'ers.  Harmless  to  skin  and 
fabric.  I'<  j  fi  ci  for-  purses 


At 


IfltAAi/XWti  POWDER 


cr  Deodorant  Spray.  I  ( 


DON'T  DARE  CALL  ME  THAT! 


{Coiitiiincd  from  page  43) 


yet  and  I  have  no  intention  of  starting 
now." 

"But,  Mr.  Jordan,"  I  protested,  "The 
Miiiifhanscii  stories  were  published  over 
one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago.  You've 
got  to  admit  that  antedates  Jack  Pearl." 
I  grinned  at  him. 

"Sure,"  he  agreed.  "I  know  that  and 
you  know  it,  but  how  many  radio  fans 
associate  I\I iiiichaiiscn  with  a  book  which 
was  published  in  1785?  Munchausen  and 
Pearl  are  coupled  in  the  betting  as  far  as 
radio  listeners  are  concerned.  I  thought 
Jack's  program  was  swell,  it's  success 
proved  that,  but  I  don't  like  the  Munchau- 
sen tag  being  hung  on  our  act,  lest  it  be 
misconstrued  as  a  copy  of  Pearl's  previous 
programs." 

And  then  Jim  was  off,  describing  the 
character  which  practically  every  radio 
listener  knows  by  now,  the  bombastic  rus- 
tic who  is  forever  given  to  flights  of 
fancy,  only  to  be  brought  crashing  to 
earth  by  the  nasal  realities  voiced  by  his 
wife,  Molly.  It  is  a  development  of  their 
own  Smackout  series,  which  revolved 
around  the  proprietor  of  a  crossroads  gen- 
eral store,  who  invariably  was  "jest  smack 
out  of"  whatever  commodity  his  customers 
attempted  to  purchase. 

The  character  comes  naturally  to  the 
Jordans,  who  trouped  through  many  a 
small  town  in  their  vaudeville  and  con- 
cert days  and  who  have  a  rural  background 
of  their  own,  both  being  brought  up  on  a 
small  farm  a  few  miles  outside  of  Peoria, 
Illinois. 

They  have  endowed  Fibber  McGec  with 
characteristics  which  are  as  American  as 
ham  and  eggs.  If  you've  ever  lived  in  a 
small  town,  you  have  only  to  tune  in  on 
Fibber  and  Molly  once  or  twice  before 
you've  identified  the  pair — it's  the  local 
village  blow-hard,  who  is  kept  in  check 
only  by  the  homely  good  sense  of  his  bet- 
ter half. 

The  Jordans  are  one  of  the  few  radio 
teams  which  bases  its  act  upon  the  theory 
that  its  listeners  have  some  intelligence. 
Pioneers  at  broadcasts,  with  twelve  years 
of  experience  behind  them,  they've  seen 
radio  comedy  grow  up  from  infantile  gags, 
blue-printed  and  hurled  straight  into  the 
laps  of  the  listeners,  to  humor  which  is 
more  deft  and  subtle,  more  adult.  "Radio 
audiences  are  smarter  now,"  declared  Jor- 
dan, "thanks  to  the  work  of  comedians 
like  Fred  Allen  and  Jack  Benny.  Tliey're 
educated  to  expect  something  more  than 
the  old-time  minstrel  cjuestion-and-answer 
gags  and  we're  trying  to  give  them  that 
type  of  humor — smart,  but  not  too  smart. 
We're  playing  up  to  our  audiences,  in- 
stead of  down  to  'em,  which  was  the  ac- 
cepted formula  in  the  old  days,"  explained 
Jordan. 

Although  the  Fibber  McCce  and  Molly 
program  is  on  the  air  only  thirty  minutes 
a  week,  and  much  of  that  time  is  given 
to  musical  interludes  by  Ted  Wecms'  or- 
chestra and  coinmercial  interpolations  by 
Announcer  Harlow  Wilcox,  the  pair  works 
at  least  eighteen  hours  on  each  program, 
counting  rehearsals,  script  revisions  and 
so  on. 


The  Fibber  McGee  script  is  prepared  by 
Don  Quinn,  a  reformed  commercial  artist, 
who  took  to  script  writing  when  the  de- 
pression made  commercial  artists  a  luxury 
in  which  few  firms  cared  to  indulge.  Quinn 
drifted  into  script  writing  by  accident, 
working  on  early  scripts  of  the  Jordans 
through  his  friendship  with  them.  He 
later  worked  with  Olson  and  Johnson  for 
a  long  period. 

It  is  Quinn  who  writes  the  first,  rough 
draft  of  the  script.  He  does  this  by  him- 
self and  then  presents  it  to  Marian  and 
Jim.  Through  a  series  of  consultations 
with  the  pair,  the  script  is  rewritten  at 
least  twice. 

Then  Don  takes  a  night  ofif  for  the  final 
preparation,  starting  at  midnight  and  work- 
ing through  until  about  eight  in  the  morn- 
ing, fortified  by  countless  pots  of  coffee 
and  innumerable  packs  of  cigarettes. 

"And  even  then,  we  sometimes  make 
last  minute  changes,"  admits  Quinn.  "I 
keep  just  one  program  ahead.  I  used  to 
try  and  get  three  or  four  up  in  advance, 
but  found  that  the  script  was  very  much 
fresher  when  it  was  prepared  only  a 
week  ahead." 

The  Jordans  are  now  in  their  72nd  week 
on  the  Fibber  McGee  and  Molly  program, 
with  indications  that  it  will  run  through 
the  winter.  The  Weems  orchestra  has 
supplanted  that  of  Rico  Marchelli,  which 
appeared  for  a  solid  year  on  the  program. 
The  Jordans  are  now  on  a  Coast-to-Coast 
hook-up,  making  a  repeat  broadcast  four 
hours  aftar  their  first,  for  the  benefit  of 
California  listeners. 

Their  fan  mail  has  mounted  steadily  in 
the  past  year,  so  much  so,  in  fact,  that  it 
takes  a  letter  four  weeks  to  reach  Marian 
or  Jim.  It  goes  direct  to  their  sponsors, 
the  Johnson  Auto-Wax  Company,  where 
it  is  sorted  and  checked.  A  radio  club  in 
Chicago  made  Jim  a  member  and  pre- 
sented a  membership  key  to  him,  but  he 
had  to  go  around  to  the  club  personally 
and  pick  it  up,  unless  he  wanted  to  wait 
the  month  it  would  take  to  reach  him 
via  the  studio  mail. 

The  Jordans  feel  the  responsibility  of 
a  weekly  program,  as  opposed  to  a  daily 
program.  "When  we  first  were  on  the 
air,  we  used  to  broadcast  at  least  once  a 
a  day  and  sometimes  we  were  on  after- 
noon and  night,"  explained  Marian.  "If 
you  felt  that  a  broadcast  didn't  click,  you 
didn't  mind  much,  because  you  knew  you 
could  come  right  back  the  next  day  and 
redeem  yourself.  When  you're  on  only 
once  a  week,  you've  got  to  be  good !  It 
takes  too  long  to  square  yourself  for  a 
flop  broadcast." 

One  itern  over  which  Fibber  and  Molly 
never  cease  to  congratulate  themselves  is 
the  policy  of  their  sponsors,  which  is  to 
let  the  entertainers  plan  the  program.  This 
is  one  program  which  has  escaped  the 
bane  of  every  radio  performer's  existence, 
"sponsor  trouble." 

The  one  standard  line  in  their  broad- 
casts is  a  derisory  :  "T'aint  funny,  McGee!" 
contemptuously  flung  in  Fibber's  direction 
by  Molly  when  he  soars  too  high  in  his 
impractical  schemes.    The  line,  however. 


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is  used  sparingly,  with  the  Jordans  careful 
not  to  lean  too  heavily  on  it,  lest  it  become 
a  millstone  around  their  necks,  such  as: 
Vas  you  dcrc,  Sharlcyf  or  I'sc  rcgustcd! 

In  the  parlance  of  the  trade,  the  Jor- 
dans are  "actors'  actors."  At  all  of  their 
performances,  tliere  may  be  spotted  in  the 
audience  other  radio  entertainers,  even 
some  from  rival  networks,  enjoying  the 
McGecs  and  contributing  to  the  applause. 
Another  favorable  mark  of  the  Jordan 
programs  is  that  they  tiever  have  had  to 
descend  to  questionable  humor  or  double 
entendre  lines  for  their  laughs. 

It  was  not  always  as  comics  that  this 
pair  appeared  on  the  air-waves.  The  Jor- 
dans spent  three  years  in  vaudeville  as 
a  harmony  singing  team  and  never  spoke 
a  line  and  their  only  humor  was  expressed 
in  character  songs,  of  the  type  made  fa- 
mous by  \'an  and  Schenck  when  vaude- 
was  enjoying  its  golden  era. 

The  Jordans  came  to  the  ether  as  sing- 
ers, but  before  long  decided  that  there 
were  far  too  many  singers  on  the  air  and 
far  too  many  singers  out  of  work.  "Better 
singers  than  we  were,  too,"  admitted  Mar- 
ian, honestly.  And  so  they  decided  to 
try  comedy. 

Remember  a  song  called  Can't  Yo  Heah 
Me  Callin',  Caroline^  and  another  called 
Knee-dcet^  in  Daisies.'  Kind  of  ancient, 
aren't  they?  Well,  those  songs  date  the 
advent  of  the  Jordans  before  a  microphone, 
on  a  little  station  in  Chicago,  II' I  BO,  back 
in  1924.  It  was  their  first  try  at  radio 
and  they  applied  for  the  chance  on  a  dare 
given  by  some  friends. 

Later  the  Jordans  appeared  on  the  first 


commercially  sponsored  program  in  the 
midwest,  the  O.  Henry  candy  bar  program, 
for  which  they  received  the  munificent 
sum  of  ten  dollars.  They  supplemented 
their  radio  work  with  week-ends  in  vaude- 
ville, since  in  those  days  there  was  not 
enough  money  in  radio  to  live  on. 

Once  they  started  to  click  on  the  radio, 
the  Jordans  abandoned  vaudeville.  The 
Smith  Family,  which  endured  for  three  or 
four  years,  was  one  of  their  first  radio 
hits,  but  they  indulged  in  a  wide  variety 
of  programs  in  those  days,  including  a 
children's  hour,  in  which  they  dramatized 
Mother  Goose  tales,  such  as  King  Cole, 
Little  Bo-Peep  and  others. 

Later,  the  Jordans  were  on  a  program 
known  as  The  Grab  Bag.  in  which  they 
clipped  gags  from  the  humor  magazines 
and  dramatized  them.  In  this  hour,  as 
in  their  nursery  rhyme  scries,  Marian  and 
Jim  wciuki  iinpers(.nate  a^  niauy  as  a  dozen 
characters.  They  seldom  play  double,  triple 
or  quadruple  roles,  because  it  wouldn't 
go  over  well  before  a  studio  audience. 
Marian  does  the  popular  little  girl  and  the 
ii'hoopla  old  lady,  regular  cliaracters  in  the 
show,  and  Jim  does  a  sort  of  goofy  smart- 
aleck  oaf  called  Mart  Toops.  Their  cur- 
rent program  is  well  supplied  with  stooges, 
and  impersonations  by  the  Jordans  would 
merely  add  to  their  labors  and  serve,  fur- 
thermore, to  keep  other  entertainers  out 
of  work. 

Both  Jordans  are  of  Irish  descent  and 
their  romance  began  years  ago  when  they 
met  in  the  choir  of  St.  John's  Church  in 
Peoria,  back  in  1918,  when  Jim  already  had 
appeared  in  vaudeville  and  Marian  was 
taking  voice  culture  lessons. 


Their  romance  was  interrupted  briefly  by 
the  war,  for  Jim  went  overseas.  He  makes 
no  claims  to  being  a  war  hero,  however, 
for  he  became  ill  on  the  trip  to  France, 
was  sent  directly  to  a  base  hospital  when 
the  troopship  landed  at  St.  Nazaire.  When 
he  was  discharged,  he  was  taken  into  a 
troupe  whose  business  it  was  to  entertain 
the  soldiers  behind  the  lines  and  maintain 
their  morale. 

When  Jordan  finally  returned  to  civi' 
life,  he  and  Marian  organized  a  concert 
company,  known  as  The  Metropolitan  En- 
tertainers, although  neither  had  ever  seen 
New  York,  barring  the  brief  glimpse  Jim 
got  when  he  embarked  from  Hoboken  as 
a  doughboy.  No  town  was  too  small  for 
them  to  play  and  they  appeared  in  ham 
lets  that  even  map-makers  Rand  and  Mc- 
Xally  never  heard  of,  ranging  through  the 
midwest  and  southwest  from  Wappello 
Iowa,  to  San  Angelo,  Texas. 

They  played  in  barns  and  in  fire-houses, 
if  the  town  had  no  local  opera  house.  Their 
show  lasted  over  two  hours  and  had  thir- 
teen intermissions.  Then  they  took  a  fling 
in  vaudeville,  not  because  the  remuneration 
was  any  greater,  but  because  the  accommo- 
dations were  beter.  .^nd,  finally,  as  al- 
ready related,  they  landed  in  radio. 

The  Jordans  are  happy  now  in  radio, 
portraying  rural  America,  instead  of  barn- 
stormnig  through  it,  happy  with  their  chil- 
dren, Kathryn,  sixteen,  and  James  Junior, 
twelve,  in  school  in  Chicago,  happy  in  their 
characterization  of  Fibber  McGee  and 
Molly.  Happy,  in  fact,  until  someone  says. 
Munchausen !  And  then  get  ready  to 
duck. 

Don't  say  I  didn't  warn  you ! 


Dyeing  is  alaughing  matter'now! 

Gone  is  the  old-fashioned  drudgery  of  dyeing— now  you  can  do  it  with  a  smile 
on  your  face  because  the  muggy,  steamy  boiling  has  been  eliminated  by  Rit.  One 
special  ingredient  found  ou/y  in  Rit  makes  colors  soak  in  deeper . . .  faster . . .  easier! 
Try  Rit  soon  and  enjoy  its  radiant  colors— its  ease  ...  its  marvelous  economy. 

But  be  sure  you  get  genuine  Rit,  because  truly  no  other 
tint  or  dye  can  give  you  the  same  advantages. 


/'^>5    HEW  COU)R-"NEW"  DRESS 

^  Only  you  and  Rit  will  know 
it's  an  old  dress— your  mirror 
will  say  it's  lovely  today! 


FADED  LINGERIE  SPARKLES 

Tint  underthings  quickly  and 
beautifully,  with  Rit  colors 
that  resist  washing! 


OKIV  RIT  CIVES 

FAST  COLORS 

WITHOUT  BOILING 

*  Dissolves  instantly.'  Kit  is  a  powder  wafer — easier  I 
sift  out  of  the  package  like  loose  powder  dyes. 


measure,  won  t 


IT 


TINTS 
&  DYES 


ALSO  WHITE  RIT  COLOR  REMOVER 

The  salt,  sure  way  to  take  OUT  color,  remove 
Mains,  whiten  fabrics . . .  harmless  as  boiling  water! 


FRESH  TONES  FOI 

fyJJ  Save  odd  stockings  by 

•^^.^ IV'^  <=o^ot  with  Rit ...  or  re 
0jlff^--^\         with  new  shades. 


GLOWING  TABLE  UNEN 

Rit  makes  luncheon  and 
bridge  linens  so  gay  and 
festive.  You  can  change 
them  M  will. 


FOR  HOSIERY 

matching  their 
revive  faded  hose 


SMARTLY  COLORED 
BED  UNEN 

Spreads,  sheets  and  pil- 
low cases  can  have  the 
loveliest  shades — and 
stiUlaunderbeautifull>! 


TO  FRESHEN  CURTAINS 

French  Ecru  Rit  giMS  curtains  the 
sunniest  color  thai  never  seems  to 
wash  out!  Not  a  "surface  color"  that 
has  to  be  renewed  each  time! 


RADIO  STARS 


Black,  Brown,  or  Blue. 
Complete  with  brush  in 
■pper  bag. 


that  First  Impression 


Everyone  notices  your  eyes  first — remem- 
ber this!  Eyes  without  proper  eye  make-up 
often  appear  dull  and  lifeless  —  bald  and 
unattractive.  Many  women  deplore  this  in 
their  appearance,  but  are  timid  about  using 
eye  make-up  for  fear  of  having  a  hard 
"made-up"  look,  as  with  so  many  ordinary 
mascaras. 

Maybelline,  the  eye  make-up  in  good 
taste,  has  changed  all  this.  Now  you  may 
have  the  natural  appearance  of  lovely, 
long,  dark  lashes — instantly  and  easily — 
w  ith  a  few  simple  brush  strokes  of  harmless 
Maybelline  mascara.  Non-smarting  and 
tear-proof. 

You  will  be  delighted  with  the  other 
exquisite  Maybelline  Eye  Beauty  Aids, 
too!  Try  the  smooth-marking  Maybelline 
Eyebrow  Pencil  to  form  graceful,  expres- 
sive eyebrows — it  may  be  had  in  shades  to 
match  the  mascara.  Use  Maybelline  Eye 
Shadow  for  truly  glamorous  effects  —  a 
touch  gently  blended  on  the  eyelids 


THE  WORLD'S  LARGEST  SELLING  EYE  BEAUTY  AIDS 


intensifies  the  color  and  sparkle 
of  the  eyes  immensely. 

The  new  Maybelline  Cream 
Mascara  and  the  ever-popular  Solid 
Mascara  are  preferred  by  over 
10,000,000  discriminating  women 
the  world  over.  Either  form  is  only 
75c  at  leading  toilet  goods  counters. 
Generous  introductory  sizes  of  all 
Maybelline  Eye  Beauty  Aids  may 
be  purchased  at  all  leading  ten  cent 
stores.  For  the  finest  in  eye  make- 
up, insist  on  genuine  Maybelline! 


RADIO'S  GIFT 
TO  ROMANCE 

(Coiiiimtcd  fi-oiii  paijc  29) 


I'd  want  to  tell  them  about  Hollywood, 
the  night  life,  the  studios.  It  just  wouldn't 
be  the  same.  We  lose  contact,  if  not  a 
taste  for  the  simple  things  once  we  gtt 
caught  Lip  in — in  this — ''  Bob  gazed 
aliuiit  the  cuinmissary — Spencer  Tracy 
just  walking  in,  Una  Merkel  being  inter- 
viewed at  a  nearby  table,  Jean  Hersholt 
ditto,  Myrna  Loy  lunching  in  the  dis- 
tance. ... 

"I'd  like  to  go  back,"  Boh  said,  "to 
the  days  when  I  got  a  thrill  out  of  get- 
ting up  at  daybreak,  mounting  my  horse, 
riding  for  hours  over  the  prairies.  I  still 
like  to  ride.  I'd  still  like  to  get  up  a; 
daybreak  and  ride.  But  I  don't  do  it. 
The  only  day  I  have  time  for  it  is  Sun- 
day and  there  always  are  so  many  things 
one  has  to  do  on  Saturday  nights  that 
I'm  till)  tircrl  on  Sunday  mornings  to  see 
the  ilawn  cimic  up  like  tliunder  I 

'Tint  do  you  see  what  I  am  driving  at, 
tiie  pniiit  I'm  making?  I  could  go  home 
on  the  air.  It's  the  only  way  back  for 
me  now.  I  could — and  I  will  if  I  have 
anyth'ng  to  say  about  it— do  folksy, 
plain-folksy  sort  of  things  on  the  air.  I'd 
ad  lib  all  I  could.  I'd  talk  to  the  people 
back  home  ahout  the  things  that  interest 
them — and  still  interest  me. 

"I'd  talk  to  my  friends,  the  farmers, 
about  farming  problems  and  conditions, 
their  crops  of  corn,  wheat,  barley,  rye 
I'd  talk  to  the  garage  men  about  cars 
and  w-hat  I've  learned  about  them.  I'd 
tell  Joe  all  about  my  new  Packard  road- 
ster and  he'd  realize,  better  than  anyone 
else  in  the  world  that  I'z'c  realized  the 
dream  of  years  -and  years  by  buying  the 
darn  thing.  Whereas,  if  I  i)lew  into  town 
some  day,  driving  it,  the  sight  of  it  might 
put  him  off  me.  But  if  I  could  just  talk 
to  him,  disembodied,  invisible,  he'd  know 
that  I'm  just  getting  a  kick  out  of  it,  the 
same  kind  of  a  kick  I  got  out  of  my 
first  bike  when  I  was  a  kid  and  he  blew 
up  my  tires  for  me. 

"I  could  talk  to  some  of  the  girls  I 
used  to  know  back  there — girls  I  played 
with  when  I  was  a  kid.  I'd  tell  them 
about  the  fun  we  have  out  here,  where 
we  go,  what  we  do.  I'd  tell  them  it's  no 
more  fun,  really,  than  the  old  quilting 
bees,  such  as  we  used  to  have  at  home 
long  ago. 

"There  was  one  particular  farmer  I 
used  to  spend  a  lot  of  time  with,  when 
I  was  a  kid,  before  I  ever  came  to  Cali- 
fornia. He  was  a  Big  Shot  to  me.  If 
I  could  talk  to  him  I'd  make  him  know 
he  still  is.  He  was  retired.  Owned  his 
own  farm  outright.  Had  fifteen  thousand 
in  the  savings  bank.  Gee,  I  thought  he 
was  Big  Time!  He'd  let  me  sit  in  the 
kitchen  with  him,  or  out  by  the  cow- 
barns,  while  he  whittled  and  talked  to  me 
about  the  cattle  and  the  condition  of  the 
soil  and  I  felt  more  flattered  and  im- 
portant and  honored  than  I  feel  now  when 
I  talk  to  Big  Producers.  Because  I've  got 
something  to  give,  too,  now.  It's  a  ques- 
tion of  buying  and  selling.      But  when 


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1(1  farmer  talked  to  me,  I  had  noth- 
I  offer  him  except  a  boy's  honest 
•ation    and    respect    and  reverence. 
•\  was  enough.    He  didn't  want  any- 
more  of  me.    I  think  he  was  wise 
.  1  knew  that  there  isn't  anything  more 
I  he  given.    I  could  talk  to  him  on  the 
;  .  as   I  used  to  talk.     And  it  would 
i  .  rest  radio  fans,  too,  I  know,  that  kind 
(  talk — because  it's  human  stuff,  it's  real. 
'  I  wouldn't  want  to  do  fancy  things 
c  air.     I'd  like  to  be  the  fellow  I 
liack  home.    I'd  like  to  start  with  the 
.:  'Well,  folks'  lingo  and  give  'em  the 
•  1     mid-Western     drawl.      And  there 
luldn't  be  any  physical  stuff  to  interfere, 
lere'd  be  nothing  on  earth  to  remind 
em  that  I'm  not  Arlington  Brough  any 
ire  but  that  fellow  named  Robert  Tay- 
•  whose  pictures  they  see  on  the  screen, 
movie  fan  magazines  and  in  the  daily 
pers. 

"It's  funny,"  said  Bob,  while  cigarette 
loke   spiralled   around   his   dark  proud 
ad  set  so  valiantly  on  broad  shoulders, 
t's  funny  but  we  all  go  back  to  first 
inciples  sooner  or  later.    I  don't  know 
iKther  you  know  this  or  not  but  it  zvas 
r  radio  lliat  gave  me  my  first  taste  of 
•ii'i!  'a  star.'    And  it  was  the  farmers 
were  my  first  audiences,  first  fans, 
autograph  seekers.      If  I  keep  my 
.  where  it  belongs,  and  I  hope  to. — if 
iiexer  "lose  the  common  touch'  it  will  be 
■cause  I  "was  the  conmion  touch  un  the 
idio,  in  Nebraska.     It  will  be  because 
began  my  career  by  playing  to  plain 
-■iiple  with  simple,  honest  reactions  and 
healthy  contempt  for  any  phoney  'stuck- 
P-' 

"1  was  on  the  air  while  I  was  going 
1   Deane   College,  you   know.      In  the 
inimer  time  a  few  of  us  fellows  used  to 
roadcast.    The  Caterpillar  Tractor  Coiii- 
.iity  sponsored  us  for  a  time.     Later  on 
'/</   Trusty  Coffee  let  us  advertise  for 
uin    and    after    that    Old    Trusty  Coiv 
fey  sponsored  us.    The  station,  in  Clay 
ity.  \"chra>ka.  was  called  The  Old  Trusty 
•ation— Station  KMM.l,  no  less.  And 
-tudio  where  we  did  our  stuff  had 
windows  from  which  we  could  see 
ig    but    corn    fields    stretching  for 
liks  and  miles  against  the  horizon.  We 
overed  a  radius  of  a  few  hundred  miles, 
aking  in  some  of  Nebraska,  Kansas  and 
Missouri.    And  we  didn't  get  paid  a  dime, 
I  course — it  was  'work  for  the  joy  of 
working.' 

•J  sang  and  played  the  'cello  and  things. 
\iid  it  was  a  'Well,  folks'  program.  We 
otiklii't  use  any  flowery  language.  We 
ouldn't  give  it  the  'And  >iozi\  Ladies  and 
iatltiiicn'  kind  of  thing. 

"The  audiences  in  the  station  were 
■i.Ktly  farmers  and  their  wives.  And 
lout  think  they  weren't  fans!  Don't 
hink  they  didn't  prepare  me  for  fans 
n  New  York  and  Chicago  and  so  on. 
riiey  'learned  me'  that  we  are  all  sisters 
ir  brothers  under  the  skin!  To  them  we 
vei  e  heroes  because  we  were  on  the  radio, 
n  ■  used  to  write  us  fan  letters  and  ask 
ir  autographs,  all  in  the  most  ac- 
1  manner. 

MkI  when  I  sang  for  them  or  played 
l  e  cello,  or  both,  I  felt  at  home.  I 
:oti!d  see  them,  not  only  the  ones  in  the 
-tU'Jio,  but  all  the  farmer  fans  every- 
^yliere.  I  knew  what  they  were  doing. 
Ihey  were  sitting  by   their  old  battery 


BORN  TO  BE  A 


,BUT- 


Most  Bad  Breath  Begins  with  the  Teeth 


"^TTHY  let  bad  breath  interfere  with 
^  romance  — with  happiness.'  It's  so 
easy  to  be  safe  when  you  realize  that  by 
far  the  most  common  cause  of  bad  breath 
is  .  .  .  improperly  cleaned  teeth! 

Authorities  say  decaying  food  and  acid 
deposits,  in  hidden  crevices  between  the 
teeth,  are  the  source  of  most  unpleasant 
mouth  odors — of  dull,  dingy  teeth — and 
of  much  tooth  decay. 

Use  Colgate  Dental  Cream.  Its  special 


penetrating  foam  removes  these  odor- 
breeding  deposits  that  ordinary  cleaning 
methods  fail  to  reach.  And  at  the  same 
time,  Colgate's  soft,  safe  polishing  agent 
cleans  and  brightens  the  enamel  —  makes 
your  teeth  sparkle. 

Be  safe — be  sure!  Brush  your  teeth  .  .  . 
your  gums  .  .  .  your  tongue  .  .  .  with 
Colgate  Dental  Cream  at  least  twice  daily 
and  have  cleaner,  brighter  teeth  and  a 
sweeter,  purer  breath.  Get  a  tube  today! 


COLGATE 

RIBBON  DENTAL  CREAM 


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"Get  Dad  some  perma-tip  Shoe 
Laces.  He  won't  break  them  in  a 
hurry.  That's  what  Tom  Junior,  told  me 
to  do... and  here  they  are.  He  knows  how 
you  jerk  and  tug  at  your  shoe  laces,  those 
mornings  when  you  leave  home  in  a  hurry... 
and  he  says  PERMA-TIPS  can  'take  it,'  what- 
ever that  means. 

Junior  uses  PERMA-TIPS  for  his  street 
shoes... and  his  white  shoes... and  his  golf 
and  tennis  shoes  . . .  and  there  must  be  a 
reason." 

Good  advice  this.  And  the  tips  never  come 
off.  They  can't.  They  are  a  part  of  the  shoe 
lace  itself.. .hardened  by  a  patented  process. 

If  you'd  like  to  be  popular  with  your  men 
folk,  get  an  assortment  of  PERMA-TIP  shoe 
laces.  You  can  put  your  hands  on  them  in  any 
family  emergency.  For  PERMA-TIPS  don't 
"hide  out"...  slip  down  behind  things  where 
they  can't  be  found  when  wanted.  They  are 
mounted  on  a  card  that  you  can't  help  but  see. 

Another  thing.  You'll  be  amazed  to  find 
that  these  super  shoe  laces  cost  only  5(i-  per 


PERMA-TIP 

SHOE  LACE  COMPANY 

LAWRENCE,  MASS. 


sets,  the  kerosene  lamps  smoking.  They 
were  snowed  in  or  rained  under  or  up 
to  their  shoulders  in  mud.  And  they  were 
listening  to  their  radios  and  it  was  all 
they  liad  of  color,  of  excitement,  of  other- 
worldness. 

"We  used,"  laughed  Bob,  "to  ask  them 
to  send  in  parodies  on  the  old  songs — you 
know,  songs  like  She'll  be  Coming 
Round  the  Mountain  and  Alice  Blue 
Gozvn  and  Jingle  Bells  and  Seein'  Nellie 
Home  and  the  others.  And  they'd  write 
their  parodies  and  send  them  in  and 
we'd  do  them  on  the  air  and  I  could  see 
their  brick-red,  embarrassed  faces  and 
hear,  almost,  their  snorts  and  guffaws 
of  self-conscious  pride. 

"I'd  still  like  to  do  that  sort  of  thing 
if  I  went  on  the  air,"  said  the  young 
Armand  to  Garbo's  Camille — and  he  said 
it  more  wistfully  than  he  knew.  "I'd  still 
like  to  sing  the  old  songs.  I'd  like  to 
feel  that  I  was  entertaining  those  who 
have  no  other  entertainment,  not  even 
movies,  most  of  them.  I'd  like  to  think 
I  was  talking  to  kids  and  shut-ins  and 
the  old  and  the  sick  and  the  poor — and 
talking  to  each  of  them  in  their  own 
language. 

"And  I  could  talk  to  them,  too.  I 
wouldn't  have  lost  the  common  touch  if 
I  could  talk  to  them.  I  may  live  differ- 
ently, dress  differently,  but  I  wouldn't 
talk  differently,  if  I  could  really  go  home 
again. 

"I'd  like  to  talk  to  some  of  the  girls 
back  home — girls  in  small  towns  and  on 
the  prairies.  I'd  like  to  tell  them  that 
they  are  just  as  sweet  and  pretty  and 
clever  as  some  of  the  famous  beauties 
living  here  in  Hollywood.  Even  though 
few  know  their  names  or  ever  will. 

"I'd  like  to  tell  little  Jenny,  for  in- 
stance, that  she  has  as  pretty  a  voice 
as  any  I've  ever  heard  on  the  air  and 
that  she  could  probably  do  something 
about  it  if  she  went  to  a  big  city.  But 
I'd  also  tell  her  that  she  is  just  as  happy, 
if  not  happier,  where  she  is.  I'd  tell  her, 
and  the  thousands  of  unknown  little 
Jennys  everywhere,  that  they  have  their 
places  in  the  sun,  too,  and  that  their 
places  are  every  bit  as  important  and 
vital  and  valuable  and  dearly  paid  for 
(though  in  a  different  coin)  as  the  places 
of  the  Jennys  of  the  stage  and  screen  and 
radio. 

"I'd  tell  them  that  I  do  not  believe  that 
every  pretty  or  talented  girl  is  a  poten- 
tial screen  or  radio  star — and  that  siie 
shouldn't  want  to  be.  There  are  other 
kinds  of  heavens — and  other  kinds  of 
stars. 

"This  may  be  a  bit  beside  the  point," 
said  Bob,  "but  someone  asked  me  the 
other  (lay  whether  I  thought  a  man  could 
fall  in  love  with  a  girl's  voice — on  the 
air,  yciu  know.  I  should  say  that  it  de- 
pends on  the  man  and  just  what  that  man 
is  likely  to  fall  in  love  with.  Some  men 
fall  in  love  with  a  nose,  eyes,  hands, 
feet,  voice,  one  or  all.  Certainly  the  voice 
does  carry  the  personality  or  ninety  per 
cent  "f  it.  .Sdftncss,  tenderness,  emotion, 
fire,  ice,  slirillness,  throl),  thrill,  meanness 
— almost  all  of  the  human  cjualities  can 
he  detected  in  the  voice.  I  think  a  man 
can  pretty  well  tell  whether  a  woman 
would  be  apt  to  croon  a  lullaby  with 
her  heart  in  it  or  a  lilues  without  any 
heart  at  all,  just  by  hearing  her  on  the 


air.    /  should  say  that  a  man  could  fal 
in  love  with  a  voice — yes. 

"But  to  get  back  .  .  .  What  I  have  saic 
about  wanting  to  go  home — to  the  simpk 
things — may  sound  as  though  I  am 
appreciative,  not  grat«»ful  for  Hollyw 
and  the  breaks  I've  had.  That  isn't  so 
I  am  grateful.  I  wouldn't  have  it  other- 
wise for  the  world. 

"I  love — why  not  be  honest? — the  atten-l' 
tion,  the  flattery,  the  fan  letters,  thet 
autograph  seekers,  being  recognized — allii 
of  it.  There  are  times  when  it's  annoyingii 
of  course — times  when  fans  peer  over  the*- 
garden  hedge  and  watch  me  playing* 
ping-pong  in  pajamas  or  something — butt 
on  the  whole,  I  get  a  big  kick  out  of  it.i 
It's  only  human,  after  all.  Let  one  personlh 
pat  any  small  boy  on  the  back,  tell  himit- 
he's  the  berries,  and  the  small  boy  inflates  t-. 
his  chest,  gets  red  in  the  face  but  lovesL 
it!  Multiply  that  one  pat  on  the  back.t 
that  one  person's  attention,  by  millions,  c 
and  any  boy,  large  or  small,  will  love  it,  r 
too.  It  doesn't  embarrass  or  impose  any,!.-, 
restraints  on  me  to  be  recognized,  he-' 
cause  I  never  behave  any  differently  thanil 
I  would  if  I  were  not  known  to  anyone  |i: 
but  my  mother.  I'm  not  given  to  mak-' 
ing  scenes,  to  drinking,  to  doing  anything 
that  I'd  be  ashamed  to  be  'caught  at.' 
Therefore  I  can  be  myself  in  public  as 
well  as  in  private. 

"But  it  does  alarm  me  now  and  then. 
It  always  alarmed  me,  any  kind  of  suc- 
cess, even  when  I  won  a  prize  for  some 
contest  in  school  or  in  college.  I'd  think : 
'This  is  swell,  but,  but — ti'hat  can  I  do 
next?'  You  have  to  keep  topping  suc- 
cess,   you  see. 

"It's  the  same  with  Hollywood,  with 
the  radio.  I've  had  so  much  in  two  years, 
so  much  of  everything,  that  I  find  myself 
getting  cold  feet  and  wondering,  not  so 
much  what  I'll  have  or  do  ten  years 
from  now  as  what  I'll  have  left  to  want 
to  have  or  do. 

"I've  had  stardom,  more  money  than 
I  ever  dreamed  of,  fun  and  fame  and  all 
that  goes  with  it.  And  quite  a  tidy  bit 
goes  with  it !  I  never  can  get  a  much  big- 
ger thrill  out  of  anything  than  I  had 
when  I  knew  I  was  to  play  opposite 
Garbo.  If  anyone  had  told  me,  even  five 
years  ago,  that  five  years  hence  I  would 
be  playing  Armand  to  Garbo's  Camille,  I 
would  have  said,  not  that  they  were  crazy 
nor  even  that  I  was — but,"  laughed  Bob, 
"I  would  have  said  that  Garbo  was  crazy! 

"I  never  can  top  the  thrill,  so  far  as 
cars  go,  that  I  got  when  I  realized  the 
dream  of  a  lifetime  the  other  day  and 
bought  the  roadster.  I  have  a  nice  house. 
So  has  my  mother.  I've  got  all  the  clothes 
I  can  handle.  What  will  I  want  ten  years 
from  noiv?  It  alarms  me,  not  because 
there  may  not  be  'new  fields  to  conquer' 
but  that  there  may  not  be  any  new  fields 
at  all.     For  me. 

"Which  brings  me  right  back  to  where 
we  started — I  can  go  back  on  the  air. 
I  can  renew  my  youth,  recharge  my  in- 
terest and  zest  and  enthusiasm  by  talking 
to  the  folks  I  knew  when  I  was  a  boy 
and  life  had  just  begun  and  every  field 
was  a  new  field,  unploughed. 

"I  just  hope,"  laughed  Bob,  "that  if 
Robert  Taylor  goes  on  the  air,  they'll 
keep  Robert  Taylor  off  of  it — and  let 
Arlington  Brough  go  home." 


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'  KEEP  YOUNG 
IND  BEAUTIFUL 

(Coiiliitut-(i  from  page  11) 


no   luiiuired   and   sixty   calories,   but  a 
cat  two-inch  pat  of  butter  or  piece  of 
Kc-e  accounts  for  three  hundred  calories 
lul  an  average  serving  of  roast  beef  gets 
ic  tliree  hundred  count,  too,  unless  it  is 
cr.\  lean.    The  reason  milk  sot  its  repu- 
itiuii  tor  being  a  fattening  toud  is  because 
i--  our  most  nearly  perfect   food  and 
ciKc  is  recommended  as  a  weight-builder 
r    underweights    whose    digestions  are 
clicate  and  who  find  milk  easy  to  assimi- 
ite.  Milk  really  is  our  supreme  beautify- 
fix.d.    It  contains  more  vitamins  and 
tant   minerals   than   any   other  one 
If  you  are  on  a  reducing  diet,  safe- 
1   your   body    (and   your   teeth  and 
la^i^  .  .  .  milk  has  calcium  in  it)  by  in- 
lui'ung  in  your  calorie  count  for  the  day 
ne   pint  or  three   hundred   and  twenty 
alories.     I   wish  we  had    more  Honey 
whiles    to    demonstrate    the  beautifying 
iroperties  of  milk. 

Honey  Chile  says  that  her  only  two  re- 
-ipes  for  "keeping  young  and  beautiful" 
ire  milk  and  sleep.  She  is  like  a  cat  .  .  . 
-he  can  sleep  anywhere,  any  time,  all  tlu 
way  around  the  clock.  Incidentally,  I  wisli 
hat  you  women,  especially  nervous,  lii^h- 
~trung  girls.  v\-ould  never  begrudge  any  <ii 
the  hours  you  spend  in  sleep.  Think  of 
Meep  always  as  nature's  greatest  beau- 
tifier.  Sparkling  eyes,  a  sunny  disposition 
uv\  a  radiant  skin  (all  part  of  Honey 
Chile's  vital  charm)  are  a  few  of  the  as- 
sets that  sound,  healthful  sleep  can  help 
to  give  you.  Remember  that  worry  and 
lack  of  sleep  can  shrivel  the  most  radiant 
^kin. 

Bob  Hope's  sleepy-time  stooge  says  that 
■■he  doesn't  have  any  hidebound  system  for 
an.\tliing,  except  for  cleansing  her  skin. 
.And  no  matter  how  late  at  night  it  may 
be.  or  how  tired  she  is,  or  how  much  she 
'  '  -  to  sleep,  she  follows  the  same  nightly 
le  faithfully.  The  first  thing  she  does 
tie  a  ribbon  around  her  hair;  this  is 
nil.  of  her  pet  habits.  (Have  you  ever  tried 
a  wide  band  of  loosely  woven  elastic  ma- 
terial for  protecting  your  hair  from 
creams?)  Then  she  applies  cleansing 
cream  lavishly  all  over  her  face  and  neck. 
She  wipes  the  cream  off  carefully  with 
cleansing  tissues  and  then  scrubs  her  face 
thoroughly  with  warm  water  and  soap, 
finishing  with  a  grand  wholesale  splashing 
of  cold  water. 

A  new  cleansing  cream  on  the  market 
has  captivated  her  completely.   This  cream  i 
has  colloidal  gold  in  it  and  Honey  Chile 
says  her  superstitions  tell  her  it  is  good 
luck  to  use  it.    She  likes  the  cream  most 
of  all,  however,  because  it  does  such  an 
ambitious,  industrious  job  of  cleansing  for 
her;  it  just  seems  to  pull  the  stale  make- 
up and  clogged  dirt  right  out  of  the  pores.  ! 
All  she  has  to  do  is  pat  it  on.    It  practi-  | 
cally  gives  her  the  advantages  of  a  facial 
without  the  work  of  one.   It  is  rose-pink 
in  color,  too.  and  that  happens  to  be  Honey 
Chile's  favorite  color.    Of  course  you  can't  ! 
see  the  gold  in  the  cream.    But  neither  | 
can  you  see  the  iron  in  spinach,  of  which,  i 


RADIO  STARS 


•  "Looka  here  —  ihis 
animal  isn't  so  fierce. 
Hasn't  got  a  tooth  in 
his  head— heck,  tce've 
each  got  six!... Maybe 
he  isn't  looking  fierce 
at  all  —  only  cross.  I 
knoic  tvhy—he's  hot. 
No  wonder —all  that 
hair,  Phooey!  .  .  .  he 
makes  me  hot,  too!" 


%"Now  stop  and  think 
—what  was  it  tee  decid- 
ed icas  the  best  thing 
for  that  hot,  sticky 
f  eeling? ...  Drink  of 
tcater?  No,  that  tcasn't 
it,  Bath?  Note  you're 
on  the  right  track... 
I've  got  it— a  nice 
downy  sprinkle  of 
J  ohnson' s  Baby 
Powder!' 


9  "See!  Mother's 
bringing  our  powder 
now!  She's  a  very- 
smart  woman . . . 
Mother,  here's  a  riddle 
for  you!  What  feels 
better  than  a  baby  all 
slicked  over  with  soft 
soothing  Johnson's 
Baby  Powder?  .  .  . 
That's  right.  Two  ba- 
bies! . . .  I  told  you  she 
teas  bright!" 


* 


•  "/'m  Johnson^s  Baby  Poicder. . .  I  make  babies 
happy  and  comfortable.  And  I  help  to  keep  their 
skins  in  the  pink  of  condition— tchich  is  the  stirest  pro- 
tection against  skin  infections! ...Vni  made  of  the 
very  finest  Italian  talc,  silky-fine  and  even.  ISo 
gritty  particles— and  no  orris-root . . .  Do  you  knotv  the 
rest  of  my  family?  Johnson^ s  Baby  Soap,  Baby 
Cream  and  Baby  Oil—they''re  all  made  especially 
for  babies.'' 


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RADIO  STARS 


Ac  H  E  R  A 
p  rl  L 
SKoW^rs 
Talc 

Here's  America's  best-loved  talc — 
soft  and  fine ;  fragrant  and  fresh  as  a 
rain  of  tiny  flower  petals.  April 
Showers  is  sheer  after-bathing  de- 
light! Soothes  and  smooths  the  skin 
—gives  you  that  all-over  feeling  of 
luxury  and  delight.  Yet  this  superb, 
imported  talc  is  inexpensive. 

The  standard  size  is  on  sale  at 
the  standard  price  of  28^  at  fine 
stores  everywhere. 


Seeing  double?  It's  Lore+ta  Poyn+on  and  she  does  double  duty 
on  the  air,  too,  being  in  two  popular  NBC  serials — Flying  Time 
and  Dan  Harding's   Wife.  Loretta   is  petite  and  twenty-one. 


incidentally,  Honey  Chile  is  very  fond, 
believe  it  or  not.  The  iron  in  spinach 
is  in  somewhat  the  same  colloidal  form 
as  the  gold  in  the  cream.  Bob  Hope's 
stooge  insists  that  she  is  too  dumb  to 
understand  such  technicalities,  but  dumb 
girls  get  along,  she  says.  Maybe  they 
don't  know  why  a  thing  is  good,  but  so 
long  as  they  know  it  is  good,  they're  do- 
ing all  right  by  themselves.  (P.  S. — 
Feminine  note  :  It's  the  not-too-obviously 
clever  clinging-vine  type  of  women  that 
still  get  their  man,  according  to  surveys.) 

The  creamy-complexioned  Honey  says 
that  she  is  one  of  the  f'tff-pi'ff  brand  of 
powderers,  who  succeed  in  covering  them- 
selves with  a  fine  dusting  of  powder  just 
as  the  handsome  escort  arrives  at  the  door. 
Hence  she  is  devoted  to  a  special  make-up 
scarf  which  she  can  whisk  over  her  dress 
in  a  jiffy  ...  it  snaps  neatly  and  quickly 
on  one  shoulder. 

Our  blue  Ixmnet  glamour  girl  likes  to 
try  all  sorts  of  glamour  stunts,  but  she 
says  she  never  thinks  of  doing  them  until 
the  last  minute,  when  it's  really  too  late 
to  do  much  good.  That  is  why  she  is  so 
attached  to  a  new  little  zipper  case  of 
creatn  mascara  which  she  pops  right  into 
her  purse  at  the  last  second.  The  case 
has  a  separate  compartment  for  the  mas- 
cara brush  and  a  separate  compartment 
for  the  cream  mascara,  which  comes  in 


handy  tube  form.  All  you  have  to  do  is 
to  take  out  the  brush,  squeeze  enough 
mascara  from  the  tube  to  spread  a  thin 
line  over  the  brush  and  you're  all  set  to 
apply  it.  No  scrambling  around  in  your 
purse,  first  for  the  brush  and  then  for  the 
mascara.  No  mixing  with  water,  or  other 
fuss-budgeting.  Honey  Chile  chooses  deep 
blue  mascara  for  evening. 

All  you  lazy-daisy  folks  (and  aren't  we 
all  ? )  will  be  interested  in  my  special  com- 
plexion loveliness  bulletin  .  .  .  the  recom- 
mended routines  are  "as  simple  as  pie" ; 
also  my  not  too  energetic,  somewhere  near 
painless,  exercises.  As  a  final  lure  to 
the  lazies,  I'm  offering  a  new  bulletin. 
"Keeping  A  Young  Face."  I  will  be  glad 
to  send  you  the  names  of  the  products  we 
mentioned,  and  answer  any  of  your  per- 
sonal problems.    Am  /  lazy? 


Mary  Biddie 
RADIO  STARS 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 

Kindly  send  me  your  bulletin 
"Keeping  A  Young  Face." 

Name  

Address  

Please  enclose 
envelopes. 


stamped  addressed 


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RADIO  STARS 


SENSATION  ON 
THE  AIR 


(Coutnnu;' 


'f  return  from  Elba.    His  name  had 
>niirched  and  he  had  left  in  a  cloud, 
ml  the  public  rallied;  there  were  thousands 
u  tlie  pier  to  meet  him.   It  seemed  to  me 
hat  he  was  legitimate  news  and  that  my 
aidiciice  would  be  interested."  He  shrugged 
broad  shoulders  expressively.  "I  was 
wnmped  with  letters.   Oddly  enough,  the 
iicu  praised  me  for  good  sportsmanship, 
nit  the  women  were  opposed,  without  ex- 
xiition.  They  did  not  want  to  hear  about 
lim.  tliey  did  not  want  him  discussed  over 
he  air,  before  their  children — not,  mind 
.(HI,  because  of  his  political  career,  but 
localise  of  his  home  life.   They  are,  after 
ill,  the  larger  number  of  listeners — it  is 
wisdom  to  listen  to  them  and  to  fol- 
\i>\\  their  guidance  in  >uch  matters. 
"The    important    thing,"    he    went  on 
jlitfully,  "when  you  have  to  deal  with 
-i!)le  scandal,  is  to  tone  it  down,  never 
it  get  away,  out  of  hand — to  treat 
:i,  some  inoffensive  angle.    Take  the 
■>i   Eleanor   Holm  Jarrett,    lor  ex- 
L — she  is  another  for  whom  excessive 
in  the  papers  af(iu>e<l  >\ niii.itliv.  I 
have  her  on  lu-.i^ram   Init  I 

,   :'.d  not  stress  the  right  or  wrung  of 
what  she  did:  people  are  divided,  some 
think    that    since    she    was  representing 
'  ica,  was  chosen  and  sent  on  the  trip, 
-es  paid,  she  should  have  kept  in 
training,  while  others  think  that  she 
merely  sent  to  win  and  if  she  could 
champagne,  that  was  her  affair! 
iM  not  go  into  that — I  should  merely 
I  ;  iier  what  she  ate  and  what  she  thought 
aln.ut  it!" 

In  the  midst  of  the  horrible,  bloody  days 
of  the  Spanish  rebellion,  Mr.  Heatter  pre- 
sented Miss  Agna  Enters  over  his  pro- 
gr.ini  in  an  interview.  Miss  Enters,  driven 
from  Malaga  by  the  rebellion,  talked  from 
the  Rex,  in  the  harbor.  It  was  stirring, 
dramatic  to  hear  some  one  speak  who  had 
so  recently  heard  bullets  whining  through 
the  air,  seen  walls  collapsing,  great  homes 
burned  to  the  ground.  The  rebellion  be- 
came not  something  read  about,  dimly 
realized,  but  an  actuality. 

Yet  to  Mr.  Heatter's  way  of  thinking, 
there  was  as  much  drama  in  a  workman, 
falling  from  a  height  of  twenty-two  stories, 
caught  on  a  spike,  wounded,  dying.  And 
a  doctor,  climbing  perilously,  aided  by  two 
firemen,  performing  a  life  and  death  op- 


lUBETYOU 
I  CAN  CUT 

VOWN 
WURKUNS  I 


"I'm  in  a  jam,  Mrs.  Coe.  I  bet 
could  cut  down  Elsie's  stocking 
runs.  What  do  other  women  do?" 

"Why,  I've  hardly  had  a  single  run 
since  I  changed  to  Lux  and  quit  rub- 
bing stockings  with  cake  soap." 


"Miss  W  hite,  you  never  get  runs 
in  those  sheer  stockings  you  wear. 
Tell  me  the  secret  and  help  me 
win  a  bet!" 

"Why,  I  always  use  Lux,  Mr.  Gates. 
I  never  risk  ordinary  soaps — they 
might  contain  harmjul  alkali  and 
that  ruins  stocking  elasticity." 


"Say  listen,  Elsie,  what  about  pay- 
ing that  stocking  bet?  Did  I  solve 
the  runs  problem  or  didn't  I?" 

"You  certainly  did,  Jimmy  darling, 
and  I'm  tickled  to  death  to  pay  it. 
It  seems  like  I  never  get  runs  since 
I've  been  saving  elasticity  ivith  Lux." 


Elinor  Sherry  sings  on  MBS  network. 


HOW 
to  save  elasticity^ 
cut  down  runs 

•  Pull  your  stockings  inside  out  as 
you  take  them  off.  As  soon  as  possi- 
ble after  wearing,  toss  them  into 
gentle  Lux  suds  (take  off  your  rings 
first).  Avoid  hot  water,  cake-soap 
rubbing. 

•  Rinse  several  times  in  clear  water 
and  then  gently  squeeze  out  some  of 
the  moisture.  Roll  in  a  Turkish 
towel  and  squeeze  some  more. 

•  Unrollrightaway 
and  stretch  to  shape. 
Dry  away  from  a 
hot  radiator.  Cared 
for  the  Lux  way, 
your  stockings  will 
keep  their  elasticity, 
wear  longer. 

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RADIO  STARS 


eration,  hanging  dizzily  in  space.  He 
dropped  everything  else  that  day  to  bring 
that  bit  of  human  drama  to  his  listeners. 
And  phoned  the  hospital,  just  as  he  went 
on  the  air,  to  have  the  latest  bulletin  on 
the  injured  man's  recovery. 

He  works  all  day  :  liis  is  a  full-time  job. 
His  office  is  in  his  home.  He  reads,  di- 
gests, plans  his  program  and  types  it  him- 
self. When  he  is  dealing  with  incomplete, 
changing  news,  news  in  the  making,  he  is 
on  the  phone  at  the  last  possible  moment. 
The  latest  news  from  Europe,  from  the 
home  press,  is  at  the  tip  of  his  tongue,  so 
that  he  who  runs  may  hear  without  troub- 
ling to  read ! 

Right  now  the  political  campaign  looms 
dominantly.  He  does  not  want  to  say  too 
much,  too  early,  lest  his  hearers  tire  of 
the  subject. 

"But  it  is  thrilling,  exciting,"  he  ex- 
claimed. "The  world  and  America  are  at 
the  crossroads; — it  is  as  exciting  as  at 
Lexington  or  Bunker  Hill,  \'alley  Forge 
or  Gett>  sburg !  A  war  between  Fascism 
and  Communism  is  inevitable,  a  matter  of 
time.  We  don't  face  that  sort  of  issue  in 
America  fortunately — and  I  think  the  peo- 
ple here  who  talk  it,  should  be  sentenced 
to  a  term  abroad — it  would  cure  them ! 
But  for  those  people  who  think  Europe  is 
far  away  and  doesn't  concern  us,  there  is 
excitement  enough  in  our  own  country. 
Big  issues  at  stake.  And  minor.  The 
Coughlin-Lemke  convention.  Townsend. 
John  Lewis.  And,  preeminently  of  course, 
Roosevelt  and  Landon.  I  am  strictly  non- 
partisan, you  understand.  I  don't  belong 
to   any   club  with   the   slightest  political 


leanings,  I  don't  even  cast  a  vote. 

"But  these  things  remind  me  again  of 
the  contrast  between  American  sportsman- 
ship and  the  hate  and  hysteria  abroad. 
Coughlin  called  the  President  -a  liar  and 
the  people  rose  up  against  him  as  one 
voice — not  primarily  because  it  was  the 
President,  either.  You'll  find  that  John 
Smith,  going  on  the  commuters'  train  to 
New  York,  can't  refer  to  his  neighbor  as 
a  liar  and  get  away  with  it ! 

"The  same  thing  has  happened  before, 
disastrously.  Senator  Nye,  for  instance, 
and  his  committee,  working  on  the  causes 
of  the  World  War,  were  doing  splendid 
work  and  had  raised  a  hundred  thousand 
dollars  in  appropriations.  But  Nye  called 
Woodrow  Wilson  a  liar — and  with  exceed- 
ing difficulty,  raised  seven  thousand  dol- 
lars to  complete  his  work.  Perhaps  Wil- 
son was  a  liar — perhaps  he  merely  'for- 
got'— it  didn't  matter.  Nye  was  finished. 
The  same  thing  happened  to  Senator 
Black — he  w^as  discredited  when  he  seized 
private  letters.  An  infringement  of  per- 
sonal liberty — Americans  resent  that  sort 
of  thing.  Deep  and  bitter  personal  accusa- 
tions are  the  signs  of  a  passing  fury.  1 
ignore  them,  I  try  to  look  at  the  whole 
thing  sympathetically,  impartially.  Scare 
psychology  is  all  wrong — it  won't  work  in 
America.  And  the  mud-slinging,  the  scan- 
dalizing inevitably  revert  upon  the  mud- 
thrower,  the  scandal-monger.  In  big 
things  and  in  small,  in  public  and  in  pri- 
vate lives.  .  .  ." 

As  an  evidence  of  his  strict  impartiality, 
Mr.  Heatter  reminded  me  that  although 
he  wrote  a  quarter  of  a  million  words  on 


the  Hauptmann  case,  he  never  once  said 
whether  he  thought  Hauptmann  innocent 
or  guilty.  A  most  amazing  feat  at  that 
time  was  his  fifty-seven  minutes  of  ad 
libhiiu/  when  the  execution  was  delayed 

"I  was  afraid  of  that  assignment,"  he 
admitted.  "In  fact,  I  dodged  it — ran  away 
to  my  cam.p  in  Candlewood,  Connecticut. 
But  the  dodging  was  futile — the  execution 
was  postponed  forty-eight  hours  and  I  was 
caught  by  that  time,  haled  back.  It  was 
a  horrible  thing — I  hated  the  very  idea, 
and  I  felt  it  might  well  finish  me.  How 
could  anyone  want  to  listen  to  the  des- 
cription of  an  execution?  But  I  succeeded 
in  escaping  that — I  would  not  witness  the 
actual  execution." 

And  in  the  fifty-seven  minutes  that  the 
execution  was  delayed,  Mr.  Heatter  made 
radio  history.  His  audience  listened  en- 
thralled, in  a  dramatic  suspense  that  made 
them  hang  on  every  word — and  he  was 
talking  on  a  subject  that  had  gone  dead 
forty-eight  hours  before,  with  that  last  ill- 
timed  reprieve.  People  thought  they  did 
not  want  to  hear  any  more — but  they  lis- 
tened to  every  word,  were  held  spell-bound 
by  the  fair-minded  commentator  in  Flem- 
ington  that  night  (so  fair-minded,  so  im- 
partial, that  he  was  the  only  one  chosen  to 
represent  radio  when  Hauptmann's  appeal 
was  presented).  One  New  York  judge  sat 
in  his  car  listening  to  Gabriel  Heatter  that 
night,  and  chose  to  be  forty-five  minutes 
late  to  an  appointment  rather  than  miss 
one  word  of  that  forceful,  stirring  resume. 

Of  the  unpleasantness  of  the  Hoffman- 
Wendell  case,  Mr.  Heatter  had  little  to 
say. 


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"I  believe  in  the  beginning  Governor 
Hoffman  was  sincere — but  he  has  been 
badly  advised.  He  is  wrong,  of  course, 
in  the  present  instance  and  it  will  have 
far-reaching  results.  .  .  ." 

"\\'hat  about  Zioncheck?"  I  asked.  "Do 
you  think  the  sensational  publicity  con- 
tributed to  his  suicide?" 

"Unquestionably !  I  happened  to  know, 
and  to  speak  before  his  death,  of  the 
tragedy  behind  the  printed  word  in  that 
case.  Zioncheck  was  a  brilliant  young 
man  and  his  tragedy  was  definitely  caused 
by  overwork.  He  was  a  prodigy — one  of 
the  most  brilliant  men  ever  to  come  to 
Washington.  And  he  was  sincere,  big. 
People  back  home  knew  that  if  a  son  or 
daughter  got  into  trouble,  Zioncheck  would 
take  the  case  without  pay.  But  he  over- 
worked and  the  people  who  saw  what  was 
happening  were  helpless.  When  he  first 
went  'haywire,'  the  papers  played  it  up 
and  when  he  made  an  effort  to  come  back, 
to  steady  down,  to  try  again,  he  saw  how 
futile  it  was.  He  was  damned  by  a  few 
escapades  and  what  had  been  said  about 
them.  Nobody  remembered  the  endless 
labor  that  drove  him  to  the  breaking  point. 
He  took  the  only  way  out  he  could  see. 

"In  less  degree,  the  same  thing  threat- 
ens Mary  Astor.  And  I  don't  believe  a 
radio  star  could  survive  a  breath  of  scan- 
dal. There  is  a  personal  intimacy  in  radio, 
a  closeness  between  actor  and  audience, 
between  a  commentator  like  myself  for 
instance  and  his  listeners,  that  precludes 
his  living  a  life  they  would  not  approve 
of.  I  don't  want  to  sound  prim,  but  a 
person  like  myself  has  to  lead  an  almost 


ascetic  life.  In  the  first  place,  of  course, 
it  is  a  full  time  job  and  there  is  no  time 
for  play — not  even  enough  to  get  one's 
fill  of  fishing !  But  it  is  more  than  that. 
It  is  something  personal  and  intimate  in 
the  medium  itself,  that  brings  the  voice 
of  the  unknown  into  your  living  room, 
into  your  family  life.  The  work  humbles 
you  and  mellows  you,"  he  confessed.  "The 
tapestry  of  human  emotions  is  marvelous, 
wonderful.  .  .  .  There  is  a  tremendous 
spiritual  satisfaction  in  the  work,  how- 
ever taxing  it  is. 

"Because  the  audience  takes  radio  more 
seriously,"  he  went  on  earnestly,  "not  only 
the  selection  of  a  story  is  important,  but 
the  treatment  of  it.  You  can  say  things 
in  print  that  you  couldn't  say  over  the 
air.  Dorothy  Thompson  can  discuss  the 
importance  of  the  Negro  \'ote  in  her  col- 
umn, but  I  can't  discuss  it  over  the  air. 
As  for  this  scandalizing  we  were  talking 
about,  it  is  not  for  radio  at  all — and  in  any 
case,  the  public  will  tire  of  it;  it  will  de- 
feat its  own  purpose. 

"Of  course  there  are  ways  of  handling 
stories  with  an  edge  of  scandal :  Recently, 
I  had  an  inside  story  on  Alussolini,  in  con- 
nection with  the  Spanish  rebellion — he  had 
been  promised  something  in  Gibraltar  in 
return  for  his  support  of  the  rebel  cause. 
I  treated  it  not  as  scandal,  but  as  indica- 
tive of  the  utter  helplessness  of  the  people 
in  Europe  when  their  leaders  bargain.  For- 
give so  many  Ts' !  I  wanted  to  illustrate 
what  I  meant  and  could  only  do  so  in 
terms  of  my  own  experience." 

He  smiled  disarmingly  and  I  assured 
him    no   apologies    were    needed — it  was 


his  point  of  view  we  were  interested  in. 

A  point  of  view  that  carries  considerable 
weight  His  program  is,  for  example,  in- 
cluded in  the  educational  curriculum  of 
schools  in  New  York,  New  Jersey  and 
Connecticut.  It  is  required  in  the  high 
school  of  Brooklyn,  makes  up  the  major 
part  of  civics  courses.  Children  are  kept 
up  past  their  bedtime  to  listen  to  it.  Wo- 
men's Clubs  recommend  it.  And  radios  in 
hospitals  and  in  prisons  are  tuned  in  reg- 
ularly for  it.  A  tremendous  responsibil- 
it,  and  one  that  Mr.  Heatter  meets  hon- 
estly, sincerely,  in  his  dispassionate  pres- 
entation of  vital  news. 

A  background  of  twenty  years'  experi- 
ence on  metropolitan  papers  preceded  his 
entrance  into  the  radio  field.  He  is  a  big, 
broad-shouldered  man,  six  feet  tall,  dark- 
skinned,  gray-haired,  with  candid  brown 
eyes.  A  man  who,  in  a  few  quiet-spoken 
words,  makes  you  feel  his  strength,  his 
sincerity. 

He  has  little  time  for  hobbies,  fishes 
when  he  gets  a  chance,  goes  as  often  as 
possible  witli  liis  family  to  their  camp  in 
Connecticut.  He  is  justifiably  proud  of  his 
daughter,  who  does  fashion  illustrating 
for  a  New  York  department  store,  and  of 
the  seventeen-year-old  son  who  made  a 
bicycle  trip  through  Europe  this  summer 
and  furnished  his  father  copy  on  the  situ- 
ation of  the  young  people  in  half  a  dozen 
European  countries. 

A  full  life  and  a  gratifying  one.  We  can 
understand  why  Mr.  David  Wilentz,  when 
asked  to  talk  alx)ut  the  issues  and  the 
speakers  at  the  Philadelphia  convention, 
said:  "I'd  rather  talk  about  Mr.  Heatter!" 


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L  months  are  over,  many 
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tissues  of  your 
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When  you  find  you 
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RADIO  STARS 


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fOR  MY  RIGHTS! 
I  WANT 
ANTISfPTIC 
POWDfR 


.  .cause  how  else 
am  I  going  to  battle 
nasty  germs?" 


"Mummy — 1  know  you  want  to  give  me 
the  best  baby  powder  you  can  buy.  Well, 
gee  whiz  .  .  .  that  means  Mennen.  Why? 
'Cause — that's  the  kind  that's  Antiseptic, 
i  wish  you'd  heard  what  Mrs.  Holmes 
told  my  nurse  today.  She  said  she  wouldn't 
use  anything  else  but  Mennen  Powder. 
Said  it  was  a  reg'lar  germ  fighter.  Yessir! 
It  chases  nasty  germs  away,  for  good.  And 
gosh.  Mummy,  how  else  am  I  goin'  to 
battle  germs?  Besides  .  .  .  Mrs.  Holmes  said 
it  prevents  that  chafing  I'm  always  com- 
plaining about  .  .  .  and  that  rawness  I  get 
in  my  creases.  So,  gee,  Mummy — get  me 
Mennen,  will  you?" 


America's  first  baby  powder  is  now  Anti- 
septic. But  it  doesn't  cost  a  penny  more. 
Why  use  any  other! 


POWDER 


DR.  DAFOE  REVEALS  HOW  RADIO 
MAY  SAVE  YOUR  DARY 


{Coni'mucd  from  page  23) 


Here  are  radio's  blithe,  beguiling  favorites,  Tim  and  Irene  of  the 
Wacky  Family,  with  Eddie  Hall,  in  a  scene  from  an  Educational 
Comedy.  Eddie  Hall  is  the  baggy  individual!  One  of  radio's  most 
popular  Mr.  and  Mrs.  comedy  combinations,  Tim  and  Irene  also  have 
Deen   occupied    with   motion   picture   work   during   the   past  year. 


of  those  precious  Babies.  .  .  .  There's 
where  the  radio  helped  immeasurably. 
The  Babies'  case  was  hopeless,  unless  ex- 
traordinary means  could  be  found  to  fit 
and  finance  this  most  extraordinary  case. 
Every  time  someone  told  the  story  of  the 
Quintuplets  over  the  air,  it  was  like  a  per- 
sonal appeal— although  we  never  actually 
made  one. 

"OfTers,  suggestions  and  advice  came 
pouring  in.  Most  of  them  were  fantastic 
or  worthless.  The  world  already  is  fa- 
miliar with  the  outcome.  A  half  dozen  or 
so  manufacturers  of  children's  staple  prep- 
arations paid  the  Babies— the  monies  be- 
ing held  and  used  in  trust  by  their  guar- 
dians— for  the  exclusive  use  of  their  foods, 
for  example. 

"As  a  matter  of  fact,  while  enriching 
their  treasury  and  providing  means  for 
carrying  out  the  plans  that  I  had  con- 
ceived during  those  early  dark  days,  the 
choice  of  certain  foods,  for  instance,  was 
scarcely  altered  an  iota.  We  had  made 
practically  all  our  own  choices  of  food 
and  everything  else  for  the  Babies,  and 
if  certain  manufacturers  and  purveyors 
met  our  high  standard  and  were  willing 
to  pay  us  for  using  their  products,  all  the 
better.  Nothing  on  earth  could  induce  us 
to  use  anything  of  which  we  could  not 
approve.  The  saving,  the  nurturing  and 
the  ultimate  welfare  of  those  Babies  have 
hccf.me  the  objectives  of  my  life.  I  have 
abandoned  my  career  as  a  general  practi- 
tioner to  devote  myself  and  my  profession 
>c)lely  to  them." 

If  you  could  see,  hear  and  become  ac- 
quainted with  this  stolid  little  country 
doctor,   in   his   native   surroundings,  you 


would  appreciate  his  honesty,  earnestness 
and  sincerity.  He  is  built  four-square, 
stocky,  stubborn  and  homely  in  the  best 
sense  of  the  word  and  stufTed  full  of 
common  sense  from  the  crown  of  his 
rather  massive  gray  head  to  the  square 
toes  of  his  old-fashioned  laced  shoes. 
What  he  says  in  Callander  goes ;  and  fur- 
thermore, what  he  says  can  be  depended 
upon.  From  the  initial  miracle  of  bringing 
the  Quintuplets  into  the  world,  he  has 
had  practically  everything  to  say  about 
their  care  and  up-bringing. 

In  a  way,  Dr.  Dafoe  has  been  the  vil- 
lage czar  and  those  who  didn't  like  it 
could  be  still,  but  they  all  came  to  know 
and  recognize  that  there  was  wisdom  in 
what  he  said,  and  kindliness.  He  and  the 
Catholic  priest  to  an  amazing  degree 
guided  and  steered  the  destinies  of  the 
community ;  he  the  health  of  their  bodies 
and  the  priest  the  health  of  their  souls. 
The  proverbial  Country  Doctor,  who  has 
almost  disappeared  from  our  ultra-modern- 
ized map. 

"Dr.  Roy,"  they  call  him,  af¥ectionately, 
or  otherwise.  For  twenty-five  years,  on 
call  night  and  day,  ploughing  through 
snow  and  ice  that  envelopes  that  far 
North  country  in  a  glacial  shroud  and, 
for  half  of  the  year,  almost  cuts  it  oflf 
from  our  work-a-day  world,  he  unremit- 
tingly attended  to  his  duties.  He  fully 
expected  to  fall  in  his  tracks  doing  "my 
job,"  as  he  called  it. 

Then  came  the  Quintuplets  and  fame — 
but  not  fortune ;  he  wouldn't  have  it. 
When  they  ofTcred  him  ten  per  cent,  of 
all  the  monies  that  poured  in  from  va- 
rious sources  to  his  Babies,  he  refused 


RADIO  STARS 


it  point  blank.  When  arrangements  were 
completed  with  the  parents,  for  the  Quints 
to  become  the  wards  of  the  Government— 
richly  paying  their  own  way,  however — 
he  made  a  stipulation  that  he  should  re- 
ceive two  hundred  dollars  a  nicmtli  fiT 
"his  trouble."  'I'IkU  rcprcNrnts  appinx- 
imately  the  income  he  would  have  earned 
if  the  Quintuplets  never  had  lieen  born — 
under  his  careful  hands  and  guiding  wis- 
dom. 

"And  were  you  content  to  live  and 
practise  here  in  this  God-forsaken  wilder- 
ness— .especially  during  those  dreadful 
winters?"  I  a^lscl  luin. 

"You  lalk  like  a  man  from  the  cities," 
he  said.  "In  the  lirsi  iilaee,  I'm  a  Dutch- 
man— our  name  originally  was  De\'ose, 
and  we  came  to  Canaila  by  way  of  the 
United  States,  where  our  family  first 
settled.  Once  a  Dutchman  always  a 
Dutchman — although  I'm  a  loyal  Britisher. 
■Whatever  our  job,  we  plo<l  through  it, 
doing  the  best  we  can.  ...  In  the  sec- 
ond place,  I'm  a  doctor  and  I  had  pledged 
myself  to  succor  all  people  who  called 
upon  me.  ...  In  the  third  place,  these 
people  of  Callander  and  the  surrounding 
country  have  become  my  peoiile. 

"But,  I  confess."  he  went  on,  "it  was 
not  pleasant  to  be  cut  oft  from  >-oiir  world. 
We  got  letters  and  newsp.'ipeis  occasion- 
ally, and  a  few  of  us  went  sometimes  to 
Toronto,  but  most  of  us  were  completely 
marooned  by  winter.  Then  suddenly,  a 
miracle  happened  that  changed  the  whole 
situation — a  miracle  that  you  who  live  in 
cities  and  suburbs  and  thickly-settled  com- 
munities, never  can  appreciate.  It  was 
the  invention  of  radio  and  the  making 
a  practical  commodity  of  it ! 

"I  had  never  realized  before  how  much 
sound  had  to  do  with  true  communica- 
tion— the  sound  of  music  and  the  human 
voice,  for  example  We  had  Ijooks  and 
newspapers  and  could  from  time  to  time 
read  what  the  outside  world  was  thinking 
and  talking  about.  But  to  have  the  world 
— ^the  whole  world,  in  time — talk  to  us 
at  our  firesides,  with  six  feet  of  snow 
blocking  the  roads,  the  wires  down,  may- 
be, trains  not  running!  To  have  a  voice 
— maybe  Lowell  Thomas's  genial  voice, 
saying:  '(iiunl  rrriiiiifi,  li-rri-yluul  v !'  and 
telling  us  the  latest  news  in  China — '  r 
Rudy  Vallec  crooning  a  greeting.  'My 
time  is  your  time!' — or  the  orchestra  at 
the  Royal  York  Hotel  in  Toronto  playing 
something  I  hadn't  heard  since  I  was  a 
medical  student.  .  .  . 

"But  I'm  getting  ahead  of  my  story. 
I've  always  been  a  radio  fan  from  its  very 
beginning.  I  go  back  to  the  cry  stal  age  of 
radio,  when  we  used  to  have  little  crystal 
sets  and  had  to  listen  in  with  ear-phones. 
We  didn't  get  much  and  there  were  days 
when  we  didn't  get  anything.  But  what 
we  got  was  so  precious  that  we  could 
hardly  sleep  nights  in  our  excitement  over 
it.  Now,  I  get  almost  too  nuich  trash 
and  sometimes  I  get  sick  of  it,"  he  pointed 
significantly  to  a  huge  all-wave  instru- 
ment, through  which  we  had  just  been 
listening  to  the  stroke  of  Big  Ben  in 
London. 

"Then  the  loud  speakers  eamc  in  and 
we  formed  a  sort  <if  a  dub — r'\<^h\  here 
in  this  room.  We'd  sit  and  listen  till 
midnight,  amidst  shrieks,  buzzes  and  cat- 
calls. Those  were  the  days  when  we 
spent  half  our  time  trying  to  get  the  far- 


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"Really  remarkable,"  says  one  famous 
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name  winks  in  lights  on  Broadway.  And  all 
over  the  country  women  enthuse  about  Eye- 
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makes  in  nine  out  of  ten  women  who  try  it. 


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Two  noted  composers,  Sigmund  Romberg  (seated,  left)  and  Jerome 
Kern  (standing)  with  comedian  George  Jessel,  present  a  new  baton  to 
Andre  Kostelanetz,  noted  CBS  maestro,  at  a  luncheon  in  his  honor. 


thest  stations  in  the  world — it  didn't  seem 
to  matter  whether  we  could  hear  any- 
thing distinctly  but  the  signal!  We  kept 
a  list  of  faraway  stations.  The  radio  had 
a  glamour  in  those  early  days ! 

"We  have  electric  current  here,  so  it 
was  a  happy  day  when  we  could  throw 
away  our  cumbersome  and  expensive  bat- 
teries and  hook  up  with  the  house  wires. 
Now,  I've  got  the  voice  of  the  whole 
world  right  here  at  my  elbow  And  I'm 
not  one  to  go  traveling  around,  so  that 
it  suits  me.  I'm  afraid  I'd  never  take 
the  trouble  to  travel  to  far  places.  And 
nearly  everybody — as  poor  as  we  are — 
has  a  radio,  too,  nowadays.  So  all  win- 
ter long,  we're  all  listening  in  to  New 
York,  Chicago,  Toronto — anywhere  and 
everywhere  that  our  radio  will  reach.  I 
don't  see  how  we  could  do  without  it. 

"So  I  have  often  thought,"  he  repeated, 
"and  we're  coming  to  it  someday,  too," 
he  shook  !iis  head  confidently,  "what  a 
wonderful  thing  it  would  be,  if  we  could 
have  a  community  service  radio !  I  could 
sit  right  here  in  my  office  and  give  direc- 
tions to  all  of  them  together,  at  regular 
intervals.  Of  course,  there  would  be  some 
visits  to  make.  .  .  .  When  the  call  comes, 
I've  got  to  pick  up  my  satchel  and  go. 
Many  a  time  I've  been  dumped  in  the 
snow  and  maybe  had  to  wade  through  it 
back  home. 

"But  radio  is  a  great  blessing — a  kind 
of  a  healer  in  its  way.  Takes  the  mind 
of  patients  off  their  diseases— some  of 
which  they  never  had,  especially!  But 
that  idea  of  being  able  to  minister  to  a 
whole  community  over  the  radio  is  some- 
thing to  look  forward  to!  It  would  be 
a  good  idea,  epidemic  or  no  epidemic." 

Doctor  Roy  showed  me  the  village, 
which  was  accomplished  by  walking  about 
five  hundred  feet  from  his  dooryard,  to 


the  cross-roads.  The  Callander  Hotel,  a 
packing-case  butcher  shop,  a  dinky  rail- 
way station,  a  garage,  a  Quintuplet  souve- 
nir shop,  a  refreshment  establishment  and 
two  information  booths — one  for  the  whole 
of  Canada,  the  other  for  the  Quintuplets. 
An  irregular  road  leading  down  to  a 
lake  where  camps  had  sprung  up  to  ac- 
commodate Quintuplet  sight-seers.  A 
fairly  populous  street  running  up  a  hill, 
on  the  top  of  which  stood  the  Catholic 
Church  of  the  Quintuplets.  Perhaps  sixty 
houses  in  all. 

Later  on,  we  drove  out  to  see  the 
Quints — to  the  hospital,  as  it  is  called — 
four  miles  beyond  through  a  desolate  un- 
inhabited country  with  a  scrubby  growth 
of  small  trees  on  either  side.  I  tried  to 
picture  the  Doctor  making  his  way,  win- 
ter after  winter,  over  this  road  through 
mountains  of  snow  with  the  thermometer 
at  forty  below. 

"There  it  is,"  said  Doctor  Dafoe  proud- 
ly, pointing  to  three  new  buildings  en- 
closed by  a  heavy  woven  wire  fence.  A 
house  for  the  Babies,  another  for  the 
nurses  and  a  pavilion  enclosing  the  Quin- 
tuplets' playground  on  three  sides.  Visitors 
were  allowed  to  enter  the  pavilion,  which 
is  separated  from  the  children  by  a 
stout  glass  partition  through  which  the 
crowd  can  look  on  without  being  seen 
by  the  Quintuplets.  As  the  children's 
play  hour,  from  1  :30  to  2  :30,  approached, 
cars  began  to  pour  in.  I  noticed  markers 
from  twenty-seven  States  in  the  Union. 
They  brought  about  7,000  visitors  that 
day. 

"Radio  did  that,"  said  the  doctor,  point- 
ing to  the  line  of  cars  that  extended  off 
into  the  distance  for  nearly  a  mile.  "My 
fan  mail  shows  me  that  people  from  every 
corner  of  the  world  listen  in  to  every 
word   spoken   about   the   Babies  on  the 


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radio.  They  never  seem  to  get  enough. 
They  ask  all  sorts  of  questions — fool 
questions  and  wise  ones.  Now  there's 
where  that  idea  of  a  doctor  reaching  a 
community  witli  his  advice,  comes  in,"  he 
said  again.  "My  audience,  to  whom  I'm 
going  to  speak  tomorrow  night  from  To- 
ronto, is  the  world!"  A  look  came  into 
his  eyes,  both  humorous  and  triumphant. 

"The  only  epidemic  is  babies.  It  gives 
me  the  opportunity  of  telling  the  world 
of  mothers  just  what  a  terrible  problem 
we  had  with  the  Quintuplets  and  how  we 
are  bringing  them  up.  Mothers  who  think 
they  have  a  hard  or  hopeless  time  of  it, 
are  bound  to  feel  encouraged  and  take 
new  hope.  I  tell  you,  that  radio  talk, 
linked  up  to  the  actual  case  of  the  Babies 
in  whom  they  are  so  interested,  means 
something  to  mothers  and  expectant  moth- 
ers. The  Voice  again.  Not  me — good 
Lord,  I'm  just  an  old  country  doctor!" 

Dr.  Dafoe  also  has  a  radio  set  in  his 
car,  and  he  obviously  enjoyed  it  as  we 
dashed  along  that  225-mile  drive  to  To- 
ronto, the  following  evening.  He  had  a 
wide  range  of  tastes,  how-ever,  for  during 
six  hours  the  radio  worked  faithfully — 
except  when  we  approached  and  were 
passing  Canada's  biggest  broadcasting 
towers,  about  twenty  miles  from  Toronto. 
We  had  a  melange  of  grand  opera  and 
jazz,  politics  and  patent  medicines,  all  of 
which  the  Doctor  accepted,  discussing 
their  merits  and  demerits  analytically. 
The  secret  of  his  enjoyment,  no  doubt,  is 
that  he  loves  life.  And  despite  his  being 
wedded  forever  to  what  must  be  a  terrify- 
ing wilderness  all  through  the  deep  win- 
ter, he  loves  every  phase  of  the  life  of 
the  great  world  outside,  from  which  he 
so  willingly  divorced  himself  to  devote 
his  future  to  the  Quintuplets. 

When  we  arrived  at  the  Royal  York 
Hotel,  Dr.  Dafoe  told  them  that  he  wasn't 
satisfied  with  the  regulation  loud  speaker 
to  be  found  in  every  room.  He  wanted 
the  biggest  and  best  one  they  could  get. 
The  moment  he  got  into  his  suite,  he  took 
off  his  coat,  lit  his  pipe  and  sat  down  in 
an  arm-chair  beside  the  radio,  glancing 
occasionally  out  of  the  window  over  Lake 
Ontario,  with  an  air  of  sublime  satisfac- 
tion, as  though  all  his  wishes  had  been 
gratified. 

When  we  went  out  to  the  studio  for 
his  rehearsal,  preparatory  to  broadcasting 
that  evening,  as  the  feature  of  the  Con- 
totted  Hour,  everylxidy  made  a  great 
time  over  him  and  he  was  accorded  the 
honor  of  writing  his  name  on  the  White 
Derby,  an  honor  that  is  permitted  only 
to  topnotcliers.  Through  it  all.  Dr.  Dafoe 
was  interested,  calm  and  collected.  When 
it  came  time  for  him  to  go  into  the  little 
cabinet-like  broadcasting  chamber,  where 
he  sat  alone,  he  was  not  in  the  least  per- 
turbed, although  he  confided  to  me  later 
that,  if  anything,  it  was  a  little  more 
disconcerting  than  the  Quintuplets'  birth. 

He  set  his  jaw,  tightened  his  fists,  and 
faced  the  radio — just  the  same  as  he  has 
faced  all  the  other  jobs  in  life — obscurity 
in  the  wintry  wilds  of  Canada,  calls  year 
in  and  year  out,  day  and  night,  never 
flinching.  Count  on  him  for  doing  an 
honest  job — especially  on  the  radio,  from 
which,  witii  tiic  Quintuplets,  he  derives 
his  greatest  jo\s  in  life. 

.A.nd  maybe,  some  da\-,  his  dream  of  a 
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Your  old  frientj  Eddie  Cantor  who  is  now  on  the  Texaco  Program 
with  Parkyckarkus,  JInnmy  Wallington  and  Bobby  Breen,  the  child 
sensation,  Eddie,  aside  from  being  his  usual  hilarious  self,  is  also 
trying  to  make  life  safer  for  both  pedestrian  and  driver.  Last  season, 
if  you  recall,  Eddie  put  over  an  anti-war  essay  contest  which  was  highly 
successful  in  emphasizing  the  virtues  of  peace  throughout  the  nation. 


curiously  ineffectual  over  the  air.  Bing 
Crosby  and  Rudy  Vallcc  exhibit  their 
quota  of  celebrities.  The  Camel  Caraivn, 
the  Shell  Chalean,  tlie  Slunv  Boat,  Fred 
Astaire — even  Amos  'n'  Andy — all  fall 
into  line  and  trot  out  their  distinguished 
guests. 

We've  no  tjuarrel  with  tlie  guests,  them- 
selves. We  like  guests,  at  home  or  on 
the  air — in  moderation.  It's  when  they 
come  to  the  radio  program  without  any 
specific  contrihutioii  to  our  entertainment 
that  they  leave  us  a  little  wearv,  a  little 
cold. 

For  example,  the  movie  star. 

She  has  a  Name — and  names,  it  would 
appear,  are  the  ultimate  decoralidn  to  a 
radifi  program.  Names  .-ire  lietter  than 
talent — and  cost  considerahly  more! 

In  the  sereen  wurlil  tliis  iiii)\ie  star  has 
a  definite  pku  e.  .She  has  ile\  ute(l  all  her 
time  and  tfTort  and  sucli  lalenl  as  she 
has  to  making  that  place  or  lierself.  There 
she  contriliutes  a  degree  of  entertainment 
and  pleasure.  But  as  a  guest  star  on  the 
radio  proKram,  slie  is  alien  to  its  design, 
unfamiliar  willi  its  teclinique.  hi  a  career, 
ratlio  lias  no  part  in  lier  scheme. 

She  is  mtro<hii(d.  Witli  the  inaster 
of  ccrenioiiK  s  -lie  (  ■^cll;m^^s  bright  banter, 
concerning    the    weather,    concerning  her 


enviable  success  and  pleasant  popularity. 
Then  she  sings — though  singing  is  not  her 
forte.  And  we  wait  with  pained  resig- 
nation for  the  final:  "Thank  you.  Maisie. 
It's  In^e)!  io'i'ely  to  have  you  here  and  zee 
hope  to  haz'c  yon  zvith  lis  again  soon." 

For  such,  and  similar  guests,  we  are 
beginning  to  feel  our  welcoming  smile  is 
becoming  a  trifle  fixed  —  that  sort  of 
forced,  frozen  cheer  with  which  the  coun- 
try householder  greets  the  wearying  pro- 
cession of  week-e;-.d  guests.  There  have 
been  so  many  of  them ! 

Every  entertainment  medium  that  has 
been  successful  has  developed  its  own 
artists.  Great  stars  of  the  stage,  whose 
names  travel  down  the  ages,  gave  their 
lives  to  perfecting  the  technique  of  dra- 
matic art. 

The  old  silent  movies  produced  artists 
in  that  medium.  Who  can  forget  the 
great  ones  of  those  days?  The  Gish  sis- 
ters, Charlie  Chaplin,  Mary  Pickford, 
Henry  Walthall — the  list  is  long  and 
memorable.  True,  many  came  froin  the 
stage — but  they  came  not  as  guests  but 
as  members  of  the  new  family,  working 
for  the  progress  and  perfection  of  the 
movie  film. 

The  talkies  drew  more  stage  players 
from  Broadway — and  again  these  identi- 


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jied  tlieinselves  with  the  new  medium.  The 
Barrymores,  Ruth  Chattcrton,  Alice  Bra- 
ly,  I-^dward  Everett  Horton  and  countless 
)thers  found  new  inspiration  and  new  op- 
lortunity  in  the  fresh  fields  of  Hollywood. 
But  they  did  not  think  of  themselves  as 
tage  stars,  visiting  the  movies.  They  be- 
ame  movie  stars  and  added  to  their 
rarlier  laurels  brilliant  success  in  the  new 
echnique  of  the  talkins;  screen. 

In  its  early  days  radio  <;lc\cli>ped  its 
iedgling  .stars.  And  hii.uht  >tars  they 
,vere,  too.  Remember  liic  //(//'/^ni.-,?^  Boys 
—Billy  Jones  and  Ernie  Hare?  .\nd 
here  were  Goldy  and  Dusty  ( Harvey 
Hinderman  and  Earl  Tuckerman),  and 
foe  White,  who  achieved  great  popularity 
IS  The  SHicr-Maskcd  Tenor.  Wendell 
Hall  was  known  as  TIic  Red-Headed  Mu- 
sic Master.  Remember  his  favorite:  "It 
Ain't  Gonna  Rain  \o  Morel"?  And 
there  was  \'incent  Lopez  with  his  band. 
And  Franklyn  Baur,  the  Firestone  Tenor. 
And  Vaughan  De  Lcath. 

Others  there  were,  too,  whose  very 
names  were  scarcely  known  to  their  eager 
listeners.  Radio  in  those  days  involved 
a  degree  of  anonymity,  since  there  were 
no  publications  devoted  to  it.  No  radio 
columns  in  the  daily  press.  Often  we, 
lots  of  us  didn't  even  know  what  was  in 
store  for  us  on  the  air.  We  just  worked 
away  at  our  dials — and  a  tricky  job  it 
was,  too — and  we  were  delighted  with 
what  we  succeeded  in  bringing  in.  Radio 
was  radio  in  those  days  I 

Radio  hopefuls  then  knew  no  such  com- 
petition as  meets  the  struggling  artist  to- 
day.  F.  Chase  Taylor,  now  the  renowned 


Colonel  Lemuel  Q.  Stoopnagle,  made  his 
radio  debut  in  1925.  Budd  (Wilbur  Budd 
Hulick)  stepped  from  a  job  as  soda  jerker 
in  a  BufTalo  drugstore  to  become  enter- 
tainer and  announcer  for  the  Buffalo 
Broadcasting  Company.  And  Stoopnagle 
and  Budd  came  into  being  in  1931,  to  fill 
a  fifteen-minute  period  when  a  chain  pro- 
gram failed.  It's  only  recently  that  this 
gifted  pair  have  had  a  hard  time  to  find  a 
sponsor.  But  now  they  are  signed  for 
their  own  series. 

In  l'',n  Kate  Smith  made  her  bow,  as 
the  Songbird  of  the  South.  Margaret 
Speaks  was  broadcasting  in  Columbus, 
Ohio,  long  before  the  days  of  commercial 
radio  and  developed  her  lovely  voice  in 
the  Firestone  chorus — working  up  to  the 
starring  iwsition  she  now  enjoys.  Jessica 
Dragonette,  Lanny  Ross  and  Rudy  \  allee 
are  among  the  old-timers  of  the  air. 

But  now-  opportunity,  it  would  seem, 
knocks  only  upon  the  doors  of  the  already 
famous. 

Which,  as  Mr.  Lohr  has  pointed  out, 
defeats  the  proper  purpose  of  radio,  to 
produce  and  develop  its  own  artists.  For 
not  among  those  will  many  of  the  great 
radio  stars  be  found. 

Major  Bowes  hewed  out  a  new  path 
with  his  Amateur  Hour,  in  the  efifort  to 
discover  among  ambitious  amateurs  new 
radio  artists.  And  whatever  their  unpre- 
dictable future,  he  at  least  is  presenting 
pleasing  radio  entertainment  that  still  tops 
the  list  of  popular  radio  programs.  He's 
done  a  w'orthy  job.  Let's  give  him  credit 
for  it. 

Rudy   \^al!ee  usually  works  his  guest 


stars  into  a  carefully  designed  program, 
so  that  they  seem  to  be  an  integral  part 
of  it.  The  Shoiv  Boat  achieves  a  pat- 
terned unity.  And  now  and  then  some 
dark  star  glows  with  new  light  as  a 
genuine  radio  artist. 

For  example,  Bob  Burns,  who  made  his 
radio  debut  as  a  guest  star  on  the  Rudy 
Vallee  program.  Bob  was  born  in  Arkan- 
sas and  his  stuff  has  the  freshness  and 
vigor  of  an  Arkansas  breeze.  In  his 
quest  for  a  career  he  tried  out  his  talents 
in  various  directions.  Vaudeville  head- 
liner,  jazz  band  leader,  newspaper  pub- 
lisher, resort  concessionaire,  film  player, 
he  came  at  last  to  appear  on  Rudy's 
rieisehnunui  i\,nely  Hour.  There  his 
delightful  lnjniel\-  hinnur  led  inevitably 
to  his  engagement  for  his  present  radio 
series. 

And  there  are,  undoubtedly,  many  such, 
capable  of  being  sterling  radio  stars — if 
they  are  not  crowded  from  the  microphone 
by  famous  film  folk,  prize  fighters,  wrest- 
lers, fan  dancers  and  what  have  you. 

And  the  salaries  these  guest  stars  draw 
for  one  radio  broadcast ! 

And  all  the  vast  army  of  the  as  yet 
unknowns,  lost  somewhere  in  the  shadows, 
waiting.     When  will  their  chance  come? 

When  will  radio  stop  defeating  itself — 
stop  filling  its  house  to  overflowing  with 
guest  stars  who  secretly  scorn  its  limited 
accomniiKlati(  ns — shouldering  out  a  talent 
that  would  more  admirably  serve  its  pur- 
pose of  entertainment  ? 

Let's  shut  the  door  to  some  of  the 
laurel-crowned— and  bring  Brother  and 
Sister  in  from  the  barn ! 


I'M. 


SKIN  FEELS 
DRY  AND 
"TIGHT' 
%  THESE  COLD 
1  DAYS 


SOFT  IN  AN 

INSTANT 
WITH  POND'S 
VANISHING 


DRY  TIGHT'  SKIN  INTO  SUPPLE 
SMOOTHNESS 


"I  use  it  for  a  powder  base 
. . .  overnight,  too,  for  extra 
softening" 

Miss  Money  ff'hilney,  dauphtrr  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  W  hitney 


BRISK  cool  days  to  tempt  you  out  of 
doors  for  hours  at  a  time!.  No  wonder 
your  skin  feels  dry  and  "tight"  when  you 
come  in  .  .  .  har.sh  to  the  touch. 

What  happens  is  that  dying  cells  on  the 
surface  of  your  skin  dry  out  quicker.  They 
begin  to  shed. 

But  you  can  make  it  smooth  and  moist 
in  a  minute.  By  melting  away  those  tiny 
rough  particles — with  a  keratolytic  cream! 

A  dermatologist  explains 

A  prominent  dermatologist  makes  thl- 
clear:  "When  a  keratolytic  cream  (Vanish- 
ing Cream)  touches  dried-out  surface  cells, 
they  melt  away.  The  underlying  cells,  moist 


and  young,  come  into  view.  The  skin  imme- 
diately appears  smooth  and  fine  textured." 

That's  why  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream  is 
such  a  wonderful  skin  softener!  More  than 
a  perfect  powder  base.  Pond's  Vanishing 
Cream,  applied  regularly  twice  a  day,  starts 
you  toward  a  young,  fine-textured  skin. 

For  a  smooth  make-up — Before  you  put 
on  make-up,  lilm  your  skin  with  Pond's 
Vanishing  Cream.  It  melts  away  flaky  hits 


.  .  .  leaves  your  skin  smooth  for  powder. 
Overnight  for  lasting  softness  —  Every 
night,  after  cleansing,  smooth  on  Pond's 
Vanishing  Cream.  It  won't  show,  won't 
smear  tlie  pillowcase.  It  goes  on  invisibly 
—  softens  your  skin  all  night  through! 

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Powder.   I  eiu  lose  lOf  for  jmslage  and  packing. 


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the  bold,  theatrical  look 
that  has  discouraged  so  many 
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Quite  obviously,  such  exciting  loveliness  re- 
quires an  entirely  new  kind  of  mascara;  one  that 
darkens  lashes  without  shouting  "mascara"; 
one  that  does  not  brand  its  user  as  artificial, 
"theatrical"  or  "bold." 

Tattoo  Cream  Mascara  is  just  that.  It  goes 
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lashes  is  not  detected.  Nor  will  tears,  rain  or  a 
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NOTHING  BUT 
THE  TRUTH? 


Told  by  topnotchers  of  the  air  in  reply 
to  oft-repeated  questions  from  their  fans 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Red  Nichols  enjoy  a  bit  of  tea  in  their  charming  honne  in  Forest' 
Hills,  Long  Island.  Red's  wife,  the  fornner  Willa  Inez  Stutzman,  was  in  the) 
Vanities  when  she  met  the  popular  band  leader.    Red  plays  a  mean  trumpet.' 


Do  you  agree  that  the  success  of 
a  broadcast  depends  almost  as 
much  on  the  presentation,  mate- 
rial, and  commercials  as  on  the 
artistry  of  the  individual  per- 
formers? 


Biiig  Crosby:    "I'm  still  guessing." 

David  Ross:  "I  would  say  definitely 
that  the  presentation,  material,  and  com- 
mercials can  make  or  break  a  program." 

Deems  Taylor:  "I  do,  except  that  'al- 
most as  much'  is  faint  praise.  'Two-thirds' 
would  be  more  accurate,  and  the  average 
commercial  broadcast  is  seven-eighths  per- 
former and  one-eighth  the  rest." 

Tlioniton  Fisher:  "I  would  not  say, 
'depends  alnmst.'  I  believe  sincerely  that 
it  <ki)en(ls  entirely  on  presentation,  ma- 
terial, an<l  t(jnimercials.  The  radio  per- 
former has  a  certain  personality,  certain 
individual  talents.  Tliese  are  his  assets. 
He  (or  she)  is  commanded  by  the  spon- 
sor or  the  director  to  perform  according 
to  the  show.  The  tempo  may  be  too  fast 
or  even  too  slow  for  the  performer,  based 
(in  his  past  performances.  The  man  who 
writes  the  continuity,  backed  by  the  spon- 
sor or  agency,  is  responsible.  The  artist 
flops  and  the  critics  pan." 

Loretta  Lee:    "/  believe  llmt  presenta- 


tion and  material  are  very  important,  but 
do  not  think  the  commercial  has  mnch  to 
do  ivith  the  quality  of  a  broadcast  one 
ivay  or  another.  The  slogan,  'The  play's 
the  thing'  is  practically  a  truism  as  far' 
as  I'm  concerned,  and  'n'hile  a  great  artist 
can  make  mediocre  material  listenable  he 
needs  much  more  than  this  for  a  truly 
great  performance." 

Parks  Johnson:  "Many  a  radio  artist 
has  been  seriously  held  back,  or  com- 
pletely eliminated,  simply  through  poor 
presentation,  cumbersome  and  stereotyped 
commercials,  and  poor  material.  He 
ever,  sponsors  generally  wish  to  avoid 
such  things,  and  I  believe  this  situation 
is  rapidly  improving." 

Art  Van  Harvey:  "Emphatically  yes. 
No  matter  how  good  the  artist,  if  the  ma- 
terial is  poor  the  show  will  not  be  a  suc- 
cess. On  the  other  hand,  no  matter  how 
well  the  material  is  written,  unless  it  is 
portrayed  properly  it  meets  with  the  same 
results.  Therefore,  I  should  say  it  is  about 
a  fifty-fifty  break." 

Nino  Martini :  "Undoubtedly  the  pres- 
entation, material,  and  subtlety  in  which 
the  commercials  are  included  have  a  great 
deal  to  do  "a'ith  the  success  of  any  broad- 
cast program." 

Bernice  Claire:  "I  certainly  do  agree. 
A  smartly  expressed  commercial  (not  too 
long,  please)   or  one  that  is  brought  in 


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RADIO  STARS 


In  a  subtle  manner  makes  the  whole  pro- 
gram more  pleasing.  Many  a  beautiful 
selection  is  sometimes  spoiled  by  an  irri- 
tating 'and  now  ladies  and  gentlemen.'  " 

lid   McCoiniclI :    "Certainly.  W'itiiout 
111  itcrial  suitable  to  his  personality,  there 
ircely  an  artist  on  the  American  radio 
0')uld  hold  tlie  attention  of  the  Hsten- 
Presentation  is  also  a  hig  part  of  the 
success  of   any   program.    I   believe  the 
handling  of  commercials  is  an  art  in  itself, 
and  that  they  can  be  used  in  a  way  that 
inotes  entertainment." 

'  Mi;a  Albani :  "/  thoroughly  agree  n'ith 
.'//  this  for  I  have  often  felt  that  the 
artistry  of  ait  actor  or  singer  has 
almost  nullified  by  poor  material  and 
bad  presentation." 

Harry  von  Zell:  "I  believe  that  a  pro- 
gram can  attain  a  certain  degree  of  suc- 
cess through  the  force  of  'name  appeal.' 
But  lasting  and  complete  success  can  be 
attained  only  if  the  material,  commercials 
and  production  are  designed  to  'frame' 
the  personality  of  the  program's  stars." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Most  certainly.  That's 
something  that  some  actors  never  learn. 
In  the  last  analysis,  'the  play's  the  thing.' " 

Lennie  Hayton :  "I  do  agree  that  the 
success  of  a  broadcast  depends  as  much 
on  the  presentation,  material,  and  com- 
mercials as  on  the  artistry  of  the  indi- 
vidual performer.  I  only  hope  that  more 
commercial  programs  ivill  see  the  benefits 
derived    from     minimizing  commercials. 


From  the  standpoint  of  good  ad- 
vertising should  commercials  be 
injected  into  the  scripts  of  the 
various  members  of  the  cast,  or 
should  they  be  entrusted  entirely 
to  the  announcer? 


Deems  Taylor;  "That  depends  on  how 
they  are  injected.  If  they  are  done  amus- 
ingly, as  Burns  and  Allen  do  them,  they 
are  a  thousand  times  more  effective  than 
the  usual  over-emphatic  and  humorless 
sales  blather.  If  they  are  handled  as  badly 
as  the  average  commercial  is,  it  doesn't 
matter  who  does  them.  They're  rotten 
advertising  in  either  case.  It's  very  dan- 
gerous for  the  performer,  to  hand  him  the 
commercials.  He  may  become  so  identified 
with  the  product  that  he  will  have  a  hard 
time  getting  another  job." 

David  Ross :  "/  believe  it  is  unsound 
advertising  to  ask  the  cast  members  to 
step  out  of  the  rules  they  have  created,  to 
have  them  do  the  cuiiiiiiereials.  It  shocks 
the  listener's  sense  of  logic,  and  strains 
his  credulity.  Whereas,  in  the  person  of 
the  announcer,  the  commercials  sound 
logical  and  natural." 

Helen  Marshall:  "I  think  that  is  purely 
a  matter  of  individual  likes  and  dislikes, 
but  at  any  rate  al!  advertising  should  be 
made  as  attractive  as  possible." 

-♦- 

Igor  Gorin:  "I  do  not  believe  that  real 
artists  are  suited  to  carry  over  advertis- 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


Girl  Friends  Use  the  Right 
Shade  of  Face  Powder 

^^,-,^^!^  &dA£A. 

You're  sure  about  the  shade  of  face  powder  you  use, 
aren't  you?  You're  convinced  it's  the  right  shade  for 
you,  or  you  wouldn't  use  it. 

Your  girl  friends  feel  the  same  way  about  the 
shades  they  use.  Each  is  certain  she  uses  the  right 
shade. 

All  right— I'll  tell  you  what  I'll  do:  I'll  let  you  hold 
a  "face  powder  party"  at  my  expense.  What's  that? 
Well,  it's  a  party  at  which  you  can  have  a  lot  of  fun 
and,  at  the  same  time,  learn  somethingof  great  value. 

You  can  hold  this  party  at  home  or  you  can  hold 
it  at  the  office  during  lunch  hour. 

The  Test  That  Tells! 


Here's  what  you  do:  First,  send  for  all  five  shades  of 
my  Lady  Esther  Face  Powder,  which  I  offer  you 
free.  Then  call  in  several  of  your  girl  friends.  Try 
to  get  girlsof  different  coloring — blondes,  brunettes 
and  redheads. 

Let  each  girl  select  what  she  thinks  is  her  best 
shade  of  face  powder.  Have  her  try  that  shade  on. 
Then,  have  her  "try  on"  all  the  other  four  shades. 
Let  the  rest  of  you  act  as  judges  while  each  girl  tries 
on  the  five  shades. 

Then,  see  how  right  or  wrong  each  girl 
has  been!  Note  that  in  most  cases,  if  not  in 
all,  the  shade  of  face  powder  that  proves 
the  most  becoming  is  not  the  one  the  girl 
selected.  On  the  contrary,  you'll  probably 
find  that  the  shade  that  proves  most  flatter- 
ing to  a  girl  is  one  she  would  never  think  of 
using  at  all. 

You  can  instantly  tell  which  shade  is  most 
becoming  to  a  girl.  It  immediately  makes 
her  stand  out — makes  her  look  her  youngest 


and  freshest.  The  other  shades,  you  will  observe, 
have  just  the  opposite  effect.  They  make  her  look 
drab  and  years  older  than  she  really  is. 

Why  Look  Older 
Than  You  Really  Are? 

It's  amazing  the  women  that  use  the  wrong  shade 
of  face  powder.  I  see  evidences  of  it  on  every  side. 
Artists  and  make-up  experts  also  bemoan  the  fact. 

There  is  one  and  only  one  sound  way  of  telling 
your  most  becoming  shade  of  face  powder  and  that 
is  by  trying  on  all  five  shades  as  I  have  described 
above.  Trying  to  select  a  shade  of  face  powder  ac- 
cording to  "type"  is  all  wrong  because  you  are  not 
a  "type,"  but  an  individual.  Anyone  knows  that  a 
blonde  may  have  any  one  of  a  number  of  different 
colorings  of  skin  while  a  brunette  may  have  the 
same.  So,  trying  to  match  a  "t>-pe"  is  fundamen- 
tally unsound  if  not  impossible,  and  may  lead  to 
some  weird  effects. 

Prove  My  Principle! 

Be  sound,  be  practical,  in  the  selection  of  your 
shade  of  /^ce  powder.  Use  the  test  method  as  I  have 
described  here.  Clip  the  coupon  now  for  all  five 
shades  of  my  Lady  Esther  Face  Powder.  I  will  also 
send  you  a  7-days'  supply  of  my  Face  Cream. 


(KauranpastoIAuionaiNmnviKXIaircl.)    (27)        I  FREE 

Lady  Esther.  2010  Riiisre  Ave,  Evanston.  III.  I 

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RADIO  STARS 


Dnnecessary.  PerBonal  t 
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NOTHING  BUT  THE  TRUTH? 


(Continued  from  f'agc  75) 


Guy  Lombardo — CBS  maestro  of  Lombardo  Time 


ing  material.  This  is  much  better  done 
by  a  regular  announcer,  who  is  trained 
for  the  purpose." 

-♦- 

Jimmy  Fidler :  "Both—hut  the  artist 
sliould  not  overdo  it.  Announcers  should 
read  the  eonnnereials — but  1  think  com- 
mercials should  he  interesting,  both  in  ma- 
terial and  presentation.  They  should  by 
all  mean.';  he  brief.  The  artist  may  on 
special  occasion  endorse  the  product,  and 
should.  I  wouldn't  do  a  radio  program 
for  a  product  I  could  not  perso)ially  en- 
dorse and  1  certainly  don't  mind  sayuui  as 
niuch  to  my  radio  listener.^.  On  the  con- 
trary, I  never  cheapen  my  slio:^'  l>y  beat- 
ing a  commercial  reader  out  of  a  job. 

Ted  Hammer  stein:  "The  new  personal- 
ity of  the  announcer  plus  his  individual 
popularity  I  think  is  much  better." 

James  Melton;  "Entirely  to  the  an- 
nouncer." 

Andre  Kostclanetz  ;  "Commercial  an- 
nouncements should  l>e  left  entirely  to  the 
anouneer.  The  entertainment  should  be 
kept  intact." 

Hal  Kemp:    "I  think  dramatized  com- 


mercials are  the  most  effective." 

-♦- 

Fred  Waring:  "Depends  on  the  tecli 
nique  employed,  the  popularity  and  abilit; 
of  the  performers,  or  the  message  itselli 
and  above  all  the  product."  1 

-  ♦  -  ; 

Jimmy  Farrell :  "Good  commercial  adi 
vertising  is  a  field  of  its  oivn  and  demand 
the  undivided  attention  of  at  least  one  an 
nouncer  and  should  be  left  to  hint — fc 
best  results." 

-*- 

Edward  MacHugh:  "I  think  the  adver 
tising  should  be  left  entirely  to  the  an 
nouncer." 

Conrad  Thibault:  "Certain  set-ups  di 
permit  clever  and  unusual  methods  of  in 
jccting  conmiercial  script  by  members  o 
the  cast,  possibly  to  some  advantage,  bu 
it  would  not  be  a  good  rule  to  follow  ii 
the  majority  of  cases.'' 


Boake  Carter 
the  product  hein 


'It  depends  entirely 
nereha)idiced." 


Don  Bestor:  "They  should  be  entrustei 
to  a  good  announcer — one  who  docsn' 
put  too  much  "sell"  into  his  voice  and  jus 
gives  the  facts." 


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RADIO  STARS 


McComu-ll:    "I  tliink  this  depends 
nly  upon  the  nature  of  the  entertain- 
t.    On  the  whole  I  would  say  there 
'.i<l  be  less  likelihood  of  danger  to  the 
I  iitcrtainment  if  an  announcer  were  used 
m  conventional  manner.    I  do  most  of  my 
.'wii  advertising,  but  that  is  made  possible 
Ii>  the  nature  of  my  programs.  Incident- 
iM\.  I  am  paid  for  being  able  to  do  this." 

ick  Dawson :  "The  adroit  insertion 
ininercials  in  comedy  shoii's  of  the 
\-Allen-Cantor  type,  I  should  say,  is 
'  advertising.  Their  injection  into  the 
of  a  dramatic  performance  can  re- 
ntly  in  the  destruction  of  the  illusion 
consequently  resentment  on  the  part 
u'  listener." 

-♦- 

Phillips  Lord:  "I  believe  commercials 
should  be  left  to  the  announcer  most  of  the 
time.  An  occasional  logical  and  natural 
variation,  however,  should  also  be  effec- 
tive." 

Irccne  Wicker  (the  Singing  Lady): 
"In  my  opinion,  commercials  sound  em- 
barrassed and  insincere  when  they  are  in- 
jected into  the  scripts  of  the  various  mem- 
bers of  the  cast.  A  good  announcer  with 
a  simple  straightforward  st\le  lends  dig- 
nity and  credibility  to  tlie  claims  of  a 
sponsor.  However,  I  think  Jack  Benny's 
style  is  the  exception.  ' 

Kate  Smith :  "/  believe  that  a  com- 
mercial can  be  zvoven  into  the  script  ivith- 
out  detriment  to  the  show.  On  our  A  &■ 
P  programs  we  do  that  but  keep  the  com- 
mercial doun  to  a  minimum.    This  seems 


to  be  important.  The  audience  then  does 
not  become  annoyed." 

Ozve  Nelson:  "I  think  it  is  O.K.  for 
the  performer,  providing  it  is  not  the  type 
of  commercial  that  might  cheapen  the 
value  of  his  name  .  .  but  the  tie  up  must 
be  graceful." 

-♦- 

Rav  Perkins:    "Can't  be  answered  with 


a  yes  or  no.  Depends  on  the  type  of  prod- 
uct, audience  appealed  to,  personnel  of 
the  program,  and  other  factors." 

Abe  Lyman :  "That  is  one  question  that 
should  be  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  spon- 
sor." 

Vaughn  de  Leath:  "For  the  sake  of  the 
artist  they  should  be  limited  to  the  an- 
nouncer. From  the  standpoint  of  the  ad- 
vertisers, good  results  may  be  got  by  letting 
the  members  of  the  cast  share  the  burden, 
providing  the  commercial  material  is 
cleverly  interwoven." 


John  Bai  clax: 
entrusted  tu  tlic  am 
case  of  a  cmncdiaii- 
of  taking  the  curse 

Bcrnice  Claire  : 

the  script— if  the: 
othcncisc  let  the 


tliink 


they  should  be 
—except  in  the 
.  line  has  a  way 


"/  like  them  as  part  of 
arc  do)ie  c!e:-erly — but 
r  }ie;iol:alc,l  by  the 
■.  there  are  .f,>  iczc  Jack 


Ireene  Wicker  visited  Washington, 
D.  C,  recently,  to  gather  material 
for  a  series  in  which  she  will  depict, 
for  children,  the  youthful  days  of 
the  nation's  presidents. 


Beiiiiys  on  the  air!'' 

Teddy  Bergman:  "I  believe  the  listener 
will  'take'  a  commercial  from  an  artist 
more  readily  than  from  an  announcer." 

Bob  Crosby:  "If  cleverly  and  enter- 
tainingly done,  I  believe  the  former 
method  is  the  better,  since  announcers' 
commercials  are  apt  to  become  wearisome, 
that  having  been  the  accepted  procedure 
for  so  long." 

Helen  Jepson :     "Entirely  to    the  an- 

udiiiieer — e.vcept,  perhaps,  in  the  case  of 
cieier  comedians." 

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Benay  Venuta:  "I  like  commercials  in 
the  script — and  done  in  an  off-hand  man- 
ner— people  are  more  liable  to  hear  them 
that  way.  I  don't  think  anyone  pays  the 
slightest  attention  to  formal  commercials." 

hddy  Broicn:  "Under  no  circumstances 
should  commercials  be  injected  into  radio 
-^iripts.  All  such  advertising  should  be 
ktt  entirely  with  the  announcer." 


At  what  point  do  you  feel  most 
nervous  ...  at  the  beginning, 
during,   or   at   the   end   of  the 
broadcast? 


Igor  Gorin:    "Every  true  artist  is  al- 
ways at  a  tension  at  the  beginning,  dur- 
ing, and  at  the  end  of  a  performance." 
-  ♦- 

Ozzie  Nelson :  "Just  before  the  battle, 
Mother."  _^ 

Parks  Johnson:  "I'm  not  of  a  nervous 
temperament.  However,  that  hour  just  be- 
fore the  broadcast  finds  me  quite  on  edge. 
I'm  anxious  to  get  under  way!  You  see,  I 
so  thoroughly  enjoy  my  broadcast,  that  I'm 
sincerely  eager  to  get  at  it!  Selfish,  per- 
haps, for  thinking  of  my  own  pleasure!" 

Bob  Burns:  "When  the  act  ahead  of 
me  is  on." 

Loretta  Lee:  "Usually  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  broadcast,  for  then  I  am  not 
certain  just  hoiv  my  numbers  zvill  go  over. 
Once  I  get  started,  hoivever,  the  uneasiness 
disappears  and  I  concentrate  on  deliver- 
ing the  material  to  the  best  of  my  ability." 

David  Ross:  "Always  at  the  beginning, 
frequently  during  the  broadcast,  and 
sometimes  at  the  end.  On  some  occasions, 
all  through  the  program." 

Deems  Taylor:  "At  the  beginning,  when 
I  invariably  have  a  running  head  cold,  and 
a  dry  throat,  which  is  one  of  the  miracles 
of  medical  science." 

Ed  McConnell :  "/  am  aha'ays  nervous 
just  before  the  bcginnbig  of  a  broadcast, 
(hire  I  am  iiiln  my  program,  I  lose  this 
)irr:;nis  rondilioii  uuiurduilcly.  It's  the 
SO-sccond  wait  bcjrrr  llir  opening  that 
rouses  me  the  most  sujjrruuj," 

Art  Van  Harvey:  "On  those  broadcasts 
where  I  did  feel  nervous,  it  was  always  at 
the  beginning,  especially  a  minute  or  so 
before  I  knew  I  was  on  the  air.  Usually, 
however,  this  quickly  wears  off  once  I  am 
into  the  script." 

Lennie  Hayton:  "My  nervousness  comes 
just  before  the  beginning  of  a  broadcast. 
Once  the  first  note  is  played  this  nervous- 
ness usually  leaves  me." 

Helen  King :  "It  depends — have  ex- 
perienced all  three." 

Benay  Venuta:  "I  am  usually  nervous 
on  my  first  song,  and  on  a  big  'guest  pro- 
gram' when  they  first  announce  me  I  have 
the  old  'standing-in-the-wings  jitters.' 


Virginia  Verrill ;  "Just  before  my 
broadcast.  The  minute  they  start  1  am 
never  nervous." 

Nino  Martini:  "My  most  nervous  state 
is  just  previous  to  a  very  important  per- 
formance whether  on  the  operatic  stage, 
the  radio,  or  a  big  concert.  As  soon  as  I 
get  under  way,  any  nervousness  leaves,  and 
never  did  I  feel  it  at  the  end  of  a  per- 
formance." 

Olga  Albani:  "I  am  nervous  at  all  times 
during  a  broadcast,  but  not  distractedly 


Nick  Dawson :  "/  tnust  confess  that  I 
am  never  nervous.  I'm  not  sure  ichether 
this  is  accounted  for  by  ego  or  by  stupid- 
ity." 

Elsie  Hitz:  "I  am  always  nervous  just 
before  and  at  the  beginning  of  each  broad- 
cast. I  rarely  have  that  feeling  after  read- 
ing a  few  lines." 

Gogo  De  Lys:  "Oh,  those  tense  sec- 
onds before  we  go  on  the  air !" 

Ray  Perkins:  "At  that  zero  hour, 
thirty  seconds  before  going  on  the  air." 

Betty  Lou  Gerson:  "The  beginning. 
After  the  first  few  minutes  any  nervous 
feeling  I  might  have  felt  has  disappeared." 

Tim  Healy:  "To  be  perfectly  frank, 
I  never  feel  nervous  when  broadcasting 
because  I  realize  that  those  who  tune  in 
to  hear  me  are  friendly  and  I  know  that 
at  most  I  am  only  talking  to  one  little 
room  and  not  to  a  great  crowd  of  people. 
By  this  I  mean  that  you  may  go  into  mil- 
lions of  homes,  but,  after  all,  you're  just 
talking  to  one  room  and  the  few  people 
assembled  there." 

Don  Amcche:  "I  feel  nervous  at  no 
definite  point.  Insufficient  familiarity  with 
the  script  might  bring  me  general  uneasi- 
ness. Unfamiliarity  with  the  script  of  an- 
other character  will  also  cause  this  un- 
easiness." 

Thornton  Fisher:  "Always  at  the  begin- 
ning. This  needs  some  explaining.  Hav- 
ing directed  many  of  my  own  shows  in 
which  I  play  a  part  after  having  written 
them,  I  would  say  that  my  personal  reac- 
tion is  this:  you  come  into  a  cold  studio 
there  you  find,  perhaps,  actors  with 
whom  you  are  unacquainted.  The  lines 
are  read,  sound  effects  tried  ...  no  dice! 
You're  coming  on  the  air  .  your  voice 
sounds  hollow  you  grab  hold  of  your" 

self  .  .  the  show's  got  to  go  on  .  . 
your  sponsors  are  listening  well,  it's 

like  diving  into  the  water  to  get  your  belly 
warm.  You  do.  After  that  you're  all 
right.    I'm  nervous  before  the  show." 

Harry  von  Zell:  "Nearly  always  before 
and  after." 

Bernice  Claire:  "//  at  all,  usually  at 
the  beginning." 

Curtis  Arnall:  "  'Mike'  fright  always  I 
fore  the  broadcast." 


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The  culture  of  rice  is  mentioned  in  lit- 
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Kahn  loved  to  concoct  rare  dishes  in  his 
spare  time.  His  favorite  was  Mongolian 
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also  inspired  the  Indian  Curry  that  Ripley 
praises  so  highly  today — eight  and  a  half 
centuries  later ! 

The  Arabs  believe  that  the  date  palm 
is  the  "Tree  of  Life."  Because  plenty  of 
water  and  heat  are  necessary  to  the  grow- 
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A  Mrs.  Tibbets  is  credited  with  giving 
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corn  and  450  acres  of  wheat. 

Charles  the  First  of  England  was  so 
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French  chef  that  he  pensioned  him.  But 
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was  to  be  kept  secret  and  the  ice  cream 
made  only  for  the  king. 

Oysters  have  been  under  cultivation 
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bed or  lake  where  it  was  born — traveling 
hundreds  of  miles  to  get  there  yet  always 
gauging  the  time  and  distance  just  right, 
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UE  wasn't  himself.  Had  too  many  restless 
-■■  nights,  too  many  tired  days.  Seemed  to 
lose  his  ambition.  But  his  clever  wife  was  too 
smart  to  let  this  go  on.  She  insisted  that  he 
try  Nature's  Remedy  (NR  Tablets)  and  he 
found  out  what  a  surprising  difference  it  made 
to  use  a  laxative  of  entirely  vegetable  origin. 
He  didn't  mind  taking  NRs  at  all,  they  were 
so  gentle,  and  non-habit  forming.  They  simply 
made  him  feel  like 
a  new  man.  Get  a 
2.5c  box  at  any 
drugstore  today. 

FREEi 


IF  ONLY  THEY  HADN'T 
LAUGHED! 


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npleB  of  NR  and  Turns.  Send  i 


Phil  laughed.  "If  you  write  that,"  he 
joked,  "I  hope  my  sponsor  loses  his 
glasses  !" 

Then  the  jester  became  again  the 
thoughtful  man  with  frustrated  hope. 

"Well,  anyway,"  he  resumed,  "I  told 
Mr.  Aarons  how  I'd  always  wanted  more 
than  anything  else  to  be  a  musician.  We 
talked  and  talked — and  three  or  four  days 
later  he  called  me  up.  He'd  arranged  a 
special  course  of  study  fitted  to  my  pecu- 
liar needs  !    What  do  you  know  about  that? 

"But  I  only  took  five  of  the  lessons,"  Phil 
said  ruefully.  "How  could  I  sit  there  and 
cuncentrate  on  what  he  was  trying  to  teach 
me?  All  the  time  my  mind  would  be 
back  at  the  office,  worrying  about  the  gags 
for  next  week's  radio  programs !  I  finally 
had  to  tell  Mr.  Aarons  it  wasn't  any  use. 
I  was  just  wasting  his  time  and  patience. 

"But  listen  to  me,"  Phil  spoke  almost 
fiercely.  "Some  day — within  the  next 
three  years,  before  I'm  forty — I'm  going 
to  let  the  radio  and  vaudeville  and  the  stage 
and  everything  else  run  for  Sweeney !  I'm 
going  to  pack  up  and  with  my  wife  and 
kids  I'll  go  off  to  Europe — and  we  won't 
know  when  we're  coming  back,  either.  I'll 
stay  there  till  I've  learned  how  to  read 
music  and  learned  something  of  its  com- 
position.   I'll  be  a  musician ! 

"I  know  what  you're  thinking.  I  know  !" 
he  stormed.  "You're  thinking:  'He's  go- 
ing to  do  this,  and  he's  going  to  do  that, 
but  he  never  will.'  Well,  I  will — this  time! 
Of  course,  when  I  first  went  on  the  stage, 
niy  idea  was  just  to  stick  at  it  until  I 
had  enough  money  to  study  music.  But 
then,  that  was  different.  I've  learned  my 
lesson.  Money's  wonderful  and  I'd  hate 
to  be  without  it — but  it  hasn't  anything  to 
do  with  success.  And  anybody  can  get 
more  of  a  kick  out  of  success  than  he  can 
out  of  money. 

"Maybe  I'm  nuts."  he  mused.  "Maybe 
I'll  never  accomplish  the  things  I  want — 
but,"  he  added  grimly,  "I'll  keep  trying 
until  they  have  a  funeral  at  our  house  and 
I  star  in  it." 

"But  one  of  those  boys  asked  you  if 
you  didn't  love  your  w'ork  and  you  told 
him  you  did,"  I  reminded  him.  "Well — 
do  you  or  don't  you?" 

"I  do.  Too  much,"  he  flashed  back. 
"That's  why  I'm  so  dissatisfied  with  it. 
If  it  were  just  a  matter  of  dollars  and 
cents,  I'd  be  sitting  on  top  of  the  world. 
The  people  I  work  with  are  nice.  I've  had 
wonderful  luck  with  sponsors.  Harry 
McNaughton — Hot  lie — is  one  of  my  dear- 
est friends.  But— 

"All  week  we  grub  around  for  gags.  We 
tear  our  hair  hunting  new  f)ncs.  Then  I 
get  up  there  and  do  a  program.  And 
what  have  I  done?  What  ha\e  I  put  into 
that  microphone  that  pcojilc — " 

"Why,  you've  made  them  laugh,"  I  in- 
tcrruptt'd.  "That's  a  lot,  if  you  can  make 
people  laugh." 

"(31),  yes.  Maybe,"  Phi!  agreed  wear- 
ily. "But  then  maybe  the  night  I'm  on 
the  air  they  liajipen  to  l)e  over  at  Cousin 
Emma's  plaving  l)ri(lgc.    They  don't  hear 


the  gags  we've  worked  and  slaved  over 
for  a  week.  But  the  next  night  they  hear 
Joe  Doakes.  He's  stolen  our  gags.  Or  may- 
be it  will  just  happen  that  a  couple  of 
the  gags  we  use  have  been  used  by  some 
other  comedian  the  night  before.  So  they 
say  'Gee,  that  guy's  terrible !'  and  tune 
me  out. 

"You  know,  when  I  first  went  on  the 
air,  radio  comedy  was  a  novelty.  It  was 
new  and  untried.  We  had  to  find  a  for- 
mula— and  we  did.  The  customers  liked  it, 
or  at  least  they  didn't  complain — much. 
So  what  happened?  So  every  comedian 
who  came  to  the  air  was  tailored  more  or 
less  to  the  pattern.  You  know  how  it  goes. 
Everyone  does  now.  It  was  something 
that  had  been  tried  out  and  was  sure.  But 
the  radio  audience  is  becoming  more  criti- 
cal. Sponsors  are,  too.  I  think  the  old 
comedy  cycle  is  about  finished.  Run  its 
course.  I  think  big  changes  are  coming. 
Believe  me,  I'm  going  to  be  right  on  the 
job,  and  catch  'em  before  they  catch  me — 
and  bounce  me  out ! 

"When  I  come  back  to  tlie  air  this  fall, 
my  program  will  be  different." 

Phil  bound  me  not  to  reveal  his  ideas 
for  his  new  program,  but  this  much  I  can 
tell  you.  He  plans  the  creation  of  a  char- 
acter through  whom  comedy,  drama,  and 
even  the  music  on  the  program  will  be 
given  a  cohesive  unity. 

"Some  day  I  want  to  do  a  five-day-a- 
week  program  on  the  air  with  Bottle,"  he 
confided.  "Instead  of  just  dragging  a  lot 
of  gags  into  the  program  by  the  scruff 
of  the  neck,  I  want  to  do  a  sort  of  comic 
strip — something  like  Mutt  and  Jeff  or 
Jiggs  and  Maggie — adapted  to  radio.  After 
I've  done  that,  I'll  be  willing  to  quit— and 
take  that  trip  to  Europe  I  was  telling  you 
about." 

It  seemed  so  unorthodox  to  hear  a  cele- 
brated radio  comedian  who  would  not 
state,  enthusiastically  and  without  quali- 
fication, that  he  loved  his  work  and  would 
rather  be  doing  it  than  anything  else  in 
the  wide  world.  I  knew  how  those  boys 
had  felt  when  Phil  didn't  give  them  the 
right  answer.    Maybe  if  I  persisted.  .  .  . 

"But  outside  of  being  a  musician,  then, 
you'd  rather  be  a  radio  comedian  than 
anything  else?" 

"No!"  his  reply  came  explosively.  "I 
want  to  be  an  actor.  Now  don't  get  me 
wrong.  I  am  not  one  of  those  comedians 
who  want  to  play  Hamlet.  I  just  want  to 
be  an  actor,  that's  all." 

Then  lie  told  me  t)f  another  instance  of 
thwarted  aiiibitioii.  gave  me  one  more  rea- 
son for  that  sudden  outburst  when  he  had 
denied  tliat  he  knew  success. 

"Why  just  last  week.  I  tried  to  land 
a  role  in  a  musical  comedy  that  was  go- 
ing into  production  this  fall.  Maybe  I'm 
nuts,  but  I'm  just  as  keen  to  do  a  play  as 
any  youngster  just  out  of  dramatic  school. 
This  part  I  wanted  was  one  I  knew  I 
could  do.  too.  It  was  the  sort  of  thing 
r<l  been  sueee--sful  in  before  I  came  to 
radio— like  .1  Xighl  in  Sl>ain.  like  the  part 
I  Iiad  in  the  I'ollics,  like  Pleasure  Bound. 


RADIO  STARS 


ogram,  will  have  her  own  program. 


,t  sophisticated  comedy.  But  I  didn't 
the  part.  Know  why? 
Because  I'm  a  radio  comedian!" 
nee  more  there  was  hurt  and  bitter- 
j  in  his  brown  eyes.  Too  bad  those 
)  laughed  slyly  up  their  sleeves  when  a 
;  of    Phil's  hard-won  earnings  went 

season  to  finance  the  play,  Geraniums 
My  IVindozL',  couldn't  have  heard  that! 
;y'd  have  understood.  They'd  have 
wn  this  ordinarily  shrewd,  cautious  fel- 

hadn't  taken  a  "flyer"  merely  in  the 
e  of  fattening  his  already  ample  bank- 
They'd  have  realized  that  he  was 
ing  expression  to  an  urge,  a  frustrated 
lulse,  a  desire  to  create. 
I  guess  if  you  come  right  down  to 
as,"  Phil  reflected  finally,  "about  the 
:  thing  I'd  ever  have  picked,  if  I'd  had 

choice,  would  have  been  to  become  a 
ledian. 

You  know  I  told  you  I  could  play  nearly 
thing  by  ear,  and  on  nearly  any  instru- 
ct.   Well,  a  booking  agent  told  me  an 

he  knew  of  could  use  an  accordion 
yer.    So  I  practised  on  the  accordion 

a  couple  of  days  and  got  the  job.  I 
t  wanted  a  job  then.  But  playing  that 
ordion  made  me  want  to  learn  some- 
ig  about  music.  I  wanted  to  learn  to 
d  it,  to  learn  all  about  harmony  and 
nposition.  So  I  made  up  my  mind  I'd 
t  stick  along  with  the  act  until  I  had 
mgh  money  to  quit  long  enough  to 
dy. 

'It  was  a  swell  idea,  but  like  a  lot  of 
ell  ideas,  it  didn't  work.  One  day,  by 
:ident,  I  told  a  gag.  It  wasn't  a  good 
I,  either.  Talk  about  whiskers!  It 
s  so  old  it  was  on  crutches.  But  the 
itomers  laughed.    If  they  hadn't— may- 

I'd  have  been  a  musician  today!  But 
;y  did— so  I'm  not  a  success 
'See  what  I  mean?" 
It  started  out  to  be  a  social  call,  pure 
d  simple.    But  here  was  a  fellow  with 
palatial  home  in  Mamaroneck,  another 

Florida,  a  bank  balance  as  big  as  all 
1-out,  and  growing  every  week.  A  fat 
lio  contract  and  sponsors  waiting  to 
er  him  another  when  that  runs  out.  All 
It  he  has — yet  he  isn't  a  success.  Why 
2t  was  a  story  ! 


RADIO   STARS  f 

JUNGLE  BEASTS  AT  YOUR  FIRESIli  1 

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When  you  hear  the  musical 
note  .  .  .  IT'S  TIME  FOR 


•  Glowing  with  vitality,  smooth  and  love- 
ly, that's  the  way  your  skin  looks  when 
you  use  Chamberlain's — the  lotion  that 
satinices.  Ideal  for  hands,  arms  and  skin, 
Chamberlain's  smooths  away  roughness, 
irritation,  chapping;  reveals  unsuspected 
beauty.  Not  sticky,  greasy  or  gummy ;  it 
dries  quickly.  At  ail  toilet  goods  counters. 


Chamkrlain^s  Lotion 


Bonbong  station.  Furthermore,  it  was  a 
twelve-day  trip  from  the  jungle  camp 
where  I  was  to  reach  Bonbong.  It  meant 
crossing'  rivers,  channels  and  even  a  stretch 
of  the  South  Sea.  Then  I  learned  that 
weather  conditions  would  have  to  be  just 
right,  if  the  broadcast  were  to  go  on 
through.  All  this  discouraged  me,  for  it 
meant  losing  about  a  month's  work  on 
the  picture,  so  I  gave  up  the  idea." 

Wl-.at  manner  of  man  is  this  fellow 
Buck,  who  deliberately  eschews  the  com- 
forts ot  civilization  and  treks  off  to  un- 
known spots  on  the  earth's  surface,  pur- 
.suing  wild  animals  with  lariat  and 
camera  ? 

To  begin  with,  Buck  always  has  had  a 
yen  for  animals.  He  was  born  at  Gaines- 
ville, Texas,  on  St.  Patrick's  Day  in 
1884,  which  may  explain  his  success  with 
snakes.  When  the  family  moved  to  Dallas, 
his  mother  discovered  little  Frankie  in  the 
backyard  trying  to  remove  the  fangs  from 
a  deadly  copperhead  with  a  pair  of  pliers. 
That  convinced  Mrs.  Buck  that  the  wide 
open  spaces  held  too  many  allures  for  her 
son.  The  family  moved  to  Chicago,  which 
was  much  safer  in  those  days,  it  being 
before  the  period  of  gangsters  and  machine 
guns. 

Mrs.  Buck  attempted  to  swing  the  nat- 
ural history  bent  of  her  son  to  birds, 
figuring  that  they  were  less  deadly  than 
the  reptilian  studies  Frank  had  been  con- 
ducting so  informally  in  Dallas.  She  pur- 
chased him  several  books  on  bird-life  and 
young  Buck  was  a  confirmed  ornithologist 
long  before  he  became  an  explorer. 

Life  as  a  bank  clerk  in  Chicago  was 
too  tame  for  Frank  and  he  embarked  on 
his  first  jungle  trip  in  1911,  penetrating 
the  wilds  of  Brazil.  He  brought  back 
with  him  many  rare  specimens  of  birds, 
sold  them  for  surprising  sums  and  decided 
that  he  had  found  his  niche  in  life. 

Buck  has  been  going  into  the  jungles 
ever  since.  And,  in  twenty-five  years,  he 
has  gone  through  the  wilds  of  Africa 
and  Asia,  as  well  as  South  America,  but 
in  recent  years  has  shown  a  disposition 
to  confine  his  adventures  to  the  Malayan 
jungles. 

His  No.  1  Boy,  Ali,  with  whom  you're 
familiar  if  you're  familiar  with  any  of 
Buck's  adventures,  has  been  with  Buck 
since  his  second  year  in  the  wilds.  The 
No.  1  "Boy"  is  now  thirty-eight  and  at 
present  is  in  New  York  with  his  master. 
That  Ah  has  served  Buck  so  long  and  so 
faithfully  is  as  much  a  tribute  to  the  ex- 
plorer's fairness  as  to  the  native's  loyalty. 

Buck's  jungle  trips  have  cleared  up 
many  legends  about  animal  life.  He  in- 
sists that  no  wild  animal  will  attack  a 
man,  unless  it  is  hungry  or  provoked.  All 
save  tlic  King  cobra,  a  savage  reptile, 
wliicli  rates  just  alx)ut  with  salesmen  in 
Buck's  rankings. 

Frank  never  graduated  from  grade 
school,  but  later  hired  a  tutor  to  round 
out  the  missing  links  in  his  education. 
His  jungle  books,  pictures  and  radio  pro- 
grams have  been  shrewdly  devised.  Buck 
stays  in  the  background,  never  intruding 


himself  upon  his  audience,  narratmu  ,| 
stories  with  others  as  the  heroes.  yd 
■  He  is  rather  proud  of  the  fact  thatH 
Sultan  of  Johore,  a  sixty-year-old  pa^B 
tate  who  has  promised  to  visit  Bucl^| 
New  York,  has  a  pet  name  for  hi^| 
Mr.  American  Bluff.  "And  he  means  H 
that,  too,"  says  Frank.  H 

Buck  has  done  as  well  with  his 
lines  as  he  has  with  his  vocation, 
is  the  capture  and  sale  of  live  aninH 
He  has  made  three  pictures.    Bring  I  B 
Back    Alive,    which    grossed   $l,56o.(  -, 
Wild    Cargo,   which   grossed   $1,250,'  1. 
and  Fang  and  Claiu,  which  has  touched 
million  mark  and  is  still  showing. 

And  none  of  these  cost  more  than  $  . 
000  to  make,  as  Buck  is  careful  to  p 
out,  whereas  the  production  costs  of 
average  Hollywood  picture  run  anywl 
from  $400,000  to  $1,000,000.  After  . 
the  actors  in  Buck's  pictures,  the  monk 
lions,  pythons  and  hippopotami,  work 
nothing,  and  no  Hollywood  genius  has 
been  able  to  induce  the  Harlows,  Ga 
or  Loys  to  emote  at  those  rates. 

Buck's  first  writing  was  for  the  Sa 
day  Evening  Post  in  1929.  Since  ther 
has  collaborated  on  books,  magazine 
newspaper  articles  with  regularity.  I 
haps  the  biggest  break  he  ever  recei 
was  the  title.  Bring  'Em  Back  Alive,  wl 
appeared   over   his   first  book. 

That  title,  which  was  arrived  at  ii 
round-table  conference  with  his  publish 
Simon  and  Schuster,  and  Ed  Anthi 
his  collaborator,  has  served  as  his  tr: 
mark  ever  since.  It  identifies  him  as  ri 
ily  as  Bclieve-It-Or-Not  identifies  Rip 

In  the  second  year  of  A  Century 
Progress  at  Chicago,  Buck  met  T. 
Loveland,  a  Minneapolis  promoter,  ' 
sold  him  the  idea  of  establishing  an  . 
mal  display  there.  The  Zoo  was  sue 
tremendous  money-maker  that  the  t 
partners  by  now,  decided  to  move  it 
Massapequa,  Long  Island,  where  it 
been  a  continued  success.  It  attracts  f; 
seven  to  ten  thousand  visitors  on  a  S 
day  and  averages  about  20,000  each  W' 

The  Massapequa  animal  compound 
served  as  a  base  for  Buck.  He  rece; 
sold  $20,000  worth  of  animals  from  tl 
to  the  famous  Forest  Park  Zoo  in 
Louis.  Private  sales  are  frequently  m: 
for,  with  the  lifting  of  the  depress 
millionaires  again  are  stocking  their  ] 
sonal  zoos. 

Despite  his  frustrations  of  a  few  y< 
ago.  Buck  has  not  given  up  the  idea 
jungle  broadcasts.  "It  will  be  only  a  qi 
tion  of  time  when  radio  engineers  ^ 
mount  the  atmospheric  obstacles," 
clared  Buck.  "And  when  they  do, 
like  to  make  a  commercial  program 
jungle  broadcasts,  say  three  a  week,  r 
from  our  camp. 

"Can't  you  see  what  an  attractior 
would  l)e?  Reporting  the  progress  oi 
pursuits  of  jaguars  and  other  anim 
telling  of  the  traps  we've  set  and  rela 
what  success  or  failure  we've  had.  i 
coming  right  from  the  heart  of 
jungle !" 


When  your  favorite  evening 
program  ends  and  it  comes  time 
to  retire  —  make  your  bedtime 
meal  a  bowl  of  crisp  Kellogg's 
Corn  Flakes  in  milk  or  cream. 
They're  satisfying  and  delicious. 
Sleep  comes  quickly  because  they 
digest  easily.  Kellogg's  are  sold 
by  all  grocers. 


You* II  enjoy  these  programs: 

"GIRL  ALONE."  The  story  of  one  girl's 
quest  for  true  romance.  Every  day  except 
Saturday  and  Sunday  12:00  to  12:15 
Eastern  Standard  Time  over  stations 
WMAQ,  Chicago;  WLW.  Cincinnati; 
WTAM,  Cleveland;  WCAE,  Pittsburgh; 
WBEN,  Buffalo;  WEAF,  New  York; 
KYW,  Philadelphia;  WWJ,  Detroit. 

KELLOGG'S  SINGING  LADY:  Every  day 
except  Saturday  and  Sunday — 5:30  to 
5:45  over  the  N.  B.  C.  Basic  Blue  Network. 

Nothing  takes  the  place  of 


CORN  FLAKES 


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-rank  "Bring  'Em  Back  Alive"  Buck 


is  not  unfamiliar  with  radio 
i-ts  by  any  means.  He  first  ap- 
iiL  i  before  a  microphone  on  Dec.  2nd, 
31,  when  he  was  interviewed  by  Grant- 
id  Rice,  on  the  Coca  Cola  hour.  In  the 
11  of  1932,  he  did  a  thirteen-week  pro- 
am  for  the  A.  C.  Gilbert  Company,  man- 
acturers  of  toys. 

In  1934,  when  Amos  '>'.'  Andy,  after  five 
ccessful  years  on  the  Pcpsodcnt  pro- 
am,  decided  to  treat  themselves  to  a 
;ll-merited  vacation,  Buck  replaced  tiiem. 
e  originally  intended  to  be  on  for  eight 
;eks,  but  his  program  was  so  successful 
at  it  was  extended  to  twenty-three 
;eks.  And  Frank  left  the  air  then  only 
cause  he  had  a  contract  with  RKO  to 
oduce  a  picture. 

In  all  probability.  Buck  will  go  on  a 
mmercially-sponsored  program  this  fall, 
e  already  has  mapped  out  his  plans, 
;uring  a  program  which  will  appeal  both 
adults  and  children,  but  particularly  to 
e  latter.  Frank  wants  to  do  his  own 
mmercial  announcements,  which  would 
ighten  the  authenticity. 
He  plans  an  almost -serial  broadcast, 
irting  with  the  assembling  of  an  e.\- 
dition  at  Singapore,  in  the  Straits  Set- 
ments.  and  then  following  its  progress. 
:p  by  step,  with  the  establishment  of  its 
ngle  base  and  its  adventures. 
As  recently  as  July,  Buck  was  a  guest 

the  program  of  Frank  Fay  and  was 
e  recipient  of  several  radi.>  offers  im- 
ediately  after  the  broadcast.  It  was  these 
tiich  led  him  to  map  out  a  tentative  pro- 
am,  so  as  to  be  prepared.  W  hen  a  fel- 
w  has  been  pursuing  wild  beasts  for  a 
larter  of  a  century,  as  Buck  has,  spon- 
rs  hold  no  terrors  for  him,  but  he  knows 
11  well  the  value  of  preparedness. 
That  there  is  a  touch  of  the  artist  in 
Jck  is  evidenced  by  liis  preference  for  a 
?ekly  program,  rather  than  a  daily. 
Vhatever  the  sponsors  decide,  of  course, 
ill  be  O.K.  with  me,"  explained  Frank. 

feel,  however,  that  going  on  once  a 
sek  for  a  half-hour  would  be  better  than 
daily  program  of  fifteen-minutes.  More 
Tie  could  be  spent  in  the  preparation  of 
ch  script  and  a  better  performance 
'uld  be  given." 

The  only  thing  which  may  prevent  Buck 
om  going  on  the  air  this  fall  is  the 
'ssibility  that  the  urge  to  dash  into  the 
alayan  jungles  may  overpower  him. 
fter  all,  he's  safe  from  salesmen  there 
id  he's  willing  to  take  his  chances  with 
hatever  wild  beasts  he  runs  across. 


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LOOK  OUT  FOR 
THE  ''COMMON 

COLD'! 

The  '^Common  Cold"  is  the  Common 
Forerunner  of  Pneumonia  and 
Other  Serious  Diseases! 


The  Sensible  Thing 
in  Treatment 

How  often  have  you  seen  it — a  cold  today 
and  something  worse  tomorrow. 

Almost  every  case  of  bronchitis,  bronchial 
pneumonia  and  influenza  has  its  start  in  the 
"common  cold." 

According  to  recently  published  figures, 
there  is  a  death  every  four 
minutes  from  pneumonia 
traceable  to  the  "common 
cold." 

A  menace  to  life  and 
health,  the  "common  cold" 
is  also  a  severe  tax  on  the 
public  pocketbook.  Statis- 
tics prove  that  the  average 
person  loses  ten  days'  work 
a  year  on  account  of  colds. 

Something  to  Watch 

If  there's  anything  you 
want  to  watch,  it's  the"com- 
mon  cold."  Health  author- 
ities on  every  side  urge  it. 

Don't  take  any  cold  light- 
ly. Don't  try  to  laugh  it  off. 
The  cold  that  may  be  only 
a  sneeze  or  a  snifHe  today 
may  be  a  bed  case  tomor- 
row. Regard  a  cold  seri- 
ously. Treat  it  for  what  it  is 
—  an  internal  infection. 

As  an  internal  infection,  it  is  patent  that  a 
cold  requires  internal  treatment.  Mere  surface 
measures — mere  local  treatments — may  tem- 
porarily alleviate  the  symptoms,  but  to  get 
at  the  real  trouble,  you  must  get  at  a  cold 
from  within. 

An  excellent  thing  to  take  for  a  cold  is 
Grove's  Laxative  Bromo  Quinine. 

Fourfold  Effect 

First  of  all.  Grove's  Laxative  Bromo 
Quinine  is  expressly  a  cold  tablet  and  not  a 


preparation  good  for  a  number  of  other 
things  as  well.  It  has  only  one  purpose,  the 
treatment  of  colds. 

Secondly,  it  is  internal  in  effea  and  does 
four  definite  things  of  vital  importance  in 
the  relief  of  a  cold: 

(1)  It  opens  the  bowels,  an  admittedly  ad- 
visable step  in  the  treatment  of  a  cold. 

(2)  It  checks  the  fever  in  the  system. 

(3)  It  relieves  the  head- 
ache and  fever. 

(4)  It  tones  the  system  and 
helps  fortify  against  further 
attack. 

A  fourfold  treatment,  in 
other  words.  Grove's  Laxa- 
tive Bromo  Quinine  accom- 
plishes definite  and  speedy 
results. 

Grove's  Laxative  Bromo 
Quinine  imposes  no  penalty 
for  its  use.  It  contains  noth- 
ing harmful  and  is  perfectly 
safe  to  take. 

Grove's  Bromo  Quinine 
tablets  now  come  sugar- 
coated  as  well  as  plain.  The 
sugar-coated  are  exactly  the 
same  as  the  regular,  except 
that  the  tablets  are  coated 
with  sugar  for  palatability. 

Don't  Procrastinate 

When  you  feel  a  cold  com- 
ing on,  do  something  about  it  right  away. 
Don't  dally,  don't  compromise.  Go  right  to 
your  druggist  and  get  a  package  of  Grove's 
Laxative  Bromo  Quinine. 

Start  taking  the  tablets  immediately,  two 
at  a  time.  Usually,  if  taken  promptly,  Grove's 
Bromo  Quinine  will  check  a  cold  in  24  hours 
—  and  that's  the  action  you  want  for  safety! 

All  drug  stores  sell  Grove's  Laxative 
Bromo  Quinine.  When  you  ask  for  it,  insist 
upon  getting  what  you  ask  for.  The  few 
pennies'  cost  may  save  you  a  lot  of  anxiety. 


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LOVE  FOUND  A  WAY 

(Continued  from  page  50) 


nght  1 
"Xo 
drastic 
was  sc 
ceed ! 


?re,    I  am  not  afraid.' 
many  wives  who   would  meet  a 
clianije  as   calnil_\-   as   that.  She 
sure  that  her  husband  would  suc- 


"After  six  months  of  loneliness  here,  I 
wired  Alickey  to  come  on  with  baby  Ken- 
neth, who  then  was  only  a  year  old.  She 
had  to  borrow  money  ior  the  train  fare. 
^^  lien  she  arrived  in  New  York,  I  met 
her.  But  I  had  to  be  back  at  the  studio 
in  a  half  hour.  A  page  boy,  who  had 
i)ccn  one  of  the  few  New  Yorkers  to  be- 
friend me,  had  his  car  and  he  took  Mickey, 
her  sister  Beulah,  who  was  then  fifteen, 
and  the  baby  out  to  the  apartment  in 
Jackson  Heights.  She  was  bewildered  by 
the  new  city,  the  strange  person  taking 
her  to  that  new  home,  but  she  was  swell 
:ib()ut  it !  It  had  been  tough  bringing  a 
year-old  baby  on  that  long  train  ride, 
too."  Harry  laiighed  a  little  wryly,  re- 
membering how  he  had  to  greet  his  young 
wife  after  a  six-months'  separation  of 
three  thousand  miles !  "I  had  only  selected 
the  apartment  that  afternoon.  But  it  was 
a  home !  I  had  been  living  in  a  tiny 
room — the  cheapest  I  could  find  in  the 
city." 

The  gradual  changes  in  the  Von  Zell 
households  are  a  graphic  description  of 
the  slow  but  steady  climb  of  the  an- 
nouncer's success.  After  a  year  in  the 
cramped  quarters  of  four  rooms,  a  six- 
room  apartment  in  Jackson  Heights  was 
theirs  for  a  year.  Then  came  an  eight- 
room  duplex  in  Flushing.  From  there 
they  moved  into  a  nine-room  house  in 
Bayside. 

"Kenneth  was  growing  up  and  we 
wanted  him  to  go  to  a  nice  school.  We 
had  a  yard  in  which  baby  Jeanne  could 
play,  too."  He  spoke  eagerly  of  these 
changes,  made  for  the  best  interests  of 
his  children,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  they 
required  more  of  his  time,  commuting  to 
and  from  the  city.  And  he  had  so  little 
spare  time. 

"We  had  a  maid,  too,"  he  went  on.  "Be- 
cause Mickey  was  exhausted.  The  years 
of  little  sleep  and  hard  work  were  tell- 
ing. She  looked  ill.  Oh,  she  never  com- 
plained," he  added  quickly.  "It  was  I 
wIk)  insistcfl  that  she  have  help.  It  meant 
that  she  could  sleep  in  the  mornings." 

Then  caine  the  beautiful  Norman  Tudor 
house  in  which  they  now  live. 

"This  house  has  a  projection  room — 
something  of  which  Mickey  and  I  have 
always  dreamed !"  Harry  Von  Zell 
radiates  happiness  when  he  tells  about 
this  new  home.  "We  have  a  game  room, 
a  bar,  and  we're  near  the  water.  What 
a  joy  that  is!  How  we  have  wanted 
that !" 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Von  Zell  are  beginning 
to  receive  the  dividends  on  their  hard  work 
and  sacrifices.  No  longer  is  it  necessary 
for  them  to  worry  over  each  penny  that 
is  spent.  No  longer  need  they  wonder 
how  they  are  going  to  meet  the  demands 
of  growing  children.  Harry  now  has 
time  to  sijciid  with  his  little  boy  and  girl. 

"I  iRver  really  knew  Kenneth  until 
lately,"  he  said  wistfully.    "And  the  only 


thing  he  knew  about  me  was  that  I 
his  father,  a  father  whom  he  saw  a  fevi 
minutes  once. in  awhile.  And  I  have  titml 
to  play  with  little  Jeanne.  I  can  watdj 
her  grow  up — something  I  missed  will 
Kenneth. 

"I  feel  as  though  I  am  on  a  vacation,' 
smiles  the  genial  announcer,  the  man  wh^ 
has  been  singer,  actor,  ukulele  player,  com 
mentator,  and  lately  comedian,  over  tb 
airwaves.     "For   the   first   time   in  ou 
eleven  years  of  married  life,  I  have  tim. ! 
to  spend   with   Mickey.     With  Kenneth) 
who  is   seven  and  Jeanne,  who  is  five  | 
The  children  are  really  getting  to  knov 
me  for  the  first  time. 

"Even  though  I  have  been  on  this 
schedule  of  only  two  weekly  program 
for  a  year,"  continues  the  sandy-hairec 
announcer,  "Kenneth  said  to  me  the  othe 
night :  'Daddy,  are  you  going  to  be  horn 
after  dinner  tonight  again?  Don't  yoi 
ever  have  to  work?'  He  is  continual!;' 
surprised  that  I  have  time  to  spend  witli 
him,  to  be  a  normal  father." 

You  and  I  might  not  consider  his  week 
ly  schedule  of  work  a  vacation,  but  Harr; 
Von  Zell  smiles  with  pleasure  when  h 
considers  his  business  week. 

"On  Mondays,  I  get  to  the  office 
9  :30  in  the  morning.  I  work  all  day  oi 
the  scripts  of  the  Touni  Hall  prograir: 
with  Pat  Weaver  of  the  advertisinj 
agency."  Harry  acts  as  director  of  thi 
show  and  supervises  all  script  changes 
"I  reach  home  at  about  five  in  the  afterl 
noon,"  he  continues.  "That  gives 
time  for  a  swim  or  a  bit  of  golf  befor 
dinner.  Tuesday  is  spent  in  a  somewha 
similar  manner  except  that  all  last  minut 
changes  on  the  script  are  made  on  tha: 
day  and  I  leave  the  office  at  about  eight  ii 
the  evening.  Then  I  rush  home  and  hav 
the  whole  evening  there." 

To  the  man  who,  up  to  a  year  age. 
never  saw  his  home  before  midnight,  Sum 
days  included,  a  whole  evening  at  horn 
is  a  real  treat.  Wednesday  finds  An 
nouncer  Von  Zell  in  his  office  by  nine  i; 
the  morning,  settling  last  minute  detail 
of  the  'Am'/i  Hall  script.  All  afternooi 
is  spent  in  final  rehearsal  of  the  show 
which  goes  on  the  air  that  night.  It  i 
two-thirty  Thursday  morning  before  h 
reaches  home  because  of  the  rebroadcas 
of  the  show  at  midnight.  And  he  call 
this  business  a  vacation ! 

"Yes,"  he  insists,  "because  Thursday 
am  at  home  all  day.  You  can't  imagin 
wliat  that  means  to  me,  after  ten  year 
of  grinding  for  as  many  as  sixteen  o 
eighteen  hours  every  day  of  every  monti 
of  year  after  year  I  As  a  matter  of  fad 
I  think  I  hold  the  record  for  any 
iieunccr   for  continuous  long  hours. 

"When  I  was  at  top  speed,  a  few  year 
ago,  I  once  worked  for  four  days 
three  nights  without  stopping.  I  neve 
even  had  my  clothes  off  during  that  entir 
time.  I  had  two  shows  going  at  the  sain| 
time,  with  rehearsals  almost  conflicting, 
was  making  shorts  for  Warners  ai 
Patiie  at  the  same  time.  I  raced  fror 
one  place  to  another,  with  hardly  a  sec 
ond   to  spare.     Believe  ine,  after  wor' 


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kc  tiiat,  I  appreciate  the  kind  of  life  I 
111  kading  now." 
Harry  Von  Zell  sincerely  considers  him- 
cli  one  of  the  luckiest  men  in  the  world. 
K  spends  Fridays  at  the  office  until  five 
1  the  evening.  Saturdays  are  spent  some- 
ni  ^  at  home,  sometimes  at  the  office, 
.mking  on  the  Phil  Baker  show  script, 
niiulay  is  no  day  of  rest  for  him.  He 
^  working  at  the  studio  all  afternoon 
ml  most  of  the  evening,  on  the  Baker 
how. 

Milt  compared  with  the  years  that  have 
hefore,  this  seems  like  play  to  Harry 
/cU.    When  he  was  on  the  Columbin 
'casting  System  announcing  staff,  he 
■  welve  weekly  commercial  programs, 
is  this,  he  was  on  call  for  all  routine 
Hieing,  station  identifications — all  the 
nitme  duties  required  from  regular  staff 
:nrj  iiincers. 
Hut  life  is  sweeter  now. 
"And    Mickey   looks   and   feels  better 
bail  she  has  in  years,"  remarks  this  man 
vho  gives  full  credit  to  his  wife.  "AW 
he  time  I  was  having  such  hectic  hours. 
;he  adjusted  her  life  to  suit  mine.  In 
.hi^  way  we  could  be  together   for  the 
tew  hours  that  I  wasn't  working.  But 
it  meant  double  duty  for  her.   When  the 
-:>ters  awakened  in  the  morning,  lier 
-tarted.    And  her  day  ended  at  two 
ree  the  following  morning  when  I 
.  a  i  e  home.  We  had  no  maid  at  that  time. 
It  certainly  is  a  treat  to  see  her  feeling 
so  much  better  now.    For  the  first  time 
in  our  married  life,  she  is  rested." 

Tlie  Von  Zell  household  now  boasts  of 
two  servants,  a  maid  and  a  nurse  for  the 
chil'l.-en.  Harry  doesn't  say  "nurse."  He 
explains :  "We  have  a  girl  to  look  after 
Kenneth  and  Jeanne."  But  it  has  beci 
a  long  slow  upw^ard  grind.  Their  elcM 
room  house  in  the  swanky  Great  Neei, 
Estates  of  Long  Island  is  a  far  cry  from 
the  four-room  apartment  in  Jackson 
Heights  to  which  Mickey  was  literally 
dumped  back  in  1930. 

"We  both  like  to  do  the  same  things. 
Outdoor  exercise  is  our  favorite  pastime. 
And  we  do  everything  together.  You  sec, 
Mickey  is  free  to  be  with  me,  now.  We 
go  horseback  riding,  we  play  golf,  we 
have  a  few  sets  of  temiis.  And  we  go 
swimming  with  the  youngsters." 

Truly  a  family  man!  And  one  of  those 
unusual  men  who  shies  from  all  praise, 
from  all  credit  for  the  place  in  radio 
which  is  his  today. 

"It  has  all  happened  because  Mickey  is 
such  a  good  sport,"  he  says.    "She  is  the 
one  who  has  made  it  possible." 
His  hobbies? 

"Anything  that  I  can  do  with  the  fam- 
ily," is  the  reply  of  Harry  Von  Zell,  the 
radio  announcer  who  at  last  has  time  for 

leisure. 


His  dreams  didn't  all  come  true — 
but  when  one  dream  died,  another 
took  its  place.  Now  Horace  Heidt, 
leader  of  The  Alemite  Brigadiers, 
thinks  of  another  ambition  he  hopes 
to  realize! 

Read  his  absorbing  story  in  the 
December  issue  of 

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A  ZONITE  PRODUCT 


SHE  WEARS  WHAT  SHE  LIKES 


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tailored  shoulders — a  little  padded  and 
squared — and  she  has  the  waistlines  slight- 
ly shortened  and  nipped  in. 

Gladys  willingly  posed  in  several  suits 
froin  her  personal  wardrobe  to  show  you 
how  they  look.  There's  a  new  suit  for 
daytime  wear  about  Holl)  wood — it's  made 
of  an  imported  English  woolen  in  Ox- 
ford gray  striped  in  pearl  gray.  The  skirt 
is  cleverly  designed  with  the  stripes  run- 
ning vertically,  except  for  a  gored  front 
in  which  the  stripes  are  worked  diago- 
nally to  form  a  panel.  This  gore  also  gives 
the  flared  effect  which  is  new  and  impor- 
tant in  daytime  skirts.  Her  jacket  is  a 
one-button  style  with  rounded  front  and 
a  nipped-in  waist  to  stress  the  narrow- 
waisted  silhouette.  A  brown  woolen  shirt, 
brown  suede  gloves  with  opening  on  the 
back  of  the  hand,  brown  suede  pumps 
and  bag  are  the  accessories  she  chooses 
to  complete  the  suit.  However,  her  rolled 
brim  hat  is  a  medium  gray  felt  trimmed 
with  a  darker  gray  band  and  a  swagger 
tilt  to  the  brim. 

Still  another  suit,  which  she  has  just 
bought,  is  made  in  a  smooth  beige-and- 
gray  blended  woolen.  Gladys  is  using  lots 
of  beige  and  gray — these  are  shades  to 
watch,  as  they  are  due  for  a  great  popu- 
larity next  spring.  This  suit  is  softly 
tailored,  with  a  single-button  closing  but 
a  straighter  cut  to  the  jacket  and  a  less 
close  fitting  line  than  the  other  suit  shows. 
With  this  suit,  she  wears  a  peaked-crown 
hat  of  gray  suede  and  carries  a  matching 
pouch  bag  with  drawstring  handle.  Her 
blouse  is  the  same  as  that  worn  with  the 
striped  suit  and  she  wears  the  same  brown 
pumps.  This  knack  of  combining  two  or 
more  tones  in  her  accessories  is  some- 
thing to  jot  down  in  your  own  fashion 
notes. 

When  the  weather  turns  cold,  Gladys 
doesn't  pack  her  suits  away  till  spring ; 
instead  she  wears  them  constantly  by  top- 
ping them  with  warm  coats  and  furs.  She 
often  has  both  skirts  and  slacks  made  to 
tp.atch  a  single  topcoat.  Incidentally,  she 
never  wore  pajamas,  shorts  or  slacks  un- 
til she  went  to  Hollywood,  because  she 
prefers  feminine  clothes.  However,  like 
so  many  stars  who  have  adopted  Holly- 
wood ways,  she  finds  that  slacks  really 
suit  the  climate  when  you  have  to  rise  at 
six  in  the  morning  to  go  to  work. 

The  furs  she  likes  best  to  wear  with 
her  suits  are  the  four-skin  scarf  she  car- 
ries with  the  striped  suit  on  page  14,  a 
three-quarter  length  fur  cape  of  opossum 
that  has  a  girlish  Peter  Pan  collar,  or  a 
muskrat  swagger  coat  in  which  the  skins 
have  been  worked  like  mink. 

Beige,  as  a  color  for  both  costumes  and 
hats,  is  brought  out  again  in  a  very  at- 
tractive two-piece  wool  dress.  The  top 
is  a  fitted  basque-like  jacket  of  homespun 
which  combines  beige,  green  and  brown 
in  the  weave.  A  rough  selvage  edge  is 
cleverly  used  as  the  sole  trimming.  Gor- 
ing, a  detail  she  adores  in  all  her  clothes, 
gives  the  circular  fullness  to  the  short 
beige  tweed  skirt.  The  rather  peasant- 
like  quality  of  this  costume  is  in  line  with 


her  particular  preference  for  this  style 
sports  clothes. 

And  the  very  new  looking  beige  fell 
iiat,  with  its  high  crown  tilted  backwards 
is  just  mad  enough  to  suit  her.  She  has 
worn  high  crowns  since  early  last  spring 
and  now  that  they  are  the  current  milli 
nery  rage,  she's  having  a  perfect  fling! 

You'll  notice  that  Gladys  has  several 
pairs  of  those  wrist  length  suede  gloves 
that  open  on  the  back  of  the  hand — they'rt 
beige  for  this  outfit  to  match  her  hat 
brown  for  another  and  gray  for  still  a 
third.  She  loves  amusing  gloves  and  find- 
ing a  pair  she  likes,  she  duplicates  them 
in  several  colors.  She  has  a  giddy  pair 
of  black  ones,  trimmed  with  ermine  tails. 
And  she  has  been  seen  wearing  bright- 
colored  cotton  gloves  to  the  opera  with 
an  ermine  wrap.  \'o,  they  didn't  look 
silly,  they  looked  grand ! 

In  fact,  Miss  S.  wears  what  she  per- 
sonally likes,  regardless  of  the  trend  of 
the  moment,  but  her  cleverness  shows  up 
in  this  because  she  never  looks  conspicu- 
ous nor  out  of  step.  She  says  that  she 
never  buys  a  dress  just  because  it  is  in 
the  current  style,  she  buys  things  that 
suit  her  individuality  and  figure.  Just  be- 
cause it  happens  that  princess  lines,  high 
waists  and  full  skirts  are  in  at  the  mo- 
ment has  nothing  to  do  with  Gladys'  pref- 
erence for  them — she  has  worn  this  sil- 
houette in  some  version  for  many  seasons 
because  she  finds  it  flatters  her  miniature 
waist. 

She  likes  misty  tulle  for  evening — in 
gray  or  white.  And  so,  Travis  Banton 
has  designed  the  romantic  dress  you  see 
Iiere  this  month  for  her  to  wear  in  Cham 
pagne  IValtc.  The  voluminous  skirt  tapers 
up  to  a  tightly-fitted,  low-cut  bodice 
Great  sleeves,  adroitly  made  in  sections, 
narrow  toward  the  wrist.  White  daisies 
triin  the  shoulder  and  corsage  with  a 
matching  bunch  caught  in  her  hair.  Gladys 
almost  always  wears  flowers  in  her  hair 
at  night  and  simple  blooms,  such  as  daisies, 
charm  her.  That  is  why  Travis  Banton 
used  them  in  designing  the  evening  gown 
shown  in  this  picture.  Gladys  often  wears 
one  or  two  large  ones  in  the  buttonholes 
of  her  suit  jackets — she  says  they  have  a 
fresh  quality  that  suits  her. 

And  if  you  have  wondered  what  she 
wears  when  she  broadcasts,  it  is  this — a 
long-sleeved,  high-necked  and  full  skirted 
evening  gown  cut  with  a  deeper  neckline 
at  back. 

Did  you  know  that  there  is  a  clause  in 
her  screen  contract  that  demands  the  pres- 
ervation of  her  specially  designed  coif' 
fure?  Neither  did  I,  till  she  told  me,  but 
it  seems  that  her  coiffure,  with  its  center 
part  and  high  curls  at  the  sides,  has  be- 
come almost  a  Swarthout  trademark! 
There's  a  hint  for  all  of  you,  too — get 
some  quirk  to  your  hair  or  costunies  that 
is  so  completely  you  that  you  are  famous 
for  it. 

Gladys  told  me  that  her  mother  taught 
her,  as  a  young  girl,  that  the  way  you  put 
on  clothes  is  important.  Her  early  train- 
ing has  told  because  her  clothes  always 


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fit  to  a  T  and  she  keeps  them  heautifully. 
It's  a  family  joke  that  she  is  positively 
prim  about  hanging  everything  away  her- 
self. There  is  no  appointment  or  inter- 
view so  important  that  she  won't  take 
time  to  put  her  hat  on  the  shelf  and  her 
dress  on  a  hanger,  despite  maids  ready  to 
do  it  for  her. 

Just  as  she  likes  fresh  garden  flowers 
better  than  exotic  orchids,  so  she  prefers 
simple  jewelry  to  the  more  dalinratc. 

She  loves  silk  handkcrclncis,  t.>i)(.(.iall> 
in  gay  peasant  prints,  and  she  usually  has 
one  tucked  in  her  pocket.  She  never  wears 
scarfs  high  al^mit  her  neck,  because  her 
throat  can't  stand  swaddling.  She  likes 
sheer,  supple  woolens  and  the  new  dull, 
wool-like  silks.  And  stiff  rustling  silk 
taflfetas  in  gray  and  bronze  are  her  idea 
of  an  elegant  costume.  She  loves  blue — 
even  the  bedroom  of  her  New  York  apart- 
ment is  done  in  a  gray-blue  color.  There 
are  over  two  hundred  shades  of  blue  and 
it  is  safe  to  say  that  Gladys  probably  has 
worn  all  of  them ! 

Her  individuality,  youthfulness  and  flair 
for  simplicity  with  a  dash  of  drama  have 
put  her  upon  the  list  of  the  ten  best- 
dressed  women  in  America  today. 

While  lingering  in  Hollywood,  I  can't 
overlook  the  mention  of  several  popular 
radio  stars  who  have  looked  unusually 
smart  at  recent  social  affairs.  Gracie  Allen 
and  Alary  Livingstone  attended  a  premiere 
together  and  both  were  dressed  in  very 
charming  all-white  costumes.  Mary  wore 
a  white  satin  ensemble  consisting  of  a 
simple  evening  gown  topped  by  a  match- 
ing cape.  A  large  jeweled  clip  was  the 
only  ornament  on  either  dress  or  cape 
and  the  only  color  accent  was  a  contrast- 
ing satin  hand  bag.  Gracie  wore  a  white 
metal  cloth  dress  with  high  neckline  and 
long  sleeves.  Grape  clips  of  pearls  were 
her  only  jewels— a  white  fox  cape  was 
her  wrap. 

Gracie  seems  to  prefer  the  long-sleeved 
dinner  dress  to  the  more  formal  type  of 
evening  gown.  She  wore,  at  a  recent 
party,  a  lace  dress  with  long  sleeves  but 
very  low  front  decolletage.  A  velvet  sash 
and  twin-jeweled  clips  as  accent. 

Frances  Langford,  the  popular  Holly- 
wood Hotel  star  and  now  making  Born 
to  Dance  with  Eleanor  Powell,  also  like- 
all  white  for  her  evening  appearances.  At 
a  recent  opening  she  looked  stunning  in 
a  white-beaded  gown  topped  by  a  full 
chiflfon  cape. 

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understood  that  in  bringing  talent  to  the 
microphone  he'.s  being  neither  The  Great 
Discoverer  nor  a  Good  Samaritan.  The 
people  who  appear  on  his  program  will  be 
there  not  because  they  need  a  helping 
hand  but  because  they  definitely  have  some- 
thing to  offer  the  radio  audience.  There'll 
be  no  talk  of  struggle  or  self-sacrifice. 

So  much  for  that  end  of  the  program. 
Let's  have  a  talk  with  the  star,  Or  rather 
let's  listen  to  him. 

"( )nv  reason  I'm  so  enthusiastic  about 
radio  IS  that  it  gives  me  an  opportunity 
to  contact  an  enormous  new  audience. 
From  the  radio  public's  reaction  I  hope 
to  learn  many  things  that  will  help  my 
picture  work." 

Fred  .\staire,  incidentally,  is  probably 
the  only  guy  in  the  world  who  thinks  his 
picture  work  needs  help.  Most  of  us  who 
watch  him  on  the  screen  regard  him  as 
stupendous,  amazing  and  colossal,  and  let 
it  go  at  that.  But  not  Mr.  A.  He  wor- 
ries. He  worries  all  through  rehearsals, 
because  he  thinks  the  new  steps  he  orig- 
inates aren't  so  hot.  He  worries  all  through 
the  picture,  because  he's  convinced  he's 
terrible.  And  he  continues  to  worry  after 
the  i,icture  is  released,  and  in  the  face  of 
critical  raves,  because  he's  sure  he  didn't 
do  his  job  as  well  as  he'd  planned. 

He  never  sees  previews  of  his  pictures. 
While  everyone  else  is  having  a  swell  time 
watching  the  Astaire  routines,  their  crea- 
ator  sits  home  hoping  he  won't  be  as 
bad  as  he's  sure  he's  going  to  be.  When 
people  tell  him  he  was  great,  he  thanks 
them  and  thinks  they're  kidding.  And 
he's  on  the  level  about  it.  He's  always 
l/cen  that  way  and,  from  all  indications, 
he's  going  to  stay  that  way. 

Watching  Fred  Astaire  making  pic- 
tures is  always  a  pleasure.  On  the  set 
you'd  never  guess  he  is  ihe  star  of  the 
production.  Take  the  present  Astaire- 
Rogers  opus,  RKO-Radio's  Swing  Time. 
If  a  scene  doesn't  come  off  he  gets  angry 
at  only  one  person — himself.  If  a  step 
goes  wrong  it's  always  his  fault.  To  a 
strar.ger  in  those  parts  he  appears  to  be 
a  novice  trying  his  best  to  make  good  in 
pictures — a  contest  winner  from  some- 
where, perhaps,  hopitig  he'll  pass  that 
dreaded  first  option  time. 

Between  scenes  he  never  retires  in  soli- 
tary splendour  to  his  dressing-room.  You'll 
alwa\'s  find  him  sitting  around  with  three 
or  four  friends — workmen  on  the  set,  as 
a  rule,  or  someone  from  the  studio  pub- 
licity <!epartment.  When  he's  not  in  cos- 
tume he  wears  a  pair  of  old  white  pants, 
a  blue  shirt  and  a  straw  hat.  And  the  tie 
which  should  be  around  his  neck  is  busy 
liolding  up  the  Astaire  trousers.  All  this 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he's  often  been 
called  The  Ten  Best-Dressed  Men  in 
.America. 

Most  of  you  probably  know  all  about 
the  Astaire  personal  history— how  he  and 
his  sister  Adele  came  to  New  York,  be- 
came the  Astaires  and  did  their  first  ()[f 
to  Buffalo  routines  on  vaudeville  stages 
all  over  the  country.    You  also  know  thai 


One  of  radio's  continuously  popular 
programs  is  Hollywood  Hotel,  with 
Dick  Powell  and  guest  stars  and  its 
previews  of  movie  attractions.  Here 
is   Dick,   dancing  with   Ruby  Keeler. 


their  fancy  stepping  led  them  to  the  mu- 
sical comedy  stages  of  Broadway  and 
London,  and  that  Fred  eventually  landed 
in  pictures,  to  be  "discovered"  by  Hol- 
lywood, which  never  recognizes  any  talent 
east  of  Phoeni.x  until  it's  been  proven  in 
front  of  a  camera. 

The  Astaire  success  on  the  stage  and 
on  the  screen  is  now  about  to  be  re- 
peated over  the  air.  It  can  easily  be  said 
that  ot  all  the  stellar  names  in  Holly- 
wood, he  stands  for  the  most  diversified 
talents — he  is  without  doubt  the  finest 
all-around  entertainer  Hollywood  ever 
has  given  to  radio. 

Just  take  a  look  at  his  equipment :  as 
a  personality — he  has  an  informal,  in- 
gratiating style  which  is  bound  to  win 
him  countless  radio  fans.  It's  good  be- 
cause he's  not  acting — he's  being  Fred 
Astaire.  As  a  dancer — well,  name  a  bet- 
ter one.  As  a  singer,  Fred  is  the  first  to 
admit  he's  neither  Tibbett  nor  Crosby. 
But  how  many  guys  are?  At  the  piano, 
he  can  turn  out  swing  stuff  that  pleases 
even  the  fastidious  Fats  Waller  addicts. 
Besides,  he's  going  to  play  a  lot  of  his 
own  iiuml)crs.  As  you  know,  he's  already 
turned  out  one  hit  number — /');;  Building 
U[?  To  An  Aivjul  Lctdoivn.  Since  then 
he's  written  several  songs,  two  of  which, 
/'//  Never  Let  You  Go  and  Just  One  More 
Dance,  Madame — are  coming  into  prom- 
inence at  this  moment.  There  are  other 
numbers  in  the  Astaire  trunk  which  will 
be  polished  off  and  given  a  hearing  at  the 
microphone,  and  you  can  be  the  jury. 

.Add  it  all  up  and  it  means  there's  a  new 
star  on  the  air.  He  sings,  he  dances,  he 
pounds  the  piano,  he  runs  the  show — he 
does  everything  but  take  tickets,  and 
that's   iiecause  there  aren't  anv  to  take. 


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■  end  of  her  endurance  and  wanted  to 
he  cliild  for  adoption.  How  should 
about  doing  tliis? 

IS  all  very  simple.    Judge  Goldstein 
her  where  to  go,  and  watching  her 
re   with   bent   head,   nervous  and 
i   at   the   things   she   had   told,  it 
strange  that  she  had  voluntarily 
lirough   this  ordeal  to  get  advice 
lice  sergeant  could  have  given  her. 
A;i  ther  case  was  called.    Here  was  a 
•man  apparently  in  her  late  thirties,  lip- 
,  eked  and  rouged,  confident  in  her  ano- 
mity  and  shiny  black  satin  piped  with 
Kite.   She  talked  and,  thougli  before  the 
oadcast  had  begun  the  small  audience 
id  been  warned  against  making  any  dis- 
rbance,  a  few  scattered  giggles  rose  into 
crescendo  of  laughter  as  she  unfolded 
■r  story.    She  seemed  to  be  an  amateur 
uinie  Brice. 

A  suit  had  been  left  at  the  cleaner's  and, 
hen  she  had  come  to  call  for  it,  she  liad 
•en  told  the  place  had  been  robbed.  The 
vner  refused  to  compensate  for  the  loss 
the  suit.  \Miat  should  she  do  now? 
le  really  didn't  think  the  place  had  been 
ibbed  at  all. 

There  was  nothing  she  could  do,  Judge 
iff  any  informed  her.  The  law  did  not 
)ld  a  business  responsible  for  customers' 
)Ssessions  unless  it  could  be  proved  there 
id  been  no  robbery. 

"If  you  had  gone  to  a  reputable  con- 
:rn,  this  would  never  have  happened,"  he 
Id  her  judiciously.  "Of  course,  if 
!ople  insist  on  going  to  cut-rate 
aces  .  .  ." 

She  straightened  indignantly. 

"It  wasn't  cut-rate,"  she  protested.  "I 

lid  fifty  cents." 

Even  Fannie  Brice  couldn't  have  brought 
Jt  a  more  appreciative  laugh. 

There  were  more  cases.  One.  an  aged 
."gress  who  had  lost  one  hundred  and  two 
hilars  through  trusting  her  bank  account 
I  her  daughter,  who  had  since  died.  At 
iT  son-in-law's  instigation,  the  daughter 
id  drawn  out  the  money  and  given  it  to 
:m.  And  now  he  refused  to  make  resti- 
ition,  though  he  had  promised  his  wife 
i  would. 

Nothing  could  be  done  for  her,  the 
idge  told  her.  Through  ignorance  of 
le  quirks  in  the  law  she  had  authorized 
;r  daughter  to  be  her  agent. 

One  hundred  and  two  dollars.  It  doesn't 
;eni  much,  perhaps — but  it  was  her  life 
ivings  and  she  was  destitute.  The  court 
ad  given  her  carfare  to  come  that  eye- 
ing. 

No  one  was  laughing  now. 

Another  woman  came  and  sat  before 
le  judges,  lips  close  to  the  microphone, 
he  was  sure  her  pet  dog  had  been  poi- 
ined.  Now  she  was  sure  her  baby's  milk 
ad  been  tampered  with  and  she  had  taken 

to  the  local  police  station,  demanding 
lat  it  be  analyzed.  The  police  sergeant 
ad  refused.  Somehow,  listening,  you 
;lt  that  this  woman  had  made  many  simi- 
ir  visits  and  many  similar  demands  upon 
le  sergeant.    You  could  almost  see  how, 


^'^HEREV'ER  lovely  women  gatker — wlicrcver 
romance  and  youth  and  dayety  are  found  .  .  . 
tKere,  too,  you  will  iind  tkc  cxcjuisite  iragrancc  of 
Park  &  Tilford's  Gardenia.  1'  or  kcrc  is  a  f)criume 
tkat  is  at  once  fantastically  li^kt-kearted  yet  aloof. 
Gard'-nia  is  tke  {)erfect  comf)lement  to  lovely 
women  .  .  .  flattering  .  .  .  witk  its  fragrant  loveli- 
ness. In  skort,  tkc  ideal  J^erlumc.  T.  ry  tkis  unlor- 
gcttakle  fragrance  today.  On  sale  in  tke  new 
tuckaway  size  at  all  5  and  lO  cent  stores. 

Two  other  popular  Park  &  TilforJ  Faoen  Perfumes 
I\'o.  3  An  e.xotic  ciingino  oriental  fragrance. 
No.  i'2  Delicate  refresking  floral  boucjuet. 

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Tkis  Jeliglitful  (jerfume 
sugfjests  romance  so  sut- 
tly  and  yet  so  definitely 
tkat  many  women  ()refer 
it  to  more  costly  scents. 


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BIGGER,  MORE  PAINFUL 

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the  tiny  medicated  plaster,  stops  the  pain  instantly 
—  then  in  3  short  days  the  entire  corn  lifts  out 
Root  and  All. 

Blue-Jay  is  easy  to  use.  Held  snugly  in  place  by 
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bit  by  bit,  she  had  worn  down  his  pa- 
tience. 

"Judge."  her  voice  quivered,  "he  told  me 
he  couldn't  analyze  the  milk  until  the  baby 

l-auuhter  again  and  the  judge's  voice, 
nimc  sdMthing,  more  conciliatory  than  he 
had  been  with  the  others.  She  had  mis- 
understood, he  explained.  No  action  can 
be  taken  at  a  police  station  unless  a  crime 
has  first  been  committed. 

The  woman  hardly  listened  to  him  be- 
fore plunging  into  her  other  grievances. 
Tile  sergeant  had  refused  to  send  a  police- 
man to  guard  her  apartment  and  catch  the 
person  who  had  been  tampering  with  her 
milk. 

"Tie  a  string  around  the  milk  bottle 
and  hold  on  to  it,"  the  Judge  advised  her. 
"When  you  feel  someone  tugging  at  it, 
open  the  door  and  catch  him." 

She  took  the  advice  literally. 

"Can  I  sock  him  with  something?"  she 
asked. 

"I'm  sure  the  police  department  would 
give  you  a  medal  for  it,"  the  judge  as- 
sured her. 

And  so  the  cases  went  on.  Some  talked 
in  a  strained,  patient  way  and  some  were 
e.xcited  and  voluble,  so  that  they  had  to 
be  constrained  from  going  on  and  on  and 
on.  And  others  were  so  querulous  and 
complaining  that  you  felt  your  sympathy, 
which  they  were  demanding  so  strenuously, 
automatically  go  to  the  absent  ones  they 
were  accusing,  who  weren't  having  this 
chance  to  tell  their  side  of  the  story. 

After  all,  every  altercation,  every  trag- 
edy has  another  side,  a  side  that  might 
prove  justificaton  if  it  could  be  heard.  But 
of  course  the  Good  Will  Court  can  hear 
only  the  side  that  is  presented  to  it. 

The  Court  went  on  after  the  broadcast 
had  finished.  There  were  one  or  two  who 
wanted  to  discuss  their  cases  further  with 
the  judges,  there  were  others  who  had  been 
invited  to  stay  for  more  detailed  instruc- 
tions. The  telephone  kept  ringing.  A 
lawyer  called  to  offer  his  assistance  in  a 
case  that  had  interested  him.  A  woman 
called,  wanting  to  adopt  the  baby.  But 
most  of  the  calls  came  from  listeners  who 
wanted  to  bring  their  own  troubles  to  the 
Good  Will  Court.  To  all  of  them,  to  those 
asking  for  help  and  those  wanting  to  give 
it,  there  was  the  same  stereotyped  answer: 

"Put  what  you  have  to  say  in  writing, 
send  us  your  name  and  address  and  we 
will  let  you  know." 

Mr.  Alexander  picks  the  cases  heard  on 
the  broadcast  from  the  hundreds  of  ap- 
peals that  come  to  him  every  week.  He 
talks  to  them  before  they  go  on  the  air, 
but  there  is  no  rehearsal,  there  are  no  pre- 
pared scripts.  So  the  result,  as  you  hear  it, 
is  spontaneous,  dotted  with  unconscious 
luimor,  .  punctuated  by  homely,  halting 
plirases'that  tug  at  the  heartstrings  more 
tlian  studied  self-conscious  ones  possibly 
could. 

Go  to  any  night  court,  to  any  local  police 
station  in  the  country,  and  life  in  this 
^a^K■  manner  will  unfold  before  you.  With 
this  difference:  In  court  the  cases  will 
cunic  to  you  as  they  are  presented.  You 
iiia\  have  to  sit  through  many  dull,  boring 
lili'jaliuns  to  have  your  emotions  stirred 
(iilur  ti«  laughter  or  tears. 

Hilt  the  Good  Will  Court  is  presented 
l,y  a  -h..v,inan  with  an  eye  on  the  box 
,,nicc   a  man  wiio,  himself,  has  had  stage 


experience.  It  is  built  on  the  formu 
that  has  made  Broadway  successes,  th: 
iias  made  best  sellers  of  novels,  that  h; 
enabled  Hollywood  to  turn  out  one  h 
after  another.  A  laugh  following  a  tear- 
that's  the  formula.  It's  just  as  simple  i 
that. 

The  laughs  in  the  Good  Will  Court  ai 
provided  mostly  by  the  neurotics  comin 
to  it  with  their  imaginary  troubles.  Ps} 
chiatrists  know  these  people  well.  Sonn 
one  is  always  waiting  to  harm  these  peopl 
Someone  is  always  talking  about  ther 
That  these  fears  are  only  in  their  ow 
minds  does  not  make  their  troubles  le; 
real. 

"We  can't  really  help  these  people 
Alexander  explained.  "All  we  can  do  fc 
the  neurotics  and  misfits  is  to  humor  then 
tell  them  we'll  put  the  G-men  on  the 
enemies'  trails  or  something  like  tha 
They  are  the  most  heartbreaking,  for  notl 
ing  can  be  done  for  them." 

These  are  the  people  some  of  the  radi 
audiences  have  thought  to  be  experience 
actors  or  actresses  brought  into  the  pn 
gram  for  the  humor  they  might  give  i: 
But  they  are  as  legitimate  as  are  tl 
others.  There  are  no  "ringers"  or  "phc 
nies"  on  this  program. 

To  the  disinterested  listener  it  woulj 
seem  that  since  nothing  could  be  done  fc< 
people  of  this  sort  it  would  be  better  i 
give  the  time  they  take  up  to  cases  th; 
could  be  helped.  Even  if  these  cases  prove 
duller,  less  interesting.  Even  if  the  advic 
given  wouldn't  give  a  chuckle  to  tho: 
listening  in.  Imaginary  troubles,  eve 
laughable  ones,  aren't  liable  to  be  hear 
in  a  real  court  of  law.  Police  officer 
lawyers  and  judges  have  an  unerring  ej 
in  discerning  what  is  real  and  what  exis 
only  in  a  sick  mind  and  call  in  psychi 
trists  who  can  really  help  them. 

It  is  interesting  to  know  that,  of  tho: 
who  want  to  tell  their  troubles  to  th 
court,  there  are  three  women  to  every  ma 

Thirty  per  cent,  of  the  cases  are  tho 
involving  domestic  relations,  and  a  gre; 
part  of  these  concern  trouble  between  hu; 
bands  and  wives. 

Letters  received  from  listeners  show  tl 
interest  in  these  cases  and  in  the  advic 
given  by  the  judges.  They  protest  tl 
fact  that  men  and  women,  suffering  mei 
tal  torture,  or  humiliation  at  the  hands  c 
their  husbands  or  wives,  are  told  that 
would  be  impossible  to  get  a  divorce  fc 
such  grounds  in  New  York. 

"If  the  answers  in  these  cases  do  n( 
seem  helpful  it  is  because  the  law  do( 
not  permit  any  other,"  Mr.  Alexander  e> 
plained.  "We  often  have  to  advise  cor 
trary  to  our  own  instincts  to  keep  withi 
the  law.  It's  really  a  case  of  legal  fact 
against  human  emotions. 

"We  hope  that,  in  time,  as  a  result  c 
placing  the  spotlight  of  public  attentid 
on  these  divorce  cases,  many  listeners  wi 
protest  against  unfortunate  laws  that 
ist  in  some  of  the  states.  That,  in  tim 
laws  will  be  passed  making  it  more  di 
ficult  to  get  married  and  easier  to  get  d 
vorced.  Laws  such  as  these  would  < 
away  with  much  of  the  unhappiness  an 
tragedy  brought  to  the  Good  Will 
today." 

There  is  no  doubt  that  New  York  li 
teners  have  got  a  better  idea  of  leg 
technicalities  from  this  program  than  the 
could   in  any  other  way   except  by  a 


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ding  a  resular  court  proceeding. 
Tiroiigli  the  misfortunes  of  otliers  they 
ave  learned  what  it  means  to  sign  pa- 
ers  they  haven't  read,  to  buy  things  on 
installment  plan  and  discover  that  in 
ot  keeping  up  the  payments  they  have 
remised  in  writing  they  can  lose  the 
rticle  and  still  find  themselves  obligated 
D  further  pajments.  They  have  learned 
ther  things,  too.  Things  that  undoubt- 
dly  will  be  of  help  to  them,  both  in  social 
nd  business  contacts. 

But  in  presenting  it  as  a  nation-wide 
eature.  this  very  clcniont  that  has  lielpcd 
vfew  Yorkers  to  learn  oh>ciirc  Ic.^al  facts 
ill  probably  be  bewildering  to  residents 
f  other  states  whose  law^s  differ  from 
hose  of  the  state  in  which  the  Good  Will 
7oiirt  presides. 

Every  mail  brings  appeals  from  unfor- 
unates  wanting  to  air  their  troubles.  It 
;eems  strange  that  so  many  people  are 
.villing  to  bare  in  this  Court  secrets  they 
lave  guarded  so  zealously  from  everyone — 
,vhen  they  could  get  similar  advice  by 
joing  to  the  Legal  Aid  Society  or  to  a  lo- 
;al  police  station. 

More  than  one  listener  has  remarked  that 
.10  problem  is  really  solved  except  in  clear- 
:ut  cases  where  one  of  the  judges  has  told 
[hem  they  had  no  ground  for  suit  against 
DfTending  parties. 

Mr.  Alexander  explained  this :  "The 
purpose  of  the  Court  is  in  no  sense  to 
trespass  upon  the  rights  and  functions  of 
properly  constituted  courts  or  upon  the 
rights  and  provinces  of  members  of  the 
bar,"  he  said.  "If  we  provided  complete 
solutions  in  cases  in  which  it  were  possible, 
we  should  find  very  quickly  that  we  would 


be  in  hot  water  with  proper  authorities. 

"After  all,  people  cannot  expect  to  in- 
volve themselves  in  all  sorts  of  bewildering 
and  unfortunate  entanglements  that  take 
months  and  years  to  create  and  then  expect, 
merely  by  telling  their  story  over  the  air, 
to  have  some  one  say  hocus-pocus,  and 
relieve  them  of  their  problems." 

It  seems  as  if  there  might  be  danger  in 
the  faith  these  people  have  in  this  radio 
court.  Danger  that  people  going  through 
trouble  of  some  sort  would  flock  to  the 
broadcasting  station  from  all  over  the 
I'nited  States.  Gettini;  tliere  any  way 
the\  CMuld,  as  so  many  pa^ticlp.lnt^  in  radio 
amateur  hours  have  done.  B\  hiteh-iiiking 
or  selling  their  possessions,  only  to  receive 
in  the  end  advice  someone  could  have  given 
them  in  their  own  home  territory. 

A  lawyer  whose  opinion  I  sought  on  the 
Good  U'il!  Court  made  this  observation: 

"I  have  listened  in  to  this  program  and 
feel  that  in  some  cases  it  really  has  helped 
those  asking  advice.  In  others  its  only 
help  has  been  in  telling  these  people  where 
to  go  or  whom  to  see  for  more  detailed 
instructions. 

"A  danger,  as  I  see  it,  lies  in  the  fact 
that  often  the  legal  opinion  given  was  not 
a  sufficiently  well-considered  opinion.  And 
in  one  particular  case  it  was  not  correct. 

"This  case  I  speak  of  was  one  in  which 
a  man  had  had  a  dispute  with  his  partner 
and  was  told  to  go  to  the  City  Court.  It 
happened  that  this  particular  court  would 
have  no  jurisdiction  in  his  case.  He  should 
have  been  sent  to  the  Supreme  Court. 

"But,  as  I  have  said  before,  it  has  proved 
of  value  to  some  cases  and  of  aid  to  others. 
For,  of  course,  there  are  people  with  so 


little  general  knowledge  of  legal  law  that 
it  probably  would  not  occur  to  them  to  seek 
help  from  the  Legal  Aid  Society  on  their 
own  initiative." 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  broadcast  we 
were  attending,  J.  E.  (Dinty)  Doyle, 
radio  editor  of  a  New  York  morning 
newspaper,  pointed  out  to  Mr.  Alexander 
that  on  its  present  schedule  the  program 
goes  on  the  air  at  ten  o'clock  at  night,  an 
hour  in  which  children  are  in  bed.  But 
on  its  national  hodk-u])  it  will  go  on  the 
air  at  eight  oclock  in  Xew  \  ork  and  the 
difTerences  in  time  will  make  this  hour  an 
earlier  one  f(ir  niid-weslern  and  western 
listeners-in.  In  Lus  .Xngeles.  iur  instance, 
the  program  will  lie  heard  at  live  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon,  an  hour  in  which  children 
will  be  listening  in.  Ancl  certainly  a  great 
many  of  these  cases  should  not  be  heard 
by  them. 

Mr.  Alexander  thought  for  a  moment 
before  he  replied  that  of  course  any  chil- 
dren listening  in  would  he  considered  and 
that  cases  which  might  prove  objection- 
able for  too  young  ears  would  be  stricken 
out  of  the  program. 

That,  of  course,  takes  care  of  the  chil- 
dren. But  what  of  the  adults  listening  in? 
Will  this  program  prove  as  absorbing,  if 
it  is  censored  to  such  a  degree? 

As  you  read  this,  the  Good  IVill  Court 
has  had  its  first  broadcasts  over  a  national 
hook-up,  under  the  guidance  of  an  impor- 
tant sponsor. 

Too  soon  still  to  see  if  it  will  receive 
the  nation-wide  popularity  its  New  York 
success  would  predict.  Too  soon  to  see  if 
this  broad  slice  of  life  and  suffering  will 
be  accepted  as  radio  entertainment. 


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(perfection  of  your  grooming 
witK  Nestle  Colorinse — tke 
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vegetable  coloring  com- 
f)Ound,  you  sim()ly  rinse  your 
bair  and  almost  magically 
tbere  al^fjear  bigbligbts  and 
lustrous  glints.  Colorinse 
really  brings  out  tbe  bidden 
beauty  of  your  bair.  It's  easily 
removed,  too.  A.  sbamfioo 
wasbes  it  awav. 


^'AM  1  OLAU  I  READ 
ABOUT  THIS!"   . .  „ 


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kin  than  olive  oil.  Extraordinary  in- 
Kluptory  offer  in  this  country:  send  $1 
3  months'  supply. 
LEHTRAB    CO.,  — 


There  ore  many  flottering  woys  (0^ 
orronge  your  hair  with  Hollywood 
Rapid  Dry  Curlers.  Will  you  have 
fight  little  curls  that  fit  close  to  your 
head  . .  or  soft  loose  ones  to  forn 
a  halo?  Will  you  have  many  curl; 
,..or  just  a  few?  Whatever  style  of 
curl  you  select  can  be  yours  easily, 
quickly,  right  at  home  .  .  with  the 
"Curler  used  by  the  Stars." 


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NO!  NO!  A  HUNDRED  TlflAES,  NO! 


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seemed  the  more  important  then,  to  con- 
siderable social  success  in  that  particular 
sector  of  St.  Louis'  younger  set." 

The  determined  young  woman  decided 
that  her  appearance  must  be  changed. 
Mother  Nature  must  be  given  a  helping 
hand — and  that  took  money.  A  five-dollar 
weekly  allowance  from  her  father  wouldn't 
go  far.  One  day  a  friend  called  her  up 
to  ask  if  she'd  play  for  her  dancing  class. 

"Three  dollars  an  hour,"  Kay  replied 
in  her  most  businesslike  tone. 

"Three  dollars  an  hour!"  the  friend 
echoed  in  amazement.  "Why  that's  pre- 
posterous!  The  usual  rate  is  a  dollar-fifty 
at  the  outside." 

"Not  );;v  usual  rate,"  Kay  responded 
sweetly.   "I  aI^^^ays  get  three  dollars." 

Now  the  strict  truth  of  the  matter  was 
that  she  never  before  had  received  a  cent 
for  playing — nor  for  anything  else.  How- 
ever, her  very  effrontery  won  her  the  job 
— as  she  was  to  fiixl  later  that  effrontery 
often  would.  After  a  while  she  found  she 
had  accumulated  five  hundred  dollars — 
and  she  went  to  the  best  beauty  shop  and 
the  best  modiste  in  the  city. 

"Make  me  look  like  Carole  Lombard," 
she  commanded,  because  Carole  Lombard 
was  her  favorite  screen  actress.  And  they 
did.  The  St.  Louis  edition  of  Carole  Lom- 
Ijard  walked  into  her  amazed  father's  study 
that  night. 

"I  won't  need  my  allowance  any  more," 
she  told  him.  His  startled  cries — at  her 
appearance,  not  her  announcement — had 
brought  the  family  on  the  run.  They  just 
stood  and  gaped. 

"I  guess  I  learned  then,"  she  told  me 
reminiscently,  "that  all  you  have  to  do  is 
to  keep  'em  guessing  and  you've  got  'em ! 
That  goes,"  she  added  profoundly,  "for 
men — and  everything. 

"With  my  new  appearance,  my  collec- 
tion of  fraternity  pins  jumped  by  leaps 
and  bounds.  I've  got  more  than  fifty 
tucked  away  at  home.  Of  course,  social 
success  will  interfere  with  a  young  girl's 
education.  Perhaps  that's  why  I  left  col- 
lege, er — involuntarily,  so  to  speak.  I 
mean  they  suggested  it.  But  college  was 
getting  boresome,  anyhow.  There  weren't 
;my  eligible  men  left  to  conquer.  I  felt 
like  Hannibal.     Or  was  it  Hannibal? 

"Oh,  yes.  I  did  have  one  ambition  un- 
fulfilled. I  didn't  have  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
1(1  my  credit.  I  managed  to  get  back  into 
sclionl  again,  and  set  about  getting  one. 
In  the  process  I  developed  my  first  real 
"crush" — on  an  assistant  instructor.  He 
was  terribly  attractive  and  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  key  on  his  watch  chain  was  like 
a  piece  of  hamburger  in  front  of  a  kennel. 

"Our  first  date  was  a  terrific  success. 
He  (niotcd  Shelley  and  Swinburne  and  I 
thought  I'd  found  romance  for  sure.  We 
drove  into  the  country,  and  under  a  full 
moon  he  stroked  my  cheek.  'Kay,'  he 
whispered,  'your  skin  is  as  smooth  as  vel- 
vet !'  Which  was  hot  stuff  for  St.  Louis  in 
those  days ! 

"Well,  a  week  or  so  later  he  called  one 
night  and  I  was  out.  So  he  took  Marion 
for  a  drive.  That  night  when  we  were 
going  to  bed  she  said  to  me:  'What  do 


you  think  that  fellow  said?  He  told  me 
my  skin  was  as  smooth  as  velvet — and 
the  way  he  said  it!' 

"I  knew  what  she  meant,  and  I  mim- 
icked it  for  her. 

"  'Yes  !    That's  just  how,'  she  said. 

"So  the  next  day,  when  he  called  up, 
Marifin  got  on  the  upstairs  extension  and 
I  got  on  the  downstairs  phone.  'Oh,  dar- 
!iii(/.  your  skin  is  as  smooth  as  velvet!' 
We  both  shouted  at  the  top  of  our  lungs. 
He  hung  up — and  that  was  the  last  we  ever 
heard  of  him." 

Kay  was  pretty  much  fed  up  with  St. 
Louis  by  now.  She  felt  that  her  talents 
demanded  a  wider  field.  Opportunity  fell 
right  into  her  lap — aided  slightly  by 
genuity.  Her  sister  Blanche  had  copied 
from  advertisements  a  long  list  of  sum- 
mer camps.  Blanche  wrote  to  them  all 
for  a  job  as  counselor  and,  by  dint  of  giv- 
ing a  lot  of  high  sounding  though  non- 
existent references,  plus  a  wonderful,  if 
wholly  imaginary,  account  of  previous  ex 
perience,  she  landed  a  job  on  Catalina  Is 
land  in  California.  But  before  it  came 
time  to  take  it,  she  had  a  new  beau- 
w'hom  she  now  is  happily  married,  by  the 
way — and  she  didn't  want  the  job. 

"But  it's  a  shame  to  leave  a  nice  job  like 
that  kicking  around,"  Kay  protested.  "V 
go  and  take  it." 

"But  you've  had  no  experience,"  her 
family  argued. 

"Neither  had  Blanche,"  Kay  replied  rea 
sonably.  Not  only  did  she  get  the  job — 
but  they  hired  her  again  the  following 
summer,  so  she  must  have  made  good, 
Back  in  St.  Louis  at  the  end  of  the  first 
summer,  though,  she  was  more  or  less 
a  loose  end.  But  not  for  long.  Kay  never 
would  be  in  that  state  for  any  length  of 
time.  It  happened  that  she  went  one  night 
to  dine  and  dance  at  the  Coronado  Hotel 
Her  escort  was  busy  proposing. 

"I  don't  want  to  get  married.  I  want 
to  be  a  professional  singer — with  a  radio 
orchestra  like  that  one,"  she  insisted. 

"But  you  can't  just  say  you  want  to  be- 
come a  singer  and  become  one,"  the  young 
man  insisted. 

"Why  can't  you?"  Kay  demanded.  "I'll 
liet  you  I  can." 

"You're  nuts,"  the  young  man  said  in 
disgust. 

Later  in  the  evening  Al  Lyons,  the  band 
leader,  came  over  to  their  table.  Kay 
struck  up  a  conversation. 

"I  have  a  friend  who  was  a  sensation  at 
the  Cocoanut  Grove,  and  she'd  love  to  sing 
with  your  band,"  she  told  the  leader.  His 
eyes  sparkled  at  mention  of  the  famous 
west  coast  hot  spot. 

"Bring  her  in  and  let's  hear  her,"  he 
invited. 

"Tomorrow  afternoon,"  Kay  agreed. 

The  following  afternoon  she  presented] 
herself  at  the  Coronado. 

"Here  I  am,"  she  said,  walking  over 
to  the  piano.  There  was  not  much  Mr. 
Lyons  could  do  about  it,  so  he  had  te 
listen.  She  sang  with  his  band  for  th( 
rest  of  the  season  and  then,  the  next  sum- 
mer, she  went  back  to  the  camp  on  Cata- 
lina.   That  fall,  instead  of  coming  home 


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-1"    went  to  Hollywood. 

1  expected  to  love  Hollywood — but  it 
iwful.  I  thought  it  would  be  gay  and 
sting,  but  I  found  myself  hating  it. 
i  ayed  there  for  two  years.  There  were 
parties  and  all  that  sort  of  thing.  But 
Hilly  wood  is  so  provincial.  They  think 
ni.i\ies  and  live  movies  and  talk  movies. 
Alter  I'd  been  there  a  while  I  knew  I 
Jiiln't  want  any  part  of  movies. 

"You  know,  there's  a  funny  thing.  You 
take  tiie  thousands  of  girls — and  a  lot  of 
tin  in  talented,  too — who  go  to  Hollywood 
iMtli  only  one  ambition.  To  break  into 
11  \  ies.  And  they  never  get  to  first  base. 
Vi  t,  because  I  didn't  want  to  break  into 
the  movies,  I  had  a  dozen  offers." 

"iSut  why,"  I  interrupted,  "did  you  stay 
'  ■  that  long?"  I  knew  this  girl  was 
itely  not  the  sort  to  stay  in  a  place 
lidn't  like  without  a  very  good  reason 
— aiul  a  man  is  always  a  very  good  reason 
for  pretty  nearly  anything  inexplicable  that 
a  beautiful  girl  does.  Perhaps  here,  at  last, 
was  romance.  .  .  . 

'Yep.  You're  right,"  Kay  nodded  vigor- 
ously. She  had  shrewdly  guessed  my 
thought.  "That  was  the  first  time  I  ever 
was  tempted  to  take  the  plunge  into  matri- 
mony. He  was  quite  a  bit  older  than  I, 
and  if  he'd  been — well,  a  little  more  im- 
petuous, it  would  have  happened.  You 
know  what  I  mean.  If  he'd  been  one  of 
those  men  who  carry  a  girl  off  her  feet 
I  was  tottering  so  it  wouldn't  have  taken 
much  to  carry  me  off  mine.  But  he  wanted 
me  to  give  up  my  career — which  really 
hadn't   started   yet,  anyhow. 

'He  was  a  brilliant  man  and  I  admired 


him  immensely.    But  I  was  doing  a  lot 
of  radio  work  on  the  coast,  and  I  was 
sure  I'd  found  my  groove.  I  certainly  didn't 
want  to  quit." 
Kay  sighed. 

"Well,  I'm  happier  now  than  I  was  then, 
anyhow.  I'm  getting  all  the  fun  out  of 
life  I  always  craved." 

She  was  silent  a  while. 

"And  a  few  weeks  ago,  he  came  east. 
We  had  dinner  together — and  we  both 
agreed  that  maybe  it  was  iiest,  after  all, 
that  we  hadn't  married.  Maybe  we'd  both 
have  been  unhappy." 

When  Kay  was  casting  about  for  an 
opportunity  to  leave  the  coast  and  come 
east — and  that,  I  gathered,  was  when  the 
romance  with  the  capital  "R"  had  gone 
— she  had  a  providential  telephone  call 
from  Fred  Waring. 

"He'd  heard  me  on  the  air  in  California 
and  wanted  me  to  come  to  New  York  for 
a  talk,"  she  said.  "After  we  had  the  talk, 
he  said :  'I'd  love  to  use  you — but  I  need 
a  girl  who  can  form  and  handle  a  choir.'  " 

Kay  looked  at  him  in  wide-eyed  aston- 
ishment. 

"Why,  isn't  that  the  luckiest  thing !"  she 
exclaimed.  "I've  been  working  with  some 
girls  and  just  hated  the  thought  of  leaving 
them  stranded  if  you  did  take  me.  They're 
just  the  very  choir  that  you're  looking 
for." 

Now  as  in  the  three-dollar  an  hour 
episode  and  the  colossal  Al  Lyons  bluff, 
Kay  was  chucking  a  bluff  the  size  of  a 
grand  piano.  The  "some  girls"  she'd  been 
working  with  were,  in  truth,  her  sisters 
Blanche  and  Marion.  But  Kay  always  has 


had  a  knack  of  ironing  out  such  petty 
kinks  when  they  occur  in  the  pattern  of 
her  life. 

"I  didn't  know  a  soul  in  New  York," 
she  said,  "and  even  yet  I  don't  know  how 
I  managed  to  get  a  girl  choir  together  for 
an  audition.  But  I  did — and  we  got  the 
program,  after  two  of  the  most  nightmar- 
ish weeks  in  my  young  life.  And  what  a 
kick  I've  got  out  of  it!" 

The  "kick"  comes  in  five  and  six-hour  re- 
hearsals every  day — Saturdays,  Sundays, 
and  holidays  included. 

"I  have  to  work  so  hard  I  haven't  time 
to  get  bored,"  she  explained.  "I  love  the 
struggle  and  competition — even  the  wor- 
ries. When  1  lia\e  time  I  relax — in  danc- 
ing and  at  l)aI■tle^." 

At  that  moment  a  nice  young  man  ap- 
peared in  the  restaurant.  He  was  carrying 
a  bag  for  Kay.  It  contained  her  evening 
clothes,  in  which  she  was  to  be  photo- 
graphed. She  thanked  the  nice  young  man 
prettily,  and  then,  to  his  very  obvious  em- 
barrassment, kissed  him  resoundingly.  On 
the  way  to  the  photographer's  studio  I 
thought  of  the  nice  young  man. 

"Who  is  he?"  I  ventured  to  ask  her, 
bluntly. 

"Well,"  she  replied  a  little  vaguely,  "he's 
the  hundredth." 

We  rode  along  in  thoughtful  silence  for 
a  while. 

"But  you  know,"  Kay  said  speculatively 
at  length,  "there  is  always  the  hundred 
and  first." 

Once  more  she  raised  one  sophisticated 
eyebrow,  while  a  glamorous  lash  fell  across 
the  other  larkspur  blue  orb. 


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and  tie  were  faultless.  He  told  us  to 
go  down  in  the  garden  and  meet  the  dis- 
tinguished guests. 

They  were  Lyman  Beecher  Stowe, 
grandson  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  and 
his  wife  and  Carveth  Wells,  who  was  his 
guest  speaker  that  evening.  Wells  regaled 
us  with  a  sketch  of  the  cruise  that  he  and 
Lowell  had  once  made  with  Count  von 
Liickner  on  his  full-rigged  schooner,  down 
through  the  Indies.  The  astute  and  indus- 
trious Lowell  Thomas  got  three  best-sell- 
ers out  of  that  adventure  and  association 
with  Count  Liickner,  the  Sea  Devil,  as  he 
entitled  one  of  them.  Tiicn  Mr.  Stowe  re- 
lated how,  when  he  was  associated  with 
Doubleday,  Doran,  the  publishers,  he  had 
spent  many  days  in  a  vain  search  for  the 
then  less  known  Lowell  Thomas,  with  a 
blank  contract  in  his  pocket,  but  never 
found  him.  The  party  was  broken  up  on 
discovering  Mrs.  Lowell  Thomas  on  the 
lawn  in  front  of  the  house  signalling  for 
us  to  hurry.   It  was  6:38. 

When  we  arrived  at  the  spot,  Mrs. 
Thomas  was  calling  up  the  stairs,  just  a 
little  anxiously:  "Tonnnie!  Tornniie! 
You've  only  got  four  minutes,  I  tell  you !" 
She  turned  to  us :  "He's  always  that  way 
— just  arrives  the  very  last  minute." 

"And  never  failed  them  yet !"  Mr. 
Thomas  hurried  down  the  stairs.  "Come 
on,  folks,  if  you're  going.  The  show  must 
go  on!"  He  leaped  into  the  station  wagon 
and  the  six  of  us  piled  in,  or  at  least  two 
of  us  stood  on  the  running-boards  and  we 
were  dashed  lickety-split  in  the  direction 
of  the  barns,  fetching  up  with  a  screech- 
ing brake.  "One  hundred  and  fifty  sec- 
onds, folks  !    You'll  have  to  hurry  !" 

A  timid  pair  had  just  got  out  of  a  run- 
about. "We  wondered  if  we  could  listen 
to  you  broadcast — L — Mr.  Thomas?" 

"Where  you  from?"  asked  Lowell, 
never  stopping. 

"Pawling.    I'm  a  telephone  operator." 

He  was  one  of  the  local  "family."  "Sure. 
Come  along.  I'm  a  friend  of  all  telephone 
people." 

We  burst  into  a  gymnasium.  At  one 
end  was  a  screen,  at  the  other  an  asbestos 
motion  picture  booth,  for  Lowell  often 
gave  impromptu  illustrated  lectures  here 
to  his  Pawling  "family."  He  paused  at  a 
corner  room  that  was  fitted  up  with  all 
the  regular  radio  sending  apparatus.  The 
National  Broadcasting  Company's  control 
room  operator  was  looking  at  the  clock  a 
little  anxiously.  "One  minute  and  forty 
seconds,"  he  said. 

"Time  to  burn,"  remarked  Lowell,  and 
dashed  through  a  door  that  had  a  sign 
on  it:  "Halt!  Have  yon  turned  out  the 
lights!"  The  now  eight  honored  guests 
came  tumbling  after  and  then  we  came 
to  a  sudden  halt,  astonished,  balked.  For 
Lowell  Thomas  and  his  man  Friday,  Mr. 
Culberlson,  were  just  disappearing  through 
a  trap  door  in  the  ceiling!  A  twelve-foot 
ladder — or  worse  still,  just  cleats  nailed 
to  the  wall — was  the  only  way  to  get  up! 
We  made  it  in  record  time,  even  the 
somewhat  unathletic  ladies  in  their  dressy 
full-length  frocks. 

"Forty-five  seconds,"  announced  Air. 
Culbertson. 


We  panted  and  looked  around.  We  were 
up  among  the  rafters  that  were  covered 
with  sound-proofing.  There  was  a  single 
screened  window  and  it  was  hot !  We  sat 
on  benches.  Lowell  took  his  seat  before 
the  table  with  the  mike  on  it.  We  seemed 
all  ready  to  go,  when  Lowell  sprang  up  and 
gave  battle  to  a  wasp  that  was  buzzing 
against  the  screen.  "One  of  those  babies 
stung  me  once — right  in  the  middle  of  the 
broadcast !" 

Mr.  Culbertson's  hand  was  solemnly 
raised  and  he  was  looking  straight  at  Low-! 
ell.  "Loop  this  string  around  your  wrist,"' 
wiiispered  Lowell,  handing  it  to  one  of) 
the  ladies.  "When  he  gives  it  a  final  jerk, 
it  means  that  I'm  off  the  air."  He  gave 
it  a  pull  himself,  loosened  his  collar  and 
put  his  face  close  beside  the  microphone: 
"Good  ei'ening,  everybody!" 

It  was  the  same  good  old  voice  plus,  fori 
here  was  Lowell  himself,  smiling  and  shak- 
ing his  head  at  points  of  emphasis,  his 
eyes  a-twinkle.  Opposite  him,  sat  Cul- 
bertson, with  a  stop  watch  before  him.  At- 
the  end  of  each  minute,  he  would  lay  a' 
large  square  of  paper  on  the  table  in  line 
with  the  speaker's  line  of  vision,  designat- 
ing in  black  figures  the  radio  time :  "45" 
—"46" — "47."  We  never  knew  that 
minute  could  be  so  long !  A  rooster 
crowed  under  the  window  several  times' 
and  we  wondered  if  you  listeners  out  there 
on  the  air  got  it.  As  for  ourselves, 
sat  on  our  benches  in  a  hot  huddle,  fixed 
and  painfully  silent:  "58"— "58V>"— "59" 
"59I/2".  "And  so  long — until  toinorrozv!" 
The  string  on  the  lady's  wrist  was  given' 
a  violent  tug. 

"It's  all  over,"  said  Lowell.  He  hadn't 
turned  a  hair,  or  shown  the  least  sign  of 
nervousness.  "It  went  from  here  across 
the  Hudson,  where  it  was  picked  up  and 
carried  to  Bound  Brook,  New  Jersey.  And, 
I'm  telling  you,  this  is  the  biggest  audi- 
ence that  my  little  padded  cell  ever  accom- 
modated. I  hope  you  men  took  oflf  your  ; 
coats." 

It  was  harder  getting  down  than  it  had  > 
been  to  get  up,  and  the  air  below,  by  com- 
parison, seemed  frigid. 

Lowell  and  ourself  went  out  to  look  at  - 
the  stock,  where  he  met  a  stableman  whom 
he  was  evidently  laying  ofT.  "I'll  be  seeing 
you  in  town  now  and  then,"  said  Lowell. 

"I  hope  so,  sir — and  that  there'll  be  a  job 
soon  for  me.  I'd  rather  work  for  you 
than  anybody !" 

"So  long,  Barney." 

Back  at  the  house  again,  Lowell  begged 
to  be  excused  a  minute.  "I  get  pretty  hot 
and  bothered.  I'll  change  my  shirt,  if  you 
don't  mind."  He  was  wearing  a  natty 
double-breasted  linen  coat  when  he  came 
down. 

Applejack  cocktails  and  then  dinner  in 
a  large  and  elegant  dining-room,  well- 
furnished  with  antiques.  "Democrat  or 
Republican?"  someone  asked  him. 

"President  Roosevelt  has  been  my  guest 
here,"  was  his  smiling  reply. 

"And  he  and  Mrs.  Roosevelt  are  neigh- 
bors of  ours — just  across  the  river  in 
Dutchess  County,"  added  Mrs.  Thomas. 

There  was  nothing  more  said  about 
politics  after  that. 


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?.>mctliing  was  said  about  going  to  the 
\uliy  country  playhouse,  the  Starlight 
he  at  re.  but  the  matter  was  dropped  and 
1  iiit'initely  better  show  was  put  on.  We 
Iji  urned  for  coffee  to  a  Southern  pillared 
irtici)  which  had  been  added  the  year  be- 
r<  There  we  found  a  big  round-faced 
looking  down  upon  us  over  the 
i  iring  hills.  It  was  altogether  a 
picture,  a  happy  family  scene,  which 
,i>  uisly  included  all  of  us  in  its  homey 
ni-  ^piiere.  At  intervals,  we  were  con- 
iit  just  to  smoke  in  silent  contemplation 
1  tlic  scene  and  enjoyment  of  our  sur- 
. millings. 

\\  c  sat  round  in  a  circle.  Sonny,  the 
\i.l\e-year-old  son,  sat  in  the  centre  play- 
with  a  spaniel  pup  who  was  barking 

his  own  sliadow.  Lowell  sat  on  a  straw 
isiiiKii.  hlowiiiL;  >iiioke  clouds  from  his 
j^ar.  Mr<.  Thomas  and  her  mother  w-ere 
J,  1  tlie  swinging  seat. 

"Remember  when  I  was  looking  for  you 
I  vain — with  the  contract,  Lowell?"  asked 
towe. 

"You  bet  I  do — for  I  was  down  at  the 
ffice  signing  it.  I  walked  away  with  $15,- 
30  in  my  jeans." 

"That  was  the  happiest  Christmas  I  ever 
ad,"  put  in  Mrs.  Thomas.  "Imagine  find- 
ig  $15,000  in  your  stocking  on  Christ- 
las  inorning  !" 

"There  was  more  to  it  than  that."  added 
.Dwell.  "I  made  my  first  pax  inent  on  this 
lace  with  that  money.  I  had  seen  the 
lace  and  gone  crazy  about  it.    I  gave  them 

thousand  dollars  for  a  short-time  option 
n  it.  It  left  me  stone  broke,  in  fact  I  had 
orrowed  the  thousand.  The  whole  thing 
'as  crazy,  I  tell  you !  Then  I  got  the 
right  idea  of  trying  to  get  an  advance 
ayment  of  $15,000  on  my  next  book.  I 
•ent  to  all  the  publishers  in  New  York, 
nd  they  all  told  me  I  was  daft.  Then, 
le  very  day  that  the  option  was  due  to 
xpire,  I  got  it !  All  you  need  is  ambi- 
on.  nerve  and  a  little  luck!" 

W'e  all  knew  that  he  had  something  be- 
ide  that,  but  we  had  him  reminiscing  now, 
nd  no  one  interrupted. 

The  story  of  his  discovery  of  T.  E.  Law- 
ence  in  the  Arabian  Desert  was  inev- 
able.  And  how  he  had  come  back  and 
ventually  told  England  about  the  man 
'ho  had  roused  the  Arabs  against  the 
"urks,  the  man  of  whose  existence  the 
verage  Englishman  otherwise  would  never 
ave  known.  The  part  never  told  before, 
nd  which  throws  new  light  on  Lowell 
'homas's  character,  and  radio  career,  is 
ow,  even  at  that  early  date,  our  Lowell 
/as  speaking  in  Madison  Square  Garden, 
.'ew  York,  about  his  wonderful  adven- 
ures  in  Arabia,  when  a  British  impresario 
card  him  and  made  the  proposal  that  he 
ome  to  England  and  give  the  same  talk, 
.owell  felt  flattered,  but  he  took  little 
tock  in  it  all.  although  he  signed  a  50-30 
ontract.  Finally  Lowell  told  his  backer 
hat  he  would  not  consider  going  to  Lon- 
on  unless  two  ret|uests  were  complied 
.'ith.  First,  he  must  receive  a  personal  in- 
itation  from  the  King;  second,  he  would 
ppear  only  in  Co  vent  Garden,  London's 
acred  temple  of  music  and  Shakespeare. 
Then  Lowell  forgot  about  it.  It  was  all 
00  absurd.  Shortly  afterwards,  he  re- 
eived  a  cable  saying  that  both  his  demands 
lad  been  met  and  to  come  along  and  give 
lis  show!  With  everything  against  him, 
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Lowell  Thomas,  globe  trotter,  writer,  explorer  end  radio  news  com- 
mentator, was  reared  in  Cripple  Creek,  Colorado,  in  a  mining 
camp.  Before  he  was  eleven,  he  was  working  under  ground  in  the 
old  gold  mines.  He  attended  four  colleges,  working  his  way  through. 
He  has  been  broadcasting  since  1930,  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geo- 
graphical Society  and  of  the  American  Geographical  Society  and  has 
other  honors.  He  has  taught  in  four  universities,  but  prefers  to  be 
known  as  a  newspaper  man  and  world  traveler  rather  than  as  educator. 


that  he  gave  his  Lawrence-Allenby  lecture 
4,000  times  before  4,000,000  people,  in 
nearly  every  English-speaking  city  in  the 
world.  There  must  be  something  about 
the  speaking  personality  of  any  man  who 
can  do  that !  Ask  the  many  more  millions 
whom  he  addresses  over  the  air  daily,  what 
it  is. 

"Why,  I've  been  a  public  speaker  ever 
since  I  was  fifteen,"  Lowell  said,  giving 
an  explanation  of  himself.  "Was  lecturing 
in  Princeton  a  few  years  later.  Just  a  gift 
of  gab,  I  guess.  Once  or  twice  I  went  in 
for  some  coaching,  with  my  old  friend. 
Dale  Carnegie.  Away  back  in  my  cub  re- 
porter days,  I  was  given  an  assignment  in 
Chicago  where  there  were  two  speakers. 
One  put  them  to  sleep  and  the  other  spell- 
bound them.  I  asked  the  latter  what  was 
his  ..ecrc-t. 

"  'Be  humorous'  he  said,  'from  the  very 
start.'  " 

"Another  time,  I  asked  the  same  thing 
of  a  United  States  Senator  famous  for  his 


speeches. 

"  'Always  remember  the  interest  of  hu 
man  beings  in  human  beings,'  he  said. 

"I've  never  forgotten  to  make  use 
both.  I  tell  you,  you've  got  to  make  every 
thing  dramatic  without  being  too  theat 
rical,"  he  went  on.  "I  don't  think  I  wouli 
ever  have  put  iny  show  over  on  the  Brit 
ish  public  if  I  hadn't  made  it  dramatic 
True,  the  subject-matter  of  my  adventure 
with  Lawrence  in  Arabia  was  exciting,  bu 
I  made  it  a  spectacle.  To  my  knowledge 
I  was  the  first  person  ever  to  make  tise  o 
sound  eifects  as  we  know  them  today, 
said  it  with  music!" 

And  a  few  minutes  later  we  saw  hi 
standing  there  in  the  moonlight  in  fror 
of  his  lovely  country  home,  with  a  wav 
of  the  hand  and  in  that  familiar  friendl 
voice  saying:  "So  long!"  We  someho\ 
felt  like  a  member  of  the  Pawling  " 
ily,"  just  as  he  makes  us  feel  at  home  wit 
him  on  the  radio. 


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RADIO 
RAMBLINGS 

(Coiiti)iii,-(i  jrom  piuic  IS) 


:  Word  Is  Perfect 

\ikiiig  of  illusion — for  us,  the  most 
:  t  sense  of  it  rivr  produced  by  any 
offering  i^vs  aehieved  by  Cornelia 
Skinner's  one-xcoman  dramas  on  the 
lis  program  this  summer.  IVhy,  iiT 
rr,  don't  iir  ha<e  more  of  this  oit 
irf   To  US  it  seems  the  perfect  radio 


VdN'CHALANT  NUANCES 

I.ucy  Monroe,  considered  one  of  the 
•icst  singers  in  kilocycle  circles,  con- 
tly  refuses  offers  to  star  in  the 
es,  preferring  to  remain  unseen,  but 
iL-ard,  in  radio.  .  .  .  Ozzie  Kelson  has  a 
secret  yen  to  write  and  illustrate  sporting 
articles  for  the  newspapers.  Harriet  (Mrs. 
Ozzie)  Hilliard  explains  that  it  is  because 
of  his  association  with  Believe-It-Or-Xot 
Bob  Ripley.  .  .  .  Eddie  Duchin,  CBS  or- 
rhestra  leader  and  one  of  the  world's 
greatest  pianists,  has  his  hands  insured  for 
$100,000.00.  .  .  .  Rudy  \'allee,  whose  boy- 
hood ambition  was  to  be  a  mail  carrier, 
celebrated  his  thirty-fifth  birthday  this 
summer  at  his  lodge  in  Maine.  .  .  .  Robert 
Simmons,  Phillips  Lord  and  Voice  of  Ex- 
perience are  clergymen's  sons.  .  .  .  Lowell 
Thomas'  home,  near  Pawling,  New  York, 
rendezvous  for  explorers,  adventurers 
and  men  prominent  in  public  affairs  in  this 
and  other  nations.  .  .  .  Bob  (bazooka) 
Burns'  Christian  name  is  Robin.  Privately 
he  spells  his  last  name  without  the  final 
'.  .  .  .  Tim  Ryan  looks  like  Pat  O'Brien 
the  films.  .  .  .  Fashion  experts  consider 
Elza  Schallert,  XBC  movie  reviewer  and 
commentator  on  Hollywood  happenings, 
one  of  the  best-dressed  women  writers  in 
Hollywood.  She  is  married  to  Edwin 
Schallert,  drama  editor  of  tlie  Lew  Ancele^ 
Times,  and  their  tlirce  children,  William 
(13),  John  (9)  and  Roy  (,7j  are  talented 
musicians.  .  .  . 

Before  Fame 

An  obscure  cub  reporter,  Eddie  Guest, 
supplied  a  local  actor  ji'iV/i  lyrics  for  tzco 
songs — and  zcas  paid  twenty-fire  dollars 
for  them.  .  .  .  Virginia  Rea  earned  her 
first  dollar  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  as  soloist 
in  a  Des  Moines,  loi.a,  church  choir.  .  .  . 
Tii'enty-thrcc  years  ,;./,.  F.nin  l\apee,  con- 
ductor of  the  h'adit)  L  ity  .Music  Hall  Sun- 
day concerts  on  XBC,  arrived  in  America 
with  tzventy  dollars.  He  had  to  borrow 
an  additional  five  before  he  could  land. 
Kapee  ivas  born  in  Hungary.  .  .  .  Fifi 
D'Orsay  began  her  stage  career  at  sixteen, 
as  a  chorus  girl  ivith  the  Greenzvich  Vil- 
lage Follies.  .  .  .  Durelle  Alexander,  vocal- 
ist zvith  Paul  Whiteman,  zvas  playing  in 
the  moz'ies  at  the  age  of  seven.  Andre 
Kostclanetz  was  the  foremost  and  young- 
est opera  conductor  in  pre-zvar  Russia 
before  he  came  over  here  to  be  the  leader 
of  the  largest  dance  orchestra  in  radio.  .  .  . 
Barbara  La  Marr,  contralto  on  the  Mutual 
netzi'ork,  zvas  a  former  theater  cashier  in 
her  native  Nezv  Bedford,  Massachusetts. 
(Continued  on  page  99) 


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Richard  Crooks  returns  as  tenor  soloist  of  the  Voice  of  Firestone  programs. 
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the  program's  dramatic  sketches. 

The  Fleischmann  Hour.  Mainly  because 
Rudy  Vallee  is  an  expert  master  of  cere- 
monies. 

The  Kraft  Music  Hall.  Because  she's  a 
good  friend  of  Bing  Crosby  and  because 
she  likes  his  easy  manner  of  delivery.  The 
program  sometimes  impresses  her,  how- 
ever, as  being  too  informal.  And  for  the 
advertising  department,  there  are  no  kind 
words. 

And  with  radio  under  her  thumb,  Carole 
would  bear  down  on : 

All  hillbilly  quartets  from  the  hills  of 
Brooklyn. 

Most  masters  of  ceremonies.  The  ma- 
jority of  them  think  all  they  need  is  a 
microphone  and  a  script.  They  should  be 
forced  to  learn  it's  a  specialized  art,  by 
listening  to  Jack  Benny  and  Rudy  Vallee. 

At  least  half  of  the  amateurs.  Some  of 
the  amateur  programs  are  good,  some  are 
funny  and  some  go  beyond  all  compre- 
hension. 

Recorded  dance  programs.  Because  be- 
tween each  two  numbers  you  are  reminded 
at  length  that  for  ten  cents  down  and  for 
ten  cents  a  week  you  can  be  the  envy  of 
your  set  with  a  complete  outfit  in  fashion- 
able mackerel  cerise. 

Sunshine  hours.  This  is  usually  an  early 
morning  atrocity.  You  get  out  of  bed,  still 
half  asleep,  to  be  greeted  with  a  cheery 
good  morning  from  some  one  whose  voice 
has  a  phoney  ring  to  it.  All  cheerful  phil- 
osophers probably  beat  their  wives. 

"I'Vankly,  I'm  terribly  fond  of  radio. 
There's  more  excitement  about  it,  for  a 


performer,  than  either  the  stage  or  the 
screen.  When  that  little  red  light  goes  01 
you  know  you  have  to  go  out  there  an<' 
turn  in  a  performance,  because  there  are 
no  retakes  in  radio.  You're  either  good— 
or  you're  aromatic,  to  put  it  mildly. 

"My  first  radio  appearance  was  with 
Bing  Crosby  and  it  was,  to  say  the  least, 
an  experience.  I  was  so  frightened  my 
hands  froze  to  the  script,  my  voice  wasn't 
in  its  customary  place  and  my  knees 
knocked  right  through  a  pair  of  five  dollar 
stockings.  I  was  supposed  to  be  doing 
comedy,  but  I  raced  through  that  script 
like  Sir  Malcolm  Campbell  going  to  a  fire. 
Since  then  I've  calmed  down  a  bit,  and — 
in  case  any  prospective  sponsors  are  lis- 
tening— I  can  now  face  a  microphone  with 
what  might  even  pass  for  aplomb. 

"My  favorite  radio  day?  Sunday,  by  all 
means  !  On  Sundays  I  get  everything  from 
symphonies  to  Walter  Winchell,  with  stops 
along  the  way  at  Major  Bowes  and  wher- 
ever else  I  happen  to  flip  tlie  dial.  Alaybe 
I'm  wrong,  but  every  program  sounds 
good  on  Sunday.  Could  it  be,  as  I  suspect, 
because  they  arc  good?" 

"Perhaps,"  we  suggested,  grabbing  the 
rest  of  the  Lombard  cigarettes,  "it's  be- 
cause Sunday  is  always  so  far  away  from 
last  Monday." 

"It  can't  be  that,  because  next  Monday  is 
always  just  around  the  corner.  Like  tele- 
vision. Tell  me,  what  do  you  know  about 
television?" 

We  don't  know  a  thing  about  it.  So  if 
anyone  hears  any  rumors,  please  wire  us 
collect,  because  we'd  like  to  see  Miss  Lom- 
bard again. 


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(Coiiliiiucd  jyoin  paf/c  97) 


1:-Man's  Hkadache 

.aurie  Erskine,  author  of  CBS'  Renfrew 
'he  Mounted  series,  relieves  nervous  ten- 
1  following  long  script  session,  he  says, 

standing  on  his  head.  He  discovered 
.  upside-down  cure  accidentally,  while 
o\cring  a  box  of  matches  from  beneath 

ouch.  Now  he  declares  that  he  can 
,ikc  his  pipe,  and  even  read,  in  this 
.iiion. 

They  Say 

'essica  Dragonette:    "The  soul  is  dyed 
h  ,'/;,■  color  of  its  leisure  thouyhls." 
R.ofario  Bourdon:    "Search  dilifiently 
depths  of  your  uiiiid  and  you'll  never 
urn  zeithout  so))ie  treasure." 
Zounie  Gales:     "Lor',  little  chile,  zvhcn 
'i  ain't  got  no  education,  yuh  jes'  nat- 
•  lly  got  to  use  your  brains." 
Ken  Darby:   "While  the  vulgar  fret,  the 
f.itleinan  renuiins  calm  and  spacious." 
Dick  Malone:     "Tell  a  zconian  a  secret 
i  she  ivill  promise  to  tell  everybody  not 
tell  anybody." 

HE  Little  Woman 

Peter  Van  Steeden,  musical  director  of 
<ii/n  Hall  Tonight,  is  married  to  Mar- 
-y  Wells,  his  childhood  sweetheart.  .  .  . 
S  D'Orsay,  French  singing  comedienne, 
the* wife  of  Dr.  Maurice  Hill,  a  former 
:or.  .  .  .  Willie  Howard  is  the  husband 
the  former  Emily  Miles,  whom  he  first 
It  in  a  New  York  Winter  Garden  pro- 
ction.  .  .  .  Tim  Ryan  and  Irene  No- 
;tte  became  mister  and  missus  while  both 
:re  employed  by  a  traveling  musical  com- 
y  company.  Tim  was  press  agent  of  the 
ow  and  Irene  the  ingenue.  .  .  .  Marion 
dley  is  married  to  Michael  Rauchiesen, 
;rman  singing  teacher  and  coach.  .  .  . 
•ed  Waring  is  the  husband  of  the  former 
/alyn  Nair.  .  .  .  Hal  Kemp  eloped  with 
:  socially  prominent  Betsy  Slaughter  of 
;xas.  They're  still  mister  and  missus, 
50  poppa  and  momma.  .  .  .  Mark  War- 
iw  met  Sylvia  Rappaport  at  a  fire  and 
arried  her  not  long  afterward.  .  .  . 

.'s  THE  Gypsy  in  Him! 

Locked  in  his  room,  icalkiug  up  and 
'\iwn,  up  and  do'ani,  Harry  Horlick.  con- 
\tCtor  of  the  A  &  P  Ciypsies,  plays  softly 
It  his  violin  to  bring  back  niemories  of 
S  native  Russia.  This  is  his  riliuil  before 
fch  broadcast.  In  thirteen  years  on  this 
•me  program.  Harry  never  has  taken  a 
ication,  finding  his  escape  froni  the  coni- 
onplace  in  the  icild  romance  of  gypsy 
Hsic. 

"There  are  at  least  fifteen  types  of 
ypsy  music,"  says  the  Gypsy  maestro. 
They  come  from  plainsmen  and  rovers, 
•om  Hungary,  Spain,  Russia  and  the 
atin  countries.  ...  I  contend,  too,  that 
lere  is  American  Gypsy  music — in  the 
legro  spirituals,  the  liillliilly  and  cowboy 
mgs  and  in  the  older  American  folk- 
allads,  the  same  romance  rings  clear  and 
ue." 

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"LIBELED  LADY' 

Her  reputation  was  worth  $5,000,000 — and  she  made  up  her 
mind  to  collect  from  the  man  who  called  her  "husband- 
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couldn't  control!  The  full-length  novel,  based  on  the  picture, 
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ROMANCES. 

Among  the  sixteen  other  stories  illustrated  with  actual  scenes 
from  the  important  productions  are: 

"Champagne  Waltz,"  starring  Gladys  Swarthout  and  Fred 
MacMurray. 

"Dodsworth,"  with  Walter  Huston,  Ruth  Chatterton  and  Mary 
Astor. 

"The  Plainsman,"  starring  Gary  Cooper  and  Jean  Arthur. 
"Green  Light,"  with  Errol  Flynn  and  Anita  Louise. 
"Born  to  Dance,"  with  Eleanor  Powell  and  James  Stewart. 
"Pennies  From  Heaven,"  starring  Bing  Crosby. 

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watching  others  that  charm  and  poise  can  be  destroyed 
instantly  by  the  misuse  of  hands.  And  by  the  same 
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accomplish  much  of  their  poise  by  proper  hand  action. 

The  makers  of  Frostilla— the  famous  skin  lotion  that 
keeps  hands,  face  and  body  smooth  and  lovely— asked 
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10 jf  and  20/ 


Ben  Bernie,  the  Old  Maestro,  seems  puzzled  by  the  type  of  microphone 
used  by  his  orchestra  on  the  initial  program  of  NBC  on  November 
15th,  1926.  Bernie  has  been  on  NBC  networks  since  the  early  days  of 
radio  and  will  celebrate  the  tenth  anniversary  of  NBC  this  Fall. 


Horlick,  at  present,  is  orchestrating  four 
new  numbers  which  he  bought  in  manu- 
script from  a  Gypsy  fortune  teller  and 
compiling  a  book  of  Romany  Romances. 

Serious  ))iusician  that  he  is,  he  cherishes 
one  frii'olous  hobby — he  loves  to  demon- 
strate his  skill  as  a  ventriloquist. 

Home  Town  Highlights 

Howard  Price,  soloist  with  Harry  Hor- 
lick's  Gypsies,  hails  from  Scranton,  Penn- 
sylvania .  .  .  Lois  Ravel  is  from  Baltimore, 
Maryland  .  .  .  Fred  Allen  was  born  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  and  his  wife, 
Portland  Hofia,  in  Portland,  Oregon  .  .  . 
Richard  Himber  comes  from  Newark,  New 
Jersey  .  .  .  Irene  Noblette  is  a  native  of 
San  Francisco  and  Tim  Ryan  is  a  Bayonne 
(New  Jersey)  product  .  .  .  Alois  Havrilla 
was  born  in  Pressov,  Czechoslovakia  .  .  . 
Helen  Marshall  comes  from  Joplin,  Mis- 
souri .  .  .  San  Antonio,  Texas,  was  the 
birthplace  of  Irene  Hubbard  (Maria  of 
Show  Boat)  .  .  .  Fibber  McGee  and  Molly 
hail  from  Peoria,  Illinois  .  .  .  Dr.  Frank 
Black  is  a  Philadelphia  boy. 

Who  Laughed  Last? 

Pick  and  Pat  ivcre  indulf/ing  in  a  par- 
ticularly good  joke.  .  .  .  Bill  Robinson, 
King  of  Tap,  zvas  driving  along  Holly- 
iK'ood  Boulevard  ivhen  the  joke  tickled  his 
cars  from  his  car  radio.  "Ha-ha-ha!" 
laughed  Bill  heartily.  Crash!  went  his  car 
against  the  fender  of  a  shiny  new  Ducsen- 
hcrg.  Bill  tried  to  e.rplain  to  the  Ducsen- 
hrrg's  tralc  driver— hut  the  latter  couldn't 
laugh  at  the  joke  until  he  had  recovered 


the  price  of  a  iieiu  fender  from  Robins 

"Your  Announcer  Is — " 

Howard  Claney.  .  .  .  Ex-art  stude 
and  Shakespearean  actor,  he  went  fn 
Carnegie  Tech  into  the  army  in  1918 — 1 
the  Armistice  stopped  his  sailing.  ] 
studied  architecture,  sculpture,  painting  a 
draina.  In  New  York  he  stumbled  intc 
stage  job  and  thence  to  the  NBC  drams 
staff.  He  became  an  announcer  in  19 
Howard  is  single  and  was  born  in  Pit 
burgh  in  1898.  He  still  does  some  pai: 
ing,  and  occasionally  sells  a  picture. 

Ken  Niles  .  .  .  Was  born  in  1906 
Livingston,  Montana,  and  studied  at  t 
universities  of  Montana  and  Washingti 
His  first  radio  experience  was  as  a  crooi 
with  the  orchestra  of  Vic  Meyers, 
now  is  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Washii 
ton.  Ken  joined  the  Henry  Duffy  play 
and  was  en  route  east  to  accept  a  drai 
scholarship  when  he  dropped  in  at  Ci 
studio  KHJ  in  Los  Angeles — and  ne 
has  left  there.  You've  heard  him  on  i 
Hollywood  Hotel  Hour  and  the  Burns  a 
Allen  series.  Ken  has  blue  eyes  and  d: 
curly  hair,  stands  five  feet  eleven  incll 
tall  and  weighs  one  hundred  and  fi/ 
pounds.    But — he's  married,  girls! 

Ben  Grauer.  .  .  .    An  ex-juvenile, 
began  acting  in  the  vtovies  zvhen  /;,• 
ciglif  years  old.   For  many  years  i 
on  the  stage.    He  appeared  also  in 
plays,  but  didn't  like  the  juvenile  O' 
lain  roles  assigned  him.  So,  in 
auditioned  and  became  and  NBC  ann. 


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lal  sa)iie  year  he  xcon  his  B.S.  degree  ] 
City  College  in   Xeiv  York  and  the  j 
ndham  prize  for  extemporaneous  speak-  ; 
7.  He  excels  as  an  ad  libber.  Ben  was 
rn  on  Stolen  Island,  Xezu  )'ork.  in  I'MhS. 
is  a  book  eoUector. 

Cornelius  Westbrook  Van  Voorhis,  Jr.  [ 

"Time  Marches  On.  .  .  ."  That's  Van's 
iccato  voice.  He  attended  the  U.  S. 
aval  Academy,  but  left  when  he  received 
legacy  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
'liars.  The  money  went  the  way  of  most 
rtunes,  and  \'an  went  on  the  stage,  got 
job  on  a  small  New  York  radio  station 
id  later  joined  CBS.  He  is  on  many  pro- 
ams,  under  a  number  of  aliases.  \'aii 
as  born  in  New  York  City  on  Septembei 
St,  1903,  and  has  dark  brown  hair  and  | 
ay  eyes.  He  weighs  one  hundred  and 
ty-five  pounds. 

AN  Mail  and  Friendship 

Ken  Darby,  leader  and  arranger  for  the 
ng's  Men  Quartet,  tells  us  that  he  has 
rmed     many     interesting  friendships 
rough    fan    letters.    In    San  Francisco 
ere  is  a  Chinese  laundryman  with  whom 
en  corresponds  regularly.    The  chairman 
a  regular  listener  and  writes  Ken  his 
jmments  on  a  laundry  ticket.  Another 
f  Ken's  regular  correspondents  is  a  light- 
ouse  keeper  in  an  isolated  post  off  the 
Dast  of  Maine.     Incidentally,  the  young 
smposer  believes  that  hotcha  singing  is 
the  way  out.     "Listeners,"  says  Ken, 
are   becoming   more   discriminating.  It 
:  my  opinion  that  melody  will  rule  the 
irwaves  this  fall." 


Concerning  Jessica 

Yon,  may  have  thought  of  her  as  a 
issiie-paper  angel,  taken  out  of  a  card- 
oard  box  on  Friday  evenings  for  the 
'itics  Service  Concert,  and  carefully  put 
ack  again  z\.'hcn  the  concert  is  oz'cr.  But 
essica  Dragonette  is  a  I'cry  huntan  little 
irl,  enjoying  normal  friendships  and  rec- 
eations  when  she  is  not  iK'orkiug  or  sludy- 
ig.  She  takes  great  pleasure  in  sports 
nd  is  said  to  c.vccl  ninny  men  in  liorse- 
ack  riding.  .Uso  she  is  a  proUi  iciil  tuina- 
lanist  and  loves  to  a;^'/;;;  ui  rou.ili  surf, 
'he  delights,  too.  in  taking  long  zealks  in 
he  country.  .S'irenui'us  e.vercise,  .Icssicn 
eliezrs.  keeps  her  in  tine  condition  for  her 
I'eekly  concerts  on  the  air. 

Rec(^itly  Jessica  met  a  stifif  test  of  her 
nettle,  when  she  flew  to  Cleveland  to  sing 
,t  the  Great  Lakes  E.\i)osition.  Her  plane 
vas  met  at  the  Cleveland  airport  by  a 
lelegation  of  two  hundred  persons,  headed 
ly  Mayor  Burton,  and  Jessica  was  hurried 
o  City  Hall,  given  the  keys  to  the  city 
md  made  an  admiral  in  the  Exposition 
ileet.  Then,  for  the  next  six  hours,  she 
littendcd  one  reception  after  another,  with- 
')Ut  break.  The  next  day  she  was  feted  at 
li  civic  luncheon  in  her  honnr,  vi>itc(l  a  hos- 
'lital  where  a  friend  was  ill,  ;uk1  then  re- 
learscd  up  to  the  hour  of  her  broadcast. 
After  which  she  shot)k  hands  with  hun- 
ireds  who  stayed  to  greet  her — and  then 
went  the  rounds  of  the  Exposition. 

Good  stuff  in  this  tittle  hundred-and-fivc- 
pound  songbird! 

Ballots  Without  Bullets 

Seems  we're  going  to  elect  a  president 
pretty  soon  .  .  .  Don't  forget  to  cast  your 
vote! 


Join  the  modem  women  who  no 
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old-fashioned  to  suffer  in  silence,  be- 
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such  suffering. 

Many  who  use  Midol  do  not  feel  one 
twinge  of  pain,  or  e\en  a  moment's 
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including  women  who  have  always  had 
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Don't  let  the  calendar  regulate  your 
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WEST  COAST  RAMBLINGS 


Versatile  veteran  NBC  announcer,  Grahann  McNamee  has  been  prominen 
on  many  studio  programs  and  sports  and  special  events  broadcasts 
Graham  is  a  good  builder-upper  for  any  program  on  which  he  figures, 


Amos  'n'  Andy  are  completely  sold  on 
California.  At  least  Andy  (Freeman 
Gosden)  is,  and  as  soon  as  Amos  (Charles 
Correll)  recovers  from  a  recent  bill  he'll 
like  the  place  again.  All  the  sunshine 
went  to  his  head,  Amos  contends,  that 
was  his  trouble.  He  became  outdoor-con- 
scious from  the  minute  of  his  arrival,  to 
such  an  extent  that  he  invested  in  a 
swanky  Beverly  Hills  home  with  the  cus- 
tomary swimming  pool.  Amos  never  en- 
joyed anything  so  much  as  that  pool — 
until  the  first  of  the  month.  The  water 
bill  was  ^63.  Nowadays  Amos  is  taking 
long  walks  around  Beverly  Hills  for  that 
outdoor  feeling. 


It  unist  he  Unr.  T  lull's  I  he  only  pns- 
sihlr  r.v/^laiiallon  for  the  u'o.y  nich  'I'owrll 
and  Joan  lUondcll  .nc  mlnnj  ihcsr  days. 
Attciiding  a  HollywcxKl  Hotel  /^ini/nnii 
one  Frday  evening,  ive  sf'otlcd  Joan's 
blonde  head  right  up  in  the  front  row  of 
scats.  And  the  nc.vt  i-Tciiin,/.  7chilc  at- 
tending the  Shell  Chalcan  hrondnist  where 
Joan  was  playing  in  iJiiimT  at  Kight,  wc 


spotted — ynn  gnessed  it! 
and  Dick  Pozlvll. 


-the  front  rc 


Some  Hollywood  folks  in  the  five-figu 
salary  range  do  manage  to  live  with 
their  incomes.  Bob  Burns,  for  instan< 
has  been  putting  out  $27.50  per  month  f 
rent  since  his  arrival  in  town.  But 
other  day  the  landlord  decided  on  a  fiv 
dollar  raise.  We  offered  our  sympatl 
to  Bob  but  found  him  pliilosophical  evi. 
in  the  face  of  such  adversity.  "Wa-a, 
Bob  said  without  a  trace  of  bitternes 
"that's  the  price  of  fame." 

The  Bob   Burns   Day  at  Little  Ro 
Arkansas,  on  July  27th,  was  attended 
the  Van  Buren  sage  and  his  bazooka 
person.    Three  bands,  plus  all  the  Bur 
kinfolk,  greeted  the  plane  which  broug 
their  Local  Boy  home.    Governor  Jam 
W.  Futrell  escorted  Bob  around  town  at 
took  him  to  Hot  Springs  the  next  day 
address  the  visitors  at  the  Centennial  Ccl 
bration.    The    pay-off,    however,    is  th 
Governor  Futrell  is  the  same  gentlcmj 


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ui  expelled  Bob  from  school  years  ago. 


<lilio  Cantor  and  Samuel  (loldu  vn  have 
ntcly  CDme  to  the  parting  of  the  ways. 
I  ^  Eddie  has  had  a  yen  for  some  time 
ike  Three  Men  on  a  Horse,  but  Mr. 
A  vn  (Inc-n't  I'crl  the  same  about  it — 
'h    owns  till'  puturr  rights.  Another 
ul    contrntioii    was    an  agreement 
Tcby  Eddie  would  receive  $150,000  per 
lire  and  10  per  cent,  of  the  profits.  But 
c  weren't  any  profits.    .So  Eddie  will 
nuiking  e>es  exchisi\el\-  at  mikes  for 
hile.    r.m  tiiat  liardly  means  the  bread- 
tor  the  Cantors,  since  tliat  Lux  airing 
done  brought  him  $8500. 


All  these  nanors  of  the  movie  studios 
yeing  at  Mir  'a'ith  the  radio  studios  ha7r 
'>een  squelehed  once  and  for  all  by  Metro- 
'Jold'a'yn-}fayer.  They  have  just  appointed 
Eddie  Mannix  as  head  of  their  radio  pol- 
'cies,  thereby  insuring  eodperation  of  their 
ttars  for  air  shon'S. 


Jack  Benny  isn't  sold  enough  on  Cali- 
fornia yet  to  get  a  house  and  mortgage 
out  here.  But  he  lias  leased  a  very  nice 
little  place  of  fifteen  rooms  in  Hollywood 
for  the  coming  year.  Says  he  signed  it  in 
a  coma,  though,  since  the  real  estate  agent 
cornered  him  the  same  day  he  purchased 
tliat  triple  star  sapphire  bracelet  for  Mary. 


Jack  had  a  grand  vacation  this  sum- 
mer. He  spent  it  playing  golf — six  dif- 
ferent varieties  of  golf.  "The  golf  ball 
industry,"  Jack  said,  "has  already  de- 
clared an  extra  dividend  on  the  strength 
of  my  tee  eccentricities." 


Frances  Langford  felt  so  gala  after 
signing  that  two-year  contract  for  Holly- 
wood Hotel  that  she  put  on  an  impromptu 
party  that  evening  in  her  Beverly  Hills 
home.  Over  a  hundred  guests  agreed  that 
this  was  the  only  way  Frances  should 
ever  put  on  a  party.  The  wind-tip  was  a 
baseball  game  organized  by  Benny  (iood- 
man,  and  costumed  b\-  Dick  Powell  and 
George  Raft.  The  Langford  rugs  and 
draperies  were  pressed  into  service  by  the 
costume  department  with  startling  effects. 


At  the  Hollywood  Hotel  rehearsal  the 
other  day  7i.'e  noted  a  y(H(;/i/  i:iid  hand- 
some young  man  7i.'as  getting  all  Trances' 
attention  beticee)!  nnmheis.  ]'oiing  and 
Handsome,  ice  found  out  later,  hail  eome 
all  the  icay  from  .Uinneapolis  ju.U  to 
Spend  an  afternoon  and  eiening  with 
Franees. 


Lily  Pons  received  one  of  the  biggest 
ovations  ever  accorded  a  Hollywood  Bowl 
I  artist  when  she  sang  there  in  August. 
I  Andre  Kostelanetz  conducted  the  entire 
I  concert.  He  and  Miss  Pons  planed  in 
I  from  New  York  the  day  before  the  con- 
(  cert  and  announced  that  they  would  be 
I    married  while  in  town. 


Rh&psody  in  flowers.  TU&t  is 
Blue  Walt?  Perfume.  Not 
just  the  fr&srance  of  one 
flower/  but  a  myriad  of 
flowers  .  .  .  not  of  just  one 
mood/  but  many  moods. 


Its  blended  bouquet  adapts 
itself  to  you  and  your  person- 
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Genial  Don  Wilson,  NBC  onnouncer,  achieved  gratifying  success  this 
sunnmer  with  the  Jello  program,  in  the  absence  of  Jack  Benny.  Through 
his  expert  direction  Tim  and  Irene  became  highlights  of  this  program. 


All  the  femme  songsters  and  would-be 
ones  in  the  colony  have  been  industriously 
airing  their  vocal  chords  for  the  past 
months.  Reason :  announcement  that  Law- 
rence Tibbett  would  soon  make  Loz'e 
Flight  for  the  fillums.  When  Mr.  Tibbett 
arrived,  he  was  asked  what  preference  he 
might  have  regarding  a  leading  lady.  "No 
singers,  please,"  said  Lawrence,  "I  want 
to  play  opposite  a  beautiful  woman." 


Since  Rudy  Vallcc  fell  heir  to  Frank 
Fay's  gelatine  job.  Hollyivood  is  wonder- 
ing if  Frank  will  be  back  in  town  again. 
Looks  like  that  "finis"  Barbara  Staniuyck 
put  on  their  marriage  was  really  meant. 
She's  being  seen  more  and  more  in  the 
company  of  Robert  Taylor  and  he's  being 
seen  less  and  less  in  the  company  of  other 
Hollywood  gals. 


There's  a  new  wrinkle  to  this  "dubbing" 
business  that  we  have  just  heard  about. 
A  certain  radio  comedian's  sponsor  wasn't 
among  his  more  ardent  fans  after  the  first 
broadcast.  Among  other  things  that  didn't 
sound  well  to  his  ears  was  the  weak  ap- 
plause from  the  broadcast  audience.  Being 
a  man  of  resource  as  well  as  discrimina- 
tion, the  sponsor  sent  out  for  records  of 
a  famous  comedian's  broadcasts.  And 
had  the  deafening  applause  dubbed  in  on 
his  so-called  comic's  next  broadcast. 


There  is  such  a  thing  as  too  much  pub- 


licity. Even  good  publicity.  Sam  Hearn 
is  sick  of  reading  and  hearing  of  this  guy 
Schlepperman,  for  instance.  He'd  much 
rather  have  Sam  Hearn  get  the  breaks  for 
a  change.  But  it  looks  like  it's  too  late^ 
for  any  hope  noiv.  In  his  first  picture, 
Florida  Special,  Sam  was  billed  as  Schlep- 
perman. And  in  the  Big  Broadcast  of 
1937  it's  simply  "Schleppy."  Learning  of 
this  last  billing.  Sam  sought  out  the  best] 
hra'ycr  in  ton-n.  for  advice.  The  lawyer 
listened  sympathetically  to  the  zvhole  sad  ^ 
tale.  "I  don't  see  ivhat  can  be  done  about  \ 
the  situation,"  he  said  thoughtfully,  "but 
I  certainly  understand  your  feelings,  Mr. 
Schlepperman." 


Since  joining  up  with  the  movies, 
Martha  Rayc  is  all  set  for  television.  The 
Klieg  lights  have  melted  some  twenty-four 
pounds  of  Raye  curves.  But  there's 
much  to  the  voice  as  ever  and  she'll  be 
back  on  the  air  just  as  soon  as  the  Big 
Broadcast  of  1937  is  safely  in  the  little! 
tin  box. 


After  his  last  picture  assignment,  Don 
Anieche  found  the  First  Nighter  pro- 
grams a  decided  snap.  The  movie  was 
Ramona  and  most  of  it  was  filmed  on 
location.  It's  a  technicolor  picture,  and 
therein  lay  the  difficultes.  For  the  cast 
had  to  rise  at  four  each  morning  and  be 
on  the  job  before  five.  The  color  camera 
has  a  liking  for  the  "white"  early  morning 
light  and  a  decided  antipathy  towards  the 


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"yellow"  lights  that  appear  around  noon 
to  sunset. 


A  year  ago  Marion  Talley  would  have 
felt  very  glum  at  the  news  of  her  1600 
acres  of  wheat  being  destroyed  by  the 
Kansas  drought.  But  now  she's  gone  Hol- 
lywood with  gusto  and  farming  will  be 
merely  an  avocation  She's  spent  the  hard-  I 
est  year  of  her  life  in  Hollywood,  too, 
between  picture  and  radio  engagements. 
And  milking  a  herd  of  cows  in  the  morn- 
ing, according  to  Marion,  is  play  com-  ' 
pared  to  doing  the  daily  dozen  a  dozen 
times  before  breakfast — and  then  having 
to  go  without  breakfast. 


Joe  Cook  says  he's  purring  all  over  the 
place  since  Shell  Chateau  signed  him  for 
more  appearances  after  his  debut  on  the 
program  last  month.  Says  he's  crazy 
about  California,  but  not  crazy  enougli 
to  live  here  the  year  'round.  Besides 
there's  his  country  home  at  Lake  Hopat- 
cong.  X.  J.  It's  known  as  Sleepless  Hol- 
lozv — and  for  good  reason,  according  to 
visitors.  Joe  maintains  there  a  retinue  of 
old  actor  friends.  In  the  pose  of  very 
dignified  old  family  servants,  they  act  as 
the  comedian's  confederates  in  those  fa- 
mous Cook  practical  jokes. 


Haze  you  iiotieed  the  }iczii  lilt  to  Benny 
Goodman's  music  of  late?  We  suspected 
there  icas  more  than  the  Camel  Caravan 
back  of  this  exuberance,  so  set  our  spies 
to  zcork.  They  found  the  reason — and  a 
:-ery  good  one.  Her  name  is  Phyllis  Lud- 
zcig.  She's  blonde,  blue-eyed  and  a  free- 
lance player  for  the  cclluloidcrs. 


Raymond  Paige,  baton  wielder  for  the 
Hollywood  Hotel  programs,  has  just  been 
offered  the  position  of  musical  director 
for  Columbia  network  on  the  west  coast. 
Mr.  Paige  knows  his  stuff.  In  fact  he's 
just  done  something  in  the  music  line  that 
Leopold  Stokowski  swore  couldn't  be  done. 
After  months  of  research  into  the  tech- 
nical phases  of  radio,  Stokowski  stated 
that  radio  was  incapable  of  reproducing 
successfully  the  music  of  more  than  a 
sixty-piece  orchestra.  Raymond  Paige,  on 
hearing  this  ultimatum,  set  to  work  at 
once.  He  assembled  a  130-piece  orchestra 
and  put  on  a  special  program  for  Colum- 
bia officials.  Mr  Paige  was  deluged  with 
telegrams  following  the  broadcast.  All 
the  CBS  moguls  in  New  York  were 
thrilled  beyond  ten  words. 


It  never  rains  but  it  pours  in  California, 
was  Prank  Porrcst's  surprised  discozery. 
After  being  in  Hollyzvood  for  sez'cral 
zveeks  he  was  signed  up  for  a  Camel  Cara- 
van program  and  a  moz'ing  picture  on  the 
same  day.  But  the  pay-off  came  zvhen  he 
found  that  he  had  to  start  both  jobs  on 
the  same  day.  Mr.  P arrest  spent  the  first 
day  dashing  from  radio  rehearsals  at 
Columbia  broadcasting  station  to  Para- 
mount stiidos  for  scenes  in  Big  Broadcast 
of  1937.  At  five  the  radio  program  zvent 
on  and  at  si.v  Mr.  P.  was  back  at  Para- 
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RADIO  LAUGH 


(Continued  from  page  13) 


GEORGE:  I  thought  your  sister  and  her 
husband  were  inseparable. 

GRACIE:  Yeah — it  takes  about  six  peo- 
ple to  drag  them  apart. 

(GEORGE  BURNS  and  GRACIE 
ALLEN.) 

PHIL:  Bottle,  please!  When  you 
snecce,  do  it  the  other  zcay. 

BOTTLE :  I'm  sorry,  sir,  I  don't  know 
the  other  way. 

PHIL:  You  don't  understand,  my  simple 
sinus.  When  I  sneeze  I  put  my  hand 
over  my  mouth. 

BOTTLE:    Why  do  you  do  that,  sir? 

BEETLE:    To  eatch  his  teeth! 

PHIL:  Bottle,  you're  ruining  my  golf 
game.  And  to  think  that  yesterday  I  got 
four  birdies. 

BOTTLE:    Four  birdies? 

PHIL:    Yes — three  on  the  green  .  .  . 

BEETLE:  Yeah  .  .  .  and  one  from  the 
caddie! 

(PHIL  BAKER,  BOTTLE  and 
BEETLE,  Gulf  Program.) 

PICK:   Was  you  ever  in  the  firing  line? 

PAT:  Sure  .  .  .  only  last  week  our 
boss  stood  us  all  up  in  line  an'  I  was  the 
first  one  ivhat  he  fired. 

PICK:  I  know,  but  was  you  ever 
wounded  in  battle? 

PAT:  Yes  sir,  in  the  battle  of  Mess  o' 
Potatoes  a  bullet  hit  me  right  in  the  Dar- 
danelles. 

PICK:   Were  you  thrilled? 

PAT:  No— bored! 

(PICK  and  PAT.) 

MARY:  Look  Jack — here's  a  present 
for  you. 

JACK:    What  is  it,  Mary? 

MARY:   A  telephone  book. 

JACK:  But  Mary,  I've  got  three  tele- 
phone books  in  my  house  now. 

MARY:  I  know — but  your  table  is  still 
lopsided! 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jello  Program.) 

FRED:  The  first  thing  I  do  when  I 
wake  up  is  look  in  the  morning  paper. 

PORTLAND:  What's  the  point  of 
that? 

FRED:  That's  how  I  find  out  how  I 
feel. 

PORTLAND:  But  that's  silly. 

FRED:  No  it  isn't  ...  if  my  name  isn't 
in  the  obituary  column  I  assume  that  I'm 
still  alive.    So  I  get  up. 

PORTLAND:  Well,  how  can  you  tell 
when  you've  got  spring  fever,  Mr.  Allen? 

FRED:  I'll  tell  you.  If  you  have  a 
sneaky  feeling  at  noon  time  that  your 
rheumatism  got  up  that  morning  and  left 
your  body  in  bed — you've  got  it! 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

PAT  :  We'll  go  there  in  a  'plane. 

PICK:  Who's  goin'  where  in  what? 

PICK:  Just  think  ...  if  you  go  high 
enougli  they'll  call  you  the  sky  terrier. 

PAT :  I'd  rather  stay  down  here  and  be 
called  a  groundhog. 

PICK:  Now  just  how  high  would  you 
like  to  go  in  a  plane? 

PAT :  Just  high  enough  to  shake  hands 
with  Singer's  Midgets! 

(PICK  and  PAT.) 


EDDIE:  Jimmy,  I've  got  a  great  feat 
for  viy   paper   .   .   .  Embarrassing 
ments.  I  pay  a  dollar  for  each  one  sent 

JIMMY:  Do  you  get  many? 

EDDIE:   Yes  .  .  .  listen  'to  this 
"Dear  Editor:  I  came  home  early  3 
day  and  found  another  guy  kissing 
wife.     Please  send  tivo  dollars — my 
was  embarrassed,  too." 

JIMMY:  Did  you  send  him  the  tw 
lars? 

EDDIE:  No— I  sent  him  three 
figured  the  felloiv  he  caught  was  em 
rassed,  too! 

(EDDIE  CANTOR  and  JIM 
WALLINGTON.) 

PICK:  Pat,  Lincoln  was  a  great  man 
he  fought  for  years  for  freedom. 

PAT:  Yes  .  .  .  and  then  he  got  marri 
(PICK  and  PAT.) 

PAT:  I  done  told  you  I  was  a  big  n: 
...  I  was  a  giant. 

PICK:  Pat,  you  couldn't  be  a  giant.  \ 
is  only  about  five  feet  six. 

PAT:  Dat's  right  ...  Mr.  Barn, 
advertised  me  as  de  smallest  giant  in 
world.  , 

PICK:  But  Pat,  old  boy,  I  is  going 
make  you  de  toast  of  de  world. 

PAT:  De  toast  of  de  world? 

PICK:  That's  right — toast  of  de  wor 

PAT:  Well  ...  If  I'm  to  be  de  to  IH 
drop  a  couple  of  eggs  on  me  now  .  . 
hungry. 

(PICK  and  PAT.) 

PICK:  What  paper  is  that  you  g 
Pat? 

PAT:  The  Morning  Headache.  Wl 
paper  you  got  there? 

PICK:  The  Evening  Jag.  Which  c 
has  the  latest  ncivs? 

P.4T:  The  Morning  Headache  .  . 
ahvavs  comes  after  the  Evening  Jag. 

(PICK  and  PAT.) 

EDDIE:  You  know  what  a  Senator 

PARK:  There's  a  Matador,  a  Picac 
and  a  Senator. 

EDDIE:  No,  stupid  .  .  .  Matadors 
Picadors  fight  the  bull. 

PARK:  I  see  .  .  .  and  a  Senator  thro' 
the  bull. 

(EDDIE  CANTOR  and  PARKY 
KARKUS]) 


PICK :  I  can't  help  your  not  likin'  y<^ 
soup  .  .  .  my  heart  wasn't  in  my  cook 
tonight. 

PAT ;    Maybe  your  heart  wasn't, 
your  hair  was !    I  mean  to  ask  you- 
does  your  face  smell  so  funny? 

PICK:  My  face  smells  funny  becaiil 
I  did  what  de  cook  book  say  .  .  .  right  ' 
fore  I  cook  dinner  tonight. 

PAT:  What  did  de  cook  book  say? 

PICK:  It  say:  "Before  startin'  to  coc 
rub  a  little  garlic  on  your  pan" ! 

(PICK  and  PAT.) 

HONEY  CHILE:  I  went  to  cook 
school   for  two  years. 

BOB:  You  did,  eh?    And  did  you 
uate  with  honors? 

HONEY  CHILE:  I  should  say  so!  Wi 
flyin'  crullers! 

(BOB  HOPE  and  HONEY  CHll 
Atlantic  Program.) 


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your  girl  friend,  Penelope,  is  going  to  in- 
herit a  lot  of  money.  Are  you  sure  you've 
got  the  right  dope? 

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eotiies  along. 

FJFJ:  Willie!  You  are  a  darlceng  to 
give  we  a  lock  of  your  hair!  You  must 
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LESTER:  Where  did  you  get  the  no- 
tion that  Cleopatra  was  a  flatiron? 

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DIALING  (ALIFORNI/ 


Brings  in  many  a  popular 
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At  our  right,  Jack  Oakle  with  his  mother,  Mrs.  Eve- 
lyn Offield.  Jack  starred  with  Helen  Twelvetrees  in 
the  Lux  Radio  Theatre's  presentation  of  One  Sun- 
day Afternoon,  but  Mrs.  O.  "stole  the  show"  in 
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new  picture  of  Lawrence  Tibbett,  fannous  singer  and 
actor,  with  his  sons,  Richard  (left)  and  Lawrence,  Jr. 
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their  dance  for  MGM's  new  musical.  Born  to  Dance. 
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ond RKO-Radio  picture,  enjoys  California's  sun. 
Lower  right,  popular  favorites  Barbara  Stanwyck 
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autunm  browns  and  greens. 

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(But  the  civilized  way  to  build  firm  gums  is  IPANA  and  MASSAGE) 


"1")  IDICULOUS,"  said  a  prominent 
matron.  "No  girl  with  a  spark  of 
intelligence  or  breeding  would  behave  so 
badly.  She'd  be  outlawed  —  every  door 
closed  to  her!"  That's  the  social  side  of  the 
debate.  But  just  for  a  moment  listen  to  a 
modern  dentist . . . 

"Ridiculous.''— not  a  bit  of  it.  That's  a 
very  sensible  picture.  I'd  be  delighted  to 
post  it  in  my  office  as  an  object  lesson  for 
my  patients.  If  more  people  chewed  as 
vigorously,  if  modern  teeth  and  gums 
were  on  better  terms  with  coarse,  rough, 
natural  foods  we'd  hear  a  lot  less  about 


tender,  rundown  grums— we'd  hear  a  whole 
lot  less  about  'pink  tooth  brush,'  too." 

"Pink  Tooth  Brush"  is  serious 

When  you  see  "pink  tooth  brush"— we 
your  dentist.  It  can  mean  serious  trouble. 
But  usually  it  simply  means  that  modern 
soft  foods  haven't  given  your  gums 
enough  work— that  they  need  the  health- 
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ETHEL  M.  POMEROy,"Associate  Edii 


ABRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Edit 


LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 


27  STORIES,  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Jack  Hanley  16 


LET'S  LOOK  BACKWARD 

(Some  thrills  from  NBC  s  ten  years  of  " air-service")  

WHY  NELSON  EDDY  CAN'T  MARRY! 

(Meet  the  •'mystery  woman"  responsible  for  his  bachelordom)  MuHel   Bramble  20 

SHOULD  A  HUSBAND  BE  TEN  YEARS  OLDER? 

(Helen  jepson's  marriage  is  one  answer)  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen  22 

EDDIE'S  ADVICE  TO  YOUNG  MEN 

(Pearls  of  wisdom  from  Mr.  Cantor)  LeO  Townsend  24 

TECHNIQUE  AFTER  MARRIAGE 

(Fifi  D'Orsay's  unusual  recipe  for  holding  her  man)  Ruth    Geri  28 

THIS  BUSINESS  OF  BEING  ROMANTIC 

(Is  Guy  Lombardo  of  the  Royal  Canadians  as  romantic  as  his  music?).  Noncy    BorrOWS  30 

SHE  KNOWS  HER  LOVERS 

(The  Great  Lover  as  Virginia  Bruce,  beauteous  blonde,  sees  him)  GlodyS    Hall  32 

LOVE  COMES  TO  BETTY  LOU 

(Why  Cupid  almost  ran  a  losing  race  with  Miss  Gerson's  career)  Miriom    RogSfS  36 

FATE  CAN  BE  CRUEL 

(Horace  Heidi's  had  two  strikes  on  him,  but  )  EdwOrd    R.    Sammis  38 

THERE'S  A  SONG  IN  HER  HEART 

(Kate  Smith  confesses  what  love  means  to  her)  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen  40 

HE'S  GOT  PLENTY  OF  UMPHHH  t 

(This  Smith  Ballew  is  a  stout  feller)  FrOPC    Dlllon  43 

RENO  BE  DAMNED! 

(Hot  news  from  George  Burns,  Jack  Benny  and  Bing  Crosby)  GlodyS    Holl  44 

TATTLING  ON  THE  STARS 

(Hollywood's  ace  gossiper,  Jimmy  Fidler,  on  the  spot)  EleaPOr    Alexander  47 

AN  EX-CHAMPION  SPEAKS  HER  MIND 

(Helen  Jacobs  comments  on  a  pressing  problem  for  amateur  sports  stars)  Nanette  Kutner  48 

LADIES  CRAVE  EXCITEMENT 

(Tim  Healy,  man  of  action,  gives  it  to  'em)  Joclc    Hanley  50 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  and  DEPARTMENTS 


For  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. . .  6 

Board  of  Review   8 

Keep  Young  and  Beautiful   10 

Kate  Smith's  Own  Cooking  School..  12 

Not  a  Fashion  Copy  Cat   14 

Radio   Rambiings   18 


Between   Broadcasts   26 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   34 

Dialings   42 

What  They  Listen  to  and  Why   46 

Nothing  But  the  Truth   53 

West  Coast  Chatter   54 


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...brim -full  of  brilliant  scenes,  thrilling  dances,  gorgeous  girls,  and  stars  —  stars 
—STARS!  The  Cole  Porter  songs  are  swell  {''Easy  to  Love",  "I've  Got  You 
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with 

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RADIO  STARS 

FOR  DISTINGUISHED 
TO  RADIO 


Helen  Hayes,  superb  artist  of  the 
theatre  and   of  radio  drama. 


Helen  Hayes,  thank  goodness,  is  back  again  on 
the  air.  Bambi,  her  new  venture,  is  infinitely  more 
interesting  than  last  season's  The  New  Penny. 
And  when  Helen  Hayes  is  given  a  script  worthy  of 
her  talents  you  may  be  sure  her  performance  will 
be  superb.  Last  season,  if  you  recall,  despite  the 
weakness  of  her  material.  Miss  Hayes,  herself,  was 
delightful. 

Few  actresses,  regardless  of  their  success  on  the 
stage  or  screen,  have  mastered  "microphone  tech- 
nique" as  thoroughly  as  Miss  Hayes.  She  loses 
none  of  her  effectiveness;  in  fact,  her  personality 
is  as  vivid  on  the  air  as  it  is  on  the  stage  or  screen. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  tune  in  each  Monday  night 
and  listen  to  her  in  the  fascinating  role  of  Bambi. 
The  standard  which  Miss  Hayes  has  set  in  her  radio 
sketches  is  something  all  other  actresses  and  actors 
on  the  air  might  well  emulate,  not  only  for  their 
own,  but  for  the  listeners'  benefit,  as  well.  Then, 
perhaps,  dramatic  sketches  would  not  be  forced  to 
step  back  and  bow  lowly,  as  they  now  do,  for 
musical  programs. 

To  Miss  Helen  Hayes,  star  of  Sanka's  Bambi 
program,  Radio  Stars  Magazine  presents  its  award 
for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


—EDITOR.  ^ 


RADIO  STARS 

DAGGETT    &   UAMSDELL  PKE«!iEXTS 


Briiigiiijl^  you  tlio  radiant  beauty 
of  a  truly  clean  faee 


GOLDEN  CLEANSING  CREAM  is  entirely 
different  from  other  creams  and  lotions. 
It  contains  Colloidal  Gold,  a  remarkable  in- 
gredient well  known  to  the  medical  profes- 
sion but  new  in  the  world  of  beauty. 

This  colloidal  gold  has  an  amazing  power 
to  rid  the  skin  pores  of  clogging  dirt,  make- 
up, dead  tissue  and  other  impurities  that 
destroy  complexion  beauty.  The  aaion  of 
colloidal  gold  is  so  effective  that  it  continues 


to  cleanse  your  skin  even  after  the  cream  has 
been  wiped  away.  What's  more  it  tones 
and  invigorates  skin  cells  while  it  cleanses. 

Golden  Cleansing  Cream  is  a  non-liquefy- 
ing type  of  cream,  delightfully  smooth  and 
pleasant  to  the  touch.  It  is  rose-pink  in  color 
and  has  a  pleasing,  delicate  perfume.  It  is 
suitable  for  every  type  of  skin. 


A  Special  Kind  of  Gold 

You  can't  see  or  feel  the  gold  in  Golden 
Cleansing  Cream  because  it  is  not  a  metal 
any  more  than  the  iron  in  spinach  is  a  metal. 
In  fact,  many  of  the  health-giving  minerals 
in  fruits  and  vegetables  exist  in  colloidal 
form  similar  to  that  of  the  gold  in  Golden 
Cleansing  Cream. 

Barked  by  a  Famoii»i  Itepulalion 
Behind  this  unusual  new  skin  cleanser  lies 
the  famous  reputation  of  one  of  America's 
oldest  cosmetic  houses.  The  name  Daggett  & 
Ramsdell  has  been  a  symbol  of  purity  and 
quality  since  the  time  (46  years  ago)  when 
they  first  amazed  mid- Victorian  America  with 
an  entirely  new  type  of  Cold  Cream  which 
did  not  spoil  or  turn  rancid.  Now,  in  Golden 
Cleansing  Cream,  Daggett  &  Ramsdell  brings 
to  you  the  greatest  advance  in  skin  cleansing 
of  our  own  time. 

Costs  >'o  More 
Daggett  &  Ramsdell's  new  Golden  Cleansing 
Cream  is  within  the  reach  of  every  one  of 
you.  You'll  soon  say  you  never  made  a  more 
economical  investment  than  the  $1.00  which 
the  cream  costs.  It  is  obtainable  at  leading 
drug  and  department  stores — ask  for  it  today! 


Make  This  Simple  Test! 


•  Apply  your  usual  skin 
cleanser.  Wipe  it  off  with 
tissue.  'Vbur  face  seems 
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dirt  remain  to  clog  and 
blemish  your  skin.> 


•  Now,  cleanse  with  Dag- 
gett &  Ramsdell  Golden 
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dirt— brought  from  pore 
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tive cleansing. 

 Send  for  a  Trial  Jar   

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Enclosed  find  10<;  in  stamps  for  which  please  send 
me  my  trial  size  jar  of  Golden  Cleansing  Cream.  (Offer 
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BOARD  OF  REVIEW 


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News  &  Age-Herald. 


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Evening  and  Sunday  Star. 
Washington.  D.  C. 
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Kansas  City  Star.  Kansas  City. 

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Wisconsin  News,  Milwaukee,  V 
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Buffalo  Evening  News.  Buffalo,  I 

Andrew  W.  Foppe 
Cincinnati  Enquirer.  Cincinnati 
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San  Francisco  Examiner, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
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Dayton  Daily  News.  Dayton,  0 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 


bases  its  percentages  on 
I  radio  programs  are  di- 
parts:   material,  artists. 


cse  ratings  are  a  oonsen.sus  of  opinions  of  oi 
iird  of  Review  and  do  not  necessarily  agree  \vi 
editorial  o|)inion  of  ]{Ar>lo  St.\i:.s  Magazin 
igraiiis  outstanding  as  to  artists  and  materia 


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Ills.  The  Hoard  reviewed  as  many  of  the  cur- 
major  piograms  as  it  possibly  could  before 


.  GENERAL  MOTORS  PROGRAM— ERNO 
RAPEE  80.6 

XBC  10.00  P.  M.  EST  Sun. 
.  CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— JESSICA 
DRAGONETTE   ?0.1 

XBC  S.OO  F..\I.  E.ST  Fri. 
.  ANDRE         KOSTELANETZ     —  KAY 
THOMPSON  78.9 

CBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  Wed.,  10:00  P.M.  EST 
Fri. 

.  LUX  RADIO  THEATER  78.8 

CBS  V:(I0  P.M.  EST  Man. 
.  WARING'S  PENNSYLVANIANS  78.6 

CBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  Tues..  V:00  P.M.  PST 
Tues.:  NBC  9:00  P..\L  EST  Fn..  9:00  P.M. 
PST  Fri. 

.  THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA    .  78.1 

XBC  2:00  P.M.  F^ST  Sun. 
.  TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT  78.0 

XBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Wed..  9:00  P.M.  PST 

Wed. 

.  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY  77.1 

XBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Wed..  9:30  P..\J.  PST 

.  PACKARD     HOUR— FRED  ASTAIRE, 
GREEN  ORCHESTRA  76.5 

A'iBC  9:J0  P.M.  EST  Tues. 
.  RUDY  VALLEE  VARIETY  HOUR  75.6 

XBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Thur. 
.  KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROSBY 

BOB  BURNS  75.4 

XBC  10:00  P..\L  ESI  Thur. 
.  BURNS  AND  ALLEN  74.6 
CBS  8:30  P.M.  E.^T  ]Ved..  9:30  P.M.  PST 

Wed. 

.  HELEN  HAYES   73.8 

XBC  8:00  P  .U.  EST  Muii. 
.  CAMEL  CARAVAN    RUPERT  HUGHES, 
GOODMAN  BAND  73.6 

CBS  9:.I0  l'..\T  EST  Tues. 
.  JELL-O  PROGRAM  71.0 

XBC  7:0(1  P.M.  EST  Sun.,  8:.W  P.M.  PST 

S  T  U  DEBAKER  CHAMPIONS 

—  RICHARD  HIMBER  71.0 

A7;(    9:311  P.\L  .!/.,»,.  9:.^)  P.M. 

Mon..  10:0(1  I'.M.  I'Si  I-ri. 

LOWELL  THOMAS   71.0 

XBC  6:45  I'.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 
HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL   70.9 

CBS  9:00  P.M  /i.^'T  En. 

RADIO      CITY      SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA 70.7 


21.  GUY     LOMBARDO     AND     HIS  OR- 
CHESTRA 70.0 

CBS  .■i:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

22.  ALEMITE  HALF-HOUR  WITH  HEIDT'S 
BRIGADIERS  70.0 
CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Mon. 

23.  SHERLOCK  HOLMES  69.8 

MBS  8:30  P.M.  EST  Sal. 

24.  WOODBURY  PRESENTS  PAUL  WHITE- 
MAN'S  MUSICAL  VARIETIES   69.1 

NBC  9:15  P.M.  EST  Sun.,  8:30  P.M.  PST 

25.  AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC   68.7 

XBC  9:.10  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

26.  PHILHARMONIC    SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA  68.2 

CBS  3:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

27.  YOUR  HIT  PARADE  68.1 

NBC  10:00  P.M.  EST  Wed.,  CBS  10:00  P.M. 
P:.ST  Sal. 

28.  MEREDITH      WILLSON      AND  OR- 
CHESTRA 68.0 

XBC  8:30  P.M.  E.yf  Sa!. 

29.  LANNY  ROSS  PRESENTS  MAXWELL 


8:15  P.M.  PST 


68.0 


Thu 


XIU 


U.  ESI 


THE  VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE  70.5 

A'itC  8:30  l'..\L  E.ST  Mon.,  8:.W  P.M.  I'.S'P 
Hon. 


30.  BOAKE  CARTER   68.0 

CBS  7:45  P.AL  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

31.  BRYAN  FIELD-RACING   68.0 

MBS  10:15  P.M.  EST  Fn. 

32.  A.  &  P.  BAND  WAGON— KATE  SMITH  . 67.8 
CBS  8:00  P.M.  E.ST  Thur. 

33.  SHELL   CHATEAU— SMITH  BALLEW, 

YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  67.7 

XBC  9:30  P.M.  E.ST  Sal. 

34.  PITTSBURGH        SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA 66.6 

CBS  2:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

35.  SALT  LAKE  CITY  TABERNACLE  CHOIR 

AND  ORGAN   66.0 

CBS  12:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

36.  CAREFREE  CARNIVAL    65.7 

XBC  9:30  P.M.  E.ST  M,m. 

37.  LEO  REISMAN'S  ORCHESTRA  65.7 
XBC  8:00  P.M.  E.ST  Tue^. 

38.  WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  65.0 
(  /;.S  10:(i()  P.M.  EST  Mon.:  NBC  8:30  P.M. 
I:\T  1-W 

39.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA.64.8 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  E.ST  Fri. 

40.  LAUGH  WITH  KEN  MURRAY  64.4 

CBS  8:30  P.M.  E.ST  7  no.,  8:30  P.M.  PST 
Tues. 


PHIL    BAKER    WITH    HAL  KEMP'S 
ORCHESTRA  64.0 

CBS  7:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

JERRY     COOPER,     RAY  BLOCK'S 

ORCH   .64.0 

XBC  10:30  P.M.  EST  Mon. 
AMOS  'N'  ANDY  63.0 

NBC  7:10  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F.  S.OO  P.M. 
PST  M-T-W-T-F 

EASY  ACES  62.6 

NBC  7:00  P.M.  EST  T-W-T 

FIRST  NIGHTER— DON  AMECHE  62.3 

NBC  10:00  P.M.  EST  Fri. 

THE  FLYING  RED  HORSE  TAVERN.  .62.2 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Fri. 

RY-KRISP       PRESENTS  MARION 

TALLEY  62.0 

NBC  5.00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

FIRESIDE  RECITALS  62.0 

NBC  7:30  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  62.0 

NBC  7:30  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

HAROLD  "RED  "  GRANGE   62.0 

NBC  10:30  P.M.  EST  Fri..  7:00  P.M.  EST 
Sal. 

MANHATTAN     MERRY-GO-ROUND  61.8 

NBC  9:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  61.8 

NBC  8:30  P.M.  EST  Fri. 

MELODIANA— ABE  LYMAN   61.6 

NBC  8:30  P.M.  E.ST  .Mon. 

VOICE  OF  EXPERIENCE  61.5 

NBC  11:45  A.M.  E.ST  M-W-F.  7:15  P.M. 
EST  T-T 

HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC  HALL  61.2 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Tues. 

CONTENTED  PROGRAM  61.0 

NBC  10:00  P.M.  EST  Mon. 

MAJOR  BOWES'  AMATEUR  HOUR  61.0 

CBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  Thur. 

AMERICAN  PAGEANT  OF  YOUTH  60.8 

NBC  12:00  Noon  EST  Sun. 

GOOD  WILL  COURT  60.8 

NBC  8:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

THE  SINGING  LADY  60.8 

NBC  5:30  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

CROSLEY  FOLLIES  60.7 

MBS  11:30  P.M.  EST  Mon. 

GABRIEL  HEATTER  60.6 

MBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T 

GILLETTE'S  COMMUNITY  SING  60.5 

CBS  10:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

TED      MALONE'S     BETWEEN  THE 

BOOKENDS   60.3 

CBS    12:15    P.M.    EST  M-T-W-T-F 
AMERICA     DANCES— LUD  GLUSKIN 

ORCHESTRA  60.0 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

(Conlinu  d  on  l^age  100) 


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RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  STARS 


KEEP  YOUNG  AND  BEAUTIFUL 


Try  lovely  Helen  Jepson's  for- 
mula for  keeping  youth  and 
beauty.  You'll  find  that  it  will 
work  wonders  for  you^  too! 


Helen,  of  the  girl-graduate  complexion,  points 
out  a  gift  connpact  of  her  selection — one  of 
the  nicest  and  most  practical  Christmas  presents. 


HELEN  JEPSON  was  a  very  busy  person  the  clay  I 
interviewed  her — busy  as  a  glamorous  Mrs.  Santa  Claus 
with  a  hundred-and-one  things  to  do,  but  with  time  to  be 
gracious,  charming,  and  thoughtful  of  others.  Certainly 
Helen  Jepson  is  beautiful  enough  to  be  as  torrentially 
temperamental  as  the  most  quixotic  opera  star,  but  tem- 
perament seems  to  be  an  unknown  quantity  to  this  young 
prima  doima. 

I  saw  Helen  Je]>s()n  in  the  midst  of  a  frantically  busy 
day,  which  wmild  ]ia\c  been  enough  to  warrant  a  fit  of 
temperament  nn  tlie  part  of  most  anyone,  but  she  re- 
mained serene  and  jioiscd — her  grand  sense  of  humor  the 
complete  mistre-^s  of  the  situation.  Patiently  she  posed 
for  pictures,  while  the  photographer  gave  instructions, 
the  modiste  fussed  to  adjust  the  line  of  her  gown  and 
various  other  people  stood  on  the  sidelines  waiting  to 
get  in  a  question,  or  suggestion,  or  a  reminder  of  another 
engagement.  She  had  to  change  from  a  voluminous  eve- 
ning gown  into  a  hea\\-  furred  suit,  with  a  special  blouse 
and  tricky  hat.  and  then  into  another  suit,  with  another 
bloux-  and  liat.  and  sn  on.  (And  you  know  how  you  feel 
after  trxing  on  a  few  droses  when  you  go  shopping  for 
a  new  fnicl..  i  A  radii i  rehearsal  of  NBC's  Show  Boat 
program  wa>  in  the  clo^e  offing  and  eyes  were  on  the 
clock. 

Through  it  all  Miss  Je])Son  maintained  her  perfect 
calm  and  finallv  remarked,  with  an  amused  smile: 

"i\(>\v  i  l'  SI  line  one  wonld  just  give  mc  a  hoop,  I'm 
sure  that  1  would  jump  through  it." 

Helen  jcpson's  serenity,  lier  freedom  from  jitters  and 
from  fus^  and  luistle  in  general,  form  an  important  part 
of  her  formula  for  keeping  ycjung  and  beautiful.  She 
moves  with  a  gracious  lack  of  haste,  and  gets  things  done 
more  successfully  than  those  who  invohe  themselves  in 
an  excess  of  nervous  motion. 

Later  we  sat  talking  in  the  charming  .setting  of  Miss 
Jepson's  lovely  apartment.  We  faced  a  huge  fireplace 
with  a  fine  marble  mantelpiece  which,  wliile  wry  impres- 
sive, nevertheless  looked  perfectly  willing  to  hold  little 
Sallie  Possell's  Christmas  stocking.  For  Helen  Jepson  is 
very  hajjjjily  married  to  George  I'ossell,  a  talented  musi- 
cian, whose  sympathetic  understanding  has  been  a  great 
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An  attractively  wrapped  package  is  as 
important    as    impeccable  grooming. 


help  to  her  in  her  work  and  there  is  three-year-old  Sallie 
Possell,  ])londe  and  adorable,  who  has  a  white  Persian  cat 
named  "Dickie."  All  of  which  makes  a  very  nice  house- 
hold in  which  to  make  Christmas  plans. 

Sallie's  adored  mother  wore  a  I)eautiful  negligee,  al- 
most formal  enoUL^h  to  l.)e  a  hostess  gown  (you  can  see 
it  in  her  jjliotograplis)  made  on  tailored  lines,  but  with 
a  feminine  collar  of  exquisite  deep  lace.  Its  heavenly 
pale  blue  shade  flattered  the  pale  halo  of  her  hair. 

There  was  a  package,  half-wrai)ped.  King  on  a  .small 
end-table.  Our  hostess  said  laughingly,  ■■  That's  enough 
to  get  me  started  on  Christmas,  e\en  though  it  is  two 
months  away.  I  have  a  weakness  for  Christmas,  espe- 
cially now  that  Sallie  is  big  enough  to  get  a  thrill  out  of  it." 

Miss  jepson,  it  seems,  has  a  happy  faculty  of  getting  a 
lot  of  enjoyment  out  of  her  Christmas  shopping.  She  se- 
lects her  own  gifts,  when  and  as  she  pleases.  She  is  not 


RADIO  STARS 


By     Mary  Biddle 


the  type  to  delegate  all  her  Christmas 
shopping  to  her  secretary. 

"Oh,"  you  say  to  yourself,  "don't 
talk  ahout  Christmas !  Thank  good- 
ness, it's  still  so  far  off  I  don't  have  to 
think  about  it."  Well,  perhaps  you, 
too,  would  get  a  lot  more  out  of 
Christmas  if  you  followed  Miss  Jep- 
son's  plan,  and  didn't  worry  ahoiU  it 
and  didn't  rush  around  trying  to  do 
everything  at  the  last  minute.  Be- 
tween her  radio  career  rind  tlu-  ^fclro- 
politan  Opera,  .Mi^-.  Jc'])>()n  would 
never  have  a  generous  jiiece  of  time 
to  devote  to  concentrale(l  Christmas 
shopping.  Even  now  she  has  a  ^elied- 
ule  that  probably  would  make  your 
schedule,  even  around  Christmas, 
look  pretty  full  of  gaps.  So  she  has 
a  little  list  and  a  plan  that  sim])lify 
everything. 

The  little  list  will  probably  carry 
notations   {Continued  on  page  74) 


An  atomizer  addict,  Helen 
frequently  makes  use  of  hers. 


et  tke  doctors 
judgment  guide  you  in 
your  ckoice  of  a  laxative 


"VrOUR  doctor  is  a  guardian  of  health. 
-'-  He  knows  that  many  things  that 
seem  unimportant  to  you  may  be  vital 
to  your  well-being. 

For  instance,  doctors  expect  a  laxative 
to  measure  up  to  certain  definite  stand- 
ards before  giving  it  their  approval.  If 
your  doctor  would  write  down  his  require- 
ments for  a  laxative,  these  are  the  points 
he  would  consider  impm  iant : 

WHAT  DOCTORS  LOOK  FOR  IN  A  LAXATIVE 

It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proven  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 
It  should  not  over-act. 
It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 
It  should  not  nau>cate.  or  u[)-et  digestion. 

EX-LAX  CHECKS  ON  EVERY  POINT 

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Ex-Lax  meets  the  doctor  s  demands.  ^^ese  common-sense  rules  for  fighting 

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tors  use  Ex-Lax  for  themselves  and  for  j^ess  warmlv,  keep  out  of  drafts,  keep 

their  own  families.  your   feet   dry,  and  keep   regular  — 

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THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE  L. ^" ^^Jl^ ":!!!!!^^^^^ 

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it  the  largest-selling  laxative  in  the  whole, 
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does  not  ""force"  or  cause  stomach  pains. 
Ex-Lax  i'i  mild  and  gentle.  Ex-Lax  is  thor- 
oughly effective.  Ex  Lax  is  particularly 
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RADIO  STARS 

Beginning  with  this  issue, 
RADIO  STARS  Magazine 
exclusively  presents  a  famous 
feminine  star  in  a  new  role 


Hello  Everybody !  This  is  Kate  Smith — your  new  Cook- 
ing School  Director!  Yes,  Fni  introducing  myself  to  you 
here  in  an  entirely  different  role.  But  before  doing  so 
I  want  to  say  that  I  hope  you'll  be  just  a  fraction  as 
ha])p\'  to  meet  me  in  these  novel  surroundings  as  I  am 
to  be  here  with  you. 

Of  course  I  generally  begin  ni)'  part  of  any  program 
with  a  song,  don't  I  ?  But  I  can't  very  well  bring  the 
moon  over  the  mountain  for  you  in  an  article !  So  instead 
I'm  going  to  start  right  off  with  an  explanation — because 
I  think  you  nia\-  be  interested  in  knowing  how  I  happen 
to  be  talking  to  you  in  ])rint  and  not  over  the  usual  mike 
and  why  I  am  i)roa(!casting  from  the  kitchen  range,  so 
to  speak,  rather  than  from  the  stage  of  Columbia's  Ivadio 
Playhouse. 

Well,  you  see,  folks,  it's  this  way.  I'm  stepping  off  the 
Bandxcagon  on  this  occasion  (and  on  many  subsequent 
ones,  too)  to  make  a  "Command  Ai)i)earance"  of  my 
own  as  guide  and  mentor  of  Radio  Staks  .Ma(,\/i\i  -^ 
regular  monthlv  cooking  dc])anment.  And  I  imagme  I'll 
continiu'  lo  rid  in  that  ca])ai-': 
to  ha\  e  luc-  do  mi  ! 

Yes,  friends  and  listtners 
(pardon  me,  Kate  to  \  on ) 


just  as  long  as  you'd  like 

it  seems  that  Catherine 
[oiu"  to  ])(■  a  bus\'  jrirl. 


For  not  only  am  1  going  to  have  the  pleasure  of  brmgmg 
you  celebriiic-  and  songs  over  the  air  every  Thiu'sdaN 
night  for  my  sjjonsors.  the  A  &  P  stores,  but  I'm  also 
going  to  have,  in  the  columns  of  this  magazine,  the  fun 
of  giving  you  my  pet  recijies  and  of  chatting  with  yon 
about  cooking  and  menus  and  good  things  to  eat,  to  my 
heart's  content.  And  lionc>tly  folks,  outside  of  discussing 
our  edvvays  ambitious  jilaus  for  future  radio  broadcasts,  I 
12 


don't  know  of  anything  I'd  rather  talk  about  than  cooking! 

But  somehow  I  never  seem  to  get  much  chance !  A  lot 
of  the  time,  naturally,  I'm  working  hard — rehearsing, 
practicing  my  songs,  interviewing  people  and  being  inter- 
viewed myself.  And  at  such  times  I'm  simply  sur- 
rounded by  production  men  and  sound  men,  secretaries, 
musicians,  accompanists ;  publicity  people  and  announc- 
ers ;  important  and  prominent  men,  women  of  fame — 
all  interested  in  my  broadcasts  and  in  my  songs  but 


Rainbow  tapers  attractively  arranged  in 
a   shiny   punnpkin  filled   with  fresh  fruit. 


RADIO  STARS 


"I  don't  know  anything  I'd  rather 
talk  about  than  cooking,"  says  Kate. 


'  iwi>ifi!liiilii^^ 

SCHOOL 

ii  mi 

completely  disinterested,  of  course, 
in  any  claims  I  mij^ht  make  to  being 
a  good  cniik.  While  the  nu'nil)ers  of 
my  immediate  family — mv  mother 
and  sister — are  such  marvelous  cooks 
themselves  that  they  take  for  granted 
any  ability  I  possess  along  culinary 
lines.  Well,  peoi)le  always  sav : 
"You're  never  a  ])ro])het  in  your  ov.  n 
home  tow-n,"  to  which  I  might  well 
add,  "nor  a  famous  cook  in  your  own 
kitchen  !" 

"But  there  are  thou^ands  f)f  pco])le 
who  really  would  like  to  have  co])ies 
of  all  your  favorite  reci])es  and 
would  be  delighted  to  hear  your  menu 
and  cooking  suggestions,"  the  Editor 
of  this  magazine  assured  me  recentlv. 
And  in  order  to  prove  his  statement 
— in  the  face  of  my  very  natural 
doubts — he  went  on  to  tell  me  of 
the  heart-warming  reception  you 
readers  gave  those  of  my  recipes 
which  were  offered  here  some  months 
back. 

"Our  readers  loved  them  all,"  he 
went  on,  while  I  beamed  with  plea- 
sure. "They  wanted  to  know  how  to 
make  your  Grandniotb.er's  Chocolate 
Cake  and  the  I'arker  Jbnise  Rolls 
you  described  and  all  the  rest  of  those 
delicious-sounding  dishes  of  vours." 

"Well,"  I  (Continued  on  page  76) 


My  daughter,  Joan,  loves  parties.     She  has  plenty  of 
friends  too.    But  she  never  used  to  invite  them  into  her 
home.     One  day  I  asked  her  if  she  was  ashamed  of  it 


After  I  coaxed  her,  she  broke 
down  and  told  me  that  the  girls 
at  school  joked  a  lot  about 
"tattle-tale  gray."     And  Joan 
was  afraid  her  friends  would 
notice  that  my  linens  and 
things  had  it  bad. 


I  was  plenty  mad  because  I 
work  hard.     But  Joan  showed 
me  one  of  your  ads  about  how 
the  wrong  kind  of  soap  gives 
clothes  "tattle-tale  gray"  by 
leaving  dirt  stuck  in  the 
clothes . 


So  just  to  please  her  I  changed  and  tried  Fels-Naptha  Soap. 
And  my,  the  difference  it's  made!     All  that  gentle  naptha 
along  with  that  wonderful  golden  soap  wash  so  clean.  I've 
never  had  my  things  look  so  white!  ©  ,936.  fel&  a  co 

Banish  "Tattle-Tale  Gray" 
with  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP! 


RADIO  STARS 


NOT  A  FASHION 


"/'re  always  insisted  that  my  men 
folk  wear  neat^  /idy,  good-looking 
shoes,  and  I  find  the  laces  have  a  lot 
to  do  with  it. 


"So,  when  they  step  out  on  their 
daily  rounds,  you  can  be  sure  that 
Father's,  BilVs  and  Ted  Junior's 
shoes  are  neatly  and  trimly  laced... 
tfith  laces  that  will  keep  their  shape 
under  the  hardest  kind  of  wear,  and 
will  stay  good-looking,  month  after 
month."" 

All  over  this  country  families  are  ac- 
quiring the  PERMA-TIP  habit.  There 
are  lots  of  reasons.  Two,  not  previ- 
ously mentioned,  are  the  "baked  in"' 
tip... as  permanent  as  the  lace  itself 
...and  the  price... 5^*  per  pair. 

At  your  favorite  notion  counters... 
everywhere. 


card  on  the  counter 


PERMA-TIP 


A  Product  of 
SHOE  LACE  COMPANY 

LAWRENCE,  MASS. 


Here's  her  enchanting  Iceland 
cap  for  cocktails  or  dinners. 


HELEN  HAYES  probaljly  will 
frown  upon  being  pointed  out  as  a 
shining  example  to  all  modern  young 
matrons  and  mothers — but  that  is 
exactly  what  she  is.  The  Hayes' 
schedule  for  one  week  puts  to  shame 
all  of  us  who  bewail  the  fact  that  we 
haven't  time  to  accomplish  half  the 
things  we'd  like  to  do.  For  Helen 
does  a  multitude  of  things  and  still 
finds  time  to  dash  up  to  the  NBC 
photographic  studio  for  several  hours 
of  tedious  picture  taking.  That  was 
what  amazed  me  so  wlien  I  talked 
with  her  the 
other  day. 

There  she  sat,  By  Eli 

calmly  putting 

on  make-up  for  ^  | 

lier  camera  sit- 
ting, just  as  if 

she  didn't  have  to  go  through  an  even 
more  tedious  make-up  job  every 
night  and  twice  on  matinee  days. 
Any  other  person  would  have  been 
fuming  and  sinittering,  but  not  she. 
Inste-ul,  she  gaily  cliattcd  aliout  her 
own  \var(li'n])e  and  that  nf  Ikt  small 
daughter,  Mary  .MacArthur.  Must 
women  would  consider  it  a  career 
to  be  married  to  the  brilliant  Charles 
MacArthur  and  to  be  the  mother  of 
a  growing  \"oungsler  like  Mary,  ibit 
the  remarkable  ila_\-es  crowds  a  very 
busy  life  of  her  own  in  besides. 

Yon  can  tmderstand.  sitting  there 
talking  to  her,  how  this  small,  ani- 
mated woman  has  partitioned  oi¥  her 
life  neatly  so  that  she  keeps  Helen 


Tiny  cow-bell  earrings  go 
with  her  Tyrolean  outfit. 


Hayes,  the  actress,  quite  separate  from 
Mrs.  MacArthur.  She  thinks  that  way 
and  she  keeps  herself  completely  tin- 
fiurried  and  free  from  confusion. 
When  she  leaves  Nyack,  her  country 
home,  and  comes  in  for  the  theater 
and  broadcast,  she  leaves  behind  the 
shadowy  self  who  competently  runs 
a  large  house  and  makes  a  ga\'  but 
maternal  companion  for  Mary. 

You  wouldn't  think  that  she  would 
have    much   time   to    bother  about 
clothes,  least  of  all  to  dcs'ujii  any  for 
herself,  but  that  is  just  what  she 
does.  Her  latest 
creations  may 
+  h  prove  a  boon  to 

others  who  have 
to  have  dresses 
that  can  be  j)Ut 
on  in  a  jiffy, 
without  thotight  for  special  arranging 
or  su])erfluous  trimmings. 

The  Hayes  existence  is  \ery  com- 
I)licated.  On  Mondays,  she  has  to 
broadcast  from  eight  to  eight-thirty 
at  NIK'  and  the  moment  that  her 
broadcast  is  rmisbed,  she  must  ru.sh 
to  the  theater  and  get  ready  for  her 
fn-st  entrance  in  /  'icioria  Rcgina. 
Her  stage  nMe  of  goo<l  (jut-cn  Vic- 
toria re(|nires  that  her  hair  l)e  dressed 
in  Victorian  ])raided  loo])s  o\er  her 
ears.  (  )ver  this,  for  the  first  scene, 
she  wears  a  long  blonde  wig.  But, 
the  catch  is,  how  to  hide  the  Vic- 
torian loops  during  the  broadcast  in 
which  she  plays  the  very  difTerent 
character  of  Baiiibi/    "Bambi",  by 


z  a  b 
lis 


RADIO  STARS 


COPY  CAT 


the  way.  is  the  radio  seriaHzation  of 
the  novel  by  that  name. 

But  hack  to  the  l)roadcasting  prob- 
lem— Jrlelen  decided  to  adopt  a  quaint 
motif  for  her  broadcast  clothes  in 
order  to  make  the  loop  braids  look 
in  character.  And  so  she  herself 
designed  a  group  of  zipper  robes  to 
be  worn  on  Monday  night  broad- 
casts. These  are  afternoon  and 
dinner-length  frocks  with  short  puflf 
sleeves,  rather  peasant  in  character. 
They  are  made  in  white,  black  and 
red  faille  (always  plain  colors)  and 
with  these  she  wears,  tied  over  her 
hair  'kerchief  fashion,  squares  of 
brightly  printed  Hungarian  silks.  One 
particularly  charming  'kerchief  has 
huge  red  roses  printed  upon  a  white 
background.  This  she  wears  tied 
under  her  chin.  With  the  puflf- 
sleeved,  all-white  zipper  dress,  the 
effect  is  quaint  and  tremendously 
flattering  to  the  Hayes'  size  and  color- 
ing. Isn't  it  an  original  way  to  solve 
a  clothes  problem  and  create  a  cos- 
tume that  will  charm  her  radio  audi- 
ences at  the  same  time? 

When  she  was  telling  me  about 


Helen  Hayes,  star 
individualist  in 


A  white  lame  gown  is  Helen's 
choice   for    holiday  evenings. 


these  simple  but  colorful  dresses,  I 
thought  what  a  slick  idea  the  same 
costume  would  be  for  l)usy  house- 


of  "Bambi/'  is  an 
choosing  clothes 

wives.  They  could  be  made  in  color- 
ful rot t< Ills  (in  the  same  style — the 
inifV  -Kr\t  -  and  the  zip])er  fastening 
from  mckliiie  to  hem.  What  a  cinch 
for  dressing  in  a  hurry  before  break- 
fast !  And  decorative  enough  to  wear 
outside  the  house,  as  well.  Also  an 
idea  for  school-^irls,  made  in  bright, 
soft  woolens  or  tic  silk>.  And  since 
thev  require  a  miniiiiuni  ol'  trimming, 
nothing  l)Ut  the  coloriul  zipjier  fast- 
ening, the\-  could  he  made  for  a 
>ong.  It's  a  tip  and  I  hope  you  start 
making  one  as  quickly  as  I  am  going 

in  I 

I  iniai^ine  that  the  inspiration  for 
this  "broadcast"  costume  came  to 
Helen  this  past  summer  when  she 
was  visiting  in  the  Austrian  Tyrol. 
She  loves  the  jteasant  type  of  co— 
lume  for  country  wear  .and  -he 
1  (ought  a  number  of  native  costumes 
while  she  was  in  Salzburg.  She 
thinks  they  are  a  little  gay  for  town 
wear,  but  perfect  for  her  country 
home  up  in  Xyack-on-the-Hudson. 

Her  pet  Tyrolean  suit  is  a  brown 
one  trimmed  with  red  and  green 
embroidery.  {Continued  on  page  86) 


''My  pet  hate_powder  that  shows  up 


chaiAy  in  strong  light 


WE  asked  1,067  girls — One  of  their  pet  hates  in  a 
powder,  they  voted,  is  showing  too  much! 
And  Pond's  Powder  led  all  others  in  "not  giving  that 
powdered  look."  Twice  the  number  of  votes  of  the 
second  favorite.  Three  times  the  vote  of  the  third! 

"Glare-proof"  colors — The  reason  is  in  Pond's  colors. 
"Glare-proof,"  they  catch  only  the  softer  rays  of  light 
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RADIO  STARS 


Ten  years 
ago  you 
heard  Mary 
Pickford  and 
Douglas  Fair- 
banks, then 
the  movies' 
Royal  Family. 
John  Charles 
Thomas  (right) 
sang    into  on 
early  model 
micro  phone. 


B.    A.    Rolfe  was 
one    of    the  first 
band-leaders  of  the 
old    "Lucky  Strike" 
program.    You  still 
hear   him    and  his 
band  on  the  networks. 
And   beyond  are 
Weber  and  Fields, 
peerless  comedians,  who 
appeared  on  NBC's 
first  official  broadcast. 


By    Jack  Hanley 


THE  NATIONAL  BROADCASTING  COMPANY  is 
ten  years  old  this  November  and  so  lusty  an  infant,  that 
grew  from  an  idea  to  a  lium-  national  indu^-trv  in  one 
short  decade,  lia>  jjcrhaps  never  before  lived.  ItV  a  ,^afe 
bet,  too,  that  no  other  industry  oi  comparable  mai;nilude 
has  progressed  so  far  in  so  short  a  time  in  the  history  of 
science. 

You,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .\nierica,  sitting  before  your  mod- 
ern radio  set  and  nonchalantly  twisting  a  single  dial  that 
brings  the  news  and  music  of  the  world  into  your  home, 
have  come  to  accept  radio  calmly,  as  it  is  today.    But  let's 


reminisce  a  moment  and  slip  back,  in  memory,  to  1926  .  .  . 

Less  than  two  years  before  that  the  reiterated  cry  of : 
"Alabama  casts  fwoify-four  z'otcs  for  U-it-u-iidcr- 
wo-o-o-od !"  had  become  a  national  catch-phrase  through 
the  network  broadcast  of  the  Democratic  Convention. 
Conductors  on  P)r()okI\n  tram  lines,  when  calling  out  the 
name  of  a  street  called  "Alabama,"  were  greeted  with  a 
chorus  from  the  passengers  of  :  "  .  .  .  casts  tzvciity-foitr 
z'otcs  for  U lulcrzi'ood !"  Less  than  a  year  before  that  the 
new  A.C.  tulies  had  been  introduced,  making  receiving 
sets  all-electric  and  giving  the  radio  industry  a  terrific 


THIS  MONTH  THE  NATIONAL  BROADCASTING  COM 


RADIO  STARS 


Anna    Case,  lovely 
Metropolitan  opera 
star,    who    later  mar- 
ried Clarence  Mackay, 
also  sang  on  that 
first  broadcast — and 
how  different  that 
studio    scene  and 
microphone  from 
those   of  today! 


Jane  Cowl,  gor- 
geous and  glam- 
orous in  those 
dear  dead 
days,  still  brings 
her  lovely 
magic  to  the 
air.  Milton  J. 
Cross  an- 
nounced 
when  Mary 
Garden 
sang. 


boost.  Before  that  you  kept  half  a  ton  of  A,  B,  and  C 
batteries  in  a  maze  of  wiring  behind  your  radio  and  one 
of  the  danged  things  invariably  ran  down  just  before  an 
important  broadcast. 

In  1926  you  heard  the  thrilling  flash  of  the  S.S.  Anti- 
no'e  in  distress  at  sea  and  the  .S.^".  President  Roosevelt 
racing  to  her  rescue  in  the  teeth  of  a  blinding  blizzard  : 
Queen  Marie,  of  Roumania,  visited  America  and  Her 
Mercenary  Majesty  was  a  nine-days'  wonder ;  Henry 
Ford  closed  his  factory  and  abandoned  the  trusty  old 
Model  T ;  Jack  Dempsey  and  Gene  Tunney  met  for  the 
heavyweight  championship  for  the  first  time;  Countess 
Cathcart  was  refused  entry  into  the  U.  S.  on  "moral  tur- 
pitude" grounds  and  Sister  Aimee  MacPherson  mysteri- 
ously disappeared,  only  to  turn  up  eventually  with  a  fan- 
tastic tale  .  .  . 

Rudolph  Valentino  died,  with  a  publicity  even  more 
spectacular  than  his  life,  as  women  were  crushed  and 
police  reserves  called  out  to  control  stampeding  crowds 
about  his  bier ;  there  was  the  Veterans'  Bureau  fraud 
scandal  and  contract  bridge  began  to  edge  crossword  puz- 
zles out  of  the  center  of  the  fad  field  .  .  .  Irving  Berlin 
and  Ellin  Mackay  were  married ;  the  Florida  boom  col- 
lapsed with  an  even  greater  "boom"  and  Al  Capone's  mob 
cleared  $60,000,000  .  .  . 

You  were  tired  of  swinging  )our  legs  in  an  awkward 
rhythm  called  the  Charleston — "Hey-hey !"  But  you 
were,  mesdames,  bobbing  your  hair  and  wearing  your 


skirts  at  your  knees;  you  cultivated  the  "tubular"  silhou- 
ette with  a  "boyish  form"  flatness  and  waistline  around 
the  hips. 

You  read  Why  IV e  Behave  Like  Human  Beings; 
you  saw  John  Gilbert  in  the  movies  playing  Bardelys  the 
Magnificent  and  you  hummed  or  whistled  Mary  Lou, 
Give  Me  a  Ukulele,  Who'll  Be  the  One  and  Hello  Blue- 
bird. When  you  used  both  hands  to  turn  the  three  or  four 
dials  on  your  new  neutrodyne  radio,  you  laughed  at 
Goldic  and  Dusty,  the  Gold  Dust  Tzvins;  you  danced  to 
the  Goodrich  Sil-c'crfozcn  Orchestra  and  wondered  at  the 
identity  of  the  Silz'cr  Miisk  Tenor  .  .  .  You  heard  lul^'in 
Franko  Goldman's  Band,  the  Maxn'cll  House  program, 
the  Ipana  Troubadours.  1!.  A.  Rolfe,  J!cn  Bernie  and  his 
Hotel  Roosevelt  Orchestra,  Weber  and  ImcUIs,  the  A.  tr  P. 
Gyf'sies,  the  Clicquot  Club  Eskimos  and  a  host  of  others. 

irjZ  broadcast  the  '26  World  Series  through  its 
studios  in  Aeolian  Hall  and  your  radio  liruught  you  the  in- 
auguration of  President  Coolidge,  the  news  of  Byrd's 
flight  over  the  North  Pole,  as  well  as  the  actual  re-broad- 
cast of  the  dirigible  Nor<ic  directly  from  the  Pole. 

And  all  this  was  happening  before  the  Radio  Corjior- 
ation  of  America  had  formed  its  affiliatefl  National  Broad- 
casting Company.  In  Xo\cnibcr  of  l*'2f)  the  XBC  was 
organized — with  the  re<l  nctwdrk  having  Wl'.AP  as  its 
key  statical  and  the  bhic  with  //'// — and  moved  into  it? 
new  studios  at  711  l'"il'th  Avenue,  the  hr>t  building  in  the 
world  c\Lr  to  be  (k'\otfd  wholly  {Continued  on  patje  9S) 


PANY  CELEBRATES  ITS  TEN  YEARS  OF  PROGRESS 

17 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 


among  the  stars  that  beckon  us  to  our  dials 


George  Jessel  with  Xavier  Cugat, 
Lily  Pons  and  Andre  Kos+elanetz. 

Charming  and  insouciant  as  al- 
ways, Fred  Astaire  broadcasts. 


ROMANCE  CORNER 

We  make  no  predictions.  What- 
ever happens,  we  can't  even  say  "I 
told  you  so !"  However,  Dick  Mer- 
rill, ace  pilot  who  flew  to  England 
and  iiark  witli  Harry  Richman  in 
The  Lady  I'dicr,  carried  with  him — 
along  with  all  those  ping  pong  halls 
— a  photograph  of  licrnicc  Claire. 
Ever  since  the  flying  ace  met  Ik'rnice, 
a  few  months  ago,  he  ha^  been  a 
frequent  visitor  at  her  Mclodiana 
and  W'idlz  Time  brcadcasts.  .'\nd 
this  ]i;i-t  Miuinur  licrnicc  was  tak- 
ing Hying  IcsM.ns  fnnn  Dick.  Was 
Cupid  along? 

-♦- 

Popular  maestro  Albert  Kavelin 
sounds  a  marital  (not  martial)  note. 
He  recently  married  Chicago's  prize- 
winning  beauty,  Virginia  Gilcrest. 

CITIZEN  NINO 

That  handsdinc  operatic,  radio  and 
screen  star,  Xiiio  Martini,  7eli()  hails 
from   the    Verona    of    Romeo  and 
Juliet,  has  filed  his  first  naturaliza- 
18 


tion  papers  to  become  an  American 
fili::eii.  His  resolz'e  was  prompted, 
'tis  said,  by  anotlier  Italian-born  op- 
eratic star,  Amelita  Galli-Curci,  zvlio 
lias  been  an  American  since  1921. 

SUCCESS  STORY 

Charles  Butterworth,  noted  "dead 
pan"  stage  and  screen  comedian,  is 
a  native  of  South  Bend,  Indiana.  He 
studied  law  at  Notre  Dame  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Indiana  State  Bar, 
hut  he  never  practised  law.  Eor  a 
time  Ikitterworth  was  a  reporter  on 
a  South  l^>end  paper.  Later,  while 
working  on  a  New  York  daily,  he 
presented  an  original  monologue  at 
one  of  the  Press  Club  shows.  After 
his  audience  had  stopjKxl  rolling  in 
the  aisles,  Butterworth  was  per- 
suaded to  turn  his  obvious  talents  to 
nnisical  comedy.  He  ap])eared  in  a 
number  of  Broadway  revues  before 
Hollywood  lured  him  away  from 
the  stage.  And  now  radio  has  dis- 
covered in  the  sad-voiced  comic  ex- 
ceptional material  for  the  air.  He 
now  is  the  permanent  comedian  on 
the  Fred  Astaire  program,  heard 
Tuesdays  over  the  NBC-Red  net- 
work. 

ABOUT  BAMBI 

Helen  Hayes'  new  show,  Bamb't, 
proves  an  ideal  medium  for  the  tal- 
ents of  this  charming  star.  Its  cen- 
tral theme  resembles  that  of  What 
Every  Woman  Knows,  the  Barrie 
play  in  which  Miss  Hayes  scored 
sensationally,  both  on  stage  and 
screen.  Written  by  Marjorie  Benton 
Cooke,  Bamb't  was  a  best-selling 
novel  of  two  decades  ago. 


Miss  Hayes  plays  the  title  role 
of  Francesca  Parkhurst,  nicknamed 
"Bauibi."  DaitgJiter  of  a  college  pro- 
fessor, she  marries  Jarvis  Trent,  a 
talented  but  penniless  playtvright. 
For  Jarvis  it  is  a  marriage  of  con- 
I'enience  but  luambi  is  deeplv  in  love 
ivith  him — (7;;(/  zee  can  trust  her  in- 
genuity and  devotion  to  solve  the 
baffling  problems  that  arise. 

NO  VISITORS 

Out  in  the  Hollywood  CBS  studios 
there  is  a  sign :  No  Visitors  Allozved, 
when     (Continued    on    page  96) 


Misses  Morris,  LaVarr  and  Kays 
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RADIO  STARS 


WHY 


Who  is  the 


By  Muriel 
Bramble 


Nelson  Eddy,  populor 
artist  of  opero,  concert, 
radio  and  the  screen, 
now  co-stars  with  lovely 
Jeanette  MacDonald  in 
M-G-M's  "Maytime" 
and  sings  over  the  air 
in  Vick's  Open  House. 


RADIO  STARS 


NELSON  EDDY  CANT  MARRY! 

"Mystery  Woman"  in  the  life  of  this  popular  singing  star? 


A  MILLION  women  have  thrilled  to  the  magic  of  Nel- 
son Eddy's  voice  on  the  radio;  a  million  women  have 
sighed  as  they  viewed  the  handsome  star  on  the  screen. 
The  darling  of  Hollywood,  the  young  singer  could,  did 
he  wish,  have  his  pick  of  the  world's  most  glamorous 
beauties.  But  not  for  five  long  years  yet  may  Nelson 
give  attentive  ear  to  the  luring  whisper  of  romance. 
What  a  strange  paradox ! 

America's  Eligible  Ba<:helor  No.  1  must  remain  single! 

Close  followers  of  the  tens  of  thousands  of  words 
which  gossip  columnists  broadcast  over  a  million  miles 
of  telegraph  wires  daily,  for  the  eager  consumption  of 
a  movie-avid  land,  recall  some  furtive  mention,  not  long 
ago,  of  a  "mystery  woman"  in  Nelson  Exidy's  life. 
Radio  fans  have  wondered  how  this  personable  young 
man  has  escaped  the  inevitable  romance  which  seems  al- 
ways to  catch  up  with  a  successful  radio  personality. 

Who  is  this  "mystery  woman"?  Is  she  a  sweetheart 
whom  Nelson  wooed  in  the  days  of  his  comparative 
obscurity,  when  he  was  a  struggling  young  singer  in 
Philadelphia?  Is  she  one  of  the  gorgeous  beauties  of 
the  screen  whom  he  captured  in  Hollywood  and  whose 
identity  remains  shrouded  in  secrecy  because  of  box- 
office  expediency?  These  are  the  questions  countless 
speculative  admirers  have  asked. 

Who  is  this  woman  whose  influence  has  moulded  the 
destiny  of  the  great  radio  singer  and  screen  star?  Innu- 
merable interviewers  have  sought  the  answer — but  always 
they  have  come  away  empty  handed. 

A  visit  to  Nelson's  "adopted"  home  town  of  Phila- 
delphia supplied  the  answer.  I  sought  out  Irving  C. 
Hancock,  bronzed,  athletic,  genial  young  choirmaster  of 
the  large  and  exclusive  Church  of  Our  Saviour  on  Chest- 
nut Street,  just  off  the  campus  of  the  University  of 


Pennsylvania.    He  laughed  heartily  when  I  asked  him. 

"Mystery  woman!"  he  exploded  mirthfully.  "That's 
funny — to  anyone  who  knows  Aunt  Gert !  Calling  her  a 
"mystery  woman  ''  " 

Aunt  Gert!  Was  this,  then,  the  prosaic  answer  to 
the  my.stery  of  the  mysterj  woman?  Was  she  his  aunt? 
Mr.  Hancock  checked  his  mirth  to  reassure  me  on  that 
point. 

"Oh,  no,  indeed,"  he  said.  "She  isn't  any  relation  at 
all,  but  when  Nelson  sang  in  our  choir  he  used  to  call 
her  'Aunt  Gert,'  and  the  rest  of  us  just  sort  of  fell  into 
the  habit.  She's  really  Mrs.  Gertrude  Evans.  You've 
heard  of  her,  surely." 

Anyone  in  Philadelphia — or  pretty  nearly  anywhere 
else,  for  that  matter — who  plays  bridge,  knows  or  knows 
of  Mrs.  Gertrude  Evans.  She  is  one  of  the  nation's  lead- 
ing exponents  of  the  game,  boasts  three  hundred  pupils 
culled  mostly  from  Philadelphia's  exclusive  upper  crust 
and  has  an  income  well  into  five  figures.  From  the  for- 
tune she  accumulated  as  a  bridge  teacher,  since  the  death 
of  her  Socially  Registered  husband  in  1921.  Mrs.  Evans 
advanced  the  money  (estimated  at  about  $75,000)  neces- 
sary to  finance  Nelson's  musical  studies  and  launch  him 
on  the  career  which  has  developed  so  auspiciously  l)efore 
the  microphone  and  on  the  silver  screen. 

It  was  years  ago,  long  before  he  became  famous,  while 
he  was  just  another  promising  young  singer  seeking  rec- 
ognition, that  Nelson  pledged  his  word  to  Mrs.  Evans 
that  he  would  not  marry  until  he  reached  the  age  of  forty. 
Fun-loving,  gregarious,  youthfully  eflfervescent,  it  re- 
quired a  lot  of  will-power  to  keep  his  word — but  Nelson 
has  kept  it,  despite  even  the  pitfalls  of  Hollywood. 

When  he  made  the  promise.  Nelson  and  his  mother,  a 
warm  friend  of  Mrs.  Evans,  {Continued  on  page  70) 


SHOULD  A  HUSBAND  BE 

"Marriage  can't  go  against  the  instinct  of  generations  and  be 


(Left)  Helen 
Jepson,  so- 
prano star  of 
N  B  C's  "Max- 
well  House 
Show  Boat"  af 
home  with  her 
husband, 
George  Pos- 
se II ,  c  e  I  e  - 
brated  flutist. 
(Right)  With 
her  little 
girl,  Sallie. 


"I  WAS  lucky  to  fall  in  love  with  a  man  ten 
years  older  than  myself  !" 

Helen  Jepson  smiled  at  her  husband  and  he 
srniled  back  in  that  quickening,  close  way  that  shut 
out  everything  but  the  two  of  them.  Shut  out 
the  room,  soft  in  its  autumn  coloring  of  rust  and 
pale  gold,  shut  out  the  deepening  twilight  and  left 
them  in  that  little  world  of  married  lovers  that 
knew  no  other  boundaries  than  that  swift  exchange 
of  eyes,  that  smile. 

"You  know — "  she  crossed  one  slim,  silver 
sandaled  foot  over  the  other,  "in  any  marriage 
where  there  is  an  appreciable  difference  in  ages, 
it  always  is  the  younger  one,  whether  it's  a  man 
or  a  woman,  who  benefits  the  most.  Of  course 
I'm  talking  about  marriages  built  on  love,  not  those 
where  a  young  man  or  woman  marries  for  money 
or  material  benefits. 

"And  once  an  older  man  has  won  a  woman  she 
is  his  for  the  rest  of  her  life.    You  see,  the  things 
he  has  to  oflfer  are  real  things.    They  aren't  based 
on  youth  and  the  things  that  go  with  youth.  On 
the  way  he  looks  in  a  bathing  suit,  or  the  way  he 
i)lays  tennis  or  the  way  he  dances.    They  go  so 
much  deeper  than  that.    Experience,  that's  one 
of  the  things  he  can  give  her,  and  under- 
standing and  a  sen.se  of  humor  and  or,  so 
many  things  that  only  time,  otherwise, 
could  give. 

'A  young  man  can  be  consid- 
ered quite  a  wit  with  the 
use  of  a  few  wise- 
cracks and  a  glib 
tongue 
and 


By  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen 


some  stock  stories.  That's  the  sense  of  humor  youth 
starts  out  with.  If  it's  going  to  develop  into  an  adult 
humor,  wise  and  salty  and  with  the  God-given  talent  to 
laugh  at  yourself,  too,  is  something  only  the  years  can 
tell. 

"George  was  a  man  of  thirty  when  I  met  him.  Adult, 
mature,  his  characteristics  were  set  in  their  own  pattern. 
It  was  a  new  experience  to  me,  who  had  only  gone  out 
with  boys  of  my  own  age,  to  find  a  man  who  took  himself 
lightly,  who  could  tell  a  story  on  himself. 

"I  was  far  too  serious  for  my  age.  Working  towards 
a  singing  career  and  working  to  keep  yourself  alive  at  the 
same  time  is  pretty  arduous  for  a  girl !  Selling  corsets, 
as  I  had  to  do,  from  nine  until  five  and  rushing  to  a  sing- 
ing lesson  afterwards  and  practicing  for  hours,  doesn't 
leave  much  time  for  lighter  moments.  Boys  of  my  own 
age  used  to  think  I  was  lacking  in  humor  because  I 
didn't  throw  my  head  back  and  howl  at  their  wise- 
cracks. You  see,  I  was  too  tired  to  laugh  at  just  noth- 
ing at  all. 

"With  George  it  was  different.  We  were  laughing 
together  the  first  moment  we  met  and  we've  been  laugh- 
ing ever  since.  Laughing  at  things  we  might  have  cried 
over,  if  he  hadn't  taught  me  to  see  life  in  the  full,  mature 
way  he  does. 

"From  the  beginning  it  was  like  that.  There  was  that 
day  in  Chautauqua  when  George  took  me  canoeing.  His 
sureness  as  he  handled  that  canoe  added  something  to 
the  love  I  had  for  him.  something  different  and  new. 
Funny,  isn't  it,  the  way  little  things  can  get  caught  up  in 
an  emotion? 

"Before  that  there  had  been  awe  and  rapture  and  all 
the  other  things  that  go  to  make  up  the  love  between  a 
man  and  a  woman.   This  casual  competence  was  such  an 
everyday  sort  of  thing.  And  yet  it  thrilled  me,  in  a  different 
way,  as  much  as  his  music  thrilled  me.  Made  me  feel 
protected  and  cared  for  and,  in  her  heart, 
I   think   that's  what 


TEN  YEARS  OLDER? 

happy/'  says  Helen  Jepson,  opera  and  radio  star 


Up  in  the  mountains, 
in  Wurtsboro,  New 
York,  the  Possells 
have  a  farm,  where 
they  spend  as  much 
time  as  is  possible. 
The  name  of  their 
cabin  is  "Sajepo" — 
combining  the  first 
letters  of  Sallie, 
Jepson  and  Possell. 
Helen  loves  the 
view  from  the  top 
of  the  bell  tower. 


even  the  strongest,  most  capable  woman  wants  to  feel  from  the  man 
she  loves  above  all  others. 

"It  was  all  so  warm  and  sweet.  A  little  moment, 'important  only 
because  of  that  new  closeness  that  had  come  between  us.  A  little 
moment,  fragile  and  tender  and  perfect,  to  Ije  remembered  always. 

"And  then  suddenly  it  happened.  George  paddled  to  the  pier  and 
swung  one  foot  over  the  side  of  the  canoe  as  he  leaned  forward  to  tie 
it  up  and  as  he  did  he  slipped  and  we  capsized  and  George  found 
himself  standing  in  water  over  his  head. 

"We've  laughed  about  it  so  often  since.  The  way  he  struck  through 
the  water  towards  me,  swimming  desperately  to  save  me  from  drown- 
ing and  suddenly  seeing  me  standing  in  water  that  scarcely  came  over 
my  ankles.  He  had  stepped  in  a  mudhole  and  of  course  thought  we 
were  in  deep  water.  In  his  frenzy  he  didn't  even  remember  that  I'm  a 
pretty  good  swimmer  myself ! 

"We  spent  the  afternoon  drying  out  on  the  pier  and  I  know  I 
would  have  been  horrified  if  any  other  man  had  been  with  me,  for 
my  dress  shrank  until  it  came  above  my  knees  and  I  bulged  in  all 
the  wrong  places !  I  looked  as  utterly  ridiculous  as  I  felt,  but  I  laughed 
with  George. 

"It's  all  those  little  things  that  are  the  biggest  part  of  love.  It's 
not  the  things  you've  cried  about,  or  the  things  you've  worried  over 
or  the  really  dramatic  things.    Just  those  little  things  without  meaning 
or  plan.    Things  to  be  laughed  over  afterwards  and  recaptured  in 
that  laughter  forever. 

"We've  held  on  to  all  those  little  silly  moments,  for  we  haven't 
had  any  of  the  tense,  dramatic  ones  that  come  to  .some 
lieople.    Since  we've  been  married  our  lives  have  run 
so  smoothly.     There  have  been  no  hardships,  no 
worry,  no  jealousy  to  test  our  love.  Sometimes 
hardships  draw  people  closer,  sometimes  they 
pull  them  apart.    I  know  if  they  had 
come  to  us  it  would  still  be  the  same 
with  us  as  it  is  now.  Because 
George  and  I  understand 
( Continued  on 
Pcfjc  72) 


Eddie  with  his  devoted  wife,  Ida, 
returning  from  a  European  holiday. 


Eddie  Cantor,  with  the  medal  recently 
awarded  him  by  Radio  Stars  Magazine 
"For  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio." 


EDDE'S  ADVICE  TO 


'"WHAT  every  young  man  should  know?" 

Eddie  Cantor  mused:  "I  sup{X)se  I  ought  to  have  a 
false  heard  to  tug  at  while  1  toss  out  pearls  of  wisdom ! 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  though,  I  don't  need  the  whiskers 
because  I've  given  the  subject  a  lot  of  thought.  Besides, 
twenty-five  years  married  to  the  same  wife 
should  set  me  up  as  an  authority.'' 

It  might  be  well  to  tell  you  right  now 
that  Eddie  Cantor  is  the  easiest  ])erson  in  B  y 

Hollywoofl  to  interview.    You  ask  him  one 
questifjn,  grab  your  notebook  and  sit  back.  T  O  W  n 

When  he  stops  talking  you've  got  a  story. 
He's  talking  now,  so  let's  get  l)ack  to  him. 

"The  trouble  with  modern  marriage — 
and  don't  think  I'm  ])reaching — is  this:  three  out  of  every 
ten  couples,  when  they're  at  the  altar  saying  7  do,'  are 
looking  out  of  the  corners  of  their  eyes,  trying  to  see 
if  there's  anything  better  in  the  house.  Sometimes  you 
almost  ex[)ect  'the  groom  to  turn  around  and  wink  at 
that  pretty  blonde  in  the  first  pew! 

"That  attitude  toward  marriage  is  the  fault  of  the 
divorce  laws.  Nowadays  a  divorce  is  about  as  hard  to 
get  as  the  morning  newspaper.    It  makes  people  rush 


into  marriage  just  for  a  lark,  because  they  know  if  it 
doesn't  work  they  can  buy  a  little  paper  that  entitles 
them  to  try  again." 

Eddie  Cantor,  star  of  many  of  the  lavish  Ziegfeld- 
musicals,  has  worked  with  hundreds  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful girls  in  the  world.    Many  of  them  have 
come  to  Eddie  for  advice.    Some  of  them 
took  the  counsel  he  offered — others  didn't. 
Leo         What  about  these  glamour  girls? 

"The  average  showgirl  marriage  is  not 
send         successful,"  Eddie  explained,  "because  the 
average  girl  doesn't  look  for  permanency. 
In   the   Ziegfeld   shows   these  girls  were 
beaued  and  courted  by  some  of  New  York's 
wealthiest  men — everything  from  playboy  to  tired  busi- 
ness man.    When  these  men  offer  marriage  a  girl  doesn't, 
as  a  rule,  expect  it  to  last.    She  accepts  it  for  the  year 
or  two  of  luxury  it  can  give  her.    The  only  thing  perma- 
nent she's  thinking  about  is  the  alimony. 

"Too  many  modern  girls  look  at  the  tags  on  the  men 
they're  going  to  marry.  Instead  of  looking  up  his  fam- 
ily, they  look  up  Dun  &  Bradstreet.  In  comparing  tun 
men,  she  doesn't  want  to  know  which  can  make  her  ha])p\ 


Eddie  Cantor  discusses  what  every  young  man  should  know 

24 


Glamorous  Gladys  Swarthout  lunches 
with  Eddie  at  a  Hollywood  festivity. 


Bright  little  Bobby  Breen,  Eddie's 
talented  "adopted  son"  and  great  pal. 


YOUNG  HEN 


— she  wants  to  know  which  has  the  fanciest  price  taj?. 

"When  I  say  'the  modern  girl'  I  don't  mean  every 
girl,  hy  any  means.  I  know  a  nuniber  of  Ziegfeld  girls 
who  have  heen  happily  married  for  years.  Whenever  I 
make  a  personal  api)earance  tour  I  run  into  five  or  six 
of  them.  In  Boston,  or  in  Philadelphia,  for  instance,  a 
girl  comes  backstage  to  say  hello.  She  was  a  showgirl, 
let  us  say,  in  IVhoopec  and  she  left  the  show  to  marry. 
She's  still  married  and  she  introduces  me  to  a  fine-looking 
son  or  daughter.  Girls  like  that  are  smart  enough  to 
use  show  business  as  a  means  to  an  end.  A  showgir 
has  an  opjxjrtunity  to  meet  a  number  of  men  she'd  never 
have  known  had  she  stayed  home  and  remained  the  belle 
of  the  village.  If  she  falls  in  love  with  one  of  them, 
her  marriage  has  more  chance  of  success  than  the  average, 
for  she's  had  enough  exi>erience  with  men  to  know  the 
right  one  when  he  comes  along. 

"Working  for  many  years  with  these  girls  in  musicals, 
I  usually  could  tell  in  advance  which  were  headed  for 
happiness  and  which  were  headed  for  Reno.  The  sen- 
sible girls  knew  they  weren't  going  to  be  beautiful  for- 
ever and  they  made  their  plans  accordingly.  The  girls 
with   that  starry-eyed   look   {Continued  on  page  64) 


about  romance  and  marriage 


RADIO  STARS 


BETWEEN 

When  they're  not  on  the  air- 


understand  you," 
soys  Ginger  Rogers 
to  Fred  Astoire  in 
"Swing  Time,"  (RKO- 
Radio)  "because 
you're  to  alobfl"_ 


A  tender  moment  from  "Born  to  Dance."  with  Frances 
Longford  sweetly  perched  on  Buddy  Ebsen  s  knee. 

Ida  Lupino  doesn't  find  Nino  Martini  aloof  in 
"The  Gay  Desperado.  "Leo  Carrillo  smiles  approval. 


RADIO  STARS 

BROADCASTS 


they're  happily  disporting  themselves  in  the  movies 


"Now  don't  shoot  the  cows,  Fifi!"  Dr.  Maurice 
Hill,  Fifi's  husband,  gives  her  a  lesson  in  marks- 
manship at  their  Pennsylvania  camp. 


A  happy  family  party.  This  gay  foursome  con- 
sists of  Maurice  and  Fifi  and  Father  and  Mother 
Hill.    The  technique  looks  good  here! 


TECHNIQUE  AFTER 


IF  Dr.  Maurice  Hill  ever  chances  to  lapse  from  husbandly 
tact,  to  inform  Mrs.  Hill  that  she  cannot  cook  biscuits  such 
as  his  mother  used  to  make,  Mrs.  Hill  will  not  act  accord- 
ing to  time-honored  custom  by  weeping  until  the  mascara 
runs  down  her  pretty  cheeks.  Instead,  she  will  simply  say, 
with  a  disarming  smile  : 

"You  bet  you  life  I  can't!" 

For  Mrs.  Maurice  Hill— Fifi  D'Orsay  to  you — has  other 
ideas  concerning  the  technique  designed  to  make  the  tie 
that  binds  really  keep  on  binding.  Making  biscuits,  darning 
socks,  sewing  on  buttons,  and  similar  wifely  chores  have 
no  part  in  her  scheme  of  things  matrimonially. 

"Eef  Maurice  he  want  zat,  '  she  shrugged  expressive 
Parisian  shoulders,  "he  employ  ze  maid — or  maaybe  he 
stay  wiz  mamma.  Non,  non !  Maurice  want  a  sweetheart. 
That  is  the — how  you  say? — the  bottom — non,  the  founda- 
tion, of  the  marriage. 

"That  is  why  it  is  so  important  for  me — the  radio.  But 
I  owe  the  radio  the  beeg  debt !  The  radio  solve  the  beeg 
problem  for  me.  You  see,  now  I  am  married,  it  is  impor- 
tant I  do  not  go  for  long  away  from  home.  Fifi  she  stay 
home  now.  You  theenk  I  go  maybe  for  months  away — 
and  leave  my  Maurice  ?  Not  Fifi !  She  is  too  smart  for 
that !  I  want  to  keep  my  Maurice.  I — " 

It  was  quite  obvious  that  whether  you  start  interviewing 
radio's  chic  and  charming  bride  about  radio  or  the  situation 
in  Europe  or  crop  control  or  what  have  you,  sooner  or 
later  you  end  up  by  interviewing  her  about  Dr.  Maurice 
Hill — and  besides,  I  was  intrigued.  Here  was  an  oddity! 
28 


Brides  are  supposed  to  be  uniformly  trusting. 

"But  don't  you  trust  Maurice?"  I  interrupted. 

"Oh,  yes.  Sure.  I  trust  heem.  I  trust  heem — just  so 
far  as  the  end  of  my  nose  I  trust  heem !" 

Fifi  indicated  the  tip  of  her  nasal  appendage  with  an 
eloquent  finger.  Then  she  launched  into  a  discourse  on 
the  art  of  holding  a  husband  which  Cleopatra  or  the  Queen 
of  Sheba  might  have  listened  to  with  benefit.  Fifi's 
country-women  are,  of  course,  noted  for  their  skill  at 
charming  the  stronger  sex — yet  it  seemed  strange,  some- 
how, to  hear  so  much  good,  plain,  American  horse-sense 
issue  from  this  gay,  frivolous,  naughty-but-nice  Fifi,  her 
ingenuously  piquant  face  so  serious,  her  limpid  brown 
eyes  big  as  saucers.  And  right  now,  let  me  tell  you  that 
whether  you  are  French  or  American,  if  you  are  a  wife, 
what  she  had  to  say  is  a  message  for  you. 

"You  theenk  I  do  not  have  to  worry  about  holding  my 
husband?  You  bet  you  life  I  do!"  She  waggled  a  finger 
ptettily  for  emphasis.  "Me.  I  will  not  wait  till  trouble 
conies.  I  will  keep  trouble  away.  That  is  what  every 
woman  ought  to  say  to  herself  on  her  wedding  day.  It 
ought  to  be — how  you  say? — knock  in  her  head  right 
away  queek!  When  a  woman  marries,  then  till  the  day 
she  die,  she  must  wark  and  fight  to  hold  her  man.  Wo- 
men do  not  know  that.  That  is  why  there  is  divorce  all 
the  time.  They  think  they  work  hard  to  get  the  man, 
then  that  is  all.  The  woman,  she  have  a  wedding  ring — 
so  she  get  lazy !  She  theenk  the  man  will  love  her  alwavs 
becau.se  she  is  his  wife?  Pouf !   (Continued  on  page  92) 


"The  wife  she  must  always  show  the  husband  she 
love  heenn  very  much!"  says  Fifl.  "Hug  heemi 
Kiss  heemI  But  only  when  he  is  in  the  mood!" 


MARRIAGE 


By    Ruth  Geri 


Clever  Fifi  D'Orsay 


bewitching  French 


actress  and  singer. 


has  a  word  for  wives  f 


Fifi's  discourse  on  the  art  of  hold- 
ing a  husband  is  one  which  Cleo- 
patra or  the  Queen  of  Sheba 
might  have  profited  by.  "What 
you  have  not  got,  that  you  want 
more  as  anything  else,"  says  she. 


RADIO  STARS 


THIS  BUSINESS  OF 
BEING 


AT  the  Roosevelt  Grill,  in  New  York,  the  Lombardo  band 
is  playing.  On  the  dance  floor  tall,  slim  lads  and  dainty 
debutantes  swing  by  to  the  romantic  rhythm.  Romance 
is  in  the  music,  in  the  air,  in  their  hearts. 

For  older  people,  too,  romance  is  recaptured  when  Guy 
Lombardo  and  his  Royal  Canadians  play.  The  melodic 
music,  in  contrast  to  the  "hot"  type  of  jazz,  the  songs  of 
yesterday  and  the  songs  of  tomorrow  speak  in  their  soft 
legato  tempo  of  sentiment  and  love. 

It's  not  chance  that  the  Royal  Canadians  feature  this 
type  of  music.  Very  early  in  his  career  Guy  Lombardo 
rebelled  against  the  popular  -craze  for  jazz.  Groping  for 
a  tempo  and  a  style  which  satisfied  him,  his  nature,  warm 
with  the  blood  of  ardent  Italian  forbears,  inevitably  led 
liim  to  the  romantic  theme  and  the  slow,  sweet  tempo 
which  has  won  deserved  laurels  for  his  band. 

It's  not  chance,  either,  that  Guy  and  his  Royal  Cana- 
dians are  at  the  peak  in  popular  music,  usually  topping 
every  radio  popularity  poll  from  coast  to  coast.  In  this 
mechanistic  age  we  hunger  for  glamour  and  romance. 
And  Guy  Lombardo  has  made  it  his  business  to  give  them 
to  us  in  his  music. 

I  watched  Guy  at  work.  He  is  a  slim  young  man  of 
medium  height  with  a  dark,  sensitive  face.  With  a 
minimum  of  movement,  swaying  slightly  to  the  rhythm 
of  the  music,  he  led  his  band.    I  saw  none  of  the  pre- 


tentiousness of  the  pseudo-great.  No  tossing 
locks,  no  excessive  gestures,  none  of  the  fire 
and  melancholy  of  the  temperamental 
maestro.  Lifting  his  hands,  smiling  slightly, 
he  drew  from  his  inspired  musicians  the 
lovely  melodic  strains. 

What  kind  of  a  man  is  he.  I  wondered. 
Does  he  make  a  business  of  romance — or 
romance  of  business?  Is  he  a  great  lover, 
living  always  in  the  dream  the  music  en- 
genders? Or  is  he  a  down-to-earth,  practical 
business  man? 

"Great  Guy,"  they  called  him,  long  before 
that  became  a  trite  cliche.  Great  guy — swell 
guy— you  can't  hear  the  words  now  without 
a  stab  of  cynicism! 

"But  when  you  say  that  about  Guy  Lom- 
bardo, you  mean  it,"  insist  those  who  know 
him.  "He  really  is  great!" 

I  wouldn't  know.  I'd  have  to  meet  him — 
find  out  for  myself. 

I  talked  with  him  when  the  program  was 
finished.  Sitting  at  a  small  table  in  a  quiet 
corner,  we  sipped  black  coffee  together.  How, 
I  wondered,  does  romance  figure  in  his  per- 
sonal life?    His  wife,  the  lovely  blonde  Lily 


The  brothers  Lombardo  of  CBS'  "Lom- 
bardo Time,"  rehearse  a  rest!  (Left  to 
Right):  Leibert,  Victor,  Carmen  and  Guy. 


Guy  Lombardo,  leader  of  the  "Royal 
Canadians,"  whose  melodic  music  is 
one    of    radio's    delightful  treats. 


What  kind  of  a  man  is  Cuy 


Lombardo?  A  romantic  lover? 
A  practical  business  man? 


By    Nancy  Barrows 


Belle  Lombardo.  is  "regular,"  declare  those  who  know 
her.  Apparently  there's  not  even  an  unfortunate  mar- 
riage to  toss  to  cynical  I-told-you-so's ! 

Guy  is  a  modest,  reserved,  unassuming  man.  He 
doesn't  babble  vainly  of  what  is  his.  But  when  he  speaks 
of  his  wife,  his  eyes  reflect  a  deep,  enduring  happiness. 

"We've  been  married  ten  years."  he  said.  "I  met  her  in 
Qeveland.  .  .  .  We  were  playing  there,  on  the  radio.  Some 
friends  from  a  nearby  suburb  came  in  to  see  us.  They 
brought  her  with  them.  In  six  months  we  were  married." 

So  casually  Guy  slides  over  those  six  months — but  in 
his  heart  they  remain  a  cherished,  secret  garden.  Nights 
when  they  walked  together  in  the  sweet-scented  dusk. 
Days  when  they  sailed  on  the  lake  and  the  wind  blew  her 
hair  in  a  golden  halo  about  her  face.  Hours  when  they 
talked  long  and  earnestly — or  were  silent  for  a  long  time 
together.  The  thrilling  joy  of  finding  each  other,  of  dis- 
covering mutual  tastes,  mutual  delights,  shaping  together 
the  foundation  of  that  understanding  companionship  that 
has  endured  throughout  the  years. 

It  was  no  hasty,  ill-considered  youthful  romance.  Guy 
is  one  of  those  rare  souls  who  look  for  permanency  in 
marriage.  So,  too,  is  Lily  Belle.  And,  gazing  into  each 
other's  eyes,  they  felt,  even  in  that  first  casual  meeting, 
that  they  need  look  no  further. 

Being   young,   eager,         (Continued   on   page  90) 


Paramount's  "Many  Happy  Lovely  blonde  Lily  Belle, 
Returns,"  was  the  film  debut  Mrs.  Guy  Lombardo,  shares 
of  the  Lombardo  orchestra.      Guy's  passion  for  the  sea. 


SHE  KNOWS 

Virginia  Bruce,  who, 
greatest  of  all  screen 
Gilbert,  confides  what 


By    Gladys  Hall 


I  SAID  to  Virginia :  "What  is  it  that  makes  a  man  a 
Great  Lover — or  not?" 

And  Virginia,  gold  and  gossamer  and  ethereally  lovely 
( and  this  is  no  blurb,  in  V^irginia's  case,  the  bare  and 
l)eautiful  fact )  said  to  me : 

"Vitality.  The  sense  of  power.  That  first  and  above 
everything  else." 

She  said,  laughing:  "You  know,  if  a  young  man  should 
come  to  me  and  ask  me  whether  I  think  ,he  has  the 
qualities  which  go  to  make  a  great  lover,  I  would  have 
to  subject  him  to  a  questionnaire.  I  couldn't  tell  by  looking 
at  him.  For  looks,  extreme  good  looks,  at  any  rate,  have 
almost  nothing  to  do  with  it.  Casanova  was  notoriously 
ugly.  Don  Juan,  IVe  been  told,  was  no  Robert  Taylor. 
Lord  Byron  had  a  club  foot.  I  think  a  man's  face  has 
less  to  do  with  it  than  almost  anything  else.  After  all, 
Bing  Crosby  was  an  acclaimed  and  certainly  an  accredited 
Great  Lover  before  the  girls  of  the  country  ever  had  seen 
his  face.    His  voice  made  love  to  them. 

"Nelson  Eddy  had  fevered  fans  before  ever  he  made 
his  first  picture.  Lawrence  Tibbett  was  a  glamorous  voice 
before  he  was  a  picture  personality. 

"No,  it  isn't  necessary  to  be  conspicuously  handsome  in 
order  to  be  a  great  lover.  It  isn't  necessary  to  be  famous 
or  rich.  These  things  sometimes  hinder  more  than  they 
help. 

"But  there  are  certain  definite  qualities  which  I  think 
every  man  must  have  in  order  to  rate  as  a  great  lover. 
The  first  of  these,  as  I  have  .said,  is  vitality.  Such  a 
vitality  as  Valentino  had.  as  Jack  Gilbert  had,  as  Clark 
Gable  and  Walter  W^inchell  and  Spencer  Tracy  and 
Lawrence  Tibbett  have.  .  .  .  But  let's  pretend  that  some 
young  Daniel  has  come  to  me  for  judgment.  I'd  sit  him 
down  and  before  I  even  noticed  whether  he  were  fat  or 
thin,  tall  or  short,  dark  or  fair,  I'd  ask  him  some  questions 
like  these  : 

"Have  you  brains  as  well  as  looks?  Intelligence 
such  as,  say,  Leslie  Howard's? 

"Are  you  a  playboy?  If  so,  go  away,  go  right 
away .' 

"Are  you  interested  in  politics,  in  world  affairs, 
like  BUI  Powell  and  Alexander  Woollcott.  for  in- 
stance? 

"Have  you  been  a  good  son,  as  Nelson  Eddy  is? 
"Arc  \<ou  unselfish/ 

"/Ire  you   thoughtful  and  considerate — as  Bing 

Crosby  is? 

"lla\ic  you,  not  great  financial  success  necessarily 
but  the  potent  desire  to  succeed? 

One  of  the  most  glomorous  girls  of  the  stage 
and  screen,  Virginia  also  has  made  a  number  of 
guest  appearances  on  popular  radio  programs. 


HER  LOVERS 

fas  married  to  the 
overs,  the  late  Jack 
nakes  a  Great  Lover 


"Have  you  men  friends  as  well  as  women  admirers 
— as  Clark  Gable  and  Spencer  Tracy  and  Bing  Crosby 
have? 

"Are  yoH  an  American? 

"Are  you  fairly  well  read? 

"Are  you  immaculate  in  your  dress? 

"Do  you  dance  well? 

"Is  your  voice  expressive  and  deep,  the  kind  of  a 
voice  that  gives  confidence?  Like  the  voice  of  Smith 
Ballew,  Master  of  Ceremonies  for  Shell  Chateau? 

"If  my  supposititious  young  Daniel,"  smiled  Virginia, 
who.  clad  in  palest  shell-pink  pajamas  had  been  reading 
Gone  With  The  Wind  as  I  entered  her  pastel  dressing- 
room  on  the  M-G-M  lot  for  luncheon,  "if  my  young  man 
should  truthfully  be  able  to  answer  ninety  per  cent,  of 
these  questions  in  the  afifirmative,  I  would  bestow  upon 
him  the  Order  of  the  Great  Lover  and  send  him  on  his 
way — or  keep  him  here!  Incidentally,  the  character  of 
Rhctt  Butler  in  Gone  With  The  Wind  is  certainly  that  of 
a  great  lover,  very  great.  Jack  Gilbert  could  have  played 
Rhett  Butler — perfectly." 

.\nd  Virginia,  when  she  speaks  of  love  and  lovers, 
should  know  whereof  she  speaks.  For  such  beauty  as 
hers  is  honey,  indeed,  to  the  beaux  and  braves  of  her 
young  time.  She  was  the  belle  of  Fargo,  North  Dakota, 
her  home  town.  Even  in  those  childhood  and  high  school 
days  the  small  Penrods  of  the  town  were  falling  over 
each  other's  sneakers,  toting  gifts  of  lollipops  and  Hershey 
bars  and  field  flowers  to  the  home  of  the  ethereally  fair 
Virginia.  Valentines  and  painfully  labored  sonnets  were 
directed  at  her  pale  gold  head.  The  faces  of  impassioned 
poets  shone  behind  youthful  freckles  and  slicked  hair. 

Later  she  was  in  the  Follies  in  New  York.  She  was 
one  of  the  most  glorious  of  the  glorified  girls.  Rich  men 
and  rich  men's  sons,  playboys  and  spenders  of  the  Great 
W  hite  Way  surrounded  her  with  that  legendary  at- 
mosphere of  shiny  black  limousines,  orchids,  champagne 
sui)pers,  diamond  bracelets  concealed  in  long-stemmed 
roses,  opera  hats,  the  Colony,  house-parties  on  Long  Is- 
land. .  .  .  Virginia  could  have  dij^ped  her  slender  hand 
into  any  of  these  plutocratic  pies  and  pulled  forth  the  rich 
ancf  juicy  plums.  She  didn't.  She  had  seen  John  Gilbert 
on  the  screen.  The  embedded  image  of  the  Great  Lover 
threw  all  other  images  out  of  focus. 

.\nd  she  said  to  me:  "A  man  doesn't  have  to  be  able  to 
send  orchids  and  diamonds  to  a  girl  in  order  to  qualify 
as  a  great  lover.  These  things  can't  be  necessary  because 
they  practically  never  happen.  I  seldom  saw  any  of  the 
girls  draped  in  orchids,  let  alone  (Continued  on  page  62) 

Virginia,  who  was  "Audrey  Dane"  in  M-G-M's  "The 
Great  Ziegfeld,"  plays  in  the  new  M-G-M  picture, 
"Born   to    Dance,"    which    stars    Eleanor  Powell. 


I 


J 


weorinq  <ron*       .  '  ^v-f  John  Oodio 

'<"''°,.  I  Jock  S-^"*'     „.\  *t.»  o*  ptoc«»- 


IN  THE 


This  month  the  spofj 


RADIO  SPOTLIGHT 

light  falls  on  friendly  and  familiar  faces  in  novel  scenes 


,t1 


Betty  Lou  Gerson 
now  leading  lady 
of  "Flying  Time," 
heard  daily  from 
Tuesday  through 
Friday  on  the 
NBC-Red  network. 


Joseph  Ainley  and 
Betty  Lou  Gerson 
were  married  in 
the  summer  of  1936. 


LOVE,  glamour,  romance — all  these 
are  a  part  of  the  birthright  of  any 
Southern  lassie.  And  all  these  Betty 
Lou  Gerson  had.  But  they  were  not 
enough!  To  Betty  Lou  the  sweet 
scent  of  magnoHa  blossoms,  the 
.Southern  moon  shining  softly  and 
an  eager  suitor  declaring  undying 
love,  were  just  a  part  of  everyday 
life.  For  her,  glamour  was  in  the 
theatre.  Romance  was  drama  on  the 
stage.  Betty  Lou  wanted  to  be  an 
actress. 


Young  and  lovely 
Betty  Lou  goes  in 
for  winter  sports 
whenever  possible. 


And  so,  for  a  time,  it  looked  as 
if  Cupid  would  run  a  losing  race 
with  Career.  It  does  sound  absurd, 
to  suppose  that  a  glamorous  South- 
em  beauty  could  exclude  love  and 
romance  from  her  life — or  even 
want  to  do  so !  And  Betty  Lou  is 
just  the  sort  of  girl  Cupid  would 
pick  as  a  perfect  target  for  his  fate- 
ful dart.  Lovely  to  look  at,  with  her 
soft,  dark  hair,  her  rose-petal  com- 
plexion and  her  come-hitherish 
brown  eyes.  Lovely  to  know,  too, 
with  her  candour  and  sincerity,  her 
gaiety  and  wit  and  young  idealism. 

It  was  the  idealism,  really,  which 
for  a  time  threatened  to  thwart 
Cupid.  When  Betty  Lou  talked 
things  over  with  herself,  she  grew 
very  idealistic,  very  serious— in  the 
serious  way  a  young  girl  does — about 


the  career  she  hoped  to  achieve  for 
herself. 

True  she  gave  some  thought  to 
romance — writing  in  her  diary,  in  a 
round,  girlish  hand,  her  youthful 
conception  of  her  ideal  lover : 

"I.  prefer  a  man  who  is  my 
intellectual  superior — one  on 
whom  I  can,  if  need  be,  depend 
in  every  respect.  He  may  be 
either  blond  or  brunette,  tall — 
or  reasonably  tall.  He  must  be 
sure  of  himself — no  dilletante. 
And  he  must  have  a  sense  of 
humor." 

Betty  Lou  was  nineteen  then.  It 
was  pleasant  to  think  vaguely  of  this 
tall,  superior  young  man,  wlio  would 
sweep  her  off  her  feet  on  some  mag- 
nolia-sweet moonlit  night.  But  not 
too  soon !  Just  now  the  career  was 
beginning  to  take  dazzling  shape  in 
Betty  Lou's  dreams,  and  in  reality. 
And  so,  seriously,  she  wrote  in  her 
diary : 

"I  believe  one's  career  should 


Betty  Lou  with 
Cliff  Soubier  in  the 
last  season's  "First 
Nighter" 


come  before  anything  else. 
Other  emotions  and  desires 
should  be  subordinated  to  it — 
but  not  entirely  done  away 
with." 

Not  entirely  done  away  with! 
Betty  Lou  Gerson  was  to  laugh  at 
that  naivete  before  very  long.  Betty 
Lou  and  a  tall,  red-headed  young 
man  named  Joseph  T.  Ainley — who 
was  ten  years  older  than  Betty  Lou, 
and  then  a  member  of  The  National 
Broadcasting  Company's  Chicago 
production  stafT. 

But  to  go  back  some  nineteen 
years.  .  .  .  Betty  Lou  was  born  on 
April  20th,  1914,  in  Chattanooga, 
Tennessee.  When  she  was  two  years 
old,  her  family  moved  to  Birming- 
ham. Alabama.  A  little  later  they 
moved  again  to  Miami,  Florida.  In 
these  Southern  cities  Betty  Lou  went 
to  school.  School  days  were  pleas- 
antly uneventful.  Betty  Lou  was  no 
prodig)'. 

"I  didn't  learn  much,"  she  told  us 
frankly,  "except  to  pour  tea  grace- 
fully!" 

But  during  her  last  two  years  in 
school  her  interest  in  dramatics  was 
aroused.  She  wrote  and  acted  in 
school  plays  and  took  a  special  course 
in  dramatics.  Now  her  imagination 
ran  riot.  (Continued  on  page  SO) 
37 


w 


Hope  wore  to  a 


Horace  Heidt  held 


FATE  CAN 


"I  WAS  going  to  write  my  story  for  somebody  once,"  said  Horace 
Heidt.  "but  I  never  got  around  to  it.    I  never  got  any  farther  than  the 
title.    I  had  a  good  title,  though.    I  was  going  to  call  it:  'You're  never 
out  until  you've  hud  three  strikes  on  you.'  " 
We  were  sitting  in  the  Silver  Forest  of  the  Drake  Hotel.    The  breeze  oflF 
Lake  Michigan,  coming  in  through  the  tall  windows,  rippled  the  tinselled 
leaves  as  though  echoing  the  applause  of  the  hundreds  who  had  crowded  that 
room  to  dance  or  just  to  listen  to  Heidt's  music. 

In  a  few  minutes  he  would  be  taking  his  boys  across  town  to  the  auditorium 
for  his  commercial  broadcast  for  Alemite.  Then  back  for  another  session  at 
the  Silver  Forest. 

The  Heidt  boy  seemed  to  be  doing  all  right. 

But  the  wonder  was,  not  that  he  was  doing  so  well — when,  not  many  months 
before,  people  wouldn't  even  let  him  tell  thern  what  a  swell  band  he  had,  let  alone 
show  them — but  that  he  was  still  in  there  fighting,  after  the  rebuffs,  the  disap- 
pointments and  the  heartbreaks  he  had  received. 

He  must  have  lived  with  tliat  phrase:  "You're  never  out  until  you  have  had 
three  strikes  on  you."  Many  a  time,  when  fate  had  dealt  him  another  one  between 
the  eyes,  he  must  have  muttered  it.  blindly,  doggedly,  to  himself.  He  must  have 
repeated  it,  with  a  slap  on  the  back,  to  the  boys — just  to  be  able  to  keep  going. 
You  study  him  for  a  moment  as  he  sits  there,  lean  and  trim  in  his  white  mess 
jacket,  the  light  from  a  candle  flickering  on  his  bronzed  face,  his  straightforward 
l)lue  eyes,  his  defiant,  boyish  grin. 

He  baffles  you  at  first.  He  is  wary,  shy,  nf)t  knowing  how  to  be  as  friendly  as  he 
wants  to  be,  like  a  fighter,  relaxed,  keeping  his  left  up  there,  just  in  case.  Above 
all,  not  believing  he's  as  good  as  he  really  is,  which  is  strange  for  an  orchestra 
leader,  who  lias  to  be  both  window-dressing  and  dynamo  to  the  band. 
Slowly  his  story  begins  to  come  out,  jerkily  at  first,  in  response  to  prodding, 
then  flowing  smoothly  under  the  powerful  wine  of  reminiscence:  the  story  of  a 
modern  Anthony  Adverse  of  music,  buffeted  and  bewildered  by  quixotic  fate, 
yet  still  in  there,  taking  it. 

And  as  he  talks,  you  begin  to  understand  many  things — why  he  is  wary  and 
shy  and  why  he  can  stick  out  his  chin  at  you  and  smile  with  his  eyes  at  the 
same  time. 

"You're  never  out  till  you  have  had  three  strikes  on  you."  After  all,  you 
can't  sum  it  up  any  better  than  that. 
It  is  natural  for  Heidt  to  express  himself  in  athletic  terminology,  for 
the  great  thwarted  dream  of  his  life  has  been  to  be  an  athlete. 
His  first  ambition  as  a  boy  was  to  be,  someday,  the  heavy-weight 
champion  of  the  world.   It  might  not  have  been  impossible,  either. 
He  had  the  weight,  the  build  and  the  agility. 
But  his  parents  didn't  think  that  a  worthy  enough  goal.   So  he 
centered  his  ambitions  on  becoming  a  great  all-around  athlete. 
He  was  well  on  his  way,  too.    He  still  has  the  medal  he  won 
at  Culver  Military  Academy  for  all-around  athletic  prowess. 
At  the  University  of  California  he  liecame  an  all-sports 
phenomenon.    He  dreamed,  perhaps,  of  becoming  another 
Jim  Thorjie,  possibly  a  decathlon  winner  for  America 
in  the  Olympics,  an  athlete  who  would  go  down  in 
history. 


roce  po$e«  with  glamorous 
cth  Hughes,  harpist  with 
bond.    Lysbeth  also  gives 
al    solos    on  occasion. 


By  Edward 


thin  shred,  but 
on  till  he  won  out! 


BE  CRUEL 


ilis  career  reached  a  pinnacle  when,  all  in  one  dizzying  day,  he 
pitched  a  winning  ball  game,  won  a  swimming  race  and  several  stellar 
track  events  and  topped  it  all  off  that  night  by  taking  the  University 
heavy-weight  boxing  championship. 

Then  a  short  time  later  came  the  great  west  coast  event,  the  annual 
football  game  in  the  Rose  Bowl  at  Pasadena.    Heidt  was  playmg  guard 
for  California. 

No  one  ever  knew  quite  how  it  had  happened.  There  was  an  attack  through 
his  position.  He  stopped  it.  The  lines  piled  up  with  Heidt  at  the  bottom 
of  the  heap. 

When  it  was  over  they  carried  Heidt  off  the  field  with  a  fractured  back. 

One  thing  was  immediately  clear  to  him.    He  would  never  again  take  active 
part  in  any  strenuous  sport.    Everything  he  had  built  his  life  upon  was  gone. 
The  agony  of  that  thought  was  harder  to  endure  than  the  pain  of  the  eight 
major  operations  that  were  necessary,  in  the  months  that  followed,  to  get  him 
back  into  shape  again. 

Through  those  weeks  in  bed  he  was  haunted  by  the  horror  of  lieing  a  burden 
on  somebody.  There  was  just  one  way  of  escape  he  knew.  He  could  play  the 
piano.  He  already  had  used  it  to  pick  up  some  odd  dollars  to  help  him  through 
school.  He  was  glad  now  that  his  mother's  insistence  had  kept  him  at  the  keyboard 
when  he  would  much  rather  have  been  out  scrimmaging  on  the  comer  lot  with 
the  boys. 

As  soon  as  he  was  able  to  get  out  at  all,  he  began  to  pick  up  odd  jobs,  playing 
for  social  events  around  school.  But  pretty  soon  he  began  to  get  the  idea  that 
people  were  helping  him  because  they  felt  sorry  for  him  and  his  pride  couldn't 
stand  that. 

So  he  left  the  campus  and  got  a  job  pounding  the  piano  at  a  roadhouse 
outside  of  San  Francisco. 

"And  was  I  lousy !"  he  rememljers  now  with  a  grin. 

Since  music  was  to  be  his  livelihood,  he  began  to  make  it  his  business  to  be 
good  at  it.   He  learned  to  play  other  instruments.   And  he  improved  his  piano 
so  much  that  eventually  he  got  a  job  with  a  local  orchestra  of  better  standing. 
They  played  around  in  dance  spots  and  theaters  and  Heidt  began  to  be  happy 
again.    He  was  making  a  living;  he  was  paying  his  way. 

Then  one  day,  after  a  show  in  a  theater,  something  happened.    He  was 
standing  in  the  alleyway,  passing  the  time  of  day  with  the  theater  manager. 
The  band  leader  saw  him,  misconstrued  it,  thought  he  was  trying  to  get 
his  job.   That  night  he  gave  Heidt  his  notice. 

That  misunderstanding  was  a  terrible  blow  to  Heidt.  Carefully, 
painstakingly,  he  had  built  up  something.    Then  suddenly,  through 
no  fault  of  his  own,  without  any  rhyme  or  reason,  it  had  been 
snatched  away  from  him. 

He  decided  then  and  there  that  any  situation  where  such  a 
thing  could  happen  wasn't  for  him.    He  made  up  his  mind 
that  never  again  would  he  play  in  any  man's  orchestra  but 
his  own. 

He  went  back  to  the  University  campus  where  he 
was  known  and  started  to  organize  a  band.  He 
picked  up  a  saxophonist  here,  a  trumpeter  there.  A 
number  of  those  boys  (Continued  on  page  78) 


R.  Sammis 


THERE'S  A 

SONG  IN 
HER  HEART 


And  that's  the  song  that 
you  never  hear,  but  find 
reflected  in  exerything  that 
genial  Kate  Smith  does 

By  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen 


CHARM.  That's  the  word  for  Kate  Smith. 

Not  the  superficial  thing  lhat  word  has  come  to  sug- 
gest, tossed  about  as  it  has  been  in  these  glib  days.  Not 
the  word  copy-writers  use  when  they  talk  of  the  charm 
of  a  new  hat  or  of  the  cc^lor  scheme  of  a  fall  ensemble  or 
the  charm  of  a  size  twelve  dress.  For  the  charm  that  is 
Kate  Smith's  has  nothing  to  do  with  style  or  color  or  size. 

Hers  is  the  charm  Sir  James  Barrie  spoke  of  in  his 
play,  What  Every  Woman  Knows,  when  plain  little 
Maggie,  his  heroine,  tries  to  define  it. 

"Charm,  it's  a  sort  of  a  bloom  on  a  woman,"  says 
Maggie  wistfully,  because  she  is  sure  she  has  none  of  it. 
"H  you  have  it,  you  don't  need  anything  else  and  if  you 
don't  have  it,  it  doesn't  much  matter  what  else  you  have. 
Some  women,  the  few,  have  charm  for  all  and  most  have 
charm  for  one,  but  some  have  charm  for  none." 

It's  doubtful  that  Kate  Smith  thinks  she  has  charm, 
any  more  than  Maggie  thought  she  had.  That's  one  of 
the  things  about  charm.  Most  people  who  think  they 
have  it,  just  haven't.  But  as  plain  little  Maggie  proved 
to  be  one  of  the  few  who  had  charm  for  all,  so  it  is  with 
Kate  Smith.  That  charm  is  in  every  song  she  sings,  in 
every  word  she  says,  in  everything  she  does. 

Of  course  it  has  something  to  do  with  that  mouth  of 
hers,  shaped  for  laughter  as  it  is.  With  her  brown  eyes, 
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eager  and  alive,  and  her  skin  that  looks  like  a  spring 
morning  bursting  into  blossom.  It  has  something  to  do 
with  her  honey-colored  hair  falling  into  a  soft  cluster  of 
curls  at  the  nap>e  of  her  neck  and  her  straight  little  nose 
and  the  dimple  that  darts  around  her  smile  as  she  speaks. 

But  it  goes  deeper  than  that.  Down  to  that  song  in 
her  heart,  the  silent  song  that  goes  on  as  steadily  as  the 
one  you  hear  when  you  dial  Kate  Smith  into  your  home 
on  Thursday  evenings.  The  unsung  song  that  made  her 
turn  to  nursing  when  her  time  came  to  make  her  place 
in  the  world  and  that  makes  her  give  with  such  eagerness 
of  everything  that  she  has,  since  fate  decided  that  she  was 
not  to  be  a  nurse,  after  all,  but  a  woman  of  importance. 

Tenderness  dwells  in  her  words  as  she  talks  about  her 
camp  at  Saranac  Lake  and  the  squirrels  and  chipmunks 
up  there  who  have  come  to  be  so  unafraid,  through  know- 
ing her,  that  they  sit  on  their  haunches  and  untie  the 
knots  holding  the  peanuts  in  the  strings  her  guests  dangle 
before  them. 

Hurt  takes  its  place,  a  moment  later,  as  she  speaks  of 
a  writer  who  thought  she  should  pay  more  attention  to 
her  clothes  and  who  had  criticized  her  for  her  lack  of  it. 

"It  hurt  terribly,"  she  said  slowly.  "Lots  of  things 
people  have  written  about  me  have  hurt  me.  But  then 
I  think,  writing  those  things  is  as  much  a  part  of  that 


girl's  job  as  sin<(inj^  is  of  mine  and  1  try  not  to  care. 

"After  all.  1  know  I'm  not  a  fashion-plate.  I  don't 
want  to  be  one.  Clothes  never  have  meant  anythinjj  more 
to  me  than  something  to  keep  me  cool  in  summer  and 
warm  in  winter.  l'.\en  if  1  were  fascinated  by  them,  I 
couUln't  let  them  absorb  me.  There  are  so  many  things 
to  be  done,  I  just  wouldn't  have  the  time." 

There  are  many  things  Kate  Smith  has  to  do.  Re- 
hearsals, conferences,  meeting  people,  important  people 
who  are  necessary  to  a  girl  with  a  career  to  think  of.  But 
there  are  all  the  other  things  to  be  done,  too,  the  things 
that  have  nothing  at  all  to  do  with  her  career,  but  have 
a  lot  to  do  with  the  girl  herself.  The  unimportant  things 
and  the  unimiwrtant  i)eople  she  does  them  for.  The  time 
she  sj^ent,  the  other  day,  talking  with  that  girl  at  the 
studio  who  had  just  had  a  radio  audition  and  had  failed 
to  make  the  grade. 

Kate  didn't  know  that  girl,  but  even  at  that  she  couldn't 
pass  by  those  brimming  eyes,  that  trembling  mouth.  So 
she  sat  down  to  talk  to  her  and  in  another  hour  the  girl 
had  recaptured  her  lost  courage  and  her  ambition.  She 
was  ready  to  try  again,  to  work  even  harder  than  she  had 
l^efore,  to  hold  on  more  tightly  than  ever  to  the  dream 
in  her  heart.  Kate  couldn't  regret  an  hour  spent  like  that. 

She  could  not  regret  the  time  spent  on  some  young 
friends  of  hers,  a  few  days  later.  The  girls  were  twins 
who  had  sung  with  her  on  her  program  and  had  won  a 
place  in  this  season's  Follies.  It  was  their  birthday  the 
next  day  and  of  course  Kate  was  planning  a  party  for 
them.  Somehow  a  waiting  interview  did  not  seem  so 
important.  After  all,  that  couldn't  do  anyone  any  good 
but  herself. 

So  there  she  was,  over  half  an  hour  late  and  sorry 
about  it,  too,  for  it  suddenly  had  occurred  to  her  that  she 
had  taken  tiiiie  from  someone  else  and  Kate  Smith  knows 
how  important  time  is. 

"You  see,  I  wanted  it  to  be  just  right,"  she  explained, 
after  that  first,  warm  apology.  "Their  mother  can't  be 
here  and  they'll  miss  her  so  much  and  so  I  want  it  to  be 
the  sort  of  party  she  would  have  planned  for  them. 
That's  why  I  went  down  to  the  shop  myself  to  pick  out 
the  birthday  cake  and  to  see  that  they  got  the  names  and 


Below,  Kate  Smith,  Mrs. 
Ted  Collins,  Natalie  Col- 
lins and  Ted  Collins  enjoy 
coasting  at  Lake  Placid. 


Right,  Kate  Smith,  radio 
idol,  and  Babe  Ruth, base- 
ball idol,  opened  Kate's 
new  "Bandwagon"  series. 


decorations  exactly  right  and  to  choo.sc  the  prettiest  forms 
they  had  for  the  ice  cream.  It'll  be  fun  tomorrow  night, 
just  the  four  of  us,  the  girls,  my  housekeei)er  and  me." 

That's  Kate  Smith.  You  see  the  charm  that  Barrie 
described  as  a  .sort  of  a  bloom  on  a  woman.  Interviewers 
have  been  kept  waiting  l)efore  but  I  can't  think  of  one 
with  as  warm  a  reason  as  this.  Once  I  waited  for  a 
I)()l)ular  movie  star,  one  whose  name  invariably  is  coupled 
with  the  word  charming.  An  hour  went  by. 

I  waited,  sitting  in  a  hotel  drawing-rcwm,  while  the 
star  petulantly  coped  with  a  modiste  and  pins  and  at 
least  ten  dresses  to  be  tried  on.  So  you  can  see  that 
clothes,  or  a  too  great  interest  in  them,  can  destroy  chann. 
Certainly  Kate  has  lost  nothing  of  it  in  her  frank  dis- 
avowal of  them. 

She  hasn't  lost  charm  through  being  a  big  girl,  either. 

If  Kate  Smith  thought  more  of  herself,  she  probably 
wouldn't  be  a  big  girl  at  all.  A  tall  girl,  of  course,  but 
not  a  big  one.  If  she  were  important  to  herself,  she 
would  diet,  as  so  many  other  radio  and  movie  and  opera 
stars  do,  to  cut  down  her  lines.  Rut  Kate  Smith  hasn't 
the  time  nor  the  inclination  to  diet. 

After  all,  in  spite  of  the  self  discipline  diet  imposes, 
you  have  to  be  good  to  yourself  when  you're  doing  it. 
You  have  to  spend  longer  hours  (Continued  on  page  94) 


RADIO  STARS 


of  Ceremonies  on 
the  Shell  Chateau. 


By    Franc  Dillon 

SMITH  BALLEW  came  swinging  down  the  corridor  at 
the  Hollywood  NBC  broadcasting  station  with  long, 
graceful  strides  and,  as  he  came  through  the  doorway 
into  the  room  where  I  was,  he  ducked  his  head.  I 
looked  twice  to  make  sure  he  wasn't  on  stilts,  for  he  is 
six  feet  four  inches  tall  and  I  wondered  what  would 
happen  if  he  forgot  to  duck. 

It  seems  he  did  sometimes  forget,  for  he  says  experi- 
ence is  a  brutal  teacher  and  ducking  is  now  second  nature 
to  him.  He  does  it  when  it  isn't  necessary.  I  had  sup- 
p>osed  that  it  was  a  press  agent's  story  that  he  uses  an 
especially  built  microphone  for  his  radio  work,  but  it  isn't. 

He  is  a  friendly  person,  but  shy  and  modest  to  a  de- 
gree that  makes  you  wonder  how  on  earth  he  ever  chose 
to  be  a  master  of  ceremonies,  a  job  which  popular  opinion 
visualizes  as  calling  for  a  dynamic,  fast-thinking,  fast-, 
talking,  wise-cracking,  breezy  personality  and  plenty  of 
assurance.  If  you  tune  in  on  Sh^ll  Chateau  program 
any  Saturday  night,  which  you  probably  do  without  being 
reminded,  you  will  no  doubt  decide  that  Smith  is  that 
type  of  person. 

He  isn't ! 

It  always  had  been  the  fond  hope  of  Smith's  parents 
that  he  be  a  doctor — a  great  surgeon.  Smith  shared  that 
dream  and  was  taking  a  pre-medical  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas.  He  planned  to  go  on  to  Johns  Hopkins 
to  finish  his  course,  but  his  preparations  for  a  medical 
career  were  suddenly  interrupted  when  he  fell  in  love. 
"I  wanted  to  get  married,"  he  told  me,  "and  I  couldn't 
wait  to  get  through  a  medical  course.  It  meant  four 
more  years  of  college,  a  year  as  an  interne  and  then 
goodness  knows  how  long  to  establish  myself  so  that  I 
could  support  a  wife.    So  I  decided  not  to  be  a  doctor. 

"But,"  he  explained,  "I  couldn't  marry  my  girl  unless 
I  gave  up  my  orchestra  and  went  into  business.  Every- 


Smith  Ballew  is  a  friendly 
person,  actually  shy  and 
modest  to  a  degree.  But— 


one  agreed  on  that — her  family  and  my  family.  Even 
she  and  I  knew  that  running  around  the  country  with  an 
orchestra  just  wasn't  done  by  the  best  people  down  in 
Texas.  It  wasn't  considered  a  business  for  a  man. 
While  I  was  in  school,  it  was  fine,  but  as  a  profession? 
Never !" 

Smith  had  played  first  with  a  high  school  orchestra, 
performing  creditably  on  the  banjo,  mandolin,  guitar  or 
trombone.  And  during  vacations  he  picked  up  extra 
money  playing  for  Saturday  afternoon  dances.  Even- 
tually he  had  his  own  orchestra,  with  which  he  was  play- 
ing professionally  as  well  as  for  school  events.  It  had 
become  well  known  around  Texas  and  nearby  states,  and 
at  this  time'  he  had  offers,  which  he  was  tempted  to  accept, 
to  take  it  on  tour. 

Even  then  Smith  was  a  person  who  thought  everything 
over  quietly  and  calmly  before  he  made  up  his  mind.  But 
having  once  decided  on  a  course  of  action,  he  lost  no 
time  in  carrying  it  out.  In  a  very  short  time  he  had 
made  three  important  decisions:  he  had  given  up  all 
thought  of  being  a  doctor;  he  {Continued  on  page  58) 

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FUNNY  business,  I've 
often  thought,  the  way 
movie  marriages  appear 
to  go  on  the  rocks,  while 
radio  marriages  appear 
to  be  headed  for  the 
Golden  Wedding  Day, 
Here  are  the  two  great- 
est and  most  colorful  en- 
tertainment fields  of  our 

times.  In  l)oth  fields  men  and  women  of  charm,  vitality 
and  youth  work  together,  compete  with  one  another,  fall 
in  love  and  marry.  In  the  movie  world  they  app>ear  to 
keep  on  falling  in  love,  to  keep  on  marrying.  In  the 
radio  world  they  appear  to  get  married  and  to  stay  that 
way. 

Look  back  over  the  stars  that  the  divorce  courts  have 
eaten.  The  marriages  of  such  luminous  stars  of  past 
and  present  as  Gloria  Swanson,  Colleen  Moore,  Mary 
and  Doug,  Joan  and  young  Doug,  Clark  Gable,  Connie 
Bennett.  ...  I  could  go  on  and  on  with  somewhat  tragic 
indefiniteness. 

On  the  other  hand,  look  over  the  luminous  stars  of  the 
radio  .  .  .  the  Jack  Bennys.  the  Bing  Crosbys,  the  Fred 
Aliens,  the  Eddie  Cantors.  Bums  and  Allen,  the  Bob 
Burnses — Bob's  a  marriage  which  only  death  could 
dissolve. 

InduTiitably  the  stars  of  the  radio  would  seem  to 
esdiew  teinptation,  keep  their  feet  on  the  ground,  even 
though  their  heads  are,  so  to  speak,  in  the  air. 

IV  hy? 


...  SON* 


I  thought  I'd  ask  three  of  the 
most  outstanding  radio  couples, 
how  they  account  for  the  fact; 
that  marriage  seems  to  "take": 
with  them,  while  with  their  sis- 
ters and  brothers  of  the  movies  i 
it  seems  to  leave-take. 

I  began  with  Burns  and  Allen. 
Gracie  giggled  and  said:  "Oh, 
that's  easy !    I  can  tell  you  why 
I've  stayed  married  to  George  for  more  than  eleven  years. 
It's  because  I've  never  met  up  with  Clark  Gable.  The 
instant  I  say  hulloa  to  Clark  I'll  say  goodbye  to  George !" 

"Gracie,  Grac-ie,"  groaned  George,  "this  is  a  serious 
interview.  Miss  Hall  expects  us  to  answer  her  intelli- 
gently." 

"Well,  that's  what  I'm  doing.  George."  said  Gracie. 
"It's  a  matter  of  time  and  space.  It's  a  dimensional 
problem.  How's  that,  George?  You  see,  when  we  work 
on  the  radio  and  even  when  we're  doing  those  nice, 
chilly  love  scenes  George  writes  in  for  me  so  kindly, 
even  then  we  stand,  my  radio  hero  and  I.  at  least  five 
feet  apart.  We  each  have  our  own  separate  little  micro- 
phone. We  never,  so  to  speak,  get  together.  There's 
no  clinch.  Well,  if  I  have  to  kiss  a  man  standing  five 
feet  away  from  me,  I  might  as  well  kiss  George!" 

"Grac-ie!"  yelped  George,  as  if  in  pain.  He  rose  and 
took  the  floor.  Gracie  subsided  onto  the  divan  and 
knitted  a  Little  Garment. 

"It's  like  this,"  said  George  patiently.  "There  is  no 
sex  on  the  radio.    As  Gracie  so  brilliantly  points  out,  I 


write  all  the  love  scenes  she  plays.  I  see  to  tfiat.  There 
are  no  clinches.  There  is  no  propinquity.  Human  na- 
ture being  what  it  is,  this  aids  in  the  preservation  of 
married  life,  as  you  may  perceive. 

"Husbands  and  wives  work  together  on  the  air.  Grade 
and  I.  Jack  Benny  and  Mary,  Fred  Allen  and  his  wife, 
and  other  couples.  In  the  movies,  husbands  work  with 
other  men's  wives  and  vice  versa.  It's  more  of  a  busi- 
ness, the  radio  work.  There's  no  attempt  made  to 
glamorize  the  radio  stars.  In  the  movie  studios  there's 
special  Ughting  to  beautify,  to  take  the.  shadows  oflF  the 
nose  and  so  on.  In  the  radio  station  tliere  is  special 
lighting,  from  the  mike,  to  put  shadows  on  the  nose! 

"Nor  can  a  romance  progress  very  heatedly  when  an 
announcer  is  forever  cutting  in  on  some  tender  passage 
with  something  about  cheese  being  good  for  intestinal  for- 
titude or  Weepin'  Willow  Gardens  a  lovely  place,  and 
cheap  at  the  price,  for  the  disposal  of  the  dear  departed. 

"We're  not  being  constantly  reminded  of  love  and  sex 
and  beauty  and  glamour  in  a  radio  studio.  The  movie 
studios,  on  the  other  hand,  run  over  with  powder-puffs 
and  seductive  costumes  and  soft  music  and  couples  who 
are  not  married  to  each  other.  In  a  radio  station  all 
you  get  is  a  gruff  voice  from  the  control-room  shouting: 
'Stand  over  there  another  inch!'  Or:  'We're  eighteen 
seconds  late !'  We  are  timed  too  exactly  on  the  radio  to 
have  any  time. 

"Then,  I  know  that  my  wife  is  cleverer  than  I  am  .  .  ." 

"Oh,  Georg-ie,"  purred  Grade. 

"Quiet,"  commanded  George.  "As  I  was  saying,  I 
know  that  my  wife  is  deverer  than  I  am.    I  play  up  to 


that.  I  work  toward  that  end.  That  I  have  to  work 
very  hard  is,  perhaps,  obvious.  But  here's  the  secret, 
or  one  of  them,  of  the  success  of  our  marriage — Grade 
doesn't  know  that  she  is  deverer  than  I.  She  always 
says  .  .  ." 

"I  always  say."  chirped  Grade,  "that  he  writes  'em 
and  I  say  *em  and  how  could  I  say  'em  if  he  didn't 
write  'em  ?" 

"Movie  couples,"  said  George,  "take  themselves  too 
seriously  as  tHdividuals.  They  give  themselves  too  big 
a  build-up  for  their  own  good,  or,  rather,  for  the  good 
of  their  marriages." 

"Radio  couples  get  the  air  while  they  are  working, 
movie  people  get  the  air  after  they  work,"  giggled 
Grade. 

George  bore  and  foreborc.  He  said:  "If  a  husband 
and  a  wife,  both  in  pictures,  get  parts  in  the  same  pic- 
ture, and  the  wife's  part  is  bigger  than  the  husband's, 
there  is  apt  to  be  trouble.  It  isn't  one  for  all  and  all 
for  one  in  the  movies.  It's  only  all  for  one.  Thev  never 
seem  to  figure  that  if  one  gets  the  big  break,  that''s  swell 
for  both  of  them.   But  we  do  figure  that  way,  on  the  air. 

"Then,  too,  there's  nothing  to  go  to  the  wife's  head 
on  radio.  People,  as  a  whole,  don't  recognize  Grade 
when  she  is  shopping  or  anywhere  in  public.  The  fan 
mail  we  receive  is  not  conducive  to  making  her  think  of 
herself  as  Marlcne  Dietrich.  Most  of  it  is  from  kids. 
A  great  many  of  the  fans  think  Gracie  is  anywhere  from 
two  to  fourteen  years  of  age  and  the  balaiKe  of  them 
sympathize  with  me  and  ask  me  how  I  stand  it. 

"I'm  not  liable  to  get  the  big  (Continued  on  pageSS) 


[  AND  WHY^ 


Radio  listeners  defend 


4he  grandest  girl  on 
the  air." 


Carl  R.  Can- 
terbury, Mo- 
line,  111.  (-Rtfi/. 
road  Man.) 

"'Wayne 
King's  music 
is  as  delicate 
as  an  orchid ; 
as  interpretive 
as  a  prayer.' 
This  eloquent 
tribute  by 
Walter  Win- 
chell  epito- 
mizes perfectly  the  reasons  why  I  love 
Wayne  King's  beautiful  music.  Its 
peaceful  charm,  its  soft  melodic 
!)eauty,  its  slow  sweet  rhythm  afford 
a  refreshing  invitation  to  placid  re- 
flection when  the  day's  work  is  done." 

Orpha  M.  Dolph,  Dearborn, 
Mich.  (Teacher.)  "I  listen  to  Jes- 
sica Dragonette  because  she  is,  with- 
out question,  the  grandest  girl  on  the 
air.  A  superb  voice,  a  heavenly  per- 
sonality, a  true  friend.  The  dearest, 
sweetest  person  I  have  ever  met.  It 
is  she  who  makes  life  worth  living." 

Martha 
Stewart, 
Dallas,  Tex. 
(  U niversity 
Student.) 
"My  favorite 
radio  pro- 
grams  are 
"One  Man's 
Family,'  made 
outstanding 
by  Carlton 
Morse's  abil- 
ity to  depict  "his  music  delicate 
a  typical  as  an  orchid." 
46 


their  program  preferences 
*do  you  agree  with  them  ? 


American  family  in  an  unique  philo- 
sophical manner;  and  'The  Magic 
Key'  which  brings  to  listeners  the 
best  in  various  types  of  music  and 
drama,  with  gifted  stars." 

Willye  Picha,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
(Florist.)  "Because  Ken  Murray, 
Jack  Benny,  Eddie  Cantor,  Willie 
and  Eugene  Howard,  and  Burns  and 
Allen  are  in  themselves  clean,  clever, 
finished  entertainers,  they  help  me  to 
relax  after  working  hard  all  day." 

A.  H.  John- 
son,  Portland, 
Ore.  {Musi- 
cian and 
Writer.)  'I 
am  happy  to 
say  I  have  no 
radio  and  lis- 
ten to  no  reg- 
u  1  a  r  p  r  o  - 
grams.  Dur- 
ing the  proper 
seasons  I  bor- 
row a  radio  provoker" 
m  order  to  lis- 
ten to :  World 

Series  baseball ;  Pacific  Coast  foot- 
ball games;  Metropolitan  Opera  and 
the  New  York  Philharmonic." 

R.  T.  Gidley,  Dallas,  Tex.  (Archi- 
tect.) "Jack  Benny,  P'red  Allen  and 
Major  Bowes  are  my  favorites,  first, 
because  they  are  always  interesting 
and  entertaining.  They  bring  smiles 
— and  a  smile  is  one  of  the  finest 
mental  and  phy.sical  tonics  I  know  of. 
Second,  these  programs  are  skilfully 
arranged  and  well  presented." 

Blanche  E.  Sery,  AUentown,  Pa. 

(High  School  Teacher.)    "For  my 


lighter  moods 
I  prefer 
Gracie  Al- 
len's nonsense. 
It  is  laugh- 
provoking 
with  its  utter 
'  simple -ness'. 
Sandor,  the 
violin  player, 
suits  my 
deeper  moods. 
I  especially  "humanitarian" 
like   to  hear 

him  play  Hungarian  songs.  More 
Hungarian  music  over  the  radio  is 
something  I  heartily  hope  for." 

John  H.  Parry,  Geneseo,  N.  Y. 
(State  Normal  School  Teacher.)  "I 

listen  only  to  symphony  orchestras, 
chamber  music  and  opera  broadcasts 
for  the  reasons  which  impel  every 
music  lover  to  listen  to  superb  music 
well  played.  These  are  too  well 
known  to  need  repeating  here.  Be- 
sides, most  of  them  can't  be  put  into 
words.  As  for  the  other  kinds  of 
radio  programs,  they  are  insufferable 
bilge.  I  never  turn  on  the  radio — 
unless  I  know  what  I  am  to  hear." 

Roy  A.  Anderson,  Muskegon, 
Mich.    (Newspaper  Employee.)  "I 

listen  to  'Kraft  Music  Flail'  because 
of  the  variety  of  entertainment.  Bing 
Crosby,  the  crooning  master  of  cere- 
monies ;  the  master  comedian ;  match- 
less music-makers ;  headline  guest 
stars  and  minimum  of  advertising." 

Mrs.  R.  H.  Fletcher,  CarroUton, 
Ga.  (Housewife.)  "I  prefer  comedy 
l^rograms,  such  as  'Town  Hall  To- 
night,'   {Continued    on    page  66) 


^  TAILING  0 

tlE  STARS 


Harry  Jackson,  orchestra  leader,  and  Jimnny 
Fidler,  Hollywood  Tattler,  with  Ginger  Rogers. 


"EVERY  time  I  go  on  the  air  I  may  have  someone  take  a 
swing  at  me  as  I  come  out  of  the  studio  or,  what  is  worse, 
lose  a  good  friend,"  says  Jimmy  Fidler  with  a  fighting 
gleam  in  his  deep  blue  eyes.  "But  that's  a  chance  I'm 
willing  to  take  if  I  can  help  someone  see  a  fault  that  might 
hurt  his  career." 

Jimmy  (you  just  can't  help  calHng  him  "Jimmy"  as  he 
leans  across  his  note-strewn  desk,  eyes  crinkling  at  you, 
friendly  and  eager )  is  talking  about  those  open  letters  to 
picture  stars  on  his  Tuesday  night  Hollywood  gossip 
broadcast. 

"Take  Bing  Crosby.  When  I  said  his  singing  sounded 
careless  and  wondered  if  he  was  slipping,  I  didn't  know 
how  he'd  take  it  and  we'd  been  friends  a  long  time.  For- 
tunately he  not  only  took  it  all  right,  he  listened  carefully 
to  his  latest  recordings  and  then  made  them  over. 

"With  Errol  Flynn  it  was  different.  He  didn't  like  my 
saying  he  had  gone  high-hat  and  threatened  to  hang  one 
on  my  chin  but  he  eventually  calmed  down  and,  I  hear 
now.  is  being  human  again. 

"Constance  Bennett  took  it  big  when  I  mentioned  the 
fact  she  was  running  around  with  Gilbert  Roland  while 
the  Marquis  was  in  Europe.  She  called  me  down  hard. 
AVell,'  I  told  her,  'you  can't  ex- 
{ject  to  run  around  with  a  man  in 
this  country  when  you've  got  a 
husband  in  another,  without  mak- 
ing good  copy — and  I'm  a  news- 
paper man.'  " 

That's  just  what  he  is.  His 
piercing  blue  eyes  look  straight  at 
you,  quickly  take  in  and  catalogue 
every  detail.  He's  absolutely  fear- 
less where  {Continued  on  page  82) 


Above:  At  one  of 
Jimnny  Fidler 's 
"Hollywood-on-the- 
Air"  parties,  Jean 
Parker  and  Tom 
Brown  were  guests. 
At  another  (right) 
were  Raoul  Roulien, 
Dolores  Del  Rio 
and  Gene  Raymond. 


When  Jimmy  Fidler  fiddles, 
Hollywood  dances!  But 
he  plays  fair  with  all 


By  Eleanor  Alexander 


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BY  NANETTE 
K  U  T  N  E  R 


Should  amateur  sports 
stars  be  allowed  to  earn 
money  by  radio  broadcasts? 


AN  EX-CHAMPION  SPEAKS 


WHEN  Helen  Jacobs  first  became  America's  woman 
tennis  champion  she  turned  down  a  radio  contract  amount- 
ing to  a  thousand  dollars  a  week. 

On  the  face  of  it  such  an  action  does  not  seem  out 
of  the  ordinary.  Celebrities  are  known  to  receive  many 
big  money  offers,  so  what's  a  thousand  a  week  ?  Perhaps, 
reasons  Mr.  Averageman,  Miss  Jacobs  knew  what  she 
was  doing;  perhaps  she  was  holding  out  for  something 
better. 

This,  however,  was  not  the  case.  It  is  true  that  celebri- 
ties are  in  the  morifey — but  amateur  tennis  champions  are 
not.  Miss  Jacobs  refused  the  radio  ofTer  because  her 
amateur  standing  did  not  permit  her  to  accept. 

She  is  loath  to  criticize  The  United  States  Lawn 
Tennis  Association  and  its  rules.  She  is  loyal,  refusing 
to  talk  on  the  subject,  but  she  did  say  that  she  wished 
they  would  let  down  the  bars  on  radio. 

Fred  Perry  has  appeared  on  a  Vallee  program.  But 
Perry  is  an  Englishman,  and  in  Europe  they  are  broad- 
minded.  In  France  the  most  outstanding  champion  and 
Davis  Cup  player  of  a  few  years  back  had  his  own  tennis 
shop  bearing  his  name  and  selling  rackets  made  famous  by 
him. 

"Not  only  would  the  freedom  of  radio  broadcasting 
56lve  the  financial  problems  of  players,"  said  Miss  Jacobs, 
"but  it  could  become  an  extremely  valuable  service  to 
would-be  athletes.  Actually  it  is«'those  who  play  who  are 


best  qualified  to  broadcast  advice.  If  we  were  allowed  to 
teach  over  the  air,  it  would  be  an  excellent  idea.  Right 
now  professionals  could  do  it — and  there  are  plenty  of 
capable  ones. 

"When  I  started  playing,  there  wasn't  any  radio  to 
speak  of — I  guess  that  dates  me !"  she  added  and  laughed 
that  low  laugh  of  hers.  "But  if  there  had  been  radio  and 
they  had  allowed  the  current  champions  to  broadcast  ad- 
vice, I  would  have  been  given  invaluable  aid  and  might 
have  saved  myself  many  mistakes." 

Again  enters  Mr.  Averageman,  agreeing  that  it  cer- 
tainly would  be  ideal  to  have  a  champion  broadcast  les- 
sons, but  asking  why  all  the  fuss  about  getting  paid? 
She  probably  makes  a  fortune  anyway. 

That's  just  the  point.  She  doesn't.  An  amateur  tennis 
champion,  after  giving  over  fifteen  years  of  her  life  to 
the  game,  rarely  breaks  even.  She  must  practice  while 
others  are  earning  a  living;  she  must  forfeit  profitable 
jobs  because  she  cannot  hold  a  position  during  the  tennis 
season.  She  is  forbidden  to  earn  money  by  public  ap- 
pearances— in  other  words,  she  cannot  appear  on  stage  or 
screen  and,  for  some  reason,  radio  is  put  in  that  category. 
She  can  go  on  for  nothing,  but  not  for  money.  Besides, 
an  amateur  champion  must  pay  part  of  her  own  expenses 
because  The  Tennis  Association  adopted  what  is  known 
as  the  eight- weeks  rule,  a  rule  that  prevents  a  player  from 
competing  in  tournaments  where  her  expenses  are  paid 


Helen  Jacobs  says:  "Champion  tennis  requires  patience 
and  intelligence.  It  requires  calm  nerves  and  strong 
bodies.  It  is  an  all-time  job." 

Therefore,  say  I,  radio  is  one  of  the  few  mediums  that 
could  be  combined  with  it. 

If  The  United  States  Lawn  Tennis  Association  would 
look  upon  radio  as  a  living  newspaper  and  magazine  in- 
stead of  a  combination  vaudeville  stage  and  circus,  things 
would  be  different.  Players  are  allowed  to  write,  so  why 
not  broadcast  as  well? 

Oh,  they  do  broadcast  ...  for  nothing.  They  can  ap- 
pear on  non-sponsored  programs,  like  The  Radio  Party 
given  the  day  before  the  matches  begin  at  Forest  Hills, 
and  broadcast  over  all  the  networks.  If,  by  some  miracle, 
they  do  get  on  a  sponsored  program — and  they  can,  pro- 
viding they  give  the  money  to  charity — they  have  to 
promise  not  to  talk  about  tennis. 

As  Helen  Jacobs  said  to  me:  "It's  silly  for  a  champion 
to  sing,  the  odds  are  that  she  can't.  Broadcasters  should 
do  what  they  are  capable  of  doing,  and  nothing  else !" 

We  were  seated  on  the  verandah  of  The  West  Side  Ten- 
nis Club  in  Forest  Hills.  Miss  Jacobs  had  just  returned 
from  England,  where  she  had  come  off  victor  at  Wimble- 
don. We  sat,  facing  The  Forest  Hills  Stadium,  and  the 
court  that  has  meant  so  much  to  her,  the  court  where  she 
became  champion,  the  court  where  she  beat  Helen  Wills 
Moody — the  court  where  she  lost  to  Alice  Marble ! 

She  is  sweeter,  slimmer  and  less  aggressive  than  her 
photographs  reveal,  this  girl  ex-champion,  looking  even 
younger  than  her  twenty-eight  years,  as  she  sat  there  in 
her  imported-from-England,  strawberry-parfait-colored 
sports  dress,  her  short  hair  waving  softly,  her  greyish 
eyes,  clear  and  earnest.  That's   {Continued  on  page  61) 


Former  Tennis  Champion  Helen  Jacobs 


HER  MIND! 


for  more  than  eight  weeks  throughout  the  year,  unless 
she  is  asked  to  play  as  representative  of  her  country.  Of 
course  these  rules  also  apply  to  men  players. 

She  is  allowed  to  make  money  writing,  which  doesn't 
bring  in  much  of  an  income.  And  finally,  she  must  play 
under  all  conditions  and  must  expect  no  compensation  if 
these  conditions  injure  her  health.  Only  a  couple  of  years 
ago,  in  Paris.  Alice  Marble,  who,  this  year,  won  the 
championship  from  Miss  Jacobs,  collapsed  on  the  court 
of  The  Stade  Roland  Garros.  She  had  an  attack  of  pleu- 
risy which  led  to  serious  complications.  It  was  Helen 
Jacobs  and  her  teammates  who  took  care  of  her. 

To  me,  a  rank  outsider,  these  rules  seem  foolish.  An 
amateur's  life  appears  to  be  no  bed  of  roses  and  if  sport- 
loving  America  wants  to  encourage  its  youngsters  to  grow 
up  to  be  chami)ions  and   furnish  them  with  exciting 
matches,  it  ought  to  do  something  about  mak- 
ing the  champion's  life  a  more  attractive  one. 
Our  athletes  could  easily  be  helped  and  their 
financial  problems  solved  without  the  forbid- 
den aid  of  wearing,  nerve-wracking,  bad-for- 
the-muscles    stage    and    screen  appearances. 
Their  pocketbooks  could  be  enriched,  their 
health  unimpaired,  their  dignity  remain  in- 
tact and  the  general  public  benefited,  if  only 
they  were  allowed  to  make  use  of  that  one 


RADIO  STARS 


Captain  Tim  Healy  in  his  office,  where 
he  pores  over  research  material  for  his 
true  adventure  yarns.  In  addition  to 
these  ihrilling  tales,  Captain  Tim  is,  on 
five  nrtornings  a  week,  plain  Tim  Healy, 
Ivory  News  Reporter  on  NBC-Red  Network. 


By   Jack  Hanley 


LADIES  CRAVE  EXCITEMENT 


BEFORE  someone  rises  in  furious  contradiction,  let  me 
contradict  myself  and  admit  that  on  his  evening  programs 
Tim  Healy  will  still  be  "Captain  Tim,"  who  tells  his 
thrilling  stamp,  spy  and  adventure  stories  to  a  constantly 
increasing  audience.  But  five  mornings  a  week,  from 
9:45  to  10:00  a.m.  the  title  is  shelved,  and  the  Captain 
becomes  plain  Tim  Healy,  Ivory  News  Reporter. 

The  ripe,  mellow  voice,  with  its  pleasant  hint  of  brogue, 
that  has  charmed  and  thrilled  youngsters  to  the  tune  of 
over  two  million  letters  to  date,  is  being  aimed,  primarily, 
at  a  feminine  audience — and  that's  news. 

At  first  glance  it  may  seem  unusual  for  a  man,  who 
has  made  a  sensational  success  thrilling  children  with  ad- 
venturous tales,  to  be  placed  on  what  agencies  call  a 
"woman  interest"  program.  But  on  second  consideration 
it  doesn't  seem  so  strange  that  the  gentler  sex  should  be 
attracted  by  a  ripe,  rolling  baritone ;  a  virile,  friendly  style 
of  narration  and  an  inside  track  on  the  news.  It's  a  safe 
bet  that,  given  a  choice,  more  women  would  pick  D'Ar- 
tagnan  than  a  bespectacled  professor,  and  many  a  sponsor 
has  found,  to  his  sorrow,  that  a  gushy  female  voice  on 
the  ether  doesn't  make  a  women's  program.  Besides,  there 
is  the  feminine  penchant  for  gossip  .  .  .  and  what  is  news 
but  authenticated  gossip  of  the  world? 

But  let's  leave  logic  for  a  moment  and  say  that,  if  you 
Hsfen  to  Tim  Healy,  further  explanation  is  unnecessary. 
He's  friendly,  interesting  and  likeable — and  the  answer 
is  two  programs  on  the  air  at  one  time. 

.The  new  news  broadcast  was  inspired  some  two  years 
ago  at  a  luncheon  Tim  was  having  with  some  of  his 
sponsors.  To  demonstrate  how  he  would  handle  a  news 
broadcast  he  picked  tip  a  paper  and  began  reading  them 
news  items.  They  seemed  to  be  unusually  interesting 
items — and  only  when  he  had  finished  and  confessed  did 
the  Procter  &  Gamble  officials  realize  that  he  had  been 
reading  items  that  weren't  in  the  paper!  Tim  had  been 
improvising  advance  news  he  had  received  in  cables  from 


private  sources  of  his  own,  abroad. 

It  was  two  years  before  that  took  radio  form  in  the 
present  Ivory  News  Reporter.  But  Tim  Healy  worked 
practically  the  same  stunt  in  selling  himself  for  the  original 
Stamp  Club  program. 

After  lecturing  successfully  all  over  the  country  to 
organizations  and  school  children  for  some  four  years,  he 
decided  that  his  stories  would  make  a  good  radio  show 
and  he  talked  to  an  agency  man,  telling  some  of  his  stories, 
ad  lib.  The  man  was  interested  and  Healy's  confidence 
was  so  strong  that  he  oflFered  to  work  for  six  weeks  on 
the  toughest  stations  they  could  find,  for  bare  expenses. 

So  for  six  weeks  Tim  broadcast  one  afternoon  a  week 
in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  and  one  evening  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  both  reputed  to  be  tough  stations  in- 
deed. And  they  forgot  all  about  him!  Their  attention 
was  first  attracted  by  a  sudden  increase  in  sales  in  that 
territory,  which  was  traced  down  to  Tim's  broadcasts. 

The  morning  after  his  first  network  broadcast  he  was 
called  into  conference.  It  was  a  gloomy  conference;  they 
were  pessimistie  about  the  value  of  the  show.  And  then 
a  telephone  rang  and  someone  at  the  station  asked  for 
Tim  Healy. 

"What,"  said  the  voice,  "do  you  want  us  to  do  with  all 
this  mail?" 

Healy's  ears  pricked  up.  "What  mail?"  he  asked. 

"There  are  4,600  letters  in  the  first  mail,"  said  the  voice 
plaintively,  "and  more  coming  in !" 

Tim  beamed  and  turned  to  the  waiting  conference, 
grinning.  "Gentlemen,"  he  said,  "before  we  go  on,  ask 
this  feller  to  repeat  what  he  just  told  me!" 

At  the  end  of  his  first  week  he  had  sent  out  10,000  free  .1 
albums  in  answer  to  requests  and  was  30,000  short !  And 
he's  been  piling  up  his  audience  ever  since. 

Now  that  I  think  of  it,  I  wouldn't  te  surprised  if  plenty 
of  women  listen  to  Tim  Healy's  Stamp  Club  program. 
Women  always  have  been      {Continued  on  page  <??)  i 


Man  of  action,  natural  story-teller,  Tim  Healy  thrills  women 

i 


York  tool  John  Gayet.  maiire  d'hoi 
finer  food  and  finer  tobaccos.  Camels 


nrk.  \%li«  rt'  w»n  -f«!  Lo-  Angeles.  San  Franci" 
says:  "  The  Ambassador's  discriminating  clientele 
:  an  outstanding  favorite  at  our  tables.^ 


Both  a  pleasure  (tnd  an  aid  to  digestion: 
Smoking  Camel^^! 


One  of  the  happiest  experiences  of 
daily  living  is  smoking  Camels.  Their 
grateful  "lift"  eases  you  out  of  a  tired 
mood... their  delicate  flavor  always 
intrigues  the  taste.  Meals  become 
more  delightful  with  Camels  between 
courses  and  after.  They  accent  elusive 
flavors.. .and  lend  their  subtle  aid 


to  good  digestion.  For  Camels  stimu- 
late the  flow  of  digestive  fluids,  bring- 
ing about  a  favorable  alkalizing  effect. 

Camel's  costlier  tobaccos  do  not 
get  on  your  ner%es  or  tire  your  taste. 
They  set  you  right  Make  it  Camels 
from  now  on  —  for  pleasure ...  and  for 
digestion's  sake! 


Lazy  days  at  Del  Monte... casual  house  parties  at 
her  husband's  Shasta  County  ranch... the  amus- 
ing new  evening  jackets ...  charity  work... up- 
country  hunting  and  fi^hiiii:.  da-hing  East  on 
holidays... attending  tlie  (ihn  /^rcw/rVcs. ..gather- 
ing a  gav  crowd  for  a  midnight  snack  from  the 
i  liafiiig  di-h:  perhaps  sweetbreads  in  cream  with 
rliopped  almonds.. .Melba  Toast. ..cheese. ..coffee. 

And  always  within  reach . .  .Camels.  Camels  are 
important  in  the  success  of  this  clever  hostess. 
"For  me  and  for  most  of  my  friends.  Camels  are 
a  natural,  necessary  part  of  social  life.  Camels 
1  a  special  zest  to  smoking."  says  Mrs.  Black, 
"and  they  have  a  beneficial  effect  upon  digestion. 
They  give  one  a  comforting  'lift'  that  is  easy  to 
enjoy  but  hard  to  describe." 

I  few  of  the  distinguished  icomen  who  prefer 
Camel's  costlier  tobaccos: 

MRS.  MCIIOI  AS  IMDDI.E.  Philadelphia 

MISS  M  in  KII,  Ku  h,m,nd 

MHS.  VI  l\\  I  I  I.  c   M'.n  r.  /!„sinn 
MRS.  TH(1M\S  M.(  \HM  l,IK.  J K..  .Vui  lorfc 
MRS.  J.  (.AKDNER  COOLIDGE.  U,  Boston 
Ml!-.  IKNESTdu  PONT.  JR.,  ITilminglon 
MRS.  (  IIISW  ELL  D.ABNEY  L.\.NGnORNE,  Virginia 
MHS.  J.\SPER  MORG.\.\,  A<-i<  York 
MRS.  NICHOLAS  G.  PE.NMM.\N,  III,  Baliimore 
MRS.  L^NGDO-N  POST,  Srw  York 
MISS  ANNE  C.  ROCKEFELLER.  Aeu>  York 
MRS.  BROOKFIELD  VAN  RENSSELAER,  New  York 


COSTLIER  TOBACCOS: 

KINER,  MORE  EXPENSIVE  TO 


CWIKLS  ARE 
BACCOS  ...TU 


DOM  ESTIC  ..  .TUA^i    ANY    OTHER     P  O  P  U  L  ; 


MADE  KKO.M 
KKISII  Ai\D 
R  BRAND. 


lliere  i?  nothinsr  more  captivating  than 
the  appearance  of  iierti  ct  case.  C'all  it 
what  you  will,  hut  the  natural  charm  of 
the  man  or  woman  ^viiosc  every  motion 
breathe*  confidence,  is  maiLnctic... 

Yi'hat  is  so  surju  ising  is  to  discover  how 
much  of  this  imprt'ssion  is  dependent 
up<ui  the  hands.  Watch  the  hands  of  a 
speaker.  Notice  the  hands  of  your  favorite 
actrc--  in  action.  Or  hring  it  closer  hiune 
and  -i-c  how  your  own  hands  behave. 

Do  y<.u  find  yourself  hunting  for  rough 
spots  Is  one  hand  always  busy  exploring 
the  other  for  defects  .''  It  is  so  easy  to  fall 
into  the  habit  of  appearing  awkward  by 
letting  your  hantls  ruin  your  poise.  Make 
your  hands  an  asset  to  your  personality. 
It  is  so  easy ! 

The  first  step  is  to  keep  your  hands 
smooth  and  delicately  fragrant.  Your 
hands  must  be  comfortable  to  you!  When 
they  are  comfortable  and  attractive  to 
you.  they  just  naturally  appear  graceful 
to  others. 

Just  try  the  Frostilla  treatment  for  a 
week  or  so  . .  .your  poise  will  improve 
tremendously. 

■"^ 

Frostilla  is  the  perfect  skin  lotion... For 

over  60  years  it  has  lieen  recognized  as 


ite^  POISE  ^ 


the  first  and  basic  requirement  to  skin 
loveliness. 

Frostilla  stands  apart  from  other  lotions 
and  creams  because  it  does  two  things. 
First,  it  makes  the  skin  smooth,  attractive 
to  the  touch  and  delicately  fragrant.  Sec- 
ond, it  imparts  to  the  skin  the  resiliency 
that  IS  essential,  if  the  skin  is  to  maintain 
a  youthful  appearance. 

Fourteen  exquisite  flowers  from  South- 
ern France  contribute  their  perfume  to 
Frostilla  Lotion.  Another  ingredient  is  se- 
lected from  certain  trees  found  in  the  Lh  al 
Mountains  of  Russia.  No  place  is  too  dis- 
tant, no  care  too  great  to  bring  to  Frostilla 
the  qualities  that  make  it  the  soothing  lo- 
tion that  protects  and  conditions  the  skin. 

Make  these  two  tests  and  you  will  never 
be  satisfied  with  anything  less  than 
Frostilla  Fragrant  Lotion. 

Test  No.  1.  Take  your  most  expensive 
perfume,  a  bottle  of  Frostilla  and  any 
other  lotion  or  cream ..  .Then,  after  smell- 
ing your  favorite  perfume  as  a  standard 
of  fragrance,  smell  the  other  two.  You  will 
(|uit  kly  discard  all  other  lotions  and 


creams  in  favor  of  Frostilla  Fragrant  Lo- 
tion. Its  quality  is  instantly  apparent. 

Test  No.  2.  Dip  a  toothpick  in  Frostilla 
and  another  one  in  any  other  cream  or 
lotion  ...  Let  them  dry!  Then  slip  your 
fingers  along  the  toothpicks.  You  will  find 
that  Frostilla  leaves  no  gummy  or  soapy 
residue.  Frostilla  does  not  "coat"  the  skin. 
It  is  a  true  skin  conditioner. 

35c,  50c  and  $1.00  sizes  everywhere. 

Travel  size  at  ten-cent  stores. 
(35c  and  50c  sizes  fit  most  standard 
wall  dispensers.) 


A  f:ifl  for  FroslillaV  Fri. 


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FRAGRANT  LOTION 


I 


RADIO  STARS 


NOTHING  BUT  THE  TRUTH? 

Popular  stars  of  the  air  answer  questions  from  their  fans 


Had  you  any  other  ambitions  be- 
fore entering  the  field  of  radio? 


Kay  Perkins:  "Wanted  to  be  a  com- 
poser. Still  do,  but  alas,  we  'artists'  must 
live!" 

Helen  Jepson:  "Always  to  make  the 
Metropolitan  Opera  and  in  January  1935 
I  made  my  debut." 

-♦- 

Jose  Manzanares:  "My  greatest  am- 
bition ivas  to  be  a  salesman.  Many  a  time 
I  zi'as  impressed  by  such  men  as  Mr. 
C aiding,  head  sales  manager  of  the  ford 
Motor  Co.  He  is  to  me  the  finest  e.v- 
amf>le  in  this  field." 

Jane  Froman:  "Yes.  I  wanted  to  be 
a  journalist." 

Frank  Crumit:  "Only  to  retire  after 
seventeen  years  on  the  stage." 

Jerry  Belcher:  "To  make  enough 
money  to  retire  in  a  reasonable  degree  of 
comfort." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Yes,  and  I  still  have 
opera  as  my  goal.  I  love  it  better  than 
anything." 

-»-- 

Donald  Novis:  "To  be  a  well  known 
physical  education  instructor  and  to  be 
the    coach    of    a    championship  football 


Don  Mario:  "When  I  u'as  a  boy  1 
zcanted  to  be  a  coicboy.  Later  I  wanted 
to  be  a  circus  perjoniicr.  Then  a  scenic 
artist.  Each  time  I  soiu  a  picture  I 
ivanted  to  be  an  actor.  I  have  studied  and 
delved  into  many  things  and,  even  though 
for  the  past  ten  years  I  have  earned  a 
good  living  singing,  I  still  have  high  hopes 
of  some  day  producing  my  oivn  shou's. 
I  think  that  the  average  youth  zvith  am- 
bition will  always  be  attracted  by  a  life 
of  glamour  and  poiver." 

Virginia  Verrill:  "First  to  finish  high 
school  with  outstanding  marks,  so  Mother 
would  not  make  me  go  to  college  and  I 
could  give  my  entire  time  to  radio." 

Freddie  Rich:  "I  always  had  a  yen  to 
conduct  and  compose."' 


Do  you  feel  that  news  broadcasts 
stimulate    the    buying    of  news- 
papers? 


David  Ross :  "A  news  broadcast  is  the 
cocktail  that  sharpens  the  appetite  for 
the  main  dish  ivhich  is  served  leisurely 
and  with  trimmings  in  your  neivspaper." 

Bernice  Claire:  "Yes.  I  feel  that,  on 
hearing  some  interesting  item,  a  person 
does  want  to  'see  his  daily  paper  for 
further  details.' " 


Clara,  Lu  and  Em  are  more  delightful  than  ever! 


Bob  Burns:  "Yes,  news  broadcasts  have 
forced  me  to  buy  newspapers." 

Igor  (Charles)  Gorin:  "Yes,  indeed.  The 
short  items  heard  over  the  radio  arouse 
curiositj'  to  know  further  details." 

Rosario  Bourdon:  "I  do,  for  you  are 
never  given  more  than  a  'tip'  on  a  story. 
Usually  the  most  interesting  part  of  the 
story  cannot  be  given  over  the  air." 

Olga  Albani:  '•Decidedly  so.  The 
Alarch  of  Time  and  other  ncivs  broad- 
casts stimulate  the  appetite  for  more  in- 
formation on  one  subject  or  another." 

Ray  Perkins:  "1  like  news  broadcasts 
and  I  buy  newspapers  a-plenty.  Outside  of 
that  I  have  never  thought  of  it.  Don't 
intend  to  get  into  any  argument,  as  some 
of  my  best  friends  are  newspaper  men 
and  I  also  am  big-hearted  toward  news- 
paper commentators." 

Bob  Crosby :  "In  my  on'n  case,  they 
neither  stimulate  nor  depress.  I  enjoy 
neu'S  broadcasts  and  I  buy  my  news- 
papers." 


Do  you  believe  that  the  present 
rate  of  rapid  production  of  radio 
programs  is  conducive  to  the  crea- 
tion of  anything  genuinely  artistic? 


Ray  Perkins :  "Rapid  creation  is  an  un- 
fortunate necessity  at  present  and  I  doubt 
if  it  ever  ii'ill  be  otherzvise.  In  spite  of  it, 
program  producers  are  frequently  turning 
out  artistic  ivork.  Possibly  the  day  ivill 
eonie  ichen  a  program  'hits'  the  air  month- 
ly or  bi-monthly  instead  of  on  a  zceckly 
grind  basis." 

Abe  Lyman:  "As  far  as  I  am  concerned, 
I  minimize  the  'artistic'  and  worry  about 
the  'entertainment'  part  of  radio,  being 
solely  concerned  with  that  type  of  air 
endeavor." 

Eddie  Dowling:  "You  can't  race  art 
against  a  stop-watch.     Radio  would  cut 


Lincoln's  Gettysburg  speech  to  get  the 
commercial  over." 

Benay  \'enuta :  "/  believe  an  'artistic' 
thing  can  be  created  quickly  as  zvell  as 
by  taking  a  lot  of  time  and  thought." 

Jimmy  Fidler:  "Yes  and  no.  Rapid 
production  is  okay  if  veteran  artists  are 
employed.  A  veteran  can  quickly  adapt 
himself  to  any  situation.  I  think  spon- 
taneity is  vital  to  g(X)d  radio  programs — 
and  that  can  come  only  with  freshness,  not 
with  tiresome  rehearsal.  Of  course,  big 
musical  programs,  radio  dramas  and  the 
like,  must  be  carefully  prepared;  in  fact,  I 
think  many  radio  shows  could  stand  more 
careful  advance  preparation." 


Otzie  Nelson: 
be  artistic?" 


'No— but  who  wants  to 


Andre  Kostelanetz  :  ''Only  sporadically. 
It  is  almost  impossible  to  turn  out  a  genu- 
inely artistic  job  under  pressure  of  speed. 
Anything  artistic  jneans  zv'ork.  and  Z\.ork 
means  time." 

Teddy  Bergman:  "Yes.  Genius  knows 
no  speed  laws." 

Jimmy  Farrell:  "I  believe  that  the 
rapid  rate  of  production  of  programs  has 
very  little  to  do  with  the  artistic  creation, 
unless,  of  course,  the  artist  is  over-taxed 
because  of  too  many  performances  and 
cannot  give  wholly  to  all  of  them." 

Myrtle  Vail :  "Most  all  radio  programs 
are  produced  rapidly — but  only  a  few  are 
artistic.     Hozvcver,   almost   all   of  them 
must  be  entertaining  to  remain  on  the  air." 
-*~ 

Ed  McConnell :  "Time  does  not  neces- 
sarily govern  the  creation  of  a  thing 
genuinely  artistic.  Many  artistic  creations 
are  born  almost  spontaneously.  However, 
this  is  the  exception  rather  than  the  rule, 
and  in  a  general  sense  I  would  say  there 
is  less  likelihood  of  anything  genuinely 
artistic  being  created  as  a  result  of  rapid 
production." 

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WEST  COAST  CHATTER 


SKoW«rs 


This  is  the  most  famous,  best-loved 
talcum  powder  in  the  world.  Its 
quality  is  superb.  Its  fragrance  is 
eternally  new  and  forever  right— the 
fresh  perfume  of  flowers  after  a  rain. 
Supremely  fine  —  yet  the  cost  is 
low  — 2^^  for  the  standard  size 
at  fine  stores  everywhere. 

^SXjqjUAAJjtc  •  •  •  b^Ajut 


Xot  breaking  a  record,  but  makiny  one, 
landed  Francia  White  in  the  neivs.  Nel- 
son Eddy  heard  her  voice  on  a  record  and 
promptly  decided  on  francia  for  a  leading 
lady  on  his  radio  program.  Tlicy  didn't 
meet  iinlil  l-'rancia  had  signed  on  the  dotted 
line.  Had  lie  seen  her  first  and  without 
sound  effects.  Nelson  admitted,  he  still 
Zi'ould  have  signed  Francia. 

Sid  Silvers'  childhood  was  just  a  series 
of  bum  breaks,  so  he  decided  to  play  Santa 
Claus  to  as  many  children  as  his  budget 
would  allow.  First,  Sid  decided,  he'd  give 
some  deserving  youngster  a  musical  edu- 
cation. He  put  an  ad  in  the  paper  and 
after  one  day  hastily  withdrew  it.  Some 
eighty-seven  children  and  as  many  par- 
ents piled  up  on  his  doorstep  that  first 
day.  After  a  three-day  weeding  process. 
Silvers  selected  Edward  Earle,  aged  five, 
who  showed  unusual  promise  on  the  piano. 

Andre  Kostelanetz  is  in  love.  But 
whether  the  object  of  his  affections  is  Lily 
Pons  or  TWA  we  can't  make  out.  Each 
Saturday,  after  his  broadcasts,  he  flies  to 
Hollywood  and  is  back  in  New  York  for 
a  Tuesday  evening  rehearsal.  He's  coach- 
ing Lily   for  her  forthcoming  picture. 

After  four  years  of  trying  to  pronounce 
Parkyakarkus,  'li'c'z'e  seen  the  light.  Harry 
Einstein's  father  ran  a  supply  house  in 
Boston  and  n'ould  greet  every  customer 
-a'ith  "Park  your  carcass." 

When  Charles  Gorin  is  announced  one 
of  these  days  and  you  hear  Igor  Gorin's 
familiar  tones,  just  blame  it  on  Hollywood. 
Igor's  recently  signed  a  motion  picture 
contract,  with  the  stipulation  that  from 
now  on  he'll  be  Charles.  That  just  ap- 
plies around  the  movie  factories,  but  if 
Igor  Charles  makes  a  success  in  celluloid, 
radio   will    be   capitalizing   on   the  same 

guy- 

Jimmy  Fidler's  back  on  the  air  with 
a  three-year  contract  at  a  neat  increase. 
The  stars  don't  rule  the  air  waves,  evi- 
dently, or  some  of  the  more  prominent 
Hollywood  ones  would  have  had  Jimmy 
banned  long  since. 

A  focal  point  in  the  Rogers-Ayres  di- 
vorce was  the  custody  of  "Shep,"  their 
mongrel  purp.  Lew  won  out,  but  Shep's 
custodian  these  days  is  Bob  Burns.  Lew's 
on  vacation  and  Bob  is  spending  every 
spare  moment  at  Lake  Arrowhead,  keep- 
ing an  eye  on  the  Ayres'  cabin,  dog  and 
razor-back  hogs. 

Kate  Smith  ,111,1  III,-  -III, I, ,1,1  leill  soon 
get  toiiethrr  ,i,i,ini.  M,,rles  li,st  interest 
in  l\,itie  f,,r  ,i  u'lnle.  hiii  it's  jvctty  definite 
i,,,:e  til, It  2iith  C  ent  iiry- h  ,,x  Ini.^  found 
r,„>m  lor  /i.T.  I'liLss  ,,iir  spies  have 
misinjormeil  iis.  sli,-'ll  tu-  .S'liirh-y  Temple 
gnwn-iip  in  tli,-  next  'Irm/de  epic. 
There's  a  strong  resemhlame  I'ctieeen  the 
girls,  at  that. 

Frances   Langford   must   feel    she  has 


ARRIVED.  Most  girls,  anyhow,  don't 
turn  down  a  cool  $9,000  unless  they  feel 
pretty  sure  about  the  future,  one  way  or 
another.  And  Frances  chose  to  spend  her 
three-weeks'  vacation  in  Lakeland,  Flor- 
ida (the  hum  town)  rather  than  bring  in 
the  dough  to  the  tune  of  $3,000  per  week 
at  the  Capitol  Theater  in  New  York.  It 
was  while  singing  at  the  Capitol  that  Fran- 
ces was  spotted  by  Walter  Wanger  of  the 
films.  Every  minute  not  spent  in  song 
was  spent  in  prayer,  for  Frances  was  get- 
ting $350  per  week.  And  that  was  big 
money  back  in  1935  B.  C.  (Before  con- 
tract.) 

There  can  be  too  much  of  a  good  thing, 
believe  it  or  not.  Robert  Ripley,  not  long 
ago,  used  to  be  in  daily  fear  that  his 
unusual  stock  of  material  might  run  low. 
Now  his  collection  has  grown  to  such 
proportions  that  the  Ripley  house  looks 
like  a  mausoleum,  what  with  every  room 
crammed  with  shelves  of  material  all 
tagged  and  numbered.  Bob's  final  solu- 
tion to  this  problem  suits  a  Southern  Cali- 
fornia University.  For  he's  endowing  a 
Believe-It-Or-Not  museum  on  their  cam- 
pus, complete  with  building,  staff  and  all 
the  trimmings. 

When  the  Fred  Astaire  program  ims 
set  for  the  same  hour  as  Camel  Caravan, 
it  didn't  make  CBS  and  NBC  any  more 
palsy-imlsy.  You  can't  get  within  ten 
feet  of  a  CBS  man  ivithont  hearing  of  that 
University  of  Southern  California  radio 
class  Xi'hich  chose  Camel  Caravan  as  its 
favorite  program.  And  at  a  distance  of 
fifteen  feet,  the  NBC-ers  zvUl  tell  you  that 
this  vote  was  taken  the  zveek  before  Fred 
made  his  first  broadcast.  Looks  like  a 
fight  to  the  finish  this  time. 

None  of  those  wedding  bells,  after  all, 
for  Alice  Faye  and  Michael  Whalen.  It's 
just  a  beautiful  friendship.  "Alice  is  a 
grand  girl,"  Michael  told  us,  "but  how 
can  a  fellow  like  me  ask  a  girl  to  marry 
him?  What  have  I  to  of?er  her  besides 
my  temporary  fame  and  myself?"  What 
indeed  ? 

Janet  Cantor,  Eddie  and  Ida's  youngest, 
is  suffering  the  pangs  of  unrequited  love 
for  the  first  time  in  her  eight  years.  She's 
been  a  faithful  attender  at  all  the  Cantor 
broadcasts  and  has  made  no  bones  about 
the  fact  that  Bobby  Breen  is  the  main 
attraction,  not  Papa.  She  became  known 
as  Stage-door  Janet,  by  waiting  faithfully 
for  Bobby  after  every  performance.  In- 
vitations for  swimming  in  the  pool  at 
home,  croquet,  bicycling  and  all  manner 
of  entertainment  didn't  get  a  rise  out  of 
Bobby,  however.  But  the  day  Janet 
brought  her  pet  puppy  along  changed 
Master  Breen.  He  completely  lost  his 
heart  to  it.  Janet  is  still  just  a  Girl  to 
him,  but  in  order  to  play  with  the  dog 
he  now  devotes  considerable  time  to  play- 
ing with  Janet,  too. 

Ask  just  about  atiyone  in  Hollywood 
(Continued  on  page  56) 


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RADIO  STARS 


LINES 


SAY 

oi^erSO. 


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jb:  "Pond  s  Cold  Cream  takes  every  speck  of  dirt  . 
ly  pores,  keeps  my  skin  clear  of  blackheads." 


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THOSE  mean  little  lines  that  creep  in 
around  your  eyes,  your  mouth  .  .  . 
You  are  only  25.  But  people  see  them  — 
"She's  every  bit  of  thirty!" 

Or,  you  are  over  thirty  .  .  .  but  not  ^ 
sign  of  a  line.  And  everybody  takes  you 
for  years  younger  than  you  are  — "\ot  a 
day  over  20!" 

Do  you  know  what  those  same  little 
lines  say  to  a  dermatologist  r  He  sees  right 
through  them  to  the  under  layers  of  your 
skin,  and  says:  "It's  the  under  tissues  at 
fault!" 

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—with  Under  Skin  treatment 

Skin  faults  are  not  always  a  matter  of 
years.  Look  at  the  skin  diagram  above. 
Those  hundreds  of  tiny  cells,  glands,  fibres 
xmder  your  skin  are  what  really  make  it 
clear  and  satiny — or  full  of  faults!  Once 
they  fail,  skin  faults  begin.  But  keep  them 
acti\e — you  can,  with  Pond's  rousing 
"deep-skin"  treatment  — and  your  skin 
blooms  fresh,  line-free,  as  in  your  teens. 

Pond's  Cold  Cream  contains  specially 
processed  oils  which  reach  deep  into  the 
pores.  It  floats  out  all  the  dirt,  make-up, 
skin  secretions  that  are  starting  to  clog. 
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1 

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to  name  the  ten  most  pof^iilai-  girls  in 
town  and  von  ean  l>ct  that  Mrs.  Ez'elvn 
OfHeld  u'///  be  on  the  list.  11' hen  not  be- 
ing listed.  Mrs.  Offield  is  Jaek  Oakie's 
mother  and  finds  time  to  mother  all  his  pals 
on  the  side.  She  was  watehing  Jaek  dur- 
ing a  rehearsal  for  a  radio  l>roadeast  the 
other  day  and  after  he  had  redueed  ei'ery- 
one  in  the  cast  to  such  helpless  laughter 
thai  the  director  had  to  call  a  halt  to  the 
rehearsal.  Mrs.  Offield  turned  to  her  com- 
panion and  said :  "I  ha'i'c  a  funny  boy, 
hai-ent  I?" 

Gracie  Allen  and  George  Burns  are 
home  owners  for  the  first  time  in  their 
lives.  But  it  wasn't  their  idea.  Sandra 
and  Ronny,  the  Burns  children,  wept  and 
wailed  so  lustily  every  time  the  New  York 
apartment  was  mentioned,  that  their  par- 
ents decided  a  Beverly  Hills  home  was  a 
bargain  compared  to  a  corps  of  nerve  spe- 
cialists. 

But  even  with  Sandra  and  Ronny 
quieted  down,  the  Burnses  aren't  getting 
much  peace  in  the  new  home.  Since 
Gracie  introduced  those  "mouthies,"  the 
telephone  rings  day  and  night  with  en- 
thusiasts offering  choice  selections  they 
have  just  thought  up.  Gracie  thought  up 
the  new  game  because  she  was  so  sick  of 
"handles"  and  thought  this  might  be  a 
game  to  end  all  games.  She's  getting  no 
sympathy  from  George,  either,  in  her 
present  predicament.  He  never  did  think 
she  should  think. 

Fred  .Istaii-e  and  Don  .Imeche  insist 
that  ''handics"  aren't  dead  yd.  Not,  at 
least,  until  thev  i/et  this  one  hroadca.<!ted. 
-Knock,  knock."  -Jl'ho's  there.'"  -.Im- 
eche." ••.hncchc  zdio/"  ■•.hneche  on  the 
second  flight  Astaire's." 

P.ing  Crosby  hasn't  any  time  for  remi- 
niscing on  the  hula  gals  now  that  he's  back 
from  Honolulu.  There's  a  new  picture 
awaiting,  the  Kraft  Music  Hall,  and — big- 
gest job  of  all — his  directorship  of  the  Del 
Mar  Turf  Club.  Several  friends — George 
Raft,  Gary  Cooper,  Pat  O'Brien  and  Clark 
Gable — arc  going  to  see  tliat  Bing  tends 
to  the  club  business,  since  Crosliy  managed 
to  wangle  a  couple  of  thousand  apiece  from 
the  boys  in  order  to  get  the  organization 
under  way. 

Marion  Talley  is  hard  at  work  on  what 
a  cruel  critic  referred  to  as  her  "squeak- 
ing voice"  in  a  preview  of  "Follow  Your 
Heart."  Marion  spent  so  much  time  on 
her  singing  voice,  even  to  marrying  a 
couple  of  her  singing  teachers,  that  she 
claims  there  was  little  time  left  for  talking. 


unojue  turn 
ichcu  James 
Mallory.  his 
IS  jar  as  the 


The  in-hrci'  qiiesllou  took 
on  a  Ijcv  Theater  program 
Ca</ncx  made  lore  to  Uoot.^ 
brother  Hill's  leijc.  Itowever 
(.'aguevs  are  coucerncd.  there  ncT'cr  leas 
an  in-hric  (/uestion.  .-111  the  Cagney  rela- 
ti'ces — (/;/(/  there  are  .viciinns  of  them — and 
all  the  relatives  of  tlr-  C\igncy  zeiTCs  and 
husbands,    repre.u^ut    one    <-/    the  closest 


iqui 


kno' 


1 1 ollywood.  The  organi.calion  is 
the  "Cai/ncv  Club"  hereabouts. 


Harry  Jackson,  conductor  of  the  Hol- 
lywood Talent  Parade  orchestra,  has  just 
returned  from  a  Kansas  visit  with  his 
favorite  fan — Mrs.  Louisa  Jackson,  his  83- 
year-old  mother.  Mrs.  Jackson  thought 
radio  a  new-fangled  notion  until  Harry's 
first  program  was  aired.  Now  she  won't 
take  a  ride  in  a  neighbor's  car  unless 
there's  a  radio  along. 

The  most  conclusive  evidence  yet  offered 
for  the  pro-audience  side,  was  at  a  recent 
broadcast.  The  announcer  was  giving  the 
following  week's  line-up.  At  the  mention 
of  Robert  Taylor  a  great  gasp  of  delight 
arose  from  the  audience,  followed  by  a 
long  and  wistful  sigh.  This  amazing  audi- 
ence reaction  was  of  such  spontaneity  that 
there's  hardly  a  radio  audience  antagonist 
left  in  town. 

Jaek  Benny  zvill  make  the  movie  capital 
his  mike  headquarters  for  the  year.  For 
a  couple  of  good  reasons.  First,  he's 
signed  up  for  tuv  more  Paramount  pic- 
tures, and  second,  he's  bought  a  Beverly 
Hills  lioine  for  Mary  and  Joan  Naomi 
Benny  and  himself. 

Mary  McCormic  and  Bob  Burns  had  a 
swell  time  between  rehearsals  for  that 
Music  Hall  program  on  which  Mary 
guested.  They  talked  of  tlieir  native 
Arkansas  and  all  about  the  childhood  days 
which  they  did  not  spend  together.  Miss 
McC.  was  born  and  brought  up  140  miles 
from  Van  Buren. 

Rehearsal  close-ups:  Bing  Crosby  always 
wears  a  hat  .  .  .  Kay  Francis  wears  horn- 
rimmed specs  .  .  .  Joan  Crawford  pushes 
her  hat  nervously  back  and  forth  on  her 
head  .  .  .  Victor  Young  wears  tennis  shoes 
.  .  .  Jean  Arthur  clutches  the  script  and 
claws  at  her  blonde  hair  .  .  .  Jack  Oakie 
grins  continually  .  .  .  Jack  Benny  takes  it 
seriously  .  .  .  Joel  McCrea  looks  intensely 
bored  .  .  .  Carole  Lombard  looks  like 
she's  having  the  time  of  her  life  .  .  . 

Jimmy  Dorsey  has  the  best  stagger  sys- 
tem of  sleep  in  llollyioood.  Playing  at 
Sebastians  Cotton  Club  from  8  till  3 
a.  m.  each  night,  getting  to  l>ed  around  5 
and  rising  at  7  for  Kraft  .Music  Hall  re- 
hearsals isn't  c.vactly  conduc'ivc  to  rest. 
In  between  times  he  makes  phonograph  re- 
cordings and  rehearses  for  the  Cotton 
Club.  He  catches  a  icink  here  and  there 
betieeen  studios,  broadcasts,  clubs  and— 
so  a  pal  of  ours  in  his  orchestra  sieears — 
betzi'coi  numbers. 

Jack  Benny's  prol)ably  the  only  man  on 
radio  who  knocked  down  his  guest  star  and 
got  away  with  it.  Jack's  dancing  may  not 
be  as  polished  as  Fred  Astaire's  but  at 
least  he  had  all  the  enthusiasm  for  the 
dance  when  he  opened  the  Astaire  broad- 
cast. So  much  so,  in  fact,  that  in  making 
a  dive  for  Ginger  Rogers  he  sent  her  spin- 
ing  across  the  stage,  to  sprawl  flat  in  one 
corner.  Ginger  suggested  that  she  and 
Jack  collaborate  on  a  correspondence 
course,  "How  to  Break  Your  Back  in  10 
Easy  Lessons." 

(Continued  on  page  60) 


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Special... for  a  Little  Lady 


[ 


SPECIAL  TREATMENT 
...  SPECIAL  CARE 


EVEN  A  SPECIAL  LAXATIVE! 


1 


HEKE  WE  SEE  a  little  lady  getting  her 
regular  dental  examination... spe- 
cial  care  her  mother  seldom  got  w  hen  she 
was  a  girl. 


One  reason  why  children  thrive  better 
today  than  20  years  ago  is  because  of 
special  care  like  this.  Their  food  ...  their 
clothes  . . .  even  their  playthings  arc  spe- 
cialized for  them. 

Your  doctor  will  tell  you  that  this  new 
thinking  applies  to  laxatives,  too. 

They  say  a  child  should  get  only  a  laxa- 
tive made  especially  for  children— a  laxa- 
tive that  can't  possibly  liarni  tlie  tiniest 
and  most  delicate  infant  system. 

That's  why  so  many  i)hy>iciaus  recom- 
mend Fletcher"^  Castoria.  For  here  i>  a 
child's  laxative  pure  and  simple.  Xcrcr  do 


?rt'  recommend  it  for  anyone  else.  Fletclier's 
Castoria  is  exceedingly  mild  in  action. 
Vet  it  is  thorough.  It  works  chiefly  on  the 
lo\\er  bowel— not  in  the  stomach. 

(Quickly  and  completely  it  c  lears  away 
the  waste  in  a  baby's  system  ..  .w  itliout 
the  painful  griping  and  digestive  ujjscts 
some  harsh  laxatives  cause.  Fletcher's 
Castoria  contains  no  harsh,  purging 
thugs,  no  narcotics— notiiins  tliat  could 
upset  a  baby's  delicate  sy-tciii.  .1  Uiinoits 
baby  specialist  said  he  cotddn't  irrilc  a  better 
prescription  himself! 

'\ou  11  be  glad  to  know  that  Hetciu-rs 
Castoria  tastes  good.  too.  Ciiildreu  take 
it  willingly— without  forcins;.  And  doc- 
tors will  tell  you  just  how  imi)()rtant  that 
is.  For  often  the  act  of  forcing  a  child  to 


take  a  laxative  he  hates  completely  up- 
sets his  entire  nervous  system. 

So, mother. reflect  a  bit  before  you  next 
buy  a  laxative  for  your  cliild.  .Always 
make  sure  of  these  two  iuii>ortant  things: 
(l)Tliat  it'>  made  specially  for  children. 
('2)Tliat  your  child  w  ill  like  it>  taste. 

More  than  .j.liiin.noi)  mothers  keep  a 
bottle  of  Fletclu  i  '-  (  a-toria  on  hantl. 
always.  Wh>-  not  i)lay  safe  and  get  the 
economical  Family-Size  Bottle  today? 
The  signature  Cha>.  H.  Fletcher  a])pears 
on  everv  carton. 


CASTORIA 

The  hjxative  made  especially 
for  babies  and  growing  children 


RADIO  STARS 


Simply  cleaning  your  teeth  may 
keep  them  white — for  a  while! 
But  when  neglected  gums  be- 
come soft  and  spongy  all  the 
half-way  measures  in  the  world 
won't  preserve  your  teeth. 
Don't  take  that  chance,  start 
using  Forhan's.  It  gives  you 
double  protection  —  ivhitens 
teeth  and  safeguards  gums  at 
the  same  time. 


SAVES  GUMS 


Forhan's  was  created  by  an  emi- 
nent dental  surgeon  to  provide 
double  protection;  with  it  you 
clean  teeth  and  massage  gums 
just  as  dentists  advise.  It  costs 
no  "more  than  most  ordinary 
toothpastes,  but  ends  ordinary 
half-way  care!  Begin  using 
Forhan's  today. 
Also  in  Canada. 


SHUN  SKIN  WORRY! 

Blemishes,  Blackheads, 
Pimples,  Muddiness, 
Should  Go  Quickly! 

Why  miss  joys  ofllfe  because  of  u  poor 
complexion?  Tliousaiids  n-poi' 
derful  results  with  Kreiiiola,  (' 
surface  skin  blemisties.  plnu>les 


KREMOLA  CO. 


Dept.  M Ml       Chicago,  III. 


BRUSH 
AWAY 

GRAY  HAIR 

#  Quickly  and  safely  you  can  tint  those  streaks  of 
Rray  to  lustrous  shades  of  blonde,  l)rown  or  black. 
BROWNATONE  and  a  small  brush  does  it.  Used  and 
approved  for  over  twenty-four  years.  Guaranteed 
harmless.  Active  coloring  agent  is  purely  vegetable. 
Cannot  affect  waving  of  hair.  Economical  and  lasting 
— will  not  wash  out.  Simply  retouch  as  new  gray  ap- 
pears. Imparts  rich,  beautiful  color  with  amazing 
speed.  Easv  to  prove  by  tinting  a  lock  of  your  own 
hair.  BROWNATONE  is  only  50c— at  all  drug  and 
toilet  countera— always  on  a  money-back  guarantee. 


HE'S  GOT  PLENTY  OF  UMPHHH! 


(Continued  from  page  43) 


had  refused  opportunities  to  continue  with 
his  music  and  make  an  easy  living  in  a 
most  pleasant  way — and  he  liad  married 
the  girl  he  loved. 

He  had  no  qualifications  for  any  other 
work,  but  he  was  grimly  determined  to  do 
his  best.  Through  friends  he  obtained  a 
job  as  salesman  at  a  salary  of  one  hun- 
dred dollars  a  month,  which  was  less 
money  than  either  he  or  his  wife  had 
been  accustomed  to  have  for  spending 
money.  Both  their  well-to-do  families 
were  nearby  to  see  that  they  got  into  no 
serious  financial  difficulties,  but  Smith  was 
anxious  to  make  good  on  his  own.  At 
the  end  of  a  year,  his  salary  was  raised 
to  thirty-five  dollars  a  week,  but  it  was 
tough  going. 

He  was  too  proud  to  ask  his  family  for 
financial  help,  but  he  did  occasionally  go 
to  a  banker,  an  elderly  man,  who  was 
one  of  his  best  friends,  for  a  loan. 

"He  would  always  lend  me  twenty-five 
or  fifty  dollars,''  Smith  told  me,  "but  I 
never  saw  him  that  he  didn't  advise  me 
to  give  up  my  job  and  go  back  into  the 
music  business.  He  knew  I  loved  music 
more  than  anything  and  that  I  was  un- 
happy and  unsuccessful  in  the  work  I  was 
doing." 

"Money  isn't  everything,"  the  man  told 
him.  "You  have  a  talent  for  entertaining 
people ;  you  love  music.    Go  back  to  it." 

He  told  Ballew  of  his  own  experience 
— how  he  had  given  up  the  thing  he 
wanted  to  do  to  satisfy  the  wishes  of  his 
family.  He  had  been  successful,  but  his 
heart  was  not  in  his  work.  He  realized 
that  Smith  was  disheartened  and  he  en- 
couraged him  to  get  out. 

During  this  time.  Smith  had  many  more 
disturbing  offers  to  join  an  orchestra  and 
each  offer  precipitated  a  family  conference. 
Finally  they  decided  it  was  the  thing  to  do 
and  Smith  accepted  an  offer  to  go  with 
Ted  Fiorito's  band,  .'\lthough  the  fami- 
lies didn't  approve,  they  offered  no  stren- 
uous objections  and  probably  felt  he  might 
as  well  get  it  out  of  his  system. 

Success  came  easily.  It  was  just  at  the 
time  when  every  orchestra  featured  a 
singer  and  Smith  was  that  featured  singer, 
as  well  as  manager  of  the  orchestra,  for 
which  he  received  one  hundred  and  eighty- 
five  dollars  a  week. 

He  had  courted  his  wife  by  crooning 
love  songs  to  her  and  it  turned  out  that 
the  voice  that  was  good  enough  to  win 
Mrs.  Ballew  was  just  right  to  audiences 
everywhere,  for  the  radio  and  for  phono- 
graph records.  His  voice  and  his  orches- 
tra were  in  such  demand  for  records  at 
(.ne  lime  that  he  was  recording  under  seven 
'iiffcrcnt  names.  Robert  Smith,  Charles 
Knbeils,  P.iuidy  Blue  and  Art  Dalton  were 
^(Jlne  nf  the  names  lie  used. 

Smith  Hiillczi'  and  11  is  Orchestra  won 
fame  at  the  Club  Ricliiiian,  at  Wlivte's 
Fifth  Avenue,  at  Villa  \-allee,  Pavilion 
Kcy.iK-,  at  the  Hollywood  Restaurant  and 
c.tlicr  Xew  York  spots  and  in  exclusive 
i-'lurida  aiul   Long  Island  clubs. 

Smith  and   lii^   wife   were  young,  gay 


and  happy.  .M'mc)'  i 
spent  it  freely.     I  he^ 


easily  and  they 
o\ed  everything 


as  it  came.  His  income  was  enormous  and 
they  never  thought  of  a  rainy  day. 

"I  worked  every  minute,"  he  said,  in 
talking  of  that  time.  "Rehearsing,  broad- 
casting, making  records  and  appearing  at 
night  clubs.    But  it  was  fun." 

It  wasn't  all  fun,  however,  and  the  rainy 
day  did  come.  There  was  one  time  when 
he  returned  to  New  York  from  a  tour  and 
was  just  too  late  for  every  available  job. 

"We  were  very  hard  up,  down  to  al- 
most nothing,  in  fact,"  he  said.  "111  never 
forget  it.  We  lived  in  a  boarding-house 
and  paid  eighteen  dollars  a  week  for  a 
room  in  which  we  could  do  light  house- 
keeping.'' 

Smith  composed  a  song  entitled  We 
Can  Live  on  Loi'e,  but  for  more  practical 
purposes  they  turned  to  the  more  substan- 
tial diet  of  beans. 

"Beans  were  the  least  expensive  thing 
we  would  eat,"  he  said.  "Actually  we  had 
beans  for  breakfast,  beans  for  lunch  and 
beans  for  dinner." 

He  was  out  every  day  looking  for  a  job 
and  one  night  when  he  returned  home  he 
found  his  wife  ill. 

"She  was  so  sick  of  beans  she  had  to  go 
to  the  hospital!"  He  laughs  at  it  now, 
although  it  was  a  tragic  moment  at  the 
time.  "I  was  sick,  too.  I  felt  I  was  the 
cause  of  her  illness  and  I  decided  to  wire 
home  for  money  and  go  back  on  the  job 
as  salesman. 

"But  my  wife  wouldn't  let  me  send  the 
telegram.  She  insisted  we  should  stick  it 
out  and  she  told  me  over  and  over  that 
she  knew  I  would  get  a  job. 

"Her  wonderful  courage  and  her  will- 
ingness to  stick  it  out  with  me  was  what 
I  needed,  I  guess.  I  got  a  job  shortly 
after  that  and  everything  was  all  right 
again. 

"Another  time  I  was  out  of  a  job  and 
we  were  down  to  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars.  Some  friends  of  ours  from 
Texas  had  arrived  in  New  York  and  in- 
vited us  out  for  the  evening.  I  put  the 
hundred-dollar  bill  carefully  in  one  pocket 
and  the  rest  of  my  money  in  another 
pocket.  When  we  arrived  home  the 
hundred-dollar  bill  was  gone  and  all  the 
money  we  had  in  the  world  was  twelve 
dollars.  But  we  didn't  believe  in  hoard- 
ing. The  next  night  we  invited  our  friends 
to  go  to  dinner  w^ith  us  and  spent  our  last 
dollar.  My  wife  said  when  we  were  broke 
another  job  would  turn  up — and  it  did!" 

Those  experiences  and  the  loss  of  all 
his  accumulated  savings  in  the  1929  crash 
have  only  made  him  more  appreciative  of 
his  present  success.  His  money  is  going 
into  insurance  and  a  savings  account  now. 
The  Ballews  live  well,  but  simply.  They 
have  no  ambitions  to  build  a  Hollywood 
mansion  around  a  swimming  pool  and,  in 
fact,  prefer  to  live  in  a  rented  house.  Fre- 
(|uent  visits  from  tlieir  Texas  friends  and 
the  demands  of  Snn'th's  work  leave  them 
little  time  for  Hollywood's  social  life. 

Smith  doesn't  care  f<ir  v<ni:il  lite,  any- 
way, and  his  long  legs,  wIulIi  -ne  him  a 
distinct  advantage  on  tiic  tennis  court,  are 
no  asset  at  a  pink  tea. 

He  likes  everything  that  one  does  out- 


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doors.  He  plays  tennis,  golf  and  polo. 
He  is  fond  of  swimming.  He  thinks  Cali- 
fornia a  great  place  to  live  because  the 
climate  enables  him  to  do  all  these  things 
most  of  the  year  and  he  will  tell  you 
earnestly  that  he  likes  it  best  of  all  be- 
cause his  baby  daughter  is  in  better  health 
there  than  in  the  East. 

His  fondest  memories  of  childhood  are 
his  hunting  and  fishing  trips  with  his 
father  during  vacations  and,  later,  of  his 
summers  on  the  ranch,  where  he  rode  the 
range  and  was  a  real  cowboy. 

He  grew  up  in  a  home  where  music 
was  an  important  part  of  his  every-day 
life.  Smith's  family  is  a  musical  one,  but 
he  is  the  first  member  ever  to  become  a 
professional.  His  father  and  mother,  two 
sisters  and  two  brothers  are  all  musical. 
His  sisters  were  graduated  from  a  conser- 
vatory of  music— one  in  piano  and  one  in 
voice — and  one  brother  "is  a  knockout 
pianist,"  according  to  Smith. 

I  had  an  opportunity  to  study  him  as 
he  sat  opposite  me  in  a  little  office  at 
9 :30  in  the  morning.  Despite  his  soft 
voice,  his  cultured  manner,  his  poise,  he 
is  typically  an  outdoor  man.  Straight  as 
an  arrow,  lithe,  fit  as  a  fiddle,  with  eyes 
clear  as  water  and  a  clean,  healthy  com- 
plexion, he  is  of  the  plains.  It  is  written 
all  over  him.  He  doesn't  belong  in  the 
city,  although  he  has  made  the  city  pay 
him.  It  is  easy  to  understand  his  greatest 
ambition — to  save  enough  money  to  buy  a 
big  cattle  ranch  in  Te.xas  and  live  on  it. 
[  could  well  believe  him  when  he  said : 
'It  I  had  the  money.  I  would  give  all  this 
up  tomorrow  and  retire.'' 

If  I  had  any  doubt  left  about  his  lack 
of  inner  force,  it  was  dispelled  when  he 
told  me  that  the  thing  he  is  proudest  of 
is  his  honorary  membership  in  the  Texas 
Rangers,  which  is,  according  to  the  Tex- 
ans,  the  toughest,  nerviest,  most  efficient 
police  force  in  the  United  States! 

He  has  the  ability  to  think  fast  and 
he  engineers  his  delightful  program  with 
neatness  and  dispatch,  but  if  he  is  a  hu- 
man dynamo  he  hides  it  beautifully  be- 
neath a  Southern  drawl  and  a  quiet  but 
orceful  manner.  Calm  and  deliberate,  he 
5  the  very  opposite  of  your  conception 
of  a  master  of  ceremonies  and  is  a  fair 
example  of  the  new  type  of  actor  now 
gaining  foothold  in  Hollywood. 

It  has  been  said  that  three-fourths  of 
the  acting  in  Hollywood  is  done  at  the 
Brown  Derby  or  on  the  Boulevard,  but 
Smith  Ballew  attends  strictly  to  the  busi- 
ness of  acting  only  when  he  is  beins;  paid 
for  it.  He  doesn't  use  his  fnersjy  in  im- 
pressing his  friends.  He  saves  it  I'nr  his 
radio  performances.  And  now,  in  addition 
to  his  radio  activities.  Smith  is  a  motion 
picture  actor  and  will  soon  be  playing 
opposite  Lily  Pons.  He  will  sing  and, 
as  he  expresses  it,  "just  be  myself,  a 
Texas  cowboy." 

"If  you  have  anything  to  offer  and  are 
willing  to  work,"  he  says  shyly,  "it  isn't 
necessary  to  force  yourself  on  the  public 
in  order  to  get  ahead." 

"But  you're  so  bashful,"  I  protested. 
"I  don't  see  how  you  ever  have  the  cour- 
age to  stand  up  before  an  audience." 

He  laughed  with  quiet  amusement. 
"Xecessity  is  a  great  thing,"  he  replied. 
"I  have  plenty  of  umphhh  when  I  have 
to  have  it." 


SHE   BATHES  EVERY  DAY 


—right  next  to  her  skin! 
It's  constantly  absorbing  perspiration 


GIRLS,  who  are  othetAvise  dainty,  are 
often  careless  about  their  girdles.  They 
don't  realize  that  a  girdle  needs  the  same 
care  as  underthings.  It  betrays  unpleas- 
ant perspiration  odor  so  quickly! 

Why  risk  offending  in  this  way  when 
it's  so  easy  to  Lux  a  girdle  frequently? 

Lux  removes  perspiration  odor  com- 
pletely. It  preserves  the  elasticity  that 
keeps  your  girdle  form  fitting  .  .  .  like 
new.  Cake-soap  rubbing  or  soaps  that 
contain  harmful  alkali  weaken  elasticity, 
tend  to  leave  girdles  flabby  and  ill  fitting. 
Lux  has  no  harmful  alkali.  Anything  safe 
in  water  is  safe  in  Lux. 


Easy  Lux  Care 
for  Girdles 

Wash  frequently,  squeezing 
rich,  lukewarm  Lux  suds 
(never  hot)  well  through 
the  garment.  Don't  rub. 
For  stubborn  spots,  gently 
work  in  a  few  dry  Lux  flakes. 
Rinsewell.  Roll  in  a  Turkish 
towel  to  press  out  moisture. 
Unroll  at  once. 
Hang  with  weight  evenly 
distributed,  ordry  flat,  away 
from  heat.  Don' t  iron  elastic. 


Removes  perspiration  odor- 
Saves  Elasticity 


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COLORLESS 


CONSPICUOUS 


CHARMING  -i>  nk  iu> 

lashes,  yet  perfectlv  nan 
appearance  —  with  Ma\  I 
Eye  make-up  in  good  tas 


Your  eyes  are  your  most  important  beauty  feature — or 
they  should  be!  Are  you  making  the  most  of  their  possi- 
bilities by  framing  them  properly  with  long,  dark,  lustrous 
lashes?  You  can  do  this  best  by  applying  just  a  few,  simple 
brush  strokes  of  harmless  Maybelline,  the  eye  make-up  in 
good  taste.  Xo  longer  need  you  worry  about  having  pale, 
unattractive  lashes,  nor  fear  that  hard  "made-up"  look 
if  you  darken  them — with  Maybelline! 

•jf  Maybelline  is  non-smarting,  tear  proof,  and 
absolutely  harmless.  Cream-smoothness  of  texture — utter 
simplicity  of  application — tendency  to  curl  the  lashes  into 
lovely,  sweeping  fringe — these  are  some  of  the  wonderful 
qualities  which  make  this  the  eyelash  darkener  supreme. 

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There's  a  new  club  at  the  NBC  studios 
in  Hollywood.  It's  the  Six-Footers  Club, 
and  their  motto  is  "Just  a  high  old  time." 
President  is  Smith  Ballcw  of  Shell  Cha- 
teau, since  he  rates  tops  at  six  feet  five 
inches.  Other  members  are  Bob  Burns, 
Carlton  KaDell.  Amos  'n'  Andy's  an- 
nouncer, Tudor  'Williams  of  the  Guards- 
men quartet  and  Sam  Hayes,  the  Richfield 
Reporter.  Five-foot  Victor  Young  tried  to 
crash  the  membership  list  so  they  took  him 
on  as  mascot. 

Vou  //(7IV  /()  hanil  it  to  a  toivn  that 
con  nnikc  Amos  'n'  Andy  break  a  prece- 
dent. After  some  e'njht  years  of  broad- 
eastiiuj  ond  more  than  2,410  broadcasts, 
Holly-c.ood  "ijot"  the  boys  to  the  extent 
of  introdneuuj  surprise  nwvie  stars  on 
their  pro(/i'oms.  freeman  Gosden  and 
Charles  Correll,  icho  arc  the  cuUud  gentle- 
men in  iJieir  off-niike  moments,  admit 
that  the  eliniole  in  Hollyicood  makes  them 
ei'cn  surprise  theniseh'cs. 

That  new  movie  contract  which  Bob 
Burns  has  signed  calls  for  three  pictures 
at  $60,000  per  and  one  at  $75,000,  each 
year  for  three  years.  A  friend  called  Bob 
in  the  middle  of  the  night  to  offer  con- 
gratulations and  find  out  how  he  felt  about 
it  all.  'Til  tell  you,"'  said  Bob,  "I  feel 
just  like  I  did  when  I  caught  my  first  fish 
back  in  \'an  Buren."' 

Tallulah  Bankhead's  rehearsal  for  air- 
ing "Reflected  Glory"  was  the  shortest 
and  snappiest  ever  to  take  place  at  NBC. 
She  sailed  into  the  studio,  clad  in  vio- 
lently polka-dotted  pajamas.  In  one  hand 
was  the  script,  in  the  other  a  cigarette 
in  a  polka-dotted  holder.  Facing  the 
mike,  the  Bankhead  went  through  the 
rehearsal  without  one  unnecessary  word, 
then  smiled  upon  the  assembled  cast  and 
swept  out. 

-  ♦  - 

Frank  fay  teas  a  remote-control  host 
recently  at  his  Brenttcood  Heights  estate. 
Tlie  place  loas  turned  over  to  some  tivo 
hundred  orphans  from  the  L.  A.  Orphan- 
age for  the  day.  and  elou'ns,  bands,  trained 
ani)nals  and  plenty  of  ice-cream  provided 
the  entertainment.  frank  greeted  his 
guests  from  Xeic  York  and  it  was  all 
pretty  jolly. 

A  gala  affair  was  made  of  the  inaugu- 
ration of  KECA's  new  5,000-watt  trans- 
mitter in  Los  Angeles.  A  series  of  four 
dedicatory  programs  were  given  during 
the  day  and  the  celebrations  continued  till 
dawn  the  next  day.  .\mos  'n'  Andy,  Bob 
Burns.  Anne  Shirley,  Pat  Ellis,  Jimmy  and 
Russell  Gleason,  Dick  Foran,  Andy  De- 
vine,  Toby  Wing  and  other  movie  celeb- 
rities took  part.  Irene  Rich  flew  here 
frfjm  Xew  York  to  do  a  dramatic  skit  for 
the  occasion. 

Irene  Noblctte  once  thought  of  opera 
for  a  career.  She  gave  it  up  for  two  rea- 
sons. Stout  tenors  for  one  thing.  And 
her  teacher's  suggestion  that  she  hadn't  a 
voice.   But  the  tenors  decided  her. 


RADIO  STARS 


AN  EX-CHAMPION 
SPEAKS  HER  MIND 

(Cfliiliiiiicd  jrom  page  49) 


what  impresses  you  most  about  lier — the 
earnestness.  It's  as  if  she  means  every 
word  she  says  and  is  putting  all  her 
strength  and  all  herself  into  the  meaning. 
You  instinctively  trust  a  girl  like  that. 

I  commented  on  her  voice  and  what  a 
great  bet  it  would  be  for  a  sponsored 
broadcast.  It  is  one  of  those  low  voices, 
well-modulated,  well-trained.  There  is  no 
western  twang,  not  a  trace  of  it,  that 
probably  having  been  ironed  out  by  her 
winters  spent  in  England. 

"In  the  little  village  of  Long  Crcndon. 
There  I  ride  and  go  fox-hunting.  It  is 
a  charming  place  with,  the  atmosphere 
of  an  English  novel. 

"Over  there  tennis  is  more  popular 
than  in  this  country,  no  doubt  because  the 
Wimbledon  matches  were  always  at- 
tended by  Queen  Mary  and  the  late  King 
George.  He  did  more  than  anyone  else 
to  stimulate  a  genuine  and  tremendous 
interest  in  the  Wimbledon  tournament 
and  to  give  to  the  game  the  dignity  and 
importance  which  have  elevated  it  to  its 
present  high  status.  His  enthusiasm  and 
applause  encouraged  the  foreign  as  well 
as  the  British  player.  He  has  given  to  all 
lovers  of  lawn  tennis  among  his  people  a 
stimulus  to  their  natural  sportsmansliip 
and  loyalty. 

"And  so,  if  they  can't  afford  to  at- 
tend the  games,  they  listen  to  them  over 
the  radio.  I  remember  the  farmers  of 
the  Long  Crendon  district,  who  gathered 
at  the  village  pub  to  listen  to  the  broad- 
casts. At  these  gatherings  each  one  con- 
tributed a  penny,  the  sum  total  being 
chalked  upon  a  huge  black  slate  by  the 
members  of  what  they  called  'The  Slate 
Committee.'  .\t  the  end  of  the  season 
the  pennies  were  to  go  towards  buying 
iheir  families  Christmas  presents.  I  was 
deeply  touched  when,  after  winning  at 
Wimbledon,  I  received  a  congratulatorv 
wire  from  those  farmers  listening  in.  I 
knew  that  a  great  many  of  their  pennies 
must  have  gone  into  the  sending  of  that 
message  and  I  also  knew  how  much  they 
must  have  loved  tennis  and  what  an  ini- 
ix;rtant  part  the  broadcasting  of  the 
matches  played  in  their  lives. 

"To  my  mind  the  average  English  radio 
program  cannot  compare  with  our  Amer- 
ican ones,"  Miss  Jacobs  continued.  "Be- 
cause they  are  sponsored  solely  by  the 
government  and  not  by  advertisers,  they 
cannot  afford  the  type  of  entertainment 
we  receive  over  here.  Their  programs, 
especially  on  Sundays,  the  day  ours  reach  a 
high  point,  are  pretty  miserable  affairs." 

When  askc<l  if  she  were  much  of  a 
radio  fan,  Miss  Jacobs  said  she  didn't 
like  just  to  turn  on  her  radio  and  let  it 
Ko. 

"I  tune  in  for  spccird  things,  like  the 


news  and  symphonies.  I  ne\cr  listen  to 
the  sport  broadcasts  unless  I'm  jiartic- 
ularly  interested.  For  instancr,  I  wonMn'l 
think  of  listening  to  the  ha-ehall  sanies 
because  I  don't  know  a  thing  about  base- 
ball. When  I  can  get  golf  tournaments 
I  do  listen,  but  they  broadcast  golf  all 
too  seldom. 

"Of  course  I  listen  avidly  to  the  Davis 
Cup  matches.  .As  a  listener,  radio  has 
given  me  many  thrills.  At  Forest  Hills, 
the  year  I  met  Sarah  Palfrey  Fabvan  tor 
the  second  time,  in  the  finals  of  the  ladies 
singles,  and  won  my  fourth  successive 
championship,  I  left  immediately  tor  \  ir- 
ginia  Beach.  And  it  was  from  there  I 
heard  the  excitiiii:  radi'i  account  nf  \\  il- 
mer  Allisijn's  m-^pired  iiiatclt  with  .Si<1ih\ 
^\'ood,  in  wIiIlIi  Allison  won  tlie  title  lu' 
had  sought  unsuccessfully  for  vears. 
.\nother  time  when,  after  liciiig  dcleated  at 
Wimbledon  hy  Dorothy  Round,  1  was  al- 
ready on  the  ocean,  returning  to  the 
United  States,  she  played  her  match  with 
Helen  Moody  and  I  heard  ot  Helen  s 
victory  over  the  ship's  radio.  Those  were 
radio  thrills  I  can't  forget. 

"I  have  done  very  little  broadcastiim 
myself.  I  have  been  in  tennis  reviu- 
broadcast  by  the  Wightman  Cup  teams, 
and  once  I  was  interviewed  over  an  east- 
ern network.  In  1932  I  broadcast  a  speech 
for  the  Xational  Republican  Committee. 
But  the  most  exciting  broadcast  for  me 
took  place  on  board  The  Leviathan.  I 
had  booked  passage,  not  realizing  that  the 
trip  was  an  important  one.  During  the 
voyage  General  Pershing,  who  sat  next 
to  me  at  the  Captain's  table,  told  me  that 
he  and  I  were  expected  to  make  speeches 
for  the  first  broadcast  from  ship  to  shore. 
\\'hat  I  said  was  of  no  im]xirtance,  but  I 
still  have  General  Pershing's  radio  speech 
on  the  Merchant  Marine,  which  he  gave 
to  me  at  the  end  of  the  evening.  Like  all 
interesting  talkers,  he  was  an  exception- 
ally good  listener. 

"That,"  said  Miss  Jacobs,  drawing  a 
(let  p  breath,  "is  all  I've  done  where  radio 
is  concerned,  but  it  doesn't  mean  I 
wouldn't  like  to  do  a  lot  more." 

"And  some  day  I'm  sure  you  will,"  I 
prophesied. 

I  meant  the  prophecy.  For  some  day, 
and  not  a  very  far-off  one,  the  powers- 
that-be  in  tennis  will  recognize  radio  not 
as  a  detriment  to  their  amateur  players, 
not  as  a  robber  of  that  amateur  status,  but 
as  an  aid  that  will  give  them  a  steady  in- 
come and  leave  their  minds  wholly  free 
for  athletics.  At  the  same  time  it  will 
give  ambitious  young  America  the  chance 
to  learn  from  experts,  to  get  their  point- 
ers first  hand,  while  they  are  listening  to 
the  most  inspiring  broadcasters  of  them 
all — the  champions  of  our  country. 


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myself.  Gardenias,  yes.  Gardenias  all  the 
time.  Only  once  did  I  see  the  diamonds 
concealed  among  the  roses  and  they  were 
Ironi  a  man  to  the  girl  he  was  going  to 
marry.  Great  lovers  must  have  sense,  I 
think.  And  the  modern  man  has  suffered 
too  many  reverses  to  spend  huge  sums  of 
inoney  on  just  girls.  That  era  passed 
with  the  passing  of  Diainond  Jim  Brady." 

And  then  Virginia  came  to  Hollywood 
and  saw,  and  was  seen  by,  the  great  Great 
Lover.  And  they  were  married.  Virginia 
and  Jack  Gilbert.  And  the  world  is  fa- 
miliar, I  think,  with  the  glamour  and  the 
tears,  the  sweetness  and  the  bitterness  of 
that  marriage  of  two  lovers. 

She  has  known  most  of  the  great  lovers 
of  her  time,  Virginia.  She  was  married 
to  the  greatest  of  them.  She  should  know. 

She  was  saying  :  "Too,  the  Great  Lover 
cannot  be  a  playboy.  There  can't  be  any- 
thing light  about  the  real  great  lover.  For 
a  Great  Lover  presupposes  someone  capable 
of  a  great  love  and  not  a  great  many  little, 
light  loves. 

"The  greatest  lovers  of  my  time  have 
been — Jack  and  Valentino.  They  were  com- 
plete. They  had  everything.  They  had  that 
prime  requisite — terrific  vitality.  Valen- 
tino's was  a  smouldering  vitality.  Jack's 
was  a  surging,  electric  vitality.  And  the 
great  lover  must  have  just  that — the  power 
to  lift  you  up  and  warm  you  against  the 
sun  and  the  moon  and  the  stars.  He  must 
be  able  to  take  the  breath  out  of  your 
lungs,  the  heart  out  of  your  breast. 

"There  can't  be  anything  soft  about  a 
great  lover.  Nothing  of  the  sweet  sappy 
'  ril-do-any-thing-you-say-darUng'  sort  of 
thing.  They've  got  to  have  that  'love-'em- 
and-Jcavc-'cin'  something — for  ine,  at  any 
rate.  And  I  think  that  most  of  the  men 
who  are  idolized  by  women  have  just  that. 
Nelson  Eddy  has  a  remote,  unapproachable 
(|uality  about  him  which  would  make  most 
girls  fear  him  a  little,  stand  in  both  awe 
and  admiration.  Lawrence  Tibbett  has 
that  lusty,  scornful  something  in  his  voice 
which  makes  you  feel  he  would  trample 
you  under  his  speeding  feet  if  he  felt  like 
it  .  .  .  Bing  Crosby  has  a  smoothness 
which  could  easily  turn  to  scorn  .  .  .  Rudy 
Vallee  has  a  gaiety  which  is  somehow  im- 
pervious .  .  . 

"Having  been  married  to  a  Great  Lover, 
I  know  something  of  the  way  they  treat 
a  woman,  even  the  woman  they  love.  I 
did  what  Jack  wanted  me  to  do.  1  thought 
as  Jack  w.-mtcd  me  In  think— or  if  I  didn't 
[  pretended  t<i.  I  went  where  Jack  wanted 
to  go — and  if  1  didn't  1  ;ihvays  was  siu'e 
that  he  would  go  without  me  if  he  felt 
like  it.  And  when  he  didn't  go,  it  al\\a>s 
was  a  startling  surprise,  an  unexpected, 
an  unlooked-for  tlirill. 

"And  the  (ireat  Lover  must  liave  the 
ability  to  sl.irlle  and  surprise  and  thrill. 
Shock  a  Hllle,  lo,,.  iM  ilMps.  The  ability 
to  give  tlirilU  and  Irenna  s  -  .and  thunder- 
bolts.    (  lark   (ial)ie  lias  these  qualities. 

"lie  must  l)e  alive,  the  Great  Lover. 
Lusty  like  Tibbett.  Tender  like  Bing. 
Noble  like  Nel.son.  Virile  and  sound  like 
Spencer  Tracy.  He  must  make  a  woman 
perpetually  conscious  of  the  fact  that  he 


has  it  in  him  to  conquer  empires,  topple 
over  thrones,  rip  the  stars  out  of  the  sky 
and  lay  them  at  her  feet  or  fling  them  in 
her  face.  Maybe  he  doesn't  actually  do 
any  of  these  things.  But  he  must  make 
you  feel  that  he  could  if  he  really  wanted 
to  do  them  ! 

"WoiTien  say  that  they  like  to  'make 
conquests.'  We  don't,  really.  We  want 
to  be  conquered.  If  we  didn't,  we  wouldn't 
always  'go'  for  the  Valentinos,  the  Gil- 
berts, the  Gables,  the  Mussolinis,  the  Tib- 
betts,  the  Tracys  .  .  . 

"The  Great  Lover  must  be  interested  in 
you,  not  primarily  in  himself.  That's  one 
of  Bing's  great  appeals — he  always  makes 
you  feel  that  he  is  singing  not  only  to  you 
but  for  you,  just  for  you. 

"The  Great  Lover  must  be  interested  in 
what  you  say,  in  what  you  want  to  do.  A 
man  who  delivers  a  monologue  most  of  the 
time  and  mostly  about  himself,  wouldn't 
last  long  in  real  life.  That's  what  I  like 
about  Clark  Gable.  He  has  a  healthy,  flat- 
tering interest  in  the  other  fellow.  Women 
have  ego,  too,  you  know,  and  a  man  who 
wants  to  be  a  successful  Great  Lover  must 
cater  to  that  ego,  or  else  .  .  . 

"He  must  command  attention,  of  course, 
wherever  he  goes.  A  woman  must  be  proud 
of  the  man  she  is  with  or  he  fails  to  stir 
her.  Head  waiters  must  hurry  to  do  his 
bidding.  Other  men  must  welcome  his 
presence.  Women  must  turn  their  heads 
to  look  at  him. 

"He  tuust  know  how  to  do  things  well. 
Little  things  as  well  as  big.  Order  epi- 
curean dinners.  Choose  wines  with  dis- 
crimination. Know  out-of-the-ordinary 
places  to  go. 

"He  must  have  men  friends — a  woman 
likes  to  feel  that  a  man  has  come  to  her 
from  his  vital,  masculine  world. 

"He  must  be  unselfish.  He  must  send 
gifts  and  tokens  and  remembrances.  But 
by  this  I  do  not  mean  expensive  things.  I 
mean  thoughtful  things.  Even  if  they 
cost  only  ten  cents.  So  you  are  conscious 
at  all  times  of  his  thought  enveloping  you. 
embracing  and  surrounding  you. 

"He  must  be  interested  in  a  variety  of 
things,  like  Nelson  Eddy.  Nelson  knows 
business,  Iiaving  been  in  business.  He 
knows  the  newspaper  game,  having  been 
one  of  the  hourth  Estate.  He  knows  radio 
and  concert  work  and  pictures,  tennis  and 
good  books  and  psychology.  The  man 
who  can  harp  only  on  the  tender  topics  all 
of  the  time  soon  becomes  tiresome  and 
the  things  he  says  of  little  value.  The 
Great  Lover  pays  compliments,  yes.  But 
they  are  rare  coins  and  he  spends  them 
spariugl)-,  so  that  each  one  is  gold. 

"He  mustn't  talk  al>out  his  troubles,  the 
Great  Lo\er.  "i'ou  can't  associate  him 
with  worries  and  winnings  and  problems. 
He  must  make  things  right,  twist  life  to 
his  own  advantage. 

"He  must  not  be — I  am  speaking  for 
m>self  now — a  foreigner.  With  very  few 
exceptions,  the  foreign  type  doesn't  appeal 
to  me.  One  exception  is,  of  course,  Val- 
entino. Another  is  Valentin  Perrera, 
Grace  Moore's  husband,  who  is  extremely 
attractive.    But  for  the  most  part  I'll  rate 


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the  Americans,  as  the  best  potential  great 
lovers. 

"And  just  as  the  real  great  lover  must 
be  able  to  discuss  a  variety  of  things  and 
not  just  the  ' iiic-and-you'  topic,  so  he  must 
be  interested  in  world  affairs.  For  they 
are  man's  domain  and  there  is  something 
slightly  iinniasculine  about  a  man  who 
takes  no  interest  in  national  affairs,  inter- 
national problems  and  things  like  that. 

"He  must  have  business  acumen.  I've  al- 
ways admired  Bing  Crosby  for  that.  It's 
almost  more  thrilling  to  see  his  suite  of 
offices  lettered  'Bing  Crosby,  Ltd.'  than  it 
is  to  hear  him  croon  your  heart  out ! 

"He  must  be  well-groomed,  the  Great 
Lover.  I  don't  mean  the  gigolo  kind  of 
grooming — sleek,  polished  hair  and  all 
that.  I  mean  he  must  look  immaculate 
even  if  he  is  wearing  slacks  and  a  polo 
shirt — as  Spencer  Tracy  so  often  does. 
And  you  know  that  he  has  just  stepped  off 
the  polo  field  and  out  from  under  the 
shower.  I  like  a  man  who  exhibits  a  cer- 
tain fastidiousness.  The  man  who  wears 
fine  linen  shirts,  monogrammed  for  eve- 
ning, carries  monogrammed  handkerchiefs, 
wears  gay  scarves.  Men  have  been  pretty 
dull  in  the  way  they  dress  for  years.  I 
do  not  like  men  who  wear  jewelry — not 
even  the  slave  bracelet  made  famous  by 
Valentino. 

"He  must  be  able  to  dance  well,  the 
Great  Lover,  of  course.  There  is  too  much 
romance  in  dancing  to  leave  that  out. 

"He  need  not  be  the  athletic  type.  He 
should  be  able  to  do  one  sport  well — play 
tennis  as  Kelson  does  or  polo  like  Spencer 
Tracy  or  go  in  for  skeet  shooting  and 
hunting  as  Clark  does. 

"I  think  that  most  girls  visualize  the 
Great  Lover  as  the  dark  type.  Perhaps 
Valentino  and  Jack  and  Clark  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  that.  But  blonde  men  have 
a  very  definite  appeal,  too. 

Franchot  Tone  has,  I  think,  a  very  defi- 
nite Great  Lover  appeal.  He  gives  the 
sense  of  a  quiet,  deep-down  vitality,  of  in- 
finite reserve.  Blonde  men  appeal  more 
to  the  maternal.  They  make  you  want 
to  do  things  for  them.  They  make  you 
think  of  all  the  little  tow-headed  fellows 
you  knew  when  you  were  a  child.  The 
Great  Lover  doesn't  often  allow  the  ma- 
ternal instinct  to  awake  in  a  woman.  He 
doesn't  seem  to  need  it.  But  there  are 
times — when  he  meets  some  disaster — 
when  it  comes  to  the  surface.  And  it 
should.  For  the  maternal  instinct  is,  in 
most  women,  the  strongest  instinct  of  all. 

And  I  meant  it  when  I  said  that  looks 
have  little  to  do  with  The  Great  Lover. 
For  I  knew  one  boy — when  I  was  in  high 
school,  before  ever  I  had  seen  Jack  on  the 
screen.  You  can  mention  his  name  if  you 
want  to.  I'm  sure  I'd  feel  the  same  about 
him  if  I  were  to  meet  him  again  now.  His 
name  is  John  Patrick  McXeiss.  He 
was  one  of  a  big,  rollicking  Irish  family. 
He  looked  .something  like  Mickey  Walker. 
He  was  cocky  and  insolent  and  independent. 
He  could  love  'cm  and  leave  'em — that  was 
the  impression  he  gave.  And  he  was  the 
sweetest  guy  in  the  world.  He  used  to 
sing  while  I  played  for  him.  Deep  with- 
in him  he  had,  I  know,  a  tender  poetic 
streak.  He'd  die  denying  it,  but  it  was 
there.  He  had  a  marvelous  sense  of  hu- 
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and  the  dirt  under  his  feet,  all  at  once. 
He  was  alive  to  his  very  linger  tips.  He 
had  neither  fame  nor  fortune  nor  good 
looks.  And  yet  he  ivas  Romance.  He  was 
a  Great  Lover. 

"And  that's  what  I  mean  .  .  .  that's  what 
I  would  sa\-  to  my  >oung  Daniel.  I  would 
tell  him — and  all  'the  boys' — that  they  don't 
have  to  have  the  tall  and  kingly  bearing  of 
a  Nelson  Eddy  nor  the  fame  and  good 
looks  of  a  Clark  Gable — if  they  are  alive 
and  if  they  have  brains,    li  they  can  take 


weren't  looking  for  love — they  were  look- 
ing for  penthouses." 

Twenty-five  years  of  married  life  is  a 
good  record  for  anyone  and  in  show  busi- 
ness it  deserves  a  medal.  Yet  Eddie  Can- 
tor is  as  much  in  love  today  as  he  was  a 
c|uarter  of  a  century  ago  when  he  first 
sang  love  ballads  to  Ida.  There's  an  amus- 
ing story  about  their  twenty-fifth  anni- 
versary, so  don't  stop  me  if  you've  heard 
it. 

Eddie  planned  to  surprise  Ida  with  a 
trip  to  Honolulu  for  an  anniversary  pres- 
ent. Ida,  not  knowing  her  husband's  secret, 
planned  to  surprise  him  with  a  party  at  a 
Hollywood  night  club.  She  rented  the  en- 
tire club  for  the  anniversary  night,  visited 
caterers  and  florists  and  arranged  every- 
thing. Eddie  got  wind  of  things  and 
phoned  the  club. 

"Has  there  been  a  woman  there  repre- 
senting herself  as  Mrs.  Cantor?''  he  in- 
cjuired. 

"Why,  yes,"  replied  the  manager,  "she 
just  rented  the  whole  place  for  Saturday 
night." 

"Pay  no  attention  to  her,"  said  Eddie. 
"The  woman  is  balmy."  The  manager 
thanked  him  and  cancelled  the  reservation. 
Eddie  phoned  the  florist  and  the  caterer 
and  gave  them  the  same  story.  When  Ida 
reached  home  there  were  indignant  phone 
calls  from  the  florist,  the  caterer  and  the 
night  club  awaiting  her.  And  the  Cantors 
went  to  Honolulu  ! 

"Too  many  marriages,"  Eddie  continued, 
"are  the  'love  in  a  canoe'  type.  A  man 
looks  at  a  woman  in  the  moonlight,  thinks 
she's  wonderful  and  rushes  her  off  to 
Yuma.  Then  he  spends  six  weeks  in  Reno 
thinking  it  over. 

"Too  many  people  tiiink  a  wedding  is  an 
adventure.  Inlying  off  at  niylit  to  a  marry- 
ing judge  is  great  sport — it's  exciting.  But 
how  wrong  those  people  are  !  A  wedding 
is  exciting  but  it's  not  an  adventure.  The 
f/rcaf  advcntitrc  is  iiiarri(un\  Living  and 
sharing  life  with  someone  \(iu  love  is  the 
greatest  excitement  in  the  world.  Long 
after  the  Wedding  March  is  forgotten,  the 
joy  of  being  married  goes  on.  W  hat  can 
success,  or  any  little  happiness,  mean  to  a 
man  who  has  no  one  to  help  him  exult  in 
it? 

"Man\-  men,  when  success  comes  their 
way,  be.uin  kicking  nxvr  the  traces.  One 
of  the  saddest  things  in  the  world  is  when 
a  man  sa\ s :  '1  have  attained  wealth  and 
success,  but  my  wife  hasn't  kept  up  with 
me.'  The  reason  his  wife  hasn't  kept  up 
with  him  is  because  he  has  been  selfish- 


life  by  the  scruff  of  the  neck  and  make  of 
it  an  exciting,  a  worth-while  experiment 
in  living.  For  that's  what  I,  at  least,  ex- 
pect of  the  Great  Lover — life.  Not  as  it  is 
lived  ordinarily — but  shot  through  with 
color  and  adventure  and  charm.  Such  a 
life  as  all  of  these  Great  Lovers  of  the 
screen  and  air  seem  to  promise  us  .  .  . 
the  Bings  and  Rudys  and  Gables  and  Eddys 
and  Tracys  and  Tibbetts  .  .  . 

"The  Great  Lover  must  be  able  to  drain 
the  color  out  of  life  when  he  goes  .  .  ." 


he  never  has  shared  his  secrets  with  her, 
he  never  has  given  her  a  chance  to  feel 
that  she  is  his  partner. 

"I  believe  completely  in  the  theory  that 
a  man  should  share  all  his  business  secrets 
with  his  wife.  When  she  knows  exactly 
what  he's  doing,  she  comes  to  understand 
him — and  that  understanding  averts  more 
matrimonial  rifts  than  any  other  element 
on  earth. 

"Marriage,  after  all,  is  a  business.  A 
man  sets  up  a  partnership  with  a  woman, 
just  as  he  would  set  up  a  partnership  in  a 
business  firm.  If  the  partnership  is  to 
work,  neither  the  man  nor  the  woman 
should  have  controlling  interest.  Each 
should  have  equal  shares  of  the  stock  and 
the  same  executive  authority  in  the  cor- 
poration. If  it  isn't  a  fifty-fifty  arrange- 
ment one  partner  is  bound  to  sell  short, 
and  you  know  what  that  does.  It  dumps 
the  unfortunate  partner  on  to  the  market." 

Eddie's  own  life  is  an  excellent  example 
of  what  he's  preaching.  In  all  his  years  in 
show  business,  Ida  has  been  consulted  on 
every  move  he's  made.  The  day  before  I 
talked  to  him,  for  instance,  he  was  offered 
a  picture  contract  at  20th  Century-Fox 
studios.  The  deal  called  for  two  years  and 
involved  a  million  dollars.  Eddie  bickered 
and  dickered  with  studio  heads  until  two  in 
the  morning.  Before  making  any  agree- 
ment he  phoned  Ida,  who  was  in  New 
York  for  a  short  visit.  She  knew  the 
whole  situation,  gave  him  her  advice,  and 
he  signed  the  contract. 

"Getting  back  to  showgirls,"  said  Eddie, 
"a  good  deal  of  their  marital  troubles 
comes  from  the  men  they  marry.  New 
York  is  full  of  wealthy  playboys  who  have 
been  left  several  million  dollars  by  doting 
— and  not  very  wise — fathers.  Money 
means  nothing  to  them  and  neither  does 
marriage.  They  buy  a  new  wife  every  year 
or  so,  just  as  they  would  buy  a  new  yacht 
or  a  new  car. 

"A  man  sees  a  beautiful  girl  in  a  show. 
He  showers  her  with  everything  from  or- 
chids to  sables  and  he  marries  her.  He 
likes  to  have  her  around.  She's  orna- 
mental. A  couple  of  years  later  he  sees  a 
more  beautiful  girl — a  newer  model.  She's 
the  latest  thing  in  streamlined  1936 
blondes,  for  instance.  He  goes  back  home 
and  looks  over  his  old  repaint  job  and  be- 
gins to  worry.  A  friend  of  his  has  just 
married  a  gorgeous  redhead  from  The 
Scandals.  She's  the  last  word  in  modern 
dress,  with  all  the  latest  improvements. 
After  all,  he  has  as  many  millions  as  his 
friend,  so  why  can't  he  have  just  as  ex- 


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pensive  a  wife?  So  he  turns  in  the  re- 
paint job  on  the  streamlined  model !  Then 
the  whole  procedure  is  repeated  in  a  few 
jears. 

"If  I  were  king,  or  president,  or  some- 
thing. I  d  confiscate  most  of  the  wealth  of 
these  young  men  and  turn  it  over  to  the 
government  for  charity.  When  thousands 
of  people  arc  starving,  it's  heart-rending 
to  see  empty-headed  playboys  throwing 
money  to  the  winds. 

"Of  course  there  are  exceptions.  There 
are  men  like  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 
and  Edsel  Ford,  who  were  brought  up  by 
lathers  who  taught  them  the  value  of 
wealth  and  the  good  it  can  do.  But  for 
every  Rockefeller  and  every  Ford,  there 
are  hundreds  of  wastrels  privileged  to 
throw  money  away  merely  because  their 
fathers  were  hard-working  men. 

"So  many  of  the  rich  are  too  hard  to 
satisfy.  For  instance.  I  met  a  man  in  Chi- 
cago last  summer.  He  was  complaining 
bitterly  about  the  government.  They  took 
$3,000,000  from  him  this  year  in  income 
tax.  he  said. 

"  "And  how  much  did  that  leave  \  ou  ?'  I 
asked  him. 

"  'Only  two  and  a  half  million,'  he 
moaned. 

"A  rich  man.  as  a  rule,  marries  in  his 
own  set.  There  are  three  eligible  girls,  let 
us  say.  If  he's  going  to  marry,  he  must 
pick  one  of  the  three  and  cross  his  fingers, 
hoping  that  it  will  last  I  Poor  people  do 
have  that  one  advantage  over  the  wealthy. 
A  poor  man's  field  is  unlimited.  He  can 
pick  a  girl  he  likes  and  he  doesn't  have  to 
worry  about  what  boat  her  people  came 
over  on. 

"The  newspapers,  of  course,  are  full  of 
sensational  divorce  stories.  You  seldom 
see  a  happy  marriage  hit  the  front  pages, 
because  nobody  is  interested  in  a  happy 
marriage  except  the  two  people  who  are 
enjoying  it.  A  man  can  be  married  for 
forty  years,  live  a  peaceful  life  and  never 
see  his  name  in  the  paper.  But  let  him  ab- 
scond with  his  employer's  money  and  a 
pretty  choir  singer  and  he's  in  every  paper 
in  the  country !" 

Young  men  contemplating  marriage 
would  be  wise  to  follow  Eddie  Cantor's 
example.  Here  is  a  man  who  has  wealth 
and  success  and — most  important  of  all  to 
him — complete  happiness.  Just  to  show 
you  how  he  feels  about  Ida  after  these 
twenty-five  years : 

The  Texaco  Company,  to  introduce  Ed- 
die's new  program,  made  up  40,000  life- 
size  figures  of  Eddie  Cantor.  You've  seen 
one  at  your  neighborhood  Texaco  station. 
Eddie  is  holding  a  placard  which  reads : 
"I'll  he  icith  you  e'rry  Sunday  night." 

You  can  imagine  Ida's  surprise  when  she 
opened  a  package  in  her  Xew  York  hotel 
room.  It  was  a  pasteboard  Eddie  and  his 
placard  read : 

"/'//  be  until  you  crrry  Sunday,  Monday. 
Tuesday,  U'ednrsdny.  Thursday,  Friday 
and  Saturday  night — //  you'll  only  cniiu- 
home." 


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(Continued  from  page  46) 


"Sinclair  Minstrels,'  etc.,  because  the  hu- 
mor takes  me  away  from  the  cares  of 
housekeeping :  and  Wayne  King's  and 
Fred  Waring's  music  because  it's  restful." 

Anna  Harris,  Lakewood,  N.  J.  (School 
Teacher.)  "I  like  to  hear  Kaltenborn 
and  Boake  Carter  because  their  interpre- 
tations of  the  news  are  based  on  knowl- 
edge and  intelligent  thinking.  Also,  they 
do  not  'murder  the  King's  English'  like 
so  many  'Esso  Reporters.'  I  enjoy  'Show 
Boat,'  Nelson  Eddy  and  any  other  good 
music — not  jazz.  Alexander  Woollcott's 
contributions  were  delightful.    I  miss  him." 

John    M.    Shields,    Philadelphia,  Pa. 

(Clerk.)  "My  three  preferences  are: 
'March  of  Time'  for  up-to-the-minute 
news  presented  exactly  as  happening ; 
Fred  Allen's  'Town  Hall  Tonight,'  because 
its  humor  is  the  cleanest,  most  original  on 
the  air ;  and  'Your  Hit  Parade'  for  zippy 
dance  music." 

Elmer    Green,    Alton,    111.  (Writer.) 

"I  listen  to  programs  of  classical  music, 
and  popular  songs  of  the  past  which  I 
consider  superior  to  those  of  today.  Since 
I  usually  listen  to  the  radio  for  pleasure, 
I  am  partial  to  the  news  commentators 
because  they  are  cultural  and  informative 
and  this  type  of  program  affords  me  the 


greatest  enjoyment. 

Helen    McGough,    Birmingham,  Ala. 

(Secretary.)  "I  like  Ben  Bernie  and 
Mary  Livingstone  for  themselves;  Rudy 
\'allee,  Bing  Crosby,  etc.,  because  they  al- 
ways have  a  good  program.  My  pet  peeve 
is  all  kinds  of  'mush.'  For  example,  Mary 
Lou  on  the  Maxwell  program." 

Yee  Wah,  Mill  Valley,  Calif.  (Con- 
tractor.) "I  listen  only  to  'The  March 
of  Time,'  the  news  and  other  programs 
which  give  me  information  on  politics  and 
world  affairs." 

Marion  Craig  Wentworth,  Santa 
Barbara,  Calif.     (Author  and  Lecturer.) 

"Xew'  York  Philharmonic  Symphony  Or- 
chestra, Philadelphia  and  Minneapolis 
Symphony  Orchestras,  because  great  or- 
chestral music  gives  me  joy  and  inspira- 
tion; soloists  like  Iturbi,  Heifitz,  superb 
artists !  President  Roosevelt  for  fine  voice 
and  diction  as  well  as  liberal  ideas ;  'Amos 
'n'  Andy,'  for  their  homely  wisdom,  adroit 
presentation  of  human  comedy,  and  'The 
March  of  Time'  as  the  most  dramatic 
presentation  of  news." 

Alice  H.  Reesman,  Beloit,  Wis. 
(Teacher.)  "The  only  broadcasts  that  I 
listen  to  at  all  consistently  are :  Boake 
Carter's    fifteen-minute    summary    of  the 


news  and  the  Saturday  afternoon  operas 
from  the  Metropolitan.  Carter  gives  one 
an  almost  unbiased  report  of  the  day's 
events,  and  my  reason  for  listening  to  the 
other  program  is  that  I  enjoy  opera." 

Albert  Manski,  Boston,  Mass.  (Gov- 
ernment Clerk.)  "Major  Bowes'  Amateur 
Hour — humanitarian  in  scope  and  pleasing 
in  variety.  "Jello  Hour' — humor  that  is  al- 
ways new  and  refreshing.  'One  Man's 
Family' — down-to-earth,  wholesome  and 
human  drama.  "Your  Hit  Parade' — popular 
music  that's  enjoyable.  "Lux  Radio  'Thea- 
ter'— absorbing  stories  featuring  outstand- 
ing personalities." 

Frank  J.  Vasile,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
(Trombonist.)  "As  a  radio  fan  I  like  to 
listen  to  the  'Camel  Caravan'  because  it 
features  Nat  Shilkret's  symphonic  or- 
chestra and  Benny  Goodman's  swing 
music.  Listening  to  these  I  get  ideas  for 
new  arrangements  for  my  own  orchestra." 

H.  R.  Shaw,  Jackson,  Mich.  (Mer- 
chant.) '"Because  I  like  symphony  or- 
chestras, a  little  nonsense  with  popular  or- 
chestra! music  sandwiched  in,  well  pre- 
sented news  events,  clever  comics,  tabloid 
musical  comedies  and  smartly  presented 
plays,  the  following  fill  the  bill  for  me : 
Ford  and  General  Motors  Symphony  pro- 


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-ams.  Jack  Benny.  Fred  Allen,  Boake 
arter,  Lowell  Thonia-s.  'Luni  and  Abner.' 
;ho\\  Boat'  and  the  Lux  Radio  Theater.'  " 

Walter  Bartosh,  Newark,  N.  J.  "The 
■Qgrams  which  I  enjoy  the  most  are 
ramatic  ones,  such  as  the  'Lux  Radio 
heater."    The  reason  these  appeal  to  me 

because  I  am  a  shut-in  and  unable  to  go 
i  the  theater." 

Victor  Gens,  Harrisburg,  Pa.  (Clerk.) 

ly  favorite  programs  are:  "The  Kraft 
lusic  Hall.'  Bob  Crosby's  orchestra  and 
e  Ken  Murray  program.  These  features 
^peal  to  me  because  they  all  have  va- 
ety.  My  favorite,  however,  is  the  'Kraft 
lusic  Hall,'  because  I  am  very  fond  of 
ing  and  he  always  presents  a  well  bal- 
iced  program." 

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Kathryn  Mansell,  Ashtabula,  Ohio. 
Teacher.)  "Boake  Carter,  because  he 
ives  an  interesting  presentation  of  the 
His  voice  is  pleasing  and  his  ad- 
rtising  clever.  Symphony  and  opera 
lusic.  because  they  are  my  favorites  and 
re  seldom  interrupted  with  advertising, 
enjoy  the  soft  rhythm  of  Wayne  King's 
rchestra  and  the  Lux  dramatic  programs 
spite  of  the  childish  advertising." 

Primo  Bastoni,  Kingston,  Mass.  (Shoe 
Ian.)  "A  topnotch  program,  in  my  opin- 
5  the  'Lucky  Strike  Hour,'  with  the 
luntry's  leading  song  hits  uniquely  pre- 
nted — swell  music.  Another  is  Rudy 
'allee's  program,  which  gives  the  radio 
udience  the  best  variety,  humor  and  mu- 
ic.  as  only  Rudy  can." 


Ethel  Doran,  Hollywood,  Calif.  (School- 
girl.) "I  like  pla\s  and  band  music.  I 
always  enjoy  the  Lux  programs." 

P.  F.  Hannibohle,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
(Accountant.)  "Each  of  the  following 
provide  entertainment  for  the  whole  fam- 
ily and  are  never  stale ;  Jack  Benny,  Burns 
and  Allen,  "Town  Hall,'  Major  Bowes, 
'Hawaii  Calls,'  'Lum  and  Abner'  and 
'Amos  'n'  Andy.'  Dance  band  programs 
afford  too  much  repetition,  but  Wayne 
King  is  the  exception." 

Michelle  Finkler,  Passaic,  N.  J.  (At 
Home.)  "I  listen  avidly  to  'Lux  Radio 
Theater;'  'March  of  Time;'  'Five  Star 
Final;'  Martha  Deane ;  all  news  broad- 
casts ;  most  news  commentators  and  to 
special  features  such  as  guc^t  -tars-  tin 
President,  etc.  Also  to  all  amauur  h..iii  - 
and  to  good  music.  The  reason  is  ob- 
vious. They  are  the  BEST!" 

Mrs.  M.  M.  McLaren,  Miami,  Fla. 
(Insurance.)  "'American  .\lbuni  of  Fa- 
miliar Music,'  'National  Farm  and  Hnme 
Hour,'  Jessica  Dragonctte,  'Hnllyw.  i,  ,d 
Hotel'  and  'One  Man's  l-'aiiiil\  '  are  a  few 
of  the  radio  programs  I  cnjuy.  One  Man's 
Family'  is  my  favorite.  In  this  da\-  of 
rapidly-vanishing  home  lite,  it  is  refresh- 
ing to  listen  in  on  an  old-fashioned  family." 

Deborah  Siko,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
(Model.)"  Rudy  Vallee's  Variety  Hour.' 
His  programs  are  of  the  higiiest.  eleanest 
type,  and  varied  in  a  very  clever  manner. 


He  gives  everyone  absolute  credit  for  their 
achievements  and  ability.  His  quiet  charm 
and  dignity,  his  perfect  enunciation  and 
interpretations  are  something  to  remember 
and  look  forward  to  every  week." 

Leontine  Brennan,  New  Orleans,  La. 
(Stenographer-Singer.)  "I  listen  to  pro- 
grams like  'Lux  Theater'  and  'First 
Xighter'  because  they  fill  the  need  of  good, 
legitimate  drama ;  'Lucky  Strike'  orches- 
tra— it  keeps  popular  music  alive;  'Radio 
City  Music  Hall' — it  is  inspiring;  'Bowes' 
-Amateurs' — so  different;  Winchell  and 
'The  March  of  Time'  for  pep  in  the  news." 

Mildred  A.  Bradley,  Sheldonville,  Mass. 

(Art  Department  Clerk.)  "Xews  com- 
nientat'irs  keep  nic  up  to  the  minute;  waltz 
urche-ir.is  s,«_,tli  n,y  jauL^led  nerves;  'Hit 
Parade'  t.ake-  ten  \ear-  .iiY  my  aue  ;  politi- 
cal >i>eeehes  pel)  up  my  conversation; 
"March  of  Time'  gives  me  my  biggest 
thrill!  A  well-balanced  diet  for  this  busy 
business  woman.'" 

James  R.  MacArthur,  Springfield,  Mass. 
(College  Student.)  "I  particularly  enjoy 
those  programs  which  are  free  from  ver- 
bose advertising  speeches.  I  enjoy  pro- 
grams of  semi-classical  music,  and  dance 
hands  when  they  do  not  play  too-oft- 
repeated  numliers.  Programs  such  as  'The 
\"oice  of  Experience'  are  not  only  interest- 
ing, but  very  educational  as  well.  Others 
bore  me." 

Alvyn    Tweedy,    Taunton,  Mass. 

([Vriter.)    "I  prefer  'The  Widow's  Sons' 


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Stars  of  the  air  sign  a  Loyalty  Pledge  in  accordance  with  Loyalty  Days 
which  were  observed  on  October  3rd  and  4th.  They  endorsed  the  cam- 
paign to  combat  irreligion,  crime  and  other  factors  which  suggest  un- 
Americanism.  Pictured  from  left  to  right  (standing),  Phil  Duey,  Stanley 
Evans  and  Vic  Erwin.    (Seated]  Bea  Lillie,  Fannie  Brice  and  Joan  Marsh. 


and  'The  March  of  Time.'  The  former, 
that  intriguing  radio  serial  so  skillfully, 
so  philosophically  written  by  Lulu  Volmer, 
so  beautifully  acted  by  Lucille  La  Verne 
and  associates.  The  latter  program,  de- 
picting the  news  of  the  hour,  is  a  vivid 
and  honest  presentation  of  life." 

Glenna  Spraker,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa. 
(Stenographer.)  "General  Motors  Concert 
on  Sunday  evenings,  because  of  the  fine 
music  and  guest  artists.  Since  I  live  in  a 
small  town  in  Iowa,  the  opportunities  are 
rare  whereby  one  may  hear  these  artists 
unless  it  is  by  radio." 

-♦  - 

W.  McQuade,  San  Antonio,  Tex.  (News- 
paperman.) "Lll  take  the  bright  non- 
sense of  'The  Breakfast  Club'  first  thing 
in  the  morning;  'Local  Man  on  the  Street' 
programs  during  lunch ;  Louis  Prima 
wherever  I  can  find  him ;  and  Paul  Sul- 
livan to  tell  me  what  happened  while  I 
was  listening  to  the  first  two  and  won- 
dering just  where  I  could  find  Louis 
Prima." 

Melvin  Newman,  Pottstown,  Pa.  "The 
radio  program  I  most  like  to  listen  to  is 
Rudy  Vallee's  'Variety  Hour.'  The  reason 
being  that  it  ofifers  comedy,  melodrama, 
opera  and  jazz  all  combined  in  one  pro- 


gram. I  want  variety.  Rudy  Vallee's  radio 
program  has  it." 

Mrs.  Henry  C.  Lucas,  Omaha,  Neb. 
(Teacher.)  "1.  Burns  and  Allen,  because 
they  are  so  obviously  absurd  and  nonsen- 
sical ;  2.  Bing  Crosby's  'Variety  Hour,' 
because  he  combines  good  music  and  fool- 
ishness agreeably,  conducting  the  hour  in 
an  unaffected  manner ;  3.  'Ford  Symphony 
Hour,'  because  of  the  excellence  of  presen- 
tation and  interest  of  the  programs." 

Raymond  Treat,  Auburn,  N.  Y.  (Mail 
Clerk.)  "I  like  Wayne  King's  programs 
for  their  soft,  sweet  music.  I  like  the 
'National  Barn  Dance'  for  its  old-time 
music  and  'The  Hit  Parade'  for  its  swell 
rendition  of  popular  songs.  The  comedy 
of  Burns  and  Allen  and  Bunny  Berrigan's 
hot  music  appeal  to  me,  too." 

Mrs.  Nancie  S.  Brann,  Worcester,  Mass. 
(At  Home.)  "I  listen  to  good  music  be- 
cause it  gratifies  my  soul  and  educates  my 
ear ;  to  lectures  and  talks,  because  I  get 
food  for  thought  and  often  learn  things 
which  are  of  value  in  forming  opinions; 
to  the  'Cheerio'  program  because  it  helps 
to  human  sympathy." 

Mrs.  Robert  Schenkcn,  Seattle,  Wash. 
(Housewife.)    "My  favorite  programs  are 


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ih/  Standard  Symphony  Hour,  A'oicc  of 
I  insinnc'  General  Motors  Symphony  and 
1',  rd  S\mphony.  Also,  'One  Man's  Fam- 
1  like  good  music  and  think  we  dm't 
-ft  enough  of  it  on  the  radio.  Also,  1  like 
•4(.(id  'homey'  drama,  such  as  'One  Man's 
1-amiIy.'"  ^ 

Jack  E.  Fry,  Denver,  Colo.  (Insurance 
Clerk-Musician.)  "Although  I'm  not  a 
smoker,  I  enjoy  the  -Sweepstakes'  and 
o„od  nuisic  on  the  'Lucky  Strike  Hour,' 
and  find  the  whole  thing  mteroting.  Major 
Howes  amateur  hour,  hi  i  ausc  there  s  al- 
ways something  new  and  dilTcrent.  I  like 
the"  good  comeclv  of  Burns  and  Allen  and 
lack''  Benny,  also  orchestras  like  Paul 
\\hiteman,  Stearn,  Bernie,  Lomhardo, 
King,  Lewis,  etc." 

Joseph  C.  Martin,  Bismarck,  No.  Dak. 
(Salesman.)  "I  look  to  my  radio  for 
amusement,  entertainment,  music  and  in- 
formation. The  first  I  find  on  the  pro- 
Grams  of  Jack  Benny,  Fred  Allen,  Major 
T,.nves,  Rudy  \"allee  and  Ed  Wynn.  The 
second  from  'One  Man's  Family,'  'Show- 
Boat,'  'Little  Theater'  and  'Lux  Radio 
Theater.'  Wayne  King,  RubinofT,  "White- 
man,  Shandor,  Warmg  and  Bernie  furnish 
the  third  and  for  news  I  always  turn  to 
Hill,  Kennedy,  Carter,  Winchell  or 
Thomas." 

Naomi  Guy,  St.  Cloud,  Minn.  (Artist 
and  Writer.)  "News  reports  are  ahvays 
welcome  to  me.  Previews  of  coming  pic- 
tures are  entertaining  over  the  air.  Light 
r.imance  such  as  'Poor  Little  Cinderella' 
on  the  Gold  Medal  Hour,  is  entertaining 
liccause  of  good  songs  and  siiujde  plot. 
Lectures  on  art  or  any  cultural  subject  are 
always  of  interest  to  me." 

Ervant    Gabriel,    Union    City,    N.  J. 

(Businessman.)  "I  listen  to  symphonic 
music,  opera  singers  and  humorous  pro- 
grams. Why?  Because  they  give  me  the 
greatest  enjo>nient  and  satisfaction." 

Morrey  Davidson,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
(Orchestra  Salesman.)  "I  listen  preferably 
l<  dance  orchestras  of  Consolidated  Radio 
Artists,  as  they  are  uniformly  excellent, 
and  include  such  hands  as  Paul  Whiteman, 
Richard  Himber.  Barney  Rapp,  Reggie 
Childs  and  n.umerous  others." 


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lutions is  gentle  and  reliable.  It  contains  no 
harmful  free  caustic  alkali. 

2.  Effectiveness. .."Lysol"  is  a  true  gcrmi- 
cidf,  active  under  practical  conditions.,  .even 
in  the  presence  of  organic  matter  (such  as 
Jin,  mm  lis,  scrum,  etc.).  Some  other  prcpara- 
ticiis  d'ln'i  wnrk  under  these  conditions. 

,v  Pi.M  IRA  riox... "Lysol"  solutions  spread 
hecaiisi- .  .f  t  heir  V  iw  surface  tension — and  thus 


i.v 


m  the  proper  Siilutioii  for  feniiiune  h\ -iciic. 

5.  Odor. ..The  ch-aiil\'  odor  of  "Lysol"'  dis- 
appears vcr\'  soon  after  use. 

6.  St.vuim  rv... Keeps  its  full  strength,  no 
matter  how  long  kept,  or  how  often  uncorked. 
DR.  DAFOE  ON  THE  RADIO  I  •|.ysol  "  puscnts 
(he  huuous  doctor  of  the  iiuintuplcts,  in  j 
talks  ueckU',  oji  "Modern  Child  Care" — 
Mon..  Wcj;,  Fn.— C.  B.  S..  11:45  A.M. 
-K.S.T 

FACTS   ALL   WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

I.niN  &  FiNK  Products  Corp.,  Dept.  RS-IJ 

Hl.».,ni„-Ll.  N.J. 

ri.  .<  ..a  me  the  book  called  "LYSOL  vs.  GERMS", 
uiili  luis  about  feminine  hygiene  and  other  uses  of 


CoDr.  1936  by  Lehn  &  Pink  ProducU  Corp. 


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WHY  NELSON  EDDY 
CAN'T  MARRY 

(C  oiitiinird  from  page  21) 


4r  4^ 


"Just  wait  till  you 
discover  this  Oil  Rub 
used  by  almost 
all  hospitals" 

"Gosh,  how  I  used  to  be  scared  of  germs. 
But  now  .  .  what  do  you  think  .  .  .  the 
germs  are  scared  of  me!  Isn't  that  wonder- 
ful^ Well  .  .  .  it's  because  I  struck  oil. 
Yes — my  mother  now  gives  me  a  body  rub 
every  dav  with  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil;  so 
I'veal  waysgot  a  film  of  safety  over  me  that 
keeps  away  the  germs  and  stops  infection. 
The  other  day  I  heard  our  doctor  say  that 
almost  all  hospitals*  now  give  their  babies 
the  daily  protection  of  Mennen  Antiseptic 
Oil.  It  keeps  us  so  much  safer  and  health- 
ier. Gee,  I'm  glad  my  mother's  up-to-date 
and  knows  about  important  things  like 
this." 

*Kini-tinths  of  all  the  hospitals  that  are 
tm  port  ant  in  maternity  work  use  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Oil  on  their  babies,  daily.  Your 
baby  deserves  it,  too! 


OIL 


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lived  with  the  wealthy  bridge  expert  in  lier 
palatial  apartment  in  the  Quaker  Cit\'s 
swanky  Lenox.  Now,  when  her  school  is 
closed  during  the  summer,  Mrs.  Evans 
continues  to  spend  as  much  time  as  pos- 
sible with  Nelson  and  his  mother.  She 
visited  them  during  the  past  summer  at 
Nelson's  Hollywood  home. 

"Every  Sunday  night  Mrs.  Evans  used 
to  call  for  Nelson  and  drive  him  home," 
Air.  Hancock  recalled.  "He  loved  fun 
and  used  to  like  to  stay  around  after  the 
services  and  talk  with  the  other  members 
of  the  choir  and  with  me.  He  wasn't  at 
all  the  serious-minded  young  man  he's 
pictured  now  in  stories.  Of  course, 
though,  he  didn't  have  much  chance  for 
fun.  \ou  know.  With  a  serious  ambition 
to  amount  to  something  musically,  no  late 
hours,  drinking  or  smoking  are  possible. 
But  sometimes  Nelson  would  beg  me  to 
let  him  get  into  the  organ  luft — then 
he'd  pull  nut  all  the  stops  and  make  just 
as  nuu  h  nuisc  as  lie  could.  Poor  fellow- 
he  was  starved  fur  fun! 

"One  night  I  invitei 
after  rehcar.sal.  His 
kid's.  •C.ce.  1'<1  l<ivc  to.'  lie  sai.l  wistfully, 
'but  I'll  have  t„  ask  .\unt  (  artrude.'  .X].- 
parently  Mrs.  b:vans  said  nn.  Foolishly, 
I  urucd  Xelson  to  come  anyhow.  He 
looked  aw  fully  uncomfortable — but  he  went 
home. 

"Another  time  he  did  manage  to  have 
a  free  evening.  He  telephoned  Mrs. 
Evans  that  he  had  to  rehearse  some  spe- 
cial numbers  with  me.  I  got  on  the 
'phone  anfl  corr(jborated  it.  She  consent- 
ed reluctantly.  Nelson  came  to  my  house 
and  we  did  rehearse  some  numbers.  But 
niy  <laughter  had  some  young  people  in 
and  they  stayed  afterward.  Nelson  re- 
mained   until    after    midnight,  laughing. 


m  to  mv  ho 
s  lit   up  like 


dancing,    having    the    time    of    his  life. 

"All  the  girls  in  the  choir  were  simply 
starry-eyed  about  Nelson.  One  seventeen- 
year-old  in  particular  had  a  violent  crush 
on  him.  One  day  she  made  a  pencil  sketch 
of  him  and  presented  it  to  him.  Nelson 
picked  her  right  up  of?  her  feet  and  kissed 
her  in  front  of  the  whole  choir. 

"Later  I  was  teasing  him  about  the  in- 
cident. Naturally  we  got  to  talking  about 
girls.  I  asked  him  why  he  never  went 
out  with  girls  and  if  he  didn't  intend  to 
marry.  He  seemed  to  hesitate — and  then 
he  told  me  the  whole  story. 

"Mrs.  Evans — and  her  husband,  when 
he  was  alive — had  befriended  him  and  had 
given  him  his  great  opportunity,  he  said. 
They  had  freed  him  from  every  respon- 
sibility. 'I  made  an  agreement  with  Mrs. 
Evans  then  that  I  wouldn't  marry  before 
I  was  forty,'  Nelson  explained.  And  that 
was  fair  enough,  too.  Mrs.  Evans  was 
investing  a  fortune  in  the  boy — it  wouldn't 
be  right  to  pcrnnl  anything  to  interfere 
witli  his  career.  They  figured  that  by  the 
time  he  had  reached  fort>-  he  would  either 
be  an  established  success — or  else  it 
wouldn't  matter  much,  as  far  as  his  career 
was  concerned,  whether  he  married  or  not. 

"Of  course,"  Mr.  Hancock  added,  "we 
know  now  that  Nelson  wasn't  destined  to 
wait  until  he  was  forty  to  reach  the  top — 
but  he'll  keep  the  promise,  just  the  same. 
He's  that  kind  of  a  fellow.'' 

.\lthough  Mrs.  I'lvans  has  chosen  to  re- 
main in  the  background  of  Nelson  Eddy's 
meteoric  career,  she  need  not  bask  in  re- 
flected glory.  She  has  won  a  position  for 
herself  in  her  own  right.  Born  Gertrude 
Cheshire  in  Philadelphia,  she  started  to 
make  her  mark  in  the  world  at  the  tender 
age  of  five.  She  displayed  at  that  early 
age  an  uncanny  ability  at  cribbage  afid 


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\in>t.  During  her  girlhood  she  suffered 
.1  long  ilhiess,  which  gave  her  an  oppor- 
tunity to  develop  her  remarkable  abilities. 
S  lice  she  was  ten,  her  constant  companion 
li.iil  lieen  a  neighbor  boy  named  Frank 
Sinclair  Evans,  a  member  of  an  old  fam- 
il\  of  Quakers. 

When  Gertrude  was  but  fifteen  she  won 
;',  national  whist  tournament.  At  ]iiintLcn 
she  married  Evans  and  took  her  i  l  u  r 
one  of  Philadelphia  society's  nio-i  in  .  iuii- 
nent  young  hostesses.  Mr.  Evan>  became 
an  executive  of  Strawbridge  &  Clothier's 
department  store,  a  position  he  held  for 
twenty-five  years  until  liis  death.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  exclusive  Racquet 
and  other  Philadelphia  clubs.  Like  his 
wife,  he  was  intensely  interested  in  bridge. 

Philadelphians  know  and  are  proud  of 
the  Strawbridge  &  Clothier  choral  society. 
Indeed,  it  was  in  connection  with  that 
famous  musical  organization  that  the 
store's  president,  Dr.  Herbert  Til\,  was 
given  the  Bok  Award  fur  lia\ini;  con- 
tributed to  the  cit\  S  welfare.  Through 
the  activities  of  the  choral  ^<>ciet\-,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Evans  met  Dax  icl  I'.isphani,  n..te<l 
Philadelphia  musician  and  teacher.  Mr. 
Bispham  introduced  them  to  Edd\-,  and 
the  friendship  sprang  up  which  resulted 
in  the  couple's  agreeing  to  sponsor  the 
young  singer's  career.  \\'lien  Mr.  Evans 
died,  Mrs.  Evans  undcrtinik  tn  carry  on 
alone  the  work  of  aiding  in  Xel^on's  de- 
velopment. 

When  Mrs.  Evans  found  the  fortune 
her  husband  had  left  her  seriously  depleted 
in  the  fateful  year  of  '29.  she  replenished 
the  shrunken  bank  balance  by  inaugurat- 
ing her  bridge  school.  Her  years  of  emi- 
nence at  the  game,  plus  her  social  posi- 
tion in  Philadelphia,  brought  to  her  Lenox 
apartment  more  pupils  than  she  could  ac- 
cept and  from  the  ver\-  start  her  venture 
proved  a  .gi.ild  mine,  .\lthough  she  now  is 
well  able  to  afford  tlie  money  she  ad- 
vanced to  Xelsi.m,  the  singer  has  repaid 
her  in  full  for  all  the  sums  she  advancec 
him. 

Another  interesting  ^i.lclight  along  those 
lines  was  recalled  by  Mr.  Hancock. 

"There  was  snnie  difticulty  in  obtaining 
Nelson's  ser\ices  fur  uur  choir."  he  re- 
lated. "His  ciiiitract  with  his  concert 
manager  contained  a  clause  to  the  cffeci 
that  he  could  not  sing  for  less  than  three 
hundred  dollars  an  appearance.  Of  course, 
the  church  could  not  afTord  any  >uch 
sum.  The  most  we  were  able  to  pa\'  was 
fifty  dollars.  However,  Nelson  himself 
solved  the  problem. 

"After  we  had  discussed  the  prohibitive 
clause  in  the  coiUract  and  things  were 
looking  pretty  black,  he  had  an  inspira- 
tion. 'I  don't  see  why  I  can't  sing  for 
my  own  cluirch  if  1  want  to,'  he  said. 
'And  this  is  niy  church.'  So  Xelson  joined 
the  choir.  He  was  with  us  tor  four  sea- 
sons. Then,  just  before  he  left  for  Hol- 
lywood, he  came  to  tne  to  say  goodbye. 
He  handed  me  an  envelope.  'I'm  in  the 
money  now,  Irving.  1  don't  really  need 
this,'  he  said.  When  I  opened  the  en- 
velope, there  was  Nelson's  check  for 
every  cent  we'd  paid  him  for  the  four  sea- 
sons' work  1" 

He  paused  reflectively. 

"You  can  see  what  makes  me  so  sure 
he'll  never  forget  that  promise  he  made 
to  Mrs.  Evans,"  the  choirmaster  said, 
"He's  not  the  sort  that  forgets." 


MERRY  XMAS  TO  ALL 

(and  a  carton  of  Kools) 


W HERE'S  the  holiday  throat  that 
won't  enjoy  their  soothing  touch 
of  mild  menthol?  Where's  the  smoker 
of  either  sex  who  won't  relish  KQDLS 
blend  of  superior  Turkish-Domestic 
tobaccos?  Remember  that  each  pack 
not  only  carries  a  valuable  coupon. 


but  there's  two  extra  coupons  in  a 
carton !  —  a  good  start  toward  those 
attractive  B  &  W  premiums  (offer 
good  U.  S.  A.  only).  So  give  'em  all 
KCOLS  .  .  .  they'll  appreciate  'em 
most!  Brown  &  Williamson  Tobacco 
Corp.,  P.  0.  Box  599.  Louisville.  Ky. 


SAVE  COUPONS  .  .  .  MANY  HANDSOME  NEW  PREMIUMS 


pons;  4  cups— 175;  troy — 2UU;  > 

RALEIGH  CIGARETTES 


,  .1.  FREE.  Write  for  illustrotcd  28  pag<! 
(i.Mi  BS.  Wprciiiium  booklet.  No.  12 

.NOW  AT  POPUIAR  PRICES, 


Sheer  Silk  Hosien,  — lull  length.  Run 
.-top  band.  Ne 

ALSO  CARRY  B  &  W  COUPONS 

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CALLI  NG   ALL   STARS  > 


SHOULD  A  HUSBAND  BE  TEN 
YEARS  OLDER? 


[Continued  from  page  23) 


Long  a  favorite  with  rodio 
headliners,  the  Savoy-Plaza 
has  earned  this  preference 
through  its  atmosphere  of 
warm  hospitality,  its  superb 
cuisine,  and  its  cheerful  service. 
Overlooking  Central  Park,  the 
Savoy- Plaza  is  close  to  CBS 
and  NBC  studios  and  to  the 
finest  shops  and  theatres  .  .  . 
The  Cafe  Lounge  and  Snack 
Bar  at  Cocktail  Hour  and  after 
the  theatre  is  the  meeting 
place  of  smart  New  Yorkers 
and  visitors  who  come  to  dance 
and  be  amused  by  the  season's 
outstanding  entertainers... 
Rooms  at  the  Savoy-Plaza 
provide  spacious  luxury  with 
truly  home-like  comfort.  Single 
rooms  from  $6.  Double  rooms 
from  $8.  Suites  from  $12. 

WOY-PLAZA 

Henry  A.  Rost,  Managing  Director 
George  Suler,  Resident  Monoger 

FIFTH  AVENUE  •  58th  TO  59th  STS  •  NEW  YORK 


each  other." 

That  understaiiding  is  the  basic  thing 
in  the  love  between  these  two.  If  Helen 
Jepson  had  married  a  man  of  her  own 
age,  she  might  not  have  had  a  career  at 
all.  She  knows  that.  Young  men  have 
so  many  things  to  learn  and  among  them 
are  tolerance  and  wisdom.  The  unreason- 
ing jealous}'  of  \i>iitii  wnuld  have  entered 
into  their  marriage.  Vor  a  woman  sing- 
ing in  radio  or  opera  has  to  come  into 
close  contact  with  men.  And  a  jealous 
husband  would  have  been  a  serious  draw- 
back to  her  career,  a  husband  who 
wouldn't  or  couldn't  understand  that  it 
was  as  much  a  part  of  her  business  to  go 
through  love  scenes  on  the  stage  or  be- 
fore the  microphone  as  typewriting  is  a 
part  of  a  stenographer's  job. 

But  there  is  another  jealousy  that  would 
be  even  harder  on  a  woman.  Professional 
jealousy.  Many  a  marriage  has  crumbled 
into  little  pieces  because  a  husband 
couldn't  take  his  wife's  success. 

"So  much  of  the  success  that  has  come 
to  me  is  through  George's  interest  in  my 
career."  Helen  Jepson  was  looking  at  her 
husband  as  she  spoke  and  her  words  were 
thanking  him  again  as  they  have  been 
thanking  him  ever  since  they  met.  "That's 
the  grandest  thing  any  man  can  do  for 
any  woman !  It  takes  a  big  nature  to  help 
a  woman  achieve  something  on  her  own. 
Especially  since  he  has  a  career  of  his 
own.  But  there  again,  you  see,  it  was 
to  my  advantage  that  he  w-as  those  ten 
years  older,  that  his  success  was  firmly 
established  before  mine  ever  was  begun. 

"He  was  flutist  for  the  New  York 
Symphony  Orchestra  when  I  met  him 
in  Chautauqua.  I  loved  him  from  the  first 
time  I  saw  him.  From  the  first  time 
I  heard  him  play.  There  I  sat,  a  kid 
who  hadn't  had  a  chance  to  try  my 
own  wings  yet,  listening  to  George  Pos- 
sell  and  knowing  in  that  moment  what 
love  was  and  feeling  suddenly  shy. 

"We  had  mutual  friends  who  twitted 
me  about  my  interest  in  him  and  wanted 
me  to  meet  him.  But  I  couldn't.  Oh,  I 
was  really  so  silly  about  it  all,  hiding  be- 
hind trees  to  watch  him  as  he  passed  and 
going  through  my  singing  lessons  in  a 
daze  afterwards,  I,  who  always  had  put  all 
my  heart  and  brain  into  those  lessons, 
knowing  how  much  they  meant  and  how 
much  it  had  cost  mc  to  ha\e  them. 

".And  then,  at  last,  I  met  George  and 
everything  was  different.  My  whole  life 
changed — for  George  loved  me,  too.  It 
seemed  incomprehensible  to  me  and  yet 
s(]mchow  I  knew  it,  even  in  that  first  mo- 
ment of  meeting." 

It  must  have  been  then  as  it  is  now 
with  the  Pdssclls.  Tiiat  (|uickening  in 
their  eyes  when  they  l.mk  at  each  otiier, 
that  close  understanding  tliat  excludes 
everyone  else.  It  was  a  mad  courtship. 
A  sweet  courtship.  They  didn't  do  any 
of  the  things  you  might  e.xpect  musicians 
in  love  to  do.  There  was  no  going  to 
the  opera  for  them,  no  concerts. 


They  ate  good  food  and  drank  fine  wines 
and  made  love.  They  sat  on  the  tops  of 
buses  and  they  walked  in  the  park  and 
the  world  came  alive  for  them  when  they 
met  and  deadened  when  they  parted. 

For  it  was  a  courtship  made  up  of 
meetings  and  partings.  Helen  was  in 
Philadelphia  studying  at  the  Curtis  In- 
stitute and  George  was  playing  with  the 
orchestra  in  New  York.  But  whenever 
there  was  a  free  period  for  either  one 
they  sped  to  the  other  and  even  now 
timetables  and  rushijig  trains  and  rail- 
road stations  bring  back  that  old  nostalgia, 
that  <ild  joy  at  meeting,  that  old  sorrow  at 
parting. 

Even  then,  loving  her  as  he  did,  want- 
ing her  as  he  did,  George  Possell  did  not 
urge  an  immediate  marriage  as  a  younger 
man  might  have  done.  A  younger  man 
who  had  yet  to  learn  unselfishness.  This 
man,  who  had  fought  for  his  own  career, 
wanted  the  girl  he  loved  to  have  hers. 

Marrying  then,  before  she  had  accom- 
plished anything  and  while  love  filled  her 
heart  so  completely,  he  knew  that  she 
might  throw  away  everything  for  that  one 
happiness  in  being  together. 

So  they  waited  until  she  was  estab- 
lished in  her  own  right  and  all  during  that 
waiting  time  and  during  the  time  that 
came  afterwards,  too,  George  Possell  had 
given  everything  he  has,  his  experience, 
his  understanding  and  himself,  to  help 
her  build  that  amazing  career  of  hers. 

"George  was  even  a  harder  taskmaster 
to  me  than  I  have  been  to  myself,"  Helen 
Jepson  said  slowly.  "Being  the  musician 
he  is,  he  demands  perfection  and  is  not 
satisfied  with  anything  short  of  it  in  any 
sort  of  music.  And  that  goes  for  me  as 
much  as  it  does  for  any  singer  or  violin- 
ist or  pianist  he  might  be  listening  to. 

"My  only  excuse  in  having  a  profes- 
sion is  to  be  good  in  that  profession. 
Otherwise  I  should  be  at  home  living  en- 
tirely for  George  and  our  baby.  After  all, 
a  woman  with  a  career  deprives  her  hus- 
band of  so  many  thmgs  the  woman 
who  stays  at  home  can  give.  Of  compan- 
ionship available  at  all  times,  of  interest 
in  his  work  only,  and  of  all  the  other 
things  a  hometnaking  woman  gives  a  man. 

"But,  apart  from  my  work,  George 
babies  me  as  much  as  he  does  little  Sallie. 
That's  another  thing  that  comes  from  that 
dififercnce  in  years  between  us.  If  George 
had  been  my  own  age,  if  we  had  been 
struggling  for  our  careers  at  the  same 
time,  it  probably  would  have  been  I  who 
was  babying  him  and  in  so  doing  hurting 
him  immeasurably. 

"For  a  marriage  can't  go  against  the 
instinct  of  generations  and  be  a  happy  one. 
And  it's  only  in  the  last  generation  that 
women  have  so  consistently  taken  their 
places  in  a  working  world.  A  man  natu- 
rally should  be  the  stronger  one,  the  w-iser 
one,  the  one  who  gives.  The  fact  that 
George  was  older  than  I  made  it  so  in 
our  case. 

"There    have    been    so    many  things 


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George  has  taught  me.  Not  to  have  an 
inferiority  complex  was  one.  It  would 
li;ue  been  so  easy  for  me  to  dcxclop  "nc. 
When  I  was  studying  in  Phi 
had  only  the  money  I  had  savc( 
through,  money  that  i-uuldn't  stretch  any 
further  than  rdoni  niu  and  food.  There 
wasn't  any  ^u^llUl^    for  ilnthes. 

"The  chih   woiiKii   liack    hi  inie   n^cd  t(i 
-end   ,iie   !io\r~   i.i   ea-I-Mll    cl.a;ie-   that  i 
nude    ..\cr    n       nix-eli       Weannu  other 
people 
bu\    e\"en  ,■ 
rihhnn  to  1 
ai\e  an\-  u 
Please  don' 
those  rl..thL 


ne\\"i_\  -arm 
over  mv  laj) — 

-One'  ei 
Georse.  I 
dre-ses  and 
abont  the  w 
how  I  couldn't  hold  in 
ini;"    linn  a 
hand  clothes  and  then 
nation  I  liegan  to  cry 
v.as  glad  I  cried,  for 
said  all  the  sweet 
things  a  man  w 
loves  is  crxing. 

"Then  he  laughed  just  a  little  and  told 
me  how  silly  I  was  to  feel  that  way.  He 
told  me  ab(jut  women  he  had  known, 
glamorous  women  who  are  stage  and 
opera  stars  now,  who  had  gone  along  the 
same  road  I  was  going,  who  also  had 
worn  second-hand  clothes  and  been  helped 
by  other  jieople  when  they  were  young 
and  unknown.  Why.  before  he  was 
through,  I  felt  almost  sorry  for  people 
with  money  enough  to  buy  anything  they 
wanted.  He  had  made  it  seem  such  a 
badge  of  honor,  somehow.  Made  me  feel 
imixjrtant,  that  people  saw  enough  in  me 
to  want  to  help  me,  ' 

That  utter  lack  of  an  inferiority  complex 
is  Helen  Jeps.m's  greatest  charm.  It  is 
the  thing  that  makes  lier  so  warm  and 
friendly  to  everyone.  It  i>  the  thing  that 
keeps  her  from  putting  on  the  act  >o  many 
other  stars  do.  stars  who,  d 
adulation  and  success  that  has  come  to 
them,  still  are  unable  to  overcome  the 
struggle  of  their  early  years  and  to  hide 
it  assume  exaggerations  that  thwart 
their  own  indivi<lualities. 

For  Helen  Jepson  is  Helen  Jepson  to 
everyone.  To  the  doorman  at  Iter  apart- 
ment house  and  the  little  girl  she  stopped 
to  talk  to  in  the  park  that  morning  and 
to  important  radio  executives  and  to  the 
girl  who  waits  on  her  in  a  shop. 

Her  eyes  glowed  when  .Sal lie  ran  into 
the  room,  a  small  .yirl  with  lier  niotlier's 
brown  e\'es  and  flaxen  ii.air,  \i\-id  in  the 
scarlet  kimono  her  niotlier  b.ail  bronybt 
back  to  her  from  ;i  concert  lonr  .Sbe  be- 
gan to  thump  on  the  piano  and  ni  Helen  s 
eyes  was  the  saiue  maternal  indulgence 
you  might  see  in  the  eyes  of  any  mother. 

There  in  that  room  the  three  oi  them 
were  alone  in  that  little  world  lo\e  and 
happiness  had  built  for  them,  .nvl  the 
great  success  that  has  come  to  tlii-  lo\el\' 
young  woman  seemed  a  small  thing  com- 
pared to  that  k)ve. 


NOSE  PORES 


Largest  Pores  on  Your  Body  — 
A  Test  of  Your  Cleansing  Methods! 

The  pores  on  the  nose  are  the  largest  on  your  body.  For  this  reason, 
if  allowed  to  become  clogged  with  waxy  excretions,  they  will  become 
conspicuously  large  and  noticeable. 

The  pores  on  your  nose,  therefore,  are  a  good  test  of  your  skin- 
,     cleansing  methods.  If  the  pores  are  plugged  with  waste  matter 
L     and  gaping  large,  it's  a  sign  your  methods  are  insufficient. 
By  keeping  your  pores  —  and  this  includes  the  pores  of  your 
nose  —  thoroughly  clean,  you  can  keep  them  normal  in  size 
invisibly  small. 

A  Penetrating  Cream  Required 

To  get  at  the  dirt  and  waxy  matter  that  accumulates  in 
your  pores,  you  must  use  a  face  cream  that  penetrates, 
one  that  actually  works  its  way  into  the  pores.  Such 
a  cream  is  Lady  Esther  Face  Cream.  It  does  not 
merely  lie  on  the  surface  of  your  skin.  It  actually 
penetrates  the  pores,  and  does  it  in  a  gentle  and 
soothing  manner. 

Penetrating  the  pores.  Lady  Esther  Face 
Cream  goes  to  work  on  the  imbedded 
(iirt  and  wa-te  matter.  It  dissolves  it 
-  breaks  it  up  —  and  makes  it  easily 
removable.  In  a  fraction  of  the 
usual  time,  your  skin  is  thor- 
oughly clean. 
^^|_  Cleansed  perfectly,  your 

JHK  pores  can  again  function  freely 
jRjj,  ^^^I^^^P^  —  open  and  close  as  Nature  in- 
■■MH^Hr  tended.  Automatically  then,  they 

^HPWBP^^  reduce  themseh  es  to  their  normal  small 
size  anil  you  no  longer  have  anything 
like  (■o^^pi^uous  pores. 

Lubrication,  Also 

As  Lady  Esther  Face  Cream  cleanses 
the  skin,  it  nlso  lubricates  it.  It  re- 
supplies  it  with  a  fine  oil  that  over- 
comes dryness  and  keeps  the  skin 
soft  and  smooth. 

Make  a  test  on  your  face  of  Lady 
Esther  Face  Cream.  See  for  your- 
self how  thoroughly  it  cleans  out 
the  pores.  Mark  how  quickly 
your  pores  come  down  in  size 
when  relieved  of  their  choking 
Imrdeu.  Note  the  new  life  and 
smoothness  your  skin  takes  on. 
One  test  will  tell  you  volumes. 

See  For  Yourself  I 

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Obviously,  such  exciting  loveliness  requires  an  en- 
tirely new  kind  of  mascara;  one  that  darkens  lashes 
V.  ithout  shouting  "mascara";  one  that  does  not  brand 
i;s  user  as  artificial,  "theatrical"  or  "bold." 

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KEEP  YOUNG  AND  BEAUTIFUL 


t  oiiliintcd  froiii  pa.jc  11  ) 


similar  tn  i1k-sc  :  '  .Mar\ — blue  cvcnnm- 
.^nwii  :  'Alice — wants  ei^umh  colomie  td 
take  a  tub  in:  Icnce — admired  niv  Ijlaek 
and  iiokl  cnmiiact  :  laiiice — that  tlii\ver\- 
perliime  I  ^nt  last  \ear.  ol  which 

will  mean  that  ]\Iar\-  will  i;et  a  hhie  or 
silver  exenins  bag  or  case;  Alice  will  uet  a 
mant-sized  bottle  of  cologne  (1  know  ul  a 
ir.ammoth-sized  bottle  ot  spirited  cokigne 
tor  a  ver\'  moderate  sum)  ;  Joyce  will  get 
a  duplicate  lilack  and  sjold  compact  (mono- 
grammetl  with  her  initials.  probabU',  to  in- 
dividualize the  gitt);  and  laiiice  will  uet 
the  verv  pertiime  that  flatters  her  per- 
sonalit)-.  Keep  a  notebook  ot  clues  to  your 
friends'  color  choices,  preferences  and 
wishes  and  Christmas  shopping  will  be  as 
easy  a  problem  to  solve  as  a  detective  case 
to  Sherlock  Holmes. 

"I  love  luxury  gifts,"  emphasized  Miss 
Jepson.  "Oh,  by  luxury  gilts  1  don't  mean 
expensive  gifts,"  she  ad<led  hastily,  pr<ib- 
ably  catching  the  thrifty  gleaiit  in  m\'  eye 
(which  also  represented  an  e\e  to  >'our 
budgets,  too).  "I  mean,  just  buxing  things 
that  people  wouldn't  be  likely  to  buy  for 
themselves." 

I  was  reminded  of  the  remark  of  one  of 
my  friends,  who  had  said  to  me  in  the 
midst  of  her  dressing-table  rites :  "You 
know,  Mary,  when  my  ship  comes  in,  I  am 
going  to  buy  the  largest-sized  jar  of  this 
cream  that  I  can  find ;  then  I  can  be  ex- 
travagant with  it.  Honestly,  it's  so  lus- 
cious, I  could  almost  eat  it!"  Maybe  it  is 
cologne,  or  bath  oil,  or  something  else  that 
spells  "luxury"  to  your  particular  friends — 
luxury  in  the  sense  that  they  wouldn't  buy 
those  things  for  themselves,  but  would 
revel  in  having  them,  in  gener<_ius  Christ- 
mas gift  sizes. 

"1m )r  a  woman,"  said  Miss  Jepson,  "I 
think  that  an  evening  compact  is  one  of 
the  nicest  possible  gifts.  I  prefer  \ery 
complete  ones — sort  of  combination  coin- 
pacts  and  evening  bags.  If  not  this,  per- 
haps a  case  with  a  compact,  lipstick,  and 
mirror.  Bulky,  separate  pieces  arc  all 
right  for  da\timc,  but  at  iii,i;lit  I  think 
that  the  less  space  evening  iicic'^s, ,ries  take 
up  the  Ix-tter." 

Miss  Jepson  has  evening  t;]anionr  down 
to  a  science.  As  anticipator\  bints  lor 
your  next  parf\',  1  tliouglit  \oii  would  be 
interested  to  know  that  the  sophisticated 
prima  donna  finds  a  liipiid  ])i.wder  fMiiiida- 
tion  particularl\  desirable  \>>r  lasting 
makeup;  and  she  likes  ;i  s])icial  whitening 
])ieparalion  for  the  neck  and  .irnis.  The 
latter  preparation  is  i.;irticiil.-n  ly  popular 
ill  lI(,llywoo<l,  wliere  -Mi^s  |rps,,n  will  un- 
dcjubtedly  be  whisked  awa\  ><\v  of  these 
da\ s.  The  cinema  cit\  has  ](]iig  been  mak- 
ing o\'ertiires  to  her. 

Im.iginalioii  is  an  intriguing  part  of  La 
Jei)son\  gl;im</ur.  "I  adore  to  select  per- 
fume for  my  friends,"  she  said  enthiisias- 
ticallv.    "It's  such  fun  selecliiig  fi  ;mr,iiK<'s 


that 


stilt 


arious  persi 


I'ei 


seem  so  Christmas-like,  loo,  and  tliis 
they  are  more  beatiti  fully  jiackaged 
ever.  P.ickagiiig  is  a  fetish  of  mine, 
afraid.  1  lovr  doing  up  gifts  — it's  so 
like    setting    the    stage    for  them." 


wa\ed  her  hand  at  the  package  that  stocid 
on  the  table.  "I  make  a  regular  cerernon\' 
of  wrapping  each  gift.  You  would  think 
that  I  was  wrapping  up  a  Sho'M  Boat 
broadcast  with  each  one,"  she  added, 
laughing  merrih-. 

Aliss  Jepson  reall}  gave  me  the  idea  of 
including  a  list  of  perfumes  in  my  Christ- 
mas letter  to  you,  through  her  discussion 
of  selecting  fragrances  to  suit  personalities. 
I  ha\e  made  a  little  list  of  some  of  my 
perfume  favorites  for  }-ou,  each  perfume 
with  an  imaginative  tag-line  after  it,  de- 
scriliing  the  personality-t\ pc  of  perfume  I 
think  it  is.  Drop  me  a  line  and  I  shall  be 
happy  to  send  it  to  you. 

"I'm  an  atomizer  addict,"  confided  Miss 
Jepson.  "I  use  atomizers  for  perfume,  bril- 
liantine,  cologne  and  astringents." 

.Some  day,  when  you're  very  fatigued, 
try  Miss  Jepson's  way  of  applying  cologne, 
l-'irst,  put  the  cologne  in  the  refrigerator 
to  ha\e  it  ice-cold;  then  spray  on  the  fra- 
^;rant  refreshment  in  cool  blasts  from  the 
atomizer,  concentrating  on  the  back  of 
your  tired  neck. 

Give  your  throat,  especially  if  it's  in- 
clined to  be  flabby  around  the  chin-line,  a 
thorough  spraying  with  an  astringent,  as 
part  of  your  nightly  routine;  then  slap 
vigorously,  especiall\'  under  your  chin,  with 
the  back  of  your  hand.  If  \ ou  are  on  a 
reducing  regime,  you  will  need  plenty  of 
astringents  to  tone  up  the  flesh  that  will 
get  flabby  if  you  let  it  and  there  is  no 
better  way  of  doing  an  efficient  job  of  as- 
tringent application  than  with  an  atomizer. 
And  it's  so  much  easier ! 

Miss  Jepson's  figure  is  so  superb  as  to 
make  all  of  us  green  with  envy,  even 
th(jugh  it  be  the  season  of  good-will  and 
generosity.  We  had  better  make  war  on 
our  own  indulgent  instinct,  however,  now 
that  Thanksgiving  and  Christmas  confront 
us.  Oh,  I'm  not  going  to  be  so  mean  as  to 
suggest  that  3'ou  cut  down  on  turkey  or 
_\ijur  favorite  dressing  on  the  feast  days, 
but  I  am  .going  to  suggest  that,  as  Miss 
Jepson  phrases  it:  "If  you  err  toda\-,  do 
penance  tomorrow."  One  <jr  two  days  out 
of  the  holiday  week  or  weeks,  }ou  can  de- 
vote yourself  to  a  regular  orange  juice 
"bat."  Cut  out  all  solid  food,  and  drink 
ii<]thiiig  but  orange  juice  (and  water,  of 
course)  all  da\-  long.  About  a  dozen 
oranges  a  day  will  sustain  \ou  and,  in 
fact,  will  i)ro\  ide  you  with  around  twelve 
hundred  calories,  the  minimum  number 
of  calories  that  is  considered  safe  for 
dieting.  Rememlier,  I'm  not  suggesting  any 
siicli  diet  for  niorr  th;in  one  im"  two  days 
at  the  most:  a  one  food  dirt  for  a  longer 
period  of  lime  tlian  tlial  is  foolh;irdy,  and 
certainly  ncjt  coiiducixe  to  healthful  reduc- 
ing. (I  have  a  safe,  well  balanced  reduc- 
ing diet  for  you  tliat  averages  around  1200 
calories  a  da\,  if  .\'ou  want  to  go  in  for 
a  regular,  daily  reducing  regime.)  Per- 
b.ips  \ou  had  better  iiut  a  crate  of  fancy 
or.-niges  on  _\onr  Clirislni.is  list.  A  basket 
of  iniit  always  makes  a  desirable  gift, 
whether  it  be  for  Christmas  or  for  "Bon 
\'(>yage"  on  the  Sbim<  limit. 

Now   that   we   are   on   the   subject  of 


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fruit,  a  very  smart  luxury  gift  for  your- 
self or  for  any  other  woman  is  a  "straw- 
berr_\-  cocktail"  cream.  You  can  get  it  in  a 
special  gift  set  that  comes  in  a  beautiful 
bo.x,  along  with  cleansing  tissues  and  a 
special  strawberr>  lotion.  The  strawberry 
cream  coinc^  in  a  new  kind  of  air-tight  jar 
that  is  rcall\  liulit  as  a  feather.  And  you 
feel  so  refreshed  and  rejuvenated  when 
you  use  this  fragrant  strawberry  stimulat- 
ing cream  that  you  could  almost  spront 
wings  yourself. 

Another  smart  complexion  gift  is  a  spe- 
cial treatment  kit  that  comes  in  a  silver 
covered  box  and  is  packed  witli  the  >pe- 
cific  items  recommended  for  the  care  of 
dry  or  oily  skin.  The  clr\  skin  treatnienl 
kit  contains  a  tissue  en  am,  skin  tnnic.  cold 
cream  soap  and  s]i,  cial  beani  v  ci  eani ;  the 
oily  skin  treatment  kit  contains  a  night 
cream,  liquefying  cream,  skin  tonic  and 
cold  cream  soap.  The  price  puts  it  wel 
within  the  reach  of  all  of  us  who  want  to 
do  over  our  skins,  as  well  as  our  present 
figures. 

For  the  problem  fr 
live    Muite    a  .listamx 


.■nds 


w  ho 


pn 


Miss  Jepson  sug- 
ue  tjift  such  as 
\  of  soap  (those 
e. )  ;i  Ljucst  room 
ele.ansiuLf  tissues 
l)id  an\  woman 


jot  down  m  a  n.  .1 .1  lo,  il. 
gcsts  ,-1  sale,  consci-\, 
bath  powder:  a  ■j.\ti  1 
with  niono.grams  are  u 
cosmetic  set,  or  a  set  1 
and  fluffy  powder  puff: 
ever  have  too  many  cleansing  tissues, 
fresh  immaculate  powder  pufts  or  too  much 
scented  so.ap? 

Bet'oie  we  leave  our  helpfid  gift  host- 
ess, oi  eomsc  you  want  to  know  how  Miss 
Jepson  takes  care  of  her  glorious  ])latinum 
hair.  I  asked  her  if  she  would  give  me 
her  recipe  for  keeping  her  hair  so  soft 
and  silky  and  she  said  that  her  onl\  recipe 
consists  in  plenty  of  brushing,  doing  her 
own  shampooing  and  using  a  sjjccial  rinse 
which  dissolves  all  the  soap  residue  left 
in  the  hair.  .She  gives  the  rinse  a  lot  of 
the  credit  for  keei)ing  her  hair  in  such  soft, 
lustrous  condition.  (If  you  want  the 
name,  juvt  write  me. ) 

The  gift  that  I  would  like  to  wrap  up 
for  you — all  of  you— is  a  very  happy  holi- 
day season,  from  Thanksgi\ int;  right  up 
through  New  Year's,  with  a  lot  of  grand 
excursions  on  NBC's  Shmc  Boat.  I  ca.i't 
do  that,  but  I  have  wrapped  up  a  lot  of 
helpful  suggestions  in  my  holiday  bidletin. 
which  is  yours  for  the  clipping;  of  the  cou- 
pon, and  a  stamped  addressed  envelopi-. 
Send  for  it  today. 


Mary  Biddle, 

RADIO  STARS, 

149  Madison  Avenue, 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please    send    me  _\ 

im-  bulletin, 

"Going  Beauty  .'-^hojipin 

(P.S,— I  would  like 

\our  Reduc- 

ing  Diet,  too  □.) 

•Address  

Kiiullv    t-nclfisc    .st;iini.c<l    ;i.|'lr,ssc,I  c„- 
vcl..,,r. 

Do  you  take  hearts 

by  storm? 


WHAT  IS  BEAUTY  FOR  — 
if  not  to  set  masculine  hearts 
athrob  — if  not  to  bring  the  thrill 
of  conquests  — if  not  to  sing  little 
songs  of  happiness  in  your  heart 
when  he  admires?  Make-up's  so 
important— especially  your  rouge! 

There's  nothing  beautiful  about 
rouge  that  looks  painted,  that  outlines 
itself  as  a  splotch.  But  Princess  Pat 
rouge — duo-tone— X\\,  there  is  beauty! 


All  over  the  world  smartly-groomed 
women  say  Princoss  Pat  rouge  is  their 
favorite.  Let's  discover  it,s  jsocret  of 
utterly  natural  color.  Your  roujio — unless 
it  is  Princess  Pat — most  likely  is  one  flat 
tone.  But  Princess  Pat  rouge  is  duo-tone. 

There's  an  undertone  thtit  blends 
with  an  overtone,  to  change  iiuigically 
on  j'our  skin.  It  becomes  richly  beauti- 
ful, vital,  real — -no  outline.  The  almost 
incredible,  astounding  effect  is  that 
of  color  coming  from  within  the  skin, 
just  like  a  natural  blush.  Y'ou'U  be  a 
glamorous  person  with  Princess  Pat 
rouge— irresistible.  Try  it— and  see. 

PRINCESS  PAT 
ROUGE 

RADIO — "A  Tale  of  Todnu"  icith  Joan  Blaine  and 
Ilarvcu  flnj/x,  Sunday  afternoons  \HC    lied  .\etwork. 


The  popular  Princess  Pat  rouge,  powder  and  lip  rouge,  easily  two  weeks' 
supply,  in  a  novel,  attractive  Collegian  Kit  —  for  thi.s  coupon  an<l  lOe  coin. 
PRINCESS  PAT,   Dept.  62-C,     2709  South  Wells  Street,  Chicago. 
Enclosed  find  10c  for  which  send  me  the  Princess  Pat  Collegian  Make-up  Set. 

NAME 

CITY  STATE   

In  Canada,  address  Gordon  Gordon  Ltd.,  489  King  St.,  W.,  Toronto. 


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easy  to  do.  •  Fondant  madcAvithout  cooking! 
•  And  what  cookies!  •  Many  so  easy  a  small 
girl  can  make  them! 

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Ave.,  New  York,  for  FREE  recipe  book,  just  off  the  press. 


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KATE  SMITH'S  OWN 
COOKING  SCHOOL 

{Continued  from  page  13) 


replied,  pleased  as  punch :  "If  that's  the 
case,  I'm  the  gal  who'll  give  them  more!  ' 

.\nd  so  I  will,  too — more  and  still  more 
until  you  cry,  "Enough!"  But  don't  let 
that  be  too  soon,  for  I  know  a  lot  of 
grand  dishes  that  I  want  to  tell  you  about. 
I'm  going  to  take  them  right  out  of  my 
own  recipe  tiles  and  I  promise  to  give 
you  only  the  tilings  I've  tried  myself.  So 
that  when  I  tell  you  they're  good,  I'll  knoiv 
they're  good  and  won't  just  be  guessing. 

I'm  going  to  tell  you  how  to  prepare 
some  of  the  desserts  for  which  my  dear 
Grandmother  is  so  well  known — and  which 
she's  taught  us  all  to  make.  I'm  go- 
ing to  choose  for  you  soine  of  the  most 
famous  dishes  of  that  master  cook  and 
caterer,  George  Rector,  which  he  hiinself 
told  me  about  so  that  I,  too,  can  inake  them 
now  in  a  manner  to  do  him  credit.  I'm  go- 
ing to  give,  to  those  who  want  them,  the 
cookie  recipes  that  I've  persuaded  my  cook 
to  part  with — reluctant  though  she  was 
to  share  her  secrets  with  anyone ! 

And  those  are  just  a  few  of  the  food 
treats  of  every  sort  and  description  that  I 
have  in  store  for  you — for  there  are  count- 
less others  which  have  been  sent  to  me  by 
radio  listeners  who  know  of  my  genuine 
interest  in  new  foods  and  flavors.  So 
stick  along  friends,  for  not  only  can  I 
promise  you  these  recipes  (which  Nancy 
Wood ,  the  Radio  Hostess,  is  going  to 
check  over  with  me)  but,  what's  more,  the 
Editor  of  Radio  Stars  Mag.\zine  assures 
me  that  each  month  my  recipes  will  reach 
you  in  an  attractive  little  leaflet,  with  my 
face  smiling  at  you  from  the  cover  I  And 
all  you  have  to  do  to  get  a  copy,  is  to 
send  in  the  coupon  that  appears  at  the  end 
of  this  article,  right  after  I  "sign  ofif."  Im- 
agine that !  So,  Andre  Barouche,  how 
about  announcing  it:  "Kate  Smith,  Chef 
and  Direetor  de  Cuisine,  presents — HER 
RECIPES!" 

With  these  little  formalities  over,  let's 
begin.  It  is  my  great  pleasure  to  start 
right  off  with  Thanksgiving.  Now  there's 
a  meal  to  talk  aliout  in  the  most  glowing 
terms !  Who  is  there  who  doesn't  get 
hungry  just  thinking  about  the  "groaning 
board,"  the  crisp  brown  turkey,  the  moun- 
tains of  mashed  potatoes,  the  .giblct  gravy, 
tlic  vc.m-tablcs,  the  trimtninus  and  linally 
the  pun'kin  pic?  And  it's  al\\a\s  been  and 
always  will  be  pun'kin  and  not  pumpkin 
pie  to  me.  (Why,  I'm  getting  positively 
poetic  at  the  very  thought ! ) 

Here  then  is  the  complete  menu  for  the 
Thanksgiving  dinner  we  will  enjoy  this 
\i-ar.  And  when  I  say  "enjoy"  I'm  init- 
tnig  it  mildly,  f(jr  I'm  planning  tn  go  back 
home,  to  Virginia,  right  after  my  regular 
Thursday  evening  broadcast,  to  be  with 
my  family  fnr  the  traditional  holiday 
feast.  And  allliough  our  dinner  won't  be 
served  until  I'Viday,  you  can  just  picture 
the  smiling  faces  of  seven  happy  people 
sitting  down  to  enjoy  the  following  boun- 
teous meal — their  appetites  and  anticipa- 
tion all  the  greater  because  of  the  neces- 
sary postponement. 


My  Thanksgiving  Dinner  Menu 
Tomato  Juice 
Crisp  Cheese  Crackers 
Cranberry  Jelly  Olives  and  Celery 

Roast  Turkey,  Giblet  Gravy 
Bread  Stuffing 
Mashed  Potatoes       Candied  Yams 
Mashed  Turnips       ■  Broccoli,  Mousseline 
Chiffonade  Salad 
Grandmother's  Pumpkin  Pie 
Sharp  Cheese  Mints 
Coffee 

This  will  all  be  served  "Family  Style." 
That  is,  the  tomato  juice  and  crackers  will 
be  at  our  places  when  we  come  in  and 
there  will  also  be,  on  the  candle-lighted 
table,  nuts  and  mints,  plenty  of  celery  and 
olives  and  two  glass  dishes  of  cranberry 
jelly. 

The  turkey  will  be  carved  at  the  table, 
of  course.  Who'd  have  it  any  other  way? 
We  always  rub  the  entire  surface  of  the 
turkey  generously  with  butter,  so  that  the 
skin  is  brown  and  crisp  and  shiny.  But  we 
dust  only  the  pan  with  flour — and  not  the 
bird  itself.  Then,  with  the  browned  flour 
in  the  roaster  and  with  the  turkey  giblets, 
cooked  and  minced  very  tine,  we  make  a 
copious  quantity  of  grav\-.  I  even  use  a 
little — a  very  little — onion  in  the  gravy 
when  I  make  it,  but  some  folks  prefer  it 
without. 

The  turkey  stuffing  I  favor  is  quite  moist, 
so  those  of  you  who  like  a  very  dry  dress- 
ing may  not  care  for  my  way  of  making  it. 
However  I  do  wish  you'd  try  my  directions 
just  once.  It's  one  of  the  recipes  I'm  giving 
you  in  that  free  recipe  leaflet  that  I  was 
telling  you  about.  Another  card  will  tell 
you  how  I  fix  candied  yams  (or  sweet 
potatoes)  so  that,  when  they  come  to 
the  table  in  one  of  our  large  Pyrex  bak- 
ing dishes,  they  are  brown  and  glazed 
and  tempting  beyond  words.  As  for  the 
mashed  potatoes,  on  my  menu,  you  can 
omit  those,  of  course — although  personally 
I  can't  imagine  having  giblet  gravy  and 
no  mashed  potatoes  to  go  with  it !  When  I 
make  mashed  potatoes  I  drain  the  cooked 
potatoes  well  and  tlien  go  to  work.  I  beat 
'em  and  I  beat  'eni.  adding  rich  milk  and 
lots  of  butter.  But  if  you're  not  the  ener- 
getic type  you  can  simplify  the  job  and 
lessen  the  labor  involved  by  first  putting 
the  potatoes  tliroutili  a  sieve  or  ricer. 

It  isn't  ni.ce-^aiy  tn  sa.\-  anxthing  much 
about  the  turnii>s  except  tliat  they  also 
need  plenty  of  butter — and  don't  forget  to 
season  them  well,  too.  But  I  do  want  to 
take  a  second  to  tell  you  that  the  Mous- 
seline Sauce  that  I  suggest  serving  over 
the  Broccoli  is  easier  than  Hollandaise, 
goes  farther  and  is  every  bit  as  good.  That 
recipe  is  in  the  leaflet,  too ;  and  so  are  my 
directions  for  making  Chiffonade  Salad, 
with  which  I  serve  a  special  dressing  and 
in  which  the  cucumbers,  generally  included 
in  this  salad,  are  conspicuous  by  their  ab- 
sence. (I  simply  can't  eat  cucumbers.  I 
like  them — but  they  don't  like  me!) 

I'm  going  to  give  you  my  favorite  Cran- 


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berry  Jelly  recipe  right  here,  too,  because 
there  is  no  reason  why  you  shouldn't  be 
making  up  a  generous  supply  right  now. 
I  suggest  storing  it  in  the  longest,  thin- 
nest jars  you  have  so  that  you  can  slice 
it  across  into  thin  rounds  and  then  cut 
these  rounds  into  fancy  shapes  with  regu- 
lar cooky  cutters.  The  kids  will  love  them 
— and  it's  really  no  bother  at  all. 

PLAIN  CRAXBERRY  JELLY 
4  cups  cranberries 
2  cups  boiling  ivatcr 
2  cups  sugar 

Wash  cranberries  in  several  waters  and 
pick  over  carefully.  Place  in  a  saucepan 
with  boiling  wcter.  Boil  twenty  minutes. 
Press  through  a  sieve.  Add  sugar  and 
cook  five  minutes  longer.  Turn  into  jelly 
glasses  or  fancy  molds. 

That  about  brings  us  to  the  dessert 
course,  doesn't  it?  And  for  that  I  can't 
imagine  serving  anything  but  a  golden 
brown,  spicy  pun'kin  pic.  "Tlieni  as  wants 
them"  can  have  tluir  mince  pies  or  hot 
puddings.  But  not  ior  our  family,  no  in- 
deed !  Because  every  year,  without  fail,  we 
serve  a  special  pun'kin  pie  made  according 
to  Grandmother's  recipe.  And  every  year, 
with  equal  regularity,  wc  declare  singly 
and  in  chorus  that  it  can't  be  beat  I  Would 
j-ou  like  to  try  it?  Well,  the  recipe  is  in 
my  Thanksgiving  Dinner  leaflet  and  in- 
cludes directions  for  the  crust  and  also 
the  filling. 

This  pie  is  not  complete  unless  served 
with  wedges  of  sharp  store  cheese.  And 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN 
COOKING  SCHOOL 

will  be  a  regular  monthly  feature 

in  RADIO  STARS  MAGAZINE 
Read  it  and  give  yourself  a  treat! 


at  just  about  the  same  time  that  the  pie 
makes  its  appearance  I  want  a  big  cup  of 
steaming  hot  cofTee.  Now  wouldn't  you 
just  know  I'd  say  that,  folks?  But  honest. 
I  mean  it.  You  can  be  stylish  if  you  want 
and  have  a  demi-tasse  served  a  tier  dinner 
in  the  living-room.  But  in  my  famil\.  pie 
without  coffee  would  be  like  Hollywood 
without  the  movies  ! 

So  there  you  have  my  idea  of  a  good 
Thanksgiving  dinner.  \'n\v  all  _\  (  m  need  are 
m\-  recipes,  which  I'm  told  will  be  printed 
up  and  all  ready  to  go  out  to  you  as  soon 
as  you  send  in  for  them. 

But  before  I  leave  I  want  to  describe 
to  you  a  new  idea  for  a  grand  Thanksgiv- 
ing table  decoration,  which  I'm  g.ung  to 
fix  up  myself,  this  year.  (  The  Editor  tells 
iiie  that  he'll  tr\  to  get  a  picture,  too.  so 
that  you  can  also  sec  just  ti/u;/  /  mean.) 
Well,  I'm  going  to  hollow  out  a  big  pump- 


kin and  put  it  in  the  middle  of  our  dining- 
room  table,  with  small  branches  of  bright 
autumn  leaves  under  and  around  it.  Then 
I'm  going  to  fill  that  pumpkin  to  over- 
flowing with  fruits — big  grapes  and  purple 
plums,  oranges,  pears  and  shiny  red  apples. 
.\nd  I'm  going  to  place  lots  of  those  long 
Rainbow  I'apers  Ijetween  the  pieces  of  fruit. 
The  candles  will  be  lighted,  just  before  we 
come  in.  and  will  shine  down  on  the  color- 
ful leaves  and  fruit.  Say,  folks,  I'll  bet 
that's  going  to  be  stunning,  don't  you? 

So  now  you  have  my  entire  "Thanksgiv- 
ing Dinner  Program" — and  a  promise  of 
the  recipes  for  those  of  jou  who  would 
like  to  have  them.  This  is  Kate  Smith, 
signing  ofT.  until  next  Thursday  night  on 
the  air  and  next  month  in  my  Cooking 
School. 


KATE  SMITH 

c/o  RADIO  STARS 

149  Madison  Ave., 

Magazine 
New  York, 

N.  Y. 

Please   send  me  \ 
recipes — at  absolut 

our    Than  I 
ely  no  cost 

sgizing 
to  me. 

X'ame   

Street  

City 

.  State 

Afraid  fj^^qf  dyeing? 


NEW  COLOR -"NEW"  DRESS 

Only  you  and  Rit  will  know 
it  s  an  old  dre^s — your  mirror 
will  say  it  s  lovtly  todayl 


FADED  LINGERIE  SPARKLES 

Tint  underthings  quickly  and 
beautifully,  with  Ri(  colors  that 
resist  washins! 

FRESH  TONES  FOR  HOSIERY 

Save  odd  stockings-  by 
raaichins  their  color  with 
.  or  revive  faded  hose 
ith  new  shades. 


'mm:  - 


GLOWING  TABLE  LINEN 

Rit  makes  luncheon  and 
bridge  linens  so  gay  and 
festive.  You  can  chu'ise 
them  at  will. 


TO  FRESHEN  CURTAINS 

French  Ecru  Rit  gives 
the  sunniest  color  that  never 
seems  to  wash  out!  Not  a  "sur- 
face color"  that  has  to  be  re- 
newed each  timel 


SMARTLY  COLORED  BED  LINEN 

Spreads,  sheets  and  pil- 
/ 1  low  cases  can  have  the 
'  '     loveliest  shades 

still  launderbeautifull 


...Just  try  RIT! 

•  Rit  has  changed  home  dyeing  unbelievably!  A  patented 
penetrating  agent  in  Rit  (Joutici  in  no  other  tint  or  dye)  causes  the 
color  to  set  evenly,  quickly,  through-and-through  every  thread- 
without  fear  of  streaks  and  spots.  Amazingly  different  from  the 
muss,  the  dreariness  and  the  uncertainty  of  old-fashioned  dyeing. 

Rit's  cost  is  a  matter  of  pennies— its  value  means  many  dollars 
to  you.  Just  be  sure  you  get  Rit — and  not  an  ordinary  tint  or  dye. 


oh  es  instantly!  Rit  is  a  powder  wafer — easier  to  measure, 
sift  out  of  the  package  like  loose  powder  dyes.  Not  a  soap! 


•  A  single  drop  of  any  ordinary 
dye,  on  dry  material,  can  t  get  past 
the  oil-coated  fibres — remains  a 
drop  on  the  surface  like  a  dew- 
drop  on  a  leaf — requires  boiling 
to  make  it  penetrate  the  fabric. 


•  Rit  (which  contains  a  patented  penetrat- 
ing ingredient)  soaks  in  as  soon  as  it  hits 
the  fabric  like  a  drop  of  ink  on  blotting 
paper.  Rit  is  the  only  household  dye  with 
this  feature!  It  does  not  require  boiling  to 
make  it  penetrate. 


RIT 


TINTS  &  DYES 


ALSO  WHITE  RIT  COLOR  REMOVER 

The  «afe.  sure  way  to  take  OUT  color,  removi 
really  whitea  white  coods. . .  harmless  as  bollln 


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RADIO  STARS 


FATE  CAN  BE  CRUEL 


,/  fr 


/-<;.(/<■  39) 


Most  people  would  rarely  have  to  re- 
sort to  harsh  purges  if  they  kept  tabs 
on  Nature. 

Usually  a  mild  laxative  like  Olive 
Tablets  is  all  one  needs  to  assist  Na- 
ture on  the  second  day. 

Once  the  exclusive  prescription  of  a 
practicing  physician,  Olive  Tablets 
are  now  an  established  proprietary, 
welcomed  by  millions  because  they 
are  so  easy  to  take  and  so  mild. 

It  is  simple  to  keep  tabs  on  yourself. 
Always  have  Olive  Tablets  on  your 
bathroom  shelf  as  a  reminder  on  the 
second  day.  Three  sizes,  1 5 p,  30ff,  60^. 
All  druggists. 


THE  LAXATIVE 
OP  BEAUnrUL  WOMEN 


Lovely  blonde  Helen  Jepson,  Show 
Boat  prima  donna  and  opera  star. 
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are  still  with  him  today. 

They  decided  to  launch  the  band  at  a 
dance.  But  the  campus  then  was  flooded 
with  orchestras  giving  dances  and  they 
knew  another  ordinary  dance  wouldn't 
draw  flies. 

So  Heidt  hit  on  a  novel  promotion 
scheme.  He  had  posters  tacked  about  the 
campus,  high  up  on  trees,  on  telegraph 
poles.  Under  each  jMster  he  stationed  a 
member  of  the  band  with  folded  arms. 
Whenever  anyone  approached,  the  band 
member,  without  saying  a  word,  would 
raise  one  hand,  pointing  to  the  poster. 

Soon  it  was  the  talk  of  the  campus  and 
on  the  night  of  the  dance,  they  played  to 
a  turn-away  crowd. 

That  was  the  beginning  of  Horace  Heidt 
and  his  Californians.  They  soon  had  all 
the  dance  engagements  tliey  could  fill.  But 
Heidt  saw  that  the  possibilities  for  a  dance 
band  were  limited,  so  he  began  to  train 
them  into  a  stage  band.  Every  member 
had  to  master  several  instruments,  to  sing, 
to  do  a  specialty,  a  comedy  bit,  a  trick 
song  number,  or  instrumental  number. 

Before  long  they  began  to  get  bookings 
and  pretty  soon  they  were  appearing  reg- 
ularly on  the  western  circuits. 

But  in  order  to  be  really  on  top,  a 
band  had  to  have  that  eastern  reputation. 
So  Heidt  set  to  work  to  get  New  York 
bookings. 

At  last  he  arranged  for  a  week  at  the 
Palace.  He  hadn't  expected  that !  What 
a  build-up  he  gave  the  boys ! 

Then,  when  they  arrived,  they  found 
they  were  set  in  that  dread  spot  ne.xt  to 
closing.  At  last  the  moment  came  for 
which  they  had  waited  so  long.  When 
the  band  came  on  it  was  just  like  a  signal 
for  the  audience  to  walk.  The  house  was 
clearing  fast  and  there  didn't  seem  any- 
thing they  could  do  to  stop  it.  But  the 
faster  people  walked,  the  harder  the  boys 
tried. 

Finally  the  boys  stood  up  to  sing  a  nov- 
elty number,  in  hopes  of  holding  the 
crowd.  They  did  it  with  gestures,  putting 
everything  they  had  into  it.  In  fact  they 
put  so  much  into  it,  that  the  whole  last 
row  fell  over  backwards  with  a  resounding 
crash. 

Tliat  acci<lcnt  turned  the  tide.  People 
who  were  already  in  the  aisles  lingered  to 
see  what  was  happening.  When  tlie  Ijoys 
in  the  back  row  g(jt  up  an<l  went  right  on 
with  the  act,  the  audience  appreciated  their 
gameness,  anyway,  and  l)cgan  td  applaud. 

They  closed  with  a  whirlwind  finish 
that  took  away  that  lu-arlsick  feeling  thc\' 
had  had  at  the  opening  and  gave  them 
courage  to  go  on. 

For  a  while  after  that  the  band  did  all 
right.  They  were  booked  into  the  best 
places.  They  t(jured  luin)])e.  where  one 
night  they  nearly  foun<l  themselves  the 
-ulijcct  f)f  an  international  incident. 

They  were  playing  on  tlie  Ri\iera,  when 
one  of  the  diners  threw  a  hard  roll  at  the 
tul)a  jjlayer.  It  bounced  off  and  hit  the 
King  of  Denmark. 

Inmiediately  the  iilace  s\v;irnied  with 
gendarmes.  The  entire  aggregation  wound 
up  the  night  in  the  lux^segow,  suspected 


of  a  dire  plot  to  assassinate  the  King  with 
a  hard  roll ! 

They  returned  to  this  country  to  find 
A^audeville  practically  finished,  as  a  result 
of  the  coming  talking  pictures. 

It  seemed  that  the\-  barely  had  reached 
their  goal  when  it  disappeared,  all  the 
work,  the  preparation,  the  long  hours  of 
rehearsal,  of  singing  lessons,  of  instru- 
mental study,  all  gone  for  nothing.  Forces 
they  could  not  possibly  have  foreseen  had 
licked  them.  There  was  no  place  for  a 
stage  band  any  more. 

The  boys  went  back  to  California, 
where  they  were  known,  where  they  at 
least  could  make  a  living. 

When  Heidt  sat  down  to  analyze  the 
situation,  he  realized  that  even  when  they 
were  at  the  peak,  they  never  were  as  big 
as  they  should  have  been.  Then  he  real- 
ized it  was  partly  on  account  of  the  dog. 

You  may  remember  the  dog,  Lobo,  who 
appeared  on  the  stage  wherever  Heidt . 
and  his  Californians  were  featured.  Well, 
the  dog  stole  the  show.  People  were  so 
interested  in  its  antics  that  they  remem- 
bered the  Californians  chiefly  as  "that 
band  with  the  dog." 

The  first  thing  he  did  was  to  send  the 
dog  to  retirement  on  a  ranch.  As  he 
looked  about  him  he  realized  that  he  had 
to  start  again  from  scratch.  The  stage 
band  field  was  washed  up,  definitely. 
Everything  he  and  the  boys  had  learned, 
had  trained  themselves  for,  was  useless. 

But  another  entertaiiunent  medium  w^as 
coming  along.  That  was  radio.  How- 
ever, he  knew  he  didn't  have  a  radio  band. 
The  boys  knew  nothing  about  instrument 
balance,  or  distinctive  specialties  that 
would  go  over  the  air.  They  had  devel- 
oped on  the  basis  of  visual  appeal. 

There  was  nothing  to '  do  then  but  to 
start  from  the  bottom  all  over  again.  He 
got  a  steady  booking  at  the  Golden  Gate 
Theater  to  pay  the  freight  and  he  and  the 
boys  started  out  to  become  a  radio  band. 

They  rented  a  small  studio  with  a 
microphone  and  control  panel.  Every  mo- 
ment they  could  spare  away  from  the 
theater  they  worked  and  studied,  building 
up  a  radio  band. 

For  three  years,  as  far  as  the  country 
at  large  was  concerned,  Horace  Heidt  and 
his  Californians  dropped  out  of  sight. 
They  were  taking  a  long  chance.  People 
forget  (piickly  in  show  business.  Whis- 
]icrs  went  around  that  Heidt  was  through. 
Hut  he  knew  what  he  was  doing. 

He  had  an  idea  for  a  baiKl  that  would 
l)c  a  conil)ination  dance  and  entertainment 
band,  that  woukl  gi\e  people  music  they 
really  C(juld  dance  to  and  interspersed 
with  the  same  sort  of  no\elly  he  had  given 
the  public  on  the  stage,  only  designed  for 
the  ear  instead. 

Finally,  after  three  years,  Heidt  thought 
he  had  what  he  wanted.  Then  he  set  out 
to  sell  what  he  had  developed.  To  his 
amazeirent,  no  one  would  listen  to  him 
They  wouldn't  even  gi\e  him  an  audition. 

"But  you've  got  a  stage  band,"  they 
would  declare  with  finality,  and  that  was 
that. 

He  wheedled,  he  coaxed,  he  yelled  and 


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nled  on  desks.  It  was  no  use.  Dis- 
iiitmcnt  piled  on  disappointment.  Peo- 
1  c  told  him  he  hrfd  just  better  forget  it 
and  go  on  making  a  living,  in  San  F'ran- 
cisco.  Some  of  the  boys  began  to  grumble, 
wondering  what  they  were  going  to  have 
to  show  for  all  those  long  hours  of  extra- 
curricular sweating. 

But  Heidt  just  stuck  his  chin  out  a  lit- 
tle farther  and  kept  on  making  the  rounds. 
By  now  he  had  had  two  strikes  on  him  for 
so  long  that  it  didn't  feaze  him  a  bit. 

Then,  at  the  very  last  minute  when  hope 
was  wearing  to  a  thin  shred,  like  the 
U.  S.  Marines  galloping  over  the  hill  to 
the  rescue,  came  the  Stewart-Warner  peo- 
ple with  the  Alcmiie  program. 

At  last  Heidt  and  his  boys  were  re- 
warded for  their  gameness.  They  took 
a  new  lease  on  life  as  Horace  Heidt 
and  his  Alcmite  Brigadiers.  Everything 
clicked — even  the  name. 

And  very  swiftly  Heidt  and  his  boys 
moved  well  up  in  the  ranks  of  commercial 
programs.  He  went  to  the  Drake  Hotel 
in  Chicago  and  became  a  sensation  there. 
This  fall  he  is  preparing  to  take  New  York 
by  storm. 

Heidt  himself,  denied  the  chance  of  be- 
coming a  great  athlete,  has  become  what 
is  next  dearest  to  an  athlete's  heart,  a 
great  coach.  For  he  runs  his  band  like  a 
team. 

All  duties,  in  addition  to  the  actual  play- 
ing and  singing,  and  these  are  many  in 
such  an  intricate  business  organization, 
arc  duly  apportioned  among  the  boys, 
worked  out  on  a  strict  organization  chart. 
Each  has  his  responsibilities  on  which  he 
must  report. 

One  of  these  is  keeping  physically  fit. 
Every  band  member  may  elect  a  sport, 
swimming,  golf,  tennis  or  handball,  but  he 
must  work  at  one  sport  regularly  every 
day. 

All  differences  between  members  are 
brought  out  into  the  open  and  threshed 
cut  at  an  informal  weekly  conference, 
modelled  on  the  fraternity  house  "bull 
session"  of  college  days. 

If  the  tenor  saxophonist  thinks  the  tuba 
player  is  drowning  him  out,  he  gets  up 
and  says  so  and  they  argue  it  to  a  de- 
cision. If  the  tuba  player  doesn't  like  his 
arrangements,  he  tells  the  arranger  what 
he  thinks  about  it.  If  the  arranger  thinks 
he's  doing  all  right,  he  says  so. 

Heidt  sits  in  on  these  sessions,  offers  ad- 
vice and  counsel  when  necessary.  But  he 
doesn't  preside.  He  doesn't  hand  down 
final  decisions.  He  feels  that  the  only 
satisfactory  way  to  clear  these  things  up 
is  to  let  the  boys  do  it  for  themselves. 

Like  any  good  coach,  he  realizes  that 
success  depends  on  the  work  of  the  team 
as  a  whole.  He  always  is  on  the  lookout 
for  new  talent  to  develop  and  bring  to  the 
fore. 

This  summer  at  the  Drake,  on  Sunday 
nights,  he  has  been  conducting  his  own 
new  talent  show  for  young  people,  both 
amateur  and  professional,  around  Chicago. 

One  of  his  finds  has  been  pretty  little 
Dorothy  Russell,  who  now  sings  regularly 
with  the  band.  She  had  bought  an  ex- 
pensive dress  for  her  amateur  night  per- 
formance and  Heidt  let  her  work  a  week 
with  the  band  to  pay  for  it.  In  that  week 
she  drew  such  applause  that  he  let  her 
stay  on  as  a  permanent  member. 


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Fate,  perhaps  out  of  appreciation  for 
his  gameness,  seems  to  have  let  up  on 
Heidt  now.    Thirds  are  coming  his  way. 

But  he  has  one  unrealized  ambition  that 
he's  pretty  intense  about.  He  wants  to 
sins'.  Professionally. 

He  tried  it  once,  but  coninicnts  from 
tlic  hi>use  manager  were  such  that  he 
didn't  try  it  again.  However,  he  hasn't 
given  up.  Ho  takes  his  lessons  laitlifully 
ever\-  day  anil  my  Ininch  is  that  with  his 
stuhhnrniiess,  he'll  sing  _\el.  and  the  puhlic 
will  like  it.     In  the  meantime,  he  hellows 


in  the  bathtub  to  his  heart's  content  with 
no  protest,  except  from  an  occasional 
neighbor. 

Oh.  yes,  he  has  one  other  ambition,  too. 
He  wants  to  beat  Bing  Crosby  at  golf, 
the  first  time  they  happen  to  be  in  the 
same  town.  And  that  should  be  a  match 
to  see. 

There's  the  story  of  a  guy  who  has  had 
two  strikes  on  him  most  of  the  waw  All 
in  all  it's  a  pretty  good  batting  average. 
.So  walcli  out  for  that  home  run  when 
he  gets  set  in  New  York  this  fall! 


LOVE  COMES  TO  BETTY  LOU 


(Continued  from  page  3i  ) 


She  would  be  a  star  in  the  theater  !  The 
glamour  of  grease-paint  superseded  the 
glamour  of  life,  and  sentimental  suitors 
sighed  in  vain.  Betty  Lou  was  absorbed 
in  local  Little  Theater  activities.  .\nd 
presently  she  went  to  C  hicago  id  study 
dramatic  art  at  the  Goodman  Theater. 

In  Chicago  she  tnet  Joseph  Ainley. 

"But  I  didn't  luake  the  least  impression 
on  him,"  she  explained.  "He  was  older 
than  1  and  the  luost  eligible  bachelor 
around.    But  I  liked  him  a  lot !" 

For  a  while  Betty  Lou  taught  dramatic 
art  in  the  Boguslawski  School  in  Chicago. 
But  after  watching  some  of  her  inipils  go 
on  to  success  in  the  theater  and  in  radio, 
Betty  Lou  decided  that  she  was  neglecting 
her  own  best  interests.  So  she  presented 
herself  at  WdX  for  an  audition. 

There  the  studio  olficials  were  quick  to 
recognize  that  Betty  Lou  had  sotuething 
more  than  merely  a  l)ean(iful  face  and 
figure.  And  her  successive  radio  eng.age- 
mcnts  so  justified  their  faitli  in  her  that 
when  June  Meredith  went  on  her  vacation, 
Betty  Lou  was  given  her  role— the  leading 
role  in  The  First  Nightcr  dramas,  playing 
opposite  Don  Ameche — a  role  many  more 
experienced  actresses  were  seeking. 

"It  was  a  tremendous  thrill,"  Betty  Lou 
confessed  with  glowing  eyes.  "I  haven't 
got  over  it  yet!  Later  Miss  Meredith  left 
the  company  and  I  was  given  the  lead 
again.  And  when,  last  spring,  The  I'irst 
Nighter  company  went  out  to  Hollywood, 
so  that  Don  .\meche  coidd  make  a  picture, 
1  went  with  them." 

Betty  l.on  went  out  to  Ilollywonil  torn 
by  conflicting  rniotions.  She  w.intcd  to 
go.  Hollyw<M„l  was  a  L'laniunms,  exciting 
place.  Who  wouldn't  want  to  visit  the 
fantastic  mo\ir  cMintal?  I'ut-  she  didn't 
want  to  leave  ChiceMi.  X,,t  just  then. 
.  .  .  She  had  met  a  man  who  seemed  to 
her  to  be  the  ideal  luan — even  be><ind  the 
ideal  her  youth  fid  iinagiiiation  had  con- 
fided to  her  diary.  The  man  was  Joseph 
Ainley. 

In  a  city  and  in  a  profession  that  at- 
tracled  innumerable  lovely  anr!  talented 
girls,  a  man  might  forget  one  who  had  gone 

"I  iiad  loads  of  competition,"  sighed  Bet- 
ty Lou.  "I  felt  sure  that,  if  I  went  away, 
j  Ld  lose  liim!" 

But  she  went.  .And  her  >outhful  charm, 
her  glowing  dark  beauty  impressed  even 
Hollywood.  Hollywood  saw  in  this  love- 
ly young  Southern  girl  a  sure  bet  for  pic- 
tures.   But,  oddly  enough,  here  was  one 


girl  who  didn't  want  to  go  into  pictures! 

Betty  Lou  was  older  now  than  the  girl 
who  wrote  in  her  diary  that  a  career  must 
come  first.  She  still  wanted  a  career — but 
there  was  something  iriore  that  she  wanted 
from  life.  Something  infinitely  dear  that 
secretly,  passionately,  she  desired.  And 
in  Hollywood,  she  felt,  she  would  not  find 
it. 

Perhaps  she  would  not  have  felt  that 
way  if  it  had  not  been  for  that  tall,  red- 
headed young  man  in  Chicago — who,  sur- 
prisingly, had  found  time  to  write  letters 
to  her.  And  perhaps  the  fact  that  Joseph 
-Ainley  was  connected  with  radio  made 
radio  seem,  to  Betty  Lou  Gerson,  the  ideal 
career.  In  radio,  said  Betty  Lou  to  herself, 
one  can  have  a  normal  life — a  home  .  .  . 
And  her  eyes  were  deep  with  dreams. 

"I  was  offered  a  contract  in  Hollywood," 
Betty  Lou  told  us.  "But — another  con- 
tract that  was  offered  to  me  appealed  to 
me  more!"  She  siuiled  shyly. 

Apparently  Betty  Lou's  Hollywood  ab- 
sence had  made  two  hearts  grow  fonder. 
Joseph  Ainley  inust  have  spent  considerable 
time  in  thinking  about  the  little  dark-eyed 
Southern  girl.  In  writing  to  her.  When 
she  returned  to  Chicago,  he  was  at  the 
train  to  meet  her.  And,  seeing  her  again, 
he  felt,  passionately,  that  he  had  wasted 
precious  titne.  Why,  he  might  have  lost 
her !  He  would  take  no  further  chance 
of  such  a  disaster!  Whisking  Bett\-  Lou 
off  the  train,  he  drove  her  away  in  his  car 
to  a  church — where  they  were  married. 

When  a  girl  to  whom  a  career  "should 
come  before  anything  else,"  spurns  a  Hol- 
lywood contract  for  a  matrimonial  one — 
that's  love! 

"So  the  career  lost  out  to  Cupid,"  we 
suggested. 

Again  Betty  I.on's  sh\-  smile  curved  her 
sensitive  lips.  "I  feci,"  she  said  softly, 
"that  for  us  maiiiage  and  career  fit  to- 
gellier  perfectly.  My  career  means  as 
luucli  to  my  husband  as  it  does  to  me.  The 
theater  still  is  my  ambition,"  she  luused 
dreami!\  .  "1  want  to  play  a  good  dratuatic 
pari  in  a  good  ])lay — and  Josej)!!  is  as  eager 
as  1  am  to  see  that  dream  realized. 

"We  study  together,"  she  went  on.  "We 
read  plays  aloud,  nearly  every  evening.  He 
criticizes  me,  coaches  me  as  he  would  any 
l)upil.  When  it  comes  to  casting,  if  he 
thinks  I  can  do  it,  I  get  the  part — but  not 
ollierw  ise  Where  I  am  concerned,  he  is 
as  nnliiased  as  he  was  when  we  first  met. 
W  lien  1  get  his  approval,"  she  smiled,  "I 


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know  I've  really  earned  it!  I'm  playing 
now  in  the  Flyiii;;  Time  series." 

They  don't  work  all  the  time,  however. 
Sometimes  they  spend  an  evening  dancing. 
Often  they  enjoy  music  together,  for  Jo- 
seph Ainley  is  liini-cli  a  nui-ician.  He  is 
a  fine  violinist  ami  imnicrlx  was  a  music 
director.  Often  he  and  latty  Lou  walk 
together,  or  ride,  or  play  tennis. 

"W'e  share  the  same  interests,"  said 
Betty  Lou  happily.  "And  we  understand 
the  demands  of  our  respective  jobs.  It 
makes  for  a  deeper  sympathy  between  us. 
Joseph  now  is  radio  director  of  a  large 
Chicago  advertising  agency  and  is  very 
busy.  Often  we  just  sit  quietly  at  home, 
reading  or  listening  to  the  radio. 

"Home  has  been  Joseph's  bachelor  apart- 
ment— and  he  had  preempted  all  the  closet 
space!  Vou  know  how  it  isl"  Betty  Lou 
grinned.  "But  now  we  are  moving  to  a 
new  place.  This  will  be  ours."  Her  eyes 
shone  softly.  "They  are  going  to  decorate 
and  furnish  it  acenrding  to  <]ur  own  speci- 
fications. I  love  the  planning  and  design- 
ing— it's  so  exciting  to  watch  one's  ideas 
take  concrete  form." 

"Do  you  plan,"  we  asked  her.  "to  be  a 
real  housewife — cook  and  what  not?" 

Betty  Lou  shook  her  iie;id.  -  I'm  ii^t  in 
the  least  domestic — I  don't  even  know  how 
to  cook!"  She  spoke- apologetically,  hut  we 
felt  that  she  had  much  more  to  conti  ilnite 
to  a  happy  marriage  than  a  prize  recipe  1 

"You  can  see,"  Betty  Lou  added  after 
a  moment,  "why  Hollywood  doesn't  appeal 
to  me.  Marriage  is  built  upon  compan- 
ionship. Long  separations  are  dangerous. 
And  we've  been  married  only  three  months. 
I  couldn't  bear  to  leave — to  take  the  chance 
of  our  grownig  apart  instead  of  together  I 

"I  want  children."  said  Betty  Lou  soft- 
ly. And  she  was  silent  lor  a  moment 
then,  while  cherished  dreams  stirred  in 
her  heart.  "Children — and  a  home  .  .  . 
I  want  every  room  to  be  lived  in,  every 
chair  sat  in.  every  bed  used!  Home — 
not  a  show  place !" 

Love,  it  would  >eeni.  has  caught  up  with 
Betty  Lou.  And  Ikt  brash,  youthful  dreams 
and  ideals  have  matured,  merged  with  those 
of  her  older  husband.  The\-  are  very  much 
in  love,  these  two.  And  if  Joseph  Ainley's 
red  hair  indicates  a  tempestuous  temper, 
Betty  Lou  hasn't  disco\-ered  it  yet. 

"Am  way,  he  has  a  sense  of  humor !" 
she  chuckled,  recalling  the  stipulation  of 
her  diary.  "We  have  a  grand  time  to- 
gether .  .  .  And."  she  added  with  wisdom 
beyond  her  twenty-two  years.  "I  think  it 
will  last.  Understanding  each  other,  help- 
ing each  other,  sharing  the  same  interests, 
the  same  dreams — it  all  makes  for  sta- 
bility, for  security — for  happiness." 

And  what  Betty  Lou  seeks  from  life,  she 
surely  will  hud.  To  iier  marriage  she 
brings  devoted  love,  charm,  intelligence 
and  a  rare  wisdom.  To  lier  work  she 
brings  imagination  and  the  divine  spark- 
that  makes  tiie  real  actress. 

Betty  Lou  is  young,  but  she  is  well 
started  on  the  way  to  the  attainment  of 
her  ambitions  and  the  fulfillment  of  her 
dearest   dreams — for   love  and  a  career. 


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a  story  is  concerned.  But.  in  spite  of  the 
frank  criticism  lie  disiics  out.  lie  is  a 
huilder-uiJiicr,  imt  a  tcarcr-downcr.  There's 
Untiling  mean  or  vicious  about  him.  In  fact, 
lie's  often  i;uilt\-  of  sentiment. 

"That's  the  Irish  in  inc."  he  laughs. 

That  sentiment  is  what  made  him  wage 
a  (Icicnninol  light  for  jobs  for  the  movie's 
old-iiiiRrs.  lie  kept  plugging  for  them  to 
lie  uncii  the  lirst  chance  until  Central 
^  a^tiim  made  an  exception  to  its  rule 
that  no  particular  actors  could  be  asked 
lor. 

It's  also  what  makes  hint  unafraid  to 
tackle  the  big  shots.  When  Carl  Laemmle 
sold  Universal,  Jimmy  thought  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Motion  Picture  Producers  should 
give  him  a  testimonial  dinner.  They  didn't 
think  so  and  demanded  that  he  keep  quiet. 

"Why,  Laemmle  net  only  is  an  old-timer 
in  the  moving  picture  business  ;  he  is  the 
moving  picture  business,"  exclaimed  Jimmy 
indignantly  and  started  ballyhooing. 

P.  S.  They  gave  Laemmle  the  dinner. 

"There's  a  lot  of  grief  to  a  gossip 
column  besides  having  to  watch  your  soup 
for  poison!"  Jimmy  sighs.  "Many  a  good 
story  I've  had  to  let  go  by  because  of 
friendship.  And  I  iniss  a  lot  because  they 
break  too  early  or  too  late  for  my  broad- 
cast. There  was  Helen  Twelvetrees.  She 
called  me  on  a  Friday  night  to  say  that 
she  and  her  husband  had  split.  Well,  of 
course,  I  couldn't  use  the  story  until 
Tuesday  and  asked  her  if  she  could  keep 
it  bottled  up  until  then.  She  prmnised  to 
try  and  virtually  locked  herself  in  her 
hotel  room.  But  Monday  mdiiiing  a  re- 
porter saw  her  in  the  dining-rooni  and  the 
st(ir\-  was  out.  Four  days  is  a  long  time 
to  keep  a  secret  in  Hollywood! 

"Don't  misunderstand.  I  don't  ask  to 
have  a  story  exclusively.  All  I  pray  for  is 
that  a  story  will  break  on  Tuesday  night 
and  I  get  it  the  same  time  the  papers  do. 
That  way  I'm  still  first  with  it.  Exclusive 
stories  are  not  fair  to  the  stars.  They  get 
the  other  writers  down  on  them  and  no 
star  can  afford  that.  Randolph  Scott  had 
a  bad  time  when  he  gave  the  story  of  his 
secret  marriage  cxclnsively  and  ignored 
the  writers  who  had  hei'ii  nice  t"  him  when 
he  first  came  here." 

I5ril)csr'  Oh,  yes,  he's  been  offered  bribes. 

"I'd  be  a  fool  to  take  them,"  he  says 
simiily.  "I'm  no  moralist.  I'm  just  practical. 
I've  built  a  reputation  for  being  rm  the 
square — nobody  can  buy  an  oftinion.  If  I 
lose  that,  what  have  I  got  to  sell?" 

When  >ou  know  the  ambition  and  energy 
with  wiiich  Jimmy  is  fired,  you  know 
there'd  be  nothing  worse  for  him  than  to 
have  notliing  to  sell.  -As  it  i^,  in  .addition 
to  his  radio  program,  lie  writes  ;i  s\)idi- 
cated  daily  news  coluniii  and  is  tln'  com- 
mentator for  many  of  the  box  .McvidMiie 
news  reels.  He's  Hollywood's  triple  threat 
man  and  th.it  in  niore  wa>s  than  niic. 

Then  there  is  tlie  business  ..I  g.itliering 
the  news.  d..es  a  lot  oi  tli.il  iiiniself 
but  also  has  a  staff  of  about  t\\eiit\  news- 
snitlers,  to  say  nothing  of  the  tip-offs  in 
the  various  cafes  and  resorts  frequented 
by  moviedoni — and  there  always  are  volun- 
teers. 


Born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  August 
24th,  I'XIO,  and  s-^cnding  his  early  years 
in  Mississippi  and  Tennessee,  he  early 
displa>ed  that  boundless  curiosity  which 
gives  him  such  a  zest  for  life  and  makes 
for  his  success.  Xear  his  home  was  a 
spring  whicli,  legend  said,  was  liottomless. 
Jiinni\  investigated  ;nid  a  growth  of  weeds 
ncarl\-  cut  short  his  career. 

".\s  lar  as  I'm  coiiccnied,"  he  laughs, 
"that  spring  still  is  bottomless!" 

After  being  mustered  out  of  the  Alarine 
Corps,  for  wh.ich  he  had  volunteered  at 
seventeen,  he  came  to  Hollywood  and 
joined  another  army — that  of  the  extras. 
Soon  he  had  some  good  parts,  one  as  the 
brother  of  Wallace  Reid  in  Ahcays  Au- 
dacious. When  his  resemblance  to  Reid  is 
commented  on,  Jimmy  quickly  denies  it, 
not  so  much  because  of  modesty,  I  gather, 
as  because  he'd  ratlier  be  himself  than 
even  that  now  legendary  screen  idol. 

Jimmy's  hopes  for  stardom  were  cut 
short  when  he  was  caught  in  the  first  big 
movie  shutdown.  His  eating  also  was  con- 
siderably curtailed  until  he  got  a  job  as 
dish-washer  in  exchange  for  meals.  It  was 
then  that  his  fighting  spirit  showed  itself. 
If,  he  said  to  himself,  he  was  not  going  to 
be  a  success  as  an  actor,  he'd  better  get 
into  something  else  and  be  quick  about  it. 

"I  decided  I  wanted  to  be  a  writer,"  he 
says,  "so  I  talked  myself  into  a  cub  re- 
porter's job  on  a  Los  Angeles  newspaper." 

Just  like  that ! 

From  there  he  rose  rapidly,  eventually 
landing  in  the  publicity  department  of  the 
old  Famous  Players-Lasky  studio. 

"My  worst  moment  on  that  job,"  he  says, 
"was  when  I  was  assigned  to  do  publicity 
for  Gloria  Swanson.  She  was  highly  tem- 
peramental and  had  a  reputation  for  being 
very  difficult  with  her  publicity  men.  Every- 
body in  the  department  began  to  treat  me 
like  a  condemned  man.  Their  stories  of  how 
iTiany  had  lost  their  jobs  because  they  failed 
with  her  didn't  help  my  peace  of  mind.  (I 
was  only  a  kid  of  twenty-two.)  Finally  I 
decided  to  risk  e\erytliiiig  in  a  frank  talk 
with  her. 

"  'If  you'll  help  me,'  I  told  her,  'I  can 
make  good  on  this  job.  But  if  you  won't 
cooperate,  I'll  fail.  It  all  depends  on  you.' 
She  stared  at  me  a  moment  while  I  waited 
for  the  stoiiii  to  break.  Then  she  burst 
out  laughing.  'I'll  do  exerytliing  possible,' 
she  said,  holding  out  her  hand.  And  she 
was  as  good  as  her  word." 

F\i-ntuall.\  Jimmy  graduated  to  his  own 
[lublicity  ;igi'iuy  and  soon  the  money  was 
rolling  ill,  but,  as  in  the  case  of  a  good 
many  other  iicople,  most  of  it  disappeared 
in  the  crash. 

"But — I'm  Irish  and  German,  senti- 
mental and  stnbboiii,"  he  says. 

He  needed  that  sinbborniiess  then — 
money  gone,  marriage  to  Dorothe  Lee  on 
the  rocks  and,  to  make  cver\ thing  com- 
l)Icte,  a  nervous  breakdown.  lUil  that  de- 
termined chin  of  his  isn't  for  nothing. 
.'\fter  eight  months  at  the  beach,  eating 
raw  cabbage  and  avocado,  he  was  back, 
this  time  in  the  role  of  a  writer  for  motion 
picture  magazines. 

Jimmy's  radio  career  began  in  1933  when 


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that  a 
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lie  was  asked  to  appear  as  interviewer  on 
an  NBC  program,  HoUyivood  on  the 
Air. 

"In  spite  of  being  scared  silly  by  the 
microphone,"  he  says,  "I  liked  it  and  de- 
cided that  there  was  a  place  for  me  and 
a  Holh  wood  gossip  column  in  radio."  And 
so  there  was. 

"There  has  been  a  lot  of  criticism  of 
me  as  a  scandal  monger.  I'd  like  to  >ay 
rinht  now  that  word  of  some  luimaiK'  act 
In  nmrc  welcume  to  me  than  the  juu  ie^t  hit 
..1  l^^'^sip.  [  think  atlcnlK'n  ~h..ul(l  he  e.illed 
t.i  pedple'-  lanhs  hnt  their  '^<>:n\  (|iiahties 
also  should  he  made  kii..\\ii  I  tr_\  to  do 
sincerel)  hi-lie\e  m\  iiro-raiii's 
has  heen  heiielieial  tu  the  pie- 
tuie  industry." 

Jimmy  says  that  very  earnestly  and  you 
know  lie  does  believe  it. 

"When  I  take  a  slap  at  someone  in  an 
i'])en  letter,  I'm  trying  to  help.  A  timely 
warning  is  a  good  thing.  There  was  Rob- 
ert Taylor,  whom  I  had  picked  as  the  out- 
standing newcomer  of  the  year.  After  a 
little  success,  he  started  running  around  to 
night  clubs  with  a  different  girl  every  night. 
I  pointed  out  that  many  a  promising 
career  had  been  ruined  b\'  too  much  high 
life.  He  was  pretty  annoyed  but  after 
awhile  he  (|uit  pla\'-bo\ing.  He's  going 
around  with  Barbara  Stan\\\ck  now.  She's 
a  nice  girl  and  it  looks  like  a  romance." 

One  of  Jiminy's  outstanding  character- 
istics is  his  fairness.  He  never  uses  his 
power  to  hurt  people  iualiciousl\ .  a  thing 
that  would  be  very  easy  to  do  and  he  must 
be  tempted  often,  for  people  don't  always 
play  fair  with  him. 

"Joan  Crawford  told  me  that  she  was 
going  to  leave  Douglas  Fairbanks,  Jr., 
months  before  she  did  but  she  asked  ine  to 
keep  it  a  secret.  Of  course  I  did,  but  when 
the  stor_\-  finally  broke  she  didn't  let  me 
know  and  I  missed  out  completely. 

"However,"  he  smiles,  "there  was  one 
scoop  I  was   pretty   sure  of   getting — the 
announcement  of  m\   own  en,t;a.«ement." 
Even  the  Mrs.  drew  an  open  letter : 

"Notes,  from  my  little  black  book.  Open 
letter  to  the  future  Mrs.  Ji)iiiny  f idler: 
My  dear  Roberta  Laiv:  Tomorroi^'.  you'll 
face  the  minister  zvith  me — aitd  ttiereafler 
ive'll  face  the  music  lo</etln'r  .  .  .  }'oi,  re 
about  to  marry  Hollyi^'ood  Public  Ciossip 
Ntiuibcr  One  and  I  think  you're  a  lirai'c 
girl!  Pon't  l>c  alarmed  if  yon  conic  home 
some  Intc  afternoon  and  .vri'  a  (/oiiii  of 
tough  guys  n-aiting  at  the  front  door.  They 
iLVn't  be  looking  for  you.  They'll  he  icoit- 
ing  for  your  husband.  And  t>y  the  '<ct:y. 
H'hen  7t'r  return  front  our  honeymoon .  re- 
mind me  to  tran.sfcr  iny  iii.<iinincc  policies 
to  your  name  .  .  .  /Inother  lliiiui.  yon  Inrrc 
many  friends  among  the  motion  jncliuc 
stars.  Please  tell  them  to  be  -eery  careful 
of  tlieir  actions  in  the  future  hccoiisc  I 
don't  z^vnt  to  start  any  family  lear  by 
leriting  open  letters  to  your  friends  .  .  . 
And  one  more  thing:  I'm  .-(■rv  f'lnicky  about 
my  rci'iezvs  of  ficfiircs.  I  rerd  i-e  them  as 
I  see  them.  .\'o  back  scat  drii-iiig.  if  you 
t^leasc.  No  elboi^.'  punches  in  the  theater 
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pictures  2ve  see  .  .  .  That's  all.  Miss  Laze, 
e.vcept  I  Zi'isli  you  lu..:.  ]'ou'll  need  it  .  .  . 
Your  Ham  Reporter, 

JiM.MV  FiDLKR." 

So  far  Jimmy  never  has  been  sued. 
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"I'm  sure  of  my  facts  before  I  use 
tlicni."  he  explains.  "They're  checked  and 
re-checked.  Then,  of  course,  there  are  the 
lawxers — my  own,  the  station's  and  the 
sponsor's — to  check  my  script  for  wording 
and  so  on.  That's  to  take  care  of  the  am- 
Inilance-chasiiiK  sh\ stcrs  :dwa\s  waiting 
to  make  a  few  dollars  somehow. 

"I-'an  mail?  It  looks  as  if  I'll  have  to 
run  an  .Idvicc  to  the  Lovclovu  Column! 
I  get  hundreds  of  letters  confiding  love 
troubles,  asking  me  what  to  do  because 
somel)od.\'s  sweetheart  looks  like  Jean 
Harlow  and  thinks  more  about  her  appear- 
ance than  about  him. 

"Romance?  .Anyone  connected  with  pic- 
tures, newspapers  and  radio  is  up  to  his 
neck  in  romance!  .After  four  years  on  the 
air.  there's  nothing  that  beats  the  thrill 
of  that  moment  of  waiting  for  the  go- 
ahead  signal  that  starts  the  broadcast." 


\\'atching  Jimmy  broadcast,  you  feel  his 
tenseness  as  he  bounds  into  the  studio,  runs 
through  his  script  quickly,  gulps  a  glass  of 
water.  Everybody  in  the  studio  catches 
fire  from  him. 

".Are  you  still  talking  about  romance?'' 
he  answers  my  persistence.  "Well,  how 
will  this  do?  I  have  a  lia.bit  of  stopping  to 
make  a  note  whenever  something  occurs  to 
me.  The  other  day,  coming  down  Yucca,  a 
thought  struck  me.  I  pulled  up  at  the  curb 
and  was  writing,  when  1  heard  a  hail. 
Looking  up  I  saw  a  woman,  no  longer  as 
young  as  she  used  to  be.  leaning  from  an 
apartment  window.  'Writing  me  a  love 
note,  dearie?'  she  asked." 

.And  that  is  absolutel_\-  all  that  I  can  get 
out  of  him  on  that  svibject! 

Ambitious,  eager,  determined,  earnest, 
sincere  and  kind — Jimmy  Fidler.  But  when 
he  fiddles,  Hollywood  dances. 


LADIES  CRAVE  EXCITEMENT 

(Continued  from  page  50) 


attracted  to  story  tellers  and  men  of  ac- 
tion. And  Tim  Healy  has  seen  plenty  of 
action — and  he's  a  natural  story-teller. 

The  Irish  in  him  may  have  something 
to  do  with  that.  His  father  and  mother 
left  Ireland  for  Australia,  where  Tim  was 
born  and  grew  up  in  the  wild  sheep  coun- 
try of  the  interior.  He  was  completing  his 
education  in  Sydney  University  when  war 
was  declared  and  he  immediately  enlisted 
in  the  Australian  Imperial  Forces.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  original  Anzacs  at 
Gallipoli,  serving  also  in  British  Intelli- 
gence in  Egypt,  Belgium  and  France. 

It  was  in  Egypt  that  Captain  Healy  first 
encountered  King  Edward,  then  the  Prince 
of  \^'ales. 

"I'll  never  forget  the  first  time  I  met 
him,"  Tim  says.  "I  was  on  General  Cox's 
staff,  stationed  at  Moascar.  We  marched 
across  the  Egyptian  desert  and  he  came 
to  greet  us,  riding  a  smelly  camel,  same  as 
the  rest.  You  know  the  usual  procedure 
in  an  inspection  is  to  stand  in  the  broiling 
sun  for  about  two  hours,  waiting.  Then 
they  drive  right  past. 

"But  Wales  didn't.  He  walked  down 
the  lines,  talked  with  many  of  the  men  and 
his  sincere,  personal  interest  was  obvious. 
Nothing  false  or  assumed  would  have  reg- 
istered with  those  Anzacs.  As  it  was, 
every  man's  heart  warmed  to  him  and  he 
was  cheered  to  the  echoes." 

"You  knew  him  in  France,  also?"  I 
prompted. 

"I  did,"  Tim  nodded.  "It  isn't  only  the 
ladies  who  loved  the  Prince  of  Wales. 
Every  man  over  there  loved  him  as  a  man 
and  a  soldier.  lie  got  no  more  favors  than 
any  other  \<)iin;j,  siiliallern  and  be  was  for- 
ever driving  llie  staff  cr;  '  '  ' 
he'd  go  into  real  danger 
one  time,  I  remember, 
the  late  King  (ie(irge,  was  visiting  the 
front  ..."  Tim's  eyes  lighted  and  he 
grinned  reminiscently. 

"King  George  was  the  grandest  feller 
in  the  world !  And  this  time  Wales 
sneaked  his.  father  ofif  through  a  communi- 
cation trench,  right  to  the  front  line.  When 
they  found  out,  the  staff  had  a  fit.  Imagine, 
the  King  of  England  and  the  Prince  of 


tn  tne  way 
There  was 
liis  father. 


Wales  under  fire  within  a  few  yards  of 
the  enemy  ! 

"But  Wales  was  under  fire  plenty,  and 
don't  you  think  he  wasn't.  There  was  an- 
other time  we  were  at  a  casualty  clearing 
station  on  a  road  about  half  a  mile  behind 
the  lines.  The  road  was  heavily  banked,  for 
protection  against  the  enemy's  periodical 
shelling.  Three  Australians  were  in  charge 
of  three  German  prisoners,  one  of  the  Ger- 
mans wounded  in  the  arm,  and  they  were 
standing  out  in  the  open  when  a  sudden 
heavy  shelling  began. 

"Everybody  ducked  for  cover,  but  one 
of  the  Germans  was  hit  and  lay  out  there 
in  the  midst  of  the  fire.  First  thing  any- 
one knew,  Wales  had  jumped  out  into  the 
shelling,  picked  up  the  German  and  car- 
ried him  to  safety.  He  was  always  doing 
things  like  that — not  for  publicity,  because 
most  of  the  time  nobody  ever  heard  of  it. 
But  the  soldiers  knew  it  and  it  was  one 
of  the  reasons  they  loved  'im.  He  con- 
sidered himself,  above  everything  else,  a 
soldier  and  he  was  deeply  sympathetic  to 
every  man  in  the  fight. 

"He  spent  a  lot  of  time  visiting  the  hos- 
pitals, talking  to  wounded  men,  trying  to 
help  them  or  cheer  them  up.  One  hospital 
had  a  very  bad  case — some  poor  feller  that 
was  hardly  more  than  a  lump  of  torn  flesh. 
He  was  in  a  private  room  and  when  word 
got  around  that  the  Prince  was  to  visit 
the  hospital,  orders  were  to  keep  him  out 
of  that  room. 

"After  he'd  been  around  the  wards  they 
led  him  past  this  door,  but  Wales  stopped. 
'What's  in  there?'  be  asked.  'You  don't 
want  to  go  in  there,  sir.'  they  snid,  and 
finally  told  him  about  the  case.  'Why  not?' 
says  Wales.  'This  chap  i-  a  soldier  like 
myself — and  I  mean  to  see  him.' 

"They  couldn't  stop  him  and  he  went 
into  the  room  and  over  to  the  bed  on  which 
the  man  la\-.  He  1< Hiked  at  him  without 
a  word,  then  knelt  beside  the  bed,  kissed 
what  had  been  the  poor  man's  face  and 
slowly  came  out  of  the  room  with  tears 
streaming  down  his  cheeks." 

Captain  Tim's  voice  died  away  to  a  whis- 
per and  he  was  silent  for  a  moment. 

"But  there  were  funny  incidents,  too," 


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he  chuckled.  "In  London,  when  Wales 
was  coming  to  -some  diplomatic  i  cception 
or  other,  a  crowd  was  fiathctrd  by  the 
door,  watching-  the  iiotabks  airiw.  'I'lu' 
Prince's  car  drove  up  ami  Wales  ali.ylitcd 
dressed  in  euta\\a\',  vilk  liat  and  so  on. 
As  he  f^dl  mit  siinie  Red  standing  there 
sn'eered  :  'There  goes  (Uie  of  the  idle  rich!' 

"Wales  stopped  a  niumeiit  and  looked 
at  him.  "I'm  rich,  ina\  l)e,'  lie  sa>  s.  'luit  I'm 
damned  if  anyone  can  say  I'ni  idle!' 

"He's  a  real  feller  all  right.  The  Aus- 
tralians called  him  'Digger  Wales'— that's 
the  highest  eoni]iliment  they  can  pay." 

I  wondered  if  Tim  Ileal),  h;i\ ing  known 
the  present  King  I'dward  so  well,  could 
venture  an  ()bser\ation  on  the  possihility 
of  the  King's  marr.\  ing  soon. 

"There's  no  mystery  about  it,"  Tim 
said,  "to  those  who  know  something  of  the 
British  Royal  I'amilx  .  Tbe> 're  not  only 
royalty,  but  they're  tnie,  re.il  people.  King 
Edward  was  brouglii  \eiy  strictly  and 
simply  by  (Jneen  .\lar\  ,incl  the  e.xtent  oi 
his  devotion  to  his  mother  isn't  general!}' 
realized. 

"He  has  a  great  respect  for  her  judg- 
ment and  understanding  as  a  Queen,  besides 
his  very  deej)  lo\e  f(u-  her  as  his  mother, 
and  he  won't  marry  in  her  lifetime — be- 
cause he  wtm't  replace  her  as  Queen.  I 
think  that,  more  than  any  other  reason,  pre- 
vents him  from  marrying.  Sure — he  has  a 
sense  of  duty  and  obligation  to  his  country  ; 
that,  alone,  would  make  him  marry  whe- 
ther he  wanted  to  or  not.  And  while  Queen 
Mary  might  like  to  see  him  married,  she 
probably  understands  and  appreciates  his 
affection  and  the  knowledge  that  as  long 
as  she  lives  she'll  be  the  only  Queen  in 
England." 

Not  knowing  the  King,  I  can't  check  that. 
But  Tim  Healy  ought  to  know  and  he's 
very  positive  about  it,  so,  with  such  a  logi- 
cal explanation,  I'm  willing  to  take  his 
word  for  it. 

Another  incident  that  happened  to  Healy 
in  wartime  i>  interesting,  .\fter  the  .Armi- 
stice, Captain  lleal\  w.is  brought  to  the 
Royal  Palace  to  he  deeorated  by  the  late 
King  George  with  the  Order  of  the  British 
Empire. 

\  crotchety,  fussy  old  chamberlain  was 
giving  him  instructions  at  great  length  on 
just  how  to  behave  ;  prineipall.\'  mentiom'ng 
that  after  the  King  had  decorated  him 
and  shaken  hands  he  was  to  move  right 
along  and  not  hold  up  the  ceremony. 

After  bestowing  the  order  on  Tim  the 
King  stepiKil  down,  jnu  his  arm  around 
the  Healy  slmiddei  s  and  talked  to  him  a 
few  minutes  ni  ii  iendl\-  fashion.  When 
Tim  finally  left  the  thnme  room  the  cham- 
berlain hurried  o\er  and  glaiX'd  at  Tim. 

"You  were  instructed  to  shake  hands  and 
move  along,"  he  fussed.  "What  were  \(iu 
saying  to  the  King  ?" 

.A.nd  Tim  who,  after  all,  could  hardly 
have  pushed  the  King  away,  answered 
solemnly : 

"I  told  His  Majesty  that  you  had  been 
very  impertinent  to  me !" 


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Iceland  hat.  It's  grand  for  tea  dates,  says  Helen,  but  its  dangling 
tassel  does  have  a  tendency  to  get  tangled  up  with  the  microphone! 


The  jacket  is  fingertip  length,  made  on 
box  lines ;  the  skirt  quite  straight  with 
a  pleated  detail.  With  this  she  wears  a 
little  cotton  challis  blouse  in  green,  printed 
all  over  with  houses  and  peasant  figures. 
.\  brown  felt  hat  of  the  typical  high- 
crowned   Tyrolean  style,  goes  with  this. 

She  bought  quite  a  number  of  the  peas- 
ant  clothes,  made  by  Lanz  of  Salzburg,  for 
her  daughter.  Mary  wears  long  braids 
and  consequently  the  peasant  style  of  cos- 
tume suits  her  to  a  T.  It  is  Miss  Hayes' 
opinion  that  little  girls  look  charming  in 
just  such  simple,  colorful  clothes. 

"Don't  you  have  any  trouble  keeping 
those  braids?"  I  asked,  referring  to  Mary's 
crowning  glory.  "I  thought  young  girls 
hated  to  be  different." 

"1  expected  to,"  she  confided.  "I  really 
dreaded  the  da\'  when  Marv  wdiild  come 
t.,  nic  and  ask'  to  have  lirr  liair  bobbed. 
1  diiln't  kniiW  what  I  woul<l  do.  Luckily 
tlu'  .situation  lias  been  a\crte<l  lor  the  time 
bciny.  .Mtbou.uli  she  was  tin-  <,nly  child 
ill  her  school  to  have  hmids.  at  first,  there 
are  se\cral  others  now.  And  instead  of 
my  having  a  situation,  1  niKlirstaiid  from 
several  mothers  in  .\yacl<,  tli.il  they  have 
one — their  b<jbl)ed-liaire(l  diililicii  are  ask- 
ing   foi'   long   braids   hkv  .Marx'sl" 

.Mary's  favorite  Salzhiir.n  outfit  is  a 
navy  flannel  dress  with  ,i  daring  skirt 
laced  up  the  front  with  red  thongs.  Over 
this  she  wears  a  typical  light-fitting 
Tyrolean  jacket  fastened  with  silver  coin 
buttons. 

We  talked  about  the  new  hats  and  how- 
giddy  they  are,  both  in  shape  and  trim- 
ming. TIelen  said  that  she  ha<l  rather  de- 
serted her  favorite  milliner  this  season 
because  she  thought  she  should  stay  away 
from  hats  that  are  to<j  extreme.  .She  thinks 


they  are  "too  much  of  a  challenge,"  and 
she  explained  this  by  saying  that  extreme 
lines  and  tritnmings  should  be  attempted 
oidy  when  you  feel  rested  and  have  lots 
of  tiine  to  get  dressed.  But  when  you  are 
busy  and  more  than  likely  tired,  you  need 
a  hat  that  has  flattering  lines. 

She  thinks  that  women  have  a  special 
talent  for  hats  that  are  kind  to  the  face — 
flattering  ones.  She  likes  to  wear  tailored 
English  felts — the  round-crowned,  turned- 
up  brimmed  ones — with  her  man-tailored 
suits.  They  are  very  becoming  to  anyone 
who  is  petite,  like  Helen.  She  has  a 
haze-blue  tailored  suit  in  a  hard  finished 
worsted  which  she  wears  with  handmade 
handkerchief  linen  blouses,  sable  furs  and 
orchids,  plus  the  little  hats  just  men- 
tioned. .She's  very  careful  about  furs, 
flowers  and  jewels — always  wants  them 
to  be  subor<liiiate,  such  as  flat  furs,  only 
one  orchid  and  siuall  jewels.  This  is  an 
excellent  tip  for  all  small  girls  and  women 
— everything  in  proportion  to  your  size. 

There  could  be  a  perfect  revolution  in 
silhouette,  color  and  fal)ric,  as  far  as 
Helen  Ha\es  is  concerned,  and  it  wouldn't 
l)otlirr  her.  She  is  a  complete  individual- 
ist when  it  comes  to  what  she  wears.  A 
dress  can  be  two  years  old,  or  more,  but 
if  she  likes  it  and  it  suits  her,  she'll  con- 
timie  to  wear  it  until  tluie  isn't  a  shred 
left!  She  lo\cs  to  experinH-nt  with  colors 
especially — often  combines  odd  shades  of 
red  and  rose,  or  lavender  and  blue.  The 
results,  which  might  be  unbecoming  to 
some,  are  charming  and  effective  on  her. 
She  bought  a  print  in  London  that  was 
done  by  the  famous  artist,  Berard,  and 
in  it  he  combined  her  favorite  colors — 
pale  pink,  lavender  and  gray — the  design 
was  a  pattern  of  flowers  interspersed  with 


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delicate  feiiiiiiine  faces.  A  really  lovely 
thing ! 

She  told  me,  ruefully,  that  she  had  a 
mad  on  with  clothes.  All  because  she 
has  to  have  twenty-four  changes  of  cos- 
tume on  matinee  days  in  Victoria  Rcgina. 
And  can  you  blame  her?  She  said  if  it 
weren't  for  people  seeing  her,  she'd  go 
around  in  a  blanket  rather  than  buy  any 
new  clothes !  She  also  looks  upon  fit- 
tings for  clothes  as  the  supreme  nuisance 
of  life. 

She  likes  American  clothes  best,  with 
the  possible  exception  of  imported  iKivcltics 
and  British  tweeds — the  latter  she  a<lorc<. 
She  thinks  American  designers  know  i^est 
how  to  suit  American  life.  And,  speaking 
of  novelties,  she  described  several  new 
gadgets  she  particularly  dotes  upon. 

One  is  the  tiniest  cap  you've  ever  seen, 
which  she  brought  back  from  Iceland.  .She 
wears  it  with  cocktail  and  dinner  clothes 
and  it  looks  perfectly  charming  on  her. 
It  is  a  cap  actually  worn  by  women  in 
Iceland — a  circle  of  black  jersey,  not  much 
bigger  than  an  after-dinner  cciffee  cup 
saucer.  From  it  a  thick  conl  hangs  down 
to  her  shoulders,  and  ten  inches  from  tlie 
cord  a  thick  black  silk  tassel,  fastened 
on  with  a  silver  l)and.  It  is  so  tiny  that 
it  has  to  be  held  to  her  head  with  several 
hairpins.  It  sounds  bizarre  but  is  en- 
chanting and  a  gadget  that  all  young 
things  would  jump  at  for  a  new  cocktail 
hat  fad. 

Another  Hayes'  invention  is  tiny  cowbell 
earrings  to  be  worn  with  Iier  Tyrolean 
outfits.  It  seems  that  Helen  found  a  tiny 
gold  cowbell  which  gave  her  a  grand  idea, 
so  she  had  it  copied  and  then  had  the  two 
of  them  made  into  earrings.  The  original 
bell  was  an  antique  of  \'ictoria's  reign,  she 
told  me.  The  tinkle  they  make  as  she 
walks,  is  delightful. 

She  told  me  that  one  of  her  favorite 
siwrts  costumes  is  an  all-leather  one  in 
mulberry  suede.  A  thong-laced  jumper 
in  powder-blue  suede  goes  with  this  and 
she  matches  gloves  to  the  blue — her  ox- 
fords and  hat  matching  the  mulberry. 

As  you  can  sec,  oriuinality  is  the  key- 
note to  Helen  Ha\es'  entire  fashion  view- 
point. She  never  follows  a  st\de  just  be- 
cause it  is  "in"  at  the  moment.  And  ^jhe 
wouldn't  wear  the  most  elaborate  or  ex- 
l)ensive  costume,  if  it  didn't  measure  up 
to  what  she  thinks  suits  her  type.  It  is 
a   formula   that   exervone    should  follow. 

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head,  either.  No  one  cares  about  me.  I 
meet  people  in  the  street  and  they  never 
ask  nie  how  /  feel.  It's  always  :  'How  is 
Grade?'  I  could  be  dead  and  they  wouldn't 
care,  so  long  as  Gracie  is  getting  along  all 
right! 

"But  it's  mostly,"  said  the  astute  Mr. 
Burns,  "it's  mostly  a  matter  of  husbands 
and  wives  working  together  in  radio.  Our 
hours  are  the  same.  We  go  out  and  go 
liome  at  one  and  the  same  time.  Even  if  a 
husband  and  wife  do  not  work  on  the  same 
program,  they  always  attend  one  an- 
other's broadcasts. 

"We  have  a  scheduled  and  mutual  home 
life.  \\'e  get  plenty  of  domesticity.  When 
Gracie  goes  home  of  an  evening,  or  when 
she  takes  care  of  the  babies  on  the  nurse's 
day  off — and  she  always  does  take  care  of 
them  herself,  won't  have  a  substitute  nurse 
come  in — when  Gracie  is  at  home,  she  can 
and  does  get  down  on  the  floor  and  roll 
and  tumble  with  the  babies — she  can  and 
does  bathe  and  feed  and  dress  and  undress 
them — and  it's  okay.  It  doesn't  matter 
what  happens  to  Grade's  nail  polish  or  to 
her  permanent  wave.  No  one  will  see  her, 
anyway. 

"They  have  kept  sex  off  the  radio.  Hus- 
bands and  wives  work  together  and  for  a 
common  cause.  There  is  no  rabid  pursuit 
of  the  radio  stars  as  there  is  of  the  pic- 
ture stars.  Jealousy  is  ruled  out.  These,  I 
think,  are  the  real  reasons  why  radio  stars 
remain  married  happily  ever  after.  .  .  ." 

"Oh,  Georgie,"  sighed  Gracie,  "you  do 
say  such  beautiful  things!  Georgie,  do  you 
know,  I've  changed  my  mind.  When  I 
meet  up  with  Clark  Gable,  I'll  say  goodbye 
to  him  and  hulloa  to  you  !" 

And  Gracie's  heart  was  in  her  blue  eyes. 
I  knew  that  she  meant  it. 

*        *  * 

Di.xie  was  packing  to  go  to  Honolulu. 
Bi)i(/.  Ltd.,  was  answering  five  telephones, 
conferring  with  several  brothers,  secre- 
taries, publicity  men,  chauffeurs  and  office 
boys.  The  entrance  hall  was  armored 
with  luggage. 

In  between  brothers  and  secretaries, 
Biiii),  Ltd..  answered  my  question. 

He  said:  "First  place,  radio  marriages 
last,  where  some  movie  marriages  fail,  be- 
cause radio  doesn't  take  people  out  of  their 
hdiues.  Radio  doesn't  transplant  us  to  a 
false  environment  where  values  are  all 
lopsided. 

"In  movies  there  seems  to  be  a  theory 
that  when  a  couple  are  married,  romance  is 
at  an  end.  On  the  radio  a  great  many  of 
the  most  famous  stars  are  happily  married 
couples.  Radio  should  prove  that  the  pub- 
lic likes  happily  married  conpk-s,  does  be- 
lieve that  there  is  romance  in  marriage. 

"Then,  too,  there  is  itu-  time  dement.  I 
was  brought  up  to  lidievc  that  S.itan  linds 
mischief  for  idle  hands  to  ,1.,.  I  still  be- 
lieve it.  In  movie  sttidins  tliere  is  too  much 
time.  Honrs  pass  and  not  a  scene  is  shot, 
perhaps.  There  are  wait^  between  scenes. 
The  stars  and  players  ma\-  benin  to  wcirk 
at  seven  one  morm'nj;  and  iirxir 
tbrotigh  until  seven  tlie  next  morning. 
Radio,  even  when  you're  doing  a  big  na- 
tional program,  requires  one  half  day's 
work  per  diem  at  the  most.   After  which 


the  radio  star,  man  or  woman,  goes  home. 
When  we're  rehearsing  or  broadcasting, 
we're  working  every  second,  every  split 
second.  For  the  timing  is  such  that  every 
split  second  counts. 

"There  are  no  location  trips  on  the 
radio.  When  a  radio  star  takes  a  vacation, 
it  is  because  he  is  not  working  and  his 
wife  can  and  does  go  with  him. 

"I  think,  too,"  said  Bing,  his  blue  eyes 
serious,  "that  radio  artists  remain  truer  to 
themselves  than  picture  stars  can  do. 
They  remain,  the  radio  stars,  more  in  char- 
acter. Their  on'ii  character.  Gracie  Allen 
doesn't  attempt  to  be  a  Garbo  on  the  air. 
I  croon  and  keep  on  crooning  and  am  not 
likely  to  fling  myself  suddenly  into  a  Law- 
rence Tibbett  role !  Bob  Burns  is  always 
just  Bob.  Jack  Benny  doesn't  fancy  him- 
self as  Clark  Gable.  But  in  pictures  the 
stars  are  cast  out  of  their  true  characters. 
They  play  parts  which  are  far  from  being 
what  they  actually  are  as  human  beings. 
And,  after  a  while,  the  public  accepts  them 
as  the  characters  they  play.  After  a  while 
they,  themselves,  accept  it.  They  get  into 
the  picture  emotion  and  come  to  believe 
that  they  are  in  pictures  all  of  the  time, 
perpetually  playing  a  part.  They  are  fic- 
tional characters  and  they  begin  to  act 
like  characters  in  fiction. 

"Radio,  too,  is  mostly  comedy.  The 
darker  passions  do  not  hover  over  the 
mike.  It's  informal,  radio.  It's  down  to 
the  earth.  It's  folksy  and  homey.  We're 
invited  to  dinner,  so  to  speak.  We're  a 
part  of  the  family,  of  many  families.  We 
go  into  the  homes. 

"There  are  fewer  problems,  less  grief  in 
radio  work  th.an  in  picture  work.  Which 
helps  toward  peaceful,  happy  home  life, 
too.  A  home  which  is  constantly  har- 
assed by  problems  is  not  so  liable  to  sur- 
vive as  one  where  things  go  smoothly.  In 
pictures  there  are  casting,  costuming, 
lighting,  billing  rushes,  previews  —  all 
manner  of  things  to  cause  mental  stress 
and  strain.  Radio  work  is  cleaner  cut. 
There  are  fewer  angles  to  consider,  to 
worry  about. 

"And  there  is,  too,  a  sense  of  propriety 
on  the  radio.  There  are  more  things  you 
cannot  say  than  there  are  things  you  can 
say.  You  are  hedged  about  with  proprie- 
ties and  conventions  and  Thou-Shalt-Nots. 
Which  is  healthy  for  Hymen! 

"When  you  work  on  the  air.  you  don't 
get  to  know  people  so  well.  If  the  cast  of 
a  broadcast  changes  from  week  to  week, 
the  new  members  of  the  cast  know  each 
other  only  for  that  one  week,  usually. 
When  they  are  working  together  they  are 
working  violently  against  time.  There 
isn't  any  time  to  form  attachments. 

"You  play  in  your  own  backyard  when 
you're  on  the  air,"  smiled  Bing,  "and  it 
gets  to  be  a  habit.  .  .  ." 

"Binggijg!"  called  Dixie's  voice  from 
above,  "have  the  trunks  gone?" 

"No,  dear,"  called  Bing,  "but  I'll  attend 
to  them." 

I  went  out  with  the  trunks. 

I  talked  to  Jack  Benny  in  the  mirrored 
and  foliage-walled  living-room  of  his  home 
in  Beverly  Hills.  The  home  he  leases  from 
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Jack  said :  "When  I  come  home  late  at 
night,  there  ire  times  when  I  feel  like  a 
big  game  hunter!  All  these  murals  of  blue 
trees  and  things  ...  I  get  a  gun  and  there 
are  the  mirrnrs  and  then  there  are  several 
Jack  B(.'nii\<  ])ur^uin,t;  the  unicorn! 
Don't  know  that  it  is  just  the  right  setting 
for  me! 

"But  }-ou  want  to  know  why  I  think 
radio  marriages  succeed  where  movie  mar- 
riages, some  of  them,  let's  -a.\ ,  succumb 

"I've  never  thought  alumt  it.  And  th.at'^ 
your  answer.  We  have  uo  time  tu  think  uf 
'other  men'  or  'other  women'  cui  the  air. 
We  don't  have  time  to  think  m'  anxthinu 
but  the  weekly  program.  We  lia\en't  time 
to  think  (.iir-elve-.  let  al.me  ihe  other 
fellow — (.r  lii>  wile.  There's  nnne  of  this: 
'I  can  have  a  love  affair  if  she  can,'  or 
vice  versa.    None  of  it! 

"Radio  is  too  much  of  a  worry.  Most  of 
us  have  only  the  capacity-  for  mie  big.  ab- 
sorbing wurry  at  a  time.  X -  Mu^ner  are 
you  done  writing  yunr  stuff  for  one 
week's  program  (  I  write  all  of  our  pro- 
grams, with  the  help  of  a  couple  of  gag 
men,  as  we  all  ha\e)  and  rehearsing  and 
broadcasting  that  week's  program,  than 
you  begin  on  the  next  week's.  .\ncl  you're 
much  more  concerned  w  ith  how  good  your 
program  is  than  with  who  is  on  it  with 
you. 

"And  when  you  are  doing  a  broadcast, 
you  do  it  once  and  that  is  that.  In  pictures, 
on  the  other  hand,  if  a  love  scene  is  being 
shot  and  the  first  take  is  bad,  it  must  be 
done  over  and  over  again — until  the  'lovers' 
get  to  like  it ! 

"There  isn't  an\-  second  chance  in  radio. 
No  alibis.  Xo  retakes.  In  picture  work 
there  are  so  many  to  whom  you  can  ]iass 
the  buck.  The  directur.  The  canier.iman. 
The  recording.  The  dialogue  x\riter.  Vdu 
can  see  the  rushes  and  if  >-ou've  ilone  aii\- 
thing  wront;  x'ou  can  xowl  for  a  chance  to 
do  it  over  again.  You  can  catch  the  pre- 
views and  see  where  you  lia\e  erred  and 
rectif\'  your  luistakes  in  the  ne.\t  picture. 
But  on  the  air  you  get  one  chance  and  only 
one.  .A-ud  while  that  tends  to  make  the 
same  two  hearts  beat  as  one,  it  is  a  drain 
on  the  endurance. 

"One  thing  is  sure — if  I  want  to  live 
longer  as  an  entertainer.  I'll  sta\-  on  the 
air.  If  I  want  to  live  longer  as  a  human 
being,  I'll  stick  to  pictures  ! 

"George  is  right  when  he  says  that 
there  is  no  sex  on  the  air.  Ring  is  right 
when  he  says  the  proprieties  are  observed. 
There  have  been  a  few  times  when  I  ha\c 
written  a  sort  of  love  scene  for  Mary  to 
play  with  another  man.  You'd  be  sur- 
prised (I  have  been)  at  the  letters  of  in- 
dignant protest  I  receive.  We  never  an- 
nounce ourselves  as  man  and  wife  on  our 
broadcasts  but  most  of  the  fans  know  that 
we  are  and  resent  any  implication  of  'other' 
men  or  women.  This  is  (|uite  a  different 
atmosphere  from  that  of  moxies.  .\nd  all 
of  us  react  to  our  working  conditions. 

"There  is  less  fevered  competition  on  the 
air.  Less  jealousy.  Xot  only  among  hus- 
bands and  wives  but  among  radio  artists  as 
a  whole.  The  only  rivalry  is  what  the 
newspapers  and  critics  stir  up.  Burns  and 
Allen  have  their  time.  .Mary  and  I  have 
our  time.  One  doesn't  contlict  with  the 
other.  We  are  not  all  hurled  into  one  big 
production,  to  struggle  for  close-ups  and 
top  billing  as  we  may.  ^\  e  are  separate 
entities  doing  our  separate  jobs — just  as 


ANOTHER  DIZZY  SPELL! 


Charles  BuHerwor+h,  comedian  on 
the  Fred  Astaire  Packard  program. 


the  radici  'lovers'  stand  apart  at  separate 
mikes,  even  when  hilling  and  cooing. 

"It  simply  comes  down  to  the  fact  that 
the  life  of  the  radio  artist  is  more  normal 
than  that  of  the  screen  artist  and  so  mar- 
riage is  UKjre  normal,  that's  all.  The  radio 
couples  work  together  in  their  profession 
as  they  work  together,  toward  a  common 
cause,  in  their  homes.  The  husband  is 
still  the  Head  of  the  House  and  the  wife 
knows  it.  \\'hich  is  not  only  the  way  it 
should  be  but  the  wa>-  it  is. 

"It  seems  that  a  movie  star  does  not 
want  to  be  known  as  Mrs.  So-aiid-So.  She 
wants  to  preserve  her  own  individual 
identity.  Radio  wi\es  jn-t  don't  feel  that 
way,  that's  all.  Mo^t  ,,f  us  started  to- 
gether. .Some  of  iiur  wives  were  not  pro- 
fessionals when  we  were  married.  ^lary 
wasn't.  I  met  Mary  when  she  was  work- 
ing in  the  May  Company  Department  store 
here  in  Los  Angeles.  She  had  no  idea  of 
doing  anything  on  stage  or  screen  or 
radio.  But  she  alwa\s  had  a  marvelous 
sense  of  timing,  of  comedy  value,  of  situa- 
tion. When  she  first  went  on  the  air  with 
me.  it  was  with  the  single  idea  of  helping 
me  out  for  that  one  broadcast.  She  never 
dreamed  of  staying  on  the  air.  .And  then 
there  was  such  a  definite  reaction  from 
the  fans,  everyone  liked  her  so  luucli,  her 
voice  went  over  s,,  well,  that  she  has 
stayed  on  the  air  with  nie  e\er  since. 

"But  she  hasn't  the  slightest  objection 
to  being  known  ever\  w  here  as  Mrs.  Jack 
Benny.  She  sa\s  she  would  certaitdy 
rather  be  known  as  Mrs.  Tack  Benn\-  than 
as  Mrs.  Joe  Doakes,  for  ii'isiance  I  She 
is  primaril)-  concerned  with  how  /  ;im  do- 
ing. She  still  feels— and  how  right  she  is  I 
— that  she  is  'helping  Jack'  .  .  .  W  hich  is," 
said  the  business-like,  horn-riiumed-spec- 
tacled  and  very  good-looking  Mr.  r.enny. 
"the  way  a  wile  sh.nild  feel.  \\\-  tr.aiii  'em 
right — on  the  air  1  I'red  .Mien's  wile  feel- 
the  same.  And  so  does  (ir.icie.  make  no 
mistake  about  it.  She  occupies  the  fore- 
ground on  their  broadcast  but  she  knows 
that  George  writes  the  stuff  and  that  'the 
plays  the  thing.'  And  that's  what  counts, 
that's  what  keeps  marriage  stable — what 
your  wife  knows. 

"We  work  too  hard.  We  worry  too 
hard.  And  we  work  and  worry  togctlicr. 
which  doesn't  allow  any  loopholes  for  the 
roaming  eye  or  the  restless  heart.  That's 
my  answer." 


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lustre  of  your  hair,  the  gloriou.s.  natural  golden  radiance 
that  usually  comes  only  In  childhood.  This  amazing 
Shampoo — called  the  New  Biondcx — hitherto  used  only  tor 
blondes — followed  with  the  New  Blondejt  Special  Hinse 
(supplied  free  along  with  Blondex  Shampoo),  Is  now  ju.U 
as  effective  with  browns,  chestnuts  and  "near  blondes." 
whose  hair  has  grown  darkened  and  dull.  Start  the  Now 
Blondex  today.  Contains  no  bleach  or  dye.  The  new  2  in  1 
combination  packaxc  now  alio  in  IOC  size. 


THIS  BUSINESS  OF  BEING 
BOMANTIC 


{Continued  from  page  31) 


warm-hearted,  they  did  not  hesitate.  Alaybe 
a  yuuns  band-leader,  with  fame  and  for- 
tune still  In  lie  WDii,  wniildii't  make  a  .suc- 
eessful  liusliaiui.  Ma_\lie  a  bew'iteliin.s; 
l)lnnde  girl  with  little  exiierienee,  little 
knowledge  of  life,  wouldn't  make  the  sort 
of  wife  a  struggling  musician  should 
have.  It  didn't  matter.  They  loved  each 
uther.  \\  hate\er  came,  oi  joy  or  sorrow, 
of  success  ur  hardshiii,  they  had  to  share 
it.  Whatever  happened,  love  would  not 
fail  tk.em. 

Maybe  the  music  he  played  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  it.  Those  snft,  beguiling 
strains  that  echoed  the  \earning  nl  their 
hearts.  To  these  Nuiing  lovers,  as  to  many 
others,  "Music  1  heard  wilh  y(<i<  :eas  more 
llhiii  music—and  hrcad  I  l>rokc  'Willi  yon 
was  more  than  l>rcad." 

And  so  they  were  married.  .And  ro- 
mance, they  found,  was  not  just  the  quick- 
ening heartbeat  to  tender  music,  not  merely 
moonlight  and  magic  of  a  summer's  night. 
Romance  was  living  together,  doing  things 
together,  sharing  little  things  and  big. 
Romance  was  marriage. 

"Is  Lily  Belle  a  musician?"  I  asked 
Guy. 

He  smiled  indulgently.  "No.  .  .  .  Oh, 
she  plays  the  piano  a  little,  by  ear.  .  .  . 
But  we  like  the  same  things.  We  enjoy 
dcMig  anything  together.  She  likes  fish- 
ing, as  I  do.  She  has  landed  some  mighty 
big  tuna,  too!  We  both  like  to  swim.  We 
are  fond  of  anything  connected  with  the 
water.  Like  to  be  on  it  as  much  as  pos- 
sible. We  have  two  boats,"  he  said 
modestly. 

Boats?  Rowboats?  Yachts?  1  inquired 
for  particulars. 

"One  is  a  speedboat,"  said  Guy,  grin- 
ning. "It's  great  fun.  Its  name  is  Tempo." 

"And  the  other?"  I  probed. 

"It's  named  Tempo,  too!"  He  lau.ghed. 
"We  live  on  it  whenever  we  can — near 
where  I  am  broadcasting,  or  cruising 
around." 

"llow  l)i,t;  is  it?"  I  asked.  ".\nd  do  you 
caiiy  a  crew?" 

"It's  around  fifty  feet— and  the  crew 
is  only  the  Captain  and  a  boy."  He  smiled. 
"l.il\  Belle  did  all  the  decorating  on  it," 
Ik'  added  proudly. 

"Radio,"  I  muse<l,  "makes  the  romance 
of  life  more  endm-int;,  doesn't  it?  The 
tosetlurness,  the  sharing  things  .\ou  love 
— not  torn  aiiart  by  your  career,  as  movie 
stars  so  often  are." 

"R.idio,"  (  ui>'  .agreed  fervently,  "is  mar- 
velous.   .XotliiiiL;  else  can  equal  it." 

■'W.iiilil  _\ou  like  to  do  more  movie 
work?"  I  asked,  remembering  that  be  had 
in.ide  ,-1  picture  in  IIo1Inw.>o(1  1,is1  ye.ar. 
"Or  would  it  change  l<io  greatly  the  way 
of  life  MJU  like  so  niueli  '" 

"I  liked  1  lollxuood,  '  he  conceded.  "I'm 
going  out  in  the  spnii;;  to  make  another 
])ieture.  Going  there  lor  the  first  time  was 
an  experience.  .  .  .  Seeing  ,ill  the  movie 
stars.  .  .  .  Ihit  it  won't  have  that  same 
lln-ill  a  second  time.  I  w(jrked  hard  there — " 
he  smiled,  "had  to  get  up  at  five-thirty,  to 
he  on  the  set,  all  made-up,  at  seven-thirty. 


And  we  worked  till  seven  at  night.  After 
that  we  were  too  tired  to  gad  about !  We 
did  go  out  some,  of  course — Lily  Belle  and 
I — we  went  often  to  Palm  Springs,  with 
one  or  two  friends.  The  sea  .  .  ."  he 
murmured  reminiscently. 

".\nd  Holl)  \vood  didn't  give  you  a  wan- 
cierin.g  eye?" 

He  laughed.  "If  you  have  a  wandering 
e\e,  there's  plenty  of  opportunity  there  for 
it!  There  are  plenty  of  temptations,  if  you 
are  looking  for  them."  But  he  said  it  in- 
differently, as  one  for  whom  the  words 
had  no  reality.  "I  think,"  he  considered 
the  subject  of  movie  matrimonial  tangles, 
"that  marriage  is  a  difficult  proposition  for 
two  people  with  careers.  It's  more  secure 
with  only  one  career  in  the  family." 

For  careerists,  we  agreed,  the  ruling  pas- 
sion seldom  is  love.  Fame  and  fortune 
come  first.  Love  and  romance  take  a  lesser 
place. 

"Radio,"  Guy  reiterated,  "gives  you  a 
much  more  normal  life.  You  can  have 
your  home  and  enjoy  it.  Wherever  we 
are,"  he  said  earnestly,  "we  have  a  home." 

"And  where  do  you  live,"  I  asked  him, 
"when  you're  not  on  the  boat  ?'' 

"We  keep  an  apartment  in  town.  .  .  .  But 
my  father  and  mother  have  a  home  in 
Connecticut  now  and  we  all — my  brothers 
and  their  wives  and  Lily  Belle  and  I — get 
together  out  there  a  lot.  My  father  is 
raising  horses  now.  We  have  some  good 
riding  horses.  We  all  love  to  ride." 

Lombardo  Senior  was  born  in  Italy. 
When  he  settled  in  Canada  he  followed  the 
tailoring  profession.  But,  like  all  Italians, 
music  was  his  birthright.  And  the  little 
Lombardo  boys  sang  as  soon  as  they  could 
talk,  played  as  soon  as  they  could  handle 
an  instrument.  Old,  tender,  sentimental 
songs,  classical  and  opera  music  and  new 
and  popular  airs — all  were,  in  a  sense, 
their  native  tongue. 

But  instrumental  music  appealed  to  the 
boys,  Carmen,  X'ictor,  Leibert  and  Guy. 
And  when  Guy,  the  oldest  of  the  brothers, 
was  twelve  years  old,  he  organized  a  band 
with  his  brothers  and  half  a  dozen  other 
boys.  The  Canadians,  they  called  them- 
selves. And  later,  proudl)  ,  the  Royal  Can- 
adians. .\s  they  grew  up  they  developed 
their  organization,  [ilaying  in  concerts,  in 
load-houses,  earning  a  lean  living,  but 
carr\inK  on  with  amlhtion  and  eagerness. 

Carmen  Lombardo  is  the  soloist  of  the 
band,  and  the  (July  new  members  of  the  or- 
ganization in  si.x  years  are  Frank  V'ege- 
neau,  pianist,  and  Dudley  Fosdick,  mcllo- 
phone  player. 

The  band  made  its  lO.Vo  debut  on  Sep- 
temher  si.xtli  in  the  new  program,  Loiii- 
I'lirdo  Time.  It  still  is  known  as  the  Royal 
Canadians,  however,  and  still  plays  for 
its  theme  song  .Uild  Lani/  Syne.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  program  it  is  playing  its  second 
season  at  the  l\oosc\elt  Grill  and  broad- 
casting tw(i  dance  schedules  over  the  CBS 
iielwoik.  Not  to  mention  frequent  engage- 
ments for  concerts,  for  college  proms  and 
other  affairs. 

It  was  in  Cleveland  that  they  had  their 


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RADIO  STARS 


The  speedboat  "Tempo"  races  out  of  New  York  harbor  with  Skipper 
Guy  Lombardo  on  the  bow.  The  romance  and  rhythm  of  the  water  never 
fail  to  thrill  Guy — an  emotion  his  wife,   Lily   Belle,  shares  with  him. 


first  radio  engagement.  In  Cleveland  where 
Guy  met  Lily  Belle.  And  there's  a  tender 
note  in  his  voice  when  he  says  Cleveland. 
Guy  remembers.  It's  significant,  I  think, 
that  the  Lombardo  theme  song  is  Auld 
Lang  Sync.  Guy  never  forgets  old  tender 
moments.  Old  familiar  music  always  is  a 
part  of  his  repertoire. 

"People  like  to  hear  it."  he  says.  "Even 
young  people.  When  we  play  for  college 
dances,  they  always  request  some  of  the 
old  songs.  Some  of  the  new  ones  are  good, 
too,"  he  commented.  "I  think  Smoke  Gets 
ill  Your  Exes  will  always  be  popular.  And 
Did  I  Reniewher/  is  a  beautiful  song.  But 
the  old  songs  bring  back  memories — even 
if  they're  not  personal  memories.  They 
recreate  a  happier  time,  when  life  was  not 
so  complicated. 

"Life."  Gu\  mused  thoughtfully,  "is  in- 
volved, difficult,  now.  .  .  .  There  are  great 
problems  facing  all  of  us.  I  don't  agree — 
maybe  I'm  wrong — with  the  people  who 
are  trying  to  frighten  us  with  the  idea  that 
this  country  is  going  to  disaster  as  sonu 
others  have.  But  it  is  a  time  for  serious 
thought  .  .  ." 

"Are  you  going  to  vote  in  November:" 
I  asked  him.  "Or  aren't  you  an  -American 
citizen  ?" 

"I  am,"  Guy  said  proudlx  ,  "an  American 
citizen— all  but  the  final  word.  Wc  all  are. 
Our  papers  are  all  in — but  I'm  afraid  they 
won't  go  through  before  November.  I 
never  have  voted,"  he  went  on.  "I  left 
Canada  before  I  was  twenty-one.  I  wish  I 
could  vote  now — I  know  how  I  would  vote 
— but  I  won't  be  able  to  this  fall." 

A  thoughtful  young  man,  I  reflected,  this 
eldest  of  the  Lombardo  brothers.  One  who 
takes  life  seriously,  sure  of  its  values.  Not 
a  playboy.  A  successful  musician.  A  proud 
and  contented  husband.  .A  home  lover.  A 
father? 


lias  a  little  bov 


.1/,; 


>aid  Guy. 
1-  was  first 
)ld  us  we 
r,  over  the 

the  name 

"  he  went 


"How  is  it."  I  asked  him.  "that 
not  raising  up  anotiier  gencratioi 
Lombardo  band?" 

He  looked  away.  "X'icto 
he  said  prcsentlv.  ".\  fine 
old.  And  we  have  a  little 
old,"    he    added  eagerly, 
good  as  having  a  daiiuhtc 

"Her  name  is  Ro-c  M 
"She  was  born  when  I\',>s<- 
playing.  Father  and  Mothi 
couid  name  her — so  we  nanu 
radio — Rose   Marie."    He  ^ 
lovingly. 

"Every  year,  on  iier  birti 
on.  "we  play  Rose  Marie  .  .  . 

"She's   very  musical,   too — "    his  eyes 
glowed  softly.  "She  won  two  prizes  for 
singing — and  not  on  her  name,  either.  And 
she  had  no  help  from  liie  faniil>-  in  winnin.u 
them.  -  She  was  gi\en  a  son>;  t 
an  hour.  And  the  jud-e^  who  li^t 
;.no\\   thr  n.inie-  oi  tlic  Mnu.  r.. 
had  Hunil)ci>.  She  won  a  pri/e 
was  eight  and  another  w  iien  >lie 

Such  a  warmth  of  afi^ection,  o 
of  pride  in  his  voice!  He 
father,  I  thought.  Again 
probe.  .And  again  he  looked  away  for  a 
moment.  His  smile,  when  his  eyes  came 
back  to  me,  was  a  tride  wistful.  "I'd  like  to 
.  .  .  We  want  a  child.  Lily  lielle  is  crazy 
about  children  ...  If  we  can't  have  any — 
we're  going  to  adopt  one — maybe  two  .  .  ." 

So  unalTected  all  his  answers  are.  So 
honest.  It's  easy  to  see  the  measure  of 
the  man.  Easy  to  believe  that  his  life  essen- 
tially is  as  harmonious  as  the  melodies  he 
loves  to  play. 

If  this  is  the  business  of  being  romantic, 
surely  it  warms  the  heart.  A  great  guy? 
Why  not?  Certainly  a  genuine,  frank, 
sincere  and  friendly  man,  this  Guy  Lom- 
bardo of  the  Ruyal  Canadians. 


>iie  was  nnie, 
)n,  of  devotion, 
ougiit  to  be  a 
I  ventured  to 


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TECHNIQUE  AFTER  MARRIAGE 


{Continued  from  page  28) 


It's  all  done  with  mirrors,"  says  comedian  Joe  E.  Brown,  as  he  trains 
his  camera  on  Ethel  Merman,  popular  blues  singer.  Ethel  returned  aboard 
the  "Queen  Mary"  recently,  from  a  European  vacation. 


"To  keep  the  man — that  is  the  hard 
theeng — not  to  get  heem  in  the  first  place. 
The  man,  he  theenk  like  this :  What  you 
have  not  got,  that  is  what  you  want 
more  as  anytheeng  else.  You  see?  So  he 
have  not  got  some  other  woman.  He  want 
her,  then,  more  as  anytheeng  else.  He 
have  got  hees  wife;  he  do  not  want  her 
like  he  want  her  before  he  get  her. 
You  see?" 

It  required  some  mental  effort — but  I 
saw.  I  tried  to  get  a  question  in  edgewise, 
but  it  was  like  trying  to  bail  out  the  Flud- 
son  river  with  a  bucket. 

Fifi  went  on  explosively : 

"When  the  woman  is  the  sweetheart  and 
she  is  waiting  for  the  man  to  propose,  she 
shows  him  always  iier  most  charming  self, 
and  she  llicciik  and  she  theenk  all  the  time 
how  she  make  herself  desirable  so  he  will 
want  to  marry  her.  Then,  after  she  get 
heem,  she  no  longer  bother  to  theenk,  .Slie 
sa\-  t(i  herself:  T  am  desirable,  because 
dou^  he  not  wish  to  marry  me?'  And  she 
tiieenk  siie  stay  always  just  as  desirable. 
You  see?" 

I  said  no,  I  didn't  see  exactly,  because 
I  wanted  to  hear  Fifi  say  "desirable"  again. 
She  pronounced  it  "daisy-rohhlc"  and  it 
sounded  delicious ! 

"Now  e\er'i)ody  know  that  ees  not  so. 
Evcr'body  know  nios'  busi)ands  they — what 
you  call  ?--cbcat.  Is  that  not  so?  You  say 
do  I  trust  my  .Maurice?  Sure.  I  trust  my 
Maurice.  But  I  don't  trust  all  the  other 
women  in  the  world.  You  bet  you  life!  I 
love — ooh,  I  adore  my  Maurice!  Maybe 


some  other  woman,  she  adore  heem,  too. 
Maybe  she  do  not  even  mean  to  make 
trouble.  Maybe  she  just  want  to  flirt 
weeth  my  Maurice.  But  flirt,  it  ees  like  the 
dynamite.  You  start  it  and  where  it 
feeneesh?  Nobody  know  that." 

Fifi  paused  to  let  the  point  sink  in.  "So 
maybe  I  better  not  go  on  the  road.  May- 
be I  better  stay  home.  Eef  Maurice  he 
have  no  chance  for  get  in  trouble — maybe 
he  stay  out  of  trouble." 

"But  don't  you  think  husbands  and  wives 
ought  to  be  apart  for  a  little  while,  some- 
times?" I  ventured,  for  I  had  heard  that 
from  eminent  authorities. 

"Oooh,  yes.  Sure.  You  bet  you  life! 
For  a  lectle  while.  I-'or  one  week,  two 
weeks,  three  weeks  — no  more.  Never  no 
more.  You  leave  \(itii-  luisliand  more  as 
three  weeks — and  he  find  out  be  can  leeve 
wizout  you,  after  all.  Maybe  he  even  have 
a  good  time,  eh?" 

Fifi  winked  roguishly. 

"Sure,  he  mees  vou.  He  mees  you  ver' 
much  the  first  week,  he  mees  you  the 
second  week,  maybe  he  even  mees  you  the 
third  week — but  not  no  more.  .After  that 
he  do  not  mees  you.  He  say  :  ' .\\\  right. 
She  is  go  away.  Ho-hum !  I  see  what  I  can 
find  to  do  wiz  myself  tonight.'  Then  he  go 
out — and  maybe  he  never  come  back.  May- 
be go  out  wiz  ze  boys.  Maybe  ze  boys  zey 
have  ze  girl  friend.  Maybe  ze  boys'  girl 
friend,  she  like  your  husband.  She  say : 
'Onh,  la  la,  see  who  is  here!'  But  sure,  it 
is  good  sometimes  the  wife  go  away — if 
she  do  not  go  away  longer  as  three  weeks. 


RADIO  STARS 


"Maybe  the  husband,  he  is  getting  tired 
of  her.  He  sees  her  around  all  the  time, 
every  day.  Now  the  wife,  she  notice  that. 
Eef  she  is  smart,  then  she  say  to  heem, 
she  say :  "I  theenk  maybe  I  go  see  my 
mamma.  I  do  not  see  my  mamma  for  a 
long  while.  I  do  not  know  how  long  I 
stay.  Goodbye,  iiion  (idorahlr .'  and  she 
give  him  the  beeg  hug  and  the  beeg.  becg 
kiss.  Then,  when  she  cuuie  hack,  be  look 
at  her  weetb  new  eyes. 

"Then,  of  C(iurs.c,  tbo  wife  -be  must 
watch  alwa\s  the  aiipcarancc.  Sure,  maybe 
she  does  not  have  the  chic.  But  she  can 
change  the  appearance,  so  the  husband,  he 
will  not  always  look  at  her  and  see  the 
same  face.  It  is  very  simple,  oh,  so  simple, 
to  change  the  appearance." 

I  agreed  wholelicartedl\ ,  for  Fifi  was 
a  living  example  of  the  truth  of  her  own 
statement.  She  has  never  looked  more 
ravishing.  She  has  let  her  hair  return  to 
its  natural  soft  russet  brown,  clustering 
around  her  face  in  feminine  waves  instead 
of  the  old  artificial  lacquer  black.  Slic  has 
a  new  make-up ;  her  eyebrows  are  re- 
shaped in  gentle  arches.  I'd  have  had  to 
look  twice  to  recognize  her  if  we'd  met 
on  the  street. 

"The  hair,  you  let  it  grow  long,  if  it 
was  short.  If  it  was  long,  you  cut  it  off. 
You  go  to  the  hairdresser  and  the  hair- 
dresser he  cut  the  hair  ditferent.  But  the 
American  women,  they  know  that.  The 
American  women  are  the  mos'  chic  in  all 
the  world.  But  you  know  what  the  .Ameri- 
can woman  does?" 

Fifi  had  the  air  of  one  about  to  impart 
the  dark  secret  of  where  Lord  Desmond 
Montague  has  hidden  the  papers.  She 
leaned  over  and  whi>pered : 

"The  .\merican  woman,  she  dresses  more 
to  make  the  impression  on  the  other  women 
than  to  please  her  husband!  She  is  wrong! 
I  tell  you  something,  something  that  is 
very  important.  When  the  bride  makes  her 
trousseau,  she  buys  pretty  underwear  and 
pretty  nightgowns.  Then  slie  is  married. 
So  when  she  bu\-5  more  underwear  and 
more  nightgowns,  what  does  she  sa\? 
'Ah,  those  are  pretty  nightgowns,  and 
those  are  prett\'  underwear,'  she  ja\-,  'but 
they  do  not  last  lon.a,'  she  say.  So  she  buy 
the  underwear  and  the  ni.nhtsown  that 
are  not  so  pretty,  but  they  last  longer. 
Ah,  she  make  the  beeg  nii>take  there!  Her 
husband  see  the  ugly  underwear  and  the 
u,gly  nightgown.  He  say  to  her,  he  say : 
'That  is  right.  You  buy  the  underwear 
and  the  nightgf)wn  that  last  a  long  time.' 
That  is  what  he  say.  But  what  he  theenk? 
.■\h,  that  is  different!  He  theenk:  'Iliininn.' 
he  theenk:  'Seems  to  me  >lie  looks  iirettier 
when  we  are  married.'  Oh,  yes,  I  tell 
you  a  treeck  !  .-\  good  treeck  ! 

"Some  night  }ou  are  staxing  at  home 
with  your  husband.  Ju>t  you  and  your 
husband.  You  are  all  alone,  >-ou  two  to- 
gether. You  go  into  your  bedroom  and 
you  lock  the  door.  He  sits  down.  He  reads 
the  paper.  Then,  a  little  while,  you  come 
out  and  you  sit  down.  Then  after  while, 
maybe  he  looks  up  and  he  sees  you.  You 
do  not  say  anything.  He  looks  and  he  looks 
and  he  looo'ks !  'Onh,  la  la,'  lie  says.  'But 
ma  cherie,  my  sweetheart,  you  are  Ires 
chanuante !' 

"For,  while  you  are  in  the  bedroom,  and 
the  door  is  locked,  you  have  put  on  a  beau- 
tiful negligee,  you  have  made  up  your  face 
so  pretty,  you  have  put  the  perfume  behind 


the  ear,  you  have  come  out  where  he  is 
reading  the  paper  and  you  have  surprise 
him ! 

"You  are  maybe  shocked  I  tell  you 
that  treeck?  .Ah,  that  is  the  trouble  with 
the  American  women.  They  are  ashamed 
to  be  sweethearts.  They  theenk  to  be  the 
sweetheart  is  not — what  you  call? — not 
respectable.  They  want  to  be  just  the  WMfe. 
That  is  bad." 

Fifi  shook  her  head  i)it\ingl\-. 

"That  is  not  their  fault,  maxbe,  Thc\ 
are  so  brought  up.  Tlu'\-  hide  tlieir  heai 
in  the  sand  like  the  ostrich  and  tlu-\  jire 
tend  that  because  their  hu>band  i>  niarriei 
now,  no  lonuer  is  he  a  man!  The\'  theenk 
they  cook,  they  sew.  tbe\  be  the  good  little 
wife  and  he  will  always  love  them  because 
they  are  the  good  little  wife.  But  noi! 
Sometimes  the  husband,  be — what  \(iu  call? 
— he  fall  for  the  bad  little  .uirl  !  N  tiiai 
not  true?" 

Fifi  spread  lier  bands  outward,  palms  up, 
m  an  expressive  gesture. 

"Lc  ban  Dicu,  he  made  the  men  that 
way,''  she  declared  piously.  "Now  my 
Maurice — " 

That,  incidentallx',  was  the  longest  I'd 
heard  Fifi  talk  since  her  marriage  with- 
out mentioning  "my  Maurice." 

"My  Maurice,  he  love  me  e\-en  if  I  can- 
not cook  tiie  cake  and  bake  the  pie.  I  am 
not  the  good  housekeeper.  But  that  1  can 
learn.  In  schools  I  can  learn  that.  But  I 
am  the  good  sweetheart  to  my  Maurice. 
That  is  why  he  love  ine.  All  men  want 
first  the  sweetheart,  who  will  \o\c  them 
and  be  tender. 

"Too,  they  like  the  woman  who  satis- 
fies their  ego.  .\1I  men  have  the  beeg  ego. 
They  want  to  be  proud  of  their  wife. 
Maybe  she  can  play  gidf  so-o-o  good — but 
never,  never  better  than  he  can  play  golf — 
or  ma\be  she  can  do  something  else  very, 
very  good.  The  man,  he  likes  that.  In- 
side himself,  he  is  theenking :  'This  won- 
derful, wonderful  jjcrMin,  who  can  play 
golf  so-o-o  good,  she  belong  to  me!'  That 
please  heem  very  much.  "But  /  am  her 
master.'  he  theenk.  That  please  heem  very 
much  more.  Then  the  man.  he  theenk  :  "I 
am  the  beeg  shot !' 

".And  when  the  man  theenk  he  is  the 
becg  shot,  he  go  out  and  he  is  smarter 
than  all  the  other  men  and  he  make  a  lot 
of  money  and  he  buy  for  tliee>  wonderful 
woman  the  fur  coat-  and  the  diamond 
reengs  and  the  motor  car-  and  lie  i-  \ery 
pleased,  with  himself  iK-cau-e  he  do  this. 
You  know  how  the  men  alwa>s  brag  to 
the  other  men  about  their  lo\e  affairs?  You 
know  why  they  do  that?  Because  that 
makes  tiicm  feel  like  the  beeg  shot. 

"Now  the  wife,  she  must  always  shoic 
the  man  she  love  heem  very  much.  She 
must  be  tender,  sweet,  hug  heem.  ki-s  heem 
with  the  beeg  kiss.  But  she  mu-t  do  this  onl\ 
when  he  is  in  the  mood.  The  man  does  not 
like  the  woman  who  nags  heem  because  he 
does  not  remember  to  kees  her.  .\ot  always 
does  the  man  remember  that.  Sometimes  he 
is  so  busy  theenking  how  he  will  be  more 
smart  as  the  other  man  in  his  busmess,  he 
will  forget.  The  wife  she  must  not  mind 
that.    She  must  not  nag  heem — not  ever  ! 

".Vh,  there  is  so  much  the  woman  must 
know!  So  many  things  she  must  do  an(' 
so  many  things  she  niu>t  not  do  if  sh 
wants  to  hold  the  man  I  It  is  a  hard  jol 
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in  bed  to  garner  your  strength  and  spend 
other  time  for  massage  and  expert  treat- 
ment. And  the  rest  of  your  day  isn't  very 
ilcasant  for  other  people,  what  with 
jangling  nerves  making  you  feel  very 
precious  and  self-important. 

Appearance  just  doesn't  mean  that  much 
to  Kate  Smith.  She  goes  in  for  funda- 
mentals, that  girl. 

"Being  big,  the  way  I  am,  hasn't  kept 
me  from  anything  I  ever  wanted  yet," 
she  says.  "It  hasn't  kept  mc  from  dancing 
or  walking  or  playing  golf  and  tennis  or 
any  of  the  things  I  love  doing.  I've  never 
been  short  of  wind  or  felt  hampered  in 
any  way.  If  I  did,  it  woidd  be  different.  If 
I  began  to  feel  tired  all  the  time,  or  if  my 
health  were  threatened,  I'd  do  something 
about  it  inuuediately.  But  as  long  as  I  feel 
the  way  I  do,  strong  and  alive,  there  are 
things  that  seem  much  more  impor- 
tant to  me  than  losing  weight. 

"And  if  the  time  ever  comes  when  I  feel 
that  I  should  reduce,  I  won't  do  it  by  diet. 
That  would  be  unnatural  for  me,  anyway, 
because  it's  a  question  of  glands  with  me. 
I  was  a  skinny  kid,  the  kind  mothers 
worry  about  and  try  to  fatten  up.  Then,  in 
my  middle  'teens,  suddenly  I  began  gain- 
ing. Now  that  doctors  know  more  about 
glands,  they've  told  me  the  reason  for  it. 
In  the  beginning  it  was  a  mystery  to  the 
whole  family. 

"I  didn't  spend  much  time  in  thinking 
about  it,  though.  I  was  in  high  school  then 
and  my  principal  concern  was  getting  the 
leads  in  the  school  plays  and  trying  to 
keep  up  with  my  studies  in  the  best  way  I 
could.  They  didn't  mean  much  to  me. 
GeoiTietry  and  languages  and  shorthand 
seemed  awfully  unimportant  beside  sing- 
ing." 

Some  girls,  gaining  weight  like  that  at 
a  time  when  they're  just  beginning  to  grow 
up,  at  a  time  when  parties  and  beaus  are 
beginning  to  be  so  all  important,  would 
have  been  downed  by  that  experience.  They 
would  have  grown  into  themselves,  carried 
a  chip  on  their  shoulder.  Their  whole  lives 
might  have  become  thwarted  because  of  it. 
But  not  Kate  Smith.  And  because  she 
didn't  care,  nobody  else  did  either. 

She  never  knew  what  it  was  to  be  un- 
popular. A  party?  Why  it  wasn't  any- 
thing without  Kale  there  to  sing  those 
songs  of  hers  and  give  her  big  friendly 
greeting  to  ever\()nc.  lU.iiis?  She  never 
lacked  them  any  more  lli:m  she  lacked 
friends.  ;\nd  every  term,  wlien  the  school 
play  was  given,  there  was  Kate  singing  her 
rt  out  and  making  e\eryl)ody  feel  wanri 
ippy  just  in  listening  to  her. 
idn't  sto]!  her  from  making  a  sensa- 
tion at  the  Capitol,  either,  when  she  first 
came  lo  .\cw  YnrU,  singing  there  a  summer 
through  at  a  period  when  one-week  en- 
gagemeiUs  were  the  rule,  or  from  getting 
a  silver  loving  cup  froiu  the  Palace  to 
commemorate  the  longest  run  ever  given 
to  a  star,  in  the  days  when  the  Palace  was 
tile  old  Palace  and  the  ultra  in  vaudeville. 
And  it  didn't  stop  her  from  going  on  into 
musical  comedy  and  repeating  her  trimuphs 
and  from  becoming  tojjs  in  radio  and  hold- 
Mig  that  i)osition  for  seven  years. 


Nor  did  it  stop  men  from  being  in- 
terested in  her,  in  spite  of  her  evident 
lack  of  interest  in  them,  except  as  friends 
and  luisiness  partners.  And  that  ring  she 
wears  on  the  third  finger  of  her  left  hand 
— the  platinum  one  with  the  huge  square- 
cut,  blue  diamond — it  doesn't  mean  a  thing, 
to  hear  her  tell  it. 

"No,  I'm  not  engaged."  Her  eyes 
twinkled  in  (|uick  amusement-.  "I  bought 
it  for  myself.  No,  it  really  doesn't  mean 
a  thing  !" 

It  was  a  siiuple  statement  of  fact,  but 
there  have  been  other  statements  deny- 
ing possible  engagements,  made  just  as 
casually,  by  women  seemingly  as  uncon- 
cerned as  Kate  was  now.  Statements  that 
were  to  be  disi)roved  in  short  order  by 
the  souufi  of  wedding  bells.  So,  your 
guess  is  as  good  as  anyone's  and  that  in- 
cludes mine,  too. 

There  are  men  who  have  loved  Kate 
Smith.  To  hear  her  tell  it,  there's  nothing 
to  it.  But  listen  to  what  she  says  and  see 
what  you  think. 

"There's  a  man  down  South  who's  been 
sending  me  letters.  I  haven't  read  them, 
because  all  my  fan  mail  is  taken  care  of 
b\-  my  secretary  and  by  Ted  Collins,  my 
manager,  and  they  don't  give  me  letters 
they  feel  might  upset  me.  But  they've 
told  me  about  him.  This  man  is  evidently 
a  crank,  for  he  writes  to  me  as  if  I  were 
his  old  sweetheart  and  claims  Ted  Collins 
won  me  away  from  him.  At  first  there 
were  only  the  letters.  Then  he  began 
sending  me  jewelry,  very  good  jewelry,  too, 
and  we  were  afraid  he  might  have  stolen 
it.  So  we  got  in  touch  with  the  Postal 
Authorities  and  they  decided  to  investigate 
it. 

"The  man  proved  that  he  had  bought  the 
jewelry  and  refused  to  take  it  back,  saying 
it  was  mine  and  I  was  to  have  it.  We 
have  it  in  a  safe  deposit  box  now,  hoping 
that  some  day  he  will  allow  us  to  return 
it.  Certainly  I  don't  feel  that  it  belongs 
to  me." 

There  have  been  other  men,  men  Kate 
Smith  thinks  of  as  pitiful.  One  waited  for 
her  after  a  broadcast  one  night  and  in- 
sisted she  was  the  wife  who  had  left  him 
a  few  years  before. 

"Don't  you  know  me,  Rebecca?"  he 
asked  and  became  so  bewildered  when  Ted 
Collins  tried  to  convince  him,  that  he 
finally  had  to  be  sent  to  Bellevue  for 
observation.  But  there  was  nothing  wrong 
with  him.  Only  that  obsession  about  the 
wife  who  had  deserted  him  and  the  sub- 
stitution he  had  made  for  her  in  the 
woman  who  represeiUed  love  to  him.  The 
woiuan  _\-ou  all  know  as  Kate  Smith. 

11icre  is  the  man  in  Poughkeepsie,  too, 
who  never  has  revealed  his  identity  and 
writes  her  letters  such  as  Romeo  might 
have  written  to  Juliet.  And  there  was 
the  letter  from  a  man  mourning  his  dead 
^\\  rcllu'art,  telling  Kate  he  was  going  to 
(duimit  suicide  the  next  time  he  heard  her 
sing  a  certain  song  over  the  air.  For  the 
girl  he  lo\cd  had  sung  that  song. 

Of  course,  Kate  didn't  sing  that  song. 
l'"veii  though  there  had  been  many  requests 
for  it  and  it  had  been  scheduled  for  her 


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next  broadcast.  It  was  very  popular  at  the 
time.  P'very  singer  included  it  in  his 
repertoire.  'l"he  man  must  ha\c  listened  ti> 
it  over  and  over  again  and  \et  he  could 
endure  hearing  it  ^nng  1)\  these  other  sing- 
ers. But  he  knew  he  would  hreak  if  Kate 
Smith  sang  that  song. 

.\gain  a  man's  love  for  another  woman 
was  tangled  into  a  dream  in  which  Kate 
Smith  became  at  once  tin-  beginning  ;ind 
the  end.  To  all  these  men  she  was  caught 
up  in  an  emotion  that,  neurotic  as  it  may 
seem  to  others,  was  \er\    real  to  ilu-m. 

There  are  other  letters  from  men  in  her 
fan  mail.  From  \  (iung  l)o\  s  telling  her 
how  they  tune  in  to  he 
they  are  with  the  girl  tl 
they  sit  there  together  lis 
how  their  lo\e  grows  with  I- 

These   are   the   letters  tha 
Smith  the  hajipiest.  Tlusr 
mal  letters  that  prove  how 
by  those  she  sings  to. 

"You  know   I'm   very  pr( 
ne\er  received  a  poison-jien 
threatening"  one,"  she  said, 
as  a  tribute.    Most  of  m\  i 
mothers  telling  me  thai  h'l 
cough  is  better  now,  oi  il 
his  toothache  listening  lo  n 
night,  or  that  N'ell  has  nan- 
for  Aunt  Kate 
dren  write  to 


to  the  office  straight  from  his  sick  bed  and 
1  was  worried  about  m\  secrel.iry,  who 
had  opened  it  and  handlnl  i).  \\  c  crK - 
lirated,  the  day  ue  knew  tli.it  she  had 
passed  the  period  of  possibk'  contagion. 
It  really  was  an  awful  time  for  ns  to 
go  through. 


the 


progr.im  w neu 
V'  lo\e  .-md  how 
ning  to  her  and 

ni.ike  Kate 
loyant,  iior- 
he   is  loved 

d  that  I've 
1  U'tter  nor  a 
■■|   take  that 
n'l  comes  from 

ii\'s  whooiiiny 

lo  MIC  siug  the  other 
uame<l  her  new  doll 
And  sometimes  the  chil- 
■  and  it's  almost  as  if  I 
know  them  all,  ;is  if  I'm  really  the  Aunt 
Kate  they  usually  call  me. 

"Once  our  office  was  thrown  into  an  up- 
roar when  a  letter  came  from  a  little  boy 
who  had  scarlet  fever.    The  letter  came 


w  hen 


"I  lo\e  my  fan  mail  and  I 
l)eoplc  w  ho  send  it  lo  me,  ( )nl.\  some- 
times letters  make  me  nnhaiip>-,  tor  there 
are  so  many  asknig  for  nione\  ;nul  help. 
I  don't  think  these  people  lan  know  luwv 
many  requests  like  that  come  in.  That, 
if  the}-  were  all  to  be  helix-d.  it  would  take 
many  times  the  amount  of  mone\  1  conld 
possibly  earn  to  do  it.  Som 
these  letters  have  been  .iwliill 
have  investigated  the  ..iscs 
they've  pro\-ed  t<i  In-  re;ill\  n 
done  something.  I'.ut  lov  the 
give  what  I  can  to  I'eople  I  kn 
help  and  to  organized  iliarili 
the  facilities  for  dea 
Hut  it  makes  me  le 
can't  help  everyone." 

That's  one  of  the  pen;dtit' 
Kate  Smith,  of  having  mor 
share  of  sympathy  and  understanding  and 
generosity.  Of  being  so  vulnerable  where 
other  people's  tragedies  are  concerned.  I'or 
girls  like  Kate,  as  e.isily  moxed  to  te.ars 
as  they  are  to  laughter,  as  open  to  heart- 
break as  they  are  to  gladness,  can  feel  as 
much  for  others  as  they  can  for  them- 
selves. 

Maybe  it's  a  good  thmg  Kate  Smith 
is  a  big  girl.  It  takes  a  bi.g  girl  to  carry 
a  heart  as  big  as  hers. 


eharnies  who  lia\ 
ig  with  these  thmg 
ibl\-  unhapp\'  thai 


of  being 
than  her 


MOIST-THROAT" 
METHOD  relieved 
tiBtugh  in  1  DAY 


GLANDS  HERE  CLOG-^ 

THROAT  DRIES- 
WHENYOU  CATCH  COU)\ 

mMeajGHmsTAm!  \ 


you  catch  cold,  these  glands  clog— their 
secretion  dries.  Sticky  mucus  collects.  You 
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To  stimulate  those  glands  to  pour  out 
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throat's  moisture.  Germ-laden  phlegm 
loosens,  is  easily  expelled.  Soon— relief! 
Safe  even  for  babies.  Tastes  good.  Get  a 
bottle  now! 


30* 


PERTUSSIN 


Prescription   Seeck  &  Kade,  Inc.,  Dept.  W.2 


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RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

(Continued  from  page  18) 


Margaret  Speaks,  Firestone  soprano,  after  her  concert  triumph  in  London, 
was  congratulated  by  Rose  Bampton  (left),  Metropolitan  Opera  contralto. 


Nelson  Eddy  sings  on  the  Vick's  Open 
House  program.  The  reason  given  is  that 
the  singer  likes  to  shed  coat  and  tie  and 
collar  when  he  sings,  but  it's  whispered 
that  it  really  is  because  of  Nelson's  pros- 
pective concert  tour.  And  it  would  be  un- 
fair to  expect  some  people  to  pay  to  see 
and  hear  the  popular  singing  star  when 
others  can  freely  enjoy  the  privilege  in 
the  studio. 

-♦- 

Because  of  Iter  splendid  coloratura 
soprano,  liddy  chose  Francio  White  from 
a  score  of  feminine  7'ocalisls  to  assist  in 
the  neii'  I'iek's  series. 

CONCERNING  KOSTELANETZ 

Andre  Kostelanetz,  who  has  made  fre- 
quent week-end  plane  trips  to  Hollywood 
since  Lily  Pons  has  been  there  making 
her  second  RKO-Radio  movie,  directs  the 
largest  dance  orchestra  in  radio — forty- 
five  musicians — for  CBS'  Wednesday  and 
Friday  evening  Chesterfield  programs. 
Andre  is  said  to  be  one  of  radio's  most 
intellectual  melody  makers.  He  reads  and 
speaks  seven  languages  and  has  an  ex- 
tensive library  in  his  Manhattan  apart- 
ment, featuring  books  on  music,  biog- 
raphy and  history. 

Born  in  Pelroiirad,  Russia.  tliirl\<-fivc 
years  ago.  of  o  ;eeallhy  faniilv.  Andre 
made  his  debut  at  the  ai/c  of  five,  as  a 
concert  pianist,  before  the  hite  C.-jar.  He 
Hreio  up  to  be  one  of  Russia's  first  rank- 
inij  conductors  and  director  ,,/  its  Crand 
Opera.  He  came  lo  America  in  V)22  and 
has  been  with  CllS  since  \<>2X.  Andre  is 
fire  Icct  fire  inches  tail  and  :ecoilis  around 
one  hundred  and  fijtyAirc  pounds.  His 
I'luc  eyes  arc  ab-rl.  keen  and  kiiidlv.  He's 
h'lid  of  tennis  ami  .wim mino .  lelicn  time 
permits. 

WHAT  PRICE  GUEST  STARS  NOW? 

It  seems  that  the  mf)vie  exhibitors  are 
looking  askance  at  the  practice  of  bring- 
ing this  or  that  movie  actm-  into  radio 
programs,  merely  to  lend  tlic  glamour  of 


a  name.  When  they're  shopping  for  pic- 
tures, said  exhibitors  are  inclined  to  re- 
ject those  featuring  players  who  make  too 
frequent  microphone  appearances.  \\"e 
hear  that  they  have  asked  the  movie 
makers  to  shut  down  on  radio  appear- 
ances of  film  folk.  So  if  movies  repre- 
senting an  investment  of  millions  become 
hard  to  sell,  something  is  likely  to  be 
done  to  check  this  guest-starring.  And 
then  those  sponsors  who  have  built  suc- 
cessful programs  minus  movie  names  will 
pat  themselves  on  the  back ! 

AND  WHAT  PRICE  GOOD  MUSIC? 

We  hear  that  many  of  the  greatest 
maestros  in  radio  are  minus  jobs  because 
the  program  makers  choose  someone  who 
will  work  cheaply.  A  swing  sextet  and  a 
moaning  trombone  can  be  had  for  very 
little  and  it  doesn't  matter  much  what 
or  how  they  play.  So  Elmer  and  his 
Elegant  Eight  get  a  job  for  a  few  hun- 
dred dollars,  while  high-priced  conductors 
and  orchestras  lie  on  the  dusty  shelf — and 
some  of  us  listeners  sigh  in  vain  for  good 
music  on  the  air. 

The  inflii.v  of  Community  Sing  pro- 
grams, in  lohich  the  audience  docs  most 
of  the  work,  niiiy  sidre  the  -whole  thing. 
.  Iftcr  you're  heard  enough  of  yourself  and 
others  liL-e  you.  you  may  discoi-er  a 
marked  preference  for  good  music.  Unless, 
of  course,  yon  Iiappen  to  sound  like  Nel- 
son Rddy,  in  your  best  moments'. 

DREAMS  DO  COME  TRUE! 

So  says  Margaret  Speaks,  returning 
from  a  triumphant  concert  tour  of  Europe 
to  share  honors  on  the  Firestone  program 
with  Richard  Crooks,  famous  Aletropoli- 
lan  Opera  star. 

Margaret's  duets  with  Crooks  and  Nel- 
son Eddy  on  this  program  last  winter  won 
her  country-wide  recognition  as  a  singer 
of  exceptional  ability  and  her  success  as 
prima  donna  during  the  summer  season 
of  Firestone  concerts  brought  her  invita- 


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tions  to  sii\g  concerts  in  the  great  musical 
centers  of  Europe,  thus  fulfilUng  Mar- 
garet's long-cherished  secret  dream. 

London.  Paris,  I'icnna,  Amsterdam. 
Zurich,  Rome  and  Milan  all  asked  to  hear 
Iter.  And  her  reception  abroad  zi.'as  nidsl 
enthusiastic,  wi7/j  high  praise  from  critical 
audiences  on  the  sincere  quality  of  her 
%-oice  and  Iter  melodic  and  sure  range  of 
tone. 

DOORS 

If  you're  waitins  for  Opportuiiil)'  tri 
knock  at  your  door,  never  fear  it  will  nnt 
find  you.  even  in  the  least  like!\  place. 
Consider  these  doors,  through  which  some 
of  radio's  shining  stars  welcomed  Opimr- 
tunity : 

Rudy  Vallee  clerked  in  his  Dad's  drug- 
store in  Westport,  Maine. 

Phil  Duey  was  night  clerk  in  a  New 
York  hotel. 

Loretta  Clemens  was  a  hosiery  model. 

Igor  Gorin  studied  to  be  a  surgeon. 

Stella  Friend,  of  Waring's  Pennsylva- 
nians,  was  a  dress  designer. 

Ross  Graham,  of  Show  Boat,  was  a 
bank  teller  in  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas. 

Chester  Stratton,  of  the  O'Neills, 
found  various  jobs,  as  newsboy,  washing 
machine  salesman,  packer  in  a  crockery 
store,  railroad  man  and  truck  driver. 

Virginia  Payne,  of  the  Ma  Perkins 
cast,  once  taught  draymah  in  a  Cincin- 
nati high  school. 

Morton  Bowe  was  a  typesetter  and 
newspaper  man. 

Frank  Black,  musical  director  of  NBC, 
made  piano  rolls  and  records. 

DROPPING  IN  ON  DRAGONETTE 

]Ve  team  that  the  Cities  Ser-.  iee  siiin- 
inij  star  doesn't  diet  hvl  she  does  heliere 
in  "Early  to  bed.  early  t,<  rise.  .  .  ."  Jes- 
sica has  a  middle  nuiiie.  It's  raleiiliiie. 
because  she  7eas  horn  on  St.  I 'alentme's 
Day.  AlthoH.ih  born  abroad,  she  reeened 
all  her  musical  trainin,/  in  this  eounlry. 
She  has  leritten  poeti-y,  but  no  nnisie. 
Some  of  Iter  poems  luree  been  published. 
Jessica  'attributes  her  success  to  -some 
talent,  much  hard  zeorb.  plus  <iood  In 

PARTING  THE  PICKENS  SISTERS 

Patti,  Helen  and  Jane  Pickens,  l(.n<i  pop- 
ular as  a  singing  trio  in  radio,  nia\-  break 
up  the  trio.  Jane  has  launche<l  her  Mil  i 
career  as  prima  donna  of  the  Z'leuield 
Follies  at  the  Winter  Garden,  aloni;  with 
Fannie  Brice,  Bobb>-  Clark  and  Ci\ps\ 
Rose  Lee.  Patti  is  coniemplating  a  musical 
comedy  career  and  Helen  aspires  to  be  a 
radio  comedienne. 

MIKE  FRIGHT 

Rosario  Bourdon,  conductor  of  the 
Cities  Service  program,  starring  Jessica 
Dragonette,  is  scared  to  death  every  time 
he  steps  on  to  the  podium  to  go  on  the 
air.  He's  been  on  this  program  only  ten 
years.  When  he  gets  a  little  used  to  it, 
he  may  get  over  his  mike  fright! 

LOOKING  BACKWARD 

In  January.  1910,  a  radio  pronram  xeent 
on  the  air  from  the  attic  studio  of  Dr. 
Lee  De  Forest,  in  the  old  World  foiecr 
in  Xeie  York  City.  Over  the  microphone, 
xehich  leas  shaped  like  an  inverted  (jram- 
ophone  horn,  came  the  7'oice  of  a  leoman 
— the  first  leoman  to  be  heard  on  the  air. 


7  he  Z'oiee  leas  that  of  I'aufihn  DcLcath 
— still  broadcasting  aver  .\'BC. 

On  October  11th,  1921,  Hilly  Jones  and 
Ernie  Hare  made  their  r.idi<i  delnit  as 
The  Happiness  Boys.  TheN  uere  the  lirM 
team  on  the  air.  the  lirst  r.nln.  .■lr1l-l^  to 
receive  pay  (and  fifty  dullar-  \\a-  a  1..1 
of  money  in  those  da\  -  1  i  and  the  fir^t 
air  entertainers  to  use  an  i(K  ntii.\  niu  theme 
song.  Remember:  "Floie  Do  )'ou  Do, 
Everybody.  Iloie  Do  You  Dof 

Before  radio  skyrocketed  them  to  fame 
and  fortune,  Ernie  Hare  was  an  obscure 
singer  understudying  Al  Jolson  in  Sin- 
had.  Bill  Jones,  later  to  be  his  partner, 
was  a  telephone  and  cable  repair  man! 


The 
Gillett, 
proi/ra 


bov: 


now  are  son;/  leaders  on  the 
day  Evening  Community  Sing 


NUMBERS 

Benny  Rubin,  ringmaster  of  the  Mutual 
network's  original  National  .\mateur 
Xisht.  was  told  by  a  theater  manager, 
who  practices  numerology  on  the  side,  that 
ever\ ihinu  connected  with  his  life  would 
invohe  the  numlier  7.  When  Benny 
signed  his  renewal  contract  with  the 
amateur  program  on  September  7th,  he 
found  fourteeri  amateui's  present  for  audi- 
tions and  discovered  that  he  had  then 
been  on  the  air  for  seventeen  weeks. 
Later  Benny  flew  to  Boston  on  transport 
plane  Number  7.  which  carried  seven 
passengers.  He's  convinced  it's  his  lucky 
number  ! 

Ken  Darby  yelps  leith  Joy  at  the  sight 
of  the  number  thirteen. 

It  leas  on  the  thirteenth  tliat  he  leas 
notified  to  ioin  Paul  ll'hitcman.  Ken  and 
the  other  members  of  the  Kin.i's  Men 
Qiuirtet  left  Califoniia  on  the  thirteenth 
in  a  car  lehose  license  loii  b,<re  the  num- 
ber 13.  And  Ken's  name— Ken  Lorin 
Darby — contains  thirteen  letters. 

THIS  AND  THAT 

Paul  Whiteman's  favorite  dish  is 
chile  con  came,  served  good  and  hot. 
.  .  .  Ted  Fiorito's  mother  was  a  star  of  | 
Italian  light  opera  and  his  father  played 
in  a  symphony  orchestra.  .  .  .  Dorothy 
Russell,  sixteen-year-old  jazz  singer  with 
Horace  Heidt's  Brigadiers,  has  a  chow 
dog  named  Brigadier.  .  .  .  Wayne  King 
was  born  in  Savannah,  Illinois.  .  .  .  Tiny 
Ruffner  hails  from  Crawfordsville,  In- 
diana. .  .  .  Claudia  Morgan,  of  the  David 
Harum  cast,  is  the  daughter  of  Ralph 
Morgan,  well-known  acfor.  .  .  .  Smiling 
Ed  McConnell  traces  his  ancestry  back  to 
Captain  John  Smith.  .  .  .  John  Roventi, 
whom  you  know  as  Johnny  the  Call  Boy 
on  NBC's  Philip  Morris  program,  has 
been  given  a  contract  for  life  A  car  goes 
with  it,  too.  .  .  .  Lucy  Laughlin,  of  the 
Hammerstein  Music  Hall,  has  one  of  the 
most  extensive  repertoires  of  songs  of  any 
soprano  on  the  networks.  .  .  .  Carmela 
Ponselle,  of  the  Broadway  Varieties,  calls 
a  rustic  lodge  in  the  pine  woods  of  Maine 
her  real  home.  .  .  .  Marion  Talley  was 
born  in  Nevada.  .  .  .  Vivian  Delia  Chiesa 
was  named  for  Vivian  Martin,  the  movie 
actress.  .  .  .  Henry  King,  orchestra  leader 
on  the  Burns  and  Allen  show,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1903.  His 
hobbies  are  flying,  polo  and  tennis.  .  .  . 


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ticliquid  D.D.D.PrESCRIPTION.  Its  centle  oils  soothe 
the  irritated  skin.  Clear,  creaseless  and  stainless-dries 
fast.  Stops  the  most  intense  itching  instantly.  A  35c 
trial  bottle,  at  drug  stores,  proves  it— or  money  back. 

WAKE  UP  YOUR 
LIVER  BILE- 

WITHOUT  CALOMEL 

And  You'll  Jump  out  of  Bed  in 
the  Morning  Rarin'  to  Go 

THE  liver  should  pour  out  rw-o  pounds  of 
liquid  bile  onto  the  food  you  swallow 
every  day.  If  this  bile  is  not  flowing  freely, 
your  food  doesn't  digest.  It  just  decays.  Gas 
bloats  up  your  stomach.  You  get  constipated. 
Your  whole  system  is  poisoned  and  you  feel 
sour,  sunk  and  the  world  looks  punk. 

A  mere  movement  doesn't  get  at  the  cause. 
It  takes  those  good  old  Carter's  Little  Liver 
Pills  to  get  these  two  pounds  of  bile  flow- 
ing freely  and  make  you  feel  "up  and  up". 
Harmless,  gentle,  yet  amazing  in  making  bile 
flow  freely.  Ask  for  Carter's  Little  Liver  Pills 
by  name.  Stubbornly  refuse  anything  else.  25c 
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RADIO  STARS 


LET'S  LOOK  BACKWARD 

{Continued  from  ['age  17) 


to  broadcasting. 

The  opeiiini:  iii"('L:r<iin  vi  the  new  Na- 
tional Breia(lea-t:ne  i/.Miipan>  ^\a^  liroad- 
cast  Xovenilier  15th,  V'l'y  at  7:01)  ii.ni., 
over  a  network  ut  t\\  ent\'-tive  stations, 
U'DAF  in  Kansi-  City  heing  the  farthest 
west.  Now  the  red  and  hhie  netwi.rks 
offer  over  five  times  as  many  outlets  with 
one  hundred  and  three  stations  in  eighty - 
two  key  cities  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  and  their  western  outpost,  via 
short  wave,  is  Honolulu,  Hawaii.  Only 
ten  years  ago  there  had  not  yet  been  a 
coast-to-coast  hookup.  Xow  two  complete 
transcontinental  networks  sound  the  fa- 
miliar NBC  chimes  and  announce:  "This 
is  the  National  Broadcasting  Conipa)iy." 

If  you  tuned  in  on  that  inaugural  broad- 
cast, you  heard  the  Xew  York  Symphony 
Orchestra  under  the  baton  of  Walter  Dam- 
rosch,  whose  musical  aiipreciation  programs 
are  regularly  heard  in  over  100,000  schools; 
you  heard  the  gi^lden  baritone  of  Tito 
Ruffo  of  the  Metn ipi)litan  Opera,  Harold 
Bauer,  concert  pianist,  the  Goldman  Band, 


Weber  and  I'ields,  George  Olsen  and  his 
Orchestra,  Ben  Bernie,  B.  .-\.  Rolfe  and 
N'incent  Lopez.  You  heard  Mary  Garden 
sing,  wonder  of  wonders,  from  Chicago, 
and  another  "startling  nii\clt\"  was  pick- 
ing up  \Vill  Rogers  from  hi-  theater  dress- 
ing-room in  Independence,  Kansas !  You 
prLibably  mentioned  how  marvelous  it  was 
tliat  radio  could  jump  about  the  country 
that  way,  little  thinking  that  in  a  few  short 
years  you  would  be  hearing  the  actual 
voices  of  two  daring  Army  men  as  they 
dropped,  plummet-lik:,  from  the  stratos- 
phere until  ihey  were  forced  to  throw  their 
radio  overlioard,  or  that  you  would  hear 
the  voice  of  William  Beebe  from  the  depths 
of  the  ocean  off  Bermuda. 

.\merica  thrilled  to  that  inaugural  pro- 
gram. It  was  heard  by  an  audience  that, 
in  the  space  of  six  years,  had  grown  from 
a  few  scattered  radio  "bugs"  in  1920  to 
10,000,000  listeners.  True,  as  far  back  as 
1909,  there  was  an  experimental  broadcast. 
Enrico  Caruso,  on  the  stage  of  the  Metro- 
politan Opera  House,  alone  save  for  a  few 


Lenox  R.  Lohr,  President  of  the 
Notional  Broadcasting  Company, 
which  now  is  celebrating  its  tenth 
anniversary  of  "air-service." 


stage  hands  and  technicians,  stepped  up 
to  a  primitive  microphone  in  the  form  of 
a  paper  cone,  and  poured  his  golden  voice 
into  it,  while  a  young  scientist  named  Lee 
DeForest,  in  a  laboratory  on  the  Harlem 
River,  hurled  it  into  space  with  a  spark- 
gap  transmitter.  Two  hundred  wireless 
operators  on  ships  at  sea  reported  hearing 
parts  of  it.  But  it  was  1920  before  any- 
thing approaching  regular  broadcasting 
began. 

If  you  were  one  of  the  early  radio  fans, 
you  fiddled  with  a  catwhisker  on  a  crystal, 
earphones  on  your  head,  and  heard  the 
election  returns  of  the  Harding-Cox  elec- 
tion sent  out  by  KDKA  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  the  first  broadcast  station 
operated  by  the  Westinghouse  Company. 
To  you  now,  as  a  member  of  the  studio 
audience  in  NBC's  huge  auditorium  at 
Radio  City,  those  early  broadcasts  would 
have  seemed  queer.  All  broadcasting  had 
been  single  performers  or  phonograph 
records.  On  the  occasion  of  KDKA's 
first  band  broadcast,  a  tent,  outdoors,  was 
used  because  none  of  the  studio  rooms 
was  large  enuugh  to  liokl  tlie  band,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  tubas,  trombones  and  other 
instruments.  Tr\ing  a  large  room,  the 
acoustics  made  proper  pickup  impossible, 
so  a  tent  on  the  roof  of  the  building  was 
used.  This  solved  the  problem  tempor- 
arily, until  one  night,  in  the  middle  of  a 
program,  a  storm  came  up  and  blew  the 
tent  away  !  If  a  tent  gave  proper  acoustics, 
engineers  reasoned,  why  not  a  sort  of  tent 
indoors?  .^nd  from  that  came  the  idea 
of  draping  the  walls  in  burlap,  then  in 
monk's  cloth,  until  eventually  the  sound- 
resistant  wall  material  was  developed. 

Perhaps  you  plugged  in  extra  earphones 
for  your  friends  and  family  to  hear  the 
Demjisey-Carpentier  fight,  broadcast  from 
Boyle's  Thirty  .-Xeres,  in  July  of  1921,  by 
the  Radio  Corporation's  special  transmitter 
set  up  in  i  loboken ;  then,  a  few  months 
later,  heard  II' J  Z  from  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  as   the   first   station  in  the  New 


RADIO  STARS 


W^k  W.  rid 


Looking  forward,  these  two!    The  wedding  party  of  Joan  Blondell  and 
Dick  Powell,  aboard  the  liner  Santa  Paula.  (Left  to  right)  Regis  Toonney, 
best  nnan,  Joan,  Dick  and  Ruth  Pursley,  bridesmaid. 


York  metropolitan  area,  with  KVIV,  Chi- 
cago, and"  li'GY,  Schenectady,  following 
closely  after.  Radio,  quickly  as  it  moved, 
was  the  stepchild  of  the  entertainment 
arts  in  those  days.  U'JZ's  "studio"  in 
Xewark  was  a  partitioned-off  section  of  a 
cloakroom,  about  ten  feet  square,  with  the 
transmitter  on  the  roof.  Microphones  were 
"dishpans"  or  "tomato  cans,"  for  the  fa- 
miliar old  carbon  mike  had  not  yet  been 
developed.  When  some  professional  singer 
with  a  big  voice  had  been  inveigled  into  a 
broadcast,  frantic  phone  conversations  be- 
tween the  studio  and  the  roof  ensued,  as 
the  transmitter  operator  wildly  endeavored 
til  keep  the  volume  of  sound  from  blowing 
the  station  ofT  the  air.  There  were  no 
glass-panelled  control-rocms  and  usually 
the  singer  wound  up  in  one  corner  of  the 
tiny  studio  with  the  mike  in  the  extreme 
"Pposite  corner.  All  sorts  of  inducements, 
too.  were  offered  to  entice  talent.  The 
artist's  fare  on  the  Hudson  Tubes  was 
paid  and  a  car  picked  him  up  at  the  sta- 
tion, took  him  to  the  studio,  with  a  dinner 
usually  preceding  the  broadcast  to  cement 
good-will. 

In  1922.  ll'EAF  went  on  the  air  from 
studios  atop  the  Western  Kkctric  build- 
ing on  West  Street.  X-,\\  Y..rk  City,  and 
in  September  of  that  year  the  Queens- 
boro  Corporation  became  the  first  radio 
sponsor.  You  heard,  too,  in  '22,  the  first 
gridiron  broadcast  of  the  game  between 
Princeton's  "Team  of  Destiny"  and 
Chicago. 

_  In  1923,  irJZ  moved  to  Aeolian  Hall  in 
Xew  York  and,  in  June  of  that  year,  you 
heard  the  first  multiple-station  hookup  with 
11-EAI-.  Xew  York,  Schenectady; 
KDKA,  Pittsburgh  and  KYW,  Chicago. 
You  heard  e.x-president  Wilson's  only 
public  address  after  leaving  office,  on 
Armistice  Day.  over  U'EAF  and,  in  Feb- 
ruary. 1924.  English  listeners  heard  the 
first  short-wave  re-broadcast  from  America 
over  KDKA. 

There  was  a  friendly  informality  to 
radio  programs  then;  announcers  were 
jacks-of-all-trades  who,  often  as  not,  would 
announce  a  number  and  then  dash  to  the 
piano,  play  the  accompaniment  and  sing 
the  number. 

Radio  progressed  in  leaps  and  bounds 


Billy  Jones  and  Ernie  Hare  look  back 
over  many  years  of  broadcasting. 
As  "The  Happiness  Boys,"  they  were 
one  of  the  very  first  radio  teams. 


until  1926.  Development  of  high-powered 
transmitters  led  to  moving  the  transmitters 
to  suburbs  and  outl\ing  sections,  distant 
from  the  interference  of  the  metropolitan 
centers.  New  stations  were  forming  al- 
most daily  and  the  air  became  literally 
cluttered  with  a  chaos  of  overlapping 
broadcasts.  A  gentlemen's  agreement  among 
the  larger  stations  was  the  only  factor  con- 
trolling wave-lengths  and  time-sharing  on 
the  air,  but  some  stations  failed  to  behave 
like  gentlemen.  On  Fel.ruary  23rd,  192(), 
President  Coolidge  signed  the  Dill-White 
Radio  Bill,  creating  the  Federal  Radio 
Commission  and  by  drastic  regulation 
ended  the  bedlam  caused  by  radio's  too 
rapid  growth. 

About  this  time  a  small  group  of  men 
— David  SarnofT,  General  James  G.  Har- 
bord,  the  late  H.  P.  Davis,  Owen  D. 
Young  and  Gerard  Swope — were  discuss- 
Mig  an  unheard  of  idea,  that  of  organiz- 
ing radio  to  offer  a  better  service,  finer 
programs,  chains  and  other  innovations. 
That  idea  became  the  National  Broadcast- 
ing Company,  or.uani/ed  on  XoNeinher  1st, 
l')26.  Owen  D.  Youii-  wa-.  n;  tli  .^e  early 
(lays,  radio's  oracle;  a--  (  liairniaii  of  the 
r.oard  he  handled  iiul.lic  relali-n.  network 
formation  and  ofi:ani/ation  in  general. 
David  Sarnott  was  the  proi'liet,  with  his 
scientific  background  and  knowledge  con- 
tributing to  the  detailed  problems  and 
technical  develoi)ment. 

On  November  15th,  the  new  and  first 
regular  network  offered  its  inaugural  pro- 
gram on  the  largest  group  of  stations  ever 
assenihUd  up  to  that  time. 

Radio  was  going  places  now  I  Each  year 
— each  month,  in  fact — brought  programs 
of  greater  magnitude,  new  innovations,  so 
that  innovation  became  commonplace  and 


listeners  began  to  accept  each  startling  de- 
velopment as  the  normal  state  of  affairs. 
If  you  were  listening  in  then — and  'most 
everybody  did — you  heard  the  first  coast- 
to-coast  hookup,  broadcasting  the  Xew 
Year's  Day  football  game  at  the  Rose 
Bowl ;  you  eavesdropped  on  the  two-way 
radiophone  conversation  between  Adolph 
Ochs.  publisher  of  the  Xexi'  York  Times 
and  Geoffrey  Dawson,  editor  of  the  Lon- 
don Times;  you  heard  the  coast-to-coast 
broadcast  of  Faust  from  the  Chicago 
Civic  Opera ;  you  thrilled  to  the  broadcast 
of  Lindbergh's  arrival  in  the  United  States 
after  his  epochal  flight.  In  September  of 
1927,  the  Columbia  Broadcasting  System 
was  organized,  with  JVABC  as  its  key  sta- 
tion ;  in  1928,  one  hundred  and  seven  sta- 
tions carried  Hoover's  official  notification 
of  his  nomination;  in  1929,  the  first 
scheduled  short-wave  re-broadcast  brought 
you  a  symphony  from  Queen's  Hall,  Lon- 
don and  \(ui  heard  King  George  of  Eng- 
land speak ni-  i'\er  his  gold  microphone. 
The  fir>t  pack  transmitter  was  developed 
by  A'BC  and  you  heard  a  parachute  jumper 
tell  his  sensations  as  he  plunged  through 
space ;  your  set  caught  the  flash  from 
Little  America,  Antarctica,  that  Byrd  had 
flown  over  the  Pole  and  a  few  months 
later  you  listened  in  on  two-way  conversa- 
tions between  members  of  that  expedition 
and  their  friends  in  Xew  York.  You 
were  entertained  by  Olga  Albani,  by 
William  Daly,  the  'Voice  of  Firestone;  by 
Welcome  Lewis  with  the  Landt  Trio  and 
White;  by  Gladys  Rice,  Frank  Parker, 
Sigmund  Spaeth,  Erno  R.ipee  and  John  S. 
Young.  In  June.  1930.  plans  were  an- 
nounced for  a  $250,(K)0,000  project  to  be 
called  Rockefeller  Center  and  the  first 
round-the-world  broadcast,    flashed  from 


99 


RADIO  STARS 


Schenectady  through  Holland,  Java,  Aus- 
tralia and  back  to  the  point  of  origin  in 
less  than  one  second. 

Radio  miracles  became  daily  events  .  .  . 
Mussolini  spoke  from  Rome;  Pope  Pius 
XI  addressed  the  world,  Mahatma  Gandhi 
explained  India's  plight;  .linos  'n'  Andy 
had  been  on  the  air  for  three  years;  you 
enjoyed  the  Tastycast  Jesters,  Socony- 
land,  Rudy  \'allee  and  others  as  radio 
shows  took  on  a  greater  scope  and  the 
era  of  the  radio  comedian  began. 

In  1932  you  were  among  the  millions 
who  listened  while  radio's  facilities  were 
mobilized  to  aid  in  the  search  for  the 
Lindbergh  baby's  kidnapers  and  you  heard 
the  German  election  returns  that  made 
Hindenburg  president,  with  one  Adolph 
Hitler  runner-up  .  .  . 

Then  the  stratosphere  balloon  of  Au- 
guste  Piccard  .  .  .  Governor  Franklin  D. 
Roosevelt's  acceptance  of  the  presidential 
nomination,  and  later  his  fireside  chats, 
after  an  inaugural  broadcast  that  was 
heard  by  the  largest  world-wide  audience 
of  all  time  .  .  . 

But  it  would  take  volumes  to  cover 
radio's  history  in  the  past  ten  years,  for  it 
would  be  a  history  of  the  world.  Milton 
J.  Cross,  who  still  conducts  the  oldest  con- 
tinuous program  on  the  air — the  White 
Rabbit  Bus  children's  program — which  has 


been  going  since  May,  1924,  reminisces  a 
wee  bit  sadly : 

"We  really  worked  back  in  those  early 
days,"  he  says.  "When  Jf7Z  was  in 
Aeolian  Hall,  with  windows  right  on 
Forty-second  Street,  there  were  many  times 
when  fire  engines  went  screaming  by  and 
we  solved  the  problem  very  simply  by 
just  throwing  a  switch  and  cutting  the 
station  of?  the  air  for  a  few  moments !" 

Imagine  doing  that  now !  Imagine  any 
street  noises  penetrating  the  sound-proofed, 
air-conditioned  studios  at  Radio  City! 

"Now,"  Cross  laments,  "after  fifteen 
years  on  the  air,  I've  graduated  to  button- 
pushing  !  Some  nights  an  announcer  is 
not  on  the  air  at  all." 

It  is  a  lot  different  from  the  days  when 
Cross,  along  with  other  announcers  of  his 
time,  ad-libbed  announcements,  worried 
about  filling  in  for  talent  that  failed  to 
show  up,  played  piano  and  sang.  Perhaps 
you  remember  his  persuasive  voice  con- 
ducting the  Slumber  JJour  program  and 
singing  its  lovely  theme? 

The  anniversary  program,  this  Novem- 
ber 15th,  will  commemorate  more  than 
ten  years  of  existence  for  the  National 
Broadcasting  Company;  it  covers  a  thrill- 
packed  era,  a  dizzyingly  rapid  development 
.  .  .  truly,  a  Century  of  Progress  in  a 
decade. 


Ken  Murray,  popular  comedian 
of   stage,   screen   and  radio. 


BOARD  OF  REVIEW 


(Continued  from  page  8) 


V.  S.  ARMY  BAND  60.0 

.VBC  6.00  P.M.  I-l.ST  Mon. 
.  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  AIR  60.0 

CBS  11:00  A.aM.  Ear  M-W-F,  12:00  Noon 

PST  M-IV-F 
.  NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE  60.0 

NBC  9:30  P.M.  EST  Sal..  8:00  P.M.  PST 

Sat. 

.  GANG  BUSTERS    59.6 

CBS  10:00  P.M.  E.ST  Wed. 

COME  ON,  LET'S  SING   59.1 

CBS  9:.M)  P.M.  E.\T  Wed. 
.  LUM  AND  ABNER  59.0 
NBC   7:.iO    I'.M.  E.ST   M-T-W-T-F,  8:15 
P.  M.  P.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

.  SINGIN"  SAM   58.7 

NBC  8:15  P.M.  EST  Fri..  8:30  P.M.  PST 
Fri. 

.  KALTENBORN  EDITS.THE  NEWS  58.6 

CBS  6:00  P.M.  E.ST  Sat. 

WILDERNESS  ROAD    58.5 

CliS  5:  1^  P.M.  I.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

VOX  POP    58.2 

.V/i(.  I'.M.  EST  Tues. 

EDWARD  Mac  HUGH— THE  GOSPEL 

SINGER  58.1 

.V/;t    1/:!=:  .\..\L  E.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  58.0 

AViC  8:00  P..\l.  E.ST  Mon..  9:00  P.M.  PST 

THE  JERGENS  PROGRAM— WALTER 
WINCHELL   57.8 

A7.Y  C.W  P..\l.  E.Sl-  Sun..  8:15  P.ST  Sun. 
REVUE  DE  PAREE— THE  HOWARDS, 
FIFI  D'ORSAY  57.8 

N/'.(  8:Oii  P.M.  E.ST  Wed. 

SMILING  ED  McCONNELL    57.3 


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P..\E  ESI 


S2.  TODAY'S  CHILDREN   57.0 

10:l^  .\..\E  I:.sl-  M-T-W-T-F 

8.-?.  JAMBOREE    56.8 

.V/;<   f<:.fo  I'  M.  I:sr  Sat. 

84.  BROADWAY  VARIETIES  56.7 
(  /is  8:  iO  f'.M.  I'.SI  In. 

85.  JUDY  STARR  AND  THE  CHARIO- 
TEERS  56.5 

(  BS  7:iO  I'.SE  l:.sr  Mon..  Thur. 

86.  PROFESSOR  QUIZ  AND  HIS  BRAIN- 
BUSTERS    56.5 

f /i.S  'J:MI  l>..\I.  ESI  S.jt. 

87.  GREATER  SINCLAIR  MINSTRELS  56.4 
NB(  <):00  I'.M.  ESi  M„n. 

88.  UNCLE  EZRA'S  RADIO  STATION.  56.4 
Nl',(  7:1=.  P.M.  I:.SI  .\t.W-F 

89.  ROYAL  FOOTBALL  ROUNDUP- 
EDDIE  DOOLEY   56.3 

CVi.S  6:.iO  P  .M.  /v-sy  Thur<...  .Sat. 

90.  ECHOES  OF  NEW  YORK  TOWN  56.2 
NK  6:00  I'M   l:S  I  Sun. 

91.  VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  56.0 
Nl'.<  7:1^  I'.M.  I:ST  Tue,. 

3^.  MARY  MARLIN   55.2 

NBC  U:I5  P.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T-F 


100 


93.  CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  IN  MUSIC.55.0 

CBS  8:00  P.M.  EST  Wed. 

94.  TEA  TIME  AT  MORRELL'S   55.0 

NBC  4:00  P.M.  EST  Tliurs. 

95.  SUNSET  DREAMS   54.7 

NBC  7:45  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

96.  CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  SHOTS.  54.5 
NBC  11:00  P.M.  EST  T-T-S 

97.  IRENE  RICH   54.0 

NBC  8.00  P.M.  EST  Fri. 

98.  THE     WONDER  SHOW— CHRISTIE 

ORCHESTRA   53.6 

MBS  9:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

99.  PICK  AND  PAT   53.5 

CBS 8:30  P.M.  EST  Mon.: 8:30  P.M.  PST 

100.  POR:TRAITS  OF  HARMONY  53.5 

NBC  10:30  P.M.  EST  Tues. 

101.  VAUGHN  DE  LEATH   53.4 

NBC  10:05  A.M.  EST  T-T-S 

102.  PEPPER  YOUNG'S  FAMILY  53.O 
NBC  3:00  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

103.  MOLLY  OF  THE  MOVIES   52.5 

MBS  1:45  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

104.  BENNY  FIELDS   52.2 

CBS  7:30  P.M.  E.ST  W-F 

105.  NATIONAL      AMATEUR  NIGHT- 
BENNY  RUBIN  52.0 
MBS  6:00  P.M.  EST  Sun. 

106.  DAVID  HARUM   52.0 

NBC  11:00  A.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F 

107.  THE  RHYTHM  BOYS  52.0 

CBS  12:15  P.M.  E.ST  T-T 

108.  POPEYE,  THE  SAILOR  5I.6 
C7;.S  7:1';  r.M.  I:.sr  M-W-P 

109.  HOW  TO  BE  CHARMING  51.2 
NBL  1I:.I0  A  .M.  I..S1  .M-W-F 

110.  KALTENMEYER'S  KINDERGARTEN. . 51.2 
NBC  5:30  P.M.  EST  Sal. 

in.  VIC  AND  SADE  50.6 

NBC  3:30  P.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T-F.  11:30 
A.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F  on  WJZ.  WSY R. 
WI.s:w  II  AM .  KDKA 

112.  ALLEN  PRESCOTT   50.5 

NI'A    lE  I^  .1.1/.  E.ST  T-T 

113.  RENFREW  OF  THE  MOUNTED  50.2 
CBS  6:45  P.M.  EST  M-T-W-T-F.  8:15  P.M. 
P.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

114.  HORN  AND  HARDART'S  CHILDREN'S 

HOUR   49.5 

CBS  10:. 10  A.M.  E.ST  Sun. 

115.  GIRL  ALONE   49.5 

NBC  12:00  Noon  F..ST  M-T-W-T-F 

116.  BOBBY  BENSON   49.5 

CBS  6:15  P.M.  E.ST  M-W-F 

117.  THE  O'NEILLS   49.2 

NBC  3:45  P.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T-P 

118.  MA  PERKINS    49.2 

NBC  3:15  P.M.  E.ST  M-T-W-T-F 

119.  JACK  AND  LORETTA  CLEMONS..  49.0 
NBC  11:30  A.M.  E.ST  M-F 

120.  THE  HONEYMOONERS   47  2 

NBC  11:30  A.M.  EST  T-W-T 


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Xi'w  Jersey,  for  October  1,  1936. 
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county  aforesaid,  personally  amicared  Helen  Meyer, 
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poses and  say.s  thai  she  is  tlic  Husiness  Manager  of 
RADIO  STARS  and  tliat  the  following  Is,  to  the  best 
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SUCH  DESIRABLE  LIPS 


Aflame  w  ith  the  witchery  of  a  milhon  hghts  dancing-  on  tlicir 
taunting,  jungle  redness  . .  .  sweetly  tender  and  lusciously  soft  in  the 
glow  of  their  caress  .  . .  and  never  do  they  betray,  with  tell-tale  marks, 
the  caprices  their  enchanting  color  so  readily  provokes  ...  for  Savage 
is  a  truly  '■^ permanent'^  lipstick.  It  clings  savagely ...  for  hours  and  hours ! 

TANGERINE    ■    FLAME    •    NATURAL    •    BLUSH    •  JUNGLE 


AT  ALl 
TEN  CENT 
STORES 


PERMANENT  LIPSTICK  BY 


PRIZE-WINNER 


Girl  .  .  Dog  .  .  Cigarette  —  Lucky  Strike,  of  course. 
For  "It's  Toasted,"  a  process  which  is  private  and  exclu- 
sive with  Lucky  Strike  Cigarettes,  allows  delicate  throats 
the  full,  abiding  enjoyment  of  rich,  ripe-bodied  tobacco. 
"Toasting"  removes  certain  harsh  irritants  present  in 
even  the  finest  tobaccos  in  their  natural  state.  "Toasting" 
is  your  throat  protection  against  irritation— against 
cough.  So,  for  your  throat's  sake,  smoke  Luckies. 


OF  RICH,  RIPE-BODIED  TOBACCO -^IT%  TOASTIlT 


PniNTKI)  IN  THK  T'.S.A. 


GIFTS  FOR  CHRISTMAS 


RADIO  STARS 


She  evades 

TF  ONLY  this  lovely  her  charm  . , 
±  girl  coma  stand  tor- 
ever  as  you  see  her  here— serene,  beauti- 
ful, goddess-like!  But  when  she  smiles— 
when  lovely  lips  part  and  reveal  dull 
teeth  and  dingy  gums— how  quickly  and 
tragically  the  spell  oj  beauty  is  broken. 

NEVER  NEGLECT  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 

It  may  not  seem  dangerous  — that  first 
warning  "tinge  of  pink"  on  your  tooth 
brush.  It  may  seem  trivial,  unimportant. 
But  your  dentist  will  tell  you  it  can  be 
and  has  been  the  prologue  to  many  a 
dental  tragedy.  Remember— "pink  tooth 
brush"  is  a  distress  signal,  and  only  a 
distress  signal.  But  wiien  you  see  it,  play 


close-ups  . . .  Dingy  teeth  and  tender 
.She  ignored  the  warning  of  "Pinic 

safe— see  your  dentist. The  chances  are  that 
it  does  not  mean  a  serious  gum  disorder 
—but  your  dentist  should  make  the  decision. 
Usually,  however,  it  only  means  gums 
that  have  grown  tender  and  flabby  under 
our  modern  soft  food  menus— gums  that 
need  more  exercise,  more  stimulation  — 
and  as  so  many  dentists  will  often  advise 
—gums  that  need  the  help  of  Ipana  and 
massage. 

For  Ipana,  with  massage,  is  designed 
to  help  benefit  your  gums  as  well  as  clean 
your  teetli.  Rub  a  little  extra  Ipana  onto 
your  gums  every  time  you  brush  your 
teeth.  Lazy  gums  awaken.  Circulation 


gums  destroy 

Tooth  Brush"        stimulates  gum  tissues. 

lou  11  soon  sense  a  new, 
healthy  firmness  in  the  gum  walls  them- 
selves. 

Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage  is  ap- 
proved by  many  modern  dentists,  taught 
by  many  modern  teachers  in  classrooms 
all  over  the  country.  Don't  take  chances. 
Even  before  you  see  that  "tinge  of  pink" 
on  your  own  tooth  brush,  even  before  you 
have  this  first  warning  of  danger— sched- 
ule yourself  for  this  modern  dental  health 
routine  with  Ipana  and  massage.  Don't 
risk  being  a  "dental  cripple."  Change  to 
Ipana  and  massage,  and  help  keep  your 
smile  lovely,  bright,  sparkling— a/frf  safer. 


RADIO  STARS 


YOU  MUST  HAVE 
A  SOFT,  ALLURING  SKIN 
...FREE  FROM  PIMPLES 


JMOOTH.  satiny  shoulders— lovely 
skin  "all  over"— a  radiantly  clear, 
youthful  complexion — men  admire  them  and 
modern  style  demands  them. 

To  be  truly  lovely,  you  must  rid  your  skin  of 
ugly  pimples  on  face  and  body.  And  thousands 
are  doing  it.  with  complete  success. 

The  real  cause  of  disorders  resulting  in  ugly 
pimples  may  be  nothing  in  the  world  except  a 
lack  of  the  yeast  vitamins  B  and  G.  When 
these  elements  are  not  present  in  the  human 
diet  in  sufficient  quantities,  the  intestinal  tract 
becomes  weak  and  sluggish.  Its  function  is 
badly  impaired.  Constipation  is  likely  to  ensue 
and  this,  in  turn,  often  shows  up  in  pimply  skin. 

Countless  men  and  women  have  found  that 
in  such  cases.  Yeast  Foam  Talilets  work  won- 
ders. This  pure  flr\-  >i;isl  ^uI)plics  \'itaniins 
B  and  G  in  abiiiirl.-ml  (juaiitities  and  Ihu^; 
tends  to  restore  tin  inti  stmal  tract  to  normal 
—in  those  instai,  ;.  of  \  ilamin  deficiency.  With 
the  intestinal  Irru  l  atjain  in  healthy  function, 
pimples  should  (luickh  tlisajipear. 

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give  them  the  chance  to  give  you  the  same 
welcome  relief  they  have  brought  to  so  many 
others. 


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Address  


RADIO  STARS 


Cop.vright  1936  liy  Dell  Publishing  Company.  Ir 


ETHEL  M.  POMEROy,  Associate  Editor 


LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 


ASRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  tdiio 


26    STORIES.    FEATURES    AND  DEPARTMENTS 
STORIES 

THE  TRUE  STORY  OF  JOAN  AND  DICK 

(How  did  Miss  Biondeii  and  Mr  Powell  know  it  was  iove?)^\\zahe]:h  Benneche  Petersen  20 
.  .  .  AND  THEY  CALL  HOLLYWOOD  CRAZY! 

(Film  star  Bob  Montgomery  cracks  down  on  radio)  Jock  Hanley  22 

YOU  DON'T  KNOW  FRED  LIKE  I  DO 

(Mr.  Allen's  wife  and  stooge,  Portland  Hoefa.  heckles  hubby)  MfS.   Fred   Allen  24 

INDISCRETION,  AS  YOU  LIKE  IT— 

(Life  and  love,  then  and  now,  in  the  eyes  of  Ethel  Barrymore)   Noncy  BorrOWS  28 

LADIES'  MANI 

(When  will  romantic  Harry  Richman  settle  down  to  one  woman?)    Tom  Meany  30 

KEEPING  KISSES  ON  THE  DAILY  DIET 

(Bette  Davis-  marriage  menu  really  works)  GlodyS  Holl  32 

SEX  SPECIALIST 

(The  Voice  of  Experience,  mender  of  lives,  tells  all)  Mildred    Mostln  36 

LONG  DISTANCE  LOVE 

(According  to  Benay  Venuta,  wedded  life  is  commutable)    Gene   Harvey  38 

ROBERT  TAYLOR,  BEWARE! 

(7s  heart-breaker  Don  Ameche  threatening  Mr.  T's  popularity?)  Miriam    RogerS  40 

NO  PITFALLS  FOR  BETTY 

(Little  Miss  Winkler  waits  for  love  to  bowl  her  over)  Leslie   Eaton  42 

MY  FAVORITE  AGE! 

(The  Misses  Dragonette,  Jepson,  Smith  and  Hayes  choose  theirs).  .  .   Harriet  Menken  44 

LIFE  WAS  TOO  EASY 

(How  James  Hall  pulled  a  fast  one  on  tricky  Fate)  Ruth    Geri  47 

YOU  MUST  GIVE  UP  SOMETHING 

(Did  Vivian  Delia  Chiesa  sacrifice  love  for  a  career?)  Miriom  RogerS  48 

"MAMA,  THAT  MAN'S  HERE  AGAIN!" 

{Comedian  Ken  Murray  wonders  if  women  like  funny  men)    Jack  Hanley  50 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Dress  to  Your  Heigiit   6 

Keep  Young  and  Beautiful   8 

Board    of    Review   10 

Kate  Smitfi's  Own  Cooking  Scfiool..  12 

Radio   Ramblings                          ..  14 

What  Tliey  Listen  to— and  Why. .  . .  16 


Distinguished   Service   Award   19 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   26 

Between  Broadcasts   34 

Plainsman  Paul   43 

Stars  and  Starlets   46 

Nothing  But  the  Truth?   52 


Cover  by  EARL  CHRISTY 


Radio  Sta 

149  .Miiilis 
Pres.  :  II. 


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RADIO  STARS 


Alice  Frost  wears  an  eve- 
ning wrap  of  gray  trans- 
parent velvet,  the  collar 
convertible   into   a  hood. 


B  Y 

ELIZABETH  ELLIS 


For  dinners,  Kay  Thompson 
takes  off  the  tunic-length 
jacket  of  her  black  vel- 
vet and  sequins  costunne. 


A  starn:  ;,^..vn  for  special  oc- 
casions, chosen  by  Alice  Frost, 
is  this  of  fuchsia-red  taffeta 
over  a  bright  green  petticoat. 


HEIGHT  seems  to  he  the  big  bug- 
aboo  and  fashion  stuml)ling  block 
with  so  many  of  \on  girls.  You 
short  ones  yearn  to  find  some  magic 
garment  that  will  make  you  look 
clramatically  tall,  while  you  taller 
girls  hope  to  sha\e  off  several  inches 
by  some  artfrd  dodge  of  costuming. 
Of  cour^e,  the  answer  is,  ycni  can't. 
But  there  pre  certain  tricks  to  your 
dres.->ing  that  will  make  you  feel  more 
at  ease,  whether  you  are  tall  or  short. 

Since  you  tall  gals  have  been  beg- 
ging me  to  help  you  f)ut  of  late,  I 
hiked  up  to  CBS  to  talk  with  two  of 
their  htars  who  frankly  admit  to  be- 
ing tall  and  who  have  a  reputation 


for  looking  e.\treniel\-  smart  at  all 
times.  If  what  the\  ha\>'  lo  say  isn't 
reas.suring  to  you  and  doesn't  make 
you  feel  proud  that  you  are  tall.  I 
shall  consider  mv  idea  a  complete 
dud ! 

Alice  Frost  was  my  fir^t  inrs. 
Alice,  whom  you  hear  .Mondays 
through  Thursdays  on  the  k'iiiso  hour 
in  the  serial  /)'/'(/  Sislcr,  and  also  on 
the  Chesterfield  re-broadcasl.  is  defi- 
nitely tall.  As  her  husband  describes 
her.  she's  the  tall,  willowy  blonde 
ty])e  and  he  likes  to  have  her  dress  up 
to  that  personality.  In  exact  meas- 
urements she  is  five  feet,  eiglu  ruches 
tall.     Her  beautiful   natural  blonde 


hair  is  long  and  she  wears  it  in  a 
braid  about  her  head. 

Remember  my  writing  to  yoti  tall 
girls  and  begging  you  not  to  try  to 
look  shorter.'  \\m  know,  none  of 
that  stoop-sliouldered.  slouch  btisi- 
ness?  Well.  Alice  l-'rost's  first  pre- 
smart  is  to  enjoy 


cept    h)r  lo 
\our  height 
trv  1 
tli'e  ! 
incite 


lon't,  al)o\e  all  things, 
k  shorter,  rather  revel  in 
and  dignity  a  few  added 
e  you.  That's  what  she 
does  and  she  says  that  there  is  only 
one  time  that  her  height  actually  has 
been  a  liandicap — and  that  is  when 
she  tries  out  for  stage  roles.  She 
has   lost   several   engagements  this 


Has  your  height  complicated  your  clothes  problem?  You'll  find 

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RADIO  STARS 


Alice  Frost  likes  this  black 
velvet  dinner  gown  with  its 
high  neckline  encircled  with 
shining    white    silk  flowers. 


way.  because  the  leading  men  were 
shorter  than  she.  Recently  she  lost 
out  on  a  Broadway  play  because  she 
was  taller  than  the  star  who  was  to 
play  her  mother  in  the  story.  In 
radio  she  doesn't  have  to  worry  about 
height  at  all,  in  fact,  it  is  an  advan- 
tage to  be  tall. 

I  asked  her  about  the  new  high- 
crowned  hats  because  they  are  such 
a  giddy  topic  of  conversation  these 
days.    She  said : 

"I  usually  wear  rather  tailored 
hats  with  brims  because  I  think  they 
suit  my  type  best.  Now  and  then  I 
do  buy  a  more  formal  st\le  of  hat 
but  never  one  with  a  really  peaked 
crown.  Those  very  high  crowns 
make  a  tall  girl  look  ridiculous.  How- 
ever, I  do  have  some  height  to  my 
crowns  because  it  suits  my  type  of 
face  better  and  gives  me  head  room 
for  my  braids.  I  must  confess  that 
I  do  have  a  little  trouble  finding 
hats  to  fit  (Continued  on  page  66) 

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DAILY  RADIO  TREAT:  Ted  Malone 
. .  .inviting  you  to  help  yourself  to 
Happiness  and  to  Beauty.  Monday 
to  Friday,  12:15  pm  E.  S.  T.  over 
the  WABC- Columbia  Network. 


RADIO  STARS 


KEEP  YOUNG  AND  BEAUTIFUL 


Bernice  Claire 
of  "Melodiana" 
was  awarded  the 
title  of  "Miss 
Perfume  Person- 
ality of  1937." 


Bernice  exannines 
the  silver  cup 
which  has  her 
name  and  the 
unique  title 
engraved  on  it. 


IXTRODUCIXG  Miss  Perfume  Personality  of  1937 
— Miss  Bernice  Claire !  At  the  recent  conference  of 
Perfume  and  Cosmetic  Buyers  in  New  York  City, 
the  Melodiana  songl)ird  not  only  was  awarded,  by 
unanimous  choice,  the  title  of  ^liss  Perfume  Per- 
soiialitx  of  ]'->37 .  I)ut  she  also  was  awarded  a  beautiful 
>il\  cr  cu]),  witli  her  unicjue  title  engraved  on  it.  Petite, 
slender,  with  soft  blonde  curls,  eyes  as  blue  as  lark- 
spur and  an  entrancing  smile,  she  is  a  very  believable 
picture  of  Miss  Perfume  Personality,  too.  Somehow 
the  title  seems  as  a])i)r(>i)riate  t(j  her  blonde  loveliness 
as  do  her  program  titles,  Melodiana  and  li'altc  Time. 

Miss  Perfume  Persoiudity  of  1937  has  come  a  long, 
long  wav  since  she  left  her  home  in  Oakland,  Cali- 
fornia, in  1929,  with  a  definite  five-year  ])lan  bm-ning 
fiercely  but  steadily  in  her  heart  to  become  a  national 
figure  in  the  entertainment  world.  Wow  well  she  suc- 
ceeded in  her  five-year  plan,  her  achievements  will 
testify.  She  has  been  starred  in  five  motion  ])ictures. 
including  the  t(j]j-hit,  \'o.  No,  Nanette,  and  has  won 
both  c(jncert  and  radio  success.  From  an  unknown 
to  a  favorite  songster  of  the  air  is  quite  a  long  leap  to 
make,  even  on  a  fi\e-year  ])lan. 

Miss  Claire  often  i>  called,  teasingly,  the  five-year- 
plan-girl.  And  when  1  \\a>  jiresent  at  the  silver  cu]) 
award,  I  was  reminded  of  my  intenticjn  of  several 
months  previous  to  interview  the  five-year-plan  girl 
on  a  five-week  plan  for  beauty. 

About  this  time  of  the  year,  we  are  esjiecially  prone 
to  go  into  conferences  with  ourselves  and  decide  on  a 
lot  of  good  beauty  resolutions.  Oh,  yes.  we  are  going 
to  do  something  about  ourselves ;  but  too  often  our 
resolutions,  like  perfume,  are  hard  to  hold  and  they 


fade  away  into  an  aura  of  forgotten,  but  dimly  remem- 
bered, good  intentions.  It  is  one  thing  to  make  good 
resolutions  and  quite  another  thing  to  keep  them,  so  we 
need  a  plan  to  bolster  up  our  will  power. 

Naturally,  before  going  into  a  discussion  of  a  plan  for 
beauty,  it  was  only  fitting  that  we  should  ask  the  new 
Perfume  Queen  something  about  her  ideas  on  perfume. 
And  Miss  Claire  had  an  interesting  and  intriguing  angle 
to  give  us  on  this  glamorous  business  of  selecting  one's 
perfume.  What  perfume  expresses  you  best?  Well,  ac- 
cording to  Miss  Claire,  the  perfume  that  expresses  you 
best  is  the  one  you  like  best — the  one  that  you  feel  does 
the  most  for  you.  Don't  worry  so  much  about  your  per- 
fume fitting  your  personality.  It  is  Miss  Claire's  sug- 
gestion that  if  you  are  shy  and  unsophisticated,  perhajjs 
the  very  thing  you  need  is  an  exciting,  thrilling  perfume 
thru  will  make  other  peojile  sit  up  and  take  notice.  Or  if 
you're  sleek  and  sophisticated,  the  very  tiling  you  need, 
prol)ably,  is  a  suggestion  of  m  /e  femininity  and  gentle- 
ness in  your  perfume. 

In  fact.  Miss  Claire's  suggestions  are  practically  twins 
to  those  given  in  the  little  perfume  booklet  I  have  for 
you  this  month.  Winning  IVays  7vith  Perfume.  The  book- 
let is  a  com])lete  guide  to  the  art  of  perfumery.  It  tells 
you  the  secret  of  how  perfume  may  be  most  latently 
ai)])lied  ;  it  describes  how  you  can  give  yourself  a  per- 
fumed shampoo  and  it  gives  lots  of  other  timely  perfume 
hints  for  this  fragrant  season. 

Tncidentall)-,  it  might  be  amusing  to  mention  in  passing 
that  Miss  Claire  is  a  good  friend  of  Dick  Merrill — the 
famous  aviator  with  the  round-trip-ocean-flight  record — 
and  Mi.ss  Claire  helps  him  to  choose  perfume — for  him- 
.self!  No  one  can  accuse  Merrill  of  being  a  "sissy"  cer- 


A  five-week  plan  for  beauty  and  how  to  select  perfume  suited 


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RADIO  STARS 


BY  MARY 
B  I  D  D  L  E 


I'm  most  certainly  grateful 


SAYS  THIS  CHARMING  WISCONSIN  BRIDE 


tainly,  so  you  can  tell  that  to 
your  husband.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  Merrill  likes  to  use  it  to 
make  the  gas  fumes  from  his 
plane  more  bearable,  which  is 
surel}-  one  good  reason  for  using 
it.  Of  course,  he  chooses  fresh, 
crisp  masculine-appealing  odors. 
All  of  "which  is  a  point  to  bear  in 
mind  when  it  comes  to  choosing 
the  gift  for  the  man  who  has  his 
fill  of  gadgets  and  hates  ties  that 
women  pick  out  for  him.  For 
example,  there  is  a  special  Christ- 
mas gift  set  for  men  that  comes 
with  a  smart  new  wood  shaving 
bowl,  a  delightfully  crisp,  re- 
freshing after- shaving  lotion 
(also  grand  for  body  rubs),  and 
a  generous  can  of  talcum  in  the 
same  tangy  odor  ...  all  for  the 
man  who  is  both  masculine  and 
discriminating  in  his  tastes. 

But  not  to  let  the  men  inter- 
fere with  our  beauty  plans  .  .  . 
let's  get  down  to  the  business  of 
mapping  out  a  five-week  plan  of 
beauty  for  you.  We  can't  get 
very  far  witliout  a  plan.  Men  are 
right  when  they  say  that  women 
need  more  svstem  in  their  lives. 
However.  Miss  Claire  suggests 
{Continued  on  page  64) 


to  your  personality 


^'^HE  bride  carried  orchids, 

H-fiite  velvet  with  old  lace" — 
a  charming  picture,  but  then  what 
a  lovely  bride!  For  ^hs.  Edward 
Clark,  Junior,  has  joyous  blue  eyes, 
hair  like  blond  satin,  a  complexion 
that  s  as  fresh,  as  fair,  as  spring 
itself!  And  she  keeps  it  so  (just  as 
you  should  yours)  by  daily  care 
with  deep-cleansing  Camay. 

Its  exhilarating!  —  the  mere 
touch  of  Camay's  deliciously  fra- 
grant lather!  And  how  clear,  how 

CAMAY 


.^atin-.--niooth  it  makes  your  skin, 
even  in  coldest  skin-trving  weather. 
Camay's  so  soothing  for  Camay's 
so  mild — p rovab I y  milder  than  all 
other  beauty  soaps,  by  actual  tests 
on  womcn  s  skins. 

Begin  Camay  care  of  your  skin 
today.  The  price  is  vcrv  low! 
Let  Camay  bring  your  loveliness  to  light. 


o 


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Evening  and  Sunday  Star, 
Washington.  D.  C. 


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Chicago  Tribune.  Chicago,  III. 


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Dayton  Daily  News.  Dayton.  Ohio 


1.  FORD  SUNDAY  EVENING  HOUR  85.0 

CBS  Sun.  0:00  P.M.  EST 

2.  TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT— FRED  ALLEN  84.4 
NBC  Wed.  V:Oi>  P..\I.  EST 

3.  JELL-O  PROGRAM— JACK  BENNY.  .  .84.0 
I  XKC  Sun.  7:00  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

4.  PHILHARMONIC  SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA  83.3 

CBS  Sim.  3:0n  P.M.  EST 

5.  CHESTERFIELD  PRESENTS  NINO 
MARTINI  WITH  KOSTELANETZ  OR- 
CHESTRA  83.2 

CBS  Wed.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

6.  WARING'S  PENNSYLVANIANS  83.1 

CBS  TuiS.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  9:00  P.M.  PST: 
NBC  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  9:00  P.M.  PST 

7.  ANDRE  KOSTELANETZ-KAY  THOMP- 
SON,   RAY   HEATHERTON  83.0 

CBS  Fri.   S:.30   P.M.  EST 

8.  GENERAL  MOTORS  CONCERT— ERNO 

RAPEE   82.5 

NBC  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

9.  ROYAL  GELATIN  PROGRAM— RUDY 

VALLEE  82.1 

NBC  Thur.  8:00  P..\L  EST 

10.  LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  81.3 

CBS  M.;,.  0:1,(1  P.M.  EST 

11.  RUBINOFF.  JAN  PEERCE  80.8 

CBS  Sun.  n:.io  P.M.  EST 

12.  MEREDITH  WILLSON  ORCHESTRA  .79.0 
NBC  Sal.  8:30  P.M.  EST,  Mon.  9:30  P.M. 
EST 

13.  THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA  77.6 

NBC  Sun.  2:00  P.M.  EST 

14.  CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— JESSICA 

DRAGONETTE   77.3 

NBC  Fri.  8:00   P.M.  EST 

15.  BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS  76.6 

NBC   Tue^.    9:00    I'.M.  EST 

16.  STOOPNAGLEANDBUDD— VOORHEES 

ORCHESTRA   76.1 

NBC  Sun.  5:30  I'.M.  l-:.ST 

17.  PHIL  BAKER  WITH  HAL  KEMP'S  OR- 
CHESTRA  76.0 

CBS  Sun.  7:30  P. .VI.  EST 

18.  GABRIEL  HEATTER  75.9 

.UBS  .M-T-W-T  9:00  P.M.  EST 

19.  KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROSBY, 

BOB  BURNS  75.6 

NBC  Thur.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

20.  YOUR  HIT  PARADE  75.4 

NBC  Wed.  10:00  P.M.  EST;  CBS  Sat.  10:00 
P.M.  EST 

21.  CAMEL  CARAVAN— RUPERT  HUGHES, 
GOODMAN  BAND  75.3 

CBS  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

22.  GUY  LOMBARDO  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
TRA 74.8 

CBS  Sun.  5:30   P.M.  EST 


23.  THE   VOICE    OF    FIRESTONE— MAR- 
GARET SPEAKS  74.7 

NBC  Mon.  S:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

24.  THE  BAKERS  BROADCAST— ROBERT 

RIPLEY,  NELSON  ORCHESTRA  73.8 

NBC  Sun.   7:30   P.M.  E.ST 

25.  STUDEBAKER  CHAMPIONS  —  RICH- 
ARD HIMBER   73.6 

NBC  Mon.  9:30  P.M.  EST,  0:30  P.M.  PST 

26.  AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 

MUSIC  73.2 

NBC  Sun.    9:30    P.M.  EST 

27.  BURNS  AND  ALLEN  73.1 

CBS  Wed.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  P.ST 

28.  AMOS  "N"  ANDY  73.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-FJ:00  P.M.  /C.Sr.  8:00  P.M. 
P.ST 

29.  EASY  ACES  72.9 

NBC  T-W-T  7:00  P.M.  EST 

30.  THE  SINGING  LADY  72.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:30  P.M.  EST 

31.  SATURDAY  NIGHT  PARTY— WALTER 

O'KEEFE  72.4 

NBC  Sat.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

32.  VICK'S  OPEN  HOUSE— NELSON  EDDY.  72.3 
CBS  Sun.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

33.  IRVIN    COBB    PADUCAH  PLANTA- 
TION  72.1 

NBC  Sat.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

34.  SHERLOCK  HOLMES   72.0 

NBC  Thur.  11:15  P.M.  E.ST 

35.  WE,  THE  PEOPLE— PHILLIPS  LORD  .71.8 
NBC  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  E.ST 

36.  RADIO  CITY  SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA 71.4 

NBC  Sun.  12:.W  P.M.  EST 

37.  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY   71.3 

NBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST,  Stin.  9:30  P.M. 
PST 

38.  LOWELL  THOMAS  .  ,   71.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST 

39.  HELEN  HAYES  IN  "BAMBI"  70.8 

NBC  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

40.  SPORTCAST— TED  HUSING  70.6 

CBS  T-T-S   7:15    P.M.  EST 

41.  EDDIE  CANTOR   70.5 

CBS  Sun.  8:30  P.M.  EST,  8:00  P.M.  P.ST 

42.  LANNY  ROSS  PRESENTS  THE  MAX- 
WELL HOUSE  SHOW  BOAT  70.4 

NBC  Thur.  0:00  P.M.  EST.  9:15  P.M.  PST 

43.  BOAKE  CARTER  70.3 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  7:45  P.M.  E.ST 

44.  PITTSBURGH  SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA 70.2 

CBS  Sun.  2:00  P.M.  EST 

45.  EDWIN  C.  HILL   70.0 

NBC  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST;  Mon..  Thur. 

7:. 10  P.M.  EST 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  percentages  on 
the  assumption  tliat  all  radio  programs  are  di- 
vided Into  four  basic  parts:  material,  artists, 
presentation  and  announcements,  each  consisting 
of  -lo^c  and  malting  the  perfect  program  of  100%. 
These  ratings  are  a  consensus  of  opinions  of  our 
Board  of  Review  and  do  not  necessarily  agree  with 
the  editorial  opinion  of  Radio  Stars  Magazine. 
Programs  outstanding  as  to  artists  and  material, 
often  suffar  from  poor  presentation  or  exag- 
gerated commercial  announcements.  There  have 
been  many  changes  in  programs  for  the  winter 
months.  The  Board  reviewed  as  many  of  the  cur- 
rent major  programs  as  it  possibly  could  before 
this  issue  went  to  press. 


46.  ALEMITE    HALF    HOUR  —  HEIDT'S 
BRIGADIERS   69.6 

r/3.S  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  EST,  9:00  P.M.  P.ST 

47.  WOODBURY  PRESENTS  PAUL  WHITE- 
MAN'S  MUSICAL  VARIETIES  69.0 
NBC  Sun.  9:15  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  P.ST 

48.  SHELL  CHATEAU  —  SMITH  BALLEW, 

YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  68.7 

NBC  Sat.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

49.  HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL  68.6 

CBS  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

50.  REVUE  DE  PAREE— FANNIE  BRICE  68.2 
NBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

51.  A  &  P  BAND  WAGON— KATE  SMITH  67.9 
CBS  Thur.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

52.  LEO  REISMAN'S  ORCHESTRA  67.6 

NBC  Tues.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

53.  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND  67.5 

NBC  Mon.  6:00  P.M.  EST 

54.  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE    AIR.  .  .  .67.4 
CBS  M-W-F  11:00. A.M. EST.  12:00  Noon  PST 

55.  NASH-LAFAYETTE  SPEED   SHOW  — 
FLOYD   GIBBONS,    LOPEZ  ORCHES- 
TRA 67.3 
C7>.S  Sal.  <):(I0  P.M.  E.ST 

56.  LUM  AND  ABNER  67.0 

NBC  .M-T-W-T-F  7:30  P.M.  EST,  8:15  P.M. 
PST 

57.  FIRESIDE  RECITALS  —  WILLIE  MOR- 
RIS  66.7 

NBC  Sun.  7:30  P.M.  EST 

58.  SALT     LAKE     CITY  TABERNACLE 

CHOIR  AND  ORGAN  66.6 

CBS  Sun.  12:30  P.M.  EST 

59.  CONTENTED  PROGRAM  66.5 

NBC  Mon.  10:00  P.M.  E.ST 

60.  MELODIANA  —  ABE  LYMAN  66.4 

NBC  Mon.  8:30  P.M.  E.ST 

61.  SEARS— THEN  AND  NOW  66.1 

CBS  Thur.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

62.  MAJOR  BOWES"  CAPITOL  FAMILY.  .66.0 
CBS  Sun.  11:30  A.M.  EST 

63.  PACKARD     HOUR— FRED  ASTAIRE, 

GREEN  ORCHESTRA  65.9 

NBC  Tues.   0:.W   P.M.  EST 

64.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA.  .65.8 
NBC  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

65.  HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC  HALL  65.2 

CBS  Tues.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

66.  WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  65.1 

CBS  Mon.  10:00  P.M.  EST;  NBC  T-W  8:30 
P.M.  EST 

67.  GILLETTE'S     COMMUNITY  SING- 
MILTON  BERLE,  JONES  &  HARE  .  . .  .65.0 

CBS  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

68.  CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  64.8 

CBS   Wed.  8:00   P.M.  EST 


RADIO  STARS 


69.  GANG  BUSTERS  64.7 

CPS  11,,/.  lO.OO  P.M.  Esr 

70.  LOG  CABIN  DUDE  RANCH  63.8 

SHQ  Tu,-<:.  S:(>0  P.M.  E.ST 

71.  PORTRAITS  OF  HARMONY    —  TED 

WEEMS   63.7 

.\7>"C        v  !0:M)  P.M.  li.ST 

72.  FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  63. 

.XBC  Mon.  .>/:0i)  P.M.  EST 

73.  HORN  AND  HARDART'S  CHILDREN'S 

HOUR  63.0 

(PS  Suti.    10:.W  .1,.A/.  EST 

74.  FIRST  NIGHTER— DON  AMECHE.  .  62.8 
SBC   F>i.    10:00    P.M.  EST 

75.  VEE  LAWNHURST  AND  THE  CHAR- 
IOTEERS 62.7 

CBS  Thur.  7.M  P.M.  E.ST 

76.  JOE  PENNER— GRIER  ORCHESTRA  6 
CBS  Sun.  6:00  P.M.  EST 

77.  PEPPER  YOUNG'S  FAMILY  62.5 

NBC  M-T-\V-T-F  3:00  P.M.  E.ST 

78.  CAPT.  TIM  HEALY  62.4 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  0:-l5  A.M.  EST 

79.  CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  SHOTS  .62.3 
NBC  T-T-S  11:05  P.M.  E.ST 

80.  RY  -   KRISP     PRESENTS  MARION 

TALLEY  62.2 

NBC  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  EST 

81.  VOX  POP  62.1 

NBC  Tues.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

82.  THE  CARBORUNDUM  BAND  62.1 

CBS  Sal.  7:.10  P.M.  EST 

83.  TODAY'S  CHILDREN  62.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:45  A.M.  EST 

84.  NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE  62.0 

NBC  Sal.  e:00  P.M.  E.ST,  8:00  P.M.  PST 

85.  MARY  MARLIN  61.9 

NBC  M-T-U'-T-F  12:15  P.M.  EST 

86.  MANHATTAN     MERRY-GO-ROUND  61.6 
NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

87.  ETHEL  BARRYMORE  61.2 

NBC  Wed.  S:.W  P.M.  E.ST 

88.  MYSTERY  CHEF  61.1 

NBC  Tues.  Sat.  11:30  A.M.  E.ST 

89.  KALTENBORN  EDITS  THE  NEWS  61.0 
CBS  Sun.  10:45  P.M.  EST 

90.  ROMANCE   OF   HELEN  :  TRENT  60.8 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:30  P.M.  EST 

91.  TWIN  STARS  —  ROSEMARIE  BRAN- 

CATO  60.7 

NBC  Fri.  9:.W  P.M.  EST 

92.  GRAND  HOTEL— ANNE  SEYMOUR  .  .  60.5 
NBC  Sun.  3:30  P.M.  EST 

93.  IRENE  RICH   60.2 

NBC  Fri  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

94.  VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  60.1 

NBC  Tues.  7:45  P.M.  E.ST 

95.  CROSLEY  FOLLIES   60.0 

MBS  Mon.  11:30  P.M.  EST 

96.  COME  ON,  LET'S  SING   59.2 

CBS  Wed.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

97.  KALTENMEYER'S  KINDERGARTEN .  .  58.6 
NBC  Sat.    5:30   P.M.  EST 

98.  LAUGH   WITH   KEN   MURRAY  58.5 

CBS  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

99.  TED  MALONE'S  BETWEEN  THE  BOOK- 
ENDS   58.4 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:15  P.M.  EST 

100.  THE  JERGENS  PROGRAM  —  WALTER 

WINCHELL  58.3 

NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST.  8:15  P.M.  PST 

101.  GIRL  ALONE   58.2 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  12:00  Noon  EST 

102.  HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  58.0 

NBC  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

103.  UNCLE  EZRA'S  RADIO  STATION  57.9 

NBC  M-W-F  7:15  P.M.  EST 

104.  GOOD  WILL  COURT  57.7 

NBC  Sun.    8:00    P.M.  EST 

105.  THE     WONDER     SHOW— CHRISTIE 

ORCHESTRA  57.5 

MBS  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

106.  DAVID  HARUM   57.4 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  11:00  A.M.  EST 

107.  HAROLD  "RED"  GRANGE  57.3 

NBC  Fri.  10:30  P.M.  EST,  Sal.  7:00  P.M. 
EST 

108.  QUALITY;TWINS— EASTIAND  DUMKE57.2 

CBS  T-T  11:15  A.M.  EST 

109.  MAJOR  BOWES'  AMATEUR  HOUR  57.0 
CBS  Thur.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

110.  GREATER  SINCLAIR  MINSTRELS  56.7 

NBC  Mon.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

(Continued  on  page  59) 


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6:30  P.m. 


EASTERN 
STANDARD 
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11 


Ka+e  mixes  the  hard  sauce 
which  adds  flavor  to  her 
new  steamed  fruit  pudding 
for  the  Christmas  table. 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING 


HELLO.  EI-ERVBODV!  This 
is  Kate  Smith  wisiiin^-  you  all  a 
]\Ierry  Christmas  and  resumint;- 
my  role  as  Cooking  School  Di- 
rector for  Radio  Stars  Magazine 
— my  second  "Command  Ap])ear- 
ance''  in  that  capacity.  And  say. 
folks,  from  the  letters  I've  heen 
getting,  you  seem  to  he  almost  as 
glad  to  see  me  here  as  I  am  hapjty 
to  he  here  !  And  with  Christmas 
Dinner  to  talk  ahout  this  month, 
helieve  me  that's  sonic  happy ! 

I'm  so  full  of  the  Holiday 
spirit,  anyway,  that  I'm  sim])ly 
huhhling  over  with  enthusiasm  for 
everything  connected  with  this 
joyous  season.  I  just  can't  de- 
scrihe  to  you  how  much  I  look 
forward  to  .seeing  the  lighted 
Christmas  trees  in  the  parks  and 
in  the  windows  of  homes  and 
apartments  in  the  city  and  suhurhs 
.  .  .  the  children  crowding  around 
the  toy  displays  of  the  hig  de- 
])artment  stores  .  .  .  the  sho])s, 
hoth  large  and  small,  filled  with 


delightful  gifts  to  huy  and  foods 
to  eat.  These  are  the  things  I'll 
he  seeing  and  enjoying  this  year, 
for  my  family  is  coming  north  to 
join  me  in  New  York  for  the 
Holidays.  And  my,  it  won't  he 
long  hefore  they — and  Christmas 
— will  he  here.  ]h\[  old  .Santa 
won't  he  ahle  to  spring  any  sur- 
])rises  on  Kate  this  year,  l-'or  I'm 
all  ])repared ;  my  Christmas  gift 
list  is  made  out,  my  Christmas 
plans  are  decided  upon  and — 
which  is  ])rol)al)ly  of  more  interest 
to  you  Cooking  .School  followers 
— my  Christmas  Dinner  menu  is 
complete,  down  to  the  last 
raisin. 

^'ou  know,  ])lanning  the  dinner 
ahead  of  time  will  save  _\()U  much 
last-minute  rushing  around! 

I  think  I'm  going  to  givt'  you 
that  menu,  too,  straight  off.  so 
that  you  can  get  an  idea  of  the 
meal  as  a  whole  hefore  we  start 
talking  ahout  all  the  dishes  indi- 
viduallv.    So  here  'tis  : 


CHRISTMAS  DINNER 
Cream  of  Mushroom  Soup 
Roast  Capon 
Clicstnut  Stuffing      Apple  Sauce 

Pan  Brozvncd  Potatoes 
Baked  Squash  Siring  Beans 

Secret  Cider 
Cranberry  Kiiuj  Mold  Salad 

Steamed  Yule  Pudding, 
Hard  and  Southern  Sauce 
Coffee 

Marsliinallozv  A'Ut  Fudge  Mints 
N^uts       Fruit  Raisins 

Now,  there  you  are !  And 
doesn't  it  sound  like  the  kind  of 
a  meal  long  to  he  remembered?  I 
know  just  writing  it  down  for 
you  brings  back  to  me  fond 
memories  of  other  Christmas  din- 
ners, with  ( irandmother  Hanby 
proudl)  presiding  over  a  table 
fairly  groaning  imder  the  burden 
of  just  such  a  meal  as  this.  So 
do  please  give  the  menu  more  than 
a  casual  glance  before  we  discuss 
each  item  together.    Because,  you 


Presenting  Kate  in  the  second  of  her  series  of  exclusive 


12 


These  rich  spice 
cakes  are  topped 
with  marshmallows 
holding  candles. 


SCHOOL 


see,  I  intend  to  give  you  cooking 
directions  for  practically  all  the 
dishes  I've  mentioned.  Some  of 
the  recipes  I'll  have  room  to  give 
you  right  here  and  the  others  you 
will  find  in  the  leaflet  which  this 
magazine  will  send  you  free  of 
charge.  I  understand  there  will 
always  be  a  convenient  coupon  for 
you  to  fill  out  and  that  you'll  re- 
ceive your  leaflet  without  delay 
and  without  having  to  send  post- 
age. (Editor's  Note:  Coupon  ap- 
pears at  the  end  of  Kate's  article.) 

What  recipes  to  put  in  the  leaflet  ? 
Well,  I  think  the  Cranberry  Salad 
Mold  deserves  that  special  atten- 
tion and  the  Steamed  Yule  Pud- 
ding, with  both  Hard  Sauce  and 
Southern  Sauce  thrown  in  to  make 
this  dessert  the  best  you  ever 
tasted.  The  Marshniallozv  Nut 
Fudge  included  on  my  menu — and 
the  Spicy  Cup  Cakes  not  men- 
tioned here  before — will  also  go 
into  the  leaflet.  With  those  recipes 
(Continued  on  page  67) 

cooking  articles 


^lay  safe. . .  take 
tke  doctors  judgment 
about  laxatives 


You  choose  your  family  doctor  because 
you  have  confidence  in  him.  He  will 
never  take  chances  where  your  welfare  is 
concerned.  Even  with  a  little  thing  like  a 
laxative,  doctors  have  a  definite  set  of 
standards  which  guide  them  in  their 
choice.  They  know  the  dangers  of  using 
the  wrong  kind.  Before  they  will  give  a 
laxative  their  approval,  it  must  meet  their 
requirements  on  these  specific  points: 

WHAT  DOCTORS  DEMAND  OF  A  LAXATIVE 

It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proven  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 

It  should  not  over-act. 

It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 

It  should  not  nauseate,  or  upset  digestion. 

EX-LAX  MEETS  EVERY  DEMAND 

Now,  here's  a  fact  that's  significant— 
Ex-Lax  checks  on  each  of  these  specifica- 
tions. Not  merely  on  two  or  three.  But  on 
all  these  points  that  doctors  look  for  in  a 
laxative. 

No  wonder  so  many  physicians  use 
Ex-Lax  in  their  own  families.  No  wonder 
millions  of  careful  mothers  give  it  to  their 
children  with  perfect  confidence.  For  over 
30  years  the  dependable,  satisfying  per- 
formance of  Ex-Lax  has  created  universal 

When  Nature  forgets— remember 

EX-LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


trust.  Today  it  is  used  by  more  people 
than  any  other  laxative  in  the  world. 

CONVINCE  YOURSELF  OF  THE  FACTS 

Your  first  trial  of  Ex-Lax  will  be  a  new 
and  pleasant  experience.  For  Ex-Lax  is 
mild  and  gentle.  It  is  thoroughly  effec- 
tive. It  d(»es  not  over-act.  Does  not  disturb 
the  digestion.  It  allows  your  food  to  be 
I>roperly  assimilated.  And  these  very  qual- 
ities that  make  Ex-Lax  so  ideal  for  adults 
are  doubly  important  in  their  relation  to 
children. 

A  REAL  PLEASURE  TO  TAKE 

Everyone  likes  Ex-Lax— particularly  the 
youngsters.  It  tastes  just  like  delicious 
( luicoiate.  If  you  have  been  taking  nasty, 
naii>-(ating  cathartics,  you'll  be  grateful 
fur  the  ])Ieasant  flavor  of  Ex-Lax.  At  all 
drug  stores  in  10c  and  25c  sizes.  If  you'd 
like  to  try  a  sample,  mail  the  coupon  below. 

GUARD  AGAINST  COLDS !..  .Remember 
these  common-sense  rules  for  ftghting 
colds:  get  lots  of  sleep,  eat  sensibly, 
dress  warmly,  keep  out  of  drafts,  keep 
your  feet  dry,  and  keep  regular  — 
with  Ex-Lax,  the  Chocolated  Laxative. 


 TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!  

(I'aste  tills  on  a  penny  postcard) 
Fx.I.ax.  Inr..  P.  O.  Box  170  MM-17 
Tlme-s-Plaza  Station.  Brooklyn.  N.  T. 

I  want  to  try  Ex-Lax.  Please  send  free  sample. 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  RAMRLINGS 


Thirteen  -  year -old 
^eanna  Durbin 
fa%  warmly  wel- 
;omed  on  Eddie 
Cantor's  program. 


"Adventures  of  Ace  Williams," 
on  the  air  with  Jane  Parsons, 
Ace  Williams,  himself,  announ- 
cer Edwin  Burke  and  Dick  Holt 
in  the  very  act  of  thrilling  you. 


PICTURESQUE  and  amusing  sto- 
ries about  Bob  Burns  seem  to  pop 
up  endlessly.  A  New  York  radio 
man,  vacationino;  at  the  old  home  in 
Beaufort,  S.  C.  found  Bob  a  l)ig 
favorite  there  and  started  telling  the 
folks  about  radio's  newest  comic  star. 

"I  didn't  get  far,"  he  relates. 
"They  knew  him  better  than  I  did. 
Bob  was  in  the  Marines,  stationed 
down  near  there,  and  used  to  ])lay 
with  a  Marine  Band  that  came  to 
the  hotel  once  a  week  for  dances. 

"He  played  the  trombone  some, 
but  even  then  he  was  monkeying 
around  with  that  bazooka  of  his.  flat- 
ting away  on  it  while  the  band  was 
trying  to  play  dance  music.  But  his 
main  stunt  was  to  get  a  couple  of 
friends  sitting  down  in  a  corner  and 
then  tell  whopjjing  big  lies  about  his 
relatives  back  in  Arkansas. 

"A  couple  of  his  old  pals  down 


there  tell  me  he  hasn't  had  a  story 
on  the  radio  yet  that  he  didn't  tell 
them  back  in  the  war  days.  Nobody 
ever  thought  of  him  as  a  comedian. 
He  didn't  himself.  Just  a  good- 
natured  screwball  it  was  fun  to  have 
around." 

U'Jicn  Eddie  Cantor  started  his 
progra)ii  for  Texaco,  they  had  life- 
size  CHt-oitts  of  Eddie  made  to  stand 
ill  front  of  every  filling  station.  Ed- 
die sent  one  to  every  radio  editor, 
too,  ereating  an  acute  disposal  prob- 
lem. One  young  man  ZiTote  he  took 
tiis  home  for  a  pistol  target  and  the 
very  idea  of  shooting  at  C  antor  im- 
proved his  marksmanship  immensely. 

Sheila  Barrett  called  Fred  Allen  to 
ask  permission  to  do  an  impersona- 
tion of  him  and  Fred  drawled:  "It's 
all  right  with  me,  but  you'd  better 


ask  Rudy  Vallee.  He  has  been  doing 
an  imitation  of  me  so  long,  I  think 
he's  established  rights  to  it  by  now. 
I've  been  going  to  call  him  to  ask  if 
he  minded  if  I  went  on  doing  Fred 
Allen  myself." 

Walter  O'Keefe's  new  Saturday 
night  hour  shows  signs  of  developing 
into  one  of  radio's  more  amusing 
sessions  of  idiocy.  Of  course,  the 
people  he  talks  to  in  the  studio 
audience  are  almost  all  rehearsed  and 
salaried  stooges.  But  that's  the  only 
way  he  could  get  diverting  replies  to 
the  silly  questions.  Most  people  be- 
come tongue-tied  when  suddenly  con- 
fronted with  a  microphone.  "Plants" 
in  the  audience  were  an  old  custom 
in  vaudeville,  so  I  don't  suppose 
there's  any  reason  why  radio  can't 
pick  up  the  tradition. 

Walter   (Continued  on  page  62) 


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RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  STARS 


IT  THEY  LISTEN 


"The  glorious  voice"  of 
Nelson  Eddy  thrills  his 
fans  of  screen  and  radio. 

Edith  Bauder,  Teaneck,  N.  J. 
(Student.)  "Because  he  presents  all 
types  of  music  from  serious  to  su 
lime,  I  like  Fred  Waring  and  his 
PoDisyliviiiaits.  And  I  especially 
enjoy  the  sinking  of  Rosemary  and 
Priscilla  Lane!  Our  Man's  Family, 
for  depiction  of  true  family  life  with 
humor  and  ]jathos.  Jack  Benny,  for 
good  fun  and  dry  humor.  Nelson 
Eddy,  for  his  rendition  of  ballads, 
operas  and  musical  scores  from  his 
various  pictures." 

Doris     Baker,     Eltnira,     N.  Y. 

(Maid.)  "1  listen  to  The  Good  Will 
Cdiirl,  hccause  it  is  better  than  any 
other  ]jrogram  on  the  air.  It  is  both 
interesting  and  hel])ful.  To  Fred 
Allen's  'J'()7ci!  Hull  Toiiif/lit.  because 
I  like  the  music,  jokes  and  the  ama- 
teurs. I  also  listen  to  The  J'oicc  of 
Expci'ioicc,  for  the  advice  he  gives 
to  his  audience." 

Mildred  E.  Riley,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

(Typist.)  "I  tune  in  on  the  Cities 
Service  jjrograms  for  the  incompar- 
able Rei'clers  Quartette  and  excellent 
orchestra.  I'ick's  Open  House,  for 
the  glorious  voice  of  Nelson  Eddy. 
Guy  Lonibardo,  because  his  is  the 
sweetest  music  this  side  of  heaven; 
in  fact,  the  best  on  the  air.  The 
American  Album  of  familiar  Music, 
to  hear  the  sujjerl)  voice  of  Frank 
Munn,  RuI)inoff  and  his  magic  violin, 
the  lovely  voice  of  Virginia  Rea  and 
the  grand  orchestra.  Wayne  King 
and  Abe  Lyman  for  their  soothing 
waltz  music  with  no  jazz  and  Jack 


Page  Gilman,  18,  ploys 
Jack  Barbour  in  popular 
One  Man's  Family  cast. 

Benny  for  good,  clean  comedy  and 
entertainment." 

- 

Leo  Enger,  Detroit,  Mich.  (Spe- 
cialty Food  Merchant.)  "March  of 
Time  ranks  as  an  ace  program  to  me, 
because  it  brings  world  events  in  a 
new  and  interesting  manner.  My 
second    choice    is    Snow  Village 


Dry  hunnor  jokester  Jack 
Benny  is  a  favorite  with 
our  Radio  Stars  readers. 

Sketches,  which  present  fascinating 
human  interest  stories  of  rural  Amer- 
ica when  she  was  yet  a  young  na- 
tion." 

Mary  Rosenthal,  E.  St.  Louts,  111. 

(Student.)  "The  two  programs  I  like 
best  are  One  Man's  Family  and  Lux- 
Radio  Theatre.    I  enjoy  the  first  be- 


Which  radio  programs  are  your  especial  favorites  and  why? 


RADIO  STARS 


TO-tND  WHY 


Deanna  Durbin,  aged  13, 
sings  with  Eddie  Cantor 
and   is  set  for  films. 


cause  it  is  so  much  like  our  own 
home  Hfe  and  the  second  because  it 
is  a  pleasure  to  listen  to  plays,  espe- 
cially when  the  actors  and  actresses 
are  famous  movie  stars." 

Mary  Atwood,  Lincoln,  Neb. 
(Teacher)  "My  favorites  are  the 
Ford  Sunday  Evening  Hour,  w^hich 
presents  sixty  minutes  of  first-class 
music  with  no  tiresome  advertising; 
Nelson  Eddy,  because  he  is  a  truly 
fine  artist,  though  I  would  prefer 
not  to  hear  the  soprano  on  his  pro- 
gram. Eddie  Cantor,  who  always 
manages  cleverly  to  weave  in  some 
good  advice  with  his  good  humor  and 
fun.  Lux  Radio  Theatre,  because 
it  always  has  good  talent." 

H.  G.  Stiles,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
(Coal  Salesman.)  "I  listen  to  and 
enjov  Liiiii  .Ibncr.  because  the 
parts  are  all  so  well  taken  and  it  is 
clean,  wholesome  fun.  Also  enjoy 
Bol)  Burns  on  the  Kraft  Music  Hall, 
for  his  fine  backwoods  humor,  and 
the  modern  music  of  Paul  Whiteman 
and  Horace  Heidt." 

Mrs.  Mabelle  Welsh,  Waterloo, 
Iowa.  (Housewife.)  "Major  Bowes, 
because  he  has  done  so  much  for  the 
hidden  talent.  Dr.  Dafoe,  because 
his  is  an  instructive  program  for 
young  mothers.  The  Good  Will 
Court,  since  it  is  most  instructive  and 
there  is  much  for  the  average  citizen 
to  learn  from  it." 

Charlie  Vinal,  South  Weymouth, 


Lovely  and  popular  song- 
bird, Rosemary  Lane,  of 
Waring's  "Pennsylvanians." 

Mass.  (Musician.)  "I  listen  to  dance 
bands  more  than  anything  else.  My 
favorite  commercials  are  the  Benny 
Goodman  part  of  the  Camel  Caravan, 
Kay  Kyser's  show,  Horace  Heidt's 
program  and  the  Gulf  hour.  You 
can  see  that  these  are  all  musical  pro- 
grams, with  the  possible  exception 
of  the  last  mentioned." 

Louis  D.  Hurd,  Clayton,  Dela. 
(Grocer.)  "I  listen  to  the  following 
programs:  March  of  Time,  The 
Magic  Key  of  RCA  and  Lowell 
Thomas,  because  they  are  educa- 
tional. For  good  musical  programs 
I  prefer  the  U.S.  Marine  Band,  Fred 
Waring's  Pennsylvanians  and  The 
American  Album  of  Familiar  Music. 
For  wit  and  fun,  Amos  ';/'  A  inly. 
Carefree  Carnival,  Fibber  McGce 
and  Moll  v.  Pick  and  Pat  and  Vic  and 
Sadc  fill  "the  ImII." 

Lura  B.  Triplett,  Mooreland,  Okla. 

(Teacher.)  "Cheerio  and  Breakfast 
Club  give  me  a  good  start  for  the 
day.  For  my  inner  self,  each  of  the 
following  gives  me  what  I  need  :  Bc- 
tzceen  the  Bookends,  Farm  and  Home 
Hour,  One  Man's  Fa  mil  v.  Wavne 
Kin-'s  and  Meredith  Wills. m's  or- 
chestras. Show  lUnil.  II'I.S  Farm 
Daucc  Party.  The  Magic  Key  and 
Malcolm  Claire  stories." 

Verna  M.  Ewing,  Cicero,  111.  (Mil- 
liner.) "I  like  human  interest  ]iro- 
granis  such  as  Good  Will  Court,  I  'ox 
Pop  and  Traffic  Court,  interesting 
and  educational  dramas  ;  Helen  Hayes 


Meet  Helen  Hayes'  radio 
husband,  James  Meighan, 
co-star  of  serial  Bambi. 

in  Bambi,  One  Man's  Family  and 
First  Nighter,  because  they  are  well 
written  and  excellently  acted.  For 
interesting  selections  and  good  or- 
chestral music  I  prefer  the  Edison 
Symphony  and  for  soothing  rhythm, 
Wayne  King.  My  favorite  singers 
are  Nelson  Eddy,  Frank  ]\Iunn  and 
Tiny  Ruffner." 

Mrs.  A.  G.  Stannard,  Kansas  City, 
Mo.  (Housewife.)  In  the  order  of 
my  choice,  I  always  listen  to :  Mary 
Marlin,  Betty  and  Bob,  Eddie  Can- 
tor, Bob  Burns,  Major  Bowes  and 
Phillips  Lord's  Gangbusters.  Mary 
Marlin  is  by  far  my  favorite  and 
seems  to  he  ecjually  popular  with  all 
my  neighbors.  I  presume  the  reason 
I  like  all  these  is  because,  with  the 
exce])tion  <if  Ganc/I'ustcrs,  they  are 
appealing  to  human  sympathy." 

Miss  L.  M.  Berry,  Chicago,  111. 
(Student.)  "My  choices  are  :  Bishop 
and  the  Gargoyle,  a  subtle  mvsterv 
at  last;  Rudy  Vallee.  Shell  Cliatcau. 
Camel  Carax'un  and  Fred  Astaire  for 
A-1  variety;  Fred  Allen.  Pick  and 
Pat.  Stflopnagle  ami  Budd  for  really 
clever  comedy;  Lux  Radio  Theatre, 
Helen  Ha\es,  ll'idow's  Sons,  One 
Man's  Family.  Radio  Guild,  Bache- 
lor's Children,  Irene  Rich  and  First 
Nighter,  because  they  are  all  excel- 
lent dramas." 

Letha  A.  Behr,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

(Housewife.)  "iNlark  Hawley's  news 
reports  at  8:00  a.m.  on  WOR  to  get 
the  latest  news  first  thing  in  the 
morning;   {Continued  on  page  59) 


Address:  Query  Editor,  Radio  Stars,  149  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 


RADIO  STARS 

Just  a  Funny  Old  Song  Everybody  Knows 


WF.  sing,  we  sing,  we  sing  ot 
Lydia  Pinkham,"  so  go  the 
words  of  an  old  song  known  on  every 
college  campus. 

Old  grads  sing  it  at  their  class 
reunions. 

The  young  people  sing  it  when 
they  gather  around  the  piano  at 
home  on  their  college  vacations. 

And  mother,  listening,  puts  her 
book  aside  and  joins  in  the  chorus. 

"How  she  saved,  she  saved,  she 
saved  the  human  race — "  remember 
the  words  of  the  parody? 

From  laughing  young  lips  that 
have  never  known  the  twist  ot  pain 
it  comes  with  gay  abandon.  Just  a 
funny  old  school  song  everybody 
knows. 

But  to  silver  haired  mothers  who 
have  run  life's  gauntlet,  to  women 
who  have  lain  on  the  rack  in  childbirth, 
known  the  fiery  ordeal  of  the  "change" 
— these  words  bring  grateful  memories. 
To  them  it  is  much  more  than  just  a 
funny  song. 

Lydia  E.  Pinkham  was  a  real  ivoman 

The  song  is  a  parody.  But  Lydia  K. 
Pinkham  was  a  very  real  person.  In  fact 
hers  is  one  of  the  best  known  names  in 
the  history  of  American  women. 

She  began  her  work  in  the  light  of  little 
knowledge.  Her  laboratory  was  a  kitchen. 
Her  compounding  vat  an  iron  kettle  on 
a  New  England  kitchen  stove. 

But  today  her  work  is  being  carried  on 
under  the  banner  of  modern  science. 

And  now  her  product  is  made  in  a 
great  plant  occupying  six  modern  fac- 
tory buildings. 


Not  a  Patent  Medicine 

You  may  be  surprised  to  know  that  Lydia 
E.  Pinkham's  Vegetable  Compound  is 
not  a  patent  medicine. 

On  the  contrary  it  is  a  standard  pro- 


three  generations  one  woman  has  told 
ther  liow  to  go  "smiling  through"  with 


inkh.i 


's  Vegetable  Compound. 


helps  Nature  tone  up  the  system,  thus 
essening  the  discomforts*  which  must  be 
endured,  especially  during 

The  Three  Ordeals  of  Woman 


/.  Passing  front  girlhood  inlo  V) 
2.  Preparing  for  Motherhood. 
J.  A pproaching  "Middle  Age." 
^'junctional  disorders 


anhood. 


prietary  compounded  to  aid  women  in 
facing  the  three  major  ordeals  of 
their  sex.  It  is  to  be  found  in  every 
reputable  drug  store. 

We  who  carry  on  the  work  of  Lydia 
Pinkham  do  not  offer  this  Vegetable 
Compound  as  a  panacea  or  a  cure-all. 

We  do  know  it  has  been  tested  and 
approved  by  women  of  three  genera- 
tions. We  do  know  that  a  million 
women  have  written  to  tell  us  it  has 
been  helpful  during  the  three  most 
difficult  ordeals  of  their  sex:  adoles- 
cence, motherhood  and  "middle  age." 

More  than  a  Million  Letters 
of  Grateful  Testimony 

Lydia  K.  Pinkham's  ^'egetable  Com- 
pound has  been  advertised  these 
many  years.  But  no  advertisement 
we  have   ever   printed   could  compare 
with  the  word-of-mouth  advertising  from 
one  grateful  woman  to  another. 

In  our  files  are  more  than  one  million 
letters  from  women  in  every  walk  of  life 
— letters  on  scented  notepaper  or  on  torn 
wrapping  paper  —  letters  from  women 
who  have  known  pain  and  have  writ- 
ten to  us  without  solicitation  to  tell 
us  how  helpful  Lydia  E.  Pinkham's 
Vegetable  Compound  has  been  to 
them. 

If  you  are  in  need  of  help  we  can 
honestly  advise  you  to  give  it  a  fair 
trial. 

We  know  what  it  has  done  for 
others. 

We  have  every  reason  to  believe  it 
will  do  the  same  for  you.  The  Lydia  E. 
Pinkham  Medicine  Company,  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,  U.  S.  A. 


One  woman  tells  another  how  to  go  "Smiling  Through"  with 
([S^,^^/^^>y»J^  Vegetable  Compound 


FOR 

DISTINGUISHED 
SERVICE  TO  RADIO 


Wayne  King 

There  is  nothing  more  connfor+ing,  more  soul-satisfying  and  enjoyable  to  radio  listeners  than 
the  mellow  strains  of  Wayne  King's  music.    His  smooth  arrangements,  his  unerring 
judgment  of  pleasing  selections,  his  delightful  sense  of  rhythm,  his  saxophone  solos 
and  original  compositions  are  among  the  qualities  which  have  singled  out  Wayne 
King  from  radio's  maze  of  maestros  and  merited  for  him  the  place  of  honor  and 
distinction  he  so  justly  deserves. 

No  matter  what  your  mood  at  the  time  of  dialing,  his  music  invariably 
casts  its  spell  and  you  enjoy  a  pleasurable  half-hour  of  relaxation. 
Wayne's  is  the  music  of  love,  of  solace,  of  peace  of  mind,  of 
quietude.    Lullabies  for  grownups. 

When  life  seems  to  have  overlooked  you,  when  it  has  been 
deliberately  cruel,  there  always  are  pity  and  consolation  for 
your  troubled  heart  in  the  soothing  music  of  Wayne  King. 

To  him  and  his  Lady  Esther  Serenade  program,  RADIO 
STARS  magazine  presents  its  award  for  Distinguished 
Service  to  Radio. 


-EDITOR. 


THERE  they  were,  a  mile  up  towards  the  sky,  in  the 
tower  of  one  of  New  York's  smartest  hotels.  They  had 
seen  all  the  shows  everybody  was  seeing,  they  had  been 
to  all  the  night  clu!)s  excrybody  was  talking  about.  They 
had  been  to  all  the  smart  shops  that  are  always  somehow 
more  enticing  with  the  coming  of  the  first,  brisk  autumn 
days  and  they  had  endless  credit  at  all  of  them.  It  was 
their  honeymoon  and  \'et  neither  of  them  looked  par- 
ticularly happy. 

Joan  Blondell  looked  almost  defiant  as  she  stood 
against  the  wall  in  the  slim  black  satin  dress  that  made 
,1  white  camelia  of  her  face  and  brought  out  the  gold  in 
the  topsy-turvy  halo  of  her  hair.  Her  blue  eyes,  the 
color  (){  the  lupines  that  grow  along  the  California 
countryside,  looked  steadily  at  the  opposite  wall  in 
something  that  might  have  been  resentment  and  some- 
thing that  might  have  been  des])air. 

And   Dick  Powell,  laid  low  with  a  bad  attack  of 


gripjie,  watched  her  from  the  bed  on  which  he  was  lying, 
his  eyes  seeming  all  the  more  gentle  for  the  storm  that 
was  gathering  in  hers.  Somehow  you  knew  that  he  felt 
the  things  she  was  feeling,  too,  but  had  put  them  away 
from  him  in  his  concern  for  her. 

No  doubt  of  Dick  Powell's  love  for  Joan  when  he 
looked  at  her  like  that,  almost  as  if  you  could  hear  him 
.saying:  "Don't  let  it  bother  you,  kid.  Don't  ever  let 
anything  bother  you  again." 

That  was  the  feeling  you  had  about  the  two  of  them. 
That  for  all  their  talent,  for  all  their  years  of  trouping, 
they  had  grown  up  for  the  first  time  in  their  lives.  Really 
grown  up.  Suddenly  and  without  warning,  as  people 
will  when  they  have  been  thoroughly  disillusioned. 

They  must  have  met  disillusion  before.  After  all.  they 
both  had  gone  through  an  unsuccessful  first  marriage,  thev 
l)Oth  had  taken  love  and  seen  it  turn  to  ashes  in  then-  hands. 

Um  ix'0]5le  can  face  a  thing  like  that  if  they  have  to. 


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Here's  the  story  you've  been  aching  to  read-the  never-before- 
told  story  of  the  romance  of  Joan  Blondell  and  Dick  Powell 


Joan  and  Dick  were  married 
aboard  the  Grace  Line  steam- 
er, S.S.  Santa  Paula.  Captain 
Nielsen,  skipper  of  the  ship, 
helped  cut  the  wedding  cake. 


And  here  is  bridegroom  Dick, 
otherwise  Richard  E.  Powell, 
of  the  films  and  of  "Hollywood 
Hotel"  radio  program.  Dick 
seems  to  find  life  pretty  good  I 


Disillusion  like  that,  composed  in  equal  parts  of  sorrow 
and  knowledge,  carries  its  own  salve  of  dignity.  When 
that  sort  of  trouble  comes,  human  beings  can  creep  into 
their  own  little  sanctuaries  and  look  into  their  hearts 
and  come  out  the  greater  for  it. 

But  there's  another  kind  of  disillusion  that  can  warp 
and  change  a  whole  life,  if  a  man  or  woman  isn't  equal  to 
combatting  it.  A  disillusion  that  knows  neither  dignity, 
nor  pride,  nor  honor,  that  is  made  up  of  ridicule  and 
unkind  laughter. 

That's  the  kind  Joan  Blondell  and  Dick  Powell  were 
to  know  at  a  time  that  should  have  been  the  happiest  in 
their  lives. 

They  were  so  happy,  these  two,  back  in  Hollywood. 
This  new  love  that  had  come  to  them  was  so  different 
from  anything  they  had  known  before.  It  had  grown 
so  slowly,  spread  its  roots  so  sweetly  into  their  hearts, 
that  they  were  scarcely  conscious  of  the  growing. 


First  they  had  worked  together  and  seen  each  other  as 
only  fellow  workers  can.  Respect  for  each  other  had 
come  then,  and  admiration  for  all  the  things  they  saw  and 
liked  in  each  other,  good  sportmanship,  graciousness, 
kindness. 

Dick  saw  Joan  go  over  to  a  little  extra  girl  who  had 
been  given  a  part  for  the  first  time.  He  saw  her  take  that 
girl  into  her  dressing-room,  giving  up  a  luncheon  appoint- 
ment to  do  it,  and  go  over  her  lines  wnth  her  until  the 
girl  gained  enough  confidence  to  go  before  the  camera 
and  give  a  good  account  of  herself. 

Joan  heard  about  the  boy  who  had  failed  in  a  radio 
audition  because  of  .technical  flaws  in  an  untrained  voice 
and  how  Dick  was  paying  for  singing  lessons  for  that 
boy  with  the  naturally  fine  voice,  who  might  conceivably 
be  his  own  rival  some  day.  Giving  him  more  than  that, 
for  Dick  was  coaching  him  himself,  giving  him  all  the 
pointers    most    professionals    (Continued  on  page 

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m  THEY  CALL 


"Radio,"  says  Robert  Montgomery, 
"is,  with  few  exceptions,  bogging 
itself  in  inexcusable  nnediocrity." 
But  don't  think  that  Bob  doesn't 
like  radio.  He's  been  successful 
on  the  air  as  on  the  screen,  and 
he  hopes  to  do  more  radio  work. 


^^^^^ 


BY    J  A 


H  A  N  L 


Screen  star  Robert  Montgomery 


WHEN  somebody  squawks  about  radio,  that's  not  news. 
Sit  around  in  the  drugstore  or  lunch  counter  near  any 
broadcasting  station  and  the  complainers'  chorus  will 
take  radio  apart  and  rebuild  it  to  perfection  quicker  than 
you  can  say  "chocolate  soda."  You'll  hear  anguished 
cries  of  "favoritism"  and  "stupidity"  and  "incompetency" 
and  why  so-and-so  got  where  she  is.  And  you'll  also 
find  that,  while  some  of  the  squawks  are  legitimate,  the 
majority  usually  come  from  the  flops  and  the  frustrated. 
They've  been  doing  it  in  the  theatre  for  years  and  every 
train  from  the  West  Coast  brings  a  fresh  assortment  of 
razzes  for  Hollywood. 

Hut  when  a  performer  who  can  demand,  and  get,  four 
figures  for  a  single  appearance,  sounds  off.  that's  an- 
otlier  story.  Particularly  if  that  performer's  appearances 
have  been  successful  and  he  happens  to  be  a  singularly 
well-balanced  and  intelligent  person. 

Robert  Montgomery,  as  one  of  the  big  names  in  pic- 
tures and  with  a  thorough  background  in  the  theatre,  is 
such  a  person.  So,  when  I  asked  him  the  conventional 
question  about  how  he  liked  radio,  I  expected  the  usual 
platitudes.  He  had  been  sitting  with  his  long  legs 
stretched  across  the  sofa,  being  quietly  bored  by  an  inter- 
view, but  he  unwound  with  startling  suddenness  and 
leaned  forward. 


HOLLYWOOD  CRAZY! 


one 


^  ^^ee^  o""*.  \oyer. 


makes  a  few  pertinent  — and  impertinent  — remarks  about  radio 


"I'll  tell  you  what  I  think  of  radio,"  he  said  earnestly. 
"I  think  that,  with  the  exception  of  comparatively  few 
worthwhile  programs,  radio  is  liogging  itself  in  in- 
excusable mediocrity.  The  avera<je  i)r()i,nam,  from  the 
sponsor  through  contact  men,  advertising  agency  men 
and  directors  of  ])rograms,  doesn't  have  a  single  person 
of  real  professional  background !" 

Blinking  at  the  bombshell,  I  murmured  that  those  were 
harsh  words,  pardner.  But  Bob  Montgomery,  for  all  of 
his  extremely  likable  amiability,  has  very  definite  con- 
victions and  they're  usually  based  on  more  than  idle  con- 
jecture. 

"They  say  Hollywood  and  picture  people  are  nuts !  It's 
my  personal  opinion  that  there  is  more  unnecessary 
waste  of  money  and  talent  in  radio  than  there  ever  was 
in  pictures — and  you  can  quote  me  on  that, 

"A  lot  of  things  have  been  said  and  are  lieing  said  about 
the  nutty  things  that  go  on  in  Hollywood.  And  a  lot  of 
it  is  true,"  he  went  on.  "But  making  pictures  is  a  highly 
specialized  business  and  without  defending  some  of  the 
more  flagrant  exasi)erations,  the  fact  remains  that  a  lot 
of  the  things  that  strangers  condemn  as  idiotic  are  neces- 
sary to  picture  production.  And  that's  the  real  distinc- 
tion— regardless  of  mistakes  and  slips,  most  of  the  people 
in  pictures  have  a  real  knowledge  of  their  jobs  and  a 


background  for  their  work.  Rut  I've  found  that,  in  radio, 
there  are,  building  |)r()gram>^,  all  tix)  many  per.sons  who 
have  the  maginhcent  eceeiitruities  of  genius  without  the 
genius !" 

That  sounds  like  someone  very  excited  talking,  but  Bob 
Montgomery  wasn't  excited ;  he  was  merely  saying  what 
he  thought,  which  seems  to  be  a  habit  of  his. 

"What  would  you  think,"  he  grinned,  "of  a  show  with 
a  $14.000.00-tale'nt  bill,  exclusive  of  air  time,  that  didn't 
have  so  much  as  a  script  ready  as  late  as  two  hours  be- 
fore the  broadcast  ? 

"That's  only  one  example  of  the  sort  of  thing  I  mean. 
In  the  early  days  of  radio  they  had  trouble  finding  talent 
willing  to  go  on  the  air.  just  as  the  movies  did.  Then, 
when  radio  grew  into  a  large,  respectable  institution,  they 
turned  up  their  noses  at  Broadway  and  Broadway  talent. 
What  they  ignored  was  the  fact  that  radio  needed  show- 
nianshij) — and  yoti  have  to  go  to  Broadway  for  that.  Radio 
did  that,  too,  with  the  result  that  some  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful programs  are  those  that  enlisted  the  aid  of  per- 
formers who  knew  their  business. 

■'Hut  radio  still  needs  production  men  who  understand 
showmanship  and  entertainment.  Being  an  advertising 
man,  or  a  successful  manufacturer,  doesn't  qualify  any- 
one to  put  on  a  show — and  a  {Continued  on  page  55)  ' 

23 


f  ^^'^oi  fried  ou?  7°^^^  "ever 


Portland  Hoffa.  fa- 
vorite stooge  and 
wife  of  comic  Fred 
Allen  of  "Town 
Hall  Tonight." 


«'anjoroy„  ^'  that  nL^^^'J  I  u  ^ 
5^ere  ^^j"*  every  .  "'^f^e        /  ^o^e 


Softer  "'^°^uces 

^^o        ^afher  %^^<^k  of  ^^^HcJ  , 


^^^■■■^"-e?-  ■•G'^dV:,'^/ 


76) 


'^fec/  ""^^  on</ 


NEW  VIEWS 
OF  POPULAR 
FAVORITES 
OF  THE  AIR 


Thursdays  at  8  E.S.T.,  Kate 
Smith  gets  aboard  "A  &  P 
Bandwagon,"  with  her 
heroes,  heroines  and  other 
guests.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tony 
(prizefighter)  Canzoneri 
were  recent  guests  of  Kate. 


Glorious  Gladys 
Sworthout,  who 
adorns  both  radio 
and  screen,  now  is 
playing  with  that 
romantic  Fred 
MacMurray,  in  the 
new  Paramount 
picture,  titled 
ChampagneWaltz." 


A  Penner  for 
your  thoughts! 
Gay  ones,  too, 
they  will  be, 
when  you  are 
listening  to 
Radio  Clown 
Joe  Penner, 
Sundays,  CBS. 


r 


Maestro  Xavier 
Cugat,  favorite 
of  movie  celeb- 
rities on  the 
Coast,  lights  a 
cigarette  for 
dazzling,  dark- 
eyed  movie  star, 
Dolores  Del  Rio. 


Each  Sunday 
you  may  hear 
Miss  Prancia 
White's  flaw- 
less voice — 
on  the  "Viclc's 
Open  House" 
program  with 
Nelson  Eddy. 


Join  rne  >^D5  t^iiiette  A^ommunity 
Sing"  audiences  and  carol  your 
troubles  away!  Here's  one  group 
of  gay  singers  going  on  the  air. 


Tom  Waring  hits 
a  high  one  dur- 
ing one  of  the 
weekly  broadcasts 
of  brother  Fred's 
"Pennsylvanians". 
WABC.  Tuesdays. 


S)n  th 


RADIO 


Lovely  Frances  Stevens  from 
Kansas  City  has  all  it  takes 
for  radio,  movies,  television. 
A  pupil  of  Raggini,  she  has' 
a  novel  method  of  presenting 
songs  for  radio  audiences. 


Fred  Astaire  is 
on  the  set  of 
RKO-Radio  Pic- 
tures, when  not 
working  on  his 
"Packard  Hour" 
radio  program. 


Allen  Prescott,  NBC's  popular 
"Wife  Saver,"  believes  in 
giving  the  Little  Woman  a 
lift!  It's  NBC's  Fashion 
Editor,  Betty  Goodwin,  here 
being  saved  so  dramatically! 


Frances  Longford, 
bewitching  blues 
singer,  popular 
with  radio  and 
movie  audiences, 
and  Tony  Martin, 
another  popular 
radio  singer. 


more.  What  do  you  think? 


"VEOVlAi,"  said  Ethel  Barrymore  earnestly,  "are  just 
the  same  today.  1  know  them.  I've  toured  this  country 
(jver  and  over.  They  haven't  changed  ..." 

We  had  been  speaking  of  Miss  Barrymore's  radio  pro- 
gram, in  which,  under  the  auspices  of  The  Famous  Actors' 
Guild,  she  jjresents  each  week  a  condensed  versioti  of 
one  of  the  plays  in  which  she  starred  in  her  early  years 
in  the  theatre.  Dated,  they  would  seem,  I  had  fancied, 
to  younger  radio  listeners.  Life,  I  suggested,  today  has 
28 


less  of  glamour,  more  of  grim  reality — as  plays  and 
newspapers  and  even  radio  continually  reiterate. 

But  Miss  Barrymore  did  not  agree  with  me. 

"Cinderella's  coach  may  have  turned  into  a  pumpkin 
...Night  clubs  may  have  been  substituted  for  the 
glamorous  gardens  of  my  girlhood  .  .  .  But  people  are 
still  the  same,  still  hungry  for  beauty,  for  romance,  for 
security." 

"And   for   scandal?"   I   offered.     "What  about  the 


tabloids,  with  their  sensational  headlines,  telling  the 
world  the  whole  sad  story  of  hlighted  beauty  and  wrecked 
romance?" 

We  laughed.  Miss  Barrymore  mused:  "That's  where 
the  difference  lies — in  the  newspapers.  It's  the  press 
that's  indiscreet — not  the  people. 

"Indiscretion."  she  said  with  a  touch  of  Barrymore 
irony,  "isn't  so  much  what  people  do  as  what  is  said 
about  it! 

"People  have  the  same  emotions,  the  same  desires,  yes, 
and  the  same  standards,  as  they  always  have  had.  I'he 
only  difference  between  people  of  the  hoop-skirt  era  and 
the  streamlined  1937  model  is  that  it's  much  easier  to 
get  talked  about  today.  In  fact,"  she  smiled,  "it's  prac- 
tically impossible  not  to  get  talked  about! 

"Today  the  newspapers  peep  and  pry — and  gossip 
and  tattle  to  the  whole  wide  world.  Sensation  is  their 
breath  of  life  and  because  of  that  they  make  a  great 
story  out  of  something  that  otherwise  would  l.ave 
amounted  to  nothing. 

"We  don't  always  act  with  balanced  judgment — but. 
because  of  the  newspapers,  some  little  lapse  from  con- 


ventional standards  that,  in  the  ordinary  course  of  events, 
would  be  ignored  and  soon  forgotten — if  not  entirely  un- 
known— becomes  a  screaming  headline,  a  sordid  scandal. 

"People  want  to  be  discreet.  Given  the  chance,  every- 
body would  be.  It's  the  newspapers  that  refuse  to  per- 
mit it — theirs  is  the  indiscretion ! 

"And  there's  nothing  more  untrue  than  that  saying: 
'Where  there's  smoke,  there  must  be  fire.'  If  you  have 
won  a  little  fame  or  fortune,  something  must  be  printed 
about  you — and  that  you  are  happy,  that  you  love  your 
home  and  your  children,  isn't  news.  It  must  be  some- 
•thing  sensational,  shocking.  It  doesn't  have  to  be  true — 
not  here.  In  England  there  are  strict  libel  laws.  You 
could  walk  down  Piccadilly  in  your  .nightgown —  not 
that  anyone  would !"  she  laughed.  "And  there  would  be 
no  comment  about  it.  But  here,  what  passes  as  news 
often  implies  something  that  has  no  relation  to  truth." 

There's  some  justice  in  what  she  .says.  If,  for  in- 
stance, Joe  Goofus'.  sweetie  had  chased  him  across  the 
continent,  no  one  would  have  been  intrigued.  But  when 
John  Barrymore  runs  from  his  "Ariel."  newspapers  and 
their  readers  follow  the  chase.    (Continued  on  page  71) 

29 


When  will  Harry  Richman 


HARRY  RICHMAN  is  one  of  those  troubadors 
whose  name  invariably  is  linked  with  that  of  some 
current  beauty.  New  flames  replace  old  flames  from 
vear  to  year  but  the  fire  never  dies.  An  occasional 
reader  of  the  Broadway  gossip  columns  could  be 
pardoned  for  hazarding  a  guess  that  Richman  has 
had  as  many  wives  as  Bluebeard,  or  maybe  Solomon. 
Every  time  you  read  a  tattle  tidbit,  it  carries  the  item 
that  Harry  is  arm-and-arming  it  with  this  beauty 
or  that  cutie. 

Some  of  the  names  have  been  famous,  all  have 
been  glamorous.  Harry  once  was  engaged  to  Clara 
Bow,  when  the  "It  Girl"  was  at  the  height  of  her 
popularity  in  1930  and  at  another  period  was  seen 
so  constantly  with  Lenore  Ulric  that  rumor  had 
them  married,  which  they  never  were.  Currently, 
he  is  seen  around  New  York  with  Joyce  Johnson, 
just  to  keep  the  records  straight. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  Richman  was  married 
once,  so  long  ago  that  few  remember  the  mar- 
riage, or  the  name  of  the  first  and  only  Mrs.  Rich- 
man.  She  was  Yvonne  Steghman  and  it  hap- 
pened in  California,  in  1918,  right  after  the  World 
War.  They  parted  amicably,  but  definitely, 
shortly  afterward,  and  Harry  has  been  footloose 
ever  since. 

Alavbe  Harry  isn't  the  marrying  kind,  you  say? 
Maybe  Harry  wouldn't  like  to  give  up  his  free- 
dom  and   settle   down   as   the   husband   of  one 
woman,  instead  of  the  sweetheart  of  many?  If 
that's  what  you  think,  you  don't  know  Mr.  Rich- 
man,     (^r    if    you    think,    perhaps,    that  there 
aren't  plenty  of  girls  who  are  willing  to  become 
Mrs.   Richman,  then  you  haven't  seen  Harry 
at  the  present  crest  of  his  new  wave  of  popu- 


Richman  is  the  center 
of  the  biggest  one-man 
popularity  wave  New 
York  has  recently  had. 


RADIO  STARS 

marry?    Does  this  popular  star  crave  domesticity  or  applause? 


larity,  singing  in  the  Hollywood  Restaurant  on  Broad- 
way, nightly  besieged  by  hordes  of  women,  young 
and  old,  slender  and  Imxom,  beautiful  and  not-so-hot. 
clamoring  for  his  autograph  on  their  dinner  menus. 
It's  the  biggest  one-man  popularity  wave  Xew  York 
has  seen  since  Rudy  Vallee  discovered  that  a  mega- 
phone could  be  utilized  by  some  f)ne  besides  a  college 
cheer  leader. 

Richman,  himself,  bis  face  a  little  creased  with  the 
years,  has  no  illusions  about  marriage  but  a  profound 
re.spect  for  it.   '"Certainly  1  intend  to  get  married,"  he 
declared  in  answer  to  a  question.  "And 
furthermore.  I  will  get  married,  but  not 
until  I'm  out  of  the  entertainment  busi- 
ness.   Whether  it's  the  stage,  the  radio 
or  the  screen,  an  entertainer  has  a  tough 
time  making  a  marriage  stick. 

"I've  shied  awav  troiii  marriage  while 
I've  been  workiii>^  ,is  an  entertainer,  be- 
cause so  few  marriages  'take'  in  the  show  business.  And 
when  I  get  married,  it's  going  to  l)e  for  kee]is.  That's 
why  I'm  waiting. 

"Show  business  is  a  different  world.  If  you  marry 
another  entertainer,  the  chances  are  the  husband  and  wife 
hardly  ever  get  to  see  each  other.  And  if  you  marry 
somebody  outside  the  profession,  it's  worse,  if  that  is 
])ossible. 

"What  fun  would  there  be  for  my  wife  if  I  were  mar- 
ried now  ?  I  do  a  dinner  show  here  at  the  Hollywood,  for 
which  I  must  show  up  by  6  :,S0  in  the  evening.  It's  ten 
when  I'm  through  and  then  there's  a  supper  show  after 
midniglit,  with  maybe  a  radio  broadcast  in  between.  It's 
three  by  the  time  I  get  started  for  home  and  there's 
usually  a  radio  rehearsal  in  the  late  morning,  sav  10  or 
!  1  a,  ni..  with  the  possibilitv  of  a  rehearsal  for  new  songs 


here  at  the  restaurant  in  the  afternoon.  What  kind  of  a 
married  life  would  that  permit? 

"If  both  people  are  in  show  business,  it's  bad  enough, 
Init  suppose  the  other  party  happens  to  be  a  non-profes- 
sional ?  Then  the  misunderstandings  are  multiple,  for 
there  is  no  chance  of  sympathy  from  someone  outside  the 
racket. 

"Xo,  sir'    Mv  mind  is  definitely  made  up  on  the  mar- 
riage (iiitstion.   There'll  be  a  Mrs.  Richman,    some  day, 
all  ri.^dit,  Init 
and  rcadv  to 


BY  TOM 


M  E  A  N  Y 


t  won't  be  before  I  am  out  of  this  business 
settle  down  to  an  ordinary,  regulated  home 
life." 

Richman  probably  is  one  of  the  most 
misunderstood  entertainers  of  the  day. 
He  invariably  becomes  a  storm  center, 
through  no  fault  of  his  own.  Take,  for 
instance,  his  September  flight  to  FAU-ope 
111(1  liack  with  Dick  Merrill.  It  marked 
the  first  time  in  aeronautics  any  heavier- 
than-air  machine  had  crossed  the  Atlantic  both  ways, 
regardless  of  the  fact  that  each  flight  tell  short  of  its 
destination.  It  was  a  signal  achievement,  yet  Richman's 
motives  were  misconstrued  from  the  first. 

When  the  pro])osed  flight  was  announced.  Harry  was 
dubbed  a  pul)licity-seeker.  No  credit  was  given  him  for 
liis  sincere  love  of  aviation.  It  was  reputed  to  be  merely 
a  desire  to  land  on  the  front  page.  It  was  a  sul)ject  for 
gagsters. 

To  make  it  worse,  a  story  came  out  that  Richman  and 
Merrill  had  quarrelled.  When  the  flying  pair  finally 
arrived  in  Xew  York,  Harry,  blazing  at  the  injustice  of 
the  rumors,  fueled  the  fire  by  taking  a  punch  at  a  ques- 
tioning reporter  at  Floyd  Bennett  Field,  a  mistake  for 
which  he  later  apologized. 

proof  of  the  fact  that   i  Cfiiifiiuicif  cii   hmc  7J) 


Another  scene 
from  "Music 
Goes  'Round," 
with  lovely 
Rochelle  Hudson. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harmon  O.  Nelson 
Jr..  are  a  perfect  combination. 
Hubby  is  a  popular  band  leader 
and  the  little  woman  ranks 
high    as    a    dramatic  actress. 


KEEPING  KISSES 

Bette  Davis,  charming  actress,  is  a  surprise  package  to  her 


"Be  a  stranger,"  said  •  Bette  unexpectedly,  "if  you  want  to 
keep  romance  in  your  life,  alive  and  thrilling  and  ijweet.  Be 
something  of  a  stranger — even  to  your  sweetheart  or  your 
husband.    Not  only  is  it  death  to  romance  to  sink  to  the 
cold-cream.-on-face,    hair-in-curler  stage  of  bodily  expose, 
but  it  is  even  more  death  to  romance  to  let  your  poor  little 
so^iil  he  seen  in  kid"curlers  and  with  cold  cream." 
l>etle  and  I  were  tea-ing  at  a  beach  cafe  on  the  gray 
Pacific.    It  was  the  gray  Pacific  that  day.   Gulls  were 
beating  their  platinum  wings  against  a 
head  wind.   In  the  distance  fishing  boats 
were  black  hulks  tearing  holes  in  the 
horizon. 

Bette  leaned  her  tweed  elbows  on  the 
rough  deal  table.  Her  blue  eyes  held 
tlie  gray  glint  of  the  .sea.  Her  words 
were,   as   always,  crisp  and  em- 

I)hatic  and  straight  from  the  shoulder. 
Later  1  was  to  think  how  truly  does  Bette 
keep  the  bright  strand  of  romance  inter- 
woven with  the  business  of  her  life.  For 
after   she   "walked   out"   on  Warner 
]-?rothers,    the    differences  between 
what  her  studio  felt  she  should  do 
nd  what  Bette  felt  she  must  do, 
momentarily,  at  least,  irrecon- 
cilable— when  Bette  went  to 
England    and    was  then 
enjoined,  or  whatever 
vou    call    it,  from 


B  Y  GL  A  D  Y  S 
HALL 


.4 


A 


making  pictures  there  or  from  appearing  on  the 
stage — what  did  she  do?  What  she  didn't  do 
was  just  what  nine  out  of  ten  girls  would  cer- 
tainly have  done :  Nine  out  of  ten  girls  would 
have  sat.  closeted  with  lawyers  and  business 
managers  and  agents,  one  hand  on  the  trans- 
atlantic telephone,  the  other  hand  clasped  to  an 
aching  brow.  Not  Bette.  No.  Bette  and  Har- 
mon ivent  on  a  honeymoon!  Leisurely  and  in 
love,  as  though  love  and  leisure 
were  the  only  businesses  of 
Bette's  stellar  life,  they  honey- 
mooned. 

And  if  that  isn't  keeping  the 
god  of  love  alive  in  the  very 
jaws  of  Mammon,  then  I  don't 
know  what  you'd  call  it.  Not 
even  the  Greeks  could  have  a  name  for  it. 

But  on  this  day  Bette  was  saying:  "Be  a 
touch  inexplicable,  always.  Have  a  dash  of 
Nora  who,  at  any  moment,  might,  just  might, 
vanish  into  the  night.  Be  a  good  companion,  of 
course,  but  one  who  might  turn  before  ac- 
customed eyes  into  an  odalisque  or  something. 
F"amiliarity  should  not  breed  contempt  but  too 
much  familiarity  may  very  well  breed  the  com- 
m()ni)Iace. 

"1  can,  of  course,"  said  Bette,  ordering  a 
hamburger,  "speak  only  for  myself.  These  are 
my  ideas.    I  am  telling  you,  for  what  it  is 


unrth,  how  I  order  my  life.  I  can  tell  you  only 
[he  tliinfjs  I  do.  For  that  you  have  to  do  things 
iiKnit  keeping  romance  alive  is  the  truth.  It's 
fatal  to  make  the  mistake  of  supposing  that 
romance  just  stays  alive  of  its  own  passionate 
[)n)pulsion.  It  doesn't.  A  plant  dies  without 
care.  Without  sunlight  and  watering,  flowers 
wither  and  die.  So  does  the  most  fragile  plant 
tliat  grows  in  any  human  life — romance. 

Perhaps  personal  prejudice  enters  into  this," 
smiled  Bette,  "hut  I  should  say — marry  your 
childhood  sweetheart,  if  you  can.  I  did.  Ham 
was  my  first  beau.  We  went  to  Gushing 
Academy  together,  back  in  Massachussetts.  I 
used  to  sit  across  the  aisle  from  him  and  watch 
liis  Adam's  apple.  It  fascinated  me.  We  used 
to  go  out  together  then.  He  was  the  very  first 
hoy  I  ever  went  with.  I  was  engaged  twice, 
hiter  on,  but  with  all  due  respect  to  my  other 
Iruux,  I  can  honestly  say  that  I  was  never  in 
h)ve  with  anyone  but  Ham.  Even  after  we 
came  to  Hollywood  and  I'd  go  out  on  dates  now 
and  then,  I'd  come  home  and  grit  my  teeth  and 
^av  to  Mother:  "Why  did  I  ever  meet  Ham? 
He  spoils  every  other  boy  and  man  for  me. 
I  miight  have  liked  the  boy  I  went  out  with  to- 
night, if  it  were  not  for  Ham.  Why  did  I  ever 
meet  him  ?' 

"I  used  to  say,  too :  'I'm  going  to  get  him !' 
He  wouldn't,  at  first,  pay  any  attention  to  me. 


Not  romantically. 
He  was  all  wrapped  up 
in    his    music.     He  was 
ambitious.   He  didn't  want 
to  fall  in  love.  He  didn't  want 
to  marry.  lUit  I  made  him  notice 
me,"  said  Bette,  fiercely.  "I  made 
him  fall  in  love  with  me.   /  got  my 
man ! 

"I  think,"  she  went  on,  more  gently, 
"that  there  is  nothing  so  really  romantic 
as  first  love,  no  one  ever  so  really  romantic 
as  the  first  sweetheart.  It's  all  mixed  up  with 
your  youth,  you  see,  with  being  young.  It's  all 
a  part  of  awakening,  of  first  wonder  about  every- 
thing.   It's  the  loveliest  kind  of  love.    And  so 
I  would  certainly  advise  girls  to  marry  their  school- 
day  sweethearts  whenever  possible,  when  that  first 
love  is  founded,  not  only  on  sex  attraction,  but  aLso 
on  the  qualities  which  last  forever." 

Bette's  mother  told  me,  later,  when  I  went  to  have 
tea  with  her,  while  Bette  was  abroad,  that  Bette  alway 
had  been  the  romantic  type  of  girl.  She  always  kept  all 
of  her  love  letters — and  tied  up  with  pink  ribbons.  She 
has  kept  every  one  of  Ham's  letters,  thousands  of  them. 
W^hen  she  was  in  her  'teens,  she  was  perpetually  imagining 
herself  in  love  with  one  lad  or  another.    "One  boy,"  smiled 
.Mrs.  Davis,  "was  so  in  love  with  Bette  that  he  used  to  drive 
to  our  house,  get  out  and  walk  around  the  house  every  night 
at  midnight.  Just  because  he  liked  (Continued  on  page  70) 


ON  THE  DAILY  DIET 

husband.  What  is  her  successful  formula  for  keeping  romance? 


"Broadcasting 
makes  me  nerv- 
ous  —  I  have 
the  jitters," 
says  Bette. 


"When  you  and  your  husband  have 
a  big  dote  to  go  out  together, 
dress  up  like  nobody's  business," 
says  Bette.  "Knock  his  eye  out! 
Make  him  think:  'Criminy!  Have  I 
expected  her  to  darn  my  socks?'  " 


Frances  Longford,  surrounded  b 
rehearsal  of  a  "Born  to  Dance 
super-musical  Frances  has  a  gran 


Mary  Jane  Barrett,  a  recruit 
from  the  stage,  joins  actors 
and  actresses  in  the  Saturday 
dramas  of  "Columbia  Workshop." 


Veteran  actor  Fred  Stone  and  his 
daughter,  Paula,  appeared  together 
as  guest  artists  on  one  of  the  CBS 
"Sears — Then  and  Now"  programs. 


An  exciting  moment  during  the 
1936  World's  Series  broadcasts. 
Gabriel  Heatter  (top).  Bob  Elson, 
Tony  Wakeman  broadcast  for  MBS. 


If  you  want  to  see  what  your  radio  favorites  are  doing  these 

34 


^  I  bevy  of  chorus  girls,  halts  an  informal 
umber  to  give  you  o  smile.  In  this  M-G-M 
ipportunity  to  make  use  of  her  talents. 


Seeing  isn  t  believing,  in  this  case!  For 
Jacques  Renard,  Eddie  Cantor  and  Parkyakarkus 
don't  really  broadcast  as  a  barber-shop  trio. 


The  Dexter  twins  in  the  popular  radio  drama 
"Bachelor's  Children,"  broadcast  over  the 
Columbia  network,  are  played  by  charming 
young  Marjory  Hannan  and  Patricia  Dunlap. 


When  a  microphone  needs  a  friend!  "The  King's 
Men,"  Dud  Linn  (left),  Jon  Dodson,  Ken  Darby 
and  Rod  Robinson,  snapped  in  action.  It's 
all    very    smooth    on    the    ears,  nevertheless! 


days,  here's  a  brief  news  pictorial  review  from  coast  to  coast 


The  Voice  of  Experience 
replies  to  thousands  of 
appeals  every  day,  with 
advice  born  of  tireless 
study  and  understanding. 


BY  MILDRED 
M ASTIN 


SPECIALIST 

Dr.  Marion  Sayle  Taylor,  known  to  a  host  of  radio  listeners  as 
the  Voice  of  Experience  and  mender  of  broken  hearts  and  lives 


MARION  SAYLE  TAYLOR  will  discuss  sex  with 
a  frankness  that  makes  the  most  brazen  young  modern 
blush,  and  tell  her  facts  of  life  she  didn't  know  existed. 
There  is  nothing  of  the  prude  about  the  Poke  of  Ex- 
perience. 

Yet  Taylor,  who  has  fought  more  taboos  than  you'd 
want  to  shake  a  stick  at,  says  one  main  cause  for  the 
alarming  increase  in  the  divorce  rate  and  the  multiplica- 
tion of  broken  romances  is  immodesty.  And  he  means 
immodesty  in  men  as  well  as  women 

It's  all  a  part  of  Mr.  Taylor's  theories  on  how  to  hold 
a  husband  or  how  to  win  a  wife.  Theories  based  to  a 
large  extent  on  the  belief  that  a  draped  figure  is  much 
more  exciting  to  a  man  than  a  nude  one,  and  that  some 
bloom  of  romance  is  lost  the  first  time  a  girl  sees  her  hero 
brushing  his  teeth. 

Mr.  Taylor's  theories  are  based  on  facts.  For  every 
day  approximately  five  thousand  appeals  for  help  are  made 
to  him.  Anguished,  true-life  stories  from  wives  who 
can't  hold  their  husbands;  husbands  whose  marriages 
are  being  wrecked  by  other  men ;  lovers  who  have  been 
jilted,  and  girls  who  love  men  they  can't  win.  An  end- 
less procession  of  broken  hearts  which  The  Voice  of  Ex- 
perience examines,  then  tries  to  mend. 

Says  he:  "Men  and  women  today  have  let  down  too 
many  bars ;  swept  away  too  many  reservations.  In  so 
doing,  they  destroy  the  glamour,  the  shining  romance 
of  love. 

"A  woman  comes  to  me  in  tears  because  she  finds  her 
husband  has  fallen  in  love  with  his  secretary.  She  is  a 
business  woman,  successful,  attractive.  She  says  to 
me:  'What  has  happened?  I  look  just  as  young  as  I  did 
when  we  were  married.  I'm  just  as  attractive.  Our 
home  is  charming.  I  have  never  nagged  or  demanded 
things  of  him.  I  treat  him  just  as  I  did  when  we  were 
first  in  love.  But  he  wants  a  divorce  so  he  can  marry 
another  woman.' 

"I  asked  her  a  few  sim])le  questions.    Among  them: 


'Do  you  make  your  toilette  in  your  husband's  presence? 
Arc  you  guilty  of  letting  him  see  you  in  the  morning, 
clad  in  a  wrinkled  night-dress,  your  hair  rumpled?  Has 
he  ever  watched  you  pluck  your  eyebrows?'  Her  answer 
to  these  and  a  dozen  similar  questions  was  'Yes.' 

"Now  let's  look  at  the  secretary.  She  comes  into 
this  man's  office  each  morning  looking  her  loveliest.  The 
man  sees  only  the  finished  product.  He  has  never  seen 
her  face  smeared  with  cream,  her  hair  pinned  down  and 
flattened  with  wave-set  lotion.  He  has  never  seen  her 
scowling  into  a  mirror,  a  tiny  raw-red  line  above  the 
eyes  marking  the  tweezer's  progress.  He  has  never 
watched  her  rush  through  the  hurried,  awkward  gestures 
of  dressing  in  the  morning.  To  him,  the  secretary  is 
at  all  times  lovely,  graceful,  poised.  She  never  looks  a 
trifle  ridiculous  or  unattractive.  But  his  wife  does.  And 
he  leaves  the  wife  each  morning  to  face  the  secretary. 

"Now  it  doesn't  occur  to  this  man  that  if  he  marries 
this  perfect  creature  he  may  be  disillusioned.  All  he 
knows  is  that  he  wants  her.  She  is  desirable.  His 
wife  is  not.  And  this  is  only  one  of  many,  many  similar 
cases  brought  me  by  people  who  find  divorce  confront- 
ing them. 

"The  modern  wife  could  well  take  a  lesson  from  her 
genteel  grandmother,  who  never  presented  herself  in  the 
morning  before  she  had  donned  a  wrapper  and  neatly 
conilied  her  hair.  Modest  little  Grandmother,  who  de- 
manded pri\  ac}'  and  knew  that  chamber  doors  were  meant 
to  be  closed.    Modest,  yes;  but  very  wise! 

"Lessons  in  modesty  are  needed  for  husbands  as  well 
as  for  wives.  Any  man  looks  silly  shaving  and  few  men 
are  as  handsome  in  the  nude  as  they  are  dressed. 

"As  a  matter  of  fact,"  says  the  I'oice  of  Experieuce, 
"the  modern  flair  for  nudism  has  been  a  blow  to  ro- 
mance. For  nature  in  the  raw  is  seldom  beautiful.  And 
most  human  beings  find  it  advantageous  to  wear  clothes 
in  order  to  camouflage  their  physical  defects." 

Mr.  Taylor  points  out  that  all  (Continued  on  page  78) 


Benay  Venuta,  MutuaTs  singing 
star,  is  a  regular  commuter  be- 
tween her  work  and  her  husband 


Benay  has  a  bicycle.  Early  risers 
may  see  her  any  morning,  pedalling 
through  New  York's  Central  Park. 
One  way  to  keep  that  svelte  figure. 


BY  GENE 
HARVEY 


Going  over  a  song  with  Freddie 
Rich,  when  Benay  was  singing 
over  the  Columbia  network  in 
Freddie  Rich's  "Penthouse  Party." 


DISTANCE  LOVE 


It  was  a  waste  of  energy ! 

Remembering  the  bubbling-over  blonde  of  the  gay 
musical,  Anything  Goes,  your  reporter  put  slickum  on 
his  hair,  broke  out  the  new  pink  necktie,  wore  the  trousers 
with  the  pressed  crease  and  set  out.  with  sharpened  pen- 
cils and  high  heart,  to  see  Benay  Venuta.  But  it  was  a 
waste  of  energy. 

Benay  was  there  all  right,  in  the  tastefully  furnished 
little  apartment  that  she  decorated  herself,  predominantly 
in  white.  And  a  svelte,  streamlined  Benay  that  might 
make  any  radio  listener  pray  for  the  quick  advent  of  tele- 
vision. Miss  Venuta,  in  Anything  Goes,  you  remember, 
was  more  than  a  wee  bit  buxom.  l)ut  that's  all  past. 
She  was  lovely,  she  was  slim,  she  was  charming  and  hos- 
pitable .  .  .  and  she  talked  about  her  husband ! 

"I've  always  been  reducing,"  she  said.  "By  strenuous 
efforts  I  managed  to  lose  fifty  pounds,  but  there  were 
about  fifteen  more  pounds  I  wanted  to  get  off  and  it 
seemed  hopeless.  Ken" — that's  her  husband.  Dr.  Ken- 
neth Kelley — "suggested  I  take  a  basal  metabolism  test, 
just  to  see  if  that  had  anything  to  do  with  it.  And  it 
showed  a  thyroid  deficiency!  By  taking  the  right  dose 
of  thyroid  extract  I  melted  off  those  pounds  and  keep 
a  normal  weight  with  no  trouble  at  all."  And  here  let 
me  hasten  to  mention,  at  Miss  Venuta's  suggestion,  that 
except  under  your  physician's  order,  thyroid  extract  is 
very  dangerous,  as  are  any  patent  jireparations  contain- 
ing it.    It's  of  value  only  when  a  doctor's  tests  show  a 

Benay  trims  her  Christmas  tree  and  plans  ex- 
citing surprises  for  her  Christmas  celebra- 
tion with  her  husband,  Dr.  Kenneth  Kelley. 


deficiency  and  when  administered  under  a  doctor's  pre- 
scription. 

"Ken,"  she  added,  "is  in  Chicago  now — I  'commute' 
there  c\ery  other  week  to  see  him  and  we  go  out  to- 
gether; in  New  York  I  lead  the  quiet  life  and  keep  out 
of  the  cfjlumns." 

Of  course,  it's  not  news  that  Benay  \'enuta  is  the 
wife  of  Dr.  Kenneth  Kelley.  Though  they  kept  the 
marriage  something  of  a  secret  for  a  while,  after  a  three- 
year  courtship,  Walter  Winchell  broke  it  in  his  column— 
the  news,  not  the  marriage. 

"Walter  came  up  to  me  one  night  in  a  hotel  dining- 
room,''  she  says,  "and  said:  'I  understand  you're  mar- 
ried to  Dr.  Kelley,"  'How  did  you  know  that?'  I  gasped. 
Walter  grinned  and  said:  'So  it's  true!'  and  he  ran  it  in 
the  column  the  next  day." 

Benay  Venuta  was  singing  in  a  Chicago  night  club 
when  Jules  Alberti,  her  present  manager,  who  was  then 
a  bandleader,  heard  her  and  told  her  he  thought  she 
should  be  on  the  air.  Characteristically,  Benay  laughed 
and  said:  "I  suppose  I  ought  to  be  in  pictures,  too?" 
"Yes,"  Alberti  agreed,  she  should. 

"Listen,"  Benay  advised  him,  "I've  been  in  show  busi- 
ness since  I  was  fourteen  and  I've  sung  in  night  clubs 
in  Hollywood  and  San  Francisco,  where  stars  and  mana- 
gers come  on  their  nights  off.  If  I  was  any  good  I  would 
have  made  the  top  by  now." 

Alberti  refused  to  be  sidetracked.  "Let  me  take  some 
of  your  pictures  to  New  York,"  he  insisted. 

"-All  right,"  shrugged  Benay.  "What  can  I  lo.se?  But 
you're  wasting  your  time." 

"You'll  be  hearing  from  me." 

"I  doubt  it,"  she  laughed,  "but  thanks  for  trying." 

That  was  on  a  Tuesday;  the  following  Friday  Alberti 
called  her  long  distance  to  say  that  he'd  shown  Ralph 
Wonders,  of  CBS,  her  pictures  and  that  he  was  inter- 
ested. So  she  hopped  a  train  to  New  York  and  went 
to  work  for  Columbia. 

But  it  was  no  sudden  rise  to  fame  for  Benay.  She 
literally  had  been  in  show  business  since  childhood.  Born 
in  San  Francisco  about  twenty-five  years  ago,  she's  the 
daughter  of  the  late  Ernest  Crooke  and  niece  of  George 
Cameron,  publisher  of  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle. 
Her  paternal  grandmother,  Molly  Crooke,  was  a  well- 
known  painter ;  her  mother  is  Italian,  descended  from 
Benvenuto  Cellini,  and  it  was  she  who  named  Benay 
"Venuta,"  which  means  "welcome."  AW  of  which  brings 
us  to  the  point  that  Miss  Venuta  is  .Social  Register  and. 
as  she  herself  says,  so  what? 

"That's  silly,"  Benay  will  tell  you.  "I  remember  sound- 
ing otf  to  an  interviewer  at  one  time,  mentioning  that 
I  thought  a  girl  should  have  some  intere.sts  of  her  own. 
-And  the  story-  said  I  was  'social  register'  and  that  I 
thought  society  girls  should  go  to  work.  But  I'm  not 
in  society — my  family  is,  but  I've  never  had  a  debut, 
iK'vcr  l^een  'brought  out'." 

When  she  was  thirteen,  Benay  was  singing  in  a  Fan- 
olion  and  Marco  i)resentation  out  on  the  Coast,  after  being 
captain  of  the  Hollywood  High  School  swimming  team 
and  api)earing  in  .several  school  {Continued  on  page  58) 

39 


ROBERT 


Don  Ameche,  radio  favorite,  the  screen's  newest  sensation. 


WHAT  is  it  that  plucks  one  fellow  out  of  the  crowd 
and  makes  him  famous,  successful— is  it  luck,  is  it  just 
a  question  of  the  "hreaks,"  of  happy  hut  entirely  fortui- 
tous circumstance?  Some  say  glibly  that  it  is  all  luck — 
and  others  say  that  there  is  no  short  road  to  success,  that 
it  takes  courage  and  stick-to-it-iveness,  as  well  as  some 
special  fundamental  gift  or  talent.  Hut.  1o  confound 
them,  there  always  is  some  fellow  ahead  of  the  crowd, 
who  won  his  high  place  with  seemingly  little  effort,  on 
whom  fate  smiled  and  for  whom  chance  built  a  straight 
and  easy  road  to  fame  and  fortune.  Like  Robert  Tay- 
lor, for  instance — and  like  Don  Ameche. 

Don  was  not  really  born  with  a  silver  spoon  in  his 
mouth  and  yet  a  lucky  star  must  have  been  brightly  shin- 
ing in  the  heavens  on  that  night  in  May,  1908.  when 


little  Dominick  Felix  Ameche  arrived  in  Kenosha,  Wis- 
consin. Of  middle-class  parents,  the  second  of  eight 
children — four  l)oys  and  four  girls — vou  wouldn't  rec- 
ognize in  those  factors  the  elements  of  fame  or  fortune. 

Nor  in  his  early  boyhood  in  Kenosha,  nor  during  his 
years  at  school,  would  you  have  seen  more  than  a  likable 
lad  with  good  features,  dark  hair,  glowing  dark  eyes  and 
an  amiable  stnile  that  disclosed  even  white  teeth.  Don 
himself  in  those  years  did  not  know  what  he  w^anted, 
never  dreamed  that  some  day  his  res])ectable  but  hitherto 
unknown  name  would  shine  in  bright  lights  over  a  thea- 
tre marc|uee,  that  his  dark  good  looks  would  be  a  pleasant 
foil  for  the  beauty,  the  charm  of  such  Hollywood  lovelies 
as  Loretta  Young,  Janet  Gaynor.  .  .  Oh,  he  dreamed,  as 
boys  do,  of  success  and  fame  and  romance — but  he  did 


ROGERS 


TAYLOR,  BEWARE! 

modern  matinee  idol,  is  causing  a  lot  of  heart  flutterings! 


not  dream  that  they  were  all  within  his  grasp,  that  their 
roots  went  deep  into  the  town  where  he  was  born  and 
that  other  town  where  he  went  to  school.  From  the 
time  he  went  away  to  hoardin<^  school,  in  his  'teens,  he 
had  them  all.  his  good  looks,  like  his  talent — hidden  still 
hut  undeniably  there — and  love.  He  didn't  know  that, 
even.  Of  course  he  knew  he  was  attracted  to  the  slim 
blonde  IVcndergast  girl.  From  the  time  he  met  her, 
when  he  tirst  went  to  .school  in  the  town  where  she  lived, 
he  liked  her.  But  he  went  out  with  other  girls  and  no 
gypsy,  her  palm  crossed  with  silver,  told  him  that  some 
day  he  and  Honore  would  share  a  life  that  was  full 
to  the  brim  of  health,  happiness  and  prosperity ! 

It  sounds  ,so  easy,  all  of  it.  to  hear  Don  tell  it!  You'd 
ttiink  being  singled  out  by  fate  in  such  a  manner  would 


have  made  him  vain,  would  assuredly  have  spoiled  him 
a  little,  but  apparently  it  hasn't.  He  is  still  simple,  sin- 
cere, straightforward — just  the  .sort  of  man  he  would 
have  been.  ])robably,  if  he  had  practised  law  instead  of 
going  on  the  stage.  Do  you  suppose  that  that  is  the  ex- 
planation of  his  succes.s — and  not  luck,  after  all? 

"I  thought  I  wanted  to  be  a  lawyer,"  Don  said  and 
added  with  his  swift,  ea.sy  smile:  "Fm  sure  I  don't 
know  why !  But  of  course  it  wasn't  time  wasted — vou 
couldn't  call  any  education  wa.sted,  could  you?" 

I  think  he  would  have  been  a  persuasive  advocate,  not 
only  because  of  dramatic  and  appealing  delivery  but  be- 
cause he  is  so  deeply  sympathetic,  has  such  a  rare  gift 
for  seeing  the  other  fellow's  point  of  view,  for  under- 
standing his   emotions,   the    {Continued   on   pcige  f>0) 


41 


i 

I 


Be+ty  Winkler  is  in  great  de- 
mand at  the  radio  studios  and 
the  movies  are  said  to  be  inter- 
ested  in   this   glamorous  girl. 


PITFULS 


BY    LESLIE  EATON 


I 


Betty  was  leading  lady  ot  a 
stock  company  at  eighteen  and 
at  nineteen  was  a  radio  star. 


DON'T  ask  me  why,  but  in  the  case  of  any  pretty  young 
g'lr],  the  first  question  asked  is:  "Is  she  married?"  And 
if  not,  vvhv  not?  And  who  is  the  love  interest  in  her 
hfe? 

Betty  Winkler  is  pretty  and  she  is  younfj — and  she  is 
unmarried,  heart  whole  and  fancy  free!  That  is,  at  the 
moment.  My  own  personal  opinion  is  that  she  is  too 
pretty  and  tfio  full  (jf  pep  and  personality  to  he  that  way 
lonj4. 

Betty's  eyes  are  dark  and  luminous — romantic  eyes — 
hut  a  merry  twinkle  lurks  in  their  depths.  Her  com- 
l)lexion  is  the  kind  the  ad  men  rave  alwut.  Her  hair  is 
dark  ijrown  and  she  wears  it  parted  in  the  middle  and 
brushed  back  from  a  high,  intelligent  forehead.  Her 
nose  is  straight,  her  mouth  wide  and  generous.  She  is 
small,  bul  so  full  of  vim  and  vivacity  that  she  seems 
taller  than  she  actually  is.  She  likes  dark  tailored  clothes 
but  is  essentially  feminine  from  the  crown  of  her  perky 


hal  to  the  tijjs  of  her  high-heeled  shoes.  Altogether,  a 
vivi<l  and  charming  person.  How  is  it,  then,  that  she 
has  esca])ed  matriim mv  "  Pressed  for  a  reason,  Bett\ 
(hnipled  and  shru.i;gc-(l. 

"I've  been  waiting  for  that  something  called  loz'c  to 
l)owl  me  over,"  she  answered  my  query,  her  velvet- 
brown  eyes  twinkling.  "Oh,  1  supjKxse  I've  been  in  love. 
I've  had  moments,  though  I  don't  really  know  whether 
you'd  call  it  love  or  not !" 

ilcr  laugh  was  warm  aijd  gurgling.  Life  for  Betty 
a  grand  and  glorious  adventure  just  as  it  is,  and  not  to  lie 
taken  too  seriously.  Right  now  she  is  excited,  thrilled 
over  the  j)ossibilities  of  a  movie  contract,  but  whatever 
developments  there  may  be  along  that  line,  her  contract 
with  the  (rirl  Alone  ])rogram  comes  first,  and  there  also 
her  main  interest  lies. 

it  may  be  partly  lx?cause  it  is  her  first  really  import- 
ant role,  it  may  i)e  becau.se  of  (Contmucd  on  page  80) 


You  can't  trip  up  lovely  Betty  Winkler,  Radio's  "Girl  Alone  " 

42 


From  twelve  to  six- 
teen  is  Jessica 
Dragonette's  choice. 


Helen  Jepson  thinks 
thirty-five  would 
be  the  peck  of  life. 


FAVORITE 

Four  famous  women  reveal  why  certain  years  seem  to  them  to 


BY  HA 


IF  someone  were  to  ask  you  to  name  your  favorite  age, 
what  would  you  say?  Would  you  name  some  child- 
hood year  when  you  played  about  light-heartedly,  little 
dreaming  of  the  struggles  and  obligations  of  a  tired 
world?  Would  you  choose,  perhaps,  the  year  when  you 
first  fell  in  love  with  that  reckless  mad  devotion,  "for 
we  never  can  recapture  that  first  fine  careless  rapture?" 
Or  would  you  choose  some  more  mature  year  when  suc- 
cess and  accomplishment  had  come  your  way,  or  when 
you'd  attained  that  inner  poise,  understanding  and 
serenity  that  makes  life  complete?  What 
is  your  favorite  age  and  why? 

I  asked  four  famous  women  that  ques- 
tion. Each  is  a  woman  whose  name  is 
heard  in  the  far  corners  of  the  world. 
Each  is  a  woman  who  is  sought  by  auto- 
graph hunters  and  followed  by  camera- 
men. Each  is  a  woman  who  has  songs  written  to  her, 
perfumes  named  after  her.  crowds  gathered  for  her.  I 
asked  diminutive  Helen  Hayes,  operatic  Helen  Jepson, 
golden-haired  Jessica  Dragonette  and  kindly  Kate  Smith : 
"What  is  your  favorite  age  and  why?" 

"I  honestly  believe  that  if  I  could  go  back  to  eighteen, 
that  would  be  my  favorite  age,"  Plelen  Hayes,  whom 
man}'  [)eople  consider  the  greatest  living  actress,  said  to 
me.  "Eighteen  seems  to  me  to  be  a  magical  age.  For 
the  first  time  a  girl  then  seems  to  come  into  the  full 


possession  of  her  faculties.  Somehow  or  other,  almost 
over  night,  the  eighteen-year-old  becomes  a  woman.  She's 
ready  to  take  her  place  in  the  world.  Life  seems  to 
open  up.  She's  on  the  tips  of  her  toes,  all  expectancy. 
Childhood  fancies  are  suddenly  replaced  by  mature 
thoughts.  Everything  seems  to  take  on  a  new  meaning. 
As  she  looks  forward— really  for  the  first  time  in  her 
life — the  eighteen-year-old  begins  to  envision  some  of 
the  real  values  of  life — a  home  which  she  will  create 
and  inspire,  marriage,  children,  careei;.  Before  eighteen, 
I  don't  think  I  gave  much  serious  thought 
to  such  things.  True.  I  had  been  on 
the  stage,  off  and  on.  for  ten  years, 
fitting  in  schooling  between  engagements, 
but  l)eing  in  a  show  meant  little  more 
than  'play  acting.'  Then  came  the 
transformation.  I  .saw  the  significance 
of  the  theatre — not  merely  as  mimicrv,  but  as  holding 
a  revealing  mirror  to  life.  I  became  less  interested  in 
the  professional  excitement  of  the  stage.  In.stead.  i 
wanted  to  turn  whatever  talent  1  had  to  something 
creative,  something  i)ermanent.  and  above  all,  to  some- 
thing worth  while.  Not  that  I  hadn't  taken  my  work 
seriously— on  the  contrary,  I  think  I  had  been  pretty 
conscientious  about  it — but  T  wanted  my  efforts  to  be 
purposeful. 

"r  suppose  I  was  fortunate  because,  before  my  eight- 


RRIET 
MENKEN 


"Eighteen,"  says 
Helen  Hayes.  "i$ 
a  magical  age." 


hold   life's   richest  meaning 

eenth  year  was  out.  I  had  signed  a  contract  to  he  in  a 
play  with  William  Gillette.  It  meant  that  for  the  fir.st 
time  I  would  .see  my  name  in  lights.  You  have  to  he  in 
your  "teens  to  get  the  greatest '  thrill  from  such  a  turn 
of  events.  Perhai)s  it  was  the  natural  enthusiasm  of 
very  young  womanhood — or  perhai)s  it  was  that  innate 
streak  of  vanity  that  makes  actors  actors — in  any  case, 
it  gave  me  confidence  and  incentive  to  continue.  If  my 
first  important  success  had  come  at  a  later  age.  I  prob- 
ably would  have  been  content  to  rest  on  my  laurels.  But 
at  eighteen,  it  gave  me  a  great  lift. 

"Of  cour.se,  there  have  been  manv  years  in  my  life 
that  I  would  like  to  relive,"  Miss  Hayes  reminisced. 
"One  of  them  would  be  my  eighth.  That  was  the  year 
I  first  appeared  on  Broadvvay.  I  remember  it  so  well. 
Mother  and  I  had  come  up  from  Washington,  trying 
to  find  me  a  job.  Eventually  I  got  one.  I  plaved  in  Lew 
Fields'  })roduction  of  Old  ^Duiclt.  Victor  Herbert  him- 
.self  conducted  the  orchestra  and  Diamond  Tim  Brady 
and  Lillian  Russell  were  in  a  box." 

Miss  Hayes  mused  thoughtfully:  "Part  of  1932  would 
certamly  be  another  year  I'd  like  to  pick.  That  was  the 
first  year  I  spent  in  Hollywood.  Lullaby  was  my  first 
try  in  the  movies  and  all  during  its  making  I  was  terriblv 
unhappy.  I  was  certain  the  picture  was  a  flop.  When 
it  was  finally  shown,  the  critics  were  most  kind  and  the 
Academy  members  were  good  (Continued  on  page  69) 


RADIO  STARS 


BY  RUTH 
G  E  R  I 


Scene  from  "Hell's 
Angels,"  the  United 
Artists'  picture  in 
which  Jinnmy  Hall 
was  featured  a  t 
the  height  of  his 
earlier  success. 


Fate  played  a  sorry  trick  on 
James  Hall,  but  he  found  out 
a  sure  way  to  defeat  Fate! 


LIFE  WiiS  TOO  EASY 


Announcer  Jannes  Hall,  whose  climb  to 
success,  after  failure,  is  one  of  the 
fascinating    stories   of   show  business. 


THERE  is,  in  the  heart  of  every  woman  who  loves  a 
man,  a  pronounced  mother-instinct.  The  woman  may  he 
cruel  to  the  man  she  loves,  but  always  afterward  she  is 
sorry — like  a  mother  who  has  spanked  her  little  boy  and 
made  him  cry.  She  wants  to  dry  away  liis  tears,  to  draw 
his  head  upon  her  shoulder  and  console  him.  There  is 
Irene  Hall,  for  instance,  and  there's  Jimmy. 

Two  years  ago  James  Hall  sat  in  a  dreary  hotel  room 
in  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana,  a  fugitive  from  justice, 
broke,  all  washed  up  after  a  success  so  meteoric  and 
seemingly  so  lasting  that  even  Hollywood  had  marvelled. 
There  came  a  knock  at  the  door.  Jimmy  didn't  want  to 
see  anyone,  but  he  answered  mechanically  :    "Come  in." 

The  door  opened  slowly.  Jimmy,  his  head  sunk 
moodily  and  liis  despairing  eyes  upon  the  faded  pattern 
of  the  worn  carpet,  did  not  even  glance  up.  He  no 
longer  was  curious  about  anything.  It  did  not  matter, 
now,  what  happened.  Everything  was  all  over.  Life 
was  behind  him. 

The  woman  who  walked  slowly  into  the  room  was 
older  than  her  years.  Gray  streaked  the  red  hair  that 
once,  obviously,  had  been  gorgeous.  Her  face  was  lined 
with  sorrow  and  worry. 

"Jimmy,"  she  whispered.    Jimmy  started.    He  looked 
like  a  man  who  sees  an  apparition.  He  leaped  to  his  feet 
and  stepped  slowly  backward  as  if  to  escape  from  this 
ghostly  reminder  of  a  happier  day.     But  the  woman 
spoke  again — and  he  stopped.    Her  voice  was  firmer. 

"Jimmy — I'm  sorry,"  she  said.  "I  never  meant  to 
cause  you  all  this  pain — to  wreck  your  career.  I  was  so 
miserable  and  unhappy,  Jimmy.  Don't  you  understand? 
I  guess  I  still — loved  you.  Jimmy."  The  woman's  voice 
broke  and  she  sobbed  :  "Oh,  Jimmy,  I  still  love  vou !" 
She  mi.stook  his  silence  for  anger.  She  held  her  hands 
out  in  supplication,  her  palms  turned  pleadingly  upward. 

"Oh,  Jimmy,  I've  told  those  lawyers  to  drop  that  awful 
suit.  I  only  did  it  because  I  hoped  it  would  liring  vou 
to  your  senses.  I  didn't  know  it  would  hurt  you — like 
this!"  She  made  a  gesture  that  took  in  the  little  hotel 
room.  "And  Jimmy,  if  it  will  make  you  happy— you  can 
— have  your  divorce!"  {Contined  on  page  74) 


RADIO  STARS 


What  sacrifice  has  Vivian  Delia  Chiesa,  sensational  new  NBC 


"I  USED  to  dream  of  being  a  success  overnight.  Of 
waking  up  and  seeing  my  name  in  lights  .  .  ."  She 
laughed,  a  warm,  excited  little  laugh.  "It  was  silly, 
childish  and  impossible.  I  thought.  Things  didn't  hap- 
pen like  that  ..." 

But  they  did  happen  like  that,  with  the  unexpectedness 
of  a  fairy  story.  And  if  she  had  not  possessed  wisdom 
and  balance  beyond  her  years,  her  head  well  might  have 
been  turned  and  she  might  have  awakened  to  find  her 
magic  coach  a  pumpkin  again. 

But  Vivian  Delia  Chiesa's  success  was  no  flash  in  the 
pan.  She  had  that  something  that  makes  all  the  differ- 
ence between  forgotten  contest  winners  and  a  real  success. 

Vivian's  already  notable  career  began  with  an  unknown 
singer  contest  in  Chicago,  a  little  over  a  year  ago.  It  was 
the  last  day  of  the  contest  and  over  two  thousand  girls 
already  had  been  tried  out.  Vivian  had  had  no  intention 
of  competing,  but  a  friend,  a  woman  interested  in  the 
girl's  lovely  lyric  voice,  urged  her  to  try.  Diffidently,  sure 
that  it  was  futile,  that  the  winner  probably  already  had 
been  chosen,  Vivian  sang. 

She  was  under  twenty,  but  her  voice  had  depth,  power, 
sweetness  that  brought  the  judges  to  their  feet.  Here 
was  a  find,  a  voice  of  great  potentialities  for  radio,  for 
opera  .  .  . 


Vivian  studies  at 
least  three  hours 
a  day.  "And  the 
less  you  know, 
the  more  you  think 
you  know!"  she 
laughs.  "But  I've 
learned  something!" 


Vivian's  eyes  glowed,  her  cheeks  were  scarlet,  her  hands 
trembled  with  excitement.  It  was  all  beyond  belief — 
singing  over  a  microphone,  singing  on  the  stage  of  a  Chi- 
cago theatre,  her  name  in  bright  lights  over  the  marquee. 
She,  Vivian  Delia  Chiesa,  of  East  Chicago,  Indiana! 

"They  wanted  me  to  change  my  name,"  she  murmured. 
"They  said  no  one  could  pronounce  it — it  sounded  like 
cheese  or  something!"  She  laughed  merrily,  was  in- 
stantly serious.  "I  couldn't  do  it.  It  was  my  father's 
name — he  had  no  son  and  I  always  said  I  would  carry 
on  the  name — would  make  it  famous!" 

She  was  right.  Unwieldy,  awkward  to  the  impatient 
American  ear  and  tongue,  it  nevertheless  is  a  beautiful 
name  and  one  that  will  look  very  well  on  an  opera  bill- 
board, before  the  Metropolitan ! 

For  Vivian  still  is  dreaming,  still  far  from  satisfied. 
"That  has  always  been  my  goal,"  she  confessed.  "Opera 
— it  is  in  my  blood !  My  grandfather  was  a  symphony 
conductor  in  Italy,  my  mother  a  fine  pianist.  Before  I 
was  born,  my  mother  went  almost  nightly  to  the  opera, 
to  hear  the  great  singers  ..." 

A  passionate  love  for  song,  for  the  best  in  music,  is  in 
her  blood,  as  the  love  of  music  is  in  the  blood  of  all 
Italians.  And  Vivian  is  a  true  Italian,  although  not  the 
dark  Latin  type  with  which  we  are  most  familiar.  In- 
stead, she  has  the  blonde  hair  and  blue  eyes  of  the  people 
of  northern  Italy,  and  with  her  smooth  olive  complexion 
she  is  very  striking  looking.  She  is  girlishly  dissatisfied 
with  her  fine  Roman  nose,  but  it  suits  her  type.  She 
is  tall,  well  developed,  and  has  a  natural  gift  for  wear- 
ing clothes  well.  She  is  vivid,  colorful,  aglow  with  life, 
sparkling,  vivacious.  It  does  not  take  a  vivid  imagina- 
tion to  see  her  as  BrunJiUdc,  as  Elsa.  as  Mimi  .  .  . 

If  she  had  not  been  stubborn  al:)out  her  name,  she 
might  have  missed  a  friendship  that  means  much  to  her! 


RADIO  STARS 


star  and  opera  star,  made  for  her  career?     Was  it  love? 


Did  the  hrifjhtly  twiiiklinj,'  lights  that  spelled  out  Delia 
Cliicsa  heckon  romance?  Was  it  love  that  found  its  way 
to  her  dressing-room  that  night?  Or  merely  friendship, 
as  Vivian  would  have  you  believe? 

For  a  tall  and  handsome  Italian  ofificer,  a  lieutenant 
in  the  cavalry  division  of  //  Duces  great  army,  saw  the 
name  and  responded  to  its  call.  He  was  but  recently 
from  Rome;  he  had  known  the  Delia  Chiesas  there  .  .  . 

"He  is  very  interesting,  very  intelligent,"  Vivian  said 
softly.  "He  speaks  several  languages  well.  Mussolini 
sent  him  over  to  study  radio  in  America,  but  he  already 
knew  more  than  most  men  in  the  business!" 

.She  shook  her  head  emphatically.  "No,  there  is  no 
romance.  That  is  just  a  story — a  pretty  story,  but  not 
true."  She  smiled,  her  eyes  dreamy.  "We  correspond, 
but  there  is  no  more  to  it  than  that." 

She  is  very  young,  but  newly  embarked  on  a  fascinating 
career — but  she  was  brought  up  on  fairy  stories  at  her 
mother's  knee.  Anti  she  still  is  young  enough  to  dream 
of  the  fairy  prince !  One  precious  dream  already  has 
come  true — she  has  known  the  thrill  of  waking  up  to 
find  herself  famous.  The  other  dream — well,  whether  it 
is  a  handsome  cavalry  officer  or  a  young  radio  announcer, 
Vivian  will  know  him  for  her  prince  when  the  time  comes ! 

Meanwhile,  she  admits  that  she  loves  to  dance  and 
that  she  envies  girls  who  have  more  time  for  such  amuse- 
ments. Her  officer  has  gone  back  to  Italy,  but  V'ivian 
does  not  lack  for  escorts.    Her  favorites  right  now  are 


two  young  announcers,  near  her  own  age  and  with  many 
interests  in  common  with  her.  During  the  summer,  one 
of  these  friends  went  with  her  and  her  parents  to  a  vaca- 
tion camp  in  Wisconsin  on  frequent  week-end  trips. 

'  We  rowed  on  the  lake,  rode  horseback — it  was  lots 
of  fun,"  Vivian  exclaimed.  "I  love  the  out-of-doors 
and  I  love  going  places,  doing  things,  but  there  isn't 
time  for  that  sort  of  thing  now.  I  .study  at  least  three 
hours  a  day,  you  know — my  mother  says  I  sing  all  the 
time!  You  see,  I've  learned  something  this  last  year. 
...  At  first  I  thought  I  was  the  tops — you  know  how  it 
is !  Winning  the  contest,  appearing  in  Chicago  theatres, 
being  on  three  commercial  programs  almost  before  I 
knew  what  it  was  all  about.  The  less  you  know,  the 
more  you  think  you  know !"  She  laughed  again.  "I 
thought  I  was  Rosa  Ponselle,  I  guess!" 

From  the  time  she  was  seven  and  first  heard  a  Rosa 
Ponselle  record,  the  opera  singer  has  been  Vivian's  ideal. 
She  has  met  many  famous  people,  but  not  yet  this  one 
whom  she  idolizes  above  them  all.  But  one  night,  at 
an  Italian  gathering,  she  sang  (Continued  on  page  56) 


M^V^--;  HVe^%  oo^- 


UP  SOMETHING 


"Any  girl  who 
goes  around  with 
o  comedian  must 
have  a  sense  of 
humor,"  says  Ken 


Ken  Murray 
Stooge  Oswald 
pick  New  York's 
Ideal  Bachelor 
Girl"  of  1936. 


WE  were  sitting  in  a  tiny  dressing-room  of  the  CBS 
Radio  Playhouse.  Outside,  on  the  stage,  Russ  Morgan 
was  rehearsing  his  band  in  a  swing  arrangement.  Ken 
Murray  sucked  gloomily  at  his  pipe. 

"Don't  you  feel  well?"  I  asked. 

"Me?  I  feel  swell,"  Ken  said.  "Why?" 

"You  didn't  look  very  happy." 

"Oh — that,"  he  said.    "Aren't  all  comedians  supposed 
to  be  somber  off-stage?" 
I  said  I  had  heard  as  much. 

"Well,  being  traditional,  sort  of,  I'd  hate  to  break  the 
tradition,"  Ken  said.  "I  am  a  comedian — I  hope."  And 
he  looked  anxiously  for  possible  refutation.  "Or  should 
I  be  funny?" 


THAT  MAN'S 
HERE  AGAIN! 

Ken  Murray  finds  that 
a  sense  of  humor  is  a^ 
woman's  greatest  asset 


BY   JACK  HANLEY 


"It  might  help,"  I  admitted.  "But  don't  you 
find  it  wearing,  being  funny  all  the  time?" 

"When  I  started  in  show  business,"  he 
grinned,  "I  felt  called  upon  to  be  a  funny  man 
all  the  time.  Wisecracks  and  gags  emanated 
from  Murray  in  an  endless  stream ;  it  must  have 
been  pretty  wearing  on  my  friends." 

"How  about  women — do  they  like  a  funny 
man  ?" 

"I  don't  know  whether  they  like  it  or  not,"  he 
said  ruefully,  "but  any  girl  who  goes  around 
with  a  comedian  must  have  a  sense  of  humor. 
It  doesn't  matter  very  much  whether  she  laughs 
at  you  or  with  you — so  long  as  she  can  laugh." 
"And  how  about  wives?"    I  asked. 
"Well — ^you  be  the  judge.    Back  in  the  days  when  I 
felt  called  upon  to  be  constantly  funny,  I  was  married. 
The  lady  who  was  then  my  wife  heard  plenty  of  alleged 
humor  from  me,  I'm  afraid.    And  one  day  she  looked 
me  in  the  eye  and  said :   'Ken,  you  may  be  a  funny  man 
to  your  public,  but  you're  a  pain  in  the  neck  to  me.' 
And,"  Ken  finished,  "I'm  still  wondering  whether  that 
showed  she  had  a  sense  of  humor  or  lacked  one!" 

Ken  Murray  has,  of  course,  been  a  single  man  again 
for  several  years. 

"On  the  other  hand,  sometimes  a  sense  of  humor  in 
a  girl  can  snap  right  back  at  you.  Back  in  the  Sketch 
Book  show  there  were  flocks  (Continued  on  page  5V) 


RADIO  STARS 


(^att^  Faulty  Older  Skin 


the 
Starting 
Place  of 

LARGE  PORES 
LINES 

BLACKHEADS 


Miss  Isabel  Parker:  "Pond's  Cold  C 


And  here's  the  rousing  treatment 
that  keeps  it  vigorous  . . . 

TTORRID  skin  faults  are  usually  under- 
skin  faults.  Blackheads  come  when 
tiny  oil  glands  underneath  are  overworked, 
give  off  a  thick,  clogging  oil. 

Next  thing  you  know,  your  pores  are 
looking  larger. 

Lines  around  your  eyes,  mouth  are  just 
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NOTHING  BUT  THE  TRUTH 


Leading  lights  of  the  airwaves  ''cross 
their  hearts"  and  answer  fans'  questions 


Do  you  think  that  marriage  is  a 
difficult  proposition  for  two  people 
with  careers? 


.Irt  I 'an  Harz'cy:  "Yes,  I  do  think  so. 
Both,  naturally,  are  interested  in  their 
careers,  which  often  separate  them  for 
long  periods  of  time.  They  naturally  are 
thrown  in  contact  with  others  of  the  oppo- 
site sex,  and  temptation  to  fall  in  love 


Rubinoff,  noted 
Russian  violin- 
ist, conducts 
his  32-piece  or- 
chestra in  a  new 
series  over  CBS 
network  Sunday 
evenings  at  6:30. 


with  someone  else  is  too  great." 

Ireene  Wicker:  "All  good  things  in  life 
are  earned  only  through  intelligent  effort, 
and  a  happy  marriage  is  no  exception.  It 
is  difficult  for  two  people,  with  or  without 
careers,  and  possible  only  when  deeply  and 
earnestly  desired  by  both  parties — career  or 
no  career — but  well  worth  the  effort!" 

Jimmy  Farrell  :  "Being  a  bachelor,  1 
wouldn't  kuozv  definitely.  My  opinion, 
howei'cr,  is  this:  Marriage  itself  is  the 
greatest  of  all  careers  and  t%m  people 
properly  mated  would  subordinate  their 
interest  in  professional  careers  to  that 
in  marriage.  T/iere  is  room  for  both  and 
they  can  be  harmoniously  reconciled." 


ill: 


'Yes,   indeed.  Each 


Winsome  Lucy 
Monroe,  contin- 
ues to  enthrall 
audiences  with 
her  luscious  so- 
prano voice  on 
the  NBC  networks 
twice   a  week. 


being  self-centered — which  is  absolutely 
necessary  to  a  successful  career — prevents, 
in  most  cases,  a  happy  married  life." 

Major  Edward  Borves:  "There's  no  rea- 
son why  it  should  be  difficult.  True  love 
is  helpful  and  unselfish." 


The  answer  to 
an  amateur's 
prayer,  Major 
Bowes,  has  lost 
none  of  his  pop- 
ularity  since 
he  changed  spon- 
sors and  hours. 


Rosemarie  Brancato ;  ".^s  yet  I  have  had 
no  cause  to  change  niy  mind  about  the  im- 
possibility of  co)nbining  a  successful  mar- 
riage 'with  an  equally  successful  career. 
II' hen  both  partners  of  the  matrimonial 
I'Citture  have  careers  to  consider^  I  feel  if 
li'ill  remain  fust  a  venture.  Marriage  and 
career  alike  are  full-time  fobs  and  one  zvill 
suffer  becau.se  of  the  other." 

Leo  Rcisnian :  "It  depends  on  the  ar- 
rangements, the  understanding  of  the 
people  involved,  and  whether  or  not  your 
career  is  somewhat  dependent  upon  the 
romantic  interests  of  other  members  of  the 
opposite  sex." 

Helen  Jepson:  "Decidedly  not!  But  it 
takes  a  proper  combination  of  one  helping 
the  other  to  develop  an  understanding  in 
all  situations." 


Virginia  Verrill, 
Vee  for  short, 
now  has  her  own 
program,  called 
Vocal.s  by  Ver- 
rill, heard  on 
Wednesdays  over 
CBS  at  10:45. 


Ray  Heatherton:  "Marrnig. 
in  itself  and  may  easily  b 
-a'here  two  have  separate  < 
by  little  their  indiviihial  cat 
them  apart.  To  pur.sur  u  ci 
so  immersed  in  his  ivork  that  lie  needs  the 
understanding  of  one  zvho  is  not  beset  by 
her  own  problems." 

- 

Vaughn  De  Leath:   "It  would  depend 


a  career 
mpatiblc 
.  Little 
•ill  draiv 
I  man  is 


Between  opera, 
concert  tours 
and  her  Show 
Boat  broadcasts, 
platinum-haired 
Helen  Jepson  is 
exceedingly  busy 
these  wintry  days. 


upon  the  careers  the  two  people  had.  If 
they  are  allied  arts  it  may  be  to  advantage. 
If  they  are  the  same  vocation  it  may  also 
be  satisfactory.  But  whether  it  be  a  pro- 
fessional or  business  career,  after  all,  the 
most  important  thing  is  the  dispositions  of 
the  individuals,  and  whether  or  not  their 
lives  may  be  blended  into  a  harmonious 
existence  depends  upon  the  unselfishness 
of  both." 

Tim  Ryan:  "No — equal  independence, 
to  my  way  of  thinking,  is  a  great  balance 
and  makes  marriage  twice  as  interesting." 

Ann  Leaf:  "Marriage  is  a  difficult  prop- 
osition for  two  people  zi'itkout  careers, 
and  icell-nigh  impossible  ivhen  both  have 


Mr.  Kostelanetz, 
rumored  fiance 
of  opera  singer 
Lily  Pons,  com- 
mutes between 
Hollywood  and 
his  CBS  Chester- 
field orchestra. 


careers.  Being  an  artist  is  a  nerve-wrack- 
ing existence  at  best,  and  living  with  one 
can  be  very  tryuui  to  any  'better  half.'  I 
believe  that  there  have  been  cases  of  happy 
marriages  belu'een  career  people  ivhich 
have  lasted  indefinitely — but  they  have 
been  e.rceptions." 

Billy  Jones :  "Human  nature  is  very 
strange,  and  it  all  depends  entirely  on  the 
individuals  involved." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Indeed,  not.  I  believe 
that  similar  hours  and  interests  are  most 
important.  Artist  plus  artist  should  be  a 
better  combination  than  artist  plus  business 
person." 

Ted  Malone:  "Marriage  is  a  difficult 
proposition  for  two  people  ivith  or  ivithout 
careers,  hut  like  almost  all  of  life's  really 


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difficult  things,  it's  more  than  worth  ivhat 
it  requires." 

Andre  Kostelanetz:  "Not  any  more  than 
for  people  who  have  all  leisure  hours." 

Charlie  Barnet:  "Definitely  difficult,  as 
there  will  be  a  consistent  clashing  of  tem- 


Curtis  Arnall :  "It's  apt  to  be  difficult 
if  either  is  inclined  to  'lean'  too  much  on 
the  other." 

Lorctta  Lee:  "Certainly  not.  I  believe 
it  would  be  more  difficult  when  one  has  a 
career  and  the  other  hasn't.  When  both 
husband  and  wife  are  actively  seeking 
fame  and  the  spotlight,  they  can  appre- 
ciate each  other's  problems  and  be  more 
tolerant  when  difficulties  arise." 

Eddy  Duchin:  "No,  not  when  both 
people  are  intelligent  and  understanding. 
Every  individual  likes  an  avenue  of  self- 
expression,  I  have  found." 

Patti  Chapin :  is  according  to  ivhat 
the  careers  are.  If  it  does  not  necessitate 
a  long  seharation,  there  is  no  reason  why 
it  should  be  difficult,  providing  the  indi- 
viduals understand  and  are  sympathetic 
toward  each  other's  work." 

Milton  Berle:  "Yes,  I  do.  Marriage 
means  a  home  and  the  raising  of  children. 
That  is  a  difficult  task  when  two  people 
are  directing  all  their  time  and  energies 
to  their  professional  careers," 


What  is  your  attitude  toward  se- 
rial or  continued-story  programs? 


Jinnny  farrell:  "Most  people  are  very 
much  interested  in  the  experiences  of 
others  and  find  pleasure  in  matching  their 
own  personal  joys  and  sorrows  with  those 
of  others.  Serial  story  programs  gen- 
erally are  based  upon  such  human  experi- 
ences and  bring  pleasure  to  those  who 
hear  them.    For  this  reason,  I  approve." 

Virginia  VerrUt:  "I  think  serials  are 
marvelous  and  most  certainly  hold  a  listen- 
ing audience  better  than  one-time  pro- 
grams. Proof  of  my  theory  is  the  most 
popular  radio  program — Amos  'n'  Andy." 

Art  Van  Harvey :  "Inasmuch  as  I  am  in 
one  myself,  I  may  be  prejudiced. .  But  the 
fact  remains  that  serial  shows  have  out- 
lasted practically  all  other  types  of  shoivs. 
Ours  has  been  on  the  air  five  years  and 
surveys  shoiv  it  to  be  more  popular  now 
than  at  any  previous  time." 

Ireene  Wicker :  "They  have  a  definite 
and  joy-giving  place  in  the  lives  of  shut- 
ins  and  those  who  can  afford  little  for 
books,  magazines  and  outside  entertain- 
ment. The  acting  in  those  I  have  heard  is 
excellent,  though  I  think  there  is  room  for 
improvement  in  the  writing." 

Leo  Reisman:  "I  don't  like  them  for  the 
following  reasons:  radio,  in  my  life,  and 
I  suppose  in  most  other  people's  lives,  is 
a  means  of  casual  entertainment.  And  for 
casual  entertainment  it  is  too  much  of  a 
job  to  carry  in  mind  not  only  the  current 
performance,  but  also  the  story  preced- 
ing. Also,  at  each  single  performance  one 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


It  wasn't  the  Cold  that  froze  hi  m 
'twas  the  sight  of 
her  Rough  Chapped  Hands 


I  NEARLY  CRIED  when  Dave  com- 
plained about  my  hands.  I  hated  them 
myself-oll  harsh  and  red.  They  stayed 
rough  all  winter,  no  matter  what  I  put 
on  them  . . 


THEN- A  FRIEND  TOLD  ME 

Jergens  Lotion  softens  hands  in 
no  time.  I  turned  to  Jergens- 
and  a  few  days  later  Dave 
whispered  ...  "I  love  your 
hands.  They  feel  so  soft." 


but  Jergens  brought  about 
an  early  Thaw  i 


HANDS  can  be  thrilling  when 
they're  soft  and  smooth.  But 
cold,  wind  and  water  take  the 
natural  moisture  from  hand  skin- 
make  it  likely  to  chap  and  roughen. 
And  most  women  wash  their  hands 
eight  times  a  day,  they  say  — have 
them  in  water  eight  times  more. 

But  Jergens  Lotion  heals  and 
softens  dry,  harsh  hands  amazingly 


fast.  Why?  .  .  .  Because ' Jergens 
goes  into  the  skin  cells  more  effec- 
tively than  other  lotions  tested,  and 
swiftly  puts  back  lost  moisture.  Be- 
sides —  Jergens  contains  two 
special  ingredients,  used  by  doctors. 
Red,  rough,  chapped  skin  is^made 
soft,  white  and  fine  in  just  a  few 
applications.  Jergens  is  never 
sticky.  Use  Jergens  faithfully.  At 
all  drug,  department,  lOfS  stores. 


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MAMA,  THAT  MAN'S  HERE  AGAIN! 

(Conliinicd  from  paac  50) 


(11  heautitul  >li"\v  s;ii-l>  around.  I  used  to 
take  one  or  another  ot  them  out  occa- 
sionally. There  was  one,  though,  who 
had  more  than  good  looks — she  had  a 
^ense  of  humor  and  she'd  been  ribbing 
me  all  evening.  Finally  I  said  I  thought 
she  didn't  like  me  very  well — always 
knocking  me.  'Don't  be  silly,  Ken.'  she 
laughed.  "I  think  you're  a  swell  fellow 
and  a  great  comedian.  But  what's  /)/y 
opinion  against  thousands  of  others.'' 

"You  Used  that."  I  reminded  him  gently, 
"in  your  prograiu." 

"I  didn't  -say  it  was  new,"  Ken  grinned. 
■But  it  demonstrates  what  I  mean.  And 
speaking  of  humor  in  a  woman,  1  remem- 
ber the  late  and  beloved  Nora  Baye.s— 
I  learned  how  to  be  nonchalant  from  her. 
At  that  time  I  was  getting  my  first  real 
break  in  vaudeville  and  I  was  watching 
Xora  from  the  wings.  She  was  singing 
her  unforgettable  'Mandy.'  standing  in  the 
center  of  the  stage  with  the  full  glare  of 
a  double  .-.pollight  on  her  .  .  .  when  her 
underskirt  fell  to  her  feet! 

"A  titter,  that  could  have  turned  into  a 
roar,  ran  through  the  audience,  but  Nora 
never  battefl  an  eyelash.  She  continued 
to  the  \er\  end  of  the  song,  then  casually 
iK.isicd  the  offending  skirt  off  over  her 
head.  i)i>n't  tell  your  friends  that  this  is 
part  of  the  act,'  she  said,  to  the  audience, 
'because  it  won't  happen  again.'  " 

"Then  you  think  humor  is  valuable  in 
a  woman?" 

"In  a  case  like  that  it's  a  godsend.  And 
not  long  ago  I  had  reason  to  be  glad 
women  could  take  things  with  a  laugh,  or 
I  tnight  lia\e  to  l)e  biding  out.  I  go  around 
with  a  young  lady  named  Florence  Heller. 
Naturally,  she  has  to  have  a  sense  of 
humor — since  she  can  stand  me.  It  hap- 
pened that,  after  auditioning  a  lot  of  girls 
for  the  part,  we  picked  little  blonde  Mar- 
lyn  Stuart  to  do  the  'Mama  .  .  .  that  man's 
here  again'  signature  in  the  show,  as  well 
as  sing.  And  sbortl>-  afterward  I  took  her 
to  Atlantic  City  with  me,  to  play  a  per- 
sonal a|)pearance,  using  her  in  the  act. 

''f)i:e  oi  the  Broadway  columns  ran  a 
■'|uib  that  Ken  Murrav's  romance  with 
Florence  Heller  was  dead  and  that  Mar- 
lon was  the  new  luart.  1  went  to  Marlyn 
to  try  and  straighten  it  ont— inciflent.ally, 
she  bai)|)ens  to  be  one  of  the  prettiest  girls 

who  can  come  late  without  getting  bawled 
out.  I  expected  to  find  her  angry,  but  she 
just  laughed  and  said:  it's  all  right, 
whatever  they  say — so  long  as  they  spell 
the  name  right !'  Not  new — but  I  was 
glad  to  get  a  gag  instead  of  a  sock  in  the 
eye,  I  laughed  for  five  minutes." 

"Do  you  expect  to  get  married  again?" 
I  asked. 

''Well,  you  know  last  summer  my  spon- 
sors decided  that  I  was  the  only  comedian 
who  didn't  have  a  wife:  Jack  Beimy  has 
Mary  Livingstone,  Cantor  has  his  Ida, 
Fred  Allen  has  P<]rtland.  .  So  we  did  that 
'Find  a  Wife  for  Murray'  series.  Fun  was 
iim— l)ut  they  wanted  nie  to  climax  the 
broadcasts  by  getting  married." 

"That  doesn't  answer  my  question,"  I 
said  siernlv. 


"Well,"  Ken  slirugged,  "I  didn't— then. 
But  it  _\(iu  sto))  heckling  me  I'll  give  \dn 
a  picture  of  what  my  home  life  iitiyht  be 
like.  Let's  say,  for  instance,  that  I  am 
married — we  can  call  my  wile  'Florence.'  " 

(I  thought  that  sounded  like  a  hint,  but 
let  it  lay.) 

"Let's  pretend  it's  just  after  breakfast — 
it  would  go  something  like  this : 

Florence:  Hurry,  Ken  dear — breakfast 
is  waiting. 

Ken  :  Oh — I  didn't  know  it  was  ready  ; 
I  didn't  hear  you  scraping  the  toast. 

Florence :    Your  eggs  are  waiting. 

Ken  :    Waiting  without  ? 

Florence  :    Without  what  ? 

Ken :  Without  bacon !  Ha,  ha,  ha ! 
Say — these  eggs  don't  look  so  good,  where 
did  you  get  them  ? 

Florence:  Don't  you  recognize  them? 
They're  the  ones  you  laid  last  Tuesday 
night. 

Ken  :  Say — I'm  the  fumiy  man  in  this 
fainily. 

Florence:  Be  careful — you're  getting 
egg  on  your  tie. 

Ken:  That's  all  right — I  look  well  in 
evervthing  I  eat.  Haw  ! — Some  \  oik,  eh 
kid?    Ha,  ha,  ha. 

Florence:  (Sighing)  How  many  lumps 
will  you  take? 

Ken :  Two — say,  once  in  a  while  I  feel 
like  a  waffle — and  no  wise  cracks ! 

Florence :  Well,  you'll  have  to  get  me 
a  waffle  iron. 

Ken:  Don't  be  silly — who  irons  waffles? 
Haw  !  By  the  way — what  are  we  having 
for  dinner  tonight? 

Florence  :    A  big  stew. 

Ken  :  Shucks — is  your  father  coming 
over  again? 

Florence:  Yes — his  lodge  is  giving  a 
minstrel  show  and  he  wants  to  borrow 
some  jokes. 

Ken  :  Huh — for  a  minstrel  show  all  he 
needs  are  a  few  old,  broken-down  gags. 

Florence :  W' ell,  darling,  why  don't  you 
give  him  your  last  week's  script? 

Ken :  I'm  using  it  now.  But  I  better 
get  to  work,  I'm  behind  on  iny  fan  mail. 

Florence  :    Haven't  you  read  it  yet  ? 

Ken:  I  haven't  even  written  it  yet? — By 
the  way — how  much  longer  is  your  mother 
going  to  st.iy  willi  ns? 

F'lorence  :  \\  li\  she  just  got  here.  And 
at  least,  you  nnist  admit,  Mother  is  out- 
spoken. 

Ken :       Yeah — but   not  by   anybody  I 
know.     Oh — hello,  mother  ! 
Mother :  Hello. 

Florence :  Ken  was  just  talking  about 
you,   Mother — weren't  you.  Ken? 

Ken :  Yeah — I  was  just  saying  what 
beautiful  hair  you  have. 

Mother  :    Oh,  thank  you. 

Ken:  That  is  your  hair,  isn't  it?  Flaw, 
haw  !  I  certainly  crack  'em  oft',  don't  I  ? 

Mother:     (coldly)     Do  you? 

Ken  :  Sure — get  this  gag — it's  the  open- 
ing joke  on  my  next  program,  and  it's 
brand  new — I  made  it  up  myself  this 
morning.    Wanna  hear  it? 

Mother:  No. 

Ken:     Okay— Fred  L^ttal  says  to  me: 


'Have  you  anything  set  aside  for  a  rainy 
da\  ?'  .\nd  you  know  what  I  say? 

Mother :  "Yeah — 'A  couple  of  um- 
brellas.' 

Ken:  You  know,  F'lorence,  Ireland 
must  be  heaven,  'cause  your  mother's 
oxer  here. 

Mother :  What  are  we  having  for  din- 
ner? 

Florence :    I  have  a  nice  stew. 

Mother :  I'm  tired  of  stews ;  now  that 
Ken's  option  has  been  renewed  we  can 
afford  something  better.  How  about  duck? 

Florence:  Oh — yes,  I  know  you  love 
duck,  Mother. 

Mother:  Yes — I'd  give  my  life  for  a 
duck ! 

Florence :  Oh,  Ken — where  are  you 
going  ? 

Ken :   I'm  going  out  to  get  Joe  Penner ! 

Which  may  or  may  not  prove  anything 
about  how  Ken  Murray  feels  about  mar- 
riage. But  he  does  come  by  humor  nat- 
urally enough,  his  father  having  been  an 
old-time  comedian.  When  Murray  pere 
recognized  the  symptoms  in  Ken  he  tried 
to  dissuade  him  from  the  stage.  "At  least, 
learn  a  trade,"  he  said,  "so  you'll  have 
something  to  fall  back  on."  So,  heeding 
the  parental  advice,  Ken  set  out  as  a  musi- 
cal instrument  salesman. 

"The  only  sale  I  made,"  Ken  says,  "was 
to  myself.  I  bought  a  clarinet.  It  turned 
out  to  be  a  good  investment.  I  can't  sing 
or  dance,  but  I  can  keep  my  audience 
awake  by  squealing  the  daylights  out  of 
that  clarinet !" 

The  clarinet  led  to  a  few  small-time 
vaudeville  dates,  which  gradually  im- 
proved and  increased  until  Ken  was  a 
headline  act  in  the  two-a-day,  and  he 
played  the  New  York  Palace  Theatre 
more  times  than  any  other  comedian,  as 
master  of  ceremonies,  in  the  days  when 
the  Palace  was  vaudevijie  tops.  He's  been 
in  silent  pictures,  talkies  and  movie  shorts 
and  recently  made  a  recording  for  Victor 
called  Mama — Thai  Man's  Here  Again! 
which  is  a  comedy  dialogue  between  him- 
self and  Oswald,  his  stooge.  It's  the  first 
record  of  its  kind  \'ictor  has  made  since 
the  popular  'I\un  Black  Crows,  record- 
ings of  Moran  and  Mack.  He  played 
seven  months  in  Farl  Carrol's  Sketch 
Book  and  did  the  Lee  Tracy  part  in 
Louder,  Please,  on  the  Coast.  He  writes 
a  newspaper  column  called  Ken  Murray 
Says,  which  is  syndicated  to  seventy-five 
papers  and  he'd  like  to  do  more  writing. 
And  now,  with  a  successful  radio  show 
added  to  his  other  appearances,  Ken  figures 
he's  tried  about  every  angle  of  show  busi- 
ness except  Aeolian  Hall. 

A  distraught  young  man  stuck  his  head 
in  the  door  and  said :  "They're  waiting 
for  you,  Ken." 

"Okay,"  Ken  said,  and  as  we  left  I 
asked : 

"Why  did  you  call  your  imaginary  wife 
'Florence?'" 

"Why  not?"  Ken  chuckled.  "What's 
the  matter  with  Florence?" 

And  as  far  as  I  know,  there's  nothing 
the  matter  with  her. 


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RADIO  STARS 


.  .  .  AND  THEY  CALL  HOLLYWOOD  CRAZY! 

{Continued  from  j^age  23) 


idio  program  is  just  as  much  a  show  as 
stage  production  or  a  picture.  There's 
10  much  of  the  attitude  that  only  'radio 
:ople'  understand  radio,  when  there's 
ery  Httle  basic  difference  between  the 
isential  principles  of  entertainment  on 
le  air  or  the  screen.  I've  seen  a  radio 
ramatic  director  toss  aside  a  script  that 
/as  especially  written  by  one  of  the  best 
ialogue  writers  in  Hollywood  tor  a  par- 
icular  actress,  with  the  comment :  'It  isn't 
adio.'  And  he  hadn't  even  read  the 
cript — what's  more,  the  only  qualifications 
nis  fellow  had  were  a  stock  of  temper- 
nental  tricks  that  impressed  his  agency 
mployers. 

"As  I  see  it,  good  writing  and  good 
tories  have  the  same  necessary  requisites, 
10  matter  for  what  medium  they  are  in- 
ended.  I  realize  that  radio,  like  pictures, 
las  certain  taboos.  And  that  there  are 
:ertain  requisites  to  writing  an  air  show 
:or  the  ear  that  are  different  from  writ- 
ng  a  play  or  picture  that  appeals  to  the 
;ye.  But  those  differences  are  purely  me- 
rhanical,  that  any  competent  writer  can 
earn  and  allow  for. 

"Drama,  naturally,  interests  me  most, 
since  I  am  an  actor.  And  it's  in  the  field 
Df  drama  that  radio  seems  to  fall  particu- 
larly short.  It  takes  more  than  a  stop- 
watch and  familiarity  with  studio  routine 
to  make  a  dramatic  director,  but  that's  all 


the  equipment  a  lot  of  them  have  for  the 
job.  Drama  should  be  one  of  radio's 
strongest  bets  and  the  answer  to  that  is 
the  Lux  Theatre  of  the  Air,  which  is 
among  the  most  popular  radio  programs. 
.\nd  it  is  one  of  the  most  'prolc^sional'  in 
its  handling,  from  the  ^poIlsor's  contact 
man  to  the  director." 

Montgomery  has  made  three  successful 
appearances  on  the  Lux  show,  which 
squelches  any  idea  that  his  remarks  are 
prompted  by  personal  rancor. 

"Sponsors  and  agencies  spend  fortunes 
hiring  big  'names' — and  then  give  them 
nothing  to  do.  'These  names  will  make 
them  tune  in,  is  the  attitude.  But  the 
point  is,  will  they  stay  tuned  in  when  the 
'names'  drool  through  ten  minutes  of 
puerile  material  and  incompetent  staging? 
That's  where  drama  suffers  worse  than 
musicals ;  the  public  will  listen  to  bands 
and  singers,  even  if  the  show  is  badly  put 
on.  And  they  can  always  dance  to  dance 
music.  But  the  great  success  of  the  few 
good  dramatic  shows  on  the  air  proves 
that  the  public  appreciates  real  drama." 

It's  apparent  that  Bob  Montgomery 
takes  drama  seriously.  But  there's  little 
of  the  zealot's  fire  in  what  he  says ;  he's 
not  fanatic  or  impassioned  about  it. 

"Sure,"  he  said,  when  I  mentioned  that 
his  remarks  might  let  hm  in  for  con- 
siderable criticism,  "I  realize  that  plenty 


of  people  will  >a.\  :  Wh,  these  tempera- 
mental movie  actors  !  W  hat  do  they  know 
about  radio?'  But  I  don't  consider  myself 
a  'movie  actor' — I  don't  think  anyone  is. 
I'm  an  actor — and  if  you're  a  good  actor, 
it  doesn't  matter  whether  you're  acting  on 
the  stage  or  screen  or  air." 

Montgomery  has  the  right  to  consider 
himself  an  actor.  While  his  rise  to  fame 
on  the  screen  was  sudden,  it  was  based 
upon  several  years  of  hard  work  and  ex- 
perience in  stock  companies  and  the 
Broadway  stage,  where  he  was  a  name  be- 
fore going  into  pictures.  When  he  was 
just  beginning  to  click  on  Broadway,  he 
received  a  Hollywood  offer  to  appear  in 
silent  pictures.  He  turned  down  the  offer, 
being  hesitant  to  take  a  chance  in  what  to 
him  was  an  untried  medium.  He  scored 
heavily  in  the  play  Possession  and  Metro- 
Goldwn-Mayer  offered  him  a  contract  to 
come  West  and  appear  in  the  talkie  So 
This  is  College,  with  Elliot  Nugent — and 
this  time  he  accepted,  playing  the  second 
role. 

Hollywood  has  a  way  of  ignoring  new- 
comers who  haven't  arrived  and  Bob,  who 
had  reason  to  be  proud  of  his  record  on 
the  stage,  was  a  bit  annoyed  at  the  cold 
shoulder  the  movie  town  gave  him.  He 
set  about  learning  "pictures  ;"  not  merely 
acting,  but  all  the  allied  angles  of  movie- 
making.    He    popped    up    in  monitors' 


booths,  talked  to  electricians,  sound  men 
and  cameramen,  and  accumulated  a  con- 
siderable fund  of  knowledge  about  the 
new  medium.  And  the  things  he  learned 
enabled  him  to  apply  his  knowledge  to  his 
own  performances,  with  the  result  that,  in 
a  short  time,  comments  began  to  come  in 
about  the  new  young  man  named  Alont- 
gomery. 

The  same  intelliijent  interest  he  showed 
in  pictures  is  manifest  in  his  comments  on 
radio.  \\'hether  you  agree  with  him  or  not, 
you  can't  help  realizing,  when  you  talk  to 
Bob  Montgomery,  that  what  he  says 
springs  purely  and  simply  from  an  im- 
personal appraisal.  He  is  singularly  free 
of  an.\-  conceit  or  actorish  mannerisms, 
and.  instead  of  dramatizing  himself,  he 
pokes  fun  at  himself.  The  naturalness 
that  marks  his  screen  performances  is 
even  more  marked  in  person ;  he  sprawls 
his  six  feet  over  chairs  and  sofas,  makes 
no  attempt  to  turn  on  charm  and  talks 
simple  English  in  a  pleasant  voice  with- 
out any  Oxford  accent. 

He  is  supposed  to  be  hard  to  interview, 
but  that  springs  mainly  from  the  fact  that 


RADIO  STARS 

he  feels  his  private  life  should  be  his  own. 
He'll  talk  readily  enough  about  his  work 
and  about  less  personal  things. 

"I  spend  about  twelve  hours  a  day  in  the 
studio,"  he  says,  "and  in  those  twelve 
hours  I'll  do  anything  within  reason  that 
my  job  demands;  whether  it's  acting, 
posing  for  stills  or  giving  interviews.  I 
figure  that  the  other  twelve  hours  ought 
to  be  my  own." 

He  thinks  that  anybody  who  says  he 
doesn't  enjoy  making  a  lot  of  money  is 
crazy  and  he  turns  the  greater  portion  of 
his  salary  into  a  trust  fund  for  the  years 
when  his  popularity  will  have  passed.  He 
wants  to  direct  and  write  and  he  has  sold 
several  stories,  written  under  pen  names. 
He's  very  popular  in  Hollywood  for  his 
amusing  amiability,  his  piano  playing  and 
wicked  tenor  to  Siccct  .id  el  inc.  Liking 
him  on  the  screen,  you'd  probably  like  him 
more  in  person — and  that  goes  for  men  as 
well  as  women. 

Between  pictures  he  si^ends  his  time  on 
his  farm  in  upper  New  York  State,  living 
the  simple  life.  In  Hollywood  his  home 
is   unpretentious  and  he  drives  his  own 


car.  Making  no  pose  of  intellectualityl 
Bob  has  a  keen  interest  in  current  litera- 
ture and  does  a  great  deal  of  reading.  And 
while  the  records  show  that  he  was  born 
to  comfortable  affluence,  he  came  into 
fame  the  hard  way,  after  the  family  for- 
tunes had  melted  away. 

As  I  was  about  to  leave  he  unfolded 
himself  from  the  couch  and  stood  up  to 
shake  hands.  "I  gather,"  I  observed  "that 
you  don't  care  very  much  about  the  radio." 

■'On  the  contrary,"  said  Bob,  "I  like  the 
idea  of  radio  very  much;  I'd  love  it  and 
be  glad  to  work  on  the  air.  The  only 
thing  I  want  is  the  chance  to  do  something 
besides  stand  in  front  of  a  microphone. 
There  are  good  shows  on  the  air — I've 
been  privileged  to  appear  in  some  of  them 
— and  I  justify  my  attitude  by  the  fact 
that  every  program  I've  encountered  that 
was  handled  competently  and  profession- 
ally has  been  a  show  the  public  liked  as 
well.    And  I  hope  to  be  in  more  of  them." 

So  you'll  probably  be  hearing  him ! 

(Next  Month:  Eddie  Cantor  answers 
Bob  Montgomery  in  no  uncertain  terms!) 


YOU  MUST  GIVE  UP  SOMETHING 

(Continued  from  page  49) 


Ponselle's  favorite  Songs  My  Mother 
Taught  Mc  and,  afterwards,  a  man  came 
back  and  told  her:  "Miss  Ponselle  was 
in  the  audience.  She  enjoyed  you  very 
much."  A  compliment  to  be  treasured — 
you  can  imagine  how  much  harder  Vivian 
worked  after  that. 

"Social  life  and  a  career  don't  mix," 
she  explained  simply.  "Not  at  this  stage, 
at  any  rate.  I  make  my  first  appearance 
with  the  Chicago  Opera  Company  this 
fall  and  I  am  coaching  with  Forrest 
Lamont — I've  got   to   succeed !" 

Got  to  for  the  sake  of  her  own  dreams 
and  ambitions,  got  to  for  the  sake  of  the 
parents  who  are  so  proud  of  her  already, 
and  who  started  her  on  the  way  to  her 
career  when  she  still  was  unsteady  on  her 
little  feet.  They  gave  her  every  advan- 
tage. She  was  taught  to  play  the  piano, 
the  violin,  taught  to  know  and  love  the 
best  in  music  and  never  to  be  satisfied 
until  her  own  performance  was  the  best 
she  could  give. 

But  they  were  wise  parents  as  well  as 
dreamers  and  lovers  of  music.  They  saw 
to  it  that  Vivian  led  a  normal,  simple 
life  with  her  older  sister,  that  she  went 
to  parochial  school  and  had  her  friends, 
her  simple  good  times.  They  wanted  no 
infant  prodigy.  They  were  building  for 
something  biggc-r  than  that. 

And  Vivian,  singing  day  in  and  day 
out  as  naturally  as  a  lark,  dreamed  her 
dreams,  too.  For  a  long  time  she  thought 
she  would  be  a  nun.  IJid  not  her  name 
mean  "of  the  church?"  That  should  be 
her  destiny,  then !  Her  eyes  glowed  with 
bright  visions.  But  the  wise  nuns  smiled 
tenderly.  Her  voice  was  meant  to  be  given 
to  the  world. 

"You  have  to  give  up  something  for 
everything  in  this  world,"  Vivian  echoed 
the  words  and  you  wondered  if  she  fully 
understood  the  meaning.  She  is  so  young 
and  success  has  come  so  easily.  What 
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sacrifice  has  she  made  in  the  name  of 
her  career?  Was  she  thinking,  perhaps, 
of  a  young  dark  officer  in  Italy?  Emotion 
is  part  of  the  Italian  heritage,  too... 

"I  am  very  much  Italian,"  she  admit- 
ted. "They  are  so  sincere,  so  warm-heart- 
ed, such  excited,  noisy  people !  I  love  it. 
I  am  noisy,  too,  and  I  talk  far  too  much — 
that  is  my  greatest  weakness.  Even  in 
sciiool,  the  Sisters  punished  me  for  it." 

But,  her  dreams  diverted  from  thoughts 
of  the  church,  Vivian's  eager  young  mind 
fastened  again  on  the  opera.  She  always 
was  a  hero-worshipper.  Rosa  Raissa, 
Lucrezia  Bori,  Mary  Garden,  Lawrence 
Tibbett — and  always  Rosa  Ponselle.  To 
sing  for  and  with  them  a  glorious,  im- 
probable dream  !  To  meet  any  one  of  them 
was  ecstasy. 

"Mary  Garden  has  such  an  infectious 
personality."  She  leaned  forward  eagerly. 
"And  Lawrence  Tibbett  is  so  simple,  so 
unaffected — I  wanted  so  terribly  to  meet 
him,  but  when  my  chance  came  I  was 
too  frightened  to  talk.  I  could  only  stam- 
mer and  blush  !  I  said  finally,  so  stupidly  : 
'Mr.  Tibbett,  I  enjoyed  your  singing — I 
want  to  tell  you — .'  He  laughed  and  said  : 
'Go  ahead,  I  love  it!'"  She  looked  at 
me,  her  eyes  shining.  "When  he  had 
shaken  my  hand,  I  wanted  to  wrap  it  up 
in  tissue  paper — I  couldn't  talk,  I  was  so 
thrilled." 

I  thought  how  dangerous  it  is  for  her 
to  feel  so  intensely.  To  go  about,  wide- 
eyed,  eager,  totally  unarmed.  She  will  be 
hurt,  inevitably.  But  character  can  be  made 
in  no  other  way.  And  because  she  is  una- 
fraid, meeting  life  more  than  half  way. 
she  will  learn,  if  she  has  not  already,  to 
take  the  bitter  with  the  sweet,  the  grief 
with  the  joy.  And  the  measure  of  her  suc- 
cess will  be  not  the  voice  of  a  girl  but 
the  voice  of  a  woman,  ricli  with  emotion, 
with  that  rare  understanding  that  brings 
to  a  .song  so  much  more  than  is  on  the 


written  page. 

Nothing  succeeds  like  success — and  no 
success  is  possible  without  self-assurance, 
without  pride  in  one's  work,  whatever  it 
may  be.  It  is  exciting,  at  twenty-one,  to 
find  oneself  famous,  in  demand,  earning 
much  money.  Vivian  is  barely  twenty-one 
and  she  has  every  right  to  be  proud  of 
what  she  has  accomplished  in  so  short  a 
time.  But  she  has  much  of  the  saving 
grace  of  humility  and  one  suspects  both 
the  gracious  nuns  who  taught  her,  and 
her  wise  parents,  of  being  responsible  for 
that  trait.  Honor  thy  father  and  thy 
motlier  are  not  empty  words  in  an  Italian 
family  and  Vivian  ungrudgingly  tenders 
her  parents  the  respect  and  the  devotion 
they  deserve. 

The  depression  altered  many  things  for 
the  Delia  Chiesa  family.  They  lost  their 
fine  home,  had  to  build  life  anew  in  a 
new  and  uncongenial  environment.  Here 
was  Vivian's  first  big  opportunity  to  help 
and  it  steadied  her,  made  her  realize  the 
value  of  money,  the  relative  importance 
of  success. 

But  her  heart  brimmed  with  pride  that 
she  could  help.  Her  family  needed  her 
and  she  stood  staunchly  by.  They  have  an 
apartment  now  in  Chicago  and,  with  the 
Delia  Chiesa  zest  for  living,  you  may  be 
sure  they  are  happy  there  and  not  wasting 
time  dreaming  of  the  past. 

"Temperamental?"  Vivian  repeated  my 
question.  "I  don't  think  so,  though  Mam- 
ma says  I  am !  I  have  ups  and  downs. 
But  I've  learned  not  to  be  temperamental 
in  my  work !  I  tried  it  once — I  was  annoy- 
ed and  snapped  out  what  I  thought.  But 
it  made  hard  feeling,  unpleasantness.  You 
can  do  much  more  with  honey  than  with 
vinegar!"  she  concluded  airily. 

An  ideal  man?  She  woidd  not  commit 
herself  too  far.  "Domineering,  superior — 
someone  to  look  up  to!"  And  she  added 
girlishly :  "Boys  are  scared  of  a  girl  who 


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loes  things,  a  singer — I  enjoy  thcni  more 
>vhen  they  don't  know  what  I  do.  1  like 
•ariety  in  friends.  A  radio  career  is  nar- 
ow,  you  lose  a  contact  with  the  outside 
vorld  if  you  are  not  careful,  get  absorbed 
in  your  own  rut.  I  think  one  needs  to  get 
iway  from  people  in  one's  own  line  of 
work,  to  meet  different  people.  Some- 
times," she  added  wistfully.  "I  wish  I 
were  an  office  girl,  a  clerk  in  a  store. 
They  don't  have  to  worry  about  perfecting 
this   and   that,   always   studying,  always 

orking  harder  and  harder !" 

Only  a  few  years  ago,  Vivian  was  a 
carefree  schoolgirl,  absorbed  in  roller- 
skating,  bicycling,  school  parties,  the 
movies.  But  singing  became  more  and 
more  important  and  eagerly  she  wedged 
her  vocal  studies  into  her  crowded  school 
days,  attending  the  Chicago  School  of 
Music  and  going  to  high  school  at  the 
same  time.  It  made  a  heavy  program  and, 
by  the  time  she  graduated,  she  was  on 
the  verge  of  a  breakdown.  But  she  came 
of  good  stock,  had  a  healthy,  robust  con- 
stitution. And  she  had  learned  the  lesson 
that  health  is  important,  must  be  consid- 
ered. She  struck  a  more  even  balance — 
then  found  herself  plunged  into  a  career 
for  which  she  had  not  considered  herself 
ready.  She  had  her  voice,  a  natural,  God- 
given,  glorious  voice,  with  a  wide  range. 
But  she  was  young  and  needed  more 
training.  The  answer  was  work  and  more 
work.  With  less  singleness  of  purpose, 
she  would  have  been  discouraged,  would 
have  slackened,  contented  herself  with  a 
nearer,  easier  goal.  But  she  had,  after 
all,  more  than  a  sweet  voice,  more  than  a 
casual  ambition. 

"So  many  people  with  talent  never  get 
a  chance,"  she  said  earnestly.  Her  eyes 
widened,  darkened  as  she  saw  herself 
among  that  unhappy  number. 

But  she  was  both  lucky  and  sensible 
enough  to  realize  that  success  might  slip 
away  as  easily  as  it  had  come.  Chance 
might  have  put  her  where  she  so  longed 
to  be — she  well  knew  she  would  have  to 
work  hard  to  stay  there. 

In  the  first  thrill  of  her  radio  success, 
she  went  to  the  manager  of  the  Chicago 
Opera  Company  for  an  audition.  Signor 
Longone  listened  to  the  lovely  voice  and 
was  impressed.  But  he  was  a  wise  man 
and  gave  her  wise  advice.  Perhaps  her 
singing  muscles  were  not  fully  developed. 
Perhaps  the  strenuous  demands  of  opera 
might  prove  too  much,  might  wreck  the 
promising  career.  .  .  . 

Patiently,  diligently  Vivian  practised, 
day  in  and  day  out.  She  went  on  with  her 
commercial  programs,  her  personal  ap- 
pearances, her  occasional  concerts,  but  she 
never  let  up  on  the  essential  practising. 
And,  finally,  she  went  to  Signor  Longone 
again — and  won  the  coveted  contract.  She 
will  make  her  debut  this  fall  as  Minii  in 
La  Boheme. 

She  has  her  own  program  each  Friday 
over  the  NBC  network  at  9 :30  EST.  You 
may  hear  her  Tuesdays  at  6:45  p.  m.  EST 
and  again  on  Thursdays  at  7:30 — 8:00 
p.  m.  EST  with  the  Roy  Shield  Rcvuc. 

The  wings  of  song  have  carried  her  far 
already  and  will  carry  her  much  further 
or  we  are  greatly  mistaken  in  Vivian,  in 
her  dynamic  personality,  her  glorious 
voice.  And  if  it  is  cupid's  wings  we  hear 
whirring  in  the  offing,  he  will  have  to  bide 
his  time,  be  content  to  wait  backstage.  For 
V^ivian  has  all  she  can  attend  to  right  now  I 


NO  WOMAN  WON  A  MAN'S  HEAfiT  W/TH 


No  more  cumbersoma 
machines  with  hair- 
pulling  wires. 


No  more  harsh,  harmful 
chemical  heat. 


AMAZING  NEW  FREDERICS  WIRELESS  PERMANENT 
PRODUCES  WAVES  OF  SHIMMERING  SOFTNESS 
..  .NATURAL  AS  CURLY  HAIR! 

HERE'S  news  every  woman  will  welcome! Frederics 
has  perfected  an  amazing  new  permanent — a 
Wireless  Permanent!  No  hair-pulling  wires  or  hea\^ 
electrical  gadgets  are  used.  No  insufTerablc  chemical 
heat  is  necessary.  Light,  pre-heated  aluminum 
wavers  are  put  on  to  cool  off — not  heat  up.  Quickly, 
magically,  comfortably,  your  straight  hair  is  trans- 
formed into  deep,  beautiful,  soft  waves  that  shim- 
mer with  lustre.  A  wave  so  natural — so  alluring — so 
enduring  and  so  easy  to  manage  that  you  will  really 
think  you  have  naturally  curly  hair. 

If  you  want  your  permanent  to  win  admiration — 
make  you  more  beautiful  and  always  attractive,  say 
to  your  permanent  waver:  "I  want  a  Frederics 
Vt'ireless  Permanent.  The  most  natural  and  most 
comfortable  of  all  Permanent  Waves." 


-Frederics 

VITA-TONIC^z^VITRON 

(omeiess 


E.  FREDERICS,  Inc. 
23.'^247  East  45th  St. 
New  York  City 
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liood  who  Kive  Frederics 


IM  in  my  neighbor- 
plesft  Termanents. 


Name  

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LONG  DISTANCE  LOVE 


(Co)itinucd  from  page  39) 


plays,  one  of  which  she  wrote.  She 
danced — to  the  tune  of  $30  weekly — at 
Grauman's  Egyptian  theatre  in  Hollywood 
and  one  of  her  friends  in  the  line  was 
Myrna  Ley.  There  followed  three  years 
of  one-night  stands  in  minor  theatricals, 
until  Grandfather  Scalmanini  stepped  in 
and  put  a  stop  to  such  shenanigans  by  hust- 
ling her  off  to  Europe  and  putting  her  in 
finishing  school   in   Geneva,  Switzerland. 

When  the  market  crash  came,  Benay 
retvirned  to  Hollywood  and  show  business 
t(i  earn  her  living.  She  placed  under- 
study to  the  lead  in  the  Coast  production 
of  Tip  Toes,  appeared  in  vaudeville  and 
picture  houses  and,  in  1930,  was  doing  her 
first  radio  work  at  KFRC.  San  Francisco, 
singing  and  writing  cunl inuil.\'.  At  the 
same  time  she  sang  at  the  F.niijassy  Club, 
a  San  Francisco  night  spot,  from  8:30  to 
4 :00  a.m.,  writing  her  continuity  between 
numbers.  Then  she'd  get  up  for  a  morn- 
ing program  at  8:30  a.m. 

Benay  could  take  it — Init  the  going  was 
too  tough  and  she  was  forced  to  drop  her 
radio  work  and  concentrate  on  night  clubs, 
whence  she  came  to  \\'ABC  in  Xew  York. 

"I  was  in  a  rut  at  Columbia,"  Miss 
Venuta  confesses.  "In  all  the  time  I  was 
on  the  station,  I  was  never  submitted  for 
a  commercial.  So,  in  July,  I  was  glad 
to  go  over  to  Mutual,  where  I  could  have 
a  chance  to  do  the  sort  of  thing  I  want 
to  do.  I  am  mistress  of  ceremonies,  too, 
and  I  don't  try  to  be  funny — but  I  do  like 
a  friendly,  informal  way  of  working  and 
it  seems  to  be  going  over." 

It  would,  I  think.  Benay  Venuta  has  an 
attractive  speaking  voice,  young,  vibrant 
and  alive,  with  an  almost  boyish  directness 
and  absence  of  af¥ectation.  The  radio 
audience  seems  to  like  it,  too,  for  Miss 
Venuta  gets  many  fan  letters  telling  her 
so. 

"One  of  them,"  she  says,  "ended  up  'love 
to  you,  Miss  Venuta,  and  to  the  dear 
Doctor'  .  .  ." 

There  it  was  again  I  I  sighed  resignedly 
and  with  a  gleam  of  hope  in  the  repor- 
torial  eye,  asked : 

"Uh — the  doctor — }  our  husband,  does  he 
mind  your  work?" 

Benay  chuckled.  "His  friends  have 
kidded  the  life  out  of  him  over  some  of 
the  publicity  .stories  about  us.  But  he 
takes  it  all  as  a  joke  and  I  really  think 
he's  terribly  proud  of  me." 

"Oh,"  I  muttered. 

"You  see,"  she  went  on,  "Ken  isn't 
practising  medicine— he's  working  toward 
a  psychiatry  degree  and  is  interested  prin- 
cipally in  research.  Since  he's  never  had 
to  work  for  a  living,  he  gets  a  great  kick 
out  of  my  going  out  and  making  money." 

Benay  Venuta  and  Dr.  Kelley  met  in 
San  Franci.sco,  where  the  Doctor  was 
finishing  medical  school  at  Stanford.  In 
order  to  be  near  her,  he  transferred  to 
Northwestern  U.,  when  Benay  went  to 
Chicag(j  to  work,  and  he  graduated  from 
there.  And  probably  the  oidy  reason  they 
didn't  get  married  iminediately  was  be- 
cause Dr.  KclIey  was  awaiting  a  final 
divorce  decree  from  a  youthful  and  unsuc- 
cessful marriage.     The  divorce  was  final 


last  Septeinber,  1935,  and  on  October  20tb 
they  were  married. 

"Do  you,"  I  ventured,  "think  that  your 
work  is  the  most  important  thing  in  life 
to  you?" 

"I  take  my  work  seriously,"  Benay  said. 
"It's  important  to  me  because  I  love  it ; 
I  suppose  it's  just  natural  ego — all  profes- 
sional entertainers  are  egotists,  I  guess. 
Anyway,  I'm  just  as  much  'ham'  as  any- 
one; I'd  cry  if  I  didn't  get  four  bows 
and  I  like  people  to  like  me.  That's  one 
reason  I've  been  working  so  hard  on  this 
show.  I'm  gonna  make  people  like  me !" 
Miss  Venuta,  for  all  the  light  candor  of 
her  remarks,  obviously  meant  it.  "I  never 
liked  night  club  work ;  I  hope  to  do  a 
show  that  there's  some  talk  about  putting 
on.  But  radio  is  my  favorite  and  I'd  be 
miserable  if  I  gave  it  up.  I'm  not  going 
to  give  it  up — at  least,  not  until  I  can  get 
to  the  very  top. 

"But — important?  I  said  it  was,  to  me. 
Still,  when  you  look  at  it  objectively,  what 
I'm  doing  isn't  really  important,  unless  in 
the  sense  that  entertaining  people  is  im- 
portant." 

I  said  that  I  thought  that  could  be  very 
worth  while. 

"Yes — I  suppose  it  is,  if  you  can  bring 
some  pleasure  to  people.  On  the  other 
hand,  marriage  goes  on  all  your  life — at 
least,  I  expect  mine  will — and  that's  really 
important,  to  a  woman.  Or  science — 
medicine — the  work  Ken  is  doing  .  .  ." 

And  there  it  was  again  1  Benay  is  ter- 
ribly interested  in  her  husband's  work. 
She's  interested  in  so  many  things — she 
takes  beautiful  photos  with  a  cheap  little 
camera ;  and  I  don't  mean  snapshots ;  and 
she  colors  them  herself ;  she  likes  to  paint 
furniture,  play  tennis,  knit,  and  she  has 
a  large  musical  library  which  she  is  con- 
stantly eidarging.  She  has  been  a  guest 
on  Joan  Lowell's  yacht  in  the  West  Indies 
and  hooked  a  shark,  and  another  time  the 
boat  she  was  on  was  driven  aground  on 
a  coral  reef  in  a  storm,  with  sharks  bob- 
bing hungrily  around.  Once,  cruising  the 
Mediterranean  with  a  party  of  friends, 
their  yawl  was  becalmed,  holding  Benay 
and  her  friends  without  food  or  water. 

She  likes  sport  and  tailored  clothes  and 
is  as  pleasant  to  look  at  as  to  listen  to. 
She  speaks  French  and  Italian  like  a 
native  and  has  trouble  getting  up  in  the 
morning. 

She  may — by  the  time  you  read  this — 
be  going  to  work  on  a  picture  with  Myrna 
Loy  and  William  Powell,  a  sequel  to  the 
famous  Thin  Man.  And  on  her  present 
Sunday  afternoon  show  she  has  inaugu- 
rated the  "talking  song"  idea,  which  seems 
to  be  very  popular  ...  so  much  so  that 
the  idea  lifters  have  gone  to  work  on  it. 
One  girl  actually  sang  almost  the  exact 
arrangement  Benay  used,  she  says. 

She'd  like  to  know  more  about  cameras 
and  photography,  and  she'd  like  to  study 
medicine,  being  so  interested  in  what  Ken 
is  doing  .  .  . 

"I  gather,"  I  groaned,  "that  you  are, 
then,  in  love  with  your  husband?" 

"But  definitely!"  Benay  shot  back. 

So  I  guess  that's  that. 


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RADIO  STARS 


BOARD  OF  REVIEW 

(Continued  from  l^ai/e  11) 

111.  AMERICAN  PAGEANT  OF  YOUTH  56.6 

^'BC  Sun.  12:01)   Xmii  EST 

112.  ALLEN  PRESCOTT  56.5 

XBC  r-T  11:41  A.M.  EST 

113.  THE  O'NEILLS  56.4 

XBC  M-r-U  -T-F  3:45  P.M.  EST 

114.  SUNSET  DREAMS— MORIN  SISTERS.  56.2 
XBC  Sun.   7:15   P.M.  E.'iT 

lis.  THE  HONEYMOONERS  56.0 

XBC  T-U-T  1I:jO    l  .U.  EST 

116.  NATIONAL     AMATEUR     NIGHT  — 

BENNY   RUBIN  55.7 

MBS  Sun.   f,:00   I'.M.  EST 

117.  DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  55.6 

XBC  Fri.  .1:30  P.M.  E.ST 

118.  WILDERNESS  ROAD  55.4 

CBS  .\I-T-\V-1-F  5.V5  P.M.  EST 

119.  EDWARD  MacHUGH-THE  GOSPEL 

SINGER  55.2 

XBC  M-T-W-r-F  1I:-I5  .\.M.  E.'^T 

120.  KRUGER  MUSICAL  TOAST  JERRY 
COOPER,    SALLY    SINGER,  BLOCK 
ORCHESTRA  55.1 
XBC  Mo,:.  10:.W  P.M.  EST 

121.  DR.  ALLAN  ROY  DAFOE  55.0 

CBS  M-\V-F  11:4^  A.M.  I  ST 

122.  BACKSTAGE  WIFE   55.0 

XBC  .M-T-W-T-F  11:1^  .1  U.  EST 

123.  BROADWAY  VARIETIES   52.7 

CBS  Fri.  S:00  P.M.  E.^T 

124.  PICK  AND  PAT  52.3 

CBS  Mon.  X:M)  P.M.  E.ST 

125.  MA  PERKINS  52.2 

NBC  M-T-\V-T-F  .<:!<  P.M.  EST 

126.  ECHOES  OF  NEW  YORK  TOWN  51.0 

XBC  Sun.  fi:00  P.M.  EST 

127.  RICH  MAN  S  DARLING   50.1 

CBS  M-T-IV-T-F  /-'.w-5  P..\l.  EST 

128.  BOBBY  BENSON   50.0 

CBS  M-W-F  0:15  P.M.  1:^1 

129.  HOW  TO  BE  CHARMING   49.9 

XBC  M-W-F  11:30  .A.M.  I:ST 

130.  EDGAR  GUEST  I N  WELCOME  VALLEY.49.S 
NBC  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  EST 

131.  RENFREW  OF  THE  MOUNTED.  .....  .49.4 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST,  8:15  P.M. 
PST 

132.  THE  GOOSE  CREEK  PARSON  49.2 

CBS  M-W-F  7:30  P.M.  EST.  7:45  P.M.  PST 

133.  VIC  AND  SADE  48.7 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:30  P.M.  EST.  11:30 
A.M.  EST  on  WJZ  WSYR  WLS  WHAM 
KDKA 

134.  POPEYE,  THE  SAILOR  48.6 

CBS  M-W-F  7:15  P.M.  EST 

135.  JACK  ARMSTRONG  48.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:30  P.M.  EST 

136.  SINGIN'  SAM  47.8 

NBC  Fri.  8:15  P.M.  EST,  8:30  P.M.  PST 

137.  TOM     MIX— RALSTON  STRAIGHT 

SHOOTERS  47.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:15  P.M.  EST 

138.  MODERN  ROMANCES  46.8 

NBC  Wed.  2:00  P.M.  EST 

139.  LITTLE  ORPHAN  ANNIE  46.7 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:45  P.M.  EST 


WHAT  THEY 
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(Continued  from  page  17) 


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SANTA! 

HELP  M€ 
fIGHT  OFF 
GERMS 


ROBERT  TAYLOR,  BEWARE! 


(Co)itinucd  jroiit  page  41) 


Gi 


ive  me 


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It  contains  the  oil  and  powde 
that  are  antiseptic 

"Mummy — please  tell  Santa  to  come  across 
with  a  Mennen  Gift  Box  this  Christmas — 
'cause  it  sure  will  help  protect  my  skin 
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highlights  and  shadows,  every  facet  of  his 
character.  You  see  that  in  his  characteri- 
zations on  the  radio  and  on  the  screen.  It 
is,  in  fact,  what  makes  so  real  and  moving 
his  portrayal  of  the  varied  roles  he  plays. 
You  see  it  even  at  rehearsal  where,  in  an 
instant,  at  a  single  cue,  he  loses  himself  in 
the  part  he  is  seeking  to  interpret. 

He  has  to  have  this  understanding  of  the 
character  he  represents  before  he  can  read 
the  lines,  but  his  insight  is  swift  and  un- 
'  erring  and,  given  that  fundamental,  intui- 
tive analysis  of  the  role,  his  reading  of  the 
lines  is  masterly.  Six  years  on  NBC  pro- 
grams have  been  excellent  training ! 

It  was  while  he  was  in  school  that  his 
interest   in   dramatics   was   first  aroused. 
.\nd  when  he  was  still  wavering  between 
ISIackstone  and  Thespis,     weighing  the 
,  world  of  make-believe  against  the  hard 
j  matter-of-factness  of  the  law,  he  had  his 
j  first  opportunity  in  stock.  The  manager  of 
the  local  company,  deprived  of  his  leading 
man  by  an  ill-timed  automobile  accident, 
sent  an  SOS  to  Don,  whom  he  had  seen 
in  school  performances. 

It  was  as  easy  as  that !  All  Don  had  to 
do  was  cut  classes,  learn  the  part  and  ap- 
pear on  the  stage  that  same  afternoon ! 
But  if  it  was  luck  that  singled  him  out,  it 
was  something  more  than  that  which 
carried  him  through.  Don  had  what  it 
takes.  He  played  the  part — beautifully. 
And  won  a  twenty-week  contract  on  the 
strength  of  his  performance.  Thus  Don, 
half  Irish  and  half  Italian,  began  his  ro- 
mantic career,  with  the  luck  of  the  Irish 
and  the  dark  looks  of  his  Italian  heritage 
to  speed  him  on  his  way. 

It  was  Bernardine  Flynn,  of  Vic  and 
Sade,  who  introduced  him  to  radio.  They 
had  known  each  other  in  college  and,  in 
her  own  deep  liking  for  the  work  which 
seemed  to  have  solved  her  own  personal 
problems  so  pleasantly,  she  thought  it 
would  be  an  excellent  field  for  the  talented 
Don.  Bernardine  was  right.  Since  the  early 
days  of  Betty  and  Boh.  with  Don  in  the 
title  role,  his  popularity  has  increased 
steadily.  As  leading  man  in  the  First 
Nighter  dramas  and  Grand  Hotel,  Don  has 
become  high  favorite  with  radio  fans. 

And  it  speaks  well  for  the  kind  of  chap 
he  is  that  he  has  always  been  hi^li  favorite 
with  the  other  memi)ers  of  Ins  company, 
too.  I  have  met  a  number  ol  them  and,  one 
and  all,  they  sing  Don's  praises,  on  the 
slightest  provocation.  "He's  grand — he's  so 
real  and  so  sincere  and  so  unassuming — 
he's  wonderful  to  work  with."  They  all 
boil  down  to  that  and,  as  purely  sponta- 
neous expressions  of  opinion,  they're  pretty 
nice,  aren't  they? 

From  favorite  of  the  air  lanes  to  movie 
triumphs  was  an  inevitable  step  for  one 
with  Don's  good  looks.  \ii<l  like  his  two 
years  in  stock  and  \aTKle\  ille  and  the  six  in 
radio,  Don  looks  upon  his  latest  adventures 
with  delightful  lack  of  conceit. 

"I  suppose  I  always  wanted  tfi  be  in  the 
movies,"  he  adnn'tted,  "the  way  anyone  in 
this  sort  of  work  <li)cs.  They  have  a  ro- 
mantic appeal,  a  glamour — and  so  when  I 
had  a  chance  to  make  a  test  about  a  year 
ago,  I  was  thrilled.  But  the  test  wasn't 


good."  He  said  it  quite  matter-of-factly. 

I  must  have  looked  sceptical,  for  he  ex- 
plained earnestly :  "No,  really — I  saw  it 
myself  and  it  wasn't  any  good.  But  after  I 
had  gone  back  to  Chicago,  an  agent  saw  it 
and  thought  it  had  possibilities.  He  got 
some  movie  people  interested  in  looking  at 
it  and  they  saw  something  in  it,  too.  The 
next  thing  I  knew,  I  was  on  the  way  to  the 
Coast  to  make  a  picture,  with  the  under- 
standing that  if  it  was  any  good,  they'd 
give  me  a  contract  within  thirty  days." 

While  Don  was  in  the  throes  of  this  first 
picture,  the  First  Nighter  series  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Coast,  the  entire  company,  in- 
cluding Betty  Lou  Gerson  as  leading  lady, 
deserting  Chicago  for  the  time  being.  Now 
that  Don  is  established  in  Hollywood,  it  is 
being  broadcast,  with  a  new  cast,  from  the 
local  NBC  station  and  is  known  now  as 
the  Little  Theatre  on  Hollyzvood  Boule- 
vard instead  of  the  Little  Theatre  Off 
Times  Square. 

For  the  first  picture — Sins  of  Man  with 
Jean  Hersholt — ivas  good.  So  good  that 
Don  was  immediately  cast  in  Ramona,  and 
Ladies  in  Love  and  One  in  a  Million  fol- 
lowed in  swift  succession. 

So  now  Don  serves  two  masters  and 
serves  them  very  well,  indeed.  He  is  re- 
luctant to  say  which  he  likes  better,  but 
the  scales  weigh  perhaps  a  little  heavier 
for  the  newer  world  of  the  movies,  which 
accepted  him  so  readily  and  made  him 
feel  immediately  at  home. 

"I  was  never  frightened,  nervous."  Don 
dismissed  the  idea  with  a  laugh.  "They're 
such  grand  people  to  work  with.  They're 
big.  Maybe  it's  because  they've  arrived,  be- 
cause they  don't  need  to  worry  about  their 
own  positions,  I  don't  know.  But  anyway, 
they  seem  so  real  and  sincere  and  friendly 
— I  love  working  with  them.  And  there 
doesn't  seem  to  be  the  pressure,  the  driv- 
ing urge  to  lead,  to  dominate,  that  you  find 
in  other  fields.  Of  course,  if  one  actor 
outplays  another,  that's  different.  But  there 
is  no  mean  rivalry." 

And  Don  said  that,  if  you  please,  just 
after  finishing  his  part  in  Ladies  in  Love 
with  those  four  lovely  firebrands,  Con- 
stance Bennett,  Janet  Gaynor,  Loretta 
Young  and  Simone  Simon  ! 

At  my  exclamation  of  surprise,  he 
grinned.  "I  know — everyone  expected  fire- 
works. I  think  even  the  director  was  sur- 
prised. But  it  didn't  seem  in  any  way 
forced  or  unnatural.  They  were  just  them- 
selves— not  cold  or  too  polite,  but  warm 
and  friendly.  They  are  four  lovely  girls. 
Janet  Gaynor  (Don's  scenes  are  with  her) 
is  just  grand  to  work  with!" 

And  it  seems  the  movie  folk  feel  the 
same  way  alxmt  Dun.  He  likes  people.  He 
meets  them  easily.  He  is  just  himself 
and  they  like  him  for  it.  And  before  the 
cameras,  as  in  front  of  the  microphone,  his 
work  reflects  that  sincerity,  that  simplicity. 

For  the  most  part,  Don  has  had  to  meet 
his  movie  public  in  disguise.  Even  the  ap- 
pealing part  of  Alcssaudro  in  Ramona, 
with  Loretta  Young,  did  not  reveal  the  real 
Don.  So  he  is  particularly  pleased  with  his 
role  in  One  in  a  Million,  with  Sonja 
Henie,  which  is  a  straight  dramatic  part. 


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But  with  all  this  constant  association 
with  the  lovely  ladies  of  radio  and  screen 
— what  about  that  romance  we  spoke  of? 

"W'e  have  been  married  four  years  this 
November,  Honore  and  I,"  he  explained 
with  his  quiet  smile.  "And  we  have  two 
boys,  Donald  Junior,  who  is  three  and 
Ronny,  who  is  ten  riionths  .  .  .'' 

He  is  very  inarticulate  when  it  comes  to 
describing  his  wife,  his  marriage,  but  it  is 
a  bright  and  shining  fact  that  theirs  is  one 
of  the  happiest  marriages  in  Hollywood. 
Honore  is  a  quiet,  home-loving  girl.  She 
majored  in  dietetics,  and  manages  her 
home  and  her  babies  efficiently.  And  in  her 
chosen  career  she  is  as  outstandingly  suc- 
cessful as  Don  is  in  his.  For  there  is  no 
slightest  hint  of  jealousy  in  her  make-up 
and  she  brings  to  her  marriage  a  sweet 
sincerity,  a  forthrightness  that  is  rare  in 
moviedom.  Don  and  her  babies  and  her 
home  are  her  pride  and  joy. 

"There  isn't  any  reason  in  the  world 
why  a  marriage  shouldn't  be  as  successful 
in  Hollywood  as  anywhere  else,"  Don  pro- 
tested earnestly.  "As  a  matter  of  fact,  we 
live  the  same  sort  of  life  here  that  we 
did  in  Chicago. 

"There's  so  little  to  say  about  it,"  he 
went  on  in  response  to  my  query.  "We 
have  a  little  place — a  ranch,  they'd  call  it 
out  here — with  a  swimming  pool.  We 
don't  do  anything — we  swim,  of  course, 
we  play  cards.  We  haven't  many  friends, 
just  a  small  group  that  we  see  often.  Now 
and  then  we  go  out,  to  dine,  to  dance,  or 
go  to  the  park  and  try  out  the  concessions 
— "  he  shrugged.  "You  see  how  it  is — 
there's  just  nothing  to  say  about  it!" 

Except  this — that  it  is  sane  and  normal 
and  entirely  delightful  and  very  admirable 
in  these  hectic  days  of  out-doing  the 
Joneses  1  And  it  is  grand  to  meet  young 
people  with  such  a  clear  and  steady  out- 
look on  life.  The  Don  Ameches  have  a 
sense  of  values.  Some  part  of  his  not  in- 
considerable wages  is  put  by  each  week, 
for  annuities  and  insurance.  The  rest  goes 
for  household  expenditures,  on  a  reason- 
able scale,  for  clothes  and  simple  pleasures. 

And  both  have  a  sense  of  humor.  They 
love  to  joke,  to  rib  each  other,  get  a  kick 
out  of  pretended  squabbles  in  public — get 
a  kick  out  of  it  because  they  never  quarrel, 
really,  because  they  understand  each  other 
so  well.  Honore  calls  for  him  at  the  studio 
after  broadcasts,  she  sits  quietly  on  the  set 
where  he  is  playing.  And  her  gaze  is 
steady,  serene  when  she  meets  him.  There 
is  no  question  in  her  eyes,  no  fear.  He 
may  have  just  come  from  a  tender  love 
scene  with  some  other  pretty  girl,  but 
Honore  isn't  worried.  Don  is  the  matinee 
idol  type — but  don't  forget,  she  knows  the 
real  Don. 

She  knows  that  if  ever  anything,  anyone, 
came  between  them,  she'd  hear  about  it 
first  from  Don  himself,  not  from  some 
scandal-monger,  some  gossip-sheet.  And 
she  rests  secure  in  the  deeper  knowledge 
that  there  is  no  hint  of  the  philanderer  in 
Don.  He  is  the  same  boy  that  he  was  ten 
years  ago,  simple,  steadfast,  sincere.  If  it 
was  luck  that  placed  him  beneath  the  white 
glare  of  the  Klieg  lights,  it  is  something 
more  than  luck  that  keeps  him  there.  She 
knows  the  white  glare  of  publicity  will  not 
turn  his  head,  that  fame  and  success  will 
not  break  up  their  home.  For  the  funda- 
mental tenets  of  his  life,  his  character,  as 
of  hers,  are  love  and  loyalty,  honesty  and 
devotion. 


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really  is  a  much  better  comedian  than  his 
past  two  seasons  on  the  air  indicated.  He 
had  to  write  his  scripts  two  weeks  in  ad- 
vance, so  they  could  be  sent  down  south 
to  his  sponsors  for  approval.  Once  the 
approval  was  stamped  on,  Walter  couldn't 
change  so  much  as  a  comma,  no  matter 
what  new  things  suggested  themselves  in 
rehearsal.  Most  comedy  shows  take  on  a 
good  deal  of  extra  zip  in  the  reliearsal 
rewritings. 

Anyway,  the  new  O'Keefe  show  has 
been  lively  and  in  tune  with  this  season's 
style  of  keeping  the  microphone  in  the 
audience  part  of  the  time.  It  also  estab- 
lishes a  custom  of  paying  people  for  being 
members  of  a  studio  audience,  and  who 
says  that's  not  a  good  idea? 

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In  the  studio,  ii'hcii  Fannie  Brice  came 
back  to  the  air  Wednesday  evcninijs,  re- 
cently, was  a  veteran  radio  prrss-aijenl .  He 
had  been  there  on  the  night,  a  decade  ago, 
ivhen  Fannie  made  her  very  first  radio 
appearance.  As  they  talked  about  it,  she 
recalled  hoiv  neri'ous  the  thing  made  her. 

"Vou  didn't  seem  nerz'ous,"  he  said.  "I 
remember  the  microphone  icas  set  too  loii.' 
for  you  and  in  the  middle  of  your  bit  you 
kicked  off  your  high-heeled  shoes,  zMch 
brought  you  doi.'u  to  just  tlie  right  height. 
I  thought  that  certainly  showed  compo- 
sure." 

"Composure!"  and  Fannie  laughed.  "My 
dogs  z^'cre  aching." 

Thursday  Night  Studios:  In  the  Rudy 
Vallee  studio  you'll  find  an  air  of  digni- 
fied, theatrical  polish.  Rudy  presides  with 
the  quiet  sincerity  of  an  earnest  class 
president  and  guest  stars  make  entrances 
from  the  wings  or  rear  of  the  stage,  tak- 
ing bows  professionally  before  starting  at 
the  microphone  .  .  .  Slipping  over  to 
Show  Boat,  in  an  adjoining  studio,  there's 
a  program  conducted  in  a  scene  of  wild 
confusion,  a  stage  full  of  what  seems  to 
be  bedlam.  People  dash  out  from  the 
control-room  with  hurried  messages  and 
dash  back  again.  Actors  sit  in  a  bank  of 
chairs  on  one  side  and  singers  on  the 
other,  with  constant  movement  back  and 
forth  to  microphone  for  brief  bits.  Ap- 
plause signs  are  waved  wildly  .  .  .  Out  in 
Hollywood,  Bing  Crosby's  hour  has  the 
most  casual  light-heartedness  imaginable. 
No  one  dresses  formally.  Bing  usually 
comes  around  in  slacks  and  sweater,  and 
so  do  most  of  the  others.  Bob  Burns 
dolls  all  up,  though,  fancy  waistcoat  and 
everything  .  .  . 

If  you  could  get  over  to  Columbia's 
Thursday  evening  shows  at  the  same  hour, 
in  the  Kate  Smith  studio,  you'd  run  into 
an  atmosphere  of  grim  earnestness,  amaz- 
ingly in  contrast  to  the  smooth  ease  of 
the  show.  Kate  is  a  formidable  lady  at 
the  mike,  casting  quick,  anxious  glances 
here  and  there  to  make  sure  everything  is 
running  properly.  She  does  have  play- 
ful moments,  though.  The  other  night, 
right  in  the  midst  of  a  song,  /  Want  to 
Lead  a  Band,  she  prankishly  snatched  the 
baton  from  her  leader's  hand  and  con- 
ducted the  rest  of  the  song  herself. 


Many  a  singer  has  an  actor  to  read 
spoken  lines  for  him,  but  this  one  tops 
that  business.  NBC's  news  commentator, 
Gilbert  Seldes,  has  been  having  an  actor 
read  his  comments  on  world  affairs.  Still 
better,  the  actor  chosen  to  simulate  the 
Seldes  voice  is  Bill  Adams,  much  of 
whose  fame  rests  on  his  perfect  radio 
imitation  of  the  voice  of  President  Roose- 
velt. 

Hard  to  explain  ivhy  girl  singers  have 
such  a  fragile  hold  on  radio  popularity, 
isn't  it?  Missing  from  the  air  this  season 
arc  such  ladies  as  Jane  Froman,  Annette 
Hanshaw,  Ethel  Shutta,  Mildred  Bailey 
and  Connie  Boswell,  mentioning  just  a 
feii'.  And  only  last  season,  or  the  season 
before,  all  of  them  ivere  at  the  peak  of 
radio  success. 

Strange,  too,  how  quickly  Benny  Fields 
faded  from  the  radio  picture.  After  his 
long  and  prosperous  theatrical  career  had 
declined  to  a  point  where  he  was  ac- 
tually dependent  on  friends  for  the  rent, 
he  suddenly  zoomed  back  last  season  to 
new  stardom  in  Chicago  and  Broadway 
night  clubs  and  was  featured  soloist  in 
the  radio  version  of  Z.iegfeld's  Follies.  A 
summer  in  Hollywood  and  he  returned 
to  New  York  radio  to  find  no  takers  this 
fall.  Just  a  few  sustaining  shows  to  fin- 
ish out  an  old  contract  with  Columbia. 
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Blustering,  hearty,  bad-tempered,  beam- 
ingly amiable,  in  quick  succession,  Paul 
Whiteman  always  is  lively  company  at 
work  or  play.  After  a  program,  the  other 
night,  he  came  storming  into  the  control- 
room  for  the  regular  Sunday  night  con- 
ference. Immediately  he  started  again, 
with  the  remark:  "Wait  here  a  minute. 
I  didn't  call  my  ivife  to  see  hoiv  the  pro- 
gram ivas." 

At  the  control-room  door,  he  stopped 
and  grinned  sheepishly.  "You  know,  I  just 
had  a  big  fight  with  the  sponsor  because 
he  brought  up  his  wife's  opinion  of  our 
show.  And  I  can  never  wait  to  get  to  the 
phone  to  see  what  my  own  ball  and  chain 
thinks  of  it !" 

Eddie  Cantor  is  one  man  ivho  never  has 
trouble  with  the  sponsor — at  least,  not  the 
kind  where  he  loses  the  argument.  When 
differences  arise,  Eddie  tells  them  plenty, 
so  much  plenty  an  opponent  gets  little  to 
say.  At  one  period  of  his  radio  career, 
Eddie  ivas  ivorkiug  for  radio's  most  for- 
midable sponsor.  In  this  story,  ive'll  call 
him  Mr.  Zinn,  because,  frankly,  Ed  be 
afraid  to  have  him  catch  me  taking  his 
real  name  lightly.  Everyone  in  the  radio 
business  stands  in  aive  of  him — except  this 
Cantor. 

Mr.  Zinn  once  contemplated  doing  a  ra- 
dio program  zvith  Helen  Hayes  and  was 
complaining  to  Eddie  about  the  high  sal- 
ary. "She  wants  $2,500  a  zveek,"  he  ob- 
jected. "There  isn't  a  ivoman  in  the 
world  w'orth  that  much  money." 

"Listen,"  said  Eddie  with  an  air  of 
settling  things,  "she's  ivorth  that  and  Ell 
tell  you  why.  We  could  zvalk  through  this 
office  building  and  in  a  feiv  floors  Ed  find 


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headliners,  the  Savoy-Plaza 
has  earned  this  preference 
through  its  atmosphere  of 
warm  hospitality,  its  superb 
cuisine,  and  its  cheerful  service. 
Overlooking  Central  Park,  the 
Savoy- Plaza  is  close  to  CBS 
and  NBC  studios  and  to  the 
finest  shops  and  theatres  .  .  , 
The  Cafe  Lounge  and  Snack 
Bar  at  Cocktail  Hour  and  after 
the  theatre  is  the  meeting 
place  of  smart  New  Yorkers 
and  visitors  who  come  to  dance 
and  be  amused  by  the  season's 
outstanding  entertainers... 
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you  a  do:cn  Zinns.  But  m  the  'ultole 
blacc,  I  couldn't  find  you  a  siiiiile  Helen 
Hayes.  Tliat's  icIiy  she's  zcoitli  that  much 
money." 

Did  you  get  this  odd  note  in  the  return 
of  Ed  Wynn  and  Jack  Pearl  to  radio  this 
month?  In  their  radio  heydeys,  a  couple 
of  years  back,  Ed  and  Jack  were  the 
leading  rivals  for  that  dunce  cap  repre- 
senting top  honors  in  radio  comedy.  Now 
they  return  to  work  for  two  leading  rivals 
in  the  medicated  cigarette  field. 

Radio  certainly  hasn't  picked  up  the 
Hollywood  and  Broadway  tradition  of 
brief  marriages  and  frequent  divorces. 
There  are  a  few,  but  strikingly  in  the 
minority.  .A.s  a  sample  of  how  well  mar- 
riage goes  in  radio,  there  are  those  Paul 
Whitemans  mentioned  a  few  paragraphs 
back. 

People  who  run  across  Fred  Allen  and 
Portland  in  a  restaurant  always  come  away 
remarking  about  the  rapt  attention  her 
husband  of  some  nine  years  still  gets  and 
the  way  her  laughter  rings  out  at  nearly 
everything  he  says.  Jane  Froman  has  se- 
riously interfered  with  her  own  radio 
career,  rather  than  be  separated  from  Don 
Ross  when  his  picture,  radio  and  stage 
singing  takes  him  afield. 

Jane  and  Goodman  {Easy  Aces)  Ace  are 
inseparable  at  race  tracks  or  of  an  eve- 
ning over  racing  form  sheets.  Friends  of 
Jack  Benny  catch  him  and  Mary  slipping 
shamelessly  into  baby  talk  at  odd  moments. 
Phil  Baker  looks  obviously  disappointed  if 
you  don't  make  at  least  a  little  fuss  over 
his  wife.  Lanny  Ross  had  a  story-book 
sort  of  romance  that  ended  in  marriage  to 
Olive  White,  the  charming  and  attractive 
girl  who  as  press-agent  and  manager  had 
guided  him  to  success.  These  are  typical 
radio  couples,  taken  at  random. 

Goldie  and  Dusty,  once  radio's  most 
popular  singing  team  as  the  Gold  Dust 
Twins,  dropped  in  on  their  old  friends  and 
felloiv  pioneers,  Billy  Jones  and  Ernie 
Hare,  at  one  of  the  Columbia  Sunday  ez  e- 
ning  community  sings.  It  icaj  surprising 
to  hear  they  were  still  together  after  all 
these  years.  Their  radio  career  as  great 
stars  ivas  inez-itably  brief.  With  fame 
resting  on  the  name.  Gold  Dust  Twins, 
naturally  no  other  commercial  sponsor 
could  use  them  to  advertise  his  product. 

As  the  engineers  were  lounging  between 
broadcasts,  one  of  them  was  telling  about 
his  two  favorite  ladies,  whose  broadcasts 
he  handled. 

"Helen  Hayes,"  he  was  saying,  "is  as 
sweet  a  little  person  as  you'd  find. 
Never  much  to  say,  though.  Not  that 
she's  uppish.  She'll  usually  be  sitting  by 
herself,  very  quiet,  and  looks  up  a  little 
startled  when  someone  speaks  to  her,  as 
though  she  was  thinking  of  something 
else.  And  the  little  meanings  she  can  get 
into  a  line  as  she  reads  it — it's  wonderful! 

"Now  Ireene  Wicker  is  a  different  type," 
he  went  on,  "always  bright  and  lively. 
Hard  worker,  too.  She  writes  all  her 
Singing  Lady  scripts  herself  and  even 
does  a  good  part  of  the  work  on  the 
music  and  arrangements.  She  doesn't  do 
the  arranging  herself,  but  she  picks  some 
of  the  tunes  and  indicates  exactly  what 
she  wants  in  the  other  spots.  A  very 
clever  little  girl,  very  clever." 

—ARTHUR  MASOX 


RADIO  STARS 


With  Soft  LUSTROUS  HAIR 


THE  TRUTH  ABOUT 
SOAP  SHAMPOOS 


1.  Miciophoto  show 
halt  shampooed  with 
ordinory  soap  and 
rinsed  twice.  Note 
dandruff  and  curd  de- 
posit left  by  soap  to 
mar  natural  luste«  of 
the  hair. 

!.  Miciophoto  after 
Fitch  Shampoo  and 
hair  rinsed  twice. 
Note  Fitch  Shampoo 
removes  all  dandruff 
and  undissolved  de- 
posit, and  brings  out 
the  natural  luster  oi 
•he  hair 


FIteh  Shampoo 

FITCH'S 

DANDRUFF  REMOVER  SHAMPOO 


Every  woman  longs  to  have  exquisitely 
soft,  alluring  hair,  so  lovely  that  men  turn 
their  heads  in  admiration  and  other  women 
sigh  with  envy. 

To  bring  out  the  natural  silken  texture  and 
gleaming  highlights  of  your  hair,  use 
Fitch's  Dandruff  Remover  Shampoo  regu- 
larly each  week.  Fitch  Shampoo  does  not 
leave  a  single  trace  of  undissolved  de- 
posit to  dim  the  natural  luster  of  your  soft, 
glossy  hair.  As  good  for  blondes  as  bru- 
nettes. It  rinses  out  instantly  and  removes 
all  dandruff,  dirt  and  foreign  matter  with 
the  very  first  application.  Fitch's  is  the 
only  shampoo  guaranteed  100%  soluble 
in  hard  or  soft  water. 


>lfter  and  between  F/tcfi  Sfiompoos,  Fiteh'j  Ideal 
Hair  Tonic  is  the  ideal  preparofion  to  ii'imataie 
the  hair  roots  ond  give  new  life,  luster  and 
beauty  to  your  hair. 


THE  F.  W.  FITCH  CO.,  DES  MOINES,  IOWA  TORONTO.  CAN. 


Win  a  Week's  Vocation 
ot  the  Miomi-Biltmore 


A  week  of  Miami  magic  .  .  .  that's  what  is  in  store 
for  two  first  prize  winners  ...  a  week  crowded  with 
recreation  and  fun  that  will  run  the  gamut  of  glorious 
resort  lite.  With  the  Eastern  Air  Lines  in  the  role  of  the 
magic  carpet,  you  will  be  whisked  away  to  this  Land 
oi  Flowers.  Don't  miss  reading  the  details  of  this  ex- 
citing contest  based  on  ttie  Samuel  Goldwyn  picture, 
"Come  and  Gel  it!"  See  page  32  in  the  January  issue 
of  Screen  Romances  Magazine. 

KNOW    ALL    THE    HITS!  READ 

SCREEN  ROMANCES 

JANUARY  NOW  ON  SALE 


RADIO  STARS 


KEEP  YOUNG  AND  BEAUTIFUL 


(Coiitiinicd  from  l^agc  9) 


that  we  call  it  "rhythm"  instead  of  system. 
The  radio  and  swing  bands  have  popular- 
ized rhythm  as  it  never  has  been  popu- 
larized before.  But  rli>thni  can  be  ex- 
pressed in  lite,  as  well  as  iiuisic.  It  can 
mean  easy,  gracious,  planned  living. 

Get  rhythm  into  your  five-week  plan  for 
beauty.  Have  a  certain  nightly  cleansing 
and  bath  routine  and  a  daily  make-up  and 
exercise  routine  that  will  be  carried  on 
like  rhythmic  clockwork.  Have  certain  ap- 
pointed days  or  nights  of  the  week  for 
loiiking  after  your  other  important  6eauty 
rites — shampoos,  manicures,  deodorant  ap- 
plications and  so  on. 

There  is  an  excellent  new  deodorant 
on  the  market  now  that  is  very  much 
like  a  fragrant  vanishing  cream.  It  is  as 
fragrant  as  your  favorite  beauty  cream, 
and  as  easy  to  apply.  You  simply  pat  it 
on  and  it  disappears  almost  instantly.  And 
the  amazing  thing  abou;  it  is  that  it  is  a 
non-perspirant,  as  well  as  a  deodorant. 

Remember,  too,  that  even  though  you 
are  not  making  appearances  at  the  beach 
this  nippy  weather,  nevertheless  you  are 
wearing  sheer  chiffon  hose,  wiiicli  makes  it 
imperative  that  the  superfluous  hair  prob- 
lem be  treated  in  the  regular  weekly  rou- 
tine, winter  or  summer. 

It  doesn't  matter  what  hour  of  the  day 
out  of  tlie  twenty- four  yon  ha\e  your  bath. 
Get  rhythm  with  vour  bath  brush.  A  bath 


doesn't  mean  just  lolling  around — soaking. 
Don't  forget  that  your  skin  is  an  organ 
of  respiration.  It  needs  to  breathe,  and  it 
can't  breathe  with  dead  skin  cells  and  for- 
eign impurities  choking  up  the  pores. 
Work  up  a  good  circulation  with  your  bath 
brush  (or  a  rough  bath  mit)  and  soap 
and  water.  Scrub  until  your  skin  is  pink. 
The  roughness  of  the  skin  and  the  funny 
little  bimips  we  call  goose  pimples  should 
disappear  with  a  regular  bath  brush  treat- 
ment. (I  know  of  an  excellent  bath  brush 
— not  too  expensive  and  not  too  stiff.)  To 
make  the  treatment  doubly  effective,  mas- 
sage with  olive  oil  or  muscle  oil  first,  and 
then  get  to  work  with  the  bath  brush,  el- 
bow grease,  and  soap  and  water.  More 
than  half  our  skin  problems  are  due  to 
poor  circulation. 

After  a  thorough  cleansing  and  circula- 
tion treatment,  you  are  ready  to  relax. 
There  are  all  sorts  of  bath  aids  to  make 
your  bath  an  aid  to  the  spirit,  as  well  as 
to  the  flesh.  First  in  importance  is  a  good 
fragrant  water  softener,  for  hard  water 
can  do  harsh  things  to  the  skin.  Then 
there  are  bath  oils  and  bath  salts — what- 
ever and  whichever  you  like  best.  There 
is.  incidentally,  a  nice  pine-fragrant  bath 
oil  that  is  perfect  for  this,  or  any,  season 
of  the  year. 

Remember  the  old  song,  "I'm  forever 
blowing  bubbles,  pretty  bubbles  in  the  air?" 


There  is  a  brand  new  product  that  has  you 
singing  that  song  right  in  the  bathtub.  The 
product  has  the  utilitarian  use  of  banishing 
the  ring  around  the  tub,  but  its  most  de- 
lightful and  amusing  use  is  its  wholesale 
bubble  production.  Honestly,  it  produces 
literally  a  million  bubbles — a  fragrant,  soft, 
airy  blanket  of  bubbles.  You  just  pour 
the  contents  of  one  of  the  little  individual 
cellophane  packages  in  which  it  comes, 
right  near  the  closed  drain  plug.  Then  you 
turn  on  the  hot  and  cold  water  full  pres- 
sure, and  before  you  know  it  you  are  cov- 
ered with  a  blanket  of  bubbles. 

Don't  you  think  the  bubbles  package  idea 
a  grand  one  to  stick  in  the  toe  of  every 
child's  Christmas  stocking? 

Note  for  your  shopping  list — a  grand 
Christmas  gift  for  that  difficult  friend 
you've  been  puzzling  over  is  a  bath 
set  in  "neptune"  green  in  a  unique  color- 
ful jeweled  case,  complete  with  dusting 
powder,  bath  salts,  and  Eau  de  Cologne. 
Decorative  and  different ! 

Of  course  you  will  want  to  finish  your 
own  bath  with  a  lavish,  airy  sprinkling  of 
fragrant  smooth  dusting  powder  or  talc. 
And  don't  forget,  especially  this  harsh 
weather,  that  thorough  vigorous  drying 
with  with  a  huge  turkish  towel  is  a  very 
important  after-bath  essential.  If  your  skin 
is  inclined  to  be  dry,  a  quick  massage  with 
a  creamy  skin  lotion  (with  special  atten- 


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RADIO  STARS 


tion  to  knees  and  elbows)  will  be  a  desir- 
able after-bath  cocktail.  One  of  your 
favorite  hand  and  skin  lotions  is  now  put 
out  with  a  special  dispenser  gadget,  which 
is  almost  as  good  as  liaving  a  mechanical 
hand  to  measure  out  the  lotion  for  you. 
You  simply  press  in  the  plunger,  and  out 
flows  the  lotion  ...  in  just  the  right 
amount  you  need. 

It's  a  smart  idea  to  have  one  certain  day 
out  of  the  week  when  you  can  arrange  to 
have  an  extra  hour  or  so  to  devote  to 
beauty.  Five  hours  out  of  five  weeks  will 
accomplish  a  lot.  There  are  all  sorts  of 
helpful  rites  to  include  in  your  hour  of 
beauty.  Give  yourself  a  musical  scalp 
massage  (turn  on  the  radio),  and  brush 
your  hair  at  least  ten  minutes  in  the  sun- 
shine. Give  yourself  a  manicure  and  a 
pedicure  (cuticle  remover  is  excellent  for 
callouses,  too),  and  paint  your  toe-nails  a 
wicked  red.  If  your  fingernails  are  brittle, 
soak  your  nails  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour 
warm  oil.  A  manicuring  house  is  now 
offering  a  long-needed  reconditioning  oil 
for  brittle  nails.  (If  your  nails  are  very 
brittle,  you  should  give  them  an  oil  bath 
every  night — or  at  least,  several  times  a 
week.)  Let  the  oil  stay  on,  and  wear  a 
pair  of  old  cotton  gloves  for  the  rest  of 
your  morning  or  afternoon  work,  so  that 
the  oil  can  work  in,  too.  Better  give  your 
hands  a  rich  cold  cream  massage  before 
you  put  on  the  gloves,  so  that  oil  and 
cream  can  work  together.  Talk  about 
getting  things  organized  and  planned  for 
you !  A  very  smart  manicuring  concern 
has  put  on  the  market  a  complete  set  of 
hand  cream,  brittle  nail  cream,  and  gloves 


— a  complete  beauty  treatment  for  your 
hands  at  a  special,  low  price. 

And  now  to  get  right  down  to  the  busi- 
ness of  a  five-week  plan  of  corrective  treat- 
ments. There  are  (igure.  complexion,  and 
hair  problems  that  haven't  been  taken  into 
consideration  in  our  five-week  plan,  and 
because  they  call  for  such  detailed  in- 
formation, I  am  going  to  leave  it  up  to 
you  to  start  your  five-week  plan  by  writ- 
ing in  for  the  special  corrective  treatment 
bulletins  that  I  have  for  you.  Five  weeks 
should  show  a  lot  of  good  results  in  the 
way  of  corrective  w-ork. 

If  you  are  overweight,  send  in  for  my 
special  ll^ife  Sai-iiig  Diet,  and  follow 
it  for  five  weeks,  which  should  mean  a  loss 
of  from  eight  to  ten  pounds,  other  condi- 
tions— especially  of  exercise — favorable. 
You  will  need  my  exercise  bulletin  to  go 
along  with  the  diet,  so  that  you  won't  get 
flabby,  and  so  that  you  can  concentrate  on 
needed  spot-reducing,  too.  If  you  are  under- 
weight, I  have  a  Program  for  Gaiiiiiu/ 
for  you  to  follow  out  for  five  weeks,  and 
when  you  see  (and  feel)  the  good  results, 
I  hope  you  will  follow  it  for  another  five 
weeks,  and  another,  if  necessary.  You  will 
need  exercises,  too,  to  build  you  up,  as  your 
underweight  sister  needs  them  to  slim  her 
down.  Of  course  it  is  understood  that  all 
underweight  and  overweight  conditions  call 
for  "seeing  your  doctor"  first.  You  can't 
work  out  any  kind  of  a  beauty  plan  if  you 
have  physical  maladjustments  which  must 
be  taken  care  of  first. 

If  you  have  oily  skin,  cut  out  all  rich, 
greasy  foods ;  cut  out  the  use  of  all  beauty 
creams  for  the  time  being  (not  to  apply 


oil  on  oil),  and  concentrate  on  plenty  of 
soap  and  water  and  complexion  brush 
cleansings ;  and  send  in  for  my  bulletin  on 
Complexion  Loveliness,  and  the  name 
of  the  corrective  powder  to  use  for  your 
make-up.  If  you  have  dry  skin,  drink 
plenty  of  water ;  use  a  lot  of  oil  in  your 
salad  dressings ;  use  plenty  of  cleansing 
creams  and  protective  creams  (especially 
the  latter  this  nippy  weather),  but  don't 
neglect  soap  and  water  cleansing,  too; 
and  send  in  for  my  bulletin  on  Complexion 
Loveli.iess.  Treatments  for  both  oily  skin 
and  dry  skin  are  worked  out  in  detail  in 
the  bulletin.  And  do  you  need  the  Care 
of  the  Hair  treatment  for  advice  on  oily 
hair,  dry  hair  or  dandruff?  Just  send  a 
stamped  addressed  envelope  for  each  two 
bulletins  you  want.  Personal  questions  are 
always  gladly  answered. 

Best  wishes  for  a  Merry  Christmas  and 
a  Happy  New  Year — on  a  twelve-month 
plan !  And  here's  my  special  Christmas 
offer  for  you.  (Just  pin  the  coupon  to  the 
piece  of  paper  on  which  you  have  jotted 
down  your  hve-week-plan  bulletin  re- 
quests.) 


Mary  BIddle 

RADIO  STARS 

149  Madison  Avenue, 

New  York  City.  New  York 

Please  send  me  the  booklet  "\Vin- 
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DON'T  let'^underfed''  blood 

KEEP  yoUR  ENERGY  LOW 


Many  of  us  slow  down  dur- 
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down feeling  your  blood  is 
"underfed."  Itdoesn'tcarry 
enough  food  to  your  tissues. 

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Yeast  supplies  your  blood 
with  essential  vitamins  and 


other  food  elements.  As  a 
result,  your  blood  carries 
more  and  better  food  to 
your  muscles  and  nerves. 

Eat  3  cakes  of  Fleisch- 
mann's Yeast  daily— one 
cake  about  hour  before 
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functions  of  your 
blood  stream  is  to 
carry  nourishment 
from  your  food  to  the 
muscle  and  nerve  tis- 
sues of  your  entire 
body. 

When  you  find  you 
get  overtired  at  the 
least  extra  effort,  it 
is  usually  a  sign  that 
your  blood  is  not  sup- 
plied with  enough 
food.  What  you  need 
is  something  to  help 
your  blood  get  more 
nourishment  from 
your  food. 


RADIO  STARS 


D  on't  let  chest  colds  or  croupy  coughs  go 
untreated.  Rub  Children's  Musterole  on 
child's  throat  and  chest  at  once.  This  milder 
form  of  regular  Musterole  penetrates, 
warms,  and  stimulates  local  circulation. 
Floods  the  bronchial  tubes  with  its  soothing, 
relieving  vapors.  Musterole  brings  relief 
naturally  because  it's  a  "counter-irritant" 
—NOT  just  a  salve.  Recommended  by  many 
doctors  and  nurses.  Three  kinds:  Regular 
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DRESS  TO  YOUR  HEIGHT 

{Continued  from  page  7) 


me,  since  I  wear  a  large  headsize. 

"Clothes  this  fall  are  just  made  for 
tall  girls — we  are  fortunate  because  broad 
shoulders  and  tunic  st\les  are  very  flatter- 
ing. I  love  broad  shoulders  and  would 
like  to  look  rather  athletic  but  iny  husband 
likes  me  to  look  willowy  and  feminine." 

Alice  said  that  she  even  carries  her 
love  of  tailored  simplicity  into  her  formal 
cIoiIk's.  This  is  c|uilc  evident  in  the  cos- 
tunics  shdwii  ill  ihc  pii'tures.  For  instance, 
there's  the  icc-t;ia\-  satin  evening  gown 
which  is  designed  with  a  graceful  full 
skirt  and  a  bodice  gathered  in  front — the 
unusual  pin,  caught  in  a  tie  of  the  satin, 
being  the  only  trimming  detail.  This 
gown  is  girdled  with  a  sash  of  the  satin, 
tied  in  a  bow  at  one  side.  Over  this  gown 
Alice  wears  one  of  two  \cl\et  wraps.  The 
nne  pictured  is  soft  deep  gray  transparent 
velvet  which  has  a  self  collar  and  with 
the  sleeve  fullness  achieved  by  means  of 
cartridge  pleats  laid  in  just  above  the 
elbow.  The  other  wrap  is  of  wine  red 
velvet  with  a  collar  which  can  be  con- 
verted into  a  hood  on  chilly  nights.  Both 
are  stunning  with  the  pale  gray  gown — 
gray  is  a  color  which  Alice  loves  to  wear 
and  finds  very  becoming  to  her  coloring. 

Her  love  of  nice  lines  in  skirts  and 
shoulders  is  apparent  in  the  fuchsia  red 
taffeta  dress  in  which  she  is  pictured. 
The  wide  tafifeta  skirt  laps  over,  but  when 
she  sits  or  dances,  the  bright  green  petti- 
coat beneath  appears  just  enough  to  give 
a   very   efTective   contrast.     These  wide 


lapels  are  wired  and  the  tiny  collar  at 
back  has  stiffening  to  keep  it  in  place. 

She  never  wears  a  deep  front  decolletage 
but  likes  her  dresses  cut  low  at  back.  She 
wears  little  jewelry — mostly  rings  and 
especially  her  old-fashioned  wrought  sil- 
ver wedding  band  and  an  antique  silver 
ring  set  with  garnets.  The  good  looking . 
evening  bag  was  a  present  from  Wal- 
ter O'Keefe  with  whom  she  has  broadcast. 

Speaking  of  colors  she  said:  "I  hardly 
ever  wear  pastels  as  I  do  not  care  for 
them  on  me."  (This  is  unusual  coming 
from  a  blonde,  for  usually  blondes  feel 
they  must  wear  pastels  to  accent  their 
fragile  colorings.)  "White  and  gray  are. 
about  the  only  light  shades  I  wear,"  she 
continued.  "In  summer  I  occasionally 
wear  dusty  pink.  And  I  like  deep  shades, 
like  a  Dubonnet  red,  also  that  deep  purple 
blue,  and  black  and  brown.  I  think  I  can 
w-ear  vivid  and  deep  shades  because  my 
brows  and  lashes  are  naturally  dark  and 
my  skin  is  more  yellow  than  that  of  the 
average  blonde. 

"When  I  w-as  in  high  school,  I  was 
crazy  about  black — I  still  wear  it." 

When  she  had  come  in  from  the  street 
she  was  wearing  a  black  wool  tailored 
dress,  the  wool  had  a  fine  all  over  pat- 
terning in  the  weave.  It  was  very 
simply  styled  with  a  brief  pleated  flounce 
around  the  hemline.  A  wine  red  velvet 
scarf  was  tucked  into  the  neck  line.  With 
this  she  wore  a  black  felt  ofif-the-face  hat. 
(Continued  on  page  68) 


NOTHING  RUT  THE  TRUTH? 


(Continued  from  page  53) 


never  gets  a  complete  sense  of  satisfaction 
because  the  story  does  not  come  to  a  satis- 
fying resolution  until  the  very  end." 

Rosemarie  Brancato:  "/  nnisl  confess 
iny  preference  for  programs  Xi'hich  are 
complete  in  theinscli'cs  and  not  part  of  a 
serial  or  continued  story." 

Tim  Ryan:  "I  think  they  are  a  very 
necessary  part  of  radio.  Serials,  if  good, 
make  for  splendid  variety." 

Vaughn  De  Lealh:  "I  detest  a  serial 
broadcast.  My  life  is  too  involved  and 
too  complicated  to  be  able  to  sit  at  one 
period  from  day  to  day  and  hear  a  story 
continued  from  yesterday.  They  may  be 
suited  to  housewives  and  shut-ins,  but  I  do 
feel  that  there  are  too  many  sketches  of 
this  type  on  the  air  today  to  please  the 
average  person." 

Curtis  Ariiall  :  "They  seem  to  he  most 
popular  icilh  radio  audiences.  Therefore, 
my  altitude  is  fa^'orable." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "'What  w-ill  happen  to 
poor  Joe  Zilch  tomorrow — and  Mamie, 
will  she  recover?  Be  sure  to  listen  in, 
etc'   I  admit  it.   I  love  'eml" 


Ray  Heatherton:  "I  believe  they  are  un- 
fair to  the  dialers.  People  become  irri- 
tated and  feel  that  they  are  being  played 
with  when  they  become  engrossed  in  a 
vital  situation  and  are  suddenly  told  to 
'hold  everything'  until  next  week." 

Abe  Lyman :  "Okay,  if  you  have  time 
to  listen  to  the  entire  serial.  But  most 
people  haven't  enough  time." 

Ann  Leaf:  "I  don't  approve  of  them 
unless  each  program  is  compact  and  self- 
sufficient.  If  the  listener  is  forced  to  miss 
one  or  two  sequences,  the  thread  of  the 
story — and  the  audience— has  been  lost." 

Ted  Malone:  "They  could  be  an  ideal 
form  of  entertainment — but  if  you  are  re- 
ferring to  the  present  catch-as-catch-can, 
meaningless,  pointless,  drivel  that  makes 
up  most  of  the  continued  stories  filling  a 
half  dozen  quarter-hours  of  every  day,  I 
think  they  are  a  blot  on  radio  and  an 
insult  to  the  intelligence  of  the  audience." 

Loretta  Lee:  "/  believe  they're  sivell. 
They  create  a  sustained  interest  that's  help- 
ful to  radio.  When  people  tune  in  on 
daily  serial  programs,  the  chances  are 
they'll  continue  to  listen  to  other  programs." 


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RADIO  STARS 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 

{Coiiliiiiicil  jroiii  t^iii/i-  13) 


in  yovir  kitchen  files  and  this  article  on 
your  library  table  to  refer  to,  you  siiould 
have  the  grandest  Christmas  dinner  ever— 

Those  of  you  who  saw  my  Thanksgiv- 
ing Menu  last  month  will  notice  that  these 
two  meals  are  considerably  (lilTcrcni  from 
each  other.  And  that's  what  1  lliiiik  tiiey 
should  be!  Yes,  I  know  lots  of  piople  be- 
lieve that  the  two  occasions— Christmas 
and  Thanksgiving — call  for  almost  identi- 
cal foods.  But  I  think  that's  monotonous 
and  sort  of  a  confession  of  laziness  or 
lack  of  imagination.  You  can  have  turkey 
for  both  meals,  of  course,  if  you  insist, 
but  I'm  recommending  changing  that. 

I  start  off  the  meal  with  soup :  but  not 
too  much  of  it,  for  you  don't  want  to  spoil 
people's  appetites.  Serve  the  soup  in  a  cup, 
and  spoon  a  little  lightly  whipped  cream 
on  top.  Sprinkle  the  cream  w-ith  both  pap- 
rika and  finely  chopped  parsley  for  a 
Christmasy  red  and  green  color  scheme. 

Use  your  favorite  Chestnut  Stuffing  in 
the  capon,  or  use  the  Turkey  Stuffing  I 
gave  you  last  month.  Some  people  like 
roast  duck  or  goose  for  a  change. 

The  potatoes  should  be  browned  in  the 
pan  with  the  bird — whatever  bird  you  de- 
cide on  having.  After  peeling,  parboil 
potatoes  a  few  minutes  before  putting 
them  in  the  pan,  so  that  they  will  be  sure 
to  be  tender  inside  as  well  as  brown  out- 
side. 

The  squash  should  be  baked  right  in  its 
shell.  Just  cut  it  in  half  (or  in  smaller 
individual-size  pieces,  if  you  prefer)  and 
remove  seeds  and  spongy  parts.  Place 
pieces  in  a  greased  baking  dish,  skin  side 
down,  and  bake  in  a  moderate  oven  until 
soft.  (About  40  minutes.)  Sometimes  I 
put  a  thin  slice  of  bacon  on  each  piece, 
just  a  little  while  before  the  squash  is 
done.  But  my  pet  idea  is  to  bake  the  squash 
with  a  little  pat  of  butter  and  some  maple- 
flavored  syrup  in  each  cup-like  depression. 
Gives  it  a  flavor  you'll  love. 

String  beans  don't  need  any  particular 
mention  except  to  say  that  I  slice  them 
very  thin  with  my  electric  slicer.  I'm  about 
the  inost  gadget-minded  person  you  ever 
heard  tell  of.  I  have  'em  all — slicers,  shred- 
ders, pea  shellers,  ice  crushers  and  the  rest. 

I  like  a  thick,  spicy  applesauce  served 
with  capon — especially  when  the  cran- 
berries that  usually  accompany  the  main 
course  are  to  be  used  as  a  salad  instead. 
And  what  a  salad  that  is,  the  one  on  my 
menu !  Cranberries  are  combined  with 
oranges  and  pineapple  in  a  red  gelatin 
base!  It's  neither  too  hard  to  make  nor 
too  rich  to  eat  for  this  special  occasion, 
or  for  any  other  time  when  you  want  to 
make  a  real  impression  as  a  cook. 

And  now  we've  come  to  the  dessert 
course.  Usually  we  have  Plum  Pudding  at 
home.  But  this  year  I'm  going  to  try  some- 
thing a  little  different — that  Steamed  I'Vuit 
Pudding  that  I've  already  mentioned.  I 
just  saw  the  recipe  for  it  the  other  day, 
myself,  so  I  suppose  it  will  be  as  new  to 
you  as  it  was  to  me.  I  had  my  cook  try  it 
out  for  me  as  I  haven't  much  time  these 
days  for  cooking  experiments  and  when  I 
do  find  a  few  free  moments  to  get  down 


from  the  Huiuluaijoii  and  fix  up  a  meal 
myself,  I  generally  stick  to  the  old  stand- 
bys.  But  you  know  how  it  is,  you  can  see 
at  a  glance  that  you're  going  to  like  a 
recipe  and  that's  how  I  felt  about  this 
one.  And  I  sure  wasn't  mistaken  this  time, 
so  I'm  all  prepared  to  give  my  family 
something  new  in  sweets.  But  they'll  get 
the  same  Hard  Sauce  and  Southern  Sauce 
that  we've  always  served  with  other  steam- 
ed puddings,  for  they  can't  be  beat ! 
Whichever  pudding  you  decide  on  having, 
be  sure  to  try  these  sauces  with  it.  Recipes 
for  both  are  in  the  leaflet. 

The  dessert  course  should  be  followed 
by — or  accompanied  by — cofTee,  And  mints 
and  fudge  should  be  on  hand  to  eat  both 
then  and  later  on  in  the  afternoon  or 
evening.  My  favorite  fudge  has  both 
marshmallows  and  nuts  in  it.  Can't  eat 
much  of  anything  as  rich  as  this  after 
such  a  dinner,  of  course.  But  there  always 
are  people  dropping  in  later  on,  and 
just  you  wait  till  you  see  what  an  appetite 
they  can  raise  for  home-made  fudge ! 

It's  also  wise  to  have  other  refreshments 
handy — an  extra  pot  of  cofTee  ready  to  be 
brewed,  a  jug  of  ice-cold  sweet  cider  in 
the  refrigerator  and  some  of  my  Spicy 
Cup  Cakes  in  the  cake  box.  These  last 
have  nuts  and  raisins  in  them — and  spices, 
of  course.  Sometimes  I  top  each  little  cake 
with  a  marshmallow,  on  which  I  "paint"  a 
comical  little  snowmannish  face  with 
melted  chocolate.  Then  I  stick  a  tin\-  can- 
dle into  each  mar.shmallow  and  light  them. 

Well,  that  brings  us  to  the  end  of  our 
day — speaking  from  the  standpoint  of 
cooking.  But  before  I  get  back  to  rehears- 
als for  next  Thursday's  broadcast,  let  me 
remind  you  that  Christmas  is  a  day  of 
giving  as  well  as  receiving.  So  won't  you 
give  some  of  your  time,  folks,  to  provide 
greater  happiness  for  others  less  fortu- 
nate? I'm  thinking  especially  of  the  boys  in 
the  hospitals — "Our  Boys"  still— many  of 
them  spending  their  eighteenth  Christmas 
away  from  home  surroundings  and  family 
joys.  Can't  you  do  your  bit,  friends  and 
listeners,  in  bringing  "i)eace  on  earth  and 
good  will'  to  these  men? 

This  is  Kate  Smith  signing  oft' — until 
Thursday  night  on  the  air  and  next  month 
in  these  columns.  Thanks  for  listenin' — 
and  again.  Merry  Christmas  to  all. 


KATE  SMITH 

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149  Madison  Ave.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 

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CHICAGO.  ILL. 


.Another  black  costume,  and  one  she 
uses  for  various  purposes  because  it  can 
be  either  an  evening  gown  or  a  dinner 
dress,  is  a  black  velvet  gown  with  a  long- 
sleeved  jacket  to  be  worn  over  it  for  less 
formal  demands.  This  jacket  has  a  very 
high  neck  at  front,  circled  with  white  silk 
flowers,  and  buttons  all  the  way  down  the 
back  with  square  crystal  buttons.  A  crys- 
tal and  rhinestone  buckle  finishes  the  belt. 

"My  pet  extravagance  is  shoes,"  she 
said.  "I  buy  them  all  the  time."  And 
.\lice  does  not  think  tall  girls  have  to 
wear  low  heels.    In  fact,  she  never  does. 

By  the  way,  so  many  of  you  write  to 
me  about  what  fabrics  you  can  use  for 
your  more  formal  shoes.  Alice  had  a  slick 
idea  for  her  black  evening  sandals.  She 
bought  deep  black  suede  ones  to  wear 
with  her  black  velvet  evening  dress  and 
they  also  double  for  afternoon  dresses 
because  at  a  distance  you  can't  tell  whether 
or  not  they  are  velvet  or  suede.  It's  a 
way  to  economize  on  dress  shoes  because 
strictly  formal  velvet  shoes  could  only  be 
worn  for  the  one  occasion. 

Alice  has  no  patience  with  tall  girls 
who  think  that,  because  of  their  height, 
they  must  feel  awkward.  She  thinks 
every  tall  girl  can  dress  to  look  stunning 
and  that  they  are  especially  lucky  in  be- 
ing able  to  wear  almost  any  style  of  dress. 

.\nd  she  is  a  perfect  example  to  copy 
because  she  moves  with  a  free,  easy  step, 
lier  whole  appearance  being  both  smart 
and  graceful. 

Kay  Thompson,  whose  voice  is  heard 
with  her  Rhythm  Singers  on  the  Chester- 
field program  Friday  nights,  actually  is 
not  a  very  tall  girl  but  she  gives  that 
impression.     Of  herself,  she  says: 

"I  know  that  I  give  the  impression  of 
being  tall,  so  I  avoid  stripes  especially. 
When  I  have  my  shoes  on,  with  their 
igher  heels,  I  am  about  five  feet  six 
and  one-half  or  seven  inches.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  the  clothes  I  like  best  of  all 
are  very  simple,  with  good  lines  and  in 
plain,  solid  colors. 

"The  black  and  white  combination  is 
my  favorite;  it  seems  to  me  to  sum  up 
all  the  things  I  like  about  clothes- — it's 
simple  but  sophisticated;  smart  but  not 
screaming,  and  striking  but  not  silly."  (Pic- 
tured is  the  black  velvet  and  sequins 
gown,  part  of  a  dinner  suit.  The  jacket 
is  tunic  length  and  flared.) 

"Blue  is  another  of  my  favorite  colors 
and  one  which  becomes  me  because  of  my 
blonde  hair  and  light  coloring.  Pinks  and 
oranges  and  lavenders  are  simply  color 
poison  to  m?."  (This  is  interesting  when 
compared  with  our  other  blonde,  Alice 
l-'rost.  Alice  said  quite  emphatically  that 
^he  avoided  most  shades  of  blue,  felt  that 
It  was  too  obvious  with  her  coloring.  This 
is  where  each  one  of  you  has  to  make 
vour  own  very  definite  decisions  about 
what  becomes  you  as  an  individual.) 

"The  most  essential  items  of  my  ward- 
robe are  sweaters  and  skirts,"  Kay  con- 
tinued. "They're  so  comfortable— and  for 
a  girl  who  works  as  hard  as  I  do,  com- 
fort is  an  important  consideration. 
Sweaters  and  skirts,  if  bought  with  some 


thought,  lend  themselves  to  combinations 
that  are  fun  and  very  attractive,  too. 

"Combined  with  this  preference  for 
sweaters  and  skirts,  my  passion  for  dress- 
ing up  sounds  contradictory.  But  I  love 
to  dress  up,  and,  if  I  could,  I  would  dress 
for  dinner  every  night.  It's  not  really 
contradictory  because  it  means  that  I  be- 
lieve in  dressing  for  the  occasion.  When 
I  work,  I  like  practical,  comfortable  things 
— when  I  play,  I  like  to  be  gay. 

"I  get  lots  of  opportunity  to  dress  up 
professionally,  as  you  know,  on  my  radio 
shows.  It's  absolutely  necessary  for  a 
radio  singer  to  be  just  as  meticulous  about 
her  appearance  on  the  stage  as  it  is  for 
a  stage  star.  More  so,  really.  Because 
stage  people  do  not  have  to  dress  for  an 
audience  that  is  likely  to   repeat  itself. 

"You  have  no  idea  how  particular  the 
radio  audiences  are !  I  used  to  have  a 
pair  of  blue  satin  shoes  with  little  rhine- 
stones  in  a  row  up  the  instep. 

"The  first  night  I  wore  them,  it  hap- 
pened that  one  of  my  girls  had  laryngitis 
and  couldn't  sing.  She  went  to  the  show 
and  sat  in  the  balcony.  One  of  the  re- 
marks she  reported  back  to  me  came  from 
a  woman  who  sat  next  to  her,  and  who 
said:  'Just  look  at  those  terrible  shoes!' 

"For  years  I  used  to  believe  what  sales- 
people and  friends  told  me  about  the  kind 
of  hats  I  should  wear.  They  all  insisted 
that,  because  my  features  were  not  on 
the  dainty  side,  I  must  always  wear  those 
conservative  felts — you  know,  the  kind 
with  brims  way  down  to  the  bridge  of 
your  nose.  But  now  I've  rebelled.  And 
I  buy  hats  that  are  very  extreme.  They 
have  unusual  lines  and  I  wear  them  at  out- 
landish angles.  My  appearance  in  one  of 
these  hats  is  a  constant  source  of  fright 
to  my  friends ;  sometimes  they  even 
frighten  me !" 

One  of  these  very  hats  is  a  tiny  velvet 
skull  cap  which  she  wears  way  back  on 
her  head  so  that  the  huge  rose  that  trims 
it  at  front,  sits  up  on  top  of  her  head.  A 
wide  veil  flares  out  over  her  face — it  isn't 
the  least  bit  frightening,  it's  flattering. 

And  as  a  parting  admonition  Kay 
Thompson  said  she  has  two  musts  in 
clothes.  "Be  sure  you  wear  just  the 
clothes  that  suit  you — and  then  get  some 
fun  out  of  choosing  and  wearing  them !" 

Write  in  and  tell  me  about  your  clothes 
problems ;  I  will  be  glad  to  help  you.  Also 
don't  fail  to  send  for  my  January  Shop- 
ping Bulletin — it  has  invaluable  tips  for 
each  of  you.  I  like  to  hear  from  you  and 
like  even  better  to  help  you ! 


Elizabeth  Ellis, 
RADIO  STARS, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Enclosed,  please  find  a  stamped,  self- 
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MY  FAVORITE  AGE 

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enough  to  pick  me  for  their  gold  medal 
that  season  as  a  result  of  the  film.  The 
name  of  it  had  been  changed  to  The  Sin 
of  Madelon  Clandet." 

Helen  Hayes  saj's  that  the  age  to  which 
she  looks  forward  most  is  fifty.  "Whether 
I  will  prefer  it  to  eighteen,  when  I  get 
there,  remains  to  be  seen,"  Miss  Hayes 
said  reflectively.  "Beside  my  Bamhi 
broadcasts  on  Monday  nights,  I  am  now 
appearing  in  Victoria  Rcgina  on  the  stage, 
you  know.  I  am  Victoria  from  the  time 
she's  eighteen  until  she  reaches  the  mag- 
nificent old  age  of  ninety-four.  It  seems 
to  me,  as  I  go  through  the  years  every 
night,  that  fifty  must  have  been  a  most 
satisfying  age  to  the  beloved  British 
Queen.  The  philosophers  tell  us  that  at 
the  half-century  mark,  we  are  in  the  prime 
of  life.  Certainly  we  are  at  the  height  of 
our  intellectual  powers.  At  the  same  time 
we  develop  a  certain  smooth  mellowness. 
We  can  forget — well,  if  not  forget,  at 
least  not  worry  so  much — about  our  daily 
troubles.  We  can  enjoy  repose.  To  be 
sure,  at  fifty,  it  is  too  late  to  start  over 
again.  On  the  other  hand,  we  can  get  tre- 
mendous satisfaction  out  of  such  things  as 
we  might  have  accomplished  and  partici- 
pated in — our  work,  our  families,  seeing 
our  children  grow  up  and,  most  of  all,  feel- 
ing that,  even  in  a  minute  way,  we  have 
tried  to  do  something  to  make  the  world  a 
better  place  to  live  in.  If  all  these  hopes 
come  true  at  fifty,  it  would  be  very  difficult 
for  me  to  choose  between  that  age  and 
eighteen.  But  as  it  is,  I'll  still  say  that 
eighteen  is  my  favorite  age." 


Thirty-five  is  aiiother  Helen's  favorite 
age — Helen  Jepson.  "Yes,  I  choose  thirty- 
five  as  my  favorite  age,  although  I'm 
only  thirty  now,"  the  platinum-haired 
prima  donna  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
and  feminine  star  of  Show  Boat,  told 
me.  "The  reason  I  say  that,  is  that  I 
believe  that  in  five  years  from  now  my 
career  will  be  at  its  highest  peak,"  Miss 
Jepson  mused.  "Then,  I  have  always 
thought  that  a  woman  is  most  charming 
at  thirty-five.  And  five  years  from  now, 
I  hope  to  have  surrounded  myself  with 
the  people  I  really  want  around  me — 
great  people,  gifted  people.  Then,  too,  my 
little  girl,  Sallie  Patricia,  will  be  older. 
She's  only  four  now  and  when  I'm  thirty- 
five,  Sallie  will  be  more  of  a  companion," 
said  the  beautiful,  brown-eyed  opera 
singer,  who  is  married  to  the  renowned 
flutist,  George  Possell.  "Another  reason 
thirty-five  is  my  favorite  age  is  that  my 
husband  says  women  are  most  beautiful  at 
that  time,"  gorgeous  Helen  Jepson  de- 
clared laughingly.  "Really,  though,  I 
think  a  woman  is  abcjut  as  perfect  as  she'll 
ever  be  at  thirty-five,  in  poise  and  charm 
and  beauty  and  professional  ability.  So 
thirty-five  is  my  favorite  age. 

"Of  course,  I  did  enjoy  otiier  ages," 
said  the  girl  born  in  Pennsylvania,  who 
sang  in  an  Ohio  church  choir  and  got  the 
money  for  her  musical  education  by  sing- 
ing at  a  benefit.  "I  had  a  good  time  at 
seventeen,  when  I  sold  corsets  in  an  Akron 


department  store!  I  adored  life  at  thir- 
teen when  I  sang  in  the  choir.  Twenty- 
five  seemed  a  fine  age,  because  I  first 
entered  radio  then.  Many  years  have 
been  good  to  me,  but  I  expect  thirty-five 
to  exceed  them  all." 

*       *  * 

"I'll  have  to  say  that  I  choose  the 
years  between  twelve  and  sixteen  as  my 
favorite  age,"  limpid-eyed,  golden-haired 
Jessica  Dragonettc  declared.  "Those 
years  really  are  the  bridge  between  child- 
hood and  adolescence,  nature's  preparation 
for  the  life  to  come.  In  those  years,  the 
world  seemed  an  ideal  place  to  me,"  the  girl 
born  in  the  Orient  explained.  "The 
dreams  you  have  at  that  time  really  mould 
your  future.  And  your  dreams  can  be  big 
because  you  haven't  yet  been  forced  to 
compromise  with  the  material  world  and 
its  difficulties.  I  spent  those  years  in  a 
perfect  way,  at  the  convent  in  Lakewood 
(Georgian  Court,  you  know,)  studying 
music  with  Sister  Beatrice  and  planning 
my  future  as  a  singer.  Those  years  were 
full  of  expectancy,  full  of  poetry,  full  of 
the  charm  that  period  of  life  can  produce. 
I  think  that  the  years  between  twelve  and 
sixteen  have  a  great  mystic  significance, 
in  that  they  are  the  spiritual  preparation 
for  all  that  is  to  come.  In  a  way,  I  can 
liken  that  period  to  the  time  in  a  knight's 
career,  in  the  days  of  chivalry,  when  he 
had  to  become  a  page.  Being  a  page  was 
a  preparation  for  his  knighthood.  Yes. 
the  years  between  twelve  and  sixteen  are 
my  favorite  age  because  only  the  best  will 
satisfy  then  and  obstacles  don't  exist,"  said 
ethereal  Jessica  Dragonette. 


Strangely  enough,  the  only  radio  celeb- 
rity who  declared  that  her  present  age 
was  her  favorite,  was  that  lady  of  the  big 
heart  and  avoirdupois — I  mean  Kate 
Smith.  "My  favorite  age  is  twenty-seven. 
That's  the  age  I  am  now."  Kate  declared, 
as  she  sat  ne.xt  to  me  in  a  flowered  silk 
dress  and  chatted  between  nunihers  at  the 
rehearsal  of '  her  Tluirsdax-  night  broad- 
cast. "Of  course,  I  don't  know  what's  in 
store  for  me  in  the  future,  l)ut  I'm  happier 
now  than  I've  ever  been  before  in  niy  life. 
I  have  the  kind  of  show  I  want.  I  have 
the  people  that  I  want  with  me.  Then 
my  present  age  is  my  favorite  age  because, 
I'm  able  to  bring  additional  happiness  to 
people  this  year,"  said  Kate — and  she 
really  means  it !  "That's  something  I've 
always  been  ambitious  to  do.  You  know, 
three  people  are  nominated  for  hcvdisni  on 
our  programs  each  week,"  Kale  explained 
to  me.  "Their  dee<ls  are  presented  to 
the  radio  audience  in  dramatic  form,  as 
you  probably  know.  Then  we  leave  it  to 
that  audience  to  vote  on  the  most  heroic 
deed.  The  following  week  I  give  a  $500 
check  to  the  winner  and  two  checks  of 
$100  each  to  the  other  two  heroes  or 
heroines.  Then  three  more  people  are 
noniinafe^l  for  next  week.  I  cannot  tell 
you  how  happy  it  makes  me  to  be  able  to 
do  this,"  Kate  said.  "This  alone  would 
make  twenty-seven  my  favorite  age." 

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to  be  near  the  place  where  Bette  was  sleep- 
ing. That  kind  of  thing  always  aroused 
Bette's  romanticism.  She  wasn't  ever  in 
love  with  this  boy.  For  a  little  time  she 
thought  she  was,  because  he  was  so  in 
love  with  her.  But  she  is  right  when  she 
says  that  she  never  really  loved  anyone 
but  Harmon." 

"If  a  girl  is  married,"  Bette  went  on, 
"I'd  advise  her  to  be — her  husband's  ivifr. 
I  don't  care  what  she  is  or  what  she  does, 
whether  she  is  a  movie  star,  a  radio  star, 
an  authoress,  a  business  executive,  what- 
ever— she  must  be  her  husband's  wife  first 
of  all.  Or  romance  goes  down  to  defeat. 
You  can't  upset  the  apple-cart  of  Nature 
and  the  way  Nature  meant  man  and  wo- 
man to  be,  and  expect  her  to  keep  her 
banners  flying." 

And  I  know  that  Bette's  life  was  as 
good  as  her  word.  The  little  modest 
brown-shingled,  vine-covered  house  on  a 
quiet  street  in  Hollywood,  secluded  by  a 
white  picket  fence,  the  path  leading  to  the 
front  door  bordered  with  petunias,  gera- 
niums potted  in  the  windows — it  is  a  little 
bit  of  old  New  England,  this  house.  In- 
side there  are  lamps  with  painted  china 
shades  and  old  mahogany  card  tables  and 
an  old-fashioned  couch  with  an  afghan 
and  low  shelves  of  books,  Emerson  and 
Lowell  and  dog-eared  Alcotts  and  pots  of 
trailing  ivy ;  a  snug,  comfy  clutter  which 
spells  home.  I  have  never  before  seen  a 
movie  star  living  in  such  a  house.  And 
in  this  modest,  most  un-Hollywoodish 
home,  Harmon  Nelson  is  the  lord  and  the 
master.  In  this  house  Bette  Davis  is  Mrs. 
Harmon  Nelson.  When  you  call  the  house 
on  the  phone,  the  colored  man  servant  says  : 
"This  is  the  Nelson  residence."  And  if 
you  say :  "May  I  speak  with  Miss  Davis, 
please?"  the  voice  answers:  "I'll  call  Mrs. 
Nelson,  madam." 

At  the  picket  gate  of  that  little  house 
Bette  Davis  drops  her  screen,  her  radio, 
her  careerist  personality.  No  one  ever 
enters  there  for  business  purposes.  Not 
ever.  Ham's  friends  are  there  often,  if 
not  more  often  than  Bette's.  It  is  the 
home  of  Bette  and  Harmon  Nelson.  It 
is  tight  and  secure  against  the  waves  of 
ether,  the  pervasive  odors  of  greasepaint. 
Firelight,  not  limelight,  warms  it. 

Bette  said:  "Not  that  Ham  and  I  don't 
talk  business.  We  do,  of  course.  I  am 
intensely  interested  in  Ham's  band.  I  love 
to  hear  him  sing  and  play.  I  used  to  go 
down  to  the  Cinegrill,  when  he  was  play- 
ing there,  a  couple  of  times  a  week.  I 
\\r)uld  have  gone  oftener  except  that  I 
'licln't  want  it  to  look  as  though  I  were 
lji  inn  fhc  Little  Woman  'keeping  an  eye 
on  him.'  I  loved  to  watch  the  girls  and 
women  applauding  him  and  to  think  to 
myself :    'He  is  mine.' 

"Ham  is  interested  in  every  phase  of 
my  work.  He  was  right  behind  me,  one 
hundred  per  cent,  when  I  had  differences 
with  the  studio.  He  was  more  thrilled 
over  Of  Human  Bondage  than  I  was. 
When  I  have  a  broadcast — I  did  Jnst  Sup- 
pose on  the  Shell  hour,  you  know,  and 
Cheating  Cheaters  on  the  Lux  program 
and  The  Lion  and  the  Mouse  on  the  Lux 


hour,  too,  broadcasting  from  New  York — 
well.  Ham  always  listens  in  to  me.  And 
it  gives  me  courage.  Because  I'm  as  ner- 
vous as  a  whole  family  of  cats  when  I  go 
on  the  air.  I  don't  know  why,  but  I'm 
always  terrified.  I  never  know  whether 
I  am  speaking  too  loud  or  too  soft.  I 
never  feel  sure  that  I  am  getting,  or  giv- 
ing, the  right  emotional  reactions,  because  I 
can't  look  at  the  man  who  is  playing  the 
scene  with  me.  I  just  have  the  plain 
plumb  jitters,  that's  all.  And  the  fact  that 
Ham  and  Mother  and  my  sister  are  always 
standing  by,  even  though  they  may  be 
actually  miles  away,  nips  me  up. 

"When  I  broadcast  The  Lion  and  the 
Mouse  from  New  York,  I  had  a  really 
charming  experience.  Arthur  Byron  was, 
you  know,  the  first  actor  ever  to  play  Tfie 
Lion  and  the  Mouse.  I  think  he  first 
played  it  some  thirty  years  ago.  Well,  we 
were  stopping  at  the  same  hotel,  Mr. 
Byron  and  I,  and  he  attended  my  broadcast 
with  me.  I  got  more  thrill  out  of  that 
than  out  of  many  things  I  have  done.  He 
was  delightful  to  me.  When  I  was  on 
the  air  with  Bing,  on  the  Kraft  program, 
when  Bing  interviewed  me,  Ham  was  with 
us.  He  played  and  sang — do  you  remem- 
ber? That  was  the  one  broadcast," 
laughed  Bette,  "during  which  I  didn't  have 
an  attack  of  gooseflesh. 

"Yes,  we  talk  over  everything  together. 
But  we  do  not  allow  radio  agents  or  movie 
agents  or  photographers  or  interviewers 
to  make  our  privacy  public — unless,  of 
course,  they  are  also  our  personal  friends. 
And  then  we  keep  to  personal  subjects. 

"Another  jolly  way  of  keeping  romance 
alive  is  to  do  the  things  you  used  to  do 
before  you  were  married  or  when  you 
first  went  together.  For  instance,  Ham 
and  I  are  with  my  mother  and  sister  and 
her  husband  a  lot.  We  always  have  Sun- 
day night  supper  together,  as  we  did  when 
we  were  'courting.'  And  there  is  some- 
thing about  being  with  the  family  that 
keeps  girlhood  alive.  You  don't  feel  mar- 
ried. You  feel  like  the  girl  who  was  being 
courted  and  who  brought  her  'young  man' 
home  to  supper. 

"We  go  on  fishing  trips  together.  We 
go  on  picnics.  We  play  jokes  on  each 
other.  There's  nothing  so  revivifying  to 
romance  as  a  good  horse  laugh  together. 
Kind  of  keeps  the  bloom  on  love,  the 
sheen,  the  fun  of  it. 

"Never  settle  dozen.  There's  something 
so  dreary,  so  finished  about  'settling- 
down.'  When  you  settle  down,  you  settle 
right  on  top  of  romance  and  squash  it. 

"Dogs  are  a  great  help  to  romance,  too," 
said  Bette.  "Sounds  silly  and  I  don't 
Icnow  that  I  can  explain  what  I  mean,  but 
I  know  that  it  is  so.  I've  noticed  that 
people  who  have  and  love  dogs  usually 
love  each  other.  Maybe  there's  something 
about  the  whole-hearted  fidelity  of  a  dog 
that  shames  human  infidelities.  Makes 
them  show  up  pretty  shabby.  Anyway, 
there  it  is.  Ham  has  a  Doberman  and  I 
have  a  Scotty  and  a  Sealyham,"  laughed 
Bette.    "We  are  well  protected. 

"I  don't  think," — and  Bette  shoved  her 
small,  gray  tweed  hat  to  the  very  back  of 


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her  blonde  curls.  "I  don't  think  tliat  being 
dolled-up  and  made-up  to  the  nines  every 
minute  is  necessary  at  all.  It  isn't  neces- 
sary with  Ham,  I  know.  But  here's  what 
I  do  say :  wear  slacks  and  house  dresses 
and  whatever  you  feel  most  comfortable 
in  nine  days  out  of  ten  if  you  want — but 
when  you  and  your  husband  have  a  big 
date  to  go  out  together,  to  dine  or  dance, 
dress  up  like  nobody's  business.  Knock 
his  eye  out.  Make  him  ask  whether  he 
has  met  you  before,  and  where.  Make 
him  feel  that  he  is  taking  an  alluring 
stranger  out  on  an  exciting  date.  Make 
him  think :  "Criminy.  have  I  been  expect- 
ing her  to  darn  my  socks !' 

"Be  a  surprise  package,"  grinned  Bette, 
"it  pays  dramatic  dividends. 

"Try  and  give  little  surprises  to  each 
other,  too.  I  don't  like  to  talk  about  my- 
self (then  why  am  I  here?)  but  on  Ham's 
last  birthday  1  pulled  a  real  rabbit  out  of 
the  hat.  I  gave  him  a  stag  dinner.  At 
the  end  of  the  dinner  all  of  us,  wives  and 
sweethearts  of  the  men  who  were  there, 
came  in,  dressed  in  jazzy  costumes  and 
put  on  a  show  for  the  boys.  \\'e  weren't 
their  wives  or  sweethearts  that  night.  We 
were  cabaret  entertainers !  It  went  o\  er 
big.  Those  boys  saw  us  girls  that  night  as 
they'd  never  before  seen  us. 

"Now  and  then,"  said  Bette,  ordering 
her  second  hamburger,  "I  like  to  have  a 
good,  rousing  fight.  I  actually  pick  a 
fight  with  Ham,  about  anything,  about 
nothing.  The  marriage  equivalent  of 
'lovers'  quarrels,'  you  know.  I  don't  get 
very  far  because  Ham  won't  fight  back. 
He's  likely  to  walk  out  on  me.  A  very 
firm  person,  my  Ham.  He  takes  no  non- 
sense. But  I  do  my  best.  It's  such  fun 
to  fight  because  it's  so  thrillingly  romantic 
to  make  up." 

Bette  and  I  began  the  drive  home,  in 
Bette's  little  Ford.  The  California  fog 
was  rolling  in.  It  clung  in  veils  around 
the  fair,  alert  head  of  the  girl  who  was 
driving. 

She  said :  "I  usually  drive  a  Ford.  I 
went  around  town  in  a  tin  can  for  years. 


you  know.  I  haven't,  as  you  know,  one  of 
those  movie  star  mansions  de  luxe,  with 
swimming  pool  and  fixin's.  I  don't  know 
that  the  best  things  in  life  are  necessarily 
free,  l)ut  I'm  pretty  darn(Ml  Nure  that  the 
best  things  in  love  arc  ii\-v.  You  can't 
do  better,  romantically,  than  the  moon  and 
the  smell  of  honeysuckle.  A  kiss  tastes 
just  as  sweet  in  a  Ford  as  in  a  Rolls. 
You  don't  have  to  pay  for  moonlight  and 
roses.  Ham  and  I  live  simply  and  save 
money  so  that  we  will  be  free,  free  to 
choose  what  we  will  do  and  will  not  do, 
where  we  will  go  and  not  go.  I  think 
that  money,  too  much  of  it,  luxury,  too 
much  of  it,  is  like  the  old  Midas  touch.  It 
turns  everything  to  cold,  metallic  gold — 
even  hearts.    Even  love. 

"There's  something  commercial  about  a 
huge  palace  of  a  house  and  a  staff  of  for- 
mal servants  and  a  life  lived  in  sables  and 
limousines.  There's  something  cozy  and 
sweet  and  romantic  about  a  little  house 
with  the  things  you  love  in  it.  You  feel 
closer  together.  You  feel  more  bridey 
and  groomy.  You  seem  to  stay  at  the 
beginning  of  things... 

"I  never,"  said  Bette,  "ask  Ham  where 
he  has  been,  if  he  is  late  for  dinner.  As 
he  almost  always  is.  I  don't  want  to  know 
— well,  not  too  much.  I  really  don't  want 
his  life  to  be  a  neat  little  checkerboard 
laid  out  before  me  with  all  the  moves 
marked.  If  he  stayed  away  for  two  or 
three  days,  I'd  say  to  him:  'Did  you  have 
a  good  time  ?'  I  wouldn't  say :  'Where 
have  you  been?' 

"I  don't  learn  to  play  golf,  I  don't  sit 
in  on  Ham's  occasional  poker  games,  be- 
cause I  believe  that  he  should  have  his 
games  with  other  men.  If  you  keep  the 
masculine  and  feminine  interests  a  bit 
separate,  it's  so  much  more  thrilling  when 
they  do  come  together. 

"Be  a  little  stranger  in  your  own  home," 
laughed  Bette,  as  she  dropped  nie  at  mine, 
"give  romance  the  sunshine  of  a  few  sur- 
prises, the  spray  of  the  unexpected  and 
sure  as  pop.  it  will  flourish  like  the  green 
bay  tree. . ." 


INDISCRETION,  AS  YOU  LIKE  IT- 


(Continued  from  page  29) 


And  when  Ethel  Barrymore  falls  in  a 
train  and  injures  her  leg,  a  whisper  goes 
around. 

Miss  Barrymore  is  well  acquainted  with 
the  tongues  of  whisperers.  She  didn't  even 
trouble  to  explain  that,  coming  down  along 
the  winding  Hudson  River,  standing  up  to 
gather  her  things  together,  a  sudden  lurch 
of  the  train  flung  her  violcntl\-  against  the 
edge  of  the  seat,  breaking  her  knee. 
Calmly  she  went  on  witii  her  work,  keep- 
ing all  her  engagements,  the  injured  leg 
for  weeks  in  a  plaster  cast  from  hip  to 
ankle. 

"I  don't  mind  it  for  myself,"  said  Miss 
Barrymore.  "I'm  used  to  it.  But  it's  hard 
on  the  children. 

"  'Ethel  Barryinore's  Son  Arrested!' 
Tliat's  new  s,  in  big  headlines.  Arrested ! 
He  must  be  no  good  !  What  has  he  done  ? 
Murder?  Embezzlement?  No — in  sinall 
type,  further  down  the  page,  you  read  that 
he  drove  thirty-five  miles  an  hour,  instead 
of  thirty,  through  some  town.    But  the 


headline  is  all  that  half  of  the  people  see — 
and  assume  the  worst." 

She  sighed.  "It's  a  pity  that  some  of  us 
are  satisfied  to  get  so  much  of  our  educa- 
tion from  newspapers,  movies,  the  radio — 
to  live  by  cliches,  without  thought  or  un- 
derstanding. And  we  can't  depend  on  the 
schools  to  educate  us.  It's  in  our  homes 
that  we  get  our  real  education. 

"I  never  had  much  schooling,  myself," 
said  Miss  Barrymore.  "I  went  to  work 
when  I  was  twelve.  But  what  I  remem- 
ber from  my  school  da\ s  is  nothing  com- 
pared to  what  I  learned  at  home,  from  m>- 
parents,  my  grandmother,  my  uncle." 

Ethel  Barrymore's  father,  the  late 
Maurice  Barrymore,  was  a  matinee  idol  of 
his  generation,  a  handsome,  dashing  and 
popular  star.  And  her  mother,  (jeoiiii.uia 
Drew  Barrymore,  of  the  famoll^  Drew 
family  of  the  stage,  was  a  meniher  of  the 
Daly  company  at  the  Arch  Street  Tlieatre 
in  Philadelphia,  and  supported  Booth, 
Barrett,  McCullough  and  Modjeska. 


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Her  mother  died  when  Ethel  was  a  child, 
and  liLT  father  a  few  years  later,  so  Ethel 
spent  nn)st  of  her  girlhood  with  her 
grandmother,  also  a  famous  actress,  and 
her  uncle,  John  Drew.  For  eight  years 
I'.thel  was  a  pupil  at  the  Convent  of  Notre 
Dame  in  Philadelphia,  where  she  studied 
music  with  the  idea  of  becoming  a  concert 
pianist.  .She  has  a  passionate  love  for 
music  and  it  still  is  one  of  her  greatest  di- 
\ersions. 

"I  still  enjoy  playing  the  piano,"  she 
said.  "I  always  have  found  time  for  it, 
however  busy  I've  been.  I  could  find 
plenty  to  occupy  me,  if  I  were  not  work- 
ing .  .  . 

"But  I  must  work."  she  said  frankly.  "I 
have  to  earn  mone\'."  She  glanced  through 
the  window,  across  the  wide  lawn.  "Taxes 
..."  she  nuirmured  with  a  faint  smile. 
"It  takes  money  to  live! 

"However,  I  don't  want  to  stop  work- 
ing!" she  smiled.  "I've  always  worked. 
Even  when  I  was  ill,  with  a  temperature  of 
104°.  Not  with  'the  show  must  go  on'  idea 
— that's  a  lot  of  nonsense.  It's  just  your 
job.  You  have  to  do  it.  It's  your  life." 

And  Ethel  Barrymore's  life  has  been, 
one  must  grant,  rich  and  full  and  varied. 

There  are  some  people.  I  thought,  look- 
ing at  her  as  she  sat  across  from  me,  who 
never  grow  old.  VMio  belong  to  today  as 
vividly  as  they  belonged  to  yesterday. 
People  whose  lives  march  on,  like  some  of 
our  modern  novels,  through  time  and  gen- 
erations, with  never  a  dull  page. 

Such  a  person,  it  seems,  is  Ethel  Barry- 
more.  Darling  of  an  earlier  day  in  the 
theatre,  still  today,  at  fifty-seven,  finding 
new  outlets  for  her  art  and  energy,  she  is 
an  unsually  vital  and  fascinating  woman. 

We  were  sitting  in  the  library  of  the 
three-hundred-year-old  white  house  that 
has  been  her  home  for  over  a  quarter  of  a 
century.  A  spacious,  friendly  house,  stand- 
ing in  a  lovely  park,  sloping  down  to  the 
Sound.  A  perfect  place,  I  thought,  to  re- 
tire— when  one  grew  weary  of  the  world. 

But  Ethel  Barrymore  is  not  retiring. 

"On  the  contrary,"  she  told  me,  "I'm 
starting  now  the  biggest  jobs  of  my  career. 
One  is  my  school,  in  which  I  hope  to  help 
a  new  generation  of  stars  to  advance  the 
art  of  the  theatre.  .  .  . 

"You  should  have  seen  this  place — "  she 
glanced  through  the  window  across  the 
tree-shaded  lawn  with  its  winding  drive- 
way, "the  day  after  my  plan  was  an- 
nounced. They  came  in  hordes  !  And  the 
letters  .  .  .  Telegrams  .  .  .  We  were 
swamped  witli  them  ! 

"My  original  plan,"  she  explained,  "was 
to  select  from  among  the  hundreds  of  ap- 
plicants about  fifty  who  seemed  most 
promising  as  pupils,  and  give  them  per- 
sonal instruction  here  in  my  home— with 
some  special  help,  of  course — a  fencing 
master,  and  so  on.  I  planned  to  teach  them 
languages,  speech,  music,  to  study  plays 
with  them — help  each  one  to  find  the  best 
means  of  expressing  his  or  her  individual 
talent. 

"But  as  I  worked  out  the  idea,"  she 
went  on  earnestly,  "I  began  to  realize  that 
I  couldn't  accommodate  everyone  satisfac- 
torily here.  So,  when  Leighton  Rollins, 
director  of  the  Studio  of  Acting  in  New 
York,  asked  me  to  cooperate  with  him,  I 
was  very  glad  to  do  so.  ' 

"The  classes  meet  twice  a  week  in  the 
ballroom  of  Beckman  Tower.  And  during 
the  winter  we  shall  present  the  students  to 


the  public  in  a  number  of  plays.  I'm  tre- 
mendously enthusiastic  about  it." 

You  felt  the  reality  of  her  enthusiasm  as 
she  spoke.  Here  was  no  tired,  world-weary 
woman,  seeking  solace  for  dwindling  glory 
in  the  theatre.  The  matchless  Barrymore 
voice  held  youthful  lilt  and  fullness,  as  she 
spoke  and  her  soft  brown  eyes  glowed 
with  intense  interest.  Across  the  chair 
wheie  she  sat,  bright  morning  sunlight 
streamed  through  long  French  windows 
and  she  sought  no  friendly,  concealing 
shadow.  She  wore  no  make-up  and  her 
skin  was  smooth  and  fair.  Even  her 
throat,  her  hands,  always  the  first  to  show 
Time's  hateful  traces,  are  lovely  still.  You 
find  it  easy  to  understand  the  rush  of  eager 
applicants  for  the  gifts  that  are  hers  to 
give. 

"And,  of  course,''  said  Miss  Barrymore, 
"there  is  my  radio  program,  which  I  am 
enjoying  greatly.  I  love  presenting  again 
those  fine  old  plays." 

It's  no  easy  task,  either,  one  may  im- 
agine, to  condense  into  the  limits  of  a 
half  hour  program  on  the  air  a  play  that 
occupied  a  good  two  hours  on  the  stage. 
But  thus  far  the  radio  versions  of  these 
famous  plays  in  which  Miss  Barrymore 
rose  to  her  enviable  position  in  the  theatre 
have  been  most  successful. 

Her  schedule  includes  Captain  Jinks  oj 
the  Horse  Marines,  with  which  she  opened 
her  broadcast  series,  Siiiidav.  Alice-Sit-bv- 
the-Firc.  Trrlazoicy  of  the  Wells.  The 
Co)ist(nit  ]]'ifc,  Tlic  Lady  of  the  Camel- 
lias, Dt'classce  and  other  successes  of  an 
earlier  day  in  the  theatre.  These  plays, 
to  a  growing  and  appreciative  audience, 
have  proved  a  genuine  delight,  justifying 
Miss  Barrymore's  reputation  as  an  artist. 

"I  may  do  a  movie,  too,"  Miss  Barry- 
more went  on.  "I've  been  asked  to  do  one. 
Of  course  I  can't  go  out  to  Hollywood,  on 
account  of  my  other  work,  but  if  it  can  be 
done  in  the  east — out  at  Astoria — I  should 
love  to  do  it." 

Ethel  Barrymore  hasn't  appeared  on  the 
screen  since  she  played  in  Rasputin  and  the 
Empress,  some  years  ago.  But  earlier  she 
had  made  a  dozen  or  more  successful  pic- 
tures. The  Aivakcninfi  of  Helena  Ritchie, 
Lady  Frederick.  Our  Mrs.  McChesney  and 
Peter  Ihhctson  among  them. 

And  her  career  in  the  theatre  covers 
more  plays  than  even  she  can  remember. 
When  I  asked  her  how  many,  she  laughed : 
"I  haven't  the  slightest  idea !  I  began 
when  I  was  a  child,  you  know.  And  that's 
a  long  time  ago !" 

She  made  her  first  important  appearance 
on  the  stage  in  1894,  as  Julia  in  The  Rivals. 
In  1897  she  made  her  English  debut,  with 
William  Gillette,  in  .Srcrct  .Service  and  fol- 
lowing that  she  was  engaged  by  the  late 
Sir  Henry  Irving  lor  his  Lyceum  Theatre 
company.  For  years  she  enjoyed  unrivalled 
popularity  on  the  stage  iti  England  as  well 
as  in  America.  And  socially  she  was  a 
great  favorite  in  both  countries.  Suitors  of 
wealth  and  nobility  vied  for  her  favors  in 
many  a  moonlit  garden  on  both  sides  of 
the  Atlantic.  But  she  chose  to  marry  an 
.American  business  man,  Russell  Griswold 
Colt,  arms  manufacturer. 

There  are  three  Colt  children,  Samuel, 
Ethel  and  John. 

"The\  are  all  interested  in  the  theatre," 
said  .Miss  BarryniMre.  "Sammie,  the  eldest, 
more  as  a  writer.  Jack  hopes  to  be  a  star 
some  day  and  Ethel  is  playing  on  the  stage 
now,  with  a  little  group  of  Jitney  players. 


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But  I  hope,"  said  her  mother,  "that  Ethel 
can  study  for  opera  some  day.  She  really 
has  an  unusually  lovely  voice.  It  ought  to 
be  trained  for  opera." 

Miss  Barrymores  marriage  with  Mr. 
Colt  was  dissolved  when  the  children  were 
quite  young  and  they  have  since  lived  with 
their  mother  in  the  Mamaroneck  home. 
But  between  Mr.  Colt  and  his  family  exist 
understanding  friendshij)  and  respect. 

"He  took  us  to  the  World  Series  base- 
ball games  last  fall."  said  Miss  Barrymore. 
"And  he  often  offers  us  the  use  of  the 
Colt  family  home  in  Bristol.  Rhode  Is- 
land. But  the  children  love  this  place,  as  I 
do.  Whenever  they  go  away  anywhere, 
they  write  me :  'I  miss  j-ou — I  miss  home — 
I'm  coming  home  sooner  than  I  planned.' 
Or  I  get  a  cable,  saying :  'Sailing  today 
instead  of  ne.xt  month.'  " 

And  you  feel  that  the  house  is  one  that 
is  lived  in  and  loved.  In  the  sunlit  library 
where  we  sat.  the  furniture,  like  the  house, 
shows  scars  of  time,  of  comfortable  living. 
Open  bookshelves  line  the  walls,  filled  with 
books  that  suggest  a  wide  range  of  read- 
ing. 

"I've  always  read,  whenever  I  had  a 
chance,"  said  Miss  Barrymore.  "Every 
night,  after  I  go  to  bed — no  matter  how 
late  it  is — I  always  read.  Have  you  read 
Gone  With  the  Wind?  I've  just  finished  it 
for  the  second  time.    It's  fascinating! 

"Among  other  things,"  she  said  thought- 
fully, "I  was  impressed  with  the  way  the 
people  in  the  book  talked  about  the  Civil 


Richman  and  Merrill  still  are  friends, 
and  were  friends  throughout  their  hazard- 
ous flights  to  Europe  and  back,  it  need 
only  be  mentioned  that  the  combination  is 
still  operating  and  plans  entering  two  big 
air  contests  in  the  near  future  and  that 
their  entry  was  the  first  received  for  each 
event.  One  is  the  trans-America  flight, 
for  which  there  is  a  $75,000  prize,  and  ti  e 
other  is  the  Paris  flight  next  spring  to 
commemorate  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the 
great  feat  of  Charles  A.  Lindbergh  in  the 
Spirit  of  St.  Louis. 

The  rumors  of  a  falling  out  between 
Merrill  and  Richman  cropped  up  on  the 
eve  of  their  return  from  England.  They 
planned  a  take-off  for  New  York  at  three 
in  the  morning  and  were  sleeping  upstairs 
in  the  officers'  quarters  at  the  Liverpool 
Airport.  That  they  might  get  a  good  rest 
for  their  venture,  all  visitors  were  barred 
by  a  Captain  Austin,  of  the  R.  F.  C. 
A  persistent  reporter  for  an  American 
news  service  vainly  sought  to  break 
through  the  lines.  And,  when  repulsed,  put 
two  and  two  together  and  made  eight,  not 
through  indignation,  but  through  imagina- 
tion. 

If  Richman  never  learned  the  value  of 
radio  before,  he  learned  it  on  those  flights 
across  the  Atlantic.  Eastbound  to  Europe, 
lightning  disabled  the  radio,  the  biggest 
single  handicap  of  the  trip.  And  returning, 
from  within  1,500  miles  of  New  York, 
Harry,  working  the  radio,  was  in  constant 
communication  with  this  side  of  the  ocean. 
"I  wired  our  position  to  the  Eastern  Air 
Lines  about  2 :30  in  the  morning  and  in 


War.  To  some  it  was  idealistic,  glorified 
— for  principle,  for  State's  Rights.  But 
some,  who  thought  more  deeply,  saw  it  as 
the  reverse  of  ideal — ugly — for  money, 
for  power.  'Even  if  we  tt'i'n,  ive  lose!'  one 
said.  It's  just  the  same  today !  People," 
she  reiterated,  "are  still  the  same.  .  .  ." 

Together  we  walked  out  on  to  the  wide 
porch.  Standing  there,  while  she  pointed 
out  a  lovely  picture  made  by  trees  and 
sunlit  lawn  and  bright  blue  water,  you  un- 
derstood and  shared  her  conviction  of  the 
essential  beauty  of  life,  with  its  changeless 
hunger  for  what  is  good. 

In  such  a  setting,  scandal  seemed,  indeed, 
ephemeral  and  unimportant. 

"Scandals,  sensational  stories,  such  as 
the  papers  love,  can  never,"  said  Miss 
Barrymore,  "become  treasured  memories. 
But  great  music,  great  art,  great  drama, 
will  never  be  forgotten.  They  make  life 
rich  and  lovely,  however  little  else  one  lias 

"That  isn't  news.  It  will  never  make  the 
headlines  !  But  it's  true. 

"  'Everything  changes,  everything  re- 
mains the  same,'  "  she  quoted  with  a  smile 
as  we  said  goodbye.  "Perhaps  that  is  why 
the  newspapers  must  be  indiscreet — to  lend 
a  little  variety  and  spice  to  the  common- 
place !" 

And  maybe  Miss  Barrymore  is  right 
And  maybe  the  reason  for  the  daily  indis- 
cretion of  the  press  is  that,  we,  too,  like  it, 
just  as  we  always  have,  ever  since  the  first 
rumor  was  spread  about  Eve  and  the  ser- 
pent ! 


LADIES'  MAN! 

(Continued  from  page  31) 


three  minutes  heard  them  issue  a  bulletin 
on  it  over  WOR,"  said  Richman. 

Richman  had  hardly  reached  New  York 
when  he  discovered  more  about  radio  than 
he  had  learned  during  his  trans-Atlantic 
flight.  He  found  himself  in  demand  as  a 
radio  performer,  as  well  as  for  personal 
appearances.  Harry  signed  a  two-months' 
contract  at  the  Hollywood,  so  that  he 
would  be  able  to  remain  in  New  York  and 
handle  his  broadcasts  as  well. 

Richman  made  twenty-six  electrical 
transcriptions  for  the  Florida  Citrus  Com- 
pany and  then  appeared  with  Ken  Murray 
thrice  weekly  on  the  Dodge  program. 
Conoco  Gas  sponsored  him  also  and  he 
was  on  with  Jack  Dempsey.  To  be  brief 
about  it,  he  became  the  third  busiest  broad- 
caster in  September  and  October  of  this 
year.  The  first  two  were  President 
Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt  and  Governor 
Alfred  AI.  Landon. 

Radio  is  no  novelty  for  Harry.  In  fact, 
he  was  familiar  with  radio  long  before  he 
was  with  airplanes.  As  long  ago  as  1923, 
when  commercial  radio  was  in  its  second 
year,  he  appeared  with  Nils  T.  Granlund, 
or  N.  T.  G.,  as  he  was  known  to  the 
listeners-in  of  the  headset  era.  At  that 
time,  there  were  exactly  two  radio  stations 
in  Greater  New  York,  WHN  and  WJZ. 
which  gives  you  an  idea  of  how  early 
Harry  pioneered  over  the  ether. 

Richman  also  appeared  at  the  first  pub- 
lic broadcast,  the  first  time  in  radio  history 
when  spectators  were  admitted  to  a  studio. 
That  was  in  1923,  at  Loew's  State  Theatre 
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which  broke  all  attendance  records  at  that 
theatre.  .And,  if  you  really  wish  to  realize 
how  long  ago  that  was,  consider  that  the 
previous  record  at  Loew's  State  had  been 
set  by  Eva  Tanguay. 

Riciinian's  l<i\-e  of  aviation  is  as  natural 
as  his  love  of  singing.  As  a  kid,  he  took 
a  course  in  automotive  engineering,  as  it 
was  then  called,  and  was  a  chauffeur  at 
nine,  when,  as  a  gangl\-  youngster,  he 
proudly  wore  his  first  pair  of  long  pants. 
He  now  holds,  and  has  held  since  1932,  an 
unlimited  transport  license,  the  highest 
air  license  a  civilian  can  boast.  He  has 
held  an  ordinary  pilot's  license  since  1930. 

Richman  became  interested  in  aviation 
through  a  friend,  George  Daufkirch,  and 
at  one  time  owned  seven  planes  and  had 
his  own  hangar  at  Flushing,  L.  I.  And 
yet,  when  Harry  announced  his  desire  to 
fly  to  Europe  and  back,  it  was  labelled  as 
a  publicity  stunt.  His  own  explanation 
of  the  reason  for  the  flight  is  simple 
enough.  "It  never  had  been  done  and  Dick 
and  I  thought  it  could  be  done,"  explains 
Richman.  "We  realized  all  we  needed  was 
the  proper  plane  and  we  had  a  chance  to 
grab  the  blue  monoplane.  Lady  Peace. 
We  knew  we  could  do  it,  so  we  did.  I  say 
'we,'  but  don't  get  me  wrong.  I  still  think 
Dick  Merrill  is  the  greatest  pilot  in  the 
world  today." 

Though  he  probably  is  labelled  a  typical 
New  Yorker,  Richman  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati, in  that  section  known  as  "over 
the  Rhine,"  on  August  10th,  1895.  He 
went  to  Ohio  Mechanical  School,  where 
he  first  learned  the  art  of  motor  tinkering, 
but  at  the  same  time  he  also  was  playing 
the  piano  by  ear  and  keeping  one  eye  on 
mechanics,  the  other  on  entertaining.  And 
he  hasn't  changed  since. 

When  Richman  was  eleven,  he  sold 
tickets  at  Chester  Park,  a  famous  Cincin- 
nati amusement  center  and  his  first  contact 
with  the  stage,  such  as  it  was.  He  ran 
away  from  home  when  he  was  thirteen 
and  went  to  Chicago,  singing  in  nickel- 
odeons to  the  accompaniment  of  what 
amounted  to  magic  lantern  slides. 

At  the  outset,  no  theatre  was  too  dingy 
for  Harry  to  sing  in,  provided  he  was 
paid.  During  the  winter  of  1913-14,  he 
first  adopted  a  theme  song,  altiiough  there 
was  no  such  thing  as  a  tiieme  song  in 


LIFE  WAS  TOO  EASY 

( Colli iinicd  from  page  47) 


WAKE  UP  YOUR 
LIVER  BILE... 

Without  Calomel— And  You'll  Jump 
Out  of  Bed  in  the  Morning  Rarin'  to  Go 

The  liver  should  pour  out  two  pounds  of  liquid 
bile  into  your  bowels  daily.  If  this  bile  is  not  flow- 
inK  freely,  your  food  doesn't  digest.  It  just  decays 
in  the  bowels.  Gas  bloats  up  your  stomach.  You  get 
constipated.  Your  whole  system  is  poisoned  and 
you  feel  sour,  sunk  and  the  world  looks  punk. 

Laxatives  are  only  makeshifts.  A  mere  bowel 
movement  doesn't  get  at  the  cause.  It  takes  those 
good,  old  Carter's  Little  Liver  Tills  to  get  these 
two  pounds  of  bile  flowing  freely  and  make  you 
feel  "up  and  up".  Harmless,  gentle,  yet  amazin;; 
in  making  bile  flow  freely.  A.sk  for  Carter's  Little 
Liver  Pills  by  name.  Stubbornly  refuse  anything 
else.  2.5c. 


Jimnix  ll.ill  struck'  ])iiri)< i',e fully  across 
the  -li.iliti>  larpit.  His  anus  enfolded 
the  siililiiii-  \\<iiiiaii.  .'^hi  ludked  wonder- 
ingl>  up  intu  his  careworn  face.  What 
she  saw  there  hnniKliI  a  smile  of  happi- 
ness to  her  wild  had  iKit  smiled  in  many 
years.  The  man  spoke  one  fervent  word : 

"Darling !" 

That  was  in  1934.  Till  then  Jimmy  Hall 
had  not  set  eyes  upon  Irene,  his  wife,  in 
eleven  years.  They  had  quarreled  and 
jiarted.  He  had  gone  his  way — not  a  nice 
way,  he  admits  now.  She  had  tried  to  for- 
get. They  met  again  amid  the  wreckage 
of  his  career — a  career  as  brilliant  as  any 
that  ever  had  flashed  across  the  silver 
screen.  This,  then,  was  the  beginning  of 
a  new  climb — together.  How  far  they 
have  climbed  back  toward  the  peak,  how 


those  days.  Richman  was  singing 
Siwokic-ookums  for  no  other  reason 
than  that  his  audiences  liked  it  and  de- 
manded it.  .\  reason,  by  the  by,  which 
Harry  has  found  it  profitable  to  follow 
ever  since. 

In  the  George  White  Scandals  of  1927, 
Richman  crashed  to  new  heights  singing 
The  Birth  of  the  Blues.  The  next  win- 
ter, the  peak  of  all  time  for  after  dark 
entertainment  in  New  York,  as  well  as 
throughout  the  nation,  found  him  in  his 
own  night  club,  Club  Richman,  a  verit- 
able gold  mine.  Harry  made  more  money 
that  winter  than  he  has  in  a  similar  period 
before  or  since  and  there  still  is  a  sneak- 
ing suspicion  that  he  would  like  to  open 
another  night  club,  this  time  with  a  radio 
tie-up. 

It  was  at  the  Club  Richman  that  Harry 
made  a  hit  with  Muddy  Waters.  During 
the  depression,  he  tried  Paris,  bringing 
back  a  song,  Che::  Vous,  which  was  one  of 
his  most  popular  numbers.  He  turned  to 
the  movies  in  1930,  with  Putting  on  the 
Pit::,  still  an  old  favorite  with  his  fans. 

Almost  annually,  Richman  has  managed 
to  identify  himself  with  one  song  or  an- 
other, a  tie-up  which  should  be  a  great 
boon  to  him,  now  that  he  definitely  is 
launched  as  a  radio  personality.  The  songs 
range  through  the  years  from  /  Love  a 
Parade  down  to  To  the  Beat  of  My  Heart. 
Currently,  he  is  ofTering  a  parody,  Fm 
Singing  Your  Praises,  Dick  Merrill. 

Richman  is  kept  on  the  floor  twice  his 
alloted  time  during  his  cabaret  perform- 
ances, by  customers  demanding  he  sing 
some  of  his  old  favorites.  And  when  he 
retires  to  a  secluded  corner  for  dinner,  he 
finds  himself  an  island  in  a  sea  of  auto- 
graph seekers.  His  philosophy  toward 
these  demands  on  his  talents  and  his  time 
is  sound.  "When  the  customers  stop  hol- 
lering for  more  songs  and  cease  asking 
for  my  autograph,  then  it  will  be  time  for 
me  to  settle  down  and  get  married,"  says 
Harry. 

Even  as  Harry  expounds  his  theory, 
however,  you  have  a  liunch  that  he  hopes 
that  time  won't  come  too  soon.  Much  as 
he  may  crave  domesticity,  he  still  tingles 
to  the  applause  of  the  crowd.  Did  you 
ever  know  a  performer  who  didn't? 
Neither  did  anyone  else! 


they  have  striven,  is  attested  today  by 
James  Hall's  radio  success. 

The  story  of  their  parting,  their  sor- 
row, their  reconciliation  and  Jimmy's  sub- 
sequent success  is  another  chapter  to  add 
to  those  incredible  romances  of  show  busi- 
ness. 

"E\ery  morning  when  I  awaken  to  the 
realization  that  Irene  has  come  back  to 
me,  that  I  have  a  jni),  anotlier  chance  to 
make  good,  I  iiow  my  head  and  thank 
God  for  His  compassion,"  Jimmy  told  me 
devoutly. 

Here,  briefly,  is  the  story  of  how  life 
bufTeted  these  two,  and  how  they  came, 
at  last,  to  the  pathway  at  the  foot  of  the 
hill  whence,  hand  in  hand,  they  can  strug- 
gle to  the  top,  together  again  forever. 
'    James;  Hall  was  a  laughing,  irrespon- 


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sible,  irresistible  youth  when  he  married 
Irene  Phillips  in  the  cold  dawn  of  a  win- 
ter's morning  in  1921.  The  very  circum- 
stances of  their  courtship  form  an  illumi- 
nating sidelight  on  the  two  people. 

Jimmy  had  come  i)ack  from  overseas 
and  had  gone  into  a  revue  that  was  tour- 
ing the  midwest.  Titian  dancer  Irene  was 
in  charge  of  all  the  show's  dance  pro- 
ductions. She  and  Jimmy  quarreled  he- 
cause  she  called  him  a  "fresii.  conceited 
lout."  For  two  montlis  the>-  worked  to- 
gether daily — but  the\-  never  spoke  to 
each  other.  Any  necessarx-  communication 
was  carried  on  through  a  third  party. 

One  day  Jimmy  brushed  against  Irene 
in  a  dark  Liackstage  corridor.  She  stum- 
bled. He  caught  her.  They  talked — per- 
force. They  went  out  together  to  dinner. 
They  sat  until  nearly  dawn.  At  six  o'clock 
the  next  morning,  they  awakened  the  pro- 
ducer of  the  revue,  roused  a  justice  of  the 
peace  in  Sioux  City  and  were  married. 

For  two  years  they  were  ideally  happy. 
But  James  Hall  was  restless  and  ambi- 
tious. He  couldn't  be  content  to  remain 
the  leading  man  in  Cash's  All-Girl  Revue, 
touring  the  midwest.  He  quit.  They  came 
to  New  York  and  Irene  retired  from  the- 
atrical work  to  become  plain  Mrs.  James 
Hall,  housewife.  That  should  have  tipped 
Jimmy  off — but  he  was  young  and  not 
wise. 

Success  brought  discord.  Jimmy  was 
engaged  for  the  Passing  Shnzv  of  1923.  It 
was  to  be  just  a  short  engagement.  In 
fact  there  were  many  wiseacres  along 
Broadway  who  predicted  that  it  would  be 
a  very  short  engagement,  indeed.  That 
was  fine  with  Irene.  She  was  tired  of 
living  in  a  trunk — and  Jimmy  had  prom- 
ised that  after  the  Passing  Shoit^  he  would 
give  her  a  home  of  her  own.  He  would 
quit  show  business  and  settle  down.  By 
way  of  showing  his  good  faith,  he  took 
some  of  the  money  that  had  begun  to  roll 
in  and  bought  a  chicken  farm  in  Joplin, 
Missouri. 

The  Broadway  wiseacres  were,  as  they 
often  are,  wrong.  Tlie  Passing  Slwiv  of 
1923  became  The  Passing  Slunv  of  1924. 
Then  of  1925  and  1926.  Jimmy,  playing 
leading  man  to  such  noted  beauties  as 
Muriel  de  Forrest  and  Nancy  Carroll,  was 
making  big  money.  When  you  make  big 
money  on  Broadway,  more  often  than  not 
something  happens  to  you.  It  happened 
to  Jimmy — and  Irene  didn't  like  it.  She 
had  waited  too  long  for  that  promised 
home. 

"I  was  a  conceited  young  si:|uirt.  Irene 
was  right  when  she  called  me  that,  the  first 
day  we  met,"  Jimmy  confessed  rue;ull\-. 
"I  guess  success  went  to  my  head.  1 
thought  I  was  a  big  shot.  You  know  how 
they  tell  you  you  are  on  Broadway?  Well, 
I  believed  'em.  I  thouglit  it  was  smart  to 
drink,  to  throw  big  wild  parties,  to  have 
my  name  coupled  i)y  Broadwax  gossips 
with  this  woman  and  that  one — even 
though  I  was  married.  It  flatterer!  my 
vanity.  I  even  encouraged  sucli  publicity. 
Of  course,  I'm  ashamed  of  all  that  now," 

Of  course,  they  quarreled.  Irene  re- 
proached Jimmy  for  not  keeping  his  prom- 
ise to  her.  He  retorted  that  she  was 
jealous.  She  accused  him  of  being  un- 
faithful, of  squandering  their  money,  of 
wrecking  their  marriage.  In  the  end, 
Irene  left.  She  went  to  the  chicken  farm 
in  Missouri  and  lived  there — alone.' 

If  this  were  a  storv  Ijook.  Fate  would 


RADIO  STARS 

intervene  at  this  point  by  administering 
a  well  merited  kick  to  Jimmy's  trousers. 
He  would  thereupon  be  brought  to  his 
senses,  rush  to  the  chicken  farm,  enfold 
Irene  in  his  penitent  arms — and  they  would 
live  happily  ever  after.  But  this  is  not  a 
stor)  book.  This  is  real  life.  Or  perhaps 
I'atc  plays  even  grimmer  tricks  than  story 
books  would  have  us  believe. 

At  any  rate,  when  Irene  left,  Jimmy 
went  on  to  new  and  undreamed  of  suc- 
cesses. Women  lionized  him.  He  made 
more  money.  His  popularity  increased. 
Holl\  wood  called  him — and  he  went  west 
to  make  movies.  More  success.  He  be- 
came leading  man  for  Bebe  Daniels.  He 
built  a  huge  house  and  staffed  it  with 
nine  servants.  He  had  enough  big  cars 
to  operate  a  garage.  He  was  noted  for 
lavish  hospitality — even  in  la\ish  Holly- 
wood. 

Money  poured  in  faster  tlian  he  could 
spend  it,  even  while  going  at  Hollywood's 
fastest  pace.  Paramount  loaned  him  out 
for  pictures.  He  starred  with  Clara  Bow 
and  Colleen  Moore.  In  1929  he  received 
the  Motion  Picture  Academy  Award  for 
his  performance  in  Four  Sons.  He  was 
chosen  to  play  in  Hell's  Angels.  In  Holly- 
wood, when  fortune  smiles,  she  laughs 
out  loud. 

Jimmy  fell  in  love.  Madly,  tempestu- 
ously, head-over-heels  in  love.  At  least, 
he  thought  it  was  love.  She  was  a  bril- 
liant star.  So  was  he.  They  went  every- 
where together.  Hostesses  didn't  raise 
their  eyebrows  when  Holh'wood  gossip 
columns  linked  his  name  and  hers.  There 
was  one  fly  in  Jimmy's  ointment.  He 
could  not  marry  his  inamorata.  His  and 
Irene's  religion  forbade  divorce. 

The  end  came  like  a  bombshell.  Irene 
sued  Jimmy  for  non-support.  It  provided 
a  newspaper  sensation,  to  put  it  mildly. 
It  came  just  at  a  time  when  such  pub- 
licity on  Page  One  would  ruin  the  bright- 
est star.  The  public  was  demanding  that 
its  screen  heroes  and  heroines  be  impec- 
cable. Irene's  lawyers  instituted  extradi- 
tion proceedings.  Jimmy  crashed  from 
the  pinnacle  he  had  built  on  the  shifting 
sands  of  Hollywood.    He  fled. 

He  fled  to  protect  the  name  of  the  Hol- 
lywood star — but  he  soon  discovered  that 
Hollywood  forgot  his  chivalry  as  it  for- 
got him.  His  money  was  going  fast.  He 
was  wandering  furtively  from  city  to  city, 
unable  to  work,  hounded.  His  own  law- 
yers demanded  larger  and  larger  sums. 

"I  sat  in  a  hotel  room,  wondering  what 
to  do,"  he  recalled,  as  he  unfolded  the 
story  to  me.  "I  think,  for  the  first  time  in 
my  life,  I  was  face  to  face  with  reality. 
Life  had  been  too  easy  for  me.  There 
had  never  been  any  bumps.  When  they 
came — I  didn't  know  how  to  take  them. 
Success  had  come  without  work — un- 
earned. That  softens  a  man.  like  a  fight- 
er who  doesn't  have  to  train. 

"It  was  then  that  I  began  to  think  about 
Irene.  What  kind  of  a  life  had  she  led 
during  the  ten  years  we  had  been  apart? 
Had  she  been  lonely  all  that  time,  as  I 
found  mxsell  now?  I  thought  of  the  law- 
suit she  liad  brought.  How  she  must  hate 
me  now,  to  do  that!  Yet  I  couldn't  h.iic 
her.  That  was  funny.  I  ought  to,  liut  1 
couldn't. 

"At  timt- moment  I  grew  up.  I'd  been 
only  a  boy  before.  Now.  suddenly,  I  be- 
came adult.  I  was  ashamed  of  myself. 
If  only  I  had  it  all  to  do  over  again  !    I  guess 


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we  all  have  that  futile  thought  at  times. 
The  things  I  would  do  dif?erently !  If 
only  I  could  have  Irene  back !  If  only  I 
might  have  a  chance  to  make  it  up  to  her 
for  all  the  hurt  and  pain  I  had  caused 
her !" 

Jimmy  paused.  There  was  a  faraway 
look  in  his  eyes.  I  knew  he  was  thinking 
of  that  night  in  the  hotel  room  in  Baton 
Rouge. 

I  "Think  of  it!"  he  resumed.  "There  I 
sat,  thinking  all  those  horribly  bitter 
thoughts.  My  life  was  over,  I  supposed. 
Of  course  I  never  for  a  moment  imagined 
I'd  ever  see  Irene  again.  Then  came 
that  knock  on  the  door.  And,  ten  minutes 
later  I  was  a  new  man !  The  old  Jimmy 
was  dead.  I  was  beginning  life  anew — 
with  Irene !" 

On  the  credit  side  of  Jimmy's  ledger 
was  no  money  whatever,  but  a  great  deal 
of  understanding  and  love.  On  the  debit 
side  was  his  crash  into  oblivion.  He  faced 
the  most  gruelling  of  all  trails  in  show 
business — the  comeback  trail.  Many  try 
it,  but  few  succeed.  Usually,  when  a  man 
is  down  in  show  business,  he  is  out. 

Irene  advised  him  to  try  radio.  It  was 
a  new  field  for  him  and  the  ordeal  of 
starting  all  over  again  would  be  softened. 
But  Jimmy  didn't  take  her  advice  at  first. 
For  months  he  tried  to  get  a  job — until 
what  little  money  he  had  left  was  all 
gone.  Then  he  organized  a  band  and 
started  playing  in  night  clubs.  He  hoped 
that  the  night  club  broadcasts  might  lead 
to  some  radio  work,  get  him  started  in  the 
new  field.    This  hope  was  rewarded! 

From  playing  over  station  KTVL  in 
Oklahoma  City,  Jimmy  landed  a  chance  to 


go  to  Chicago  and  take  a  local  radio  com- 
mercial. That  was  the  start.  But  Jimmy 
didn't  want  to  be  an  orchestra  leader.  He 
disbanded  the  orchestra  and  landed  a  job 
doing  a  gossip  series  on  KYIV.  It  was 
a  flop — so  he  slipped  back  into  leading  an 
orchestra.  One  day  Fifi  D'Orsay,  playing 
an  engagement  in  Chicago,  stopped  to 
lunch  at  the  Medinah  Club,  where  Jimmy 
was  playing.  They  had  been  pals  in 
Jimmy's  Hollywood  heyday. 

"Go  back  to  New  York,"  she  advised 
him.  "No  matter  what  sacrifice  it  means — 
go  back  to  New  York !  You  will  never 
have  success  on  the  radio  anywhere  else." 

Jimmy  admired  Fifi  and  respected  her 
judgment.  He  took  her  advice.  He  came 
to  New  York — with  Irene.  The  first  week 
in  the  city  he  auditioned  successfully  for 
his  present  coast-to-coast  series. 

"Do  you  wonder,"  he  asked,  "why  I  tell 
you  that  each  morning,  when  I  wake  up,  I 
thank  God?" 

Funny  thing  about  the  new  Jimmy. 
When  he  was  tops  before,  they  used  to 
say  he  was  conceited.  The  way  he'd  tell 
you,  cockily :  "I  can't  miss !"  used  to 
annoy  those  who  heard  him.  He  isn't 
conceited  any  more.  He  says :  "I  can't 
miss !"  but  somehow,  it  doesn't  annoy  any- 
one now.  What  used  to  be  conceit  is  con- 
fidence. They're  a  lot  alike — yet  they're 
vastly  difi^erent.  It  would  be  hard  to  de- 
fine, unless  you  wanted  to  put  it  that,  with 
Jimmy  Hall,  the  difference  between  conceit 
and  confidence  is  Irene. 

"Goodbye,"  he  called  after  me  cheerily. 

"Good  luck,"  I  returned. 

"Thanks — I've  got  it !"  he  exulted. 
"Irene  brought  that,  too !" 


YOU  DON'T  KNOW  FRED  LIKE  I  DO 


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lipstick — and  finally  giving  it  up  as  hope- 
less and  crawling  into  bed,  telling  myself 
that,  as  far  as  I  was  concerned,  I  never 
wanted  to  see  Fred  Allen  again !  But  I 
couldn't  convince  myself  on  that  score, 
either. 

Fred  had  been  on  the  stage  a  few  years 
then  and  was  doing  a  single  in  vaudeville 
and  of  course  he'd  seen  me,  from  the  be- 
ginning, for  what  I  was — a  naive  high 
school  girl,  who  should  have  been  at  home 
studying  her  lessons !  But,  afterwards,  he 
told  Ethel,  and  Ethel  told  me,  that  that 
was  exactly  the  thing  he  liked  in  me. 

There  was  nothing  glamorous  about  our 
courtship,  no  obstacles  or  family  opposi- 
tion to  be  hurdled.  But  it  was  fun.  Even 
though  our  time  together  had  to  be  limited 
to  fit  into  both  our  schedules,  the  moments 
we  were  together  were  filled  to  the  brim 
with  laughter  and  happiness.  Maybe  it 
was  that  way  because  we  had  so  little  time 
to  see  each  other. 

My  family  were  entranced  with  Fred 
from  the  very  beginning  and  when  he's 
with  people  he  feels  close  to,  Fred  can  be 
even  funnier  than  he  is  on  a  broadcast. 
You'll  have  to  let  me  do  a  little  bragging 
about  him  here.  I've  never  known  anyone 
with  such  a  consistent  sense  of  humor  as 
his,  or  with  such  a  flair  for  twisting  the 
most  commonplace  happening  into  a  situa- 
tion that  leaves  you  gasping  with  laughter, 
or  by  lifting  a  trivial  phrase,  with  a  word 


or  a  gesture,  into  the  height  of  clowning. 

Fred  was  glad  my  family  liked  him,  be- 
cause my  mother  invited  him  often  for 
dinner  and  Fred  loves  to  eat.  To  him  a 
good  home-cooked  dinner  is  what  dining  at 
the  Ritz  would  be  to  most  people. 

My  mother's  roast  beef  and  mashed  po- 
tatoes and  lamb  stew  and  roast  chicken 
with  stuffing  and  giblet  gravy  played  very 
important  parts  in  our  courting  days  and 
they  still  do. 

On  Sundays,  when  Fred  is  up  to  his  ears 
writing  material  for  the  next  broadcast,  I 
go  out  to  spend  the  day  with  my  family 
on  Long  Island.  The  comedy  you  hear  in 
Totvn  Hall  Tonight  is  a  very  serious 
business  with  Fred  and  while  he's  in  the 
throes  of  writing  it,  it's  just  as  well  to  be 
out  of  the  way. 

So  I  leave  early  in  the  morning  and 
come  home  in  the  evening,  when  Fred  has 
finished  his  stint  and  is  a  human  being 
again.  And  I  never  get  such  a  welcome 
from  him  as  I  do  then. 

For  the  knitting  bag  I  carry  on  these 
visits  is  full  of  little  jars  and  the  jars  are 
full  of  all  the  things  Fred  likes  to  eat — 
which  Mother  packs  for  him  after  dinner. 
There  have  been  times  when  I've  looked 
like  a  last-minute  Christmas  shopper,  prac- 
tically juggling  a  lemon  meringue  pie  or  a 
chocolate  cake  on  my  nose,  when  there 
have  been  too  many  things  to  pack  them 
all  in  the  bag. 


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Our  kitchenette  isn't  big  enough  really 
to  cook  in  and  that  dismays  me  as  miicli 
as  it  does  Fred.  I  love  to  cook  but,  while 
we're  in  New  York,  breakfast  is  about  the 
only  meal  I  can  manage.  I'm  afraid  the 
space  that  is  laughingly  called  a  kitchen- 
ette in  our  apartment  was  designed  for 
drinkers  rather  than  eaters! 

But  I  have  my  innings  in  the  summer. 
There  is  the  tiny  house  in  Maine  we've 
gone  to  for  the  last  three  summers  and  I 
revert  to  domesticity  with  a  bang.  I  do 
all  the  housework  and  shopping  and  plan- 
ning and  love  it !  I  pick  blueberries  in  the 
pasture  back  of  the  house  and  use  them 
for  muffins  and  pies.  Fred  gets  caught  up 
on  reading  all  the  books  he's  been  hoarding 
since  winter  and  spends  most  of  the  day 
with  them  in  a  hammock.  And  in  the  eve- 
nings we  walk  down  to  the  pier  or  the 
beach  and  chat  with  the  friends  we've 
made  there. 

Maybe  it's  all  the  years  he's  spent  on 
the  road  that  make  Fred  such  a  home 
lover.  Maybe  it's  because  Fm  a  homebody 
myself  our  marriage  is  such  a  happy,  con- 
genial one.  One  of  the  things  that  en- 
dears radio  to  us  most  of  all  is  that  it 
enables  us  to  live  such  a  normal  existence 
and  to  keep  regular  hours.  It's  fun  be- 
ing able  to  drop  in  at  the  neighborhood 
movie  house  after  dinner  and  go  to  the 
fights  or  a  show  once  a  week.  Neither  of 
us  cares  aliout  dressing  up  or  about  for- 
mal parties  or  first  niglits  and  we  don't 
even  know  where  the  night  clubs  are  lo- 
cated. We're  always  asleep  about  the 
time  the  corks  start  popping  in  any  of 
them. 

All  of  which  makes  it  seem  very  funny 
now  that  there  was  a  time  when  I  was 
worried  about  the  life  Fd  lead  as  the  wife 
of  an  actor ! 

I  really  was  appalled  at  the  thought  of 
having  to  change  m\-  w;i.\-  of  living  to  fit 
into  the  pattern  of  the  tlieatre.  Our  family 
always  had  been  siicli  a  close-knit  one  and 
we  were  always  together.  Why.  the  first 
trunk  I  ever  owned  was  tlic  i>uv  I'red  gave 
me  when  we  were  going  to  be  married. 

What  a  thrill  it  was!  I  packed  and  un- 
packed it  ten  times  that  first  day  it  ar- 
rived and  bought  all  sorts  of  gadgets  to 
make  my  trousseau  look  more  imposing  in 
it.  Linen  hags  for  my  shoes  and  sachets 
for  my  lingerie  and  travelling  kits  of 
everything  under  the  sun,  including  an 
electric  iron,  a  whisk  broom  and  a  laundry 
rack! 

Fred  had  a  week's  lay-off,  so  we  were 
married  and  the  next  week  he  was  booked 
for  Waterbury,  Connecticut,  and  we  spent 
our  honeymoon  there — with  Fred  appear- 
ing at  the  vaudeville  house  there  and  me 
sitting  in  our  hotel  room  until  it  was  time 
to  meet  Fred  after  his  last  shuw 

There  was  a  year  of  tiiat  snit  of  thing, 
a  year  for  me  of  twiddlin";  ni\  thum))s  in 
strange  cities  and  waiulcrmt:  about  new 
towns  in  that  aw  ful  loneliness  that  comes 
from  hax  iiiii  iiotliniu  to  do  and  not  know- 
ing a  soul  t''  turn  in  in  empty  hours. 

Fred  knew  \\n\\  I  felt  and  though  he 
didn't  have  much  to  say  about  it  he  set 
about  changing  the  situation.  He  wrote  a 
part  for  me  into  his  act.  It  was  grand  of 
him,  taking  a  chance  like  that  with  an  act 
that  had  been  successful  ;is  a  single.  One 
of  the  grand  things  he's  always  doing  for 
me,  as  well  as  for  anyone  else  that  he  is 
fond  of,  and  the  grand  things  he  does  be- 
coming so  much  grander  because  there  is 


never  any  fanfare  or  fuss  or  talk  about 
doing  them. 

Fred  booked  as  a  single  for  an  engage- 
ment at  Nipinuc  Park  near  Mil  ford,  Con- 
necticut, planning  to  sneak  me  into  the 
act  after  the  first  day.  The  house  was 
playing  to  very  poor  business  as  it  was 
Labor  Day  week  and  most  of  the  suminer 
people  had  gone  back  to  the  city. 

The  next  day,  after  I  was  all  ready  to 
go  on,  I  found  m.\self  putting  on  an  extra 
la\er  of  make-up,  in  an  effort  to  bolster  up 
my  courage,  when  the  old  man  who  owned 
the  theatre  appeared  at  our  dressing-room 
door. 

"Jest  a  minute  folks !"  He  drawled  in 
the  nasal  twang  Fred  steals  from  him  to 
this  (la\  wlien  he  is  portraying  a  rube 
character.  "I  'm  jest  going  down  to  the  cor- 
ner to  meet  the  next  trolley  car  and  see  if 
there  are  enough  folks  to  make  it  worth 
while  openin.g  the  theayter." 

There  weren't — and  Fred  insisted  that 
the  town  had  had  word  that  I  was  appear- 
ing. 

That's  the  reason  I  made  my  debut  in 
New  York  at  the  Coliseum.  I  was  stand- 
ing in  the  wings,  waiting  for  my  cue  to  go 
on  and  watching  Fred  out  there  on  the 
stage  and  enxying  him  his  absolute  lack  of 
self  consciousness,  when  I  was  suddenly 
swept  off  my  feet  by  the  laughter  and  ap- 
plause of  the  audience.  Fred  never  had 
had  such  an  ovation  before.  It  was  just 
one  of  those  things  that  happen  in  show 
business.  Suddenly,  after  years,  you  click 
and  you  know  in  that  moment  that  you 
have  clicked.  That  you're  set  from  then 
on. 

I  began  to  cry  from  sheer  happiness 
and  then  it  was  my  turn  to  go  on  and 
somehow  I  managed  to  hold  back  my  sobs. 
But  Fred  was  terribly  disturbed  when  he 
saw  that  my  eyes  were  red  and  blurred 
and  was  so  sure  somebody  back  stage  had 
insulted  me  that  he  was  ready  to  tear  into 
everything  and  everybody,  until  we  had 
made  our  bows  and  I  could  tell  him  what 
it  was  all  about. 

That  was  the  beginning  of  the  swell 
years  that  followed,  the  beginning  of  Fred's 
reputation  as  a  stellar  comedian  and  his 
engagements  in  The  Little  Show  and 
Three's  a  Croivd. 

It  was  feally  when  Fred's  success  came 
in  a  big  way  that  I  began  realizing  how 
simple  his  tastes  were.  Even  when  we 
were  appearing  in  revues  on  Broadway, 
having  to  keep  the  topsy-turvy  hours  stage 
people  do,  we  lived  as  simply  as  any  office 
workers. 

When  Libby  Holman  was  to  open  at  the 
Lido  Club  for  a  special  engagement,  it 
took  frantic  urging  on  both  her  part  and 
mine  to  persuade  Fred  to  come  to  the 
opening.  I  bought  my  llrst  evening  gown 
and  w  rap  ftir  the  affair.  I  had  never  nee<led 
one  before.  I'red  came  in  the  tu.vedo  he 
wore  on  the  st.ige. 

I  was  trying  my  best  to  live  up  to  our 
unaccustomed  finery  and  being  very  ele- 
gant in  the  taxi,  when  Fred,  taking  his 
inoney  out  to  pay  the  driver,  pulled  out 
with  it  the  pack  of  prop  cards  he  used  in 
his  act,  and  they  went  spilling  all  over  the 
sidewalk ! 

.\  horrified  doorman  in  full  uniform 
helped  him  pick  them  up,  to  the  very  polite 
amusement  of  the  carriage  trade,  and  we 
'sailed  into  the  club,  where  a  very  iin- 
posing  head  waiter  fold  us  that  they  only 
held  reservations   until   eleven-thirty  and 


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All  our  grand  preparations  for  this  I 
Fred  was  furious,  but  we  went  home  and 
had  a  grand  time  with  Jack  Haley  and  his 
wife,  who  lived  in  our  apartment  house. 
Over  beer  and  sandwiches  Fred  took  off 
his  coat  and  I  kicked  off  my  slippers  and 
pulled  off  my  dress  and  put  on  one  of 
my  hostess'  bungalow  aprons  and  her  bed- 
room slippers — and  the  Aliens  felt  like 
themselves  again.  Our  first  evening  out 
ended  in  our  walking  up  the  back  stairs  in 
our  borrowed  clothes,  an  hilarious  Cinder- 
ella with  her  wisecracking  prince  ! 

And  I  never  had  a  chance  to  wear  my 
grand  dress  again  until  we  went  to  Europe, 
a  couple  of  years  later. 

We've  been  married  nine  years  now, 
Fred  and  I,  and  they  have  been  full,  excit- 
ing years  that  haven't  had  to  depend  on  ar- 
tificial entertainment  to  make  them  joyous 
ones.  It's  as  thrilling  now  to  slip  into  a 
movie  theatre  with  Fred,  and  sit  there  hold- 
ing hands  through  the  feature,  as  it  was  in 
our  courting  days. 

Fred  wouldn't  like  it  at  all  if  you  were 
to  think  I'm  tr\ing  to  make  him  out  the 
ideal  husband.  And  in  some  ways  I  sup- 
pose he  isn't.  The  perfect  husband  al- 
ways remembers  anniversaries  and  holi- 
days with  appropriate  gifts  and  messages 
of  sentiment,  doesn't  he? 

Well,  if  Fred  remembers  an  anniversary, 
he  gives  me  a  check  and  tells  me  to  buy 
what  I  want  with  it.  Once  he  brought  me 
four  pink  roses  on  my  birthday  and  I  was 
so  touched  I  knew  that  I  was  going  to 
cry !  But  I  didn't  dare  to  in  front  of  him, 
so  I  had  to  shed  my  tears  in  the  bathroom. 

Fred  isn't  sentimental.  Christmas 
doesn't  mean  any  more  to  him  than  any 
other  day,  and  in  the  first  years  when  we 
were  married  I  know  he  thought  it  was 
silly  of  me  to  make  such  a  fuss  over  it, 
buying  all  sorts  of  silly,  useless  things  and 
decorating  our  living-room  with  holly  and 
poinsettias.  Then,  one  year,  I  didn't  do 
anything  about  it  at  all.  Somehow  it  didn't 
seem  much  fun,  with  Fred  not  caring  about 
it,  Fred  didn't  say  a  thing,  but,  late  on 
Christmas  Eve,  he  came  home  with  a  for- 
lorn looking  holly  wreath — that  was  the 


only  one  the  store  had  left — and  tacked  it 
up  on  the  door  himself. 

It's  things  like  that  that  make  Fred  what 
he  is.  He  sort  of  felt  that  he  had  taken 
something  away  from  me  by  his  lack  of 
interest  in  holidays  and  it  hurt  him  to  see 
that  I  wasn't  making  preparations  as  I  had 
done  in  other  years.  And  I'll  always  re- 
member the  thing  he  did  for  Ethel  Shutta's 
birthday,  back  in  those  days  when  we  had 
first  met. 

He  invited  us  up  to  his  hotel  room  after 
the  show  and  both  of  us  choked  when  we 
saw  the  preparations  he'd  made.  A  table 
was  set  for  three  and  on  each  plate  was 
a  paper  hat  made  from  newspaper  and  in 
the  center  of  the  table  was  a  coffee  ring 
with  three  thick  utilitarian  candles  stuck  in 
it.  He  insisted  he'd  done  it  for  a  gag  but 
I  don't  believe  it  any  more  today  than  I 
did  then ! 

For,  although  Fred  isn't  the  least  bit  sen- 
timental, he  has  an  awful  lot  of  sentiment 
where  anyone  close  to  him  is  concerned. 

That's  the  reason  he's  always  so  gentle 
with  the  amateurs  that  appear  on  his  pro- 
gram, the  reason  he  never  hurts  them  with 
wisecracks  or  glib  remarks.  Fred  feels 
very  close  to  those  youngsters,  because  he 
started  out  as  an  amateur  himself  and 
knows  all  the  fears  and  stage-fright 
they're  going  through. 

He's  loyal  to  his  friends  and  though  he 
doesn't  make  friends  as  easily  as  most 
people  do,  he  holds  them  longer  and  will 
come  through  for  them  when  they  need  it. 
And  he  can't  stand  seeing  anyone,  even  an 
almost  total  stranger,  in  trouble — can't 
pass  a  panhandler  on  the  street. 

Fred  doesn't  send  me  corsages  of  big, 
fat  expensive  Park  Avenue  gardenias,  but 
every  once  in  a  while  he'll  pull  out  of  his 
pocket  a  cluster  of  those  little,  cheap  ones, 
beginning  to  go  brown  and  curly  at  the 
edges,  and  give  them  to  me.  And  some- 
how they  mean  so  much  more  than  those 
huge  grand  ones  possibly  could — for  I 
know  the  bill  he  slipped  into  the  hand  of 
the  woman  selling  them  on  the  corner  was 
twice  as  much  as  the  one  he  would  have 
given  the  fashionable  florist  on  the  Avenue. 

You  see  that's  the  way  Fred  is. 


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(Continued  from  page  37) 


of  us  lose  interest  in  a  thing  after  it  is 
thoroughly  familiar.  "Watch  a  man  work 
a  crossword  puzzle,"  he  suggests.  "That 
man,  or  woman,  will  work  with  great 
interest  until  the  last  square  has  been 
filled  in,  the  last  word  discovered  and 
written  down.  Then  the  puzzle  is  tossed 
into  the  scrap-basket.  It's  as  old  and 
uninteresting  as  last  week's  news.  The 
psychology  is  the  same  in  relationships 
between  men  and  women. 

"If  you  want  to  hold  your  mate,  you 
must  remain  something  of  a  puzzle  to  him. 
He  must  never  think  that  he  knows  all  the 
answers.  There  must  always  be  some- 
thing more  to  learn  about  you,  something 
to  be  desired.  You  cannot  achieve  this 
by  tricks,  by  surprising  him  with  the 
unexpected.  It  isn't  as  simple  as  that. 
Its  secret  lies  in  making  your  husband 
feel  that,  though  you  are  secure  in  each 
other's  love,  you  must  constantly  be  won 


again.  There  should  always  be  small 
reserves  to  overcome,  small  reticences  for 
him  to  conquer.  He  wins  you  today — 
but  there  is  always  tomorrow." 

The  Voice  of  Experience  believes,  too, 
that  the  girl  who  wants  to  attract  men, 
the  girl  who  would  like  to  marry,  will 
benefit  by  taking  a  leaf  from  her  grand- 
mother's notebook.  Sex  is  screamed  from 
the  printed  page,  from  stage  and  screen. 
Feminine  pulchritude  is  paraded  brazenly 
before  men  constantly.  It's  become  com- 
monplace. 

"If  every  day  were  Flag  Day,"  says 
Mr.  Taylor,  "we  wouldn't  yell  'Hooray!' 
when  the  flag  passed  by.  Soon  we'd  hardly 
notice  it.  Women  have  flaunted  their 
charms  so  constantly,  so  boldly,  men 
scarcely  turn  to  look.  The  girl  who  cul- 
tivates a  few  old-fashioned  reserves  will 
find  she  has  a  charm  for  the  average  man 
that  her  ultra-modern  sister  lacks." 


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Mr.  Taylor  believes  that  in  this  era  of 
"freedom  for  women,"  and  "self-expres- 
sion." the  girl  has  handicapped  herself  by 
adopting  too  many  of  the  petty  vices  of 
the  male  sex.  Neither  does  he  limit  these 
"petty  vices"  to  immodesty  and  boldness. 
He  says :  "One  of  her  most  serious  mis- 
takes was  in  developing  male  loquacity. 

"Men  love  to  talk  and  most  of  them 
are  bored  listening.  A  man  is  happiest 
when  discussing  his  own  exploits.  But 
the  modern  young  woman — eager  to  im- 
press with  her  own  wit  and  cleverness — 
fails  to  capitalize  on  this  fact. 

"Most  girls  think  that,  in  order  to  in- 
terest a  man,  they  must  be  wise-cracking, 
quick  with  'snappy  come-backs.'  But  they 
are  wrong.  The  boy  out  on  a  date  doesn't 
want  to  go  home  with  the  thought :  'How 
clever  she  is !'  but  with  the  conviction : 
'How  clever  I  am!' 

"A  wise  girl  will  recapture  the  art  of 
listening  that  her  \'ictorian  grandmother 
found  so  valuable.  One  question  is  usu- 
ally sufficient  to  start  her  beau  off  on  a 
long  dissertation.  He  will  tell  her  of  his 
achievements,  his  conquests,  his  hopes  and 
ambitions.  In  what  ways  he  is  superior 
to  his  fellow  men  and  how  that  superi- 
ority marks  him  for  success.  She  will 
look  amazed,  astounded,  impressed,  in- 
terrupting his  monologue  only  to  breathe 
an  occasional  'oh'  and  'ah.'  If,  by  chance, 
the  speaker  lags  or  runs  out  of  material, 
she  w^ill  refresh  his  imagination  with  an- 
other question — and  he's  off  again. 

"He  leaves  her  that  evening  feeling  that 
he  is,  indeed,  a  fine  feller!  That,  while 
others  don't  appreciate  him,  there,  cer- 
tainly, is  one  person  who  does.  What  an 
interesting  girl !" 

The  Voice  of  Experience  warns, 
though,  that  after  you've  won  a  hus- 
band with  this  technique,  you  can't  sud- 
denly stop  playing  the  game.  You  must 
continue  to  "oh"  and  "ah"  over  his  yarns 
of  self-exploitation.  Many  a  wife  has 
started  a  trip  to  Reno  when  she  was  scorn- 
ful to  a  bragging  mate. 

"If  you  aren't  willing  to  listen  to  your 
husband  talk,  remember  some  other  woman 
is.  If  he  thinks  his  stories  aren't  appre- 
ciated at  home,  he's  sure  to  find  a  pair 
of  sympathetic  ears  elsewhere.  It's  far 
easier  to  avoid  a  triangle  than  to  square 
one." 

As  to  triangles,  however,  Mr.  Taylor 
believes  that  married  people  are  apt  to 
take  them  too  hard.  If  a  woman  finds  her 
husband  is  involved  with  another  woman, 
»f  a  husband  discovers  his  wife  is  inter- 
tsted  in  another  man,  immediately  divorce 
.s  considered. 

The  Voice  of  Experience  will  even  go 
so  far  as  to  say  that  he  believes  many 
situations,  not  legally  recognized,  are 
more  reasonable  grounds  for  divorce  than 
is  the  existence  of  a  triangle.  And  he 
also  believes  that  if  the  "wronged"  part- 
ner would  keep  his  or  her  head  and  at- 
tempt calmly  to  discover  the  cause  for 
the  triangle's  existence,  then,  if  possible, 
to  eradicate  that  cause,  many  marriages 
would  be  saved. 

"If  you  suspect  that  your  mate  is  in- 
terested in  another  person,"  he  says,  "adopt 
a  policy  of  watchful  waiting  for  a  while, 
free  from  any  signs  of  jealousy  or  sus- 
picion. The  fancy  may  pass.  But  if,  and 
when,  you  feel  that  the  matter  must  be 
brought  into  the  open,  discuss  it  with 
your  mate  and  act  as  if  the  situation  were 


entirely  your  fault;  that  your  erring  hus- 
band, or  wife,  was  doing  the  natural  thing 
in  seeking  attention  and  love  elsewhere 
than  at  your  side.  I  cannot  stress  too 
much  the  importance  of  this  attitude.  As 
soon  as  you  begin  to  blame,  get  hysterical, 
criticize,  or  cry  your  story  to  friends  and 
neighbors,  you  are  lost.  If  you  must  tell 
somebody,  confide  in  your  priest  or  minis- 
ter, your  doctor,  or  any  other  impartial 
third  party." 

It's  as  this  "impartial  third  party" 
that  the  Voice  of  Experience  has  done  his 
greatest  work.  The  work  began,  long  be- 
fore radios  were  invented,  when  Clarion 
Sayle  Taylor  had  to  discontinue  his  chosen 
career  of  surgery  because  his  hands  were 
smashed  in  an  auto  accident.  He  went  to 
work  as  a  bacteriologist  in  the  City  Health 
Department  of  Seattle.  There  he  became 
interested  in  juvenile  delinquency,  causes 
of  degeneracy,  and  other  problems  of  be- 
havior. 

Psychiatry  then  was  just  a  foolish  no- 
tion. People  closed  their  eyes  to  sex 
problems  and  met  delinquency  with  moral 
talks.  There  were  no  laboratories  where 
a  young  scientist  could  experiment  with 
social  problems.  So  Taylor  found  his  own 
laboratory. 

He  went  into  the  toughest  section  of 
the  Barbary  Coast  in  San  Francisco.  He 
lived  in  these  slums,  used  the  red-light 
district  as  his  experiment  station,  made 
friends  with  crooks,  degenerates  and  pros- 
titutes who  confided  in  him. 

He  says  that  during  his  years  there 
he  asked  everjone  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact :  "Where  did  you  first  learn  about 
sex?"  And  all  but  a  few  answered  bit- 
terly:   "In  the  gutter!" 

He  recorded  and  charted  all  his  infor- 
mation with  the  care  of  a  true  scientist 
and  emerged  after  four  years'  hard  work 
with  a  mass  of  facts,  evidence  and  the- 
ories and  an  intense  desire  to  fight  the 
existing  ignorance  of  social  problems. 

From  his  itinerant  preacher  father  he 
had  inherited  a  fine  voice  and  the  gift 
of  eloquence.  So  on  the  lecture  platform 
he  began  his  fight  for  se.x  education  and 
a  better  understanding  of  social  needs. 

He  saw  a  microphone  for  the  first  time 
in  1921,  when  the  owner  of  a  small  sta- 
tion in  Spokane  invited  him  to  speak.  Dur- 
ing the  years  that  followed  he  talked 
frequently  over  local  stations  throughout 
the  country.  He  was  immediately  won 
by  the  medium  of  radio  because  he,  as 
a  voice  rather  than  a  person,  could  dis- 
cuss intimate  problems  without  embarrass- 
ing his  audience. 

It  wasn't  until  1932,  when  IVOR  put 
him  on  a  sustaining  program,  that  he  got 
a  whack  at  Big  Time  radio.  From  the 
large  independent  New  York  station  it  was 
but  a  short  step  to  a  national  hookup. 

Today,  in  response  to  his  program  spon- 
sored by  Wasey  products  over  \RC,  he 
receives  about  50,000  letters  a  month.  And 
each  letter  is  a  cry  for  help.  Sometimes 
it's  help  that  can  be  furnished  by  the 
Voice  of  Experience  Charity  Fund,  into 
which  Taylor  puts  all  profits  from  the 
sale  of  his  books  and  pamphlets. 

However,  most  of  the  time  it  isn't  fi- 
nancial aid  the  writer  seeks,  but  the  an- 
swer to  a  question.  "My  husband  has 
left  me — My  wife  is  in  love  with  another 
man — I've  been  jilted — I'm  too  lonely— 
What  shall  I  do?"  And  to  each  question  , 
the  \'oice  of  Experience  gives  an  answer.  I 


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watching  others  lihat  charm  and  poise  can  be  destroyed 
instantly  by  the  misuse  of  hands.  And  by  the  same 
token,  ihe  comet  use  of  your  hands  can  become  a  tre- 
mendous social  and  business  asset.  Great  actresses 
accomplish  much  of  their  poise  by  proper  hand  action. 

The  makers  of  Frostilla— the  famous  skin  lotion  that 
keeps  hands,  face  and  body  smooth  and  lovely— asked 
Margery  Wilson,  the  international  authority  on  charm 
and  poise,  to  tell 

•  how  to  hold  a  cigarette 

•  how  to  pick  up  cards 

•  how  to  shake  hands 

•  and  how  to  make  hands  behave  to  the 
best  advantage  on  all  occasions 

Margery  Wilson  gives  the  authoritative  answers  to 
these  and  other  questions  in  an  illustrated  booklet  on 
How  to  Use  Your  Hands  Correctly.  Although  this 
booklet  is  priced  at  50c,  we  have  arranged  to  present 
it  uithout  charge  xo  Frostilla  users  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada  untU  May  30th.  1937. 

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462  Gray  Street.  Elmira.  N.  Y. 
Enclosed  is  Frostilla  box  front— there- 
fore send  me  my  copy  of  Margery 
Wilson's  book  on  bands. 


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her  close  friendship  with  Fayette  Krum, 
author  of  the  script,  it  may  be  because  she 
feels  herself  so  closely  identified  with  Pat 
Ryan,  heroines  of  the  serial  .  .  . 

When  an  actress  says  she  has  identified 
herself  with  her  part  to  such  an  extent 
that  she  hardly  knows  where  she  leaves 
ofif  and  the  part  begins,  we  take  it  with 
a  shrug  or  a  smile  or  a  sneer,  according 
to  our  natures.  But  when  Betty  says 
so,  she  has  more  reason  than  most.  When 
Fayette  Krum  first  created  Pat  Ryan,  she 
had  no  particular  girl  in  mind.  But  since 
Betty  has  been  playing  it,  either  she  has 
grown  to  fit  the  part  as  Fayette  conceived 
it — or  Fayette  has  altered  it  to  fit  her 
charming  leading  lady.  In  any  case,  au- 
thor and  actress  have  become  warmly 
attached  to  each  other  and  each  sings 
the  other's  praises  ardently  and  sin- 
cerely. And  when  Fayette  says :  "Betty 
is  Pat,  exactly  as  I  have  imagined  her," 
you  may  be  sure  she  means  it.  And  so, 
quite  naturally,  Betty  feels  the  same  way 
about  it. 

The  heroine  of  Girl  Alone  is  a  young 
heiress,  Patricia  Rogers,  who,  wearied  of 
society,  takes  the  name  Pat  Ryan  and  be- 
comes a  newspaper  reporter.  Pat,  in 
addition  to  her  many  adventures,  has  two 
suitors.  Her  main  object  in  living  in- 
cognito is  to  win  an  honest,  unselfish  love 
and  now  she  is  in  a  quandary — how  shall 
she  choose  between  Scoop  Curtis,  fellow 
reporter,  and  John  Knight,  older,  more 
settled,  completely  charming?  It  is  a 
problem  beloved  of  fans  the  world  over — 
an  intriguing  triangle  against  the  varied 
background  of  the  newspaper  world. 

When  Girl  Alone  was  taken  off  the 
NBC  network  last  summer,  left  stranded 
with  only  a  local  outlet,  a  terrific  outcry 
was  heard  through  the  land.  Consider- 
ably surprised,  the  powers  that  be  saw 
that  something  had  to  be  done  about  it — 
and  something  was.  The  fans  heaved  a 
sigh  of  relief  and  took  up  their  pens 
again,  this  time  in  thanksgiving.  Girl 
Alone  was  theirs  again,  at  the  twist  of 
the  dial.  Perhaps  it  is  that  record-break- 
ing fan  mail  that  brings  the  added  glow 
to  Betty's  cheeks,  the  bright  sparkle  to 
her  eyes,  perhaps  it  is  just  her  own  in- 
terest in  the  gay  adventures  of  Pat  Ryan. 

"You  can't  do  anything  well  that  you 
don't  like,"  Betty  says  simply. 

And  this  is  her  favorite  part,  but  there 
are  others  you  hear  her  in,  and  she  does 
thein  equally  well. 

It  is  a  long  time  since  she  decided  that 
she  liked  to  act,  in  fact  so  long  that  she 
is  not  quite  sure  when  she  made  the  mo- 
mentous decision.  Her  parents  are  non- 
theatrical  people,  but  at  an  early  age  Betty 
displayed  a  talent  for  reciting  and  they 
saw  no  reason  for  not  fostering  it.  So 
Betty  spoke  her  little  pieces  and  sang  her 
little  songs.  And  went  to  kindergarten 
and  grammar  school  and  high  school.  And 
whenever  a  play  was  put  on,  Betty  was 
in  it.  She  took  it  all  very  seriously,  was 
thrilled  to  be  chosen  to  play  the  lead  in 
the  senior  play  and  worked  9n  her  role 
like  a  trouper. 

The  next  step  was  stock.  At  seventeen, 
she  was  playing  leads  in  the  Cleveland 


repertory  theatre.  And  the  next  Step, 
inevitably,  was  radio. 

Radio  has  proved  to  be  youth's  golden 
opportunity.  It  offers  an  exciting  life, 
glamorous,  profitable — and  no  one  sees 
the  drudgery.  To  the  uninitiated,  it  seems 
that  success  comes  easy.  But  in  reality, 
it  is  exacting  work.  You  have  to  be  on 
your  toes,  you  have  to  conserve  your 
health  and  strength,  you  have  to  put  your 
work  first  and  fit  pleasure  and  relaxation 
into  your  crowded  program  of  rehearsals 
and  broadcasts  as  best  you  can.  To  the 
average  pleasure-loving  young  girl,  it 
would  soon  be  boring,  far  from  exciting. 

Consider,  for  instance,  the  case  of  Betty. 
She  works  nine  hours  a  day.  In  the  last 
three  years,  a  three-day  vacation  is  the 
longest  she  has  had.  She  lives  quietly 
at  home  with  her  father  and  mother,  en- 
joys a  week-end  in  the  country,  was 
excited  over  her  initiation  as  a  fisherman 
under  the  tutelage  of  Mrs.  Krum.  Her 
first  radio  part  was  in  The  Trial  of 
Vivian  Ware,  broadcast  from  Cleveland. 
After  a  few  months,  she  went  to  Chicago 
and  decided  to  try  her  luck  at  the  NBC 
studios.  Luck  was  with  her  and  she  was 
soon  cast  in  the  Betty  and  Bob  series. 
She  has  played  a  variety  of  parts  since 
then,  among  them  the  telephone  operator 
in  the  Grand  Hotel  program,  and  Esther 
Ferguson  in  the  IVelcome  Valley  program. 
The  busier  she  is,  the  better  she  likes  it. 
For  if  it  is  hard  work,  it  has  its  com- 
pensations. 

Some  day,  she  says,  she  may  reach  a 
sense  of  completion  in  her  work,  may 
feel  a  desire  for  new  fields  to  conquer. 
But  she  admits  candidly  that  day  is  far 
off. 

"I  am  not  setting  up  a  goal,"  she  in- 
sisted. "I  am  afraid  to — afraid  I  might 
not   attain   it !" 

Betty  is  in  great  demand  at  the  studio 
these  days  and  has  been  sought  out  by 
the  movies,  too,  but  she  still  does  not 
call  it  success,  still  feels  that  she  has 
just  started  and  still  works  indefatigably 
to  attain  the  goal  she  doesn't  dare  define. 

The  fact  that  she  is  an  only  child  and 
that  life  has  always  been  easy,  pleasant, 
has  proved  no  handicap  to  Betty.  To 
her  parents  must  go  the  credit  that  she 
meets  life  squarely  and  asks  no  favors. 

In  spite  of — or  perhaps  because  of — 
the  fact  that  she  has  no  brothers  and 
sisters,  Betty  adores  children. 

"They  are  my  favorite  people,"  she 
said  softly.  "They  are  so  real  and  sin- 
cere, so  unaffected  .  .  ." 

Those  are  her  favorite  characteristics 
in  people  of  any  age — and  that  is  the 
sort  of  a  girl  she  is  herself.  And,  per- 
haps because  like  attracts  like,  that  is  the 
kind  of  people  she  has  found  in  radio. 
Radio  people  work  with  each  other,  she 
explained,  and  not  against  each  other. 

"There  isn't  room  for  jealousy  or  tem- 
perament," she  went  on.  "At  least,  I've 
seen  very  little  of  either.  And  it  is 
grand,  working  day  after  day  with  people 
you  like  and  respect." 

But  beneath  tiie  dark  waves  of  her  hair 
must  be  thoughts  of  something  besides 
work,  besides  career.   Betty  is  definitely 


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the  romantic  type,  the  dreamer.  She  has 
lots  of  imagination — which  is  one  reason 
why  she  is  such  a  good  actress.  And  in 
spite  of  her  denials  and  her  ready,  spark- 
ling wit,  she  must  have  some  moments  of 
sentimental  dreaming. 

But  just  try  to  pin  her  down  as 
to  what  those  dreams  might  be,  or  whom 
they  might  concern!  Marriage?  Of 
course,  some  day — and  lots  of  children ! 
But— 

"I  am  restless,"  she  confessed.  "I  don't 
want  to  be  tied  down  just  yet." 

As  to  the  kind  of  man  she  likes  best, 
she  smiled  whimsically.  "Ugly,  attrac- 
tive men — I've  passed  the  stage  where  I 
just  like  to  look  at  them!" 

When  she  was  fifteen  and  just  embark- 
ing upon  her  career,  a  kindly  friend  warned 
her  against  life  in  the  theatre,  of  the 
dangers  lurking  backstage  and  around 
stage  doors  for  a  pretty,  unsophisticated 
girl.  "You  are  too  nice  for  that  sort 
of  life,"  he  insisted. 

"I  was  all  agog,"  Betty  laughed,  "look- 
ing for  pitfalls,  expecting  temptation — 
but  I  am  afraid  I  must  not  be  attractive, 
alluring  enough!  There  weren't  any  pit- 
falls !"  She  looked  at  me,  her  dark  eyes 
merry.      "I  would   have   liked  just  one 


pitfall — one  big  temptation  to  conquer!" 

But,  seriously,  she  is  too  nice  a  girl  to 
have  to  worry  about  that  sort  of  thing. 
If  her  counsellor  had  been  truly  discern- 
ing, he  would  have  seen  that  she  did  not 
need  his  advice.  For  she  is  steady,  serene, 
well-balanced.  She  has  beauty  and  brains 
and  a  sense  of  humor — and  you  can't  very 
well  trip  up  a  girl  like  that. 

Seeing  her  before  the  microphone,  intent 
on  reading  her  lines,  herself  submerged 
in  the  character  of  Pat,  or  seeing  her  a 
few  moments  later,  relaxed,  gay,  the 
nervous  tension  that  precedes  each  broad- 
cast dismissed  with  a  laugh,  you  see  what 
artists  and  writers  mean  wlien  they  paint 
or  describe  the  "typical  American  girl." 
Radio  fans  have  sensed  it  and  taken  her 
to  their  hearts.  She  is  the  daughter  older 
ones  wish  they  had  had,  sister  and  sweet- 
heart of  the  younger. 

She  is  well  content  with  things  as  they 
are  and  at  the  same  time  eager  for  the 
adventures  yet  to  come.  It  is  a  bright 
road  that  lies  ahead  of  her — she  won't 
take  the  wrong  fork  or  make  any  silly 
blunders.  And  when  the  "ugly,  fascinat- 
ing man"  steps  into  the  picture,  she  will 
find  a  newer,  more  complete  happiness 
than  any  she  has  known ! 


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THE  TRUE  STORY  OF  JOAN  AND  DICK 

(Continued  from  page  21) 


guard  so  jealously  from  others. 

That  was  the  way  they  got  to  know 
each  other.  As  loyal,  grand  people,  as 
good  troupers  and  generous  friends. 

But  it  was  only  after  trouble  came  to 
Joan  in  her  marriage  that  they  really  be- 
came friends.  Dick,  always  so  vulnerable 
where  other  people's  unhappiness  is  con- 
cerned, felt  drawn  to  Joan  in  hers.  He 
knew  how  happy  she  had  been  in  that 
marriage,  and  he  knew,  too,  the  joy  that 
had  come  to  her  when  her  baby  was  born. 

The  joyous,  carefree  girl  he  had  knov>n 
was  changing  there  before  his  eyes.  He 
saw  her  creep  into  her  dressing-room 
between  scenes  and,  for  all  the  lavish 
make-up  she  had  on  when  she  came  to  the 
set  again,  he  saw  the  traces  of  the  tears 
she  could  not  wholly  remove. 

He  heard  that  ready  tongue  of  hers 
stilled  and  missed  the  laughter  that  had 
always  come  so  spontaneously  before.  And 
the  quick  flashes  of  humor,  the  smart 
comebacks,  the  raillery  that  had  always 
been  on  her  lips  were  gone. 

But  as  much  as  he  missed  all  those 
things  and  as  much  as  he  missed  that 
carefree  girl  he  had  liked  so  much,  he 
liked  this  new  girl  even  better  than  he  had 
the  old  one.  He  saw  all  the  new  things 
that  had  come  to  take  the  place  of  all 
the  old  ones  that  were  gone.  The  unex- 
pected seriousness  that  showed  all  the 
hidden  depths  in  her,  the  sympathy  she 
might  have  been  using  on  herself  going 
out,  instead,  to  anyone  else  who  was 
troubled. 

Dick  understood  the  thing  she  was  feel- 
ing. Knew  the  pain  of  learning  those 
things  Joan  was  learning  now.  After  all, 
he  had  been  through  it  all  himself.  Al- 
ways sympathetic,  Dick  had  become  doubly 


so  with  Joan,  having  had  to  walk  before 
her,  that  same,  torturing  path  she  was 
walking  now. 

There  weren't  many  people  outside  of 
his  friends  in  his  own  home  town  who 
knew  about  Dick's  first  marriage.  It  had 
crashed  before  he  had  started  his  career. 
But  he  told  Joan  about  it  then. 

She  was  grateful  for  that  confidence. 
It  made  it  easier,  somehow,  knowing  that 
Dick  had  once  felt  the  way  she  was  feel- 
ing now  and  that  years  had  gone  by  and 
in  the  end  laughter  and  all  those  other  lost 
things  had  come  back  again  to  him. 

All  right  for  other  people  who  never 
had  gone  through  it  themselves  to  tell 
her :  "Oh,  come  now,  Joan.  Buck  up.  It'll 
pass.  In  a  year  or  so  you'll  forget  all 
about  it." 

It  was  different  when  Dick  could  say 
so  quietly : 

"It  will  pass,  Joan.  In  the  beginning, 
when  it  happened  to  me,  I  thought  I'd 
never  get  over  it.  But  then  days  passed 
and  months  and  one  morning  I  woke  up 
and  thought :  'Gee,  what  a  swell  day  for 
a  round  of  golf  at  the  club.'  And  some- 
time that  afternoon  I  realized  with  some- 
thing of  a  shock  that  I  hadn't  thought  of 
her  all  day.  And  after  that  I  thought  of 
her  less  and  less  and  then  it  didn't  hurt 
so  much  to  remember,  and  one  fine  day  I 
realized  my  heart  wasn't  broken  at  all. 
That  it  was  marvelous  to  be  alive.  I  was 
happy  again!" 

So  Joan  began  seeing  Dick  differently, 
too.  Dick,  whom  she  had  always  looked 
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seem  to  give  a  thought  to  anything  in 
the  world  but  having  a  good  time.  Dick, 
whose  name  had  been  coupled  with  more 
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wood.  Whose  words  had  always  come  so 
lightly  and  effortlessly. 

And  she  liked  this  new  Dick  better,  too. 
This  Dick  whose  words  came  so  slowly 
now  in  his  effort  to  tind  the  ri.eht  ones  to 
help  her.  This  Dick,  who  didn't  run  after 
her  as  other  friends  did.  wlien  she  felt  she 
just  had  to  have  a  minute  with  herself  to 
find  the  courage  to  go  on  again. 

No,  it  was  ne\er  Dick  who  found  her 
when  she  crept  into  a  corner,  who  took 
her  hand  and  said  gaily :  "Come  on  now, 
Joan.  So-and-so's  telling  the  most  mar- 
velous story.    You'll  laugh  and  laugh!" 

And  it  wasn't  Dick  who  chided  her  when 
her  ej-es  looked  as  if  she'd  been  having 
a  pretty  had  time  with  herself  or  who 
looked  uncomfortable  when  she  didn't 
have  much  to  say. 

All  Dick  did  was  to  talk  to  her  when 
she  wanted  to  talk,  and  sit  quietly  there 
beside  her  when  she  didn't. 

So  it  does  seem  inevitable  that  they 
should  have  become  friends,  doesn't  it? 
Inevitable  that  they  should  have  fallen  in 
love. 

Out  of  all  Hollywood  Dick  wanted  Joan 
for  his  wife.  For  years  he  had  been  looked 
on  as  a  super  play  boy,  a  gay  bachelor 
who  specialized  in  hearts.  There  were  all 
the  whispers  about  his  romance  with  Mary 
Brian.  There  were  all  the  other  names 
coupled  with  his,  too.  There  was  hardly 
a  night  when  he  wasn't  at  the  Trocadero 
dancing  with  some  lovely  young  thing. 

But  when  it  came  to  marriage,  it  wasn't 
one  of  those  gay  girls  Dick  Powell  chose 
to  share  his  life.  It  was  a  young  mother 
Dick  fell  in  love  with.  A  woman  who  had 
known  her  own  measure  of  disappointment 
and  pain.  A  girl  who  was  gallant  and 
knew  how  to  take  life  on  the  chin. 

She  was  such  a  grand  girl,  that  Joan, 
who  discovered  she  was  in  love  with 
Dick.  For  there  was  the  old  Joan  and  the 
new  Joan  all  mingled  together  in  a  girl 
who  had  found  that  lost  laughter  of  hers 
again  and  there  were  all  the  old  kidding 
words  coming  back  to  her  lips,  together 
with  all  the  wise,  new  ones  she  had 
learned  for  herself. 

Everyone  in  Hollywood  was  so  happy 
with  them.  Every  eye  in  the  studio  would 
follow  them  wistfully  and  maybe  envy 
them  just  a  little,  the  grand  time  they  were 
having  together.  And  when  Dick  went  on 
his  broadcast  of  HoUyivood  Hotel,  every- 
body talked  about  how  well  he  was  singing. 

Well,  why  shouldn't  he  be  singing  bet- 
ter than  he  ever  had  before?  Didn't  Joan 
love  him  !  Wasn't  he  sitting  on  top  of  the 
world ! 

The  day  they  went  for  their  marriage 
license  in  the  Los  .\ngeles  County  Court 
House,  Dick  and  Joan  looked  happier  than 
any  two  people  had  a  right  to  look. 

"Gosh,  sonny,  I  can't,"  Joan  said  shakily 
when  a  youngster  thrust  an  autograph 
book  at  her.  "It's  going  to  take  all  I've 
got  to  put  my  autograph  on  that  license 
when  I  get  upstairs." 

And  she  laughed  and  the  crowd  laughed 
with  her. 

She  appeared  with  Dick  on  his  broad- 
cast a  few  evenings  later  and  that  same 
night  they  were  married  on  the  ship  that 
was  taking  them  to  New  York  on  their 
honeymoon.  And  all  the  other  passengers 
seemed  rlravvn  together  in  a  great  con- 
spiracy to  make  that  honeymoon  of  Joan 
and  Dick  the  most  perfect  any  boy  and 

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girl  ever  had. 

Much  as  people  love  to  gape  at  celeb- 
rities, much  as  they  adore  clustering 
around  movie  and  radio  stars  and  seeing 
their  idols  close  up,  they  restrained  them- 
selves and  gave  two  people  in  love  a 
chance  to  be  together. 

They  were  awed  as  nice  people  always 
are  before  a  genuine  emotion. 

They  were  so  perfect,  those  days  and 
nights  at  sea.  A  boy  and  a  girl  who  had 
made  make-believe  love  under  a  studio 
moon  were  making  real  love  now  under 
a  real  moon. 

The  last  few  days  before  their  mar- 
riage had  been  a  turmoil — with  a  picture 
to  be  finished  and  a  trousseau  to  be  bought. 
But  now  there  was  only  that  peace  of 
endless  days  of  being  together,  of  forget- 
ting clocks  and  calendars  and  a  never- 
ending  routine  of  broadcasts  and  cameras. 

They  talked,  and  always  there  was  still 
so  much  left  to  say — and  New  York  must 
often  have  crept  into  that  talk,  for  both 
of  them  loved  it.  Hadn't  they  chosen  it 
above  all  other  places  for  their  honey- 
moonland  ? 

New  York  in  autumn.  Those  first  crisp 
days.  That  feeling  of  vigor  in  the  air. 
They  couldn't  wait  to  feel  its  pavements 
under  their  feet  again. 

A  terrific  welcome  awaited  them  in 
Havana.  Warm-hearted  Latins  took  them 
into  their  hearts  as  they  walked  down  the 
gangplank.  A  dark-haired,  sloe-eyed  little 
Cuban  girl  dropped  Joan  a  shy  curtsey  as 
she  thrust  a  bouquet  in  her  hands.  Dark 
eyes  looked  at  them  as  they  sat  in  the 
cafe  together  and  friendly  lips  smiled 
with  them  in  their  happiness. 

Oh,  there  isn't  any  doubt  about  it. 
Latins  understand  love  and  respect  it ! 

It  was  a  happy  boy  and  girl  who  went 
back  to  their  ship  that  evening. 

Then  New  York. 

Joan  and  Dick  had  expected  reporters 
to  meet  them,  of  course.  They  would  have 
liked  to  have  run  down  that  gangplank, 
the  way  they  could  if  they  had  been  un- 
important honeymooners,  and  get  into  a 
taxi  and  hold  hands  on  the  way  to  their 
hotel.  But  they  knew  they  couldn't.  After 
all,  they  weren't  unimportant.  People 
wanted  to  know  all  about  them. 

So  they  met  that  crowd  of  newspaper- 
men as  cordially  as  two  well-bred  people 
will  meet  anyone.  And  Joan  saw  to  it 
that  long  tables  were  set  up  in  the  draw- 
ing-room of  their  suite,  with  scrambled 
eggs  and  crisp  bacon  and  tantalizing  sau- 
sages and  thin  buttered  toast  and  plenty 
of  coffee  for  those  who  wanted  breakfast, 
and  with  sandwiches  and  Scotch  and  soda 
and  champagne  for  those  that  didn't. 

And  she  and  Dick  met  tlieir  questions 
and  tried  not  to  mind  the  huge  open  car 
they  were  ushered  into  and  not  to  miss 
the  friendly  taxi  they  would  have  pre- 
ferred. 

That  evening  they  read  the  papers. 

The  papers  stunned  them !  Those  news- 
papermen, whom  they  had  treated  as 
guests,  had  had  a  inarvclous  time  with 
them !  Joan  and  Dick  were  splashed  all 
over  the  front  pages  of  the  New  York 
papers  like  a  three-ring  circus.  Para- 
graphs jeered  at  them  in  cutting  ridicule. 
The  love  that  had  come  to  them,  the  sweet- 
ness they  had  known,  was  mocked  at. 

They  hadn't  been  human  beings  to  those 
reporters.    They   had   been   movie  stars, 

Printed  Ir 


suspected  of  acting  even  this  genuine  emo- 
tion. They  had  been  a  radio  crooner  and 
liis  bride.  Someone  to  be  torn  into  little 
pieces  for  the  mirth  of  newspaper  readers. 

Joan  and  Dick  must  have  been  so 
humiliated  they  couldn't  even  meet  each 
other's  eyes  when  they  read  those  papers. 
Couldn't  talk  about  it  even  to  each  other, 
in  those  first  awful  moments. 

After  that,  it  wasn't  fun  to  see  those 
plays  they  had  looked  forward  to  so 
eagerly,  with  everybody  craning  their 
necks  to  see  them  and  the  memory  of 
those  ridiculing  words  still  burning  in  their 
minds,  so  that  they  thought  even  friendly 
admiration  was  mockery.  It  wasn't  fun 
to  walk  down  Fifth  Avenue,  either,  or  to 
go  into  all  the  smart  shops,  feeling  that 
the  girl  behind  the  counter  was  remember- 
ing those  stories,  too,  and  laughing  at 
them. 

But  neither  Joan  nor  Dick  are  quitters 
and  so  they  did  the  things  they  had  planned 
to  do.  They  went  to  night  clubs  and  tried 
to  look  unconcerned  at  the  glances  turned 
at  them  and  to  laugh  and  be  gay.  People 
couldn't  be  able  to  say,  then,  that  they 
hadn't  been  able  to  take  it  and :  "See  if  I 
care!"  was  the  unspoken  challenge  in 
Joan's  eyes. 

Dick  became  ill  up  there  in  that  grand 
honeymoon  suite  of  theirs  and  somehow 
all  the  bitterness  Joan  had  managed  to 
conceal  before  couldn't  be  concealed  any 
longer. 

She  was  mad.  Fighting  mad.  Ready  to 
fight  the  whole  world  because  Dick  had 
been  hurt. 

So  she  stood  there  defiantly  beside  his 
bed  and  said  in  a  small  tense  voice : 

"What  is  there  to  say  about  our  ro- 
mance? We're  married,  aren't  we?  Why 
do  people  usually  get  married?  Well,  that's 
the  reason  for  our  getting  married,  too. 
We're  no  different  from  anybody  else." 
And  somehow  in  her  hurt  and  bewilder- 
ment she  couldn't  bring  herself  to  say 
the  word  "love." 

Joan  has  learned  a  lot  of  things  in  these 
last  few  years.  Learned  that  love  can 
come  and  that  love  can  go,  that  sorrow 
can  come,  too,  and  go.  She  has  stood  up 
to  life  and  in  standing  up  to  it  has  learned 
things  she  never  could  have  learned  in 
any  other  way. 

She'll  learn  through  this  experience,  too, 
for  she's  that  kind  of  a  girl.  Hard  as  it 
may  be  to  face  it  now,  she'll  find  in  the 
end  that  she  will  be  the  richer  for  it,  just 
as  she  is  the  richer  for  the  other  things 
that  have  happened  to  her. 

She's  hurt  now  and  because  of  that 
hurt,  suspicious  of  everyone  except  old 
and  tried  friends.  For  a  long  time  she 
won't  be  able  to  see  a  smile  on  a  strang- 
er's face  without  flinching  and  she'll  read 
ridicule  in  words  where  no  ridicule  is 
meant.  But  in  the  end  she'll  discover  that 
ridicule  passes  even  as  sorrow  passes,  that 
in  time  she  will  forget  that  this  unfor- 
tunate honeymoon  incident  ever  happened. 
And  she'll  find,  too,  that  because  of  it 
nothing  will  ever  hurt  quite  so  much  again. 

Joan  has  proven  her  mettle  before  and 
she'll  prove  it  this  time,  too.  She'll  come 
through  this  thing  with  the  same  courage 
that  has  seen  her  through  all  the  others. 

For  the  girl  Dick  Powell  loves  is  like 
that,  and  that's  what  Joan  Blondell  wants 
to  he  more  than  anything  else  in  the  world. 

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•  Splitting  headaches  made  me  feel  miser- 
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I  stopped  at  the  drug  store  on  the  way 
home,  got  a  box  of  FEEN-A-MINT,  and 
chewed  a  tablet  before  going  to  bed. 


•  FEEN-A-MINT 
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The  chewing,  according  to  scientific  re- 
search, helps  make  FEEN-A-MINT  more 
thorough  —  more  dependable  and  reliable. 


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LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 


ABRIL  LA^W^QUE,  Art  Editor 


BROADCASTING 


IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION— 

(An  exclusive  monthly  feature — Rudy's  own  personal  column).  .   Rudy  Vallee  20 

EDDIE  CANTOR  STRIKES  BACKI 

(Mr.  C  disagrees  with  Bob  Montgomery's  opinion  of  radio)  .  .         Dorothy  Brooks  22 

STAGE  DOOR  JOHNNIES  OF  RADIO 

(The  latest  thing  in  hero-worshippers  and  how  they  do  it).  .  .  .   Paula  Thomas  24 

DOWN  WITH  ROMANCEI 

(Why  does  handsome  Nino  Martini  resent  talk  of  love?)   Mildred    MoS+in  28 

HAPPY,  THOUGH  MARRIED  IN  HOLLYWOOD 

(What  makes  lovely  Gladys  Swarthout  so  incurably  romantic?) .  .   Gladys  Hall  30 

TALKING  TORNADO 

(A  story  as  exciting  and  adventurous  as  Floyd  Gibbons  himself)  

Henry  Albert  Phillips  32 

AT  HOME  WITH  THE  BARON 

(The  Baroness  tells  what  marriage  to  a  comedian  means)  .  .   Mrs.  Jack  Pearl  36 

SHE  CAN'T  HOLD  HER  BEAUX! 

(Beautiful,  clever — why  can't  Jane  Pickens  get  a  man?)  Mary  Watkins  Reeves  38 
RUBINOFF'S  TRAGIC  LOVE 

(What  a  woman's  love  has  meant  to  this  famous  artist)  George  Kent  40 

HE  LEARNED  ABOUT  WOMEN  FROM  THEM 

(Phil  Spitalny  learns  a  lesson  from  his  girls)   Elizabeth    B.    Petersen  43 

LIFE  IS  WORTH  LIVING 

(Life  is  now,  not  when   Margaret  Speaks  has  a  new  slant  on  success)biancy  BorrOWS  44 

ROSEMARIE  BREAKS  THE  CUSTOM 

(What  surprising  sacrifice  did  Miss  Brancato  make  for  her  career?)Eveiyn   Edwords  46 

LIKE  FATHER,  LIKE  DAUGHTER 

(Being  a  Morgan  didn't  help  Claudia's  upward  climb)  Miriam   Glbson  48 

THE  TABLES  ARE  TURNINGI 

(Accused  of  being  a  thief,  Milton  Berle  reverses  the  charge)  Jock    Honiey  50 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Board  of  Review   6 

Kate  Smith's  Own  Cooking  School  8 

What  They  Listen  to— and  Why.  10 

Not  a  Junior,  Please!   12 

Keep  Youns  and  Beautiful   14 

Radio   Ramblings   16 

Distinguished  Service  Award   18 


In  the  Radio  Spotlight   26 

Between  Broadcasts   34 

Radio  Stars  Salutes  NBC   42 

Clowning  Around   48 

Nothing  But  the  Truth?   62 

West  Coast  Chatter   86 

Radio  Laughs   106 


Cover  by  EARL  CHRISTY 


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RADIO  STARS 


The  fragrance  of 
her  camelias  intoxi- 
cated his  senses  .  .  . 


"Crush  me  in  your  arms 
until  the  breath  is  gone 
from  my  body  I" 

She  had  known  many  kinds  of 
love,  but  A»V  kisses  filled  her  with 
longings  she  had  never  felt  be- 
fore... The  glamorous  Garbo  — 
handsome  Robert  Taylor  —  to- 
gether in  a  love  story  that  will 
awaken  your  innermost  emotions 
with  its  soul-stabbing  drama! 


ii 


with  LIONEL  BARRYMORE 

ELIZABETH  ALLAN        .       JESSIE  RALPH 
HENRY  DANIELL       .       LENORE  ULRIC 
LAURA  HOPE  CREWS 

A  Metro  ■  Goldwyn  -  Mayer  Picture,  based  on  play  and  novel 
"La  Dame  auz  Camelias"  (  Lady  of  the  Camelias  I  by  Alexandre 
Dumas.  Directed  by  George  Cukor 


5 


RADIO  STARS 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  nt   Review  hines   its  pcrrei 


101)',.  Tli.-i- 


PHILHARMONIC     SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA 86.2 

CBS  Sun.  3:00  P.M.  EST 

FORD  SUNDAY  EVENING  HOUR  85.8 

t  /;>  Sun.  V.IIO  P.M.  I:sr 

GENERAL  MOTORS  CONCERT-  ERNO 

RAPEE  84.8 

.\7;(  Iiriiii  I'.M.  E.vr 

JELL-O  PROGRAM    JACK  BENNY.  .  84.0 

.\7;(  si-H.  7:(iii  !'.M.  i-:.Yr,  s:Jo  P.M.  pyr 

MARCH  OF  TIME  81.8 

<  i:s  I  hur.  in.M)  P.M.  E.ST 
CHESTERFIELD    PRESENTS— ANDRE 
KOSTELANETZ        KAY  THOMPSON, 
RAY  HEATHERTON   81.7 

(  /;^  In.  P.M.  E.\T 

TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT-FRED  ALLEN81.0 

A7i(    11.7,  'J .oil  P.SL  l:.\T 
MEREDITH  WILLSON  AND  ORCHES- 
TRA  80.6 

MiC   W.d.  PI:.10  I'.M.  I.SP.  Sill.  S.JO  P.M. 

E>r 

LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  79.7 

(  i:s  M.,n.  9:00  l\M.  EST 

THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA  79.6 

.\7:(  Su:,.  ::O0  P.M.  /■>■/ 

CHESTERFIELD  PRESENTS  NINO 
MARTINI,  KOSTELANETZ  ORCHES- 
TRA 78.8 

C7;s  II       iJ:00  P..\E  /.N/ 
THE   VOICE    OF    FIRESTONE  MAR- 
GARET SPEAKS  78.0 

.!/..«.  I'.M.  /-.sy.  \  in  P.M.  I '.ST 

ROYAL  GELATIN  PROGRAM  RUDY 
VALLEE  77.3 

.V/X    /  hur.  .\  00  /■,  M.  I:sl 
AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC   77.2 

A7i(   Sun.  "   ill  r.\L  l:Sl 
PITTSBURGH  SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA  76.9 

(  /;,s  s„„,  J  nil  P.M.  /..sy 
RADIO  CITY   SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA  76.8 

SlU    s,„-    i:  ill  P.M.  I-.ST 

WARING  S  PENNSYLVANIANS  76.2 

C  r.S  lu,  .  '1:1111  r  M.  I.\  J  .  0:00  P.M.  P.ST: 
.\  /;(    1 11.  'J:iio  I'M  .  11:00  P.M.  P.ST. 

VICK  S  OPEN  HOUSE-NELSON  EDDY  74.4 
I  l:^  Sun.  X  Oli  I'M.  /-..sy 
KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL    SING  CROSBY, 
BOB  BURNS  .  74.2 

.\i;(  I  hur.  10  on  I'.M.  /.sy 

BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS  73.8 

.\7;C    /  u.  .  o.oii  P  .M.  ESI 

PHIL    BAKER    WITH    HAL  KEMPS 

ORCHESTRA  .  73.5 

(  lis  s„„   y  -io  P.SE  I-.ST 

PACKARD  HOUR  FRED  ASTAIRE, 
CHARLES  BUTTERWORTH,  GREEN 
ORCHESTRA   73.0 

M'(  Tuf.  9:10  P.M.H.ST 

A  &  P  BAND  WAGON-KATE  SMITH  72.7 

(  P.S  I  hur     H:00  P.M.  EST 


LEO  REISMAN'S  ORCHESTRA  72.6 

.VBC  r;<,-v.  X.OO  P.M.  EST 

CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— JESSICA 

DRAGONETTE   72.4 

KBC  En.  X:00  P..\!.  E.ST 

RUBINOFF,  JAN  PEERCE,  VIRGINIA 

REA  72.3 

CBS  .Sun.  f,:.iO  P.M.  EST 

BURNS  AND  ALLEN  72.2 

CBS  U  ,d.  S:30  P.M.  E.ST.  8:J0  P.M.  P.ST 
LANNY  ROSS  PRESENTS  THE  MAX- 
WELL HOUSE  SHOW  BOAT  71.8 

XBC  Thur.  1:00  P.M.  EST.  X:.IO  P.M.  PST 
METROPOLITAN  OPERA  AUDITIONS 
OF  THE  AIR  71.7 

.\BC  Sun.  3:00  P.M.  EST 
GUY  LOMBARDO  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
TRA 69.7 

CBS  Sun.  5:.W  P.M.  EST 
STUDEBAKER  CHAMPIONS-RICH- 
ARD HIMBER  69.6 

XBC  Mvn.  V:.io  P..\l.l:Sl  .  "..in  I'.M.  I'.Sf 
THE  BAKERS  BROADCAST  ROBERT 
L.  RIPLEY,  OZZIE  NELSON  69.6 

XBC  Sun.  7:.I0  I'.M.  IIST 

ED  WYNN,  GRAHAM  McNAMEE  69.5 

A7SC  Sal.  X.OO  P..M.  I'lST 
PAUL    WHITEMANS    MUSICAL  VA- 
RIETIES  69.5 

XBC  S„n.  V:l^  /'..\/. /•  sy.  ti:.yi  P.M.  P.SI' 
CAMEL  CARAVAN    RUPERT  HUGHES, 

GOODMAN  BAND  69.4 

CBS  7»,-.s.  V:30  P.M.  EST 

SPORTCAST— TED  HUSING  69.3 

CBS  T-T-S  7:l>  P.M.  E.ST 

HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL   69.2 

CBS  Eri.  9:00  P.M.  E.sT 

EDWIN  C.HILL   69.0 

A7iT-  .sio;.  10:iin  I'.M.  EM 
ALEMITE      HALF  HOUR-HEIDTS 
BRIGADIERS  68.9 
CBS  Man.  S:00  P.M.  EST.  '>:iin  P.M.  PST 
LOWELL  THOMAS  68.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-E  fi:-l.^  l'..M.  /-sy 

THE  SINGING  LADY   68.7 

NBC  M-T-n-T-F  5:30  P.M.  EST 

AMOS  'N'  ANDY  68.6 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  7:00  P.M.  EST.  8:00 
P.M.  PST 

SHELL  CHATEAU   68.5 

NBC  .Sal.  9:.W  P.M.  F..ST 
IRVIN  S.  COBB— PADUCAH  PLANTA- 
TION   68.5 

A7ir  .s,j/.  J0:30  P.M.  EiST 
STOOPNAGLE  AND  BUDD,  VOORHEES 
ORCHESTRA  68.4 

A7;f  Sun.  >:.iO  P.M.  1:.SE 
WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  68.3 
XBC  Eri  9:00  P.M.  ESE 

EDDIE  CANTOR  68.2 

(Vi.S.S,,,,.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:1111  P.M.  I'.ST 
YOUR  HIT  PARADE  68  2 

XBC    \V,;I.    111:1111    I'..\I.    /{sy.    cyS.S  ,S„/. 

m.-no  P.M.  r.sT 

MAJOR  BOWES'  CAPITOL  FAMILY  .68.1 

(lis  Sun.  I  Till  .\.M.  I:\l 

U.  S.  ARMY  BAND  68  0 

A7iC  .\Inn.  iKlin  P.M.  l-.sp 

HELEN  HAYES  IN  "BAMBI"  .  .  67.7 

Xli(    M,,n.  8:1111  P.M.  ESI' 

HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  AIR  67.3 

I'liS  .\!-\\  -E  11:00  ESE.  E':00  Nnnn 

/'.sy 

WAYNE  KING  S  ORCHESTRA  67.2 

CBS   Mun.    10:110   P.M.   EST.   XBC  V-ir 

8:.I0  P.M.  EST 

GANG  BUSTERS    67.1 

CBS  nv,/.  111:00  I'.M.  E.ST 

ONE  MAN  S  FAMILY   67  0 

XBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  Sun.  9:30  P.M. 
PST 

SATURDAY  NIGHT  PARTY  WALTER 
OKEEFE   66.7 

NBC  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  /..sy 

MODERN  ROMANCES      ...  66  6 

A7iC-  \V,d.  1:00  P.M.  EST 

ETHEL  BARRYMORE  66  3 

XBC  nv,/.  8:.in  P.M.  /.sy 

CONTENTED  PROGRAM  65.8 

.\7>'(    .1/,.,,.  10:111)  P.M.  I. SI 
RY-KRISP  PRESENTS  MARION 
TALLEY  65.5 

A/i(   .S»,i.   =.:00  P.M.  l:Sr 
NASH-LAFAYETTE    SPEED  SHOW- 
FLOYD  GIBBONS,   LOPEZ  ORCHES- 
TRA  65.4 

(  /!.V  Sal.  9:00  P.M.  I.ST 
SALT     LAKE     CITY  TABERNACLE 
CHOIR  AND  ORGAN  65  0 

(  lis  Sun.  IJ:.lo  I'.M.  I:SE 

BOAKE  CARTER  64  9 

(  lis  M-E-W  -P-I-  7:1=.  I'.M.  I:.ST 
MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND  64.8 

XBC  Sun.  9:110  I'.M.  ESI 

FIRESIDE  RECITALS    64.7 

A/i(  Sun.  7:.iO  I'.M.  EST 

LUMANDABNER    64.6 

XBC   M-  r-W  -E-E   7:  ill  P.M.   EST,  8:15 
I'.M.  /'.sy 

REVUE  DE  PAREE    FANNIE  BRICE  64.5 

Xl',<    HV7.  8:00  I'.M.  EST 

ALLEN  PRESCOTT   64  3 

Xi:c  l-'E  ll:l-i  /..sy 

WE,  THE  PEOPLE    PHILLIPS  LORD  64.2 

XIK   Sun.  5:00  I'.M.  I-.SI 

WARDEN    LAWES    63.5 

A7;(    .UoH.  9:01)  P.M.  E.SI 


Andrew  W.  Smith 


James  E.  Chinn 

ninj  and  Sunday  Star. 
Washington.  D.  C. 


Andrew  W.  Foppe 


MYSTERY  CHEF  63.0 

NBC  Tues..  Sal.  lE.iO  .A.M.  EST 

VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  62.6 

NBC  Tues.  7:45  P.M.  E.ST 

YOUR    PET    PROGRAM— SATURDAY 

NIGHT  SERENADERS   62.5 

CBS  Sal.  9:30  l'..\!.  E.ST 

LAUGH  WITH  KEN  MURRAY  62.0 

CBS  Tues.  8:.tO  P.M.  E.ST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 
COME  ON,  LET'S  SING  61.8 

CBS  Wed.  9:.W  P.M.  E.ST 

FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  61.7 

NBC  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST.  9:00  P.,\E  PST 
KALTENBORN  EDITS  THE  NEWS  61.5 

(  /!.S  Sun.  10:45  P.M.  EST 

HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC  HALL   61.3 

I  BS  Tues.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

CAPT.  TIM  HEALY  61.2 

XBC  M-T-\V-T-E  9:45  .\.M.  EST 
GILLETTE'S  COMMUNITY  SING  60.6 

CBS  Sun.  lO:00  P.M.  EST 

JOE  PENNER,  GRIER  ORCHESTRA  .60.0 

CBS  Sun.  ii:liii  P.M.  EST 
LA  SALLE  STYLE  SHOW -CHARLES 
LE  MAI  RE,  DUCHIN  ORCHESTRA  59.9 
XB(    Thnrs.    I:nn  P.M.  EST 
RALEIGH  &  KOOL  CIGARETTE  SHOW 
JACK  PEARL,  DORSEY  ORCHESTRA  59.8 
A7iC  .\/nn.  9:30  I'.M.  EST 

MARY  MARLIN   59.7 

NBC  M-T-W-l-E  12:15  P.M.  ESE 
TWIN     STARS    ROSEMARIE  BRAN- 
CATO  59.6 

NBC  Fri.  9:.iii  P.M.  E.SI 

THE  O'NEILLS   59.5 

NBC  M-T-\V-T-T  3:4^  P.M.  EST 
JAMBOREE   59.4 

NBC  Thur.  in:3n  I'.M.  E.ST 

TODAY'S  CHILDREN   59.3 

NBC    M-T-U'-r-l    111:1^  .\.M.  EST 

THE  CARBORUNDUM  BAND  59.0 

CVi.S  Sal.  7:.io  P.M.  I-.ST 
KRUEGER  MUSICAL  TOAST— JERRY 
COOPER,  SALLY  SINGER,  BLOCK  OR- 
CHESTRA  58.6 

NBC  Mnn.  IO:.to  P.M.  EST 

MAJOR  BOWES'  AMATEUR  HOUR  .  .  .58.5 


CBS  y, 


SIDEWALK  INTERVIEWS   58.4 

NBC  Tue'.  9:iio  I'.M.  I-.SE 

GIRL  ALONE   58.3 

NB(    M-T-\V-I-I-   12:011  Xnon  EST 
CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  58.2 


CBS  II 


/•:sy 


.58.2 


95.  TEA  TIME  AT  MORRELL'S.  .  . 

Xli(   Eri.  4:Oil  I'.M.  EST 

96.  MELODIANA    ABE  LYMAN  ORCHES- 
TRA  58.1 

/V/iC  Mon.  8:30  I'.M.  El.ST 

97.  UNCLE  EZRA'S  RADIO  STATION  58.0 

A7f(    .U-ir7.  7:15  P..\I.  EST 

98.  EASY  ACES    58.0 

A7>'(  y-ir-/  7  III)  P.M.  f:st 

(I  ■•niinued  on  Pa.i;e  9?) 


THE  BEST  PROGRAMS  AND  WHEN  TO  HEAR  THEM 

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RADIO  STARS 


^^^^  J5i^ 


Lovely  Rirl! — she  knew  wh  it  ti-  ilc  tn  Iml'l  Iniii'  X 
follow  her  sini[)le  plan  -lu  - 1  ,i  -  1 1  n  >ii  -  ,i  m  i-,  ,  ,1  mm  1, 
Hollywood  Mask  matehe.l  in,,ki  -mi    m.ik-  -M|i  /.v 

■al  skin  cn].,r.  (  li,.,,-,-  u  1  \k,- 

ii.ar.-.li.-ms  -lor  isl..ri..iisl>  imlur.il-..!  .>n:iv  \■■^• 

Olilam.il.lr  at  ilrim  auM  ,  1,    m  i  l  un  ■  n  l  -,  I 

coupon  I,,  list  your  favorite  malehmu  -ha.l.-^  ,,1  p 
new  faeial.  See  how  much  more  Holb'wood  Mask 
for  purse  sizes. 


UKKxi 
MASK 


JpJ'J'Pbero. 


Wood 


//Creole 

"ntan 


7 


RADIO  STARS 


HELLO  E\'ERYBODY!  This  is  Kate  Smith  once 
again,  making  a  "personal  appearance"  as  your  Cooking 
School  Director  and  really  getting  into  the  swing  of  it. 

(Guess  I  must  have  been  thinking  of  "swing"  music, 
when  I  wrote  that — and  of  the  many  requests  I  get  for 
songs  in  "swing  time."  Well,  I'll  be  singin'  them — 
and  thanks  for  listenin'.) 

Anyway,  what  I  started  out  to  say  when  I  so  rudely 
interrujited  myself,  was  that  I'm  finding  the  role  of  Cook- 
ing School  Director  even  more  interesting  than  I  had  ex- 
pected it  to  l)e.  And  that's  because  of  the  many  letters, 
folks,  that  I've  l)een  receiving  from  you. 

For  this  certainly  is  not  turning  out  to  be  a  one-sided 
sort  of  proposition,  with  me  standing  up  here  telling  you 
about  my  favorites  in  the  recipe  line,  and  with  you  all 
only  on  the  listening  end.  Xo  indeed!  Why,  I  can't  begin 
to  tell  \  ()u  how  many  of  my  readers  send  me  their  recipes. 
Lots  of  them  sound  swell,  too,  and  I  certainly  intend  to 
try  them  out  some  day — even  though  I  can't  seem  to  find 
time  to  acknowledge  each  letter  personally. 

With  these  letters  of  yours  pouring  in,  you  don't  let  me 


The  genial  hostess, 
all  set  to  delight 
unexpected  visitors 
with  steanning  cof- 
fee and  delicious 
cup  cakes.  Easy  to 
nnake,  quick  to  serve. 


forget  for  a  day  that  I  have  an  audience  for  these  monthly 
written  "broadcasts,"  just  as  friendly  as  the  one  I  have 
for  my  weekly  radio  broadcasts  over  CBS.  And  when 
you  ask  for  my  recipes,  those  who  write  in  here  are  as 
appreciative,  it  seems,  as  those  who  send  in  their  votes 
for  the  "Command  Appearances"  on  my  program.  It's 
that  sort  of  response,  you  can  be  sure,  that  keeps  us  all 
on  our  toes,  always  anxious  to  give  you  the  best  we've 
got  in  us ! 

While  I'm  writing  this,  for  instance,  I  keep  thinking, 
"I  must  really  give  them  the  grandest  recipes  I  can  ever 
remember  having  tried."  Of  course  by  "them"  I  mean 
you — and  you — and  you  over  there,  sitting  under  that 
lamp,  reading  this  and  wondering  if  Kate  actually  knows 
anything  about  cooking ! 

Do  I  know  about  cooking?  Just  ask  the  gals  who've 
already  tried  out  my  recipes.  Besides,  I'm  going  to  boast 
a  little  bit  and  tell  you  that  Nancy  Wood,  Radio  Stars' 
Hostess,  says  that  I'm  the  only  person  she's  ever  come 
across  who  can  rattle  oflf  recipes  from  memory. 

Well,  I  have  a  sort  of  confession  to  make  on  that  score. 


Good  coffee  and  nice  guests 
deserve  more  than  sample 
refreshments.  Kate  tells  you 
how  to  be  a  popular  hostess 


Eating's  fun  and  so  Is  cooking. 
Kate  smiles  happily  at  the  pros- 
pect of  dainties  in  the  making. 


RADIO  STARS 


Sdtool 


Three  steps  in 
of  a  cup  cake.  They're 
fudge,  topped  with  marsh- 
mallows.    Want  some? 


I  did  that  the  first  time  I  met  her, 
sort  of  to  make  an  impression.  Gen- 
erally I  have  to  refer  to  the  recipes 
in  my  file,  in  order  to  make  doubly 
sure  that  I  haven't  left  something 
out  or  put  too  much  of  something 
else  in !  But,  you  see,  the  recipe  that 
I  knew  "by  heart"  was  one  for  my 
own  Grandmother's  Chocolate  Cake 
and  I  do  believe  I  could  make  that 
favorite  dessert  of  mine  with  my  eyes 
bandaged ! 

And  that  reminds  me !  In  so  many 
of  your  letters  you  ask  me  for  that 
particular  cake  recipe.  I'm  afraid 
many  of  you  must  have  been  so  late 
writing  in,    {Contiuiicd   on  page  54) 


-Clap  hands,  Margic- 
ivith  vou? 


i  hat's  the  mat- 


Mr*.  W.— Oh,  look!  The  curtains— one  of  those 
sheets  is  mine. 

Mr.  W.  — Gosh!  Is  the  gray  one  vours?  It  looks 
sick  beside  that  nice  white  one. 


FEW 

WEEKS 

LATER 


Mrs.  W.— Oh,  Russ!  Did  vou  reallv  hear  all 
the  mothers  who  helped  put  up  the  cur- 
tain say  those  things  about  me^ 
Russ  W.  — Yep!  They  said  your  clothes  have 
tattle-tale  gray  cause  your  soap  doesn't 
wash  clean.  And  they  wished  you'd  use 
Fels-Naptha  'cause  it's  got  hiafs  of  napha 
in  the  goldtn  soap  and  that  chases  out  every 
speck  of  dirt. 


Mr.  W.  — Great  Scott!  Have  you  still  got  that  moustache? 

Mrs.  W.— Take  it  off— you're  no  villain!  You  saved  my  reputation  with  that  tip  about  Fels-Naptha 
Soap.  It's  made  my  washes  look  so  gorgeous,  I'm  going  to  take  vou  to  town  to  a  real  show! 

BANISH    TATTLE -TALE  GRAY''^    '  ° 

WITH  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP! 


RADIO  STARS 


Dial-twisters  cast  informal 
votes  for  pet  programs. 
Let    us    have  yours! 


Sally  Singer,  Leo  Reis- 
man's  star  songstress 
and  protegee,  is  nunn- 
bered  among  favorites 
chosen  by  our  readers. 


Ruth  Allen,  Montreal,  Canada.  "As 

long  as  I  live  and  have  ears  to  listen, 
nothing  on  earth  will  make  me  miss 
the  superb  voice  of  Bing  Crosby  over 
the  radio.  Those  Thursday  rendez- 
vous are  heavenly.  Without  them  life 
would  be  a  dreary  waste,  indeed. 
Here's  to  the  King  of  Crooners, 
Bing  Crosby!    Long  may  he  live!" 

E.  W.,  Atlanta,  Ga.  "My  choice  of 
all  radio  ])rogranis  is  Rudy  Vallee's 
Variety  Hour,  because  he  brings  to 
his  radio  audience  the  I)est  tliat  can 
be  had  in  song,  comedy,  melodrama, 
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opera  and  jazz — all  presented  capably 
and  entertainingly  as  only  Mr.  Vallee 
can.  He  introduced  \aric'ty  programs 
which  have  since  bc-cdiiic  ])()])ular  with 
other  sponsors." 

Helen  Baylin,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

"I  like  musical  ]:>rogranis  best  and  am 
ha|)pv  to  say  that  1  can  listen  with 
]jleasurc  to  all  music — In  mi  li'ich  and 
Ik-etlidvcn  tit  (jcrshwiii  and  J'erlin. 
For  classical  nmsic.  1  ])r(  fcT  Helen 
Jcpson  and  Margaret  .Speaks,  because 
there  are  no  lovelier  voices  to  be 
heard.  For  popular  music,  Kay 
Thomp.son  and  Sally  Sini^cr.  T'csidcs 
having  very  ])leasing  voices,  tlu  v  arc 
difYerent  from  the  usual  run  ol'  'swing 
singers.'  Also,  I  like  the  Pittsburgh 
Symphony,  Metropolitan  C)])cra, 
Wayne  King  and  TJic  Music  Guild." 

E.  L.  O'Neill,  Middletown,  N.  Y. 
(Teacher.)  "Perba|)s  I  am  one  of  the 

'wire-haired'  listeners,  because  I 
loathe  all  programs  with  comedians. 


Popular  Jessica  Dragon- 
ette  is  described  thusly: 
"She  is  a  queen  and  nnay 
she  forever  be  on  radio!" 


Jackie  Heller,  the  little  boy 
with  the  big  voice,  is  "a 
best  friend  and  a  v/onder- 
ful    singer"    to    one  fan. 


They  are  so  intolerably  boring.  No 
one  can  be  funny  for  a  half  hour 
every  week,  and  some  of  the  efYorts 
are  very  painful.  I  also  loathe  jazz 
orchestras  and  women  blues  singers. 
One  or  both  of  these  seems  to  be  on 
every  time  I  think  of  listening  to  the 
radio.  The  result  is  that  I  only  tune 
in  when  Vick's  Open  House  with  Nel- 
son Eddy  is  on  the  air.  Then  one 
can  relax  and  be  sure  of  good  music, 
lovely  voices,  crisp  announcements, 
fine  orchestra.  In  fact,  according  to 
the  method  of  rating  your  magazine 
uses,  I  should  say  it  is  just  about 
100%.  Yours  for  better  music!" 
-♦- 

John  MacBride,  Larchmont,  N.  Y. 

"There  are  four  people  in  our  family 
and  each  of  us  has  a  radio.  We  al- 
ways listen  to  Jack  Benny,  Fred  Al- 
len, Burns  and  y\llen  for  clean,  peppy 
comedy.  For  music  we  hear  Rudy 
Vallee,  Benny  (Joodman  and  Guy 
Lombardo.  Our  entire  family  agrees 
on  these  favorite  programs." 

Dorothy  Meeczki,  Chicago,  111. 
(Stenographer.)  "I  like  to  listen  to 
Jackie  Heller's  program  because  I  en- 
joy it  the  most.  To  me  he  seems  a 
best  friend  and  a  wonderful  singer. 
The  second  best  is  Eddie  Cantor.  His 
])rogram  is  always  full  of  fun  and 
good  music." 

Hannah  Nothdurft,  Clifton,  N.  J. 

"1  am  all  for  the  Wonder  Show  with 
Orson  Wells  as  the  Great  McCoy.  I 
could  lia\e  died  laughing  at  the  Bar- 
ber of  I'hct  {Conlinued  on  page  94) 


NATURE  IS  STINGY  WITH  TOOTH  ENAMEL 

THIS  BEAUTIFUL  ENAMEL  . .  OAICE  WORN  AWAY. . 
NEVER.  GROWS  BACK-  NEVER  / 


ECAUSE  OF  IWUWI- 

'  Pepsodenl  contains  HO  ^11 

BECAUSE  OF  IRlUlVl  •  • 
BECAUSE  OF  IWUM  - 


fa 


e  safe. 


Protect  precious  enamel. 
Once  lost,  it's  gone  for- 
ever. Be  safe  and  win 
flashing  new  luster  with 
absolute  security! 

Nature  restores  skin,  hair,  nails— but  never 
tooth  enamel.  Those  precious  surfaces, 
once  worn  away,  are  gone  forever.  Beauty 
goes  with  them  . . .  decay  attacks  teeth  . . . 
the  days  of  enchanting  young  teeth  are  over. 

Guard  those  precious  surfaces!  Now 
science  brings  you  the  utterly  safe  tooth 
paste.  One  that  cleans  by  an  entirely  new 
principle.  That  uses  no  chalk  or  grit  or 
harsh  abrasive. 

Pepsodent  alone  contains  IRIUM 
Pepsodent  containing  irium  brings  flashing 
luster  to  teeth-cleans  them  immaculately- 
freshens  mouth-stimulates  gums  and  free  flow- 
ing saliva-yet  does  so  with  the  safejt  act/on  ever 
known  in  tooth  pastes. 

Because  irium  — the  thrilling  new  dental 
ingredient— removes  film  without  scouring  or 
scraping.  It  lifts  the  clinging  plaque  off  teeth 
and  washes  it  gently  away.  It  leaves  the  enamel 
surfaces  spotlessly  dean  —  x.\\Qx\  polishes  them  to  a 
brilliant  luster  you  never  even  j^i^'  before! 

It's  an  amazing  advance  in  tooth  beauty  and 
safety.  In  just  a  few  days  your  teeth  sparkle  with 
alluring  brilliance  that  everyone  iiotius.  Buy  a 
tube  of  Pepsodent  containing  irium.  Bcuiii  nmc 
to  use  this  new  method  that  brings  llasliing 
luster  to  your  teeth  with  ahsulute  safety. 


CLtufs  1c  PEPSODENT  TOOTH  PASTE 

IT  ALONE  CONTAINS  IRIUM 


RADIO  STARS 


Checked  coat  and  striped 
skirt  with  dark  brown  ac- 
cessories were  Frances' 
choice  for  her  trip  honne. 


Dark  purple  crepe,  swing 
skirt  and  shirred  shoul- 
ders. Nothing  juniorish 
in    this    afternoon  dress! 


Rather  Russianish  black- 
and-white  brocaded  satin 
lounging  pajamas.  Both 
chic  and  connfy,  says  Fran. 


Hot  a  *^Mhi6\.  ?JUase>  i 


I 


WHEN,  last  month,  I  took  up  the 
torch  for  you  girls  of  five-feet-five 
or  over,  I  liad  a  hunch  that  I  had  bet- 
ter do  something  quickly  about  the 
"just-five-fect"  ones  or  else  I  could 
ex])ect  to  have  the  "shorties"  walk 
right  out  on  me — and  rightfully  so. 

So,  in  order  to  beat  you  half- 
pinters  to  the  draw,  I  beguiled  the 
best  person  I  know  to  tell  you  what's 
what  from  the  half-pint  angle.  And 
after  you  read  what  she  has  to  say  in 
your  behalf,  you'll  admit  I  picked  the 
right  girl. 

Frances  Lang  ford  wears  a  size 
twelve !  And  like  all  girls  in  that 
junior  size  class,  nothing  infuriates 
her  more  than  having  to  go  into  a 
junior  department  for  her  clothes.  It 
isn't  that  they  haven't  good  clothes, 
but  Frances  likes  a  degree  more  of 
sophistication  than  she  can  find  in  the 
shops  and  dejjartments  devoted  to  the 
12 


wants  of  the  school  crowd.  And 
haven't  you  just  the  same  problem — 
all  you  who  are  no  longer  in  your 
early  'teens?  Of  course,  you  have. 

Frances  certainly  gives  the  lie  to 
the  old  idea  that  all  Southerners  are 
languid,  pamjjered  beauties.  She 
comes  from  Florida  but  she's  a 
whirlwind  of  energy.  As  if  it  weren't 
enough  for  her  to  be  one  of  the  most 
popular  songsters  of  the  air.  appear- 
ing weekly  with  Dick  I\jwell  on  the 
CBS  HoUyzfOod  Hotel  j)rogram, 
Frances  has  to  keep  a  hand  in  screen 
affairs,  too.  The  day  I  managed  to 
corner  her,  she  was  taking  a  much 
needed  breathing  s])ell  after  strenuous 
weeks  of  making  Boni  to  Dance. 

She  told  me  that  there  are  two 
things  that  affect  her  clothes  buying 
s])rees — one  is  her  job  on  the  radio, 
the  other  her  size.  As  Frances  Lang- 
ford,  radio  star,  she  always  must  be 


meticulously  dressed,  with  a  new  cos- 
tume for  every  broadcast.  As  Fran- 
ces Langford,  Sice  12,  she  has  to 
have  all  her  clothes  made  to  order, 
if  they  are  to  fit  properly.  The  lat- 
ter means  that  she  has  to  take  pre- 
cious hours  out  of  a  day  for  the 
selecting  of  materials,  styles  and  col- 
ors— not  to  mention  the  hours  and 
hours  of  fitting. 

But  there  is  compensation  for  such 
care  and  time  given  to  her  wardrobe 
— it's  the  results  she  gets.  Her  clothes 
are  chosen  for  the  express  purpose 
of  suiting  all  the  demands  of  her  busy 
life.  And  there  isn't  a  garment  se- 
lected that  doesn't  complement  her 
personality. 

Of  course,  her  broadcast  clothes 
are  her  first  consideration.  They 
com})ose  the  larger  part  of  her  whole 
wardrobe  and  they  have  to  be  formal 
evening  gowns,  selected  with  an  eye 


RADIO  STARS 


You  don't  have  to 
dress  like  a  deb, 
even  if  you  are  a 
half-pint!  Frances 
Langford  proves  it! 


ili-zoLetk 


for  their  variety  as  well  as  for  their 
suitability.  There  has  to  be  a  dif- 
ferent dress  every  week.  Think  of 
it !  Do  you  think  you  could  ever  en- 
joy buying  another  evening  gown,  if 
you  had  to  buy  enough  each  year  to 
wear  one  new  one  each  week?  I'm 
sure  I  would  yearn  horribly  for  bath- 
ing suits  or  overalls — anything  but 
evening  gowns!  However,  we  who 
only  have  one  or  two  each  year  prob- 
ably get  a  real  kick  out  of  wearing 
them. 

In  evening  clothes,  Frances  runs  to 
light  colors — shades  that  set  off  her 
dark  good  looks  and  carry  out  the 
festive  atmosphere  of  the  activities  at 
the  "Orchid  Room."  She  is  crazy 
about  little  short  evening  jackets — 
likes  especially  that  single  breasted 
white  one  with  the  built  up  shoul- 
ders that  she  wore  at  the  Hollyi^'ood 
Hotel's    {Continued   on   page  90) 


COLD" 

Be  douhly  carejul2^ovX  tke 
laxative  you  take ! 

1 


WHAT  is  one  of  the  most  frequent 
questions  the  doctor  asks  when  you 
have  a  cold?  It  is  this— "Are  your  bowels 
regular?" 

Doctors  know  how  important  a  laxative 
is  in  the  treatment  of  colds.  They  know, 
also,  the  importance  of  choosing  the  right 
laxative  at  this  time.  Before  they  will  give 
any  laxative  their  approval,  they  make 
doubly  sure  that  it  measures  up  to  their 
own  strict  specifications. 

Read  these  specifications.  They  are 
very  important— not  only  during  the  "cold 
season,"  but  all  year  'round. 

THE  DOCTOR'S  TEST  OF  A  LAXATIVE: 
It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proven  by  test  of  time. 
It  should  not  form  a  habit. 
It  should  not  over-act. 
It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 
It  should  not  nauseate  or  upset  digestion. 

EX-LAX  MEETS  EVERY  DEMAND 

Ex-Lax  checks  on  every  single  one  of 
these  8  specifications  .  .  .  meets  every  de- 
mand so  fairly  that  many  doctors  use 
Ex-Lax  in  their  own  homes  for  their  own 
families. 

For  more  than  30  years,  mothers  have 
recommended  Ex-Lax  to  other  mothers. 
And  Ex-Lax  has  given  complete  satisfac- 

When  Nature  forgets  —  remember 

EX-LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


tion,  not  merely  to  thousands  of  famdies 
— but  to  millions.  It  has  grown,  slowly  but 
surely,  to  the  point  where  today  it  is  used 
by  more  people  than  any  other  laxative  in 
the  whole  wide  world. 

DISCOVER  THE  TRUTH  FOR  YOURSELF 

Anyone  who  has  ever  used  Ex-Lax  can 
explain  in  a  moment  why  Ex-Lax  is  so  uni- 
versally popular.  It  is  thorough.  But  it  is 
gentle.  ...  It  is  effective.  But  it  is  mild. 
...  It  gives  you  the  most  effective  relief 
you  could  ask  for.  But  it  spares  you  all 
discomfort.  No  nausea.  No  stomach  pains. 
No  weakness.  That's  why  it  is  such  a 
favorite  not  only  of  the  grown-ups.  but  of 
tlic  youngsters,  as  well. 

EVERYONE  LIKES  THE  TASTE  OF  EX-LAX 

Perhaps  you  have  been  taking  bitter 
■'druggy"  mixtures.  .  .  .  Then  change  to 
Ex-Lax.  and  find  out  how  really  pleasant 
a  good  laxative  can  be.  For  Ex-Lax  tastes 
just  like  delicious  chocolate.  It  pleases 
the  children  as  well  as  the  older  folks. 

All  drug  stores  have  Ex-Lax  in  10c  and 
25c  sizes.  If  you  prefer,  you  may  try  it  at 
our  expense  by  simply  mailing  the  cou- 
pon below  for  a  free  sample. 


-TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!  i 

(Pa,tc-  thi,       a  penny  ,u„tiard)  J 

;ix.  In,-.,  P.  O.  B..X  170  MM-27  I 

»  lMa/a  Station,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  | 
kanl  to  try  Ex-Lax.  Please  semi  free  sample.  ' 


RADIO  STARS 


Schedule  your  beauty  routines  to  gain  the  greatest  advantage 


BEAUTY  programs,  like  radio  programs,  should  be  kept 
on  schedule.  For  beauty  is  really  a  habit,  or  it  should  be. 
W'e  ought  to  have  and  keep  a  weekly  health  and  beauty 
program  as  regular  as  the  Musical  Gym  Clock  over 
WOR.  A  lot  of  us  are  much  more  c(jnscientious  about 
never  missing  our  laxmite  radio  i)rograms  than  we  are 
about  never  niissiii;^  our  beaut v  chores.  W'e  wouldn't 
think  of  f(ircL;(iing  the  Sal  iirda  y  .\'i(/lit  I'aiiy  o\er  A'/JC. 
with  our  faMirite  jane  I'ickcnN,  but  we  might  easily  be 
persuaded  into  sliiJ])ing  up  on  a  badly  needed  shampoo  or 
manicure.  The  trouble  with  most  of  us  is  that  we  know 
a  lot  of  things  would  be  gcjod  for  u^,  if  we  only  did  them, 
but  we  never  think  of  them  (or  we  alil)i  ourscUes  out  of 
doing  them )  when  we  have  time,  and  w  hen  we  do  think 
of  tliem,  and  have  the  gum])tion  to  do  them,  we  never 
have  the  time. 

There's  one  thing  about  Jane  Pickens — -one  of  many, 
many  things!  She  is  a  born  Mr-  nn/cr.  She  has  a  system 
for  keeping  herself  and  lur  m.uc  \oung  and  beautiful. 
She  knows  that  her  voice  suiters  if  her  health  routine  of 
plenty  of  rest,  relaxation  and  the  proper  diet,  suffers — so 
she  is  sensible  in  her  plan  of  living.  If  she  eats  a  kirge 
lunch,  she  will  have  a  very  light  dinner.  If  she  goes  to 
bed  very  late  one  night,  she  will  try  to  make  up  for  it  the 
next  morning  or  the  next  night.  No  matter  how  tired  she 
14 


/7y  Ma%^  niddle 


is.  she  is  verv  particular  about  cleansing  her  face  thorough- 
every  night;  first  with  cream,  then  with  soap.  She 
Invcs  creams  and  has  several  "pets,"  one  of  which  is  a 
.special  eye-cream  which  she  pats  lightly  over  her  eyelids 
and  around  her  eyes  e\  er\-  night.  Motoring  against  the 
wind  or  facing  a  bright  batter\-  of  footlights  is  apt  to  make 
the  sensitive  tissues  around  the  eyes  parched  and  crepey, 
s(i  she  takes  every  protective  measure  to  prevent  such  a 
condition.  (  )nce  a  week  she  treats  her  face  to  an  egg 
mask,  .>(inu-thing  of  an  old  Southern  beauty  recipe.  (I'll 
give  yiiu  exact  instructions  for  the  treatment,  if  you  want 
tu  write  me  for  them.) 

It  wasn't  alone  for  Jane  Pickens'  ability  to  wear  clothes 
that  she  was  chosen  the  best-dressed  woman  in  radio  in  an 
informal  poll  conducted  among  designers.  It  was  because 
she  has  the  sui)erb  figure  for  wearing  clothes  and  is  dis- 
tinguished by  the  flawless  complexion,  careful  coiffure, 
and  attention  to  detail  which  are  the  l)adges  of  the  realh* 
wi'll-groi inied  woman.  It  takes  system  to  keep  that  repu- 
tation. 

e  radio  programs,  need  direc- 
1.  I  sup])ose  it  is  the  secret 
be  taken  in  hand  by  a  wdiole 
.  hairdressers,  masseuses,  and 
is  no  one  as  interested  in 
as  you  are,  tmfortunately, 


l>eaut_\'  ])rograms,  agani 
tors  to  make  them  successtul 
yearning  most  women  tu  1 
crew  of  1  l.illwvond  dcsi- iiers, 
make-u])  directors.  Mnt  thei 
you  and  your  beauty  destinie 
so  in  this  case  von  will  ha\e  to  be  y(nir  own  director.  You 
can't  be  a  tempcranu  ntal  mie.  either.  lUn  sts  of  enthusiasm, 
that  soon  fizzle  out  likt'  firecrackers,  are  (if  small  value  when 
it  comes  to  clearing  up  a  bad  {Continued  on  page  82) 


from  them. 


RADIO  STARS 

Here  are  some  special  suggestions  for  this  season 


Never  neglect  the 
daily  manicure. 
Finger  nails,  like  nnan- 
ners,  cannot  be  pol- 
ished in  a  hurry. 
Lovely  hands  are  es- 
sential to  a  well- 
groonned  appear- 
ance. 


Jane  Pickens,  who 
was  chosen  as  the 
best  dressed  woman 
in  radio,  realizes  the 
importance  of  care- 
ful attention  to  every 
detail  of  health  and 
beauty. 


lesl  oi  a  po^ider 
...Uiu^tmusinot 
shou  up  in  strong  bgM 


Coming  out  mto  ^^^^^J  '"^.^^  youY 

the  worst  way  a  powdei  c  _    ^^^^  ^ 


\ 


V'OU 

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showing  too  much.  , 

The  powder  that  sto  .^__pona's. 
.Hving'thatpowAered  ook  ^^^^^^^^^^^ 

-   ^Glare.prool   /f/;  "^^f  .  Blended  to  catch 
colors  are  "glare-proo  ^.^^ 

softer  --J- ^[^l^^,   Urc  Special  m- 
gredientsgwePond  ^^^,^^,._.o..««. 


By 


Tond's 

only 

skin 


Low  prices.  1 


I'lmd's  never 
liiiiliK  puudery 
—  It  rlings 

voted  the  2  most 
iinportant  points 
in  (1  powder 


mi 


5  "Glare-Proof"  Shades 

(This  offer  expires  April  1,  1937) 


POND  S,  Dept.  9RS  PB,  Clinton.  Conn.  Please  rush, 
free,  5  different  shades  of  Pond's  "Glare-Proof  Powder, 
enough  of  each  for  a  thorough  5-dHV  lest. 


15 


RADIO  STARS 


Just   a   few   cow-hands   at  .  I  I      I  ■    •  I  •  I  if 

play.  The  Canovas.  Zeke.     Arouno  and  aoout  tho  customary  haunts  ot  our 

Judy  and  Anne  with  Ripley. 

Eddie  Duchin  and  La  Salle     pGW  and  intriguIng  sidelights  on  these  ever 

Fashion  Show  models  prepare 
for  some  hi-de-harmonizing. 

Without  argument,  the  most  methodical  man  in  radio 
is  Fred  Allen.  He  has  a  certain  section  of  his  script  to 
write  each  day,  certain  days  for  handball  and  boxing  at 
the  Y.M.C.A.,  certain  days  for  interviews  and  photo- 
graphs, one  day  a  week  to  write  answers  to  fan  mail,  and 
the  same  two  evenings  each  week  to  take  Portland  out. 
Incidentally,  those  evening  outings  with  Portland  are  the 
only  time  Fred  sets  aside  for  fun — unless  you  count  his 
conscientious  exercising  at  the  Y.  After  the  program 
each  W^eclnesday  night,  he  goes  to  the  same  restaurant  for 
a  late  supi)er  and  he  even  walks  the  same  route,  three 
blocks  up,  two  over  and  one  more  up,  to  the  restaurant. 
Nothing  varies  from  week  to  week.  Fred  will  never  cross 
the  street  unless  the  traffic  lights  are  with  him. 

Sounds  like  flic  life  of  a  methodical,  routine  mind  but 
ask  the  Broadway  crozvd.  Fred  has  the  sharpest  tongue, 
tlic  keenest  wit  of  the  lot.  They  are  fond  of  him  and 
■leisli  he  leiiiiltl  come  07'er  to  the  rctjidar  haunts,  as  he  used 
to.  I'red  probal'ly  wishes  the  same  thing,  too,  once  in  a 
while.  He  is  the  only  comedian  n'ho  writes  a  zvhole  hour 
program  all  by  himself,  and  the  life  of  a  hermit  is  the  only 
one  that  gives  him  time  enough  for  all  that  zvork. 

THE  PATH  TO  FAME 

Not  much  will  be  heard  of  Jimmy  Melton  on  the  radio 
this  winter — guest  star  appearances  and  maybe  a  very 
brief  series.  He's  spending  most  of  this  season  in  concert 
engagements.  The  funny  part  of  it  is,  Jimmy  gave  a  New 
York  concert,  a  couple  of  years  back,  before  his  musical 


16 


RADIO  STARS 


radio  favorites,  we  gather  gusty  gossip  and 
likable  luminaries  of  the  national  networks 


progress  had  prepared  him  for  it.  The  critics  panned 
him  thoroughly  and  that  blighted  hopes  of  a  concert  ca- 
reer. Now  he  has  established  himself  as  a  picture  actor, 
which  doesn't  sound  very  highbrow,  but  the  disdainful 
concert  managers  of  a  couple  of  seasons  ago  are  very  glad 
to  book  him  at  a  good  fee. 

INSIDE  STORY 

Remember  tliat  day,  a  couple  of  years  ago,  when  Phil 
Lord  was  out  in  the  Pacific  in  his  little  unseaworthy 
schooner,  wallowing  in  a  heavy  storm,  frantically  sending 
out  SOS  calls  and  being  accused  of  faking  for  the  sake 
of  publicity?  That's  a  long  time  past  now,  but  inside 
stories  are  still  cduiing  out  on  whether  that  SOS  was  a 
fake  or  not.  If  you  followed  the  case  closely,  you  may 
renienil)er  it  was  the  English  ])a])ers  that  were  most  out- 
spoken about  Mr.  Lord  calling  one  of  His  Majesty's 
cruisers  (a  prince  aboard,  no  less)  on  this  outrageous 
American  publicity  stunt. 

This  story  iiiif/lif  Jiclp  clear  filings  up.  The  New  York 
correspondent  of  an  important  London  paper  called  Mrs. 
Phil  Lord,  tvhcn  word  of  those  SOS  calls  first  readied 
Nezv  York. 

"Your  husband  is  sending  out  distress  signals,  in  a 
storm  on  the  Pacific  Ocean,"  he  began,  and  went  on  with 
questions. 

The  two  little  Lord  children  were  playing  near  the  tele- 
phone.   Word  of  their  daddy's  (Continued  on  page  84) 


Homer  Rodeheaver  gets  big 
results  from  Morton  Downey 
and  three  Boston  chorus  girls. 


Did  you  know?  Durelle 
Alexander,  Whiteman's 
songbird,    dances,  too! 


RADIO  STARS 


ROBERT  L. 
RIPLEY 


dutiAAJ^iddiJ^  Sehjjuce  to  HcudJuo 


It's  an  amazing  world  we  live  in  and  the  more 
you  listen  to  "The  Bakers'  Broadcast,"  starring 
Robert  L.  (Believe-lt-or-Not)  Ripley,  the  more 
amazing  it  becomes.  Truth  is  certainly  stranger 
than  fiction  and  no  one  has  proved  this  more 
conclusively  than  Ripley. 

In  bringing  his  unbelievable  facts  to  radio,  he 
has  made  them  considerably  more  astounding 
than  they  seem  in  print.  His  exciting  drama- 
tizations, invariably  well  cast  and  produced, 
never  fail  to  leave  listeners  wondering  how  such 
events  possibly  could  have  happened.  But 
Ripley  has  the  positive  proof.  He  uses  nothing 
unless  he's  absolutely  sure  it's  true  and  accurate 
in  all  details. 

Ripley's  gracious  manner  and  fine  sense  of 
humor  make  him  a  most  satisfactory  and  con- 
vincing story-teller. 

The  material  he  uses  for  his  "Bakers'  Broad- 
casts," although  stranger  than  fiction,  neverthe- 
less, always  has  a  pronounced  element  of  human 
interest.  Unusual  facts,  of  themselves,  could  be 
quite  uninteresting  radio  fare.  Therefore,  Ripley 


specializes  in  incidents  with  a  decidedly  appeal- 
ing and  entertaining  story  behind  them.  In  fact, 
many  of  his  miraculous  events  are  taken,  not 
from  some  weird,  far-off,  unheard-of  place,  but 
from  our  ordinary  everyday  life. 

Ozzie  Nelson  and  his  orchestra,  with  vocalist 
Shirley  Lloyd,  give  the  proper  musical  balance 
to  the  program. 

Robert  L.  Ripley  has  contributed  a  new  idea 
in  radio  entertainment  with  his  stories  and 
dramatizations  of  amazing  happenings  and 
actually  presenting  the  persons  involved  in  these 
"believe-it-or-nots." 

To  Robert  L.  Ripley,  Radio  Stars  Magazine 
presents  its  award  for  Distinguished  Service  to 
Radio. 


—EDITOR. 


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Its  %  UutfMe. 


EXCLUSIVELY  PRESENTING  THE  FIRST  OF  A  SERIES 
OF  COLUMNS  IN  WHICH  RUDY  VALLEE  FRANKLY 
EXPRESSES  HIS  PERSONAL  VIEWS  ON  VARIOUS 
SUBJECTS  AND  PERSONALITIES 

^  .    —  


7 HIS  is  the  first  time  that  I 
have  had  the  opportunity  to 
express  myself  ahout  various 
subjects,  on  which  I  have  definite 
ideas  and  opinions,  and  I  welcome 
the  cliance  to  do  so.  Some  six  years 
ago  I  rejected  the  opportunity  to 
earn  some  $50,000  a  year  by  con- 
ducting a  syndicated  newspaper  col- 
umn on  the  subject  of  Advice  to  the 
Lovelorn.  The  discussion  of  such  a 
subject  was  obviously  unwise  and  I 
rejected  the  offer.  Since  then,  in  vari- 
ous periodicals,  I  have  written  arti- 
cles concerning  {)opular  songs,  their 
construction,  authorship  and  chances 
of  becoming  hits. 

I  would  like  to  offer  an  old  maxim 
for  your  approval : 

Our  opinions,  no  matter  how  dif- 
ferent, should  be  respected. 
-  ♦ 

/>/  this  monthly  discussion  I  am 
going  to  air  my  honest  and  quite 
humble  ideas  and  opinions  concern- 
ing not  only  the  zvorld  of  radio  but 
almost  anything  that  might  come 
under  my  ken  and  observation.  It 
will  be  a  cherished  hope  that  I  nrUl 
be  able  to  say  something  that  will 
not  only  he  interesting,  but  possibly 
helpful. 

I  n  this  day  and  age  when  so-called 
constitutional  freedom  of  the  press 
does  grant  that  freedom  to  a  few 
privileged  indiznduals  (thus  permit- 
ting them  to  take  nearly  everyone 
else  to  task)  it  is  rather  a  pleasure 
for  once  to  enjoy  that  power  of  con- 


demnation and  praise  zvhich  hither- 
to [  have  only  known  as  the  hap- 
less victim,  feeling  in  most  instances 
the  sting  of  not  only  unwarranted 
criticism  but  more  often  than  that, 
erroneous  reporting. 

At  the  outset  let  me  make  one 
thing  quite  emphatic.  I  am  not 
complaining;  I  have  little  cause  to 
complain.  I  have  been  unusually 
fortunate,  inheriting  a  healthy, 
happy  constitution,  an  ability  to 
work  and  enjoy  it  and  also,  I  be- 
lieve, a  certain  amount  of  musical 
talent  that  has  carried  me  far  and 
I  should  be  the  last  person  to 
register  any  complaints,  but  I  may 
be  a  bit  critical  of  human  nature  in 
general  and  certain  costly  apathies 
that  I  have  encountered  in  people. 

(Jnce  uj)  in  Minnea|X)lis  1  was 
l)eing  interviewed  by  two  reporters. 
(  I  had.  by  the  way,  driven  250  miles 
that  day.  to  play  a  one-night  dance 
stand.)  And,  as  usual,  tiecause  there 
was  a  deadline  for  their  articles,  they 
in.sisted  on  the  interview  I)efore  I  had 
even  alighted  from  my  car,  which  I 
had  personally  driven  this  distance, 
and  so,  tired,  dirty,  sleepy  and  hun- 
gry, I  had  to  submit  to  a  barrage  of 
questions,  among  which  was  this  one : 
"How  long  do  you  think  you  are 
going  to  last?" 

At  that  time  (1930)  /  had  been, 
for  about  a  year  and  a  half,  earning 


about  .v;.r  thousand  dollars  a  tveek 
and  on  this  particular  tour  xve  were 
grossing  $18,000  zvcckly  (the  depres- 
sion hadn't  reached  great  depths) 
and  I  could  see  that  they  wondered 
hozv  long  I  would  be  able  to  continue. 
.\fost  of  the  Xezv  Vork  columnists 
were  ribbing  me,  some  quite  cruelly, 
to  increase  their  fan  mail  at  my  ex- 
pense :  a  great  many  people  were  say- 
ing that  I  zt'as  just  a  "flash  in  the 
pan" ;  Broadway  said  I  couldn't  last 
because  I  hadn't  followed  the  usual 
zvay  of  building  up  a  reputation  in 
road  shozvs  and  vaudeville  and  Va- 
riety had  a  zvay  of  expressing  its  be- 
wilderment that  I  zvas  still  pleasing 
people. 

[Veil,  this  tvas  my  reply  to  their  ' 
question: 

"Kreisler  has  gone  on  throvgli 
the  years  playing  the  violin;  Harry 
Lauder  has  been  making  farewell 
tours  for  a  good  many  years  and 
is  still  making  them;  McCormack 
goes  on  giving  concerts;  Paderewski 
continues  to  make  tours;  Sophie 
Tucker  has  been  in  the  business 
twenty-three  years,  Jolson  twenty 
years,  Cantor  twenty  years  and  if 
I  find  new  songs  and  develop  my 
orchestra — ^^why  can't  I  go  on,  too?" 

The  interviewers  quoted  me  fair- 
ly. They  seemed  to  have  under- 
stood the  spirit  of  the  thing.  Bai 
in  newspaper  offices  there  is  anotker 
fellow  whom  they  call  the  Headline 

{Continued  on  page  100)  \ 


When  it  comes  to  speak- 
ing  his  mind,  Rudy 
Vallee  is  honest  and 
fearless.  He  doesn't 
say  what  he  thinks 
people  want  to  hear. 
Consequently  what  he 
says  is  worth  hearing! 


Sundays,  at  8:30p.m.,  EST, 
on  CBS  network,  Eddie 
broadcasts  his  program 
from  Hollywood,  where 
he   is   making   a  movie. 


W  .  have  clone  more  to  give  radio  a  black  eye  than 
all  the  poor  radio  shows  that  ever  have  been  put  to- 
gether!" 

Eddie  Cantor  spoke  vibrantly,  with  heat.  In  the  break- 
fast-room of  his  Beverly  Hills  home  he  is  not  the  shrill 
Cantor  who  clowns  for  you  on  Sunday  night.  He  is 
slim,  earnest,  speaks  in  staccato  sentences  with  a  singu- 
lar gift  of  getting  a  great  deal  of  pungent  emphasis  into 
a  word  or  a  phrase. 

'•Now  look.  Listen.  Let's  take  it  apart."  He  propped 
a  copy  of  R.\Dio  Stars  against  a  marmalade  jar. 
"Here.  See  what  it  says  here."  He  rapped  the  magazine 
sharply  with  slim  fingers,  and  the  marmalade  jar  skidded 
perilously  over  the  shiny  surface  of  the  table.  He  re- 
trieved it. 

"Wait  a  minute.  First  let  me  explain  something.  Bob 
.Montgomery  is  one  of  my  closest  friends.  I  respect 
him  a  lot.  You  know  Bob  just  succeeded  me  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Screen  Actors  Guild.  We're  both  devoted  to 
that  cause.  I  just  want  to  make  it  clear  that  there  isn't 
any  personal  animus  between  us.  liob's  my  friend.  Hut 
that  doesn't  mean  we  agree  on  evervthing.  You  under- 
stand that?" 

F.ddie  picked  up  the  magazine  and  riffled  the  ])ages 


Eddie  with  his  devoted 
wife,  Ida,  whose  wise 
and  loyal  support  gives 
point  to  Eddie's  work, 
career    and  happiness. 


nervously.  He  glanced  again  at  the  interview  I  had 
shown  him.  wherein  Bob  Montgomery  made  a  few  re- 
marks on  the  subject  of  radio.  My  job  was  to  have 
Eddie  read  the  interview,  then  give  me  one  replying 
to  it.  Eddie  resumed,  while  his  scanty  breakfast  grew 
cold. 

"I've  spent  six  years  in  radio.  I  love  it.  It's  beside 
the  point  that  Bob  Montgomery  happens  to  be  my  friend. 
I  feel  T  have  the  right  to  reply  to  him — or  anyone — 
who  criticises  radio.  Suppose  Bob  thinks  golf  is  silly 
and  I  think  it's  a  wonderful  game?  All  right.  We  can 
iifFer  about  that  and  still  be  friends,  can't  we?  Sure.  All 
right,  then.  Let's  take  a  look  at  this." 
He  read  from  the  magazine:  "Bob  says: 

7  think  that,  ivith  the  exception  of  comparaiively  few 
worth'ci'hile  programs,  radio  is  hoqginq  itself  down  in 
inexcusable  mediocrity/ 

"Xow  let's  see.  It  is'  Well,  radio  is  on  the  air  approxi- 
mately eighteen  hours  a  day.  three  hundred  and  sixty-five 
days  in  the  year.  .An  average  of  ten  hours  a  day  devoted 
to  hf teen-minute  programs,  and  eight  hours  of  half 
hour  shows  gives  you — let's  figure."  He  pencilled  quick 
figures  on  the  margin  of  a  page.  "Gives  you  20.400  shows 
in  a  year.  That's  only  the  coast  to  coast  shows.  Nobody 
know  how  many  smaller  ones  there  are. 

"Well,  suppose  ninety  per  cent,  of  those  were  positive 
masterpieces — that  would  still  leave  a  lot  of  what  Bob 
calls  "mediocre'  shows.  Naturally.  But  take  all  the 
movies  released  in  a  year.  What  percentage  are  master- 
pieces, and  what  percentage  are  mediocre — or  worse? 
Or  take  plays  or  books,  or  concerts  or  short  stories. 
.Anything. 

"What  I'm  driving  at  is  that  of  course  there  are  more 
mediocre  radio  shows  in  a  year  than  there  are  mediocre 
movies.  That's  because  there  are  more  radio  shows.  And 
liesides,  even  the  very  good  shows  hit  a  bad  program 
now  and  then.  Often.  No  genius  is  capable  of  putting 
on  fiftv-two  or  even  thirty-six  (Continued  on  page  fiO) 

23 


J  1  ACjLt  [XJUU  ' 


THE  Stage  Door  Johnny  is  a  very  perplexing  animal. 
Time  was,  not  so  long  ago,  either,  when  people  around 
the  Stem  claimed  that  he  was  a  practically  extinct  speci- 
men of  White  Way  night-life.  With  the  decline  and  fall 
of  vaudeville  and  only  a  few  girly  musicals  managing  to 
struggle  along  on  the  cuf?,  a  decided  shortage  was  noticed 
of  young  men  eager  to  pelt  leading  ladies  with  posies  as 
they  exited  into  the  theatre  alley  at  eleven  p.m.  Or  trade 
a  dozen  long-stemmed  roses  for  a  smile.  No  longer  could 
stage  doormen  pick  up  an  easy  ten  in  tips  every  night, 
just  for  carrying  notes  up  to  the  chorus  girls'  dressing- 
room.  And  Miss  Star  had  to  order  her  own  orchids, 
or  else. 

So  people  said,  wasn't  it  a  shame  there  weren't  any 
Stage  Door  Johnnies  any  more,  because  it  sort  of  took 
some  of  the  glamour  away  from  the  theatre. 

Nevertheless  the  Stage  Door  Johnny,  being  a  very 

Grade  Allen  (center)  with  Shirley  Ross  and 
Martha  Raye  (right)  between  scenes  of  Para- 
mount's  nnovie,  "The  Big  Broadcast  of  1937." 


perplexing  animal,  has  fooled  'em.  He's  not  extinct,  he's 
merely  changed  his  habitat  to  Radio  City  and  the  CBS 
Playhouses.  All  you've  got  to  do  is  step  out  of  a  broad- 
cast some  evening  to  witness  the  spectacle — the  Johnnies 
are  around,  yea  verily,  tenfold  as  thick  as  they  ever  were 
when  Broadway  was  in  its  heyday.  In  fact,  they  ve  be- 
come as  much  a  part  of  the  radio  scene  as  microphones, 
since  the  network  lovelies,  who  chant  the  blues  or  stooge 
or  act  or  even  play  a  trumpet,  have  as  big  an  audience 
waiting  in  the  alley  these  nights  as  they  do  inside  the 
studio. 

Of  course,  the  Stage  Door  Johnny,  1937  Model,  has 
evoluted  into  a  slightly  dif?erent  species  from  his  forbears 
of  the  prosperous  'twenties.  He's  not  exactlv  the  Dia- 
mond Jim  Brady  he  used  to  be,  when  everybody  had  jobs 
and  twenty  dollars  a  throw  for  orchids  was  merely  small 
change.  He  usually  waits  for  his  ladv  love  with  an  auto- 

Fannie  Brice,  of  "The  Revue  de 
Paris,"  and  the  "Ziegfeld  Follies," 
met  a  strange  Stage  Door  Johnny! 


6f  Radio. 


'c^raph  book  instead  of  an  automobile  and  his  attire  is  his 
best  business  suit  instead  of  top  hat,  white  tie  and  tails. 
But  he's  waiting,  legions  of  him.  And  there  isn't  a 
feminine  star  who  hasn't  a  pet  story  to  tell  about  what 
happened  one  night  after  the  broadcast. 

Of  course  you  remember  when  Mary  Livingstone  was 
writing  those  goofy  poems  of  hers  on  the  Jack  Benny 
show.  One  evening  after  the  program  was  over  she  was 
tollowed  out  to  her  car  by  a  blushing  young  man  of 
about  twenty,  who  pressed  a  package  into  her  hands. 

"Miss  Livingstone,"  he  blurted,  breathless  and  very 
ardent,  "they  may  make  fun  of  your  poems  on  the  radio 
l)Ut  I  can  sympathize  with  you,  because  I  wrote  some 
pretty  awful  ones,  too,  before  I  got  good  at  it  and  I 
l)elieve  you  have  the  makings  of  a  fine  poet  and  I  believe 
we  have  a  lot  in  common — so  I  want  to  give  you  this 
l)Ook  of  my  ]X)ems  I  wrote  (Continued  on  page  96) 


Below  (lefi)  Frances  Longford  of  "Hollywood 
Hotel."  Helen  Hayes,  star  of  "Bambl"  and 
Priscilia     Lane    of    "The  Pennsylvanians." 


If  Paula  Ikomcu, 


''Stage  Door  Johnny" 


now  haunts  Radio 


Row,  to  offer  his 


tributes  to  lovely 


ladies  of  the  air 


Charles  Bu+terworth  of  the  Astaire 
show  and  Eddie  Cantor's  Bobby  Breen 
indulge  in  some  dose  harmony.  They 
are  making  o  movie — "Rainbow  on 
the   River,"   for   RKO-Radio  Pictures. 


Ed  Wynn  can  tell  the  wild- 
flowers — and  what  he  can 
tell  them!  Wynn's  new  NBC 
programs  are  on  the  required 
list  of  most  dial  twisters. 

In  the  interval  of  a  "Holly- 
wood Hotel"  rehearsal,  Jane 
Withers  and  Frances  Lang- 
ford  take  a  peek  at  their 
favorite  radio  magazine. 

Four  stars  foregather  for 
the  Lux  Theatre.  Left  to 
right,  they  ore:  George 
Raft,  June  Lang,  Gloria 
Swanson  and  Cecil  DeMille. 


"The  Gay  Desperado"  in  action!  Nino's 
new  romantic  movie  for  United  Artists. 


That's  what  Nino 
Martini  says,  but  in 
his  heart  is  there  a 
fond  secret  dream? 


Another  romantic  moment  in  "The  Goy 
Desperado."    Nino  sings  to  Ida  Lupino. 


One  of  America's  most  exciting  young 
bachelors,  Nino  Martini  resents  romance. 


WHEN  Nino  Martini  returned  to  New  York  from 
Hollywood  recently,  he  stepped  out  of  the  train  into 
a  mob  of  clamoring  reporters.  Each  of  them  was  yelling 
the  same  question:  "Are  you  married^" 

Blinded  by  photographers'  flashes,  bewildered  by  the 
roaring  crowd,  Nino  said:  "What?" 

People  were  closing  in  on  him.  his  hat  was  under 
his  feet,  an  elbow  dug  into  his  stomach. 

"Are  you  married?" 

Nino  dodged  a  tottering  camera.  "I  don't  know!"  he 
shouted. 

In  the  days  that  followed,  Mr.  Martini  convinced 
everyone  he  saw  that,  besides  not  knowing,  he  didn't 
care  to  talk  about  it.  For  this  handsome  young  hero, 
with  his  Valentino  eyes  and  a  head  full  of  love  songs, 
is  fed  up  with  romance.  One  of  America's  most  ex- 
citing young  bachelors,  chief  attraction  in  many  a  maiden's 
dreams,  he  does  not  want  to  talk  about  love  nor  hear 
it  mentioned. 

Those  nearest  and  dearest  to  him  wouldn't  be  sur- 
prised, at  any  broadcast  now,  to  have  him  insist  on  title 
changes,  such  as,  "Joe  Sends  a  Little  Gift  of  Roses," 
or  "Sock  Me  Tonight."  And  if  he  had  his  way,  liis 
next  film  would  be  a  Western  with  an  all-male  cast  and 
nary  a  skirt  on  the  set. 

You  can't .  blame  Mr.  Martini  for  rebelling.  He's 
had  romance  built  around  him  for  a  long,  long  time. 
He's  been  lathered  with  it,  steeped  and  drenched  in 
it.  And  now  he's  tired  of  it. 

Nino  was  a  born  "natural"  for  the  romance  build-up. 
He  first  saw  the  light  of  day  in  Verona,  Italy.  Verona, 
where,  according  to  romantic  tradition,  the  skies  are 
always  softly  blue  above  the  flower-studded  fields ;  where 
all  women  are  lovely  and  all  men  gallant ;  the  sun  al- 
ways shines;  no  work  is  ever  done.  And  everybody 
plays  accordions  and  dances  in   the    streets.  Almost 


anybody  hailing  from  Verona  is  tagged  romantic.  And 
if,  in  addition,  the  person  is  a  handsome  young  man,  pos- 
sessed of  a  golden  voice,  he  can't  be  an^lhing  but  romantic. 

To  make  matters  worse,  Nino,  when  a  child,  played  in 
the  shadow  of  the  tomb  of  Romeo  and  Juliet.  When 
people  find  that  out,  Martini  is  sunk.  "How  beautiful," 
they  say.  "and  how  tragic !  Childhood  spent  at  the  tomb 
of  the  world's  greatest  lovers!  No  wonder  he  is  so 
sensitive,  so  understanding — "  Then  the  hostess  begs  him 
to  sing,  O  Sole  Alio.  Nobody  ever  asks  him  if  he 
went  to  the  ball  game  or  how  he's  picking  'em  for  the 
Derby. 

One  look  into  his  dark,  soft  eyes  and  ladies  are  prone 
to  swoon — falling  carefully  in  the  direction  of  Martini. 
One  polite  smile  from  his  mobile,  Latin  mouth,  and  La 
Belle  puts  a  small,  white  hand  on  his  arm  to  draw  him 
nearer. 

But  ladies  beware !  Martini  is  fed  up.  Nino  may  step 
to  one  side  when  you  swoon.  And  instead  of  smiling  at 
you,  he  is  likely  to  laugh  out  loud. 

One  mention  of  romance  and  it's  a  sign  for  Martini 
to  detour ! 

Ask  him,  for  example,  about  that  rumor  of  the  sloe- 
eyed  beauty  waiting  for  him  in  Italy  and  he  will  tell 
you  about  the  power  of  Mussolini.  His  eyes  grow  soft 
and  glowing,  as  he  mentions  his  beloved  Italy,  his  hopes 
and  plans  for  going  back.  You  whisper — softly  so  as  not 
to  break  the  spell — something  of  moonlit  skies  and  emerald 
.seas  and  he  says  firmly :  "No,  I  am  not  afraid  to  return 
to  my  native  land.  Many  people  say  I  will  be  compelled 
to  join  the  Italian  army,  to  go  to  war.  W'hat  of  it? 
I  am  not  afraid  to  fight.  I  am  strong — a  strong  man. 
One  may  sing  and  also  be  brave.  I  would  be  a  good 
soldier!" 

But  what  of  the  sloe-eyed  girl?  Bah!  Women — thev 
are  all  alike!     Nino  sighs.     {Continued  on  page  56) 

29 


MoftfUf.  Though 

What  is  it  that  saves  the  Chapman-   |  ^ 
Swarthout  marriage  from  the  usual 
Hollywood   marital  debacle? 


Gladys  Swar+hout 
as  "Elsa,"  with 
Fred  MacMurray 
as  "Buzzy,"  in  o 
scene  from  their 
delighttui  new 
Paramount  movie, 
"Champagne 
Waltr." 


1 


-  H 


"I  ALWAYS  wanted  to  be  a  boy," 
said  Gladys  Swarthout,  slim,  dark, 
soft-voiced,  soft-eyed,  more  feminine 
than  feminine  against  her  high- 
backed  chair  beside  the  whispering 
flames.  The  morning  sun  came  in 
through  chintzes,  the  pale  gold  sun 
of  California.  Winter  roses  breathed 
their  chilly,  fire-warmed  breaths 
about  her.  Framed  pictures  of  her 
friends  smiled  at  her — and,  in  his 
chair  opposite  her,  her  husband 
smiled  at  her. 

An  incongruous  statement,  seem- 
ingly, "/  always  wanted  to  be  a  boy!" 
from  this  Romantic  Lady  who,  in  an 
age  of  motor  cars  and  planes  and 
slacks  and  the  idiom  called  slang, 
looks  as  though  she  might  just  have 
stepped  from  a  post-chaise,  wearing 
a  chignon  and  crinolines,  looks  as 
though  she  might  have  stepped  from 
the  gilt  frame  of  an  old  medallion, 
looks  as  though  she  might  be  playing 
a  melodeon  instead  of  singing  on  the 
radio  .  .  . 

But:  "I  wanted  to  be  a  boy," 
smiled  Gladys  Swarthout,  "because  I 
thought  a  boy  could  do  more  roman- 


In  the  marriage  of  Frank  Chapnnan  and  Gladys  Swar+hout 
romance  and  reality  are  happily  fused.  They  still  find 
being   together   the   most   thrilling   thing   in   the  world. 


Gladys  revels  in  the  California 
sun.  Takes  a  daily  sun-bath  after 
a  dip  in  the  pool  at  her  home. 


tic  thingfs.  When  I  was  a  small  child 
at  home  in  Deep  Water.  Missouri.  1 
used  to  play  Romeo  and  Juliet,  in  the 
big,  dark,  cobwebby  attic  at  home. 
And  /  always  did  the  part  of  Romeo. 
Td  cast  some  little  'sissy  ^wV  in  the 
role  of  Juliet." 

And  I  was  reminded  then  of  how 
someone  had  once  said  to  me  of 
(iladys  Swarthout :  "She  has  a  mas- 
culine mind,  a  ma.sculine  determina- 
tion and  vitality,  the  lusty  spirit  of 
Shakespeare  himself  in  the  body  of 
his  own  Dark  Lady  of  the  Sonnets. 

"Perhaps  my  childish  Romeo," 
(iladys  was  .sayinij.  "was  a  forerun- 
ner of  the  boys'  roles  I  later  sang  at 
the  Met.  For  I  sang  all  of  the  boys' 
roles,  you  know.  Sadko,  Stefano. 
I'Vederic  in  Mir/non.  Siebel  in  Faust, 
all  of  them. 

"1  was  always  a  tomboy  .  .  ." 

"Vou  always  were  an  anomaly," 
smiled  I'Vank  Chapman,  "a  tomboy 
with  the  dreams  of  a  Faerie  Queen." 

"Yes,"  agreed  Gladys,  "and  when 
1  was  a  little  older  I'd  make  dates 
with  various  little  lads  and,  at  the 
last  minute,  I'd  break*  them.  I'd  </o 


home,  climb  a  tree  and  imagine  what 
the  date  would  have  been  like  if  it 
had  been  perfect.  I  think  I  imag- 
ined that  I  could  day-dream  it  all  far 
more  beautifully  and  romantically 
and  poetically  than  ever  it  would 
have  been  in  reality.  It  was  one  of 
those  apple-tree  'dates,'  "  laughed 
Gladys,  "that  gave  me  this  scar  on 
my  lip.  I  was  so  immersed  in  my 
imagining  of  the  lyrical  things  He 
would  have  said  to  ine  and  I  would 
have  said  to  Him.  that  I  fell  kerplunk 
out  of  the  tree  and  landed  four- 
square on  my  face. 

'That  should  have  'learned  me." 
but  it  didn't !  T  even  romanticized 
that.  I  was  a  Lovely  Lady  hurtling 
from  her  Tower  of  Ivory,  or  some- 
thing of  the  sort.  1  think.  '  said 
( iladys  Swarthout,  gently,  "that  all 
romantic  i)eople  have  a  tendency  to 
avoid  life.  We  know  that  it  can  never 
i)e  as  perfect  and  as  {xjetically  pas- 
sionate as  our  own  imaginaticm  can 
make  it.  The  shadow  is,  to  us,  more 
])otent  than  the  substance.  Until, 
one  day,  the  romance  and  the  reality 
meet  and  are  one.  and  then.  ..."  And 


the  dark  eyes  of  Cjladys  Swarthout 
were  on  the  brilliant  blue  eyes  of  her 
husband.  In  gratitude.  In  recogni- 
tion, perhaps,  of  a  miracle. 

"I  was  always  and  forever  putting 
myself  in  the  place  of  others."  Gladys 
went  on.  "I  was  seldom,  if  ever, 
plain  Gladys  Swarthout  at  home  in 
Deep  Water  or  later  in  Kansas  City, 
with  my  family.  I  was  Duse.  I  was 
Emily  Bronte.  I  was  Jenny  Lind. 
I  was  Alma  Gluck.  I  was  Joan  of 
.Arc.  1  was  Lily  Langtry.  I  was 
D'Artagnan — for  the  dreams  of  a 
Romantic  laugh  away  the  boundary 
of  sex — I  was  the  young  Byron.  I 
was  Robin  Hood.  I  was  Shelley, 
whose  flaming  heart  was  i)lucked 
from  the  flames. 

'My  career  began,  as  you  may 
know,  with  just  such  a  piece  of  imag- 
ining. I  went  to  church  one  Raster 
Sunday  when  I  was  thirteen.  I 
watched  the  soprano  soloist  raise 
her  music  high  when  she  sang  the 
high  notes,  lower  it  when  she  sang 
the  low  notes.  I  was  bemused.  I 
thought.  '1  could  do  l)etter  than  that.' 
I  7vas,  in  (  Continued  on  t'acje  104) 


TO  listen  to  Floyd  Gibbons  over  the  air  is  like  taking  a 
hypodermic  charged  with  nitro-glycerine !  Words,  ideas, 
laughs,  fling  out  like  shrapnel,  with  a  high  percentage  of 
"direct  hits."  His  missiles  are  by  turns  blunt  and  sharp. 
Sometimes  he  comes  crashing  through  the  air  with  a 
statement  like  a  bayonet  poised ;  or  again,  he  dashes  out 
in  the  open  with  a  smoking  hand  grenade  of  a  news  scoop 
that  shocks  his  audiences  nearly  out  of  their  seats.  He 
leaves  his  listeners  excited,  keyed  up,  thrilled,  as  he  signs 
off,  their  own  everyday  world  a  little  flat  by  contrast. 
They  wonder  if  he  is  really  like  that  in  the  flesh — a  fear- 
less bull,  charging,  sometimes  ferociously,  through  all 
obstacles.  Disregarding  pointing  muskets,  exploding 
Ixjmbs,  enemy  lines,  rivers  without  bridges,  trains  without 
rails,  and,  endowed  like  a  cat  with  nine  lives — seven  of 
which  he  has  already  lost — he  charges  again  and  again, 
laughing  at  warnings,  right  into  the  very  jaws  of  death 
— and  always  gets  the  news!  What  is  more  he  gets  it 
first!  His  one  journalistic  object  in  life  is  to  get  the  news 
first — a  scoop,  a  beat.  Over  a  long  term  of  years,  Floyd 
Gibbons  has  demonstrated  that  he  is  the  greatest  "first 
news"  reporter  the  world  has  even  seen.  And  he  has 
paid  plenty  for  tliat  reputation !  Some  day  the  Fates 
will  get  him;  they  won't  stand  by  forever  for  such  a 
super-mortal,  over-riding  peril  after  peril. 

If  appearances  count  for  anything,  then  the  radio 
listeners  seem  to  be  about  right  in  their  conjectures  of 
the  "charging  bull."  1  got  the  full  impact  of  this  as  I 
sat  in  the  New  York  hotel  apartment  that  he  occupies 
between  assignments.  It  was  comfortably  and  artistically 
furnished — the  walls  hung  with  well-chosen  paintings  and 
engravings,  battle-scarred  mementos  and  autographed 
photographs  of  O.  O.  Mclntyre,  of  himself  and  President 


Roosevelt  as  they  sat  chatting  together  aboard  tne  train 
during  F.  D.  R.'s  first  campaign  tour.  I  had  peeped  into 
a  little  cubbyhole  of  a  room  on  the  side,  in  a  state  of 
newspai)er-copy  disorder,  with  a  typewriter  on  which  he 
pounds  out  his  copy  in  the  same  rapid,  driving  manner 
that  he  does  everything  else.  When  he  suddenly  rushed 
into  the  room  I  felt  like  an  unprepared  matador  taken 
unawares  in  the  bull  ring.  From  his  hurry,  he  stood 
before  me  panting  for  a  moment.  One  hundred  and 
ninety  pounds  of  brawn  and  muscle ;  a  striking  resem- 
blance to  a  composite  of  Max  Schmeling  and  Jack  Demp- 
sey,  accentuated  by  a  nose  that  had  got  smashed  some- 
where on  the  front  line  of  news  gathering.  His  hair  was 
dark  and  brushed  straight  back  over  his  large  head,  leav- 
ing a  high,  broad  forehead  sharing  his  florid  complexion ; 
biggish  lips,  a  square  jaw  and  a  stubborn  chin. 

But  not  these  features,  nor  the  livid  scar  beneath  his 
right  jaw — received  fighting  his  way  out  of  a  jam — were 
the  marks  that  fascinated  me  most.  It  was  his  eye — for 
he  has  only  one  eye.  Or  perhaps  it  was  the  empty  socket 
of  his  left  eye  that  was  covered  with  a  piece  of  white 
knitted  goods  that  tied  up  over  the  top  of  his  head. 

Even  before  he  could  speak,  the  dramatic  story  of  that 
famous  scoop,  that  gouged  out  an  eye  and  shattered  the 
l)ones  and  ripped  off  the  ligaments  of  a  shoulder,  flashed 
through  my  brain.  My  mind  went  back  to  the  World 
War,  which  Gibbons  had  scooped  again  and  again.  Then 
somehow,  some  way — that  he  always  manages — he  sent 
his  newspaper  a  scoop  that  was  a  bombshell.  "America 
Has  Decided  to  Enter  the  War!"  It  preceded  the  actual 
declaration  hy  days,  yet  he  had  got  authentic  inside  infor- 
mation that  even  the  King  of  England  scarcely  knew. 
Floyd  Gibbons  was  the  first  man  (Continued  on  pagelOZ) 


Here  are  some  of  the  exciting  adventures  never  told  before,  in 
the  hectic  career  of  dynamic  war  correspondent  Floyd  Gibbons 


%  UeM^  AHle^it  VUM^ 


Floyd  Gibbons, 
famous  war  corre- 
spondent, caught 
in  action  as  he 
recounts  in  his 
swift,  vigorous 
style  some  of  his 
unusually  thrill- 
ing experiences. 


\ 


Dad  Pearl  lives  with  Jack  and  his  wife.  Mrs.  Pearl  is  a 
Canadian-born  girl  and  fornnerly  was  known  on  the  stage 
as  Winnie  Lester.  Her  real  nanne  is  Winifred  Desborough. 


Jack  and  Cliff  Hall,  who  is  his 
"straight  man,"  go  over  a  script 
together   during   their  luncheon. 


!l  MARRIED  lack  Pearl — the  actor — thirteen  years 
liigo  and  1  thought  I  understood  what  1  was  in  for 
when  I  discovered  1  had  fallen  in  love  with  the  kind- 
est, most  considerate  man  1  had  ever  known.  Be- 
cause we  met  on  the  road  in  a  show  that  starred  him 
and  had  me  in  the  front-row  chorus.  I  anticipated  long 
years  of  trouping  in  new  cities,  making  train  schedules, 
unijacking  and  re])acking  trunks  in  strange  hotels, 
gazing  across  footlights  into  faces  I'd  never  seen  be- 
fore in  any  one  of  forty-eight  different  states. 

Then  my  husband  became  a  radio  star  and  I  woke 
u])  one  morning  in  our  own  home  with  the  early  sun 
streaming  in  through  wide  windows  on  our  own  be- 
longings and  I  realized  the  great  satisfaction  of  know- 
ing that  a  month  from  that  morning  we'd  still  be 
havmg  our  second  leisurely  cup  of  coffee  in  the  same 
dining-room.  To  pcoi)le  like  us  it's  a  great  thrill — 
I  vc  heard  our  friends  reiterate  our  .sentiments,  people 
like  the  Jack  Bennys  and  George  Burns  and  Gracie 
Allen  and  dozens  of  others — that  grand  feeling  of  be- 
ing able  to  sign  a  lea.se  on  one  i)lacc  and  know  it  isn't 
just  a  stopf)ver  between  engagements,  but  a  home 
where  you  really  stay  and  live. 

To  radio  we  give  our  thanks  for  a  definite  anchor- 
age, which  only  people  like  Jack  and  myself  and  our 
friends,  who  have  found  their  definite  niche  in  broad- 
casting, can  appreciate. 

You  can  talk  all  you  will  alM)Ut  the  thrill  of  trouping. 
Jack  and  I  have  covered  more  than  our  .share  of  mile- 
age :  you  can  have  the  excitement  of  the  road,  easy 
familiarity  with  trains  and  boats  and  planes.  But  for 
us.  we'll  take  our  home  on  Central  Park  W  est  in  Man- 
hattan, where  our  living-room  is  filled  with  our  things 
that  we  like,  where  Jack  and  I  can  be  delightfullv  lazv. 
where  our  friends  can  visit  us  and  where  we  think  we 


know  what  will  hap})en  next  ~week  and  next  month. 

Manv  of  our  old  associates  of  the  stage  days  arc 
now  settled  in  Hollywood  and  we  do  miss  them.  But 
while  they  are  3.000  miles  away  from  us  they,  too, 
can  thank  radio  for  their  pleasant  family  life  in  Cali- 
fornia, h  was  their  broadcast  popularity,  more 
than  all  their  theatre  years,  that  gave  them  their  en- 
viable spots  in  the  movies. 

When  Jack  went  on  the  air  for  his  first  programs  in 
1932,  that  was  about  the  time  when  radio  was  snatching 
up  all  the  funny  men.  It  was  an  entirely  new  sphere 
for  him.  Trained  as  he  had  been,  through  his  long 
career,  to  watch  the  reaction  of  his  audiences  across 
the  footlights,  we  liad  no  idea  hr-.v  the  unseen  millions 
in  their  homes  would  receive  him.  For  weeks  the 
very  sight  oi  a  micro])hone  gave  me  cold  chills  and  1 
know  Jack  had  the  same  feeling  every  time  he  walked 
into  the  studio.  I  recall  his  coming  home  that  night 
of  his  air  introduction  and  looking  eagerly  at  me  for 
my  impressions.  1  don  t  think  I  was  comi)letely  con- 
vincing in  my  reassurance  and  it  was  not  until  many 
]}rograms  later  that  we  were  satisfied  he  had  put  hini- 
.self  over.  His  acti\-ities  as  the  Baron  Munchausen 
covered  such  a  long  period.  I  think  he  .got  a  little 
tired  of  the  fabulous  character  and  he  felt  that  i)erhaps 
his  i)ublic  was  weary  of  it,  too.  I  was  nctt  at  all  ])leased 
with  the  switch  he  made  when  he  became  Feter  Pfeif- 
fer  on  the  air.  1  didn't  think  the  material  gave  him 
fair  advantage  but  he  stuck  with  the  series  and.  after 
he  concluded  that  contract,  he  felt,  perhaps,  he  ought  to 
go  back  to  the  theatre.  Kor  sixteen  months.  Jack  loafed 
in  various  i)arts  of  the  world ;  fir.st  in  Europe,  then  for 
weeks  in  New  York,  while  his  fingers  grew  cramped 
holding  tons  of  manuscripts,  not  one  of  which  con- 
tained a  really  good  foot-  ( Continued  on  page  78) 


Beaudcf 


Jane  Pickens,  star  of  the  "Ziegfeld 
Follies"  and  "Saturday  Night  Party." 


/O  look  at  Jane  Pickens,  you'd  certainly  never  think 
it.  But  she  can't  hold  her  beaux ! 
And  yet  she  has  everything  it  usually  takes  to 
he  a  belle — a  Park  Avenue  apartment,  a  Packard  road- 
ster, and  a  face  and  figure  that  magazine  covers  and 
audiences  have  doted  on  for  years.  She's  starred  very 
brilliantly,  from  coast-to-coast,  on  the  Saturday  Night 
Party  broadcasts.  Broadway  at  Fiftieth  is  about  ten  thou- 
sand watts  brighter  with  her  name  flung  in  tall  lights 
across  the  mammoth  marquee  of  The  Ziegfeld  Follies, 
and  her  singing  shorts  are  the  irresistible  hors  d'oeuvres 
be fore-the- feature,  that  movie  audiences  in  hundreds  of 
theatres  sit  through  twice  every  night  and  still  get  a  bang 
out  of.  And  as  if  those  weren't  enough,  she  even  has 
naturally  curly  hair  and  the  Fashion  Academy's  title  of 
"Radio's  Best  Dressed  Woman." 

All  for  this  to  happen — for  Helen  and  Patti,  who 
haven't  nearly  so  impressive  a  fanfare  around  them,  to 
swish  right  past  her  with  the  family  record  for  beaux ! 


"The  best  thing,"  says 
Jane,  "is  not  to  love  any- 


Radio's  favorite  harmony  trio, 
Jane  (left)  Patti  and  Helen  Pickens. 


Jane  has  everything  it  takes 
to  be  a  belle — except  a  beau! 


Helen  has  her  handsome  Latin  hushand,  Patti  has  her 
handsome  Bob  Simmons,  and  Jane  has  a  right  to  sing: 
/  Ain't  Got  Nobody. 

Which  is  all  wrong,  really,  if  there's  supjwsed  to  be 
any  justice  in  this  world.  She  ought  to  be  the  ring- 
leader of  the  three  in  affaires  dc  coeur.  as  she's  always 
been  in  all  their  other  aflfairs.  For  anybody  who  knows 
the  Glamorous  Georgians  can  tell  you  that  Jane  practi- 
cally is  the  Pickens  Trio.  It  was  she  who  piloted  them 
into  radio  and  she's  always  directed  them.  She  in- 
vented their  unique  type  of  crooning  harmony,  she's 
always  invented  the  'hot  licks'  and  'smears'  and  'noodles' 
in  their  unique  song  arrangements.  She  designs  most 
of  their  gowns,  does  most  of  their  worrying,  and  most 
energetically  attends  to  the  endless  details  connected  with 
being  a  trio  on  the  air. 

l-'or  what?  Usually  for  a  glass  of  warm  milk  and  a 
gi^od  novel  in  the  evenings,  while  Patti's  dancing  to 
Duchin  at  the  Plaza  and  Helen's  hostessing  a  brilliant 
dinner  party. 

Xow  you — when  your  Big  Moment  calls  up  and  wants 
a  date  five  minutes  from  now  or  wants  a  date  for  the 
twentieth  of  next  month  at  nine-thirtv — you  can  keep 
vour  engagements  when  you  make  them.  At  least,  you're 
not  going  tf>  be  held  over  a  week  at  the  F^aramount.  or 
liave  to  stay  up  all  night  making  last-minute  song  arrange- 
ments, or  have  a  la.st-minute  co.stume  fitting  when  you 
were  supposed  to  be  i)laying  golf  with  your  Thrill,  or 
l)e  scheduled  for  a  benefit  on  the  twentieth  of  next  month 
at  precisely  nine-thirty.    Yf>u're  lucky! 

IV)f)r  Jane  Pickens  has  had  to  stand  U])  about  half  of 
'he  handsomest  eligibles  in  Manhattan.     .\nd  the  hand- 


somer they  come  the  more  they  hate  broken  dates — which 
accoimts  for  a  lot  of  her  milk-and-fiction  evenings  these 
days.  For  every  step  she's  taken  toward  success,  she's 
also  taken  a  good  jolt  in  the  heart  region  because  Work 
Stifled  Romance!    And  that's  no  fun! 

The  awfullest  part  of  it  is,  as  Jane  admits,  that  this 
sad  state  is  nobody's  fault  but  her  very  own.  The 
reason  it  has  happened  to  her  and  not  to  Helen  and 
Patti  goes  back  to  the  time  the  trio  first  landed  on  the 
air  four  years  ago.  Everxbody  around  Radio  Row  re- 
members the  wav  the  Pickens  gals  were  rushe<l  right 
off  their  custom-made  pumps  by  all  the  Romeos  in  sight. 
A  beau-by-beau  account  of  their  lives  reads  like  a  Social 
Register  of  show  business,  Mayfair  and  the  most  exclu- 
sive men's  colleges.  They  had  gorgeous  complexions  and 
lots  of  charm  and  a  stack  of  Southernisms  about  them 
that  completely  captivated  the  Yankee  males.  They'd 
say  'y'air  and  'right  .soon'  and  'fuh'  coat  for  fur  coat 
and  "rilly'  for  reallv  and,  l)ecause  it  was  genuine  Georgian 
and  not  aflfected,  it  went  over  hugely  with  everybody, 
including  the  dialers.  And  the  first  thing  the  Pickens 
sisters  of  Macon,  Georgia,  knew,  their  star  had  zonnied  tn 
the  very  tip  top  of  radio. 

Xow.  in  every  trio,  somebody  has  to  be  the  manager 
and,  since  Jane's  were  the  trained  musical  brains  of  the 
outfit,  the  job  sort  of  fell  to  her  lot.  It  had  been  her 
idea,  anvw^ay,  that  they  try  to  get  on  the  air.  She's 
alwavs  made  their  arrangements  and  rehearsed  their  parts 
and  run  things.  Oi  course  that  took  time  and  work  but 
she  didn't  mind  it.  She  had  a  definitely  high-tension 
personality  that  set  her  a^iart  from  her  sisters.  Patti 
and  F^elen  sang  for  their  bread  (  Continued  on  page  70) 


And  it's  nobody's  fault  but  her  own,  Jane  Pickens  admits 


I 


WOMEN  have  been  kind  to  RubinofT.  To  no  man  have 
they  shown  greater  devotion.  They  have  helped  him 
with  their  sympathy,  their  love,  their  understanding.  They 
have  sjwnsored  his  concerts.  They  have  urged  him  on  to 
greater  achievement. 

In  return,  this  great  violinist  has  helped  scores  of 
women,  young  and  old,  to  comfort  and  success,  shown 
his  appreciation  in  many  ways.  But  he  has  loved  but 
one.    That  was  fifteen  years  ago.  .  .  . 

To  no  man  have  women  been  more  significant — yet 
he  is  not  married.  Why?  I  asked  him  and  he  gave  the 
answer.  For  the  first  time,  he  told  the  story  of  his 
first  marriage,  the  tragedy  of  the  divorce,  and  the  full 
melancholy  tale  of  the  lonely  years  that  followed.  For 
the  first  time,  this  charming  ogre  of  the  violin,  this 
Simon  Legree  of  orchestra  conductors,  softened  and  spoke 
of  love. 

He  was  eighteen,  a  slim,  dark  lad  playing  a  fiddle  on 
the  dais  of  Cleveland's  Hotel  Gillsy  dining-room.  He 
played  l)efore  the  elite  of  the  midwestern  city,  played, 
not  f(jr  them  to  dance,  Intt  simple  airs  to  make  dining 
more  i)leasant.  And.  he  played  with  a  hungry  passion 
that  stirred  them  strangely. 

"One  evening,  a  girl  came  to  the  platform,"  he  said 
to  me.  "'A  beautiful  girl  .  .  ." 

Rubinoff  was  at  the  desk  of  his  office  in  the  tower 
of  the  Paramount  Building  in  New  York.  Dust  clouds 
swirled  up  from  Broadway  and  the  sound  of  horns 
drifted  up  faintly.  In  his  hands  were  his  fiddle — ^his 
irreplaceable  Stradivarius.  He  paused,  to  play  a  bar  or 
two,  a  lilting  phrase. 

"A  beautiful  girl,"  he  continued,  "and  she  wanted  me 
to  play  something  sf>ecial  for  her.  The  Huntorcsque.  I 
played  it  for  her.  to  her.  Then  she  asked  for  more.  We 
talked.  We  became  acquainted.  She  played  the  piano. 
She  knew  music.    She  was  beautiful.    I  loved  her. 

"We  went  out  together.  Between  concerts,  I  would 
steal  away  to  walk  with  her,  to  go  to  a  show  and  hold 


Rubinoff.  WABC 
maestro,  heard  Sun- 
days, 6.30  p.  m.  E.S.T. 


To  no  man  have  women  been 
more  significant.  Yet  he  is  not 
married.  Here  is  Rubinoff  s  story 


hands  with  her.  Just  being  with  her,  talking  with  her, 
satisfied  my  need  for  companionship.  She  was  four  years 
older  than  I  was — but  beautiful.  We  were  very  much  in 
love.    And  then  we  quarreled. 

"It  was  this  way.  I  had  bought  her  a  wrist  watch. 
1  had  it  in  my  pocket  and  was  going  to  slip  it  on,  when 
I  noticed  that  she  already  had  a  wrist  watcli — a  new  one. 
Where  had  it  come  from?  1  was  young,  in  love.  I  was 
jealous.  I  jumped  to  conclusions.  And  stalked  out  of  the 
house. 

"Weeks  went  by.  I  could  stand  it  no  longer.  I  trumf>ed 
up  a  little  message,  saying  I  was  going  away  forever.  It 
was  a  lie.  I  wrote  it  in  the  hope  of  getting  her  to  come 
around.  I  gave  the  messenger  fifty  cents  and  sent  him 
off.  He  wasn't  gone  more  than  a  minute  when  the  tele- 
phone rang.  It  was  Dorothy.  She,  too,  had  found  it 
hard  to  get  along  alone. 

"Wasn't  it  wonderful — and  a  little  weird — that  we 
both  should  have  weakened  and  gone  to  the  other  at  the 
same  time?" 

Rubinoff  ripped  off  a  wild  snatch  of  a  Cossack  dance, 
ending  on  a  note  of  sadness,  infinitely  tender. 

"Later,"  he  said,  "the  messenger  came  back.  But  I  did 
not  let  her  know  that  I  had  made  an  overture  at  the 
same  time  she  had.  It  did  not  matter  much,  because  we 
were  married  shortly  after.  Four  months  to  the  day 
after  we  had  met." 

Out  of  his  love  for  and  marriage  to  the  girl,  Dorothy, 
Dave  Rubinoff  drew  his  greatest  inspiration.  They  had 
lived  together,  worked  together  in  an  atmosphere  of  music. 
They  had  a  little  girl,  now  living  with  the  violinist's  par- 
ents in  Pittsburgh — now  nineteen  years  old. 

He  taught  her  music,  led  her  to  playing  the  organ,  and 
one  day  she  surprised  him  by  getting  a  job  as  organist 
in  a  Cleveland  theatre.  Both  working  at  their  music, 
both  very  much  in  love,  it  was,  for  the  first  few  years, 
an  incredibly  happy  life.  It  was  then  that  he  wrote  his 
songs :  Souvenir,  Dance  of  the  Russian  Peasants,  Slavonic 
Fantasy,  and  others.  This  year  he  is  publishing  them  for 
the  first  time.  Out  of  reverence  for  his  great  love,  he 
has,  till  now,  kept  them  as  his  own,  refusing  many  offers 
tor  them. 

Then  Carling's  Restaurant  in  St.  Paul  took  him  from 
Cleveland  and  after  that  to  Kansas  City  where  he  created 
a  sensation  by  playing  the  Humoresque  with  the  silent 
movie  of  that  name.  Rubinoff,  clad  as  the  character  of 
the  screen,  played  on  the  stage  as  the  image  on  the  drop 
laded.  The  movie  ran  for  eight  weeks  but  Rubinoff 
stayed  on  a  year. 

Conscious  of  his  shortcomings,  he  sought  instruction, 
l)egan  going  to  New  York  periodically  for  lessons.  He 
set  to  practicing  eight  and  ten  hours  a  day.  It  was  the 
beginning  of  his  greatness  as  a  virtuoso,  but  it  was  the 
beginning  of  the  end  of  his  married  life. 

"I  loved  my  fiddle.  I  also  loved  her — but  she  could  not 
understand  it,"  he  confided.  "She  became  jealous  of  my 
music.  She  grew  to  hate  it.  Nor  can  I  entirely  blame 
ber.  It  is  an  ordeal  to  live  in  the  same  house  with  a  man 
practicing  the  violin,  I  don't  care  who  the  man  is.  The 
violin  brought  us  together,  it  also  separated  us.  We  parted 
as  friends  and  later  went  through  the  formality  of 
divorce." 

The  years  immediately  after  were  years  of  Herculean 
lalx)r  to  perfect  himself  on  the  ( Continued  on  page  52) 


41 


Phil  Spitalny 
originator  and 
conductor  of 
one  of  radio's 
most  unique 
organizations. 


I  MAX  can't  learn  much  about  women  by  takin"  them 
)  luncheon  at  the  Waldorf  or  for  cocktails  at  the  Ritz  or 
ancin^  at  the  Kainlww  Room.  For  women  on  ])arade 
on't  let  a  man  learn  one  thing  more  about  themselves 
lan  they  want  him  to  know. 

And  men  can't  learn  much  about  women  by  marrying 
K-m,  either.  For  proof  of  that,  think  of  any  married 
•u])le  you  know  and  compare  the'  husband's  ojiinion  of 
is  wife  with  that  of  their  friends.  Different,  isn't  it? 
laven't  you  lauglied,  .sometimes,  at  the  glamorous  Delilah 
)ick  .sees  in  the  mou.sey  little  Mary  he  married,  or  pro- 
■sted  at  the  shrew  John  sees  in  capable  jane? 

Men  like  to  brag  about  understanding  women,  but  for 
le  most  part  it's  just  one  of  their  little  conceits.  The 
vcrage  man  has  trouble  enough  trying  to  figure  out  one 
•Oman  without  attempting  to  go  any  further  into  the 
ivsteries  of  the  .sex. 


Just  what  Phil  Spitalny's  all- 
girl  orchestra  has  taught  him 


Hut  when  l^hil  Spitalny  talks  about  women,  we  might 
just  as  well  li.sten  to  him.  for  here  is  a  man  who  knows. 
Three  years  of  managing  a  girls'  orchestra  turned  the 
trick  and  those  thirty  lovely  young  women  who  have 
broken  theatre  records  all  over  the  country  and  are  a  top- 
notch  radio  attraction  have  given  him  more  knowledge  of 
the  .sex  than  one  man  has  a  right  to  have. 

Think  of  it.  one  man  managing  thirty  women  !  All  of 
them  young  and  lovely  to  look  at.  too,  which  could  well 
.si)ell  tnnible  in  any  man's  language.  .Xnd,  as  if  that 
weren't  enough,  they're  musicians — which  means  temper- 
ament and  all  the  things  akin  to  it,  that  the  average  man 
works  overtime  trying  to  shy  away  from. 

Hut  along  comes  hard-boiled  Phil  Spitalny.  the  terror 
of  male  nntsical  circles,  who  boa.sts  that  men  hate  to 
work  for  him.  and  manages  that  orchestra  so  well  that 
all  the  girls  in  it  look  (m  him  as  (  Continued  nn  patic  75) 


Margaret  Speaks,  Firestone 


Miss  Speaks 
sails  for 
home, 
aboard  the 
Bremen, 
after  her 
successful 
concert  tour 
of  Europe. 

Douglas 
Fairbanks , 
Jr.,  enter- 
tained Mar- 
g  a  r  e  t  at 
Criterion 
Picture  $' 
studio,  in 
I  sle  worth, 
near  London. 


Miss  Speaks 
with  her  ac- 
companist, 
Everett  Tut- 
chings,  en 
route  to  Lon- 
don on  the 
Normandie, 
last  Autumn. 


NHAL 

xtr  * 


"OURS  IS  a  strange  country,"  said  Margaret  Speak 
"More  than  any  other,  I  think,  it  puts  a  terrific  pressm 
upon  those  who  entertain  it.  The  price  of  success,  o 
fame,  seems  to  be  your  personal  privacy.  As  Bette  Davi 
said,  while  I  was  in  Paris  this  summer :  'I'd  give  hal 
my  salary  to  have  a  normal  life.' 

"Of  course,  if  you're  single,  like  Nelson  Eddy,  or  mai 
ried  to  someone  in  the  profession,  like  Gladys  Swarthoui 
it  may  be  easier  to  live  normally  and  happily  under  th 
limelight.  But  I  imagine  many  of  the  movie  stars  pa;; 
a  heavy  price  for  their  success. 

"I'd  like  to  make  a  movie.  I've  been  asked  to.  And  il 
I  can  do  it  in  the  East,  I'd  like  to.  But  I  couldn't  gc 
out  to  Hollywood  for  months  while  my  husband's  busi- 
ness keeps  him  in  New  York.  A  normal  life  for  me 
would  certainly  be  impossible  under  those  conditions. 

"But  in  radio  or  concert  work,  you  can  preserve  the 
privacy  of  your  home  life.   In  radio  people  don't  see  you. 
You're  not  playing  romantic  love  scenes  before  their  eyes,"?^ 
arousing  their  curiosity  as  to  whether  or  not  you're  really  i 
a  heart-breaker.    And  people  who  read  radio  magazines  f 
don't  care  whether  you're  married  or  single  or  in  love  or  f 
out  of  it.   Your  private  life  is  your  own,  if  it's  important  f 
to  you."  *• 

To  Margaret  Speaks,  Firestone's  lovely  soprano  and 
concert  artist,  life  is  important.  Not  life  in  the  narrow 
sense  of  achievement,  of  the  conquest  of  fame  and  for- 
tune, but  living  in  its  fullest  sense,  knowing  happiness  and 
fulfillment  in  each  day  as  it  comes,  not  sacrificing  today's 
joy  for  the  mythical  rewards  of  some  remote  by-and-by. 
Miss  Speaks  is  an  exceptionally  able  musician  and  artist — 
but  first  of  all  she  is  a  woman,  a  wife  and  mother  of  a 
young  boy,  and  she  does  not  mean  to  lose  any  of  the 
lovely,  enriching  experiences  that  are  the  right  of  any 
woman. 

"It's  just  a  business,  being  a  singer,"  she  says.  "It's 
no  more  important  than  any  other  business.  If  you  are 
a  stenographer,  you  do  your  work  each  day  and  when  it's  j 
done,  you  live  your  own  life.  If  you're  a  teacher,  or  a 
bookkeeper,  or  a  student,  or  a  housewife,  you  must  devote 
a  part  of  your  day  to  your  job — and  afterward  you  do 
the  things  you  want  to  do.  Why  should  it  be  any  diflfer- 
ent  for  a  singer? 

"My  husband  is  a  business  man,  but  it  doesn't  prevent 
his  having  a  home  life.  He  goes  to  work  at  nine-thirty. 
And  so  do  I.  I  study  and  practice.  I  answer  my  fan  mail 
personally.  I  have  three  singing  lessons  a  week  and  three 
or  four  language  lessons — I'm  studying  French,  German, 
Spanish  and  Italian.  I  work  until  five-thirty  every  day — 
except  on  week-ends.  And  I'm  ready  to  enjoy  the  eve- 
nings with  my  husband  when  he  comes  home." 

But  how  alxiut  the  concert  engagements,  I  won- 
dered.   Don't  they  make  a  serious  break  in  the 
design  for  living? 

"No  more  than  my  husband's  business  en- 
gagements do,"  said  Miss  Speaks.  "He 
often  has  to  make  a  trip  to  Boston  or 
•«  «  Pittsburgh  or  Chicago,  to  be  gone 

AmRugei:  Everett  Tuu 


TONHALL 


Margarb 


[WpffcB  Yon  Donaudy,  Respighi.  Brahfns.  Wolt.  Sliauss.  Fan. 


}';»vely  singing  star,  has  an  unusual  slant  on  success 


jjjjer-night.  If  I  have  to  be  away  over-night  for  a  concert, 
^zsin  be  at  home  the  next  day.    I  make  all  the  trips  by 


me,  to  shorten  the  time.    1  never  make  any  concert  en 

'Those  we 


ol 

,,j,gements  for  a  week-end."  she  explained 
^jep  inviolate.    We  go  out  to  our  country  cottage  in 

rthern  Westchester  and  we  play  and  garden  and  walk 
Jd  see  our  friends.    I  have  no  piano  there,"  she  smiled. 
J)ne  needs  to  get  away  from  one's  work  at  intervals. 
.|,g"And  of  course  I  can't  make  concert  engagements  for 
^,:ondays,"  she  went  on.    "Mondays  are  devoted  to  the 

restone  program. 

"So,  I  can  sing  concerts  only  on  Tuesday,  Wednesday, 
lursday  and  Friday  nights.  But  that  is  limited,  again, 
considerations  of  time  and  distance.  I  would  be  un- 
ir  to  anv  concert  audiences  if  I  crowded  my  dates  to- 
ther.  1  want  to  be  at  my  best  whenever  and  wherever 
sing.  Neither  can  I  let  financial  considerations  rule 
y  schedule.  A  special  event  in  my  own  home  might  be 
Drth  more  than  all  the  money  in  the  world  to  me." 
This  past  summer  Miss  Speaks  made  her  first  profes- 
inal  tour  abroad,  singing  concerts  and  broadcasts  in 
jndon,  Zurich,  Basle,  Amsterdam  and  Paris.  Her  hus- 
nd  accompanied  her  on  this  trip,  but  it  was  a  demand- 
g  period,  leaving  little  time  for  the  pleasures  of  sight- 
eing  and  holidaying.  She  had  only  two  weeks  to 
epare  for  that  first  London  concert  and  worked  and 
acticed  with  her  accompanist  on  the  boat  going  over, 
nd  as  soon  as  one  concert  was  given,  the  work  of  !>re- 
iring  for  the  next  began.  (Continued  on  page  80) 


lusic  lovers,  here 
id  abroad,  delight 

the  lovely  song 
■  Margaret  Speaks, 
nd  for  this  young 
merican  singer 
e,  itself,  is  a  song 

worth  singing. 


kOSKMARIE  BRANCATO.  in  case  you're  not  up  on 
this  season's  crop  of  new  mike  celebs,  is  the  biggest  sing- 
ing sensation  to  hit  radio  since  the  night  Helen  Jepson 
debuted  on  the  Rudy  Vallee  show  and  scored  an  instanta- 
neous coast-to-coast  ten-strike.  She's  a  blonde  Italian 
from  Kan.sas  City,  Roseniarie,  a  lyric  coloratura  soprano, 
with  eyes  the  color  of  blue  .spring  flowers,  twenty-three 
l)irthdays  behind  her  and  a  s])ectacular  operatic  success  as 
(iilda  in  Ric/oletto. 

.She  got  into  radio  by  ])robably  the  most  interesting 
route  anybody  has  taken  to  date ;  she's  starred  at  the  mo- 
ment on  the  Tmin  Stars  program  ;  recently  she  even  held 
■  lown  the  very,  very  ultra  Firestone  series.  That's  not 
;ill  about  her  that's  different,  either.  Pretty  and  famous 
;is  she  is,  she  doesn't  want  a  Hollywood  contract,  nor 
anf)ther  mink  coat,  nor  even  Rol)ert  Taylor.  She  wants 
a  beau !  just  a  regular  beau,  that's  all!  Now,  for  the  first 


time  in  her  life,  she's  having  the  fun  and  dates  and  par- 
lies that  other  girls  have.  She  hadn't  even  been  kissed, 
until  spring  came  to  Central  Park  last  April ! 

And  of  course  there's  a  story  about  that. 

When  a  poor  girl  faces  jxiverty  to  become  a  singer, 
she's  brave  but  certainly  not  unique.  But  when  a  rich 
girl  deliberately  faces  poverty  to  shape  her  career,  she's 
(iaring  to  be  a  little  dififerent.  Roseniarie  Brancato  had 
lieen  a  rich  girl  all  her  life.  Her  parents  came  to  this 
country  from  Sicily  and  settled  in  the  west,  where  her 
father's  growing  grocery  business  eventually  was  to  make 
him  one  of  the  wealthiest  Italians  in  Kan.sas  City.  Ro.se- 
marie,  youngest  of  the  seven  Brancato  bambinos,  was 
raised  according  to  the  old-country  traditions  for  girls. 
Taught  to  clean,  to  sew,  to  draw,  to  make  pies  and  beds 
at  home  and  gof)d  grades  at  school.  And  kept  very  .strictly 
sheltered  at  home. 


Rosemarie  Brancato,  radio's  newest  singing  sensation,  had  to 

46 


Now  Rosemarie 
Brancafo  sings 
in  opera  and 
concert  and  on 
the  NBC  "Twin 
Stars"  program. 


Custom. . 


Slie  didn't  know  that  she  had  an  unusual  voice  until  she 
got  into  third-g^ade  public  school  singing  classes.  There, 
above  the  childish  treble  of  the  other  girls  and  boys,  her 
voice  began  to  make  clear  little  tones  that  sounded  like 
brook  water  running  over  pebbles.  Her  teachers  noticed 
it,  with  the  result  that  Rosemarie  invariably  was  the  sing- 
ing Cinderella  or  Goldilocks  or  angel  in  the  school  plays. 
She  loved  that.  Not  so  much  because  it  gave  her  an 
opportunity  to  do  a  solo,  but  because  it  meant  that  one  of 
her  older  si.sters  would  make  her  a  bright  crepe-paper 
costume  trimmed  with  tinsel  and  put  up  her  yellow  hair 
on  kid  curlers.  That  was  glory  !  That  was  being  a  queen ! 
The  singing,  she  felt  with  sunny  unconsciousness  of  her 
talent,  was  the  very  slighte.st  part  of  the  thrill. 

It  was  not  until  her  graduation  from  high  school  that 
.she  really  felt  a  yearning  to  do  something  with  -her  voice. 

"I  was  seventeen  then."  she  {Conhmied  on  page  72) 


defy  family  custom  for  her  career 


Joe  Penner,  popular  comic 
of  cinema  and  radio,  recently 
visited  Cole  Brothers'  circus. 
Above,  v/orld-famous  clown 
Walter  Goodenough  makes 
Joe  up  for  a  similar  role.  Next, 
the  giant  and  the  fat  lady 
give  him  a  scare!  Safer,  Joe 
thinks,  to  be  a  barker!  He 
can't  resist  the  horse,  how- 
ever, and  cowgirl  Alice  Van! 


Ralph's  daugMer, 
Claudia  Morgan, 
featured  ployer 
in  the  "David 
Harum"  radio 
serial  and  a 
dramatic  star 
on  Broadway. 


Ralph  Morgan, 
Claudia's  ador- 
ing Dad,  bril- 
liant actor  and 
popular  favorite 
of  stage,  screen 
and  the  radio. 


FON'D  aunts  and  uncles  were  jjathered  at  the  sides  of  the 
cradle  in  which  lay  the  beautiful  baby  girl.  The  same 
thought  was  in  the  minds  of  all:  "Would  Claudia  Mor- 
:;an  follow  in  the  steps  of  her  famous  father?" 

The  father,  however,  had  no  such  thought  as  he  gazed 
,vith  fondness  on  his  daughter.  He  was  too  filled  with  an 
overwlielming  love  and  pride  to  think  of  the  future.  Ralph 
Morgan  was  the  star  to  the  outside  world,  but  little 
Claudia  was  the  star  of  the  Morgan  household.  And  as 
she  grew  into  girlhood,  her  blonde  beauty  opening  as  a 
flower,  she  became  more  an<l  more  the  apple  of  her 
father's  eye.    Little  Claudia,  in  turn,  idolized  her  father. 

'  We  lived  a  wonderful  life,"  she  says,  recalling  those 
days  of  her  early  childhood.  "I  loved  traveling  with 
Mother  and  Dad.  I  was  so  thrilled  when  people  admired 
him,  complimented  him,  generally  fussed 
over  him.  I  didn't  go  to  school  in  those 
days.  Private  tutors  provided  my  edu- 
cation." 

Sophisticated  Ralph  Morgan  became 
an  adoring  father  as  soon  as  he  was 
with  his  little  girl.  "He  spoiled  me 
shamefully,"  she  now  recalls.  In  that 
close  companionship  with  her  actor- father,  little  Claudia 
came  to  love  the  stage  and  all  it  stood  for.  She  loved  the 
excitement  of  it.  'Rut  I  think  I  loved  it  most  because  it 
l)rought  Dad  adoration  from  so  many  people.  I  was  so 
proud  of  him  my.self  that  I  was  terribly  happy  to  have 
others  love  him." 

As  the  Morgan  daughter  grew  out  of  little  girlhood, 
F'^ather  Ralph  began  to  think  of  Claudia's  future  for  the 
first  time.  "He  was  afraid  the  stage  would  become  a 
liabit  with  me,  I  think,"  she  seriously  tells  us.  "He  didn't 
want  me  to  choose  acting  as  a  career  just  because  I  was 
continually  associated  with  it.  He  decided  that  it  was 
time  for  me  to  go  away  to  l)oarding-school."  Her  face 
still  clouds  at  the  thought  of  the  sad  days  that  followed 
this  decision.    Ralph  Morgan  suddenly  changed  from  the 


>p(jiling  father  to  the  stern  parent.  He  never  let  Claudia 
know  the  heartache  he  suffered  with  the  thought  of  sepa- 
ration from  his  little  idol.  And  little  Claudia  cried  day 
after  day.  She  couldn't  understand  why  her  life  .should 
suddenly  be  changed.  i)ut  finally,  after  the  first  shock  of 
disappointment,  she  accepted  it  because  the  love  she  bore 
her  father  was  bigger  than  anything  she  felt  for  herself. 
She  knew  he  was  right,  no  matter  how  much  it  hurt  her. 

But  boarding-school  did  not  change  Claudia's  mind 
about  what  she  would  do  when  she  was  grown  up.  She 
knew  that  only  one  thing  would  make  her  happy.  To  be 
a  success  in  her  father's  j^rofession,  to  justify  his  pride  in 
her.  She  had  inherited  her  father's  histrionic  talents  and 
her  heart  was  set  on  making  the  most  of  those  talents. 
.\\\  through  her  boarding-school  days,  she  appeared  in 
plays.  And,  because  of  her  ability  and 
her  determined  ambition,  she  was  al- 
ways the  star.  Every  course  of  study 
she  imdertook  was  chosen  to  further 
her  knowledge  of  what  she  knew  would 
be  her  future. 

Ralph  Morgan  was  secretly  pleased 
that  his  daughter  had  thus  decided  her 
future.  Secretly,  because  he  did  not  want  to  persuade 
her.  He  wanted  such  a  decision  to  be  made  by  her,  and 
her  alone.  He  sent  her  happy,  encouraging  letters,  but 
minus  advice.  Vacations  were  happy  times  for  Claudia 
ami  Ralph  Morgan.  The  great  bond  of  love  was  strength- 
ened by  their  mutual  interest  in  the  stage.  And  the  daugh- 
ter was  eager  to  pick  up  any  and  all  bits  of  wisdom 
dropped  by  her  clever  father. 

"The  greatest  thrill  I  have  ever  known  was  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1928.  Nothing  in  my  life  could  match  the  un- 
bounding  joy  brought  to  me  that  Summer.  T  played  mv 
first  professional  role— and  opposite  Father.  Tt  was  in 
summer  stock,  in  a  play  called  Gypsy  April.'' 

It  seems  hardly  possible  that  the  1936  Claudia  Morgan 
could  have  been  a  iirofessional  (C ontinucd  on  page  58) 


"I  have  to  justify  Dad's  pride  in  me/'  says  Claudia  Morgan 

49 


I 


Milton  Berle,  "The  Thief  of 
Bad  Gags/  claims  they're 
stealing  gags  from  him  now! 


BACK  in  1914,  the  Archduke  Ferdinand  was  assassinated 
and.  at  Sarajevo,  the  first  rumblings  of  the  Great  War 
were  beginning. 

In  New  York,  on  118th  Street,  a  six-year-old  boy  with 
a  wide  grin  stood  in  front  of  a  mirror  and  made  faces  at 
himself,  enjoying  the  process  hugely  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  his  father  would  fetch  him  a  parental  smack  for  such 
fooHshness. 

"I  still  look  in  the  Mirror,"  Milton  Berle  says,  "but 
now  it's  to  see  Winchell's  column."  And  he  grins  appre- 
ciatively at  his  own  gag.  At  least,  he  swears  it's  his  own 
gag  and  it  probably  is,  because,  for  all  the  talk  about  Berle 
as  a  gag-thief,  there  is  no  question  among  those  who  know 
him  that  he  has  a  quick  and  ready  wit  and  an  ability  to 
ad  lib  that  few  comedians  can  beat.  It  was  Phil  Baker 
who  called  him  the  "Thief  of  Bad  Gags,"  and  neither  Berle 
nor  the  "regulars"  who  used  to  patronize  the  Palace 
Theatre,  in  New  York,  when  it  was  tops  in  vodvil,  will 
forget  Milton's  first  engagement  there.  His  reputation  as 
a  "lifter"  already  had  been  established  and,  throughout  his 
run  at  the  Palace,  he  was  the  butt  of  a  series  of  calculated, 
friendly  insults  that  have  become  vaudeville  history — as 
all  the  leading  comedians  ganged  up  to  make  his  stay 
miserable. 

George  Jessel  scrawled  over  Berle's  lobby  picture : 
"The  George  Jessel  No.  2  Company."  Al  Trahan  said 
Berle  stole  the  show — "one  gag  at  a  time."  Fanny  Ward 
said  she  was  coming  down  to  have  her  face  lifted,  free! 
And,  one  memorable  afternoon,  as  the  audience  was  ap- 
plauding the  conclusion  of  Berle's  act,  Lou  Holtz,  George 
Jessel,  Phil  Baker,  Georgie  Price,  Jack  Osterman,  and  Al 
Trahan  all  stood  up  in  a  body  {Continued  on  page  66) 


RADIO  STARS 


WITH  THIS  ROUSING 
"  TREATMENT 


Age  signs 
~     begin  here 


1 1  1  KF.  T\VKNTY...you  re  tvventy- 
ve  .  .  .  you're  thirty  or  more! 

The  years  slip  by  quietly  enough, 
'he  things  that  tell  it  to  the  world  are 
-little  lines  and — a  gradual  coarsen- 
ig  ot  the  skin's  verv  texture. 

Coarse  pores  anil  ugly,  deepening 
nes  do  more  to  add  vears  to  vour  face 
han  any  other  skin  faults.  What  causes 
hemr  How  can  vou  ward  them  off? 

A  Faulty  Underskin— 

ioth  come  from  a  faulty  underskin. 

Pores  grow  larger  when  tiny  oil  glands 
nderneath  get  clogged  .  .  .  Lines  form 
'hen  fibres  underneath  sag,  lose  their  tone. 

To  keep  these  little  glands  and  fibres 
jnctioning  properly,  you  must  invigorate 
hat  underskin.  You  can  —  with  regular 
'ond's  deep-skin  treatments. 

Pond's  Cold  Cream  contains  specially 
rocessed  oils.  It  goes  deep  into  the  pores, 
ears  them  of  make-up,  dirt,  clogging  oils, 
"hen  you  pat  more  cold  cream  in  briskly, 
ou  feel  the  circulation  waken.  Your  skin 
ngles  with  new  vigor. 


Day  and  night— this  thor- 
ough cleansing  and  rousing 
with  Pond's  Cold  Cream. 
Soon  cloggings  cease.  Pores 
actually  reduce.  Under  tis- 
sues are  toned,  and  lines 
smooth  out.  You  look  years  younger! 

Day  and  night— this  simple  care 

Here's  the  simple  treatment  that  hun- 
dreds ot  women  follow,  because  it  does 
more  than  cleanse  their  skin: — 
Every  night,  pat  on  Pond's  Cold  Cream  to 
sotten  and  release  deep-lodged  dirt  and  make- 
up. Wipe  it  all  ort'.  .At  once  your  skin  looks 
clearer!  Now  rouse  your  underskin.  Pat  in 
more  cream — briskly.  The  circulation  stirs. 
Glands  waken.  Tissues  are  invigorated. 
Every  morning  (and  before  make-up)  repeat 
.  . .  Your  skin  is  smooth  for  powder — fresh,  vital 
looking.  Your  whole  face  is  brighter,  younger! 


Start  in  at  once  to  give  your  skin  this  in- 
vigorating daily  care.  Get  a  jar  today.  Or, 
send  the  coupon  below.  It  brings  you  a  special 
9-treatmenr  tube  of  Pond's  Cold  Cream. 

SPECIAL  9-TREATMENT  TUBE 

and  3  other  Pond*s  Beauty  Aids 

POND'S,  Dtpt.  9RS-CB,  Clinton.  Conn. 
Rush  special  tube  ot'  Pond's  Cold  Cream,  enouf^h  for  9 
treatments,  with  generous  samples  of  z  other  Pond's 
Creams  and  5  different  shades  of  Pond's  Face  Powder. 

nd  packine- 


Xa 


Pond'B  Extract 


51 


RADIO  STARS 


BY 

MAGGY  ROUFF 


The  lovely  Anne  Lecler,  one  of  the  mannequins 
in  Maggy  Rouff^s  Paris  fashion  salon. 

"A  FASHION  MODEL  must  have  a  lovely 
-Ly-  complexion  as  well  as  a  lithe  and 
beautiful  figure.  So  I  take  the  precau- 
tion to  have  all  my  mannequins  use 
only  Woodbury's  Facial  Powder. 

"This  powder  has  la  qualite  dc  sole  ...  it  is 
like  silk,  and  clings  to  the  skin  even  in  the 
warmth  and  glare  of  the  spotlight.  The  shades 
wed  the  healthy  undertones  of  the  skin,  giving 
the  complexion  both  chic  and  allure. 

"But  it  is  equally  important  that  Woodbury's 
Powder  is  germ-free*.  For  one  of  my  manne- 
quins to  appear  at  a  Fashion  Opening  with  a 
blemish  on  her  face  .  .  .  that  would  be  affaire 
falale.  No  blemish-germs  can  be  transferred 
to  the  skin  from  this  famous  powder." 

All  6  Woodbury  shades  are  divinely  flatter- 
ing. If  you're  fair,  "Light  Rachel"  is  your 
shade.  "Radiant"  is  the  favorite  of  medium 
blondes.  "Brunette"  is  stunning  for  the  darker 
skin.  $1.00,  50(,  25^,  10(f. 

Tested  with  19  other  leading  brands, 
Woodbury's  Facial  Powder,  alone,  was 
(term-frtc  both  before  and  after  uhc. 


RUBINOFF'S  TRAGIC  LOVE 


{Continued  from  page  41) 


Steel  Magnate  Charles  M.  Schwab, 
recently   a   guest   on   Major  Bowes' 
Annateur  Hour,  tries  the  piano. 


violin,  to  earn  a  place  for  himself  among 
the  great.  He  had  little  time  to  think  of 
women.  Actually,  he  was  still  in  love 
with  Dorothy  and  was  until  she  died,  a 
few  years  ago. 

Rubinoff  became  a  name,  nationally 
known.  Soloist  for  the  entire  Loew  cir- 
cuit. Later  for  symphony  orchestras. 
Finally,  New  York — tlie  big  spots.  In 
radio,  a  headliner.  But  always  alone. 
There  are  people  about  him.  Blufif,  gen- 
erous, goodnatured,  he  gathers  them  about 
him.  And,  for  his  part,  he  can't  do  with- 
out them,  because  he  is  a  lonely  man. 

Drop  into  his  office  around  seven  as  he 
is  going  out  to  dinner.  He  will  say: 
"Come  along,  eat  with  me."  In  the  lobby, 
he  will  be  greeted  by  an  unemployed  musi- 
cian or  two.  To  them,  ton,  an  invitation. 
Before  he  reaches  the  restaurant,  there  will 
be  a  half  dozen  or  niore. 

Why  docs  Rubinuff  j;atlier  these  people 
about  him?  Why  does  he  go  seeking 
crowds?  That  has  become  his  way  of 
life  because  he  hates  the  return,  late  at 
night,  to  his  lonely  suite  in  the  hotel  which 
is  his  home.  No  onr  but  his  valet  awaits 
him,  faithful  Al  Jmns  whu,  as  a  boy  in 
high  school,  became  f;iscinate<l  with  a  Ru- 
binoff lecture  and  came  back  stage  to 
ask  him  for  a  job.    No  one  but  Al. 

There  have  been  other  women.  None 
so  liarricd  by  wonicu  as  Rubinoff,  none 
so  helped.  Every  mail  brings  bim  invita- 
tions, coquetries,  even  proposals.  He 
stands  at  the  curb,  waiting  for  a  taxi — 
and  women  approach  him ;  "Aren't  you 
Mr.  Rubinoff?"  Ever  since  he  was  a  boy 
and  his  teacher,  "Miss  Jones,"  spotted  the 
talent  in  the  boy  and  liclpcd  him  to  get  a 
start,  there  have  bcin  wnnun  in  liis  life, 
drawn  to  him  l)y  his  r(.ni;mlic 

Watcli  him  swayiu.u  with  his  vinlin,  his 
eyes  half  closed,  tlie  iusi  i  umcni  punring 
forth  the  utter  spirit  ol  uusatisliud  yearn- 
ing and  you  will  understand  what  women 
sir  ill  Rubinoff.  But  what  do  they  mean 
to  Rul)inoff?  There  you  liave  the  crucial 
(piestion.  .So  far,  e.xccpt  for  Dorothy, 
very  litth;.  Acipiaintauccs,  li  i.n.N  pci  liaps 
— Iiul  nothing  more.  The  liour  of  change, 
however,  is  near.    Me  is  tired  of  the  soli- 


tary life.    He  is  ready  to  inarry  again. 

"I  would  marry  tomorrow,  if  I  could 
find  the  right  girl,"  Rubinoff  said. 

"And  what  is  your  definition  of  the 
right  girl?" 

"She  need  not  be  beautiful.  I  do  not 
require  it,"  he  said,  "although  I  would  like 
her  to  have  an  attractive  figure.  She  need 
not  have  any  of  the  routine  virtues.  I 
mean,  she  does  not  have  to  be  a  good  house- 
keeper. She  doesn't  have  to  be  a  good 
cook.  These  things  she  can  learn.  Besides, 
we  can  eat  in  restaurants. 

"What  I  want  most  is  a  companion — a 
companion  to  me,  who  will  share  my  en- 
thusiasm for  good  tnusic.  Who,  at  the  same 
time,  can  turn  about  the  following  evening 
and  have  as  good  a  time,  watching  a  prize- 
fight. I  want  one  who  will  share  not 
only  my  pleasures  but  my  troubles  as  well, 
a  girl  of  sound  judgment.  A  girl  whose 
advice  would  be  good  and  w^orth  taking, 
who  could  keep  her  mouth  shut  when  nec- 
essary. 

"I  know  I  am  asking  a  great  deal,  but 
aren't  we  all  entitled  to  a  little  ordinary 
human  happiness?  I  ask,  most  of  all,  a 
certain  indulgence.  If  I  blow  up,  let  her 
forgive  me.  If  I  am  talking  to  a  girl  in 
connection  with  my  job.  let  her  under- 
stand— and  not  give  way  to  jealousy.  And 
above  all,  let  her  not  hate  my  violin.  That 
I  cannot  do  without.  Besides,  it  is  the 
humble  slave  that  brings  in  the  money 
needed  for  life. 

"In  a  word,  the  girl  I  would  marry 
should  have  culture,  character  and  com- 
mon sense — an  attractive,  companionable 
personality  in  whom  I  could  confide." 

There  you  have  Rubinoff,  ready  to  marry 
once  more.  But  if  and  when  he  does  find 
him  a  bride,  let  her  be  sensible  and  un- 
derstand that  she  can  never  replace  the 
Dorothy  who  swept  the  slim,  eighteen-\-ear- 
old  boy  off  his  feet,  who  gave  him  his 
greatest  inspiration,  who  fortified  him 
against  fifteen  years  of  solitude.  In  his 
desk,  at  home,  handy  for  him  to  look  at, 
is  a  letter  she  wrote  him  during  their 
courtship.  It  is  the  only  love  letter  Rubi- 
noff keeps. 


Kay  St.  Germaine  is  "Dotty,"  lovely 
singing  star  of  "Listen  to  This,"  heard 
Tuesdays    on    the    Mutual  network. 


*WOODBURY'S* 

FACIAL  POWDER 


RADIO  STARS 


SPECIAL  CARE  IN  EVERYTHING. 
FROM  SPECIAL  TOYS  THAT  TEACH. ..TO  A  SPECIAL  LAXATIVE. 
THAT'S  WHY  CHILDREN  THRIVE  BETTER  TODAY... 


See  that  toy.^ 

It's  a  special  toy... made  to  teach  chil- 
dren how  to  think  and  use  their  hands. 
Doctors  tell  us  that  practically  every- 
thing children  get  today  should  be  made 
especially  for  them... even  their  laxative. 


It's  common  sense,  isn't  it?  For  a  child's 
system  is  tender... too  delicate  for  the 
harsh  action  of  an  "adult"  laxative. 

So  when  mothers  seek  professional  ad- 
vice on  this  subject,  doctors  usually  pre- 
scribe Fletcher's  Ca.storia— the  laxative 
made  especially  and  only  for  children. 

Fletcher's  Castoria  works  chiefly  on 
the  lower  bowel.  It  gently  stimulates  the 
natural  muscular  movement.  It  clears 


away  the  waste  without  any  harsh  irri- 
tation, without  any  violence. 

Fletcher's  Castoria  can  never  upset  a 
baby's  tender  stomach.  It  doesn't  rush 
turbulently  through  his  tiny  system. 
And  it  won't  cause  diarrhoea  or  cramp- 
ing pains.  You  see,  it  contains  no  harsh 
drugs,  no  narcotics.  Only  the  purest  of 
pure  ingredients.  A  famous  baby  special- 
ist said  he  couldn't  write  a  better  pre- 
.scription  than  Fletcher's  Castoria. 


And  important  as  anything  else  .  .  . 
Fletcher's  Castoria  tastes  good.  Children 
love  it— think  it's  a  treat.  Some  mothers 
are  inclined  to  overlook  the  importance 


of  pleasant  taste  in  a  laxative.  They  for- 
get that  forcing  a  child  to  take  a  bad- 
tasting  medicine  can  completely  and  se- 
riously upset  his  entire  nervous  system. 

So  stay  on  the  safe  side,  as  millions  of 
mothers  are  doing,  and  keep  a  bottle  of 
Fletcher's  Castoria  on  hand,  always.  You 
can  get  it  at  every  drugstore  in  the  coun- 
try. Ask  for  the  Family  Size  bottle.  It 
lasts  longer. .  .and  gives  you  more  for  your 
money.  The  signature,  Chas.  H.  Fletcher, 
appears  on  every  carton. 


C  ASTO  R I A 

The  laxative  made  especially 
for  babies  and  groH'ing  children 


RADIO  STARS 


QuLcktlj... 
Correct  These  Figure  Faults 

Perfolastic  Not  Only  Confines, 
It  Removes  Ugly  Bulges! 


Thousands  of  women  today  owe  their 
slim  youthful  figures  to  the  quick,  safe 
way  to  reduce  .  .  .  Perfolastic. 

"Hips  1  2  inches  smaller,"  says  Miss  Richardson- 
"Lost  60  pounds  and  9  inches,"  writes  Mrs.  Derr. 

VVhydon'tyou,  too, test  the PerfoIasticReducing 
Girdle  and  Brassiere  at  our  expense  ? 

IF  you  DO  NOT  REDUCE 
3  INCHES  in  10  DAYS 

.  .  .  it  will  cost  you  nothing! 

Because  so  many  Perfolastic  wearers  reduce 
more  than  3  inches  we  believe  we  are  justified 
in  making  you  the  above  unqualified  agreement. 
IMMEDIATELY  APPEAR  INCHES  SLIMMER  I 

■  Vou  appear  inches  smaller  at  once,  and  yet  are 
so  comfortable  you  can  scarcely  realize  that  every 
minute  you  wear  the  Perfolastic  garments  you 
are  actually  reducing  at  hips,  waist,  thighs  and 
diaphragm. ..the  spots  where  fat  first  accumulates. 
You  will  be  thrilled  with  the  results...  as  are  other 
Perfolastic  wearers  ! 

PERFOLASTIC  REDUCES  SAFELV  . . .  QUICKLY 
WITHOUT  DIET,  DRUGS  OR  EXCERCISEI 

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when  that  recipe  was  offered  to  you  in 
this  magazine  some  time  back,  that  you 
missed  out  on  ijL'tting  a  cop\ .  But  that 
will  never  do,  tor  I  wouldn't  want  to  dis- 
appoint a  single  one  of  y^u:  sn  I'm  going 
til  gi\c  N'ou  that  recipe  a'-;:uii,  ihi^  nmnth. 
Xot  here,  li.  .wevcr,  hccaii>e  I'lU-  i>l  \  oU 
don't  seem  to  want  to  cut  np  \Mur  maga- 
zine before  the  rest  of  the  fann'ly  ha\e  seen 
it,  and  it's  kind  of  a  nuisance  to  copy  it 
all  down,  longhand,  isn't  it?  That's  why 
I've  decided  it  would  be  better  to  give 
you  Graiidiiiutlicr's  famous  Chocolate  Cake 
recipe  in  the  regular  leaflet  that  Radio 
Stars  Magazine  offers  you  every  month 
absolutely  free.  I'm  certainly  pleased  that 
through  this  generous  offer  I  am  able  to 
give  this  recipe  again. 

But  that's  not  the  only  "special"  thing 
you'll  learn  how  to  make,  of  course,  if 
you  send  in  the  coupon  which  is  always 
tucked  away  at  the  very  end  of  my  article. 
Because  this  month  I  decided  that  if  you 
were  so  interested  in  cakes  I'd  give  you 
not  one,  but  two!  .bid  cuokies  and  coffee 
cake  and  Calas — in  fact,  l)oth  here  and  in 
the  leaflet,  I'm  suggesting  a  numlier  of 
things  to  eat  that  I  think  you'll  all  love 
as  much  as  I  do.  Most  of  the  recipes  in 
this  collection  belong  to  what  I  call  my 
Kaji'ce  Klatscli  refreshments. 

But  maybe  I'd  better  explain  tliat  term 
for  the  benefit  of  those  who  don't  speak 
German.  Not  that  I  know  anything  much 
about  that  language  myself.  But  there's 
one  phrase  and  custom  of  theirs  that  I've 
adopted  enthusiastically  and  that's — yes, 
you've  guessed  it — Kafjee  Klatsch.  which  I 
believe  is  best  translated  as  "Coffee  Gos- 
sip."    (Am  I  right,  lingm'sts?) 

Anyway,  what  it  turns  out  to  mean  is 
a  rather  bounteous  version  of  afternoon 
tea  at  which,  most  likely,  at  least  two 
cakes  make  their  appearance  as  well  as 
sandwiches  and  cookies  and  coffee ! 

Of  course,  many  hostesses  nowadays 
already  offer  coffee  as  well  as  tea  at  the 
usual  tea  hour.  But  generally,  whatever 
the  beverage  may  be,  tlie  refreshments  are 
of  the  "dainty  sandwich"  and  "little  cakes" 
variety.  Now  I've  often  suspected  that 
lots  of  guests  don't  begin  to  be  satisfied 
with  these  samples  masquerading  as  food, 
and  I'll  bet,  when  some  of  the  girls  get 
together  for  an  afterniHin  oi  sewing  or 
bridge  or  just  small-talk,  they'd  welcome 
more  substantial  fare  with  a  steaming  cup 
of  coffee  to  go  with  it.  Therefore,  these 
foods  I'm  suggesting — and  for  which  I'm 
going  to  give  ynu  recipes  in  the  leaflet- 
would  be  just  the  thing  to  serve. 

Another  nice  feature  about  this  particular 
batch  of  recipes  is  that  they're  all  double- 
duty  sweets.  That  is,  they  can  be  served 
at  your  next  afternoon  tea  and  at  many 
other  times  as  well.  My  Grandmother's 
Chocolate  Cake,  for  instance,  is  a  perfect 
dessert — with  or  without  fruit  or  ice 
cream.  The  other  cake  recipe  I'm  giving 
ynu—U'cileslcy  Fudge  Cake  it's  called— 
can  be  ser\ed  on  many  a  festive  occasion 
and  in  several  different  forms  as  well. 
You  can  bake  it  in  a  loaf  cake  pan  as 
directed  in  the  recipe  that  I  used  originally. 


Or  you  can  tr\-  a  couple  of  other  ideas 
/'it  tried  and  have  liked  immensely.  One 
way  is  to  bake;  the  cakes  in  cup  cake  pans 
and,  when  cool,  spread  them  with  a  plain 
Confectioner's  Frosting — you  know  the 
kind  I  mean:  2  tablespoons  of  boiling 
water  or  cream,  enough  confectioner's 
sugar  to  make  the  frosting  of  desired 
consistency,  and  any  flavoring  you  prefer. 
Or  perhaps  best  of  all,  cut  a  small  hole  in 
the  top  of  each  cake,  insert  a  marshmallow 
in  each  hole  and  place  under  broiler  flame 
until  marshmallows  are  puffed  and  slightly 
browned.  I  think  we  can  find  a  picture  to 
show  you  how  it's  done  and  you  can  have 
the  recipe  to  prove  to  your  own  sweet  self 
how  grand  these  special  little  cakes  taste. 

The  cookie  recipe  I'm  offering  for  your 
collection  is  called  Coconnt  Jund'lcs.  And 
are  tltey  swell  with  coft'ee !  And  now  we 
come  to  the  Cala  recipe. 

Calas  are  a  traditional  New  Orleans 
delicacy  which  were  lirst  introduced  into 
my  home  by  those  two  cute  little  dancers, 
the  Prcissers.  June  and  Cherry  Preisser, 
who  hail  from  N'Orleans,  made  their 
initial  bow  to  the  theatre  public  in  my 
Sicance  Music  Rczneiv  some  years  ago. 
Thex're  stars  in  the  Ziegfcid  Follies  now, 
but  they're  still  the  sweet,  unspoiled 
youngsters  that  I  liked  so  much  when  I 
first  met  them  and  that  I've  gone  on  being 
friends  with,  ever  since.  W'e  haxe  a  stand- 
ing date  for  Mondays  at  my  apartment, 
and  on  one  of  those  occasions  I  surprised 
them  by  serving  the  Calas  that  they  had 
been  raving  about. 

"Calas."  Cherry  Preisser  told  me  after 
exclaiming  with  pleasure  over  the  surprise 
I  had  prepared  for  them,  "Calas  used  to  be 
sold  in  the  French  quarter  of  Louisiana's 
world-famous  city,  by  negro  women  in  blue 
dresses,  white  aprons  and  gay  bandanas, 
who  balanced  covered  bowls  of  Calas  on 
their  heads  as  they  went  from  door  to 
door.  They  were  generally  eaten  with  the 
morning  cafe  an  lait  and  the  recipe  was 
one  that  was  cherished  and  passed  on, 
from  one  generation  to  the  next." 

And  that's  the  recipe  that  I,  in  turn,  am 
giving  you.  Calas  are  made  of  rice ;  they're 
yeast-raised,  fried  in  deep  fat  and  served 
with  a  liberal  sprinkling  of  powdered 
sugar.  Let  them  rise  over  night  for  break- 
fast consumption,  or  all  da\'  if  you  intend 
ser\ing  them,  crisp  and  hot,  as  a  hearty 
and  unusual  Kaffee  Klatsch  refreshment. 

Of  course,  as  I've  already  told  you,  this 
and  all  the  other  recipes  for  the  good 
things  to  eat  that  I've  mentioned  already, 
are  in  my  recipe  leaflet  .  .  .  the  Chocolate 
Cake  of  Grandmot/Iier's,  the  IVcllesley 
Fudge  Cake  (Loaf,  Cup  or  Marshmallow- 
topped),  the  Coconut  Jumbles  and  the 
Calas. 

Then,  I'm  also  going  to  give  you  in  the 
leaflet,  the  nicest  and  easiest  recipe  for 
Crumb  Cake  that  I've  ever  tried.  It  takes 
about  ten  miiuites  to  mix  and  twenty-five 
to  bake  and  turns  out  to  have  a  distinct 
orange  flavor — both  the  topping  and  the 
cake!  As  I'm  especially  fond  of  oranges — 
I  imagine  you  are,  too — this  feature  won 
me  completely.    This  particular  recipe  is 


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for  those  who  prefer  a  real  Coffee  Cake 
to  anything  else  you  could  think  of  serving. 

Probably  you  have  decided  by  now  that 
no  mention  of  "foods  that  go  with  coffee" 
would  be  considered  complete  unless  it  in- 
cluded a  Hot  Cake  recipe.  As  I'm  inclined 
to  agree  with  you  on  that  score,  I'm  going 
to  give  you  my  favorite  Pancake  recipe 
here.  It  may  be  a  bit  on  the  sweet  side 
for  some;  so  use  a  little  less  sugar  than 
is  called  for  in  the  recipe,  to  start  out 
with.  You  can  always  add  more  after 
tasting  the  first  hot  cake. 

HOT  CAKES 

J4  cup  sugar  (or  less) 
2  cups  flour 

2  teaspoons  baking  powder 
K'  teaspoon  salt 
2  eggs,  separated 
1  cup  milk 

1  teaspoon  vanilla 

2  tablespoons  melted  butter 

Sift  all  dry  ingredients  together. 
Beat  yolks,  add  milk  and  vanilla.  Add 
milk  and  egg  mixture  slowly  to  flour 
mixture  and  blend  together  thoroughly. 
Fold  in  stiffly  beaten  egg  whites,  then 
gently  stir  in  melted  (and  cooled) 
butter.  Bake  cakes  on  pre-heated, 
lightly-greased  griddle. 

Well,  that  just  about  ends  this  "broad- 
cast" but  I  think  I  have  room,  before 
signing  off.  to  give  you  a  recipe  that  was 
sent  to  me  the  other  day  by  a  Bandwagon- 
listener-Cooking  School- follower  of  mine 
who  lives  at  Jackson  Heights,  Long  Island. 
It  was  nice  of  this  Mrs.  Keep  to  make  it 
a  coffee  recipe  and  I'd  be  ever  so  happy  to 
have  you  all  try  it  out.  It's  easy,  it's  good 
and  it  comes  to  you  as  the  special  recom- 
mendation of  yours  truly,  Catherine  Smith, 
signing  off  until  next  month  when  I  expect 
to  give  you  all  sorts  of  Foods  for  Feb- 
ruary Festivities  and  for  other  party 
occasions  as  well. 

COFFEE  MARLOW 

J4  cup  strong  coffee 
18  marshmallows 
1  cup  (/4  pint)   wliipping  cream 

Place  marshmallows  with  coffee  in 
top  of  double  boiler  and  cook  over 
boiling  water  until  marshmallows  ha\e 
melted.  Remove  from  heat,  pour  into 
a  bowl  and  cool.  When  mixture  is 
slightly  thickened,  add  whipped  cream 
and  stir  until  thoroughly  blended.  Pour 
into  individual  molds  and  chill  in  re- 
frigerator until  firm.  Unmold  and 
serve  with  a  garnish  of  whipped  cream 
sprinkled  with  a  few  finely  chopped 
nut  meats.    Serves  4. 


Kate  Smith, 

Radio  Stars  Magaiine, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  your  recipes  for 
Cakes,  Cookies,  Coffee  Cake  and 
Calas. 

Xame  

Street     

City   State  


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CAME  HOME  TO  LUNCH! 


I  HAVE  IT  OFTEN 
FOR  JUNIOR  — HE 
LOVES  IT  AND  IT'S 
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CHILDREN  are  fussy  about  what  they 
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body likes!  And  what  an  added  blessing 
when  it's  something  so  easily  prepared 
as  Franco- American  Spaghetti! 

No  cooking  or  fussing;  just  heat  and 
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bones  and  tissues,  a  rich  store  of  carbo- 
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derful flavor— for  less  than  3'^  a  portion ! 
Franco-American  has  a  marvelous 


sauce... made  with  cheese. .  .luscious, 
flavorful  tomatoes,  a  long  list  of  savory 
spices  and  seasonings . . .  eleven  different 
ingredients  in  all.  No  wonder  it's  so 
zestful  and  appetizing — so  different 
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And  it's  most  economical.  Acan  hold- 
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DOWN  WITH  ROMANCE! 

{Continued  from  page  29) 


Leo  Carrillo's  Spanish  hacienda  was  the  scene  of  a  recent  good  will 
broadcast  over  NBC  to  South  America.    Among  those  heard  were 
Rochelle  Hudson,  Francisco  J.  Clarizza,  Margo,  Binnie  Barnes,  Rosita 
Moreno  and  Leo  Carrillo  himself,  behind  the  others. 


What  about  women  in  Hollywood? 

"I  had  no  time  for  women  in  Holly- 
wood," he  says,  impatient  with  the 
subject.  "The  woman  I  saw  the  most  of 
out  there  broke  a  flower-pot  over  my  head 
and  almost  killed  me.  Who?  Ida  Lupino. 
It  was  not  her  fault,"  he  explains  quickly, 
"it  was  a  sad  mistake  which  made  both  of 
us  feel  very  badly.  I  saw  more  of  Miss 
Lupino  than  anybody  else,  because  we 
were  making  a  picture  together.  The 
Gay  Desperado.  The  flower-pot?  Oh, 
yes.  She  was  supposed  to  snatch  up  a 
paper  one  for  a  scene  in  the  picture  and 
liit  me  with  it.  But,  by  mistake,  she  picked 
up  a  real  one.    I  was  laid  out  cold." 

But,  you  remind  hiui,  there  were  many 
other  scenes  in  the  picture — love  scenes, 
nishts  on  location  beneath  a  California 
moon,  lovely  ladies  in  the  cast.  What  of 
these  ? 

He  reaches  for  a  photograph.  It  is  not 
the  picture  of  a  movie  queen.  It's  a 
photograph  of  a  man  on  horseback.  The 
horse   is  galloping. 

"See  that?"  Nino  demands.  "That  is 
me.  They  want  to  use  a  double.  I  say; 
'No!'  I  can  ride  like  the  wind.  People 
think  I  can  only  make  eyes  and  sing  love 
songs.  I  can  ride — fight  .  .  .  But  when  I 
come  back  from  the  Coast,  do  people  ask 
me  about  these  things,  about  my  work, 
my  art?  No.  They  want  only  to  know 
about   women,   love,  romance!" 

He's  pretty  bitter  about  it  all. 

And  yet,  mention  the  name  of  one 
woman  and  his  eyes  soften,  his  manner 
changes. 


"Elissa  Landi?  Ah,  yes,  she  is  my 
favorite!"  says  he.  "She  has  something 
that  sets  her  apart.  She  is  beautiful,  yes, 
but  it  is  more  than  that.  I  think  it  must 
be  a  quality  of  mind.  She  is  different 
from  all  the  others." 

But  as  to  the  rumors  that  he  and  Elissa 
are  to  be  married,  his  answer  is  the  same: 
"I  don't  know."  It's  a  good  answer.  It 
was  a  good  answer  when,  in  confusion, 
he  gave  it  to  the  reporters  at  the  train. 
It  stopped  them.    It  stops  everybody  else. 

However,  he  has  very  definite  ideas  on 
marriage,  this  handsome  young  Latin,  if 
you  finally  pin  him  down.  And  if  he 
means  what  he  says,  Elissa  will  have  to 
give  up  her  career  and  retire  from  the 
public  eye  when  lie  marries  her. 

Says  he:  "Two  artists  in  one  family? 
Never!  I  wouldn't  marry  a  professional 
woman,  unless  she  gave  up  her  career.  A 
woman's  place  is  with  her  husband.  A 
marriage  cannot  last  if  the  wife  is  here, 
the  husband  there. 

"Besides,  when  I  marry,  I  want  a  home 
and  children.  And  a  wife  who  is  content 
with  a  family  and  home  for  a  career." 

Will  the  lovely  Miss  Landi  be  willing 
to  sacrifice  a  brilliant  stage  and  screen 
career  to  become  a  home-body?  Elissa  is 
a  successful  writer  as  well  as  an  actress. 
Docs  Martini  mean  she  would  have  to 
give  up  both  her  arts?  Of  course,  a  writer, 
more  easily  than  an  actress,  can  combine 
her  art  with  home-making.  An  actress 
must  be  where  her  audience  is.  A  writer's 
work  may  be  carried  on  at  home.  And 
yet,  it  is  a  great  deal  to  ask  of  a  woman: 


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"Give  up  the  stage,  the  screen;  forget 
your  public,  the  applause,  the  excitement 
of  the  theatre,  noiv  that  you  are  my  wife." 
Few  successful  actresses  have  been  willing 
to  make  that  sacrifice. 

Another  one  of  Martini's  marriage 
theories  and  one  that  indicates  that  he 
may  be  a  bachelor  for  some  time  yet,  is 
that  an  artist  should  not  marry  while  he 
is  on  the  up-grade  to  success. 

"It  is  foolish  for  a  singer,  an  actor,  a 
musician,  to  marry  while  he  is  climbing 
upward  or  when  he  is  at  the  peak  of  his 
success,"  Nino  says.  "The  great  artists 
who  have  been  happiest  in  marriage  have 
waited  to  choose  a  wife  until  they  were 
just  past  the  height  of  their  success  and 
had  turned  toward  the  down-grade." 

If  Nino  really  means  that,  Martini 
nuptials  will  have  to  wait  a  long  time. 
He  is  still  riding  high  on  the  crest  of  the 
wave  in  radio — gathering  new  laurels  and 
greater  popularity  this  season,  on  the 
Chesterfield  hour.  Out  of  the  studio,  he 
is  starring  in  opera  and  touring  the  larger 
cities  for  special  concerts.  Now,  with  his 
performance  in  The  Gay  Desperado  listed 
among  the  best  of  the  year,  he  has  added 
movie  fame  to  his  honors.  Certainly  "the 
downgrade"  is  nowhere  on  the  horizon 
for  Martini ! 

"It  is  a  mistake  to  think  that  a  wife 
helps  you  rise  to  success,"  he  says.  "I 
have  seen  many  artists  snatch  a  wife  when 
they  were  on  the  way  up  and,  on  reaching 
the  top,  discover  she  wasn't  the  woman 
they  needed. 

"I  have  seen  others,  in  the  flush  of 
great  success,  marry  a  woman  who  had 
no  use  for  them  when  their  brilliant 
triumphs  were  over.  It  is  better  to  wait. 
An  artist  should  not  marry  when  he  is 
young,  anyhow.  He  has  much  to  do — so 
short  a  time  to  do  it.  When  his  brilliance 
is  a  bit  dimmed,  his  years  of  hard 
struggles  and  constant  study  over,  then — 
ah !  It  is  the  time  to  settle  down  with  a 
good  wife,  children,  a  home.  It  is  a  fine 
thing  in  any  man's  life.  I  am  planning 
on  it." 

So  sincere  are  his  words,  so  warm  and 
intense  his  voice,  you  feel  that  the  girl 
whom  he  chooses  will  probably  consider 
anv  career  well  lost  for  what  he  offers 
her. 

For,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  Nino  re- 
sents being  typed  as  romantic  and  wishes 
people  would  ask  him  alxjut  his  athletic 
prowess  instead  of  his  love  life,  Mr. 
Martini  is  romantic.  He  may  be  sick  of 
moonlight  and  roses.  But  he  makes  any 
girl  think  of  perfumed  gardens  and  starry 
skies. 

And,  he  gives  himself  away.  "When  I 
marry  I  want  time — time  for  a  wedding, 
time  to  take  the  girl  away  to  some  lovely 
place — Italy,  perhaps — on  a  beautiful 
honeymoon.  People  ask  me  about  mar- 
riage now  and  I  laugh.  Broadcasts, 
concert  tours,  another  movie  in  prepara- 
tion, the  opera  season  in  full  swing !  What 
do  they  think?  That  I  want  to  be  married 
between  performances  ?  Never !  Some 
wedding,  eh?" 

He  frowns  suddenly  and  reaches  again 
for  the  photograph  of  himself  on  the 
galloping  horse.  "When  I  make  a  motion 
picture,  I  don't  like  the  love  scenes.  No! 
I  like  the  fights,  big  fights,  the  riding  and 
shooting.  W^hy  do  people  always  want 
to  talk  about  love?" 


UNTIL  SHE  FOUND  THIS  LOVELIER 
WAY  TO  AVOID  OFFENDING... 
FRAGRANT  BATHS  WITH 

CASHMERE  BOUQUET  SOAP 


fume  leav^* 


KEEPS  COMPLEXIONS  LOVELY,  TOOl 

Cashmere  Bouquet's  lather  is  so  gentle 
and  caressing,  yet  it  goes  right  down 
into  each  pore  and  removes  every  bit 
of  dirt  and  cosmetics.  This  pure, 
creamy-white  soaj)  keeps  your  skin 
radiantly  clear,  alluringly  sniot)th 

THE     ARISTOCRAT     OF     ALL     FINE  SOAPS 


NOW  ONLY  lOi  at  all  drug, 
deparlmeni,  ond  len-cenl  itores 


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Keep  tabs  on  yourself.  Estab- 
lish regular  habits  of  elimi- 
nation. Most  doctors  agree 
this  is  for  your  own  well- 
being. 

If  more  than  one  day  goes 
by,  take  an  Olive  Tablet  just 
as  an  aid  to  Nature. 

You'll  find  Olive  Tablets 
excellent  for  this  purpose. 
Mild,  gentle,  the  formula  of 
an  eminent  Ohio  physician, 
they  are  used  in  thousands  of 
homes  as  a  standard  pro- 
prietary. 

Keep  them  always  on  your 
bathroom  shelf  and  caution 
the  whole  family  to  use  them 
on  the  evening  before  the 
second  day.  Three  sizes—  1  5<^ 
—  30^— 60f,    All  druggists. 


LIKE  FATHER,  LIKE  DAUGHTER 


(Continued  from  page  49) 


before.  She  is  only  now  in  lier  early  twen- 
ties, alive,  sparkling,  energetic  and  ambi- 
tious. She  was  curled  up  in  the  corner  of 
a  sofa  as  she  chatted  aliout  her  driving 
ambition. 

"Nothing  will  satisfy  me  until  I  am  a 
successful  actress.  It  is  hard  to  make 
people  understand  my  feeling.  It  is  not 
because  I  want  to  see  my  name  in  lights. 
It  is  not  because  I  want  to  be  considered 
famous.  I  shall  never  be  satisfied  until  Dad 
can  lie  terribly  proud  of  me.  Of  course  he 
alwaxs  is  complimenting  me,  now.  But  the 
darling  always  has  spoiled  me.  He  always 
has  lavished  so  much  love  on  me."  Her 
eyes  arc  bright  with  the  knowledge  of  that 
great  love.  Happiness  radiates  from  her 
when  she  talks  about  Father  Ralph.  "But  I 
am  driven  by  the  thought  that  I  must  jus- 
tify Dad's  pride  in  me." 

When  Claudia  returned  to  school,  the 
autumn  following  her  professional  appear- 
ance— she  was  attending  Mrs.  Dow's 
School  at  Briarclifif,  New  York — she  could 
scarcely  wait  to  finish.  She  was  so  sure 
that  success  would  be  eas>-  for  her.  Hadn't 
she  made  a  youthful  triiuniili  in  Gypsy 
April?  But  the  following  year  she  was  to 
find  that  life  was  not  without  disappoint- 
ments. 

"1  began  looking  for  a  job  as  soon  as  I 
was  graduated.  I  was  filled  with  ambition. 
I  knew  I  had  ability.  And  wasn't  I  the 
daughter  of  Ralph  Morgan,  the  famous 
actor?  And  wasn't  Frank  Morgan  my 
uncle?  But  my  pride  would  not  let  me 
trade  on  their  reputations.  And  Father 
didn't  want  to  be  the  means  of  my  stage 
success." 

Claudia  can  laugh  about  her  experiences 
now,  but  it  was  not  so  funny  in  1929, 
when  she  was  "pounding  the  pavements" 
looking  for  a  job. 

"And  that  is  just  what  I  did.  I  walked 
from  producer  to  director  to  agent.  The 
answer  was  always  the  same :  'You're  too 
young.'  Vou  see,  most  of  the  producers 
and  agents  had  known  Dad  and  Uncle 
Frank  for  years.  They  had  known  me 
since  I  was  a  baby.  I  really  believe  I 
would  have  had  an  easier  time  had  I  not 
been  Claudia  Morgan.  Oh,  they  were  al- 
ways glad  to  see  me.  1  wunld  go  into  their 
offices— the  daughur  ..f  Ralph  Morgan 
didn't  ha\e  to  sit  aronnd  waiting  rooms — 
but  that  was  all  it  did  for  me. 

"  ilnw  is  Ralph?'  tlu-y  \v,,n1<l  say.  'And 
1m  ;mk  ?    Ivinicnilier  w  liat   fun  \\  e  had  two 

W  li.n  1  aske-l  tlum  abnul  a  job.  it  was 
(juite  different."  She  smiled  wryly.  "They 
would  laugh,  or  look  embarrassed.  But  the 
answer  was  invariabl>'  the  same:  'When 
>i)u  are  a  little  older,  perhai)s.'  That  was 
all  the  encouragement  I  could  get  !" 


Wha' 


isai)i)onitmcnt  lor  [he  young  am- 
1  \\h(j  knew  she  had  inherited 
im  a  fanioiK  fanu'h-  I  What  a 
„■  ronfi-lrn.c  will)  which  she  lia-1 
,  rnlrr  Ihr  a.-lni.L;  profess„,n! 
Claudia,  li.iuever,  would  iiol  be  dcjwned. 
liach  rebuff  made  her  more  determined. 
Her  character  became  stronger  with  each 


failure.  She  considered  changing  her 
name ;  then  determined  to  succeed  in  spite 
of  her  name. 

"You  see,"  she  explains,  "I  wanted  Dad 
to  be  proud  of  my  fight."  She  would  not 
allow  her  father  or  uncle  to  lend  a  help- 
ing hand.  Her  uncle  couldn't  understand 
this.  Her  father  could.  Hadn't  he  in- 
stilled in  her  mind  the  desire  to  succeed 
on  her  own?  "I  think  it  would  have 
broken  Dad's  heart  if  I  had  assumed  an- 
other name.  He  always  had  taught  me 
that  there  is  only  one  way  to  succeed — the 
right  way. 

"It  was  a  stranger,  one  who  had  not 
known  me  when  I  was  a  little  girl,  who 
gave  me  mv  chance.  It  was  a  small  part  in 
Top  of  the  Hill.  Both  Dad  and  Uncle 
Frank  came  to  the  opcTiing  night.  And  I 
was  terribly  nervous,  naturally.  So  were 
they,  out  there  in  the  audience.  I  found 
that,  the  next  night,  when  neither  of  them 
were  among  those  watching,  my  knees  be- 
haved much  better.  Every  time  Dad  comes 
to  see  my  play,  I  get  an  attack  of  weak 
knees.  I  am  so  terribly  anxious  to  do  my 
best,  because  he  is  watching.  Dad,  too, 
worries  himself  sick.  It  has  become  so 
terrific  that  he  doesn't  come  to  see  my 
plays  any  more.  He  does  his  worrying  at 
home  and  waits  for  my  phone  call  after 
the  first  performance." 

Ralph  Morgan  waits  anxiously  for  those 
phone  calls  from  his  actress-daughter.  No 
matter  where  he  is,  Claudia  telephones 
her  father  after  the  opening  night  of  a 
play.  Even  if  he  is  in  California — and  she 
does  not  reverse  the  charges. 

The  little  Morgan  girl  came  out  victo- 
rious in  that  first  chance — given  by  a 
stranger.  Not  only  had  she  done  her  role 
well,  but  she  knew  now  that  nothing  in  the 
world  could  keep  her  from  reaching  her 
goal.  Not  even  an  unfortunate  marriage 
could  beat  back  the  spirit  of  Claudia  Mor- 
gan. 

"But  let's  not  speak  of  that.  It  was  a 
mistake  of  two  very  young  people.  A 
boy  and  girl  who  were  still  in  school," 
she  calmly  sums  it  up. 

Is  she  afraid  of  marriage  as  a  result  of 
this  mistake? 

"Of  course  not.  When  'Mr.  Right' 
comes  along,  there  will  be  no  doubt.  But 
he  must  be  in  the  acting  profession. 
Otherwise,  how  could  he  understand  this 
driving  desire  to  succeed,  this  force  which 
makes  me  go  on  and  on?" 

After  her  first  stage  chance,  she  had  to 
look  for  another  job.  Did  her  second  role 
come  more  easily?  "The  only  difference 
between  the  first  and  second  attempts  to 
land  a  job  was  that  I  knew  enough  to 
stay  away  from  family  friends,"  she  laughs 
in  reply. 

Her  determination  has  been  rewarded, 
for  Claudia  Morgan,  the  charming  young 
woman  who  looks  young  enough  to  be  still 
in  school,  has  had  parts  in  twenty-six 
l)la\s.  .'Xftcr  the  twenty-fourth  role,  she 
decided  to  contjuer  the  radio  world.  She 
had  a  foothold  in  the  theatre,  which  she 
would  not  relinquish,  but  she  wanted  to  go 


DR.  EDWARDS 


[  THE  LAXATIVE 

k  OP  BEAUTIFUL  WOMEN  A 


RADIO  STARS 


on  to  other  fields  as  well.  Surely,  slie 
thought,  she  would  not  have  as  much  diffi- 
culty in  breaking  into  another  branch  of 
entertainment. 

But  she  encountered  tlie  same  attitude 
on  the  part  of  the  radio  moguls  as  she 
had  from  play  producers.  It  was  fine  to 
have  Ralph  Morgan  and  his  brother  Frank 
on  their  programs.  Sponsors  knew  that 
these  two  well-known  members  of  the 
Morgan  family  would  sell  products.  But 
surely  young  Claudia  was  ii.  it  old  enough, 
not  experienced  enough  fur  them  to  take 
a  chance  on  her  work.  Whereas  father 
Ralph  had  fretted  about  Claudia's  repeated 
failures  in  getting  a  stage  role,  he  was 
amused  at  her  radio  refusals.  He  knew 
that  his  Cla-udia  would  not  be  beaten.  She 
had  handled  her  previous  experiences  too 
successfully  to  fail  now. 

'■Rudy  Vallee  finally  broke  the  hoodoo. 
He  gave  me  an  opportuiiit\-  tn  guest-star 
on  his  program  opposite  Rohcrt  Ta>Ior," 
she  happily  tells  us.  She  niailc  such  a 
success  of  this  performanee  that  the  Lux 
people  asked  her  to  co-star  with  her  uncle, 
Frank  Morgan,  in  a  performance  of  The 
Queen's  Husband.  Through  her  success 
on  these  two  programs,  she  was  given 
parts  in  two  dramatic  programs,  one  of 
which  was  Dai  id  Haruin. 

Claudia  Morgan,  however,  did  not  rest 
on  her  laurels.  During  last  summer,  her 
radio  work  was  intermittent,  due  to  her 
stage  work  in  stock.  In  the  earl>'  autumn 
of  this  year,  she  was  given  a  three-year 
contract  by  the  Theatre  Guild  in  Xew 
York.  She  had  just  one  week  between  the 
end  of  the  summer  stock  and  the  beginning 


of  her  new  contract.  That  week  was  spent 
in  a  trip  to  California  to  see  her  father 
and  mother. 

"Dad  was  so  happy,  so  proud  that  I  had 
accomplished  that  much !"  Claudia  says 
"that  much,"  for  she  feels  that  she  still  has 
a  long  way  to  go.  "He  was  glad  that  I 
had  done  it  on  my  own  merits,  without 
help  from  him  or  his  friends.  I  haven't 
done  a  great  deal.  I  am  not  a  great  ac- 
tress, but  it  is  a  step  toward  the  top.  The 
top,  to  me.  is  to  be  a  really  fine  actress.  I 
have  no  (lesire  to  be  a  arcat  star,  to  do 
certain  definite  roles.  I  v..r  -  •.  '  -i-.c- 
cess  because  I  can  fill  a  I 
know  that  Dad  will  he  pK..~  .,i  if 

I  can  fullill  this  amiiition."  And  she  is 
graduall\-  working;  clo-cr  and  closer  to 
her  goal.  Her  determination  is  beginning 
to  show  pnifits.  Her  fighting  spirit  is  be- 
ing rewarded. 

This  winter.  Claudia  again  will  be  faced 
with  the  problem  of  fitting  in  her  radio 
work  with  that  of  the  stage.  .\s  this  is 
written  she  is  trying  to  work  out  a  solu- 
tion for  accepting  a  program  on  the  air. 
at  the  same  time  she  is  doing  her  stage 
work  for  the  Theatre  Guild. 

"1  particularly  want  to  be  able  to  do  the 
radio  program,  for  it  gives  such  pleasure 
to  Dad.  He  always  listens  in  from  Cali- 
fornia. And  he  takes  great  pride  in  my 
work."  Claudia  becomes  so  excited  talk- 
ing about  all  that  she  wants  to  do,  that  the 
words  tumble  out  quickl}'.  "Dad  has 
taught  me  so  much  of  what  I  kn<jw.  Xot 
only  has  he  given  nie  the  inspiration  to  do 
fine  things  on  the  stage.  He  has  given  me 
ideals — the  kind  of   ideals  in  life  which 


really  count. 

"I  remember  when  he  and  I  were  doing 
Strauye  Interlude  together  in  London. 
That  was  in  193L  I  had  only  been  on  the 
stage  a  couple  of  years.  'Whatever  you  do, 
Claudia,  do  well,'  he  told  me.  "It  isn't  the 
amount  of  work  you  do,  nor  the  impor- 
tance of  the  role.  It  is  the  quality  of  act- 
ing that  really  counts.  When  you  yourself 
know  that  you  have  done  your  best,  the 
glory  doesn't  make  much  dift'erence.'  And 
how  many  time-  1  think  of  that  I  How 
many  times  1  iia\e  said  that  to  myself, 
when  I  was  given  one-line  bits  in  the  be- 
ginning." 

And.  reiiiemlieriiisr  this,  she  made  a  suc- 
e<  -  '     wlon  that  year. 

1  '  :  .gether  since 

th  It  I  -   1   must  go  on 

alone.  1  m.i-t  leel  that  1  succeed  on  my 
own  merits."  she  tells  us. 

\\"\\.h  such  in-piration.  is  it  any  wonder 
that  Claudia  Mi-r-ati  has  a  driving  force 
to  get  to  the  t"p:  In  spite  of  being  the 
heiress  to  the  -\ng(»stura  Bitters  fortune, 
she  h\-es  in  a  small  apartment  in  New 
^'ork.  It  i-  an  attractively  furnished  three- 
room  home.  "I!ut  I  love  it,"  says  the 
dau-hter  -t  Ralph  :\:or,gau.  "I  love  it  be- 
cause it  is  not  pretentious.  I  love  it  be- 
cause it  is  near  the  theatrical  district." 
She  loves  it  because  it  is  hers,  because  it 
was  made  possible  onlv  through  her  own 
etTorts. 

Let  the  heiresses,  those  who  live  on  the 
ett'i.irts  of  their  families,  have  Park  Ave- 
nue. Claudia  Morgan  will  succeed  on  her 
own.  "Otherwise.  Dad  will  be  disap- 
pointed in  me."  she  sa>  s  simply. 


BUT  tIE  DOES  HAV€  BAD  BREATtI! 


MOST  BAD  BREATH  COMES  fRO 
DECAYING  FOOD  PARTICLES  IN  HID 

ICES  BETWEEN  IMPROPERLY 
CLEANED  TEETH.  I  ADVISE  COLGATE 
DENTAL  CREAM.  ITS  SPECIAI 
IG  FOAM  RE 


1 

.TE  ■ 


MOST  BAD  BREATH   BEGINS  WITH  THE  TEETH! 


Tests  prove  that  76%  of  all  peo- 
ple over  the  age  of  1  7  have  bad 
hre.ith!  Andthesametestsprove 
that  most  bad  breath  comes 
from  improperly  cleaned  teeth. 
Colgate  Dental  Cream,  because 
of  its  special  penetrating  foam, 
removes  the  cause — the  decay- 


ing food  deposits  in  hidden 
crevices  between  teeth  which 
are  the  source  of  most  bad 
breath,  dull,  dingy  teeth,  and 
much  tooth  decay.  .At  the  same 
time,  Colgate's  soft,  safe  polish- 
ing agent  cleans  and  brightens 
enamel— makes  teeth  sparkle! 


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HALF-WAV  CAK 

STBALANmERTOm 


o 


III 

o 


CLEANS  TEETH 

Firm,  handsome  teeth  depend 
upon  two  things — cleaning  them 
thoroughly  and  keeping  gums 
healthy.  Even  if  teeth  look  white 
the  tooth  paste  you  are  using  may 
provide  only  halj  the  care  you 
need.  Forhan's  ends  this  half-way 
care.  It  whitens  teeth  and — 

SAVES  GUMS 

Forhan's  was  developed  by  an 
eminent  dental  surgeon  especially 
to  give  you  double  protection. 
When  you  brush  your  teeth,  mas- 
sage your  gums,  too,  with 
Forhan's,  rubbing  it  in  gently 
with  the  fingers.  Note  how  it 
stimulates  your  gums,  how  it 
leaves  in  your  mouth  a  clean, 
fresh  feeling!  Forhan's  costs  no 
more  than  most  ordinary  tooth 
pastes.  Try  a  tube  today. 
Also  sold  in  Canada. 


PHOTO-RINGS  m 


worn?  Try  an  cnormzing 
'  -\  i'<\M  Mii.i.io-,-  iiriiDI.i-;  iiATll!  Laze  away  in  a 
tub  filled  with  millions  of  sparkling,  rcfrfsliinc  lob- 
bies. Let  "nerves"  and  fatigue  melt  in  its  fragrant 
luxury.  -Step  out  buoyant .  .  .  invigorali  il'  I- eel  how 
satiny-smooth  your  skin  is;  no  damp,  tacky  feeling. 
No  "rine.  around  the  tub"  to  scrub  because  the  tub  is 
left  Klistening  white.  10c  at  most  ten^ceiil  stores^ _ ^ 
bVluTb"  Mi|C.r2023  N.  Halstcd  St.,  Dept.  15-B,  Chicago 
fiJifl  I'd  like  to  try  usa-koam  million  huiiblk  bath.  I 
^f>'/  enclose  10c  (stamps.coin)  and  3c  stamp  for  mailing. 


.Town. 


EDDIE  CANTOR  STRIKES  DACK! 


(Continued  from  page  23) 


good  shows  in  a  year." 

He  ran  his  inde.x  finger  down  the  page. 
"Listen : 

'The  average  program,  from  the  sponsor 
through  contact  men,  ad^'ertising  agency 
men  and  directors  of  programs,  doesn't 
have  a  single  person  of  real  professional 
background.' 

"Well,  so  what?  Radio  is  only  ten  years 
old,  really.  All  right.  A  lot  of  those  con- 
nected with  it  had  to  be  in  some  other  pro- 
fession. Like  aviators.  Only  young  aviators 
grew  up  in  that  profession. 

"You  don't  remember.  You're  too  young. 
But  you've  heard  lots  of  jokes  about  the 
movie  industry,  haven't  }ou?  When  it  was 
ten  years  old,  who  ran  it?  Why,  there 
were  plumbers,  furriers,  clothing  dealers, 
carpenters,  all  sorts  of  men.  But  that  made 
no  difference.  There  was  a  new  industry. 
They  were  new  in  it.  So  they  grew  up 
with  it  and  today  the\  are  the  brains  of 
the  industry.  It's  to  tlieir  credit  that  they 
are. 

"Why,  as  far  as  that's  concerned,  in 
1776  George  Washington's  'background' 
was  more  British  than  .'\merican. 

"That  isn't  all,  either.  Advertising  men, 
contact  men — yes,  even  sponsors,  are  as 
necessary  to  radio  as  theatre  owners,  pub- 
licity experts  and  picture  salesmen  are  to 
the  picture  industry.  But  they  don't  have 
much  to  do  with  the  actual  radio  shows, 
except  in  the  business  management.  Criti- 
cising them  is  like  criticising  a  motion  pic- 
ture company  for  emphiying  accountants 
wlio  aren't  showmen. 

"Showmen  build  most  big  radio  shows. 
Take  Rudy  Vallee,  Fred  Allen,  Ed  Wynn, 
Jack  Benny,  Burns  and  Allen — take  me, 
even.  We've  had  some  theatrical  experi- 
ence and  we  all  build  our  own  programs, 
'{"lie  sponsors  and  the  agencies  let  us.  Now 
how  many  high-priced  picture  stars  are 
given  a  voice  in  selecting  their  stories? 
Only  a  very  few. 

"Now  here's  something  else.   Bob  says : 

'There  is  more  unnecessary  waste  of 
money  and  talent  in  radio  than  there  cz'cr 
pictures.' 

"Now  liow  would  Boh  know  about  that? 
For  one  thing,  there  aren't  any  accurate 
figures — but  did  you  ever  hear  of  a  spon- 
sor who  had  to  offer  two  features  for  one 
to  foot  the  cost  of  production?" 

He  started  on  a  second  breakfast,  then 
let  it.  t(io.  grow  cold  while  he  went  on: 

""\'e-s,  here's  anr.lher  thing.  Take  it  from 
me.  I  know,  'I  here  are  no  radio  perform- 
ers sitting  arotmd  fifty-two  weeks  in  the 
year,  drawing  i)ig  sal;irics  for  dning  noth- 
ing. In  radio  yon  earn  what  \cin  get.  If 
your  contract  is  renewtil,  yuu  kndw  you 
are  sc-lling  ynnr  sponMir's  ]irndiut.  If 
yon  (Inn't  sell  tlie  prc^lurl,  you're  out," 

l':(ldie  choked  over  a  bit  of  toast,  Wlien 
lie  could  speak,  he  held  the  mayazine  be- 
f(jre  me  and  pointed  to  a  paragr,i|)ii. 

"Read  that,"  he  demanded,   ii  said: 

■'IVhat  zvould  you  think  of  a  show  with 
a  $14,000-/a/c«/  bill,  exclusive  oj  air  lime, 
that  didn't  have  so  much  us  a  script  rcaily 
as  late  as  tivo  hours  before  a  broadcast?" 


"Now  you  know  Bob  knows  better  than 
that,"  Eddie  insisted.  "He  knows  Ziegfeld 
was  a  great  showman — and  he  knows  Zieg- 
feld never  had  a  show  ready,  even  when 
the  curtain  went  up.  Take  Whoopee.  That 
was  a  success.  Well,  I'm  telling  you,  we 
were  playing  the  first  act  while  the  finale 
of  the  second  was  being  written !  Look  at 
the  pictures  that  are  a  year  or  so  in  the 
making  and  then  have  to  be  half  remade 
before  they're  released.  Of  course,  in  ra- 
dio, where  you  have  a  week  at  most  to 
set  and  produce  a  show,  the  time  of  prepa- 
ration must  be  short.  Lots  of  stage  shows 
delay  their  openings.  And  plenty  of  pic- 
tures postpone  their  releases,  don't  they? 
But  did  you  ever  hear  of  a  radio  show 
being  cancelled  because  it  wasn't  ready  to 
go  on?  You  bet  you  didn't!  Why,  here, 
just  recently,  when  a  couple  of  movie  guest 
stars,  about  whom  a  whole  radio  show  re- 
volved, cancelled  their  appearances  at  the 
last  moment,  the  show  went  on  just  the 
same.  A  swell  show,  too.  I  heard  it. 

"Now  then,  down  here — see?"  Eddie 
pointed  to  a  paragraph  emphatically.  "Lis- 
ten to  this  : 

'There's  too  much  of  the  attitude  that 
only  "radio  people"  understand  radio,  ivhen 
there's  t'rr.v  little  basic  difference  betiveen 
the  essential  principles  of  entertainment  on 
the  air  or  the  screen.  J'7'e  scoi  a  radio 
dramatic  director  loss  aside  a  script  that 
was  especially  written  by  one  of  the  best 
dialogue  zvciters  in  Hollywood,  zvith  the 
comment:  "It  isn't  radio!"' 

"Now  Bob's  wrong  there.  All  wrong! 
I've  worked  on  the  stage,  on  the  screen  and 
in  radio  for  years.  But  I  think  they're  all 
vastly  different.  They're  three  different 
mediums  of  entertainment,  that's  all.  In 
pictures  a  good  director  can  take  a  per- 
sonality that  screens  well  and,  by  constant 
drilling,  make  a  box-ofifice  attraction  out 
of  it.  I've  seen  that  done.  On  the  other 
hand,  there  are  fine  stage  actors  and  ac- 
tresses who  don't  photograph  well.  And 
there  are  fine  stage  and  screen  actresses 
whose  personality  won't  project  over  the 
air,  where  facial  expression,  gestures,  ac- 
tion, or  mere  beauty  are  useless. 

"All  right.  Maybe  the  director  did  throw 
away  the  script  and  say  it  wasn't  radio. 
Maybe  he  was  right.  Maybe  it  wasn't.  You 
see?  There  are  plenty  of  accepted  novelists 
who  can't  write  a  screen  script,  aren't 
there?  Sure  there  are  I  Weil,  just  the  same 
way,  there  are  probably  plenty  of  screen 
writers  who  can't  write  a  radio  script. 
Tiicy  could,  of  course,  if  they'd  apply 
themselves  and  devote  thought  and  practice 
to  it.  But  they  couldn't  as  long  as  they 
take  the  attitude  that  they  are  good  radio 
writers  because  they  are  good  screen  writ- 
ers. You'd  hate  to  he  sick  and  have  some- 
body call  in  the  best  veterinary  in  the 
world,  wouldn't  you?" 

luldie  rea<i  anotlier  sentence: 
"  'It's   in   the  field  of  drama   that  radio 
seems  to  fall  particularly  short.'" 

He  paused  tiiouglu  fully.  He  tapped 
meditatively  on  the  table.  He  sipped  ab- 
sently of  his  coifee.  "H'm.  That's  cold, 
too,"'  he  said,  "But  drama — well,  what  he 
says  is  partly  true.  Drama  is  the  most  dif- 


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Men  smoke  pipes — or  Bob  Burns  and 
Bing  Crosby  get  together  on  a  tune 
at  rehearsal  for  Kraft  Music  Hall. 


ficult  type  of  entertainment  for  the  screen 
and  stage,  too,  you  know.  The  chief  trou- 
ble is  that  what  is  drama  today  is  just 
funny  tomorrow.  Look  at  the  old  movies 
that  used  to  draw  buckets  of  tears.  Now 
people  laugh  at  them.  Stock  companies 
play  old  dramatic  hits  as  burlesques  today. 

"And  don't  pictures  still  turn  out  good 
old  melodramatic  westerns  which  coin 
money?  Radio  has  evolved  the  dramatic 
serial,  hasn't  it?  Another  thing.  You  never 
heard  anybody  hissing  a  radio,  did  you?" 

Eddie  picked  up  the  magazine  and  wav- 
ed it  for  emphasis. 

"And  that's  not  the  half  of  it!"  he  ex- 
claimed. "Who  makes  picture  stars  accept 
guest  appearances,  anyhow?  Why  do  they 
make  them,  if  the  material  is  poor?  That's 
their  funeral !  They  don't  have  to.  No. 
Here's  the  trouble.  They  look  on  radio  as 
a  side  line  where  they  can  pick  up  some 
quick,  easy  money.  They  don't  have  to 
appear  in  inferior  plays.  If  they  do,  know- 
ingly, it  must  be  because  they're  greedy. 

"Something  else  Bob  says  here : 

'Sponsors  and  agencies  spend  fortunes 
hiring  big  names — and  give  them  nothing 
to  do.' 

"Well,  no  sponsor  or  agency  gives  Fred 
Allen  or  Jack  Benny  or  Ed  Wyiin  or 
Burns  and  Allen  or  m}*self  anything  to  dcf. 
They  hire  us,  and  we  have  to  put  on  a 
good  show  or  else  they'll  fire  us  and  get 
somebody  else. 

"Who  worries  about  our  material?  We 
do !  They  don't.  And  we  not  only  worry 
about  it — we  pay  for  it !  Every  successful 
radio  performer  I  ever  knew  paid  out  a 
large  part  of  his  or  her  earnings  for  ma- 
terial. Take  a  guest  star  who  gets — say — 
$5,000  for  a  performance.  Why  can't  he 
take  a  thousand  or  two  thousand  or  three 
thousand — or  four  thousand,  if  he  has  to — 
and  pay  for  some  decent  material  ?  Then 
guest  appearances  might  be  worth  while, 
instead  of  what  they  usually  are — a  shame 
and  a  disgrace!" 

Eddie  slapped  the  magazine  upon  the 
table.  He  leaned  over  tensely. 

"Bob  said  something  about  mediocrity," 
he  rapped.  "Now  listen  to  me!  No  medi- 
um that  could  elect  a  president  by  the 
greatest  plurality  in  the  history  of  this 
country,  over  and  above  the  opposition  of 
eighty  per  cent,  of  the  newspapers,  can 
have  much  mediocrity  about  it !  No  mat- 
ter what  every  movie  star  in  Hollywood 
thinks  about  it,  it  can't!  Can  it?" 

The  defense  rested,  and  Eddie  tackled 
another  hot  breakfast. 


It  wasn't  the  Blizzard 
that  turned  him  cold 
'twas  her  red  rough  hands ! 


OLR  WHOLE  D.\Y  W  .\S  SPOILED  w  hen 
Bill  saw  my  red,  chapped  hands.  They  did 
look  horrid.  I'd  tried  everything  but  I 
couldn't  seem  to  get  my  hands  smooth... 

THEN-iiiE.vRD  now  \\  onderfl  lly 

Jergens  Lotion  .softens  hand  skin.  I  use 
Jergens  all  the  time  now  and  Bill  says, 
"Put  your  dear  soft  hands  against  niy  face." 


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but  Jergens  brought  back 
Warmth  and  Romance! 


WATER  —  as  well  as  wind  and 
cold  —  is  hard  on  your  hands. 
It  takes  away  their  special  beauti- 
f)-ing  moisture.  Yet  women  say  they 
wash  their  hands  eight  times  most 
days  —  have  them  in  water  eight 
times  more. 

No  wonder  hands  tend  to  crack 
and  chap  in  winter— look  red,  feel 
harsh.  But  Jergens  Lotion  heals  that 
chapping  and  roughness  in  no  time. 


Why  is  Jergens  so  effective?  First, 
this  lotion  restores  moisture  inside 
the  skin  ce//s,  where  hand  skin  needs 
it.  Tests  prove  Jergens  goes  in  more 
thoroughly  than  any  other  lotion 
tested.  It  leaves   no  stickiness. 

Second,  Jergens  contains  two 
famous  ingredients  that  doctors  use. 
The  first  application  helps.  Use 
Jergens  Lotion  for  soft  hands  a  man 
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RADIO  STARS 


To  regain  lost  weight  is  a  simple  matter 
when  certain  bodily  functions  are  re- 
stored to  normal. 

Of  foremost  importance  is  the  stimula- 
tion of  digestive  juices  in  the  stomach  to 
make  better  use  of  the  food  you  eat.  .  .and 
restoration  of  lowered  red-blood-cells  to 
turn  the  digested  food  into  firm  flesh.  S.S.S. 
Tonic  does  just  this. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  whets  the  appetite.  Foods 
taste  better.  .  .natural  digestive  juices  are 
stimulated  and  finally  the  very  food  you 
eat  is  of  more  body  value.  A  very  impor- 
tant step  back  to  health. 

Forget  about  underweight  worries  if  you 
arc  deficient  in  stomach  digestive  juices  and 
red-blood-cells  ...  just  take  S.S.S.  Tonic 
immediately  liefore  each  meal.  Shortly  you 
will  be  delighted  with  the  way  you  will  feel 
.  .  .your  friends  will  compliment  you  on  the 
way  you  will  look. 

S.S.S. Tonic isesjjeciallydesigned  to  build 
sturdy  health.  .  .its  remarkable  value  is  time 
tried  and  scientifically  proven. .  .that's  why 
it  makes  you  feel  like  yourself  again. 

At  all  drug  stores  in  two  convenient  sizes. 
The  large  size  at  a  saving  in  price.  There  is 
no  substitute  for  this  time  tested  remed}'. 
Xo  ethical  druggist  will  suggest  something 
"just  as  good."  ,,  s  <,  s  Co. 


NOTHING  BUT 
THE  TRUTH? 


And  the  famous  air  stars  differ  in  their 
answers  to  these  interesting  questions! 


Talk  about  big  feet!  This  giant  shoe,  size  42,  which  Joan  Benoit  is 
trying  on,  was  one  of  hundreds  of  trophies,  received  by  Major  Bowes 
from  his  radio  audience,  on  display  in  the  Chrysler  Building.  This 
dainty  bit  of  footgear  was  sent  the  Major  fronn  Nashville,  Tennessee. 


Do  you  approve  of  guest  stars 
fronn  stage  and  screen  appearing 
frequently  before  the  mike? 


Phil  Baker:  "Yes — ('/  lliry  diynijy  radio 
as  they  do  their  cam  respective  field." 

Ramona:  ".Anyone  who  has  something 
really  outstanding  to  give  our  radio  audi- 
ence and  anyone  who  has  entertained 
tlieatres  of  people  should  be  given  a 
chance  before  the  mike." 

Jacques  Renard:  "No— I  think  that  it 
impairs  their  rating  by  appearing  too  fre- 
quently and  also  spoils  the  perspective  of 
movie  fans  by  divulging  the  plots  of 
stories  before  they  are  seen." 


James  Wallington:  Yes — in  this  way, 
and  only  in  this  Zivy,  can  there  be  a  per- 
sonal contact  bclifccn  the  millions  of  lis- 
teners, ii'/io  (/()  not  lii'c  in  one  of  the  fore- 
most metropolitan  areas,  and  the  stars.  It 
is  good  for  everyone." 

Don  Wilson:  "Not  too  frequently.  They 
must  not  become  like  a  football." 

Thornton  Fisher:  "Yes.  Indubitably  a 
guest  star  is  an  added  attraction  for  a  com- 
mercial client.  It  helps  materially  in  publi- 
cizing a  program.  At  the  risk  of  taking 
it  on  the  chin,  I  should  like  to  add  that 
frequently  the  alluring  star  of  stage  and 
screen  who  posseses  visual  it  proves  to  lack 
something  when  attempting  to  appeal  to 
a  sightless  audience." 

Henrv  Busse :  "/  do.    I  think  that  their 


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afpcarance  on  the  air  is  not  only  a  big  as- 
set to  radio,  but  of  definite  value  to  the 
stars  themsekrs.  Radio  is  non'  a  big 
{'art  of  j/ioti'  business,  and  stage  and  screen 
stars  cannot  overlook  it." 

I'ineent  Lopez:  '  Guest  stars  appearing 
before  the  microphone  do  not  interfere, 
provided  the  guest  star  understands  mike 
technique  and  is  as  good  on  the  air  as  i;i 

person." 

Jimmie  Newill:  "Yes,  because  it  gives 
the  great  mass  a  more  intimate  contact 
with  their  favorites  and  affords  many  their 
only  opportunity  of  seeing  them.  It 
makes  them  feel  they  knoiv  you  and  helps 
a  star's  popularity." 

Ozzie  Xelson:  "Ves.  I  think  they  help 
shox'.'  radio  performers  to  better  advan- 
tage." 

Jimmy  Farreli:  "Yes;  radio  is  another 
medium  through  which  audiences  can  be- 
come even  more  familiar  with  those  people 
tiiey  love  as  personalities.  One  who  has 
talent  to  entertain  should  share  his  gift 
frequently  with  those  who  lack  it." 

Ireene  Wicker:  "Only  if  and  when  the 
guest  stars  give  as  much  careful  prepara- 
tion to  their  appearances  as  the  unheralded 
but  hard  working  radio  troupers,  who  de- 
serve far  more  credit  for  their  efforts  and 
talents." 

Leo  Reisman:  "//  they  have  something 
they  can  say  or  do  that's  entertaining— yes. 
If  not,  I  am  not  interested  in  monkeys  in 
the  coo  for  themsehes  alone.  I  am  inter- 
ested only  in  zihaf  they  can  do  to  enter- 
tain me." 

Helen  Jepson:  "They  frequently  provide 
a  delightful  change." 

Curtis  Arnall:  "I  believe  in  anyone  ap- 
pearing before  the  mike  who  is  capable 
of  entertaining  a  radio  audience." 

Ann  Leaf  :  "Xo.  Frankly.  I  believe  that 
radio  appearances  of  stage  and  screen  stars 
have  been  the  greatest  factor  in  retardii'o 
the  development  of  nezv  radio  names — es- 
pecially in  the  dramatic  field.  Also.  I  don't 
believe  that  the  average  screen  star  zcears 
very  n'ell  on  the  air,  if  heard  too  often. 
Xaturally,  there  are  e.vceptions." 

Ray  Heatherton:  "I  certainly  do.  There 
should  be  a  community  of  spirit  between 
all  fields  of  artistic  endeavor.  It  also 
brings  artists  closer  to  their  public." 

Rosemarie  Brancato:  "There  would  seem 
to  me  to  be  enough  genuine  radio  talent 
to  make  guest  stars  unnecessary.  Young 
people  just  starting  out  on  radio  careers 
find  it  somewhat  discouraging  when  those 
who  have  already  made  their  reputations 
on  the  stage,  screen  or  in  opera  are  called 
to  appear  on  major  programs." 

Major  Edward  Bowes  :  "Certainly.  Why 
not?    If  they  have  merit  they  xcill  be  the 
more  tfidely  public  iced  and  enjoyed." 
-♦- 

Lucy  Monroe:  "I  approve  of  everything 
that  stimulates  interest  in  broadcasting." 

Art  Van  Harvey:  "To  my  notion,  in 
many  cases  it  is  a  mistake.  Radio  is  one 
branch  of  the  amusement  business  which 
requires  its  own  technique.     Many  guest 


When  Pores  flecome  Clogged  They  Become  Little 
"Dirt  Pockets" and ProduceBlackheads, Enlarged 
Pores,  Muddy  Skin  and  Other  Blemishes! 


When  you  do  not  cleanse  your  skin  properly, 
every  pore  becomes  a  tiny  '  dirt  pocket."  The 
dirt  keeps  on  accumulating  and  the  pore  be- 
comes larger  and  larger  and  blackheads  and 
muddy  skin  and  other  blemishes  follow. 

"But,"  you  say,  "it  is  impossible  for  'dirt 
pockets'  to  form  in  my  skin.  I  clean  my  skin 
every  morning  and  every  night."  But,  are 
you  sure  you  really  cleanse  your  skin,  or  do 
you  only  go  through  the  motions? 

Surface  Cleansing  Not  Enough 


Some  methods,  as  much  faith  as  you  have  in 
them,  only  give  your  skin  a  '"lick-and-a-prom- 
ise."  They  don"t  "houseclean"  your  skin,  which 
is  what  is  necessary. 

\^  hat  you  want  is  deep  cleansing!  Many 
methods  only  "clean  ofT'  the  skin.  They  do 
not  clean  it  out!  Any  good  housekeeper  knows 
the  dir.  jrence. 

What  you  want  is  a  cream  that  does 
more  than  "grease"  the  surface  of  your 
skin.  You  want  a  cream  that  penetrates  the 
pores!  Such  a  cream,  distinctly,  is  Lady 
Lsther  Face  Cream.  It  is  a  cream  that 
gets  below  the  surface  — into  the  pores. 


tlie  accumulated  waxy  dirt.  It  breaks  up  thisgrimy 
dirt— dissolves  it— and  makes  it  easily  remov- 
able. All  the  dirt  comes  out,  not  just  part  of  it! 

As  Lady  Esther  Face  Cream  cleanses  the  skin, 
it  also  lubricates  it.  It  resupplies  the  skin  with 
a  fine  oil  that  overcomes  dr\Tiess  and  scaly 
patches  and  keeps  the  skin  soft  and  smooth. 
So  smooth,  in  fact,  does  it  make  the  skin,  that 
tlie  skin  takes  powder  perfectly  without  any 
preliminary  "greasing." 

Definite  Results! 

Lady  Esther  Face  Cream  will  be  found  to  be 
definitely  efficient  in  the  care  of  your  skin.  It 
will  solve  many  of  the  complexion  problems 
you  now  have. 

But  let  a  free  trial  prove  this  to  you.  Just 
send  me  your  name  and  address  and  by  return 
mail  1  11  send  you  a  7-days"  tube.  Then,  sec  for 
yourself  the  difference  it  makes  in  your  skin. 

IS'ith  the  tube  of  cream,  I'll  also  send  you 
all  five  shades  of  my  Lady  Esther  Face  Powder. 
Clip  the  coupon  now. 


Dissolves  the  Waxy  Dirt 

Gently  and  soothingly,  it  penetrates  the 
tiny  openings.  There,  it  goes  to  w  ork  on 


FREE 


(You  can  paste  this  on  a  penny  postcard.)  (iO^ 
Lady  Esther,  2010  Ridge  Ave.,  Evanston.  111.  ' 

Please  send  me  by  return  mail  your  T-days"  supply 
Lady  Esther  Four  .Purpose  Faee  Cream;  also  all  five  shac 
of  your  Face  Powder. 


!  Lady  Esther,  Ltd.,  Toronto,  Ont.) 


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stars  fail  to  register  and  even  detract 
from  a  program." 

Vaughn  De  Leath:  "Guest  appearances 
haze  the  adrantaye  of  giving  a  touch  of 
something  fresh  to  programs  that  otlicr- 
Zi'ise  might  become  too  stereotyped  and 
set."  _4_ 

Tim  Ryan:  "Yes.  but  I  do  feel  that  they 
could  be  better  presented.  They  should 
be  studied  and  given  more  suitable  parts 
instead  of  being  forced,  as  a  rule,  to  speak 
drivel."  -♦_ 

Billy  Jones:  "Why  not?  I  believe  there 
is  plenty  of  room  on  the  radio  for  every- 
one in  the  theatrical  profession." 

Ted  Malone:  "It's  immaterial,  as  far  as 
I'm  concerned." 

Andre  Kostelanetz:  "Splendid  idea,  but 
dangerous  in  wholesale  quantity." 

Loretla  Lee:  "Only  when  they  have 
something  really  entertaining  to  offer. 
When  they  get  on  the  air,  after  a  big 
build-up,  and  exchange  a  few  pleasantries 
or  crack  some  feeble  gags,  they  not  only 
hurt  radio,  but  their  own  following  as 
well." 

Eddy  Duchin:  "Yes,  it  adds  novelty  and 
interest  very  often." 

Patti  Chapin:  "I  think  it  is  interesting 
to  hear  a  stage  or  screen  star  over  the 
mike — it  adds  glamour  and  the  people  can 
visualize  how  they  look  while  performing, 
having  seen  them  before." 


grams  are  built  on  the  premise  that 
people  should  be  given  what  they  want. 
Radio  appearances  of  stage  stars  provide 
people  in  the  hinterlands  with  the  oppor- 
tunity to  hear  celebrities  that  otherwise 
would  be  only  names  to  them." 


What  three  qualities  are  most  es- 
sential in  an  individual,  to  assure 
his  success  on  the  air? 


Milton  Berle: 


Successful  pro- 


Phil  Baker:  "Personality  that  projects 
itself  over  the  air.  Good  judgment  of 
material  and  intelligence." 

Ramona:  "Personality,  talent  and  spon- 
sor." 

Jacques  Renard  :  "Ability — contact — 
good  management." 

James  IVallington:  "Showmanship,  hu- 
man characteristics  and  talent." 

Smith  Ballew:  "Good  diction,  air  per- 
sonality and  a  pleasing  voice." 

Don  Wilson :  "One  must  first  have 
something  definitely  zvorth  zvhile  to  offer. 
Second,  a  pleasing  personality.  Third,  the 
art  of  projecting  that  personality  through 
such  an  inanimate  object  as  a  microphone." 

Thornton  Fisher:  "Personality,  because 
it  attracts.  Sincerity,  because  it  holds  its 
audience.  And,  of  course,  without  ability, 
neither  of  the  first  two  qualifications  are 
of  any  use.  I  place  personality  first  be- 
cause it  has  been  amply  demonstrated  that 
many   stars  of   questionable   ability  have 


attained  stellar  proportions,  because  they 
were  possessed  of  that  very  tangible  thing 
we  call  personality." 

Henry  Busse :  "Firsf,  ability.  Second, 
personality.  Third,  ivillingncss  to  learn 
and  ability  to  take  good  advice." 

Vincent  Lopes:  "1.  Material.  2.  Abil- 
ity.   3.  Right  sponsor." 

Jimmie  Newill:  "Talent — personality 
and  ability  to  project  it — ambition  and 
perseverance." 

Ozzie  Nelson:  "1.  Complete  natural- 
ness and  absence  of  affectation.  2.  A  dis- 
tinctive  quality,  a  'diff crcntncss'  of  some 
sort.  3.  Ambition — zvillingness  to  zvork 
hard." 

Jimmy  farrell:  "Talent,  intelligent  use 
of  that  talent,  and  sincerity." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Talent,  a  strong  in- 
dividual personality,  and  dependability." 

Ted  Malone:  "Ability,  opportunity,  and 
personality." 

I'aughn  De  I^eath:  "Above  all,  person- 
ality !  Talent,  plus  training.  And  sin- 
cerity." 

Leo  Reisman:  "Three?  You  got  to  be 
good — you  got  to  be  good — you  gotta  be 
good." 

Ireene  Wicker :  "Talent,  hard  work,  attd 
a  sincere  effort  for  constant  improvement." 

Ray  Hcathertons  "Perseverance,  for 
many  hard  knocks  and  hopeless  days  pre- 
cede success  and  one  must  have  the  cour- 


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age  to  carry  on.  Sincerity — no  artist  can 
go  on  long  without  it.  He's  bound  to  be 
found  out.  Good  taste — a  true  artist  is 
one  who  will  present  to  his  listening  audi- 
ence material  which  will  never  offend  them 
or  disillusion  them  as  to  the  performer's 
finesse."  -♦- 

Ann  Leaf:  "Talent,  personality  and 
luck." 

Art  Van  Harvey :  "A  pleasing  voice  that 
the  mike  will  fake  to  kindly.  Second,  nat- 
uralness, and  third,  simplicity." 

Charlie  Barnct:  "Microphone  personal- 
ity— originality— and  good  judgment  in 
not  using  offensive  material." 

Tim  Ryan:  "There  are  three  definite  re- 
quirements, all  of  which  must  combine  at 
all  times:  First,  ability — you  must  be  able 
to  do.  Second,  personality — necessary  to 
project  your  ability.  Third,  material 
which  is  good." 

Rosemarie  Brancato :  "Talent,  personal- 
ity and  confidence  in  one's  ability." 

Andre  Kostelanetz:  "Individuality,  per- 
severance, luck." 

Curtis  Arnall:  "Good  'sight-reading' 
ability,  perfect  rhythm  of  speech  and 
steady  nerves." 

Loretta  Lee :  "1.  Distinctive  ability.  2. 
Persistency.  3.  Discrimination  in  radio 
offering." 

Major  Edward  Boives:  "Sincerity,  abil- 
ity and  personality." 

Abe  Lyman:  "Personality,  speaking  voice 
and  singing  voice." 


Virginia  Verrill :  "Quality  suitable  for 
the  air.  Ability  to  select  suitable  ma- 
terial.  Plenty  of  rehearsing." 

Billy  Jones:  "Voice — ability — personal- 
ity." 

Eddy  Duchin:  "/  should  say — 1.  Good 
diction.  2.  Presence  (or  poise.)  3.  Talent." 

Jessica  Dragonette:  "Originality,  per- 
sonality and  unusual  talent." 

Milton  Berle:  "Clean  humor,  original 
material  and  distinctive  style  of  delivery." 

Patti  Chapin:  "Ability,  personality  and 
sincerity,  proper  connections." 


When  off  the  air,  what  form  of 
recreation  do  you  most  enjoy? 


Phil  Baker:  "Playing  with  my  children. 
P.S.  I  can  pick  up  twelve  jacks  at  a 
time." 

Ramona:  "Reading  in  the  winter  time 
or  in  the  rainy  season.  Horseback  riding 
on  beautiful  crisp  days." 

Jacques  Renard :  ''Golf  and  the  movies 
— especially  animated  cartoons." 

Smith  Ballcw:  "Tennis,  fishing,  hunting 
and  riding." 

Don  Wilson:  "Sailing  and  golfing  and 
horseback  riding." 

Thornton  Fisher  :  "Golf  and  horses.  I 
don't  mean  bridle  path  riding,  either.  I 
like  a  horse  that  can  take  high  hurdles.  A 
n'ell  trained  horse  is  a  superb  companion. 


I'll  take  these  tivo  sports  in  preference  to 
any  others." 

Henry  Busse:  "My  favorite  off-the- 
air  recreation,  weather  permitting,  is  golf. 
And  I  also  get  quite  a  kick  out  of  a  visit 
to  the  track,  to  try  and  outguess  the  mu- 
tuels." 

Jimmie  Newill:  "Golfing,  swimming 
and  reading.    Also,  bowling." 

Ozzie  Nelson:  "Any  outdoor  athletics." 

Jimmy  Farrell:  "A  day  of  golf,  a  hearty 
dinner  and  an  evening  of  bridge." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Horseback  riding." 

Ted  Malone:  "/  e.rpect  the  ansiver  is 
reading."  -♦_ 

Vaughn  De  Leath:  "Flying,  motoring 
and  motion  pictures — in  the  order  named." 

Leo  Reisman:  "Learning  how  to  be  on 
the  air  properly." 

Ireene  Wicker  :  "Reading — listening  to 
music  (directly  or  over  the  radio) — out- 
door c.vcrcise — plays." 

Ray  Heatherfon:  "Singing,  polo,  steeple- 
chase hurdling  and  water  sports.  Also,  of 
course,  theatre  and  concerts." 

Major  Edward  Boives:  "Being  off  the 
air!" 

Helen  Jepson :  "Time  Zi'ith  my  little  one, 
Sallie.  Going  to  our  place  in  the  country, 
ivhere  icc  have  the  start  of  a  small  farm, 
or  surf  casting." 


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and  took  the  bows. 

It  was  a  thorough  Broadway  ribbing  and 
and  not  entirely  in  fun,  but  Berle  took  it, 
grinning,  and  helped  the  story  along  by 
kidding  himself  on  his  gag-stealing  pro- 
clivities. There  was  the  time  Milton  was 
introduced  to  the  wife  of  the  late  Richey 
Craig,  Jr. 

"She's  .so  pretty  I  think  I'll  steal  her, 
too,"  Berle  said. 

"I  should  say  not!"  Mrs.  Craig  snapped. 
"Do  you  think  I  want  to  hear  Richey's 
gags  all  over  again !" 

Another  time,  when  Craig  was  playing 
at  the  Palace,  the  annunciators  at  the  sides 
of  the  stage  announced:  "Richey  Craig, 
Jr."  And  out  walked  Milton  Berle!  The 
audience  roared  at  the  supposed  gag,  not 
knowing  that  Berle,  among  other  friends 
of  Craig,  had  been  with  Richey  in  his 
dressing-room,  feeding  him  raw  eggs  for 
an  attack  of  what  was  to  be  his  last  ill- 
ness, and  that  Berle  went  on  at  the  last 
minute  to  pinch-hit  for  his  friend. 

It  was  through  "Ricliry  Crai;/,  Jr."  that 
the  whole  gag-thief  legend  started. 

"We  were  sitting  in  Dave's  Blue 
Room,"  Berle  says,  "Richey  and  I,  in  1931 
— talking  and  kidding  back  and  forth.  A 
few  friends  were  around  also — one  of  them 
a  columnist.  I  pulled  a  gag  about  some- 
thing and  Richey  said :  'That's  mine, 
Berle.'  The  next  gag  Craig  pulled  / 
claimed — we  were  ribbing  one  another. 
First  thing  you  know,  it  occurred  to  me — 
or  to  Richey,  I  forget  which — to  start  a 
mock  feud  over  stealing  gags,  so  we  did 
il.  The  columnist  picked  it  up  and  the 
story  built  up  from  then  on." 

Now,  even  while  he  realizes  that  the 
publicity  was  invaluable  and  that  the  gag- 
bandit  reputation  kept  him  in  tiie  public 
eye,  Milton  Berle  would  like  to  lose  it. 
As  comedy  star  of  the  Gillette  Community 
Sing,  Berle's  rise  has  been  phenomenal, 
his  material  and  delivery  vastly  improved 
over  his  earlier  radio  appearances.  He's 
approaching  his  peak  as  an  entertainer 
and,  not  unnaturally,  he's  beginning  to  be 
irked  by  the  "lifter"  label  that  has  been 
so  firmly  fixed  on  him. 

Standing  before  the  microphone  at  the 
CBS  Radio  Theatre,  before  an  audience  ni 
about  1500  and  a  listening  audience  of 
perhaps  a  million  odd,  Berle  has  come  a 
long  way  from  the  kid  of  six  who  played 
in  church  shows  and  sang  in  a  children's 
chorus  up  in  Harlem.    In  W  e>sa\ed 

his  first  comedy  part  by  ciitri  int;  a  Charlie 
Chaplin  impersonation  (nnicsi,  in  the 
Bronx.  The  moustache  was  a  bit  of  fur 
from  one  of  his  mother's  nld  i<iafs;  his 
father's  trousers  and  a  borru\\c<l  caiu-  and 
derby  completed  the  makc-ii]).  A  in.ni,  im- 
pressed with  young  Hcrlc's  act,  tonic  bini 
to  Mt.  Vernon  where  finals  were  licing 
run  and  F.crle  won.  It  was  a  sii<irt  step 
from  tliat  to  |)la\iiig  kid  parts  in  the  old 
movie  lomiiaiiic.  then  being  produced 
around  .\"ew  \drk ;  Berle  worked  for  the 
Cosmos,  Crystal  and  Biograph  Companies 
in  New  York  and  New  Jersey  around 
1916  and  played  with  Pearl  White  in  The 


Perils  of  Pauline,  with  Eddie  Hutchinson 
in  The  Iron  Clcra;  and  many  others.  He 
was  on  the  way  to  being  something  of  a 
child-wonder,  but  was  hardly  the  male 
Shirley  Temple  of  his  day.  Probably 
much  of  his  abounding  self-confidence  and 
exuberance  today  traces  back  to  those 
early  beginnings  that  make  Berle,  at 
twenty-eight,  a  veteran  of  twenty-two 
3ears  experience. 

There  were  a  few  typical  Berle  slips 
even  then,  however.  One  time  young  Mil- 
ton was  playing  a  part  that  went  right 
through  the  picture.  There  was  about  one 
week  more  to  shoot,  when  he  arrived  at 
the  studio  one  morning  looking  strangely 
altered.  The  director  looked  at  him  and 
said  : 

"What've  you  done  to  yourself?" 
"I  got  a  haircut,"  Milton  said  proudly. 
(They   had   to    retake   all   his  previous 

scenes !) 

Another  ti  me,  Milton  was  playing  a 
poor,  ragged  waif,  .\fter  he  had  been 
working  awhile,  Berle  went  around  the  stu- 
dio showing  off  a  startlingly  large  diamond 
ring  he  had  bought.  It  wasn't  a  particu- 
larly good  diamond,  but  it  was  big.  A 
director  had  been  admiring  it  absent- 
mindedly,  when  he  suddenly  grabbed  Berle. 

"How  long  have  you  been  wearing 
that?"  he  snapped. 

"Oh — a  week  or  so,"  Milton  said 
proudly. 

The  director  dashed  for  the  projection- 
room  and  had  some  of  the  last  rushes  run 
of¥.  There  was  young  Berle,  ragged,  dirty 
— and  proudly  waving  a  huge  diamond 
ring ! 

One  other  angle  about  Berle  that  has 
received  as  much  publicity  as  his  alleged 
gag-stealing  is  his  mother.  It's  quite  true 
that  Milton  and  his  Mom  have  been  un- 
usually close.  From  the  earliest  begin- 
nings, Mrs.  Berlinger — which  was  the 
family's  real  name — encouraged  ililton,  be- 
lieved in  him  and  left  her  home  to  travel 
all  over  the  country  with  him.  But  she 
didn't  think  for  him,  nor  did  she  play  a 
very  active  part  in  managing  his  afTairs. 
They  say  Milton  couldn't  have  inherited 
his  gag-lifting  tricks,  because  when  he  was 
starting  in  show  business  Ala  Berle  was  a 
store  detective  in  Gimbel  Brothers'  store  and 
in  Wanamakers.  When  Milton  went  into 
vaudeville.  Ma  went  along  and  she  sat  out 
in  the  audience  for  every  show,  four  and 
five  times  a  day,  every  day  in  the  week. 
And,  good,  had  or  indififerent.  Mom  would 
laugh  heartily  at  all  of  Milton's  gags.  She 
has  a  hearty,  infectious  laugh  and,  more 
often  than  not,  her  laugh  would  start  the 
audience  laughing — which  was  the  idea. 
Aud.  as  far  as  a  comedian  is  concerned, 
whether  the  audience  laui;hc(l  with  her,  or 
at  Mihoii.  as  l.iii.u  as  the\'  laimlu-d.  it  was 
all  right.  She  saw  to  it  that  they  laughed. 
Anyone  who  has  sat  through  the  same  act 
even  three  times  will  acknowledge  that 
that's  real  mother  love! 

Milton's  (k\otion  to  her  is  not  a  pub- 
licity story.  \-Wq\i  today,  he  carries  a  joint 
account  with  his  mother  and  his  first  con- 


M"deratioii  is  for  lier.  He's  no  sissy — he 
ikes  girls  and  goes  out  with  one  or  an- 
)ther  as  fancy  dictates,  hut  he  doesn't  get 
:angled  up  and  if  he  were  going  to  buy 
Jiamond  bracelets,  lie'd  be  apt  to  get  them 
for  his  mother  first.  Ma  Berle  wouldn't 
nind  if  he  fell  in  love  and  got  married;  he 
just  hasn't  iiappcncd  tci,  so  far. 

While  his  mother  insiiircd  him,  stooged 
for  him  and  helped  him  build  up  confidence 
in  himself,  it  was  a  manager  named  Sam 
Baerwitz  who  played  a  great  part  in 
Berle's  professional  life.  .\fter  Berle's 
early  efforts  in  vaudeville,  Baerwitz 
handled  his  act,  coached  him,  fought  for 
bookings  for  him  and  believed  in  him. 
Milton  had  not  done  comedy  at  first,  as  a 
kid  actor.  He'd  worked  with  Mabel  Xor- 
niand  in  a  picture  when  he  was  eleven;  in 
1920  he  played  in  a  revival  of  Floradoni 
in  the  children's  sextette — with  him  were 
Ben  Grauer,  now  the  radio  announcer, 
Helen  Chandler  and  Marguerite  Churchill, 
who  have  since  made  their  marks  on  the 
stage,  and  the  late  Junior  Durkin. 

He  did  an  act  with  Elizabeth  Kennedy 
for  four  years.  They  were  known  as  the 
Child  ll'onders.  Milton  says  they  were 
terrific  and  when  they  split  up  in  1924  he 
was  at  the  gawky  stage. 

"After  that,"  as  Berle  tells  it,  "I  did  a 
single.  I  was  the  first  master  of  cere- 
monies to  work  with  all  the  acts  on  the 
bill,  for  Loew — only  they  didn't  call  them 
that — they  called  me  an  'announcer.'  I'd 
come  out  with  the  diflferent  acts  and  clown 
with  them." 

It  was  around  this  time  that  the  Keith 
office  refused  to  book  Berle,  claiming  that 
he  was  not  big-time  material  and  adding 
that  they  didn't  think  he  ever  would  be. 
But,  in  spite  of  rebuffs,  Baerwitz  kept 
plugging  for  Berle  and  Berle  kept  work- 
ing. He  did  singles,  he  did  master  of 
ceremonies  in  various  "flash  acts" — sing- 
ing and  dancing  tabloid  revue.s — that  Baer- 
witz put  out  and  finally  the  day  came 
when  Berle,  known  by  this  time  as  the 
greatest  gag-lifter  on  the  circuit,  was  con- 
sidered for  the  Palace  Theatre,  the  vaude- 
ville actor's  Valhalla. 

"Lou  Holtz,  Frank  Fay,  Bill  Gaxton 
and  Richey  Craig  had  all  had  runs, 
M.  C.-ing  at  the  Palace,"  Milton  say-.. 
"They  were  looking  for  someone  to  follow 
them  and  they  picked  me.  I  was  scared 
silly — it  was  all  I  could  do  to  walk  out 
on  to  the  stage  at  the  opening  show." 

But  Berle  discovered  that  even  the  Pal- 
ace audience  would  laugh  at  his  stuff — so, 
with  characteristic  gusto,  he  sailed  in — 
gagged,  kidded,  wisecracked  back  at  his 
kidding  contemporaries — and  ran  for  four 
weeks.  It  was  a  tough  talent  lineup  to 
work  against,  too.  Fifi  D'Orsay,  Beatrice 
Lillie,  George  Olsen,  Bobby  May,  Al  Sie- 
gal  and  other  headliners  were  on  the  bill ; 
many  of  them  big  name><  when  Berle  was 
a  child.  And  Berle,  without  a  chance  to 
break  in  his  stuff  on  Broadway,  opened 
cold — and  killed  them. 

The  gags  that  were  i)ulle<l  on  him  at 
that  Palace  engagenuiU  cliiu  luc]  his  repu- 
tation as  a  gag-bandii.  Ii  (luln't  hurt  him, 
however.  He  played  Mxtccn  weeks  in  the  j 
Vanities  of  P>32:  ^ix  week.-,  at  the  Palace, 
Chicago,  and  appeare<l  many  times  on  the 
I'allce  Varieties  radio  show,  as  well  as 
eight  weeks  on  the  Old  Gold  program,  with 
Harry  Richman  and  Waring's  Peniisylva- 
tiiaiis. 


RADIO  STARS 


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Wondersoft  Kotex  provides  lasting  comfort  and  freedom.  But  sides 
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ture  evenly  the  whole  length  of  the  pad.  Gives  "body"  but  not 
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Doctors  now  know  that  the  real 
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to  gain  weight  is  they  do 
get  enough  Vitamin  B  and  iron 
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but 


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watch  .skinny  limbs  and  flat 
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Priscilla  Lane  and  Johnny  Davis  go  into  their  new  dance  while  perfornning 
for  Fred  Woring's  Noveleers,  connedy  nnusical  group  with  the  Pennsylvonians. 


"I  wasn't  so  hot,"  he  says,  "in  those 
first  appearances.  I  had  bad  luck  with  my 
material  and  too  little  time  to  work,  I 
hadn't  learned  a  radio  style  or  microphone 
technique.  It  wasn't  until  I  made  one  of 
several  repeat  appearances  with  Vallee, 
in  1936,  that  I  thought  I  really  Iiad  some- 
thing. I  changed  my  style — worked  slower 
and  made  gags  less  important.  It  was 
after  I'd  filled  in  two  weeks  for  Fannie 
Bricc,  on  the  Ziegjdd  Follies  of  the  Air, 
that  I  did  an  audition  for  Gillette,  with 
Jack  Oakie  and  Cliff  Edwards.  I'm  not 
crowing — but  I  got  the  show. 

"I  know  all  this  publicity  about  gag- 
stealing  helped  build  me  up.  But  as  a  mat- 
ter of  fact  I  spend  plenty  of  money  on 


material — all  new,  special  stuff  .  .  .  look!" 
Berle  went  to  a  large  file  and  pulled  out 
folder  after  folder.  "Here  you  are — 
here's  stuff  Wilkie  Mahoney  wrote  for  me 
.  .  .  and  Irving  Brecher,  who  writes  my 
present  show  with  me  .  .  .  all  listed,  every 
date  I  ever  played,  practically. 

"I  write  a  good  part  of  my  own  stuff, 
too.  It  was  on  my  program  that  this  bur- 
lesquing of  popular  plays  and  pictures 
started.  We  did  Romeo  and  Gillette  by 
William  Shavchcard,  long  ago.  Back  in 
September  I  took  a  girl  from  the  audience 
to  use  in  the  Berlettcs  skit,  because  it 
fitted  in  with  the  Community  Sing  idea. 
About  a  month  later  O'Keefe  did  it.  A 
long  time  ago  I  did  Last  of  the  Mohicans 


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and,  a  few  weeks  later,  someone  else  did 
it.  I  did  Anthony  Adzrrse  and,  a  few 
nights  later,  Jack  Benny  did  it.  I  don't 
say  they  stole  it — coincidences  happen. 
There  was  the  time  I  had  that  gag:  I  got 
my  Southern  accent  drinking  out  of  a 
Dixie  cup,'  in  the  script.  Before  I  could 
use  it,  four  other  comedians  had  used  the 
gag  in  one  week  1" 

It's  true,  of  course,  that  it's  hardly  pos- 
sible to  be  completely  original  in  gag  com- 
edy. All  gags  are  adaptations  of  old 
comedy  ideas  and,  times  without  number, 
comedy  writers  have  duplicated,  uninten- 
tionally, one  another's  ideas.  And  it's  also 
true  that  an  old  vaudeville  standard  crack 
used  to  be:  "Let's  go  dozvn  to  the  Palace 
and  get  some  nciv  material."  Anyway, 
Berle's  justification  came  in  court,  when 
Ross  &  Edwards  sued  him  for  using  a  bit 
of  stage  business  they  claimed  as  theirs. 

The  judge  asked:  "When  was  the  first 
time  you  saw  Ross  &  Edwards'  act?" 

Berle  replied :  "\\'hen  Jans  and  Whalen 
did  it!"  He  added  that  Jans  &  Whalen 
got  it  from  Kramer  &  Bo\le,  who  got  it 
from  Clarke  &  Hamilton.  Berle,  inci- 
dentally, proved  his  point  and  won  out. 

Berle  is  tremendously  enthusiastic  about 
himself,  his  work,  and  his  program.  He 
punctuates  his  conversation  by  poking  his 
finger  at  you  to  make  a  point,  or  w-ith  the 
exclamation:  "Yliear?"  in  a  rising  in- 
flection. Though  primarily  a  stage  per- 
former, used  to  an  audience,  he  aims  his 
radio  show  at  the  home  listener  and  thinks 
that  the  faults  on  his  earlier  radio  ap- 
pearances were  due  to  playing  to  the  stu- 
dio audience  too  much.  He  ad  libs  a 
great  deal,  even  on  the  air  and  he  says 
you  can't  be  too  smart  for  a  radio  audi- 
ence— a  performer  needn't  "play  down" 
to  them. 

Without  the  dry  wit  of  Fred  Allen,  or 
the  pleasant  suavity  of  Jack  Benny,  Berle 
has  a  style  of  his  own.  He  is  the  wise- 
cracking type  of  comic,  willing  to  be,  or 
to  make  someone  else  be,  ridiculous  for 
laughs.  He  grins  in  a  puppy-like,  engagiu" 
way  and  goes  through  his  routine  w-ith 
the  zest  of  one  who  enjoys  it.  He  doesn't 
win  an  audience  so  much  through  the  ap- 
peal of  his  personality  as  because  he  does 
manage  to  be  funny.  He's  a  big  fellow, 
a  half  inch  short  of  si.\  feet,  .\miable,  Berle 
never  walks  into  fights.  In  an  argument 
with  Harry  Jans  (of  Jans  &  Whalen),  a 
long  time  ago,  Berle  avoided  bringing  it 
into  a  socking  match.  It  was  not  long 
afterward  that  he  met  Tony  Canzoneri, 
one  of  his  best  friends  today,  and  Tony 
began  bo.xing  with  him  almost  every  day. 
So  Berle  probably  could  give  a  good  ac- 
count of  himself  now. 

Just  before  the  writer  left,  Berle  played 
a  transcription  of  one  of  his  past  shows. 
It  was  one  of  his  burlesques  of  Good  Will 
Court  and  it  was  funny.  Berle  was  a 
good  audience.  Throughout  he  chuckled  at 
gag  lines ;  punched  his  knee  and  kept  up 
a  running  fire  of  :  "Terrific."  "You  get 
it?"  "Y'hear?"  It  was  as  impersonal  an 
appreciation  as  though  he  had  been  listen- 
ing to  someone  else.  They  had  to  stop 
burlesquing  that  program,  however.  And 
a  few  nights  later,  your  reporter,  dialing 
in  a  Mutual  Network  station  heard  the 
Croslcy  Follies  doing  Good  For  Nothing 
Court — a  burlesque  of  the  same  program. 

So  maybe  Berle  has  something  to  be 
sore  about  I 


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COUGHS 


SHE  CAN'T  HOLD  HER  BEAUX! 


{Ciinliinicd  fiotii  f('<U'  ■^'^) 


TAKE    THE   SYRUP  THAT 

CLINGS  TO  THE 
COUGH  ZONE 

Mother!  When  your  child  has  a  cough  (due 
to  a  cold),  remember  this:  a  cough  medicine 
must  do  its  work  where  the  cough  is  lodged 
...in  the  cough  zone.  Smith  Brothers  Cough 
Syrup  is  a  thick,  heavy  syrup.  //  clings  to  the 
cough  zone.  There  it  does  three  things:  (1) 
soothes,  (2)  throws  a  protective  film  over 
the  irritated  area,  (3)  helps  to  loosen  phlegm. 
Get  Smith  Brothers'— /'/'i  safe!  35<-  and  60^. 


"IT  CONTAINS 

VITAMIN  A'' 

This  vitamin  raises  the  re- 
sistance of  the  mucous 
membranes  of  the  nose  and 
throat  to  cold  and  cough 
infections. 


If 


ii. 


SMITH  BROS. 

COUGH  SYRUP 


INOW  ON  SALE  IN  CANADAl 


#  Morcolized  Wax  contly  mplts  off  fadofi,  dis- 
colored outer  skin.  Reveals  the  velvety-sinoolh, 
soft,  beautiful  underskin.  Blemishes  disappear. 

Mercolized  Wax  is  a  complete  beauty  treatment 
in  a  single  cream.  Contains  everything  your  skin 
needs.  Cleanses.  Softens.  Beautifies.  Protects. 

Start  using  Mercolized  Wax  tonight.  Win  new 
skin  loveliness.  Mercolized  Wax  brings  out  the 
hidden  beauty  of  any  complexion. 
I  TSE  Saxolltc  Astrlneent— a  rcfreshloK  stimulatlnit 
^  skin  tonic.  Smooths  out  wrinkles  and  aAe lines. 
KeHnes  coarse  pores,  eliminates  oillness.  nissolve 
Saiollte  In  one-hall  pint  witch  hazel.  Use  dally. 
At  drug  and  department  stores  everywhere. 

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the\-  also 
their  time 


and  biiUfr  and  san.ii  hard,  li 
knew  how  to  take  it  ea>y  ii 
off  and  have  fnn  and  he  calm. 

Bnt   not   Jane.     Slir  never  liaiipy 

unless  she  was  breathK■■^-l.\  hiw\ ,  at;itating 
over  six  things  at  once.  rnshin,<>  around 
all  day  from  appointment  to  appointment, 
or  getting  another  scholarship  at  the 
Juilliard  School.  She  crammed  in  singing 
and  language  and  dramatic  and  dancing 
lessons,  for  the  future  when  she'd  be  a 
star  on  her  own.  Of  course,  she  was 
frazzled  to  a  nub  when  ninht  came,  but 
what  if  the  others  icc/c  gaily  surging  out 
on  a  double  date?  Jane  would  don  her 
l)ajamas  and  spend  the  evening  at  the 
piano  arranging  two  choruses  of  St.  Louis 
Blurs  and  get  a  kick  out  of  it.  She  was 
pretty  sure  she  was  having  a  swell  time. 

Until  her  first  big  New  York  romance 
went  blotto.  He  was  a  very  athletic  and 
blonde  young  artist,  with  an  O.xford 
accent  and  illustrations  in  all  the  best 
magazines.  He  liked  tall  girls  and  music 
and  Jane— and  he  had  practically  con- 
vinced her  that  two  careers  in  the  same 
East  River  duplex  would  be  a  delightful 
idea.  That  is,  he  convinced  her  whenever 
he  had  a  chance.  If  they  sat  at  hoine, 
Jane  invariably  got  six  urgent  business 
telephone  calls  right  in  the  middle  of  his 
most  serious  conversations.  If  they  went 
out,  they  were  rarely  alone  because  it  was 
alwa}s  to  a  broadcast  or  a  night  club 
opening  or  some  play  Jane  simply  had 
to  see  in  connection  with  her  dramatic 
lessons.  Half  the  time,  when  he  arrived 
for  a  date,  she'd  come  home  an  hour  late, 
supperless  and  apologetic  and  too  ex- 
hausted to  budge  off  the  divan  all  evening. 
But  he  was  in  love  and  sweet  about  it. 

But  gradually  that  sort  of  thing  began 
to  hurt  his  jiride.  One  night,  when  she 
had  an  cnga^enicni  \\  itli  him  for  eight 
o'clock.  Jane  was  <lctained  at  her  music 
teacher's.  A  little  alter  ten  she  rushed 
box  of  wilted  tuberoses 
ible;  acn 
d  a  t.-rs. 
/,/  alway. 
a'^ain  sa' 


home  to  find 
on  tlie  foyer 
had  been  pen 
iiKinird    il  u'i 
.\ni\  she  neve 


.  the  box  top 
•■//  7ve  ivcre 
hr  like  this." 
the  man  who 


wrote  the  words. 

For  a  while  she  nursed  a  badly  broken 
heart  but  she  was  only  twent\-  and  there 
were  scads  of  other  beaux  on  her  tele- 
Ijhonc  e\ery  night  and  Jane  decided  not 
to  he  <lisillusioned  just  because  one  man 
had  faile.l  to  nnderstan.l.  So,  for  her 
next  romance,  alter  she  had  ])roperly  re- 
covered from  her  first,  she  tumbled  for  a 
young  doctor  who  was  busy  enough  him- 
self to  realize  what  the  demands  of  a 
career  could  be. 

Of  course,  he  was  entirely  sympathetic 
the  night  she  had  to  lireak  a  dinner  en- 
gagement with  him  to  get  some  important 
song  arranfiemciits  finished  by  the  next 
nujrning.  llow  was  she  to  know  that  a 
Hollywood  agent,  in  town  fnr  only  a  few 
hours  between  planes,  vvoul<l  teK]ili(ine  and 
urge  the  Pickens  Sisters  to  meet  him  in 
the  offices  of  the  Capitol  Theatre  at  light 
o'clock  for  a  hurried  business  talk?  Since 
Jane  always  handled  things  of  that  kind, 
she  slipped  on  her  cape  and  dashed  over 


to  the  theatre  in  a  taxi.  And  the  next 
morning  her  broken-dinner-date  read  this 
little  item  in  a  newspaper  gossip  column: 
"l\ainloiii  Siial^slidts — Jniic  Pickens,  re- 
spU-iidciit  i)i  silccr  fox,  emerging  from  the 
Capitol  last  eve  i^-ith  Mr.  Blank  of  the 
Cinema  City."  The  young  doctor  didn't 
even  ask  for  an  explanation.  Three  days 
later  he  sailed  to  study  in  \'ienna  and  he's 
never  even  sent  a  post  card. 

"I  finally  realized,"  said  Jane,  "that  I 
had  to  decide  between  two  things,  be- 
tween romance  and  devoting  all  my 
energies  to  making  a  real  career  for  my- 
self. One  invariably  suffered  from  the 
other  and  I  couldn't  have  both.  So  I 
decided — well,  I  thought  I  decided — on 
the  career." 

And  out  to  Hollywood  went  the  Pickens 
three,  to  sing  for  the  sound  tracks.  Sit- 
tin  Pretty  was  the  picture  and  production 
was  delayed  on  it  several  times,  which  left 
the  girls  with  all  kinds  of  leisure  to  have 
fun.  Week  after  week  they  hadn't  a  thing 
to  do,  while  their  salary  checks  came  in 
regularly  just  the  same,  so  Helen  and 
Patti  took  full  advantage  of  a  vacation 
in  the  California  sunshine.  Not  Jane, 
though.  Typically,  she  went  and  got  her- 
self enrolled  in  the  best  Los  Angeles 
musical  and  dramatic  schools,  loaded  her- 
self down  with  teachers  and  tutors  and 
even  another  course  in  dress  designing ! 

Romance  was  too  much  in  the  air,  how- 
ever, for  her  to  stick  entirely  to  the 
career  business.  Patti  was  being  beaued 
around  from  breakfast  to  bedtirne.  Helen 
had  met  and  become  engaged  to  Salvatore 
Curioni  and  when  Jane  was  introduced 
to  a  certain  attractive  young  advertising 
executive,  her  heart,  despite  everything, 
promptly  turned  turtle. 

For  six  weeks  they  kept  company  and 
when  her  birthday  was  about  to  roll 
around,  her  best  beau  wanted  to  have  a 
party  for  her.  He  scheduled  it  for  the 
night  of  her  birthday  and  had  invited 
sixty  guests,  when  she  discovered,  two 
days  beforehand,  that  she  was  expected 
to  sing  at  a  school  recital  that  evening. 
So  he  postponed  it  until  another  night, 
when  she  was  positively  sure  she'd  be 
free,  notified  all  his  guests  and  changed 
his  plans  and  was  very  understanding. 

Then  what  should  happen,  the  very  aft- 
ernoon of  the  party,  but  that  the  Pickens' 
should  get  a  studio  call.  They  were  to 
report  to  the  lot  at  once  to  have  their 
costumes  fitted  for  the  next  morning's 
shooting.  Jane  had  gone  off  to  take  her 
French  lesson,  Helen  and  Patti  couldn't 
reach  her  by  phone,  so  they  had  to  go 
w  ithout  her.  And  when  she  came  home  at 
dinner-time,  she  found  she'd  have  to  rush 
right  out  to  the  studio  and  have  her  cos- 
tumes fitted  that  night. 

"Don't  call  the  party  off."  she  telephoned 
her  host  in  explanation.  "I'll  try  my  best 
l(j  hurry  and  1  may  be  a  little  late— but 

Si)  the  party  went  ahead,  very  much 
dampened  by  the  absence  of  its  honor 
guest.  And  Jane  Pickens  learned  that 
night  that  the  last  thing  in  the  world  that 


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can  be  hurried  is  a  fitting.  There  were 
four  costumes,  and  she  stood  still  and 
straight  for  six  hours,  while  a  seamstress 
basted  and  pinned  and  snipped  away  the 
evening.  When  she  finally  got  to  the 
party,  it  was  after  midnight,  the  birthday 
candles  were  puddles  of  pink  wax.  most 
of  the  guests  had  gone  home  and  she  was 
so  tired  she  couldn't  even  be  apcilogetic. 

Somehow  the  advertising  executive 
never  quite  got  over  that.  He  dated  Jane 
a  few  times  more,  then  drifted  away. 

It  was  almost  two  years  before  she  al- 
lowed herself  to  fall  in  love  again.  On 
a  trip  to  Bermuda,  she  forgot,  for  the 
third  time,  her  decision  to  stick  to  business 
and  leave  romance  akme.  He  was  a  senior 
at  one  of  the  big  Xew  England  universi- 
ties, he  had  made  quite  a  name  for  him- 
self in  football  and  he  scored  an  even 
bigger  touchdown  with  Jane.  All  winter 
he  drove  to  Xew  York,  every  single  week- 
end, to  see  her  and  when  spring  holidays 
came  he  invited  her  up  to  that  biggest 
event  of  all  collegiate  years — the  frater- 
nity house  parties.  Jane  was  thrilled  to 
death,  because  only  best  girls  get  bids  to 
house  party  week.  She  even  turned  down 
a  radio  guest-appearance  ofTer  in  order 
to  go.  She  bought  a  lot  of  new  gowns 
and  made  her  pullman  reservations. 

And  then,  at  the  very  last  minute,  she 
was  held  over  a  week  at  the  Paramount 
Theatre,  where  she'd  been  appearing  in 
the  stage  show,  ^^'hether  she  liked  it  or 
not — and  she  didn't  like  it — she  had  to  go 
on  playing  four-a-day.  house  party  or  no 
house  party.  Her  young  man  definitely- 
didn't  like  it.  either.  Maybe  he  realized 
that  this  was  the  first  of  a  series  of  in- 


evitable disappointments  when  a  fellow 
loved  a  girl  in  show  business ;  maybe  he 
had  boasted  to  his  frat  brothers  of  inviting 
a  radio  star  to  the  dances  and  had  been 
mercilessly  kidded  when  she  didn't  show 
up.  At  any  rate,  the  incident  served  to 
cool  his  ardor. 

And  that  was  soon  the  end  of  that. 

"So  I  decided."  Jane  told  me.  "that  I 
might  as  well  reap  sornc  benefit  from  the 
time  I'd  taken  away  from  fun  and  devoted 
to  work.  I  thought  I  was  finally  pre- 
pared to  become  a  star  on  my  own.  I  put 
my  voice  under  the  training  of  Madame 
Schoen-Rene .  a  famous  and  wonderful 
teacher  and.  got  down  to  real  business. 

"It  wasn't  very  long  until  the  phone 
rang  one  day  and  an  agent  asked  me  if 
I  wanted  to  try  out  for  the  singing  lead 
in  the  Follies.  I  didn't  have  any  idea 
I'd  really  get  it.  \\'hen  I  sang  two  num- 
bers and  Mr.  Lee  Shubert  offered  me  the 
part  right  away.  I  almost  died  with  excite- 
ment. I'm  playing  eight  performances  a 
week  and  doing  a  broadcast  every  Satur- 
day night  and  I'm  still  keeping  up  with 
my  dramatic  and  music  lessons,  too.  It's 
practically  working  me  to  death,  but  I 
love  it!" 

So  these  days,  with  the  trio  vacationing 
from  the  air.  things  aren't  the  way  they 
used  to  be  around  the  Picken^'  apartnien.t. 
when  all  three  of  the  girls  had  jtriiigs  of 
top  hats  in  tow  every  night  of  the  week. 
Helen  is  engrossed  in  the  affairs  of  being 
a  young  society  matron :  Patti's  doing  the 
town  with  fiance  Bob  Simmons — and  Jane's 
just  a  hard-working  girl,  chanting  Mid- 
>iiiilit  Blue  and  Island  of  the  West  Indies 
at   the  W  inter  Garden  every  night  and 


coming  home  very  gladly,  after  a  rushed 
and  fatiguing  day,  to  the  pleasant  prospect 
of  an  early  bedtime. 

W  hich  is  sort  of  a  shame,  because  the 
prettiest  Pickens,  as  she's  often  been  called, 
has  all  the  things  that  go  with  romance. 
She's  tall  and  trim,  with  a  clear-eyed  look 
of  distinction  about  her  that's  often  more 
charming  than  mere  beauty.  She  has  a 
simple,  wholesome  mouth  and  a  perennially 
fluffy  bob  and  stunning  clothes  and  her 
skin's  the  color  of  delicate  bisque  porce- 
lain. Added  to  all  of  which  is  the  out- 
standing fact  that  she  can  cook  Georgia 
batter  bread  that's  too  good  to  be  eaten 
witlinut  prayer. 

•  '(,  Miir-c  it's  all  my  fault."  she  con- 
fe-c<l.  tliar  I'm  living  like  a  hermit  these 
day-.  I  a>ked  for  it  and  I  guess  I'm 
getting  it.  I've  got  an  awful  bug  in  me 
that  drives  me  on  to  accomplish  things. 
I've  alwa\  s  been  that  way.  I  guess — I 
gue-s.  actually.  I'd  rather  be  busy  than 
beaue<l.  Xo.  not  really  that — but  you  see, 
it  isn't  fair  to  love  a  man  and  subordinate 
him  entirely  to  your  work.  It  isn't  fair  to 
you  or  to  him. 

"Lo\e  takes  time,  lots  of  time  .  .  .  So. 
for  a  while.  an\  way.  until  I  get  my  fill 
of  ambition,  the  best  thing  is  not  to  love 
an\bod\-.  If  I  difl.  it  would  turn  out  as  it 
has  so  nianv  other  times — I'd  lo.-e  him." 

•■W"(.uld  you  really  say."  I  asked,  "that 
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She  slowly  drew  a  pointed  fingernail 
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her  bright  talk  about  a  career.  Jane  Pick- 
ens sometimes  secretly  regrets  that  she 
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explained  to  me,  "and  I  faced  a  definite 
cri.sis  in  my  life.  You  see,  the  old-country 
Italian  families  never  send  their  girls  away 
from  home.  Not  even  to  college.  As  soon 
as  a  girl  completes  what  education  she  can 
get  in  her  own  town,  she's  expected  to 
marry  and  settle  down  and  have  children. 

"That's  what  my  parents  intended  for 
me.  Honestly,  I  couldn't  bear  the  thought ! 
Why,  I'd  never  been  allowed  to  have  a 
date  in  my  life!  I'd  never  been  near  any 
boys  but  my  brothers.  That's  another  part 
of  the  old-country  tradition,  too ;  a  nice 
Italian  girl  doesn't  go  out  at  night  as 
American  girls  do.  She  stays  at  home  un- 
til some  young  Italian  in  the  neighbor- 
hood decides  he'd  like  to  marry  her.  Then 
he  asks  his  father  to  ask  her  father  for 
her  hand  and  if  her  father  thinks  it's  a 
good  match,  he  goes  right  ahead  and  ar- 
ranges it.  The  girl  doesn't  have  much 
say-so  in  the  matter ;  she  simply  does  what 
her  family  want  her  to  do. 

"I  was  only  seventeen  and  I  didn't  want 
to  settle  down  !  I  wasn't  in  love  with  any- 
body and  all  my  American  girl  friends 
were  getting  jobs  and  travelling  and  going 
to  dances  and  having  so  inuch  fun.  I  en- 
vied them  to  death !  I  was  crazy  to  go 
away  and  study  singing,  to  work,  to  do 
something  besides  sit  at  home — but  my 
family  wouldn't  hear  of  it. 

"I  felt,"  she  told  me,  "those  long,  endless 
days  and  nights  when  I  did  notiiing  but 
paint  china  and  moon  around  the  house — I 
felt  much  like  the  Lady  of  Shalott,  who 
looked  into  the  mirror  while  the  cavalcade 
was  going  past  on  the  highway.  I  simply 
had  to  do  things.  And  I  wanted  to  do  them 
with  my  voice." 

It  was  in  the  midst  of  this  that  Papa 
Brancato  died  and  his  last  wish,  expressed 
to  his  wife,  was  that  Rosemarie  should  be 
allowed  to  keep  on  with  her  music.  When 
one  of  her  former  high  school  teachers, 
shifting  from  Kansas  City  to  the  faculty 
of  the  Eastman  School  of  Music  in  Ro- 
chester, offered  to  look  out  for  Rosemarie 
if  she  were  allowed  to  study  there,  Mrs. 
Brancato  gave  in.  So  her  baby,  with 
trunks  of  clothes  and  bright  eyes  and  high 
hopes,  went  away. 

"I  had  everything  but  fun  during  my 
four  years  in  college,"  Rosemarie  said  to 
me.  "I  had  money  to  spend  and  encour- 
agement and  I  even  got  a  scholarship,  my 
second  year,  for  winning  the  New  York 
State  Atwater  Kent  audition.  But,  in  the 
tirst  place,  I  had  to  work  harder  than  I'd 
ever  dreamed  hard  work  could  be.  You 
see,  I  didn't  even  know  how  to  read  music 
very  well  and  I  landed  up  there  with  a 
whole  school  full  of  child  prodigies,  who'd 
been  studying  music  all  their  lives.  They 
could  recite  circles  around  me.  I  got  an 
awful  inferiority  complex  and  lots  of  Unvs 
I  cried  and  hated  college,  l)ut  it  was  still 
better  than  being  at  home  doing  nothing. 

"The  second  thing  that  kept  me  from 
having  fun  was — well,  I  guess  you'd  call  it 
the  l)oy  e]uestion.  I  knew  my  family  trust- 
ed me  to  behave  the  same  away  from  home 
as  I'd  always  been  taught — and  I 
wouldn't  betray  their  trust  by  having  any 
dates.    Not  that  I  had  many  chances;  I 


studied  every  night,  usually  because  there 
was  nothing  else  to  do.  But  if  a  boy  even 
looked  at  me,  I'd  blush.  I  couldn't  even 
talk  to  a  boy.  Honestly,  I  didn't  know 
liow.  I  hadn't  the  easy  camaraderie  that 
the  other  girls  had  with  men  and  I  was  so 
self-conscious  when  I  was  around  them 
that  they  shied  away  and  stayed  away. 

"I  was  such  an  innocent  child  at  eigh- 
teen. Mother  had  been  a  practicing  obste- 
trician in  Kansas  City.  She  had  graduated 
from  the  University  at  Palermo,  Italy, 
while  she  was  waiting  for  my  father  to 
make  good  in  America  and  come  back  and 
marry  her,  and  whenever  she'd  take  her 
little  black  bag  and  leave  the  house  to 
bring  some  neighborhood  baby  into  the 
world,  she'd  tell  me  she  was  going  to  mar- 
ket and  buy  the  baby  and  carry  it  to  its 
mother.  I  believed  that  until  my  second 
year  in  college!  Can  you  imagine  it?  I'd 
always  been  kept  that  sheltered  from  life." 

For  a  graduation  present  from  college, 
Rosemarie's  mother  and  brothers  and  sis- 
ters gave  her  six  hundred  dollars.  She 
could  use  it  to  study  for  a  little  while  in 
New  York,  they  said — to  sort  of  put  the 
whipped  cream  topping  on  her  Eastman 
education — but  if  she  wanted  to  study  over 
a  period  of  years,  she  couldn't  do  it  in 
Manhattan.  New  York  was  no  place  for  a 
young  single  girl  to  be  on  her  own.  She 
must  go  to  Italy;  if  she  would  do  that, 
she  could  attend  school  there  under  the  fin- 
est teachers  for  as  long  as  she  liked. 

After  a  few  months  in  New  York,  how- 
ever, Rosemarie  balked  at  the  prospect  of 
going  to  Italy.  For  the  first  time  in  her 
life  she  bucked  against  her  family's  orders. 

"I  felt,"  she  explained  to  me,  "that  I 
could  get  as  fine  training  in  New  York  as 
I  could  abroad.  I  knew  it.  And  besides, 
there's  a  movement  in  Italy  now  to  give  all 
the  singing  jobs  to  the  native-born  singers. 
I  didn't  want  my  music  to  be  pleasure 
alone — I  wanted  a  chance  to  work  with  it 
and  I  realized  that  my  chances  for  work 
were  greater  in  New  York  than  anywhere 
else  in  the  world." 

So  she  did  a  rather  unusual  thing  for  a 
rich  girl.  She  stuck  to  New  York,  even 
after  her  family  had  stopped  her  allow- 
ance and  refused  her  any  further  aid. 
With  only  a  hundred  dollars  between  her- 
self and  defeat,  she  got  a  job  in  an  East 
Side  Settlement-House;  she  moved  into  a 
dismal  attic  apartment  with  the  only 
friends  she  had  in  the  city,  two  girls  who 
had  gone  to  college  with  her.  Then  she  set 
out  to  find  her  place  in  the  music  world. 

The  whole  thing  was  far  more  grim 
than  she  had  expected  it  to  be.  She 
worked  from  two  in  the  afternoon  un- 
til ten  at  night  at  the  Settlement- House, 
a  haven  to  which  ragged  little  East  Side 
urchins  scurried  for  games  and  milk  and 
crackers  and  shower  baths.  It  was  her  job 
to  see  that  the  big  boys  didn't  pick  on  the 
little  boys,  that  they  got  clean  behind  the 
cars  and  didn't  walk  out  with  the  Settle- 
ment's toys  and  baseballs  under  their  shirts. 
For  her  efforts,  which  left  her  frazzled  at 
the  end  of  the  day,  .she  made  fifty  dollars 
a  ninntli  and  suppers.  Just  try  to  live  on 
fiftv  dollars  a  month  in  New  York! 


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This  is  not  Frankenstein,  so  calm 
your  fears.  It's  Phil  Spitalny, 
maestro  of  radio's  most  unusual 
orchestra.  The  band  is  composed 
of  thirty  beautiful  women  musi- 
cians, all  of  whom  are  willing 
worshippers  at  Phil's  feet.  Program 
is    heard    over    NBC,  Mondays. 


Nights,  when  she  went  home,  she  did  the 
marketing,  cooking  and  cleaning  for  the 
apartment.  That  knocked  off  a  shce  of  the 
rent  she  had  to  pay.  But  mornings — morn- 
ings were  what  she  lived  for.  From  nine 
until  one  she  attended  Estelle  Liebling's 
famous  radio  class,  learning  mike  tech- 
nique and  voice  and  operatic  roles  and 
stage  presence.  Miss  Liebling,  who  has 
brought  to  fame  such  musical  stars  as  Jes- 
sica Dragonette,  Jeritza,  Galli-Curci  and 
\'ivienne  Segal,  performed  a  master  stroke 
when  she  took  Rosemarie  Brancato  under 
her  wing  without  a  cent's  payment  in  re- 
turn. 

For,  one  day  in  Chicago,  Marion  Talley 
caught  a  cold  that  prevented  her  sched- 
uled appearance  with  the  Chicago  Civic 
Opera  Company.  Jeritza,  who  had  heard 
a  shy  little  Italian  girl  singing  at  Miss 
Liebling's  and  had  not  forgotten  her,  sug- 
gested:  "Send  for  Rosemarie  Brancato  in 
New  York  at  once !  The  child  has  a  lyric 
coloratura  soprano  that  is  positively  sen- 
sational !" 

Rosemarie  got  the  message,  the  chance 
she  had  waited  and  worked  for  so  hard, 
on  a  Friday  night.  She  performed  the  al- 
most impossible  feat  of  memorizing  the 
whole  role  of  Gilda  in  Rigoletto  during  a 
single  week-end.  All  Sunday  night  she 
lay  awake  with  excitement  in  a  berth  on 
the  Twentieth  Century.  All  of  Monday  she 
memorized  more  music  score  and  stage 
directions  under  the  excruciating  pressure 
of  simply  haz  ing  to  make  good.  And  that 
nigiit  she  stepped  on  to  the  stage  in  her 
Juliet-like  costume  of  white  and  gold,  with 
her  long  yellow  hair  brushed  demurely 
down  her  back,  and  a  steady  heart,  and 
sang  Gilda. 

Raved  is  the  only  word  for  what  the 
critics  did.  They  dusted  off  their  finest 
stock  of  seldom-used  adjectives  to  praise 
her  voice,  to  call  it  "marvelously  pure  and 
of  ravishing  timbre."  Not  since  the  sen- 
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role,  they  said,  had  such  a  pandemonium 
of  applause  greeted  a  new  opera  star  in 
Chicago.  In  the  music  world,  Miss  Bran- 
cato  had  made  her  mark. 

The  nicest  surprise,  though,  came  to 
Roscmarie  long  before  the  morning  pa- 
pers were  on  the  newsstands.  Answering  a 
(juiet  knock  on  her  dressing-room  door, 
alter  the  performance.  >he  opened  it  to  see 
her  mother  and  her  six  brothers  and  sis- 
ters standing  in  the  hallway.  Somehow  the 
announcement  of  her  coming  debut  had 
got  a  one-inch  write-up  on  the  back  page 
of  a  Kansas  City  newspaper.  The  family 
had  seen  it  and  had  driven  all  night  for 
two  nights  to  sit  secretly  in  the  audience 
at  Rigolctfo.  Her  music,  the  thing  that 
had  separated  her  from  her  own  people, 
bad  also,  at  last,  reconciled  them  to  her 
again.  I'nmi  that  time  on  she  had  their 
>anctiiin  and  ihcir  support  in  her  career. 

Of  course  something  had  to  happen 
when  she  made  her  first  triumphant  return 
to  her  home  town.  On  the  way  to  the  per- 
formance a  car  door  was  accidentally 
slammed  against  her  head,  which  not  only 
made  her  ill  for  a  week  but  rendered  her 
absolutely  voiceless  for  several  months. 
She  got  over  that,  though,  with  the  help 
of  several  specialists  and  a  rest  cure.  And 
she  not  only  has  played  Kansas  City  since, 
via  radio,  but  she  has  gone  back  three 
times  in  opera  and  concert  and  every  time 
the  house  has  suld  standing-room. 

It  was  inevitable  that  radio  would  come 
to  Rosemarie.  .Several  months  before  she 
got  her  first  opera  chance,  she  went  down 
to  Radio  City  one  day  to  help  out  a  trio 
of  her  frien(is  who  needed  a  soprano  for 
an  audition.  An  advertising  agency  execu- 
tive singled  out  her  voice  from  among  the 
others,  asked  her  to  do  a  solo,  took  her 
name  and  address — and  promised  to  tele- 
phone if  his  firm  ever  could  use  her. 

Two  years  later,  to  the  very  month,  he 
called.  He  didn't  say  the  usual :  "Please 
report  for  an  audition."  He  said  :  "Please 
report  for  program  rehearsal  on  Thurs- 
dav."  Rosemarie  debuted  immediately  on 
Echoes  of  Nczi'  York  'Hwi,. 

"After  that,"  she  said  to  me.  "I  began 
to  believe  in  lucky  omens  and  Santa  Claus 
and  guardian  angels  !  It's  still  too  good  to 
be  true !" 

I  sat  with  this  bright  new  star  at  lunch- 
eon the  other  da\'.  Hers  is  the  peculiarly 
startling  conibinatinn  (jf  dark  olive  skin 
and  blonde  hair,  with  Icmg  straight  black 
lashes  that  sometinu'^  make  her  lo<ik  much 
more  Oriental  than  Italian.  She's  a  tiny 
little  thing,  about  five-fect-two,  with  a 
size  fourteen  figure  and  a  very  pronounced 
cupid's  bow  mouth  that  many  a  Hollywood 
queen  would  like  to  have  been  born  with. 
She  wears  simple  ingenue  drL^ses,  topped 
by  Peter  Pan  collars,  "because  I  have  to 
keej)  my  throat  protected  and  I  don't  like 
scarves,"  and  her  hair  is  wound  coronet- 
fasbinn  al)out  her  head. 

Her  greatest  extravagance  is  evening 
clothes — a  new  gown  for  every  broadcast 
— but  she  has  worn  the  same  pair  of  walk- 
ing oxfords  practically  every  d.iy  for  the 
past  three  years.  And  slu  ne\(  r  puK  .m  a 
hat.  You  simply  couldn't  get  a  liat  on 
Rosemarie  Brancato  for  anything  short 
of  luncheon  at  the  Waldorf  or  a  snow- 
storm. 

She  lives  alone  in  a  small,  beautifully 
decorated  apartment  in  the  Fifties.  She 
cooks  her   own  breakfasts,  answers  her 


own  fan  mail  and  vocalizes  every  morning 
for  two  hours,  while  she  throws  the  win- 
dows wide  and  cleans  house.  Much  of 
which,  you'll  have  to  admit,  isn't  a  bit  like 
most  of  radio's  orchids. 

"The  only  trouble  with  singing  for  your 
bread  and  butter  is  that  you  have  to  be  such 
a  sissy  about  your  throat,"  she  laughed.  "I 
can  hardly  ever  go  dancing  because  I  have 
to  stay  out  of  drafts  and  not  get  overheat- 
ed and  not  take  cold  and  all  that.  I  love  to 
dance.  I  think  it's  marvelous  fun.  I  think 
it's  grand  to  have  young  men  take  you  to 
movies  and  parties  and  for  long  walks  in 
the  country  on  week-end  afternoons.  I've 
only  just  started  going  out  like  that,  so 
it's  sort  of  extra  glamorous  to  me. 

"You  see,"  she  said  shyly,  "I'm  not 
ashamed  to  admit  it,  but — well — I  was 
never  even  kissed  until  last  April !" 

She  twisted  the  big  onyx  beads  at  her 
neck  and  added  quietly :  "I  would  have 
hated  it  if  it  had  been  someone  I  didn't 
like  an  awful  lot.  But,  fortunately,  I  did 
like  him. 

"Some  day.  two  or  three  years  from 
now,  I  want  to  marry.  I  think  it  would  be 
lovely  to  have  somebody  you  loved  to  lean 
on.  instead  of  depending  on  yourself  for 
everything  and  being  alone  most  of  the 
time.  I  know  too  well  what  that's  like! 
There've  been  so  many  times  when  I 
wanted  a  beau  so  badly !  Like  the  night  I 
debuted  on  the  air,  or  like — well,  you 
know  how  it  is  when  you  ride  up  Fifth 
Avenue  on  an  August  day  and  you  see  the 
store  windows  already  full  of  dark  fall 
clothes  and  it  makes  you  feel  sort  of 
strangely  sad  because  summer's  going 
away  so  fast.  You  can't  explain  it  but  you 
want  somebody  to  tell  it  to.  somebody  who'll 
understand  and  say  something.  For  so 
long  I  hadn't  a  soul.  It  was  like  living  on 
a  desert  island,  thinking  I  heard  footsteps 
when  I  didn't. 

"I  never  intend  to  let  singing  become 
the  only  important  thing  in  my  life.  I  saw 
something  the  other  day,  along  that  line, 
that  simply  crushed  me.  I  saw  a  woman 
who,  a  few  years  ago,  used  to  be  one  of 
the  topmost  stars  on  the  air,  trying  to  go 
up  to  Radio  City  and  the  attendants  in  the 
downstairs  lobby  wouldn't  let  her  on  the 
elevator.  She  wasn't  recognized  and  she 
hadn't  a  pass  so  they  sent  her  away.  Her 
face  was — oh.  patbeticall\-  stricken !  I 
could  Iiave  wept.  That's  so  true,  about 
reall.v  such  an  empty  thing,  when  you  come 
down.  You  can't  depend  on  a  career. 

"And  fame,"  Rosemarie  Brancato  added 
with  the  wisdom  of  few  young  folk,  "is 
really  sucli  an  empty  thing  when  you  come 
right  down  to  it." 

She's  a  charming  girl,  this  Kansas  City 
singing  star,  and  I  think  much  of  her 
difference  from  the  rest  of  the  air's  stellar 
youngsters  is  due  to  the  fact  that  her  whole 
concern,  her  full  interest  and  her  hobbies, 
are  all  musical.  Unlike  her  sister  stars,  she 
hasn't  read  John  O'Hara's  latest  novel,  or 
seen  Hattie  Carnegie's  winter  collection, 
or  been  to  the  Follies  or  aboard  the  Nor- 
iiiaiiilic  or  heard  Dwight  Fiske's  newest 
l),irody,  but  she  can  tell  you  fascinating 
things  you  never  knew  before  about  voices, 
aljout  the  opera  season  she  plays  in  Cincin- 
nati every  summer  and  the  sights  she's 
seen  and  the  people  she's  met  in  the  eighty 
cities  in  which  she  has  appeared  in  con- 
cert. 

So  again  Rosemarie  breaks  the  custom ! 


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HE  LEARNED 
ABOUT  WOMEN 
FROM  THEM 

(Continued  jrom  piuic  43) 


RADIO  STARS 

THE  RIGHT  AND 
WRONG  ABOUT 

COLDS! 

Facts  ft  Will  Pay  You  to  Know! 


the  best  friend  they  have  in  tlie  world. 

"I  like  women  l)ettor  ilian  I  like  men," 
Phil  Spitalny  sav  s  uravrly.  "1  prefer 
them  to  men  as  trieniK.  They  are  softer, 
kinder  and,  tliouf^ii  this  goes  against  all 
precedent,  I  insist  they  are  more  loyal.  I 
know  for  a  fact  that  every  girl  in  my  or- 
chestra would  be  loyal  to  me,  no  matter 
what  sacrifice  it  might  mean  to  her  per- 
sonally or  for  her  career. 

"I  know  that  not  one  of  those  girls 
would  double-cross  me,  no  matter  what  re- 
wards would  be  the  result  of  it  for  them. 
I  wouldn't  say  that  about  any  man  who  has 
worked  for  me.  I  wouldn't  say  it  about 
just  any  woman,  either.  But  I  do  say  it 
about  the  women  I  know,  the  girls  in  my 
outfit. 

"You  see.  tliose  '-iris  are  hand-picked. 
They  represent  the  hi,L;hest  Irvt'l  of  their 
sex.  The  superinr  wunuin.  Travelling 
around  the  country  as  1  ha\e  done,  having 
had  to  interview  so  many  women,  as  I  have 
had  to  do,  I  know  that,  for  all  the  differ- 
ences in  women,  in  personality  and  looks 
and  charm,  there  still  remain  but  two  kinds 
of  women.  The  good  and  the  bad.  And 
the  superior  type  is  in  the  majority. 

"Talent  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  type 
of  woman  a  girl  is.  Success  has  nothing  to 
do  with  it,  either.  Motherhood,  which  sen- 
timentalists believe  automatically  makes  a 
saint  of  any  woman,  has  nothing  to  do  with 
it. 

"It's  the  secret  thing  in  her  heart  that 
decides  which  kind  of  woman  she  is  going 
to  be.  If  she's  on  the  level,  no  sacrifice 
is  too  difficult  for  a  woman  to  make,  no 
hardship  too  hard  to  endure,  no  pain  too 
great  to  be  borne.  She  reaches  heights  no 
man  could  dream  of  attaining. 

"And  women  who  are  on  the  level  demand 
that  the  men  they  deal  with  be  on  tlic 
level,  too. 

"I  have  to  earn  the  honesty  of  those  girls 
in  my  orchestra  by  being  honest  with  them. 
If  they  ever  lost  their  implicit  faith  in  me, 
it  would  be  just  too  bad  as  far  as  the  fu- 
ture of  my  orchestra  was  concerned.  I 
never  have  told  any  one  of  those  girls  a  lie, 
even  a  white  one,  and  I  never  have  acted 
one.  I  ne\er  have  given  one  of  theni  a 
compliment  I  didn't  mean  wholly  and  sin- 
cerely. 

"Women,  despite  the  prevalent  belief  to 
the  contrar\-,  don't  want  empty  flattery. 
They  resent  a  conipHmeiit  they  know  to  be 
undeserved. 

"'Women  have  more  courage  than  men 
and  I  include  both  types  of  women  in  this 
statement.  That's  the  reason  they  rise 
higher  or  fall  lower.  For  if  a  woman  is  not 
on  the  level,  she's  far  worse  than  any  man 
could  be. 

"Their  sensibilities  are  keener.  They  arc 
pitched  to  a  higher  key.  That  makes  for 
understanding.  It  makes  for  greatness, 
too,  and  for  genius. 


*HE  "Common  Cold"  is  the  scourge 
of  our  civilization. 


Every  year  it  takes  more  in  lives  and 
health  and  expense  than  any  other  ail- 
ment to  which  we're  subject. 

The  sad  part  of  it  is  that  much  of  the 
misery  caused  by  colds  is  due  to  care- 
lessness or  ignorance  in  treating  colds. 

A  cold,  as  your  doctor  will  tell  you,  is 
an  internal  infection  caused  by  a  virus  or 
germ.  In  other  words,  regardless  of  the 
locality  of  the  symptoms,  a  cold  is  some- 
thing lodged  within  the  system. 

Everything  but  the  Right  Thing! 

The  failure  of  many  people  to  recog- 
nize the  true  nature  of  a  cold  results  in 
much  mistreatment  of  colds.  More  often 
than  not,  people  do  everything  but  the 
right  thing  in  the  treatment  of  a  cold 

They  employ  externals  of  all  kinds 
when  it's  obvious  that  you've  got  to  get 
at  a  cold  from  the  inside.  They  swallow 
all  kinds  of  preparations  which,  for  seven 
months  of  the  year,  are  good  for  every- 
thing but  colds  and  which  suddenly  be- 
come "also  good  for  colds"  when  the 
cold  weather  sets  in. 

Many  of  these  methods  are  good  as  far 
as  they  go— but  they  don't  go  far  enough! 
They  don't  treat  a  cold  internally  and 
thereby  get  at  the  infection  in  the  system. 
The  result  often  is  that  a  cold  progresses 
to  the  point  where  "complications"  set 
in  and  it  becomes  a  serious  matter. 

What  a  Cold  Calls  for 

It's  obvious  that  a  cold  calls,  first  of  all, 
for  a  cold  treatment!  A  preparation  that's 
good  for  all  kinds  of  different  ailments 
can't  be  equally  good  for  colds. 

A  cold,  furthermore,  calls  for  inter- 
nal treatment.  An  infection  within  the 


system  must  be  got  at  from  the  inside. 

Grove's  Laxative  Bromo  Quinine  tab- 
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First  of  all,  Bromo  Quinine  tablets  are 
co/d  tablets  /They  are  made  for  colds  and 
only  colds. They  are  not  a  "cure-all"  or  a 
preparation  only  incidentally  good  for 
colds. 

Secondly,  Bromo  Quinine  tablets  are 
internal  treatment.  They  work  within 
you  and  they  do  four  important  things. 

Four  Important  Effects 

They  open  the  bowels,  an  acknowl- 
edgedly  wise  step  in  treating  a  cold. 

They  combat  the  infection  in  the 
system. 

They  relieve  the  headache  and  fever. 

They  tone  the  system  and  help  fortify 
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This  is  the  fourfold  effect  you  want 
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Grove's  Laxative  Bromo  Quinine  tab- 
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Bromo  Quinine  tablets  now  come 
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Every  drug  store  in  America  sells 
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"This  generation  has  seen  women  begin 
to  come  into  prominence.  It's  been  a  dif- 
ficult thing  for  men  to  take.  After  all, 
they  were  used  to  being  the  big  shots  in 
tlie  business  and  professional  world.  It 
never  had  occurred  to  them  that  women, 
whom  they  always  had  looked  upon  as  ten- 
der, sheltered  creatures,  dependent  upon 
them  for  everything,  could  make  their  own 
way  in  the  world.  In  some  cases,  go 
much  further  than  they  had  gone. 

"When  women  started  making  their  way 
in  the  world,  proving  tlie  tilings  they  could 
do,  it  was  a  bitter  pill  for  men  to  swal- 
low. 

"But  I  wasn't  surprised.  I  know  this  is 
a  woman's  world,  just  as  I  know  it  al- 
ways has  iieen,  today  and  yesterday,  and 
will  be  teimorrow. 

"The  world  is  just  beginning  to  realize 
it.  That's  the  reason  women  are  having 
difficulty  today  in  proving  the  stuff  they 
are  made  of.  Men  are  still  fighting  to  hold 
their  supremacy.  A  woman  has  to  have 
ten  times  as  much  talent  as  a  man,  to 
achieve  the  same  success.  She  has  to  work 
ten  times  as  hard  to  make  the  same  amount 
of  money. 

"That's  the  reason  I  feel  that  my  or- 
chestra is  the  best  orchestra  on  the  air 
today.  Because  women  haven't  had  the 
same  chances  as  men  to  find  their  places 
in  the  musical  world,  I  have  a  far  greater 
choice  in  selecting  my  musicians  than  the 
conductor  of  a  inale  orchestra  has. 

"You  see,  every  one  of  my  girls  is  ab- 
solutely tops  in  her  line.  If  they  had  hap- 
pened to  be  born  men,  each  one  of  them 
would  have  been  a  featured  musician  in 
a  male  orchestra.  That's  how  good  each 
one  is,  individually.  But  because  they 
didn't  have  the  opportunities  men  have, 
they  didn't  get  that  chance.  So  when  I 
got  my  idea  for  an  all-girl  orchestra,  all 
those  superlatively  fine  musicians  who 
didn't  have  a  chance  in  a  man's  world 
were  getting  an  opportunity  for  the  first 
time  to  show  the  world  what  they  could 
do.    And  I  was  able  to  pick  the  very  best. 

"Why,  I  interviewed  twelve  hundred  and 
forty-one  musicians,  and  all  of  them  far 
above  the  average,  to  get  the  thirty  play- 
ing for  me  today.  What  conductor  of  a 
man's  orchestra  would  have  that  opportu- 
nity of  getting  such  a  surplus  of  talent?" 

Phil  Spitalny  did  not  always  understand 
women  as  well  as  he  does  now,  in  spite 
of  the  admiration  and  tlie  respect  he  al- 
ways liad  for  the  sex  as  a  whole.  For, 
three  years  ago,  when  he  organized  his 
orchestra,  he  did  exactly  what  the  average 
man  would  have  done  and  inserted  an  iron- 
bound  clause  in  their  contracts  forbidding 
them  to  marry  for  two  years. 

You  see,  he  wasn't  managing  that  band 
for  fun.  It  was  his  business  and  he 
wasn't  going  to  have  a  girl  he  had  worked 
with  and  trained  to  be  an  indispensable  part 
of  his  unit,  walk  out  because  some  man  she 
happened  to  fall  in  love  with  wanted  her 
to  marry  him.  No,  sir !  His  orchestra 
wasn't  going  to  suffer  because  one  girl  in 
it  was  thinking  of  what  her  husband  wanted 
for  dinner,  or  brooding  over  words  they'd 
had  at  breakfast  that  morning  or  being  dis- 
turbed by  some  trivial  clouding  of  her  mat- 
rimonial sky. 

Now,  after  three  years,  he  has  lifted 
that  clause  from  his  contracts  and,  by  do- 
ing it,  Spitalny  shows  just  how  much  he 


has  learned  about  women  in  those  three 
years. 

For  he's  found  out  that  a  woman  can 
take  love  in  her  stride  as  well  as  a  man 
can  and  keep  it  separate  and  apart  from 
her  professional  life.  He's  also  discovered 
tliat  when  a  woman  achieves  financial  and 
artistic  security  it's  harder  for  love  to  get 
a  foothold  in  her  heart. 

Maybe  the  world  has  moved  on  since 
Byron  wrote : 

"Love  is  of  mail's  life  a  thing  apart; 

'Tis  zi'oiuaii's  ivlwle  existence." 

Maybe  it  hasn't  changed.  Maybe  women 
today  are  the  same  as  they  were  back  in 
the  eighteenth  century.  After  all,  even  if 
Byron  was  one  of  the  world's  greatest 
poets,  he  was  only  a  man.  And  the  chances 
are  that,  for  all  his  vaunted  love  affairs, 
he  knew  as  little  about  women  as  do  the 
great  lovers  of  today. 

For  love  doesn't  teach  a  man  anything 
about  a  woman.  Really  to  learn  some- 
thing about  women,  a  man  has  to  work 
with  them  as  Phil  Spitalny  has  done.  Has 
to  like  them  instead  of  love  them,  as  Phil 
Spitalny  does. 

"Women  have  a  much  greater  capacity 
for  work  than  men  have,"  Phil  Spitalny 
insists.  "Men  hated  to  work  for  me  be- 
cause they  found  me  too  hard  a  task- 
master. They  resented  the  fact  that  I 
called  many  more  rehearsals  than  other 
conductors  did.  That  I  kept  them  at  those 
rehearsals  until  every  man  was  playing  ex- 
actly as  I  wanted  him  to  play. 

"But  the  girls  in  my  orchestra  like  to 
work  for  me,  for  the  very  reason  the  men 
didn't.  They  like  a  hard  taskmaster.  The 
more  rigid  a  man  is  with  a  woman,  the 
better  she  likes  it  and  the  more  respect  she 
has  for  him.  That's  another  thing  those 
girls  have  taught  me.  Women  don't  like 
to  be  able  to  twist  a  man  around  their 
whims. 

"When  I  get  after  the  girls  in  my  or- 
chestra, they  like  it.  They  know  that  the 
hard  pace  I'm  putting  them  through  is 
making  still  better  musicians  of  them. 
They're  more  ambitious  as  a  sex  than  men. 
More  determined  to  achieve  absolute  per- 
fection. 

"Look  at  Evelyn  here,  my  first  violinist 
and  manager  of  the  orchestra.  She's  only 
twenty-two  years  old  but  she  could  out- 
think  and  out-smart  any  man,  any  day. 
Sometimes  I  laugh  and  say  to  her :  'Eve- 
lyn, you're  twice  as  old  as  I  am  !'  And  I 
think,  'and  twice  as  smart,  too.'  But  I 
don't  tell  her  that.  After  all,  those  women 
are  so  clever,  it  doesn't  do  to  tell  them 
too  much.  Especially  since  they  probably 
know  it,  anyway ! 

"Evelyn's  father  died  when  she  was 
eight  months  old  and  that  child  had  to 
make  a  living  for  her  mother  and  grand- 
mother and  herself  when  she  was  eight 
years  old.  Evelyn's  mother  knew  that 
daughter  of  hers  was  destined  to  be  a  mu- 
sician and  she  laughs  now  when  she  tells 
people  that  her  daughter  became  a  violin- 
ist because  the  apartment  was  too  small  to 
make  room  for  a  piano  and  she  thought 
the  'cello  unladylike  and  knew  the  neigh- 
bors would  hate  the  piccolo,  so  the  violin 
was  the  only  thing  left. 

"But  don't  let  that  laugh  of  hers,  tell- 
ing about  it,  fool  you.  It  wasn't  as  easy 
as  it  sounds  and  Evelyn,  today,  has  schol- 


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arships  and  gold  medals  to  prove  just  how 
great  her  talent  is  and  how  hard  she  worked 
to  develop  it.  And  the  National  Arts  Club 
thought  so  much  of  her  ability  that  they 
gave   her   a   three-thousand-dollar  violin. 

"Evelyn  has  to  keep  that  viol  in  locked 
up  in  a  special  cabinet  she  has  had  Tnadc  for 
it  at  home,  because  she's  ,i;<>t  a  cat.  so  well 
loved  that  it  is  thoroughly  ^jxiiled  and 
the  violin  is  the  only  thmi;  kept  sacred 
from  it. 

"The  other  day  when  we  arrived  in  New 
York  to  start  our  new  radio  contract,  I 
noticed  that  one  of  the  bass  piled  up  with 
our  luggage  on  the  station  looked  as  if  it 
belonged  to  a  little  chorus  girl  who  had 
been  stranded  in  California  and  had  had 
to  walk  back  to  New  York,  trailing  her 
bag  behind  her  over  rocky  roads.  Come 
to  find  out,  it  belonged  to  Evelyn,  or  rather 
to  Evelyn's  cat,  for  he  w-as  responsible 
for  all  the  scratches ! 

"  "Throw  that  out,'  I  told  her,  for  I  in- 
sist that  the  external  appearance  of  my 
band  must  be  kept  up  always.  And  she 
obeyed,  though  I  could  see  she  hated  to, 
even  after  I  had  given  her  a  new  one  to 
take  its  place.  For  all  those  scratches  had 
been  such  a  vivid  reminder  of  that  little 
animal  she  missed  so  sorely  when  she  had 
to  be  away  from  him  on  tour. 

"Then  there's  Maxine,  our  soloist.  Gifted 
with  that  rare  voice  for  a  woman,  a  true 
baritone,  and  having  such  a  natural,  fine 
talent  tliat  she  found  success  without  ever 
having  had  a  singing  lesson  in  her  life ! 
What  she  has  done  is  to  turn  the  usual 
process  around.  She  is  taking  lessons  now 
that  she  is  on  the  top. 


"Do  you  know  a  man  who  would  do  it? 
I  don't,  either ! 

"Another  thing  that  makes  me  marvel 
about  women  is  the  way  they  stick  together 
and  the  way  they  help  each  other.  Men 
don't  do  that.  The  way  our  organization 
pulls  together  is  a  delight  to  see.  They've 
banded  together,  and  the  girls  who  can 
cook  have  organized  cooking  clubs  to  teach 
the  others,  and  the  ones  who  can  sew  are 
the  heads  of  the  sewing  class  and  they 
have  their  own  literary  society  and  circu- 
lating library,  with  the  girls  taking  their 
turns  in  buying  a  book  each  month  and 
making  a  community  thing  ot  it. 

"But,  alas,  great  as  women  are,  even 
the  greatest  among  them  have  their  little 
foibles  and  they  run  in  as  true  a  pattern 
as  their  virtues  do.  And  I've  discovered 
about  them,  too,  you  may  be  sure ! 

"I've  found  out  that  when  a  woman  gives 
a  man  a  tie,  she  wants  him  to  prefer  it 
to  any  other  tie  he  has  and  show  that  pref- 
erence by  wearing  it  before  he  does  any 
other.  On  my  birthday  last  week  every 
one  of  those  girls  gave  me  a  tie !  Each 
of  them  in  my  favorite  red  and,  to  the 
eternal  credit  of  all  those  girls,  every  tie 
w'as  a  little  masterpiece  of  good  taste.  But 
I  w-as  caught  in  a  quandary  that  made  me 
realize  how  afraid  we  men  are  of  woinen, 
at  heart,  for  although  I  looked  longingly 
at  those  ties  every  morning  and  wanted  to 
wear  one  of  thein,  I  sighed  wistfully  and 
went  to  the  rack  and  picked  out  one  of  my 
old  ones,  instead. 

"For  I  knew  those  girls  were  watching 
to  see  which  tie  I  wore  first  and  I  knew 
that  however  I  made  my  choice  I  was  go- 


ing to  have  twenty-nine  girls  down  on  me 
because  I  had  picked  the  one  they  didn't 
give  me.  Now  there's  a  man-sized  prob- 
lem to  worry  over  and  don't  underesti- 
mate it,  either! 

"Finally  I  went  to  them  and  told  them 
just  how  I  felt  and  how  I  was  aching  to 
wear  all  those  ties  but  didn't  dare.  Then 
again  I  w^as  embarrassed  by  my  masculine 
inferiority  for  those  girls  shouted  almost 
in  unison:  'Why  can't  we  blindfold  you 
and  let  you  make  your  choice  that  way? 
Then  none  of  us  will  feel  slighted!' 

"It  was  just  as  easy  as  that.  But  it 
took  a  woman  to  think  of  it!" 

That's  the  reason  for  the  perfect  accord 
that  niake^  the  Siiitalny  Broadcast,  The 
IJoiir  ,<!  i'hdnu,  which  you  hear  on  Mon- 
day afternoons  at  four,  a  thing  of  unity 
and  joy  for  all  who  listen.  Thirty-one 
reasons,  to  be  exact.  Thirty  clever  young 
women  and  one  man  who  understands  them. 

A  man  who  has  made  woinen  his  busi- 
ness and  paid  them  the  greatest  compliment 
any  man  could  by  looking  upon  them  as 
individuals  and  not  as  icoiiicu.  And  thirty 
women  who  appreciate  the  compliment  he 
has  paid  them. 

"Thirty  women,  what  a  headache!"  A 
henpecked  husband  might  say. 

"Thirty  beautiful  girls  working  for  him 
and  he  calls  that  a  job!"  The  male  flirt 
would  laugh. 

But,  and  haven't  you  read  this  before,  a 
man  doesn't  learn  about  women  by  taking 
them  to  cocktails  or  marrying  them. 

Phil  Spitalny  who  knows,  only  laughs 
and  says  it's  a  woman's  world  and  he's 
glad  he's  hopped  on  the  bandwagon. 


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cake-soap  rubbing  or  the  harmful 
alkali  found  in  many 
ordinary  soaps.  Safe 
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I  thought  lie  was  staying  away  from 
the  public  too  long  and  it  made  me  sick  to 
hear  about  and  think  about  the  two  or 
three  excellent  radio  offers  he  was  turning 
down.  But  I  let  him  find  out  for  himself 
and  when,  a  few  months  ago,  he  was  con- 
vinced that  the  Baron  role  was  still  popular 
and  he  would  revive  it  on  the  radio,  I  was 
very  much  pleased.  Jack  isn't  happy  unless 
he's  working,  and  even  through  the  pleasant 
months  while  we  sunned  ourselves  on  the 
Florida  sands,  I  realized  that  he  was  long- 
ing for  the  freezing  cold  of  New  York 
and  a  job  to  be  done. 

What  a  satisfaction  it  was  for  us  to 
come  home  and  to  get  Jack  back  to  work 
after  all  our  wanderings !  Radio,  of  course, 
has  completely  changed  our  mode  of  living. 
By  the  time  he  became  a  broadcast  en- 
tertainer, our  marriage  was  nine  years  old 
and  I  had  settled  into  the  definite  routine 
of  following  him  around  the  country.  Even 
when  he  was  only  appearing  for  one  night 
in  a  neighboring  city,  I  accompanied  him. 
And  on  his  tours,  I  always  shared  the  in- 
conveniences of  the  road  and  tlie  pleasure 
of  his  companionship. 

In  the  theatre  years  our  day  usually 
started  at  noon  but  now  Jack's  regime  has 
become  so  revolutionzed  that  we've  had 
a  pretty  well-filled  morning  of  activity  by 
the  time  luncheon  arrives.  We  have  a  ten- 
room  apartment  facing  Central  Park,  but 
that  is  not  as  imposing  as  it  sounds  be- 
cause his  family,  including  two  young 
nephews,  make'  their  home  with  us.  Jack 
wakes  between  seven  and  eight  o'clock  and 
puts  on  some  old  clothes  for  his  morning 
exercise — twice  around  the  park  reser- 
voir. He  returns,  has  a  cold  shower  and, 
in  his  lounging  pajamas,  has  breakfast  with 
me.  The  days  are  taken  up  with  appoint- 
ments and  with  rehearsals  for  his  broad- 
casts and  by  dinner  time  he's  back  home, 
comfortably  relaxing.  The  only  thing  he 
ever  asks  of  me  is  that  I  be  there  when 
he  returns  late  each  afternoon — he  likes  to 
find  me  waiting  for  him.  His  idea  of  a 
good  time  is  sitting  around  the  living- 
room  in  a  robe  and  old  slippers,  playing 
backgammon  witli  Bugs  Baer  or  talking 
with  some  of  his  thtatrical  and  radio 
friends.  Wv's  the  most  <Htlicult  man  in  tiie 
world  to  .'ict  out  for  a  social  evening,  but 
when  lie  arrives  at  the  party  he  usually 
lias  more  fun  than  anyone  else. 

Right  now  I  want  to  break  down  and 
confess  Jack's  worst  weakness — money 
burns  in  liis  pockets!  He  can  leave  our 
lidiiK  at  ten  in  the  morning  and  liy  eleven, 
il  lu-  had  tlucc  Imndrcd  d.. liars  when  he 
startc'l  out.  he'd  l)e  broke.  He'd  borrow 
nioncy  to  lend  it  to  somebody  else.  You 
can't  trust  iiim  with  a  weekly  allowance 
because  it  would  all  disappear  on  the  first 
da\'.  .'^'1  I  ,^ivr  In'm  a  certain  amount  each 
niurning.  kniiwin.n  full  well  that  he  won't 
have  a  dime  k'ft  in  three  hours.  I'm  the 
treasurer  of  Pearl  and  Co.!  Long  ago  we 
decided  that  was  the  only  way  to  do,  if 
we  wanted  lo  h.ave  comfortable  security 
for  our  old  age.  Jack  turns  over  all  his 
salary  checks  to  me  and  I  see  to  it  that 
every  month  so  much  tjoes  into  savings. 


The  man  behind  the  grim  look  is 
Benny  Rubin,  ringmaster  of  the 
"Original  Amateur  Night,"  heard 
Sundays  on  the  Mutual  network. 


so  that  years  from  now  we'll  have  all  those 
things  we  enjoy  in  the  present. 

Jack  loathes  shopping  and  to  get  him  in- 
to a  department  store  is  a  miracle  I 
haven't  yet  accomplished.  When  I  think 
he  needs  some  new  clothes,  I  call  up  his 
tailor,  select  the  materials  and  eventually 
manage  to  get  Jack  into  the  place  for  fit- 
tings. I  even  buy  his  shoes  for  him,  but 
that's  not  as  dithcult  as  it  sounds  because 
he  always  wears  the  same  last  and  his  feet 
haven't  grown  in  the  past  several  years — 
neither  has  his  head,  fortunately ! 

On  my  birthdays,  or  on  holidays,  Jack 
always  asks  me  what  I  want  and  then 
tells  me  to  go  ahead  and  get  it — whether 
it's  a  fur  coat  or  a  bracelet.  He  knows  I 
won't  be  unduly  extravagant. 

This  attitude  of  Jack's  has  its  disad- 
vantage, of  course.  For  instance,  he 
wouldn't  know  whether  I  was  wearing  last 
year's  wardrobe  or  not.  And  every  wife 
likes  her  husband  to  admire  a  new  dress 
or  hat  before  some  outsider  makes  a  com- 
plimentary remark.  If  Jack  happens  to 
hear  any  one  remark  on  what  I'm  wearing, 
he'll  say,  in  a  surprised  voice :  "Oh,  is  that 
new  ?" 

I  suppose  I'll  have  to  confess  it — Jack 
Pearl  isn't  gay  at  the  breakfast  table, 
sparkling  at  luncheon  and  exuberant  at 
dinner.  He's  serious,  away  from  his  pub- 
lic. I  think  most  comedians  are — anyhow 
that's  what  their  wives  tell  me.  And  from 
what  I've  seen  in  our  living-room,  when  all 
the  radio  funny  men  get  together,  it  isn't 
an  hilarious,  scintillating  occasion  with  the 
puns  riding  high.  They  eat  sandwiches  and 
become  absorbed  over  the  card  table,  like 
any  bunch  of  clerks.  But,  after  all,  this 
story  concerns  Jack  and  me — he  knows  I'm 
writing  it  and  he's  so  curious — but  I 
won't  let  him  see  it,  because  this  is  a  story 
by  Mrs.,  not  Mr.,  Pearl,  and  he  might 
want  to  make  some  changes ! 

Finding  me  so  happy  in  the  role  of  the 
home-loving  little  woman  is  a  joke  on 
me.  I  think,  because  in  my  very  young 
years  I  ran  away  from  the  placid,  dull  se- 
curity of  home  life.    Hamilton,  Ontario, 


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was  the  place  I  deserted  when  I  headed 
for  New  ^'ork,  with  visions  of  being  a 
shining  star  in  the  theatre.  The  only  work 
I  coidd  obtain  at  first  was  that  of  telephone 
operator,  then  I  finally  seemed  a  churns 
job  in  Eddie  Cantor's  Midniyht  Rounders. 

In  1922  I  joined  the  Whirl  of  Kci.' 
York,  in  which  Jack  Pearl  was  starred 
and  which,  at  the  time  of  my  insisnifkant 
annexation,  was  i)la.\  ins  nitrnit.  ^  (>u 
know  how  chonl^-sirls  r\ilian,t;c  ciuili- 
dences  in  the  dres^m^-rci.  .m^,  ami  I  hadn't 
been  a  member  ol  the  ciinii)an>-  three  (la\ 
when  I  was  convinced  tliat  Pearl  was  a 
woman  hater.  He  never  dated  up  any  of 
the  girls — wasn't  interested  in  them  at  all 
— whereas  the  leading  romantic  figure  of 
the  production  was  a  real  Romeo. 

Imagine  my  surprise  when,  during  an 
evening  performance.  Jack  spoke  to  me  in 
the  wings  and  asked  me  to  have  supper 
with  him.  I  had  admired  him  timidly  from 
afar  and  I  was  thrilled  with  the  invita- 
tion. He  was  entertaining,  as  I  remeinber ; 
told  me  amusing  stories,  recalled  many  in- 
cidents of  his  own  life,  but  I  believed  he 
was  just  filling  up  a  few  lonely  hours. 
That  appointment  was  followed  by  a  num- 
ber of  others  on  the  tour — but  he  never 
flattered  me,  never  sent  flowers  or  presents 
and  not  once  did  he  tell  me  that  he  liked 
me. 

When  he  finally  left  the  company  to 
open  in  The  Dancing  Girl,  on  the  day  of 
his  departure  he  gave  me  his  picture  and 
said  he'd  be  seeing  me — nothing  more. 
However,  he  wrote  me  letters,  called  me 
on  long  distance  and  finally  secured  a 
chorus  place  for  me  in  the  New  York  pro- 


duction of  his  show.  I  wanted  him  to 
be  serious,  but  how  could  I  tell?  Not  by 
him !  I  was  encouraged  by  the  fact  that 
he  brought  his  family  backstage  to  meet 
me.  One  night,  at  dinner  in  his  parent>' 
hduie,  he  told  them  calml_\-  thai  w  were 
going  to  be  married.  That  was  the  first 
inkling  that  I  had  of  the  engaKenient.  He 
had  forgot  to  propose  to  me  ! 

I  was  a  bride,  with  a  veil  and  all  the 
trimmings — the  wedding  took  place  in  his 
family's  apartment  and  for  some  time  af- 
terward I  continued  working  in  his  shows. 
Seasons  on  the  rdad.  intervals  in  New 
York,  from  one  ciiga.nenient  to  the  next, 
until  I  got  used  to  the  thought  that  we'd 
grow  old  trudging  along  with  suitcases 
in  our  hands. 

It  was  during  this  period  that  I  first 
longed  for  a  real  home  and  all  the  per- 
manency that  goes  with  it.  Jack  felt  as  I 
did  but  it  was  not  until  radio  adopted  him 
for  one  of  its  own  that  our  hope  was  re- 
alized. He  went  for  real  home  life  all 
the  way — his  family  moved  in  with  us 
and  the  association  has  been  perfect — not 
the  slightest  hint  of  that  in-law  business 
which  gives  the  funny  men  material  for 
their  gags. 

The  interlude  when  we  went  to  Holly- 
wood for  Jack  to  play  in  the  movie,  Meet 
the  Baron,  was  most  unsatisfactory.  We 
ne\er  believed  it  was  the  vehicle  for  him 
and  Jack  was  as  disappointed  as  I  was  in 
the  picture.  That's  why  I  want  him  to  go 
back  there  some  day  and  redeem  himself. 
But  I  believe,  definitely,  that  Jack's  real 
place  is  in  radio  and  I  am  never  so  happy 
as  when  he  comes  home  with  a  contract 


all  signed.  I  can  relax  then  in  the  know- 
ledge that  our  luggage  can  gather  dust  in 
the  basement,  that  vvc  won't  be  dashing  off 
some  place.  During  the  period  last  year 
when  he  was  i)itten  b_\-  the  stage  bug  again 
and  I  liail  tn  wateli  him  turn  down  several 
radid  iiffers.  I  was  a  little  rebellious  but 
I  ne\er  lia\i.-  tried  to  force  him  to  my 
wa\  of  thinking.  I  knew  that  when  he  was 
read\  he  would  go  back  on  the  air  and 
now  that  mv  hope  has  been  realized,  I'm 
satisfied. 

People  often  ask  me  if  the  fabricating 
character  of  The  Baron  doesn't  sometimes 
project  itself  into  Jack's  conversations 
away  from  the  mike.  Reluctantly  I  must 
admit  that  it  does !  Sometimes  he  comes 
home  from  a  program  and  tries  to  pull 
some  of  that  Baron  business  on  me,  but  I 
just  give  him  that  stop-quick  look  and  he's 
unassuming  Jack  Pearl  again  ! 

Jack  has  taken  marriage  so  seriously — 
in  fact  he's  the  most  easily  pleased,  unde- 
manding man  any  woman  could  find — I've 
never  had  any  cause  to  be  jealous  and  I 
know  I've  never  given  him  any  uneasiness, 
either.  I  don't  get  those  silly  crushes  on 
idols  that  some  women  do,  because  I  kn^w 
I've  got  the  grandest  husband  in  the  woifl 
and  why  should  I  admire  second-best  when 
I've  got  the  blue  ribbon  myself !  I  can  say 
to  Jack:  "I  think  Frank  Parker's  voice  is 
grand  and  the  way  he  sang  those  songs 
tonight !"  Jack  agrees  with  me  readily,  as 
he  knows  I'm  admiring  a  fine  talent  im- 
personally and  that  all  the  Parkers  and 
the  Vallees  and  the  Crosbys  in  the  world 
could  never  ha\e  an\  emotional  lure  for 
Mrs.  Jack  Pearl. 


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Impossible    to    put  j 
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{Continued  jrom  page  45) 


Rosario  Bourdon  (left)  with  Margaret  Speaks  and  Ross  Graham,  who 
recently  appeared  as  guest  artists  at  The  Ambassador,  at  Atlantic  City. 


European  audiences,  Miss  Speaks  found, 
are  different  from  American  audiences. 
Here  the  attitude  is  receptive.  The  singer 
feels  the  response.  Knows  immediately  if 
they  like  her.  But  abroad  there  is  an  almost 
frightening  reserve.  Regardless  of  applause, 
you  cannot  always  discover  whether  or 
not  you  are  pleasing  them. 

"During  one  concert,"  said  Miss  Speaks, 
"I  felt  sure  that  they  didn't  like  me.  I 
knew  that  I  had  failed.  But  afterward — 
they  told  me  that  no  other  American 
singer  had  so  delighted  them!" 

We  know  that  she  did  delight  them,  fcr 
the  European  press  reported  her  concerts 
in  enthusiastic  terms.  Critics  in  famous 
musical  centers  e.xtolled  the  quality  of  her 
voice,  the  excellence  of  her  technique,  her 
clear  diction  and  artistic  sense  of  phrasing. 
.\nd  her  youth  and  simplicity  charmed 
her  audiences. 

Is  Miss  Speaks  temperamental,  I  won- 
dered? Has  she  any  of  the  characteristic 
prima  donna  complex?  She  doesn't,  to  be 
sure,  seem  that  sort  of  person.  She  is  so 
frank  and  forthright  and  unassuming  as 
she  talks  with  you.  So  honest  and  sound 
in  her  sense  of  values. 

"But,"  she  laughs,  "I  was  brought  up 
in  radio,  not  on  the  stage.  There's  no  place 
for  temperament  in  radio.  When  the  light 
flashes  on,  you  sing !  There  are  no  alibis. 
If  you  have  a  cold,  or  are  troubled  or 
tired,  it  doesn't  matter.  If  something  has 
gone  wrong  during  rehearsal,  or  you  are 
nervous  about  your  song — when  you  stand 
before  the  niicro[)hone,  it  is  forgotten. 
The  program  gnes  on  at  a  certain  moment 
—and  y(ju  go  with  it  !" 

With  long  years  (if  such  training,  it  is 
easy  to  understand  why  Mar.u.irrt  SiH'aks 

in  the  Inisiness  of  singing  than  in  the 
business  <if  bo<ikkeeping  or  bus  driving  or 


ic  music  ■  IS 
iinent.  How 
her,  of  no 


job  to  do,  and  you  do  it," 
t's  all  there  is  to  it." 
doubt,  is  the  reason  why 
to  work  with  Miss  Speaks, 
the  important  thing  at  the 
she  may  happen  to  feel  is, 
importance  at  all  at  such  a 


time.  Nor  does  she  think  of  herself  as 
more  important  than  any  other  member  of 
the  organization.  Director,  pianist,  violin- 
ist, soloist,  all  work  together  to  give  the 
music  its  perfect  form. 

She  is  "a  good  trouper,"  too,  this  young 
singer.  Nothing  disconcerts  her,  once  she 
is  on  the  stage.  Those  little  unforeseen 
occurrences  which  so  easily  might  shatter 
the  mood  of  artist  and  audience  have  no 
power  to  upset  a  program  for  her. 

Recently,  during  a  concert,  flowers  were 
handed  up  to  Miss  Speaks.  She  took  them 
in  her  arms  and,  believing  them  just  bou- 
quets, laid  them  down  upon  the  piano.  Un- 
fortunately they  were  in  water-filled 
vases !  The  water  streamed  over  the  piano, 
over  Miss  Speaks,  over  the  baritone  who 
was  singing  with  her.  The  baritone  looked 
aghast.  The  .ludience  laughed.  But  Miss 
Speaks  calmly  began  her  next  song,  her 
clear,  rich  voice  compelling  quiet  with  its 
lovely  music. 

I  saw  Miss  Speaks  one  day  last  winter, 
just  before  she  started  on  her  first  plane 
trip  to  the  Coast,  to  sing  with  Nelson 
Eddy  on  the  Firestone  program.  At  that 
time  she  had  been  in  the  air  but  once, 
when  Lindbergh  had  taken  her  up  for  a 
short  flight.  She  was  then  not  at  all  sure 
that  she  would  enjoy  flying.  But  since 
then  she  has  crossed  this  continent  by 
plane  innumerable  times  and  in  Europe 
made  all  her  travels  by  air. 

"I  was  on  a  train  but  once,"  she  said. 
"That  was  when  I  took  the  boat  train  to 
the  boat  bringing  me  home.  At  first,  when 
people  talked  about  the  dangers  of  flying, 
dwelling  on  tragic  plane  accidents,  I  felt 
a  little  nervous.  But  I  realized  that  that 
was  my  job — I  had  to  do  it.  I  couldn't 
keep  my  engagements  any  other  way.  And 
I  really  love  it  now." 

A  logical  person,  this  young  singer. 
One  who  shapes  her  life  to  its  essential 
circumstances  and  shapes  circumstances  to 
a  ]>attcrn  of  life  that  seems  good  to  her.  A 
systi'iiiatic  ])crson,  too.  Keeping  her  en- 
gagements and  her  home  with  an  equal 
passion  of  <levotion. 

At  their  country  home,  where  they  spend 
their   cherished   week-ends.   Miss  Speaks 


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keeps  tlie  house  with  meticulous  care, 
cooking,  cleaning,  gardening,  even  as  you 
and  I,  less  gifted  souls.  Here,  too,  she  and 
her  husband  take  an  active  interest  in 
local  politics,  attending  town  meetings, 
valuing  civic  responsibilities  as  well  as 
the  casual  pleasures  of  country  life. 

She  is  fond  of  sports,  particularly  of 
swimming  in  summer,  skating  in  winter 
and  table  tennis  any  time  at  all.  She  is 
fond  of  books,  inn.  Not  of  fiction  so 
much  as  serious  lio, .ks,  ^cicIU•c  or  philoso- 
phy, that  open  new  <1  -s  to  understanding. 

Her  husband  rallies  her  on  her  passion 
for  cleaning.  "She  loves  to  turn  everything 
out,"  he  declares.  "We  have  no  maid  in 
the  country.  Margaret  likes  to  do  the 
things  herself — it's  easier  than  finding 
someone  to  do  them  the  way  she  likes 
them  done.  She  does  the  cooking,  too — and 
is  constantly  enlarging  her  repertoire  in 
that,  as  in  her  singing.  I  usually  do  the 
dish-washing.  Then  we  go  for  a  walk,  or 
do  some  gardening.  There's  always  some- 
thing to  do  .  .  .  Margaret  is  always 
working — even  when  she's  playing.  She's 
really  a  terrific  worker!" 

But  it's  easy  to  see  that  they  both  value 
and  zealously  maintain  tlie  balance  be- 
tween work  and  life.  .\nd  living  is  the  im- 
portant thing.  Living  and  loving.  Not  just 
sharing  a  few  world-weary  hours  when 
nerves  are  taut  and  tempers  easily  torn. 
Growing  and  understanding.  Enlarging 
and  enriching  life  in  every  experience. 

"We  plan  to  retire  some  day,"  Miss 
Speaks  says.  "And  there  are  many  things 
we  can  enjoy  then,  however  old  we  may 
be.  We  can  travel  around  the  world,  for 
example.  But  there  are  some  things  we 
can  do  now,  that  we  couldn't  do  when 
we're  older.  And  we  don't  want  to  miss 
any  of  them  if  we  can  help  it.  Walking 
in  the  rain,  for  instance — that's  fun  now ! 
It  might  be  dangerous  at  fifty!" 

It's  rather  unusual,  and  rather  fine,  this 
carefully  thought  out,  jealously  guarded 
scheme  of  living.  It's  inspiring,  too.  It 
makes  us  feel  that  we,  too,  though  our 
job  may  be  more  prosaic  than  singing 
lovely  songs  to  the  wide,  wide  world,  can 
make  life  rich,  however  hard  we  work. 

It's  not  so  easy  as  it  may  sound,  eithv  r. 
It's  not  "done  with  mirrors!"  It's  done 
with  devotion,  with  intelligence.  If  we 
want  a  thing  enough,  we  can  have  it.  It's 
knowing  whether  or  not  what  we  want  is 
worth  what  it  may  cost  us.  And,  if  it  is, 
paying  the  price  and  taking  it  home. 

Margaret  Speaks  wants  to  sing.  Singing 
has  been  her  special  gift  since  she  was  a 
small  child.  Her  uncle,  Oley  Speaks,  is 
the  noted  composer.  All  her  family  are 
gifted  musicians.  And  every  season  we 
are  aware,  whether  we  hear  Miss  Speaks 
in  concert  or  on  the  radio,  of  the  increas- 
ing beauty  and  richness  of  her  voice. 

But  she  also  wants  to  live — and  finds 
each  season  making  life  a  lovelier  tiling, 
rich  and  full  and  satisfying,  with  no 
aching  regrets  for  lost  joys  she  might 
have  known. 

Often  we  hear  people  complain  how  life 
has  cheated  them.  Life  never  will  cheat 
Margaret  Speaks — because  she  doesn't 
cheat  life.  Not  for  music,  not  for  money, 
not  for  any  future  fame  or  rich  material 
rewards  will  she  sacrifice  the  little  homely 
everyday  joys  that  make  life,  for  her, 
worth  living. 

Which  is.  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the 
word,  success. 


'DO  YOU  REALLY  BELIEVE  THIS  LINIT 
AD,  IT  SAYS  LINIT  MAKES  YOUR 
SKIN  FEEL  LIKE  VELVET  INSTANTLY 


lets  follow  the  instructions 
"let  me  join 

IN  ON  this" 
/ 


1U 

iiniT  IS  ALSO  un€XC€iL€D 

TOR  Fine  iflunD€RinG 


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coniple.xion,  or  slimming  down  lazy  hips 
that  don't  fit  the  new  princess-line  dresses. 
No,  it's  the  week-by-week  efifort  that  counts. 

Here  the  New  Year  is  staring  you  right 
in  the  face.  What  are  you  going  to  do 
about  it,  and  yourself?  Why  not  work 
out  a  weekly  schedule  of  beauty  and  give 
it  a  try-out  for  a  month?  You  may  find 
yourself  so  attached  to  your  schedule,  and 
your  improved  face  by  the  end  of  the 
month,  that  you  will  make  a  weekly  pro- 
gram your  habit  as  the  year  grows  older, 
and  you  grow  younger.  It's  easy,  once 
you  get  started. 

Saturday  wore  the  reputation,  back  in 
the  "good  old  days,"  of  being  the  red-letter 
day  of  the  week — the  date  for  the  Satur- 
day night  bath.  I  think  Saturday  (or  Sun- 
day, if  you  prefer  it)  should  continue  to  be 
a  very  special  red-letter  bath  day.  Nat- 
urally, of  course,  every  day  is  bath  day 
to  the  well-groomed  woman,  but  when  I 
say  a  special  bath  day,  I  mean  one  that 
lias  all  the  "extras"  to  make  it  a  real 
beauty  bath.  You  can  clean  up  a  lot  of 
your  beauty  chores  in  connection  with  your 
beauty  bath. 

First  of  all,  before  you  step  into  the  tub, 
slather  a  lavish  amount  of  your  cleans- 
ing cream  over  your  face  and  neck.  The 
warm  moisture  from  your  bath  will  help 
your  skin  to  absorb  the  cream,  and  it  will 
penetrate  the  pores.  Draw  your  water  for 
your  bath.  Have  it  pleasantly  warm,  and 
pour  in  a  tablespoonful  or  so  of  perfumed 
water-softener  (the  kind  that  comes  in 
powder  form).  This  helps  you  to  combine 
a  real  beauty  treatment  with  your  bath, 
because  the  softened  water  will  cleanse  so 
much  more  thoroughly  tlian  hard  water, 
and  will  leave  your  skin  silky-soft.  This 
particular  water  softener  I  have  in  mind 
gives  you  a  daintily  delicate  all-over  fra- 
grance as  well. 

A  fragrant  soap  is  nice  to  use,  too,  and 
it's  especially  important  to  have  a  soap 
that  makes  a  beautiful  sudsy  lather.  I  es- 
pecially recommend  a  bath  brush  for  your 
beauty  bath  treatment,  also,  to  stimulate 
the  circulation,  and  remove  dead  skin.  We 
discussed  the  ugly  condition  of  goose 
pimples  last  month.  Rcmcmlier  that  a  good 
circulation  treatment  with  a  bath  brush 
will  do  wonders  toward  clearing  up  that 
condition,  both  on  the  nriiis  aii<l  legs.  I 
have  found  a  foot  bru>h  he  a  yrand  help 
to  keeping  feet  in  couditi' m  and  getting  the 
ciretilatioii  stirring  in  llnise  "cakes  of  ice." 
]-"iir  calhises,  liave  a  hit  of  toilet  pumice 
.stone  on  your  snap-dish,  and  use  it  gently 
but  firmly.  Scaly,  rough  elbows  will  also 
respoiKl  to  pumice-stone  treatments. 

One  of  tlic  smartest  l)alli-beauty  aids  I 
know  is  a  bath  tray  that  you  can  hook 
right  over  the  riiu  of  the  tub,  and  on  which 
you  can  arrange  your  manicure  aids,  your 
cleansing  tissues,  your  creams,  and  so  on. 
A  girl  I  know,  who  dotes  on  snaking  in 
the  tul),  uses  her  tray  as  a  bnnk  l  est.  She 
takes  two  small  saucers,  nr  imwls,  and 
pours  a  little  warm  oil  in  the  Ixjftnm  of 
each ;  then,  head  in  her  hands,  she  props 
lier  elliows  in  their  respective  portions  of 
oil  and  lets  the  oil  soak  in  "good  and 


proper."  The  halves  of  lemons  are  also 
good  for  "propping-up"  elbow  treatments. 
The  lemon  juice  acts  as  a  bleach  and  soft- 
ener. Maybe  if  you  have  a  clever  carpen- 
ter husband,  he  could  make  you  a  bathtub 
tray.  Then  you  could  combine  your  beauty 
bath  with  a  hand  (and  elbow)  beauty 
treatment.  Your  hands  would  already  be 
soaked  and  scrubbed  in  preparation  for  a 
decorative  manicure,  and  you  could  have 
your  manicure  aids  all  systematically  laid 
out  on  the  tray. 

When  you  are  part  way  through  your 
bath,  remove  your  cream  with  cleansing 
tissues.  Then  wash  your  face  W'ith  soap 
and  water  and  a  heavy  crash  wash-cloth 
or  complexion  brush.  Rinse  thoroughly 
with  generous  splashes  of  cold  water  at 
the  finish.  The  ideal  way  to  w-ind  up  your 
bath  is  with  a  tepid  shower.  We  won't 
say  "cold"  because  we  hate  cold  showers, 
too! 

After  you  step  out  of  the  tub,  give 
yourself  a  body  massage  with  a  fra- 
grant skin  lotion.  There  is  a  fine 
skin  lotion  that  is  made  now  with  thp 
same  fragrance  as  that  of  one  of  your 
favorite  soaps.  You  can  get  the  two  of 
them  boxed  in  an  introductory  set  at  a 
very  low  price.  And  you'll  have  a  symphony 
of  bath  fragrance.  The  lotion  is  a  perfect 
one  for  body,  hand,  and  leg  massage.  It 
is  creamy  but  not  sticky,  and  its  healing 
ingredients  are  perfect  for  chapped,  dry 
skin.  Concentrate  particularly  on  your 
legs  and  arms.  Certainly  there  is  nothing 
very  alluring  about  rough,  red  skin  show- 
ing through  sheer  chiffon  hose. 

It  is  nice  to  alternate  the  use  of  a  skin 
lotion  with  that  of  a  liquid  invigorator  for 
body  rubs.  When  you're  feeling  tired  and 
listless,  this  fresh,  tangy.  zippy  liquid, 
applied  vigorously  all  over  the  body,  acts 
as  a  regular  pep  cocktail.  Incidentally, 
I'm  making  you  a  free  gift  offer  of  this 
skin  invigorator,  so  that  you  can  test  its 
vim,  vigor,  and  vitality-producing  qualities 
yourself.  It  has  the  additional  quality  of 
being  a  very  efficient  cleanser,  too. 

Saturday  is  generally  shopping  day,  as 
well  as  bath  day,  and  sometimes  it  is  clean- 
ing day,  too.  Be  systematic  about  your 
cosmetic  shopping,  just  as  you  are  about 
marketing  for  the  family  meals.  You 
probably  have  a  shopping  list  hanging  up 
in  the  kitchen  on  which  you  jot  down  items 
you  want  to  re-order.  Have  a  little  list 
also  in  your  bathroom  or  in  your  dressing- 
table  drawer,  on  which  you  can  jot  down 
your  cosmetic  needs.  Remember  that  it  is 
always  the  safest  economy  to  buy  cosmetics 
of  Well-known  brand  names ;  products  that 
are  backed  up  by  the  reputation  of  a 
reliable,  trustworthy  firm.  If  you  are 
inspired  to  try  out  new  make-up,  get 
several  small  size  items  in  different  shades, 
so  that  >nu  can  actually  experiment 
scientifically  to  find  out  wiiich  shades  are 
mnst  flattering  to  you.  Make  an  appoint- 
ment inr  a  manicure,  along  with  your 
shopping  tour,  if  you  possibly  can;  other- 
wise schedule  it  for  after  your  beauty 
batli. 

A  very  clever  business  girl,  who  often 


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confides  in  me  any  time-saving  beauty 
schemes  siie  works  out,  tells  me  that  she 
has  to  devote  all  of  her  Saturday  mornings 
to  cleansing  and  straightening  up  her  small 
apartment.  So  she  does  her  beauty  work 
in  combination  with  her  housework.  To 
start  off  the  morning,  she  dusts  .  .  .  her 
hair.  Yes.  she  cleanses  her  hair  by  brush- 
ing it  thoroughly.  She  takes  a  piece  of 
cheesecloth  and  presses  it  down  hard  on 
the  bristles  of  the  brush  until  the  cloth  is 
at  the  very  base  of  the  bristles,  with  the 
bristles  poking  through,  thus  serving  as  a 
catch-all  for  the  dust  she  brushes  out  of 
her  hair.  Have  you  ever  thought  what  a 
grand  cleansing  process  brushing  is?  After 
the  brushing,  she  gives  her  hair  and  scalp 
a  vigorous  oil  massage.  She  prefers  a 
combination  of  olive  oil  and  castor  oil, 
because  her  hair  tends  to  extreme  dryness. 
Next  she  ties  a  towel  around  her  head, 
Turkish  fashion,  so  that  the  oil  can  soak 
in  while  she  is  working.  Her  hands  are 
still  oily  from  her  massage,  so  she  adds 
more  oil  to  them  for  good  measure,  giving 
them  their  share  of  massage,  too,  and  then 
pops  on  a  pair  of  cotton  work  gloves. 
There  she  is,  all  set  for  her  morning  of 
housework,  and  getting  set  for  her  after- 
noon matinee  date,  too.  When  her  house 
is  spic  and  span,  she  falls  to  work  on 
giving  her  oily  hair  a  thorough  shampoo. 
She  rinses  and  rinses  at  least  five  times, 
and  finishes  with  a  vegetable  brightening 
rinse,  which  brings  out  all  the  lovely  tints 
in  her  hair. 

Put  your  shampoo  on  a  regular  schedule, 
whether  you  do  it  on  Saturday  or  some 
other  day  of  the  week.    If  your  hair  is 


oily,  shampoo  it  once  every  week;  if  it  is 
dry  or  normal,  once  every  two  weeks  is 
probably  often  enough.  Brushing  should 
be  done,  not  only  in  connection  with  an  oil 
treatment  or  a  shampoo,  but  for  the  sake 
of  cleansing  and  polishing,  every  night. 
Four  weeks  of  conscientious,  nightly 
brushing  will  make  hair  gleam  like  a 
golden  wedding. 

Monday  is  proverbially  scheduled  as 
wash-day  on  the  weekly  program,  although, 
if  you're  a  business  girl.  Sunday  may  have 
to  be  your  wash-day,  and  it  takes  but  a 
little  extra  time  to  pay  particular  pampering 
care  to  your  lingerie.  Use  the  fine  soap 
flakes  that  are  as  gentle  as  they  are  gener- 
ous in  the  suds  they  produce.  Use  a  tint 
in  the  rinse  water  if  your  lingerie  is  faded. 
By  all  means  renew  shoulder  straps  that 
are  frayed  or  dejected  looking.  And  oh, 
by  all  means,  wash  your  girdle.  It  is 
amazing  the  number  of  fastidious  girls, 
who  wouldn't  think  of  going  without  a 
daily  bath,  but  who  will  wear  a  girdle  a 
couple  of  weeks  without  washing  it. 

Tuesday  can  be  mending  and  ironing 
day,  or  just  call  it  good  grooming  day. 
The  rest  of  the  week  is  pretty  nnicli  up  to 
you,  but  there  are,  of  course,  certain  things 
that  should  be  followed  out  every  day  of 
the  week.  Five  minutes  a  day,  dedicated 
to  brushing  the  hair  and  massaging  the 
scalp,  w'ill  help  to  keep  any  crowning  glory 
in  glossy,  well-groomed  condition.  If  your 
hair  is  inclined  to  be  oily,  use  a  tonic  in 
connection  with  your  brushing;  if  your 
hair  is  inclined  to  be  dry,  use  a  bit  of 
reconditioning  pomade  or  oil. 

Your  skin  must  be  cleansed  thoroughly 


every  night.  Cleanliness  is  the  first  law 
of  a  beautiful  complexion.  All  dermatolo- 
gists agree  on  that  point.  Cleansing  with 
cream,  and  then  with  soap  and  water,  is 
generally  the  preferable  method  for  the 
nightly  routine.  For  quick  clean-ups  and 
for  removing  make-up  during  the  day,  a 
liquid  cleanser  is  your  best  Int.  In  fact. 
I  believe  wholeheartedly  that  a  ■i>v>i]  Ii(|iiid 
cleanser  should  be  used  once  a  (la.\ ,  botli  to 
cleanse  and  tone  the  skin.  The  skin  in- 
vigorator,  which  I  have  talked  about  before, 
is  a  wholehearted  help  to  removing  stale 
make-up,  imbedded  soil,  and  oily  secretions 
from  the  pores.  We  all  know  that  pore- 
clogging  leads  to  those  ugly  evils  of  en- 
larged pores,  whiteheads  and  blackheads. 
Moreover,  this  particular  cleanser  neu- 
tralizes the  alkali  which  all  water  contains, 
in  varying  amounts,  of  course.  This  is  but 
another  quality  which  helps  it  to  counteract 
pore-cloggng.  I  am  going  to  give  you  a 
sample  of  the  product  to  enable  you  to 
try  it  out  yourself.  The  sample  contains 
enough  for  a  whole  week  of  treatments ! 


Mary  Biddle, 
Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  your  gift  offer  of 
the  Skin  Cleanser. 


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peril  might  have  sent  them  to  bed  hys- 
terical. Mrs.  Lord  steeled  herself  to  calm 
and  said  casually:  "Yes,  I  couldn't  say" — 
or  equivalent  words. 

After  that,  it's  hard  to  blame  the  London 
correspondent  for  thinking  the  icliole  SOS 
affair  -Mas  just  a  stunt.  Still,  -what  else 
could  Mrs.  Lord  have  done? 

THE  OLD  GAZOOK 

Graham  McNamee  was  talking  about 
Ed  Wynn  one  night,  affectionately  and  a 
little  defiantly.  "Yes,  I  know,"  Graham 
said.  "Ed  talks  about  himself.  He  com- 
plains about  people  taking  money  away 
from  him.  He  says  he's  a  poor  man  and 
then  goes  away  on  yacht  trips.  I  know 
all  that,  but  when  you  really  get  close  to 
Ed  Wynn,  you  accept  all  that  as  part  of 
him  and  you  still  are  fond  of  the  guy.  I'm 
crazy  about  the  old  gazook.  To  me  he's 
one  of  the  great  guys." 

That  summarizes  what  all  Ed's  friends 
think  about  the  old  gazook.  ]'oh  get  very 
fond  of  all  those  egotisms  and  eccentrici- 
ties of  his.  Especially  sucli  tilings  as  the 
compliment  he  pays  to  Eddie  Cantor.  Ed 
hates  to  concede  anyone  is  better  than 
himself,  but  I  have  heard  him  tell  this  in 
conversation  and  in  after-the-broadcast 
speeches  dozens  of  times: 

"You  people,"  this  story  of  Ed's  goes, 
"should  really  give  Eddie  Cantor  much 
more  credit  than  you  give  me.  I  came 
from  a  good  family  in  Philadelphia  and 
had  a  good  education.  I  had  every  chance. 
Look  at  poor  Eddie.  What  chance  did 
he  have?  Where  did  he  come  from? 
He  came  from  the  gutter!" 

-» 

/:</  shakes  his  head  in  z^'onderment  over 
the  achievements  of  this  little  guttersnipe. 
Then,  if  Ed's  on  the  stage,  the  famous 
giggle  icill  ring  out,  to  set  things  off  in 
high  spirits  again. 

ED  STARTED  IT 

Lou  Holtz  once  shared  a  dressing-room 
with  Ed  for  a  whole  season  and  he  got 
well  enough  acquainted  to  like  the  guy,  too. 
There's  one  story  about  Ed  that  he  rel- 
ishes, though. 

"Ed  ahcays  says,"  suys  Lou,  "that  he 
zi'as  the  one  who  started  llie  itica  of  kid- 
dine/  the  commercial  ami, lunccmcnls.  That 
zcas  hack  on  his  old  Texaco  program.  Til 
bet  anylhing  lul  had  no  idea  of  kidding 
commercials  zvlien  he  started  it. 

"He  just  heard  the  sponsor  getting 
forty  seconds  on  the  air  all  to  himself  and 
Ed  couldn't  stand  it.  So  he  stuck  some 
of  his  own  remarks  in." 

ANYWAY.  IT'S  A  GOOD  GAG! 

These  comedians  always  tell  outrageous 
stories  about  one  another — to  each  other, 
too,  when  they  meet.  They  don't  mind 
the  joke  being  on  them,  if  it's  a  good  gag. 
Anyway,  they  pretend  they  don't. 

Sid  Silvers,  who   starts   his  first  big 


radio  program  this  z^'iiiter,  once  zcorked  in 
a  z'uiidez'illc  act  zvith  Phil  Baker.  For  years 
they  toured,  Phil  as  the  star  on  the  stage, 
fumbling  with  his  accordion,  exchanging 
insolent  banter  zvith  a  very  fresh  young 
man  sitting  in  an  upper  box.  The  fresh 
young  man  H'as  Sid  Silvers. 

"We  used  to  get  great  notices  on  that 
act,"  Sid  recalls.  "I'll  never  forget  one 
town,  though,  where  the  critic  came  back 
to  see  me.  'You  have  a  great  act  there,' 
he  told  me.  'Novel,  working  from  a  box 
like  that.  But  why  do  you  bother  with 
that  man  on  the  stage  playing  the  accor- 
dion?' " 

IN  THE  SPOTLIGHT 

Just  as  an  idea  of  how  these  comedians 
love  getting  the  proper  effect  in  front  of 
an  audience  (radio  or  otherwise),  there 
was  a  Broadway  banquet  a  few  years  back, 
when  Al  Jolson  and  Georgie  Jessel  were 
in  the  midst  of  their  bitter  feud.  Al  got 
up  to  speak  and,  in  the  course  of  his  re- 
marks, referred  to  that  very  good  pal, 
Georgie  Jessel.  The  crowd  knew  about 
the  feud  and,  sensing  a  reconciliation  of 
two  favorites,  roared  approval. 

Georgie  Jessel,  good  showman  that  he 
is,  rose  from  his  seat  and  walked  over 
tozvard  Al.  Rapturously,  the  tivo  enemies 
embraced. 

People  in  the  nearby  chairs,  however, 
might  have  heard  Jessel's  undertone  to 
Al:  "You  know  this  doesn't  go,  you 
mugg!" 

Al  s  head  zvas  out  of  sight  behind 
Georgie's.  Pleased  zcith  what  he  had 
done,  he  grinned.  "I  know  it  doesn't  go. 
But  I  certainly  picked  the  spot,  didn't  I?" 

HMMMMI 

But  getting  away  from  these  comedians 
— if  you  are  curious  about  RCA's  television 
experiments  with  the  new  transmitter  in 
the  New  York  Empire  State  Building,  you 
can  get  a  vague  idea  with  your  short-wave 
set.  You  can  hear  the  talk  part  of  the 
programs,  at  least,  on  52  megacycles.  You 
can,  that  is,  if  your  set  goes  up  that  high. 
The  pictures  are  broadcast  on  49.75  mega- 
cycles, but  on  a  short-wave  set  the  pic- 
tures just  produce  a  meaningless  hummm. 

EDDIE,  TAKE  A  BOW! 

After  all  these  years  in  show  business, 
Eddie  Cantor  still  hasn't  learned  that 
thing  that  most  actors  learn  first — a  good 
bow  in  appreciation  of  applause.  Eddie 
bows  deeply  but  it  looks  very  awkward,  as 
though  he  weren't  used  to  it.  Still,  with 
these  master  showmen,  you  can't  be  sure. 
Maybe  he  has  decided  that's  the  best  kind 
of  bow. 

CUE  FOR  A  LAUGH 

I  was  telling  some  stories  about  various 
comedians,  a  couple  of  paragraphs  back,  and 
it  reminded  me  how  few  funny  stories  there 
are  about  Gracie  Allen.  She's  a  little 
homebody,  laughs  at  jokes  if  she  hears 
them,  doesn't  tell  many  herself,  unless  they 


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be  about  her  two  children.  She  loves 
shopping,  but  she's  had  to  give  it  up  al- 
most entirely  because  clerks  laugh  at  her 
as  soon  as  they  hear  that  unmistakable 
voice. 

"/  went  into  a  store  to  get  a  rolling- 
pin,"  her  typical  experience  runs,  "and 
ivhen  I  asked  for  it,  the  girls  all  started 
laughing.  'She  H'ants  a  rolling-pin!'  and 
they'd  giggle  and  giggle.  IV hat's  so  funny 
about  that!"' 

FAME  VERSUS  COMFORT 

Fame,  in  radio  as  well  as  in  the  movies, 
has  its  drawbacks.  One  of  these  is  the 
matter  of  dress.  You  and  I  expect  radio's 
headliners  to  look  their  very  best  at  all 
times  and  they  must  live  up  to  our  expec- 
tations. 

Only  7ciV/iiH  their  o'u-n  homes  or  in  re- 
hearsal studios  can  they  be  less  than  per- 
fectly dressed  and  comfortable.  And  they 
usually  do  it  -with  a  vengeance. 

When  vocalizing  at  home,  Jane  Pickens 
wears  pajamas  and  no  slippers  at  all. 
Helen  Marshall,  Fireside  Recitals  soprano, 
practices  in  a  well-worn  negligee  which 
she  brought  with  her  from  Joplin,  Mis- 
souri, her  home  town.  Bernice  Claire,  Me- 
lodiana  warbler,  putters  around  the  house 
in  a  simple  house  dress  and  comfortable 
mules.  Winter  or  summer,  Edith  Dick, 
Hit  Parade  vocalist,  wears  shorts  and  man- 
nish blouses. 

At  studio  rehearsals,  Al  Goodman  strips 
to  his  shirt,  casts  aside  his  street  shoes, 
and  dons  a  comfortable  pair  of  pumps. 


The  Landt  Trio  and  White,  when  they 
settle  down  to  a  lengthy  rehearsal,  get  into 
flimsy  summer  togs. 

In  a  studio  rehearsal,  Jan  Peerce  zvears 
his  jacket,  but  aluvys  leaves  his  shirt  col- 
lar open.  And  Don  Bestor,  no  matter 
hoii'  much  clothing  he  may  shed,  tcill  never 
discard  his  spats! 

HE  LIKES  THEM 

Fred  Waring  always  has  a  big  tin  of 
graham  crackers  on  a  little  table  along- 
side his  desk.  His  idea  of  lunch  usually 
is  a  bowl  of  milk  with  a  handful  of  crack- 
ers out  of  that  can.  It's  not  doctor's  or- 
ders. Fred's  stomach  probably  is  better 
equipped  than  your  own  for  a  filet  mignon 
in  the  middle  of  the  day.  Fred  simply  has 
a  curious  taste  for  graham  crackers. 

SCOOPS 

Maybe  you  do  or  maybe  you  don't  think 
of  radio  for  news.  Gather  around  with 
the  announcers  some  night  and  they  talk 
about  their  big  scoops  just  as  lustily  as  any 
crowd  of  newspapermen.  Dirigible  dis- 
asters, they  insist,  always  drop  things 
right  in  their  lap. 

When  the  Macon  crashed  into  the  Pa- 
cific, one  of  them  tells  you,  an  RCA  oper- 
ator just  happened  to  be  listening  in  on 
the  SOS  band  and  heard  the  balloon's  dis- 
tress signal.  Of  course,  he  called  the  af- 
filiate company,  NBC,  and  XBC  men 
su-ung  into  action  on  long-distance  phones 
and  quickly  assembled  the  story  from  here 
and  there  and  the  United  States  Xavy. 
That  Zi'as  ivhen  the  radio  stations  and 
neii'spapers  had  just  concluded  the  Press- 


Radio  Bureau  pact,  which  specified  that  no 
radio  station  should  broadcast  any  ncics 
which  had  not  come  from  the  bureau.  The 
press  associations,  unwarned  by  any  lucky 
listening  to  an  SOS  call,  did  not  have  the 
story  and  ivould  not  confirm  it  to  the 
Press-Radio  Bureau.  So  there  ifere  the 
NBC  men  with  one  of  the  biggest  (and 
luckiest)  nezi-s  beats  of  years  burning  their 
hands  and  they  couldn't  broadcast  it.  The 
netii'orks  ivere  almost  ready  to  go  off  the 
air  for  the  night,  too. 

With  the  clocks  ticking  off  fatal  min- 
utes, the  news  associations  were  told  just 
who  had  the  information.  Finally  the  news 
was  verified,  release  was  given  and  the 
bulletin  got  on  the  air. 

When  the  Akron  crashed,  off  the  Jersey 
coast,  Columbia  sent  Paul  Douglas  out  in 
a  plane,  hunting  for  the  ivreck  for  an  eye- 
li'itness  account.  Ghoulish,  maybe,  but 
e.vciting. 

The  plane  flew  over  a  small  government 
blimp  out  on  a  rescue  errand.  As  luck 
would  have  it,  at  that  moment  the  blimp 
folded  up  in  collapse,  to  add  a  second 
crash  to  the  day.  Paul  Douglas'  plane 
wheeled  right  around,  with  Paul  franti- 
cally sending  back  requests  for  immediate 
clearance  of  the  network.  That  was  an- 
other big  scoop. 

These  announcers  have  even  got  to  the 
point  ivhere  they  talk  of  famine,  pestilence 
and  disaster  in  terms  of  scoops — just  as 
neii'Spapernien  have  from  time  immemo- 
rial. 

— Arthur  Masox 


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It's  sheer  hard  luck  not  to  be  able  to  see  beauteous  Joan  Marsh, 
screen  star,  as  well  as  hear  her  on  the  "Flying  Red  Horse  Tavern" 
progranns.    Every  Friday  fronn  8  to  8:30  p.m.  EST  she's  on  CBS. 


Lily  Pons,  petite  star  of  opera, 
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one  of  her  favorite  canine  pals. 

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EDDIK  LAN!  UK  was  tecling  very 
magnanimous  one  evening,  after  Ida's 
return  from  New  York.  "What 
wciuld  you  like  to  do  this  evening?"  he  in- 
(|uirc(l.  "Let's  make  a  big  night  of  it — 
(  liCiiaiiut  Grove,  Rniiico  ami  Juliet  pre- 
miere, Biltmore — anything  you  say."  "Oh, 
lume  of  those  places,"  said  his  frau.  "Let  s 
really  celebrate  and  ride  around  and  look 
at  your  pictures  in  the  gasoline  stations." 

From  sniip  to  nuts  go  Burns  and  Allen. 
Ill  April  fliry  -a'ill  be  broadcasting  jor  a 
nutty  t'reakjast  food — uiid  iiiayl>e  from 
Xeiv  York  this  time.  They  are  headiin/ 
east  the  minute  their  Paramount  picture  is 
completed  and  ivill  appear  in  a  Droadzvay 
play,  a  musical  comedy  based  on  The 
!  Charm  Girl. 

Al  Jolson  says  he's  pleased  as  Punch  to 
be  coming  back  on  the  air  again.  We 
hear  that  Al  stopped  at  the  Cradle,  fa- 
mous Evanston  orphanage,  on  his  way 
west  after  signing  the  contract,  and  looked 
civer  the  girls.  Others  who  are  adopting 
babies  any  minute  now  are  Irene  Dunne, 
Miriam  Hopkins,  the  Fredric  Marches 
and  the  Pat  O'Briens. 

When  Bobby  Breen  was  being  considered 
for  picture  work,  he  met  the  man  who  was 
thinking  of  investing  $60,000,  in  the  film. 
Bobby  shook  hands  with  Lou  Lurie,  the 


mdiicyed  man.  "May  I  call  you  Uncle 
Lou?"  asked  Bobby.  "And  shall  we  get 
right  down  to  business?"  Mr.  Lurie  was 
so  stunned  that  he  okayed  Bobby's  next 
proposal,  about  putting  the  money  into  the 
picture  and  being  done  with  it.  "Oh,  I'm 
so  glad  you'll  do  it,"  said  the  boy.  "I 
want  to  make  a  lot  of  money,  so's  I  can 
get  a  nice  house  and  a  teacher  for  my 
mother  and  father,  so's  they  can  learn 
English."  Bobby  got  enough  money  even 
to  hire  a  teacher  with  an  English  accent! 

Jan  Garher's  reception  on  the  west  coast 
has  lu-fii  really  soiiiethiin/.  His  Catalina 
Island  en<ia<iement  ivas  folloivcd  by  one  at 
Los  Aiii/eles'  famed  Cocoanut  Grove.  On 
the  openiiui  niiiht  the  crowd  looked  like 
Hollyivood  Who's  Who.  When  Joan 
Craivford  came  szireping  in  with  $8,000- 
leorth  of  siher  fo.ves  and  Franchot  Tone, 
Jan  struck  up  her  favorite  tune.  Melan- 
choly Baby — and  Joan  stepped  up  and 
ivarbled  it!  _^ 

Didja  Know:  That  Jack  Oakie,  popu- 
lar screen  comic,  became  a  radio  star 
on  signing  with  Camel  Caravan's  new 
show?  That  Martha  Raye  has  announced 
her  engagement  to  Glenda  Farrell's 
nephew?  That  Constance  and  Joan  Ben- 
nett have  been  talking  about  each  other 
on  the  air?  That  Hollywood  Hotel  has 
celebrated    its    third    anniversary?  That 


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Al  Jolson  will  only  get  $4,000  a  week  on 
the  new  program?  That  Judy  Janis, 
ninety-three  pounds  of  charm  and  song 
on  the  Phil  Harris  program,  is  heart- 
whole  and  fancy-free?  That  325,000 
students  in  3,000  Pacific  Coast  schools 
are  taking  the  Standard's  music  apprecia- 
tion course?  That  Anne  Jamison  is  the 
only  soprano  of  note  to  appear  on  both 
CBS  and  NBC  networks — and  that  she's 
going  to  give  them  both  up,  mebbe,  and 
go  into  pictures?  That  Josef  Koestner's 
10-year-old  son,  Pat,  is  the  juvenile  on 
Music  Hall  broadcasts?  That  Hoot  Gib- 
son made  his  first  radio  appearance  re- 
cently for  the  Music  Hall,  and  without  a 
horse?  That  Fred  Allen  claims  pump- 
kins are  a  California  fruit — just  fat 
oranges  too  lazy  to  reduce? 

Radio  is  catching  up  to  movies  so  fast 
that  the  celluloid  market  is  due  for  a 
slump.  Anything  the  iiiooiii  pitchers  can 
offer  in  the  entertainment  line,  the  radio 
moguls  insist,  can  soon  be  duplicated  and 
eventually  excelled  via  the  air  waves. 
Previews  are  the  latest  proof.  A  preview 
always  used  to  mean  the  advance  showing 
of  a  picture — but  now  it"s  just  as  likely  to 
mean  an  advance  airing  of  a  radio  pro- 
gram. They're  just  as  swanky  and  far 
more  exclusive,  the  broadcasting  stations 
limiting  an  audience  to  just  the  Chosen 
Few. 

I'lie  tables  have  even  turned  to  the  ex- 
tent of  the  cinema  studios  angling  for 
radio  uritcrs.  Carlton  E.  Morse,  author 
of  One  Man's  Family,  is  the  latest  con- 
vert.   He's  in  Hollyicood  non',  ivriting  a 


picture  version  of  the  popular  serial  for 
Paramount  Pictures.  The  story  of  the 
Barbours  zvas  the  first  serial  originating 
on  the  Pacific  Coast  to  be  sponsored  by  a 
nation-zi'ide  netivork.  They'll  be  celebrat- 
ing their  fifth  year  on  the  air  in  April,  and 
Paramount  ivill  release  the  picture  around 
that  time.  -♦- 

At  a  rehearsal,  the  other  day,  we  spotted 
a  famous  opera  star  "parking"  a  piece  of 
gum  on  the  mike  just  before  going  into 
one  of  Wagner's  deathless  songs.  When 
she  left  the  stage,  so  carried  away  was  she 
that  she  completely  forgot  her  gum. 
However,  we  were  glad  to  see  that,  when 
the  lady  returned  for  her  next  number, 
she  had  acquired  another  piece  which 
found  a  resting  place  on  the  music  rack. 
The  climax  to  her  performance,  as  far  as 
we  were  concerned,  came  when  the  artist 
bowed  low  to  the  audience,  collected  both 
wads  of  gum  and  swept  off  the  stage. 

Latest  addition  to  Columbia  Broadcast- 
ing System's  musical  department  is  Deems 
Taylor,  American  composer,  critic  and 
journalist.  "The  radio,"  he  says,  "has  lie- 
come,  and  will  remain,  music's  most  im- 
portant medium  of  transnii>sii in  ami  no 
musician  can  afford  not  to  take  it  with  the 
utmost  seriousness.  Aiiyoiu-  \vh. .  has  a 
chance  to  play  a  part  in  presenting  music 
to  the  radio  public  should — as  I  do — 
count  himself  lucky." 

A  160-pound  deer  caused  considerable 
an.rriety  and  not  a  feic  harsh  thoughts 
around  the  XBC  Hollywood  studios  re- 
cently.   That's  a  lot  of  deer,  hut  the  divi- 


sion of  it  icas  the  problem.  The  trophy 
Zi'os  really  brought  doi^-H  by  Syd  Di.ron, 
but  he  shot  it  zi.'ith  a  gun  belonging  to 
John  Szcallozv,  spotted  it  zvith  binoculars 
belonging  to  Eddie  Holden,  tracked  it  in 
boots  loaned  by  Tracy  Moore  and  a  hunt- 
ing costume  zvhich  is  the  pride  and  joy  oj 
Hal  Bock. 

Lily  Pons  believes  in  doing  one  thing 
at  a  time  and  doing  it  well.  While  out 
at  the  RKO  studios,  she  was  having  dic- 
tion difficulties  and  asked  the  director  to 
give  her  just  one  line  at  a  time,  so  she 
could  do  it  well.  For  one  scene  the  di- 
rector told  Lily  she  would  have  to  go 
slangy,  snap  her  fingers  and  come  out 
with:  "That'll  slay  'em,  eh?"  Lily  re- 
peated the  line  under  her  breath  until 
the  lights  flashed  on,  cameras  turned  and 
the  director  called:  "Okay,  Miss  Pons, 
we're  ready.  Shoot!"  Lily  walked  to  the 
center  of  the  stage,  snapped  her  fingers 
and  said  slangily:  "That'll  keel  the  people, 
is  it  not  so?"  and  walked  off,  well  pleased 
with  herself. 

Parkyakarkus  suggests  that  the  theme 
song  for  the  Xew  York  State  Penitentiary 
should  be  Sing  Sing,  Baby,  Sing  Sing. 

And  Rupert  Hughes,  former  host  of  the 
old  Camel  Caravan,  has  a  nezu  Pekingese 
at  his  house.  nawcJ  S.  If.  Taffy.  The 
S.  II'.  stands  for  Salt  U'atrr. 

If  you  think  Nelson  Eddy  likes  those 
pompadour  and  satin  pants  parts,  you 
should  ask  the  Open  House  cast.  For 
after  every  program  Nelson  bundles  the 


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Two  whose  song  makes  "Vick's  Open  House"  progrann  a  sheer  delight — Francia 
White  and  Nelson  Eddy.  Here  the  candid  camera  shows  them  polishing  up  a 
duet  which  you  will  hear  when  you  tune  in  CBS  on  Sunday  evenings  at  eight 
o'clock,  EST.  Francia  was  Eddy's  choice  over  all  of  Hollywood's  sopranos. 
And  Eddy  is  everybody's  choice  in  radio,  concert,  or  on  the  movie  screen! 


whole  troupe  off  to  his  Beverly  Hills  house 
for  supper  and  musical  charades.  And 
Eddy  won't  take  a  role  that  isn't  tough, 
even  in  a  charade.  The  lusty  music  of 
the  buccaneer,  the  soldier  or  the  villain 
is  his  meat.  And  Francia  White  likes 
lullabies. 

Joseph  Pasteniack's  orchestra  was  re- 
hearsing Friml's  Chnusniicttc.  Nelson 
Eddy  noticed  that  a  member  of  the  chorus 
was  absorbed  in  the  music,  obhvious  to 
those  around  her. 

"You  Hked  that  piece?"  remarked  Eddy 
at  the  close  of  the  numl)cr. 

"Yes,"  the  girl  replied.  "You  see,  my 
father  wrote  it." 

Lucile  Friml  is  the  name  and  she's  been 
studying  voice  for  several  years  in  the 
hopes  that  she  may  be  able  to  master  solo 
parts  in  some  of  her  father's  famous 
works.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Paul 
Taylor  chorus. 

A  small  Chinese  rrstmiraiil  in  Holly- 
woiid  is  l^ackiuij  in  llic  r/niiv/j-  on  I-'iiday 
niqhis  since  it  inawiuralcd  the  eiislnni  of 
lechirimi  dinner  to  the  luiies  of  llie  .Indre 
Koslehniet::  C  heslerjirld  hroadeasl.  J'ie- 
I II  res  of  the  direelor.  Ray  J I  ea  t  herloii .  k'ny 
Thompson,  et  al,  adorn  ,i  hiioe  poster  jiist 
inside  the  door.  I  he  hroadensls  r.wV/  he 
even  more  popular  now,  sinee  K ost elmiet:: 
heard  of  this  iiniisiial  tnl<iite  to  his  iniisie, 
and  is  tiomo  to  luetiide  siieh  afpyopriale 
limes  as  Chop  .Sticks,  China  'I'owii,  and 
China  Boy. 

Francia  White,  assisting  artist  on  the 
Nelson  Eddy  Open  House  program,  took 
up  the  option  on  her  last  possible  guest 
appearance  on  another  radio  program 
when  she  filled  the  singing  guest  role  on 
Camel  Caravan  in  November.  Francia's 
contract  with  Eddy  allowed  her  five  guest 
appearances  on  other  shows.  Francia  is 
now  a  new  recruit  to  the  permanent  cast 
of  Fred  Astaire's  Tuesday  night  programs. 

The  question  of  the  moment  for  Frances 


Langford  is:   How  long  is  four  weeks? 

Frances  was  promised  a  month's  vaca- 
tion from  her  torch  singing  for  Hollyivood 
Hotel.  To  Frances  that  meant  four  pro- 
grams, bringing  her  back  to  the  networks 
November  20th.  Not  so  for  the  producers 
of  the  show,  however.  "Four  weeks  means 
three  weeks  off  the  program  and  four 
weeks  away  from  Hollywood,  Miss  Lang- 
ford,"  she  was  told,  in  no  uncertain  tones. 

Telephones  did  a  merry  jangle  between 
the  Hollywood  office  and  Frances,  basking 
in  Florida  sunshine  and  reveling  in  the 
coinforts  of  home  in  Lakeland.  Even  the 
operators  were  debating :  How  much  is  a 
month  ? 

We'll  bet  a  chrowiiim  television  set  that 

you'd  never  gness  the  best  dressed  man  at 
the  NBC  studios.  Bob  Burns  is  the  gen- 
tleman! His  suits  and  accessories  are  al- 
ways conservative — but  the  kind  of  con- 
servatism that  smacks  of  considerable  time, 
thought  and  money  having  been  put  on 
them.  .  .  .  NBC's  slouchicst  is  Bing 
Crosby,  zcho  seldom  wears  a  coat,  never 
leears  a  hat  and  has  the  most  complete 
iissorlment  of  baggy  trousers  in  Hollyivood. 
.  .  .  l-red  Aslaire  goes  in  for  studied  non- 
ehalaiiee.  Faultlessly  tailored  flannel 
slacks  and  tz^'ced  jaehets  pressed  to  look 
impressed.  .  .  .  Jack  Benny  has  never  been 
seen  in  anything  but  iron-gray  business 
suits  and  blaeh  cigars.  .  .  .  Vic  Young 
woitlihi't  he  eauglit  dead  around  work 
without  his  "liieky  jacket" — a  tiveed  affair 
with  do.':ens  of  cippers  on  pockets,  lapels 
and  front.  These  he  dps  up  and  dozen  in 
agitated  moments.  .  .  .  Edzmrd  Everett 
Uorton  alwiiys  wears  an  overcoat  and 
muffler  to  guard  against  colds.  He's  never 
had  one  am!  isn't  taking  any  chances.  .  .  . 
Jidinny  Creen  zeouldn't  be  zvilhoiit  a  turk- 
ish  lirieel  around  liis  neck  zvltile  broadcast- 
ing. Reason  unknozvn.  .  .  .  Kenny  Baker 
is  NBC's  loudest,  sartorially  speaking. 
Checked  suits  and  off-color  ties  being 
his  specialty.  .  .  .  Don  Wilson  manages  to 
cover  up  his  si.v-fool -four  in  tiveed  suits, 
but  says  lie'd  rather  just  zvcar  a  tent. 


RADIO  STARS 


If  she  can  clear  her  schedule  of  Holly- 
wood film  and  radio  engagements,  Ger- 
trude Niesen  will  hie  London-ward  at  coro- 
nation time.  Remunerative  engagements 
await  her  at  one  of  the  brighter  night 
clubs  and  also  at  London's  famed  Palla- 
dium. 

Ginger  Rogers  says  she'd  give  up  pic- 
tures in  a  split  second  for  a  good  chance 
at  radio.  But  Mama  Lela  Rogers  is 
equally  vehement  in  her  idea  of  movies 
being  a  girl's  best  hct.  She  even  has  her 
own  Little  Theatre  out  at  RKO  Studios, 
where  she  trains  girls  with  cinematic  aspi- 
rations. But  after  appearing  on  that  re- 
cent Radio  Theatre  program  with  Ginger, 
Mrs.  Rogers  was  enthusiastic  about  radio. 
Mama,  according  to  Ginger,  is  slipping. 

The  Dick  Pouiells  arc  still  honeymoon- 
ing, even  if  they  are  back  now  front  New 
York.  And  that  accord, nn  to  no  belter 
authority  than  the  Dick  Poieclls.  Joan 
and  Dick  are  both  set  for  pictures  out  at 
Warner  Brothers  and  in  the  iiicantinie  are 
hard  at  ivork  zoith  the  Hollywood  Hotel 
program.  No,  Joan  isn't  on  the  proiiran\. 
But  she  nei'cr  misses  one,  and  practically 
li'cars  herself  out  applauding  every  Pozvell 
number. 

Between  the  Paducah  Plantation  broad- 
casts and  spending  fourteen  hours  a  day 
in  the  hospital,  Irvin  S.  Cobb  has  been 
one  of  Hollywood's  busier  people  lately. 
Mrs.  Cobb  was  seriously  ill  with  pneumo- 
nia for  several  weeks,  but  will  shortly  re- 
turn to  their  Santa  Monica  home. 

Cobbie  Brody,  the  nine-year-old  grand- 
son of  the  Cobbs,  who  is  now  visiting  at 
Santa  Monica,  startled  the  family  the  other 
day  with  the  announcement  of  his  engage- 
ment to  Shirley  Temple,  who  has  been  his 
playmate  since  his  arrival.  "Well,  I  sized 
Shirley  up,"  said  Cobbie,  "and  she  seems 
pretty  sensible.    At  least,  for  a  girl." 


Robert  Taylor 
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licity  items  Djould  have  us  believe.  Within 
the  next  month  or  so.  Bob  is  definitely 
planning  to  leave  it  all,  take  a  trip  to  Ne- 
braska, the  hum  state,  and  then  take  in 
Europe.    And  alone! 

And  if  Bob  Burns  hasn't  gone  and 
signed  himself  up  to  become  a  millionaire^. 
A  movie  contract  which  he  has  just 
ckayed  will  make  him  one  of  those  things 
in  three  years.  A  contract  for  a  syndi- 
csted  newspaper  column  will  pay  him  an 
additional  ^26,000.  a  year.  And  we're  not 
mentioning  radio.  A  year  and  a  half  ago 
Bo'j  had  two  possesions  of  value — a  sec- 
ond-hand car  and  a  bazooka.  But  he  still 
wears  a  7'/4  hat. 

-♦- 

The  latest  tenants  of  the  Countess  Di 
Frasso's  Beverly  Hills  home  arc  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jack  Benny.  Marlcne  Dietrich  just 
recently  vacated  the  house  and,  according 
to  Jack,  what's  good  enough  for  Marlene 
is  almost  good  enough  for  him.  We 
thought  this  was  our  chance  to  find  out 
how  many  rooms  this  famous  place  really 
has,  but  Jack  wouldn't  help  us.  "Haven't 
heard  a  word  from  the  scouting  party  I 
sent  out  four  days  ago,"  he  said  mourn- 
fully. 

— Lois  Svensrud. 


With  Soft  LUSTROUS  HAIR 


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SOAP  SHAMPOOS 


1.  Miciophoto  shows 
hair  shampooed  witn 
ordinary  soap  and 
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dandruFf  and  curd  de- 
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mar  natural  luster  of 


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hair  rinsed  twice 
Note  Fitch  Shompoo 
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and  undissolved  de- 
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FITCH'S 

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What 
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watching  others  that  charm  and  poise  can  be  destroyed 
instantly  by  the  misuse  of  hands.  And  by  the  same 
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accomplish  much  of  their  poise  by  proper  hand  action. 

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second  anniversary  broadcast.  It  looked 
stunning,  topping  a  matching  white  evening 
gown — but  it  looked  even  cuter,  a  few  days 
later,  when  I  spotted  Miss  L.  wearing  it 
to  top  a  dark  daytime  dress !  No,  it  didn't 
look  out  of  place  at  all,  even  if  you.  knew 
it  had  been  worn  a  few  evenings  previous. 

Her  pet  item  in  her  wardrobe  is  the 
two-piece  suit,  either  tailored  or  quite 
formal.  Like  so  many  busy  professional 
women,  and  all  you  business  girls,  she 
finds  the  tailored  suit  the  answer  to  most 
daytime  problems  of  dressing  smartly  and 
inexpensively.  Frances  has  several  of  them 
in  her  wardrobe.  There's  a  stunning 
tailleur  in  two  shades  of  gray,  an  all-black 
model  and  two  fur-trimmed  ones  for  colder 
weather  in  California.  One  of  her  fur- 
trimmed  suits  has  a  pert  flaring  peplum, 
edged  with  a  wide  band  of  black  fox.  The 
fur  edging  to  the  peplum  on  the  jacket  is 
all  right  for  a  slim  little  tiling  like  Frances, 
but  most  of  you  half-pinters  will  do  better 
with  the  smoother  furs.  Fox  tends  to 
give  too  much  bulk  to  the  top  of  the  figure 
and  thus  cuts  down  your  height. 

Last  fall,  Frances  went  back  to  Lake- 
land, Florida,  for  an  annual  holiday  in  her 
old  home  town.  For  the  train  trip  down 
and  back,  she  bought  the  tailored  suit 
which  she  had  photographed  for  this 
story.  As  you  can  see,  it  combines  the 
unusual  combination  of  a  striped  skirt  and 
a  checked  jacket.  The  skirt  is  a  soft 
English  flannel  in  gray  with  fine  white 
and  brown  stripes.  And  the  jacket,  made 
with  a  fitted  waist  and  slightly  padded 
shoulders,  is  of  the  checked  tweed  in  the 
same  shades. 

Dark  accessories  are  her  choice  for  this. 
That  mannish  shirt  is  dark  brown  and  she 
bought  it  in  the  boys'  department  of  a 
Hollywood  store !  To  further  stress  the 
severe  tailored  feeling  of  the  suit,  she 
wears  a  man's  beige  silk  tie  and  a  fedora- 
type  brown  felt  hat.  Her  brown  suede 
oxfords  and  smartly  shaped  handbag  are 
a  trifle  more  on  the  feminine  side. 

Lounging  pajamas  come  next  in  im- 
portance in  her  personal  wardrobe.  She 
finds  them  the  perfect  outfits  for  the 
relaxation  she  has  to  steal  between  re- 
hearsals, broadcasts  and  picture  "shoot- 
ings." She  wears  thein  for  dining  at  home 
and  often  for  a  hostess  costume,  in  lieu 
of  a  dress. 

She  was  wearing  her  favorite  pajama 
suit  the  day  I  talked  to  her.  It's  the  black 
and  white  satin  one  you  sec  pictured.  It's 
rather  Russian  in  feeling,  with  a  long  tunic 
in  white  brocaded  satin,  the  collar  of 
which  buttons  right  up  under  the  chin 
with  black  satin  buttons.  The  trousers 
are  plain  black  satin,  cut  rather  wide.  Her 
sash  belt  is  edged  with  the  black  satin — 
wliite  satin  sandals  for  her  feet.  This 
makes  a  stunning  foil  for  Frances'  own 
black  and  white  coloring. 

I  asked  Frances  to  pick  the  one  dress, 
out  of  her  whole  closet,  wliich  she  found 
the  most  useful  for  general  informal  use. 
Without  a  moment's  deep  thought,  she 
pulled  out  the  short-sleeved,  dark  purple 
afternoon  crepe  and  promised  to  have  a 


picture  made  of  it  for  you.  It's  extremely 
simple  and  that's  the  secret  of  its  smartness 
for  five-footers  or  less.  There's  not  an 
extra  detail  to  make  it  look  too  fussy,  and 
yet  it  certainly  doesn't  look  juniorish. 
That  soft  fullness  to  the  top  is  cleverly 
achieved  by  shirring  that  extends  up  the 
outside  of  the  arms  and  across  the 
shoulders  to  be  caught  into  the  high- 
buttoned  neck  band.  The  shirring  gives 
the  short  sleeves  that  new  "drawn  up" 
look  that  is  so  effective.  The  skirt  is  quite 
slender  with  just  a  slight  flare  toward  the 
hem.  You'll  find  that  all  width  will  be 
modified  in  spring  dresses,  a  gradual 
tapering  off  from  the  very  full  "swing" 
skirts  of  this  winter.  That's  what  makes 
this  dress  of  Frances'  so  practical — it  isn't 
extreme.  The  low  slash  to  the  front  of 
the  blouse  is  partially  filled  in  with  a 
raggedy  bunch  of  fuchsia-colored  flowers. 

Don't  skip  the  attractive  black  suede 
pumps  that  Frances  wears  with  this  dress. 
They  have  the  high  instep  cut.  As  you 
will  notice,  although  Frances  has  the  small 
foot  of  the  shorter  girl,  she  doesn't  cut 
it  off  with  short-vamp  shoes.  All  of  her 
shoes  have  the  longer  toe  detail  and  it 
tends  to  give  an  added  illusion  of  height. 

Frances  said  that  she  really  goes  to  town 
on  clothes  to  be  worn  at  a  Hollywood 
premiere.  Of  course,  some  of  the  picture 
previews  are  not  necessarily  formal,  but 
about  once  a  month  there  is  a  grand 
opening  to  a  new  picture  and  everyone 
steps  out  in  their  best. 

For  such  a  swanky  event,  Frances 
bought  herself  a  beautiful  white  crepe 
gown  which  is  embroidered  all  over  with 
white  and  silver  beads.  Tiny  as  she  is, 
the  Langford  takes  on  regal  proportions 
in  this  dress.  Made  on  semi-princess 
lines,  with  a  skirt  that  just  touches  the 
floor  and  has  no  train,  this  gown  achieves 
its  distinction  with  its  unusual  bodice 
detail.  Backless,  it  is  built  up  high  at  the 
neck  in  front  but  has  a  deep  slash  to  the 
high  waistline,  where  Frances  clips  a 
beautiful  ruby  and  rhinestone  jewel.  This 
sounds  very  decollete,  but  it  isn't,  because 
over  the  dress  foundation  goes  a  cape- 
jacket  with  long  sleeves.  Really  a  unique 
and  very  flattering  gown. 

With  this  dress  Frances  wears  red 
slippers  to  match  the  one  color  note  in 
her  gown's  trimming,  the  clip.  And  over 
it  she  wears  her  prized  possession — a  cape 
of  flawlessly  matched  platinum  foxes. 
This  luxurious  fur  topper  made  its  appear- 
ance at  the  preview  of  Romeo  and  Juliet 
and  Frances  says  she  still  can't  bear  to 
splurge  out  in  it  except  for  her  most  im- 
portant dates.  She  wore  it  again,  not  long 
ago,  over  a  very  simple  black  crepe  dinner 
gown — this  was  at  the  annual  Press 
Photographers'  Ball. 

Furs  are  a  hobby  with  her.  She  says : 
"If  ever  I  get  really  rich,  I  will  buy  as 
many  of  them  as  I  like.  My  fox  cape  is 
the  beginning  and  I  hope  my  next  buy  will 
be  a  mink  coat.  But  that's  definitely  on 
the  luxury  side  and  will  have  to  wait !" 

On  the  subject  of  accessories,  Frances 
has  very  set  ideas. 


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RADIO  STARS 


Here's  Frances  Longford,  "done 
wrong"  by  a  camera  as  she  rests  on 
her  car  on  the  "Born  to  Dance"  lot. 

"A  bag  or  a  pair  of  shoes  can  make  an 
inexpensive  costume,  or  ruin  an  expensive 
one,"  she  insists.  "Getting  a  dress  is  just 
the  first  step  in  assembling  a  costume.  I 
never  wear  a  new  one  until  I  have  the 
right  shoes,  hat,  bag  and  gloves  to  go  with 
it.  It's  really  not  such  an  expensive  plan 
as  it  sounds.  I  have  found  that  if  you 
have  one  good  looking  set  of  accessories 
in  black,  brown  and  navy  blue,  you  can 
meet  the  demands  of  almost  an\-  costume." 

Isn't  there  always  one  dress  in  your  own 
wardrobe  that  you  cherish  above  all  others, 
regardless  of  how  old  it  is?  Well,  Frances 
has  just  such  a  garment.  It  no  longer  is 
new  and  it  hasn't  any  particularly  striking 
feature  of  color,  trimming  or  cut.  But 
she  loves  it.  It's  a  graceful  dinner  dress 
of  green  lace  and  there's  hardly  a  week 
that  it  doesn't  come  out  of  the  closet  to 
attend  some  sort  of  a  party. 

"I  had  the  grandest  time  of  my  life,  the 
first  time  I  wore  that  dress."  Frances 
said,  holding  it  in  her  arms.  "Xow  I  get 
it  out  to  wear  every  time  I'm  going  some- 
where that  I  want  to  be  sure  to  have  fun. 
It  hasn't  failed  me  yet !  It's  my  lucky 
dress." 

I  have  made  a  lot  of  notes  on  colors, 
fabrics  and  styles  of  clothes  that  are 
flattering  to  various  types.  If  you  will 
write  in  to  me,  giving  your  full  description 
such  as  height,  coloring,  general  figure 
proportions,  etc.,  I  will  gladly  give  you 
some  pointers  on  how  to  make  the  most 
of  yourself  from  every  fashion  angle. 

Send  in  this  description  along  with  your 
request  for  my  monthly  Shopping  Bulletin. 
Fill  in  the  coupon  below. 


Elizabeth  Ellis, 
Radio  Stars  Magazine. 
149  Madison  Avenue. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

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addressed  envelope.  Kindly  send  me, 
free  of  charge,  your  FEBRUARY 
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A  program  you  will  delight  in  listening  to  is  Modern  Ronnonces'  "Wednesday 
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Street,  and  Tlie  Man  Moikey  was  very 
good.  Bertha,  the  Seiving  Machine  Girl 
was  some  mix-up,  too.  But  whether  the 
])lays  are  hokum,  good  clean  fun  or  drama, 
it  is  a  grand  show.  However,  I  must  say 
that  I  don't  think  it  would  he  so  grand 
if  Orson  Wells  was  not  the  Great  McCoy 
and  did  not  act  in  the  plays.  I  never  heard 
a  better  actor  on  the  air,  and  in  Hamlet 
on  the  Columbia  Workshop  program  he 
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Mrs.  Gertrude  Smith,  West  Cornwall, 
Conn.  (Housewife.)  "One  Man's  Family 
is  one  of  the  best,  but  I  am  also  much  in- 
terested in  Betty  and  Bob.  The  O'Neills 
for  a  good  laugh  and  Eddie  Cantor,  Jack 
Benny  and  Phil  Baker,  too.  My  favorite 
singers  are  Nelson  Eddy,  Lanny  Ross  and 
James  Melton." 

Jaene  Huscher,  Albany,  Calif.  "Seeing 
so  many  letters  in  the  December  issue  tell- 
ing of  favorites,  I  just  liad  to  join  in. 
Fir.st  of  all  comes  Vick's  Open  House  with 
Nelson  Eddy;  then  the  /Unerican  Album 
of  Familiar  Music,  The  Voice  of  Firestone, 
Shi'w  B(Hil.  U'all.z  Time,  the  Packard 
Hnur  and  I\\tdy  I'allce's  Variety  Flour. 
Also  enjoy  Lowell  Thomas  and  Boake 
Carter.  The  one  I  dislike  most  is  Good 
Will  Court.  Those  I  like  make  life  pleas- 
anter — which,  I  think,  should  be  the  aim 
of  all  programs — the  Good  Will  Court  is 
depressing.  Of  course,  I  needn't  listen  to 
it  and  I  don't.    Once  was  enough." 

Frank  Rhoads,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  (Ma- 
chinist.) "For  a  good  laugh  I  tune  in 
laddie  Cantor;  for  good  news.  The  March 
of  Time;  Ben  Bernic  and  Rudy  Vallee  be- 
cause they  always  furnish  good  programs." 
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Mary    Jane    MacConell,    Globe,  Ariz. 


(High  School  Girl)  "I  listen  to  One  Man's 
Family  because  I  think  it  is  typical  of  the 
.American  family.  The  characters  are  life- 
like and  the  story  is  always  interesting  and 
never  overdone.  I  also  listen  to  the 
Lucky  Strike  Hit  Parade — I  like  to  know 
which  songs  are  most  popular." 

Martha  Nurre,  Loveland,  Ohio.  "I  pre- 
fer the  King  of  Comedy,  Jack  Benny,  and 
the  King  of  Song,  Nelson  Eddy.  I  think 
Sunday  night  is  the  best  night  on  the  radio. 
Other  programs  among  my  favorites  are 
Eddie  Cantor,  Stoopnagle  and  Btidd  and 
Z.H.r  Radio  Theatre." 

Tilghman  Frantz,  AUentown,  Pa.  "I  like 

Jessica  Dragonette  best,  because  she  has 
the  most  beautiful  voice  I  have  ever  heard. 
I  never  miss  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
broadcasts,  either.  These  two  are  my  pref- 
erences." _♦- 

Phyllis  Ireland,  Eugene,  Ore.  "My  fa- 
vorite kind  of  music  is  swing.  I  like  it 
more  each  day.  The  worst  kind  is  amateur 
sopranos  and  baritones.  I  don't  like  news 
programs,  such  as  Sam  Hayes'.  The  best 
orchestra  leaders  are  Glen  Gray,  Benny 
Goodman,  Bob  Crosby  and  Jimmy  G'rier. 
My  favorite  programs  are  IVaring's  Pcnn- 
sylvanians  and  the  Friday  Chesterfield  pro- 
gram. The  thing  I  like  the  best  in  a 
program  is  the  music,  so  I  enjoy  those  in 
the  evening  which  come  from  night  clubs." 

Mary  E.  P.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  (House- 
wife.) "My  very  favorite  program  on  the 
air  is  Today's  Children.  It's  so  true  to 
life." 

Genevieve  Maro.  (Nurse.)  "Jessica 
Dragonette  has  brought  me  new  free-ness 
and  new  happiness  which  I  shall  never 
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heard  who  tries  to  fill  her  fans'  requests 
to  her  utmost  ability.  And  the  only  star 
who  cherishes  her  fans'  letters,  cards,  etc. 
In  other  words,  Jessica  is  more  than  a 
star.  She  is  a  queen  and  may  she  forever 
be  on  the  radio !" 

Matilda  Dudziak,  Richmond,  Calif. 
(Cashier.)  "My  favorite  program  on  the 
air  is  Vick's  Open  House,  which  combines 
Xclson  Eddy's  superb  voice  with  his  grand 
personality  and  ability  as  a  master  of  cere- 
monies. Other  preferences  are  sym- 
phonies :  Richard  Crooks  on  the  J^oire  of 
Firestone ;  Metropolitan  Audilions  of  the 
Air;  and  for  amusement,  the  variety  pro- 
grams of  Jack  Benny  and  Fred  Allen." 

Elaine  Siegel,  Detroit,  Mich.  (High 
School  Student.)  "I  prefer  Hollyn-ood  Ho- 
tel to  any  other  program  on  the  air.  Dick 
Powell's  and  Frances  Langford's  magnetic 
personalities  and  magnificent  singing 
voices  would  add  vivid  color  to  any  broad- 
cast. I  also  enjoy  the  sparkling  comedy 
of  Jack  Benny  and  Bob  Burns." 

John  Murbach,  Tucson,  Ariz.  (Retired 
Engineer.)  ''Amos  and  Andy,  because  it  is 
a  clean  program  and  tliere  is  a  lesson  in 
each  broadcast.  Alajor  Bowes  is  excellent. 
Shozv  Boat,  with  Lanny  Ross'  songs.  Jello 
programs,  with  Jack  Benny's  wit.  Gang 
Busters,  for  excitement.  Community  Sings, 
because  they  are  home-like.  Believe-it-or- 
not  Ripley,  because  it  is  educational." 

Miss  I.  M.  Renn,  Westborough,  Mass. 

"Aly  favorite  radio  program  is  Rudy  \^al- 
lee's.  His  showmanship  is  unsurpassed.  A 
peerless  judge  of  talent,  he  weaves  his  ma- 
terial artfully  into  the  perfect  variety  pro- 
gram. An  exceptional  master  of  cere- 
monies, his  refinement  and  dignity  inspire 
confidence.  Always  self-effacing  and  gen- 
erous, his  introductions  are  unique.  The 
music  of  the  Connecticut  ]'ankccs  is  dis- 
tinctive and  permeated  with  the  niaestro's 
personality.  When  Rudy  renders  a  new 
song  in  that  clear,  soft  voice — it  is  a  hit. 
This  hour  appears  the  shortest  and  most 
satisfactory  of  all,  and  next  Thursday  be- 
comes a  pleasant  anticipation." 

Frank  L.  Herbert,  Coral  Gables,  Fla. 

"Orpha  M.  Dolph,  in  the  December  issue 
of  Radio  Stars  describes  a  beautiful  word 
picture  of  Jessica  Dragnnette.  I  would 
add  to  it  by  saying  that  .Miss  Dragonette's 
noble  personality  and  character  are  re- 
flected in  her  majestic  voice.  I  believe 
that  all  who  have  heard  her,  endorse  these 
sentiments." 

Agnes  Foster,  St.  Mary's,  Pa.  "My  fa- 
vorite programs  are:  Ken  Murray,  Georce 
Burns  and  Gracie  .Allen,  (mih/  Busier 
Major  Boz^'cs'  Amateur  Hour  and  Birsl 
Niglitcrs.  For  popular  music  and  songs  I 
prefer  Your  Hit  Parade  and  Guy  Lom- 
bardo's  orchestra." 

Lucy  Vasile,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  "My  fa- 
vorite program  is  tliat  of  the  Joymakers, 
every  morning  on  .Station  W'XEW  at 
11 :30.  Alan  Courtney,  tiie  master  of  cere- 
monies, has  a  wonderful  personality.  In 
my  opinion,  Alan  Courtney  is  the  best 
comedian  on  the  air  and  his  program  the 
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especially  to  you  and  if  you  want  to  get 
in  touch  with  me,  my  address — " 

"Meet  my  husband,  Mister — er — "  fal- 
tered Mary  very  nicely,  turning  to  Jack, 
wiio  was  standing  behind  her.  Apparently 
tlie  young  man  didn't  realize  she  was  Mrs. 
Benny,  because  he  looked  very  disappointed 
and  nonplussed  and  immediately  ducked 
into  the  crowds  on  Forty-ninth  Street,  be- 
fore she  had  a  chance  to  thank  him  prop- 
erly. 

Jack  razzed  Mary  to  death.  "Aha !  Get- 
ting sympathy  for  your  literary  efforts !" 
Finally  he  said :  "Well,  if  they're  love 
poems,  Doll,  you  win." 

Mary  hoped  they  would  be  love  poems, 
just  for  a  joke  on  Jack,  and  when  she  got 
home,  she  opened  the  package  to  find  a 
very  neat  assortment  of  typewritten  pages, 
with  a  fancy  cardboard  cover  and  curlicue 
roses  and  hearts  drawn  between  the  verses. 
But  alas,  they  weren't  exactly  odes  to 
Mary !  They  were  all  about  trees  and 
rippling  brooks  and  spring. 

"I  was  never  so  disappointed  in  my  life," 
j  she  told  me,  laughing,  "I  always  have 
wanted  somebody  to  write  a  poem  about 
me." 

For  a  while  Helen  Hayes  had  a  per- 
J  sistent  Stage  Door  Johnny,  who  became 
!  the  Mystery  of  Radio  Row.    Every  Mon- 
day evening,  after  her  Baiiihi  broadcasts, 
she  had  to  rush  quickly  down  to  the  Broad- 
j  hurst  Theatre  to  appear  in  Victoria  Rc- 
i/ina,  so  she  kept  her  car,  with  a  cop  in  it 
to  help  her  through  traftic,  waiting  at  the 
;  Si.xth   Avenue   entrance   to    Radio  City, 
j  And  every  time  she'd  come  out  to  get  in 
her  car,  there  would  be  an  impressive- 
looking  limousine  parked  just  behind  it. 
I  with  white  tires  and  a  chauffeur,  and  a 
plump  middle-aged   gentleman   in  dinner 
clothes  bowing  and  asking  if  he  might 
have    the   honor   of   driving   her    to  the 
theatre. 

Helen  explained  to  him,  the  first  night, 
that  she  cimldn'l  possibly  accept  his  invi- 
tation, but  tiie  next  six  Mondays  he  was 
still  there.  He'd  always  fnli.iw  lier  to  the 
Hruadluirst,  get  fuit  and  Iimw  aiul  smile  and 
say:  "Gnodnight,  Mi^s  IhiNcs,"  quite  ele- 
gantly and  then  lie'd  (lri\e  away.  Once  or 
twice  he  made  hiniscli  a  little  obnoxious 
tr\ing  til  edge  licr  car  Inward  the  curb 
and  drive  iiarallel  with  lur  in  traffic,  but 
a  few  cliuice  words  fmni  I  li  lcn's  cop  fixed 
tiiat  anfl  he  didn't  attcni])!  it  any  more. 
He'd  i)atieiitly  follow  behind. 

Helen  t')ld  this  story  at  a  party  one 
evening  and  some  of  her  friends  became 
very  (  nrimK  to  tind  out  who  the  suave 
gcnthnian  nn^lil  lie.  So  the  next  Monday 
tliey  followed  him  in  a  taxi,  after  he  left 
the  theatre  and,  lo  and  behold,  he  wound 
up  at  one  ol  these  places  where  they  fur- 
nish limousines  by  the  hour,  uniformed 
chauffeur  included.  They  didn't  follow  him 
any  further  because  they  decided  it  would 
be  just  too  disappointing  if  he  also  should 
take  his  tuxedo  back  to  a  renting  tailor ! 
Anyway,  he  stopped  pursuing  Helen,  after 
a  time  or  two  more.  He  must  have  lost 
hope  or  his  credit  with  the  auto  people ! 

One  of  the  broadcasts  that  draws  the 


biggest  stag  line  in  the  alley  is  the  Fred 
Waring  show,  since  Rosemary  and  Pris- 
cilla  Lane  and  Ferne  Buckner  are  all 
mighty  good-looking  and  popular  with  the 
males.  Of  course  it  flatters  the  girls  to 
have  strings  of  admirers  waiting  at  the 
stage  door  but,  after  all,  no  nice  girl  can 
afford  to  exchange  more  than  the  merest 
pleasantries  with  strange  men.  So  it's  all 
right,  as  long  as  a  Johnny  wants  to  present 
gardenias  or  an  autograph  book,  but  the 
minute  he  begins  asking  for  home  tele- 
phone numbers  and  dates,  the  feminine 
stars  of  the  Waring  show  hustle  off  to 
their  taxis  in  the  best  Emily  Post  manner. 

V'ou  can  imagine,  then,  what  a  blow  it 
was  to  Priscilla  Lane's  regular  bi-weekly 
admirers,  the  night  she  stepped  out  of  the 
stage  door  at  the  Forty-fifth  Street  Play- 
house and  practically  embraced  a  great  big 
cowboy  right  on  the  spot.  Not  only  did 
she  pin  his  nosegay  on  her  collar,  but  she 
stuck  her  arm  through  his  and  marched 
across  the  street  for  an  orangeade,  beam- 
ing as  though  she  were  absolutely  excited 
to  death. 

You  see,  during  the  summers,  the  Lane 
sisters,  of  Indianola,  Iowa,  spend  all  their 
week-ends  at  a  dude  ranch  in  New  Jer- 
sey, .^nd  one  of  the  cowboys  on  the 
place,  a  big  lanky  fellow  named  Tex,  not 
only  taught  Priscilla  to  ride,  but  for  two 
years  he  had  been  assigned  to  ride  with 
her  for  safety's  sake,  whenever  she  took 
to  the  hinterlands  of  the  Jersey  hills.  Tex 
never  had  the  nerve  to  profess  his  pas- 
sion for  Priscilla  out  on  the  ranch,  but, 
when  he  came  into  New  York  to  ride  in 
the  Rodeo  at  Madison  Square  Garden,  he 
turned  up  at  the  stage  door  in  full  regalia, 
boots  and  spurs  and  red  silk  shirt,  clutch- 
ing a  florist's  box  in  one  hand  and  his 
ten  gallon  hat  in  the  other  and  blushing 
all  over  the  place.  And  of  course  Pris- 
cilla, who  would  honestly  rather  be  a  cow- 
girl than  a  radio  star  any  day,  was  de- 
lighted. 

So  every  broadcast,  for  two  weeks,  Te.x 
waited  at  the  stage  door  until  the  blonde 
Lane  would  come  out  and  honor  him  with 
her  presence  over  a  sundae.  The  last 
night  of  the  Rodeo  she  sat  with  him  in  the 
section  reserved  for  cowl)o\s  and  cowgirls 
and,  when  he  was  awarded  third  prize  for 
roping  steers.  Priscilla  cheered  louder 
tiian  anyjjody  else  in  the  Garden. 

Pretty  Willie  Morris,  the  Mexico,  Mis- 
souri songbird  who  stars  on  the  Musical 
Camera  programs,  has  had  a  doting  Stage 
Door  Johnny  for  nearly  a  year  and  she's 
never  even  met  In'm.  You  see,  it's  sort  of 
a  C'ai)tain  Miles  Standish-John  Alden  ar- 
rangement. He  sends  a  Western  Union 
boy  instead  of  coming  himself. 

Shortly  after  Willie  first  landed  on  the 
networks  last  season,  a  Western  Union 
messenger  delivered  to  her,  one  night  after 
a  broadcast,  a  gorgeous  basket  of  mixed 
cut  flowers.  The  next  week  he  turned  up 
with  chrysanthemums,  the  next  with  yel- 
low roses  and,  since  there  never  was  any 
card  attached,  she  began  to  think,  maybe 
the  uniformed  lad,  himself,  was  the  donor. 
When  she  inquired,  however,  he  said  very 


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tersely:  "Lady.  I'm  paid  to  say  nothing!" 
And  walked  off  with  a  bored  expression 
— so  she  gathered  she'd  made  a  wrong 
guess. 

The  flowers  kept  coming  and  finally  they 
changed  to  gifts — an  alabaster  desk  clock, 
a  tooled  English  leather  waste  basket, 
candy,  a  \'irginia  ham,  a  set  of  costly 
perfumes — with  always  the  same  messen- 
ger boy  delivering  them.  Willie  was  just 
about  to  refuse  acceptance  of  any  more 
presents  until  she  knew  their  origin,  when 
one  night  she  got  a  long-distance  phone 
call  from  Boston  and  a  gentleman  with  a 
very  charming  voice  confessed  that  he  was 
the  donor.  He  told  her  his  name  and  ex- 
plained that  under  a  pen  name  he  had 
written  the  words  to  several  songs  Willie 
often  includes  in  her  programs.  His  gifts, 
he  said,  were  his  appreciation  for  the  fine 
way  she  phrased  and  gave  meaning  to  his 
lyrics  and  he  hoped  he'd  meet  her  some- 
time and  thanks  and  goodbye. 

Naturally,  when  she  recently  played  a 
week's  theatre  engagement  in  Boston,  she 
expected  her  admirer  to  drop  around.  But 
he  didn't  and  his  tributes  are  still  arriving 
at  Radio  City.  People  who  know  of  the 
gentleman  in  question  tell  her  that  he  is 
an  extremely  attractive  bachelor  of  thirty, 
who  comes  from  a  fine  old  Back  Bay 
family. 

"Really  and  truly,"  Willie  said  to  me, 
"I'm  anxious  to  meet  him.  But  what  can 
you  do  in  a  case  like  that  ? " 

Unfortunately,  all  of  radio's  Stage  Door 
Johnnies  aren't  Sir  Galahads,  as  Fannie 
Brice  recently  discovered  to  her  consid- 
erable dismay— and  expense.  After  slowly 
working  her  way  through  a  long  line  of 
fans  at  a  broadcast,  not  long  ago,  she 
found  a  young  fellow  standing  patiently 
in  the  rain  beside  her  car.  waiting  tn  pre- 
sent her  with  a  water  color  portrait  he 
had  painted  of  her  and  to  ask  for  her 
autograph  in  return.  She  was  very  pleased 
with  the  picture,  thanked  him  graciously 
and  wrote  her  name  on  his  pad. 

The  following  Saturday  night,  when  the 
Winter  Garden  Theatre  checked  up  on 
the  week's  receipts,  a  strange  story  came 
to  light.  The  young  artist,  who  undoubt- 
edly knew  the  inner  workings  of  show 
business,  had  written  "O.  K.  2"  just  above 
Miss  Brice's  signature,  taken  the  slip  of 
paper  to  the  bo.x  office  of  the  theatre,  where 
she  was  starring  in  the  stage  production  of 
Zicgfeld  Follies,  and  walked  nlT  with  a 
couple  of  free  passes  for  chuicc  orchestra 
seats  at  the  evening's  performance.  When 
Saturday  night  came,  Fannie  had  to  fork 
up  $6.60  from  her  own  p<^cketl)Ook  to  pay 
for  the  seats,  since  she'd  already  overdrawn 
her  pass  allowance  for  the  week. 

Xow  she  uses  an  improvised  backhand 
for  autographing,  instead  of  the  Locker 
method  of  writing  she  was  taught  in  the 
East  Side  public  schools. 

Something  really  to  see  are  the  John- 
nies who  hang  around  whenever  Phil  Spi- 
tnlny's  All-Girl  Orchestra  broadcasts.  With' 
thirty  young  and  attactive  damsels  ex- 
iting from  the  studio  at  once,  it's  sheer 
bedlam  as  the  bo\s  close  in  on  them  from 
all  sides,  clamoring  for  favors.  Usually 
a  special  corps  of  pages  is  put  on  duty, 
to  break  a  path  through  the  crowd  for  the 
girls  to  get  to  the  sidewalk.  And,  in  addi- 
tion, the  members  of  the  band  are  under 
strict  orders  not  to  dally  with  admirers 
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bashfully. 

She  tore  the  envelope  open  and  read: 

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Truly  tjie  other  night  on  the  radio  and 
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piano  accordion  and  devote  myself  to 
learning  it  until  I  can  meet  you  on  the 
equal  basis  of  tivo  musicians,  you  and 
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school  and  I  haz'c  a  good  job  prom- 
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Evelyn  was  astonished.  "Did  you  write 
this  yourself?"  she  asked. 

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in  his  hands.  "You  see,  I  was  afraid — 
you  see,  I  came  over  here  all  the  way  from 
Sayville,  Long  Island,  and  I  lost  my 
nerve  on  the  train  and  I  thought  I  better 
write  what  I  had  to  tell  you  because — 
you  see,  I  thought  I  might  not  be  able  to 
say  it  when  I  saw  you  in  person — " 

Poor  Evelyn  was  trying  her  best  to 
think  of  a  nice  way  to  tell  him  she  was 
engaged,  so  she  was  pretty  relieved  when 
Phil  Spitalny  walked  up  behind  her  and 
snapped:  'Now,  Miss  Kaye!'  at  her  in 
stern  reprimand.  With  that,  both  she  and 
her  ardent  suitor  fled  in  opposite  direc- 
tions and  the  problem  was  automatically 
solved  for  both  of  them. 

Broadcasts  originating  in  Hollywood  are 
as  popular  with  Stage  Door  Johnnies  as 
the  ones  in  New  York.  Scarcely  a  mike 
celebrity  can  drive  up  to  any  of  the  movie 
city's  radio  studios  or  theatres  without  be- 
ing mobbf'l.  I'laiircs  Langford,  who  hails 
from  Lakeland,  Florida,  invariably  creates 
a  disturbance  every  time  she  exits  after 
the  Ilollyzi'ood  Hotel  program,  but  her 
favorite  memento  of  all  the  gifts  she  has 
received  from  Stage  Door  Johnnies  is  not 
a  pressed  orchid  nor  a  stack  of  love  let- 
ters. It's  a  dirty  old  rabbit's  foot  and 
she  wouldn't  trade  it  for  ten  ermine  eve- 
ning wraps  with  a  roadster  thrown  in. 

Frances  can  be  pretty  convincing  when 
she  sings  in  that  voice  of  hers  that  is 
such  a  perfect  cross  between  a  mean  swing 
band  and  the  bells  of  St.  Mary's.  One 
night,  when  she  had  torched  You're  Not 
the  Kind  of  a  Roy  for  a  Girl  Like  Me, 
a   tottering,    kindly-looking,  white-haired 


man  in  workman's  clothes  stood  humbly 
on  the  fringe  of  the  crowd  at  the  stage 
entrance,  until  she'd  signed  every  auto- 
graph book  in  sight,  then  shuffled  labori- 
ously on  his  crutch  to  the  window  of  her 
car. 

"Little  lady,"  he  said,  smiling,  "I  was 
sitting  in  my  shop  down  the  street  a-ways 
and  I  hear  you  sing  to  that  boy  about  how 
he  wasn't  for  you.  Now,  you're  too  pretty 
to  be  having  misunderstandings  with  your 
boy-friend.  I'm  giving  you  this  rabbit's 
foot  to  help  you  kiss  and  make  up — and 
don't  you  quarrel  no  more !" 

He  was  so  sincere  and  sweet  about  it, 
Frances  invited  him  to  get  in  and  drove 
him  home. 

"And,  believe  it  or  not,"  she  said  to  me. 
"that  rabbit's  foot  has  really  changed  my 
luck  about — well,  you  know,  romance  and 
all."  So  she  keeps  it  wrapped  in  tissue, 
tucked  away  in  her  top  bureau  drawer. 

Gracie  Allen  wasn't  so  fortunate,  the 
evening  a  gentleman,  with  an  ardent  ex- 
pression on  his  face,  presented  her  with 
a  large  white  package,  gaily  tied  with 
bright  ribbons,  expressed  his  great  enjoy- 
ment of  her  programs,  then  walked  away. 
When  Gracie  got  home  and  opened  the 
package,  she  found  it  was  full  of  adver- 
tising matter  about  playground  equipment 
that  the  gentleman  hoped  she  might  pur- 
chase for  baby  Sandra's  nursery ! 

Then  there  was  the  night  one  of  Ann 
Jamison's  Stage  Door  Johnnies  completely 
broke  up  a  Hollyivood  Hotel  rehearsal. 
Ann,  the  pretty  little  soprano  star  of  the 
show,  was  born  in  Ireland.  When  she  was 
ten  years  old,  during  the  fierce  Black  and 
Tan  friction  in  that  country,  she  ran  out 
into  the  street  one  day  just  as  a  man  was 
shot  dead,  in  front  of  her  house,  by  four 
other  men.  And,  since  she  was  the  only 
witness  to  the  killing,  which  turned  out  to 
be  an  important  political  incident,  she  was 
wanted  by  a  certain  faction  to  identify 
the  murderers — and  warned  by  the  oppos- 
ing faction  not  to  talk.  Her  parents,  seek- 
ing to  avoid  trouble,  sent  her  to  India  for 
a  while,  to  live  with  relatives ;  when  she 
returned  home  an  attempt  was  made  to  kid- 
nap her,  so  the  whole  family  moved  to 
Canada  to  get  away  from  it  all. 

The  left-overs  of  the  Black  and  Tan 
disturbance  are  still  going  on,  to  an  ex- 
tent, under  cover.  Even  in  Canada,  Ann 
was  pursued  by  various  alarming  mes- 
sages, so  she  has  been  very  careful,  since 
her  career  has  brought  her  into  the  lime- 
light of  radio,  to  steer  clear  of  strangers 
and  never  go  out  alone. 

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the  air,  one  night  recently,  the  cast  was 
detained  several  hours  for  a  preliminary 
rehearsal.  Ann's  part  was  finished  before 
the  rest  and  she  slipped  out  to  go  home. 
Hurrying  through  the  darkened  stage  alley, 
she  saw  the  tall  figure  of  a  man  approach- 
ing her,  followed  by  two  other  men  be- 
hind him.  He  walked  up  to  her,  caught  her 
hand  as  though  to  shake  it,  and  when  he 
began  to  compliment  her  on  her  singing, 
he  spoke  with  such  a  thick  Irish  brogue 
it  frightened  her  half  out  of  her  wits. 
She  screamed  at  the  top  of  her  lungs— 
which  brought  Dick  Powell,  Raymond 
Paige,  the  stage  doorman  and  several 
others,  running,  to  find  her  in  tears  and  the 
Johnnies  beating  it  away. 

After  much  explanation,  the  misunder- 
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If  there's  a  queen  of  radio's  Stage  Door 
Johnnies,  though,  it's  Jessica  Dragonette. 
The  ethereal  Jessica  seems  to  have  the 
sort  of  appeal  that  brings  men  bearing 
gifts  and  praise — and  especially  home- 
made poetry — to  lay  at  her  feet.  Pro- 
gram after  program  finds  a  thick  line  of 
her  admirers  stretching  from  studio  to 
elevator,  to  street  floor  entrance,  to  her  car. 
In  fact,  she  has  even  had  Stage  Door 
Johnnies  all  the  way  from  China,  where 
her  program  is  broadcast  by  short  wave. 

They're  invariably  an  orderly  bunch,  La 
Dragonette's  admirers ;  they  seem  to  stand 
so  in  awe  of  her,  they  never  push  or 
crowd ;  they  seldom  ever  say  anything, 
other  than  to  murmur  their  appreciation. 
But  they  keep  the  entire  Dragonette  house- 
hold supplied  with  many  flowers,  more 
goodies  than  can  possibly  be  eaten,  and 
literally  pounds  of  poems  of  praise. 

Jessica's  champion  Johnny  is  a  nice 
gentleman  from  North  Carolina,  who, 
every  year  for  eight  years,  has  presented 
her  with  a  Hallowe'en  basket.  It  seems 
he  comes  to  New  York  each  fall,  just 
for  the  purpose  of  attending  her  program 
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gift — which,  incidentall)-,  is  fixed  up  by  one 
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a  very  formal  and  aloof  person,  thanks 
him  graciously  and  moves  on.  All  she 
knows  about  him,  after  eight  faithful  Hal- 
lowe'ens, is  his  last  name. 

So  far,  no  radio  romances  have  flowered 
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Writer,  whose  special  job  it  is  to  think 
up  headlines  that  will  attract  attention. 
This  fellow  hadn't  met  me.  His  job  was 
just  to  look  over  the  interview  and  pick 
out  something  for  a  headline.  His  head- 
line was:  "Rudy  Vallee  Says  .  .  .  Kreisler 
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Once,  up  in  Canada  I  had  an  engage- 
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Port  Dover  is  a  little  village  and  we 
didn't  expect  much  of  a  crowd.  Due  to 
the  cancelling  of  certain  trains,  I  had 
to  engage  a  special  train  from  Cleveland 
to  Erie,  which  cost  me  $1,200.  When  we 
arrived  at  Erie,  we  went  swimming  in 
the  lake,  not  realizing  that  we  were  sun- 
burning  ourselves.  It  was  necessary  to 
travel  by  a  steamship  on  the  lake  for 
several  hours  from  Erie  to  Port  Dover. 
There  was  considerable  trouble  in  clear- 
ing our  instruments  with  the  Canadian 
Government.  We  arrived  at  Port  Dover 
and  I  stayed  at  the  promoter's  home. 
There  I  was  asked  to  come  to  the  dance 
hall  to  grant  an  interview  to  some  people 
froin  a  Toronto  newspaper.  These  people 
had  been  enjoying  themselves  and  ap- 
parently had  been  imbibing  rather  freely. 

Tlicy  uvnicii  to  know  ivhat  I  tliought  of 
the  e lined,  and  I  said:  "It  isn't  so  hot." 
(There  were  only  about  three  hundred 
people.)  llieii  they  asked  zvhat  I  thought 
about  Canadian  leomen  and  I  said:  "I 
haven't  met  any  Canadian  zecmen.  This 
is  my  first  7'isit  to  Canada.  1  don't  know 
anything  about  Canadian  iconien."  That 
zvas  the  essence  of  the  interview — both 
intervieivers  zvcre  getting  hilariously 
drunk. 

II 'e  carried  with  us,  on  the  tour  of 
1930,  a  public  address  system.  I  believe 
that  I  was  one  of  the  fust  to  use  one.  I 
needeil  it  because  it  laL-rs  rare  of  both  ends 
of  a  large  hall  al  rue  lime  and  it  also 
sai'cs  the  voice.  When  I  arrived  on  the 
stand,  I  learned  that  the  difference  in  vol- 
tage of  the  Canadian  cur  rent  had  burned 
out  my  system,  so  I  had  to  re.<:ort  to  a 
mcgapliDue — witli  the  result  that,  ivhen  I 
was  singing  to  the  cr<rwd  at  one  end  of 
the  hall,  the  other  end  failed  to  hear  at  all. 

At  just  about  this  time,  the  sunburn 
began  to  make  itself  felt  and  I  was 
having  chills  and  fever.  The  crowd  was 
very  small  which,  in  itself,  is  uninspir- 
ing— but  we  finished  the  engagement, 
made  the  expensive,  unpleasant  boat  trip 
back  across  the  lake — only  to  have  the 
promoter  refuse  to  pay  us.  But  the  last 
straw  came  later  when  a  Toronto  news- 
paper came  out  with  the  headline: 
"Rudy  Vallee  says  'Canadian  women  not 
so  hot!' "  I  don't  suppose  Canadian 
women  will  ever  believe  that  I  didn't 
say  it.  _^ 

Again,  there  was  the  incident  of  the 
grapefruit  throwing  in  Boston.  Many  of 
you  thought  it  a  publicity  gag.  It  was 
thrown  to  the  stage  from  the  theatre 
balcony — I  have  since  learned  that  the  one 
who   hurled   it   was   a   little    tight.  It 


resulted  in  a  deluge  of  newspaper  pub- 
licity, both  for  me  and  for  the  song  I  was 
yodeling — Oh  Give  Me  Something  to 
Remember  You  By.  It  was  the  cause 
of  much  laughter  on  the  part  of  the 
audience,  but  when  I  tell  you  it  was  the 
closest  I  ever  came  to  being  killed,  it  won't 
seem  so  funny ! 

It  happened  toivard  the  end  of  our  act 
at  the  Metropolitan  Theatre  in  Boston. 
Massachusetts. 

Contrary  to  popular  belief,  I  was  play- 
ing the  saxophone,  not  singing,  but 
playing:  Oh  Give  Me  Something  to  Re- 
member You  By — and  as  I  played,  I 
heard  a  terrific  crash.  I  assumed  that 
the  drummer  had  taken  an  ill-tempered 
whack  at  the  cymbals.  When  I  had  fin- 
ished my  song,  the  curtains  closed  and 
I  turned  around  to  him  and  said:  "What's 
the  matter  with  you?" 

Then  I  saw  the  grapefruit.  The  force 
with  which  it  had  hit  the  cymbal  had 
cut  it  in  half,  and  you,  who  know  your 
physics,  can  figure  the  momentum  of  that 
grapefruit  as  it  came  hurtling  down 
through  the  air  from  the  theatre  balcony. 
If  it  had  struck  my  saxophone,  it  prob- 
ably would  have  driven  the  mouthpiece 
through  the  back  of  my  neck,  into  my 
spine — or  at  least  it  would  have  broken 
every  tooth  in  my  head.  The  boy  who 
threw  the  grapefruit  didn't  intend  to  hit 
me — but  he  might  have  hit  me!  It's 
not  a  pleasant  thought! 

The  question  as  to  when  a  popular  song 
is  or  is  not  a  hit  has  caused  no  end  of 
discussion  among  my  confreres  of  the 
musical  world.  I  reject  a  popular  song 
because  I  do  not  feel  that  it  would  sell  a 
certain  number  of  sheet  copies,  only  to 
have  its  publisher  kid  me  several  months 
later  by  telling  me  that  the  song  was  the 
most-played  on  the  air. 

-♦- 

Obviously,  in  his  mind,  a  hit  is  a  song 
that  must  appear  on  the  major  networks 
over  a  period  of  several  weeks  and  be 
played  a  number  of  times  nightly  or 
weekly.  But  in  my  mind,  the  definition 
of  a  song  hit  is  one  n'hieh  not  only  ap- 
pears on  radio  programs  but  ivhich  reaches 
a  selling  mark  of  at  least,  in  these  peril- 
ous limes,  ^00.000  .shccl-music  copies. 
I'ive  years  ago  I  icould  have  demanded 
that  t/iey  reach  a  sale  of  one  million 
copies. 

It  doesn't  follow  that  the  publisher  is 
wrong  and  that  I  am  right,  when  the 
song  is  played  every  night  over  every 
station  for  a  period  of  six  or  seven  weeks. 
We  merely  have  different  opinions  as  to 
what  constitutes  a  song  hit.  I  believe  I 
have  more  justification  for  my  belief  that 
the  sale  of  sheet  music  is  an  index  of 
the  popularity  and  worthiness  of  a  song, 
because  its  appearance  on  the  radio  does 
not  necessarily  mean  that  the  orchestra 
leader  chose  it  because  he  feels  that  it 
has  a  definite  place  on  his  program  or 
that  the  public  wants  to  hear  it.  Fre- 
quently he  will  play  it  to  help  the  "song 


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plugger,"  or  because  he  has  been  paid 
by  the  publisher  to  program  it,  for,  like 
the  policeman  in  the  operetta,  "...  a 
song  plugger's  lot  is  not  a  happy  one." 
Sheet  music  sales,  however,  are  free  from 
the  personal  angle,  therefore  unbiased, 
more  accurate  as  a  popularity-meter. 

Contrast  Expressions:  In  Now  England 
it's  "I'm  going  to  work."  In  New  York  the 
girls  say,  "I'm  going  to  business." 

//  is  obvious,  I  think,  that  u:hat  is  right 
and  zvhat  is  ivrong  in  things  artistic  is 
purely  a  matter  of  vieivpoint  and  taste. 
We  all  agree  that  -a'hat  is  one  man's  meat 
is  another's  poison  and  for  any  individual 
to  make  a  dognuitic  statement,  as  to  u'hat 
is  right  and  "ci'/ia?  is  wrong,  is  sheer  stu- 
pidity. 

Ever  since  I  first  read  one  of  his  books, 
I  have  been  a  staunch  worshipper  at  the 
shrine  of  Walter  B.  Pitkin  who,  in  my 
estimation,  is  one  of  the  greatest  minds 
of  this  day  and  age.  One  of  Mr.  Pitkin's 
books  which  I  read  and  re-read  with 
great  enjoyment  is  A  Short  Introduction 
to  the  History  of  Human  Stupidity. 

1  commit  many  stupidities  myself,  some 
small  and  some  great.  Usually  the  small 
ones  inconvenience  only  myself.  Occa- 
sionally, however,  my  stupidity  causes 
other  "people  time,  effort,  loss  of  energy 
and  often  financial  loss.  I  believe  these 
stupidities  which  we  commit  should  be 
pointed  out,  because  only  by  so  doing  will 
we  be  able  to  eliminate  them  from  our 
lives  and  save  those  who  would  otherwise 
be  the  sufTerers.  I  hope  to  point  out  in 
this  and  future  articles  some  of  the  stu- 
pidities that  prevent  you  and  me  from 
enjoying  life  in  general. 

IVhen  I  say  "stupidities"  I  mean  not 
only  the  nclnal  acts  of  foggy,  tired, 
nioro}iic,  diseased  or  sick  minds,  but  also 
the  failure  of  individuals  to  observe  thmijs 
actually  under  their  noses!  .'Is  a  practi- 
cal e.vample  of  this  type  of  stupidity,  let 
me  give  a  classic  illustration  that  actually 
happened  to  me. 

The  elevator  operator  in  a  building  I 
am  in  and  out  of  every  day  is  a  little 
old  man  who  has  been  running  the  same 
car  up  and  down  for  at  least  thirty  years. 

One  day  I  asked  him  how  many  floors 
there  were  in  the  building. 

"Merciful  heavens,"  he  said  as  he 
scratched  his  head,  "I  must  confess  I 
don't  know.    I  can  ask  .  .  ." 

It  sounds  incredible,  but  nevertheless  it 
is  so.  There  are  those  whose  specilic 
task  it  is  to  do  one  or  two  simple  things 
and  yet  so  often  you  will  find  that  they 
know  nothing  about  the  details  of  the  two 
things  they  do  !  Knowing  nothing  of  the 
origin  of  the  products  they  handle  or  their 
future  destination,  they  go  blithely  and 
stupidly  along. 

/  am  mainly  concerned  with  stupidities 
that  cost  time,  money,  pain  and  loss  of 
life — suc/i  as  the  dri-ver  ivho  gives  a  very 
definite  signal  that  he  is  going  to  turn 
right,  only  to  siving  left  and  crash  into 
you.  And  is  lie  burned  up,  why  did  you 
bump  into  him,  didn't  you  see  his  hand? 
He  just  can't  understand! 


GRIfiEIN-ABC 


Elinor  Sherry,  heard  over  the  Mu- 
tual network,  claims  to  be  one  of 
radio's  tiniest  singers.  She's  four 
feet  ten  and  one-half  inches  tall. 


Speaking  as  a  columnist,  one  of  my 
confreres  evidently  fancies  himself  as  a 
mind  reader.  There's  no  doubt  he  at- 
taches mystical  powers  to  himself,  as  wit- 
ness what  he  has  to  say  concerning  me: 
"And  when  called  upon,  Rudy  Vallee  took 
a  bow,  which  he  delighted  in  doing  be- 
cause he  has  aspirations  of  some  day  being 
in  Congress." 

Can  you  imagine  conducting  a  political 
campaign  by  taking  bows  in  night  clubs? 

"Air.  \'allee,"  the  papers  would  say,  "is 
two  night  clubs  ahead  of  Mr.  Squill.  It's 
no  secret  that  Mr.  Vallee  also  took  two 
more  bows  than  Mr.  Squill  at  El  Morocco 
and  we  take  that  as  a  definite  sign  that 
he  will  carry  Gorham,  Maine.  .  .  ." 

As  a  matter  of  record  and  fact,  1  avoid 
going  out  into  public  places  because  of 
my  extreme  distaste  for  being  allied  upon 
for  eien  so  much  as  a  boie.  and  as  much 
as  1  admire  the  artist  zeho  leas  about  to 
perform  that  night  at  the  club,  I  leould 
miss  his  act  rather  than  stand  up  to  be 
spotlighted.  It  has  just  occurred  to  me 
that  the  ab^'ve  columnist  mu/lil  be  of  some 
real  aid  to  his  readers  if  be  leould  de- 
vote a  feie  trances  to  the  doiinr^  of  the 
stock  market  or  t/te  outcome  of  elections. 
I  ivish  he  ivould  teach  me  his  secret.  .  .  . 

Now,  dear  reader,  if  you  will  keep  your 
eyes  and  ears  open,  you  are  certain  to 
come  across  many  stupidities  in  the  course 
of  your  day.  I  would  be  deeply  grateful 
if  you  would  send  them  in  to  me,  in  care 
of  this  magazine,  so  that  I  may  print  one 
or  two  of  the  most  flagrant  ones  here 
each  month. 

The  reasons  for  stressing  stupidities  lie 
in  the  hopes  that  we  will  all  shame  our- 
selves into  seeing  that  oiir  own  do  not 
recur.  If  I  shall  have  lieliied  to  accom- 
plish this,  then  this  elYort  will  more  than 
be  repaid. 

\DON'T  MISS  NEXT  MONTH'S 
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OTHER OF  RUDY  VALLEE'S  EX- 
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to  welcome  General  Per.shing.  And  Gib- 
bons was  the  first  newspaperman  to  step 
into  the  withering  fire  of  the  Germans  in 
America's  first  great  battle  at  Belleau 
Wood.  An  hour  later,  he  saw  a  wounded 
officer  topple  into  a  shellhole  and  crawled 
out  into  No  Man's  Land  after  him.  Gib- 
bons was  wounded  in  the  left  eye  and  in 
his  shoulder.  But  he  got  the  first  story 
of  Belleau  Wood  and  sent  it  out  from  the 
hospital.  A  month  later,  he  was  dis- 
charged with  a  handicap  of  one  eye,  hunt- 
ing the  big  story  on  the  firing  line.  No 
wonder  he  has  the  French  and  Italian 
Croix  dc  Guerre  and  is  an  officer  of  the 
French  Legion  of  Honor ! 

.  .  .  Meanwhile,  I  had  been  looking 
straight  into  that  single  eye,  the  vision  of 
which  is  so  good  that  his  only  regret  seems 
to  be  that  he  has  never  been  able,  due 
to  his  restricted  perspective,  to  get  a  pilot's 
license  and  bring  off  one  of  those  great 
First  Flights  across  the  sea.  But  this 
eye,  that  I  had  expected  to  be  ferocious, 
if  not  bloodthirsty,  was  friendly  and  smil- 
ing, almost  gentle.  "Sorry  to  be  late," 
apologized  the  Tornado  in  a  voice  more 
like  a  summer's  storm.  "Fve  just  come 
back  from  a  rough  time  in  Spain.  You 
see,  I  have  to  get  things  off  my  chest 
while  they're  hot.  And  if  things  look  like 
another  war — then  off  I  go.  The  call 
might  come  at  midnight — not  that  it  will, 
but  you  get  the  idea.  But  it  usually  hap- 
pens that  way,  and  that's  the  way  I  like 
it. 

"It  was  that  way  in  the  Italo-Ethiopian 
scrap.  I  got  my  hunch  and  took  it.  I 
landed  with  the  first  unit  of  the  Italians 
that  set  foot  into  Abyssinia.  October  3rd, 
1935,  it  was,  at  4  a.  m.  And  I  broadcast 
the  story  from  a  little  military  station  on 
top  of  a  mountain  8,000  feet  high.  It 
went  first  to  Rome  for  censoring  and  re- 
transmission to  America.  I  stayed  with 
ihem  six  weeks,  until  it  got  to  be  just 
routine  fighting. 

"I  had  broadcast  a  war  before  this — 
with  the  Japanese  Army  in  both  Man- 
churia and  Shanghai.  That,  by  the  way, 
I  think,  was  the  first  radio  broadcast  ever 
made  between  Asia  and  the  United  States." 

If  I  remember  rightly,  it  was  the  first 
war  ever  broadcast  in  the  history  of  radio. 
But  Floyd  Gibbons  would  not  tell  me  that. 
His  forte  is  hot  news,  not  boasting.  Sev- 
eral times  he  asked  me  to  soft-pedal  a 
point,  or  to  keep  him  out  of  it. 

His  professional  manner  wore  off.  It 
was  easy  to  see  that  he  was  a  bull  in 
action,  but  not  in  the  parlor  or  the  draw- 
ing-room. He  would  sil  down  half  a  min- 
ute, tlien  jump  to  his  Itct  again  and  walk 
all  around  the  room  in  the  erect  manner 
of  a  West  Pointer.  Not  nervously,  but 
chock ful  of  surplus  energy.  There  was 
iu  \(  i-  an\-  doubt  about  his  being  a  strong 
|i(  i  siinality,  but  not  the  least  hard-boiled 
unik  I-  iias.sive  c<iiiditions.  He  expressed 
no  deep-dyed  prejudices,  but  would  crack 
down  on  something  he  thought  ought  to 
be  condemned,  with  a  choice  bit  of  he-man 
epithets  that  are  off  the  record. 

How  did  he  get  that  way?  I  asked  him. 

"You  mean  schooling?    Well,  I  never 


exactly  went  through  school.  I  always 
failed  or  got  fired.  Preaching  and  class- 
room teaching  always  bored  me.  I  want 
to  get  it  red  hot  off  the  griddle  of  life. 
I  got  more  out  of  my  first  job — selling 
newspapers  at  night.  Even  then,  there 
was  something  about  the  newspaper  that 
got  me  by  the  collar.  I  remember  impres- 
sing my  mother  that  I  did  it  with  the  idea 
of  starting  a  savings  account.  It  was  only 
an  excuse  for  hanging  around  the  alley  back 
of  the  Washington  Post  building  until  2 
a.  m.  Always  hoping  for  an  Extra — that's 
how  news-crazy  I  was,  even  then!  Noth- 
ing could  keep  me  out  of  it  for  long. 

"Although  I  was  born  and  bred  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  (July  16th,  1887)  I  actual- 
ly started  out  my  newspaper  career  in  Min- 
neapolis with  the  Star,  at  seven  dollars  a 
week.  It  didn't  last  long.  The  editor 
canned  me  for  incompetence,  without  my 
even  knowing  what  it  was  all  about.  It 
took  four  years  to  get  a  steady  job— on 
the  Chicago  Tribune.  We  both  discovered 
what  I  was  good  for — a  fight.  I  had  been 
in  enough  of  them  by  that  time,  on  my 
own,  to  realize  that  I  liked  it.  The  Trib- 
une sent  me  down  to  Mexico  as  their 
correspondent  to  cover  the  Revolution  with 
Villa.   And  did  I  get  my  baptism  of  fire! 

"Failing  to  get  the  break  that  I  was 
looking  for  early  in  the  World  War,  I  saw 
a  chance  of  a  hot  story  in  taking  the  La- 
conia  that  was  slated  by  the  Germans  for 
torpedoing.  She  got  it  all  right  and  I  was 
picked  up  by  a  life-boat  and  got  the  first 
story  of  it  to  the  States.  I  gave  them  the 
works,  so  that  not  even  a  child  would  not 
know  what  torpedoing  was  like." 

For  the  second  time  Gibbons  had  laid 
down  a  lighted  cigarette  butt  on  the  edge 
of  the  table  and  then  I  noted  that  there 
were  many  burnt  scars  about  from  similar 
offenses. 

"You  caught  me,"  he  said,  good  natured- 
ly.  He  has  a  whole  lot  of  quirks,  it  de- 
veloped. Hates  new  shoes  and  likes  old 
suits.  "All  barnacles  from  being  in  the 
field  so  long,  I  suppose."  Has  a  whole 
drawer  full  of  pajamas,  Init  nrver  remem- 
bers wearing  any.  "And  <lii  I  ciijuy  sprawl- 
ing in  a  real  Ixxl — and  mttiiiL;  six  to  eight 
hours  sleep  a  niglit !  Of  course,  I've  got 
the  old  newspaper  habit  of  doing  all  my 
writing  at  night  and  finishing  up  in  the 
early  hours  of  the  morning. 

"When  I  get  on  the  radio,  I  just  feel  that 
I  must  tell  the  folks  the  news.  .\nd  I  get 
a  great  kick  out  of  talking  217  words  to 
the  minute — according  to  my  manuscript — 
and  getting  it  all  off  my  chest  in  exactly 
thirteen  minutes.  I'm  just  a  natural  re- 
porter, I  guess,  and  will  always  be  one. 
I  wouldn't  take  an  executive  newspaper 
job  for  a  gift." 

Gradually,  we  got  around  to  the  Civil 
War  in  Spain,  from  the  scene  of  which  he 
had  just  come,  and  I  told  him  that  I  was 
especially  interested  in  what  the  women 
were  doing  in  this  war.  Floyd  Gibbons 
looked  almost  frightened  for  a  moment. 

"Women?"  he  said,  scratching  his  head. 
"Well,  I'll  say  this  much  right  off  the  bat : 
The  women  of  Spain  are  only  the  first 
degree  out  of  the  harem!   The  imprint  of 


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the  seraglio  is  still  fresh  upon  them!  That's 
what  makes  the  show  so  breathless  over 
there  today.  Women  all  over  the  place — in 
the  army,  in  the  trenches,  lying  dead  in 
rows,  when  the  smoke  of  the  firing  squad 
clears  away,  trailing  muskets  instead  of 
market  baskets  into  their  homes,  nursing 
hand  grenades  instead  of  babies.  All  the 
women  in  the  world  ought  to  pause  long 
enough  to  get  an  earful  of  this.  It  may 
make  them  proud,  or  it  may  fill  them  with 
disgust  with  tlieir  sex.  That's  neither  here 
nor  there.  The  point  is,  it  will  make  them 
think  first,  before  they  begin  to  shout  and 
cheer  for  another  war !  No  matter  what 
I  seem  to  say  on  the  air  about  this  war 
in  Spain,  that's  the  real  radio  message 
that  I  want  to  put  over!" 

Gibbons  paused  long  enough  to  light  a 
fresh  cigarette.  Next  minute  he  began 
striding  up  and  down  with  tliat  dynamic 
movement,  with  which  he  had  pushed  into 
and  out  of  peril  a  hundred  times. 

"That's  one  great  advantage  the  radio 
has  over  the  printed  page — I  can  talk  to 
people.  I  can  talk  from  the  ends  of  the 
earth — as  I  have  done  already  from  Man- 
churia, Abyssinia,  Spain — with  bombs 
bursting,  mines  exploding,  airplanes  drop- 
ping death  all  around  me — knowing  that 
my  listeners,  perhaps,  are  some  farmer  and 
his  family  out  on  the  prairies,  or  maybe 
some  New  England  small-towners  sitting 
around  a  stove  in  a  country  store,  or  a 
hunch  of  tough  mugs  standing  at  a  bar 
on  the  lower  East  Side,  or  what  have  you. 
.All  America  has  got  its  ear  to  the  radio 
They  all  listen  in,  where  many  of  them 
can't,  don't,  or  won't  read!  I  try  to  put 
the  fear  of  war  into  their  hearts — the 
stinking  smell  of  war,  the  blood  and  filth 
of  it,  with  the  fringe  and  tassels  of  the 
glory  of  war  snipped  oflf  by  machine  guns 
and  the  victories  exploded  by  TNT.  I  don't 
curry-comb  my  words  for  the  women,  but 
I  hope  they  get  me.  I  want  them  to  get 
a  load  of  this  Spanish  picture. 

"There  in  Spain,  you  had  a  nation  of 
women  who  had  been  under  the  thumb  of 
their  men  for  a  thousand  years.  I  mean 
they  were  slaves,  and  not  maybe.  Shut  up 
in  a  patio,  which  is  as  near  like  a  pris'  n 
as  they  are  made — a  house  with  grim  walls, 
behind  which  a  stranger  was  never  invited. 
Why,  a  girl  who  even  walked  down  the 
street  with  a  man  outside  the  family  had  to 
marry  him.  I'm  speaking  particularly  of 
the  lower  class  women  of  Spain.  There 
are  only  two  classes :  the  upper  class  that 
has  everything  and  the  lower  class  that 
has  next  to  nothing.  Today,  the  patio 
harems  are  deserted,  the  family  life  smash- 
ed. Children  froin  eight  years  up,  dragging 
around  deadly  weapons  for  playthings. 
Women  swarming  over  every  filthy  scene 
— marching,  digging  trenches ;  bent  on 
murder,  pillage  and  arson,  where  an  enemy 
is  concerned.  Fiery  women  agitators,  hurl- 
ing curses  at  passing  slackers  and  inciting 
tiieir  men.  Spain  has  proved  that  women 
do  not  make  war  any  prettier.  War  isn't 
pretty ;  it's  hell !  That's  another  point 
about  the  radio.  War  sometimes  can  be 
made  to  look  pretty  when  you  write  it 
down  on  paper.  It  loses  something  of  its 
original  horror.  But  when  you  hear  an 
eye-witness — over  the  radio,  for  example 
— there's  the  living  link  and  contact,  that 
brings  with  it  some  of  the  rotten  reek 
of  war!" 

Floyd  fetched  up  suddenly  and  raised  his 
hand  phophetically. 


TIME  IS  SHORT,  BUT  FOOD  IS  TASTY  .  .  . 
YOU  EAT  A  LOT  AND  EAT  IT  HASTY  .  .  . 
IN  CASE  A  CASE  OF  HEARTBURN  COMES, 
WE  HOPE  YOU'VE  GOT  YOUR  ROLL  OF  TUMSI 


FOR  QUICK  REL/EF  FROM 


Robert  Ripley  presents  Sergeant 
Alvin  York,  who  killed  30  Germans 
and   captured    132   more  in  the 
World  War.    "S  the  truth! 


"Here's  the  prettiest  war  bit  that  I  saw 
in  Spain — God  knows  why  I  call  it  pretty, 
except  that  it  was  so  damned  pitiful !  The 
scene,  a  peaceful  hamlet  drowsing  amidst 
olive  groves  where  nothing  exciting  had 
happened  maybe  for  a  tliousand  years.  I 
entered  just  at  the  early  twilight  hour,  the 
time  when,  a  couple  of  months  before,  the 
little  life  of  the  community  was  at  its 
height,  the  whole  population  out;  older 
men  smoking  and  chatting,  women  huddled 
in  gossiping  groups,  young  people  strolling  ; 
the  bell  of  the  church,  at  the  end  of  the 
plaza,  ringing  the  angelus.  .  .  .  Now —  the 
village  shot  to  bits !  Silence  hanging  over 
the  smoking  ruins,  the  patios  blown  wide 
open,  with  many  of  the  families  lying  dead 
in  the  courts,  the  town  deserted,  except 
perhaps  for  a  whimpering  mother  vainly 
searching  amidst  the  pile  of  bricks  and 
mortar  that  had  been  her  home,  hoping  to 
find  the  corpse  of  her  children  or  her  man. 
If  she  appears  suspicious  to  the  guard, 
there  is  a  fiof)  and  she  falls  in  her  tracks. 

"The  silence  of  death,  leaving  a  pall  of 
horror  in  its  wake.  Hate  etched  in  every 
jagged  outline.  The  charnel-house  stink 
of  the  battlefield.  Aly  soldier  guide  led 
me  to  the  former  Nuns'  school.  Only  a  few 
(lays  before  it  had  been  filled  with  little 
children.  The  blackboards  lately  scribbled 
by  little  hands  of  children  now  probably 
dead.  The  Moorish  guard  squatted  in  the 
corner ;  a  musket  between  his  legs,  a  wick- 
ed-looking Arab  knife  swinging  at  his  side. 
An  evil  look  in  his  eye  that  never  left 
the  face  of  the  girl  prisoner. 

"She  was  a  swarthy  \'alencian  beauty- 
tears  had  streaked  through  the  grime  on 
her  pretty  face.  They  had  cauglit  her  red- 
handed,  firing  a  machine  gun.  She  told  nic 
her  story  when  she  found  1  was  friendly. 
She  had  been  working  in  a  shoe  factory. 
The  waving  flags,  the  playing  bands,  the 
crowds  and  cheers,  finally  lured  her.  She 
had  marched  out  and  they  had  given  her  a 
machine  gun  and  she  had  done  her  bit! 
Her  eyes  shone  in  the  dim  light.  I  passed 
by  at  dawn  the  next  morning.  She  and 
seventeen  others  lay  stretched  out  in  the 
shadow  of  the  little  schoolhouse,  her  pretty 
white  shoes  of  which  she  had  been  so  prou<l 
all  spattered  with  blood  that  she  gave  .so 
willingly  to  the  Cause.  That's  how  pretty 
war  is,  especially  with  women  in  it,  and 
radio  is  how  I  tell  it  to  them.  And  how!" 


ACID  INDIGESTION,  HEARTBURN, GAS 


CO  many  causes  tor  acid  indigestion!  Hasty 
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foods  ...  no  wonder  we  have  sudden,  unex- 
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gas!  But  millions  have  learned  the  smart  thing 
to  do  is  carry  Tums!  These  tasty  mints  give 
scientific,  thorough  relief  so  quickly!  Contain 
no  harsh  alkali  .  .  .  cannot  orer-alkalize  your 
stomach.  Release  just  enough  antacid  com- 
pound to  correct  stomach  acidity  .  .  .  remainder 
passes  2<n-released  from  your  system.  And 
they're  so  pleasant  .  .  .  just  like  candy.  So 
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that  hour,  that  soprano  soloist,  perfected. 
Within  the  year  I  sang  in  that  same 
church,  in  her  place.  I  was  fourteen.  I'm 
afraid  I  told  a  bit  of  a  fib.  The  weaving 
of  little  fictions  is  so  logical  to  the  Ro- 
mantic. I  told  the  organist  that  I  was 
eighteen  and  got  the  job. 

"My  first  real  impulse  to  stand  up  and 
be  glamorous  in  front  of  an  audience  came 
when  I  first  heard  and  saw  Alma  Gluck 
in  1913.  She  was  giving  a  concert  in 
Kansas  City.  I  can  describe  even  now,  so 
many  years  later,  the  very  gown  she  wore, 
the  way  her  hair  was  dressed.  And  the 
song  she  sang,  one  of  them — well,  the  echo 
of  that  came  back  to  me,  to  us,  to  Frank 
and  me,  many  years  later.  At  any  rate, 
I  went  home  and  romanticized  myself  as 
Alma  Gluck.  I  was  Alma  Gluck.  And 
within  that  year  I  gave  my  first  recital 
at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri." 

Frank  Chapman  chuckled  quietly.  He 
said :  "Tell  what  happened  the  night  you 
gave  your  recital,  dear.  It  is  such  a  nice 
indication  of  your  inherent  practicality." 

Gladys  laughed.  "I  had  the  most  elabo- 
rate costume  for  the  occasion,"  she  said. 
Probably  too  old  for  me,  but  very,  very 
elegant.  When  I  started  to  dress  I  found 
that  I — /  had  forgotten  to  bring  my  slip! 
I  couldn't  go  on  in  a  transparent  gown, 
certainly  not  in  St.  Joseph,  Alissouri— not 
in  those  days !  And  so,  I  used  my  night- 
gown !  It  did  very  nicely,  what  with  a 
bit  of  contriving  and  a  few  pins  here  and 
there." 

"Just  as  Gladys,"  said  Glady's  singer 
husband,  who  is  never  very  far  from 
Gladys  in  any  way  at  all,  "just  as  Gladys 
is  a  curious  and  perfect  blend  of  the 
masculine  and  the  feminine,  so  she  is  a 
perfect  blend  of  the  practical  and  the 
poetic.  She  would  forget  to  bring  her 
slip.  She  would  also  resort  to  the  prac- 
tical expedient  she  did.  Gladys  belongs  to 
lu.xury,  to  Florentine  villas  and  open  fires 
and  porcelains  and  laces  and  tapestries, 
but  if  she  were  to  be  marooned  on  a  desert 
island,  I'd  back  her  up  against  Crusoe 
himself!" 

"I  never,"  said  Gladys,  blowing  a  kiss 
to  her  smiling  husband,  "I  never  really 
had  any  beaux.  I  never  went  out  on  dates 
and  had  crushes  and  all  that.  I  continued 
to  do  what  I  had  done  as  a  youngster. 
I'd  make  dates — and  break  them.  I  still 
preferred  to  stay  alone  and  imagine  what 
the  date  might  have  been,  rather  than  to 
keep  the  date  and  know  it  for  what  it 
was.  The  romance  of  making  the  date, 
of  anticipating  it,  was  all  the  fulfillment 
I  wanted — or  dared  to  hope  for. 

"I  think  that  I  took  out  in  music  all 
of  the  soft  and  lovely  things  I  wanted  to 
say  or  to  have  said  to  me.  Remember, 
Frank,  what  Chris  Morley  once  said  to 
you?  He  said:  'You  are  lucky,  Frank, 
and  very  wise.  You  can  say  things  in 
song  that  the  rest  of  us  wouldn't  dare  to 
say  in  words.'  And  it's  true.  I  said  all 
of  my  love,  lived  all  of  my  romances  in 
song,  and  was  content." 


"Gladys,"  said  Frank  Chapman,  "still 
romanticizes  things  and  people.  She  is, 
I  fear — and  hope — incurable.  She'll  never 
get  over  it.  And  she  never  should.  It's 
the  quality  which  keeps  her  warm  and 
responsive  and  eager  and  always  growing. 
If  she  believes  in  anybody,  she  can  see  no 
faults  in  them.  There  are  so  many  pro- 
fessionals who  hear  a  singer,  however 
great,  and  say,  critically :  'My  teacher  told 
me  not  to  do  it  that  way.'  There  are 
those  who  will  say  :  'Chaliapin  is  no  good, 
he  doesn't  sing  this  or  that  as  I  was  taught 
to  sing  it.'  Or :  'If  I  were  Geraldine 
Farrar,  I  would  have  done  it  this  way  or 
that  .  .  .'  Not  Gladys.  She  always  feels 
that  people  have  attained  what  they  have 
because  they  have  worked  like  the  devil 
for  that  attainment  and  she  reveres  them 
for  it,  uncritically,  without  question." 

Frank  was  called  from  the  room  for  a 
moment  and  Gladys  Swarthout  followed 
him  with  her  dark  eyes  proud  and  her 
smile  tender.  She  said,  then :  "I  don't  need 
to  romanticize  our  marriage.  You  see, 
this  is  the  time,  this  the  miracle,  when 
reality  and  romance  met  and  were  one, 
the  reality  as  beautiful  as  the  romance, 
the  romance  as  sound  as  the  reality.  It  is, 
in  its  very  essence,  romantic — our  mar- 
riage. 

"Our  first  meeting  was  in  Florence.  We 
were  both  married  then  and  so  it  was — 
just  a  meeting.  But  it  must  have  been 
one  which  remained  in  our  memories, 
which  took  root  in  our  hearts.  Later,  we 
met  again  in  New  York.  And  I  remem- 
ber how,  one  week-end,  I  was  visiting 
Frank's  family  up  state.  One  evening  we 
sat  by  the  fire,  Frank  and  I,  playing 
records.  And  we  played  the  old  German 
folk  song,  Dii  Liegst  mir  in  Herzen, 
which,  translated,  says :  You  Are  In  My 
Heart.  And  we  recognized  it  as  our  song, 
as  saying  more  perfectly  than  we  could 
ever  say  what  we  wanted  to  say  to  each 
other.  And  I  recognized  it  as  one  of 
the  songs  which  Alma  Gluck  had  sung, 
those  years  ago,  in  Kansas  City,  when, 
watching  and  listening  to  her,  I  felt  in- 
spired to  take  the  first  steps  that  had 
brought  me  to — to  that  evening  with 
Frank.  It  has  been  our  song  ever  since. 
We  always  sing  it,  when  we  sing  together, 
alone  by  ourselves.  We  have  sung  it  on 
every  concert  we've  ever  sung  together. 
We  shall  sing  it  when  we  sing  together 
on  the  radio  this  year. 

"Our  courtship  began  afte?  we  were 
married,"  Gladys  said,  her  voice  a  song 
in  her  throat.  "And  after  five  years  we 
are  still — "  she  smiled,  "still  courting! 
This  year  will  be  the  first  year  we  have 
missed  dining  in  the  restaurant  where  we 
dined  the  night  we  were  married.  Every 
year,  on  that  same  night  of  the  year,  we 
have  Iiad  dinner  in  that  same  restaurant, 
at  the  same  table,  ordering  the  same  menu. 

"It  was  very  sudden,  the  way  we  were 
married.  One  day  Frank  said  to  me :  'I 
think  we  should  get  married  today.'  And 
I  said :  'I  think  so,  too.'    And  we  went 


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to  Tenafly,  New  Jersey,  and,  in  the  home 
of  friends,  were  married  by  the  Mayor  of 
Tenafly. 

"I  said  that  the  essence  of  our  marriage 
is  romantic,"  said  Gladys,  "and  it  is.  Time 
nr  custom  cannot  stale,  you  see,  its  in- 
finite variety.  We  look  upon  the  profes- 
sional side  of  our  marriage  as  a  partner- 
ship. One  partner  in  charge  of  produc- 
tion, the  other  partner  in  charge  of  sales. 
In  our  case  Frank  may  be  said  to  be  the 
partner  in  charge  of  sales,  even  though 
he  has  his  own  career,  studies  every  morn- 
ing as  I  do. 

"You  see,  I  cannot  always  see  Frank  as 
just  Frank  Chapman,  my  husband.  Al- 
ways, to  me,  he  is  invested  with  the 
glamour  of  the  singer,  the  dignity  of  the 
manager,  the  adviser,  the  counsellor,  the 
final  authority.  Always,  I  think  and  hope. 
Frank  sees  me  as  he  might  see  me  across 
the  footlights  of  the  Met,  on  the  screen, 
if  we  were  not  married  at  all.  And  then, 
when  we  can  be  alone,  just  ourselves, 
there  is  such  a  poignancy  to  our  being 
together  as  I  can't  describe!  There  are 
all  the  glamour  and  first  thrill  of  the  first 
tete-a-tete,  the  honeymoon.  We'd  still 
rather  be  by  ourselves,  go  off  by  our- 
selves, than  anything  else  in  the  world. 

"And  we've  bought  a  house,"'  said 
Gladys,  with  the  air  of  one  announcing 
something  special  and  hitherto  unheard  of 
and  beautiful  and  blest.  "We've  bought 
our  own  home.  It's  almost  the  most  ro- 
mamic  thing  we've  ever  done.  We've 
always  had  homes,  of  course.  We've  sel- 
dom if  ever  just  stayed  in  hotel  suites. 
But  this  is  our  own  home,  our  first.  We're 
bringing  out  some  of  our  things  from  New 
York,  things  we're  terribly  fond  of,  things 
we've  had  a  long  while.  It's  going  to 
be  our  home,  a  sort  of  combination  of 
French  and  North  Italian,  with  some  Eng- 
lish things  scattered  in.  And  no  interior 
decorator  will  come  anywhere  near  it! 
We're  doing  it  all  ourselves,  by  ourselves. 
We  get  more  thrill  out  of  browsing  about 
and  discovering  a  lovely  set  of  panels,  for 
instance,  than  we  could  ever  get  out  of  a 
whole  house  done  by  other  hands  than 
ours,  other  tastes,  other  hearts.  .  .  ." 

Frank  Chapman  came  back  at  that  mo- 
ment and  Gladys  said  to  him :  "Dear,  bring 
out  what  we  discovered  just  yesterday  I" 
•And  Frank,  eyes  shining,  produced  a  love- 
ly, old  framed  etching  and,  in  one  corner, 
the  wonder-making  name  of  Whistler  met 
my  eyes. 

"We  found  this  yesterday !"  Gladys  said, 
"and  we  literally  screamed  right  out  loud 
when  we  saw  it.  There  is  nothing  more 
romantic  than  a  moment  like  that. 

"We  have  our  shared  dreams,  too.  It 
has  been  our  dream,  ever  since  we  were 
first  married,  ever  since  we  first  met,  I 
really  suppose.  We  dream  of  going  back 
to  Florence  one  day — to  live  there.  Every- 
thing we  have  ever  done,  everything  we 
are  doing  now,  is  building  toward  that 
dream.  We  have  a  particular  villa  in 
mind.  We  plan  to  buy  it  and  then  to  turn 
over  one  wing  to  some  five  or  si.x  talented 
Americans.  They  need  not  be  musicians 
and  singers  only.  They  may  be  writers 
or  sculptors  or  teachers  or  artists  or  any- 
thing, just  so  long  as  they  love  Florence 
as  we  do,  so  long  as  they  need  and  get 
from  the  libraries  and  museums  of  Flor- 
ence what  we  need  and  get.  This  is  in 
no  sense  a  charity.   It  will  be  our  greatest 


happiness,  the  realization  of  the  most  ro- 
mantic dream  we  have  ever  dreamed,  to 
share  with  others  something  we,  too,  have 
had  and  loved  .  .  . 

"It  is  the  most  romantic  villa  in  all 
Florence,  too,"  Gladys  said,  hands  clasp- 
ing her  knees,  eyes  on,  perhaps,  the  waters 
of  the  Arno.  "It  was,  originally,  a  L^th 
century  monastery.  Then  it  became,  and 
has  been  ever  since,  a  private  villa.  It  has 
a  ghost,  too !" 

"A  g-ghost?"  I  stuttered. 

"Ah,  such  a  nice  ghost,"  Gladys  said. 
"Isn't  he,  Frank?  He  is  an  old  monk  and 
he  wanders  up  and  down  the  corridors, 
swinging  his  censer." 

"Are  you  s-sure?"  I  whimpered. 

"Positive,"  stated  Frank  Chapman,  with 
macabre  matter-of-factness.  "I  have  heard 
his  footsteps.  I  have  smelled  the  incense 
from  his  censer  as  he  passed.  He  is  a 
nice  old  ghost  and  we  are  very  fond  of 
him." 

I  goggled. 

"But  we  live  with  ghosts  all  the  time," 
Gladys  said,  her  voice  amused  but  tender. 
"Look  at  our  piano  there,  piled  high  with 
music.  The  songs,  the  sonatas  of  those 
who  are  gone.  An  enormous  part  of  our 
inspiration  comes  from  the  living  spirits 
of  those  we  call  the  dead,  ^^'e  work  with 
them  every  day,  Frank  and  I.  We  often 
say  that  we  feel  we  know  them  better 
than  some  of  our  flesh-and-blood  friends. 
We  feel  that  we  know  how  they  felt  on 
the  particular  day  when  they  wrote  that 
song,  composed  that  bit  of  a  symphony. 
We  even  feel  that  we  know  what  they 
ate  for  dinner  and  where  and  how  they 
spent  the  evening.  We  live  with  the  dead 
every  day  of  our  lives  .  .  .  why  should 
we  be  shocked  or  surprised  when  we  see 
a  'ghost?'" 

"It's — it's  all  a  matter  of  intestinal  forti- 
tude, I  guess,"  I  said. 

Gladys  and  Frank  laughed. 

I  said :  "But  you  don't  really  believe 
in  ghosts?" 

Frank  answered  firmly :  "I  heard  his 
footsteps.  I  smelled  the  incense  as  he 
passed.  We  love  our  ghost.  We  wouldn't 
dispossess  him  from  his  home,  even  if  we 
could — this  home  which  was  his  long  be- 
fore it  will  become  ours." 

I  rose  to  go.  My  eyes  sought  the  piano, 
the  tables,  the  mantle,  rich  with  pictures 
of  friends  who,  happily,  are  still  alive. 
John  McCormack  is  there,  Geraldine  Far- 
rar,  Rosa  Ponselle,  Toscanini,  Ernest 
Schelling,  Eddie  Johnson,  Phillip  Meri- 
vale,  Gloria  Swanson,  Bart  Marshall, 
Mary  Pickford,  Marlene  Dietrich,  others 
...  A  part  of  their  romantic  life,  I 
thought,  these  pictures  of  their  friends, 
bright  strands  woven  into  the  tapestry  of 
their  life  together.  So  romantically  dif- 
ferent, too,  from  the  majority  of  interior- 
decorated,  modern  homes,  where  it  is  con- 
sidered "old-fashioned"  to  have  family 
photographs  about,  or  any  photographs 
at  all.  Save,  perhaps,  one  glass-encased 
etching  of  a  unicorn  or  something! 

There  came  a  call  for  Gladys  to  report 
at  Paramount  Studio,  a  retake  for  Cliam- 
t^agne  Waltz. 

I  said  goodbye  to  the  "Incurable  Ro- 
manticist" and  carried  w'ith  me  her  hus- 
liand's  fond  hope  that  she  will  be,  always, 
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(SELECTED     SNICKERS     FROM     POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


•    •  • 


KEX :  I  don't  know  -whctlu-r  I  zcaiil  yon 
to  slnnr  inc  or  not. 

OSWALD:  Don't  worry  .  .  .  every  time 
I  cut  you  I'll  give  you  ten  cents. 

KEX:  Every  time  yon  cut  mc  you'll 
give  me  ten  cents? 

OSWALD:  Yeah  .  .  .  you'll  go  out  of 
here  a  rich  man! 

KEX:  I  got  into  a  fine  place!  Don't 
shave  mc — just  give  me  a  haircut. 

OSWALD :  I  never  cut  a  man's  hair 
.  .  .  1  just  burn  it  off. 

KEX:  You  dof  Is  it  easv  to  burn  off 
hair  cvcniv.' 

OSWALD:  Yeah  .  .  .  it's  a  SIXGE! 

KEX:  I  don't  think  you  knoic  your 
business.  ().\'7^\il<f.  I  ,s-(Jti'  your  last  custo- 
mer i/ct  out  of  the  L-Iiair  zcitli  a  big  cut  on 
his  chill. 

OSWALD:  Well,  I'm  in  love  zcith  his 
cook. 

KEN:  What's  that  got  to  do  with  the 
cut  on  his  chin? 

OSWALD:  That's  to  let  her  knoic  I'll 
sec  her  Sunda\  night! 

(Laugh  in'th  KEX  MURRAY.) 

PICK:  Xow  here's  a  job  .  .  .  dey  wants 
somebody  in  a  butcher  shop  fo'  six  bucks 
a  week. 

PAT:  Six  bucks? 

PICK :  Yeah  .  .  .  now,  what  can  you  do 
in  a  butcher  shop?  Can  you  dress  a 
chicken? 

PAT  :  Xot  on  six  bucks  a  week. 

PICK:  Sav,  what  jobs  has  you  hekl? 

PAT  ;  W  ell  ...  I  was  a  salesman  in  a 
deiiartnunt  stort",  but  I  lost  de  job. 

PICK:  How? 

PAT  :  Well,  <le  boss's  son  came  in  and 

a~]:- '1  iiK    iM  sliiiw  liim  somethin'  suitable 

-iliin'  suitable  in  neckwear! 
W  you  tired? 

PA  1  :  I  take  a  look  at  his  neck  and 
gave  him  a  washrag. 

(PICK  and  PAT,  One  Night  Stands.) 

JACK:  Phil,  I  heard  some  awfully  nice 
things  about  you. 

PHIL:  I  heard  some  awfully  things 
about  you,  Jack. 

KENNY:  Oh,  Jack  .  .  .  here's  a  wire 
for  you.   I  opened  it  by  mistake. 

JACK:  'What  do  you  mean,  mistake? 

MARY:  He  thought  he  could  read! 

(JACK  BENNY,  Jell-O  Program.) 

JACK:  You  know,  I  made  a  movie  this 
summer.  I  want  to  tell  you,  I'm  getting  a 
big  kick  out  of  Paramount. 

MARY:  I  know — /  saw  the  preview. 

JACK:  It's  a  good  thing  I'm  dumb  or 
else  I'd  get  sore.  But  say,  Mary,  we've  got 
to  find  Kenny  Baker.  Did  you  search  the 
closet? 

MARY:  I  already  did,  Toots. 
JACK :  Did  ynu  find  any  clues? 
MARY:    Yeah— but  they  didn't  fit  me. 
(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

EDDIE:  I  heard  two  women  talking 
.  .  and  one  woman  said  that  Eddie  Can- 
tor was  the  funniest  comedian  on  the  air. 

JIMM'Y':  Who  were  the  two  women? 

EDDIE:  I  don't  know  the  name  of  the 
woman  Ida  was  talking  to. 

(EDDIE  CANTOR,  Texaco  Program.) 

106 


JACK  (as  Anthony  Aihcrsc)  :  I'd  like 
a  job  here. 

M.ARY:  We're  not  liiriiui  sof^ranos. 
What's  your  name? 

JACK:  Anthony. 

M.lk)':  Oil — are  \ou  an  orphan? 

JACK:  Yes. 

MARY:  Oh— Orphan  .-hithonx,  huh? 
{JACK  BEXXY,  JcIl-0  Program.) 


WHITEMAN:  Tell  me  what  happened 
in  scrimmage. 

JUDY:  What  happened  where? 

WHITEMAN:  What  happened  in 
scrimmage? 

JUDY:  You  must  be  thinking  of  some 
other  game.  Zeke,  do  you  know  what 
scrimmage  is? 

ZEKE:  Scrimmage  is  what  Pop  Eye  eats 
to  make  him  strong. 

(PAUL  WHITEMAN'S  Woodbury 
Program.) 


PAP.\:  Now,  Snooks,  don't  be  afraid 
...  sit  down  in  the  dentist's  chair  .  .  .  I'll 
hold  your  hand. 

FANNIE:  No  .  .  .  hold  the  dentist's 
hand ! 

(FANNIE  BRICE,  Lyon's  Toothpaste 
Program.) 


GRACIE:  You  know  why  the  saxo- 
phone sounds  better  here?  It  plays  better 
on  California  air. 

GEORGE:  If  New  York  is  listening  in, 
I  was  born  there. 

GRACIE:  Oh-h-h  .  .  .  another  boost 
for  California! 

(BURNS  AND  ALLEN,  Campbell's 
Tomato  Juice  Program.) 


PR  CD:  Knock  knock. 
PORTLAND:  Who's  there? 
FRED:  Petunia. 
PORTLAND:  Petunia  7vho? 
FRED:  Petunia  old  qrcv  bonnet. 
(FRED  ALLEN,  Town  llall  Tonight.) 


FIGGS  :  Well  Senator,  here  we  are  in 
the  railroad  vard. 

FISHF.\CE:  Yeah,  a  train  just  went 
by,  didn't  it? 

FIGGS:  How  can  you  tell? 

FISH  :  I  can  see  its  tracks. 

(SENATOR  FISHFACE  &  FIGGS- 
BOTTLE,  NBC.) 


O'KEEFE:  I  don't  object  to  a  woman 
driver  having  half  of  the  road,  if  she 
would  only  make  up  her  mind  which  half 
she  wants! 

(RUDY  VALLEE'S  Royal  Variety 
Hour.) 


P.\T :  Dat  reminds  mc.  Pick  ,  .  you 
know  I  is  goin'  to  take  a  sea  trip  soon, 
but  I  gets  seasick  very  easily, 

PICK  :  You  does? 

PAT  :  I'se  wonderin'  .  .  .  what  will  I  do 
if  I  gets  seasick? 

PICK:  Don't  worry  .  ,    you'll  do  it! 
(PICK  and  PAT,  One  Night  Stands.) 

Prinlnl  i 


GRACIE:  Here's  a  " moiithic"—read\? 
.-l-B-C-D-E-F-G-Splash  ? 

GEORGE:  All  right,  Grade— I  give  up 
— -iAiat  is  it? 

GR.-iCIE:  Why  it's  an  Englishman  eat- 
inq  alphabet  soup. 

GEORGE:  But  the  "Splash"  Grade  ■■ 
ivhat's  that? 

GRACIE:  He's  dropping  his  aitches. 

(BURNS  and  ALLEN,  Campbell's  To- 
mato Juice  Program.) 


BENNY:  I  won  the  high  jump  at  the 
Olympics  in  Berlin. 
JOE:  You  did? 

BENNY:  Yeah  ...  I  backed  into  a 
javelin! 

(BENNY  RUBIN,  National  Amateur 
Night.  MBS.) 

PHIL:  Beetle,  I'll  have  you  know  I'm 
one  of  the  funniest  men  in  radio. 
BEETLE:  Sinclair  Lewis. 
PHIL:   What  do   you   mean.  Sinclair 

Lewis  ? 

BEETLE:  Dodsworth  you  think! 
(PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 


GRACIE:  You  know  .  .  my  brother 
Red,  who  is  always  eating  persimmons. 

GEORGE:  Eating  persimmons?  Why. 
Gracie  ? 

GRACIE:  To  shrink  his  stomach  to  fit 
his  meals.    He's  a  salesman. 

KEX  :  Oh,  is  he  on  a  diet,  Gracie? 

GR.\CIE:  No  ...  on  commission 

KEN  :  What  does  he  sell? 

GRACIE:  Oh,  uh— nothing  .  .  that's 
why  he  can't  eat. 

('BURNS  and  ALLEN,  Campbell's  To- 
mato Juice  Program.) 


ED:  Have  you  heard  about  the  new 
water-wings  the  novice  swimmers  are 
using? 

HARRY:  No— what  kind? 

ED:  Harry  Richman's.  They  put  a 
ping-pong  ball  in  each  cheek  and  just 
float  along. 

(ED  FITZGERALD  &  CO.,  MBS.) 


O'KEEFE:  One  thing  1  learned  from 
Hollyivood  this  summer  is  why  the  Venus 
de  Milo — who  had  no  arms — is  so  popular 
.  .  .  She  couldn't  ivrite  a  diary. 

(RUDY  VALLEE'S  Roval  Variety 
Hour.) 

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PHIL:  Professor  Einstein  ueni  to  Ja- 
pan. 

BOTTLE:  Who? 

PHIL:  Einstein — you  know  who  Ein- 
stein is — he  discovered  Relativitv 

BOTTLE:  What's  Relativity,  .Mr 
Baker? 

PHIL :  Well  .  .  uh  .  .  .  if  you  sit  on  ^ 
hot  stove  for  one  minute  it  seems  like  an 
hour,  see?  But  if  a  pretty  girl  sat  on 
your  lap  for  an  hour  it  would  only  seem 
like  a  minute. 

BOTTLE:  My  word!  Did  Kinstem 
have  to  go  to  Japan  to  find  that  out? 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  BOTTLE,  Gulf 
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How  often  a  girl  has 
tlirilled  to  a  pass- 
ing glance  — to  an  admiring  look  that 
says,  "If  only  there  were  someone  to  in- 
troduce us  now." 

Lucky  for  her  if  she  has  a  youthful 
smile  — a  smile  that  reveals  sparkling 
white  teeth  and  healthy  gums.  But  how 
pitiful  tlie  smile  that  shocks  the  expec- 
tant eye.  How  sad  the  smile  that  betrays 
dull  teeth  and  dingy  gums— tragic  evi- 
dence of  unforgivable  neglect. 

NEVER  NEGLECT  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 

That  first  warning  tinge  of  "pink"  on 
your  tooth  brush— how  harmless  it  ap- 


She  evades  close-ups . . .  Dingy  teeth  and  tender  gums  destroy  her 
charm  ...  She  ignored  the  warning  of  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 


pears  and  yet  how  serious  it  can  prove. 
For  trivial,  trifling  as  it  may  seem— ig- 
nored, it  can  exact  a  heavy  penalty. 

When  you  see  it— see  your  dentist.  You 
may  not  be  in  for  serious  trouble,  but 
your  dentist  is  the  only  competent  judge. 
Usually,  however,  he  will  tell  you  that 
yours  is  simply  a  case  of  gums  tiiat  have 
grown  soft  and  sensitive  under  our  mod- 
ern soft-food  menus- gums  that  need 
more  resistance  and  work  — and  as  so 
many  modern  dentists  advise— gums  that 
will  respond  to  the  healthful  stimulation 
of  Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage. 


For  Ipana  is  a  modern 
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sparkling— but,  iiith  massage,  to  assist  the 
health  of  your  gums.  Rub  a  little  extra 
Ipana  on  your  gums  every  time  you  brush 
your  teeth.  Circulation  increases.  Lazy 
tissues  waken.  Gums  become  firmer. 

Play  safe!  .\dopt  this  common-sense 
dental  health  routine  in  your  own  home. 
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whiter,  brighter  teeth  and  sounder, 
liealthier  gums— a  better  chance  for  a 
smile  of  enchanting  loveliness! 


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BROflDCflSTING 

BOOKWORMS  SOMETIMES  SNAP 

(Alexander  Woollcott,  the  old  Town  Crier,  is  back  again)   by  Camilla  Jordan  8 

IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION 

(An  exclusive  column  in  ivhich  Rudy  speaks  his  mind).         by    Rudy  Vollee  20 

BARBARA'S  ADVICE  TO  GIRLS  IN  LOVE 

(IVIiss  Stanwyck  knows  whereof  she  speaks)  by   Gladys  Holl  22 

WINNING  THE  HOLLYWOOD  HANDICAP 

(Nine  years  married,  the  A!  Jolsons  are  still  in  love)         by  Leo  Tftwhsend  24 

SHE  MARRIED  A  SHRIMP 

(But  a  man  in  a  million,  according  to  Fannie  Brice)    by  William  L."  Vollee  28 

MUST  THE  SHOW  GO  ON? 

(Clowning  Ed  Wynn  discusses  the  familiar  maxim)  by  GeOrge  Kent  30 

CHILDREN  MAKE  A  DIFFERENCE 

(What  they  mean  to  George  Burns  and  Grade  Allen)   .    hy  Mipiom   RogCfS  32 

THREE  TIMES  DIVORCED,  BUT— 

(Why  lovely  Irene  Rich  will  not  marry  again), .  .  by  Mofy  WotkinS  ReeVGS  36 

EPISODES  BEFORE  FAME 

(How  Richard  Crooks  found  his  way  to  success)  by   Noncy   BorPOWS  38 

IS  BOBBY  JEALOUS  OF  DEANNA? 

(Eddie  Cantor's  child  stars  answer  the  question)     .         by  Mifiom  GibsOH  40 

THE  ROCKY  ROAD  TO  ROMANCE 

(Can  Joan  Blaine  and  Cyril  Pitts  surmount  its  obstacles?)    by  Loslie  Eo+On  43 

CAN  WOMEN  TELL  MEN  THE  TRUTH? 

(Four  lovely  stars  have  tried  it!)   by  Harriet  Menken  44 

DAY  DREAMS  COME  TRUE 

(What  Jan  Peerce  remembers  when  he  sings)  by  Elizabeth  B.  PeterSOn  46 

HE  CERTAINLY  STARTED  SOMETHING 

(Jerry  Belcher,  originator  of  radio's  intimate  interviews)  by  Mildred    Mostin  50 

"I  AIN'T  NO  LESLIE  HOWARDI" 

(Champion  James  Braddock  makes  a  confession)  by  Tom  Meony  60 

AND  DEPARTMENTS 

In  The  Radio  Spotlight   34 

Dialings   42 

Win  One  of  These  Glamorous 

Evening  Gowns   48 

What   They    Listen  To— And 

Why   53 

Join  Our  Tour  of  Hollywood.  .  54 

Nothing  But  the  Truth   68 

West  Coast  Chatter   72 

Radio  Laughs   118 


SPECIAL  FEATURES 

Board  of  Review   6 

Kate    Smith's   Own  Cooking 

School   10 

Beauty  Advice   12 

Radio  Ramblings   14 

Wardrobe  Changes  for  a  Star. .  16 
For   Distinguished    Service  to 

Radio   18 

Between  Broadcasts   26 


Cover  by  EARL  CHRISTY 


RADIO  STARS 


THE  MOST  Powerful  LOVE  STORY  EVER  FILMED! 
...Of  a  Patriot  Who  Lost  a  Country  When  He  Found  a  Woman 


You  thought  "San  Francisco"  was  exciting  — 
but  wait !  You'll  be  thrilled  to  your  finger-tips 
when  this  mighty  drama  comes  thundering 
from  the  screen.  A  fiery  romance  with  your  two 
favorite  stars ! . . .  CLARK  GABLE— courageous, 
masterful  leader  of  a  fighting  nation  .  .  . 


MYRNA  LOY— the  bewitching  beauty  in  whose 
arms  he  forgot  the  pain  of  leadership  .  .  . 

Answering  the  call  of  millions  of  picture- 
goers  M-G-M  has  brought  them  together  in 
the  most  dramatic  heart-stabbing  love  story 
of  our  time! 


CLARK  GABLE  •  MYRXA  LOY 


IN 


PJlLltMEI.1. 

A  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  production  hailed  on  the  great 
stage  play  that  thrilled  Broadwav  for  months,  with 
EDNA  MAY  OLIVER,  BILLIE  BURKE,  and  a  great 
M-G-M  cast.  Directed  and  produced  by  John  Stahl. 


RADIO  STARS 


BOARD  OF  REVIEW 


PHILHARMONIC     SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA  86.3 

tZ^.v  Sun.   3:00   P.M.  EST 

MARCH  OF  TIME   84.8 

t/;^  ri:,u'.   li>:M>  I'.M.  EST 

FORD  SUNDAY  EVENING  HOUR   84.7 


I'.M.  l:ST 


GENERAL  MOTORS  CONCERT— ERNO 
RAPEE 


.7iC 


/'..!/.  /-..sr 


.84.2 


JELL-O  PROGRAM— JACK  BENNY 

.V/K  Su,!.  7.(10  E.ST,  S:3()  P.M.  I'.^T 

TOWN  HALLTONIGHT— FRED  ALLEN  81.8 

.V/;C    II-..'.    <^:IM)    I'.M.  EST 

A.  &  P.  BAND  WAGON— KATE  SMITH  81.5 

r/i.N    Ihw.    H    I'.M.  E.ST 

LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  79.6 

(  /;s    M'  n.    0:011    I  .M.  EST 

KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROSBY, 

BOB  BURNS  79.2 

.\7;(     llr.o  .    I0:00    I'.M.  EST 

CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— JESSICA 

DRAGONETTE  78.7 

.V/;(    /•(/.   S:00   P  .M.  [■:.ST 

ANDRE    K O ST ELANETZ— K A Y 

THOMPSON   77.4 

Clis  Tr,.  S:Ui   I'.M.  PVT 
CHESTERFIELD    PRESENTS  NINO 
MARTINI  WITH  KOSTELANETZ  OR- 
CHESTRA 77.2 


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THE  VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE  75.8 

.\7:(   .\l      A  -io  l'..M.  l,\r,  V  ,w  l'..\P  P.ST 
THE  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA   75.6 

.\7:(    S:,::     :  OO    I'.M.  l.^J 
MEREDITH  WILLSON  AND  ORCHES- 
TRA 75.4 

A7iC  Wei.  IO:.VI  P..\E  i.Sl  ,  .Sal.  ,V.-.?(/  P.M. 

I.  ST 

STUDEBAKER   CHAMPIONS  — RICH- 
ARD   HIMBER  75.3 

M  <   .\l<.,:.  ■>  «<  I'.M  EST 

LOWELL  THOMAS   75.2 

M;(.     M-I  -W  I  I     fr.-h    P.M.  I>l 
GUY  LOMBARDO  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
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PHIL  BAKER    HAL  KEMP  S  ORCHES- 
TRA 74.3 

CP'S  .Sun.   7:30   I'.M.  P.ST 

BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS.  .  .74.2 

S-p,(    I  n,-..  0:00  P.M.  E.ST 

AMOS   N'  ANDY  74.1 

.VW    M-T-\y-l-F   7:00    P.M.  E.ST,  S.OO 
P.M.  P.ST 

RADIO  CITY  SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA  74.0 

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BURNS  AND  ALLEN   72.9 

C/;^  li...'  ■■  <o  P.M.  I.ST.  P.M.  PST 
PITTSBURGH  SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TRA  72.6 

( P.S    Sun.   S.OO   P.M.  EST 

AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 

MUSIC  72.5 

MiC  Sun.  i/:.10  P.M.  EiST 


Lester  C.  Grady 

Radio   Stars    Magazine.  Chairnia 

Alton  Cook 

N.  Y.  World-Telegram.  New  York,  f 

S.  A.  Coleman 

Wichita  Beacon.  Wichita,  Kan. 

Norman  Siegel 

Cleveland    Press,    Cleveland,  Ohi 

Andrew  W.  Smith 

News  &  Age-Herald.  Birmingham, 

Richard  Peters 

Knoxville  News-Sentinel,  Knoxville. 

Si  Steinhauser 

Pittsburgh   Press,   Pittsburgh.  P; 

Leo  Miller 

Bridgeport  Herald,  Bridgeport,  Co 

Richard  G.  MofFet 

Florida  Times-Union,  Jacksonville, 

C.   L.  Kern 

Indianapolis  Star.   Indianapolis.  \\ 

Larry  Wolfers 

Chicago  Tribune,  Chicago,  III. 


Washington.   D.  C. 

H.   Dean  Fitzer 

City  Star,   Kansas  City. 


Andrew  W.  Foppe 

Cincinnati  Enquirer.  Cincinnati,  Ot 

Chuck  Gay 

Dayton   Daily  News.   Dayton,  Ohi. 


HOUR  OF  CHARM  72.2 

NBC  .Mnn.  '4:00  P..\L  PST 

JACK  OAKIE'S  COLLEGE— GOODMAN 

BAND  71,8 

CBS  Tii,-^.  -P.yi   P.M.  i.ST 

HELEN  HAYES  IN  "BAMBI"  71.7 

NP,C   .!/..»,    .S:nu    r.M.  EST 

YOUR  HIT  PARADE  71.6 

A7i(    11,  7.  10:01)  I'..M.  ESI :  CBS  Sul.  10:00 
I'.M.  I -ST 

RUBINOFF,  JAN  PEERCE  71.4 

CBS  Sun.  6:.M  P.M.  EST 

ALEMITE  HALF-HOUR  WITH  HEIDT  S 

BRIGADIERS  71.0 

(/;.s  .M,.,i.  S:0o  P.M.  EST:  '>:00  I'.M.  P.ST 
WOODBURY  PRESENTS  PAUL  WHITE- 
MANS  MUSICAL  VARIETIES   70.0 

NB(  Sun.  'A/5  P.^P  EST:  ,\:30  P.M.  P.ST 
HOLLYWOOD    HOTEL— DICK 

POWELL;  PAIGE  ORCHESTRA  69.9 

CPS  I  r,.  O.-oo  r..M.  E.ST 

GRAND  HOTEL  -ANNE  SEYMOUR  ,69.8 

NIK  Sun.  3:.lo  P.M.  EST 

EDWIN  C.  HILL  69,6 

NBC  Sun.  '':l^   P.M.  EST 

PACKARD    HOUR- FRED  ASTAIRE, 

GREEN  ORCHESTRA  69.3 

MIC  Tuf-..  0:30  P.M.  EST 

VICK  S  OPEN  HOUSE— NELSON  EDDY. 69.2 

CPS  Sun.   S:00    I'.M.  EST 

LEO  REISMAN  S  ORCHESTRA  69.0 

NIK    Tu...   .S:O0    P.M.  E.ST 

THE  BAKER  S  BROADCAST— ROBERT 

RIPLEY,  NELSON  ORCHESTRA  68.6 

NIK   .Sun.  7:.<0  P.M.  P.ST 

CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  68.4 

CBS    HV7.  H:00  P.M.  E.ST 
LANNY  ROSS  PRESENTS  THE  MAX- 
WELL HOU.SE  SHOW  BOAT  68.2 

NIK  Thur.  0:00  P.M.  EST;  8:30  P.M.  P.ST 
METROPOLITAN  OPERA  AUDITIONS 
OF  THE  AIR   S8.1 

NP.C  Sun.  3:00  P.M.  EST 

EDDIE  CANTOR  67.8 

CBS  Sun.  >(:.!0  I'.M.  EST.  H.OO  P.M.  PST 
WE,  THE  PEOPLE— PHILLIPS  LORD.  67.7 

NBC  Sun.   ^:00  P.M.  I:ST 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  per- 
centages on  the  assumption  that  all 
radio  programs  are  divided  into  four 
basic  parts  :  material,  artists,  presen- 
tation and  announcements,  each  con- 
sisting of  2S'/'  and  making  the  perfect 
program  of  lOO'.f.  These  ratings  are 
a  consensus  of  opinions  of  our  Board 
of  Rex  iew  and  do  not  necessarily  agree 
with  the  editorial  opinion  of  R.\Dio 
Stars  Magazine.  Programs  outstand- 
ing as  to  artists  and  material,  often 
suffer  because  of  poor  presentation  or 
exaggerated  commercial  announce- 
ments. There  have  been  many  changes 
in  programs  for  the  winter  months. 
The  Board  reviewed  as  many  of  the 
current  major  programs  as  it  possibly 
could  before  this  issue  went  to  press. 


JOE  PENNER— GRIER  ORCHESTRA  67.5 

CPS  Sun.  6:00  P.M.  EST 

WARDEN  LAWES  67.3 

NBC  Mon.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY  67.0 

NBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST,  Sun.  9:30  P.M. 

PST 

STOOPNAGLE     AND     BUDD— VOOR- 
HEES  ORCHESTRA  66.7 

NBC  Sun.  5:3:i  P.M.  EST 

WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  66.6 

CBS  Mun.  10:O0  P.M.  EST;  NBCTues.  Wed. 
8:30   P.M.  P..ST 

SATURDAY    NIGHT   PARTY— RAY 
KNIGHT,  GROFE  ORCHESTRA  66.5 

NBC  Sal.  S':00   P.M.  E.ST 

WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 

NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  66.3 

NBC  Pf    0:00   P..M.  PST 

MAJOR  BOWES'  CAPITOL  FAMILY.  66.2 

CBS  Sun.   11:30  EST 

U.  S.  ARMY  BAND  66.1 

NBC   Mon.    (KOi    P.M.  E.ST 

GABRIEL  HEATTER  66.0 

MBS   M-T-W-T  9:00   P.M.  EST 
JAMBOREE  65.8 

A7«    'Tiiur.  10:00  P.M.  K.ST 
IRVIN  S.  COBB— PADUCAH  PLANTA- 
TION 65.6 

NBC  Sal.  10:.W  P.M.  EST 

CONTENTED  PROGRAM  65.4 

NBC  Mon.   10:00  P.M.  EST 

BOAKE  CARTER  65.2 

CBS  M-T-W-T-P  7:45  P.M.  EST 

OUR  NEIGHBORS— JERRY  BELCHER  65.1 

NBC  Sun.   1:30  P.M.  E.ST 

EASY  ACES   64.6 

NBC  T-W-T  7:00  P.M.  EST 
SHELL  CHATEAU— JOE  COOK,  WAT- 
SON'S ORCHESTRA   63.5 

NBC  Sal.   9:30   P.M.  EST 
SALT     LAKE     CITY  TABERNACLE 
CHOIR  AND  ORGAN  .63.4 
CBS  Sun.    ll:.io   P..M.  EST 
ETHEL  BARRYMORE  63.3 
NBC  ir,,/.  /i:.iO   P.  M.  I:.ST 
TWIN     STARS— VICTOR  MOORE, 
HELEN    BRODERICK,    ROGERS  OR- 
CHESTRA 63.2 
A7;c'  Pn.   0:.U)   P.M.  EST 
GILLETTE'S     COMMUNITY  SING- 
MILTON  BERLE,  JONES  AND  HARE  .  .63.1 
CBS  Sun.    10:00   P.M.  EST 
NASH    LAFAYETTE   SPEED  SHOW- 
FLOYD   GIBBONS,    LOPEZ  ORCHES- 
TRA  63.0 

CBS  Sa!.    0:00   P.M.  EST 

REVUE  DE  PAREE    FANNIE  BRICE..62.8 

NBC   ir.7.  H.OO   P.M.  EST 
KRUEGER  MUSICAL  TOAST— JERRY 
COOPER,    SALLY    SINGER,  BLOCK 
ORCHESTRA  62.7 

A7;(    M,m.   10:30   P.M.  EST 

HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  AIR  62.5 

(7:.s  :\MI-A  ll.oo  .1.1/.  /,s7-,  12:00  Noon 
PST 


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This  Beautiful  Enamel,  Once  Worn  Away,  Never  Grows  Back..  NEVER.! 


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But  She's  terribly  stingy  with  tooth  enamel. 
Once  you  allow  it  to  be  injured,  or  you  per- 
mit film  to  start  its  deadly  decay,  enamel  can 
never  grow  back — never. 

That  is  why  the  discovery  of  IRIUM  has 
caused  such  a  sensation  in  the  dentifrice  world. 
The  flashing  new  luster  it  brings  with  safety 
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tough  film  that  forms  and  glues  itself  on  teeth 
and  gums.  Then  gently  hfts  and  floats  it  away 
—  polishes  the  enamel  to  a  brilliant  sparkle 
you  have  never  even  seen  before — ^and  imparts 
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RADIO  STARS 

Hear  ye  !    Hear  ye  !    Our  old 

friend,  the  Town  Crier,  Alex- 
ander Woollcott  is  back  again 


"HEAR  yd  Hear  yd''  tlic  Tow)i  Crier  shouts  every 
Thursday  iii^ht  owv  Columliia  network,  and  then  with: 
"This  is  ]]'oollci>tt  sf<C(iL-iii(/."  bci^ins  a  weekly  broadcast 
which  hstemrs  knnw  in  acKance  will  be  full  of  human 
drama,  merriment  and  dft-times  tra.^edy.  Perhaps  the 
secret  of  the  '/'(>t.';,'  Crier's  suecess  lies  in  the  fact  that, 
despite  his  sophisticated  front,  Alexander  Woollcott  is 
just  an  old  softy. 

"Aleck,"  as  his  friends  dub  him,  is  a  paradox — a  whole 
group  of  personalities  rolled  into  one  somewhat  Puckish 
character.     There  is  a  constant  struggle  between  his 


BOOKWORMS 
SOMETIMES 
SNAP! 


BY    CAMI  L  LA    JOR  DAN 


One  who  scarcely  needs  an 
journalist,    dramatic  critic, 


introduction — 


play  w 


right 


and  CBS  Town  Crier,  Alexander  Woollcott. 

biting  wit  and  his  very  tender  heart.  A  plumpish,  mature 
gentleman  of  owlish  appearance,  coattails  flying,  clutching 
the  inevitable  cane,  he  sneaks  down  back  alleys  to  avoid 
publicity.  He  flatly  refu.ses  to  be  interviewed  and  flies 
into  a  rage  if  a  rejjorter  tries  to  encroach  u])()n  his  pri- 
vacy. Yet  he  never  has  l)cen  known  to  lock  his  front 
door.  His  j)rivate  telephone  numl^er,  which  the  New 
York  Telephone  Company  has  gone  to  great  lengths  to 
keep  ])rivate,  is  known  to  literally  hundreds  of  his  friends 
and  Mr.  Woollcott  always  answers  the  ringing  bell 
himself. 

Ever  since  young  Aleck  trudged  across  snow-covered 
Philadeljihia  .streets  on  his  way  to  school,  he  has  been 
a  bookworm.  Almost  before  he  was  old  enough  to  hold 
a  large  volume,  he  was  plowing  through  the  written  works 
of  great  philosophers.  Dee])  into  dark  nights  the  boy 
devoured  books,  as  does  the  grown  man  today.  In  fact, 
one  wonders  how  on  earth  Aleck  ever  gets  into  his  bed, 
for  nothing  less  than  a  flying  leap  from  across  the  length 
of  his  bedroom  would  get  him  there.  Books,  books,  his 
favorite  books  outline  his  bed,  and  no  maid  nor  man 
may  touch  them,  even  for  dusting.  Often  the  quotations, 
given  so  dramatically  on  Thm'sday  nights,  are  refreshed 
8 


in  his  memory  from  a  cherished  volume,  while  other  folk 
are  asleep.  Woollcott  owns  one  of  the  finest  libraries  in 
this  country. 

Going  from  this  extraordinary  bedroom  into  Mr.  Wooll- 
cott's  study,  there  is  a  quiet  homeliness  to  this  place 
where  so  much  of  his  time  is  spent.  Papers,  mail  galore 
and  always  an  extra  pair  of  the  Ton'ii  Crier's  spectacles 
are  in  view.  Friends  such  as  Ethel  Barrymore  and  Harpo 
Marx,  or  Dorothy  Parker  and  George  M.  Cohan,  love  to 
meet  there  for  hilarious  evenings  of  wit  and  philosophy. 
Incidentally,  this  apartment  is  appropriately  called  by 
Aleck  Wits  End,  and  is  in  the  fashionable  Sutton  Place 
section  of  New  York  City. 

In  si)ite  of  the  fact  that  he  has  two  secretaries  con- 
stantly on  the  jump,  Mr.  Woollcott  reads  every  bit  of  his 
fan  mail.  He  gets  a  great  kick  out  of  odd  requests  that 
come  from  all  parts  of  the  country.  He  is  quick  to  see 
through  letters,  discarding  the  fake  ones  and  moved  by 
ni;in\  that  contain  tragedy.  After  one  of  his  Sunday 
night's  l)roadcasts  last  winter,  (Continued  on  page  96) 


Beginning  on  Thursday,  January  seventh, 
Woollcott  again  purveys  his  inlnnitable 
wit  and  wisdom  via  the  radio  loudspeaker. 


RADIO  STARS 


S   A   MOTHER'S   LOVE  ENOUGH? 


Bedtime  . .  .  and  mother  caresses 
the  tiny  injured  hand  that  she  ban- 
daged only  this  afternoon  . . . 

'There,  darling,  mother  will  kiss 
it  and  make  it  well." 

But  will  she?  Can  she? 

True,  it  was  only  a  little  cut . . . 
but  even  little  cuts  can  be  dangerous 
if  the  wound  is  not  properly,  care- 
fully dressed.  Infection  can  set  in, 
and  often  does,  if  the  bandage  is  not  as 


clean  as  your  own  doctor  would  use. 

Unfortunately,  even  some  ban- 
dages that  are  plainly  marked  '"ster- 
ilized" on  the  package  are  not  worthy 
of  your  trust. 

These  bandages,  of  unknown 
make,  probably  were  sterilized  in  an 
early  manufacturing  process,  but  in 
subsequent  cutting,  handling,  and 
packing,  dirty  fingers  may  have 
touched  them  .  .  .  destroyed  their 
cleanliness. 


So  don't  take  chances.  Be  safe. 
Use  only  the  first-aid  products  of 
known  and  reputal)l(>  cdnccrtis. 
Johnson  &  Johnson  is  one  of  them. 

All  Johnson  &  Johnson  products 
that  are  marked  sterilized  — Red 
Cross  Cotton,  gauze,  and  bandages- 
are  not  only  •-tfrilized  in  tlie  making. 
They  air  sterilized  again  after  they 
are  put  in  the  package. 

Buy  J  &  J  Red  Cross  products 
with  confidence— from  your  druggist. 


Don't  risk  infection  ...  be  safe  with  ^j^WHrn^i^^Of^^      RED  CROSS  PRODUCTS 

9 


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KATE  SMITH'S 
OWN  COOKING 
SCHOOL 


Surprise  your  guests  with 
special  party  foods  which 
taste  as  good  as  they  look 


HELLO  EX  F.RYBODY!  This  is 
Kate  Smith  cuiuiny  t(j  you  aj;ain  as 
Radio  Stars  Magazine's  Cooking- 
School  Director — this  time  witli  some 
extra-special  sugs^estions  for  jiartic-. 
in  general  and  for  the  many  ap- 
proaching festi\itie^  in  jiarticular. 

I  think  the-  Nuhjcct  is  a  ])articnlarly 
timelv  niic.  (liin'i  \  iiu.  wlien  you  think 
how  nianv  fcstixc  occa>i(jns  there  are 


March,  whose  very 
think.  "Let's  throw 
\  es,  within  the 
tlierc-  arc  f()ur  such 
n\  and  W'a^hing- 
;nid  St.  X'alcntine's 
these, 
f  von 
isk  in 
ng  of 
)y  the 


in  Feliruary  and 
names  make  nnc 
a  grand   ]  )art_\  I 
next  few  wt-fk^ 
occasion--,  l.inci 
ton's  l;irthda\s 
and  St.  Patricks  na\  ^.  l-jirh  of 
of  cour.-ic:,  suii])hc^  an  excuse — 
think  you  really  need  one — to 
your  friends  for  a  hapjjy  even 
talk,  games  or  bridge,  followed 
grandest  of  refreshments  to  assure 
complete  success  for  your  party. 

Well,  then,  let's  get  together  and 
see  what  we  can  "cook  up,"  so  that 
on  at  least  one  of  these  special  days 
you  can  give  a  j^arty  that  will  be  the 
finest  ever,  one  that  your  friends  will 
talk  about  and  that  you,  yourself, 
will  remember  with  pride. 

In  order  to  be  sure  that  I'd  sug- 
gest just  the  sort  of  things  that  most 
of  you  would  like  to  make  and  serve 
I  went  over  my  recipe  files  with  the 
same  degree  of  care  that  Jack  Miller, 
my  orchestra  leader,  gives  to  arrang- 
10 


Kate  whips  up  a 
tasty  spread  for 
one  of  her  open- 
faced  sandwiches. 
Her  pet  recipes 
delight  friends 
and  hostesses. 


Pineapple  Egg- 
Nog,  cookies  and 
cake,  artistic 
as  they  are  de- 
licious, are  an 
answer  to  your 
next  puzzling 
party  problem. 


ing  the  music  for  iny  songs.  And  I 
even  cudgeled  m\'  luanis  fm"  ideas 
which  I'xe  noted  with  a])!)ro\al  and 
interest  at  parties  that  Vw  atu  nded 
in  other  folks'  homes.  'J  In hil.Ii,  oi 
coin'sc,  I'm  only  going  to  -iw  xoii 
the  reci|)(s  for  dishes  (hat  I,  m^'self, 
ha\'e  sc  rx  ed.  .--i  i  thai  there  will  he  no 
(/ncss-zciiil:  ahoul  carrying  out  my 
suggestions  success!  nliy  ! 

ITonestIv,  1  don't  think  you'll  find 
a  single  one  of  my  reci])es  too  difli- 
cult  or  ex])ensive,  and  I  know  for  a 
fact  that  vour  friends  will  like  them 
all  tremendously,  just  as  my  friends 
have.    Especially  the  Cocoa  Roll  and 


Courtesy  Ha'.cai'ian  Piiicapf'lc  Company. 

the  .  .  .  but  wait  a  minute,  I'm  get- 
ting ahead  of  ni_\>t-lf  a  hit,  sort  of 
skii)])ing  to  the  last  page  of  my 
script,  win  II  I  re.i!l\  want  to  tell  you 
al  the  iiuisei  Imw  \(iu  can  get  copies 
(if  my  recipes,  if  }ou'd  like  to  have 
them. 

C  ertainly  a  large  number  of  my 
friendly  readers  have  already  discov- 
ered tliat  little  si'cret — .although  it 
really  is  no  secret  at  all  that,  simply 
by  sending  in  the  coupon,  which  al- 
wavs  ai)i)ears  at  the  cnfl  of  my  ar- 
ticles, you  receive  a  leaflet  which  has 
mv  familiar  face  snn'ling  at  you  on 
the  cover  and  contains  four  or  five 


RADIO  STARS 


Coiiitesy  Campfiie  Marsbmallows. 

Tricky  place  cards  based  on 
a  marshmallow.  For  St.  Pat- 
rick's, Washington's  Birth- 
day and  St.  Valentine's  Day. 

of  my  favorite  recipes.    These  are 
attracti\-ely  printed  on  cards  which 
are  just  the  right  size  to  fit  into  a 
small  filing  box  so  that  you  can  krep 
them  for  future  use.     I>n't  tliat  ri 
swell  idea?    I  know  I've  ajiprcciat 
this  service,  myself.  I)ecaiiM.'  niu^t 
the  recipes  that  I  have  on  hand  a 
those  that  I've  taken  down  longha 
from  my  mother,  my  grandmother, 
my  aunts  and  friends.    But  now  this 
Cooking  School  idea  has  given  me  a 
chance  to  get  copies  of  the  verv  l)esi 
ones  of  the  lot  in  clear,  i)rintc(l  idi  ni. 
And  each  one  with  '  Kale  Siinlh" 
printed  on  it.  too.  so  that  there  will 
be  no  doubt  in  anyone's  mind  that 
I'm  as  proud  as  Punch  of  my  cook- 
ing abilities  and  simply  delighted  to 
pass  on  my  pet  recipes  to  others. 

This  month,  for  instance,  I'm  go- 
ing to  tell  you,  in  that  leaflet  we 
were  just  talking  about,  how  to  make 
Valentine  Cookies,  IV  ashi  tujl  on 
Pound  Cake,  Chicken  Cimp  Siic\. 
Party  Cheese  Sandi^'ich  Loaj,  whic 
will  be  fine  for  all  occasions  and  jjar- 
ticularly  for  St.  Patrick's  Day,  and, 
finally,  that  favorite  of  all  favorites 
of  mine,  Cocoa  Cream  Roll,  which 
I    just    {Continued    on    page  58) 


BANISH  ''TATTLE-TALE  GRAY  ' 

WITH  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP 


RADIO  STARS 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 


KEEP  YOUNG 
AND  BEAUTIFUL 


BY    MARY  BIDDLE 


AS  I  sat  at  the  Phil  Bixkcr-Giilf 
Oil  broadcast  last  Sunday  night, 
at  the  CBS  P)r(iadca>tiiiq  Theatre, 
I  heard  the  Wdinan  ni.'\t  to  me  sigh 
in  admiration  as  the  sHm  and  lovely 
Maxine  Gray  ^tei)])cd  up  to  the 
microphone.  "My,"  she  whispered 
audibly  to  her  neiL;hh(>r,  "I  certainly 
wish  I  had  her  tiL;uri' '" 

It  always  ha>  bee-n  a  puzzle  to  me 
why  so  many  women  spend  their 
time  wishing  to  have  a  beautiful 
figure,  instead  of  doing  something 
about  it.  The  woman  who  voiced 
the  wistful  tri1>ute  to  Maxine  Gray, 
for  example,  was  a  young  woman, 
still  somewhere  in  her  thirties,  but 
defniitely  "pudgy."  In  a  few.  more 
years  she  would  be  definitely  fat. 
She  already  had  gone  into  a  slump 
around  the  hi])s — that  tell-tale  mid- 
dle-aged slumi),  which  is  so  ruinous 
to  St  vie  and  to  wearing  clothes  well. 


Her  posture  was  an  apt  demonstra- 
tion of  one  reason  for  that  spare 
tire  around  the  waistline,  too.  She 
sat  slumped  in  her  chair,  sitting  on 
the  end  of  her  spine,  tlicreby  culti- 
vating a  sticking-out  stomach,  which 
pushed  forward  and  down  all  those 
important  organs  of  the  aljdomen 
which  are  meant  to  stay  back  and  up. 

If  I  were  conducting  an  exercise 
broadcast,  I  would  make  both  the 
studio  audience  and  the  unseen  lis- 
teners "sit  up  and  take  notice"  of 
the  evils  of  faulty  sitting  posture. 
Your  spine  never  was  meant  to  be 
sat  upon !  That  does  not  mean  that 
you  have  to  sit  stiff  as  a  ramrod. 
By  no  means !  The  easy  wa\-  to  get 
the  right  sitting  posture  is  to  sit,  not 


on  your  spine,  but  on  the  back  of 
your  thighs.  Sit  far  back  on  your 
chair,  as  far  as  you  can  go,  until 
you  fill  the  right  angle  of  the  back 
and  seat.  Let  your  lower  back  press 
against  the  back  of  the  chair.  You 
will  find  that  it  actually  will  rest 
and  support  you,  to  sit  that  way. 
W'hen^jiou  lean  forward,  in  interest 
over  something  that  is  going  on  in 
the  program,  bend  from  your  waist, 
don't  slide  forward  in  your  chair. 
You  must  consciously  hold  your  ab- 
domen in,  as  you  sit,  which  may 
take  an  exertion  of  will  power  if 
faulty  posture  already  is  a  habit 
with  you.  You  can  cultivate  correct 
posture,  however,  by  thinking  it 
until  it  becomes  an  unconscious 
habit  with  you.  Let  me  tell  you  this : 
You  need  never  get  an  ugly,  pro- 
truding stomach,  if  you  make  your- 
self sit,  stand  and  walk  correctly. 

Perhaps  your  mother  or  your  fa- 
ther used  to  broadcast  to  you  often, 
when  you  were  a  "growing  girl," 
the  old-fashioned  warning :  "Keep 
your  shoulders  back."  You 'probably 
resented  it.  But  actually  you  don't 
ha\  e  to  worry  about  your  shoulders. 
If  you  keep  your  chest  up,  lifted 

A  typical  modern  Venus — 
Maxine  Gray,  singer  with 
Oscar  Bradley's  band,  on 
Phil  Baker's  CBS  program. 


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RADIO  STARS 


It's  Important  to  keep 
your  spine  absolutely 
straight,  throughout  this 
knee-flexing  exercise. 

high,  your  shoulders  will  take 
care  ©f  themselves.  Pull  yourself 
up  by  your  chest,  and  sit  and 
walk  as  though  you  were  proud 
to  be  alive !  Then,  when  you  don 
a  slithery  satin  evening  gown,  or 
a  trim  tailored  suit,  you  will  look 
as  thougi  you  belonged  in  them. 

Maxine  Gray  is  a  typical  Mod- 
ern Venus — tall,  slender,  slim- 
hipped,  long-legged,  supple.  She 
has  that  important  quality  called 
"style,"  which  is  not  nearly  so 
much  a  matter  of  clothes  as  it  is 
of  posture  and  bearing.  She  has 
the  "peaches  and  cream"  com- 
plexion, proverbial  of  the  South- 
ern belle,  but  not  so  much  be- 
cause she  was  born  with  it  as  be- 
cause she  knows  how  to  keep  it. 
This  business  of  keeping  fit  and 
keeping  a  career  isn't  a  matter  of 
luck,  but  of  work. 

Now  I  know  that  when  I  men- 
{Contiuued  on  page  104) 


Camay  works  like  a  charm  for 


LOVELY,  isn't  8he!  Those  bewitching 
hazel  eves,  the  quick  sunshine 
of  her  smile,  that  marvelous  fresh- 
as-morning  complexion,  make  a  pic- 
ture you'll  not  soon  forget.  '"What 
every  girl  should  know,"'  says  this 
young  bride,  "is  how  Camay  can 
help  one's  complexion.'' 

Yes,  that's  how  modern  girls  do 
it — with  Camay  I  Just  fr)-this  bland 
beauty  soap  that  cleanses  so  thor- 
oughly. Then  watch  for  the  "alive" 
look  that  Camay's  rich,  creamy 

CAMAY 


^s  to  vourface.  That's 
proof  your  skin  is  getting  the  gentle, 
thorough  cleansing  it  needs!  And 
never  forget  this — by  test  against 
all  other  leading  beautv  soaps, 
Ca  m  a  y  i  s  d  eii  n  i  t  e  1  y    ro  ( 'o  6  /  r  m  /'/f/er. 

Buy  Camay  today.  You'll  never 
miss  the  small  price  of  it. 
Let  Camay  bring  your  loveliness  to  light. 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

Some  pertinent  paragraphs  gaily  gleaned  from  along  Radio  Row 


The  President's  mother,  Mrs.  James  Roose- 
velt, and  petite  Lily  Pons  have  a  chat  at 
the  Musicians'  Emergency  Fund  Luncheon. 


Jessica  Dragonette's  new  series  of 
operetta  broaJcasts  again  calls  atten- 
tion to  one  of  radio's  surprising  short- 
comings. Music  tills  about  two-thirds 
of  radio's  day.  but  the  program-makers 
never  ha\  e  l^een  able  to  do  much  about 
supplying  operettas  or  musical  come- 
dies for  themselves. 


A  trio  of  great 
stars.  Lav/rence 
Tibbett,  Walter 
Damrosch  and 
Nino  Martini  get 
together  back- 
stage at  the  Met- 
ropolitan Opera. 


Buddy  Rogers  is 
signing  the  con- 
tract which  puts 
him  on  the  air 
with  Helen  Brod- 
erlck  and  Victor 
Moore  Fridays  at 
9:30p.m. onNBC. 


It's  just  an  act! 
Joe  Cook  Is  really 
anything  but 
bored  with  his  job 
as  M.C.  on  Shell 
C  hatean'sSa\uT- 
day  night  broad- 
casts, on  NBC. 


There  was  a  large  and  expensive 
attempt  made  in  The  Gibson  Familv 
a  couple  of  years  ago.  One  of  the 
Broadway-Hollywood  song-writing 
teams,  Howard  Dietz  and  Arthur 
Schwarz,  did  the  music :  such  writers 
as  Courtne\-  Ryle\-  Coo]jer  and  Owen 
Davis  tried  their  hanfls  at  the  script. 
The  program  continueil  on  the  air  for 
nearly  a  year,  but  it  never  achieved 
success  in  keeping  with  the  amount  of 
money  being  spent.  The  nearest  radio 
has  come  to  a  successful  operetta  of  its 
own  is  SIIU7C  Boat,  where  currently 
l)0])ular  songs  are  strung  together  on  a 
thin  little  thread  of  plot. 

So  Miss  Dragoncttc  must  go  back 
to  the  old  stage  operettas,  and  a  few 
froiii  pielures.  and  rrt'/rr  them  for  one 
more  repetition  on  tlie  air.  Inciden- 
tally, she  Tcas  a  pioneer  in  this  style  of 
radio  slioie  nearly  ten  years  ago.  Re- 
niemher  her  old  operetta  series  for 
Coca  Cola  hack  in  radio's  early  days? 

FOOTBALL  FOLLY 
Now  football  season  is  over  and  Larry 


RADIO  STARS 


Kelley  is  properly  enshrined  among  Yale's 
gridiron  heroes,  this  story  won't  embar- 
rass anyone.  Right  in  the  middle  of  last 
football  season,  when  training  rules  were 
very  strict,  Larry  Kelley  came  down  from 
Yale  one  Thursday  night  to  tell  Rudy 
Vallee  listeners  about  his  exploits.  After 
the  program,  if  you  had  been  watching 
closely,  you'd  have  seen  him  hurrying 
over  to  the  phone  booth  with  a  couple 
of  strapping  young  friends. 

One  of  the  young  men  sta\ed  in  the 
booth  a  long  time,  nickels  freqvjently 
jangling  into  the  phone,  and  finally  came 
out  to  announce  in  disgust,  "I  can't  get 
any  of  my  numbers." 

The  other  boy  slipped  into  the  booth, 
more  nickels  jangled,  and  this  one  came 
out,  too.  "Nope.  They  all  have  dates  or 
else  they  don't  answer." 

Larry  looked  annoyed  and  disappointed. 
'IV ell,"  he  said,  "I  (jiicss  I  might  just  as 
iy.  cU  go  home  and  gel  to  bed  tlien."  And 
the  indifference  of  those  Neii'  York  girls 
sent  him  back  to  A^ezv  Haven  ivith  Vale's 
strict  training  i  iiles  unbroken. 

PANES  AND  PINS 

Economical  ways  have  been  found  to 
produce  must  sound  effects  with  records 
and  apparatus,  but  the  sound-man  still 
breaks  a  piece  of  real  glass  every  time 
the  sound  of  breaking  glass  is  called  for. 
The  end  of  a  dramatic  program  often 
leaves  a  whole  pile  of  shattered  panes  in 
the  studio.  They  don't  spare  the  glass  at 
rehearsals,  either,  which  sends  the  glass 
consumption  at  a  network  studio  up  to 
hundreds  of  panes  a  week. 

— •■- 

During  a  lull  in  a  Fred  Allen  rehearsal 
not  so  long  ago,  one  of  the  actors  brought 
over  tii'o  of  the  panes  and  told  Fred,  "Just 
try  to  separate  these." 

Fred  fingered  them  for  a  moment,  con- 
ceded he  couldn't  do  it.  The  actor  ex- 
plained the  theory  of  vacuums  which  would 
have  withstood  the  power  of  a  team  of 
horses  to  pull  those  panes  apart.  Just  two 
flat  surfaces  and  they  couldn't  be  sepa- 
rated. By  that  time  the  sound-man  had 
come  over  looking  for  his  glass.  He  stuck 

pin  between  the  two  panes,  separated 
them  and  put  one  in  position  to  be 
broken. 

-♦- 

"What?"  Fred  exclaime<l.  "Upsetting 
all  the  laws  of  physics  with  a  pin?" 

'JVe  put  zcater  on  the  glass,"  the  sound- 
man explained,  so  the  tn'o  panes  zvill  hold 
together  if  zee  lean  them  against  the  zvall. 
If  you  just  stand  tzvo  dry  panes  together, 
one  zcill  slide  right  dozvn  and  probably 
get  broken." 

HONEST! 

Dave  Rubinoff  swears  to  this  one.  His 
brother,  Charlie,  comes  in  from  Detroit 
occasionally  and  they  always  spend  a  lot 
of  time  together  during  those  visits.  In- 
variably, when  Charlie  gets  back  home 
his  wife  complains,  "Talking  to  that  fiddler 
brother  of  yours  has  made  your  accent 
so  bad  I  hardly  understand  a  thing  you 
say." 

"An'  hit's  da  troot',  too,"  Dave  insists. 

(Continued  on  page  84) 


HOW 

tbe  doctor  chooses  from 
hundreds  of  laxatives 


MOST  of  us  remember,  with  gratitude, 
some  crisis  in  our  lives  when  the 
doctor's  vigilance  and  skill  proved  price- 
less beyond  words. 

But  many  of  us  forget  that  the  doctor 
is  equally  on  guard  in  minor  matters  of 
health.  Consider  a  little  thing  like  a  laxa- 
tive, for  example.  It  may  be  news  to  you 
that  the  doctor  has  a  definite  set  of  stand- 
ards which  a  laxative  must  meet  before 
he  will  approve  it. 

Check  the  eight  specifications  listed  be- 
low. How  many  of  them  will  your  oxen 
laxative  meet? 

THE  DOCTOR'S  TEST  OF  A  LAXATIVE:] 
It  should  be  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proved  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 
It  should  not  over-act. 
It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 
It  should  not  nauseate,  or  upset  digestion. 
EX-LAX  MEETS  ALL  THESE  REQUIREMENTS 
Ex-Lax  checks  on  every  single  one  of  the 
points  listed  above.  Meets  the  doctor's  de- 
mands of  a  laxative  fairly  and  fully.  So 

When  Nature  forgets-remember 

EX- LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


it's  no  surprise  to  find  that  many  doctors 
use  Ex-Lax  in  their  own  homes,  for  their 
own  families.  In  fact,  Ex-Lax  has  made 
so  many  millions  of  friends,  among  all 
kinds  of  people,  that  it  is  the  most  widely 
used  laxative  in  the  whole  wide  world. 
A  REAL  PLEASURE  TO  TAKE 
Convince  yourself  of  the  facts.  Try  Ex- 
Lax  the  next  time  you  need  a  laxative. 
You'll  find  that  Ex-Lax  is  mild  .  .  .  that  it 
is  thorough.  You'll  discover  that  it  does 
not  bring  on  stomach  pains  or  nausea.  On 
the  contrary,  the  easy  comfortable  action 
of  Ex-Lax  will  leave  you  with  a  pleasant 
sense  of  fresiiness  and  well-being.  Chil- 
dren, particularly,  are  benefited.  For  tlie 
standards  set  up  by  the  doctor  are  doubly 
important  to  a  child. 

Another  agreeable  thing  ...  if  you  have 
been  taking  bitter,  nauseating  cathartics, 
Ex-Lax  will  be  a  pleasant  surprise.  For  it 
tastes  just  like  delicious  chocolate.  All 
drug  stores  have  Ex-Lax  in  10c  and  25c 
izes.  If  you  prefer  to  try  Ex-Lax  at  our 
xpense,  mail  the  coupon  below. 

 TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!  i 

(Paste  this  on  a  penny  postcard)  | 

Ex  Lax.  Ine.,  P.  O.  Box  170  I 
Tinies  Plaia  Station.  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.  • 
I  want  to  try  Ex  L.ix.  Please  M-nJ  tree  sample.  • 


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RADIO  STARS 

WARDROBE  CHANGES' 

Lucille  Manners,  lovely  new  singing  star  of  the  Cities  Service 


radio  program,  is  beset  by  a 


ON  THIS  coming  evening  of  February  tifth.  a  tiny 
blonde  girl  will  step  up  to  the  microphone  to  sing  her 
first  song  as  the  prima  donna  of  the  Cities  Service  con- 
certs. The  actual  step  up  to  the  NBC  mike  will  be  no 
great  feat  in  itself,  because  Lucille  Manners  .has  faced 
many  such  tiny  instruments  in  her  radio  career  and  has 
no  fear  of  tiiem.  The  real  feat  is  the  fact  that  she  is 
stepping  into  the  shoes  of  a  star  who  not  only  has  been 
the  \eteran  singer  of  that  particular  program,  but  also 
one  who  has  been  proclaimed  the  smartest  woman  in 
radio,  the  best-dressed  among  all  the  other  attractive 
women  who  broadcast  daily  and  nightly. 

Becoming  the  prima  donna  of  such  a  popular  pro- 
gram doesn't  worry  Lucille  because  she  has  confidence 
in  her  voice,  a  l)eautiful  and  true  lyric  soprano.  But 
what  does  give  her  pause  for  thought  and  some  little 
concern,  is  competing  for  fashion  applause  with  a  prede- 
cessor of  such  acknowledged  smartness. 

The  day  I  saw  Lucille  Manners  she  was  in  the  throes 
of  being  photographed.  Clothes  hung  from  every  avail- 
able door  about  the  >tudio — some  were  flung  over  chairs, 
some  hung  over  a  screen.  Bags,  gloves  and  jewelry  lay 


perplexing  clothes  problem 


BY    ELIZABETH  ELLIS 


These  decorative  pajamas  were  especially 
designed  for  Lucille  by  Dorothy  Couture. 
The  tunic  top  is  of  metal  cloth,  and  the 
wide  trousers  are  fashioned  of  black  silk. 


Lucille's  favorite  tailored  dress  is  a 
beige  jersey,  with  buttons  setting  off  the 
pockets  and  front  collar  opening.  The 
narrow  stand-up  collar  is  very  flattering. 

in  glittering  array  on  the  tables.  Lucille  was  going 
through  the  process  of  being  turned  into  the  literal  pic- 
ture of  a  new  young  star.  It  was  like  sitting  in  on  a 
very  exciting  o])ening  night  at  the  theatre  or  opera. 

'i1ic  girl  who  had  just  become  a  prima  donna  remained 
(juite  unllu^tered  by  it  all,  despite  the  fact  that  people 
milk-d  aljout,  each  with  some  new  idea  for  her  to  carry 
out.  A  well-known  designer  and  dressmaker  was  there 
in  person  to  see  that  her  costumes,  especially  designed 
for  Lucille,  were  put  on  in  exactly  the  proper  fashion. 
And.  lurking  at  what  I  considered  a  discreet  distance,  was 
1,  with  the  four  beautiful  gowns  you  all  may  try  to  wvi 


RADIO  STARS 


FOR  A  STAR  .  .  . 


Lucille  likes  the  fashion  of  wearing 
bows  in  the  hair  for  evening.  This 
crisp,  black  velvet  bow  has  a  narrow 
band  circling  the  head,  with  a  small 
net  bow  at  the  back  on  the  other  side. 


in  Lucille"s  special  contest,  on  another  page  in  this  issue. 

I.ucillt'  lias  the  same  feeling  about  her  Friday  night 
l>ri>;i(lca>iing  costumes  that  a  stage  or  screen  star  might 
ha\e  about  those  she  wears  in  a  production.  She  feels 
that  her  Fridaj-  night  concert  gowns  should  reflect  a 
definite  personality,  just  as  if  they  were  chosen  to  com- 
l)lement  an  important  role  in  a  play.  Her  wardrobe 
changes  should  have  as  much  significance  then,  and  as 
much  excitement,  as  if  she  were  dressing  for  a  char- 
acter. The  Miily  (litterence  is  that  she  wants  to  dress  to 
suit  her  own  jiersonality,  not  that  of  some  character  in 
a  play.  And  who  is  a  better  judge  of  how  she  looks,  as 
she  sings,  than  you,  the  audience  who  watches  every  move 
she  makes  ? 

That's  why  she  got  so  excited  over  the  idea  of  having 
you  select  a  gown,  from  several,  as  the  one  which  suits 
lier  best.  And  she  was  thrilled  with  the  thought  that 
there  would  be  four  of  \ou  chosen  to  win  a  dress  apiece, 
a<  reward  for  your  interest  in  her. 

Between  "takes,"  as  photographers  refer  to  each  pic- 
ture tliey  make,  we  chatted  aljout  this  ])ii,--iness  of  giving 
her  a  fashion  personality.  She  said:  "It's  so  much  easier 
lor  someone  else  to  analyze  an  intangible  thing  like  per- 
sonality. I  believe  I  have  a  pretty  good  idea  of  niy  a\va\  - 
from-the-microphone  personality  and,  to  reflect  it.  I  wear 
only  the  simplest  clothes — rather  sensible,  carefully  fitted 
dresses  and  suits;  comfortable,  bright  pajamas  for  loung- 
ing and  practicing.  {Continued  on  page.  88) 


GLARE-PROOF  POWDER 


doesn't  show  ''powdery"  in 
dazzling  light  •  •  •  girls  sa|^ 

Out  in  that  glittering  snow — look  at  the  faces  around  you. 
Look  in  vour  own  mirror! 

That  "powdery"  look  in  the  white  glare  from  the  snow  is 
one  of  the  things  girls  hate  most  in  a  powder. 

In  a  recent  inquiry,  they  gave  first  place  to  Pond's  for  not 
showing  up  "powdery"  in  strong  light. 

Pond's  colors  are  "glare-proof."  Carefully  blended  to  catch 
only  the  softer  rays  of  light.  They  give  a  soft  flattering  look 
to  your  skin  even  in  the  hardest  light.  Try  Pond's  Powder 
for  your  winter  sports,  your  brilliant  evenings  in  town. 
Special  ingredients  make  Pond's  soft  and  clinging  —  fresh 
looking  for  hours.  Low  prices.  Decorated  screw-top  jars.  ,35^, 
70e.  New  bis  boxes.  10c,  20c. 


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E'OND  S,  Dept.  9RS-PC  Clinton,  Conn.  Please  rush.  free.  5  differ- 
ent shades  of  Pond's  "Glare-proof"  Powder,  enough  of  each  for 
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S7.  Pond'B  Extract 

17 


RADIO  STARS 


FOR 

DISTINGUISHED 
SERVICE  TO 
RADIO 


Few  in  radio  ever  achieve  the  consistent  popu- 
larity of  Kate  Smith.  The  listening  public  exercises 
its  right  to  be  fickle  and  whimsical,  except  in  rare 
instances.  Instances  where  the  artist  is  simply  so 
entertaining  that,  year  in  and  year  out,  no  matter 
how  many  times  heard,  always  is  enjoyable.  That's 
how  it  is  with  Kate  Smith.  The  more  you  hear  her, 
the  more  you  want  to  hear  her. 

The  A  &  P  Bandwagon  Program,  thanks  to 
Kate,  actually  contributed  something  new  in  radio 
programs  with  its  Command  Performance,  in 
which  the  nation's  outstanding  hero  of  the  week  is 
introduced  and  presented  with  a  personal  gift  of 
$500.00  from  Kate.  It's  her  original  way  of  putting 
the  spotlight  on  an  act  of  heroism  which  might 
otherwise  go  insufficiently  unnoticed  and  unre- 
warded. 

Ever  since  she  started  broadcasting,  Kate  has 
taken  a  personal  interest  in  her  listeners.  Her  un- 
publicized  charitable  deeds  are  countless.  It's 
quite  natural  that  the  benevolent  Command 
Performance  should  originate  with  her. 

Listeners,  unquestionably,  sense  in  Kate's  voice 
that  she  really  is  one  of  them;  that  they  mean 
everything  to  her;  that  she'd  sing  her  heart  out  to 
please  or  help  them.  It's  no  wonder  she's  so 
popular. 

To  Kate  Smith  and  her  A  &  P  Bandwagan 
Program,  Radio  Stars  Magazine  presents  its 
award  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


Kate  Smith 
Star  of  the  A  &  P  Bandwagon 


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IT'S  MY 

BY 

RUDY  VALLEE 


You  don't  need  to  be 
told  that  Rudy  Vallee's 
Royal  Gelatin  program 
goes  on  the  air  each 
Thursday  at  8:00  p.m., 
EST,  on  NBC-Red  net- 
work. In  these  pages 
you  may  read  what  a 
famous  radio  star  thinks. 


HUMBLE  OPINION- 


EXCLUSIVELY  PRESENTING  THE  SECOND  OF  A  SERIES 
OF  COLUMNS  IN  WHICH  RUDY  VALLEE  FRANKLY 
AIRS  HIS  VIEWS  ON  VARIOUS  TOPICS  AND  PER- 
SONALITIES -  AS   WELL   AS   HIS   PET  PEEVES 


During  the  month  that  has  elapsed 
since  my  first  column  appeared  in 
Radio  Stars,  I  have  found  myself 
looking  forward  with  eagerness  to 
this,  the  second,  one.  There  is  a 
very  definite  thrill  in  assembling 
words  and  ideas  that  will  be  printed 
and  read  (/  hope)  by  many  people. 
In  other  words,  I  am  a  proud  mem- 
ber of  the  working-press. 

Many  things  have  happened  since 
the  last  column,  but  I  think  the 
death  of  Chic  Sale  is  an  event  that 
will  affect  us  more  when  we  realise 
that  he  was  a  member  of  the  unfor- 
tunately not-over-populated  ranks 
of  real  American  humorists.  He 
wrote  and  acted  his  own  stuff  and 
his  characters  were  spun  from  the 
fabric  that  represents  America.  I 
ivas  always  intrigued  by  the  old 
man  in  his  The  Country  School,  the 
one  7vho  had  studied  the  tuba  for 
many  years,  but  could  only  play 
Marching  Through  Georgia,  and 
tfiat  very  badly.  I  liked  the  old 
tnan  so  much,  I'm  going  to  add  him 
to  my  impersonations  and  see  if,  by 
changing  "tubey"  to  "saxophoney," 
I  can't  recapture  a  bit  of  him,  even 
if  "the  flies  bother  my  music.  .  .  ." 

I  enjoyed  Variety's  Low  Down  on 
Press  Agents  because  it  was  a  good 
article  and  because  it  supported  my 
own  previous  belief  that  90  per  cent, 
of  the  stupid  jokes,  allegedly  made 
up  by  orchestra  leaders  and  the  va- 
pid gossip  concerning  them,  found 


its  way  with  incredible  speed  into 
the  waste  basket  of  radio  editors 
everywhere.  Yet  there  are  many  of 
them  who  have  the  audacity  to  print 
in  their  columns  witticisms  ascribed 
to  certain  wielders  of  the  baton  who, 
for  the  most  part,  are  as  incapable 
of  coining  keen  and  humorous  gags 
as  I  would  be.  Even  if  a  gullible 
element  of  the  public  might  be  led 
to  believe  that  Joe  Doakes,  the 
bandleader,  had  invented  the  clever 
gags,  what,  I  ask  you,  would  that 
do  toward  furthering  his  career  as 
an  orchestra  leader?  Phooey! 

It  is  with  genuine  pleasure  that 
the  boys  and  I  look  back  on  our 
most  pleasant  French  Casino  en- 
gagement. We  couldn't  have 
worked  for  a  finer  set  of  people 
and  the  hours  were  such  as  to  make 
my  boys  (who  are  used  to  the  usual 
long  night-club  stint)  feel  that  they 
were  in  heaven,  albeit  a  heaven 
where  they  put  on  weight.  Another 
aspect  of  the  French  Casino  en- 
gagement that  warmed  the  cockles 
of  my  heart  was  the  response  from 
our  friends  of  old.  Starting  as  a 
band  of  eight  at  the  Heigh-Ho  Club, 
we  were  fortunate  enough  to  make 
many  friends.  Since  then,  our  ap- 
pearance at  a  club  is  a  signal  for 
them  to  slip  into  their  best  finery 
and  join  us.  In  this  day  and  age 
that  means  a  lot,  I  say.  A  votre 
santc,  mes  amis! 

I'd  like  to  list,  among  my  studies 


of  fauna  and  flora,  the  bright  re- 
mark made  by  an  ordinarily  intel- 
ligent gentleman  whom  I  know.  We 
were  zvatching  Jimmy  Durante,  one 
of  my  favorite  comedians,  as  he 
worked  in  the  fast-moving,  smart- 
and-lozv  comedy  success,  Red  Hot 
and  Blue,  ivhen  suddenly  my  friend 
leaned  over  and,  zinth  the  air  of  a 
triumphant  Columbus,  whispered: 
"His  ugliness  made  him!"  And  lie 
took  my  attention  away  from  the 
show  to  tell  me  that! 

All  sorts  of  loud  cheers  for  Paul 
Whiteman's  Hippodrome  concert, 
and  let  the  Messrs.  Rogers  and  Hart 
be  included  for  their  fine  new  mu- 
sic. I  was  so  taken  with  their  piece 
about  the  trainman,  plus  Ray  Mid- 
dleton's  expert  rendering  of  the 
piece,  that  I  am  studying  it  with  a 
view  to  doing  it  myself.  Rogers  told 
me,  at  dinner  the  other  night,  that 
Middleton  learned  the  tremendous 
score  in  a  week,  and  that  at  the  first 
rehearsal  he  was  letter-perfect.  I 
shall  try  to  be  half  as  good. 

During  the  football  season,  while 
watching  the  Yale  Band  in  the 
Bowl,  I  was  both  interested  and 
amused  by  the  failure  of  the  crowd 
to  keep  together  during  the  famous 
"Long  Yale  Cheer."  During  this 
cheer  there  is  a  succession  of  rahs 
which  should  be  evenly  spaced.  But 
even  with  three  cheer  leaders  in 
perfect  {Continued  on  page  82) 


BARBARA'S  AMICE 


This  story  is 
announced  by 
Robert  Trout 


Some  surprisingly  candid 
words  from  Barbara  Stanwyck 
on  what  we  all  want  to  know! 

BY    GLADYS  HAbL 


"JUST  don't  let  it  break  your  heart."  said  Barbara. 
■'Don't  give  your  life  away,  along  with  your  love,  if  you 
can  help  it.  You  won't  be  able  to  help  it,  of  course.  But 
it's  still  good  advice. 

"I'm  a  swell  one  to  be  giving  advice  on  love,"  laughed 
Barbara,  "Since  I  can't  take  it !  Most  women  can't. 
We're  like  that,  all  of  us.  Not  just  fluttery,  inexperienced 
little  girls,  either.  Independent,  strong-minded  women  go 
down  like  blades  of  grass  in  a  storm,  when  they're  in 
love.  We  lose  our  wits.  We  lose  our  sense  of  humor. 
Women  who  have  battled  life  with  their  bare  hands; 
women  who  have  faced  joblessness  and  hunger  and  death 
and  illness  and  all  of  the  major  catastrophes,  and  faced 
'em  standing  up,  collapse,  go  to  pieces,  turn  to  water  when 
they  fall  in  love." 

I  wondered  whether  Barbara  was  thinking  of  the  seven 
years  of  her  marriage  to  Frank  Fay.  The  years  in  which, 
first  out  of  her  great  love  for  him  and,  later,  out  of  her 
equally  great  gratitude,  she  did,  indeed,  give  her  life  with 
her  love.  For  she  lived  as  Fay  wished  her  to  live.  She 
did  as  Fay  told  her  to  do.  She  almost  spoke  as  Fay 
wished  her  to  speak.  Her  work  in  pictures,  her  broad- 
casts, her  contracts,  her  house,  her  comings  and  goings, 
were  done  at  Fay's  dictates  and  subject  to  his  approval. 
The  girl  who  had  battled  through  a  meagre,  stormy  child- 
hood, who  had  held  jobs  with  the  telephone  company 


TO  GIRLS  IN  LOVE 


when  she  was  too  young  to  be  holding  jobs  at  all ;  who 
had  worked  at  cutting  out  patterns  with  the  Vogue  com- 
pany, who  fought  her  way,  single-handed,  to  the  turning 
point  of  her  career  when  she  played  the  role  of  "Bonnie" 
in  Burlesque  and  so  touched  the  stars — this  gallant,  grave, 
grim  youngster  was  putty,  pliable,  in  the  hands  of  love. 

"Life  is  a  jealous  wench,"  Barbara  was  saying.  "If  she 
gives  you  something  with  one  hand,  she  takes  something 
away  with  the  other.  I've  never  known  it  to  fail.  You 
can't  ftave  everything!  You're  not  supposed  to  have 
everything.  And  it's  like  that  with  love.  If  you 
get  love,  you  usually  lose  somewhere  else  along  the 
line. 

"There's  just  one  ray  of  hope — I'd  like  to  tell  girls  this, 
if  they  don't  already  know  it :  It  only  Iwppens  once,''  Bar- 
bara said  grimly.  "Give  thanks  for  that !  I  mean,"  she 
added,  "it  only  happens  once  in  the  sense  that  it  tears  the 
heart  right  out  of  you.  knocks  you  down  on  your  knees, 
makes  a  slave  out  of  you,  abject  and  crying:  'Surrender!' 
Love  may  come  again,  more  than  once.  It  may  be  just  as 
sweet  and  fine  and  strong.  But  never  the  same.  Never 
the  total  eclipse,  the  complete  collapse." 

We  were  sitting,  Barbara  and  I,  having  early  morning 
coffee  in  the  warmly  colored  living-room  in  her  Beverly 
Hills  home.  A  room  all  greens  and  browns  and  blues, 
against  white  walls  and  white  Venetian  blinds.  A  sort  of 


woodland  room,  with  the  tempered  sun  shining  through. 
Barbara  wore  some  sort  of  a  linen  affair  with  divided 
skirt.  Her  red-brown  hair  hung  loosely  about  her  face, 
guiltless  of  make-up.  Through  the  French  windows  we 
could  see,  in  the  garden,  toys  of  every  kind  scattered 
al)out,  hear  the  laughing  shouts  of  Barbara's  young 
adopted  son,  Dion,  as  he  played  with  his  nurse.  The  por- 
trait of  young  Dion  is  the  only  portrait  in  the  homelike 
room.  And  I  remembered  the  day,  two  years  ago  and 
more,  when  I  was  having  tea  with  Barbara  in  her  Brent- 
wood home.  I  remembered  the  nursery  she  was  then  pre- 
paring for  the  reception  of  young  Dion.  1  remembered 
the  glow  in  her  eyes,  the  warm  curve  of  her  mouth,  the 
loving  eagerness  with  which  she  showed  me  that  nursery. 
She  hadn't  intended  to  show  it  to  me.  She  hadn't  in- 
tended, then,  to  tell  anyone  about  the  expected  arrival  of 
the  baby.  She  couldn't  keep  it  in.  She  had  to  tell.  I  liked 
her  for  that. 

"Love,"  Barbara  was  saving  in  her  forthright  fashion, 
feet  tucked  up  under  her  in  the  big  wing  chair,  "love 
floors  women.  It  hits  them  between  the  eyes.  It  takes  the 
heart  right  out  of  them  and  plays  ball  with  it.  I  know ! 
I  know  the  feeling  of  wanting  desperately  to  do  every- 
thing, have  ever\^hing.  be  everything  he  wants  you  to 
do  and  have  and  be.  I  know  the  feeling  of  having  no  self 
of  your  own  left,  of  being    [Continued  on  page  102) 


Barbara  Stanwyck  with  Bob  Taylor, 
at  the  gala  opening  of  the  new 
Trocadero,  a  popular  rendezvous 
with   Hollywood's   movie  colony. 


This  story 
announced  by 
Ted  Husing 


"I'VE  got  a  beautiful  wife,  a  fine  home,  a  bank  account 
and  a  baby,"  said  Al  Jolson.  "I  need  only  one  thing  to 
make  me  the  happiest  man  in  the  world." 

Offhand,  I  couldn't  think  of  anything  this  guy  needed. 
He  was  rich,  he  was  the  only  person  in  the  world  married 
to  Ruby  Keeler,  and  I  knew  he  had  a  fine  home  because 
1  was  in  it,  sipping  a  scotch  and  soda,  right  through  the 
first  paragraph.  Our  interview  took  place  about  two 
weeks  before  Al  started  his  new  radio  series,  and  the 
Squire  of  Encino  Park,  attired  in  slacks  and  a  leather 
jacket,  was  taking  things  easy.  The  day  was  warm  and 
the  drink  was  cool,  so  I  settled  back  and  asked  my  host 
what  that  one  thing  was  that  would  make  him  the  happiest 
guy  in  the  world. 

"Work,"  said  Jolson. 

I'm  not  one  to  quibble,  but  I've  never  heard  it  put  that 
way  l)efore.  Imagine  sitting  on  your  own  paid-for  estate, 
with  a  swimming  pool  in  the  back  yard  and  an  orange 
grove  just  outside  the  window,  kicking  because  you  aren't 
working.    A  fine  thing  ! 

Well,  it  takes  all  kinds  of  people  to  make  a  world — the 
rich,  and  the  rest  of  us.  So  there  was  I  wishing  I  had 
the  Jolson  posses.sions  and  there  was  Jolson  wishing  he 
had  a  job.  In  case  you  haven't  been  following  the  news- 
jjapers  and  the  radio  news,  the  word  is  that  one  of  us 


Al  Jolson  and 
his  wife,  Ruby 
Keeler,  famous 
stars  of  the 
stage,  screen 
and  the  radio. 


Jolson  is 


got  his  wish, 
working. 

"I've  been  married  nine 
years,"     said     Al,  "and 
that's—" 

"We've  been  married  nine 
years,    dear,"    corrected  the 
little   wife,   who,   as  everyone 
knows,  is  Ruby  Keeler.  ■•.*;.'.••": 

"We've     been     married  nine 
years,"  the  dutiful  master  of  the  *• 
house  continued,  "and  that's  sort  of 
a  record  around  these  parts.    I  know 
there  were  plenty  of  scoffers,  even  on 
our  wedding  day,  who  said  it  wouldn't 
last.    And  things  haven't  changed  much 
— they're  still  saying  it." 

And  they'll  probably  still  be  saying  it  nine 
years  from  now,  but  don't  place  any  bets  with 
the  scoffers.   In  the  language  of  the  horsy  set, 
of  which  Al  is  a  member,  their  union  is  no  longer 
listed  as  a  long  shot.    It's  a  heavy  favorite  to  win 
the  Hollywood  Handicap  by  several  lengths.  But 
let's  let  Al  tell  you  why. 
"In  the  first  place  our  marriage,  like  any  other. 


INNINGTHEiOLU 


BY  LEO 


After  nine  years  of 


TOWNSEND 


marriage,  Al  Jolson 
and  Ruby  Keeler  still 
are  in  love  with  each  other 


Left,  Al  and 
Ruby  star  in  a 
Lux  Theatre 
b  roa  d  ca  st. 
Right,  Al  in  a 
serious  mood. 


never  could  have  lasted 
in    Hollywood    if  we 
hadn't  been  so  determined 
to  make  it  go.    Ruby  and 
I   were  in  love  when  we 
married,  and  we're  in  love 
today,  in  spite  of  the  hardships 
Hollywood  places  on  any  do- 
mestic partnership. 
"The  main  secret  of  our  success 
is  this :  even  though  we  live  in  the 
heart  of  Hollywood,  we  have  never 
been  a  part  of  it.    We  seldom  go  out 
with  the  Hollywood  crowd  and  we've 
both  had  our  fill  of  night  clubs,  from 
years  of  working  in  them." 
His  statement  was  almost  prophetic,  for 
just  at  that  moment  the  phone  rang.  Some 
friends  wanted  the  Jolsons  to  join  them  that 
evening  at  the  Qover  Club.    (The  Clover  Club 
is  Hollywood's  gayest  night  spot,  where  one 
can  mix  highballs  with  a  turn  at  the  roulette 
wheel.)    Al  looked  at  Ruby,  and  Ruby  shook  her 
head.    "Let's  have  the  I>  's  over  for  bridge  in- 
stead," she  said.    So  the  L  's  were  invited  over 


for  an  evening  of  bridge,  and  the  Clover  Club  lost  two 
prospective  customers. 

"Giving  parties  in  Hollywood  is  too  difficult.  You  can't 
invite  just  your  close  friends — out  here  you've  got  to 
invite  everyone  in  town.  You  might  as  well,  because 
they'll  come  anyway." 

Just  to  prove  it,  Al  showed  me  an  invitation  they  had 
received,  for  a  party  which  had  taken  place  a  few  nights 
before.  I  happened  to  know  that  there  were  four  hun- 
dred invitations  sent  out. 

"We  didn't  go,"  Al  said.  "As  a  matter  of  fact,  neither 
of  us  had  ever  met  the  guy  who  gave  the  party.  So,  why 
should  he  ask  us,  and  why  should  we  go?  We  prefer  a 
more  personal  touch  in  our  social  life. 

"We  manage  to  get  to  the  Trocadero  once  every  few 
weeks,"  he  continued,  "but  we  go  mostly  to  see  the  Sun- 
day night  shows.  It's  sort  of  fun,  once  in  a  while,  to  relax 
and  watch  someone  else  work.  Otherwise,  our  night  life 
is  confined  to  the  card  table,  or  to  reading. 

"Please  don't  get  the  idea  that  our  home  life  is  full  of 
hearts  and  flowers.  We  have  our  quarrels,  and  sometimes 
they're  good  ones.  But  a  good  quarrel,  once  in  a  while, 
is  a  fine  clearing-house  for  the  emotions  and  it  averts  a 
lot  of  unnecessary  suspicions.  Trivial  things  are  the 
greatest  dangers  in  married  life,  {Continued  on  page  56) 


WOOD  HANDJCAR 


Jack  Benny  is  the  hopeful 
hitchhiker  above,  and  Marsha 
Hunt   looks   faintly  dubious. 


Dr.  Allan  Roy  Dafoe,  good 
little  gray  doctor  of  the 
famous  Dionne  Quintuplets. 


Joy  Hodges, 
vocalist  with 
Jimmie  Grier's 
orchestra  on 
Joe  Penner's 
weekly  broad- 
casts on  CBS, 
is  a  native 
of  Des  Moines. 


BETWEEN 
BROADCASTS 


you  may  see  popular  stars 
of  the  ether  whose  voices 
will  reward  your  dialings 


Two  who  contribute  to  the  success  of  the 
weekly  C omtnunity  Sing  on  CBS  are  winsome 
Jolly  Gillette  and  comedian  Milton  Berle. 


T 


11 


Above,  Jessica  Dragonette,  long  queen  of 
song  with  the  Cities  Service  orchestra,  now 

sings  on  the  new  Palmolive  progrann  on  CBS. 


James  Lyons  (above)  shows  Nancy  Coleman  how  three 
different  sound  effects  can  be  produced  at  one 
time  by  this  new  RCA  sound  effects  reproducer. 


Below,  Hildegarde,  another  of  NBC's  lovely  song-  Below,  two  who  scarcely  need  introduction — Colo- 

birds,  said  to  have  migrated  here  from  Australia.  nel  Theodore  Roosevelt  and  Major  Edward  Bowes. 


SHE 
MARRIED  A 
SHRIMP  I 


This  story  announced  by  Carlton  KaDell 

Her  husband's  a  shrimp— but  a 
man  in  a  million,  says  Fannie  Brice 


'  MISS  BRICE,"  gushed  a  tremulous  young  thing  at  a 
cocktail  party,  "won't  you  introduce  me  to  your  husband?" 

"Why,  certainly,  dear,"  answered  the  ever-kind  Miss 
Brice.  "This  is  my  husband,  Mr. — er,  Mr. — Hey!  / 
can't  think  of  his  name!" 

And  Fannie  Brice  had  forgotten  the  name  of  the  man 
she  was  married  to — Billy  Rose,  a  song-writer-producer 
and  the  man-she-loves !  Really  loves,  mind  you. 

"The  little  Goose,"  she  said  to  me,  referring  to  Billy 
Rose,  in  absentia  in  Texas,  where  he  is  at  present  running 
a  modest  cafe  seating  a  mere  3,600.  "And  to  think  that  I 
disliked  him  heartily  when  we  first  met !  I  blush  to  admit 
it  now,  but,  when  I  saw  him  at  the  Backstage  Club,  I 
called  him  a  'shrimp'." 

She  went  into  a  reverie  in  the  midst  of  her  exquisitely- 
appointed  Madison  Avenue  apartment,  a  reverie  induced 
not  by  a  shrimp  she  had  eaten  but  by  one  she  had  seen. 

It  seems  that  while  she  sat  in  the  club  with  a  gang  of 


J 


Top  picture,  Billy  Rose,  song  writer 
producer,  "shrimp"  of  this  tale 
and  the  man  Fannie  Brice  loves, 


Above,  Fannie  Brice,  wife  and 
mother,  a  good  sport  and  a  grand 
actress  of  both  stage  and  screen. 


"We  wont  to  quit  soon,  Fannie 
and  I,"  says  Billy  Rose,  "so  we  can 
get  to  know  each  other  better." 


theatrical  cronies,  she  heard  the  orchestra  playing  In  the 
Middle  of  the  Night. 

"I  asked  who  had  written  it  and  they  brought  over  this 
Billy  Rose.  Right  away  I  didn't  like  his  attitude  and  I 
could  see  he  didn't  like  mine.   And  he  was  a  shrimp." 

She  made  me  stand  up  to  my  full  height  of  five  feet  five 
inches  and  then  asked  her  fifteen-year-old  son,  Billy  (who 
was  helping  the  interview  along)  :  "Don't  you  think  he 
and  Billy  (Rose)  are  the  same  height?" 

"Naw."  judged  Young  Billy,  "Billy's  an  inch  shorter." 

Satisfied  that  I  knew  he  was  a  shrimp  and  ignoring  my 
feeble  efforts  to  defend  Mr.  Rose  and  myself  by  declaim- 
ing Lincoln's  classic  about  the  length  of  a  man's  legs  (he 
said  they  should  be  long  enough  to  reach  to  the  ground !), 
she  went  on  with  her  story. 

"Leo  Edwards,  one  of  my  favorite  song  writers,  called 
up  to  say  that  he  and  a  feller  had  written  what  they 
thought  was  a  pretty  good  song  (Riverside  Rose)  and 


that  they  were  coming  up  to  play  it  for  me.  The  feller, 
he  said,  was  an  especially  swell  lyric  man.  Of  course  he 
turned  out  to  be  Billy  Rose!  Well,  we  fell  to  arguing 
and  the  dirty  digs  were  falling  where  they  might  and  all 
over  a  line  in  the  song.  Instead  of  respecting  my  argu- 
ments, which  I  thought  were  moderately  good,  he  hinted 
that  I  should  stick  to  singing.  It  ended  up  by  my  telling 
him  that  the  song  would  not  be  a  hit — and  I  was  right ! 
The  little  Goose ! 

"A  few  weeks  later  Ballard  Mac  Donald  was  scheduled 
to  go  over  several  ideas  for  a  skit  with  me.  Ballard  asked 
if  I'd  mind  if  he  brought  along  a  feller  who  was  going  to 
work  witb  him  on  a  big  show  and  would  have  to  be  in- 
cluded in  this  skit-building  as  a  matter  of  courtesy.  Even 
as  I  said  'yes,'  an  unhaj^py  jiremonition  came  to  me.  Could 
the  'feller'  be  the  argumentative  little  shrimp?  Could 
fate  play  a  trick  like  that  on  me  ? 

"I'm  enough  of  a  sport  to  {Continued  on  page  76) 

29 


/ 


./ 


i  keepi  tryst 
lith  the  Eight 
lovely  Gifis 

■  his  program 


e  c  t   f  0  il 
TTaham  McNamef 


THE  SHOW  GO  ON  ? 


MUST  the  show  go-  on? 

Ask  any  actor.  Ask  Leon  Errol,  who  played  two  solid 
acts  with  both  ankles  broken.    Ask  Ed  Wynn  .  .  . 

You  have  heard  him  laugh.  Who  hasn't?  You  have 
heard  him  squeal  for  joy,  titter,  giggle  and  go  into  hyster- 
ics. So  have  millions.  The  point  is,  have  you  heard 
him  weep? 

Have  you  heard  him  groan  and  grind  his  teeth  in 
agony?  Have  you  seen  him  wrestling  with  doctors,  fight- 
ing off  nurses,  so  that  he  could  take  his  place  on  the 
stage?    n  you  have,  you  know  the  real  Ed  Wynn. 

Just  for  the  record,  Ed  Wynn,  whose  real  name  was 
j  Edwin  Leopold,  was  born  on  November  9th,  1886,  in 
}  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.    His  father,  a  prosperous  hat 
;  merchant,  foresaw  a  career  for  Ed  as  a  millinery  mer- 
chant king.    But  Ed  had  other  visions.    After  finishing 
school,  instead  of  going  into  business,  he  went  into  the 
theatre.  He  made  his  stage  debut  in  a  show  called,  per- 
haps prophetically,  American  Grit.  That  was  in  1902,  and 
Ed,  then  sixteen  years  old,  played  the  role  of  a  man  of 
seventy. 

From  that  time  on  Ed  Wynn  has  been  an  increasingly 
important  figure  in  the  entertainment  world.  He  was  one 
of  the  early  figures  on  the  radio  scene.  In  June  of  1922 
he  took  the  entire  cast  of  his  current  stage  success,  The 
Perfect  Fool,  over  to  the  old  studios  of  IV JZ  in  Newark. 
New  Jersey,  and  gave  a  complete  radio  performance  of 
the  show. 

In  April,  1932,  Ed  Wynn  made  his  bow  on  the  Na- 
tional Broadcasting  Company's  networks  as  a  regular 
weekly  comedy  star.  Graham  McNamee  faced  the  micro- 
phone with  him,  beginning  then  the  long  and  successful 
association  of  The  Perfect  Fool  and  his  Perfect  Foil. 

Must  the  show  go  on?  In  the  case  of  this  great  come- 
dian, the  answer  is :  "Yes !"   A  reply  shrouded  in  a  mem- 


ory of  pain.  For  us  who  know — a  memory  of  an  actor's 
remarkable  heroism. 

What  does  the  record  say?  Ed  Wynn  has  been  thirty- 
four  years  before  the  public,  in  vaudeville,  musical  com- 
edy, movies  and  radio.  And  not  one  performance  missed. 
The  show  went  on.  It  had  to  go  on.  At  what  cost  to 
him,  you  shall  see  in  a  minute. 

Start  at  the  beginning.  His  father  had  attended  every 
opening.  First  night  for  Ed  Wynn  meant  the  presence 
of  his  devoted  father  and  mother,  seated  in  the  front 
row.  On  the  day  before  his  show,  The  Grab  Bag, 
opened,  his  father  died.  But  the  show  must  go  on  and 
Ed  minced  out  of  the  wings,  to  all  appearances  the  wildly 
hilarious  clown.  The  audience  shouted  with  laughter.  No 
one  suspected  tragedy  in  his  heart. 

"You'll  never  know  how  I  felt,"  he  said.  "That  va- 
cant seat.    That  terrible  empty  spot  in  the  theatre  .  .  . 

"Sometimes  I  think  the  tradition  is  wrong.  Why  should 
an  actor  be  obliged  to  laugh,  when  he  is  unhappy  ?  Why 
can't  he  go  home  and  cry  his  heart  out,  like  any  other 
human  being?" 

A  few  years  later,  Ed  Wvnn  fainted  on  Michigan 
Boulevard  in  Chicago.  The  doctor,  hastily  summoned, 
])ronounced  it  ptomaine  poisoning.  Ed  was  unconscious 
for  over  half  an  hour.  He  woke  up  in  a  hospital.  The 
doctors  prescribed  a  week  of  rest,  a  special  diet,  sedatives. 
"Nonsense,"  said  Wynn.    "I  open  tonight." 

And  he  did  open  that  night.  The  show  was  a  great 
success,  and  played  there  sixteen  weeks. 

Again,  in  Long  Island,  he  was  playing  golf.  It  was 
a  much  advertised  match,  with  Ed  Wynn  and  Oscar  Shaw 
representing  the  playwright  on  one  side  and  Ring  Lard- 
ner  and  Grantland  Rice  on  the  other,  playing  for  the 
writers.  Ed  clowned  for  the  gallery.  Everyone  was 
laughing,  having  a  grand  time,  {Continued  on  page  78) 


Behind  that  infectious,  irresistible  giggle  that  is  Ed  Wynn's, 
you'll  never  guess  what  pain  and  heartaches  mock  at  mirth 


Here  are  Sandra 
and  wee  Ronnie 
Burns,  in  the 
Hollywood  home 
of  Daddy  George 
and  Mama  Grade. 


CHILDREN  MAKE 
A  DIFFERENCE 

Two  reasons  why  life  for  George  Burns 
and  Gracie  Allen  is  sweet  beyond  belief 


"DADDY— det  up'" 

George  Bums  stirred,  shut  his  eyes 
tightly  against  the  morning  light, 
struggled  to  hang  on  to  sleep,  preci- 
ous sleep ! 

"Daddy — "  the  tiny  voice  persisted, 
like  a  gnat,  a  mosquito  that  refused 
to  be  brushed  away.    "Det  up!" 

George  groaned.  He  had  been 
working  so  hard,  was  so  tired — if 
only  he  could  have  just  a  little  more 
sleep !  "Tell  Mommie  to  come  here," 
he  bade  his  little  annoyer  numbly. 

Mommie  was  there  in  a  second, 
laughing  down  at  him.  "Just  fifteen 
minutes  more,"  George  begged. 
"Keep  them  quiet  just  fifteen  min- 
utes !" 

With  Ronnie  in  her  arms  and 
Sandra  tugging  at  her  skirts,  Gracie 
slipped  back  into  the  other  room. 
She  was  used  to  getting  up  at  nine, 
used  to  rousing  at  that  first  sweet 
whisper:  "Mommie — det  up!"  And 
George  made  a  practice  of  it,  too,  but 
he  was  more  than  usually  tired  this 
morning,  after  that  benefit  show  last 
night.  He  needed  that  extra  few 
minutes  sleep.  Gracie  hummed  soft- 
ly under  her  breath  and  got  out  some 
of  the  children's  toys. 

But  five  minutes  later  a  loud  wail 
went  up.  Sandra  had  caught  her 
fingers  in  the  door.    Tears  streamed 


4 


This  story  announced 
By    Paul  Douglas 


No  parents  could 
be  more  devoted 
to  their  babies 
than  are  George 
and  Grade.  And 
the  babies  are 
equally  adoring. 


clown  her  soft,  apple-blossom  cheeks. 
She  clung  to  Mommie.  sobbing,  but 
lier  eyes  went  over  Mommie's  shoul- 
der, toward  the  farther  door.  '7 
zi'ant  my  Daddy!" 

And  so,  like  any  other  daddy, 
George  hopped  out  of  bed  and  came 
running,  to  see  what  had  hurt  his 
baby ! 

The  coming  of  the  babies  has  so 
altered  life  for  George  Burns  and 
Gracie  Allen  that  they  hardly  know 
themselves.  The  footloose,  carefree 
days  are  over — voluntarily  they  have 
shouldered  new  burdens,  new  respon- 
sibilities. Cheerfully  they  wear  new 
chains,  forged  by  two  pairs  of  tiny 
hands ! 

They  always  meant  to  adopt  a  baby 
— one  baby — sometime!  Not  while 
they  were  in  vaudeville,  and  moving 
from  town  to  town.  Not  so  long  as 
the  baby  would  have  to  sleep  in  a  the- 
atrical trunk  or  be  tied  to  a  chair  in 
the  wings  while  they  did  their  act — 
but  some  day — some  day  when  they 
could  give  the  child  a  real  home,  the 
right  sort  of  background. 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  it  was 
Hollywood  that  was  to  provide  that 
background,  to  make  that  dream 
come  true. 

George  and  Gracie — the  names  are 
as   in-        {Continued  on  page  64) 


Most  precious  of 
for  George 
and  Gracie,  are 
the  happy  hours 
they  spend  with 
their  children. 


BY  MIRIAM 
ROGERS 


IN  THE  RADIO 
SPOTLIGHT 

this  month  we  discover  new 
and  old  favorites  of  the  air 


Peeping  at  you  from 
that  Raleigh  and  Kool 
cigarette  show  are  (top 
to  bottom)  Robert  Ber- 
nard, Jack  Pearl,  Mae 
Questal,  Cliff  Hall 
and  George  Haggerty 


Coy  Una  Merkel 
dances  with  Sid 
Silvers,  of  the 
Al  Jolson  radio 
program, 


TIMES  DIVORCED.  BUT- 


This  story  announced 
by  Kenneth  Carpenter 


IT'S  got  to  be  a  favorite  pastime  with  Radio  Row — 
marrying  off  Irene  Rich.  For  the  microphone  people, 
who  are  just  as  cUquey  as  the  neighbors  around  Goose 
Creek,  feel  about  Irene  much  as  small-town  folks  feel 
about  the  village  belle — ^they  can't  sit  back  on  their 
cracker-barrels  and  rockers  in  peace  till  the  Just  Married 
sign  has  been  tied  to  the  bumper  of  the  honeymoon  car 
and  the  sparrows  have  got  the  last  speck  of  rice  off  the 
sidewalk  in  front  of  the  church. 

So  Radio  Row  is  forever  pairing  its  stunning  Miss  Rich 
with  this  or  that  distinguished  gentleman  of  exceptional 
talent,  background  or  wealth.  Of  course  he  must  be 
something  extra  special,  because  Irene  is.  Because  at 
forty-five  she's  as  vivacious  and  pretty  as  a  sub-deb ;  be- 
cause she  can  slip  into  a  size  fourteen  at  Hattie  Carnegie's 
and  wear  it  away  without  an  alteration;  because  she  has 
the  mature  charm  and  graciousness  of  two-score  years 
packed  into  a  sparkling  joie-de-vivre  that  couldn't  possibly 
be  out  of  its  'teens ;  and  because,  after  three  unsuccessful 
attempts  at  wedlock,  she  deserves  a  man  who  could  make 
her  life  a  love  song. 

The  only  trouble — and  this  will  be  news  to  Radio  Row, 


too — is  that  its  stunning  Miss  Rich  isn't  having  any  mar- 
riageable affairs  of  the  heart  this  season,  thank  you,  or 
any  season  ever.   And  that's  definite. 

She  said  to  me  the  other  day,  looking  very  slender  and 
serious  behind  a  low  white  tea  table  at  the  Waldorf :  "I'd 
like  to  make  a  success  of  marriage.  It's  the  only  big 
thing  I've  ever  tried  hard  to  do  and  failed  at.  Three  times 
I  failed,  you  know — and  it  was  my  own  fault. every  time. 
I  know  now  how  to  rectify  those  faults,  but  I'll  never 
have  a  chance  to  prove  it. 

"You  see,"  she  said,  "I  can't  marry  again.  That's  the 
whole  thing.    It's — well,  it  goes  back.  .  .  ." 

And  for  the  first  time  she  ever  has  discussed  it  fully, 
Irene  Rich  told  me  the  intimate  story  of  her  three  divorces 
and  the  strange  prohibition  they  have  put  on  her  life. 

She  was  just  a  kid.  a  seventeen-year-old  child,  just  out 
of  high  school,  when  she  stood  before  an  altar  in  her  lacy 
white  graduation  dress  and  became  the  bride  of  a  young 
Spokane  bank  clerk  who  was  almost  as  much  a  child  as 
herself.  They  had  been  sweethearts  for  a  long  time. 
Irene  always  had  been  popular,  because  she  was  pretty 
and  gay  as  the  green-gold  sorcery  of  an  April  afternoon. 
But  when  school  was  finished  she  had  had  enough  of  dates 
and  dances  and  beaux.  She  yearned,  with  all  her  heart, 
for  the  joy  of  married  life,  with  a  home  and  babies. 

Especially  babies.  "I  was  crazy  about  them.  I  wanted, 
more  than  anything  in  the  world,  a  baby  of  my  own. 
Mother  could  understand  that,  because  she,  herself,  had 
married  at  sixteen.  So  she  didn't  oppose  our  plans.  My 
husband  and  I  settled  down  and  I  {Continued  on  page  112) 

37 


EPISODES  BEFORE  FAME 


Richard  Crooks, 
opera,  concert 
and  radio  star, 
is  as  at  home 
on  the  back  of 
a  horse  as  he 
is  on  the  stage. 


BY   NANCY  BARROWS 


A  voice,  a  kiss  from  a  star,  the 
girl  he  loved  and  money  he 
earned  himself  were  all  that 
Richard  Crooks  needed 


HE  WAS  a  tall  youth,  well  over  six  feet,  and 
broad  in  proportion,  and  looking  more  mature 
than  he  had  any  right  to  look  at  twenty-one. 
And  already  he  was  earning  two  hundred 
dollars  a  month  as  tenor  soloist  with  a  choir. 
But  the  father  of  the  girl  young  Richard  Crooks  wanted 
to  marry  felt  hesitant.    Not  in  any  doubt  of  the  lad's 
character  or  worth  or  ability.    He  had  known  Dick  since 
he  was  a  child,  and  his  daughter  had  been  "Dick's  girl," 
ever  since  she  was  five  and  Dick  was  seven.    They  had 
gone  through  school  together.    He  had  carried  Mildred's 
books,  had  been  her  beau  at  parties.    And  always  it  was 
understood  that  one  day  they  would  be  married. 

It  was  the  music  that  made  Mr.  Pine  hesitate.  Singing 
in  church  or  concert  was  all  very  well — and  there  was  no 
denying  that  Richard  Crooks  had  a  rare  and  glorious 
voice.  But  music  as  a  career  ...  It  was  so  uncertain 
...  It  meant  struggle,  sacrifices,  hardships — unless  some 
wealthy  patron  smoothed  the  way  to  success. 

"Why  don't  you  put  this  music  idea  out  of  your  head?" 
suggested  Mildred's  father  kindly.  "There's  nothing  in  it. 
Go  into  business — come  in  with  me,  if  you  like — and  make 
a  good  living  for  yourself  and  Mildred." 

It  was  no  stem,  unfriendly  parent  who  spoke,  Dick 
knew — ^yet  his  words  were  a  sharp  knife  turning  in  the 


boy's  heart.  He  wanted  to  please  Mildred's  father, 
wanted  to  do  what  seemed  right  and  best.  But — "put 
music  out  of  your  head  .  ."  The  difficulty  was,  music 
wasn't  merely  in  his  head,  it  was  in  his  heart — just  as 
Mildred  was.    How  could  he  give  up  either? 

Soberly  he  talked  with  Mildred  about  it.  Not  "Shall 
I  give  up  music?"  That  question  he  couldn't  ask.  But, 
"Do  you  think  I  should  give  up  singing  and  go  into  busi- 
ness ?"    How  important  was  the  answer  to  that  question ! 

But  Mildred,  with  wisdom  and  understanding  rare  at 
nineteen,  with  love  and  loyalty  and  faith  that  matched  his 
own,  held  his  hand  tightly,  looked  into  his  shining  blue 
eyes,  deep  now  with  earnest  thought,  said  simply:  "It's 
your  life,  dear — you  must  do  what  you  feel  is  right." 

She  had  grown  up  loving  Dick  Crooks.  Every  thought 
and  dream  and  hope  and  ambition  that  were  his  were  as 
familiar  to  her  as  her  own — were  her  own,  really.  She 
couldn't  fail  Dick — ever! 

And  so  they  were  married.  In  their  tiny  apartment  they 
cooked  the  meals  together,  washed  dishes  together,  studied 
together.  Mildred  was  an  accomplished  pianist.  She 
had  studied  music  longer  than  her  young  singer  husband 
had.  Two  hundred  a  month  wasn't  a  meagre  income  in 
those  days,  but  young  Mrs.  Crooks  budgeted  it  carefully, 
determined  to  save  every  penny  possible  to  further  Dick's 
musical  education  and  advance  him  in  his  chosen  career. 
Ten  dollars  a  week,  she  figured,  was  enough  to  spend  on 
their  living.  They  were  so  happy,  anyway — money  could 
buy  them  no  more  joy. 

It  was  Madame  Ernestine  Schumann-Heink  who  first 
had  implanted  in  the  heart  of  young  Dickie  Crooks  the 
idea  that  music  held  greater  glories  than  any  he  yet  could 
dream.  He  was  twelve  year?  old  then.  For  two  years 
he  had  been  soprano  soloist  in  the  boys'  choir  of  a  church 
in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  born.  That  sum- 
mer, when  he  was  twelve,  he  was  chosen  as  soloist  with 
Madame  Schumann-Heink  at  The  Trenton  Music  Festival. 
The  two  soloists  were  accompanied  by  a  chorus  of  three 


thousand  children's  voices.  When  Richard  finished  his 
solos,  the  great  singer  kissed  him. 

His  face  had  flamed  with  embarrassment  at  the  time, 
but  later  his  mortification  cooled,  remembering  the  words 
she  had  said  to  him :  "You  can  amount  to  something — 
if  you  work." 

He  was  tall  and  strong  for  a  boy  of  twelve.  He  felt 
himself  a  man,  and  knew  a  man  must  work  for  his  living, 
for  a  home  and  a  family.  Fame  was  a  word  that  meant 
nothing  to  the  lad.  Work  he  understood.  Music  he 
loved. 

"You  can  amount  to  something — if  you  ivork." 

The  words  were  like  an  accolade.  He  thought  of  them 
as  he  sang  the  church  hymns  on  Sunday.  As  he  studied 
his  school  lessons,  the  words  sang  in  his  heart.  "//  you 
ivork  ..." 

Well,  he  had  always  worked — but  not  for  music — ^yet. 
They  were  not  rich,  the  Crooks  family,  but  comfort  they 
had.  If  you  wanted  something,  you  earned  it.  That  was 
understood. 

Theirs  was  a  typical  American  household,  with  no 
musical  background.  Three  husky  boys  growing  up. 
Father  a  soap  salesman.  Mother  taking  care  of  them 
all.  loving  them  all.  singing  as  she  prepared  the  meals  or 
did  the  sweeping  and  dusting.  She  knew  nothing  about 
music.  Just  sang,  as,  in  countless  other  modest  homes, 
Mother  was  singing  songs  she  knew  and  loved — church 
hymns,  a  popular  melody  learned  from  a  record,  old. 
familiar  songs,  In  the  Gloaming  .  .  . 

Only  Dick  loved  to  sing  with  her — and  one  day  his 
mother  realized  that  her  boy's  voice  was  unusually  pure 
and  sweet,  his  ear  amazingly  true.  It  was  she  who  took 
him  to  the  choirmaster,  who  lost  no  time  adding  that 
flawless  young  voice  to  his  choir.  And  in  this  choir  Dick 
received  the  only  training  he  had  in  music. 

When  Richard  Crooks  was  fourteen,  his  mother  died. 
Maybe  the  immeasurable  heartache  of  that  loss  marked 
the  end  of  childhood.     Life  (Continued  on  page  106) 


39 


James  Wallington 


"DO  you  still  love  me,  Uncle  Eddie?"  A  little  boy's 
face  showed  between  the  curtains  at  the  back  of  the  stage. 
It  was  Bobby  Breen  who  asked  this  question  of  Eddie 
Cantor,  last  September,  at  a  rehearsal  of  the  Texas  Town 
radio  program. 

"Come  here,  Bobby,"  answered  Cantor,  and  he  took 
the  little  nine-year-old  boy  on  his  knee.  "Now,  tell  Uncle 
Eddie  just  what  you  mean — 'Do  you  still  love  me?'" 

"Now  that  she  is  on  the  program — do  you  love  me  as 
much  now  as  you  did  before  Deanna  came  on  the  pro- 
gram?" The  little  boy  was  worried.  For  a  year,  Bobby 
Breen  had  been  the  child  of  the  Eddie  Cantor  programs. 
His  "Uncle  Eddie"  had  looked  upon  him  as  an  adopted 
son.  And  now  his  position  was  jeopardized  by  the  com- 
ing of  another  child.  True,  the  other  child  was  a  girl, 
thirteen  years  old,  but  nevertheless,  Bobby  Breen  was 
worried. 

Deanna  Durbin  was  given  important  spots  on  the  radio 
program.  She  was  being  hailed  as  a  child  wonder — the 
child  with  the  voice  of  an  adult.  Bobby  Breen  had  been 
secure  in  the  knowledge  that  he  held  the  first  spot  in  the 
heart  of  his  adopted  uncle.  Now  he  was  afraid  this  Dur- 
bin child  would  crowd  his  place.  It  was  a  difficult  situa- 
tion for  the  nine-year-old  boy  to  understand. 

Only  by  careful  explaining  could  Cantor  set  the  child's 
mind  at  rest.  "Now  listen  to  me,  Bobby,"  he  began.  "I 
love  you  now  and  I'll  always  love  you.  No  one  can  take 
your  place.  Deanna  is  going  to  help  our  program.  She 
is  going  to  make  it  a  better  program  than  it  was  before. 
She  is  joining  our  family  and  making  it  a  better  and 
happier  family.  Remember  that." 

The  little  boy  smiled.  He  was  happy  again — ^happy  in 
the  knowledge  that  no  one  could  push  him  into  the  back- 
ground. 

But  how  did  Deanna  feel  about  joining  a  program 
on  which  a  nine-year-old  boy  was  so  important?  For  a 
year,  Bobby  had  been  a  member  of  the  program;  for  a 


^opho 


40 


BY    MIRIAM  GIBSON 


year  he  had  enjoyed  the  affection  of  the  mar  who  made 
the  program  possible.    Would  she  have  a  chance? 

"As  soon  as  I  knew  Bobby,  I  liked  him,"  is  her  answer 
to  the  question.  "Jealous?  Of  course  not!" 

To  understand  the  situation  better  we  must  go  further 
into  the  background  of  Eddie  Cantor. 

"I  love  to  help  people  who  have  ability,  whether  they 
are  adults  or  children,"  he  says.  "When  I  first  met  Bobby, 
I  realized  that  here  was  a  boy  who  had  something  re- 
markable in  a  child  so  young.  And  not  only  has  he  abilit>% 
but  he  has  a  remarkable  personality.  He  is  a  great  kid. 
I  love  that  boy." 

But  what  about  Deanna's  entrance  upon  the  picture? 

"One  day,  when  I  was  having  lunch  in  Hollywood,  a 
friend  said  to  riie:  'Eddie,  I  have  just  found  the  most 
remarkable  child.  She  is  thirteen  years  old,  but  she  has 
the  fully-developed  singing  voice  of  a  woman.'  I  thought 
it  was  another  case  of  a  fond  relative.  You  know — a  sup- 
posed wonder-child.  But  I  gave  the  man  the  benefit  of 
the  doubt.    I  told  him  to  bring  her  over  for  an  audition. 

"When  Deanna  started  to  sing  at  that  audition,  I 
couldn't  believe  my  ears.  In  front  of  me  stood  a  child — 
thirteen  years  old.  I  saw  that.  But  my  ears  told  me 
that  I  was  listening  to  a  woman's  voice.  It  was  amaz- 
ing!" Eddie  still  wonders  at  such  a  marvel.  "And  she 
is  such  a  sweet  little  girl.  It  is  just  as  though  she  didn't 
realize  that  she  is  unusual.  She  is  sweet  and  untouched 
by  all  the  attention  she  is  getting.   Don't  you  think  so?" 

And  I  had  to  admit  that  I  agreed  with  him.  After 
all  the  fanfare  that  had  preceded  Deanna  Durbin — after 
hearing  what  a  remarkable  person  she  was,  how  sweet, 
unspoiled,  how  untouched  by  the  attention  she  was  re- 
ceiving, one  expects  to  be  disappointed.  She  was  in  New 
York  for  the  first  time,  being  shown  all  the  sights  of 
which  she  had  heard  all  her  short  life.  At  one  of  the 
most  lavish  hotels  in  New  York,  she  was  ensconced  in 
a  suite.    She  was  being  photo-    (Continued  on  page  98) 

41 


Left.  Twin  Stars  of 
Mirth  and  Laughter, 
Helen  Broderick  and 
Victor  Moore,  ore  well 
known  to  movie  fans 
for  their  RKO-Radio 
picture,  Swing  Time. 


Right,  lovely  Helen 
Hayes,  star  of  the 
radio  serial  Bambi, 
won  Radio  Stars 
Magazine's  medal  for 
Distinguished  Service 
to  Rodio  by  her  act- 
ing in  this  air  drama. 


Left,  Kay  Thompson, 
singer  on  the  Ches- 
terfield show,  tries  her 
hand  at  ping-pong. 
Kay  warbles  with  her 
Rhythm  Singers  and 
Hal  Kemp's  orchestra. 


Right,  Eddy  Ouchin. 
whose  orchestra  re- 
wards listeners  to 
the  LaSalle  Fashion 
Show,  with  program 
director  Charles 
LeMaire  beside  him. 
A  Thursday  broadcast. 


DIALINGS 


Informal  glimpses  of 
popular  personalities 
that  make  your  dial- 
ngs  a  sure  delight 


Your  old  friend, 
Eddie  Cantor,  ques- 
tions announcer 
Jimmy  Wollington 
on  the  Texaco  show. 


Joan  Blaine  is  radio's  Mary 
Marlin  and  Joan  in  A  Tale 
of  Today  on  NBC  network. 


Cyril  Pit+s,  tenor  soloist  of 
Carnation  Contented  pro- 
gram, Mondays,  10  p.m.  EST. 


THE  ROCKT  ROAD 
TO  ROMANCE 

Will  Joan  Blaine  and  Cyril  Pitts  marry? 
BY    LESLIE  EATON 


"WE  won't  wait  too  long,"  said  Joan 
softly.  "Time  goes  so  swiftly — and 
we  don't  want  to  lose  one  moment  of 
it." 

She  was  talking,  of  course,  of  mar- 
riage. Joan  Blaine,  radio's  Mary 
Marlin,  and  Joan  in  A  Tale  of  Today, 
is  in  love.  Deeply,  excitingly  in  love 
with  and  engaged  to  another  radio 
favorite,  Cyril  Pitts.  And  of  course 
they  want  to  be  married.  But  even  as 
she  says :  "We  won't  wait  too  long," 
you  feel  that  their  road  to  romance 
will  not  be  an  easy  one.  All  along  it 
are  shadowy  shapes,  gray  ghosts  of 
duty,  of  responsibility  to  others,  pull- 
ing Joan  this  way,  pulling  Cyril  that 
way. 

Will  it  be  possible  for  them  to 
marry?  To  have  the  home  of  their 
dreams?  To  live  their  own  lives  to- 
gether, unburdened  by  the  various 
problems  of  other  lives  ? 

"We'll  work  it  out  somehow,"  says 


Joan,  a  trifle  wistfully.  "This  year — 
I  hope." 

'But  right  now  Cyril  Pitts  is  in  New 
York — his  work  keeps  him  there.  And 
Joan's  radio  work  keeps  her  in  Chi- 
cago. And  Cyril  has  parents  to  sup- 
port. And  Joan  has  her  mother  and 
brothers  and  sisters  to  take  care  of. 
And  the  country  walks  that  Joan  and 
Cyril  love  to  take  together,  the  riding 
and  the  swimming  or  skating,  the 
happy  planning  for  the  home  they 
want  to  build,  all  are  shut  away  from 
them  right  now  by  the  hard  hand  of 
fate! 

It's  not  easy  to  lay  aside  burdens, 
once  you've  taken  them  up.  Especially 
if  they're  other  people's  burdens — 
people  you  love. 

In  the  beginning  Joan  planned  to  be 
a  lawyer.  She  earned  her  B.A.  and 
B.L.  degrees  and  passed  her  Bar  ex- 
aminations. But  she  found  legal  work 
a  strain    {Continued  on  page  100) 


"We  won't  wait  too  long," 
declares  Joan  Blaine  fer- 
vently. "Time  goes  so  fast!" 


RADIO  STARS 


CAN  WOMEN  TELL 
THE  TRUTH  ? 
•  •  •  YES? 


NO? 


#1^^        This  story 
^  J[       announced  by 
^1^1       Ben  Grauer 


Ben  Grauer 


BY  HARRIET 


MENKEN 


Rosemary  Lane,  sweet 
singer  with  Fred  War- 
ing's  Pennsylvanians, 
says:  "Men  can't  take 
it!  You  just  can't 
tell    men   the  truth!" 


RADIO  STARS 


Lucy  Monroe,  young  soloist 
of  the  A  merican  A  lbum  of 
Familiar  Music,  reveals 
a  tragic  experience  due 
to  being   absolutely  frank. 


Agirl  from  Georgia,  blue-eyed 
and  slim,  Ziegfeld  Follies' 
star  and  radio  singer,  Jane 
Pickens  learned  a  sod  lesson 
when  she  told  a  man  the  truth! 


And  here  is  demure  Rosemarie 
Brancato,  lovely  coloratura 
singer  from  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
who  finds  that  men  are  averse 
to  believing   truths  they  hear. 


Here's  what  happened  when  four  lovely  radio  stars  tried  it! 


CAN  we  tell  men  the  truth?  That  is  an  age-old  subject 
to  which  women  have  given  serious  consideration,  even 
before  the  days  when  Qeopatra  floated  down  the  Nile 
with  her  captive  Antony!  Probably  Eve  pondered  upon 
that  problem  in  Eden !  For,  be  they  blondes  or  brunettes, 
maids  or  millionaires.  Colonel's  Ladies  or  Judy  O'Gradys, 
all  the  feminine  sex  at  some  time  debate  the  all  important 
question:  Can  we  tell  men  the  truth? 

I  determined  to  find  out  what  the  famous  feminine 
radio  stars  had  to  say  about  this.  I  expected  to  discover 
two  points  of  view — that  of  the  ladies  who  believe  that 
we  can  tell  men  the  truth,  and  that  of  those  who  believe 
that  we  cannot.  Up  and  down  Radio  Row  I  went  and 
asked  the  question.  But  there  was  only  one  reply  from 
the  celebrated  ladies  of  the  air. 

"No,  no,  no,"  was  the  reiterated  feminine  refrain. 
"We  can't  tell  men  the  truth !" 

So  let  me  tell  you  about  the  experiences  of  a  few  of  the 
radio  celebrities  who  hold  this  viewpoint.  Listen  to  the 
intimate  incidents  of  their  lives  which  made  them  form 

this  opinion. 

I  caught  Jane  Pickens  in  her  dressing-room  at  the 
Follies,  for  the  gorgeous  Georgia  gal.  with  the 
blue  eyes  and  slender  figure,  is  the  leading 
lady  of  this  Broadway  show  as  well  as 
the  leading  lady  of  an  NBC  Satur- 
day night  program. 

"No,"  the  most  famous  of 
the  Pickens  sisters  told 
me,  "I  don't  think 
it  a  good  idea 
to  tell  men 


the  truth.  Let  me  give  you  an  example  out  of  my  own 
experience.  I  go  mostly  with  people  outside  the  theatre 
and  radio,  and  one  of  my  best  beaux  is  a  lawyer.  Now 
people  outside  the  theatre  and  radio  never  understand 
theatrical  lingo  and  habits.  They  don't  realize  that,  when 
we  put  our  arms  around  each  other  or  call  one  another 
'darling'  and  'honey,'  it  doesn't  mean  a  thing.  The  other 
day,  Jimmy  Farrell  (he's  in  the  show  with  me)  and  I 
were  having  our  pictures  taken  for  publicity  purposes,  by 
some  news  syndicate.  Jimmy  was  supposed  to  kiss  me  in 
the  picture.  The  minute  it  was  over  I  knew  my  lawyer 
friend  would  misunderstand.  So  I  decided  that  I'd  better 
tell  him  the  truth  about  the  picture,  before  he  saw  it  in 
the  papers.  Well,  I  did.  I  told  him  the  whole,  the  exact 
truth.  What  was  the  result?  I  won't  say  he  didn't  be- 
lieve me,  exactly.  But  he  certainly  couldn't  understand 
it.  If  I'd  said  nothing,  instead  of  explaining  and  telling 
him  the  truth,  it  would  have  been  much  better.  He 
probably  never  would  have  seen  the  picture,  anyway. 
Some  things  are  just  better  left  unsaid!" 

The  strains  of  You  Don't  Love  Right  floated  up  to  us 
from  the  stage.  "No,  you  can't  tell  men  the  truth,"  Jane 
said  slowly,  fastening  her  diamond  and  ruby  necklace 
around  her  throat.  "Here's  another  instance :  Once  upon 
a  time  I  was  in  a  show  with  someone.  Every  night  he 
asked  me  to  go  out  with  him.  I  started  to  tell  him  why 
I  couldn't  go,  to  explain  that  the  reason  was  that  I  loved 
someone  else.  The  moment  I  began,  I  saw  him  look  hurt 
and  cold.  So  I  stopped.  I  didn't  tell  him  the  truth.  I 
just  evaded  the  issue,  kidded  him  along.  If  I'd  told  him 
the  truth,  he  would  have  been  hurt,  even  if  only  momen- 
tarily, and  things  wouldn't  have  gone  smoothly  with  the 
show.  This  way  no  one  was  hurt  and  we  continued  to 
do  our  numbers  beautifully  and  harmoniously  together. 
You  have  to  be  kind  and  tactful.  {Continued  on  page  90) 


BY  ELIZABETH  BENNECHE  PETERSEN 


This  story 
announced  by 
Harry  Von  Zell 


THE  first  song  that  really  touched  Jan  Peerce  was  one  his 
mother  sang  to  him  when  he  was  a  little  boy.  Down  in 
those  few  crowded  rooms  in  the  lower  East  Side  she  sang, 
and  the  words  were  in  a  tongue  strange  to  him  and  yet 
he  understood  the  melancholy  undertones  of  the  music, 
the  sudden  wild  swerve  to  a  ^igeuner  strain. 

And  suddenly  he  wasn't  on  the  lower  East  Side  at  all 
and  there  weren't  any  crowded  streets  or  mobs  gesticulat- 
ing around  push  carts.  He  was  holding  his  mother's  hand 
and  a  clear,  strong  wind  was  blowing  over  the  Russian 
Steppes  and  he  heard  guitars  strumming  and  saw  distant 
fires  and  all  around  him  were  the  sad,  gay  Gypsies  his 
mother  sang  of. 

Then  the  song  was  finished  and  he  saw  he  really  hadn't 
been  away  at  all,  for  there  was  his  mother  stirring  the 


noodles  in  the  great  copper  pot  on  the  stove  and  there 
were  his  three  brothers  doing  their  homework  on  the 
kitchen  table  and  there  was  he,  moved  to  tears  by  the 
words  and  the  music  and  his  mother's  voice. 

Even  now,  when  he  hears  that  song,  it's  as  if  he  were 
hearing  it  again  for  the  first  time,  down  in  that  crowded 
room,  and  as  if  a  wind  were  blowing  over  the  Steppes 
and  Gypsy  fires  burning,  and  his  brothers  studying  their 
lessons  at  the  kitchen  table. 

Songs  do  that  to  Jan  Peerce.  A  song  that  lifted  one 
day  to  the  skies,  a  song  that  tore  another  day  down  to  un- 
utterable sadness,  he  has  only  to  hear  them  again,  no 
matter  how  many  years  later,  to  recapture  an  old  joy  or 
to  weep  in  an  old  sorrow. 

That's  one  of  the  reasons  why  Jan  Peerce  moves  you 


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so,  when  he  sings.  Because  the  song  means  so  much  to 
him. 

Even  today,  when  he  hears  anyone  singing  the  war 
songs,  it  isn't  of  doughboys  he  thinks,  or  of  the  Victory 
parade  up  Fifth  Avenue,  or  of  drums  beating,  but  of  a 
small  girl  of  eleven,  sloe-eyed  and  dark-haired,  who  tossed 
hef  head  a  little  when  he  was  introduced  to  her  by  her 
cousin,  a  boy  in  his  class  at  school. 

"An  uppity  kid!"  He  laughs,  remembering.  "Terribly 
snooty !  She  acted  as  if  her  father  were  president  of  four 
banks." 

They  were  still  singing  war  songs,  that  night  back  in 
1919,  when  he  stayed  on  for  supper.  And  even  five  years 
later  he  remembered  her  name  was  Alice. 

And  when  he  hears  //  Ain't  Gonna  Rain  No  More,  No 


More,  he  remembers  a  dark  girl  of  sixteen,  who  came  up 
to  him  when  he  was  playing  the  violin  at  a  wedding, 
dragging  her  father  with  her  because  she  was  shy,  and 
saying:  "Don't  you  remember  me?  You  came  over  to 
my  cousin's  house  for  supper  one  night?"  Maybe  it  was 
because  her  dress  was  yellow  that  he  liked  her  so  much, 
for  yellow  is  his  favorite  color.  Maybe  it  was  the  light 
that  played  in  her  eyes  or  the  tender  curve  her  mouth 
made  above  her  small,  pointed  chin,  but  Jan  never  had 
been  so  happy  with  a  girl  before  in  his  life  and  he  remem- 
bers how  they  hummed  that  song  together  all  evening 
and  how  they  laughed  as  they  sang. 

Then  there  was  another  song,  /  Can't  Give  You  Any- 
thing But  Love,  Baby.  That  was  the  big  hit  of  1928  and 
so  popular  that  even  today,  after  {Continued  on  page  71 ) 


i 


Sophisticated 
black  moire, 
with  gardenias. 


ONE  OF  THESE  GLAMOROUS 
EVENING  GOWNS 

LUCILLE  MANNERS  ASKS 
YOU  TO  EXPLAIN  WHICH 
GOWN  BEST  SUITS  HER 
PERSONALITY 


l2 


THIS 
CONTEST 
ANNOUNCED 
BY 
CHARLES 
LYON 


RADIO'S  newest  prima  donna,  Lu- 
cille Manners,  wants  you  to  help 
her  to  decide  what  type  of  dress  she 
should  wear  for  her  Friday  night 
Cities  Service  Concert.  This  ex- 
citing and  glamorous  NBC  star  of- 
fers you  a  chance  to  win  any  one 
of  the  four  beautiful  and  expensive 
evening  gowns  pictured  here. 

Think  of  it!  A  gorgeous  new 
evening  gown  to  wear  now  and  all 
through  the  spring  and  summer 
months — yours  for  the  easy  trick 
of  writing  fifty  words,  or  less,  ex- 
plaining why  you  think  one  dress 
suits    Lucille's   personality  better 


star  of  Citiei 
Service  Concert 


Tailored  blue 
and-black  si  lie 
dinner  dress. 


than  any  of  the  others. 

These  four  lovely  prizes  come 
from  the  Rockefeller  Center  Shops, 
situated  in  the  heart  of  Radio  City 
in  New  York.  Out  of  the  seventy 
shops  in  the  Center,  four  have  gen- 
erously donated  their  loveliest  eve- 
ning gowns.   One  of  them  can  be 


yours.  Here  is  what  they  look  like : 
Dana  de  Paris  oflfers  a  stunning 
silk  print,  romantically  printed  all 
over  in  large  corsage  bonquets  of 
violet  and  green  on  a  white  ground. 
The  skirt  is  full,  with  the  hem  bor- 
dered in  a  band  of  the  violet  shade. 
The  bodice  {Continued  on  page  1 10) 


RULES 


1.  Write  fifty  words  or  less  on  which  of  the  four  dresses,  pictured, 
best  suits  Lucille  Manners'  personality  and  why.  The  words  "a,"  "an," 
"the"  will  not  be  counted. 

2.  Mail  your  letter  to  Lucille  Manners'  Contest.  RADIO  STARS.  149 
Madison  Avenue,  New  York.  N.  Y. 

3.  The  contest  will  close  at  midnight  of  March  3rd,  1937.  No  letters 
postmarked  after  that  time  will  be  eligible. 

4.  State  your  preference  and  size  in  gowns,  according  to  the  description 
given. 

5.  In  judging,  consideration  will  be  given  to  neatness  of  presentation 
and  aptness  and  originality  of  expression. 

6.  The  four  best  essays  of  fifty  words  or  less,  on  the  given  subject,  will 
each  win  one  of  the  four  dresses  shown. 

7.  The  decision  of  the  judges  (Miss  Manners  and  the  editors  of  RADIO 
STARS)  will  be  finaL    No  contest  entries  will  be  returned. 

8.  No  employees  of  RADIO  STARS  or  members  of  employees'  families 
are  eligible  to  compete. 


PRIZES 

1st,  2nd.  3rd  and  4th 
prizes  are  donated  by  the 
Rockefeller  Center  Shops, 
Radio  City.  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Violet  corsage  print  gown, 
from  Dana  de  Paris,  La 
Maison  Francaise,  612  Fifth 
Avenue. 

Pastel  flower-printed 
chiffon  gown,  from  Tappe. 
17  West  50th  Street. 

Black  and  blue  silk  crepe 
dinner  dress,  from  Greer's 
Town  ond  Country  Shop. 
R.C.A.  BIdg.,  62  West  SOth 
Street. 

Black  moire  gardenia 
gown,  from  Theo  Sheehan, 
22  West  51st  Street,  Inter- 
national BIdg. 


49 


HE  CERTAINLY 
STARTED  SOMETHING! 


BY  MILDRED 


M  A  S  T  I  N 


Jerry  Belcher  comes 
into  your  own  home 
with  his  microphone 
and  broadcasts  your 
replies  to  his  ques- 
tions on  his  popular 
Our  Neighbor  radio 
program.  It  goes 
over  the  NBC  network 
Sundays  at  1:30.  EST. 


This  story 
announced  by 
Ken    N  i  I e  s 


FOUR  years  ago,  when  Jerry  Belcher  walked  into  a 
Houston,  Texas,  radio  station,  with  a  suggestion  to  make, 
he  didn't  know  what  he  was  starting. 

Jerry's  suggestion  was  that  the  station  let  him  take  a 
microphone  down  to  the  street  and  broadcast  short  inter- 
views with  passersby.  Everyone  at  the  studio  laughed  at 
the  idea.  But  Mr.  Belcher  was  a  newspaperman.  He 
had  seen  The  I nquiritig  Reporter  used  successfully  in  news 
columns ;  why  not  over  the  air  ? 

Above  the  laughter  rose  Jerry's  determined  arguments. 
And  finally,  with  misgivings,  the  station  put  a  microphone 
in  Mr.  Belcher's  hands  and  told  him  to  go  to  it. 

Nobody  remembers  now  who  was  the  first  person  inter- 
viewed. No  one  realized  that  he  was  heading  a  long 
parade  of  thousands  who  were  to  follow.  Thousands  of 
non-professionals,  who  would  pour  into  microphones  their 
troubles,  tljeir  hopes,  wisecracks  and  wrong  answers,  for 
a  listening  world  to  weep  over  and  chuckle  at. 

Mr.  Belcher  still  didn't  realize  what  he  had  started 
when,  almost  three  years  after  his  first  Texas  broadcast, 
he  and  a  partner.  Parks  Johnson,  left  the  local  station  and 
came  up  to  New  York  to  pull  their  stunt  over  a  national 
hook-up.  In  New  York  they  handled  it  just  as  they  had 
in  Houston.  Belcher  still  called  the  program  Vox  Pop, 
and  asked  the  same  type  of  questions.  The  only  differ- 


ence was,  more  people  were  listening  to  the  program  now. 

All  along  the  way  tragic  endings  were  predicted  for 
Jerry's  program :  He  wouldn't  be  able  to  keep  it  free  from 
censorable  comments ;  the  man  on  the  street  would  offend 
the  lady  in  the  parlor;  Belcher  would  inadvertently  ask 
a  question  that  would  tie  the  program  up  in  a  libel  suit; 
it  was  novel  now,  but  people  would  tire  of  it.  So  the 
prophecies  went,  each  more  dire  than  the  one  before.  But 
none  of  them  came  true.  Vox  Pop  remained  successful 
and  trouble-free. 

But  as  Vox  Pop  grew  in  popularity,  program  planners 
sat  down  with  sponsors  and  began  to  figure.  And  in  no 
time  at  all  the  networks  were  adding  more  and  more 
programs  patterned  after  Belcher's  original  idea — human 
interest  programs  that  permitted  you  and  your  neighbor 
to  speak  for  yourselves. 

Now  Jerry  Belcher's  idea  was  based  on  several  things 
that  anyone  who  has  worked  on  newspapers  learns  about 
people.  He  knew,  for  one  thing,  that  the  most  interesting 
topic  to  man  man.  Jerry  didn't  believe  the  wet-blankets, 
who  said  an  unrehearsed,  unplanned  program  wouldn't 
carry  over  the  air.  He  knew  that  people  love  unvarnished, 
true-life  stories,  expressions  that  are  real.  A  snapshot 
is  more  revealing  than  a  portrait.  He  knew,  too,  that 
everybody  loves  a  confession.  {Continued  on  page  62) 


Meet  Jerry  Belcher,  originator  of  the  man-on-the-street  programs 


THE  VARIED  ACTI 


MRS.  LOUIS  i  MflFT 


MRS.  LOUIS  SWIFT,  JR.,  of  Chi- 
cago's prominent  family,  is  well-known 
throughout  the  Middle  West  and  East  for  her 
vivid  and  active  life.  She  entertains  frequent- 
ly with  small,  superbly  appointed  dinners. 
"Camels,"  says  Mrs.  Swift,  "contribute  to 
the  success  of  my  dinners.  Their  delicate 
flavor  suits  the  equally  delicate  flavors  in 
the  food,  and  they  also  help  digestion.  I 
always  allow  enough  time  between  courses  so 
that  every  one  may  smoke  a  Camel  through." 


MRS.  SWIFT  DINES  in  the  Casino 
Room  of  Chicago's  Congress  Hotel.  "Here, 
too,"  says  Joseph  Spagat,  Maitre  de  Cafe, 
"Camels  are  the  favorite  cigarette." 

A  few  of  the  distinguished 

women  who  prefer 
CameVs  costlier  tobaccos: 

MRS.  NICHOLAS  BIDDLE,  Philadelphia 
MRS.  ALEXANDER  BLACK,  Los  Angeles 
MRS.  POWELL  CABOT.  Bosion 
MRS.  THOMAS  M.  CARNEGIE,  JR..  New  York 

MRS.  J.  GARDNER  COOI  IDGK  II,  B,„i,.n 
MRS.  ANTHONY  J.  DKEXKI,  inl,  I'lnla.lrlphia 
MRS.  CHISUELL  DABNEY  LA>ii;i|nHM:.  (V^mia 
MRS.  NICHOLAS  G.  PENNIMAN  III,  B,ili,m.,re 
MISS  ANNE  C.  ROCKEFELLER,  New  York 
MRS.  BROOKFIELD  VAN  RENSSELAER,  New  York 


FOR  DIGESTIONS 
SMOKE 
CAMELS! 


AS  A  SPORTSWOMAN,  Mrs.  Swift  is  world  famous.  She  spent  dangerous 
months  in  India  and  Africa  hunting  wild  boars,  tigers,  elephants.  In  the  States, 
during  the  winter  season  when  society  is  so  engrossed  with  outdoor  sports,  Mrs. 
Swift  enjoys  skiing.  "It's  fun,"  she  says,  "but  requires  healthy  ner\  es.  So  Camels 
are  the  only  cigarette  I  care  to  smoke.  They  set  me  on  my  way  feeling  right." 

Camel's  aid  to  digestion.  .  .  on  your  busy  days! 


MOST  modern  women  lead  quite 
active  lives.  Preparing  meals, 
parent- teachers'  activities,  and  so- 
cial life  are  enough  to  tax  nerves 
and  affect  digestion.  A  pleasant  way 
to  assist  good  digestion  is  to  smoke 
Camels  during  meals  and  after- 
ward. Smoking  Camels  promotes 


the  natural  flow  of  fluids  so  neces- 
sary for  good  digestion.  Alkalinity 
increases.  Tension  eases.  A  com- 
forting "lift"  follows.  Equally  im- 
portant is  Camel's  mildness. They 
never  get  on  your  nerves,  or  tire 
your  taste.  Smoke  Camels  for  diges- 
tion's sake— and  hetter  "busy  days"! 


WHEN  SHE  GOT  RID  OF  ''MIDDLE- AGE''  SKIN 


(Yes!  It  threatens  even  girls  in  their  twenties!) 


"Palmolive  is  made  with  Olive  Oil, 
a  real  beauty  aid.  And  its  Olive  Oil 
makes  Palmolive's  lather  gentler, 
thing  .  .  .  gives  it  a  \ftcial 
quality  all  its  own.  Thus 
/e  does  more  than  just 
cleanse.  It  protects  your  skin  against 
the  loss  of  those  precious  natural 
oils  which  feed  and  nourish  it  .  .  . 
that's  why  Palmolive  keeps  your 
complexion  soft,  smooth  and  young!" 


21  EAST  66TH  STREET.  NEW  YORK  CITY 


How  Palmolive,  mode 
dry,  lifeless,  o 

DON'T  think  you're  safe  from 
"Middle-Age"  Skin  just  be- 
cause you  are  young !  For  beauty 
experts  warn  that  this  ugly  condi- 
tion threatens  even  girls  in  their 
twenties.  So  be  on  your  guard 
against  the  first  sign  of  dryness, 
coarse-texture  . . .  the  symptoms  of 
'•Middle-Age"  Skin! 

Use  Palmolive  regularly.  For 
Palmolive,  made  with  Olive  Oil, 
does  more  than  just  cleanse!  Its 
gentle  protective  lather  prevents 
your  skin  from  becoming  dry,  life- 
less, old-looking  .  .  .  keeps  your 


with  Olive  Oil,  prevents 
Id-looking  skin 

complexion  soft,  smooth  anA  young 
Dofs  the  soap  you  are  using  give 
you  this  same  protection?  Do  you 
know  what  ingredients  go  into  it.'* 
Are  you  sure  it  is  as  pure,  as  gentle 
and  safe  as  Palmolive.' 

You  knowthiLt  Palmolive  is  made 
only  from  real  beauty  aids  ...  a 
secret  and  imique  blend  of  sooth- 
ing Olive  and  Palm  Oils.  That's 
why  Palmolive,  more  than  any 
other  soap,  promises  to  keep  your 
complexion  young  and  lovely 
through  the  years!  Why  not  start 
using  Palmolive  Soap — today? 


CHOSEN  EXCLUSIVELY 
FOR  THE  DIONNE  QUINSI 
What  a  beauty  lesson  there  is  for  you  in  the  fact  that  Dr.  Dafoe 
chose  Palmolive  exclusively  for  the  Dionne  Quins!  I)  this  fine 
beauty  soap,  made  u  ith  Olive  Oil,  is  safest  and  gentlest  for 
their  tender  skin,  isn't  it  safest  for  your  complexion,  too? 


MADE  WITH 
OLIVE  OIL  TO  KEEP 
COMPLEXIONS  YOUNG 
AND  LOVELY 


RADIO  STARS 


Are  YOU  registering  your  radio 
preferences?  Write  us,  giving  your 
name,  address  and  occupation.  Ad- 
dress: QUERY  EDITOR.  Radio  Stars, 
149    Madison    Avenue,    New  Yorlt. 


Madge  Riley,  New  Castle,  Ind. 
(Student.)  "Who  do  we  listen  to? 
Well,  I,  for  one,  think  Ben  Bernie  is 
the  best  to  be  had !  Wild  horses 
couldn't  drag  me  from  the  radio  when 
he  broadcasts.  The  "old  maestro" 
blends  subtle  humor  with  grand  music 
and  is  delightfully  refreshing.  Prunes 
to  any  who  brand  the  maestro's  quips 
as  'smart  alec  talk.'    For  shame!" 


Mrs.  Paul  Clarke,  Obsidian,  Idaho. 
(Housewife.)  "One  Man's  Family 
and  other  dramatic  skits  are  my  fav- 
orites. They  seem  so  human  and 
real.  As  we  live  where  we  can't  see 
shows  or  any  entertainment  outside 
our  radio  for  about  six  long  winter 
months,  they  give  us  many  hours  of 
amusement  ancl  company." 

-♦- 

Paul  F.  Douglas,  Washington,  D.C. 
(Bus-boy.)  "Listening  to  dance  music 


"Ben  Bernie,  the  best  to  be 
hod.  Delightful.  Refreshing." 


"Loretta  Lee  has  everything 
anyone  could  ask  for!" 


WHAT 
THEY 
LISTEN 
TO-AND 
WHY 


is  my  favorite  pastime.  For  the  swing 
variety,  I  like  Benny  Goodman's  con- 
tribution to  the  Caiini  Carirz\m;  Guy 
Lombardo,  for  soothing,  sweet 
music;  and  for  syncopation.  Jimmy 
Dorse\  's  numbers,  on  Bing  Crosl>y's 
Kraft  Music  Hall." 

Elaine  Frances  Kort,  Clifton,  N.  J. 
(Vocal  Student.)  "I  listen  to  the  pop- 
ular tenor,  Frank  Parker,  no  matter 
what  program  he's  on.  Ben  Bernie 
is  my  second  choice  and  I  also  like 
Jessica  Dragonette." 

S.  P.  RichfieldrNew  York,  N.  Y. 

"With  all  due  praise  to  the  stars  of 
radio,  let's  not  forget  the  youngsters 
who  are  just  starting  in  that  field.  For 
instance,  the  'varietv-baritonc'  voice 
of  Larry  Taylor  {(I'OR)  and  tliat 
distinguished  voung  composer  and 
arranger,  ^lortun  Gould.  Here's  to 
the  success  of  these  coming  stars!" 

Agnes  Meale,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
(Student.)  "Hollyzi'ood  Hotel  is  mv 
favorite  program,  because  it  al\va\s 
is  entertaining  in  both  music  ami 
drama.  However,  one  of  my  main 
reasons  for  liking  it  is  that  mv  favor- 
ite star  of  radio  and  screen,  l-'rances 
Langford,  is  with  the  i)rograni.  Be- 
ing al)]e  to  hear  her  every  Friday 
night  is  the  only  thing  in  the  world 
I  care  for." 

Theodore    Vasallo,  Philadelphia, 

Pa.  "Since  everybody  has  been  ])ick- 
ing  All-American  teams  and  so  on, 
I  feel  sure  it  is  also  a  time  to  pick  an 


Letters  from  readers, 
giving  their  choices 
among  broadcasts 

all-star  radio  program  including  the 
ten  best  orchestras.  Here  is  how  I 
would  rate  them :  25%  for  style,  25^0 
for  t\pe  of  music  ]ilaved,  25%  for 
]Hi])ulantv  and  1^''<  for  how  well 
they  pla}-.  -Mv  choices  are:  1.  Benny 
Goodman.  2.  Hal  Kemp,  3.  Guy  Lom- 
l)ar(lo.  4.  ]]en  Bernie.  5.  O/.zie  Xel- 
son,  C).  (  ;ien  ("ira\ .  7.  Richard  Him- 
l)cr,  8.  \\"a\'ne  KinL:,  ' Tommy  Dor- 
sey,  10.  Kay  Xoble." 

Margaret  HoUoway,  Memphis, 
Tenn.  (Typist.)  "Mv  favorites  are: 
American  Album  of  Faiuiliar  Music, 
because  the  sweet.  Mift  nui>ic  of  the 
orchestra  is  very  >oothing  to  a  per- 
siin  who  likes  this  tyjie  of  music.  And 
Frank  IMunn  is  still  "The  Golden 
X'oice  of  Radio.'  The  Canuitioii 
Contented  Hour  and  Words  and 
M usic  programs  all  feature  fine  art- 
ists. (  Continued  on  pacje  116) 


"Mary  Eastman  should  be 
the    1936    Radio  Queen." 


"Ken  Murray's  was  one  of  nny 
favorite,  never-miss  progronns." 

53 


RADIO  STARS 


Don't  be  a  fade-out! 


•  Do  YOU  always  seem  to  fade  into  the 
background  when  some  more  glamourous 
girl  arrives?  Don't  let  her  get  away  with 
it!  A  woman's  most  expressive  feature  is 
always  her  eyes  ...  so  play  yours  up!  A 
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ceptible in  daylight,  but  how  it  does  bring 
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with  a  sponge  compartment  so  you  can 
whisk  it  out  ready  to  use  at  any  moment. 
And  it  insures  even,  natural  applications. 
Black,  brown,  blue  or  green  to  choose 
from.  $1.  /^^^ 


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eyelashes  so  that  eyes  look  bigger,  brighter, 
more  glamourous!  Just  slip  your  lashes  into 
KuRl.ASH,  a  neat  little  gadget  that,  in  30 
seconds,  has  your  lashes  curled  for  all  day— 
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MAIL  THIS  TODAY 
To:  Jane  Heath,  Dept.  D-3 

The  Kurlash  Coni,„iny,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
The  Kurlash  Company  of  Canada,  at  Toronto,  3 
Please  send  me,  free,  your  booklet  on  eye 
beauty,  and  a  personal  coloring  plan  for  my 
complexion. 

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JOIN  OUR  TOUR  TO  HOLLYWOOD 


BY  JACK  SMALLEY 


See  movies  being  made!  Here  four  of  the  ace  comedians  in  Universal's 
Top  of  the  Town  serenade  Dorine  MacTavish  (Ella  Logan.)  Gregory 
Ratoff,  Mischa  Auer,  Hugh  Herbert  and  Henry  Armetta  form  the  band. 


Radio  Stars  Maijaz'uie  announces  a 
grand  t\yo-weeks'  vacation  trip  from  Chi- 
cago to  the  Coast !  Don't  twist  your  dials 
until  you've  listened  to  our  exciting  plans 
for  your  summer  vacation — it's  the  best 
news  we've  ever  broadcast  1 

Radio  Stars  has  arranged  three  grand 
and  glorious  expeditions  to  Hollywood,  to 
give  you  that  long-awaited  chance  to  hob- 
nob with  radio  and  film  celebrities  and 
enjoy  the  most  thrilling  series  of  adven- 
tures imaginable.  It  will  be  a  house-party 
on  wheels,  with  special  trains  to  carry  each 
group  from  Chicago  to  California,  on  an 
all-expense  vacation  that  whisks  you  out 
and  back  again  in  exactly  two  weeks. 

And  all  at  an  astonishingly  low  cost ! 

Here  is  your  chance  to  see  your  favorites 
in  person,  at  parties  arranged  especially 
for  your  entertainment.  At  last  you  can 
see  movies  being  made,  you  can  dine  and 
dance  at  the  night  spots  you've  read  about, 
and  when  you  come  home  from  this  vaca- 
tion you'll  be  broadcasting  to  the  world 
that  it  was  the  most  memorable  experi- 
ence in  your  life. 

To  begin  at  the  beginning,  here  is  the 
plan :  Three  special  trains  will  leave  Chi- 
cago on  July  4th,  July  17th  and  August 
1st,  returning  two  weeks  later.  Summer 
excursion  rates  bring  you  to  the  starting 
place  at  small  extra  cost,  if  you  live  East 
of  Chicago. 

Every  detail  for  your  comfort  and  en- 
joyment is  arranged  before  you  climb 
aboard,  so  you'll  leave  worry  and  care 
behind  you.  Then  you'll  start  on  a  sight- 
seeing trip  that  will  take  you  through  the 
Rocky  Mountains  to  the  Coast,  with  stops 
at  national  parks,  ending  in  Hollywood. 

Here  a  scries  of  gala  festivities  awaits 
you.    Tbcre  will  be  cocktail  parties,  dinner 


dances,  and  trips  through  the  studio  to 
see  pictures  being  made.  And  we've  in- 
vited Bing  Crosby,  Bob  Burns,  Joe  Pen- 
ner,  Jack  Oakie,  and  a  host  of  radio  and 
screen  personalities  to  come  to  the  parties 
to  meet  you.  So  bring  your  kodaks  and 
autograph  books  1 

Each  vacation  trip  will  be  distinguished 
by  a  festive  party  at  a  movie  star's  home. 

Leo  Carrillo,  a  universal  favorite  of  the 
fans,  is  going  to  have  a  real  Spanish  bar- 
becue and  fiesta  at  his  famous  ranch  home 
in  Santa  Monica.  You  saw  Leo  in  The 
Gay  Desperado ;  now  he's  with  Charles 
Boyer  in  History  is  Made  at  Night.  Glenda 
Farrell  will  entertain  at  her  San  Fernando 
home  at  a  rollicking  Golddiggers'  Party, 
and  Richard  Arlen  at  a  Melting-Pot  Party. 

Dick  Arlen  and  his  wife,  Jobyna  Ral- 
ston, are  the  center  of  social  life  at  Toluca 
Lake,  where  the  Crosbys  and  the  Dick 
Powells  are  close  neighbors.  As  you  may 
know,  Dick  spent  a  year  in  Canada  and 
England  making  that  historic  film  of  rail- 
road pioneers,  The  Great  Barrier.  He  has 
just  finished  two  films  for  20th  Century- 
Fox  release,  Secret  Valley  and  Boots  and 
Saddles. 

You'll  be  thrilled  at  Dick's  lovely  estate 
near  'Warner  Brothers  Studio,  with  its 
outdoor  bar,  huge  swimming  pool,  and  the 
amazing  playground  he  built  for  his  son, 
Ricky.  Don't  forget  to  bring  your  swim 
suit  to  this  party.  Dick  has  invited  his 
movie  friends,  so  you'll  meet  your  favorites. 

The  new  Universal  Studios  will  be  our 
hosts  when  its  time  to  show  you  how 
pictures  are  made.  As  you  know,  visitors 
to  Hollywood  find  it  impossible  to  "crash" 
the  studio  gates,  but,  thanks  to  Universal, 
our  party  actually  will  see  movies  being 
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RADIO  STARS 


■„  Krebs:  -Ado-looUng.MnUea...o. 


,id*i.h  Pond  »  Cold  Creaa*.-' 


To  keep  skin  young  looking 
—  learn  how  lo  invigorale 
your  UNDER  SKIN 

HARD  TO  BELIEVE  —  but  thoSC  little 
lines  that  look  as  it  they'd  been 
creased  into  your  skin  from  the  out- 
side, actually  begin  underneath! 

First,  hundreds  of  little  cells,  fibres 
and  blood  vessels  underneath  begin 
to  function  poorly.  Then,  the  under 
tissues  sag.  That's  what  makes  your 
outside  skin  fall  into  creases. 

The  same  way  with  dull,  dry  skin! 
It's  little  oil  glands  underneath  that 
function  faultily — and  rob  vour  out- 
side skin  of  the  oil  it  needs  to  keep 
it  supple,  young  looking. 

But  think! — You  can  invigorate 
those  failing  under  tissues!  You  can 
start  those  faulty  oil  glands  func- 


daufihier  of  Mrs.  Henry  l^trobc  Roosevelt  of  Washing, 
ton,  D.  C,  says:  "A  trealmenl  «ilh  Pond's  Cold  Cream 
whisks  away  tired  lines — and  tones  my  skin." 

tioning  busily  again.  That's  why  you 
need  not  be  discouraged  when  lines 
and  skin  dryness  begin. 

Start  to  rouse  your  underskin  with 
Pond's  "deep-skin"  treatments.  Soon 


you'll  see  lines  smoothing  out,  skin 
getting  supple,  voung  looking  again. 
Every  night,  pat  Pond's  Cold  Cream  into 
your  skin.  Its  specially  processed  tine  oils 
go  liecp,  loosen  dirt  and  make-up.  Wipe 
It  all  otF.  Now  the  rousing  treatment — - 
more  Pond's  Cold  Cream  briskly  patted 
in.  Feel  the  blood  tingling!  Your  skin  is 
glowing  .  .  .  softer.  Feels  toned  already! 
You  are  waking  up  that  underskin. 
Every  morning,  and  during  the  day,  re- 
peat. Your  skin  is  smooth  for  powder. 

Do  this  regularly.  Soon  tissues  grow 
tirm  again.  Lines  fade  out.  Your  skin  is 
smooth — supple.  It  looks  years  younger! 

SPECIAL  9-TREATMENT  TUBE 

and  3  other  Pond's  Beauty  Aids 

I'OXD'S,  Dept.  9KS-CC,  Qinton,  Conn. 
Rush  special  tube  of  Pond's  Cold  Cream,  enouKh  for  9 
treatments,  with  Kenerous  samples  of  2  other  Pond's 
Creams  and  5  dift'erent  shades  of  Pond's  Face  Powder. 
I  enclose  lot  to  cover  postage  and  packing. 


Street. 
City_ 


Copyright.  1937.  Pond  s  Eitract  Company 

55 


RADIO  STARS 


Heavy  date.. 

..but  look  at 
her  Nose  1 


KLEENEX 
HABIT 

saves  noses 
during  colds! 

•  Nothing  more  tragic  than  a  sore  nose  dur- 
ing a  cold  — nothing  more  soothing  than  the 
Kleenex  Habit!  It  saves  noses,  saves  money 
and  reduces  handkerchief  washing.  So  put 
aside  your  handkerchiefs  and  use  Kleenex 
Tissues  the  instant  sniffles  start.  Because 
Kleenex  tends  to  retain  germs  it  checks  the 
spread  of  colds  through  the  family.  You  use 
each  tissue  once— then  destroy,  germs  and  all. 


WINNING  THE  HOLLYWOOD  HANDICAP 


{Co)ii!iiiicd  from  page  25) 


Keep  Kleenex  in  Every  Room. 
Save  Steps  — Time  — Money 

To  remove  face  creams  and  cos- 
metics ...  To  apply  powder, 
rouge  . . .  To  dust  ana  polish  . . . 
For  the  baby  .  ..And  in  the  car- 
lo wipe  hands,  windshield  and 
greasy  spots. 


No  waste!  No  mess! 
Pull  a  tissue  —  the 
next  one  pops  up 
ready  for  use! 


KLEENEX 


A  disposable 

56 


node  oF  CellucoHon  (not  eoHon) 


and  silence  buildb  tliem  into  obstacles  that 
e\entually   become  insurmountable. 

"Let's  say.  for  instance,  that  friend  hus- 
band arrives  home  an  hour  late  for  dinner. 
Perhaps  lie's  been  working  late  and  hasn't 
had  a  chance  to  phone.  He  meets  up  with 
a  suspicious  glare  from  the  little  wife. 
Then,  let's  say.  he's  tired  and  he  forgets 
to  tell  her  why  he's  late.  Her  normal, 
healthy  reaction  would  be  to  yell :  ''Well, 
wiiere  have  you  i)een,  you  lug?'  Whereupon 
lie  would  lift  his  tired  face  out  of  the 
suiip  cdurse  and  tell  all,  and  they'd  live 
happily  ever  after.  On  the  otiier  hand,  if 
the  little  woman  chose  to  continue  her 
suspicious  glare  and  say  nothing,  by  the 
time  the  next  morning  arrived  she'd  have 
figured  out  at  least  a  dozen  places  where 
her  unfaithful  spouse  might  have  spent 
that  hour.  After  a  few  of  those  occasions 
she  is  fully  convinced  that  she  is  married 
to  a  conniving  reprobate  who  maintains 
love  nests  in  every  section  of  the  city. 
Next  thing  you  know,  she  has  packed  hei 
bags  and  returned  tearfully  to  mother. 
Unless,  of  course,  mother  is  already  undei 
the  same  roof.  In  that  case,  she  takes  the 
family  with  her,  leaving  poor  hubby  won- 
dering what  happened." 

I  wondered  how  a  household  could  keep 
its  balance  when  both  of  its  members  had 
careers.  Was  there  any  resentment  when 
Al.  who  had  been  the  highest  paid  star 
of  stage  and  screen,  suddenly  saw  Ruby's 
fame  rise  till  she  was  as  well  known  as 
he  was  ? 

After  all.  when  the  Jolsons  first  came  to 
Hollywood,  Ruby  was  practically  un- 
known. She  had  danced  in  New  York 
night  clubs  and  she  had  had  small  parts 
in  some  of  the  Ziegfeld  shows,  but  her 
fame,  compared  to  Al's,  was  nothing.  He 
did  The  Jazz  Singer  and  The  Singing 
Fool,  and  made  motion  picture  history. 
It  was  the  birth  of  sound  on  the  screen, 
and  Al  Jolson  had  helped  considerably  to 
make  sound  a  success.  Those  two  pictures 
made  more  money  than  any  films  in  the 
history  of  the  screen.  And  then  came  42nd 
Street,  and  Ruljy's  dancing  feet  tapped  her 
way  right  up  the  ladder  of  stardom.  She 
was  a  sensation.  The  public  wanted  more 
of  her  and  there  were  rumors  around  that 
Al  was  attempting  to  keep  her  out  of 
pictures.  They  were  saying  he  thought 
she  should  be  content  to  bask  in  the  re- 
flected glory  of  his  success.  But  all  this 
wasn't  true. 

"Ruby's  career  is  her  own,"  he  says. 
"She's  the  star  of  her  pictures— not  Al 
Jolson — and  I  never  even  look  at  her 
scripts,  unless  she  comes  home  blue  or 
worried  about  tlicm.  When  it  comes  to 
arranging  financial  matters  with  her  studio, 
I  generally  advise  lier,  because  I've  had 
years  of  experience  in  that  sort  of  tiling. 
F.ut  ont^iile  of  that,  where  the  studio  is 
concerned,  Mrs.  Jolson  is  strictly  Ruby 
Keeler." 

Since  Ruby  is  a  dancing  girl  in  all  her 
pictures,  people  no  doubt  w^onder  if  home 
life  soinctinies  seems  a  bit  tniiiuliiini  by 
r,.iiii,aris(,n.  "Ruby  has  danced  ever  since 
she  was  a  kid,"  Al  said,  "and  home  is 


Gale  Page,  vivacious,  versatile 
brunette,  is  both  comedienne  and 
singer    on    the     NBC  netv/orks. 


swell  relaxation  for  her.  It  gives  her  a 
variety  of  interests  that  she's  always 
wanted.  That's  why  we  adopted  the  little 
fellow  whose  proud  papa  named  him  Al, 
Junior." 

There  was  a  loud  thumping  on  the 
piano  dow  nstairs  and  proud  papa  jumped  to 
his  feet.  "That  must  be  Al,  Junior,  now. 
Nobody  else  around  here  plays  that  well!" 

So  up  came  Al,  Junior,  fresh  from  a 
nap,  toddling  beside  his  mother,  who  was 
also  obviously  his  first  sweetheart.  We 
shook  hands  solemnl.v.  I  said :  "How  do 
you  do?"  and  Al,  Junior  replied:  "Goo," 
which  lueans  he  does  all  right. 

"We've  had  him  since  he  was  four 
weeks  old,"  said  Al,  "and  now  look  at 
him.  Big.  husky,  and  nineteen  months — " 

"Twenty."  said  Ruby. 

"Twenty  months  old,"  continued  the 
perfect  husband.  "Even  now  he  tries  to 
dance  like  his  mother,  and  say!  Can  he 
sing!  Right  now  he's  learning  Mammy  and 
in  another  year  he'll  be  doing  it  on  one 
knee !" 

"And  I'm  afraid."  added  Ruby,  "that 
he's  going  to  grow  up  to  be  a  radio 
comedian.  He's  just  learned  how  to  w-ork 
the  dials,  and  he  spends  all  his  spare  time 
turning  things  on  and  off." 

"/\iid  I'll  really  call  him  'Sonny  Boy'," 
kidded  Al.  "when  he  learns  to  turn  off 
Cantor !" 

So  there  you  have  the  Jolsons — Ruby, 
Al  and  .\\.  Junior — a  fine  houseful  of  nice 
people.  .'\l  hopes  you  like  his  new  program, 
Ruby  hopes  you've  enjoyed  the  moments 
she  has  contributed  to  it,  and  all  Al, 
Junior,  has  to  add  is  'Goo!" — which 
means  he  listens  to  it  every  Tuesday. 


.RS 


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SOAP  SHAMPOOS 


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rinsed  twice.  Note 
dandruff  and  curd  de- 
posit left  by  soap  to 
mar  natural  lustsr  of 
the  ho.r. 


2.  Microphoto  after 
Fitch  Shampoo  and 
hair  rmsed  twice 
Note  Fitch  Shampoo 
removes  all  dandruff 
and  undissolved  de- 
posit, and  brings  out 
the  nolural  luster  of 


Soap 
Shampoo 


the  ho 


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RADIO  STARS 


WONT 
SOMEBODY 
TELL  MY 
MOMMY 


i 


I  need  a  daily 
MENNEN  OILRUB 
to  keep  me 
safe  from  germs 

"Is  it  fair— I  ask  you — to  let  me  fight  all 
alone  'gainst  those  germs  that  are  always 
landin'  on  my  skin?  Gosh.  .  .the  way  folks 
sterilize  my  dishes  and  bottles  you'd  think 
my  insides  were  more  exposed  to  germs 
than  my  outsides.  But,  believe  me,  my 
outsides  need  protection  too.  That's  why 
—  over  at  the  hospital  where  I  was  born — 
they  gave  me  a  rub  every  day  with  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Oil.  I  heard  'em  say  that  I 
ought  to  have  a  body  rub  like  that  for 
years.  But  I  guess  my  Mommy  has  forgot. 
So  won't  somebody  tell  her,  please,  to  keep 
my  skin  safe  from  germs — with  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Oil?" 

Nine-tenths  of  all  the  hospitals  important  in 
maternity  work  use  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil 
on  their  babies  every  day.  Your  baby  de- 
serves it,  too! 

OIL 


Most  hospitals  rub  their 
babies  with  it  daily 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOQ 


{Continued  jroni  page  11) 


couldn't  resist  nientiuning,  right  of?,  when 
I  started  talking  about  particularly  ja- 
tivc  food. 

Of  course,  I  always  give  you  one  or 
two  recipes  here,  too,  just  to  keep  you 
going  until  the  leaflet  reaches  you!  This 
month  is  no  exception,  for  I'm  including 
several  recipes  further  along  in  this  ar- 
ticle. 

One  is  for  Pineapple  liiUj-Nog — a  non- 
alcoholic drink  that  will  go  over  as  big 
with  the  young  folks  as  it  does  with  the 
older  crowd.  Then  I'm  also  giving  you 
some  general  sandwich-making  directions, 
for  I  like  nothing  better  than  a  huge  plat- 
ter of  all  sorts  of  sandwiches  to  have  on 
hand  when  I'm  expecting  company. 

I  also  asked  Radio  Stars'  Hostess, 
Xancy  Wood,  to  find  a  copy  of  that  Fruit 
Salad  recipe  of  mine  that  I  once  gave  her, 
so  that  I  could  have  it  reprinted.  This 
salad  deserves  to  play  a  return  engage- 
ment for  the  benefit  of  those  who  missed 
it  the  first  time,  because  I'm  sure  it's  about 
the  nicest  "party  salad"  you  could  wish 
to  serve.  And  one  of  the  easiest  to  make, 
in  the  bargain !  Mold  it  in  a  ring  mold 
for  a  bufTet  supper,  in  heart,  diamond, 
club  and  spade  molds  for  bridge  parties 
.  .  .  in  any  and  every  form  imaginable,  it's 
sure  to  be  popular. 

But  let's  get  on  with  our  parties,  shall 
we?  Since  we  really  ought  to  take  them 
up  in  the  order  in  which  they  come  on 
the  calendar,  we'll  ■>tart  off  with  Lincoln's 
Birthday.  This  lii>li(la\-  does  not  suggest, 
offhand,  as  many  cute  decorations  nor  as 
definite  a  color  scheme  as  do  the  otliers, 
so  I  advise  refreshments  of  a  general 
nature.  And  what  eould  be  more  gen- 
erally popular  than  sandwiches,  I'd  like  to 
know !  Certainly  those  I  fix  up,  when 
I'm  entertaining  for  my  friends  who  come 
up  from  home  to  visit  me,  seem  to  make  a 
big  hit,  always. 

Right  at  the  >tart  let  me  tell  you  some- 
thing mighty  inii>i irtaiit  about  sandwiches. 
They  take  time  and  thought;  they  demand 
infinite  care  and  the  greatest  patience,  if 
you  expect  them  to  stand  out  from  the 
nr<Iinary  sort  that  careless  hostesses  some- 
times scrxc.  O'l,  yes,  you  can  take  a  loaf 
of  sIikmI  liitad,  -lam  on  some  too  hard 
Initter  and  s(,nic  tasteless  filling,  top  each 
I)iece  of  bread  with  a  second  one,  leave  on 
the  crusts  and  still  call  them  "sand- 
wdclies."  all  ri.^lit.  But  they  couldn't  be 
served  in  ni\'  lionsc,  I  assure  you!  No,  I 
want  the  fillings  to  be  pretty  sjiecial,  the 
Ijread  to  be  home-sliced,  the  crusts  to  be 
removed  and  the  linished  product  to  be  as 
pretty  to  look  at  as  it  is  good  to  eat! 

Personally,  I  favor  open-faced  sand- 
wiches for  party  purposes,  because  they 
can  be  so  attractively  cut  and  garnished. 
When  I  start  making  up  a  liatch,  I  first 
prepare  my  fillings  an<l  garnishes,  then 
soften  my  butter  and  cut  my  bread.  After 
the  bread  has  been  sliced,  I  cut  it  into 
fancy  shapes  with  regular  cooky-cutters, 
spread  each  with  butter  and  line  them  up 
like  soldiers  on  parade.  Then,  with  butter- 
spreaders,  pastry  tube,  egg-slicer,  garnish- 
cutters  (which  are  just  like  cooky-cutters, 


only  much,  much  smaller)   and  the 
I  set  to  work.    Here  are  some  of  my 
ideas  : 

First  I  slice  hard  cooked  eggs,  put 
the  rings  of  white  aside  carefully,  so 
they  do  not  break,  and  putting  the  y 
through  a  ricer.    The  rings  are  then  n 
for  a  number  of  uses.     Sometimes  I 
them  on  rounds  of  bread  and  fill  the 
ters   with  caviar    (of  which   I  am  ' 
fond).    The  caviar  is  then  sprinkled 
the  riced  yolks  or  with  very,  very  h 
minced  onions.    Sometimes  I  fill  the 
ters  with  chopped  pimiento ;  or  with 
de  foie  gras  or  the  less  expensive  domi 
substitute  that  you  can  now  buy  in  c 
I'm  also  very   fond  of  chopped  chi( 
livers    as    a    sandwich    spread,  sprin 
with  the  riced  yolks  or  topped  with  tl 
sliced,  peeled  tomatoes.    Calves  liver 
be  used,  too,  if  you  make  sure  that 
chopped  fine  enough. 

Another  grand  sandwich  spread  is  r 
by  combining  salmon,  celery  and  pai 
...  all  of  them  minced  fine,  mind 
seasoned  with  celery  salt  and  moists 
with  mayonnaise.  Particularly  good  v 
spread  on  whole  wheat  bread. 

I  like  salads  served  with  sandwiches 
a  "sit  down"  type  of  supper.  My  / 
Salad,  if  the  guests  are  women,  or  a  r 
substantial  salad  such  as  Potato  Sola, 
there  are  men  present.  A  tray  of 
cuts  always  seems  to  make  a  hit  au' 
course  a  tray — preferably  a  wooden  o 
of  assorted  cheeses  .  .  .  Liederkr 
Roquefort,  Cainembert,  Edam  and  the 
Speaking  of  cheese,  there  is  nothing  n 
in  my  opinion,  than  toasted  cheese 
bacon  sandwiches.  I  make  'em  up  i 
on  the  spot  in  my  electric  sandwich  toj 
and  you  just  ought  to  see  that  line  1 
for  "seconds."  .\nd,  still  speaking 
cheese,  I  often  combine  cream  cheese 
Roquefort.  Moisten  them  both  to  a  sm 
paste  with  cream  or  mayonnaise,  i 
this  combination  in  a  pastry  tube 
kind  you  use  for  decorating  cakes) 
garnish  the  finished  sandwiches  with  c 
cues  of  cheese.  Try  it  sometime,  it  do 
take  a  minuie  really — and  boy,  doesn 
look  great ! 

Included  among  your  party  refreshn 
should  be,  in  my  opinion,  such  thing 
potato  cliii)s  and  assorted  relishes.  A 
vegetable  plate  also  goes  over  with  a  1 
— especially  with  the  men  folk.  On 
you  would  have  slices  of  green  pei 
thinly  sliced  (and  very  crisp)  raw  car 
celery  hearts  and  stuffed  celery  as  ■ 
sliced  Bermuda  onions  and  even  flowi 
of  raw  cauliflower,  which  I  first  ta 
when  I  was  out  in  California  makir 
picture.  Out  there  they  serve  these 
portions  of  young  cauliflower  libei 
dusted  with  celerv  salt  and  they're  g 
really. 

I  also  like  what  are  called  "cocktail 
freshnients,"  those  single  bites  of  sc 
thing  tasty,  impaled  on  bright  wo( 
cocktail  "picks,"  which  are  then  stuck 
special  lu'lders  (mine  is  a  little  Mex 
with  holes  for  the  picks  in  his  sombr 
or  in  an  orange  or  apple,  if  you  prefei 


RADIO  STARS 


MY  HUSBAND 
LOVES  A  SPAGHETTI  i 
MEAL.  WE  HAVE  < 
ONE  OFTEN/  ) 


SHE  S  A  GREAT 
LITTLE  MANAGER- 
SERVES  GOOD  FOOD 
AND  SAVES  MONEY/ 


A  SATISFYING  DELICIOUS  MAIN  DISH 


I'on't  hat'e  room  to  give  you  many  ideas 
long  these  lines,  but  Td  like  to  mention 
ly  favorites :  Tiny,  browned  pork  sau- 
ages ;  cream  cheese  balls  with  minced 
hives,  parsley  or  nuts  mixed  into  them ; 
nd,  best  of  all,  perhaps,  new  tiny  pota- 
3es,  which  have  been  boiled,  drained  and 

_  hen  dropped  for  a  minute  into  deep  hot 
at,  which  gives  them  a  golden  brown  coat- 

;  ng  and  makes   them   taste   like  French 

ij  ried  potatoes — only  better!  If  you  can't 
tuy  small  enough  potatoes  (they  shouldn't 

jj  le  much  larger  than  marbles!),  use  a  ball 

>)   egetable  cutter. 

-. ;    But,  gracious  I   I  haven't  said  a  word 
n  ibout  sweets,  have  I?    Well,  I'll  have  to 
1  eniedy  that  at  once,  by  mentioning  the 
c  Zocoa  Cream  Roll  that  appears  in  the 
eaflet.    It's  an  easily  made,  light  textured 
i  -ponge  cake,  actually,  flavored  with  cocoa 
fi  ind  rolled  with  a  whipped  cream  filling, 
f  7or  a  Washington's  Birthday  party  you 
ti  ran  call  it  the  trunk  of  George's  famous 
:herry  tree,  garnish  it  with  candied  cher- 
•ies  to  carry  out  the  idea  further,  and 
stick  a  paper  hatchet  into  it  to  make  it 
la  .-ompletely  correct   for  the  occasion  you 
li  ire  celebrating  I 

r      Also  timely  for  this  festivity  is  a  IVash- 
nc/toii    Pound    Cahc,    in    which  candied 
rherries  again  are  featured,  as  well  as  the 
I  more  familiar  raisin-.     It  yoii  frost  tliis 
ir  :ake  with  a  plain  ccntcctioncr'-  icing  an<l 
make  a  decoration  on  the  tup  w  ith  cniulicd 
It  cherries  and  citron  slices  for  leaves,  you'll 
w  certainly    have    everybody    praising  your 
cleverness  and  your  cooking  ability  I 

For  St.  \"alentine's  and  St.  Patrick's 
Da\s,  there  are  so  many  grand  ideas  that 
I  can  only  hope  to  skim  off  some  of  the 
cream  of  the  crop.  Of  course,  for  the 
first,  a  red  and  white  color  scheme  must 
predominate,  and  for  the  latter,  a  green 
and  white  one.  You  can  choose  foods 
that  carry  out  this  idea  and  you  can  also 
use  harmless  vegetable  colors  to  gain  the 
desired  effect.  The  Party  Cheese  Loaf 
that  I  mentioned  before — and  for  which 
there  is  a  recipe  in  the  leaflet — lends  it- 
self admirably  to  these  two  occasions. 
Because,  you  see,  the  loaf  is  spread  all 
3ver  with  cream  cheese,  which  can  be 
garnished  with  pimiento  strips  or  sprink- 
led with  paprika  for  the  red  idea;  or  it  | 
can  be  mixed  with  watercress  or  sprinkled  { 
with  parsley  or  peppers  for  "the  wearing 
of  the  Green." 

Cookies  suggest  themselves  as  the  ideal 
sweet  for  these  occasions,  principally  be- 
cause they  can  be  cut  and  colored  to  con- 
form to  the  general  idea.  Heart-shaped 
cookies,  of  course,  for  the  day  dedicated 
to  lovers — and  shamrocks  for  that  of  Ire- 
land's patron  saint.  Another  reason  for 
my  suggesting  cookies  is  that  I  have  a 
splendid  recipe  I  want  you  to  have  .  .  .  one 
you'll  want  to  have,  too,  I  know.  With 
these  I  like  to  serve  ice-cream  and  so  I 
suggest  cherry  ice-cream  or  strawberry, 
when  it's  pink  you're  wanting,  and  mint 
ice-cream  when  it's  green!  I'm  not  giving 
you  the  ice-cream  recipes,  however,  be- 
cause I  don't  know  whether  most  of  you 
use  a  freezer  or  your  automatic  refriger- 
ator, and  I'm  pretty  sure  that  a  lot  of  you 
prefer  to  buy  it,  anyway  .  .  .  especially 
now  that  so  many  manufacturers  off'er 
fancy  molds  and  designs  for  special  occa- 
sions. But  I  have  given  you  all  the  other 
recipes  in  this  month's  leaflet,  the  Cocoa 
Roll  (you  notice  I  akmys  seem  to  men- 
(Coittiiiucd  on  page  75) 


JUST  try  the  two  menus  suggested  at 
the  right  and  see  how  your  family 
will  relish  them.  They  might  not  get 
excited  over  ordinary  ready -cooked 
spaghetti.  But  they  m  /'//  over  Franco - 
American.  They'll  rave  about  its  tangy, 
tempting  cheese-and-tomato  sauce 
made  with  eleven  different  ingredients 
.  .  .  seasoned  to  savory  perfection. 

Franco- American  has  been  called  a 
"millionaire's  dish."  Yet  a  can  holding 
three  to  four  portions  is  usually  no  more 
than  ten  cents  — less  than  it  costs  to 


prepare  spaghetti  at  home!  Get  Franco- 
American  from  your  grocer  today.  Try 
these  delicious  spaghetti  meals: 

SERVES  3-COSTS  45  CENTS 

Franco- American  Spaghetti 
Brussels  Sprouts  Buttered  Squash 

Hearts  of  Lettuce  Salad 
Brown  Betty  with  Lemon  Sauce 
Tea 


SERVES  3-COSTS  55  CENTS 

Spaghetti  Meat  Scallop 
(Casserole  dish  combining  Franco-American 
with       cups  of  any  leftover  meat,  ground) 

Buttered  Beets  Coleslaw  ^  

Fruit  Cup         Sugar  Cookie;  ^■i^^k'^^ 

Cortce  ^^HI^^C!>^ 


Fronco-flmericon 

SPAGHETTI 


THE    KIND    WITH  THE 


GOOD  SAUCE 


MADE  BY  THE  MAKERS  OF  CAMPBELL'S  SOUPS 


1  AIN'T  NO  LESLIE 

And  Champion  Jim  Braddock  isn't 
trying  to  fool  anybody,  either! 


BY    TOM  MEANY 


This  is  the 

NEW  FACE  CREAM 


Oiccunv 

Gives  you 

5  Facial  Aids  in  One 

"It  excels  any  cream  I  ever  used 
for  cleansing." — Grace  Houghland. 

"I've  been  using  a  more  expensive 
cream.  Its  freshness  and  smooth- 
ness make  my  skin  feel  nev/." — 
Blanche  Short. 

"As  a  massage  cream  it  is  cooling 
and  restful  to  anyone's  skin." — 
Miss  'W.  V. 

"Used  at  night,  my  skin  feels  nice 
and  'cared  for'  and  delightfully 
fresh  the  morning  after." — Miss 
G.  S. 

"Since  I  started  using  Armand 
Blended  Cream  every  day  some- 
one asks  me  v/hat  I  have  done  to 
my  complexion.  I  am  highly 
pleased."— Mrs.  C.  C.  Cash. 

Wouldn't  you,  too,  like  to  try  Armand 
Blended  Cream?  You  can  —  at  no 
cost.  Just  ask  for  a  free  sample  at 
the  toilet  goods  counter  in  the  store 
where  you  bought  this  magazine.  If 
their  supply  is  gone,  mail  a  postal 
to  Armand,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  giving 
your  dealer's  name,  and  a  sample 
will  be  sent  you.  Or  buy  a  jar  of 
Armand  Blended  Cream  and  if  one 
day's  trial  doesn't  give  your  skin  a 
new  look  and  feel,  your  money  will 
be  cheerfully  refunded.  Trial  sizes 
at  10c  and  20c — larger,  more  eco- 
nomical jars  at  50c  and  $1.00. 


As  one  fighter  to  another, 
Braddock   visits   Joe  Louis. 


Jimmy  and  Schmeling  dis- 
cuss their  coming  match. 


The  World's  Champion  as  he 
looks  when  ready  for  work. 


AFTER  pugilism's  Cinderella-man, 
Jame.s  J.  Braddock,  rai.sed  himself 
from  the  rehef  rolls  to  tlie  heavy- 
weight championship  of  tlie  world 
— much  to  the  amazement  of  the  de- 
throned title-holder,  Max  Adlebert 
Baer,  and  the  assembled  experts — 
it  was  no  surprise  that  he  sliould 
find  a  microphone  thrust  in  front  of 
his  undeniably  Cehic  features.  For 
radio,  like  the  Northwest  ^Mounted 
of  snn^  and  fiction,  always  gets  its 
celebrity. 

A  decade  ago,  it  was  Grove r 
Whalen's  welcoming  committee 
which  used  to  catch  all  the  ce- 
lebrities, parade  them  through  the 
canyons  of  lower  Broadway  and 
present  them,  amid  pomp  and  cere- 
mony, to  dapper  Jimmy  Walker  at 
the  steps  of  New  York's  Citv  Hall. 
Now  it's  the  radio  which  gets  them 
— and  at  a  more  munificent  reward 
than  the  illuminated  scrolls  with 
which  New  York's  distinguished 
visitors  were  honored. 

Probably  you've  heard  Jimmy 
Ih-addock  on  the  Tastycast  hour. 
His  delivery  still  is  crude,  but  there 
is  no  longer  a  tense  grimness  about 
it.  In  the  early  days  of  his  reign  as 
champion,  Jimmy  treated  the  mike 
with  as  much  respect  as  if  it  were 
a  combination  of  all  the  great  fight- 
ers who  ever  Ii\ed.  For  the  first 
time  in  his  life,  iJraddock  was 
.scared.  Al  Jolson  and  Kate  Smith 
will  testify  to  that,  when  Jim  ap- 
peared as  guest  performer  on  their 
programs. 

On  the  air  now.  Braddock  is 
merely  Braddock,  ex-longshoreman, 
ex-bartender,  ex-Rclicf  Case  A'o. 
27^^6  and  current  heavyweight  cham- 
]iion  of  the  world.  His  diction  is 
not  what  it  might  be,  liis  voice  is 
hoarse  and  husky,  but  he  doesn't 
stumble  over  his  sentences  any 
longer. 

Jimmy  is  well  pleased  with  hi> 
present  role  as  a  radio  performer, 
pleased      {Continued  on  page  ) 


RADIO  STARS 


KEEPS  COMPLEXIONS  LOVELY,  TOOl 

Cashmere  BoiKpiet'-  latln-r  i-  so  j 
and  earessing.  >«-t  il  goes  right  dowi 
into  each  pore  and  removes  every 
of  dirt  and  cosnielies  .  .  .  makes  your 
skin  radiantly  clear,  alluringly  smooth. 
No  wonder  fasti<lious  women  ever\- 
where  now  use  nothing  l)Ut  this  pure, 
creamy-white  soap  for  hoth  the  face  and 
bath.  Why  don't  you  use  it  loo? 


A  prize  pug  with  a  real 
radio    personality    is  Jim. 


THE     ARISTOCRAT     OF  ALL 


ONLY  lOt  at  all  drug, 
depaiimenl,  and  len-cent  stores 

FINE  SOAPS 


(1 


RADIO  STARS 


HE  CERTAINLY  STARTED  SOMETHING 


{Continued  from  page  50) 


says 

MAGGY  ROUFF 

Famous  Fashion  Designer  of  Paris 

"The  lovely  jeunes  filles  who  model  my 
fashion  creations  are  slim,  fresh,  erect. 
Their  complexions  have  the  glorious  tint 
of  the  rose  petal,  and  one  reason  is  their 
use  of  Woodbury's  powder. 

"Very  glamorous,  very  chic  are  the 
shades  of  this  famous  powder  which  you 
American  women  know  so  well.  Yet  it  is 
not  alone  for  Woodbury's  beauty  that  I  ad- 
vise my  mannequins  to  use  it.  A  disaster 
tliese  girls  must  avoid  is  a  disfiguring 
blemish.  And  Woodbury's  powder  is  free 
of  the  germs  that  cause  skin  infections*. 
Naturally,  no  blemish-germs  can  come  to 
the  face  from  this  germ-free  powder." 

Woodbury'^  Facial  Powder  comes  in  six 
enr  liaiii  iim  ^kin-tone  shades,  for  every 
type  .,f  <  ..ini)lexion.  $1.00,  50<',  25c,  10«!. 

•Teated  with  19  other  leading  brands, 
Wo«>dhijry*ii  Facial  Powder,  alone,  was 
Kerm-frf-<f   hfilh   hefore  and  after  UBe. 


You  will  always  stop  to  listen  if  the  girl 
in  the  red  hat  starts  to  tell  why  she  left 
home,  or  if  the  gentleman  next  to  you  be- 
gins to  explain  why  he  will  never  marry 
a  brunette. 

It  was  because  he  believed  everyone  is 
interested  in  everybody  else  that  Belcher 
was  sure  of  his  program. 

If  you  think  Jerry  wasn't  right,  just 
scan  the  list  of  today's  broadcasts  in  this 
morning's  paper  and  mark  the  programs 
that  are  offshoots  of  Belcher's  original 
Vox  Pop  idea. 

Most  talked-of  among  tlic^c  offshoots 
for  a  period  was  The  Good  Will  Court. 
To  it  each  Sunday  came  the  deserted  wife, 
the  broken  husband,  the  wage-earner  whose 
small  salary  was  garnisheed — a  troupe  of 
unfortunates  embroiled  in  difficulties  and 
looking  for  a  legal  way  out.  There  was 
the  woman  whose  husband  and  children 
mistreated  her.  She  cried  as  she  talked. 
\\'hat  should  she  dor  A  man  confessed  an 
untruth  which  had  involved  him  in  diffi- 
culties; how  could  he  disentangle  himself? 
For  an  hour,  unhappy  people  took  turns 
over  a  national  hfiok-up,  pouring  out  their 
sad  stories.  Lawyers  (juestioned ;  judges 
advised;  and  the  nation  listened. 

On  another  station,  and  at  another  hour, 
similar  heartaches  are  revealed  and  treated 
l)y  The  J'ainily  Counselor.  A  girl  threat- 
ens suicide.  Her  fiance  has  deserted  her. 
Her  family  is  angry  about  it.  Her  suicide 
threat  is  not  an  idle  one.  Is  there  a  way 
out  ?  The  Counselor  booms  fiut  advice — 
and  another  life  is  saved,  i)crhaiis. 

But  whether  a  life  is  sii\\<]  or  not,  there 
are  millions  of  Americans  pressed  close 
to  their  radios,  eager  to  hear  these  con- 
fessions, to  listen  to  the  halting  stories, 
the  unrehearsed  speeches  of  everyday  peo- 
ple who  are  willing  to  reveal  themselves. 

Of  the  same  cloth  is  the  Personal  Col- 
umn of  the  Air.  Like  Belcher's  Vox  Pop, 
it,  too,  was  torn  from  the  pages  of  the 
daily  paper.  Primarily  concerned  with 
missing  persons,  it  exposes  the  heart- 
throbs of  parents  who  have  been  separated 
from  their  children,  husbands  who,  through 
strange  circumstances,  have  lost  track  of 
their  wives,  brothers  searching  for  sisters, 
people  adopted  in  childhood,  trying  to  find 
their  real  parents.  Dramatic  pleas,  most 
of  them ;  rich  in  tragedy. 

Lighter  than  all  these,  but  similar  be- 
cause it  also  tells  personal  stories,  is  the 
program,  Husbands  and  ll'iTcs.  This  is 
patterned  very  closely  after  Mr.  Belcher's 
original  program,  only  it  restricts  its  quer- 
ies to  problems  of  marital  interest  and  its 
speakers  to  husbands  and  wives.  "Should 
the  husband  arise  on  winter  mornings  to 
close  the  windows,  or  is  this  the  wife's 
your  home,  who  punishes  the 
"Is  it  all  right  for  a  husband 
friend  home  to  (liiinir  without 
vifc  he  forehand  ?"  These  ;ire 
I  (|ii<  stions  put  to  vociferous 
iiuL  and  their  talkative  spouses.  The 
ers  are  hotly  contested,  with  boos  and 
s  and  spontaneous  applause  from  the 
■nee. 

Similar,  too,  are  the  down-through-the 


job?" 
childr 
to  br 
tellint 
the  t 
husha 


audience  interviews  in  Mr.  Rodeheaver's 
"sing"  programs.  The  microphone  pushes 
through  the  crowd,  between  songs.  "Where 
are  the  Hebrides?  What  is  a  zither?" 
Questions  asked,  answers  given. 

Perhaps  none  of  these  programs  has 
copied  Belcher's  original  idea  as  closely 
as  the  amusing  and  successful  Professor 
Quiz  hour.  The  Professor  calls  people 
from  the  audience  to  enter  a  question-and- 
answer  contest.  At  the  end  of  the  half- 
hour  program,  the  person  who  has  given 
the  greatest  number  of  correct  answers 
wins  a  prize  of  twenty-five  silver  dollars. 
Even  the  questions  the  Professor  asks 
have  a  striking  similarity  to  those  that 
Belcher  used  on  the  street,  and  they  are 
asked  with  the  same  rapid-fire  intensity 
and  brightness.  "If  a  gondolier  is  a  man 
who  runs  a  gondola,  what  is  a  bandolier? 
What  is  the  difference  between  twiddle  and 
twaddle?  What  is  the  difference  between 
a  monocle  and  a  manacle?  Who  wrote 
Gray's  Elegy.'"   And  so  on. 

Now  all  these  outgrowths  of  Belcher's 
program  have  merit  and  interest.  Yet 
Belcher's  original  idea,  the  Vox  Pop,  was 
better  than  any  of  its  offshoots  in  many 
ways.  It  had  a  better  balance  of  pathos 
and  gaiety,  of  seriousness  and  humor.  The 
Good  Will  Court  was  necessarily  limited 
to  depressing  stories — human  problems  that 
demanded  serious  solutions.  It  had  been 
handicapped,  too,  by  necessary  censorships, 
and  its  existence  threatened  by  the  Bar. 
In  it  there  was  little  room  for  humor,  for 
lightness.  The  same  is  true  of  the  Per- 
sonal Column  iif  the  .lir.  The  program, 
Husbands  and  Wives,  finds  itself  restricted 
to  homey  discussions  that  often  are  very 
amusing  but  have  little  appeal  except  to 
married  people.  Furthermore,  many  peo- 
ple feel  that  the  home  stuff  can  be  done 
more  effectively  in  a  planned,  professional 
program.  That,  for  instance,  no  married 
lady  picked  at  random  can  be  as  funny 
as  Jane  Ace.  Even  Vox  Pop's  carbon 
copy,  Professor  Quiz,  lacks  much  of  the 
spontaneity  and  surprise  that  made  the 
original  program  delightful. 

It  remained,  therefore,  for  Mr.  Belcher 
to  improve  on  his  own  idea.  And  he  has 
done  it  with  his  Sunday  afternoon  Our 
Neighbor  program — for  which  new  and 
exciting  adventure,  he  deserted,  a  few 
months  ago,  his  first  brain  child. 

The  idea  for  the  Our  Neighbor  program 
hit  Belcher,  like  a  bolt  from  the  blue,  one 
Sunday  when  he  was  sitting  in  his  own 
living-room,  chatting  with  his  mother  and 
a  friend  of  hers.  He  went  right  to  his 
typewriter,  blocked  out  his  plan,  had  the 
two  ladies  sign  their  names  as  witnesses 
to  the  idea,  and  the  next  morning  had  it 
notarized.  For  two  years  the  typed  pages 
rested  in  a  safe-deposit  vault  and  Jerry 
dreamed  about  it. 

A  few  months  ago,  believing  that  the 
future  of  the  human  interest  program  did 
not  lie  in  street  broadcasts,  Belclier  re- 
fused a  renewal  of  his  Vox  Pop  contract 
and  went  to  work  on  Our  Neighbor.  {Vox 
Pop,  renamed  Sideivalk  Intennews,  is 
still   being  put   on   by    Belcher's  former 


*WOODBURY'S* 

FACIAL  POWDER 

it  GERM-FREE  ★ 


RADIO 


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partner,  Parks  Johnson.) 

In  his  new  program,  Jerry  takes  his 
microphone  each  Sunday  afternoon  into 
the  home  of  a  typical  American  family. 
Informally,  for  half  an  hour,  he  chats 
with  the  members  of  the  family  and 
friends  who  might  drop  in. 

When  he  asks  the  lady  of  the  house, 
mother  of  four  children,  what  is  the  big- 
gest problem  in  raising  a  family,  all  par- 
ents listen.  And  when  he  follows  that 
question  with :  "Do  you  think  a  one-armed 
man  could  handily  eat  a  broiled  lobster?" 
the  tension  of  seriousness  is  quickly  re- 
lieved. 

He  questions  the  eighteen-year-old 
daughter  about  romance,  what  she  thinks 
of  marriage.  Then  asks:  "If  you  could 
have  a  pair  of  angel  wings,  with  the  pro- 
vision that  you  must  wear  them  all  the 
time,  would  you  take  them?  And  when 
she  answers  emphatically :  "No,  sir !  I 
don't  want  to  be  an  angel !"  the  listeners 
are  amused. 

He  offers  to  wager  the  boy  of  the  house 
that  it  won't  rain  for  sixty  days.  The  boy 
accepts  the  wager,  and  Jerry  asks :  "Have 
you  ever  seen  it  rain  fur  sixty  days?" 

He  asks  tlie  Noungc^t  girl  rapid-fire 
questions  aijout  books  and  autiiors.  "Who 
wrote  Quo  Vadis':  H'lirii  k'tii;/htliond  t>.'as 
in  Floivcr?  What  was  .Mark  Twain's  real 
name?  George  Kliot's?  Uncle  Remus'?" 
And  when  the  youngster  answers  with 
amazing  speed,  it  becomes  a  game  everv 
listener  joins  in. 

Even  Mr.  Belcher,  handling  the  pro- 
gram, isn't  sure  what  is  coming  next.  He 
was  as  surprised  and  impressed  as  his 
listeners  when,  some  weeks  ago,  he  asked 
a  five-year-old  child  if  she  said  her  pray- 


Oscar  Shaw,  singing  master  of 
ceremonies  of  the  CBS  Broadway 
Varieties,   and   stage  favorite. 

ers  at  night,  and,  after  a  moment's  silence, 
the  baby  voice,  clear  and  sweet,  repeated 
"The  Lord's  Prayer,"  ending  the  program 
with  the  final  "A men." 

Yet  Belcher  cleverly  controls  the  pro- 
gram. While  it  retains  all  the  charm  of 
spontaneity,  he  guides  its  progress  to  make 
it  appeal  to  all  ages,  all  classes.  The 
broadcast  achieves  a  nice  balance  of  seri- 
ousness and  fun,  a  tear  following  a  laugh. 

Belcher  is  careful  to  choose,  too.  differ- 
ent types  of  families  different  weeks,  thus 
widening  the  program's  appeal.  One  Sun- 
day you  visit  the  home  of  a  preacher;  the 
next  you  are  taken  to  an  aristocratic 
household  on  Gramercy  Park ;  another 
week  the  neighbor  is  a  family  of  foreign 


birth,  hardworking  people  with  fascinating 
stories. 

Another  type  of  man  might  have  ti 
getting  families  to  admit  him.  Bui  n  i 
Jerry  Belcher.  Though  most  of  the  fami- 
lies who  invite  him  to  their  homes  have 
never  seen  the  tall,  red-headed  fellow, 
tliiy'vc  nut  him  many  times  over  the  air. 
riu\-  kii.iw  that  iiis  wit  is  always  kind, 
that  he  always  gives  his  interviewee  the 
advantage. 

He  makes  a  point  of  getting  to  the 
home  about  an  hour  and  a  half  before  the 
broadcast,  just  to  get  acquainted.  Re- 
cently he  arrived  at  one  home  and  found 
that  the  yOung  son  of  the  family  was 
epileptic.  It  is  characteristic  of  Jerry 
Ik'lcher  that,  rather  than  risk  hurting  the 
mother's  feelings,  he  included  the  unfor- 
tunate child  in  his  around-the-mike  con- 
versations. So  cleverly  did  he  question 
the  boy,  so  adroitly  put  the  child  at  ease, 
not  a  single  listener  was  aware  of  the 
youngster's  condition.  And  the  family's 
appreciation  was  boundless. 

Belcher  chooses  the  families  he  visits 
from  the  stacks  of  written  invitations  he 
receives  each  week.  Up  to  now,  he  has 
visited  only  homes  in  and  around  Xew 
York.  But  in  the  near  future,  he  plans 
to  take  the  microphone  into  all  parts  of 
the  country  and  every  state  in  the  Union. 

It's  hard  to  tell  what  the  ott-shtjots  of 
Mr.  Belcher's  newest  idea  will  be.  Where 
will   the  microphone  venture  next? 

One  thing  is  certain;  if  someone  pushes 
a  mike  in  front  of  \ou  and  asks  you  a 
question — blame  Mr.  Ijelcher  !  It  was  his 
original,  ridiculed  idea  of  stopping  the 
man  on  the  street  that  started  this  ava- 
lanche of  personal  programs. 


BROWN,  DO  YOU  KNOW  THAT  MOST 
BAD  BREATH  COMES  FROM  DECAYING 
FOOD  DEPOSITS  IN  HIDDEN  CREVICES 
BETWEEN  IMPROPERLY  CLEANED 
TEETH?  THAT'S  WHY  I  ADVISE 
COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM.  ITS 
SPECIAL  PENETRATING  FOAM  REMOVES 
THESE  ODOR-BREEDING  DEPOSITS 


MOST  BAD  BREATH   BEGINS  WITH  THE  TEETH! 


Tests  prove  that  76%  of  all  peo- 
ple over  the  age  of  1 7  have  bad 
breath !  And  the  same  tests  prove 
that  most  bad  breath  comes 
from  improperly  cleaned  teeth. 
Colgate  Dental  Cream,  because 
of  its  special  penetrating  foam, 
removes  the  cause — the  decay- 


ing food  deposits  in  hidden 
crevices  between  teeth  which 
are  the  source  of  most  bad 
breath,  dull,  dingy  teeth,  and 
much  tooth  decay.  At  the  same 
time,  Colgate's  soft,  safe  polish- 
ing agent  cleans  and  brightens 
enamel— makes  teeth  sparkle! 


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CHILDREN  MAKE  A  DIFFERENCE 


{Continued  from  page  33) 


^  Her  mother  taught  her 
this  sensible  rule ...  i 


Years  ago  her  mother  taught 
her  the  importance  of  regu- 
lar habits  of  elimination. 

Ever  since  she  can  remem- 
ber, there  has  been  a  box  of 
Olive  Tablets  on  the  bath- 
room shelf  just  as  a  reminder 
not  to  let  more  than  one  day 
go  by  without  doing  some- 
thing to  assist  Nature. 

Originally  the  formula  of 
Dr.  Edwards,  an  Ohio  phy- 
sician, Olive  Tablets  are  now 
widely  recognized  as  a  stand- 
ard proprietary. 

Mild  and  gentle  in  their 
action,  one  little  pellet  is 
usually  all  you  need  to  take 
to  get  desired  results.  Thou- 
sands of  women  have  made 
Olive  Tablets  their  favorite 
laxative.  Three  sizes:  15<^, 
30j?,  60!?'.  All  druggists. 


separable  as  the  two  people  themselves. 
You  can't  think  of  one  without  thinking  of 
the  other.  You  can't  think  of  a  George 
Burns  program  or  a  Gracie  Allen  program 
— it  is  George  and  Gracie,  now  and  for- 
ever ! 

Those  are  big  words  in  the  theatre,  in 
H(  illy  wood.  Marriage  is  the  least  perma- 
nent adventm-e  in  this  land  of  make-believe, 
of  excitement  and  glamour  and  change. 
Just  because  George  and  Gracie  have 
worked  tugether  a  long  time,  are  a  w'ell- 
wn  team  in  the  theatre,  in  the  movies, 
in  radio,  does  not  tnean  that  they  must 
continue  together  always.  \\\\\  shouldn't 
(iracie  make  a  picture?  \\'hy  shouldn't 
George  do  something  on  his  own:  No  rea- 
snn.  of  course — except  George  and  Gracie! 
They  kjok  at  each  other  and  their  eyes 
shine  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for  them 
to  put  it  in  words,  to  know  that  George 
and  Gracie  are  bound  together  by  more 
than  business,  more  than  a  comedy  act 
that  has  been  built  up  around  their  per- 
sonalities. To  know  that  they  are  as  com- 
pletely dependent  upon  each  other  in  their 
home,  their  private  lives,  as  they  have  ever 
seemed  to  be  on  stage  or  screen  or 
radio  .  .  . 

It  had  its  beginning  in  the  days  when 
George  was  a  hoofer,  and  a  tiny  black- 
haired  Irish  girl  came  backstage  ime  day 
to  meet  him.  She  had  had  some  stage 
e-xperience  and  it  was  not  long  before  they 
were  working  together  in  a  skit.  But  it 
wasn't  her  ability  to  put  over  gags  that 
made  her  valuable  to  George,  then  or 
now !  From  the  very  beginning,  she  oc- 
cupied a  place  in  his  life,  in  his  dreams, 
that  no  one  else  e\er  could  fill. 

There  was  a  boy  back  in  San  Francisco, 
her  home  town,  to  whom  Gracie  was  en- 
gaged. But  that  was  a  small  matter ! 
George  was  of  Jewish  birth — his  real  name 
is  Nathaniel  Birnbaum — but  the  racial  dif- 
ference was  uniinportant,  too.  Didn't  Abie 
have  his  Irish  Rose?  George  was  a  persua- 
sive wooer.  He  reminded  her  that  he  never 
had  been  successful  alone,  that  it  was  she 
who  had  lirought  him  luck.  Alone,  he 
would  have  to  face  failure  again,  dismal, 
heart-breaking  failure  .  .  .  Gracie  couldn't 
do  that  to  him!  He  needed  her,  was  ut- 
terly dependent  upon  her,  now  and  al- 
ways .  .  . 

He  W'on  Gracie,  but  not  the  argument. 
They  are  still  fighting  over  which  is  more 
dependeiU  upon  the  other  ! 

But  that  is  the  only  thing  they  fight 
about.  For  life  together  has  been  richer, 
sweeter  than  their  fondest  dream.  Even 
in  those  first  romantic  days,  when  Gracie 
listened  and  agreed,  and  they  made  their 
eager,  e.xcited  plans,  those  lovely  dreams 
fell  short  of  the  lovely  reality  that  is  theirs 
today  and  that  they  have  w^on — together. 

Life  was  very  pleasant  for  them,  from 
the  beginning.  They  enjoyed  their  work, 
they  loved  each  other,  they  were  success- 
ful enougli  to  live  comfortably,  patronizing 
good  hotels  and  having  a  good  time  as 
they  moved  from  tdwn  to  town.  But  they 
held  on  to  their  dreams,  working  always 
for  something   beyond  the  day's  success 


and  the  da\'s   fun,  sweet  though  it  was. 

Their  first  big  chance  came  when  they 
were  asked  to  make  a  movie  short.  Just 
back  from  a  trip  to  Europe,  which  they 
had  made  for  about  $450.00,  the  ofTer  of 
$1750  for  one  day's  work  sounded  too 
good  to  be  true.  They  had  given  little 
thought  to  the  movies,  had  not  the  least 
idea  what  was  expected  of  them.  They 
merely  faced  an  imaginary  audience  and 
went  through  their  lines,  put  over  their 
gags  as  they  were  in  the  habit  of  doing. 

"It  was  awful,  of  course,  "  George  said 
candidly.  "But  it  gave  me  an  idea.  I  went 
home  and  wrote  a  skit  whicli  I  sold  to 
Paramount,  with  ourselves  included.  And 
that  led  to  our  making  four  shorts  a  year, 
at  $3500  a  short." 

And  that's  good  pay  for  a  day's  work, 
in  any  language !  It  was  to  mean  much 
more  than  that,  eventually,  of  course,  for 
out  of  that  grew  their  opportunity  to  play 
in  the  Big  Broadeast  pictures.  And  they 
have  just  signed  a  new  contract  with  Para- 
mount, for  two  pictures  a  year,  instead 
of  the  one  they  have  been  making. 

■When  radio  came  along,  they  stepped 
into  the  new  career  blithel\'  and  confidently. 
The  personalities  which,  to  the  public,  are 
now  so  inseparable  from  their  own.  de- 
veloped gradually.  George  has  alwax's 
written  the  skits  and  Gracie  has  put  them 
over  in  her  own  inimitable  way.  Their 
program  always  has  been  one  of  the  most 
popular  on  the  air,  and  whether  it  is 
George's  gags  or  Gracie's  voice  and  man- 
nerisms that  make  it  so,  w'e'll  leave  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Burns  to  settle  between  them! 
But  doesn't  it  seem  almost  a  Bob  Ripley- 
ism  that  their  nit-witticisms  will  be  under 
the  banner  of  Grapenuts — beginning  April 
Fool's  Day? 

It  would  be  nice,  Gracie  sighs,  to  be 
taken  seriously  just  once  in  a  while.  But 
if  she  isn't,  it  is  her  own  fault  for  being 
so  convincing  in  the  role  of  nitwit  supreme, 
which  has  made  her  famous.  And  Gracie 
isn't  one  to  look  a  gift  horse  in  the  mouth. 
She  raps  on  wood  and  keeps  her  fingers 
crossed — and  looks  to  George  for  the  en- 
couragement and  approbation  and  love  that 
mean  so  much  more  to  her  than  all  the 
applause  any  applause  machine  could 
register ! 

For.  while  they  were  building  success  in 
their  chosen  field,  while  they  were  building 
up  the  fanu'liar  characterizations  of  George 
and  Gracie  as  >-ou  know  them,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  Burns  were  building  some- 
thing else,  too — something  much  finer  and 
more  lasting  than  anything  the  theatre  has 
to  ofi^er. 

With  financial  success,  the  dream  of 
enlarging  their  little  family  became  a  pos- 
sibility. With  palpitant  heart,  Gracie  went 
to  the  Cradle  in  Evanston,  Illinois,  to  find 
a  baby  girl. 

The  coming  of  Sandra  marked  a  new 
era  for  the  Burns  family.  When  Gracie 
first  held  that  tiny  morsel  of  humanity  in 
her  arms,  life  took  on  a  new  meaning. 

The  nurse  at  the  Cradle  saw  and  under- 
stood the  expression  in  the  wide-apart 
gray  eyes.  She  beamed  and  said  :  "You'll 


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e  hack  again  next  year  for  a  little  boy." 

But  for  Gracie  that  stirring  moment 
.'as  rapture  enough.  She  shook  her  dark 
ead,  her  arms  tightening  on  the  little 
nimate  bundle  in  her  arms.  "This  is  my 
imily,"  she  said  softly.  And  never 
reamed  she  was  wrong. 

They  had  been  living  in  a  small  apart- 
lent,  with  a  bedroom  and  a  tiny  kitchen- 
tte  and  a  room  they  had  converted  into  a 
ar  and  playroom  for  the  entertainment 
■f  their  friends.  But  with  the  coming  of 
>andra,  all  that  was  changed. 

"Of  course  the  bar  had  to  be  taken  out 
nd  the  playroom  converted  into  a  nurs- 
ry,"  George  explained. 

"And  the  electric  refrigerator  became 
>andra"s,  too,"  Gracie  added.  "We  had 
•een  in  the  habit  of  dining  at  home  two 
•r  three  nights  a  week,  just  for  fun,  but 
»re  couldn't  do  that  any  more  because 
here  wasn't  any  room  in  the  little  ice-box 
or  food — Sandra's  bottles  took  up  all  the 
pace!" 

"After  a  while,"  George  continued,  "we 
lecided  we  had  to  have  a  larger  place 
nd,  oddly  enough,  that  led  to  our  buying 
>ur  first  car.  You  see,  we  never  had  need- 
d  one,  living  in  hotels  as  we  did,  and 
ailing  taxis  when  we  wanted  them.  But 
vhen  we  moved,  we  were  no  longer  near 
.  park  and  so  we  felt  we  had  to  get  a 
ar — and  that  meant  a  chauffeur,  too,  be- 
ause,  of  course,  we  didn't  know  how  to 
Irive  ..." 

.\  larger  place,  a  car  and  a  chauffeur— 
ill  for  little  Miss  Sandra,  who  lay  in  her 
rib  and  cooed  like  the  happy  little  cherub 
he  was !  And  that  was  the  real  beginning 
)f  the  domesticating  of  George  Burns  and 
jracie  Allen! 

They  were  making  movies  now,  and 
spending  a  large  part  of  their  time  in 
Hollywood.  The  fact  that  they  could  spend 
iix  months  in  one  place,  instead  of  travel- 
ng  all  over  the  U.  S.  A.,  had  influenced 
hem  in  adding  to  their  family.  Now,  with 
Sandra  tugging  at  their  heartstrings,  filling 
I  niche  the  emptiness  of  which  they  had 
lardly  had  time  to  realize  before,  they 
)egan  to  rearrange  their  lives  around  her 
:urly  blonde  head. 

Without  her.  hotels  and  trunks  would 
lave  sufficed.  Now,  suddenly,  they  felt 
:he  need  of  a  home.  And  so  they  rented 
he  lovely  mansion  and  estate  of  Pauline 
Frederick,  on  Sunset  Boulevard.  Holly- 
ivood.  And  with  that  luxurious  setting, 
:hat  splendid  background,  what  more  nat- 
jral  than  that  Gracie  should  stop  again 
it  the  Cradle,  for  little  brother?  The 
nurse,  you  see,  was  right.  Gracie  was  a 
born  mother  .  .  . 

"We  didn't  want  Sandra  to  grow  up 
selfish  and  spoiled."  Gracie  murmured. 
"And  do  you  know,  if  I  so  much  as  offer 
her  a  pretty  box,  she  says :  'Where  is  one 
for  Ronnie?"  " 

George  and  Gracie  went  through  the 
alphabet  for  names  for  their  babies.  They 
chose  Sandra  because  they  thought  Sandy 
Burns  cunning.  At  first,  they  thought  of 
Allen  Burns  for  their  little  boy.  but  de- 
cided it  was  too  "stagy"  and  selected 
Ronald  instead.  They  want  their  children 
to  live  a  normal,  natural  life — not  to  be 
spoiled  by  too  much  adulation,  too  much 
publicity. 

"Of  course,  if  they  have  talent."  George 
explained,  "we'll  see  that  it  is  developed. 
But  we  won't  force  them — to  mv  mind. 


•  "Good  grief,  Mr.  Giraffe,  tihat  a  perfectly  terrific  rash  you've 
got!  You're  broken  out  all  over,  even  on  your  tail.  And  your  neck's  a 
sight!  Wlien  a  person  has  so  much  neck,  it  must  be  au  ful!'^ 


•  "I  can  remember  uheit  I  used  to  have  rashes...  Boy,  did  I  itch! 
In  those  days  before  ue  had  Johnson^s  Baby  Poicder,  there  icere 
times  ichen  I  felt  like  jumping  right  out  of  my  skin!'' 


•  "But  take  a  look  at  me  noic!  !\ot  a  rash  or  a  chafe  anynhere  since 
ice' re  been  using  that  soft,  doicny  Johnson  s.  You  try  it— and  see  if 
it  doesn't  knock  the  spots  off  you,  too!" 


e  '•^Feel  a  pinch  of  my  Johnson's— isn't  it  smooth  and 
slick?  i\ot  a  bit  gritty  like  some  ponders.  It  keeps  my 
skin  as  fine  as  silk!". . .  That's  the  best  protection 
against  skin  infections.  Mothers!  And  Johnson's  Baby 
Pouder  is  made  of  the  finest  Italian  talc...  no  orris- 
root.  Alicays  keep  Johnson's  Baby  Soap,  Baby  Cream 

baby's  bath-basket^ too!  ^^^^'^^^^ct'^^T^^^ilit^iT^ 


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there  is  nothing  worse  than  those  poor 
little  kids  who  have  to  take  tap  and 
elocution  and  what  not,  without  having 
the  least  talent  for  the  stage.  You  can  tell, 
at  an  early  age,  whether  they  have  it  or 
not." 

They  are  very  sensible  about  their 
babies,  these  two.  It  would  be  easy  for 
people  in  their  position,  who  have  had  no 
children  of  their  own,  to  adopt  a  boy  and 
girl  and  hire  nurses  for  them  and  let  them 
grow  up  in  a  world  apart,  going  in  to  see 
them,  to  admire  them,  to  show  them  off  to 
their  friends,  but  not  quite  taking  them  to 
their  hearts.  But  these  are  lucky  babies, 
indeed,  for  no  parents  of  their  own  could 
be  nearer  or  dearer  or  more  concerned 
with  their  health  and  happiness.  George 
and  Gracie  do  not  believe  in  spoiling  their 
babies,  either.  They  have  a  splendid  nurse 
and  they  enforce  discipline,  even  as  you 
or  I. 

"If  I  say  they  can't  have  something  and 
they  run  to  George,  he  never  fails  to  back 
me  up,"  Gracie  said.  "They  know  we 
mean  what  we  say." 

"And  it  is  the  same  with  Rose,  their 
nurse,"  George  added.  "We  have  complete 
confidence  in  her  and  we  never  interfere." 

"Oh,  no,  I  have  no  theories,"  Gracie  dis- 
counted the  idea  at  once.  "Just  good  care 
— good  food  and  sun — " 

She  did  not  add :  "And  lots  of  love !" 
But  the  two  Burns  babies  have  blossomed 
under  that  like  flowers  under  the  Califor- 
nia sun.  They  run  to  their  mother  and 
daddy  with  the  joy  and  confidence  that 
come  only  from  love,  certain  of  the  re- 
warding smile  and  embrace,  however  busy 
tlicir  parents  are. 

Sandra  delights  in  that  precious  morning 
routine,  when  she  is  allowed  to  awaken 
Mommie  and  Daddy  at  nine.  Breakfast 
together  downstairs  is  a  daily  rite,  even 
Ronnie  sharing  it,  from  his  high  chair.  I 
suspect  George  of  a  tiny  preference  for 
dainty  Sandra  and  Gracie  of  a  greater 
yearning  over  Ronnie's  husky  boyishness, 
but  there  is  really  no  discrimination.  They 
are  equally  adored. 

When  Sandra  was  tiny,  Gracie  enjoyed 
taking  care  of  hec/-©"  the  nurse's  day  out, 
but  Ronnie  was  a  sickly  baby  and  she  did 
not  dare  trust  herself  with  him.  Now,  how- 
ever, he  is  hale  and  hearty  and  she  feels 
well  rewarded  for  giving  up  that  pleasure. 
Often  she  bathes  and  dresses  them  both 
and  she  is  as  full  of  stories  about  them 
as  any  mother  you  ever  knew.  And  George 
has  several  of  his  own  to  add  to  them— 
and  he  seems  to  enjoy  them  better  than 
the  gags  for  which  he  is  famous ! 

For  George  still  writes  the  gags,  with 
the  aid  of  his  brother  Bill  and  Harvey 
Helm  and  John  Medbury.  His  is  a  full- 
time  job,  day  in  and  day  out,  six  days  a 
week,  whereas  Gracie  has  to  devote  only 
Wednesdays  to  her  work,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  a  preliminary  reading  of  the  script 
the  night  before — that  is,  when  they  are 
not  making  a  picture. 

She  takes  her  work  seriously,  always 
looking  to  George  for  suggestions,  com- 
ment and  praise.  And  she  takes  her  house- 
keeping, her  home-inaking,  equally  serious- 
ly. 

She  is  a  tiny,  elfin  person,  aijout  half 
as  big  as  a  minute.  The  black-haired,  bluc- 
cycd  Irish  t.\  pc,  with  small,  pert  features 
and  cute,  appealing  ways.  You  can  see 
how    she   appeals   to   George's  protective 


instincts,  how  he  has  fostered  her  depend- 
ence upon  him.  In  her  home,  with  her 
children,  she  seems  at  first  like  a  child 
herself,  a  child  absorbed  in  new  and  fas- 
cinating toys. 

But  there  is  much  more  to  Gracie  than 
that,  infinitely  more  than  you'd  ever  expect 
from  hearing  her  over  the  radio  or  seeing 
her  on  the  screen.  George  and  her  home 
and  her  children  mean  everything  in  the 
world  to  Gracie — the  rest,  Hollywood, 
fame,  fortune,  are  just  a  background,  de- 
lightful, but  necessary  only  as  a  fraine  tc 
the  life  they  have  built  together. 

For,  through  the  years,  she  and  George 
have  shared  a  precious  understanding,  a 
fruitful  and  satisfying  companionship,  a 
mutual  looking  forward  to  enduring, 
worthwhile  things.  The  money  they  hav« 
made  has  been  important  only  as  it  has 
helped  them  to  achieve  these  things. 

You  would  not  doubt  it,  if  you  could 
see  how  the  new  house  they  recently 
bought  has  been  altered  and  changed  tc 
fit  the  needs  of  the  two  babies.  Ask  about 
the  new  house,  and  both  Gracie  and  George 
will  immediately  begin  to  describe  the 
nursery — its  size,  the  paper  on  the  walls 
the  sun-porch  for  the  babies'  daily  sun- 
ning, the  play-yard,  the  pool.  You'd  think 
to  hear  them,  that  there  was  no  more  tc 
the  house ! 

The  house  itself  is  beautiful.  It  is  a  less 
pretentious  estate  than  the  one  they  left. 
The  house,  though  large,  is  not  ornate  oi 
extravagant — nothing  Hollyicood  about  it 
It  has  the  dignity  and  simplicity  of  a  fine 
.•\merican  home.  There  is  a  long,  low 
balcony  across  the  front,  overlooking  a 
small  front  yard,  the  landscaping  of  which 
has  been  Grade's  particular  pride  and  joy. 

She  has  had  the  time  of  her  life  furnish- 
ing the  new  home.  Xo  rented  furniture 
this  time — now  everything  is  her  own,  a 
real  home  at  last.  Such  an  orgy  of  shop- 
ping! If  she  had  had  an  ounce  of  super- 
fluous flesh,  she  would  have  lost  it,  for 
she  shopped  ardently  for  everything  from 
the  gold-colored  carpets  in  the  living-room 
and  dining-room,  to  the  shiny  pots  and 
pans  in  the  immaculate  kitchen. 

The  result  is  a  charming  place,  tastefully 
decorated,  beautiful  but  livable,  too,  as 
any  place  must  be  which  is  planned  for 
two  small  children  1 

In  the  rear  is  the  pool,  which  the  whole 
family  enjoys.  Even  Sandra,  at  two,  can 
swim,  and  Ronnie,  a  year  younger,  will  be 
doing  so  soon.  There  also  is  a  charming 
clubhouse  for  the  adult  friends,  but  it  is 
infinitely  less  important  to  Gracie  than 
the  two  orange  trees  she  bought  and  set 
out  beside  the  pool  and  which  already 
have  two  oranges  dangling  from  spindly 
boughs ! 

Incidentally,  when  Gracie  inquired  the 
price  of  the  trees  and  the  man  said :  "Two 
and  a  half,"  Gracie  thought  he  meant 
$250!  "Isn't  that  a  little  high,"  she  mur- 
mured disappointedly,  "for  orange  trees?" 

For  money,  to  Gracie,  like  higher  mathe- 
matics, is  a  world  beyond  her  ken.  That 
is  George's  business  and  she  is  only  too 
glad  to  leave  it  all  to  him. 

"I  have  an  allowance,"  she  said  gaily. 
"Fifty  dollars  a  week!" 

George  laughed.  "Don't  think  she  runs 
the  house  on  that!  That  is  pin  money— 
the  bills  go  through  my  office." 

Gracie  giggled.  "I  also  have  a  charge 
account  in  every  store !" 


RADIO  STARS 


Ray   Hea+herton,   whose  baritone 
voice  delights  radio  listeners. 


But  don't  get  the  idea  that  Gracie  is 
extravagant.  She  has  an  excellent  sense  of 
values,  if  not  of  legal  tender,  and  she 
dresses  very  smartly  at  a  moderate  cost. 
She  has  a  gift  for  wearing  clothes,  rare 
in  such  a  tiny  person.  Higli-crowiuxl  hats 
and  high  Iieels  lend  height  and  dignity  and 
she  seems  to  wear  tailored  suits,  evening 
frocks  and  sports  pajamas  with  equal  verve 
and  dash. 

"And  you  wouldn't  consider  a  career 
alone,  in  the  movies,  for  instance?" 

The  question  startles  Gracie  with  its 
sheer  improbability. 

"Oh,  no — I  couldn't  do  anything  without 
George!  I'd  be  frightened  to  death!" 

"I  think  Gracie's  wrong  about  that!" 
George,  who  had  wandered  into  the  other 
room,  returned  with  a  shout.  "There's  no 
reason  in  the  world  why  she  couldn't  get 
along  without  me!"  He  laughed.  "A  lot 
of  women  I'm  not  married  to  are  doing 
pretty  well — Mary  Boland,  for  instance ! 
Why,  if  anything  happened  to  me,  Gracie 
could  go  right  on—" 

Gracie  laughed  and  said  simply:  "If 
George  didn't  write  the  gags,  I  couldn't 
read  them,  could  I  ?" 

"Gags!"  George  snorted.  "Anyone  can 
write  gags !  It's  Gracie  that  puts  them 
over!" 

But  there  was  a  far-away  look  in  Gra- 
cie's eyes  and  a  smile  played  around  her 
lips.  You  knew  she  was  thinking :  "Let 
him  shout!  /  know — "  And  you  see  that 
she  is  so  thoroughly  convinced  of  the  fact 
of  her  dependence  upon  George  that  it  is 
probably  true.  She  is  half  of  the  team  of 
George  and  Gracie.  \\'ithout  her  other 
half,  she  feels  herself  to  be  colorless,  lost, 
helpless,  nothing! 

Sometimes  someone  goes  up  in  his  lines, 
there  is  a  miscue,  a  faulty  timing  and 
George  reminds  you  that  it  is  always 
Gracie  who  saves  the  day — Gracie,  the 
nitwit,  who  contributes  a  laugh  that  tides 
over  the  difficult  moment.  But  at  such 
times,  it  is  George  she  is  helping,  George 
she  is  thinking  of,  George  who  is  the 
direct  inspiration  for  her  wit,  her  clever- 
ness. Without  George,  she  coukln't  do  it. 
It  takes  two  halves  to  make  a  whole  .  .  . 

And  she  is  well  content  to  be  the  half 
of  'George  and  Gracie'  who  reads  his 
clever  lines — the  half  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Burns  who  is  the  tiny  and  adored 
mother  of  Sandra  and  Ronnie  Burns.  What 
has  life  to  offer  sweeter  than  that? 


...  YET  IT  MIGHT  EASILY 
HAVE  BEEN  SPOILED  BUT 
THE  3-WAY  PROTECTI 


OF  KOTEX 


dov/ny  '^^^^^  irtitation.  Thus 
chafing  ^^,f  Kotex  V^^^f^ 

f,.=  to  =b«<">=- 


WONDERSOFT  KOTEX  LtfJll'crir.'.i^l'; 


67 


RADIO  STARS 


NOTHING  BUT  THE  TRUTH? 


Air  topnotchers  bare  their  very  souls 
in  reply  to  fans'  fascinating  queries 


Do    you    object   to   giving  your 
au+ogroph  or  posing  for  publicity 
photographs  and  informal 
snapshots? 


I'lcd  Allen:  "Xo.  He  who  taketh  my 
photograph  or  autograph  has  trash  on 
liis  hands." 

Lucille  MainuTs^-7/  a  radio  friend 
likes  me  and  my  profirams  eniiiii/lt  to  zeaiit 
my  l^irlnre  and  aiihu/raH'.  l^''"'  / 
refnse.'  lo  me.  thai  is  a  fan's  way  of 
thankiiuj  iiie  for  enjoyme)il  reeeived,  and 
I  truly  a/'/'r,-(  /(;/i^ 


Eddie  Duchi 


'Not  at  all." 


Johnny  Green:  "No!  I  love  it.  A  per- 
former depends  on  the  plaudits  and  affec- 
tion of  his  so-called  public,  and  one  does 
not  have  to  be  vcr>-  vain  to  enjoy  public 
approval,  indicated  b\-  a  desire  for  auto- 
graphs and  pictures." 

Welcome  Lewis :  "/  certainly  do  not. 
I  ahuays  consider  it  a  compliment." 

A.  L.  Alexander:  "Personally  I  have  no 
objection  to  this,  although  I  think  it  can 
be  overdone.  Of  course,  anyone  who  en- 
gages in  work  as  public  as  radio,  must 
expect  to  conform  in  this  regard  to  a  rea- 
sonable extent." 

Parker  I'ennelly:  "I  never  have  any 
objection  to  writing  ni\-  name  except  on  a 
check.  1  dislike  liaving  pictures  taken  any 
time,  anywluTe.  by  anybody." 

Edgar  Guest:  "No — //  the  purposes  are 
li'orthy.  Do  have  a  limit  for  plioloi/rapjis, 
of  course." 

Ted  Hammerstein:  "Absolutely  not!  I 
think  any  form  of  good  advertising  is 
good,  as  long  as  it  doesn't  border  on 
notoriety." 

[3etty  Winkler:  "Xo,  I  do  not  object  to 
doing  these  things.  Since  the  public  is  in- 
terested enough  to  listen  to  my  programs,  I 
feel  that  these  things  can  only  show  a  small 
part  of  my  appreciation  for  their  approval 
and  support." 

Kay  Kyser :  "/  feel  that  a  large  percent- 
ctcje  of  autograph.'!  are  not  kept,  but  J  don't 
object  to  gii'ing  them — /  -will  worry  zvhen 
the  fans  stop  asking." 

68 


Allen  Prescott:  "I'm  so  flattered  I  could 
fall  on  my  face  when  asked  for  an  auto- 
graph. Besides,  I'd  rather  have  my  picture 
taken  than  do  anything — well,  almost  any- 
thing." 

Cab  Callmcay:  "I  confess  I  get  a  kick 
every  time  someone  wants  my  picture  or 
autograph  and  I  think  I  always  will.  I 
haven't  forgotten  when  I  was  unknown  and 
what  it  meant  to  me  when  the  great  Duke 
Ellington  found  time  to  -.peak  t'>  me." 

Margaret  Speaks:  "/  not  object.  1 
do.  hozvcver.  prefer  to  pose  for  informal 
snapshots  rather  than  studio  shots." 

Duke  Ellington:  "Giving  autographs 
and  posing  for  publicity  pictures  is  a  very 
small  price  to  pay  for  the  good  will  and 
loyalty  of  your-  fans." 

La  liny  Ross:  "No,  I  am  happy  to  give 
my  autograph  to  all  who  would  like  to 
have  it.  Posing  for  pictures  is  not  pleasant 
but  is  a  part  of  one's  work." 


')'es.  I  object  to  doing 
ueeessarilv    jorces  me 


Ed  McConncll 
anything  which 
upon  the  public." 


Sid  Gary:  "On  the  contrary.  The  truest 
and  surest  indication  of  an  artist's  popu- 
larity is  the  amount  of  requests  for  pic- 
tures and  autographs.  When  they  stop 
asking  for  these — it's  time  to  retire." 

Irene  Bcaslcy:  "I  have  no  (objection  to 
giving  my  autograph,  and  consider  it  a 
compliment  that  anyone  would  want  it.  I 
don't  like  to  pose  for  publicity  photographs, 
but  I  have  no  objection  to  posing  for  in- 
formal snapshots." 

Ed  Fitzgerald :  "No  one  ever  asked  mc 
to  do  either  .  .  .  but  J  i.'ould  lore  it." 

Jimmie  Fidler:  "On  the  contrary,  I  am 
highly  pleased.  I  am  a  newspaperman  and 
know  that  the  cameraman  has  his  right  to 
make  a  living.  As  for  giving  autographs, 
I  hope  Camera  is  behind  me  to  give  me 
a  stiff  kick  if  ever  I  refuse." 

Beiiay  I'enufa:  "01  course  not.  I'm 
very  thrilled  to  be  asked  for  my  autograph 
and  when  they  don't  ask  for  it,  I'll  feel 
terrible." 

Bide  Dudley :  "No,  1  have  a  quiet  laugh 
at  those  zvho  zvant  the  autographs  and  pho- 
tographs." 

Will  Hudson:  "No.  I  am  always 
pleased  by  such  requests,  since  they  indi- 
cate that  my  work  is  appreciated." 

Ethel  Blumc:  "I  really  enjoy  it.  Mostly 
because  I  think  that  people  who  are  kind 
enough,  and  think  enough  of  you,  to  want 


your  autograph  or  picture,  should  certainly 
not  be  made  to  feel  that  you  are  doing 
them  a  favor,  .\fter  all,  it's  you  whom 
they  are  honoring,  isn't  it?" 

Kenny  Baker:  "A'o,  /  do  not  object. 
Why  should  //    It's  for  my  ozcn  benefit." 

Grace  Albert:  "I  have  no  objections 
whatsoever.  In  fact,  I'm  always  very  flat- 
tered and  pleased.  I  w/V/  object,  very 
strenuously,  when  people  no  longer  ask  for 
my  autograph  or  picture." 

J\'e  Laicnliurst :  "I  don't  object  to  giv- 
ing my  autograph,  ever.  But  I  don't  par- 
ticularly enjoy  posing  for  publicity  photo- 
graphs. Autograph-hunting  was  a  part  of 
my  own  adolescence — but  picture-posing 
doesn't  fit  in  with  the  lack  of  tendency 
toward  all  exhibitionism,  which  is,  unfor- 
tunately (?)  a  part  of  my  make-up." 

Phil  Harris:  "Not  at  all — /  should  have 
reason  to  object  if  they  ivcre  no  longer 
■wanted." 

Marian  Jordan:  "I  love  it  because  other 
people  get  a  'boot'  out  of  it — and  so  do  I!" 

Jim  Jordan:  "No.  It  is  all  part  of  our 
business — and  as  for  informal  snapshots,  I 
get  a  l.)ig  kick  out  of  them." 


Generally  speaking,  do  you  think 
there  is  as  much  temperament 
among  the  stars  of  radio  as  there 
is  with  those  of  the  screen?  Why? 


Kay  Kyser:  "Xo.  A  cross-section  of 
radio  stars,  as  a  whole,  w  ill  show  that  most 
movie  stars  make  consideral:'ly  more  money 
and  can  afford  to  be  temperamental.  After 
all,  temperament  is  a  luxury  and  if  we 
can't  afford  it,  we  will  surely  restrain  our- 
selves." 

Ted  Hammerstein :  "No.  All  tltat  I 
ha-i-e  been  brought  in  contact  zAth  seem  to 
possess  none,  and  look  at  radio  strictly  as 
a  business." 

Sid  Gary:  "That's  hard  to  say.  Most 
of  the  people  I've  met  have  been  very 
regular.  Of  course,  occasionally  you'll 
meet  someone  who  is  obsessed  with  an  ex- 
aggerated sense  of  his  own  importance." 

Martin  Starr:  "Radio  stars  have  more 
temperament  than  screen  celebs,  but  they 
have  more  of  a  right.  They're  under 
greater  pressure,  what  with  that  menacing 
clock  on  the  studio  wall  daring  them  to 
come  out  on  the  nose." 

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DoesYourNail  Polish^i/or  C/»i/^? 


'2>; 


lOES  nail  polish  /(arptochipoff  right 
away?"  women  asked  us.  "'Cer- 
tainly not,"  we  said.  And  we  proved  it. 

Exhaustive  tests  over  a  long  period 
prove  absolutely  that  our  New  Cutex 
Polish  will  not  peel  or  chip  in  a  week! 
The  reason  is  simple. 

We  took  a  picture  of  our  New  Cutex 
Polish  right  after  it  had  been  applied  to 
a  smooth  surface.  And  we  took  pictures 
of  8  otlicr  jMjpular  brands  of  nail  poli.sh, 
also  immediately  after  ajjplication. 

The  photographs  showed  an  amazing 
difference.  Look  at  them  above — magni- 
fied 18  times. 

Notice  the  perfectly  smooth,  even  fin- 
ish of  Cutex  under  tiic  microscope!  Cutex 
will  stay  unmarred  on  the  nail  for  days. 
Now  look  at  the  rough,  bumpy,  uneven 
finish  of  the  ordinary  jiolish.  The  lines  in 
the  picture  show  clearly  that  the  ])olish 
formula  is  imperfectly  balanced.  They 
show  tlie  begiiuiing  of  cracking  and  peel- 
ing—10  minutes  after  the  polish  dries! 


MAGNIFIED 
18  TIMES 

Bumpy  and  uneven  — no 
wonder  it  peels  and  chips 
ond  has  a  low  lustre  on  the 
nail  because  of  its  rough 
surface.  Representative  of 
competitive  bronds  of  50c. 


MAGNIFIED 
18  TIMES 

Smooth  as  gloss — it  wears 
o  week.  Make  this  test 
yourself — apply  any  other 
brand  of  polish  alongside 
Cutex  on  a  piece  of  glass — 
see  the  difference! 


•flcJUn  (led 


A  misty  lavender  pink.  Perfect  with 
blue,  gray  and  with  delicate  pastels. 
A  smoky  pink  with  brown  undertone — 
wear  with  green,  brov/n,  beige,  gray. 
A  brand-new  purply  wine  shade.  En- 
chanting with  pastels,  magnificent  with 
black,  white  or  wine,  and  electrically 
smart  with  blue. 

A  new.  softer  red  that  everyone  can 
wear.  Goes  with  everything  —  very  so- 
phisticated with  black  and  white. 
A  soft,  feminine  dusky  rose.  Very  flat- 
tering— and  especially  irresistible  with 
the  new  wine  shades  I 


Big  Saving  .  .  .  It's  easy  to  see  how 
much  you  can  save  in  time  and  money  if 
you  wear  the  New  Cutex  Polish  .  .  .  with 
its  glass-like,  wonderfully  resistant 
finish.    You  can  put  on  the  New 
Cutex  and  forget  about  it  for  a  week. 
.Vnd  its  lu-stre  will  be  iiigher.  too. 
because  of  its  smoother,  longer 
wearing  surface. 

Remember,  too— the  N  ew  Cutex  Polish 
is  ramous  for  its  new  smoky  shades.  .\iid 
it  s  usable  to  the  last  drop  — never 
thickens  in  the  bottle. 

Keej)  away  from  ordinary  poli.sh  that 
develops  nnsifrhtly  cracks  and  chips  after 
a  day  or  two.  Stock  up  on  the  new,  longer 


wearing  Cutex  in  all  your  favorite  shades 
today.  10  smart  .shades  to  choo.se  from!  Only 
:5,5e  a  bottle,  Creme  or  Clear. 

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eight  years  have  gone,  you  licar  it  often 
when  you  tune  in  on  your  radio.  And 
every  time  Jan  Pcerce  liears  it  he's  back 
in  a  three-room  rear  apartment  in  the 
Bronx  again  and  a  small,  slender  girl  is 
standing  beside  him,  and  in  her  eyes  all 
the  love  and  loyalty  she  promised  to  hold 
for  him  forever,  when  they  took  their 
marriage  vows  together  a  few  short  hours 
before.  And  the  place  is  sparkling  and 
everything  is  new,  except  a  few  things 
that  she  wanted  •  because  they  were  old,  a 
pair  of  brass  candle-sticks  she  had  found 
down  on  Allen  Street,  that  had  originally 
come  from  Warsaw :  a  gay,  painted  chest 
that  had  been  his  mother's ;  a  table  of  San 
Domingo  mahogany  that  the  years  had 
worn  to  that  soft  sheen. 

The  song  was  new  that  day  when  he 
sang  it  to  Iicr,  and  he  meant  it  so  deeply. 
".  .  .  Diamond  bracelets  Wookeorth's 
doesn't  sell,  I>al>y."  Some  day  he  was  go- 
ing to  give  them  to  her,  just  as  the  man 
in  the  song  promised.  Sumc  day  he'd  have 
to  get  them  for  her,  for  she  li'\ed  beau- 
tiful things,  this  Alice  he  hail  married. 
She'd  rather  go  without  things  than  have 
shoddy  ones,  just  as  she'd  gone  without 
a  honeymoon  to  get  that  old  table,  and  the 
best  grade  linoleum  for  her  kitchen  floor. 

It  was  that  day,  singing  to  her,  that  he 
decided  playing  a  violin  in  an  orchestra 
and  singing  an  occasional  nuniher  wasn't 
the  thing  Alice's  husband  should  he  doing. 
That  snooty  little  eleven-year-old  Alice 
would  have  turned  up  her  pert  nose  at  a 
husband  like  that,  and  yet,  here  was  the 
twenty-year-old  Alice,  who  had  waited 
for  him  four  years,  perfectly  satisfied  with 
him  because  she  loved  him ! 

But  even  if  Alice  was  satisfied,  Jan 
wasn't.  That  was  because  he  loved  her  so 
much.  Until  then  it  had  seemed  all  right 
that  he  was  a  violinist,  playing  with  this 
orchestra  and  that,  and  knowing  full  well 
he  didn't  have  the  stufif  that  makes  a  Hei- 
fetz  or  an  Ehnan.  But  his  voice,  he 
couldn't  help  wondering  about  that,  won- 
dering if  he  worked  hard,  if  he  took  les- 
sons, it  wouldn't  carry  him  on  to  other 
planes. 

That  was  the  dream  that  carried  him 
through  the  next  three  years.  Easier  to 
do  without  things  with  Alice  sharing  that 
dream,  too.  Taking  the  little  money  lel'l 
over  from  one  engagement  to  keep  on  with 
his  lessons,  even  when  there  wasn't  any 
money  coming  in  at  all  during  those  peri- 
ods of  idleness  all  musicians  know.  Trying 
not  to  mind  it  so  much  when  he  had  to  start 
work  w^hen  other  men  were  just  coming 
home  to  be  with  their  families. 

A  baby  had  come  to  them  at  the  end  of 
that  first  year,  too.  A  little  boy.  That 
made  it  doubly  hard  to  miss  so  much  of 
the  fun  of  being  with  them. 

"Funny  though,"  Jan  Pcerce  said  slowly, 
"the  incentive  responsiI)ilit\  hrinus.  when 
you  happen  to  love  that  ])artieular  respon- 
sibility above  everything  else  in  the  world. 
I  found  myself  doing  things  I  would  never 
have  thought  of  doing  before,  asserting 
my.self,  demanding  things.  I  asked  to  sing 
songs  now  with  the  orchestra.  I  wasn't 
content  to  sit  back  and  just  sing  whenever 


the  conductor  asked  me  to.  I  found  my- 
self haunting  radio  studios,  loo,  sometimes 
getting  spots  with  unimportant  sixmsors 
and  glad  of  the  extra  money  it  brought 
in,  even  though  it  was  small  so  far  as 
radio  remuneration  went.  When  I  couldn't 
get  this,  I  begged  to  be  allowed  to  sing 
on  sustaining  programs,  getting  nothing 
at  all  but  the  chance  it  would  give  me 
and  the  new  confidence  that  came  with  it. 

"Then  I  got  an  engagement  with  the 
house  orchestra  of  the  .\stor  Hotel  and 
sang  a  couple  of  choruses  with  them,  and 
one  night  Roxy  was  attending  a  testi- 
monial dinner  there  and  sent  around  a  note 
asking  me  to  call  on  him. 

"Neither  Alice  nor  I  could  sleep  that 
ni.ght.  We  knew  all  about  the  Rockefeller 
Center  Music  Hall  that  \va<  ^^oini:  tn  open 
in  a  few  months  and  tliai  l\'ox\  was  on 
the  look-out  for  talent.  li  lie  to,,k  me. 
how  wonderful  it  would  he  I  We  talked 
and  planned  and  ah\  a\  s  at  tin-  eml  w  c  had 
to  pull  ourselves  up  with  that  horrible 
'if.'  7/,  //.''  The  wo,-,!  was  always  on 
our  lips  in  those  an.xiim-  ila\  <. 

"But  the  break  came.  1  was  engaged 
to  sing  for  the  .Mu>ie  Hall  auil  a  new 
number  was  written  for  tlie  linale.  Jojir- 
iicy's  End,  it  was  calleil,  and  for  an  awful 
time  it  looked  as  ii  tlie  title  were  a 
prophetic  one,  as  if  tl;i^  eliaiue,  tliat  had 
seemed  like  the  beginninu  of  a  m  w  .areer, 
was  the  end  instead,  h'or,  ,>n  tlu-  da\  of 
the  dress-rehearsal.  Rmw  took  me  aside 
and  told  me  the  wli  ile  tinali  was  out.  The 
show  was  runniny  too  ionu. 

"I  couldn't  si)cak  at  dinner  that  night 
and  Alice  thought  I  was  nir\on-  hecatise 
of  the  opening  and  tried  to  h.  il^te)-  nie  up 
by  telling  me  how  mar\Llon>  I  was  and 
how  I  would  knock  the  audience  cold  that 
night.  And  then  she  jiut  on  the  new  dress 
she  had  bought,  'to  nlal^e  me  proud  of  her. 
too,'  she  said,  with  her  e\e-,  shining.  I 
couldn't  tell  her  wk,al  had  liappened.  I 
could  only  try  to  swallow  down  my  tears 
and  smile  and  rise  to  her  gaiety. 

"Finally  I  said:  'Look,  .Mice,  there's  a 
chance  I  might  not  sing  to-night.  It  all 
depends  on  how  long  the  show  will  run. 
.And  I  have  a  four-weeks'  contract." 

"She  tried  not  to  show  the  way  she  felt, 
hut  afterwards  she  told  me  how  she  had 
sat  through  the  show,  begrudging  the 
entertainers  every  minute  they  had  on  the 
stage,  stifTening  at  every  round  of  ap- 
plause that  might  mean  an  encore  and  the 
lengthening  of  the  show.  And  then  it 
was  over — and  I  hadn't  gone  on." 

Even  today  the  Peerces  live  that  old 
agony  over  again  in  telling  it.  Even  to- 
day their  eyes  seek  each  other's  for  reas- 
surance and  confidence.  For  they  had 
none  that  night. 

Jan  stood  in  the  wings  and  saw  the 
bright  flare  of  the  footlights,  heard  the 
orchestra  playing  and  the  applause  that 
was  not  for  him,  and  it  seemed  as  if  his 
world  ended  that  night,  his  bright  world 
that  he  had  dreamed  of  so  often,  that  was 
going  to  mean  all  the  things  he  had  never 
been  able  to  give  Alice  before.  All  the 
things  he  wanted  so  much  to  give  her. 

.-\nd  then — he  couldn't  help  it — he  cried, 


and  tears  were  rcdiing  down  his  cheeks 
and  finally  Ray  Bolger,  the  dancer,  came 
over  to  him  and  tried  to  cheer  him  up. 

"Listen,  Jan,"  he  said.  "You're  new  in 
this  game.  When  you've  played  as  many 
tank  towns  as  I  have,  when  you've  had  as 
many  one-night  stands,  you'll  know  this  is 
just  part  of  the  breaks.    Wait  and  see." 

But  Jan  Peerce  had  played  all  the  tank 
towns,  all  the  one-night  stands  right  here 
in  New  York,  with  all  those  unimportant 
orchestras  he  had  appeared  with  and  that 
violin  he  never  really  had  believed  in.  He 
had  played  them  all  on  those  sustaining 
programs  in  radio  and  felt  as  completely 
stranded  now  as  any  theatrical  troupe  sud- 
denly penniless  a  thousand  miles  from 
Broadway. 

"\\'e  had  told  all  our  friends  about  the 
big  opportunity  and  telegrams  and  boxes 
of  flowers  kept  pouring  in  for  me,  all 
during  the  performance.'  Jan  went  on, 
and,  even  now,  it  was  an  effort  to  smile, 
telling  about  it.  "Afterwards  I  met  Alice 
and  her  smile  wobbled  a  little  when  she 
saw  me  with  that  sheaf  of  telegrams  in 
my  hand  and  my  arms  piled  high  with 
florist  boxes.  Then  she  gave  up  the  effort 
of  trying  to  be  casual  and  gay  and  there 
we  were  in  each  other's  arms,  crying  as  if 
we'd  never  be  able  to  stop  crying  again. 

"It  was  raining  and  we  walked  in  the 
rain  up  and  down  streets,  not  knowing  or 
earini;  wliere  we  were  walking.  Then  we 
deeiiled  it  would  be  easier  and  drier  to 
cr\-  in  a  taxi  and  we  hailed  one  and  went 
on  nj)  to  tlie  I'.ninx.  our  hearts  empty  of 
the  dreams  that  had  filled  them  a  few 
l-.ours  before." 

Maybe  that  should  have  been  the  hardest 
blow,  meeting  .Mice  that  night  with  the 
big  chance  gone,  but  the  days  that  followed 
were  harder.  Reporting  to  the  theatre 
every  day,  getting  his  salary  check  every 
week,  knowing  that  he  hadn't  earned  it ; 
feeling  an  imposter  in  accepting  it. 

It  did  horrible  things  to  his  morale,  sap- 
liing  the  conlidence  grand  people  like  Jan 
Peerce  have  little  enough  of,  anyway. 

"I  nutst  he  a  swell  singer!"  he  burst  out 
one  day,  when  he  came  home.  "They're 
paying  me  not  to  sing !" 

He  needed  Alice  that  day.  Needed  all 
the  little  words  she  could  tear  out  of  her 
heart,  to  bolster  him  up  again.  Needed 
that  smile  she  summoned  so  frantically  to 
her  lips,  her  arms  holding  him. 

Then  one  day  Erno  Rapee,  who  was 
conducting  the  orchestra,  came  to  him. 

"Do  you  want  to  show  those  people  up- 
stairs tliat  you  want  to  work,  not  merely 
hang  around  and  draw  your  pay?"  he 
demanded. 

Jan  couldn't  get  the  ea.ger  assent  from 
his  lips  fast  enough  and  it  was  arranged 
that  he  should  sing  behind  the  curtain 
during  Dick  Liebert's  organ  recital. 

So  that  was  how  he  made  his  first  ap- 
pearance in  the  theatre  and  that  is  how 
Alice  heard  him  for  the  first  time,  sitting 
there  in  the  audience,  with  his  voice  reach- 
ing out  to  her  and  it  didn't  seem  important 
that  she  couldn't  see  him,  too.  All  that 
mattered  then  was  his  glorious  voice  fillin.g 
(Continued  on  l^ai/e  '■>) 


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.T  is  now  common 
knowledge  that  the  three  foremost  things 
in  restoring  lost  weight  are  food. .  .diges- 
tive juices. .  .and  red -blood-cells. 

Digestive  juices  of  the  stomach  make  use 
of  the  food  you  eat. .  .red-blood-cells  aid  in 
turning  the  digested  food  into  firm  tlesh. 
S.S.S.  Tonic  is  of  great  benefit  in  both. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  whets  the  appetite.  Foods 
taste  better. .  .natural  digestive  juices  are 
stimulated  and  finally  the  very  food  you 
eat  is  of  more  body  value.  A  very  impor- 
tant step  back  to  health. 

Forget  about  underweight  worries  if  you 
are  deficient  in  stomach  digestive  juices 
and  red-blood-cells.  .  .just  take  S.S.S.  Tonic 
immediately  before  each  meal.  Shortly  you 
will  be  delighted  with  the  way  you  will 
feel... your  friends  will  compliment  you 
on  the  way  you  will  look. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  is  especially  designed  to  build 
sturdy  health.  .  .its  remarkable  value  is 
time  tried  and  scientifically  proven.  .  .that's 
why  it  makes  you  feel  like  yourself  again. 

At  all  druK  stores  in  two  convenient  sizes.  The 
large  size  at  a  saving  in  price.  There  is  no  substi- 
tute for  this  time  tested  remedy.  No  ethical  drug- 
gist will  suggest  something  "just  as  good." 

"i  S.S.S.  Co. 


WEST 


IRVIN  S.  COBB  and  Jack 
Benny  were  bragging  the  other 
day  at  the  NBC  studios  over 
the  number  of  cigars  they 
smoked,  since  neither  of  them 
is  ever  seen  without  a  stogie 
in  his  face.  "I'll  l)et  I  hold 
the  record,  though,"  said  Cobb, 
"W'hy,  my  cigar  bill  amounts 
to  a  thousand  dollars  a  year." 
Jack  looked  a  little  crestfallen 
until  Mary  Livingstone  came 
to  his  aid,  "Hmph  !" '  she 
hmped,  "Jack  spends  that 
much  every  year  to  get  his 
ashes  hauled  away." 


From  San  Francisco  the  Williams  Sisters,  Laura  (left), 
Ethelyn  and  Alice,  speed  the  Carefree  Carnival  over  NBC. 


Dorothy  Page,  the  Padueah 
Plantation  gal,  doesn't  eoiifiiic 
her  charming  to  the  air  ivaz'es. 
"Annie"  Rusk,  who  hails  from 
Texas,  ca)i  tell  you  thai.  But  a 
Christmas  gift  he  gaz'c  Dorothy 
nearly  proved  his  undoing. 
Dorotliy  once  mentioned  that  her 
faz'orite  type  of  reading,  zvhen  she 
had  any  time,  zvas  Inography.  So 
"Armic"  came  across  ivith  a  set  of 
biogs — and  no  less  than  fourteen. 
NoiK.^  he  has  to  go  tn  the  broad- 
casts to  see  anything  of  Dorotliy. 
The  rest  of  the  time  she's  too  busy 
appreciating  Jiis  present. 

Al  Jolson  called  the  doctor  one 
morning  recently,  complaining  that 
he  really  felt  pretty  peculiar.  So 


the  M.D.  rushed  out  to  the  Jolson 
home  and  found  Al  moaning  and 
groaning  in  bed.  His  pulse,  how- 
ever, was  normal,  so  was  his  tem- 
perature and  the  doctor  was 
puzzled.  "Let's  go  swimming  while 
you  think  over  the  case,"  Jolson 
suggested.  After  a  long  swim  in 
the  pool  the  two  decided  to  go  for 
a  canter  through  the  estate,  then 
decided  on  a  good  rousing  set  of 
tennis  and  finally  motored  out  to 
the  club  for  cocktails  and  eighteen 
holes  of  golf.  The  doctor  called 
his  office  next  morning.  "Jolson  is 
fine,"  he  reported,  "but  I  think 
you'd  better  cancel  my  appoint- 
ments for  the  next  couple  of  days." 

Ed-ccard  Everett  Norton  ahd'axs 


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ivcars  a  topcoat  and  muffler  at  re- 
hearsals and  broadcasts  for  Shell 
Chateau.  The  first  /ctc  times  Ins 
co-Zi'orkers  Zi'ould  a)i.viously  in- 
quire if  he  had  a  cold,  only  to 
have  Eddie  reply,  "No,  I  haven't 
a  cold,  but  I'm  afraid  I'll  get 
one."  Last  zveek  he  came  into 
rehearsal  limping  and  lozvcrcd 
himself  gingerly  into  a  chair. 
"What's  the  matter?"  asked  the 
solicitous  cast.  "/  fell  off  a  tree 
on  the  set  today,"  Eddie  said, 
with  a  groan.  "Does  it  pain 
much?"  Victor  Young  asked  sym- 
pathetically. "No"  replied  Hor- 


Versatile  Fred  As+aire  of 
the  popular  Packard  Hour. 

ton,  shaking  his  head  sadly,  "but 
I'm  afraid  it  might,  so  I've  had 
my  back  all  taped  up  and  I'm  go- 
ing to  be  very  careful  about  it." 

Jimmy  Fidler  is  one  of  the 
busier  young-men-about-town.  He 
not  only  regales  you  with  the 
choicest,  hottest  and  latest  news 
from  the  Hollywood  front  on  his 
Tuesday  broadcast,  but  writes  a 
daily  syndicate  column,  and  de- 
scribes the  news  events  in  a  Fox 
Movietone.  "Everything's  going 
fine,"  Jimmy  yelled,  as  he  rusl  ed 
past  the  NBC  studio  enroute  to 
the  broadcasting  room,  "I  haven't 
time  for  a  nervous  breakdown." 
Don't  think  that  Jimmy's  wasting 
any  time  {Continued  on  page  So) 


It  wasn't  the  March  wind  that 
)    chilled  him . .  !twas  the 
touch  of  her  dry,  chapped  Hands 


IT  HLRT  \\  HEN  JIM  SAID  he  hated 
rough  hands.  Mine  iv^re  chapped  and 
harsh  all  winter  — kind  of  old -looking 
—  but  what  could  I  do? 


THEN. ..  MY  SISTUn  TOLD  ME  Jergens 
Lotion  keeps  a  girl's  hands  soft  because 
it  goes  down  into  the  skin.  N. 
Jergens,  too.  and  Jim  says,  "Your  soft 
liltic  bunds  keep  niy  heart." 


HANDS  need  Special  Moisture 
inside  f/ie  s/cin  cells 


YOUR  hands  chap  and  roughen 
when  the  skin  cells  lose  their 
moisture. This  moisture  easily  dries 
out— from  wind,  cold  or  w  ater.  Antl 
most  women  have  their  hands  in 
water  up  to  sixteen  times  a  day. 

But  Jergens  Lotion  saves  the 
young  beauty  of  your  hands  be- 
cause it  restores  the  lost  moisture. 
It  goes  into  the  skin  cells  better 
than  any  other  lotion  tested. 

The  two  famous  ingredients  in 
Jergens  are  the  same  as  skin  spe- 
cialists use  to  soften  and  whiten 
skin.Yourfirst  application  smooths 
roughnesses,  soothes  chapping. 
Use  Jergens  faithfully  and  you'll 
soon  have  charming  hands  your 
man  will  love.  Jergens  leaves  no 
stickiness.  Only  50<^,  25(S  10^- 
Sl.OO  for  the  big  bottle -in  any 
drug,  department  or  10-cent  store. 


Sinks  into  the 
skin  more  com- 
pletely than 
other  lotions 
tested  —  soon 
gives  hack 
y  o  u  t  h  -  p  i  V  i  n  g 
moisture. 


Jergens 


FREE:    PURSE-SIZE  JERGENS 

1  alUT  having  hands  in  water,  lo  keep  han.ls  girl- 
ishly soft  and  smooth. 

Aii.irew  Jergens  Co.,  16-7  AKred  Sl,,  QncmnaU,  O. 

In  Canada — Perth,  Ontario.) 
Please  send  my  purse>ai2fl  krattle  of  Jetgens — tree. 


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Brilliant  Teeth— Healthy  Gums 
with  this  Double  Protection 


YOUR  teeth  may  look  clean  and  white, 
even  though  your  gums  are  soft  and 
spongy.  That's  the  insidious  thing  about 
half-way  dental  care.  Forhan's  Tooth 
Paste,  created  by  an  eminent  dental  sur- 
geon,provides  the  double  protection  every- 
one needs.  It  does  both  vital  jobs — cleans 
teeth  and  safeguards  gums. 

After  brushing  your  teeth,  massage 
your  gums,  too,  with  Forhan's,  just  as 
dentists  advise.  Note  how  it  stimulates 
the  gums,  how  clean  and  fresh  your  mouth 
feels!  Soon  you  can  see  the  difference. 

Forhan's  costs  no  more  than  most  ordi- 
nary tooth  pastes,  and  the  big  new  tube 
saves  you  money.  Buy  Forhan's  today, 
and  end  half-way  care  once  for  all.  Also 
sold  in  Canada. 

FORMULA  OF  R.  J.  FORHAN,  D.D.S. 

Forhanii 

{CLEANS  TEETH 
SAVES  GUMS 


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the  theatre  and  the  stillness  that  came  at 
tlie  first  sound  of  it  and  the  frantic  ap- 
plause that  broke  out  at  the  end.  And 
the  song  that  mattered  too,  for  it  was 
Take  Mc  In  Your  Arms,  that  he  sang  and 
it  was  as  if  his  arms  were  really  holding 
her  close  as  he  sang. 

No  one  could  hold  Peerce  back  after 
that.  It  came  so  quickly,  that  success  of 
his,  alter  all  those  waiting  years. 

One  day,  shortly  afterwards,  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  Jr.,  came  into  the  theatre  dur- 
ing a  rehearsal,  and  listened  attentively  as 
Jan  sang.  Maybe  it  was  a  coincidence  that 
lie  came  in  again  and  again  while  he  was 
singing  his  number  .  .  .  But  it  couldn't  have 
been  that,  after  all,  for  one  day  he  was 
asked  to  sing  at  John  D,  Rockefeller,  Sr.'s 
birtliday  party. 

They  were  still  living  up  in  that  three- 
loom  rear  apartment  in  tlie  Bronx,  that 
day  the  Rockefeller  limousine  came  to 
their  door  to  take  Jan  to  Pocantico  Hills, 
and  the  smart-liveried  chauffeur  climbed 
the  long  flights  of  stairs  to  say  the  car 
was  waiting. 

It  was  the  first  time  Alice  wished  they 
had  taken  a  front  apartinent,  because  then 
she  could  have  seen  Jan,  in  all  his  grandeur, 
stepping  into  that  car,  with  a  chauffeur 
holding  the  door  open  for  him.  Even  then 
there  wasn't  too  much  money  in  the  Peerce 
family  and  .A.Iice  had  pressed  his  suit  her- 
self, so  that  she  could  buy  him  the  new 
shirt  he  was  wearing  and  the  tie  she  had 
seen  at  a  smart  shop.  He  locked  so  im- 
portant and  successful,  standing  there 
while  she  brushed  him  again— though  there 
really  wasn't  any  need  of  it,  for  she  had 
hceii  brushing  him  all  afternoon! 

Then  he  kissed  her  and  was  gone,  but 
before  lie  had  even  started  on  his  way 
downstairs  .Mice  was  flying  up  the  stairs, 
still  in  the  little  cotton  house  dress  she 
was  wearing.  Up  and  up  she  ran,  and 
her  heart  raced  her  slim,  running  feet  to 
the  roof.  And  then  she  was  there,  leaning 
over  the  parapet,  her  eyes  straining  down 
to  him  as  he  walked  briskly  across  the 
sidewalk  and  into  the  car.  Just  that  glimpse 
(if  him,  and  he  was  gone,  and  Alice  stand- 
ing there,  clutching  at  one  of  the  poles 
liolding  up  a  clothes  line,  finding  that 
women  can  cr_\-  as  hard  when  they  are 
happy  as  they  can  when  they  are  sad  ! 

Jan  Peerce  was  important  at  the  Music 
Hall  now,  e\en  though  his  friend  Roxy  no 
longer  was  connected  with  it.  Then  came 
the  hardest  decision  of  his  life.  Roxy  was 
L'ctting  talent  toqetlier  for  a  tour  of  the 
cmiiitr\-  anri  wanted  Peerce  as  his  star. 

Already  Roxy's  sun  was  setting.  He  no 
longer  was  the  great  figure  in  the  theatre 
he  had  been  all  these  \ears,  and  the  Music 
Hall  was  important.  Not  only  important, 
iuit  it  spelled  >ecuritv  in  great  big  capital 
l.  ttirs.     P,nt  Jan  left  all  that  security  and 

a  clL-nur  with  Roxy,  knowin.i;  all  the  time 
that  the  tour  almost  certainly  was  doomed 
to  failure.  I5ut  that's  the  kind  of  man  he 
is.  loyal  even  to  the  point  of  jeopardizing 
his  own  future.  And  Roxy  had  begged 
him  to  come,  had  told  him  that  now  he 
needed  him. 


So  Jan  went,  and,  as  he  had  foreseen, 
the  tour  was  not  a  success  and  he  was 
back  in  New  York  starting  all  over  again. 
Then  the  Paramount  Theatre  engaged  him 
for  a  long  run  and  before  that  engagement 
was  over  the  Music  Hall  had  sent  for  him 
again,  and  Jan  Peerce  has  consistently  re- 
mained one  of  its  major  attractions. 

Then  came  his  radio  engagements,  and 
that  meant  he  really  was  making  money 
and,  of  course,  that  meant,  in  turn,  a  wdiole 
new  scale  of  living. 

But  even  success  cannot  stave  off  heart- 
aches. There  came  the  day  that  little  boy 
of  theirs  was  desperately  ill  with  mastoid, 
and  Alice  and  Jan  sat  the  night  through 
beside  a  small  hospital  bed  and  knew  that 
in  the  morning  this  first-born  child  of 
theirs  w-as  going  through  a  dangerous 
operation.  They  were  back  where  they 
started  from  that  night,  a  young  mother 
and  father,  despairing  and  frightened  and 
know  ing"  how  little  either  success  or  secur- 
ity really  means. 

While  his  little  boy  was  on  the  operating- 
table,  Jan  had  to  sing  at  the  Music  Hall. 
All  his  professional  training  was  needed, 
then,  to  bring  him  through  the  ordeal,  to 
force  his  voice  through  the  tears  he  was 
swallowing  as  he  stood  on  the  stage. 

Alice's  face  was  there  before  him  as  he 
sang.  .'Mice's  eyes,  dim  with  tears,  her 
face  lined  with  the  horror  of  that  night 
they  had  been  through.  Alice's  smile 
trembling,  as  it  had  trembled  when  she  had 
kissed  him  and  w  hispered  everything  would 
be  all  right. 

It  didn't  help  that  the  song  he  was  sing- 
ing was  a  gay  one  and  yet  the  words  came 
tripping  lightly  from  his  lips. 

La  Donna  e  Mobile  was  the  song. 

"There  I  was  up  on  that  stage,"  Jan 
savs,  "telling  the  audience  women  are 
fickle !" 

Is  it  any  wonder  he's  disliked  that  song 
ever  since,  that  song  he  sang  on  that  awful 
afternoon,  with  every  word  of  it  a  lie  on 
his  lips,  remembering  that  woman  he  had 
married  and  the  strength  and  truth  and 
tenderness  of  her  every  word  and  act. 

There  are  two  children  in  that  huge 
apartment  the  young  Peerces  have  to-day, 
for  that  little  boy  has  a  baby  sister  now 
and  the  little  family  is  sitting  on  top  of 
the  world. 

Their  home,  at  first  a  five-room  apart- 
ment, now  is  an  eight-room  one  on  'West 
Knd  Avenue,  since  Jan  Peerce  signed  with 
Rubinoff  on  the  Chevrolet  hour.  But  they 
feel  that,  for  them,  success  was  first  rooted 
down  in  those  few  crowded  rooms  on  the 
lower  East  Side,  when  Jan  was  a  small 
buy  listening  to  the  song  his  mother  sanj 
to  him.  Rooted  in  the  tears  that  came  to 
his  eyes  that  night  when  he  thought  he 
was  a  failure,  that  afternoon  when  his 
little  boy  was  in  danger.  Rooted  in  the 
great  love  they  share.  Rooted  in  that 
warm  heart  of  his  that  feels  so  deeply. 

For  that's  the  thing  life  does  to  those 
who  aren't  afraid  to  live  it  to  the  full.  It 
has  a  way  of  coming  right  back  into  an\  - 
thiiig  they  are  doing,  whether  it's  painting 
a  picture  or  writing  a  book  or  singing  a 
song. 


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tion  that   first ! )    the   Valcniiitc  Cookies, 
that  Cheese  Loaf,  whicli  also  provides  you 
with    several    of    my    favorite  sandwich 
spreads,  and  the  Washington  Pound  Cake. 

Guess  that  about  covers  the  subject  as 
completely  as  I'm  able  to,  except  tliat  I 
want  to  call  your  attention  to  those  cute 
little  place  card  holders  that  are  pictured 
at  the  beginning:  of  this  article.  They're 
made  with  marshmallovvs  as  a  base,  into 
which  appropriate  little  paper  favors  are 
placed.  You  can  buy  little  hatchets, 
cupids  and  shamrocks,  or  you  can  make 
them  yourself  out  of  colored  paper — the 
stiff  kind  that  children  use  for  kinder- 
garten work.  They'll  give  added  humor 
and  charm  to  your  party.  And  I  do  hope 
you'll  try  some  of  my  recipes,  too,  when 
you  entertain  next  time.  So  hurry  up 
and  send  in  your  coupon  and  you'll  get 
directions  for  these  dishes  of  mine  in  time 
for  most,  if  not  all,  of  February's  festivities 
and  certainly  for  the  March  special  events. 
And  even  the  late  comers  (as  well  as  the 
early-birds)  can  enjoy  having  these  party 
refresiiments  throughout  the  entire  year. 

Here,  also,  are  the  otlicr  recipes  I  prom- 
ised to  give  you  And  now  once  more  it's 
time  for  me  to  sign  off.  Thanks  for  your 
many  kind  and  cordial  letters  and  let  me 
repeat  again,  thanks  for  listenin'. 

My  F.^vorite  Fruit  Sal.ad 

1  package  lime- flavored  gelatin 

2  cups  ivater 

1  cup  small  grenn  seedless  grapes 

%  cup  chopped,  pitted  dates 

Yz  apple,  dried 

1  small  banana,  diced 

%  t^"P  coarsely  broken  nut  nieafs 

Dissolve  lime  gelatin  in  water,  accord- 
ing to  the  directions  given  on  the  package 
in  which  it  comes.  Chill  until  it  begins  to 
set.  Add  the  grapes,  wliicli  lia\e  been  cut 
in  halves  lengthwise,  the  dates,  apple.  Ii.i- 
nana  and  nut  meats.  Fold  these  into  tlic 
gelatin  mixture  carefully.  Turn  mixture 
into  individual  molds  which  have  been 
rinsed  in  ice  water.  When  firm,  unmold 
each  on  a  single  leaf  of  crisp  lettuce. 
Garnish  with  a  dab  of  whipped  cream 
topped  with  a  red  Maraschino  cherry. 

Pineapple  Egg-Nog 

1  egg,  separated 

2  tablespoons  sugar 
2  cups  chilled,  canned  pineapple  juice 
2  tablespoons  lemon  juice 

nutmeg 

Beat  the  egg  yolk  until  thick  and  lemon 
colored.  Add  the  sugar.  Place  mixture  in 
cocktail  shaker  or  mason  jar,  add  pine- 
apple juice  and  lemon  juice  and  shake 
well.  Beat  the  egg  white  until  light  but 
not  stiff,  then  fold  it  in  lightly.  Pour 
into  small  glasses,  dust  lightly  with  nut- 
meg and  serve  iinnudiately.  If  desired, 
sherry  may  be  suh^titulol  for  the  lemon 
juice,  using  slightly  less  sugar. 


Kate  Smith,  Radio  Stars  Magaiine, 
149  Madison  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Please  send  me  you 
Refreshment  recipes. 


special  Party 


QUAKER  PUFFED  WHEAT 


75 


RADIO  STARS 


Said-Flush 
SAyES  mRK 
-THE  TOILET 
GLISTENS 
AND  GERMS 
ARE  KILLED 


You  don't  have  to  scrub  and  scour  to 
clean  a  toilet  bowl.  You  don't  even  have 
to  touch  it  with  your  hands.  Sani -Flush 
is  made  especially  to  do  this  unpleasant 
job  for  you.  Just  sprinkle  a  little  in  the 
bowl.  (Follow  directions  on  the  can.) 
Flush  the  toilet  and  see  stains  and  in- 
crustations disappear.  Spots  vanish. 
Odors  go.  Germs  are  killed. 

Sani-Flush  purifies  the  hidden  trap 
that  no  other  method  can  reach.  It  can- 
not injure  plumbing.  Sani-Flush  is  also 
effective  for  cleaning  automobile  radiators 
{directions  on  can).  Sold  by  grocery, 
drug,  hardware,  and  five-and-ten-cent 
stores — 25  and  10  cent  sizes. 
The  Hygienic  Products  Co., 


Canton,  Ohio. 


CLEANS  TOILET  BOWLS  WITHOUT  SCOURING 


COLOR  YOUR  HAIR  l"^,"^'^ 


Shampoo  and  color  your  hair  at  the 
same  time,   any   shade.  SHAMPO- 

KOLOR   won't   rub    off.    Colors  roots, 
leaves  hair  soft,  natural;  permits  perm  wave 
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3-IN-aNE  OIL 

LUBRICATES-CLEANS'PREVENTS  RUST 


SHE  MARRIED  A  SHRIMP! 

{Continued  from  page  29) 


take  a  chance,  so  I  said  notliiiio  hut  waited 
for  the  two  to  appear.  One,  a  talhsh  man, 
was  Ballard  MacDonaUl,  the  other,  a  wee, 
small  man,"  (she  rolled  her  eyes  and  stuck 
out  her  lower  lip)  "was  the  Shrimp!" 

But  things  worked  out  differently  this 
time,  for  Ballard  fell  ill  and  left  Billy 
Rose  to  do  the  skit  by  himself.  Tireless,  a 
veritable  dynamo  on  the  small  side,  clever, 
he  did  a  perfect  skit  and  three  very  swell 
songs  and  Fannie  fell  in  love  with  the 
songs — and  with  their  writer,  who  was 
still  a  Shrimp  and  a  Goose,  but  witli  sub- 
tle shadings  of  the  words  that  made  him 
the  best  Shrimp  and  the  best  Goose  in 
the  world! 

Her  young-  daughter,  Frances,  interrupt- 
ed the  seance  to  show  her  mother  some 
gloves  she  had  bought.  "Don't  just  think 
they're  good,  you've  got  to  like  them!" 
She  has  her  mother's  look,  much  more  so 
than  Young  Billy.  Frances  is  an  accom- 
plished horsewoman.  If  you  were  able  to 
get  over  to  the  big  Horse  Show  at  Madi- 
son Sciuare  Garden,  you  probably  saw  her 
in  a  very  smart  habit,  riding  side  saddle. 

Young  Billy  is  the  artist  of  the  family. 
Xot  the  type  of  artist  who  draws  for  the 
comic  strips,  whose  characters  say  "glceps" 
every  so  often,  nor  the  kind  who  slave  in 
the  advertising  offices.  Master  Rose  is  an 
artist  for  art's  sake,  with  a  hint  of  future 
scenic  work.  Mostly,  however,  he  goes  in 
for  moderns,  whose  daubs  of  paint  are 
more  apt  to  confuse  than  inspire,  and  he 
has  inveigled  Fannie  into  interesting  her- 
self in  them.  They  both  paint,  but  Fannie 
hides  hers  from  Big  Billy. 

"Young  Billy  knows  more  about  Picasso 
than  I,"  she  admitted.  "He  bought  his 
first  painting  the  other  day.  It  showed  a 
hoy  i)utting  on  his  pants."  (A  gesture,  im- 
pcissible  of  translation,  told  me  her  private 
opinion  of  the  spending  of  good  money  on 
pictures  of  boys  putting  on  their  pants!) 

But  for  all  their  -arty  interests,  the 
family  remains  a  natural,  whulcsonic  gang. 
How  could  they  be  otlurwisc,  with  I'annie 
there  to  laugh  at  prtlcnsc  whenever  it 
rears  its  ugly  head? 

"They're  all  natural,"  said  Fannie,  "Big 
Billy,  especially.  He's  a  considerate  and 
kind  man.  hut  he's  not  ;..;iven  to  the  more 
showy  sort  of  politeiu'ss,  you  know,  like 
rushing  over  and  pulling  tlie  cliair  almost 
out  from  under  you.  I  like  him  better  the 
way  he  is.     I  know  he's  a  gentleman. 

"Like  most  woiiu'ii,"  she  groaned,  "I 
have  the  devil's  own  lime  getting  the  man 
to  the  tailor's.  He  likes  liis  clothes,  but  he 
thinks  fluTc  slioukl  I)e  a  way  for  a  man 
s)mi)l\  (o  rail  a  tailor  and  sa\- :  'Send  me 
o\(r  a  suil,  something  snapity  in  plaid!'" 

Young  I'.illy  adde<l  that  Big  P.illy  was 
h.inl  oil  Ills  clothes  and  ((iiili<le<l  that  Big 
liillv  liked  liis  heels  buill  ui),  "so's  he'd 
l.iok  taller  than  he  really  is."  He  lias  a 
bad  habit  of  leaving  coals  in  i  (  slaiiraiil s, 
while  he  ahseiK-niiiidedly  walks  oul,  trying 
to  rliynie  "iiioon"  with  something  new.  He 
has  a  (  oiiijle  of  liuky  hats  that  he  wouldn't 
swa])  lor  eleiiliants. 

Speaking  for  his  sister  and  himself, 
Young    Billy    admitted    that    they  were 


pretty  crazy  about  the  guy.  "Sometimes 
Frances  and  I  ask  him  for  dough  and  if 
he's  in  the  mood  he'll  discuss  our  reasons 
for  wanting  it.  He's  so  clever  that  usually 
we  end  up  agreeing  that  we  really  didn't 
want  it,  anyway,  and,  after  one  particu- 
larly good  argument,  I  asked  him  if  I 
couldn't  let  him  have  a  little.  Of  course 
we  know,  after  all,  he'll  come  through 
with  what  we  really  need. 

"He's  a  pip  of  a  comic,  too.  He  wrote 
me,  a  while  ago,  that  he  didn't  fear  a  revo- 
lution because,  if  there  was  one,  he  said, 
he'd  probably  produce  it  and  break  his 
backers !" 

Fannie  was  reminded  that  she  had  got 
a  letter  from  Billy  that  day — now  where 
had  she  put  it?  After  tearing  through 
three  desks  she  found  it  under  the  cush- 
ions of  the  chair  she  had  been  sitting  in. 

'"/  feel  as  thi'iigli  z^'e  zcere  married 
by  remote  eoiitrol,'"  (she  read  from 
it)  "  'and  I  am  so  tired.  I  knoiv  ive 
both  leant  to  quit  soon  and  just  get  to 
knozv  eaeh  other  I'elter.  This  I  do 
know,  thoutili,  that  after  seven  years 
I  don't  ii'iint  anyo)ie  hut  you.'"  (She 
si}.;hed.)  "'Xe.vt  summer,  perhaps,  ivc 
can  both  knock  off  icork  and  go  to 
Europe. 

"'You'd  love  my  cafe  here,  the 
Casa  Manana.  It's  not  a  hit — it's  a 
bloody  sensalion!  It  seats  3,600  and 
that  makes  if  three  times  as  big  as 
any  Xezo  York  cafe.  Not  bad  for  a 
prairie  tozcn  of  170,000.'  " 

She  chuckled  at  something  in  the  letter 
that  she  didn't  read  out  loud  and  then 
read  on. 

"'Tell  Bill  and  Frances  that  I'm 
sorry  they  couldn't  get  dozen  here. 
Tel!  'em  I  miss  'cm  like  the  dev'd  and 
fell  'em  they  knozc  zchat  I  think  of 
'em.  th'  mugs!  After  their  school  is 
irvcr,  I'll  take  them  into  business  ivith 
me  and  make  a  pile  of  dough  for  each 
of  flicm  and  people  zcill  respect  them 
like  anything.  I  Ud  you  all  hear  about 
the  man  icho  asked  his  boss  for  more 
money  or  more  rcspccl.'  His  boss 
(lave  him  a  fiz'c-d'dlar  raise  and  threxu 
him  out  of  the  office!  Tell  Bill  not  to 
get  too  fresh  zcilli  the  dames  but  to 
zcaif  till  I  get  there. 

"  '/'/;;  talking  to  a  picture  company 
al'iiiit  doing  a  fcie  tliimis  for  them. 
Right  noze  they're  zcorried  about  the 
dough,  but  if  they  hire  bums,  there's 
no  reason  why  they  can't  use  another 


Fannie  laughed  quietly,  but  Billy  could- 
n't hold  in,  he  whooped  ■  with  laughter. 
"Tile  kids  won't  go  out  when  he's  home. 
Tluy'<l  rather  sit  around  and  talk  to  him. 
Ale,  too,"  said  Fannie. 

"What  do  you  two  do  for  excitement?" 
I  asked. 

"We  don't  go  in  for  it,"  she  said.  "Billy 
doesn't  play  cards  or  drink  and  he  posi- 


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tively  liatcs  big  parties.  We're  both  inclined 
to  prefer  our  liome  and,  of  course,  he 
hkes  to  talk  at  nie  and,  too,  he's  a  potato- 
pancake  man. 

"He  eats  the  things  as  fast  as  I  can 
run  them  through  the  meat  chopper.  I  cook 
'em  on  a  grill  big  enough  for  a  hotel,  but 
none  too  big  for  our  parties,  which  always 
end  up  in  the  kitchen." 

I  asked  her  what  she  thought  about 
people  marrying  into  their  own  profes- 
sions. Some  Hollywoodians  had  found  it 
impractical,  I'd  heard. 

"Mebbe,"  she  answered,  directing  with 
one  hand  the  placing  of  flowers  by  her 
maid.  "In  our  case,  we've  found  that  we 
did  the  right  thing.  You  remember  what 
he  said  in  the  letter.  .  . 

"Then  there's  t!ie  little  matter  of  com- 
mon interests,  which  bothers  so  many 
marriages.  Ours  is  the  theatre.  Our  long- 
winded  discussions  help  us.  As  a  singer,  I 
think  I  know  how  a  song  will  affect  the 
listeners.  If  I  don't  like  a  certain  line  in  a 
song  he's  doing,  I  say  so.  He  hasn't,  I 
admit,  quite  reached  the  heavenly  stage 
where  he  will  immediately  accept  my 
criticisms.  Most  often  he  laughs  them 
off,  but  a  little  later  he  sneaks  back  to 
ask  me  again  what  was  wrong  with  the 
lyric  or  the  tune.  He's  sheepish  about  it. 

"After  all,  I'm  sort  of  hanging  around 
the  top  of  the  ladder,  while  he's  scooting 
up  it.  The  eight  years  difference  in  our 
ages  hasn't  made  a  particle  of  difference, 
but  the  e.xtra  eight  years  of  stage  experi- 
ence do  give  me  a  background  that  is  help- 
ful to  him.  Our  marriage  has  gradually 
developed  into  a  case  of  needing  each  other 
— and  being  glad  we  have  each  other." 


Gertrude  Niesen,  glamorous  sing- 
ing star  of  Broadway  and  radio, 
long  popular  with  CBS  listeners. 

That  sent  her  oft'  on  a  sort  of  presiden- 
tial campaign  for  Billy  Q.  Rose  that,  had 
he  been  running  for  the  presidency  of  any- 
thing, would  have  swept  him  into  office  like 
a  Democrat.  He  was,  she  said,  a  marvel 


of  concentration.  Fill  the  room  with  a 
thousand  jabbering  tea-drinkers  and  Signor 
Rose  would  deal  with  a  mental  problem 
before  you  could  say:  "it's  de-Iovcly,"  if 
you  wanted  to.  His  career  was  an  ever- 
constant  marvel  to  her.  How  he  had  de- 
cided that  he  wanted  to  know  shorthand 
and  how  he  had  subsequently  become,  with 
ease,  world's  champion.  Of  how  much  Mr. 
Bernard  Baruch  thought  of  him  as  his 
onc-tinic  secretary.  And  when  she  de- 
scril)C(l  his  easy  ability  to  talk  to  twenty 
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Xapolcon,  he  has  only  to  suggest  sleep  to 
himself  and  it  is  his.  He's  a  man  in  a 
million — at  least,  I  gathered  that  she  felt 
that  way. 

Would  she  retire? 

"Oh,  no!"  she  was  aghast,  "I  couldn't! 
I'd  be  lost  withc'Ut  work,  although  I  could 
do  with  a  few  less  stage  shows  in  the 
week.  I  am  crazy  about  the  radio,  with 
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when  suddenly,  he  slipped,  fell  and  broke 
his  collar  bone.  The  newspapers  thought 
it  was  funny.    One  columnist  wrote : 

"Always  original,  Ed  W'ynn  broke  his 
collar  bone  playing  golf." 

But  it  wasn't  funny,  because  the  show 
he  was  starring  in  had  a  performance  the 
same  evening.  The  broken  clavicle  was 
bound  with  adhesive  tape  and  three  hours 
atcr,  the  comedian  was  on  the  stage  of 
the  George  M.  Cohan  Theatre  roaring 
them  into  the  aisles.  He  did  everything 
the  part  called  for,  except  the  more  violent 
acrobatics.  Did  it  again  the  following 
night,  and  many  nights  after  that — and 
somehow,  thanks  to  abundant  vitality,  the 
bone  knit. 

In  Kansas  City,  playing  in  Simple 
Simon,  he  went  on  under  even  more 
ghastly  circumstances.  Seized  with  un- 
Iiearable  pain  in  his  abdomen,  he  sent  for 
a  doctor. 

"Take  this  man  to  the  hospital  at  once," 
said  the  medico.  "He  has  inte>tiiial  flu. 
It's  not  to  be  trifled  with." 

But  again  Ed  informed  the  doctor  that 
he  was  an  actor,  that  his  play  opened  that 
night.  It  had  been  extensively  adver- 
tised.   He  was  expected. 

"Hospital?"  he  shrieked.  "I  open  to- 
night !" 

Said  the  doctor : 

"You  mean  you  are  thinking  of  going 
on  the  stage  tonight?  It's  madness.  It's 
suicide!  Unless  you  go  at  once  to  the 
Irospital,  I  wash  my  hands  of  the  case." 

Another  doctor  was  called.  A  special- 
ist, who  said:  "If  you  have  the  guts  to  do 
it,  I'll  get  you  on  the  stage." 

So  Ed  Wynn's  tormented  body  was  shot 
with  pain-deadening  drugs,  drugs  that  re- 
duced his  vision  and  robbed  him  almost 
tf)tally  of  consciousness. 

.\  doctor  was  in  the  dressing-room. 
Another  sat  in  the  front  row.  The  special- 
ist was  on  the  stage.  The  stage  manager 
and  assistants  took  the  comedian  as  you 
would  a  sleep  walker  and  leaned  him 
against  a  post  in  the  wings — and  when  his 
cue  came,  pushed  him  forward  on  to  the 
stage.  Ed  stumbled  forward  a  few  steps 
until  he  found  something  to  lean  on — and 
there  he  went  through  his  part. 

"I  didn't  know  what  I  was  doing  or 
wliat  I  was  saying,"  said  Wynn.  "I  didn't 
hear  the  ai)plause  or  the  laughter.  I  was 
like  a  prize-fighter,  who  is  out  on  his 
feet  but  keeps  on,  going  through  the  mo- 
ti<jns  instinctively. 

"When  the  curtain  fell,  some<inc  led  me 
back  to  the  dressing-room.  In  the  second 
act,  the  stage  directions  required  me  to 
lie  down  and  pretend  that  I  was  asleep. 
Invari.-ihly  at  tliis  jioint  I  did,  in  fact,  go  to 
sleep.  .Xnother  time,  I  stumbled  and  fell 
to  the  floor — and  was  sound  asleep  before 
I  was  puked  up 

"Why  did  I  do  it?  Why  did  I  go 
tlirough  this  inferno,  when  I  might  have 
been  taking  my  cure  like  a  normal  man 
in  a  hos])ital?  Instinct,  I  guess.  Rever- 
ence for  the  troui)er's  motto.  'The  show 
must  go  on'  may  have,  in  the  beginning, 
been  invented  by  theatre  owners  who  hated 


the  idea  of  having  to  refund  money  to 
ticket  buyers,  but  it  has  become  a  tradi- 
tion, a  noble  watchword. 

"My  son,  Keenan,  has  absorbed  it.  He 
has  pranced  about  the  stage  with  col- 
lodion tormenting  his  legs,  bruised  in  an 
automobile  accident.  He  has  danced  on  a 
half-healed  fractured  foot." 

Possibly  the  worst  of  these  ordeals  was 
Ed  Wynn's  experience  in  Washington. 
This  time  it  was  due  to  his  teeth.  Four 
neglected  molars,  gone  into  abscesses,  were 
punctured  unwittingly  by  a  clumsy  Balti- 
more dentist.  Pain  cannot  be  described, 
but  Ed  Wynn  says  he  hollered  and  jumped 
in  agony,  and,  to  keep  from  doing  him- 
self an  injury,  he  had  two  of  the  chorus 
boys  hold  him  down  on  the  ride  to  Wash- 
ington. 

In  his  hotel — this  being  Sunday  and  no 
dentists  being  available — he  called  his 
friend,  Joseph  P.  Tumulty,  secretary  to 
the  late  President  Wilson.  After  an  hour 
or  so  of  delay,  a  little  gray  man  appeared, 
an  unimpressive  man  of  middle  age.  He 
inspired  no  confidence.  He  looked  briefly 
into  the  Wynn  mouth  and  told  Ed  to 
come  around  to  his  office  immediately.  The 
comedian  had  little  faith  in  this  dentist — 
but  what  else  was  there  to  do? 

From  his  place  in  the  dental  chair,  he 
faced  a  wall  covered  with  photographs  of 
the  nation's  great  men,  Chief  Justice 
Hughes,  and  others,  all  autographed  with 
expressions  of  thanks  to  the  little  gray 
dentist.  Ed's  confidence  returned.  He 
begged  him  to  fix  up  his  mouth  to  enable 
him  to  go  on  with  the  show  that  night. 

The  story  of  what  the  dentist  did  for 
Ed  Wynn  is  enshrined  in  medical  journals, 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  dental  feats 
of  all  time.  The  dentist  popped  two  pills 
into  Ed's  mouth,  told  him  to  go  home  and 
sleep,  but  to  be  at  his  office  immediately 
after  the  show — or  fifteen  minutes  before 
midnight. 

The  comedian  was  there  and  all  through 
the  small  hours,  the  dentist  drilled  and 
hammered  and  cut  and  searched  and — in 
four  instances — extracted.  At  eight  o'clock 
in  the  morning — eight  hours  later — he  re- 
leased the  actor. 

"Go  home  and  get  some  -sleep,"  he  said. 
"Btit  be  back  tomorrow  night  after  the 
show." 

So,  for  one  week,  Ed  Wynn  spent  eight 
agonizing  hours — from  midnight  to  eight 
in  the  morning  of  each  day — at  the  den- 
tist's ;  three  hours  on  the  stage ;  the  re- 
mainder of  the  time  in  sleep.  Each  night, 
after  amusing  the  good  people  of  Wash- 
ington, he  left  them  to  go  to  torture. 
If  you  think  little  of  this,  check  up  on 
your  own  dental  experiences !  What  is  the 
longest  yon  ever  spent  in  a  dentist's  chair? 
One  hour  seems  long! 

At  the  end  of  the  week,  Ed  had  been 
true  to  the  actor's  tradition.  .\nd  he  had 
lost  four  teeth.  In  their  place  he  had 
acquired  what  the  little  gray  man  de- 
scribed as  a  "temporary  bridge."  That 
was  six  years  ago  and  the  bridge  still  is 
sound. 

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question:  "Alust  tlie  sliow  go  on?"  It  con- 
cerns Ed  Wynn  indirectly — hut  it  concerns 
him  intimately,  for  it  also  is  the  story  of 
his  romance. 

This  was  long  ago.  Ed  W>  nn,  billed  as 
"the  man  with  the  funny  hats,"  was  on 
the  same  bill  in  vaudeville  witli  Frank 
Keenan,  the  well-known  k'.uitiinate  star, 
Keenan  was  doing  a  sketch  in  which  his 
daughter,  Hilda  Keenan,  played  the  part 
of  a  nurse. 

"When  I  saw  her,  I  was  lost,"  said 
Wynn.  "She  was  beautiful.  I  couldn't 
take  my  eyes  off  of  her,  I  tipped  my  hat 
to  her,  flirting.  She  ignored  me.  One 
night  I  was  hanging  around,  completely 
smitten,  watching  her,  my  jaw  hanging 
slack,  my  eyes  full  of  adoration,  when  it 
happened. 

"In  the  sketch,  the  mn'se  left  the  stage 
to  make  way  for  a  third  character.  As 
she  went  out,  he  came  in.  But  this  night, 
he  couldn't  come  in.  He  was  lying  there 
dead,  stone  cold  in  the  wings.  Hilda  took 
in  the  situation  at  a  glance  and,  instead 
of  leaving,  turned  back  to  the  stage,  say- 
ing: 'He's  gone,'  at  the  same  time  giving 
her  father  a  meaningful  kxjk. 

"Then  followed  mie  of  the  most  mag- 
nificent pieces  of  ad  libhing  I  have  ever 
seen.  Frank  Keenan  spoke  fur  seven 
minutes,  of  this  and  tliat.  and  finally  man- 
aged to  pull  the  strings  of  the  plot  to- 
gether and  bring  the  sketch  t(.)  a  ckisc. 

"After  it  was  over,  tlicre  was  c<inlusion 
in  the  wings  and  I  saw  an  opportunity  to 
make  the  ac(|uamtance  of  the  girl.  I  went 
up  to  Air.  Keenan  and  asked  him  if  it 
would  help  him  any,  if  1  escorted  his 
daughter  home. 

"Well,  to  put  it  mildly,  he  spurned  me. 
I  was  a  mere  vaudevillian.  And  no  vaude- 
ville mountebank  was  going  to  take  his 
daughter  home!" 

The  ne.xt  afternoon,  on  the  local  golf 
course, —  this  all  happened  in  Winnipeg — 
the  situation  was  different.  .A  frieiul  of 
both  Wynn  and  Keenan  introduced  them. 
That  night  they  had  dinner  together.  It 
was  the  beginning  of  a  great  frien<!ship 
and  a  great  romance.  The  friendship  led 
to  the  courtship  and  marriage  of  Ed  Wynn 
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Braddock's  radio  contract  is  the  biggest 
individual  contract  the  champitjii  and  his 
manager  have  signed,  since  winning  the 
title  from  Baer.  It  calls  for  $400  a  broad- 
cast, or  $1,200  a  week.  It  runs  for  a  year, 
the  sponsors  having  the  choice  of  dropping 
or  continuing  the  option  at  the  end  of  each 
thirteen-week  period.  Should  it  run  the 
entire  year,  it  will  net  the  fighter  $62,400. 
For  defeating  Baer,  Braddock  received  less 
than  half  that  amount — $31,000  to  be  exact. 

If  you  listen  to  Braddock,  you  know  the 
continuity  of  the  Tastycast  program.  It 
is  the  life  story  of  the  champion,  based  in 
no  small  part  on  the  book.  Relief  to  Roy- 
alty, written  by  Lud,  sports  editor  and 
columnist  of  the  Htid.io>i  Di.'ijHilcli.  Ltid. 
who  knew  Jiininy  from  boyhood,  did  a 
remarkable  job,  which  is  complete  down 
to  the  most  minute  detail. 

The  radio  script  is  written  by  Jack  Ko- 
foed,  sports  director  of  li'lIN  and  well- 
known  as  a  sports  columnist  on  several 
New  York  and  Philadelphia  papers.  Ko- 
foed  is  taking  Braddock's  life  story  in 
round-by-round  fashion,  at  a  rate  that  will 
rec|uire  nearly  the  full  52  weeks  for  com- 
pletion. 

Harry  Balogh,  who  sprang  into  promi- 
nence as  a  fight  announcer,  after  the  re- 
tirement from  active  service  of  the  late 
Joe  Huinphreys,  announces  the  program  as 
he  would  a  prize  fight.  Since  F.alogh  has 
been  the  announcer  at  all  recent  fights 
sponsored  by  the  Twentieth  Ci  iitiiry  Sport- 
ing Club,  which  controls  |,,e  i.oiiis,  his 
voice  is  well  known  to  raiiio's  light  fans 
and   heightens  the   illusion   of  a  boxing 


program.  But,  just  to  keep  the  records 
straight,  it  was  Al  Frazin  who  did  the 
announcing  at  Madison  Square  Garden 
Bowl  when  Braddock  defeated  Baer. 

In  framing  the  program,  actors  and  ac- 
tresses from  the  legitimate  theatre  have 
been  hired,  with  Braddock,  at  present, 
merely  greeting  the  listeners  when  the  pro- 
gram opens,  setting  the  stage  for  the  inci- 
dent which  is  to  follow.  At  the  conclusion 
of  the  dramatization  of  that  particular 
round  of  Braddock's  battle  with  life,  Jim 
returns  to  the  microphone  with  a  few 
words  about  his  prospects  against  future 
opponents,  and  about  past  bouts. 

The  child  actors  who  play  the  parts  of 
Jim  and  the  friends  of  his  schooldays,  all 
are  from  Sidney  Kingley's  stage  success. 
Dead  End.  As  the  story  unwinds,  Brad- 
dock, himself,  will  play  his  own  part,  when 
it  comes  time  for  the  scrijit  to  pick  up  his 
actual  ring  career.  And  his  manager, 
Gould,  is  eagerly  awaiting  the  time  wdien 
he  enters  into  the  story.  Watching  Jimmy 
before  the  mike  has  enthused  Gould  to  the 
point  where  he  is  itching  to  enrich  the 
drama  with  his  own  portrayal  of  himself 
as  the  champ's  manager. 

"Who  could  play  Joe  Gould  better  than 
Joe  Gould?"  he  demands.  "Besides,  they'll 
probably  pay  me  extra  for  it." 

Braddock's  sincerity  before  the  invisible 
audience  is  not  the  assumption  of  a  role. 
Since  liecoming  champion,  he  made  close 
to  $100,000,  through  personal  appearances, 
endorsements  and  so  on.  But  he  hasn't 
changed  his  mode  of  living.  He  still  re- 
sides with  Mrs.  Braddock  and  the  children 
in  the  same  house  in  which  he  lived  w'hen 
he  was  Case  No.  2796  on  the  relief  rolls  of 
the  Township  of  North  Bergen,  New  Jer- 
sey— with  one  notable  exception.  Brad- 
dock now  lives  upstairs.  He  used  to  live 
on  the  ground  floor  and  haul  ashes,  per- 
forming the  duties  of  janitor  in  lieu  of 
paying  rent. 

A  shiny  new  automobile  of  medium  class 
and  an  improvement  in  his  dress  are  the 
only  outward  appearances  of  Braddock's 
rise  above  relief.  His  suits  are  no  more 
expensive,  but  he  doesn't  have  to  wear 
them  as  long. 

Jimmy  walks  every  day  from  Gould's 
suite  of  offices  in  the  Mayflower  Hotel  on 
Central  Park  West  to  Stillman's  gymna- 
sium. He  smokes  a  cigar  before  and  after 
the  workout  and,  if  the  cigar  isn't  smoked 
down  too  far,  when  it  comes  time  to  leave 
for  the  gymnasium,  he  caches  the  stub  be- 
hind a  filing  cabinet  in  Gould's  office,  to 
retrieve  it  when  he  returns ! 

It  is  difficult  to  imagine  a  more  dingy 
and  lack-lustre  spot  than  Stillman's  gym. 
There  is  a  nuisty  odor  permeating  the  two 
canvas-rings  and  the  roomful  of  punching 
bags,  comparable  to  the  backstage  smells 
of  a  cheap  vaudeville  house  on  the  six-a- 
day  time.  It  was  moved  to  more  pretentious 
quarters  once,  but  nu'wd  l  i^lit  back.  The 
boxers  liked  the  old  ini.nters  lietter.  And 
Braddock  likes  it,  too,  proving  he  is  a 
boxer  first  and  a  world  champion  second. 
He  works  out  in  the  same  room  with  pre- 
liminary boys,  kids  who  may  never  get  a 


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professional  chance,  puncli-drunk  old- 
timers  who  nexer  will  light  again  and  the 
usual  riff-raff  which  pugilism  invariably 
attracts.    And,  to  repeat,  he  likes  it ! 

Braddock  likes  lots  of  things,  which  is 
no  small  part  of  his  charm.  Ho  likes  liciiig 
champion,  he  likes  being  on  the  radici,  he 
likes  being  interviewed.  He  even  likes  the 
idea  of  fighting  Joe  Louis'  The  Brown 
Bomber  hokls  no  terrors  lor  the  Jersey 
Irishman,  who  went  blithel\-  along  with  his 
training  preparations  for  a  i.oui^  bout  at 
Atlantic  City,  whik-  making  liis  radio  dehiit. 
Microphone  artists  are  troup^■r^  a>  go<i<l  as 
any,  and  many  have  been  brilliant  before 
the  mike  while  suffering  from  private 
troubles,  but,  so  far,  Hraddoek  is  the  only 
radio  performer  who  had  tlu-  iiro>iicct  of 
meeting  Joe  Louis  hanging  oxer  his  bead. 

When  the  \ew  ^'o^k  Stale  .\tlilctic 
ConimisMi.n  ordered  1'. i  addock  to  meet 
Max  Sebimdiiig  in  June  and  not  to  fight 
Louis  in  the  interim.  Jinini\'  actually  was 
disappointed!  He  was  conrulent  he  could 
beat  Louis  in  Februar}-  and  then  take  care 
of  der  Moxic  later. 

The  faithful  Gould  is  about  the  only 
boxing  expert  who  shares  Braddock's  con- 
fidence in  binisclf.  But  then,  this  pair 
alone  believed  that  Jimmy  would  defeat 
Baer,  which  he  did. 

"I  haven't  got  the  greatest  lighter  ever 
lived,"  declared  dould.  "I  know  it  and 
you  know  it.  But  I  certainl\-  have  as  game 
a  fighter  as  any  in  the  histor_\-  of  the  ring. 
Braddock  isn't  afraid  of  anxbody — and 
that  means  a  lot.  And  paste  this  in  your 
hat — Jimmy  never  has  been  knocked  out  in 
his  life." 

While  Braddock's  radio  program  is  not 
going  to  write  any  new  chapters  in  ether 
drama,  it  is  likely  to  prove  a  popular  one. 
In  t'r.e  pnninces,  Jimmy  is  even  mure  of  a 
hero  than  in  Xew  ^'ork.  Although  the 
country  still  was  in  the  throes  of  tlie  de- 
pression when  Ciould  and  Braddock  packed 
their  portmanteaus  and  took  to  the  Pull- 
mans, his  barnstorming  tour  put  tangible 
evidence  of  his  wide-spread  popularit\  into 
the  cash  box.  He  outdrew  every  barn- 
storming champion  since  Dempsey  and 
tripled  the  returiK  shown  by  Schmeling 
on  a  tour  fne  \ears  earlier. 

Gould  oxerloiiked  no  s|)iit  for  Braddock, 
reaching  towns  wliieli  even  Rand  McNally 
never  heard  of.  Tlie\-  touched  every  state 
in  the  I'liinii.  and  everywhere  the  populace 
showed  its  a]ipro\al  liy  forming  lines  at 
the  hox-oflice  windows. 

It  doubtless  was  the  success  of  this  tour 
wdiich  prompted  P)raddock's  radio  engage- 
ment, the  sponsors  deciding,  sagely  enough, 
that  people  who  had  paid  cash  to  see  Jim 
Braddock  would  be  willing  to  set  the  dials 
of  their  radios  to  hear  him.  And  to  hear 
him  as  champion  of  the  world,  the  role  for 
which  he  is  best  suited.  For,  after  all,  as 
Jimmy  himself  says:  "I  ain't  no  Leslie 
Howard  !" 

P.  S. — He  ain't,  neither! 


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synchronization  directing  them,  it  was 
amazing  to  see  the  number  of  intelligent 
undergraduates  and  alumni  out  of  step. 
.\ccording  to  those  who  know,  these  in- 
dividuals would  make  poor  musicians,  as 
their  beating  would  be  extremely  irregular. 
Alusic  is  slil!  considered  one  of  the  arts. 

Auiona  dial-data  is  an  intrrrstiiiii  note. 
In  1^22  the  first  ten  minutes  oj  radio  eoin- 
inereial  time  -n'os  sold  for  $1(10.  That 
for  a  sin</le  station~\\EAF.  Today,  that 
same  ten-minitte  period  over  WE.AF  alone 
-aoiild  eost  e.vaetly  $334.  Since  ihese  short 
periods  are  permitted  only  tieiee  an  n\'- 
niiuj,  and  then  are  confined  to  neu's,  they 
arc  e.rceedingly  hard  to  get.  The  first  big 
hook-up  zcas  on  Jl'asliinglon's  Birthday  in 
1922,  -ichen  forty-tzvo  stations  carried  the 
late  Cahc'in  Coolidge's  speech. 

May  I  recommend  a  book?  It  is  by 
Walter  B.  Pitkin,  a  gentleman  at  whose 
throne  I  humbly  worship.  It  was  called  The 
Psychology  of  Achievement  but  it  now 
becomes,  in  a  cheaper  edition,  The  Secret 
of  Achievement.  It  is  a  book,  I  believe, 
that  should  be  compulsory  reading  for 
every  high  school  student  between  the 
ages  of  thirteen  and  sixteen,  more  espe- 
cially since  it  is  now  less  expensive  to  buy. 

After  reading  it,  try  this.  Apply  it  to 
the  successful  men  of  the  past  and  you 
should  be  able  to  explain,  if  you  know  any- 
thing at  all  about  them,  why  they  were 
successful.  .A.nd  then,  if  you  will  be  honest 
enough  to  mirror  yourself  truly  and,  as 
Laertes  said,  "To  thine  own  self  be  true," 
you  very  likely  will  be  able  to  tell  your- 
self, with  a  certain  degree  of  accuracy, 
the  possibilities  of  your  chance  of  achieve- 
ment— not  mere  success — but  itehiei-ement. 

Being  an  individual  "a'ho  heliei'cs  in  the 
fable  of  "the  better  mouse-trap"  and  the 
subsequent  beating  of  paths  to  the  front 
door,  I  alu'ays  have  felt  that  I  loill  fail 
or  succeed  according  to  the  si>ieerity  and 
quality  of  my  performance.  The  "belter 
mouse-trap"  idea  -avs  founded  on  the  theory 
that  a  product  having  high  basic  worth 
ivill  siiccerd.  such  being  at  variance  'a'ith 
the  modern  vogue  of  the  press  agent  lelio, 
only  too  often,  is  trying  to  sell  a  worthless 
product,  or  a  person,  by  liioli-pressure 
methods.  In  my  case.  I  feci  that  if  my 
programs  maintain  a  high  standard,  if  my 
stage  appeal  oners  are  ivell  staged,  lighted, 
paced  and  loaded  loith  real  talent  in  my 
roster  of  artists,  the  public  <<'ill  continue 
to  -a'ant  me  to  try  to  entertain  them. 

So  I  contend  that  no  amount  of  hooey 
about  what  I  eat,  wear,  whom  I  dislike  or 
like,  or  what  I  think  about  this  or  that, 
will  restrain  a  listener  from  dialing  me 
out  when  my  program  is  poor,  or  con- 
versely, sell  them  the  idea  of  dialing  me 


Observations  on  a  young  lady  who  tries 

so  Imrd  1m  he  iJcrfiMt  in  the  i)r(inunciation 
of  cirl.iiii  ■  'i-.i  ih.it  she  .i^ocs  to  the 
C-xtrenic  ul  nii  .pn .nnuncin-  1)}'  over-cnipha- 
sis,  and  then,  oddly  enougii,  relapses  into  a 


fault\-  pronunciation  that  literally  grates 
on  the  ear.  She  takes  poor,  ordinary 
"haven't"  (  which  should  be  stressed  on  the 
first  syllable)  and  wrestles  with  it  until 
it  becomes  "have-EXT."  Equally  bad,  but 
more  amusing,  is  her  : 

"fame-T.S'.S"  for  "famous" 
"'a'o-M EX"  for  "u'oman" 
"Republi-KI.\"  for  "Republican" 

Tune  m  and  hear  radio  vocalists  and 
comedians  sing  and  say  : 

"ro-Bl'X  for  "robin" 
"beau-DA-ful"  for  "beautiful" 
And,    more's   the    pity,    "ro-SUS"  for 
"roses'." 

Here  are  some  more  of  the  mispronunci- 
ations you  can  pick  up  easily,  simply  by 
turning  on  your  radio  : 

"ain-J ELL"  for  "angel" 
"heav-EN"  for  "heaven" 
"youman"  for  "human" 
The  last  can  only  be  explained  under 
the  heading  of  laziness.  It  takes  an  effort, 
a  sort  of  vocal  running-jump  to  pronounce 
"human "  and  give  the  "h"  the  aspiration 
it  reciuires,  but  "youmans"  are  often  lazy. 

Under  the  heading  of  dial-discrepancies, 
I  should  like  to  list  those  lAw  say  "der 
Ma.r"  ( Schmeling  )  as  "Macks"  and  those 
ivlio  pronounce  it  ".l/d.r"  and  it'/ic)  further 
mess  things  up  by  saying  ".'iclimelinf/"  icith 
both  a  broad  "a"  and  with  an  " e"  as  in 
"fell."  Let's  get  together,  gentlemen  .  .  . 

Then  there's  a  young  orchestra  leader 
zchom  sotneonc  should  tip  off  to  zvatch 
certain  peculiarities  of  his  that  are  bound 
to  affect  the  scnsiti:\-  listener.  For  instance, 
he  sings.  ")7;/r  are  my  lucky  star."  And 
■when  he  zeants  to  be  endeanni/ ,  he  moans 
"dorrrrlllling ,"  and  Tin  sure  his  "darling" 
puts  on  her  bonnet  and  zealks  out.  Heaven 
knoii's  Tz'c  beeiii  trying  long  enough  and 
hard  enough  to  stress  the  letter  " r"  a 
little  (■;.•/; ;(7(  we  of  .Xez.  England,  and 
especially  }T!ine.  fail  ei'cn  to  recognize,  as 
witness  "haht"  for  "heart"),  but  here's  a 
fellow  who  leans  back'a'ards.  and  I  honestly 
believe  the  over-emphasis  of  the  "r"  is 
worse  than  the  under-playing  of  it.  The 
T.nglish  cut  loose  eiilirelx  lehen  they  say 
"fig-ah"  for  figure."  I  have  often  zvondered 
if  it  were  an  affectation,  the  result  of 
London  fog  or  home  influence.  Do  you 
knozvf 

Which  reminds  me,  that  same  young 
orchestra  leader  might  pay  some  attention 
to  his  "to,"  which,  by  the  same  unholy 
gargling  process,  becomes  "TEW."  This 
wholesale  theft  of  their  own  private 
"TEW"  might  be  enough  to  make  Lum 
and  Abner  polish  up  their  muskets  and 
go  a-huntin'  "TEW"  git  him! 

I  was  tickled  by  Bill  (Sports)  Corum's 
pronunciation  of  "bomb,"  which,  as  every- 
one (including  the  Communists)  knows 
is  handled  as  though  it  were  "baum."  But 
Bill  said  "bum."  He  was  obviously  think- 
ing about  one  of  the  palookas  he  writes 
so  well  about. 


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Speaking  of  nepotism,  and  why  not,  I 
can't  help  but  be  reminded  of  a  certain 
broadcast  (not  my  regular  one)  on  which 
we  performed  some  time  ago.  A  young 
lady,  a  vocalist,  was  featured  on  this  pro- 
gram of  national  importance,  because  she 
was  related  to  one  of  the  company's  execu- 
tives. Nut  that  her  voice  wasn't  fair,  but 
why  let  family  relations  affect  the  listening 
habits  of  millions  of  people;  supposing  her 
voice  had  been  bad? 

It  we  weren't  looking  for  the  shortest 
cut,  no  one  would  say  "San  Berdue"  for 
"San  Bernardino"  (that  little  orange- 
growing  town  outside  of  Los  Angeles). 
"San  Berdue"  has  only  three  syllables, 
"San  Bernardino"  has  five,  therefore  re- 
quiring two  more  movements  of  the  jaws, 
tongue,  larynx  and  pharynx.  As  most  of 
us  prefer  to  shop  on  the  ground  floor,  even 
when  we  are  provided  with  elevators  com- 
plete with  divans  and  bars,  so  do  most  of 
us  prefer  to  cut  down  the  number  of 
syllables  in  a  word.  Look  about  you  and 
observe  the  laziness  of  human  nature  and 
furnish  me,  please,  with  more  proof  of 
our  wickedness  in  this  respect. 

So  yon  don't  believe  titat  television  is 
going  to  turn  everything  upside-dozen,  eltf 
So  you  don't  believe  that  it  unll  cause 
greater  convulsions  ii'ith  the  musical, 
theatrical  and  cineniatographical  ivorld  than 
sound  and  sound-on- film?  Well,  listen  to 
this  from  "Variety"  of  November  4: 

"Concerns  operating  news  theatres  here 
are  angry  at  British  Movietone  because 
that  company  is  supplying  news  reels  to 
the  British  Broadcasting  Corporation  for 


television  transmission.  Exhibitors  have 
protested  by  letter  that  it  does  not  give 
them  a  square  deal  with  the  public  as 
they  can  see  at  home  on  their  television 
receivers  the  same  type  of  program  they 
are  showing  in  the  news  theatres." 

That  was  from  London.  England.  And 
to  those  who  believe  it  will  be  possible  to 
withhold  arbitrarily,  for  personal  and  selfish 
interests,  such  a  thing  as  television  from 
a  public  eagerly  awaiting  it,  I  am  sure  it 
is  not  necessary  for  me  to  scoff  or  to  point 
out  the  very  obvious  fact  that  progress, 
like  time,  will  not  be  stayed.  For  every 
individual  or  group  of  individuals  who  are 
selfishly  trying  to  withhokl  a  progressive 
invention,  there  will  Ik-  ten  -uliv  i-liiaK  ami 
ten  groups  of  indi\i'hi:iU  wiil:  n  n  tiim^  as 
much  wealth,  willini:  I'tTscnt  it.  W  hether 
the  motives  arc  ahiniMu-  or  materialistic 
is  beside  the  puini.  Mark  you  me,  no  one 
is  going  to  hold  bark  tcU-vision!  When  it 
is  ready,  regardless  of  the  sqawks  of  those 
affected,  television  will  be  here. 

When  the  phonograph  companies,  back 
in  1927-28-29,  found  an  ^800,000,000 
yearly  business  going  to  pot,  because  of 
a  new  invention  called  "radio,"  nothing 
could  be  done  about  it.  More  recently, 
the  American  Federation  of  Musicians 
spent  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
with  the  best  of  intentions  in  an  attempt 
to  convince  the  public  that  "canned" 
music  was  inferior  to  musical  perform- 
ances played  by  individuals  in  the  flesh. 
Not  all  of  these  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  dollars'  worth  of  advertisements 
(mingled  with  tears  and  wringing  of  hands 
and  the   plea  that   musicians  had  given 


their  lives  to  the  study  of  music  and  even 
possibly  to  the  making  of  the  music 
termed  "canned")  could  prevent  a  public 
from  going  to  the  theatres,  now  devoid 
of  the  live  musicians.  This  was  because 
tlie  perfection  and  the  progress  of  this 
art  of  recording  sound  had  indeed  so 
progressed  as  to  make  it  impossible  for 
the  uninitiated,  on  entering  a  theatre,  to 
tell  whether  the  music  was  recorded  or 
actually  played  by  musicians  in  the  flesh! 
-*- 

Now,  if  you'll  gather  closer,  friends,  I'd 
like  to  ask  you  a  question :  Do  you  know 
someone  who  says :  "I  cahn't  play  jazz, 
oh  my  goodness  no,  /  only  play  classical 
nm-ic?  '  You  do?  I  thought  so.  Now,  do 
>i.ii  -upiwse  they  really  know  what  they 
nuaii  when  they  say  "jazz?"  I'll  bet  they 
doi'.'t,  but  do  yo/<?  Sure?  I  don't  mean  the 
dictionary  definition,  I  mean  your  own, 
carefully-thought-out  definition.  NOW  let's 
have  some  fun.  Suppose  you  sit  down  and, 
taking  your  pen  firmly  in  hand,  dash  off  a 
serious  answer  to  my  question:  "What  is 
jazzf"  and  mail  it  to  me  in  care  of  Radio 
Stars  Magazine. 

-♦- 

Perhaps  I'll  award  a  leather  medal  to 
the  writer  of  the  best  answer,  but  at  any 
rate,  it  ought  to  be  fun  and  I'll  print  the 
best  answers. 

I  know  I  shouldn't  help  you,  but  let 
me  suggest  that  you  consider: 

1.  Material  ( popular  or  operatic) 

2.  Place  ('a'hcre  played  or  heard) 
There,    I've    practically    given    you  the 
answer,  but  let's  hear  yours  .  ,  . 

See  you  next  month. 


P/I?  IT  WORK^i 


YES,  WATS  THE  WONDER- 
FUL TH/NO.  m  sroc/</N&s 

^'  \  ARE  LASr/^/G  TW/CEA^ 
LO/VG  -  /'LL  save  ABOl/T 
$25  A  YEAR. 


GOSH  YOU  CAN 
BUY  A  LOT  WITH 

$25.  THINK  I  a 

TRY  LUX  y 


MYSELF 


ONCE  you  stop  to  figure  what 
Lux  can  save  you,  you'll 
never  again  want  to  risk  using 
just  any  old  soap. 

Lux  has  no  harmful  alkali  as 
ordinary  soaps  often  have.  With 
Lux  there's  no  injurious  cake-soap 
rubbing.  Lux  preserves  the  "live" 
resilient  quality  stockings  have 
when  new — so  Luxed  stockings 
give  instead  of  breaking  easily 
under  strain — seldom  go  into  runs. 

This  means  they  last  much 
longer,  7ooA-  lovelier,  too. 


-SAVES 

STOCKING 

gLA<TICITY 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

(Continued  from  t>agc  15) 


JOE'S  JOKESTER 

Joe  Peniier  still  includes  an  Episcopal 
clergj'man  on  his  staff  of  comedy  writers. 
The  minister  is  Reverend  Henry  Rubel, 
who  writes  songs  and  comic  bits  for  Joe 
under  the  pen  name,  Hal  Raynor.  He 
preaches  regularl}-,  too,  always  finding  a 
little  parish  somewhere  near  wherever  Joe's 
radio  and  picture  work  takes  him. 

MY  STARS! 

A  lot  of  /'I'  l/'/r  inahc  a  hobby  of  astrol- 
ogy, l^ul  it's  IhirJ  to  find  an  amateur  as- 
troloarr  ;,•/;>)  (lors  into  the  thinij  as  in- 
tensr.ylv  -IS  J'iih^'nt  L«/^r.c.  The  stars 
really  amount  to  n  reli.iuu,  and  friendly 
counsellor,  as  as  a  hohhy  leilh  I'ineent. 
A  eouple  of  years  aoo.  I'ineent  disap- 
peared from  Xeu'  ]'ork  and  the  large  net- 
ivork  proi/rams  for  a  season.  When  he 
returned,  he  resumed  his  old  plaee  in  the 
night  spots  and  radio  slioivs.  A  lot  of 
people  zvondered  zeliy  he  had  dropped  from 
sight  zvhcit  he  did. 

Vincent  explained  it  to  me  one  night. 
"I  had  found  that  the  next  year  was  not 
going  to  be  a  good  one  for  me,"  he  said, 
explaining  some  astrological  calculations. 
"So  I  simply  decided  to  mark  time  and 
do  what  I  could  until  the  influences  were 
favorable  again."  There  was  no  other 
reason.  He  probably  would  have  had  no 
more  difficulty  finding  a  place  for  himself 


that  season  than  in  any  other  year. 

WHY  IS  IT? 

Surprising  with  what  determination  the 
lawyers  hopped  on  Good  Will  Court  and 
drove  it  off  the  big  network.  I'm  not  one 
to  argue  about  the  ethics  of  a  large  corpo- 
ration's buying  radio  rights  to  people's 
troubles,  but  The  Voiee  of  Experience 
and  a  few  others  have  been  trading  in 
that  commodity  for  years  and  no  one 
seemed  to  bother  them. 

TOO  BAD! 

It  was  only  tivo  years  ago  that  Mrs. 
Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  ivas  given  a  radio 
contract  at  $3,000  a  zveek.  lehicli  made  her 
one  of  the  very  highest  paid  radio  stars^ 
Since  those  days,  Fred  Waring  has  brought 
his  radio  salary  up  to  $13,500  a  meek,  Eddie 
Cantor  went  to  $14,000  and  Major  Boivcs 
to  the  neighborhood  of  $25,000.  Several 
comedy  and  big  variety  programs  hover 
right  around  $10,000  in  the  salary  list. 

WHERE'S  THE  CATCH? 

Have  you  noticed  how  long  it  has  been 
since  one  of  radio's  catch  lines  slipped 
into  the  current  conversation?  Jack  Pearl 
this  season  has  been  trying  to  re-establish 
the  most  famous  of  them  all,  "Vass  you 
dere,  Sharlie?"  Even  that  one  has  lost  its 
magic.  Every  season  used  to  produce  its 
"Wanna  buy  a  duck?,"  "OK,  Chicago," 
"I'sc  rcgusted,"  "Check  and  double  check." 


DO  YOU  REMEMBER? 

If  your  memory  goes  back  far  enough, 
it  might  recall  an  old  vaudeville  song  and 
dance  trio,  Correll,  Gosden  and  Givot.  The 
act  didn't  amount  to  much  and  the  three 
youngsters  drifted  apart.  You  can  hear 
the  first  two  nowadays  as  Amos  V  Andy 
and  the  third,  George  Givot,  is  on  the  air 
occasionally  as  the  Greek  Ambassador. 

TO  BE  SURE 

In  spite  of  all  the  publicity  exposing 
fraudulent  radio  schools,  a  lot  of  them  still 
flourish  around  Neio  York,  Los  Angeles 
and  other  radio  centers.  Radio  stars  and 
radio  stations  Iiave  frequently  conducted 
campaigns  to  slop  the  business,  and  so 
have  the  legitimate  radio  schools.  But  the 
quack  professors  continue. 

One  story  is  told  of  a  woman  singer 
who  tried  to  gain  a  foothold  in  radio  for 
years.  Unsuccessful,  she  finally  gave  up 
and  now  is  running  a  profitable  school 
which  teaches  other  people  how  to  get 
on  the  air. 

Many  a  small  station  has  an  arrange- 
ment with  a  school.  The  school  guarantees 
the  ambitious  candidate  a  radio  hearing. 
The  hearing  turns  out  to  be  a  few  minutes 
on  the  small  station  some  morning.  Radio 
stars  often  have  calls  from  strangers  who 
chat  with  easy  familiarity  for  a  moment 
or  two  and  then  hang  up.  Those  are  usually 


GRACE  WAS^^TOOTIRED'^ 
TO  ENJOV  THE  CROWD 


1  KMOW-  IT'S  _1UST  BE^STUry 

TO  uose  ^'Olir  pep?  w^v 

OOCTOR  V^WEM  VOU 

FEEL  RUN-C70^^'M  LIKE 
VOUR  BLOO^  IS  0EMEKAULV 
UM&ER'FE^.  ME  HAO  M.E 

EAT  I 
.SAIO 


VITAMINS  A.B.GcvruiD 


RADIO  STARS 


the  school  proprietors,  impressing  a  pros- 
pective customer  with  a  wide  acquaintance 
in  radio's  highest  circles. 

//  you  are  thinking  of  studying  n'ith 
any  school,  there  is  no  sure  ivay  for  the 
novice  to  be  sure  Xi-hich  are  legitimate  and 
liihich  fraudulent.  Probably  the  best  ques- 
tion to  ask  is:  "Are  any  of  your  graduates 
financially  successful  in  radio  right  noiv?" 

MUSICAL  MADNESS 

One  of  the  wildest  of  Radio  City  studio 
scenes  is  a  Richard  Himber  orchestra  re- 
hearsal. A  jovial  practical  joker  himself, 
Dick  is  no  stickler  for  discipline  and  dur- 
ing a  good  part  of  the  rehearsal  his  men 
behave  like  a  crowd  of  school  boys. 

"All  right,  boys."  the  maestro  will  order, 
"we'll  run  through  this  now." 

Likely  as  not,  a  chorus  of  ribald  ob- 
jections mill  reply.  "JVe  knozv  it!"  "You 
do  the  li-orrying  about  that  tune  and  zve'll 
do  the  playing."  There  is  uproar  and 
argument  but  the  rehearsing  does  get  done 
and  the  standing  of  the  Himber  band  is 
alivays  high. 

"Maybe  I'm  wrong,  running  a  band 
that  way,"  Himber  concedes,  "but  I  think 
I  get  better  shows.  The  boys  are  under 
tension  and  hard  discipline  all  day  and 
all  evening,  playing  on  other  programs. 
They  get  a  chance  to  relax  and  feel  free 
on  my  program  and  I  think  they  do  their 
best  playing  there  as  a  result." 

-♦- 

A  sharp  contrast  is  the  band  of  Horace 
Heidt.  He  saves  any  jovial  spirit  he  might 
have  for  the  program  itself.  Everything 


is  very  serious  with  this  earnest  minded 
young  Heidt.  The  programs  are  casual 
and  informal,  but  rehearsals  decidedly  not. 

Heidt  liked  the  zvay  his  band  ivas  pre- 
sented during  its  recent  slay  in  New  York. 
He  played  in  one  of  the  Columbia  Play- 
house studios,  zdiich  is  fully  equipped  it'ilh 
theatrical  stage  lighting  apparatus.  So  the 
band  played  in  soft  light  and  shadow, 
bathed  in  purple  and  red.  A  stranger 
zmndering  in  zvould  never  guess  that  this 
elaborate  stage  setting  had  been  put  to- 
gether just  for  a  radio  shozv. 

BARE  FACTS 

Radio  is  gradually  acquiring  quite  a 
contingent  of  toupee  wearers.  Included  are 
George  Burns,  Phil  Baker,  Fred  Astaire 
and  Bing  Crosby.  Crosby's  is  no  full 
toupee,  just  a  strip  he  wears  during  pic- 
tures, where  his  hair  would  look  too  thin 
in  front. 

Bing  has  grown  less  careful  about  this 
secret  in  recent  years.  He  always  used  to 
broadcast  in  private  and  with  his  hat  on. 
Lately,  he  broadcasts  in  frijnt  of  an  audi- 
ence, no  hat  and  freqtantly  without  even 
bothering  to  adjust  hi-  hir-utc  arrange- 
ments the  way  be  ha>  t'leni  lor  movie 
work. 

SAD  SID 

JVhcn  Sid  Silvers  came  to  A'cic  York 
recently  to  confer  about  his  nezv  radio 
program,  he  planned  to  make  it  a  big 
liolidov.  n)icc  business  zvas  out  of  the  zvay. 
.S"i<f  ij;  a  -VccC  Yorker  in  sf'irif  and  his 
stay  in  Hollyzi'ood  had  made  him  lonesome 
for  the  lights  and  stages  of  Broadzcay. 


The  day  he  arrived,  he  joined  old 
friends  and  was  telling  what  an  occasion 
this  visit  would  be.  "A  drink  to  start  it 
off,"  they  urged.  Sid  never  drinks  at  all, 
but  on  an  occasion  like  this  he  finally 
agreed  one  drink  was  appropriate. 

A  waggish  friend  filled  a  tumbler  full 
of  straight  Scotch.  Handing  it  to  Sid,  he 
said,  "Scotch  and  soda.  Down  the  hatch 
now."  Sid  doesn't  like  the  taste  of  liquor 
anyway,  so  bravely  he  gulped  the  whole 
tumbler  of  straight  whiskey,  as  fast  as  he 
could,  with  no  notion  of  what  it  was. 

That  was  the  end  of  the  holiday  for 
poor  Sid.  Most  of  the  follozi-ing  zveek  he 
spent  in  bed,  so  ill  he  could  barely  get 
around  to  settle  the  radio  business  that 
ZL-as  urgent.  His  time  in  Nezv  York  up,  he 
headed  back  for  Hollyzvood,  after  having 
seen  nothing  much  of  A^ezv  York  e.rcept 
a  radio  e.recutive's  desk  and  the  ceiling  of 
a  hotel  room. 

BATTLING  BENNY 

Benny  Rubin  is  the  smallest  of  radio's 
comedians  and  easily  the  most  belligerent. 
He  weighs  around  a  hundred  and  forty, 
maybe  a  little  less.  Nevertheless,  he  once 
tackled  Max  Baer.  Just  got  mad  at  him, 
that  was  all.  That  was  one  of  the  fights 
Benny  did  not  win. 

Benny  is  a  good  boxer  and  from  his 
youth  in  a  rough  neighborhood  of  Boston, 
he  says  he  is  still  a  good  rough  and 
tumble  street  fighter,  if  things  come  to 
the  worst.  They  don't  get  to  that  for  him 
verv  often  nowadavs. 


THEM  WE'D) 


DON'T  LET  UNDERFED  BLOOD  MAICE 
YOU  FEEL ''DONE  UP" 


That  "all-in"  feeling  so  many 
people  have  at  this  time  of 
year  is  often  a  sign  of  run- 
down condition. 

Usually  this  tired  feeling 
comes  when  your  blood  is 
underfed  and  does  not  carry 
enough  of  the  right  kind  of 
nourishment  to  your  muscles 
and  nerves. 


Fleischmann's  fresh  Yeast 
supplies  your  blood  with  vita- 
mins and  other  needed  food 
elements.  Your  blood  then 
carries  more  and  better  food 
to  your  nerves  and  muscles. 

Eat  3  cakes  of  Fleisch- 
mann's Yeast  daily,  a  cake 
about  K  hour  before  meals, 
plain  or  in  water.  Start  now. 


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RADIO  STARS 


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WEST  COAST  CHATTER 


{Continued  from  page  73) 


TAKE    THE    SYRUP    T  HAT 

CLINGS  TO  THE 
COUGH  ZONE 

The  right  medicine  for  a  cough  (due  to  a 
cold)  is  one  that  does  its  work  where  the 
cough  is  lodged . . .  that  is,  in  the  cough  zone. 
That's  why  Smith  Brothers  made  their  fa- 
mous cough  syrup  thick,  heavy,  clinging.  It 
clings  to  the  cough  zone.  There  it  does  three 
things:  (1)  soothes  sore  membranes,  (2) 
throws  a  protective  film  over  the  irritated 
area,  (3)  helps  to  loosen  phlegm.  Get  Smith 
Brothers'— it's  safe!        and  60(^. 


"IT  CONTAINS 

VITAMIN  A 

This  vitamin  raises  the  re- 
sistance of  the  mucous 
membranes  of  the  nose  and 
throat  to  cold  and  eough 
infections. 


SMITH  BROS. 

COUGH  SYRUP 

MHNOW  ON  SALE  IN  CANADA^MH 


r/.  .ouin"»      ,    ..,.u  known 


s  ou.  ''««U  known 

^^^''^rS^elcMnaa.ae.en. 


Tarzana,  the  Chimp,  dines  with  Joan  Winters  and  Ben  Bernie. 


for  a  nervous  breakdown."  Don't  think 
that  Jimmy's  wasting  any  time  on  his 
broadcast  with  those  dots  and  dashes, 
either  .  .  .  The  first  signals  spell  out 
"CQ"  or  "attention".  The  second  batch 
of  key  clickings  spell  out  F-I-D-L-E-R  and 
all  the  dots  and  dashes  throughout  the 
program  spell  J-I-M. 

There's  been  considerable  upset  among 
the  Hollyivood  Hotel  broadcasters  of  late. 
It  looked  for  a  time  as  if  Dick  Powell 
would  kiss  Louella  Parsons  goodbye  for- 
ever. But  now  the  Hotel  again  is  one  big 
happy  family  and  we  understand  that  all 
the  difficulties  have  been  ironed  out  to 
everyone's  satisfaction.  That  sounds  al- 
most too  good  to  be  true,  but  anyhow,  the 
program  sounds  as  good  as  ever,  so  why 
worry? 


II  Bacio  is  the  most  iinj^oi 
her    life,   according    to  fou 
Dcaniia  Diirhin,  prima  dnniia 
Cantor  hour.    II  Bacio  happc 
Kiss — but  it's  also  a  song. 
Jack  Shcrrill,  actor's  agent, 
zvarbling  her  fa^'orite  ineloil 
passing  on  the  street.    He  i 
mediately  to  M-G-M  and  t 
sing  it  again.     .She  did  an 
zcith  a  contract  fifteen  iniii 
fc'-a'  mouths  later  .die  san.i  it 
mn:'ie  moguls  and  again  su 
to  the  dulled  line.  .-Ind  cchcu 
thai  llddic  Cantor  ivas  lookii 
(in  his  pi-ograni,  Deanna  was 
alarmed  about  not  gettimg 
dusted  off  her  Kiss  and  iv 
Cantor. 


Those  in  the  know  around  town  are  say- 
ing that  Nino  Martini  and  Elissa  Landi 
took  a  Yumatrimonial  trip  recently.  We 
wonder  if  J.  F.  T.  O'Connor,  comptroller 
of  the  currency  from  Washington,  was 
best  man  or  what.  He  must  have  gone 
along,  since  the  three  are  inseparable.  Or 
maybe  Elissa  married  Jafty  and  Nino  was 
best  man. 

After  every  number  at  the  Packard  Hour 
rehearsal,  Fred  Astairc  jumps  from  the 


taut  thing  in 
tecn-\<ear-old 
'  of  the  Eddie 
eus  to  be  The 
A  year  ago 
heard  Deanna 
i.'hilc  he  leas 
ushed  her  im- 
<ld  Deanna  to 
I  icalked  out 
lies  later.  .1 
(or  t  'nirersal 
ucd  her  name 
it  Tvas  learned 
g  for  a  swger 
I't  in  the  least 
it.  .She  fust 
'nt  to  call  on 


stage  and  heads  for  the  darkest  corner  of 
the  auditorium.  And  there,  along  with 
suggestions  and  criticisms,  is  Mrs.  Fred 
Astaire.  To  date,  Mrs.  A.  hasn't  missed  a 
rehearsal,  though  she  doesn't  show  up  for 
the  broadcast.  She's  checking  on  Fred  via 
the  radio  at  home  at  those  times. 

Blozv  for  the  Hollyicood  Chamber  of 
Commerce :  Frances  Lang  ford  finally 
Zi.'eighcd  in  at  100  pounds  after  months  of 
jolloicing  the  doctor's  orders  of  a  quart  oj 
milk  a  day.  She  even  zvent  him  one  better 
by  sipping  a  glass  of  cream  while  rehears- 
ing for  the  Hollywood  Hotel  programs. 
And  not  an  ounce  did  Frances  gain  until 
she  'Went  back  to  Florida  for  that  vacation. 
Seven  pounds  zi'cre  added  to  the  Longford 
silhouette. 

Looks  like  the  navy  has  taken  first  place 
in  La  Langford's  heart  these  days.  For 
Ken  Dolan,  her  manager  and  perennial 
escort,  has  suddenly  been  transplanted  by 
Lieut.  Ken  West  of  the  U.S.S.  Pennsylva- 
nia. They're  seen  everywhere  together  and 
looking  so-o-o  heppy. 

Tony  Martin  isn't  quite  sure  that  success 
is  all  it's  cracked  up  to  be.  For  between 
rehearsing  and  airing  the  Burns  and  Allen 
program,  and  continual  picture  work  out 
at  Fox  studios,  Tony  hasn't  seen  Alice 
Faye  for  over  a  week.  And  it's  got  to  the 
point  now  where  he'd  rather  see  Alice  than 
a  four-figure  pay  check  The  blondish  Miss 
Faye  also  is  pretty  busy  these  days,  between 
finishing  up  a  Shirley  Temple  picture  and 
starting  her  new  one  with  the  Ritz  Bros. 
It's  beginning  to  look  as  if  they'll  either 
have  to  give  up  the  idea  of  being  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Martin  or  stop  improving  their  work. 

The  Hollywood  Hotel  broadcast,  put  on 
in  connection  zvith  the  premiere  of  Born  to 
Dance  at  a  Hollyivood  theatre,  proved  to 
be  a  gala  occasion  for  the  celebrity  hounds. 
Everybody  zvho  is  anybody  in  toivn  tu'-ned 
out.  Particularly  szvamped  by  autograph 
hounds  zvere  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Barry- 
more.  The  nezv  Barrymore  bride  akvays 
looks  elegant  and  seems  to  be  having  a 
grand  time.    But  hoiv  long  zvill  it  last? 


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RADIO  STARS 


The  world  premiere  of  Lloyds  of  Lon- 
don, at  a  Hollywood  theatre  recently, 
brought  out  the  biggest  crowd  of  radio 
stars  yet  seen  at  one  time.  The  latest  inno- 
vation for  the  fans  who  attend  the  pre- 
mieres is  grandstand  seats  along  the  side- 
walk leading  up  to  the  theatre.  Here,  for 
a  mere  fifteen  cents,  they  can  get  a  good 
view  of  their  favorites  and  for  ten  cents 
more  can  rent  field  glasses  for  a  close-up. 
Dressed  up  in  their  best  bibs  and  tuckers, 
silver  foxes  and  sable  coats,  we  spotted  the 
Jack  Bennys,  the  Don  Ameches,  George 
and  Gracie  Burns,  Bing  Crosby  and  Dixie 
Lee  Crosby,  Gladys  Swarthout  and  Frank 
Chapman,  the  Joe  Penners  and  the  Dick 
Powells,  among  others.  Joan  Blondell 
Powell  came  up  the  walk  with  several  thou- 
sand dollars'  worth  of  white  fox  around 
her — and  Dick's  arm. 

Sid  Silvers  szi-ears  that  when  the  Al 
Jolson  shoiv  opened,  on  December  22nd, 
the  program  had  the  largest  audience  of 
any  shou'  on  the  air.  "I  know  that  def- 
initely," Sid  told  us,  "because  all  my  rela- 
tives listened  in." 

Francia  White  always  has  wanted  to  be 
a  comedienne  and  she  let  her  bouncing 
sense  of  humor  smack  at  Otto  Klemperer, 
famed  conductor  of  the  Los  Angeles  Phil- 
harmonic Orchestra,  this  month.  Francia 
had  been  contracted  for  a  guest  appearance 
with  the  orchestra  in  the  Philharmonic 
concert  auditorium.  She  was  waiting 
backstage  for  her  rehearsal  with  Dr. 
Klemperer.  It  was  a  morning  for  auditions. 

"Pardon  me.  Miss,"  queried  the  director's 
assistant.  "Are  you  ivaiting  to  play  or 
sing  for  Dr.  KlempcrerT' 

Francia's  eyes  twinkled.  "Oh,  I'm  going 
to  sing  and  I  do  so  want  Dr.  Klemperer 
to  like  me,"  she  explained.  "Will  you  put 
in  a  good  word  for  me?  I'm  scared  to 
death."  She  continued  to  chatter,  writing 
her  name — a  fake  one — and  her  selections 
on  a  piece  of  paper  for  the  assistant.  She 
even  trilled  a  few  notes.  Out  rushed  the 
enthusiastic  assistant,  singing  her  praises 
to  the  conductor. 

Francia  walked  shyly  to  the  center  of 
the  stage. 

"Haw,  haw  !"  boomed  Klemperer.  "That  s 
Francia  White !" 

The  assistant  slozi'ly  slunk  anvy. 

Amos  'n  Andy's  last  trip  to  Chicago  was 
their  final  one  before  settling  down  per- 
manently in  sunny  California.  Andy 
bought  a  home  in  Palm  Springs  and  Amos 
has  been  shopping  around  in  the  neighbor- 
hood for  one  just  as  good.  They're  doing 
all  their  broadcasting  from  the  desert  re- 
sort now,  except  for  the  Friday  minstrel 
show  which  necessitates  the  two  flying  into 
Hollywood  every  week.  At  Palm  Springs, 
the  tower  of  the  El  Mirador  Hotel  is 
utilized  for  broadcasting  purposes,  with 
some  two  dozen  navajo  rugs  hung  on  the 
wall  to  deaden  the  sound.  "I  expect  to 
break  into  a  yi  any  minute,  instead  of 
cullud  dialect,"  Amos  said  when  he  saw  the 
layout. 

The  Jones  Baby,  ichosc  squalls  are  so 
agonizingly  realistic  on  the  broadcast,  is 
actually  the  mother  of  a  seven-months-old 
baby  boy.  Off  the  airwaves  Loretta  Poyn- 
ton,  who  has  wept  for  inany  an  NBC  pro- 
gram, is  Mrs.  IVilliam  Carroll. 


Switching  face  powders  may  do 
you  an  injustice — Make  you  look  years  older  than  you  really  are! 

How  to  find  your  most  becoming  face  powder 


Do  you  try  one  face  powder  this  month  and  an- 
other the  ne.xt?  Do  you  choose  face  powder 
because  this  girl  or  that  uses  it?  UTiat  may  look 
good  on  one  girl  may  look  bad  on  another. 

Hit-or-miss  methods  of  selecting  your  face 
powder,  or  your  shade  of  face  powder,  put  you 
at  a  great  disadvantage.  It  means  you  have  one 
complexion  one  day  and  another  the  next.  It 
calls  attention  to  your  make-up  all  the  time. 

If  the  shade  you  happen  to  choose  is  the 
wong  one,  it  makes  you  look  years  older  than 
you  really  are.  What  you  want,  first  of  all,  is 
the  right  kind  of  face  powder.  Secondly,  the 
right  shade. 

No.  1.  The  Right  Kind 

of  Face  Powder 

A  face  powder  must  he  soft.  It  must  be  smooth 
—  absolutely  smooth.  Only  a  smooth  powder 
will  go  on  evenly  and  blend  perfectly. 

Only  a  smooth  powder  will  act  as  a  blotter 
on  the  skin.  It  is  the  blotter-like  qualities  of 
face  powder  that  absorb  excessive  oil  and  per- 
spiration and  prevent  shine. 

Lady  Esther  Face  Powder  is  soft— extremely 
soft  and  smooth.  It  contains  no  rough  or  sharp 
particles  whatever.  This  you  can  prove  by  my 
famous  "bite  test." 

Because  it  is  so  smooth.  Lady  Esther  Face 
Powder  goes  on  evenly  and  blends  perfectly. 
It  also  acts  as  a  blotter  on  the  skin. 
It  absorbs  the  excessive  oil  and 
perspiration  that  causes  that  hated 
shine. 


No.  2.  The  Right  Shade 

First,  the  right  powder  —  then  the 
right  shade! 

There  is  only  one  way  to  tell  which 
is  your  most  becoming  shade  and  that 
is  to  try  on  all  five  basic  shades.  You 


must  not  assume  that  because  you  are  a  blonde 
or  a  brunette  or  a  redhead  that  you  must  use  a 
certain  shade.  Any  artist  or  make-up  expert 
will  tell  you  that. 

You  may  be  a  blonde  and  yet  have  a  very  dark 
or  olive  skin;  or  a  brunette  and  have  a  very 
light  skin;  or  vice  versa. 

What  you  want  to  do  is  NOT  match  your 
skin,  but  improve  your  appearance.  You  want, 
NOT  a  matching  shade,  but  a  flattering  shade. 

I  Say  "Try,"  not  "Buy" 

In  my  five  shades  I  provide  the  most  becoming 
one  for  you.  What  it  is  neither  I,  nor  anyone 
else,  can  tell  you  in  advance.  You  must  try  on 
all  five  shades. 

But  I  don't  ask  you  to  go  into  a  store  and  buy 
all  five  shades  of  Lady  Esther  Face  Powder.  No, 
indeed!  I  say:  "Here,  take  all  the  five  shades 
of  my  face  powder  and  try  them  all  on !  Let 
your  own  eyes  tell  you  which  is  your  most 
becoming  shade." 

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face  powder  is,  ho  w  long  it  stays  on  and  how  well 
it  prevents  shine.  One  test  will  tell  you  volumes! 

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RADIO  STARS 


WARDROBE  CHANGES  FOR  A  STAR 


RomnncE 


Romance.  The  vital,  tender  thrill 
of  young  love  is  yours  in  the 
March  SWEETHEART  STORIES. 
Ten  four-star  glamorous  tales 
by  outstanding  romantic  authors 
ore  crammed  into  this  mam- 
moth issue. 
Complete  novelettes: 

"Love  is  More  Than  Moon- 
light," winner  of  the  $500.00 
first  prize  in  the  Amateur 
Writers'  Contest. 
"Valiant  Lady" — She  risked 
her  reputation,  her  happi- 
ness, to  save  a  stranger  in 
distress. 

"That    Fatal   Fascination" — A 

kiss  is   bittersweet  when  the 

man    belongs  to  another 

woman. 
Continued  Novel: 

"Doctor's  Wife,"   by  Maysie 

Greig.   A  thrilling   new  novel 

of  a  girl  who  loved  a  married 

man. 
Short  Stories: 

"Never  Say  Sorry" 

"Marry  For  Love" 

"The  Kiss  That  Told" 

"Rich  Boy  Friend" 

"The  Wishing  Pool" 

"Co-Respondent" 
• 

All  in  the  March  issue  of 

SUIEETHEHRT 
STORIESIO""*^ 

AT  YOUR  NEWSSTAND 


{Continued  from  page  17) 


"What  I  want  to  know,  however,  is  how 
I  look  to  the  radio  audience  and  what  sort 
of  person  radio  listeners  imagine  me  to  be. 
If  possible,  I  should  like  to  dress,  for  my 
new  Cities  Service  series,  in  keeping  with 
this  impression. 

"Some  friends  told  me  that  I  should 
wear  sophisticated  gowns  when  I  sing. 
Others  say  I  should  wear  delicate  pastels 
in  very  girlish  styles.  Just  the  other  day  a 
woman,  meeting  me  for  the  first  time, 
said  that  I  should  wear  bright,  vibrant 
colors.  She  said  that  my  singing  gave  a 
feeling  of  high  color  and  that  I  should 
dress  accordingly." 

The  varying  opinions  of  these  three 
friends  give  you  an  idea  of  how  everyone 
sees  her  as  a  different  person — her  per- 
sonality to  each  one  suggests  a  certain 
type.  I  wonder  what  each  of  you  will 
decide  is  Lucille's  real  type  and  how  she 
should  express  it  in  the  clothes  she  wears 
on  broadcast  nights? 

I  found  this  charming  girl  a  very  un- 
usual fashion  subject.  She's  quite  small, 
only  a  trifle  over  five  feet  three  inches  in 
height.  She's  very  blonde,  her  hair  brushed 
smoothly  to  bring  out  the  golden  highlights 
and  curled  severely,  but  provocatively, 
about  her  head.  The  trim  roll  of  curl  is 
typical  of  her — she's  definitely  not  the 
fluffy  blonde  type  of  girl.  She's  rather 
brisk,  almost  boyish  in  her  movements.  In 
day  clothes  she  looks  a  well-tailored  and 
efficient  young  career-gal.  You  will  notice 
this  particularly  in  the  picture  of  her 
favorite  tailored  dress. 

It's  a  beige  jersey,  nicely  cut,  with  sets 
of  buttons  used  to  set  off  the  pockets  and 
front  collar  opening.  The  narrow  stand-up 
collar  is  very  flattering  to  Lucille.  Inci- 
dentally, just  because  she  has  stepped  up 
to  prima  donna  radio  place,  is  no  reason 
for  her  careful  clothes  budgeting  to  change. 
Lucille  likes  to  strike  a  good  bargain  in 
clothes  and  this  beige  jersey  is  one  of  the 
best.  She  told  me  triumphantly  that  it 
cost  her  about  ten  dollars.  Imagine!  It 
looks  twice  that  amount  or  more. 

Speaking  of  what  she  likes  to  wear,  she 
said:  "A  singer  must  be  as  versatile  in 
her  selection  of  clothes  as  she  is  in  her 
selection  of  songs.  I  try  to  visualize  the 
setting  in  which  I  shall  sing.  Then  I  take 
the  season  of  the  year  into  account  and  I 
usually  am  guided,  too,  by  current  styles. 
But  the  most  important  thing,  I've  always 
felt,  is  for  any  woman's  gown  to  suit  her 
personality.  This  applies  quite  as  much  to 
a  non-professional  woman  as  it  does  to 
one  with  a  career." 

Lucille  believes  that  most  people  have 
a  changing  personality — it  frequently  is 
guided  by  the  mood. 

"Some  days  I  feel  quite  gay,  other  days 
quite  dignified,"  she  declared.  "If  I'm  go- 
ing out  for  a  walk  with  my  dog,  for  in- 
stance, I  like  to  swing  my  arms  and  take 
long,  athletic  strides.  Naturally,  I  have 
to  be  dressed  in  casual,  comfortable  clothes 
that  give  me  plenty  of  freedom.  When  I'm 
dressed  for  evening,  I  like  to  feel  dainty 
or  elegant — or  both. 

"Two  of  my  favorite  evening  colors  are 


aquamarine  blue  and  eggshell  white.  I 
love  them  because  the  last  evening  gown 
my  grandmother  made  for  me,  several 
years  ago,  was  of  aqua  and  eggshell  tulle. 
It's  much  too  old  to  wear  now,  but  I 
keep  it,  packed  away  in  tissue  paper." 

Lucille  is  one  of  those  lucky  smaller 
girls  who  wears  a  size  12.  And  it's  a  small 
size  12,  because  she  has  to  diet  to  keep 
her  weight,  not  to  lose  it.  She  resorts  to 
bctween-meal  drinks  of  milk,  flavored  with 
maple  syrup,  in  tiie  hope  of  adding  even 
a  few  pounds. 

This  winter  she  has  been  wearing  black 
a  lot  in  her  daytime  outfits.  For  a  color 
accent  she  introduces  scarfs  and  costume 
jewelry  in  turquoise  or  coral.  She  likes 
high-heeled  shoes  except,  of  course,  for 
active  sportswear.  And  because  her  ankles 
are  slender,  she  finds  the  new  higher  cut 
in  shoes  very  becoming.  She's  very  fussy 
about  overshoes,  probably  because  she  has 
to  wear  them  in  order  to  protect  herself 
from  the  colds  which  prove  so  devastating 
to  singers.  She  told  me  that  she  is  crazy 
about  those  smart  and  practical  Canadian 
boots  of  velvet  with  fur  tops.  They're 
the  only  overshoes  that  don't  make  her 
feel  clumsy. 

She  doesn't  like  earrings  for  herself, 
never  wears  them.  But  she  does  love  the 
fashion  for  wearing  flowers  and  bows  in 
the  hair  for  evening.  She  likes  to  wear 
bows  especially — you  can  see  one  of  her 
favorite  bow  and  hair-do's  in  the  small 
picture.  A  crisply  tied  black  velvet  one  is 
worn  at  the  side  of  the  head — this  happens 
to  be  a  French  copy  of  an  evening  hair- 
dress  and  it  has  a  narrow  band  circling 
the  head  with  a  small  net  bow  at  the  back 
on  the  other  side.  Very  unusual  and  be- 
coming to  her. 

The  Manners'  biggest  wardrobe  euthusi- 
asm  is — hats. 

"Coats,  dresses  and  even  shoes  have  to 
be  practical,"  she  insists,  "but  hats  can  be 
as  frivolous  as  you  want  them." 

What's  more,  she  practices  what  she 
preaches  and  goes  in  for  some  very  giddy 
numbers.  There  are  saucy  models  that 
perch  on  the  back  of  her  blonde  pate— 
usually  little  velvet  caps  set  'way  back  on 
her  curls.  She  has  a  trick  double-duty  one. 
It's  a  skullcap  made  of  wine-red  feathers. 
This  has  a  separate  brim  of  red  velvet. 
When  the  feather  cap  is  worn  by  itself  it 
makes  a  rather  formal  dinner  hat.  But 
with  the  brim  added,  it  can  go  places  by 
day. 

Lucille  crochets  a  lot  but  she  gave  up 
knitting  after  one  attempt.  She  did  knit 
one  outfit. 

"You  should  see  it,"  she  laughed.  "The 
skirt  is  big  enough  for  two  of  me  and 
the  sweater  top  doesn't  measure  eight 
inches  across  the  shoulders.  I  don't  know 
what  went  wrong  with  my  calculations,  but 
I  certainly  did  ruin  a  lot  of  nice  yarn.  Now 
I  stick  to  something  simple  like  afghan 
squares  1"  .      t  -n 

For  her  morning  voice  practice,  Lucille 
prefers  to  wear  tailored  pajamas— flannel 
ones  on  cold  days  and  heavy  satin  ones 
when  it's   warmer.   The  attractive  ones 


RADIO  STARS 


Lucille  Manners  wins  new  laurels 
with  her  singing  on  the  Friday 
evening  Cities  Service  Concerts 


pictured  were  designed  especially  for  her 
by  Dorothy  Couture.  The  tunic  top  is 
metal  cloth  and  the  trousers  are  black  silk. 

Being  well-dressed,  she  thinks,  is  largely 
dependent  upon  how  well  you  take  care 
of  your  clothes  and  your  grooming. 

"With  several  changes  of  accessories,  an 
extra  hat  or  two,  some  costume  jewelry 
and  a  fresh  flower  now  and  then,  you  can 
make  one  dark  dress  and  coat  do  for  a 
whole  season — even  for  several  seasons," 
she  told  me.  "But  the  loveliest  clothes  in 
the  world  don't  seem  to  look  smart  if  they 
have  a  spot,  need  brushing  or  are  worn 
by  someone  who  isn't  particular  about  her 
hair,  fingernails  and  make-up." 

All  these  wise  fashion  observations  give 
you  a  very  good  idea  of  Lucille,  as  she 
really  is.  And  with  it  as  a  starter,  you 
should  be  able  to  tell  her  what  you  think 
her  real  personality  is  and  just  which 
type  of  dress  she  should  choose  to  play  it 
up  best.  Be  sure  to  turn  to  pages  48  and 
49,  where  you  will  find  the  four  stunning 
gowns  from  which  you  may  select  one  to 
suit  Lucille  and  possibly  be  the  lucky 
winner  of  one  for  yourself! 

It's  great  fun  to  try,  and  a  great  thrill 
to  win ! 


Elizabeth  Ellis, 
Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Enclosed  please  find  a  stamped,  self- 
addressed  envelope.  Kindly  send  me, 
free  of  charge,  your  MARCH 
SHOPPING  BULLETIN. 

Name   

Street 

City  State 


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You  don't  have  to  blurt  out  the  truth 
al)out  everything." 

Jane  told  me  afterwards  that  she  wan- 
dered around  backstage  at  the  Follies. 
asking  the  girls  "the  truth  question."  "I 
wish  you  could  have  heard  the  violence  of 
the  negative  replies,"  said  the  beautiful 
Pickens  sister.  "Unfortunately,  you 
couldn't  print  some  of  the  answers !  But 
all  the  girls'  replies  were  on  this  order ; 
'When  I  told  him  the  truth  he  said :  "Yes, 
darling,  I'm  glad  you  told  me."  But  four 
weeks  later  there  was  the  mischief  to 
pay,'  "  Jane  reported,  laughing. 

Take  little  Rosemarie  Brancato,  the 
quiet,  demure  young  singer  with  the  start- 
ling coloratura  voice,  who  is  fast  climb- 
ing to  real  fame  and  whom  you  already 
hear  on  a  coast  to  coast  NBC  network  on 
Fridaj'  nights. 

"No."  the  young  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
girl,  of  Italian  parents,  said  to  me  thought- 
full)',  "I  don't  believe  you  can  tell  men 
the  truth.  Of  course,  I  haven't  had  much 
experience  with  any  men.  e-xcept  my  father 
and  my  brothers.  But  I  know  it  didn't 
work  out  with  them — to  tell  the  truth. 
They  never  believed  me.  So  I  might  as 
well  have  lied  to  them.  I  really  would 
have  been  better  off  in  the  end. 

"I'll  give  you  an  example  of  what  I 
mean,"  Rosemarie  reminisced.  "Once  I 
went  to  the  theatre  with  my  cousin  and 
my  sister.  They  were  both  older  than  I. 
There  were  some  young  men  sitting  be- 
hind us,  who  tried  to  catch  their  eyes,  to 
flirt  with  them.  But  the  girls  minded 
their  own  business.  Of  course  I  did.  I 
was  too  young  to  do  anything  else.  Well, 
it  just  happened  that  my  uncle  was  there 
in  the  theatre,  too.  He  went  home  and 
told  Dad  the  girls  were  carrying  on  with 
the  young  men. 

"Now,  in  an  Italian  family  like  ours, 
flirting  with  boys  before  you're  engaged 
is  strictly  taboo,  you  know.  When  I  heard 
wliat  Uncle  had  reported,  I  spoke  up  and 
-aid  :  'Daddy,  it  isn't  true.  The  girls  didn't 
any  attention  to  the  boys.'  But  I  got 
spanked  for  it.  Dad  didn't  believe  me.  If 
I'd  lied  and  agreed  with  Uncle,  the  girls 
would  have  got  a  reprimand  and  I  would 
have  been  all  right.  As  long  as  Daddy 
didn't  believe  I  was  telling  the  truth,  any- 
way, 1  decided  it  would  be  best  not  to  do 
so  in  the  future. 

"But  that's  a  hard  lesson  to  learn  all  at 
once.  I'll  give  you  another  example  out 
of  my  own  life,  to  prove  that  you  can't 
tell  men  the  truth. 

"While  I  was  at  the  Univcr^'ty  of  Roch 
ester,  I  never  went  out  with  a  young  man 
alone, — only  at  parties — because  my  fam- 
ily didn't  permit  it.  When  1  ranic  home 
for  vacation,  I  told  the  family  this. 

"But  my  brothers  said:  'What?  You 
were  thousands  of  miles  away  from  home, 


where  nobody  would  know  the  difTerence, 
and  you  didn't  go  out  with  any  boys? 
Don't  tell  us  that  tale  !' 

"I  was  so  furious  I  cried.  Here  I'd 
told  them  the  truth  and  they  didn't  believe 
me  I  I  wished  again  that  I'd  lied.  Then 
there  wouldn't  have  been  all  that  fuss. 

"After  all,  what  a  man  doesn't  know 
won't  hurt  him.  As  long  as  I  wasn't  be- 
lieved when  I  told  the  truth,  I  really  de- 
termined, this  time,  that  I'd  make  up  little 
white  lies  or  evade  the  truth  in  future, 
when  necessary.  I  don't  like  lies.  But  it 
seems  you  can't  tell  men  the  truth ! 

"I  think,  with  a  husband,  it  might  be 
different,"  Rosemarie  Brancato  said 
thoughtfully.  "Of  course,  I've  never  had 
that  experience.  But  yet,  I  guess,  hus- 
bands, too,  might  not  like  to  hear  the 
truth  sometimes,"  Rosemarie  added,  think- 
ing out  loud.  "I. don't  know.  But  in  my 
own  life,  with  the  men  I've  known,  my 
brothers  and  my  father,  it's  certainly  a 
mistake  to  tell  men  the  truth,"  said  Rose- 
marie Brancato. 

I  spoke  to  titian-haired  Lucy  Monroe 
between  numbers,  as  she  rehearsed  for 
her  .fiiierican  AUmin  broadcast.  In  her 
own  way  Lucy  is  as  beautiful  as  gorgeous 
Jane  Pickens  or  flower-like  Rosemarie 
Brancato. 

"I  think  some  things  can  be  left  un- 
said." Lucy  made  this  remark  with  a  sad 
little  smile.  "Let  me  tell  you  why  I  say 
that.  I  wish  I  hadn't  told  a  certain  man 
the  truth.  You  see,  I  cared  very  much 
for  him,  very  much  indeed.  He  asked  me 
a  certain  question.  There's  no  use  going 
into  just  what  it  was.  That  doesn't  mat- 
ter. The  point  is  that  I  leaned  over  back- 
ward to  be  extremely  truthful  in  my  re- 
ply. This  confirmed  his  suspicions  about 
a  characteristic  he'd  imagined  I  had,  that 
he  didn't  like.  Well,  it  broke  off  the  affair 
between  us — a  romance  that  meant  more 
to  me  than  I  care  to  say.  If  I  hadn't 
told  him  the  truth,  if  I'd  hedged,  it  might 
have  made  all  the  difference.  Perhaps 
we'd  be  together  today. 

"I  will  give  you  another  example  in 
my  life,  that  proves  that  you  can't  tell  men 
the  truth,"  Lucy  continued.  "I  once  went 
to  take  an  audition  for  a  singing  job.  It 
was  the  second  audition  for  that  job.  I 
was  late.  My  prospective  employer  asked 
me,  seriously :  'Could  you  ever  learn  to  be 
on  time?' 

"  'No,  I  don't  believe  I  could,'  I  an- 
swered truthfully.  'I've  always  been  late. 
It's  a  life-long  habit.  I  don't  really  think 
I  could  change  it.'  I  didn't  know  it,  but 
it  just  happened  that  tliis  man  was  a  con- 
servative person,  brought  up  in  a  family 
where  it  was  considered  heresy  not  to  be 
on  lime.  Well,  of  course,  I  didn't  get  the 
job.  And  it  was  one  I  wanted  very  much. 
It  was  stupid  of  me  to  be  so  truthful.  I 


The  story  you  have  been  waiting  for! 
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v.-nn*t  be  next  time.  I'll  hedge.  You  can't 
tell  men  the  truth." 

You  all  love  Rosemary  Lane,  the  sweet 
and  beautiful  youns  Iowa  miss,  who  sings 
with  Fred  Waring's  orchestra.  Rosemar>'s 
a  darling.  I've  known  her  well  for  many 
years  and  every  time  I  see  her  I  like  her 
even  better. 

"No,  you  can't  tell  men  the  truth,"  Rose- 
mary said,  puckering  up  her  pretty  nose. 
"A  lot  of  them  can't  stand  it.  It's  better 
to  tell  a  little  white  lie,  and  then  every- 
body will  be  happier.  For  instance,  I'll 
tell  you  about  a  case  in  my  own  lite  when 
truth  telling  didn't  work  out."  Rosemary 
said,  a  bit  reluctantly. 

"There  was  a  certain  boy.  .  .  It  would 
have  been  better  if  I'd  just  'kidded'  him 
along.  We  were  having  such  a  swell  time 
together.  We  danced  and  attended  foot- 
ball games  and  just  went  places  and  were 
gay  and  happy.  We  had  fun.  Then  he 
began  to  get  serious.  He  told  me  he  loved 
me.  I  answered  truthfully:  'I  don't  love 
you.'  Just  like  that.  Well,  after  that,  he 
kept  pestering  me  about  it.  to  see  if  I 
wouldn't  change  my  mind.  Everything  be- 
came serious  and.  when  we  went  out  to- 
gether, there  were  no  more  laughs — no 
fun !  Finally  it  got  so  difficult  and  so  in- 
volved that  I  couldn't  stand  it.  It  became 
impossible  for  us  to  see  each  other  any 
more. 

"That  void  made  life  empty  for  quite 
a  while,  because  it  had  been  such  fun  go- 
ing around  together  and  we  had  such  good 
times.  If  only  I  hadn't  told  him  the 
truth !  If  only  I  had  evaded  the  issue  and 
said:  'Oh,  I  don't  feel  in  the  mood  for 
love  tonight,'  or  something  like  that  when 
he  asked  me!  If  I  had,  we  could  have  been 
enjoying  our  friendship  and  going  places 
together  yet.  Next  time  I  won't  tell  a 
man  the  truth!  I'll  just  kid  and  laugh 
and  everything  will  be  better. 

"In  fact.  I've  tried  it  out  already.  This 
is  what  happened.  A  composer  brought 
me  one  of  his  songs  to  sing.  It  was  ter- 
rible. I  was  just  about  to  tell  him  so,  when 
I  remembered  that  you  can't  tell  men  the 
truth.  So  I  just  said  evasively:  'Oh,  it's 
very  nice:  I'll  sing  it,  if  I  can,  sometime.' 
Of  course  I  never  did.  But  since  then  the 
composer  has  written  many  other  songs. 
I've  sung  them.  I've  loved  them.  If  I'd 
told  him  the  truth  about  that  one,  he  would 
have  been  insulted.  He  never  would  have 
offered  me  another  song,  and  that  would 
have  been  a  pity.  For  I've  been  successful 
with  many  of  this  composer's  melodies.  If 
I'd  told  him  the  truth,  I  never  would  have 
had  that  opportunity.  For  men  can't  take 
it!  You  just  can't  tell  men  the  truth,"  said 
sweet  Rosemary  Lane. 

So  here's  the  testimony  of  the  lovely 
ladies  of  the  air:  "Men  cannot  take  it — or 
us  afterwards!"  If  you  agree  with  their 
viewpoint,  you'll  merely  have  to  whisper 
the  truth  to  your  feminine  friends,  when 
lights  are  low  and  curl  papers  are  being 
rolled  up.  You'll  have  to  resort  to  telling 
the  other  girls  about  it  all  when  they're 
cold-creaming  their  faces.  For  if  you  wish 
to  take  the  opinion  of  Jane  Pickens,  Rose- 
marie  Brancato.  Lucy  Monroe,  Rosemary 
Lane  and  the  girls  from  the  Follies,  you'll 
have  to  decide  that  you  can  never,  never, 
never  tell  men  the  truth.  For,  to  para- 
phrase Kipling,  the  girls  might  say  to  you : 

"Be  zcanied  hy  )iiy  lot. 

Which  I  know  you  will  not. 

And  learn  about  nicn-folk  front  nic!" 


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Doesn't  interfere  with  natural  perspiration.  Mum,  you  know, 
doesn't  prevent  perspiration.  But  it  does  prevent  every  trace  of 
perspiration  odor.  And  how  important  that  is! 

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NOTHING  BUT  THE  TRUTH? 


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Paul  Whiteman  casually  displays  the  famous  $1500-spurs  which  were  pre- 
sented to  him  by  the  Fort  Worth  Chamber  of  Commerce.  They  are  fashioned 
of  solid  silver,  inlaid  with  gold,  and  with  his  monogram  set  in  diamonds. 


Ros.s  Graham  :  "/  l>clic:\'  l  adio  artisls, 
as  a  rule,  arc  a  iiiiich  tiinrr  sriisihir  lyf^r  of 
person,  .llso,  radio  arlists'  ton pcraincnt 
is  often  suppressed  because  of  time  sejied- 
ides  and  the  so-called  microphone  tech- 
nique." 

Arthur  Hale:  "Not  quite.  The  radio 
star  still  has  a  sneaking  suspicion  (well 
submerged,  but  still  there)  that  he's  not 
the  great  shakes  his  stooges  say  he  is." 

Allen  Prescott:  "I  find  sponsors  are 
much  more  temperamental  than  any  star 
ever  dared  to  be." 

Jean  Paul  King:  "No.  To  my  mind, 
nine-tenths  of  all  temperament  is  bad  man- 
ners, and  the  competition  in  radio  is  too 
keen  to  alloiv  many  people  the  privilege  of 
showing  had  manners  to  the  general  public 
for  long." 

Benay  Venuta:  "All  artists  have  tem- 
perament, but  the  day  of  giving  way  to  it 


is  gone,  I  think.  Screen  stars  seem  to 
give  full  sway  to  it  more  often  than  radio 
stars." 

Irvin  S.  Cobb:  "No.  Radio  stars 
haven't  had  as  much  practice  at  being  tem- 
peramental." 

Cab  Calloway:  "Certainly.  People  zvho 
entertain  on  the  radio  are  made  of  the 
same  stuff  as  screen  stars.  However,  I  be- 
lieve the  tjiing  ive  call  'temperament'  is  dis- 
appearing. Performers  are  learning  more 
and  more  that  they  can  be  big  and  still  be 
regular." 

Margaret  Speaks:  "I  do  not  consider 
radio  stars  temperamental." 

Kenny  Baker:  "Yes.  I  think  there  is 
more  temperament  expressed  by  radio 
stars,  due  to  a  greater  nervous  tension. 
On  the  air  a  program  has  to  be  right  the 
first  time.  On  the  screen,  retakes  are  made 
until  a  scene  is  right." 


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Duke  Ellington:  "No,  I  don't.  The  radio 
busijicss,  profiting,  perhaps,  from  a  study 
of  the  Hollyzfood  mistakenique,  has  groxcn 
in  a  more  efficient  manner  and  hasn't 
spoiled  its  artists,  as  tlie  moi  ies  hare  done 
so  often." 

Allie  Lowe  Miles:  "Yes,  I  do.  Because 
aren't  the  real  stars  of  radio  people  from 
the  stage  and  screen?  And  you  can't 
blame  them,  because,  while  radio  has  ad- 
vantages, it  also  has  limitations  that  play 
havoc  with  artistic  temperaments." 

Lanny  Ross:  "Xo,  but  peiliaps  it  would 
be  better  if  radio  artists  had  more  tem- 
perament. However,  their  bosses  are  busi- 
ness men  and  have  very  little  use  for  tem- 
peramental displays." 

-♦- 

Lud  Glnskin :  "More,  because  stars  of 
radio  can  show  their  temperament  before 
more  people  and  thereby  make  themselves 
feel  more  important." 

Benny  Fields:  "No.  With  the  absence 
of  an  audience,  temperament  disappears, 
too." 

-♦- 

Bernice  Claire:  "No — because  radio 
work  is  a  white-collar  job,  compared  to 
movie  work.  There  is  the  nervous  strain 
of  performance,  to  be  sure,  but  the  long 
hours  of  movie  work  are  more  apt  to  bring 
out  temperament,  if  the  artist  has  that 
sort  of  a  disposition." 

Ed  McConnell :  "Radio  stars  have  as 
niucli  real  temperament  as  screen  stars,  hut 
far  less  assumed  temperament." 

-♦- 

Grace  Albert:  "Wherever  there  is  tal- 
ent there  seems  to  be  temperament,  but  ra- 
dio   demands    more    teamwork    than  the 


screen.  Therefore,  radio  stars  arc  less 
pampered." 

Al  Goodman:  "Xo.  Because  radio  stars 
are  fundamentally  better  equipped,  artis- 
tically, and  have  to  stand  on  their  own 
feet." 

Ed  Fitzgerald:  "There  is,  of  course,  but 
the  radio  mob  Zi'ill  not  pay  attention  to  a 
temperamental  fit." 

Jimmie  Fidler:  "Definitely  no.  I  believe 
it  is  because  more  talent  is  necessary  for 
screen  success.  On  radio,  it  is  voice  alone. 
Since  fewer  qualify  for  screen  success  and 
the  stars  know  they  are  not  easily  replace- 
able, they  know,  also,  that  they  can  get 
away  with  temperament.  Temperament  is 
not  only  silly,  it  is  usually  faked." 

Homer  Rodehea;  er :  "It  takes  more  real 
intelligence  to  make  good  on  radio  and  the 
more  intelligent  people  are  less  tempera- 
mental." 

-♦- 

\'ee  Lawnhurst:  ".Vo.  because  radio 
people  aren't  as  glamorous — nor  is  glamour 
stressed,  sought  after  and  fostered  in 
radio,  as  in  pictures — and  glamour  and 
temperament  go  hand  in  hand." 

Bide  Dudley:  "No.  Stars  of  radio 
never  worry  themselves  or  anybody  else  if 
the  sponsors  let  them  alone." 

Will  Hudson:  "Xo,  I  don't.  There  are 
very  few  radio  artists  who  could  afford 
to  be  temperamental.  The  work  is  too  hard 
and  too  exacting,  and  the  results  are  as 
important  to  the  artist  as  the\'  are  to  the 
sponsor." 

Phil  Harris:  "\'o,  because  radio  is  not 
so  e.vciting  as  pictures." 


Marian  Jordan:  "I  do,  but  can't  see 
why  people  do  it,  unless  it's  for  show.'" 

Jim  Jordan:  "Xot  knowing  any  movie 
people,  I  can't  say.    But  I  take  a  drink 


How  will  you,  personally,  reoct  to 
television  when  it  connes? 


Fred  Allen:  "I  will  get  my  face  lifted 
and  be  ready  for  it. " 

Bernice  Claire:  "/  shall  probably  just 
hope  I'm  the  type!' 

Kenny  Baker:  "I  am  anxious  for  it  to 
come,  as  I  feel  it  will  be  another  medium 
through  which  to  express  myself." 

.  Illcii  I'rescDtt:  "I'll  be  just  as  scared  as 
ever,  but  I'll  try  to  make  the  grade — even 
if  I'm  held  up  here  and  there  by  old  pieces 
of  adhesive  tape.  " 

Margaret  Speaks :  "/  lliink  television 
li-ill  tend  to  'personalize'  radio  to  a  greater 
extent.  Radio  artists  zvill,  of  course,  have 
to  go  through  a  period  of  adjustment,  but  I 
feel  television  zi-ill  prove  to  be  much  more 
interesting  than  radio  broadcasting  is  to- 
day." 

-♦- 

Duke  Ellington:  "Never  mind  how  I 
will  react  to  television.  The  question  is: 
how  will  television  react  to  me?  Having 
played  for  years  before  live  theatre  audi- 
ences, however,  I  don't  fear  being  seen  on 
the  air  as  well  as  heard.  Let  some  of  the 
mike-born  artists  do  a  bit  of  worrying!" 
(Continued  on  page  9'4) 


...Then  Make-up's  Smart 


A SWELL  TIME  in  the  out  of  doors  is  no 
reason  for  a  skin  all  scuffed  and  flaky 
looking  for  your  swanky  evening  date. 

There's  a  simple  way  popular  girls  know — 
to  get  rid  of  all  those  little  flaky  bits  that 
spoil  skin  for  make-up.  A  special  kind  of 
cream  that  artually  melts  off  horrid  "powder 
catchers" — in  just  one  application! 


Mrs.  W  illiam  L. 
Mellon,  Jr. 

says:  "Aflcr  Pon.|-» 
Vanishing  Cream. 


nighl.too.aflrrr 


Here's  how  a  distingui^licil  der- 
matologist explains  it: 

"Exposure  hastens  the  drying  out  of  sur- 
face skin  cells.  They  shrink,  scuff  K><>se. 
The  skin  feels  harsh.  These  particles  can  be 
melted  away  instantly  with  a  keratolytic 
cream  (Vanishing  Cream).  Then  the  smooth, 
underlying  cells  ajipi'iir." 

See  this  for  yourself— w  ith  I'ond  s  \  an- 
ishiiig  ( Iream. 

Before  make-up  —  Right  after  cleansing 
put  on  a  film  of  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream. 
It  smooths  away  every  flaky  bit.  Now  |)ow- 
der  and  rouge  go  on  eveidy.  Stay  for  hours. 

Overnight— Apply  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream 
after  vour  nightlv  cleansing.  Leave  it  on. 
V>  Noi'i  sleep,  von'r  -kin  .'et-  M.fter. 


Why  skin  feels  "flaky" 

Dru.l  .  i-M«.>n  llir  l<.|. 


nakr    r.rr.    V...i  ran 


8 -Piece    ''  ''•  ^'T- 

Kimh  8-picce  package  ronlaining 
PaClCage  "pn-ial    tube   of   PomlV  Vanifhing 

Cream,  icrneniuit  tiamplri*  of  2  other 
IN.ii.r»  (  .rruint.,  anil  5  ilifferenl  shades  of  Ponil'i.  Face 


Name. 
Siroel. 


CopyrlKht.  1937.  I'ondS  K) 


RADIO  STARS 


{Continued  from  page  93) 
In-in  S.  Cobb:  "I  think  I  shall  remain 
comparatively  calm.    At  least,  I'll  try  to." 


Benay  \'enuta  : 
it— I  aucss." 


Til  try  to  get  a  job  at 


Lanny  Ross:  "I  hope  that  I  shall  be 
able  to  enhance  my  radio  activities  with 
the  advent  of  television." 

-♦- 

Allic  Loii'c  Miles:  "I  will  feel  that  ra- 
dio has  been  perfected.  For  all  of  the 
four  half-hour  programs  I'm  doing  on  the 
air,  we  hax  c  an  audience.  But.  having  the 
'untold  niilli>in>'  ahle  to  sec.  as  well  as  liear, 
what  goes  on,  will  make  radio  what  the 
stage  was  to  me  years  ago." 


Cab  Callowa.\  :  "'^^/<■:';.^ 
li'ay,  and  I'm  not  ninniini  (U 
going  to  be  a  hit  touiilicr 
will  be  eritieal  eyes  as  I 


inn 


IS  on  the 
True,  it's 
knoi.'  there 
eritieal  ears 


focused  on  you.  Hozeeier.  lei  it  exine.  It 
will  be  an  inif^ortant  stef"  fiu-zeard  for  the 
radio  industry  and  I'll  be  happy  to  be 
among  the  first  to  telecast.  ( J )icidentally, 
1  submit  that  word  to  descrihe  the  eoining 
television  broadcasts. ) " 

Lucille  Manners:  "I  shall  look  forward 
to  the  coming  of  television,  for  I've  always 
adored  the  stage  and,  to  me,  broadcasting 
will  then  be  very  similar  to  the  stage." 

Eddie  Duchin:    "Will  be  delighted." 

\''ee  Lawnhurst :  "I  ivon't  be  seared  and 
it'll  be  rather  fun." 

Johnny  Green:  "I'll  try  to  keep  my 
weight  down  and  get  plenty  of  sleep,  be- 


cause competition  at  that  time  will  include 
one's  physical  as  well  as  artistic  attributes." 

IVeleome  Lcii'is:  "As  an  artist,  I  can't 
say  I'd  welcome  it.  It's  too  hard  to  face 
a  microphone  and  know  that  all  eyes  are 
on  you  every  second.  Of  course,  it  will  he 
a  big  step  ahead,  but  very  tougli  on  the 
artists." 

-♦- 

Benny  Fields :  "/  t^';7/  zceleome  it,  for  I 
fee!  iny  style  and  delii'cry  zi'ill  lend  theni- 
seT.rs  to  a  seeing  as  ifc//  as  a  listening 
audience." 

Betty  Winkler:  "Television,  naturally 
enough,  will  require  a  great  readjustment 
on  the  part  of  us  who  have  worked  almost 
exclusively  in  radio.  I  want  to  prepare 
myself  for  that  eventuality  by  gaining 
more  experience  in  stage  work." 

Bide  Dudley:  "I'll  have  to  get  a  new  tie 
and  keep  my  hair  cut." 

Homer  Rodeheaver :  "IVill  be  glad  to 
cooperate.  Feel  it  ivill  not  be  practical  for 
sonic  lime." 

Jimmie  Fidler:  "I  feel  the  question 
should  be:  'How  will  television  react  to 
me?'  Television  will  make  or  break  hun- 
dreds of  radio  performers,  me  among  them. 
Frankly,  I  shall  continue  exactly  as  I  have 
in  the  past.  Like  hundreds  more,  I  have 
my  fingers  crossed." 

-♦- 

Irene  Beasley:  "Television  will  give  all 
of  us  a  new  showmanship  to  learn: 
Namely,  that  of  being  seen  and  being  heard 
by  an  audience  whom  we  neither  see  nor 
from  whom  we  can  hear  audible  applause, 
and  yet,  of  whom  we  are  keenly  conscious." 


Lud  Gluskin :  "/  think  it  will  be  great 
and  that  it  ^^■iIl  afford  much  greater  op- 
portunities to  artists  zvho,  heretofore,  have 
had  a  difficult  time  getting  by  on  radio" 

Ed  Fitzgerald:  "Will  raise  a  beard  and 
try  to  become  a  type." 

Al  Goodman:  "Can't  wait  till  it  arrives." 


'Think  it  will  be  great 
ivill  mean  something 


Marian  Jordan  : 
because  'mugging' 
then." 


Grace  Albert:  "I've  been  on  several  ex- 
perimental television  programs  and  have 
loved  them!  It's  very  thrilling  and  offers 
possibilities  radio  could  not.  It's  a  happy 
union  of  movies  and  radio,  and  my  re- 
action is  that  I  now  aspire  to  be  a  tele- 
vision star." 

Edgar  Guest:  "Look  forward  to  it. 
Think  I  shall  enjoy  it  greatly." 

Ed  McConnell :  "/  shall  prepare  to  take 
my  place  in  the  new  order  of  things.  I 
belie-i'e  it  zvould  improve  rather  than  hin- 
der tjie  results  of  my  work." 

Jean  Paul  King:  "As  a  former  legiti- 
mate actor,  I'll  be  glad  to  see  television. 
It  will  be  added  entertainment  for  the  lis- 
tener who  has  put  up  with  some  pretty 
bad  stuff.  (But  I'll  probably  be  an  old 
character  actor  by  the  time  television  gets 
here!)" 

Arthur  Hale :  "I'm  agin  it.  None  of 
us  looks  as  our  fondest  fans  zvould  imag- 
ine us." 

Jim  Jordan:  "I  will  welcome  television 
if  they  will  let  us  work  at  it." 


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Scif-ntl.sts  recmtly  discovered  that  hosts 
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Without  these  vital  elements  you  may  laclt 
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Now  one  of  the  richest  known  sources  of 
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ish and  build  up  the  body  is  pro- 
moted where  iron  is  needed. 
Hearty  appetite  to  enjoy  plenty 
of  Rood  food  is  assure<l  those  who 
specUically  need  Vitamin  B. 
Needed  aid  to  get  ALL  the  good 
out  of  your  food  is  supplied  where 
Vitamin  B  is  deficient. 
Nerves  depleted  by  inadequato 
Vitamin  B.  are  .strengthened  by 
this  special  nerve-aiding  vitamin. 
Unsightly  skin  eruptions  resulting 
from  Vitamin  B  rleflciency  cor- 
rected, natural  beauty  restored. 
Growth,  development  and  increase 
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RADIO  STARS 


BOARD  OF  REVIEW 


(Continued  from  page  6) 


FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY—  93. 
WEEMS  ORCHESTRA    62.4 

.V/-!t  M  .n.  .S.iii)  I'M.  EM  94. 
ED  WYNN,  GRAHAM  McNAMEE  .  62.3 

MiC  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

THE  O'NEILLS..  62.2  95 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:45  P.M.  EST,  11:00 

.A.M.  on  WJZ  WHZ  WBZ.X  W'BAL  WMAL 

WSYR   KDKA  WCAR    WXYZ   WHAM  96. 

WLS 

THE  SINGING  LADY  62.1 

.V/JC  M-T-\V-T-F  5:30  P.M.  E.<T  97 
MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND  .62.0 

XBC  Sun.  <J:li<i  P.M.  E^E  98. 
VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  61.9 

XHC  Tuo.  7:4^   }>.\E  E<r  99 
THE  CARBORUNDUM  BAND  61.7 
CBS  Sal.  7:30  P  .M.  100. 
DR.  ALLAN  ROY  DAFOE  61.6 
C  BS  M-n  -F   ll:4>   A  .M  EST  101. 
LA  SALLE  STYLE  SHOW— CHARLES 
LA  MAIRE,  DUCHIN  ORCHESTRA    61.3  102. 

SBC  Thun.  4:00  P.M.  EST 

FIRST  NIGHTER    DON  AMECHE    .61.2  103 

XBC  Fn.   10:00   P.M.  /iSr 

CAPT.  TIM  HEALY   61.1  104. 

XBC  M-T-\V-T-E  V:4'  A.M.  EST 

FIRESIDE  RECITALS  61.0  105. 

XBC  Stni.   7:30   P..\E  E.^T 

CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  shots. 60.9  106. 

XBC  1-T-S  ]E'>=   r.M  /-:sT 
MELODIANA- ABE  LYMAN  ORCHES- 
TRA  60.8  107. 

XBC  M'  r..  i-:3n  P.M.  E.ST 

COME  ON,  LET  S  SING  60.8 

C  BS  ir, .'.  V      i'..\E  E-^r 

AL  JOLSON,  SID  SILVERS,  MARTHA  108. 
RAYE,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  60.7 

CBS  r.'.f.  S:3ii  r..\l.  E.'-T,  ,V.JO  P..\E  P.s?'  109. 
THE  JERGENS  PROGRAM— WALTER 
WINCHELL  60.5  110. 

XBC  >u>i.  t:iHi  P.M.  EST,  6:15  P  .M.  PST 
GANG  BUSTERS  60.4 
CBS    li  ..;     Il>:(ill    P..\E   i:sl  111. 
KALTENMEYER  S  KI NDERGARTEN .  60.3 
XBC  .N;.'.  -:3o  P.M.  E^.sT  112. 

DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  60.2 

XBC  Er,.  g:30  P.^E  El.'-T  113. 

NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE  60.1 

XBC  .Sal.  0:.UI  P.M.  i:ST.  X:00  P.M.  PST  114. 

ALLEN  PRESCOTT   60.0 

NBC  T-T  n  :■    l  .U  / 


HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC  HALL  59.8 

C  BS   y  ».  v   S:00    I'.M.  EST 
LUMANDABNER   59.5 

XBC   M-TW-T-F   7:30   P.M.  EST.  8:15 
I'.M.  P.ST 

RY-KRISP  PRESENTS  MARION  TAL- 
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JIMMY   FIDLERS  HOLLYWOOD 

GOSSIP   59.4 

XBC   Tues.  IO:.<o  P..\E  E<r 

UNCLE  EZRA  S  RADIO  STATION  .58.5 

XBC  .M-W  F  7:15   P.M.  E.SI 

MAJOR  BOWES-  AMATEUR  HOUR  58.0 

( 7i>   Th.ur.   O-OO   P  .M.  EiST 

GIRL  ALONE    57.6 

XBC  M-T-W-T-F   12:00    Soon  EST 

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CBS  Sal.  9:30  P.M.  E-T 

TODAY'S  CHILDREN  57. 5 

SBC   M-T-W-T-E   10:45   A.M.  EST 
IRENE  RICH    S6.8 

SBC  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

BROADWAY  VARIETIES  .  5S.7 

CBS  Fri.  8:00   P.M.  EST 

TEA  TIME  AT  MORRELL'S  56.0 

XBC  Thur.  4:00  P.M.  EST 

MARY  MARLIN  55.2 

SBC  .M-T-W-T-F  12:15   P.M.  EST 
RALEIGH   AND   KOOL  CIGARETTE 

SHOW— JACK  PEARL   55.1 

SBC  .U'.ii.  «:3(>  P.M.  r.-E 

PEPPER  YOUNG  S  FAMILY  55.0 

SBC  M-T-W-T-E  3.110  P.M.  EST.  10:.10 
A.M.  on  W.'Z  WES  WSVR  W/IA.M 
KDKA 

SIDEWALK  INTERVIEWS  55.0 

SBC  Tucs.  9:011  P..\l.  />/ 

THE  GOOSE  CREEK  PARSON  54.3 

CBS  M-W-F  7:.Vi  P.M.I.-^l  ,  ~  4^  P.M.  PST 

TED     MALONES     BETWEEN  THE 

BOOKENDS  53.6 

CBS  M-T-W-T-E  IJ:I=   r  .M  E.ST 

MYSTERY  CHEF  53.5 

SBC  Tttes.  Sal.  11:30  .\..M.  EST 

HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  .53.4 

SBC  Tu.f.  9:30  P.M.  E>r 

QUALITY  TWINS— EAST  &  DUMKE  53.4 

(BS  T-T  11:15  E.M 

TOM    MIX   AND   HIS  RALSTON 

STRAIGHT  SHOOTERS  53.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:15  P.M.  EST 


MODERN  ROMANCES  53.0 

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NATIONAL   AMATEUR  NIGHT- 
BENNY  RUBIN  5^.0 

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GREATER  SINCLAIR  MINSTRELS.  52.9 

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VIC  AND  SADE   52.0 

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RENFREW  OF  THE  MOUNTED  51.2 
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HORN     AND     HARDART'S  CHIL- 
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CBS  >„,:.    !o::<,  A.M.  E..ST 

VOICE  OF  EXPERIENCE  50.3 

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P.yE  EST 

JACK  ARMSTRONG  50.2 

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LITTLE  ORPHAN  ANNIE   50.2 

SBC  M-T-W-E-E  I'.M.  EST 

POPEYE,  THE  SAILOR  50.1 

C7i>   M-W-E   r./>-    I'.M.  EST 

HOW  TO  BE  CHARMING    50.1 

SBC  .M-\l-!    lEio  A.M.  EST 
VFE  LAWNHURST  AND  THE  CHARIO- 
TEERS   50.0 

CBS   Thur.   7:.iO    P.M.  EJST 
ROMANCE  OF  HELEN  TRENT  SO.O 
CBS  M-T-W-T-F  I2:.yi  P.M.  EST 
MOLLIE  OF  THE  MOVIES  49.9 
MBS  M-T-W-T-F  3:oi)   I'.M.  E.ST 
WILDERNESS  ROAD  49.8 
CBS  .M-T-W-'E-F  5:4^  P.M.  E.^T 
SMILING  ED  McCONNELL  49.7 

SBC  Sun.  .v,.V'  /'..\/.  ILVT 

SINGIN'  SAM  49.7 

SBC  Fr,.  8:15  P  .M.  E.ST.  8:30  P.M.  P.-T 
BACKSTAGE  WIFE   48.3 

SBC  M-E-W-E-F  11:15  A.M.  EST 
EDGAR  GUEST  IN  WELCOME  VAL- 
LEY  48.0 

SBC  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  ElsT 


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(Continued  from  page  8) 


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Mr.  Woollcott  received  a  let 
httle  old  lady  in  Xew  England, 
.gave  no  address,  merely  sa\ii 
lived  miles  from  the  town  o 
mark.  She  thanked  him  for  tl 
and  particularly  for  some  clas 
tions  long  dear  to  her.  She  went  on  to 
say  that  she  and  her  sister  were  ver\-  old, 
mdeed.  and  no  longer  able  to  get  t<i  the 
public  library  for  the  books  they  loved.  In 
fact,  they  were  so  poor  that  they  were 
not  able  to  afford  even  kerosene  for  light- 
ing their  meagre  rmims.  Therefore,  at  the 
time  of  his  broadcast,  they  sat  in  the  first 
darkness  of  a  winter  night  and  turned  on 
their  old,  very  prized  radio,  to  listen  to 
him  pull,  from  out  of  his  cap  of  knowl- 
edge, the  kind  of  things  they  were  starving 
to  hear. 

This  letter  disturbed  Mr.  Woollcott. 
The  gentility  of  these  aged  women,  their 
poverty  and  sincere  appreciation  made 
the  bustling  Toioi  Crier  set  out  upon  a 
search.  He  toured  the  neighborhood  of 
the  postmarked  letter.  He  sent  his  scouts 
out  and  even  got  detectives  on  the  job. 
Xo  one  was  able  to  glean  the  least  bit  of 
information  regarding  these  women,  and 
although  it  was  over  a  year  ago  Mr. 
Woollcott  yet  has  the  hope  of  someday 


finding  and  perhaps,  in  iiis  tactful  way, 
assisting  t!iem. 

He  can  no  more  help  observing  the 
niceties  of  nuance  and  shading,  than  he 
can  curtail  his  active  imagination.  Like 
all  of  us,  some  days  he  writes  rapidly  and 
well.  Other  times  he  has  to  write  and 
re-write.  From  the  days  at  Hamilton 
College,  through  which  he  worked  his  way 
as  a  waiter,  while  acquiring  a  Ph.D., 
Woollcott  and  his  pen  have  not  long  been 
separated.  Or  rather,  it  should  be  said 
nowadays,  Woollcott  and  his  portable  type- 
writer are  never  separated.  He  works 
like  a  fiend  all  day  long,  and  still  has 
enough  work  piled  ahead  for  two  men. 
Consecpiently,  editors  usually  have  to  re- 
quest articles  months  ahead.  One  imagines 
him  with  his  perpetual  cigarette  dangling 
from  his  mouth,  while  his  fingers  bang 
at  the  typewriter  with  a  speed  of  which  he 
is  very  proud. 

After  years  of  splendid  newspaper  work 
for  the  New  York  Times,  and  the  World, 
not  to  mention  the  Herald  and  Smi, 
Woollcott  decided  to  confine  himself  to 
writing  for  the  magazines  and  reading  his 
comments  on  interesting  personages,  plays 
and  events  over  the  radio  on  station 
WABC.  But,  popping  with  ideas,  he  simul- 


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beyond  the  seas.  Now  Duke  of  Windsor,  he  awaits  in  lonely  exile  the 
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ghosting — or,  in  other  words,  anyone  else 
to  do  any  part  of  his  work  for  Iiim.  He 
spends  infinite  time  on  his  broadcasts — 
writing  his  theme  of  the  evening  and  con- 
stantly calling  his  radio  director  or  his 
music  director,  to  be  sure  that  everything 
will  run  off  perfectly. 

His  great  work  on  the  Seeing  Eye, 
which  was  broadcast,  is  still  talked  of. 
The  funds  that  wore  raised  tn  buy  the 
magnificent  shepherd  dugs,  tliat  were  to 
become  the  Seeing  Eyes  of  their  blind 
masters,  are  daily  paying  dividends  in  the 
most  comforting  way.  These  dogs,  and 
their  masters  who  live  in  darkness,  are 
now,  through  the  help  of  Woollcott,  com- 
rades and  helpmates  cemented  daily  in 
service  and  love. 

Each  year  around  Armistice  Day,  the 
Toit'ii  Crier  looks,  not  through  his  thick 
glasses,  but  back  into  the  days  when  he 
was  unable  to  join  the  fighting  men  during 
the  World  War.  Regretfully,  he  did  the 
next  best  thing,  he  got  himself  in  the 
army  as  a  reporter  on  the  famous  A.E.F. 
newspaper,  I'lir  Slurs  and  Stripes.  In 
this  paper  his  wit  and  humor,  applied  to 
military  life,  materially  aided  in  keeping 
up  the  soldiers'  morale.  Dramatically 
each  year  around  this  day,  he  recalls  to 
his  radio  audience  the  story  of  Christmas 
Eve  back  in  1914.  The  tale  is  about  the 
fraternizing  of  English  and  German  troops 
on  the  first  Christmas  Eve  in  the  trenches. 
A  true  story,  which  once  heard  from 
Woollcott  is  never  forgotten. 

Again  this  rotund  Toivit  Crier,  out  of  a 
fine  afternoon,  startled  staid  Manhattaners 
by  playing  croquet  in  Central  Park.  In 
fact  he  started  a  craze  and  soon  had  other 
famous  persons,  and  some  not  famous,  all 
enthusiastic  over  this  game.  Pleased  as 
a  school-boy,  inspired  by  his  success,  he 
wrote  humorous  treatises  under  such  de- 
lightfully idiotic  titles  as  Mallets  Toward 
Xonc — and,  Xo  Peace  Unto  the  Wickets. 

No  wonder  Woollcott  is  loved,  cussed 
at,  and  admired.  The  depth  and  simplicity 
of  his  being  commands  singly  and  instan- 
taneously all  that.  Some  people  think 
he  is  crazy,  and  he  is  just  crazy  enough 
to  be  pleased  that  they  do.  He  says  he 
ought  to  write  bedtime  stories,  because  it 
would  be  more  suitable  to  his  working 
costume.  This  costume,  a  relic  of  his  re- 
porting drama  days,  consists  of  pajamas 
and  dressing-gown  until  late  afternoon. 
He  is  convinced  that  he  does  his  best 
writing  thus  garbed.  When  morning  comes 
the  Town  Crier  strolls  into  his  study  and 
parks  himself  in  a  special  overstuffed 
chair,  his  typewriter  in  front  of  him,  and 
pounds  away  like  mad.  His  slippered 
feet  reflect  his  progress,  for  the  more  he 
warms  to  his  theme,  the  more  his  toes 
turn  out — it's  a  sign  to  all  that  old  poker 
face  is  at  work  and  Heaven  help  the  per- 
son who  disturbs  him ! 

Woollcott's  new  series  is  patterned 
closely  after  his  programs  of  previous 
years.  Although  Woollcott  is  one  of 
the  most  sophisticated  figures  in  New 
York  life,  with  close  acquaintanceship 
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IS  BOBBY  JEALOUS  OF  DEANNA? 


{Continued  from  page  41) 


graphed  daily,  interviewed  almost  hourly. 
She  was  the  star  of  the  hour.  And,  in 
spite  of  such  attention,  she  is  just  what 
everyone  expects  of  a  thirteen-year-old 
girl — what  one  expects  of  a  hoinely  child, 
who  must  make  up  for  her  deficiencies. 
But  Deanna  is  a  beautiful  child— beautiful 
in  every  way.  Not  only  has  she  perfect 
features,  not  only  does  she  look  like  a  doll 
in  her  short  dress,  socks,  black  one-strap 
slippers  and  ribbon  on  her  hair,  but  she  is 
quiet,  with  a  poise  remarkable  in  one  so 
young.  In  her  well-modulated  voice,  she 
speaks  only  when  spoken  to.  When  greeted 
in  New  York  by  the  press,  her  expression 
showed  her  surprise — surprise  that  it  was 
she  who  was  being  photographed,  inter- 
viewed. 

But  what  about  Bobby  all  this  time? 
Was  he  content  to  drop  out  of  the  spot- 
light for  the  time  being?  Yes,  he  was — 
because  he  was  secure  in  the  affections  of 
his  Uncle  Eddie  and  the  radio  audiences. 

Bobby  Breen,  as  the  so-called  adopted 
son,  enjoys  a  peculiar  relationship  with 
Eddie  Cantor.  The  older  man  looks  on 
the  boy  with  parental  affection.  His  fam- 
ily of  Ida  and  the  five  girls  love  Bobby, 
too.  He  is  with  the  Cantor  family  a  great 
deal  of  the  time.  With  them  he  has  en- 
joyed a  home  life  for  the  first  time  in 
five  years.  In  California,  he  lives  at  the 
same  hotel  as  Cantor,  sleeping  in  his 
adopted  father's  room  as  often  as  he  sleeps 
in  the  suite  which  he  shares  with  his  older 
sister,  Sally. 

On  the  other  hand,  Deanna  Durbin  is  a 
young  girl  whose  remarkable  ability  was 
given  a  chance  by  Cantor  on  his  radio 
program  of  September  20th  last.  She  lives 
in  a  comfortable  home  in  California  with 
her  mother  and  father,  appears  on  the 
Cantor  programs  every  Sunday  night,  and 
also  she  is  a  motion  picture  actress. 
Deanna  calls  Eddie  Cantor  "Mr.  Cantor" 
in  contrast  with  Bobby's  "Uncle  Eddie." 
To  Cantor,  Deanna  Durbin  is  a  young  girl 
with  remarkable  talents,  while  Bobby 
Breen  is  a  loveable  boy  whom  Eddie  has 
taken  into  his  heart  in  every  way. 

"When  Bobby  was  in  New  York  with 
me,  I  took  him  to  a  well-known  boys' 
clothing  store,"  Cantor  told  me.  "All  the 
clerks  went  crazy  over  him.  That  boy 
has  the  most  remarkable  personality.  He 
is  so  cute.  The  clerks  asked  him  to  sing  a 
song  for  them.  And  what  do  you  think 
he  did?  Little  Bobby  stood  up  on  a 
chair  and,  in  nothing  but  his  underwear, 
sang  a  song  for  those  people.  There  was 
no  shyness  about  him.  He  never  thought 
about  being  in  underwear.  He  had  been 
asked  to  sing,  and  he  did  it.  A  great  kid!" 

In  contrast.  Cantor  spoke  of  Deanna: 
"She  is  such  a  sweet  girl.  And  she  has 
a  great  voice,  as  fully  developed  as  an 
adult's.    She  will  go  far." 

To  understand  the  differences  between 
these  two  child  actors  on  the  Cantor  pro- 
gram, we  must  look  at  their  background. 
Bobby  Breen's  father  was  the  owner  of  a 
small  clothing  store  and  was  forced  to 
retire,  due  to  ill  health.  Pennies  meant 
much  in  this  household.    Deanna  Durbin's 


father  is  a  stock  broker,  financially  com- 
fortable. 

When  Bobby  was  three  years  old,  his 
sister  Sally  entered  him  in  amateur  sing- 
ing contests,  in  which  he  always  took  first 
prize.  Sally  has  been  the  guiding  force 
in  the  success  of  the  nine-year-old  boy. 
When  he  was  but  five  and  she  was  just 
fifteen,  Sally  took  her  little  brother  to 
Chicago — with  only  thirty-five  dollars  in 
her  pocket.  In  the  great  Illinois  city  she 
fought  for  opportunities  for  Bobby.  Then 
to  New  York,  again  with  just  enough 
money  for  busfare.  In  New  York  Sally 
was  a  cigarette  girl  in  a  hotel  at  night. 
By  day  she  hunted  for  a  chance  for  her 
little  brother  of  six.  Her  youth  and  ex- 
treme enthusiasm  for  Bobby's  ability 
gained  him  an  opportunity  to  appear  in 
vaudeville.  But  five  shows  a  day  was  too 
large  an  undertaking  for  a  six-year-old 
child,  Sally  decided,  so  she  sent  him  to 
school.  The  movies  were  her  only  chance, 
she  thought.  Through  the  landlady  at 
the  boarding-house  in  which  they  lived, 
Bobby  was  given  his  chance  to  go  to 
California  and  Hollywood.  It  was  in  the 
movie  capital  that  Eddie  Cantor  heard 
the  boy  sing  Santa,  Bring  My  Mommy 
Back,  at  a  benefit,  and  recognized  in  him 
an  unusual  talent.  That  was  more  than 
a  year  ago  and  Bobby  has  been  on  the 
Cantor  programs  ever  since. 

Although  now  only  nine  years  old, 
Bobby  Breen  tells  of  his  short  life  as 
seriously  as  an  adult.  "Things  have  been 
going  swell  for  me  since  I  have  had  Uncle 
Eddie,  but  before  that,  it  was  pretty 
tough  for  four  or  five  years.  Sally  has 
been  wonderful,  through  it  all.  It  is  she 
who  has  given  me  all  my  singing  lessons. 
The  first  song  she  ever  taught  me  was 
Cryin'  for  the  Carolines." 

To  Sally  goes  much  of  the  credit  for 
Bobby  Breen's  success.  When  his  par- 
ents had  no  faith  in  their  young  son's 
voice,  it  was  the  older  sister  who  took 
matters  into  her  own  hands  when  she 
took  him  to  Chicago.  It  is  she  who  ac- 
companies him  everywhere,  who  looks 
after  him.  She,  too,  is  grateful  for  the 
affection  and  assistance  which  Eddie  Can- 
tor has  given  to  her  little  brother. 

Deanna  Durbin  never  can  take  the  place 
of  little  Bobby  Breen  in  the  affections  of 
and  on  the  program  of  Eddie  Cantor. 
But,  nevertheless.  Cantor  feels  that  she 
plays  a  very  important  part  on  his  pro- 
gram. 

"When  I  can  find  a  child  who  has  such 
an  unusual  talent  as  Deanna,  I  want  to 
help  all  I  can.  I  feel  that  she  does  a 
great  deal  to  make  our  program  one  of 
the  best  in  radio.  Both  these  kids  have 
made  our  programs  better — and  more  fun. 
But  my  main  idea  is  to  help  them. 

"Do  you  know,  I  haven't  either  Bobby 
or  Deanna  under  contract  to  me?  Sure, 
for  thirteen  weeks  at  a  time  they  have 
contracts  for  the  radio  program,  but  I 
haven't  signed  them  to  me  personally.  I 
don't  believe  in  that.  I  am  not  in  the 
theatrical  agency  business.  I  just  want  to 
help  the  kids,  because  they  have  ability 


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and  talent  which  I  believe  is  worthy  of 
aid. 

"But  there's  no  jealousy  between  tliem," 
he  continues  seriously.  "None  of  that. 
Why,  there's  none  of  that  on  our  pro- 
gram at  all.  Sure,  I  suppose,  at  first, 
Bobby  was  a  little  bewildered,  but  not  for 
long.  And  after  all,  Deanna  knows  she 
has  a  definite  job  on  the  program.  But 
ihe  most  important  thing  is  that  I  set  them 
an  example.  I  don't  believe  in  any  one 
person  hogging  the  spotlight  and  they 
have  learned,  from  watching  mc,  that  the 
program  can  only  be  good  if  we  all  share 
enthusiasm  together  and  work  together  for 
the  good  of  the  show." 

And  the  children  have  learned  these 
things  from  Cantor. 

"Bobby  and  I  liave  fun  together  at  re- 
hearsals.    I  like  him,"  says  Deanna. 

And  Bobby  adds :  "Sure,  she's  a  nice 
girl." 

After  appearing  on  the  Cantor  program, 
Deanna  Durbin  was  given  a  contract  by 
Universal  Pictures.  Her  first  movie  was 
Three  Smart  Girls,  which  has  recently 
been  released.  The  motion  picture  critics 
were  most  enthusiastic  about  her  perform- 
ance, and  predict  a  fine  future  for  her. 

Born  in  Winnipeg,  Canada,  on  Decem- 
ber 4th,  1922.  she  moved  to  California  with 
her  family  a  year  later.  She  has  been 
singing  at  her  mother's  parties  as  long  as 
she  can  remember. 

"I  think  Deanna  was  three  when  she 
first  sang."  recalls  her  mother.  "Then 
she  sang  at  church  festivals  and  little 
parties,  of  course.  But  it  wasn't  until  she 
was  ten  tiiat  wc  decided  to  give  her  les- 
sons. We  realized  then  that  Deanna  had 
an  unusual  voice  for  her  age." 

Now  little  fourteen-year-old  Deanna 
Durbin  is  taking  vocal  lessons  from  An- 
drea de  Segurola,  the  man  who  has  taught 
such  stars  as  Marion  Talley,  Francia 
\\'hite  and  Mary  McCormick.  He  is  most 
enthusiastic  about  his  youngest  pupil. 
Doctors  who  have  examined  the  child's 
throat  declare  it  to  be  fully  developed  in 
spite  of  her  extreme  youth.  She  is  at 
home  in  singing  opera  or  popular  music. 

Perhaps  one  factor  in  the  lack  of  jeal- 
ousy between  Deanna  Durbin  and  Bobby 
Breen  is  their  completely  opposite  goals  for 
the  future.  Deanna  hopes  one  day  to  be 
a  Metropolitan  Opera  star.  Bobby  wants 
to  be  a  star  "like  Uncle  Eddie."  Deanna's 
life  will  be  a  serious  one.  Bobby  wants  to 
have  a  lot  of  fun.  Perhaps  the  fact  that 
they  are  children  is  an  import^mt  laitor 
in  the  non-existence  of  ill  fctliim  Ijctwini 
them.  But  most  important  m  all  is  that 
Eddie  Cantor  has  set  an  example  lor  tlieni. 
Eddie  Cantor,  who  ahva\  s  is  rt-adx-  to 
offer  a  helping  hand.  Eddie  Cantor,  who 
always  is  ready  to  give  the  other  fellow 
a  chance.  Eddie  Cantor,  who  believes  that 
any  program  must  be  built  for  the  entire 
cast.  It  is  working  for  a  man  like  Cantor 
that  makes  Deanna  Durbin  and  Bobby 
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oil  her  health  and  her  emotions.  She 
suffered  with  her  clients,  carrying  their 
burdens,  too.  So,  reluctantly,  she  gave 
up  this  career. 

But  the  emotional  quality  which  made 
the  law  too  severe  a  strain  brought  her 
happier  success  in  a  new  career.  It  was 
easy  for  Joan  to  play  dramatic,  emotional 
roles  on  the  stage.  She  made  her  pro- 
fessional debut  with  the  Chicago  Theatre 
Guild.  And,  after  some  stock  experience 
and  some  concert  work — she  has  a  lovely 
singing  voice  with  exceptional  range — 
she  appeared  in  a  number  of  popular  plays. 
Among  them  were  Mystery  Square,  Hot 
Wafer,  Spitfire  and  A  Winter's  Tale.  And 
in  these  her  charm  and  ability  won  the 
praise  of  critics  and  sophisticated  Broad- 
way audiences. 

"Then,"  said  Joan  Blaine  ruefully,  "I 
made  a  mistake.  I  had  appeared  with 
Lionel  Atwill  and  Violet  Heming  in  a 
movie,  The  Knife,  and  M-G-M  offered  me 
a  five-year  contract.  I  should  have  signed 
that  contract.  It  would  have  been  a 
grcHt  help  financially.  But  I  turned  it 
down.  It  seemed  right  to  do  so,  at  the 
time.  If  1  could  only  have  seen 
ahead.  .  .  ." 

You  can't  look  far  ahead  when  you're 
young  and  life  is  full  and  exciting.  Joan's 
family  was  well-to-do  and  she  had  only 
herself  to  consider  then. 

And  then  came  trouble — and  tragedy. 
The  family  fortune  vanished.  And  Joan's 
father  died — her  father,  who  had  been 
closest  of  all  to  her.  Whatever  hap- 
pened, till  now,  she  could  turn  to  him 


for  help,  for  comfort,  for  understanding. 

And  now  he  was  gone.  And  their  money 
was  gone.  And  Joan,  frightened,  des- 
perate, looked  into  the  frightened,  desper- 
ate faces  of  her  mother  and  her  brothers 
and  sisters — and  knew  that  now  she  must 
be  the  man  of  the  family. 

So  Joan  put  her  own  grief  behind  her. 
Devotedly,  capably,  she  took  upon  her  slim 
shoulders  the  burdens  she  has  carried  so 
successfully  ever  since.  You  might  think 
that  a  girl  who  could  so  efficiently  handle 
business  affairs  must  be  of  the  masculine 
type,  but  Joan  Blaine  is  charmingly  femi- 
nine, delightfully  girlish.  She  is  tall,  slen- 
der, with  wide-apart,  long-lashed  blue 
eyes  and  fascinatingly  cleft  chin.  And 
the  sensitiveness  and  strength,  the  intelli- 
gence and  devotion  that  have  carried  her 
through  stern  tests  and  trials  are  proof 
of  character  that  in  itself  makes  life  a 
great  adventure. 

For  two  years  Joan  worked  with  con- 
centrated effort,  with  only  one  thought 
in  mind — to  provide  for  the  comfort  and 
security  of  her  family.  She  maintained 
a  home  for  thein.  Helped  to  establish  her 
brothers  in  careers  of  their  own.  Helped 
her  sisters — and  saw  them  fall  in  love 
and  marry,  whde  she  carried  on. 

"But  don't  think  I  haven't  had  any  fun," 
Joan  interposed  quickly.  "I  don't  care  for 
night  clubs,  dancing,  and  all  that.  Any- 
way, if  I  did,  my  work  would  suffer — 
and  I  couldn't  forgive  myself  if  it  were 
less  perfect  than  I  can  make  it.  Of  course," 
she  smiled,  "I  know  it's  far  from  per- 
fect!    But  to  do  my  best,  however  good 


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or  bad  it  may  be,  is  the  least  I  can  do. 
But  I've  had  plenty  of  good  times,"  she 
insisted.  "I've  been  tremendously  lucky. 
There  are  so  very  many  compensations.  .  . 
And,  as  a  family,  we  are  unusually 
close." 

So  the  days  were  full  and  rewarding. 
And  then,  suddenly,  Joan  became  aware 
of  a  lack."  She  had  her  family  and  she 
was  proud  of  them,  passionately  inter- 
ested in  all  that  concerned  them.  She 
had  devoted  friends  and  many  pleasures. 
And  she  found  deep  satisfaction  in  her 
radio  success,  which  enabled  her  to  do  so 
many  of  the  things  she  wanted  to  do  for 
her  family  and  which  brought  her  many 
more  friends.  But  success  and  fame  and 
financial  gain  were  not  enough.  Life, 
somehow,  was  not  complete.  And  she  was 
young,  warm-hearted,  eager.  .  . 

And  then  Cupid  shot  his  fateful  arrow. 

She  met  Cyril  Pitts,  handsome,  brown- 
haired,  six-foot  tenor  on  the  Contented 
Hour  program.  Cyril  .  .  .  Her  soft  eyes 
glow,  her  cheeks  flush  as  she  speaks  his 
name.  It  is  evident  that  this  new,  glow- 
ing romance  gives  point  to  her  whole  ex- 
istence That  she  has  found  someone  like 
herself,  someor.e  who  understands  and 
shares  the  same  ideals. 

"Even  though  we  are  separated,"  says 
Joan,  "we  fee!  that  sense  of  companion- 
ship. We  share  so  much — our  love  of 
music,  our  radio  work — and  so  much  more ! 
He  is  a  Quaker,  more  stern  than  I  am, 
perhaps — but  I  like  that.  I  like  a  man 
who  is  serious.  And  he,  has  a  saving 
sense  of  humor." 

But  now  the  ghosts  plucked  at  her  sleeve. 
Could  she  break  up  her  happy  home  life 


for  the  sake  of  her  private  and  personal 
happiness?  So  long  her  personal  desires 
had  been  submerged,  her  whole  thought 
and  being  devoted  to  her  family,  it  was 
difficult  now  to  think  only  of  herself.  But, 
on  the  other  hand,  shouldn't  Cyril  be  con- 
sidered, too? 

He  thought  so!  And  although  he,  too, 
has  responsibilities,  he  feels  that  they  must 
have  their  home,  their  love,  their  happi- 
ness. 

"We  want  a  farm  in  Connecticut,"  says 
Joan,  whose  happiest  early  memories  cen- 
ter around  the  farm  of  her  dearly  be- 
loved grandfather  Blaine  in  Iowa.  This 
grandfather,  James  G.  Blaine,  was  the 
presidential  nominee  of  an  earlier  day 
and  famous  personalities  of  that  day  were 
friends  and  frequent  visitors  at  the  home. 

"We  plan,"  she  went  on,  "a  real  New 
England  home — with  plenty  of  bedrooms, 
so  that  our  friends  will  feel  free  to 
come  at  any  time.  And  a  big  ice-box — " 
her  eyes  glowed,  "supplied  with  food  for 
unexpected  guests.  I  love  people  to  drop 
in.  At  my  grandfather's  house,  there 
usually  were  a  round  dozen  for  breakfast 
or  lunch,  and  always  more  for  dinner. 
People  sitting  around  the  hearth,  talking. 
I  dearly  love  a  houseful  of  friends!  And 
so  does  Cyril." 

Cyril  Pitts  concurs  warmly.  It's  easy 
to  see  that  the  fond  dreams  are  truly 
shared.  And  one  hopes,  with  them,  that 
the  dreams  will  all  come  true — and  soon. 

"I'm  a  country  boy,"  says  Cyril,  smiling. 
"I  hate  the  city !" 

"We'll  work  it  out,"  Joan  reiterates  hap- 
pily. "I  have  to  consider  finances,  of 
course.    There  is  so  much  I  want  to  do 


for  my  family.  But  some  day  we'll  have 
our  farm.  Maybe  then  I'll  devote  myself 
to  writing.  I've  already  done  quite  a  bit. 
And  I've  had  several  stories  published — 
and  just  now  Scribner's  is  considering 
my  first  novel." 

It  would  appear  that  Joan  Blaine  is  a 
busy  young  lady,  indeed.  Five  days  a 
week  with  Mary  Marlin.  .\nd  A  Tale 
of  Today.  Rehearsals.  Guest  appearances. 
Voice  study.  Reading.  And — writing  a 
novel ! 

And  now  that  she  has  romance,  the  joy 
of  sharing  everything  with  the  man  she 
loves,  life  is  rich — even  if  complete  ful- 
fillment must  wait  a  little  while. 
Once  Daniel  Frohman  said  to  her : 
"My  dear  young  lady,  I  doubt  if  you 
are  grateful  enough  to  your  Maker  for 
the  gift  of  great  simplicity  and  sincerity 
which  He  grafted  on  to  your  complex 
mental  and  emotional  nature.  To  be  a 
real  artist,  one  must  first  of  all  be  a  real 
person." 

And  Joan  Blaine  is  a  real  artist.  That 
no  one  can  deny.  She  is  a  real  person, 
too.  She  has  known  hard  work  and  sac- 
rifice. Moments  of  discouragement.  Hours 
of  grief.  And  she  has  faced  her  prob- 
lems with  courage  and  fortitude. 

And  now  the  thing  that  every  girl,  in 
her  heart  of  hearts,  desires  above  all 
things,  has  come  to  her — love — rich  and 
full  and  tender  and  exciting  and  sweet. 

"I'm  a  lucky  girl,"  Joan  insists  happily. 

And  maybe  she  is.  Anyway,  we  feel 
confident  that  Cyril  Pitts  feels  that  he  is 
a  lucky  young  man. 

And  we  hope  they  will  be  able  to 
work  it  out — this  vear. 


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420   S.   SUlh  8t 


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nothing  but  blind  desire  to  be  what  he 
wants  you  to  be,  to  serve,  to  please.  I've 
been  all  through  that.  I'll  never  have 
to  go  through  it  again !  That  kind  of 
love  happens  only  once.  When  you  finally 
pick  yourself  up,  put  yourself  together 
again — and  you  usually  do— you're  differ- 
ent.   You're  immunized. 

"I  know  the  agony  of  quarreling  and 
trying  to  make  up.  I  know  the  dull  pain 
of  not  having  him  speak  to  you  for  days 
at  a  time,  of  making  little  pretexts  for 
going  into  the  room  where  he  is,  hoping 
against  hope  that  he'll  break  the  heart- 
breaking ice  and  say  something.  I've 
known  the  final  surrender  of  facing  him 
across  a  wordless  table  and  breaking 
down  and  saying :  Tin  sorry.  I  was 
wrong.  I'll  do  anything  you  say,  if  you'll 
only  speak  to  me  again.'  The  humiliation 
of  such  a  surrender,  knowing  I  ivasn't 
wrong.  It's  like  striking  of¥  the  chains 
of  slavery,"  Barbara  said,  "to  be  free  of 
that. 

"I  know  what  it  is  to  have  no  life  of 
my  own  at  all.  Even  in  little,  inconse- 
quential things.  I  know  how  it  feels  to 
move  a  chair  in  the  living-room  and  have 
him  give  it  one  look  and,  hastily,  put  it 
back  again. 

"You  lose  your  life  for  love,  this  kind 
of  love,  though  you  are  living.  .-Xnd  this 
is  what  I'd  advise  girls  not  to  do,  to  try 
not  to  do.  I  don't  know  what  the  anti- 
dotes are,  except  that,  having  gone 
through  it  once,  you  are  immunized  and 
free  from  ever  having  to  go  through  it 
again." 

I  said,  tentatively :  "If  this  same  thing 
should  happen  to  you  again — with  Bob — " 

"No,"  said  Barbara,  "the  same  thing 
does  not  happen  again.  There  is  more 
than  one  love  in  a  lifetime,  of  course.  I 
know  that.  But  no  two  loves  are  the 
same.  As  no  two  friendships  are  the 
same.  One  may  be  quite  as  sweet  and 
real  and  sound  as  the  other,  but  only 
once  does  it  take  you  by  the  scruf?  of 
your  neck  and  blow  your  hair,  so  to 
speak. 

"If  life  doesn't  teach  us  anything,  we 
might  better  give  up.  .  .  I  know,"  said 
Barbara  with  her  ruthless  honesty  which 
never  spares  herself,  "I  know  that  I  have 
reached  the  stage  where  I  wouldn't  place 
my  whole  trust  in  any  man.  Not  unre- 
servedly. This  is  no  aspersion  on  the 
male  sex  or  any  member  of  it.  I  just 
don't  think  it's  in  them.  I  do  trust  wo- 
men. I  really  believe  that  women  are 
capable  of  disinterested  friendship,  of  un- 
divided loyalty,  of  keeping  faith.  When 
it  comes  to  men  and  women,  there  is 
some  equation  between  the  sexes  which 
makes  for  a  natural  enmity.  The  slogan, 
'.^ll's  fair  in  love  and  war,'  was  first  said 
by  a  man,  I  believe.  And  they  believe  it, 
men  do. 

"Now,  when  a  man  says  something 
sweet  to  me — and  few  men  say  sweet 
things  these  days — yes,"  laughed  Bar- 
bara, to  the  question  popping  out  of  my 
eyes,  "yes,  Bob  docs  say  sweet  things. 
He's  one  of  the  few  young  men  of  today 


who  know  how.  He  doesn't  say  them  too 
often  for  them  to  lose  their  savor  and 
their  strength.  But  he  does  say  them. 
But  now,  when  I  hear  them,  I  believe 
them  for  a  few  minutes.  I  feel  warm 
and  glowing  and  happy  and  wanting  to 
believe.  And  then  reaction  sets  in  and  I 
find  myself  thinking:  'Oh,  yeah?  How  do 
I  know  that  he  really  means  that?  Seems 
to  me  I've  heard  that  before!'  It's  not 
that  I  am  cynical.  It's  stupid  to  be  cyni- 
cal. It's  that  I  have  grown  wise  and 
wary.  I  believe  that  I  have  learned  my 
lesson  from  life.  I  can't  be  cheated  if  I 
don't  trust  blindly. 

"I  know,"  said  Barbara,  pouring  us  our 
fifth  cup  of  coffee,  "I  know  that  I  am  liv- 
ing dangerously  now.  I'm  told  that  I 
am.  Because  I  am  living  my  own  life 
as  /  please.  I  have  my  house  here.  I 
picked  it  out  myself.  I  had  it  done  over 
according  to  my  desire  and  the  good  taste 
of  my  friend,  Marion  Marx.  I  wanted 
white  walls  and  Colonial  fixtures  and 
there  was  no  one  to  say  me  nay.  I 
wanted  colorful  hangings  and  comfort- 
able chairs  and  divans  and  rugs.  I  wanted 
it  to  be  the  kind  of  a  house  where  you 
can  put  your  feet  on  the  chairs,  if  you 
want  to,  spill  ashes  on  the  rugs,  without 
having  to  feel  that  you  were  giving  me 
apoplexy. 

"I  can  move  that  lamp  there  over  here 
if  I  want  to — and  there  is  no  one  to  give 
me  a  black  look  of  disapproval.  I  go  out 
when  I  wish  and  come  in  when  I  please. 
I  entertain  or  do  not  entertain,  as  I  feel 
inclined.  I  have  my  own  ideas  about 
Dion  and  can  put  them  into  practice  un- 
molested. I  am  free.  I  am  my  own  man. 
And  it's  dangerous  because  no  woman 
can  live  in  marriage  this  way.  Perhaps 
no  one  can  live  alone  this  way,  for  long, 
safely. 

"I've  bought  a  ranch  in  the  San  Fer- 
nando \'alley.  Marion  Marx  and  I  have 
bought  one  hundred  and  twenty-five 
acres  together.  We're  raising  horses. 
Thoroughbreds.  I  bought  five  hor.ses 
from  Kentucky,  brood  mares,  yearlings, 
two  stallions.  I  also  brought  a  trainer 
from  Kentucky.  We're  going  to  breed 
horses  and,  besides  caring  for  our  own, 
we're  going  to  breed  and  train  and  board 
horses  for  other  people.  One  of  the 
mares  foaled  the  other  day  and  I  don't 
believe  the  birth  of  the  Quintuplets  was 
any  more  exciting  to  the  Dionnes  than 
that  foaling  was  to  me.  I'll  build  a  ranch- 
house  out  there  and  live  there  most  of 
the  time.  It's  peaceful  and  quiet.  I  can 
have  gardens,  and  it  will  be  wonderful 
for  Dion.    It  will  be  home. 

"And  all  of  this  is  relevant  to  girls  in 
love,  too,"  Barbara  said.  "For  my  ad- 
vice, for  what  it's  worth,  is  for  girls  to 
have  their  own  lives,  to  have  vital  inter- 
ests, to  build  such  a  wall  of  interests 
around  their  hearts  that,  while  love  may 
find  a  chink  in  the  wall,  it  can't  com- 
pletely capture  the  fort.  To  me,  right 
now,  there's  such  romance  in  living  my 
own  life  as  I  wish  to  live  it,  that  I  can't 
believe  it's  dangerous.    And  even  if  it 


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is,"  Barbara  said,  "life  is  always  danger- 
ous, however  you  live  it." 

"The  thing  to  do  when  you're  in  love," 
Barbara  went  on,  "is  not  to  expect  any- 
Ihing.  Then  you  won't  be  hurt,  you  can't 
be  disappointed  and  you  may  be  pleas- 
antly surprised.  If  you  dream  too  much, 
if  you  envision  love  as  life  on  a  silver 
cloud  with  an  archangel  by  your  side, 
you're  going  to  take  a  Brodie,  sure  as 
shooting ! 

"Someone  has  said  that  'pain  is  the 
keenest  of  the  pleasures,'  and  certainly 
you'd  better  not  face  love  unless  you  can 
also  face  pain  and  iiard  -.vork  and  sacri- 
fice, which  are  component  parts  of  love — 
along  with  the  clouds  and  the  halos  and 
the  harps. 

"Just  don't  expect  consideration  and 
flattery  and  attention.  Hope  that  you 
may  get  them,  if  you  must — don't  count 
on  them. 

"Don't  expect  the  man  you  love  to  be 
a  combination  of  Mussolini,  Gable,  Lind- 
bergh, Edward,  Duke  of  Windsor,  or," 
laughed  Barbara,  "a  Robert  Taylor !  If 
you  do,  you're  riding  for  a  fall.  Realize 
that  all  men  are  human,  mortals,  and 
then,  if  they  do  exhibit  a  few  godlike 
traits,  that's  velvet! 

"Don't  be  too  forceful  with  the  man 
\'ou  love.  That's  a  hard  lesson  for  most 
of  the  modern,  self-sufficient  women  of 
today  to  learn,  as  I  well  know.  I  know, 
because  I  am  the  type  who  has  to  work 
hard  in  order  to  keep  quiet.  I  usually 
don't  succeed.  I'm  far  more  likely  to 
say:  'Oh  nuts!'  than  to  utter  a  meek: 
'Yes,  dear.'  I  seldom  have  sense  enough 
to  agree  with  a  man,  when  I  know  that 
he  is  wrong.  I've  had  a  man  tell  me 
black  is  white,  and,  believe  it  or  not,  I've 
been  fool  enough  to  hand  him  an  argu- 
ment! I  have  strong  likes  and  dislikes, 
tastes  and  predilections,  and  I'm  far  too 
apt  to  express  them,  forcibly  and  with 
emphasis.  It's  a  mistake.  It's  a  danger- 
ous business.  It  arouses  the  dictator  in 
a  man,  and  you're  apt  to  be  a  door  mat, 
with  feet  being  wiped  on  you,  sooner 
than  you  would  be  if  you  played  a  subtler 
game. 

"Either  way,  you  lose.  If  you  fight  a 
man,  he'll  either  call  forth  all  of  his 
latent  cruelty  and  mastery  and  beat  you 
down,  or  he'll  turn  to  some  clinging 
beauty  with  a  body  which  forgot  to  in- 
clude brains.  Or,  if  you  start  right  out 
by  surrendering  your  will  to  his  (as  you 
do,  the  first  time),  he's  apt  to  lose  inter- 
est. Man  is  a  hunter  and  must  keep  on 
the  hunt  or  lose  interest. 

"Give  the  man  you  love  some  sort  of 
an  ideal.  That  helps.  Men  love  to  wor- 
ship. They  need  to  worship  today  more 
than  ever,  since  women  have  hopped 
down  of?  their  pedestals  and  revealed 
themselves  as  flesh-and-blood  and  bone- 
and-muscle  and  a  dash  of  brains— not 
merely  as  a  few  yards  of  lace  and  a  whifT 
of  perfume  as  in  the  dear,  dead  days.  .  . 
We've  got  to  do  something  to  offset  the 
shock. 

"For  men  have  changed,  I  think,  much 
less  than  women.  Fact  is,  I  don't  !)elieve 
that  men  have  changed  at  all.  They  would 
still  feel  right  at  home  in  a  coat  of  mail, 
in  a  knight's  armor.  Women  may  be 
seeking  Galahad  no  longer,  but  men  still 
want  to  look  up.  When  they  have  to 
look  down,  or  even  on  a  level  with  their 


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eyes,  they  are  very  apt  to  look  in  other 
directions!  So,  climb  up  on  a  pedestal 
and  stay  there,  even  if  you  must  die  of  a 
cramp  I 

"Men  like  the  little  attentions,  too," 
Barbara  said  reflectively — and  even  as  she 
spoke  Robert  Taylor  was  announced.  He 
leaned  over  her,  winked  at  me,  said  :  "Uo 
you  mind?"  and  kissed  her.  He  remarked 
that  he  was  going  duck  hunting  that 
afternoon  but  would  be  back  by  evening. 
Barbara  offered  him  coffee,  which  he  re- 
fused, saying  he  had  just  eaten  a  gigan- 
tic breakfast.  He  deposited  himself  on 
the  davenport,  hands  back  of  his  head, 
closed  his  eyes  comfortably  and  said :  "Go 
ahead,  girls,  don't  let  me  stop  you." 

And  I  thought  how  nice  and  comradely 
and  warm  and  affectionate  the  friendship 
between  Barbara  and  Bob.  If  it  is  more 
than  friendship,  that's  their  business. 

"As  I  was  saying,"  grinned  Barbara, 
her  voice  mocking  but  her  gray  eyes 
warm  as  she  looked  at  the  recumbent 
Robert,  "as  I  was  saying,  men  like  little 
attentions.  Ever  enter  a  room  in  which 
are  a  man  and  a  woman  and  note  which 
0}ic  is  ri-stiiiy  on  the  davcnportV 

"I'liip!"  said  Bob,  not  opening  his  eyes. 

"Ten  and  a  lialf  times  out  of  eleven," 
resumed  Barbara,  "it  will  be  the  man, 
Alothers,  you  see,  always  wait  on  their 
sons  and  sons  get  used  to  it.  So  hand 
the  boy-friend  an  ash-tray  when  he  comes 
in,  put  a  pillow  under  his  head,  light  his 
cigarette  for  him.    You  won't  lose  face." 

Bob  grunted,  appreciatively. 

"Let  the  man  know  that  yon  love  him, 
but,  if  yon  can  help  it,  don't  let  him  know 
how  much!  If  it  kills  you,  try  to  have 
those  other  interests.  Get  'that  look'  in 
your  eyes,  when  you  see  a  Gable,  a  Col- 
man  or,"  she  laughed,  "a  Bob  Taylor. 
Get  sentimental  when  Nelson  Eddy  sings. 
In  other  word;,  create  the  idea  that  you 
knriw  there  are  other  men  in  the  world 
and  that  they're  not  so  bad. 

"Don't  let  him  think  that  you  are  too 
sure  of  him,  either.  A  man  likes  to  think 
of  himself  as  a  devil  of  a  fellow,  hard 
to  get  and  harder  to  hold.  Give  him  that 
kirk.     It's  tonic  to  his  self-esteem. 

"A  few  <k)mestic  traits,  neatly  dis- 
played, also  help.  Even  if  you  are  a  busi- 
ness girl,  a  movie  star,  a  radio  star,  what- 
ever you  are,  manage  to  whip  him  up  a 
cake,  a  batch  of  bread,  fry  a  pork  chop 
now  and  then.  Be  discovered  with  a  bit 
of  sewing  in  your  hands.  Make  a  fuss 
(i\'cr  children,  even  if  you  have  to  bor- 
r(i\v  the  iK-ighhors'.  For  men  have,  bred 
in  their  lioncs,  the  traditional  i)elicf  that 
women  shmilil  he  able  to  liaiidle  ;i  broom, 
a  needle,  a  frying  ])an  and  a  baby. 


"Don't  expect  to  go  out  every  time  /in- 
comes to  call,  either.  Don't  stand  at  the 
front  door  with  one  hand  out  for  an 
orchid  and  one  foot  over  the  sill.  Stay 
at  home  now  and  then  and  do  some  en- 
tertaining yourself.  Play  cards,  play 
bridge,  if  you  can  bear  it.  Even  make 
fudge.  Night  clubs  make  for  casual 
friendships  and  charming  flirtations,  but, 
if  it's  love  you're  after,  it's  more  apt  to 
flourish  on  the  hearthstone. 

"Don't  be  dressed  up  like  a  mannikin 
every  time  he  sees  you,  either.  Not  tiiat 
there's  much  chance  for  creating  illusions 
these  days,"  laughed  Barbara,  "what  with 
slacks  and  shorts  in  place  of  the  old- 
time  ruffles !  I  often  think  that  radio 
offers  about  the  only  real  romance  there 
is  in  life  any  more.  When  you  hear  a 
voice  over  the  air,  you  can  visualize  the 
man  or  girl  as  you  please — and  ten  to 
one  the  men  visualize  the  girls  in  those 
same  rufifes.  But  what  I  mean  is  don't 
be  too-too  unnatural  in  your  appearance. 
Men  are  frightened  away,  I  think,  rather 
than  attracted  by  the  outre  looking  girl, 
the  girl  who  wears  bizarre,  startling 
clothes.  Don't  shave  your  eyebrows  in 
a  fashion  nature  never  dreamed  of.  Don't 
do  your  hair  like  nothing  human.  Don't 
tint  your  nails  outrageously.  Men  inay 
laugh  at  and  with  the  weird  and  siren- 
esque  type.  They  may  exhibit  her  now 
and  again.  They  may  get  a  great  kick 
out  of  her.    They  seldom  .narry  her." 

"Right,"   muttered  Bob. 

"What  I  mean  is,  it's  just  as  well  to 
let  the  inan  you  love  know  that  you  do 
not  always  look  as  you  do  when  he  comes 
to  take  you  out  to  the  Troc'  or  to  some 
big  party.  It  would  let  him  down  con- 
siderably if,  after  marriage,  he  discov- 
ered that  he  had  married  'just  a  girl  who 
has  her  off  days,'  instead  of  a  mannikin 
just  stepped  from  a  band-box,  as  he 
thought  you  were.  Let  him  see  you  in 
ordinary  house  dresses  now  and  again. 
Be  fastidious  always,  of  course,  with 
clean,  brushed  hair  and  well-kept  hands. 
But  let  him  realize  that  he  is  marrying  a 
woman  and  not  an  odalisk. 

"Don't  drink  so  that  you  ever  show  it. 
The  easiest  way  to  disillusion  a  man — 
the  man  who  wants  to  marry  you — is  to 
let  him  see  you  even  slightly  befuddled. 

"Don't  tell  risque  stories.  Men  may 
laugh  at  these  laxities  but  love  laughs  at 
them,  too." 

Phones  began  to  ring.  Bob  began  to 
count  the  ducks  he  was  going  to  catch. 
I  began  to  leave 

Barbara  went  to  the  door  with  me.  She 
said:  "Just  tell  'em  to  take  their  hearts 
off  their  sleeves,  that's  all." 


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tion  "Exercise,"  it's  as  distasteful  to  a  lot 
of  you  as  castor  oil. 

No  amount  of  sugar-coating  is  going 
to  help  a  (iiscnssi<in  of  exercise,  even  with 
Maxinc  Gray  as  an  eye-appealing  ex- 
ample to  follow.  Many  of  you  will  say : 
"I  wish  I  had  a  figure  like  hers,"  and 
content  yourselves  with  wishing.  But 
since  you've  taken  my  advice  thus  far 
sitting  down   (or  I  hope  you  have),  it 


should  be  even  easier  to  take  a  bit  of  it 
lying  down.  Oh,  we'll  expect  you  to  be 
"on  your  toes,"  eventually,  but  we  will 
begin  with  the  alarm  clock. 

"It's  nice  to  get  up  in  the  morning,  but 
it's  nicer  to  stay  in  bed."  That  is  the  senti- 
ment of  most  of  us.  Br-r-ting-a-lang,  goes 
the  alarm  clock.  Gr-r-r!  Well,  we'll  have 
to  grin  and  bear  it.  Now,  don't  suppose 
that  I'm  going  to  suggest  you  hop  out  of 


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bed  immediately  and  fall  into  a  series  of 
setting-up  exercises  that  would  tax  even 
the  most  ardent  "daily  dozen"  enthusiast. 
I  believe  you  can  get  further  by  taking  it 
easier.  (And  I'm  not  a  Southerner!) 

The  easiest  and  the  smartest  way  to  get 
yourself  awake  is  to  stretch  yourself 
awake.  Your  circulation  is  sleepy  and 
sluggish  and  needs  to  be  awakened  first. 
Please,  everybody,  stretch  and  stretch.  It's 
the  finest  exercise  in  the  world.  Imagine 
that  you  are  being  pulled  with  cables 
from  the  head  and  the  foot  of  the  bed. 
Lift  up  your  chest.  Pull  yourself  out  of 
your  hips.  Stretch,  not  only  your  lazy 
body,  every  fibre  of  it,  but  your  arms  and 
fingers,  your  legs  and  feet.  Roll  your 
head  from  one  side  to  the  other,  until  your 
neck  feels  loose.  Breathe  deeply,  big.  deep 
lazy  breaths  like  sighs  or  vawns.  the 
breath  pushing  out  the  diaphragm  when 
it  starts.  .Already  you're  a  little  more  in 
tune  with  the  world  and  the  day.  Xow.  with 
one  mighty  vigorous  kick,  kick  off  the 
covers.  And  then,  if  you  would  like  one 
easy  lying-down  exercise  before  you  hop 
out  into  the  cold  world,  do  this : 

Bend  your  knees,  and  draw  them  up  to 
your  chest.  Xow  turn  them  to  the  right, 
until  they  touch  the  bed:  now  to  the  left. 
Don't  let  your  back  turn,  just  your  legs. 
Right— Icjt.  Right— left.  Hall  '  a  dozen 
times,  but  take  it  easy.  It  is  a  grand  intesti- 
nal massage. 

There  are  just  three  exercises  I  am 
going  to  give  you  that  you  will  have  to  be 
"on  your  toes"  for — simple  exercises,  and 
no  gymnastics  about  them.  But  first,  turn 
on  the  radio.  Let's  get  into  the  day  with 
the  right  rhythm.  Music  is  excellent  for 
a  case  of  the  morning  grouch.  It  helps  to 
put  you  into  the  mood  of  singing  before 
breakfast.  I  wouldn't  give  up  my  radio  in 
the  morning  for  all .  my  favorite  evening 
programs. 

The  first  exercise  is  the  old  familiar 
"up  on  your  toes"  exercise.  The  value  of 
this  exercise,  as  a  poise  and  balance  de- 
veloper, has  never  been  stressed  enough. 
But  it  loses  its  value  it  it  is  done  incor- 
rectly. The  important  thing  to  remember 
while  doing  it  is  the  thing  we  started  out 
with — Watch  your  posture.  Your  chest 
must  be  held  high,  your  stomach  in,  your 
spine  straight,  your  head  back.  Whatever 
you  do,  don't  thrust  your  head  forward. 
Stand  with  one  hand  against  the  wall  to 
steady  yourself,  and  to  help  you  maintain 
your  balance  and  correct  posture.  Rise 
up  on  your  toes  to  a  full  stretch,  and 
lower  again  to  your  heels,  coming  down 
lightly  and  softly,  not  with  a  thump  to 
jar  your  system.  Up  on  your  toes  again, 
quickly,  and  down  again,  lightly.  Up — 
t/oti'»i.  (■/> — doivn.  At  least  twenty-five 
times !  Work  up  to  more  as  you  go  along. 
Think  about  your  chest — up.  up,  up,  all 
the  time.  You  lose  all  the  value  of  this 
exercise  if  you  don't  keep  on  your  toes 
in  posture.  Don't  let  your  stomach  slump! 

All  right.  That  was  pretty  good.  And 
now,  class,  I'm  going  to  give  you  an  e.x- 
ercise  to  contract  the  muscles  you've  just 
stretched !  You  see,  we're  being  very  sci- 
entific about  this.  Maintaining  the  same 
posture  as  you  did  for  the  "on  your  toes" 
exercise,  and  steadying  yourself  with  a 
hand  against  the  wall,  lift  your  right  knee 
to  your  chest,  that  is,  as  near  to  your 
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EPISODES  BEFORE  FAME 

(Coiitiinicd  from  page  39) 


changes,  sometimes,  all  in  a  tragic,  time- 
less moment.  Dick  fiiiivhed  high  school, 
.working,  after  scho,.!  Ivurs.  His  first  job 
was  painting  gas  tank-,  gut  paid  for 

"time  and  a  halt,"  it  >  iiainted  the  tops 
of  the  tanks,  extending  iMrt\  tcet  above 
the  ground.  Dick  painted  tltc  tops.  His 
next  job  was  filling  icc  carts.  You  had  to 
get  up  at  three  a.  m.  to  do  it,  because  the 
carts  had  to  start  out  early.  But  you  got 
twelve  dollars  and  a  halt  a  week  tor  it. 

There  wasn  t  much  nniMc  n>>\\.  hecaii- 
his  voice  wa<  iKsininnm  tn  clianue.  .^u. 
sixteen,  -met.  ttiere  was  a  war  going  011. 
youna:  Kuliard  enli-ted  m  the  Oioth  Aer. 
Squadron.  Llarence  Chamberlain  was  hi- 
teacher.  Dick  proved  an  apt  pupil  and 
soon  won  his  pilot's  license.  He  was  slated 
to  be  sent  overseas,  when  somehow  it  was 
discovered  that  this  handsome  six-foot-tw-o 
aviator  was  barely  seventeen  years  old! 
Regrettull}',  instead,  they  wrote  him  an 
ii'  r.dde  di-charge  from  the  service,  con- 
gratulatmc  him  on  his  lovaltv  and  faith- 
fuhte>-. 

But  while  he  was  flying,  a  strange  thing 
had  happened  to  Richard  Crooks.  Feeling 
the  rhythm  of  the  rushing  wind  about  his 
ship,  he  had  flung  out  his  voice  in  a  burst 
of  song.  But — was  that  his  voice?  Never 
had  he  sung  like  that  before!  It  was  a 
new  voice — that  rich  tenor  we  know  today. 

He  got  a  job  with  a  life  in-urance  com- 
pany. It  paid  him  eighty  dollars  a  month — 
and  Richard  Crooks  signed  up  for  four 
singing  lessons  a  month,  at  twenty  dollars 
a  lesson.  In  order  to  live,  as  well  as  to 
sing,  he  earned  a  few  dollars  each  week 
sweeping  out  a  handball  court.  He  shared  a 
room  in  Harlem  with  four  other  boys,  three 
of  them  sleeping  in  the  sagging  double  bed, 
the  other  two  on  forlorn,  springless  cots. 

Incidentally,  those  five  boys — one  now 
a  famous  singer,  one  a  doctor,  one  a  lawyer 
and  the  other  two  hu-iiie--  men — still  are 
fast  friends,  foregathemiL:  .  ften  fnr  bridge, 
for  golf  or  fishing.  W'iieii  Richard  Crooks 
makes  a  friend,  he  keeps  him ! 

Sometimes  Dick  earned  a  few  extra 
dollars  singing  in  a  Westchester  church 
choir.  And  one  day  he  auditioned  for  the 
position  of  tenor  soloist  at  the  Fifth  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  church.  He  was  the 
forty-seventh  candidate  to  be  heard.  And 
the  accepted  candidate. 

So  there  he  was,  at  twenty-one,  singing 
in  one  of  New  York's  biggest  churches — 
and  married  to  his  childhood  sweetheart. 

One  day  they  were  busily  cleaning  up 
the  house,  preparatory  to  entertaining 
Mildred's  family.  Mildred  was  washing 
liie  windows.  Dick,  with  a  towel  about  his 
knees,  was  scrubbing  the  floor — when  the 
telephone  rang.  Dick  answered  it.  It  was 
the  manager  of  the  Chaminade  Club  of 
Brooklyn,  wishing  to  engage  Mr.  Crooks 
for  a  concert. 

"I'll  see,"  said  Dick  with  dignity,  "if 
Mr.  Crooks'  calendar  will  permit  it." 

The  calendar,  innocent  of  engagements, 
offered  no  objections.  And  Mr.  Crooks 
sang  for  the  Chaminade  Club.  It  was  his 
first  concert  and  it  paid  him  seventy-five 
dollars. 

.After  that   there  were  more  concerts. 


Richard  Crooks,  eminent  tenor. 


.\nA.  in  1923,  Walter  Damrosch  sent  for 
him  for  an  audition.  That  year  he  made 
his  debut  with  Damrosch.  in  a  concert 
version  of  Wagner's  Siegfried,  in  Carnegie 
Hall,  singing  the  title  role,  accompanied 
by  the  New  York  Symphony  orchestra. 
On  the  morning  of  this,  his  New  York 
debut.  Dick  was  busily  engaged  in  winning 
a  handball  championship  on  the  court  he 
formerly  swept  for  his  bread  and  butter ! 

Shortly  after  this  debut,  the  producer 
of  a  musical  comedy  offered  Crooks  a 
thousand  dollars  a  week  to  sing  in  his 
production. 

-Again  Dick  conferred  with  Mildred. 
.And  again  Mildred  Crooks  rightly  in- 
terpreted her  young  husband's  career. 

"The  musical  comedy  stage,"  she  said 
thoughtfully,  "doesn't  seem  the  place  for 
you.  You  have  always  sung  classical  music, 
sacred  music  .  .  .  When  you  go  on  the 
stage,  it  must  be  the  stage  of  the  Metro- 
politan Opera." 

.And,  agreeing  with  her,  as  always, 
Richard  Crooks  refused  the  offer.  He  con- 
tinued to  sing  with  the  New  York  Sym- 
phony orchestra  and  in  concerts.  And  one 
da\-  a  famous  conductor  came  to  him  with 
a  >uggcstion. 

-A  certain  wealthy  man,  he  said,  was  in- 
terested in  young  Crooks'  voice.  He  would 
like  to  finance  his  studies  abroad,  to  pre- 
pare him  for  opera. 

It  was  the  sort  of  proposition  most  young 
singers  hopefully  anticipate.  Most  young 
singer-  accejit  eagerly,  withnut  lie>itation. 
Man>-  a  -in.uiii!:;  -tar  whdse  name  lia>  made 
nni-ical  ln-t'>ry  .iwe-  hi-  <  licr  lame  to 
the  \\ealth\'  patron  or  patrone-s  who  fi- 
nanced the  studies. 

But  not  Richard  Crooks. 

"There's  nothing  I  want  more,"  said 
young  Crooks  wistfully,  "than  to  study 
abroad  ...  To  study  opera  .  .  .  And  some 
day  I  will.  I  appreciate  the  offer,"  said 
Richard  Crooks,  "but  my  wife  and  I  can- 
not eat  another  man's  bread. " 

But  a  year  later,  thanks  to  the  efficiency 
of  Mildred's  budgeting.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Richard  Crooks  went  to  Europe.  On  the 
continent,  they  traveled  in  third-class  rail- 
way carriages.  .Although,  when  they 
reached  Munich,  from  Paris,  where  Dick's 
teacher  was  to  meet  them,  they  indulged 
in  a  little  subterfuge. 


"As  the  train  slowed  down  for  the 
Munich  station."  Dick  recounts,  with  a 
twinkle  in  his  eye.  "Mildred  and  I  leaped 
out  and  ran  along  the  platform  to  where 
the  first-class  carriages  stopped — so  we 
met  my  teacher  in  proper  style!" 

He  sang  concerts  in  London,  Berlin  and 
Munich.  In  Munich,  for  si.x  months,  he 
studied  opera,  sacred  music,  concert  and 
German  lieder.  Henderson,  dean  of  music 
critics,  considers  Richard  Crooks  this 
country's  foremost  singer  of  classic  songs 
and  lieder. 

All  too  soon  they  had  to  return.  When 
they  landed  in  New  York,  they  had  one 
dollar  left. 

"But  it's  all  our  own  dollar !"  Richard 
Crooks  exulted. 

But  more  dollars  came  to  swell  the 
family  purse.  Crooks  now-  was  in  great 
demand  as  a  concert  singer.  And  again 
they  saved  for  further  study  abroad.  In 
1927  they  returned  to  Europe.  At  the 
Hamburg  Opera  Richard  Crooks  made  his 
debut  in  Puccini's  Tosca.  He  learned  the 
role  in  ten  days — never  having  looked  at 
it  before. 

.And  now  the  Metropolitan  Opera  became 
intere-ted  in  this  young  tenor.  In  1928 
they  invited  him  for  an  audition.  But 
Crooks  refused.  He  was  not  ready  yet. 
Not  yet  would  he  venture  to  stand  upon 
that  stage  where  his  idol,  Caruso,  had 
sung.  Often  and  often,  from  the  topmost 
balcony  of  th;  Met,  young  Crooks  had 
listened  hungrily  to  the  music  of  the 
masters.  Not  yet  could  he  see  himself 
among  their  number. 

.Again  and  again,  for  five  more  years, 
he  reiu?ed  the  iiivitations  of  the  great  opera 
liouse.  .At  last,  in  1933,  he  made  his  Metro- 
politan debut,  in  Alassenet's  Manoii. 

At  the  Met.  they  count  up  the  minutes 
of  applause  for  each  singer — and  it  is  re- 
corded that,  on  the  occasion  of  Richard 
Crooks'  debut,  the  curtain  was  held  for 
fift\-  minutes,  while  unprecedented  applause 
greeted  the  marvelous  young  tenor. 

"Even  tlien."  sa\s  Richard  Crooks.  "I 
couldn't  belie\e  it  was  I,  standing  there 
on  that  stage.  I  still  felt  I  must  be  up  there 
in  the  balcony,  watching  another  singer's 
triumph." 

To  the  stage  hands  at  the  Met,  Richard 
Crooks  is  an  idol.  Every  year,  for  his 
debut,  they  go  to  his  dressing-room  a  half 
hour  early,  to  work,  in  time  not  paid  for 
by  the  management,  in  adorning  his  dress- 
ing-room for  the  occasion.  They  make  it 
gay  with  bright  trinkets,  banners,  good 
luck  charms — as  they  used  to  adorn  their 
beloved  Caruso's  dressing-room. 

Now  opera,  concert  and  radio  keep  Mr. 
Crooks  busy  singing,  from  coast  to  coast. 
For  some  years  he  has  sung  on  the  Fire- 
stone radio  program — those  Monday  night 
programs  of  song  and  symphony  orches- 
tra that  touch  a  high  point  of  radio  en- 
tertainment. 

In  connection  with  these  programs. 
Crooks  recently  had  an  unusually  touching 
experience.  Regularly,  after  each  radio 
broadcast,  he  received  a  letter  from  an 
unknown  woman,  commenting  on  his  sing- 
ing, discussing  music  with  such  rare  ap- 


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preciation  that  he  found  her  letters  uniquely 
helpful  and  inspiring. 

The  letters  came  from  a  town  in  Cali- 
fornia. So,  when  Richard  Crooks  was 
singing  a  concert  in  a  California  city  near 
that  town,  he  sent  his  unknown  friend 
two  tickets  for  the  concert. 

On  the  afternoon  before  the  evening 
concert  he  received  a  telephone  call.  It 
was,  said  a  sad.  troubled  voice.  Nancy's 
mother  calling.  Nancy,  the  writer  of  the 
letters,  was  an  invalid.  Nineteen  years  old, 
she  never  had  walked.  She  had  set  her 
heart  on  hearing  Mr.  Crooks'  concert,  and 
the  doctor  had  thought  she  might  be 
carried  to  the  hall.  But  the  excitement  of 
anticipation  had  proved  too  much  for  her 
— and  she  could  not  go  to  hear  him.  She 
was  heart-broken  .  .  . 

"She  shall  hear  the  concert."  said 
Richard  Crooks. 

And,  hiring  a  grand  piano,  he  drove 
with  it,  out  to  the  little  town,  forty  miles 
away.  The  piano  was  set  up — and  Richard 
Crooks  sang  his  entire  concert,  encores 
and  all,  for  the  little  invalid. 

When,  at  last,  he  got  back  to  the  hall, 
he  was  very  late.  His  audience  had  been 
waiting  for  him  for  over  three-quarters  of 
an  hour. 

Richard  Crooks  came  out  on  to  the 
stage.  'T  have  to  ask  your  forgiveness,"  he 
said  simply.  "I  have  been  at  the  bedside 
of  a  sick  friend." 

And  the  audience  rose  impulsively  in 
appreciation. 

It's  easy  to  understand  why  Richard 
Crooks  makes  new  friends  wherever  he 
goes,  and  never  loses  the  old  ones.  Simple, 
straightforward,   honest,   generous,  loyal. 


he  is  a  very  human  man — not  merely  a 
voice,  to  be  wrapped  up  and  delivered  for 
payment. 

He  is  fond  of  sports.  Likes  golf  and 
shoots  an  eighty.  Plays  bridge  with  his 
family  and  friends.  But  his  favorite  sport 
is  fishing.  H.e  has  a  fishing  shack  on 
Barnegat  Bay,  where  he  delights  to  go 
with  his  family  for  rela.xation.  And  he 
owns  an  island  in  a  Canadian  lake. 

The  island  is  a  dense  woods,  plentiful 
with  game — but  Richard  Crooks  will  not 
take  life. 

One  of  his  friends,  an  amateur  sports- 
man, visiting  at  the  shack,  declared  one 
day  that  he  was  going  after  a  certain  big 
moose  that  for  years  had  been  seen  in  the 
woods.  '  I'm  told  he  comes  out  at  dawn, " 
said  the  friend,  "so  I'll  get  up  early  and 
go  after  him." 

Crooks  said  nothing.  The  alarm  clock 
was  set  for  the  hour  of  dawn,  and  the 
household  retired  early. 

But,  an  hour  before  dawn,  Richard 
Crooks  stole  from  his  bed.  Out  in  the 
woods  he  set  up  a  fearful  hullabaloo, 
warning  all  forest  denizens  for  miles 
sround  to  seek  a  safer  neighborhood. 

The  friend  understood.  'T  guess  no  one 
will  kill  j-our  moose."  he  said,  grinning. 

There  are  four  in  the  Crooks  family 
now.  Young  Dickie,  Jr.,  who  is  eleven, 
and  Patricia,  who  is  thirteen,  with  their 
mother,  accompany  Mr.  Crooks  on  his 
trips,  whenever  possible.  They  all  went 
with  him  to  Australia,  for  his  concert  tour 
there  last  summer.  Dickie  sings  in  a  boys' 
choir  and  earns  fifty  cents  a  month— but 
he  doesn't  think  his  earnings  indicate  a 
career  like  his  father's.  Patsy,  who  is  a 


student  at  a  girls'  school  in  Connecticut, 
hasn't  planned  a  career. 

In  order  to  put  the  children  in  their 
schools,  Mrs.  Crooks  had  to  leave  for 
home  with  them,  ahead  of  her  husband. 
But  once  they  were  settled,  she  flew  back 
to  the  Coast,  to  meet  Richard  on  his 
arrival. 

The  years  have  only  intensified  the 
happy  bond  between  them.  Mildred  Crooks 
searches  out  songs  suited  to  her  husband's 
voice,  helps  him  plan  his  program.  Also, 
she  studies  the  operas  he  sings  and  designs 
all  his  costumes  for  them. 

.■\s  often  as  is  possible  they  go  to  church 
together  on  Sundays,  like  any  family.  And 
when  Richard  is  traveling,  at  Christmas 
time,  he  always  seeks  out  the  minister  of 
the  local  church  and  asks  his  permission 
to  sing,  free  of  charge,  at  the  midnight 
carol  service. 

His  home,  in  Sea  Girt,  New  Jersey,  is 
the  meeting  place  of  old  and  new  friends. 
And  the  lad  who  did  it  all  on  his  "own 
dollar"  is  a  man  ever  ready  to  help  another 
along.  He  enjoys  the  theatre  and  the 
movies,  when  he  can  go  with  Mildred  and 
the  children.  But  best  of  all  he  enjoys  just 
being  at  home  with  his  family. 

Recently,  on  a  visit  to  .Akron.  Ohio,  he 
went  to  see  the  Firestone  employees'  farms. 

"Farm  work  seems  much  easier.  '  he 
says,  "with  motor  tractors  and  what  not. 
I've  a  dim  idea  that,  when  I  retire,  I 
might  settle  down  on  a  farm.  I  must  see 
what  my  wife  thinks  about  it." 

So  he  sounds  again  the  keynote  of  his 
life — "my  wife."  A  simple,  loveable.  family 
man,  Richard  Crooks — as  well  as  a  famous 
and  beloved  artist. 


YOU  JUST  LEAVE-EVERVTHING  TO 
YOUR  "AUNT'  WENOV^ 


WINX  ^  .  . 

Colon  either  blend  or  clajh.  In 
mofce-uc.  rhts  meor^s '  oafufoiiies?" 
or  thot  hari.H  "mode-up"  look.  To 
sltminote  any  opD«arance  of 
hardness  porficuiorty  around  the 
eve*,  WINX  hos  made  its  colo.-»  to 
blend  3  ways.  1.  With  cotn- 
pleiior;.  J.  With  eves  3.  With 
eoch  other.  For  e. ample  WINX 
Blue  Moscoto  blends  perfectly 
withViNX  Blue  Eye  Shadow  or 
Eyebrow  Pencil.  Likewise  its 
lonol  Yolues  are  so  balanced  os  to 
make  it  complementary  to  all 
olher  WINX  colors.  Thus,  WINX 
gives  you  the  secret  of  '  nolurol" 
eye  make-uo. 


IT'S  arrazing  the  way  WINX  moiCQia  transforms  the  oppeorance  of 
eye'i  One  mocnenf — just  atdactivte  eyes.  The  next — on  exotic, 
glanioorous  glance  fhaf  stirs  the  ernotions — the  glance  that  men 
adore  .  .  .  and  women  envy.  WINX  truly  glorifies  the  eyes  Makes 
lash-js  seem  long,  silky  and  shadowy  as  dusk.  Keeps  them  soft,  too 
So  try  this  harmless  mascara  today  In  three  balanced  shades 
(Blue  .  Black  .  Brown)  and  in  three  convenient  forms  (Cake  .  Liquid 
Creamy).  On  sole  at  department  drug  and  5  and  10  cent  stores 


'•in. — 


107 


RADIO  STARS 


scREEn  RomnncES 


Janet  Caynor  &  Fredric  march 
in 

STAR  IS  RORR'^ 

High-jinks  and  heartbreak  in  Hollywood! 
You'll  thrill  to  this  true-to-life  romance  of  two 
who  reach  the  heights  of  happiness  and  know 
the  depths  of  despair!  Love  that  is  old  as 
the  hills — and  modern  as  tomorrow!  Read 
the  book-length  novel  in  the  March  issue  of 
SCREEN  ROMANCES. 

26  FEATURES  INCLUDE: 

Errol  Flynn  in  "Another  Dawn";  Dick  Powell  in  "On 
The  Avenue";  Ruby  Keeler  in  "Ready,  Willing  and 
Able";  Joan  Crawford  in  "The  Last  of 
Mrs.   Cheyney";   Jeanette  Mac- 
Donald  and  Nelson  Eddy 
in  "Maytime" 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 

(Continued  from  page  105) 


chest  as  you  can  get  it.  Keep  your  toes 
pointed  downward.  Lower  to  the  floor 
again  lightly,  and  then  lift  your  left  knee 
in  the  same  manner.  Alternating,  ten 
counts  each.  Work  up  to  fifteen  or  twenty 
as  you  get  accustomed  to  the  exercise.  It 
is  particularly  important  (as  it  always  is) 
that  your  spine  be  kept  absolutely  straight 
through  this  knee-flexing  exercise. 

The  third  exercise  is  a  little  more  strenu- 
ous, but  you  can  lie  down  on  the  floor 
for  this  one.  Lie  flat  on  your  back,  with 
your  legs  straight,  and  your  arms  stretched 
straight  overhead.  More  stretching!  It's 
good  for  you.  Swing  your  arms  forward 
slowly  in  a  great  arc,  and  raise  your  body 
to  a  sitting  position.  Unip!  Yes,  it's  a  little 
diflicult  at  the  beginning,  but  it  will  get 
easier,  and  think  what  marvels  it  is  doing 
for  your  lazy  stomach  and  bulgy  waist- 
line. Bend  your  body  and  arms  forward 
till  your  finger  tips  touch  your  toes.  See 
the  way  Maxine  Gray  does  it.  That's  one 
of  her  favorite  exercises.  It's  important 
that  you  keep  your  feet  on  the  floor  as 
you  raise  yourself  to  sitting  position.  Hook 
them  under  a  couch,  or  some  other  heavy 
piece  of  furniture,  if  necessary,  to  hold 
them  down,  and  keep  them  down.  Now 
lower  your  body  slowly  back  to  the  floor 
again,  with  your  arms  stretching  overhead. 
Forward  again,  to  sitting  position,  slowly, 
back  to  the  floor.    Eight  times  is  enough. 

Surely  the  morning  routine  just  out- 
lined is  simple  enough,  and  not  too  time- 
taking.  If  you  will  just  try  it  every  day 
for  a  week,  and  every  week  for  a  month, 
you  will  see  the  difiference  it  makes  in 
slimming  down  your  waistline,  increasing 
your  pep,  grace  and  suppleness,  whipping 
your  circulation  into  a  rosy  glow. 

How  shall  you  begin  to  take  care  of 
your  skin?  Why,  begin  by  keeping  it  thor- 
oughly, scrupulously  clean.  Clean  from 
within,  as  clean  as  sane  diet,  exercise  (to 
stimulate  the  circulation  and  help  to  carry 
away  impurities),  and  regular  habits  can 
make  it.  Clean  from  without,  so  that  no 
dust  or  grease  or  make-up  can  clog  the 
pores,  and  result  in  unpleasant,  enlarged 
pores  and  blackheads.  After  cleansing, 
then  comes  stimulation — with  cold  water 
and  skin  tonics  and  occasional  packs,  and 
lubrication — with  rich  nourishing  creams 
and  light  massage.  Cleansing,  lubricating, 
stimulating — the  three  processes  involved 
in  acquiring  a  petal-smooth  skin. 

Now  you  don't  need  a  muddle  of  differ- 
ent preparations  to  help  you  care  for 
your  skin.  If  you  can't  afford  more  than 
one  good  cream,  then  one  good  cream  will 
do.  I  have  just  finished  experimenting 
for  one  week  with  the  blended  cream  that 
has  for  its  slogan:  "All  necessary  face 
creams  blended  into  one.''  I  used  it,  not 
only  for  cleansing,  but  for  massage,  and 
as  a  make-up  foundation,  and  I  found  it 
excellent  for  all  three  uses.  It  is  the  same 
blended  cream  which  you  are  going  to  be 
able  to  try  out  in  the  same  manner,  with 
the  gift  sample  which  I  am  very  happy 
to  be  able  to  off'er  you  this  month.  The 
cream  is  soft,  fluffy,  fragrant — a  delight 
and  a  joy!  I  want  you  to  use  it  in  the 
following  simple  routine. 


SCREEH  ROHinHCES 


108 


Every  nightly  complexion  routine  should 
liavc  for  its  aim  the  business  of  making 
the  skin  petal-clean.  So  apply  your  cleans- 
ing cream  first,  generously,  all  over  your 
lace  and  neck,  paying  particular  attention 
to  the  crevices  around  the  nose  and  chin, 
where  pores  are  so  apt  to  get  ugly.  Allow 
the  cream  to  "soak  in"  for  a  few  seconds, 
and  then  remove  with  cleansing  tissues 
Now  you  are  ready  to  complete  the  "petal 
cleanliness"  routine  with  soap  and  water. 
Work  up  a  generous  lather  witli  warm 
water  and  pure  fragrant  soap,  and  scrub 
your  face  and  neck  until  tlic  scrubbing 
actually  makes  the  skin  pink.  Rinse  in 
clean  warm  water  until  \-our  skin  feels 
thoroughly  relaxed.  Then,  as  quickly  as 
possible,  turn  on  the  cokl  water  and  chill 
the  skin  thoroughly,  for  tightening  and 
stimulation.  Pat  on  an  icy-cokl  skin  tonic 
for  good  measure. 

Finish  off  w-ith  a  light  cream  massage 
to  lubricate  and  nourish,  especially  if  you 
have  a  dry  skin,  as  many  of  us  do — par- 
ticularly in  cold  weather.  For  lubrication, 
you  will  need  less  of  the  blended  cream 
than  for  cleansing.  Just  take  a  little  on 
your  fingertips,  and  pat  or  stroke  it  in 
well,  so  that  as  much  oil  as  possible  is 
.taken  up  by  your  hungry  skin.  Be  careful 
not  to  stretch  your  skin  with  your  manip- 
ulating massage.  Use  gentle  up-and-up 
pats  or  strokes,  being  particularly  gentle 
around  the  eyes.  To  get  the  most  good  out 
of  this  marvelous  cream,  you  must  learn  to 
use  it  in  gentle,  but  firm,  massage.  Many 
women  ask  w-hether  to  massage  before  or 
after  they  clean  their  faces.  One  import- 
ant rule  to  remember  is  that  your  skin 
should  always  be  clean  when  you  begin  to 
massage;  otherwi.se  you  work  the  day's 
grime  into  your  pores. 

Now,  if  all  this  cream  beautifying  is 
being  done  when  you  have  flushed  your 
day's  work,  and  are  getting  ready  to  go 
out  in  the  evening,  it  is  simple  enough  to 
use  the  blended  cream,  which  you  have 
been  employing  as  a  massage  cream,  for 
your  make-up  foundation-base  as  well. 
Whether  you  are  retiring  for  your  night's 
beauty  sleep,  or  dressing  for  a  very  special 
party,  you  can  finish  the  creaming  routine 
in  the  same  way.  Just  remove  thoroughly 
with  tissues.  What  cream  remains  won't 
make  you  feel  or  look  greasy.  It's  just  the 
foundation  for  overnight  beautifying,  or 
for  make-un  glorifying.  If  for  make-up, 
then,  while  your  skin  is  still  soft  and 
moist  from  the  cream,  apply  your  cream 
rouge,  well  blended  into  your  cheeks;  and 
your  powder.  A  dash  of  lipstick,  and  a 
touch  of  mascara,  eyebrow  pencil,  and 
eyeshadow,  and  you're  alluringly  fresh  and 
lovely  for  an  evening  of  dancing 


Mary  Biddle, 
RADIO  STARS. 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  your  gift  sample 
offer  of  blended  cream. 

Name   

Address  

City  State. 

P.S. — If  you  have  any  figure  or  complexion 
problems,  Mary  Kiddie  will  he  glad  to  help 
you  with  them.  Just  drop  her  a  line  .ind 
enclose  a  self-addressed  stamped  envelope. 


RADIO  STARS 


raw 
cne! 

TRY      AN  ART 
/^SCHOLARSHIP 


Copy  this  gifl  and  send  us  your  draw- 
mg  —  perhaps  you'll  win  a  COM- 
PLETE FEDERAL  COURSE  FREE! 
This  contest  is  for  amateurs,  so  if  you 
like  to  draw  do  not  hesitate  to  enter. 

Prizes  for  Five  Best  Drawings  — 
FIVE  COMPLETE  ART 
COURSES  FREE,  including 
drawing  outfits.  (Value  of  each 
course,  $190.00.) 

FREE!  Each  contestant  whose 
drawing  shows  sufficient  merit 
will  receive  a  grading  and  advice 
as  to  whether  he  or  she  has  in  our 
estimation,  artistic  talent  worth 
developing. 

Nowadays  design  and  color  play  an  important  part  in 
the  sale  of  almost  everything.  Therefore  the  artist,  who 
designs  merchandise  or  illustrates  advertising  has  be- 
come a  real  factor  in  modern  industry.  Machines  can 
never  displace  him.  Many  Federal  students,  both  men 
and  girls  who  are  now  commercial  designers  or  illus- 
trators capable  of  earning  from  $1000  to  $5000  yearly 
have  been  trained  by  the  Federal  Course.  Here's  a 
splendid  opportunity  to  test  your  talent.  Read  the  rules 
and  send  your  drawing  to  the  address  below. 


RULES 

This  contest  open  only  to  ama- 
teurs, 16  years  old 
Professional  commercial  artists 
and  Federal  students  are  not 

eligible. 

1.  Make  drawing  of  girl  6  inches 
high,  on  paper  7' 2  inches 
high.  Draw  only  the  girl,  not 
the  lettering. 

2.  Use  only  pencil  or  pen. 

3.  No  drawings  will  be  returned. 

4.  Print  your  name,  address, 
age  and  occupation  on  back  of 
drawing. 

5.  All  drawings  must  be 
received  by  February  25th, 
1937.  Prizes  will  be  awarded 
for  drawings  best  in  propor- 
tion and  neatness  by  Federal 
Schools  Faculty. 


FEDERAL  SCHOOLS,  INC. 

Dept.  3997,  FecJeral  Schools  Bids.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

^^^^^^^^ 


DEAFNESS  IS  MISERY 

Many  people  with  defective  hearing  and 
Head  Noises  enjoy  Conversation.  Movies, 
Church  and  Radio,  because  they  use 
Leonard  Invisible  Ear  Drunu  which 
H  resemble  Tiny  Megiphones  fiuinR 
,      JF  Ear  entirely  out  of  sight. 

^    f     No  wires,  batteries  or  head  piece. 

They  are  inexpensive.  Write  for 
booklet  and  sworn  statement  of  0P11^ 
the  inventor  who  was  himself  deaf. 

A.  0.  LEOHAHD.  Ino..  Suite  986. 70  5th  Ave..  New  Yffc 

^Scratching 

III   RELIEVE  MZ^XWQ  In  Ont  Minutt 

Even  the  most  stubborn  itching  of  eczema,  blotches, 
pimples,  athlete's  foot,  rashes  and  other  skin  erup- 
tions, quickly  yields  to  Dr.  Dennis'  cooling,  antisep- 
tic, hquid  D.  D.  D.  PRESCRIPTION.  Its  gentle  oils 
soothe  the  irritated  skin.  Clear,  greaseless  and  stain- 
less— dries  fast.  Stops  the  most  intense  itching  in- 
stantly. A  35c  trial  bottle,  at  drug  stores,  proves  it — 
or  money  back.  Ask  for  D.  D.D.  PRESCRIPTION. 


rOR  COLDS 

Nature  can  more  quickly  expel  Infection  wherr 
aided  by  internal  medication  of  recosnized  merit 


HAVE  RECOGNIZED  MERIT 

At  all  drussists,  or  send  For  a  Free  sample  to 


K.  A.  Hughes  Co., 


clans.  Thousands  of  graduates.  3{jth  yr. 
One  graduate  has  charge  of  10 -bed  ho-i- 
pltal.  Another  saved  $400  while  learn- 
ing   E.iuliM.icnt  Included,  Men  and  women  18  to  60.  High 
School  nut  reduired.    Kasy  tuition  payments.    Write  now. 
CHICAGO  SCHOOL  OF  NURSING 
Dept.  233,   100  East  Ohio  Street.  Chicaso. 
Please  send  free 


$25-$35  A  WEEK 


nple  lesson  oagea. 


.  Age. 

109 


RADIO  STARS 


POPULAR 


Miss  Madeleine  frick 
Permanent  Wave  by 
Iran  of  Fifth  Ave..  N.Y. 


*7  Keep  My  Hair  Soft  and  Golden  with  Marchand's  Golden 
Hair  Wash,"  says  Miss  Madeleine  Frick,  of  Norfolk,  Va. 

TYPICAL  of  the  many  girls  who  have  become  more  popular  with  sunny, 
golden  hair,  Miss  Frick  was  chosen  February  winner  of  MARCHAND'S 
BLONDE-OF-THE-MONTH  Contest.  Says  Miss  Frick,  "My  whole  appearance 
is  fresher  — brighter  — since  I  use  Marchand's  Golden  Hair  Wash." 

You,  too,  now  can  gain  this  popularity.  Rinse  your  hair  with  Marchand's 
Golden  Hair  Wash,  and  yourself  have  sunny  hair  friends  admire. 

BLONDES— Is  dull,  faded  or  streaked  hair  robbing  you  of  the  youthful,  lively 
charm  blonde  hair  can  give?  Enjoy^a  more  fascinating  appearance  now.  To 
keep  your  hair  bright  and  golden  always  rinse  with  Marchand's. 

BRUNETTES  — To  add  an  alluring  lustrous  sheen  to  your  hair  just  rinse  with 
Marchand's.  You  will  be  amazed  at  the  improvement  in  your  whole  appear- 
ance. Or  if  you  wish,  using  Marchand's  full  strength  you  can  lighten  your  hair 
to  any  golden  shade  and  become  an  appealing  blonde. 

BLONDES  AND  BRUNETTES -Use  Marchand's  also  to  make  "superfluous" 
hair  on  arms,  legs  or  face  unnoticeable.  Keep  dainty  and  alluring  all  orer  with 
Marchand's.  Start  today!  Get  a  bottle  of  Marchand's  Golden  Hair  Wash  at 
any  drug  store.  Use  it  tonight,  at  home. 

WANT  TO  WIN  A  FREE  VISIT  TO  NEW  YORK? 

For  details  see  folder  inside  your  package  of  Marchand's  Golden  Hair  Wash. 
Ask  your  druggist.  Or  use  coupon  below. 


MARCHAND^S 


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(/olden  Hair  ^',ish.  I  iiclosed  50  cents  (use  stamps,  toiii  or  nione>'  ortier  as  con- 
lenient)  for  a  fidl-si/ed  bottle. 

Name 

Address 

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WIN  ONE  OF  THESE 
GLAMOROUS  EVENING 
GOWNS 

{Continued  from  page  48) 


Left,  Amos  (Freeman  F.  Gosden)  and 
Andy  (Charles  S.  Correll)  broadcast 
their   long    popular   radio  show. 

full,  with  the  hem  bordered  in  a  band  of  the 
violet  .shade.  The  bodice  is  fitted  and  cut 
rather  low,  with  .slender  violet  velvet  straps 
in  an  unusual  arrangement.  A  bunch  of 
\  iolets  is  fastend  right  in  front. 

Tappe  offers  another  print,  this  in  chif- 
f  >n,  delicately  printed  all  over  in  flowers 
and  leaves.  This  is  made  on  stately  lines 
with  the  front  rather  high  and  the  back  cut 
low.  The  skirt  has  fulness  w'hich  clings 
to  the  figure,  with  a  back  flare  achieved  by 
a  pleated  train.  Small  straps  of  the  chif- 
fon tie  on  the  top  of  the  shoulders  and  a 
belt  which  is  attached  to  the  train,  ties  at 
front. 

Greer's  Toivn  and  Country  Shop  gives 
one  of  those  practical  yet  flattering  dinner 
dresses  that  you  can  use  for  all  sorts  of 
informal  parties.  The  top,  with  its  corded 
collar  and  shoulder  caps,  is  in  a  bright 
blue  shade  with  sparkling  black  buttons 
down  the  shirtwaist-like  front.  A  black 
crepe  overskirt,  something  like  a  redingote, 
cuts  up  into  the  bodice  and  is  slashed  down 
the  front  to  show  the  blue  underskirt.  It's 
tailored  in  detail  but  youthful  and  becom- 
ing in  design. 

Thea  Sheehan's  black  moire  gown  is  so- 
phisticated to  the  nth  degree,  with  its  dra- 
matic full  skirt  and  low-cut  fitted  bodice 
trimmed  with  large  white  gardenias.  It 
is  a  picture  frock  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  even  to  the  long  white  stems  which 
trail  down  across  the  bodice  to  the  skirt. 

Now,  don't  you  yearn  to  have  one?  All 
you  have  to  do  is  to  read  the  rules  on 
Page  49  and  follow  them  specifically.  Lu- 
cille will  be  everlastingly  grateful  to  you 
for  helping  her  decide  such  an  important 
matter  as  the  type  of  gown  she  should 
wear  each  Friday  night.  You  tell  her 
what  you  think,  for  you  are  the  ones  w'ho 
will  see  her  on  the  other  side  of  the  micro- 
phone. 

Send  your  entries  in  promptly,  for  you've 
only  got  until  March  3rd.  Good  luck  to 
you  all  from  Radio  Stars  and  Lucille 
Manners ! 

(Incidentally,  turn  to  Page  16  and  read 
more  about  Lucille  Manners.) 


110 


RADIO  STARS 


JOIN  OUR  TOUR 
TO  HOLLYWOOD 

(Continued  from  page  54) 


Richard  Arlen,  20th  Century-Fox  star. 

shot.  On  this  oldest  and  largest  lot  in 
filmland  are  twenty-five  acres  of  huge 
sets  that  date  back  to  Phantom  of  the 
Opera  and  Hunchback  of  Not  re  Dame. 
At  Universal  they  are  now  making  The 
Road  Back,  a  sequel  to  their  famous  war 
film,  All  Quiet  on  the  JVesfcrn  Front. 
They've  just  finished  Top  of  the  Tozi.ii, 
musical  hit  of  the  >  ear,  with  a  cast  includ- 
ing the  town's  top  stars  and  funny  men. 

Then  there'll  be  a  dinner-dance  at  the 
Cocoanut  Grove,  for  more  than  fifteen 
years  the  center  of  night  life  in  the  colony. 
Every  one  has  heard  of  the  Grove — here's 
your  cliance  to  see  it.  Screen  and  radio 
celebrities  have  been  invited  to  our  dinner- 
dance  and  you'll  all  be  together  in  a  party 
for  an  evening  of  grand  entertainment. 
The  Grove,  you  remember,  is  where  Bing 
Crosby  won  fame  as  a  crooner  (at  $50 
a  week!)  and  it's  just  as  popular  today. 

Those  are  the  hichh'ghts  of  a  stay  in 
Hollywood  that  will  be  crannncd  with 
some  new  excitement  every  minute.  And 
of  course  there  also  are  dozens  of  other 
sights  to  see — Catalina  Island,  the  Obser- 
vatories, the  amusement  piers  at  Santa 
Monica,  the  Huntington  libraries  and  art 
galleries.  Gay's  lion  farm — but  the  list  is 
almost  endless. 

Space  doesn't  permit  further  details,  but 
complete  information  giving  the  itinerary 
of  each  trip,  along  with  exact  C(jsts,  is 
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cooked  and  sewed  and  scrimped — and  loved 
every  second  of  it.  We  hadn't  much  money, 
but  we  were  terribly  happy  together — until 
Frances  came.  Then  I  made  niy  mistake." 

Frances  Rich,  today,  is  a  tali  and  strik- 
ing  girl  of  twenty-si.x,  a  sculptress  who  is 
making  a  name  for  herself  around  the 
Manhattan  galleries.  Irene  has  sent  her 
to  the  art  schools  of  New  York,  Boston, 
Paris  and  Italy.  The  two  of  them,  mother 
and  daughter,  are  as  inseparable  as  twin 
sisters. 

"After  Frances'  birth  I  couldn't  think  of 
a  thing  but  my  baby.  It  was  like  having 
a  live  doll — it  was  the  most  important,  all- 
consuming  experience  I  ever  had  known. 
I  was  .so  in  love  with  my  baby.  I  hadn't  a 
thought  for  another  thing  in  the  world.  It 
was  childish  of  me.  I  know  now,  but  I 
didn't  know  it  then.  I  was  too  young  to 
realize  how  vital  it  is  for  women,  especial- 
ly \  oung  mothers  who  have  a  strong 
maternal  instinct,  to  achieve  an  equal  bal- 
ance of  feeling  for  their  children  and 
husbands. 

"I  neglected  my  husband.  I  wouldn't 
leave  the  baby  even  to  go  out  with  him  at 
night  when  he  wanted  recreation.  So,  w'hen 
he  went  out  alone  and  found  his  fun  by 
himself,  I  let  it  break  my  heart.  I  couldn't 
see  that  it  was  entirely  my  fault.  I  only 
knew  that  I  didn't  like  being  married  any 
more  and  I  wanted  to  run  away  from  the 
complications  I'd  got  myself  into. 

"He  didn't  hold  me,"  Irene  concluded. 
"I  took  Frances  and  went  home  to  Mother. 

".^nd  at  home  I  was  miserable.  In  the 
first  place,  I  felt  disgraced,  deep  inside. 
People  didn't  regard  divorce,  in  those 
days,  the  way  they  do  now.  There  I  was, 
just  eighteen  and  the  mother  of  a  baby — 
and  divorced  .  .  .  And  I  was  lonely.  Oh, 
I  was  so  lonely,  sometimes,  I  didn't  know 
what  to  do  with  myself!  I  discovered 
that  a  child  wasn't  enough  to  fill  my  life. 
I  wanted  and  needed  companionship,  too." 

Into  this  crucial  interval  walked  the 
handsome  young  army  officer  who  was  to 
become  Irene's  second  husband.  Pie  was 
a  gay  companion,  deeply  in  love  with  her 
and  devoted  to  her  baby.  He  painted  allur- 
ing pictures  of  what  their  life  together 
would  be — all  his  afternoons  and  evenings 
and  week-ends  free  to  si)end  with  his 
wife,  delightful  travel,  new  places,  the  con- 
stant round  of  social  activity  at  army 
I)osts.  She'd  never  have  to  be  lonely  any 
more,  never. 

Before  Irene  knew  it,  she  was  in  love, 
married  and  of?  to  live  in  Honolulu — a 
bride  again  at  twenty. 

"Frankly,"  she  said  to  me,  "Mother 
didn't  want  me  to  marry  him.  Mother, 
who  never  had  interfered  l)efore,  felt  that 
she  had  some  say-so  in  my  life,  after  the 
collapse  of  my  first  marriage.  .She  disap- 
proved of  my  second  husband.  She  never 
allowed  him  in  her  home  l)efore  we  were 
married  and  she  never  came  into  our  home 
after  we  were  married.  That  hurt  me  be- 
cause I  was  so  sure  I  was  doing  the  right 
and  only  thing.  You  see,  I  was  as  de- 
termined as  she.  But,  anyway,  we  were 
very  happy  for  two  or  three  years.  We 


lived  in  Hawaii  and  Spokane  and  San 
Francisco  and  everything  was  pleasant  for 
a  while  .  .  ." 

And  then  the  deepest  sorrow  that  Irene 
Rich  ever  has  known  came  to  her.  Her 
little  boy  died,  her  beautiful  little  five- 
months-old  son,  named  Tom.  Unfortu- 
nately, at  the  time  of  the  baby's  death,  her 
husband  was  on  brief  foreign  duty.  Irene 
had  to  bear  all  her  grief  in  loneliness ;  and 
being  very  young  and  cut  to  the  quick  with 
sorrow,  she  never  could  quite  forgive  him 
for  being  away  when  she  needed  him 
most.  An  older  woman  would  have  under- 
stood that  the  situation  was  entirely  un- 
avoidable; but  to  Irene  it  was  a  vast  dis- 
appointment in  companionship  which  she 
was  not  equipped  to  fathom. 

Her  disillusionment  caused  the  first  rift 
between  them.  When  her  hu.sband  wanted 
to  pick  up.  the  usual  routine  of  their  lives, 
in  the  hope  that  parties  and  trips  and  en- 
tertaining would  help  them  mend  their 
hearts  more  quickly,  Irene  only  wanted  to 
stay  at  home  and  grieve — and  as  soon  as 
possible  to  have  another  child.  Gradually 
they  drifted  apart  in  their  hearts.  And, 
seven  days  before  Jane  was  born,  Irene 
left  her  husband. 

It  was  a  grim  illness,  bringing  Jane 
into  the  world.  Irene  lay  in  the  valley  of 
the  shadow  for  sixty  hours  of  such  agony 
that  her  nurse  never  has  taken  another 
maternity  case  to  this  day.  But  when  it 
was  all  past  she  ha<l  discovered  something: 
companionship  or  not,  in  the  last  analysis, 
all  of  us  have  to  live  our  lives  entirely 
alone.  Even  child-bearing  can  be  endured 
with  only  the  comforting  hands  of  doctors 
and  nurses  and  friends. 

From  Jane's  birth  she  learned  her  first 
lesson  in  independence.  She  saw.  for  the 
first  time,  that  she  was  capable  of  standing 
on  her  own  feet  through  anything  life 
could  bring.  And  with  that  assurance  she 
took  her  two  little  girls  and  set  out  to 
support  them  and  herself. 

It  was  shortly  after  this  that  she  invad- 
ed Hollywood  and  became  a  top  star  of 
the  silcnts.  She  was  beautiful,  just  twenty- 
four  years  old,  talented  and  a  hard  worker  ; 
and  the  combination  of  those  factors 
brought  her  great  fame.  Wealth,  many 
friends,  the  finest  advantages  for  her 
children — pictures  gave  to  her  everything 
she  needed  but  one  very  important  item. 

"I  wanted  protection,"  she  told  me.  "All 
the  time  I  felt  so  insecure  without  it. 
Hollywood  is  a  place  that  makes  you  see 
how  much  a  woman  needs  an  anchor,  a 
strong  bufTer  between  herself  and  the 
world.  I  made  my  own  decisions  and 
fought  my  own  battles  for  ten  years  and. 
at  last,  it  seemed  to  me  the  most  desirable 
and  essential  thing  in  life  to  have  the 
faithful  protection  of  a  man.  I  thought  I 
had  found  that  in  the  man  who  became  my 
third  husband  ..." 

Irene  prefers  not  to  discuss  this  marriage 
in  detail.  She  was  married  at  thirty-four, 
to  a  prominent  California  banker  and 
divorced  two  years  later.  It  has  often  lieeii 
printed  that  he  grossly  mismanaged  her 
financial  affairs.   She  merely  comments : 


" — but  I  was  disappointed.  I  didn't  find 
faithful  protection  at  all.  That  failure  \va^ 
my  own  fault,  too;  I  made  niy  own  choice 
and  it  was  a  bad  one  and  no  one  was  to 
blame  but  myself. 

"Anyway,  four  hirtluL-ns  >liort  "f  ftirt\-, 
I  sat  awake  a  \\lii>lc  n\ii\n.  muc  iiiL;lit,  tak- 
ing stock  of  niy  life.  1  .--aid  tu  niy>elf  : 
'Here  you  are,  at  thirty-six,  three  times 
divorced.  You've  married  for  all  the  things 
women  hope  to  find  in  the  love  of  a 
husband ;  children,  companionship,  pro- 
tection. None  of  those  marriages  has  been 
a  success.  So,  from  now  on,  don't  depend 
on  a  husband  for  anything — (/<•/'.•;;(/  «ii 
yourself!' 

"With  that  as  a  rule  to  live  by,  I  started 
all  over  again." 

And  during  the  past  nine  years  Irene 
Rich  has  worked  out  her  own  design  for 
living,  one  which  has  proved  extremely 
satisfactory  through  a  number  of  acid 
tests.  In  1928,  when  H.>ll\vv,i.,(l  shifted 
from  silents  to  sound  track-,  tlic\  -aid  -he 
was  washed  up  as  an  actrc--.  .She  proved 
she  wasn't  and  she  proved  it  alone,  with 
no  understanding  husband  to  run  to  for 
advice  or  consolation.  In  1929  she  lost 
every  cent  she  owned  in  tlic  crash,  was 
forced  to  sell  her  home  and  cars  and  jewels 
and  see  the  financial  security  -he  had 
worked  hard  to  build  \<'v  tlic  iimir{  di-- 
solve  overnight  inti)  iiMtlimmk--.  .X.^ain 
she  stood  firmly  on  her  uwn  feet,  borrowed 
money  to  keep  her  girls  in  school  and 
eventually  managed  to  pay  it  back. 

She  came  to  radio  and  made  a  success 
of  a  new  medium  by  study  and  strict  appli- 
cation and  clever  management  of  her  op- 
portunities. During  the  years  that  Frances 
and  Jane  were  securing  European  educa- 
tions, she  lived  alone  and  made  herself  like 
it  through  work  and  hobbies  and  cultivating 
interesting  friends.  She  studied  finance  and 
banking,  until  she  became  as  competent 
at  handling  her  iiivestnicnts  as  any  well- 
trained  Wall  Streeter.  And  she  k(i)t  her- 
self young,  through  diet  and  exercise  and 
mental  activity. 

Today  Irene  Rich  has  a  secure,  glamor- 
ous independence  that  is  the  envy  of  her 
married  and  single  friends  alike. 

Mornings  she  is  awake  at  nine,  ta'ccs 
her  breakfast  in  bed.  goes  through  her 
exercises,  followed  by  a  cold  shower,  .''id 
appears  at  her  penthouse-office  at  the 
Waldorf  by  eleven.  It's  the  kind  oi  oluce 
any  woman  would  love  to  have  lor  her 
drawing-room.  Pastel  walls  make  a  soft 
background  for  severely  modern  furniture. 
A  fireplace,  gossamer  chartreuse  curtains, 
fresh  Howers  and  deep  cari)el-  make  the 
room  warm  and  bright.  Her  de-k  fokis 
out  of  sight  into  shelves  of  liriglitly- 
jacketed  liooks.  There  is  a  long  wide  ter- 
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cally beautiful  view  of  the  Ka-i  River.  A 
dressing-room  and  batii  jirovide  for  hur- 
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attractive  secretary,  who  can  turn  out 
everything  from  flawless  letters  to  flawless 
dinner  menus. 

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she  wants  to  he  extravagant,  it's  purely  her 
ow-n  af^'air.  She  may  have  no  business  fall- 
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Street,  but,  at  any  rate,  there's  nobody  to 
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and  fifty  persons,  who  could  not  get  seats  in  the  theatre,  broke  open  the 
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her,  there's  nobody  at  home  to  lay  a  re- 
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much  indeed. 

At  six  o'clock,  except  for  Fridays  when 
Irene  has  her  eight  p.  m.  broadcast,  she's 
driving  to  her  spacious  and  beautiful  apart- 
ment in  the  Sixties,  which  is  run  like 
clockwork  by  two  servants  who  have  been 
with  her  for  years.  Frances  has  her  studio 
at  home;  twenty-one-year-old  Jane,  who 
rapidly  is  becoming  a  successful  actress, 
is  home  at  least  for  dinner  between  shows 
or  rehearsals.  Whether  or  not  there  are 
guests,  the  evening  meal  always  is  a  gay 
affair,  looked  forward  to  with  great  an- 
ticipation by  the  three  of  them.  Maybe 
they'll  dress  and  dine  in  state  or  maybe 
they'll  don  pajamas  and  eat  on  a  card 
table  before  the  fire.  There's  little  mother- 
and-daughter  attitude  between  Irene  and 
her  girls.  She  much  prefers  to  have  them 
regard  her  as  a  contemporary  and  friend. 

With  her  evenings  she  can  do  exactly  as 
she  likes.  Because  she's  charming  and 
witty  and  lots  of  fun,  there  never  is  a 
night  when  she  can't  take  her  choice  of 
several  invitations.  Her  masculine  ad- 
mirers are  equaled  in  number  by  her 
hosts  of  women  friends  and  married 
friends.  She  can  go  to  the  Cotton  Club  or 
to  the  opera  or  for  a  drive  in  Central 
Park ;  or  she  can  stay  at  home  and  read 
and  knit,  while  she  listens  to  the  radio. 

Week-ends  Irene  usually  piles  a  hamper 
of  food  and  a  few  of  her  closest  friends 
into  her  car  and  drives  up  to  her  six- 
hundred-acre  country  place  at  Candlewood 
Lake,  Connecticut.  The  house  is  a  tiny 
Cape  Cod  cottage,  without  heat  or  lights 
or  plumbing,  but  everybody  has  a  grand 
time  sawing  wood  and  sledding  and  hiking 
through  the  woods.  Sometimes,  because 
she  likes  to  be  alone,  she  drives  to  Candle- 
wood  with  the  back  seat  full  of  books  or 


letters  that  must  be  personally  answered. 
She  takes  her  problems  to  the  country, 
too,  to  think  them  out  when  she's  rested 
and  calm  and  completely  undisturbed. 

All  in  all  it's  the  nicest  life  Irene  Rich 
ever  has  experienced.  So  nice,  in  fact, 
that  she's  never  been  able  to  persuade 
herself  to  give  it  up  for  marriage,  although 
she  has  seriously  considered  it  twice  in 
the  past  few  years.  The  first  occasion  con- 
cerned a  distinguished  gentleman  in  the 
diplomatic  service. 

"I  was  on  the  verge  of  marrying  him," 
she  told  me,  "when  the  question  came  up 
of  my  mother  and  children.  I'd  been 
Mother's  only  support  for  a  number  of 
years  and  I  was  buying  a  home  for  her 
in  California ;  and  Frances  and  Jane  were 
in  expensive  schools.  Since  he  expected 
me  to  give  up  my  work,  I  asked  him  if  he 
could  assume  my  responsibilities. 

"He  said :  'You  know  I  haven't  got 
much  money,  Irene.  It  won't  hurt  Frances 
and  Jane  to  go  to  public  school  like  other 
girls  and  your  mother  can  live  abroad  with 
us.' 

"Of  course,  that  settled  it.  Mother's 
health  required  the  California  climate  and 
as  long  as  my  children  could  have  won- 
derful advantages,  I  couldn't  take  them 
away  by  marrying.  I  had  to  consider  my 
responsibilities  as  well  as  my  own  desires. 

"So,"  Irene  laid  down  her  teacup  and 
looked  across  the  terrace  wall  to  the 
lighted,  gray  towers  of  Manhattan,  "I  said 
goodbye  to  love.  It  was  love,  too.  I  have 
missed  him  very  much." 

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thought  she  was  going  to  marry  not  long 
ago,  was  a  middle-aged  millionaire. 

'  Frankly,"  she  commented,  "I  did  think 
seriously  about  him  for  a  while.  But  he 
was  too  possessive.  In  the  nick  of  time  I 
saw  that  clearly.  As  for  his  money,  that 
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what  I  have.  I  enjoy  it  more  that  way. 

"Sometimes  I  think  to  myself  that  I'd 
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to  prove  that  I  could  do  it — but  the  thought 
is  always  a  brief  yen,  not  a  real  desire.  I 
do  know  what  I'd  do  differently  the  fourth 
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succeed  the  fourth  time,  too.  But  that's 
something  I'll  never  have  a  chance  to 
prove,  because  I  can't  take  the  chance  to 
prove  it. 

"It's  not."  she  went  on.  "that  I'm  dis- 
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ju-t  as  much  fun  out  of  going  out  with 
tlKiii  now  as  I  did  when  I  was  sixteen. 
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relish  living  any  other  wa>-.  /';<-  acluiiUy 
fallen  in  love  icitli  iiidcpciuL-)u-i,  inucli 
more  deeply  than  I  could  ever  fall  in  love 
■Zi.'itli  any  man! 

"Independence,  really,  is  a  sort  of  secret 
romance  with  nie.  that  keeps  any  serious 
thought  of  other  men  away.  That's  why  I 
can't  marry  asain.  I've  tried  and  tried  to 
bring  myself  to  it  and  at  the  last  minute 
I'm  always  unwilling  to  give  up  the  cer- 
tain joy  of  my  life  now  for  the  uncertain 
joy  that  another  marriage  might  bring. 

"People  probably  classify  me  as  'one  of 
those  independent  modern  women.'  That's 
what  I  am,  and  I  love  it.  I  have  everything 
I  want,  complete  freedom,  and  only  myself 
to  thank  or  blame. 

"I  honestly  can't  envy  a  single  married 
woman  I  know. 

"Sometimes  people  say  to  me :  'You  may 
be  happy  by  yourself  now,  but  what  are 
you  going  to  do  when  you  grow  old?' 
Well,  I've  planned  for  that,  too.  For  com- 
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friends,  and  friends  can  last  and  live  as 
long  as  a  husband.  For  financial  security, 
my  investments  are  as  sound  as  those  of 
any  man  I  might  marry.  If  I  want  to, 
after  my  girls  have  left  me,  I  may  adopt 
a  child;  but  I'm  counting  on  having  a  very 
full  life  playing  mother  and  character 
roles  in  pictures  and  radio  till  I'm  too 
feeble  to  hobble  across  a  set  or  a  studio." 

Irene  rose  and  led  me  out  to  the  terrace 
to  look  at  the  lights  of  ^^anhattan. 

"About  old  age,"  she  said  to  me,  and 
her  voice  was  clear  and  serious  against 
the  frosty  wind,  "see  the  Empire  State 
Building?  Sometimes,  when  I  raise  my 
bedroom  windows  late  at  night,  I  notice 
it  all  lit  up  for  the  charwomen  to  clean 
while  the  rest  of  the  city  is  asleep.  I  stand 
there,  imagining  what  those  women  are 
like,  what  they're  doing,  down  on  their 
hands  and  knees  scrubbing  the  floors  of 
that  great  tower  for  a  livelihood.  And  I 
always  wonder  if  their  lot  could  happen 
to  me. 

"It  used  to  worry  me,  but  it  doesn't  any 
more.  Now  I  say  to  rhyself:  '.All  right,  so 
you're  a  charwoman — but,  mind  you,  it's 
fate,  not  mismanagement  of  your  life,  that 
lirought  you  to  this.  Maybe  you  chose 
independence,  but  also  the  bucket  next  to 
yours  belongs  to  a  woman  w^ho  chose 
marriage !  Neither  of  you  were  guaranteed 
security,  you  see !' 

"We  all  take  our  chances,"  Irene  con- 
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Orville  Knapp's,  before  his  tragic  death), 
Sammy  Kaye's  and  Kay  Kyser's  smooth- 
ness and  Music  in  the  Morgan  Manner.  A 
bit  of  radio  applause  for  the  Rudy  Vallee 
and  Bing  Crosby  shows,  for  presenting 
variety  that  should  please  almost  every 
listcikr.  .\lso  favorc<l  are  the  Jack  Benny 
and  I'rcd  .\llon  broadcasts." 

Geraldine  Cleaver,  Anita,  Iowa.  (Busi- 
ness Woman.)  "For  many  years  my 
favorite  prograir.  lias  been  7//r  Cities 
Service  Concert,  liccausc,  on  tins  pro.urani, 
1  hear  the  glorious  voice  nf  J,.Mca  Drag- 
onette.  When  Aliss  Dragonctte  leaves  this 
program,  my  favorite  will  be  whichever 
one  she  is  featured  on.  Miss  Dragonette  is 
as  lovely  as  her  voice." 

Wilbur  A.  Cain,  Trenton,  N.  J.  (Shut- 
in.)  "The  programs  I  listen  to  the  most 
are  I'lic  Hrcakfasl  Club,  National  Farm 
and  Home  Hour.  Jack  Benny,  Fred  .Allen's 
Toivn  Hall  Tonight,  Burns  and  .\lkn,  Fd 
Wynn  and  musical  programs  like  those 
of  Abe  Lyman  and  Wayne  King.  " 

Janice  Lawrence,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
(Home  Girl.)  "My  never-miss  programs 
are  Caivlcade  of  .linerica.  Rmlio's  Court 
of  Honor  and  tiie  Ken  Minr;i\  program 
until,  alas,  it  went  off  the  air.  The  lirst  is 
reallv  one  of  the  most  iiiterrstmg  liroad- 
cast.s  on  the  ;iir  t..day.  1  like  the  second, 
becaiHe  the  music  of  Sliej)  {•"iclds  is  new 
and  different.  .\nd  Ken  Murray's  program 
was  in>-  faMirite  hecitise  of  its  spontaneous 
wit  and  humor,  grand  cast,  good  music 
and  the  refreshing  announcing  of  Fred 
Uttal. " 

Mac  Brown,  Middletown,  N.  Y.  "I  pre- 
fer the  comics,  such  as  Burns  and  ;\Ilen, 
|-.(klie  Cantor,  Phil  Baker  and  Ken  .Mur- 
ray My  favorite  musical  programs  are: 
ll'nilyieood  Hotel,  particularly  because  of 
Dick  Powell ;  Crumit  and  San<k  rson,  Kate 
Smith,  and  Fred  Waring  and  his  Pcnnsyl- 


Fred  Z.  Salazar,  Fort  Ringgold,  Tex. 
(Soldier.)  "1  listen  mostly  to  good  dance 


bands,  because  they  are  the  tops.  The  per- 
fect dance  orchestra  should  contain  the 
following :  Xavier  Cugat's  drummer,  Guy 
Loiubardo's  saxes  and  clarinets,  Ozzie 
Nelson's  brass,  Eddie  Duchin,  himself,  at 
the  piano,  Richard  Himber's  harpist,  Hor- 
ace Heidt's  guitarist,  RubinofT's  violin,  Ben 
liernie's  announcing  cracks  and  Casa 
Loma's  tempo." 

Evelyn  Jenkins,  Webster  Groves,  Mo. 

"I  have  but  one  radio  favorite — Jessica 
Dragonette.  Her  voice  is  perfection,  she 
sings  the  songs  I  love  the  most,  the  w-ay 
I  love  to  hear  them.  She  stands  for  the 
best  there  is  in  radio.  Her  programs  are 
always  delightful  and  her  voice  grows 
lovelier  with  each  song." 

A.  Folske,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.    ( Student.) 

"Mary  Marlin  is  my  favorite  story  and  is 
listened  to  by  most  of  the  girls  in  my 
room.  The  story  that  has  plenty  of  ad- 
venture is  the  Jack  Armstrong  program. 
Betty  and  Bob  and  The  O'Neills  are  good 
for  entertainment." 

Adele  Lingard,  Anoka,  Minn.  (House- 
wife.)  "I  listen  to  the  radio  a  lot,  as  I  have 
lots  of  time  to  enjoy  it.  The  programs  I 
like  the  best  are :  The  Magic  Key,  because 
of  its  good  music  and  the  best  and  most 
varied  talent;  One  Man's  Family  is  my 
favorite  dramatic  program,  because  it  is 
so  real,  so  human ;  and  Jack  Benny  I  con- 
sider the  best  of  the  comedians,  because 
of  his  clean,  sophisticated  fun  and  because 
the  advertising  is  enjoyable.  All  sponsors 
should  take  note  of  the  last  named." 

Russell  K.  Heller,  Emaus,  Pa.  (Student.) 

"M\-  favorites  are  the  Ford  Sunday  Eve- 
ning I  four,  for  the  superb  rendition  of 
s>niphonic  music  by  a  first-class  symphony 
orchestra ;  Guy  Lombardo,  for  the  sweetest 
music  on  the  air;  and  Eddie  Cantor,  for 
his  clever  comedy." 

Mrs.  K.  L.  M.,  Harrisburg,  Pa.  "Many 
fine  programs  come  over  the  radio.  The 
one  I  like  best  is  One  Man's  Family,  be- 
cause it  is  so  natural,  so  real  from  week 
to  week,  and  nothing  outside  comes  in. 
Today's  Children  has  always  held  a  high 
place  with  me.  I  used  to  like  Theatre  on 
Times  Square,  but  I  cut  that  out  because 
the  commercial  stuff  was  very  irritating. 
Mary  Marlin  has  got  away  from  the  low 
moral  tone  it  had  in  past  months,  though 
it  is  still  overdrawn.  I  feel  my  life  would 
be  empty  without  the  radio.  Keep  it  pure 
and  clean  and  it  can  be  such  a  power  for 
good." 

Anita  Kohl,  Dansville,  N.  Y.  (School 
Girl.)  "The  following  programs  are  ace 
ranking  in  my  mind:  I'ick's  Open  House 
with  Nelson  P-ddy,  because  of  Mr.  Eddy's 
clear,  exjircssive  voice;  Young  Hickory, 
for  the  naturalness  of  story  and  cast ; 
Roger  Baker,  sports  reporter,  because  his 
clear,  easy  way  of  reporting  sports  is  not 
tiring;  and  the  A  &  P  Band  Wagon,  on 
account  of  the  lovely  singing  of  Kate  Smith 
and  her  generosity." 


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Edward  MacHugh,  popular  NBC 
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Barbara    Drew,    Grand    Rapids,  Mich. 

"I  listen  to  Jack  Benny  for  clean,  good 
fun  I  The  commtrcial  part  is  put  in  so  that 
it  al,>o  is  entertainment.  Jack  and  .Mar_\ 
are  your  answer  to  the  problem  of  what 
to  do  on  Sunday  nights." 

Mrs.    L.    W.    Yiengst,    Archbald,  Pa. 

(Minister's  Wife.)  "The  list  of  programs 
I  listen  to  looks  like  the  daily  schedule 
it>Llt.  I  usually  turn  to  my  radio  at  ten 
o'clock  and  keep  it  on  till  twelve-hfteen. 
In  the  afternoon  it  goes  on  again  at  three. 
.Social  engagements  and  church  activities 
lirt'\'ent  my  being  a  regular  listener  in  the 
evening.  However,  I  tr\-  to  be  near  a  radio 
on  \\'ednesda>-,  Thursday  and  Sunday 
evenings  as  those  are  'big'  nights.  To  sum 
up,  I  might  say  that  I  enjoy  good  music, 
drama,  comedy — yes,  and  even  some  ama- 
teur programs." 

Ann  Hajos,  Reading,  Pa.  (Singer  and 
Orchestra  Leader.)  "Since  I  am  a  great 
lover  of  music,  I  prefer  Benny  Goodman, 
Jan  Savitt  and  .\le.x  Bartha,  for  their 
good,  hot  and  fast  nnisic.  They're  the  tops. 
I  don't  care  for  opera  singing,  hut  when 
Xelson  Eddy  sings,  I'd  listen  to  it  any 
day.  For  a  good  hot  singer,  how  about 
Loretta  Lee?  She  has  everything  anyone 
could  ask  for.'' 

Ernestine  M.  Chapin,  Devon,  Conn. 
(Housewife.)  "You  asked  for  it,  so  here 
goes!  I  listen  to:  Pick  and  Pal.  Lux  Radio 
Theatre,  Flippen's  amateur  hour,  Ben 
Bernie,  Fred  .-Mien,  Rudv  \"allee.  Show 
Boat,  Kraft  Music  Hall.  Hollywood  Hotel. 
First  Xi;/hter,  Shell  Chateau.  J'ick's  Open 
House.  Jack  Bei;ny,  etc.,  etc.,  etc.  Radio 
plays  a  liig  part  in  my  life." 

Mary  Halligan,  Whitesboro,  N.  Y. 
(Insurance  Clerk.)  "My  favorite  programs 
are;  Metropolitan  Opera  Auditions,  be- 
cause talented  singers  have  a  chance  to  be 
heard  and  some  of  them  arc  better  than 
radio's  top-notchers ;  J'ick's  (">l^cu  House. 
for  Xelson  Eddy's  beautiful  rcndiii-.n  of 
beautiful  music.  One  Man's  Family, 
for  its  kindly,  neighborly  spirit :  and  l-'irst 
Nighter,  because  of  Don  .Ameche's  e.x- 
cellent  singing  and  acting.  The  only  trou- 
ble with  these  prograins  is  that  they  all 
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Full  Address   

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RADIO  STARS 


RHDIO  mUGHS... 

(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


uR.-lCIE:  Oh,  don't  listen  to  them  .  .  . 
it's  nothing  but  gossip,  and  gossip  is  noth- 
ing but  idle  rumor  and  an  idle  rumor  is  a 
boarder  out  of  U'ork. 

(GRACIE  ALLEN,  Campbell's  Tomato 
Juice  Program.) 

PORTLAND  :  My  father  hates  the  cold. 
FRED:  Really? 

PORTLAND:  I'll  say  .  .  .  when  his 
false  teeth  start  to  chatter  Papa  says  it 
feels  as  though  he's  got  Fred  Astaire's  foot 
in  his  mouth. 

FRED :  It  could  be  worse  ...  he  might 
have  Garbo's. 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

GRAHAM:  Your  aunt  must  be  some 
cook,  Ed. 

ED:  What  a  cook,  Graham!  This  morn- 
ing my  uncle  asked  my  aunt  why  her 
face  smelled  so  funny,  and  my  aunt  said, 
"I  was  just  going  to  cook  some  spaghetti 
and  the  cook  book  said  to  rub  a  little  gar- 
lic on  your  pan." 

(ED  WYNN  and  GRAHAM  McNA- 
MEE,  Spud  Program.) 

SHARLIE  :  An  auto  salesman  tells  me 
there  are  tzco  hoods  on  the  car  he's  trying 
to  sell  me.    Can  this  be  so? 

JACK:  No — one  of  them  must  be  a 
FALSE-HOOD! 

{JACK  PEARL,  Raleigh  and  Kool 
Show.) 

SHELTON:  Do^  like  me.  When  I 
walk  down  the  street  dogs  follow  me  .  .  . 
they  walk  up  to  me  and  lick  my  hands. 

HOWARD:  Why  don't  you  try  eating 
with  a  knife  and  fork? 

CTOM  HOWARD  and  GEORGE 
SHELTON,  Rudy  Vallee's  Royal  Va- 
riety Hour.) 

-♦- 

BOB:  Even  the  people  in  Van  Buren 
thought  my  Uncle  Fotchey  Whittlesey  was 
lazy.  In  fact,  one  time  a  committee  went 
out  to  him  and  they  found  him  lyin'  out 
under  an  apple  tree  and  they  told  him — 
they  says,  "We've  just  voted  you  the  lazi- 
est man  in  Van  Buren  and  we've  brought 
you  the  first  prize.  We've  got  a  silver 
dollar  for  you."  My  uncle  says:  "Well, 
I  don't  care  anything  about  the  dollar, 
but,"  he  says,  "just  roll  me  over  and  put 
it  in  my  hip  pocket!" 

(BOB  BURNS,  Kraft  Music  Hall.) 

BOTTLE:  Oh.  Beetle,  you  scoundrel, 
you  scamp,  you  renegade. ' 

PHIL:  You  tell  him,  lettuce,  I  haven't 
got  the  heart. 

DOTTLE:  Don't  worry,  sir,  I'll  quiver 
at  the  lips.  Oh,  Beetle,  you  turkey,  you 
pigeon,  you  duck,  you  fowl,  you  pheasant. 

PHIL:  Bottle,  what  are  you  saying? 

BOTTLE:  Oh,  forgive  me,  sir,  I'm 
giving  him  the  bird. 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  BOTTLE,  Gulf 
Program.) 

EVE :  What  do  you  mean — woolen  blan- 
ket— the  label  says  cotton  ? 

KEN  :  Oh,  I  just  put  that  on  to  fool  the 
moths.  Well — maybe  you'd  like  to  see 
something  in  this  bathrobe? 

RUSS:  Yeah— Carole  Lombard. 

KEN:  Oh.  you're  a  married  man,  eh? 

(KEN  MURRAY,  EVE  ARDEN  and 
RUSS  MORGAN,  Rinso  Program.) 

118 


JACK:  Where's  your  pappy? 

MARY:  Didn't  you  hear?  They  car- 
ried him  home  last  night. 

JACK:  Was  he  shot? 

MARY:  Only  fifty  percent. 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

AN^N^E:  How  did  your  illness  start, 
Fred.' 

FRED :  It  started  a  week  ago  last  Mon- 
day. I  li'as  up  all  night  with  a  pain  in 
the  neck. 

CHARLES :  I  was  zvith  you  a  zveek  ago 
last  Mondav,  Fred. 

FRED:  Aha!  That's  zvhat  I  said. 

(FRED  ASTAIRE,  CHARLES  BUT- 
TERIVORTH  and  ANNE  JAMISON, 
Packard  Program.) 

JUDY:  That  boy  is  gettin'  lazy.  Why, 
today  he  went  out  and  hired  a  feller  to  help 
him  sleep. 

PAUL:  He  hired  a  man  to  help  him 
sleep? 

JUDY :  Yes,  sir.  Whenever  Zeke  falls 
asleep  this  other  fellow  snores  for  him. 

(JUDY  CANOVA  and  PAUL 
WHITEMAN,  Woodbury's  Musical  Va- 
rieties.) 

KEN:  Well,  Ken,  I'm  auctioning  off  all 
my  personal  belongings — I'm  going  to 
give  the  money  to  a  worthy  cause — to 
people  who  need  and  want  it  badly. 

ANN'C'R:  That's  very  noble  charity. 
Ken.    Who  are  these  unfortunate  people? 

KEN:  My  creditors! 

(KEN  MURRAY,  Rinso  Program.) 

BOND:  Well,  you  better  be  careful,  be- 
cause if  you  pull  a  cat  by  the  tail  it'll  bite 


BOND:  Why  not? 

SNOOKS:  'Cause  cats  don't  bite  at  that 
end! 

(FANNIE  BRICE  and  FORD  BOND, 
Revue  dc  Farce.) 

GEORGE :  Did  you  ever  dream  you 
were  out  with  me? 

GRACIE:  Oh,  no — I  never  have  night- 
mares. 

TONY :  Why  don't  you  dream  you  went 
to  the  Brown  Derby  with  me? 

GRACIE :  Oh,  no !  I  had  to  stand  up  in 
bed  two  hours  last  night  waiting  for  a 
table ! 

(BURNS  and  ALLEN,  TONY  MAR- 
TIN, Campbell's  Tomato  Juice  Program.) 

SHARLIE:  Willie  Burns  wants  to  know 
what  happened  to  the  boy  who  sat  on 
the  burning  deck. 

JACK:  He  got  the  hot  seat! 

(JACK  PEARL,  Raleigh  and  Kool 
Show.) 

BUDD :  How  about  an  invention  or  two, 
Colonel,  just  to  sort  of  start  things  off? 

STOOP:  Well,  I  have  invented  a  foot- 
ball field  with  black  lines  instead  of  white 
lines. 

BUDD:  Whv  black  lines? 

STOOP:  For  playing  football  in  the 
snow.  Then  I  have  also  invented  a  salty 
paper  for  making  maps  of  the  ocean. 

(COL.  STOOPNAGLE  and  BUDD 
Program.) 


PORTLAND:  Papa  sent  me  down  to 
get  our  thermometer  fixed  ...  so  I  thought 
I'd  stop  in. 

FRED :  Has  this  changeable  weather 
caused  your  thermometer  to  strip  its  gears? 

PORTLAND:  Yes  .  .  .  it  got  so  low 
Monday  night  some  gravel  got  into  the 
mercury ! 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

ED:  The  next  scene,  Graham,  is  eleven 
years  later  .  .  .  the  stork  has  arrived. 

McN.:  The  stork  didn't  arrive  for 
eleven  years? 

ED:  The  stork  couldn't  help  it,  Graham. 
He's  been  busy  for  ten  years  up  in  Can- 
ada! They  name  the  baby  Grab-Bag  .  .  . 
they  call  him  that  because  every  time  they 
pick  him  up  they  get  a  surprise. 

ED  WYNN  and  GRAHAM  McNA- 
MEE,  Spud  Program.) 

BOTTLE:  Ha,  ha,  ha,  ha,  

PHIL:    All  right,  my  one-track  mind, 

what  are  you  laughing  at? 

BOTTLE:     The    summer  underwear 

book. 

PHIL:  What's  funnv  about  that? 
BOTTLE:  Er  .  .  .  Gone  with  the  Win- 
ter! 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  BOTTLE,  Gulf 
Program.) 

BUDD:  Keep  yourself  under  control. 
Colonel.  Say,  that  reminds  me  .  .  .  what 
is  control? 

STOOP:  Control  is  what  firemen  get 
blazes  under. 

(COL.  STOOPNAGLE  and  Budd  Pro- 
gram.) 

JACK:  Hmm-m-m  .  .  .  these  actors  .  .  . 
well,  boys,  let's  get  into  a  real  Western 
mood.     Kenny,  pass  out  those  bandanas. 

KENNY:  Shall  I  peel  them? 

JACK:  I  said  banDANas! 

(JACK  BENNY  and  KENNY  BAKER, 
Jell-O  Program.) 

CHARLES :  I  have  been  worried  about 
Fred's  condition. 

DOCTOR:  Here,  somebody,  get  Mr. 
Butterworth  a  chair,  quick!  Mr.  Butter- 
worth,  ivho  told  you  to  get  out  of  bed:' 

CHARLES:  the  landlord. 

DOCTOR:  Hair  you  felt  particularly 
run  doivn  lately? 

CHARLES:  Well,  last  week  I  ivent  to 
Palm  Springs.  Yon  see,  I  thought  I  ivas 
catching  something. 

DOCTOR:  Flu? 

CHARLES:  No,  I  took  the  train. 
(CHARLES  BUTTERWORTH,  Pack- 
ard Program.) 

ANN'C'R:  Ken,  I'm  surprised  at  your 
losses,  tell  me,  what  are  you — a  stockhold- 
er or  a  bondholder? 

KEN:  Neither— I'm  a  bagholder! 

(KEN  MURRAY.  Rinso  Program.) 

McN:  ]\'here  did  you  get  that  suit?  I'd 
like  to  get  one  like  it. 
PliENO  :  This  is  my  "ivar"  suit. 
Mc.\':  War  suit? 

PEENO  :  My  grandfather  ztvre  it,  my 
father  zvore  it,  I  zvore  it! 

(JOE  PEENO  and  GRAHAM  Mc- 
NAMEE,  Rudv  Voice's  Royal  Variety 
Hour.) 


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Lovely  lashes  demand  her  attention 
but  not  a  second  for  her  tender  gums 


.mmm-m^mmi^'rii  the  making 


How  often  such  neglect  leads 
to  real  dental  tragedies . . . 
give  your  gums  the  benefit 
of  Ipana  and  Massage. 

1ET  her  labor  over  her  lashes  until  she 
■<  is  late  for  the  show... let  her  spend 
time  and  money  on  her  favorite  brands 
of  cosmetics  and  cold  cream.  But  will 
someone  please  tell  her  about  her  dull, 
dingy  smile— a  smile  that  distorts  a  face 
even  as  beautiful  as  hers? 

Yet  she  could  hs.ve—can  have— teeth 
that  sparkle  with  brilliant  whiteness... 


a  smile  both  good-looking  and  lovely  to 
look  at.  But  not  until  she  knows  the 
meaning  of  that  tinge  of  "pink"  on  her 
tooth  brush  — knows  it  and  does  some- 
thing about  it! 

Never  Ignore  "Pink  Tooth  Brush" 
"Pink  tooth  brush"  is  a  distress  signal. 
When  you  see  k—see  your  dentist.  Usu- 
ally, however,  it  only  means  gums  that 
have  grown  tender  because  of  our  mod- 
ern soft  foods— gums  that  need  more 
work— and,  as  your  dentist  will  so  often 
advise,  gums  that  need  the  stimulating 
help  of  Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage. 


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your  teeth.  Rub  a  little  extra  Ipana  on 
your  gums  every  time  you  brush  your 
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like  a  good  dentist, 
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julsive  that  I  hated  to  take  them.  I  hadn't  yet 
earned  how  to  avoid  out-of-date  "dosing."  Then 
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Ex  '  J  ,  headache,  "blues."  I  sang 

witli  I    '  I    I  lie  color  in  my  cheeks.  My 

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•  Now  life  IS  so  rjilh-rent  for  this  girl,  just  as 
it  is  forever  16  million  other  KEEN  -  A  -  MINT 
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PICTURES  IN  THE  AIR  (News  about  teiev.s.on)  by  Jock  Hoiiley  14 

GERTRUDE  NIESEN'S  EXPERIENCES  IN  HOLLYWOOD 

(Exotic  star  of  radio,  movies  and  night  clubs,  couldn't  say  no)  

by  Miriam  Rogers 

A  COOK  WHO  NEVER  SPOILS  THE  BROTH 

(That  lovable  zany,  Joe  Cook)   by   Jock  Honley 

HOLLYWOOD'S  RAYE  OF  SUNSHINE 

(Rollicking  Martha  Raye)  by  LeO  Townsend 

RAH!  RAH!  OAK\E\  (What  has  changed  jack  Oakie')  by  Gladys  Hall 
IT'S  THE  WAY  SHE  SAYS  IT! 

(The  secret  of  Bea  Lillie's  racy  comedy)  by  Nancy  BarrOWS 

BAnY  OVER  BASEBALL 

(•■Speak  to  me  of  sports'"  says  Abe  Lyman)  by  Tom  Meony 

IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION 

(Rudy  Vallee  s  own  personal  column)  by  Rudy  Vallee 

A  CHANCE  INCIDENT  CHANGED  THEIR  LIVES 

(Four  famous  stars  reveal  fate's  fickleness)  by  Harriet  Menken 

ALWAYS  PLAY  A  LUCKY  HUNCH! 

(Haven  McQuatrie  played  his  and  won)    by  Muriel  Babcock 

SO  THE  BOY  MADE  GOOD! 

iThe  romantic  story  of  Oscar  Shaw  o/ Broadway  Vanetie.s)   

by  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen 

AND  SHE  ALMOST  RETIRED! 

(How  Ozzie  Nelson  persuaded  Harriet  Hilliard  to  sing  again) 

by  Miriam  Gibson 

HILL-WILLIAMS  TO  YOU,  SUH 

(Judy .  Anne  and  Zeke  Ca  nova  of  RippMna  Rhythm  Revue)  by  Gene  Harvey 

MURDER  AND  MYSTERY  ON  THE  AIR 

(S  S   Van  Dine,  master  of  mvstery.  gives  a  clue)  

by  Watkins  Eppes  Wright 

HE  SWORE  HE'D  BE  A  DOCTOR 

(Why  tenor.  Tito  Guizar.  left  medicine  for  music).    .  .  by   Mildred  Mostin 


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SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Radio  Ramblin3S. 
Beauty  Advice. . . 


Kate  Smith's   Own  Cooking 
School  


Distinguished  Service  Award 
In  the  Radio  Spotlight. 


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What  They  Listen  To— And 

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Why  

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Be  Our  Guest  in  Hollywood. . 

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West  Coast  Chatter  

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Nothing  But  the  Truth?  

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Radio  Laughs   11} 

Cover  by  EARL  CHRISTY 


lladlo  Stars  puWI-l 
al  WashinKton  ami 
.New  York.  N.  Y. 
II.  Meyer,  Vlce-I'i 
printed  In  U.  9. 


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ONE  OF  THE  GREAT  PICTMES  OF  ALL  TIME! 


A  Metro- 
Goldwyn  -Mayer 
Picture  Directed  by 
VICTOR  FLEMING 


s 


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Wherein  our  busy  reporter  gleans  much 
bh'the  gossip  concerning  radio  stars. 


Only  a  few  spectators  will  rec- 
ognize an  energetic  little  Irisli- 
TTian  around  Joe  Cook  rehearsals, 
just  a  few  years  ago  this  same 
little  Irishman  had  national  emi- 
nence of  his  own.  His  name  is 
forgotten  now,  liecause  he  disap- 
peared from  sight  just  on  the 
\erge  of  crashing  through  into 
hig  time.  It  still  is  an  interesting 
name  in  view  of  what  has  hap- 
pened since  in  radio. 


Tlic  mail  is  Benny  Ryau,  once 
male  half  of  flic  vaudcviUc  team 
of  Ryan  and  Lcc.  This  team,  a 
bi(l  vaudeville  Jicadlincr  a  couple 
of  decades  ago.  set  the  pattern 
followed  by  George  Burns  and 
Graeie  Allen. 

Tlirough  one  misfortune  and  an- 
other, the  Ryan  and  Lee  team 
broke  up  and  it  was  George  Jhtrns 
and  Graeie  Allen  who  fell  heir  to 
their  popularity. 


Benny  supplies  gags  for  Joe 
Cook  now.  You  don't  hear  him 
complaining  much  about  the  great 
fortune  he  missed  so  narrowly. 
Speaking  on  another  subject  one 
night,  he  remarked:  "If  people 
aren't  imitated  it's  a  sign  they're 
not  much  good." 


Rubinofif's  most  cherished,  cer- 
tainly his  most  valuable,  possession 
is  his  Stradivarius  violin.  He 
seldom  refers  to  the  day  on  a 
Hollywood  movie  lot  when  he 
came  so  close  to  smashing  it  into 
smithereens. 


The  young  man  with  the  mon- 
ocle is  that  unique  Charlie 
McCarf by,  y/ho  with  his  stooge, 
Edgar  Bergen  (Right )  enter- 
tains us  on  the  Vallee  Hour. 


(Left)  Rollicking  Martha 
Raye,  of  the  Al  Jolson  Show, 
with  her  fiance,  Jerry  Hopper, 
who  is  assistant  musical  direc- 
tor at  the  Paramount  Studio. 


Charles  Walters  and  Mitzi 
Mayfair  display  our  popu- 
lar magazine  in  one  of  the 
gay  scenes  from  The  Show  Is 
On,  starring   Beatrice  Lillie. 


Knowing  Rubinoff's  temper,  the 
boys  had  conspired  to  make  him 
mad.  The  joke  zvas  getting  him 
out  to  the  studio  an  hour  before 
anyone  else  arrived. 

"I  like  to  be  gentleman," 
Rubinoff  relates  the  story  in  his 
Russian  way,  "so  I  just  tell  every- 
body it  does  not  seem  necessary 
for  me  to  come  so  early.  Tomor- 
row I  come  later." 

One  of  the  jokers  replied,  in 
the  tone  he  might  use  to  a  long- 
slioreman:  "No  arguments,  fid- 
dler!       {Continued  on  page  73) 


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LISTEN,  H(^.Shia^'Mvui^, 

Why  waste  that  high-powered  brushing?  Your  teeth  wont  really 
sparkle  unless  you  use  the  right  tooth  paste,  too! 


PEPSODENT 

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IRIUM 

Gently  removes  film  .  .  .  wins 
flashing  new  luster  .  .  .  makes 
daily  brushing  extra  effective! 

Are  you  one  of  the  Disappointed  Scrub- 
Hards  who  brush  faithfully  day  after  day — 
yet  still  have  dingy,  film-stained  teeth?  .  .  . 
Then  here's  news  for  you.  Now  proper 
brushing  gets  results  —  in  teeth  that  sparkle 
with  natural  brilliance! 

New  Pepsodent  ingredient  ends 
disappointment 
IRIUM — the  remarkable  new  ingredient  con- 
tained only  in  Pepsodent — steps  up  cleans- 
ing efficiency  and  provides  smooth  Hashing 
action  instead  of  hard  abrasion,  irilm  makes 
Pepsodent  a  wonderful  tooth  paste.  One 
that  responds  instantly  to  your  brush  —  pen- 
etrates between  teeth  —  speedily  loosens 
dingy  film  and  floats  it  away  like  magic. 

It's  an  amazing  advance  in  tooth  hygiene! 
You  clean  your  teeth  quicker,  easier.  Your 
brushing  is  useful.  Your  teeth  quickly  win 
that  glowing  luster  that  everyone  notices. 

If  you  would  have  beautiful  teeth,  remem- 
ber that  proper  brushing  is  only  half  the 
formula.  The  other  half  is  Pepsodent  Tooth 
Paste  containing  irium.  Try  it.  The  days  of 
Scrub-Hard  Disappointment  will  be  over! 


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We  can't  all  sing  like  Deanna,  nor 
have  fourteen-year-old  charm, 
but  we  can  be  beautiful! 


DEAXXA  DURIdlX  is  an  Alice  in  Wonderland  child,  as 
well  as  ;i  "wonder  child."  I  was  sure  of  it  when  I  saw 
(and  lu ard )  her  at  an  Eddie  Cantor  broadcast  some 
months  ayo  in  New  York.  That  was  before  her  meteoric 
rise  in  Hollywood.  She  is  the  kind  of  a  t;irl  who  comes 
out  of  story-books.  She  makes  you  catch  your  breath, 
.she  is  so  ex(|uisitc'.  and  so  inititniUy  exijitisite.  And  there 
is  a  Cfuaint  sini]ilicity  about  her,  an  unstutlied  charm  that 
is  as  rare — well,  as  rare  as  are  the  Deanna  Durbins  in  this 
un-story-licK ik-l)kc  world.  Walter  W'inchell  awarded  his 
famous  orchids  to  I  )canna  Durbin.  And  it  is  of  Deanna 
that  Jvlilif  (  alitor  >ays :  "She  possesses  more  charm, 
more  ]joisc  and  more  |)ersonality  than  a  half  dozen  of  the 
bi,t;',!^est  feminine  stars  in  Hollywood  today."  So  it  is  to 
l)(  anna  tliat  we  i^roffer  orchids  this  month  in  our  own 
small  wa\-,  and  sugt^est  the  greater  tribute  of  emulation. 

Once  upon  a  lime  1  remember  talking  to  a  famous  stage 
director,  who  said  of  some  ])articularly  beautiful  girl  in 
the  cast;  "(  )h.  yes.  she  is  beautiful,  but  I'd  also  say  that 
she  is  asparagus."  "W'ha-a-t!"  I  said  in  shocked  surprise. 
"Yes,  vou  kn(jw."  he  rei)licd.  "the  kind  of  a  girl  who 


Doris  Nolan,  feminine  lead  in  Top  of  fhe 
Town,  gives  dainty  Deanna  Durbin  sonne 
of  the   fundamental    pointers   of  make-up. 

Fourteen-year-old  Deanna  Durbin,  a  star 
on  Eddie  Cantor's  radio  program  and  in 
the    Universal    movie.    Three    Smart  Girls. 

should  he  xil.l  in  hunches;  she's  grand  in  the  chorus,  but 
lhal's  about  all.  It  isn't  just  beauty,  it  is  what's  under- 
ncalh  that  counts." 

I. .Iter  the  director  went  on  to  tell  me  of  experiences  he 
h.id  h.id  with  aspiring  youngsters — of  one  girl  who  had 
won  .-I  hc;int\  coiiti'st,  but  whose  slo\cnliness  showed  up  in 
her  dress.  Irt  bearing  and  her  speech,  and  who  ended  up  in 
a  dcpartnicnl  store  instead  of  on  Hroadway  or  in  Holly- 
wood; (j[  another  girl  whose  beauty  was  really  extraor- 
dinar\'.  but  who  had  a  hard,  cold  quality  that  ruined  her 
] loteiitialities  as  an  actress  or  a  ])oi)ular  performer.  One 
unpleasant  story  he  cited  was  that  of  a  girl  who,  with  the 
hcnelit  of  a  little  publicity  and  admiration,  began  adopting 


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grand  manners  and  snubbing  bcr  old 
friends.  Sbe  became  so  siroiled  and 
selfish  and  conceited  that  she  lost  all 
the  warm  charm  for  which  she  was 
originally  singled  out,  and  her  career 
fell  by  the  wayside. 

Personality  is  still  more  important 
than  beauty,  and  as  a  beauty  editor, 
I  am  glad  it  is.  Personal  grooming 
is  something  for  which  not  even 
beauty  can  substitute.  So  many  of 
you  break  your  hearts  over  some 
little  beauty  delect,  .ukI  let  your  in- 
feriority comjilex  run  aw.iy  with  you 
to  the  extent  of  >p()iling  your  per- 
sonality. So  ni.iny  of  you  have 
potentialities  that  you  never  develop, 
because  you  haven't  the  gumption. 
You  spend  all  your  time  wishing,  in- 
stead of  doing.  Every  woman  can 
be  attractive,  can  be  distinguished,  if 
she  will  use  her  intelligence  to  groom 
her  face  and  her  body  and  her  per- 
sonality. 

Make-up  has  a  lot  to  do  with  good 
grooming.  Sloppy  make-up  is  an 
imforgivable  sin.  Make-up  has  a 
lot  to  do  with  personality,  too.  A 
new  shade  of  rouge  or  lipstick,  a 
touch  of  wickedly  alluring  eye- 
shadow, and  you  may  be  a  new  per- 
son in  the  mirror — or  most  important 
of  all,  to  yourself. 

Some  of  you  may  think  that  make- 
up for  Deanna  Durbin  would  be  like 
"gilding  the  lily."  (Jf  course  Deanna, 
at  fourteen  years  of  age.  doesn't  use 
much  make-up,  excc])t  for  her  \n-o- 
fessional  stage  and  screen  a])i)ear- 
ances.  For  the  latter,  licr  e\e--  and 
lips  are  emphasized;  the  eye  inake-uj) 
skilfully  api)lie<l  to  giw  greater 
depth  and  brilliance  to  the  eyes  for 
l)hotographic  ])nr])()ses;  the  lips 
smartly  outlined  with  li])  rouge  and 
a  long-handled  camel's  hair  brush, 
which  no  make-u])  director  would  be 
without.  "(iilding  the  lily"  is  an 
ex])r(.'Ssion  that  imi)lies  the  exaggera- 
tion of  the  perfectidus  with  which 
one  is  alread\'  blessed.  Ihit  modern 
make-up  shows  the  hap]>iest  result^ 
when  it  works  with  the  gre.at  awra^e 
l)ody  of  women,  neither  exlrenielx 
beautiful  nor  extrenieh'  plani.  It  c;in 
change  a  drab  face  into  a  bright 
challenge.  And  remember  this,  every 
girl  and  every  woman  has  something 
to  build  on. 

Make-up  magic  begins  with  a  clear 
smooth  skin.  That  is  where  so  many 
girls  and  women  get  on  the  wrong 
track.  They  think  of  make-U])  as  a 
means  of  concealing  a  faulty  com- 
plexion and  unsightly  blackheads. 
But,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  all  the  make- 
up artistry  in  the  world  cannot  hide 
a  poor  foundation,  and  you  shouldn't  J 
attempt  to  make  it  do  so.  I  sincerely 
believe  that  that  is  the  reason  cos-  \ 
metics  are  blamed  for  a  lot  of  things 
in  which  they  are  not  the  slightest 
bit  at  fault.  {Coiifiiiiird  on  paijc  72) 


WHOO-OO!  Feel  that  mad  March 
wind  whip  your  face  and  hands! 
Fight  the  ciiapping  that  comes  from 
bitiii_g  winds,  soap,  and  ammonia 
water,  with  Hinds  Honey  and  Al- 
mond Cream.  It  soaks  the  tender 
chapping  with  comfort.  Its  Vitamin 
D  is  absorbed  by  dry,  water-pufFed 
skin... gives  it  some  of  the  benefits  of 
sunshine.  Every  drop  of  Hinds  works 
better — softening,  smoothing  skin! 


HINDS 

HONEY  AND  ALMOND  CREAM 


The  famous  Hinds  Honey  and 
Almond  Cream  now  contains 
Vitamin  D.  This  vitamin  is 
absorbed  by  the  skin.  Seems  to 
smooth  it !  Now,  more  than  ever. 
Hinds  soothes  and  softens  the 
drvness,  stinging  '  'skin  cracks," 
chapping,  and  tenderness  caused 
bv  wind,  cold,  heat,  hard  water, 
and  housework.  Every  drop — 
with  its  N'itamin  D — does  skin 
more  good!  $1,  50c,  25c,  10c. 

DAILY  RADIO  TREAT:  Ted  Malone 
.  .  .  inviting  you  to  help  yourself  to 
Happiness  and  to  Beauty.  Mon.  to  Fri., 
12:15  pmE.S.T.,over  WABC-CBS. 


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BMAd  of  /i&/Uw 


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ROYAL  GELATIN  PROGRAM— RUDY 

VALLEF.  78.1 

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TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT— FRED  AL- 
LEN, VAN  STEEDEN  ORCHESTRA  ..  78.i 

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GENERAL    MOTORS  CONCERT 
ERNO  RAPEE   77. 

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CHESTERFIELD     PRESENTS  NINO 

MARTINI,  KOSTELANETZ  ORCHES- 
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LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  75.: 


MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA   74.1 

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TRA  74.: 

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GUY  LOMBARDO  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
TRA  73.: 

CBS  Suit.  5:.1()  P.M.  E.ST 

ALEXANDER  WOOLLCOTT   73.' 

CBS  T-T  7:30  P.M.  EST.  9:30  l'..\T  P.ST 
RADIO    CITY    MUSIC    HALL  SYM- 
PHONY ORCHESTRA   73.: 

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VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE   72.! 

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THE  SINGING  LADY   72.1 

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BURNS  AND  ALLEN— TONY  MARTIN, 

KING  ORCHESTRA   71.1 

CBS  Ifrti.  X:.yj  P.M  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 
HELEN  HAYES  IN  "BAMBI"  71.! 

.\7;(  M.m.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  9:30  P.M.  PST 
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DRAGONETTE,  GOODMAN  ORCHES- 
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CliS  Sun.  7:.V)  P.M.  E.ST 
HOLLYWOOD    HOTEL— FRED  Mac- 
MURRAY,     FRANCES  LANGFORD, 

PAIGE  ORCHESTRA   70.2 

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CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT  —  LU- 
CILLE   MANNERS,    BOURDON  OR- 
CHESTRA  70.2 

Si:C  Er,.  H.OO  I'.M.  EST 

ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY   69. J 

SIM   Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  Sun.  9:30  P.M. 
EST 

STUDEBAKER    CHAMPIONS— RICH- 
ARD HIMBER   69.S 

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MAXWELL    HOUSE    SHOW  BOAT— 
LANNY  ROSS,  GOODMAN  ORCHES- 
TRA  69.; 

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JACK  OAKIE'S  COLLEGE— GOOD- 
MAN BAND   69.7 

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EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  per- 
centages on  the  assumption  that  all 
radio  programs  are  divided  into  four 
basic  parts  :  material,  artists,  presen- 
tation and  announcements,  each  con- 
sisting of  25%  and  making  the  perfect 
program  of  100%.  These  ratings  are 
a  consensus  of  opinions  of  our  Board 
of  Review  and  do  not  necessarily  agree 
with  the  editorial  opinion  of  Radio 
Star.s  Magazine.  Pro.yrams  outstand- 
ing as  to  artists  and  material,  often 
suffer  because  of  poor  presentation  or 
exaggerated  commercial  announce- 
ments. There  have  been  many  changes 
in  programs  for  the  spring  months. 
The  Board  reviewed  as  many  of  the 
current  major  programs  as  it  possibly 
could  before  this  issue  went  to  press. 


30.  AL  JOLSON  SHOW -MARTHA  RAYE, 
SID  SILVERS,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  .69.6 

CBS  This.  8:.iO  I'.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

31.  H.  V.  KALTENBORN  69.5 

Cr.SSun.  IO:l^  I'  M.  E.ST 

32.  BOAKE  CARTER   69.2 

C/i.s  .M-l-W-f-l  V:-I5  P..M.E:.ST 

33.  SWEETEST  LOVE  SONGS  EVER  SUNG 
-FRANK  MUNN,  LYMAN  ORCHES- 
TRA  69.0 

NBC  Mun.  8:.iO  P..\l.  E.ST 

34.  YOUR  HIT  PARADE  68.8 

NBC  Wed.  10:00  P.M.  EST.  CBS  Sal.  10:00 
P.M.  EST 

35.  AMOS  'N'  ANDY  68  5 

NBC  M-T-W-T-P  7:00  P.M.  E.S'I  .  8:00  P.M. 
P.ST 


.  SHELL  CHATEAU— JOE  COOK,  WAT- 
SON ORCHESTRA   68.3 

NBC  Sal.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

.  BROADWAY  MERRY-GO-ROUND- 
BEATRICE  LILLIE,  ARDEN  ORCHES- 
TRA  68.2 

NBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

.  FAMOUS  JURY  TRIALS  68.0 

.MBS  Mon.  10:00  P.M.  E.ST 

.  BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS.  .67.9 
NBC  Tues.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

.  EASY  ACES    67.8 

NBC  T-W-T  7:00  P.M.  EST 

.  MODERN  ROMANCES   67.7 

NBC  Wed.  2:00  P.M.  E.ST 

.  ETHEL  BARRYMORE  67.6 

NBC  Wed.  8:.m  P.M.  EST 

.  WARDEN  LAWES  67.5 

NBC  Mon.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

.  JOHNNY,    WITH    LEO  REISMAN'S 

ORCHESTRA   67.4 

NBC  Tues.  8:00  P.M.E.S7 .  8:30  P.M.  PST 

.  METROPOLITAN  OPERA  AUDITIONS 

OF  THE  AIR   66.7 

NBC  Sun.  3:00  P.M.  EST 
AMERICAN    ALBUM    OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC— FRANK  MUNN,  LUCY  MON- 
ROE  66.7 

NBC  Sun.  9.30  P.M.E.ST 

CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  shots. 66.6 

NBC  Tues..  Sal.   11:05   P.M.  EST 

WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  66.5 

C7i.S   Mon.   10:00  P.M.  EST.    NBC  T-W- 
8:30  P.M.  EST 
.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  BER- 
NICE  CLAIRE,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA. 66.3 
NBC  Fri.  9.00  P.M.  EST 

EDWIN  C.  HILL   66.2 

NBC  Sun.  9:45  P.M.  EST 

GABRIEL  HEATTER  66.0 

MBS  M-T-W-T  7:45  P.M.  EST.  WOR  9:00 
P.M.  E.ST:  IVOR  Sun.  9:45  P.M.  EST 
PACKARD    HOUR— FRED  ASTAIRE, 

GREEN  ORCHESTRA  65.9 

NBC  Tues.  9:  W  P.M.  EST 

ALEMITE    HALF    HOUR  —  HIilDT'S 

BRIGADIERS  65.8 

CBS  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  9.00  P.M.  PST 
FIRST  NIGHTER— DON  AMECHE  ...65.7 
NBC  Fri.  10:00  P.M.  EST 
RY-KRISP  PRESENTS  MARION  TAL- 

LEY,  KOESTNER  ORCHESTRA  65.6 

NBC  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  EST 
EDDIE  CANTOR— RENARD  ORCHES- 
TRA 65.5 

CBS  Sun.  8:30  P.M.  ES'l .  8:00  P.M.  PST 
GANG  BUSTERS— PHILLIPS  LORD.  .65.3 
CBS  Wed.  10:00  P.M.  EST 
CONTENTED  PROGRAM— BLACK  OR- 

CHESTRA   65.2 

NBC  Man.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

STAINLESS  SHOW— FORD  BOND  65.1 

NBC  Fri.  7:15  P.M.  E.<ST 

ED    WYNN,     GRAHAM  McNAMEE, 

VOORHEES  ORCHESTRA   65.0 

NB(  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  9:00  P.M.  PST 
STOOPNAGLE  AND  BUDD— VOORHEES 

ORCHESTRA   65.0 

NBC  Sun.  5:30  P.M.  EST 

A  &  P  BAND  WAGON— KATE  SMITH, 

MILLER  ORCHESTRA  64.9 

CBS  Thur.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 
TWIN   STARS   —  VICTOR  MOORE, 
HELEN   BRODERICK,   ROGERS  OR- 
CHESTRA  64.8 

NBC  Fri.  9:.i0  P.M.  E.ST 

RUBINOFF,  JAN  PEERCE,  VIRGINIA 

REA   64.8 

(  Vi.S  .S«H.  r,:.yi  I'.M.  ILST 

HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  AIR  64.7 

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PST 

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THE  BEST  PROGRAMS  AND  WHEN  TO  HEAR  THEM 


:  A  RAVISHING  REVOLUTION  in  SCREEN  REVELRYf  ^ 

Startlingly  New!  Daringly  Different!  Screamingly  Funny! 
The  Biggest  Stars  of  Tomorrow  in  the  Picture  of  Today! 

THE  NEW  UNIVERSAL'S 


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B/zsy  With  Entertainment  I 

George  Murphy  •  Doris  Nolan 
Hugh  Herbert  *  Gregory  Rotoff 
Gertrude  Niesen  •  Ella  Logan 
Henry  Armetta  •  Ray  Mayer 
MischaAuer  'The Three  Sailors 
Peggy  Ryan  •  Gerald  Oliver 
Smith  •  Jack  Smart  •  Claude 
Gillingwater  •  Ernest  Cossart 


LOU  BROCK 
'  Associate  Producer 


RALPH  MURPHY 
Director 


1^^ 


Songs  You'll  Rave  About! 

"\  Feel  That  Foolish  Feeling 
Coming  On"  •  "There  Are 
No  Two  Ways  About  It" 
"Blame  It  On  The  Rhumba" 
"Fireman  Save  My  Child" 
"I've  Got  To  Be  Kissed" 
"Top  Of  The  Town" 
"Where  Are  You?"  "Jamboree" 

CHARLES  R.  ROGERS  l',. 


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Yum'yum!  Puddings 


and  Pies  this  month! 


Kate  Smith  makes 


your  mouth  water, 


talking  about  them! 


Kate  Smith,  of  Band  Wagon 
fame,  and  our  Radio  Stars 
hostess,  takes  from  the 
oven  one  of  her  luscious 
big    coconut   custard  pies. 


Mate  Smitki  OiK/in^  CooIum^ 


Hello  Everybody!  It's  Kate  Smith 
again,  bringing  you,  this  time,  an 
"all  request"  program  featuring 
those  two  popular  stars  of  the  des- 
sert fH-lfl.  Puddings  and  Pies. 

Vou  see,  friends,  I  just  discov- 
ered a  short  time  back  that  some- 
how these  two  varieties  of  sweets 
have  been  pretty  much  overlooked 
in  the  previous  broadcasts  of  this 


ng  School  of  mine!  But  the 
regular  readers  of  this  department 
( and  what  a  large  numljcr  there  are 
of  you  and  how  kind  )'ou  all  have 
been  in  your  comments!)  have 
called  my  attention  to  this. 

"How  about  pies?"  several  have 
inquired.  While  one  unseen  friend 
wrote,  air-mail  from  California,  to 
tell  me  :  "So  far  you've  only  men- 


Served  in  the 
dish  in  which 
it  is  baked, 
this  pudding 
charms  in 
taste,  appear- 
ance and  also 
in  economy. 

Courtesy  Pyrex 


tioned  Pum])kin  Pie,  Miss  Smith,  and 
my  family  much  prefers  other  varie- 
ties— especially  Apple  and  Coconut 
Custard.  But  I  can't  say  that  the 
recipes  I  have  been  using  are  one 
hundred  per  cent,  successful.  Perhaps 
you  have  some  helpful  suggestions?" 

Yes  indeed  I  have — two  knockout 
recipes — so  Apple  and  Coconut  Cus- 
tard Pie  it  shall  be ! 

Then,  a  day  or  two  later,  I  re- 
ceived a  letter  from  a  dear  litde  lady 
who  sends  me  a  note  every  month, 
along  with  each  of  her  recipe  re- 
quests. Well,  this  particular  time, 
she  voiced  a  mild  complaint  about  the 
in  frequency  with  which  puddings  re- 
ceived any  mention  from  me. 

"Don't  you  like  puddings?"  she 
wanted  to  know.  Well,  here's  my 
answer,  Mrs.  Derwent :  Indeed,  I  do 
like  them  !  I'm  going  to  tell  you  right 
now  about  a  couple  of  them  that  I 
consider  outstandingly  good.  Of 
course  I'll  be  delighted  to  give  you 
my  tested  recipes  for  them,  too — one 


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litTc.  the  utlicr>  in  ihc  auractive 
little  leaflet  that  Radio  Stars  Mag- 
azine sends  out  to  all  those  who 
ask  for  a  copy.  This  month,  then. 
1  can  promise  you — at  little 
trouble  and  at  no  expense  to  your- 
self —  several  of  my  favorite 
recipes  for  both  puddings  and  pies. 

Shall  I  start  off  by  telling  you 
what  they  are?  Yes,  I  think  that 
would  be  a  fine  idea,  so  that  you 
will  know  right  away  just  what 
special  treats  of  this  kind  you're 
going  to  learn  how  to  make,  when 
you  have  received  your  recipe 
leaflet.  Then,  further  on  in  this 
"broadcast,"  I  also  want  to  give 
you  some  pointers  on  pudding 
and  pie  making  in  general,  which 
I  sincerely  hope  will  prove  helpful 
to  you  wiien  you're  preparing  the 
very  dishes  that  I  shall  describe 
for  you  briefly  here  and  now. 

First,  there  are  the  two  pies  re- 
quested Ijy  my  California  corre- 
spondent —  Apple  and  Coconut 
Custard.  The  Apple  Pie  I  hap- 
pen to  favor  is  of  the  Deep  Dish 
variety  and  I  can  give  several  good 
reasons  off-hand  why  this  recipe 
of  mine  is  sure  to  apjjeal  to  most 
of  you.  Reason  Number  One  is 
the  flavor,  which  is  exceptional  be- 
cause of  several  things  that  go  into 
the  filling  l)csi(ies  the  usual  a]i])le^ 

Sdtooi 

and  sugar.  Reason  Number  Two 
is  the  fact  that  this  pie  has  a  top 
crust  only,  so  that  there  is  no 
danger  of  your  serving  a  pie  with 
a  soggy  imder  crust.  Which,  by 
the  way,  is  something  that  even 
(juite  experienced  cooks  liave  good 
reason  to  fear. 

I'm  also  going  to  include  on  the 
-■ard  a   {Continued  on   j^aye  66) 


curtesy  Fyrcx 


There's  a  trick  to  this! 
Kate  tells  you  all  about  it, 
so  you  can  try  it  yourself. 


BANISH  'TATTLE-TALE  GRAY" 

WITH  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP! 


RADIO  STARS 


Here's  an  experimental  televi- 
sion set  (fop  picture),  about  the 
size  of  a  console  radio.  (Right) 
Dorothy  Page,  NBC  singer,  before 
the  Iconoscope  camera.    The  micro- 
phone is  swung  from  a  boom  so  that  it 

not  be  seen  in  the  television  picture. 
(Lower  picture)  Dr.  Vladimir  K.  Zwory- 
kin,  RCA  director  of  electronic  research, 
who  developed  the  Iconoscope  or  television 
camera,  has  been  experimenting  since  1912. 


AT  the  Xational  Broadcasting  Com- 
pany's studios  in  Radio  City  there's 
one  stufhd  (hfferent  from  all  the 
rest.  Alont^-  a  uniform  hallway,  its 
door  nunihurcd  like  all  the  others, 
this  nium,  inside,  is  like  the  corner 
of  a  ni(j\  ie  sound  stage  and  a 
mad  scientist's  dream,  rolled  into 
one.  Huge  "inkies" — which  are 
huge  incandescents  about  four  feet 
acrn-s  .and  huilt  like  searchlights — 
si)Ollight>  and  um-ecognizable  pieces 
of  apparatus,  jam  the  smallish 
studio;  w.alls  are  bright  with  alum- 
inum ])aint  ;  a  forest  of  metal  tubes, 
rods,  upright-,  wlieeled  gadgets  and 
standards  obstruct  passage,  while  a 
curling,  twisting  mass  of  rubber 
cable  lurks  on  the  ground  to  trip 
the  unwary  foot. 

Black,  white,  red  and  grey  drapes 
hang  in  the  corners;  extra  back- 
grounds are  stacked  against  the  wall 
and  behind  the  "set"  are  three  or 
four  make-up  tables,  where  artists 
apply  the  orange-colored  make-up 
that  resembles  movie  panchromatic 
make-up  a  great  deal,  though  it's 


treme  in  con- 
trast. 

Hildegarde,  who 
was  a  television  per- 
former abroad  l^efore 
she  came  to  NBC,  is 
applying  the  last  touches 
to  her  make-up  when  she  is 
called  for  a  test.   Tests  go 
on  interminably  ;  a  movie 
stand-in  would  be  in  his  element, 
here.   Under  a  blinding  light  she 
stands  while  engineers  fiddle  wiUi 
lights,  push  the  cameras  about  and 
chalk  the  outline  of  her  toes  on  the 
ground,  so  that  she  will  stand  in  exactly 
the  right  place  later,  to  be  in  focus. 

Finally  the  "mike"  and  "Ike"  are  set; 
the  "mike"  Ijeing  the  familiar  radio  micro- 
])hone  swinging  from  a  boom  overhead,  out  of 
sight.     This,  as  in  pictures,  must  follow  the 
action,  swinging  along  as  the  artist  moves.  The 
"Ike,"  just  to  get  familiar,  is  a  pet  name  for  the 
television  camera,  pro])erly  known  as  the  Iconoscope, 
and  there  are  three  of  them. 

Two  are  mounted  on  wheelbases,  and  remain  set  in 


How  television  is  being  prepared  for  home  reception 

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place  for  each  scene,  while  the  third 
is  on  a  "dolly" — a  sort  of  glorified 
tea-wagon — which  allows  it  to  he 
moved  along  to  follow  the  action. 
Oddly  enough,  in  case  this  seems  too 
simple,  the  two  "Ikes"  farthest  from 
the  scene  are  used  to  shoot  close-ups 
of  the  artist  and  announcer,  while  the 
near  "Ike"  on  the  dolly  is  used  for 
long  shots.  And  the  answer  to  that 
one  is  that  the  close-up  "Ikes"  have 
telescopic  lenses. 

Hildegarde  is  relieved  while  testing 
goes  on.  Practically  everyone  takes 
a  crack  at  it ;  from  engineers,  produc- 
tion men  and  visitors,  to  the  Tele- 
vision Stceetlieart.  who  is  a  honey 
indeed,  wearing  a  hridal  costume.  The 
only  trouhle  is  that  she's  only  a  life- 
size  photograph  and  no  one  knows 
her  name  or  telephone  number.  She's 
swell  for  testing  though,  and  never 
complains. 

When  the  three  cameras,  or  "Ikes" 
are  set.  all  the  video  engineers  in  the 
control  room  have  to  do  is  press  the 
proper  button  to  shift  from  a  long 
shot  to  a  close-up.  or  from  the  artist 
to  the  announcer,  wliich  shows  the 
benefits  of  a  college  education.  And 
all  the  artist  has  to  do  is  remember 
his  entrances  and  exits  and  to  stand 
in  the  accurately  chalked  spots  on  the 
floor.  Performers,  too.  must  have 
their  lines  memorized  letter  perfect, 
for  there's  no  reading  of  scripts  in 
television,  naturally. 

"Stand  by — one  minute  to  go."  is 
the  warning  command  instead  of : 
"We're  on  the  air."  Then  the  artist 
waits,  usually  rigid,  until  a  tiny  red 
light  beside  the  "Ike"  glows — which 
means  that  he  is  on  the  air — not  just 
his  voice,  but  all  of  him. 

And  here's  another  little  twist  that 
helps  keep  television  work  interest- 
ing :  with  traffic  lights,  you  stop  on 
red  and  go  on  green.  Well,  forget 
that  in  television.  When  the  green 
light  shows,  nothing  happens,  and  you 
start  on  the  red.  Before  the  cue  light 
system  was  adopted,  the  artist  waited 
for  a  hand  signal  from  the  control 
room,  before  1)eginninL;'.  Then  friends 
who  had  the  chance  to  see  and  hear 
the  television  broadcast  would  say : 
"You  were  marvelous — but  wliy  did 
you  stand  there  glassy-eyed  for  half 
a  minute  before  beginning?"  A  check- 
up showed  that  the  performer,  fre- 
quently nervous  to  boot,  stood  frozen 
in  place  waiting  to  begin,  and  it  took 
about  thirty  seconds  before  the  hand 
signal  from  the  control  room  could 
be  relayed  to  him  or  her.  And  for 
that  brief  interval  faithful  "Ike"  was 
broadcasting  his  staring  image  to  the 
receiver. 

The  "mike"  on  a  boom,  too,  con- 
fuses those  accustomed  to  straight 
radio  work.  You  can't  cuddle  up  and 
whisper  into  the  mike  now. 
Miss  Betty  {Continued  on  page  76) 


SOMETIMES  a  simple  little  question  put 
to  your  doctor  will  reveal  how  thor- 
oughly he  guards  your  heahh  — ere/i  in 
minor  matters. 

Just  take  the  question  of  laxatives,  for 
instance.  You  may  be  surprised  to  learn 
that  doctors  are  deeply  cimcerned  about 
this  subject.  So  much  so.  in  fact,  that  before 
they  will  approve  a  laxative,  that  laxative 
must  meet  their  own  strict  specifications. 

Read  the  following  requirements.  And 
ask  yourself,  "Does  my  laxative  qualify 
on  every  point?" 

THE  DOCTOR'S  TEST  OF  A  LAXATIVE: 

It  should  he  dependable. 
It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 
It  should  be  thorough. 
Its  merit  should  be  proved  by  the  test  of 
time. 

It  should  not  form  a  habit. 

It  should  not  over-act. 

It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 

It  should  not  nauseate,  or  upset  digestion. 

EX-LAX  MEETS  EVERY  DEMAND 

Ex-Lax  passes  this  test  with  colors  fly- 
ing! Ex-Lax  fulfills  every  requirement.  In 
fact,  Ex-Lax  meets  these  demands  so 
fairly  that  many  doctors  use  it  in  their 
own  homes,  for  their  own  families.  And 

When  Nature  forgets-  remember 

EX- LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


Ex-Lax  has  helped  so  many  millions  of 
other  people. ..people  you  know,  probably 
...that  they  have  made  it  the  most  widely- 
used  laxative  in  the  whole  world. 

TRY  EX-LAX  .  .  .  FEEL  BETTER 

Ex-Lax  is  intended  to  help,  not  inter- 
fere with  Nature.  That  is  why  you'll  find 
Ex-Lax  so  mild,  so  free  from  violence.  It 
affords  thorough  relief  from  constipation, 
without  strain,  stomach  pains  or  nausea. 

The  easy,  comfortable  action  of  Ex-Lax 
leaves  you  feeling  heUer  ...looking  better 
...with  a  greater  zest  for  enjoying  life. 
Children,  of  course,  find  such  action  espe- 
cially beneficial.  For  the  rccjuirenients 
laid  down  by  the  doctor  are  doubly  impor- 
tant to  a  child. 

One  more  advantage— Ex-Lax  is  a  real 
pleasure  \»  lake.  For  it  tastes  just  like  de- 
licious clioeiilate.  Once  you  try  it,  you  will 
be  through  with  nasty,  druggy-tasting 
cathartics  for  good.  All  drug  stores  have 
Ex-Lax  in  10c  and  25c  sizes.  Or  if  you  pre- 
fer to  try  Ex-Lax  at  our  expense,  mail  the 
coupon  below. 

 TRY  EX-LAX  AT  OUR  EXPENSE!-  

,  (Pa^le  ihis  on  a  ppnny  postcard)  ^  ■ 

\  Kx-I.ax.  Inc..  P.  O.  Box  ITO  I 
;  Tinii-s-l'laza  Slalion.  Brooklyn.  N.  V.  \ 
'        I  wanl  lo  Iry  Ex-Lax.  Please  send  free  sample.  [ 


Address  \   • 

City  Age   ; 

( If  >  oil  live  in  Canada,  write  Ex-Lax.  Ltd..  Montreal)  I 


15 


RADIO  STARS 


KLEENEX 
HABIT 

saves  your  nose 
and  saves  money! 

•  Nothing  more  tragic  than  a  sore  nose 
during  a  cold  —  nothing  more  soothing 
than  the  Kleenex  Habit!  It  saves  noses, 
saves  money  as  it  reduces  handkerchief 
washing.  So  put  aside  handkerchiefs  and 
adopt  the  Kleenex  Habit  the  instant 
sniffles  start.  Because  Kleenex  tends  to 
retain  germs  it  checks  the  spread  of 
colds  through  the  family.  Use  each  tis- 
sue once  — then  destroy,  germs  and  all. 


Keep  Kleenex  in  Every  Room. 
Save  Steps  —  Time  —  Money 

To  remove  face  creams  and  cos- 
metics . .  .  To  apply  powder, 
rouge  . . .  To  dust  and  polish  . . . 
I  or  the  baby. ..  And  in  the  car- 
lo wipe  hands,  windshield  and 
greasy  spots. 


No  waste  .'No  mess! 
Pull  a  tissue  —  the 
next  one  pops  up 
ready  for  use. 


KLEENEX 

A  disposob/e  made  of  Ce//ucoffon  fnof  cofton) 


A  gay  floral  print 
with  short  sleeves. 
This  may  be  worn 
with  blue  or  black 
spring  accessories. 


Costumes  from 
R.  H.  Macy  &  Co. 


I'M  putting  on  a  special  liaster  pro- 
gram for  you  this  month  !  And  it's 
a  well  sjionsGrcd  one,  what's  more. 
Our  s]>()nsr)r  is  one  (d  Xew  'N'ork's 
largest  departnient  stdres  which  has 
made  itself  famous  for  the  slogan. 
"It's  smart  to  be  thrifty."  And  our 
guest  star  is  a  young  lady  who  knows 
all  the  ins  and'  out^  of  dressmg  like 
a  million  for  a  fraction  of  'hat  in 
real  cash — pretty  and  popular  Gretch- 
en  Davidson,  whom  you  hear  cur- 
rently starred  with  Ann  Elstner  and 
Carlton  Young  on  the  Elaine  Sterne 
Carrington  dramatization,  Trouble 
House.  This  is  heard  as  a  feature  of 
the  Heine  Magazine  of  the  Air  pro- 
gram. Gretchen  plays  Sally,  niece  of 
Martha  Booth. 

Our  sponsor's  best  efforts  in  your 
behalf  are  evident  on  these  pages — • 


three  of  the  smartest  costumes  to  be 
had  at  prices  that  aren't  too  much  of 
a  blow  to  the  purse.  The  thing  that 
(jretchen  and  I  gloated  al)out.  when 
we  finally  had  worked  out  the  Easter 
wardrobe  idea,  was  the  fact  that 
every  detail  of  our  budgeted  costumes 
looks  so  attractive  that  no  one  can 
say  that  either  smartness  or  quality 
has  lieen  sacrificed  for  a  price  tag. 
ft  really  is  silly  to  buy  cheap,  short- 
wearing  clothes  when  \ou  can  get 
good,  exciting  looking  ones  for  only 
a  little  more,  that  will  more  than  pay 
you  back  in  terms  of  long  wear. 

Our  figures  on  the  clothes  and  ac- 
cessories pictured  here,  are  in  the 
moderate  price  bracket,  rather  than 
the  very  low — but  each  can  be  dupli- 
cated in  similar  merchandise  at  the 
most  limited  (Continued  on  Page  78) 


RADIO  STARS 

Let  Gretchen  Davidson's  chic  wardrobe  be  your  fashion  guide 


Beige  is  the  color  this  year. 
Gretchen's  soft  tweed  suit 
with  tunnel  pockets  and  tassel 
buttons  is  set  off  by  black 
hot,  shoes,  purse  and  gloves. 


Charming  and  simple  is  this 
aqua-blue  evening  gown,  with 
silver  kid  piping.  Shirrinq 
gives  the  popular  peasant  ef- 
fect.  Note  the  tricky  hair-do. 


This  tiny  hat  of  grosgrain 
ribbon,  a  black  calf  purse 
and  white  fabric  gloves  are 
worn  with  the  print  outfit. 
The  zipper  sleeves  are  novel. 


A  quick  dab  at  vour  face  as  you  leave  the  movie.  Then 
out  into  the  hri^ht  Ughts!  Are  you  wonderino;  how  your 
[Hiwdcr  Idoks?  Dreading  its  showing  up  terribly? 

In  a  recent  inquiry,  Pond's  got  twice  the  vote  of  the 
next-hked  powder  for  not  showing  up  in  strong  hght. 

Pond's  colors  are  "glare-proof."  They  catch  only  the 
softer  rays  of  light.  Never  look  "powdery"  even  in  the 
hardest  light. 

Special  ingredients  make  Pond's  cling  —  stay  fresh 
looking  for  hours.  Low  prices.  Decorated  screw-top 
jars,  35^,  70<^.  New  big  boxes,  lOi,  20^. 


ff 


'Glare- Proofs' 
Shades 


t'OND  S  l)(,i.9RS-PD,  Clin 
nish,  free,  5  ilifferent  shades  of  Pond's 
"Glare-proof"  Powder,  enough  of  each  for 
a  thorough  5-day  test. 

(This  offer  expires  June  1.  1937) 


CopyriKht.  1937.  Pond's  Extract 


/••-.  A.  Wad 

'      /  dusky  and  soft  thai  even 

men  like  it.    Robin  Ked 


Miss  Mimi  Richardson 
hows  how  she  wears  the  new  "Smoky"  Nail  Shades 


BERMUDA.  Miss  Mimi  Richardson,  smart  New 
Yorker,  winters  in  a  water-green  bathing  suit  and 
Cutex  Rust  nails  on  fingers  and  toes. 
WASHINGTON,  D.  C.  Miss  Mimi  Richardson, 
in  wine  chiffon  and  Cutex  Old  Rose  nails,  dines 
and  dances  with  a  well-known  noble  foreigner. 
LONG  ISLAND,  N.  Y.  Miss  Mimi  Richardson 
inspects  a  famous  polo  player's  "string"  in  smart 
black  tweeds  with  Cutex  Robin  Red  nails. 

POPULAR  with  half  a  dozen  smart 
sets,  pretty  "Mimi"  knows  all  about 
clothes — and  how  to  make  them 
do  the  most  for  her. 

She's  tremendously  im- 
pressed with  the  flattering  new 
Cutex  "smoky"  nail  shades. 
"Their  smoky  softness  makes 
ordinary  polishes  look  terribly 
crude,"  she  says. 

Cut  out  the  figures  above,  if 
you  like,  and  get  the  effect  of 
"Mimi's"  3  favorite  Cutex 
"smoky"  shades  with  the  dif- 
ferent color  costumes. 


Then,  go  over  your  own  wardrobe.  You  can 
make  yourself  look  smarter  and  fresher 
— and  twice  as  feminine — in  clothes  worn 
with  the  right  "smokj-"  shades  of  Cutex. 

Polish  by  Cutex  is  famous  for  its  lustre 
and  its  long  wear  without  peeling  or 
cracking.  And  the  new  formula  resists 
both  fading  in  sunny  climes  and  thick- 
ening in  the  bottle.  It  evaporates  less 


than  half  as  much  as  ordinary  polishes. 
You  can  use  it  right  down  to  the  last 
gay  drop. 

Make  your  fingers  as  glamorous  as 
"Mimi's."  You  can  afford  to  buy  at  least 
3  beautiful  shades — at  only  35c  a  large 
bottle.  11  smart  shades  to  choose  from. 
At  your  favorite  shop  anywhere. 

Northam  Warren.  New  York,  Montreal.  London,  Paris 


8  other  smart  Cutex  shades 

BURGUNDY— New  deep, 
purply  wine  shade.  Wear 
with  pastels,  black,  white, 
wine,  blue. 

ROSE—  Lovely  with  pastels, 
correct  with  difficult  colors. 
CORAL  — Charming  with 
beige,  gray,  green,  black, 


RUB  Y— Goes  with  any  color 
— a  grand  accent  for  black. 
NATURAL  — Safe  with  the 
most  vivid  shades,  smart 
for  active  sports. 
Also  Mauve,  Light  Rust 
and  bright  Cardinal. 


CUTEX  INTRODUCTORY  SET  containing  your  2  fovorite 
shades  of  Cutex  Liquid  Poiifh,  Cutex  Oily  Polish  Remover 
nd  the  new  Cutex  Oily  Cuticle  Remover  for  16c. 


Northam  Warren  Corporation,  Dept.  7  M  4 
191  Hudson  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
(In  Canada,  P.  O.  Box  2:,20.  Montreal 

I  enclose  16c  to  cover  cost  of  postage  and  packing 
for  the  Cutex  Introductory  Set,  including  2  shades 
of  Cutex  Liquid  Polish,  as  checked.  Mauve  n 
Rust  Z    Burgundy  z:    Robin  Red        Old  Rose  3 

Name  

Address  

City  Stale 


(a  nofts  ai^e  d  devenir fortes 

['it helps  us gbow  steong\ 


fai 


Dr.  Allan  Roy  Dafoe  says; 

'Karo  is  the  only  gyrup  served  to 
theDionne  Quintuplets.  Its  mal- 
tose and  dextrose  are  ideal  carbo- 
hydrates for  growing  children.' 


ILE  KARO  SYRUP  is  world- 
famous  as  a  splendid  food  for 
children,  it  is  also  energizing  for  ac- 
tive men  and  women. 

As  a  spread  for  bread,  biscuits,  pan- 
cakes and  waffles,  stirred  in  milk,  used 
for  candy -making  and  cooking,  Karo 
is  as  delicious  as  it  is  nutritious. 

Both  Blue  Label  and  Red  Label 
Karo  Syrups  are  equally  rich  in  Dex- 
trose .  .  .  equally  rich  in  food-energy. 


P 


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4  41 


Yvonne  Dionne 
is  one  of  5  "bundles" 
of  loveliness  and 
adoration.  These 
healthy,  fascinating 
little  girls  are  the 
modern  "5  wonders 
of  the  world" 

KARO  IS  SOLD 
BY  GROCERS 
EVERYWHERE 


All  Reproductions  Copyrighted  1937,  NEA  Service,  Inc. 


f  (n  duJuAAXjuiJlAjed^  Sehjuix:e  to  UcudJuo 


W  is  difficult  to  name  any  performer 
capable  of  thinking  up  more  amusing  things 
for  your  entertainment  than  comical  Joe 
Cook,  master  of  ceremonies  on  the  Saturday 
night  Shell  Chateau  program.  Versatile, 
a  much  misused  word,  snugly  fits  Joe,  who 
learned  his  varied  assortment  of  tricks  from 
years  of  trouping  in  every  conceivable  branch 
of  show  business. 

Many  thought  Joe's  humor  would  suffer 
considerably  on  the  air  because  so  much  of 
it — ^for  instance,  his  crazy  contraptions — 
must  be  seen  for  the  full  enjoyment.  But  Joe 
readily  adapted  his  comedy  to  the  limita- 
tions of  radio  and  he's  getting  just  as  many 
laughs  as  he  ever  did  on  the  stage  or  screen. 

Until  he  joined  the  program,  the  Shell 
Chateau  was  badly  in  need  of  repair  from 
top  to  bottom.    Joe  got  out  his  tools,  did 


some  conscientious  carpentry  and  once  more 
the  Chateau  is  an  imposing  program. 

Of  course,  Joe  has  had  plenty  of  help 
from  guest  stars  in  building  up  the  hour.  But, 
remember,  if  guest  stars  aren't  properly  pre- 
sented, as  they  are  on  his  program,  they  can 
do  a  lot  more  harm  than  good.  His  organiz- 
ing a  group  of  popular  big-name  band  lead- 
ers into  one  band  for  a  guest  appearance 
on  his  program  is  surely  an  indication  of  how 
well  liked  Joe  is  in  his  own  profession,  because 
band  leaders  don't  make  a  practice  of  jeop- 
ardizing their  own  popularity  for  the  sake  of 
a  gag  on  a  comedian's  program. 

To  Joe  Cook,  whose  performances  have 
regained  and  surpassed  for  the  Shell 
Chateau  its  former  prestige,  RADIO 
STARS  Magazine  awards  its  medal  for  Dis- 
tinguished Service  to  Radio. 


—EDITOR 


SHE  is  always  news  now,  good  for  space  in  the  gossip 
columns  of  New  York  and  Hollywood  any  time,  on  any 
excuse.  Not  malicious  gossip,  but  romantic  rumors  of 
any  sort.  Winchell  is  her  friend,  slips  in  a  bit  of  news 
whenever  he  can  glean  some  from  contradictory  rumors. 

"Gertrude  Niesen  has  been  seen  frequently  dining 
with — "  "Is  Gertrude  serious  about — "  "The  exotic  Miss 
Niesen  and  her  escort — "  A  tobacco  heir,  a  young  actor, 
a  musician,  all  achieve  fame  when  seen  dining  or  dancing 
with  the  glamorous  Miss  Niesen!  But  more  recently  one 
22 


name  appears  with  increasing  frequency — that  of  Craig 
Reynolds,  dark,  young,  dapper,  promising  movie  actor. 

Gertrude  smiles,  her  full,  inviting  lips  curve  softly. 
Beneath  the  long,  thick,  artificial  lashes,  her  candid  blue 
eyes  shine  with  bright  young  dreams.  You  look  at  her 
and  think:  "But  she  is  just  a  child,  a  charming  child!" 
And  you  look  again,  see  the  sophisticated  bangs,  the  oddly 
slanted  eyes,  the  luscious  lips — vivid,  provocative — ^and 
you  .see  why  the  word  "exotic,"  over-used,  misused,  fits 
this  young  person  like  a  glove.    Strange,  foreign,  alien. 


This  story 
announced  by 
Nelson  Cose 


"i  was  angry, 
then,"  says 
Gertrude. 
"Of  course, 
I'm  terribly 
grateful  now!" 


Trying  to  fool 
the  fish!  But 
she  caught 
plenty!  As  did 
her  best  boy 
friend,  young 
Craig  Reynolds. 


Ut  HoUuwood 


rernote — you  can't  define  it  quite,  but  it  is  there,  subtly 
derived  from  her  Russian  and  Swedish  heritage,  setting 
her  apart,  giving  her  the  added  charm  of  distinction — 
as  the  way  she  puts  over  a  song  adds  to,  heightens,  the 
effect  of  her  moving,  throaty  contralto. 

Men  flock  around  her  like  bees  around  clover  and  Ger- 
trude responds  glowingly  to  their  frank  admiration.  But 
she  remains  unspoiled.  She  does  nothing  consciously  to 
build  up  her  reputation  as  an  exotic,  as  a  glamour  girl. 
If  she  seems  unusual,  it  is  an  accident  of  nature.  If 


people  call  her  exotic,  she  doesn't  know  why  or  feel  she 
must  do  anything  about  it.  For  Gertrude  is  not  given 
to  self -analysis.  She  is  deliciously  herself,  completely 
unselfconscious,  charmingly  frank,  naively  enjoying  the 
limelight  and  all  the  fun  and  excitement  that  go  with  it. 
And  equally  enjoying  a  daj-  out  of  doors,  a  ride  on  her 
favorite  horse,  a  long  swim,  a  fishing  expedition — and 
no  sleep  lost  for  fear  she  is  dispelling  an  illusion. 

Perhaps  it  is  her  father's  steady  hand  on  the  helm  that 
has  kept  her  little  ship  so  true  (Continued  on  page  S7 ) 

23 


He's  Joe  Cook  of  the 
Shell  Chateau,  on  the 
air  Saturdays,  over 
the  NBC-Red  network 


This  story 

announced 

by 

Howard  Petrie 

Code  Uho^  yie^e^ 


IT  DOES  XT  much  matter  what  kind  of  en- 
tertaining you  want  clone.  A  trapeze  act  ?  A 
musician?  A  dancer,  juggler,  hand-balancer, 
slack-wire  artist,  lariat  expert,  whip-snapper 
or  sharpshooter?  A  comedian,  to  make  the 
customers  laugh,  or  someone  to  do  Japanese 
footwork  or  barrel-kicking  or  hand-to-hand 
balancing?  No — I'm  not  advertising  a  general 
booking  agency.  Just  mentioning  a  few  of  the 
Joe  Cook  accomplishments,  and  at  that  I've 
forgotten  trick  cycling,  bareback  riding  and 
risley ! 

Cook  has  done — and  can  still  do — them  all. 
.And  influenced,  perhaps,  by  such  a  liewildering 
diversity  of  talents  in  himself,  he  has  stirred 
up  an  almost  similar  concoction  for  his  new 
radio  show,  lumping  together  a  dozen  famous 
orchestra  leaders  to  make  one  band,  an  Ameri- 
can former  naval  hero,  two  newspapermen 
from  Philadelphia  with  twelve  children  each, 
three  of  the  famous  Four  Horsemen,  one  of  the 
world's  best  known  tap  dancers  and  four  kid 
prodigies,  all  in  one  radio  hour.   Minestrone  or 


bouUlabaisse  are  cf)mparatively  simple  soups, 
compared  to  this  Cook's  soup! 

"It  was  too  bad."  Joe  says  regretfully,  speak- 
ing about  the  show,  "that  we  couldn't  get 
Elmer  Layden  to  round  out  the  Four  Horse- 
men." And  then:  "The  idea  of  using  Tot(^. 
the  clown,  was  suggested  I)y  an  old-time  vaude- 
ville agent.  It  seemed  silly  at  first,  the  idea  of 
using  a  circus  clown,  whose  stock  in  trade  was 
pure  pantomime,  on  a  radio  show.  But  Toto 
was  one*  of  the  last  of  the  real  old-time  joeys. 
Your  modern  clown  is  one  of  the  poorest-paid 
circus  performers,  sometimes  jumping  right 
into  the  work  cold,  without  previous  training. 
The  old  clowns — like  Crock  and  Toto — were 
the  aristocrats  of  the  sawdust."  Joe's  eyes 
were  a  bit  reminiscent,  talking  circus.  'And  be- 
fore they  became  clowns  they  usually  had  risen 
through  every  branch  of  circus  work.  I  had 
known  Toto  years  ago.  1  don't  know  whether 
it's  generally  known  or  not.  but  he's  totally 
blind  today.  When  I  came  in  the  room  and 
said  'Hello,  Toto.'  he  {Continued  on  page  104) 

25 


SHE 
made  her 
stage  debut 
the  age  of 
three,  trouped 
for  sixteen  years 
vaudeville  and  got 
If  discovered  for 
when  she  sang 
a  niunber  at  the  Trocadero 
in   Hollywood.  That's 
Martha  Raye's  story 
sentence,  but  we're  going  to  fill 
in  the  details.  You  haven't  heard 
it,  so  don't  stop  us. 
First  of  all,  Martha  Raye's  private 
life  is  as  furiously  paced  as  her  screen 
roles.    We  chased  her  for  a  week 
through  a  series  of  rehearsals,  radio 
broadcasts  and  just  plain  rushing  around 
before  the  volatile  Martha  became  sta- 
tionary enough  to  submit  to  an  interview. 
Through  Hollywood  imih  Pad  and  Pencil 
would  nave  been  an  apt  title  for  the  storv. 
And  when  we  finally  did  catch  up  to  her  she 
was  in  bed — doing  a  scene  for  IVaikiki  Wed- 


ding, in  which  she's  featured  with  Bing  Crosby 
and  Bob  Bums.  In  a  bargain  basement  n^- 
ligee  and  an  ancient  wrap,  you'd  never  mistake 
her  for  Dietrich. 

"How  do  you  like  the  costume  ?"  she  yelled. 
(Martha  always  yells — it's  easier  for  her.)  "A 
little  something  Paramount  dreamed  up  for 
me.  It  isn't  much,  but  I  call  it  home.  Yeah 
Man!  I've  been  in  it  all  day.  When  I  go 
home  tonight,  I'm  going  to  dress  up  and  go  to 
bed." 

"Look,  Miss  Raye,"  we  began.  "We're  here 
on  a  serious  mission.  We  want  the  real,  real 
Martha  Raye — " 

"Oh,  Boy!"  said  Martha.  She  furnishes  an 
"Oh,  Boy!"  with  each  sentence,  at  no  extra 
charge.  "And  by  the  way,  let's  not  stand  on 
formalities,  kid.  You  can  just  call  me 
'Butch.' "  It  turns  out  that  everybody  calls 
Martha  "Butch."  She  doesn't  know  why,  ex- 
cept maybe  it's  because  that's  what  she  calls 
everybody  else. 

After  talking  to  Martha  Raye  a  few  minutes, 
you  suddenly  discover  that  you  like  her  im- 
mensely. Her  shouting  and  her  clowning 
aren't  part  of  an  act — they're  real.  She's  loud, 


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Meet  the  screen's  brightest  and  gayest  personality. 


because  she's  loud.  A  subdued  Martha  Raye 
would  be  as  ludicrous  as  Garbo  sirging  a  torch 
song,  or  Leslie  Howard  doing  the  bumps. 

And  she's  much  prettier  off  the  screen.  Lots 
of  gals  her  age—twenty — would  envy  her 
figure,  and  her  face,  when  she  allows  it  to  re- 
1^,  is  actually  a  very  swell  face,  even  in  Holly- 
wood.  We  told  her  about  it. 

"Oh,  sure,'!  said  Martha.  "There  are  even 
rumors  aroimd  that  I'd  be  beautiful  with  my 
mouth  shut.  I  don't  know — I've  never  tried 
it."  A  momentary  pause,  and  she  shouts: 
"Some  joke,  eh,  kid  ?" 

In  spite  of  all  her  clowning,  Martha  is  seri- 
ous about  one  thing  in  life.  She's  in  love. 
When  you  ask  her  about  Jerry  Hopper,  she 
immediately  drops  the  shouting  and  tells  you 
earnestly  what  a  grand  guy  he  is  and  how 
they're  ^nning  their  future.  Jerry  is  assist- 
ant to  Boris  Morros,  head  of  Paramount's 
music  department,  and  Martha  met  him  dur- 
ing the  making  of  The  Big  Broadcast  of  1937. 
That  wasn't  so  long  ago,  but  love  didn  t  need 
much  time  in  their  case.  For  Martha  is  wear- 
ing Jerry's  engagement  ring  and  one  of  these 
days  shell  be  Mrs.  Hopper. 

who  now  sings  her  songs  of  good  cheer  over  the  air 


"I'm 
so  haf^y 
I  could 
shout,"  Martha 
yelled.  "Things 
happen  to  me,  but 
never    anything  like 
this.     It's  wonderful. 
Do  you  want  to  know 
about  my  life,  so  I'll  stop 
raving  about  Jerry? 

"I  was  bom  in  Butte,  Mon- 
tana, for  no  particular  reason.  I 
mean  Dad  and  Mother  had  a  vaude- 
ville act — Reed  and  Hooper — and 
Butte  and  me  happened  to  be  on  their 
schedule  at  the  same  time.    I  think  I 
would  have  liked  Butte,  but  I  was  only 
there  a  week  and  we  never  got  ac- 
quainted. 

"For  the  first  three  years  of  my  life  I 
just  took  it  easy.   Oh,  boy,  were  those  the 
days !   But,  after  all,  when  a  girl  gets  to  be 
three,  she  sort  of  looks  around  for  a  career, 
so  I  went  into  the  act.    I  remember  I  didn't 
do  so  well  the  first  {Continued  on  page  90) 


27 


7ft  the^  Jicidi/i- 

Friendly  and  familiar  faces  greet 
their  loyal  fans  in  varying  moods 


On  a  set  at  Paramount 
Pictures.  The  cameraman 
catches  Jack  Benny  be- 
tween scenes  with  a  bevy 
of  smiling  chorus  girls. 


CmI!  B.  DeMille.  producer  of  ftie  Lux  Radio 
Theatre,  congrotuiotes  Herbert  Mvsholl  and 
Madeleine  Carroll,  the  co-stars  of  Cavalcade. 


Louise  Fitch  ploys  the  role  of  Betfy  Loii, 
secretary  to  M<uiime/s  boss,  in  the  CBS 
Friday  night  radio  dranta,  Mortimer  GoocA. 


At  the  Diano,  Al  Jolson,  master  of  ceremonies 
on  CBS  new  A/nso  show,  visits  his  friends.  Joe 
Penner  (leH).  Victor  Young  and  Sid  Silvers. 


B  you  two  guesses!  Yes,  these  lads  be- 
I  the  big  h 
stars,  Eddie  Cantor  and  Bobby 


I  harmonicas  are  those  two  bright 


Lowrrence  Tibbatt,  he  of  opera,  concert, 
movie  and  radio  fame,  runs  over  a  score 


Leff  to  right,  Alfred  J.  McCosker.  George  M. 
Cohan.  Benay  Venirta.  Ed  FHrgeraW  and  Gobriel 
HeoHer,  broodcost  over  the  Mtfhiol  network. 


story 


announced  by 


Bill  Rondol 


YOU'D  better  hold  on  to  your  hat,  hold 
on  to  your  sides,  stick  fast  to  your  chair 
and  count  ten  to  test  your  own  sanity,  any 
time  Jack  Oakie  appears  in  person,  on  the 
screen,  on  the  air ! 

There's  just  no  knowing  what  Oakie  may 
or  may  not  do.  He  may  be  more  blood- 
curdling than  Chandu  the  Magician. 
He  may  be  wiser  than  the  Rabbi  Magin.  He 
may  be  funnier  than  Burns  and  Allen.  He 
may  imitate  Mickey  Mouse.  He  may  be 
folicsier  than  One  Man's  Family.  The  only 
thing  he  won't  be  is  what  you  expect  him 


The  OoA/e  College  goes  on  the 
air.  Jack  and  Announcer  Bill 
Goodwin    at   the  microphone. 


to  be.  As  now.  As  when  I  went  to  have 
tea  with  him.    But  of  this,  more  later. 

The  Oakie  anecdotia  around  and  about 
Hollywood  should  be  compiled  into  a 
Screen  River  Anthology. 

There  was  the  time  when  he  was  "going 
with"  Peggy  Hopkins  Joyce.  One  day  a 
mammoth  radio-victrola,  duly  crated  and 
carded,  was  delivered  to  La  Joyce.  It  was 
accompanied  by  the  bill.  This  was  without 
precedent  in  the  Joyce  annals.  She  sent  it 
back  to  Jack.  He  sent  it  back  to  her.  She 
sent  it  back  to  him.  This  giant  game  of 
battledore  and  shuttlecock  went  on  indefin- 
itely and  who  was  the  final  consignee  must 
femain  one  of  the  major  mysteries. 

There  was  the  time,  during  the  filming 
of  C.  B.  De  Mille's  Crusades,  when  Jack  got 
a  crusader's  costume  from  the  wardrobe 
department  and  went  on  the  set  during  a 
bedroom  scene  between  Loretta  Young  and 
Henry  Wilcoxon.  He  told  them  that  he  was 
to  replace  Wilcoxon  in  the  picture.  Oakie 


Jack  Oakie,  of  Oakie^s  College,  university  of 


Surrounded  by  a  chorus  "I  used  to  be  scoirf  of 

of  OoA/e  Co//ege  students,  radio,"  Jack  admits.  "But 

the   professor  broadcasts.  now  I  think  it's  swell!" 


gave  the  Crusades  momentary  pause ! 

He  used  to  have  a  24-sheet  picture  of 
himself  pasted  on  the  outside  door  of  his 
dressing-room  on  the  Paramount  lot. 
Kvery  day  he  added  a  moustache,  a 
heard,  sideburns  or  a  new  nose  to  the 
Oakie  features. 

Three  years  ago,  when  he  and  his 
mother  visited  Honolulu,  Jack  was  ap- 
proached by  a  theatre  manager  and 
asked  to  make  a  speech  when  he  dis- 
embarked from  the  boat.  Unknown  to 
his  mother,  he  arranged  for  her  to  make 
the  speech  and  take  all  the  Ikjws.  He 
remained  in  the  Imckground  during  his 
whole  stay  in  Honolulu.  Even  in  the 
background  of  his  mother! 

Paramount  officials  gave  a  welcome- 
home  dinner  to  Marlene  Dietrich  one 
gala  night.  She  had  just  arrived  from 
Europe.  Jack  was  invited  to  attend. 
Mr.  Lasky  made  a  long  speech,  much  in 
this  fashion  : 


"Yesterday  this  beautiful  girl  was  on 
the  ocean.  Today  she  is  with  us  here 
in  America."  Then  Jack  was  called  on 
to  say  a  few  words.  He  said :  "Mr. 
Lasky  has  told-  us  all  about  this  gal, 
what  she  did  yesterday,  what  she  did 
to<lay."  Then,  turning  to  Marlene,  he 
said :  "What  are  you  doing  tomorrow 
night,  cutie?" 

Oh.  Oakie  is  a  one.  is  Oakie! 

There  was  never  a  party  given  that 
Oakie  wasn't  the  life,  lights  and  liver  of 
that  jjarty.  There  wasn't  a  night  spot 
in  town  where  Oakie  wasn't  nightly 
visible.  He  had.  he  said,  to  know  "what 
was  goin'  on."  There  wasn't  a  new 
arrival  in  town,  from  a  European  star 
with  a  title  to  a  new  assistant  bootblack 
at  the  studio,  whom  Jack  didn't  call  by 
their  first  names  an  hour  after  they  had 
arrived. 

He  "went  with"  every  pretty  girl  in 
town.    He         (Continued  on  page  KO) 


laughter,  is  a  changed  man!   Just  ask  Venita! 


Miss  Lillie,  as  she 
appears  In  the  new 
role  in  the  current 
popular  Broadway 
revue,  The  Show  Is 
On! — in  which  she 
is  co-starred  with 
comedian  Bert  Lahr. 


THE  line  sounded  deliciously  naughty. 
Everybody  laughed — musicians,  play- 
ers in  the  cast,  and  others  gathered  in 
the  NBC  studio.  It  was  a  rehearsal 
for  the  Broadivay  Merry-Go-Round, 
starring  Beatrice  Lillie.  Miss  Li  Hie 
was  going  through  her  role  in  which,  as 
The  Honest  War  king  Girl,  she  meets 
with  extraordinary  exi)eriences. 

"How,"  murmured  a  man  with  a 
script  in  his  hand,  "did  that  line  get 
by  the  continuity  sleuths?  However 
did  they  happen  to  leave  it  in?" 

"They  go  by  the  words  in  the 
script."  said  another,  sitting  near  him. 
"Look — "  he  pointed  to  the  line,  " — 
there's  nothing  in  that.  It's  the  way 
she  says  it." 

Watching  Bea  Lillie.  listening  to 
her.  you  wonder  just  how  she  con- 
trives to  give  to  a  word  or  phrase  that 
intriguing  hint  of  raciness.  She  can 
say  "My!"  in  a  way  to  make  you 
chortle.  Yet  there's  no  obvious  theat- 
rical trick  in  her  speech,  no  suggestive 
slurring  of  a  syllable.  She  speaks 
with  fascinating  clarity,  her  diction, 
carelessly  perfect,  giving  each  letter 
its  full  value.  Nor  is  the  comedy 
merely  in  the  occasional  slight 
pause  that  lends  a  certain  em- 
phasis to  a  word.  It's  more  a 
tonal  quality,  a  sort  of 
vocal  lifted  eyebrow,  plus 


a  suggestion  of  spontaneous  sur- 
prise— it's  the  way  she  does  it ! 

Talking  with  Beatrice  Lillie,  away 
from  microphone  or  footlights,  you 
find  no  better  answer  to  the  secret 
of  that  beguiling  personality.  It  goes 
back,  perhaps,  to  her  earliest  endeav- 
ors to  find  a  foothold  in  the  enter- 
tainment world — when  repeated  re- 
jections trod  hard  upon  her  hopes 
of  singing  classical  music  on  the  con- 
cert stage.  Then,  with  that  rare 
gift  of  laughing  at  herself,  that 
dauntless  inner  gaiety  that  defies  de- 
feat, she  spoofed  her  way  into  an 
engagement  with  Chariot's  Rezme. 
from  which  she  speedily  established 
herself  as  an  internationally  famous 
comedienne. 

Talking  with  her.  you  find  her  less 
like  a  theatrical  ix;rsonage  than  any- 
one you  might  meet  in  a  thousand 
nights  on  Broadway.  The  interna- 
tionally famous  comedienne,  you 
think,  must  be  a  couple  of  other 
people !  There's  no  pose  of  satirical 
smartness,  no  scintillating  vivacity, 
nor  sophisticated  ennui,  as  she 
speaks.  But  her  quiet  poise  masks, 
you  are  aware,  a  dynamo  that  drives 
relentlessly.  Is  she  tired,  you  won- 
der, as  she  leans  back  in  a  chair  and 
looks  at  you  with  level  gray  eyes. 

"I  walked  around  the  park  this  af- 


Bea  Lillie,  famous  comedienne  of  stage 
and  radio,  is  naughty  but  nice,  "if  you 
know  what  I  mean-and  I  think-you  do!" 


ternoon,"  she  explains,  admitting  a 
touch  of  fatigue.  "It  was  so  warm 
...  I'd  like  a  taste  of  winter  weath- 
er— of  skating — skiing." 

She  speaks  seriously,  but  you  can't 
help  a  smile.  Apologetically  you  ad- 
mit that  you  can't  think  of  her  as 
anything  but  a  comedienne  on  skates 
or  skis.  Her  lips  curve  upward.  "I 
don't  have  to  try  for  that !" 

"Would  you,"  you  venture,  "like 
to  retire  and  just  enjoy  life?" 

'"Heavens,  no  !  I  enjoy  working — 
I  lov€  it !"  she  declares. 

"Do  you  love  the  radio  work?" 

She  made  a  little  moue.  "If  the 
script  is  good  .  .  .  Sometimes  they're 
disappointing.  I  wish  I  could  get 
away  from  gags.  I  prefer  the  com- 
edy of  situation.  But  we  must  have 
the  gags  ...  I  enjoy  the  work,  though 
— the  people  I  work  with.  Yes,  I  do 
miss  the  audiences.  You  instinctively 
look  for  their  reaction. 

"Reading  a  script — it's  baffling, 
sometimes.  Once  I  was  broadcast- 
ing with  Alexander  Woollcott.  The 
lines  in  the  script  were  all  numbered, 
but,  in  between,  they  had  written  in 
a  lot  of  interlined  'B's' — under  10, 
10-B,  under  11,  ll-B.  and  so  on. 
We  started  oflf  merrily — but  I  left 
out  all  the  B's !  It  caused  great  con- 
fusion.    Someone   waved   a  slate, 


with  'ad  lib'  written  on  it!  That 
didn't  help  much,  either!  But  we 
came  out  together  at  the  end,  some- 
how." 

She  is  a  busy  person,  Bea  Lillie. 
Beside  her  Wednesday  evening 
broadcasts,  she  is  appearing  in  that 
popular  musical  revue.  The  Show  Is 
On,  in  which  she  is  co-starred  with 
Bert  Lahr.  In  other  seasons,  in 
addition  to  her  stage  and  radio 
work,  Miss  Lillie  has  been  hostess 
for  a  night  club,  such  as  the  fa- 
mous Rainbow  Room.  But  not 
this  year. 

"It's  too  much,"   she  said. 
"And  what's  the  use  of  earn,- 
ing  a  lot  more  rnoney?  You 
pay  it  all  back  in  taxes !  Peo 
pie  think  you  must  have  a 
lot  of  money,"  she  went  on, 
"but  —  income  taxes  — 
English  estate  taxes — it's 
terrific !" 

Asked  if  she  spent 
much    time    at  her 
English    home  — 
Drayton  Manor, 
the    family  seat 
of  her  hu.sband, 
the    late  Sir 
Rob-  (Con- 
tinued  on 
page  100) 


The  Broody^ 
Merry-Go- 
Round,  heard 
WedrwM4lays,i;| 


Abe  Lyman,  base- 
ball bug,  has  pop- 
ular programs 
on  NBC  and  CBS 


Charley  Grimm,  man- 
ager of  the  Chicago 
Cubs — a  team  Lyman 
admits  being  "wacky" 
over.  Once,  for  spite, 
Abe  bet  against  the 
Cubs — and  lost  his  bet! 


'Never  mind  music!"  says 
bandleader  Abe  Lyman, 
who  has  been  on  the  air 
ever  since  1922.  let's 
talk  about  baseball!  ' 


( )RDINAR1LY  you  wouldn't  suspect  that  the  sports  desk 
(if  a  newspaper  would  bother  itself  with  persons  in  the 
entertainment  field.  Yet  in  recent  years,  publicity  agents, 
liaving  discovered  what  an  excellent  medium  sports  pages 
are  for  free  advertising,  the  sports  desks  of  all  news- 
papers, from  New  York  to  Laredo,  Texas,  have  to-  be  on 
guard  against  stage,  screen  or  radio  stars  crashing  the 
pages  via  a  phony  interest  in  sports. 

There  have  l>een  actors  who  faithfully  attended  every 
World  Series  without  knowing  a  thing  about  baseball ; 
singers  who  bought  race  horses  and  comics  who  managed 
prize-fighters — all  for  the  sake  of  the  comment  it  would 
bring  them  in  the  sports  pages.  The  movements  of  an 
entertainer  in  sports,  assuming  he  or  she  has  a  legitimate 
interest  in  that  sport,  is  news,  otherwise  it  is  what  our  old 
friend  Al  Smith  so  graphically  called  baloney. 

In  the  midst  of  all  the  uncertainty  surrounding  those 
who  are  actually  sport  fans  and  those  who  profess  to  be, 
it  is  a  relief  to  run  into  a  guy  like  Abe  Lyman,  the  band- 
leader. Lyman  is  a  sports  bug  of  the  first  water  and  it's 
not  a  pose  with  him.  For  proof  you  have  the  fact  that 
Abe  manages  to  attend  every  big  sports  event  and  stay 
out  of  sight.  To  Lyman,  the  sport's  the  thing  and  he 
doesn't  give  a  hoot  whether  or  not  he  is  listed  with 
the  "Among  those  present- — " 

Lyman  would  sooner  see  a  good  ball  game  than  have  a 
column  devoted  to  him  and  would  be  just  as  pleased  to 
stand  in  the  background  at  a  small  fight  club  as  he  would 
be  to  have  his  picture  in  the  paper.  His  mania,  and  that's 
what  it  amounts  to,  for  sports  never  has  been  publicized 
until  now.  which  is  evidence  enough  of  his  sincerity. 

Lyman's  interest  in  sports  is  a  natural  development, 
liaving  its  origin  as  the  mascot  of  a  neighlx)rhood  baseball 
team.    When  Al)e  was  twelve  years  old  (which  was  in 


1911,  if  you're  interested),  he  served  as  the  batboy,  water- 
boy,  general  handy  man  and  No.  1  rooter  for  a  semi-pro 
team,  the  Royal  A.  C,  which  played  its  games  on  Chicago's 
West  Side. 

That  Abe  wasn't  going  to  be  satisfied  with  anything  but 
the  best  was  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  he  attached  him- 
self to  this  semi-pro  team,  composed  of  boys  eight  to  ten 
years  older  than  himself.  And,  in  a  short  time,  young 
Lyman  took  to  hanging  around  the  players'  entrance  to 
the  old  Cub  park  at  Taylor  and  Laffin.  He  was  spotted 
by  Frank  Chance,  who  had  been  immortalized  by  F.  P.  A. 
some  years  before  in  his  famous  "Tinker  to  Evers  to 
Chance." 

Chance  took  a  liking  to  the  youngster  and  escorted  him 
into  the  ball  park,  day  after  day.  It  was  the  beginning 
of  a  long  association  with  baseball  for  Lyman.  As  Abe, 
•  through  the  magic  of  his  baton,  was  to  cHmb  in  the  world 
of  music,  he  maintained  his  enthusiasm  for  all  sports, 
particularly  baseball.  Since  athletes  and  entertainers  are 
constantly  meeting,  living  as  they  do  in  a  world  of  their 
own,  it  was  easy  for  Lyman  to  widen  his  circle  of  friends 
in  baseball. 

Long  after  Chance's  playing  days  had  ended  and  his 
failing  health  took  him  out  of  baseball,  he  and  Lymati  re- 
mained chums.  When  Abe  brought  his  orchestra  out  to 
California  to  play  at  the  Vernon  Country  Club,  he  lost 
no  time  renewing  his  friendship  with  Chance.  The  pair 
used  to  sit  with  Barney  Oldfield  in  a  box  at  the  ball  park 
in  Vernon,  watching  the  local  Pacific  Coast  League  team 
perform.  The  Vernon  Club,  which  is  since  out  of  the 
Coast  loop,  was  then  owned  by  the  late  Roscoe  {Fatty) 
Arbuckle. 

Even  now,  Lyman  gets  a  kick  out  of  that  pleasant  sum- 
mer on  the  Coast.    Chance  and  (Continued  on  page  97) 


35 


Gay  glimpses  of 
gay  personalities 
in  broadcastland 


She  used  to  be  on 
the  air,  but  Holly- 
wood stole  her  away 
and  mode  a  movie 
star  of  her.  So  now 
we  can  see  as  well 
as  hear  the  lovely 
lady,  Dorothy  Lamour. 


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RADIO  STARS 


Presenting  the  third  installment  of  Rudy  Vallee's  own  \ 
personal  column,  written  exclusively  by  Rudy  for  Radio 

Stars  Magazine  and  frankly  presenting  his  own  private  | 

thoughts  and  comments  on  various  entertaining  subjects  \ 


Walter  Winchell 
is  answered  in 
a  few  apt  words. 


T  h  a  n  k  s, 
John  Chap- 
man of  the 
New  York 
Daily  News 
a  n  d  Walter 
IV'mchcll  of 
the  New 
York  Daily 
Mirror,  for 
your  kind  re- 
marks anent 
my  debut  as 
a  columnist. 


Rest  assured,  Walter  Winchell,  I 
never  intended  saying  much  about 
mvselt  in  this  column.  It  was  the 
editor's  idea  that  tiiere  should  be 
>ome  di.scussion  of  my  past  experi- 
t'nces  in  the  first  column.  In  the 
future,  other  people  and  other  things 
will,  in  the  main,  be  commented  on 
l)y  this  corre.spondent. 

Did  I  stick  out  my  chin  when  I 
quoted  the  old  maxim  that  appeared 
in  heavy  type  in  the  first  issue  of  this 
column!  "Our  opinions,  no  matter 
how  different,  should  be  respected," 
I  quoted.  What  an  opportunity  for 
many  of  the  columnists,  editors  and 
joumalists-at-large  to  remind  me  that 
I  have,  supposedly,  failed  to  practice 
this  maxim  in  the  past  by  trying  to 
beat-up  or  silence  some  of  my  jour- 
nalistic critics  for  their  opinions  of 
me. 

Vfay  I  say.  in  justice  to  myself, 
'hat  i  have  always  respected  the  other 


fellow's  opinion  of  me  and  my  ivork. 
I  hai'e  never  resented  Walter  Win- 
chell's  poking  fun  at  my  physiog- 
nomy, nor  Mark  Hellinger's  saying 
that  my  singing  gave  him  a  pain-in- 
the-neck.  The  other  fellow's  opin- 
ion was,  I  have  ahmys  realized,  his 
opinion,  and  he  might  be  right  as 
easily  as  wrong.  The  only  time  I 
have  taken  an  active  interest  in  the 
retraction  of  statements  about  me 
was  when  the  article  contained,  not 
an  opinion,  but  a  misstatement  of 
fact! 

So  few  people  differentiate  !«- 
tween  these  two  that  it  is  almost 
laufjliable.  Mr.  Hellinger's  statement 
that  my  singing  gave  liim  a  pain-in- 
the-neck  was  a  statement  of  his  re- 
action ;  in  other  words,  his  opinion. 
But  the  statement  that  I  was  in  a 
certain  place  on  a  certain  date  when, 
in  actuality,  I  was  many  miles  away 
is  a  misstatement,  a  distortion  of  the 
facts,  a  mistake  that  might  cost  me 
my  career,  my  livelihood  or  even  my 
life.  That  and  that  alone  is  what  I 
resent  and  that  is  the  type  of  error, 
Mr.  Winchell,  that  only  too  often 
your  newspaper  will  fail  to  correct, 
and  to  which  end  I  would  have  dedi- 
cated my  magazine.  Squawk. 

I  predict  here  and  now  that  the 
time  will  come  when  there  will  be  a 
journal  devoted  exclusively  to  check- 
ing up  and  correcting  untruths  that 
appear  in  columns  and  headlines. 
In  other  words,  a  public  newspaper. 


a  public  magazine  completely  at  the 
disposal  of  Mr.  Johnny  Q.  PuUic, 
which  will  make  him  for  the  moment 
as  powerful  as  the  other  fellow  who 
owns  his  own  private  newspaper  and 
who  fears  his  rival  publishers  but  Mr. 
J.  Q.  Public  not  at  all.  At  present 
most  of  you  boys  get  away  with  mur- 
der. No  one  checks  on  you  and  you 
know  it.   Now  I  ask  you,  is  that  fair? 

/  must  admit  that  recently  I  read, 
and  with  salacious  enjoyment,  a  para- 
graph in  which  a  columnist  {we'll 
cail  him  "A" } reprinted  a  long  list  of 
the  self-acknowledged  errors  a  broth- 
er columnist  ("B")  had  printed.  "B" 
had  made  his  acknoivledaments  in  the 


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first  place  only  to  save  his  face.  The 
errors  were  so  flagrant  that  "B"  had 
to  do  something.  But — who  can  say 
how  much  damage  7ms  done  before 
the  correction  appeared?  Of  course, 
the  reason  behind  "A's"  reprinting 
of  "B's"  mistakes  was  a  desire  to 
nettle  his  rival. 

Congratulations  to  Lt.  Leonard  F. 
Harman,  who  pulled  two  men  from 
the  wreckage  when  the  first  Boeing 
flying  fortress  crashed  at  Wright 
Field  at  Dayton,  Ohio.  Reason  for 
the  crash — stupidity.  Someone  for- 
got to  unlock  the  ailerons  of  the 
plane.  That  was  all.  Someone  just 
forgot     to     unlock     the  ailerons'! 


Result:  two  men  burned  alive. 

Looking  at  Life's  pictures  of  the 
discomforts  suffered  by  the  ordinary 
seamen  on  the  average  liner,  such  as 
cramped  quarters,  no  ventilation,  no 
place  to  hang  laundry,  presence  of 
fumes  from  oil  pipes,  and  other  dis- 
comforts, I  gathered  the  impression 
that  the  owners  and  builders  of  ships 
are  as  callous  about  the  quarters  of 
those  who  are  going  to  run  the  ships 
as  the  owners  and  builders  of  thea- 
tres are  about  the  dressing-rooms  of 
the  performers.  Heaven  knows,  you 
find  your  seat  in  the  auditorium  un- 
comfortable enough  and  the  ventila- 
adon  stuffy  and  bad.  Come  back- 
stage sometime  and  see  the  cubby- 
holes that  even  the  principals  call 
dressing-rooms.  I  know  a  musical 
show  where  fifty  chorus  girls  dressed 
in  a  room  which  really  should  be  as- 
signed to  five.  Hats  off  to  Earl  Car- 
roll, who  is  the  only  theatre  producer 
and  theatre  builder,  at  least  to  my 
knowledge,  who  made  his  dressing- 
rooms  even  more  beautiful  than  the 
front  of  the  house.  He  installed 
shower  baths  for  the  girls,  refriger- 

Nofed  bandleaders  greet  Joe  Cook 
(rear  center)  on  the  occasion  of  his 
first  Shell  Show  broadcast.  At  the 
piano,  Eddy  Duphin  and  Harry  Sosnik. 
Standing  (left  'to  right)  B.  A.  Rolfe. 
Ferde  Grofe,  Onie  Nelson,  Rudy 
Vallee.  (Right)  Ernie  Watson  of 
Shell  Show. 


Mark  Hellinger. 
"My  singing  gave 


h  i  m 


pain 


ators  for  their 
orchids  and, 
best  of  all,  at- 
tractive, well- 
V  e  n  t  i  1  a  ted 
dressing- 
rooms.  Such 
altruism  is 
rare  in  the 
theatre.  We 
may  never 
find  another 
who  gives  a 
thought  to  the 
comfort  and  well-being  of  the  per- 
former. 


A  lot  of  you  Manhattan  listeners 
listen  to  the  Milkman's  Matinee,  a 
broadcast  of  phonograph  records 
that  goes  out  over  the  air  in  tlic  wee 
hours  of  the  morning,  ably,  affably 
announced  by  Stan  Shaw.  The  same 
sort  of  shozi.'  is  broadcast  by  smaller 
stations  throughout  the  country, 
often  dedicated  to  the  exploitation  of 
products  and  stores,  in  other  words 
commercial  advertising,  budt  on  the 
playing  of  phonograph  records.  Most 
of  you  have  come  to  take  these  as  a 
nuiher  of  course.  Have  you  ever 
notifed,  in  some  cases,  that  the  an- 
nouncer's voice  drops  the  word  "re- 
corded" to  a  low  pitch,  or  that  some- 
times his  voice  hurries  oz'er  the  fact 
that  you  are  listening  to  record  pro- 
gram? Not  a  few  of  you  have  prob- 
ably dialed  out  the  program  at  its 
conclusion  {Continued  on  page  116) 
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VeeLawnhurs+r/e/O, 
the  most  famous  and 
most  successful  of 
feminine  composers 
of  popular  jongs, 
owes  her  career  to 
a  strange  chance. 


"It's  odd,"  Virginia 
ReaCr/g/iO  declares, 
"how  things  work 
out.  Chance  experi- 
ences bring  us 
everything!  But 
sometimes  one  is 
so  disappointed!" 


IF  love  and  fame  haven't  come  your  way,  don't  despair. 
A  chance  incident  may  change  your  life  tomorrow,  next 
week,  next  month,  and  bring  you  all  your  heart  desires. 
For  you  never  can  tell  what  adventure  is  waiting  for  you 
just  around  the  corner.  No  matter  how  humdrum  your 
existence  may  seem  to  you  today,  the  merest  little  incident 
may  be  the  key  to  opening  up  all  the  glory  of  the  world 
for  you  tomorrow.  For  the  smallest  happenings,  that 
seem  nothing  at  the  moment,  change  your  whole  exist- 
ence sometimes;  while  the  things  that  you  expect  to  be 
momentous,  often  prove  disappointing.  Let  me  tell  you 
how  a  chance  incident  changed  the  lives  of  four  famous 
radio  celebrities. 

Virginia  Rea  is  one  of  the  most  celebrated  women  on 
the  air.  You  hear  her  now,  from  coast  to  coast  each 
Sunday  night,  with  Rubinoflf  and  his  orchestra.  You've 
heard  Ginny's  flute-like  coloratura  tones  on  important 
commercial  programs  for  ten  years.  Before  that  time 
Miss  Rea  was  a  well-known  concert  and  recording  artist. 

"But  I  nearly  didn't  sing  at  all,"  Virginia  told  me. 
"I  wouldn't  have,  if  it  hadn't  been  for  one  small  occur- 
rence. You  see,  my  parents  didn't  want  me  to  sing  pro- 
fessionally. They  just  wished  me  to  make  my  debut  and 
then  .settle  down  in  Louisville,  my  home  town,  like  all 
other  'nice'  Southern  girls.  Of  course,  I'd  sung  in  church 
and  at  college,  but  never  professionally. 

"' Heavens,  no!  We'll  have  no  actress  in  our  family!' 
my  mother  and  father  declared. 

"After  one  of  these  scenes  I  went  to  my  room  and 
cried.  It  just  happened  that  my  uncle,  Dr.  William  Rea, 
of  Minneapolis,  was  visiting  us  at  that  time.  It  just  hap- 
pened that  he  came  into  my  room  and  found  me  crying. 
Well,  we  had  a  long  talk.  The  result  of  it  was  that  my 
uncle  went  downstairs  and  persuaded  my  parents  to  let 


me  have  at  least  one  summer  in  New  York  to  study. 

"While  I  was  in  New  York,  my  teacher  had  me  make 
some  records  for  Brunswick.  They  offered  me  a  three- 
years'  contract.  Then  my  parents  realized  that  I  must 
have  real  talent.  They  gave  in.  Dad  was  in  the  Internal 
Revenue  Department.  He  wrote  to  Washington  and 
asked  for  a  transfer  to  New  York.  He  got  it.  And  so 
he  and  mother  came  up  here  to  live,  and  permitted  me 
to  pursue  a  career. 

"I  have  had  a  happy  one  since  then,  both  in  concert 
and  in  radio.  But  I  never  would  have  sung  at  all,  profes- 
sionally, if  my  uncle  hadn't  chanced  to  be  visiting  us  just 
then,  and  hadn't  chanced  to  come  in  and  find  me  crying 
that  (lay.  For  my  parents  never  had  given  in  to  me 
before.   They  never  would  have  done  so." 

Virginia  says  that  even  her  big  romance  was  founded 
on  chance. 

"If  I  hadn't  happened  to  be  successful  the  day  I  audi- 
tioned for  Palmolive,  I  never  would  have  met  my  hus- 
band, Fldgar  Sittig,"  Miss  Rea  told  me.  "You  see,  I  was 
the  singing  star  of  Palmolive  for  four  years.  And  Edgar 
was  the  first  celli.st  on  the  program.  I  probably  never 
would  have  met  him  if  I  hadn't  happened  to  decide  to 
take  that  audition  and  happened  to  be  lucky  enough  to 
emerge  the  winner,"  Virginia  added. 

And  that  would  have  been  a  loss,  indeed.  For  never 
on  Radio  Row,  or  anywhere  else,  have  I  met  a  happier 
couple  than  Virginia  and  her  husband,  as  they  live  their 
lives  in  their  Pocono  Mountain  home,  collecting  beautiful 
jewels,  rare  glass  and  old  silver,  and  enjoying  the  serenity 
that  only  two  who  walk  together  can  achieve. 

"It's  odd,"  Miss  Rea  said  to  me  thoughtfully,  "how 
things  work  out.  Chance  experiences  bring  us  everything. 
Yet  events  one  expects  to  prove  {Continued  on  page  94) 


You  never  know  when  some  small  event  may  completely  alter 

40 


etite  Lily  Pons 
nghi)  morvels  o+ 
ameof  thesirange 
■him$  of  chance 

lat  have  helped  ^ 
r  disappointed.  ^ 


our  life 


Haven  McQuarrie  gives  movie-struck  youth 
fhe  benefit  of  expert  coaching  for  his  show. 
The  successful  ospirants  win  screen  tests. 


"Do  you  want  to  be  an  actor?"  Haven  McQuorrie 
asks,  Sundays  at  9.-00  p.m.  on  NBC-Re6  network. 
The  popular  program  is  broadcast  from  Hollywood. 


HAVEN  McOUARRIE  is  the  current  sensation  of  the 
radio  world.  Why?  Because  he  played  his  lucky  hunch 
to  win.  Because  he  believes  in  hunches,  or  flashes  of  in- 
spiration as  you  may  prefer  to  call  them,  and  follows 
them  through. 

A  hunch  is  l)ack  of  his  program,  Do  You  Want  to  Be 
An  Actorf.  which  in  sixteen  weeks,  jumped  from  an 
obscure  spot  on  a  local  Los  Angeles  station  to  top  rank- 
ing in  the  national  broadcast  world.  \  hunch  started  him 
on  the  program.  He  believes  that  hunches  inspire  the 
kids  who  try  out  for  him  and  sometimes  make  good. 

He  explains  it  this  way :  "There  are  moments  in  your 
life  when  ideas  come  to  you  that  you  know  are  good. 
Moments  when  your  brain  seems  to  function  more  clearly 
and  more  brilliantly  than  at  other  times.  Sometimes,  as 
in  my  case,  the  idea  or  hunch  is  tied  up  with  some  im- 
portant thing  that  has  happened  to  you  personally.  When 
you  feel  and  know  that  your  hunch  is  good,  play  it.  Fol- 
low it  through.  See  it  to  its  conclusion.  For,  don't  for- 
get, lots  of  good  ideas  are  buried  in  obscurity  because  the 
persons  who  had  them  lost  faith  too  soon." 

There  is  a  great  drama  in  Haven  McQuarrie's  story  of 
how  he  played  his  lucky  hunch  to  win.  Just  last  summer, 
last  July,  he  was  broke.  Didn't  know  where  his  next 
job  was  coming  from.  Mortgage  on  the  house.  A  boy 
four  years  old.  A  grand  wife  who  believed  in  him.  A 
newly-arrived  baby  girl.  But  let's  let  McQuarrie  tell  the 
tale,  which  he  says  goes  back  four  years  to  the  day  when 


his  boy,  Ronald,  was  born. 

"I  was  broke,  then,  too,"  he  said.  "I  rushed  my  wife 
to  the  hospital  in  the  early  hours  of  the  morning.  I  was 
too  frantic  to  stop  to  pick  up  a  checkbook,  even  if  I'd  had 
any  cash  in  the  bank,  which  I  didn't,  but  just  the  same 
the  hospital  bookkeeper  wanted  a  down  payment. 

■'I  didn't  have  the  slightest  idea  where  the  money  would 
come  from,  but  I  smilingly  assured  him,  he'd  have  it  by 
10:30  in  the  morning.  My  baby  was  born.  My  wife  was 
all  right.  I  went  home  to  get  a  shave  and  a  bath.  The 
telephone  rang.  It  was  my  lawyer,  who  called  to  say  he 
had,  surprisingly  and  suddenly,  collected  $1250  we  had 
thought  lost  in  a  bank  crash !  It  was  the  finest  financial 
news  I'd  had  in  years !  And  it  got  my  wife  and  baby 
out  of  hock! 

"On  July  31st  of  this  year,  my  little  girl,  Patricia,  was 
born.  I  had  money  enough  to  get  her  out  of  the  hospital, 
but  mighty  little  left.  A  day  or  so  after  she  got  home,  I 
was  lying  on  the  davenport  talking  to  my  wife.  I  remem- 
ber exactly,  I  said :  'Honey,  what  good  luck  do  you  think 
this  baby  will  bring  us?  Remember  how  Ronald  brought 
us  that  money  ?'  And  boom !  through  my  mind  flashed 
the  idea  of  reviving  our  old  vaudeville  show  on  the  air.  I 
jumped  up,  I  was  so  excited.  I  said:  'Honey!  I've  got 
it.  The  good  luck!  The  lucky  hunch  and  ivill  we  play 
it!' " 

Playing  his  lucky  hunch  through  to  a  winner  was  not 
an  easy  job.    Although  Haven  (Continued  on  page  70) 


Haven  McQuarrie  needed  the  money  badly,  but  he  turned  down  an 
offer  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  to  play  a  lucky  hunch.    And  he  won! 


(Top  left)  Raconteur  S.  Archibold  Presby, 
NBC  announcer  of  Bughouse  Rhythm,  with 
Ruth  Chapel,  NBC  singer,  and  John  Brunker, 
NBC  conductor.  (Top  right)  Lily  Pons 
practices  a  ballet  kick  for  her  role  in  the 
opera  Le  Coq  d'Or.  (Left)  Betty  Star 
gives  the  gong  to  tenor  Morton  Bowe  of 
the  networks.  (Right)  Meredith  Willson,  of 
radio  and  music  circles,  on  the  links  in 
San  Francisco.  (Lower  left)  Major  Bowes 
greets  movie  star  Gloria  Swanson.  (Lower 
right)  Jack,  Mary  and  Joan  Naomi  Benny. 


u 


Some  artists  of  the  air  in 
off-the-air  moments 


Oscar  Shaw,  of  CBS'  Broadway  Varieties, 
and  popular  star  of  musical  comedy 


In  the  kitchen  of  his 
Long  Island  honrfe,  the 
Broadway  star  likes  to 
take  a  hand  at  cooking. 


IT  WAS  Atlantic  City  and  it  was 
raining  and  no  one  was  buying  soap, 
anyway — so  Oscar  Shaw  bundled 
his  sample  case,  filled  with  violent 
pink  soap,  under  his  arm  and  de- 
cided to  go  to  a  matinee. 

That  is  how  the  story  starts. 

For  the  show  he  saw  that  after- 
noon was  The  Mimic  World,  and  in 
it  was  a  girl  with  chestnut  hair.  A 
small  girl,  with  the  tiniest  feet  he 
ever  had  seen  and  the  biggest  eyes 
in  the  world. 

Oscar  Shaw  forgot  a  lot  of  things 
in  that  moment.  He  forgot  that, 
less  than  an  hour  before,  he  had 
been  pretty  discouraged,  for  here  he 
was,  all  of  twenty,  and  what  had  he 
done  with  himself  anyway  ?  Selling 
soap  of  a  color  that  outraged  every 
artistic  sense  he  possessed  and  being 
snubbed  by  housewives  and  chased 
by  dogs,  until  he  was  well  on  the 
way  to  getting  himself  a  super- 
special  kind  of  inferiority  complex. 

But  he  remembered  other  things. 


Remembered  the  color  of  the  copper 
beeches  on  his  grandmother's  front 
lawn,  when  the  sunlight  slanted 
through  them — for  that  was  the 
color  of  this  girl's  hair.  And  he 
remembered  the  branch  of  apple 
blossoms,  that  had  blown  off  a  tree 
in  his  uncle's  orchard  during  a 
thunder  storm — for  that  was  the 
way  this  girl's  skin  looked,  fresh 
and  lovely  as  if  it,  too,  had  been 
swept  by  wind  and  rain. 

Louise  Gale  was  the  name  the 
program  gave  her,  but  lovely  as  it 
was,  he  thought  Louise  Shaw  would 
be  an  even  more  entrancing  one. 

Only  to  sit  there  and  look  at  her 
was  enough  then.  Only  to  listen  as 
she  sang  her  songs.  But  after- 
wards, when  he  walked  home  to  his 
boarding-house,  he  found  himself 
being  excited  about  rain  for  the 
first  time  in  his  life  and  about  the 
way.  the  surf  was  pounding  on  the 
beach — and  he  wished  that  the  girl 
were  there.  (Continued  on  page  iS4) 


I 


CBS'  Broadway  Varieties 
brings  you  Oscar  Shaw  on 
Fridays  at  8:00  p.m..  EST. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  Shaw, 
(her  stage  name  was  Louise 
Gale)  with  their  pet  Pekes. 


Another  glimpse  of  the 
CBS  radio  favorite  just 
before    broadcast  time. 


45 


But  Ozzie  Nelson  persuaded  Harriet  Hilliard  to 
sing  again^  after  David  Ozzie  Nelson  was  born. 


1 


IN  October  of  last  year,  Harriet  Hilliard  had  a  little  baby 
son.  In  private  life,  Harriet  is  the  wife  of  Ozzie  Nelson.  In 
public  life,  she  was  the  featured  singer  in  her  husband's  band 
and  a  motion  picture  actress. 

The  public  waited  for  Harriet  Hilliard  to  return  to  public 
life  after  the  birth  of  her  son.  Weeks  went  by  and  there  was 
no  announcement  made  as  to  when  Harriet  would  re-enter  pro- 
fessional life.  Weeks  became  months,  and  still  no  Harriet 
Hilliard  was  heard  on  the  air. 

Not  until  the  middle  of  January  did  the  voice  of  Harriet 
Hilliard  come  to  the  ears  of  listeners  of  the  Bakers  Broadcast 
>n  Sunday  nights.  No  announcement  had  been  made.  Her 
voice  came  as  a  complete  surprise  to  every  listener.  What  was 
behind  this  extended  retirement?  It  couldn't  be  that  she  was 
pampering  herself,  for  hadn't  she  appeared  on  vaudeville  stages 
up  to  within  six  weeks  of  her  son's  birth? 

It  is  said  that  truth  is  stranger  than  fiction  and  no  one  could 
have  imagined  the  dramatic  struggle  that  was  going  on  behind 
the  drawn  curtains  of  the  private  life  of  Harriet  and  Ozzie 
Nelson. 

"Having  a  baby  makes  a  woman  lose  her  self  confidence,"  was 
the  startling  remark  made  by  Harriet.  It  was  all  the  more 
startling  because  today  Harriet  is  prettier,  with  her  natural 
brown  hair,  than  she  was  a  year  ago.    Her  figure  is  perfect. 

■'After  David  was  born,"  she  continued.  "I  was  afraid  to 
sing,  even  when  alone  at  home.  I  suppose  it  comes  from  dodg- 
ing behind  furniture,  keeping  out  of  the  sight  of  people  for  so 
long.    But  as  soon  as  I'd  look  at  the  baby,  I'd  say  to  myself : 


Harriet  Hilliard 
delightful 
singing  star  of 
Bakers  Broadcast, 
is  lovelii 
ever,  since  the 
birth  of  her 
baby  son,  David. 


^^^^  TheyVe  on  *e  oir^.^^^L 

^^^jidV  Sundays,  7:3^  p.m./^^^^^^ 
IMP         EST.  ov«r  WinJiBC  ZS^KK 

Blye   -nejwork.  ^TI*^ 


46 


This  story 
announced  by 
Alan  Kent 


'Even  if  my  career  is  gone,  you  are  worth  it!'  " 

Can  you  imagine  the  thoughts  that  surged  through  the  mind  of 
the  pretty  girl  who  had  worked  so  hard  to  succeed  in  her  pro- 
fessional life? 

"When  I  looked  in  the  mirror,  I  imagined  I  looked  different. 
Nothing  that  anyone  said — not  even  Ozzie  — could  make  me 
recover  my  self-confidence.  I  was  completely  beaten,"  said 
Harriet. 

She  can  speak  of  her  feelings  now.  She  can  tell  people  what 
she  went  through,  because  her  fears  have  l)een  beaten.  After 
three  months,  following  the  birth  of  her  baby  boy,  she  at  last  lias 
learned  that  her  career  can  go  on — that  now,  more  than  ever  be- 
fore, she  has  a  lovely  singing  voice. 

But  what  brought  about  this  change?  What  was 
responsible  for  self-confidence  returning  to  Harriet 
Hilhard?  Why  does  she  now  feel  confident  that 
her  next  movie  will  l)e  successful  ?  It  is  best  under- 
stood by  listening  to  Harriet  herself : 

"I  was  ill  after  David  was  born.  I  felt  miserable. 
Friends  told  me  to  start  singing,  if  only  to  myself. 
I  was  feeling  too  badly.  Even  when  I  got  on  my 
feet,  I  made  excuses  for  not  using  my  voice.  I 
was  afraid.  I  kept  putting  off  the  thing  I  knew 
I  would  have  to  do — test  my  voice.  I  thought  to 
myself:  'What  if  my  voice  breaks?.  What  if  I  find 
that,  instead  of  a  singing  voice,  there  is  only  a  funny 
rasp?'  These  fears  kept  whirling  through  my  mind. 
Only  the  thought  of  David  {Continued  on  page  114) 


A  dip  in  the  pool 
delights  both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  huHson. 


47 


m 


Meet  the  popular  hill- 
billies, Zeke,  Judy  and 
Anne  Canova,  and  also 
Dorothy,  the  dog.  The 
Canovas,  heard  on  the  Rip- 
pling Rhythm  Revue,  are 
native  Floridians  and  also 
an  authentic  happy  fannily. 
They  do  have  a  swell  tinne 
entertaining,  and  they  give 
radio  listeners  a  swell  time, 
too.  Tune  in  your  radio  to 
A/6C-Red  network  on  Sun- 
days at  9:75,  EST,  and  give 
yourself  a  genuine  treat! 


They're  Judy,  Zeke  and  Anne  Canova,  of  Rippling  Rhythm  Revue 


I'HERE  are  two  kinds  of  hill-billies:  the  ones  that  go 
barefoot  down  in  the  Southern  hill-billy  country  and 
never  see  an  automobile,  and  the  ones  who  go  on  the 
radio  and  come  from  the  bosky  glens  of  Brooklyn  and 
the  Bronx.  The  Canovas"  material  is  authentic;  they 
sound  real,  and  I  had  read  blurbs  of  their  never  having 
been  out  of  their  native  state  until  recently ;  of  the  per- 
suasion it  took  to  get  them  out  of  their  hill-billy  clothes, 
and  such  like. 

Which  explains  why  I  wouldn't  have  been  surprised  if 
[  had  been  greeted  with  a  hearty  wallop  on  the  back, 
while  Zeke  bellowed  to  hand  me  down  his  fowlin'  piece 
so"s  we-uns  could  go  on  a  possum  hunt  throught  Radio 
City,  with  a  houn'  dawg  bayin'.  or  something.  .  .  . 

Well,  there  ivas  a  dog.  A  friendly  white  fox  terrier 
named  Dotty,  who.  after  a  few  amiable  and  sophisticated 
sniffs,  settled  down  to  roughing  it  on  a  rose  damask 
sofa  pillow. 

'^he  ( "anovas  are  n'»t  trom  Brookivn  or  the  Bronx,  but 


genuinely  Southern.  The  nearest  thing  to  hill-billy  clothes, 
however,  was  Zeke's  shirt,  which  was  a  rather  gay  blue- 
and-yellow  plaid.  And  you  can  see  it  in  the  smarter  haber- 
dashers' windows. 

They  do  talk  with  a  distinct  Southern  drawl,  but  it's  a 
long  way  from  the  .stuff  Judy  uses  or  the  stiff  and  halting 
professional  dialect  of  Zeke  when  he  announces  that  "ay 
tepee  is  whut  ay  man  wears  on  his  head  when  he  is  bald." 

X'ative  Floridians,  the  Canovas  are,  stemming  from  the 
early  Florida  .settlers  who  came  to  find  the  Fountain  of 
Youth  and  remained  to  grow  oranges  and  cotton.  Their 
grandfather  came  from  Madrid  and  was  a  cattleman  ;  their 
father  was  a  cotton  broker,  and  their  mother  English.  Both 
parents  were  musicians,  and  Mother  Canova  taught  Anne 
piano  until  the  time  .Anne  and  Zeke  went  to  the  Cincin- 
nati Conservatory  of  Music. 

■'!  studied  piano  for  years."  Anne  says,  "and  got  to  the 
|)oint  where  I  really  could  play,  compose  and  make  my 
own  arrangements — and  now  I'm  (  Contifiucd  on  page  68) 

49 


G-Men  dramas 
and  detective 
stories,  wherein 
virtue  always 
triumphs,  are 
good  radio  en- 
tertainment, ac- 
cording to  S.  S. 
Van  Dine.  And  we 
who  listen  agree. 


S.  S.  Van  Dine,  creator  of  that  super-detective, 
Philo  Vance,  is  a  model  for  mystery  writers 

WE,  all  of  us,  "go  for"  murder  and  mystery  in  a  big  way 
— in  our  reading.  In  our  listening,  too,  as  the  success  of 
the  radio  dramas  of  mystery  and  murder  seems  to  prove. 

And  there  is  one  man  to  whom  all  writers  of  such 
dramas  for  the  air  probably  turn  for  their  model.  To  you, 
who  have  met  him  in  a  book,  play  or  movie,  he  is  S.  S. 
\an  Dine,  world-famous  author  of  a  long  list  of  best- 
seller murder  mysteries  and  creator  of  that  fascinating 
detective,  Philo  Vance. 

S.  S.  Van  Dine  does  not  believe  that  broadcasting 
stories  of  mystery  and  murder  has  a  bad  effect  on  young 
listeners. 

"The  entire  human  race  of  all  ages,"  says  he,  "is  decid- 
edly imitative — probably  as  the  result  of  its  simian 
ancestry !  But  we  all  react  to  things  in  different  ways. 
For  example,  a  beautiful  and  perfectly  harmless  young 
lady,  seen  on  the  street,  may  inspire  in  one  man  a  sense 
of  beauty  and  exaltation — in  another,  lust  and  evil 
thoughts.  But  we  cannot  pass  a  law  to  keep  all  desirable 
women  under  cover !  However,  if  it's  true  that  the  juvenile 
mind  is  more  specifically 
imitative  than  the  adult 
mind,  it  certainly  is  better  to 

give  the  youth  G-Men  and  ^ 
detective  stories  (wherein 
virtue  always  triumphs ) 
than  it  is  to  give  him  char- 
acters such  as  gunmen  and 
criminals  who  tend  to 
glorify  crime." 

In  private  life  S.  S.  Van 
Dine  is  Willard  Huntington 
Wright,  distinguished 
author  of  many  books  of  a 
high  literary  order.  Books 
which  critics  praise — and 
you  and  I  seldom  or  never 
read ! 

The  metamorphosis  of 
Willard  Huntington  Wright 
into  S.  S.  Van  Dine  is  one 
of  those  mysteries  with 
which  life  constantly  sur- 
prises us.  We  asked  him 
about  it,  as  he  sat  in  the 
charmingly   appointed  liv- 

50 


THIS 

STORY  ANNOUNCED 
BY   DAVID  ROBERTS 


^4oted  wrrHer 
of  detective 
mysteries — 
S.S.  Von  Dine, 
(in  real  life 
he's  Willord 
Huntington 
Wright)  OS 
he  watches 
his  favorite 
horse  go  to 
the  post  at 
BelnDontPark. 


iHi  in 


in^-rooni  (jt  his  ptiuhousc,  liigh  above  a 
l)road  thoroughfare  that  overlooked  Cen- 
tral Park.  Distinguished  both  in  manner 
,ind  dress,  wearing  a  VanDyke  beard,  he 
looked,  we  thought,  more  like  a  portrait 
painter  than  an  author.  And,  it  appeared, 
he  did  at  one  time  seriously  think  of  be- 
commg  a  painter. 

"I  have  writtep  since  I  was  four  years 
old."  he  said,  "when  a  poem  of  mine  was 
published  in  my  home  paper.  It  was  ter- 
rible, even  for  a  four-year-old.  I  also 
w^rote  and  illustrated  a  novel,  at  nine.  It 
was  worse  than  the  poem." 

He  spoke  briefly  of  his  years  in  school, 
both  on  the  West  Coast  and  at  Har\'ard. 
and  of  the  years  when  he  lived  abroad, 
not  yet  certain  whether  he  was  going  to 
become  a  painter,  an  orchestra  conductor 
or  a  writer.  He  studied  art  and  music. 
He  memorized  the  scores  of  various  sym- 
phonies and  other  orchestral  works.  But 
he  eventually  w^as  won  over  by  his  first 
love — writing.  He  wrote,  over  a  period 
of  years,  several  books,  including  a  his- 
tory of  painting,  and  a  treatise  on  applied 
aesthetics ;  also  a  novel  entitled  A  Man 
Of  Promise,  the  scene  of  which  was  laid 
in  the  small  city  in  upstate  New  York, 
where  lived  his  paternal  ancestors.  It 
was  all  writing  {Continued  ou  p(i(/e  92) 
51 


Doctor 

How  tragedy  changed  to 
triumph  for  Tito  Guizar 

THE  handsome  young  man  just  leaving  the  studio  wore 
a  puzzled  frown.  Someone  asked:  "What's  the  matter? 
You  look  bothered." 

"I  am.  I  am  all  in  a  muddle."  He  spoke  with  a  Latin 
accent.  "At  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House  tonight  they 
are  singing  Rigoletto.  At  Madison  Square  Garden  there 
is  a  hockey  game — the  Rangers  play  the  Americans.  I 
want  to  see  Iwth  so  much.  Rigoletto — she  is  beautiful !  But 
— ah — the  hockey !  I  can't  make  up  my  mind  which  to 
miss." 

"How  many  times  have  you  sung  Rigoletto?" 

The  handsome  young  man  figured  quickly.  "Oh,  about 
three  hundred  times." 

''Whew!  That's  a  lot  of  Rigoletto.  Why  don't  vou  go 
to  the  hockey  game?" 

Tito  Guizar  looked  up  with  a  quick  smile.  "I  do,"  he 
said. 

li  the  conversation  sounds  a  little  out  of  character  for 
a  musician,  a  former  opera  star,  you  must  remember  that 
while  the  United  States  knows  Tito  Guizar  as  a  Latin 
tenor,  radio's  singer  of  Spanish  songs,  Latin  Americans 
know  him  as  a  movie  star.  And  one  of  their  favorite  box 
office  successes  he  is,  too. 

Tito  Guizar  looks  more  like  a  movie  star  than  a  Latin 
tenor.  He  is  tall  and  slim  and  strong.  Judging  by  his  wavy 
brown  hair  and  gray-hazel  eyes,  you'd  never  guess  he  was 
Ixjrn  in  Mexico.  But  he  was,  nearly  thirty  years  ago,  the 
second  eldest  of  nine  children. 

The  Guizars  were  a  happy,  home-loving  group.  Five 
brothers  and  four  sisters,  headed  by  a  mother  and  father 
who  ruled  with  firmness  and  kindness. 

When  Tito  was  fifteen  a  tragedy  occurred  in  his  family 
which  influenced  his  entire  life.  There  was  a  baby  sister 
whom  they  all  adored.  She  was  two  years  old  and  Tito 
was  her  favorite.  In  his  strong  young  arms  he  carried  her 
about,  taught  her  to  sf)eak  her  first  words,  watched  her 
while  she  took  her  first  uncertain  steps. 

Then,  one  day,  she  fell  ill.  A  doctor  was  called  im- 
mediately. Medicine  was  left.  {Continued  on  page  74) 
52 


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Dinner  parties  in  the  Pasadena  house 
Midnight  snacks  at  HoUjoyood's  "Troc" 
Bridge  and  Polo  at  Midwick 
Sailing  and  aquaplaning  at  Montecilo 


Santa  Barbara  for  tennis  and  horseback 

^ejy.Xprk  fpr  imporiant  "opening  nights" 

Winter  jaunts  to  Mexico,  the  West  Indies,  or  Europe 

\iitinal  \i-!t  lo  lipr  liu-ban<rs  c-tat.-  in  K  iiiai.  Hawaii 


THE  beautiful  "Mr?;  8pTTMfTiJr: shown  on  her  liu;lian.r^ 
sloop  "Hurulu,"  is  a  skilled  yachtswoman.  Her  enjoy- 
ment of  the  sea  illustrates  her  charming  zest  for  life. 
She  travels,  she  entertains,  and  smokes  Camels — as 
many  as  she  pleases.  "Camels  are  so  mild,"'  she  says, 
"they  never  get  on  my  nerves.  And  everybody  knows 
how  they  help  digestion!"'  Smoking  Camels  sets  up  a 
natural,  abundant  flow  of  digestive  fluids  —  alkaline  di- 
gestive  fluids  —  and  thus  encourages  good  digestion. 
At  the  right,  Mrs.  Spalding  enjoys  a  late  supper  in  Hol- 
lywood's Trocadero,  whose  host,  Billy  Wilkerson,  says: 
"Camels  are  certainly  the  popular  cigarette  here." 


Camels  are  made  from 
finer,  MORE  EXPENSIVE 
TOBACCOS  -Turkish 
and  Domestic— than  any 
other  popular  brand. 


li.  J  ,  Ki->  hdWs  rol>: 

A  few  of  the  distinguished  women 
who  prefer  Camel's  costlier  tobaccos: 

holas  Biddlc,  I'luhuielphia  .  Mrs.  Alexander  Black,  ios  Angeles 
».  ll  Cibof,  Boilon  .  Mrs.  Thomas  M.  Carnegie,  Jr..  .\ew  York 

Mrs.  J.  G^rli(?er  Coolidge  2nd,  lloston 
Mrs.  Anthony  J.  Drcxel  3rd.' BJj/oJWpAia 
Dabney  Langbornc,  Virginia     •     Mrs.  Jaspe(J|^^^^n,  Sew  York 


s.  Nicholas  G.  Penniman  III,  Bait 
Louis  Swift,  Jr.,  Chicago 


Brookfield  Va 


C.  Rockefeller.  i\ew  York 
elacr.  .Veu  York 


FOR    DIGESTION'S    SAKE_SMOKE  CAMELS 


"Ml  DOLE- AGE"  SKIN 
THREATENS  EVEN  A  GIRL  OF  20 


EVERYTHJNG  WAS  SWELL  OARLING^WHY  OONT  YOU 

I  BETWEEN  TOW  ANOME  UNTll  SEE  A  GOOD  BEAUTY 

THAT  HATEFUL  BABS  BROWN  SPECIALIST  AND  fIND  OUT 

DAZZLED  HIM  WITH  HER  WHATS  WRONG  WITH  YOUR 

SCHOOLGIRL  COMPLEXION  COMPLEXION? 


Y  EMIL  RECOM- 
ENDS  PALMOLIVE 
SOAP  TO  OVERCOME 
MIDDLE-AGE"  SKIN! 

made  with  Olive  Oil, 


cleanse.  Ic  protects  your  skin  aj; 
the  loss  ot  tht)se  precious  m 
Otis  which  leed  and  nourish  i 
that's  why  Palmolive  keeps 
complexion  soft,  smooth  and  yo 


JANE  CONSULTS  EMIL,  FAMOUS 
CHICAGO  BEAUTY  SPECIALIST 


EVEN  THOUGH  YOU  RE  ONLY  20, 
YOUR  COMPLEXION  HAS  THE 
SYMPTOMS  OF  WHAT  I  CALL 
"MIDDLE-AGE"SKIN  !  ITS  TOO 
DRY,  AND  BEGINNING  TO  LOOK 
DULL  AND  COARSE-TEXTURED 
I  SUGGEST  THAT  YOU  CHANGE 
TO  PALMOLIVE  SOAP. 


How  Palmolive,  mode 
dry,  lifeless,  o 

DOES  your  complexion  show 
even  a  hint  of  dryness,  dull- 
ness, coarse-texture?  Then  watch 
out,  famous  beauty  experts  warn. 
For  these  are  the  symptoms  of  a 
condition  which  adds  years  to  even 
a  young  girl's  appearance  .  .  .  ugly, 
heart-breaking  "middle-age  "  skin! 

Use  Palmolive  regularly,  these 
same  beauty  experts  advise.  For 
Palmolive,  made  with  Olive  Oil, 
does  more  than  just  cleanse!  Its 
gentle  protective  lather  prevents 
your  skin  from  becoming  dry,  life- 
less, old-looking  .  .  .  keeps  your 


CHOSEN  EXCLUSIVELY 
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What  a  beauty  lessov  there  is  for  you  hi  the  fact  that  Dr.  Dafoe 
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beauty  soap,  i/iadc  u  ilh  Olive  Oil,  is  safest  ami  gentlest  for 
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with  Olive  Oil,  prevents 
Id-looking  skin 

complexion  soft,  smooth  and  young! 

Does  the  snap  you  are  iisinf^  f;ire 
you  this  some  protertiou?  Do  you 
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Are  you  sure  it  is  as  pure,  as  gentle 
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only  from  real  beauty  aids  ...  a 
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RADIO  STARS 


Have  YOU  registered  your  radio 
preferences?  Just  let  your  feelings 
be  known  in  fifty  words  or  less,  and 
be  sure  to  state  your  name,  address 
and  occupation.  Address :  QUERY 
EDITOR,  Radio  Stars.  149  Madison 
Avenue.  Xew  York,  N.  Y. 


Peggy  Lawson,  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

"My  favorite  person  is  Helen 
Hayes.  It  doesn't  matter  if  she  is 
Baiiibi  or  Penelope  Edwards,  just  so 
long  as  it's  Helen  Hayes,  Reason : 
Her  voice — she  has  the  loveHest 
speaking  voice  on  the  air,  and  it  is  a 
pleasure  as  well  as  a  privilege  to  listen 
to  her.  My  favorite  orchestra  is 
George  Olsen's,  hccause  his  is  the 
music  of  tomorrow,  and  perfect.  I 
miss  Ethel  Shutta — slie  is  my  favorite 
singer."  _^ 

F.  W.  Allen,  Erie,  Pa.  "My  family 
diflfers  as  to  pro.urani  favorites.  My 
son  likes  jazz,  ()i-ch(  --tras  and  croon- 
ers ;  little  sister  likes  kicklie  stories ; 
my  wife  likes  dramatic  playk-ts.  1 
like  the  good  symphonies,  organ  and 
chamher  music  and  some  of  the  better 
soloists.  Crooners  and  blues  singers 
get  a  dial  twist  from  me  every  time  I 
am  near  the  radio.  But  there  is  one 
thing  we  all  hate  and  that  is  the  roar 
of  applause  from  local  broadcasting 
studio  listeners." 

Nina   F.   Comer,   Savannah,  Ga. 

"During  six  years  I  have  listened  to 
approximately  260  hours  of  Rudy 
Vallee's  entertainment,  and  never 
have  I  been  let  down.  Every  hour 
has  been  a  pleasure  and  a  joy.  I  have 
come  to  regard  Mr.  Vallee  as  not  only 
a  fine  star  and  entertainer,  but  as  a 
fine  person,  for  his  sincerity  is  ahvays 
evident." 

Dorothy    Dilley,    Allentown,  Pa. 

"Ever  since  he  has  been  on  the  net- 
works, my  favorite  radio  personality 
has  been  Piiil  Harris.  Although  he 
leads  one  of  the  finest  bands  in  the 
country,  it  is  Phil's  talent  that  pre- 
dominates. His  latest  triumph,  the 
Jell-0  Program,  is  excellent  proof." 

Frieda  Dittrich,  Lyndhurst,  N.  J. 

"Although  I  listen  to  the  radio  con- 
tinually, I  would  list  only  the  Pack- 
ard Program  as  my  favorite.  And 
that  because  of  the  splendid  singing 
of  Conrad  Thibault.  Any  program 
listing  his  magnificent  voice  as  an  at- 
traction is  tops  with  me." 

Grace  Herbert,  Hamihon,  Ont., 
Canada.  "Cities  Service  Program  has 
long  been  my  favorite  because  it  has 
given  us  the  matchless  voice  of  Jes- 
sica Dragonette.  In  the  past  five  years 
her  beautiful  songs  have  brought  me 
real  joy  and  happiness.  And  in  the 
future,  my  favorite  will  be  whatever 
program  is  fortunate  enough  to  have 
Jessica  as  its  star." 


WHAT 
THEY 
LISTEN 
TO -AND 
WHY 


Rose  Kathman,  Covington,  Ky. 
(High  School  Student.)  "Getting 
straight  to  the  ])nint,  lick's  Open 
House  ranks  highest  in  my  estima- 
tion, because  of  the  splendid,  plorious 
voice  of  Nelson  Eddy,  1  admire  him 
because  he  is  always  at  his  Ijest  and 
shows  good  taste  in  selecting  his  pro- 
gram material.  Next  to  him.  Jack 
Benny  is  best.  I  like  his  'clean- 
shaven' humor,  and  he  can  be  de- 
pended upon  for  some  new  humorous 
thrill." 

Catherine  E.  Alien,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

"The  following  will  always  be  my 
standard  list  of  favorites :  An- 
nouncers— ]Milton  J.  Cross,  Alwyn 
Bach,  Wallace  Butterworth.  Com- 
edians— Walter  O'Keefe,  Prank  Fay. 
Comedienne — Beatrice  Lillie.  Orches- 
tras— Eddie  Ducliin.  Walter  ]51au- 
fnss.  Masters  of  Ceremony — Don 
McNeill,  Gus  \'an.  Singers — Arlene 
Jackson,  Rosemarie  Brancato.  News 
Commentators — Lowell  Thomas,  Al- 
len Sisson." 

Barbara  Hornbach,  Molalla,  Ore. 
(Farmerette.)  "Log  C'uhiii  Ihidc 
Ranch  is  on  onr  "must  tune  in'  list. 
The  voice  of  Louise  Ma-^e\  and  the 
music  of  TJie  W cslrnici-s  is  just  like 
a  refreshing  breeze  from  tlie  prairie. 
For  good  music  we  listen  to:  Major 
Bowes'  Capitol  Tlicatre  Family, 
lick's  Open  House.  I'oice  of  fire- 
stone.  Good  Morning  Tonight.  Vor 
music  and  wit:  Jack  Benn\-,  Fred  Al- 
len and  Ed  \\'ynn.   For  drama :  Lux- 


Radio  Theatre,  Plelcn  Hayes  and 
Ifcath  Valley  Days.  The.se  are  the 
highlights  that  make  radio  listening  a 
real  ])leasure." 

Bob  Wilson,  Lockport,  N.  Y.  "My 

fa\-orite  is  ]'oi<r  [jicky  Strike  Hit 
Parade.  1  like  ^wiug  music,  and  this 
proi;rain  provide^  jikMity  of  it.  My 
sceoud  choice  is  ( )nc  yiaii's  Family. 
Thinl,  IS  lack  llenuv  and  Phil  Baker 
— iH.tli  e(|ual]y  lunu\-.  kourtli,  Wal- 
ter (  )'l\cefe  and  Ken  Murrav.  I'^ifth 
and  last,  Gracie  Allen  and  Cjcorge 
Burns." 

Mrs.  Maggie  Brown,  Waco,  Tex. 

"I'iug  Cro-liv's  Kraft  Music  Hall 
jirograms  are  seeming)}-  the  shortest 
on  radio— because  they  are  the  best. 
I  always  listen  to  Jack  P.enn\-,  k'red 
Allen  and  Eddie  Cantor  for  clean, 
peppy  comedy." 

Deanne  Colt,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

(Model.)  "Because  l\ud\'  \"allee  is  a 
[K-rfect  showman  and  a  delightful 
])erson,  his  program  is  my  first  choice. 
Pd  elect  Hal  Kemp  for  the  best  or- 
chestra. I  prefer  Tommy  Dorsey's 
Jack  Leonard  as  a  singer — his  voice 
is  so  sweet  and  mellow." 

Rosemarie   Hart,   Erie,  Pa.  "The 

programs  of  Cities  Service  are  indeed 
incomparable.  Not  only  do  I  hear  the 
choicest  of  music  played  and  sung  in 
delightful  arrangements  and  har- 
mony, but  the  most  --uperb  artists.  It 
is  one  program  on  which  I  can  ahvavs 
deiK-nd  for  a  full  hour  of  extreme 
musical  enjoyment." 

Edward  Perzanowski,  New  Britain, 
Conn.  ta\'orite  musical  program 

is  The  American  Album  of  Familiar 
^^usic.  for  the  superl)  voice  of  Lucy 
Monroe  and  the  fine  music.  And  I 
always  listen  to  Phillips  Lord's  Ci'ang- 
laisicrs  program  for  excitement.  And 
for  a  goocl  laugh  I  tune  in  Eddie 
Cantor,  because  he  is  my  favorite 
comedian." 

Agnes  Kramer,  Harvey,  III.  "My 

favorite  artists  are  Louise  Massey 
and  77;c  Jl'cstcrncrs.  It"s  im]iossilile 
not  to  like  them,  once  \'ou'\'e  heard 
them.  They're  not  only  talented  in 
l)laying  and  singing,  but  they're  all 
splendid  actors.  N^ever  a  dull  moment 
while  they  are  on  the  air." 

Frances  C.  Allen,  Darby,  Pa.  "As 

far  as  Pm  concerned.  1  would  onlv 
need  a  radio  on  Thur>(la\-  nights  t'roui 
8  to  9,  for  Rudy  X'al'lee's  I'aricly 
Hour.  Rudy  is  the  ace  showman  of 
the  air  and  any  song  or  an\  artist  he 
introduces  is  ;is  good  as  made.  Rudy 
and  his  Connecticut  ^'ankees  have  my 
\ote  any  time  and  all  the  time." 

Jean  Edwards,  Denver,  Colo. 
{Music  Student.)   "I'll  get  my  pet 

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In  their  delightful  home  at  Toluca  Lake  you  will  meet  the  Aniens — one  of 
filmdom's  most  popular,  most  happily  married  couples.  Here  are  Dick  and 
Jobyna  planning  one  of  their  famous  informal  "buffets"  for  their  friends. 


"LADIE.S  and  gentlemen:  the  makers  of 
Radio  Stars  bring  you  the  most  unusual 
\acation  ever  offered — a  trip  to  Holly- 
wood, home  of  screen  and  radio  stars." 

That's  our  announcer  broadcasting,  and 
we  hope  y(.)irrc  listening.  Because  this  is 
big  news: 

We're  getting  up  three  big  bouse  parties 
i.n  wheels,  to  leave  Chicago  for  the  Coast 
and  return,  on  an  all-expense  vacation  trip 
of  two  full  weeks  of  rollicking  fun  and 
excitement.  By  making  it  a  bouse  party, 
we  are  able  to  offer  a  vacation  money 
couldn't  buy,  yet  the  cost  is  under  $200 ! 

Your  favorites  of  the  screen  and  radio 
will  entertain  you;  Universal  Pictures  will 
show  you  bow  movies  are  made  ;  there's 
to  l)c  a  dinner-dance  with  dozens  of  stars 
on  band  at  the  Cocoamit  Crove — and  we've 
lined  up  a  thrill  a  minute  ! 

y\n(l  to  make  everything  convenient,  you 
can  choose  one  of  three  tours,  each  offer- 
ir.g  the  same  scbedulc  of  Hollywood  events. 
'Ilic  first  leaves  Chicago  July  11th,  the 
scK.iid  August  1st,  and  the  third  <jn  August 
l.Stb,  ])rin.uing  you  to  the  Coast  and  back 
witliin    the    two  weeks. 

Of  course  we  can't  give  you  all  the  de- 
tails here,  Init  tlicy  arc  contained  in  a  big 


illustrated  booklet  which  is  yours  for  the 
asking.  We  can  tell  you,  however,  some 
of  the  highlights. 

For  instance,  each  tour  will  have  a  host 
or  hostess,  who  will  entertain  at  a  special 
party,  with  many  stars  invited  to  attend. 

Your  favorite,  Richard  Arlen,  and  his 
wife,  Jobyna  Ralston,  are  throwing  open 
their  lovely  Toluca  Lake  home  for  a 
"Melting  Pot  Party,"  at  which  stars  of 
all  nationalities  will  be  represented. 

Dick  is  one  of  the  most  popular  young 
men  in  the  colony,  and  an  ideal  host.  Dick 
Powell  lives  just  a  few  blocks  from  him, 
across  the  lake,  and  Bing  Crosb}'  is  a 
ncigblvtr.  It's  all  one  happy  community 
at  Toluca,  and  you'll  be  royally  entertained 
by  the  Arlens  and  their  friends. 

I'^ver  since  Wiiu/s,  Dick  has  been  climb- 
ing steadily,  initil  bis  fan-following  is 
enormous.  Recently  be  finished  Secret 
I 'alley  and  Bonis' and  Saddles  for  20th 
Century-Fox  release.  At  bis  home  he  has 
a  miniature  auto  race  track  for  his  son, 
Rickw  a  barbecue,  a  swimminf  pool  and 
tennis  courts.  It's  a  veritable  playground, 
so  bi"ing  \  ()ur  swim  suits  and  >'our  cameras 
and  have  the  time  of  >our  life! 

(Con  I  ill  lied  on  f>n<je  91) 


RADIO  STARS 


Don't  let 
Blackheads..  Large 
Pores . .  Blemishes 
spoil  your  looks! 


Fight  them  with  rousing 
UNDER  SKIN  treatment 

MEN  get  the  ditTerence  at  a 
glance!  Blackheads,  blemishes, 
even  coarse  pores  make  the  prettiest 
girl  into  a  "plain  Jane." 

Well,  you  don't  have  to  be  plain! 
Those  little  faults  that  dot  your 
skin  are  easy  to  reach.  They  start  just 
underneath! 

Begin  today  to  use  the  rousing  Pond's 
deep-skin  treatment.  It  tones  up  faulty 
oil  glands — chief  cause  of  blackheads  and 
blemishes.  Livens  circulation.  Invigorates 
the  under  tissues,  so  your  outfr  skin  will 
be  clear  .  .  .  fine  textured  .  .  .  flawless! 
The  fresh  unspoiled  skin  that  makes 
people  sa/  "Pretty  girl." 

Do  this  twice  daily  .  .  .  Here's  the 
simple   Pond's    treatment   hundreds  of 


women  follow.  It's  easy  to  do. 
fferyM/eA/,  cleanse  with  Pond's  Cold  Cream. 
-As  it  brings  out  the  dirt,  stale  make-up  ami 
skin  secretions,  wipe  it  all  off".  Now  |iat 
in  more  cream— ii'm^/v.  Rouse  that  faulty 
underskin!  Set  it  to  work  again  —  for  that 
clear,  smooth,  unblemished  skin  you  want. 
Every  morning,  and  during  the  tlay,  repeat 
this  treatment  with  Pond's  Cokl  Cream. 
Your  skin  comes  softer  every  time.  I'ecls 
better,  looks  better,  and  powiler  goes  on 
beautifully. 


Miss  Virginia  Harris  -av-:"rve  learn<'<l  lo 
li^ht  hateful  hiat-klifuils  and  blemit^he^ 
Pond'^i  Colfl  Oeuiii.  It  keeps  pores  6ne.  l<>t»!'* 


gratKMaUffhtcr  ol  llie  late  OLl\  KK  ISKI.IN  : 
"I  depenil  entirely  upon  Pond's  Cold  Clreani  to 
kt-t-p  niv  Hkiti  rifuii.  !.niooth,  an<l  free  Irom  .^tin 
fault.,  i  u<e  il  nif-ht  an.l  day.  IlS  Mldi-pen.uil>le." 


Do  this  regularly.  .As  blackheads  soften, 
take  a  clean  ti.ssue  and  press  them  out. 
Now  blemishes  will  stop  coming.  .And  the 
places  where  pores  showed  largest  will  be 
finer  textured. 

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KlI^h  spttutl  iiiln  i>t  I'lMiJ'--  C'>-Ki  Cream,  enough  for  9 
ti.  .itiiKrit-.  \Mtli  i;i  111  tons  ■..uiiil'  '^  of  2  Other  Pond's 
Cn.iniv  .ill, I  ;  liiH.r.ru  ^ll;■,l.^  ..1  Pond's  Face  Powder. 
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Copyright,  1937.  Pond  s  Extract  Company 


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RADIO  STARS 


AM 
SttING 
THINGS? 


WHAT  THEY  LISTEN  TO-AND  WHY 


,  Coiitiinird  jrom  page  55) 


Those  must  be  germs/ 
Get  my  MENNEN 
Antiseptic  Powder 

C^/c/c  / 

"Believe  me,  lolks,  there  s  just  one  thing 
that  really  scares  me.  It's  Gl-.RMS.  And, 
boy,  am  I  glad  my  Mummy  knows  what 
to  do  about  it!  She  uses  the  kind  of  baby 
powder  on  me  that  scares  germs  away.  No 
ordinary  powder  for  her  or  for  me.  No 
siree!  I  get  Mrmien  Antiseptic  Powder,  it 
keeps  me  from  chafing — makes  me  comfv 
But  gosh,  the  thing  that  really  counts  ir- 
that  it  keeps  me  safer.  Here's  hopin 
every  mother  who  sees  this  will  buy  it  lot 
her  baby." 

M'irc  doctors  recommend  Mennen  Antiseptic 
Powder  than  all  other  baby  powders  com- 
bined—that's what  a  recent  „>rvey  by  a  lead- 
ini  medical  loiirna^ 


so 


THE  BABY 
POWDER 
THAT  HELPS 
PREVENT 

INFECTION 


Lysbeth  Hughes,  CBS  singing  harpist. 

peeve  of  radio  of¥  m\-  chest  fir.st — 
Nelson  Eddy.  To  pleasanter  topics, 
my  favorite  is  always  Lawi^ence  Tib- 
bett.  He  not  only  has  the  most  gor- 
geous voice  ever,  but  such  a  wonder- 
ful personality  that  it  comes  over  the 
radio  vividly." 

Marsha   Lane,   Mt.   Lebanon,  Pa. 

'■^ly  one  favorite  program  is  that 
of  Sammy  Kaye,  the  genial  maestro 
who  has  the  networks  and  short 
waves  humming  his  inimitable  swing 
and  sway  tunes.  Monday  and  Fri- 
days at  1  :00  a.m.,  my  dial  is  always 
wide  open  for  his  perfect  music." 

Jane  Smith,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  "There 
is  one  program  I  absolutely  would 
not  miss,  and  when  it's  on  the  air  I 
am  never  disappointed.  It's  J'ick's 
Open  House  with  Nelson  Eddy  as 
our  host,  the  greatest  teller  of  tales 
in  song.  He  is  grand!  Other  enjoy- 
able programs  are  Breakfast  Club. 
Major  Bowes'  two  programs,  Joe 
Penner,  Jack  Benu>,  Eddie  Cantor, 
Lux  Radio  Theatre,  etc." 

J.  E.,  Atlanta,  Ga.  "Thursday  is  by 
far  the  best  night  on  i-adio,  because  it 
brings  Rudy  Vallee  to  us  in  his  in- 
imitable, fascinating  style  of  singing, 
lie  is  also  the  jierfect  master  of  cere- 
monies, and  his  showmanship  is  un- 
surpassed. And  the  music  of  the 
Coniieclicul  Wnikccs  is  distinctive. 
Then,  too,  Thursday  lirings  us  Bing 
Crosby." 

Maude  Waterhouse,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa.  "For  many  years  Jessica  Drag- 
onettc  has  been  my  favorite  singer. 
She  is  the  most  delightfully  charm- 
ing person  I  have  ever  met.  She  is 
so  gracif)us,  graceful  and  altogether 
lovely.  Siie  certainly  possesses  origi- 
nality, ])ersonality  and  unusual  talent. 
May  success  crown  her  efforts  in  her 
new  series." 

Mrs.   D.   B.   Gately,   Gary,  Ind. 


"F"irst  and  foremost  among  my  fav- 
orites come  Louise  Massey  and  the 
W'esterner.s — they  are  the  grandest 
gang  in  radio  and  no  one-  can  sing 
those  western  songs  like  they  can. 
Since  I  enjoy  drama,  here  are  my 
])references :  One  Man's  Family, 
l-iacJiclor's  Children,  David  Harum 
and  Welcome  I 'alley." 

Wayne    Catching,    Slaton,  Tex. 

■'Here  are  the  programs  I  like  best: 
jack  Benny's  Jell-0  program  because 
it's  full  of  humor  and  the  advertising 
is  brought  in  entertainingly;  Eddie 
Cantor's  Texaco  program  because 
it  has  both  swing  and  classical  music 
I)layed  on  it ;  and  General  Motors' 
programs  because  they  only  feature 
the  best  music." 

Phyllis  Edwards,  San  Francisco, 
Calif.  "My  two  favorite  programs  are 
Hollyivood  Hotel  and  the  Packard 
Hour.  Reasons:  Anne  Jamison  and 
Francia  White.  I  think  they're  the 
two  best  sopranos  on  any  airlane." 

Proctor  Murray,  Spokane,  Wash. 
(Paper  Company  Employee.)  "I  love 
to  hear  orchestras  such  as  those  of 
Wayne  King,  Shep  Fields,  Ozzie  Nel- 
son, Eddie  Duchin  and  Ben  Bernie. 
For  fun,  Eddie  Cantor,  Jack  Oakie's 
College,  Ed  W)'nn,  Burns  and  Allen 
and  Fred  Allen.  The  only  objection  I 
have  to  radio  is  that  I  don't  get  to 
b.ear  but  one  program  at  a  time,  when 
Fm  afraid  that  the  other  program  on 
at  the  same  time  is  just  a  little  better." 

Louise  Haverty,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

"Poetic  Strings,  American  Album 
of  Familiar  Music,  Al  Pearce  and  His 
Gang  and  Words  and  Music  are  my 
favorite  programs.  Richard  Crooks, 
Frank  Alunn,  Lily  Pons  and  Mar- 
garet Speaks  are  the  singers  I  like 
the  most."  _^ 

Joseph  Gomez,  Hood  River,  Ore. 
"I  like  Jinimie  Fidler,  Eddie  Cantor, 
Amos  'n'  Andy,  Betty  and  Bob,  and 
Dot  and  Will.  For  music  I  enjoy  the 
orchestras  of  Tom  Gerun,  Anson 
Weeks,  Ted  Fiorito.  Dick  Jergens, 
Frank  IVLasters,  Phil  Harris,  and 
many  others.  My  favorite  singers  are 
Deanna  Durbin,  Dorothy  Dreslein 
and  Tom  Thomas." 

Thelma  Furgerson,  Guthrie,  Okla. 

"I  listen  to  all  comedy  programs,  but 
Joe  Penner  and  Martha  Raye  are 
super-swell.  I  never  miss  a  Lum  and 
Abner  program.  For  orchestra  music 
I  prefer  Guy  Lombardo.  The  above 
programs  are  always  cheerful  and  full 
of  life.  They  certainly  make  my  life 
more  pleasant  and  worth  while.  May 
such  programs  always  be  on  the  air !" 


RADIO  STARS 


C/uiA^^eX^iM.     C  A  S  T  O  R  I  A 


The  laxative  made  especially  for  babies  and  growing  children 


Why  do  fewer  babies  die  today... than 

20  years  ago? 

WTxy  does  your  baby  have  twice  as  pood 
a  chance  to  live  as  you  had  ichen  a  child? 

Because  today  cliildreu  get  special— 
not  liaphazard— care.  Twenty  years  ago 
the  idea  of  sun-bathing  in  winter  sounded 
preposterous.  Today  your  cliild  can  have 
;i  >iiu-l)atli  CM-ry  dixy  in  the  year- -rain  or 
shine.  Today  your  chihi  gets  xpccial  med- 
ical and  (hMital  cure— special  (hetctic  su- 
pervision. 


/sii'/  it  logical  that  a  child  should  have  a 
special  laxative  too?  Doctors  .say.  "  Ves, 
Ihcy  xhould."  For  a  cliiUTs  system  is  .still 
growing... still  too  tender  for  the  harsh 
action  of  an  "adult"  laxative. 

That's  why  so  many  doctors  recom- 
mend Fletcher's  Castoria.  For.  you  know, 
it's  made  especially  and  onli/  for  children. 

It  contains  no  harsli,  '"atlult"  drugs,  no 
narcotic^  —  nothing  that  could  possibly 
harm  tlic  delicate  system  of  a  child. 
Xotliing  that  could  cause crampingpains. 

Fletcher's  t'astoria  works  chiefly  on 
the  lower  bowel.  It  clears  away  all  waste 
by  gently  .-timulating  the  natural  muscu- 
lar uKiN  cment— in  much  the  same  nian- 
lu  i-  as  in  normal  evacuation.  It  is  safe. 
It  >ur(\  It  is  thoronuh.  A  famous  baby 
specialist  said  he  couldn't  write  a  better 
prescri|)tion  than  Fletcher's  Castoria. 

MM 


And  very  important  ...Fletcher's  Castoria 
has  a  pleasant  taste.  Chiklren  take  it 
without  forcing.  And,  as  you  know,  forc- 
ing a  child  to  take  any  bad-tasting  medi- 
cine can  upset  his  entire  nervous  system. 

More  than  5.000,000  mothers  keep  a 
bottle  handy  always.  Why  not  play  safe 
ami  have  a  bottle  in  your  hou.se?  Every 
drug  store  in  America  sells  it.  Ask  for  the 
thrifty  Family  Size  Bottle... and  save 
money.  The  signature  Chas.  H.  Fletcher 
appears  on  every  carton. 

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RADIO  STARS 


HOILVUIOOD  I  WEST  COAST  CHATTER 


SHRKGDOUin 


"PnV  UP  OR  DIE!" 

• That  is  the  threat  re- 
ceived by  many  of  Holly- 
wood's biggest  stars.  The  extor- 
tion racket  has  hit  the  film  capi- 
tal with  a  vengeance.  Your  favor- 
ites of  the  screen  are  menaced 
with  promises  of  mutilation,  ab- 
duction, torture,  and  even  murder 
unless  they  pay  .  .  .  and  pay 
plenty! 

• Dozens  of  stars  have  been 
threatened,  including 
Ginger  Rogers,  Mae  West,  Shir- 
ley Temple,  Jane  Withers,  Eddie 
Cantor,  Spencer  Tracy,  and  Wal- 
lace Beery  ...  a  few  have  made 
payments  .  .  .  others  have  hod 
the  courage  to  defy  the  vultures 
of  crime,  and  have  struck  bock  at 
the  racketeers,  securing  arrests 
and  convictions.  Completely  pre- 
pared at  all  times,  Clark  Gable 
carries  a  specially  made  auto- 
matic which  will  fit  even  under  a 
tuxedo  without  showing  a  bulge. 

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Just  to  keep  you  posted  on  the  doings  of 
radio's  celebrities  at  work  in  Hollywood 


Deanna  Durbin,  radio's  talented  child  star  and  the  season's  hit  in  Three 
Smart  Girls,  arrived  in  New  York  recently  on  a  brief  holiday  from  Hollywood. 


THEY  have  a  tough  time  shushing  the 
audience  when  Jack  Oakic  walks  up  to  the 
mike  on  the  CoUcyc  Hour.  For  Jack's 
always  attired  in  some  (jriginally  designed 
outfit  that  could  only  have  come  to  him  in 
a  moment  of  delirium.  Last  week  it  was 
a  black  and  white  checkered  gown,  and  a 
similarly  checkered  mortar-board,  with  a 
sweeping  red  silk  tassel,  adorned  his  brow. 

"Hope  I  ivon't  fiet  ihrniii/h  college  in 
thirteen  ■ureks,"  Jack  u'as  heard  to  mutter 
before  (/oiiuj  on  the  pruiirdiii. 

Deanna  Durbin  travels  to  England  this 
spring  for  a  command  performance  be- 
fore the  King  and  Queen.  And  a  year 
ago,  this  thirteen-year-old  girl  was  ringing 
up  the  cash-register  in  the  Los  Angeles 
Junior  High  cafeteria.  From  cashier  to 
the  Court  of  St.  James  is  really  being  a 
quick-change  artist. 

Before  Gladys  .Swarthont  and  Frank 
Chapman  left  for  the  I''ast  they  entertained 
with  an  informal  huffcl  pai'i\-  al  llic  new 
home  they  are  buiUlin-  in  H.  v.  rlv  Hills. 
Dining  tai)k-s  and  chair-  wi  ii'  iiiipii iviscd 
from  the  c,-irncn(crs'  i.ililc-  .nid  bcnclies 
and  the  only  ligliliim  w.is  from  ilie  fire- 
I)lacc  and  plumlicrs'  .mikIIis.  It  wasn't, 
however,   exactly  a  house-warming  since 


it  turned  out  to  be  one  of  California's 
"unusual"  nights — resembling  the  prairies 
of  Xorth  Dakota  in  a  blizzard — and  the 
furnace  had  not  yet  been  connected!  But 
the  evening  was  a  great  success.  Everyone 
caught  the  spirit  of  the  thing — even  those 
catching  pneumonia  at  the  same  time! 

Conrad  Thihaiilt  k-noi^'s  he's  in  Hollv- 
2VOod  noiv.  The  bariti>iie  soloist  on  Fred 
Astaire's  pro(/rani  sanii  until  he  li'as  readv 
to  drop  in  his  traelcs  the  other  day.  diirin'u 
a  reeent  sereen  lest  in  a  fdni  studio.  Tlien 
he  zeaited  <cilh  haled  breath  to  liear  llie 
outcome.    I-'inally  the  shidio  phoned: 

"Perfect!  Really  colossal!"  came  an 
enthused  voice  over  the  wire,  "Your  test, 
Mr.  Thibault,  is  stupendous.  However — 
you'll  have  to  take  another  one." 

"Wh- what's  that?"  stuttered  the  amazed 
baritone.     "What  for?" 


.Mr.  Thibault,"  came 
r.  "It  seems  zve  jor- 


-U-ell,  ril  let! 
ihe  unperturbed  a 
(jot  to  record  your  ihocc.'' 

Joe  Penner  decided  that,  though  several 
of  his  friends  play  golf  during  the  three 
o'clock  show,  they  still  should  not  be 
denied    enjoying    the    program.      So  he 

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Neglect  of 
Feminine  Daintiness  had  never 
tarnished  their  Romance 

OTHER  WIVES  envied  her  life-long 
honeymoon  .  .  .  told  their  hus- 
bands, often,  how  nice  he  was  to  her. 

It  is  not  easy  to  analyze  the  quali- 
ties that  make  romance  endure 
through  the  years.  Individuals  are  so 
different.  But,  in  one  respect  at  least, 
all  husbands  are  alike.  Lack  of  per- 
fect personal  cleanliness  in  a  woman 
is  a  fault  they  can  never  understand. 
And  few  things  are  so  apt  to  dampen 
a  man's  affection. 

Strangely  enough,  in  many  cases, 
a  woman  is  not,  herself,  aware  of 
neglect  of  proper  feminine  hygiene. 
She  would  be  shocked  to  learn  that 
she  is  guilty  of  not  being  thoroughly 
dainty.  Yet,  if  the  truth  were  known, 


many  a  case  of  "incompatibility" 
can  be  traced  to  this  very  fault. 

If  you  have  been  seeking  a  means 
of  feminine  hygiene  that  is  whole- 
some and  cleanly,  to  promote  inti- 
mate daintiness,  ask  your  doctor 
about  "Lysol"  disinfectant.  For  more 
than  50  years  this  scientific  prepara- 
tion has  been  used  for  feminine 
hygiene  by  thousands  of  women. 

"Lysol"  disinfectant  is  known  as 
an  effective  germicide.  Among  the 
many  good  reasons  for  this  are  these 
six  essential  qualities  which  "Lysol" 
provides — 


The  6  Special  Features  of  "Lysol" 

1.  NoN-CAUSl  lc  . .  ."Lysol"  in  the  proper  dilu- 
tion, is  g-jntlf  in  action.  It  contains  no  harm- 
t'ul  free  caustic  alkali. 

2.  Eri'ECTivENKSS ..  ."Lysol"  is  active  under 
practical  condi tions . . . in  the  presence  of 
organic  matter(such  as  dirt, mucus, serum, etc.). 

3.  Penetration... "Lysol"  solutions  spread 
because  of  low  surface  tension,  and  thus  vir- 
tually search  out  germs. 

4.  Economy.  .  ."Lysol,"  because  it  is  concen- 
trated, costs  less  than  one  cent  an  application 
in  the  proper  solution  for  feminine  hygiene. 

5.  Odor... The  cleanly  odor  of  "Lysol"  van- 
ishes promptly  after  use. 

6.  .S  r AKii.i  rv. .  "Lysol"  keeps  its/t<// strength 
no  matter  how  long  it  is  kept,  no  matter  how 
often  It  IS  uncorked. 


New!  Lysol  Hygienic  Soap  for  bath,  hands, 
and  comiilexion.  Cleansing  and  deodorant 

FACTS   ALL   WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

Bloo.nh,  1,1,  \    I  .  r  S  \,  I)'  ,,t.  4-R.S. 

Solr  Di  /ri',,/,r    ,,l  ■■!  VM>1"  disinfectant. 

lMc.,s.-  «n.l  n.c  the  hook  called  "LYSOL 
vs.  GERMS,"  w.th  facts  about  feminine 
hyuicne  and  other  uses  of  "Lysol." 


FOR    FEMININE  HYGIENE 


Streets 
City— 


UopyrUrht  19S7  by  Lehn  &  I 


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lam  tops  again 

-because  I  feel  andlool 
likemyoldselfoncemore^ 


"How  did  I  do  it? 

"I  just  reasoned  sensibly." 

YOU  Just  can't  be  happy  and  enjoy  life 
when  in  a  run-down  condition.  Poor 
health  and  poor  looks  won't  let  you. 

Fortunately,  straight  thinking  tells  lis 
that  vitality  and  pep  are  produced  l)y  en- 
ergy created  from  within ...  so  is  the  skin 
beautified  and  made  clear  from  within. 

How  natural  it  is  then  to  turn  to  the 
force  whicli  makes  all  this  possible. .  .those 
precious  red-blood-cells. 

Quite  often  these  cells  are  reduced  in 
number  or  in  strength.  Even  a  common 
cold  kills  tliese  cells  in  great  numbers. 
Worry,  overwork  and  undue  strain  take 
their  toll.  Sickness  literally  burns  them  up. 
Improper  diet  retards  the  development  of 
new  cells. 

Science  has  solved  this  problem  in  S.S.S. 
Tonic  because  it  lielps  you  regain  your 
blood  strength  within  a  short  space  of  time. 
Its  action  is  cumulative  and  lasting. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  whets  the  appetite.  Foods 
taste  l)etter.  ..natural  digestive  juices  are 
stimulated  and  finally  the  very  food  you 
eat  is  of  more  body  value.  A  very  impor- 
tant step  back  to  healtli. 

You,  too,  will  want  to  take  S.S.S.  Tonic 
because  of  deficient  stomach  digestive 
juices  and  rcd-blood-cells  to  restore  lost 
weight. .  .to  regain  <  nergy .  .  .to  strengthen 
nerves... and  add  glow  to  your  skin. 

Be  'tops'  again  with  more  vitality... 
more  j)eii...a  clear  skin  by  taking  the 
S.S.S.  Tonic  treatment.  Sliortly  you  will  be 
delighted  with  tlic  way  you  will  feel... 
your  fiicuds  will  compliment  you  on  the 
way  you  will  look. 

S.S.S. Tonic isespecially designed  to  build 
sturdy  iicalth  ...  its  remarkable  value  is 
time  tri<(l  .ind  .scientifically  proven .  .  .that's 
why  it  makes  you  feel  like  yourself  again. 

At  all  drupr  stores  in  two  convenient  sizes.  The 
larce  size  at  a  saving  in  price.  There  is  no  substi- 

npily.  No  ethical  dru)?- 


NOTHING  BUT 
THE  TRUTH? 


Microstars  'Met  down  their  hair" 
in   print,   answering   your  queries 


Tom  Howard  and  George  Shelton,  popular  radio  comedians,  seize  the 
chance  during  a  rehearsal  to  get  mixed  up  with  some  hot  music. 


How  did  you  get  your  first  chance 
on  the  networks? 


Al  Gofxlman  :  "fF/fi/c  dirccfint/  one  of 
I-lo  Z'tcujrld's  slwK'S.  the  lallcr  took  iiic  on 
tin-  ai)-  '«'ltli  him  on  liis  Chrysler  program." 


Bei 
.ukI  ( 
\al!c 


Cltiire:  "i  aim-  fioni  Hollywood 
d  guest   ptrlnniiance  with  Rudy 
"his  was  followed  by  many  other 
m-t    type    .sliows — the    la-t    licing  with 
-.liain  Jones.    Aly  prc^Liit   spdusdrs  were 
stcning  in — and  I  have  Ikcii  on  my  pres- 
ent hours  for  nearly  two  years." 

Irvin  S.  Cobb:  "Isomebody  offered  me 
money  to  do  so — and  I  took  it." 

\'ce  Lawnhurst:  "Radio  was  young — 
and  So  teas  I! 


Lanny  Ross:  "By  singing  on  a  Christ- 
mas morning  program  when  no  other  artist 
wanted  to  get  up  that  early." 

Margaret  Speaks:  "I  had  been  heard 
while  singing,  gratis,  one  Sunday  evening 
on  a  WOR  sustaining  program,  by  a  man 
interested  in  a  commercial  program." 

Cab  Calloway :  "My  first  netivork  break 
came  when  I  played  at  the  Cotton  Club  in 
Neiv  York,  praetieally  unknozvn  at  the 
time.  I  sang  about  a  little  girl  named 
Minnie,  the  Moocher,  over  the  air,  and  in 
a  short  time  the  entire  country  had  taken 
her  to  its  bosom  and  niy  hi-de-hi  along 
ivith  it." 

Lucille  Manners:  "Like  many  others,  I 
had  sung  over  IVOR,  which  was  a  local 
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Dear  Gladys: 

I  wish  you  could  see  the  lovely 
roses  that  just  came.  Jim  sent 
them  —  with  a  little  note  saying 
that  for  some  unfathomable  reason 
they  reminded  him  of  me  last 
night! 

So  I  am  writing  to  let  you  in 
on  the  secret.  My  skin  has  the 
fragrance  of  fresh  roses  these 
days — and  it  ieels  soft  as  rose 
petals,  too  —  because  I  am  using 
the  new  rose-scented  Armand 
Blended  Cream. 

Do  try  this  new  cream,  Glad 
it's  wonderlul.  It  cleanses  and 
freshens  your  skin  and  it's  de 
lightful  as  a  powder  base,  mas 
sage  cream  and  night  cream 
From  now  on  it's  my  one-and 
only  cream — because  it  makes  my 
"one-and-only"  tell  me  he  loves  me. 

Rapturously, 


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Armand,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  giving 
your  dealer's  name,  and  a  sample 
will  be  sent  you.  Or  buy  a  jar  of 
Armand  Blended  Cream  and  if  one 
day's  trial  doesn't  give  your  skin  a 
new  look  and  feel,  your  money  will 
be  cheerfully  refunded.  Trial  sizes 
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>tati(in  of  Newark,  X.  J.,  before  I  appeared 
at  XBC  for  an  audition.  In  other  words. 
I  liad  prepared  myself  first." 

Fred  Allen:  "A  sponsor  went  temporarily 
insane." 

Betty  Winkler:  '7  came  from  Station 
\\'TA\[  ill  CIcrclaiul  to  try  my  luck  at 
Cliii-aao's  XISC  studios.  First  I  mis  cast 
for  a  part  in  P.etty  and  Bob.  Later  I  be- 
came the  telephone  operator  on  Grand 
Hotel." 

Ted  Ilammersteiii :  "By 'thinking  of  the 
idea  at  the  same  time  tlie  idea  was  tliouglit 
of  by  the  head  of  one  of  our  best  agencies." 

Benay  Venuta:  "When  Ralph  Wonders 
heard  me  sing  at  a  banquet  in  Chicago  and 
I  had  a  fever  and  a  cold.  He  gave  me  my 
contract  a  few  weeks  later  for  CBS." 

Patrick  J.  Barrett  ( I'ncle  Ezra)  :  "/  was 
too  busy  -.eriliiio  my  slioie  to  kiuiic  luize  it 
happened.  Tlie  first  tJiuui  I  kneie  I  leas 
on  tlie  net'a'orks  .  .  .  thanks  to  my  spon- 
sors." 

Irene  Beasley:  "Tlinnigli  a  series  of  co- 
incidences, occurring  at  the  end  of  three 
years'  apprenticeship  on  local  stations  and 
recordings." 

Kenny  Baker:  "By  the  grace  of  God — 
and  Jack  Benny." 

-♦- 

.•\llie  Lowe  ]Miles  :  ".Vine  years  ai/o  the 
head  of  a  radio  department  reail  one  of  my 
food  articles  in  Pictorial  Review,  and  lelieii 
they  phoned,  ashiii;/  me  to  lerite  for  radio, 
I  thoiti/ht  it  leas  another  mai/arjine.  But  J 
did  the  cerilinn,  and  lehen  they  found  out 
I'd  I'cen  on  the  stai/e  and  in  the  mo'.ies, 
they  <ia-i\-  me  an  audition — and  I  zeeul  o)i 
the  air,  too." 

Benny  Fields:  "As  a  result  of  stage  and 
night  club  successes." 

Grace  Albert:  "By  coming  to  New  York 
with  nothing  in  view,  going  hungry  for  a 
long  time,  making  many  contacts,  waiting 
for  the  right  one  and  finally  auditioning 
for  NBC.  It  was  a  great  surprise  to  us 
when  we  were  offered  a  five-a-week  spot  on 
NBC — after  starving  only  seven  months." 

Lud  Gluskin :  "/  mis  brouijhl  to  the 
r..S..i.  from  the  Continent  by  NBC." 

Jimtnie  Fidler:  "I  soUl  myself.  Years 
;igo  I  was  doing  an  inter\'ie\\  ing  stint  on 
a'  program  called  Hollywood  on  the  .lir. 
I  worked  for  m<mtlis  ti.  persn.i<k'  llie  pro- 
dncers  to  let  )ne  ;iil<l  :i  niiiinli-  ..r  sn  of 
movie  gossip,  and  lin:ill\-  won  ibcm  over. 
1  always  tried  to  tell  adx  .  i  ti  .ing  men  tli.at 
some  day  a  Hollywood  gossip  show  would 
go  big— and  finally  met  ilie  rinlit  guy!" 
-♦- 

Eddy  Duchin:  "While  I  was  at  the  Cen- 
tral Park  Casino  in  1931,  over  CBS  net- 
work." 


Rex  Chandler,  whose  43-piece  or- 
chestra is  a  Friday  night  feature  on 
NfiC-Blue  network  at  9:00  p.m.,  EST. 

Allen  Prescott :  "Hazing  been  heard  on 
a  local  station,  then  auditioning.  It  lias 
alieays  I>een  my  firm  belief  that  it  ivas  an 
accident." 

Welcome  Lewis:  "Through  a  person 
hearing  a  test  record  I  made  for  a  small 
recording  company.  This  led  to  a  live  audi- 
tion and  an  XBC  contract  exclusively  for 
three  years.  My  first  appearance  was  a 
coast-to-coast  commercial,  and  from  then 
I  became  a  commercial  artist  for  NBC." 

Edgar  A.  Guest:  "It  came  to  me  un- 
solicited via  the  Graham  Paige  Motor  Com- 
pany program." 

Marian  Jordan:  "XBC  bought  WMAQ 
while  we  ivcrc  under  contract,  so  tvc  auto- 
matically started  to  work  for  NBC." 

Homer  Rodehcavcr:  "Broadcasting  a 
prograin  of  folk  songs  and  hymns,  the  first 
program  of  that  character  after  KDKA 
began  operation." 

Will  Hudson:  "My  first  chance  took  the 
form  of  a  guest  appearance  and  was  a 
result  of  the  sudden  and  unexpected  popu- 
larity awarded  my  song.  Tormented." 

Ethel  Bhime:  "]]'hen  I  was  se-ecn  I  first 
broadcast  with  the  Lady  Next  Door  chil- 
dren. But  I  really  dale  my  important  radio 
work  from  The  Rise  of  the  Goldbergs, 
■lehieh  opportunity  I  got  via  the  shorts  I 
made  with  F.ddie  Cantor." 

.lean  Paul  King:  "By  being  available  and 
liaving  a  background,  which  was  what  an 
announcer  should  liave — well  rounded.  (I'm 
against  specialized  education.)" 

Ross  Graham:  "Was  brought  to  New 
York  by  the  late  'Roxy'  and  through  his 
recommendation  and  competitive  auditions, 
I  finally  landed  on  the  networks." 

Bide  Dudley  :  "/  I'roke  in  on  a  local  sta- 
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Abundant 
Vitamin  B 


A  daily  supply  of  Vitamin  B— llie 
NERVE  VITAMIN— is  important 
to  keep  stomach,  bowels  and  in- 
testines strong  and  active  —  and 
assure  steady  nerves.  Eat  Fleisch- 
mann's  Yeast  regiilnrlv  to  malic 
sure  you  get  enough  Vitamin  B. 
It  is  one  of  the  foods  richest  in 


THE  SUI'EKB  I'lIYSICA  L  strength 
and  vigorous  health  of  Herman  Brix 
— Champion  Shot-Putter — prove  he 
gets  an  abundant  supply  of  the  4 
important  health  -  building  vita- 
mins. A,  B,  D  and  G. 


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Yet  a  Shortage  of  Even  ONE  Vitamin 
in  Your  Diet  Can  Lead  to  Impaired 

Health.  By  Eating  a  CONCENTRATED 

Supply  of  These  4  Vitamins  EVERYDAY 

You  Don't  Need  to  Worry  About  Getting 
Enough  of  Them  at  Mealtimes 


EACH  separate  vitamin  has 
its  own  special  part  to 
play  in  helping  to  keep  you 
healthy.  No  one  vitamin  can 
take  the  place  ot  any  other. 

Yet  —  our  ordinary  meals, 
dietitians  say,  often  fall  short 
in  one  or  more  of  these  neces- 
sary food  elements. 

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food  essentials  by  eating 
FLEISCHMANN'S  fresh 
YEAST. 

This  one  food  added  to  the 
diet  assures  an  extra  supply  of 
4  essential  vitamins,  A,  B,  D 
and  G.  No  other  single  food 
gives  you  such  an  abundant 
supply  of  (dl  U  of  these  vita- 
mins at  once. 

Just  eat  3  cakes  daily— a 
cake  about  ]/2  hour  before 
meals— plain,  or  in  a  little  wa- 
ter. You  need  the  added  daily 
vitamins  this  tonic  food  pro- 
vides. Start  eating  it  regularhj 
—today! 


Too  Little  Vitamin  C 
Means  Poor  Growth  ^ 

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Vitamin  G 

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GROWTH  VITA- 
MIN. A  plentiful 
supply  of  this  es- 
sential vitamin  is 
especially  impor- 
tant to  assure  prop- 
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the  body  tissues. 


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this  valuable 


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combined  Vitamins  A,B,  D  a/it/  G 


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description  of  the  most  amusing  and  helpful 
idea  I've  heard  of  in  a  long  time,  which  is 
guaranteed  to  keep  fruit  juice  in  a  Fruit 
Pie,  wliere  it  belongs,  instead  of  having  the 
juice  Inibi)lc  out  all  over  the  Ixittom  of  the 
ii\en — a  mean  little  trick  for  whicdi  Fruit 
Pies,  especially  Deep  Fruit  Pies,  are  fa- 
mous !  Oh.  yes.  Pve  had  that  happen  to  me 
n.ore  than  once,  haven't  you?  But  no  more, 
now  that  Fve  learned  this  simple  little  se- 
cret. But  Pm  not  going  to  give  \'oli  here 
in_\-  suggestion  for  the  better  control  of 
I'Vuit  I'le  Fillings,  because  then  \()u  may 
just  forget  it.  \Miereas,  if  it's  written 
dowij  for  you  on  one  of  those  recipe  cards, 
then  you'll  have  it  for  keeps!" 

I  don't  think  there's  anything  marvelous 
about  my  Coconut  Custard  Pie  recipe,  ex- 
cept that  it  always  seems  to  work  out  hue 
and  that  everyone  who  has  ever  tasted  it 
>cems  to  like  it  I  Where  all  pies  are  con- 
cerned, ui  ciiurse,  part  ni  the  success  can  be 
ereiliiLij  In  eiirrect  haknig  leniperatures  and 
tins  is  e^l)eciall.\  true  cf  Cu.-tard  Pies.  So 
you'll  he  plea.sed  tn  know  tliat  both  time  and 
temperature  requirements  are  given  on  the 
recipe  card,  as  well  as  a  careful  listing  of 
the  ingredients.  Right  here  I  want  to  tell 
you  about  a  Custard  Pie  trick  that  Nancy 
Wood.  Radio  Stars'  Hostess,  recently 
described  to  me.  And  this  is  a  trick,  no 
foolin' !  In  fact,  to  accomplish  it  success- 
fully, I  think  you'd  have  to  be  a  sleight-of- 
hand  artist,  eipial  to  the  best  of  those  who 
used  to  pla\-  on  the  bill  with  me  in  my 
vaudeville  da>  s  !  But  Miss  Wood  assures 
me  that  it  can  be  done  with  comparative 
ease,  so  I'll  pass  on  the  information  here. 

It  seems  that  you  bake  the  custard  filling 
for  the  pie  in  a  greased  pie  plate,  which 
should  be  exactly  the  same  size  as  the  pie 
plate  in  which  you  have  liaked  the  pastry 
shell  for  the  pie.  But  each  is  baked  separ- 
ately, mind  you— the  custard  slowly,  as  all 
good  custards  should  be.  the  |)astry  shell 
more  quickly  and  in  a  manner  that  I  shall 
speak  about  a  little  later  on. 

Then,  just  before  serving  time,  you 
loosen  the  cooked  custard  pie  filling  from 
the  utensil  in  which  it's  cooked  and,  with  a 
gentle  shake  or  two,  you  >hp  the  filling  into 
the  previousl\-  baked  shell.  Vou  luitice  that 
I  say  "you  slip  it,"  for  though  I  was  as- 
sured that  this  is  a  system  always  followed 
b.\-  a  famous  restaurant  in  Xew  York,  I 
i;ersonall\-  prefer  to  stick  to  the  method  my 
dear  grandmother  taught  me.  It's  been 
good  eiH)Ugh  for  the  Haiihys  and  the 
Smiths  for  years,  so  why  change  now?' 
But  if  you  like  to  experiment,  here's  .\<>ur 
chance  !  Just  use  this  scheme  and  my  Cus- 
tard Pie  Rccijie  and  he  sure  to  let  me  know 
how  you  make  out  I  I  may  have  to  come  to 
it  yet,  myself  I 

Pies,  generally  speaking,  come  under  four 
headings,  at  least  that's  the  way  I've  always 
gronix  d  iheni  in  my  mind.  There  are  the 
opeii-i.-iced  ])ies  with  a  lower  crust  only, 
deep-dish  i)ies  with  only  an  upper  crust, 
two-crust  pie-i  as  numerous  as  the  moons 
I've  brought  over  the  mountains,  and  the 
refrigerator  style  of  pies  with  their  special, 
unliaked  shells  which  are  so  easy  to  make 
tliat  it's  no  wonder  they're  growing  more 
popular  daily.    Come  to  think  of  it,  I'll  try 


to  hnd  one  of  those  very  recipes  in  my 
files  to  give  you  next  month  when,  unless 
my  present  plans  miscarry,  I  expect  to  tell 
you  about  all  of  the  easiest  dishes  I've  ever 
heard  of  or  tried  out  1 

You  noticed,  of  course,  at  the  beginning 
of  this  article,  the  picture  which  shows  you 
how  to  make  a  good-looking  pie  shell — one 
that  doesn't  hump  up  in  spots  or  slide 
away  from  the  edge  of  the  pan!  Well,  at 
tlie  end  of  this  article  I'm  going  to  tell  you 
how  to  go  about  doing  it,  and  I'm  also  going 
to  give  you  my  favorite  pastry  recipe, 
which  is  sufficient  for  two  pie  shells,  or  one 
two-crust  pie.  Then  you  can  try  out  this 
scheme  as  well  as  the  Custard  Pie  trick. 

The  secret  of  good  pastry,  I  once  was 
told  by  a  famous  chef,  lies  "in  handling — 
or  rather  in  not  handling — the  pastry."  To 
which  I  would  add  my  two-cents'  worth  by 
sav  ing  that  I  consider  that  the  way  you  add 
the  water  is  of  equal  importance.  What's 
more,  I'm  willing  to  bet  that  that  is  where 
most  people  make  their  big  mistake.  So 
follow,  very,  very  carefully,  the  directions 
given  here. 

I  do  hope  all  these  pie  suggestions  will 
prove  helpful.    And  now  to  Puddings. 

Puddings  also  can  be  grouped  under  a 
number  of  general  headings.  There  are 
baked  puddings,  which  are  served  hot  or 
cold ;  there  are  boiled  puddings,  which,  gen- 
erally speaking,  are  then  chilled  thoroughly 
before  serving;  there  are  steamed  puddings 
(of  which  I  am  giving  you  an  example  be- 
fore signing  off),  which  most  frequently 
are  served  hot ;  and  of  course  there  are 
what  I'll  call  "refrigerated  puddings," 
which  may  require  some  heat  in  their  prep- 
aration— such  as  boiled  water  or  a  hot  cus- 
tard base — or  they  may  require,  after  mix- 
ing, only  chilling  or  actual  freezing.  This 
last  type  of  dessert  is  a  subject  in  itself,  so 
I  shall  save  that  for  s'ome  future  article. 
But  I'm  going  to  give  you  what  I  consider 
to  be  one  prize  example  of  each  of  the 
other  types  of  puddings. 

One  is  Butterscotch  Tapioca  with  Butter- 
scotch Sauce.  The  sauce— a  special  recipe 
of  mine — is  one  I  use  on  all  sorts  of  des- 
serts besides  this  particular  pudding.  Grand 
on  sponge  cake,  for  instance,  and  just 
about  perfect  on  ice  cream.  Recipes  for 
both  the  Tapioca  and  the  Butterscotch 
Sauce  are  in  my  leaflet  for  this  month. 

There  also  you  will  find  a  recipe  for  the 
tempting  Pudding  you  see  pictured  at  the 
beginning  of  this  article,  which  has  been 
baked  in  an  oven  glass  casserole  so  that  it 
can  be  brought  to  tlie  table  in  the  same  dish, 
without  disturbing  its  attractive  appearance. 
This  baked  pudding  has  another  feature  to 
recommend  it  besides  appearance  and  taste, 
and  that's  economy.  For  here  you  have  a 
suggestion  that  is  really  swell  for  using 
left-over  cereal.  The  recipe  also  calls  for 
apples  and  stewed  apricots. 

Well,  friends,  that  leaves  me  just  about 
room  enough  here  to  give  you  those  two 
recipes.  If  you'd  like  to  have  my  other 
favorite  "Pudding  and  Pie"  recipes,  just 
send  in,  for  the  leafiet.  Thanks  for  writing 
.  And  thanks  for  listening  to  my 
Band  JVagon  broadcast  and  for  sending  in 
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because  of  the  3-way 
protection  of  Kotex 


o 


e AH T  CHAFE 


The  sides  of  Kotex 
are  cushioned  in  a  special,  soft,  downy  cotton  to  prevent  chafing 
and  irritation.  Thus  Wondersoft  Kotex  provides  lasting  comfort 
and  freedom.  But  sides  only  are  cushioned —the  center  surface 
is  free  to  absorb. 


CAHTFAIL 


By  actual  test  Kotex  ab- 
sorbs many  times  its  ov/n  weight  in  moisture!  A  special  "Equal- 
izer center  guides  moisture  evenly  the  whole  length  of  the 
pad.  Gives  "body"  but  not  bulk  —  prevents  twisting  and  roping. 


CAHTSHOW, 


The  rounded  ends  of 
Kotex  are  flattened  and  tapered  to  provide  absolute  invisibil- 
ity. Even  the  sheerest  dress,  the  closest-fitting  gown,  reveals 
no  tell-tale  lines  or  wrinkles. 

3  TYPES  OF  KOTEX  ALL  AT  THE  SAME  LOW  PRICE  — 

Regular,  Junior,  and  Super— for  different  women,  different  days. 


WONDERSOFT  KOTEX 


A   SANITARY  NAPKIN 

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TAKEHOCHiScES 

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Give  teeth  the  Double 
Protection  they  need 

IF  you  are  now  using  an  ordinary  tooth 
paste,  your  teeth  may  be  white  and 
sparkling;  but  unless  your  gums  are 
sound  and  healthy,  you  are  running  the 
risk  of  serious  dental  trouble. 

Forhan's  Tooth  Paste  was  developed 
by  an  eminent  dental  surgeon  to  do  both 
vital  jobs — clean  teeth  and  safeguard 
gums. 

End  half-way  care  today  by  adopting 
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Forhan's  today.  The  hig,  nerv  tube  saves 
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anthi-ntir.  All  (hinim  thvir  urowin-  vears 
Ihcv  spun  snniiiKTs  with  irunds  and  rtda- 
livcs  ar.mnd  Hcndcrs, au  illc  and  Ashcville, 
Xdi  th  (  aia  lima,  and  ni  Dnuyhis.  Gcoraia, 
where  ihe\  lcanK-<l  lii!l-hill\'  soiiys  and 
language. 

The  liilldiilhes  and  crackers  would 
come  d<nvn  and  sell  (lowers  m  the  hotels. 
.\nne  remarks.  and  the\(l  siive  s(iuarc 
dances.  We  useil  tn  uo  lo  tliem.  It  one 
ol  the  l)n\s  asks  vou  In  dance  and  vou 
refuse,  lliey're  mortally  insulted." 

"Then  there  was  one  time."  Judy  cuts 
in,  "when  we  took  one  girl  for  a  ride  in 
our  car.    She  sat  huddled  in  a  corner.  .  .  ." 

"Seemed  scared  tci  death."  Zeke  inter- 
rupted. Thc\'re  aK\a\  s  cnttint;  in  on  one 
another,  with  l;< u m Inatiirt d  interruptions. 

"Y<ai  tell  it,  Anne,"  Jnd\  sa\s.  and  Anne 
goes  on  : 

"So  I  said  to  her:  AVhat's  the  matter. 
.M)ti"re  not  hashful,  are  you?'  .\nd  she  sort 
cif  si|uirmed,  and  said:  'Il\--r-ll,  Ihry  tell 
iiw  all  ay-i'iii!'  "  You  can't,  of  course  re- 
produce Anne's  whinew  miinicking  drawl. 

".\nd  then,"  Jud\  miiis,  "we  aske<l  her 
did  she  have  any  hnitlu-rs  and  sisters,  and 
she  said:  '.Mi  hev  sistulis  .  ,  .  three  whole 
an'  one  half.' 

The  Caiiovas'  first  radio  effort  was  over 
il'J.^X  in  Jacksonville,  when  .\nne  and 
Judy  did  an  act  called  The  Happy  Girls. 
They  claim  the  listeners  went  to  the  Radio 
Ccimniission  and  begged  to  have  them 
taken  ofi.  they  were  so  terrible! 

"We  bad  the  laugh  on  them,"  Judy 
chuckles,  "when  we  went  on  NBC,  a  few 
\cars  later." 

While  Anne  and  Zeke  were  in  Cincin- 
nati, thc>-  got  some  time  on  a  Cincin- 
nati station.  Judy,  who  was  still  in  school, 
wrote  plaintive  letters,  saying:  "Cnn't  I 
quit  school  anil  (■(iiiw  ;c;7/;  you/"  But 
they  told  her  to  wait,  thai  they  were 
coinin.g  back  to  the  South  to  rehearse  and 
collect  more  hilly-billy  songs,  Wlien  they 
started  out  again  as  the  (.'roriiia  Crackers. 
Judy  was  inclu<led,  a-  well  as  Big  Brother 
Pete,  who  11. iw  acts  as  manager  for  them 
aiul  no  longer  perioriiis.  They  did  every- 
thing jiossiide  to  build  up  the  hill-billy 
background,  even  to  wearing  the  queer 
clothes  offstage, 

Thev  got  a  job  at  the  (rrccim'ich  Village 
/?,)(■;), 'in  New-  York,  and  "donl)le<l"  at  the 
J'illa</c  Xiit  Cliih.  for  lifty  dollars  weekly, 
each,  1"hat  was  in  January,  19.^1,  In 
.May  of  that  year  tin 
l-.oina,  with  I'.ob  .\llir 
for  awhile,  then  wiiit 
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with  .111  RKO  unit 
lilaved  considerable 

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went  into  the 


Zieijjeld  I'ollies  and  Zeke  and  Anne  played 
in  a  Florida  supper  club, 

Paul  Whiteman  saw  Judy  in  the  Folliei 
and  mentioned  to  Bert  McMurtie  ol 
CA'.V  that  she  might  be  a  good  bet.  Mo 
-Murtie,  who  knew  the  Canovas  from  theii 
Villatje  Burn  days,  mentioned  that  they 
worked  as  a  threesome  and  they  were 
signed  as  guest  stars :  then  as  a  regular 
attraction  to  the  W^hiteman  show. 

They  like  stage  work  and  radio,  but 
don't  care  so  much  for  night  clubs,  after' 
the  hectic  days  of  doubling  two  clubs. 
They  all  live  together — Judy,  Anne,  Zeke, 
Pete  and  their  mother.  Mother,  incident- 
ally, was  the  first  to  suggest  that  they  do 
hill-I)illy  stuff,  and  now  she  hates  it.  She 
once  w(in  a  prize  in  Florida  as  the  best 
"ragtime"  pianist,  and  to  prove  it  she 
pl.iyed  the  old  Maple  Leaf  Rag. 

"I  iila\e(l  on  the  program  once,"  she 
says.  "The  number  was  Take  Yon  Home, 
Kathleen,  and  I  got  so  many  letters,  they 
(the  children)  wouldn't  let  me  on  the 
program  a.iiain." 

"We  made  some  color  movies  of 
Alother,"  Judy  says,  aside,  "and  wdien  she 
saw  herself  she  said  :  A\'hy,  I  didn't  know 
I  could  act !  I  guess  I'd  better  go  out  to 
Hollywood  and  go  in  pictures!'"' 

"Tell  about  Sally  Rand,  Zeke,"  Judy 
prompted. 

"\\'ell,  "  Zeke  grinned,  "we  were  work- 
ing on  the  bill  with  her  in  Chicago  and 
there  was  some  talk  about  pinnin'  a  medal 
on  her.  .  .  " 

".And  Zeke  says  :"  Ju<ly  cut  in,  ''  'where 
on  earth  can  they  pin  a  medal  on  Sally 
Rand.'  " 

Some  recordings  of  their  programs  had 
just  arrived  and  Judy  got  the  machine 
going.  It  blared  just  as  Anne  spoke  her 
line  on  the  record. 

"Listen  to  li'l  ol'  .\nnie — you  sho'  do 
blare  out!"    Judy  chuckled. 

"Play  the  one  where  the  bandits  kid- 
naped Annie,"  Zeke  said.  But  they  couldn't 
find  the  record, 

"Did  y{)u  bear  that  program?"  Anne 
asked,  "I  was  supposed  to  be  kidnaped 
by  bandits.  .  . 

"They  were  gonna  shoot  .Annie,"  Judy 
announced,  "She  was  brushin'  her  teeth 
an'  they  thought  she  had  hydrophobia," 

Zekc's  voice  on  the  record  was  announc- 
ing solemnly  :  " Ay  guardian  is  ay  music  box 
that  you  play  by  squecjin'  it,"  while  Judy 
showtxl  me  a  charm  bracelet  slie  wears. 
"Anne  gave  me  this  little  guitar,"  she 
said,  "and  Zeke  gave  me  this  little  purse. 
Mr.  Whiteman  gave  mc  this  little  gold 
caricature  of  him.self  .  ,  "  There  was  also 
a  tiny  baby  carriage  and  a  miniature  pair 
of  ice-tongs  with  a  tiny  piece  of  ice 
them,  on  the  bracelet.  Oh — and  I  forgot, 
a  little  gold,  jointed  fish. 

The  record  was  playing  on,  "Aniiie- 
leliat  paily  do  you  belong  to?"  it  played. 
"Xone''  answered  Anne's  voice.    "/  aiii' 

"It  was  innny  aliout  that,"  Anne  smile<l. 
"The  \er\   ne.\t  day  after  that  broadcast. 
I   (lid   get    married,  on  November  2nd- 
to  l);.n  r.ellamy.  He's  just  graduated  from 
\\  (  st    I'  int.     (Contnnurd   on  page  109) 


RADIO  STARS 


{Continued  from  page  66) 
pecial  Kate  Smith  awards  and  the  Coni- 
land  Appearance.  Remember,  I'll  be 
reeling  you  again  over  the  air  waves 
lext  Thursday  night,  at  eight— and  in 
his  magazine  again  next  month! 

STEAMED   COFFEE  PUDDING 

%  cup  nut  meats,  c/iopped 

V-i  cup  seedless  raisins,  chopped 

Vi  cup  citron,  chopped  fine 

1  egg 

2  cups  dry  cake  crumbs 

cup  sweetened  condensed  milk 
Yi  cup  strong  black  coffee 

Grease  a  mold  thorouglilx ,  t"]i  and  all. 
Instead  of  a  mold,  the  l<'])  ni  a  dnnlilc 
)oiler  may  be  U'^cd  I)  Sprinkle  witli  cnni- 
)ined  nut  mcat^,  lai^iiiN  and  citmn.  Blend 
ogether  well-l(cati,ti  c-l;  and  cake  crumbs. 
Place  a  layer  of  cake  mixture  in  bottom  of 
old.  Sprinkle  with  nut  meat-,  rai-.ins  and 
itron.  Continue  altcin.itim;  in  this  way 
intil  all  are  used.  Blend  tn^eti^er  the 
wectened  condensed  milk  and  coffee:  pour 
n'er  other  ingredients  in  mold.  Cook  for 
1  hour  over  boiling  water.  Serve  warm 
with  hard  sauce  or  sweetened  whipped 
ream.    Serves  6. 

PASTRY 

cups  sifted  flour 
%  teaspoon  salt 
Va  cup  butter 

%  cup  lard  or  vegetable  shortening 
Cold  Zi'afer  (about  4  tahlesl^naus) 

Sift  flour,  measure.  Add  salt  and  sift 
.gain.  Cut  in  the  shortening  until  a  coarse, 
mealy  mixture  is  formed — using  two  knives 
pastry  mixer,  not  your  fingers.  Add 
just  enough  cold  water  (preferably  ice 
water)  to  make  a  dough  that  will  iiold  to- 
gether, 4  or  5  tablespoons  is  enough.  Add 
the  water  a  little  at  a  time,  mixing  it  in 
lightly  with  a  fork.  Wrap  pastry  in  wax 
paper  and  chill  in  refrigerator  for  1  hour 
before  rolling.  Divide  chilled  pastry  into 
two  portions  and  roll  each  on  slightly 
floured  board  to  ^s-inch  thickness.  Makes 
one  2-crust  pie  or  two  pie  shells. 

PASTRY  SHELLS 

(See  illustration  on  Page  13) 
Here's  a  trick  that  will  enable  you  to 
make  a  "form  fitting"  pie  shell — one  that 
comes  out  of  the  oven  perfectl\-  flat  on  tlic 
bottom,  without  a  bublile  or  Innnp  to  spoil 
the  symmetry  of  the  pic  filling.  Here's 
what  you  do.  Take  two  oven  glass  pie 
plates.  Line  one  with  pasfr\-,  pressing 
dough  lightly  to  fit  it.  Trim  and  lute  the 
edge.  Set  the  other  pic  plate  into  the  pas- 
try-lined pie  plate  and  bake  in  hot  oven 
(425°  F.)  to  a  golden  brown  (l.S-2fl  nu'n- 
utes).  The  weight  of  the  l"])  pie  pl.ate 
keeps  the  crust  in  place  and  enal)les  yon  to 
turn  out  a  real  "streamlined"  pie  shell. 


Kate  Smith, 
Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  your 
Puddings  and  Pies. 

Name   

Street   

City  


for 


State 


Discovered!  A  tasty 
nourishing  dish 


ORDINARY  "economy  dishes"  often 
make  dull  eating.  But  not  Franco- 
American  Spaghetti.  It  has  flavor,  food 
value  —  everything!  Yet  a  can  holding 
three  to  four  portions  is  usually  no 
more  than  lOf^ — less  than     a  portion. 

Serve  Franco  -  American  today.  See 
how  different  it  is  from  ordinary  ready- 
cooked  spaghetti  .Taste  its  savory  cheese- 
and-tomato  sauce  containing  eleven  dif- 
ferent ingredients.  Delicious  to  heat  and 
eat  just  as  it  comes  from  the  can.  Or 


try  the  tempting  casserole  dish  below. 
Tuna  and  Spaghetti  Casserole 
(Serves  3  —  costs  just  30c) 

1  can  Franco-American  Spaghetti 
1 '  2  teaspoons  minced  onion 
1  small  can  tuna  fish         2  strips  bacon 

Place  a  layer  of  Franco-American  in  a  greased 
casserole.  Add  some  of  the 
flaked  tuna  fish  and  onion. 
Alternate  layers  of  spaghetti, 
fish  and  onion  until  all  is  used. 
Arrange  bacon  strips,  cut  in  I  y 
half,  over  top.  Bake  in  hot  SPAGHt^ 
oven  f425°F.)  until  casserole  I 
is  well  heated  and  bacon  aisp. 


Franco -^Imericon  spaghetti 


THE    KIND    WITH  THE 


GOOD  SAUCE 


MADE  BY  THE  MAKERS  OF  CAMPBELL'S  SOUPS 


09 


RADIO  STARS 


MILLIONS  SUFFER 
FROM  FEAR 


Through  unnecessary  ignorance 


tONSl'LT  DOCTOR  IF  IN  DOUBT 


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IN  12 


5  A  V  A  U 

FACE  POWDER 


The  fineness  of  texture  that  lets 
Savage  cling  so  endlessly,  also  makes  the  skin  appear 
more  truly  porelcss  .  .  .  smoother  .  .  .  ever  so  much 
smoother  to  see  .  .  .  and  so  much  softer  to  touch! 
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70 


ALWAYS  PLAY  A  LUCKY  HUNCH 


(Coiitiniicd  from  Page  4.^ 


started  out  bright  and  early  the  ne.xt  day 
to  interview  a  friend  wlio  ran  a  local 
radio  station,  he  didn't  succeed  in  selling 
his  brainstorm  that  day.  Nor  the  next. 
Xor  the  next.  But  he  liad  so  much  faith 
that  no  number  of  firm  no's,  nor  any 
amount  of  raucous  laughter  from  wise- 
acres, daunted  him. 

Finally  he  sold  it.  On  Septeinljcr  1st, 
1930,  Do  Vol,  ll\,iit  to  Be  An  Act^o  .'  hrst 
went  out  over  tlic  ether  waves  of  KI-II'H. 
Warner  Broiherh'  llull}wood  station. 
Ha\en  received  less  than  peanuts  as  sal- 
ary— or  exactly  nothing.  Who  cared? 
People  liked  the  show.    It  was  a  mild  hit. 

Interestingly,  McQuarrie's  original  pro- 
gram, which  he  broadcast  that  first  night, 
is  not  the  one,  even  though  it  has  the 
same  title,  that  you  iiear  now  over  the 
national  Chase  and  Sanborn  hour.  It 
has  developed  from  the  friendly  interest 
of  his  audience.    As  he  explains : 

"I'm  an  old  vaudevillian,  a  comic.  My 
act  was  comedy  which  poked  fun.  In 
vaudeville,  you  have  to  let  the  audience  in 
on  the  laugh,  and  one  of  the  tricks  of  doing 
this  is  to  pick  some  individual  and  kid  him 
publicly.  That  was  the  idea  of  the  radio 
program.  It  was  the:  'Oh,  yc-a!i.  so  yon 
leant  to  be  an  aetor,  do  yon/  Let's  see 
liozc  lousy  yon  are  anil  let's  let  people 
laugh  at  you!' 

"I  started  out  making  fun  of  my  acting 
candidates.  People  laughed,  but — after 
that  first  broadcast,  I  received  160  letters 
in  the  mail  from  persons  who  actually 
thought  I  had  figured  out  some  way  to 
help  them  become  actors.  They  were  sin- 
cere. I  thought  it  over  and  decided  that 
the  ways  of  vaudeville  were  not  radio 
ways.  Radio  was  friendlx-.  warm,  sincere 
— not  smart-aleck  and  w  i^e-cracking.  Call 
it  a  Ininch  again,  if  you  want  to,  or  just 
straight  thinking,  hut  I  suddenly  changed 
my  whole  program  style.  I  decided  that 
I  would  help  people.  If  they  really  wanted 
a  chance  to  be  actors  and  thought  they 
could  get  some  help  out  of  appearing  on 
my  programs,  I'd  give  it  to  them. 

"And  that's  the  way  that  Do  You  Want 
To  Be  .In  .ictor.'  developed  to  the  form 
which  we  use  today.  .\ny  kid  between 
seventeen  and  twenty  can  write  to  me  and 
ask  for  an  application  blank.  Applicants, 
n:  due  time,  are  notified  where  to  appear 
for  a  preliminary  interview  with  the  Can- 
didate Committee,  who  i)ick  the  kids  who 
seem  most  promising  and  schedule  them 
for  appearance  on  the  programs.  I  don't 
interview  them  until  I  see  Iheni  on  the 
stage,  the  night  of  tlie  broadcast.  I  don't 
know  who  they  are.  I  don't  want  to 
know.  Which  brings  iii>  a  funny  story : 
"Once,  siiortly  after  I  started,  I  found 
a  leller  ni  tlic  mail  hag  one  day,  asking 
tor  an  application  blank,  ending  up  with 
a  i)aragrapli  which  ran  like  this: 

"'1  hope  you  are  sincere  in  ivhat 
you  are  tryin,/  to  do.  If  not  I  hope 
yon  iiet  popped  right  in  the  jaiv  and 
I  aui  the  guy  z^'ho  -a'ill  do  it.' 

"The  application  blank  was  sent  as  a 


matter  of  routine,  and  1  forgot  all  about 
the  letter  until  a  few  weeks  later,  whenj 
the  audience  picked  from  the  lineup  a  big, 
iuisky  six-footer  with  a  grim,  deternn'ned 
jaw.  His  name  sounded  familiar,  I 
ilinught.    Tiien  I  asked: 

"  '.\re  \  ou  the  fellow  who  wrote  h( 
would  pop  me  in  the  jaw,  if  I  were  no 
on  the  level?' 

"  Ves,  I  am,'  he  said,  with  a  muscle 
jaw  relaxing. 

"  'W  ell,'  I  said,  "how  do  you  feel  aboU 
it  now?    You're  here,  aren't  you?' 

"He  grinned.    'I  know  you're  okay  and 
hope  I'm  okay,'  lie  answered. 

"Well,  it  happened  that  he  was.  Bobb] 
Webb,  casting  director  for  United  Artists 
liappened  to  be  in  the  audience  that  eve 
ning,  liked  the  looks  of  this  fellow  am 
gave  him  a  small  job  the  ne.xt  day.  Th( 
job  was  to  last  for  eight  weeks,  and,  for 
all  I  know,  the  kid  may  be  working  yet. 
Xo,  he  didn't  show  great  dramatic  prom 
ise,  but  he  wasn't  bad  and  he  got  his 
chance,  didn't  he  ? 

"That's  all  we  can  do  on  this  show- 
give  these  girls  and  boys  an  opportunity 
to  see  if  they  have  any  stufif,  and  if  they 
can  project  it  so  that  it  sells. 

"Now  we  have  a  marvelous  tie-up  with 
Warner  Brothers  Studio,  and  two  kids 
are  picked  for  screen  tests  from  every 
broadcast.  So  far,  but  it's  early  yet,  none 
of  the  chosen  liave  been  signed  to  con- 
tracts, but — give  us  a  little  time." 

McQuarrie  is  definite  in  demanding"  that 
the  girls  and  boys  who  appear  on  his  pro- 
gram are  between  the  ages  of  seventeen 
and  twenty.  Why? 

"Well,  I  feel  that  kids  younger  than 
seventeen  have  not  definitely  formulated 
their  ambitions.  They  aren't  sure  what 
they  want  to  do.  Wanting  to  act  may  be 
just  a  ])hase  they  are  going  through.  But 
at  seventeen,  they  are  old  enough  to  know 
what  thc\-  want  to  try  to  do,  and  they 
should  be  helped  in  trying  to  do  it.  If, 
by  twenty,  they  have  done  nothing  about 
their  ambition,  it's  too  late,  so  far  as  I  am 
concerned. 

"For,  older  than  twenty,  I  feel  they  are 
trying  not  to  fulfill  a  definite  ambition, 
but  reaching  for  some  emotional  satisfac- 
tion which  they  feel  this  program  can 
supply.  They're  not,  even  if  they  don't 
know  it,  on  the  level.  For  kids  between 
seventeen  and  twenty,  who  are  really  try- 
ing to  find  their  place  in  life,  I  try  either 
to  kill  (he  luig,  or  develop  the  germ  for 
them.  Sa>-,  1  know  about  acting-mad  kids. 
I  was  one  once,  myself.  I  go  through 
everything  those  kids  go  through  up  here 
on  tlie  stage.    I  feel  it  all." 

What  type  of  man  is  Haven  McQuarrie? 
A  tall,  serious,  actorish  looking  fellow 
with  long  hair  and  fancy  cravats?  No, 
he's  big  and  genial,  on  the  business-man 
order,  stands  nearly  six  feet,  weighs  about 
one  liundred  and  seventy-five  pounds,  has 
Scotch-Irish  eyes  which  twinkle,  a  rapidly 
thinning  head  of  hair,  and  a  casual,  pleas- 
ant manner,  minus  histrionics.  When  he 
talks,  you  feel  he  means  what  he  is  saying. 
He  has  a  way  of  conveying  sincerity  in 


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a  plain,  straight-forward  way. 

A  sentimentalist?  Oh,  sure!  Get  him 
on  the  subject  of  his  wife  and  his  children, 
or  watch  him  closely  as  he  works  with 
the  kids  on  his  program.  Talk  to  him 
about  his  lucky  hunches,  his  faith  in  life. 

Speaking  of  hunches.  After  he  had  ap- 
peared for  nine  weeks  on  the  local  Los 
Angeles  station,  still  getting  less  than  pea- 
nuts, or  exactly  nothing,  for  his  efforts, 
he  had  a  sudden  offer  from  Jack  Warner, 
\'ice-President  in  charge  prodiictinii,  at 
the  Warner  Brothers  \iMiu,n  Picture 
Studio.  Warner,  just  lionie  in  mi  luirope, 
had  idly  tuned  in  on  his  radi.i  the  night  be- 
fore, heard  McQuarric  ainl,  being  an  astute 
showman,  knew  that  here  was  sometiiing 
big.  He  sent  for  McOn.irrie,  waved  a 
$10,000  check  in  front  of  his  nnse,  and  an 
oflfer  to  buy  the  rights  to  the  show  out- 
right. 

"Gosh,  how  I  needed  that  money  1" 
Haven  says  now.  "It  reinesented  a  for- 
tune to  me.  But,  wasn't  this  show  my 
lucky  hunch?  Hadn't  I  promised  myself 
1  would  follow  it  all  the  way  through?  I 
was  gambling  for  a  big  strike.  This  was 
no  time  to  give  in  for  a  paltry  $10,000, 
even  if  I  did  need  a  new  pair  of  shoes !  So, 
I  said :  'No,  not  interested,  and  besides  1 
want  to  be  a  motion  picture  director.'  " 

Jack  Warner  not  only  was  impressed 
with  McQuarrie's  nonchalance,  but,  more 
than  that,  he  badly  wanted  part  of  that 
program.  They  finally  signed  a  con- 
tract in  which  McQuarrie  got  a  bonus, 
got  a  contract  as  motion  picture  director, 
and  sold  only  a  small  slice  of  the  show. 

And  that's  why,  because  he  kept  play- 
ing  his   hand,    Haven   now   gets  $5,000 


weekly  from  Chase  and  Sanborn,  of 
which,  it  is  estimated,  he  can  keep  about 
53,500  weekly  for  himself.  Next  year,  if 
he  continues  to  be  popular,  he  gets  $6,000, 
and  the  year  following,  ?7.()()().    N.-t  bad  I 

Lucky  guy?  "Nope,"  lie  will  tell  ynu. 
"just  a  fellow  who  believes  in  iuinelies 
aiKl — pla>s  tlieni!" 

lie  tells  a  little  stury  to  show  how  luck 
continues  to  follow  \(>u,  once  it  starts  to 
come  your  way.  "The  day  after  I  signed 
with  Warners,  I  said  to  my  wife;  Honey, 
now  that  we've  got  a  little  cash,  why  don't 
you  get  yourself  a  really  nice  dress? 
Something  that  costs  dough.' 

"Of  course,  my  wife  is  wonderful;  she 
never  peeped  about  being  poor  or  wanting 
dresses  or  this  or  that,  and  I  suppose  I 
got  to  thinking  she  didn't  care  about  them, 
so  I  was  awfully  surprised  to  hear  her 
speak  up  and  say:  'I  know  just  the  dress. 
I've  been  looking  at  it  in  the  window, 
every  day,  ever  since  the  Warner  deal 
came  up!' 

"She  went  down  the  next  morning  and 
that  very  day  the  dress  had  been  reduced 
fifty  dollars !  We  could  have  afforded  the 
extra  fifty,  but — everything  was  now 
breaking  for  us,  and  we  didn't  have  to  pay 
it." 

But  because  McQuarrie  told  his  wife  to 
blow  herself  on  a  dress,  don't  figure 
they've  gone  big-rich  in  Hollywood  yet. 
They  still  live,  and  he  swears  they  will 
continue  to  live,  in  their  house  (mortgage 
now  paid)  on  the  top  of  a  high  Hollywood 
hill.  No  Beverly  Hills  mansions  for  them. 
No  colored  chauffeurs.    No  swank. 

"Why,"  asks  McQuarrie,  "should  we 
fall  for  that  baloney,  when  we've  seen  so 


much  of  it  in  Hollywood?  You  can  drink 
only  two  cups  of  coffee  at  a  meal.  You 
can  cat  only  three  meals  a  day.  Why  go 
to  a  lot  of  fuss  about  them?  I  get  more 
out  of  life  iiv  doinu  than  l.v  L;ettiiig.  That's 
uliy  tills  iii-o,m-.iii>  1-,  -iK-h  a  kick.  I'm 
heliuii-  ki(K  do  Mjiiielliiiiy  with  ihcm- 
sel\es." 

McQuarrie  started  on  the  stage  long 
before  the  age  limit  he  prescribes  for  can- 
didates in  his  show  At  four,  he  made  his 
stage  debut.  .At  fourteen,  he  was  playing 
in  stock  in  San  l-"rancisco.  At  eighteen 
he  was  producing  and  writing  his  own 
vaudeville  sketches.  For  a  while  lie  gave 
up  show  business  and  sold  auloiiiobiles, 
and  lie   s,i\ be   nia<lr   more   mom  >  than 

couldn't  stay  out  of  it.  One  m;.;]it,  at  die 
auto  show  in  San  Francisco  (which  lie  h.id 
staged),  he  was  standing  at  the  entrance 
enjoying  himself  mightily  and  thinking 
about  the  safe,  secure  life  he  was  leading, 
when  he  encountered  an  old  friend,  an 
actor.  Ten  minutes  later  he  had  agreed 
to  take  the  friend's  place  in  a  current 
show. 

"Why?  A  lucky  hunch  again?  Well, 
only  if  you  figure  that,  deep  down  in  my 
heart,  I  belong  and  am  happier  in  the 
theatre  than  in  the  business  world." 

Later  McQuarrie  organized  his  own 
stock  company,  married  his  leading  lady, 
trouped  with  her  in  their  own  act  on  the 
vaudeville  circuits,  finally  abandoned  that 
and  set  up  an  agency  business  in  Holly- 
wood with  indifferent  financial  success. 

Then — his  best  lucky  hunch  to  date  and 
the  Do  You  Want  to  Be  An  Actor?  show 
was  born. 


rrES,MOST  BAD  BREATH  COMES 
FROM  DECAYING  FOOD  DEPOSITS 
IN  HIDDEN  CREVICES  BETWEEN 
IMPROPERLY  CLEANED  TEETH. 
ADVISE  COLGATE  DENTAL  I 
TS  SPECIAL  PENETRATING  I 
I  REMOVES  THESE  ODOR-BREEDING  I 


MOST  BAD  BREATH   BEGINS  WITH  THE 

Tests  prove  that  76%  of  all  peo- 
ple over  the  age  of  1 7  have  bad 
breath !  And  the  same  tests  prove 
that  most  bad  breath  comes 
from  improperly  cleaned  teeth. 
Colgate  Dental  Cream,  because 
of  its  special  penetrating  foam, 
removes  the  cause— the  decay- 


TEETH! 

ing  food  deposits  in  hidden 
crevices  between  teeth  which 
are  the  source  of  most  bad 
breath,  dull,  dingy  teeth,  and 
much  tooth  decay.  At  the  same 
time,  Colgate's  soft,  safe  polish- 
ing agent  cleans  and  brightens 
enamel— makes  teeth  sparkle! 


20T 

LARGE  SIZE 

Giant  S 

""35t 


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RADIO  STARS 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 

(  t  outujucd  from  f'aiic  9) 


Some  people  even  proclaim  loudly  that  the 
skin  would  be  healthier  without  an.\  make- 
up, which  is  ridiculous.  Make-up  is  very 
important  tor  the  protection  it  gives  your 
skin,  even  aside  from  the  fact  that  it  is 
importain  i"  \  i!in  morale  and  \  oin'  appear- 
ance. r>m  when  \ou  allow  make-up  to 
mix  with  ihc  oily  secretions  of  your  skin 
and  tlie  i>il\  grime  that  settles  on  your 
skin  from  this  modern-day  automobile 
world,  then  it  pr,, j-'cr  cicansiiuj  that 

is  at  fault,  nut  inake-iip. 

As  the  tirvt  requiMte  for  a  smooth, 
orchid-iietahlikt-  skin,  thorough  cleansing 
.-taniK  at  the  tup  di  the  list.  Coming  on 
duwn  the  li>t.  we  find  t'.iat  lubrication  (for 
softening  and  nourishing),  stimulation, 
wholesome  diet  and  licdthtul  li\ing  habits 
comprise  the  remainder  of  the  quintuplet 
rules  for  the  care  of  the  skin.  Through 
the  windy  months  of  March  and  April, 
you  may  find  your  skin  discouragingly 
din^>,  e>pecially  if  you  live  in  a  locality 
where  grime  is  plentiful  and  soft  water 
is  at  a  premium.  The  winds  roughen  your 
skin  and  make  it  all  the  mure  susceptible  to 
picking  up  grime  in  its  crevices.  That  is  whv 
I  want  particularly  to  tell  you  about  a  beauty 
treatment  to  go  right  along  with  your 
soap  and  water  scrubbing,  which  is  in  itself 
something  f)f  a  beauty  treatment,  as  you 
know.  There  is  a  certain  oatmeal  facial 
which  comes  in  the  forin  of  a  soft,  fra- 
grant powder.  All  you  have  to  do  is  to 
pour  about  a  tablespoonful  of  this  oatmeal 
magic  into  the  bottom  of  your  wash  basin. 
Turn  on  the  warin  water  with  a  bang,  and 
swish  the  powder  around  until  it  is  dis- 
solved, and  the  water  is  fragrant  and 
milk\-.  Just  go  right  ahead  w  ith  your  soap 
and  water  scrubbing,  an<l  fmish  with  a 
clear  water  rinse 

Once  yuu  have  felt  the  softening  quali- 
ties of  thi-.  vek.ely  oatmeal  powder,  you 
will  want  to  go  further  and  try  it  as  a 
regular  facial,  especially  if  you  are  pre- 
paring for  a  date  with  a  gallant  cavalier 
who  send-  \  un  (.nliids  (or  even  gardenias). 
Just  po'jr  a  -mall  .amount  of  the  powder 
in  the  palm  ut  \i>nr  hand,  and  mix  it  with 
a  little  warm  water  until  it  is  of  a  lovely 
creamy  consisU-ncy.  Apply  the  resulting 
creamy  lotion  to  your  face  and  neck,  con- 
centrating; partii  id.'irly  on  the  crevices  of 
the  no-e  ;in  1  chin,  Let  it  remain  on  for  a 
few  niuniriits  wliile  >uii  pnlter  around 
piittiim  uiit  \,nn-  in:ike-np  items  ready  for 


for  a  1^  ,'. 
of  orchid- 
dance  ill 
drying,  ani 
Inke-w  a i  ni 
dunking  of 


■  nr  In  I'l,  The  facial  is  quick- 
1  i-  -imply  retnoved  with  plain 
\\ater.  Finish  with  a  grand 
cold  water.  And  then  adiuire 
the  rosy,  refreshed  face  you  see  in  the 
mirror. 

If  you're  worried  over  the  all  too  com- 
mon woes  of  enlarged  pores  and  black- 
heads, I  suggest  using  the  facial  prepara- 
tion as  a  professional-like  pack.  Steam 
your  skin  first  with  warm,  moist  towels  in 
the  beauty  salon  manner,  so  that  it  will 
be  thoroughly  relaxed.  Add  a  little  less 
water  to  the  powder  than  you  do  for  the 
regular  facial  treatment,  so  that  you  have 
a  thicker  paste  to  spread  over  your  face 
72 


Lovely  Priscilla  Lane,  of  Fred  Woring's  Pennsylvanians. 


and  throat.  Allow  it  to  remain  on  for 
fifteen  or  twenty  minutes,  and  really  relax 
this  time.  It  is  important  not  to  have  your 
face  screwed  up  in  frowns  of  concentra- 
tion or  worry  wdiile  the  pack  is  getting  in 
its  penetrating  work.  Finish  the  pack 
treatment  as  you  do  the  facial,  with  a 
wartu  and  then  a  cold  water  rinse.  The 
pack  should  be  used  consistently  once  a 
week ;  the  facial  treatment  daily. 

There  is  a  story  current  about  a  famous 
celebrity,  just  over  from  the  Continent, 
who  ate  part  of  the  orchid  on  her  plate, 
placed  there  for  decoration,  because  she 
believed  it  to  be  some  sort  of  a  queer 
American  salad  I  don't  know  whether 
there  are  vitamins  in  orchids  or  not,  but 
I  do  know  that  there  are  vitamins  in  this 
oatmeal  facial  that  I  have  been  telling  you 
about,  as  well  as  a  softening  ingredient 
which  is  vegetable  milk.  But  I  am  giving 
}-ou  a  chance  to  test  out  this  product  with 
a  free  gift  sairiple  offer.  You  can  see  for 
yourself  whether  it  is  deserving  of  the 
"orchid  rating." 

Now  that  your  skin  is  cleansed,  softened 
and  freshened,  you  arc  ready  lur  ymn' 
make-up  magic,  Tf  your  skin  is  oil\,  yon 
will  need  to  use  an  astriiigent  (^r  a  sliglitlx- 
astringent  lotion  as  a  powder  hasi',  1  i' 
your  skin  is  dr\ ,  a  fcjiindation  cr<am  is 
your  be,t  protect i(in  .and  will  hel])  vom- 
powder  to  cling  and  cling.  If  yoti  ha\ e  a 
cold  and  are  feeling  p.ale  ;'.nd  forlorn,  a 
tinted  foundation  cre.atn  in  a  nice  he.ilthy 
I)ink  shade  will  make  \-ou  look  uiibeliev- 
,-,h]y  blooming.  If  you  have  h.ad  ,a  lung 
hectic  d.i\  the  kind  th.at  ni.akes  \du  leel 
at  Uast  ten  \ear-  oliler  (an<l  ma\ be  look 
it)— and  \  -n  lia\e  ;i  \er\  speci.al  evening 
date  ;ihe:i'!  of  >-on,  a  tinteil  loiind.alion 
cream  is  a  rerd  glan'onr-s.a\ er  lor  you.  It 
helps  yotir  ^kiii  to  look  ros\  and  \(Hillil'ul, 

Maybe  a  new  sli.ule  of  powder  will  help 
in  your  youth  campaign,  too,    A  famous 


designer  has  just  been  appointed  color 
consultant  to  a  cosmetic  house  to  advise 
on  styling  the  various  powder  shades  .  ,  . 
a  smart  recognition  of  the  importance  of 
choosing  the  riyht  shade  of  powder.  A 
too-white  powder  can  make  a  face  look 
grotesque;  a  too-dark  powder  can  make 
it  older  and  harder  looking.  I  have  a 
make-up  bulletin  which  should  help  .\-ou  in 
deciding  what  color  classification  your  skin 
coiues  under— and  what  to  do  about  it! 

If  you  are  under  thirty  you  can  rouge 
for  vividness,  but  if  you're  over  thirty, 
that's  the  wrong  technique.  Over  thirty, 
softness  should  be  the  aim  of  your  rouge 
selection  and  application,  for  vividness 
hardens  the  lines  of  the  face  and  draws 
attention  to  tell-tale  eye  wrinkles.  Lip- 
stick and  rouge  should  always  be  of  the 
same  shade,  though  your  lipstick  can,  of 
course,  be  a  little  deeper  and  brighter  than 
your  rouge.  I  am  in  favor  of  plenty  of 
experimentation  to  find  just  yonr  shade  of 
eyeshadow.  There  are  so  many  exciting 
shades  to  choose  from — grays,  greens, 
hlucs,  purples,  browns,  and  even  gold  and 
siher  (for  evening).  But  reiueiuber,  first 
and  foremost,  the  texture  of  your  skin 
must  be  clear  and  >  onng  if  make-up  is  to 
do  its  magic  best  b\  \(>n. 


Marv  Biddle, 
RADIO  STARS, 
149   Madison  Ave., 


New  York,  N.  Y. 


case  send  me  \(iur  free  gift  offer 
the  vegetable  milk  oatmeal  facial. 


Xame  . . 
Address 


RADIO  STARS 


RADIO 


Five-year-old  Ann  Shelley,  Claudia  s 
daughter  Joan  of  One  Man's  Family. 

Come  when  we  tell  you." 

The  Stradnarius  tuij  in  Rubiiioff's 
hands.  Instantly  it  szcung  back  and  zcas 
on  the  Zi-ay  to  crash  over  the  director's 
head.  Fortunately  someone  grabbed  Ritbi- 
noff's  arm  and  the  violin  zcas  saved. 

New  York  newspapers  may  have  con- 
veyed an  idea  lately  that  radio  people  sud- 
denly have  gone  crazy  about  chess.  There 
have  been  items  about  this  one  and  that 
one  holding  chess  sessions  in  his  home. 

This  is  how  it  happened  :  Ken  Murray's 
press  agent  noticed  several  of  the  papers 
ran  chess  columns,  thought  he  might  get 
Ken  a  little  out-of-the-ordinary  publicity. 
In  due  time  a  chess  column  carried  the 
story  that  Ken  headed  a  group  of  radio 
stars  meeting  regularly  to  play  chess. 
That  gave  Himber"s  press  agent  the  idea 
and  a  rival  chess  circle  was  announced. 
None  of  the  crowd,  of  course,  knows  what 
a  chess  piece  looks  like  and  neither  do 
those  press  agents! 

.4nother  press  agent  coup  in  recent 
zcecks  zvas  the  "romance"  bctzceen  Bernice 
Claire  and  Dick  Merrill,  the  trans-atlantic 
flier.  The  tz^'o  hardly  knoz\;  each  other, 
hut  the  tabloids  ran  pictures  of  Bernice 
an.riously  sitting  at  a  radio  azvaiting  news 
of  her  szcectheart! 

Helen  Jepson  always  was  a  dignified,  re- 
served girl.  Her  astounding  rise  from  ra- 
dio choral  singer  to  Metropolitan  Opera 
in  a  single  year  has  made  her  much  more 
affable  and  approachable. 

When  Paul  Whiteman  first  decided  this 
girl  had  a  great  voice,  and  took  her  out 
cf  an  XBC  chorus,  she  used  to  come 
quietly  into  the  rehearsal  studio,  run 
through  her  song  and  sit  down  in  a  corner 
when  she  wasn't  needed.  Her  sudden 
selection  for  Metropolitan  Opera  honors 
might  have  been  expected  to  change  such 
a  girl  a  great  deal.  These  changes  usually 
are  for  the  worse.  It  did  change  Miss 
Jepson.  Instead  of  conducting  herself 
{Continued  on  page  102) 


.  .  .  UNTIL  SHE  LEARNED 
THIS  LOVELIER  WAY  TO 
AVOID  OFFENDING  .  .  . 
FRAGRANT  BATHS  WITH 

CASHMERE  BOUQUET 
SOAP!  4i 


fragr' 


,vbi  ' 


Aiet 


aov 


MARVELOUS  FOR 
COMPLEXIONS,  TOO! 


lute  soap 
id  bath. 


Use  tlii?  pure,  creamy, 
for  both  your  face 
Cashmere  Bouquet's  lather  is  si» 
gentle  and  caressing.  Yet  it  gets 
down  into  each  pore — removes 
every  bit  of  dirt  and  cosmetics. 
Your  skin  grows  dearer,  softer 
.  .  .  more  radiant  and  allurin-rl 


)NLY  lOt 


THE     ARISTOCRAT     OF     ALL    FINE  SOAP 


73 


RADIO  STARS 


SKIN  LOOK  YOUNG? 
TANGEE  POWDER 


USE 
NEW 


UNDERGLOW  APPEAR 


See  how  Tangee  Pow- 
der smooths  your  skin, 
dulls  without  coating, 
gives  a  youthful  elow. 


Tangee  Face  Powder  contains  same  fa- 
mous color  change  principle  as  Tangee 
llpsticl(  .  .  .  Walcli  its  magic  bring  youlliful 
beauty  to  your  skin .. .Powder  with  new 
Tangee  and  see  a  soft  underglow  ap- 
pear . . .  works  like  Tangee  Lipstick  to 
match  your  own  natural  skin  tones. 
Watch  shine  go.  Then  comes  clear, 
youthful  color.  Blended  scientifically, 
Tangee  clings  for  hours,  yet  never  cakes 
or  blotches.  Because  you  use  less,  it  is 
economical.  Try  Tangee.  In  two  sizes, 
55<'  and  $1.10.  Or,  tear  out  the  coupon 
below  for  new  "Two-Shade  Sampler" 
—  dedicated  to  a  lovelier,  youthful  skin. 


^7ew"2''s;;;de  sT^ple'TweeTsluTply  of  Pow^'er  \ 


417  Fifth  A^<^""?,-X'^e  Tangee  Face  Po 


coin) 


i  (15^  >"  Canada)  •  ^.  sampler  #3  □ 

I  sampler  #!□    f'^^Xs  ^  Contains 

I  contains  g° "hei  Ind  Flesh  and 

I  Rachel  Light  Rachel  Light  Rachel 

I    Name-  "'fwMe\'ri<^t)' 

I  Address   

I  City.— 
_J  


.State- 


HE  SWORE  HE'D  BE  A  DOCTOR 

(Coiitiiiucd  from  Page  52) 


But  the  child  grew  worse.  The  doctor 
came  again.  The  child  was  fighting  now 
for  breath  and  the  doctor  whispered  the 
dreaded  w  ord :  "Diphtlieria." 

All  night  they  worked  with  the  child — 
the  doctor,  Tito  and  his  mother.  In  the 
early  morning  hours  the  doctor  decided 
that  an  emergency  operation  must  be  per- 
formed to  open  the  congested  little  throat. 
Tito  told  his  mother  to  go  into  her  bedroom 
and  wait.  Then  gently  he  took  his  little 
sister  in  his  arms  and  held  her  while  the 
doctor  performed  the  operation. 

The  baby  died  in  Tito's  arms.  He  put 
his  little  sister  down  and  walked  out  of  the 
room.  When  he  saw  his  mother's  drawn, 
anxious  face,  waiting  for  word  of  her 
child's  life,  Tito  could  bear  the  strain  no 
longer.  He  fainted.  For  three  hours  he 
was  unconscious. 

After  he  recovered,  he  felt  bitter  toward 
a  world  that  had  no  help  for  a  baby  who 
couldn't  breathe.  All  the  youthful  happiness 
and  boyish  eagerness  for  life  was  drained 
from  him.  He  decided  then  that  he  would 
give  his  life  to  medical  research,  that  in 
a  laboratory  he  would  search  out  the  causes 
of  dreaded  diseases  and  their  cures. 

It  was  no  temporary  decision,  based  on  a 
moment's  bitterness.  The  lad  began  at  once 
preparing  himself  for  the  University  and 
the  study  of  medicine. 

At  the  Mexican  National  University  in 
Mexico  City  his  preparation  for  medicine 
began.  He  spent  days  with  his  books,  long 
evenings  poring  over  experiments  in  the 
laboratory.  He  was  too  sensitive,  too 
emotional,  really,  for  this  kind  of  work. 
Every  case  study  with  a  tragic  ending 
threw  him  into  a  chaos  of  dark  despair. 
His  friends  began  to  worry  about  him. 
Where  was  the  Tito  of  the  laughing  eyes 
and  singing  voice? 

One  night  a  crowd  of  his  classmates  were 
going  across  the  campus,  guitars  under 
their  arms,  to  serenade  the  girls  in  the 


women's  dormitory.  The  light  was  burning 
in  the  laboratory  where  Tito  worked.  They 
ran  up — a  merry,  laughing  crowd — and 
dragged  Tito  down  with  them. 

It  was  spring  and  moonlight  and  the 
music  was  sweet.  The  girls  crowded  to  the 
dark  windows  of  the  dormitory  and  lis- 
tened. Finally  Tito,  caught  up  in  the  spirit 
of  the  night,  snatched  up  the  guitar  that 
one  of  the  boys  offered  him,  and  began  to 
sing.  The  listeners  were  enchanted.  When 
he  finished  one  song,  the  girls  called  for 
more.  Tito  sang  on  and  on. 

After  that  he  went  often  with  the  boys 
to  tlie  serenades.  Everjone  on  the  campus 
knew  him  now  because  of  his  voice,  and 
every  time  Tito  opened  his  mouth  he  was 
surrounded  by  admiring  listeners. 

In  the  meantime  the  laboratory  work, 
the  studies  of  human  pain  and  sufTering. 
had  become  unbearably  depressing  to  Tito. 
He  realized  that  he  was  not  cut  out  to 
be  a  doctor  nor  to  work  in  medical  research. 
His  classmates  were  urging  him  to  give  up 
medicine  and  study  music. 

The  next  year  Tito  left  the  University 
and  sailed  for  Italy  to  study  voice  in  Milan. 
He  stayed  in  Italy  for  three  years — three 
of  the  happiest,  busiest  years  of  his  life. 
He  studied  hard  because  he  wanted,  above 
all,  to  make  his  family  proud  of  him. 

And  when  he  returned  to  Mexico  City, 
to  his  home,  they  were  proud.  He  was 
signed  immediately  by  the  Mexico  City 
Opera  Company  and  sang  the  leading  roles 
in  most  of  their  presentations. 

It  was  while  he  was  there,  singing,  that 
he  went  to  the  theatre  one  night  to  see  a 
famous  soubrette.  Her  name  was  Nena 
Noriaga.  Tito,  watching  her  dance  and 
sing,  thought  she  was  the  prettiest,  cutest 
and  most  talented  person  he  ever  had  seen. 
Then  and  there  he  fell  in  love.  He  was 
very  young.  He  was  earning  little  money. 
He  was>  only  an  opera  singer.  (Tito  says: 
"Opera  singers  are  not  so  important  in 


1.  Cannot  irritate  skin. 
c»nnot  rot  dresses. 

2.  No  waiting  to  dry.  '^^^ 

3.  Can  be  used  right  after  shaving. 

4.  Stops  perspiration  1  to  3  days. 
Prevents  under-arm  odor.  A  white, 
greaseless,  vanishing  cream. 


ARRID 


74 


RADIO  STARS 


Mexico  City  as  they  are  in  New  York.") 
And  Nana  Noriaga  was  famous  and  beau- 
tiful and  had  tlie  world  at  her  feet.  He 
must  forget  her. 

Three  years  later,  Tito  came  to  New 
York.  One  of  the  first  things  he  saw, 
as  he  walked  up  Broadway,  was  a  huge 
sign  on  the  marquee  of  the  Palace  Theatre, 
announcing  in  dancing  lights  that  the  main 
attraction  was  Nena  Noriaga. 

While  Tito  was  still  wondering  how  he 
might  meet  her,  he  was  invited  to  a  party 
at  the  home  of  some  Mexican  friends.  And 
there  she  was,  just  as  he  remembered  her — 
as  natural  and  charming  as  a  happy  child, 
and  the  most  beautiful  woman  in  the  world. 

Tito  then  had  a  job  singing  in  a  speak- 
easy. He  mentioned  this  to  Nena.  A  few 
nights  later  she  came  to  the  speakeasy 
with  friends  to  hear  him.  Even  in  the 
crowded,  smoke-filled  room,  she  said,  his 
voice  was  clear  and  strong  and  beautiful. 
And  he  sang  as  simply,  as  naturally,  as  if 
he  were  down  on  his  father's  rancho.  She 
was  interested  in  his  voice  because  she 
was  organizing  a  Alexican  singing  act.  She 
gave  him  her  card  and  asked  him  to  call. 

He  spent  the  next  afternoon  with  her, 
discussing  singing,  the  show  business.  Then, 
just  as  he  was  ready  to  leave,  impulsively 
he  bent  over  and  kissed  her.  A  second 
later  he  was  horrified  at  what  he  had  done. 
Mexican  girls  are  brought  up  carefully 
chaperoned.  They  are  permitted  no  liberties. 
But  Nena  was  smiling  at  him.  a  bit  be- 
wildered but  entirely  happy.  A  few  months 
later  they  were  married. 

On  the  day  they  were  married  Nena 
gave  up  her  career,  completely  and  entirely. 
She  is  the  typical  ^lexican  wife,  with  old- 


world  standards  and  ideals.  The  first  year 
of  their  marriage,  Tito  would  not  permit 
her  to  go  out  alone — not  even  to  do  her 
marketing.  For  a  girl  who  had  known  the 
applause  and  adulation  of  adoring  audiences, 
it  seems  that  such  seclusion  would  have 
been  a  great  sacrifice.  But  it  wasn't  for 
Nena.  She  always  had  been  taught — as  any 
daughter  of  genteel  Mexican  parents  is 
taught — that  when  she  married  she  inust 
give  up  everything  else  for  licr  lni--li;iiul 
and  her  home.  Nena  had  berii  prciiairil  to 
make  this  sacrifice  and  she  did  u  luiiipil). 
Even  when  they  were  in  Hollwvuud.  wlicre 
Tito  was  making  some  of  his  Spanish 
pictures,  and  Nena  was  offered  a  handsome 
film  contract  by  an  American  producer, 
she  was  not  tempted. 

She  is  a  very  busy  lady  at  home.  Tito 
is  happy-go-lucky  and  apt  to  he  carelc>-~ 
about  details  of  business.  Xena  atund>  tn 
all  business  and  financial  matter.-.  It  wa- 
she  who  insisted  that  he  learn  English  and 
made  him  work  at  it.  She  answers  his  fan 
mail,  makes  his  appointments,  criticises  his 
work  and  urges  him  on  always  to  more  and 
more  study.  She  is  his  inspiration  and  his 
slave  driver,  his  wife  and  his  secretary. 
She  never  has  any  regrets  for  her  own 
career  that  was  halted  at  its  height. 

In  addition  to  Tito  to  take  care  ot.  she 
has  the  baby.  The  bab\-  will  be  three  years 
old  on  May  eighteenth.  She  is  named  for 
her  mother,  looks  like  her  father.  If  any- 
body were  presenting  a  medal  to  the 
world's  proudest  father,  Tito  would  get  it. 

One  of  the  greatest  thrills  he  ever  had 
was  coming  home  after  a  short  absence  and 
hearing  Baby  Xena  sing  his  theme  song. 
When  she  was  only  two  and  a  half  years 


old  she  was  singing  little  melodies  in  pitch. 
Tito  believes  she  will  have  a  fine  voice 
when  she  is  older.  He  says  he  will  be 
pleased  to  have  her  become  a  singer. 

One  of  the  most  ingratiating  things  about 
Guizar  is  his  love  of  family,  his  deep 
affection  for  those  who  belong  to  him.  Ask 
him  about  them,  and  he  raises  his  eyes 
to  heaven,  then  answers  fervently :  "They 
are  well,  thank  God."  There  is  nothing 
irreverent  in  his  remark.  There  could  be 
nothing  irreverent  about  Tito.  The  tiny 
candlt-lit  altar  in  his  home,  the  carved 
crucifix  over  his  baby's  crib,  are  but  two 
of  many  reminders  of  the  Guizars'  piety. 
His  reply  to  the  question  is  a  prayer  of 
thanks  frdui  Ins  heart. 

One  ui  the  tliiim-  that  pleases  him  most 
abmit  his  mutidii  picture  work  is  that  his 
n-aitlur  is  so  very  proud  of  his  success, 
llc-idc-  the  time  he  spends  making  Mexican 
and  Spanish  films,  he  is  busy  making 
recordings  of  Latin  songs.  All  this  in 
addition  to  his  radio  work !  He's  one  of 
the  bu-iest  young  singers  in  X'cw  York. 

Gra(lually"iiMW,  in  lii.  -in^inp-.  lie  w  work- 
ing a\\  a\-  nil  li  e  and  ninre  irum  the  Spanish 
and  .Mexican  >ungs.  "At  lirst  tlioe  com- 
prised his  entire  program.  Now  he  aims  to 
arrange  his  programs  so  that  one  quarter 
of  the  time  will  be  devoted  to  popular  songs 
and  ballad-,  mie  (|uarter  to  operatic  or 
classical  iiui-ic,  and  the  remaining  half  to 
his  native  inu-ic.  Whether  this  will  iiicrea-e 
or  decrea-c  his  radio  p(ipularit\',  no  ime 
can  tell.  If  it  increases.  Tito  will  be  happ;. . 
for  he  loves  radio.  But  if  it  decrea-cs.  he 
has  a  motion  picture  contract  and  fame 
enough  to  keep  him  riding  high  as  a  nio\  ic 
star  for  many  years  to  come. 


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than  fall  into  the  "too  much  make-up"  error.  But  colorless,  neglected, 
scanty  lashes  deny  the  all-important  eyes  their  glorious  powers. 

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Goodwin  of  \'BC  has  done  quite  a  bit  of 
television  announcing  (and  whoever  thought 
of  that  had  a  swell  idea)  and  she  tells  of 
going  through  a  routine  announcement 
with  the  "Ike"  on  her,  only  to  have  bluster- 
ina;  phone  calls  come  down:  "You're 
whispering!  Speak  louder!''  She  wasn't 
whispering — but  she  did  speak  louder. 

It's  to  solve  just  such  innumerable  prob- 
lems of  production,  great  and  small,  that 
RCA  has  turned  the  results  of  their  tele- 
vision research  over  to  NBC  for  practical 
experiment.  They  brought  the  television 
e(|uipnient  to  a  high  degree  of  practicability 
in  the  laboratory,  but  degree  of  practicability 
(if  a  commercial  nature  with  it.  and  scien- 
tists are  notoriously  uninterested  in  such 
things.  "Take  it."  they  figuratively  said  to 
XBC,  "and  work  with  it  for  awhile.  Mean- 
while, we'll  continue  research,  so  that  as 
fast  as  you  get  used  to  one  angle  from  a 
practical  point  of  view,  we'll  make  it 
obsolete."  That's  exaggerated,  of  course, 
hut  it's  one  of  the  problems  of  television. 

You  see.  in  the  early  days  of  radio,  tiny 
crystal  sets  were  used.  .\nd  even  though 
vast  changes  have  been  brought  about  in 
broadcasting  and  receiving  equipment  since 
those  days,  you  could  still  use  one  of  the 
first  radio  sets  to  pick  up  a  present  day 
broadcast,  tliough  heaven  knows  why  you 
should.  But  w  ith  television,  the  sending  and 
receiving  apparatus  must  be  perfectly  syn- 
chronous ;  the  slightest  change  in  the 
transmitter  makes  the  receiver  useless  until 
it,  too.  has  been  altered  to  match.  And  to 
issue  receiving  sets  now,  even  though  they 
might  work  excellently,  would  result  in 
"freezing"  television  in  its  present  state  and 
preventing  further  change  or  improve- 
ments without  rendering  the  sets  obsolete 

Another  factor  is  that  while  laboratory 
research  has  been  extensive  and  expensive, 
nothing  much  has  been  done  of  a  practical 
nature  in  the  sense  of  making  television  a 
commercially  practical  broadcast  feature, 
capable  of  rendering  a  public  service.  You 
can't  imagine  Dr.  Zwor.\kin.  of  RCA,  who 
created  the  Iconoscf)pc.  bothering  about 
whether  a  team  of  colored  tap  dancers 
would  make  a  better  program  feature  for 
television  than  a  crooner  with  brown  mas- 
cara on  his  eyes.  Xot,  that  is,  unless  you 
have  a  very  vivid  imagination. 

Incidentally,  a  word  about  the  Icono- 
scope, which  is  actually  tiie  gourd-shaped 
glass  tube  tiiat  is  the  heart  of  the  television 
camera,  though  the  name  is  generally  used 
for  the  whole  macliine.  Here  is  modern 
magic  at  its  peak,  tliis  simple  tube  with  a 
metal  screen  inside  on  which  the  television 
camera  lens  focuses  the  image.  The  plate 
of  the  Iconcjscope  is  covered  with  thous- 
ands of  tiny  raised  dots  like  a  halftone  cut 
and,  all  by  itself,  the  tube  takes  the  moving 
picture  of  the  television  artist  it  is  aimed 
ai.  breaks  it  up  into  millions  of  infinitesimal 
dots  of  light  that  vary  in  intensity,  hurls 
it  through  the  ether  to  the  receiving  tube — 
known  as  the  Kinescope — which  reverses 
the  process,  assembling  the  picture  again  on 
the  screen  in  tones  of  pale  green  or  amber. 
A   technical   explanation   would   be  long, 


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highly  involved  and  probably  drive  the 
writer  and  reader  nuts,  but  basically  the 
analogy  is  somewhat  like  placing  a  coin 
under  a  sheet  of  paper  and  bringing  out 
the  picture  by  making  a  series  of  lines 
across  the  paper  with  a  pencil.  You  know 
how  that  is  done — well,  the  Iconoscope 
does  somewhat  the  same  thing  with  the 
television  picture,  instead  of  the  coin,  with 
a  bombarding  stream  of  electrons  sweeping 
across  the  picture  instead  of  the  pencil. 
And  it  does  it  by  making  343  sweeping 
lines  across  the  plate  at  an  absolutely  un- 
believable rate  of  speed. 

The  whole  business  started  back  in  1873, 
when  one  Dr.  May  discovered  that  selenium 
metal  changed  its  electrical  resistance  as 
light  of  varying  intensity  fell  upon  it.  In 
other  words,  it  would  pass  through  more 
electricity  under  an  arc  light  than  it  would 
with  a  candle  flame  on  it.  Dr.  Ma\'  figured 
out  and  built  a  crude  television  set  using 
this  principle,  Init  for  various  reasons  it 
didn't  work.  But  that  discovery  was  the 
basic  principle  upon  which  television  has 
been  built,  with  thousands  of  workers  and 
millions  of  dollars  going  into  research 
since.  In  1906  two  Frenchmen  named 
Regnoux  and  Fournier  built  a  ciiccker- 
board-Iooking  apparatus  with  (\4  s(|uares, 
each  of  which  was  a  shutter  which  resixmd- 
ed  to  light  impulses  and  crudely  rejiroduccd 
them,  bur  it  was  only  a  laboratory  tny.  A 
Russian,  Nipkow,  developed,  in  1S<S4,  the 
scanning  disc,  which  was  the  basis  for 
television  until  Dr.  Zworvkin's  Iconoscope 
was  developed.  But  the  disc  "scanned"  with 
only  about  60  lines  acrnss  tlie  i>icture, 
which  was  vastly  interinr  to  t\\r  iircscnt 


travels  through  the  air  in  a  manner  that 
is  not  entirely  understood  as  yet,  unlike 
radio  waves  which  spread  in  all  directions 
and  are  limited  only  by  the  power  of  the 
transmitter.  The  television  wave  travels, 
apparently,  in  straight  lines,  which  means 
that  the\-  carry  only  to  the  horizon,  or 
about  twciily-five  miles.  A'BC's  transmitter 
on  the  l{mpire  State  tower  has  been  re- 
ceived by  engineers  as  far  away  as  45 
miles,  due,  probably,  to  the  great  height 
of  the  sending  antenna.  But  to  achieve 
nationwide  coverage,  this  would  necessitate 
relay  stations  to  "boost"  the  signal  along, 
every  twenty-five  miles,  which  would  he 
quite  an  undertaking.  Whv,  then.  \  ou  sa\ . 
don't  they  send  the  signal  along  phoiv.' 
wires,  as  in  radio  networks?  And  the 
answer  to  that  is  that  the  signals  won't  go 
along  phone  wires  but  must  use  a  special 
cable,  called  coaxial  cable,  which  is  as  thick 
as  your  thumb  and  more  expensive !  A^BC 
is  sending  both  by  coaxial  cable  and  air 
now,  in  its  experimental  broadcasts  be- 
tween Radio  City  and  the  Empire  State 
Building,  and  both  results  are  ctiually  good. 

They  ha\cn't  cntircl\-  settled  on  make-ups 
\  et  :  they  do  know  that  red  televises  as 
white,    so   ordinary    lipstick    would  make 


not  \cry  pretty, 
a  test  r.rogram 
w  ide,  bright  red 
1  in  the  receixed 
1  half,  witii  each 


343,  and  there  wcr( 
made  the  appaialus 

So  if  you  tliiiik  \ 
long  time  for  telex  is 
when  talk  of  its  heii 
circulated,  jus 
been  going  o 
to  bring  it  to 

There  is  a. 
surmounted  be 


other  crudities  that 
imprail  uable. 
\on'\f  been  waiting  a 
sion,  since  around  10,30 
iiig  "lure"  began  to  be 
■mber  that  research  has 
about  sixt.\-o(kl  >ears 
■sent  iK-ar-iierlcct  stage, 
obstacle  that  must  !)e 
ou  can  h:i\  e  K'  incsci  qjcs 
in  your  lionie.  i'\  i-n  thouL^h  ,\7'.'( '  dors  work 
out — as  the.\  wdl — details  of  prodiiclioii 
and  programs.  The  wave  that  carries  the 
television  signal  is  ultra-short-wave  and  it 


you  look'  |>ale-lipped  and 
(  >iic  girl  w  ho  appeared  oi 
wore  a  black  dress  with  a 
sash  around  her  waist.  An 
picture  she  looked  sawed  i 
halt'  in  motion! 

The\-  televise  motion  pictures,  too,  al- 
ternating "flesh"  scenes  with  movies  to 
allow  time  for  shifting  the  "Ikes"  into 
new  positions.  They  have  successfully 
broadcast  tiraniatic  scenes  with  six  people 
in  them  at  once,  but  tlicv  don't  (|uite  know 
\el  the  limits  of  focal  (K-rmilion  :  t!ie\-  can't 
-:\y  whetlicr  blondes  register  lietler  than 
brunettes:  wlielller  llie\-'ll  iise  the  iir  sliort- 
\\a\e  link  or  coaxial  cable  or  ImuIi  :  \.Jieilier 
the  nnniber  ot'  scanning  lines  will  be  ,U3, 
the  proposed  441  or  some  other  number: 
whether  films  or  live  talent  will  m.ake  up 
the  bulk  o'  ■  ■  ■ 
NDu'll  liaxe 


live  talent  will 
televised  programs  ;  whethei 
onimercial  programs  next  year 


111 


In  short,  that's 
on  now.  And  they 


hat  XBC  is  working 
find  out  ! 


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IS  TOPS" 


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I've  been  partial  to  Bee- 
man's  for  yearsl  It's  so 
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—that  clever  air-tight  pack- 
age keeps  it  fresh  as  the 
day  it  was  made.  And  I  like 
that  bit  of  tang!  Beemon's 
actually  perks  me  up — it's 
o  real  help  to  digestion, 
too,  you  know  —  mokes  a 
person  feel  mighty  goodJ" 


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wearing  is  one  I  paid  thirteen  dollars  for." 

The  dress  was  a  bright  blue  sheer  woolen 
made  on  tailored  lines  with  twin  zippers — 
one  down  the  front  and  one  down  the 
l^ack.  It  fitted  her  like  a  glove. 

Speaking  of  twins — Gretchen  is  one.  She 
was  telling  me  that  she  and  her  sister,  who 
is  now  married,  used  to  swap  clothes  con- 
stantly. I  asked  her  if  that  ever  led  to 
arguments  at  times. 

"Oh,  no,"  she  replied.  "We  always 
worked  it  out  beautifully,  because  I  liked  to 
have  my  sister  wear  whatever  she  wanted. 
You  see,  I'm  ten  minutes  older  than  she, 
and  so  I  guess  I've  always  felt  a  little 
maternal  toward  her !  I  even  sent  her  in 
my  place  to  get  the  first  radio  job  offered 
to  me." 

Gretchen  has  decided  likes  and  dislikes 
in  the  clothes  line.  She  can't  stand  ruffles. 
She  thinks  that  simple  clothes  can  double 
for  both  daytime  and  exening.  And  she 
])icks  a  printed  silk  dress  for  the  best  all- 
KHind  type  of  costume. 

"Simple  clothes  with  unusual  details  are 
fun  to  wear  and  can  be  bought  on  even 
the  most  limited  budget,"  she  declares. 

I  asked  her  if  she  thought  her  type  of 
career  called  for  different  t.\  pes  of  costumes 
than  those  of  the  average  business  girl. 
She  said  not.  For  when  she  has  a  daytime 
program,  she  appears  in  the  same  plain, 
practical  clothes  that  any  of  you  would 
wear  in  an  office — usually  a  tailored  suit 
or  dress,  sometimes  a  sweater  and  skirt  of 
the  not  too  sportsy  type.  For  evening  pro- 
grams, she  wears  dinner  dresses  more  often 
than  actual  evening  gowns. 

She  thinks  that  it's  an  exploded  idea 
that  blondes  can't  wear  certain  colors.  She 
adores  beige,  likes  grass-green  and  wears 
loads  of  blue  and  black.  Otherwise,  she 
wears  colors  that  appeal  to  her  because 
of  the  season  or  some  specific  occasion  for 
which  she  selects  them. 

Gretchen  is  five  feet  four  inches  tall  and 
weighs  one  hundred  and  four  pounds.  So, 
all  of  you  who  are  in  that  general  range, 
can  get  lots  of  tips  from  her. 

In  selecting  typical  Easter  costumes  that 
you  will  be  wearing,  wherever  you  li\c,  we 
decided  upon  a  suit,  a  prinled  silk  dress 
and  a  lovely  new  spring  evening  gown 
thrown  in  for  after-Lent  gaieties, 

Gretchen  chose  the  softer  tailored  suit 
l/ccause  she  feels  she  is  a  little  thin  around 
the  neck,  and  iK  liii-di.  girlish  cdllar  would 
be  more  hco.iniiiL'.  I'.rii^c  twccfl  for  the 
fabric,  with  the  jacket  closed  down  the 
tront  with  tassel-like  beige  buttons.  The 


unusual  tunnel  pockets  are  the  brain-child 
of  the  French  designer,  Schiaparelli.  from 
whose  original  and  very  expensive  model 
this  was  faithfully  copied. 

As  30U  know,  beige  is  having  a  big 
revival  for  spring,  after  many  years  of  not 
counting  much  in  fashion  affairs.  .Also,  as 
mentioned  before,  it  is  one  of  Gretchen's 
favorite  shades.  Her  skirt  has  a  slight 
flare  and  its  most  unique  details  are  the 
creases  in  front,  in  the  manner  of  a  gent's 
trouser  press. 

Black  accessories  for  contrast  with  the 
beige — there's  nothing  much  smarter  at  the 
moment.  Also  beige  accessories  wlien  you 
wear  a  black  costume.  Gretchen  chose 
patent  leather  for  both  her  bag  and  pumps. 
A  black  felt  beret  with  quill  for  her  hat, 
and  a  black  crepe  Ascot  scarf  to  tuck  into 
the  jacket  neckline.  Also,  hand-sewn  black 
fabric  gloves  that  honestly  look  like  suede 
they're  so  soft  and  well  made. 

From  tip  to  toe,  this  outfit  coit  about 
fifty  dollars.  I  have  every  piece  itemized 
in  my  Radio  Stars'  Shopping  Bulletin  for 
this  month.  Other  costumes  like  this,  with 
a  less  expensive  suit,  can  be  had  from 
twenty  dollars.  Gretchen  chose  a  slightly 
higher  priced  suit  because  she  wanted  a 
good  one  she  could  wear  for  several  sea- 
sons. 

A  short-sleeved  flowered  print  was  the 
second  Easter  costume  choice.  This  silk 
crepe  has  a  black  background  upon  which 
are  printed  bouquets  and  tiny  flowers  in 
blue,  yellow  and  white.  The  sleeves  are 
especially  tricky,  for  slide  fasteners  run 
up  through  the  shirring  detail  to  the 
shoulders,  so  that  the  dress  can  be  worn 
almost  sleeveless.  Simplicity  is  the  keynote 
of  its  lines.  The  sash  belt  comes  from  the 
high  bodice  in  front,  around  the  back,  to 
tie  again  in  front.  The  skirt  is  slightly 
flared.  Gretchen  has  two  sets  of  accessories 
for  this — one  set  for  dress-up  use  at  home 
or  for  an  evening  date  and  one  set  for 
daytime,  street  or  business  wear.  For  dress- 
up  occasions,  she  wears  blue  patent  leather 
sandals  which  match  the  bright  blue  flower 
in  the  print,  .^nd  a  very  Da^ddson  touch 
to  go  with  the  sandals  is  a  little  blue  comb 
which  she  tucks  into  the  front  part  of  her 
hair.  Gretchen  told  me  that  she  buys  these 
at  the  ten  cent  stores  and  has  several  to 
match  up  with  difTerent  costumes.  It's  one 
of  those  inexpensive  fads  w^hich  all  of  you 
can  afiford.  The  only  jewelry  she  wears 
with  this  dress  are  a  string  of  pearls  and 
a  charm  bracelet. 

Incidentally,  she  loves  odd  pieces  of 
jewelry.  I  remarked  about  an  unusual  ring 
she  was  wearing  and  she  told  me  it  was 
made  of  seven  silver  rings  in  graduated 
sizes.  Her  twin  has  an  identical  set  of 
rings,  given  to  her  by  Gretchen. 

For  street  wear,  she  chooses  pumps,  a 
black  calf  bag,  white  fabric  gloves  and 
an  off-the-face  belting  ribbon  hat  v.ith  tiny 
veil  to  complement  the  print  dress. 

Dress  and  all  its  accessories  came  to 
about  twenty-five  dollars,  according  to  our 
budgeting.  Be  sure  to  see  the  bulletin  for 
the  itemized  prices. 


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RADIO  STARS 


Gretchen,  like  most  radio  stars,  has  to 
have  a  good  supply  of  dinner  and  evening 
gowns.  So  she  has  to  have  a  good  variety 
as  well.  While  we  were  budget  shopping, 
she  begged  to  have  one  new  spring  formal 
put  on  the  list,  for  she  felt  sure  you  would 
be  needing  one  for  spring  and  summer. 

Even  for  evening,  she  followed  rather 
plain,  unelaborate  lines.  However,  as  you 
can  see,  the  dress  has  great  distinction. 
That  deep  waist  yoke  of  smocking  is  stun- 
ning and  right  in  line  with  the  general  trend 
for  peasant  effects  in  both  daytime  and 
evening  clothes.  It  is  made  of  a  new  crepe 
in  aqua  blue,  with  silver  kid  piping  around 
the  neck  and  belt.  The  smocking  detail  is 
repeated  on  the  shoulders,  too.  Plenty  of 
skirt  fullness  makes  it  a  dream  to  dance 
in. 

A  trick  point  about  the  skirt  is  that  the 
hem  piping  looks  just  like  the  silver  kid 
on  the  neckline  and  belt — actually,  it's  a 
silver  braid  because  it  is  easier  to  remove 
for  skirt  alterations  than  the  kid. 

Because  hair  decoration  is  still  so  popu- 
lar, Gretchen  chose  a  bandeau  of  silver  kid 
flowers.  Her  bracelets  and  clip  are  rhine- 
stone,  her  sandals  of  silver  and  her  evening 
bag  of  white  and  silver  brocade.  All  in  all, 
a  charming  evening  ensemble  that  would  be 
becoming  to  all  of  you. 

One  thing  about  Gretchen  that  1  think 
adds  to  her  smartness  is  her  great  enthus- 
iasm about  everything  she  wears.  She 
doesn't  just  put  on  a  dress  and  let  it  do 
all  the  work  of  making  her  charming.  She 
adds  her  own  particular  brand  of  glamour 
to  it,  which  is  mainly  a  freshness  of  make- 
up, a  trininess  of  carriage  and  a  great 
glow  of  her  own  gay  spirit.  It's  something 
to  remember  when  you  dress  for  even  the 
most  commonplace  event ;  try  to  put  interest 
and  personal  gaiety  into  what  you  wear. 
You'll  be  amazed  what  a  change  it  will 
make  in  you,  as  a  person. 

Don't  forget,  now,  to  fill  out  the  coupon 
below,  so  that.  I  can  send  you  the  itemized 
prices  for  each  costume  and  accessory 
Gretchen  is  wearing. 

Also,  on  this  same  coupon  you  will  see 
that  I  am  offering  a  new  service  to  you — 
a  Fashion  Consultation  Chart.  This  is 
planned  to  iron  out  your  fashion  problems 
and  enable  me  really  to  be  of  specific  and 
individual  help  to  you  when  you  write  in 
to  me  with  your  questions.  When  you 
receive  the  chart,  just  fill  it  out  and  mail 
it  back  to  me  with  whatever  questions  you 
wish  answered  about  your  clothes  and  your 
looks.  I,  in  turn,  will  see  that  you  get  real 
help. 

Both  the  chart  and  the  budget  prices  of 
these  Easter  costumes  can  be  had  for  a 
single  stamp  this  month — bargain  prices, 
you  see ! 


They  Help  Prevent  Blemish  .  .  . 
Vitamin  D  in  Woodbury's  Cold  Cream 
Quickens  Skin's  Breathing 


obvious.  And  blemishes,  caused  by  surface 
germs,  need  not  appear  to  rufiBe  the  satin- 
smoothness  of  your  complexion.  Woodbury's 
Cold  Cream  is  germ-free.  It  will  not  tolerate 
blemish-germs,  either  in  its  own  lovely  tex- 
ture or  on  your  skin. 


A  complexion  that  dryness  will  not  sear... 
that  blemishes  will  not  mar.  A  skin  that  looks 
young  ...  is  young !  You  have  the  finest  scien- 
tific beauty  aids  to  help  you  in  your  quest. 
Woodbury's  Creams  foster  a  beautiful  skin. 

The  cold  cream  is  made  of  delicate  oils  that 
lubricate  the  dry,  thin  skin  to  make  lines  less 


One  further  way  to  outwit  the  loss  of  ra- 
diant skin  youth  is  to  let  your  skin  breathe 
quickly.  This  is  the  task  of  Sunshine  Vitamin 
D,  a  new  ingredient  in  Woodbury's  Cold 
Cream  ...  to  help  stimulate  the  rapid  breath- 
ing process  of  skin  cells. 

Woodbury's  Germ-free  Facial  Cream  is  the 
companion  to  the  famous  Cold  Cream.  It 
forms  a  smooth  and  flattering  foundation  for 
your  make-up.  Each,  only  50(S,  25^,  10^  in 
jars;  25<',  10^  in  tubes. 


SEND 


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ns  trial  tubes  of  Woodbun-'s 
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Soap;  7  ahadM 

Woodbury'a  Facial  Powder.  Send  lOt  to  cover  mailing 
costs.  Address  John  H.  Woodbury,  Inc.,  077(>  Alfred  St., 
Cincinnati.  O.  an  Canada)  John  H.  Woodbury.  Ltd., 
Perth,  Ontario. 


Elizabeth  Ellis. 
Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Madison  Avenue. 
New  York.  N.  Y. 

Enclosed  please  find  a  stamped,  self- 
addressed  envelope.  Kindly  send  me, 
free  of  charge,  your  APRIL 
SHOPPING  BULLETIN  and 
FASHION  CONSULTATION 
CHART. 

Name   

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COUGHS 


TAKE    THE   SYRUP    T  HAT 

CLINGS  TO  THE 
COUGH  ZONE 

If  you  have  a  cough  (due  to  a  cold)  remem- 
ber this  common  sense  fact:— a  cough  medi- 
cine should  do  its  work  where  the  cough  is 
lodged  .  .  .  right  in  the  throat.  That's  why 
Smith  Brothers  Cough  Syrup  is  a  thick,  heavy 
syrup.  //  clings  to  the  cough  zone.  There  it 
does  three  things:  (1)  soothes  sore  mem- 
branes, (2)  throws  a  protective  film  over  the 
irritated  area,  (3)  helps  to  loosen  phlegm. 
Get  Smith  Brothers'!  SS^J  and  60^. 


"IT  CONTAINS 

VITAMIN  A'' 

This  vitamin  raises  the  re- 
sistance of  the  mucous 
membranes  of  the  nose  and 
throat  to  cold  and  cough 
infections. 


SMITH  BROS. 

COUGH  SYRUP 

H^NOW  ON  SALE  IN  CANADAMhhI 


•  Mcrcolizcd  Wax  Bcnlly  melts  off  faded,  dis- 
colored outer  skin.  Heveals  the  velvety-smooth, 
soft,  beautiful  underskin.  Flemishes  disappear. 
.  Mcrcohzed  Wax  is  a  e()in[)l(  le  hc'auly  trc^alment 
in  a  single  cream.  Conlajiis  cvcrvthiiifj  your  skin 
needs.  Cleanses.  Softens,  liciiutilics  I'rolrrts. 

Start  using  Mercolizcd  \\;ix  loniKlil.  Win  new 
skin  loveliness.  Mercolizf  <1  Wax  brings  out  the 
hidden  beauty  of  any  complexion. 
ITSE  Saxolltc  Astringent— a  refreshing  stimulating 
■y  skin  tonic.  Smooths  out  wrinkles  and  age  lines. 
Reflnes  coarse  pores,  eliminates  oillness.  Dissolve 
Sazollte  In  one-half  pint  witch  hazel.  Use  dally. 
At  drug  and  department  stores  everywhere. 

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RAH!  RAH!  OAKIE! 

(Coiiliinicd  jroin  page  31) 


Phillips  Lord  and  a  CBS  engineer  make  ready  for  one  of  those  enormously  popu- 
lar Wednesday  night  "Gong  Busfers"  programs,  on  the  air  at  10:00  p.m.  EST. 


always  felt  he  had  to  make  a  'new  girl' 
feel  at  home.  He  dated  Mary  Brian, 
Peggy  Hopkins  Joyce,  Hazel  I''orbes,  Ida 
Lupino — his  date-book  looked  like  a  tele- 
phone directory !  Yet  his  mother  remained, 
always,  his  Best  Girl.  There  were  those 
who  said,  and  Jack  did  not  gainsay  them, 
that  "the  boy's"  best  friend  would  always 
be  bis  inotber,  that  Jack  would  be,  indeed, 
the  Last  of  the  Oakies. 

He  usually  looked  like  the  dickens.  Old 
sweaters.  Tousled  hair.  Stubbly  chin. 
He'd  sit  in  his  dressing-room,  feet  on  desk, 
door  open,  and  pass  the  time  of  day  or 
night  with  all  and  sundry  who  passed  by, 
from  the  men  in  the  Front  Office  to  the 
new  extras  engaged  that  day.  ( I  use  the 
tense    here    intentionall}    since,  yet 

ick  has  done  the  unexpected.) 
ilwa\s  protested  that  he  wouldn't  get 
iiln'i  want  to  get  married.  He 
V  :  "I  bad  about  ten  reasons  why 
L;e1  married.    The  first  one  was 


at  tlu 

-b 

know  wh\ 
years.  .Ami 
profit  a  nia,i 
a  I'ainlr.^.s  I 


be^■(lnle^  a  Missus 
lo  -JO  to  the  dentist.  I  don't 
iv.  lint  I've  noticed  it  for 
hat,  I'xc  alwa.\s  said,  does  it 
I  pay  out  bis  ,«(jo(1  money  to 
/.vr?  If  they  don'i  ha\f  to 
■o  to  the  dentist,  then  they  h:i\e  to  140  to 
he  (li-'  --inaker — and  wdiy  he  ehoosex  ? 
rin  \  hoih  hr'jiii  with  a  'd'  don't  they?  And 

1  le  used  to  say,  too,  that  he  couldn't 
'see"  the  air.    Now  and  then,  as  a  guest 


artist,  mebbe.  But  not  for  steady.  There 
was  the  time  a  well-known  brand  of  razors 
wanted  to  sponsor  him.  The  chase,  said 
Oakie,  was  something  drctfid.  A  fellow 
can  stand  so  much  of  it  and  then  his  wind 
begins  to  go,  he  slows  down,  he's  caught. 
First  the  girls  after  me,  then  razors!  (Now 
Camels  have  got  him!)  He  was  a  mite 
scairt  of  the  air,  too,  the  Oakie.  He  said 
that  F^ddie  Cantor  had  told  him  that  there 
are  more  things  you  can't  do  on  the  air 
than  things  you  can  do  and  that  Mrs. 
Oakie's  little  boy  was  a  natural  for  doing 
the  things  that  hadn't  ought  to  be  done ! 

He  also  said  that,  if  he  went  on  the  air, 
he  was  afraid  someone  would  imitate  his 
voice.  "Any  voice,"  he  said,  "can  be 
dubbed  in  for  the  Oakie  voice,  bow  would 
I  know?  There  arc  trained  voice  imitators 
by  the  gross — \  ery  gross !  There  is  one 
chap  who  can  dub  in  for  a  parrot,  a  siren, 
a  lead  pencil  scratching  on  a  slate,  the  grunt 
of  a  pig.  the  roo  of  a  fli'^butante,  the  gut- 
tural of  a  (j.arbo,  the  titter  of  a  Gracie 
Allen,  the  s(|uawk  of  a  new-born  babe,  the 
hiss  of  the  audience  when  Oakie  is  off  the 
screen.  .  .  . 

"But  \nu  can't,"  Jack  elaborated  then, 
"you  can't  ver_\-  well  substitute  the  Gable 
face  for  the  Oakie  lace  and  get  away  with 
it.  My  Public  w  ouldn't  stand  for  it !  I'm 
a  mite  leery  about  sacrificing  the  Oakie  face 
la  the  ether.  The  Public  has  had  Depres- 
sion enough. 

"Then,  too,  you  can  always  buck-pass  on 


RADIO  STARS 


(he  screen.  If  a  piclurc.  like  Texas 
Raiu/crs,  say.  ain't  so  good,  I  can  always 
say  :  "Twarnt  Oakie's  fault — pass  the  catsup 
to  Fred  MacMurray !'  But  if  Oakie  fliv- 
vers on  the  air,  it's  Oakie's  fault  and  not 
even  Camels  would  take  the  hump  for  it. 
On  the  screen,  too,  the  director  directs  you 
through  every  scene,  the  scenes  you  shoot 
as  well  as  the  ones  you  rehearse.  The 
script-writer  writes  every  writ  in  the 
script.  The  script  is  none  of  the  actor's  re- 
sponsibility in  the  movies.  But  on  the  air 
— oh,  boy,  you  ouglit  to  see  Benny  and 
Burns  and' Allen  in  the  sloughs  of  script- 
ing! The  cameraman  picks  out  your  pur- 
tiest  angles.  The  sound  men  titivate  your 
roice.  The  make-up  men  do  facial  scoiir- 
S/ery  to  your  face.  The  lighting  experts 
give  you  that  luminous  dial.  And  they're 
all  standing  by  until  the  last  take  is  taken. 
And  even  then  it's  not  too  late.  If  any- 
thing looks  blotto,  there's  always  retakes 
and,  after  the  retakes,  there's  always  the 
cutting-room  floor." 

Yes,  a  mad-cap,  a  cut-up,  a  prankster,  a 
mixer,  a  practical  joker,  a  laughing  Lo- 
thario with  his  heart  in  his  inside  pocket 

-that  was  Oakie. 

The  other  day  I  went  to  have  tea  with 
Mr.  Oakie.  at  his  home  on  Pacific  Pali- 
sades. A  low,  white  rambling  house  with 
a  picket  fence  and  eucalyptus  trees  and  gar- 
dens, smoke  coming  out  of  the  roomy 
chimneys,  the  blue  Pacific  spread  like  light 
blue  metal  behind  it.  It's  John  Halliday's 
house,  by  the  way.  which  Jack  and  his 
"Litcle  Missus"  arc  renting  and  rather  liope 
to  buy. 

Inside,  fires  were  burning,  a  silver  tea 
service  was  in  evidence,  a  couple  of  pup- 
pies rollicked  around  and  there  was  Jack 
— Jack  of  the  old  sweaters  and  tousled 
hair  and  wisecracks,  slick  and  smart  in  a 
severely  tailored  "play  suit"  of  tan  linen, 
buttoned  up  under  the  chin.  Jack,  more 
dignified  in  the  play  suit  than  ever  I  had 
seen  him  in  his  rare  formal  attire. 

This  was  an  Oakie  I  never  had  seen  be- 
fore. A  new  man.  A  married  man.  A 
lover.  A  radio  star.  And  you  may  believe 
me  or  not.  actually  handsome. 

He  said,  greeting  me  :  "The  Little  Missus 
is  out  in  the  garden.  I  dunno.  she  loves  to 
mess  around  with  flowers  and  things, 
plantin'  and  all.  W'e  never  go  anywhere 
nowadays.  Don't  want  to.  Like  to  fuss 
around  at  home.  You  rcmenihcr  the  days 
when  I  wouldn't  miss  dmpping  in  at  The 
Brown  Derby  every  night,  no  matter  what 
time  of  night,  to  see  what  was  goin'  on? 
Mow  I  go  in  there  once  every  month  or  so. 
and  where  I  used  to  know  everyone  niid 
his  business,  I  don't  know  anyone  now. 
That  was  the  old  night  life.  This,  right 
here,  is  the  rit/lit  life. 

"The  radio?  Sure,  it's  swell.  Easy.  too. 
Yeah,  I  know  I  used  to  be  scairt  of  it.  but 
not  now.  We've  got  a  swell  formula,  you 
know.  It's  really  the  old  Chann  School 
formula.  And  there's  something  happenin' 
every  minute.  I'm  the  only  program  with 
my  name  on  the  air.  too.  That's  some- 
thing !  It's  like  the  old  show  business,  the 
radio.  You  do  your  act  and  then  you're 
done  and  can  go  home.  Easy !  I  get  the 
script  every  Monday  night,  look  it  over, 
make  a  few  changes  now  and  then,  go  on 
Tuesday  night  for  a  half  hour  and  that's 
all  there  is  to  it. 

"Matter  of  fact,  the  radio  should  be  my 
racket,  come  to  think  of  it.    My  natural 


Lovely  women  everywhere  have  enjoyed  the  soft, 
satiny  smooth  skin  the  Linit  Beauty  Bath  imparts. 
There  is  both  beauty  and  soothing  body  refresh- 
ment in  a  Linit  bath.  Dissolve  half  a  package  or 
more  in  a  tub  of  warm  water.  Bathe  with  your  favor- 
ite soap.  You  will  be  amazed  that  so  luxurious  a 
bath  can  be  so  simply  prepared  and  so  economical. 

THE  BATHWAY  TO 
A  SOFT.  SMOOTH  SKIN 


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Breathless 
be  yours 


allure  of  soft,  satiny,  clear  skin  can 
vith  this  natural  beauty  treatment, 
an  age-old  beauty  formula  in  a 
new,  modern  form  ■ —  Oatmeal 
Facial,  into  which  is  blended  an 
amazing  newsofteningingredi- 
ent.  Vegetable  Milk. 

An  instant  beauty  treatmentfortimes 
when  you  must  look  your  best.  Sim- 
ply mix  L'oate  to  a  fragrant  lotion 
with  water,  apply  to  face,  wash  off. 

ts  remarkable  penetrating  and 
cleansing  qualities  deep-clean  and 
close  large  pores,  combat  blackheads. 
The  dainty  natural  oils  released  by 
L'oate  soften  the  skin  to  its  irresisti- 
ble loveliest.  Skin  tissues  are  enliv- 
ened, tired-lines  and  surface  wrinkles 
disappear  to  send  you  forth  on  your 
evening's  adventure  glowing  with 
and  confidence. 


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fOU  curls  that  cateii  \ 
the  brigllttouch  of  beooty,  your 
favorites  olMhe  screen  dress  their 
hair  with  "the^rlers  used  by  the 
stars"  Millions  of  women  follow  this 
Hollywood  beauty  hint... and  so 
more  Hollywood  Curlers  are  used 
in  homes  everywhere  than  oil  other 
curlers  put  together.  Try  this  stor 
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82 


Helen  Jane  Behlke's  contralto  voice 
earned  her  an  NBC  contract  at  21. 

element  should  be  the  air.  I  was  born  ad 
libbing!  I  ad  libbed  my  way  right  through 
high  school  to  Wall  -Street  and  from  Wall 
Street  to  Hollywood.  It  was  the  air,  }oii 
might  say,  too,  that  landed  Oakie  in  Holly- 
wood. Fact.  I  got  the  inspiration  to  come 
here  from  Lindbergh's  flight.  I  figured: 
If  Lindy  took  a  chance  and  made  it,  so 
Zi'ill  I!  And  I  flew  into  town  on  the 
wings,  on  the  wings  of  a  dove !  I'd  ne\-er 
given  Hollywood  a  thought  until  Lindbergh 


took  off.  I'd  been  do 
untangling  the  big  bu 
tape  and  handin'  them  : 


1  Wall  Street, 
iini  the  ticker 
laughs.  Then 
id  among  the 
knew,  1  was 
I  met  Joan 


m\-  reputation  kinder  sprc: 
lieathen  and,  first  thing  I 
wowin'  'em  on  the  stage. 
Crawford  in  Xew  York,  wlien  'we'  made 
Innocent  Ryes;  remember?  She  was  the 
(jueen  of  Babylon  and  I  was  only  a  slave 
or  something  like  that.  W'c  used  to  be 
pals,  Joan  and  I.  Slu;  was  tlic  first  one  to 
give  me  the  idea  that  there's  more  to  life 
than  a  few  laughs.  She  kinda  dropped  a 
few  hints  about  determination  and  having 
a  Purpose  and  all  that.  And  so  Lindy 
made  the  front  pages  and  Oakie  made  the 
films.  Now  they've  given  me  the  air,  part 
time.  How'd  you  like  the  Lily  Pons  pic- 
ture? Say,  there's  a  great  girl!  That's 
her  picture  o.vcr  the  fireplace  there.  Looks 
like  the  Missus.  People  think  it  is.  They 
photograph  like  dead  ringers  for  each 
other. 

"The  Missus  wants  to  be  on  the  air  with 
me,  too.  Must  like  me.  Matter  of  fact,  she 
has  got  a  Mary  Livingstone  voice  and  de- 
livery, at  that.  She'd  like  to  play  the  part 
of  my  secretary  in  the  Oakie  Collei/e.  But 
I've  gf>t  a  secretary  and  I  figure  that, 
whereas  the  Missus  doesn't  need  the  dough, 
the  other  girl  probably  does.  Besides,  one 
radio  stomach  in  the  family  is  enough." 


\''enita  Oakie,  scarf  about  her  head, 
gardening  tools  still  in  her  hands,  came 
into  the  room.  The  tea  things  appeared 
simultaneously.  Jack  said:  "Mama,  can 
Papa  have  some  tea,  too?"  We  both  asked 
the  Little  Missus  to  join  us.    She  did. 

Tall  and  \ery  slim  and  dark,  with  moon- 
w  liite  skin,  is  Venita.  Her  blue  eyes  never 
secni  to  leave  Jack's  face.  Was  it  through 
her  eyes,  I  wondered,  that  I  was  seeing 
this  new  Jack  Oakie,  quieter,  happier, 
somehow  handsomer  than  I  ever  had 
thought  it  possible  for  him  to  be? 

And  as  we  sat  there  over  the  tea  things, 
Venita  told  me  of  Jack  as  a  lover,  as  a 
husband.  She  didn't,  she  confessed,  like 
him  at  all  the  first  time  she  met  him.  They 
met  at  a  party.  Jack  was  squiring  a 
toothpaste  heiress.  The  next  day  he 
called  \' enita,  asked  for  a  date.  She  said : 
"No."  And  she  meant  -Vo.  She  didn't,  she 
told  me,  want  to  go  out  with  him.  She  had 
heard  about  him.  She  had  heard  about  the 
one  -  girl  -  after  -  another.  She  had  heard 
about  the  new  girls  who  came  to  town,  to 
whom  Jack  Oakie  was  hospitable.  She 
wouldn't  be  one  of  them. 

But  Jack  Oakie  had  met  the  One  Girl. 
-\nd  he  knew  it. 

The  next  day  he  arranged  with  a  friend 
to  invite  Venita  to  a  small  gathering  at  his 
apartment.  Jack  just  happened  to  drop  in. 
He  asked  her,  again,  to  have  dinner  with 
him.  She  said :  "No."  She  still  meant 
No.  Jack  persisted.  Venita  said  that  she 
must  introduce  him,  first,  to  her  mother. 
She  thought  he  wouldn't  go  to  meet  her 
mother.  She  thought  he'd  kid  about  it, 
shy  off.  But  he  didn't.  Jack  wanted  to 
meet  her  mother.  And  her  mother  "fell  in 
love"  with  him.  Venita  went  to  dinner 
with  him.  And  they  began  to  go  out  two 
or  three  times  a  week,  then  every  luncheon, 
every  evening. 

Venita  didn't  think,  at  first,  of  falling  in 
love  with  him.  She  didn't  want  to  fall  in 
love  with  anyone.  She  was  out  here  for 
the  sake  of  her  picture  career.  She  was 
afraid  of  Jack,  too.  She  had  heard  so 
much  about  him.  this  laughing  Lothario 
with  his  heart  hidden  away.  She  knew 
that  he  was  an  only  son,  how  close  he  and 
his  mother  had  been.  She  w^as  afraid  of 
what  might  happen  if  she  displaced  Jack's 
mother  as  Jack's  Best  Girl. 

And  then  she  fell  in  love.  She  doesn't 
remember  how  or  when  or  where.  She  just 
remembers  that  she  awoke  one  mornin.i: 
with  the  frantic  fear:  "Oh,  suppose  he 
doesn't  telephone  today !"  And  then  she 
knew ! 

"/  knew  from  the  beginning  that  1 
couldn't  get  along  without  her."  said  Jack. 
"It's  not  'the  perfect  marriage,' "  Venita 
told  me,  gravely.  "I  hate  anyone  who 
makes  so  silly  a  boast,  don't  you?  We 
quarrel  and  have  arguments  now  and  then. 
But  they  don't  mean  anything.  They  don't 
really  touch  us.  Because  basically,  we're 
entirely  alike.  With  just  one  major  differ- 
ence. Jack  really  is  far  more  serious  a 
person  than  I  am.  I  know  that  sounds 
funny,  but  I  tell  you,  he  is  one  of  the  most 
serious,  most  sound  thinking  men  I  ever 
have  met. 

"Other  ways  we  are  just  alike.  We  like 
the  same  people,  for  the  same  reasons.  _We 
like  to  do  the  same  things,  react  to  things 
in  the  same  way. 

"Neither  of  us  cares  for  parties." 

Jack,  while  this  was  going  on,  sat,  with 


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a  quizzical  expression  about  his  mouth  but 
his  eyes,  unsmiling,  staring  into  tiie  fire  as 
if,  there,  he  found  the  reflected  truth  of 
what  the  Little  Missus  was  saying. 

"We  don't  even  like  to  eat  in  the  dining- 
room  here  at  home,"  \'^enita  said.  "Wc 
always  have  dinner  on  a  card  table  in  front 
of  the  fire  in  our  bedroom.  That's  the  only 
reason  we  are  not  sure  about  wanting  to 
buy  this  house.  We  want  something  even 
cosier  and  less  formal,  cosy  and  informal 
as  this  is.  After  dinner  we  go  to  the 
movies  sometimes,  just  to  a  little  neighbor- 
hood theatre.  The  Dome  down  in  Santa 
Monica.  Or  we  play  backgammon  to- 
gether, or  something.  Once  a  week,  or 
less  often,  we  have  one  or  two  couples  in 
for  dinner  and  then  play  all  kinds  of 
games. 

"If  Jack  wants  to  go  out,  he  knows  that 
he  can  go  and  that  there  will  be  no  hard 
feelings.  If  he  wants  to  have  dinner  witii 
some  of  the  boys,  stay  at  the  studio,  any- 
thing he  wants  is  all  right  with  me.  Some- 
times I'll  decide  to  go  to  a  movie — just 
Alice  Faye  and  some  other  girl  and  I — and 
I  know  that  it's  all  right  with  Jack.  We 
always  know,  each  of  us.  where  the  other 
one  is  and  with  whom.  We  understand  one 
another.  Jack  and  I,  that's  the  lovely  part 
of  it." 

I  said :  "Does  he  wisecrack  and  play 
practical  jokes  around  the  house,  as  it 
were,  as  the  fans  would  expect  him  to  do?" 

"Yes  and  no,"  smiled  the  young  \'enita. 
"Sometimes  he  does  and  sometimes  he  is 
very  quiet  and  grave.  I'll  tell  you  what  we 
do  do,  though  .  .  .  I'll  tell  you  what  he 
does  in  the  mornings — he  talks  baby-tulk! 
You  do,  too,  Jack  Oakie,  darling !  And 


vou  know  what  my  name  for  you  is,  too! 
Shall  I  tell  it?" 

"Xow  that  she's  here  she  may  as  well 
take  the  whole  treatment,"  grinned  Jack. 

"I  call  him  'Furdy  I  'ardoii,'  said  Venita 
\'ardon  Oakie,  "and  tiiat  means  'prelly 
Vardou'.'  " 

"She  gave  me  an  electric  train  for 
Christmas,  too,"  remarked  Jack.  "It's  out 
there  in  the  sun-room.  You  might  as  well 
tell  the  Public  that,  when  you  canif  down 
here,  you  found  Oakie  playinii  w  iih  his 
electric  train.  They'll  say  they  always 
knew  it!  Fact  is,  if  you  stay  long  enough, 
\ou  ivill  see  me  plaving  with  it,  because  I 
do." 

"I  gave  him  mink  mules,  too,"  laughed 
Venita.  "He  calls  them  mink  mules. 
They're  not,  really — they  just  look  minky. 
And  he  gave  me  a  gorgeous  new  town  car 
and  a  huge  diamond  bracelet !" 

Jack  excused  himself  for  a  moment,  pos- 
sibly to  play  with  his  electric  train. 

Venita  said :  "He  really  is  the  sweetest 
man  in  the  world  and  just  about  the  most 
sentimental.  He  is  always  doing  the  most 
thoughtful,  tender  things.  We  still  have 
an  anniversary  every  week — an  anniversary 
of  tlie  day  we  first  met.  We  have  an  an- 
niversary of  the  night  we  first  danced.  An 
anniversary  of  the  first  trip  we  ever  took 
together. 

"Here  is  one  of  the  sweetest  things  Jack 
ever  did,  I  think.  On  my  birthday  he  sent 
me  roses.  Dozens  and  dozens  of  roses.  In 
the  box  were  about  twenty  different  cards, 
each  card  with  a  florists'  conventional  slo- 
gan on  it.  You  know,  things  like :  'Hope 
You  Have  A  Happy  Trip,'  'Birthday  Greet- 
ings From  Your  Son,'  and  so  on.    And,  on 


each  card,  in  Jack's  own  handwriting,  were 
the  words :  '/  love  you.' 

"That's  so  like  Jack,"  said  Jack's  wife 
quietly.  "First  a  laugh,  and,  under  the 
laugh,  his  heart!" 

Jack  rejoined  us.  "Train's  runnin'  on 
schedule,"  he  said.  "How  you-all  comin'?" 

He  stood  with  his  back  to  the  blazing 
logs.  \'cnita  stood  on  the  hearthstone 
above  him  and  in  back  of  him.  She  twined 
the   scarf   about   her   throat  around  his. 

"Hey,  what  you-all  doin'  there?"  gurgled 
Jack.    "Trying  to  hang  me?" 

"I've  got  you  hanging  around  my  neck 
now,  all  right,"  laughed  Venita. 

"Do  you  think."  I  asked  Jack,  "that  you 
and  Venita  will  be  on  the  air  together?" 

"I  shouldn't  be  surprised."  said  Jack, 
"but  what  you've  got  that  to  look  forward 
to,  one  of  these  days.  We  were  on  the  air 
together  in  New  York,  you  know,  and  she 
went  over  big.  So  we'll  probably  be  on 
again,  the  Little  Woman  and  I.  For  better 
or  for  worse.  In  sickness  and  in  health. 
Until  the  sponsor  doth  nth  part." 

"If  we  ever  do,"  Venita  said,  "Jack  says 
we'll  call  ourselves  Oakie  and  Doakie  .  .  ." 

"That'd  make  'em  walk  a  mile  to  buy  a 
Camel !"  grinned  Jack.  "Sure,  if  she  keeps 
on  wanting  to  broadcast,  it's  all  oakie- 
doakic  with  me — you  bet!" 

They  went  to  the  door  with  me.  Jack  and 
his  Little  Missus.  They  stood  there,  arm 
in  arm.  waving  goodbye.  Many  a  side- 
splitting laugh  I've  had  from  Jack  Oakie 
but  never  the  sense  of  a  lump  in  my  throat. 
Yet  I  had  one  then.  I  heard  an  echo  of 
Venita's  voice  saying:  "First  a  laugh,  and, 
under  the  laugh,  his  heart." 

Yes,  I  thought,  yes,  that's  Jack ! 


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It  ncNTi-  had  hcithercd  liini  wry  nuicli 
111  lore,  that  hf  <li<lirt  make  a  lot  of  moiie\-. 
riKTc'  weren't  many  things  lie  wanted  tur 
himself.  But  iinw  he  wanted  great  spray.s 
uf  tirchids  and  baskets  of  roses  and  little 
things  like  jewelled  watehes  and  bracelets 
to  send  to  this  girl.  If  he  had  theni.  he 
felt,  he  could  send  his  card  in  to  her  aiul 
wait  outside  the  stage  door  for  her.  with. 
nia\be,  a  long  Rolls  Royee  to  make  an 
elfective  backdrop.  He  didn't  know  much 
about  the  stage  in  those  days  and  he  knew 
even  less  about  the  people  who  made  it 
their  life.  But  in  all  the  stories  he  bad 
read,  the  men  who  could  get  to  know- 
actresses  wiTe  alwa\s  important  and 
wealth.w  So  it  didn't  seem  as  if  the  stage 
diiur  route  would  be  successful  for  him. 

But  there  was  another  way.  He  remem- 
bered how.  away  back  in  Philadelphia 
when  he  was  a  kid,  he  and  his  friends  had 
hired  out  as  .supers  at  the  theatre  for 
thirty-five  cents  a  performance.  Fift\ 
cents  reall\-,  l)Ut  fifteen  of  them  went  to  the 
prop  man.  who  acted  as  casting  director. 

Hiere  had  been  a  camaraderie  about 
peojjle  backstage.  Even  the  kids  had  fell 
the  warmth  and  friendliness  they  gave  each 
other,  and  it  hadn't  seemed  U)  matter  much 
who  was  the  star  and  who  was  the  least 
im])ortant  person  in  the  company. 

If,  h\-  some  Huke,  be  could  get  into  the 
show,  he  would  meet  her.  ile  would  be 
able  to  sa\  good  evening  tn  her  and  tcj  hear 
her  v<.iice  repl\ing,  to  see  her  in  the  casual 
informality  of  backstage  life  and  maybe, 
in  time,  really  get  to  know  her.  It  was  a 
thought  to  startle  young  Oscar  Shaw. 

"I  remembered  the  advice  of  old  Bishop 
Potter,  back  in  Philadelphia  then,"  he 
laughed.  "I  was  about  fifteen  when  he 
came  in,  during  choir  ])ractice  one  daw 
and  told  me  that  a  l)<i\-  with  so  good  a 
voice  and  so  frisky  a  disposition  belonged 
on  the  stage  and  not  in  the  i)ulpit,  where 
my  fond  mother  hoped  to  see  me  some  da\'. 

"Even  though  it  came  more  in  rebuke 
than  in  adndration,  I  was  thrilled  b\ 
the  advice,  although  I  never  thought  I 
would  take  it  seriously.  W  hy,  the  stage 
was  glainour  undreamed  of  to  the  kid  I 
was  then.  I  didn't  think  of  actors  as  hu- 
man beings  at  all,  but  a  special  race 
of  exciting  demigods.  Me,  on  the  stage! 
Impossible!  I  was  just  an  ordinary  human. 

"But  that  (la\-  in  Atlantic  ('it\  f  remeni 
bered  the  advice  and  took  it.  I  resigned 
fnim  the  soap  business  and  when  77i<- 
Miinii-  World  went  on  to  I'hil;ideli)hia  for 
a  week's  run,  I  followed  it.  \\y  iiiter- 
\iew  with  the  manager  was  an\tbing  but 
prondsing  but  1  got  a  break  just  the  same. 
.\  fellow  I  knew  was  in  the  show  and  that 
was  all  I  needed  to  make  me  stick.  .So  I 
took  the  mone\  1  had  been  saving  for  a 
winter  suit  and  overcoat  and,  when  the 
show  went  on  to  the  Casino  Theatre  in 
New  York,  I  got  on  the  same  train. 

"There  was  that  bitter-sweet  moment 
when  I  saw  Louise.  I'itter,  liecause  she 
was  talking  to  a  young  chap  for  whom 
I  developed  a  frenzied  hatred  at  first 
sijrlit — and  sweet,  because  I  was  seeing 
her  close  like  this,  seeing  the  way  her 
nose  wrinkled  a  little  when  she  laughed 


and  the  way  she  sal  swinging  one  foot  a 
little  as  she  talked. 

"Then,  one  afternoon,  I  got  a  hurried 
call  from  m\-  friend.  One  of  the  chorus- 
boys  had  dropped  out  of  the  show  and 
they  needed  someone  immediately.  I  was 
there  ten  minutes  later  and,  oh  yes,  I  got 
the  job! 

".A.  few  lugbts  later  a  girl  was  running 
dow-n  the  narrow  stairs  froin  the  dressing- 
rooms  behiiul  me  and  as  I  reached  the 
bottom  she  tripped  and  I  caught  her  in  my 
arms.  It  wasn't  until  three  months  later 
I  knew  it  was  Louise,  for  I  couldn't  see 
her  in  the  dingy  backstage  light.  But  the 
first  night  we  went  out  to  dinner  together 
she  told  me  how^  she  had  tripped  and  a 
man  had  caught  her  and  somehow,  even 
then,  months  later,  I  got  a  thrill  out  of  it." 

Oscar  .Shaw  w-as  to  learn  a  lot  about 
the  stage  in  the  next  few  years.  But  he 
was  to  learn  even  more  about  Louise  Gale. 
He  laughs  now  when  he  says  he  learned 
about  actresses  from  her,  and  discovered 
that  all  the  stories  he  had  read  about  them 
in  those  highly-colored  magazines  weren't 
true  at  all. 

For  he  found  Louise  just  like  any  other 
girl,  only  so  much  prettier  than  any  other 
girl  he  ever  ha<l  known.  So  much  sweet- 
er, too.  I'unny,  the  feeling  that  caught 
him  in  the  throat,  the  evening  he  came  to 
her  dressing-room  for  a  chat  during  a 
long  intermission  and  saw  her  sewdng  a 
blouse,  the  frilly  kind  girls  were  wearing 
then.  .\n(l  the  time  he  went  to  her  apart- 
ment with  some  other  members  of  the 
compan\,  for  the  .Sunday  night  supper  she 
had  promised  them,  and  they  had  biscuits 
and  chicken  loaf  and  crisp  salad  and  a 
chocolate  cake  that  topped  even  the  ones 
his  mother  had  made — and  be  marveled 
the  more  that  a  girl  who  looked  like  that 
could  be  so  doggone  comfortable,  too ! 

In  the  beginning  he  bad  worried  a  little 
about  finances,  for  he  didn't  know  Louise 
so  well  then,  and  he  still  thought  there  was 
a  lot  in  those  stories  about  lobster  suppers 
and  diamond  bracelets. 

But  it  wasn't  long  before  he  discovered 
that  even  an  actress  who  had  made  a  name 
for  herself  was  not  any  more  demanding 
than  the  girls  be  bad  taken  to  the  straw- 
berry festivals  in  the  church  back  home 
in  Philadelphia.  Less  so,  if  anything.  For 
if  there's  one  thing  a  girl  on  the  stage 
learns,  a  girl  who  has  to  keep  herself  go- 
ing between  engagements,  a  girl  who's 
found  herself  stranded  many  a  time  when 
the  troupe  went  broke  in  a  strange  town, 
it's  the  \alue  of  moiie\-  and  just  how  much 
and  how  little  it  can  liii\  . 

So  there  was  this  gn-l,  who  could  have 
l)icked  out  any  restaurant  in  town,  eating 
chop  suey  in  some  dinky  little  Chinese 
place  and  loving  it.  The  first  time  they 
had  dinner  together,  he  a.sked  her  where 
she  would  like  to  go  and  wasn't  a  bit 
afraid,  either,  because  he  had  saved  for 
it  for  three  months. 

.\ii<l  she  s.n'il  :  '1  know  the  grandest 
place  down  in  the  \  illage.  You'll  love  it." 

He  had  expected  almost  anything  ex- 
cept the  place  they  came  to.  Three  steps 
down  into  the  basement  and  a  spaghetti 


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(1  they 
:e  >pht 


dinner,  a  good  one,  too,  for  forty  cents, 
and  a  bottle  of  Chianti  for  sixty,  and  a 
tinny  piano  and  a  woman  who  looked  a 
little  like  Tetrazzini,  but  didn't  sing  like 
her,  warbling  love  songs. 

They  loved  those  songs 
it  was  as  if  she  were  sing 
cially  for  them,  because 
young  and  so  much  in  1 
didn't  mind  it  at  all  when 
a  little  on  the  high  notes.  f(ir  her  c.\es 
were  so  warm  and  understanding  when 
she  smiled  at  them. 

About  the  tenth  time  Louise  had  sug- 
gested one  of  those  "darling,  quaint 
places,"  Oscar  began  to  suspect  that  she 
was  being  more  considerate  nf  hiin  than 
of  her  appetite,  but  it  wasn't  until  tliey 
were  married  that  she  finally  admitted  it. 

Oscar  Shaw  was  a  name  in  the  theatre 
then. 

Strange  how  that  kid.  who  never  had 
singing  lesson  in  his  lite,  who  wasn't 
considered  one  whit  better  than  the  other 
three  of  the  quartet  who  gatliered  around 
a  lamppost  on  sultry  summer  evenings  in 
Philadelphia,  to  serenade  the  neighbors 
sitting  on  straw  mats  on  the  high  front 
stoops,  got  on  the  stage. 

His  family  iiad  been  a  little  shocked 
when  they  discovered  that  he  had  become 
an  actor.  It  was  hard  to  adjust  themselves 
to  Oscar's  stage  career,  when  all  the  time 
they  had  thought  he  was  going  to  be  a 
minister,  just  as  soon  as  he  sold  enough  of 
those  awful-smelling  pieces  of  pink  soap 
to  pay  for  his  tuition. 

The  stage  was  as  remote  to  them  as  if 
were  in  another  world.  They  W'u\'\ 
have  felt  much  more  close  to  the  Iha-  u 
he  had  become  a  missionary  and  gene 
to  Zululand  than  they  ditl  wlien  he  wa- 
playing  practically  next  door  to  them  m 
New  York. 

But  his  mother  swallowed  whatever  mis- 
givings she  might  have  had  when  he  broke 
the  news.  After  all,  the  boy's  father  had 
died  when  he  was  only  seven  and  the\- 
had  grown  to  understand  each  other  pretty 
well  in  the  lean  years  that  had  followed. 

All  right,  son."  She  smiled.  "Only 
see  that  you're  a  good  actor!" 

Oscar  obeyed  that  command  to  the 
letter  and  he's  always  been  glad  that,  wlien 
he  played  in  his  home  town  the  first  time, 
it  was  as  leading-man.  It  was  a  grand 
feeling,  having  the  chorus  behind  him  that 
night,  as  he  sang  all  his  songs  to  his 
mother,  sitting  so  proud  and  straight  in 
her  front-row  seat. 

So  that's  how  he  became  an  actur,  that 
young  man  who  was  to  becume  the  ni(i>t 
popular  juvenile  on  Broadway.  And  tint's 
how  Loui'-e  r,ale,  one  of  the  most  prom- 
ising ingenues  tlie  stage  ever  has  had, 
stopped  being  (uie. 

For  it  didn't  take  long  for  her  tn  realize 
that  being  somebodx-  on  the  stage  didn't 
count  for  much,  when  it  meant  -he  was 
having  practically  no  time  at  all  with 
her  husband. 

Funny,  but  we  never  were  ca^t  to- 
gether after  we  were  married."  The  man 
who  had  been  Louise  Gale's  husband  f<ir 
many  years  now,  glanced  at  hi.s  waieh  with 
commuter's  e\e  and  rather  wistfully 
looked  at  his  hat.  F\en  now  he  can't 
get  back  to  her  and  their  home  in  Great 
Neck  fast  enough.  Even  now,  when  his 
radio  contract  insures  them  more  time 
ether  than  befalls  the  average  husband 
and  wife.    "It  was  pretty  awful  with  one 


VA  Mother/ 

I  've  lost 

MY 


THE  job  she  needs  so  badly.  The  job  she 
worked  so  hard  to  get.  And  what  makes  it 
even  worse,  the  job  which  she  is  so  well  qualified  to  fill! 

The  tragic  part  of  it  is  that  she  doesn't  know  uhy  she 
lost  it.  For  employers  will  never  tell  a  girl  the  real  rea.sou 
when  it  is  a  personal  fault  of  hers. 

Underarm  perspiration  odor  is  an  annoyance  men  will 
not  tolerate  in  a  girl,  either  in  business  or  in  social  life. 

And  why  should  they,  when  it  is  so  easy  to  avoid  — 
with  Mum  I 

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know  —  ajier  dressing,  just  as  well  as  before.  For  it's  per- 
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Soothing  to  skin.  It's  soothing  to  the  skin,  too.  You  can 
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perspiration  itself.  Its  work  is  to  prevent  the  ugly  odor  of 
perspiration. 

Remember,  a  fresh  daintiness  of  person,  free  from  the 
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A  Gang  Busters  program.    Phillips  Lord  (right)  interviews  Gus  Langley, 
a  man  seven  times  doomed  to  the  electric  choir.    (Center)  New  York's 
Boys  Brotherhood  Republic  mayor,  Moe  Art,  looks  on. 


of  us  on  Broadway  and  the  other  on  tour 
somewhere.  We  practically  kept  the  tele- 
phone company  solvent  during  that  time, 
but  long  distance  calls  aren't  enough. 

"One  day  I  was  making  up  for  my 
part,  when  the  door  opened  and  in  walked 
Louise!  I  blinked  a  bit  for  she  was  sup- 
posed to  be  in  Chicago. 

"  'From  now  on  I'm  going  to  be  your 
wife,'  she  said.  And  I've  never  heard  a 
prettier  piece  of  dialogue  in  any  play  I've 
ever  seen!  'I'm  going  to  stay  at  home  and 
darn  your  socks  and  cook  your  break- 
fasts and  make  you  more  comfortable  than 
any  actor  has  a  right  to  be!' 

"I  knew  she  meant  it.  Louise  has  a 
habit  of  meaning  what  she  says.  And  do 
you  know,  never  for  one  minute  has  she 
regretted  walking  out  of  the  theatre,  or, 
if  she  has,  siie's  never  given  me  reason  to 
think  so. 

"You'd  think  she  had  been  born  a  wife, 
to  see  the  way  she  took  hold  of  things. 
But  I've  always  been  glad  she  was  an 
actress  first,  for  she  understands  how 
lonely  dinners  in  town  can  be  on  matinee 
days  and  she's  never  missed  one  of  them 
with  me.  Through  rain  or  heat-wave  or 
blizzard,  she's  always  met  me  at  the 
tlieatre  and  gone  to  dinner  with  me. 

"It's  got  so  that  I  wouldn't  know  which 
fork  to  use,  if  she  were  not  sitting  there, 
smiling  at  me  across  the  table.  I'm  so 
dependent  on  her  that  if  I  walk  into  the 
house,  and  she's  run  out  to  do  some  shop- 
ping or  visit  someone,  I  feel  like  a  lost 
soul  until  I  see  her  car  turning  in  our 
driveway. 

"I  know  most  smart  young  moderns 
frown  at  that  sort  of  thing.  They  think 
separation  and  mystery  and  all  that  sort 
of  thing  makes  for  excitement  r.nd  ro- 
mance. But  they're  wrong.  It's  that 
closeness,  that  depending  on  each  other, 
that  has  made  our  marriage  so  happy." 

They're  different  from  most  stage  peo- 
ple, the  Sliaws.  There's  Oscar,  mowing 
the  lawn  Sunday  mornings,  just  like  the 
stockbroker  who  lives  down  the  street. 
Oscar  Shaw,  who  sang  Alzvays  and  All 
Alone  with  Grace  Moore,  in  just  about  the 
best  of  the  Music  Box  Revues,  poking  at 
melons  in  the  corner  grocery  and  know- 
ing the  ripe  ones,  too ! 

He's  played  with  all  the  big  stage  names 
there  are.  He's  clowned  with  Beatrice 
Lillie  and   Fannie   Brice   and   he's  sung 


with  Gertrude  Lawrence  and  Grace  Moore 
and  he  talks  about  them  as  if  they  were 
his  neighbors. 

"Bea  has  the  grandest  sense  of  humor  in 
the  world.  Or  maybe  I  shouldn't  say 
that  because  Fannie's  just  as  funny  in  her 
way. 

"Gertie's  about  the  most  disconcerting 
girl  I've  ever  known.  You  never  know 
what  mood  she's  going  to  be  in.  But  she's 
grand. 

"Grace  is  a  swell  fellow.  She's  always 
herself  and  never  gets  ruffled" 

Oscar  Shaw  never  has  gone  Broadway, 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  he's  hardly  been 
ofT  the  street,  professionally,  in  his  many 
years  in  the  theatre.  As  soon  as  one  of 
his  shows  was  going  off  the  boards,  there 
always  was  some  manager  wanting  him 
for  a  new  one.  He  was  so  popular  that 
the  Shaws  never  had  a  Thanksgiving,  or 
Christmas  or  New  Year's  dinner  in  their 
own  home  until  he  did  Broadivay  Varieties 
on  the  air. 

He  still  looks  like  the  youngster  who 
used  to  sell  soap  before  he  fell  in  love 
with  a  girl,  and  he's  probably  the  best- 
dressed  man  on  Broadway. 

But  that  isn't  the  real  Oscar  Shaw,  the 
Oscar  Shaw  who  commutes  to  Great  Neck 
in  the  winter  months  and  moves  bag  and 
baggage  and  Pekingese  dogs  and  all  to  his 
farm  near  Gettysburg  in  the  summer. 

You  wouldn't  recognize  him  in  either 
of  his  homes.  For  at  Great  Neck  he 
likes  to  wear  slacks  and  a  last  year's 
sweater  and  hop  into  the  car  for  a  drive 
or  to  play  eighteen  holes  of  golf.  And  at 
the  farm  you'd  think  he  was  the  tenant 
farmer,  to  see  him  in  overalls,  geKing  in 
the  hay  and  being  as  concerned  about  the 
weather  as  a  professional. 

They've  called  their  place  in  Gettys- 
burg T}ie  Dream,  because  they  thought 
of  it  and  planned  for  it  so  many  years 
before  they  had  the  opportunity  to  count 
on  summer  vacations.  But  it  turned  out  to 
be  a  happy  dream,  after  all. 

So  that's  how  the  story  ends.  The  story 
that  began  that  rainy  day  in  Atlantic  City, 
with  a  boy  who  never  had  thought  of  the 
stage  at  all  becoming  a  star  because  he  fell 
in  love  with  a  girl,  and  the  girl  who  had 
dreamed  of  the  stage  all  her  life,  and  had 
planned  for  it  and  worked  for  it,  giving 
it  all  up  because  she  loved  that  boy  and 
married  him. 


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GERTRUDE  NIESEN'S 
EXPERIENCES  IN 
HOLLYWOOD 

{Continued  from  Page  23) 


to  the  course — and  yet  it  wouldn't  be  fair 
not  to  give  Gertrude  credit,  too,  for  it 
was  her  own  spunk  and  determination  that 
won  over  her  father's  original  disapproval 
of  the  course  she  had  chosen. 

"He  was  terribly  against  it,"  she  ex- 
plained. "No  one  in  our  family  ever  had 
been  on  the  stage  and  he  hated  the  very 
idea  of  it." 

But  Gertrude  knew  what  she  wanted, 
was  stubbornly  determined  to  show  him 
she  was  right.  And  her  vivid  personality, 
her  unusual  voice  and  the  inimitable,  pro- 
vocative way  she  had  of  putting  over  the 
popular  torch  songs  were  paprika  to  jaded 
New  York  appetites.  Her  first  success 
was  at  the  popular  300  Club,  at  54th  and 
Broadway.  The  night  club  background 
isn't  one  any  doting  father  would  choose 
for  his  daughter,  but  wliat  father  could 
help  being  proud  of  such  success,  espe- 
cially when  he  could  not  help  seeing  that 
his  gay,  laughter-loving  daughter  was  just 
the  same,  unchanged  by  her  bizarre  sur- 
roundings ? 

So  Gertrude  sang  her  way  to  fame  in 
night  clubs,  in  the  theatre,  on  the  air,  in 
the  movies.  And  her  father,  most  adoring 
of  her  many  fans,  gave  up  his  work  as 
an  efficiency  engineer,  to  devote  himself 
to  managing  his  daughter's  career. 

Gertrude  and  her  father  always  have 
been  the  best  of  pals.  To  see  them  to- 
gether is  to  glimpse  at  once  the  depth 
of  their  understanding  and  devotion.  Her 
hand  rests  lightly  on  his  arm.  she  turns 
to  him  for  a  question,  an  answer,  and 
something  sweet  and  enduring  flashes  be- 
tween them  in  a  glance,  a  smile.  As  for 
Alonte  Niesen,  his  adoration  is  for  all  the 
world  to  read,  in  every  proud  glance,  every 
word  he  speaks  about  her. 

He  is  her  business  manager  and  you 
may  well  believe  that  he  guards  Gertrude's 
interests  jealously.  As  to  the  money  end 
of  it,  Gertrude  dismisses  it  with  a  shrug. 
"He  takes  care  of  everything.  I  don't 
know  whether  I  have  two  dollars  or  two 
hundred!  I  never  carry  much  in  my  purse 
— just  leave  the  bills  to  him.  ' 

She  is  not  extravagant  and  disclaimed 
any  fondness  for  shopping.  "I  love  clothes, 
but  I  loathe  buying  them." 

But  she  wears  them  with  a  flair  many 
a  more  ardent  shopper  would  envy  her ! 

It  was  while  she  was  playing  in  the 
Zicgfcld  Follies,  this  past  season,  that  she 
suddenly  began  to  realize  she  was  tired. 
It  was  all  fun,  glorious  fun,  the  stage 
work,  the  night  club  appearances,  the 
weekly  broadcast  on  Columbia's  Biii  Shoii.', 
which  she  had  been  making  for  two  \ears, 
but  it  was  hard  work,  too.  Full  of  zest 
and  enthusiasm  as  she  was,  she  was  as- 
tonished to  find  that  she  was  really  tired, 
longing  for  a  change  and  a  rest. 

She  was  dining  with  a  party  of  friends, 
including  Joe  Schenck,  after  an  evening's 
performance  of  the  follies,  when,  for  the 
first  time,  she  confessed  how  tired  she 
was.  He  looked  at  her  with  understand- 
ing.   It  was  easy  to  see  how,  in  her  youth- 


LITTLE ''COAL  MINES" 
IN  YOUR  SKIN! 


THAT'S  WHAT  BLACKHEADS  REALLY  ARE! 

Here's  How  to  Deal  with  Them 

down  in  size.  Responding  to  Nature,  they  reduce 
themselves  to  their  original,  invisible  smallness. 


Those  little  black  specks  that  keep  showing 
up  in  your  skin  —  do  you  know  what  they 
really  are? 

They're  nothing  more  than  little  "coal 
mines"  in  your  skin! 

They're  imbedded  dirt — dirt  that  has  found 
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ful  exuberance,  her  ambition,  her  de.sire 
to  please,  above  all  her  generous  giving 
of  lierself  in  each  performance,  she  had 
overdrawn  her  account  with  Dame  Nature. 

And  so  Joe  Schenck  suggested  that  she 
visit  sunny  California:  "You  can  have  se- 
clusion," he  promised.  "You  can  have 
your  fill  of  rest."  And  then,  knowing 
Gertrude,  he  added  lightly  :  "Or  I  can  in- 
troduce you  to  lots  of  gay  and  interesting 
people,  give  you  Hollywood's  best  in  the 
way  of  entertainment." 

Gertrude  thought  it  was  rest  she  craved 
above  everything.  New  York  had  all  she 
needed  in  the  way  of  entertainment  and 
she  had  tired  of  that.  She  would  go  west, 
go  to  Hollywood,  lie  in  the  sun  and  sleep, 
sleep,  sleep ! 

Away  from  the  night  club  atmosphere, 
away  from  noise  and  confusion,  the  pop- 
ping of  champagne  corks,  the  thick  blue 
smoke.  -A.way  from  excitement  and  laugh- 
ter and  most  especially  from  having  to  be 
a  hotcha  girl,  from  having  to  sing !  She 
laid  a  hand  against  her  throat  and  closed 
the  heavy  lids  over  her  wide  blue  eyes. 
Sun  and  sleep — that  surely  was  the  best 
medicine  Hollywood  had  to  offer.  And 
oddly,  the  irony  of  seeking  peace  and  quiet 
in  Hollywood  struck  her  not  at  all ! 

For  a  week  or  so,  Gertrude  was  bliss- 
fully lazy.  Her  friends  showed  her  every 
consideration,  left  her  completely  alone. 
She  relaxed  and  slept  and  sunned  herself. 
But,  one  night,  she  found  herself  inevit- 
ably at  that  popular  Hollywood  rendezvous, 
the  Trocadero,  with  a  gay  party  of  friends. 
It  was  Mr.  Schenck's  idea,  but  Gertrude 
had  yielded  gracefully,  perhaps  even  a  little 
eagerly,  to  this  interruption  of  her  rest 
cure.  But  it  was  to  be  an  interruption, 
an  interlude  only!  Mr.  Schenck  smilingly 
agreed. 

And  so  she  broke  out  heatedly  in  a  quick 
flush  of  anger  when  her  host,  having  in- 
troduced the  manager,  suddenly  exclaimed  : 
"Here  is  your  guest  star  for  tonight!" 

"I  w-as  simply  furious,"  Gertrude 
laughed.  "I  couldn't  say  anything  while 
the  manager  was  there  liut,  as  soon  as 
he  left,  I  reminded  Mr.  Schenck  that  I 
had  come  to  Hollywood  for  vest,  that  he 
had  promised  me  absolute  quiet.  I  ac- 
cused him  of  taking  advantage  of  me  most 
unfairly!  Oh,  I  was  really  angry — then! 
Of  course  I  am  terribly  grateful  now!" 

For,  as  a  result  of  her  singing,  however 
reluctantly,  that  night,  Gertrude  was  to 
meet  new  and  dazzling  opportunity.  For 
movie  producers  approached  her  from  all 
sides  and,  the  next  thing  Gertrude  knew, 
she  was  dashing  from  studio  to  studio, 
making  tests,  studying  contracts,  looking 
with  shining  eyes  to  her  father  to  take 
charge  of  these  unexpected  events — and 
eventualities — and  make  the  right  deci- 
sions. And  quite  forgetting  the  rest  cure ! 
The  outcome  of  it  all  was  a  contract  with 
Universal  and  a  nice  role  in  To[>  of  the 
Tcnvn. 

And  now  Gertrude  found  herself  caught 
up  in  a  whirl  of  activity  that  put  the  last 
months  in  New  York  to  shame.  All 
thought  of  sleeping  and  sunning  and  rest- 
ing was  thrust  from  her  mind.  She  had 
to  be  up  at  what  seemed  to  her  like  the 
crack  of  dawn,  and  at  the  studio  at  eight, 
and  often  she  was  weary  enough  at  night 
to  fall  into  bed  at  ten  o'clock,  which,  for 
so  long,  had  l)een  the  sliank  of  the  evening 
for  her  ! 

And,  atlded  irony,  the  first  scenes  shot 


were  supposed  to  be  in  a  night  club,  the 
atmosphere  thick  with  artificial  smoke, 
whicli  is  actually  worse  on  throat  and 
lungs  than  the  real  thing ! 

But  Gertrude  had  the  resiliency  of 
youth.  The  few  days  of  extra  rest  and 
sleep  had  been  enough  to  restore  her  fund 
of  vitality  and  with  her  usual  unquench- 
able zest  for  her  work,  for  excitement,  she 
met  the  new  and  glamorous  career.  She 
had  inade  shorts  before,  but  this  was  dif- 
ferent. She  loved  the  Klieg  lights,  thrilled 
to  the  elaborate,  gigantic  backdrops,  the 
magnificent  settings,  the  gorgeous  cos- 
tumes, the  exotic  make-up.  The  stir,  the 
bustle  of  the  studio  was  a  new  thrill.  It 
was  fun  to  be  in  the  midst  of  it,  to  be  a 
part  of  it — and  an  important  part.  She 
did  not  care  at  what  hour  she  was  called, 
or  how  many  retakes  were  necessary.  She 
was  in  a  new  world,  a  fairy  world,  and 
enjoying  it  to  the  hilt ! 

And  wherever  she  turned,  she  made 
new  friends,  for  Gertrude  has  a  very  spe- 
cial gift  for  making  friends — she  and  her 
father,  too.  They  had  found  a  warm  wel- 
come in  the  studio  from  their  new  friends 
and  had  found  old  friends  there,  too,  and 
Gertrude  responded  glowingly. 

So  it  was  not  exactly  a  case  of  all  work 
and  no  play.  Hollywood  parties  included 
her,  popular  night  clubs  featured  her,  and 
her  circle  of  friends  widened — and  nar- 
rowed again  quite  noticeably !  The  sprink- 
ling of  gossip  in  the  columns  increased — 
and  Craig  Reynolds'  name  led  all  the  rest ! 

How  can  you  describe  what  Gertrude 
does  with  her  eyes?  She  knows  how  to 
use  them  in  the  most  expressive,  delight- 
ful way.  And  her  shrug,  faintly  foreign, 
and  the  throaty  chuckle.  "Some  of  the 
columns  say  I  am  going  to  make  a  trip 
to  Europe  when  this  picture  is  finished — 
others  that  I  am  to  make  another  picture 
immediately — others  that  I  am  to  be  mar- 
ried!" She  laughed  again  infectiously. 
"Let's  leave  it  like  that,  shall  we?" 

But  she  was  serious  in  a  moment  as  I 
urged  her  to  define  her  ideas  about  love, 
marriage. 

"I've  never  thought  of  wanting  to  marry 
any  special  type  of  man — tall  or  dark  or 
blond,  thin  or  fat!"  Her  eyes  were  sud- 
denly soft,  luminous.  "Nor  do  I  think 
it  matters  whether  he  is  in  the  same  pro- 
fession or  not — just  so  he  understands  the 
importance  of  my  career — to  me  !  I  think 
it  is  just  as  well  for  a  girl  to  get  her 
career  out  of  her  system  before  marriage," 
she  went  on  earnestly.  "If  she  marries 
first  and  then  seeks  a  career,  the  career 
is  likely  to  disrupt  the  marriage.  But 
if  she  has  had  some  success,  some  fame, 
and  then  marries  a  man  who  has  an  un- 
derstanding of  what  that  success,  that 
career,  mean  to  her,  then  the  marriage 
has  every  chance  of  lasting. 

"He  wouldn't  expect  her  to  give  it  up 
—and  she  would  have  a  better  sense  of 
values.  When  I  marry,"  she  concluded 
simply,  "I  want  it  to  last  .  .  ." 

In  Top  of  the  Town  Gertrude  plays 
the  part  of  a  "heavy"  and  fails  to  get  her 
man.  "I  liope  I'll  never  be  in  that  posi- 
tion," she  murmured  as  we  discussed  the 
role. 

"She  never  will  be,"  her  father  chuckled. 

"If  she  were,  I  expect  you'd  fight  for 
her,"  I  hazarded. 

"No — I  wouldn't  interfere,"  he  said 
thoughtfully.  "I  don't  believe  in  that. 
Everyone  has  to  live  his  own  life.  All 


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an  older  person  can  do  is  give  advice — 
and  leave  it  at  that.  I  may  make  sug- 
iztstions,  but  that's  all.  I  never  interfere 
with  Gertrude's  boy  friends  and  when  it 
o  nies  to  marriage,  that  is  entirely  up  to 
iicr. "  And  his  eyes  rested  on  her  fondly 
and  you  saw  faith  in  her  and  in  her  star 
shine  brightly. 

For  Gertrude  has  not  "gone  Hollywood." 
Once  committed  to  the  pictures,  she  rented 
an  attractive  home  in  Beverly  Hills,  where 
she  lives  with  her  father  and  mother.  The 
new  triumph  has  not  turned  her  head — 
it  is  just  a  new  job.  to  be  done  as  well 
as  she  can  do  it.  Besides,  she  has  an  air 
of  keeping  her  fingers  crossed  about  it. 
The  proffered  role  in  the  forthcoming 
Riviera  is  still  in  the  rumor  stage  and 
she  won't  confirm  or  deny  it — wisely  she 
waits  to  see  what  the  fans  say  about  Top 
of  the  Tozcii.  It  is  all  so  new  and  strange, 
thrilling,  but  different.  "They  may  not 
like  me,"  she  smiles  shyly. 

But  even  in  the  studio,  give  her  a  cue, 
let  her  go  into  her  song,  and  the  company, 
grouped  idly,  wearily  about,  is  all  hers, 
from  the  first  warm  note, 

Gertrude  never  sings  a  song  quite  as 
it  is  written,  her  style  of  putting  it  over 
is  as  different  as  her  arrangements.  She 
agrees  to  the  comment  but  lightly  mocks : 
"I  hope  I  keep  the  spirit  of  the  song!" 

Not  so  much  keeps  it  as  injects  it,  and 
so  much  more!  She  is  best  known,  prob- 
ably, for  her  interpretation  of  Tony's 
Wife.  Tewptatioii  and,  more  recently.  You 
Get  Under  My  Skin.  Hear  her  sing  one 
of  those  and  you  will  understand  win- 
jaded  Hollywood  went  wild  over  her. 

It  is  hard  to  define  what  she  has.  See 
her  in  repose,  you  see  a  small,  stocky 
figure,  slightly  lieavy  features — but  she 
speaks,  she  smiles,  she  shrugs  and  flashes 
an  upward,  provocative  glance — and  face 
and  form  are  transformed,  alight  with 
personality,  with  fire,  with  allure.  She 
does  not  pose  but  sings  with  every  bit  of 
her  body  as  well  as  with  every  shade  of 
her  throaty  voice. 

Right  now  she  is  \ery  much  on  "top 
of  the  town  "  and  the  future  stretches  be- 
fore her,  bright  and  alluring.  Marriage, 
career,  a  trip  to  Europe,  a  new  picture — 
the  possibilities  are  dazzling. 

"Let's  wait  and  see, "  Gertrude  suggests 
again.  But  admits  she  sues  Craig  Rey- 
nolds half  a  dozen  times  a  week.  And 
smiles,  a  withdrawn,  secret  little  smile. 

But  whether  the  current  heart  interest 
is  the  permanent  one,  the  one  and  oidy, 
or  not,  this  much  is  certain :  When  the 
rujhl  man  asks  her  to  marry  him,  Ger- 
trude w  on't  sa\-  no  I 


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EYE-GENE 


night.  There  was  only  one  person  in  tlic 
house  I  panicked — and  that  was  me.  I 
thought  I  was  an  awful  flop.  Imagine- 
through  at  three!    But  I  carried  on. 

"The  act  took  us  all  over  the  country, 
and  sometimes  even  left  us  in  some  of  the 
darndest  places.  I  mean,  there  were  lots 
of  lay-ofifs.  The  public  must  ha\e  liked 
us  in  lay-ofifs,  because  we  certainly  were 
held  over  for  weeks  at  a  time.  And  then 
I  got  my  education — three  weeks  of  it,  in 
the  Children's  Professional  school  in  New 
York.  Tom  Brown  was  the  sheik  of  the 
school,  and  he  was  my  first  sweetie.  He 
was  my  sweetie,  I  mean,  but  I  wasn't  his. 
because  I  never  had  nerve  enough  to  tell 
him  about  my  great  love. 

"I  guess  my  school  act  wasn't  so  good. 
After  the  three  weeks  I  was  out,  and  I've 
never  been  booked  back  since.  It's  all 
right,  though.  I'd  never  have  been  a  sensa- 
tion in  that  routine,  anyway. 

"When  I  was  sixteen  I  left  Mother  and 
Dad  and  went  on  my  own  with  Paul  Ash 
and  his  band.  Ash  took  it  for  a  year 
and  Raye  found  herself  in  an  act  with 
five  other  kids — Jackie  Heller,  Hal  LeRoy, 
Sunnie  O'Dea  and  Buddy  and  Vilma  Eb- 
sen.  After  that  I  went  into  solitude  again, 
doing  my  act  alone  in  vaudeville  until  I 
landed  in  Hollywood  at  the  Century  Club. 
Then  one  night  I  sang  at  the  Trocadero 
and  somebody  heard  me — they  couldn't 
help  it,  if  they  were  within  a  block  of 
the  place — and  I  landed  at  Paramount. 
Now  I'm  on  the  air,  I  have  a  swell  apart- 
ment with  Mother,  and  I'm  engaged  to 
Jerry.    Ain't  it  wonderful,  kid?" 

We  said  sure,  kid,  it  was  really  won- 
derful, and  set  out  to  find  Jerry  Hopper. 
Jerry  is  a  personable  and  intelligent  .\()ung 
man,  who  had  several  things  to  say  about 
Martha.  You  gather,  first  of  all,  that  he's 
genuinely  in  love  with  her  and  if  Martha 
zooms  to  the  top  of  her  profession,  you'll 
know  Jerry's  guidance  had  a  lot  to  do 
with  it. 

Martha,  says  Jerry,  despises  anything 
phony.  She's  honest  and  she  expects  it 
of  others.  Jerry  remembers  particularly 
one  night  when  they  attended  a  party  at 
which  there  were  a  group  of  English 
actors.  An  American  gal,  straight  from 
I'.rooklyn,  who  always  had  talked  out  of 
the  side  of  her  mouth,  suddenly  had  de- 
veloped a  terrific  British  accent.  Martha 
stood  it  for  an  hour  or  so.  Then  she  burst 
out  with  an  accent  thicker  than  the  London 
fog.  Ten  minutes  of  that  and  the  other 
gal  departed,  muttering  strictly  American 
phrases. 

The  thing  that  best  describes  Martha  is 
the  incident  in  Denver,  where  she  sang 
at  a  charity  benefit.  The  governor  and 
the  mayor  were  present,  and  after  Martha 


had  I' 
iier  she  could 
Denver.  Ma 


1  th. 


d  settle 


"We'll  take  you  to  tiic  best  kennel  in 
town,"  announced  the  governor,  but  Martha 
turned  him  down.  She  wanted  to  go  to 
the  dog  pound.  The  governor  and  the 
mayor    were    puzzled — they    didn't  know- 


Yes,  the  Town  Crier  is  back  on 
the  air  again.  Tune  in  Alexander 
Wool  Icott,  Tuesdays  and  Thursdays, 
at  7:30  p.nn.,  on  the  CBS  network. 

where  the  dog  pound  was.  So  they  ar- 
ranged a  police  escort,  and  with  sirens 
shrieking,  Martha  was  escorted  to  the 
Denver  dog  pound. 

Looking  over  the  city's  pooches,  Martha 
came  to  one  cage  which  enclosed  the  sorri- 
est looking  little  dog  she'd  ever  seen.  He 
was  dirty  and  he  was  sad.  He  didn't  even 
wag  his  tail.  He  had  probably  wagged 
it  many  times  at  prospective  masters,  with 
no  luck,  and  now  he  had  given  up — con- 
vinced nobody  wanted  him.  Martha  passed 
him  by  several  times,  but  her  heart  went 
out  to  this  sorrowful  little  creature,  and 
she  asked  for  liim.  The  governor  of 
Colorado  paid  the  fifty-cent  fee  and 
Martha  had  a  dog. 

By  the  time  Martha  had  reached  Holly- 
wood, she  and  the  dog — she  had  named 
him  Plugits,  because  it  doesn't  mean  any- 
thing—had become  fast  friends.  After  a 
visit  to  a  veterinary  for  a  cleaning  and 
overhauling,  Plugits  turned  out  to  be  a 
thoroughbred  wire-haired  terrier.  He  and 
Martha  are  still  surprised  and  happy  about 
that. 

Martha  is  the  kind  of  girl  you'd  like. 
She's  fun,  and  she's  funny.  You  never 
know  what  goes  on  next  with  Martha,  and 
that's  why  she's  so  entertaining.  Jerry 
Hopper  tells  of  an  evening  when  the  two 
of  them  were  out  riding.  They  stopped 
at  an  oil  station  out  in  San  Fernando 
X'alley  while  Martha  phoned  her  mother. 

"Isn't  that  Martha  Raye?"  the  at- 
tendant asked  Jerry. 

Jerry  said  it  was  she,  in  person,  and  the 
attendant  chuckled. 

"She  sure  is  swell,"  he  said.  "I  saw  her 
on  the  stage  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  when 
she  finished  her  song,  I  said  to  my  wife: 
"You  know,  I  think  that  girl  is  nuts' !" 


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BE  OUR  GUEST 
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(Coiitiinii'd  from  page  56") 


Jack  Oakie  will  be  master  or 
ceremonies  at  a  big  dinner  dance 
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Anotlier  favorite  of  yours,  genial  Jack 
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Few  visitors  ever  see  movies  in  the 
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And  of  course  there  are  a  thousand  other 
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magnificent  art  galleries,  libraries,  obser- 
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The  trip  across  the  western  half  of  the 
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MURDER  AND  MYSTERY  ON  THE  AIR 


(Cot! tinned  front  page  51) 


of  exceptional  quality,  but  it  brought  in 
little  revenue.  He  worked  for  six  years 
at  journalism,  did  many  assignments  and 
translations,  even  did  some  teaching,  to 
eke  out  his  slender  royalties.  And  then, 
one  morning  when  he  arose,  he  found  that 
he  could  not  stand;  he  had  come  to  the 
end  of  his  tether,  after  driving  himself 
to  do  on  the  average  of  fourteen  hours 
work  each  day. 

"The  years  of  my  illness,"  Mr.  \'an 
Dine  said,  "were  years  when  I  apparently 
sat  upon  the  lap  of  the  gods,  though  I 
knew  it  not.  They  were  planning,  those 
deities,  very  pleasant  things  for  me,  of 
which  I  had  no  idea.  I  was  too  utterly 
discouraged  and  despondent  to  care — even 
quite  content  to  go  on  and  face  the  Great 
Adventure." 

At  that  time  fifteen  years  of  writing 
lay  behind  him,  with  very  little  to  show  for 
it  in  a  lucrative  way.  A  great  bitterness  and 
resentment  took  hold  of  him,  and  it  was 
only  because  of  his  faithful  doctor,  who 
also  was  a  faithful  friend,  that  he  began 
to  get  hold  of  himself.  For  over  two  years 
he  was  confined  to  bed.  A  heretofore  hard- 
working, athletic,  active  man,  flat  on  his 
back,  and  before  him  a  dark,  uncertain 
future !  Savings  melting  away,  and  then — 
what?  Days  there  were  when  he  tragically 
longed  to  be  at  his  beloved  writing,  but  he 
was  not  permitted  to  lift  a  pencil;  not  al- 
lowed even  to  read  what  others  had  written. 
What  barren  days  they  were,  with  the 
exchequer  getting  emptier  than  the  well- 
known  cupboard  of  Old  Mother  Hubbard  ! 
Then,  after  long  weary  weeks,  he  was 
granted  permission  to  read  some  light 
fiction. 

"I  detested  light  fiction,"  Mr.  Van  Dine 
said.  "And  I  asked  if  I  might,  instead,  be 
permitted  to  read  detective  yarns." 

That  request  proved  to  be  the  turning 
point  in  his  life.  It  was  then  that  the  thing 
happened  which  later  was  to  be  responsible 
for  the  writing  of  the  Philo  ]'ance  novels. 
The  doctor  granted  the  rc(iuest,  :ind  Mr. 
\'an  Dine  began  to  devour  every  detective 
story  he  could  get  hold  of.  He  felt  that, 
in  reading  them,  he  could  stop  thinking 
about  his  own  problems.  He  sent  out  and 
had  the  shelves  of  libraries  raked  clean ; 
he  sent  abroad  for  detective  books  and 
stories.  He  read  them  carefully,  analyzed 
them,  and  set  to  work  to  discover  the 
reason  for  the  almost  universal  appeal  of 
such  stories  and  books.  He  turned  a 
recreation  into  a  course  of  detective  writ- 
ing, so  to  speak.  And  when,  some  months 
later,  he  was  able  to  be  up  and  about,  he 
found  himself  in  possession  of  a  lilirary 
of  nearly  two  thousand  vohmnes,  covering 
the  entire  field  of  American  and  European 
detective  literature.  He  found  himself,  also, 
with  three  outlined  detective  stories  of  his 
own,  and  an  idea  for  a  protagonist.  From 
then  on,  he  traveled  the  road  to  Coming- 
IJack-Again.  And  made  it  "on  high,"  as  it 
were.  His  outlines  for  novels  were  eagerly 
greeted  by  a  publisher,  and  Mr.  Van  Dine 
went  to  work.  The  rest,  of  course,  is  more 
or  less  history— from  the  first,  The  Ben- 
sun  Murder  Case,  down  to  the  most  recent, 
'I'he  Kidnap  Murder  Case. 


"In  the  beginning,  no  one  knew  who 
Van  Dine  was,"  he  said.  "But  there  was 
much  surmising.  I  was  accused  of  being 
everyone  from  Ma  Ferguson  to  H.  L. 
Mencken;  from  Pola  Negri  to  Israel  Zang- 
will.  I  was  forced  to  lead  a  sort  of  double 
life,  after  the  Philo  I'ance  books  began 
to  be  talked  about.  At  times  I  found  myself 
being  asked  my  opinion  about  them  and 
bookstore  owners  endeavored  to  sell  me 
my  own  stories,  frequently  recommending 
them  to  me  so  highly  that  I  blushed ! 
Sometimes  I  felt  so  guilty.  I  actually  bought 
copies  of  them  at  the  full  market  price !" 

The  success  of  the  Philo  Vance  novels 
surpassed  his  wildest  dreams,  and  the  fame 
of  "S.  S.  Van  Dine"  spread  as  he  never 
had  dared  to  hope  that  it  might.  The  Ben- 
son Murder  Case  was  a  hit,  so  was  the 
Canary  Murder  Case,  which  followed  it; 
and  so  on,  down  the  list.  One  best-seller 
after  another !  The  books  were  hailed  in 
America  and  Europe,  made  into  movies, 
translated  into  half  a  dozen  languages.  It 
all  was  very  startling  and  not  a  little  awe- 
inspiring.  Mr.  Van  Dine  had,  with  the  aid 
of  a  nervous  breakdown  and  Mr.  Philo 
J^ance,  done  something  he  had  not  been 
able  to  do  as  Willard  Huntington  Wright 
— that  is,  make  money  through  writing. 

"Do  you  know,"  he  said,  "with  it  all  I 
had  a  curious  feeling  of  humility  and 
gratitude.  I  experienced  a  sense  of  human 
contact  with  mankind  which  never  had  been 
mine  during  the  writing  of  my  other  books." 

What,  we  wondered,  did  he  do  when  he 
wasn't  writing  these  highly  entertaining 
murder  tales? 

"I  am  probably  one  of  the  very  .few 
people  who  haven't  a  hobby,"  said  Mr. 
Van  Dine.  "Oh,  I  build  my  own  radio 
sets,  trying  constantly  to  get  in  touch  with 
all  sorts  of  foreign  stations,  and  I  have 
even  practiced  fancy  snoring !  I've  raised 
and  bred  chickens,  also,  and  I  have  a  ken- 
nel of  prize-winning  Scotties.  I'm  fond  of 
horse  races.  I've  made  a  study  of  Egypt- 
ology, and  I'm  interested  in  collecting 
Chinese  ceramics.  I'm  also  passionately 
fond  of  gambling,  and  it  has  been  said 
that  I'm  a  good  cook.  Some  people  also 
consider  me  an  expert  brandy-taster." 

Leaning  back  in  the  deep  chair  in  which 
he  sat,  Mr.  \"an  Dine  admitted  that  he 
rarely  missed  an  important  prize-fight, 
wrestling-bout  or  bull-fight;  that  he  also 
liked  flea-circuses,  ice-hockey,  baseball,  and 
football  games.  He  has  collected  many 
volumes  and  records  of  criminology,  and 
has  bred  and  raised  tropical  fish.  "But," 
he  added,  with  a  smile,  "during  the  past 
ten  years  or  so,  one  of  my  most  absorbing 
interests  has  been  the  writing  of  detective 
novels  !" 

We  mentioned  the  fact  'that  we  had 
heard  he  was  a  Virginian. 

"I  was  born  in  Charlottesville,"  he  said, 
"but  the  place  of  my  birth  is  wholly  a 
geographical  accident.  Although  I  was 
born  within  the  classic  shades  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  I  am  not  a  Southerner, 
and  came  north  at  a  very  early  age  to  the 
home  of  my  ancestors,  which  was  New 
York  State." 

As  he  talked,  we  found  it  a  little  easier 


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to  understand  liis  amazing  recovery  from 
an  illness  that  would  have  permanently 
floored  many  a  man  or  woman.  That  sense 
of  humor  had  much  to  do  with  it.  A  man 
who  could  laugh  at  a  nervdus  l)reakdown, 
convert  an  illness  into  a  -old-mine,  was  a 
person  worth  knowinu.  imc  tremendously 
to  admire.  We  could  viMialize  him  as  ill 
and  broken,  a  man  who,  so  he  said,  once 
weighed  one  hundred  and  sixty,  and  was 
reduced  to  one  hundred  and  live — flat 
broke,  on  his  back,  seemingly  down  and 
out.  And  now  he  sat,  surrounded  by 
beauty,  luxury,  happy  with  his  lovely  wife 
in  his  home  high  above  the  rush  and  roar 
of  the  huge  city,  a  man  of  culture  and  re- 
finement ;  and  one  who  had  made  of  de- 
tective story  writing  a  thing  of  art  and 
real  literature. 

We  asked  him  what  he  thought  of  radio 
murder  and  mystery  dramas. 

"A  radio  presentation  and  a  book  are 
entirely  different  mediums,"  he  replied, 
"and  the  radio  technitiue  would  be  just  as 
ineffective  in  interest  and  suspense,  if  used 
in  a  book,  as  would  be  the  book  technique 
for  radio.  To  make  a  mystery  book  or 
printed  story  efTective  on  the  radio,  the 
story  must  be  conceived  from  the  stand- 
point of  sound  and  not  the  visually  de- 
scriptive word.  The  script-writer,"  he 
continued,  "must  master  all  the  technical 
details  and  needs  of  the  radio  medium; 
and  think  and  conceive  in  terms  of  that 
medium  alone — just  as  a  musician,  or  a 
painter,  or  a  motion  picture  artist,  should 
first  master  the  elements  of  each  of  these 
mediums  before  he  attempts  to  express 
anything  in  any  of  them." 


"Do  you  think,"  we  asked,  "that  drama 
of  any  sort  can  be  successfully  presented 
in  the  brief  period  usually  allotted  to  it 
on  the  air?" 

"That  all  depends  on  the  time  allotted 
and  the  nature  of  the  material,"  Mr.  Van 
Dine  said.  "A  fifteen-minute  program  is, 
I  think,  too  short  for  any  a(K'(|tiate  nr 
gripping  drama  over  the  air.  It  can  he 
done  in  half  an  hour,  if  the  spcin^or  isn't 
too  greedy  for  commercial  time  ;  hut  h.ere 
again  the  story  must  be  conceived  witliin 
the  time  limitations.  Cutting  down  a  long 
drama,  or  a  novelette,  or  a  novel,  in  order 
to  fit  a  half-hour  period,  is  neither  practi- 
cal nor  satisfactory,  as  has  been  pro\cd 
ever  and  over  again  when  it  has  been  at- 
tempted. No  more  than  what  ordinarily 
would  be  a  brief  one-act  play,  or  a  short 
story,  should  be  attempted  in  this  time 
limitation.  And,  even  in  this  event,  it 
should  not  be  merely  transcribed  in  liter- 
ary or  dramatic  dialogue,  but  reconceived 
ill  the  medium  of  the  radio.  Three-quar- 
ters of  an  hour — or,  better  still — a  full 
hour,  would  be  more  practical  for  the 
presentation  of  the  original  force  and 
glamour  of  a  radio  drama — provided,  of 
course,  the  material  is  fundainentally 
sound  and  competently  conceived." 

The  question  came  up  as  to  the  relative 
importance  of  varying  aspects  of  the  radio. 

"Why  try  to  limit  the  value  of  radio  to 
any  one  type  of  program  or  to  one  definite 
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sense,  are  quite  as  necessary  to  the  bal- 
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of  life,  just  the  same  as  do  literature, 
the  drama,  painting  and  drawing,  and 
music.  W'c  shnnld  h.ive  frothy  and  enter- 
taiiiini;  aniux-nu'nls,  as  well  as  the  more 

.\s  we  arose  to  go,  we  inquired  as  to 
the  origin  of  the  pen-name  Mr.  Wright 
had  chosen. 

"The  J'an  Dine  part  of  it,"  he  said, 
"really  is  an  old  family  name.  But  as  for 
tlie  steamship  initials,  I  haven't  the  fog- 
giest idea  what  they  stand  for!" 

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Avenue,  a  silhouette  against  the  horizon. 
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luck  that  had  tnade  a  famous  man  of  S.  S. 
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Stepping  out  into  the  falling  twilight, 
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THEIR  LIVES 

{Continued  from  page  40) 


nonientous,  sometimes  result  disappoint- 
nsly.  When  I  was  a  little  girl,  I  wanted 
o  be  a  ballet  dancer.  My  teacher  was 
.)  give  a  recital  of  his  pupils.  For  weeks 
prepared  for  it,  dreamed  of  the  great 
iiKiment  when  everyone  would  say  I  was 
a  wonderful  dancer,  the  best  of  them  all ! 
I  believed  that  some  great  person  would 
come  to  me  and  declare:  'This  little  girl 
ivill  be  a  great  ballet  dancer!'  You  know 
the  dreams  in  which  children  indulge. 
Weil,  the  great  day  came.  I  had  pictured 
myself  wearing  a  pink  tulle  costume  I'd 
seen  at  my  teacher's  place.  Instead,  I 
was  given  an  ugly  little  paper  dress.  That 
spoiled  everything  for  me.  My  great  mo- 
ment, to  which  I'd  been  looking  forward 
so  ardently,  fell  flat  and  was  a  total  loss !" 
Virginia  concluded,  laughing. 

A  chance  incident  changed  the  life  of 
Vee  Lawnhurst,  whom  you  may  hear 
each  week  on  a  coast-to-coast  network, 
singing  and  playing  her  own  songs.  Vee, 
who  was  born  in  Asbury  Park,  New 
Jersey,  is  probably  the  most  successful 
feminine  composer  of  popular  songs  in 
America.  Among  her  big  song  hits,  as 
you  probably  know,  are  And  Then  Some, 
Accent  on  Youth,  Cross  Patch  and  No 
Other  One.  She's  hoping  that  her  new 
song.  Please  Keep  Me  in  Your  Dreams, 
will  top  tliem  all.  But  she  thinks  that  she 
wouldn't  be  a  successful  composer  today, 
if  it  hadn't  been  for  a  chance  incident. 

"Let  me  tell  you  what  I  mean  by  that," 
\'ee  explained  to  me.  "My  life  was  all 
mapped  out,  you  see,  in  an  entirely  differ- 
ent direction.  I  had  planned  to  marry  a 
certain  man,  and  be  a  good  little  wife,  and 
probably  have  a  dozen  youngsters  and  rock 
cradles  and  hang  curtains,  and  adore  him 
and  just  be  happy.  My  horizon  was  limited 
to  that  one  man.  I  did  love  him.  But, 
one  day,  the  telephone  rang.  Someone 
spoke  to  me.  I  won't  tell  you  who  it  was 
or  what  was  said.  That's  beside  the  point. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  this  'phone  call  ended 
a  great  love  affair.  If  I  hadn't  happened 
to  receive  it,  I  would  be  leading  an  en- 
tirely different  life  today.  As  it  is,  I  gave 
up  my  husband-to-be.  In  ni\  niihappiness, 
I  had  to  turn  to  something  to  make  me 
forget.  I  always  had  loved  music  and 
had  a  talent  for  it.  And  I  determined 
I'd  try  my  hand  at  composing.  I  threw 
myself  into  the  task  with  fervor.  Well, 
eventual  I  was  lucky  enough  to  make 
a  success  of  it.  I  still  can't  believe  it  all 
today.  This  week,  when  a  magazine  asked 
me  to  do  a  success  story,  I  had  to  pinch 
myself  to  be  sure  it  was  I.  And,  besides 
fame,  I  found,  in  lime,  a  new  love — a  better 
love — one  that  I  enjoy  today.  So  you 
see,  the  incident  of  the  'phone  call  brought 
me  a  new  career,  a  new  life,  and  eventu- 
ally a  new  romance,"  Vee  said  thought- 
fully. 

"It's  funny  how  chance  may  change 
your  whole  existence,  while  events  of 
which  you  expect  great  things  sometimes 
prf)ve  a  snare  and  a  delusion,"  brilliant, 
lovely  Vee  Lawnhurst  mused.  "Here's 
an  example,  out  of  my  own  experience : 


During  the  time  when  I  was  first  strug- 
gling to  write  melodies,  I  met  one  of  the 
most  famous  lyricists  in  the  business. 
When  he  agreed  to  write  songs  with  me — 
he  to  write  the  words  and  I  the  music — 
I  thought  I  was  'made'  professionally.  I 
believed  that  this  was  the  big  opportunity 
that  would  bring  me  fame  and  fortune. 
But,  after  we'd  written  a  few  songs  to- 
gether, this  man,  from  whose  association 
I  expected  such  big  things,  was  called  to 
Hollywood.  The  offer  was  too  good  to 
refuse.  Of  course  he  went,  and  our  musical 
partnership  was  at  an  end.  You  can't  write 
songs  with  a  man  who's  three  thousand 
miles  away  on  another  job.  So  the  thing 
of  which  I  expected  most  in  my  career, 
came  to  nothing! 

"There's  another  thing  of  which  I  ex- 
pected results  I  never  got,"  Vee  added 
demurely.  "I  dyed  my  hair  red,  thinking 
it  would  cause  a  sensation !  I  expected 
everyone  to  tell  me  how  beautiful  I  looked. 
Instead,  they  all  liked  my  -curly  locks 
better  the  old  way,"  said  the  brown-haired 
composer,  "and  I  had  the  worst  time  get- 
ting them  back  to  their  original  color!" 
Vee  laughed  amusedly. 

A  chance  incident  changed  the  life  of 
Lily  Pons,  one  of  the  most  renowned 
opera  singers  in  the  world,  whose  fame 
matches  her  charm  and  popularity.  There's 
hardly  a  corner  of  the  globe  in  which  the 
voice  of  Lily  Pons  has  not  been  heard. 

"Yet  there  was  a  time  when  I  was  very 
unhappy,"  Miss  Pons  said  to  me,  with  her 
charming  French  accent.  "It  was  because 
of  my  size,  my  littleness,  the  fact  that 
fate  had  painted  me  in  miniature.  When 
I  wanted  to  play  with  the  boys  and  girls 
in  school,  they  would  push  me  away  and 
say :  'Go  away,  you  are  too  small  to  play 
with  us.'  Then  when  we  make  an  ama- 
teur theatre  in  Cannes — that  is  where  I 
was  born,  you  know — and  I  want  to  play 
the  beautiful  heroine,  they  say :  'Oh  no, 
you  are  not  tall  enough.  If  you  be  good, 
we  let  you  be  the  page  boy  1'  Oh,  that 
make  me  very  sad !  Sometime,  at  night, 
when  I  go  to  bed,  I  cry  and  say :  'Oli, 
please,  God,  make  me  big  and  tall!'" 

Constantly  reminded  of  her  inferior 
stature  and  constantly  troubled  lest  she 
be  inferior  to  other  people  in  other  re- 
spects as  well.  Miss  Pons  despaired  of  ful- 
filling the  tradition  that  singers  must  be 
imposing-looking  and  of  ample  physical 
proportions.  Vainly  she  tried  to  disguise 
her  tininess — decked  herself  out  in  trailing 
gowns  and  towering  hats,  and  went  to 
work  mastering  the  difficult  art  of  walk- 
ing on  high  spike  heels.  She  bound  her 
lovely  brown  locks  up  in  a  tremendous 
low  bun,  to  make  her  look  so-fis-tce-kate, 
as  she  pronounces  it.  But  the  trailing 
gowns  and  high  head-dress  proved  un- 
satisfactory. "Anyone  with  two  eyes  in 
his  head  could  see  through  the  decs-guises," 
the  Gallic  songbird  sighed.  "Helas!  I 
was  so  miserable !"  Her  small  oval  face 
contorted,  as  she  recalled  it. 

"And  then,"  Miss  Pons  declared,  "some- 
thing happen,  an  incident  that  change  my 


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whole  life!  It  was  when  I  make  the  opera 
debut  in  Mulhaus — that  is  a  little  town, 
so  big  (she  indicated  with  her  thumb  and 
index  finger),  in  France.  Of  course,  it 
change  my  life,  because  it  make  me  to  be 
an  opera  singer  forever  after,  but  also  it 
change  my  life  another  way.  I  am  to 
sing  Lakme.  I  am  waiting  for  my  cue  in 
the  wings.  I  am  shaking  from  the  head 
to  the  toes.  The  manager  of  the  opera 
house  see  me  and  want  to  cheer  me  up. 
He  come  to  me  and  he  say :  'Mademoiselle, 
it  is  wonderful  that  at  last  we  have  found 
a  Lakme  who  looks  right  for  the  part.  Oh, 
those  big,  fat  prima  donnas  1'  And  he  threw 
up  his  hands.  As  those  hands  go  up,  all 
the  hopes  of  my  life  go  up,  too.  I  look  at 
him  for  two  whole  minutes  and  do  not 
say  anything.  I  am  thinking.  I  think: 
'Here  is  someone  who  thinks  I  am  good 
because  I  am  small — it  is  good  to  be 
small!' 

"After  that  chance  incident,  life  was  dif- 
ferent. I  began  to  realize  that  one  could 
be  tiny  and  succeed,  that,  in  fact,  one  might 
be  tiny  and  succeed  because  of  it,"  Lily 
said.  "I  throw  the  nasty  high  heels  away 
and  I  go  to  the  barber  and  tell  him :  'Cut 
my  hair  gay  and  short,'  I  turn  up  the 
hems  on  my  dresses  and  cut  off  the  tops 
of  my  hats.  That  is,  I  buy  gay  new  little 
dresses  and  gay  new  little  hats."  And 
thus  began  the  gay  new  little  life  of  Lily 
Pons,  destined  to  become  world-renowned 
as  the  "Little  Lily  Pons,"  "the  tiny  song- 
stress," the  "petite  prima  donna,"  the  "half- 
pint  coloratura." 

She  now  is  very  proud,  you  can  tell 
from  the  way  she  says  it,  that  her  feet 
are  the  smallest  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
Company  and  that  she  must  have  all  her 
shoes  made  to  order  because  "the  stores, 
they  do  not  have  them  so  petite."  She 
does  not  try  to  look  tall  any  more,  and 
she  does  not  hesitate,  particularly  in  the 
seclusion  of  her  Silverniine  home,  to  play 
the  part  of  the  little  girl. 

"And  so,  you  see,  that  night  in  Mul- 
haus changed  my  life,"  Lily  said  prettily. 
"That  little  incident  of  the  manager's 
speech  make  all  the  difference.  For  it 
make  me  happy  instead  of  unhappy.  And 
so  it  helped  me  to  sing  better.  For  one 
cannot  sing  one's  best  unless  one  is  veery, 
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"But,  sometimes,  things  of  which  I  ex- 
pect much  do  not  turn  out,"  Miss  Pons 
marveled.  "When  I  go  to  Hollywood, 
for  instance,  I  think :  'There  will  be  big 
parties,  social  affairs,  swimming  pools, 
much  gaiety  for  me.  What  you  call 
glamour.'  When  I  get  there,  I  find  all 
the  time  I  must  zvork,  zvork,  ivork.  I 
never  work  so  hard  in  my  life !  There 
is  no  time  for  parties,  for  late  hours.  That 
life  of  which  I  hear  so  much,  which  I 
wish  to  see,  is  not  there.  And  so  it  turn 
out  different  than  I  think.  I  do  not  get 
gaiety.  I  love  Hollywood  in  a  different 
way  than  I  expect,"  Lily  explained. 

A  chance  incident  changed  the  life  of 
Benay  Venuta,  the  singer  you  hear  in 
her  own  program  of  songs,  each  Satur- 
day night,  on  the  Mutual  network  from 
coast  to  coast. 

"I'm  marrie<l  haiiiiily  now,  and  I  have 
a  career  l)c>idcs,"  licnay  told  me.  "But 
I  wouldn't  iiavu  had  cither,  if  it  hadn't 
been  for  a  ciiance  occurrence.  For  if  my 
husband.  Dr.  Kenneth  Kelly,  hadn't  come 
to  a  certain  fraternity  dance,  it  all  never 
would  have  happened.  He  didn't  expect 
to  go  there.  He  didn't  even  bring  his 
dress  clothes  to  San  Francisco  with  him. 
But  he  allowed  himself  to  he  persuaded  at 
the  last  moment.  If  he  hadn't  happened 
to  go  to  that  dance,  he  wouldn't  have  been 
out  late  enough  to  bother  to  go  to  a  night 
club  afterwards.  And  if  he  hadn't  gone 
to  the  night  club,  we  never  would  have 
met.  For  I  was  singing  there.  He  heard 
me  sing  Say  It  Isn't  So — and  he  fell  in 
love  with  me  that  instant,  or  so  he  tells 
me,"  blonde  Benay  said  blithely.  "I  fell 
for  him  just  as  hard,  and  just  as  quickly. 
But   we  had  to  wait  two  years   to  get 


married.  You  see,  he  had  to  accomplish 
two  things  to  do  it — get  a  medical  degree 
and  a  divorce,"  Benay  explained. 

"Some  time  after  we  met,  Kenneth  had 
to  go  back  to  medical  school,"  Benay  re- 
lated. "So  I  went  to  Chicago,  too,  just 
to  be  near  him.  I  hadn't  been  doing  so 
well  with  my  singing  up  till  then.  But 
in  Chicago,  I  met  Jules  Alberti.  He  was 
very  enthusiastic  about  my  voice.  He  be- 
came my  manager,  and  brought  me  to 
New  York,  where,  I  am  happy  to  say,  I 
have  made  my  success,"  said  the  girl  who 
followed  Ethel  Alerman  in  Anything  Goes, 
and  who  has  become  a  radio  celebrity.  "So 
you  see  why  I  say  that  if  'my  man'  hadn't 
happened  to  go  to  that  fraternity  dance, 
I  might  never  have  had  either  love  or 
career. 

"On  the  other  hand,"  she  countered, 
"events  of  which  you  expect  a  great  deal 
often  result  disappointingly.  For  instance, 
while  I  was  in  Chicago,  it  looked  for  a 
while  as  though  I  would  work  for  the 
Music  Corporation  of  America.  I  ex- 
pected this  to  make  me  a  big  star.  I  was 
all  e.xcited  about  it.  But,  in  the  end,  it 
just  didn't  happen.  I  guess  they  decided 
I  weighed  too  much,"  she  added  laughing- 
ly. "You  know,  I  have  lost  fifty  pounds 
since  then." 

And  so  it  goes.  You  turn  a  corner, 
you  go  to  a  party,  you  speak  to  some- 
one, you  walk  out  in  the  street  to  go  to 
work,  you  step  into  a  store — any  little 
thing  you  do  may  become  the  turning-foint 
of  your  zvhole  life.  Who  knows  what  it 
is  and  when  it  will  come?  You've  read 
how  a  chance  incident  changed  the  lives 
of  these  four  famous  girls.  Perhaps  your 
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Arbiick'.e  are  gone,  but  Abe  lives  over 
again  the  afternoons  they  spent  at  the  ball 
games. 

"Why,  we  used  to  get  out  to  the  park 
two  hours  before  the  ball  game,  just  so  we 
could  chew  the  rag,"  declared  Lyman. 
"And  any  time  you  get  a  bandleader  out 
of  the  hay  two  hours  ahead  of  time,  you've 
got  something ! 

"Chance  didn't  live  in  the  past,  but  he 
liked  to  talk  about  the  old  days  when  I 
used  to  hang  outside  the  Cub  park  and 
wait  for  him  to  get  me  in  'on  the  cuff.'  I 
guiss  that  the  heroes  you  remember  when 
you  were  a  kid  always  seem  tops.  There 
probably  have  been  better  ball  clubs  than 
that  old  Cub  bunch.  Three-fingered 
Brown,  Schulte,  Kling,  Evers,  Tinker, 
Chance  and  the  rest,  but  I  never  can  for- 
get how  great  they  seemed  to  be  when  I 
was  a  youngster. 

"That  summer  on  the  Coast  was  the  be- 
ginning of  my  going  for  sports  in  a  big 
way.  Through  Arbuckle  I  met  a  lot  of 
ball  players  in  the  Coast  League,  who 
later  were  to  come  up  to  the  majors,  and 
I  got  right  back  in  the  spot  I'd  been  when 
I  was  twelve  years  old. 

"It  got  so.  during  the  summers  of  '26 
and  '27,  that  I  didn't  miss  an  afternoon  at 
the  ball  park  in  Chicago.  It  was  then  I 
found  out  that  I  was  a  Xafioiial  League 
fan.  I  used  to  think  that  I  was  just  a 
baseball  bug,  but  through  the  years  I've 
found  myself  leaning  toward  the  Xational 
— can't  get  over  the  fact  that,  when  I  was 
a  twelve-year-old,  a  star  like  Frank 
Chance  took  me  into  the  Cub  park. 

"And,  if  ever  I  felt  that  I  was  slipping 
in  my  sympathies,  along  comes  a  guy  like 
Dizzy  Dean  and  sells  me  all  over  again. 
He's  the  Xational  League's  best  adver- 
tisement— color,  courage,  rhythm  when  he 
works,  stamina — everything." 

W  hen  Lyman  and  his  band  were  playing 
in  the  show.  Good  Xeivs.  in  Chicago  in 
1928,  and  later  at  the  College  Inn  in  the 
Hotel  Sherman  there,  Abe  became  a  Cub 
rooter  all  over  again,  meeting  a  new  Cub 
team,  another  generation  of  players  and 
becoming  as  enthusiastic  for  them  as  he 
had  been  for  the  heroes  of  his  childhood. 

"Xobody'll  ever  believe  me  when  I  say 
I  was  so  'wacky'  over  that  Cub  team  of 
Charley  Grimm,  Gabby  Hartnett,  Hack 
Wilson,  etc.,  that  I  used  to  buy  them 
theatre  tickets  out  of  my  own  pocket," 
grinned  Lyman.  "And  it  was  a  $4.40  show, 
too.  The  players  used  to  leave  passes  for 
myself  and  the  boys  for  the  ball  games  and 
I  used  to  invite  them  to  our  show.  .And 
when  they  accepted,  I  always  dug  down. 
I  wanted  'em  to  think  I  was  a  big  shot, 
I  guess. 

"I  remember  once  getting  mad  at  Hart- 
nett, who  is  a  good  fellow  and  I  don't 
know  how  we  came  to  fall  out.  At  any 
rate,  I  bet  against  the  Cubs  for  spite — 
and  they  went  out  and  won  thirteen 
straight  at  Wriglcy  Field,  with  me  going 
for  $500  on  each  game !  I  finally  saw 
Gabby,  made  up  with  him  and  then  bet  on 
the  Cubs.  And  they  lost— to  the  Phillies, 
a  4  to  1  shot!" 


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Although  Lyman  averages  three  after- 
noons at  the  ball  game  a  week  in  New 
York,  with  a  slight  preference  for  the 
Polo  Grounds,  which,  since  the  days  of 
John  McGraw,  have  been  a  magnet  for 
theatrical  folk,  he  says  he  doesn't  enjoy 
the  games  as  inuch  as  he  did  in  Chicago. 
"You  can  get  closer  to  the  players  out 
there  and  the  closer  I  get  to  the  players, 
the  better  I  like  the  ball  game.  I  like  to 
feel  that  I  personally  know  the  teams 
which  are  playing,"  he  explained. 

Since  leaving  Chicago,  however,  Lyman 
hasn't  lost  track  of  his  baseball  friends. 
Dick  Bartell,  Joe  Medwick,  Frank  Frisch 
are  some  of  his  pals  on  teams  other  than 
the  Cubs.  Harry  Banning,  second  string 
catcher  of  the  Giants,  is  another  with 
whom  Lyman  likes  to  sit  down  for  a  base- 
ball fanning  bee. 

Incidentally,  Lyman  is  very  indignant 
about  the  unceremonious  firing  of  Casey 
Stengel,  deposed  manager  of  the  Brooklyn 
Dodgers. 

"I  never  met  Stengel,  but  I  always  liked 
to  see  him  on  the  coaching  lines,"  said  Abe. 
"He  wasn't  afraid  to  fight  a  point  with 
the  umpires,  a  good  manager  with  plenty 
of  color.  Baseball  needs  more  guys  like 
Stengel." 

From  the  story  up  to  this  point,  don't 
leap  to  the  conclusion  that  Lyman  is  merely 
a  baseball  fan.  Baseball  is  Abe's  first 
love,  but  it  is  more  accurate  to  describe 
him  as  a  sports  fan.  He  likes  football  as 
much  as  baseball  and  sat  through  a  down- 
pour at  a  recent  Army-Navy  game,  with- 
out even  noticing  it  was  raining.  "And  me 
in  a  brand  new  suit,  too!"  Abe  ruefully 
remembers.  Slip  Madigan,  the  colorful 
coach  of  the  equally  colorful  Galloping 
Cads  of  St.  Mary's  is  one  of  Lyman's 
friends  in  football  circles. 

Lyman's  closest  friend  in  sports,  how- 
ever, is  Jack  Dempsey,  the  somewhat 
hefty  caterer  of  today  who  was  the  Ma- 
nassa  Mauler  of  not  so  long  ago.  Abe 
met  Dempsey  in  California  in  1920,  the 
year  after  Jack  had  battered  the  giant 
Willard  to  a  pulp,  to  become  world  cham- 
pion. The  friendship  between  Dempsey 
and  Lyman  never  lessened,  and  Jack  in- 
sisted on  Abe's  band  doing  the  honors 


when  he  opened  his  now  famous  restaurant 
in  February,  1935.  Lyman  at  that  time 
was  playing  a  stage  engagement  at  the 
Capitol  in  New  York. 

Dempsey  rates  No.  1  in  Lyman's  all- 
time  list  of  sports  figures.  Not  even 
Shufflin'  Joe  Louis  is  in  it  with  Dempsey, 
in  Abe's  opinion,  which  he  stubbornly  in- 
sists is  not  tinctured  by  his  friendship  for 
Jack. 

Lyman  is  a  betting  man  when  it  comes  to 
sports,  although  he  doesn't  consider  it 
gambling. 

"I  like  to  have  a  bet  down  on  every 
sporting  event  I  see,  even  if  it's  only 
twenty  cents,"  says  Abe.  "It  isn't  just 
to  keep  up  a  rooting  interest,  but  I  like  to 
back  my  judgment.  Like  all  sports  bugs, 
I'm  conceited  enough  to  have  absolute 
confidence  in  my  judgment.  J 'ever  see  a 
real  bug  who  didn't?" 

Through  the  years,  Lyman  won  more 
and  lost  more  on  Dempsey  than  he  did  on 
any  other  sporting  figure.  He  twice  was 
taken  for  a  ride  on  Jack's  bouts  with 
Gene  Tunney,  but  won  a  good  chunk  when 
Dempsey  kayoed  Jack  Sharkey  in  between. 
Abe  won't  bet  against  a  team  or  a  fighter 
with  whom  he  is  friendly,  but  will  stay 
away  from  the  event  altogether  if  he 
thinks  his  side  hasn't  a  chance. 

In  the  matter  of  betting,  Lyman  pre- 
fers to  place  his  wagers  with  a  recognized 
betting  commissioner  rather  than  with 
friends. 

"To  bet  with  a  regular  commissioner, 
like  Sam  Boston,  say,  you  usually  get  a 
point  or  two  the  worst  of  it,  but  you're 
sure  of  being  paid  of¥,"  explained  Abe. 
"And,  furthermore,  you're  not  making  any 
enemies.  For  instance  I  had  $300  bet  on 
N.  Y.  U.  to  beat  Fordham.  I  got  4  to  1 
from  Boston,  but  I  could  have  had  6  to  1 
from  a  friend.  Yet  he  called  ofif  the  bet 
two  days  before  the  game.  The  same- way 
on  Election  Day.  I  was  supposed  to  have 
a  'piece'  of  that  bet  against  the  Literary 
Digest,  and  the  Monday  before  Election, 
I  was  told  that  the  bet  was  off." 

That  Lyman  is  a  wagerer,  rather  than 
a  gambler,  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that 
he  eschews  horse  racing  as  a  betting 
medium.    A  few  years  ago,  at  the  Lincoln 


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Fields  track  in  Chicago,  Abe  made  his 
first,  last  and  only  bet  on  a  horse.  "I 
went  out  to  the  track  with  a  friend,  in- 
tending to  bet  two  dollars  a  race,"  is  the 
way  Lyman  tells  the  story.  "When  my 
pal  told  me  he  was  going  to  risk  fifty  on 
a  horse  called  Sure  Gold,  I  figured  if  it 
was  good  enough  for  him,  it  was  good 
enough  for  me,  so  I  put  up  fifty  also. 

"To  make  a  long  story  short,  and  not 
to  break  my  heart  all  over  again,  Sure 
Gold  threw  his  rider  at  the  start  and  fin- 
ished last  without  a  jockey.  If  he  had 
had  any  weight  on  him,  he  probably 
wouldn't  have  finished  the  same  day !  That 
cured  me  of  horses — and  probably  did  me 
a  big  favor." 

Lyman  says  the  biggest  thrill  he  ever 
got  out  of  a  football  game  was  seeing 
Notre  Dame,  with  eighteen  seconds  to 
play,  pull  a  game  out  of  the  fire  against 
Southern  California  in  1927,  when  Art 
Parisien,  a  left-handed  passer,  completed 
a  southpaw  toss  with  everybody  covering 
him  to  the  right.  And  Abe  lost  $1,000  on 
the  game,  too,  which  proves  his  sense  of 
the  artistic  is  strong  enough  to  overcome 
any  material  regrets  he  may  have  had  at 
parting  with  his  cash. 

To  go  from  Lyman,  the  sports  fan,  to 
Lyman,  the  musician,  is  not  an  easy  feat, 
for  Abe  would  much  rather  talk  of  his 
hobby  than  of  his  profession.  He  has 
been  one  of  the  radio  pioneers,  having 
been  on  the  air  since  1922,  but 'at  present  is 
with  his  first  sponsored  program. 

Abe  is  the  arranger  and  supervisor  of  six 
popular  programs.  Incidentally,  he  is  not 
at  liberty  to  name  them,  inasmuch  as  they 
are  rivals  of  his  own  commercial  program. 

Lyman  has  a  library  of  music  which  he 
values  between  seventy  and  eighty  thou- 
sand dollars.  He  can  go  back  fifty  years 
and  give  a  full  orchestration  for  any  song. 
He  also  has  all  published  French  songs  for 
the  last  thirty-five  years.  He  employs 
eleven  people  in  his  library  as  arrangers,  | 
copyists  and  extractors. 

As  might  be  expected  of  one  who  goes 
into  the  music  field  so  thoroughly,  Lyman 
has  some  definite  ideas  on  the  proper  pro- 
cedure of  a  band.  His  own  unit  has  been 
in  organization  for  over  twenty  years  and 
some  of  its  members  have  been  taking 
their  cues  from  Abe's  baton  for  the  last 
seventeen  years. 

Lyman  thinks  a  band  never  should  stay 
in  one  spot  over  thirteen  weeks,  lest  it  go 
stale,  and  he  likes  to  keep  moving  around. 
He  also  thinks  that  a  band  hurts  itself  by 
playing  exclusively  in  studios,  that  it 
loses  its  zest  and  verve,  playing  to  four 
walls. 

And  how  did  Lyman  arrive  at  his  know- 
ledge of  music  and  his  theories  on  radio 
routine? 

"Well,  it  was  like  this,"  grins  Abe.  "As 
a  youngster  out  in  Chicago,  I  took  lessons 
on  the  piano  and  cornet.  And  I  wound 
up  playing  the  drum,  because  it  made  the 
most  noise!  Every  kid  wants  to  play  a 
drum — and  so  does  every  drunk!  Any 
time  you  see  a  drunk  fool  around  with  a 
band,  he  makes  a  bee-line  for  the  traps. 

"But,  never  mind  about  music,  what  do 
you  think  of  Braddock's  chances  against 
Louis  or  Schmeling?  Do  you  think  the 
Yankees  will  repeat?'' 

And  so  on,  far,  far  into  the  night.  For 
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ert  Peel,  in  StafFordshire,  she  smiled. 

"We  hardly  ever  stay  there — it's  too 
bis,  'mk\  tou  expensive.  Twelve  thousand 
acres — and  tlie  house  so  large,  you  can't 
live  in  it  unless  you  shut  ofif  some  of  the 
wings.  And  then  you  have  to  put  the 
furniture  from  them  in  storage.  Of 
course,  I'm  over  here  usually  half  the  year. 
When  I  go  home,  we  take  a  small  place 
somewhere.  Or  we  go  to  the  Riviera,  or 
somewhere  else  on  the  Continent.  I  don't 
care  so  much  for  that,  myself,"  she  added. 
"I'm  tired  of  it  .  .  .  but  it's  nice  for  my 
boy — he  enjoys  it.  He  likes  to  travel  and 
meet  people." 

The  boy,  "Bobby,"  who,  on  the  death 
of  his  father  in  1934,  became  Sir  Robert 
Peel,  and  who  is  the  sixth  of  that  name, 
is  now  sixteen  years  old.  He  is  over  six 
feet  tall  and,  except  that  he  is  about  a 
foot  taller,  resembles  his  mother  quite 
strikingly.  He  has  the  same  finely  mold- 
ed head,  the  cameo-like  profile,  the  same 
shining  eyes  and  sensitive  lips  that  curve 
in  a  quick  smile.  Still  a  schoolboy,  he 
spends  all  of  his  vacations  with  his  mother, 
cither  here  or  abroad,  or  in  the  home  of 
Miss  Lillie's  mother  and  sister  in  England. 

With  his  grandmother  he  came  into  the 
NBC  studio  on  that  afternoon  when  the 
rehearsal  was  in  progress.  Miss  Lillie 
was  sitting  on  the  stage,  but  not,  at  that 
moment,  a  part  of  the  rehearsal.  Her 
face  lighted  when  she  saw  him.  She  waved 
her  hand. 

The  lad  moved  swiftly  across  the  room, 
with  the  same  fluid  grace  that  is  his 
mother's.  In  a  moment  he  was  at  the  edge 
of  the  stage,  his  arms  upstretched  to  clasp 
her,  as  he  kissed  her. 

Some  boys  of  sixteen,  you  reflected, 
would  have  felt  self-conscious  or  awkward 
at  such  a  gesture.  On  the  stage  were 
some  twenty  or  thirty  people.  Scattered 
about  the  studio  another  dozen  or  so.  But 
he  saw  only  his  mother.  And  as  he  moved 
I)ack  to  sit  down  beside  his  grandmother, 
Bea  Lillie  flashed  an  adoring  glance  after 
him. 

Looking  from  one  to  another  of  the 
family  trio,  you  ponder  on  the  unexpected 
pattern  life  occasionally  weaves. 

Long  years  ago  the  eldest  of  the  three, 
now  white-haired,  but  slim  and  lovely,  re- 
sembling, too,  her  famous  daughter,  was  a 
young  concert  pianist  in  Toronto,  Canada. 
Teaching  her  two  daughters,  Muriel  and 
Beatrice,  she  dreamed  fond  dreams  of  a 
nuisical  career  for  them.  In  1914  they 
jiiurncycd  to  Germany,  but  their  pros- 
pective concert  tour  was  interrupted  by 
the  World  War  and  they  returned  to  Eng- 
land, where  the  unsuspected  c.iriK<ly  talent 
of  the  younger  daughter  retrieve<l  the 
family's  failing  fortunes  and  built  for 
them  a  brighter  future  than  they  had 
dared  to  dream. 

To  Bea  Lillie  herself,  life  brought  an 
even  fairer  guerdon  than  fame  and  for- 
tune. That  spontaneous,  irresistible  gaiety 
which  ma<le  her  an  immediate  favorite 
with  the  public,  brought  to  her  feet  a 
young  noi)lcman,  grandson  of  a  prime 
minister,  and  one  of  the  richest  peers  of 


the  realm,  and  its  most  eligible,  most 
sought  after  young  bachelor. 

Bea  Lillie  and  Sir  Robert  Peel  were 
married  in  1920.  For  a  time  she  left  the 
stage.  They  toured  abroad  and  returned 
to  settle  down  in  the  Stafi'ordshire  home. 
Then  came  the  boy,  and  the  cup  of  joy 
was  full  and  running  over.  But  the 
smoothly  running  estate,  with  its  staff  of 
servants,  its  corps  of  nurses  and  govern- 
esses, left  too  little  scope  for  the  dynamo 
of  energy  that  drives  this  slim,  small  per- 
son. Besides,  contracts,  that  once  she  had 
sought  in  vain,  now  avidly  pursued  her. 
In  the  end  she  capitulated  and  returned 
to  the  theatre — still  preserving,  however, 
precious  hours  and  weeks  and  months  to 
spend  with  her  husband  and  son. 

And  now  the  modest,  charming  lad  is 
head  of  the  family,  and  it's  easy  to  see 
what  place  he  holds  in  his  mother's  heart. 

That  same  gaiety  which  won  for  the 
young  actress  her  titled  husband,  won  her 
also  the  friendship  of  the  then  Prince  of 
Wales,  who  was  to  become  King  Edward 
the  Eighth — and  the  exiled  Duke  of  Wind- 
sor. 

The  first  time  he  saw  her  on  the  stage, 
the  Prince  left  the  Royal  box  to  go  back- 
stage and  seek  an  introduction  to  her.  He 
invited  her  to  join  a  supper  party  he  was 
giving  that  night,  and  her  unafifected 
charm  made  her  forthwith  a  most  popular 
member  of  his  circle  of  friends. 

Those  friends,  Miss  Lillie  thinks,  have 
been  misrepresented,  in  the  clamor  fol- 
lowing the  abdication.  And,  if  Bea  Lillie 
is  a  sample  of  them,  it's  hard  to  conceive 
of  them  as  ribald,  sensation-mad  sophisti- 
cates. They  were  hungry  for  gaiety,  per- 
haps. And  why  not?  Who  isn't?  In 
these  years  of  depression,  life  has  too  little 
of  laughter.  It  has  been  said  that  it  was 
Mrs.  Simpson's  gaiety  that  won  Edward's 
heart — and  cost  him  his  crown.  But  that 
gaiety  is  not  her  only  charm  has  been 
proved  by  her  dignity  and  tact  under 
the  most  cruel  limelight. 

Edward,  too.  Miss  Lillie  thinks,  has 
been  misunderstood. 

"He  did  such  a  magnificent  job,  when 
lie  was  King,"  she  declares.  "There's 
something  behind  it  all.  It  was  too  fortu- 
itous. They  were  too  quick  to  seize  the 
opportunity  ...  Of  course,  that's  only 
my  opinion — but  I  can't  help  feeling— 
there's  .something  behind  it  all.  It  will 
come  out,  some  day." 

Life,  we  agreed,  might  be  much  less 
complicated  if  only  "they" — which  some- 
times seems  to  be  a  collection  of  disem- 
bodied demons — would  leave  it  alone! 

"They  want  me  to  make  a  movie — " 
She  smiled.  "I'd  like  to — if  we  can  get 
a  good  one.  I  made  one  once,  but — "  And 
her  lips  curve  upward  again,  "it  was  very 
bad  I  But  we're  hoping  to  get  something 
good.  And,  if  we  do,  I'll  go  out  to  Holly- 
wood in  the  spring. 

"I  like  California,"  she  mused.  "The 
climate  is  so  lovely.  I'd  like  to  live  there 
a  part  of  each  year.  Bobby  likes  it, 
loo  ..." 


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Henry  Youngman,  newly  discovered 
comedian,  who  nnade  a  hit  on  Kate 
Smith's  popular  Band  Wagon  pro- 
gram. 

"Is  he  interested  in  the  theatre?"  we 
asked,  remeniberini^  seeing  him  sitting  on 
the  stairs  behind  the  boxes  at  the  Winter 
Garden  one  night,  between  the  acts  of 
The  Sho'w  Is  On. 

"He  never  has  been,"  said  Miss  Lillie. 
"But  now  he  is  beginning  to  take  an  in- 
terest in  it.  That  doesn't  necessarily 
mean  anything.  He  is  still  in  school.  He 
doesn't  yet  know  what  he  wants  to  do." 

She  looks  absurdly  young  to  be  the 
mother  of  a  sixteen-year-old  boy — young 
for  the  thirty-odd  years  that  are  hers. 
Though  on  the  stage,  she  can  contrive, 
for  comic  effect,  to  appear  angular  and 
awkward,  she  has  in  reality  an  exquisite 
grace  of  movement.  Her  frank  eyes  are 
clear  and  unshadowed,  her  complexion  one 
a  woman  of  any  age  might  envy.  Her 
dress  achieves  distinction  and  smartness 
with  a  fascinating  simplicity.  On  the  af- 
ternoon of  the  rehearsal  she  wore  a  one- 
piece  black  frock,  topped  by  a  light  blue 
jacket  with  turn-back  cuffs  of  the  black. 
Her  smart  little  black  hat,  with  plain 
round  crown  and  peaked  brim,  much  re- 
sembled a  miner's  cap,  except  that  it  had 
no  light  stuck  in  it !  Tiie  mnik  coat, 
which  had  wrapped  her  against  the  winds 
outside,  was  dropped  on  a  studio  chair. 

Her  friends  are  many,  and  you  w.'l  find 
among  them  the  elite  of  theatrical,  social 
and  literary  circles.  Her  interests  are 
many — walking,  riding,  winter  sports, 
summer  sports,  Iwoks,  home  and  family 
affairs. 

"Gardening?  I  love  it!"  she  colors  with 
enthusiasm.  ".\t  home  we  have  gorgeous 
gardens.  .\nd  pets — everything  from  dogs 
to  goldfish!  Shooting — I  enjoy  it,  if  the 
mark  is  a  clay  jiigccn  and  n<it  a  real  one." 
She  smiles.  "^'du'xc  probably  Iieard  of 
my  prowess  in  the  Sixth  .\venuc  shooting 
galleries !" 

You  come  away  from  her  feeling  curi- 
ously light-hearted  and  stimulated.  You 
can't  recall  any  especial  reason  for  it.  It's 
just  her  special  gift.  She  really  is  gaiety's 
godchild,  laugiiter's  brigiit  boon  to  a  weary 
world.  Life  isn't  essentially  amusing— 
but  she  makes  it  seem  so.  Words  aren't 
funny — initil  Beatrice  Lillie  says  thein  ' 

"It's  the  way  she  says  it — "  The  way 
she  interprets  life  for  herself,  that  makes 
her  radio's  bright  star  and  the  stage's 
most  alluring  comedienne — tiiat  makes  her 
an  adoring  and  adored  motlier  and  daugh- 
ter, and  a  loyal  and  cherished  friend. 


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with  aloof  shyness  she  has  acquired  a  new 
self-confidence  and  charm. 

Another  young  man  zvho  lias  managed 
to  keep  his  feet  on  the  grotind  is  Jcr 
Penner.  He  zvas  merely  a  nin-oi-tJic-inill 
raudez'ille  actor  zchen  sudden  radio  siiceess 
crerii'helmed  him.  There  i<-ere  stories 
that  he  had  suddenly  acquired  a  sieelled 
head  zdien  he  quit  radio  a  jciv  years  ago. 
Peol'le  zvho  kneiv  Joe  didn't  believe  them. 
He  left  because  there  zvas  disagreement 
about  salary  and  style  of  the  program. 
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As  an  example  of  how  little  Joe's  head 
has  swelled,  when  he  returned  to  radio  this 
fall  he  remarked:  "I  don't  suppose  I'll  ever 
hit  the  top  I  used  to  have.  You  have  to  be 
lucky  to  get  up  there  and  it's  pretty  hard 
to  stay.  I'm  just  hoping  we'll  get  along 
all  right." 

Radio's  eminent  children  seldom  escape 
being  spoiled  by  their  fame.  When  Bobby 
Breen  first  joined  the  Cantor  show  it 
seemed  he  would  be  the  exception.  A 
childhood  of  poverty  and  privation  had 
h.ad  a  sobering  effect  on  the  little  fellow 
and  he  possessed  a  wisdom  beyond  his 
years.  Gravely  he  and  Eddie  would  talk 
about  the  League  of  Nations  or  about 
whether  the  teacher  really  was  correct  on 
a  certain  statement  in  school  that  day. 

A  year  later  Bobby's  boyish  spirit  was 
displaced  by  o'oerbcaring  arrogance  and 
sivagger.  The  manner  frequently  creeps 
out  in  the  program,  too. 

Probably  the  boy  shouldn't  actually  be 
blamed.  A  child  has  a  hard  time  keeping 
a  level  head  under  such  circumstances.  For 
the  rest  of  us  in  radio,  however,  it  might 
be  nice  to  find  just  one  child  who  could. 

Odd  that  Dick  Powell  never  has  achieved 
radio  standing  comparable  to  his  place  in 
the  movies.  Of  course,  Powell  is  one  of 
the  more  important  radio  singers,  but  not 
nearly  so  far  advanced  in  the  first  rank  as 
he  is  in  pictures.  He  has  been  on  a  pro- 
gram that  commanded  attention  and  ad- 
vanced other  people  readily.  During 
Powell's  years  on  Hollyzvood  Hotel, 
Frances  Langford  joined  it  as  an  obscure 
little  nobody  and  became  a  glamorous, 
romantic  songstress.  Explain  it  as  you 
will. 

//  isn't  that  Poivell  is  a  man  zvhom 
colleagues  like  to  hold  back.  On  the  con- 
trary, they  are  very  fond  of  him. 

Fred  Allen,  who  worked  with  Powell  in 
a  picture,  recalls:  "Usually  a  young  leading- 
man  won't  do  much  to  help  a  comedian  for 
fear  the  comedian  will  steal  the  picture. 
But  Powell  did  everything  he  could  for  me, 
telling  me  all  the  tricks  of  camera  angles 
and  where  movies  differ  from  the  stage.  If 
it  hadn't  been  for  Dick,  that  picture  would 
have  been  a  whole  collection  of  shots  of 
my  Adam's  apple!" 

In  his  own  way,  I-"rank  Munn  is  one  of 
the  most  musicianly  singers  on  the  air.  He 
sings  light  ballads  with  an  honest,  sincere 
sentiment.  His  voice  never  wavers  from 
pitch  and  he  scarcely  ever  arrives  at  the 
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Jolly  Gillette  of  Sunday  night  Com- 
munity Sing,  the  sponsor's  daughter. 

studio  remarking :  "I  am  in  bad  voice 
today."  He  always  is  in  good  voice.  He 
sings  because  he  likes  to  sing. 

Still,  this  paragon  of  singers  has  studied 
music  scarcely  at  all,  never  vocalizes  at 
home  and  cannot  even  read  notes.  Frank 
admits  his  inability  to  read  nctcs  makes  it 
harder  for  him  to  learn  new  songs,  hut  he 
insists  that  in  other  respects  lack  of  musi- 
cal training  is  an  advantage  to  a  light 
singer.  He'll  never  sound  artificial  or 
stilted. 

Lanny  Ross,  on  the  other  hand,  probably 
is  the  best-schooled  popular  singer  on  the 
air.  Conscientiously  and  industriously 
Lanny  has  kept  at  work  through  all  the 
years  when  success  on  Show  Boat  made  it 
obvious  he  didn't  need  classical  training. 

Music  is  his  profession  and  at  the  same 
time  his  hobby.  The  professional  part  is 
the  popular  singing  he  does  for  radio.  In 
his  off  moments  he  studies  with  the  best 
concert  vocal  coaches  and  gives  concerts 
in  New  York  and  on  tour.  The  latter  are 
unprofitable,  especially  when  you  remem- 
ber that  in  that  same  time  Lanny  could 
make  radio  guest  star  appearances  for  huge 
fees. 

Like  frank  Munn,  Lanny  sings  because  he 
likes  it,  too. 

Ramona  plays  the  piano  nowadays  only 
to  accompany  herself,  or  as  a  member  of 
the  Paul  Whiteman  band.  Actually,  she  is 
one  of  the  finest  pianists  of  radio.  A  con- 
cert career  was  her  aim  and  she  was  mak- 
ing progress  towards  it  a  few  years  ago. 
To  finance  her  studies,  she  began  singing 
for  a  Cleveland  radio  station.  Paul  White- 
man  engaged  her  and  there  went  the  ca- 
reer. She  is  moody  about  it  at  times. 
Frequently  Paul  has  wanted  her  to  play 
serious  piano  music  during  the  broadcasts. 
Almost  invariably  she  refuses. 

Into  eastern  radio  a  few  years  ago  ar- 
rived a  pretty  California  blonde,  eager  to 
make  a  name  as  crooner.  Progress  was 
slow  at  first  but,  without  realizing  how, 
she  captured  the  heart  of  a  I'.roadway  and 
radio  press  agent.    Not  one  of  tlie  leading 


press  agents  but  an  industrious,  capable 
line.  She  had  no  money  to  pay  for  such 
Ncrvice  but  he  worked  diligently  getting 
her  name  and  pictures  into  papers  and 
magazines   here   and  there. 

-♦- 

Netzvork  officials  were  surprised  at  this 
publicity  that  came,  apparently  unsolicited, 
so  they  gave  her  better  programs.  The 
romantically  inclined  press  agent  continued 
2^'oiking  for  her  and,  first  thing  you  knozv, 
the  girl  zvas  on  a  commercial  program, 
her  income  rising  into  the  upper  brackets. 
Confident  that  success  zvas  nozv  secure,  she 
threzv  over  the  romantic  press  agent. 

As  it  turned  out,  the  blonde  crooner 
really  didn't  amount  to  much.  Her  radio 
engagements  soon  ended  and  after  one 
brief  role  in  a  small  Broadway  show  she 
disappeared  back  to  her  old  home  in  Cali- 
fornia. 

The  odd  part  of  the  story  is  what  hap- 
pened to  the  press  agent.  Before  this 
girl  came  along  he  was  considered  just  an 
ordinary  member  of  the  business.  The 
part  he  played  in  that  girl's  rise  made 
his  reputation,  and  his  business  flourished 
from  then  on. 

/;  zvould  not  be  polite  to  mention  the 
names  of  this  odd  couple.  They  don't 
matter  much,  anyzvay,  because  the  girl  no 
longer  is  in  radio.  Even  the  man  has 
drifted  out  of  the  radio  press  agent  busi- 
ness, because  he  thought  it  zvould  be  more 
profitable  and  more  fun  to  operate  a  night 
club. 

Nowhere  else  will  you  find  the  ingenious 
panhandlers  that  New  York  radio  stars 
must  contend  with.  These  stars  usually 
are  very  generous  with  their  wealth,  most 
of  them  are  glad  to  help  an  unfortunate, 
especially  an  unfortunate  member  of  their 
own  profession.  Like  anyone  else,  how- 
ever, they  hate  being  made  a  victim  of  a 
whopping  big  lie,  no  matter  how  ingenious 
it  is. 

-♦- 

Fred  Allen  usually  avoids  them,  but 
occasionally  he  listens  to  panhandlers  and 
rewards  them  in  proportion  to  the  value  of 
their  stories.  One  man  has  been  making 
the  rounds  right  after  dinner  time  with 
the  story  that  his  car  is  rammed  against 
an  elevated  pillar,  he  just  happens  to  be 
caught  without  money  and  the  advertising 
agency  where  he  works  is  closed.  He 
even  has  taken  the  trouble  to  find  out 
names  of  people  in  the  agency  and  pro- 
tests: "Yes,  I  called  old  J.  C.  and  Tim, 
but  they've  gone  home  and  I  don't  want  to 
bother  them  at  their  homes.  It's  only  a 
few  dollars." 

Fred  thought  the  story  zvas  so  circum- 
stantial it  deserved  a  little  rczvard. 
Amused,  he  told  the  story  among  acquaint- 
ances. A  fczv  days  later  the  same  man 
came  to  Guy  Lombardo.  At  first  Lom- 
bardo  thought  it  zvas  somebody  kidding 
him,  because  the  details  zvere  identical. 
1-bially  Guy  decided  that,  at  least,  the  man 
should  zvork  up  a  nczv  story — and  tnrnea 
him  dozvn. 

After  all  Jessica  Dragonette's  years  on 


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the  Friday  evening  Cities  Service  hour,  her 
recent  departure  may  have  seemed  sudden. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  radio  insiders  have 
been  watching  for  it  to  happen  for  a  long 
time.  Miss  Dragonette  had  not  screamed 
her  dissatisfaction  to  the  winds,  but  it  was 
CO  secret  that  she  thought  she  deserved 
ipiore  money  than  she  was  receiving. 

You  see,  she  began  in  the  days  when 
radio  stars  worked  tor  comparatively  small 
salaries,  so  she  signed  for  a  fraction  of 
what  singers  of  her  standing  receive  now- 
adays. The  contract  has  been  continued 
all  these  years.  In  her  new  operatic  series 
Miss  Dragonette  receives  $2500  a  week — 
a  little  more  than  twice  her  recent  salary. 

As  a)i  itidicatioii  oj  tin-  ill  feeling  be- 
tween Jessica  and  her  sponsors,  announce- 
ment of  her  departure  from  the  Cities 
Service  hour  zvas  sent  out  without  her 
knowledge,  making  it  seem  that  she  had 
outlived  her  usefulness  on  that  program 
and  zvas  being  dropped. 

Alexander  WooIIcott  is  back  on  the  air 
with  us  again,  amiable,  disagreeable,  amus- 
ing and  exasperating  as  ever.  Probably  no 
one  on  the  air  has  more  listeners  who 
really  dislike  him  and  still  keep  right  on 
listening.  There  are  times  when  he  rambles 
along  on  fluffy  nothings  until  you'd  like 
to  punch  that  old  fat  fool  in  the  nose! 
Next  time,  he  will  speak  with  inspired  fer- 
vor and  heartfelt  eloquence,  pleading  the 
cause  of  some  troubled  group,  persecuted 
left  wingers,  perhaps,  strikers  or  simply  un- 
fortunates. Those  are  evenings  when  you 
rise  from  the  radio  feeling  you  have  just 
heard  one  of  the  hearty  men  of  our  time. 


A  lot  of  this  supercilious  indifference  to 
the  rest  of  the  world  is  suspiciously  like 
a  pose  with  WooIIcott.  If  he  were  really 
so  indifferent,  nothing  on  earth  could 
drive  him  to  the  brain-breaking  labor  he 
goes  through  for  each  broadcast.  The 
chatty  fifteen  minutes  mean  some  twenty- 
five  or  thirty  hours  of  lahorimis  fountain 
pen  scratching  for  this  fat  man.  wli  '  al\\a\  s 
boasts  about  how  lazy  he  i^.  He  write-,  re- 
writes, crosses  out  and  rcwrito  a.cain. 
Right  up  to  broadcast  time  he  is  frettin;; 
and  changing  words  here  and  there. 

Of  course,  his  salary  is  huge  and  no  one 
need  feel  sorry  for  him.  AV.r/  time  you  fee! 
like  punching  him  in  the  nose,  ihouiih.  l  e- 
member  he  might  be  adoptiiui  Ihat  superior 
manner  because  he  hates  to  break  doum 
and  admit  that  he  has  ivorked  so  hard  over 
a  program  that  turned  out  the  ivay  it  did. 

It  has  taken  us  all  these  years  to  get 
used  to  raucous  applause  and  laughter  in- 
terrupting our  radio  programs  all  the  time. 
Those  intrusions  of  the  studio  audience 
have  become  bearable,  but  I  think  it  will 
be  harder  to  grow  used  to  all  these  mem- 
bers of  the  studio  audience  prattling  away 
into  microphones. 

The  idea  sounds  great — genuine,  vivid 
life  injected  into  radio  broadcasts.  The 
trouble  is,  you  seldom  get  the  geiuiine. 
vivid  life.  Usually  it  is  some  studio  pro- 
duction man's  notion  of  what  that  genuine, 
vivid  life  should  be.  \\'hen  I  challenged 
these  producers,  they  admitted  that  they 
distorted  these  little  dramas  of  the  people 
they  had  brought  to  studios.  "We  had 
to,"  the  explanation  ran,  "because  it  had 


to  be  compressed  to  save  time." 

Too  often  they  make  the  story  sound 
phony.  Tftat  needs  to  happen  only  a 
couple  of  times  and  you  don't  believe  in 
anything  they  say,  true  or  not.  If  a  pro- 
gram promises  to  bring  yon  real  life,  it 
should  not  be  unreasonable  to  ask  that  it 
have  at  least  an  air  of  reality. 

Jack  Oakie  may  or  may  not  have  caught 
your  fancy  in  his  new  Tuesday  night  pro- 
gram, but  off  the  microphone  he  is  one 
of  the  most  amiable  of  radio  comedians. 
At  first  sight,  it  seems  incredible  he  can 
be  that  fat.  In  movies  they  have  ways  of 
disguising  such  things  with  lighting,  make- 
up and  other  expedients.  There  he  is  at 
the  microphone,  though,  mountainous  and 
beamingly  likable. 

He  is  the  life-of-the-party,  lively 
>t\le  of  fat  man.  If  he  tells  a  joke,  every- 
one in  the  crowd  listens,  caught  up  in 
his  iniectiou>  ,-pirit  of  mirth.  In  the  studio 
he  i-  that  \\a\  again,  making  foolish  faces 
and  stiekin:;  >  ait  that  ludicrous  stomach. 
His  studio  audiences  are  very  fond  of 
him  and,  if  he  can  manage  to  get  writers 
to  supply  better  scripts  than  his  early 
broadcasts  had,  it  will  be  very  difficult 
for  a  listener  to  hold  a  grudge  against  him 
for  any  length  of  time. 

From  some  corners  come  suggestions 
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the  Baroii's  old  joke  after  joke  and  do 
little  playlets  zcith  some  touch  of  original 
flaior.  Jack  is  very  sensitive  about  that. 
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A  COOK  WHO  NEVER  SPOILS 
THE  BROTH 

{Continued  from  page  25) 


couldn't  see  ine,  but  he  turned  in  niy  direc- 
tion and  smiled  and  said:  "That  voice  could 
only  be  Joe  Cook's  !'  " 

And  so  Toto  was  in  the  second  show. 
Although,  in  his  performing  days,  his 
nearest  approach  to  speech  had  been  only 
a  series  of  funny  noises,  he  turned  out  to 
liave  an  attractive  accent  and  way  of 
trdking  that  very  likely  will  make  you 
hear  him  more  than  once  on  the  Shell 
Shoiv. 

"We  may  not  be  able  to  use  him  too 
repeatedly,"  Joe  explains,  "because  he  has 
to  memorize  his  lines."  I  have  a  feeling, 
nevertheless,  that  Joe  will  use  Toto  as  often 
as  possible.  He's  that  kind  of  a  guy." 

Joe  Cook  probably  always  will  have  a 
soft  spot  for  circus  acts;  his  very  first 
venture  in  show  business  was  inspired  by 
a  couple  of  clowns  at  the  Indiana  Tri- 
County  fair.  It  was  a  "trick  house"  act ; 
tlie  two  joeys  chased  one  another  through 
a  trick  billboard  that  had  an  intricate 
series  of  traps  and  panels  in  it,  through 
which  they  dived  and  jumped.  Joe  and 
some  of  his  friends  watched  it  attentively, 
then  they  went  home  and  built  a  similar 
contraption.  Unlike  many  kid  attempts,  this 
one  worked  and,  after  rehearsing  their 
act,  they  entered  an  amateur  contest  and 
carried  off  first  prize. 

That,  perhaps,  was  Joe's  first  professional 
attempt.  But  as  far  back  as  he  could  re- 
member he  had  been  giving  shows  and 
practicing  stunts.  "We  used  to  give  real 
vaudeville  shows  in  the  barn,"  Joe  says, 
"and  I  don't  think  any  kids  ever  got  a 
more  professional  result.  Our  house  had 
gas  lights,  but  I  had  talked  the  family 
into  having  electricity  strung  into  the 
barn.  We — the  neighborhood  kids  and  my- 
self— built  a  regular  theatre;  stage,  lights 
and  scenery,  and  instead  of  the  usual  ten 
I)ins  we  charged  a  nickel.  And  got  it!" 

.MI  this  happened  in  Evansville,  Indiana. 
Joe  was  born  in  Chicago.  He  doesn't  say 
when,  e.xctpt  that  it  was  a  very  long  time 
ago,  though  you'd  never  believe  it  to  look 
at  him.  Trim,  slim  and  bubbling  with 
vigor,  Joe  doesn't  suggest  a  man  with  a 
married  tlnuglitcr,  whicli  lie  has,  as  much 
as  a  young  djincer,  which  he  is,  aKo. 

Born  of  a  .Spanish  f.ithcr  and  rni  Irish 
mother.  Joe's  famil>'  name  was  Lupcz, 
and  when  he  was  (irpb.ined  at  three,  he 
was  adopted  by  a  famil\-  named  Cook, 
wliich  name  he  took  legally  as  his  own. 
The  theatrical  inclination  came  to  him 
naturally  enough.  "My  father  and  mother," 
he  says,  "met  in  a  dramatic  company  and 
were  married.  Later  my  f.ither  (|uit  show 
business  to  paint—  he  was  an  artist  and, 
incidentally,  he  probably  was  one  of  the 
first  to  inaugurate  chain-store  methods. 
There  were  no  A  &■  P  stores  then,  but  Dad 
liad  three  studios  in  three  different  cities 
and  he  used  to  keep  all  three  going  at 
once.  It  was  in  Grand  Rapids  that  he  died 
—he  had  taken  one  of  his  painting  classes 
swimming,  and  one  man,  who  did  picture 
framing  for  the  group,  got  a  cramp.  My 
father  jumped  in  to  save  him  and  while 


the  man  reached  shore  safely,  my  father 
v.as  drowned.  Mother  died  shortly  after- 
ward, from  the  shock." 

So  there  was  Joe,  a  few  years  later,  in 
Evansville — Joe  Cook,  now — practicing  one 
stunt  after  another,  as  kids  will.  Except 
that  this  kid  really  learned  to  do  well  the 
things  he  attempted.  The  Cook  backyard 
became  the  most  famous  backyard  in  town 
and,  as  a  logical  sequence,  Joe,  around 
sixteen  years  old,  came  to  New  York  to 
get  a  job  on  the  stage. 

It  has  been  told  before  how  he  had 
his  picture  taken,  apparently  juggling 
seventeen  balls  at  once,  by  the  expedient 
of  hanging  the  balls  up  by  threads  which 
the  photographer  retouched  out.  He  went 
to  one  of  the  biggest  booking  agents  in 
town — the  man  who  handled  Lillian  Russell 
— and  showed  the  picture. 

"Can  you  do  that?"  the  agent  gasped, 
looking  at  the  picture. 

"Sure,"  Joe  admitted. 

"Well,  I've  seen  a  lot  of  jugglers,"  the 
booker  said,  "but  if  you  can  do  that,  you're 
the  best  I  ever  saw !" 

On  the  strength  of  the  photo  he  booked 
Joe  for  the  following  Sunday,  and,  while 
Joe  couldn't  juggle  the  seventeen  balls,  he 
had  a  few  other  good  tricks  that  landed 
him  right  on  the  old  Keith  time,  which 
was  tops  in  its  day.  He  must  have  been 
a  pretty  good  juggler,  at  that,  for  after 
only  twelve  weeks  in  show  business,  he 
played  Hammerstein's  Victoria,  which  then 
was  the  main  house  on  the  circuit — the 
Palace  of  its  time.  It  was  after  that,  and 
after  he  had  played  the  big  time  vaude- 
ville, that  Joe  went  on  the  small  time,  over 
salary  disputes  with  the  Keith  office. 

His  first  musical  comedy  appearance  was 
a  small  part  in  a  Raymond  Hitchcock  show. 
"The  part  wasn't  very  important  and  they 
may  have  wanted  a  cheaper  man,"  Joe 
says,  "or  maybe  I  just  wasn't  any  good. 
Anyway  I  was  fired  and  went  back  into 
vaudeville  until  1923."  That  year  marked 
Joe's  apiiearance  in  the  first  Earl  Carroll 
I'anitirs.  There  it  was  that  the  famous 
/■'(.;/)•  //(!;i'(/()(i/;.f  appeared,  and  Joe's  nutty 
mechanical  devices  were  enlarged  upon  with 
no  little  siiccess,  carrying  him  through  the 
first  four  editions  of  the  Vanities. 

The  first  show  of  his  own  was  Rain  or 
Shine,  followed  by  Fine  and  Dandy.  Then 
he  went  to  London  and  did  Fanfare,  and 
returned  here  to  do  Hold  Your  Horses. 

About  a  year  ago  Joe  was  on  the  air 
for  Goodrich  Tires  and  before  that  for 
Colgate's.  He  doesn't  think  he  did  so  well 
on  his  earlier  radio  appearances. 

"I  worked  ad  lib  most  of  the  time,"  he 
says,  "along  the  same  lines  I  had  found 
successful  on  the  stage.  But  radio  was  a 
new  business— I  had  to  get  used  to  it.  I 
took  recordings  of  each  show  and  they 
were  a  revelation  to  me.  I  found  I  was 
working  much  too  fast  and  I  had  to  learn 
to  slow  up  for  the  microphone.  And  I 
tried  to  do  too  much  myself — writing  all 
my  own  stuff,  as  well  as  performing.  In 
the  new  show  I  have  some  help  and  I 


think  the  result  is  better." 

Joe  still  ad  libs  in  the  show,  and  his 
latest  stunt  is  to  write  a  popular  song  with 
the  audience  assisting,  right  during  the 
broadcast.  That's  one  of  his  characteristics 
— keeping  one  jump  ahead  of  himself  al! 
the  time.  A  performer  who  can  challenge 
anyone  in  show  business  on  all-around 
versatility,  Joe  added  many  of  his  ac- 
complishments through  the  expedient  of 
learning  a  couple  of  new  things  for  every 
show  he  went  into.  .A.nd  he's  always  fooling 
around  with  a  new  idea,  in^tcad  ^if  resting 
on  his  laurels;  doing  it,  too,  with  the 
same  happy  zest  that  he  had  as  a  kid 
learning  to  juggle;  the  same  zest  that  he 
put  into  building  his  trick  golf  course  at 
his  estate,  Slcct^Uss  HoUok-. 

Articles  have  been  written  about  Joe's 
home  there  and  the  bewildering  things 
it  contains;  the  golf  ball  tree  at  the  first 
tee,  where  you  pick  balls  off  the  branches, 
is  only  one  of  them.  The  green  ."ii;cs,  Joe 
will  warn  you,  aren't  ripe  yet  and  mustn't 
be  picked.  Every  hole  is  a  gag  :  tlvj  greens 
slope  to  the  cup,  making  a  hole-in  one  al- 
most unavoidable. 

"We  built  it  ourselves."  Toe  grins. 

You've  probably  heard,  too,  about 
Meadows,  the  Cook  butler,  who  greets  you 
and  who  reappears  successively  in  costume 
changes  as  James,  the  second  man,  as 
the  proprietor  of  Kelly's  Place  who  hates 
Schultz,  a  competitor,  and  then  presides,  in 
Bavarian  costume,  as  Schultz  also.  Sleep- 
less Hollow  has  been  written  up  as  a 
delightful  madhouse,  but  what  has  not  been 
so  widely  exploited  is  the  fact  th,^t,  aside 
from  the  playrooms  and  golf  course,  Joe 
Cook's  home  contains  many  fine  and  beau- 
tiful things.  Alexander  Woollcott,  writing 
about  it,  said  that,  instead  of  the  madhouse 
he  expected,  he  found  Sleepless  Hollow 
one  of  the  most  restful  and  rela.xing  places. 

And  that  is  the  catch  in  Joe  Cook's 
elaborate  amusement  devices  at  home.  "I 
can  point  to  an  all-time  record,"  he  says, 
"in  that  in  fourteen  years  there  never  has 
been  a  cigarette  burn  on  the  piano,  wet 
glass  rings  on  good  furniture  or  any 
damage  to  the  house."  He  has  provided 
plenty  of  rooms  dedicated  wholly  to  play- 
ing, including  the  two  "barrooms," 
Kelly's  and  Schultz's,  a  billiard  room, 
a  complete  theatre  called  the  Opcry  House. 
with  lights,  scenery,  dressing-rooms,  com- 
plete to  make-up  on  the  shelves,  and  a  fully 
stocked  wardrobe  room.  Joe  and  his  friends 
can  walk  in  and  put  on  practically  any 
kind  of  a  play  on  a  moment's  notice.  There 
also  are  sixteen  radios  around  the  place. 

Speaking  of  ideas — Joe  thinks  that's 
often  the  trouble  with  radio  shows.  "It 
seems  to  me,"  he  says,  "that  too  many 
radio  shows  start  with  a  definite  I'lea  and 
they're  committed  to  it  so  rigidly  that 
the  show  isn't  elastic.  They  can't  just  go 
ahead  and  do  anything  that  seems  like  good 
entertainment.  That's  what  we're  ti  \  ing  to 
avoid  in  this  Shell  Show.  Our  only  idea 
is  to  put  on  a  good  show,  with  all  the 
variety  possible,  and  not  t\ing  it  down 
to  any  idea  but  entcrtaiinnent." 

He  seems  to  be  doing  it  pretty  well,  but 
Joe  doesn't  stop  there.  With  so  many  ac- 
complishments that  can't  be  used  on  the 
air,  Joe  is  looking  forward  to  television — 
and  when  it  comes.  I'll  lay  ten  bucks  to  an 
expired  option  that  Joe  Cook  will  be  on 
hand  with  a  bagful  of  new  tricks  for  it- 
while  he  turns  his  happy,  amiable  grin  into 
the  television  camera. 


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thought  up  the  idea  of  having  transcrip- 
tions made  of  the  broadcast,  then  inviting 
his  pals  to  supper  once  a  week  and  bring- 
ing on  the  transcription  with  the  coffee. 

His  friends  come  faithfully  cz-ery  iceck, 
enjoy  a  good  dinner,  then  laf^se  into  a 
coma  until  the  re-broadcast  is  oi'cr.  The 
only  mirth  comes  from  Joe. 

"Haw  haw,"  Joe  will  guffaw,  slapping 
his  knee  and  looking  around  for  apprecia- 
tion, "that  gag  sure  got  'em  this  afternoon. 
Nearly  killed  'em!" 

"Veah,"  is  the  non-committal  response. 

■■JJ'ell.  U'(!(7  ////  xoii  hear  mv  next  crack. 
Its  a  Inhi!-  Joe  'zcill  sav  hopefully.  And 
J,>e's  still  hopetnl.  after  scleral  zi'ccks  of 
this.  What  he  doesn't  knoie  is  that  Mrs. 
I'cnner  has  framed  him.  .She  has  a  solemn 
pact  iJth  the  guests  that  the  first  person 
uJio  laughs  at  one  of  the  rc-hroa, leasts 
lias  to  take  the  entire  company  to  dinner 
at  Hollyivood's  most  ultra — and  e.vpeiisiz'e 
— night'  club. 

Dorothy  Lamour  and  Herbie  Kaye  are 
still  completely  smitten.  And  that  accord- 
ing to  no  less  authority  than  Mrs.  Kaye. 
"Why,  Yd  rather  hold  hands  with  Herfjie 
than  with  every  man  in  Hollywood!"  said 
Dorothy  indignantly  when  the  divorce 
rinnors  finally  reached  her  ears.  Not  that 
she  has  time,  anyhow,  for  such  pleasant 
diversion,  since  four  sponsors  are  bidding 
frantically  for  her,  following  her  Para- 
mount success.  Before  that  they  could 
have  had  Dorothy's  same  services  for  one- 
tenth  as  much !  And  Alort  Millman,  who 
once  gave  up  all  his  managerial  business 
to  handle  La  Lamour,  is  now  suing  her  for 
commissions. 

The  famed  Boszvell  sisters  zi'ill  nez'cr 
.<ing  together  aiHTin.  Vet  and  Martha 
luri'C  I/one  domestic,  one  Vrcing  in  Canada 
,.nd  the  other  in  \e:e  York.  -Connie's 
umrried  to  Harry  Leedy.  her  manager,  and 
lliex're  liring  in  Bcz'crlv  Hills  now. 

"I'm  going  to  keep  on,"  Connie  says, 
"but  I  don't  like  singing  alone.  It  still 
scares  me." 

Martha  Raye  will  marry  Jerry  Hopper 
just  as  soon  as  she  finishes  JYaikiki  IVed- 
dinq  for  Paramount.  Jerry  is  Glenda  Far- 
rell's  nephew  and  the  Hoppers  plan  a  San 
Fernando  Valley  home  next  door  to  their 
aunt. 

On  the  \\'aikiki  Wed.ling  set.  Martha 
icas  terribly  enduvrassed  the  other  day. 
The  script' called  for  her  to  kiss  Bing 
Crosby. 

"I've  never  kissed  anyone  but  Bob 
uuiiis  on  the  screen,"  Martha  said,  "and 
kissing  Bing — well,"  she  stuttered,  "th-that 
seems  like  a  different  matter!" 

.■Imos  'n'  And\  r.re  still  down  in  Palm 
Springs,  and  recently  they've  been  joined 
l,y  b'.iinor  Harriott,  the  /\(//'y  who's  been 
w'itli  ibcni  ^inif  she  first  spuke  the  words: 
"/  Do  "  when  sile  married  .  Imos  on  Christ- 
mas l')av,  1935.  They'll  be  broadcasting 
from  the  Hollywood  studio  as  soon  as  the 
chill  winds  stop  blowing. 

Which  reminds  us  of  the  lime  Lddie 
Cantor  icas  coming  down  xeiih  jlii.  Hur- 
riedly he  collected  his  office  force,  Ins  Ida 


and  as  many  of  his  daughters  as  could  be 
rounded  up,  and  the  party  started  out  for 
Palm  Springs.  They  arrived  in  Pabn 
Springs  and — you  guessed  it! — it -was  pour- 
ing and  kept  it  up  for  five  solid  days.  But 
the  Cantors  didn't  care,  for  they  turned 
around  immediately  and  icere  home  that 
same  night. 

Love  In  Bloom  Along  Radio  Row:  Vera 
Van  doesn't  care  if  she  never  sees  another 
radio  now  that  she's  settled  down  to  being 
Mrs.  George  (agent)  Ward  .  .  .  Eddie 
Cantor's  oldest  daughter,  Natalie,  has  just 
announced  her  engagement  to  Joseph 
Metzger  .  .  .  Jackie  Cooper  and  Judy  Gar- 
land had  eyes  only  for  one  another  at  a 
recent  studio  party  .  .  .  Parkyakarkus  and 
Thelma  Leeds,  RKO  extra,  flew  to  Yuma 
for  the  fatal  step  .  .  .  Kay  Thompson,  in 
spite  of  denials,  did  marry  Jack  Jenny, 
that  eastern  orch  leader  .  .  .  Victor  Young 
so-o-o  heppy,  now  that  Lee  Wiley  has 
flown  into  town  .  .  .  and  Pinky  Tomlin 
and  Toby  Wing  are  still  ma-a-ad  about 
each  other  and  can't  wait  to  start  their 
new  picture  together,  tentatively  titled 
Love  and  Kisses  .  .  . 

Al  Jolson  and  Eddie  Cantor  really 
started  something,  the  evening  of  that 
CBS-KNX  Salute  program,  when  they 
stood  in  the  wings  waiting  their  call.  The 
two  have  never  been  enemies,  through  long 
years  of  competition,  but  on  the  other  hand 
they've  been  far  from  friends.  But  this 
evening  they  started  talking  and  sized  each 
other  up  as  pretty  good  guys. 

"Tell  you  zvhat,  Al,"  said  Eddie,  "lYhy 
don't  you  go  and  sing  Margie  and  Til  give 
'em  Mammy?" 

"Okay,  Eddie,"  said  Al,  "I  can  stand  it 
if  you  can." 

And  that,  dear  readers,  was  the  start  of 
all  this  running  around  from  one  program 
to  another  that  the  two  coinedians  have 
been  doing. 

-♦- 

Helen  Broderick  was  asked  hoiv  she 
liked  broadcastini/.  "H'ell.  to  tell  you  the 
truth,"  she  saiil.  "I  can't  see  one  bit  of  dif- 
ference bet'zeecii  going  under  ether  or  over 
it.  Mike  fright's  the  worst  thing  Ive  run 
into  in — zecll.  a  good  many  years  of  acting 
e.vpericncc." 

But  Victor  Moore  isn't  a  bit  aiHicted. 
"I  had  that  mike  cowed  from  the  start," 
he  said,  "these  polka-dot  shirts  do  the 
trick." 

Incidentally,  Vic  refuses  to  appear  on  a 
broadcast  wi'thout  his  full  regalia  of  plaid 
suit,  polka-dot  shirt,  celluloid  collar  and 
battered  hat.    Says  they  help  his  morale. 

I'inton  Hazivrth,  the  Jack  Arnold  of  the 
Mvrt  and  Marge  series,  zt'ill  join  up  zi.'ith 
the  program  if  it  comes  to  Hollyzvood. 
And  it's  a  sure  thing  that  the  shozv  zi'ill 
be  here  in  the  near  'future.  Hazvorth  has 
lu'cn  in  the  hoshilal  zoith  a  broken  leg.  and 
zehen  that  mends  zedl  have  to  report  for 
uK.om  pitclicr  uork.  Did  you  knozv  that 
he's  Ginger  Kogcrs'  uncle? 

Didja  Know:  That  Nadine  Conner, 
Nelson  Eddy's  new  prima  donna,  was 
Peggy  Gardiner  on  Shell  Chateau?  .  .  . 
That   Walter   Winchell   and    Ben  Bernie 


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are  making  a  picture  called  Wake  Up  and 
Live?  .  .  .  That  Tommy  Harris,  who's 
been  ill  for  a  couple  of  years,  is  now  on  the 
Campana  program?  .  .  .  That  Ruby  Keeler 
is  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  bets  for 
women's  national  golf  champion?  .  .  . 
That  Gertrude  Niesen  is  a  League  of 
Nations — born  of  Russian  and  Swedish 
parents,  aboard  a  Norwegian  steamer  en 
route  to  America?  .  .  .  That  Joe  Penner 
pays  fifteen  bucks  apiece  for  those  ratty 
hats?  .  .  .  That  Milton  Berle  is  guaranteed 
^5000  per  week  from  the  Los  Angeles 
theatre  he's  now  appearing  in — and  before 
his  Community  Sing  programs  started, 
Milt  couldn't  get  a  tenth  that  sum?  .  .  . 
Tiny  Francia  White  eats  a  man-sized  steak 
just  before  every  broadcast,  and  Irvin  S. 
Cobb  refuses  to  take  a  morsel  of  food  for 
eight  hours  before  an  airing?  .  .  .  Josef 
Koestner  works  all  night  on  those  orches- 
tra arrangements  for  Marion  Talley — and 
keeps  awake  with  cold  showers? 

Harriet  Hilliard's  back  in  town  again 
— sans  new  baby  and  Ozzie.  She  left  them 
both  in  Chicago  and  is  going  to  fly  back 
to  them  the  minute  A't'ii'  Faces  of  1937  is 
canned,  out  at  RKO  Studios.  Parkyakar- 
kus,  Milt  Beile  and  Joe  Penner  will  be  in 
this  one,  too,  which  should  draw  the  radio- 
fans  in  swarms. 

-♦- 

The  boys  over  at  XBC  studios  have  a 
perfect  t^assion  for  clubs.  They  can  zchip 
one  up  on  the  sliyhtest  provocation — idiich 
accounts  for  the  Tank-Towners.  the  latest 
organisation.  Sitting  around  at  the  studio 
the  other  evening  zvere  Jack  Benny,  Fred 
Astairc,  Ben  Bernie,  Charlie  Buttencorth 
and  Victor  Moore.  Walter  Winchell 
dropped  in  and  they  all  began  to  reminisce 
about  the  days  ivhen  they  played  small- 
town vaudeville,  and  one-night  stands  in 
the  sticks.  Their  total  n-eekly  salaries 
didn't  reach  a  thousand  in  those  days.  They 
zvere  all  so  pleased  icith  theinselz'cs  at  the 
thought  of  their  present  status  in  life  that 
one  and  all  felt  something  should  be  done 
about  it.  So  the  Tank-Towners  came  into 
being,  ztnth  the  above  as  charter  members. 
Activities  of  the  club  are  to  be  limited  to 
gloating. 

Sid  Silvers  and  Victor  Young  always  go 
on  shopping  tours  together.  And  they  both 
limit  their  "just  looking,  thank  you"  to  the 
boys'  departments.  Both  five-footers,  their 
sartorial  elegance  is  the  despair  of  friends 
who  have  to  spend  five  times  as  much  on 
their  wardrobes.  Mc  caused  gasps  of 
admiration  when  he  showe^l  up  at  the 
studio  the  other  day  in  a  red,  black  and 
white  tweed  overcoat,  nattily  belted,  and 
displaying  a  red  carnation  in  his  lapel. 

"$12.50  in  the  boys'  detortnient:'  he  told 
the  envious  bystanders,  "and  a  dime  for  the 
carnation.    That  i^'as  a  real  bargain!" 

In  spite  of  that  talk  of  the  Powell- 
Blondell  tie-up  being  a  publicity  stunt, 
Joan  and  Dick  go  around  with  a  glow  in 
their  eyes  that  not  even  Hollywood's 
cleverest  press-agent  could  put  there.  We 
saw  the  Powells  at  Palm  Springs  the  other 
day,  looking  very  domestic  and  looking  as 
if  they  liked  it,  too.  Dick  had  a  huge 
paper  bag  of  groceries  on  one  arm  and 
Norman  Barnes,  Jr.,  on  the  other.  Joan, 
in  a  pair  of  blue  gingham  rompers  like 
her  young  son's,  brought  up  the  rear  with 
Norman's  go-cart  piled  high  with  more 
groceries.  Their  animated  conversation 
might  have  been  on  the  high  points  of 
glammer,  but  it  more  likely  had  to  do  with 
the  high  price  of  potatoes! 


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Nancy  Coleman,  NBC  actress,  became  a  professional  less  than  a  year  ago. 
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Just  when  everyone  thinks  Frank  Fay  is 
among  the  missing  for  sure,  he  shows  up 
in  bigger  and  better  spirits  than  ever. 
After  stealing  the  show  as  Jack  Oakie's 
guest  star,  Frank  again  has  disappeared. 

"I'lii  out  to  sec  the  ivorld,"  he  told  us 
after  the  proiiram,  "and,  contrary  to  ivhat 
Ilollyzcood  thinks,  this  isn't  it." 

Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Frank  evidently 
are  not  even  attempting  a  reconciliation, 
since  we  saw  Barbara  dining  with  Bob 
Taylor  that  same  evening  at  the  Brown 
Derby.  So  oblivious  were  they  to  every- 
thing around  that  they  might  have  been 
gnawing  coconuts  on  a  desert  isle. 

Phil  Regan,  James  Melton  and  Morton 
Downey  were  among  the  disappointed  lads 
who  missed  out  on  emceeing  Hollyivood 
Hotel,  when  Dick  Powell  aired  his  last 
croon  on  the  program.  Fred  MacMurray's 
contract  for  the  job  calls  for  thirteen 
weeks  of  appearances,  and  he'll  pull  down 
$2500  per.  Not  bad  for  the  boy  who 
didn't  have  enough  money  to  have  his 
saxoiihone  tuned  a  few  years  back.  Present 
at  every  Hotel  program  is  Mrs.  Fred 
MacM.,  formerly  Lillian  Lamont,  a  New 
York  model.  She  wears  the  wickedest 
hats  with  the  most  demure  air  in  Holly- 
wood and  has  eyes  for  no  one  but  the 
l)oyish  boss. 

Tlie  dof^e  on  Dick  Jcavincj  the  pror/rani  is 
that  the  Warners  had  specified  in  his  con- 
tract that  Dick's  radio  affairs  were  his 
own  business  only  to  the  first  of  the  year. 
After  that  they  -a-onid  lie  the  l>usiness  of 
the  liros.  And  thai  new  ll'arncr  nalio)ial 
hook-up,  Transamerica,  is  due  to  start 
soon.  Dick  'a'ill  have  his  ozv)i  hour  on  that 
and  «'i7/  also  make  a  picture  soon  entitled 
Hollywood  Hotel. 


Hollywood's  brass  band  turned  out  to 
give  Pine  Ridge  the  proper  welcome.  For 
Lum  and  Abner  arrived  with  Barker  Mose 
Moots,  Luke  Spears,  Caleb  Weehunt,  the 
Squire  and  an  entourage  of  home-folk 
bent  on  "gettin'  a  squint  at  the  movie 
stars."  _^ 

Eventually  they  all  "go  Hollywood"  and 
Luut  and  Abner  (Chester  Lauck  and  Nor- 
ris  Goff  in  private  life)  intend  to  stay 
right  here  in  sunny  California,  now  that 
they've  made  the  fatal  step.  They'll  do 
their  broadcasting  from  the  local  NBC 
studio — and  no  doubt  some  picture-making 
at  the  local  celluloid  factories.  The  boys 
are  holding  out  for  a  neat  sum  from  the 
movie  moguls  and  no  doubt  will  get  it — 
for  these  yokel  boys  can't  help  but  make 
good. 

At  the  coffee  shop  ne.xt  to  the  NBC 
studios  you  can  see  oil  the  celebrities 
nutnch'mij  ham  sandivichcs  and  putting 
ozk'av  tall  (/lasses  of  milk  or  strong  cups 
of  coffee  d'crv  noon.  There's  Irvin  S. 
Cobb.  Marion  Tallev.  Fred  Aslaire,  Trudy 
Ji'ood.  Jack  Benuv  and  Mary  Liz'ingslone, 
Clarence  Muse,  Ilelcn  Broderick  and  gen- 
erallv  a  few  screen  stars  for  good  measure. 
There's  usually  good  food  and  alzi'ays  good 
talk— particularly  if  you  happen  to  join 
up  with  those  at  Irvin  Cobb's  table. 

The  other  noon  he  was  giving  advice  to 
some  sprouting  script  writers.  "Writers 
are  made,  not  born,"  declared  Cobb, 
taking  a  swig  of  coffee  and  a  puff  on  the 
stogie.  "You  develop  any  talent  through 
grinding  work — otherwise  it  doesn't  get 
developed.  I  lay  all  my  success  to  perspi- 
ration.    Inspiration  is  a  laugh!" 

—LOIS  SVENSRUD 


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HILL-WILLIAMS 
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We  got  married  in  Ardmore — it  was  a  secret. 
But  Judy  said:  'Can't  I  please  tell  just 
one  person?"  And  the  next  day  the  whole 
town  knew  it!' 

"Ay  Communist,"  said  the  recorded  voice 
of  Zeke,  "is  ay  jcller  that  zvrites  up  the 
gossip  on  the  ncivspapcrs.  .  .  " 

"And  the  funny  part  of  it/'  Anne  went 
on,  "is  that  I  was  going  with  another  boy, 
all  along!" 

"Anne,  tell  him  about  the  drawers,"  Judy 
burst  forth.  Anne  looked  a  little  hesitant, 
then  grinned.  "It's  a  typical  hill-billy 
story,"  she  said,  "but  I  don't  know  wheth- 
er you  can  use  it  or  not." 

"Tell  it  anyway,"  Zeke  chimed  in. 
Dotty,  the  pooch,  barked  at  the  doorbell 
and  he  grabbed  her  up,  admitting  brother 
Pete. 

"Well,  this  hill-billy  woman  came  into 
the  general  store,"  Anne  related,  "and 
said:  'I  want  a  pair  o'  men's  drawers.' 
'Yessum,'  says  the  storekeeper,  'you  want 
'em  long  or  sho't?'  'Hit  don'  make  no 
diff'rence,'  says  the  woman.  'Well,  you 
want  cotton  ones  or  woolen?'  sa\  s  the 
storekeeper.  'Hit  don'  make  no  ditt'rence,' 
says  the  woman.  'You  want  the  front 
openin'  or  the  back  openin'r'  'Hit  don' 
make  no  diff'rence,'  says  the  woman.  "Hit's 
fur  a  corpse  !'  " 

So  there  are  your  hill-billies !  There's 
been  a  lot  of  nonsense  written  about 
"happy  families,"  but  I'll  bet  this  gang  is 
one.  They  all  talk  at  once,  cut  in  on 
one  another,  razz  one  another  and  seem 
to  have  a  perfectly  swell  time  doing  it, 
producing,  at  the  same  time,  an  enter- 
tainment product  that  the  public  has  been 
quick  to  recognize  as  legitimate  and  enter- 
taining. My  reaction  to  the  gag  was  ap- 
parently encouraging,  for  Zeke  insisted 
that  Anne  tell  the  spittoon  story. 

"You  tell  it,  Judy,"  Anne  said.  "The 
real  hill-billy  stuff  isn't  \cry  refined,"  she 
apologized,  as  Judy  l)L,uan. 

"This  big  cracker  was  .sittin'  in  a  res- 
taurant," Judy  said.  "lie  was  chawin'  ter- 
baccy  and  though  there  was  a  cuspidor 
near  him,  he  looked  carefully  around  and 
shot  a  stream  of  juice  into  the  corner.  A 
waiter  looked  worried,  and  carefully 
moved  the  brass  receptacle  where  he  had 
decorated  the  corner.  .\  little  later  the 
hill-billy  scowletl,  loukc<l  around,  and  ex- 
pectorated where  the  cuspidor  had  been. 
The  waiter,  getting  frantic,  moved  it  back 
to  its  orginal  position,  only  to  have  the 
corner  again  decorated.  Once  more  the 
harassed  waiter  moved  the  spittoon.  A 
moment  later  the  hill-billy  looked  around, 
scowled  at  the  spittoon  and  then  at  the 
waiter,  and  said  :  'Look  hyuh,  mistuh — if 
yo'  don't  stop  movin'  that  sugah  bowl 
aroun'  Ah'm  gonna  spit  right  in  it !" 


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68.  SATURDAY  NIGHT  PARTY  64.5  93. 

NBC  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

69.  FIRESIDE  RECITALS  64.2  94. 

NBC  Sun.  7:30  P.M.  EST 

70.  LISTEN  TO  THIS  64.1 

MBS  Tues.  X:30  P.M.  EST  95. 

71.  LOWELL  THOMAS  64.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST  96. 

72.  HENRY  BUSSE  AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA.63.7 

NBC  Wed.  4:00  P.M.  EST  97. 

73.  ALLEN  PRESCOTT  63.6 

NBC  T-T  J  1:45  A.M.  KST,  CBS  W-F  9:30 

A.M.  EST  98. 

74.  HOUR  OF  CHARM— PHIL  SPITALNY.63.2 

NBC  Mon.  4:U0  P.M.  E.ST  99. 

75.  GRAND  HOTEL— ANNE  SEYMOUR.  .  63.1 
NBC  Sun.  3:30  P.M.  EST 

76.  WE,  THE  PEOPLE— PHILLIPS  LORD.  63.0 

NBC  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  EST  100. 

77.  GILLETTE  COMMUNITY  SING  62.8 

CBS  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

78.  BAKERS'    BROADCAST   —    ROBERT  101. 
RIPLEY,  NELSON  ORCHESTRA  62.7 

NBC  Sun.  7:30  P.M.  EST  102. 

79.  BENAY  VENUTA'S  PROGRAM  62.3 

MBS  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

80.  THE  LONE  RANGER  62.1  103. 

MBS  M-W-F  7:30  P.M.  EST 

81.  SALT     LAKE     CITY     TABERNACLE  104. 
CHOIR  AND  ORGAN  62.0 

CBS  Sun.  12:30  P.M.  EST 

82.  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND  61.7  105. 

NBC  Mon.  6:05  P.M.  EST 

83.  PENTHOUSE  SERENADE  —  MARTIN 
ORCHESTRA  61.6 

NBC  Sun.  4:00  P.M.  EST  106. 

84.  JOSEF  CHERNIAVSKY'S  MUSICAL 
CAMERA— WILLIE  MORRIS  61.3 

NBC  Sun.  4:30  P.M.  EST  107. 

85.  MAJOR  BOWES'  CAPITOL  FAMILY. 61.3 
CBS  Sun.  11:30  A.M.  EST 

86.  FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  61.2  108. 
NI}C  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

87.  LESSONS  IN  HOLLYWOOD-JACKIE 

COOPER,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  61.1  ,„ 

MBS  M-W  8:00  P.M.  EST 

88.  RIPPLING  RHYTHM  REVUE— FRANK 
PARKER,  FIELDS  ORCHESTRA  61.0 
NBC  Sun.  9:15  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  P.ST 

89.  1937   RADIO  SHOW— RAY  KNIGHT, 

JOHNSON  ORCHESTRA  60.2  ,„ 

Mli.S  Sun.  6:00  P.M.  EST 

90.  NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE  60.1  nz. 

NBC  Sat.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  8:00  P.M.  PST 

91.  LOG  CABIN  DUDE  RANCH  60.0  113. 

NBC  Tues.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

92.  MYRT  AND  MARGE  59.8  114. 

CBS  M-T-\y-T-F  2:45  P.M.  EST 


MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND ..  59.4 

NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST 

LA  SALLE  FASHION  SHOW  CHARLES 

LeMAIRE,  DUCHIN  ORCHESTRA  59.1 

NBC  Thur.  4:00  P.M.  EST 

DR.  ALLAN  ROY  DAFOE  59.0 

CBS  M-W-F  11:45  A.M.  EST 

DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  58.9 

NBC  Fri.  8:30  P.M.  EST  n 

WATCH    THE   FUN   GO    BY   —  AL 

PEARCE  58.8 

CBS  Tiles.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  9:00  P.M.  PST 

CAVALCADE  OF  AMERICA  58.6 

CBS  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST 
KRUEGER  MUSICAL  TOAST— JERRY 
COOPER,  SALLY  SINGER,  BLOCK  OR- 
CHESTRA 58.5 

NBC  Mon.  10:30  P.M.  E.ST 
IRVIN  S.  COBB— PADUCAH  PLANTA- 
TION 58.4 

NBC  Sal.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

VOX  POP  58.2 

NBC  Tues.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

FOLLOW  THE  MOON— ELSIE  HITZ, 

NICK  DAWSON  58.1 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  4:30  P.M.  EST 

YOUR  UNSEEN  FRIEND  58.0 

CBS  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  EST 

RALEIGH    AND    KOOL  CIGARETTE 

SHOW— JACK  PEARL  57.9 

NBC  Mon.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

POETIC  MELODIES— JACK  FULTON 

MILLS  ORCHESTRA  57.8 

CBS  M-T-W-T  7:00  P.M.  EST.  8:00  P.M. 
PST 

PROFESSOR  QUIZ  AND  HIS  BRAIN- 
BUSTERS  57.7 

CBS  Sun.  7:00  P.M.  E.ST 

UNIVERSAL    RHYTHM— CHANDLER 

ORCHESTRA  57.6 

NBC  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

PEPPER  YOUNG'S  FAMILY  57.5 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:00  P.M.  EST.  10:30 
A.M.  on  WJZ  WLS  WSYK  WHAM 
KDKA 

QUALITY    TWINS    —    EAST  AND 
DUMKE  57.2 

CBS  T-T  11:15  A.M.  EST 

LUM  AND  ABNER  56.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  7:30  P.M. EST.  8:15  P.M. 

P.ST 

CHASE  AND  SANBORN  PROGRAM  .56.7 

NBC  Sun.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

JOE  PENNER— GRIER  ORCHESTRA.  56.5 

CBS  Sun.  6:00  P.M.  EST 

BROADWAY  VARIETIES  56.4 

(  BSI  n.  S:,in  I'.M.  EST 

NEWS  THROUGH  A  WOMAN'S  EYES.  .  56.3 

CBS  M-W-F  2:00  P.M.  EST 


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lis.  WILDERNESS  ROAD  56.2 

CKS  M-T-W  -T-F  5:45  P.M.  EST 

116.  THE  O'NEILLS  56.0 

SBC  M-T-n-T-F  3:45  P.M.  FJ^.  11.00 
A.M.  EST  on  WJZ  \VB/.  WBZA  WBAL 
WMAL  USVR  WHAM  KDKA  WGAR 
WXYZ  WLS 

117.  MARY  MARLIN  55.7 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  12:15  P.M.  EST 

118.  IRENE  RICH   55.6 

NBC  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

119.  JIMMIE     FIDLER'S  HOLLYWOOD 

GOSSIP  55.4 

NBC  Tuf!.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

120.  FIVE    STAR     REVUE    —  MORTON 

BOWE  55.3 

CBS  M-W-F  1:00  P.M.  EST 

121.  JERGENS    PROGRAM    —  WALTER 

WINCHELL   5S.2 

NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  8:15  P.M.  PST 

122.  DICK  TRACY  S5.1 

MBS  M-T-W  5:45  P.M.  EST 

123.  THE  LAMPLIGHTER  SS.O 

MBSSun.  3:00  P.M. EST.  M-W-F  9:30  A.M. 

124.  BETTY  MOORE  54.9 

NBC  Thur.  11:30  A.M.  /LST 

125.  VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  54.7 

NBC  Tues.  7:45  P.M.  EST 

126.  KALTENMEYER'S  KINDERGARTEN . 53.9 
NBC  Sat.  5:30  P.M.  EST 

127.  HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  53.8 

NBC  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

128.  GIRL  ALONE  53.7 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  13:00  Noon  EST 

129.  MAJOR  BOWES-  AMATEUR  HOUR.  .53.6 
CBS  Thur.  9:00  P  .M.  /iST 

130.  SNOW  VILLAGE  SKETCHES  53.5 

NBC  Sal.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

131.  RENFREW  OF  THE  MOUNTED  53.5 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST.  8:15  P.M. 
PST 

132.  TED     MALONE'S     BETWEEN  THE 
BOOKENDS   53.4 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:15  P.M.  EST 

133.  TODAY'S  CHILDREN  53.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:45  A.M.  EST 

134.  VIC  AND  SADE  53.2 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:30  P.M.  E.^T.  11:30 
A.M.  on  WJZ  WBZ  WBZA  WB.AL  WM.\L 
WVAR  WXYZ  KWK  KSO  KO'L  KGO 
KECA  KFSD  WMT  W^V  R  WH.\.\1 
WLS    WREN    KDKA  KLO 

135.  GOLD  MEDAL  FEATURE  TIME  53.1 

CBS  .M-T-W-T-F  10:00  A.M.  EST 

136.  DAVID  HARUM  53.0 

A'iSC  M-T-W-T-F  11:00  A.M.  EST 

137.  FIVE  STAR  JONES  52.9 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:15  A.M.  EST 

138.  LANDT  TRIO  52.8 

NBC  Sun.  2:00  P.M.  EST 

139.  MA  AND  PA  52.8 

CBS  T-T-S  7:15  P.M.  EST 

140.  SUNSET  DRFJ^MS— MORIN  SISTERS.52.7 
NBC  Sun.  7:45  P.M.  EST.  8:00  P.M.  PST 

141.  UNCLE   EZRA'S   RADIO   STATION  52.6 
NBC  M-W-F  7:15  P.M.  EST.  8:15  P.M. 
PST 

142.  EDGAR    GUEST    IN  WELCOME 
VALLEY  52.5 

NBC  Tue.-:.  8:30  P.M.  EST 

143.  BACKSTAGE  WIFE  52.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  11:15  A.M.  EST 

144.  lODENT  DRESS  REHEARSAL— MOR- 
TON BOWE,  RINES  ORCHESTRA  52.2 

NBC  Sun.  11:30  A.. M.  E.ST 

145.  ROMANCE  OF  HELEN  TRENT  51.7 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:30  P.M.  EST 

146.  MRS.    WIGGS    OF    THE  CABBAGE 

PATCH  51.6 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:00  A.M.  EST 

147.  RICH  MAN'S  DARLING  51.5 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:45  P..\f.EST 

148.  HOW  TO  BE  CHARMING  51.2 

NBC  M-W-F  11:30A.M.  EST 

149.  VOICE  OF  EXPERIENCE  50.4 

NBC  M-W-F  11:45  A.M.  EST 

150.  BACHELOR'S  CHILDREN  50.2 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  9:45  A.M.  EST 

151.  TIM  HEALY  50.1 

NBC  .M-T-W-T-F  9:45  A.M.  EST 

152.  COOK'S  TRAVELOGUE  50.0 

CBS  Sun.  2:45  P.M.  EST 

153.  SUNBRITE  JUNIOR  NURSE  CORPS.  .50.0 
CBS  .M-W-F  5:00  P.M.  EST 

154.  MOLLY  OF  THE  MOVIES  49.9 

.MBS  M-T-W-T-F  3:00  P.M.  EST 

155.  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR  49.8 

CBS  T-T   11.00  A.M.  EST 

156.  MA  PERKINS  49.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:15  P.M.  EST,  10:15 
A.M.  EST  on  WLSZ  WJZ  WBZ  WBZA 
WBAL  WYSR 

157.  TOM     MIX     AND     HIS  RALSTON 

STRAIGHT  SHOOTERS  49.6 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:15  P..M.EST.  3:15  P.M. 
PST 

158.  BIG  SISTER  48.7 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  11:30  A.M.  EST 

159.  POPE  YE,  THE  SAILOR  48.2 

CBS  M-W-F  7:15  P.M.  EST 

160.  JACK  ARMSTRONG  47.6 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:30  P.M.  EST 

161.  THE  GUMPS  47.5 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:00  Noon  EST 

162.  MYSTERY  CHEF  46.8 

NBC  Tues.  Sat.  11:30  A.M.  EST 

163.  EDWARD   MacHUGH,   THE  GOSPEL 

SINGER  45.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  11:45  A.M.  EST 

164.  PICK  AND  PAT  45.6 

CBS  Mon.  8:30  P.M.  EST,  8:30  P.M.  PST 


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tion.  Then  a  network  had  me  for  thirteen 
weeks  because  a  candy  company  engaged 
the  time  and  me." 

lui  ritzgcrald:  "Asked  the  general  man- 
ager of  KFRC  in  San  Francisco  for  a  job. 
.Much  to  ni)'  amazement  lie  gave  it  to  me." 

Duke  Ellington:  "Sorry,  no  Horatio  Al- 
ger twist  for  you.  My  first  radio  appear- 
ance came  after  success  on  the  stage.  I 
don't  blush  when  I  say  I  worked  hard  to 
get  there — or  maybe  I  mean  here." 

Kay  Kyser  :  "As  fas  as  I  can  remember, 
our  first  nctzii'ork  broadcast  ivas  from  the 
Nc-w  Yorker  Hotel  in  Neiv  York  in  1930, 
oi'cr  XBC." 


Sid  Gary:  "To  be  a  comedian.  When  I 
worked  'with  George  Burns  I  did  comedy. 
.Some  day  I  expect  to  take  it  up  again." 

Phil  Harris:  "One  of  the  greatest  I  have 
ever  had  is  to  be  able,  some  day,  to  spend 
several  months  in  the  year  in  real  hunting 
expeditions  with  two  or  three  companion- 
able comrades." 

Johnny  Green:  "To  have  the  time  and 
money  to  devote  myself  to  the  serious 
study  of  music;  to  be  able  to  travel  ex- 
tensively; to  be  able  to  play  a  real  good 
game  of  golf;  and  to  be  able  to  write  the 
kind  of  music  I  want  to  write,  whether  the 
field  be  serious  or  popular." 

Ed  McConnell  :  "Only  the  ambition  to 
continue  the  'work  I  am  doing;  I  am  per- 
jectly  happy." 

Jim  Jordan:  "I  once  tried  hard  to  he  a 
baseball  player,  but  didn't  make  the  grade." 

Parker  Fennelly:  "Some  I  wouldn't  like 
to  tell,  but  don't  mind  saying  I'd  like  to 
have  one  or  two  of  the  plays  I've  written 
produced  here  in  New  York.  And,  of 
course,  I'd  like  to  go  back  into  the  theatre 
some  day  soon,  playing  the  kind  of  role  I 
believe  I  could  do  best." 

.\1    Goodman:    "To    direct  symphonic 


Be 
lazy- 


nice  Claire:  "Am  afraid  I'm  very 
-and  satisfied  with  things  just  as  they 


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Irvin  S.  Cobb:  "I  always  wanted  to  learn 
Russian  interpretive  dancing." 

--♦ 

Yee  Lawnhurst:  "/  hairn't  any.  I'm 
doing  just  what  I  -want  to  do  and  having 
a  grand  time  doing  it." 

Lann\<  Ross:  "To  sing  in  opera." 


Margaret  Speaks:  "Ambitions  change 
from  year  to  year — they  either  become  a 
realization  or  eventually  disappear." 

Cab  Calloway  :  "/  want  to  see  the  great 

musical  talents  of  the  negro  fully  recog- 
ni^:ed  by  radio.  I  believe  that  eventually 
the  gifts  which  are  peculiarly  those  of  the 
colored  uuni  will  be  a  vital  part  of  airzvay 
cutertain)uent." 

I^ucille  Manners:  "My  one  ambition  is  to 
succeed  in  the  thing  I've  always  wor- 
shipped— opera  and  lieder  singing.  I've 
done  a  little  of  both,  but  want  to  do  so 
much  more." 

Edgar  A.  Guest:  "All  of  my  ambitions  are 
unrealized.  Have  never  done  as  well  as  I 
had  hoped — always  felt  I  could  and  should 
have  done  better." 

Betty  Winkler:  "/  ivant  to  reach  the  top 
in  radio,  but  not  at  the  cost  of  everything 
else.    I  -want  to  travel." 

Ted  Hammerstcin:  "To  produce  the  big- 
gest hit  in  the  legitimate  theatre  on  Broad- 
way." 

Benay  Venuta:  "To  beat  my  husband  in 
tennis;  to  have  one  good  part  in  a  feature 
picture  and  make  good  in  it." 

Patrick  J.  Barrett  (Uncle  Ezra)  :  "Being 
born  and  raised  on  a  farm,  I've  ahvays 
"wanted  to  ozvn  one.  Noiv  that  I  have  the 
farm.  Tve  got  to  milk  the  radio  business 
before  I  do  the  co'ws." 

-♦- 

Irene  Beasley:  "1.  To  write  a  book.  2. 
To  visit  in  the  Pyrenees  Mountains.  3.  To 
see  the  Pyramids  in  Egypt." 

Kenny  Baker:  "I'd  like  to  catch  a  twenty- 
pound  yellow  tail  or  a  thirty-pound  tuna — 
or  maybe  just  a  five-pound  trout." 

AUie  Lowe  Miles:  "1.  To  be  able  to  sleep 
until  I  want  to  get  up  in  the  morning.  2. 
To  gro'w  louo  linger  nails  that  won't  break. 
3.  To  slop  heiiig  hungry  five  minutes  after 
Tve  finished  a  broadcast.  4.  To  arrange  life 
so  that  there's  time  for  all  the  things  I 
ivant  to  do." 

Benny  Fields:  "To  make  a  picture  with 
my  wife,  Blossom  Seeley,  with  the  story 
of  our  lives  as  the  theme." 


Grace  Albert:  "The  chief  ones  are:  to 
be  a  fine  dramatic  actress,  and  to  be  an 
operatic  star  (both  of  which  I'm  studying 
for).  And,  last  but  not  least,  to  be  a  good 
wife  and  mother." 

-♦- 

Lud  Gluskin:    "So  far,  none." 

Jimmie  Tidier:  "To  be  what  I  started 
out  to  be — the  best  in  my  field.  That  wish 
is  certainly  unrealized  as  yet,  but  maybe 
ten  years  from  now  I  may  arrive  there." 


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Allen  Prescott :  "  To  write  a  good  phiy ; 
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Welcome  Lcivis:    "To  visit  the  Orient." 

Homer  Rodeheaver:  "To  plan  and  direct 
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Will  Hudson:  "To  zvrite  a  complete 
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Ethel  Blume:  "The  attainment  of  a  rec- 
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Jean  Paul  King:  "To  have  my  first  novel 
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Ross  Graham:  "7,'  derch'p  into  one  of 
the  fi)iest  .liiiericau  siinirrs  and  to  he  a 
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Bide  Dudley:  "To  sing  with  an  orchestra 
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loff.  An  enemy  leader  would  adtl  to  the 
catastrophe." 

-»•- 

Ed  Fitzgerald:  "To  tell  the  program 
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Duke  Ellington:  "To  be  the  first  star 
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Kay  Kyser:  "I  should  like  to  direct  an 
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Fourth,  I  want  to  own  the  world's  rough- 
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kept  me  from  going  crazy. 

The  mere  mention  of  radio  would  send 
me  into  the  depths  of  despair.  Tlie  spon- 
sors of  Ozzie's  program  (Harriet  always 
credits  Ozzie  with  everything,  even  to  the 
grand  movie  contract  she  has)  wanted  to 
know  when  I  was  going  back  on  the  air. 
I  was  tinder  contract  to  sing  with  Ozzie's 
band  on  the  air  and  I  knew  that  I  couldn't 
keep  putting  off  the  moment  when  I  had  to 
make  the  test  of  my  voice.    /  was  scared! 

"One  night  Ozzie  asked  me  to  sing  a 
little  song  for  him.  He  asked  me  to  do  it 
as  a  favor  to  him.  We  were  alone  in  the 
apartment.  I  felt  that  it  was  a  small  thing 
to  do  for  him,  so  I  started.  'Would  my 
high  notes  come  out  right?  Would  I  be 
able  to  sustain  the  proper  tones?'  Honestly 
I  didn't  know  the  answers  to  these  ques- 
tions which  were  spinning  through  my  head. 
And  when  I  finished  the  song,  I  still 
wasn't  sure  of  the  answers.  Just  by  chance, 
I  had  sung  a  number  which  Ozzie  had 
picked  for  the  following  Sunday  night's 
program.  He  was  satisfied  with  the  way 
I  had  handled  the  song.  That  gave  me  my 
first  touch  of  confidence.  But  I  still  was 
by  no  means  sure  of  myself.  The  next  day 
we  rehearsed  at  the  studio — but  Ozzie 
would  allow  me  to  sing  the  song  only  once. 
Why?  He  was  afraid  of  my  straining  my 
voice  after  so  many  months  of  not  using  it. 

"That  Sunday  m'glit  I  was  scared,"  she 
continued,  "as  afraid  of  the  little  mike  as 
I  had  been  in  my  early  radio  days.  And 
after  I  had  finished  my  song,  I  still  was 
not  sure  how  it  had  sounded  over  the  air. 
Even  when  people  told  me  it  was  all  right, 
I  would  not  believe.  Fortunately,  we  al- 
ways have  a  record  made  of  our  broad- 
casts. The  next  day  I  was  in  a  fever  of 
excitement  to  hear  the  ultimatum  of  that 
record.  I  wanted  to  listen  to  it  and  I  was 
afraid  at  the  same  time.  It  was  only  after 
hearing  that  record  that  I  could  breathe 
easily.  I  knew  that  I  could  go  on  with  my 
career.  That  broadcast  was  the  luckiest 
thing  I  ever  did !" 

Her  self-confidence  was  complete  again. 
She  immediately  started  her  daily  practic- 
ing. Slie  knew  that  motherhood  had  not 
deprived  her  of  the  thing  for  which  she  had 
worked  so  hard  all  her  life — her  career. 

"Beijig  on  the  air  with  Ozzie,  working 
with  the  boys  in  the  band,  whom  I  had 
known  for  so  long— I  was  lucky  to  have  all 
this  the  first  time  I  sang.  Such  familiar 
surroundings  made  it  easier  for  me,"  she 
exi)lained. 

And  now  she  is  in  Hollywood,  making 
her  second  picture,  Neiv  l^'accs  of  1937,  in 
which  Joe  Peimcr  is  starring.  Rack  of  this 
is  a  dramatic  story  : 

Harriet  Ililliard  married  Ozzie  Nelson 
four  days  before  she  made  her  first  trip  to 
Hollywood  to  make  her  motion  picture 
debut  in  FoUoiv  the  Fleet,  with  Fred 
Astaire  and  Ginger  Rogers.  Harriet  and 
Ozzie  had  put  off  marriage  for  fear  that 
it  would  interfere  with  the  sticcess  of  the 
band. 

"We  didn't  know  what  made  the  band 
click  with  the  public,"  she  said,  "whether 
it  was  Ozzie  alone,  the  band,  myself,  or  the 


combination  of  Ozzie  and  me  as  a  roman- 
tic couple.  But  before  I  left  for  the  Coast, 
we  decided  to  take  a  chance.  And  it 
helped.  Our  marriage  made  the  band  more 
popular." 

In  the  movie  capital,  Harriet  was  mis- 
erably unhappy.  She  was  so  far  from  New 
York  where  Ozzie  was  playing.  But,  in 
spite  of  this,  she  made  a  tremendous  hit  in 
her  first  picture.  She  dashed  back  to  her 
new  husband.  Immediately,  the  band  wenj 
on  one-night  stands.  They  had  been  tour- 
ing for  several  months  when  the  movies 
started  calling  her.  She  had  a  contract  to 
do  two  more  pictures  in  1936  and  she  was 
called  to  start  her  second  picture.  She 
knew  by  this  time  that  she  was  to  become 
a  mother,  but  she  and  Ozzie  wanted  no  one 
else  to  know  it  for  the  time  being. 

"The  following  three  weeks  were  the 
most  hectic  we  have  ever  spent,"  she  ex- 
plained. "Ozzie  kept  telling  the  Coast  offi- 
cials that  I  was  too  ill  to  make  a  picture — 
that  I  was  not  up  to  doing  it  at  present. 
Naturally,  they  said  that  if  I  could  do  one- 
night  stands  all  over  the  country,  I  cer- 
tainly ought  to  be  able  to  make  a  picture! 
It  w'as  a  hectic  time  of  avoiding  phone 
calls,  of  having  Ozzie  take  the  calls  that 
could  not  be  refused.  Finally  they  reached 
us  in  Boston.  They  asked  Ozzie  point 
blank  why  I  couldn't  make  a  picture.  Still 
he  would  not  give  them  an  answer.  How- 
ever, a  month  later,  after  doing  vaudeville 
in  New  York  and  in  Washington,  I  retired 
from  my  strenuous  professional  life." 

This  was  the  middle  of  September.  For 
six  weeks  Harriet  worked  feverishly  to 
make  a  home  for  the  new  baby.  She  com- 
pletely decorated  and  furnished  an  apart- 
ment, just  completing  it  in  time  for  little 
David,  who  was  born  the  end  of  October. 
In  fixing  up  her  home,  she  called  on  no 
interior  decorator.  She  studied  the  Early 
American  period.  She  personally  purchased 
each  piece  of  furniture,  each  knick-knack. 

"It  is  so  wonderful  to  have  a  real  home 
at  last !  We  had  to  start  from  scratch. 
We  didn't  even  have  a  bath  mat !"  She 
smiles  as  she  proudly  looks  around  her 
apartment.  Her  home  is  in  perfect  taste, 
the  work  of  a  woman  who  has  built  a  home 
with  care. 

Motherhood  has  brought  about  changes 
in  the  Nelson  family.  Not  in  appearance, 
although  Harriet  is  even  better  looking 
than  she  was  before  the  advent  of  little 
David.  Having  a  son  has  broadened  the 
viewpoints  of  Ozzie  Nelson  and  his  wife. 
The  first  step  is  a  real  home.  For  the  first 
time  since  their  marriage,  Harriet  and  her 
husband  are  thinking  of  the  future  in  con- 
crete terms.  No  longer  will  Mrs.  Nelson 
be  the  star  singer  in  Ozzie  Nelson's  band. 
She  is  a  separate  entity  now.  True,  she 
will  sing  with  the  band  on  the  radio  broad- 
casts, but  that  is  the  extent  of  her  direct 
connection  with  the  band.  She  looks  for- 
ward to  the  time  when  she  and  Ozzie  will 
have  a  definite  and  settled  home  in  Cali- 
fornia, when  he  will  have  time  to  play 
with  his  son,  perhaps  with  another  son  and 
a  daughter,  too.  There  is  a  definite  family 
feeling  existing  in  the  Nelson  hotisehold 


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now.  The  future's  horizon  has  become 
broadened.  With  tlie  coming  of  a  child, 
luck  has  caught  up  with  the  Xelsons.  Suc- 
cess followed  their  marriage,  growing  with 
the  birth  of  their  son. 

After  little  David  was  born,  Harriet  and 
Ozzie  worried  about  the  effect  the  birth  of 
their  son  would  have  on  business. 

"One  afternoon  Ozzie  came  up  to  the 
hospital  to  see  me,  "  she  relates.  "He  came 
bouncing  in,  very  happy, 

"  'You  know,  Harriet,  I  ought  to  put 
that  son  of  ours  under  salary  right  away,' 
he  said  to  me,  all  smiles. 

"  'Why?' 

"  'Because  last  night  business  -was  better 
than  ever.  I  do  believe  that  people  come 
down  to  the  hotel  just  to  be  able  to  ask 
about  the  baby.' 

"So,  you  see,  we  need  not  have  been 
afraid.  The  baby  helped  the  business  of 
the  band.  That  is  just  one  more  reason 
why  I  say  that  Ozzie  and  I  were  both  born 
under  lucky  stars.  Everyone  works  hard, 
but  we  have  been  lucky,  too," 

Harriet's  picture  contract  calls  for  three 
pictures  a  j'ear.  Her  radio  contract  calls 
for  her  to  sing  on  the  Bakers  Broadcast 
every  Sunday  night — except  when  she  is  on 
the  Coast,  And  with  this  she  is  combining 
all  the  duties  of  motherhood.  How? 

"I  shall  be  in  Hollywood  three  times  a 
year,  six  to  eight  weeks  each  trip.  The 
baby  will  remain  in  Xew  York,  because  he 
is  too  young  to  be  moved.  When  I  am  in 
New  York  I  shall  sing  on  the  weekly  pro- 
grams. But  I  am  not  going  back  to  the 
band  at  the  hotel.  That  kind  of  work  is 
too  confining.  Ozzie  works  so  hard  that 
the  only  time  he  has  a  chance  to  see  the 
baby  is  at  dinner  time — and  then  only  for 
a  few  minutes. 

"By  dropping  out  of  the  band,  except 
for  radio,  I'll  have  plenty  of  time  to  be  witli 
David.  Then,  when  he  is  about  three.  I 
shall  take  him  with  me  on  my  trips  to  the 
Coast."  Harriet  and  Ozzie  liave  discussed 
the  matter  of  David  very  thoroughly. 
When  he  is  five  they  are  going  to  settle 
down. 

"Yes,"  Harriet  continues,  "he  is  going  to 
lead  a  normal  life.  We  are  going  to  have 
a  home  near  a  public  school.  He  is  not 
going  to  be  spoiled.  Nor  is  he  going  to  be 
made  conscious  of  tlie  fact  that  his  parents 
are  in  show  business.  He  is  not  going 
near  a  studio  until  he  himself  wishes  to  do 
so.     He  must  never   feel  different  from 


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other  boys.  He  is  going  to  play  on  the 
corner  sand  lot  and  get  just  as  dirty  as  he 
wants." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nelson  have  very  definite 
ideas  of  the  future  of  their  son. 

"We  want  him  to  follow  whatever  career 
he  wants,  when  he  grows  up.  That's  why 
Ozzie  insisted  that  his  first  name  be  David, 
with  Ozzie  as  the  middle  name.  'H  he 
rl.iesn't  want  to  follow  in  my  steps,  he  can 
ill  himself  David.    If  I  can  accomplish 

: iiUgh  for  iiim  to  be  proud  of  what  his 
.  i.id  does,  he  can  use  his  middle  name,'  is 
the  way  Ozzie  sums  it  up.  But  I  don't  see 
how  he  can  miss,  .for,  on  both  sides,  his 
family  are  show  people.  Ozzie's  father 
and  Ozzie,  me  and  my  family.  But  we 
won't  persuade  him  one  way  or  the  other." 

It  will  not  surprise  me  if  little  Dav 
follows  in  his  family's  footsteps.  An\-  af- 
ternoon, between  four  and  five,  >  uu  will 
find  the  little  baby  gurgling  to  the  strains 
of  a  music  box  which  Santa  Claus  very 
thoughtfully  left  for  the  son  of  the 
Xelsons. 

What  of  Harriet's  future? 

"I  hope  to  go  on  in  pictures  and  that  our 
home  will  be  in  California,"  says  she.  "I 
want  Ozzie  to  take  life  easier.  Radio  is 
moving  out  to  the  Coast.  He  has  had  sev- 
eral offers  from  the  movie  people.  He 
works  too  hard  now.  I  think  that  he  ought 
to  let  up  a  little,  get  more  leisure  from 
work.  Hotel  work  is  so  confining.  He 
works  all  day  at  his  office,  and  plays  seven 
nights  a  week  at  the  hotel.  It  is  too  much." 
But  will  the  bandleader  take  the  sugges- 
tions made  by  his  wife?  Will  he  be  con- 
tent to  slow  up  ? 

"I  don't  know,  but  I  hope  so,"  answers 
Harriet.  "He  has  worked  so  hard  for  so 
long  that  he  doesn't  think  he  can  take 
tilings  easier.  His  reasons  now  are  that  he 
doesn't  want  to  let  down  the  bovs  in  the 

band.    But  after  all         I  try  to  make  him 

see  that  he  can  make  much  more  money  in 
California,  without  having  to  work  as  hard 
as  he  does  now.  It  would  be  wonderful 
for  the  three  of  us  to  have  a  home  out 
there — but  David  would  still  go  to  public 
school,"  she  adds  hastily,  for  she  and  Ozzie 
are  determined  that  their  >oung  son  shall 
not  be  spoiled. 

"Then,"  she  smiles.  "I  am  going  to  take 
time  off  in  the  future  for  more  children, 
two  or  three,  perhaps.  I  want  to  have  a 
family." 

Xothing,  I  think,  expresses  her  complete 
return  of  self-confidence  better  than  this 
last  remark.  She  realizes  that,  to  be  a 
mother,  one  does  not  have  to  give  up  a  pro- 
fessional life.  That  her  future  can  go  on 
uninterrupted. 

What  price  motherhood?  Xow  and  only 
now,  Harriet  Hilliard  can  answer:  "Xonel" 
She  had  a  scare.  She  thought  that  her 
career  was  ended.  But  thanks  to  radio, 
Harriet  will  go  on  to  bigger  and  better 
things. 

"It  really  was  that  first  radio  program 
which  made  all  the  diffL rcmi'  t,.  me.  It 
gave  me  a  chance  to  do  sonutliin.u  profes- 
sionally, without  having  to  face  a  huge 
audience.  It  gave  me  a  chance  to  work  out 
my  problem  in  familiar  surroundings.  It 
was  a  life-saver." 

And  Harriet  Hilliard  joins  the  ranks  of 
professional  women  who  combine  mother- 
hood with  a  career  and  as  a  result  of  that 
motiierhood  looks  prettier  and  \  ciun<;cr  than 
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secure  in  tJic  belief  that  you  had  listened 
to  Ray  Noble  and  his  band  in  an  actual 
broadcast.  I'czc  people  note  the  time  (Rav 
wouldn't  be  apt  to  be  on  the  air  at  S:/0 
(!■  ni.  or  ?:S0  p.  ni.)  or  ha^'c  any  concep- 
tion as  to  the  importance  of  the  radio  sta- 
tion to  -ccliicli  Ihey  niii/lil  he  listening.  In 
other  -,^'ords,  one  might  infer  that  there  is 
an  attempt  on  the  part  of  tliese  stations 
to  delude  their  listeners  into  the  belief  that 
this  is  an  actual  broadcast  unth  the  band 
there  personally — an  actual,  not  a  recorded, 

What,  you  ask,  is  your  reason  for  men- 
tioning this  at  all?  You  might  even  prefer 
to  say:  "So  zchat.'"  First,  let  me  introduce 
you  to  the  mechanics  of  the  affair,  and  then 
let  me  ask  you  a  question  to  which  1  would 
like  a  reply. 

A  fifteen-minute  broadcast  would  take 
about  four  sides  of  Ray  Noble's  records, 
reckoning  three  minutes  and  thirty  seconds 
to  a  side  and  leaving  time  for  the  com- 
mercial announcement  —  or,  in  other 
words,  two  records. 

Let's  leave  the  records  for  a  moment. 
For  sncli  a  fifteen-minute  broadcast,  Ray 
Noble  ami  his  orchestra  zvould  charge  at 
least  $1000,  and  with  a  larger  band,  pos- 
sibly even  more.  Nozv  back  to  the  records. 
For  recording  the  four  sides  of  the  tzvo 
Victor  records,  Ray  Noble  probably  re- 
ceived less  than  $1700.  After  paying  jiis 
hand  and  arranger,  there  zcas  probably  less 
than  $1000  left  for  Ray  himself.  Of  course, 
that  a)nonnt  of  money  zi'as  predicated  on 
the  belief  that  the  I'ictor  Phonograph 
Company  a)id  its  distributors  zt.'ould  sell 
enough  75c  records  to  pay  Noble  and  take 
care  of  production  costs  and  still  leave  a 
margin  of  profit  for  the  I'ictor  Company. 

Prior  to  the  broadcasting  of  phonograph 
records  by  radio  stations,  it  was  always 
understood  that  the  records  were  essentially 
niade  for  individual  use  to  be  played  on 
phonographs  in  the  homes  of  individuals. 
On  the  presumption  that  the  Victor  Com- 
pany sold  40,000  of  these  two  recordings 
and,  being  generous,  we  will  assume  that 
ten  people  in  each  individual  home  heard 
the  records,  then  some  400,000  people  lis- 
tened to  the  records  played  in  individual 
homes. 

This,  of  course,  is  being  very  generous, 
because  even  Noble  is  pleased  when  any 
of  his  records  sell  about  10,000.  And  the 
home  is  rare  where  more  than  five  or  six 
people,  if  even  that,  listen  to  a  phono- 
graph record.  But  grant  the  400,000  in- 
dividuals who  hear  the  record  in  the 
homes  of  some  40,000  people.  Each  per- 
son purchased  it  at  75(''.  Yet  here,  by 
one  broadcast,  an  audience  of  anywhere 
from  500,000  to  maybe  5,000,000  people 
listen  to  this  one  record  which  cost  the 
radio  station  75<!' — or  less.  And  bear  in 
mind,  please,  these  records  may  be  played 
during  the  course  of  several  months,  a 
year  or  even  several  years,  over  and  over 
again,  constantly  advertising  various 
products. 

Nozij  let's  sum  up.  The  advertiser  gets  a 


definite  break  because  liis  products  arc  ad- 
vertised by  one  of  the  best  dance  bands 
in  the  country.  On  the  assumption  that  the 
broadcast  of  a  good  dance  record  zvould 
entice  his  listeners  to  listen  to  the  com- 
mercial advertising  message,  sales  should 
increase.  The  radio  station  also  comes  tn 
for  its  share  of  the  breaks  because  it  de- 
rives revenue  from  the  advertiser.  The 
iistcners-in  haz'c  a  good  time  because  they 
hear  excellent  music  at  no  more  cost  than 
the  effort  en  tailed  in  tzcisting  a  dial,  and 
even  if  they  purchase  the  advertiser's 
product,  they  haz'c  in  no  ivay  remunerated 
Ray  Noble  and  his  band. 

So,  in  spite  of  themselves,  Mr.  Noble 
and  his  excellent  music  are  providing 
revenue  for  two  groups  and  entertainment 
for  another  and  receiving  absolutely  noth- 
ing. Now  my  question  is  this :  Do  you 
think  this  is  just,  right  or  fair?  Don't 
answer  by  saying  you  think  it  is  fine  for 
the  public.  What  I  am  asking  you  to  do 
is  this — put  yourself  in  Ray  Noble's  place. 
You  are  an  orchestra  leader  with  an  ex- 
pensive orchestra.  Out  of  the  many  phono- 
graph records  you  record,  one  is  sold  to  a 
radio  station  for  7S4  and  for  several 
months  or  a  year  three  things  happen:  1. 
An  advertiser  benefits  by  your  labors  and 
artistry.  2.  A  radio  station  increases  its 
revenue.  3.  Millions  of  people  are  enter- 
tained. 

For  that  one  record  you  received  a  fixed 
sum.  For  yourself,  personally,  it  must 
have  been  a  part  of  the  profit  of  75^, 
or,  in  other  words,  less  than  a  dollar. 
How  does  the  shoe  fit?     Does  it  pinch? 

/  am  not  taking  sides  in  this  issue, 
merely  outlining  a  situation  as  I  see  it  and 
asking  your  opinion.  I  zdll  zcelcome  it. 

In  a  day  and  age  when  the  watchword 
seems  to  be :  "Only  saps  work !  Only 
dopes  are  honest !"  When  the  public  toler- 
ates goodnaturedly  all  forms  of  racketeer- 
ing and  seems  to  welcome  the  fact  that 
everyone's  hand,  whether  the  individual  is 
well  paid  to  render  the  service  or  not, 
seems  to  be  outstretclied  for  a  tip,  I  like 
to  read  about  the  eight-year-old  Brooklyn 
boy  who  found  a  ring  worth  $900  and 
turned  it  over  to  the  authorities,  saying, 
as  he  refused  a  reward:  "A  reward?  For 
what?  Doing  my  duty?"  Oh,  glorious 
youth,  would  that  there  could  be  many  more 
like  you !  It  seems  almost  too  good  to  be 
true ! 

And  then  in  an  era  when  everything  is 
log-rolling  and  back-scratching,  and  as  Mr. 
Boake  Carter  put  it  so  well  the  other 
night:  "We  have  useless,  antiquated,  ex- 
pensive forts  maintained  along  the  border, 
where  they  are  no  longer  necessary,  be- 
cause of  pressure  brought  to  bear  on  politi- 
cal representatives  in  Washington,  in  those 
districts  which  profit  by  the  forts  being 
maintained  although  they  are  totally  use- 
less," in  times  when  the  spoils  system  still 
flourishes,  what  a  wonderful  thing  it  is  to 
consider  that  300  children  in  Deep  Water, 
N.  J.,  refuse  to  attend  school  until  one 
of  the  two  policemen  in  the  town  is  rein- 


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When  Martha  Raye  lets  loose,  they 
must  bring  in  another  microphone! 

stated,  after  he  was  ousted  because  he  was 
a  Republican  and  the  townsmen  were 
Democrats!  That  these  children  should 
know  at  such  an  early  age  such  beautiful 
altruism,  such  loyalty,  such  hatred  of  an 
asinine  party  spoils  system,  indicates  that 
there  is  a  possibility  that  in  time  such 
stupid  and  inane  conditions  may  be  eradi- 
cated. 

Oddities  in  speech.  Why  do  Middle- 
Westerners  and  extreme  Westerners  say 
" Peremount"  instead  of  "Paramount"  and 
"berrel"  for  "barrel T' 

One  night,  a  while  ago,  as  I  watched 
seme  of  fhe  elite  at  one  of  the  city's  smart- 
est dinner  and  supper  rooms,  dancing  on 
a  stage  raised  high  above  the  tables,  I 
couldn't  help  but  wonder  just  what  it  was 
or  what  might  be  back  of  the  desire  on  the 
part  of  men  and  women  to  pair  themselves 
off  in  couples  and  walk,  siiuftle  (in  many 
cases  awkwardly),  and  disport  themselves 
to  music,  in  front  of  a  lot  of  other  people. 
In  most  of  us  there  is  a  desire  to  move  our 
lunbs  rhythmically  when  infectious  music 
is  playing.  But  as  I  watched  some  of  these 
couples  laboring  on  the  floor,  that  was  not 
the  explanation,  if  the  expression  on  the 
faces  of  some  of  the  men  was  anv  guide. 
There  might  be  a  multitude  nf  reas(jns,  but 
for  the  majority  it's  my  opinion  that  the 
dance  floor  serves  as  an  outlet  for  the 
repressed  desire  which  is  probably  innate 
in  most  humans,  i.  e.,  to  appear  before  the 
public. 

Some  of  us  were  lucky  enough  to  have 
an  opportunity  to  satisfy  that  desire  in 
high  school  or  even  grammar  school,  by 
taking  part  in  amateur  theatricals.  In 
that  way  we  satisfied  the  ambition  of  be- 
ing the  cynosure  of  all  eyes,  of  being  in 
the  spotlight;  in  other  words,  of  knowing 
that  people  were  watching  us.  Not  exactly 
a  feeling  of  acute  vanity,  but  just  a  sub- 
conscious feeling  of  enjoyment,  of  pos- 
sibly being  vaguely  aware  that  one  is  not 
alone,  that  one  is  performing  before  a 
sea  of  faces. 

Watch  the  young  dancing  couples  in  a 
public  ballroom  like  Roscland,  or  go  to 
tjie  Harvest  Ball  sponsored  by  the  New 
York  Daily  News  at  Madison  Square 
Garden,  and  watch  those  couples,  mostly 
Latin,  feverishly  seeking  to  outdo  them- 
selves in  the  creation  of  neiv  and  odd  steps 
and  movements.  Unquestionably  ttjey  love 
to  dance  and  most  of  them  do  it  unusually 


7vell  but — and  they  may  not  even  be  atvare 
of  it — this  is  something  that  satisfies  that 
desire  to  shozv  off,  the  desire  not  only  tn 
dance  ivell  but  to  have  other  people  rciilicc 
that  they  have  accomplished  somcthuui. 
Shut  any  of  these  couples  in  a  room  n'ilh 
no  audience  but  ivilh  the  finest  music  in 
the  zcorld  and  see  hoiv  long  they  ivould 
enjoy  dancing.  That,  to  me,  ivould  be  the 
true  test  of  the  true  lover  of  the  dance. 

Glancing  through  my  theatre  program 
the  other  night  as  I  attended  the  Group 
i  heatre's  presentation  of  Johnnie  Joliiison. 
one  of  the  most  effecti\e  bits  of  peace 
propaganda  in  the  form  of  a  play  that  I 
have  ever  seen,  but  which,  because  most 
people  resent  being  preached  to  ( and  most 
likely  lean  toward  a  militaristic  world 
rather  than  a  pacific  one),  will  probably 
not  get  the  long  run  it  sliould,  I  came 
across  the  "credits."  The\-  are  always  part 
of  a  theatre  program,  yet  it  seemed  to  me 
that  it  was  rather  contradictory,  after  the 
scenic  designer,  the  director,  cist  and 
everyone  has  striven  for  illusion,  that  one 
should  be  brought  back  with  a  thud  to  dull, 
commonplace  every-day  by  the  knowledge 
that  the  costume  wliich  made  the  leading 
lady  look  sweet  and  ethereal  was  made  by 
Rifsky  Bros.,  Sixth  Avenue  and  Brackett 
Street.  That  the  gentlemen  who  were  so 
perfectly  made-up  as  to  give  the  illusion 
of  age,  were  wearing  wigs  made  by 
Shmuck  &  Shmuck. 

And  why,  of  all  things,  the  eternal 
credit  for  shoes?  'Who,  in  the  name  of 
heaven,  cares  whence  came  the  shoes? 
To  my  way  of  thinking,  there  is  too  much 
crediting  of  non-essentials.  Certainly  the 
author  and  the  composer  of  any  music 
should  be  credited,  and  it  is  not  going  too 
far  to  mention  a  clever  scenic  designer  or 
lighting  director,  and  in  a  musical  show 
I  suppose  it  is  necessary  to  bow  in  print 
to  the  dance  director,  but  can't  we  end  it 
somewhere? 

Why  must  zi.'e  knm^'  z^Jio  made  the 
m.ake-up  that  ga:c  us  the  illusion?  Isn't 
if  an  obvious  fact  that  illusinn  i^'ill  not 
stand  analysis.'  Inuujinc.  if  you  rcill,  a  hoy 
and  girl  about  to  kiss.  For  one  or  tin- 
other  to  begin  a  biological  discussion  of 
the  mucuous  ineml'rajies ,  of  salizv  or  the 
chemical  rcaetion  inz'ol:ed.  zeoiild.  I  fancy, 
definitely  destroy  all  desire  for  osculation. 

It  is  my  humble  opinion  that  any  saving 
(or  discount)  won  by  crediting  the  makers 
of  the  shoes  or  wigs  is  lost  a  thousand 
t'mes  when  the  spectator,  who  has  been 
charmed  into  a  sense  of  atmosphere  and 
illusion,  is  brought  back  to  stern  realit.v  liy 
cold,  hard,  stupid  tacts  and  figures.  Still, 
I  suppose  the  custom  will  continue — these  I 
things  are  so  hard  to  prcjve. 

Add  pronunciation-peculiarities:  Those 
who  say  "Wahshington"  against  us  new 
Englanders  who  say  "Wawshington."  .  .  . 

//  you  zeill  join  me  again  nc.rt  montji  I 
leant  to  discuss  one  of  my  pet  peeves, 
tinder  the  .heading,  Primitive  Microphone. 
/  am  going  to  go  on  record  as  advocating 
a  change  in  microphonic  technique  that  zvill 
make  your  program,  I  honestly  believe, 
more  efficiently  enjoyable  than  it  is  today. 
The  engineering  departments  of  both  net- 
zi^orks  n'on't  like  it  but  I  can't  help  it.  It 
remains  my  humble  and  honest  opinion. 

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RADIO  STARS 


RHDIO  LHUCHS... 

(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


SHARLIE:  Why  Baron,  yourc  had 
a  car  for  rears  and  ticzh-  had  a  zcreck. 

BAROX:  VoH  mean  I'lr  had  a  icreck 
for  vears  and  never  had  a  car! 

(Jack  pearl,  RaU-igh  and  Kool 
Program.) 

PLAYER:  A  midget  minstrel  show 
would  be  a  novelty,  Mr.  Allen. 

FRED:  I  can't' stand  midget  minstrels. 
Little  blackheads  always  get  on  my  nerves. 

PLAYER:  Ah  know,  but  we  wants  to 
put  on  a  minstrel  show  on  your  program. 

FRED  :  Listen  .  .  .  the  outlook  is  black 
enough  without  putting  burnt  cork  on  the 
actors. 

(FRED  ALLEN,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

JACK:    Forget  it,  Kenny,  it  doesn't  rain 
in  California  anyway. 
MARY:     It  doesn't? 
JACK:  No. 

MARY:  Then  what  keeps  falling  out 
of  the  sky — orange  juice? 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

CHARLES:  Still,  Fred,  I'd  hale  to  part 
v.'ith  this  horse  noiv — you  see,  I  haven't 
got  anv  children  and  .  .  . 

FRED:  Charlie!  FIoiv  can  yon  com- 
pare (I  horse  zcith  children?  Children  can 
go  to  collciir,  carve  out  careers  for  them- 
selves— but  a  horse — a  horse  could  never 
become  president. 

CHARLES:  Xo  ...  a  president,  no. 
But  a  friend  of  mine  had  a  horse  once 
that  qrevj  up  to  be  a  mare. 

(FRED  AST  AIRE  and  CHARLES 
BUTTERWORTH,   Packard  Program.) 


GR.AHAM  :  You  wrote  the  Hungarian 
Rhapsodx,  Ed? 

ED  :  Well,  not  exactly  ...  but  I  gave 
them  the  idea  for  it. 

GR.\HAM:  All  right,  Ed— let's  hear 
it  as  you  wrote  it. 

ED:  Well,  Graham,  as  the  Rhapsody 
opens  you  see  a  boarding-house  .  .  .  the 
boarding-house  is  called  "The  Tree"  .  .  . 
the  boarders  call  it  that  because  they  get 
pruned  three  times  a  day. 

(ED  WYXN,  Spud  Program.) 

STOOPNAGLE:  Budd,  I  have  a 
peachy  New  Year  invention.  It's  a  diary 
for  1937  with  only  one  page  on  it. 

BUDD:  Yes,  but  wait  a  minute, 
Colonel  ...  if  the  diary  has  only 
one  page,  how  do  you  get  all  the  stuff  in 
it? 

STOOP:  You  write  what  happens  in 
disappearing  ink — then,  next  day,  the 
page  is  all  white  again. 

(STOOPNAGLE  and  BUDD  Program.) 

PHIL :  Hush,  Beetle,  you  cad,  you 
rotter. 

BEETLE:  Quiet,  Baker,  you  old 
blimp.  Why,  7ny  mother.  Lady  Bottom, 
married  the  Earl  of  York,  the  Earl  of 
Devonshire  and  the  Earl  of  Worcester. 

PHIL :  She  changed  her  Earl  every 
five  hundred  miles,  eh? 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  BEETLE,  Gulf 
Program.) 

118 


JUDY:  This  is  my  brother  Zeke,  Mr. 
Kent.    He  sorta  looks  out  for  me. 

KENT:    Oh,  your  bodyguard,  eh? 

JUDY:  Y'eah  .  .  .  Zeke  knows  some 
durn  cute  tricks.  Why,  he  kin  bust  a 
man's  arm  just  by  shakin'  hands  with  him. 

KENT  :    How  cunning. 

JUDY:  Yes,  sir.  Zeke,  shake  hands 
with  Mr.  Kent. 

(JUDY  CANOVA,  Woodbury  Show.) 


ANN'R:  Oh,  by  the  way,  Ken  .  .  .  I've 
got  a  confession  to  make. 

KEN:    'Why,  what  is  it,  Fred  old  pal? 

ANN'R:  'Well — I've  been  writing  half 
your  fan  mail. 

KEN:  Oh— that's  all  right.  I've  been 
writing  the  other  half  myself. 

(KEN  MURRAY,  Rinso  Program.) 


SHARLIE:  Just  because  I  paid  the 
check  don't  try  to  be  polite.  Tell  nie  the 
truth — hoiv  zms  your  steak? 

BARON:  That  steak  ivas  as  tender  as 
a  U'oman's  heart. 

SHARLIE  :  Yeah — /  couldn't  eat  mine 
either. 

(JACK  PEARL,  Raleigh  and  Kool 
Program.) 

SENATOR:  Oh  .  .  .  I— I— I  couldn't 
do  that.    My  money  is  all  tied  up. 

M.  C. :    Your  money  is  tied  up? 

SENATOR:  Yeah  ...  in  a  handker- 
chief. 

(FISHFACE  and  FIGGSBOTTLE, 
NBC  Blue  Network.) 


PORTLAND:  Sociable  Security  is 
something  where  the  Government  takes 
one  per  cent,  of  your  wages  until  you're 
sixty-five. 

FRED:  What  happens  when  you're 
sixty-five? 

PORTLAND:  For  the  rest  of  your 
life  it's  Bank  Night. 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

CHARLES :  "Say,  Fred,  I  guess  you 
don't  knoiv  how  good  my  horse  is.  He 
lost  a  race  yesterday  by  a  nose. 

FRED:  He  did? 

CHARLES :  Would  have  zvon  it,  too, 
if  it  hadn't  been  for  the  cameras  that  pho- 
tograph the  finish. 

FRED :  What  did  the  camera  have  to 
do  zvith  it? 

CHARLES:  My  horse  used  to  be  a 
movie  horse.  He  always  turns  his  head 
totvard  the  lens  as  he  crosses  the  finish 
line. 

(FRED  AST  AIRE  and  CHARLES 
BUTTERWORTH,  Packard  Program.) 

ED :  Graham,  the  father  gives  a  big 
party  .  .  .  it's  a  rip  roaring  party  .  .  . 
by  that  I  mean,  the  heroine  rips  her  dress 
and  the  people  start  roaring  ...  it  is  a 
modern  dance  party  .  .  . 

GRAHAM :  Just  what  do  you  mean 
by  a  modern  dance  party? 

ED:  Well,  at  the  old-fashioned  dances 
a  man  used  to  say :  "May  I  have  the  next 
waltz?"  .  .  .  But  at  these  modern  dances  a 
girl  goes  over  to  a  fellow  and  says : 
"Come  on,  worm  .  .  .  let's  wiggle." 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 


FIELDS:  How  are  you,  Fred?  You're 
a  treat  for  sore  eyes. 
HALL:     Thank  you. 

FIELDS:  Yeah  .  .  .  you  remind  me  of 
a  bottle  of  boracic  acid. 

(STREAMLINERS  NBC-Red  net- 
work.) 


CHARLIE :  Once  when  I  was  playing 
tennis  with  the  King  of  Siveden  .  .  .  he's 
very  tall  .  .  .  a  very  tall  .  .  .  si.v  feet  tall 
.  .  .  a  very  tall  man  especially  for  a  King. 

PERRY:  When  did  you  play  with  the 
King  of  Sweden? 

BERGEN :  DID  you  ever  play  with 
the  Kim/  of  Siveden? 

CHARLIE  :  Well  .  .  .  the  fellow  I  zvas 
playing  with  .  .  .  he  said :  "If  you're  a 
tennis  player,  I'm  the  Kinq  of  Siveden!" 

(EDGAR  BERGEN  and  I- RED  PERRY 
Intervieiv,  Vallee  Program.) 

.  BOB  BURNS:  (Telling  about  the 
boarding-house  his  Grandpa  Snazzy  and 
Grandmother  once  ran.) 

 I  want  to  tell  you,  Graiidpaw  had 

an  answer  for  everybody.  One  time  a  man 
complained  of  the  soup.  He  told  Grand- 
paw,  he  says:  "I  told  you  I  wanted  chicken 
soup  and  you  brought  me  vegetable  soup." 
Grandpaw  went  over  and  looked  down  at 
the  soup  and  he  says :  "What's  that  float- 
in'  around  on  top?"  The  man  looks  an' 
he  says :  "That's  a  piece  of  celery  top." 
And  Grandpaw  says :  "Well,  that's  what 
fooled  me — I  thought  it  was  a  feather." 
(BOB  BURNS,  Kraft  Program.) 

Printed 


STOOP:  February  14th.  Horace  J. 
Fiddlestuffer,  editor  of  the  Puckering 
Valley  Bugle,  announces  a  startling 
change  in  the  editorial  policy  of  his  paper. 

BUDD:  Hereafter  there  ain't  gonna  be 
no  more  weather  forecasts  at  the  top  of 
my  paper.  From  now  on  they're  gonna  be 
at  th'  bottom.  The  weather  up  here's 
always  so  bad,  from  now  on  we're  agonna 
look  down   on  the  darned  stuff. 

(STOOPNAGLE  and  BUDD  Pro- 
gram.) 

PHIL :  You  know.  Harry,  my  party 
ims  voted  the  best  party  of  1936. 

HARRY:  Really.  Phil?  What  -was 
voted  the  second-hesl  parl\? 

PHIL:  The  h'epuhlieou'  Partv. 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  HARRY  VON 
ZELL,  Gulf  Program.) 

JACK :  We  all  went  out  to  a  night  club 
the  other  night. 

SHARLIE:  Was  it  very  crowded? 
JACK :  Not  under  my  table ! 
(JACK  PEARL,  Raleigh  Program.) 

HARRY:  Can  you  tell  me  what  claus- 
trophobia is? 

ED:  A  mental  disease,  consisting  of 
fear  of  confined  places. 

HARRY:  Can  you  tell  me  what  hydro- 
phobia is? 

ED:  Sure.  Fear  of  falling  from  a 
great  height. 

(ED  FITZGERALD  &  CO.,  Mutual 
Network.) 

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as  has  been  the  way  of  mothers 
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The  bandage  looked  clean,  too. 
But  it  wasn't.  And  infection  set  in 
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Rhapsody  in  flowers.  Thai  is 
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but  a  myriad  of  flowers . . .  not 
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PERFUME  •  FACEPOWDtR 
tIPSTICK  .  BRILLIANTINE 
COLD  CREAM  •  TALCUM 

lOcat  5&10jiStores 


LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 

ETHEL  M.  POMEROy,  Associate  Editor 

ABRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Editor 


RADIO  STARS 


BROADCASTIHG 


IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION 

(Rudy's  column  of  personal  comment)    by   Rudy  Vallee 

WHY  BUDDY  WILL  WED  MARY 

(Explaining  the  Rogers-Pickford  Romance)  by    Gladys  Hall 

—BUT  NOW  LIFE'S  ONE  SWEET  SONG 

(What  changed  Fred  MacMurray's  luck?)  by   Miriam  RogerS 

1001  RADIO  NIGHTS 

(Jessica  Dragonette  is  radio's  Scheherazade)  .  .  . . .  by  Nancy  Barrows 

DO  YOU  REALLY  KNOW  VICTOR? 

(Unmasking  Victor  Moore)  by  George  Kent 

SMALL  TOWN  GUY 

(Have  a  laugh  with  Ai  Pearce)  by  William  Perkins 

FRANCIA  OF  THE  RANCHO 

(G,rl  of  the  West  makes  good.')  by    FronC  Dillon 

FAILURE  IS  ONLY  A  WORD 

(The  new  philosophy  of  Vincent  Lopez),  .hy  Elizobefh  B.  Petersen 
SHE  WON  A  BITTER  FIGHT 

(Natalie  Bodanya  has  spunk  ')  by  Elspeth  MacDonald 

HAVING  SOMEONE  WHO  CARES 

(Conrad  Thibault  got  what  he  wanted)   by  Leslie  Eoton 

SHE  LIVES  ON  EASY  STREET 

(How  Elinor  Sherry  got  there)  by  Motgoret  Mohin  43 

THERE'S  NO  GETTING  RITZY  WITH  ED 

(Ed  Fitzgerald's  a  jolly  good  fellow)  by  Joclc  Honley  44 

THE  MAN  WHO  WAS  LEFT  BEHIND 

(And  why  Milt  Cross  doesn't  care)  by  George  Kent  47 

EVE  IN  STOOPTOPIA 

(Stoop  and  Budd  acquire  Joan  Banks)  by  William  L.  Vollee  48 

RADIO  ROW  WAS  SHOCKED 

(At  Rex  Chandler's  sudden  rise)  by  Mory  Wotkins  Reeves  50 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Radio  Ramblings   6 

Kate  Smith's  Own  Cooking 

School   12 

Beauty  Advice   14 

Board  oF  Review.   16 

For  Distinguished  Service  to 

Radio   19 

In  Tbe  Radio  Spotlight   26 

Between  Broadcasts   34 


Dialings   42 

World  Traveler  at  Home   46 

What  They  Listen  To— And 

Why   53 

Come  to  Hollywood!   54 

Nothing  But  the  Truth?   56 

All  Her  Own  Ideas   60 

West  Coast  Chatter   62 

Radio  Laughs   116 


by  EARL  CHRISTY 


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RADIO  STARS 


How  Bob  loves  — and  how 
Jean  loves  it!. ..It's  a  merry 
mad  farce  in  the  M-G-M 
"Libeled  Lady"  manner  — 
which  means  high-powered 
romance  mixed  in  with  the 
laughs !...  Here's  the  merri- 
est of  Springtime  pictures ! 


I       is  assigned  by  the  sheriff  to  guard 
's  personal  property  ...that's  when 
thz  fun  begins! 


He  masquerades  as  her'bu|Ier>  soilSer 
hjgh  -  toned  society  friendsj  won't  s«js- 
pect  she's  flat  broke... 


ROBERT 


HflRLOUl- TAYLOR 

with  Reginald  Owen 

A  Melro  Goldwyn-Mayer  Picture      ♦      Produced  by  John  W.  Considine,  Jr. 

Directed  by  \N:S.  VAN  DYKE 


The  Hit-Director  ol  "Af'er  the  Tbir>  Man" 
"San  Francisco"  and  others 


RADIO 
RUMBLINGS 


THOSE  old  playboy  days  of 
Bing  Crosby's- career  seem  to 
be  definitely  over !  He  has 
settled  down  to  a  comfort- 
able, orderly  life,  an  occa- 
sional whirl  at  the  track 
(where  he  races  his  own 
horses)  being  the  only  re- 
minder of  the  wild  young 
man  Bing  used  to  be.  One 
of  his  old  night  club  pals  was 
talking  about  it  after  h  recent 
visit  to  the  Crosby  home  in 
Hollywood. 

"Bing  never  goes  out  much 
evenings  any  more,"  the  story 
ran.    "He  comes  home,  hol- 


Join  our  news  sleuth 
in  his  airway  rovings 
and  learn  the  latest 
ether  artist  doings 


Ted  Collins  holds  Radio 
Stars'  medal  awarded  to 
Kate  Smith's  Band  Wagon 
by  George  Delacorte,  Jr. 


Decorative  Frances  Longford  is 
entitled  to  a  rest,  what  with  her 
Hollywood  Hotel  and  film  work. 

lers :  'What's  for  dinner,  Dixie?'  and 
sits  down  to  play  with  the  kids  or 
read  the  paper.  Never  even  takes  a 
drink  while  he's  working  on  a  picture. 

"After  he  finishes  a  picture,  he  al- 
ways steps  out  for  a  night  or  two. 
Not  a  binge,  you  understand.  Just  a 
little  party.  Certainly  a  changed  guy  !" 

Bing's  radio  program  directors  have 
the  same  sort  of  stoi^y.  There  was  a 
time  when  it  took  all  a  director's  in- 
genuity and  tact  to  make  sure  Bing 
had  learned  the  new  songs  instead  of 


First  Nighter's  Don  Ameche 
co-stars  with  Ann  Sothern 
in    Fifty   Roads    to  Town. 

Winchell's  in  pictures! 
ne  and  Patsy  Kelly  to  be 
seen  in  [Vake  Up  and  Live. 

just  carrying  on  with  the  old  ones 
he  already  knew.  None  of  that 
nowadays. 

"I  never  worked  with  anyone," 
one  of  his  associates  remarks,  "who 
seems  to  take  more  interest  and 
comes  up  with  more  suggestions 
than  Bing  Crosby.  No  tempera- 
ment, always  energetic  and  down  to 
business — he's  the  perfect  artist 
from  the  standpoint  of  getting 
things  done." 

Harry  Von  Zcll,  the  announcer, 
came  in  for  Fred  Allen's  Ipana  pro- 
gram  sporting  a  brand  new  mous- 
tache. 

"I  see,"  Fred  said  in  his  solemn 
drawl.  "Preparing  for  television 
When  television  cpiiies,  you  can  just 
put  a  strip  of  tooth  paste  across  that 
moustache,  turn  in  your  upper  lip 
and  demonstrate  hoiv  Ipana  cleans 
the  teeth." 

Ed  East  {Continued  on  page  8) 


6 


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NO  USE^  MISS  Si^a^'Mz/z^, 

No  matter  how  hard  you  brush,  your  teeth  won't  really 
sparkle  unless  you  use  the  ri^ght  tooth  paste. 


of  »R*^^ '  * 


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IT  ALONE  CONTAINS  IRIUM 


C^a^s  to 

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power  of  tooth  paste-removes  dingy  film 
and  helps  polish  your  teeth  to  a  sparkling 
luster  you  never  thought  possible! 

IRIUM  — the  remarkable  new  ingredient 
contained  only  in  Pepsodent— Scrub- 
Hard  disappointment.  It  ohsoletes  the  harsh 
abrasion  of  older  methods  —  provides  a 
smooth,  gentle  washing  action  that  speedily 
loosens  clinging  film  and  floats  it  away  like 
magic.  Now  proper  brushing  gets  results 
—in  teeth  that  shine  with  natural  brilliance. 

Completes  the  formula  for  beautiful  teeth 

If  you  would  have  beautiful  teeth,  remem- 
ber that  proper  brushing  is  only  half  the 
formula.  The  other  half  is  Pepsodent  Tooth 
Paste  containing  irium.  This  modern  den- 
tifrice responds  instantly  to  your  brush  — 
penetrates  between  teeth -cleans  and  pol- 
ishes enamel  surfaces  in  a  way  that  shows 
up  old-fashioned  methods. 

Your  teeth  will  stay  bright  and  feel 
clean  much  longer  after  using  Pepsodent 
Tooth  Paste  containing  irium. Try  it  today! 


All  Pcjisoo.nt  now  on  sale 
cuQiains  IRIUM. 


RADIO  STARS 


{Continued  from  page  6) 


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I  buy  my  cosmetics  at  the  following  store: 


and  Ralph  Dumke  (Sisters  of  the 
Skillet,  remember?)  have  a  huge 
Great  Dane  dog,  and  they  insist  on 
bringing  him  into  town  with  them  oc- 
casionally. He  even  goes  up  to  their 
broadcast  studio.  In  some  New  York 
office  buildings  a  rule  is  enforced  pro- 
hibiting dogs  unless  they  are  carried. 

So  this  pair  of  large  comedians 
pick  up  their  tremendous  beast,  one 
comedian  at  each  end,  and  solemnly 
lug  him  into  the  elevator. 

When  Kate  Smith  stopped  her 
weekly  radio  awards  for  heroism,  a 
lot  of  stories  immediately  started  that 
she  was  forced  to  do  so  because  so 
much  ill  feeling  was  caused  by  aspir- 
ing heroes  who  had  been  passed  by. 
If  you  hear  any  such  story,  you  can 
deny  it,  and  even  make  a  little  bet 
you  are  right.  Kate's  published  rea- 
son was  the  only  one  there  was.  So 
many  heroic  deeds  were  being  per- 
formed daily  in  the  Ohio  River  flood 
regions,  it  was  impossible  for  a  radio 
program  to  keep  track  of  them  all.  So 
Kate  saluted  the  heroes  collectively 
and  donated  future  weeks'  prize 
money  to  the  Red  Cross  Flood  Relief 
Fund. 

What  was  not  published,  however, 
was  that  her  contribution  was  in  ex- 
cess of  $10,000,  large  money  even  to 
a  high-salaried  radio  star.  Besides, 
Kate  had  to  engage  new  talent  to  fill 
the  place  of  her  heroism  dramatiza- 
tions in  her  program. 

While  ive  are  killing  rumors,  there 
is  also  the  one  about  Eddie  Cantor 
firing  Parkyakarkus  because  of  a 
thz^'arted  romance  bctiveen  a  Cantor 
daughter  and  the  Greek  dialect  stooge. 
That's  pure  poppycock.  Parkyakar- 
kus' {really  Harry  Einstein)  court- 
ship of  his  new  bride,  Thelma  Leeds, 
was  no  secret  around  Hollyzvood. 

Einstein  left  the  Cantor  troupe  be- 
cause he  thought  it  tvas  time  for  him 
to  seek  a  program  and  movie  roles  by 
himself.  Cantor  was  paying  him 
$750  a  week  and  he  decided  he  could 
get  more  elsezvhere.  Eddie  and  his 
departing  stooge  are  still  the  best  of 
friends.  -•- 

You  might  think  Dave  Rubinoff 
was  down-hearted  during  that  recent 
breach  of  promise  suit  he  had  to 
fight  in  a  New  York  court.  If  you 
had  any  such  idea  you  were  very, 
very  wrong.  Dave  actually  seemed  to 
relish  the  whole  battle. 

Evenings  he  could  be  seen  around 
the  Broadway  spots,  gleeful,  laughing 
and  beaming  as  his  heavy  Russian  ac- 
cent was  heard  in  jovial  replies  to  his 
friends'  kidding.  Eddie  Cantor  even 
kidded  Dave  about  the  affair  during 
a  Cantor  program.  Rubinoff  prob- 
ably was  one  of  the  loudest  laughers 
who  heard  it. 


Anyone  who  talked  seriously  about 
the  case  could  be  treated  to  a  lot  of 
excited  Russian  indignation  as  Dave 
told  his  story.  But  he  was  always 
ready  to  banter  about-  it,  too. 

Around  his  Connecticut  home, 
Colonel  Stoopnagle  conducts  himself 
in  much  the  same  spirit  of  light- 
hearted  foolishness  that  he  has  in  his 
radio  program.  The  other  day,  the 
Colonel's  sponsor  telephoned  to  talk 
about  some  detail  of  the  program. 

"No,  I  can't  get  him  to  the  phone," 
the  Colonel's  wife  answered.  "There's 
a  man  digging  a  hole  down  the  street 
and  the  Colonel  went  down  to  watch 
him.  He  left  word  he  wouldn't  be 
back  for  at  least  an  hour." 

Stoopnagle  entrusts  all  his  business 
affairs  to  his  manager,  zvhich  is  prob- 
ably just  as  iL'cll.  As  a  sample  of  one 
of  his  oivn  business  ventures,  there's 
an  invention  into  xvhich  he  put  some 
money  recently.  The  Colonel's  broad- 
casts for  years  have  been  filled  with 
zvild  recitals  of  his  ozvn  queer  inven- 
tions. But  zchen  another  inventor 
came  to  him  with  an  idea  for  a  flat- 
iron  that  zvotdd  bend  in  the  middle, 
the  Colonel  invested.  The  idea  zvas, 
if  tJie  iron  couhl  /t  bciit  in  the  middle, 
it  could  be  pushed  up  into  small  places 
by  the  ironer. 

If  Phil  Lord  had  been  easily  dis- 
couraged, he  would  have  been  out  of 
radio  altogether  these  past  few  years. 
He  had  made  a  small  fortune  with 
Seth  Parker,  on  the  air  and  in  pic- 
tures, three  years  ago  and  decided  to 
shoot  the  works  on  a  boyish  adven- 
ture— a  trip  around  the  world  in  a 
sailing  schooner.  He  hoped  there 
might  be  a  sponsor  to  pick  up  broad- 
casts of  the  adventurous  trip,  bringing 
in  enough  money  to  finance  the  jaunt 
partly,  at  least.  _^ 

A  sponsor  did  appear  for  programs 
from  the  ship  on  its  zvay  dozvn  the 
Atlantic  coast  from  New  York.  That 
zvas  where  Phil  Lord's  luck  ran  out, 
and  stayed  out.  The  sponsor  dropped 
him.  Phil  set  out  across  the  Caribbean 
Sea  anyzvay.  Sensational  magazines 
chose  that  moment  to  "expose"  Phil. 
He  sang  hymns,  it  seemed,  on  the  air 
but  not  in  private.  He  even  did  such 
things  as  take  a  drink  nozv  and  then. 
Phil  zvas  away  and  no  defense  was 
forthcoming. 

Then  came  that  famous  SOS  from 
the  little  schooner  in  the  south  Pacific. 
Phil's  call  of  distress  zvas  branded  a 
publicity  stunt,  even  though  the  cap- 
tain of  the  rescuing  British  zvarship 
vindicated  Phil.  His  ship  unseazvorthy, 
he  abandoned  it  at  Samoa  and  re- 
turned to  his  old  radio  haunts  to  find 
his  former  follozvers  very  cool.  Seth 
{Continued  on  page  89) 


RADIO  STARS 


DY  $  V 


People  Don't  Know  Whether  They  Get 
ENOUGH  VITAMINS  with  Their  Meals^ 
Until  III  Health  Shows  It 


But  — by  Adding 
ONE  FOOD  to  Your 
Daily  Diet,  You  Can  Be 
Sure  of  a  REGULAR 
SUPPLY  of  These 
4  VITAMINS  Every  Day 


Lack  of  Vitamin  D 

SOKT  BONES  followed  by 
bowlegs  and  knock-knees 
often  result  from  too 
Vitamin  O  — the  BONE  VI- 
TAMIN. An  ample  supply  of 
this  vitamin  ia  essential  to 
babies  and  young  childrei 
To  assure  her  child  havinis  a 
good  foundation  for  straight 
hones  and  good  teeth,  the 
mother  should  have  ample 
Vitamin  D  in  her  diet  during 
pregnancy  and  while  nurs- 
ing. Fleischmann's  Yeast 
contains  a  rich  supply  i)f 
this  BONE  VITAMIN. 


Undersupplied 
with  Vitamin  A 

YOII  CATCH  COLO  more 
easily  and  more  often  if 
you  are  not  getting  enough 
Vitamin  A.  For  without 
agh  of  this  vitamin, 
membranes  of  the  nose  and 
throat  are  weakened,  an<l 
your  general  resistance 
lowered.  Eat  Fleisch- 
mann^s  fresh  Yeast  daily 
to  assure  yourself  a  regular 
ADDITIONAL  supply 
this  important  vitamii 


Too  Little 
Vitamin  G 
means  poor 
growth 

WEAK.  thin,  irritable 
children  are  often 
found  to  be  poorly 
supplied  with  Vita- 
minG-the  GROWTH 
VITAMIN.  Everyone 
needs  a  generous  sup- 
ply of  this  vitamin 
regularly  to  assure 
proper  development 
of  body  tissues,  and 
lay  a  foundation  for 
good  health.  Fleisch- 

"  vTtamin^*G  .'Vhil- 
dr<»n  from  5  to  12  years 
can  be  given  1  to  2 
cakes  a  day. 


Not  Enough 
Vitantin  i 

\  i  ^ 

Abundant   ,  j 
\  Vitamin  B.  ><n 

DISriNDll)    bowels    (as                   S  IKON  <;.  healt  hy  iiilest  ines  and 
'       shown  above),  sagging  Htom-                  bowels  (as  pictured  above)  re- 
,     aeb   and   weakened  nerve                  quire  an  ample  dailv  supply  of 
J     control  may  result  from  an                  Vitamin  B  — the  NERVE  VITA- 
§     undersupply  of  Vitamin  B—                  MIN.    Eat  Fleischmann's  Yeast 
[       the  NERVE  VITAMIN.                          to  increase  your  supply  of  Vita- 
min B.  It  is  one  of  the  richest 
natural  foods  in  this  vitamin. 

RED  ROLFE— 
lusky  thiril  baseman  of  the 
inkees — has   the  strong  phy- 
sique and  untiring  energy  that 
show  he  gets   his  full 
these4  health-building  V 


MANY  PEOPLE  today  are 
the  victims  of  chronic  ill 
health  because  their  everyday- 
meals  do  not  provide  enough 
of  these  4  essential  vitamins— 
A,  B,  D  and  G. 

A  shortage  of  even  one  of 
these  important  food  elements 
can  undermine  your  vitality 
and  lower  your  resistance  to 
disease. 

But,  by  adding  one  SPECIAL 
food  to  your  ordinary  diet,  you 
can  be  sure  of  getting  a  regular 
EXTRA  supply  of  these  4  vita- 


mins in  addition  to  what  your 
meals  supply. 

That  one  food  is  FLEISCH- 
MANN'S fresh  YEAST.  It  is  the 
only  natural  food  that  furnishes 
such  an  abundant  supply  of  all  4 
of  these  vitamins  at  once. 

Just  eat  3  cakes  of  Fleisch- 
mann's Yeast  daily— one  cake 
about  14  hour  before  each  meal. 
Eat  it  plain,  or  dissolved  in  a  little 
water.  Start  today  to  build  up 
your  vitamin  health  this  simple 
way.  Order  2  or  3  days'  supply 
from  your  grocer.  Fleischmann's 
Yeast  keeps  perfectly  in  theicebox. 

Copyright.  1937,  Standard  Brands  Incorporated 

9 


RADIO  STARS 


Rudy,  whose  ever-popular  Variety  Hour 
entertains  us  Thursday  evenings  at  8:00 
p.m.  EST,  thoroughly  enjoys  his  nnonthly 
column-writing  stint,  and  wishes  to  ex- 
press  his  thanks   for  your  appreciation. 


Radio  Thoughts:  FUN  IN  THE 
STUDIO.' — a  term  coined  and  defined  by 
the  head  of  the  radio  department  of  a  big 
advertising  agency  and  meaning  artificial 
spontaneity.  Xow  that  you  have  refreshed 
your  memory  at  the  dictionary  and  have 
a  better  idea  of  what  spontaneity  means, 
may  I  add  my  own  belief  that  it  might 
include  almost  anything  artificial  in  radio, 
as  well  as  the  stage  and  screen?  Of  course, 
I  know  you'll  say  that  all  of  these  fields 
are  built  on  illiisiun  and  fantasy,  and  I'll 
grant  that,  but.  I^'iin  In  The  Studio  is  that 
"phonyness"  that  insults  the  intelligence 
of  the  listener. 

You've  heard  someone  talking  into  the 
microphone,  pretending  that  so-and-so  just 
ivalked  into  the  studio  (have  you  ever  tried 
to  ivalk  in  ivithout  a  ticket?).  The  attempt 
at  surprise  on  the  part  of  the  speaker  is,  to 
me,  nauseating,  to  say  the  least. 

We  lean  backwards  on  our  Thursday 
night  stint  ( or  should  that  have  been  a 
"k"?)  to  avoid  this  sort  of  thing,  partly 
because  I  have  always  felt  that  prolonged 
artificiality,  whether  it  be  of  enthusiasm 
or  downright  pretense,  inevitably  leads  to 
disgust  on  the  part  of  the  listener — and, 
often  as  not,  this  disgust  is  subconscious! 

Bill  Bacher,  who  produces  the  Holly- 
wood Hotel  air  show,  seems  to  like  Fun 
In  The  Studio.  Far  be  it  from  me  to 
attempt  to  counsel  the  producer  of  an  hour 
that  tops  mine  in  the  Crosley  Survey,  but 
I  do  think  that  Hollyiuond  Hotel's  success 
rests  more  on  the  enjoyable  singing  by  all 
of  the  vocalists,  its  exccllently-played 
music  and  its  most  perfectly-staged  dra- 
matic spots.  These  dramatic  spots,  in  them- 
selves, make  the  hour  most  outstanding,  as 

10 


IT'S  wiy 

HUMBLE 
OPINION- 

Presenting  the  fourth  of  a  series 
of  personal  columns  in  which  Rudy 
Vallee  airs  his  views  on  various 
topics,  personalities  and  peeves 


Who  was  to  be  Dick  Powell's 
successor  on  Hollywood  Hotel, 
or  "Fun  in  the  Studio" — and  bow! 

tliey  are  not  only  fresh  (usually  from  some 
forthcoming  picture)  but  the  cast  line-up  is 
the  cast  line-up  of  the  picture  itself,  the 
movie  names  being  there  because  of  Miss 
Louella  Parsons'  persuasive  powers. 

To  be  sure,  this  hour  is  founded  on  a 
pretense — but  it  is  a  harmless  pretense  and 
one  that  is  what  is  commonly  knozvn  as 
"stage  license"  and  is  a  necessary  illusion, 
viz.  that  you  are  listening  to  a  broadcast 
tftat  emanates  from  a  beautiful  room  in  a 
mythical  Hollywood  hotel. 

But — the  artificial  naivete  and  giggly 
enthusiasm  for  things  and  situations  that 
don't  merit  it,  may  keep  this  hour  from 
being  even  more  popular. 


Louella  Parsons,  movie  column- 
ist, who  is  responsible  for  the 
big    names    on    the  program. 

Ilollyzvood  Hotel  reached  the  heights  of 
Fun  In  The  Studio  during  tlie  first  broad- 
cast after  Dick  Powell  had  said  farewell. 
For  one  solid  hour  you  were  led  to  believe 
that  no  one  knew  who  zvas  to  take  Dick 
Poivell's  place! 

Here's  a  radio  program  that  costs  up- 
ivards  of  fifteen  thousands  of  dollars,  each 
second  costly  and  timed  to  the  split-second, 
and  yet  you  zvere  led  to  believe  that  no  one, 
c.vccpt  viaybc  the  sponsor  of  the  program, 
kncz^<  z^'ho  had  I'crn  engaged  to  folloiv 
Duk.  Thai,  my  friends,  is  what  I  call  Fun 
In  The  Studio — and  how  ! 

Last  month  I  said  that  I  would  mention 
a   subject   that   the   networks,   and  their 


RADIO  STARS 


Bill  Bacher,  producer  of  the 
Hollywood  Hotel  show,  seems 
to  like  "Fun  in  the  Studio" ,  too! 

engineering  departments,  might  not  like — 
so  here  goes.  This  is  really  my  pet  peeve. 
The  one  I've  just  discussed  (Fun  In  The 
Studio)  is  not  a  peeve  and  it  is  only 
occasionally  annoying.  But  this  thing, 
about  my  old  friend  the  microphone,  is 
serious. 

Now — can  you  imagine  yoursel  f  riding  in 
an  automobile  and  being  absolutely  unable 
to  judge  your  speed  until  you  were  stopped 
by  a  motorcycle-cop  who  forcibly  gave  you 
the  information?  (Not  that  this  doesn't 
happen,  but,  if  the  driver  ivislied  to,  he  or 
she  could  consult  the  speedometer  and  thus 
know  at  exactly  what  speed  the  car  is 
traveling.) 

-♦- 

But  we  ivho  talk  and  sing  and  play  over 
th^  microphone  have  no  ivay  of  knozving 
just  ivhat  Zi'e  are  doing  to  that  sensitive 
piece  of  apparatus.  We  must  wait  until  the 
cop  (only  in  the  studio  the  "cop"  is  a 
production  man,  i.  e.  a  studio  official  en- 
gaged, by  the  broadcasting  company),  tc/io 
is  informed  by  telephone  or  signals  from 
the  control  booth  or  monitor  room,  that 
zi-e  are  one  of  the  following  things: 

1.  Too  close — with  the  result  that  we 
blast  you  out  of  your  room. 

(Continued  on  page  110) 


How  would 
your  laxative  rate 

witk  tke  doctor? 


YOUR  DOCTOR  is  your  friend.  He 
wants  to  help  you  guard  your  health. 
And  he  is  just  as  careful  about  little  mat- 
ters affecting  your  welfare  as  he  is  about 
the  more  important  ones. 

The  choice  of  a  laxative,  for  instance, 
may  not  worry  you.  But  it's  a  definite 
consideration  with  the  doctor.  Before  he 
will  give  a  laxative  his  approval,  he  insists 
that  it  meet  his  own  strict  specifications. 

Consider  the  various  points  listed  be- 
low. Will  the  laxative  you  now  use  meet 
every  one  of  them? 

THE  DOCTOR'S  TEST  OF  A  LAXATIVE: 

It  should  be  dependable. 

It  should  be  mild  and  gentle. 

It  should  be  thorough. 

Its  merit  should  be  proved  by  the  test 

of  time. 
It  should  not  form  a  habit. 
It  should  not  over-act. 
It  should  not  cause  stomach  pains. 
It  should  not  nauseate,  or  upset  digestion. 

EX-LAX  MEETS  EVERY  DEMAND 

You  need  not  memorize  the  list  above. 
But  remember  this:  Ex-Lax  checks  on 
every  point!  No  wonder  so  many  doctors 

When  Nature forgets-remember 

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THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


use  Ex-Lax  themselves  and  give  it  to 
their  owti  families.  For  more  than  thirty 
years,  mothers  have  given  Ex-Lax  to  their 
children  with  perfect  confidence.  Today 
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MAKE  YOUR  OWN  TEST  OF  EX-LAX 
Next  time  you  are  constipated,  try 
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that  no  discomfort  attends  its  use.  You'll 
observe  that  it  does  not  over-act  or  upset 
you.  On  the  contrary,  such  a  complete, 
gentle  cleansing  will  leave  you  with  re- 
newed freshness -a  sense  of  well-being. 

If  you  have  been  taking  nasty,  druggy- 
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just  like  delicious  chocolate.  Children  ac- 
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II 


RADIO  STARS 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKINGl 


Our  Cooking  School 
Director,  Kate  Smith, 
prepares  a  quick, 
pleasant  starter 
for  the  nneal,  the 
popular    fruit  cup. 


Eggs  Milan,  one  of 
Miss  Smith's  favor- 
ite combinations,  is 
a  dish  of  eggs  and 
spaghetti.  Doesn't 
it  look  delicious? 


Hello  Everybody: 

This  is  your  Cooking  School  Director,  Kate  Smith. 
Here  I  am,  folks,  broadcasting  again  for  the  many 
readers  of  this  magazine  who  seem  to  like  to  "tune  in"  on 
these  little  culinary  chats ;  and  especially  for  those  who 
enjoy  trying  my  favorite  dishes  and  who  write  in  regu- 
larly, every  month,  for  the  free  leaflet  which  contains  at 
least  four  of  my  very  own  recipes. 

I  surely  do  want  to  tell  you  all,  right  here,  how  greatly 
I  appreciate  your  interest  in  this  department  of  mine  and 
how  much  I  like  receiving  the  kind,  friendly  greetings 
that  so  many  of  you  send  along  with  your  coupons.  I'm 
just  sorry  that  I  don't  have  a  chance  to  answer  each  one 
of  those  letters  personally.  But  just  imagine — won't  you, 
please — when  you  get  your  copy  of  that  attractive  little 
recipe  folder  and  see  my  face  on  the  cover,  that  my  smile 
of  greeting  is  meant  for  you  and  that  I'm  saying:  "Dear 
friend,  thanks  for  zvritin.'  " 

But  let's  get  back  to  our  cooking !  Because  the  two 
closely  related  subjects  that  I've  decided  to  take  up  with 
you  here,  this  month — Quick  Meals  and  your  Emer- 
gency Shelf  Supplies — should  appeal  to  everyone.  I  know 
that  I've  always  found  them  interesting  and  have  read 
everything  on  the  subject  I've  ever  come  across,  because 
if  there  is  anything  I  like  to  have,  it's  a  well-stocked 
pantry.  But  even  though  I  have  made  quite  a  study  of  it, 
I  actually  surprised  myself  when  I  started  to  jot  down 
all  the  things  I  wanted  to  tell  you  about.  There  are 
so  many,  in  fact,  that  in  the  course  of  this  short  "broad- 


Courtesy  Borden's 

cast"  I'll  have  to  condense  them  into  as  few  words  as 
possilile,  so  that  I'll  have  room  to  mention  them  all.  With 
tlie  Quick  Meal  Recipes  I  intend  giving  you  and  with 
this  Tist  of  the  things  that  I  think  you  should  have  on 
hand  at  all  times,  you  will  be  i)repared  not  only  for  speed 
l.ut  for  emergencies  as  well. 

As  1  go  into  the  matter  further,  I  know  you  will  be 
inciitally  adding  to  my  list  of  dishes  and  ingredients.  I 
also  hu]>v  that  you'll  l)e  planning  in  your  mind,  as  you 
read,  to  send  for  the  recipes.  For  then,  almost  before 
you  know  it — what  with  my  recipes  and  suggestions  and 
your  own  addition.s— you'll  have  a  large  number  of  useful 
ideas  which  will  enable  you  to  fix  up  appetizing  meals 
in  just  no  time  at  all. 

.S])L'akiiig  of  time,  reminds  me  that  I  don't  think  there 
iv  ;ni\  <>nc  With  a  greater  respect  for  the  moving  hands 
of  a \lork  than  a  radio  performer.  You'll  understand 
immediately  what  I  mean,  if  you've  ever  attended  a 


12 


RADIO  STARS 


ICHOOL 


^resenting  those 
lost  desirable  aids 
o  harried  house- 

/ives-Quick  Meals 
nd  Emergency  Shelf 
Supplies 


oadcast.  If  you've  been  to  one 
our  Baud  Wagon  broadcasts,  for 
stance,  you'll  recall  that,  just 
fore  the  program  goes  on  the 
•,  almost  every  eye  is  on  the 
ock !  Silence  prevails  as  the  words : 
^tand  by!"  flash  on  at  either  side 
the  stage.  Jack  Miller,  with  raised 
ton,  holds  the  attention  of  the 
embers  of  our  orchestra.  Ted  Col- 
is  takes  his  place  in  the  center  of 
stage,  I  wait  in  the  wings,  the 
inouncer  is  at  the  "mike"  and  our 
sible  audience"  sits  motionless. 
Itching.  It  is  a  minute  of  sus- 
nse  .  .  .  just  sixty  seconds  of  wait- 
g  that  seem  like  years !  Then  the 
3rds :  "On  the  Air!"  flash  on,  as 
e  hands  of  the  clock  point  to  eight, 
nd  we're  off  for  an  hour  of  fun 
id  entertainment ! 

But  before  that  hour  goes  out  over 
e  air  waves,  remember  that  there 
ve  been  weeks  of  planning,  days 
preparation  and  hours  of  re- 
arsing.  On  Thursday,  the  day  of 
ir  broadcast,  for  instance,  I  arrive 

the  studio  theatre  at  9 :30  in  the 
3rning  and  never  leave  it  until  9  :30 
at  night.  And,  boys  and  girls,  I'm 
jrking  and  on  my  feet  every  minute 

that  time ! 
So  you  see,  the  things  that  seem 

go  off  with  the  greatest  ease  are 
ually  those  that  have  had  the  most 
reful,  sensible  planning.  Yes,  in 
der  to  be  ready  when  the  clock 
ys  that  it's  time  to  "Stand  By,"  you 
List  be  prepared — and  in  order  to 

prepared  you  must  plan  ahead, 
lat's  as  true  in  the  home  as  it  is  in 
e  radio  game,  I'm  sure  you'll  agree. 
Of  course,  you  don't  have  to  adhere 

split-second-punctuality   in  your 
m  house,  as  we  do  over  the'  air. 
It  you  could  do  worse  than  to  de- 
{Continued  on  page  70) 


"SURE.'TWASNflNEOF  S' 


COPR  PELS 


SO  THE  BRIDE  GOT  MRS.  CASEY'S  LETTER 


AND  A  FEW  WEEKS  LATER 


BANISH  "TATTLE-TALE  GRAY 'WITH  FELS'NAPTHA  SOAP 


A,DVI 


The  striking  beauty  of  Shirley  Lloyd  proves 
that  she  knows  the  value  of  poise  and  good 
grooming  toward  the  attainment  of  glamour. 


Vivacious,   glowingly   healthy,   Shirley  sn< 
easy  grace  in  posture  and  hands.    She  sings 
with  Ozzie  Nelson  Sundays  at  7:30  p.m.  EST. 


LET'S  GO  interviewing!  Grab  your 
powder-puff  and  bonnet,  for  we're 
off! 

Here  we  are  in  the  blue  and  silver 
room  of  the  Hotel  Lexington  Grill. 
This  is  where  we  will  see  Shirley 
Lloyd,  the  little  singing  star  of 
Ozzie  Nelson's  orchestra.  Shirley  is 
before  the  microphone  now.  She  is 
singing  An  Apple  A  Day,  her  tur- 
quoise chiffon  frock  a  perfect  foil 
for  her  vivid  brunette  beauty.  A 
glamorous  girl.  But.  no  long  faces 
on  you  girls,  please !  We  are  going 
to  take  some  of  this  glamour  home 
w'ith  us ! 

Now,  with  the  song  over,  Shirley 
has  joined  us.  Introductions  are 
finished.  We  are  eager  to  get  really 
acquainted.  We  want  to  know  the 
how  and  why  of  this  star  business 
and  the  twenty- four-hour-a-day 
charm  it  recjuires !  Shirley  tells  us 
about  life  in  Colorado  when  she  was 


the  "littlest  Lloyd"  to  her  family  and 
friends.  Shirley  is  an  only  child. 
She  doesn't  seem  much  more  than  a 
child  now,  and  is  so  tiny  and  be- 
witching. Five  feet  of  personality 
and  charm.  She  sparkles  impishly 
when  she  tells  of  her  first  singing 
appearances  in  Pueblo  at  Sunday 
school,  high  school,  and  with  the 
local   bands   on   special  occasions. 

Shirley  says  her  plunge  into  pro- 
fessional singing  was  as  unexpected 
as  it  was  successful.  She  had  gone 
to  a  Colorado  Springs  dance  with 
friends  and  was  urged  to  sing — at- 
tracted the  attention  of  an  orchestra 
leader,  and  from  then  on,  song  was 
her  destiny.  A  contract  and  a  bud- 
ding career!  There  followed  another 
engagement,  and  finally  the  trip  to 
Chicago  where  --lie  (nntinued  her 
singing  with  Herhie  Kay's  orchestra 
until  Ozzie  Nelson  discovered  her 
last  summer.  Then  the  trip  to  New 


York,  her  first  trip  East,  and  her 
first  big  network  broadcast  with  the 
Bakers'  Program. 

We  realize  we  have  been  staring 
rudely.  But  then — this  vivacious 
little  Ijrunette  is  fascinating  with  her 
low,  well-modulated  voice,  clear 
glowing  complexion,  her  dancing, 
midnight  blue  eyes  so  luxuriously 
lashed,  and  expressive  hands.  We 
want  to  know  her  secret  for  enhanc- 
ing these  lovely  features  and  con- 
centrating attention  on  them — so 
here  go  the  thousand  and  one 
questions ! 

Complexion  is  the  first  question. 
How  does  Shirley  Lloyd  manage  to 
have  such  a  satin-smooth  complex- 
ion ?  Is  it  a  gift  of  the  gods ?  Shirley 
isn't  sure  of  that.  She  believes  what- 
ever skin  we  are  blessed  (or  cursed)" 
with  can  be  improved  and  its  youth 
prolonged.  (There's  hope  for  all  in 
those  words.)    The  skin's  freshness 


RADIO  STARS 


Shirley  Lloyd's  gla- 


mour can  be  yours 


if  you'll  take  her  tips 


and  attractiveness  is  dependent 
upon  proper  care  and  sound 
health  .  .  .  external  treatment  and 
internal  care ! 

This  internal  care  business  is 
a  serious  one  with  the  petite 
singer.  She  says :  "Cooperate 
with  your  creams  and  lotions — 
give  them  a  fair  chance !"  She's 
right.  Blemishes  and  wrinkles  will 
come  from  fatigue  and  improper 
diet,  so  eliminate  these  causes  and 
your  cosmetics  will  perform  the 
rest  of  the  miracle.  Whatever 
you  do  to  your  skin  is  unimport- 
ant unless  you  give  it  the  proper 
internal  care. 

Come,  whip  out  your  pencils 
and  pads.  Miss  Lloyd  is  going  to 
give  us  the  simple  rules  she  fol- 
lows to  give  her  skin  its  warm 
radiance : 

"First,  get  the  required  amount 
of  sleep  every  night !"  We  start 
fidgeting.  We  know  sleep  is  im- 
portant. But  wait !  Shirley  is  giv- 
ing this  old  axiom  an  added 
punch.  She  says :  "We  pay  and 
pay  for  extravagance  with  our 
energy.  Lack-luster  eyes,  tiny 
lines  and  dull  complexions  will 
immediately  present  themselves." 
So  jot  down  "Sl^ep"  as  beauty 
rule  number  one. 

Here  is  Shirley's  "rest  facial" 
for  the  end  of  a  hectic  day  and 
Before  the  evening's  excitements  : 
Twenty  minutes'  rest  in  a  dark- 
ened room,  followed  by  a  warm 
bath.  You  can  literally  see  the 
tenseness  and  fatigue  lines  run 
away. 

Second  in  importance  are  fresh 
air  and  exercise.  Exercise  is  Shir- 
ley's hobby.  The  1-2-3-4,  up, 
down,  right,  left,  is  grand  for  the 
figure  and  complexion — and  so 
much  fun,  too.  Shirley  says  a 
brisk  walk  will  do  wonders  to 
tone  up  the  skin  and  give  it  that 
petal-blossom  firmness.  So — we'll 
schedule  the  daily  hike,  and  not 
be  surpri.sed  to  find  it  pleasant 
recreation  these  lovely  spring 
days. 

Third  is  water.  Drink  plenty  of 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


Camay  keeps  my  skin  looking 

(=S  SAYS  THIS  CAPTIVATING  OHIO  BRIDE 


FROM  her  dancing  brown  eyes  to 
her  dancing  feet,  the  new  Mrs. 
Hunt  is  such  a  vital,  radiant  young 
beauty.  Everything  about  her  is 
glowing  and  natural — even  to  her 
exquisite  Camay  Complexion! 

She  keeps  her  skin  lovely,  as  y  ou 
should  yours,  by  simple  care  with 
deep-cleansing  Camay.  Camay  is 
right  for  your  skin — a  beauty  soap 
that  gives  your  face  the  gentle, 
thorough,  stimulating  cleansing  it 
needs  for  brighter  beauty. 

CAMAY 


Then  Camay's  so  pleasant — mild 
and  delightfully  fragrant.  Mildness 
in  a  beauty  soap  is  very  important. 
And  Camay,  tested  time  after  time 
against  all  other  leading  soaps,  is 
definitely,  provably  milder. 

Buy  Camay  today.  The  price  is 
small — the  rewards  are  great. 

Let  Camay  bring  your  loveliness  to  light. 


o 


REG.  U.  S.  PAT.  OF 


Sotzfi  of  SeautL^MJ^  li/am&pv 


RED  DULL 


RADIO  STARS 


•  Horrors!  Your  eyes  are  red— the 
veins  are  so  prominent!  It  often  happens 
after  late  hours,  too  much  reading,  ex- 
posure, etc.  What  shall  you  do?  Your  eye 
beauty  is  ruined  .  . . 


FEW  DROPS 


•  Quick  I  A  drop  ul  Eye-Gene  goes  into 
each  eye.  It's  a  new  kind  of  lotion  .  .  .  per- 
fected by  two  prominent  eye  specialists.  It 
contains  a  special  ingredient  not  found  in 
any  other  lotion  .  .  . 

EYES  CLEAR 


•  In  just  a  few  seconds.  Yes,  almost 
instantly,  your  eyes  look  clear  and  white. 
So  much  more  beautiful  when  free  from 
prominent  veins!  Sparkling,  too.  And  so 
refreshed. 

NEW  DISCOVERY 

•  Eye-Gene!  Now  used  by  thousands 
before  every  "date"  to  make  eyes  clear  and 
lovely.  Marvelously  refreshing 
to  tired,  overworked  eyes.  Not 
like  old-fashioned  lotions  and 
washes.  Stainless,  safe.  Large 
size  at  all  drug 
and  dept.  stores, 
small  size  at  5 
and  10c  stores. 

EYE-GENE 


■ .  BOARD  OF  REVIEW 


Lester  C.  Grady 

Stars    Magazine,  Chairman 


N.  Y. 


N.  Y. 


S.  A.  Coleman 

Wichita  Beacon,  Wichita.  Kan. 

Norman  Siegel 
Cleveland  Press,  Cleveland.  Ohio 

Andrew  W.  Smith 
News  &.  Ase-Herald,  Birmingham 
Ala. 

Richard  Peters 

Knoxville  News-Sentinel.  Knoxvilli 
Tenn. 


Si  Steinhauser 

Pittsburgh   Press.    Pittsburgh.  Ps 

Leo  Miller 

Bridgeport   Herald,  Bridgeport, 
Conn. 


James  E.  Chinn 

Evening  and  Sunday  Star, 
Washington,   D.  C. 

H.  Dean  Fitzer 

Kansas  City  Star.  Kansas  City.  Mo. 


EXPLAINING  THE  RATINGS 

The  Board  of  Review  bases  its  per- 
centages on  the  assumption  that  all 
radio  programs  are  divided  into  four  basic 
parts:  material,  artists,  presentation  and 
announcements,  each  consisting  of  25% 
aiid  making  the  perfect  program  of  100% 
These  ratings  are  a  consensus  of  opinions 
of  our  Board  of  Review  and  do  not  neces- 
sarily agree  with  the  editorial  opinion  of 
Radio  Stars  Magazine.  Programs  out- 
standing as  to  artists  and  material,  often 
suffer  because  of  poor  presentation  or 
exaggerated  commercial  announcements. 
There  have  been  many  changes  in  programs 
for  the  spring  months.  The  Hoard  reviewed 
as  many  of  the  current  major  programs  as 
it  possibly  could  before  this  issue  went  to 
press. 


1.  PHILHARMONIC  SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA 84.3 

CBS  Sun.  3:00  P.M.  EST 

2.  FORD  SUNDAY  EVENING  HOUR  83.9 

CBS  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

3.  JELL-O  PROGRAM— JACK  BENNY, 

HARRIS  ORCHESTRA  83.3 

NBC  Sun.  7:00  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

4.  MARCH  OF  TIME  82.5 

CBS  Thur.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

5.  ROYAL  GELATIN  PROGRAM— RUDY 

VALLEE   79.1 

NBC  Thur.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

6.  TOWN  HALL  TONIGHT— FRED  AL- 
LEN, VAN  STEEDEN  ORCHESTRA.  78.8 
NBC  Wed.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST 

1.  GENERAL  MOTORS  CONCERT— ERNO 

RAPEE  78.0 

NBC  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST 

8.  CHESTERFIELD  PRESENTS  NINO 
MARTINI,  KOSTELANETZ  OR- 
CHESTRA 77.2 

CBS  Wed.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

9.  MAGIC  KEY  OF  RCA  76.3 

NBC  Sun.  2.00  P.M.  EST 

10.  LUX  RADIO  THEATRE  75.7 

CBS  Mon.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

11.  MEREDITH WILLSON'SORCHESTRA.  75.0 
NBC  Tues.  6:05  P.M.  EST.  Sat.  8:30  P.M. 

EST 

12.  GLADYS  SWARTHOUT  —  WILLSON 
ORCHESTRA  74.1 

NBC  Wed.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

13.  GUY  LOMBARDO  AND  HIS  OR- 
CHESTRA 73.6 

CBS  Sun.  5:30  P.M.  EST 

14.  ALEXANDER  WOOLLCOTT  73.4 

CBS  T-T  7:30  P.M.  EST.  9:30  P.M.  PST 

15.  KRAFT  MUSIC  HALL— BING  CROS- 
BY, BOB  BURNS,  DORSEY  OR- 
CHESTRA 73.2 

NBC  Thur.  10:00  P.M.  EST 


16.  RADIO  CITY  MUSIC  HALL  SYM- 
PHONY ORCHESTRA   73  0 

NBC  Sun.  12:30  P.M.  EST  ' 

17.  VOICE  OF  FIRESTONE  72  9 
NBC  Mon.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P  M  '  PST 

18-  HAL    KEMP  S    DANCE  BAND-KAY 

THOMPSON   72  6 

CBS  Fri.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

19.  BURNS  AND  ALLEN— TONY  MARTIN, 
KING  ORCHESTRA  72  1 
CBS  Wed.  8:30  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

20.  THE  SINGING  LADY  71  7 
NBC  M-T-W-T-F  5:30  P.M.  EST 

21.  HELEN  HAYES  IN  "BAMBl"  71.5 

NBC  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  9:.10  P.M.  PST 

22.  BEAUTY  BOX  THEATRE— JESSICA 
DRAGONETTE,  GOODMAN  OR- 
CHESTRA  71  4 

CBS  Wed.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

23.  VICK'S    OPEN    HOUSE    —  NELSON 
EDDY,  NADINE  CONNER  70.9 
CBS  Sun.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

24.  HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL— FRED  Mac- 
MURRAY,     FRANCES  LANGFORD, 

PAIGE  ORCHESTRA  .70.7 

CBS  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

25.  PHIL  BAKER  —  BRADLEY  OR- 
CHESTRA  70.C 

CBS  Sun.  7:30  P.M.  EST 

26.  CITIES  SERVICE  CONCERT— LUCILLE 
MANNERS,  BOURDON  ORCHESTRA.  70.4 
NBC  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

27.  STUDEBAKER  CHAMPIONS— RICH- 
ARD HIMBER  70.0 

NBC  Mon.  9:30  P.M.  E.ST 

28.  ONE  MAN'S  FAMILY  69.8 

NBC  Wed.  8:00  P.M  EST,  Sun.  9:30  P.M. 
PST 

29.  MAXWELL  HOUSE  SHOW  BOAT— 
LANNY  ROSS,  GOODMAN  ORCHES- 
TRA 69.8 

NBC  Thur.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

30.  JACK  OAKIE'S  COLLEGE— GOOD- 
MAN BAND  69.6 

CBS  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

31.  AL  JOLSON  SHOW— MARTHA  RAYE, 
SID  SILVERS,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA.  69.6 
CBS  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  E.ST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

32.  PONTIAC    VARSITY     SHOW— JOHN 

HELD,  JR  69.5 

NBC  Fri.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

33.  H.  V.  KALTENBORN  69.3 

CBS  Sun.  10:45  P.M.  EST 

34.  BOAKE  CARTER  69.2 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  7:45  P.M.  E.ST 

35.  SWEETEST  LOVE  SONGS  EVER  SUNG 
—FRANK  MUNN,  NATALIE  BO- 
DAN  YA,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  69.1 

NBC  Mon.  8:30  P.M.  EST 

36.  YOUR  HIT  PARADE   68.9 

NBC  Wed.  10:00  P.M.  EST;  CBS  Sat.  10:00 
P.M.  EST  < 

37.  COFFEE  CLUB— GOGO  DeLYS,  HIM- 
BER ORCHESTRA  68.5 

MBS  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

38.  SHELL  CHATEAU— JOE  COOK,  WAT- 
SON ORCHESTRA  68.4 

NBC  Sal    9:30  P  M.  EST 


RADIO  STARS 


39.  BROADWAY  MERRY-GO-ROUND— 
BEATRICE  LILLIE,  RICKEY  ORCHES- 
TRA 68.2 

\HC  Wed.  8.00  P.M.  EST 

40.  AMOS  'N'  ANDY  68.2 

MiC  M-T-W-T-F  7:00  P.M.  EST.  8:00  P.M. 

I'sr 

41.  FAMOUS  JURY  TRIALS  68.1 

\7/;s  M.,„.  Ki.od  1\M.  EST 

42.  BEN  BERNIE  AND  ALL  THE  LADS  .68.0 
V/.'i  y  .lo.  -J.oo  EST 

43.  EASY  ACES  67.9 

.\7«    r-W'-i  7:00  P.M.  EST 

44.  MODERN  ROMANCES  67.7 

.\7i(    M  ,..'.  2:00  r.M.  EST 

45.  ETHEL  BARRYMORE  67.7 

.\7i(     IIV./.  .v  .;«  EST 

46.  WARDEN  LAWES   67.5 

.\/;(  <J:00   r.M.  E.ST 

47.  METROPOLITAN  OPERA  AUDITIONS 

CF  THE  AIR  67.3 

.\HC  Su„.  .100  P.M.  EST 

48.  JOHNNY    PRESENTS— PHIL  DUEY, 

MORGAN  ORCHESTRA  67.0 

KliC:  Tues.  S.OU  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST; 
CBS  Sal.  8:.W  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  P.ST 

49.  AMERICAN  ALBUM  OF  FAMILIAR 
MUSIC  —  FRANK  MUNN,  LUCY  MON- 
ROE  66.8 

SBC  Sun.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

50.  WAYNE  KING'S  ORCHESTRA  66.7 

CBS  Mon.  10:00  P.M.  EST;  NBC  T-W  8:30 
P.M.  E.ST 

51.  WALTZ  TIME— FRANK  MUNN,  MARY 
EASTMAN,  LYMAN  ORCHESTRA  66.5 

A7;C  l-n.  V:00  P.M.  K.sy 

52.  CLEM  McCarthy— SPORT  SHOTS  66.4 
MiC  Tucs..  .s„l.  11:05  P.M.  EST 

53.  EDWIN  C.  HILL   66.3 

.\BC  Suit.  0;^5  I'.M.  EST 

54.  A  &  P  BAND  WAGON— KATE  SMITH, 

MILLER  ORCHESTRA  66.1 

CBS  riuir.  8:0U  P.M.  EST 

55.  PACKARD    HOUR— FRED  ASTAIRE, 

GREEN  ORCHESTRA   66.0 

^'BC  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  E.ST 

56.  ALEMITE  HALF  HOUR  —  HEIDT'S 
BRIGADIERS  65.8 
CHS  Mon.  8:00  P  .M.  EST.  9:00  P.M.  PST 

57.  FIRST  NIGHTER— DON  AMECHE  .  .  .65.8 
NBC  Fri.   10:00  P.M.  EST 

58.  RY-KRISP  PRESENTS  MARION  TAL- 
LEY,  KOESTNER  ORCHESTRA  65.6 
XBC  .Skh.  5:00  P..\l.  EST 

59.  EDDIE    CANTOR    —    RENARD  OR- 
CHESTRA 65.5 
CBS  SiiJi.  8:.10  P.M.  E.ST.  S:00  P.M.  PST 

60.  GABRIEL  HEATTER   65.3 

MBS  M-T-W-T  9:00  P.M.  EST;  WOR  Sun. 
9:30  P.M.  E.ST 


61.  GANG  BUSTERS— PHILLIPS  LORD.    65.3  84 

CBS  \Ve,i.  10:00  P.M.  F.ST 

62.  CONTENTED  PROGRAM   —  VIVIAN  85 
DELLACHIESA,  BLACK  ORCHESTRA  65.1 

.XBC  .Mon.  l0:OO  P.M.  F.ST  86, 

63.  STAINLESS  SHOW    FORD  BOND    .  65.1 

.\'BC  Fri.  7:15  I'.M.  EST  87, 

64.  ED     WYNN,     GRAHAM  McNAMEE, 
VOORHEES  ORCHESTRA  65.0 
.V/iC.s.i/.  S:O0  I'.M.  I:\l\  V:00  I'.M.  7'.sy  88. 

65.  TWIN    STARS         VICTOR  MOORE, 
HELEN  BRODERICK   64.9 

NBC  Fn.  V:.iO  P.M.  EST  89. 

66.  STOOPNAGLE    AND    BUDD— VOOR- 
HEES ORCHESTRA   64.8 

NBC  Sun.  5:30  P.M.  EST  90. 

67.  RUBINOFF,  JAN  PEERCE,  VIRGINIA 

REA  64.7  91. 

CBS  Sun.  6:30  P.M.  EST 

68.  SATURDAY  NIGHT  PARTY  64.7  92. 

NBC  Sal.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

69.  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  AIR  ..  .64.6 

CBS  M-W-F  11:00  A.M.  EST.  12:00  Noon  93. 
PST 

70.  NASH-LAFAYETTE    SPEED  SHOW- 
FLOYD  GIBBONS,  LOPEZ  ORCHES-  94. 
TRA   64.6 

CBS  Sal.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST 

71.  TEA  TIME  AT  MORRELL'S— DON  Mc-  95. 

NEILL,  GALE  PAGE   64.4 

NBCFn.  4:00  P.M.  EST  96. 

72.  FIRESIDE  RECITALS  64.3 

NBC  Sun.  7:.W  P.M.  EST  97. 

73.  LOWELL  THOMAS   64.1 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST 

74.  LISTEN  TO  THIS  64.0  98. 

MBS  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  E.ST 

75.  HENRY  BUSSE  AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA.63.9  99. 
NBC  Wed.  4:00  P.M.  E.ST 

76.  HOUR  OF  CHARM— PHIL  SPITALNY  63.7 

NBC  Mon.  4:00  P.M.  EST  100. 

77.  ALLEN  PRESCOTT  63.4 

NBC  T-T  11:45  A.M.  EST;  CBS  W-F  9:30  lOl. 
A.M.  EST 

78.  GRAND  HOTEL— ANNE  SEYMOUR.  .63.2 

NBC  Sun.  3:30  P.M.  EST  102. 

79.  WE,  THE  PEOPLE— PHILLIPS  LORD  63.0 
NBC  Sun.  5:00  P.M.  EST 

80.  BAKERS'     BROADCAST   —  ROBERT 
RIPLEY,  NELSON  ORCHESTRA  62.9  103. 
NBC  Sun.  7:30  P.M.  E.ST 

81.  GILLETTE  COMMUNITY  SING— MIL-  104. 
TON  BERLE   62.8 

CBS  Sun.  10:00  P.M.  EST  105. 

82.  BENAY  VENUTA'S  PROGRAM  62.5 

MBS  Sat.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

83.  PENTHOUSE  SERENADE  —  MARTIN  106. 
ORCHESTRA  62.3 

NBC  Sun.  4:00  P.M.  EST 


CARBORUNDUM  BAND  62. 

CBS  Sat.  7:30  P  .M.  /i.ST 

U.  S.  ARMY  BAND   62.0 

NBC  Mnn.  6:05  P.M.  EST 

THE  LONE  RANGER  61.9 

.MBS  .\1-W-F  7:.>0  I'  .M.  E.ST 

SALT     LAKE     CITY  TABERNACLE 

CHOIR  AND  ORGAN   61.6 


i'..M.  i-.yr 


JOSEF  CHERNIAVSKYS  MUSICAL 
CAMERA  -WILLIE  MORRIS   61.5 

NBC  Sun.  4:30  I'.M.  F.ST 

RIPPLING  RHYTHM  REVUE  FRANK 

PARKER,  FIELDS  ORCHESTRA   61.3 

NBC  Sun.  9:15  I'.M.  I:ST.  X:.IO  P  .M.  P.ST 
MAJOR  BOWES"  CAPITOL  FAMILY  61.2 

CBS  Sun.  Il:.10  A.M.  E.ST 

FIBBER  McGEE  AND  MOLLY  61.1 

NBC  Mon.  8:00  P.M.  F.ST 

LESSONS  IN  HOLLYWOOD— JACKIE 

COOPER,  YOUNG  ORCHESTRA  .61.1 

MBS  M-\V  8:00  I'.M.  EST 

1937   RADIO  SHOW      RAY  KNIGHT, 

JOHNSON  ORCHESTRA  60.9 

MBS  Sun.  6:00  PM  EST 
YOUR  PET  PROGRAM— MARY  EAST- 
MAN, HAENSCHEN  ORCHESTRA  60.9 

CBS  Sat.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

NATIONAL  BARN  DANCE   60.7 

NBC  Sat.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST.  8:00  P.M.  P.ST 
MANHATTAN  MERRY-GO-ROUND.  .60.6 
NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST 
LOG  CABIN  DUDE  RANCH— LOUISE 

MASSE  Y   60.4 

NBC  Tues.  8:00  P.M.  EST.  8:30  P.M.  PST 

MYRT  AND  MARGE   60.1 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  2:45  P.M.  EST 

LA  SALLE  FASHION  SHOW— CHARLES 

LeMAIRE   60.0 

NBC  Thur.  4:00  P..M.EST 

FATHER  COUGHLIN   59.9 

WOR  Sun.  8:00  P.M.  EST 
CAVALCADE    OF  AMERICA— VOOR- 
HEES ORCHESTRA   59.7 

CBS  Wed.  8:00  P.M.  EST 
KRUEGER  MUSICAL  TOAST— JERRY 
COOPER,    SALLY    SINGER,  BLOCK 
ORCHESTRA   59.6 

NBC  Mon.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

DR.  ALLAN  ROY  DAFOE  59.4 

CBS  .M-W-F  11:45  A..M.  E.ST 

DEATH  VALLEY  DAYS  59.3 

NBC  Fri.  8:.W  P.M.E.ST 

WATCH    THE    FUN    GO    BY    —  AL 

PEARCE   59.1 

CBS  Tues.  9:00  P.M.  E.ST.  9:00  P.M.  P.ST 
IRVIN  S.  COBB— PADUCAH  PLANTA- 
TION  58.8 

NBC  Sa'.  10:. W  P.M.  F^l 


CLOSE-UP,  ALL  niGHT/  ISMYPOIVDBR 
SHOWimTeRRIBLY?  — 


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spring  sunshine !  Does  he  see  it  "soft 
and  fresh"?  ...  Or  "all  powdery"? 
The  answer  is  in  your  powder! 
Pond's  Powder  is  "glare-proof."  Blended  to 
catch  only  the  softer  rays  of  light  —  never  to 
show  up  "powdery."  True  skin  tones,  they  give 
a  soft  look  in  any  light. 

Try  Pond's  for  yourself— in  the  brightest 
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17 


RADIO  STARS 


HINDS 


Hinds— with  Vitamin  D 
in  it  —  does  dry  skin 
a  world  of  good! 

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contains  Vitamin  D!  This  vita- 
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gives  it  some  of  the  benefits  of 
sunshine.  Use  Hinds  regularly 
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MORNING  MATINEE  —  LAWRENCE 
GRAY  58.7 

MBS  Thur.  9:00  A.M.  EST 

LOVE  AND  LEARN  58.C 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  1:30  P.M.  EST 

VOX  POP   58.5 

NBC  Tues.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

RALEIGH   AND   KOOL  CIGARETTE 

SHOW— JACK  PEARL   58.4 

NBC  Mon.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

FOLLOW  THE  MOON— ELSIE  HITZ, 

NICK  DAWSON   58.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  4:30  P..M.  EST 

YOUR  UNSEEN  FRIEND  58.1 

CBS  Su,i.  5:00  P.M.  EST 

POETIC  MELODIES— JACK  FULTON, 

MILLS  ORCHESTRA  .  .  58.0 

CBS  M-T-W-T  7:00  P.M.  EST,  8:00  P.M. 

PST 

UNIVERSAL  RHYTHM  —  CHANDLER 
ORCHESTRA   57.9 

NBC  Fri.  9:00  P.M.  EST 
PROFESSOR  QUIZ  AND  HIS  BRAIN- 
BUSTERS  57.8 

CBS  Sun.  7:00  P.M.  EST 

LUM  AND  ABNER   57.7 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  7:30   P.M.  EST.  8:15 
P.M.  PST 

JOE  PENNER  —  GRIER  ORCHESTRA.  57.6 

CBS  Sun.  6:00  P.M.  E.ST 

PEPPER  YOUNG'S  FAMILY  57.5 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:00  P.M.  EST,  10:30 
A.M.  EST  on  WJZ  WLS  WSY R  WHAM 
KDKA 

QUALITY    TWINS    —    EAST  AND 
DUMKE   57.4 

CBS  T-T  11:15  A.M.  EST 

DO  YOU  WANT  TO  BE  AN  ACTOR?— 

HAVEN  Mac  QUARRIE  57.2 

NBC  Sun.  8:00  P.M.  E.ST 

BROADWAY  VARIETIES  57.0 

CBS  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

NEWS  THROUGH  A  WOMAN'S  EYES  56  .9 

CBS  M-W-F  2:00  P.M.  EST 

JIMMIE     FIDLER'S  HOLLYWOOD 

GOSSIP  56.8 

NBC  Tues.  10:30  P.M.  EST 

WILDERNESS  ROAD  56.7 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  5:45  P.M.  EST 

THE  O'NEILLS  56.5 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:45  P.M.  EST.  11:00 
A.M.  EST  on  WJZ  WBZ  WBZA  WB.iL 
WMAL  WSYR  WHAM  KDKA  WGAR 
WXYZ  IVLS 

IRENE  RICH  56.4 

NBC  Fri.  8:00  P.M.  EST 

MARY  MARLIN  56.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  12:15  P.M.  E.ST 

FIVE  STAR  REVUE— MORTON  BOWE.56.2 

CBS  M-W-F  1:00  P.M.  EST 

JERGENS  PROGRAM— WALTER  WIN- 

CHELL  56.0 

NBC  Sun.  9:00  P.M.  EST.  8:15  P.M.  PST 

VOCAL  VARIETIES  5S.9 

NBC  T-T  7:15  P.M.  EST 

THE  LAMPLIGHTER  55.7 

MBS  Sun.  2:00  P.M.  EST.  M-W-F  9:30 
A.M.  EST 

DICK  TRACY  .....55.6 

MBS  M-T-W  5:45  P.M.  EST 

VIVIAN  DELLA  CHIESA  55.4 

NBC  Tues.  7:45  P.M.  EST 

BETTY  MOORE  55.3 

NBC  Thur.  11:30  A.M.  EST 
KALTENMEYER'S  KINDERGARTEN .  35.2 
NBC  Sal.  5:30  P.M.  E.ST 

HUSBANDS  AND  WIVES  55.0 

NBC  Tues.  9:30  P.M.  EST 

MAJOR  BOWES'  AMATEUR  HOUR  .54.9 

CBS  Thur.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

GIRL  ALONE  54.8 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  12.00  Noon  EST 

SNOW  VILLAGE  SKETCHES  54.6 

NBC  Sat.  9:00  P.M.  EST 

PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY   54.3 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  6:45  P.M.  EST.  8:15  P.M. 
PST 

TED     MALONE'S     BETWEEN  THE 
BOOKENDS  54.2 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:15  P.M.  EST 

VIC  AND  SADE  54.0 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  3:30  P.M.  EST.  11:30 
A.M.  EST  on  WJZ  WBZ  WBZA  WBAL 
WMAL  WGAR  WXYZ  KWK  KSO  KOIL 
KGO  KECA  KFSD  WMT  WSYR  WHAM 
WLS  KDKA  KLO 

TODAY'S  CHILDREN  53.9 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:45  A.M.  EST 

GOLD  MEDAL  FEATURE  TIME  53.7 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  10:00  A.M.  EST 

FIVE  STAR  JONES  53.6 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  10:15  A.M.  E.ST 

SUNSET  DREAMS— MORIN  SISTERS.  53.4 

NBC  Sun.  7:45  P.M.  E.ST.  8:00  P.M.  PST 

DAVID  HARUM  53.3 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  11:00  A.M.  EST 

LANDT  TRIO— COL.  JIM  HEALY  53.1 

NBC  Sun.  2:00  P  .M.  EST 

MA  AND  PA  53.0 

CBS  .M-T-W-T-F  7:15  P.M.  E.ST 

UNCLE  EZRA'S  RADIO  STATION  .  .  .52.3 

NBC  M-W-F  7:15  P..M.  EST.  8:15  P.M. 

P.ST 

lODENT  DRESS  REHEARSAL— MOR- 
TON BOWE,  RINES  ORCHESTRA..  .52.8 
NBC  Sun.  11:30  A.M.  EST 
EDGAR      GUEST      IN  WELCOME 

VALLEY  52.6 

NBC  Tues.  8:30  P.M.  EST 

BACKSTAGE  WIFE  52.5 

NBC  M-T-W-T-F  11:15  A.M.  EST 

ROMANCE  OF  HELEN  TRENT  52.3 

CBS  M-T-W-T-F  12:30  P.M.  EST 


18 


FOR 

DISTINGUISHED 
SERVICE  TO 
RADIO 


Charles  BirHerworHi 


Fred  Asfoire 


Since  its  initial  broadcast,  the  Pockord  Program 
starring  Fred  Astaire  and  Charles  Butterworth,  has 
steadily  improved,  until  now  it  definitely  is  one  of 
the  air's  nrwst  entertaining  programs.  Fred  Astaire 
no  longer  has  to  carry  the  full  responsibility  of  the 
hour's  success  on  his  dapper  shoulders.  That 
seemed  to  be  the  fault  when  the  program  first 
started.  It  depended  too  much  on  Fred.  And 
veterans  of  the  airwaves  all  know  that  putting  over 
an  hour's  show,  week  after  week,  certainly  is  more 
than  a  one-nrran  job.  Charles  Butterworth  has 
developed  into  a  positive  favorite,  thanks  to  comic 
material  which  concedes  that  the  average  radio 
listener  is  an  intelligent  person.  The  wise  additions 
of  Conrad  Thibault  and  Francia  White  have  given 
the  show  the  balance  necessary  for  outstandingly 


good  radio  entertainment.  And,  of  course,  the 
music  of  Johnny  Green  and  his  orchestra,  and 
vocalist  Trudy  Wood,  always  are  a  delight  to  the 
ear.  And,  too,  the  expert  production  job  done 
on  the  Packard  Program  has  contributed  imnr>easur- 
ably  to  the  broadcast's  success. 

Because  of  its  superior  artists,  presentation, 
believable  commercial  announcements  and  excel- 
lent script,  RADIO  STARS  Magazine  presents  its 
award  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio  to  the 
Packard  Program. 


—EDITOR 


WHT 
BUDDY  WILL 
WED  MIRY 


What  has  made  love's  dream  4^ 
come  true  for  Maestro  Rogers 

and  Americans  Sweetheart^ 


A  success  on  screen  and  radio,  Mary  may  re- 
turn to  the  mike  after  becoming  Mrs.  Charles 
Rogers.  Her  husbond-to-be  heartily  approves. 

Not  long  ago  Miss  Piclcford  appeared  as  guest 
star  on  Rudy  Vol  lee's  program.  She  is  con- 
sidering several  propositions  for  radio  work. 


From  Olathe, 
Kans.,  came  Buddy, 
to  do  big  things 
on  the  screen,  air 
and  bandstands, 
with  Mary  as  his 
long-owaited  priie. 


RADIO  STARS 


"I'LL  TELL  you  something  about  us  I  bet  you  never 
knew  before,"  said  Buddy,  a  smile  in  his  eyes,  on  his 
lips  and,  I  think,  in  his  heart.  "Ill  tell  you  when  I 
first  saw  Mary.  It  was  when  I  was  in  college.  I  went  to 
the  movies  and  saw  her,  for  the  first  time,  in — Little  Lord 
Fauntleroy.  I  think  I  knew  then,"  Buddy  laughed,  "that 
she  was  my  'Best  Girl.'  I  didn't  know  it  consciously,  of 
course.  I  had  no  idea  of  ever  meeting  her,  of  ever  even  see- 
ing her  in  person.  She  seemed  as  far  distant  to  me  as 
Venus.  In  fact,  to  me  she  sort  of  became  Venus.  I  still 
feel  that  way,"  laughed  Buddy  again.  "I  guess  I  never 
got  over  it.   Looks  that  vray  now,  doesn't  it?" 

Yes,  I  thought,  with  their  marriage  in  the  spring,  it  does 
'look  that  way  now." 

"Life,"  continued  the  more  mature,  more  dignified 
Charles  Rogers  of  today,  "life  is  a  magician,  a 
sleight-of-hand  artist.  Whoever  said: 
'Truth  is  stranger  than  fiction,'  certainly 
made  the  most  masterly  understate- 
ment of  fact  of  all  time.  For,  if  any- 
one had  told  me  then — me,  a  nm  of  the 
mill  student  of  the  University  of  Kan- 
sas— that  one  day  I  would  marry  Mary 
Pickford — well,  I  would  have  thought  it  a  fantasy  border- 
ing on  madness.    Such  a  notion  never  entered  my  head. 

"I  didn't,  then,  think  of  picture  people  as  l>eing  real 
people  at  all.  I  didn't  think  of  them  as  flesh  and  blood 
human  beings,  eating  and  sleeping  and  having  jobs  and 
mortgages  and  problems  like  the  rest  of  us.  I  can  re- 
member the  first  time  I  ever  saw  Mary  eating.  I  was 
surprised.  I  must  have  had  an  idea  that  the  people  of  the 
screen  were  veritable  shadows,  projections  of  the  imagi- 
nation, compounded  of  Stardust  and  moonbeams — or  some 
equally  ethereal  and  nonsensical  notion. 

"And  I  certainly,"  grinned  Buddy,  "didn't  figure  that 
I  would  ever  have  anything  in  common  with  ethereal  types. 
I  was  then,  as  I  am  now,  much  too  fond  of  boxing  and 
food  and  jazz,  music  and  animals  and  the  good  earth.  No, 


if  anyone  had  even  suggested  to  me  that  some  day  I  would 
meet  Mary  Pickford,  I  would  have  said :  'Aw,  come  off. 
You're  dreaming!' 

"And  I  never  did  try  to  meet  Mary,"  Buddy  continued, 
over  the  luncheon  table  at  his  home  in  Beverly  Hills. 
"Such  an  idea  as  that  would  never  have  entered  my  head, 
either,  until  she  chose  me  to  play  opposite  her  in  My  Best 
Girl.  I  never  was  more  excited  over  anything  before. 
For  the  first  time  in  my  life,  I  guess,  I  changed  my 
tie  ten  times.  I  had  my  hair  cut,  and  then  wished  I 
hadn't.  And  then  we  met.  So  many  things,"  said  Buddy, 
simply,  "fail  to  come  up  to  expectations.  But  Mary  did 
not  fail!" 

And  I  thought,  as  Buddy  talked,  that  he  was,  uncon- 
sciously, accounting  for  the  fact  that  never  in  all  his  happy, 
popular,  limelighted  life,  in  college,  on  the  screen,  on  the 
air  or  making  personal  appearances  with  his 
world-famous  band — never  has  he  really 
been  in  love  before.  It  is  a  case  without 
precedent,  so  far  as  I  know. 

I  recalled  how,  when  he  first  came  to 
Hollywood  and  all  the  frail  feminine  hearts 
were  sighing,  he  dated  most  of  the  pretty, 
popular,  nicest  girls  in  town — and  let  it  go  at  that.  Mary 
Brian.  This  one.  That  one.  Dances.  Dates.  Luncheons. 
Hints  of  romance  which  never  developed  beyond  the  rumor 
stage. 

And  when  rumors  die  a-boming  here  in  Hollywood,  it's 
jolly  well  because  they  have  nothing  to  nourish  them ! 

People  wondered  why.  For  years,  people  have  won- 
dered why.  People  need  wonder  no  longer.  I  am  about 
to  tell  them.  For  I  asked  him :  "Haven't  you  ever  been 
in  love,  Buddy?  Before — before  Mary,  I  mean?" 

"Never,"  said  Buddy  immediately,  "never  before." 

Which  does  account  for  it.  Though  it  still  remains  a 
case  without  precedent. 

I  remembered,  too,  how  his  mother  once  told  me  that 
Buddy  had  always  been  quiet  (^Continued  on  page  81) 


BY  GLADYS 
HALL 


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^^^^^^^^^^^HP^^^^L    things, "  soys  ^^^^^  ^  ^J^M^^K^^ 

^^^^Pl^mi^^^^^^^  M r.   Rooers  ^^^^^f  ^^^mm* 

^^^^                           ^Bs«noasly.*llMrt.  ^^^^K  ^S^^^fe^K 

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giinill^                       -^^l^PV     I                         K  ^         Mary's  terrified  ei 

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21 


BY  MIRIAM  ROGERS 
To  Fred  MacMurray,  life 

seemed  out  of  tune  as 

he  traveled  from  job 

to  job,  seeking  his 

proper  place  in  the 

scheme  of  things 


Fred  is  fond  of  his  sax, 
for  with  it  he  got  his 
first   start   on  Broadway. 


ONE  SWEET  SONG 


WHEN  I  asked  Fred  MacMurray  how  long  he  had  been 
married,  he  said :  "We  just  celebrated  our  seventh  anni- 
versary'." 

I  stared  at  him  incredulously.  Gossip  columns — 
interviews — they  couldn't  all  be  wrong.  Surely  he  hadn't 
been  secretly  married  all  those  years ! 

He  grinned.  "Not  seven  years — seven  months !  We 
were  married  last  June — we  had  weekly  anniversaries  at 
first,  but  now  we  celebrate  monthly !" 

My  briefly  glimpsed  "scoop"  took  wings,  and  with  it,  a 
vaguely  preconceived  idea  I  had  had.  that  Fred  Mac- 
Murray  had  been  a  little  spoiled  by  his  success.  It  had 
come  quickly,  it  was  sudden  and  outstanding  enough  to 
turn  any  good-looking  boy's  head.  One  moment  he  was 
young,  unknown,  struggling  toward  a  dim  and  distant 
goal,  and  the  next  he  was  famous,  established,  playing 
opposite  such  popular  favorites  as  Claudette  Colbert, 
Gladys  Swarthout,  Carole  Lombard,  Katharine  Hep- 
burn .  .  . 

And  as  if  all  that  were  not  enough,  he  had  stepped, 
without  any  preliminary  training  or  experience,  into  a  top 
spot  in  radio,  too,  as  master  of  ceremonies  of  Hollywood 
Hotel.  It  would  not  have  been  at  all  surprising  if  I  had 
found  him,  as  I  half  expected  to,  a  little  vain,  a  little 
snobbish,  a  little  arrogant. 

But  obviously  he  was  not  like  that  at  all,  this  smiling 


young  man,  who  was  unaffected  and  sincere  enough  to 
talk  about  his  monthly  anniversaries  like  any  other  happy 
bridegroom. 

Fame  came  so  suddenly  that  he  was  not  quite  able,  at 
first,  to  realize  it,  to  count  on  it.  He  had  been  in  love  a 
long  time,  but  he  wanted  to  offer  his  wife  security  as  well 
as  love.  He  wanted  to  be  sure  his  success  was  not  just  a 
flash  in  the  pan,  that  he  himself  had  staying  qualities, 
that  he  had  chosen  the  right  profession  and  was  building  a 
foundation  for  the  future.  He  could  not  believe  the 
papers,  he  could  not  trust  in  his  fan  mail.  Might  not  this 
interest  die  out  as  quickly  as  it  had  come?  He  had  to 
have  something  more  concrete  before  he  could  believe  in 
his  own  good  fortune. 

And  before  he  had  lost  this  sense  of  bewilderment,  of 
surprise  in  his  own  achievement,  he  had  won  a  seven- 
year  contract.  With  shining  eyes  and  glowing  hopes,  he 
laid  it  in  Lillian's  lap. 

He  had  met  Lillian  Lamont  when  he  was  playing  in 
Roberta  in  New  York.  She  was  one  of  the  models  from 
a  swanky  Fifth  Avenue  shop  (Continued  on  page  84) 


r 


bride.  ^ 


Photo  by  Ray  Lee  Jackson 


Jessica  Dragonette^ 
lovely  singing  actress, 
star  of  the  Palmolive 
love-story  broadcasts,  a 
modern  prototype  of 
Scheherazade,  greatest 
teller  of  love  stories  the 
world  has  ever  known 


BY  NANCY  BARROWS 


On  Wednesday  evenings  at  9:30  p.m.,  EST, 
over  the  CBS  network,  Jessica  Dragonette 
sings  in  the  Palmol'iYe  presentation  of  the 
world's  greatest  love  stories.  On  the  op- 
posite page,  at  the  left,  is  Jessica  in 
The  Sfudenf  Prince.   Right,  in  Rio  Rita. 


Photo  hv  Pni  Ptnchot 

RADIO  NIGHTS 


THROUGHOUT  the  Orient  the  stories  of  The  Arabian 
Nights'  Entertainment — or  The  Thousand  and  One  Nights 
— are  oft-told  tales,  familiar  to  everyone,  as  today  the 
continuous  sagas  of  the  comic  strips  are  familiar  to  us. 
Jessica  Dragonette,  a  child,  traveling  with  her  father 
through  those  far  Eastern  lands,  heard  these  stories  told 
and  retold — the  stories  of  the  Queen  Scheherazade,  who, 
to  save  her  life,  nightly  related  to  the  Sultan  a  story  of 
romance  and  adventure.  If  the  story  failed  to  entertain 
and  enthrall,  Scheherazade's  life  would  be  forfeit.  Always 
the  invisible  sword  hung  in  the  air  as,  for  a  thousand  and 
one  nights,  she  wove  her  fateful  stories. 

Into  the  impressionable  mind  of  the  child  Jessica,  the 
stories  sank  deeply,  to  be  overlaid,  as  time  passed,  with 
other  impressions,  other  experiences.  She  did  not,  nat- 
urally, dream  how  one  day  they  would  come  back  to  form 
an  analogy  for  her  own  career.  Time  goes  swiftly  when 
you  are  a  child  and  Jessica  was  changing  time  into  life  in 
the  medium  she  loved  best — music.  To  Jessica  Dragonette, 
who  sang  even  before  she  talked,  music  was  the  ruling 
passion,  the  one  completely  absorbing,  enthralling  way  of 
life.  The  baby  songs  she  sang  to  her  adoring  family 
changed  to  the  more  ambitious  ones  of  school-girl  con- 
certs. Led  hfer  later.  Inevitably,  to  the  theatre,  where  she 
made  her  debut  as  "the  voice  of  an  angel"  in  the  Max 
Reinhardt  production  of  The  Miracle.  She  sang  the  role 
of  Kathe  in  The  Student  Prince  and  Broadway  came  to 
know  her,  still  in  her  'teens,  in  The  Grand  Street  Follies. 
Then  radio  brought  her  to  that  ever  widening  audience 
which  eagerly  tunes  its  dials  when  Jessica  sings. 

Of  her  first  radio  appearance  Miss  Dragonette  recalls 
no  thrill.  "I  was  extremely  nervous,"  she  admits.  "And 
the  lack  of  applause  bothered  me.  I  was  convinced  that 
I  was  a  failure!"    But  a  flood  of  letters  from  listeners 


reassured  her,  and  she  resolved  to  continue  her  career  in 
this  new  medium  of  entertainment. 

These  fan  letters,  coming  in  continuously  increasing 
numbers  from  all  over  the  world,  mean  a  great  deal  to 
Jessica.  All  of  them  are  acknowledged  as  promptly  as 
f>ossible.  Many  of  them  she  answers  personally.  From 
some  have  come  friendships,  experiences  that  touch  the 
heart.    But  of  these  Jessica  is  chary  of  speaking. 

"It  would  be  exploiting  them,"  she  says.  "I  couldn't 
talk  about  them  for  publication.  But,  out  of  the  multi- 
tudes, always  there  are  some  that  come  dose  to  one  .  .  . 
Life  somehow  brings  certain  people  together  for  some 
experience — like  those  people  in  The  Bridge  of  San  Luis 
Rcy — do  you  remember  ?  It  must  be  something  more  than 
chance  ..." 

From  that,  one  might  surmise  in  Miss  Dragonette  a 
strain  of  the  underlying  mysticism  of  the  Orient.  But  she 
disclaims  that.  A  thoughtful  student  of  philosophy,  of 
the  sciences,  of  history,  hers  is  a  well  informed,  well  bal- 
anced mind.  But  hungry  always  for  wider  knowledge, 
she  looks  beyond  superficial  aspects  to  deeper  significances. 

Jessica  Dragonette  definitely  is  one  of  radio's  pioneers. 
It  is  over  ten  years  since  she  started  on  the  Coca  Cola 
program,  presenting  the  first  singing  and  talking  program 
for  the  air.  Then  there  were  no  traditions  for  radio 
programs,  no  set  pattern  to  follow.  Jessica  created  and 
wrote  scripts  and  continuities  for  these  programs,  offering 
every  type  of  acting  and  singing  parts,  from  Shakespeare 
to  operettas. 

She  was  the  first  star  of  General  Motors  program.  For 
two  and  a  half  years,  as  star  of  the  Philco  program,  she 
brought  to  her  unseen  listeners  the  first  radio  versions  of 
all  the  popular  light  opera  roles.  As  star  of  the  Cities 
Service  program  for  seven  years,  (Continued  on  page  98) 

25 


Wide  WorM, 


Nelson  Eddy  as  Paul,  in  the 
M-G-M  movie,  Mayfime,  starring 
Eddy  and  Jeanette  MacDonald. 


Not  swingin',  but  wing'm'!  275-pound  Jock  Smart 
floats  with  61 -pound  Peggy  Ryan  in  Hollywood's 
newest  dance  creation  for  a  Universal  musical. 


RADIO  SPOTLIGHT 

aircasters  in  odd  moments,  playing  or  working  with  equal  zest 


Dorothy  Lamour,  radio  singer 
now  being  featured  by  Paramount, 
has  tresses  thirty  inches  long. 


Between  rehearsal  and  broadcast,  Victor  Arden 
(left).  Jack  Pearl  and  Cliff  (Sharlh)  Hall  fore- 
gather at  a  table  in  a  Radio  City  restaurant. 


{ 


DO  rou 
know; 


Don't  let  that  dumb  facei 


It's  a  mask!  He's  sixty 
everything  he  ever  has 


WHEN  Victor  Moore  was  born,  the  new  moon  was 
shining  over  his  pudgy  right  shoulder.  Horseshoes  were 
nailed  to  the  headboards  of  the  crib.  Rabbits'  feet  tickled 
the  baby  neck  and  four-leaved  clovers  sprouted  between 
the  pink  toes.  In  a  word,  Mr.  Moore,  our  most  chroni- 
cally triumphant  comedian,  was  born  lucky — born  to  win. 
The  genius  who  christened  him  Victor  was  right,  even 
though  he  was  punning,  for  znctor  he  has  been  from  the 
beginning.    Victor  in  every  department  of  life. 

Don't  take  my  word  for  it,  look  at  the  record.    He  is 
sixty-one  years  old,  has  been  on  the  stage  since  he  was 
seventeen — and  in  the  past  twenty-five  years,  no  show 
he  played  in  has  failed  to  succeed.  All 
of  them  have  made  money.   Most  of  them 
have  been  hits  and  a  few  like  Of  Thee 
I  Sing  and  Anythwg  Goes  have  estab- 
lished new  box-office  highs.    No  line  he 
has  delivered  in  the  eflfort  to  make  people 
laugh  has  failed  to  get  its  giggle.    He  is 
known  to  Broadway,  Hollywood  and  now 
on  radio — on  the  Twin  Stars  program — 
as  the  absolutely  sure-fire  comedian. 

Producers  follow  him  around,  offering 
him  flabbergasting  salaries.  He  is  the 
man  with  the  Midas  touch.  He  can  take 
a  script  dry  as  dust  and  wring  from  it 
the  golden  belly  laughs  that  produce  an- 
other kind  of  ringing  in  theatrical  cash 
registers.  They  say  that  anybody  can 
write  a  show  for  him,  because  when  he  is 
on  the  stage,  or  at  the  mike,  it's  not  what 
he  says  but  how  he  says  it  that  makes 
you  guflfaw. 

There  you  have  good  fortune  enough 
for  any  man !  But  not  enough  for  Victor 
Moore.  Peep  in  on  the  man's  personal 
life.  What  is  it  that  completes  and  rounds 

Broadway's  celebrated  comedians, 
Helen  Broderick  and  Victor 
Moore,  now  are  together  in  radio. 

28 


out  a  masculine  life?  Yes,  a  woman.  In  his  case  she 
was  Emma  Littlefield.  She,  too,  was  an  actress  and,  atop 
of  that,  a  wife.  Together,  they  wrote,  developed  and 
acted  the  famous  vaudeville  skit.  Change  Your  Act,  which 
never  lost  a  week's  booking  in  over  ten  years.  Some  weeks, 
they  made  as  high  as  $1500.  They  worked  together, 
traveled,  played,  loved  together — and  at  the  end  of  every 
year  they  were  broke !  But  they  didn't  care.  They  were 
having  fun. 

Pour  into  this  man's  cup  of  bliss,  two  lovely  children — 
and  truly,  in  the  phrase  of  the  Bible,  it  "runneth  over." 
The  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl,  are  in  their  late  'teens. 


REALLY 
VICTOR? 


of  Victor  Moore  fool  you! 
one   years  old-and 


done  has  been  a  success! 


both  of  them  headed  for  stage  careers,  equipped  by  gobs 
of  inherited  talent.  On  their  thirty-second  wedding  anni- 
versary, Mrs.  Moore  died.  Death  was  the  one  barrier,  the 
Moore  luck  could  not  carry  over.  But  measure  this  marital 
life  by  any  rule  you  choose — and  it  was  extraordinarily 
successful,  serenely  and  beautifully  happy. 

Finally,  for  an  illustration  of  the  way  this  man  has 
had  with  life,  you  have  the  story  of  his  financial  career. 
He  made  all  the  mistakes  f)OSsible.  He  lost  in  gambling 
and  unwise  investments  more  than  a  million  dollars,  yet 
today,  somehow,  some  way,  he  is  extremely  rich.  There 
was  the  time,  for  example,  when  he  was  nuts  about  poker. 


Four  views  of  Victor  Moore,' 
who  is  featured!  with  Helen 
Broderick  and  Buddy  Rogers 
on  NBC's  Twin  Stan  program, 
Friday  nights  at  9:30  p.m.,  EST. 


They  say  he  used  to  arrange  to  have  three  games  going, 
one  at  the  hotel,  one  at  the  theatre,  one  at  the  Lambs'  Club. 
And  he  always  lost.  One  year  he  dropped  $85,000.  He 
also  was  an  incurable  race  track  follower  and  there,  too,  he 
invariably  lost.  The  check  stubs  showed,  one  year,  a  loss 
of  $50,000. 

Add  to  these,  the  fact  that  he  was  meat  for  every  pan- 
handler on  Broadway,  for  every  peddler  of  neckties,  razor 
blades  or  phony  stock.  He  has  owned  packing  cases  full 
of  worthless  shares  in  oil  wells,  gold  mines,  airplane  com- 
panies. This  airplane  investment  looked  so-  good,  the 
British  Government  was  going  to  write  a  big  order,  pro- 
vided the  plane  got  off  the  ground.  It 
didn't. 

That's  how  it  has  been,  and  it  would 
have  been  enough  to  crack  the  spirit  and 
ruin  the  career  '  of  anyone  but  Victor 
Moore,  who,  in  all  his  life,  never  has  failed 
to  get  the  big  end  of  the  wishbone.  One 
day,  a  friend  came  to  sell  him  some  lots 
on  Long  Island.  Victor,  by  that  time,  had 
learned  to  shy  away  from  investments, 
and  he  said  no.  The  friend  persisted. 
Again,  Victor  said  no.  Finally  the  friend, 
in  desperation,  put  it  this  way : 

"If  I  give  you  a  winner  at  Belmont  (the 
race  track)  will  you  buy  them?" 

This  time  the  answer  was  yes.  Victor 
went  home  and,  over  the  protests  of  his 
indulgent  wife,  took  the  family  jewels 
and  raised  on  them  $300,  and  went  out 
to  the  track.  The  horse,  he  discovered, 
was  listed  at  ten  to  one  and  Victor  got 
cold  feet  and  bet  only  $50.  The  horse 
came  in,  and  he  was  obliged  to  buy  the 
lots  even  though  it  took  him — as  time 
showed — ten   {Continued  on  page  72) 


Stage  success  is  supplemented 
by  a  happy  home  life.  Here  is 
Victor  with  his  tall  son,  Bobby. 


Francia's  frail  beauty 
conceals  a  strong  heart. 


Happily  headed  for  a 
brisk  game  of  tennis. 


Her  trim  figure  is  en- 
vied by  most  singers. 


'franciji  of  the 


Western  sun  and  a  wholesome  life  have  given  Francia  White 


WHEN  Francia  White  went  to  New 
York  to  be  the  star  of  a  big  radio 
program,  she  couldn't  find  a  place  to 
sleep.  To  be  sure,  there  were  dozens 
of  available  hotels  there  and  Francia 
tried  them  all,  but  sleep  she  couldn't. 
Each  morning  she  would  check  out 
of  the  hotel  she  was  in  and  move 
to  a  different  one. 
The  managers  dusted  oflF  their 
most  secluded  rooms  for  this 
slim,  brown-eyed,  unbelievably 
young  star,  but  all  to  no  avail. 
Accustomed  all  her  life  to 
the  quiet  of  the  country,  she 
found  it  impossible  to  sleep 
with  the  roar  of  the  sutH 
way,  the  shrieking  of 
taxicab   brakes,  the 
rumble  of  the  ele- 
vated and  all  the 
strange  noises  of 
a    great  city 
which  per- 


BY  FRAN  C 
DILLON 


meated  to  the  recesses  of  even  the 
most  secluded  rooms.  She  sang 
on  her  first  important  radio  pro- 
gram without  having  closed  her 
eyes  for  a  week, 

Francia  told  me  about  this  and 
other  incidents  of  her  career  when 
I  went  out  to  see  her  recently. 
Sitting  on  the  floor  in  front  of  the 
huge  fireplace  in  the  living-room 
of  her  country  home,  she  hugged 
her  knees  and  rocked  back  and 
forth  with  laughter  as  she  told  of 
happenings  that  had  seemed  tre- 
mendously serious  at  the  time. 

Her  infectious  giggle  bubbles 
at  the  slightest  excuse,  giving  the 
impression  that  it  is  just  ready  to 
come  out  without  provocation. 
Her  curly,  brown  hair,  shoulder 
length,  seemed  to  reflect  her  mood 
and  flew  in  every  direction  in 
charming  disarray.  At  her  side 
lay  her  constant  companion,  an 
amiable,  beady-eyed  little  Scottie 
dog. 

"You'll  have  to  do  the  talking," 
she  had  told  me*  when  I  arrived, 
"for  I  have  nothing  interesting  to 
say.  Nothing  interesting  ever 
happens  to  me,  really. 
Nothing  ever  hap- 
pens to 


me,"  which  is  obviously  a  rank 
understatement. 

She  sat  nervously — for  Francia 
is  never  quiet — poking  the  fire 
("putting  it  out,"  according  to  her 
mother)  and  jumping  up  to  an- 
swer the  telephone,  which  rang 
with  disturbing  regularity.  At 
long  distance  rates,  too,  for  the 
White  ranch  is  in  the  country,  near 
the  little  town  of  Covina,  twenty- 
five  miles  from  Los  Angeles. 

The  house,  a  combination  of 
Spanish  and  Early  California 
architecture,  is  completely  sur- 
rounded by  orange  groves,  and 
the  faint  odor  of  the  blossoms 
hung  over  the  rooms  like  incense. 
An  atmosphere  of  contentment 
made  itself  felt  from  the  moment 
I  drove  into  the  driveway  where 
both  Francia  and  her  gentle,  white- 
haired  mother  came  out  to  meet 
me. 

Here  Francia  has  lived  since  she 
was  brought  to  California  as  a 
baby,  "and  this  is  the  third  house 
we've  built  right  on  this  spot," 
she  told  me.  "We  wore  out  two 
houses." 

Probably  there  isn't  a  tree  on  the 
ranch   that    Francia  hasn't 
tumbled  from,  for  in 


Franda  Whit« 
i$  as  lovely 
as  her  voice. 
She  sings  on 
Tuesdays  at 
?:30  pjm.  EST. 


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whirl  at  entertaining  them- 
selves and  you 


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FAILURE  IS 


Left,  Maestros  Lopez  and  Vallee  harmo- 
nize on  their  pet  instruments.  Above,  in 
the  Hotel  Astor,  N.  Y,,  where  he  plays. 


to  ve 
76  right 


"MUSIC  was  given  me  to  make 
my  way  in  life." 

When  Vincent  Lopez  speaks  it 
is  almost  as  if  he  is  not  speaking 
at  all,  so  quietly,  almost  in  a 
monotone,  do  his  words  come.  It 
is  more  as  if  his  thoughts  have 
become  audible.  If  it  weren't  for 
the  things  he  says  and  the  thought 
behind  them,  a  first  impression  of 
him  would  be  that  he  is  a  very 
Iwred  young  man. 

Too  much  success  could  bring 
boredom.  It  wouldn't  be  at  all 
surprising  if  he  were  a  bit  fed  up 
with  it.  AH  these  years  on  Broad- 
way, his  name  in  lights  so  con- 
stantly that  it  couldn't  help  but 
become  a  monotony,  three  tele- 
phones in  his  hotel  suite  that  never 
stop  ringing,  and  a  success  as  indi- 
vidual now  as  in  the  days  when  a 
good  orchestra  meant  only  Lopez 
and  Whiteman.  Material  success 
came  early  and  stayed  with  Vin- 
cent Lopez. 

He  sits  there,  leaning  back  in 
liis  chair,  and  looks  at  his  finger 


tips.  A  felephone  rings  and  he 
answers  it. 

A  business  detail,  a  rather  an- 
noying detail  you  gather,  but  his 
calm  voice  goes  on,  and  suddenly 
you  have  that  feeling  of  his  put- 
ting something  right  that  lias  gone 
wrong. 

A  few  minutes  have  gone  by 
since  he  began  speaking,  another 
telephone  call  has  intervened,  and 
yet  he  takes  up  the  thread  of  what 
he  was  saying  as  casually  as  if 
it  weren't  something  of  an  achieve- 
ment in  these  days  of  fragmentary 
conversation. 

"With  me,  it  was  music  that  was 
given.  Everyone  is  given  some- 
thing. You  take  it  and  work  at  it 
and  make  everything  of  it  that  you 
can.  That  is  your  justification  for 
being  alive  at  all." 

Suddenly  you  see  Lopez  diflFer- 
ently.  You  sense  something  he 
lias  gained  within  himself.  Some- 
thing that  seems  almost  strange 
because  you  see  it  so  seldom  in 
people  still  young,  or  in  cities,  or 


Vincent  Lopez  has  changed!  What  has 


When  Vinceirt  favors  you  with  a  smile,  you 
may  be  sure  he  means  it.  "I  smile  only 
when  my  heart  is  smiling  too!"  he  says. 


in  professions  that  necessarily 
seem  to  be  made  up  of  turbu- 
lence and  restlessness. 

Relaxation.  That's  the  thing 
he  has.  Something  you  might 
expect  to  find  in  the  high  Hima- 
layas, where  men  give  thought  to 
their  souls  and  things  of  the 
spirit.  Something  you  might  ex- 
pect to  find  in  the  old,  who  have 
bartered  excitement  for  the  peace 
that  has  come  to  them,  or  on 
farms  or  in  small  villages  where 
people  necessarily  have  to  look 
more  to  themselves  for  stimulus. 

But  you  don't  expect  to  find  it 
on  Broadway  in  a  hotel  suite  in 
the  heart  of  the  theatrical  dis- 
trict. You  don't  expect  to  find 
it  in  a  man,  still  young,  who  has 
kept  on  the  top  of  the  wave  for 
a  decade  and  a  half. 

Nine  years  ago  Vincent  Lopez 
was  diflFerent.  His  best  friends 
will  tell  you  that,  if  they  hadn't 
seen  him  constantly  in  the  inter- 
vening period,  they  wouldn't  rec- 
ognize the  Lx)pez  of  today  as  the 


man  they  used  to  know. 

For  it  is  nine  years  since  he 
first  read  the  book  that  was  to 
change  everything  for  him.  That 
book  was  Dwellers  on  Two 
Planets,  by  Phylos,  the  Tibetan 
philosopher.  He  read  it  the  first 
time  and  was  carried  away  by  it 
although,  in  that  first  reading,  he 
couldn't  begin  to  understand  it. 

He  read  that  book  many  times 
afterwards  and  it  was  four  years 
before  he  really  grasped  its 
meaning. 

"Nine  years  ago,  I  didn't 
think."    Lopez  smiles. 

Strange  how  you  can  hold  the 
key  to  your  life  and  try  to  fit  it 
into  places  where  it  doesn't  be- 
long! That's  what  Lopez  used 
to  do,  and  always  there  was  that 
sense  of  unfulfillment  in  him. 
The  pattern  he  was  seeking  was 
there  but  he  couldn't  find  it.  He 
was  restless,  as  people  are  who 
haven't  found  themselves.  Suc- 
cess came  but  he  never  found  it 
enough,  (Continued  on  page  92) 


led  to  his  new  philosophy  of  life? 


SHE 

BY  ELSPETH 
MacDON  ALD 


Natalie  Bodanya's  girl- 
hood was  a  nightmare  of 
struggle  and  despair,  but 
her  tenement  up-bringing  gave 
her  stamina  and  the  will  to  win! 


To  look  at  Her 
now,  you'd  never 
believe  Natalie 
went  hungry  or 
suffered  heart- 
aches   and  pain. 


SHE  was  such  a  little  thing  to  know  what  worry  was. 
Too  little  and  too  young  to  have  to  lie  awake  thinking 
about  the  rent  and  the  gas  bill,  and  the  price  of  butter  and 
milk  and  eggs. 

But  ever  since  she  was  ten,  Natalie  Bodanya  has  known 
all  there  is  to  know  about  worry. 

Her  father,  who  had  been  a  well-known  pianist  and 
conductor,  died  when  she  was  only  five.  And  Natalie 
was  the  oldest  of  three  children.  The  money  that  was 
left  went  all  too  quickly  in  the  next  few  years  and 
their  mother,  who  had  always  been  so  loved  and  sheltered, 
suddenly  faced  the  world  alone  and  knew  fear  for  the 
first  time  in  her  life. 

So,  at  ten,  it  was  Natalie  who  almost  became  the 
mother  of  her  own  mother  as  well  as  of  the  younger 
brother  and  sister.  It  was  Natalie  who  would  go  to  the 
door  to  meet  the  rent  collector  and  the  gas  man.  She 
would  summon  that  gamin  smile  of  hers  to  her  lips,  by 
thinking  of  all  the  funny  things  she  had  ever  heard,  and 
would  clo  everything  but  stand  on  her  head  to  put  them 
in  a  good  humor  and  make  them  give  her  a  few  days' 
more  leeway. 

And  it  was  Natalie  who  would  come  racing  home  from 
school  and  fling  her  arms  around  her  mother. 

"Don't  worry,  Mamma,  I've  got  a  job,"  she  would  say. 
And  to  the  ten-year-old,  it  really  seemed  she  had  solved 
the  situation  by  the  nickels  and  dimes  and  quarters  she 
brought  home  so  proudly. 

"They  were  always  such  dinky  little  jobs."  she  .says, 
sitting  in  the  small,  attractive  apartment  that  is  her  first 
step  up  in  the  world.  "Minding  people's  children  and 
washing  dishes  and  wheeling  somebody's  old  go-cart  down 


to  the  docks  to  fill  it  with  the  coal  and  ice  I  bought  for 
them  right  off  the  barges  because  it  was  cheaper  that  way. 
Some  of  them  were  as  poor  as  we  were,  so,'  of  course,  I 
wouldn't  take  pay  for  them.  But  the  lucky  ones,  with 
men  in  the  family  who  were  working,  were  all  after  me  to 
get  their  odd  jobs  done." 

She  sits  there,  this  little  Natalie  Bodanya,  with  a  con- 
tract at  the  Metropolitan;  featured  with  Frank  Munn  on 
the  Sweetest  Love  Songs  Et'cr  Sung  hour;  and  with 
three  major  Hollywood  studios  after  her  to  make  screen 
tests.  Her  smile  comes,  as  gamin  as  ever,  and  her  soft 
cloud  of  black  hair  dances  gaily  above  her  wide-set  gray 
eyes. 

It  will  take  more  than  success  to  change  her  or  to  tame 
her  into  the  prima  donna  pattern.  For  the  essential  thing 
that  made  that  girl  travel  so  far  from  the  East  Side 
tenements,  where  she  was  brought  up,  was  bred  in  her 
blood  and  bones.  It's  a  grand  quality,  mixed  with  cour- 
age and  tenderness  and  optimism  and  humor.  Beside  it, 
prima  donnas  who  wrap  themselves  in  pretense  and 
elegances  seem  like  paper  dolls. 

Natalie  is' real,  and  she  has  the  hard  courage  that  comes 
from  going  hungry,  being  cold  and  from  lying  awake 
nights.  As  long  as  she  holds  that  courage  she  won't  need 
much  else  in  this  world. 

"Nothing  will  stop  you  from  going  ahead  if  you've  got 
the  goods,"  she  says,  and  her  eyes,  that  change  as  gray 
eyes  will,  are  the  color  of  steel  now.  "You  have  to  be 
honest  with  yourself  and  know  if  you've  really  got  some- 
thing or  if  you're  heading  towards  heartaches  with  empty 
hands.  If  I  didn't  have  a  voice,  I'd  know  it  and  I'd  stop 
trying  to  be  something  I  never  could  be.  I'd  learn  how 
to  be  a  good  stenographer,  instead." 

She  was  bred  in  a  hard  school.  There  isn't  much  she 
remembers  about  her  life  before  her  father  died,  about  the 
big  names  in  the  musical  world  who  were  his  friends, 
the  entertaining  and  the  easy,  gracious  way  of  living  that 
was  theirs. 

When  she  was  old  enough  to  begin  remembering,  the 


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WON  A  BITTER  FIGHT 


foundation  had  slipped  from  under  her  feet.  There  was 
the  pretty  mother  who  didn't  know  how  to  cope  with  hard- 
ship, so  hewildered  that  she  couldn't  help  the  tears  that 
came  even  before  the  children.  There  were  the  crowded 
East  Side  streets  and  the  almost  grown-up  boys  shooting 
crap  at  the  corners  and  the  poverty  driven  children  she 
played  with,  hard  as  only  children  brought  to  face  reality 
too  early  can  l)e  hard. 

Natalie  was  always  in  trouble  then.  "Skinny,"  they 
used  to  call  her,  but  she  could  fight  with  the  best  of  her 
size  and  win. 

It  was  her  kid  brother  who  used  to  get  her  into  trouble. 
He  was  such  an  angelic  looking  little  boy  that  it  wasn't 
hard  for  his  mother  and  the  other  grown  ups  to  spoil  him. 


It  was  in  this 
ballet  costume 
that  Natalie 
made  her  debut 
at  the  M  etro- 

goliton  —  her 
rst  triumph. 


to  make  him  so  sure  of  himself  that  he  wouldn't  think 
twice  before  stepping  up  to  any  kid  and  slapping  him. 
They  slapped  back  in  Little  Italy's  own  code,  and  then  he 
would  run  to  his  "big  sister"  and  she  would  go  after  the 
supposed  tormentors. 

"But  they  always  had  a  big  brother  or  a  big  sister,  too." 
She   smiles   ruefully   now,    (Continued   on   page  74) 


A  career  meant  nothing  to  Conrad  Thibault  until  he  got  what 


WHEN  anyone  comes  to  Hollywood,  the  first  question 
put  to  him  inevitably  is:  "Are  you  going  to  make  a 
mox-ie  ?"  And  when  anyone  is  as  attractive  as  dark,  good- 
looking  Conrad  Thibault,  you  would  expect  the  answer, 
just  as  inevitably,  to  be  in  the  affirmative. 

But  Conrad  shakes  his  head.  He  doesn't  know.  True, 
he  is  making  some  tests — Warner  Brothers  are  interested 
in  him — but  he  isn't  sure.  After  all,  he  is  a  singer,  and 
radio,  which  brought  him  his  first  big  success,  seems  still 
to  offer  the  greater  opportunity.  So  far  he  remains  im- 
mune to  Hollywood's  spell — this  is  his  first  trip  west  of 
Cleveland,  and  New  York  and  New  England  are  home. 

Conrad  wants  a  full  life,  a  well-rounded  life,  with  time 
for  work  and  time  for  play  and  time  to  make  the  ideals 
and  dreams  which  are  a  part  of  his  life  come  true.  For 
he  is  essentially  a  dreamer,  an  idealist,  a  romanticist.  And 
so  far,  he  has  been  very  fortunate  in  making  his  life  fit 


the  pattern  of  his  ideals. 

He  is  a  man  of  quiet  tastes,  moderate  in  all  things,  and 
he  is  not  going  to  act  hastily  or  make  up  his  mind  without 
due  thought  and  consideration.  He  may  bear,  as  some 
have  said,  a  close  resemWance  to  Russ  Columbo,  but  he 
sees,  wisely,  that  it  takes  more  than  good  looks,  more  even 
than  a  trained  and  rich  singing  voice,  to  spell  success  in 
the  movies.  It  is  a  new  career  beset  with  difficulties,  with 
uncertain  results,  and  when  all  is  said  and  done,  all  he 
really  wants  to  do  is  sing. 

"I've  always  known  what  I  wanted,"  he  said  simply, 
"and  I've  always  had  a  feeUng  of  confidence,  a  certainty 
that  things  would  work  out  as  I  wanted  them  to — " 

The  third  in  a  family  of  six  boys,  Conrad  was  the  only 
one  with  musical  talent  or  aspirations.  But  he  always 
wanted  to  sing,  and  from  the  time  he  sang  in  a  boys' 
choir  in  an  Episcopal  church  in  Northampton,  Massa- 


HAVING  SOMEONE 

WHO  CARES 


BY  LESLIE  EATON 


A  dreamer  and  romanticist. 
Conrad  Thibault  has  been 
successful  in  patterning 
life   after   his   own  ideals. 


he  wanted— someone  to  share  it 


chusetts,  people  who  heard  that  lovely  fluid  voice  were 
stirred  to  admiration  and  praise. 

But  a  natural  gift  is  not  enough.  Music  is  a  stern 
mistress  and  demands  the  utmost  of  its  serious  lovers. 
The  young  Conrad  sensed  this  and  worked  hard  and  long. 
He  had  to  work  hard  at  other  things,  too,  in  order  to  get 
money  to  pay  for  his  lessons,  but  he  was  tireless  and  de- 
termined. And  the  result  of  his  early  enthusiasm  an<l 
application  was  a  scholarship  which  took  him  to  the  Curtis 
Institute  of  Music  in  Philadelphia. 

In  those  days  Conrad's  goal  was  concert  or  opera,  and 
he  was  deeply  gratified  when  the  time  came  for  his  debut 
in  the  Philadelphia  Opera  House. 

"I  made  my  debut  with  Hope  Hampton."  He  laughed, 
rememljering  that  exciting  night.  "I  was  nervous  and 
frightened  and  thrilled — it  was  her  debut,  of  course,  but 
I  thought  of  it  as  mine!" 

Four  years  with  the  opera  company,  with  summers 
spent  in  additional  study  abroad,  gave  him  a  splendid 
foundation,  a  firm  grounding  for  his  success  on  the  air. 

"I  still  thought  opera  was  what  I  wanted,"  he  explained, 
"but  radio  offered  so  much,  there  were  so  many  oppor- 
tunities at  that  time,  I  couldn't  afford  to  turn  them  down. 
I  accepted  ail  I  could  manage  and  soon  had  a  very  crowded 
schedule.  Show  Boat  was,  of  course,  my  first  big  oppor- 
tunity and,  following  that,  the  Philip  Morris  program. 
For  a  while  I  had  four  commercials  a  week,  and  never 
less  than  two  a  week  during  the  next  three  years.  It  was 
too  much,  of  course.  I  had  no  time  to  play,  to  relax,  and 
I  began  to  get  run  down.  But  a  badly  needed  six  months' 
vacation,  at  the  conclusion  of  my  Shozv  Boat  contract,  put 
everything  right  again  ..." 

But  in  spite  of  his  devotion  to  his  career,  Conrad  has 
always  had  very  definite  ideas  about  what  constitutes  a 
well-rounded  life,  and  single-minded  attention  to  a  career 
is,  to  his  way  of  thinking,  merely  selfish. 

"The  normal  goal  for  any  man  is  marriage  and  a 
family,"  he  said  earnestly.  "A  career  doesn't  mean  any- 
thing unless  you  can  share  it  with  someone.  You  have  to 
do  something  for  someone  else  in  order  to  get  anything 
out  of  Hfe.    It  isn't  any  fun  just  doing  it  for  yourself." 

A  part  of  his  French  heritage  is  his  ideal  of  a  family 
and  family  life  and,  to  his  mind,  (Continued  on  page  68) 


Above,  Conrad  proudly  escorts  his  lovely  young 
wife,  the  former  Elinor  Kendall,  to  the  opera. 
As  handsome  a  couple  as  they  ore  happily  wed. 

tfe/ow  l«H,  tKe  joyous  smiles  decorating  both 
these  faces  are  ample  proof  that  their  marriage 
of  less  than  two  years  will  run  a  smooth  course. 

Below,  Conrad's  fierce  expression  is  only  port 
of  his  lusty  song.  His  rich  baritone  is  heard 
Tuesdays  at  9:30  p.m.  EST,  witti  Fred  Astaire. 


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of  tlio  Anno*  W  Aam  sKow.  Sbo  Hos  90110 
to  Polm  Springs*  Oulifuinlui  wbero  tlio 
broodcotts  novo  boon  ortwnofiiiQt  to  loln 
tbom.  4.  Nolson  Eddy  ono  Joonotto  Moc 
Donold  poM  in  o  romantic  scono  from  tho 
oporotto,  Mvffimm,  tboir  lotost  nMStcol 
screen  contribution.  5.  Jolly  Gillotte, 
"the  sponsor's  dauahtor,**  oSves  comedian 
K4ilton  Berle  a  pedL  The/re  both  in  the 
movies  os  well  os  on  the  Commtnuff  Smg*. 


Petite  Elinor 
Sherry  and  Wel- 
come Lewis  ore 
two  of  radio's 
tiniest  singers.  But 
they  both  measure 
up  to  those  on  top. 


Elinor's  three  reg- 
ular programs  are 
heard  on  MBS 
Thursdays  at  9:30 
p.m.  and  at  4:30 
on  Tuesdays.  And 
on  WOR  at  8:30 
Monday  nights. 


SHE  LIVES  ON 
EASY  STREET 

BY    MARGARET  MAHIN 

Elinor  Sherry  sings  the  blues,  but 
not  because  life  hasn't  been  kind 


IT  ALL  has  to  be  rewritten 
for  this  little  girl.  No  rags-to- 
riches,  no  starving  in  garrets, 
no  long  trek  through  Broad- 
way agencies,  no  heartbreaks, 
waiting  for  success. 

Except  for  the  single  fact 
that  she  changed  her  name, 
because  it  was  hard  for  the 
fans  to  spell,  the  story  of  Eli- 
nor Sherry  is  a  series  of  cheer- 
ful contradictions  to  the  usual 
radio  or  stage  formula  for 
fame. 

She's  been  a  professional 
singer  for  almost  ten  years — 
yet  she's  only  twenty-two.  She 
is  the  child  of  stage  parents — 
yet  her  childhood  memories 
are  not  of  dressing-rooms  and 
trains,  but  of  a  pleasant,  nor- 
mal home  with  her  young, 
adoring  grandparents.  She's 


sung  hot  blues  songs  in  night 
clubs  and  theatres,  and  with 
famous  dance  bands  the  coun- 
try over — yet  her  appearance 
is  simple  and  untheatrical,  her 
make-up  confined  to  a  mod- 
erate rouging  of  her  small, 
soft  mouth,  and  light  penciling 
of  the  natural  delicate  line  of 
her  eyebrows.  She  has  a  voice 
that  would  lift  you  out  of  your 
seat — but  she's  only  five  feet 
high. 

And  that  last  contradiction 
is  how  the  professional  career 
of  Elinor  Sherry  began. 

Nine  years  ago  last  Christ- 
mas, Elinor,  then  thirteen, 
was  spending  the  holidays  in 
Chicago.  Her  mother,  May- 
belle  Fisher,  had  left  the  stage 
when  Elinor  was  eight  and 

(Continued  on  page  90) 


THERE'S  NO  GETTING 


THERE  are  two  types  of  stories  about 
radio  personalities,  and  two  types  of 
personalities.  If  you'd  like  to  meet  a 
radio  star  who  thinks  everything  in 
radio  is  just  too  ducky;  who  speaks 
with  unctuous  ooze  to  his  air  audience ; 
and  who  never  says  anything  that  can't 
be  found  in  a  publicity  puff  sheet — then 
you  don't  want  to  meet  Eddie  Fitz- 
gerald. But  if  you'd  like  to  know  a 
fellow  who  tells  his  audience  they  can 
tune  out  if  they  don't  like  him ;  who 
says  pretty  much  what  he  thinks,  pun- 
gently  and  amusingly ;  who  has  gone  on 
record  as  saying  that  sponsors,  on  the 
whole,  are  the  most  inhibited  humans 
alive,  are  a  race  apart  and  are  stuflEed 
shirts — then  allow  me  to  present  Eddie 
Fitzgerald,  a  regular  guy ! 

Heaven  forbid  that  we  should  stir  up 
a  controversy !  But  some  of  the  things 
Eddie  says  bear  out  Bob  Montgomery's 
remarks  in  a  recent  interview,  in  which 
he  took  a  swat  at  some  pet  radio  stu- 
pidities. Eddie  has  a  score  of  expe- 
riences to  tell  about  and  no  reluctance 
about  telling  them.  What's  more,  he's 
the  kind  of  a  fellow  who,  if  you  ask 
whether  or  not  you  can  print  some- 
thing, says:  "Why  not?  I  don't  give 
a  damn." 

Someone  is  bound  to  rise  up  and 
snicker  that  I*"itzgerald  is  sore  at  spon- 
sor^i  because  he  hasn't  one.  But  that's 
wrong  on  both  counts.  Because,  first 
of  all,  Eddie  isn't  sore  about  anything 
— if  you  think  so,  listen  to  his  friendly, 
44 


gay,  impromptu  show — Ed  Fitsgerald 
&  Co.— on  the  Mutual  coast-to-coast 
network  any  day  but  Sunday.  He 
merely  says  what  he  thinks — blithely, 
plainly  and  with  an  amazing  disregard 
for  the  usual  radio  star  reticences.  And 
as  for  not  having  a  sponsor — Eddie 
Fitzgerald  has  perhaps  one  of  the  high- 
est paid  sustaining  acts  in  radio,  with  a 
contract  that  stretches  a  couple  of  years 
ahead,  without  options,  so  he  needn't 
worry  about  bread  and  butter. 

"Just  to  give  you  an  idea,"  he  grins, 
"there  was  the  time  I  auditioned  for  a 
patent  medicine  hour.  (We'll  call  it 
Pepo.)  The  agency  was  hot  about  the 
show  and  I  worked  hard,  writing  a 
script  and  rehearsing.  The  day  came 
to  give  an  audition  to  'Major  Blank' 
for  the  spon.sor.  The  Major  turned  out 
to  be  veddy,  veddy  English,  and  I  went 
into  the  audition  room  while  the  agency 
men  and  the  sponsor  sat  in  the  next 
room.  We  had  a  swell  show  worked 
up  and  I  gave  my  all.  Right  through  the 
performance  I  could  hear  chortles  and 
laughs  through  the  partition.  Then, 
when  we  finished,  the  Major  stalked  in, 
frozen-faced.  'Ah — let's  see  that  script,' 
he  said.  'Take  this  out  .  .  .  and  this 
.  .  .  oh,  this  line  must  come  out.  .  .  .' 
and  so  on,  right  through  the  script, 
leaving  me  only  lines  like:  'And  now 
our  next  number  by  the  orchestra — ' 

"A  date  was  set  for  another  audition, 
and  I  sweated  over  that  script  trying  to 
to  make  it  {Continued  on  page  96) 


BY  JACK 
H  A  N  L  E  Y 


Ed  (jolly  good  fellow) 
Fitzgerald  vocalizes 
with  Dee  Collins,  blues 
singer;  Leo  Freuberg, 
his  orchestra  director, 
and  stooge  Harry  Mack. 


Beautiful  ladies  hold 
no  terrors  for  Ed.  He's 
doing  a  right  good  job 
of  amusing  Misses  Bar- 
bara Lamarr,  Jane  Mur- 
ray and   Grace  Perry. 


RITZr  WITH  ED 


For  this  Fitzgerald  man  is  regular, 


says  what  he  thinks,  always  is  him- 


self and  has  a  grand  sense  of  humor 


Ed  appears  to  be 
getting  much  en- 
joyment from  what 
some  of  the  fans 
hove  to  say  about 
his  MBS  programs, 
Ed  Fitzgerald  & 
Co.,  and  the  Mel- 
ody Treasure  Hunt. 


THE  MAN  WHO 
WAS  LEFT  BEHIND 


BY    GEORGE  KENT 


Milton  J.  Cross,  a  pioneer  announcer 
when  radio  was  a  pup,  has  missed  out 
on  the  big  money,  but  he  doesn't  care! 


Modest  Milton  Cross 
so  sincerely  loves 
children,  music  and 
radio,  that  he  works 
for  the  sheer  joy  of 
it,  not  the  rewards. 


Milton  was  the  first 
^rand  opera  commen- 
tator. He's  still  at  it. 
In  the  Met  radio  box 
he  and  Marcia  Daven- 
port check  the  score. 


Milton  Cross,  M.  C.  of  the 
Sunday  Morning  Children's 
Hour,  tries  out  one  of  the 
bicycles  he  awards  to  his 
young  performers  each  week. 


MILTON  J.  CROSS,  NBC  announcer,  is  the  lad  who's  been 

left  at  the  post  and  likes  it.   He  has  been  passed  by,  but 

he  doesn't  give  a  whoop;  the  job  he  has  is  the  job  he  likes. 
What  he's  missed  is  the  big  money,  but  he  is  confident  that, 
too,  will  be  his  eventually. 

Understand  me.  our  Milt  is  one  of  the  great  announcers,  one 
of  the  big  three  of  four  of  radio.  Station  WJZ  was  little  more 
than  a  tin  can  in  a  packing  case  when  he  began — something  over 
fifteen  years  ago.  He  was  a  veteran  when  Graham  McNamee 
stepped  to  the  microphone  for  the  first  time.  He  saw  Graham 
march  to  great  popularity,  to  nation-wide  fame.  When  money 
in  fabulous  amounts  avalanched  into  McNamee's  lap,  no  one 
got  a  bigger  kick  out  of  it  than  Milton  Cross. 

Jimmy  Wallington,  John  Young,  and  a  score  of  others  were 
also  helped  over  their  first  awkward  moments  by  the  gentle 
Milt.  He  saw  them  grow  and  graduate  to  earnings  many 
times  what  he  was  receiving.  None  of  them  better  than  he, 
few  of  them  possessing  his  sincereity,  his  beautiful  voice,  his 
vast  fund  of  knowledge.  He  was  the  man  who  broadcast  grand 
opera  on  the  radio  for  the  first  time,  who  has  been  at  the  mike 
whenever  opera  has  been  on  the  air  {Continued  on  page  ^6) 

47 


EVE  IN 


STOOPTOPIA 

From  Rye,  N.  Y.,  comes  blonde  Joan 
Banks  to  frolic  with  Stoop  and  Budd 


STOOPTOPIA,  as  you  may  know,  dear  reader,  is  a 
sort  of  super-Utopia  where  everything  is  peachy.  It  is 
the  effortlessly-invented  brain-child  of  a  couple  of  sons  of 
Adam — by  name.  Colonel  Lemuel  Q.  Stoopnagle  and 
Budd.  Eve,  in  case  you're  interested,  is  Miss  Joan  Banks 
and  she  is  the  leading  lassie  in  Stooptopia. 

I  buzzed  over  to  Stooptopia  (in  this  instance,  studio 
8A,  Radio  City,  and  firmly  planted  in  prosaic  New  York 
City)  to  have  a  look  at  Eve,  who  was  something  of  a 
novelty — the  first  woman  ever  to  appear  with  the  stout 
Colonel  and  the  cherubic  Budd. 

There  had  been  considerable  talk  in  radio  circles  about 
the  manner  of  a  woman  who  could  work  with  those  two 
zanies,  but  the  woman  I  saw,  nay  the  girl  I  saw,  was 
definitely  lovely.    She  even  appeared  to  be  sane. 

"Hello,  Bill,"  said  the  Colonel,  who  had  been  talking 
into  a  mike  connected  with  the  control  room.  "Sit  down, 
feller,  and  we'll  be  over  in  a  jif?y.  What,  Pat?"  He 
spoke  into  the  mike  to  Pat  Weaver,  the  agency  man  in 
the  control  room,  then  went  on  reading  from  his  script. 
He  assumed  a  fog-horn  tone.  "  'I'm  the  guy  who  never 
says  anything  about  moustaches  on  people  who  are  growin' 
'em.  Yeeah,  I  never  say  "Mister,  you  could  have  a  base- 
ball game  under  your  nose,  nine  on  a  side — heh,  heh." 
Sure,  that's  what  I  never  say.'  " 

Budd,  back  to  me,  turned  around  and  waved  and  I  sat 
down  prepared  for  the  worst.  You  see,  I've  known  the 
boys  for  about  four  years  and  I'm  not  surprised  at  any- 
thing they  do.   At  least,  I  think  I'm  not  .  .  . 

My  roving  eye  caught  sight  of  a  girl  sitting  on  a  desk 
to  the  right  of  the  broad  control  room  window.  A  blonde. 
Not  the  desk,  but  the  girl,  and  a  right  pretty  girl  at  that. 
She  was  the  only  female  in  the  room,  ergo  she  was  Joan 


Banks,  the  Eve  I  had  come  to  see. 

Harry  Von  Zell,  the  announcer  and  straight  man, 
crooked  a  finger  in  her  direction  and  she  joined  him  at 
the  mik^. 

Now  I  could  see  her  better.  Height :  about  five  feet 
four.  Weight:  I'd  say  about  97,  but  I  couldn't  be  sure  of 
getting  a  cigar  on  the  guess,  just  that  she  wasn't  skinny 
or  fat,  just  nice.  Hair:  blonde  and  tied  in  a  knot  at  the 
back  d  la  Ann  Harding  (she  also  looks  a  bit  like  Miss 
Harding).  Clothes:  dark  blue  something  made  of  crepe 
de  something,  but  definitely  chic.   Total  effect :  slick  stuff 


— I  wish  I  had  a  program  .  .  . 

Her  voice  was  a  kindness  to  the  ear,  but  you  know 
that.  She  handled  her  lines  competently  and  then  stepped 
back  from  the  mike.  As  she  did  so,  she  inadvertently 
glanced  at  the  Colonel,  who  twisted  up  a  grimace  for  her. 
She  shook  with  laughter. 

The  Colonel  pointed  at  me  and  she  came  over. 

"Hello,"  she  said. 

"Hello."  I  answered,  "I'm  here  to  do  a  piece  about  you, 
and  my  name's  Vallee." 

"Oh,"  she  said.  {Continued  on  page  65) 


BY  WILLIAM 
LYNCH  VALLEE 


Two  sons  of  Adam, 
Lemuel  Q.  Stoop- 
nagle  and  his  pal 
Budd,  have  final- 
ly admit+ed  an  Eve 
to  their  land  of 
lunacy.  "We  think 
we've  got  some- 
thing there,"  they 
say.  "She's  aood 
stuff."  And  Joan 
considers  her 
new   job  peachy! 


It 


This  amozing  young  maestro 
never  uses  a  score  while 
broadcasting.  He  gets  his 
smooth  results  by  abetting 
the  message  of  his  hands 
with   his  face  and  eyes. 


When  unknown  Rex  Chandler  was  picked  to  succeed  Fred  Waring 


"WHO'S  Rex  Chandler?" 

For  weeks  around  radio  row  it  was  a 
chant.  Nobody  talked  about  anything 
else.  Apparently  nobody  thought  about 
anything  else.  If  you'd  inquired  your 
way  to  studio  9  C,  or  butted  in  on  a 
strictly  closed  rehearsal,  or  fainted  cold  in  the  middle  of 
a  Radio  City  lobby,  the  chances  are  the  person  next  to  you 
would  have  turned  around  with  a  glassy  look  in  his  eye 
and  said:  "Who's  Rex  Chandler?"  It's  almost  a  wonder 
they  didn't  set  it  to  music  in  eight  parts  and  broadcast  it! 
Heaven  knows,  it  would  have  saved  considerable  energy 
for  all  concerned! 

For  it  seemed  that  somebody  named  Rex  Chandler  had 
suddenly  done  a  very  incredible  and  unprecedented  thing, 
to  wit : 

Following  the  tiff  between  Henry  Ford  and  Fred  War- 
ing over  salary,  it  was  generally  announced  that  Mr.  Ford 
was  in  the  market  for  a  new  band  to  play  on  his  radio 
program.  Now  a  Ford  sponsorship  is  one  of  the  juiciest 
plums  in  the  radio  pie.  So,  in  great  excitement,  the  very 
biggest  orchestra  leaders  in  the  business  dusted  off  their 
batons,  hauled  out  their  danciest  tunes,  their  choicest  ideas 
and  arrangers,  and  concocted  a  batch  of  super-auditions 
that  were  expected  to  knock  the  auto  king  right  off  his 
props.  For  several  weeks  radio  row  was  a  maelstrom  of 
bustle  and  rehearsals  and  secrets,  with  untold  gallons  of 
midnight  oil  being  exhausted  nightly  behind  closed  doors. 

At  last  the  maestros  sat  back  in  torturous  suspense  to 
wait  for  the  results. 
50 


BY  MARY 
WATKINS  REEVES 


And  what  happens?  Some  one  no- 
body ever  heard  of  gets  the  job !  A  man 
named  Rex  Chandler,  with  a  program 
called  Universal  Rhythm.  As  easy  as 
lifting  a  rabbit  out  of  a  hat,  he  assembles 
forty-three  musicians  and  pulls  a  nifty, 
right  under  the  noses  of  the  best  and  most  experienced 
bandleaders  in  radio.  No  politics  about  it,  either.  All  the 
auditions  were  recorded,  with  blank  labels  on  the  discs,  and 
shipped  to  Mr.  Ford  in  Detroit.  In  the  seclusion  of  his 
home  he  listened  to  them  impartially  and  made  his  choice. 

And,  overnight,  an  unknown  maestro — s.  fellow  who'd 
been  an  obscure  church  organist  for  years — was  vaulted  to 
the  top  ranks  of  radio  stardom  and  success.  You  could 
have  knocked  over  a  million  dollars'  worth  of  maestros 
with  a  soft  chord  in  G.  No  wonder  everybody  was  asking : 
"Who's  Rex  Chandler?" 

So  this  was  Rex  Chandler.  A  young  man  who  sat  op- 
posite me  in  his  tmy  office  forty  stories  above  the  wet 
pavements  of  midtown  Manhattan.  A  striking  young 
man,  with  nervous  blue  eyes,  spats,  a  quiet  voice  and  thick, 
straight  hair  the  identical  color  of  a  whiskbroom.  Tall, 
much  too  thin,  obviously  nonplused  by  his  very  first  in- 
terview. Refusing  cigarettes,  chewing  on  little  twists  of 
paper.  Drawing  an  elaborate  map  of  France  to  show  me 
how  far  Bordeaux  is  from  Nantes.  Altogether  as  little 
like  a  radio  star  as  the  bond  salesmen  who  hang  their  hats 
on  the  floor  below,  or  the  architects  who  hang  their  hats  on 
the  floor  below  that. 

Saying,  seriously  and  with  no  {Continued  on  Page  94) 


YOUNG 
MRS. 

ROCKEFELLER 
PILOTS 
A  LOW-WING 
MONOPLANE 


Mrs.  John  W.  Rockefeller,  Jr.,  of  New  York  and  Allen- 
hurst,  is  an  aviation  enthusiast.  She  favors  jodhpurs,  wind- 
breaker,  and  close-fitting  helmet.  Flies  a  low-wing  monoplane. 
Has  had  several  thrilling  experiences  in  the  air.  "I've  been 
caught  in  heavy  fog,"  she  says.  "That's  enough  to  shatter 
anybody's  nerves.  My  first  thought,  when  I  put  my  feet  on 
firm  ground,  was  to  smoke  a  Camel.  Smoking  Camels  eases 
up  my  nervous  tension  —  sets  me  right  again.  I  can  smoke 
all  I  like  —  and  they  never  tire  my  taste.  'I'd  walk  a  mi 
for  a  Camel'  —  and a  thousand!" 


A  few  of  the  dislinguished  tvomen  ivho  prefer 
Cdnicl's  cost  Her  tobaccos: 

Mrs.  Nic  holas  Bi.l.ll,-,  I'lula.lrlplna  A  l,  v:„„l,.r  Ula.  k,  Las  Anf!eles 

Mrs.  I'nwell  Cal,.,!,  H„.,„n  Mr-.   Ih..„,.-  M.  1  .,r,„f!„.,  Jr. ,  Vf,,  VorA: 

Mrs.  J.  Gar.IncrC.oIi.l^..  Jm.L  /)„<f,.n        Mr-.   X.ilh.MU  ,K  I  )r.  \,  l    r.l ,  l^hU,,,!,  !/,!,,,! 

Mrs.  Ja-per  M...-,in,  \.  „   1,,,/.  .Mr-.  M.  I. ..la- ( i.  I >.  iiii iman  11 1,  Ba/dmore 

Mrs.  Louis  Suifl,  Jr.,  i.huufi,,  Mrs.  linlii,  I'ain,-  S|.al,lin{;  Wl.  Pasadena 

Mrs.  Brookfiria  Van  R.-ns.,  la,  r,  A.  u  )  „rA- 


FOR  DIGESTIONS  SAKE... 
SMOKE  CAMELS! 


R((()M  at  the  Hold  Pierre.  Mr.-., 
the  foreground.  When  she  enter- 
go  wilh  cxciy  course.  Mild  and 
-  ;i.  .  i  nl  llaM.rs  in  food. They  also 
.  I  111  I  l  a-i  n-  ilii-  flow  of  digestive 
;  up  alkalinity.  Camels  are  over- 
wlielniingly  popular  at  the  Pierre,  as  at  other 
famous  restaurants.  Mrs.  Rockefeller  says: 
"When  I  give  a  dinner  or  after-theatre  supper  — 
whether  here  or  at  home— it's  Camels  that  I  serve." 


The  Cori 

Rork.-frll, 
tain..s,  Cai 
deiicale.  ( 
help  (ligc 
fluids,  liu 


j\     Camels  are  made  from 
finer,  MORE  EXPENSIVE 
TOBACCOS  -  Turkish 
and  Domestic— than  any 
other  popular  brand 


RADIO  STARS 


Have  YOU  registered  your  radio 
preferences?  Just  let  your  feelings 
be  known  in  fifty  words  or  less,  and 
be  sure  to  state  your  name,  address 
and  occupation.  Address :  QUERY 
EDITOR,  Radio  Stars,  149  Madison 
Avenue,  Mew  York,  X.  Y. 


Doris  Gustafson,  No.  Grosvenordale, 
Conn.  (Mill  Worker.)  "Guy  Lombardo. 
in  my  opinion,  has  the  sweetest  band  on 
the  networks,  and  plays  the  sweetest  music 
this  side  of  heaven." 

Clifford  Brier,  Napcrville,  III.  "There 
IS  only  one  program  which  nothing  on 
earth  can  make  me  miss,  and  that  is 
Ry-Krisp  Presents  Marion  Talley.  Miss 
Talley  is,  without  a  single  doubt,  the  most 
enchanting  singer  on  the  air.  Xo  matter 
what  she  sings,  she  sings  it  so  divinely  and 
sympathetically  that  all  who  listen  can't 
help  but  adore  her." 

Mrs.  Walter  W.  Stauffacher,  Monroe, 
Wis.  (Housewife.)  "I'm  a  young  wife  and 
mother,  and  maybe  that  is  the  reason  I  like 
'he  program,  Vic  and  Sade,  as  I  do.  Such 
a  homey,  loveable,  laughable  family ! 
They're  on  the  air  twice  daily,  and  I  listen 
in  both  times." 

Johnny  Wilbur,  Auburn,  Wash.  "The 
best  singer,  who  also  has  the  most  alluring 
voice,  is  Frances  Langford.  She's  the  tops 
in  radio,  and  I  never  miss  her  songs  on 
Hollywood  Hotel." 

Elfsabeth  Montgomery,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
(Artist.)  "I'd  like  to  come  through  with  a 
word  of  praise  for  my  favorite.  There 
never  has  been,  and  never  will  be,  anyone 
to  compare  with  Xelson  Eddy.  He  has 
everything — a  perfect  voice,  swell  person- 
ality and  grand  looks.  He  has  brought 
us  music  we  all  love  and  has  taught  us  to 
love  it,  and  him.  the  more." 

M.  V.  Haas,  Detroit,  Mich.  (Librarian.) 

"Here's  a  word  for  one  of  the  finest  sing- 
ers on  the  networks — Tito  Guizar!  His 
programs  over  CBS  are  a  lare  combination 
of  classical,  popular  and  Latin  melodies, 
all  beautifully  rendered." 

June  Oldham,  Geistown,  Pa.  (Student.) 

"Just  give  me  Bing  Crosby's  Kyajt  Music 
HaU  and  that's  all  1  ask  from  radio.  This 
show  is  Variety  with  a  capital  Ring's 
informal  manner  and  the  absence  of  a 
studio  audience  make  his  program  tops.  He 
has  a  grand  voice  and  certainly  is  a  master 
at  the  art  of  elocution." 

Agnes 'Gearhart,  Toledo,  Ohio.  "I  think 
Rudy  \^allee's  programs  are  the  best  to  be 
had.  His  guest  artists  are  sure  to  please, 
and  Rudy's  singing  is  second  to  none.  As 
he  so  ably  and  deftly  directs  his  programs, 
he  seems  to  stand  right  before  us  in  our 
homes.  I'm  sure  that  television  can  never 
bring  him  closer  to  us  than  he  now  seems 
to  be.  There  are  many  great  orchestras 
and  leaders  on  the  air,  but  Rudy  beats 
them  all  a  mile." 

Gerald  Waltz,  York,  Pa.  (Vocal 
Student.)  "I  have  but  one  favorite  radio 
program — Eddie  Cantor's — because  of  the 
clean  humor  and  entertainment.  I  want  to 
congratulate  Eddie  on  finding  Deanna 
Durbin,  most  sensational  singer  of  her  age." 


WHAT 
THEY 
LISTEN 
TO-AND 
WHY 


Lenore  De  Wyre,  Delta,  Ohio.  (At 
Home.)  "My  preference  in  dance  bands 
is  Benny  Goodman's,  whose  rollicking 
clarinet  has  no  equal.  Mary  Martin  is  my 
favorite  among  daytime  serials,  and  Jack 
Benny  furnishes  the  best  comedy  hour  on 
the  radio." 

Phily  Vernot,  West  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
(Baker.)  "My  hat  is  ofif  to  Fats  Waller 
and  his  rhythm.  He  is  the  best  of  those 
who  make  a  piano  give  out  rhythm.  Let's 
have  more  of  him !" 

Helen  Paz  Derka,  Farmington,  Mich. 
(High  School  Student.)     "I  like  the  new 

program.  Do  You  ]\'ant  To  Be  an  Actor? 
It  has  helped  me  in  niy  school  dramatics. 
I  also  study  voice,  and  listen  to  such  musi- 
cal programs  as  the  Chesterfield  Hour, 
Shoii'  Boat  and  the  Cities  Serriee  con- 
certs." 

Marie  E.  Wittmeyer,  Eden,  N.  Y.  (At 
Home.)  "My  favorite  program  is  Slunt.' 
Boat,  and  I  can't  think  of  a  better  reason 
than  Lanny  Ross.  He's  great!  In  fact, 
the  best  there  is,  or  could  be." 

Elva  Gould,  Kenmore,  N.  Y.  "Xothing 
on  the  air  is  more  soothing  to  the  cars  than 
Frances  Langford's  sweet  cdinralto  voice. 
I  haven't  missed  a  HollyieonJ  Ih'lel  broad- 
cast since  she  joined  it.  " 

Margaret  Trebiana,   Sharon   Hill,  Pa. 

"I  like  any  program  that  has  Conrad  Thi- 
bault  on  it.  He  is,  in  my  opinion,  the  best 
male  singer  on  the  air.  It  is  a  shame  he 
doesn't  have  a  program  of  his  own." 

Mrs.  G.  Armstrong,  Flint,  Mich.  (At 
Home.)  "That  grand  showman  of  the  air, 
Rudy  Vallee,  is  my  favorite.  He  handles 
his  variety  show  with  great  finesse.    It  is 


smartly  conceived,  intelligently  directed 
and  graciously  presented.  And  no  one 
can  put  over  a  song  quite  like  Rudy." 

Helen  B.  Goedeke,  Racine,  Wis.    "I  am 

an  ardent  listener  to  the  Luni  and  Abner 
program.  When  I  receive  so  much  enjoy- 
ment day  after  day,  I  think  the  least  I 
can  do  is  to  express  my  thanks — and  per- 
haps draw  the  attention  of  a  few  others  to 
the  happy  moments  in  store  for  them  if 
they,  too,  will  listen  in." 

-♦- 

Marie  Anne  Pfarr,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

(Stenographer.)  "The  shortest  half  hour 
in  radin  is  the  iiruurani  of  Fred  Waring 
,'iid  his  Peiiiisyli-iniunis.  He  always  man- 
ages to  make  this  thirty  minutes  an  out- 
standing musical  presentation." 

Adelina  Priest,  Dallas,  Tex.  "The 
Chesterfield  program,  starring  Xino  Mar- 
lini,  is  my  special  favorite  because  of  the 
superb  singing  of  Mr.  Martini,  who,  in 
my  opinion,  is  the  world's  greatest  tenor. 
My  second  choice  is  the  Metropolitan 
Opera  broadcast.  It  is  a  rare  privilege  to 
hear  these  fine  singers  direct  from  the 
stage  of  the  Met." 

Mary  Galumbus,  Gary,  Ind.  (Social 
Worker.)  "Jessica  Dragonette  is  a  guiding 
light  for  our  youth  of  today,  with  her 
charming  personality  and  lovely  voice. 
This  sentiment  is  expressed  by  the  Jessica 
Dragonette  Xational  Fan  Club,  composed 
of  over  5,000  members." 

V.  Jane  Luciano,  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass. 

(Typist.)  "Hollyu'ood  Hotel  is  my  idea 
of  the  perfect  hour,  and  the  reason  is  that 
little  bundle  of  torch,  my  favorite,  Frances 
Langford.  I  wouldn't  trade  one  of  her 
songs  for  all  other  programs  put  together, 
because  she's  simply  'swell.'  " 

Roberta  Kuchta,  Chicago,  111.  "I  thrill 
at  his  cheery  welcome  of  'Good  evening,' 
then  I  am  found  in  moods  of  gaiety,  sad- 
ness and  romance ;  and  I  am  a  little  sad  at 
his  farewell :  "From  all  of  us  to  all  of  you, 
good  night  and  good  luck.'  Who?  Why, 
Xelson  Eddy,  of  course." 

Josephine    Reilly,    Grantwood,    N.  J. 

"Rudy  X'allee's  Variety  Hour  is  my  favor- 
ite. The  things  I  like  about  Mr.  Vallee 
are :  His  diction,  personality,  singing, 
showmanship  and  the  music  of  his  Con- 
necticut ]'ankees." 

Rose  Deim,  Detroit,  Mich.  (High  School 
Student.)  "I  never  fail  to  listen  to  any 
program  that  Frank  Parker  is  on,  because 
he  has  a  voice  that  can  never  be  equaled. 
Secondly,  I'll  choose  Jack  Benny  for 
comedy,  and  Helen  Hayes  for  drama." 

William  Cohen,  Clayton,  N.  J.  (Music 
Student.)  "My  choice  is  Eddie  Cantor, 
with  his  'adopted  son,'  Bobby  Brcen,  and 
Deanna  Durbin  of  the  thrillingly  lovely 
voice.  They,  along  with  James  Walling- 
ton  and  Jacques  Renard's  orchestra,  bring 
a  half  hour's  fun  and  enjoyment  into  the 
homes  of  thousands." 

Victoria  Hunt,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  "My 

favorite  radio  star?  Well,  that's  easy.  It 
was  the  glorious  voice  and  warm  person- 
ality of  Richard  Crooks  that  first  drew  me 
to  the  radio  at  all,  and  now,  after  several 
jears,  this  young  tenor  still  tops  my  list." 
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RADIO  STARS 


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COME  TO  HOLLYWOOD 


BY   JACK  SMALLEY 


Do  you  want  +0  meet  the  stars  of  radio  and  cinema  and  see  them  at  work? 
Then  come  to  Hollywood!  Three  stars  of  the  Universal  musical,  Top  of 
fhe  Town,  Hugh  Herbert,  Gregory  Ratoff  and  George  Murphy  (left  to  right) 
relax  between  tgkes.  They  just  can't  tear  themselves  away  from  the  camera. 

DID  you  know  that  Bob  Burns  is  the 
best  dressed  hill-billy  on  the  air?  That 
Bing  Crosby  always  wears  a  hat  while 
broadcasting?  That  Lnm  and  Abncr  aren't 
old  rubes  at  all,  but  clever  young  men? 

Maybe  you  know  all  these  things,  but 
now's  your  chance  to  see  these  folks  with 
your  own  eyes,  and  lots  of  other  famous 
NBC  stars  as  well.  For  Radio  Stars 
Magazine  is  sponsoring  a  series  of  thrilling 
vacation  trips  to  Hollywood  to  meet  not 
only  the  screen  stars,  but  the  celebrities  of 
radioland  as  well. 

Every  one,  at  some  time  or  another,  has 
tuned  in  on  a  zippy  Hollywood  program, 
and  thought :  "Wouldn't  it  be  fun  to  go  to 
California  !"  Our  plans  make  your  daydream 
so  easy  to  come  true  that  this  time  you 
might  as  well  make  up  your  mind  to  take 
that  trip  !  So  let's  get  right  down  to  cases 
and  mark  the  date  on  the  calendar  for 
this  summer's  vacation.  Here  is  the  plot : 

Choose  the  best  time  for  your  vacation 
and  the  state  of  your  pocketbook.  The 
first  2-weeks'  tour  leaves  Chicago  on  July 
11th,  the  second  2-weeks'  tour  leaves 
Chicago  on  August  1st,  and  the  third, 
requiring  only  eleven  days,  leaves  Chicago 
on  August  15th.  Costs  of  the  two- 
weeks'  tours  are  as  low  as  $167,  and  for 
the  briefer  trip,  $137. 

To  begin  with,  it  is  our  object  to  make 
every  minute  of  the  trip  something  to 
remember  with  pleasure.  To  break  the  long 
journey  out,  the  first  tours  stop  at  Denver, 
Colorado  Springs  and  Salt  Lake  City,  and 


include  on  the  way  back  a  visit  to  Yosemite 
National  Park. 

Long  before  you  leave  the  prairies  and 
strike  into  the  great  Rockies,  you'll  all  be 
acquainted,  for  the  tour  conductor  comes 
3 long  to  see  that  you  have  a  good  time. 
He  looks  after  everything,  from  hotel  rooms 
to  luggage,  so  that  after  you  pay  your 
money  you  can  leave  worries  behind. 

Once  in  Hollywood,  of  course,  you'll  find 
every  minute  crowded. 

First  of  all,  there's  the  tour  to  the 
Universal  Studios,  to  see  movies  in  the 
making.  And  here's  a  tip — be  sure  to  look 
up  the  Universal  pictures  now  showing,  so 
that  when  you  get  on  the  lot  you'll  know 
where  the  big  sets  were  used  and  in 
what  films.  You'll  recognize  at  a 
glance  the  Universal  stars  who  played 
in  them,  and  your  enjoyment  will  be  in- 
creased. Top  of  the  Toivn,  big  musical  of 
the  year,  studded  with  stars,  is  otie  of  the 
pictures  you  must  see  before  you  come,  so 
that  we  can  answer  your  questions  on  how 
it  was  made. 

Luncheon  will  be  served  you  at  Universal, 
and  then  we'll  be  off  to  radioland — the 
modernistic  new  NBC  studios  between  the 
RKO  and  Paramount  lots  in  the  heart 
of  Hollywood.  We  want  to  make  this  trip 
Thursday,  as  Bing  Crosby  and  Bob  Burns 
will  be  rehearsing  for  the  Kraft  Music 
Hall.  Many  other  NBC  stars  are  going  to 
be  on  hand  to  welcome  you — Linn  and 
Abner,  Don  Ameche,  Marion  Talley, 
{Continued  on  page  95) 


RADIO  STARS 


She  thought  it  was"Another  Woman 


.  .  .  till  her  Doctor  told  her 

the  Truth  about 
Intimate  Feminine  Cleanliness 


"iy  yTY  HUS  BAND  is  cruel,"  she  told 
JLVJ.  the  doctor.  "He  no  longer 
loves  me." 

How  mistaken  she  was!  It  was  just 
because  he  did  love  her,  and  couldn't  be 
cruel,  that  they  had  been  drifting  apart. 
How  could  he  tell  her  that  she  was  the 
only  "other  woman"  in  the  case  .  .  .  that 
she  had  changed,  in  one  important  way, 
from  the  girl  he  had  married? 

Often  wives  fail  to  realize  that  after 
marriage  there  is  a  special  obligation  to 
be  dainty  and  fastidious.  The  more  ten- 
der love  is,  the  more  easily  it  may  be 
bruised  by  "little"  neglects,  that  are  so 
hard  to  put  into  words. 

Many  family  doctors — and  many  hus- 
bands, too — know  that  one  of  the  enemies 
of  happiness  is  the  wife's  neglect  of  inti- 
mate cleanliness  at  all  times.  One  can 
talk  about  superficial  things  like  clothes, 


or  complexions.  But  not  of  intimate 
things  like  feminine  hygiene. 

If  you  have  been  seeking  a  method  of 
feminine  hygiene  that  is  wholesome  and 
cleansing,  ask  your  doctor  about  "Lysol" 
disinfectant.  For  more  than  50  years  this 
scientific  preparation  has  been  the  choice 
of  many  doctors,  and  millions  of  women. 

Among  many  good  reasons  for  this 
are  these  six  essential  qualities  which 
"Lysol"  disinfectant  provides — 


The  6  Special  Features  of  "Lysol" 

1.  NoN-CAUSTic..."Lysol"in  the  proper  dilu- 
tion, is  gentle  in  action.  It  contains  no  harm- 
ful free  caustic  alkali. 

2.  Effectiveness... "Lysol"  is  active  under 
practical  conditions ...  in  the  presence  ot 
organic  matter(such  as  dirt, mucus, serum, etc.). 

3.  Penetration... "Lysol"  solutions  spread 
because  of  low  surface  tension,  and  thus  vir- 
tually search  out  germs. 

4.  Economy... "Lysol,"  because  it  is  concen- 
trated, costs  less  than  one  cent  an  application 
in  the  proper  solution  for  feminine  hygiene. 

5.  Odor... The  cleanly  odor  of  "Lysol"  van- 
ishes promptly  after  use. 

6.  Stability... "Lysol"  keeps  its/i/// strength 
no  matter  how  long  it  is  kept,  no  matter  how 
often  it  is  uncorked. 

• 

New!  Lysol  Hygienic  Soap  for  bath,  hands, 
and  complexion.  Cleansing  and  deodorant. 


FACTS    ALL    WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

Lehn  Si  Kink  Products  Corp., 

Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  U.S.A.  Dept.S-R.S. 

Sole  Distributors  of  "I.ysol"  disinfectant 

Please  send  me  the  book  called  "LYSOL 
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FOR   FEMININE  HYGIENE 


Narni. 
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Vontlbotsmef 

thats  the  6tt  one  today 


KLEENEX 
HABIT 

reduces  handkerchief 
washing  during  colds 

•  Every  woman  knows  washing  dozens  of 
handkerchiefs  during  colds  is  no  joking  mat- 
ter. All  the  more  reason  to  adopt  the  Kleenex 
Habit  the  instant  sniffles  start.  It  saves  noses, 
for  Kleenex  Tissues  are  soft  and  soothing.  It 
saves  money;  costs  less  than  laundering.  And 
of  course  it  reduces  handerchief  washing. 

Here's  one  habit  that's  good  for  the  whole 
family !  For  Kleenex  tends  to  retain  germs, 
thus  checks  the  spread  of  colds  through 
the  family.  Simply  use  each  tissue  once— then 
destroy,  germs  and  all. 


Keep  Kleenex  in  Every  Room 
And  In  Your  Car,  too 

To  remove  face  creams  and  cos- 
metics .  .  .  To  apply  powder, 
rouge . .  .To  dust  and  polish . . . 
For  the  hiLhy ...  And  in  the  car- 
lo wipe  hands,  windshield  and 
  greasy  spots. 


No  waste/  No  mess/ 
Pull  a  tissue  —  the 
next  one  pops  up 
ready  for  use/ 


KLEENEX 

A  disposable  tissue  made  of 
Cellucotton  (not  cotton) 


NOTHING  BUT 
THE  TRUTH? 


How  do  air  artists  answer  these  queries? 


Hrances  Longford,  loveiy  singing  star  of  the  Hollywood  Hof^l  program, 
pictured  in  o  tranquil  mood  in  the  living-room  of  her  Hollywood  home. 


In  your  opinion,  which  is  the  most 
original  program  on  the  air,  and 
why? 


Milton  Brrlc:  "Easy  Aces.  Their  ma- 
terial is  always  fresh  and  funny,  and  they 
have  no  important  imitators." 

Tom  Howard:  "/  think  the  Ripley  Pro- 
gram is  the  most  original  because  it  brings 
into  our  prosaic  homes  the  tm-prosaic,  in 
people  and  world  events." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Fred  Allen's  program, 
because  he  writes  all  his  own  show;  be- 
cause he  and  Portland  each  have  a  dis- 
tinctive style  of  delivery;  and  because  he's 
the  most  brilliant  and  unusual  humorist 
in  the  business." 

.Sid  Silvers:  "March  of  Time,  because 
it  doesn't  have  any  jokes." 

Frank  Parker :    "Jack  Benny's,  because 


no  one  ever  knoivs  ivhcn  Jack  ivill  put  in 
an  ad  lib  gag  and  break  up  the  company." 

Horace  Heidi:  "In  my  opinion  the 
most  original  program  on  the  air  is  any 
one  by  FranMin  Roosevelt.  He  brought  to 
radio  new  ideas  that  swayed  a  nation.  He 
also  brought  to  radio  the  finest  and  most 
convincing  speaking  voice  and  has  the 
largest  listening  audience.  His  program  is 
not  a  fad — it  will  last  forever." 

Joan  Blaine:  "One  Man's  Family— it 
dares  to  picture  family  life  exactly  as  it 
IS  lived,  without  sublimation  or  frills,  and 
therefore  brings  the  listeners  something  as 
vital  as  it  is  refreshing." 

Abe  Lyman :  "Phillips  Lord's  We,  The 
People,  because  of  the  unusual  personalities 
ii  presents  in  an  individual  manner." 

Lennie  Hay  ton:  "Because  of  the  origi- 
nality, pace  and  style  of  his  programs, 
those  of  Andre  Kostelanetz  are  the  most 


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original."  , 

7'i-(/  Maloiie:  "Strange,  I  can't  think  of 
a  single  one  with  even  a  semblance  of 
originality." 

Loretta  Lee :  "Uncle  Jim's  Question  Bee 
— because  it  makes  use  of  an  educational 
theme,  ivhich  might  very  ivell  be  dull 
stuff,  and  turns  it  into  a  completely  inter- 
esting and  entertaining  radio  program.  It 
is  a  popular  version  of  the  Book  of 
Knowledge,  transplanted  to  the  entertain- 
ment field." 

Eddy  Duchin:  "The  Court  of  Human 
Relations — human  interest." 

-♦- 

Mario  Draggiotti:  "That  of  Andre 
Kostelantz,  because  he's  unsurpassed." 

Art  \'an  Harvey :  "Lum  and  Abner. 
They  are  so  true  to  life.  Their  material, 
characters  and  acting  are  so  natural  one 
forgets  he  is  listening  to  a  broadcast  from 
a  studio." 

Phillips  Lord:  "I  believe  We,  The 
People  is  a  most  original  program  because 
it  is  of,  by  and  for  the  people.  The  folks 
appearing  on  the  program  are  ordinary 
listeners,  they  are  chosen  by  listeners  just 
like  themselves,  and  if  the  audience 
doesn't  like  its  choice  of  selections,  it  has 
only  itself  to  blame." 

Del  Casino:  "Do  You  Want  to  Be  nn 
Actor?" 

Willie  Morris :  "The  Packard  Hour 
zi'ith  Fred  Astaire,  because  it  is  a  com- 
plete shoiv  and  includes  all  phases  of  en- 
tertainment." 

Jack  Fulton:  "My  choice  for  the  most 
original  program  on  the  air  would  be 
Personal  Column  of  the  Air,  written  by 
Octavus  Roy  Cohen." 

Ozzie  Xelson:  "I  get  a  kick  out  of 
Kraft  Music  Hall.  I  think  its  informality 
is  refreshing." 

Meredith  Willson :  "Meet  the  Orchestra 
because  it  is  prepared  entirely  by  thr 
members  of  the  orchestra.  The  bass  player 
writes  hilarious  continuity.  The  trumpet 
player  announces  and  the  musicians  take 
turns  stomping  off.  It  is  fresh,  youthful, 
exhilarating  enterta in m cut!" 

Virginia  Verrill:  "In  my  opinion  the 
most  original  program  on  the  air  is  The 
March  of  Time.  It  conveys  to  the  world 
by  air,  the  daily  happenings  in  such  an 
original  way  that  listeners  can  not  only 
hear,  but  also  visualize  the  events." 

Jack  Pearl:  "I  can't  think,  offhand,  of 
any  original  program  with  sufficient  uni- 
versal appeal  to  be  seriously  considered 
among  important  air  shows." 
~^ 

Clyde  Barrie :  "Columbia  Work  Shop, 
because  of  its  general  explanation  of  the 
mysteries  of  radio." 

Richard  Himber:  "Rudy  Vallee's  pro- 
gram. He  inaugurated  the  variety  idea 
and  is  always  one  step  ahead  of  the  next 
guy." 

Anne  Seymour:  "I'ic  and  Sade.  Be- 
cause it.  only  has  three  characters  and  has 
been  on  for  years.  The  performances  are 
simple  and  the  program  never  fails  to  en- 
tertain." 


•  "Loofc/  See  ichal  she's  got  in  her  pocket... her  baby!  Isn't  he  lucky 
—alicays  going  riding!  Oj  course,  he  must  rub  up  and  doicn  a  bit 
when  she  jumps.  Vll  bet  his  seat  gets  chajed!^'' 


what  to  do  jor  that,  Mrs.  Kangaroo?  Vll  tell  you  — just 
sprinkle  him  good  ivith  soft,  slick  Johnson''s  Baby  Potvder.  It  makes 
any  baby  feel  great!  Let  me  put  some  on  him— Vll  be  very  careful.''^ 


•  ^^There!  ...Doesn''t  he  feel  nice— doesn't  he  smell  nice?...  And  no 
more  rashes  or  chafes  or  prickly  heat  for  him.  Hell  be  so  good  you 
can  put  him  in  your  pocket  and  forget  him  /" 


•  '^Feel  my  Johnsoii'.s  Baby  Poivder— isn't  it  lorely  and  downy 
and  soft?  \ever  gritty  like  some  powders.  It  keeps  a  baby's  skin 
just  perfect !''  And  that.  Mothers,  is  the  surest  protection  against 
skin  infections!  Johnson's  Baby  Powder  is  made  of  the  finest 
Italian  talc— no  orris-root.  Babies  need  Johnson's  Baby  Soap, 
Baby  Cream  and  Babv  Oil.  too! 


NEW  DRUNSW  IC 


RADIO  STARS 


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Makes  Women 
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r 

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Test  To  Combat  Dry  Skin 
— Shiny  Nose  —  Blackheads 
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Smart  women  no  longer  just  submit  to  the 
tragedy  of  old  looking  "Dead-Skin"  so  often 
hastened  by  our  modern,  exciting  life  and 
mode  of  living,  which  frequently  makes  a 
skin  look  40  at  25  and  loses  that  smooth, 
youthful  allure  that  men  admire.  If  you 
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wrinkly,  shiny  nose,  or  scaly  skin  that  pow- 
der won't  stay  on.  blackheads,  enlarged 
pores,  muddy  complexion  you  are  certain  to 
look  years  older  than  you  are. 
No  matter  what  you  have  tried  you  owe  it 
to  yourself  to  make  this  3  day  "DEAD-SKIN" 
guaranteed  test  .  .  .  The  minute  you  start 
cleansing  with  a  new  beautifier,  TAYTON'S 
TRIPLE-WHIP  CREAM,  it  releases  precious 
ingredients,  which  sink  deep  into  the  mouths 
of  the  pores  and  which,  like  nature's  own 
oils,  helps  keep  the  skin  soft,  supple,  clean 
and  more  youthful  looking.  TAYTON'S 
TRIPLE-WHIP  CREAM  melts  and  absorbs 
and  thus  removes  the  dry,  dead  cells  of  your 
skin  so  that  it  is  left  clean  and  smooth.  By 
stimulating  the  underskin.  rousing  the  oil 
glands,  cleansing  and  freeing  clogged  pores, 
the  cause  of  blackheads  and  prematurely  ag- 
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That's  why  TAYTON'S  TRIPLE-WHIP 
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cases. 

Make  This  Guaranteed  Test 

Use  TAYTON'S  TRIPLE-WHIP  CREAM  to 
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It  must  make  your  skin  look  years  younger,  sat- 
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you  have  been  looking  for,  or  you  merely  return 
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Ask  for  TAYTON'S  TRIPLE-WHIP  CREAM  In 
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If  your  dealer  can  not  supply  you  with  TAYTON 
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Don  Wilson:  "The  Jell-0  Program— 
because  its  star,  Jack  Benny,  is  the  origi- 
nator of  the  suave  style  of  comedy  and 
'kidding'  of  the  product." 


If  you  and  radio  should  no  longer 
be   connpatible,   what   would  you 
choose  as  a  substitute  career,  and 
why? 


Marion  Talley :"Aher  all.  I  have  a  1600- 
acre  wheat  farm  in  Kansas,  if  it  hasn't 
Mown  away.  ' 

Harry  Von  Zell :  "Advertising  and  writ- 
ing, sifice  tny  radio  experience  has  more  or 
less  adequately  prepared  me  for  such 
ivork." 

Richard  Himber:  "I'm  a  back  seat 
driver  in  the  field  of  movies.  I  like  to 
pick  out  flaws  in  motion  pictures  and  make 
mental  suggestions  as  to  how  they  could 
be  remedied.  Frankly,  I_  must  admit  that 
some  day  I  should  like  to  leave  radio  and 
have  a  stab  at  movie  direction  (Milestone, 
Capra  and  Me)." 

Meredith  Willson:  "Writing  music,  I 
guess.  Once  a  musician,  always  a  musi- 
cian." 

Kathryn  Cravens:  "JJ'riting.  Experi- 
ence and  hundreds  of  inter^'iczt's  7vitli  out- 
standing personalities  should  gij'c  me  the 
material  for  nezvspapei  s  and  inagacines — 
perhaps  a  book." 

Ozzie  Nelson:  "Law.  On  account  of  I 
spent  seven  years  of  earnest  endeavor 
preparing  for  it." 

Jack  Fulton:  "The  tailoring  business." 

Mario  Braggiotti :  "/  zvould  choose  to 
be  an  explorer  for  health,  nature  and  ad- 
lenture." 

Meri  Bell:  "Designing.  First,  because 
it  would  not  hamper  or  disturb  my  very 
happy  married  life — and  because  I  have 
designed  my  own  clothes  successfully  for 
several  years." 

Eddy    Dnchin:      "Pharmacy — prepared 
for  it  in  college." 

Ted  Malone :  "The  sales  game,  I  think, 
to  earn  my  bread,  but  the  ivriting  game  to 
earn  my  happiness." 

Ireene  Wicker:  "I  should  like  to  try 
the  stage,  because  of  the  opportunity  it 
affords  to  create  and  sustain  characteriza- 
tion. And  I  should  like  to  make  a  few 
movies  because,  strangely  enough,  I  should 
think  they  would  make  you  both  see  and 
hear  all  your  faults,  and  thus  help  you  to 
improve." 

Lennie  Hayton:  "Night  clubs  and  thea- 
tres." 

Leo  Reisman :  "/  zvould  choose  any 
other  medium  through  ivhich  the  projection 
of  sound  is  possible." 

Abe  Lyman:    "My  incompatibility  with      fore  entering  i 
radio  would  have  but  little  effect  upon  my 
career,  but  I  wouldn't  mind  being  a  fight 
promoter." 

Helen  Jepson:  "Opera  or  raising  rab- 
bits." 


hard  ivork  put  into  golf  that  is  put  into 
radio  would  make  a  person  a  Class  A 
golfer,  would  give  him  enjoyment,  re- 
sourcefulness and  income." 

Sid  Silvers:  "Baseball.  Because  I  love 
it  and  can't  play  it." 

Tom  Hozvard:  "I  think  I'd  like  to  own 
snd  manage  a  small  hotel  in  a  small  town, 
because  I  enjoy  meeting  people  and  study- 
ing human  nature,  and  I  enjoy  playing 
host." 

Loretta  Lee :  "After  the  hectic  years  of 
radio,  I  zfould  probably  welcome  the  op- 
portunity to  settle  doivn  to  a  more  normal 
existence  of  bridge,  backgammon  and 
babies." 

Milton  Berle:  "Would  become  a  song- 
writer. Have  collaborated  on  several  songs 
and  enjoy  this  occupation  thoroughly." 

Jack  Pearl:  "I  would  go  back  to  the 
stage.  I  have  long  yearned  for  an  oppor- 
tunity to  re-enter  the  theatre.  But,  if  I 
go  back,  I  would  like  to  fulfill  a  lifelong 
ambition  of  mine  and  do  a  legitiinate  role. 
I  have  had  countless  musical  comedy 
ofYers.  However,  that  no  longer  appeals 
to  me." 

Willie  Morris :  "Musical  comedy.  I 
prefer  a  z'isible  audience,  enjoy  good  musi- 
cal shozi's  and  I  like  to  be  able  to  get  an 
audience's  reaction." 

-*■' 

Clyde  Barrie:  "Concert  and  opera — for 
which  I  originally  prepared." 

Virginia  Verrill:  "As  a  substitute 
career,  I  would  choose  motion  pictures 
because  I  could  hold  my  audience  through 
the  picture  medium." 

-♦- 

Del  Casino:  "Wall  Street.  I  ivorked 
seven  years  in  a  brokerage  house." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Continuing  with  sing- 
ing. I  should  like  grand  opera  and  if  not 
that,  interior  decorating  has  always  ap- 
pealed to  me." 

Frank  Parker:  "The  films,  principally 
because  the  mediums  are  so  closely  identi- 
fied." 

Joan  Blaine :  "/  zvould  zvrite,  because 
it  has  always  been  my  second  love,  and 
because  it  is  smncihini/  that  can  be  done 
without  ostentation  and  loliile  one  lives  a 
normal  and  deltghtful  home  life." 

Phillips  Lord:  "I  believe  I  would  go 
into  either  stage  or  motion  picture  pro- 
duction because  I  feel  that,  like  the  radio, 
it  would  be  a  means  of  self-expression.  And 
I  would  enjoy  bringing  pages  of  type- 
written matter  to  life  in  this  way." 

Anne  Seymour:  "I  should  try  to  be  a 
writer.  I  try  now,  but  not  ft)  much  avail. 
But  perhaps  if  I  had  to  earn  cakes  and 
ale  I  might  settle  down  to  work." 

Art  Van  Harvey :  "Advertising.  1  was 
publisher's  representative  for  years  be- 

^rp   mfri'inn  rnHin  " 


Don  Wilson:  "I  shudder  to  think  of 
being  in  anything  but  radio." 


What  is  your  worst  habit? 


Horace  Heidt :  "Golf— Because  the  same 


Lennie  Hayton:    "Eating  while  working 


RADIO  STARS 


on  arrangements.  I  am  particularly  fomi 
of  scrambled  eggs,  and  my  musicians  often 
complain  about  egg  spots  on  their  music." 

Frank  Parker :  "Sniiic  say  it's  singing." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Biting  my  fingers;  not 
the  nails,  the  fingers!  Yes,  dreadful,  isn't 
it?" 

Abe  Lyman:  '"Romancing  the  lovely 
ladies." 

Ozzie  Nelson:  "Arguing — particularly 
zvhcn  I  don't  knozf  zi'htit  I'm  talking 
about." 

-♦  - 

Ireene  Wicker:  "Impatience  is  the  very 
worst — but  there  are  lots  of  others,  too." 

Richard  Himbcr:  "Ice  cream  sodas.  The 
curse  of  this  awful  habit  is  worrying  my 
best  friends.  I  think  I'll  run  away  and 
join  the  foreign  legion  to  forget  ice  cream 
parlors."  _^ 

Phillips  Lord:  "Doing  eighteen  things 
at  one  time.  As  a  result  1  never  get  caught 
up  ivith  my  zvork  and  it  ahvays  keeps  me 
on  the  go." 

Marion  T  alley:  "My  worst  habit  is 
losing  handkerchiefs  and  gloves." 

Del  Casino:  "Impatience." 

Clyde  Barrie :  ''Smoking." 

Anne  Seymour:    "Of  the  many — saying 
much  too  often:    'Did  I  tell  you?'  " 
-♦- 

Milton  Berle:    "Over-eating  at  Lindy's." 

Joan  Blaine  :  "/  have  a  sort  of  demon 
within  me  that  fights  to  keep  me  from 
being  exactly  on  the  dot  for  appointments. 
I  conquer  it  ahvays,  for  I  was  brought  up 
that  z\.ay — but  still  that  demon  wages  war!" 

Horace  Heidt:  "Golf." 

Harry  Von  Zell:  "A  tendency  to  argue 
on  any  and  all  subjects." 

Virginia  Verrill:  "My  ivorst  habit  is, 
in  endeavoring  to  please  my  audience,  un- 
consciously 'crowding  the  mike.' " 

Eddy  Duchin:  '^ot  walking  enough 
(work  and  practice  confining)." 

Willie  Morris: 
hearsals." 

Mario  Braggiotti :  "Taking  write-ups 
too  seriously." 

Loretta  Lee:  "Sleeping  late.  It  brings 
breakfast  and  lunch  too  close  to  each  other 
for  comfort." 

Sid  Silvers:  "I  eat  too  fast.  In  fact,  I 
could  win  the  Olympic  Games  for  fast  eat- 
ing." 

Helen  Jepson :  "Talking  too  much,  to 
the  detriment  of  my  singing  voice." 

Tom  Howard:  "Worrying." 

-♦- 

Meri  Bell:  "Smoking.  I'm  trying  to 
stop  this  as,  being  a  singer — while  it  may 
not  noticeably  hurt  my  voice — it  certainly 
doesn't  help !" 


"Chewing  gum  at  re- 


Jack  Fulton : 


Meredith  ll'illsoii 
self." 


'Procrastination." 

Talking  alxjut  my- 


D(in  Wilson:    "My  golf — it's  terrible!" 


TELtS 


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PROTECTS  COMPLEXIONS,  TOO  I 

Cashmere  Bouquet's  lather  is  so  gentle 
and  caressing  .  .  .  yet  it  removes  every 
bit  of  dirt  and  cosmetics — keeps  your 
skin  alluringly  clear  and  smooth! 


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RADIO  STARS 


Don't  be  a  hollyhock! 


•  Hollyhocks  are 
always  standing 
around  by  walls. 
Any  girl  would 
rather  be  a  daisy 
.  .  .  with  lots  oi 
bachelor-buttons  clustering  round.  Men  lo\  e 
glamourous  eyes,  with  mysterious,  appeal- 
ing lashes;  and  whatever  you  were  born 
with,  you  can  haye  them.  Strong  spring 
sunlight  demands  long  dark  lashes.  Darken 
your  lashtips  with  Lashtint  Liquid.  They 
will  look  twice  as  long  and  alluring,  but 
completely  soft  and  natural.  Water-proof; 
dries  instantly.  Try  it  today.  /^JgF^ 
Brown,  black,  green  or  blue.  $1.  ^2^^^ 


•  Every  day  curl  your 
lashes  like  daisy-petals! 
.^l():■e  light  enters  .  .  .  and  what  flattering 
shadows  the  lashes  cast  on  your  face!  Use 
KrifLASH,  the  little  implement  that  curls 
them  perfectly  within  30  seconds.  No  heat, 
cosmetics  or  practice.  $1  at  all  better  stores. 


•  The  girl  with 
rittle,  bleached- 
looking  lashes  stays  in  the  corner  too.  Use 
KuRLENE,  a  scientific  formula  for  promot- 
ing growth  and  luxuriance  in  lashes.  Rub  a 
little  on   M>ur  lashes  each  night  and  see 


MAIL  THIS  TODAY 


To:  Jane  Heath,  Dep/.  0-i 

The  Kurlash  Company,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
I    The  Kurlash  Company  of  Canada,  at  Toronto,  3 
I        Please  send  mc,  free,  your  booklet  on  eye 
I    heauly,  and  a  personal  coloring  plan  for  my 
I  complexion. 

[    Jij/es  Hair  Complexion  


(Please  print  plmnly) 


Meri  Bell,  popular  songstress 
of  CBS'  Five  Siar  Revue,  likes 
this  tailored  hat  of  natural 
straw.  Green  and  brown  bands 
of  felt  and  grosgrain  trinn  it. 

IT'S  a  great  treat  to  meet  someone 
like  Meri  Bell.  She  has  original  ideas 
and  likes  to  tell  you  about  them — 
especially  when  it  concerns  her 
clothes.  You  see,  she  has  two  hobbies 
— designing  and  marriage  (not  named 
m  the  order  of  their  importance!). 
Oh  yes,  .she  likes  to  sing,  but  that  she 
looks  upon  as  a  business,  not  a  hobby. 

You  hear  Meri  Bell  three  times  a 
week — Monday,  W'cdnesday  and  Fri- 
day— on  the  fic'c  Star  Revue  pro- 
gram. There's  i)crsonality  in  her 
alluring,  contralto  voice,  but  there's 
even  more  personality  in  the  star, 
herself,  when  you  meet  her.  It's 
partly  her  vivacity  and  partly  her 
looks,  for  there's  real  individuality 
in  the  way  she  wears  her  clothes. 

She  told  me:  "I've  never  bought  a 
dress  that  I  left  the  way  it  originally 
was  made.  I  change  clothes  around, 
just  as  I  switch  the  furniture  in  my 
liouse.  Why,  do  you  know,  I  once 
bought  a  very  ex])cnsivc  original 
model,  made  of  a  beautiful  imported 
satin-back  crepe,  in  a  deep  chartreuse 
green,  and  when  1  got  it  home,  I 
ripped  the  entire  dress  u])!  After  I 
had  changed  it  the  way  1  wanted  it, 
I  bought  seven  flowers,  all  in  differ- 


BY 


ELIZABETH 
ELLIS 


ent  colors,  and  sewed  them  around 
the  neck.  I  paid  seven  dollars  apiece 
for  them — but  they  were  worth  it! 
I  suppose  the  dififerent  colors  sound 
queer,  but  really,  they  were  just  the 
right  shades  and  the  effect  was  stun- 
ning !" 

Meri  Bell  doesn't  make  her  own 
clothes,  even  though  she  designs 
nearly  all  of  them.  She  told  me  that 
she  never  wore  a  ready-made  dress 
until  after  she  was  fourteen.  Her 
mother  made  all  her  clothes,  she  being 
a  very  expert  dressmaker,  and  she 
still  has  an  important  hand  in  the 
final  results  of  Meri's  wardrobe. 

When  Meri  Bell  was  singing  in 
Chicago,  several  years  ago,  she  dis- 
covered Ernest  Newman,  a  young 
and  talented  designer.  After  working 
out  a  few  ideas  with  him,  she  found 
that  she  could  sketch  her  ideas  for 
him  and  he  would  produce  the  cos- 
tume. It's  turned  into  a  perfect 
combination  and  he  still  makes  clothes 
for  her,  even  though  she  lives  in  New 
York  and  he  still  is  in  Chicago. 

In  ready-made  things,  she  told  me 
that  her  mother  can  send  clothes 
home  for  her  without  having  any 
alterations  {Continued  on  page  100) 


Let  originality  be  your  keynote  for 
dressing  smartly— but  don't  be  bizarre 


RADIO  STARS 


Meri  Bell  has  her  own  ideas 
about  clothes.  She  designed 
this  suit  of  beige  gabardine. 
With  it  she  wears  a  smart 
scarf  fastened  with  a  pin. 


In  the  evening  the  light  blue 
of  this  dress  looks  almost 
oyster  white.  The  girdle  and 
the  bow,  royal  blue  velvet.  The 
bow  worn  only  with  the  jacket. 


With  a  gray,  coarsely  ribbed 
sweater  she  wears  a  royal 
blue  and  white  polka-dotted 
scarf  in  jabot  effect,  caught 
with  a  silver  Scottie  pin. 


IF SHE^  COMING  OVER 
-fMGOimOUT/ 


MOST  BAD  BREATH   BEGINS  WITH  THE  TEETH! 


Tests  prove  that  76°oof  all  peo- 
ple over  the  age  of  1 7  have  bad 
breath!  And  tests  also  prove 
that  most  bad  breath  comes 
from  improperly  cleaned  teeth. 
Colgate  Dental  Cream,  because 
of  its  special  penetrating  foam, 
removes  the  cause— rh^  decay- 


ing food  deposits  in  hidden 
crevices  between  teeth  which 
are  the  source  of  most  bad 
breath,  dull,  dingy  teeth,  and 
much  tooth  decay.  At  the  same 
time,  Colgate's  soft,  safe  polish- 
ing agent  cleans  and  brightens 
enamel— makes  teeth  sparkle! 


2or 

LARGE  SIZE 


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RADIO  STARS 


PRESENTING 


A  Glamorous  New  "Gostume" 
Shade  of  Woodbury's  Facial 
Powder,  Created  by 
Maggy  Rouff  of  Paris 

Maggy  RoufF  designs  some  of  the  loveliest 
clothes  that  come  out  of  Paris.  And 
now  she  has  created  for  Woodbury's  an 
alluring  new  "costume"  shade  of  face 
powder  .  .  .  Windsor  Rose.  •  Windsor 
Rose  bursts  into  bloom  just  in  time  for 
Spring.  A  perfect  balance  of  the  creamy- 
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WEST  COAST  CHATTER 

Up  to  the  minute  news  notes  on  cinema-air 
stars  as  gleaned  from  the  Hollywood  front 


Lovely  Jeane+te  MacDonald,  with  Nelson  Eddy  in  on  operatic  scene  from 
the  Metro-Goldwyn-Moyer  picture,  Maytime,  in  which  these  stars  shine  anew. 


"HMM,  Honeymoon  Cottage,"  hmmed. 
Hollywood,  when  Buddy  Rogers  started 
building  that  $15,000  house  in  Beverly 
Hills.  But  both  Mary  and  Buddy  insist  it's 
no  such  thing.  Just  a  little  investment  on 
the  side  for  Buddy,  and  when  Mary  and  he 
become  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  in  the  spring, 
they'll  build  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley. 
The  reason  for  the  valley  home  instead  of 
Pickfair  is  that,  though  there's  room  for 
Buddy  at  Mary's  famous  home,  there  isn't 
room  for  his  polo  ponies. 

Seems  there  ims  coiisldrrahle  npstrt 
around  the  radio  studio  zvhcn  Buddy  llirczf 
over  that  job  and  headed  for  Biujland.  And 
Buddy  was  as  much  stirpriscd  as  anyone, 
when  it  developed  that  the  English  motion 
pictur/?  company  had  prior  rights  to  hii 
services  ivhoiever  they  so  desired  them. 
Lcavintj  the  radio  program  so  abruptly 
was  us  nothing,  of  course,  compared  to  the 
fact  that  Buddy  had  to  leave  Mary  Pick- 
ford  in  the  hospital,  where  she  had  just 


undergone  an  operation.  But  she'll  con- 
valesce on  a  boat  to  England — and  there'll 
be  wedding  bells  in  London  for  America's 
Sweetheart  and  the  boy  friend. 

With  bated  breath  the  studio  watched 
Deanna  Durbin  gain  inches  almost  daily. 
But  when  she  showed  no  signs  of  stunting 
her  growth  for  the  Universal  cause,  they 
went  into  a  huddle  to  see  what  could  be 
done  about  it  all.  Romance  was  the  solu- 
tion— and  in  her  next  picture  you'll  see 
Universal's  child  star  being  capitalized  with 
the  aid  of  three  handsome  leading  men,  all 
clamoring  for  her  fourteen-year-old  hand. 
You'll  be  glad  to  know  that  just  three  of 
them  want  to  marry  the  gal,  since  the  title 
of  the  picture  is  150  Men  and  a  Girl. 

We  mention  the  studio  capitalizing,  but 
regret  to  say  that  Deanna  won't.  She's  still 
getting  $150  a  week,  the  original  sum  of 
her  contract.  And  Leopold  Stokowski,  who 
will  be  one  of  her  supporting  players,  gets 
a  cold  $80,000  for  the  job! 


RADIO  STARS 


Ruby  Keeler  may  get  in  the  last  word 
but  she's  going  to  have  to  take  a  lot  of 
talk  from  Al  Jolson  U'hen  her  next  picture, 
Broadway  Musketeers,  gets  under  zvay.  For 
Al  tfiV/  be  the  poiver  behind  the  megaphone. 
It's  his  first  directorial  job  and  Al  admits 
he'd  feel  more  at  ease  directing  Garbo. 

Shortly  after  Mary  Livingstone  fainted 
dead  away,  following  that  program  the 
other  day,  she  announced  that  she  was 
leaving  for  a  New  York  trip.  "To  recu- 
perate?" our  spy  asked  Jack  Benny.  "I  wish 
that  was  her  purpose,"  said  Jack  with  a 
deep  sigh,  "but  I'm  afraid  it's  a  shopping 
trip," 

The  Bennys  haven't  renewed  their  lease 
on  the  Countess  Di  Frasso's  mansion  for 
this  next  year.  "But  not  because  I  didn't 
like  the  place,"  Jack  assured  everyone.  "I 
really  haven't  seen  enough  of  it  yet  to 
know.  Between  going  to  Paramount  every 
morning  at  7  and  staying  at  NBC  every 
night  until  12,  we  have  just  decided  to 
build  a  home  on  the  Paramount  lot." 

Norris  Goff  ivas  telling  -about  his  lux- 
urious neiv  estate  in  Encino.  "Say,  it's 
really  something,"  he  said.  "You  knozc — 
big  house,  lots  of  grounds  and  a  swimming 
pool  and  all  that.  Though  I'll  tell  you,"  he 
added,  "ive'd  certainly  enjoy  the  sivimming 
pool  more  if  Tcr  could  afford  to  put  ivater 
in  it." 

Marion  Talley  has  finally  broken  down 
and  gone  the  way  of  all  radio  stars.  She's 
moved  her  piano  and  reducing  bicycle 
into  a  Spanish  hacienda,  which  she  bought 
on  the  q.t.  Marion's  reticence  was  due  to 
the  fact  that  she  has  insisted,  since  coming 
here,  that  she  was  going  to  be  the  one 
moneyed  person  in  town  smart  enough  not 
to  pay  taxes  on  property. 

Recently,  in  the  box-section  of  the  club- 
liouse  at  Santa  Anita,  the  occupant  of  the 
lx)x  next  to  that  occupied  by  Pat  O'Brien 
was  doing  a  tall  case  of  singing  the  blues 
over  having  just  lost  $15  on  the  previous 
race.  O'Brien  watched  the  play  of  emo- 
tion with  ipterest.  Finally  he  leaned  over 
and'  in  a  conciliatory  tone  confided :  "I 
just  won  five  hundred  dollars,  old  man, 
and  I'm  going  to  turn  it  all  over  to  the 
Red  Cross  for  flood  relief."  The  wailer 
stopped  wailing,  looked  at  his  informant, 
mused,  then  said :  "Swell  idea — think  I'll 
write  out  a  check  for  twice  the  amount 
I've  lost,  for  the  flood  sufferers."  The 
-heck  was  for  $3,000. 

]Vhcn  IlflUyivood  wants  to  knozv  zvhat 
Hiiif/  Crosby's  horses  are  up  to  at  Santa 
Anita,  they  start  reading  from  the  bottom 
of  the  list  of  horses  to  save  lime.  But  Bing 
tzvears  he  believes  in  them  all.  That  is,  he 
could  swear  that  like  a  gentleman  until  the 
other  day.  Fight  On,  one  of  the  Crosby 
nags,  that  day  got  a  sudden  spurt  of  am- 
bition and  came  pounding  up  the  track 
leading  the  line.  Unless  it  zcas  Top  Flight, 
no  one  was  more  surprised  than  his  ozvner. 
It  paid  $168  cold — and  Bing  zvasn't  on  it! 

Gracie  Allen's  prize  fan  letter  of  the 
week  follows  verbatim:  "Dear  Gracie,  I 
think  you're  crazy  and  I'd  like  to  prove  it 
to  some  of  my  friends  who  don't  think  the 
same.  Please  send  me  ^5,000." 

Incidentally,  Gracie  puts  her  initials  on 


Swinging  high! 


are  party  colors 


WHEN  it's  Swingtime  and  dance  time 
...when  hearts  beat  higher  than  a 
cover  charge. ..when  you're  looking 
glamorous  enough  to  dazzle  even  a  head 
waiter  ...  of  course,  you'll  be  wearing 
Glazo  nail  polish  in  one  of  the  ex- 
citing new  "Misty"  colors. 

For  your  most  Witching  Hours, 
Glazo  oflfers  this  enchanting  array 
of  polishes,  styled  for  young  so- 

GLAZO 


phisticates,  blended  for  new  nail  beauty. 
Cherry  Red  and  Russet,  Suntan,  Bisque 
and  Misty  Rose— here  are  shades  to  com- 
plement ever)'  costume,  to  glorify  every 
hand.  Glazo's  attentions  are  always  flat- 
tering . . .  that's  why  sought-after  girls, 
girls  who  know  the  secrets  of  good 
grooming,  sparkle  up  with  Glazo's 
misty,  smoky  shades,  or  with  one  of  the 
fashion-approved  "clear"  colors. 

Good  company  on  any  party  is  Glazo 
...smooth  as  satin  on  the  nail. ..with 
conscientious  objections  to  peeling, 
fading,  or  thickening  in  the  bonle. 
And,  at  20('— or  25 for  the  new 
large  size— so  kind  to  the  budget! 


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I  WON'T 

SHUT 
UP- 


"  I  gotta  have  my 
MENNEN  OIL  RUB 

to  keep  me 
safe  from  germs" 

■Listen  here,  Nurse!  You  know  my  Mummy 
says  you're  to  rub  me  every  day,  after  my 
bath,  with  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil.  Looks 
to  me  as  though  you're  forgettin"  it  today. 
And  believe  me,  I'm  going  to  keep  on 
hollerin'  till  you  remember.  You  know  my 
skin  can't  fight  nasty  germs  all  alone  .  .  . 
and  you  know  this  Mennen  Oil  leaves  a 
film  of  protection  all  over  me  that  helps 
kill  off  those  germs.  Why  do  you  suppose 
practically  all  hospitals  use  this  oil  on 
their  babies  every  day?  Why  do  you  sup- 
pose all  the  doctors  I've  ever  met  recom- 
mend it?  Don't  bother  to  answer.  But  come 
on— give  me  my  safety  rub  with  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Oil — right  NOWf" 

Nine-tenths  of  all  the  hospitals  important  in 
maternity  work  use  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil  on 
their  babies  every  day  Your  baby  deserves  it  too! 

OIL 


Attired  in  stately  garb,  Prexy  Jack  Oakie  of  Jack  Oakie's  College  finds 
it  possible  to  nnix  work  and  pleasure.  He  would  have  you  believe  that  he 
is  dictating  a  learned  treatise  to  his  favorite  secretary,  Miss  Penny. 
It  seems  to  be  an  engrossing  business!  Jack's  program,  which  features 
Benny  Goodman's  band,  is  heard  on  CBS  every  Tuesday  at  9:30  p.m.  EST. 


every  available  object  she  can  find — hand- 
bags, gloves,  hankies,  hats  and  luggage. 
And  the  initials,  we  take  the  liberty  of 
reminding  you,  are  GAB. 

And  all  those  comic  ditties  you  hear 
on  the  Joe  Peiiner  program  are  turned 
cut  by  no  less  a  personage  than  a  preacher. 
He's  the  Right  Reverend  Hal  Raynor  of 
Glcndora,  California.  He's  been  writing 
gags  and  funny  sotigs  for  various  programs 
for  several  years.  And  admits  that  some 
of  the  ideas  come  upon  him  in  the  pulpit. 

At  the  recent  cocktail  party  given  for 
the  Gillette  Bros.,  who  have  just  moved 
bag,  baggage  and  razor  to  Hollywood, 
there  was  a  record  turn-out.  And  most  of 
the  guests  were  Hollywood's  prize  enter- 
tainers. But  the  so-called  entertainment  was 
furnished  by  a  couple  of  pretty  indifferent 
Spanish  dancer-singers.  And  the  applause 
practically  brought  down  the  roof. 

Chester  Lauck  and  Norris  Goff  (Lnm 
and  Abner)  who  only  recently  moved  bag 
and  baggage  to  California,  gave  one  of 
the  nicest  parties  ever  thrown  in  Holly- 


wood. The  outstanding  thing  about  this 
party  was  the  hospitality  of  the  hosts  and 
their  wives.  The  party,  held  in  the  newly- 
purchased  home  of  the  Chester  Laucks, 
was  refreshing  in  its  spirit  of  old  Southern 
hospitality,  instead  of  the  typical  parties 
expected  of  celebrities,  with  the  attendant 
bending  of  the  elbow  and  the  bored  chatter 
of  the  usual  number  of  sophisticates,  who 
do  nothing  but  talk  shop  and  pan  the  other 
person's  show.  Plenty  of  people  all  over 
the  country  like  their  program,  but  if 
they  had  had  the  opportunity  of  knowing 
these  gentlemen  in  person,  their  popularity 
would  be  even  greater. 

Bob  Burns  was  there.  Von  know,  he  lives 
in  Arkansas — could  anyone  ever  forget  it? 
The  Lums  and  Abners  are  from  Mena, 

Arkansas,  by  cracky! 

But  neither  Bob  nor  his  razorback  hog 
came  in  for  any  spotlighting  during  the 
evening.  For  Don  Ameche  was  the  life 
of  the  party.  It  developed  that  he's  not 
only  a  movie  actor  and  a  singer  but  can 
tell  crack  stories  and  dance  a  mean  tap. 

—LOIS  SVENSRUD 


RADIO  STARS 


EVE  IN 
STOOPTOPIA 

(Continued  from  page  49) 


"Don't  get  scared,"  I  admonished,  "it's 
painless.  Have  you  got  a  minute  and  a 
quiet  corner?" 

"Why  yes,  I've  got  both.  What  can  I 
tell  you?" 

"Just  the  story  of  your  life  in  a  couple 
of  crisp  sentences.  Born?" 

She  was,  it  turned  out,  one  of  those  rare 
creatures,  a  person  born  in  New  York 
City.  When  she  was  two  years  old  her 
folks  moved  out  to  Rye,  New  York,  where 
she  got  a  crack  at  air  and  sun  and  built  up 
a  sturdy  constitution,  which  (although  she 
didn't  know  it  at  the  time)  she  would  one 
day  need  very  much. 

I  asked  her  what  she  had  ever  done  that 
prompted  Fate  to  toss  her  in  with  the 
madcap  Rover  Boys. 

"It's  really  quite  simple,"  she  said, 
twisting  a  handkerchief  to  death  in  her 
well-shaped  hands.  "I  finished  high  school 
and  while  I  was  trying  to  decide  whether 
Hunter  College  was  what  I  wanted,  I 
auditioned  for  and  got  on  the  Walter 
O'Kcefe  show,  The,  Saturday  Night  Party. 
I  was  with  them  two  weeks  and  it  got 
me." 

"Got  you?" 

"Yes,  I  was  bitten  by  the  radio  bug.  As 
a  result,  I  spent  my  days  in  agency  wait- 
ing-rooms, waiting  for  a  chance  to  get 
back  on  the  air." 

"Of  course,"  I  broke  in,  "your  people 
objected  to  their  daughter  going  on  the 
air.  Of  course,  your  father  threatened  to 
lock  the  door  if  you  didn't  obey  and,  of 
course,  you  had  to  recoup  the  family  for- 
tune and  stave  off  the  villain  who  held  the 
mortgage,  eh?"  I  held  my  pencil  poised 
for  a  juicy  bit. 

She  laughed.  "I  wish  I  could  give  you 
something  dramatic  like  that  to  write,  but  j 
the  truth  is,  my  folks  were  all  in  favor  of 
my  radio  work.  Mother,  you  see,  was  a 
dancer  when  she  was  a  girl  and  she  even  j 
worked  with' Eddie  Leonard,  the  minstrel' 
king.  Father  hasn't  any  mortgages,  be- 
cause  he's  doing  nicely  in  business,  and  the 
only  time  he  threatened  me  with  that 
locked-door  business  was  when  I  hadn't 
heard  whether  I  could  get  tickets  for  the 
Minute  Tapioca  Shozv.  'Out  in  the  cold, 
daughter  mine,  and  never  darken  .  .  .  ' " 

"And,"  I  cut  her  off,  worried  about  her, 
"are  you  out  in  the  cold?" 

"Xot  a  bit  of  it."  Was  that  a  dimple 
or  not?  "I  got  tickets!" 

"But  that  isn't  telling  me  how  you  came 
to  get  this  job.  Don't  forget,  yours  is 
something  of  a  success  story  and  there 
are  lots  of  boys  and  girls  your  age,  which 
is?"  She  said  it  was  eighteen — "There 
are  lots  of  boys  and  girls  your  age  who 
want  to  get  on  the  air,  and,  if  they  can 
learn  your  secret,  it  might  help  them. 
Please  tell  me." 

"It's  really  not  a  secret.  I  was  persis- 
tent, I  just  didn't  give  up.  I  grabbed  at 
every  audition  there  was  to  grab  at,  and, 
well,  there  you  are!" 

I  asked  if  she  had  studied  dramatics, 
thinking  that  she  might  have  had  a  diploma 


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from  one  of  the  schools  to  wave  in  pro- 
ducers' faces. 

"Xo,  I  didn't,"  she  said.  "I  had  the 
usual  fling  at  high  school  dramatics; 
The  Charm  School,  Nothing  But  The 
Truth  and  plaj's  of  that  sort.  I  don't  sing 
a  note  and  I  don't  really  go  in  for  time- 
steps.  No.  it's  keeping  everlastingly  after 
them  that  counts  ..." 

We  were  interrupted  by  a  chorus  of 
yells,  and  Von  Zell  tore  around  the  studio, 
Budd  hot  after  him,  the  Colonel  making 
more  grimaces  from  where  he  stood  atop 
the  desk. 

Suddenly  Von  Zell  plopped  down  at  the 
piano  and  began  grinding  out  the  Torea- 
dor thing  from  Carmen.  Quick  as  a  flash, 
Budd  grabbed  drum  sticks,  keeping  time 
on  a  kettle  drum.  The  sound-effects  man 
banged  on  a  gong  and  the  Colonel,  now  off 
the  desk,  tapped  with  checkers.  Even  Pat 
Weaver,  who  was  directing  the  show, 
burst  out  of  the  control  room  to  run  a 
siren  he  found  amongst  the  weird  sound- 
effects  paraphernalia.  You'd  hardly  be- 
lieve that  this  was  a  rehearsal  of  a  show 
costing  thousands  of  dollars  and  featuring 
two  of  radio's  better-paid  artists.  But 
then,  you'd  hardly  believe  half  of  the 
things  that  F.  Chase  Taylor  (the  Colonel) 
and  Wilbur  Budd  Hulick  (Budd)  actually 
do.  And  yet,  in  spite  of  all  the  kidding, 
ihey  turn  out  some  of  the  funniest  shows 
on  the  air,  and  one  of  the  most  profitable 
to  their  sponsor. 

Joan  smiled  at  all  of  the  excitement,  but 
she  didn't  seem  excited. 

"They're  pretty  quiet  today,"  she  said, 
calmly  examining  her  nails. 

The  "music"  stopped  and  Budd  picked 


up  an  argument  where  it,  presumably,  had 
been  left  off. 

"I  repeat,  Colonel,"  l^e  said,  "you're 
gullible." 

"Naw,"  denied  the  Colonel,  "Gullible's 
Travels." 

They  joined  us. 

"Hiyah,  feller,  where  have  you  been 
since  the  last  time,  meet  Harry  Von  Zell," 
said  the  Colonel,  still  wearing  a  fatuous 
grin  left  over  from  his  Gulliver  gag. 

I  told  him,  said  "how  do"  to  Harry  and 
asked  them,  point  blank,  why  they'd  added 
Joan  to  the  show. 

"Wal,  it's  this  way.  Bill,"  began  Stoop- 
nagle,  "we  were  afraid  Budd's  voice  (he 
usually  plays  the  women's  parts)  was 
going  to  change  because  he's  such  a  little 
boy.  Besides,  you've  got  to  keep  your 
show  up  to  date  in  the  amusement  world. 
We  needed  a  girl  in  the  act  to  do  that." 

Von  Zell,  who  had  gone  back  to  the 
piano,  began  to  strum  Ah,  Stveet  Mystery 
Of  Life,  not  too  well,  but  it  served  as  a 
musical  background  for  the  interview,  and 
I  could  see  the  Colonel  perceptibly  melting 
under  its  influence. 

Budd  said :  "We  were  sick  of  our  own 
voices  all  of  the  time,  if  you  ask  me."  No 
one  asked  him  so  he  tilted  his  chair  back, 
his  hat  over  his  eyes  and  went  off  to  sleep. 

I  asked  Stoopnagle  how  they  happened 
to  select  Joan. 

"Funny  thing,"  he  said,  "but  I  drew  a 
sketch  of  the  girl  we  wanted  and  when  I 
spotted  Joan  she  looked  just  like  the  pic- 
ture. She  showed  us  she  could  handle 
lines  and  gags,  so  Budd  and  I  selected  her. 

"Joan,  actually,  is  very  much  like  us. 
Do  you  know  what  I  mean?    I  mean  she 


isn't  the  Broadway  type.  She's  natural  and 
spontaneous  and  definitely  not  hammy." 

Budd  mumbled,  without  stirring  from 
under  his  hat: 

"She's  en  rapport  with  our  ideas." 
Stoopnagle  looked  up  under  the  hat  to  see 
if  Budd  had  really  said  that.  "She's  good 
stuff — that's  what  you  are,  see,  Tootsie 
Pie?" 

"Thank-ee,  sir,"  and  she  curtsied  as  she 
said  it. 

In  a  flash,  Stoopnagle  was  on  his  feet 
and  deep  in  a  return  curtsy.  Von  Zell 
bowed  from  the  piano  and  Budd  said  ■ 
"Ditto  here."  The  Colonel  picked  up 
his  tale  as  though  nothing  had  happened. 

"Our  stuff  isn't  easy  to  handle.  Now. 
take  it  when  we  began,  seven  years  ago, 
selling  Tasty  Yeast.  We  didn't  even  use 
a  script.  I'm  afraid  they  didn't  appreciate 
the  fact  that  we  were  working  until  we 
did  use  one,  and  I  knsw  Columbia  didn  t 
until  we  first  burlesqued  The  March  of 
Time.  There's  quite  a  story  in  the  fact 
that  the  gang  up  in  Buffalo  could  have 
signed  us  up  on  a  long  contract,  but  didn't. 
But  that's  beside  the  point.  What  I 
wanted  to  say  is  that  everyone  couldn't 
handle  our  lines. 

"We  could  hire  a  professional  gag- 
writer  to  dig  up  old  jokes  and  work  them 
in,  and  they'd  probably  draw  a  certain 
number  of  belly  laughs,  but  that  isn't  what 
we  want.  We  are  to  the  radio,  I  think, 
what  Thorne  Smith  is  to  literature.  His 
stuff  delights  you  with  a  nice  quiet  laugh 
inside,  which  is  exactly  what  we  try  to  do. 

"It's  an  actual  fact  that  stuff  like  that 
stays  in  your  mind  better.  We've  found 
people  who  remember  lines  we  pulled  as 


T+IEY  WEREN'T  FOOLING  WHEN  T«EY  SAID  ^ 
1^,   "DON'T  BRING  LULU y— ^ 


what's  wrong  with  me,  may? 
no  one  ever  wants  to 
take  me  places 


YOURE  SWELL,LULU_YOU 
JUST  NEED  A  LITTLE 
FRIENDLY  ADVICE 
HERE  GOES- SWITCH 
TO  LIFEBUOY 


I  COULDNT  HAVE   B.C.'  I  BATHE 
PLENTY  AND  WITH  A  WELL-KNOWN 
BRAND  OF  TOILET  SOAP 

\BUT  IT  doesn't  CONTAIN 
THE  SPECIAL  PURIFYING 
INGREDIENT  THATS  IN 
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PROVE  IT 


TWO  WEEKS  LATER  _ 

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FRESHER  AND  I  FEEL  MUCH  BETTER 
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I  YES,  lifebuoy's  A  REAL  HEALTH 

I  PROTEaiONJOO'  I  ALWAYS  USE  IT 
\  FOR  MY  HANDS- IT  REMOVES 

\         GERMS  AS  WELL  AS  DIRT 


AT  THE  CLUB 


A  GRAND  OLD  TUNE- 
BUT  I'd  CHANGE  THE 

WORDS!  I'll  bring  lulu 

EVERY  TIME  !  SHE'S  THE  SWEETEST 

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she's  mine 


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natural  beauty  to  the  skin. 
"Patch"  tests  on  the  skms 
of  hundreds  of  women 
show  it  is  20^0  milder  than 
many  so-called  "beauty 
soaps"  and  "baby  soaps." 


.  And  makes  your  body 
.  .  Lifebuoy  is  a  super- 


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far  back  as  two  years  ago." 

13udd  came  to,  to  say : 

"Funny  thing  about  the  call  we  sent  out. 
W'e  selected  Joan,  rehearsed  her  and  put 
her  on  the  air  with  us.  But  still  letters 
poured  in,  saying :  'You  must  hire  me  for 
the  job.  Boy.  am  I  hot  stuff!'  Merciful 
heavens  above !  Don't  they  listen  to  our 
program?  Don't  they  know  the  spot  is 
filled? 

"One  radio  editor  here  in  New  York 
even  ran  an  item  in  his  column  saying  that 
we  wanted  a  girl,  ran  it  tzvo  zceeks  after 
Joan  started  -a-itli  us!  Whew!" 

And  so,  boys  and  girls,  if  you  want  to 
get  on  the  air,  be  smart  and  listen  to  the 
show  youVe  aiming  at — that  is  if  you  want 
to  get  on  it.  Take  it  from  Stoopnagle  and 
Budd. 

"How  do  you  like  the  job,  Joan?"  She 
said  I  could  call  her  Joan. 

"It's  peachy."  she  answered.  "These  gen- 
tlemen have  been  simply  dandy  to  me. 
They've  helped  me  so  much.  I  think," 
she  leaned  closer  to  whisper,  and  the  boys 
cupped  their  ears,  "I  think  I'll  adopt 
them." 

I  looked  at  her  in  amazement  as  the  boys 
roared  and  shouted  with  high  glee. 

Could  it  be  possible  that  association  with 
this  over-pixilated  pair  meant  sure  de- 
mentia praccox?  Was  she  cracking? 

"Sure,"  said  Budd  calmly,  "she's  going 
balmy,  but  balmy.  Why  she'll  be  sitting 
quietly  and  all  of  a  sudden  she'll  start 
to  holler.    That's  proof,  ain't  it?" 

"It  only  means,  Dagwood  my  boy,"  the 
Colonel  interposed,  "that  she  has  been  ad- 
mitted to  Stooptopia,  spelled:  s,  t,  dash, 
p.  space,  t,  paragraph,  p,  i,  a.  Stooptopia, 
where  everything  is  peaehy." 


Colonel  Roscoe  Turner  of  Flying 
Time  and  Dream  Singer  Ralph  Kir- 
bery  try  out  Kirbery's  new  plane. 

Budd  said  the  above  was  because  the 
Colonel  "can't  spell  pretty  good." 

"The  job  is  so  peachy,"  it  was  Joan 
again,  "that  I've  almost  decided  to  keep  the 
boys  on  the  show.  I  hadn't  meant  to  tell 
you  so  soon,  men,  but  that's  ..." 

What  do  you  think  ? 

"By  the  way.  Joan,"  Stoopnagle  leaned 
over  confidentially,  "don't  scald  your 
Minute  Tapioca,  just  boil  it." 

And  the  Colonel  is  right,  don't  scald  it, 
boil  it.  He  knows  because  he  and  Budd 
(invited  by  an  unsuspecting  sponsor) 
went  down  to  the  plant  to  look  it  over  and 
learn  how  to  cook  it  and  now  it's  (the 
plant)  way  behind  on  production.  That's 
the  effect  they  have. 


I  ventured  the  assumption,  based  on  fact, 
that  the  Colonel  and  Budd  were  going 
l)ackward  in  evolution,  getting  more  like 
little  Ixjys  every  day.  The  Colonel  was 
flattered  and  said  so. 

There's  no  particular  reason  for  re- 
cording it,  but  at  this  point  the  Colonel 
.'■ang  a  song  (at  the  top  of  his  lungs) 
about  a  Mrs.  Murphy. 

The  interview  was,  of  a  necessity,  over 
— we  got  ready  to  go. 

"They're  really  swell,"  Joan's  voice 
said  quietly  in  my  ear.  "There  are  very 
few  as  nice  as  they  are  in  this  game.  I've 
(Iropiifd  cues  and  worse,  and  do  you  think 
they've  .yntten  mad  about  it?  Not  a  bit! 
I  know  now  I'll  adopt  them." 

I  got  away  from  her  as  quickly  as  I 
could  and  joined  Budd.    It  was  safer. 

"I  think  we've  got  something  there,"  he 
said,  pointing  to  Joan  up  ahead  with  the 
Colonel,  who  was  leading  the  parade  out 
of  the  studio,  "don't  you?" 

I  told  him  I  did. 

"Here's  something  about  her  that  might 
interest  you.  She  got  a  letter  from  a  lady 
in  Connecticut,  who  said  that  she  always 
listened  to  the  show  but  especially  now  that 
Joan  Banks  was  on  it.  You  see,  her  name 
is  Banks,  too  (no  relation)  and  she  had 
had  a  little  three-year-old  daughter 
named  Joan.  But  this  little  girl  died  of 
pneumonia  last  November  and  now  she 
found  herself  taking  great  interest  in  a 
Joan  Banks  who  was  what  her  daughter 
might  have  been,  had  she  lived. 

"She  asked  Joan  if  she'd  mind  if  she 
thought  of  her  as  her  adopted  daughter. 
They've  gotten  to  be  good  friends." 

Maybe  this  gang  isn't  so  crazy  at  that ! 


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HAVING  SOMEONE  WHO  CARES 


{Continued  from  page  41) 


Jeanette  MacDonald  recently  was  guest  star  on  the  Sunday  night  Vick's 
Open  House  program,  of  which  Nelson  Eddy  is  host.  Here  are  Nelson  and 
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it  is  not  at  all  incompatible  with  success 
in  his  chosen  field. 

"How  could  it  be?"  he  asked  simply. 
"Marriage  surely  means  more  enjoyment 
in  your  work  and  in  living — you  needn't 
be  a  slave  to  your  work.  The  more  you 
enjoy  it,  the  more  you  have  to  give  to  it. 
A  happy  marriage  means  that  you  have 
just  that  much  more  to  give.  And  there 
is  more  to  it  than  that,  of  course.  If  you 
are  alone,  and  things  go  badly,  you  are 
nervous  and  tired ;  you  brood  over  these 
things  -and  magnify  tiiem  till  they  grow 
worse.  But  if  you  liave  someone  to  talk 
to,  someone  who  understands,  the  troubles 
are  soon  smoothed  out  and  forgotten.  You 
sleep  better  at  night  for  having  talked  out 
the  problems  of  the  day  with  someone 
who  cares." 

It  is  less  than  two  \tars  now  since  he 
met  the  girl  who  l)ecanK'  his  wife.  Three 
months  and  five  days  after  tlicy  met,  they 
were  married.  .\nd  as  an  old  married 
man  of  a  year  and  a  half.  Conrad  already 
has  learned  that  the  priceless  ingredient 
of  a  happy  marriage  is  complete  under- 
standing. 

"If  you  have  that,  >(Ui  have  everything." 
.■\nd  his  contented  and  tender  sniili-  indi- 
cated that  he  had  that  and  R.ive  thanks  for 
it  devoutly.  "We  have  su  uy,\uy  things  in 
common,"  he  continued,  "and  tlie  funny 
thing  is  that  we  are  always  dise.ivering 
more.  Of  course,  during  the  courtship 
days,  we  found  we  siiarcd  many  likes  and 
dislikes,  but  it  was  fun  after  we  were 
married,  to  find  so  many  more — even  to 
such  minor  things  as  the  same  likes  and 
dislikes  of  food." 

It  was,  in  fact,  a  shared  liking  for  dogs 
that  brought  them  together  in  the  first 
place.  I'or  four  or  five  years.  FJinor  Ken- 
dall, will,  is  thai  raiilx,  a  native  New 
W  orker,  had  been  Hmiil;  ni  a  eerlaiii  apart- 
ment on  Park  .'\veiiue,  and  for  two  of 
those  years,  Conrad  had  been  living  there, 
too.  But,  as  is  usual  in  New  York,  they 
never  had  met — one's  next  door  neighbor 
might  as  well  be  in  France  for  all  the 
contact  one  has  with   him.     But  Elinor 


owned  a  cocker  spaniel,  and  Conrad,  who 
had  often  seen  the  slim  and  pretty  girl 
walking  her  dog  in  the  court,  went  out  one 
day  and  bought  himself  a  Scottie — whom 
he  named  Miniver  Chcevy,  after  E.  A. 
Robinson's  familiar  poem.  And  it  was 
this  stolid,  unemotional  Scotch  terrier 
v/ho,  as  Conrad  had  hoped,  arranged  an 
introduction.  A  phlegmatic,  unimaginative 
Cupid,  but  eminently  satisfactory! 

It  is  typical  of  Conrad  that  he  does  not 
think  of  dogs — or  children — as  a  burden. 
The  two  dogs  travel  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thibault  and  are  considered  no  hindrance, 
no  unnecessary  worry.  "It  is  easy  enough 
nowadays,"  he  says  lightly.  And  when 
the  little  family  is  augmented,  as  he  hopes 
and  expects  it  to  be,  life  will  be  no  more 
difficult  but  lots  more  fun. 

Meanwhile,  Conrad  and  his  pretty  wife 
lead  a  full  and  happy  life  together.  They 
recently  decorated  and  furnished  a  charm- 
ing apartment  in  New  York,  but  had  only 
two  weeks  in  which  to  enjoy  it  before  the 
call  came  which  brought  them  to  Holl\- 
W()()(l.  There,  bv  \\a\'  of  contrast,  thev 
rented  a  house  in  I'.eVerlv  Hills,  uith  a 
yard  and  K^'den  which  so  delight  Miniver 
Cheev\-  that  not  e\en  the  California  rain 
— or  'lu'a\  >  (lew '- discourages  him.  Never 
has  the  doiir  ,Sr  .t  been  so  frisky.  It  will 
be  a  sad  Mniiver  if  (  oiirad  decides  that 
New  York,  and  not  Hollywood,  is  where 
he  wants  to  be ! 

The  Thibaults  golf  and  play  tennis  and 
ride,  loving  the  out-of-doors  and  all  open- 
air  sports.  At  present  they  are  enjoying 
the  California  sun  to  the  full,  although 
in  the  East  they  love  the  snappy  cold 
weather  and  winter  sports.  Back  home, 
tl  ey  make  frequent  trips  to  Westchester 
and  the  Connecticut  shore,  often  driving 
out  to  Gus  Haentchen's  lovely  place  in 
Westport.  Hollywood  is  as  different  from 
what  they  are  used  to  in  New  York  aa.d 
its  environs  as  can  be  imagineu,  and  it  is 
no  wonder  that  at  first  they  found  the 
adjustment  difficult. 

But  they  find  it  so  much  fun  just  to  do 
things  together  that  the  strangeness  will 


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soon  wear  off.  Of  all  his  interests,  base- 
ball seems  to  be  the  only  one  his  wife  does 
not  share,  so  in  season  he  goes  without 
her.  All  other  pleasures  and  hobbies  are 
shared  and  made  more  delightful  by  that 
sharing.  Mrs.  Thibault  is  a  non-profes- 
sional, with  no  connection  of  her  own  in 
any  of  the  arts,  but  with  a  warm  interest 
and  a  generous  understanding  of  Conrad's 
gift  and  all  it  entails. 

"If  she  is  ever  jealous,"  he  said  smil- 
irgly,  "she  certainly  conceals  it  to  perfec- 
tion." 

And  so  Conrad,  certain  of  her  sympathy 
and  cooperation,  is  free  to  spend  his 
mornings  vocalizing,  his  afternoons  prac- 
ticing with  an  accompanist,  and  Elinor 
disposes  of  her  household  duties  so  that 
nothing  interferes  with  his  program  and 
so  that  she  is  ready  whenever  he  is  for  a 
game  of  tennis  or  a  horseback  ride. 

His  present  place  on  the  Packard  Pro- 
gram, with  Fred  Astaire,  takes  up  Sunday 
afternoon  and  Monday  and  Tuesday,  but 
for  the  rest  of  the  week  he  is  free  to  study 
and  do  pretty  much  as  he  pleases.  When 
he  flew  out  to  appear  as  guest  star  on  the 
program,  he  was  not  sure  he  wanted  to 
stay,  but  he  was  an  immediate  success,  his 
lyric  baritone  charming  all  listeners,  and 
he  signed  a  thirteen  weeks'  contract.  Now, 
with  a  renewal  offered,  he  is  not  sure 
whether  to  re-sign,  or  to  give  in  to  home- 
sickness and  return  to  New  York.  Perhaps, 
in  the  intervening  weeks,  the  pangs  of 
nostalgia  will  yield  to  the  charms  of  south- 
ern California  and  he  will  decide  to  stay! 

In  any  case.  Conrad,  who  was  born  on 
November  13th.  and  who  this  year  cele- 
brated it  on  Friday,  just  four  days  before 
his  flight  to  the  Coast,  believes  that  three 
and  the  other  odd  numbers  mean  luck  for 
him ;  that  1937  is,  therefore,  sure  to  be 
kind  to  him.  It  has  certainly  begun  aus- 
piciously and  promises  well,  whatever  his 
decision  about  Hollywood  or  the  movies 
may  be. 

Conrad  gets  a  lot  of  fan  mail  and  has 
been  corresponding  vvitli  several  of  these 
fans,  for  years.  It  is  a  pleasant  relation- 
ship and  he  likes  their  friendly  criticism 
and  advice.  As  to  his  programs  and  choice 
of  songs,  he  likes  to  think  of  himself  as 
a  lyric  baritone  and  much  prefers  the 
more  sentimental,  romantic  type  of  song 
to  the  dramatic  offerings,  made  popular 
by  Lawrence  Tibbett.  which  some  of  his 
fans  demand. 

"I  don't  know  why  a  man  should  have 
to  be  a  'heavy'  because  he  is  a  baritone." 
he  laughed.  "How  do  tenors  get  that  way 
— that  they  are  more  romantic?" 

Certainly,  in  looks  as  well  as  in  voice 
and  choice  of  songs,  Conrad  merits  the 
term  "romantic!" 

He  and  his  wife  rarely  go  to  night 
clubs,  though  they  enjoy  them  when  they 
do  "step  out."  They  lead  a  simple  life 
and  find  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  in  it. 
Simple  pleasures  and  lasting — a  delightful 
and  sure  way  to  build  up  the  enduring 
happiness  that  Conrad,  the  idealist,  recog- 
nizes as  the  greatest  good  in  life.  Enjoying 
life  through  giving  pleasure  to  others  is 
hi.,  idea  of  success. 

As  at  sixteen,  so  today  he  knows  what 
he  wants.  And  with  his  delightful  voice 
and  personal  charm,  plus  an  unfailing 
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It  is  thaf.  And  did  you 
ever  stop  to  consider 
how  much  real  pleasure 
there  is  in  a  package  of 
Beeman's?  Five  sticks  of 
chewing  gum — pure  and 
wholesome,  and  loaded 
with  delicious  flavor  that 
lasts — and  lasts.  That  air- 
tight wrapping,  they  tell 
me,  keeps  it  fresh  and 
preserves  its  delicate 
flavor.  And  don't  forget, 
each  meal  will  be  kinder 
to  you  for  Beeman's  pro- 
vides a  pleasant  aid 
to  digestion." 


B 


eeman's 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 


(Co)iliiuicd  jrom  pa<jc  13) 


velop  some  of  the  respect  for  old  Father 
Time  that  we  radio  people  soon  learn  to 
have.  You'll  find  that  it  will  be  appreciated 
by  your  friends  and  your  family,  I'm  sure. 
So  be  prompt  in  keeping  >  (iur  engagements. 
(I  know  you'll  tind  it  hard  to  believe,  but 
I'm  practically  never  late,  no  matter  how 
bus}'  I  may  be!)  Learn,  also,  to  finish  your 
Cooking  Program  by  the  clock,  so  that 
when  the  usual  meal  hour  arrives  you  can 
still  announce  that  dinner  is  on  the  table — 
even  though  you've  only  had  a  few  minutes 
in  which  to  prepare  it. 

Rut  in  order  to  do  this  on  all  occasions, 
>ou  must  have  a  well  planned  Emergency 
Slirlf.  So  that,  whatever  may  turn  up — 
whether  it's  hubby  bringing  home  the  boss, 
or  a  friend  walking  in  unannounced,  or 
just  a  later-than-usual  bridge  game  or 
shopping  expedition — you  can  provide,  at 
a  moment's  notice,  all  that  is  needed  for  an 
attractive,  well-balanced  meal. 

You  should  also  have  some  good  Quick 
Meal  recipes  to  fall  back  on.  The  ones  I'm 
ofifering  you  (and  which  I'm  describing 
for  you  more  completely  fvn-ther  on)  fill  the 
bill  nicely.  Don't  just  stop  with  getting 
copies  of  those,  however,  but  continue  col- 
lecting, being  sure  that  you  file  them  in 
such  a  way  that  they  are  available  in 
emergencies  without  organizing  a  searching 


And  tlial  brings  us  back  to  our 
I:iiicr(iciiiy  Slicif  foods — those  important 
items  which,  ready  and  at  hand,  make 
C|uick-meal  preparation  possible.  These 
foods  should  be  grouped,  I  think,  under 
three  general  headings.  At  least,  that's  the 
way  I've  always  thought  of  them,  since 
the  days  when  my  grandmother  first  showed 
me,  with  evident  pride,  her  well-stocked 
pantry  closets.  The  variety,  nowadays,  is 
even  greater,  of  course — and  goes  on  in- 
creasing as  new  ready-cooked  or  almost 
cooked  products  are  put  on  the  market. 

So  let's  group  them  in  the  way  I've 
already  sugiie^ted.  No.  1.  then,  would  be 
caniuci  and  Ijottled  foods.  No.  2,  packaged 
foods.  ,\nd  No.  .■),  general  and  refrigerator 
.supplies.  Please  remember,  when  you  read 
ni\'  lists,  that  most  of  the  things  I'm  putting 
down  here  belong  in  youv  kitchen  the  year 
around,  ;ui\  wa\.  so  don't  think  that,  because 
of  niy  sponsors,  I'm  tr\ in,L'  U>  .yet  you  to 
hiiv  out  an  entire  grocery  store!  Naturally 


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yon  II  nave  to  arid  to  aiui  ncK  te  ii  om  my 
list,  because  tastes  \ary  and  yon  must  be 
.governed  by  the  preferences  and  possible 
food  lads  of  your  own  family.  But  this 
sliould  provide  a  good  "jnin]iing  off  place," 
irnin  wliii.li  \on  c.in  -Irll.r  ^nt  in  yoiu'  own 
Miifi  ti.iii.  ,\t  Ira-t,  tli;it\  w  iial  I  hope,  in 
wi'iting  it  all  down  here  for  you. 

In  the  canned  goods  line,  then,  I  think 
you  should  have  a  wide  variety  of  canned 
fruits  such  as  pineapi)lc  (sliced,  crnslicd, 
juice,  spears,  wedges,  etc!),  pculns,  Imtli 
sliced  and  halved;  pears,  cherries,  apiiiots, 
.grapefruit  sections,  fruit  juices,  berries 
and  others  perhaps  not  so  generally  known 
but  as  well  liked  by  many. 

Then  you'll  want  to  have  all  the  vege- 
t,-.l)les  that  you  like  in  canned  form.  Here 
personal  preferences  are  very  marked,  both 


as  to  the  kind  and  the  packer.  But  just 
about  everyone  likes  canned  corn  (both  of 
the  creamed  and  whole  kernel  variety), 
canned  tomatoes  and  tomato  juice,  canned 
asparagus,  baby  beets  and — well,  you'd 
better  add  on  to  this  list  yourself!  Only 
don't  forget  tiny  canned  white  potatoes  and 
golden,  canned  sweet  potatoes.  Are  they 
emergency  aces ! 

Canned  soups  are  so  generally  popular 
these  days,  that  it  seems  almost  unnecessary 
to  mention  them,  except  to  say  that  you 
should  have  a  special  corner  of  the  shelf 
which  permits  you  to  lay  in  a  goodly 
variety.  And  don't  forget  that  "soups  make 
sauces"  these  days,  too.  One  of  the  recipes 
I'm  giving  you,  for  instance,  Quick  Chicken 
Chop  Sucy.  calls  for  canned  chicken  soup 
as  well  as  canned  chicken  and  Chinese 
vegetables  and  noodles.  Takes  less  than 
fifteen  minutes  to  prepare,  by  this  method, 
instead  of  hours  of  boiling.  Another  of  my 
recipes,  this  month,  Sure-fire  Tomato 
Rarebit,  uses  that  most  popular  soup  of  all, 
Cream  of  Toinato.  Of  course,  you'll  find 
both  of  these  recipes  in  the  leaflet. 

Canned  fish  is  a  type  of  food  growing 
in  popularity  by  leaps  and  bounds.  Many 
of  you,  I'm  sure,  live  in  the  Middle  West 
states,  where  fresh  sea  food  is  practically 
unknown.  But  who  worries  about  that, 
when  there  are  saltnon,  tuna,  shrimp,  lob- 
ster, codfish  and  oysters  in  clean,  sanitary 
cans,  on  the  grocer's  shelves? 

Canned  meats,  other  than  the  chicken 
I've  already-  mentioned,  also  are  well  liked. 
These  include,  of  course,  the  many  tasty 
meat  spreads  that  are  used  for  canapes 
and  sandwiches. 

Evaporated  and  condensed  milk  also 
deserve  a  place  on  your  Emergency  Shelf 
— and  a  mighty  important  one.  For  they 
have  many  uses  to  recommend  them,  aside 
from  their  very  real  economy. 

I'm  also  particularly  fond  of  those  grand 
(and  economical,  too)  canned  foods, 
spaghetti  and  baked  beans,  aren't  you? 
With  baked  beans — which  I  serve  in  a  real 
old-fashioned  bean-pot— I  always  have  Bos- 
ton Brown  Bread.  And  that  comes  in  cans, 
too,  you  know !  With  both  spaghetti  and 
beans,  I  always  serve  a  fresh,  raw  \CRe- 
table  salad.  The  combination  is  .yr.md  !  Just 
cut  up  every  salad  green  and  \  c.m.tablc  you 
have  in  your  vegetable  freshener  in  the 
refrigerator — that  might  include  watercress, 
as  well  as  lettnct'.  radishes,  fresh  tomatoes, 
little  raw  onions,  r.iw  c.nTots,  celery  and 
.ureen  pepjier.  The  more  tlir  merrier!  Serve 


witli  till'  ste.nnn 
and  what  a  ('///i 
I  use  siia.uhetti 
dishes — with  litt 
balls,  etc.  One  of 


1/,-,// 


liessnm.  together 
i-hetti  or  beans, 
hat  uill  l)e! 
a  base  for  other 
sausages,  meat 
■ite  combinations, 
eggs,  ill  a  dish  I 
r.v  Note:  You'll 
see  it  pictured — made  according  to  Miss 
Smitli's  description — at  the  beginning  of 
this  article.  Her  recipe  is  on  one  of  the 
cards  in  the  leaflet.) 

And  now,  even  after  mentioning  all  those 
things,  I'll  just  bet  you  could  fell  me  a 
whole  flock  I've  forgotten  !  Well,  I'm  will- 


1/;/,/ 


lis, 


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Rubinoff  celebrates  his  seventh  anniversary  in  radio  by  learning  to  handle 
chopsticks.  Cafe  operator  Charley  Yernnah  instructs  him  and  some  of  the  boys. 


ing  to  be  reminded.  But  let  me  remind 
you  that  it's  smart  economy  to  buy  canned 
goods  by  the  case,  if  you  have  room, 
when  they  are  on  sale. 

Now  let's  go  on  to  the  many  packaged 
goods  you  will  profit  by  having  on  hand. 
Here  again  I'm  just  about  staggered  by  tlie 
number  we  have  to  choose  from,  so  you'll 
just  have  to  name  your  own  varieties,  as 
all  I  can  hope  to  do  is  to  list  them  in  tlie 
most  general  way.  Sooo-o!  Be  sure  to  have 
biscuit  mix,  cake  mixes  and  pastry  flour ; 
packaged  bread  crumbs  and  cracker  meal ; 
raisins,  dates,  marshmallows ;  quick  setting 
gelatin  desserts  and  quickly  fixed  puddings. 
And.  of  course,  you  always  must  have 
plenty  of  such  things  as  cornstarch,  flour, 
tea.  coffee  and  sugars  of  all  kinds. 

Cereals  and  crackers  provide  marvelous 
emergency  aids,  so  don't  forget  them.  Dry 
cereals,  of  course,  are  the  late-risers'  delight 
—and  if  you  have  a  job  or  appointment, 
that's  an  emergency,  indeed  !  But  nowadays 
cereals  also  have  many  other  uses.  For 
instance,  you  can  roll  out  pufl'ed  wheat  or 
cornflakes  to  make  the  t|uickest,  most 
delicious  pie  cnist  \ou  ever  tasted.  Guess 
I'll  give  you  that  recipe,  too,  in  the  leaflet. 
Fill  these  shells  with  whipped  cream  and 
bananas,  or  some  other  quickly  prepared 
filling,  and  no  one  will  believe  it  didn't 
take  you  hours  to  make!  Scatter  puffed 
rice  or  puffed  wheat  over  the  whipped 
cream  topping  of  a  cream  soup  and  it  will 
seem  like  the  beginning  of  a  party  meal. 
Tiiese  only  begin  to  suggest  the  many 
things  you  can  do  with  just  the  shake  of  a 
cereal  box. 

Crackers  provide  a  subject  I'd  love  to 
devote  an  article  to  (and  maybe  I  will,  at 
that!)  for  you  can  go  on  indefinitely  telling 
about  their  uses.  I've  too  little  space, 
though,  except  ff)r  the  fewest  of  quickly- 
expressed  ideas.  There  are  rusks,  for  in- 
stance, to  substitute  for  toast,  ry-krisp  to 
have  on  hand  when  the  bread  supply  runs 
low,  filled  cookies  for  teas  and  desserts, 
chocolate  cookies  to  make  one  of  those  ice- 
box cakes  that  everyone  loves.  (I  think 
they  give  you  the  recipe  right  on  the  tins 
they  come  in.) 

Speaking  of  crackers  and  ice-box  cakes, 
by  the  way,  I  almost  forgot  to  tell  you 
about  the  Graham  Pineapple  Cake  recipe 
that  I'm  giviiitj  >  on.  Although,  after  it's 
made,  it  niu>l  he  left  in  the  refrigerator 
for  scN-eral  hours  and  therefore,  properly 
speaking,  does  not  belong  in  the  Quick  Meal 
or  Emergency  category,  I  still  think  you 
should  have  it.  Because,  after  all,  soinething 


tucked  away  in  advance,  for  an  emergency 
that  you  suspect  may  arise,  gives  you  a 
grand  and  glorious  feeling.  For  that  reason 
I've  included  it,  and  also  because  it's  made 
in  a  jiffy  from  the  very  type  of  supplies 
we've  been  talking  about. 

Well,  that  leaves  just  our  third  group, 
refrigerator  and  general  supplies.  By  these 
I  mean  such  things  as  eggs,  butter,  fats 
for  frying  and  cooking,  oil  for  salads  and 
cooking,  too ;  fruits  for  desserts,  for  salads, 
or  for  fruit  cups.  The  picture  shows  me 
making  this  last  named  quick  and  pleasant 
starter  for  a  meal.  Of  course,  I  combine 
both  canned  and  fresh  fruits  in  most  of 
such  mixtures. 

To  continue :  I  think  every  household 
always  should  have  on  hand  such  things 
as  lemons,  onions  and  celery.  (The  celery 
leaves  for  seasoning,  the  stalks  for  cooking, 
the  hearts  for  table  service.)  Nor  could  I 
imagine  keeping  house  without  cheese,  but 
I  didn't  mention  cheeses  among  the  pack- 
aged foods  because  they  come,  rather,  under 
the  heading  of  refrigerator  items.  But  in- 
clude them  you  should,  for  I  know  of  no 
better  "filler  inners." 

In  my  house  you  would  always  find  a 
generous  selection  of  cheeses,  both  imported 
and  domestic — to  be  served  as  dessert,  or 
as  an  extra  course,  if  the  dinner  is  light ; 
to  go  with  salads,  to  nibble  on  between 
meals,  to  use  in  sauces,  to  make  up  into 
sandwiches,  to  garnish  canapes,  to  grate  over 
various  dishes  which  they  improve  no  end. 
One  grand  sauce,  for  instance,  is  made  in 
1-2-3  fashion,  simply  by  melting  a  paek.i^e 
of  processed  cheese,  combined  with 
cup  of  evaporated  milk,  in  the  top  of  a 
double  boiler.  Try  that  on  eggs  or  vege- 
tables or  on  pieces  of  toast,  and  see  if  you 
don't  agree  with  me.  Then,  of  course,  there 
are  Rarebits— one  of  which,  as  I  told  you, 
is  in  my  recipe  leaflet. 

Well,  folks,  that  about  covers  the  subject 
to  the  best  of  my  ability.  If  you  think  of 
anything  I  should  have  inchuU'd,  let  nie 
know.  While,  if  my  list  is  more  coniplc'te 
than  any  you  may  have  thought  of,  be 
sure  to  copy  it  down  for  future  reference. 
And  don't  forget  the  recipes  I  Because  I 
know  you'll  enjoy  making  the  Quick  Meal 
dishes  that  they  tell  you,  clearly  and  care- 
fully, how  to  make. 

This  is  Kate  Smith  about  to  sign  off  and 
go  shopping — for  writing  this  article  cer- 
tainly reminded  me  that  my  own  /imergcncy 
Shelf  supplies  are  running  pretty  low.  So 
goodbye,  friends,  until  next  week's  broad- 
cast and  next  month's  article. 


...T-s  POSIT.VEU  *MAZ1NG  THE 
PUSS  A  MAN  CAN  KICK  UP  If  « 
DOiSN  TGET  H.S  SHREDDED  WHEAT 
EVERY  MORNING!" 


Shredded  Wheat  biscuits.  Try 


..,  JUST  WANTED  TO  KNOW  IF 
tOU  BOYS  HAD  ANY  SHREDDED 
WHEAT  AND  STRAWBERRIES 
HANDY." 


Set  full  sail  for  your  grocer  s  right 
now  Shredded  Wheat  wuh  straw- 
berries is  the  flavor  sensation  of  the 

season ! 


■OH    YES.  MADAM. 
SHREDDED  WHEAT  EVERY 
AY    Will   HEIP   MAKE  ^ 
>     ^  BIG  AND  STRONG!"^ 


Sh,.dded  Wheat  « 

«,hpat  And  scientists  say,  wneai 
t?a\ns^an  excellent  balance  of  t  e 

vital  food  essentials  which  neip 
keep  you  active  and  alert. 


A  Product  of  NATIONAL  '6  W 
The  Seal  Bakers  of  Ritz,  I  lacd.i  Histuit 

"'Baw'ng'  ^»  famous  varieties 

More  Than  a  Billion  Shredded  Whe.it  Biscuits  Sold  E»ery  Year 


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DO  YOU  REALLY  KNOW  VICTOR? 


FEmiNINE 
HYGIENE 


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years  to  pay  for  them !  With  any  other 
man,  they  would  have  been  a  chunk  of 
swampland ;  in  his  case,  they  happened  to 
be  in  the  center  of  what  today  is  Jackson 
Heights,  a  populous  center  of  Long  Island, 
twenty  minutes  from  Times  Square — and 
worth  a  minimum  of  $250,000.  A  few  years 
later,  he  bought  a  piece  of  woods.  It 
became  his  home,  one  of  the  show  estates 
on  Long  Island,  one  that  paid  for  itself 
by  the  operation  of  a  remarkably  successful 
poultry  farm. 

Knowing  all  these  tliinss,  }oird  expect  a 
ccinceited  man,  full  of  bra,-;  and  self -praise. 
Actually,  he  is  a  fat  little  man,  scared  and 
shrinking,  his  clothes  wrinkled,  his  manner 
so  naive,  you're  sure  there  must  be  hay- 
seeds in  his  hair.  He  has  been  an  actor  all 
his  life,  yet  he  hates  to  talk  about  hiin- 
self.  He  also  hates  to  talk  about  others, 
except  to  give  them  extravagant  praise. 

Born  in  Hammonton,  New  Jersey,  he 
made  up  his  mind  the  moment  he  was  able 
to  think,  he  was  going  to  be  an  actor.  He 
acted  in  the  school  plays  and  confesses 
that  he  made  a  fool  of  himself  trying  to 
get  laughs  out  of  his  classmates.  His 
father  was  a  ten-thuinb  business  man,  who 
was  good  only  at  fishing.  He  would  raise 
a  dollar,  give  hii  wife— X'ictm's  nuitlier— a 
quarter  to  run  the  lioii'-cliold.  and  t;o  off 
with  the  rod  and  bait  can.  He  always  came 
back  with  fish  enough  to  feed  the  family 
for  a  week  or  two. 

"I  am  just  like  my  father,"  said  Mr. 
Moore.  "Fishing  is  what  I  do  best." 

The  family  moved  to  Boston,  where  the 
father  opened  a  restaurant  and  Victor 
diddled  about  finding  out  that  he  was  good 
for  nothing  but  the  stage.  At  seventeen,  he 
made  his  debut  in  Babes  in  Toyland.  hold- 


ing a  spear.  Was  he  frightened?  In  re- 
sponse to  this  question,  he  says : 

"Some,  but  being  only  a  super  with  a 
spear,  there  was  not  much  to  frighten  me 
but  the  spear!" 

He  went  on  as  super  through  a  succession 
of  plays,  and  finally  he  got  a  line  to  say. 
Something  like :  "Dinner  is  served."  For 
this  he  received  $3.50  a  week,  and  overnight 
he  blossomed  out  in  a  cane  and  a  black 
hat.  At  last,  he  was  an  actor ! 

Then  to  a  traveling  stock  company,  for 
which  he  raised  a  black  moustache  and 
played  villains.  The  Ideal  Repertory  Com- 
pany never  made  any  money  and  one  night, 
after  closing  the  performance  of  Convict 
999,  the  company  s'kipped  its  hotel  bill  and 
went  on  to  the  next  town.  There  the  sheriff 
was  waiting  for  them,  but  they  escaped  him 
and  for  two  weeks  holed  in  at  a  farmhouse, 
living  on  flour  and  beans. 

His  next  job  paid  him  $10  a  week  for 
playing  a  juvenile  part.  It  is  metnorable, 
for  in  this  role,  he  sang  his  first  and  last 
song.   A  critic  at  the  titne  wrote : 


"Mr.  Moc 
took  the  II, <i 
for  appUiiis 
verse. " 


S'liip  one  song.  He  inis- 
'ii  III,-  rear  of  the  house 
111(1   uiflieted  o  second 


With  a  play  called  The  Romance  of  Coon 
Hollmv  he  traveled  to  the  Pacific  Coa.st. 
In  Stockton,  California,  they  discovered 
the  advance  agent  had  quit  without  warn- 
ing, so  that  no  one  had  heard  of  the  play. 
Victor  was  given  the  job  of  distributing 
handbills  on  the  street. 

From  play  to  play,  from  stock  company 
to  stock  company,  bumped  the  young  actor, 
gaining    experience.    He    acted  Jewish 


RADIO  STARS 


Have  Clearer,  Lovelier  Skin 

with  Ihese 

^^^^  Beauty  Creams 


comedians,  Negro  parts,  and  German  roles. 
In  one  play,  he  was  Nero.  In  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  he  and  a  friend  started  a  com- 
pany which  managed  to  finish  the  season. 
When  the  partners  split,  Victor  Moore 
had  $13.50  as  his  share. 

After  that,  life  was  smooth  sailing,  for 
he  met  Emma  Littlefield  and,  as  Moore  and 
Lifllefield,  they  put  over  their  skit,  Change 
)  our  Act  or  Back  to  the  JVoods.  Some  of 
you  old-timers  may  remember  it.  The  curtain 
rose,  showing  the  stage  bare  to  the  back  wall, 
with  Moore,  in  the  part  of  an  actor,  being 
told  by  a  stagehand  that  he  was  through. 

"We  used  to  play  this  act  sixty  weeks  a 
year,"  he  said.  "Sure,  sixty  weeks.  Pay 
no  attention  to  the  calendar,  because  in  New 
York  we  played  the  Palace  and  the  River- 
side at  the  same  time,  traveling  from  one 
theatre  to  the  other  in  taxicabs." 

George  M.  Cohan  rescued  Victor  from 
vaudeville.  He  spotted  him  as  surefire  and 
wrote  the  part  of  Kid  Bunts  for  him  in  his 
play.  Forty-five  Minutes  from  Broadway. 
The  moment  Cohan  was  through  with  him, 
he  was  snatched  by  Owen  Davis,  who 
wrote,  expressly  for  Victor  Moore,  the 
plays.  Shorty  McCabe  and  The  Happiest 
Night  of  My  Life.  Both  of  them  successes. 
The  legend  of  Moore's  luck  began  to  grow. 

While  on  tour,  he  w^as  stricken  with 
appendicitis — and  that,  too,  was  luck,  be- 
cause Jesse  Lasky  met  him  in  California 
and  put  him  to  work  in  the  movies.  They 
were  still  silent  but  the  comedian  clicked, 
and  Chimmie  Fadden,  The  Race  and  The 
Cloivn  made  money  for  their  producer.  He 
returned  East  to  appear  in  some  forty 
one-reel  comedies,  filling  in  between  whiles 
in  vaudeville. 

By  now,  the  luck  and  great  talents  of 
Victor  Moore  were  Broadway  facts  and 
no  revue  producer  in  his  right  mind  at- 
tempted to  put  one  on  without  first  dicker- 
ing with  the  comedian.  He  appeared  in 
such  hits  as  Oh  Kay,  Alles  Oop,  Hold 
Everything,  Funny  Face,  Heads  Up  and 
Princess  Charming. 

But  the  success  which  smashed  its  way 
to  the  public  heart  was  his  performance  as 
Alexander  P.  Throttlebottom  in  Of  Thee 
I  Sing.  Playing  what  was  to  have  been  a 
secondary  role,  he  stole  the  show,  boots, 
breeches  and  scenery ! 

As  a  movie  star,  his  performance  in 
Sii'ing  Time  and  IVe,  the  Jury  have  estab- 
lished him  so  firmly  that  the  other  day  he 
traded  his  Long  Island  home  for  one  in 
California.  That's  where  he  wants  to  re- 
main from  now  on,  unless  some  one  comes 
along  with  the  kind  of  a  play  he  always 
has  been  seeking. 

"Something  like  Lightnin,"  he  explains. 
"A  play  that  combines  laughter  and  tears. 
A  role  by  which  I  will  be  remembered." 

If  you  look  back  over  his  career,  this 
fact  emerges :  Victor  Moore  always  has 
played  secondary  roles.  He  has  been  the 
funny  man,  second  or  third  in  billing.  Yet, 
invariably  he  has  carried  ofif  the  honors, 
been  responsible  more  than  the  others  for 
the  success  of  the  play. 

Some  say  his  success  as  a  comedian  is 
due  to  his  perfecf  timing,  the  way  he  speaks 
his  lines.  That  is  true,  but,  over  and  be- 
yond that,  is  the  fact  that  Victor  Moore  is 
a  gentle  spirit,  a  man  without  guile,  with 
nothing  but  love  for  his  fellow  men,  who, 
as  in  the  days  when  he  was  a  boy,  still  is 
willing  to  make  a  fool  of  himself  in  order 
to  make  his  comrades  happy. 


Your  skin  can  belter  resist  blemishes  and 
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Fine  emollients  in  Woodbury's  Cold 
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cracks  and  fissures  in  your  skin  that 
have  opened  the  door  to  the  germs 
which  cause  so  many  blemishes. 

Besides,  this  famous  cold  cream  now 
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SHE  WON  A  BITTER  FIGHT 


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^^You  are 

good  company  now^^ 

" — how  well  I  re- 
call the  days  and 
long  evenings  when 
I  felt  tired-out  and 
looked  it." 

FADED. .  .with  a  sad  looking  skin. .  .no 
pep!  Millions  have  experienced  such  a 
sad  situation... you  may  have  to  face  it,too. 

Overwork  . . .  worry  . .  .  undue  strain  . .  . 
colds  and  other  human  ills  often  take  their 
toll  of  the  precious  red  cells  of  the  blood. 
Hence  a  run-down  condition. .  .a  weakened 
body. .  .a  poor  complexion. 

If  you  arc  so  unfortunate,  no  longer  do 
you  need  to  worry,  as  to  how  you  may 
regain  strength  ...  firm  flesh. .  .restore  a 
natural  glow  to  your  skin.  Simply  take  a 
tablespoonful  of  S.S.S.  Tonio  immediately 
before  each  meal... and  forthwith,  within 
a  shorter  space  of  time  than  you  probably 
realize,  those  weakened  red-blood-cells  will 
become  healthier  and  richer. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  whets  the  appetite.  Foods 
taste  better. .  .natural  digestive  juices  are 
stimulated  and  finally  the  very  food  you 
cat  is  of  more  body  value.  A  very  impor- 
tant step  back  to  health. 

Be  good  to  your  .skin  from  within  and 
your  skin  will  be  good  to  you.  Enjoy  more 
pep... more  vigor... by  taking  the  S.S.S. 
Tonic  treatment.  Shortly  you  will  be  de- 
lighted with  the  way  you  will  feel... your 
friends  will  compliment  you  on  the  way 
you  will  look. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  is  especially  designed  to  build 
sturdy  health. .  .itsremarkablcvalue  is  time 
tried  and  scientifically  proven  .  .that's  why 
it  makes  you  feel  like  yourself  again. 

At  all  drug  stores  in  two  convenient  sizes. 
The  large  size  at  a  saving  in  price.  There  is 
no  substitute  for  this  time  tested  remedy. 
No  ethical  druggist  will  suggest  something 
"just  as  good."  ©S.S.S.  Co. 


remembering.  "And  they  were  always  big- 
ger than  I  was,  so  of  course  I'd  get  the 
worst  of  it." 

There  were  three  boys  in  the  neighbor- 
hood who  lorded  it  over  all  the  otliers. 
They  were  older  and  had  a  confident 
swagger  that  couldn't  help  but  impress  the 
rest.  They  appointed  themselves  X'atalie's 
protectors  because  she  was  so  little  and 
such  a  fighter.  After  that  there  wasn't 
anyone  who  would  get  into  an  argument 
with  her. 

It  was  when  she  was  studying  at  Curtis 
Institute  in  Pliiladelphia  that  she  read 
those  three  l>iys  were  going  to  die  to- 
gether, as  they  had  lived  together.  That 
night,  a  httle  past  eleven,  the  three  of 
tiiein  were  being  electrocuted  at  Sing  Sing. 

Her  mother  and  the  neighbors  had  kept 
the  news  from  her,  but  there  she  sat,  read 
ing  it  in  the  newspaper  and  knowing  that 
now  those  boys  were  as  alive  as  she  was 
were  feeling  tlie  horror  and  terror  that 
she  was  feeling,  and  that  in  a  few  hours 
they  would  be  dead. 

Those  boys  bred  in  the  same  Iiard  school 
she  had  been  bred  in,  those  boys  who  had 
fought  for  her  and  who  had  laughed  with 
her  and  had  pulled  her  hair  just  to  show 
her  that  even  if  they  did  protect  her,  they 
weren't  too  soft  as  far  as  she  was  con- 
cerned. It  was  the  longest  night  she  had 
ever  lived  through. 

"They  were  so  swell  when  I  knew  them," 
she  says,  and  tears  come  into  her  voice. 
"They  all  had  a  genuine  love  for  music 
and  used  to  lift  me  up  on  the  stoop  some- 
times and  ask  me  to  sing.  It  was  almost 
like  a  command  performance,  for  they 
were  literally  the  kings  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. 

"It's  so  awful  to  think  the  same  qualities 
that  made  them  fall,  ihat  same  energy  and 
enthusiasm  and  love  of  adventure,  could 
have  made  them  go  so  far  if  they  had  been 
re-directed  in  the  right  channels. 

"That's  the  thing  about  being  brought 
up  in  the  slums.  It  can  Inirt  you  so  much 
or  help  you  so  much.  It  gives  you  stamina 
and  an  ability  to  take  life  on  the  chin, 
but  those  things  can  make  you  or  work 
against  you,  dcpertding  upon  your  goal." 

Natalie  was  sixteen  when  she  got  the 
scholarship  to  the  Curtis  Institute.  For 
the  first  time  she  knew  what  it  was  not  to 
worry,  for  not  only  was  she  being  taken 
care  of,  but  her  family  were  taken  care 
of,  too. 

That  first  day  she  arrived  she  was  given 
fifty  dollars  which  was  to  be  used  for  her 
expenses  for  the  next  two  weeks.  It  was 
a  terrific  sum  to  hand  a  kid  who  had  never 
before  had  a  dime  that  she  could  call  her 
own,  or  that  she  felt  she  could  spend  on 
herself. 

She  walked  along  Chestnut  Street,  feel- 
ing like  the  richest  girl  in  the  world,  stop- 
ping to  look  in  at  store  windows  and 
feeling  there  wasn't  anything  she  couldn't 
buy  for  herself.  The  first  thing  she  got 
was  a  pair  of  long,  dangling  earrings  set 
with  little  bits  of  green  glass  she  was  sure 
were  emeralds.  Then  a  necklace  followed 
that  and  a  few  bracelets — the  kind  that 


jangled  and  made  her  feel  something  of 
a  siren. 

Then  she  bought  an  evening  bag  set  with 
rhinestones,  and  clocked  stockings  and  a 
batcii  of  silk  underwear. 

She  carried  them  all  home  with  her, 
laid  them  on  the  bed  and  gloated.  Then 
she  looked  in  her  bag  and  discovered  she 
had  exactly  three  dollars  and  eighty-five 
cents  left  to  live  on  for  the  next  two 
v.'eeks  ! 

"Even  beans  and  eggs  are  all  right  to 
live  on  when  you're  sixteen  and  have  a 
bureau  drawer  of  junk  to  come  home  to  at 
nights,"  Natalie  laughed.  "I  never  wore 
any  of  the  jewelry,  though,  for  I  showed 
it  to  some  of  the  other  girls  and  they 
laughed  at  it.  But,  oh,  how  beautiful  it 
seemed  to  me  then!  Far  more  beautiful 
than  the  steaks  and  chops  and  good 
nourishing  food  I  should  have  bought  in- 
stead of  them." 

But  in  spite  of  that  experience  she  never 
was  able  to  budget  her  money  properly. 
There  was  always  the  feast  of  those  first 
days  when  she  got  her  expense  money  and 
the  famine  that  came  at  the  end  of  the 
two  weeks. 

Before  she  left  New  York,  a  friend  had 
given  her  a  letter  to  a  young  man  studying 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  so  one 
of  the  first  things  Natalie  did  was  to  call 
him  and  tell  him  about  it. 

"He  sounded  awfully  bored,"  she  laughs, 
"but  finally  asked  me  to  meet  him  and  told 
me  he'd  buy  me  a  soda.  Well,  there  were 
five  boys  waiting  for  me  when  I  got  there, 
and  they  all  looked  me  over  very  sus- 
piciously and  I  could  see  they  resented  me. 
They  were  friends  and  always  did  things 
together  and  they  weren't  going  to  have 
any  girl  come  along  and  maybe  break  up 
their  little  club. 

"Evidently  I  didn't  look  very  dangerous, 
because  they  unbent  almost  immediately, 
and  before  they  brought  me  back  to  my 
boarding  house  I  could  see  they  had  more 
or  less  adopted  me.  They  used  to  take  me 
to  the  college  dances,  but  it  wasn't  much 
fun  for  they  watched  over  me  like  five 
stern  parents  and  if  they  saw  any  of  my 
dancing  partners  making  as  much  as  the 
tiniest  pass  at  me  they  advanced  on  him 
in  a  body. 

"But  I  could  call  them  up  when  I  had 
spent  my  allowance  and  say:  'I'm  hungry 
and  I  haven't  any  money!'  and  always  be 
sure  of  the  reassuring  response:  'AH  right, 
Brat,  we'll  be  down  to  get  you.' 

"Four  of  those  boys  are  in  New  York 
now  and  they've  never  stopped  helping 
me.  One  is  a  newspaperman  and  two  have 
iniiH mailt  j'.h^  on  Broadway.  Another  is 
in  r.Kii.i.  And  the  fifth  one  is  happily 
married  in  Pliiladelphia  and  says  all  he  can 
do  is  lie  my  claque. 

"They  say  I've  done  things  for  them, 
too,  because  I  made  myself  such  a  re- 
sponsibility to  them  that  they  just  had  to 
settle  down  and  get  to  work  to  take  care 
of  me. 

"I  was  the  school  problem  child  as  well, 
for  Mother  had  all  she  could  do  to  make 
me  honest  and  good  without  making  a  lady 


RADIO  STARS 


of  me  as  well.  My  diction  made  my 
teachers  throw  up  their  hands  in  horror 
and  one  of  them  labored  with  me  inces 
santly. 

"  'Chocolate,'  he  would  say,  mincing  each 
syllable  and  making  the  second  O  sound 
like  a  delicate  lady  who  had  just  seen  a 
mouse,  and  I  would  glare  at  him  and  say, 
'Chawklut'  with  all  the  full  flavor  of  my 
East  Side  bringing-up.  It  would  go  on 
for  hours,  'chocolate,'  'chawklut,'  'choco- 
late,' 'chawklut'  until  he  finally  gave  up  in 
despair. 

"For  four  years  I  was  at  the  school  and 
when  it  was  over  I  was  on  my  own  again. 
It  was  hard,  after  the  security  I  had 
known,  to  have  to  make  the  family's  and 
m.y  own  living  again.  In  the  beginning  I 
thought  it  would  be  easy.  After  all,  I  had 
a  voice  and  I  had  had  training,  but  after 
those  first  few  weeks  of  sitting  in  every 
office  on  Broadway  for  hours  at  a  time 
I  began  to  wonder. 

"There  were  the  almost  engagements 
that  never  came,  and  most  of  the  time  I 
didn't  even  get  into  the  inside  office,  for 
the  girl  at  the  desk  would  take  one  look 
at  niy  inexpensive  clothes  and  wave  some 
glamorously-dressed  girl  in,  instead.  There 
was  the  time  one  of  the  boys  from  Phila- 
delphia told  me  they  were  casting  for  a 
second  lead  for  Jubilee,  to  get  over  there 
right  away  and  be  sure  to  use  his  name. 
A  man  put  me  on  the  stage  and  asked  me 
to  sing. 

"  "You've  got  a  nice  voice,'  he  told  me. 
'But  you  don't  make  a  good  enough  appear- 
ance on  the  stage.' 

"I  couldn't  help  feeling  a  little  bitter 
then.  After  all,  how  could  any  girl 
make  a  good  stage  appearance  in  a  printed 
silk  dress  that  had  cost  two  dollars  and 
ninety-eight  cents? 

"But  afterwards,  when  I  was  at  the 
Metropolitan,  singing  Esmeralda  in  The 
Bartered  Bride,  prancing  around  in  the 
little  ballet  dress  I  wore  for  the  role,  that 
same  man  turned  to  the  boy  who  had  sent 
me  to  him  two  years  before : 

'■  'Xow  why  don't  I  ever  find  a  grrl  like 
that  when  I'm  casting  a  show?'  he  asked, 
and  the  boy  couldn't  answer  him  for  laugh- 
ing." 

It  was  during  these  two  years  when  she 
was  trying  to  get  a  professional  footing 
that  Natalie  was  to  meet  another  boy. 
Different,  this  time,  from  all  the  other 
boys  she  had  met,  because  this  tall  young 
Irishman  with  the  laughing  blue  eyes  and 
sandy  hair  did  something  to  her  heart  that 
none  of  the  others  had  ever  done. 

She  didn't  want  to  go  to  the  party  she 
was  invited  to  that  night.  She  was  so 
very  tired!  They  insisted,  so  she  went, 
tired  as  she  was  from  that  weary  trouping 
up  and  down  Broadway. 

Then  she  saw  him  and  somehow  she 
wasn't  tired  any  more.  They  sat  and 
talked  together,  almost  as  though  there 
wasn't  anyone  else  in  the  room.  When  it 
was  time  to  go  home  he  didn't  even  ask  if 
he  could,  he  just  took  his  hat  and  went 
with  her. 

After  that,  Bill  was  the  beginning  and 
end  of  everything  she  thought  or  did  or 
dreamed.  It  didn't  seem  so  bad,  coming 
home  at  night  without  a  job,  with  Bill  there 
to  laugh  her  fears  away  and  tell  her,  with 
that  Celtic  optimism  of  his,  that  some  day 
the  breaks  would  come.  And  he'd  get 
up  and  do  a  little  imitation  of  her,  the  airs 


YOU'RE  a  pretty  girl,  Mary,  and 
you're  smart  about  most  things.  But 
you're  just  a  bit  stupid  about  yourself. 

You  love  a  good  time — but  you  sel- 
dom have  one.  Evening  after  evening 
you  sit  at  home  alone. 

You've  met  several  grand  men  who 
seemed  interested  at  first.  They  took 
you  out  once — and  that  ivas  that. 

WAKE  UP,  MARY! 

■      •  • 

There  are  so  many  pretty  Marys  in  the 
world  who  never  seem  to  sense  the  real 
reason  for  their  aloneness. 

In  this  smart  modern  age,  it's  against 
the  code  for  a  girl  (or  a  man,  either)  to 
carry  the  repellent  odor  of  underarm 
perspiration  on  clothing  and  person. 

It's  a  fault  which  never  fails  to  carry 
its  own  punishment — unpopularity.  And 
justly.  For  it  is  a  fault  which  can  be  over- 
come in  ju.st  half  a  minute — with  Mum! 

No  bother  to  use  Mum.  Just  smooth  a 
bit  of  Mum  under  each  arm  —  and  slip 
into  your  dress  without  a  minute  lost.  No 
waiting  for  it  to  dry;  no  rinsing  ofT. 

Use  It  any  time;  harmless  to  clothing.  If 


you  forget  to  use  Mum  before  you  dress, 
just  use  it  afterwards.  Mum  is  the  only 
deodorant  which  holds  the  Textile  Ap- 
proval Seal  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Laundering  as  being  harmless  to  fabrics. 

Soothing  and  cooling  to  skin.  You'll  love 
this  about  Mum  —  you  can  shave  your 
underarms  and  use  it  at  once.  Even  the 
most  delicate  skin  won't  mind! 

Effective  all  day  long.  Mum  never  lets 
you  down.  Its  protection  lasts,  no  matter 
how  strenuous  your  day  or  evening. 

Does  not  prevent  natural  perspiration. 
Mum  just  prevents  the  objectionable  part 
of  perspiration  —  the  unpleasant  odor  — 
and  not  the  natural  perspiration  itself. 

Don't  let  neglect  cheat  you  of  good 
times  which  you  were  meant  to  have. 
The  daily  Mum  habit  will  keep  vou  safe! 
Bristol-Myers  Co.,  630  Fifth  Ave.,  N.  Y. 


USE  MUM  ON 
SANITARY  NAPKINS 

Know  what  com- 
plete freedom 
from  doubt  and 
fear  of  this  cause 
of  unpleasantness 
can  rcallv  mean. 


MUM  TAKES  THE  ODOR  OUT  OF  PERSPIRATION 


75 


RADIO  STARS 


DO  YOU  THROW 
MONEY  AWAY? 

-  every  third  woman  does! 

Enquiries  among  hundreds  of  women 
brought  out  the  astounding  fact  that 
under-arm  moisture  had  spoiled  gar- 
ments for  1  out  of  every  3! 

For  lack  of  a  pair  of  Kleinert's 
Dress  Shields  or  a  Bra-form  every  one 
of  them  threw  away  the  price  of  her 
dress !  Nothing  you  can  do  to  the  arm- 
pit is  so  safe,  so  sure  to  protect  your 
dress  as  Kleinert's  Dress  Shields  in 
the  dress  itself! 

*BRA-FORMS,THE  IDEAL  WAY  for 

busy  women  to  wear  dress  shields,  are 
smart  uplift  bras  made  to  "do  things" 
for  every  type  of  figure.  They  are 
equipped  with  Kleinert's  shields 
guaranteed  to  protect  your  dress  not 
only  from  moisture  but  friction  and 
too-strong  under-arm  cosmetics  as 
well.  They  wash  easily  and  may  be 
worn  with  any  dress. 

Your  favorite  Notion  Counter  is 
showing  Bra-forms  in  many  styles 
from  a  dollar  up  — the  Bra-form,  illus- 
trated above,  is  of  fine  batiste,  $1.25. 


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and  graces  that  would  be  hers  when  she 
became  a  full-fledged  prima  donna. 

Everybody  was  happy  when  Bill  was 
around.  Even  her  mother,  with  her  native 
Russian  way  of  making  a  tragedy  of  every 
little  thing,  would  have  to  laugh  at  Bill, 
saying  so  dramatically  after  her:  "Oh,  the 
tragedy  of  it!"  and  laughing  in  that  easy, 
Irish  way  of  his. 

On  Saturday  afternoons  they  used  to  go 
down  to  the  markets  and  wander  around 
lni\in,u  provisions  and  looking  at  all  the 
expensive  things  they  couldn't  buy.  But, 
somehow,  it  wasn't  hard  being  poor  any 
more,  with  Bill  there  talking  as  if  they 
could  get  anything  tliey  darn  well  wanted, 
and  pretending  the  meat  and  vegetables  for 
the  Bodanya  Sunda>'  dinner  were  for  the 
young  Gormaiis,  who  had  just  moved  into 
their  own  imaginary  small  apartment. 
On  Sunday  afternoons  the}-  toolc  the 
I  ferry  over  to  Staten  Island,  and  tlie  two 
I  youngsters  in  love  would  turn  that  ferry 
into  the  Normandie  and  rr.ake  that  twenty- 
j  minute  crossing  a  European  honeymoon, 
i  Natalie's  changing  gray  eyes  resembled 
[  violets  when  they  looked  down  into  the 
I  waters  of  the  bay,  pretending  they  were  in 
,  mid-Atlantic. 

j  They  went  to  automobile  shows,  too, 
and  looked  at  all  the  most  expensive  cars, 
but  that  didn't  make  Bill's  old  second-hand 

[  car  seem  any  the  less  grand  to  them. 
Then  came  the  time  when  he  got  the  ap- 
pointment to  teach  philosophy  at  the 
University   of  Chicago. 

It  was  hard  saying  goodbye  to  Bill, 
saying  goodbye  to  his  laugh  and  his  hope 
and  his  arms  holding  her,  but  Natalie  had 
been  bred  in  a  hard  .school,  so  she  was 
able  to  flip  her  hand  in  a  gay  salute  and 
somehow  keep  her  eyes  smiling  as  well  as 
her  lips.  When  she  felt  more  lonesome 
than  she  thought  she  could  stand,  she'd 
walk  another  few  blocks  looking  for  a  job 
and  come  home  so  dog-tired  that  she 
couldn't  even  feel  that  sweetly  fierce  pang 
of  loneliness  any  more. 

Then    suddenly   all    the    breaks  began 


coming.  When  she  went  to  the  Metropoli- 
tan that  morning  for  an  audition,  she  didn't 
bank  too  much  on  it  for  she  already  had 
had  many  auditions  there.  But  this  time 
it  was  diflferent.  This  time  they  gave  her 
a  job. 

The  Metropolitan  was  sold  out  for  the 
night  of  her  debut.  All  the  cheap  seats 
as  well  as  the  expensive  ones,  for  all  the 
old  neighbors  from  Little  Italy  came  down 
to  see  Natalie  make  her  debut.  Her  heart 
was  filled  to  overflowing  as  she  stood  on 
the  stage  at  last,  listening  to  the  applause 
and  knowing  that  some  of  it  came  from 
old  friends,  whose  errands  she  had  run 
and  whose  coal  she  had  toted  in  an  old 
go-cart  and  whose  babies  she  once  had 
minded. 

It  was  a  terrific  triumph  for  that  little 
girl  who  had  fought  for  her  place  so  long 
and  so  valiantly.  Her  dressing-room  was 
so  crowded  after  the  performance  that  even 
Lawrence  Tibbett,  stepping  around  to  con- 
gratulate her,  couldn't  get  into  it.  It  was 
a  funny  turn-about  for  the  little  girl  who 
had  hung  wistfully  around  the  star's 
dressing-room  after  other  performances, 
never  dreaming  of  following  the  congratu- 
lating crowds  into  her  idol's  dressing-room. 

But  the  most  marvelous  thing  of  all  was 
seeing  Bill  there  with  all  the  others.  Bill 
joshing  her  just  a  little,  so  that  she 
wouldn't  see  how  much  she  had  moved 
him,  and  knowing  he  had  driven  a  thou- 
sand miles  to  be  with  her  that  night  in  the 
hour  of  her  triumph. 

"Can  you  imagine  an  opera  singer  being 
engaged  to  a  professor  of  philosophy?" 
asks  Natalie.  The  catch  in  her  voice  and 
the  words  coming  so  eagerly,  you  can 
imagine  anything  of  this  girl  who  has  come 
such  a  long,  long  way  on  the  diflficult  road 
to  success. 

And  seeing  her  eyes  changing,  growing 
darker  and  deeper  as  she  talks  of  him,  you 
know  she  will  bring  as  much  strength  to 
that  marriage  as  she  has  to  her  career — 
and  make  as  big  a  success  of  it. 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 

{Continued  from  page  15) 


48.5  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 
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water.  Eight  to  ten  glasses  a  day  is  the 
rule,  but  Shirley  is  human  and  admits  some 
days  she  just  gets  the  minimum  six — but 
never  less  than  that ! 

Fourth  is  the  diet.  Shirley  says  stick  to 
your  diet  and  you'll  be  getting  two  birds 
with  one  stone!  Complexion  and  figure 
problems  fade  when  fruits  and  vegetables 
replace  the  pastries,  candies  and  greasy 
foods. 

The  inveterate  between-meal  nibbler  can 
continue  nibbling  with  an  easy  conscience 
and  a  clear  complexion,  if  the  carrot  habit 
is  formed.  The  carrot  is  rich  in  vitamins 
as  well  as  other  healthful  and  tonic 
qualities.  Eat  it  raw  without  removing  the 
outer  yellow  skin.  One  of  the  nicest  ways 
to  eat  carrots  is  to  cut  them  into  strips, 
eating   them   with   the   fingers,   plain  or 

!  dipped  in  mayonnaise.  Then  there  is  the 
raw  carrot  sandwich.  A  crisp,  raw  carrot, 

I  with  mayonnaise,  between   thin  slices  of 

j  bread. 

I     An  advocate  of  cleanliness,  Shirley  ad- 


heres to  her  soap,  water  and  cleansing 
cream  routine  every  day.  She  says  she 
likes  the  soap  and  water  cleansing  in  the 
morning,  because  it's  such  a  good  eye- 
opener.  ...  It  makes  her  feel  so  freshly 
scrubbed  and  shining  to  greet  the  day  ! 

Fresh  make-up  on  a  fresh  skin  is  required 
by  law.  Dingy  powder,  splotched  rouge  and 
peeling  lipstick  just  won't  spell  glamour ! 

Here's  a  boost  to  your  fresh  face  reso- 
lution. This  month's  sample  offer  is  a 
dainty  little  cleansing  kit — free  to  all  who 
live  in  the  United  States  (duty  charges 
prevent  extending  the  ofifer).  This  pale 
pink  kit  contains  a  delightful  rose-colored 
liquid  cleanser  an^  the  tissues  for  applying. 
If  you  ever  use  it  once,  xnu'll  use  it  twice! 
It  is  a  whole  facial  routine  in  one — 
cleanser,  astringent,  tonic  and  powder  base. 
Don't  forget  to  send  for  it. 

Twinkle,  twinkle !  Those  are  Shirley's 
pretty  little  hands.  We  are  conscious  of 
graciousness  and  control  in  their  suppleness 
and  lack  of  flourishes.  The  palm  turned  up, 


.ir  p,i:  !l>  -  .  makes  us  feel  Shirley  is  in- 
terested in  us  and  our  problems.  In  the 
language  of  the  hands,  the  upturned  palm 
indicates  acceptance  and  receptiveness.  The 
palm  is  down  in  gestures  of  negation  and 
leadership  and  strength. 

How  do  we  achieve  easy,  free-flowing 
hand  movement  ?  From  the  wrist.  The  wrist 
always  leads !  A  splendid  exercise  to  keep 
the  wrists  supple,  so  that  they  can  be  more 
responsive,  is  to  extend  the  hands  in  front 
of  the  body  and  shake  them  up  and  down 
and  sideways.  Xow,  hold  the  hands  up  in 
the  air  for  a  moment,  and  any  redness  or 
vein  prominence  from  the  sudden  exercise 
will  leave.  Incidentally,  holding  the  hands 
in  the  air  whenever  possible  is  a  grand 
way  to  encourage  and  keep  that  fragile 
lily-whiteness ! 

The  next  step  in  training  our  hands  to 
express  more  loveliness  is  the  elimination 
of  all  meaningless  movement.  Finger 
fiddlers,  twirlers  and  pluckers — see  your- 
selves as  others  see  you !  Flourishes,  curli- 
cued  little  fingers,  thumb  and  forefinger 
grasping,  give  place  to  economy  of  move- 
ment. Restrained  directness  of  movement 
indicates  poise  and  culture.  The  little  finger 
lends  grace  and  performs  its  own  useful 
function  when  it  lies  close  to  tlie  next 
finger,  drawn  up  so  that  its  tip  is  about 
at  the  first  joint  of  the  fourth  finger.  When 
the  hands  are  relaxed,  the  little  finger  and 
forefinger  are  slightly  separated  from  the 
middle  fingers,  which  are  close  together. 
The  middle  finger  is  too  often  overlooked  I 
See  how  the  use  of  the  thumb  and  middle 
finger  in  grasping  and  holding  leaves  the 
forefinger  free  to  elongate  and  slenderize 
the  hand.  When  each  finger  performs  its 
own  function,  the  hands  are  both  capable 
and  graceful. 

Shirley  cares  for  her  hands  as  faithfully 
as  her  face.  Overnight  gloves  and  creams. 
A  protective  lotion  after  having  the  hands 
in  water,  and  before  exposure  to  the 
weather.  These  measures  are  simple,  but 
they'll  make  dryness  and  roughness  fold 
their  tents  like  the  Arabs.  One  of  our 
favorites  for  conserving  the  youth  fulness 
of  the  hands,  this  spring,  is  a  generous 
bottle  of  a  quick-drying  lotion,  to  restore 
moisture  inside  the  skin"  cells,  and  a  small 
trial  size  bottle  of  this  same  lotion  tucked 
away  at  its  side.  You  use  the  small  bottle 
first  and,  if  you  aren't  completely  satisfied, 
you  may  return  the  large  bottle  and  have 
your  money  refunded.  A  novel  guarantee 
and  a  tempting  offer!  Let's  not  resist 
this  beauty  aid. 

Our  notebooks  are  crammed  with  glamour 
pointers.  It's  time  for  Shirley's  next  song. 
We'll  thank  Shirley  nicely  and  hie  our- 
selves home  to  begin  our  new  beauty  pro- 
gram. Grab  your  powder-puff  and  bonnet, 
lor  we're  off ! 


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Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
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FRANCIA  OF  THE  RANCHO 

{Continued  from  page  33) 


her  talents  to  all  sorts  of  programs  and  it 
is  no  wonder  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
little  town  regard  her  as  their  own.  The 
man  on  the  street  will  tell  you  proudly : 
"She's  a  little  protegee  of  mine." 

Like  many  women  of  frail  appearance, 
Francia  and  her  mother  have  displayed 
amazing  strength  and  courage  and  an 
ability  to  "run"  their  ranch  and  take  care 
of  themselves. 

"Sometimes  we've  even  been  without  a 
housekeeper,"  Francia  boasted.  "We're 
not  afraid  and  housekeeper.s  always  try  to 
'mother'  us.  We've  never  been  disturbed 
by  the  slightest  hint  of  prowlers  or  bur- 
glars. There's  really  nothing  for  a  thief 
to  take,  for  our  valuables  consist  mostly  of 
Mother's  heirlooms — like  the  spinning 
wheel,"  she  added,  indicating  with  her  long, 
slim  hand  a  lovely  old  piece  in  a  corner, 
"and  that  ladder-backed  chair  you're  sitting 
on." 

The  living-room,  which  also  is  the  music 
room,  is  about  thirty  feet  long  with  a  high 
ceiling — not  a  beamed  ceiling,  because  the 
beams  would  interfere  with  Francia's  sing- 
ing. The  walls  are  cream-colored  and  the 
room  is  gay  with  cream-colored  chintzes 
splashed  with  blue  and  red  at  the  windows. 
The  sun  shines  in  on  the  warm,  dark  colors 
of  the  Oriental  rugs  on  the  floor  and  the 
rich  crimson  velvet-upholstered  divans.  It 
is  a  room  that  reflects  the  contentment, 
dignity  and  gentle  breeding  of  its  owners, 
yet  carries  out  the  Spanish  feeling  and  the 
informality  of  a  country  home.  Accus- 
tomed to  such  surroundings,  it  is  no  won- 
der that  Francia  couldn't  sleep  in  the  city. 

As  though  reading  my  thoughts,  slie 
said :  "I  love  to  sleep  mornings.  Why, 
sometimes  I  sleep  as  late  as  nine  o'clock, 
out  here  in  the  country." 

Well,  of  course  a  girl  can't  expect  to 
get  any  place  by  lying  abed  all  morning ! 
And  that  is  no  doubt  the  reason  Francia 
isn't  able  to  hold  more  than  tliree  jobs  at 
one  time.  Probably  tliat  accounts  for  the 
fact  that  whenever  a  sponsor  is  looking  for 
a  radio  artist  who  will  sell  liis  soap  or  his 
soup,  his  cigarettes  or  his  canned  milk,  his 
face  powder  or  his  automobiles,  the  first 
name  that  occurs  to  him  is  Francia  White. 

It's  on  account  of  tliat  "selling"  voice, 
the  sponsors  say,  and  they  sliould  know, 
for  they  are  the  ones  who  pay  the  huge 
salaries.  The  result  is  that  there  is  a 
continual  argument  over  whether  Francia 
shall  sing  for  a  cigarette  or  a  cold-cure. 

Just  now  she  is  singing  on  the  Fred 
Astaire  program  in  behalf  of  a  bigli-priccd 
car  (just  as  if  you  didn't  know!)  and 
other  offers  are  being  waved  about  waiting 
for  her  signature.  Recently  she  appeared 
as  guest  soloist  with  the  Los  .Angeles 
Philharmonic  Orcin  -tiM,  nvl  lur  apiicar- 
ances  on- ciiarit\'  proLMMiii-,  ;irc  -,i  fi-c(nicnt 
that  I  just  don't  kmnv  what  charity  would 
do  without  her. 

Wiien  she  received  twenty-one  curtain 
calls  after  her  singing  of  the  title  role  in 
Naughty  Marietta,  she  remarked :  "Oh, 
anyone  would  make  a  hit  singing  that 
gorgeous  music." 

■Voicing  a  decidedly  different  opinion  of 


the  matter,  I  looked  to  Francia's  motht 
for  corroboration.  "Yes,"  Mrs.  White  sair 
"I  thought  Francia  sang  very  well  tha 
night." 

Francia  may  have. an  enthusiastic  publi 
ready  to  spoil  her,  but  at  home  there' 
not  the  slightest  suggestion  of  her  beiiu 
a  prima  donna.    And  Francia's  own  esti 
mate  of  herself  is  always  critical.     She  \ 
never  flatters  herself  and  is  never  satisfied! 
with   herself.     If   she   did   two  hundred 
things  and  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine 
of  them  were  perfect,  it  would  be  the  one 
which  was  not  perfect  that  Francia  would 
remetnber.    It  is  this  self-criticism,  prob- 
ably, that  has  made  her  the  artist  she  is. 
She  can't  bear  to  do  anything  in  a  slip- 
shod manner.     Nothing  will  do  but  her 
best,  and  even  then  she  usually  is  dissatis- 
fied. 

It  all  sounds  easy,  doesn't  it?  But  Fran- 
cia is  no  exception  to  the  rule  that  success 
must  be  earned.  Just  how  important  a 
part  obstacles  play  in  the  game  of  building 
a  career  is  difficult  to  determine,  but  no 
one  ever  has  risen  to  greatness  without 
being  forced  to  hurdle  some  obstacles  or 
to  overcome  some  handicap. 

Francia  had  none  of  the  ordinary  handi- 
caps. She  never  starved  in  a  garret.  She 
didn't  have  to  leave  school  and  go  to  work 
to  support  her  family.  She  had  no  physi- 
cal drawbacks.  Pictorially,  she  is  lovely 
to  look  at.  Her  trim,  graceful  figure  is 
the  envy  of  most  singers,  who  seem  destined, 
as  a  class,  to  be  a  little  over-weight.  She 
has  regular,  clear-cut  features,  fine  eyes 
and  a  smile  revealing  two  rows  of  perfect 
white  teeth.  Francia  wasn't  overlooked 
when  \^enus,  the  goddess  in  charge  of  good 
looks — among  other  things — was  handing 
out  gifts. 

No  one  can  be  perfect,  however,  and 
Francia's  most  outstanding  deficiency  is  a 
complete  lack  of  clothes  sense.  She  cares 
nothing  about  clothes ;  thinks  it  is  a 
nuisance  to  have  to  bother  choosing  them 
and  having  them  fitted.  If  a  clever  sales- 
girl hadn't  learned  that  Francia  takes  a 
size  fourteen  and  decided  to  take  her  in 
hand,  Francia  might  not  be  as  smartly 
dressed  as  she  is  when  she  makes  a  public 
appearance. 

There  were  other  obstacles  which  Fran- 
cia considered  much  more  important  and 
which  she  became  very  adept  at  hurdling. 
She  hit  plenty  of  bumps  on  the  way  up, 
but  they  all  seem  funny  to  her  now  and 
her  lilting  laughter  punctuated  our  conver- 
sation continually. 

There  was  the  time  when  she  was  still 
in  high  school  and  someone  told  her  that 
the  play,  Good  Ncivs,  was  to  be  produced 
at  a  Los  Angeles  theatre  with  a  local  cast, 
except  for  the  star.  Immediately  Francia 
aiijilicd  for  the  second  leading  role. 

"But  you're  a  brunette,"  the  manager  told 
her,  "and  our  star  is  also  a  brunette. 
That  wouldn't  do." 

Francia  was  dismissed,  but  not  daunted. 
Half  an  hour  later  she  stood  before  the 
gentleman  again,  this  time  wearing  a 
blonde  wig.  He  liked  her  looks;  he  liked 
her  singing.    Everything  seeitied  dandy. 


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"There's  one  thing  more,"  he  added  cas- 
■ally.    "You  dance,  of  course.    Show  me 
time  step." 

The  look  of  blank  amazement  on  her  face 
old  the  story.  She  had  never  heard  of  a 
ime  step  and  there  was  no  time  for  her 
o  learn  a  dance  routine. 

Right  then  she  made  up  her  mind  that 
he  would  never  be  caught  again.  And  that 
ery  afternoon  she  took  her  first  dancing 
esson.  She  studied  ballet.  She  studied 
ap  dancing.  An  accomplished  pianist,  she 
earned  everything  else  that  could  possibly 
lelp  her  the  next  time  she  applied  for  a 
ob  in  a  musical  show. 

She  had  need  of  these  tools  later  when 
he  found  herself  in  New  York  without 

job,  and  the  only  thing  that  offered 
tself  was  a  few  weeks  with  a  vaudeville 
ct.  .  A  girl  w-as  required  who  could  sing, 
■lay  the  piano  and  dance.  When  she  was 
sked  if  she  could  dance,  the  memory  of 
nat  other  occasion  came  to  mind  and,  with- 
ut  stopping  to  remove  her  galoshes,  she 
ipped  out  a  little  routine.  She  got  the 
Db. 

"And  what  do  you  think?"  she  laughed, 
.-aving  the  poker  about  in  dangerous 
ishion.  "I  had  to  play  the  piano  ac- 
ompaniment  for  the  other  two  people  in 
le  act  when  they  sang,  and  also  play  for 
hem  to  dance.  And  we  all  did  a  song 
nd  dance  number  for  the  finale !" 

That  was  funny  to  her,  even  then,  but 
he  was  getting  valuable  experience  and 
.50  earning  money,  which  she  needed,  so 
he  stuck  it  out. 

Her  first  big  radio  contract  took  her  to 
Tew  York,  where  she  was  to  star  in  one 
f  the  important  weekly  national  broad- 
asts.    She  left  home  with  a  fanfare  of 


publicity  and  the  good  wishes  of  all 
Covina,  and  was  met  in  New  York  by' 
representatives  of  her  sponsors. 

"Hello,  Barbara!"  they  greeted  her. 

"Barbara?"  she  echoed.  "My  name  is 
Francia." 

"But  your  name  is  going  to  be  changed. 
You're  going  to  be  Barbara  Hayden  on 
the  air,"  they  told  her. 

For  ten  weeks  she  sang  on  the  program 
with  no  introduction  as  Francia  White.  She 
argued  to  no  avail.  Francia  will  fight  to  a 
certain  point  and  then  she  freezes.  Be- 
fore she  went  on  her  eleventh  program 
she  gritted  her  teeth  and  delivered  her  ul- 
timatum— to  the  effect  that  unless  she 
were  introduced  under  her  own  name,  she 
would  not  sing.    She  was  introduced. 

Francia  keeps  her  word  and  she  expects 
the  other  fellow  to  do  the  same.  She  gets 
along  well  with  everyone  but  will  take 
nothing  from  anyone. 

Among  others  who  call  Francia  their 
protegee  is  a  near  neighbor  and  life-long 
friend,  Ellen  Beach  Yaw.  Miss  Yaw  was 
Mrs.  White's  best  friend  before  her  mar- 
riage to  Francia's  father.  The  two  made 
concert  tours  together  and  traveled  to  Eu- 
rope together  to  study. 

"Aunt  Ellen,"  Francia  calls  her,  and  says : 
"She  seems  just  like  an  aunt." 

But  it  is  Francia's  mother  who  has  had 
the  greatest  influence  on  her  career.  This 
is  no  "mother  and  daughter"  story  in  the 
usual  sense,  but  one  couldn't  write  about 
Francia's  career  without  mention  of  her 
mother,  Phoebe  Ara  White,  for  Francia's 
career  is  the  fulfillment  of  Mrs.  White's 
ambitions  for  herself.  When  she  was  a 
young  girl  she  had  the  same  voice  that 
Francia  has  today.    She  spent  her  girlhood 


preparing  for  a  career  in  opera,  but,  en 
route  fo  Europe  to  pursue  her  studies,  she 
met  the  man  who  later  became  her  hus- 
band. He  wooed  her  with  such  enthusiasm 
that  their  marriage  followed'  soon  after, 
and  she  agreed  to  give  up  all  thought 
of  work. 

Mr.  White  was  a  wealthy  Louisiana  cot- 
ton planter  of  Italian  descent.  When  Fran- 
cia was  born,  she  was  given  her  unusual 
name,  which  is  Italian  for  "France,"  be- 
cause that  was  the  destination  of  her  par- 
ents when  they  met  on  shipboard.  When 
Mr.  White  died  he  left  his  wife  and  little 
girl  accustomed  to  luxury  but  with  no 
great  financial  resources.  Mrs.  White  re- 
sumed her  work  as  a  voice  teacher  and, 
with  Francia  as  Exhibit  A,  further  recom- 
mendation is  not  necessary. 

Mrs.  White's  studio  in  Los  Angeles  has 
been  the  school  for  many  well-known  sing- 
ers and  she  has  been  Francia's  only  teacher. 
On  different  occasions,  since  she  became 
a  star,  Francia  has  been  coached  by  other 
teachers  and  now  is  studying  with  Count 
Andre  de  Segurola,  but  her  own  mother 
taught  her  to  sing. 

Her  lessons  began  long  before  her 
mother  was  aware  of  it.  When  Mrs. 
White  had  pupils  in  the  parlor,  Francia 
failed  to  heed  her  instructions  to  "run  out 
and  play."  Instead,  she  could  have  been 
found  bent  over,  her  starched  gingham 
dress  standing  out  like  a  halo,  with  her 
eyes  and  ears  at  a  crack  in  the  door,  listen- 
ing to  her  mother  teach. 

Her  eager,  curious  mind  drank  in  every- 
thing she  heard  and  she  was  able  to  absorb 
and  apply  the  lessons  to  herself.  Mrs. 
White  was  astonished  one  day  to  discover 
that  her  five-year-old  daughter  could  sing 


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intelligently.  Delighted  at  this  evidence  of 
the  child's  talents,  Mrs.  White  began  her 
instruction  without  delay. 

Francia  was  just  seventeen  when  she 
was  guest  soloist  with  the  Los  Angeles 
Philharmonic  Orchestra  the  first  time,  and 
amazed  a  large  and  critical  audience.  She's 
been  amazing  audiences  ever  since. 

She  gave  up  college  in  her  second  year 
because  she  couldn't  keep  up  both  her 
school  work  and  her  music,  but  she  feels 
she  has  more  than  made  up  for  the  loss 
of  a  diploma,  with  her  knowledge  of 
languages,  the  opportunities  she  has  had 
to  meet  interesting  people  and  to  visit  in- 
teresting places. 

"I  can  do  but  one  thing  at  a  time,"  she 
said,  when  she  left  school,  "and  music  is 
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plaining because  she  doesn't  fall  in  love. 
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me  earnestly,  "and  when  the  right  man 
comes  along,  I  suppose  I'll  fall  in  love. 
But.  certainly,  I'm  not  going  to  run  around 
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affairs.  She  may  be  a  little  glad  that  her 
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cause, as  she  says  :  "I  don't  believe  anyone 
can  do  two  things -at  one  time  and  do 
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"My  mother  gave  up  her  career  to 
marry  my  father  and,  of  course,  she's  not 
sorry,  but  she  was  in  love.  I'm  not  in  love 
with  anyone.  I  like  to  have  a  lot  of  beaux 
and  I  want  to  have  more  fun  before  I  fall 
si  ri<)u>ly  in  love  " 

Of  course,  it  would  be  a  shame  for  any- 
tliing  to  interrupt  her  career  at  this  point; 
to  throw  overboard  the  years  of  hard  study 
I  hat  have  gone  into  her  career.  She  was 
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out  number  that   she   sang  in  the 
for  the  usual   Sunday  afternoon   cr^  d) 
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young  couples— the  peanut-eating  cr< 
There  is  more  than  a  modicum  of  i 
in  her  words  when  she  says,  half  in  "i 
"I  haven't  time  for  romance  now," 
her  days  are  filled  with  work,  work,  v  k 

There  are  music  lessons,  French  les*^ 
Italian  lessons,  massages,  appointmen 
the  hair  dresser's,  rehearsals  for  her  \ 
'y  broadcasts  and  other  singing  eng 
ments  and,  being  a  woman,  she  must  " 
clothes.  It  all  takes  time. 

When  she  returns  home,  after  a  da  ii 
the  city,  tired  enough  to  drop,  ther  i^ 
practicing  to  do,  and  often  she  sings  ii 
nearly  midnight.  There  is  studying  < 
do,  too,  and  scores  to  learn. 

"There  will  be  time  for  romance  la  . 
she  continued.  "Look  at  Rosa  Pons  e. 
She  is  older  than  I  am  and  she  just  pt 
married.  She  worked  and  slaved  and  v  n 
her  career  was  all  set,  she  got  man  1. 
She  has  time  now,  to  devote  to  a  husb  1, 
that  she  wouldn't  have  had  a  few  y  & 
ago.     I  think  that  is  grand."  > 

She  worships  Rosa  Ponselle,  and  I  - 
called  a  little  incident  that  occurred  e 
night  when  Miss  Ponselle  was  singing  d 
Francia  sat  just  in  front  of  me.  She  t 
listening  eagerly,  a  rapt  expression  a 
her  face  and  tears  streaming  down  '  i 
cheeks  to  drop  unnoticed  in  her  lap.  W 
the  concert  was  over  Francia  was 
jected.  / 

"Why  do  I  try  to  sing?"  she  cried  \  , 
sionately.  "Why  do  I  think  anyone  wc  J. 
ever  want  to  listen  to  me?  She  sings!  '. 
squeak!  Why  couldn't  I  have  had  a  v(  < 
like  that?"  f 

She  couldn't  have  been  more  in  earn  f 
but  there  are  a  lot  of  people  who  di 
with  her  in  her  estimate  of  her  own  vo 
And  what  does  she  know  but  that  A 
Ponselle  would  give  a  great  deal  to  hi' 
a   face  and   figure  like  Francia's? 

Often  she  has  doubled  for  famous  mot 
picture  stars,  when  their  roles  requirec 
beautiful  singing  voice.  She  is  very  v 
paid  for  that,  of  course,  but  receives 
recognition,  which  is  a  little  heartbreaki 

"My  screen  tests  were  awful,"  she  s 
frankly,  when  it  was  suggested  that  she 
the  films.  And,  characteristically,  : 
failed  to  mention  that  her  last  screen  t 
brought  her  an  oflfer  to  play  the  femin 
lead  in  an  important  M-G-M  picture.  S 
refused  because  she  didn't  think  it  w 
suited  to  her. 

One  of  the  most  dramatic  experiem 
of  her  career  occurred  two  years  ago  wl 
she  was  invited  to  sing  with  Richa 
Bonelli  in  the  Hollywood  Bowl.  It  me; 
a  lot  to  her  to  sing  with  Bonelli,  the  sy 
phony  orchestra  and  under  a  distinguish 
conductor.  It  seemed  a  step  upward  1 
ward  the  culmination  of  her  hopes.  A 
then,  five  weeks  before  the  concert  da 
Francia  was  rushed  to  the  hospital  for 
emergency  operation.  She  was  rebellioi 
Why  did  that  have  to  happen  to  her?  A 
then  she  made  up  her  mind  that  she  wov 
sing,  sick  or  well.  She  did,  before  an  e 
thusiastic  audience  of  20,000  people,  witho 
a  single  rehearsal. 

An  old  friend,  not  knowing  of  her  illne: 
said  to  her  after  the  concert:  "You  sai 
beautifully,  Francia,  but  what's  the  matte 
You  look  like  you  had  lost  your  last  love 

"It  wasn't  my  love  I  lost,"  Francia  r 
plied.    "It  was  my  appendix  1  " 


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WHY  BUDDY  WILL  WED  MARY 


(Continued  from  page  21) 


a-  a  cliilcl.  as  a  boy  in  high  school  and 
college.  He  had  never,  she  said,  paid  a 
great  deal  of  attention  to  girls.  He  never 
seemed  to  care  much  about  parties  or 
dances  or  going  out.  He  never  had  any 
prejudices  against  parties  or  girls,  good- 
ness knows.  He  just  seemed  more  interested 
in  his  work,  in  his  familj'.  I  also  remem- 
bered her  telling  me  how  he  once  said 
that  he  always  preferred  playing  with  his 
band  to  dancing.  That  was  when  he  was  in 
college. 

I  said  to  Buddy,  then :  "Was  it  your 
work — was  it  because  you  were  so  interest- 
ed in  vour  work  that  you  didn't  care  much 
for  girls,  didn't  fall  in  love  at  least  half 
a  dozen  times?" 

"I  think,"  said  Buddy,  reasonably,  "that 
it  was  because  I  never  met  the  right  girl, 
that's  all.  If  I  had,  I  would  have  married. 
I  certainly  had  no  prejudice  against  mar- 
riage. On  the  contrary.  Because  when  I 
did  meet  the  right  girl  and  when  I  could — 
well.  I  am  marrying  her !" 

And  theirs  will  be  a  marriage,  I  think, 
stemmed  from  the  common  root  of  shared 
things ;  likes  and  tastes  and  the  homely 
brew  called  things-in-common.  They  have, 
Buddy  and  Mary  say,  so  much  in  common. 
"We  have  cirrything  in  common,''  were 
Buddy's  exact  words.  And  deepest-grown 
of  these  common  roots  is  their  deep,  devoted 
love  of  their  own  families.  "Family  people," 


Buddy  explained,  "belong  together."  Mary's 
abiding  love  of  her  mother,  her  devotion 
to  Lottie  and  Jack,  are  well  known.  Buddy's 
mother  told  me  that,  at  the  time  of  Lottie's 
passing,  Mary  said  to  her:  "Part  of  you 
goes  when  your  own  people  go  ...  " 

Buddy's  devotion  to  his  mother,  his 
father,  his  married  sister  and  his  brother, 
is  equally  loyal  and  profound.  Scarcely  a 
fortnight  passes  that  he  doesn't  phone  his 
mother  at  home  in  Olathe,  Kansas,  and 
say :  "Why  don't  you  hop  a  train  and 
come  out  and  stay  with  me,  Mom?"  "I 
have  become,"  Mrs.  Rogers  told  me,  "a 
commuter  between  Olathe  and  Hollywood." 

Both  Mary  and  Buddy  are  sound,  capable 
business  people,  as  well  as  artists.  Mary's 
affiliation  with  the  United  Artists  Cor- 
poration, her  successful  productions  as  co- 
producer  with  Jesse  Lasky,  her  books,  her 
radio  work,  her  management  of  her  own 
affairs,  are  a  part  of  Hollywood  history. 
Buddy  manages  his  own  band,  makes  all 
linal  commitments  and  arrangements,  has 
the  final  say  on  all  financial  dealings,  final 
selection  of  members  of  his  band.  He  knows 
his  medium,  as  Mary  knows  hers.  Both 
have  earned  large  monies  and,  what  is  more 
remarkable  and  indicative  of  character  in 
this  business,  where  vast  incomes  may  be 
said  to  be  a  matter  of  rubbing  Aladdin's 
Lamp,  have  conserved  it,  invested  it  wisely, 
sai'cd  it. 


Buddy  was  born  on  a  farm.  Mary  was 
born  in  a  small  house  up  Canada-way. 
And  it  is  on  a  ranch  that  they  will  live 
after  they  are  married.  Buddy's  father  was 
a  newspaper  editor  back  home  in  Olathe. 
He  still  is  a  newspaperman  at  heart,  if 
not  in  practice,  as  he  proved  so  conclusively 
when  he  rose  at  five  in  the  morning  to 
break  the  news  of  his  son's  engagement  to 
his  newspaper  pals.  When  Buddy  asked 
him,  astounded  at  the  premature  announce- 
ment in  the  press,  what  he  had  thought 
their  projected  engagement  party  was  for, 
the  good  judge  answered  simply:  "I  know, 
but  I  iiad  to  tell  the  boys,  son." 

Buddy's  ciiildhood  differed  from  Mary's, 
in  that  liis  fatlier  was  living,  the  silver 
spoon  \\  ith  whicli  he  was  born  still  was  in 
his  mouth,  and  he  did  not  have  to  work. 
But  there  was  certainly  nothing  in  the 
typical,  average  American  boyhood  of  news- 
paperman Bert  Rogers'  handsome  son  to 
indicate  that  he  would  one  day  marry  Mary 
Pickford  or,  in  fact,  be  in  Hollywood  at 
all.  Just  so,  there  was  nothing  in  the  very 
small-girl  days  of  Ciiarlotte  and  Purser 
John  Smith's  daughter,  Gladys,  to  fore- 
shadow the  fact  that  she  would  one  day 
be  America's  Sz^'cctheart,  the  world's  sweet- 
heart, one  of  the  most  famous  women  of 
her  generation. 

Buddy  "jest  went"  to  grammar  school 
there  in  Olathe.     High  school.  College. 


here's  tvie  ad 
helen  told  me 
to  read.  about 

A  GIRL  WHO  WASNT 
POPULAR  BECAUSE 

OF  UNDIE  ODOR.  SHE 
MUST  MEAN  THAT 

I  OFFEND  THAT  WAY 

TOO.  HERES  WHERE 
I  BEGIN  LUXING 
UNDERTHINGS 

EVERY  SINGLE  DAY' 


AND  NOWADA 


ANOTHER  CALL  FOR 
VOU.BEnV.  SOUNDS 
LIKE  DICK  OR  MAYBE  p 


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IM  GO\NG  OUT 


TDOPULAR  GIRLS  never  take 
chances  with  offending.  They 
know  perspiration  odor  from  under- 
things  is  simply  fatal  to  charm! 

It's  easy  to  avoid  it,  too — with  Lux. 
Lux  just  whisks  away  odor— yet  saves 
colors.  Lux  has  no  harmful  alkali  — 
and  it  eliminates  cake-soap  rub- 
bing. Play  safe— Lux  undies  after  each 
wearing.  Safe  in  water, 
safe  in  Lux! 


RADIO  STARS 


TOLD  ME 


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1.  Cannot  iriitate  skin, 
cannot  rot  dresses.     

2.  No  waiting  to  dry.  "^^^ 

3.  Can  be  used  right  after  shaving 

4.  Stops  perspiration  1  to  3  days 
Prevents  under-arm  odor.  A  white 
greaseless,  vanishing  cream. 

ARRID.  . 


Nothing  much  ever  happened  to  him.  He 
was  quiet  and  a  so-called  "goud  boy."  He 
never  gave  any  trouble.  He  never  dreamed 
of  the  stage  or  screen  for  himself.  He 
was  what  might  be  termed  nndramatic,  in 
that  he  never  then,  as  he  never  now,  drama- 
tized himself.  He  intenseh-  disliked  lieiiig 
called  "handsome."  To  this  day — Mary  told 
me  this  and  we  both  marveled — he  quite 
earnestly  and  whole-heartedly  dislikes  his 
own  face ! 

He  was  always  keen  about  music.  He 
always  wanted  to  have  his  own  band.  He 
used  to  stay  awake  whole  nights  through, 
when  he  was  a  lad  in  school,  keeping  his 
long-suffering  family  (tlie\-  always  suf- 
fered amiably  and  uncomplainingly)  awake 
while  he  practiced  the  slide  trombone  and 
the  trap  drums.  The  neighbors,  Buddy  told 
m.e,  did  not  suffer  quite  so  uncomplain- 
ingly !  Their  wails  were  even  more  brassy 
than  his.  He  didn't  go  in  for  harmony  or 
for  symphony.  Jazz  was  what  he  wanted. 
And  he  knew  what  he  wanted ! 

H  there  is  any  one  \e\\  motif  to  the  life 
and  character  of  Charles  (Buddy)  Rogers, 
it  is  that  he  has  always  known,  and  knows 
now  what  he  wants.  And,  inversely,  what 
he  does  not  want.  His  work,  his  friendships, 
his  emotional  life  have  been  singularly  un- 
complicated and  uninvolved,  because  he 
never  gets  tangled  up  in  his  own  plans  and 
ambitions.  "Perhaps,"  he  once  said,  "life 
on  a  ranch  teaches  a  fellow  to  steer  a  pretty 
straight  course.  Nature  steers  straight. 
Animals  are  not  given  to  'complexes'  and 
frustrations  and  inhibitions.  Music  is  much 
the  same.  You  ask  for  certain  notes  and 
if  you  don't  fumble  you  get  them.  You  use 
the  woods  for  one  result,  the  brasses  for 
others,  and  so  on." 

Buddy  doesn't  fumble.  He  knows  what 
he  wants.  He  knows  what  he  doesn't  want. 
And  he  gets  what  he  wants.  That's  all. 

Anyway,  back  there  in  Olathe,  he  wanted 
a  jazz  band.  His  own.  When  he  wont  to 
college  he  wanted,  also,  to  defray  his  own 
expenses.  Two  and  two  seemed  to  make  an 
honest  four.  And  so  he  organized  a  pro- 
fessional orchestra  of  his  own.  And  the 
band  earned  goodly  sums,  playing  dance 
engagements,  at  private  parties  and  such. 
He  had  liis  jazz  band.  He  helped  pay  his 
way  through  college.  His  desire  served  a 
practical  purpose. 

He  had  other  interests,  too.  He  joined 
the  Phi  Kappa  Psi  fraternity.  He  took 
part  in  such  extra-curricular  activities  as 
boxing,  basketball,  football,  journalism  and 
so  on. 

And  here  again,  Mary  and  Buddy  have 
something,  or  many  tilings,  in  common. 
Mary  is  the  greatest  star,  the  greatest  per- 
sonality the  screen  has  ever  known,  or 
ever  will  know,  in  all  probability.  Such 
fame  as  hers  might  well  be  sufficient  unto 
itself  for  most  mortals.  But  Mary  is  an 
authoress,  producer,  radio  star,  woman, 
hostess,  world  traveler  as  well.  She  is  in- 
terested in  all  things,  both  great  and  small. 
Buddy's  band  is  one  of  the  top-ranking 
hands  in  the  country,  perhaps  in  tlie  world. 
He,  too,  lias  touched  stardom  on  the  screen. 
And  he  .d  -  i.l  r  ,.,],,  exiKitly,  bridge, 
speaks  {■'ii  ih  Ii  S]iani^li  lluently,  boxes, 

is  an  aulhority  <iii  trout  streams  and  how- 
to  broil  mountain  trout  most  perfectly. 
They  both  love  books  and  animals  and 
gardens  and  people.  Their  roots  are  many- 
branched,  as  well  as  deep  in  the  good  earth 
they  love. 


When  Buddy  left  college  he  went  in  for 
journalism.  He  thought  that  he  wanted  to 
be  a  writer,  a  newspaperman,  like  his  dad. 
Which  was  the  one  time,  perhaps,  when 
he  may  be  said  to  have  deviated  slightly 
from  his  course.  Not  far.  Any  experience 
in  an  allied  field  helps.  It  was  during  his 
spell  of  journalism  that  a  Paramount  talent 
scout  came  to  Kansas.  Buddy's  dad  knew 
a  local  Kansas  theatre  man.  Mr.  Rogers 
mentioned  his  son  to  the  theatre  man.  The 
theatre  man  mentioned  Buddy  to  the  talent 
scout.  Photographs  were  made.  And  Buddy 
was  among  the  elect.  He  went  East  to 
join  the  Paramount  school.  And  the  first 
picture  he  ever  made  was  Fascinating 
Youth.  He  played  in  some  fifteen  pictures 
in  all,  including  Abie's  Irish  Rose  with 
Nancy  Carroll,  Wijigs,  My  Best  Girl  and 
others. 

"When  Mary  and  I  are  married,"  Buddy 
said,  over  our  coffee  and  cigarettes,  "we 
will  live  simply,  which  is  the  way  we  both 
wish  to  live.  We  both  want  the  same  things 
in  our  home.  We  want  it  to  be  a  home,  not 
a  show  place.  I  want  to  buy  about  twenty  to 
thirty  acres.  We  have  blue-prints  now ; 
we're  conferring  with  architects.  I  shall 
put  this  place  of  mine  up  for  sale.  Pickfair 
may  be  sold,  too.  There's  nothing  definite 
about  that  as  yet.  It  has  been  suggested  to 
Mary  that  Pickfair  be  kept  as  a  museum. 
It  also  has  been  suggested  that  it  be  made 
a  part  of  the  park  system  of  Beverly  Hills. 
Mary  may  close  it  for  the  time  being.  I 
don't  know.  She  doesn't  know  right  now. 
The  only  thing  definite  about  it  is  that  we 
will  not  live  there.  I  couldn't,  of  course," 
said  Buddy. 

Buddy  was,  he  told  me,  a  little  appre- 
hensive at  first  that  Mary  might  dislike 
the  relinquishing  of  Pickfair.  But  Mary, 
lie  told  me  gratefully,  reacted  just  as  he 
had  hoped  she  would,  as  he  might  have 
known  she  would.  She,  too,  wants  to  start 
in  all  over  again.  She,  too,  knows  that  you 
must  not  carry  the  past  forever  around 
with  you. 

"We  want  our  home  to  be  a  place  in 
which  to  live,"  Buddy  was  saying.  "We  want 
chairs  that  are  made  to  sit  in,  not  to  look 
at.  We  want  books  that  are  there  to  be 
read,  not  for  show.  We  want  horses.  I 
don't  know  that  we'll  actually  raise  polo 
ponies  but  we'll  have  some  ponies,  of 
course.  We'll  have  all  kinds  of  animals.  I 
never  knew  a  girl  to  love  animals — especi- 
ally small  ones — as  Mary  does.  We'll  have 
vegetable  gardens  and  flower  gardens.  It 
will  be  the  kind  of  a  home  in  which,  we 
hope,  our  good  friends  will  feel  as  much 
at  home  as  we  do. 

"It  always  comes  back  to  the  same  thing, 
to  our  having  so  much  in  common.  We 
think  alike  about  things.  We  seem  to  feel 
alike  about  things.  That,  it  seems  to  me,  is 
marriage. 

"We  have  the  screen  in  common.  Music. 
Mary  knows  music  and  loves  it,  as  I  do. 
She  takes  a  keen  and  creative  interest  in 
my  broadcasts.  Not,"  smiled  Buddy,  "that 
she  comes  down  to  NBC  very  often.  She 
doesn't.  She  prefers  to  listen  in  at  home. 
She  says  she  gets  a  better  reaction  that 
way.  And  she  has  a  recording  machine. 
She  makes  recordings  of  every  one  of  my 
broadcasts.  Later,  we  play  them  back  and 
talk  them  over  and  Mary  makes  invaluable 
suggestions. 

"One  time  Mary  made  one  of  her  few 
visits  to  the  broadcasting  station  to  watch 


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us  rehearse.  My  mother,  who  was  visiting 
me.  came  with  her.  And  Mary  brought 
thermoses  of  coflfee  and  stacks  of  sand- 
wiches for  everybody.  That's  like  Mary. 
She  never  forgets  the  little  things,  which 
can  be  so  big.  She  had  known  that  we 
wouldn't  be  able  to  take  time  out  for  lunch- 
con  or  tea.  Funny,"  said  Buddy,  "but  it 
really  takes  a  week  of  pretty  intensive 
work  to  prepare  for  one  little  half  hour 
on  the  air.  Mary  understands  that,  too.  A 
worker  herself,  she  knows  what  work 
means,  and  is  ever  sympathetic,  ready  to 
help. 

"After  we  are  married  I  want  Mary  to 
keep  on  doing  things.  I  want  her  to,  because 
I  know  that  she  will  want  to.  I'm  not  old- 
fashioned  in  that  respect,  at  least.  I  know 
that  the  modern  woman  cannot  live  the 
life  my  mother,  for  instance,  lived  so  suc- 
cessfully and  so  satisfyingly  to  herself  and 
everyone  else.  They  are  geared,  modern 
women,  to  a  different  tempo.  I  think,  I 
leel,  that  Mary  must  work  in  order  to  be 
complete,  in  order  to  be  happy.  She  has  far 
too  creative  a  mind,  too  active  an  imagi- 
nation, too  artistic  a  concept  of  things,  to 
be  satisfied  with  the  merely  domestic.  She 
has  done  too  tremendously  much  ever  to  be 
satisfied  with  doing  less.  I  know  it.  And 
I  like  it." 

They  plan  to  take  a  few  trips  together, 
Mary  and  Buddy,  after  their  marriage.  No 
extended  tours.  Mary  has  done  more  than 
considerable  traveling  in  her  life.  And 
Buddy  has  had  all  he  wants  of  it,  in  recent 
years,  with  his  band.  He  has  seen  the  night 
life,  the  gay  life,  the  sophisticated  life  of 
the  capitals  of  the  world.  He  has  met  and 


entertained  and  been  entertained  by  all 
kinds  of  people  in  all  walks  of  life.  Even 
to  meeting  ex-King  Edward  the  VHI, 
when  he  was  in  London  a  year  or  so  ago. 

"I'm  especially  pleased  about  the  Tzvin 
Stars  broadcast,"  he  told  me,  "because  it 
is  broadcast  from  Hollywood.  Which 
means  that  our  home  life,  Mary's  and 
mine,  can  be  pretty  much  uninterrupted  and 
undisturbed.  Neither  of  us  believes  in  va- 
cation marriages,  even  when  the  vacations 
are  jobs.  I'm  under  contract  to  Columbia 
Pictures,  too,  and  shall  make  films  here. 
I  have  one  commitment  to  make  a  picture 
in  England.  I  may  go  over  and  make  it 
before  our  marriage.  I  may  be  able  to 
make  it  later.    I'm  not  sure  at  the  moment. 

"But  I  really  believe,  to  go  back,"  Buddy 
said,  "that  Mary  should  be  on  the  screen. 
That  is  where  she  belongs.  That  is  what 
she  is,  the  screen.  I  believe  that  in  acting 
lies  the  only  real  and  true  artistic  satis- 
faction and  happiness  for  her.  I  have  kind 
of  an  idea,"  smiled  Buddy,  "that  after  we 
are  married  and  have  our  house  built,  our 
home  lives  adjusted — well,  I  shouldn't  be 
awfully  surprised  but  what  just  that  will 
happen.  I  don't  kiion',  mind  you.  I'm 
simply  letting  you  in  on  what  I  think,  and 
hope,  may  happen." 

Buddy  Rogers  has  changed.  When  I 
told  him  so,  he  admitted  it.  He  doesn't,  by 
the  way,  want  to  be  called  Buddy  any 
longer.  He  prefers  the  use  of  his  own 
name,  Charles.  And  the  name  of  Charles 
fits  him  better,  now,  than  the  more  boyish 
Buddy.  Mary,  almost  always,  calls  him 
Charles. 

The  change,  then,  is  not  only  external. 


Though  he  even  looks  different.  Not  less 
handsome.  Nothing,  certainly  not  the  pass- 
ing of  a  few  years,  could  detract  from  those 
dark  brown  eyes,  that  bronzed  skin,  the 
white  teeth,  breadth  of  shoulder,  the  pe- 
culiar sweetness  of  his  smile  in  the  ha- 
bitual gravity  of  his  face.  But  his  face  is 
leaner,  the  planes  more  clearly  defined.  To 
his  quietness  is  added,  now,  the  composure 
of  the  man  who  not  only  knows  where  he 
is  going  but  realizes  that  he  is  there. 

He  has  grown  up.  More,  he  realizes  that 
he  has  been  grown  up  for  quite  some  time. 
He  said :  "It's  a  bit  difficult  now,  adjusting 
me  to  a  picture  or  a  picture  to  me.  I'm 
under  contract  to  Columbia,  as  I  told  you. 
A  short  time  ago  they  had  a  story  ready 
for  me.  College  Hern  was  the  title.  I  read 
the  script.  /  would  have  been  the  college 
hero.  But  I  couldn't  be !  I  realized  then, 
that  I  could  never  play  a  college  boy  again. 
I  have  cast  off  the  mortar-board  and  gown, 
along  with  other  make-ups.  You've  got  to 
feel  what  you  are  doing.  I  couldn't  feel  col- 
legiate any  more.  Then  another  story  was 
suggested.  In  that  one  the  'hero'  would 
have  been  something  of  a  meanie,  a 
smoothie,  a  villain.  I  couldn't  do  that, 
either.  I  must  play  straight  dramatic  leads, 
or  I'd  like  to  do  a  good  musical  on  the 
screen.  Something,  at  any  rate,  in  which 
I  feel  at  home,  something  which  suits  me, 
as  I  am  now,  not  as  I  was  five  years  ago." 

No,  Buddy  doesn't  fumble.  He  doesn't 
fumble  at  music.  He  doesn't  fumble  at 
love.  He  won't  fumble  at  marriage:  His 
mind  is  as  clean-cut  as  his  body.  He 
knows  what  he  wants.  He  gets  it.  He 
isn't  afraid  to  wait  or  work.    That's  all. 


ONE 
MINUTE 
SKIN'S 


NEXT 
MINUTE  .  .  . 
SKIN'S  SMOOTH 
FOR  POWDER 


A  SPECIAL  CREAM  *?He^  SKIN  SMOOTH 


TI ATEFUL  —  when  you  come  in  from  an 
afternoon  in  the  open,  to  find  your  skin 
just  won't  take  powder!  It's  full  of  little 
flakin«-sse8  that  show  up  even  worse  when 
you  put  powder  on.  "Powder  catchers!" 
The  thing  to  do  is  to  melt  them  off!  Yes — 


Lady  Mary 
Pakenham 

"Pond's  method 
keeps  one's  skin 
in  marvelous  con- 
ditlon.  Pond's 
Vanishin)i  Cream 
is  the  best  powder 
base  I  know." 


with  a  special  cream  for  that  purpose.  A 
keratolytic  cream  (Vanishing  Cream). 

A  distinguished  dermatologist  says:  — 
"Exposure  hastens  the  drying  out  of  surface 
skin  cells.  They  shrink,  scuff  loose.  These 
harsh  particles  can  be  melted  away  with  a 
kcratolytic  cream  (Vanishing  Cream).  Then 
the  smooth,  underlying  cells  appear,  moist 
and  young.  The  skin  immediately  takes  on 
a  fresh,  softened  appearance." 

Never  he  without  Pond's  Vanishing 
Cream.  More  and  more  girls  are  finding 
that  this  keratolvtir  cream  is  marvelous  for: 
Powder  Base:  A  film  of  Pond's  Vanishing 
Cream  smooths  flakincss  away.  Make-up 
goes  on  perfectly.  Stays. 


Overnight  —  Apply  after  cleansing.  Not 
greasy.  It  won't  smear.  In  the  morning 
your  skin  is  soft,  fresh. 

Protection  —  Before  long  hours  out  of 
doors,  put  on  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream. 
Your  skin  won't  rough  up! 

O  p;  Ar  A  POi^O'S.  Dept.  IRS-VE.  Clinton, Conn. 
O-rieCt;  jj^^i,  g-piecc  paclcage  conlaining 
Dnele ttet^  special  tube  of  Pond's  Vanishing 
■-U«.IVU«JC  f,^^^^  generous  samples  of  2  other 
Ponil's  Creams  and  5  different  shades  of  Pond's  Face 
Powder.  I  enclose  lOe  for  postage  and  packing. 


Street. 
City_ 


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•  Constipation  certainly  had  me  down !  I  was 
out-of-sorts — mean  to  everyone.  Yet  the  laxa- 
tives I  was  used  to  were  so  repulsive  I  just 
hated  to  take  them,  In  desperation  I  consulted 
my  druggist.  Headvised  FEEN-A-MINT.  "It's 
different,"  he  said.  "Give  it  a  trial." 


AND  SHE'S  SO  HAPPY  NOW! 


•  Thanks  to  ilelioi.nis  FEEN-A-MINT,  life 
became  so  different.  I  felt  better  at  once.  Exit 
sickish  feeling,  headache,  "blues."  It's  the 
chewing  that  helps  make  FEEN-A-MINT  so 
wonderfully  dependable.  Acts  gently  in  lower 
bowel,  not  in  stomach.  No  griping,  no  nausea. 
Not  habit-forming.  Economical.  Write  for  free 
sample.  Dept.Q-4,FEEN-A-MINT,Newark,N.J. 


FEEN-A-MINT 

THE  CHEWING-GUM  LAXATIVE 

THE  3  MINUTES  OF  CHEWING  MAKE  THE  DIFFERENCE 


You  Need  Never  Again  Suffer  From 

CORNS 


Zino-pad  relieves  pain—  Medicated  Disk  safely 
Prevents  corns,  sore  toes  removes  corn 

Use  Dr.  Scholl's  Zino-pads  and  you  need 
never  again  suffer  from  corns,  sore  toes, 
callouses  or  bunions.  They  instantly  re- 
lieve pain  and  stop  the  cause — shoe  fric- 
tion and  pressure;  soothing 
and  healing. 

Protect  sensitive  toes  with 
these  thin,  cushioning  pads 
and  you'll  stop  corns  before 
they  can  develop  and  have 
no  more  discomfort  from 
new  or  tight  shoes. 

Apply  Dr.  Scholl's  Zino-pads 
with  the  separate  Medicated  Disks, 
included  in  every  box,  and  your 
corns  or  callouses  lift  out.  No 
other  method  docs  all  these  things 
for  you. 

Dr.  Scholl's  Zino-pads  are  thin, 
velvety-soft,  waterproof.  Don't 
stick  to  stocking  or  come  ofif  in  the 
bath.  Easv  to  apply.  Sizes  for 
Corns,  Callouses,  Bunions  and 
Soft  Corns  between  the  toes.  Cost 
but  a  trifle.  Sold  everywhere. 


DrScholls 

Zino-pads 


-BUT  NOW  LIFE'S  ONE  SWEET  SONG 

{Continued  from  page  23) 


hired  to  give  an  added  touch  of  realism 
to  the  play,  and  Fred  was  saxoplionist- 
crooner  with  the  stage  band,  and  under- 
study to  tlie  leading  man. 

The  attraction  was  mutual  and  they  fell 
into  a  pleasant  companionship  that  was  as 
far  from  the  usual  Hollywood  courtship 
as  could  be  imagii.ed.  1-ikc  any  boy  and 
girl.  the>'  took  long  walks  together,  went 
to  tlie  movies,  cooked  dinner  togctlier  in 
Lillian's  small  apartmont.  They  did  not 
care  whether  they  ate  chicken  or  sardines, 
so  long  as  they  ate  it  to.ycthcr.  Wiien 
funds  were  low,  they  had  their  dreams  to 
sustain  them.  F"red  was  moody  sometimes — 
success  meant  so  much  more  to  him,  now 
tiiat  he  Io\ed  Lillian.  He  liad  to  succeed, 
had  to  establish  himself,  for  her  sake.  But 
she  smiled  serenely,  confidently.  There  was 
no  element  of  surprise  lor  her  in  that 
seven-year  contract.  But  there  was  all  of 
joy,  of  dreams  come  true  .  .  . 

Fred  had  been  workinj^  hard,  tirelessly, 
v/ithout  a  break.  Now  he  managed  a  brief 
vacation — just  long  enough  to  fly  with 
Lillian  to  Las  Vegas,  Nevada,  for  the 
marriage  ceremony  and  to  take  a  honey- 
moon trip  to  Honolulu — five  days  over  and 
back,  five  days  on  the  island.  It  was  brief 
but  glorious.  Like  two  youngsters  let  out 
from  school,  Fred  and  Lillian  enjoyed 
every  golden  moment. 

Since  their  return,  Fred's  success  has 
continued,  his  fame  increased  with  every 
picture.  And  they  have  been  happy,  thrill- 
ingly  happy,  together.  But  they  have  had 
their  worries,  too,  have  had  to  adjust 
themselves  to  the  one  contingency  they  had 
not  allowed  for  in  their  careful  planning. 
For  Lillian  has  not  been  well.  A  recurrent 
illness  has  repeatedly  clouded  their  Eden. 
But  being  young  people,  for  whom  love 
was  based  on  something  more  substantial 
lian  fleeting  fancy,  they  are  weathering 
disappointment  with  intelligence  and 
a  bra\e,  intrepid  gaiety. 

Instead  of  trying  to  ignore  it,  to  fight 
it  out  on  her  feet  as  she  did  at  first,  Lillian 
has  yielded  to  the  doctor's  advice  and,  with 
a  nurse  installed,  stays  (luictly  in  bed.  It 
is,  after  all,  the  f|uickcst,  surest  way  to  the 
permanent  ciu'c  so  \ital  to  their  happiness. 
With  a  less  undersl.inclii,^,  Ic^s  unselfish 
husband,  this  nn'glit  well  li.nc  meant  ship- 
wreck for  their  dri'ains,  Imi  l-^ied  finds  no 
fault  witli  their  (jiiiet  lile  and  is  too  ob- 
viously content  jusi  to  he  able  to  take  care 
of  his  bride,  to  cause  her  an.v  unnecessary 
worry  or  distress. 

Some  of  Fred's  iiutiiti\e  understanding 
of  a  woman's  needs  nnd( mlitedly  comes 
from  his  long  and  intimate  association  with 
his  mother.  He  was  horn  in  Kankakee, 
Illinois,  where  his  violinist  father  hap- 
pened to  be  giving  a  concert  at  the  time. 
The  first  few  years  of  his  life  were  spent 
in  gypsyish  fashion  toin-ing  the  Middle 
West,  but  his  mother  felt  the  need  of 
establishing  a  hotrie  for  the  growing  boy. 
When  Fred  was  still  very  small,  his  parents 
were  divorced  and  his  mother  took  him  to 
Beaver  Dam,  Wisconsin,  where  he  went 
to  school. 

While  still  a  baby,  Fred  had  been  taught 
to  play  the  violin  but  he  had  no  particular 


talent  or  interest  in  it.  As  he  grew  older, 
he  was  no  dififerent  from  any  other  grow- 
ing boy  in  grammar  and  high  school,  his 
talents  as  unrecognized,  his  dreams  as  un- 
formulated. He  played  football,  baseball, 
basketball,  was  fleet  on  the  track,  and 
finally  rounded  out  his  extra-curricular 
activities  with  the  saxophone. 

Gradually  he  realized  that  ,  music  meant 
something  to  hiin,  that  it  might,  in  fact, 
lead  to  some  sort  of  profession  or  career. 
His  ideas  were  still  vague.  He  thought  of 
radio  as  a  possibility,  but  if  he  entertained 
any  dreams  about  the  movies,  it  was  not 
with  any  notion  that  they  might  be 
realized. 

Mainly,  he  was  anxious  to  get  into  some- 
thing that  would  bring  in  enough  money 
so  that  his  mother  might  give  up  her  job. 
To  repay  her,  in  some  measure,  for  the 
years  of  sacrifice  .  .  . 

He  had  a  year  of  college  in  Waukesha, 
Wisconsin,  but  finances  were  low  and  he 
was  impatient  to  be  earning  more  than  he 
could  in  spare-time  jobs.  His  first  steady 
job  was  with  a  stove  company,  but  finally 
he  decided  that  Chicago  offered  more  in 
the  way  of  opportunity,  and  to  that  city  he 
went,  with  little  money  but  a  lot  of  con- 
fidence— and  his  saxophone. 

Fred  was  young  and  he  had  inherited 
from  Irish  forebears  a  gay,  indomitable 
spirit.  He  finally  found  a  position  with  a 
band  and,  still  not  sure  what  his  place  in 
the  scheme  of  things  was  to  be,  spent  part 
of  his  scanty  earnings  studying  art. 
Vaguely  he  thought  he  might  be  a  com- 
mercial artist.  Nowadays,  put  a  pad  and 
pencil  at  his  fingertips,  and  lightly  sketched 
faces  appear  in  quick  succession,  but  ex- 
cept for  that  and  a  vaguely  expressed 
desire  to  paint  some  day  when  he  has 
time,  that  talent  is  submerged. 

When  Fred  first  came  to  Hollywood,  it 
was  with  no  particular  designs  on  the 
movies.  He  looked  first  for  musical  op- 
portunities and  finally  landed  a  job  with 
the  stage  band  at  Warner  Brothers'  Holly- 
wood Theatre.  At  this  time  he  also  joined 
a  group  of  young  musicians  in  organizing 
a  band  known  as  the  California  Collegians. 
He  made  some  dance  and  vocal  records, 
broadcast  with  his  band  over  a  local  station 
five  hours  a  day  and  soon  was  playing  his 
saxophone  over  NBC.  But  that  was  as 
far  as  he  got  toward  realizing  his  radio 
ambitions. 

In  the  meantime,  he  had  registered  for 
extra  work  and  picked  up  a  little  now  and 
then.  But  nobody  discovered  hiin.  nobody 
guessed  that  here  was  star  material,  and 
when  his  band  got  a  chance  to  go  to  New 
York  to  ajijiear  in  Three's  A  Croivd,  a 
musical  show,  I'red  was  glad  to  go. 

His  years  in  New  York  were  busy  ones. 
He  played  in  stage  shows  and  in  night 
clubs,  combining  both  so  that  the  only 
sleep  he  got  was  a  few  hours  snatched  in 
the  morning.  His  best  opportunity  came 
in  Roberta — where,  you  wdll  remember,  he 
met  Lillian — for  as  understudy,  he  had 
some  good  theatrical  training  in  addhion 
to  his  singing  and  saxophone  playing.  And 
it  was  during  the  run  of  this  play  that 
Fred  was  at  last  "discovered."    A  Para- 


RADIO  STARS 


mount  talent  scout  was  impressed.  Fred 
was  asked  to  make  tests— once  more  prov- 
ing that  the  shortest  way  to  Hollywood  is 
via  Broadway. 

Now  that  his  chance  had  come.  Fred 
was  a  little  frightened.  Acting  in  front 
oi  a  camera  was  very  different  from  what 
he  had  imagined.  Being  a  shy  and  serious- 
minded  person,  he  saw  all  his  faults  and 
felt  they  probably  were  insuperable.  But 
lie  worked  hard,  attending  daily  sessions 
of  the  Paramount  talent  school,  appearing 
in  various  small  parts  and  gradually  be- 
coming less  aware  of  his  hands  and  feet 
and  feeling  more  at  home  in  these  strange 
surroundings.  Always  he  had  Lillian  to 
encourage  him,  to  bolster  his  faltering  ego. 
He  had  to  prove  that  her  confidence  was 
not  misplaced,  that  he  had  what  it 
takes  .  .  . 

It  was  Claudette  Colbert,  in  search  of 
a  leading  man,  who  was  to  give  that  final 
impetus  to  coquettish  Fame.  She  and  her 
director,  Wesley  Ruggles.  watched  Fred 
work  and  were  impressed  with  this  tall, 
dark  young  man.  Certainly  he  had  some- 
tiiing.  for  Claudette  nodded  her  agreement 
to  Ruggles'  whispered  suggestion  that  she 
take  a  chance  on  this  attractive  unknown. 

Since  his  appearance  in  The  Gilded  Lily 
with  Claudette,  Fred  has  been  busier  than 
any  two  other  young  men,  making  fourteen 
pictures  in  less  than  two  years.  The  sweet 
plum  of  a  seven-year  contract,  which  he 
proudly  took  to  Lillian,  included  no  fabu- 
lous stipend,  but  he  is  doing  very  well  at 
that  and  being  very  smart  about  his  hand- 
ling of  the  finances. 

"Of  course,  I  don't  know  how  long  it 
will  last,"  he  explained.  "Five  years  used 
to  be  the  limit  for  a  leading  man,  a  star- 
nowadays,  it  seems  to  be  longer.  But  I 
want  to  be  prepared,  whatever  happens  .  .  ." 

A  sensible  idea,  although  this  handsome 
and  talented  young  man  would  seem  to 
have  little  cause  for  worry. 

"There  seems  plenty  of  room  in  the 
movies  now  for  the  older  man,"  I  com- 
mented, "and  there  is  always  radio — " 

He  nodded.  "It  offers  more  all  the  time, 
and  will  continue  to,  I  should  think." 

Fred  enjoyed  the  appearances  he  made 
on  the  Lux  Radio  Theatre  and  Campbell 
programs.  He  played  with  Claudette  in 
The  Gilded  Lily  this  winter,  and  in  Main 
Street  with  Barbara  Stanwyck.  He  has 
made  four  or  five  guest  appearances  on 
Hollyzcood  Hotel  and  was  guest  star  on 
the  Astaire  program,  before  his  "surprise" 
acceptance  of  his  present  role.  (Greatly 
touted  as  a  surprise,  all  the  columns 
carried  the  news  before  the  opening  broad- 
cast. ) 

But  being  master  of  ceremonies  on 
Hollyii'ood  Hotel  presents  a  very  different 
problem  from  any  he  has  faced  before, 
and  although  he  enjoys  it.  he  has  been 
very  ner\ous.  It  is  his  first  m.c.  job  and 
of  course  he  has  to  be  on  the  air  a  large 
part  of  the  hour.  The  knowledge  that 
what  he  said  could  not  be  changed  or  said 
differently— no  retakes  on  radio  I — was 
rather  appalling  at  first.  Also,  he  found 
he  talked  much  too  fast— a  habit  hard  to 
overcome.  Left  to  himself,  he  would  be 
through  in  half  the  time  allotted  to  him. 
He  was  over-conscious  of  these  short- 
comings and  of  the  difficulty  of  a  newcomer 
to  radio  following  in  the  footsteps  of  the 
long-time  favorite,  Dick  Powell.  But  he 
quickly  adjusted  himself  and.  from  the 
first,  had  his  audience  with  him. 


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No  AMOi  >T  of  rubbing  and  scrubbing 
a  toilet  bowl  will  do  the  job  of  Sani- 
Flusb.  This  odorless  powder  is  made  sci- 
entifically to  clean  toilets.  It  removes 
rust.  Banishes  odors.  Kills  germs.  Cleans 
the  unseen  trap  that  no  other  method 
can  reach.  It  does  all  this  without  un- 
pleasant labor. 

Just  sprinkle  a  little  Sani-Flush  in 
the  toilet  bowl.  (Follow  directions  on 
the  can.)  Flush  the  toilet  and  the  job 
is  done!  Sani-Flush  cannot  harm 
plumbing. 

It  is  also  effectiiv  for  cleaning  automo- 
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grocery,  drug,  hardware,  and  five-and- 
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TOYS,  ELECTRICAL  APPLIANCES,  FOOD  MIXERS,  ETC. 


"It  is  darn  good  experience."  lie  said 
enthusiastically,  "and  educational,  too— 
coninicntiiig  on  the  music,  narrating,  and 
all  that.  And  then,  of  course,  I  like  the 
singing.  People  had  forgotten  I  sang  at 
all — I  suppose  a  lot  of  people  who  heard 
nie  in  the  movies  thought  it  was  someone 
else  doing  my  singing  for  me.  I  enjoy  it 
— I  like  to  sing  ballads  and  I  like  the  fast 
music,  too.  It  is  varied  experience  and  all 
good  training."' 

Incidentally,  Fred  appeared  for  the  open- 
ing night  with  a  temperature  of  100°,  but 
he  carried  on  like  a  trouper  and  no  one 
suspected  he  was  ill. 

Like  most  Hollywoodites  the  Mac- 
Murrays  are  building  a  house.  It  is  in 
Brentwood  Heights,  next  to  Gary  Cooper's 
estate. 

"It  is  American  Colonial — at  least,  I 
guess  that's  what  they  call  it,"  Fred 
laughed.  "It  is  built  according  to  our  own 
ideas  and,  in  spite  of  her  illness,  Lillian  has 
done  all  the  decorating,  selecting  materials, 
ordering  draperies  from  her  bed  .  .  . 

"It's  hard  on  her,"  he  added  softly, 
"she's  so  crazy  to  see  it,  to  watch  it  grow — 
I  think  I'll  have  to  get  a  movie  camera 
and  take  some  pictures  for  her." 

They  expect  to  move  into  it  in  another 
month  or  so.  They  already  have  their 
furniture,  some  bought  when  they  rented 
an  apartment,  other  pieces  ac(|uired  more 
recently.  Fred  has.  of  course,  furnished 
a  place  for  his  mother,  tdo.  She  and  an 
aunt  and  a  grandmother  all  li\e  in  Holly- 
wood— have,  in  fact,  lived  there  longer 
than  Fred  has. 

Even  when  Lillian  is  well,  the  Mac- 
Murrays  lead  a  \ery  quiet  life.  Their 
friends  are  movie  people,  but  nowadays 
the  quiet  life  in  Hollywood  seems  to  be 
the  rule  rather  thai:  the  exception.  Like 
other  young  people,  they  look  ahead  and 
hope  for  a  future  that  includes  children. 

"It  isn't  very  pleasant  to  think  about 
hodxguards  and  all  that,  though,"  Fred 
nniscd.  "It  is  too  bad  people  in  the  movies 
can't  live  like  other  people  .  .  ." 

But  in  spite  of  certain  restrictions  and 
ill  spite  of  the  snoc.ipcrs  and  gossipers, 
always  hoping  and  ex]5ccting  trouble,  the 
MacMurrays  do  manage  to  live  normally 


and  happily.  Fred  hasn't  had  time  to  de- 
velop any  particular  hobbies,  but  he  thinks 
he  will  enjoy  the  little  gaidens  Lillian  has 
planned  on  their  new  place— vegetables  and 
flowers — and  he  means  to  have  a  dog.  He 
had  his  first  taste  of  horseback  riding 
during  the  making  of  Texas  Rangers  and 
got  quite  a  kick  out  of  that. 

They  both  like  snow  sports  and  had 
planned  a  trip  to  Yosemite  this  winter,  but 
that,  like  other  things,  will  have  to  wait. 
Fred  had  a  brief  vacation,  after  Champagne 
Waltz  and  Maid  of  Salem,  his  most  recent 
pictures,  were  finished,  but  Lillian's  illness 
kept  them  at  home  and  he  found  he  en- 
joyed himself,  although,  when  put  to  the 
question,  he  could  not  quite  say  what  he 
had  been  doing. 

"Nothing,  really,"  he  laughed.  "I've 
been  so  in  the  habit  of  getting  up  early 
that  I  couldn't  even  sleep  late,  but  I've 
been  having  a  good  time." 

Fred's  association  with  glamorous  stars 
continues  on  the  radio,  for  Louella  Parsons 
features  one  or  more  weekly  and  Fred  is 
paired  with  Frances  Langford,  lovely  little 
starlet  of  radio  and  screen. 

"They  are  no  different  from  other  peo- 
ple," he  said  shyly.  "Even  Katharine 
Hepburn,  who  is  supposed  to  be  so  temper- 
amental— she  was  awfully  nice  to  me." 

But  who  ^7ouldI:'t  be  nice  to  this  tall, 
unassuming  young  man  with  the  dark  eyes 
and  bright  Irish  smile — given  a  chance? 

"He  is  always  late,"  a  girl  at  Paramount 
said  to  me  explanatorily,  "but  he  makes 
up  for  it  when  he  comes." 

I  found  it  so,  having  caught  up  with 
him  after  some  difficulty  and  annoying 
postponements,  that  were  no  fault  of  his, 
but  which  put  me  in  a  critical  frame  of 
mind.  He  was  disarmingly  frank,  un- 
expectedly modest :  "I  am  not  'good  copy' 
— I  don't  know  anything  to  say !" 

But  he  was  generous  with  his  time  and 
himself,  talked  easily,  engagingly,  and  I 
venture  to  disagree  with  him.  This  par- 
ticular bright  star  of  the  screen,  and  now 
of  radio,  has  much  to  brag  about,  much 
to  be  proud  of.  But  it  is  just  because  he 
does  not  see  it  that  way  that  he  is  so 
likable,  on  the  screen,  on  the  air — and  in 
person ! 


THE  MAN  WHO  WAS  LEFT  BEHIND 


(Continued  from  page  47) 


since — and  it  was  his  management  of  this 
music  that  sold  it  to  you  and  me,  to  the 
opera  companies.  When  the  American 
.•\cadciTiy  of  Arts  and  Letters  established 
a  prize  for  "diction  in  radio,"  the  first  to 
win  it  was  Milton  J.  Cross.  He  intro- 
duced Lindbergh  over  the  air.  He  was 
Mrs.  Roosevelt's  first  radio  host.  With 
Madge  Tucker  he  put  over  the  first  chil- 
dren's program — radio's  first  amateur  hour, 
now  close  to  thirteen  years  old.  This  was 
the  program  that  inspired  Major  Bowes 
and  earned  him  and  other  conductors  of 
amateur  programs  millions  of  dollars. 

In  spite  of  this  remarkable  record  of 
achievement,  his  fifteen  years  of  flawless 
performance,  Milt  Cross  is  in  the  small 
money.     I   doubt   if   he   ever  has  made 


$10,000  a  year.  Which,  my  friends,  is  ex- 
cessively small  potatoes  for  an  announcer 
of  this  man's  power.  Why?  The  question  is 
asked  by  a  great  many,  even  those  who  are 
supposed  to  know.  It  is  one  of  the  mys- 
teries of  radio. 

The  answer  can  be  found,  first,  in  the 
fact  that  this  announcer  is  painfully, 
agonizingly  modest.  All  the  rest  are  brash, 
audacious,  pushing  young  men.  He,  too, 
is  a  young  man— under  forty — but  with 
an  extremely  mild  disposition.  The  suc- 
cessful ones  have  employed  press  agents, 
but  none  ever  worked  for  Milt  Cross. 
Even  when  he  won  the  diction  prize  and 
publicity  rained  on  him,  he  made  no  special 
effort  to  capitalize  on  it  in  a  way  to  make 
him  a  big  money-earner.    If  you  are  the 


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modest  kind  yourself,  you  will  understand. 
He  simply  could  not  do  it. 

A  second  explanation  lies  in  the  fact 
that  Cross  is  devoted,  every  bone  and 
tendon  and  corpuscle,  to  serious  music. 
He  started  out  as  a  singer.  As  a  tenor, 
he  made  his  debut  in  radio.  His  first 
job  as  an  announcer  was  a  part-time  job, 
the  rest  of  his  time  being  spent  at  the 
Damrosch  Institute  of  the  Musical  Arts. 
He  was  studying  to  be  a  musical  super- 
visor in  the  Xew  York  City  schools.  In 
the  end,  he  took  his  diploma,  was  equipped 
to  enter  teaching,  but  by  that  time  radio 
had  entered  his  blood,  and  he  never  taught 
a  note — in  school. 

Had  he  been  devoted  to  sports,  he  would 
certainly  be  where  McXamee  or  Ted 
Husing  are  today.  If  he  had  liked  jazz 
or  had  a  flair  for  comedy — he  would  also 
be  higher.  But  he  tied  himself  to  radio's 
least  profitable  programs.  Why?  Because 
he  loved  it.  Why  again?  Because  they 
brought  him  into  contact  with  children. 
Added  up,  these  give  you  the  two  passions 
that  govern  the  life  of  Milt  Cross — music 
and  youngsters.  Take  them  away  from 
him  and  it  would  be  like  taking  sun  and 
water  from  a  plant.  I  know  him  well, 
and  I  can  say  truthfully  tliat  away  from 
the  mike,  he  would  shrivel  and  die. 

"I  don't  know  of  any  other  field  that 
could  bring  me  as  much  pleasure  as  an- 
nouncing does,"  he  said.  "The  friendly 
associations  which  radio  creates  between 
the  announcer  and  those  listening  is  a  great 
satisfaction  and  one  that  couldn't  be  found 
anywhere  else.  It  is  my  lite  and  I  think 
my  job  has  the  greatest  future.  I  intend 
to  remain  an  announcer." 


Ask  any  other  announcer — and  you'll 
find  they  all  regard  the  job  as  a  stepping 
stone  to  something  else. 

He  reinenil>ers,  particularly,  the  Sliiiii- 
bcr  Hour  program  he  conducted  four 
years  ago — a  program  now  about  to  be 
revived.  He  sang  the  theme  song,  a  soft 
and  lovel\  melody  entitled.  Slumber  On. 
He  rememl)ers  the  letters  he  received.  One 
was  from  a  woman  wlio  was  about  to 
commit  suicide,  when  in  came  the  voice 
of  the  announcer  in  the  theme  song.  She 
had  been  desperate  but  the  voice  soothed 
her,  pierced  her  hopelessness  with  a  ray 
of  courage. 

Another  was  from  a  nurse  watching  a 
child  who  had  been  hit  by  an  automobile. 
The  program  came  on  tiie  air  at  10  o'clock 
and  the  child,  unable  to  sleep,  was  awake 
at  the  time.  She  wrote  that  the  boy  loved 
it.  It  acted  like  a  sleeping  potion,  saved 
his  life.  There  was  the  wife  of  a  Roch- 
ester doctor  who  suffered  from  shingles. 
His  song  comforted  her,  rela.xed  her, 
made  her  sleep.  When  she  recovered  she 
sent  him,  in  gratitude,  two  tickets  for 
passage  on  the  maiden  voyage  of  the  steam- 
er. Rex. 

Cross  remembers  Lindbergh.  "I  liked 
his  Western  way  of  talking.  He  was  just 
a  big  kid.  His  trousers  were  unpressed. 
Just  easy,  natural,  unbulldozed  by  the 
microphone,  he  told  me  of  his  disappoint- 
ment in  Paris  when  the  .\nu'rican  ambas- 
sador, Myron  Herrick.  told  iiini  he  would 
have  to  go  right  back.  "I  wanted  to  stay 
over  and  see  a  few  things.'  he  told  me." 

While  Lindbergh  was  at  the  mike. 
Cross  left  t!i;  studio  and  went  downstairs. 
The  aviator  refused  to  go  until  he  had 


thanked  the  announcer.  He  followed  him 
Clown  two  Hoors,  found  him,  thanked  him. 

He  remembers  Amy  Lowell,  the  poet, 
waiting  for  her  turn  at  the  mike,  a  large 
cigar  stuck  in  her  mouth.  He  remembers 
Mona  Morgan,  the  studio  hell-cat,  using 
Rabelaisian  lingo — then  going  on  the  air 
to  recite  Shakespeare  in  an  angelic  voice. 
He  remembers  the  Rcrrli-rs.  scores  of 
actors  aiul  musicians  of  great  talent,  who 
dropped  out,  disappeared  when  radio  went 
national. 

Fondest  of  his  memories  is  his  twelve- 
years'  association  with  the  children's  pro- 
gram. 

"My  association  with  the  program  began 
back  at  Station  ll'JZ  when  it  was  still 
located  on  West  4.2n(i  Street,  before  it  be- 
came part  of  the  National  Broadcasting 
Company.  I  was  assigned  to  announce  a 
Sunday  morning  children's  program.  Some- 
how the  thing  got  started,  stayed  on  every 
week,  and  w  lien  XBC  was  organized  it 
became  a  national  feature.  I  went  along 
with  the  niicropliones,  the  pianos  and  the 
other  studio  fixtures. 

".\lthough  my  job  has  been  announcer,  I 
find  that  in  turn  I  have  been  father  con- 
fessor, scene-shifter,  referee,  nursemaid 
and  soloist  for  these  young  actor>  and 
actresses  of  the  kilocycles.  They  have 
been  so  spontaneous,  irrepressible,  eager 
and  enthusiastic,  that  the  job  has  proved  to 
be  anything  but  difficult.  Despite  the 
early  hour  at  which  I  must  dasii  into  Xew 
York  on  Sunday  morning  and  despite  the 
noise,  the  infrequent  youthful  fights,  it  has 
been  great  fun." 

L'ncle  Milt  recalls  receiving  compliments 
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from  Bessie  Mack,  the  Major's  secretary, 
and  declares  to  a  "sneaking  idea  that  the 
program  may  have  inspired  the  amateur 
programs  for  adults." 

Out  of  these  programs  have  come  many 
mature  performers.  Sylvia  .\ltman,  Jimmy 
AlcCallion,  Florence  Baker.  Mae  Rich, 
.•\my  Donnelh',  Alfred  Cnrn,  aie  among  a 
fev*^  of  his  radio  nephew  s  \\  ho  ha\-e  gone 
on  to  success  on  other  i)r();-;ranis.  The 
kids  chipped  in  one  year  and  bought  him 
a  bicycle — and  last  year,  on  the  twelfth 
anniversary  of  the  program,  he  bought  and 
distributed  among  them  twelve  bicycles, 
one  for  each  year.  He  also  makes  a 
weekly  distribution  of  loHxpops  to  those 
who  are  well  behaved. 

In  1923,  Cross  was  sent  down  to  the 
old  Manhattan  Opera  House  to  broadcast 
the  performances  of  the  Wagnerian  Opera 
Company — the  first  time  opera  weirt  out 
on  the  air  in  this  country.  Conditions  were 
bad.  The  mike  was  under  the  stage.  As 
the  actors  thundered  across  it  overhead, 
dust  poured  down  on  the  announcer's 
head.  He  had  to  stand  with  coat  collar  up, 
to  keep  It  from  sifting  down  his  neck.  He 
followed  the  performance  by  the  score 
which  he  held  in  his  hand ;  he  could  not 
see  the  stage. 

The  following  year,  he  went  twice 
weekly  to  Chicago  to  officiate  at  the  broad- 
casting of  the  Civic  Opera  Company  there. 
He  got  so  he  hated  those  long  trips,  at 
the  end  of  which  he  always  found  himself 
again  quartered  beneath  the  stage,  out  of 
sight  of  the  performance. 

When  NBC  finally  persuaded  the  Met- 
ropolitan to  go  on  the  air — again  as  a 
sustaining  program — it  was  Milt  Cross 
who  did  the  job.  This  time  he  saw  the 
stage,  but  from  a  completely  airless  booth. 
If  you  have  ever  spent  two  hours  in  a 
tightly  closed  telephone  booth,  you  will 
understand  the  conditions  under  which  he 
worked. 

But  in  spite  of  all  these  difficulties,  Milt 
Cross  was  happy.  He  loved  opera.  He 
would  rather  do  what  he  was  then  doing 
than  anything  else  under  the  sun.  Hov/- 
ever,  the  following  year,  Lucky  Strike  be- 
came sponsor  for  the  opera.  And  the  com- 
pany, instead  of  permitting  him  to  do  the 
job  he  did  so  well,  which  no  one  could  do 
better,  hired  John  B.  Kennedy  as  a 
special  announcer  at  $500  a  broadcast,  a 
man  who  admitted  frankly  he  disliked 
grand  opera.  The  year  after,  Milt  Cross 
was  again  passed  by.  Geraldine  Firrar 
was  hired  to  do  the  commenting  at  |1200 
a  performance.  And  this  year,  with  the 
engagement  of  Marcia  Davenport,  it  has 
happened  once  more — for  the  third  time. 
Milt  Cross  has  been  associated  with  these 
big  money-takers,  but  in  a  subordinate 
position.  Much  the  same  has  been  true 
with  the  General  Motors  program. 

"Eventually,  I'll  be  recognized,"  he  con- 
fided. "I  know  I'm  appreciated,  but  hu- 
man nature  being  what  it  is,  materia! 
recognition  is  slow.  But  serious  music  is 
increasing  each  year  in  popularity.  It 
seems  to  me  only  a  question  of  time  before 
the  proper  reward  arrives."  And  he 
smiled. 

The  life  of  Milton  Cross,  off  the  air, 
is  an  idyll  of  a  man  and  woman,  brought 
together  by  music  and  sustained  through 
their  love  and  one  great  sorrow  by  its  con- 
soling   influence.      When    Milton  was 


younger,  he  did  a  great  deal  of  church 
singing.  In  fact,  he  has  sung  for  virtually 
all  the  denominations — Catholic,  Protestant, 
Jewish.  This  day  he  happened  to  be 
doing  a  job  in  the  choir  of  a  Fifth  Avenue 
church.  The  noted  Harry  Emerson  Fos- 
dick  was  delivering  a  sermon,  but  neither 
Milton  nor  the  beautiful  girl  at  the  organ 
heard  a  word.  They  were  tangled  in  each 
other's  glances. 

And  so  they  were  married,  got  them- 
selves a  home  and,  after  a  time,  a  baby 
daughter.  This  little  girl  was  the  an- 
nouncer's life,  his  soul.  It  gave  color  to 
his  voice,  buoyancy  to  his  talk,  twinkling 
to  his  eye.  She  died,  this  only  child.  And 
I  believe  if  it  had  not  been  his  contact  on 
the  Sunday  programs  with  other  children, 
Milton  Cross  would  have  died,  too.  One 
of  the  most  difficult  experiences  of  his 
career  was  the  job  given  him  of  accom-. 
panying  the  President's  wife  through  Long' 
Island  College  Hospital,  the  place  in  which, 
his  own  beloved  child  had  breathed  her 
last. 

His  most  precious  memory,  he  talks 
little  of  it.  But  he  cannot  withhold  pride 
in  the  fact  that  he  thrust  no  ambitions 
upon  the  girl.  He  had  it  in  his  power  to 
toss  her  into  the  limelight,  capture  her 
charming  child  words  for  the  microphone, 
but  he  preferred  that  she  grow  up  a  nat- 
ural, unspoiled  kid. 

Children  have  been  kind  to  him.  His 
most  prized  possession  is  a  clock  carved 
out  of  a  lump  of  coal,  given  to  him  by  a 
Pennsylvania  mining  town  Bible  class.  In 
his  garden,  in  the  summer,  you  will  find 
a  gorgeous  yellow  dahlia.  It  is  a  flower 
created  by  a  young  admirer  of  his,  a  prize 
winner  at  flower  shows,  and  named  the 
Milton  J.  Cross  Dahlia.  Another  living 
thing  also  bears  his  name;  it  is  a  mule, 
famous  for  its  bray,  that  hauls  trucks  in 
a  coal  mine. 

Born  in  New  York,  educated  in  the  city, 
Cross  was  cajoled  on  to  the  air  in  1921  by 
an  electrician  friend.  He  sang  several 
times,  was  a  hit.  And  that  was  the  last 
he  expected  to  know  of  radio,  when  one 
day  in  a  swimming  pool  he  met  a  friend 
who  to'd  him  of  an  announcer's  opening. 
As  they  swam  they  discussed  the  job.  At 
last  Milt  consented  to  go  after  it.  He  did, 
and  the  rest  is  history. 

One  of  his  worst  moments  was  his  re- 
cent appearance  with  tongue  twister  Roy 
Atwell,  who  has  tangled  up  more  than 
one  announcer.  Cross  got  by,  but  only  by 
the  skin  of  his  teeth. 

Another  time,  speaking  of  bonus  re- 
quirements, he  said  instead  of :  "it  depends 
upon  a  man's  disability,"  .  .  .  "it  depends 
upon  a  man's  desirability." 

A  worse  break  was  when  introduc- 
ing the  Armchair  Quartet.  He  said  "first 
tennis"  instead  of  "first  tenor."  Basso 
Marley  Sherris  butted  in  to  say :  "First 
tennis,  then  golf,"  whereupon  he  ducked 
behind  the  drapery  to  stifle  his  laughter. 
Cross  tried  to  continue,  but  couldn't  choke 
down  his  guffaws  and  had  to  shut  down 
for  a  minute.  Hundreds  of  letters  r.^- 
vealed  that  the  audience  had  enjoyed  the 
slip. 

"This  business  of  announcing  is  no  snap," 
he  said.  "It's  getting  so  that  when  I  go 
to  church  and  kneel  down  and  start  to 
pray,  I  say :  'Dear  Lord,  this  is  WJZ,  New 
York,  Milton  J.  Cross  announcing  .  .  .'" 


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Parker  iccnt  back  on  the  air  and  very 
little  attention  was  paid.  He  zvrote  some 
G-Man  dramas,  and  salesmen  for  the  net- 
work could  find  no  prospects. 

Phil  put  the  script  in  his  pocket,  went 
out  to  Detroit  himself  and  sold  the  series 
to  one  of  the  very  prospects  who  had 
turned  the  salesmen  down.  The  series  was 
not  altogether  successful  and  again  Phil 
found  himself  without  a  sponsor.  Dog- 
gedly persistent,  he  tried  it  again,  Gang 
Busters,  this  time.  That  brought  the  turn 
fortune.  Gang  Busters  is  in  its  second 
year  and  this  season  Phil  conceived  a  sec- 
ond, even  more  successful  program.  We, 
the  People. 

That  long,  uphill  fight  was  not  easy, 
however.  Phil  is  a  very  sturdy  specimen, 
but  in  March  his  doctor  ordered  him  off 
the  air  for  a  good  rest  to  avert  a  complete 
breakdown. 

Lanny  Ross  is  living  another  chapter  of 
the  story  of  radio  gallantry.  As  the  star 
of  Shozv  Boat,  Lanny  has  become  one  of 
radio's  highest  salaried  singers.  Those 
laurels  would  be  enough  for  almost  any 
other  radio  tenor  you  could  name.  Not 
for  Lanny,  though. 

Instead  of  settling  down  in  a  comfort- 
able, luxurious  life,  he  has  worked  as  hard 
as  any  struggling  young  music  student, 
preparing  himself  for  the  concert  stage. 
Other  popular  radio  singers  confine  their 
concert  appearances  to  the  less  critical 
audiences  in  smaller  cities,  but  again  Lanny 
takes  the  harder  course. 

This  season  he  has  given  concerts  in 
Manhattan's  two  principal  music  auditor- 
turns,  Carnegie  Hall  and  Town  Hall, 
exposing  his  voice  to  the  judgment  of  New 
York  music  critics,  probably  the  most 
severe  group  in  the  musical  world.  Grudg- 
ing in  their  praise  of  new  singers,  they 
were  not  altogether  kind  to  Lanny.  Some 
praised  him  moderately,  others  were  very 
discouraging. 

Lanny  accepted  their  judgments,  weighed 
the  good  against  the  bad,  and  started  right 
back  to  work  on  his  vocal  development 
again.  Perhaps  the  critics  were  right  this 
season,  but  sooner  or  later  Lanny  has  re- 
solved to  wring  from  them  the  admission 
that  radio  finally  has  produced  a  great 
singer.  He  will  give  another  New  York 
concert  or  two  next  season. 

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Ramona's  recent  court  battle  with  Paul 
Whiteman  contains  the  story  of  secret 
trouble  fretting  many  a  radio  star.  Before 
Ramona  had  achieved  great  prominence, 
Paul  made  a  shrewd  guess,  signed  her  for 
^125  a  week.  Besides  singing,  she  played 
the  piano  and  celeste  in  the  orchestra. 
After  a  year  or  so,  Paul  had  one  of  radio's 
biggest  bargains.  She  was  making  occa- 
sional guest  star  appearances,  at  several 
times  the  Whiteman  salary.  But  under 
the  terms  of  the  contract,  Paul  got  the 
lion's  share  of  those  fees.  Now  she  de- 
mands release. 

It  makes  Paul  seem  a  greedy  stifler  of 
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{Continued  front  page  43) 


made  a  home  for  tliem  in  Detroit,  but  they 
liad  come  to  Chicago  to  have  Christmas 
with  her  grandparents. 

One  of  Elinor's  friends  in  Chicago  was 
a  youngster  named  Freddie  W'liitmer,  just 
about  her  age  and  size,  which  was  diminu- 
tive— approximately  four  feet  eight.  The 
two  youngsters  had  played  and  sung  to- 
gether since  they  were  big  enough  to  climb 
on  a  piano  bench. 

"Freddie,"  says  Elinor  reverentially, 
"played  the  hottest  piano  you  ever  hope  to 
hear." 

One  noon-time,  after  an  ice-cream-soda 
luncheon,  the  two  walked  into  the  big 
Chicago  theatre  where  Paul  W'liiteman  was 
playing  a  Christmas  week  engagement. 
Milton  Charles  was  the  organist  there,  and 
Freddie  had  been  taking  lessons  from  him. 

While  the  two  children  were  with 
Charles,  and  Freddie  was  nonchalantly 
pointing  out  the  backstage  marvels  of  the 
theatre,  Paul  Whiteman  walked  in. 

"Paul,"  said  Charles,  "do  you  want  to 
hear  a  couple  of  kids  that  are  plenty  hot  ?" 

"Sure,"  Whiteman  said  goodnaturedly, 
and  lounged  against  a  chair  while  the 
children  came  back  to  do  their  stuff. 

"I  guess  we  must  have  looked  pretty 
funny  and  small,"  Elinor  remembers, 
"especially  alongside  a  grand  piano !" 

In  those  days,  as  now,  Paul  Whiteman 
was  asked  to  listen  to  plenty  of  talented 
young  people,  but  it  wasn't  long  before 
his  foot  was  tapping  irresistibly  and  he 
was  gazing  in  amazement  at  the  two  infants 
who  were  going  to  town  in  a  way  that 
threatened  to  char  the  piano  and  set  the 
surrounding  draperies  ablaze.  In  a  minute 
he  was  on  the  house  phone,  getting  the 
manager  back  to  listen,  and  that  afternoon 
Elinor  Charier  and  Freddie  Whitiner  had 
a  spot  on  the  Whiteman  program  and 
stopped  the  show. 

They  were  on  the  program  the  rest  of 
the  week,  and  when  Whiteman  moved  to 
a  North  Side  theatre  for  another  week's 
engagement,  he  took  them  along.  He  was  a 
little  bothered  that  he  already  had  a  blues 
singer  and  a  hot  piano  player,  named 
Crosby  and  Barris. 

"Look,  Bing,"  Whiteman  said  to  his 
singer,  "it's  silly  to  have  two  teams  doing 
the  same  thing  .  .  ." 

"Okay,  Paul,  okay,"  Bing  said  airily. 
"We  need  a  week's  vacation.  And  they've 
all  heard  us  before,  anyway." 

Among  the  several  thousand  Chicagoans 
whose  blood  pressure  was  raised  by  Elinor 
and  Freddie,  those  two  weeks,  were  theatri- 
cal agents.  One  of  them  signed  the  two 
youngsters  to  a  contract  with  a  local  radio 
station,  and  for  a  year  they  were  on  the 
air  as  Jack  and  Jill,  the  two  youngest  per- 
formers in  radio. 

Elinor's  mother  moved  their  home  back 
to  Chicago  then,  for  she  had  long  ago 
decided  that  the  youngster's  career  was  to 
be  her  own.  Then,  as  now,  she  was  Elinor's 
only  teacher  of  voice. 

"My  mother,  you  know,  sang  operatic 
music,"  Elinor  confides  proudly.  "I  don't 
imagine  she  ever  thought  her  daughter 
would  turn  out  to  be  a  blues  singer !" 


When  Whiteman  came  back  to  Chicago, 
the  next  Christmas,  the  two  youngsters 
again  were  spotted  on  his  program,  and 
this  time  the  engagement  resulted  in  a 
Publix  vaudeville  contract. 

By  now,  Elinor  was  almost  fifteen  and 
had  finished  junior  high  in  the  University 
of  Chicago  High  School.  Regular  school 
was  an  impossibility  while  she  was  on  the 
road,  so  for  the  next  three  years  she 
studied  with  a  tutor. 

"I'm  sort  of  the  black  sheep  of  my 
family,  educationally  speaking,"  she  con- 
fesses. "Everybody  else  went  to  college.  My 
mother  is  a  college  graduate,  and  the  cousin 
who  was  raised  with  me  is  a  college  in- 
structor of  mathematics.  But  I  had  to 
choose  between  going  to  college  and  losing 
all  I'd  gained  professionally,  or  keeping  on 
with  the  stage.  And  I  was  crazy  about 
singing  ..." 

In  a  way,  her  life  during  those  years 
was  more  regular  than  that  of  any  ordinary 
high  school  girl.  Two,  three  or  four  shows 
a  day,  practice  with  her  mother,  lessons 
with  the  tutor.  After  the  last  show,  a  bite 
to  eat,  a  walk,  and  then  bed. 

The  next  few  years  were  the  ones  in 
which  disastrous  things  happened  to  vaude- 
ville. But  not  to  Elinor  Sherry.  If  vaude- 
ville was  declining,  the  spot  for  the  girl 
singer  with  the  "name"  bands  was  getting 
brighter,  and  she  stepped  blithely  into  it, 
casting  a  shadow  hardly  big  enough  to  see, 
but  singing  the  blues  in  a  way  that  melted 
liie  customers  right  dow-n  to  their  patent 
leather  pumps. 

Mixed  in  with  the  band  engagements 
throughout  the  Middle  West,  there  still 
were  theatre  engagements,  contracts  for 
one  or  two  weeks  that  lengthened  out  to 
four  or  six.    A  few  night  clubs,  too. 

"Frankly,  I  didn't  like  night  club  work." 
Elinor  says.  "And  when  I  got  it,  I  only 
stayed  the  contract  out — never  any  longer." 

In  1934,  she  auditioned  for  Columbia  in 
Chicago,  and  went  on  a  sustaining  program 
at  li'BBM.  In  that  spot,  and  on  a  variety 
show,  she  stayed  for  six  months.  Then 
CBS  sent  her  off  on  a  personal  appearance 
tour. 

"I  think  they  did  it  too  soon,"  she  says 
frankly.  "I  hadn't  got  well  enough  estab- 
lished. Just  about  the  time  I  began  to  get 
a  lot  of  tnail  (and  it  was  Columbia  who 
insisted  that  she  change  her  name  to  Sherry 
because  the  fans  couldn't  spell  her  real 
name — Charier)  I  wasn't  there  any  more!" 

On  the  tour  she  was  as  successful  as 
she  always  has  been  on  the  stage.  And  she 
had  the  advantage  over  a  lot  of  youngsters 
that  radio  sends  out  to  make  personal  ap- 
pearances— kids  who  never  faced  an  audi- 
ence before.  Elinor  loved  it — the  high- 
spirited  kidding  with  the  M.  C,  the  feel 
of  an  attentive,  enthusiastic  audience,  the 
applause  .  .  .  But  when  she  got  back  to 
Chicago,  she  found  that  she  had  her  job 
all  to  do  over  again,  so  far  as  radio  was 
concerned. 

Her  father,  who  is  a  theatrical  booker 
on  the  West  Coast,  wanted  her  to  come  out 
there,  where  he  could  help  her  with  his 
contacts. 


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■"But,"  says  Elinor,  '"it's  no  fun  if  some- 
body helps  you.  I  wanted  to  do  it  myself. 
And  I  figured  that,  if  I  had  to  begin  again, 
I  might  as  well  begin  where  the  heart  of 
radio  really  is — in  New  York.  So  I  packed 
up  my  mother  and  me,  and  wc  came  to 
New  York." 

While  slie  was  waiting  for  the  radio 
break,  Elinor's  theatrical  agents  sent  lier 
on  the  road  again.  One  of  the  engagements 
she  played  was  a  somewhat  phenomenal 
sixteen  weeks  in  a  Boston  theatre,  where 
Ranny  \\'eeks  had  settled  down  for  a  long 
stay. 

Then,  in  October,  1935,  she  signed  on 
at  IVOR  and  went  to  work  in  the  Nat 
Brusiloff's  Notebook  program.  That  is  no 
longer  on  the  air,  but  Elinor  sings  every 
morning  on  the  Ed  Fitayerald  and  Com- 
pany program,  w'hich  went  national  at 
almost  the  same  moment  that  IVOR  itself 
went  national. 

Sixty-four  weeks  on  the  I'im  program 
with  Jack  Arthur  just  about  makes  her  a 
fixture  there,  especially  m  view  of  the  fact 
that  their  mail  now  is  al'Out  si.x  thousand 
letters  a  week.  And  it's  Elinor  Sherry  who 
sings  the  songs  you  write  for  the  Melody 
Treasure  Hunt. 

The  Vim  program  has  given  her  a  new 
ambition.  She  wants  to  be  a  comedienne. 
Not  long  ago  Jack  Bergman  substituted 
for  Jack  Arthur  on  the  hour,  and  Elinor 
had  the  time  of  her  life,  because  she  could 
talk  more  over  the  air.  Now  she's  dickering 
for  a  speaking  part  in  a  big  new  program 
that's  to  go  out  nationally,  and  if  past 
performance  is  any  indication,  Elinor  will 
get  the  part. 

Not  so  long  ago,  Maxine  Gray  got  laryn- 
gitis while  she  was  playing  a  personal 


appearance  at  the  New  'N'ork  Paramount. 
Elinor  Sherry's  theatrical  agent  was  in  the 
office  when  the  Paramount  found  itself 
without  a  singer,  and  he  sold  them  the  little 
girl  from  ll'OR,  sight  unseen.  After  every- 
body had  recovered  from  the  first  gasp  of 
sur])rise  when  she  walked  out  on  to  the 
stage  and  took  the  audience  in  her  small 
l-.ands  like  the  trouper  she  is,  they  had  a 
grand  time  for  the  rest  of  the  week.  And 
after  it  was  over,  they  asked  her  to  come 
back  on  a  contract  all  her  own. 

There,  of  course,  is  the  answer  to  the 
inevitable :  "Do  you  like  radio  better  than 
the  stage?"  She  likes  them  both,  for  differ- 
ent things :  The  stage,  for  the  stimulation 
of  audiences;  radio,  for  its  greater  oppor- 
tunities, both  artistic  and  financial. 

She  works  hard,  this  small  one,  but  she 
plays  with  gusto,  too.  She  has  breakfast 
about  ten  o'clock,  and,  on  the  mornings  she 
doesn't  have  a  program,  practices  with  her 
mother.  If  there  are  luncheon  appointments, 
she  fills  them,  then  rehearses  for  whatever 
shows  are  coming  up.  All  of  her  clothes 
have  to  be  made  for  her — nothing  ready- 
made  is  small  enough  to  fit  her.  So  fittings 
take  time.  If  there  is  an  evening  program, 
she  ordinarily  goes  dancing  afterward:  if 
not,  a  show  or  a  concert  occupies  her.  Her 
taste  in  concerts  reflects  her  mother's  in- 
fluence through  the  years  rather  than  her 
own  work ;  she  likes  opera,  and  of  its 
singers  Lily  Pons  and  Grace  Moore  are 
her  favorites. 

She  doesn't  diet  .  .  .  she  doesn't  need  to. 
She  likes  to  walk,  and  sometimes  she  rides 
in  Central  Park  with  Barbara  Lamarr, 
another  young  hopeful  of  radio  who  is  her 
particular  pal.  Mostly,  however,  she  relies 
on  dancing. 


I*"lin(ir  wears  a  platinum  and  diamond 
ring  (jn  the  third  fin,acT  of  lur  left  hand — 
but  it's  a  gift  from  lur  nmtlKr.  She  just 
wears  it  on  that  fintiir  tn  match  her  dia- 
mond wrist  watch.  Ilo\\c\er,  the  wrist 
watch  is  a  Christmas  gift  from  the  most 
currentl.x'  current  boy-friend. 

In  answer  to  a  (iiiistion  about  whether 
she'd  r\cr  been  rcalh',  mi--erablv  in  love, 
KliiK.r  said,  tlinufilit fully,  as  it  the  matter 
had  nc\er  htlMre  been  hrou^ht  t(j  her  at- 
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in  a  while,  on  tlie  road.  I'd  lueet  somebody 
and  I'd  think:  'This  is  it'.'  But  three  weeks 
later,  five  hundred  miles  away,  I  couldn't 
even  remember  his  name  I  So  I  guess  I've 
liever  been  in  love." 

.\t  this  she  laughed  a  little  sheepishly. 
(She  has  a  most  engaging  smile,  and  teetli 
that  have  round  corners.)  "I  guess  I  like 
a  lot  of  attention."  she  confessed.  "That's 
probably  why  I  like  several  men  around, 
instead  of  one.  .'\nd  I  like  audiences  e\en 
better.  I  have  the  time  of  my  life  when  I 
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in  itself. 

Yet  all  the  time,  ever  since  he  was  a 
small  boy,  everything  that  he  had  done  and 
everything  that  had  happened  to  him  was 
the  key  carrying  him  towards  the  under- 
standing he  found  in  that  book. 

That  small  boy  in  Brooklyn,  that  lonely 
little  boy  who  had  to  sjjcnd  long  hours 
practicing  when  other  children  played,  was 
destined  to  read  that  book  some  day.  He 
didn't  want  to  practice  but  his  father 
demanded  that  he  should.  So  h?  sat  at 
the  piano  as  laughter  floated  in  through  the 
windows,  and  he  heard  the  bell  that  meant 
the  ice  cream  man  was  coming  with  his 
cart  and  listened  to  the  luirdy  gurdy  man 
playing  on  the  corner. 

Eight  hours  a  day !  A  long  time  for  a 
little  boy  to  sit  at  a  piano.  His  mother 
realized  that,  but  there  wasn't  much  she 
could  do  except  to  be  a  little  gentler  with 
him  than  most  mothers  are  with  their  little 
boys,  and  to  understand  him  much  better 
than  most  mothers  understand. 

A  gentle  lady  and  a  great  lady,  this 
woman  who  had  been  born  the  Baroness 
Virginia  Gonsah  es.  In  her  native  Spain  her 
family  stood  for  the  highest  in  birth  and 
tradition.  Hers  was  the  simplicity  of  the 
true  aristocrat. 

\'incent  learned  things  from  her  that 
most  people  have  to  find  out  for  them- 
selves. He  learned  the  things  she  thought 
and  the  things  she  said  and  the  things  she 
did.  He  learned  the  songs  she  sang  and 
she  strengthened  that  same  simplicity  she 
had  instilled  in  his  heart  when  she  had 
borne  him,  by  her  every  word  and  thought 
and  deed. 

"It  was  difficult  being  denied  the  things 
that  are  every  child's  birthright.  Games 
and  laughter  and  fun.  But  now,  looking 
back,  I  can  see  it  was  an  advantage.  For, 
now  that  I  am  a  rnan,  I  still  retain  a  liking 
for  childish  things.  For  simple  things.  And 
there's  nothing  in  the  world  that  will  keep 
you  young  longer  than  having  a  childlike 
capacity  for  fun." 

Nine  years  ago  Lopez  didn't  feel  that 
way.  Nine  years  ago  there  was  still  that 
resentment  for  the  things  he  had  missed. 
W'hen  he  saw  the  electric  trains  his  friends 
gave  their  children  for  Christmas,  Lopez 
spent  hours  showing  them  how  to  run 
them  and  laughing  as  much  as  they  did, 
but  all  the  time  bitterly  resenting  the 
thought  of  the  little  boy  he  used  to  be,  who 
had  never  owned  a  toy  in  his  life.  But 
that  was  nine  years  ago. 

Then  came  the  time  he  spent  in  the 
monastery  in  New  Jersey,  when  his  father 
decided  he  was  to  become  a  priest.  He 
was  only  twelve,  and  it  was  to  one  of  the 
most  sternly  disciplined  orders  that  he  had 
been  sent.  Speech  was  forbidden  among 
the  students,  except  by  special  permission. 
His  father,  dominant  as  usual,  had  used 
influence  to  have  him  admitted  far  below 
the  usual  entrance  age. 

At  twelve,  a  little  boy  should  be  playing 
baseball  and  leapfrog  and  seeing  blood 
and  thunder  movies  and  pretending  he  is 
a  soldier  or  a  cowboy.  He  should  be  eager 
and  full  of  the  things  he  is  doing  and  able 
to  talk  about  them. 


Even  today,  many  years  later,  Lopez 
shows  the  effect  of  that  discipline.  It  is 
much  harder  for  him  to  make  friends  than 
it  is  for  most  people. 

"One  of  the  most  difficult  things  for  me 
to  do  is  to  smile."  He  says  seriously : 
"Many  times  I've  wished  that  I  was  more 
like  other  people,  that  I  could  smile  easily, 
even  if  it  were  only  my  lips  that  smiled. 
Now  I'm  glad  that  I  smile  only  when  my 
heart  is  smiling,  too." 

For  a  time  that  early  training  made 
things  difficult  for  Lopez.  When  he  left 
the  monastery  after  a  wise  and  under- 
standing priest  had  convinced  his  father 
that  the  priesthood  was  not  for  this  young- 
ster whose  talents  all  pointed  towards  a 
different  role  in  the  world,  the  restraint 
that  had  been  put  upon  him  made  it 
difficult  for  him  to  enter  into  the  free 
and  easy  spirit  of  the  entertainment  world. 
He  had  only  his  tremendous  talent  to 
make  the  way  easy  for  him.  His  wasn't 
the  gift  of  the  casual  friendship  of  the 
hail-fellow-well-met,  who  finds  his  path 
smoothed  for  him  by  a  ready  spirit  and 
fluent  tongue. 

In  those  days  Lopez  envied  the  easy 
camaraderie  that  was  denied  him.  Today 
he  knows  he  is  the  better  off  because  of 
tlie  genius  for  real  friendship  that  is 
his.  For,  now  that  he  has  learned  to 
know  himself  from  the  inside  rather  than 
the  outside,  it  is  no  longer  difficult  for 
him  to  make  a  real  and  lasting  friend. 

Those  boyhood  days  spent  in  contempla- 
tion are  yielding  him  a  rich  harvest  now. 
Strange,  how  soon  the  spoken  word  leaves 
the  mind,  how  seldom  the  unspoken  one 
does !  Those  years  of  silence  forced  Lopez 
to  think  at  an  age  when  most  boys  are 
far  too  busy  having  a  good  time  to  bother. 

For  a  long  time  Lopez  could  only  re- 
member the  things  he  missed  by  that 
austere  experience  he  went  through  at  such 
an  impressionable  age.  But  again  he  found 
it  the  key  that  had  been  given  to  him 
ultimately  to  open  the  door  of  supreme 
happiness. 

It  was  in  those  days  that  music  came 
to  mean  the  most  to  him.  He  walked  in 
the  monastery  gardens  wit'i  the  other  stu- 
dents and,  because  he  couldn't  talk  or  play, 
he  was  lost  within  himself.  The  music  of 
the  monks  as  they  sat  at  the  organ  became 
more  than  music  to  him,  and  the  Gregorian 
Chant,  heard  at  twilight  in  a  still  garden, 
became  an  important  part  of  his  being. 

"Rhythm  in  life  is  everything,"  he 
explains,  and  his  confidence  accents  every 
word  as  he  speaks.  "And  to  know  music 
truly  is  to  know  the  rhythm  of  music.  Of 
course,  a  person  can  feel  rhythm  in  music 
without  gaining  it  for  himself,  just  as  a 
person  who  knows  nothing  of  music  has 
his  own  rhythm  in  life.  But  the  one  helps 
the  other.  After  all,  the  vibration  of  music 
is  the  most  powerful  of  vibrations.  Scien- 
tists claim  that  a  certain  note  on  the  violin, 
held  long  enough,  has  the  power  to  knock 
over  a  building.  Certainly,  vibrations  in 
music  can  knock  a  person  down  or  build 
him  up,  however  he  happens  to  react  to 
them. 

"When  a  human  being  has  struck  his 


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nun  rliythm  in  life  lie  holds  his  destiny  in 
his  own  hands.  Complete  harmony  within 
himself  is  the  greatest  armor  a  man  or  a 
woman  can  buckle  about  himself.  Then, 
and  only  then,  need  they  fear  no  circum- 
stance or  man. 

"Complete  harmony  in  life  includes  per- 
fection in  pacing.  Any  stage  director  will 
tell  you  how  important  pacing  is  to  a 
play.  It  is  even  more  important  in  life. 
To  enter  at  the  right  time,  to  exit  at  the 
important  moment,  to  say  the  perfect  word 
or  to  keep  silent,  is  the  answer  to  success 
in  anything  you  do,  if  it  be  a  business  ap- 
pointment, a  social  call  or  a  love  affair. 

"Haven't  you  sometimes  felt  that  a  word 
too  quickly  spoken  has  ruined  something 
you  valued  highly,  or  felt  at  another  time 
that  a  certain  word  has  made  things  sud- 
denly become  right?  Everybody  must  have 
experienced  this  at  one  time  or  another, 
for,  unfortunately,  none  of  us  are  born 
with  a  sense  of  perfect  harmony  or  rh\  thm. 
That  is  the  thing  you  have  to  build  for 
yourself." 

Lopez  was  only  a  kid — hardly  past 
twenty — when  he  married.  In  a  year  it 
was  finished.  All  the  love  and  tenderness, 
all  the  heartaches  and  disappointments  had 
run  their  course.  It  was  so  brief  it  could 
not  really  be  termed  a  marriage.  Lopez 
called  it  a  failure,  then,  but  now  he  knows 
differently. 

For,  out  of  the  hurt  and  disillusion  came 
something  greater.  Something  that  has 
made  it  possible  for  him  to  make  women 
his  friends  and  to  hold  that  friendship 
forever.  Some  men  love  easily  and  give 
nothing  to  that  love.  Lopez  gives  deeply 
in  friendship  but  knows  that  love  demands 
more. 

"I  want  to  marry,"  he  says.  "But  only 
when  I  find  the  woman  who  will  always 
hold  me.  For  when  I  marry  I  will  be 
constant. 

"The  woman  I  would  want  to  marry 
must  function  equally  on  the  three  planes, 
spiritual,  physical  and  mental. 

"Some  women  are  all  mental.  Their 
thoughts  and  conversation  come  brilliantly 
and  crystal-clear.  But  they  also  come  brittle 
and  without  tenderness.  A  woman  like  this 
is  hard  and  difficult  and  heaven  help  the 
man  she  marries,  for  she  will  talk  him 
to  death. 

"The  most  beautiful  word  in  a  lover's 
vocabulary  is  'tenderness.'  Yet,  even  too 
much  tenderness  is  wrong.  That  is  the 
fault  of  the  woman  who  is  all  spiritual. 
She  is  too  weak,  too  vulnerable.  She  lacks 
the  hardness  of  the  mental  type,  and  every- 
body in  the  world  needs  some  hardness. 

"Too  much  sweetness  becomes  cloying. 
.Also,  entirely  devoid  of  the  physical,  she 
does  not  give  enough  attention  to  her  ap- 
pearance. She  feels  superior  to  clothes  and 
to  grooming.  Ragged  finger  nails  or  a 
shiny  nose  are  never  inspiring,  even  on  a 
saint.  The  mental  and  tlie  spiritual  types 
both  are  wrong  when  they  disregard  ap- 
pearance. 

"But  the  woman  who  is  all  physical  has 
gone  the  farthest  from  most  men's  ideals. 
Women  who  concern  themselves  with 
nothing  but  their  looks  and  their  clothes 
and  their  good  times.  How  quickly  even 
the  most  beautiful  of  them  pall !  For  no 
love  can  exist  without  spiritual  beauty  or 
intelligence. 

"If  anyone  were  to  ask  me  what  type  of 
woman  I  would  want  to  marry,  I  couldn't 


STUDIO 

A  smart  White  Kid 
Pump  with  tear-drop 


SUNSET 

A  tricky  new  Monk 
Ankletle  with  grace- 
ful cutouts. 


SHOES 

STYLED  "in  HOLLYWOOD 

-/It  a  /i^uce  i/ou  ceut  we^tx^^cAd^ 

In  Hollywood,  today's  fashion  center,  Jolene,  recognized  fashion 
authority,  designs  these  advanced  styles  in  shoes.  Wherever  the 
Movie  Capital's  best  dressed  women  meet,  Jolene  comes,  too.  She 
chats  with  the  stars  on  the  lot,  dances  with  them  at  the  Cocoanut 
Grove,  plays  with  them  at  Palm  Springs  and  Arrowhead.  With  un- 
erring accuracy,  her  judgment  selects  and  her  pencil  depicts  the 
creations  which  are  truly  outstanding  in  footwear.  From  her  origi- 
nal sketches  made  on  the  spot  are  developed  these  new  shoes 
whose  materials  and  workmanship  are  as  outstanding  as  their 
authentic  Hollywood  styling. 

A  Wide  Selection  at  $3  to  $5 

Thanks  to  Jolene,  you  can  now  wear  shoes  styled  like  those  worn 
by  your  favorite  moving  picture  stars,  at  a  mere  fraction  of  the 
cost  they  have  to  pay.  You  can  add  the  latest  Jolene  styles  to 
your  spring  ensemble  for  as  little  as  $3.00  —  no  more  than  $5.00. 
Remember  Jolene — styled  in  Hollywood — the  new  name  in  shoes. 


Andrea  Leeds,  featured  in 
"The  Woman's  Touch"  a 
SAMUEL  GOLDWYN 
Production. 


FnSHIOn  FOOTUUERR 


I  B  U  T  E  D 
S  A  I  F  E  R 


AND  MANUFACTURED  BY 
SHOE    CO.   •    ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 


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Most  people  would  rarely  have  to  re- 
sort to  harsh  purges  if  they  kept  tabs 
on  Nature. 

Usually  a  mild  laxative  like  Olive 
Tablets  is  all  one  needs  to  assist  Na- 
ture on  the  second  day. 

Once  the  exclusive  prescription  of  a 
practicing  physician,  Olive  Tablets 
are  now  an  established  proprietary, 
welcomed  by  millions  because  they 
are  so  easy  to  take  and  so  mild. 

It  is  simple  to  keep  tabs  on  yourself. 
Always  have  Olive  Tablets  on  your 
bathroom  shelf  as  a  reminder  on  the 
second  day.  Three  sizes,  1 5f^,  30ff,  60ji. 
All  druggists. 


THE  LAXATIVE 
or  BEAUTIFUL  WOMEN 


answer  because  I  don't  know.  There  are 
so  many  t\pes  that  I  achnire.  I  like  a 
forceful  woman,  if  she  is  right  in  her 
convictions,  and  I  am  always  anxi<_ius  to 
listen  to  a  woman  with  ideas  of  her  own. 
But  I  woukin't  like  a  wnman  so  forceful 
that  domination  is  her  prime  instinct. 

"I  like  gentle  women,  but  only  if  there 
is  strength  in  them,  too.  -\ik1  1  like  women 
who  talk  fluently  and  well.  I  like  quiet 
women,  whose  silence  conies  from  thinking 
and  whose  eyes  show  interest  in  what 
others  are  saying.  The  greatest  art  of  all 
lies  in  knowing  when  to  be  quiet,  and  it 
should  be  cultivated  by  people  who  pride 
themselves  on  being  good  conversational- 
ists. To  me,  keeping  quiet  at  the  right  time 
seems  to  be  the  first  requisite  of  con- 
versation. 

"Women  are  much  more  clever  along 
certain  lines  than  men.  Their  instincts  are 
clearer,  as  a  rule,  and  they  do  not  try 
to  reason  things  out  so  much  that  they 
lose  the  quick  flash  we  call  intuition. 
Usually  women  will  advise  a  man  to  do 
the  right  thing.  But  some  men  refuse  to 
listen  and  call  their  advice  'nagging.'  It's 
all  very  silly,  for  only  stupid  women  nag. 
I'd  rather  ask  advice  from  an  intelligent 
woman  than  I  would  from  an  equally 
intelligent  man,  because  of  that  instinctive 
talent  a  woman  has  for  going  straight  into 
the  core  of  a  problem." 

It  is  rather  amazing  to  listen  to  Vincent 
Lopez  talk  about  women  in  this  wise,  in- 
telligent way  and  to  realize  that  most 
people  would  call  his  own  marriage  a 
failure.  Lopez  used  to  once  but  he  doesn't 
any  more.  For  that  is  where  he  is  different 
from  most  people.  That  is  the  thing  he 
learned  for  himself. 


There  is  no  such  thing  as  failure. 

For  it's  out  of  failure  that  success  is 
built.  Without  the  one,  the  other  could  not 
have  come.  When  you  read  of  the  lives 
of  great  men  and  women,  it  is  often  some- 
thing of  a  shock  to  discover  the  most  suc- 
cessful thing  that  ever  happened  to  them 
was  a  failure. 

"Sorrows  and  trouble  make  you,"  Lopez 
said  tersely.  "But  only  if  you  make  your- 
self their  master.  If  they  dominate  you, 
then  you  are  lost.  Adversity  is  the  great 
test  of  a  human  being.  Until  a  man  has 
been  through  turmoil  he  should  never  be 
judged  as  a  big  or  a  small  man.  Only 
when  you  come  to  the  front  in  sorrow  or 
poverty  can  you  be  termed  really  great. 
Only  then  will  you  dominate  yourself." 

That  is  the  knowledge  that  lies  behind 
the  utter  relaxation  of  \"incent  Lopez,  that 
waits  just  beyond  his  calm  and  his  poise. 

Failure  is  only  a  ivord. 

That  is  the  knowledge  he  has  discovered 
for  himself. 

His  lonely  childhood,  his  unhappy 
marriage,  the  reserve  that  had  come  to 
him  from  his  complete  subjugation  by  his 
father,  were  all  so  many  stones  holding 
him  to  the  earth.  The  failures,  because  he 
thought  of  them  so,  that  held  him  back. 

It  was  only  when  he  discovered  for 
himself  that  each  one  of  them,  in  its  own 
way,  had  given  him  something  far  greater 
than  the  thing  it  had  taken  away,  that  he 
w-as  able  to  soar.  Only  then  did  he  find 
the  true  meaning  of  the  words,  "happiness," 
and  "harmony." 

Only  then,  when  he  dismissed  the  word 
failure  from  his  vocabulary  of  living,  did 
he  gain   the   true  essence  of   the  word 


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Men  love  to  see  a  girl's  finger  nails  well  groomed. 
And  you  gain  a  new  poise  and  confidence  when  you 
know  you  are  properly  manicured — right  to  your 
fingertips!  This  poise  is  so  easy  to  obtain  if  you  use 
WIGDER  Manicure  Aids.  Nails  are  filed  smoothly 
and  quickly  with  the  WIGDER  Nail  File  because  of 
its  "triple  cut"  and  its  even  teeth.  The  WIGDER 
Improved  Cleaner  Point  is  specially  shaped  for  faster 
cleaning. 

On  sale  at  all  drug  and 
5  and    10   cent  stores. 


ML  CLIPS  »  SCISSOHS 


little  embarrissmcnt :  "Honestly.  I  had  no 
idea  I'd  get  the  program.  It  was  a  hundred- 
to-one  shot  and  I  knew  it,  so  I  didn't  hope 
too  much."  Grinning  boyishly,  "What's 
worrying  me  now,  is  keeping  the  program 
once  I've  got  it  I" 

This  was  Rex  Chandler  and  I  liked  him. 
The  fact  that  a  total  newcomer  has 
anded  in  one  of  radio's  top  spots  is  not 
tlic  incredible  feat  it  may  seem  to  those 
who  don't  know  him.  Mr.  Ford  was  looking 
f(jr  a  new  idea  in  done?  inusie.  And  the 
truth  of  the  matter  is  that,  for  the  past 
twenty-eight  of  his  thirty-eight  years.  Rex 
Chandler  has  been  looking  for — and  has 
found — the  very  same  thing. 

Despite  the  fact  that,  as  a  violinist,  he 
was  a  child  prodigy  at  ten,  that  he  is  an 
artist  on  both  piano  and  organ  and  his 
brother  is  a  professor  nf  music  at  the 
University  of  ]VIissouri,  he  insists  that  a 
gift  for  music  wasn't  sometliing  the  stork 
presented  to  him  along  with  blue  eyes  and 
a  vigorous  constitution.  The  old  family 
player-piano  in  the  parlor  at  Melrose, 
Massachusetts,  gets  the  credit.  And  the 
fact  that  his  parents  i)r(.virled  the  piano 
with  a  steady  stream  (if  nnisic  rolls,  all 
in  the  best  taste.  Pjv  the  time  he  was  eight 
years  old,  "Chan" — tliatV  his  nickname — 
could  liuni  the  nulndies  of  all  the  selections 
from  all  the  operas  and  identify  any  sym- 
phony right  off  the  bat. 


One  day  in  1909,  his  father,  who  was  a 
branch  manager  for  .Armour  and  Company, 
took  him  to  Boston  to  see  the  first  airplane 
meet  in  the  United  States.  The  boy  was 
fascinated  by  the  frail  contraptions,  made 
of  rattan  and  beaver  board,  that  sailed  into 
the  sky  and  did  tricks — while  the  pilots' 
coat  tails  flapped  perilously  in  the  open 
breeze  a  few  inches  behind  the  propeller — 
and  actually  came  down  again  all  in  one 
piece. 

"Then  and  there,"  he  told  me,  "I  decided 
there  were  two  things  I'd  love  till  the  day 
I  died — airplanes  and  music.  And  it's  been 
that  way  ever  since.  I've  spent  my  whole 
life  working  at  one  or  the  other." 

At  the  age  of  eleven  he  made  his  first 
appearance  in  concert  as  a  violinist.  At 
twelve,  he  built  some  ingenious  airplane 
models  that  attracted  the  interest  of  Glenn 
Curtis,  thus  founding  a  close  friendship 
that  still  exists  today.  At  thirteen  he  was 
playing  the  organ  in  a  Boston  church;  a 
trifle  young  for  the  job,  perhaps,  but  then 
the  back  of  his  head  was  all  the  congrega-i 
tion  could  see.  And  since  he  was  tall  for 
his  age,  the  back  of  his  head  passed  easiljj 
for  a  man's.  At  fourteen  he  had  won  some 
prizes  for  his  airplane  models,  debuted 
very  successfully  as  a  concert  pianist.  But, 
lest  you  think  Rex  Chandler  was  all  brains 
and  no  just-ordinary  boy,  it's  essential  to 
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RADIO  STARS 


GOME  TO 
HOLLYWOOD 

(Coiilniiit'd  jrom  pOfie  ?4) 


Doroth}'  Page,  Irvin  S.  Cobb,  Amos  'n' 
Andy  and  others.  We'll  invite  them  all.  and 
they'll  want  to  be  on  hand  to  meet  their 
fans. 

On  the  first  tour,  Leo  Carrillo  is  our 
host,  and  he  has  planned  a  grand  tiesta  in 
your  honor  at  his  Santa  Monica  ranch 
home.  Leo  is  the  ideal  host.  He'll  whisk 
you  back  to  the  days  of  the  dons,  when 
hospitality  was  a  tine  art.  tor  Leo  is  a 
descendant  of  one  of  the  first  Spanish 
families  of  California.  Be  sure  you  see  him. 
with  Charles  Boyer.  in  History  Is  Made  at 
Night. 

On  the  second  trip,  Glenda  Farrell  will 
be  hostess,  entertaining  you  at  her  home 
in  San  Fernando.  See  her  in  Golddiggers 
of  1937  and  in  the  Torcliy  Blanc  series. 
She's  such  a  grand  girl,  we  know  you'll 
enjoy  her  party  to  the  utmost. 

The  last  tour  takes  us  to  the  estate  of 
Richard  Arlen  and  his  wife.  Jobyna  Rals- 
ton, at  Toluca  Lake.  Dick's  latest  is  Secret 
J 'alley,  for  20th  Century-Fox. 

Ever  since  Wings.  Dick  has  climbed 
steadily  in  the  affection  of  the  fans,  and 
is  not  only  a  shining  Western  star  but 
plays  in  a  great  variety  of  films  as  well. 
Dick  lives  in  the  little  settlement  of  stars 
that  includes  Dick  Powell,  Bing  Crosby  and 
others,  and  they  play  golf  together  at 
Lakeside,  which  is  practically  at  their  back 
doors.  He's  invited  all  his  pals  to  come  to 
the  party. 

Originally  it  was  planned  to  have  a 
banquet,  but  many  requests  to  discard  this 
plan,  as  too  expensive,  have  been  heeded, 
and  instead  we're  going  to  devote  our 
energies  to  the  extra  attraction,  the  trip 
through  radioland  at  XDC. 

The  tour  managers  make  no  guarantee 
on  the  personalities  who  will  be  present 
for  you  to  meet,  as  naturally  the  plans  of 
Hollywood  celebrities  are  subject  to  change 
on  short  notice.  But  we  do  guarantee  that 
you  will  be  thoroughly  satisfied.  We'll  do 
our  best  to  show  you  a  vacation  that  you'll 
never  forget !  .•\nd  we  have  many  surprises 
for  you,  too — stars  you're  dying  to  meet  will 
be  on  hand  at  various  functions  and  parties. 

Kow  all  you  need  do  is  make  up  your 
mind  you  are  not  going  to  miss  all  this  fun 
— a  chance  to  see  sights  no  tourist  could 
possibly  buy — all  for  a  cost  well  within 
reach. 

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can  spare  just  two  weeks  for  a 
vacation  this  next  summer,  that  is  a  good  full 
two  weeks  from  a  Saturday  pm,  through  a 
15-day  fortnight  to  a  Sunday  night,  but  I'm 
going  to  have  a  real  rest  and  a  complete  change 
in  that  short  time.  I  am  going  to  one  of  those 
Montana-Wyoming  ranches  I  have  heard  so 
much  about.  I  can  afford  about  $150.00  for  a 
vacation — yes,  it's  really  more  than  I  can  afford, 
but  I've  saved  a  little  here  and  there  and  travel  is 
what  I  want  to  buy.  I  know  travel's  a  good 
investment,  safe,  sure  and  with  a  lot  of  personal 
profit  and  satisfaction  coming  from  it. 

"Where  can  I  buy  the  most  travel  and  fun 
for  my  $150?  I  know  just  where  and  exactly  what  I'm  going  to  do.  With  a 
pal  or  two,  I'm  going  to  a  "Dude  Ranch,"  where  it  is  as  different  from  city 
life  as  any  place  can  possibly  be.  I  know  nothing  about  horseback  riding,  but 
they  say  it's  easy  and  fun  on  those  western  horses — and  loafing  and  playing 
is  what  I  want  to  do. 

"Now  this  Dude  Ranch  vacation  trip  I'm  buying  takes  me  from  my  home 
town,  Chicago,  to  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis,  across  the  Northwest  and  the 
Rockies.  I'll  certainly  be  glad  to  see  and  live  in  the  mountains  for  a  while. 
I'll  ride  on  the  air-conditioned  "North  Coast  Limited,"  eating  and  living  like 
a  king — riding  on  that  grand  train.  My  ranch  host  meets  my  train — the 
Northern  Pacific  has  fixed  all  that.  Then  away  we  go  to  the  ranch,  remote  in 
the  mountains.  My  pal  and  I  have  a  cozy  cabin  all  to  ourselves.  We  pile  into 
our  sport  clothes,  put  on  some  stout  shoes  or  boots  and  old  felt  hats  and  we're 
set  to  go.  Ten  solid  days  of  play,  with  other  attractive  people — young  men 
and  women  who  have  come  for  a  good  time,  like  ourselves.  We  ride  together, 
picnic,  camp  out — or  loaf,  read,  fish,  relax  or  walk  alone,  in  pairs  or  with  a 
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sound  like  something  with  all  the  cuts. 
But  it  was  bad,  and  I  knew  it.  After  our 
second  audition  I  started  to  sneak  out  one 
door  while  the  producer  slunk  out  another. 
We  didn't  dare  look  at  one  another — when 
in  walked  the  Major,  beaming!  "My  dear 
fellow,'  he  chortles,  'you're  really  terribly 
amusing,  you  know.  My  wife  loved  the 
show  !' 

"The  producer  and  I  both  stopped  at  the 
door,  shook  hands  and  received  congratu- 
lations ;  everything  was  very  gay.  I  still 
couldn't  believe  it,  but  the  Major  was 
definitely  enthusiastic.  It  was  a  few  days 
later  that  I  turned  up  at  the  agency  and 
found  averted  eyes  and  a  suspiciously  sym- 
pathetic attitude  towards  me.  'Too  bad, 
Eddie,'  they  mumbled.  'We  sent  a  record 
of  the  show  to  Detroit — and  they  didn't  like 
it.'  And  there  went  another  commercial 
show  that  might  have  been  good  without 
tampering." 

But,  with  or  without  sponsors,  Eddie 
gets  along.  He  has  a  morning  program 
from  8:45  to  9:00  a.m.  E.ST,  five  times  a 
week;  the  Ed  Fitagerald  &  Company 
show,  six  afternoons  a  week;  works  in  the 
Melody  Treasure  Hunt  once  a  week,  and 
has  been  appearing  in  the  Benay  Venuta 
show  as  well.  Which — along  with  writing 
all  his  own  scripts  and  dashing  to  pointless 
auditions — would  keep  anyone  busy. 

His  career,  before  he  entered  radio  a 
couple  of  years  ago,  was  colorful.  In  fact, 
a  story  could  be  written  about  any  one  era 
of  his  career.  There  are  plenty  of  stories  he 
tells  about  his  childhood  and  early  days  as 
an  actor.  For  instance,  when  he  appeared 
with  Bert  Lytell  in  Sivcet  Kitfy  Bcllairs 
at  Albany,  New  York — an  engagement  that 
lasted  until  Eddie  made  an  entrance  during 
a  tense  scene  to  be  greeted  with  laughter 
where  no  laughs  belonged.  He  lost  that 
job  because  Bert  Lytell  couldn't  sympathize 
with  an  actor  playing  a  scene  with  his 
shirt  tail  looped  over  his  trouser  top.  But 
he  continued  in  show  business,  and  one 
engagement  took  him  to  London,  England. 
There,  he  played  a  youthful  part  in  Doris 
Keane's  famous  play,  Ro)iiancc.  Just  as  he 
was  beginning  to  get  somewhere,  the  War 
broke  out  and  he  enlisted  in  the  British 
Army  in  August,  1914.  Finding  a  rifle 
heavy  and  infantry  drill  exhausting,  he 
talked  himself  into  the  Royal  Flying  Corps. 

"I  proposed  to  learn  to  fly,"  he  says, 
'•with  the  idea  of  being  a  cadet  and  later 
an  officer  with  pips  on  my  shoulders  and 
wings  on  my  chest.  But  I  learned  difTer- 
cntly.  I  peeled  potatoes  and  scrubbed  vege- 
tables. That  was  understandable.  But  I 
never  could  figure  out  what  digging  ditches 
had  to  do  with  flying  !" 

However,  he  finally  did  get  a  commis- 
sion, and  a  load  of  shrapnel  in  him  that 
kept  him  hospitalized  for  longer  than  he 
likes  to  think  about.  He  still  has  to  go  and 
have  odd  bits  of  metal  dug  out  of  him  oc- 
casionally. 

The  army  offered  vocational  instruction 
after  the  Armistice,  and  Eddie  picked  jour- 
nalism. In  those  days  jobs  were  not  hard 
to  get,  and  he  walked  into  a  newspaper 
office  in  Camden,  N.  J.,  sold  himself  and 
went  right  to  work.    Payrolls  of  news- 


papers in  Manitoba,  Seattle,  Calgary,  Port- 
land, Philadelphia,  Boston  and  a  dozen 
other  towns  carried  the  Fitzgerald  name  as 
a  wandering  reporter.  He  worked  on  the 
old  San  Francisco  Journal  as  drama  editor 
and  held  the  same  job  on  Cornelius  Van- 
derbilt's  tabloid  Herald,  which  was  upset- 
ting the  town  at  that  time.  He  did  press- 
agentry,  traveling  up  and  down  the  Pacific 
Coast,  and  toured  as  advance  man  for 
Doris  Keane's  revival  of  Romance  in 
.\merica.   Oh,  Ed's  been  around! 

And  then  he  settled  down  for  awhile,  as 
manager  of  Warners'  Embassy  Theatre  in 
San  Francisco.  There  radio  got  him. 

"I  had  never  had  the  slightest  interest  in 
radio,"  Eddie  tells  it.  "While  I  was  manag- 
ing the  theatre  my  wife  had  received  a 
small  radio  for  Christmas,  and  it  stayed  in 
the  closet,  wrapped  in  cellophane  and  with 
a  big  red  bow  on  it,  like  a  puppy  dog.  But 
came  the  day  Peggy  was  ill,  and  I  came 
home  one  evening  to  find  the  radio  hooked 
up  as  she  listened  to  a  newscast  on  the 
Lindbergh  crime,  which  was  the  current 
sensation.  I  got  the  habit  of  listening  to 
sports  broadcasts  and  news  items.  And 
shortly  after  that  it  occurred  to  me  that 
beer  was  coining  back  soon  and  it  might  be 
a  good  idea  to  assemble  a  beer  program." 
He  chuckled.  "I  didn't  know  the  first  thing 
about  radio,  had  never  been  in  a  studio. 
But  I  talked  to  several  brewers  about  my 
idea.  Eventually,  after  pestering  every 
station  and  beer  company  around,  the  idea 
soaked  through.  'Listen,'  one  beer  official 
told  me.  'There  is  no  doubt  beer's  coming 
back.  Why  do  you  think  all  the  vats  are 
cleaned  out  and  all  the  spigots  polished? 
But  beer  takes  time  to  make — and  it  must 
age.  When  beer  comes  back,  tny  friend,  it 
won't  be  a  question  of  how  we  will  sell 
it — it  will  be  how  can  we  get  enough  to 
meet  the  deinand?'  And  that  was  that." 

But  his  contacts  with  radio  people  had 
borne  fruit,  and  he  talked  so  well,  so 
long  and  so  persuasively  to  Harrison 
Holloway.  veteran  manager  of  KFRC  on 
the  Don  Lee  network,  that  they  gave  him 
a  chance  to  do  a  master  of  ceremonies  job 
on  an  old,  established  program,  Feminine 
Fancies.  Then  things  began  to  happen. 
Eddie  got  before  the  mike  and  dubbed  the 
show  the  Fancic  Fancies  Hour.  He  kidded 
the  sponsors,  ribbed  the  performers  and  lis- 
teners and  brought  an  entirely  new  sparkle 
to  the  show.  At  first,  the  mail  he  got  was 
vicious.  People  tuned  in  to  hate  him — 
and  ended  up  coming  back  for  more.  The 
show  hit  new  records  for  popularity,  and 
Eddie  Fitzgerald,  who  was  99  per  cent 
himself,  and  who  ignored  all  the  taboos 
and  unbreakable  rules  of  radio,  built  him- 
self an  audience  that  eclipsed  all  previous 
reactions  to  the  program.  A  little  later  he 
became,  also,  a  news  commentator  on 
KFRC,  and  injected  the  same  tart  humor 
and  occasionally  vitriolic  comment  into  the 
news  as  he  had  into  the  Feminine  Fancies 
show.  His  news  broadcast  at  ten  each 
night  was  the  talk  of  the  town  and  once, 
during  the  longshoremen's  strike,  he  was 
transported  to  and  from  the  studio  in  a 
police  patrol  car  under  heavy  guard.  But 
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A  success  on  the  West  Coast,  on  the  Don 
Lee  network  (which  was  then  part  of  the 
CBS  chain),  Ed  says  the  apple  then  came 
to  his  Eden.  He  came  to  New  York  and 
went  to  CBS  ahout  working  there.  Brashly. 
he  had  refused  letters  of  introduction,  and 
when  he  asked  for  appointments  to  see 
executives,  they  were  never  in  to  him.  After 
a  bit  of  reflection  Eddie  sent  West  for  the 
letters,  and  gained  an  audience  with  Jules 
Seebach,  then  with  Columbia. 

"You'll  have  to  have  an  audition,"  they 
told  him. 

"But  I've  been  working  on  the  Don  Lee 
network — some  of  my  programs  have  been 
piped  East,"  he  pleaded.  "Oh,  yes — we 
know  your  stuff,"  was  the  answer,  "but 
just  the  same  you'll  have  to  have  an  audi- 
tion." 

So  Eddie  was  given  a  band,  a  stooge  and 
an  audition.  Officials  pondered  awhile,  and 
the  answer  was  "No  soap."  They  didn't 
like  it.  He  gave  an  audition  for  WOR  and 
they  didn't  like  that,  either. 

Later,  he  received  a  call  from  Seebach, 
who  had  gone  with  Mutual  in  the  interim, 
and  who  believed  in  him.  He  put  Fitz- 
gerald to  work — and  the  rest  you  know,  or 
can  find  out  by  tuning  in  his  shows. 

He  was  born  forty-three  years  ago  in 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  played  with  the  Polish 
kids  on  the  other  side  of  the  tracks.  There 
he  picked  up  a  vocabulary  that  is  occas- 
ionally unorthodox  but  never  uncolorful. 
He  says  the  only  time  he  ever  spent  in  a 
classroom  was  the  time  he  went  to  see  a 
prosperous  cousin  graduate,  but  you'd  never 
guess  that.  And  he's  been  a  sucker  for  beg- 
ging-letters, of  which  he  gets  an  amazing 
number.  They  write  in  asking  for  jobs, 
money,  sweethearts,  autos,  food,  liquor, 
introductions  to  mayors  and  for  advice, 
and  most  of  the  applicants  are  women. 
Plenty  of  them  are  not  requests,  but  de- 
mands. Raised  in  the  generous  tradition 
of  the  theatre,  Ed  used  to  fall  for  them. 
But  dozens  of  outrageous  experiences  and 
a  file  of  cancelled  checks  that  would  make 
a  year's  income,  have  finally  cured  him. 
Also,  there  was  the  time  on  KFRC  when  he 
devoted  ten  minutes  of  his  show  to  an  ap- 
peal for  funds  for  a  charitable  organiza- 
tion. The  money  poured  in  as  a  result — 
but  the  organization's  president  squawked 
to  Eddie's  boss  because  he  had  "spoken 
flippantly  about  their  cause,"  disregarding 
the  fact  that  the  flippancy  had  brought  in 
thousands  of  dollars. 

He's  been  married  for  eight  years  to  a 
bright  young  woman  who  is  famous  in  her 
own  right — Pegeen  Fitzgerald,  Director  of 
Publicity  for  the  McCreery  Company,  de- 
partment store  in  New  York.  And  his 
wife  is  not  only  bright  but  very  attrac- 
tive, blonde  and  winsome. 

In  spite  of  his  experience,  Eddie  still 
gives  commercial  auditions.  "The  funniest 
kick-back  after  an  audition,"  he  says,  "was 
the  time  I  was  auditioning  for  Blaiiko.  The 
show  was  swell,  if  I  do  say  so  myself.  And 
when,  beaming,  I  met  the  sponsor,  I  dis- 
covered he  had  brought  his  wife,  his  mother 
and  two  children  with  him,  plus  all  the 
agency  executives.  Here  were  the  reactions 
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wanted  to  see  Stuart  Gracey  because  his 
voice  was  heavenly ;  the  kids  wanted  to  see 
Harry  Mack,  who  does  that  'Me  too !' ;  the 
mother  wanted  to  meet  me  to  see  what  such 
an  obnoxious  person  looked  like!" 

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Jessica  has  reached  an  ever  widening  au- 
dience and  ranked  high  in  the  radio  rat- 
ings. 

Bnt  for  the  pioneer  there  must  be  al- 
ways new  vistas,  fresh  fields,  widening 
opportunities.  And,  eager  to  present  new 
forms  of  dramatic  and  musical  entertain- 
irent.  Jessica  made  an  end  to  this  long  and 
successful  association. 

Early  this  year  she  began  her  Palmolive 
love-story  broadcasts,  which  have  proved 
an  immediate  and  highly  gratifying  suc- 
cess. 

When  the  time  came  for  shaping  her 
new  radio  series.  Miss  Dragonette  was  ill. 
Lying  in  bed,  sufTering  an  attack  of  the 
grippe,  she  found  the  memory  of  Schehe- 
razade and  her  thousand  and  one  nights' 
entertainment  recurring  to  her  memory, 
stirring  her  imagination. 

"Can  you  imagine,"  says  Jessica  thought- 
fully, "with  what  trepidation  Scheherazade 
must  have  prepared  and  told  her  first 
story?  With  what  concern  she  must  have 
scrutinized  the  Sultan's  face,  watching  his 
changes  of  expression  to  learn  whether  or 
not  her  story  pleased.  What  thrust  of  re- 
lief and  joy  must  have  been  hers  when  the 
tale  was  applauded — and  she  w-as  granted 
another  night  of  life,  so  that  on  the  mor- 
row she  might  again  entertain  the  Sul- 
tan .  .  .  And  how  great  must  have  been 
l:er  anxiety  when  she  searched  for  new 
material.  How  she  must  have  questioned 
everyone,  hunting  for  another  and  yet  an- 
other tale,  to  win  her  renewal  of  life.  With 
what  infinite  skill  and  care  she  must  have 
worked  over  an  old,  time-worn,  familiar 
plot,  to  present  it  so  that  it  seemed  a  new 
and  thrilling  story. 

"Scheherazade  was  the  greatest  teller  of 
love  stories  the  world  has  ever  known," 
Jessica  mused. 

And  so,  musing  on  that  fabled  story- 
teller, Jessica  saw  a  parallel  between  her 
and  the  radio  star  of  today — with  the  pub- 
lic as  Sultan  and  the  twist  of  the  dial  the 
fateful  sword.  And  thus  Scheherazade  be- 
came the  inspiration  for  the  Palmolive 
love-story  broadcasts. 

"We,  too,"  says  Miss  Dragonette,  "are 
searching  for  the  world's  most  cherished 
love  stories.  We  are  trying  to  fashion  them 
into  the  most  compelling  form  for  precious 
moments  on  the  air.  Now.  each  Wednes- 
day, we  present  the  better-known  operettas. 
Later  we  will  continue  with  love-songs, 
shaped  into  stirring,  aclnngly  beautiful 
tales.  Or  some  of  the  world's  greatest  ro- 
inances,  set  to  appropriate  music." 

A  great  deal  of  work,  a  great  deal  of 
devotion,  goes  into  the  preparation  of  these 
programs.  Al  Goodman,  the  orchestra 
leader,  and  Kenneth  MacGregor,  the  stage 
production  manager,  among  others,  contrib- 
ute to  the  careful  precision  of  these  Wed- 
nesday night  half  hours  of  musical  love 
drama. 

The  half  hour  program,  Jessica  thinks, 
is  perfect  for  this  sort  of  musical  drama. 
"In  the  half  hour,"  she  says,  "there  are 
fewer  of  the  interruptions  that  are  inevit- 
able to  the  hour  program.   The  commercial 


announcements  are  reduced  to  the  mini- 
mum. Every  word,  every  note,  counts  in 
setting  the  scene,  telling  the  story,  painting 
the  picture  for  the  listening  audience.  It 
keeps  the  mood  unbroken." 

It  seems  like  a  full-time  job,  and  it  is. 
But  Jessica  is  satisfied.  "I  am  doing  just 
what  I  want  most  of  all  to  do,"  she  says 
sincerely. 

So,  if  there  is  little  time  for  social 
diversions,  if  vacations  simply  do  not  exist, 
Jessica  feels  no  lack.  Occasionally  there 
is  a  country  week-end,  which  she  loves. 
"Anywhere  where  there  is  the  sun  and  the 
sea!"  she  says.  She  loves  the  theatre.  Con- 
certs and  opera  she  attends  whenever  pos- 
sible. For  exercise,  she  finds  dancing  the 
most  satisfying  form. 

"It  seems  most  practical,"  she  explains, 
"for  the  limited  time  I  have.  Classical, 
Spanish,  modern  dancing — I  practice  them 
all.  Of  course  I  love  walking.  I  always 
walk  to  rehearsals.  But  dancing  is  especi- 
ally valuable  for  a  singer.  The  rhythm, 
the  poise,  the  movement  and  flow  of  every 
muscle,  all  contribute  to  the  expression  of 
the  song." 

It's  really  unusual,  the  extent  to  which 
everything  in  Jessica  Dragonette's  life  is 
made  contributory  to  her  one  supreme  pas- 
sion, music.  She  is  not  just  another  young 
singer,  with  many  more  or  less  allied  in- 
terests, with  ever  varying  dreams  and  aspi- 
rations. Singing,  for  Jessica,  is  not  merely 
working,  it  is  living.  Music,  that  is  her 
gift  and  her  career,  actually  is  her  whole 
life.    And  she  is  completely  happy  in  it. 

"Music,"  she  says  thoughtfully,  "is  a 
part  of  every  experience  in  life.  In  every 
form  of  civilization,  from  the  lowest  to 
the  highest,  every  function  is  expressed  in 
music — joy  and  tragedy,  birth  and  love  and 
death,  the  wedding  march  and  the  funeral 
dirge,  wars  and  defeats  a:id  victories  .  .  . 
The  greatest  stories  of  all  times  live  for- 
ever in  music." 

Forward  looking  always,  Jessica  will  be 
prepared  for  television,  when  it  comes.  As 
a  matter  of  record,  one  of  the  pictures 
flashed  on  the  first  experimental  television 
screen  was  a  picture  of  Jessica  Dragonette. 
And  as  she  studies  and  plans  for  future 
programs,  she  will  evolve  those  best 
adapted  to  the  newest  medium. 

She  studies  constantly,  coaching  with 
Estelle  Liebling,  with  Frank  LaForge. 
Sometimes  once  a  week,  soinetimes  four  or 
five  times  a  week,  as  time  and  engagements 
permit.  Too,  she  studies  languages — 
French,  Hungarian,  Italian,  Spanish,  among 
others,  believing  that  to  speak  them  fluently 
enables  her  to  sing  more  expertly  the  songs 
of  other  lands  in  their  native  tongues. 

A  charming  person  to  meet,  Jessica  Dra- 
gonette. Lovely  and  slim  and  young,  with 
softly  curling  blonde  hair  and  soft  hazel 
eyes  which  seem  to  change  their  color  ac- 
cording to  what  she  may  be  wearing.  Pic- 
tures, somehow,  do  not  do  justice  to  the 
delicate  planes  of  her  expressive  face. 
Word  pictures  do  not  always  do  her  justice, 
either.  It's  difficult  to  describe  her  absorp- 
tion in  her  music  without  making  her  seem 


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somehow  non-human,  unreal.  But  she  is  a 
very  real  person.  A  trifle  shy,  reserved, 
perhaps.  Those  who  think  deeply  do  not 
talk  easily  of  what  is  closest  to  their  hearts. 
But  she  is  poised  and  gracious — and  over- 
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In  her  lovely,  homelike  apartment  one 
sees  many  books.  Shelves  of  old  and  rare 
editions  look  down  upon  tables  and  benches 
on  which  are  scattered  other  books — books 
of  music,  of  poetry,  drama,  history,  biogra- 
phy— showing  a  wide  range  of  interest  and 
taste.  Bohemia  in  the  Eighteenth  Century 
rubs  shoulders  with  Dorothy  Parker's 
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Walton  hobnob  with  a  fat  book  on  astron- 
vmy.  Another  plump  btx)k — The  Arabian 
Xii/hts'  Entertainment — catches  the  eye. 

"This,"  said  Jessica  eagerly,  picking  it 
up,  "is  Scheherazade.  .  .  ."  Arid  she  read  a 
descriptive  paragraph : 

"  'She  had  perused  the  books,  the 
annals  and  the  legends  of  preceding 
kings.  Stories,  examples  and  i)istanc4:s 
of  bygone  men  and  things,  hideed,  it  is 
said,  she  had  collected  a  thou.^and  and 
one  books  relating  to  antique  races 
and  departed  rulers.  She  had  perused 
the  li'orks  of  poets,  kneur  them  by 
heart.  She  had  studied  philosophy  and 
the  sciences,  arts  and  accomplish- 
ments .  .  .  She  icas  pleasant  and  polite, 
zuise  and  u-itty,  zvell-read  and  well- 
bred.'  " 

It  was.  it  occurred  to  us,  listening,  an 

apt  description  of  Jessica  herself.  More 
apt  than  ^he  realizes,  despite  her  analogy 
between  herself  and  the  fabled  queen  of 
long  ago  who  made  so  deep  an  inii)ressi<)n 
on  her  childish  heart.  She  >cc^  herself  pre- 
senting a  thousand  and  Diie  ra<iio  nights 
for  our  entertainment,  even  as  Schehera- 
zade presented  to  her  Sultan  a  thousand 
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made,  so  well  does  she  k-now  what  Meri 
likes  and  so  skillful  is  she  at  adapting 
them  to  the  lines  and  details  which  her 
daughter  demands.  Since  Meri  delights 
so  in  giving  everything  .--lie  wears  an 
original  twist,  her  clothes  are  bought  or 
made  with  an  eye  to  the  si^lplc^t  lines,  thus 
enabling  her  to  add  tricky  innovations  in 
the  Rcll  manner. 

"In  general,"  Meri  said,  '"I  like  full 
sleeves,  and  tight-waistcd  effects  with  a 
simple  bodice.  Then  I  can  have  a  fling 
with  scarfs,  pins,  flowers  and  so  forth.  I 
prefer  heavy,  but  soft  crepes,  pussy  willow 
taffetas  and  sheer  woolens.  I  w-ear  a 
perfect   size  sixteen. 

"I  can  remember,"  she  continued,  "that 
even  as  a  child,  I  would  spend  hours  before 
a  mirror,  fussing  with  my  clothes,  trying 
to  get  them  to  look  just  the  way  I  fancied 
them.  You'll  think  it  absurd,  but  I  used 
to  be  decked  out  in  uniforms  for  school 
and  I  insisted  upon  having  them  fitted  so 
that  mine  wouldn't  look  like  those  of  the 
otiier  girls !" 

She  considers  originality  the  key  to 
dressing  smartly.  Fit  your  clothes  to  vo« 
— not  only  in  the  physical  sense  but  from 
a  personality  standpoint,  too — that  is  her 
fashion  creed. 

"For  instance,"  she  said,  "short  girls 
couldn't  wear  the  sort  of  thing  I  like.  I 
never  dress  consciously  in  tiie  prevailing 
fashion  but  I  always  look  as  if  I  did.  That's 
because  I  stick  to  one  type  of  simple,  wear- 
able thing,  year  in  and  year  out.  Any  fads 
of  the  moment  I  introduce  only  in  small 
doses,  as  in  accessories.  All  my  clothes  are 
conservative  and  I  go  in  for  fantastic 
touches  only  if  I've  tried  them  out  before 
a  mirror  and  know  that  I  can  wear  them. 
To  my  mind,  no  smart  woman  ever  looks 
bizarre. 

"What  do  I  like  particularly?"  she  re- 
peated my  question.  "Well,  I  love  suits — 
the  man-tailored  ones  in  single-breasted 
style.  I  am  crazy  about  sweaters  and 
skirts — especially  ribbed  sweaters  in  love- 
ly colors,  but  very  plain,  so  that  I  can  wear 
scarfs  in  various  ways.  I  like  scarfs — 
loads  of  them,  in  all  different  materials  and 
colors." 

She  went  on  to  describe  what  diverse 
ways  she  has  for  tying  or  arranging  her 
scarfs.  One  of  her  pets  is  illustrated.  First 
of  all,  the  sweater  is  the  classic  favorite 
she  mentioned.  This  day  it  happene<^l  to  be 
a  gray,  coarsely  ribbed  one.  with  long 
sleeves  and  a  high  neck  which  was  really 
hardly  more  than  a  slot  wide  enough  for 
her  head  to  go  through.  She  v\ore  this  over 
a  royal  blue  tweed  skirt.  And  about  her 
neck,  she  had  draped  a  royal  blue  and  white 
polka-dotted  silk  scarf.  Tliis  happens  to 
be  one  of  her  special  scarf  arrangements — 
she  wraps  the  scarf  once  around  her  neck 
so  that  the  ends  are  at  the  back,  she  crosses 
these  over  and  brings  them  to  the  front 
where  she  spreads  them  out,  jabot  effect, 
and  fastens  the  scarf  with  a  silver  Scottie 
pin.  She  said  this  is  a  grand  way  to  fix  a 
scarf  to  be  worn  under  a  tailored  suit 
jacket  when  you  don't  intend  to  remove 
your  coat — it's  both  a  vestee  and  a  scarf. 

Still  another  scarf  trick  is  the  one  she 


wears  with  her  beige  gabardine  spring  suit, 
pictured.  This  suit  is  one  of  her  own 
designs,  made  for  her  by  a  tailor.  It's  just 
a  regular  men's  wear  gabardine  suiting — 
she  said  she  never  had  seen  one  for  women 
just  like  it  before — and  the  jacket  is  made 
with  four  unusual  pockets  as  its  only 
trimming.  These  pockets  are  cut  to  a  point 
on  the  underneath  side.  The  lapels  are 
small  and  the  jacket  closing  is  cjuite  deep. 
When  she  doesn't  wear  a  blouse  with  this, 
she  wears  a  scarf  like  the  white  one.  This 
is  fastened  with  a  pin,  also,  and  is  ar- 
ranged somewhat  like  an  old-fashioned 
stock. 

With  this  suit  she  wears  a  tailored, 
natural  straw  hat  with  a  narrow  band  of 
felt  and  a  wide  band  of  grosgrain  ribbon  as 
trim,  these  in  contrasting  shades  of  brown 
and  green. 

She  likes  to  design  some  of  her  hats, 
but  this  particular  one  was  from  a  collec- 
tion of  well-known  tailored  and  sports 
hats.  She  often  likes  to  wear  slightly  giddy 
hats,  but  her  husband,  like  many  men, 
doesn't  care  for  that  type. 

Incidentally,  Meri  Bell  is  married  to  Dell 
Sharbutt,  whose  announcing  you  know  very 
well.  She  was  wearing  a  new  black  caracul 
coat  which  he  had  given  her  for  Christmas, 
but  which  had  been  delayed  in  reaching  her 
because  it  was  made  to  her  specifications. 
"Every  skin  is  marked  with  my  name," 
she  said.  "And,  although  it  is  really  too 
warm  to  wear  it  now,  I  simply  have  to  be- 
cause I  have  waited  so  long  to  own  it." 

She  never  wears  prints — likes  solid 
colors  best  and  says  it  would  be  a  waste  of 
time  for  her  to  buy  anything  else.  Her 
favorite  colors  are:  Black,  white  in  the 
summer,  dark  red,  green  occasionally, 
lots  of  blue  in  the  navy,  powder  and  royal 
tones. 

Meri  Bell  has  very  interesting  coloring 
and  I  think  her  make-up  is  worth  passing 
on  to  all  you  blondes  who  may  be  similar. 
Meri's  skin  is  a  golden-tinted  tone  rather 
than  the  very  pink-and-white  of  most 
blondes.  Her  eyes  are  hazel  and  her  hair 
a  rich  yellow.  The  powder  she  uses  is  what 
she  calls  a  "radiant  rachel" — it's  on  the 
pinkish  cast.  To  this  she  adds  just  a  little 
brown  so  that,  winter  or  summer,  she  looks 
as  if  she  had  a  light  golden  suntan.  It's 
very  effective. 

Her  love  of  light  blue  is  evident  in  the 
evening  gown  which  she  chose  for  this 
story.  She  wanted  me — and  you — to  see  the 
wide,  blue  velvet  bow,  caught  with  a  jeweled 
pin,  which  she  wears  on  the  dress  when  it 
is  topped  by  the  brief  jacket.  Without  the 
jacket,  the  dress  has  a  deep  velvet  girdle  in 
the  shade  of  royal  blue,  and  so  she  only 
uses  the  bow  with  the  jacket.  But,  back  to 
to  color  of  the  dress,  it  is  a  very  light  blue 
which  looks  almost  oyster  white  under 
electric  lights.  It's  very  effective  when 
contrasted  with  the  deeper  blue. 

As  I  talked  to  Meri  Bell,  I  thought  that 
there  isn't  a  single  girl,  reading  what  she 
had  to  say,  who  won't  be  inspired  to  make 
the  most  of  her  own  clothes.  I  know  I  felt 
inspired  to  start  experimenting  with  scarfs 
I  have  had  kicking  around  my  bureau 
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put  them  on  the  same  way  and  not  a  very 
unusual  way.  either.  Certainly.  Meri  con- 
vinces you  that  it  isn't  the  huge  amount  of 
mone)'  you  need  to  spend  to  look  smart,  but 
rather  the  discerning  eye  to  make  the  most 
of  every  accessory,  no  matter  how  small. 
^''ariet>■  is  the  spice  of  her  clothes — con- 
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what  she  has.  so  that  it  always  looks  fresh 
and  unusual. 

She  told  me  that  she  had  made  some 
movie  shorts  when  she  was  on  the  Coast, 
several  years  ago.  But  more  interesting 
even  than  that,  was  the  fact  that  she  had 
acted  as  stand-in  for  several  of  the  big 
stars.  I  asked  her  if  she  wanted  to  go  back 
to  Hollywood,  and  she  said  not  unless  she 
was  offered  so  much  money  that  she 
couldn't  refuse !  You'll  never  guess,  though, 
why  she  hasn't  her  eye  on  Hollywood — 
she's  afraid  of  earthquakes!  And  well  she 
might  be,  for  she  was  in  the  one  that  hit 
Los  Angeles  several  years  ago.  She  was 
throw^n  across  a  room  and  broke  her  arm. 
However,  she  felt  very  lucky  when  she 
heard,  later,  that  the  theatre^  at  which  she 
and  Gus  Arnheim's  band  were  to  have 
played  that  night,  was  demolished  at  an 
hour  when  they  might  have  been  on  the 
stage !  It  so  happened  that  their  engage- 
ment had  been  postponed  and  the  troupe  had 
remained  in  Los  Angeles  instead  of  moving 
on  to  Long  Beach!  She's  never  forgotten 
the  incident. 

Before  signing  off  for  this  month,  I  want 
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add  that  he  tried  for  four  years  and  never 
did  divide  all  Gaul  into  three  parts  to  the 
satisfaction  of  his  Latin  teachers;  nor  can 
he  see  to  this  day  why  the  square  of  the 
hypotenuse  necessarily  has  to  equal  the 
s(|uares  of  the  rest  of  a  triangle. 

It  isn't  brilliance  that's  gotten  him  places. 
Rex  will  insist,  it's  fever.  He  has  a  fever 
for  music  and  planes  that  notliing  has  ever 
been  able  to  cool,  not  even  slim  pickings 
and  crack-ups. 

After  high  school,  his  parents  dug  into 
their  savings  and  sent  him  abroad  to  study 
piano.  Halfway  through  his  course  he  dis- 
covered that  what  he  really  wanted  was 
not  to  study  music  in  Paris  alone,  but 
music  everywhere — Iceland,  Vienna,  Cape 
Horn,  the  Sandwich  Islands.  The  war  was 
going  on,  he  was  filled  with  wanderlust 
and  ambition  and  unrest. 

Gradually  the  idea  was  born  in  him  of 
the  one  great  thing  he  wanted  to  accom- 
plish:  To  learn  the  music  of  all  lands,  to 
combine  those  musics  in  a  unit'crsal  rhythm, 
and  so)nc  day  flay  that  rhythm  zvifli  an 
orchestra  of  his  oicii. 

That  was  his  dream.  And  he  never 
stopped  dreaming  it. 

He  started  ofi  by  bumming  his  way  to 
Tasmania,  Ceylon,  the  Philippines,  Mada- 
gascar. He  sat  with  a  scratch-pad  and 
pencil  in  huts  and  palaces  and  cabarets  and 
opera  houses  and  dives  the  whole  world 
over,  writing  down  queer  snatches  of  music 
in  three-four  and  four-four  and  strange 
tempos  he'd  tiever  heard  before.  He  studied 
the  cultivated  music  of  cities  and  the  natural 
music  of   isolated  places,  too. 

He  collected  musical  instruments  from 
more  than  twenty  countries  and  learned  the 
rudiments  of  playing  them.  He  collected 
several  trunkfuls  of  recordings.  When  he 
couldn't  buy  a  recording  of  some  native 
inusic  he  wanted,  he'd  often  pawn  his  last 
possession  to  have  it  recorded  especially 
for  his  own  use.  There  weren't  many  places 
whose  music  remained  a  mystery  to  Rex 
Chandler. 

Whenever  he  wearied  of  living  out  of  a 
sm'tcase,  he'd  put  his  dream  about  universal 
rhythm  in  storage  for  a  while  and  go  back 
to  flying.  He  worked  for  i)lane  manufac- 
turers and  airlines  in  this  country  and 
abroad,  desigm'ng,  piloting,  even  being  a 
mechanic.  He  has  owned  four  "ships," 
two  of  which  he  built  himself.  Clarence 
Chamberlain  and  Ruth  Nichols  are  among 
his  closest  friends. 

"I  kept  my  dream,  but  I  didn't  lun'ry  it. 
I  felt  that  scjme  day  I'd  have  my  own 
orchestra,  my  kind  of  orchestra,  hut  wliether 
that  day  came  when  I  was  tliirty-eigbt  or 
fifty-eight  wasn't  an  urgent  matter  with 
me.  I  nexer  make  plans.  I'xe  aK\a.\s  waited 
for  the  next  thing  to  happen  and,  when 
it  happened,  I  took  it  for  what  it  was 
worth  and  went  ahead." 

It  was  during  one  of  his  brief  trips  home 
to  Boston  that  he  met  the  girl  who  was 
ultimately  to  become  his  wife.  She  was 
a  h'rench  girl,  dark  and  slender  and 
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himself,  their  attraction  for  each  otlicr  was 
immediate.  Leone  Lorfray  had  distinguished 
herself  working  among  blind  French  and 
Arabian  soldiers  following  the  World  ^\'ar, 
liad  been  invited  to  America  to  lecture  on 
the  specialized  methods  she  had  develoix-d 
for  teaching  those  who  cannot  see. 

At  the  home  of  mutual  friends  the  two 
met,  parted  a  few  weeks  later,  Leone  went 
back  to  Nantes,  Rex  took  off  for  Egypt. 

He  knew  that  he'd  found  the  one  girl, 
but  true  to  form,  he  hadn't  made  any 
definite  plans  about  a  ring  and  a  preacher. 
.\nd  what  should  happen,  sh(irtl>  afterward, 
but  that  the  six-months'  tour  he  was 
scheduled  to  make  over  .Australia  was  pust- 
poned.  Suddenly,  he  fouiul  himsolt  with 
an  unexpected  holiday.  So  he  hopped  a 
freighter  on  his  twenty-third  I)irthda\, 
journeyed  across  the  Mediterranean. 

And  the  first  thing  lie  knew  he  was 
almost  as  much  in  love  with  his  bride's 
home  town  as  he  was  with  hi>  bride.  So 
the  Chandlers  settled  down  to  li\e  in 
Xantes. 

After  thirteen  years  in  Xantes,  Rex 
brought  his  family — which  was  now  dou- 
bled by  the  arrivals  of  Anne-Scott  and 
Patricia — back  to  Xew  York.  Suniniertinies 
he  played  the  org.ui  in  some  of  Manhat- 
tan's greatest  churches  and  theatres : 
winters,  the  past  two  winters,  lie  spent 
studying  in  Mexico. 

It  was  very  simple,  the  way  his  sudden 
band  >uccess  happened.  Radio  got  in  his 
Idood.  W'lien  he  heard  about  the  Ford 
auditions  that  were  demanding  something 
new  in  dance  music,  he  was  prepared.  He 
had  the  idea,  all  he  needed  was  the 
orchestra.  After  weeding  out  forty-three 
men  from  the  innumerable  musicians 
available,  he  got  together  six  ace  arrangers 
and  got  down  to  work.  And  the  result  is 
something,  as  you  know  by  now,  that's 
pretty  swell.  I'lik'crsal  Rhythm. 

Universal  rliythm,  not  to  he  too  technical, 
is  this:  1.  There's  dance  music  that  sounds 
hke  ordinary  dance  music  \ou  dance  to. 

2.  There's  dance  music  that's  dolled  up 
like  a  symphony  that  you  can't  dance  to. 

3.  There's  universal  rhythm  that's  dolled 
up  consideral)Iy,  rich  and  full  of  artistic 
improvements,  but  you  can  still  dance  to 
ii  from  the  first  note  to  the  last! 

The  music  is  lavish  and  full  beca\.se 
the  orchestra  is  extraordinarily  large  for 
a  jazz  unit ;  eighteen  pieces  in  the  string 
section  alone,  three  harps,  and  several 
unusual  instruments  not  ordinarily  em- 
ployed in  the  playing  of  popular  nnisic. 

The  preparation  for  each  I'nh'crsa! 
Rhythm  show  takes  a  /;///  zccck.  The  staff 
of  arrangers  work  under  their  maestro's 
guidance,  each  man  turning  out  one  number 
for  the  program. 

Xo  wonder  Rex  knows  every  single  note 
in  every  arrangeinent  by  Friday !  He 
never  uses  a  score  while  he's  broadcasting. 
He  believes  that  a  conductor  can  get  far 
smoother  results  by  looking  at  his  men 
constantly,  abetting  the  message  of  his 
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name  is  much  like  changing  from  brunette 
to  blonde — the  sooner  people  forget  you 
were  ever  a  brunette  the  better.  So  Rex 
Chandler  he  remains.  If  radio  row  had 
known  him  by  his  right  name  they  wouldn't 
have  been  asking  so  blankly  who  the  fel- 
low was  tliat  landed  the  Ford  spot,  for 
he's  well-known  and  well-liked  in  all  the 
upper  musical  circles  of  New  York. 

]\Ir.  and  Mrs.  Chandler,  their  two  beau- 
tiful little  French-speaking  daughters,  four 
dogs,  two  cats  and  a  whole  room  full  of 
records  are  established  in  a  comfortable 
apartment  near  Central  Park.  Rex  walks 
twenty  blocks  down  Fifth  Avenue  to  work 
every  morning,  rain,  slush  or  shine ;  spends 
his  spare  time  hanging  around  Floyd  Ben- 
nett airport,  flying  or  tinkering  with  en- 
gines. Once  he  lost  a  wing  over  a  beet 
patch  in  Idaho,  another  time  his  parachute 
deposited  him  on  the  roof  of  a  millionaire's 
mansion  in  Connecticut.  So  he  figures  he 
has  a  very  efficient  guardian  angel  some- 
where in  the  offing. 

Radio  is  hard  work  and  fun,  and  the 
final  realization  of  a  lifetime  dream.  He's 
crazy  about  it.  But  he's  perfectly  frank 
to  admit  that  he  hasn't  any  definite  ambi- 
tions mapped  out  for  next  season  or  the 
next.  Two  or  three  years  from  now  he 
may  not  be  in  radio  at  all.  He  may  be 
flying  the  mails  between  Miami  and  At- 
lanta, or  designing  China  clippers,  or 
handling  a  grease  gun  at  Mitchell  Field. 

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SMALL  TOWN  GUY 

{Continued  from  page  31) 


story.  He's  vastly  different  from  the  usual 
entertainers ;  for  one  thing  he's  not  Broad- 
way. Al  is  really  still  a  small  town  boy 
and  his  jokes  have  the  small  town  slant 
that  makes  them  so  appealing  to  people. 

He  had  to  talk  to  some  one  on  the 
phone,  and  when  he  finished  he  turned  to 
me : 

"They're  ready  for  the  rehearsal  now. 
Want  to  come  over  to  the  studio  and 
watch  it?  I  can  get  my  work  done  and 
talk  to  you  at  the  same  time  and  we'll 
probably  be  interrupted  a  lot  less." 

After  the  first  dozen  interruptions  at  the 
studio,  I  figured  that  that  was  one  of  his 
gags. 

"I  was  on  the  air  as  far  back  as  1912," 
he  confided,  in  one  of  the  rare  uninterrupted 
moments.  "They  put  me  on  over  an  ex- 
perimental transmitter.  That  sort  of  paved 
the  way  for  my  real  air  debut  in  1929. 

"By  then  I  had  gathered  together  my 
Gang.  I'd  picked  up  one  here  and  another 
there,  all  good  entertainers  and  real  troup- 
ers. The  West  Coast  audiences  liked  us, 
so  we  put  on  a  full-hour  radio  show  five 
days  out  of  every  week  and  we  did  that 
for  seven  years !" 

Larry  Marsh,  his  demon  orchestra  con- 
ductor, made  his  way  to  where  we  were  in 
the  back  part  of  the  studio. 

"Al,  we  gotta  work  this  number  in 
right—" 

"You  see  how  it  is,"  sighed  Al.  "Be 
right  back." 

"That's  a  right  guy,"  a  voice  breathed 
down  my  neck  from  the  seat  back  of  me. 
I  didn't  know  the  speaker  but  it  didn't 
seem  to  matter.    "He's  got  everybody  in 


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the  show  liking  him,  even  Sour-Puss,  the 
guy  from  the  agency,  and  Sour-Puss  don't 
like  nobody ! 

"Al  don't  put  on  airs,  he  don't  yell  at 
everybody  and  he  knows  his  business.  You 
know  what?"  He  paused  and  when  he  got 
no  answer  he  went  right  on  anyway !  "I 
v/ent  to  a  swanky  party  somebody  gave 
for  Pearce  and  what  does  he  do?  He  takes 
me  upstairs  to  his  room  and  says :  'Sit 
down,  I  wanna  take  oflF  my  shoes,  tiicy're 
killin'  me.'  And  he's  a  big  shot  on  tlie 
radio!" 

Still  on  the  stage,  Al  tried  out  an  intro- 
duction for  the  man  who  was  to  do  the 
imitations.  Then,  after  the  man  had  per- 
formed, they  did  it  over  again  and  this 
time  he  used  different,  but  just  as  funny 
gags.    The  Pearce  guy  is  marvelous ! 

He  came  back  to  where  I  was. 

"I'm  getting  a  big  kick  out  of  this,"  he 
said,  sinking  down  in  his  seat.  "The  show's 
going  good,  they  seem  to  like  my  imitations 
of  the  stuttering  salesman.  Elmer  Blurt, 
and  thej''ve  been  nice  to  us.  Hey,  Bilijc- 
zvatcr!"  he  yelled  suddenly  and  loudly  at 
his  English  comic,  and  the  sound,  coming 
up  from  where  he  was  slumped  down  in 
his  seat,  sounded  like  a  voice  from  China. 

"Bilgey,  old  boy,  do  that  line  again, 
there's  something  screwy  about  the  finish." 

All  through  the  show  he  worked  with 
practiced  eye  and  ear.  A  correction  here, 
a  bit  of  praise  there — and  I  knew  that  I 
was  sitting  next  to  that  rarity,  a  real 
showman. 

At  last,  when  the  show  was  done,  he  re- 
laxed and  continued  our  conversation. 

"Where  was  I?  Oh  yes,  I  was  telling 
you  that  I  got  a  big  kick  out  of  this.  But 
my  wife  is  getting  a  bigger  one.  She's 
never  been  to  New  York  before  and  she's 
gone  slightly  daffy  over  Saks  and  Best's 
and  those  joints.  You  haven't  met  her  yet, 
have  you? 

"Audrey  is  a  grand  girl.  Funny,  too, 
how  we  met.  I  was  running  the  air  show 
out  in  California  ..." 

Besides  being  a  master  of  the  difficult 
art  of  ad  libbing  an  hour's  air  show  every 
day,  Al  was  a  genial  host  to  his  Coast  stu- 
dio guests.  This  fellow,  who,  incidentally, 
looks  like  Alan  Dinehart  of  the  mo\  ies, 
appealed  to  all  of  his  guests  alike,  young 
and  old,  and  one  oldish  lady,  a  Mrs. 
Carter,  always  had  a  friendly  bit  of  criti- 
cism for  him. 

"One  night,"  Al  said,  "I  went  over  to 
chat  as  usual  with  Mrs.  Carter.  'Mr. 
Pearce,'  she  said,  motioning  to  an  attrac- 
tive girl  on  her  right,  'this  is  my  daughter, 
Audrey.  Before  we  left  the  house  to- 
night she  said :  "Mother,  you  know  I  don't 
want  to  go  to  that  show,  you  know  I  never 
listen  to  the  radio  .  .  ."  but  I  think  she 
has  changed  her  mind,  and  she — ' 

"  'I  think  you — er — j'our  show  is  won- 
derful,' Audrey  murmured." 

Al  Pearce  drove  the  Carters  home  that 
night  and,  in  a  happy  trance,  he  ate  half 
a  ham  the  Carters  had  been  saving  for 
soup.  Six  months  later  little  Audrey  and 
big  Al  were  married,  in,  of  all  places,  Reno  ! 

"Yeah,  Reno,  but  it  hasn't  done  us  any 
harm,  for  a  man  couldn't  have  a  better 
wife.  And,"  Al  chuckled,  "she  listens  to 
my  programs  noiv.  She's  my  best  friend 
and  severest  critic.  Say  that's  a  pretty 
good  line,  did  I  make  it  up?" 

He  stopped  to  yell  goodbye  to  a  fel- 


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low  who  had  only  a  "bit"  in  the  show — 
but  from  the  cordiality  of  it,  you'd  think 
he  was  the  president  of  CBS. 

"Did  you  know."  he  resumed,  "that  I 
was  a  salesman  for  many  years,  way,  way 

Vl's  selling  experience  began  with  a  cow. 
helonsied  joiiuly  to  him  and  his  broth- 
Cal.     The  i^roject  was  a  small  dairy 
thrLC-member  team,  .^I,  Lai  and 
Bessie  donated  the  milk,  C'al  took 
er  and  Al  delivered  what  Bessie 

he  said,  "I  got  into  trouble 
right  away !  I  took  my  banjo  along  with 
me  and  played  for  the  kids  along  the  route. 
But  the  mothers  put  up  an  awful  kick 
about  not  getting  the  milk  right  on  time  I" 
That  Al  was  persuaded  to  leave  his  ban- 
jo at  home  and  deliver  Bessie's  efiforts  on 
time  didn't  matter  very  much,  because  Al 
got  a  berth  for  himself  and  his  banjo 
with  a  dance  band. 

'"That  wasn't  enough  for  me,  though, 
because  I'd  been  bitten  by  the  selling  bug. 
At  an\  rate,  I  took  up  with  this  life  in- 
surance company  and  sold  the  stuff  during 
the  day. 

"In  tlio^e  days,  companies  didn't  main- 
tain semi-universities  to  teach  their  sales- 
men the  art  of  capturing  the  customers ; 
they  handed  you  a  batch  of  policies  and 
said  :  'Get  rid  of  'em  !'  " 

He  started  out  that  first  day  on  a  bicycle 
much  too  small  for  a  big  fellow  of  twenty. 
Up  the  street,  down  the  street  he  pedaled. 
Somehow,  he  couldn't  muster  up  enou; 
courage  to  get  off  his  bike  and  approa 
one  of  the  houses. 

"They  all  seemed  to  glare  at  me,  as 
though  to  say :  'I  dare  you  to  come  near 
me!'  But  then  my  front  tire  hit  a  stone 
and  I  fell  off  the  bike  in  front  of  a  small 
white  house.  This,  I  figured,  was  an 
omen,  so  I  rang  the  bell.  For  a  minute 
no  one  answered  and  I  breathed  a  sigh  of 
relief;  there  was  no  one  home.  However, 
just  as  I  was  turning  away,  the  door 
opened  a  crack  and  a  lady  poked  her  head 
out.  I  can  laugh  now  when  I  remember 
her  too-bright  red  hair  and  her  enormous- 
ly-thick glasses,  but  at  the  time  it  scared 
the  wits  out  of  me. 

"'What  do  you  want,  young  man?'  she 
asked,  flattering  a  mere  lioy.  Somehow, 
after  a  fashion,  I  managed  to  explain  in 
glib,  long-studied  phrases  that  came  tum- 
bling out  with  the  si)eed  of  tiie  wind.  Sur- 
prisingly enough  she  bought  a  policy.  Was 
I  glad!" 

He  was  so  glad  and  so  cocky  that  he 
went  through  the  whole  streetful  of 
liouses,  now  confident  in  his  powers.  But 
not  another  sale  did  he  make  on  that 
street  or  any  other  for  t'ue  whole  days. 

"I  had  to  discover  for  in\srlf  that  six 
sales  in  a  hundred  is  a  good  average.  I 
Iiad  to  meet  doorbells — and  what  doorbells! 

"Sonletime^,  before  you  jiressed  the  but- 
ton, you'd  hear  a  murmur  of  voices,  voices 
that  ceased  abruptly  when  the  hell  rang. 
This  was  supposed  to  convey  the  impres- 
sion that  there  wasn't  a  soul  at  home.  But 
if  you  kept  an  eye  peeled  to  leeward,  you'd 
like  as  not  see  a  curtain  draw  aside  fur- 
tively and  an  oininous  eye  peer  out  at 
you !" 

In  spite  of  the  bell  problem,  his  technique 
improved.  He  learned  to  read  character 
like  a  book.  He  found  his  banjo  tiaining 
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a  house  where  he  called. 

"Madam.''  he'd  say  in  his  most  dulcet 
tones,  "don't  you  know  what  heat  does  to 
the  king  of  instruments?  Just  listen  to 
these  strings."  twanging  them  furiously,  "I 
tell  you  what.  I'll  drop  back  later  today 
with  a  set  of  the  kind  I  use  on  my  own 
banjo  .  .  .  Don't  mention  it  .  .  .  In  the 
meantime,  may  I  show  you  a  policy  that 
should  be  in  every  .  .  ." 

He  never  failed,  in  such  a  case,  to  sell 
a  whopping  big  policy  and  when  he 
brought  over  the  strings  and  tested  them 
out,  he'd  let  them  discover  that  he  was 
playing  over  at  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
Hall  and  that  he'd  be  delighted  to  see  them 
there. 

Often  Al  would  sec  the  lady  of  the 
house  out  back  hanging  out  her  Monday 
wash.  Back  he'd  go  and  before  you  could 
say  "prestidigitator,"  he  was  hanging  out 
tlie  wash  and  firing  a  string  of  arguments 
at  the  good  lady,  now  sitting  comfortably 
in  the  shade,  reading  the  policy  and  de- 
bating whether  to  offer  this  handsome 
young  gentleman,  bless  his  little  heart,  a 
glass  of  lemonade  or  a  cup  of  tea. 

"Why,  I've  mowed  more  lawns  than  you 
could  shake  a  lawn  mower  at,  I've  dusted 
more  bric-a-brac  than  a  bull  could  break 
in  a  year  and  I've  mended  hundreds  of 
kids'  bikes— but  it  sold  policies !"  says  Al, 
grinning. 

Of  course,  he  was  making  a  goodish  sum 
of  money  by  selling  insurance  by  day  and 
playing  the  banjo  at  night,  but  when  the 
influenza  epidemic  came  along  ( it  was 
1918),  he  made  a  small  fortune. 

Wearing  the  necessary  mask  over  his 
mouth,  he'd  find  whole  streets  laid  low  with 
the  disease.  He'd  stop  at  each  house  and 
tell  them  that  his  company  was  making  a 
survey  of  the  spread  of  the  disease  and 
ask  if  they  were  covered  by  insurance  and 
if  they  had  a  doctor,  an  item  all  too  scarce. 
He  really  did  them  a  good  turn  by  digging 
up  a  doctor,  if  they  didn't  have  one.  and 
they  showed  their  appreciation  by  buying 
policies. 

Along  about  this  time  he  started  his 
Coast  show,  the  one  that  was  to  last  seven 

years. 

.\nyway,  after  the  seven-year  contract 
on  the  Coast  was  up,  he  bought  a  slinky 
trailer,  hooked  it  on  to  his  car.  got  Audrey 
packed  up,  and  started  East,  fishing  along 
the  way. 

"Mister,  there's  no  better  way  to  travel 
in  any  direction!  Oh  sure,  when  I'm  loaf- 
ing beside  a  lake,  I  often  get  to  thinking 
about  the  studio  and  my  work,  but  then 
again,  when  I'm  in  the  midst  of  a  pro- 
gram. I'll  see  the  lake  in  the  early  morning, 
with  the  mist  just  lifting  from  the  cor- 
ners, and  one  of  those  crazy  fish  jumping 
.  .  .  they  tell  me  that's  called  human  na- 
ture." 

In  the  East,  NBC  put  him  to  sustaining 
for  a  few  weeks,  then  a  sponsor  engaged 
him  for  six  months.  Followed  a  vaude- 
ville tour  and  the  present  radio  engage- 
ment. 

He's  evidently  still  a  salesman,  for  this 
wire  from  a  Seattle  food  manufacturer- 
friend  followed  close  on  the  heels  of  his 
first  show : 

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A  HAPPY  LANDING,  AND  THE  HAPFY 
RELIEF  OF  ONE  MORE  WOMAN'S 
MONTHLY  MARTYRDO/V\.  MIDOL 
TAKES  CARE  OF  "REGULAR"  PAIN. 


THE  modern  woman  no  longer  giv'es- 
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What  made  their 
hair  grow? 

Here  is  the  Answer 

"New  Iluir  came  after  T  be- 
gan usini;  Kotalko.  and  kept 
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WAKE  UP  YOUR 
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The  liver  should  pour  out  two  poimds  of  liquid 
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RAMBLINGS 

{Conlinucd  from  page  89) 

a  star's  ambitions,  but  the  other  side  of 
that  picture  seldom  comes  into  court.  No 
one  hears  of  the  contracts  where  Paul  or 
any  of  these  other  leaders  guess  wrong 
snd  pay  out  salaries  to  singers  who  can't 
be  used. 

Contrary  to  predictions,  Ed  Wynn  has 
gratlually  been  creeping  up  in  the  radio 
standings  with  this  Saturday  evening  pro- 
gram of  his.  The  success  does  not  come 
up  to  Wynn  laurels  of  a  couple  of  years 
ago,  but  he  has  moved  up  to  a  very  good 
rating  in  the  radio  surveys. 

Ed  steadfastly  resists  all  advice  to  follow 
the  recent  mode  in  comedy  programs  and 
present  little  sketches,  with  comedy  based 
on  characters  and  situations.  He  insists  he 
shall  continue  to  gallop  up  to  a  microphone 
and  fire  joke  after  joke  at  Graham  Mc- 
Namee,  just  as  he  always  has. 

"I  am  the  last  of  the  pantaloons,"  he 
argues,  "the  only  one  of  the  old  funny  men 
left.  The  public  must  accept  me  as  a 
clown.  When  they  are  tired  of  that,  I 
shall  retire." 

Ed  can  afford  that  independent  attitude. 
He  constantly  complains  about  all  his 
financial  troubles,  but  persons  close  to  him 
estimate  that  he  is  at  least  a  millionaire. 

In  their  leisure  from  being  Amos  'n' 
Andy,  Charles  Correll  and  Freeman  Gosden 
are  inveterate  golfers  but  Correll  is  the 
only  one  ivho  plays  at  all  regularly.  His 
partner  is  so  disgusted  zvith  his  own  game, 
he  goes  along  more  often  as  caddy  than 
as  opponent. 

Queer  what  scrambles  a  radio  program 
can  get  into,  even  when  an  impressive  line- 
up of  talent  seems  to  insure  a  great 
success!  Any  show  with  Al  Jolson,  Martha 
Raye  and  Sid  Silvers  all  appearing  to- 
gether sounds  like  a  lively  prospect.  Their 
program  has  been  a  chaotic  one  and  week 
after  week  it  has  turned  out  dull. 

Expert  and  expensive  tinkering  has  been 
going  on  right  from  the  start.  Two  of 
Hollywood's  highest  priced  writers,  Al 
Boasberg  and  Harry  Conn,  were  called  in. 
Then  came  Bill  Bacher,  one  of  the  most 
expensive  program  directors  in  radio.  Sid 
Silvers  has  a  reputation  as  a  wit  himself 
and  he  has  been  writing.  Al  Jolson 
always  wants  quite  a  bit  to  say  about  the 
preparation  of  any  program  he  is  on. 

With  all  those  great  minds  at  work, 
complete  changes  in  plan  have  come  at 
intervals  of  a  week  or  two.  One  week, 
for  instance,  a  serial  story  was  begun. 
Next  week  it  was  not  even  mentioned, 
dropped  completely  without  a  word  of  ex- 
planation. At  first,  Jolson  exchanged  jests 
with  Sid  Silvers.  Then  that  was  cut  out. 
Then  it  was  put  back.  Jolson  was  to  sing 
lively  songs.  Jolson  was  to  sing  no  lively 
songs,  just  sad  and  dramatic  ballads. 

Whether  you  like  the  program  or  not, 
you  may  find  it  more  amusing  when  you 
know  that  the  show  and  all  that  monkeying 
has  been  costing  the  sponsor  around 
$15,000  a  week. 


RADIO  STARS 


A  co)ii(>lete  stranger  among  radio  people 
is  Cheerio,  n'hose  morning  program,  di- 
rected at  cheering  up  unfortunates,  is  almost 
the  oldest  of  all  radio  broadcasts.  He  is  a 
tnysterious  figure,  arriving  at  the  studio 
for  his  early  morning  shon',  departing 
immediately  n'ithout  much  to  say  to  any- 
one. Intervieu'ers  find  him  friendly  but 
reticent.  There  never  is  much  to  get  out 
of  Cheerio.  Even  the  NBC  publicity  de- 
partment despairs  of  doing  anything  to  lift 
the  mysterious  silence  about  Cheerio. 

Unlike  most  radio  people,  ic7)o  demand 
publicity,  any  sort  of  publicity,  just  so  the 
name  is  sprlled  appro.riniatcly  right — (Oi- 
like  those.  Cheerio  insists  on  seeing  every 
line  the  publicity  department  zi-ants  to  send 
out  about  him.  Usually  he  reads  it  and 
says:    "Xo,  let's  not  have  that." 

He  thinks  stories  about  the  canaries 
rc'/io  sing  on  the  program  ivould  be  nice. 

No  one  loves  practical  jokes  more  than 
Richard  Hitnber.  He  plays  them  on  his 
band  during  rehearsal  and  they  retaliate. 
Manny  Klein,  one  of  radio's  star  trumpet 
players,  is  in  the  band  and  he  has 
mastered  a  way  of  shooting  spit  balls 
through  the  trumpet — which  gives  you  an 
idea.  Dick  often  sits  and  plans  his  pranks 
and  then  gathers  a  couple  of  friends  to 
go  out  and  join  the  laughter. 

He  had  a  sockerola,  as  the  boys  call  it, 
one  night  this  winter.  They  packed  a 
lunch  with  sandwiches  and  Coca  Colas  and 
headed  for  Dave's  Blue  Room,  one  of  the 
most  Broadwayish  of  Broadway  places. 
Ceremoniously,  the  head  usher  escorted 
ihem  to  a  table.  Himber  was  a  regular 
guest  there  and  they  knew  his  preferences. 

The  head  waiter  turned  away  and  bed- 
lam arose  from  the  Himber  table.  Sand- 
wiches appeared  and  bottles  of  Coca  Cola 
were  flourished.  "What's  the  matter  with 
this  place,"  the  party  roared.  "No  glasses 
and  no  plates?    We  want  service." 

Everyone  in  the  restaurant  seemed 
amused,  but  the  wrath  of  no  less  a  per- 
sonage than  Dave  himself  was  aroused. 
He  strode  over  to  Himber's  table  and 
the  boys  prepared  for  the  hearty  laughter. 

Instead,  "Get  out  of  here!"  was  ordered. 

Well,  they  got  out  and  Dick  Himber 
looked  very  crestfallen.  "Can  you  imagine," 
he  asked,  "making  a  good  gag  go  flat?" 
-  ♦  - 

Radio  artists  zvith  offices  have  had  a 
nezv  racket  to  contend  zvith  lately.  It's  an 
old  one,  but  the  operators  have  just  hit 
on  radio  as  a  fertile  field.  Mark  Warnow 
zvas  a  recent  victim.    It  runs  like  this: 

A  voice  comes  on  the  telephone  and  gives 
the  name  of  a  good  friend.  "You'll  help 
me  out,  ivon't  you?"  the  friend  asks.  "I 
bought  a  suit  on  sale  and  I  didn't  hax'e  the 
full  price  H'ith  me.  If  you  have  the  other 
tivcnty-fiz'c  bucks,  zvould  you  give  it  to  the 
guyf  I'll  give  it  back  to  yon  when  I  pick 
the  suit  up  on  my  zi'ay  home." 

No  radio  artist  zi'ould  refuse  that  favor 
to  an  old  friend.  The  messenger  comes  up 
with  a  suit  bo.v,  collects  the  money  and 
departs. 

If  the  lender  is  curious  about  the  neiv 
suit,  he  might  peek  through  a  loose  corner 
of  the  box  and  find  a  pile  of  zvaste  paper! 
Otherwise,  he  zvill  zvait  for  a  couple  of 
days  or  so,  call  the  friend  to  remind  him 
about  the  suit  and  find  an  embarrassing  as 
well  as  expensive  situation  has  emerged. 

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{Continued  from  page  11) 


2.  Too  far  away — in  which  case  you 
fail  to  hear  us  properly  and  must  strain 
your  ears. 

3.  In  bad  balance — in  which  case  you 
hear  the  harmony  above  the  melody  or 
the  rhythm  drowns  out  both. 

Tlie  network's  income  is  upwards  of 
eighty  million  dollars  a  year,  its  sponsors 
spend  millions  of  dollars  and  its  audiences 
number  over  hundreds  of  millions  yearly 
and  many  of  you  are  stimulated  by  broad- 
casting to  purchase  millions  of  dollars' 
worth  of  the  advertised  products  each  year. 
And  at  the  root  of  it  all — all  that  stands 
between  the  audience  and  the  artist  is  the 
micro  plione ! 

Rvcrythinq  else  has  been  developed  to  tlie 
utmost  point  of  perfection  and  efficiency 
— tiil>es,  receii'inij  sets,  dialing,  tone,  reso- 
nance, engineering  facilities  for  skipping 
all  07'er  the  ivorld,  short -wii-e  broadcasts, 
beautiful  theatres,  nay,  castles,  from  whicli 
emanate  our  broadcasts  of  today,  hand- 
somely-uniformed page  boys,  beauteous 
hostesses,  stages,  lighting  u'orthy  of  Robert 
Edniond  Jones  or  Hassard  Short,  lighted 
fountains,  tours  through  the  ivondcrs  and 
mysteries  of  Radio  City — all  of  these 
developments  w/tich  exclude  a  more  sensi- 
tive  ear — poor  old  Mr.  Microphone,  i^-hich 
is  still  as  primitive  as  the  man  zvith  the 
z^'ooden  ploK'. 

-♦- 

Mind  you,  I'm  not  criticising  the  moni- 
tor or  engineer.  These,  for  the  most  part, 
arc  capable  men,  usually  underpaid  and 
doing  their  best  with  an  antiquated  and 
stupid  system  of  microphone  technique. 
To  be  sure,  I  have  met  some  who  might 
have  been  a  bit  more  helpful,  by  volun- 
teering information  by  signs  or  mouth 
movements  during  the  broadcast.  But 
some  of  them  have  seemed  unduly  shy  and 
reticent — and  then  I'm  pondering  whether 
they  may  be  subject  to  the  same  rigid  rules 
as  are  our  phone  operators.  You  know 
the  red  tape  of  the  Telephone  Company. 
You  call  the  girl  to  ask  for  number  in- 
formation about  a  house  that  is  burning 
down — it's  a  private  number  and  you  wish 
to  wake  up  your  friend,  who  is  sleeping 
there.  And  the  operator  replies:  "Sorry, 
we  are  not  allowed  to  give  out  that  in- 
formation." So  your  friend  has  to  jump 
out  of  the  window,  or,  maybe,  becomes 
roast  capon!  Our  present  Thursday  night 
monitor  is  Bob  Moss;  he  reads  music  and 
is  the  most  interested  and  capable  one  we 
have  ever  had. 

Recall  again,  please,  the  automobile  with 
no  speedometer  and  you  have  the  true 
picture  of  the  modern  microphone. 

;/'('  7i'/;(7  use  it.  no  matter  hoiv  skilled 
Ihrougli  years  of  trying  to  guess  its 
sirenglh  and  reccplirity  (mind  yon,  it  gives 
no  in(l:<tit.,ins  or  signs  as  to  w/iether  it 
i.s  ci'cn  iilire  or  dead!),  are  often  as  sur- 
prised (IS  iiiilii'iduals  on  the  listening-end. 


RADIO  STARS 


to  find  that  tir  liaz'c  ruined  almost  a  zcliolc 
program. 

■ 

We  are  even  at  a  loss,  as  I  have  said,  to 
know  whether  or  not  the  microphone  is 
on.  Precious  time  must  be  lost,  concentra- 
tion on  lyrics,  diction,  pitch  and  style  must 
be  sacrificed,  whilst  the  subject  before  the 
microphone  is  constantly  glancing  at  the 
control  room,  hoping  for  a  sign  from  the 
stoical  (and  sometimes  phlegmatic)  moni- 
tor, or,  if  the  singer  or  speaker  is  fortunate 
enough  to  have  a  production  man  assisting 
him,  to  be  pulled  back  by  the  production 
man,  after  he  or  she  has  ruined  several 
measures  of  music  or  several  paragraphs 
of  speech — being  told  too  late  that  they 
were  too  close,  a  circumstance  wholly  pre- 
ventable by  a  new  technique. 

And  when  we  have  trios  and  quartettes 
— then,  I  give  up !  Here  the  difficulty  is  to 
find  out  li'hich  voice  or  voices  are  too  close 
cr  too  far  away.  The  engineer's  reply  is 
quite  fair.  "Vou  should  knozc  yo:i:-  tiistanccs 
and  the  strength  of  your  -coiccs.  '  he  says. 
He's  right,  but  many  of  us  don't,  and 
often-times  we  feel  a  little  stronger  tlian 
at  others,  and  sometimes  the  monitor  himself 
changes  the  gain  or  strength  of  the  current 
and  iir  have  no  dial  to  indicate  the  re- 
ceptivity of  the  microphone.  To  show  just 
how  helpless  the  networks  are,  let  me  tell 
_\ou  about  a  broadcast  in  wliicli  a  girl-trio 
sang.  To  us,  in  the  studio,  they  sounded 
fine.  They  sang  for  three  minutes.  These 
three  minutes  cost  the  sponsor,  in  radio 
time,  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  (this 
on  the  basis  of  $15,000  for  sixty  minutes). 

Then — after  the  broadcast — someone  hap- 
pened to  ask  the  engineer  (he  didn't  volun- 
teer it,  mind  you!)  hozc  the  girls  came 
through,  Ratjter  nonchalantly  he  said  that 
the  harmony  zvas  too  close  and  that  the  girl 
Zi'ho  zvas  singing  the  melody  zcas  ozer-  ; 
shadozved.  This  engineer  zcos  a  very  reticent 
man  and,  since  )nost  of  them  are  paid  to 
zi'Otch  a  dial  and  not  to  make  suggestions,  | 
zi'c  zvould  never  have  knozvn  that  the  girls  j 
zi'cre  poorly  balanced  unless  zve  had  asked 
someone.  And  the  poor  listener-in  probably 
dialed-out  to  find  something  more  pleasing 
to  the  ear.  But  the  unlucky  sponsor,  who 
paid  the  bill,  Zi'as  more  sinned  against  than 
all  of  us. 

-  ♦- 

I've  asked  the  engineers  for  something 
to  tell  us  just  what  was  going  on — even  to 
lights  over  the  microphones  to  signal: 
GREEN — move  in  closer;  RED — move 
further  away;  BLUE — fine  as  it  is. 

You  may  ask  wliy  the  trouble  can't 
simply  be  regulated  by  the  monitor  increas- 
ing the  amount  of  current.  That's  a  fair 
question.  In  answer  I  would  say  that  tliere 
are  three  factors:  First,  the  distances  of 
the  voices  from  the  microphone.  Second, 
the  amount  of  current  running  through  the 
microphone.  Third,  the  amount  of  volume 
the  speaker  or  singer  is  using.  If  the  dis- 
tance is  right,  but  tlie  voice  too  strong  in 
volume,  and  the  monitor  turns  "the  gain 
down  to  prevent  'blasting,'  "  tlien  the  voice 
will  sound  unnatural,  and  will  usually  have 
a  "faraway  "  quality.  If  the  voice  is  right 
in  volume  hut  too  far  away,  any  attempt 
on  the  part  of  the  monitor  to  "bring  it  up" 
(by  increasing  the  current)  simply  magni- 
fies all  of  the  imperfections  in  the  voice 
and  the  quality  becomes  "tinny"  or  just 
"bad." 


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No — distance,  strength  of  voice  attd 
strength  of  micro fihonc  current  must  be  all 
adjusted  at  once  and  the  speaker  or  singer 
uiiist  knoic  instantly  just  what  is  what 
about  his  distance  and  vocal  strength.  It 
all  boils  doicn  to  this:  We  arc  indulging 
ill  unnecessary  "blind  flying." 

Here's  a  prediction:  In  less  than  two 
years  you'll  see  gadgets  on  microphones 
that  will  not  only  tell  you  what  one  voice 
is  doing  to  the  "gain"  but  will  have  the 
powers  of  selectivity  to  the  degree  that  it 
will  pick  out  each  voice  of  a  trio  or 
quartette.    Want  to  bet  me  on  it? 

A  story  in  the  Alarch  issue  of  Radio 
Stars  intrigued  me;  Can  Women  Tell 
Mill  The  Truth? 

1  Zi.'as  amazed  by  the  i^'illingncss  and 
frankness  of  some  of  these  young  ladies  to 
confess  a  utilitarian  i'ieicpoint,  ivJiicJi,  in 
a  nutshell,  is  this:  "//  by  telling  the  truth 
you  lose  iiuiterial  joys  and  gifts — then  don't 
tell  it!"  \\'o\v  !  That's  frank  enough  isn't 
it  / 

I  happen  to  know  Miss  Menken,  who 
wrote  the  article,  and  she  is  a  most  charm- 
ing and  intelligent  person. 

I  would  have  been  embarrassed  to  have 
asked  anyone  whether  he  or  she  tells  the 
truth  to  those  whoin  they  like.  However, 
there  seems  to  be  no  subject  too  hot  for 
the  fan  inagazines. 

In  the  first  place,  zvhat  did  they  mean 
by  "the  truth.'"  There  are  white  lies  and 
there  are  serious  lies  .  .  . 

Remember  the  play.  Nothing  But  The 
Truth?  (Your  high  school  dramatic  club 
probably  put  it  on — mine  did.)  In  the 
play  a  chap  bets  ^10,000  that  he  can  tell 
the  absolute  truth  for  twenty-four  hours. 

Of  course,  he  was  in  hot  water  right  at 
the  start  when  his  hostess  asked  him  how 
he  liked  her  ha.  and  he  confessed :  "It's 
terrible !"  Again,  after  dinner,  he  shocked 
everyone  (everyone  but  those  in  on  the  bet) 
when  he  told  the  truth  about  the  singing  of 
the  young  lady  who  sang  after  dinner. 

But  the  most  serious  situation  arose 
zvjien  Ills  sweetheart  asked  him  what  he 
had  done  luith  her  thousand  dollars.  To 
lie  to  her  would  have  meant  that  he  would 
have  lost  the  bet,  and  the  ten  thousand 
dollars,  fortunately,  he  ivas  saved  by  the 
clock — the  tiventv-four  hours  ivas  safely 
VP! 

But  here  are  young  ladies  stating  that 
when  a  boy  has  fallen  in  love  with  one 
of  them,  it  would  have  been  better  to  have 
evaded  any  serious  issue,  to  have  strung 
him  along,  so  that  there  would  have  been 
more  lovely  nights  spent  in  dancing,  more 
football  games. 

-♦- 

Listen,  please,  to  lovely  Rosemary  Lane: 
"There  was  a  certain  boy  ...  it  would 
have  been  better  if  I  had  just  kidded  him 
along.  We  were  having  a  swell  time  to- 
gether. We  danced  and  attended  football 
games  and  just  went  places  and  were 
happy  and  gay.  We  had  fun.  Then  he 
began  to  get  serious.  I  answered,  truth- 
fully: 'I  don't  love  you,'  just  like  that  .  .  . 
everything  became  serious  .  .  .  there  were 
no  more  laughs  ...  no  fun.  It  became  im- 


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possible  for  us  to  see  each  other  any  more. 
If  only  I  hadn't  told  him  the  truth !  Next 
time  I  won't  tell  a  man  the  truth.  I'll  just 
kid  and  laugh  and  everything  will  be 
better !" 

Boy!  Has  she  /_v  to  learn  about 
men!  And  if  she  really  means  ivhat  she 
says,  she's  heading  for  trouble!  Doesn't 
she  knoiv  that  an  honest,  quick,  deep  hurt 
caused  by  telling  a  man  the  truth  is  better 
for  all  concerned  than  letting  him  go  on 
believing  that  she  cares  and  then,  when  the 
pay-off  eventually  docs  come  (and  come  it 
must),  that  he  is  liable  to  do  most  anything 
from  shooting  himself,  to  shooting  her? 

I  don't  think  she  really  meant  that,  any 
more  than  the  others  did,  because  most 
women  want  the  boy's  respect  and  no 
evasive,  kidding  type  of  woman  secures 
that  respect. 

Most  women  have  a  vague  idea  of  just 
how  difficult  it  becomes  when  they  lead  a 
man  on — and  on — and  on — until  finally  they 
marry  him  to  save  breaking  his  heart  and 
because  he's  in  too  deep  to  end  it  then.  Too 
many  women  have  made  unhappy  marriages 
because  they  let  themselves  in  for  trouble 
by  evasions  and  by  kidding  the  man  along. 

/  may  sound  like  The  \'oice  of  Experi- 
ence, Jr.,  but  my  advice  to  these  or  any 
other  young  ladies,  and  I  think  I  atn  a 
good  common  denominator  in  this  respect, 
is  to  give  him  the  truth  ivhcn  he  asks  for 
it — both  guns !  //  jie's  a  man  he'll  take  it 
— it  ivon't  kill  him. 

And  you? 

Perhaps  there  won't  be  any  more 
dances  or  football  games  until  you  meet 
another  one — there'll  be  plenty  more, 
never  fear.  But  why  bother  with  a  man  at 
all  unless  he's  the  man  you'd  like  to  have 
love  you?  Aren't  you  wasting  his  time 
and  yours?  Men  will  become  serious,  you 
know.  When  a  fellow  takes  you  out  and 
you're  attractive,  what  can  you  expect? 
After  all,  he's  only  human  and  human 
beings  will  fall  in  love  .  .  . 

Here's  a  case  of  serious  stupidity,  a 
major  one  that  cost  four  lives.  The  plane 
that  was  flying  Senator  Bronson  Cutting, 
East,  ivas  supposed  to  have  enough  gaso- 
line (extra  emergency  supply)  to  take  it 
back  when  it  was  impossible  to  land  at 
K.  C.  TIME  magazine  reports:  "It  didn't." 

That  Zi'as  all — it  just  didn't. 
Cost?  Four  lizrs. 

Further  proofs  of  human  laziness  in 
speech:  The  word  is  "San  Antonio" — five 
syllables.  Do  you  know  what  the  heat 
does  to  the  residents  of  San  Antonio?  To 
save  two  movements  of  the  jaw,  they  say, 
"San  Antone." 

So  /'//  say  au  revoir  until  next  montli 
and  bonne  sanfe! 

P.  S.  Don't  forget  those  letters  on  Jazz ! 
Vour  ozvn  honest  definition. 


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Personal  column 
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(Continued  from  page  53) 


Adelyn  B.  Graves,  Narberth,  Pa.  (Shut- 
in.)  "Being  a  shut-in,  my  radio  means 
much  to  me.  I  enjoy  the  plays  most,  be- 
cause I  can't  go  to  the  theatre,  and  espe- 
cially enjoy  the  Lux  Radio  Theatre  and 
I'lrst  Xifilitcr  pfo^jrams.  The  Ford  Situ- 
day  li'i'cuiud  Hour,  with  its  classical  music 
and  talks  In-  Mr.  Cameron,  soothes  me  as 
nothing  cKc  dm^.  I  ha\e  never  been  to 
an  Army-Xavy  funthall  game,  but  Ted 
Husing  makes  them  so  plain  I  seem  to  be 
there." 

Mary     J.     Vallely,     Bronx,     N.  Y. 

(Student.)  "In  m\-  opinion,  Rudy  \'allee's 
J'aricty  Hour  is  the  best  on  the  air.  Mr. 
Vallee  has  been  entertaining  radio  audi- 
ences for  years,  not  only  with  his  excellent 
singing,  but  also  by  bringing  to  them  every 
week,  through  a  splendid  cast  of  guest 
stars,  the  best  to  be  had  in  music,  drama 
and  comedy." 

Erma    P.    Haeckel,    Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

"Jessica  Dragonette's  speaking  and  singing 
voice  is  the  loveliest  I  have  ever  heard. 
Her  Beauty  Box  programs  make  me  feel  as 
though  I've  known  her  always.  She  will 
forever  be  mv  favorite  radio  star." 


Frances  Hoegel,  Atlanta,  Ga.  (Business 
Woman.)  "My  favorite  program  is  that 
of  Citict  Service,  because  I  enjoy  the 
tenor  solos  of  Robert  Simmons.  He  has. 
by  far,  the  best  voice  on  the  radio,  and 
sounds  better  with  every  song.  I  also 
enjoy  the  Rci'dlcrs  on  the  same  program." 

Janine  A.    Adam,    Montreal,  Canada. 

(Student.)  "I  prefer  the  Chesterfield  pro- 
gram with  Xino  Martini,  for  he  has  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  voices  heard  on  the 
radio.    He's  tops!" 

Thomas   Biddy,   So.   Jacksonville,  Fla. 

"To  my  mind,  the  music  of  Shep  Fields' 
Rippling  Rhythm  orchestra  is  the  best  on 
the  air  today.  It  is  new  and  different, 
making  all  other  orchestras  sound  alike  to 


Anita    Bernard,   No.    Fairhaven,  Mass. 

"Kraft  Music  Hall  is  my  favorite  program. 
Xo  one  can  take  me  away  from  the  radio 
v.heii  Bing  Crosby  is  singing.  I  also  like 
to  listen  to  Hollywood  Hotel,  and  hope 
that  Dick  Powell  will  be  back  on  the  air 


Diana  Burke,  Toronto,  Canada.  (Stu- 
dent.)  "Comedy  and  musical  programs  are 
my  first  choice.  Fred  Allen's  To^vn  Hall 
Tonight,  with  heckling  Portland  Hoffa,  is 
my  ideal  variety  program,  and  ne.xt  to  that 
comes  Jack  Benny's.  For  drama,  I  prefer 
Lux  Radio  Theatre  and  The  First  Nighter. 
But  of  all  programs,  Toivn  Hall  supplies 
more  fun  and  laughs  than  any  other." 


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Elizabeth  Berlin,  Slatington,  Pa.  (House- 
wife.) "The  programs  I  look  forward  to 
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and  Radio  Guild.  To  me,  they  are  really 
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Eudora  Thomas,  Colorado  Springs, 
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M.     E.     McCabe,     Worcester,  Mass. 

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Rosalie  Nelson,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  (Stu- 
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Kraft  Music  Hall  with  Bing  Crosby,  be- 
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gram with  Martha  Raye,  because  her 
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Benny  Goodman  and  his  swingy  lads.  His 
music  would  pep  up  an\one." 

Doris  Dailey,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  (Wait- 
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(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


FRED:  The  Town  Hall  News  shows 
candid  camera  shot  taken  in  the  House 
of  Representatives  when  the  lights  went 
out. 

ACTOR:  Gentlemen!  The  lights  are 
out.  But  we  will  continue  with  the  business 
before  the  House. 

FRED:  Can  the  House  proceed  in  the 
dark,  Mr.  Chairman? 

ACTOR:  The  House  of  Representatives 
is  always  iii  the  Jark! 

(FRED  ALLEN,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

PICK:  Boy,  am  I  hungry  .  .  .  I  could 
eat  a  monkey! 

PAT:  JVell.  take  your  Iiaitd  out  of 
your  mouth  or  you'll  be  dobu)  it! 

(PICK  and  FAT.  Pipe  Smoking  Time.) 

CHARLIE:  Now  take  this  door  with 
the  automatic  knocker.    It  works  itself. 

ACTOR:    What's  that  for? 

CHARLIE:  Lor  careless  visitors  who 
don't  give  a  rap.    Droll,  isn't  it? 

(CHARLIE  BUTTERWORTH,  Pack- 
ard Hour.) 

GRAHAM:  By  the  way,  Ed  .  .  ,  how  is 
your  aunt? 

ED:  Graham,  here's  a  funny  one  about 
her.  My  uncle  is  afraid  she's  part  Indian. 
.  .  .  She  walks  in  her  sleep,  you  know,  and 
my  uncle  says  that  every  time  she  walks 
in  her  sleep  she  takes  the  blanket  with  her! 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

JACK:  I  tell  you  one  thing.  Don,  I'm 
through  with  horses.  That  fourth  race 
yesterday  cured  me. 

DOX:    What  happened? 

JACK:  Well,  Don,  I  didn't  mind  zi'hen 
my  horse  stopped  in  the  middle  of  the 
race  and  quit  cold;  but  ivhcn  he  came  over 
to  the  rail  and  asked  vie  if  I  heard  Fred 
Allen  Wednesday  night,  that  ivas  going  a 
little  too  far.  Hoiv  can  a  horse  run  during 
the  day  n'hen  he's  up  all  night  listening  to 
the  radio? 

{JACK  BENNY,  Jell-0  Program.) 

HEXXY:  ...  a  beautiful  Rolls  Royce 
car  pulled  up  in  front  of  ine,  a  beautifully 
attired  woman  got  out  and  a  poor  beggar 
walked  up  to  her.  He  said :  "Lady,  I 
haven't  eaten  in  four  days !"  .  .  .  She 
turned  her  head  away  .  .  .  He  said :  "Lady, 
for  heaven's  sake,  I  haven't  eaten  in  four 
days !" 

She  said :  "My  good  man  .  .  .  you  should 
FORCE  yourself !" 

(HEXNY  YOUXGMAX,  A  &  P  Band 
Wagon.) 

HONEY:  It's  all  about  a  fellow  who 
delivers  the  mail  to  a  dog  hospital. 

BOB:  What  an  idea  ...  he  delivers 
mail  to  a  dog  hospital. 

HONEY:  Yeah  .  .  .  he's  a  litter  carrier. 

(BOB  HOPE  and  HONEY  CHILE.) 
-♦- 

JUDY:  Booklarnin.  Well,  quit  it.  No 
daugfxter  o'  mine  is  agonna  disgrace  the 
name  of  Canova. 

ANNE:  Rut  mammy,  ef  I  git  an  ad- 
dication,  I  kin  read  you  that  letter  ynh 
got  fourteen  years  ago. 

JUDY:  Never  you  mind  about  thet 
letter.  I  dreamt  it  was  bad  news  anyway. 
Where's  your  cousin  Allan,  Zeke? 

ZEKE:  He's  out  aqunnin'  them  Parkers, 
Judy. 

JUDY :    Fust  thing  you  know  he'll  hurt 
one  of  'em  an'  they'll  call  the  whole  dnrn 
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feud  off. 

{THE  CAXOVAS.  Woodbury  Pro- 
gram.) 

ED:  I  just  returned  from  a  swell 
cruise. 

HARRY :  Did  you  sit  at  the  Captain's 
table? 

ED:  Xaw  .  .  .  who  wants  to  eat  with 
the  help? 

(ED  FITZGERALD  &  CO.) 

SENATOR  FORD:  New  York  is  the 
only  city  where  you  can  find  pedestrians 
slowly  starving  to  death  in  the  middle  of 
the  street  because  drivers  ignore  red  lights 
and  the  police  are  too  bored  to  do  any- 
thing about  it. 

BLANCHE  VINCENT:  What  are  you 
going  to  do  about  it? 

FORD:  I'm  organizing  subscriptions  to 
have  airplanes  fly  over  and  drop  food  for 
the  pedestrians  marooned  in  the  middle 
of  New  York  streets! 

(The  GRUMMITS,  Mutual  Network.) 

GEORGE:  What  are  yon  doing  with 
mv  o:'C-rcoat  on? 

TOM :  Well,  it  was  raining  -when  1  left 
home,  and  I  didn't  ivant  to  get  your  suit 
wet. 

(TOM  HOWARD  and  GEORGE 
S HELTON,  J'allee  Varieties.) 

BOB :  So  you  enjoyed  your  vacation 
in  Hawaii,  Bing? 

BIXG:  Yes  .  .  .  you  ought  to  grab 
yourself  a  chunk  of  that  Hawaiian  life, 
Bob.  There's  the  place  to  rest  like  a 
gentleman. 

BOB:  Yeah  ...  but  I  kind  of  like  to 
be  mvself  when  I  rest. 

(BOB  BURNS  and  BING  CROSBY, 
Kraft  Music  Hall.) 

BUDD:  Guess  I'll  go  now.  Goodbye. 
(Door  closes.) 

STOOP:  Hey— This  is  in  the  park. 
There's  no  doors  in  the  park! 

BUDD:  How  about  outdoors? 

(STOOPNAGLE  and  BUDD,  Minute 
Tapioca  Show.) 

PHIL:  Ah— you  arc  the  Princess 
Anesthesia. 

MOORFJI/Lin:  I  am  the  Princess 
,lii,isiA^\:i  —  .liirslh,-siti  is  a  dope. 

I'll  1 1.:    See  u'lhit  I  mean? 

M(>()RIJir..  llJ:  I  ivill  have  you  know 
1  am  the  Princess  of  Albania,  Morania, 
Sustania  and  Insania.  Ah — /  have  many 
crozvns. 

PHIL:    You  said  a  mouthful! 
{PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 

PICK:  Did  Mandy  an'  that  fellow 
Nicodemus  get  married? 

PAT  :  Oh,  yeah  .  .  .  dey  have  a  beef- 
stew  marriage. 

PICK:    A  beefstew  marriage? 

PAT :  Yeah  .  .  .  she's  always  beefin' 
an'  he's  always  stewed. 

(PICK  and  PAT,  Pipe  Smoking  Time.) 

PORTLAND:  I  just  read  that  the  Gov- 
ernment spent  six  thousand  dollars  to  buy 
eggs. 

FRED:  What's  that  got  to  do  with  the 
discussion  about  strikes? 

PORTLAND:  I  guess  they  want  the 
hens  to  stop  sitting  down,  too. 

FRED:  Listen — if  radio  comedians  keep 

Print,.,!   In  the  U.  S. 


laying  eggs,  the  hens  will  go  the  way  of 
the  Indians. 

PORTLAND:  Oh— you're  just  self- 
conscious. 

FRED:  As  the  cow  said  when  the  farm- 
er mentioned  condensed  milk:  "You  can't 
pull  that  stuff  on  me!" 

(FRED  ALLEN,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

FRED:  Well,  Charlie,  now  you've 
brought  everybody  up  here  to  my  hunting 
lodge,  do  you  really  see  any  signs  of  that 
nag  of  yours,  Rasputin? 

CHARLIE:  What's  that  up  there  on 
the  wall? 

FRED:  Why,  that's  a  moose. 

CHARLIE:  My,  they  Have  members 
everyivhere — it  fooled  me  for  a  minute.  I 
thought  it  might  be  Rasputin  with  his  ears 
frozen. 

{FRED  ASTAIRE  and  CHARLIE 
BUTTERWORTH,  Packard  Hour.) 

GRAHAM:    Bye"^bye,  Ed. 
ED :    Bye,  bye  .  .  .  where  are  you  going? 
GRAHAM :  Tulsa. 
ED:    Tulsa,  Oklahoma? 
GRAHAM:    No  .  .  .  Tulsa  more  about 
the  play  you  wrote! 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

HENNY:  This  giH^s  family  had  a  hotel 
.  .  .  what  a  hotel!  ...  I  had  a  room  over- 
looking the  studio — completely — when  you 
looked  out  of  my  window  you  had  a  two- 
mile  view — if  you  looked  up.  And  was 
my  room  small!  Every  time  I  had  a  head- 
ache the  guy  next  door  took  aspirin!  But 
I  shouldn't  complain,  my  room  had  all  the 
latest  improvements.  I  just  pushed  the 
button  on  the  wall  and  what  do  you  think 
came  out?    The  plaster! 

(HENNY  YOUNGMAN,  A  &  P  Band 
Wagon.)  _♦- 

CHARLIE :  I'm  working  on  an  in- 
vention for  tired  people  like  vou,  Francia. 

FRAN  CI  A:    What  is  it,  Charlie? 

CHARLIE:  A  revolving  race  track  so 
the  horses  ivill  ahcays  be  in  front  of  the 
grandstand. 

{CHARLIE  BUTTERWORTH,  Pack- 
ard H  our.)  -♦- 

PHIL :  Very  cute,  Bottle.  You  remind 
me  of  the  Christmas  edition  of  Esquire. 

BOTTLE:    Because  I'm  so  colorful? 

PHIL:  No— because  you're  so  thick. 
Ha,  ha.  Esquire — get  it,  Bradley? 

OSCAR:    Oh  yes— every  month. 

(PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 

JUDY:  Hiyah,  Allan— did  yuh  run 
inter  any  o'  them  Parkers? 

KENT:  Yeah— Ezriah  Parker,  but  he 
got  away,  durn  it. 

JUDY:  How's  that? 

KENT:  Well,  lucky  fer  him,  he  didn't 
see  me. 

JUDY:  Fer  a  family  we-uns  is  s'posed 
to  be  feudin'  with  thars  an  awful  lot  o' 
Parkers  dyin'  of  old  age! 

(THE  CANOVAS,  Woodbury  Program.) 

PHIL:  Oh,  come,  Agnes — you're  not 
domesticated  enough.  You  promised  to 
mend  my  socks  but  you  didn't  do  it. 

AGNES:  }'ou  promised  to  buy  me  a 
coat  hut  vou  didn't  do  it. 

PHIL':    So  what? 

.IGNES:  If  you  don't  give  a  zvrap  I 
don't  (/ive  a  darn! 

{I'll I L  BAKER.  Gulf  Program.) 

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[  UNTIL  SHE  SMILED  ] 


She  evades  close-ups. ..Dingy  teeth  and  tender  gums  destroy  her 
charm  .  .  .  She  ignored  the  warning  of  "PINK  TOOTH  BRUSH" 


THAT  chance  meeting— what  it  has 
done  for  thousands  of  girls.  That  first 
glance— what  it  has  done  to  thousands  of 
men.  Even  before  a  word  is  spoken— an 
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how  swiftly  the  glamorous  moment  is  lost. 

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Play  safe— pro/erf  your  smile!  If  your  tooth 
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"pink"— 5ee  your  dentist.  For  "pink  tooth 


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gums.  It  may  be  the  first  sign  of  serious 
gum  disorders— it  is  emphatically  some- 
thing that  should  not  be  left  to  chance. 

Don't  take  chances.  You  may  not  be  in 
for  serious  trouble— your  dentist  shotdd 
decide.  Usually,  however,  the  verdict  will 
be  "just  another  case  of  lazy,  under- 
worked gums— gums  robbed  of  exercise 
by  our  present-day  soft  and  fibrclcss 
foods." They  need  more  woik,  nioie stim- 
ulation—and  as  so  many  ileuti.-ts  frankly 
suggest— the  stimulating  help  of  Ipana 
and  massage.  For  Ipana  is  a  double-iluty 
tooth  paste  that  not  only  keeps  teeth 


white  and  sparkling  but,  with  massage, 
lielps  gums  stay  firm  and  healtliier.  Rub 
a  little  extra  Ipana  on  your  gums  every 
time  you  brush  your  teeth.  Circulation 
quickens. Gums  become  firmer. Your  teeth 
sj)arkle  with  a  wiiiter,  brighter  look. 

Change  to  Ipana  and  massage  today 
—help  safeguard  yourself  from  troubles 
of  the  gums.  Regular  use  of  Ipana  with 
Tuassage  will  do  much  to  keep  yoiu-  teeth 
l)rightcr— your  gums  healthier.  Keep  your 
smile  a  winning  smile— /ore///,  captiiating! 

LISTEN  TO  ••Town  Hall  Tnnii;lil,- .(arring Fred 
Allen.  Everv  We.liu-sdav,  N.  H.C.  Rod  Net- 
woiU,  l'  P.  Si.,  E.  U.  S.  t. 


RADIO  STARS 


•  One  look  at  my  coated  tongue  told  me 
why  I  was  headachy,  desk -weary,  out  of 
sorts.  I  was  constipated,  bilious.  But  the 
laxatives  I  had  always  taken  were  so  re- 
pulsive. Right  there  and  then  I  decided  to 
stop  being  a  martyr  to  bad-tasting  "doses. " 
I  got  a  box  of  FEEN-A-MINT,  the  popu- 
lar chewing  gum  laxative  my  friends 
praised  as  modern,  really  different ! 


•  FEEN-A-MlNT  worked  like  a  charm. 
Next  day  I  felt  like  a  million.  Headache 
gone.  Stomach  sweet  as  clover.  Back  came 
the  old  appetite  and  pep.  I  looked  better, 
felt  better,  slept  better.  And  believe  me, 
FEEN-A-MINT  is  a  pleasure  to  take.  It 
really  tastes  good  and  it  certainly  acts 
smoothly!  No  wonder  it's  popular. 


•  According  to  scien- 
tists, one  of  the  chief 
differences  in  FEEN-A- 
MINT  is  the  3  minutes  of  chewing.  This 
is  what  helps  make  it  so  thorough  and  de- 
pendable. FEEN-A-MINT  acts  gently  in 
lower  bowel  — not  in  the  stomach.  No  grip- 
ing. No  upset  digestion.  Not  habit-forming. 
Economical.  Try  FEEN-A-MINT,  the  de- 
licious mint-flavored  laxative  used  and 
praised  by  more  than  16  million,  young  and 
old.  Write  for  free  sample.  Dept.Q-10, 
FEEN-A-MINT,  Newark,  N.J. 


LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 

ETHEL  M.  POMEROY,  Associate  Editor    ABRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Editor 

BROADCASTING 

KING  OF  RAH!  RAH!  RHYTHM 

{His  Majesty  Hal  Kemp)  by    Tom    MeOny  10 

THINGS  I  NEVER  KNEW  TILL  NOW  ABOUT  BEN  BERNIE 

{And  now  you  know  all.')    by  Walter  Winchell  20 

WHO  STARTED  THE  FEUD? 

(Shots  from  both  Winchell  and  Bernie)  .  .  .  .   by  Gladys  Hall  20 

COLLEGIANS  ARE  GETTING  SMARTER— 

(Says  John  Held,  Jr  .  ^ho  puts  them  on  the  air)  by   Gene    HarVOy  22 

CONFIDENTIAL  FACTS  OF  THE  RUBINOFF  CASE! 

(The  story  behind  the  breach-of-promise  suit)         by    Mildred    Mostln  24 

THAT  GIRL  THEY  CALL  HILDEGARDE 

(Radio's  '^mystery  woman")  ■  ■   by  Elizabeth  B.  Petersen  28 

DON'T  SAY  I  SAID  SO,  BUT— 

(Comedian  Charlie  Butterv^orth  confesses)   by    GiadyS    Holl  30 

FIFTEEN  WASN'T  TOO  EARLY  FOR  LOUISE— 

(The  romantic  story  of  Louise  Massey  of  The  Westerners)  

by  Margaret  Mahin  32 

NO  RAINBOW  CHASING  FOR  FRANK 

(The  pot  of  gold  ,s  flung  m  Frank  Parker's  lap!)  .  .       by    Jaclc    Honley  38 

SWING  THAT  MUSIC! 

(Ifs  the  rhythm  of  romance  for  Phil  Harris)  ...  by    Miriam     RogerS  40 

THE  NICK  DAWSON  I  KNOW 

(£/s;e  <e//s  on  her  Follow  the  Moon  parfner)  by    Elsie    Hltz  42 

THE  ELSIE  HITZ  I  KNOW 

(Nick  returns  the  compliment.')    by   Nick   Dawson  42 

THE  LAMPLIGHTER 

(Rabbi  Jacob  Tarsh.sh.  friend  and  helper)    hy  Mary  WotlclnS   ReeveS  56 

SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Beauty  Advice   6 

"Husband-Approved"  Fashions  8 
Kate    Smith's    Own  Cooking 

School   12 

It's  My  Humble  Opinion   14 

Radio  Ramblings   16 

For    Distinguished    Service  to 

Radio   18 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   26 


Between  Broadcasts. 


34 


Radio  Roundup   36 

Coast-to-Coast  Program  Guide  45 

Gertrude  Niesen   54 

Spend  Your  Vacation  in  Holly- 
wood   60 

Nothing  But  the  Truth?   62 

What   They   Listen   To— And 

Why   70 

Announcing  the  Winners   77 

Radio  Laughs   110 


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RADIO  STARS 


PositivtUf  The  Most  Hilarious 
Picture  You've  Ever  Seen ! ! ! 


^       DOTSA  -R'G^^T,  BOSS  !  IF 
■•„C.T  AT  T^E  WAS  ^-LA^iOUS 

T441S  IS  S00?£^-HOO?E^-T)00?HR 

I^ILAI^IOUS!        ^.-^  _ 


RADIO  STARS 


V.  E.  Meadows,  conductor  of 
WOR'S  Beauty  Forum,  mokes 
up  Mary  Eastman,  lovely 
NBC  Waltz  Time  soprano. 


A  twenty-four-hour  waterproof  make-up  which 
will  accentuate  and  preserve  your  beauty 


This  month  you  are  to  meet  a  real 
make-up  artist!  Mr.  Meadows  has 
come  over  from  MBS  to  coiKhict  his 
Beauty  forum  ri^in  here  in  Radio 
Stars  for  you.  Si,iL;h>  are  |)eri(j<Hcally 
heaved  for  a  new  face  and  a  jier- 
manent  make-up  and  Mr.  JNleadows 
says  he  has  Ijoth  for  you ! 

V.  E.  Meadows  has  w'orked  for 
years  with  the  world's  most  expensive 
complexions  and  now  he  is  to  give 
you  his  perfected  system.  His 
system,  basically  sound,  is  founded 
on  such  plain  simple  facts  that  you 
may  have  to  look  twice  before  you 
are  convinced  it  won't  fail.  He  doesn't 
guarantee  to  remove  extra  chins  or 
grow  hair  on  bald  heads,  Imt  he  does 
jjromise  to  remove  years  ! 

If  you  doubt  the  improvement 
possible  in  your  ap])earance,  examine 
the  skin  on  your  'body.  If  you  are 
well,  you  will  find  it  finely  textured, 
soft  and  smooth.  Examine  the  skin  on 
your  face.  It  is  much  less  fine  than 
the  body  skin.  Yet,  is  there  any  differ- 
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ence  in  construction  between  the  skin 
of  the  face  and  the  skin  of  the  body? 
V()U  will  reason  this  correctly — you 
have  exactly  the  same  kind  of  skin  on 
the  face  that  you  have  on  the  body. 
Mr.  Meadows'  system  is  based  on 
this  i)rinciple. 

Your  body  is  protected  with  cloth- 
ing. Quite  naturally  you  can  not  so 
]M-otect  your  face!  It  has  been  Mr. 
Meadows'  purpose  to  find  a  metiiod 
of  a])])lying  cosmetics  so  that  they 
would  form  a  protective  film  to  clothe 
the  skin  of  your  face  at  all  times — 
and  at  the  same  time  enhance  your 
beauty.  The  proper  cosmetics,  pro- 
perly applied,  can  ini])r()ve  any 
woman  one  hundred  jjcrcent. 

V.  E.  Meadows  points  an  accnsinq 
finger  and  says :  "All  the  trouble  witli 
your  face  is  the  result  of  deliberate 
abuse  on  your  part — banin;^  only 
trouble  caused  from  withm,  wliirli 
usually  does  not  show  alonr  on  the 
face." 

Well!    Have    vou    caught  your 


breath  after  that?  It  you  had  a  com- 
])act  handy,  I'll  wager  you  slipped  out 
the  mirror  and  gave  an  affectionate 
pat  of  reassurance  with  your  powder 
puff !  Right  there  you  added  insult 
to  injury!  You  actually  rubl)ed  in  dirt 
to  form  blackheads !  See,  this  i)er- 
manent  make-uj)  is  going  to  be  more 
than  just  a  convenience — it  is  going 
to  be  a  beauty  treatment ! 

And  the  free  sample  offer  I  have 
for  you  this  month  is  a  beauty  treat, 
as  well  as  treatment !  A  lovely  face 
])owder,  to  do  away  with  false-face 
powdered  api^earance  that  robs  your 
com])lexi()n  of  its  youthful  freshness. 
Naturalness  in  make-up  is  achieved 
through  color  harmony.  You  want  a 
true  powder,  in  which  each  particle 
is  completely  colored,  with  no  white 
particles  showing  through.  You  may 
put  your  samjjle  to  the  microscope 
test  and  see  for  \ourself  how  thor- 
oughly this  coloring  is  done.  Balmite 
is  the  new  soft  base  used  to  blend 
the  ingredients  of  this  powder  into 


RADIO  STARS 


"The  eyes,"  says  Mr.  Meadows, 
"give  the  face  ninety  per 
cent,  of  its  expression. 
Make  them  up  carefully." 


BY  MARY 
B   I   D   D   L  E 


the  smoothness  of  perfection,  ending 
forever  the  harsh  look  caused  by  hard 
base,  sharp-flake  powders.  This  new 
powder  will  delight  the  eye  and  com- 
plexion. Its  fragrant,  costly  perfume 
will  make  you  feel  as  charming  as 
you  are ! 

Incidentally,  when  you  receive  the 
five  new  shades  in  vanity  size 
samplers,  don't  overlook  the  ojipor- 
tunity  they  give  for  some  powder- 
blending  of  your  own !  Give  your 
artistic  impulses  full  sway  and  learn 
the  magical  things  that  fractional 
differences  in  sliades  do  to  your  com- 
plexion !  This  is  a  grand  opportunity 
for  proving  to  yourself  the  correct- 
ness of  your  customary  powder 
shades ! 

Mr.  Meadows  tells  you  to  cleanse 
your  face  properly  before  going  to 
bed  at  night.  Then,  in  the  morning, 
when  you  arise,  your  complexion  will 
be  ready  to  receive  its  twenty-four- 
hour  waterproof  make-up  !  Once  more 
(Continued  on  page  78) 


^ret  of  vat 


Uaiit  beauty 


BEAUTY  authorities  agree  that 
thorough  cleansing  is  the  most 
important  step  in  complexion  care. 
A  simple  step,  too,  since  Daggett  & 
Ramsdell  created  the  new  Golden 
Cleansing  Cream— a  more  efficient 
skin  cleanser  could  not  be  obtained. 

New  kind  of  cleansing 

Golden  Cleansing  Cream  contains  a 
remarkable  new  ingredient,  colloidal 
gold,  with  an  amazing  power  to  rid 
skin  pores  of  dirt,  make-up  and  other 
impurities.  You  can't  see  or  feel  this 
colloidal  gold,  any  more  than  you 
can  see  the  iron  in  spinach.  But  its 
special  action  makes  Golden  Cleans- 
ing Cream  more  thorough  than  ordi- 
nary cleansers,  and  tones  and  invigor- 
ates skin  tissues  meanwhile. 

Make  this  simple  test 
Apply  your  usual  skin  cleanser.  Wipe 


it  off  with  tissue.  Then  cleanse  with 
Golden  Cleansing  Cream.  On  the  tis- 
sue you  will  find  more  dirt— brought 
from  pore  depths  by  this  more  effec- 
tive cleansing. 

Try  it  tonight.  See  for  yourself  how 
fresh  and  clean  Golden  Cleansing 
Cream  leaves  your  skin.  You'll  find 
this  new  cream  at  your  drug  or  de- 
partment store  for  just  $1.00. 


GOLDEN    CLEANSING  CREAM 


Daggett  &  Kaiiisilell,  K<i 
Enclosed  find  10c  in  8t 
in  U.  S.  only.) 


ips  for  which  please  send  ine  i 


jar  of  Golden  Cleansing  Cream.  (Offer  good 


Street. 
City .  . 


,  DastCt^tt  A  Ramsdell 

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RADIO  STARS 


NEW  BEAUTY 
TREATMENT 


Make  this  body  treatment 
YOUR  DAILY  BEAUTY  HABIT 

Rcl.ix  liftcen  minutes  in  tub  of  warm  water. 
With  pores  open,  cleanse  deeply  and  thor- 
oughly witii  a  pure,  bland  soap. 
^\  Stimulate  circulation  briskly,  but  gently, 
with  soft-textured  toucl. 
Complete  this  Beauty  Treatment  with  gen- 
erous  powdering  of  MAVIS.  See  how  vel- 
vety smooth,  youthful  and  alluring  it  makes 
your  skin.  All  day  long  MAVIS  keeps  your  body 
free  from  perspiration  odors,  stickiness  and  chaf- 
ing .  .  .  protects  dainty  underthings  and  s^ife- 
guards  feminine  daintiness. 

THRILLINGLY  DIFFERENT 
MAVIS,  the  luxury  talcum,  actually  finer  than 
most  face  powders,  always  leaves  a  bewitching 
fragrance  that  lasts  for  hours.  MAVIS  is  cooling, 
soothing,  and  refreshing.  An  intimate  secret  for 
body  loveliness.   Truly  in- 

91  .  luluahle  for  body  comf 

(Ai£/l  ^<nd  body  protection .' 

THAN  MOST 

FACE 
POWDERS 


Gladys,  in-  her  pet  white 
sport  coat,  with  Frank  in 
his  tweed  "cubbing"  jacket. 


Gladys  models  her  peasant 
silk  plaid  dress  with  hat 
of  pie-crust-brinnmed  straw. 


Frank  approves  of  these  ha- 
rem-like, rough  cotton  paja- 
mas for  beach  or  lounging. 


BY 

ELIZABETH 
ELLIS 


I  CAN'T  think  of  anytliing  that  whets 
feminine  curiosity  quite  as  much  as  hear- 
ing; that  someone's  husband  dictates  what  a 
!ial  should  wear!  That's  a  statement  that 
cliallen,L;es  <|uestioning.  And  tliat,  in  brief, 
is  just  how  I  liapi)enecl  to  spend  several 
entertainins  hours  recently  with  Gladys 
Swartliout  and  her  husband,  Frank  Chap- 
man. 

There  has  been  a  lot  of  publicity  to-do 
over  the  Cliapmans  being  the  best-dressed 
couple  in  radio,  and  also  about  Frank 
Chapman's  great  interest  in  his  wife's 
ci.stuming.  Frankly,  I  thought  it  was  just 
so  much  press-agentry — not  that  I  didn't 
think  they  were  a  very  well  turned-out 
couple,  but  mainly,  that  I  didn't  believe 
any  husband  could  get  away  with  that 
much  control  of  his  wife's  buying  habits. 
I   know   plenty  of  husbands  who  force 


MAVIS 

BODY 
PROTECTION 


RADIO  STARS 


Gladys  Swarthoufs 
clothes  should  be 
labeled:  Costumes 
by  Chapman 


For  spring  Gladys  chooses 
a  sheer  crepe,  simple  and 
smart,  set  off  by  a  big  hat. 


their  wives  to  give  their  dizzy  hats  to 
the  maid-of-all-vvork,  but  never  have  I  met 
a  husband  who  could  tell  his  wife  what 
was  what  about  everything  she  wears  and 
really  get  away  with  it. 

If  a  credit  line  had  to  be  given  on  the 
clothes  Gladys  Swarthout  wears,  it  would 
read:  Costumes  by  Chapman.  And  after 
you  have  spent  a  delightful  afternoon 
with  Gladys  and  Frank,  as  I  did,  yon  can 
understand  liow  agreeably  this  husljandly 
interest  has  dcx  eloped.  Gladys  glories  in 
the  dev.. led  domiiiati-n  <,{  l-'rank.  And  he, 
despite  a  siii'.;iii!;  career  of  his  own,  takes 
the  time  to  .advise  and  assist  Gladys  in 
everything  slie  does.  Tlic\-  are  two  people 
who  work  and  live  as  a  single  unit. 

I  saw  the  Ghapmans  in  Xew  York.  They 
had  come  on  from  California  so  that 
(^Continued  on  page  67) 


GET  WISE,  TUld^ffcM^-T/oA^, 

Good  brushing  isn't  enough!  You  need 
the  right  dentifrice  too! 


Chanqe  to 

PEPSODENT  TOOTH  PASTE 

confamiif  |p|y||/| 

Quickly  loosens  and  removes  dull,  dingy 
film  . .  .Wins  flashing  new  luster  on  teeth 


•  Now  a  thrilling  dental  discovery  ends 
Scrub- Hard  disappointment  —  makes  your 
daily  brushing  a?nazingly  effective! 

IRIUM  — the  remarkable  new  ingredient 
contained  only  in  Pepsodent  —  steps  up  the 
cleaning  power  of  tooth  paste.  Because  it 


BECAUSE  OMRIOM  -- 


BECAUSE  OF  IRIUW  - 
BECAUSE  OF  IRIUM.. 

^^^^ 


provides  a  smooth,  gentle  cleansing  action 
that  speedily  loosens  dingy  film  and  floats 
it  away  like  magic.  You  clean  your  teeth 
quicker,  easier.  Your  brushing  gets  results 

—  in  teeth  that  sparkle  with  lovely  natural 
brilliance. 

If  you  would  have  beautiful  teeth,  re- 
member that  proper  brushing  is  only  hitlf  the 
formula.  The  other  half  is  Pepsodent  Tooth 
Paste  containing  irium.  This  modern 
dentifrice  responds  instantly  to  your  brush 

—  cleans  and  polishes  enamel  surfaces  in  a 
way  that  shows  up  old-fashioned  methods. 

Your  teeth  feel  clean  and  stay  bright  much 
longer  after  using  Pepsodent  Tooth  Paste 
containing  irium.  Try  it!  You'll  no  longer 
be  a  Disappointed  Scrub- Hard. 


PEPSODENT  i 

IT  ALONE  CONTAINS  I  PI yi^] 


RADIO  STARS 


BY  TOM 
M  E  A  N  Y 


Hal  Kemp,  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  became  famous 
through  the  acclaim  of 
collegians,  hlis  band  is 
in  great  demand  for  ap- 
pearances at  big  proms. 


SOMEWHERE  in  these  United  States 
there  are  prohably  college  students  who  are 
ttle  vague  about  placing  the  Byzantine 
(1(1  of  architecture;  probably  some  who 
arm't  >urc  whether  it  was  Archi- 

medes   or     Aristotle    who    first  cried: 
" luirckal"  And  nia>he  a  few,  though  this 
sccnis  doubtful,  who  don't  remember  who 
wiin   the   Rose  Bowl  game  at  Pasadc:ia 
last  New  Year's  Day.    It's  a  pretty  safe 
however,  that  there  are  darn  few  of 
mdergraduates  who  haven't  heard  of 
and  his  Orchestra.    For  Kemp 
li'  l  iii^s  to  the  collegians,  by  right  of  dis- 
covery. 

Kemp  is  a  college  man  himself,  a  prod- 
uct of  the  L'nivcrsity  of  North  Carolina, 
but  that  doesn't  explain  his  popularity 
with  the  college  crowd.  His  band  plays  a 
type  of  music  which  hits  the  right  spot 
with  the  American  undergraduate  and,  long 
before  he  or  his  orchestra  became  famous, 
he  was  wildly  acclaimed  by  collegians, 
back  in  1926,  when  Kemp  and  his  band 
'ust  a  bunch  of  kids  with  musical 
Uruments. 

Maybe  it  would  be  better  to  let  Hal  tell 


Why  Do  Hal  Kemp 


RADIO  STARS 


tl.at  stury  liiniseli.  since  it  marked  the 
first  break  his  orchestra  received. 

"W'e  were  playing  in  a  httle  town  called 
Heiidersonville,  N'orth  Carolina,  and  Fred 
Waring  was  imported  with  his  band  to 
play  at  a  fashionable  wedding  in  Asheville, 
T'ot  far  away,"  recalls  Kemp.  "Alex 
Holden,  who  knew  Waring,  persuaded 
him  to  come  over  and  hear  us  play. 
Apparently  he  liked  us,  for  he  suggested 
tliat  Alex  manage  the  band  and  arranged 
lor  us  to  go  on  tour,  opening  at  Shea's 
Hippodrome  in  Buffalo. 

"To  be  mercifully  brief  about  it,  the 
tour  was  not  so  hot.  We  played  Toronto, 
after  Buffalo,  and  were  so  disgusted  with 
our  poor  showing  that  we  called  off  the 
rest  of  the  tour.  We  were  broke  and  too 
proud  to  write  home,  a  not  unusual  condi- 
tion with  young  and  ambitious  musicians 
just  starting  out. 

"Waring  heard  of  our  difficulty  and  he 
lent  us  enough  money  to  get  to  State  Col- 
lege, Pennsylvania.  We  played  there  and 
Fred,  in  introducing  us,  gave  us  a  terrific 
build-up.  He  even  went  further  tlian  that 
and  led  the  band  for  us.    At  the  finish, 


we  received  the  greatest  hand  from  those 
Penn  State  students  that  we've  ever  re- 
ceived before  or  since.  Waring  piled  us 
into  the  cars  his  own  band  had  and  drove 
us  back  to  New  York,  where  he  <icurr(i 
an  engagement  for  us  at  the  Strand  Rout. 
Tlie  diet  of  steady  work,  plus  the  en- 
couragement we  had  received  from  the 
students  at  Penn  State,  were  a  great  tonic 
to  a  bunch  of  boys  that  seriously  consid- 
ered C|uitting  !" 

Merely  getting  an  engagement  at  the 
Strand  Roof,  however,  didn't  lead  Kemp 
and  his  hand  directly  to  the  pot  of  gold. 
Even  now,  Hal  can't  forbear  to  shudder 
as  he  thinks  of  how  strenuous  that  Xew 
York  job  was.  "We  played  seven  nights 
a  w^eek,  from  six-thirty  to  two-thirty,  with 
a  half-hour  out  to  eat,"  said  Hal.  "A 
woman  with  a  stop-watch  clocked  us,  to 
see  that  w-e  played  fifteen  minutes,  rested 
five,  played  fifteen  and  so  on,  all  through 
the  night. 

"Exacting  as  the  job  was.  though,  it 
helped  us  a  lot,"  continued  Kemp.  "We 
found  out  how  little  w'e  really  knew  about 
music.    It  was  during  the  Strand  Roof 


Hal  and  Key  Thompson  go  gay 
in  rehearsal  for  their  popu- 
lar Friday  night  show,  heard 
over  CBS  at  8:30  p.m.  EDST. 

engagement  that  we  first  learned  to  read 
music  properly." 

{Continued  on  page  90) 


and  his  orchestra  hit  the  spot  with  American  undergraduates? 


^a/ltn.  unfit  ^ot^ 


1  Oc  for  tuckaway  size 
in  ten-cent  stores. 
25c  for  larger  flacon, 
in  dru^  stores. 


iJ^^  ~tii 

EARDENIA 


Gardenia  (Derfume,  Ly  Park  &  Tillord,  cajjturcs 
tlie  true  fragrance  of  those  fragile  Ijlossoms  to 
give  you  jDulsatlng  glamour  and  youtkful  cxKila- 
ration  ...  a  (jerfume  ever  reminiscent  of  Spring 
.  .  .  and  eternal  romance.  Park  &  Tilford  s  Gar- 
denia is  for  tkose  sjjarkling  occasions  wkcn  you 
want  tt)  sjiarklc,  too!  Take  your  first  stcf)  to- 
ward tkis  romantic  cnckantmcnt  ky  seeking  out 
tkls  marvelous  tDcrlunic  tod.ay. 


PARK&TILFORD 


PERFUME 


RADIO  STARS 


ICctU  Smiths  Owvt  CfpdUm^ 


HELLO.  EVERYBODY!  This  is 
Kate  Smith.  l)roadcasting  the  sug- 
gestion that  we  all  go  on  a  picnic. 

What  a  ])icnic  that  would  he,  too, 
wouUlii't  it — all  of  you  riding  along 
in  style,  with  me  leading  the  way  on 
the  I'awd  ll'dt/dii!  .Say.  don't  I  wish 
it  wert-  jin^sihlc!  l'>ut.  of  course,  I 
meant  a  niake-l)elieve  picnic,  when  I 


made  the  suggestion ;  a  make-helieve 
picnic,  as  you  read  this ;  an  honest-to- 
goodness  picnic  for  each  individual 
family  very  soon. 

Perhaps  many  of  you  will  think 
that  it's  a  little  too  early  to  talk  ahout 
picnicking.  I  happen  to  he  an  all- 
year-'round  picnicker,  myself,  for 
good  and  sufficient  reasons  that  I'll 


tell  you  about  later  on.  But  I'd  like 
to  remind  you  all  that  it  won't  be  long- 
before  real  warm  days  will  be  with 
us.  So  why  not  be  prepared  to  usher 
in  the  picnic  season  in  style?  I  have 
some  new  ideas  for  you  and  some 
grand  recipes  that  I've  collected  over 
a  considerable  period  of  time. 

These  ideas  and  recipes  include 
many  you  will  find  quite  as  useful  at 
home  as  you  would  afield.  The 
recipes  include  cup  cakes,  cookies, 
sandwich  fillings,  nut  bread  and  the 
like — the  sort  of  foods  that  you'll 
want  to  try  out,  even  if  you  are  the 
type  of  person  who  cordially  hates 
the  "great  outdoors." 

Yes,  even  if  you  honestly  prefer 
the  comfort  of  your  own  front  porch 
or  backyard,  or  even  just  the  breez:' 
that  comes  in  at  your  open  window, 
to  anything  that  the  seashore  or 
mountains  may  have  to  offer,  you'll 
find  most  of  the  recipes  that  I  have 
for  you  this  month  entirely  to  yoiu' 
liking.  As  for  the  confirmed  pic- 
nickers, well,  I'll  bet  they  will  imme- 
diately start  looking  u])  maps,  routes 
and  timetables,  just  hearing  about  the 
grand  "eats"  they  will  have  to  look 
forward  to,  when  they  reach  their 
destination.  That  is,  of  course,  if 
they  have  the  particular  recipes  I'm 
offering. 


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Scltoot 


Ka+e  shows  you  her  picnic  kit 
which  she  uses  at  rehearsals, 
and  wherein  she  packs  many  of 
the  goodies  she  suggests  here. 


Time  for  picnics  is 


almost  here!  Kate 


has  lots  of  brand  new 


ideas  and  recipes 


for  you  to  try  out 


You  will  find  some  of  these  later 
on  in  this  article.  The  others  are  in 
my  Cooking  School  leaflet  which 
Radio  Stars  ^Iagazixe  generously 
mails  out  to  each  and  every  one  of 
the  readers  who  writes  in  for  a  copy. 
They're  absolutely  free,  too ! 

But,  even  before  describing  the 
tempting  things  \ou  can  fix  up  by 
following  these  recijies  of  mine,  let's 
stop  a  minute  and  discuss  the  question 
of  what  constitutes  a  picnic  in  the 
first  place. 

The  dictionary  says  (I  know,  for  I 
just  looked  it  up  to  make  sure!)  :  "A 
picnic  is  an  excursion,  or  outdoor 
pleasure  party,  in  zvlticli  tlie  members 
cat  refreshments  carried,  usually,  by 
themselves."  But  be  sure,  when  you 
read  that  definition,  to  emphasize 
those  words,  "pleasure  party,"  for  if 
you  don't  look  forward  to  such  an 
outing  with  keen  anticipation  and 
proceed  to  enjoy  it  tlioroughly,  then 
I  claim  it's  no  picnic  for  you  in  the 
first  place — regardless  of  surround- 
ings and  the  method  of  bringing  along 
the  food !  You've  simply  got  to  carry 
along  the  right  spirit,  too.  In  short, 
1  believe  that  a  picnic  is  a  state  of 
mind,  rather  than  of  location,  and  I 
thoroughly  agree  with  the  general 
impression  that  the  word  "picnic" 
(Continued  on  page  58) 


BANISH  "TATTLE  TALE  GRAY"  WITH  FELS  NAPTHA  SOAP! 


RADIO  STARS 


r  ..,..„^r>^;„,r         TY^-ynv  nf  1/nn  rpaH  //ir  lULVc        //it'  sifjuce.    In  fact,  I  ii'i 


I  AM  wondering  how  many  of  you  read 
the  article  under  the  heading  of  Nothiiuj 
But  The  Truth f  in  a  recent  issue  of  Radio 
Stars,  and  noticed  both  the  brilhant  and 
the  naive  answers  to  the  question :  "Do 
you  ohjict  to  giving  your  aulogral>hs  or 
f'osiiig  for  f'ublicity  photographs  and  iu- 
formal  snapshots?"  With  regard  to  the 
last  portion  of  the  question 


publicity  photographs"),  I  w 
where  they  are  '^  't  tn  (h 
inane,  they 
existence  ot  ■ 

thing  in  the  i  v 
be  obvious  tli.i-  1 1  <■  '-m- 
around  the  rr.:  -  -.u  -ti n 
for  an  unusual  'c\u\k  -iikx 
itself  is  the  ir...-t  un^laim 
and  no  mancr  wliai  the 
clever  photographer  nia\ 
for  the  result  to  be  nuicl 
orthodox  pose  of  cajoHng  t 
ing  the  mike,  or  gazing  soulful 


tions,  especially  if  she  or  he  is  careless 
enough  to  pose  with  the  friends  of  the 
owner  of  a  Brownie  or  Kodak.  One 
never  knows  to  just  what  use  these  informal 
snapshots  may  be  put.  Enlarged  and  dis- 
played in  certain  places,  they  might  indeed 
become  most  embarrassing. 

As  to  the  matter  of  autographs,  I  would 
like  to  make  the  following  observations : 
I  can  well  understand  the  desire  to  secure 
an  auto,urai>h.  I  wrote  Rudy  Wiedoeft 
ei,L;ht  IcUers  1)efore  he  replied  with  an 
antooranh  an<l  a  letter.    But  Wiedoeft  was 


irons  of  objects, 
"angle"  of  the 
be,  it  is  difficult 
1  ni.ire  than  the 
he  mike,  eiuhrac- 


niy  whulc  life.  For  years  I 
him.  I  had  every  phonograph 
ever  made.  I  knew  more  abi)i 
he  knew  himself.  I  practiced 
day.  with  the  idea  in  mind  th; 
might  eventually  recognize  nic 
petitiir.  So  liis  autograph  iiuai 
to  me. 


iipi)cd 
1  he'd 


HoUyivood  is  several  steps  ahead  o/  radio        But  the  mob  situation  of  today  is  quite 

Rudy  Vallee  jots  down 
notes  and  comments  on 
various  entertaining 
subjects,  in  this,  his 
fifth,  exclusive  column 


An  honorary  life  mennbersliip 
in  the  Centra  de  Espanol  de 
Yale  is  conferred  on  Rudy  by 
President  William  F.  Greene. 


the  nose  of  tiie  signee.  In  fact,  I  ivould 
suiiiniari::e  the  situation  this  ivay — first: 
"May  I  have  your  autograph?" — Then: 
"Who  are  you?" 

I  believe  I  may  speak  fairly  authorita- 
tively when  I  discuss  the  matter  of  giving 
autographs  because  I  have  made  it  a  prac- 
tice, while  on  tour,  to  pull  up  a  chair  at 
the  end  of  a  dance  program,  and  in  this 
way  give  300  or  more  autographs  after 
having  sung  and  directed  the  band  for 
three  hours  of  an  evening.  At  the  Derby 
in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  two  Derbys  ago,  I 
stood  about  in  the  pouring  rain  and  auto- 
graphed some  2,000  programs.  I  have 
rarely  refused  an  autograph,  but  with  the 
situation  (of  autographing)  becoming 
pretty  much  of  a  racket,  I  have  taken  an 
about-face  in  the  matter. 

From  among  the  number  of  celebrities 
who  expressed  themselves  in  a  recent  Radio 
Stars  concerning  their  willingness  to  give 
autographs,  I  could  not  help  but  feel  that 


in  this.  The  glamorous  palm  trees,  tennis 
courts,  swimming  pools,  houses,  studios  and 
sets  of  Hollywood  lend  thentselvcs  much 
more  to  interesting  photoi/i  aphy  Ihun  do 
the  staid  and  rather  simple  sludios  m  the 
broadcasting  buildings  in  the  Hast.  And 
no  one  will  deny  that  motion  picture  stars 
are,  on  the  whole,  possessed  of  more 
glamour  and  interest  than  most  radio  per- 
sonalities. 

Informal  snapshots  may  sometimes  in- 
volve   the   celebrity    in    unpleasant  situa- 


differcnt.  Gangs  of  young  people,  ranging 
in  age  from  12  to  19,  stand  outside  thea- 
tres and  hotels  {especially  on  //;,■  (ij^cmitg 
night  of  a  picture  or  play),  an, I  hrl ciunicr 
anyone  who  appears  to  be  a  crlrhnly,  7^'ilh 
demands  for  aul ogniphs.  .-Inil  u/ii  j;  /  say 
"demand.';"  I  mean  "dcinttnils !"  In  no  im- 
certain  terms,  and  witli  a  iirail  deal  of 
croivding,  pti.'ihinii  and  jo.sl lin ,  llirsr  younij 
ones  surround  llh'ir  viclini  anil,  u'llli  no 
rule  of  "first  come  first  .sen'cd,"  and  xvilh 
no  courtesy  for  each  other,  try  lo  outdo 
the  others  in  pushing  a  piece  of  paper  under 


there  may  have  been,  in  the  case  of  a  few, 
a  desire  to  convince  the  public  that  he  or 
she  belonged  body-and-soul  to  "my  public" 
— which  is,  perhaps,  just  a  wee  bit  of 
hypocrisy.  Because — as  one  who  has  known 
the  fatigue  of  autographing  when  it  was 
obvious  that  many  who  asked  for  it  were 
only  interested  because  everyone  else  w'as 
doing  it,  or  were  themselves  puzzled  as  to 
what  motivated  them  to  ask  for  it— I  be- 
lieve that  many  of  those  celebrities  who  ex- 
pressed themselves  as  being  quite  pleased 
and  willing  to  give  autographs  were  not 


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RADIO  STARS 


talking  about  the  mob  situation  to  which 
I  refer. 

I  hardly  need  point  out  the  danger  of 
giving  autographs  indiscriminately.  Celeb- 
rities really  have,  in  the  rush,  signed  a  note 
■or  contract.  The  trick,  of  course,  is  in- 
variably apparent  to  a  court  of  law. 

To  me.  it  is  a  sign  of  iveakness  for  a 
celebrity  to  make  the  statement  that  he  or 
she  li'oiild  be  unhappy  if  no  one  zivnlcJ 
his  or  her  autograph.  The  artist  zvho  fears 
that  by  not  complying  ivith  requests  for 


"Garbo's  signature 
is  hard  to  get.  For 
this  reason  it  is 
considered  a  prize." 


"Bea  Lillie  writes, 
but  not  her  auto- 
graph. She  gives 
only  a  few  yearly." 


autographs  his  or  her  career  ivill  suffer,  has 
a  career  that  must  indeed  be  built  on  shift- 
ing sands.  Continued  good  performance  by 
any  artist  unll  survii'e  the  refusal  to  sign 
ei-ery  time  an  autograph  is  demanded.  I 
don't  /'('//Vj'/'  that  Miss  Garbo,  Miss  Cornell, 
Miss  Lillie  and  siniihir  others,  gil'e  more 
than  a  fczc  Zi.ell-deseri'ed  autographs 
yearly. 

Speaking  of  the  humorous  side  of  auto- 
graphing, there  are  always  a  few  kibitzers 
who  never    fail    to    offer    the  following 


alleged  wisecracks.  They  may  be  "wise"  to 
that  particular  group,  but  to  me  they  are 
extremely  trite.  Always,  some  brilliant 
individual  who  notes  that  I  sign  with  my 
left  hand,  says:  "Oooh,  he's  left-handed!" 
"Now  do  it  with  your  right  hand!" — "Why 
don't  you  get  a  rubber  stamp?" — "Will 
you  autograph  a  check?" — to  which  I  al- 
ways add — "Try  and  cash  it!"  Or  again 
such  intelligent  observations  as:  "Do  you 
ever  get  a  cramp  in  your  hand?"  and  "Do 
you  ever  run  out  of  ink?" 


But  the  most  objectionable  feature  of  the 
autographing  racket  is  the  tendency  on  the 
part  of  those  a>king.  to  demand  it  I  Tiiey 
don't  ask,  they  drntaud!  And  I've  heard 
some  really  na>t\-  remarks  after  I've  re- 
fused, (in  occasiuns  where  m\  l)e>t  judg- 
ment has  tiild  me  tn  refuse,  such  as:  "He's 
high-Iiatl"— "Who  does  he  think  he  is?" 
— "The  nerve  of  him  I"  and  so  on  into  the 
night.  As  thnugh  my  appearance  at  that 
place  of  work  <leman<led  that  I  be  the  will- 
ing slave  of  anyone  who  desired  my  signa- 
ture I 

Tips  to  celebrities  ivho  are  at  a  loss  re  a 
method  of  r/rfusal,  when,  after  a  tedious 
{Continued  on  page  S4) 


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RADIO  STARS 


I  was  run-down— 

"...looked  pale... 
lacked  a  keen  appetite  .  .  . 
was  underweight  .  .  .  felt 
tired." 

"What  did  I  do?" 

"1*  J"Y  intuition  told  me  I  needed  a  tonic. 
^.tX  N'iit "rally,  I  am  liappy  and  grateful 
for  the  benefits  S.S.S.  Tonic  brought  me." 

You,  too,  will  be  delighted  with  the  way 
S.S.S.  Tonic  whets  up  the  a]iiietite.  .  .im- 
jiroves  digestion.  .  .n stores  red-blood-cells 
to  a  healthier  and  richer  condition. 

Feel  and  look  like  your  old  self  again 
by  taking  the  famous  S.S.S.  Tonic  treat- 
ment to  rebuild  your  blood  strength. .  .re- 
store your  appetite. .  .and  make  better  use 
of  the  food  you  eat. 

S.S.S.  Tonic  is  especially  designed  to  build 
sturdy  health.  ..its  remarkable  value  istime 
tried  and  scientifically  proven.  .  .that's  why 
it  makes  you  feel  like  yourself  again. 

At  all  drugstores  in  two  convenient  sizes. 
The  large  size  at  a  saving  in  price.  There  is 
no  substitute  for  this  time  tested  remedy. 
N'o  ethical  druggist  will  suggest  something 
"just  as  good."  ©  S.S.S.  Co. 


MADC.A.P  Gracie  Allen,  of  all  persons, 
was  the  cause  of  a  minor  diplnmatic  crisis 
in  the  Mexican  governnient  this  season.  It 
grew  out  of  her  burk-st|uc  of  T/t'o  Villa, 
poking  broad  fun  at  Mexicans,  along  with 
everything  else  involved  in  that  niovic. 
With  stifif  dignit\-,  the  Mi'xican  Enihassy 
in  Washington  sent  a  iinHrst  1o  the  Co- 
lumbia Broadcasting  S\st('ni.  (ircatly  dis- 
turbed, Columbia  turned  the  letter  over  to 
the  Burns  and  Allen  sponsor,  .^till  more 
disturbed,  the  sjionsor  sent  the  letter  to 
George  Burns  and  (iracie  Allen. 

Gracie  was  disturbed,  too,  and  sat  right 
down  to  write  a  letter  (jf  ai)ology  to  the 
.Mexican  ICmhassy.  She  coiuluded  with: 
"I  alwavs  say  Mexican  jumping  beans  are 
ni\-  lavorite  sport,  George  thought  we 
niighl  inake  \]]>  hy  liaxing  the  Mexican 
.\nihassailor  lor  (!iniur  hut  I  didn't  think 

Along  with  a  ni<i|-c  mmimMt  .ii-ulogy  from 
(jeorge,  that  a|iiiarcnll\'  salislitd  the  Mexi- 
can .Anili  iss.ad.  ii  .  .\n\  \\  ay,  the  incident 
was  (!r(ip]H'l  anil  Giaeic  emerged  from  her 
first  inti  rnational  crisis. 

Willi  J  ark  Hrmiy  so  cniisislriiliy  success- 
ful in  iiKiries,  yoii  "i'ninlrr  mice  in  a  ivhilr, 
l^rvhal'S.  icIiy' his  U'ifr  ami  hcid  nulio 
sloniir,  Mmy  I .ii'lii i /si nil r .  ilors  not  (ip/\;ir 
I'cfnrc  (I  caiiicni,  loo.  When  Jack  -a'ciit  lo 
IIollyz\.'ood  a  cuufile  of  years  ago,  there 


zvere  plans  for  Mary  afoot.  Mary  was  by 
110  means  jat  hut  the  camera  makes  one 
look  heavier,  so  Mary  dieted  strenuously  to 
make  sure. 

Then  came  the  screen  test.  Mary  is  an 
atlraclii'c  girl  hiil  the  camera  plays  strange 
pranks  with  jaccs  now  and  then.  One  of 
them  is  to  make  Mary's  screen  appearance 
altogelhcr  unlike  her  slagc  appearance.  She 
is  anything  hut  pretty  f(>r  the  films.  Various 
make-up  e.vpeiiinciits  -n'crc  tried  in  test 
after  test,  but  apparently  nothing  can  be 
done  about  it.  So  Mary  zcill  confine  herself 
to  radio. 

Long  before  Gracie  Allen  had  begun  her 
career  as  an  amusingly  silly  girl  of  vaude- 
ville, another  of  vaudeville's  comical  girls 
had  the  same  character  established  as  one 
of  the  standard  vaudeville  attractions. 
Gracie  Deagon  was  her  name  and  often 
she  is  pointed  out  as  the  example  that 
Gracie  Allen  followed  in  framing  her  own 
style  of  comedy. 

Miss  Deagon  stayed  in  vaudeville  and 
did  not  get  around  to  trying  radio  until 
recently.  That  brought  on  the  strange 
quirk  in  this  story.  She  auditioned  for  a 
large  Middle  Western  station  and  was  con- 
demned as  an  imitator  of  Gracie  Allen — 
and  Gracie  Allen  had  probably  imitated 
the  Deagon  character  in  the  first  place! 
{Continued  on  page  74) 


Concerning  celebrities  of  the  air,  and 
their  comings  and  goings  in  broadcastland 


10 


Robert  L.  Ripley  meeh  a 
Texas  Ranger,  1937  Model, 
and  Ralph  Dumke  and  Ed 
East  predict  a  prize  for 
their  big  pet  sheep  dog. 


17 


Se\i/Lce  to  RadiO' 


Have  you  noticed  the  voice  of  Lenny  Ross  lately? 
It's  fuller,  richer  than  ever  before.  His  responsibility 
of  keeping  the  Maxwell  House  Show  Boat  afloat  ap- 
parently weighs  lightly  on  the  captain's  shoulders. 
There  were  nnany  who  believed  that  Lanny's  assuming 
full  command,  and  all  the  extra  worries  that  go  with 
it,  would  react  unfavorably  upon  his  voice.  But,  to 
the  contrary,  Lanny's  singing  never  has  been  more 
enjoyable. 

Lanny  made  his  air  debut  on  Christmas  morning, 
1928,  on  an  NBC  sustaining  program.  The  following 
month  he  got  his  first  sponsored  program.  In  Oct 
tober,  1931,  his  present  sponsor.  General  Foods, 
signed  Lanny  and  he's  been  singing  regularly  for  that 
company  ever  since. 

And  little  wonder  that  he  has!  Always  the  con- 
scientious student,  Lanny  never  is  satisfied  (although 
listeners  may  differ)  with  his  voice.  He  keeps  striving 
always  to  improve  it.  And,  of  course,  with  grati- 
fying results. 

Lanny  sets  an  example  which  all  too  few  radio 
performers  follow.  Not  to  be  concerned  with  the 
applause  of  yesterday,  but  with  the  applause  of  to- 
morrow. He  realizes  that  only  wearying  hours  of 
practice  and  rehearsal  make  a  great  artist;  and  that 
those  hours  must  never  cease  if  he  is  to  preserve 
his  reputation  and  remain  a  success. 

It's  difficult  to  imagine  the  Maxwell  House  Show 
Boaf  without  Lanny  Ross.  No  artist  ever  contributed 
more  to  the  success  of  a  program. 

To  Lanny  Ross,  Radio  Stars  Magazine  presents  its 
award  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


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our  sentence  on  enlr>  blaiik.  or  on  one  side 
f  a  sheet  of  paper,  signing  your  name  and 
-Jdress  (iive  the  name  of  the  dealer  who 
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hio 

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separate  list  of  prizes.  ()|H>ning  and  closing 
ates  are  as  follows 

'  OPENING  CLOSING 

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nd  Contest— Sun.  May  30       Sat.  June  S 
rd  Contest— Sun.  June  6         Sat.  June  12 
Ih  Contest— Sun.  June  13      Sat.  June  19 
th  Contest— Sun.  June  20      Sat.  June  26 
th  Contest— Sun.  June  27      Sat.  July  3 
.  Knlries  for  each  wi-ek  s  contest  must  be 

lOstmarked  lH>fore  Saturday  midnight.  En- 
•les  will  be  entered  in  each  week's  contest 
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choose 

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cerit).  and  iiulividuality  of  thought.  Your 
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Miss  KIsie  Kushmore.  National  Contest  Con- 
suliant  and  her  as.sociales  DupUcale  prizes 
awarded  in  ca.se  of  ties  Entries,  contents, 
and  ideas  therein  l)eci)nir  the  |)ri)|)erty  of 
I'rocter  &  <;aml)le   No  eiitrii's  ri  tiirned. 

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of  Procter-  A;  (iaml)le,  their  advertising  agen- 
cies, and  their  families  Contests  limited  lo 
the  fnited  States  and  subject  lo  Federal. 
State  and  Local  regulations 

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first  prizes  each  of  SIOOO  cash.  Twelve  hun- 
dred and  fifty  additional  prizes  of  2  pairs  of 
(iothain  (iold  .Stripe  .\djustables  "Itadiance" 
shade,  proper  size. 

9.  Kach  dealer  mentionwl  by  the :U) cash  prize- 
winners will  also  receive  i.'A)  in  cash. 

10.  -Ml  $1000  prize-w  inners  w  ill  be  announced 
shortly  after  each  contest  closes,  over  "The 
O'Neills"  radio  program  and  "Mary  Marlin  " 


ENTRY  BLANK 

oifi/fe.  A&dem^^  becoaoc  


(Finish  this  sentence  in  25  additional  words  ...  or  lets) 

IVORV  FLAKES,  Dept.  RS-67.  Box  828, 
Cincmnati,  O. 

I  attach  the  top  from  on«  box  of  Ivory  Flakei  lor  fac- 
limile). 

My  stocking  size  is  


THINGS  I  NEVER  KNEW  TILL 


In  his  own  inimitable  way 
BY 

WALTER 
WINCHELL 


Walter  Winchell,  famous  New  York  col- 
umnist, went  to  Hollywood  to  star 
with  his  old  feuding  partner,  Ben  Ber- 
nie,  in  the  film,  M^ajl:e  Up  and  Live. 


THAT  his  real  name  is  Benjamin  Anzelevitz.  -But  his 
family  must  have  been  ashamed  of  him,  because  they 
wouldn't  let  him  use  the  family  name  on  the  stage. 

That  he  started  out  to  be  an  engineer  and  he  still 
fiddles  like  a  concrete  mixer.  (I  mean,  like  Jack  Benny 
playing  The  Bee!) 

That  his  family,  for  generations — they're  from  the  south 
of  Russia — had  all  worked  with  iron.   Mostly  shoeing 


"I  made  the  first  crack!  Yowsah!" 


Mae.stro:  Walter  says  he  started 
the  feud,  yowsah! 

Walter:  /'7aj/i— Bernie  says  he 
started  the  feud ! 

(Boys,  boys,  what  is  all  this?  You 
should  get  together  on  something!) 
*      *  * 

In  a  dark  corner  off  the  set  of  IVake 
Up  And  Live,  where,  on  the  Twen- 
tieth Century-Fox  lot,  the  famous 
feudists  are  feuding  together  in  film, 
with  many  a  verbal  stingaree  zinging 
through  the  air  and  many  a  wary, 
barbed-wire  glance  betwixt  'em,  I  sat, 
20 


first  with  one  and  then  with  the  other. 
And  occasionally,  in  durance  vile,  be- 
tween the  two.  A  palpitant,  a  pre- 
carious position ! 

Said  Walter  (his  never-quiet  hands 
manipulating  his  agile  cane,  his  eyes, 
lenses  which  nothing  escapes,  not  even 
a  dust  mote)  :  "I  started  it.  /  pulled 
the  first  crack.  It  was  back  in  1931 
when  I  went,  for  the  first  time,  on  the 
air.  On  the  Lucky  Strike  program. 
Expecting  to  broadcast  for  three  to 
four  weeks,  I  was  on  the  program  for 
a  year.   '0-kay,  America!' — remem- 


Ben  Bernie 

ber?  After  the  first  couple  of  weeks 
I  knew  that  something  was  wrong 
with  it.  Something  lacking.  It 
sounded  monotonous,  even  to  me.  Too 
many  blessed-eventings,  heartings, 
reno-vatings,    elopements,    twoings ; 


NOW  IBOUT  BEN  BERNIE 

Walter  Winchell  does  a  column  for  Radio  Stars  on  Ben  Bernie 


horses.  Bernie's  only  horsy  activity  is  betting  on  them. 
Every  time  he  won,  Director  Sidney  Lanfield  would  give 
him  another  close-up.  Fortunately,  Bernie  didn't  win 
often  enough  to  spoil  IVake  Up  and  Live. 

That  when  he  was  selling  toys  in  a  department  store, 
during  school  vacations,  his  enthusiastic  spiel  attracted  the 
attention  of  a  talent  (?)  scout.  He  was  given  a  tryout  in 
a  vaudeville  house,  where  the  customers  express  their 
disapproval  by  tossing  ripe  eggs  and  vegetables  at  the 
piffawmers. 

That  Bernie  was  so  sure  he  was  going  to  be  the  target 
for  the  vegetables,  that  he  demanded  in  his  contract  the 
right  to  clean  up  the  stage  after  the  show  and  take  the 
food  home ! 

That  he  picked  up  a  partner  and  toured  the  country  in 
vaudeville.  {But  the  partner.  Phil  Baker,  became  a  star!) 

That,  with  the  dance  craze  sweeping  the  country  after 
the  War,  he  organized  a  dance  band.  Because  he  used  his 
fiddle  for  a  baton,  instead  of  playing  it,  people  were  fouled 
into  thinking  he  was  a  good  musician. 

That  he  protected  himself  from  the  dancers  with  a 
smoke  screen.  He  burns  up  thirty  cigars  a  day  and  is 
the  only  orchestra  leader  to  smoke  them  while  playing. 


That  he  is  the  only  performer  allowed  to  smoke  cigars 
during  radio  programs. 

That  he  has  tripled  his  yearly  income  since  we  started 
taking  cracks  at  him.  (He  has  told  this  to  people  himself !) 

That  he  plays  songs  others  have  written,  that  others 
have  orchestrated,  lets  his  musicians  do  all  the  work  and 
uses  wisecracks  that  others  think  up — and  yet  he  gets 
all  the  money.  (There  ought  to  be  a  law!) 

That  he  appeared  in  one  of  the  first  talkies.  In  1926 
he  made  an  experimental  short  subject  for  Lee  De  Forrest, 
sound  pioneer.   In  spite  of  that,  talkies  have  become  a 

success. 

That  Ben  got  his  first  big  chance  with  an  oflFer  to  play 
at  the  newly-constructed  Hotel  Roosevelt.  That  the  hotel 
management  was  not  foolish,  however.  They  demanded 
that  Ben  take  a  ten-thousand-dollar  interest  in  the  hotel, 
before  they  would  give  him  the  jol). 

That  Ben  went  to  Arnold  Rothstein,  the  biggy  gambler, 
whom  he  never  had  met,  for  the  ten  grand.  Rothstein  came 
right  across  with  the  dough,  but  told  Bernie  to  make  a 
payment  back  on  it  every  Monday. 

That  Bernie.  who  is  dumb    (  Continued  on  page  81) 


"I  blessed-evented  it!    I'm  its  papa!" 


Walter  Winchell 


too  many  movie  people  and  flash- 
flashes.  Needed  high  lights.  Some- 
thing. (That's  why  I  use  Oddities  In 
The  News  today.)  I  figured  what  it 
needed — humor.  But  how?  Then 
it  occurred  to  me  that  it  might  be 


amusing  to  do,  on  the  air.  what  Mark 
Hellinger  and  I  had  been  doing  for 
some  time  in  our  respective  columns. 
Mark  on  the  Daily  News  and  1  on  tlie 
Mirror.  We'd  been  taking  cracks  at 
each  other,  hurling  mutual  insults  out 
of  our  inkwells,  each  blotting  the  fair 
name  of  the  other.  And  we  were 
and  we  are  good  ])als.  We  stopped  it. 
finally,  Mark  and  I.  because  the  pub- 
lic didn't  seem  to  like  it.  They  wrote 
in,  many  of  them,  that  they  were  ad- 
mirers of  us  both  and  resented  it 
when  I  took  a  crack  at  Mark  or  vice 


versa. 

"Anyway,  it  had  attracted  a  lot  of 
attention.  And  so  1  sent  Bernie  a 
wire  to  Chicago — he  was  playing 
there,  at  the  College  Inn,  at  the  time. 
I  said :  'I'm  going  to  take  a  crack  at 
you,  do  you  mind?  On  my  next 
broadcast  I'll  hand  Eddie  Duchin  a 
wire  and  say:  "Look.  Eddie,  here's  a 
wire  for  you  from  a  booking  agent — 
no,  my  mistake,  it's  from  Ben  Bernie.'' 
He  says:  ".fust  heard  your  broadcast. 
'Think  you  are  great.  Can  offer  you 
a  7i'pek's      (Continued  on  page  U5) 

21 


The  Ponfiac  Varsity  Show  goes  on  the 
air  from  coast  to  coast  over  the  NBC- 
Red  network,  John  Held,  Jr.,  in  charge. 


Winner  of  the  "ideal  co-ed"  contest,  Dor- 
othy Miller  of  Columbia  University's 
Varsity  Show  accepts  the  cup  from  Held. 


BY    GENE  HARVEY 


THEY  say  that  an  artist  draws  something 
of  himself  in  his  drawings.  And  they  say 
that  humorists  are  usually  glum  and  morose 
individuals  out  of  working  hours.  Well, 
John  Held,  Jr.,  whose  Pontiac  Varsity  Shoiv 
takes  the  air  from  a  different  college  each 
week,  is  an  upsetter  of  tradition.  He  doesn't 
in  the  least  resemble  his  famous  drawings 
of  amusingly  vacant  "sheiks"  and  "flappers," 
that  so  well  expressed  the  spirit  of  their  age 
back  in  '26,  and  instead  of  l>eing  glum  he 
wisecracks  like  any  college  kid — except  that 
his  wisecracks  are  usually  funny. 

Interviewing  John  Held,  Jr.,  is  something 
of  a  cross  between  being  a  minstrel  inter- 
locutor and  pulling  teeth.  Not  that  Held  is 
smart-alecky ;  on  the  contrary,  he's  friendly, 
informal  and  the  antithesis  of  stuffed  shirt. 
But  he'll  tell  you,  with  perfect  gravity,  that 
he  was  expelled  from  the  Utah  State  Re- 
formatory as  incorrigible;  that  the  narrow- 
est escape  he  ever  had  was  forgetting  to  put 


in  his  bridge  while  on  the  way  to  a  broadcast ;  that  he's 
a  string-saver  whose  collection  has  grown  to  two  large 
snarls ;  that  the  greatest  handicap  he  had  to  overcome  was 
picking  his  nose.  And  then,  in  case  you  think  you're  being 
"ribbed,"  he  chuckles  gustily.  On  the  other  hand  he'll 
skip  casually  over  adventures  in  the  RiflF  War.  or  his  career 
as  a  rodeo  rider,  and  tell  you  that  his  flapper  drawings 
were  inspired  by  being  kicked  on  the  head  by  a  horse — 
and  to  prove  it  he'll  let  you  feel  the  hole  in  his  skull ! 

Sending  out  for  a  pair  of  forceps,  however,  your  re- 
porter managed  to  extract  a  few  facts  about  John  Held, 
Jr.,  not  too  painfully.  He  was  born  January  lOth,  1888, 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  and  he  claims  that  as  a  child  he 
had  long  blonde  ringlets  and  played  with  Indian  kids,  both 
of  which  claims  probably  are  true.  His  parents,  he  says, 
were  married,  and  his  father  was  a  copperplate  engraver, 
which  accounts  for  the  fact  that,  at  the  age  of  seven,  young 
John,  Jr.,  sold  to  a  candy  company  a  woodcut  engraving 
he  had  made.  A  little  later  he  was  editor  and  artist  on 
the  Salt  Lake  High  School  Red  and  Black,  and  in  case 
you  believe  the  reformatory  gag,  he  really  went  to  the 
University  of  Utah  and  drew  for  the  school's  magazine, 
The  Utonian. 

When  he  was  sixteen,  Held  started  as  a  cartoonist  on 
the  Salt  Lake  City  Tribune,  held  the  job  for  about  a  year 


Says  John  Held,  Jr.,  cartoonist,  author,  sculptor  and  play- 


Si 


John  Held,  Jr.,  watches  with  eagle  eye 
the  progress  of  a  broadcast  by  the 
University    of    Chicago's    Varsity  Show. 


Productionist  Gordon  Whyte  gives  the 
charming  star  of  Ohio  State  University 
Varsity  Show,  Betty  Frank,  some  pointers. 


and  left  to  fulfill  a  pet  ambition — riding  bucking  horses. 
He  did  this  well  enough  to  travel  all  through  the  West  as 
a  rodeo  rider,  so  if  there's  any  mental  picture  in  your 
mind  of  the  artist  as  a  pale  young  man  with  glasses,  it's 
time  to  revise  it.  But  basically.  Held  was — and  is — an 
artist.  He  says  he'd  probablv  never  be  very  good  at  any- 
thing but  art.  and  after  some  time  with  l)ucking  broncs, 
John,  Jr..  camt'  to  New  '^'ork  in  search  of  fame  and 
fortune. 

He  was  about  twent\-t\vo  at  the  time,  and  he  found  a 
job  doing  j)osters  for  the  Street  Railwa\-  Advertising 
Comijanw  It  couldn't  have  paid  very  much,  because  he 
lived  in  a  .52.50-a-week  room  that  he  called  Cockroach 
Glades.  After  about  a  year  of  that  jol).  John  Held.  Jr.. 
went  in  for  free-lancing,  selling  drawings  to  the  variou.^ 
comic  magazines  and  doing  jiretty  well  at  it  until  the  War, 
during  which  he  served  as  a  Xa\  \'  officer. 

Here  is  one  artist  whose  career  has  consistently  alter- 
nated betweeti  art  and  adventui  e ;  cartoon  and  conflict. 
The  horse-kick  incident  really  happened,  after  the  War, 
around  1925.  Held,  doing  very  well  again  as  free-lance 
artist  and  cartoonist,  was  on  his  Connecticut  farm  and, 
while  taking  a  colt  to  the  blacksmith's,  the  onery  critter 
kicked  him  in  the  head,  leaving  a  dent  in  his  skull  as 
souvenir.   And  then  he  began  to  do  the  amusing  collegiate 


tvpes  of  "flappers"  and  "sheiks"  with  the 
round  heads,  long  skinny  legs  and  angular 
bodies,  that  became  forever  associated  with 
liih  name  and  were  so  widely  imitated  at  the 
time.  HeUl  stoutly  claims  that  the  kick  in- 
.spired  them,  and  Bob  Sherwood,  the  editor 
of  the  comic  magazine.  Life,  said  he  wished 
the  same  horse  would  kick  some  of  his  other 
artists.  At  any  rate,  that  series  of  characters 
did  express  perfectly  the  spirit  of  college 
youth  at  that  time,  and  >ou  probably  can  re- 
member when  no  yellow  slicker  was  com- 
])lete  without  a  Held  drawing  reproduced 
on  it. 

It  was  comparatively  tame  work,  perhaps, 
for,  hardly  having  recovered  from  the  kick, 
John  Held,  Jr.,  was  olif  to  Africa  to  get 
some  information  on  the  Rif¥  War.  "All  the 
accredited  correspondents  had  been  locked 
up  in  Fez,"  he  says,  "and  I  decided  that 
credentials  were  a  liability  rather  than  an 
asset.  So  I  tore  up  all  my  credentials  and 
passport  and  was  able  to  jjass  freely  back 
and  forth  through  the  lines,  li  they  asked 
for  mv  credentials  {Continued  on  page  82) 


Wright,  master-of-ceremonies  of  the  Pontiac  Varsity  Show 


O 


BY 

MILDRED  MASTIN 


UBINOFF  fiddled  while  blondes 
burned,  and  smoke  got  in  his  eyes ! 
The  popular  violinist  is  just  recov- 
ering from  his  sizzling  sessions  in 
court — and  the  question  is,  are  Ru- 
binoflf's  worries  over,  or  only  just 
begun? 

Dave's  acute  blonde  trouble 
started  three  years  ago,  when  he 
got  his  first  message  from  Garcia. 
He  was  having  double  trouble  at 
that  time.  And  it  was  just  about 
as  funny  as  mumps  on  both  sides ! 

On  the  one  side  was  Peggy 
Garcia,  blonde  ex-hat-check  girl, 
suing  Dave  for  breach-of -promise. 
On  the  other  side  was  blonde  ex- 
wife,  ex-chorus  girl  Blanche  More- 
land,  suing  Dave  for  breach-of- 
alimony.  Blanche  contended  that, 
back  in  the  days  before  Dave  was 
famous,  he  had  promised  her  a 
quarter  of  his  income,  regularly, 
in  alimony.  And  Dave  wasn't 
handing  it  over.  She  asked  for  a 
tidy  fortune  in  back  pay.  Peggy 
contended  that  Dave  had  begged 
her  to  marry  him,  and  then  had 
forgotten  all  about  it.  She  was  re- 
freshing his  memory  with  a  de- 
mand for  a  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars' worth  of  heart  balm. 

Dave's  reply  to  these  claims 
was :  "When  you  get  known,  you 


get  lots  of  suits.  It's  part  of  the 
routine."  He  didn't  realize  then 
that  baby  Peggy's  routine  would 
last  for  three  years  and  get  coast- 
to-coast  publicity  as  a  great 
spectacle. 

Not  many  people  had  heard  of 
Peggy  Garcia  before  the  suit  be- 
gan. Peggy  has  a  pretty  face  and 
empty  blue  eyes  and  a  baby  voice, 
and  her  real  name  is  Pauline  Tay- 
lor. At  home,  down  in  the  Virginia 
hills,  they  called  her  Polly.  She 
found  the  name  Garcia  on  a  cigar 
band  and  thought  it  must  be 
Spanish,  since  cigars  come  from 
Havana,  and  as  anybody  knows,  a 
Spanish  name  is  grand  for  a  girl 
who  wants  to  make  good. 

Peggy  told  the  court  that  she 
changed  her  name  to  Garcia,  be- 
cause, after  she  started  to  sue  Ru- 
binoff,  she  couldn't  get  a  job.  She'd 
ask  for  a  spot  in  a  night  club,  and 
the  owner  would  say :  "Are  you  the 
Pauline  Taylor  who  is  suing  my 
pal  Rubinoff?"  And  Peggy,  who 
could  not  tell  a  lie,  would  say: 
"Yes."  And  the  prospective  em- 
ployer would  say :  "Get  out." 

So  it  was  as  Miss  Garcia  that  the 
little  Taylor  girl  from  Virginia — 
wide-eyed,  on  the  verge  of  tears, 
and  dripping  with  silver  fox — went 

Miss  Garcia  hears  testimony 
about  her  earlier  marriage. 


k    b  I  o  n  d  e  j 

W  Nemesis' 
f     weeps  OS  her  |f 
/      lowyer  fells 
.^^V  her  storw.  ^ 


The  story  behind  the  breach-of-promise 
suit  brought  by  blonde  Peggy  Garcia 
against    radio's    romantic  vioh'nist 


into  the  crowded  courtroom  a  few 
months  ago  to  tell  her  tale  of  woe. 

Maybe  it  was  the  crowded  court- 
room, with  its  sea  of  sympathetic 
faces.  Maybe  it  was  that,  suddenly, 
Peggy  realized  fully  the  wrong  she 
felt  had  been  done  her.  At  any 
rate,  just  before  she  took  the  stand, 
she  raised  her  ante  from  one  hun- 
dred thousand  to  five  hundred 
thousand,  and  Dave  found  himself 
faced  with  a  suit  for  half  a  million 
dollars ! 

The  gist  of  Peggy's  testimony 
was  that  she  was  a  young  and  in- 
nocent girl  when  she  met  Rubinoflf 
and  he  had  taken  advantage  of 
her.  By  her  testimony,  of  course, 
Peggy  sought  to  give  proof  of  her 
innocence.  She  told  how,  when 
she  first  went  to  his  apartment, 
RubinoflF  had  said :  "There's  my 
Stradivarius,"  and  Peggy  was  so 
innocent  she  didn't  even  know  he 
was  talking  about  a  fiddle ! 

As  further  proof  of  her  guile- 
less youth,  she  said  that  when  she 
was  introduced  to  Rubinoff  in  the 
first  place,  she  tossed  her  head  and 
laughed,  saying:  "If  you're  Ru- 
binoflF, I'm  Cleopatra!"  Some 
people  never  did  figure  out  why 
this  retort  was  evidence  of  inno- 
cence.   But  Peggy  said  it  was. 


She  confessed  she  was  so  inno- 
cent, she  didn't  know  what  Ru- 
binoff meant  when  he  told  her  she 
excited  him.  And  furthermore, 
that  time  when  she  was  seen  in  his 
bedroom — RubinoflF  was  wearing 
lavender  pajamas — she  had  gone  in 
to  look  at  his  etchings. 

She  told  the  court  about  the 
evening  when  RubinoflF  played  the 
wedding  march  for  her  on  his 
Stradivarius,  and  how  beautiful  it 
was,  and  how  marvelous  he  was. 

Then  came  the  day  when  he 
asked  her  to  go  on  tour  with  him 
— as  a  singer,  it  is  presumed.  And 
Peggy  demurred.  So  Dave  said : 
"Would  you  go  if  we  were  mar- 
ried?" And  Peggy  blushed  and 
whispered:  "Yes." 

But  RubinoflF  didn't  give  her  a 
ring.  Oh,  no.  Because  no  ring  in 
the  world  was  good  enough  for  a 
beautiful  girl  like  Peggy.  Instead 
he  gave  her  a  wrist  watch. 

While  this  testimony  was  going 
on,  the  judge  was  rapping  for 
order,  threatening  to  clear  the 
courtroom  if  the  laughter  did  not 
stop.  Even  members  of  the  jury 
were  trying  hard  to  keep  their 
faces  straight. 

But  it  wasn't  so  funny  to  Ru- 
binoflF.   {Continued  an  page  88) 


The  famous  violinist  [right) 
with  his  lawyer,  A.  J.  Halpern. 


Glimpses  of  gaiety  and  glamour  on  and  off  the  air 


Joy  Hodges  [L] 
and  Miss  Penny, 
two  gay  young 
lasses  of  the 
BS  Hollywood 
roadcasts. 


as  radio  personalities  sparkle  in  the  spotlight 


Nino  Martini 
rehearses  with 
Andre  Koste- 
lanetz  for  the 
Chesterfield 
CBS  program. 


Gymnast  Wallace  gives  a  flock  of 
radio  starlets  a  workout.  (I.  to  r.) 
Wallace,  Gene  Byron,  Alice  Hill, 
Elinor  Harriot,  Dolores  Gillen, 
Sally  Agnes  Smith,  Patricia  Dunlap. 


George  Rector,  famed  con- 
noisseur of  foods,  chats  to 
housewives  on  famous  folk 
and  delectable  dishes. 
Marcella  Shields  assists. 


RADIO  STARS 


It's  another  "scoop"  as  Charles 
Butterworth  flashes  in  on  the 
Fred  Astaire  Packard  Program. 


Charlie  decides  to  give  his  pet  wire- 
haired  terrier  a  music  lesson.  But 
the  pup,  we  gather,  isn't  having  any! 


D<f$tt  So^  CaiiL 


By    GLADYS  HALL 


"WHAT'S  behind  this  dead  pan  of  mine?"  Charlie 
asked,  repeatin^,^  back  to  me  my  impertinent  question. 
"Wily,  tempestuousness  is.  I  am  tempestuous  by  nature. 
I  am  an  extremist.  I  blow  hot  or  cold.  I  am  up  or  down. 
J  am  in  the  slough  of  some  deep  despond  one  day  and 
crowing  in  a  fool's  paradise  the  next  day. 

"Nothing  external  has  anything  to  do  with  these  ex- 
tremes. It  is  something  zvithin  myself.  I  am  not  in 
relation  to  the  cosmos,  you  see.  The  cosmos  is  in  relation 
to  me." 

/  died!  Such  a  gigantic  cosmos,  to  be  in  relation  to 
such  a  slender  little  man  ! 

We  were  sitting,  Charlie  and  I,  in  a  booth  at  Lucy's,  the 
jwjpular  cafe  hard  by  the  NBC  building  where,  every 
Tuesday  night,  Charlie  makes  folks  hold  their  sides  and 
sponsors  hold  out  tempting  contracts,  while  Fred  Astaire 
makes  folks  tap  their  feet  and  smile  and  sigh  to  the  tapping 
of  his  incomparable  feet  and  the  nice  rhythm  of  his  voice. 

It  took  me  some  time  to  recover  my  equilibrium.  For, 
as  I  had  sat  there,  watching  for  Charlie  to  come  in,  I  had 
fancied  that  a  meek  little  man  would  scuttle  in,  with 


furtive  glances  to  right  and  left,  timid  and  wary,  perhaps 
a  touch  more  crushed  than  usual  because  of  his  recent 
separation  from  his  wife.  Charlie  would  look  lonely,  I 
thought.  And  who  or  what  could  look  lonelier  than 
Charlie  Butterworth? 

But  not  at  all !  What  I  did  see  enter  was  a  slender  and 
Club- New- Yorkerish  man,  wearing  black  and  white 
checked  trousers,  a  Bond-Streetish  coat,  a  gray  fedora 
hat  set  at  a  jaunty  angle,  horn-rimmed  specs,  also  jaunty, 
a  flower  in  his  buttonhole,  doeskin  gloves  held  smartly, 
careless-like,  in  his  hands. 

I  felt  a  little  as  though  I  were  cocktailing  with  the  Mad 
Hatter  or,  possibly,  with  the  Dormouse  of  Alice  In 
Wonderland,  a  Dormouse  dressed  by  Bond  Street  and 
talking  as  one  might  expect  Clark  Gable  to  talk. 

He  called  for  a  telephone  to  be  brought  to  the  booth. 
He  made  innumerable  calls,  each  call  prefaced  by  an 
apology  to  me.  He  called  Charlie  Farrell  (his  house  guest 
at  the  time),  Nunnally  Johnson,  Bart  Marshall,  the  Town 
House,  this  one  and  that.  His  social  life  seems  to  be 
terrific.    I  mentioned  it.    He  murmured :    "  'Tis.    I  am 


'1  am  tempestuous  by  nature,"  says  Charles  Butterworth,  one  of 


a  Sophisticate,  you  see.  A  Sophisticate  {Capital  S),  also, 
by  nature.  I  like  living  in  big  cities.  I  am  a  night  hawk. 
I  like  to  come  in  with  the  milkman  and  sleep  until  noon. 
It  is  the  restlessness  in  me,  perhaps  the  gypsy  .  .  . 

"It  is,  also,  relaxation.  I  must  work  like  the  Furies  or 
I  must  relax  completely.  I  love  the  radio  work.  It  gets 
more  and  more  interesting  to  me  as  I  become  more  accus- 
tomed to  it.  But  also  it  is  very  worrisome.  A  picture  is 
made  and  it  is  done.  A  radio  broadcast  only  leads  to 
rehearsals  for  the  next  broadcast.  But  I  have  had  very 
gratifying  reactions.  It  is  a  little  too  soon  to  tell  as  yet, 
however,  just  whether  my  future  lies  with  radio  or  with 
pictures.  It  must  be  one  or  the  other  for  me,  not  both. 
I  am  going  away  this  summer  for  two  months.  I  shall 
prol)ably  visit  Scandinavia — alone.  When  I  return  a  de- 
cision will  be  made." 

The  radio,  Mr.  Butterworth  believes,  is  especially  suited 
to  comedians.  For  comedians  cannot  vary  their  make-up 
as  dramatic  actors  can.  Robert  Taylor  can  be  a  beach- 
comber in  one  picture,  wear  a  middy's  uniform  in  the 
next,  tails  and  a  top  hat  in  others.    He  can  be  clean- 


"Don't  say  I  said  so!"  he 
warns,  (left).  Above  are  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Chas.  Butterworth. 


shaven,  wear  a  beard,  sideburns,  a  goatee.  But  comedians 
must  always  look  the  same.  Chaplin  never  can  discard 
his  shoes,  his  cane,  his  little  derby  hat.  Lloyd  never  can 
remove  his  horn-rimmed  spectacles.  W.  C.  Fields  never 
can  lose  weight  nor  that  rubicund  nose.  Butterworth 
must,  on  the  screen,  perpetually  scurry  and  scuttle  and 
wear  that  look  of  anxiety  and  futility.  On  the  air 
comedians  can  be  more  versatile.  They  are  not  forever 
chained  to  their  unvarying  bodies,  cramped  in  their  un- 
varying make-ups.  The  visual  helps  comedy  in  a  great 
many  ways,  of  course.  But  it  also  runs  the  danger  of 
becoming  monotonous. 

Charlie  does  not  want,  or  intend  to  keep  on  doing  the 
kind  of  radio  work  he  is  doing  now.  He  enjoys  it.  He 
enjoys  working  with  Fred  Astaire.  Fred  gives,  he  says, 
prestige  and  dignity  to  anything  he  does,  to  anyone  he 
works  with.  The  Astaire  name,  said  Charlie,  put  the 
program  over.  But  next  year  Charlie  hopes  to  do  a 
master-of-ceremonies  kind  of  thing,  like  Jack  Benny,  like- 
ah-Fred  Allen.  He  wants  the  kind  of  a  Drogram  where 
he  can  be  funny  some  of  the  time,  (Continued  on  page  104) 


radio's  ace  comedians.  You'll  gather  that,  and  more,  from  this  tale! 

31 


Louise  Mossey  sings  authentic  western 
mu|fc  on  the  Log  Cabin  Dude  Ranch  show. 


The  Westerners  (I.  fo  r.):  Larry  Wellington, 
Milt  Mabie,  Louise,  Allen  and  Dott  Massey. 


fifteen 


The  romantic  story  of  Louise 
Massey,  star  of  The  Westerners 


Milt  Mabie  (second  from  left)  is  Louise's 
husband.    Allen  and  Dott  are  her  brothers. 


The  cow  country  of  the  old  West  is  her 
home  and  Its  dramatic  ballads  her  sonqs. 


BY 


MA 
MA 


FOR  most  of  us,  romance  is  a  iiung  hard  and  seldom 
come  by.  We  hope  to  meet  it.  all  of  us,  in  a  love  affair, 
or  in  a  journey  to  far  places,  or  in  a  g^lamorous  friendship) 
—and  we  get  it  second  hand  and  a  little  wistfully  by  go- 
ing to  the  movies  or  reading  a  book,  or  listening  to  the 
radio. 

But  once  in  a  while  there  is  a  person,  and  once  in  a 
longer  while  we're  lucky  enough  to  meet  a  person,  who  is 
the  embodiment  of  romance. 

Loui.se  Massey  is  one  of  those  people. 

She  comes  from  a  country  that  is.  to  many  an  Ameri- 
can, the  land  of  romance — ^the  old  Southwest.  Her  mar- 
riage is  as  fantastic  a  romance  as  an)- 
fiction  writer  could  invent.  Her  career 
is  gay  and  colorful  and  successful,  and 
wrapped  up  in  America's  two  most  ro- 
mantic professions — radio  and  the 
movies.  Her  future— from  where  one 
stands  in  the  pre.sent.  it  stretches  out  as  brilliant  as  the 
colors  of  a  Xavajo  tapestry,  to  an  ending  as  satisfying 
as  the  soft  but  vivid  colors  of  a  desert  twilight. 

And  to  meet  and  talk  with  Louise  Massey  makes  you 
feel  sure,  again,  that  love  and  laughter  and  adventure 
are  still  alive  in  the  world. 

In  speech,  her  voice  is  as  soft  and  pleasant  as  when  it 
is  blended  in  the  songs  of  The  Westerners.  In  it  there 
is  none  of  that  well-known  and  slightly  nauseous  "South- 
ern accent;"  it's  just  a  liquidity  of  tone,  the  turn  of  a 
phrase,  some  little  regional  ungrammaticism.  that  makes 
her  sound  somehow  a  little  different — piquant. 

"Yes.  I  was  married  when  I  was  fifteen."  she  will  tell 
you  with  a  tolerant,  amused  crinkling  of  her  eyes.  "But 
for  goodness  sake  don't  talk  about  that!  It's  been 
screamed  in  headlines  till  people  must  be  sick  of  readin' 
it!" 

But.  of  course,  people  probably  never  will  grow  sick  of 
hearing  about  love  matches  that  succeed  in  the  face  of 
every  dire  prediction  and  contrary  to  all  the  statistics 
drawn  up  by  sociologists  to  show  why  so-called  child 
marriages  cannot  last. 

"Once,"  she  remembered,  "somebody  wrote  a  story 
and  put  a  headline  on  it:  'Louise  Massey  Raised  Seve)i 
Brothers!'  "  She  laughed.  "When  I  read  that,  I  thought: 


RG ARET 
HIN 


"That'll  give  them  a  laugh — all  those  great  big  six-foot 
men  about  forty-five  years  old  !'  Raise  them  ?  Why,  I  was 
just  a  little  ])iece  of  something  running  around  there,  with 
all  of  them  spoiling  me  rotten!"  She  shook  her  head,  re- 
membering that  childhood  as  the  darling  of  seven  big 
brothers  and  a  big  father. 

■"As  a  matter  of  fact,  that's  probal)ly  whv  I  wanted  to 
get  married."  (This  at  a  distance  of  fifteen  years.)  "I'd 
had  ever\-thing  else— they  gave  me  a  Buick  roadster  of 
my  own  when  I  was  fourteen.  Thev  like  to  died  when 
they  heard  about  the  wedding.  But  they  didn't  think 
it'd  last." 

The  laugh  faded  from  her  face  and 
she  was  silent  for  a  moment. 

"I  don't  guess  it  would  have  lasted, 
either,  "  she  said  at  last,  "if  things  hadn't 
hap])ened  the  way  they  did.  1  was  so 
awful,  and  so  spoiled,  that  if  I'd  had  to 
settle  down  and  keep  house.  I'd  ha\e  got  bored  and  liad 
a  fit.  But.  of  course.  I  went  on  back  to  school."  Her 
eyes  crinkled  into  a  smile  and  she  chuckled  a  little,  as  if 
at  some  sudden,  private  remembrance.  "And  then,  pretty 
soon.  I  had  my  baby,  which  was  something  new.  and 
sort  of  exciting,  although. '"  she  laughed,  "it  didn't  in- 
terfere with  me.  anyway!  it  was  just  like  a  little  sick- 
ness to  me.  you  know?  I  had  it.  and  then  1  went  on  with 
what  I  was  doin',  and  my  Negro  mammy  took  care  of  the 
baby.  \'es.  the  same  one  that  had  raised  me.  Why.  she 
would  no  more  let  me  go  away  from  home  without  her  I 
I  was  her  child  and  she  didn't  see  how  I  d  manage  with- 
out her.  /  certainly  didn't  see,  because  I'd  never  kept 
house  or  done  anything  exce])t  tear  around  on  a  horse 
or  in  a  car.  And  1  guess  the  folks  didn't  .see.  either, 
how  I  would,  so  they  let  her  come." 

"Then,  the  next  year  after  the  baby  came,  we  planned 
and  built  us  a  home,  and  that  was  exciting." 

"My  husband.  Milt  Mabie.  had  just  got  out  of  a 
military  school  in  Tennessee  a  little  while  before  we  were 
married,  and  he'd  been  helping  his  dad  with  his  hardware 
btisiness.  one  of  the  biggest  in  the  Southwest.  But  after 
a  while  he  thought  maybe  he'd  like  to  do  something  dif- 
ferent, so  he  started  singing  with  us.  And  then  pretty 
soon  we  went  on  the  road.  {Contiuued  on  page  93) 


33 


The  Landf  Trio.  Don,  Karl  ami  Jock. 

EST 
themseivM 

up  on  a 


heard  Sundays  at  2K)0  pjiu 
the  NBC-Rtd  network,  hang  th 


Leff  to  right:  Philip  Merivale. 
Deems  Taylor  and  Rolond  Young  toke 
a  few  steps  with  the  Rockettes  in 
a  studio  in  Radio  City  Music  Hall. 


Smilin'  Ed 
McConnell. 
who  enjoys 
his  Sundoy 
afternoon 
NBC  songs 
of  cheer. 


Maestros,  merrymakers,  men  and  maids 


Its  a  good  way  to  keep  that  slim 
wfoistline,  soys  Natal  ie  Pork.  NBC's 
blonde  young  actress,  heard  in  Haw- 
thorns House  and  other  NBC  shows. 


Romantic's  the  word  for  Parkyakorkus 
(hlcHrry  Einstein),  radio  ana  movie 
comedian.  And  he's  married  now  to 
Thelma  Leeds,  brunette  screen  singer. 


A  rehecN^I  of  the  Swing  Fourfeen, 
who  sing  wifh  Russ  Morgan's  orches- 
tra, broadcast  over  the  Columbia  net- 
work Saturday  nights,  8:30  pjn.,  EST. 


Martha  Rave,  America's  feminine  Joe 
E.  Brovm,  of  the  Tuesday  night  CBS  Al 
Jo/son  SAow,  duplicates  a  Jolson  rendi- 
tion of  a  Mammy  song  for  beaming  Al. 


Miss  Penny  (Penny  Gill  to  her  home 
folks)  relaxes  from  her  arduous 
duties  as  secretary  to  Professor 
Jock  Oakie  of  CBS'  Oakie's  CoUege. 


Roy  Heoth- 
erton's  pop- 
ular bari- 
tone de- 
lights CBS 
and  MBS 
listeners. 


Bandleoder  Abe  Lyman  greets  his  pal 
Jock  Dempsev  and  Mrs.  Dempsey  at 
one  of  Lyman  s  Sunday  night  informal 
progranu  at  the  Hotel  New  Yorker. 


whose  notes  and  nonsense  delight  us 


12ADIO 


UMBER  ONE:  As  usual,  George  Burns  is  floored  by  Cracie 


Allen's  merry  comeback  in  a  litlle  family  tete-a-tete.  Num- 
ber Two:  Not  so  long  ago  Eddie  Bergen  was  just  another  good 
vaudevillian,  now  his  ventriloquist  act  is  the  rage  of  the  day. 
At  the  moment,  he  is  in  a  heated  argument  with  his  top- 
hatted  friend  and  dummy,  Charlie  McCarthy.  Number  Three: 
Miss  Penny,  and  she  looks  like  a  million,  is  the  femme  inter- 
est of  Jack  Oakie't  College,  but  in  a  leisure  spot  like  this  she 
is  just  Miss  Penny  Gill.  Number  Four:  Grace  Albert,  the  cute 
bride  of  the  Honeymooners  dramatic  skits,  offers  an  advance 
showing  of  the  new  idea  in  bathing  suits.  Number  Five:  ''No 
Dogs  Allowed"  signs  mean  only  arguments  to  Ed  East  and 
Ralph  Dumke,  Sisters  of  the  Skillet,  who  are  shown  here  try- 
ing to  sneak  their  prize  pooch  into  the  Columbia  studios. 
Number  Six:  Wouldn't  you  like  to  be  the  lucky  guy  on  the 
receiving  end  of  Joy  Hodges'  friendly  greeting  at  the  Ambas- 
sador Club  in  Los  Angeles?  Joy  currently  divides  her  time  and 
talents  between  Hollywood  studios  and  Columbia  broadcasts. 


W  OULD  you  like  to  hear  the  story  of  how  Frank  Parker, 
his  eve  fixed  on  the  jjleamiiiij;  Star  of  suecess  twinkHng  in 
the  distance,  strove  mightily  for  a  chance  on  the  stage? 
How  he  haunted  agencies,  tramped  his  shoes  thin  on 
Uroadway.  fought  for  a  chance  to  gain  a  foothold  in  the 
precarious  world  of  the  theatre  or  radio ;  how  he  was  al- 
ways fiercely  determined  to  win  acclaim  with  his  voice? 

Well,  I'm  sorry ;  there  isn't  any  such  story.  Frank  fell 
into  show  husiness  hy  accident,  and  then  as  a  hoofer,  not 
a  singer.  And  radio  was  wished  on  him,  willy-nilly,  by  the 
sickness  of  a  friend.  So  if  you'd  be  interested  in  that 
story — which  should  interest,  if  only- for  sheer  novelty, 
lend  an  ear  to  the  saga  of  the  lad  who  lets  things  come 
to  him,  but  who  figures  that  you've  got  to  he  ready  when 
thev  do  come.  That's  the  principle  Frank  Parker  always 
has  worked  on,  and  the  answer  is  a  spot  among  the  toj) 
flight  radio  vocalists  and  a  star  i)art  in  a  P»roadway  show 
at  the  moment. 

Parker,  at  thirty,  has  been  on  the  air  for  ten 
years,  in  such  shows  as  Gulf  Oil.  Cities 
Sen'ice,  Chevrolet,  Kolster.  La  Palina, 
Brunswick.  Pahnolivc,  Evening 
Paris,  General  Tire  and  others. 
So  his  system — if  it  is 
system — seems  to  work. 

"1   never  tried 
hard  for  things," 


Frank  said  in  his  dressing-room,  while  making  up  for  the 
part  of  Wyoming  Steve  Gibson,  in  his  current  play. 
Howdy  Stranger.  "Naturally,  I  don't  mean  it  pays  to 
be  lazy  or  have  no  ambition.  But  if  you're  cut  out  for 
something,  it  seems  to  come  to  you  if  you  just  let  it; 
at  least,  it  always  has  to  me.  All  Pve  had  to  worry  about 
was  to  /'(•  ready  for  the  breaks  when  they  came." 

Fnuik  .stresses  it  just  that  way,  and  means  it.  All  the 
breaks  in  the  world,  he  figures,  aren't  any  good  if  you're 
not  c(|uii)ped  to  make  the  most  of  them.  No  chance  is 
any  giKul  unless  you  have  the  talent  or  ability  and  are 
pre])art'(l  to  make  something  out  of  it. 


'All  I  had  to  do  was 
be  ready  for  'breaks'  when 
they  came/'  says  Frank  Parker 


Frank  Parker  sings  on  The 
Rippling  Rhythm  Revue,  with 
Shep  Fields  and  the  Canovas, 
on  Sundays,  at  9:00  p.nn.  EDST, 
over   the    NBC-Blue  network. 


The  big  bass  viol  has  a  wicked 
eye,  Frank  thinks,  as  he  lays  a 
tentative  bow  across  its  mighty 
strings.  Singing,  thinks  Frank, 
would  doubtless  be  much  easier! 


"My  first  job  in  show  business,"  lie  said,  "was  about 
as  premeditated  as  falling  down  a  coal  hole.  Radio  was 
the  same  way  .  .  ." 

But  let's  check  back  and  see  how  it  happened. 

Frank  Parker  is  that  rare  (jcims  in  Manhattan,  New 
York  Ix)rn.  And  if  his  theory  of  "be  prepared"  has  given 
any  idea  that  he  was  a  rather  noble  Boy  Scout  type  as 
a  kid,  now  is  the  time  to  discard  it.  A  student  at  Holy 
Xame,  Frank— or  "Ciccio" — Parker,  as  he  was  sometimes 
called,  being  Italian  on  the  maternal  side,  was  something 
of  a  young  roughneck.  And  young  Frank,  whose  claim 
to  fame  now  is  his  voice,  was  gently  but  firmly  eased  out 


of  Holy  Name  because  he  couldn't  see  the  idea  of  singing 
in  the  choir. 

■'There  wasn't  any  choice  about  it,"  he  grins.  "It  wasn't  as 
though  I  minded  singing.  But  they'd  pick  the  boys  they 
wanted  in  the  choir  and  you  sang — whether  you  liked  it  or 
not.  Then,  meeting  the  gang  outside,  they'd  yell :  'Sissie !'  " 
And  Frank  didn't  like  to  be  called  "sissie ;"  especially  since 
he'd  managed  to  be  accepted  by  the  toughest — and  hence 
the  most  attractive — gang  of  kids  in  the  neighborhood. 

So  he  completed  his  education  in  other  schools  and  one 
day,  in  his  'teens,  he  accompanied  a  friend,  who  was  trying 
to  get  on  the  stage,  to  an  agent's  office.  The  friend  got 
the  usual :  "Nothing  today,"  but  Frank  suddenly  found 
himself  being  greeted  effusively  by  the  agent. 

"Hello — hello,"  he  said  heartily  to  Parker.  "Where've 
you  been?    I've  been  trying  to  get  in  touch  with  you." 
"But — I  mean  .  .  ."  the  bewildered  Frank  stammered. 
"I  know — so  you've  been  busy,"  the  agent  waved  him 
aside.  "I've  got  a  spot  for  you  in  a  new  show  ...  Go 
around  to  the  theatre  this  afternoon  at  two;  they'll 
put  you  on." 

Before  he  knew  it  the  agent  was  gone  and 
Frank  found  himself  holding  a  slip  with  the 
name  of  the  theatre  on  it.   "Is  he  nuts?" 
Frank  asked  his  friend,  who  grinned 
ruefully  {Continued  on  page  86) 


Women  like  Frank  Parker's  attractive 
tenor  voice.  Women  like  Frank  Parker. 
He's  boyish,  handsome,  romantic,  and  not 
a  bit  bored  with  life.  But  as  yet,  he 
says,  he  has  not  thought  about  marriage. 


Frank's  first  radio  appearance  was  with 
Hope  Hampton.  The  La  Palina  program  was 
his  first  big  commercial.  He  sang  five 
years  with  the  A  &  P  Gypsies,  two  with  the 
Benny  show.    Here  he  is  with  Dick  Himber. 


Maestro  Phil 
of  tlte  Jock  Ben 
program  is  "tops' 
witK  dialers,  a 
weiKas  dancer 


The  Benny  show  takes  the  air. 
(Left  to  right)  Jack  Benny, 
Mary  Livingstone,  Phil  Harris, 
Don  Wilson  and  Kenny  Baker. 


There's  romance  back  of  that  "swing"  rhythnn  of  Phil  Harris, 


11'  you  like  swin^  music — or  if  you  like  the  Jack  Benny 
program — you  know  Phil  Harris.  He  has  been  "swinging 
it"  a  long  time — (lancers  have  tripped  the  light  fantastic 
to  his  catchy  tunes,  from  New  York  to  Hollywood.  But 
it  is  his  spot  on  the  Sunday  night  Jcll-0  program  that  really 
has  given  him  his  big  chance,  put  him  at  the  top  witli 
dialers  as  well  as  dancers. 

Somehow  you  expect  a  bandleader  to  be  s]M)iled,  especi- 
ally when  he  is  young,  good-looking  and  successful,  and  has 
been  lal)eled,  rightly  or  otherwise,  something  of  a  Don 
Juan.  Phil  is  tall,  well-built,  with  crinkly  dark  hair  and 
an  eflfective  Pei)sodent  smile — a  "natural"  for  the  build-up 
Jack  Jienny  has  given  him  as  a  ladies'  man — but  he  is 
refreshingly  unaffected  and  sincere,  enthusiastic  about  his 
music,  his  i)art  in  the  program,  frankly  enjoying  his  suc- 
cess but  not  in  the  least  vain  or  com])lacent  about  it. 

It  was  Rudy  Vallee  who  said:  "You  can't  go  wrong 
with  Phil  Harris'  orchestra." 

And  Jack  Benny  agrees,  for  Phil's  contribution  to  the 
Benny  jjrogram  has  been  not  only  good  music  but  a 
colorful  personality,  increasingly  popular  with  the  fans. 

Phil  grinned  self-consciously  when  reminded  of  his 
reputation  as  a  Great  Lover.  "Pve  been  married  ten  years," 
he  said  quietly. 

He  is  a  vigorous,  healthy  individual,  full  of  life  and 
good  s[)irits  and  the  bubbling  sort  of  humor  that  can 
laugh  at  anything,  including  himself.  He  takes  Iknny's 
ribbing  merrily,  blushes  and  laughs  when  Jack  makes 
public  fun  of  his  penchant  for  maroon  shirts  and  vivid 
ties.  But  he  takes  his  part  in  the  weekly  skits  seriously. 
40 


"Being  with  Jack  Benny  is  an  education,"  he  explained 
earnestly.  "He  knows  all  there  is  to  know  about  comedy, 
about  timing,  about  reading  lines." 

And  right  there  we  have  a  clue  to  one  of  Phil's  secret 
ambitions.  Music  has  been  his  life  since  he  was  a  young- 
ster. Horn  in  Linton,  Indiana,  he  went  to  Na.shville. 
'renncsscc,  when  a  small  lad  and  the  surging  rhythms  of 
the  .South  are  in  his  blood.  But  he  always  has  had  a  secret 
urge  to  be  an  actor,  too.  He  has  had  a  taste  of  it  in  the 
niov'Rs  and  once  went  so  far  as  to  give  up  his  band, 
dctcniiiiied  to  get  a  part  on  the  stage,  if  it  was  only  carry- 
ing a  spear.  But  a  month  without  the  boys,  without  his 
music .  was  a  month  of  increasing  mental  agony  and  finally 
he  could  stand  it  no  longer  and  .sent  out  a  wild  SOS  for 
the  band.  Actually  he  gets  more  out  of  leading  his  fifteen 
musicians  than  the  dancers  who  di])  and  sway  and  hum 
to  his  catchy  music. 

Phil  has  had  only  two  bands,  the  first  for  six  year.s, 
the  present  grouj)  for  the  past  three  years.  They  are 
devoted  to  him  and  he  to  them.  "It's  a  personal  relation- 
ship," he  explained.  "Not  just  men  who  happen  to  work 
together,  l)ut  friends.  They  mean  a  lot  to  me,  not  only 
as  nuisicians  but  as  individuals." 

Phil's  introduction  to  the  movies  was  the  making  of  a 
picture  called  So  This  Is  Harris,  a  musical  short,  so 
arti.stically  and  efifectively  produced  by  Mark  Sandrich  of 
RKO-Radio  that  it  won  the  Academy  prize.  Misled  by  the 
success  of  this,  they  thrust  Phil,  without  further  training, 
into  a  full  length  picture.  At  that,  it  was  moderately 
successful,  though  Phil  himself  was  disappointed. 


Miriam  Rogers 

Hlusic! 

maestro  of  NBC's  Sunday  night  JelhO  show.  Here's  the  story 


"I  didn't  know  what  it  was  all  about,  hadn't  the  vaguest 
idea  of  technique  ..." 

But  Phil  is  to  have  another  opportunity.  He  was  dis- 
rt)nsolate  over  some  tests  he  had  made  recently,  but  tests 
are  notoriously  bad  and  out  of  these  has  come  a  part  in 
Paramount's  Turn  Off  the  Moon.  So  perhaps  some  day, 
when  the  night  life  enforced  by  his  career  has  begun  to 
pall,  he  may  turn  to  acting — not  in  musicals,  nor  yet  in 
hopes  of  being  another  Clark  Gable  or  Robert  Taylor. 
Phil's  ambitions  are  along  different  lines;  Lewis  Stone, 
Adolphe  Menjou,  Jean  Hersholt  are  the  ones  in  whose 
footsteps  he  would  like  to  follow.  Meanwhile,  a  chance  to 
read  lines  under  the  able  tutelage  of  Jack  Benny  is 
excellent  training. 

His  Nashville  background,  of  course,  makes  him  es- 
pecially adapted  to  Southern  parts.  He  has  a  deep  voice, 
untrained  but  pleasant — if  you  have  heard  him  sing,  you 
know  how  well  he  does  the  Bert  Williams  sort  of  thing. 
He  never  has  heard  Williams  but  his  voice  is  very  like 
that  of  the  famous  singer  of  Negro  songs.  Phil  has  a 
repertoire  of  about  twenty-two  of  Williams'  numbers. 

His  speaking  voice  has  something  of  the  same  appealing 
quality.  He  reads  lines  well — and  certainly  gets  a  big  kick 
out  of  it. 

He  has  that  zest  for  everything,  a  talent  for  putting 
his  heart  into  what  he  is  doing  and  feeling  amply  repaid 
if  the  crowd  enjoys  it.  That  is  why  he  enjoyed  his  pro- 
longed stay  at  the  Palomar  in  Los  Angeles  this  winter 
better  than  some  of  his  engagements  in  swankier  spots. 
Instead  of  the  usual  two  weeks'  engagement,  Phil  stayed 


tor  four  months.  The  dance  floor  can  accommodate  a 
crowd  of  seven  thousand,  and  the  people  who  dance  there 
are  not  the  blase,  satiated  Hol!y\vood  type  but  frankly 
out  for  a  good  time,  there  because  they  love  dancing  and 
appreciate  a  peppy  orchestra.  They  responded  heartily  to 
Phil's  music  and  Phil  responded  with  equal  enthusiasm  to 
their  obvious  enjoyment.  The  result  was  swell  music  and 
greater  fame. 

Long  engagements  are  the  rule  with  him,  apparently. 
He  spent  several  years  in  the  East,  playing  in  various 
New  York  hotels,  on  the  air  three  times  a  day.  For 
seventy-eight  weeks  he  broadcast  the  Melody  Cruise  pro- 
gram, for  Cutex.  On  the  West  Coast,  he  played  for  three 
years  at  the  St.  Francis,  for  two  at  the  Cocoanut  Grove, 
in  Hollywood. 

But  with  all  the  demands  of  these  engagements,  inter- 
spersed as  they  were  with  shorter  engagements  and  much 
traveling  about  the  country,  Phil  has  found  time  to  build 
an  enduring,  happy  marriage. 

The  girl  in  the  case  is  Marcia  Ralston,  a  beautiful  girl 
and  talented  actress.  She  is  playing  now  in  a  new  movie, 
Call  It  a  Day,  and  has  so  impressed  the  producers  with 
her  ability  that  the  part  has  been  added  to,  built  up  for 
her.  She  looks  something  like  Joan  Crawford  and  had  her 
early  dramatic  training  in  her  native  Australia,  where  she 
played  leading  roles  in  stock.  And  she  unquestionably 
would  have  progressed  much  further  in  her  own  career  if 
she  had  not  ardently  believed  that  Phil's  career  and  their 
marriage  came  first. 

Since  Phil's  career  made  it  (Continued  on  page  102) 

41 


RADIO  STARS 


TUfUcU 


BY   ELSIE  HITZ 


Nidc  Davison,  heard  Mondays  through  Fri- 
days, 4:30  pjn.  EST,  on  NBC-Red  network. 

WHAT  an  opportunity  to  "tell  all"  about  Nick !  I 
don't  know  where  to  begin.  He's  the  strangest 
combination  of  artist  and  he-man  you  could  hope 
to  find.  He  started  out  in  life  studying  art,  for  he 
draws  very  well  and  he  really  intended  to  pursue 
an  art  career.  But,  after  becoming  a  scenic  painter, 
he  got  the  wanderlust  and  ran  away  to  sea.  He's 
had  adventures  as  exciting  as  those  in  our  scripts 
and,  before  he  settled  down  to  being  a  combina- 
tion actor  and  business  man,  he  was  shanghaied,  he 
ran  guns  in  Mexico,  he  was  a  bronco  buster  in  a 
circus,  and  about  everything  else  you  would  name. 

When  relating  his  adventures  he'll  sometimes  say : 
"I  was  scared  to  death."  That's  certainly  a  figure 
of  speech,  in  his  case,  for  he  doesn't  know  the  mean- 
ing of  fear,  real  or  imaginary.  He  says  that  comes 
of  having  been  in  the  War ;  so  much  happened  then 
that  nothing  since  has  been  able  to  maJce  him  lose 
his  f>erspective,  not  even  the  depression.  He  could 
be  fighting  for  his  life  at  (Continued  on  page  108) 


TUSisie 

know 


Lovely  Elsie  Hitx,  Nick's  partner  in  - 
the  popular  Follow  the  Moon  serial.  ,^ 

IF  I  tell  you  about  the  Elsie  Hitz  I  know,  I'll  have 
to  tell  you  about  sixty-eight  diflferent  women.  Yes, 
they're  all  Elsie  and,  when  I  look  back  over  the 
period  in  which  we  have  worked  together,  I  cannot 
help  but  marvel  over  the  fact  that  one  dainty  little 
person  (she's  really  only  half-pint  size)  can  be  so 
many  different  girls,  each  as  charming  as  the  next. 

In  the  first  place,  of  course,  Elsie  is  a  truly  great 
actress.  As  the  youngest  of  five  children,  she  went 
on  the  stage  at  sixteen  and  has  thoroughly  learned 
her  profession.  She  had  a  lovely  speaking  voice  to 
b^in  with  and  it  was  this  voice  over  the  radio  that 
attracted  my  attention,  as  it  did  that  of  thousands 
of  listeners.  I  decided  she  was  the  one  actress  I 
wanted  to  work  with  over  the  air  and  when  I  met 
her  and  found  her  as  lovely  as  her  voice  and  we 
really  did  work  together,  I  knew  that  the  gods  were 
indeed  kind  to  me.  Our  first  script,  The  Magic 
Voice,  was  a  'natural'  for  Elsie,  since  it  dealt  with 
a  romance  over  the   {Continued  on  page  109) 


Partners  on  the  air  for  three  years,  Elsie  Hitz  and  Nick 
Dawson  gleefully  tell  all  of  each  other's  faults  and  foibles 


(above)  In  theTack  Room.  Miss  Belmont  is  a  familiar 
figure  in  the  Maryland  and  Long  Island  hunting  coun- 
try. "When  I  feel  tired  or  a  bit  let -down,"  she  says, 
"Camels  give  me  a  grand  'lift'.  .  .  make  me  feel  glad 
I'm  alive  as  my  energy  snaps  back.  And,  though  I 
am  a  steady  smoker,  Camels  never  get  on  my  nerves." 


Camel'  air  UKide 
fr.un  Tint. 
MOlii:  IM'I  \SIVE 
TOKACCOS... 
Turkish  and 
Domestic...  than 

anv  other 
popular  brand 


Riding 
is  second-nature 
to  this  daughter 
of  the  Belmonts 


Miss  Joan  Belmont,  New  York.  It's  enough 
to  say  that  Miss  Belmont  is  the  daughter  of  the 
Morgan  Relmonts.  As  a  member  of  this  famous 
riding  family,  she  has  an  inborn  love  for  turf 
ami  field.  At  four  years  of  age,  she  was  pre- 
sented with  a  pony  of  her  own;  today.  Miss 
Belmont  is  one  of  the  most  accomplished  horse- 
women of  the  younger  set.  Like  so  many  of  her 
debutante  friends,  she  is  a  steady  Camel  smoker. 


These  distinguished  tvomen  are  among 
those  ivho  prefer  CameVs  delicate  jlavor: 

MRS.  NICHOL.\S  BiniiLE,  Pln!„.l,l,,lua 
MRS.  POWni.I.  CABOT,  Iluiton 
MRS.  TH()M.\S  -M.  C.UiNEGIE,  JR.,  New  York 

MRS.  ].  C.VRDNER  COOLIDGE  2n.l,  Boston 
MKS.  .WTIIONV  J  IiKEXEL  .Sr.!,  PI,d,„Mphia 
MKS  CIII-W  I  I  I,  DABNKV  I  AM;iiMK\i:,  Virginia 
JASPER  .MORGAN.  .\V,i  York 
MRS.  NICHOLAS  G.  PENNIMAN  IH,  Baltimore 
MRS.  JOHN  W.  ROCKEFELLER,  JR.,  New  York 
MRS.  Rl  FUS  PAINE  SPALDING  III,  Pasadena 
MRS.  LOUIS  SWIFT,  JR.,  Chicai^o 
MRS.  BROOKFIELD  V.\N  RENSSEL.\ER,  AVif  York 

iD.vrieht   1937.  R.  J.  Reynolds  Tobacco  Co.,  WinFton-Salem,  N.C. 


i 


Enjoying  Good  Food  at  the  Ritz  in  New  York. 

Miss  Joan  Belmont  enjoys  a  leisurely  luncheon  at  the 
Ritz-Carlton — with  Camels  between  courses  and  after. 
Smoking  Camels  is  a  positiveaid  to  good  digestion.  Sets  up 
a  generous  flow  of  digestive  fluids.  Increases  alkalinity. 


For  Digestion^s  Sake   


Smoke  Camels 


Tlie  Dioniie  Quins  use  only 

PALMOLIVE 

tlz         maA         0£m/€  (9tb, 


^  NURSE  LEROUX,  WITH  THE  QUINS  SINCE  THEIR  BIRTH, 
^  ^  TELLS  WHAT  PALMOLIVE  CAN  DO  FOR  YOU! 


HOW  I  ENVY  THE  QUINS  THEIR  SOFT, 
SMOOTH  COMPLEXIONS, NURSE  LEROUX 


^E  KEEP  THEM  THAT 
AADAME,  BY  USING  ONLY 
PALMOLIVE.  DR  DAFOE  FOUND 
UO  OTHER  SOAP  S_OOTHJNG 
ENOUGH  FOR  THE 
QUINS' UNUSUALLY  ^ 
SENSITIVE  SKIN. 


YOU  WOULD  FIND  PALMOLIVE 
BETTER  FOR  YOUR  SKIN, TOO. 
ITS  LATHER  IS  GENTLER, MORE 
SOOTHING-BECAUSE  PALMOLIVE 
IS  MADE  WITH  OLIVE  OIL. GIRLS 
WHO  USE  PALMOLIVE  NEVER  NEED 
FEAR  DRY,  LIFELESS, 
-MIDDLE-AGE"  SKIN  I 


IS  THE  SOAP  YOU  ARE  USING 
AS  GENTLE  AS  PALMOLIVE? 


e  using  1.S 
ilmolive? 


Are  you  sure  the  soap  yoii'r 
as  pure,  gentle,  .safe  as  V 

You  know  that  Palmolive  is  made 
from  a  blend  of  real  beauty  ingre- 
dients, gentle  Olive  and  Palm  oils. 

That  is  why  Palmolive  gives  your 
skin  such  matchless  beauty  care... 
Why  more  than  any  other  soap,  it 
brings  you  the  promise  of  a  lovelier. 


DR.  DAFOE  TELLS  WHY 
HE  CHOSE  PALMOLIVE! 

"At  the  time  of  the  birth  of  the 
Dionne  Quintuplets,  and  for  some 
timeafterward, they  were  bathed  with 
Olive  Oil  .  .  .  When  the  time  arrived 
for  soap  and  water  baths,  we  selected 
Palmolive  Soap  exclusively  for  daily 
use  in  bathing  these  famous  babies." 


^  TO^KFEP  YOLk  OWN  COMPIIXION  ALWAYS  LOVELY.  USE  THIS 


iEAUTY 


SOAP  CHOSEN  FOR  THE  QUINS 


RADIO  STARS 


Coasi-t(^^CouU 

PROGRAM  GUIDE 


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that  time,  or  because  the 
preceding  program  c  o  n  - 
tinues  into  that  period. 


NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
RED  NETWORK 


WFBR 

WNAC 

WBEN 

WMAQ 

WSAI 

WTAM 

KOA 

WHO 

WWJ 

WTIC 

WIRE 

WDAF 

KFI 

KSTP 

WEAF 
WOW 
KYW 
WCAE 


BaltiiMore.  .Md. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Buffalo,  X  Y. 
Chicago,  111. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Denver.  Colo. 
Des  Moinep.  Iowa 
Detroit.  Mich. 
Hartford.  Conn. 
Indianapolis.  Ind. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Los  .-Vngeles,  Cal. 
Minneapolis — St.  Paul, 

Minn. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Omaha  Neb. 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 
l'>ttsbursh,  Pa 


WCSH  Portland,  .Me. 

KGW  Portland.  Ore. 

WJAR  Providence,  R.  I. 

WRVA  Richmond.  Va. 

KSD  St,  Louis.  Mo. 

KDYL  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 

KPO  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

WGY  Srheiiectadv  N.  Y. 
KOMO         attl",  Wa'sh. 

KHQ  M"  kane.  Wash. 

WRC  W  .i>\invzh'U.  D.  C. 

WDEL  Wiliiiiimton.  Del. 

WTAG  \V<.rcester.  .Mass 

NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
BLUE  NETWORK 

WABY  .\lbanv.  .N.  Y. 

WBAL  Baltiii'iure.  Md 

WBZ  Bostcn.  .Ma.=s- 

WICC  Bridfreport.  Conn. 

WEBR  Buffalo.  X.  Y 

WMT  Cedar  Rapids.  luwa 

WENR  Chicago.  111. 

WLS  Chicaso.  111. 

WCKY  Cincinnati.  Ohio 

WGAR  Cleveland,  Ohio 

KVOD  Denver,  Colo, 

KSO  Des  .Moines.  Iowa 

WXYZ  Detroit.  Mich. 

WLEU  Erie,  Pa, 

WOWO  Ft.  Wavne,  Ind, 

WREN  Lawrence,  Kan 

KECA  Los  .\iii.-clcs.  ( 'al 

WTCN  Minneap..l,s  .Minn, 

WICC  New  Haven,  C.un. 

WJZ  New  Y,.rl<   X  Y. 

KLO  O-den,  ftah 

KOIL  Omaha,  Npb  -Council 

Bluflfs.  la 

WFIL  Philadelphia,  Pa 

KDKA  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 

KEX  Portland  Ore, 

WEAN  Providenrc   H,  I. 

WHAM  HorhcM-,    N  Y, 

KWK  .-t.  I,...,..  M,,. 

KFSD  ,-.ui  I  )M        I  .,1, 

KGO  .-ai:  Fi:-'  Cal. 

KJR  .-r,.i:r|,  \; 
KGA  I,'  ■        ■  -i-li 

WBZA  :  Mass, 

WSYR  -  V 

WSPD  i   o 

WMAL  Wa.~lni, M,  U  C. 

NBC-SUPPLEMENTARY 
STATIONS 


KGNC  Amarillo  fex. 

WWNC  AsheviUe,  X.  C. 

WSB  Atlanta.  Ga. 

KERN  Bakersfield  Cal. 

KGHL  B.UiuL's,  M.,..t, 

WAPI  Hirniin.,;ham,  Ala 

KFYR  Hisinar.  k.  X  1), 

KGIR  Hiittp,  M..nt, 

WCSC  (  •|.arlo>lMii,  ( 

WSOC  <  l.aib.ttp,  X  C 

WCFL  Chua-o,  111 

WLW  Cincinnati.  O'lh, 

WFLA  Clearwater.  Fla 

WIS  Colu.iihia.  S,  C. 

WCOL  Columbus,  Ohio 

WFAA  Dallas.  Tex 

WEBC  Duluth,  Minn, 

WGBF  lOvansville.  Ind. 

WDAY  Faruo,  X  D 

WGL  Ft.  Wavne.  Ind. 

WBAP  Ft.  Worth,  lev. 

KMJ  Fresno.  Ca!, 

WOOD  Grand  Rapids.  .Mich. 

WFBC  Greenville,  SC. 

KTHS  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

KPRC  Houston.  Tex 

WJDX  .lackson.  Miss, 

WJAX  Jacksonville  Fla, 

KARK  l.ittlc  i;...-k  Ark. 

WAVE  l.-ui-vilic,  Kv, 

WIBA  Ma,l.,'  II,  W,s 


WFEA 
WMC 
WIOD 
WTMJ 

CFCF 

WSM 

WSMB 

WTAR 

WKY 

KTAR 

KGHF 

WPTF 

KFBK 

WSUN 

WOAI 

KTBS 

KSOO 

KGBX 

KWG 

WEBC 

WFLA 

WBOW 

CRCT 

KVOO 

KANS 

WORK 


.Manchester.  I 
Memphis.  Tei 
Miami  Beach 
.Milwaukee,  Wis. 
.Montreal,  Canada 
Nashville,  Tenn, 
New  Orleans.  La 
Norfolk.  Va, 
Oklahoma  City,  Okia, 
PlioeniN-.  Ariz. 
Pueblo.  Colo. 
Kaleit;h,  N,  C. 


Fla 


Sail  Antonio  Te\, 

Si'o'ux 'Falls  s'^'d. 
Sprinufield,  Mo. 
Stockton,  Cal, 
Superior,  Wis, 
Tampa,  Fla. 
Terre  Haute.  In.i, 
Toronto-  (  anaoa 
Tulsa.  Okla. 
Wichita.  Kaiii 
York,  Pa. 


COLUMBIA  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 

WADC  Akron.  Ohio 

WOKO  Albanv,  N,  Y 

WGST  Atlant"..,  Ga 

WPG  Atlantic  Citv   X  J, 

KNOW  Austin,  Tex, 

WCAO  Baltuin.re,  .Md, 

WLBZ  BaiiL'or,  .Me 

WBRC  Hiniiinu'hain.  A  a 

WNBF  BinL'haiiitoii   X  Y 

WEE!  B.i,.tMn  Ma", 

WGR  Buffalo,  X  V 

WKBW  Buffal..   \  V 

WCHS  rl,ar!..-to:,   W  X'a, 

WBT  Charlotte   X  C 

WOOD  Chattai.oo,- 1   Ti  nn. 

WBBM  Cl.,ra-o  111 

WKRC  Cinr  o„;,i..  ,  ,),; 

WHK  <  1.  N.-laii.l  in,... 

KVOR  <  -.L.oulo  >nr:.:-s  Co! 

WBNS  (  ■..liiM.ku-,  (  )h:.. 

KRLD  Dalla-  lex 

woe  Daveiip..rt.  Iowa 

WHIO  Davt..n.  Oliio 

WJR  Dctr.iil.  .Mi.li, 

KRNT  Des  Monies,  Iowa 

KLZ  Denver.  Colo, 

WKBB  Dubuque.  Iowa 

WDNC  Durham.  X,  C 

WESG  Klina. Ithaca,  X  Y. 

WMMN  Fa.rn..  r.t    W  \"a, 

WOWO  r.n  wa\  I,,',  L  I, 

WGL  K.  M  WaM).-  Ii,a 

WBIG  Ci.'  i.l-o-,,   .\-   I  • 
KFBB  Fa'l-   .\!  vt, 

WHP  Haii>l.ur_.  I'a 

WDRC  H:.rl...r.l  f.-liil 

KTRH  H,.,:.t  lex 

WFBM  Iral.ai,a|...l..-   In  I 

WMBR  .lack.-.iiivillc,  Fla, 

KMBC  Kai,-as  Citv,  Mo. 

WNOX  Kn..\vil!c,  Teiiii 

KFAB  1.111. ..Ill,  Xcb, 

KLRA  l.ittic  I!...-k.  Ark. 

KNX  Los  ,\i,-eles,  Cal. 

WKAS  l...i!isville,  Kv. 

WMAZ  .Ma.  .  I.,  Ga, 

WREC  Mciupl.is  Tenn. 

WQAM  Man,!  Fla. 

WALA  .M..I..I  ,  \la, 
WISN        Mik.,.:oL....,  W,S, 
WCCO      M  -  M 

WSFA  ! 
CKAC  ! 
KGVO  1 

WLAC       Na-..-,  .1,.  l,.,a 
WWL         Xe^^  I  1.1.  alls,  l.a, 
WABC      Xcu  V,.rk.  N.  Y. 

KOMA  Oklali..ma  City,  Okla. 

WDBO  ilrlaii.l.'.  Fla. 
WPAR      Parkcrsburu,  W,  Va. 
WCOA      Pcnsa.M.'.a.  Fla, 
WMBD     Pc..r,a,  111 
WCAU      Ph.la.iclphia.  Pa. 


KOY  Phoenix,  Ar.z, 

WJAS  Pittsbur-h,  Pa. 

KOIN  Portland,  Ore. 

WPRO  Pr..vi<len.  e,  H.  I, 

KOH  Hen.,,  X.-v 

WMBG  Hi. -1, in, ,11,1,  Wa, 

WDBJ  H.,an..k.'  \  a 

WHEC  l;...  l,. -r.  ,    X  Y, 

KMOX  -r    1  .,  J  .  M, 

WCCO  -■    I'  ,  ,:    M  ■  ;. 

KSL  -  .     I         '  rtah 

KTSA  ~  1 

KSFO  -  :     1  .1  -al, 

WTOC  - 
KOL 

KWKH  o 

KSCJ  -lo,.'..  .  l,,-.,.,a 

WSBT  ^...ith  11.  n.i  Ind, 

KFPY  >poka.„-  Wa-li, 

WMAS  ^i,r,i,'^K.'l,l  Mass. 

WF3L  .-vra,-.,M.   X  V. 

KV!  la,-. .11. a  Wa-li. 

WDAE  Tampa,  Fla, 

WSPD  T,,lc,i..  (II,,., 

WIBW  r..i,pka  Kai,- 

CFRB  1...   ■  ■     -  la 

KTUL  i  ,;- 

WIBX  1    :  o: 

WACO  W 

WJSV  W  a-ii,l.^o,,,    I)  c 

WJNO  W   Palm  lica,  li,  Fla 

WWVA  Whcelin--    W  \a, 

KFH  Wi,l:ta  KaiK 

WSJS  W  in-to,,.^.;  ,,„,  X,  (•- 

KGKO  W       ■  .  r  •!:-  I'cx, 

WORC  W    :  ■ 

WNAX  \  :,    -  1 

WKBN  V.,.i!i  ;-t.  un   I  il.io 

MUTUAL  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 


KAOA 

KVSO 

WRDO 

KPMC 

WEAL 

WLBZ 

WAAB 

WICC 

WMT 

WGN 

WLW 

WSAI 

WGAR 

KFEL 

KSO 

KXO 

KASA 

KCRC 

WSAR 

KFAA 

WTHT 

WHB 

WLNH 

KFOR 

KHJ 

WLLH 

WFEA 

KDON 

KBIX 

WSM 

WOR 

v;nbh 

KTOK 

KO!L 

WFiL 

WCAE 

VV8BZ 

WEAN 

WRVA 

KFXM 

KGB 

KFRC 

KVOE 

KDB 

KGFF 

WSPR 

KWK 

KGDM 

WOL 

WBRY 

CKLW 


Ada,  Okla. 
.\rdniore  Okla. 
.\ususta  Me. 
Bakersfi-ld  Cal 

Haifa,..        M  I 


Santa  Barbara.  Cal. 
Shawnee.  Okla. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Str  Louis,  Mo. 


4.S 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  2—9—16—23—30 


MORNING 


AFTERNOON 


NBC-Red :  CHILDREN'S 
CONCERT — Josef  Stopak's  or- 
chestra. Paul  Wing,  narrator 
NBC-Blue:  TONE  PICTURES 
— Ruth  Pepple,  pianist;  mixed 
quartet 

CBS:    LYRIC  SERENADE 


SIDNEY  RAPHAEL- 


CBS:  SUNDAY  MORNING  AT 
AUNT  SUSAN'S — children's 
program,  Artells  Dickson 


NBC-Red:  CONCERT  EN- 
SEMBLE—Harry  Gilbert,  or- 
ganist 


CBS;PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 


.HAJIOUNT  ON 


PAH. 
Mary 

NBC- 


i!.--i:.a:    rxniOKSiTY  OF 

IICAilo  ItciU.XU  TABLE 
IS(  'L  S.SKi.x — ifut'.st  speakers 
Hi'-Hlue;  RADIO  CITY  MU- 
<■  HAI.L  SYMPHONY  OR- 
1  KSTRA— soloists 


1:00 

NBC-Red:  DOROTHY  DRES- 
LIN,  soprano;  FRED  HUF- 
SMITH,  tenor 

CHS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 
Ml  IS:    MARTHA  AND  HAL — 


NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  VES- 
PERS 

MBS;  HAROLD  STOKES'  OR- 
CHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  MUSICAL  PRO- 
CRAM 

xr.c  niu.v  si;xA'r(U!  fish- 


Nlir-Red:  RY-KRISP  PRB- 
SKNTS  MARION  TALLEY — 
Josef  Kocstner's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  WE,  THE  PEOPLE 
— Phillips  Lord,  director; 
Mark  Warnow's  orchestra 


MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  SMILING  ED 
McCONNELL — songs,  Clark's 
orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  COL.  STOOP- 
NAGLE  AND  BUDD — Voor- 
hees'  orchestra;  Gogo  DeLys, 
blues  singer 


MBS;  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  FITCH  JINGLE 
I'ROGRAM  —  Morin  Sisters, 
Ranch  Boys 


NBC-Red:  CHASE  AND  SAN- 
BORN PROGRAM  —  Don 
Anrieche,  Edgar  Bergen,  Wer- 
ner Janssen's  orchestra 


CBS:  1937  TWIN  STARS— 
Victor  Moore,  Helen  Broderick, 
Rogers'  orchestra 


CBS:  EDDIE  CANTOR — Bob- 
by Breen,  Deanna" Durbin,  Jim- 
my   Wallington,    Renard's  or- 


NBC-Red:  MANHATTAN 
MERRY-GO-ROUND  —  Rachel 
Carlay.  Pierre  Le  Kreeun,  Ly- 
man's orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  RIPPLING 
RHYTHM  R  E  V  U  E  —  S  h  e  p 
Fields'  orchestra,  Frank  Par- 
ker, The  Canovas 


CBS:  HISTORY  BEHIND 
'1'  H  E  HEADLINES  —  Bob 
Trout,  commentator 


EVENING 


CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 


NBC-Red:  CATHOLIC  HOUR 
NBC-Blue:    ANTOBAL'S  CU- 


NBC-Red:  AMERICAN  AL- 
BUM OF  FAMILIAR  MUSIC— 
Frank  Munn,  Lucy  Monroe. 
Haenschen's  orchestra 


CBS:    ORGAN  MOODS 


2:1.5 

MBS:    KEY  MEN— quartet 
3:.S0 

NBC-Red:  THATCHER  COLT 
MYSTERIES 

MBS:  GREAT  MUSIC  OF  THE 
CHURCH 

2:4.5 

CBS:    COOK'S  TRAVELOGUE 


CBS:  .\  y  II 
M  OS  u-  -  S  V  .\I  . 
CHESTRA 


A   TALE   OF  TO- 


NBC-R(  (i:  .nol,r--()  PROGRAM 
—Jack  H.iiTiv,  Mary  Living- 
si  oru-,  Keniiv  Baker,  Phil  Har- 


Nlii'-niue:  HELEN  TRAUBEL 


NBC-Red:  GLADYS  SWARTH- 
OUT — Frank  Chapman,  Arm- 
bruster's  orchestra 


CBS:  GILLETTE  COMMUNI- 
TY SING — Milton  Berle,  Wen- 
dell Hall,  Jones  and  Hare. 
Sannella's  orchestra 


10:4,5 

CBS:    H.  V.  KALTENBORN— 


NBC-Blue:  HENDRIK  WIL- 
LEM  VAN  LOON— author  and 
lecturer 


NBC-Red:  WIDOW'S  SONS — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  INTERNATIONAL 
BROADCAST  FROM  LONDON 


MBS; 
7:30 


FIRESIDE  RECI- 


IKOAD- 
'  Shirley 


CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 
MBS;  DANCE  MUSIC 


I'llIL  HA  KICK — Osca 
AM  Sir   l-dlt  TODAY- 


CBS:  ORCHESTRA 


RADIO 


STARS 


fHo^fda^ 


MAY  3—10—17—24—31 


MORNING 


XBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:    MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 


NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  ISLAND  SERE- 
.  NADERS 

8:30 

NBC-Red:     CHEERIO  —  talk 

NBC-Blue:     WILLIAM  MEE- 

DER— organist 

CBS:    LYRIC  SERENADE 


NBC-Blue:  FOUR  MARTINEZ 
BROTHERS — songs  and  music 
CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM— yo- 
deling  cowboy 


NBC-Red:  THE  STREAM- 
LINERS—Fields  and  Hall,  or- 
chestra 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB  —  Annette     King,  Bob 
Brown,  Jack  Baker 
CBS:    METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 


9:40 

CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 
»:45 


CBS:    MORNING  MOODS 
9:35 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 


NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     TIM   HEALY  — 

news  commentator 

CBS:    BETTY  AND  BOB  — 

sketch 


NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS;  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 


NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NKC-Rlue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 

FA.MILY— sketch 

CBS ;    R  V.  r  r  Y  C  R  O  r  K  E  R— 

COokiiiK    -xpcrt;     HYMNS  OF 

ALL  CHLiti'HKH 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 

Frances  McDonald 

10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:      KITCHEN  CAV- 
ALCADE—Crosby  Gaige 
CBS:     JOHN  K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
MRS:     JOHN   METCALF  S 
CHOIR  LOFT — hymns 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue;  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 


NRC-rted:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
—.sketch 

.Vnc-Rlue;  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lopez 

11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW    TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS;    BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NHC-Red:  VOICE  OF  EXPE- 
RIENCE 

NBC- Blue:     EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH — The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:   DR.   ALLAN   ROY  DA- 
FOE 

MBS:  MARTHA  AND  HAL — 
songs  and  patter 

AFTERNOON 

1'2:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue;   HONEYBOY  AND 
SASSAFRAS — comedy  team 
CBS:  THE  GUMPS — sketch 
1-4:15 

NBC-Red;   STORY  OF  MARY 
JIARLIN— sketch 
CBS:    YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 

!•>  :30 

NBC-Blue:      HELEN  JANE 

BEHLKE — soprano 

CBS;    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 

TRENT— sketch 

JIBS:  FOUR  STAR  FROLIC— 

musical  varieties 

12:45 

NBC-Red;  ROSA  LEE  —  so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:     GENE  ARNOLD 

AND  THE  CADETS 

CBS:     OUR   GAL,  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE— tenor 
NBC-Rlue:  LOVE  AND 
LEARN— sketch 
CBS:  FIVE  STAR  REVUE — 
Jlorton  Bowe.  Meri  Bell,  Bill 
Johnstone,   Sinatra's  orchestra 

1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS;  ROBERT  W.  HOKTON— 
correspondent 

MBS:     THE  PSYCHOLOGIST 
SAYS  —  Dr.   Arthur  Frank 
Payne 
1:30 

NRC-Hoil;  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC—I.arry  I.ar.sen.  Ruth  Lyon. 
H;.rv,.y  Hny.s 

NlU'-l'.lue:  NATKiNAL  FARM 
AND     HU.MK     HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:   BOB  BYRON— songs 
MBS:  ORGAN  ailDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS;   AUNT   JENNY  S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES 
2:00 

NBC-Red:  EDUCATIONAL 
PROGRAM 

CRS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
W  ( )  .M  .\  .\  '  S    K  Y  E  S — Kathryn 

MRS  l'.\l.Mi:n  HOUSE  CON- 
CEItr  oKlHlOSTRA  —  Ralph 
Ginsberg 

2:15 

MBS:  LAWRENCE  SALERNO 
AND  PIANO 
3:30 

NBC-Blue:  HOUR  OF  ME.MO- 
RIES— U.  S.  Navy  Band 


NBC-Re<l:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 

CBS:  ilYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

MRS:     STITDIES    IN  BL.-VCK 
A.\D  WHITE — pianist 
!:00 

NliC-i;...l  ;  ri:PPER  YOUNG'S 
F.\.\I  1 1.  V— sk-trh 
CRS:      c.  il.<  i.\I;L   jack  MA- 
JORS \  ARIETY  SHOW 
MBS:     MOLLY     OF  THE 

.  MOVIES— sketch 

S:15 

NBC-Red:  M.A  PICRKINS— 
sketcli 

MRS:     PAi'LIXE     Ar.l'ERT — 


NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue;      PAUL  MARTIN 
AND  HIS  MUSK- 
CBS ;    POP    CONCERT— How- 
ard Barlow 


NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS- 
sketch 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  LORENZO  JONES 
• — comedy 

NBC-Blue:  LET  S  TALK  IT 
OVER 


CBS:  CHICAGO  VARIETY 
HOUR 

MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM— 
Leo  Freudbergs  orchestra 


MARY 


NBC-Blue;  ST(  'H 
MARLIN— sk.  Irh 
CBS:  SUNi;l;ITI-:  .lUNIOR 
NURSE  CuKl'S  —  children's 
sketch 

):15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN— sketch 
NBC-Blue;  YOUNG  HICKORY 
—sketch 

CRS:     DdltiiTHY  GORDON'S 

CHII.lii;i:.X  S  c-dRNER 

MI'.S:     .KUIXSdX  FAMILY— 


-SLOW 
..\DY— 


ENSEMBLE 


NRi-  I.I  ri'l.H  ORPHAN 

AX.\  I  I :    .  ii  iM  Ti  n  s  sketch 

NRC-lUu-:  Tin:  OLD  HOME- 

STE.A.D— .sk.teh 

CBS;   WILDERNESS  RO.\D— 

sketch 

MBS:  MARGERY  GRAHAM— 
Rook  of  the  Week 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-Rod:  OLD  TRA\  ELER-S 
TALES — stories 
NBC-Blue:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
CBS:  TITO  GUIZAR— tenor 


"BS:  PATTI  CHAPIN— songs 
(IBS:  TUNE  TIME 


6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC:  Blue:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  DINNER  CONCERT 
6:40 

CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 
6:45 

NBC- It,  ,1:      FI.YIXG  TIME- 


NBC 


LL  THOMAS 


CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 

MBS:    RICK   ROBERTS  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MARY  SMALL— 
songs 

CBS:     POETIC    .MELODIES — ' 
Jack    Fulton.    FrankK  n  Mac- 
Cormack.  Kelsey  s  orchestra 
7:15 


NBC-Blue:  BUGHOUSE 
RHYTHM— comedy,  music 
CBS:    MA  AND  PA — sketch 
:30 

NBC-Red:  MIDGE  WILLIAMS 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— sketch 

CBS:     HOLLACE     SHAW  — 


7:45 

NBC-Re, 1 
ROYA  I.I.^ 


CAMPBELL'S 

ill.':  .\KllS  HERRICK 
5i).\KI':  CARTER — news 


CB: 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  BURNS  AND  AL- 
LEN—Dick  Foran.  Noble's  or- 
chestra 

CBS:  ALEMITE  HALF  HOUR 
— Horace  Heidfs  Brigadiers 
MBS;     DR.     CHARLES  M. 
COURBOIN 
8:30 


CBS 


MRS:    iil.U   TI.MIO  Si'i:LLING 
BEE— Rub  Emery 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  FIBBER  .McGEE 
AND  .MOLLY— comedy  sketch. 


NBi--H|y  :    Ci^M    T  I  .M  !•:  SO- 
CIETY—a  1 1  -  X  emn  re\  u.. 
CBS:  LUX  KALiU>  THH.\TRE 

MBS:  POE  S  T.\LES — drama- 
9:;l(> 

XRc-l'.-l     lh>rn  OF  CH.\R.M 

MRS:  .MI  SICAI.  PROGRAM 
10:00 

NRi-  I'.e.l:  cc  ).\  rENTED  PRO- 
GRAM—  \'i\iaii    Delia  Chiesa. 


KING'S  OR- 


che;: 


NBC-Red:  MUSIC  FOR  MOD- 
ERNS 

NRC-Rlue:  NATIONAL  RA- 
DIO KiiltrM— miest  speaker 

(-RS:  i.i:r  i-iti:i;DOM  ring— 

dramatization 
11:00 

NBC-Blue:  ORC^HESTRA 

CBS:    DANCE  .MUSIC 

MBS;  PAGEANT  OF  MELODY 

47 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  4—11—18—25 


MORNING 

8:00 

XBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children  s  stories  and  soriRS 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 


NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  LEIBERT  EN- 
SEMBLE— Island  Serenaders 

8:80 

NBC-Red:   CHEERIO  —  talk 

and  music 
•    CBS:  SALON  MUSICALE 
8:43 

NBC-Blue:  DAVID  AND  GO- 
LIATH— comedy  team 


NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS — 

Fields  and  Hall 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 

CLUB  —  Annette    King.  Bob 

Brown.  Jack  Baker 

CBS:  DEAR  COLUMBIA — fan 

mall  dramatizations 

9:30 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL— 
songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commenla- 
tor 


NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MR.';  WIGC.S  OF 
THI':     lAIU'.ACE     l'.\TCH — 


sk.'t 
NBC 


EALY- 


10:13 

NBC-Red:     JOHNS  OTHER 


— sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue;  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— .sketch 
CBS:  BETTY  CROrKEU,  cook- 
ing expert:    HYMNS  OF  ALL 
CHURCHES 

MBS:    MARRIAGE    CLINIC — 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  KITCHEN  CAVAL- 
CADE— Crosby  Gaige 
CBS:    JOHN   K.  W'ATKI.N.S — 
news  commentator 
MBS:  SINGING  STRINGS — en- 
semble 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS — 
sketch 

CBS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
11:13 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  l-o- 
pez 


11:30 

NBC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 


L^OTT 
Mac- 


6:45 

Nnr-Rc.l;     FT.YING  TIMI 


HO.ME.MAKl 
MKS:  I.SAl; 
HEWSON— . 


AFTERNOON 


lND 


CHS;    'riUO   ( a-. MI'S  -.sketch 
MB.S:    W1LLAI{U  AMISON— 
tenor 
13:15 

NBC-Rod:    STORY-  OF  MARY 

MAltl.lX— .sk.'lrh 

NUc-  r.lu.-    -\  It  M  C  H  A  I  R 


CH.-- 


S  PARADE 


12:30 

NBC-Red:  JULES  LANDE'S 
ST.     REGIS    CONCERT  EN- 

xr.'-  l-.lu.-:     SAIR    LEE— con- 


12 :45 

NBC-Blue:     GENE  ARNOLD 

AND  THE  CADETS 

CBS:     OUR   GAL,  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 


;YL\IA  CLARK— 
'  '\  !■:  A.XD  LEARN 
i'.lOKCH  AND  HIS 


I'.DING'S 
\ISTERS 


'.US  AND  MU- 


1:45 

CBS:    AUNT   JENNYS  REAL 
LIFE    STOR I  E.S— .sketch 
2:00 

NBC-Re,l:  PR.  JOSIOTMT  E. 
MADDV  S  T'.AND  LESSONS 

CBS:  'n:i.r.  rs  Vdrii  story 


Jl  BS : 


)R- 


8:15 

MBS:       ARTHUR  WRIGHT 
AND  PIANO 
2:30 

NBC-Red:    IT'S   A  WOMAN'S 
WORLD  —  Claudine  Macdon- 
ald,  Levey's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:     NBC  MUSIC 
GUILD 
2:45 

NBC-Red:  PERSO.NAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR  — Inez  Lo- 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOU.NGS 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:     U.     S.  MARl.NE 
BAND 

CBS:  BILL  WRIGHT.  VICE 
PRESIDENT 

MBS:    M  O      L  Y    OF  THE 
MOVIES — sketch 
3:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS:  RADIO  GARDEN  CLUB 


NBC-Red:  THE 


NBC-Red:  LORENZO  JONE 
— comedy 

NBC-Blue:  YOUR  HEALTH 
CBS:  SING  AND  SWING- 
Kelsey's  orchestra 


NBC-Blue:     DOG  HEROES— 
Harry   Swan.   Charles  Sorce. 
CHS:    POP    CONCERT— How- 


THE  GUIDING 


:00 

NBC-Red:  NELLIE  REVELL 
INTERVIEWS 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 

MARLIN — sketch 

CBS:  DEL  CASINO— songs 


NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
■ — sketch 

CBS:   SCIENCE  SERVICE 
.SERIES— Watson  Davis 
MBS:    JOHNSON  FAMILY— 
Jimmy  Scribner 


NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 

OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  SINGING  LADY— 

children's  program 

CBS:     ST.   LOUIS  SYNCOPA- 

TORS 

MBS:  JESS  KIRKPATRICK— 

songs 


NBC-Red:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE — children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  RANCHEKOS— t  rio 
CBS:   WILDERNESS  ROAD- 


EVENING 


.XHi'-iiiu-  ,M  r,i;i:i)ri-n  will- 

Si).\  A.\l)  Ills  OUCdl-ISTKA 
CHS:    PATTI    CHAl'I.N— songs 
MHS:     EN     DINANT— dinner 


;  x  sisters 
;k  cores— 


NHC-Hlue:  PRESS  RADIO 
I'HS:     DINNER  CONCERT— 


NHC-Hlue:  TONY  RUSSELL- 


6:40 

CBS:   PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 


NB 


;ll  thom- 


CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 

MBS:    ENOCH   LIGHT'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES — 
comedy  sketch 

CBS:    POETIC  MELODIES — 
Jack    Fulton.    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack.   Kelsey  s  Orchestra 
MBS:     FRANK     GRAHAM  — 
sports  commentator 
7:15 

NBC-Red:      VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES— choral  singing 
NBC-Blue:  TASTYEAST  JES- 
TERS 

CBS:  MA  AND  PA — sketch 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  HE.NDRIK  WIL- 
LEM  VAN  LOON — author,  lec- 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedy  sketch 
CBS:  ALEXANDER  WOOLL- 
COTT— The  Town  Crier 


NBC-Red:  PASSING  PARADE 
NBC-Blue:  FLORENCE 
GEORGE — soprano 
CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
i:U0 

NBC-Red:  JOHNNY  PRE- 
SENTS RUSS  MORGAN  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA  —  Charles 
Martin.  Phil  Duey 
NBC-Blue:  HUSBANDS  AND 
WIVE.S— Allif  Luxve  Mile.s 
CBS:  HAM.MI'.FiSTKI.N  JIUSIC 
HALL— Lucy  Laughlin.  Jerry 
Mann 

MBS:  ORCHE.STRA 
1:30 

NBC-Red:  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  —  Wayne  King's 
orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  EDGAR  GUEST 
In  "IT  CAN  BE  DONE"— Mas- 


Young  s  orchestra 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  VOX  POP— Parks 
Johnson.  Wallace  Butterworth 
NBC-Blue:  BEN  BERNIE  AND 

ALL  THE  L.\DS 
CH.S:   A\.\Ti'll    THE  FUN  GO 
BY-  Al     I'iiirr,,    Nick  Lucas, 
Mar.sh  s  ..]-.  h.-.stra 
MBS:     PAUL  WHITEMAN'S 
ORCHESTRA 
9:15 

MBS:  CONSOLE  AND  KEY- 
BOARD   —    Louise      Wild.,  r. 


Pai 
9:30 


■KARD  HOUR 


Thi 


CBS:    JACK    O.A.KIE'S  COL- 
LEGE— Goodman's  band 
10:00 

MBS:    SINFONIETT  A— Alfred 
Wallenstein,  director 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JIMMIE  FIDLER  S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
NBC-Blue:  HARPSICHORD 
ENSEMBLE 

CBS:  MUSICAL  AMERICANA 
— guest  conductors 
10 :45 

NBC-Red:  CAROL  WEYMANN 
songs 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  PICCADILLY  MU- 
SIC HALL 

CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 

MBS:     NIGHT     SKIES  AND 

BEYOND 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  5—12—19—26 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  M  A  L  C  O  L  M 
CLAIRE — children's  stories 
and  songs 

NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:      ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:30 

NBC-Hed:      CHEERIO  —  talk 

NBC-Blue:    WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER — organist 
CBS:    SALON  MUSICALE 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:  FOUR  MARTI- 
NEZ BROTHERS — songs  and 
music 

CBS:     MONTANA    SLIM— yo- 
deling  cowboy 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS — 
Fiflds  and  Hall 
NRl'-Blue:  B  H  K  A  K  F  A  S  T 
CLUB  — Annette    King.  Bob 


Brn 


Bnke 


■BS:    .MUSIC  IN  THE  AIR 


PRESS    RADIO  NEWS 


CBS; 
9:30 

CBS:     ALLEN     PRESCOTT — 
The  Wife  Saver 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commenta- 
tor 

CBS:  FIDDLER' S  FANCY 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red: 
THE  CABBAGE 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:       TIM  HEALY— 
news  commentator 
CBS:     BETTY     AND  BOB— 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  .lOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  JIA  PERKINS — 
sketch 

CBS:     MODERN  CINDER- 
ELLA— sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY — sketch 
CBS:      BETTY  cP^inM^KR, 
cooking    expert:     IIY.M.WS  cjF 
ALL  CHURCHES 
MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:     KITCHEN  CAV- 
ALCADE— Crosby  Gaige 
CBS:    JOHN   K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
MBS:    JOHN  METCALF'S 
CHOIR  LOFT — hymns 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS — 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 
11:15 

NBC-Red :  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:  HOW  TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 


NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SAUE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red:  VOICE  OF  EXPE- 
RIENCE 

NHC-Hlue:      EDWARD  Mac- 
HUUH— The  Co.spel  Singer 
CBS:  DR  ALLA.X  ROY  DAFOE 

AFTERNOON 


sk.-tch 

NHl'-Hlue:    HOXEYBOY  AND 
SAS.SAFRAS — comedy  team 
CBS:     THE  GUMPS — sketch 
12:15 

NBC-Red:   STORY  OF  MARY 

MART.IN— sketch 

X  HC-Hhie  :  H(  ).Mi:SPl'X — Wil- 

lliilli    Hir.Mii  F..ulk.-s 

CHS:    Vi.ri;    XIOWS  I'Ali.VUE 


CBS:    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT — sKetch 
MBS;  FOUR  STAR  FROLIC— 
musical  varieties 


i;i;xi-;  .-\rxold 
Ml;s    w  i;  .^iii;  Fmur — sketch 

Xl'.c-I;  ^!  Dlc/K  L-"IDLER'S 
c  .1;,  -11  KSTR.\ 

xr.c-i;iue:     LOVE  AND 
l.r..\i:x— sk'teh 
CHS:     FINE    STAR    REVUE — 
M.Tton   Bowe.   Meri   Bell,  Bill 
Johnstone,  Sinatra's  orchestra 


•P.S;  RDHER-; 


MBS:     THF,     PS  VC  H  l  i  LOU  1  ST 
SAYS — Uiv  Ariliui  Fi  ankPayne 
1:30 

NRC-R..1:  \V'.l;I>S  A.XD  MU- 
SIC—Rulli    L-,.in.    l..nTy  Lar- 

s.-n.    H:ir\ev  ll;^^s 

XI'.C-Blu-:   XATI'>V.VI,  FARM 

A.XD     Hil.Mi;      H.11.K — Walter 

(  i;S:  rnxiXU  with  GEORGE 

l;i;c  |',  .n— f,„„l  talk 

.MHS    (iP.il.VN  MIDDAY  SER- 


NBC-Red:  NBC  MUSIC  GUILD 
CBS:    AUNT  JENNY  S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES— sketch 
2:00 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES— Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS;  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT    ORCHESTRA  — Ralph 
Ginsberg 
2:15 

MBS;  LAWRENCE  SALERNO 
.VXD  PIANO 
2:30 

NBC-Blue:  AIRBREA K.S— va- 
riety, music 
2:45 

.XBC-Red:  PERSO.XAL  COL- 
U.\IN  OF  THE  AIR  — Inez  Lo- 
pez 

CHS:  MYRT  .\XD  .MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:       BILL     LEWIS— bari- 
tone, and  organ 
3:00 

NBC-Red;  PIOPPICR  YOU.XC.'S 
F.\.Mll.V~sk.  t<  li 
XHC-Hlu-  LKi  YOU  W.ANT 
TO  Wltrn:-.'  — .M;.maret  Wide- 
mer.  and  <lrania  tizations 
CBS:  .MANHATTA.N  MATI- 
NEE 

MBS:  MOLLY  OF  THE 
MOVIES— sketch 


.MA  PERKINS- 


:nc-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
HCHiue:  INK  SPOTS— negro 
'l";s:  '"n'  M  y\  Y  P.RIERLY— 
1  i;s':"HV;xi;v  'w  iVher'S  or- 


;sTi{.\ 


NBC-Red:  LORENZO  JO.XES 
— comedy 

NBC- Blue;  N.\TION.A.L  COX- 
(iliFSS    OF     PARE.XTS  AXD 


.XBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
.MOO.X — Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
son 

NBC-Blue:    BAILEY  AXTO.X 


.XBC-Red:  THE  G  U  I  D  I  .X  G 
LIGHT— sketch 

CBS;  .\C.-VDE.MY  OF  MEDI- 
CI.XE 

:no 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 

.M.\RL1.X— sketch 

CBS;     SUXBRITE  JU.XIOR 

NURSE      CORPS  — children's 

sketch 

ilBS;  RHYTHM  COCKTAILS 
—  nuvelty  musical  show 


NP.CI!...!:   ADVENTURES  OF 

I>.\X---:-k>t.li 
.XHC- l!li:o:   YciU.XG  HICKORY 
— sketcli 

CBS:     DOROTHY  GORDONS 
CHILDREN'  S  CORNER 
MBS:     JOH.XSO.X  F.-V.MILY— 
Jimmy  Si  ril.n.  r 
:30 

.XBC-Ii'-l:      IH'.X     WI  NSI.i  iW 

OF  THE  .X.WV — .--k.  leh 

.XBC-Hlue;   Sl.VGIXii   l..\l)Y  — 

Children's  program 

CBS:     FOUR     ST.VRS— mi.xed 

quartet 

MBS:     ESTHER    VEL.A.S'  OR- 
CHESTRA 
:45 

NHC-Ked:    LITTLE  imPH.\N 
.VX.XIE — children's  sketch 
.XHC-Blue:  THE  OLD  Ho.ME- 
S'ri:.\D — sketch 
CUS:    WILDERNESS  RO.\D— 


EVENING 


NBC- Red:  OUR  AMERICAN 
SCHOC  if.S 

Xr.c-Hlu.':  H,\RUY  KOGEN 

.\X1>   HIS  t  ii;cH  i;srRA— Sair 

\.:-.. 

t'li.S:  I)l-;i.  c.\.six<) — songs 
:15 

NBC-Red:  CAROL   DEIS — so- 


NBC-Red:     PRESS  RADIO 


CBS:  PRESS  R.\DIO  NEW! 
«:45 

NBC-Red:  FLYI.XG  TI.ME- 
aviation  stories 


NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOM.\S 

— news  commentator 

CHS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 

— sketch 

Xi;c  |;,.,l:  A.MOS  'N'  ANDY— 
c:  ...      !;;aSY    ACES  — 


l:.\L)Ii>  S'I'.X  I  H  ..\  —  Pat  Bar- 
.\HC-Hln...    MRS  FR.\NKLI.X 

D  Roosevelt 

CBS:    .M.\  AND  FX — sketch 
.30 

X'HC-Rcd:  MEET  THE  OR- 
CHi:STR.\ 

.XHC-Hlu-    I. I'M  AND  ABNER 

— .,,m._,lx  -.k-tch 

CHS  '11. Ml-;     FOR  BUDDY 


.M;c-i;.  ,i      \-lC  AND  S.\DE — 

XliC  H.,1,.'        MARIO  COZZL 

I.  aritnne:  .  HRISTINE  JOHN- 
SON, soprano 

CBS;  BOAKE  CARTER — news 
commentator 
:00 

NBC-Red:  ONE  MAN'S  F.\M- 

II.  V — sketch 

XI!C-Hln>-:  BRO,\DWAT 
-M  i  ;  H  l:  V  -  c,  i  ,  .  I; ,  .r  XD— Rea- 


NBC-Red;  Tow.X  H.\L1.  TO- 
XICHT— Fred  All.ii,  P.-rtland 
Hoffa.    Van    Stecden's  orehes- 


;IEL  HE.\TTER- 


9:.'{0 

CBS:  PAI,.\H 
HOX  THI'A 


I'TY 

-  i  0  a 
.■hes- 


l(»:l.-i 

XHC-H.lii-  :  m;.\I.AXI  OI''  THE 
SOUTH  SE.\S — music  and  leg- 
ends 
10:30 

NBC-Blue:  .XBC  MI.XSTREL 
SHOW 

CBS;     BABE   RUTH'S  BASE- 
BALL PROGRAM 
10:45 

NBC-Red:     JI.MMY  KE.MPER 


mg 


II: 


SIC 

49 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  6—13—20—27 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
—children's  stories  and  songs 
XBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIOXS — organ  and  songs 


XBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  LEIBERT  EN- 
SEMBLE—Island  Serenaders 


NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  —  talk 
and  music 

CBS:  SALON  MUSICALE 


»:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 

Fields  and  Hall 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 

CLCB — Annette      King.  Bob 

Brown.  Jack  Baker 

l'BS:GREENFIELD  VILLAGE 

CHAPEL 

■J:  15 

CBS:  AS  YOU  LIKE  IT— 
variety  program 

9:40 

CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEWS 
U:43 

NBC-Red  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commen- 
tator 

CBS:   SONG  STYLISTS 
9  :.->.! 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     TIM  HEALY— 

news  commentator 

CBS:    BETTY  AND  BOB  — 

sketch 

10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 

10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 


CBS:  BETTY  CROCKER,  cook- 
ing exi>ert:  HYMNS  OF  ALL 
CHURCHES 

10:43 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     KITCHEN  CAV- 
ALCADE— Crosby  Galge 
CBS:    JOH.N    K.  WATKINS — 
news  commentator 
MBS:     SINGING  STRINGS— 
'■nsemble 


1 1 :00 


•BS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
-.15 


NBf:-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez 
Lopez 

CBS:      QUALITY  TWINS — 

East  and  Dumk<- 

MBS:  RAOUL  NADEAU  AND 

ORCHESTRA 


11 :30 

XHC-Rod:  BETTY  .MOORE 
Xi;.-  r.lii.  ;   \'IC  AND  SADE- 


Hi  >.\ii;.maki:k  s    i:\rii axcio 

MHS:  ISA  Hi:i,1.10  MA.XXIXG 
HEWSOX— omnuiltator 

AFTERNOON 

l'':00  Noon 

XBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE — 
sketcli 

XHC-Hlu.-:    HOXKYHOY  AND 


■.MP 


.MH.S:  BIDK  DrULKY  S  THK- 
ATRE  CLUB  OF  THE  AIH 
AND  ORGAN 

12:15 

.XBC-Rfd:   STORY    OF  MARY 

.M  A  l;  MX— sketch 

Xlii  -Ulu,-;       .A  R  .M  C  H  A  I  R 


;ale  page- 


NBC-Blue:     GENE  ARNOLD 

AND  THE  CADETS 

CBS:^  OUR   GAL,  SUND.-VY'— 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— 
sketch 


NBC-Red:  DICK  FIDLER'S 
I  IRCHKSTR.A 

X  l;  !•  -  I'.  1  u  .■  :     L  ()  \-  E  AND 


1::50 

NBC-R.-,1 
MUSIC— 1 
Larsen.  1 1 
NRC-Bhii 
AXD^  in 

I ■ 1 ;s  :  I  II X 


•HE.STltA 


•II  .AND  HIS 


R  n  S  AND 


■H  GEORGE 


2:15 

MBS:     SALLY    JO  NELSON 
AND  PIANO 
2:30 

-NBC-Red:   IT'S   A  WOMAN'S 
WORLD  —  Claudine  Macdon- 
ald.  Levey's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:    GENERAL  FED- 


2:45 

NBC-Red:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— In<z 
Lopez 

CnS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sk.tch 

MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 


P|-:iM'ER  Y'OUNG'S 

i:]u.'  i.u;ht  op- 

1  "  1  I  .\  I  I  ■  A  X  \' 

WRIGHT,  VICE 

M  M  1,  I,  Y    OF  THE 

I  i;s-~ski'tcli 

K.'d:  MA  PERKINS— 
:    I. A  FORGE-BERUMEN 

i:r,i:    VIC  AND  SADE— 


;TI1E  O'NEILLS  — 
•:        THE  CAB.AL- 


4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 


4:30 

XBC-Rf 


i:.S:       S.  ARMY  B.A.ND 

H.S;   \-.ARIETY  PROGRAM- 

luiiiif  .-^Ipeit.  Sid  Gary 


5:00 

NBC-Red:   ARCHER  GIBSON 

NBC- Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY' 
MARI-IN— sketch 
MB.S:  HAROLD  STOKES'  OR- 
CHESTRA 


NBC-Red:   ADVENTURES  OF 
UARI  D.\.X— sketch 
NBC- Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
— skeleh 

CBS:  ALL  H-\NDS  ON  DECK 
MRS:  JOHNSON  FAMILY — 
Jimmy  Scribner 


I.TTTLE  ORPHAN 
lilren's  sketcli 
It  <)  Y     C  A  M  P  - 

A-  ALISTS 

MOli.XESS  ROAD — 


EVENING 


NBC-H.  .I  :  \\  \ 


'H  ALMN — songs 


fi:l.- 


NBC-Red:  MUSICAL  PRO- 
CRAM 

CBS:  CLYDE  BARRIE— bari- 
.  MBS:  EN  DINANT— dinner 
6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS  RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  DINNER  MUSIC 


6:40 

CBS:    PRESS    RADIO  NEWS 


NBC-Red:  FLYING  TIME— 
aviation  stories 

NBC-Blue:  I>OWELL  THOMAS 


CBS:     POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack    Fulton.    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack.   Kelsey's  orchestra 
MBS:      FRANK  GRAHAM— 
sports  commentator 


NBC-Red:  VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES— choral  singing 
NBC-Blue:  CYCLING  THE 
KILOCYCLES — H  i  1  d  e  g  a  r  d  e . 
Ray  Sinatra's  orchestra,  guests 
CBS:  MA  AND  PA — sketch 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 

7:30 

NBC-Red:  HELEN  TRAUBEL 

— stings 

NBC-Blue:  BUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedy  sketch 
CB.S— ALE.-^CANDER  WOOLL- 
COTT — Tlie  Town  Crier 

7:45 

NBC-Red:  MILLSTONES  AND 
IMILESTONES — Eugen  Boisse- 

NBC-Blue:  SOUTHERNAIRES 
— quartet 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 


NBC-Red:  RUDY  VALLBE'S 
A' -ARIETIES— guests 
NBC-Blue:  ROY  SHIELD'S 
ENCORE  MUSIC — Sair  Lee. 
Clark  Dennis.  Robert  Gately. 
Gale  Page 

CBS:    KATE   SMITH'S  BAND 
WAGON — Miller's  orchestra 
MBS:  MUSIC  AND  YOU 

:30 


AXWELL  HOUSE 
\T — Lanny  Ross, 
rrliestra.  Molasses 


10 :00 

NBC-Red:      KRAFT  MUSIC 

HALL  Bing     Crosby.  Bob 

liurns.  Dorsey's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:    NBC  JAMBOREE 
CBS:    YOUR    TRUE  ADVEN- 
TURES— Floyd  Gibbons 
MBS:  WITCH'S  TALE— Alonzo 
Deen  Cole,  Marie  O'Flynn 


10:: 


MARCH     OF  TIME- 


Y  WEBER'S 


.MISIC.VL  R1';\'UE 
11:00 

NBC-Red:     JOHN     B.  KEN- 
NEDY—news  commentator 
NBC-Blue:  DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


SO 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  7—14—21—28 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  MALCOLM 
CLAIRE — children's  program 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 

8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 

8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:     WILLIAM  MKK- 
DER — organist 
CBS:  SCNNY  .MELODIES 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:  DANDIES  OF 
YESTERDAY 

CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM— yo- 
deling  cowboy 

9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS — 

Fields  and  Hall,  orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 

CLUB  —  Annette    King,  Bob 

Brown.  Jack  Baker 

CBS:    METROPOLITAN  P.\- 

RADE 


9:30 

CBS: 


NOVELTEERS 


NBC-Red:  PRESS  R  .\  D  I  O 
NEWS 

NBC--Blue:  PRESS  R.A.DIO 
NEWS 


NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    TIM    HE.\LT  — 


10:13 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  .MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MODERN  CINDER- 
ELL.\ — sketch 

10:30 

NHC-Rcd:  JUST  PL.\IN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  TOUNG  S 
FAMILY' — sketch 
CBS:     BETTY  CROCKER, 
cooking  expert 

MARRI.\GE  CLINIC— 


»nces  McDo 


lid 


10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DRE.X— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     KITCHEN  C.A.V- 
ALC.A.DE — Crosby  Gaige 
CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS — 
news  commentator 


DAVID  H.\RUM— 
THE  O'NEILLS— 


NBC-Red: 
sketch 
NBC-Blue: 
Sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  M.\GAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch.  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

11:15 

NBC-Red :  B.\CKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 


11:30 

.NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CH.\R.\II.XG — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  S.\DE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

XBC-Red:  VOICE  OF  EXPE- 
RIE.XCE 

NBC-Blue:     EDW.\RD  Mac- 
HUOH— The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:    DR.   ALLAN   ROY  D.A.- 
FOE 

MBS:  M.\RTH.\  .\ND  H.\L— 
songs  and  patter 


AFTERNOON 


V2:0Q  Noon 

.XBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

XBC-Blue:   HONEYBOY  .\ND 
SASS.\FRAS — comedy  team 
CBS:    THE  GUMPS— sketch 
1'2:15 

NBC-Red:    STORY  OF  M.\RY 


M.^RLIN — sketch 


1-2:30 

NBC-Blue:      HELEN  JAXE 
BEHLKE — soprano 
CBS:    ROM.\XCE  OF  HELEX 
TREXT— sketch 

I'J  :45 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE  — 
NBC-Hluo:     Gir.XE  .\RNOLD 

AND  THH  (wiurrs 

CBS:  OUR  G.\L.  SUND-\Y— 
sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  DICK  FIDLER'S 
ORCHESTR.\ 

NBC-Blue:     LOVE  AND 
LE.\RN— .'^k.  r.  h 
CBS:    FI\  I    -       '       .  i:\-UE— 
Morton   i:  ;,  Bill 

Johnston-  ,  iiestra 

1:15 

NBC-Red:  D.\X  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:  ROBERT  W.  HORTON — 
correspondent 

MBS:  BIDE  DUDLEY"S  THE- 
ATRE CLUB  OF  THE  AIR 


1:30 


Has 


NBC-Blue:  XATIO.XAL  FARM 
AXD  HO.ME  HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss 

CBS:  DINING  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR — food  talk 


CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  .\ 
WO.M-A.N'S  EYES  —  Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT ORCHESTR.\ 


!:15 


CBS:  MYRT  AND  .MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:  LEO  FREUDBERGS 
ORCHESTRA 


GR  YOUNG'S 
ro  GUILD— 
.\  T  I    S  Y'  M  - 


-XBC-Red:      M.\  PERKIXS- 

sketch 

-MBS:  R.VDIO  G.\RDEX  CLUI 
3:30 

XBC-Red:  VIC  AXD  S.\DE- 
sketch 


MBS:  ORCHESTR.A. 
3:45 


4:00 

NBC-Red:  TE.\  TIME  AT 
MORRELL'S  — Gale  Page. 
Charles^  Sears,    Don  McNeill, 

.XBC-Blue:  CLUB  M.\TIXEE — 


NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
MOON— Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
son 

CBS:  AMONG  OUR  SOUVE- 
NIRS 

.MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM 
4:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— .sketch 

CBS      .SALVATION  ARMY 


5:00 

NBC-Blue:  STORY'  OF  MARY 

JIARLIN— sketch 

CBS:     SUNBRITE  JUXIdR 

NURSE    CORPS  —  children  s 

sketch 

MBS:     CONCERT  ORCHES- 


NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAxX— sketch 
NBC-Blue:     SINGING  L.A.DY 

CB.S:     DciRoTHY  GORDON'S 

CHII.DP.K.X  S   (•(  )HXEK 

-■MUS:      .1.  ■II.\S(  '.X    FA.MILY' — 


NBC-Red:     DON  WIXSLOW 
OF  THE  NAA  Y— sketch 
CBS:    DORIS  KERR — songs 


.XBC-Red:   LITTLE  ORPH.\N 

.\.\NIE — children's  sketch 

XBC-Blue:  THE  OLD  HOME- 

STE.A.D — sketch 

CBS:   WILDERNESS  ROAD — 

sketch 

MBS:  M.\RGERY  GR.\H.\M 
—Book  of  the  Week 


EVENING 


:00 


.XBC-Red:     EDUCATION  IN 
THE  NEWS — dramatization 
NBC-Blue:    HARRY  KOGEN 
.\.XD  HIS  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:  TITO  GUIZ.\R— songs 
6:15 

NBC-Red:  R.\RRY  McKIN- 
LEY-— baritone 

CBS:  TIME  FOR  BUDDY 
CL.\RK 

6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS  R.\DIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS  R  .\  D  I  O 
NEWS 

MBS:     H.\ROLD    TURNER  — 
pianist 
6:35 

NBC-Red:  C.\ROL  DEIS— so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:  CL.\RK  DEN.XIS — 
tenor 
6:40 

CBS:    PRESS  R.\DIO  NEWS 


.Xi;i-  Il  .i  FT.YING  TIME — 
X  I :LL  THOMAS 

(1  I    KITTY  KELLY 

MBS;  KHU.MBA  RHYTHMS 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    UNCLE    S.\M  AT 
WORK — dramatization 
CBS:   POETIC  MELODIES 


NBC-Reil:  rXiLi:  K/.I'.-N-S 
RADIO  STATI'  'X— I'at  l;,Mr-U 
NBC-Blu.-  S  T  A  1  .\  L  i:  S  S 
SHOW  —  Fr,i-,l  l!,.n,l.  .Mario 
Cozzi.  Stopak  s  orchestra 
CBS:  M.\  .A.ND  PA — sketch 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  C.\B.\LLEROS  — 
quartet 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
• — sketch 

CBS:     HOLLACE     SH.\W  — 


1:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  HOUSE  TH.\T 
JACKS  BUILT— organ,  guests 
NBC-Blue:  JE.\N  DICKEN- 
SON'— soprano 

CBS:     BOAKE  CARTER— 
news  commentator 
!:00 

XBC-Red:  CITIES  SERVICE 
CO.XCERT  —  Lucille  Manners, 
Bourdon's  orchestra 
XBC-Blue:  IREXE  RICH 
CBS:  BRO.\DW.\Y  V.VRIR- 
TIES — Oscar  Shaw,  Carm.la 
Ponselle,  Elizabeth  Lennox. 
Arden's  orchestra 


XBC-Blue:     SIXGI.X'     S-\M — 
The  Barbasol  Man 
8:30 

NBC-Blue:    DE.\TH  VALLEY 
D.-VY'S — dramatization 
CBS:     HAL   KEMPS  DANCE 
B.\XD  — Kay  Thompson, 
Rhyth:n  Singers 
MBS:    CES.\RE  SODERO  DI- 
RECTS—songs 
9:00 

XHC-H.'.i:  WALTZ  TIME — 
Frank    .\hinn.    Mrir>  Eastman, 


XB 


RK 


rin.  Paige's  orcho.-^t i.i 

MBS:      RAY.MO.XD    G  R  .\  M 

SWING — world  events 


10:00 

NBC-Red:  FIRST  NIGHTER- 


!S  1' 
IKSTl; 


iL)ELPHI.\  OR- 


MHS;      I'AII,  WHITEMAN'S 
(iHCHE.STR.\ 
10:30 

NBC-Red:      POXTIAC  VAR- 
SITY SHOW — John  Held,  Jr. 
NBC-Blue:      WHITNEY  EN- 
SE.MBLH 

CHS;     BABE   Rl'TH'S  B.\SE- 

B.M.L  i'i:"<;i;.\M 

10:4.-> 


11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:    DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 

51 


RADIO  STARS 


MAY  1—8—15—22—29 


MORNING 


HO.MK      TOWN'  — 


MlMTIi  .Ml 


NBC-Red:  UNIVERSAL 
RHYTHM— Rex  Chandler's  or- 
chestra, Richard  Bonelli,  Alec 
Templeton,    Landt  Trio 


NBC-Blue:  THE  CHVRCH  IN 
THE  WORLD  TODAY— Dr. 
Alfred  Grant  Walton 


NBC-Red;  MY.srintY  Ci'.EF 

NBC-Blue:  .M  A  O  1  C     O  F 

SPEECH  —  Vida  Kavenscroft 
Sutton 


3:45 

CBS:     CLYDE    BARRIE  — 


CBS:     ETON  BOYS— quartet 


CBS;    LYRIC  SERENADE 


.\I«"-Hed:  FITCH  Hi).\l.\.\CES 
— CiMie  -Arnold  and  the  Kaneh 
Boys 

iMBS:     LI.M    SA  I.XX)— i.rga  nist 


AFTERNOON 


12:00  Noon 


.\i;c-i;iu,  -  CLUB  MATINEE— 

I  T.s    Till':  DICTATORS 
MHS:  ORCHESTRA 


j\.NN  LEAF — organist 


CBS:  TITO  GUI ZAR— songs 
7:30 


NBC-iilue:  UNCLE  JIM'S 
QUESTION  BEE— Jim  McWil- 

CBS:  SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SWING  CLUB— Bunny  Beri- 
gan  and  guests 


NBC- Blue:  B  R  E  A  K  F  A  S  T 
CLUB  — Annette  King.  Loh 
Brown,  Jack  Baker 

CBS:  RAY  CLOCK— pianist 


CBS:   THE  ( '  AI'TI  V'ATORS 
12:15 

.VBC-TUu.-:      THKi;:';  .MAR- 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red  :  K  ALTENMEYER'S 
KINI>l':i!(;.\UTEN  —  varieties. 

liiu.,-    K.iniinan.    lOlin.T  Har- 


NBC-Red:  SATURDAY  NIGHT 
PARTY — James  Melton,  Do- 
lan's  orchestra,  guests 


9:30 

CBS:  MELLOW  MO.MENTS 
9:55 


Nl;C-}!lll.':    (  IRCU  i;STRA 

i'i;s  >n<-,i-;    ii.vLL  and 


(■li.s:       PROFESSOR  QUIZ— 

Mi;s  i:i:n  AV  \-I':.nutA'S 
1  'Hi  M  ;k,\,M  —  rd  .\mison, 

Sid  Gary,  Bru.siloff's  orchestra 


5:45 

CBS:     SINGING  WAITERS 


CBS:  PRESS  RADIO  NEV.S 
10:00 


NBC-Blue:  SWEETHEARTS 
OF  THE  AIR— May  Singhl 
Breen,  Peter  de  Ro.se 

CBS:      YOUR      HO.ME  AND 
MINE — Bryan  Rash, 
tator 


NBC-Blue:  RAISING  YOUR 
PAKE.VTS  —  juvenile  forum. 
Milton  J  CrosH 


BOB  AND  VER.\— songs 


-MBS.   .MUSK'AL  I'R()i;U.\.M 


NBC-Ri-d:  Yuru  HOST  IS 
BUFF.\  I,(  < 

NBC-I;lM.  :   \\i  .1;MS  AND  MU- 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-U.  d;  Till'  HATTERS  OR- 
1;HKST1!  A— .I:in  Savitt 

N 1 J  C  -  H I  u .  • :    X  r, '  1-:  lO  L  O  D 1  < )  .\ — 

CHS:  Pl.^NlST 

.MHS:     AT  CLOSE   OF  DAY 


MHS:  HAROLD  TURNEK— 
Ijianist 

:30 

NBC-Red:     PP.  ESS  RADIO 


NBC-Blue:  MEREDITH 
WILLSON  AND  HIS  OR- 
CHESTRA 

CBS:  JOHNNY  PRESENTS 
RUSS  MORGAN  AND  HIS 
ORCHESTRA— Charles  Martin. 
Phil  Duey 


1  :  SXnw  VILLAGE 
[  I'llS — Arthur  Allen  and 

•-vnnvWy 


A  R.\CKET — dram- 


9:15 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


:bs:  da.nci:pators 


:n  F ELD'S  ORCHES- 
XiiClI   LIGHT'S  OR- 


CHS:  .-IATURDAY  NIGHT 
S IC  R  E  X  A  D 10 —  .Mary  Eastman. 
Bill  Perry,  Haenschens  or- 
chestra 


MBS:  ED  FITZGKIRALD  A 
CO. — variety  show,  Freudbery'i 
orsheatra.  Elinor  Sherry 


CBS:  CINCIN.NATI  CONSER- 
VATORY OF  MUSIC  PRO- 
GRAM 


NBC-Blue:  WALTER  BLAU- 
FUSS'  ORCHE.STRA  —  Gale 
Page 

MBS:  INT  IC  R  .\  A  T  I  < )  .-^l  .V  L 
HOUSE — college  students  fo- 
rum 

2 :45 

CBS:    TOURS  I.N'  TtJ.XE 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DOWN  BY  HER.MAN'I 
MBS:  ORCHE.STRA 


•BS:   PRESS   RADIO  NEWS 


MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
10:45 

CRS:  SONG  STYLISTS — male 
11:00 

NBC-Red:    DANCE  Ml'SIC 
NBC-Blue:    DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS:     BENNY  GOODMAN 
AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA 
MHS:    DANCE  .MUSIC 


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GERTRUDE  NIESEN 


Night  clubs  knew  her.  She  sang  her  way  to  fame  on  the  stage.  The  movies 
seek  her  services.  Radio  beckons  her.  You've  doubtless  heard  and  seen  and 
delighted  in  glamorous  Gertrude.  Vivid,  exotic,  provocative,  are  other  adjec- 
tives that  must  be  called  on  to  describe  this  young  star  whose  velvety  singing 
stirs  even  jaded  Hollywood. 


RADIO  STARS 

RECENTLY  IN  NEW  YORK  BEFORE  RETURNING  TO  LONDON  FOR  THE  CORONATION 


THE  BEAUTIFUL,  YOUNG 


Tells  you  how  she  cares  for  her 
glamorously  clear,  smooth  skin 


•  Delicate  features  in  a  heart- 
shaped  face,  lovely,  liquid 
blue-gray  eyes,  lustrous  dark- 
hrown  hair — the  luminous 
beauty  of  a  clear,  smooth  skin! 

•  (ic/ozi')  Snapped  on  the  stair- 
case of  the  Crystal  Garden  of 
the  Ritz-Carlton  during  the 
Duchess  of  Leinster's  recent 
visit  to  New  York. 


Her  Grace  — one  of  the  three  Premier  Duchesses  in  the  British  Isles — ir 
the  white  satin  Court  gown  she  will  wear  under  her  Coronation  robe.  .  , 
"A  treatment  with  Pond's  Cold  Cream  is  more  than  a  cleansing  treatment 
It  makes  my  skin  feel  invigorated,  look  brighter.  1  use  Pond's  Cold  Crearr 
night  and  morning  and  for  any  occasion." 


/ — HE  will  stand  for  hours  in  West- 
V  minster  .Abbey  the  day  of  the 
CZr^  Coronation,  in  a  robe  of  velvet 
and  ermine — jewels  flashing  from  coronet 
and  necklace — her  lovely  skin  clear  and 
luminous  against  its  brilliant  setting. 

Of  all  the  peeresses  who  will  attend  the 
Coronation,  none  will  be  lovelier  than  the 
slender,  young  Duchess  of  Leinster. 

.Admired  for  her  beauty  during  her  re- 
cent visit  to  New  York,  the  Duchess  said 
her  beauty  care  is  "the  simplest  and  best 
— Pond's."  "Pond's  Cold  Cream  is  a  com- 
plete facial  treatment  in  itself,"  she  said. 
"I  use  it  to  invigorate  and  freshen  my 


skin  for  the  most  important  occasions." 

Like  hundreds  of  British  beauties — the 
Duchess  follows  this  daily  method: — 
Every  night,  smooth  on  Pond's  Cold  Cream. 
.As  it  releases  dirt,  make-up,  skin  secretions — 
wipe  them  off.  Now  pat  in  more  Pond's  Cold 
Cream— ^(\s^/v,  till  the  circulation  stirs.  Your 
skin  feels  invigorated  and  freshened. 
Every  morning  (and  always  before  make-up) 
repeat  .  .  .  Your  skin  is  smooth  for  powder — 
fresh,  vital  looking! 

Day  and  night,  this  rousing  Pond's  treatment 
does  more  than  clean  your  skin.  It  invigorates 
it .  . .  Fights  blemishes,  blackheads,  lines,  coars- 
ening pores,  (iet  ajar  today.  Soon  see  your  skin 
growing  lovelier! 


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THE  LAMPLIGHTER 

BY 

MARY  WATKINS  REEVES 


MKS.  MARY  SMITH  was  lonely  again 
that  night,  sitting  by  herself  in  her  Miiall 
suburban  living-room.  .\t  noon,  \\!u  n  tiK 
phone  had  finally  rung,  she'd  been  -o  ex- 
cited she'd  let  her  freshly  rinsed  >lKet- 
slip  back  into  the  soapsuds  in  her  baste  t  i 
answer  it — surely  it  was  John  sa\  in>.:  Ik 
was  home  from  Philadelphia!  Hc\\  l>cen 
gone  three  days,  that  had  seemed  like  three 
months  to  her. 

"Sorry,  dear,"  his  voice  was  crisp,  "bm 
I'll  be  held  up  down  here  until  tomorrow  . 
See  you  then." 

So  Mrs.  Mary  Smith  sat  disappointed  at 
the  prospect  of  another  lonely  eveninc. 
For  months  John's  boss  had  been  eternall> 
sending  him  to  Wilmington  or  Albany  nr 
somewhere  nearly  every  week.  Rut  busi- 
ness was  business  and  she  wouldn't  s;i()e)ni 
her  whole  e\ennm  a\va\-.  .Sbe'd  take  the 
five-dollar  bill  he  put  under  her  plate  on 
her  birthday,  catch  the  7:50  express  into 
New  York  and  treat  herself  to  an  orches- 
tra seat  at  the  very  gayest  musical  show 
on  Broadway ! 

The  curtain  was  up  when  she  got  to 
the  theatre.  The  uslx'r  led  her  down  the 
darkened  ajsle  to  her  seat ;  she  slipped  off 
her  coat  and  settled  back  happily  to  look 
up  at  the  rows  of  dancers  on  the  stage, 
when  suddenly  a  hot  ball  of  pain  smote  at 
the  base  of  her  throat  and  sent  the  wiiole 
world  reeling. 

The  man  in  front  of  her.  the  dark  head 
in  front  that  she  was  straining  to  see 
around — it  ~uvs  John! 

The  girl  beside  him  was  small  and 
blonde  with  a  tip-tilted  nose.  .-Vcross  the 
back  of  her  seat  dropped  a  silver  fox  cape 
with  three  white  (lrl■bid^  |iinned  in  its 
perfumed  softness.  John's  arm  was  around 
the  girl,  his  fingers  possessively  closed  on 
her  shoulder  in  a  still  caress.  Now  and 
then  he  leaned  down  to  whisper  something 
against  her  cheek,  something  that  made 
them  stir  and  move  closer  to  latli  mlier. 

John's  arm  embracing  anothiT  wmian — 
John's  orchids  .  .  .  Sii  k  and  stinnied  out 
of  her  wits,  Mary  eiti^bed  her  handker- 
chief hard  against  her  lips.  And  the 
instant  she  knew  she  could  stand  without 
falling,  she  got  up  and  stumbled  out  of 
the  theatre. 

In  desperation  she  wrote  that  night  to 
The  Lamfliyhter,  pouring  out  tiie  whole 
long  story.  How  she  and  her  husband  had 
been  married  for  eight  ideally  happy  years, 
and  now  this  shock  had  come,  like  thunder 
crashing  out  of  a  winter  night.  She  often 
had  listened  to  The  Lawftlightcr  on  her 
radio,  to  the  sane  advice  he  offered  in 
solving  his  audience's  problems.  Every 
conceivable  problem  in  the  world  came  to 
him — marriage,  divorce,  "other  men,"  "other 
women,"  in-laws,  children  of  divorce,  jilted 
lovers,  unrequited  romance,  suicide — an 
endless  stream.  For  each  of  them  he 
always  seemed  to  have  an  answer.  Now 
Mary  Smith  needed  an  answer,  for  she 
was  too  ill  with  heartbreak  to  think  for 
herself. 

Having  posted  the  letter,  it  came  about 
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Rabbi  Jacob  Tarshish,  known  to 
Mutual  Network  listeners  as  The 
Lamplighter,  adviser  and  friend. 


that  several  days  later  sht-  sat  in  a  mid- 
tiiwii  office  and  sobbed  out  the  rest  of  her 
stor\'  to  iniderstanding  tars.  J(]lin,  when 
he  came  home  to  lir  eniilnjnted  with  her 
tearful  accusations,  liad  a(hnittcd  inhdclitv' 
and  an  infatuation  for  the  blonde  girl.  The 
business  trips  had  been  a  series  of  lies. 
.^nd  furthermore,  he  had  said  quite  frankly 
that  he  didn't  know  wlullier  or  not  he 
could  give  up  bi^  inislr(ss, 

"Shall  [— ■  asked  Mary  Smith  of  the 
man  who  sat  at  the  desk  opposite  her,  " — 
shall  I  get  a  divorce?" 

"No,"  said  The  Laniplii/hlcr,  "emphati- 
cally no!  I  sent  for  you  to  come  to  sec 
me  because  I  w-anted  to  warn  you  against 
just  that. 

"First,  Mrs.  Smith,  let's  consider  your 
husband.  When  a  man  is  finished  with  his 
wife,  he  will  tell  her  so.  If  he  really  is 
in  love  with  another  woman,  he  will  break 
away  from  his  wife  and  go  to  that  other 
woman.  Your  husband  has  dune  neither 
of  those  things.  The  very  fait  that  he 
took  the  trouble  to  hide  his  affair  finm  ynu 
was  proof  that  he  didn't  want  tu  hurt  you. 

"Of  course  you  are  crushed  b\  bis  un- 
faithfulness, but  have  you  cast  >our  heart- 


break aside  long  enough  to  think  what 
caused  it  ?  He  may  have  met  extreme 
temptation  that  he  found  he  was  powerless 
til  resist;  he  may  be  prematurely  passing 
tb  rough  the  'critical  period'  that  men 
usually  experience  between  forty  and  fifty 
>ears  of  age:  or  the  reason  behind  his 
actions  may  have  been  you,  yourself;  any 
of  those  three  things.  Think  them  over, 
and  decide  whether  you  are  justified  in 
blaming  him  or  trying  to  understand  him. 

"Now  for  \our  side.  If  you  get  a 
divorce,  you  will  cut  off  every  chance  of 
mending  your  marriage  and  you'll  hand 
your  husband  over  to  the  other  woman 
on  a  silver  platter ;  that  way  you've  got 
everything  to  lose.  If  you  don't  get  a 
divorce,  there's  a  probability  that  you  may 
win  your  husband  back,  that  he  will  be 
sorry  aiid  eternally  grateful  for  your  un- 
derstanding and  forgiveness,  and  you'll 
finish  out  your  lives  together  in  perfect 
h.appiness.  Do  you  want  to  lose  for  sure, 
or  take  a  chance  on  winning? 

"Don't  get  a  divorce,  Mrs.  Smith.  Not 
yet.  If  Mr.  Smith  were  habitually  un- 
faithful it  would  be  a  different  matter.  But 
this  is  his  first,  maybe  his  last,  wandering." 

Mary  Sinith  didn't  get  the  divorce. 

"That  was  three  summers  ago,"  The 
I .ainprujhter  finished  his  story.  "Today 
that  couple  are  ideally  happy  together; 
they've  built  a  home  in  the  suburbs  and 
have  become  the  parents  of  twin  boys." 

We  were  sitting  in  the  midtown  ofifice 
where  Mary  Smith  had  poured  out  her 
story,  where  thousands  of  Mary  and  John 
Smiths  have  come  with  their  problems. 
Over  the  great  desk  in  that  office  one 
quarter  of  a  inillion  letters  pass  every  year. 
The  man  who  sits  in  a  swivel  chair  read- 
ing and  answering  those  letters  is  a  stocky, 
brown-haired  man  of  forty-five,  Rabbi 
Jacob  Tarshish,  known  to  his  Mutual  Net- 
work audience  as  The  Lamplighter. 

A  rich  background  in  dealing  with 
peoi)le  and  their  problems  qualifies  Rabbi 
Tarshish  to  do  his  work.  For  eighteen 
years  be  occupied  the  pulpits  of  syna- 
gogues in  .Mlentown,  Pennsylvania;  Yon- 
kers,  New  \'ork  ;  and  (  ohimbus,  Ohio.  In 
his  position  as  rablii  be  was  called  upon 
to  administer  to  his  people  in  every  phase 
and  emergency  of  their  lives.  He  \isited 
the  sick,  helped  the  poor,  buried  the  dead, 
comforted  the  mourning;  christened, 
taught,  advised  and  married  the  young; 
consoled  the  aged.  His  were  the  same 
exhausting  duties  that  fall  to  all  rabbis, 
ministers  or  priests.  And  in  performing 
those  duties  he  learned  much  about  people 
that  people  often  do  not  know  about  them- 
selves. 

Rabbi  Tarshish  was  born  in  Lithuania. 
.\t  the  age  of  one  year  he  was  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Haltimore.  Maryland,  wdiere 
his  fatlier  became  the  iirincipal  of  a  Jewish 
school.  y\s  a  youth  tlie  Rabbi  was  an 
omnivnroiis  reader,  often  digesting  as 
many  as  three  books  a  day.  When  he 
finished  high  school  at  sixteen,  and  felt 
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RADIO  STARS 


.  .  .  Special  soap  and  powder  to  keep 
him  clean  and  comfortable. 


From  the  very  Jirst  day  oj  his  life  a  baby- 
lives  ill  a  SPECIAL  world.  Everything  he  gets 
is  made  especially  for  him. 


...Special  toys  to  keep  the 
mind  growing. 


, . .  Special  dental  care  to  keep  young  teeth 
sound  and  straight. 


. . .  Special  foods  to  keep  a 
youngster  thriving. 


. . .  And  a  SPECIAL  laxative  to  keep  the 
body  healths. . .  Fletcher''s  Castoria. 


What  a  grand  start  a  modern  youngster  gets 

EVERYTHING  MADE  ESPECIALLY  FOR  HIM. ..EVEN  TO  A 
SPECIAL  LAXATIVE! 


Yes,  even  a  special  laxative. 

After  all,  he  is  only  a  tot.  His  system 
isn't  sturdy  enough  for  the  liurly-burly 
ertVfts  of  an  "adult"  laxative  ...  even 
when  given  in  "smaller  doses." 


That  is  the  reason  why  many  doctors 
often  suggest  Fletcher's  Castoria.  For.  as 
you  know',  Fletcher's  Castoria  is  a  child's 
laxative  pure  and  simple  — made  espe- 
cially and  only  for  children. 

It  couldn't  possibly  harm  the  tiniest 
infant  system  because  it  contains  no 
harsh  "adult"  drugs  ...  no  narcotics  .  .  . 


nothing  tliat  could  cause  cram})ing  pains. 

It  works  cliicflx-  on  the  lower  bowel.  It 
gently  urges  tlie  muscular  nio\ement.  It 
is  SAFE  . . .  mild  . .  .yet  thorough. 

A  famous  baby  specialist  said  he 
couldn't  write  a  better  prescription  than 
Fletcher's  Castoria. 


It  is  also  important  to  remember  that 
a  child  should  take  a  laxative  willingly. 
Doctors  say  the  revulsion  a  child  feels 
when  forced  to  take  a  medicine  he  hates 
can  throw  his  entire  nervous  system  out 
of  order.  Tliat's  whv  even  the  taste  of 


Fletcher's  Castoria  is  made  especially 
for  children.  They  love  it. 

More  than  five  million  mothers  depend 
faithfully  upon  Fletcher's  Castoria.  Why 
not  stay  on  the  safe  side  and  keep  a  bot- 
tle handy  in  your  home.^  You  can  never 
tell  when  you'll  need  it. 

You  can  buy  Fletcher's  Castoria  at  any 
drug  store.  Ask  for  the  Family  Size  Bot- 
tle. It  saves  you  money.  The  xhitmture 
Chas.  H.  Fletcher  appears  on  the  red- 
bordered  band  on  the  box. 

CASTORIA 

The  laxative  made  espeoiallv  /or  babies 
and  growing  children 

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fsO  THAT'S  WHERE  YOU 
I  GET  THAT  MARVELOUS 
■  ^SPAGHETTI,  IS  IT? 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 


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BRIDE  REVEALS  ALL! 

Husband  finds  why  he  eats  like  a  millionaire 

at  J^a  />(^^/ 

THRHE  things  make  Franco-American 
Spaglicrti  a  life-saver  for  brides  and  lim- 
ited budgets.  First,  it  tastes  so  good  that 
hungry  young  husbands  clamor  for  more. 
Second,  it  is  such  concentrated  nourishment 
that  with  it  you  need  onlya  salad  and  perhaps 
a  fruit  dessert  for  a  satisfying  meal.  Third,  it 
costs  so  little!  Imagine  -a  can  usually  costs 
only  tea  cents  — less  than  3f^  a  portion. 

Franco-American  is  no  ordinary,  ready- 
cooked  spaghetti.  One  taste  of  its  tangy, 
cheese-and-tomato  sauce,  with  its  subtle 
blend  of  eleven  delicious,  savory  ingredients, 
will  convince  you  right  away.  Ready  to  heat 
and  eat,  how  it  does  save  time!  It's  grand  for 
making  meals  out  of  leftovers,  too!  Try  this! 

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Panbroiled  meat  balls 

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Buttered  beets 

Cottage  pudding  with  tart  fruit  sauce 


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always  should  be  synonymous  with  the 
word  "fun." 

Some  people,  you  know,  just  can't  seem 
to  relax,  re.uardless  of  their  surroundings. 
Thc\'re  still  formal — and  usually  miserable 
— seated  on  a  blanket  beside  a  babbling 
brook :  w  bile  at  the  seashore  they  regard 
sand  merely  as  something  w^hich  will  surely 
get  into  the  sandwiches!  They're  the  kind 
who  like  regular  meals  at  siieritied  hours 
in  the  familiar  surroundiniis  ul  tlicir  own 
dining-room.  And  they  have  a  perfect 
right  to  their  opinion. 

If  that  dcscrilies  you.  you  will  find  many 
of  the  recipes  to  your  liking,  anywa\-.  So 
don't  forget  to  send  in  your  coupon. 

I'm  .going  to  give  my  favorite  lemon  pie 
recipe,  further  along,  for  the  special  l)eneht 
(if  non-picnickers.  Li'moii  I'liU  I'ic,  it's 
L-ailod,  and  since  it  has  n.ithnig  In  do  with 
picnics,  tl'.cre'.s  no  rcasun  tn  incliule  it  here, 
r.ut  1  hajipcncd  tn  conic  across  Uic  recipe 
when  1  was  looking  tlirough  (he  hies  for 
material  for  this  article  and  I  decided  to 
have  it  printed  right  away,  liefore  I  forgot 
about  it,  because  this  snidoth,  light  pastry 
dessert  really  sliouldii't  lie  overlooked.  My 
picnic  pals  would  lie  wise  to  tr\-  it.  ton.  At 
home,  though,  mind  yon,  for  il  woukln't 
pack  well  and,  after  .-ill,  that's  an  im- 
portant rei|uireniciU  wliere  picnic  foods  are 
concerned.  Th.-it's  the  clistin.giiisliing  feature 
of  each  of  the  recipes  I'm  gi\ing  you  in 
this  month's  leallet,  to:i — aside  from  their 
delicii  nisness. 

Let's  see.  then,  what  they  are.  k'irst  there 
are  cup  cakes  and  cookies — simple,  easy  to 
make  and  not  too  rich.  Right  here  let  me 
say  that  I  think  those  are  the  only  types 
of  cakes  that  have  any  place  in  a  picnic 
basket.  Certainly  a  big  loaf  or  layer  cake, 
with  chipiie.l-ofT  edges,  a  caved-in  center 
and  a  smeared-up  icing,  has  no  eye-appeal 
— yet  one  or  all  of  those  catastroiihes  are 
bound  to  befall  a  large  cake,  however  care- 
ful the  packing.  Cup  cakes  .m  l  coolvies,  on 
the  other  hand,  can  he  wr.ipin  1  se]i,ir.itely 
and  tuckeil  away  saie]\-  in  ( oiners.  Or 
placed  in  a  cardlin.ird  box  with  jiaper  be- 
tween. Geiier;il]\-  siie.ikmg.  1  don't  think 
they  should  he  frosted.  .\  siinnkling  of 
powdered  sugar  (iver  the  top  decorative 
enough.  Ihit  this  cup  cake  recipe  of  mine 
also  iiuludis  directions  fop  .ulding  raisins, 
dates  or  nil's,  winch  give,  v"i  cakes  that 
are  finicy  i-r.ongli  willioiit  further  need  for 
I  nihellishments. 

all  means,  when  you're  iiicnic  jjlan- 
iiiiiy,  get  paper  lim'ngs  fcu'  \'our  [lans  and 
ke  \our  cup  cakes  in  thnse.    Tlie)'  l<eep 

short,  more  successful  mi  e\'er\-  w,i\'.  .S|ie,ik- 
ing  of  paper,  of  course  y<ju'll  be  sure  to 
have  a  supply  on  hand  of  all  the  paper 
picm'c  aids,  even  before  you  start  on  the 
foods.  Waxed  paper  for  indivi<lually 
wrapped  sandwiches,  parchment  iiajicr  for 
larger  items  (particularly  good  lor  s.tlad 
greens,  cold  fried  chicken  and  so  on  i  ;  these 
are  vitally  necessary.  Have  el. i  tie  haiuls 
handy,  too;  they're  grand  to  snap  anjund 
the  dainty  sandwiches  after  they've  been 
wrapped. 


.■\nd  now  we've  got  around  to  sandwiches 
— and  high  time,  too,  for  what's  a  picnic 
without  them?  Here,  of  course,  you  have 
endless  opportunities  for  originality  and 
imagination.  So  many  and  varied  are  the 
possibilities  that  I  wonder  at  the  slabs  of 
bread  encasing  chunks  of  meat  which,  alas, 
so  frequently  ctJiistitute  the  sandwich  sec- 
tion of  the  picnic  refreshments !  We  do 
better  than  that ! 

But  before  reading  over  my  sandwich 
suggestions — and,  I  hope,  noting  them 
mentally  or  on  a  card  for  future  reference 
— let's  give  a  thought  or  two  to  bread.  For 
here  is  your  chance  to  be  really  different 
from  the  run-of-the-mill  picnic  caterer, 
who,  as  I  said  before,  is  far  too  satisfied 
with  thick  slabs  of  bread  and  of  only  one 
sort  at  that. 

Now  I  believe  that  you  should  use  the 
kind  of  bread  that  goes  Tei//i  the  particular 
filling  you  are  using,  even  if  it  means  hav- 
ing two  or  three  loaves  on  hand.  Ham  and 
many  varieties  of  cheese,  for  instance,  prac- 
tically demand  r\e  bread,  to  add  the  final 
touch  of  deliciousness.  Many  spreads  im- 
mediately suggest  wdiole  wheat  or  cracked 
wheat  bread  to  encase  them,  especially,  in 
my  opinion,  egg  salad,  tomato  and  peanut 
butter  combinations. 

And  by  all  means  try  the  date  and  nut 
bread  recipe  that  you'll  find  in  my  recipe 
leaflet  this  month.  With  this  bread  as  a 
starter,  you  can  be  sure  of  having  the 
grandest  sweet  sandwiches  with  the  simplest 
of  spreads.  Cream  cheese  for  one;  jelly, 
jam  or  marmalade;  or  even  just  butter, 
sweetened  with  a  little  sugar  and  flavored 
with  a  few  drops  of  orange  juice  and  some 
grated  rind.  What  a  treat  for  the  children ! 
Why,  they'll  forget  all  about  the  sticky- 
siek\-  sweets  they  usually  demand,  in  favor 
of  sandwiches  made  with  easy-to-bake 
homemade  bread. 

(  Kditor'.s  Note  :  This  recipe  of  Miss 
Siiiilh's  takes  hut  ten  minutes  to  mix, 
stands  a  half  lioiir  "at  room  temperature" 
ami  cooks  to  golden  brozvn  perfection  in 
less  than  an  hour.  Should  be  made  the  day 
hcforc  you  plan  to  use  it.  ) 

When  buying  store  bread  for  sand- 
wiches, let  me  advise  you  to  buy  the  un- 
sliccd  rather  than  the  sliced.  If  you  slice 
\  iiur  own,  you  see,  you  can  have  extra-thin 
slices  for  the  daintier  type  of  fillings, 
thicker  slices  for  meats  and  even  chunks 
for  "them  as  likes  them."  When  spreading 
the  very  thin  slices,  remember  it  is  best  to 
spread  both  the  butter  and  filling  on  the 
slices  of  bread  before  cutting  from  the 
loaf.  Of  course  the  butter  should  be 
creamed  until  very  soft,  so  that  it  does  not 
tear  the  bread  apart  in  the  spreading 
process. 

Now  I  was  going  to  give  you  some  sand- 
wich fillings.  Well,  here  they  are.  After 
my  little  "fight  talk"  on  breads,  I  don't 
think  it  necessary  to  mention  that  most 
iniii  irlant  part  of  all  saiKlvviches  further, 
so  I'll  jiist  give  you  the  fillings  and  let  you 
choose  the  bread  that  you  think  would  add 
to  the  success  of  each  one. 

(Continued  on  page  73) 


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II 


^T'D  heard  Sid  mention  his  sister 
A  but  she  meant  nothing  to  me. 
naturally — until  one  dayl  picked 
up  this  snapshot  on  his  desk. 

"I  asked  him  who  the  choice 
number  was,  and  felt  a  little  em- 
barrassed when  he  said  she  was 
his  sister  Molly.  But  I  guess  he 
forgave  the  fresh  remark,  the  way 
I  began  to  treat  him  like  a  bro- 
ther. I  even  loaned  him  money. 

''He  said  he'd  rather  I'd  take 
the  snapshot  than  come  moon- 
ing around  his  desk  all  the  time, 
so  that's  how  I  became  the  owner. 
How  I  became  the  owner  of  the 
girl  herself  is  another  storv — but 
it  really  began  with  this  snapshot." 

The  snapshots  you'll 
want  Tomorrow — you 
must  take  Today 


the  film 


LOthing  lint 
L  the  raniiliar 
vellow  b*»x  —  koflak 
Fi  Im  — which  only 
Eastman  makes. 


Bv  far  the  greater  iiiiiiiber 
of  siiapslu)ts  are  made  on 
Kodak  Vericliroiiie  Fihn 
because  peoj)fe  liave 
found  that  "it  gets  the 
icture" — clear,  true, 
leHke.  Any  camera  is  a 
better  camera,  loaded 
with  Vericlirome.  Don't 
take  chances . . .  use  it  al- 
ways .  .  .  Eastman  Kodak 
Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


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RADIO  STARS 


NOBODY 
LOVES 
ME! 


-  wliy  don't  I  get  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Powder 
to  fig  lit  off  germs?" 


"Gosh,  I  can  hardly  keep  from  cryin'.  Why 
do  they  use  ordinary  baby  powder  on  me 
—when  they  might  just  as  easy  give  me 
Mennen  Borated  Pswder — the  kind  that's 
Antiseptic.  My  Doc  says  this  powder  keeps 
a  feller's  skin  safe  from  germs  and  infec- 
tion. And — Gee  willikens — that's  what  I 
want!  Believe  me,  germs  are  the  things 
that  scare  me.  Besides  ...  my  Doc  says 
this  Mennen  Powder  is  swell  for  preventin' 
chafin',  and  that  it  heals  up  bruises  and 
prickly  heat  quicker  'n  anything  else.  So 
please  somebody  tell  my  mother  to  get  me 
Mennen  Antiseptic  Powder." 

More  doctors  recommend  Mennen  Antiseptic 
Powder  than  all  other  baby  powders  combined 
— that's  what  a  recent  survey  by  a  leading 
medical  journal  ihoued- 


THE  BABY 
POWDER 
THAT  HELPS 
PREVENT 
INFECTION 


SPEND  YOUR  VACATION 
IN  HOLLYWOOD! 


BY  JACK  SMALLEY 


Tfiose  two  hit  comedians,  Bob  Burns  and  Martfia  Raye,  botti  in  movies  and 
botli  on  tlie  air,  are  only  two  of  tfie  celebrities  you  may  see  in  Hollywood. 


CQ—CQ—CQ-~! 

That's  the  "ham"  radio  operator's  invi- 
tation to  join  the  party,  and  now  we're 
broadcasting,  direct  from  Hollywood,  the 
all-star  program  we've  mapped  out  for 
your  vacation  trip  to  movieland. 

Here  is  the  chance  of  a  lifetime  to  meet 
dozens  of  screen  and  radio  stars  in  f^rrsoii, 
and  enjoy  two  weeks  of  the  must  exciting 
vacation  ever  planned.  So  (lon't  switch 
the  dial  till  you've  learned  all  the  snappy 
details  ! 

Three  special  trains  will  carry  three 
"Ik )ns(  parties"  to  Hollywood,  leaving 
ClncaKo  July  11th,  August  1st,  and  .'Xugust 
15tli.  That  gives  you  a  choice  of  three 
dates  for  your  vacation  plans.  The  first 
two  tours  take  two  weeks  to  come  out  and 
return.  The  last  tour  only  takes  eleven 
days  and  is,  of  course,  much  chca])er.  With 
such  a  choice,  surely  y<iu  can  arrange  now 
to  take  that  vacation  you've  always 
(Ireatned  about. 

Leo  ('arrillo,  Glenda  I-'arrell  and  Richard 
Arleii  will  be  our  star  hosts  at  three 
parties  in  their  homes,  and  the  NBC 
studio  will  be  host  to  introduce  such  stars 


as  Ring  Crosby,  Lum  and  Ahncr.  Irvin  S. 
Cobb,  Amos  'n'  .liidy,  Marion  Talley,  Bob 
Burns  and  many  others.  Universal  Studios 
will  show  lis  how  movies  are  made  and 
entertain  at  a  hnicheon  at  the  studio. 

That's  just  a  skimpy  outline  of  a  series 
of  adventures  that  will  start  the  moment 
the  train  pulls  out  of  Chicago,  and  never 
let  n[)  as  \uu  whiz  acmss  the  prairies, 
climb  the  great  Rdckies  (stopping  off  here 
and  there  tor  sightseeing),  and  finally 
come  roaring  into  Hollywood  for  a  gay 
round  of  parties. 

And  this  year  you  owe  it  to  yourself 
to  be  right  among  'em,  having  the  time 
of  your  life  at  a  cost  you  can  hardly  be- 
lieve. Only  $167  takes  you  on  the  two 
weeks'  trip  covering  some  four  thousand 
miles,  and  the  briefer  vacation  can  be 
done  for  $137.  Since  almost  everything  is 
paid  for — fare,  hotels,  transportation  to 
studios  and  parties,  meals  on  the  train 
and  so  on — all  you  need  extra  are  a  few 
dollars  for  personal  expenses  and  a  few 
meals.  Impossible,  you  say?  Well,  we'll 
admit  that  an  ordinary  traveler  would 
spend  four  or  five  hundred  dollars  making 


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RADIO  STARS 


such  a  trip,  and  then  never  get  into  a 
studio  or  be  invited  to  tlie  homes  of  the 
stars. 

The  secret  is  this— Radio  Stars  Maga- 
zine, with  its  prestige  and  popularity 
among  screen  and  radio  people,  can  unlock 
gates  and  present  you  to  its  friends,  and 
by  traveling  in  a  party,  costs  are  slashed 
to  an  astonishing  degree.  All  those  sav- 
ings are  passed  on  to  you.  Just  climb 
aboard  the  train,  in  Chicago  (or  along  the 
route),  and  leave  dull  care  and  all  worries 
behind. 

We  haven't  space  to  tell  you  the  whole 
program,  so  send  today  for  your  free  copy 
of  the  handsome,  illustrated  folder  de- 
scribing the  tour  and  telling  all  about  the 
parties  and  entertainment  planned  for  you. 

That  famous  screen  actor  (he's  at  your 
theatre  now  in  History  Is  Mmic  at  Xifiht ) , 
Leo  Carrillo,  will  entertain  the  first  group 
at  his  Santa  Monica  ranch.  Senor  Carrillo, 
descendant  of  one  of  California's  first 
families,  does  things  in  that  grand  style 
of  Spanish  hospitality  that  you  find  only 
in  California.  He's  throwing  his  huge 
ranch  open  to  us  and  will  hold  a  real 
fiesta,  with  a  barbecue  like  those  the  early 
ranchers  gave  for  visitors.  Besides,  Leo 
is  inviting  many  stars  to  join  us,  so  bring 
your  kodak  and  autograph  book,  and  meet 
the  Gay  Desperado  in  person ! 

Universal  is  the  studio  we'll  visit — anc 
a  warm  welcome  awaits  you  at  Holly- 
wood's largest  and  most  historic  lot,  where 
acre  after  acre  is  filled  with  toweriim 
movie  sets  dating  back  to  the  days  of  Tlic 
Hunchback  of  Xotrc  Dainc  and  right  up 
to  the  present  smash  hit  musical  of  the 
year,  Top  of  the  Toiviu  Here  thc>'re 
making  The  Road  Back,  sequel  to  Uni- 
versal's  unforgettable  epic.  All  Quiet  on 
the  IVestern  Front.  If  he's  working,  we'll 
see  Buck  Jones  shooting  his  way  through 
the  rustlers ;  we'll  see  that  new  sensation, 
Deanna  Durbin,  and  many,  many  others. 
See  all  the  Universal  pictures  you  can,  so 
that  you'll  recognize  landmarks  and  in- 
crease your  enjoyment  of  this  visit. 

XBC  studios  will  afford  you  radio  fans 
an  ideal  opportunity  to  see  how  your 
favorite  programs  are  sent  into  the  ether 
fruni  Hollywood.  Tune  in  on  the  XBC 
broadcasts,  tlien  come  out  and  see  how  it's 
(lone.  Meet  your  favorites  in  person, 
the  modernistic  broacicrist  .Citation  that's 
located  in  the  heart  of  Holl\\vood,  be- 
tween the  RKO  and  Paramount  studios. 

Pictures  of  tiie  people  you'll  meet,  and 
photos  of  Glcnda  Farrell,  hostess  on  the 
second  trip,  and  Richard  Arlen,  host  on 
the  third  vacation  tour,  appear  in  tiie 
booklet,  along  with  dozens  of  other  inter- 
esting shots.  So  send  now  for  your  copy, 
and  let's  make  it  a  date,  right  now,  to  see 
vou  in  Holix  wood! 


Joe  Godfrey,  Jr.,  To 

ur  Manager 

IS+h  Floor,  360  N. 

Michigan  Ave., 

Chicago,  III. 

Please    send  me 

the   free  booklet 

describing  Radio 

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NOTHING  BUT 
THE  TRUTH? 


Compare  the  answers  of  your  favorites 


Vera  Marsh,  "girl  friend"  to  Joe 
Penner  on  his  Sunday  night  broad- 
cast, 6:00  p.m.  EDST,  CBS  network 


Frorn  your  experience,  what  one 
piece  of  good  advice  would  you 
give   a    beginner   in   the  radio 
field? 


(jc.-or«(.-  Hurn.s :  "Sever  ii'orry  about 
how  you're  billcil." 

Lcnme  If  nylon:  "Avoid  copying;.  The 
ciiiickest  route  to  oblivion  in  radio  is  Ijy 
imitating  the  other  fellow." 


Anne  Seymour :  "Be  prepared  to  have 
voiir  heart  broken.  Mend  it,  and  try  again. 
Work  like  UHid." 

Leo  h'el.unan:  "Learn  your  subject,  be 
simple  ill  presenting  it,  be  good." 

Shep   Fields:     "Strive   for  originality." 

li.il  .Malotic:  "Be  sure  you  have  sowe- 
thiuii  (iiftcreut  or  ean  do  something  better 
than  anyone  else,  then  jump  in  and  never 
(/ive  up." 

Lorcihi  Lee:  "Never  lose  sight  of  the 
t.iLt  tli.it  there  is  no  substitute  for  experi- 
ence. Keep  working — whether  it's  on  a 
small  station  or  in  a  honky-tonk  night 
club — but  keep  working." 

Abe  Lyman:  "Keep  listening  to  the 
radio,  to  determine  why  those  best  in  your 
line  are  successful." 

Ozzie  Nelson:  "Be  yourself.  Insincer- 
ity is  so  obi'ious  over  the  air!" 

Frank  Parker:  "You've  got  to  keep  try- 
ing and  make  your  own  'breaks.'  '' 

Virginia  Verrill:  "Overcome  both  mike- 
fright  and  stage-fright,  so  that  when  your 
opportunity  presents  itself,  you  may  per- 
forin at  your  best  on  radio,  screen  or 
stage." 

Don  Wilson:  "Be  sure  you  have  talent 
that  can  be  commercialized." 

I'lullips  Lord:  "A  beginner  should 
have  faitli  in  himself  and  be  a  good  'plug- 
ger.'  Udii't  take  'no'  for  an  answer  but 
keep  on  trying.    Perseverance  is  essential." 

Lucy  Monroe:  "Be  sure  you  have 
something  to  offer,  and  be  thoroughly 
grounded  in  it.    Then  go  to  it!" 

Eddy  Duchin:  "Be  well  prepared,  have 
(jood  health  and  a  clean  appearance." 


"Develop  something  new 
me  else   has  capitalized 


Jack  Oakie: 
10%  delivery." 


'Have    90'/,,   nerve  and 


Jack  ]■  niton: 
— something  *  ni 
upon." 

Tom  Howard:  "Find  someone  who 
knows  his  business  and  who  will  be  honest 
with  you.  Ask  him  if  you  have  talent  or 
not,  and  if  you  have — STICK.  Don't  let 
anything  discourage  you." 

Joan  Blaine :  "Be  so  sure  you  ivant  to 
succeed  that  you  will  be  ivill'.ng  to  forego 
leisure,  luxury,  the  social  ivhirl  and  all  the 
little  amusiiiii  hypiillis  that  forever  beckon." 

Meredith  It'illson:  "Keep  your  ear  to 
the  ground  for  general,  human,  'homey' 
ajipeal." 

Art  Van  Harvey:  "Don't  overact.  Feel 
your  character.  Think  your  character.  Act 
your  character  in  a  natural  way." 


RADIO  STARS 


Jack  Pearl:  "Work  Iitud  and  develop 
your  (>articular  laleitt.  Sooner  or  later 
the  break  icill  come,  and  zi'hcn  it  does,  you 
Imve  to  be  ready  to  take  advantage  of  it." 

Helen  Jepson:  "Always  have  your 
numbers  very  well  prepared." 

Milton  Berle:  "Never  become  discour- 
aged. If  you  fail  to  'click'  at  first,  keep 
trying." 

Meri  Bell :  "Be  sure  your  mental  and 
physical  capacity  arc  enough  to  withstand 
the  hardships  that  must  necessarily  jail  tn 
your  path." 

Clyde  Barrie:  "Stop,  look  and  listen  to 
all  suggestions  given  by  engineers,  pro- 
duction men  and  other  veterans.  They 
know.    You  can  learn." 

-♦- 

Ireene  Wicker:  "Watch  your  voice.  It 
means  everything  in  radio.  Develop  its 
clarity,  tone  quality,  diction  and  flexibility. 
Then,  be  sincere!" 

Richard  Himber :  "Be  persistent  and  try 
to  take  advantage  of  the  lucky  break  when 
it  comes,  because  all  siiccess  is  90%  luck." 

Kathryn  Cravens:  "Work  and  work 
hard.  Have  the  courage  to  give  up  every- 
thing that  prevents  success,  like  personal 
pleasures.    They  can  come  along  later." 

Horace  Heidt:  "You're  never  out  till 
the  third  strike.  Never  give  up,  and  re- 
member that  a  failure  only  prepares  you 
better  for  your  next  success." 

Marion  Talley  :  "Cultivate  a  good  speak- 
ing voice — one  that  n'ill  not  lisp,  or  hiss 


when  you  say  'S'." 

Del  Casino:  "Prepare  yourself  for 
your  opportunity." 


If  you  could  change  your  per- 
sonality, how  would  you  alter  it? 


Mario  Braggiotti :  "I'd  be  a  rough  and 
tumble  adventurer.  A  tough,  tico-fisted 
guy,  a  knife  in  my  belt,  tzvo  guns  in  my 
hip  pockets,  a  tongue  in  my  check  and  a 
twinkle  in  my  eye." 

Sid  Silvers:  "I'd  like  to  have  Marlene 
Dietrich's  smile.  Bob  Taylor's  profile, 
Johnny  Weissmuller's  physique  and  Eddie 
Cantor's  money.  If  I  can't  have  the  first 
three,  I'll  settle  for  Cantor's  dough." 

Willie  Morris:  ""Would  welcome  sug- 
gestions!" 

Shep  Fields:  "I'd  train  myself  to  be 
satisfied  ivith  only  ten  hours'  sleep  a  night." 

Abe  Lyman:    "Altar  it." 

Anne  Seymour:  "I'd  try  to  get  over 
shyness,  which  people  think  is  being  'high 
hat.'  " 

Leo  Reisman :  "By  hainug  someone 
give  me  or  leave  nie  a  hundred  million 
dollars." 

Phillips  Lord:  "I  would  like  to  be 
more  methodical  and  self-organized.  It 
would  do  away  with  my  habit  of  doing 
eighteen  things  at  the  same  time." 


Joan  Blaine:  "I  would  like  to  be  just  a 
little  bit  less  serious — and  a  bit  more  care- 
free!" 

Milton  Berle:  "Would  like  to  be  the 
phlegmatic  type,  enjoy  complete  relaxation, 
no  cares,  open  mind  and  live  in  some  quiet, 
peaceful  place  like  Honolulu  or  Tahiti." 

Richard  Himber:  "I'd  try  to  be  like 
William  Powell  (without  a  moustache,  but 
with  Myrna  Loy)." 

Meri  Bell:  "I  have  an  extraordinarily 
happy  life  as  it  is,  and,  at  the  risk  of 
seeming  smug,  I  prefer  myself  just  as  I 
am,  with  the  exception  of  a  hot  temper 
that  I  try  to  curb." 

Meredith  Willson :  "I'd  like  al-ways  to 
remember  to  speak  zvell  of  everyone — 
or  not  to  speak  at  all." 

Horace  Heidt:    "All  around." 

Helen  Jepson:  "To  have  the  voice  of 
Flagstad,  the  magnetism  of  Mary  Garden 
and  the  beauty  of  Helen  of  Troy." 

Clyde  Barrie :  "  To  be  a  bit  gayer  tn 
appearance.  I  look  so  serious  that  a  fine 
sense  of  humor  is  covered  up." 

Jack  Oakic:  "Don't  have  to  change  it. 
Sometimes  I'm  Mr.  Hvde  and  sometimes 
I'm  Dr.  Jekyll." 

Loretta  Lee:  "I  am  just  egotistical 
enough  to  want  to  keep  it  as  it  is.  Fur- 
thermore, I  feel  that  changing  your  per- 
sonality is  not  an  impossibility  at  all,  but 
can  be  done  by  anyone  who  so  chooses." 


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tliat  he  wanted  to  uo  into  the  iiiinistr_\-,  his 
\a>t  rcadiiii;  hackuroiind  stood  him  in  UDod 
stead  :  he  cunipleted  the  nuie-\  ear  conrse 
at  Iniemnatis  Hehrew  Lnion  t/idle.t;c  in 
tne  \  ears  tnnc.  hndins;  Innisell  in  his  lirst 
pnlrit  posUion  at  the  ai;e  ot  t\\  ent\  -t\\  n. 

Not  h.n-  a-o  a  xoun-  man  eame  t..  him 
tn  niak-e  a  strange  rei|nest.  "Tonight," 
Slid  tlie  MUinij-  num.  "1  am  m>in,i;  to  eom- 
nnt  snicide.  Im  gcnnt;  to  ]um])  from  the 
tlnrtietii  floor  ot  a  hud(hng  near  (irand 
Central.  I'm  not  afraid  an\-  more — and 
nothing  on  eartli  can  stop  me.  Notiiing 
\oii  say  can  stop  me,"  his  voice  was  calm. 
".So  please  don't  say  anything." 

Tlie  young  man  told  his  story.  He  was 
a  college  student,  studying  to  be  a  civil 
engineer.  The  depression  was  at  its  lowest 
depth  and  every  where  around  him  experi- 
enced engineers  were  jobless.  He  was 
afraid.  .Afraid  of  failure,  of  humiliating 
dependence  on  his  family,  of  insecurity,  of 
hunger.  In  short,  he  was  afraid  of  life. 
.And  so  he  intended  to  die. 

The  Lamj^liiihtrr ,  listening  to  him, 
thought  vividl\-  of  his  own  college  days. 
"Would  it  surprise  yon,"  he  said  very 
casually  to  the  youth,  taking  care  not  to 
let  a  trace  of  alarm  slip  into  his  voice, 
"to  know  that  when  I  was  your  age  I 
made  up  my  mind  several  times  to  commit 
suicide?  A'es,  I  was  fully  deternn'ned.  I 
was  afraid,  too — afraid  I  coukhi't  make 
the  grade  at  school,  that  I  wouldn't  l)e  a 
successful  rabbi — afraid  of  many  things. 
For  weeks  at  a  time  I  wnidd  i)e  utterly 
sick  with  melancholia.  .And  all  for  what? 
At  forty-five  I  have  everything  a  man 
could  a.sk  of  life — work  that  I  love,  a  home, 
a  wonderful  wife,  three  liivel\  children. 

"Why,  I  can  look  hack  and  smile  at  the 
way  I  made  myself  so  miserable  over 
purely  imaginary  dangers.  I  know  now 
that  what  I  went  through  was  merely 
something  nearly  all  young  people  go 
through.  You  see,  all  highly  intelligent 
and  sensitive  persons  are  inclined  to  look 
at  life  darkly.  It's  characteristic  of  them. 
Plenty  of  young  men  are  contemplating 
today  the  same  thing  you  are  contem- 
plating. You  aren't  alone.  Just  the  other 
morning  I  was  talking  with  a  girl  in  your 
identical  predicament  ..." 

As  1  lie  lMm[>li()Iitcr  spoke,  in  a  casual 
tone,  it  dawned  on  the  youth  for  the  lirst 
time  that  his  problem  was  no  nmuntain  at 
all,  but  a  garden  variety  nf  mdlelnll.  Why. 
everybody  felt  the  way  lie  did,  at  some 
time  or  other,  just  as  c\  ei  \  In  ,ily  h.id  head 
colds  or  the  blues!  But  ihi\  (h'dn't  go 
around  hurling  themselves  iMit  <  o'  sky- 
scrapers over  such  ciimmnnplaee  .lilnients. 

Ahasheil,  and  a  little  .ashanied,  he  shook 
hands  with  his  counselnr  ;uid  walked  out 
of  the  office  with  a  smile  of  relief. 

Xole  that  'I'lw  /.iniil>li:/li/rr  had  not 
uttered  one  word  of  pleading  during  the 
^■hole  eon\'ersation.  "Begging  seldom 
changes  anyone's  mind,"  he  says.  "But  if 
you  can  f|uietly  show  a  man  that  he  is 
making  a  very  foolish  move,  fleliherately 
cheating  himself  of  something  better  ..." 

I",lc\cn  years  ago,  in  (.'(jhiml ms,  Ohio, 
Sl:ition  //',//(■'  installed  a  nnero])hone  in 
the  pulpit  of  Temi)le  Israel  to  pick  ui)  the 


morning  sermons  of  Rabbi  Tarshish  and 
broadcast   them  to  shut-ins  and  stay-at- 

"l  tried  to  give  my  listeners  what  they 
were  interested  in  hearing,''  the  Rabbi  ex- 
]ilained,  "not  just  what  they  should  hear. 
I  often  talked  on  topics  in  the  news  head- 
lines, or  topics  such  as  marriage  and 
divorce,  which  my  audience  suggested." 

The  result  was  a  heavy  barrage  of  mail 
from  more  than  three  hundred  cities  in  the 
East  and  Middle  West.  Most  of  the  letters 
asked  for  advice  on  personal  problems. 
The  answering  of  such  quantities  of  mail 
became  an  increasing  burden  on  the 
Rabbi's  time  until,  in  1932,  he  decided  to 
devote  himself  to  radio  alone.  He  left 
Temple  Israel,  which  had  afforded  him 
an  excellent  position  with  a  high  salary, 
went  out  with  no  security  or  income  what- 
soever, and  sought  a  spot  on  the  networks 
where  he  might  deliver  his  messages  to  a 
wider  field. 

On  making  himself  available  for  per- 
sonal-apiiearance  speaking  engagements,  he 
found  he  had  more  oft'ers  than  he  could 
possibly  hll.  although  he  has  lectured  as 
many  as  si.x  times  in  one  day  and  three 
hundred  and  fifty  times  in  a  year.  Six 
months  after  leaving  Columbus,  ]]'IJV  put 
him  on  the  air  for  a  Sunday  half-hour 
period.  So  remarkable  was  liis  Cincinnati 
success,  he  was  soon  brought  on  to  New 
A'ork,  where  he  took  the  radio  name  of 
The  Laiiipli(/htcr  and  in  a  short  time 
established  an  unprecedented  mail  record 
at  IVOR. 

"Advice,  as  the  old  saying  goes,  is  the 
cheapest  thing  in  the  world,"  he  said  to 
me.  "People  are  lavish  with  their  advice 
wdicn  you  ask  it,  and  sometimes  when  you 
don't.  But  to  me,  advice  has  to  have  two 
qualities  to  be  really  valuable :  It  must  be 
viodcni,  to  fit  in  this  modern  world:  and  it 
must  have  a  reason,  a  concrete  n'hy  behind 
it.  I  try  to  be  modern,  to  combine  the 
new  with  the  best  of  the  old.  And  I 
always  have  a  reason  behind  what  I  say. 
When  people  consult  you  for  advice  that 
will  influence  the  entirety  of  their  lives, 
you  must  give  them  a  course  of  action  that 
has  Iieen  l^rnrcn,  viauy  li}iics  before,  to  be 
the  be.^t  under  tliose  sa)}ie  eireumstances 
ami  make  them  .sec  ivhy  it's  best.'' 

For  instance,  a  lovely  and  intelligent 
young  woman  came  to  him  once  in  a  state 
of  great  indecision.  She  was  in  love  with 
and  engaged  to  a  man  who  would  not 
promise  her  to  give  up  other  women  after 
he  should  become  her  husband. 

Later  Tt\e  Laiiil<Ii(/liler  listened  to  the 
man's  side  of  the  question. 

"I  am  in  U)ve  with  Susan  and  I  have 
been  for  a  long  time,"  he  said.  "I  want  her 
to  be  my  wife  and  I'm  very  sure  there  will 
never  he  ;my  other  woman  in  the  world 
who  could  take  her  place  as  my  wife.  I 
can  promise  Susan  security,  a  lovely  home 
wdiich  I  am  now  building,  children,  and  my 
undying  mental  companionship  and  faith- 
fulness. But,  knowing  myself,  and  being 
entirely  lionest  aliout  myself,  I  know  that 
I  am  not  strictly  a  so-called  'one-woman 
man',  nor  can  I  vwr  he  such,  even  for  my 
wife.    That  is  mv  nature. 


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comes  off  on 
my  clothes 
terribly! 


Non-Greasy  Odorono  Ice 
goes  on  like  a  vanishing  cream 
—checks  perspiration  instantly 


"I  have  made  a  clean  breast  of  tliis.  so 
tliat  Susan  might  know  before  marriage 
exactly  what  to  expect.  With  what  I 
admit  is  pure  selfishness.  I  shall  expect  her 
to  be  rigidly  faithful  to  me.  But  if  my 
old  weakness  crops  up,  I  shall  feel  entitled 
to  play  around.  I  will  be  discreet  about 
my  affairs,  I  will  keep  them  from  her  if 
she  wishes  it,  and  they  need  not  interfere 
with  our  home  and  children  at  all.  But  I 
want  it  clearly  understood  that  I  reserve 
the  right  to  my  personal  liberty." 

"Never,  before  or  since  that  incident, 
have  I  advised  anyone  not  to  marry  the 
person  they  loved."'  The  Lamplighter  told 
me.  "But  I  tried  my  best  to  show  that 
girl  that  she  could  not  possibly  be  happy 
under  such  an  arrangement.  I  cited  to  her 
case  after  case  of  heartbreak  that  would 
proi-e  how  nothing  wounds  a  woman  so 
deeply  as  the  infidelity  of  the  husband  she 
adores  and  whose  children  she  has  borne. 

"I  showed  her  that  if  it  hurt  her  then, 
because  he  wouldn't  promise  faithfulness, 
how  much  more  it  would  hurt  her  when 
he  actually  indulged  in  unfaithfulness." 

But  Susan  was  a  sophisticated  modern, 
who  believed  she  could  fit  in  with  her 
fiance's  design  for  living.  More  than  that, 
she  confessed,  she  was  confident  she  could 
keep  her  husband  so  charmed  at  home  he 
wouldn't  want  to  stray.  So  she  married 
him  and  bore  him  a  daughter  and  a  son. 

Four  years  later  she  wrote  to  The 
Lamflighter  from  Reno.  "I  cannot  tell 
you  what  excruciating  agony  the  past  two 
years  have  been.  You  were  so  right.  Noth- 
ing wounds  a  woman's  heart  so  deeply  .  .  ." 

Frequently  Rabbi  Tarshish  wants  to 
advise  divorce — when  it  is  clearly  the  best 
and  only  thing  that  can  remedy  an  unbear- 
able situation — but  tliis  is  something  he 
never  does,  since  in  the  eyes  of  the  law  he 
could  be  sued  for  being  instrumental  in 
breaking  up  a  home.  In  such  cases,  he 
skirts  this  technicality  by  advising  separa- 
tion. 

"A  separation  will  usually  accomplish 
one  of  two  things,"  he  explains.  "It  will 
show  a  couple  that  they  are  definitely 
better  oflf  without  each  other,  and  so  lead 
to  divorce ;  or  it  will  save  a  couple  from 
divorce  by  showing  them  that  they  can't 
get  along  without  each  other,  and  so  lead 
to  a  conciliatory  reunion  and  a  happier 
continuation  of  marriage." 

Many  times  the  latter  has  been  true.  On 
The  Laiiiplighter's  suggestion,  a  middle- 
aged  couple,  who  had  intended  getting  an 
inmiediate  divorce,  parted  instead  for  a 
trial  separation.  They  had  lived  together 
for  twenty  years  in  anything  but  peace ; 
the  hubljand  was  fed  up  with  the  wife's 
nagging  and  the  wife  was  fed  up  with  the 
husband's  drinking,  and  neither  of  them 
seemed  to  be  able  to  reform. 

After  living  in  separate  cities  for 
eighteen  months,  however,  both  were  so 
weary  of  loneliness  they  were  willing  to  do 
an>-thing  to  get  each  other  back  again.  The 
wife  promised  to  ([uit  nagging,  the  husband 
promised  to  quit  drinking,  and  so  far  they 
are  living  happily  ever  after. 

To  the  ever-recurring  question  "Shall  I 
tell  my  fiance  (or  fiancee)  my  past?"  The 
Lamplighter's  answer  always  is:  "i'es — 
you  must!" 

Recently  a  bride-to-be  wrote  him  in 
frantic  desperation.  She  had  bought  the 
white  dress  in  which  she  would  be  married 
four  days  hence  to  a  reserved  young  man 


FOR  YEARS  women  have  com- 
plained—  "Why  do  cream  deo- 
dorants have  to  be  so  greasy?" — 
"They  stick  to  clothes  and  ruin  them  I" 
The  new  Odorono  Ice  was  created 
in  answer  to  these  complaints— on 
an  entirely  new  principle.  It  van- 
ishes completely!  It  can't  leave  a 
messy  film  of  grease  to  come  off  on 
your  clothes. 

And.  unlike  other  cream  deodorants, 
it  gently  checks  per.spiration.  You  are 


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And  Odorono  Ice  never  develops  a 
musty  odor  of  its  own  after  it  has  been 
on  a  while.  Its  clean,  fresh  smell  of  pure 
alcohol  evaporates  completely  the  min- 
ute it  is  on. 

Really ,  Odorono  Ice  is  the  perfect  cream 
deodorant  at  last!  80%  of  the  women 
who  have  tried  it  prefer  it  to  atiy  other 
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of  a  I'me  old  New  England  family.  And 
on  the  eve  of  her  wedding  she  was  shud- 
dering with  fear  at  the  secret  that  lay  in 
her  iieart.  At  sixteen  she  had  been  an  un- 
wed mother.  She  had  made  a  mistake  of 
youth  and  ignorance;  the  child  had  not 
lived;  she  had  traveled  across  half  a  con- 
tinent to  leave  e\er.\thing  luliiiid  her, 
settle  down  and  start  life  anew. 

"He  can  never  find  it  out."  she  wrote, 
"hut  in\-  coiiseieiice  tortures  nie  e\ery  time 
he  sa\'s  the  tliiiii;  he  loves  most  .ihout  me 
is  the  fact  that  I  am  truly  good  and  'dif- 
ferent' from  other  girls.  I  adore  liim  and 
hate  to  deceive  him,  but  I  am  so  fright- 
ened tliat  he  will  not  marry  me  if  I  tell." 

"I  wrote  her  at  once,"  77).'  Lmn l^liiihl cr 
told  me,  "and  tried  to  con\-iiiee  lier  that 
even  the  possibility  of  no  m.-irria-e  at  all 
was  preferable  to  a  marriage  founded  on 
deceit.  In  the  lirst  place,  she  ne\er  could 
fully  enjoy  and  be  carefree  in  her  love, 
knowing  that  she  hadn't  pla\ed  fair  with 
her  loved  one.  In  the  second  place,  even 
if  he  never  discovered  her  error,  the 
chances  are  great,  in  the  intimacy  that  is 
marriage,  that  a  conscience-stricken  woman 
will  eventually  unburden  her  soul  to  bring 
relief,  .\n<l  then — from  the  cases  I  have 
known — it's  usually  too  late  to  e.xpect 
complete  forgiveness. 

"As  a  husband  who  had  been  deceived 
under  similar  circumstances  once  said  to 
me :  'I  didn't  resent  what  she'd  done ;  I 
resented  the  fact  that  she  hadn't  told  me. 
I  could  forget  a  mistake  but  I  couldn't 
forget  a  deliberate  lie.  Try  as  I  would, 
it  rankled  in  my  heart,  and  everx-  time 


I  Ijccame  anu 
It  evrnlnallv 


would  thn 
sed  us  to  : 


hci 


it  ;ji 


(louhtedlv 
he  truly 


>  lo  me  scv- 
he  had  con- 
UMs  greatly 
d<e  in  good 


would  n(jt  want  to  take  siu  li 
her  marriage  at  any  cost.  Ai 
her   that   her   fiance  almost 
would    forgive   her  mistake, 
loved  her. 

".She  wfote  a  note  of  than 
cral  weeks  later,  saying  that 
fessed  to  him,  and  although  1 
shocked  he  had  seemed  to 
spirit.  They  had  agreed  never  to  mention 
the  subject  again  and  were  happy  " 

How  would  you  advise  a  mother  to  pre- 
vent her  daugliter  from  eloping  with  a 
boy  who  is  both  of  a  different  nationality 
and  different  religions  belief  from  her 
own?  Both  fannlies  liitterl\  ojjposc  the 
courtship,  ^'^■t  the  \(iungsters,  who  are 
away  at  college  together,  h;n 
clear  that,  if  necessary,  they 
without  parental  consent. 

riic  iMmpluihlcr  advise<l  tlu 
L;et  her  dau.nhter  to  pr.iuiis,- 
marry  for  a  year.     In  relnrii 
that  promise — if  she  were  still  i 


AT  5  AN  D  lO?  STORES 


made  it 
ill  elope 

lothcr  to 
wouldn't 
keeping 
ove  with 

the  boy  at  the  end  of  a  year's  time — lui- 
parents  would  willingly  consent  to  the 
marriage  and  give  the  C(niple  their  bless- 
ing. 

"You  may  as  well  face  the  fact  that 
you  can't  stop  your  children  from  marry- 
ing," he  told  both  families.  "Tliat  gives 
you  a  choice  of  two  things  :  You  can  cither 
help  make  their  marriage  hai)py  or  un- 
happy. If  you  want  it  to  be  a  happy 
union,  make  the  youngsters  prove  their 
devotion  by  waiting  a  while  ;  then  you  can 
rest  assured  that  they  are  marrying  on 
the  safest  of  all  bases — love  and  compati- 
bility. 

"Love    is    deeper    than    rcligi(jus  or 


national  dilTerences.  Hundreds'  of  suc- 
cessful marriages,  of  which  I  personally 
know,  prove  that.  When  your  boy  or 
girl  have  waited  a  year,  cast  >'our  preju- 
dices ;iside  and  give  them  your  full 
lilessing.  I  can  tell  you  that,  seein-  tliem 
happy  together  in  >cars  to  come,  you  won't 
regret  what  _\ou'\e  done." 

The  cou])le  waited  and  were  wed.  And 
now  even  the  in-laws  like  each  other. 

"I  have  often  suggested  that  plan  for 
such  cases,"  T/ic  Lamplighter  says. 
"Where  there  are  religious  and  national 
dififcrences,  it's  frequently  not  the  couple 
wlio  wreck  their  marriage — it's  the  in- 
laws." 

Meddling  in-laws  are  the  source  of  a 
substantial  percentage  of  letters  that  ar- 
rive on  The  Laiiiplic/hfer's  desk.  A  business 
man  from  a  Western  state  asks:  "Shall  1 
put  rny  father-in-law  in  an  old  men's 
home?  For  )ears  we  have  given  him  the 
best  room  in  the  house  and  a  share  in  all 
our  pleasures.  But  in  return  he  consist- 
ently has  made  us  miserable  and  tried  to 
break  up  our  marriage.  He  keeps  my  wife 
in  tears  half  the  time  and  e\en  our  chil- 
dren hate  him." 

Rabbi  Tarshish  looked  into  the  case,  and 
finding  there  was  no  other  possible  solution, 
suggested  putting  the  old  man  in  a  home. 

"No  one  in-law  has  a  right  to  make 
life  wretched  for  an  entire  family  who 
would  otherwise  be  happy." 

For  every  problem  there  is  an  answer. 
"Sonietimes  it's  not  the  comforting  answer 
I'd  like  it  to  be,"  The  LampTuihter  went 
on.  ".A  man  of  thirty  came  to  me  some 
v>eeks  ago  and  asked  me  to  help  him  win 
his  wife's  love  back.  After  two  years  of 
marriage  she  had  packed  her  things  with- 
out a  word  one  night  and  left  him.  He  was 
pathetic,  that  fellow;  he  had  lost  weigiu. 
lost  his  job,  lost  his  entire  grip  on  him- 
self. 

"I  succeeded  in  getting  his  wife  to  come 
to  my  office.  He  fell  on  his  knees  before 
her,  wept  and  bcggcfl  and  pleaded  with 
her  to  come  back.  Her  complete  lack  of 
feeling  for  him  was  the  most  amazing 
thing  I  have  ever  witnessed  in  all  my 
career.  The  wornan  was  like  a  piece  of 
stone.  She  wouldn't  speak  to  him ;  she 
wouldn't  e\en  look  at  him.  She  told  me 
she  siniiily  did  not  love  him  any  more  and 
that  was  all  she  'vvould  say.  She  finally 
jumped  up  and  ran  out  of  the  office  and 
left  us  both  aghast. 

"I  coidd  see  that  the  real  reason  behind 
her  actions  was  another  man.  All  I  could 
say  then  to  her  heartbroken  husband  was 
that  he  must  take  hold  of  himself,  rebuild 
his  life,  and  hope  to  find  some  day  a 
wfiman  who  would  give  him  a  fairer  deal." 

Solving  your  own  problems,  says  T}ie 
1  jiiii pliiihtcr .  is  usually  c|uite  simple,  if 
you  can  muster  the  proper  techni(iue.  Sit 
down  where  you  can  be  quiet  and  undis- 
turbed and  ask  yourself:  "What  would  I 
advise  somebody  else  to  do,  if  this  were 
their  problem  insie.-id  of  mine?"  Put  an- 
other character  in  \i)ur  own  [dace  and  look 
at  him  or  her  in  the  cold  light  of  reason, 
with  no  emotions.  Don't  expect  to  find 
the  right  solution  in  a  few  minutes.  Think 
f)ver  )our  problem  for  a  long  time,  sleep 
over  it,  be  sure  you  have  regarded  it  from 
every  angle  before  you  give  up. 

'i1ie  chances  are  it  will  solve  itself.  Hut 
if  it  doesn't — you  can  always  ask  The 
Laiiipliyhler. 


"HUSBAND- 
APPROVED" 
FASHIONS! 

{Continued  jroni  page  9) 


Gladys  could  keep  her  cn.ua.ucnn  nt  tn  siiii; 
Mignon  at  the  Metropolitan.  Px'tli  h'rank 
and  Gladys  also  were  making  their  Sun- 
day night  broadcasts  at  ten  o'clock  over 
NBC.  I  had  a  preview  of  that  particu- 
lar Sunday's  broadcast,  while  I  waited 
in  Frank's  den.  Their  musical  coach  had 
turned  up  unexpcctcdl\-  to  run  over  the 
next  night's  songs  and  so  I  had  the  fun 
of  hearing  a  little  private  "ducting." 

When  they  finished,  I  joined  them  and 
we  got  down  to  basic  facts  ahout  this 
fashion  business.  Although  Glad\  ■^  am  ca^^ 
to  be  rather  tall  when  \ou  >ce  her  mi  the 
screen,  actually  she  is  arouml  live  icct- 
four  and  looks  very  young — not  at  all  like 
a  popular  movie  star,  radio  celel)rit\  or 
operatic  diva.  She's  very  pretty,  with 
great  animation  in  her  face  and  a  warm, 
merry  smile.  That  afternoon  she  ua-; 
wearing  a  simple  but  perfectly  tailnre-1 
brown  suit.  She  sat  with  one  leg  (haw  11 
up  under  her  and  she  twisted  ahout  so  that 
her  glowing  brown  eyes  rested  upon  her 
husband  whenever  he  spoke. 

Frank  sat  on  a  straight  chair  and  ap- 
peared to  be  rather  leery  of  the  interview 
until  he  got  warmed  up  to  the  subject. 
He  is  a  lean,  well-groomed-looking  fellow, 
with  a  deeply  sun-tanned  skin — not  what 
you'd  call  handsome,  but  extremely  attrac- 
tive. 

"I  never  think  of  buying  anything  with- 
out Frank's  being  along.  We  have  It^s 
of  fun  working  out  clothes  ideas  for  nie 
and  I  have  tremendous  respect  for  Frank's 
tastes.  For  one  thing,  he  has  a  marvelous 
color  sense  and  when  he  says  a  color 
doesn't  flatter  me,  I  believe  him.  I  know 
that  no  one  else  wtxild  lie  as  frank  with 
me  and  that  no  one  has  a  greater  interest 
in  how  I  look.  He's  honest — but  in  a  nice 
way,"  she  added,  smiling  at  Frank. 

"I  don't  think,"  continued  Gladys,  "that 
many  husbands  and  wives  coulrl  work  out 
a  partnership  quite  like  nurs.  Ymi  see,  we 
are  together  all  the  time.  Neither  of  us 
ever  thinks  of  doing  anything  without  the 
other.  Our  free  times  coincide  perfectly. 
When  I  have  to  buy  something,  Frank  is 
here  to  go  with  me.  Other  husbands, 
whose  business  activities  keep  them  apart 
from  their  wives  all  day,  haven't  the  time 
to  devote  to  shopping,  and  they  are  too 
preoccupied  to  be  greatly  interested.  I 
know  that  a  lot  of  the  husbands  we  know- 
razz  the  life  out  of  Frank,  although  they 
secretly  envy  his  ability  to  make  me  wear 
w  hat  he  likes !" 

The  really  amazing  thing  about  the 
Swarthout  wardrobe  is  that  unless  Gladys 
really  feels  the  need  for  a  new  dress,  slie 
wouldn't  have  to  change  her  clothes  selec- 
tions from  one  year  to  the  next.  Her 
dresses,  her  suits  and  her  coats  have  the 
ageless  fashion  quality  of  a  man's  suit! 
And  there,  no  doubt,  is  the  guiding  hand  of 
Mr.  Chapman. 


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as  wonderful  an  e.xample  for  skirls  wlio 
li.no  to  count  tlieir  penin'es.  .\iul  the  whole 
tuck  IS  so  easy.  Gladvs  has  lound  one 
t\ iH-  ot  costume  that  suits  her  tvpe  to  per- 
tcctiou.  Mie  has  all  her  da\tnne  dresses 
UKule  aloim  tile  hues  ot  that  ordinal  st\le, 
wuli  variations  in  tniiiuunu  detail  and 
tahric  oiih .  She  has  a  model  e\  euins; 
uown — and  all  her  cvemuu  clolhcs  are 
\ariaiions  ,iu  tiiat  tlicme.  1  he  oiil\-  cliani^cs 
-he  nialxcs  ma\'  he  in  the  leimlli  ol  lier 
skirt,  to  suit  the  current  trend,  or  in  the 
newness  and  freshness  of  her  accessories, 
which  are  always  up-to-thc-minute. 

I've  chosen  two  of  these  typical  Swarth- 
<.iut  daxtime  costumes  to  illustrate  what  I 
mean.  l'\)r  instance,  that  lilack  crepe  day- 
time dress  is  always  found  in  the  Swarth- 
out  closet  in  some  form — in  the  summer 
it  ma\  he  made  in  a  sheer  crepe,  in  winter 
in  a  sheer  wool.  But  the  lines  are  the 
same,  the  fitted  bodice  with  the  higher 
waistline  and  the  slightly  flared  skirt.  The 
neckline  is  always  high,  usually  close  to 
the  throat,  and  either  with  or  without  a 
crisp  white  collar,  as  in  this  particular 
version.  She  likes  short  sleeves  and  short 
white  or  colored  gloves.  Pumps  are  her 
favorite  shoes.  But  it's  in  hats  and  hand- 
bags that  (iladys  has  her  fliii.;;.  She  adores 
giddy  hats  and,  amazing  as  it  may  sound, 
her  husband  abets  her  in  the  wearing  of 
them.  She  loves  to  buy  all  the  new  styles 
and  shapes  in  handbags  that  come  out 
from  season  to  season.  That  longish,  nar- 
row black  suede  one  which  she  carries 
with  this  dress  is  a  sample.  In  summer 
she  likes  broad-brimmed  hats  with  shallow 
crowns  and  perhaps  a  flower  trim,  like  the 
big"  black  straw  she  wears  with  the  black 
dress. 

She  told  me  that  she  has  worn  the 
"peasant"  type  dress  for  years.  And  now, 
of  course,  it  is  all  the  rage  everywhere. 
Nearly  all  of  her  daytime  dresses  really 
have  that  fitted  bodice  styling,  with  the 
gathered  full  skirt,  which  is  typical  of  the 
peasant  dress.  That  lavender-and-pink 
silk  plaid  dress,  pictured,  is  one  of  her 
original  models  which  is  right  in  lilie  with 
what  we  are  wearing  now.  (Iladys  had  it 
made  months  ago,  to  wear  in  California, 
and  she  said  she  w<ni]d  lie  wearing  it  for 
a  \  ear  or  more  to  come.  The  top  is  made 
much  like  the  classic  shirtwaist  dress — 
the  turnover  collar,  the  buttoned  front  and 
the  cuffed,  shoit  sleeves.  F?ut  the  inter- 
esting detail  is  the  donl)]c  waistline  effect. 
The  skirt,  whicli  lias  the  fulness  drawn 
into  stitched-dow  11  galliers,  has  a  very 
high  waist,  hut  (ilad\  s  wears  a  belt  several 
inches  helow  this.  The  reasim  for  this  is 
that  she  thinks  she  apiiears  short  and  this 
gives  her  an  illusion  of  greater  height. 
All  you  shorties,  jot  that  down! 

That  pie-crust-brimnied  straw  hat  is  one 
of  her  madder  top-piece  selections,  jet  it's 
tremendously  becoming. 

A  very  close  friend  of  hoili  (dadys  and 
Frank  told  me  that  (Iladys  balks  at  doing 
or  wearing  anything  imlilicly  which  she 
lecls  tloesil't  go  with  her  coiisfrvalive  Jiri- 
\alc  life.  She  mentioned  .in  incident  that 
occurred  when  she  went  to  1  Jolly vvoo<l.  The 
studio  thought  that  her  hair  would  photo- 
gra])h  better  if  she  had  it  hennaed.  She 
flatly  refused,  saying:  "What  would  my 
friends  say?"  And,  speaking  of  her  hair, 
(jladvs    told   me   that    Norma  Shearer's 


famous  JuUci  hair-comb  was  copied  from 
her  hair-do. 

"Norma  asked  me  if  she  could  copy  it," 
she  laughed.  "And  now  even  Deanna 
Durbin  has  a  coiffure  similar  to  mine !" 
She  always  has  worn  her  hair  similar  to 
its  present  style,  except  that  the  high  curls 
were  added  after  she  went  to  Hollywood. 

I  asked  I'rank  if  he  had  any  violent 
]irejudices  as  to  what  (jladys  likes  to  wear 
and  he  said:    "Yes,  pink!" 

C.ladys  laughed  and  said:  "I  adore  pink, 
hut  we  really  come  to  blows  over  my  wear- 
ing it,  so  I  have  given  up  wearing  it, 
except  when  it  is  part  of  a  color  scheme, 
such  as  the  plaid  dress." 

However,  Frank  loves  red  and  so  does 
Gladys.  "Poor  Frank's  present  problem," 
she  said,  "is  to  get  me  out  of  a  red  sheer 
wool  evening  gown  which  I  like  to  wear 
all  the  time.  He  is  crazy  about  it,  too, 
but  he  does  get  tired  of  seeing  me  turn  up 
in  it  at  broadcasts,  parties  and  premieres  ! 
I  had  it  made  for  California  evenings, 
because  they  frequently  are  so  cold  that 
you  need  something  of  wool  to  feel  really 
comfortable.  This,  like  my  other  dresses, 
is  made  simply  and  individually  and  I 
know  that  I  will  never  see  myself  any- 
where else  !" 

I  asked  Frank  if  there  were  any  cos- 
tume eccentricity  of  his  that  Gladys  voiced 
herself  about  violently.  He  grinned  and 
nodded  his  head.  "It's  a  hat,"  he  whis- 
pered. "I've  got  a  felt  hat  that  I  like  to 
wear  turned  up  in  back  and  down  in  front, 
but  it  makes  Gladys  wild.  She  insists  it 
looks  terrilic  unless  the  brim  is  turned 
down  all  around  !" 

Aside  from  pink  and  hats,  they  agree  on 
nearly  everything.  Frank  has  earned  his 
well-dressed  title  by  the  way  he  wears  his 
clothes  and  the  excellent  choice  of  fabrics 
and  colors.  Again  that  color  sense,  which 
Gladys  relics  upon,  works  in  his  own 
behalf,  too. 

He  told  me  that  he  had  been  quite  baffled 
recently,  when  a  popular  magazine,  devoted 
to  men,  had  shown  a  picture  of  him  w-ear- 
ing  one  of  his  pet  sports  jackets  and  had 
called  it  a  "Cubbing"  jacket.  He  said  he 
has  no  idea  what  it  meant  or  what  the 
word  "cubbing"  means,  but  he  decided  to 
rename  it  and  call  it  a  "bowling"  jacket, 
because  the  first  time  he  ever  wore  it  was 
for  bowling. 

He  likes  to  wear  Shetland  fabrics,  both 
for  sports  and  business  suits.  He  likes  the 
feeling  of  them.  Both  Gladys  and  he  are 
wearing  Shetland  sports  clothes  in  the 
picture  of  them  here  this  month.  That's 
the  famous  "cubbing"  jacket  which  Frank 
is  wearing  and  (iladys'  white  topcoat  is 
her  favorite  one,  worn  o\er  all  her  sports 
clothes  on  cool  California  days. 

And  here's  a  tip  for  husbands— Frank 
has  all  his  ties  made  to  match  the  scarves 
or  sports  bandanas  which  Gladys  wears! 
Since  she  favors  stripes  in  either  challis, 
silks,  or  woolens,  Frank  finds  it  easy  to 
match  his  neckwear  up  with  hers.  His 
favorite  tie  is  one  given  him  for  Christmas 
last — it  is  a  brown  woolen,  with  the  part 
that  hangs  down  in  front  made  of  brown 
leather.  It's  really  a  knockout  and  looks 
as  if  it  would  wear  an  eternity. 

The  favorite  Swarthout  colors  arc 
brown,  gold,  indigo  blue,  gray-blue  and 
red.  She  rarely  wears  so-called  after- 
iiiion  elothrs,  ini.  iTrring  tweeds  and  men's 
suitings  in  tailored  clothes  and  untrimmed 


Walter  Te  +  ley,  one  of  Fred 
Allen's  stooges,  is  a  15- 
year-old   nnicrophone  veteran. 


evening  gowns  in  beautiful  materials.  Slic 
wears  only  slightly  padded  shouklers  on 
her  suit  jackets.  Likes  housecoats  and 
only  wears  pajamas  for  beach  or  outdoor 
lounging.  Those  harem-like,  rouch  cotton 
ones,  shown  here,  are  current  pets.  The 
jacket  is  a  bolero,  trimmed  with  a  white 
cotton  rope,  under  it  is  a  bras  and  the 
trousers  are  made  with  harem  fullness,  the 
waistband  of  white  cotton,  laced  tightly. 

Frank  had  the  necklace  designed  for 
Gladys  which  she  wears  constantly.  It  is  in 
gold  and  spells  out  Clm/^)}i(ni.  He  has  a 
watch  chain  with  the  links  spelling  out  his 
full  name.  Gladys  told  me  that  she  only 
likes  accessories  and  jewelry  that  are  use- 
ful as  well  as  ornamental. 

Talking  with  Gladys  and  Frank,  you 
have  the  feeling  that  here  are  two  people 
who  have  managed  to  merge  their  personal 
and  professional  lives  so  perfectly  that  one 
has  become  utterly  dependent  upon  the 
other  in  matters  of  clotiies  as  well  as  the 
more  major  factors  of  their  lives.  /\nd, 
too,  I  imagine  that  Gladys  is  greatly  re- 
sponsible for  the  legend  that  Frank  is  her 
fashion  mentor — wives  always  have  been 
good  at  letting  husbands  imagine  they  are 
doing  the  suggesting ! 

To  leave  the  Chapmans  at  this  point, 
don't  forget  to  send  in  for  mv  JUNE 
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149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Enclosed  please  find  a  stamped,  self- 
addressed  envelope.  Kindly  send  me, 
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You  tell  her  Edith" 

^Wha  me?  Never!  Let  Jane  do  H 


NQ  I  CANT.  YOU  TELL  HER,  MADGE' 

"Why  should  I  ?  Anne's  the  one  ^ 


JOAN  must  be  told!  But  who  will 
tell  her — and  how?  No  wonder 
each  one  of  her  friends  tries  to 
pass  the  problem  on  to  the  next  one! 

It's  a  hard,  thankless  thing  to  tell  a 
girl  that  she  is  personally  unpleasant 
to  be  with  on  account  of  underarm 
perspiration  odor.  It  seems  inexcus- 
able that  she  should  have  to  be  told, 
in  these  modern  days! 

It's  so  unnecessary  to  offend  in  this 
way.  For  you  can  be  safe  all  day,  every 
day,  in  just  half  a  minute.  With  Mum! 

Harmless  to  clothing.    You  can  USe  this 

dainty  deodorant  cream  any  time,  you 
know — after  dressing,  just  as  well  as 
before.  For  it's  perfectly  harmless  to 


MUM 


clothing.  Mum  is  the  only  deodorant 
which  holds  the  Textile  Approval  Seal 
of  the  American  Institute  of  Launder- 
ing as  being  harmless  to  fabrics. 
Soothing  to  skin.  It's  soothing  to  the 
skin,  too.  You  can  shave  your  under- 
arms and  use  Mum  at  once. 
Doesn't  prevent  natural  perspiration. 
Another  important  thing — Mum  does 
not  prevent  the  natural  perspiration 
itself — just  the  unpleasant  odor  of 
perspiration. 

Are  you  making  it  uncomfortable 
for  your  friends  by  your  own  careless- 
ness? Play  fair  with  them  and  yourself 
by  making  Mum  a  daily  habit.  Bristol- 
Myers  Co.,  630  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 


LET  MUM  HELP  IN  THIS  WAY, 
TOO.  Use  Mum  on  .sani- 
tary napkins  and  enjo\- 
complete  freedom  from 
worry  about  this  source 
of  unpleasantness. 


takes  the  odor  out  of  perspiration 


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RADIO  STARS 


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TO -AND 
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This  scientific  powder  is  made  espe- 
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Stella  Wilson,  Denver,  Colo. 
(Housewife.)  "Our  family  prefers 
Eddie  Cantor  ;  we  have  ne\-er  missed 
one  of  his  programs  since  he  first 
went  on  the  air.  W'e  love  his  silly 
nonsense  and  his  iihilosophv.  He  al- 
wavs  hrini(s  a  ha])i)y  smile  and  leaves 
a  kindly  thought." 

Lucille  Halieran,  Flushing,  N.  Y., 
and  Veronica  Haunfelder,  College 
Point,  N.  Y.  {Stenographers.)  "\\\\?Lt 
hand,  other  than  h^'ed  Warinj^'s, 
could  stir  you  with  a  haunting  tune, 
thrill  \'ou  with  the  classics,  enliven 
you  with  their  exuheranl  swing  and 
tickle  vour  funnyhone  with  their 
s|)oulaneous  coniedw  all  with  ecjual 
skill  ?" 

Miss  M.  L.  Van  Toor,  Lansdale, 

Pa.  "Sluw  Boat  will  he  niv  faxdrite 
program  as  long  as  l,aun\-  Ross  is  at 
the  helm.  The  magniliccnl  \dice  of 
(:(,nrad  Thihaull  has  made  77;,-  rack- 
iird  Hour  worth  hstcnmg  to." 


Lillian  Stauffer,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
(Student.)  "My  favorite  radio  star 
is  and  always  will  Ijc  Phil  1  larris.  lie- 
cause  of  him  and  his  fine  music,  lack 
I'icnny,  Kenny  P)aker  and  .Mar\'  Liv- 
ingstone, the  Jcll-()  l'ro(/raiii  is  the 
hest  on  the  air.  Phil  has  the  finest 
orchestra  and  more  talent  than  many 
great  stars  put  together." 

Robert  Gutman,  Long  Beach,  N.  Y. 


(Student.)  "I  ])ick  Jack  Benny,  Ed- 
die Cantor  and  Fred  .Mien  as  my 
favorites.  If  all  the  feuds  hetween 
radio  artists  ended  .U])  in  as  much  fun 
as  the  IJenny-Allen  feud,  they  would 
all  he  okay." 

Ruby  V.  Zenor,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

(Housewife.)  "I  like  Ted  Malone, 
hecause  he  has  a  voice  sent  straight 
irom  heaven,  with  poems  that  go 
straight  to  the  heart.  For  comedy, 
gi\e  me  15urns  .and  Allen,  for  they 
ahva\s  keep  ahead  of  the  hounds  and 
never  grow  stale." 

Mary  Hebert,  Providence,  R.  I. 
(Organist.)  "My  vote  is  cast  for  the 
Lux  Theatre,  J'ick's  Open  House  (I 
miss  it )  and  the  Jcll-0  Program.  Our 
w  hole  family  wouldn't  think  of  miss- 
ing these  three  programs.  Jack 
Benny,  especially,  puts  us  in  hyster- 
ics.   Radio  sure  is  a  blessing  to  us." 

Regina  Hunt,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
(Student.)  "My  favorite  star  is  the 
celebrated  young  American  tenor, 
Ivichard  Crooks,  wdiose  glorious  voice, 
superb  artistry  and  magnetic  person- 
alitv  are  largely  responsible  for  my 
interest  in  radio." 

Mrs.  Arthur  Durell,  Alliance,  Ohio. 
(Housewife.)  "I  would  be  lost — and 
this  goes  for  most  of  mv  neighbors 
and  relations — without  Mary  Marliu, 
The  O'Xeills  and  Today's 'Children. 
W'e  lia\-e  a  radio  in  our  car,  so  no 
— matter  where  we  go  I  don't  miss 
an  ei)is(.)de  of  any  of  them." 

George  W.  Norris,  Uhrichsville, 
Ohio.  ( Gas  Line  Foreman.)  'T  enjoy 
meeting  men  who  are  men  and  women 
who  are  feminine.  The  genuine  and 
not  the  unreal.  T^utting  on  the  air' 
is  es|)ecially  jirovoking  and,  thanks  to 
the  dial,  controllable.  The  only  pro- 
gram to  wh'ch  [  would  turn  regularly 
is  Major  Ju>-<ces'  Amateur  Hour,  be- 
cause it  is  a  natural  cross  section  of 
America." 

Peggy  Woollett,  Chicago,  III.  "I 

think  that  Kathryn  Witwer's  voice 
'washes  from  the  soul  the  dust  of 
every  day  life.'  Every  Thursday 
evening  1  listen  to  her  sing  on  the 
Musieal  I\e:ie:v  program,  and  it 
makes  me  feel  better  than  church, 
.She  has  the  loveliest  lyric  soprano  on 
the  air." 

Janice  Laurence,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
(Home  Girl.)  "If  T  were  sj^onsor, 
this  would  be  my  show  of  shows: 
Jvuss  Morgrm's  nuisic,  Kay  Thomp- 
son's singing,  the  comedy  of  Ken 
Alurra\'  and  ( )swald,  15ing  Crosby's 
vocalizing  and  I*"red  Cttal,  the  iierfect 
mike-man,  for  the  commercials." 


RADIO  STARS 


Jean  Starkel,  Webster  Groves,  Mo. 
(Student.)  "I  listen  to  Jessica  Drasi- 
onette,  because  she  sings  more  beauti- 
fully and  expressively  tban  anyone 
else  on  the  air.  In  her  new  ])rograni 
she  combines  the  lieautiful  songs  she 
has  made  so  dear  to  us,  with  a  splen- 
did acting  ability  that  makes  her  pro- 
gram the  highlight  of  the  week." 

Mary  K.  Blizzard,  Lancaster,  Ohio. 
(Home  Girl.)  "l  truly  believe  that 
Al  Jolson's  ])ro,!4rani  has  \'ver\  thiiig.' 
I  think  there  are  man\"  w  ho  will  agree 
with  me  that  this  ])roi^rani  is  tO|)s  in 
good,  wholesome  variety,  and.  after 
all,  isn't  that  just  what  we  want?" 

Thomas  Meaney,  Peabody,  Mass. 

"My  favorite  program  is  not  Holly- 
wood Hotel,  but  Frances  Langford, 
whose  smooth,  intoxicating  tones  and 
unbeatable  personality  are  a  program 
in  themselves.  Endowed  with  the 
most  beautiful  voice  in  radio,  she's 
beyond  compare.  I  wouldn't  miss  a 
Langford  broadcast  for  the  life  of 


Catherine  Cremins,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  (Doctor's  Aide.)  "Every  once 
in  a  while  heaven  blesses  this  old 
earth  of  ours  with  a  bit  of  its  sun- 
shine, a  twinkle  from  its  eye  and  the 
glory  of  its  smile.  We  who  have  had 
the  privilege  of  hearing  Jessica  Drag- 
onette's  glorious  voice,  of  feeling  the 
radiant  and  inspiring  charm  of  her 
beautiful  personality,  hold  within  our 
grasp  the  sweetest  gift  of  the  skies." 
-♦- 

Grace  Everts,  East  Hartford,  Conn. 
(Student.)  "Kraft  Music  Hall  has 
all  one  could  ask  for  in  a  variety  ]iro- 
gram.  First,  the  best  singer  in  radio 
and  Hollywood — Bing  Crosby.  Then 
Bob  Burns,  a  good  comedia^i.  a 
snappy  orchestra  with  a  first-rate 
leader,  Jimmy  Dorsey,  and  not  too 
many  interruptions  for  commercials." 

Marjorie  Ullman,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
(Student.)  "Because  of  his  sincerity 
and  magnetic  ])ersonality,  Rudy  \'al- 
lee  is  mv  radio  favorite.  As  a  show- 
man he  is  excellent,  and  you  can  be 
sure  to  hear  only  the  best  of  every- 
thing on  his  program.  He  will  always 
have  me  as  a  steady  .listener." 
-♦- 

Mrs.  Ethel  Marie  Varenkamp, 
Alamo,    Texas.    (Housewife.)  "My 

preferences  are:  Major  Ho^i'cs'  Aiii- 
atciir  Hour,  for  the  opportunity  given 
to  those  who  might  otherwise  remain 
in  obscurity.  Max7i'cU  House  Sli07V 
Boat,  for  the  excellent  type  of  man- 
hood displayed  in  the  person  of 
Lanny  Ross.  Pliilco  Nnvs  Broad- 
cast, because  Boake  Carter's  concise, 
unbiased  opinion  is  excellent." 


^^Always  wortli  stopping  for'^ 


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Jack  Bovender,  Winston-Salem, 
N.  C. (Tobacco  Company  Employee.) 

"My  favorite  program  is,  of  course, 
Camel's  and  Jack  Oakic's  CoHcac. 
Deanna  Durliin  is  my  favorite  siiiL^er 
and  I  like  to  listen  to  Fred  Allen  and 
k  l!ennv.  I""or  swx'et.  southin.^' 
mu-ic.  i;i\e  nie  \\'a\ne  Km-,  and  for 
hot  swing,  Uenny  liiuidman." 

Mabel   McKone,   Marl  ton,   N.  J. 

"I  just  wait,  (lav  bv  dav,  for  the  radio 
skits,  and  realK'  enjov  tliem.  I'dr  the 
]Xist  four  years  I  have  misled  few  of 
the  'I'odtiy's  Cliihircii  ]>rograms.  I 
many  others,  such  as  Hachclor's 
Chihlrcu.  Betty  and  Bob,  David  Ha- 
) mil  and  The  OWeills." 

Helen  Koslofsky,  Harvey's  Lake, 
Pa.(Student.)  "Coiiiniiiiiity  Siiuj  wins 
my  vote,  since  it  has  the  best  come- 
dian on  the  air.  Who?  Milton  Berle. 
He  can  tell  a  joke  and  put  it  over,  has 
a  nice  singing  voice  and  the  best 
stongc.  lii-^  program  is  \ery  heart- 
warming and  has  the  spirit  of  wel- 
come in  it." 

J.  R.,  Framingham,  Mass.  "Rudy 
\'allee  is  the  ideal  master  of  ceremo- 
nies and  I  believe  in  giving  credit  to 
the  one  who  earns  it.  Every  word 
Mr.  Vallee  speaks  is  of  value  to  the 
program  and  his  diction  is  perfect. 
His  introductions  are  gracious  and 
friendly,  yet  always  dignified.  His 
personality  runs  like  a  gleaming 
thread  through  the  pattern  of  his 
IMTigram." 

Carole  Montal,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
(Student.)  "Here's  my  recipe  for  a 
good  radio  program.  Get  these  in- 
gredients :  A  good  comedian  ;  a  guest 
star  or  two  to  enliven  prncceilings  ;  an 
excellent  orchestra;  a  brilliant  master 
of  ceremonies ;  a  top-notch  singer. 
Mix  them  all  together  and  the  result 
should  be  the  best  ]M-ogram  on  the 
air.  Which  one?  Why,  the  ]\udy 
X'allee  J'aricty  Hour,  of  course!" 

Bob  Middleton,  Clarion,  Iowa. 
(Student.)  •  "My  favorite  star  is  on 
Eddie  Cantor's  program — Deanna 
Durbin.  The  reason  I  like  her  is  be- 
cause I  think  she  has  the  most  beau- 
tiful and  sweetest  voice  going." 

Louise  Anderson,  Sioux  City,  Iowa. 

"I  never  miss  listening  to  Hollywood 
Hot  el  because  Frances  Langford,  my 
favorite  star  of  screen  ancl  radio,  is 
on  it.  To  be  able  to  hear  her  lovely 
voice  every  Friday  night  is  indeed  a 
pleasure." 

Sue   Pritchett,   Albany,   Ga.  "My 

pets  of  radio  are  baritones.  I'll  put 
down  anything  to  listen  to  a  good 
baritone  voice.    Nelson  Eddy  leads 


the  pack.  Next  come  Donald  Dick- 
son, Lawrence  Tibbett,  Reed  Ken- 
nedv,  Barry  McKinley,  Robert  Gate- 
Iv.  Clvde  Barrie  and  Igor  Gorin.  But 
as  far  as  I'm  concerned,  Frank  Chap- 
man and  Conrad  Thibault  can  leave 
the  air  forever." 

Claire  Voivedich,  Mobile,  Ala.  "I 

love  to  hear  news  about  the  movie 
stars,  and  when  it  comes  from  the 
lips  of  such  a  just  and  honest  person 
as  Jimmie  Fidler,  it's  worth  listening 
to.  His  is  the  best  program  on  the 
air." 

Frances  O'Mahoney,  Birmingham, 
Ala.  (Student.)  "My  favorite  singer 
is  our  own  beloved  Rosa  Ponselle. 
Her  powerful,  rich  voice  surpasses 
any  other  in  opera  and  she  is  glamor- 
ous, strikingly  beautiful." 

Jack  Schiffer,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
(U.  S.  Aluminum  Co.  Employee.) 

"I  like  dance  music  and  plenty  of  it 
of  the  best  caliber.  And  when  all  the 
bands  are  lined  up  side  by  side,  my 
favorite  four  are  Guy  Lombardo, 
Horace  Heidt,  Russ  Morgan  and  Jan 
Savitt," 

Hazel  A.  Garver,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
(Hosiery  Mill  Inspector.)  "Nino 
Martini  is  my  favorite  singer ;  Andre 
Kostelanetz  can  make  anything  sound 
good,  even  Turkey  in  the  Straiv; 
David  Ross  is  the  best  announcer. 
So,  for  a  delightful  half  hour,  the 
Chesterfield  Program  with  these  three 
can't  be  Ijeat !" 

Betty  Blum,  Westbury,  N.  Y.  (Stu- 
dent.) "Because  of  the  richness  and 
sincerity  of  his  voice,  Lanny  Ross  is 
my  favorite  singer.  For  five  years  I 
have  listened  to  him  on  Shozv  Boat, 
and  on  every  guest  appearance,  with 
great  enthusiasm." 

Ann  Williams,  Providence,  R.  I. 
(Stenographer.)  "Who  has  sent  many 
a  young  star  on  to  success  ?  Who  is 
the  ace  showman,  the  man  who  has 
held  popularity  so  long?  Who  is 
noted  for  his  intelligence,  squareness 
and  honesty?    Rudy  Vallee!" 

Violet    Emory,    Hollywood,  Cal. 

"Louella  Parsons,  as  a  movie  com- 
mentator, should  be  kept  oflf  the  air. 
Jimmie  Fidler  is  good  because  he  is 
interesting  and  has  plenty  of  nerve." 


Have  YOU  registered  your  radio 
preferences?  Just  let  your  feelings 
lie  known  in  fifty  words  or  less,  and 
he  sure  to  state  your  name,  address 
and  occupation.  Address  :  QUERY 
EDITOR,  Radio  Stars,  149  Madison 
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RADIO  STARS 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 


{Co'iliuurd  from  paijc  ?S) 


Equal  parts  of  cliof'pcd  cliiikrii. 
celery  and  hard-cooked  cno.  moislcncd 
ivith  mayonnaise  and  .u-asonrd  to  tasic. 

Chopped  tvatcrcrcss  and  cotta(jc 
cheese  ivith  a  fczv  drops  of  onion  juice, 
if  desired. 

Peanut  butter,  minced  crisp  bacon, 
moistened  ivith  chili  sauce. 

Cream  cheese,  chopped  raisins  and 
Brazil  nuts. 

Chopped  stuffed  olives  and  minced 
ham. 

Preserved,  skinless  figs,  zvcll  drained, 
ivith  cream  chaese  or  peanut  butter. 

Mashed,  canned  baked  beans  zvith 
minced  frankfurter  and  chili  sauce. 

Canned  salmon,  celery,  chopped 
green  pepper,  moistened  zvith  mayon- 
naise. 

And  all  the  cheese  spreads  on  the 
grocer's  list. 

So  much  for  out-of-doors  picnics.  Now 
let's  consider  the  home  picnicker,  among 
whom  I  should  be  listed  for  the  major  part 
of  the  year.  Strictly  speaking,  of  course, 
I'm  not  a  "home  picnicker"  but  a  theatre 
picnicker.  Each  week,  on  the  day  of  my 
broadcast,  I  arrive  at  reliearsal  early  in 
the  morning,  carrying  my  lunch  in  the 
basket  with  which  you  see  me  pictured 
here.  In  this  way,  when  I  have  a  few 
minutes  to  spare,  I  can  have  my  lunch  in 
my  dressing-room  in  informal  picnic  fash- 
ion. And  say,  folks,  I  sure  do  enjoy  that 
meal !  Incidentally,  there's  no  dinner  for 
Katherine,  that  day,  until  after  the  broad- 
cast, because  I  don't  think  you  can  sing 
your  best  if  you've  just  eaten.  I  also  think 
that  smoking  and  alcoholic  beverages  are 
bad  for  singers,  so  I  never  indulge  in  either 
of  them. 

The  basket  in  which  I  bring  my  lunch  is 
all  wicker  on  the  outside,  fitted  out  with 
compartments  on  the  inside,  with  two 
vacuum  bottles,  cups  and  plates  of  yellow 
and  cutlery  with  matching  handles.  But 
in  the  various  containers  you  would  find 
just  the  sort  of  foods  we've  been  talking 
about,  with  one  exception.  Occasionally  I 
take  along  something  hot,  besides  the  two 
vacuum  bottles  of  coffee. 

In  order  to  do  this,  I  have  to  give  up 
having  one  of  my  bottles  of  coffee,  and  in 
its  place  I  will  briilg  along  a  quantity  of 
hot  gravy.  I  then  pour  the  gravy  over  my 
meat  sandwiches,  thus  providing  myself 
with  one  good  hot  dish  in  the  easiest  way 
imaginable. 

Or  I  will  have  an  d  la  King  dish,  which 
can  be  packed  in  a  wide-mouthed  vacuum 
bottle  (or  even  a  regular  hot  beverage 
container,  if  you  cut  up  the  meat  small 
enough).  Having  one  hot  dish  is  a  good 
idea,  you  know,  even  on  a  picnic.  It's 
especially  welcome  after  you've  been  in 
swimming,  I  know. 

You'll  find  the  Meat  a  la  King  recipe  in 


I's  Irallcl  ,m 


hat  il^ 


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with  veal  or  pork.  It's  the  rich  •^alKx■,  altn- 
all,  that  gives  this  dish  its  nanir  and  aii])Lal. 
For  the  home  picnicker,  in  particular,  it's 
an  ace. 

The  home  picnicker  also  has  many  other 
advantages  not  enjoyed  by  the  al  fresco 
picnicker.  She  can  toast  the  bread  for  her 
sandwiches,  for  instance — either  before 
making  them  up  or  afterwards,  in  grill 
fashion.  She  can  place  all  the  sandwich 
makings  on  the  table  and  let  each  person 
make  his  own.  She  can,  as  I  do  at  the 
theatre,  serve  a  real  salad,  made  up  in  ad- 
vance but  witli  the  salad-dressing  kept 
separate  until  time  to  eat.  My  favorite 
salad  of  that  kind  consists  of  a  tomato 
hollowed  out  and  filled  with  cottage  cheese 
and  chives.  A  dab  of  mayonnaise,  and  there 
you  are ! 

Of  course  the  special  set  of  containers 
in  my  picnic  basket  keep  the  salad  "fixings" 
cold  and  fresh  for  hours,  but  this  suggestion 
is  not  a  feasible  one  for  the  train  or  auto 
traveling  picnicker,  whose  salad  would 
have  to  spend  long  and  probably  sunlit 
hours  away  from  the  refrigerator — which, 
as  you  know,  is  a  fatal  mistake  for  any 
self-respecting  salad  to  make! 

But,  wherever  you  may  picnic,  whomever 
you  may  picnic  with,  whatever  the  good 
things  to  eat  you  may  take  along  (whether 
they  include  those  my  coupon  brings  you  or 
others  that  you  may  prefer),  remember  that 
it's  having  the  true  picnic  spirit  that  will 
make  the  occasion  a  success. 

So,  as  I  sign  ofT.  here's  wishing  you,  dur- 
ing the  coming  months,  many  a  jolly  outing 
or  many  an  informal  home  picnic,  with  all 
kinds  of  grand  Fun  and  good  Food — both 
with  a  capital  F;  And  just  think  of  me 
on  Thursdays,  before  my  A  &  P  broad- 
casts, enjoying  my  theatre  picnics  with  the 
same  foods,  perhaps,  that  you  will  be  try- 
ing soon  on  my  recommendation.  Then 
"tune  me  in"  that  same  evening  at  eight  so 
that  I  can  say  once  again: 

"Thanks  for  listenin' !" 

LEMON  PUFF  PIE 
1  lemon 

1  cup  granulated  sugar 

3  eggs,  separated 

1  medium  size  baked  pie  shell 

Grate  rind,  combine  with  lemon  juice  and 
add  to  one  half  of  sugar  and  slightly  beaten 
yolks.  Place  in  top  of  double  boiler  and 
cook  over  boiling  water,  stirring  constantly, 
until  mixture  is  thick  and  will  coat  spoon. 
Cool  and  add  to  stiffly  beaten  egg  whites, 
to  which  the  remainder  of  su,i.;ar  has  been 
added  gradually.  Fold  in  carelull_\-  an<l 
turn  into  baked  pie  shell.  Sprinkle  to]) 
with  granulated  sugar  and  put  into  hot  oven 
(450°)  to  brown  t^aboul  5  minutes).  Chill 
and  serve. 


"WHAT  D  YA  MEAN,  FAISE  AlARM! 
ITS  DELICIOUS  SHREDDED  WHEAT 
AND  STRAWBERRIES!" 

Big,  golden-brown  Shredded  Wheat  biscuits, 
topped  with  red,  juicy  strawberries— it's  the 
grandest  flavor  that  ever  put  out  a  three- 
alarm  call  to  appetites. 


JUST  REMEMBERED  WE'RE  HAV- 
ING SHREDDED  WHEAT  AND  STRAW- 
BERRIES FOR  LUNCH." 

Dive  into  this  delicious  dish  tomorrow  morn- 
ing—get its  energy-building  carbohydrates, 
vitamins,  proteins  and  mineral  salts! 


"AN-  WHY  DIDN'T  YE  SAY  IT  WAS 
SHREDDED  WHEAT  AND  STRAWBER- 
RIES  YE   WAS   RUNNIN'  AFTER?" 

Calling  all  housewives !  Go  to  your  local 
grocer  today !  Order  in  a  supply  of  this  favor- 
ite breakfast  of  millions! 


SHREDDED  WHEAT 


A  Product  of  NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COMIANY 

Bakers  of  Ritz,Uneeda  Biscuit 
and  other  famous  varieties 

Billion  Shredded  Wheat  Biscuits  Sold  Every  Year 

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Think!  Has  more  than  one  day  gone 
by  without  adequate  elimination? 

If  so,  take  Olive  Tablets  before  you 
turn  out  the  bathroom  light  tonight. 

Prescribed  for  years  by  an  Ohio 
physician,  Olive  Tablets  are  now  one 
of  America's  best  known  proprieta- 
ries—famous because  they  are  so  mild 
and  gentle. 

Keep  a  supply  always  on  hand. 
Remind  the  whole  family  to  think  of 
them  on  the  second  day.  Three  sizes: 
15p,  30p,  60f—a.t  all  druggists. 


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or  BEAUTIFUL  WOMEN 


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AT  LAST!  l< 
NEW5HAMP0O 
FOR  ALL  BLONDES ! 

Sringi  Bock  Ooldcn  Hue  to  All  Shades  of  Darkened 
Blond'.-  Hair — Keeps  Hair  Soft,  fluffy.  Lustrous/ 


RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

{Confinucd  jrom  page  16) 


Dorothy  Duckworth,  NBC  actress.  True  Story  Court  of  Human  Relations. 


After  futilely  trying  to  argue  her  right 
to  the  style  of  comedy  Gracie  Allen  had 
been  doing.  Miss  Deagon  finally  gave  up, 
changed  her  name  and  is  now  getting  a 
foothold  in  radio  under  other  names  and 
other  comic  styles. 

Joe  Cook's  new  Saturday  night  variety 
program  has  the  odd  distinction  of  being 
one  of  the  season's  more  diverting  pro- 
grams—and also  one  of  the  season's  major 
intinents.  Behind  this  queer  cimi- 
1  is  one  of  tlie  stories  tliat  make 
radio  exasperating  as  well  as  pi-ofitable  to 
its  artists. 

Joe  is  the  most  nonsensical  and  elfin  of 
comedians,  and  his  program  started  off  last 
winter  as  his  own  cock-eyed  version  of 
what  a  collection  of  raflio  guest  stars  should 
he.  He  mixed  up  such  heroes  as  .Admiral 
Hobson  and  the  man  who  went  over 
Niagara    Falls   in   a   rubber   bail;  such 


(lisai.i 
i)inati 


singers  as  John  McCormack  and  a  woman 
wiio  imitated  a  hen  singing  opera.  It  was 
wild,  amusing  entertninirient. 

There  were  just  two  weeks  of  that  when 
a  decision  came  from  above  that  such 
goings-on  in  a  i;i-ograin  were  neither  digni- 
fied nor  insiiirational.  Kiilcs  were  laid  down 
and  the  wliole  crazy  spirit  of  the  show 
was  scrapped.  Joe  Cook  is  an  ingratiating, 
diverting  master  of  ceremonies  and  he  still 
manages  to  guide  his  program  a  little  off 
the  CMiivcnliiiii.-il  i);ilbs.  It  rcni.ii:is  one  of 
llie  linulil  ^jiot-  ul  :i  S.Murd.iy  nigllt,  but 
one  can't  helj)  iiciIIiml;  Min-uwlnlly  how 
imirh  lietter  it  w.is  in  thi;  first  [ilace  when 
the  vvluile  affair  was  a  suvl  of  jovial 
practical  joke  pki^ed  on  the  audience. 

rroin  savanls  of  France  comes  a  note  to 
inulcniiine  one  of  radio's  firmly  established 
visliliilhois.  The  French  Academy  of 
Medical  Science  has  issued  a  bulletin  con- 


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>  DON'T 

I  LET^OM^  POWDER 
I     SCREAM  OUT 

1  "FALSE  FACE1 


Eve  March,  "Miss  Perkins"  in  John's 
Other  Wife,  on  NBC-Red  Network. 

donning  early  morning  f>ro(irains  of  set- 
ting-up exercises.  These  early  bird  (physical 
culturists  are  declared  actually  iiijitrioiis  to 
the  health  of  their  listeners. 

Twenty  minutes  is  needed,  the  exphnm- 
fion  runs,  for  restoration  of  normal  blood 
circulation  after  a  person  gets  out  of  bed. 
Plunging  right  into  a  regimen  of  c.vercise 
before  breakfast  imposes  a  strain  that  often 
is  dangerous. 

Goodman  Ace  has  a  formula  of  his  own 
for  determining  when  his  Easy  Aces  serial 
is  dealing  too  much  in  backstage  talk  that 
only  actors  will  understand  and  relish.  A 
favorite  haunt  of  Goodman's  is  New- 
York's  Friars  Club,  where  vaudeville  and 
radio  veterans  get  together  and  talk  shop 
and  the  good  old  days.  The  moment  any 
of  these  friends  start  showing  any  great 
interest  in  Easy  Aces,  Goodman  is  sure  he 
is  staying  on  a  wrong  track  and,  as  quickly 
as  possible,  he  switches  his  comical  episodes 
to  another  theme. 

Things  were  going  wrong  in  the  rehear- 
sal of  one  of  the  big  soap  radio  programs. 
For  eight  long  hours,  the  musicians  had 
been  playing  steadily  and  exhaustingly. 

The  session  ended  at  last  and  one  of  the 
tired  orchestra  men  remarked  as  he  walked 
out :  "Don't  you  think  someone  somewhere 
could  think  of  an  easier  way  to  sell  soap?" 

A'oic  that  spring  is  in  the  air.  Colonel 
Stonpnagle  is  gritting  his  teeth  grimly  and 
talking  about  the  gay  times  he  zvill  have 
on  his  boat  this  summer — and  cursing  the 
day  that  brought  boats  into  his  life.  The 
Colonel  has  a  speedboat  in  zchieh  he  careens 
around  Long  Island  Sound.  A'o  matter  idiat 
goes  zcrong  (and  there  is  ahi'ays  plenty  to 
go  urong  zvith  a  speedboat)  the  Colonel 
can't  fix  it. 

"I  Zi'ish  I  hod  a  nickel  for  every  time 
I've  had  a  rope  tangled  in  my  propeller," 
the  Colonel  remarked.  That  happens  to  him 
nearly  every  time  he  toivs  a  surf  board,  but 
he  never  has  gotten  around  to  getting  a 
knife  for  those  emergencies.  When  it  hap- 
pens, the  Colonel  simply  sits  and  drifts 
until  some  more  provident  boatman  comes 
along  zcith  a  knife  in  his  kit. 

The  Connecticut  shore  of  the  Sound  is 
rocky  but  the  Colonel  recklessly  dashes 
into  bays  and  harbors,  ignoring  all  warn- 
ings of  reefs  and  shallows.  The  Colonel 
never  bothers  with  such  details.  Miracu- 
lously, the  rocks  somehow  seem  to  dodge 
out  of  the  Colonel's  way.     The  only  real 


I  I  WISH  I  COULD  DO  SOMETHING  ABOUT 
MV  FACE  POWDER  .    IT  MAKES  ME 
l^^OK  EITHER   OVER-POWDERED  OR 


OVER-AGED - 

^-  ''^Y^  so  ASHAMED 


MY  SKIN  KEEPS  BREAKING  OUT- I  KNOW 
ITS  MY  POWDER  !  AND  NQWONDER- 
THE  WAY  IT  FLAKES  OFF-THOSE  COARSE 
HARD  FLAKES  CUT  RIGHT  INTO  MY  SKIN 


THEY  SAY  THE  RIGHT  FACE  POWDER 
WILL  SOFTEN  THE  LINES  IN  YOUR 

FACE-  OH!  IF  I  COULD    ^  ' 

ONLY  FIND  SUCH 


ANOTHER  TROUBLE-  IM  NOT 
EXACTLY  100%  BLONDE  OR 
100%  BRUNETTE-  DEPENDS  ON 
THE  LIGHT  TOO!  WISH 
\    I  COULD  FIND  A  , 
J  SHADE  THAT  COULD \ 
—    ^  TURN  BACK  THE  YEARS 
\\  WITHOUT  GIVING  ME 
THAT  CHALKY.  OVER 
POWDERED  LOOK 


WEEK  LATER 


LUCKY  ME  !    I  FOUND 
THE  PERFECT  POWDER 
WHEN  I  TRIED  LOVELY 
LADY.  WHY  DONT  YOU 
J  GET  ALL  5  SHADES  OF 
f  THIS  LOVELIER  POWDER, 
GENEROUS  VANITY  SAMPLES  / 

ARE  FREE!  NOW! 


Wrong  Shade  Powder  Can  Hide  Half  Your  Beauty 
.  .  .  Try  My  Enchanting  New  Face  Powder  .  .  .  FREE 


Lin: 

Do  you  look  years  older  than  you  need  to — 
just  because  you  are  using  the  wrong  shade 
of  face  powder?  Don't  be  fooled  with  the 
outlandish  old  notion  that  you  are  a  "type" 
who  is  condemned  to  use  only  a  certain  "name- 
shade"  of  powder.  This  is  a  "skin  game" 
where  you  are  bound  to  lose.  For  when  all 
"Brunette"  face  powder^  are  di^yerent  in  color, 
how  can  they  all  possibly  suit  YOU  if  YOU 
are  a  brunette?  The  same  is  just  as  true  of 
"Rachel"  shade  face  powders — all  are  dif- 
ferent in  color — and  so  on,  with  other  "type" 
shades. 

You  are  more  than  a  mere  "type" — you  are  FREE 

an  individual.  Regardless  of  face  powder  names 
or  shades,  you  should  rid  yourself  of  all  this 
confusion.  Here  is  how:  Mail  this  coupon  to 
me  -  NOW.  Get  my  five  new  shades  of 
U)\  ELY  LADY  Face  Powder  —  absolutely 
free.  Cosmeticians  agree  that  these  five  ex- 
quisite shades  cover  every  complexion  color 


I^ALilf^O^METlOom 


need  —  because  BALMITE.  the  glorious  new 
soft  blend  base,  blends  LO\'ELY  LADY'S 
subtle  color  tones  more  ilatteringh-  with  the 
delicate,  natural  tones  of  >  nur  skin. 

Send  lor  these  livi-  siiad.:^  and  make  the 
test  that  really  PRO\'ES  which  one  face  pow- 
der shade  you  should  use.  which  makes  you 
younsjest,  loveliest.  Mail  the  coupon.  I'll 
supply  you  with  generous  vanity  size  samplers 
of  all  five  new  shades,  free.  Just  send  the 
Coupon— NOW! 

Sincerely,    f     |        f  | 


LOVFI  V  I  \n-i 


RADIO  STARS 


II 


Music  in  the  air — romance  in  your  eyes.  Tell  him  with  your  eyes — for  beautiful  eyes  may 
say  what  lips  dare  not.  The  charm  of  alluring  eyes  can  be  yours  —  instantly,  easily,  with 
just  a  few  simple  touches  of  Maybelline  Mascara  —  to  make  your  lashes  appear  naturally 
long,  dark  and  luxuriant. 

No  longer  need  you  deny  yourself  the  use  of  make-up  for  your  most  important  beauty 
feature  —  your  eyes.  You  can  avoid  that  hard,  "made-up"  look  that  ordinary  mascaras 
give  by  using  either  the  new  Maybelline  Cream-form  Mascara,  or  the  popular  Maybelline 
Solid-form  Mascara — both  gi\  e  the  soft  natural  appearance  of  long,  dark,  curling  lashes. 
At  cosmetic  counters  everywhere. 

Loveliness  demands  —  eyebrows  softly,  gracefully,  expressively  formed.  For  this,  use 
the  largest-selling,  smoothest-marking  Eyebrow  Pencil  in  the  world  —  by  Maybelline. 

Complete  loveliness  demands  —  the  final,  exquisite  touch  of  eyelids  softly  shaded 
with  a  subtle,  harmonizing  tint  of  Maybelline  Eye  Shadow  —  it  means  so  much  to  the 
color  and  sparkle  of  your  eyes. 

Generous  purse  sizes  of  all  Maybelline  Eye  Beauty  Aids  at  10c  stores.  The  preference 
of  more  than  11,000,000  discriminating  women  the  world  over. 


Paul    Whiteman   writes   his  auto- 
graph for  Ralph  Flanagan,  World's 
Record  swimmer  at  the  Miami-Bilt- 
more  Pool  Swim  Meet. 

trouble  he  has  had  with  the  bottom  of  the 
ocean  came  during  a  visit  to  the  shore 
home  of  his  partner,  Budd.  The  Colonel 
had  whizzed  in  at  high  tide,  anchored  close 
to  shore  and  gone  straight  to  Budd's  house. 
When  he  came  back,  the  tide  was  out  and 
there  was  the  poor  boat,  Mr.  Bopp,  high 
and  dry  on  a  couple  of  rocks.  Even  that 
time  the  Colonel's  luck  had  held.  The 
rocks  happened  to  be  shaped  in  a  little 
cradle  which  kept  the  boat  safe  and  sound 
until  the  tide  came  in  and  floated  it  again. 

Walter  O'Keefe  brought  his  rowdy  radio 
comedy  from  one  of  the  rowdy  joints  of 
speakeasy  days  down  in  New  York's  Green- 
wich Village.  This  man  of  carefree,  im- 
polite jollities  at  the  microphone  is  one  of 
radio's  paradoxical  characters. 

Offstage,  he  is,  in  his  way,  something  of 
a  scholar  and  intellectual.  His  reading 
leans  toward  biography  and  history.  It  is 
always  astounding  to  see  him  gather  with 
other  radio  people  after  a  broadcast  and 
hear  him  urging  them  to  read,  for  instance, 
Henry  Mencken's  heavy,  lengthy,  critical 
and  analytical  work,  Thi 
guage.  This  is  the  same 
brought  The  Man  on  ilic 
into  American  life. 

Harry  Von  Zell,  tlw  announcer,  works 
on  a  number  of  conirdv  programs — Fred 
AUcii.  SloofniK/lr  and  'lUtdd,  Phil  Baker 
and  lid  ll'vnii  (us  director,  not  announcer, 
on  the  latter  one).  That  /ki.s-  started  his 
hobby  of  making  amateur  moz'ies  along 
stran(/e  lines. 

He  is  collecting  reels  of  oil  his  friends, 
famous  and  not.  makni.i  lunny  foccs.  Xo 
sense  to  it.  completely  ]oolisli.  Harry  con- 
cedes, but  he  roars  ivith  laughter  every 
time  lie  talks  about  the  stunt  or  shows  any 
of  the  pictures.  His  leading  attraction  so 
far,  lie  thinks,  is  Phil  Baker. 

Jimmy  Melton  is  almost  pathetic  in  his 
great  eagerness  to  succeed  as  master  of 
ceremonies  on  that  Saturday  night  program 
he  recently  took  over  on  an  NBC  network. 
Jim's  real  ambition  is  to  sing  opera  but 
next  to  that,  he  would  like  to  get  along 
well  in  some  job  where  he  has  a  joke  or 
two  to  tell.  When  he  began  acting  as 
master  of  ceremonies  on  the  Scaliest  Pro- 
gram, he  was  impetuously  calling  all  his 


American  Lan- 
ra|)scallion  who 
1' lying  Trapeze 


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RADIO  STARS 


friends,  asking  what  they  thought  of  him. 
If  they  had  missed  the  show,  Jim's  disap- 
pointment was  very  obvious.  That's  one 
thing  about  Jimmy — he  never  can  conceal 
any  disappointment,  glee  or  annoyance. 
He  must  speak  up  about  it. 

In  his  anxiety,  Jim's  Saturday  night 
spirit  of  joUiness  has  occasionally  sounded 
excessive.  That  excess  of  zeal  is  likable, 
though,  if  you  will  just  picture  this  boyish 
man,  working  his  head  off  on  a  style  of 
entertainment  that  he  really  does  not  need 
to  carry  on  his  very  successful  career  as 
songster  of  radio  and  movies. 


Notes  at  Random — Lanny  Ross,  in  a 
small  way,  collects  first  editions  and  rare 
books.  His  press  agent  wanted  to  send 
out  a  story  about  that  but  Lanny  pre- 
ferred to  keep  it  as  a  hobby,  a  private  one. 


Jack  Pearl  always  has  a  crowd  of  ad- 
miring relatives  and  f^i^•luls  whd  flock  back- 
and  fill  his  dressin,i;-i  >  h  ,in  t<i  ( ix  rrlluw  in- 
after  a  broadcast.  llis  i>  radin's  must 
crowded  dressing-room — and  by  far  the 
noisiest. 

Jackie  Coogan  likes  the  money  he  has 
been  getting  from  radin  lately  but  it  is  nnt 


wli 


L'uan 


il;  tl.r> 


77,.'  K,d  with 
iw  in  the  en- 
enough  in 
mfortably  for 


really  necdc 
the  age  (if  ; 
incnce    ( and  we; 
Charlie  Chaplin, 
viable  position  of 
his  childhood  to  keei 
the  rest  of  his  life. 

Since  the  Jack  litenny 
over  Jack's  violin  phn  in; 
of  The  Bcc  has  been  published  with  the  two 
radio  comedians'  pictures  on  the  front  cover 
of  Schubert's  classic. 

-^.\RTHUR  :\rASON 


iVe  been 
hankering 
for  this  flavor 


ANNOUNCING  THE  WINNERS 

Of  the  Lucille  Manners  Fashion  Contest 

Ellen  Collins,  Cliffwood,  N.  J.,  is  awarded  the  violet  corsage  print  gown,  from 
Dana  de  Paris,  Radio  City,  New  York. 

June  Dale,  Pottstown,  N.  Y.,  is  the  winner  of  the  black  moire  gardenia  gown, 
from  Thea  Sheehan,  22  West  51st  St.,  New  York. 

Mrs.  Joseph  A.  McKay,  Denver,  Colo.,  receives  the  pastel  flower-printed  chiffon 
gown  froin  Tappe,  17  West  5()th  St.,  New  York. 

Sharon  Saum,  Yankton,  S.  D.,  wins  the  black  and  blue  silk  crepe  dinner  dress, 
from  Greer's  Town  and  Country  Shop,  R.C.A.  Building,  New  York. 

A  Letter  From  Lucille 

Dear  Readers  of  R.\dio  St.\rs  : 

]'oii  can't  iinaijive  /kt,'  hapf'v  and  llirilird  I  icas  at  the  tremendous  number 
of  haters  yi)u  sent  iiic  in  this  icniest,  ic///(7i  af^f^rared  in  March  R.adio  Stars. 

]'oiir  help  zcill  he  iiiraliiahle  in  decidiiiii  2^'hat  to  wear  for  my  Cities  Service 
broadcasts,  and  your  letters  ic///  I'c  a  tic/a/.T/j;/  inspiration  in  making  tny  career 
a  success.    I  do  thank  \ou  ivith  all  niy  hciirl. 

My  great  regret  is  that,  as  in  all  cnntcsts,  mily  a  fezv  )jiay  2i'in.  I  do  so  it'ish 
every  single  one  of  ymi  might  hu:c  had  a  fvirjc'.  fur  wlicii  /  read  xour  messages 
I  felt  that  I  -MIS  really  gcllin,/  lo  kn,<:c  yon  and  tlial  e^v  uvre  /\Ts,>nal  friends. 

You  may  be  sure  that  I  -anil  be  thinking  of  you  as  I  sin(/  each  I  ridav  cvcninn 
on  the  NBC  netuvrk. 

Most  sincerclv. 


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So  have  I.  It's  a  flavor  that 


fairly  melts  on  your  tongue 
—a  fresh  pep  and  tang  that 
sends  a  tingle  right  through 
you.  That  tight-sealed  pack- 
age keeps  the  gum  chock- 
full  of  freshness  and  flavor. 
Your  digestion  is  stimulated 
too;when  busy  days  demand 
quick  eating,chewBeeman's 
Pepsin  for  digestion." 

Beeman's 

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offense;  keeps  you 

dainty  always;  yet 

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skin.  And,  being  unscented,  it  docs 
not  cover  up  the  fragrance  of  per- 
fume. 


Quest.. .totally  effective  on 
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he  rcniiiKls  you  lliis  niakc-up  is  for  a 
natural  healthy  skin.  There  are  two  natural 
types  of  skin.  One  type  of  skin  is  af¥ected 
with  oiliness,  large  pores  or  hlackheads. 
The  other  type  of  skin  is  the  dry  or 
normal,  these  last  two  being  in  the  same 
classification  and  requiring  the  same  treat- 
ment. 

The  oily  skin  and  the  dry  or  normal  skin 
are  Ixjth  to  be  cleansed  with  a  special 
cleansing  preparation — one  that  has  long 
been  famous  for  use  in  hospitals  on  babies' 
skins.  Tiie  face  and  neck  are  very  thinly 
covered— no  massage  is  necessary.  If  you 
vvmt  to  know  the  name  of  this  gentle 
cleanser  .'ukI  the  other  preparations  Mr. 
Meadows  recommends,  I  shall  be  glad  to 
m  (  omfortably  warm  water  and 
o.-ip  are  the  next  step  in  tiie 
cveninn's  routine  for  all.  Wasii  the  face 
■ukI  ni'ck  tlioroughly  and  then  rinse  by 
dipi>ing  a  towel  in  clear  warm  water  and 
thorouuhly  remove  all  traces  of  .soap.  Fol- 
low with  a  dash  of  cold  water.  Dry  tlior- 
oughly The  dry  and  normal  skins  will  then 
be"  ready  for  a  good  lubricant.  Twenty 
vears'  experience  with  creams  makes  Mr. 
Meadows  a  good  judge  and  he  has  one 
especially  grand  lubricant  to  recommend.  A 
lovely  luxurious  cream  that  is  amazingly 
moderate  in  price. 

When  you  arise  in  the  morning,  you 
apply  a  protective  foundation  that  assures 
your  make-up  the  whole  day.  First,  wash 
your  face  with  tepid  water  and  soap,  rinse 
and  dry.  Then  wet  your  face  with  a  frag- 
rant skin  tonic  and  keep  it  wet  while  you 
.ire  applying  your  special  base  cream.  This 


ntly  with  The  Honeymooners. 

IS  done  by  placing  a  small  dab  of  the  base 
cream  on  the  nose,  cheeks,  chin  and  fore- 
head— and  then  apply  skin  tonic  to  the 
palm  of  your  hand  and  work  the  cream  in 
from  the  center  of  the  face  outwards  to- 
wards the  ears,  from  the  hairline  on  your 
forehead  down  to  just  the  turn  of  the  chin. 

Of  course,  as  a  make-up  artist,  Mr. 
Meadows  has  carefully  studied  the  ap- 
plication of  color  to  the  face.  He  says 
rouge  removes  contour  rather  than  accentu- 
ates it.  A  fat  face  can  be  made  thinner  by 
blending  your  rouge  in  an  up  and  down 
direction.  This  will  draw  interest  to  the 
center  of  the  face  and  make  it  appear  longer 
and  narrower.  The  thin  face  can  be  made 
to  appear  rounder  by  applying  rouge  high 
on  the  cheekbone  ami  far  out  on  the  side. 
You  blend  the  rouge  inward  toward  the 
nose  and  out  toward  the  ears.  Be  very  care- 
ful that  you  do  not  apply  too  much  rouge 
or  leave  too  sharp  edges.  Mr.  Meadows 
says  that,  when  you  have  applied  your 
rouge,  you  are  not  to  worry  if  it  looks  too 
red  or  blotchy.  You  correct  this  and  remove 
the  harsh  edges  by  drawing  the  palm  of 
your  hand  from  where  there  is  no  rouge 
into  the  rouge  area. 

Mr.  Meadows  says  the  eyes  give  the 
face  ninrt\  ])eictin  of  its  expression,  the 
balance  bemu  lontrolled  by  the  lips.  He 
says  that  fully  seventy  percent  of  the 
women  are  too  white  around  the  eyes  and, 
as  a  consequence,  lose  the  allure  and  ex- 
pression of  the  eyes. 

The  proper  way  to  shade  the  eye  is  as 
follows :  With  the  eye  closed,  apply  shadow 
to  tiie  eyelid  with  the  finger  tip,  starting 


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at  tlie  jwint  nearest  the  nose  and  extending 
along  the  lid  to  a  point  just  past  the  outside 
corner  of  the  eye.  Then  blend  this  from 
the  eyelash  to  the  eyebrow.  Apply  this  very 
lightly.  Be  sure  it  is  blended  evenly. 

You  are  now  ready  to  powder.  Apply 
your  powder  heavily,  patting  it  well  into  the 
base  cream.  Then  use  a  camel's  hair  brush 
and  brush  off  all  surplus  powder.  After  the 
excess  powder  is  removed,  moisten  a  piece 
of  cotton  with  skin  tonic  and  pat  over  the 
face,  and  then  pat  dry  with  more  cotton. 
This  will  not  remove  the  face  powder,  but 
will  set  and  freshen  it.  You  will  not  have 
to  re-powder  at  all  during  the  day.  If  your 
face  should  become  soiled  or  a  little 
"greasy"  looking,  just  moisten  a  bit  of 
cotton  with  cold  water  or  skin  tonic  and 
pat  over  your  face  and  dry  again.  This  will 
remove  the  shine  and  the  dust. 

Be  sure  to  remove  all  powder  from  the 
eyebrows.  This  can  be  done  with  your 
cleanser.  Then  take  a  well-sharpened  eye- 
brow pencil  and  with  short  feathery  strrikes 
shape  the  brows  into  a  frame  for  the  eyes. 

Cleanse  your  eyelashes  and  appl\-  a  little 
mascara  to  the  upper  lashes — brushing  up- 
ward. Mr.  Meadows  cautions  you  not  to 
apply  too  heavily. 

Next  you  apply  your  lipstick.  X<nv  your 
lips  are  the  other  ten  percent  of  the  face's 
expression,  so  don't  overdo  them.  Study 
the  shape  of  your  lips  closely  before  you 
apply  the  color.  Draw^  a  bow  on  the  upper 
and  an  arc  on  the  lower  lip.  Take  a  very 
small  amount  of  your  special  cleanser  and 
spread  over  the  lips,  rubbing  in  until  clr\ , 
Be  careful  not  to  smear,  for  here  it  can't 
he  covered  up  with  powder  or  base  cream. 
If  the  lips  are  too  full,  apply  the  lipstick 
a  little  within  the  inner  edge  of  the  lips  and 
do  not  extend  to  the  corners.  If  the  lips 
are  too  thin,  apply  a  little  over  the  outer 
edge    f  the  lips  and  extend  to  the  corners. 

The  last  step  in  the  make-up  routine  is 
one  that  so  many  women  overlook — the 
neck!  Here  Air.  Meadows  applies  a  fini>h- 
ing  lotion — one  that  is  waterproc^f  and 
protective.  It  prevents  freckles,  tan  and 
sunburn.    No  powder  is  necessary. 

Now  you  are  quite  lovely — until  you 
smile!  Are  your  teeth  white  and  glistening? 
Are  they  dull?  You  must  brush  your  teeth 
several  times  a  day  with  a  clean,  strong- 
bristled  toothbrush.  Mr.  Meadows  advo- 
cates the  tooth  powder — one  that  is  soft 
and  fine  yet  cleanses  and  puts  a  very  high, 
sparkling  gloss  on  the  teeth.  The  stars  that 
he  makes  up  use  this  powder,  for  they  must 
have  bright  teeth. 

Mr.  Meadows  must  leave  you  now — and 
he  wishes  you  permanent  loveliness  with 
your  permanent  make-up. 


Mary  Biddle, 
Radio  Stars  Mogazlne, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  New  York 

Please  send  me  your  gift  sample  offer 
of  lovely  face  powder. 

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envelope  if  you  wish  an  answer  to  personal 
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The  sides  of  Kotex  are  cushioned 
in  a  special,  soft,  downy  cotton 
to  prevent  chafing  and  irritation. 
Thus  Wondersoft  Kotex  provides 
lasting  comfort  and  freedom.  But 
sides  only  are  cushioned  —  the 
center  surface  is  free  to  absorb. 


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By  actual  test  Kotex  absorbs  many 
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A  special  '"Equalizer"  center  guides 
moisture  evenly  the  whole  length  of 
the  pad.  Gives  "body"  but  not  bulk 
—  prevents  twisting  and  roping. 

(D  CAN'T  SHOW 

The  rounded  ends  of  Kotex  are  flattened 
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Ken  Murray  and  Marlyn  ("Mama,  that  man's  here  again!")  Stuart  return 
to  the  air  in  a  new  program,  originating  in  Hollywood  and  coming  to 
you   over  the   CBS   network   on   Wednesdays,   at   8:30   p.  m.  EDST. 


This  pack  of  canines,  In  assorted  sizes,  causes  many  a  laugh  in  the 
new  Fred  Astaire-Ginger  Rogers  movie  musical  for  RKO-Radio  Pictures, 
Shall  We  Dance?    it  looks  as  if  Fred  and  Ginger  had  their  hands  full! 


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Floyd  Buckley    Popeye,  fbe  Sailor 


THINGS  I  NEVER 
KNEW  TILL  NOW 
ABOUT  BEN 
BERNIE 

(Continued  from  page  21) 


about  everything,  showed  up  in  Rothstein's 
office  bright  and  early  every  Monday  with 
the  dough. 

-♦- 

That  he  has  a  large  farm  in  Florida, 
where,  among  other  things,  he  raises  five 
thousand  chickens.  (They  (jet  their  prae- 
tice  in  laying  eggs  from  z^'ateliing  him.) 

That  he  has  a  little  dog  named  Killer, 
The  popch  got  its  deadly  name  because  it 
once  stepped  on  a  cockroach.  {Not  Bernie.) 

That  his  pet  dislike  is  a  woman  politician. 

That  Bernie's  big  ambition  is  to  be  a 
writer.  He  wants  to  scribble  sharp  com- 
ments in  the  H.  L.  Mencken  manner. 

That  he  loves  fruit  salad  but  he  doesn't 
like  silk  pajamas.  {They  don't  like  him, 
cither!) 

That  he  kept  his  "'yes  man"  right  in 
the  family,  by  having  his  son,  Jason,  made 
a  fourth  assistant  director  on  Wake  Up 
And  Live.  {One  Bernie  zcasn't  enough. 
They  had  to  give  me  ttvo!) 

That  when  the  Santa  Anita  meeting 
washed  up,  Bernie  said :  "I  have  the  horses 
right  where  they  want  me." 

That  he's  supposed  to  be  crazy  about 
"swing,"  but  really  his  favorite  piece  is 
Stokowski's  arrangement  of  Ave  Maria. 

That  the  only  thing  he  can  really  do 
well  is  play  bridge.    {He  thinks!) 

That  he  crihhed  lines  from  the  flicker 
and  used  them  on  nis  Droaacasts.  {He  gets 
desperate!) 

That  he  drove  the  scenarists  nuts, 
because  every  time  he  used  a  gag  from 
]]'ake  Up  And  Live  on  his  programs,  the 


I 


X  H  E    B  ^  ^  «  ^ 


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I  writers  liad  to  dig  up  new  material  for  broadcasting.  (Couldn't  have  hapl'ciied  to 
tlie  show.  a  "nicer"  guy.) 


UlINX 


Are  your  eyes  as  thrilling  as  you  would 
like  them  to  be?  Do  they  fascinate  men  and 
cast  a  spell  of  romance?  You  can  make  your 
eyes  sparkling  and  alluring  so  easily  --  so 
quickly  --  with  WINX  Eye  Beautifiers.  A  few 
strokes  of  WINX  Mascara,  and  your  lashes 
become  long,  dark,  curling,  silky.  Your  eyes 
look  large  and  starry  in  a  I  ovely  natural  way! 
Be  sure  it  is  WiNX  Mascara,  for  WINX  is 
absolutely  harmless,  non-smarting  and  tear- 
proof  --  in  solid,  creamy,  or  liquid  form. 

Your  WiNX  Eyebrow  Pencil  makes  even 
the  scantiest  eyebrows  graceful  and  flatter- 
ing. A  touch  of  WINX  Eye  Shadow,  applied 
to  your  eyelids,  brings  out  the  color  of  your 
eyes  and  makes  them  sparkle  tantalizinglyl 

For  eyes  that  men  adore,  start  using  WINX 
today!  In  economical  large  sizes  at  drug 
and  department  stores,- 
generous  purse  sizes 
at  all  1 0  cent  stores. 


"painting"  your 
W^^^^^^  white  shoes.  Clean 
them  white  safely  with  Shu-Milk 

SEE  PAGE  95 


That  director  Sidney  Laiifield  had  to 
teacli  him  to  lead  an  orchestra  1  When  the 
prop  man  said:  "What  S(irl  of  baton  does 
Mr.  Bernie  use?"  one  of  us  flipped:  "Get 
him  an  engraved  Racing  Form!"' 

That  Bernie's  I'oa'.vii/i  accent  was  filched 
from  a  Southern  culoncl  who  was  full  of 
silly-soup  w  hen  he  traded  repartee  with  the 
Old  Mcsstro. 

That  Bernie  role  in  ]\\\l;c  Vp  And 
Lize  is  that  of  himself.  And  tlie  yap  had 
to  practice  for  three  weel<s  be  lure  he  got 
the  characterization  down  pat!  (Dira'U, 
(Diyway !) 

That  the  20th  Century-Fox  fireman 
kicked  Bernie  of?  the  set  for  smoking.  You 
can  smoke  during  a  scene,  if  the  script 
calls  for  it:  \ou  can't  between  takes. 
Bernie,  w  Inn  caught,  always  explained 
that  lie  was  relicarsing. 

That  he  had  to  work  sixteen  hours  a 
day,  what  with  making  the  picture,  play- 
ing at  the  Cocoanut  Grove,  rehearsing  and 


That  he  was  lucky  to  be  working  at  all  I 

That  he  can't  sing  and  he  can't  dance. 
He  driesn't  play  his  fiddle  in  the  picture, 
and  yet  lie  gets  co-star  billing  in  IVake  Up 
And  Lire.  {The  real  star  is  Alice  Faye!) 

That  the  beautiful  night  clulj  sets  which 
20th  Century-Fox  built  for  him  in  the 
picture  have  spoiled  him  so  much,  he  thinks 
he's  slumming  when  he  goes  to  the  real 
hot  spots. 

That  he  was  in  the  Navy  during  the  War. 
Spying  on  spies.  (,A)id  he  calls  me  a 
tattle-tale!) 

That,  in  spite  of  all  we  have  said  about 
him  in  our  column  and  over  the  airwaves, 
Bernie  really  is  a  great  guy.  He  never 
forgets  a  pal — if  he  thinks  that  pal  can  do 
something  for  him. 


And  reports  state  he  is  quitting  his  or- 
chestra. 

If  you  ask  me,  it  probably  is  vice  versa! 


COLLEGIANS  ARE  GETTING 
SMARTER- 


(Continued  on  /'diyr  23) 


I  just  said  I  didn't  have  any — and  I  got 
awa\'  with  it." 

There's  probably  more  to  that  story,  I'll 
venture !  But  that's  all  Held  will  say 
about  it.  And  in  the  same  casual  fashion 
he  mentions  that  he  flew  the  air  mail,  after 
the  War,  between  Casa  Blanca  and  Tou- 
louse, as  a  civilian  pilot  for  the  French. 

"15ut  I'm  important  now,"  he  chuckles, 
puffing  up  in  mock  pride.  "1  must  be — 
the\-  won't  let  me  fly  any  more.  My  con- 
tract sa\s  I  have  to  travel  by  train.  I 
must  be  too  precious  to  risk  losing  1" 

You've  probably  listened  to  his  radio 
show,  which  is  something  of  an  amateur 
program  in  sheep's  clothing— or  should  I 
say  sheepskin  clothing?  Every  week, 
broadcasting  from  a  difTerent  college,  the 
I'nr.sllv  .S'li(i:e  utilizes  cullegc  bands,  glee 
club^  and  \\li;itever  individu.il  talent  is 
available  at  tlie  school,  and  some  of  it 
isn't  bad  at  all.  Funny  things,  naturally, 
are  always  happening. 

"On  our  first  program,"  Held  says,  "we 
had  two  kids  doing  impersonations  of  Wal- 
ter Winchcll  and  Bob  Burns.  They  were 
clever,  too,  but  had  never  been  in  front  of 
a  microphone  before  and  were  naturally 
nervous.  On  the  night  of  tlie  broadcast 
I  had  to  make  many  last  minute  cuts  and 
changes  in  the  show,  changing  their  place 
in  the  routine  too  late  for  another  re- 
hearsal. Al  Miller,  the  prtjilucer  of  the 
show,  said :  'You  boys  ignore  the  cue  you 
were  using — your  spot's  been  changed.  Just 
watch  me  and  I'll  give  you  a  direct  cue ; 
when  I  do,  get  right  up  to  the  mike, 
quickly,  and  go  into  your  act.' 


"That  seemed  simple  enough  and  the 
show  went  on  the  air.  A  couple  of  num- 
bers went  on  and  Al  turned  to  the  glee 
club,  sitting  behind  the  two  lads,  and  waved 
them  to  begin.  The  two  boys  made  a  wild 
dash  for  the  mike  and  we  just  managed 
to  stop  them  before  they  went  into  their 
acts.  A  little  later,  after  an  announcement, 
he  gave  a  hand  signal  to  the  band  and 
again  tlie  youngsters  dashed  into  action  and 
only  the  opening  chords  of  the  band  stop- 
ped them.  Altogether,"  Held  chuckled, 
"they  made  three  false  starts  on  misin- 
terpreted cues  before  they  really  got  go- 
ing. Then  the  funniest  thing  of  all  hap- 
pened. The  boy  who  was  doing  Bob  Burns 
never  had  worked  before  an  audience,  and 
in  rehearsals  there  had  been,  naturally,  no 
reaction  to  his  comedy.  But  there  in  the 
college  auditorium  we  had  six  thousand 
lieople  sitting.  After  one  gag  a  tremen- 
dous laugh  roared  through  the  place,  and 
this  kid — instead  of  getting  a  kick  out  of 
it — nearl\-  fell  o\'er  backwards!  The 
laugh  nr,iil\  scind  him  off  the  air!" 

Held  doesn't  tlinik  crillegc  youngsters  are 
basicall\-  different  from  what  they  used  to 
be.  "The  chani.;es,"  he  says,  "are  mainly 
in  habits  and  in  general  conditions.  They 
are  no  longer  rebelling  frantically  against 
Mid-Victorian  standards,  because  the  ne- 
cessity for  sucli  rebellion  no  longer  exists. 
On  the  contrary— now, i(la\ eollege  boys 
and  girls  tend  to  con-n \,itiMn  in  thought; 
they  show  a  much  greater  interest  in  poli- 
tics, current  events  and  economics  than 
they  did  l)elorc.  Their  attitude  is,  if  any- 
thing, more  intelligent  than  back  in  the 


1.  Cannot  irritate  skin, 
cannot  rot  dresses. 

2.  No  waiting  to  dry. 

3.  Can  be  used  right  after  shaving. 

4.  Stops  perspiration  1  to  3  days. 
Prevents  under-arm  odor.  A  white, 
greaseless,  vanishing  cream. 


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'20"s.  They're  not  necessarily  brighter 
than  collegians  of  a  generation  ago,  but 
they  seem  to  do  more  actual  thinking.  And 
they've  taken  on  a  patina  of  sophistica- 
tion that's  considerably  more  pronounced 
than  that  of  the  average  alumnus  of  some 
years  back. 

"There  will  always  be  adolescent  rebel- 
lion, I  suppose.  It's  the  very  nature  of 
adolescence  to  fight  against  something. 
Maybe  a  form  of  exhibitionism,  that  takes 
different  forms,  in  different  times.  But 
they're  still  swell  kids — and  I  really  mean 
that.  Naturally,  I  have  my  own  difficulties 
with  the  show;  the  innumerable  details  and 
arrangements,  with  me  in  the  middle,  be- 
tween faculty,  student  and  agency.  But 
it's  really  been  entirely  pleasant  and  the 
kids  are  grand." 

"How  did  you  happen  to  go  on  the 
radio?"  I  queried. 

"They  asked  me,"  he  grinned,  and  that's 
all  there  was  to  that.  While  John  Held, 
Jr.  has  written  humorous  skits  for  the  thea- 
tre, designed  sets  and  costumes  for  such 
productions  as  Comic  Supplement,  Ameri- 
cana, Page  Miss  Glory,  and  the  American 
Ballet  Alma  Mater,  and  has  made  numer- 
ous guest  appearances  on  the  air,  this  is 
his  first  regular  program.  He's  trying  to 
do  something  fresh,  using  this  college  tal- 
ent with  a  new  slant  and  avoiding  stand- 
ard "radio  technique."  And  he  insists  that 
the  show  be  in  good  taste.  A  production 
man  goes  to  the  college  selected,  several 
weeks  ahead,  to  line  up  talent;  Held  ar- 
rives a  couple  of  days  before  the  broad- 
cast. "And  the  show,"  he  says  happily,  "is 
put  together,  usually,  about  fifteen  minutes 
before  we  go  on  the  air,  or  sometimes 
while  we're  on  the  air." 

Held  is  practically  six  feet  tall,  with 
grayed  sandy  hair  that's  thinning  a  bit 
but  still  there.  He  runs  to  brogues  and 
tweeds  and  has  a  ruddy  complexion  which, 
in  a  questionnaire,  he  described  as  beauti- 
ful. Not  regarding  himself  as  a  particu- 
larly good-looking  man,  he  delights  in 
heaping  extravagant  compliments  on  him- 
self, as,  when  answering  one  question  about 
television,  he  said :  "I  look  forward  to  it 
— because  I'm  so  pretty !" 

He  no  longer  has  the  Connecticut  farm 
where  he  used  to  raise  horses,  but  he  has 
a  ranch  in  Utah  where  his  parents  now 
live  and  a  house  in  New  Orleans,  which  is 
home  to  him  now,  where  his  wife,  baby 
daughter  and  three  adopted  children  live. 
He  admits  to  being  a  pushover  for  puppies, 
and  to  having  written  three  novels  and 
three  books  of  short  stories,  and  when 
asked  whether  he  thought  radio  marriages 
were  happier  than  usual  professional  tie- 
ups,  he  said  he  never  had  heard  any  married 
radios  complain. 

Though  best  known  for  his  work  as  a 
cartoonist  and  humorist  artist,  he  has  al- 
ways been  interested  in  fine  art  and  is  a 
sculptor  and  water-colorist.  And  radio, 
which  to  most  entertainers  means  settling 
down  in  one  place  for  a  spell,  keeps  John, 
Jr.  hopping  about  over  the  country.  He 
hopes  to  do  a  Louisiana  college  soon,  so  he 
can  get  home. 

He's  exceedingly  busy  most  of  the  time, 
works  and  plays  with  zestful  verve,  never 
misses  a  chance  for  a  laugh  and  seems  to 
have  a  perfectly  swell  time  doing  it.  And 
we  might  close  with  his  advice  to  others 
considering  a  radio  career.    It  is: 

"Get  a  sponsor." 


MAKE-UP 

REVOLUTIONIZED! 


LADY  ESTHER  ANNOUNCES  TWO,  NEW 
MAGICAL  SHADES  OF  FACE  POWDER! 


Two  Amazing  New  Shades  That  Are  Liter- 
ally Transforming  in  the  Beauty  They  Give 
You  Under  the  Most  Searching  Sunlight 
or  the  Unkindest  Artificial  Light! 


By 


Two  new  shades  of  face  powder,  the  like  of 
which  you  have  never  before  seen! 

Two  new  shades  that  give  face  powder  a 
magic  that  has  never  before  been  known! 

To  look  at  these  shades  in  the  box  you  would 
just  think  them  two  new  strange  shades  of  face 
powder.  You  would  never  imagine  them  to  have 
any  man  elous  efTect. 

But  they  are  literally  transforming!  They  do 
things  for  you  that  face  powder  has  never  been 
known  or  dreamed  to  do.  (I  do  not  merely 
claim  this,  I  have  proved  it  on  the  skins  of  more 
than  10,000  women.) 

These  shades  impart  the  full  magic  of  color. 
They  do  not  confine  themselves  to  your  skin  or 
your  face.  They  extend  themselves  toyourwhole 
personality.  They  definitely  flatter.  They  defi- 
nitely "glamor-ize."  They  create  a  new  "  YOU  " ! 

They  are  striking  examples  of  the  power  of 
color! 


creates  a  gay  beauty  that  is  preser\'ed  under 
the  most  glaring  sunlight. 

A  Romantic  Shade  for  Night 

Nihte  is  primarily  for  night-time  wear.  It  is  a 
romantic  shade,  suggestive  of  moonlit  waters 
and  soft  music.  It  casts  a  pearly  radiance  about 
you.  It  gives  your  skin  a  transparent  look,  as  if 
the  moon  shone  through  it.  It  creates  a  soft 
ethereal  beauty  that  can  challenge  the  most 
unsympathetic  artificial  light. 

At  My  Expense 

These  new  face  powder  shades  and  their  effect 
can  no  more  be  described  than  can  a  radiant 
dawn  or  a  glorious  sunset.  They  have  to  be  seen 
to  be  appreciated.  That's  why  I  offer  to  send  a 
liberal  trial  supply  to  every  woman  in  America. 

Just  send  me  your  name  and  address  and  by 
return  mail  you  will  receive  generous  packets 
of  both  Daye  and  Nihte  shades.  Try  on  each 
shade,  Daye  during  the  day  and  Nihte  at  night. 
See  what  each  does!  Step  up  your  appearance, 
your  whole  appeal.  You  will  be  more  than  sur- 
prised and  delighted  with  what  your  mirror 
shows  you  and  your  friends  tell  you. 

Mail  coupon  today  for  your  free  packets  of 
my  new  Daye  and  Nihte  shades  of  face  powder. 


A  Dramatic  Shade  for  Day 

Daye  and  Nihte  I  call  these  new  shades  of 
mine. 

Daye  is  primarily  for  da)-tinie  wear.  It  is 
a  luscious  golden  tone,  magical  in  its  effect. 
It  is  a  dramatic  shade.  It  is  young  and  excit- 
ing. It  gives  you  the  freshness  of  a  Spring 
mom,  the  glow  of  the  heart  of  a  rose.  It 


FREE 


Lady  Esther.  2010  Ridge  Avenue.  Evanston,  lUino 
Please  send  me  trial  packets  of  your  (wo 
powder  shades.  Dave  and  Nihte. 


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theBn'deto  be, 

and  tfie  Bride  of 

■"Here  comes  the  Bride" . . .  and  you  think 
of  Orange  Blossoms  —  their  delicate  [>^^ 
loveliness,  and  subtle  fragrance.  In  per-  ^ 
feet  keeping  is  Bo-Kay  Orange  Blossom 
Talcum  —  feather-textured,  refreshing, 
silky-smooth — the  romantic  product  she 
will  want  later,  too.  to  keep  that  "bridal- 
day-freshness"  always! 


trcoM^rnedinouttencent 
Jacksonville,  Ho- 


icr 


attractive  package. 


The  Superfine  Talc  Tests 


backs  of  your  hands. 


satin-smoothness,  and 


freedom  from  i 


\J0b  Talcum 


ATTENTION/ 


For  that  smart  and  well-groomed  look  .  .  .  look  to 
your  eyebrows!  Are  your  brows  too  heavy?  "Twceze" 
cut  the  extra  hairs  with  WIGDER  Tweezers.  Are  they 
uneven?  WIGDER  Tweezers  quickly  bring  them  into 
line.  These  tweezers  work  like  a  charm  because 
they're  as  carefully  made  as  a  fine  watch.  Their  spe- 
cial Finger-Rest  Grip  with  light,  firm  spring  tension 
makes  "tweezing"  quick  and  agreeable.  The  jaws 
are  "criss-crossed"  to  give  a  firm  grip— hence  hairs 
come  out  easily. 

On  sale  at  all  drug  and 
and   10  cent  stores. 


IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION- 


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NAIL  FILES 


TWtEZERS  «NAIU  CLIPS  «  SCISSORS 


and  exhausting  f>crfonnanee,  a  mob  of  peo- 
ple surge  upon  them  and  ask  for  auto- 
graphs: When  the  function  is  ivell-attended, 
there  are  thousands  of  people  present  and 
it  is  uii'cise  to  do  our  auloiiraph  unless 
you  are  resianed  to  (/iriiio  many  of  them. 
People  are  sometimes  rvr\'  heedless.  I're 
been  approaehed  for  an  aniouraph  leliile 
a  sho7C  a-Yi.s-  proiiress  and  Ihe  person 
desirii}g  the  aulonraph  has.  in  lull  view  of 
the  nudiciice,  ashed  me  for  it.  I're  had  to 
point  ont.  as  I  leoidd  to  a  eliild,  that  to 
!li:e  if  tlien  i.'onid  he  to  start  a  stampede 
by  other  autiuiraph  seekers  and  thus  ruin 
the  perfi>nnanee  of  the  appearina  artist. 
Stupid,  isn't  it:''  ]'et  it  happens  time  and 
time  again. 

If  I  am  approached  by  one  person  in 
the  direct  view  of  others,  I  usually  say, 
quietly  but  firmly:  "Please  excuse  me  now 
from  autographing;  if  I  do  one  I'll  have 
to  do  them  all,  and  if  I  do  them,  I'll  be 
here  until  tomorrow  morning."  That 
generally  appeals  to  the  common-sense 
and  fair  play  of  even  the  most  peremptory 
autograph  seeker  and  I  rarely  have  any 
more  trouble  in  that  respect.  When  some- 
one from  the  crowd  around  the  platform 
requests  it  early  in  the  evening,  I  point 
out  quietly  to  that  individual  and  those 
around  her  or  him  (and  there  are  plenty 
of  "hims"  who  are  autograph-minded) 
that  I  am  there  to  work  and  to  direct  and 
that  it  would  be  unfair  to  those  who  expect 
me  to  perform,  to  neglect  the  band  and  the 
microphone  by  autographing.  I  ask  that 
one  to  wait  until  the  evening  is  over  and 
I  promise  them  that  after  all  the  rest  who 
have  not  thought  about  an  autograph  have 
gone  from  the  hall,  I  will  take  on  all 
comers. 

It  has  happened  that  Innulreds  of  people 
wlio  are  ahscnt-niindedly  wanderinf^  home, 
notice  that  I  am  fiivinii  lait  anto.e'raphs, 
and,  having  nothin<>  l)etter  in  <l(i,  rush  over 
and  a.sk  fur  it.  Thus  I  lia\x-  Ix  en  kept  on 
the  stand  for  an  hour  after  a  hard  dance 
with  ni>-  feet  aehin.y  frdni  standing  for 
Inmrs  ,-ind  my  cncs  in  need  of  rest  and  Jier- 
hajis  a  dri\e  of  several  luin<lre(l-,  ni  miles 
hack  to  New  York  or  m\  next  deslin.ition 
staring  me  in  the  face.  l'>ut  ]Kiiple  rarely, 
if  ever,  give  thought  to  the  feelings  of  art- 
ists who  entertain  them. 

.Sorry.  Mr.  IVinchell.  I've  become  in- 
trospeeti'ie  again.  I  didn't  mean  to  talk 
about  myself  this  ivay  .  .  . 

A  short  time  ago,  in  Readers  Digest, 
there  appeared  an  article  on  autographs  in 
which  the  price  of  those  of  departed  or 
still-living  people  were  listed.  These  auto- 
graphs arc  for  sale  by  firms  who  make  it 
their  business  to  sell  autographs.  It  must 
be  quite  obvious  to  any  student  of  eco- 
nomics that  the  price  of  any  commodity,  or 
even  signature,  is  regulated  by  the  law  of 
supply  and  demand.  That  is,  the  fewer 
the  specimens  of  that  particular  autograph, 
the  higher  the  price.  Of  course,  supply 
and  demand  do  not  regulate  it  alone,  for 


public  esteem,  notoriety  and  achievement 
as  well  as  that  vague  something  called 
personality,  affect  the  price  of  an  auto- 
graph.   Here  are  a  few  quoted: 

.S'hakespeare~$l,000,000  and  up 

Miis.folini~$30 

Lindbergh— $10 

Joe  Louis  (prize  fighter)— $2 

Most  r.  S.  I'iee  Presidents— $2 

r.  .S'.  Cabinet  M ember.'!— $1 

Grade  Allen— $1 

Shirley  Temple— 20c. 

A?,  I  read  this  article  I  was  traveling 
through  Texas  on  a  summer  tour.  A  smile 
came  over  my  face  as  I  wondered  if  I  were 
listed.  I  turned  the  page  and  there,  on  the 
last  line,  it  informed  me  that :  "Rudy 
Vallee's  autograph  is  only  worth  a  dime." 
I  was  not  only  the  lowest,  but  the  last  on 
the  list.  Therefore — Don't  ask  me  for  my 
autograph! 

Reading  Mr.  Paderezvski's  life  story  in 
the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  /  icas  struck 
by  his  account  of  trouble  rcith  the  critics, 
when  his  fingers  icerc  infected,  making  it 
difficult  for  him  to  play.  Taking  to  task 
a  man  suffering  from  an  infected  finger 
icas  IhuI  enoiK/h,  but  one  critic,  a  Mr. 
Philip  Hale  of  Boston,  ohjeeted  to  Mr. 
I-\idereieski's  hair!  Since  lehen  has  it  b.cen 
zvithin  tlie  pro-oince  of  a  critic  to  object 
to  one's  hair'  And  the  other  critic  who 
liked  his  playing,  but  when  the  policy  of 
the  paper  for  ichieh  he  Zi.'as  writing 
changed,  found  it  necessary  la  lu^  unkind  to 
Mr.  Padercicski.  ^hat  rj  him.'  I  am  not 
"heppeii"  on  tlie  snl'jeel  of  erilics.  heeause 
I  am  progressing  ini'cly  ui  my  careei'.  ami 
my  company  ami  1  are  doing  nicely  despite 
brickbats  I  lurve  received  at  the  hands  of 
unfriendly  critics.  .Since  the  beginning  of 
}ny  success  in  T>2'>  I  hare  struggled  on, 
conznnced,  for  the  most  part,  that  that 
species  of  man  known  as  a  CRITIC  (crit- 
cus  indatorious ),  is  not  only  uunecctsary, 
but  that  people  rarely  pay  attention  to  their 
opinions.  .Ind  I'm  not  lliinking  of  Abie's 
Irish  Rose  'which  ran  for  fvve  years  ivhen 
all  the  critics  panned  it. 

Let  me  reiterate — I'm  not  soured  on 
them.  I'm  amused  at  their  delusions  of 
grandeur  and  the  inborn  sense  of  superi- 
ority of  some  of  them.  .-Ind  the  poor  press 
agents,  'who  hang  on  their  ei'cry  move  and 
•word,  are  killink  me  to  piece-ess! 

In  a  Variety  column  of  fifteen  years 
ago,  the  following  item  anent  Jack  Benny 
(then  appearing  at  the  Riverside  Theatre) 
appeared:  "The  act  went  over  nicely,  but 
Benny  is  advised  to  dress  better."  This 
is  amazing  to  me  because  I  recall  Jack's 
appearance  in  Metro  -  Goldwyn  -  Mayer's 
Hollywood  Revue  of  1929  (one  of  the 
first  talkies  made  by  M-G-M),  in  which,  I 
thought,  he  was  one  of  the  best-dressed 
men  in  pictures.  At  least  today  Jack  is 
listed  as  one  of  the  five  best-dressed  men  in 
America,  by  vote  of  the  Tailors'  Guild. 

And  to  tliuse  people  who  say  the  public 
is  fickle,  it  ninst  (.mic  as  a  surprise  to 
learn  that  Jack  I'.enny  has  been  one  of  the 


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most  successful  men  in  the  entertainment 
workl  during  tlie  past  ten  years ! 

Here's  a  radio  station  in  a  large  city, 
playing  phonograph  records,  saying  that 
all  of  them  arc  "played  by  John  MacDoe 
and  his  scintillating  music,"  zvlirn,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  John  MacDoe  is  miy  sc!  i\f 
discs  ivhich  the  program  director  ilccidcs  tn 
select  from  the  transcription  scr:-ice.  A'ol 
content  zvilh  barely  nii:utioning  the  name 
of  the  real  recording  artist,  here  is  a  case 
of  pure  humbug! 

It  seems  almost  incredible  that  the  Cali- 
fornia Fruit  Growers'  Exchange  has  circu- 
lated an  ad  in  which  they  state  that  their 
oranges  are  superior  to  Florida  oranges. 
There  have  been,  especially  in  motor  car 
advertisements,  insinuations  that  the  ad- 
vertised car  was  superior  to,  let's  say,  three 
other  more  expensive  makes,  etc.  But  this 
is  the  first  ad  I've  read  where  the  people 
of  one  section  of  the  country  publicly  and 
with  brazen  effrontery  make,  in  advertise- 
ments, derogatory  statements  concerning 
the  products  of  another  locality.  This 
calls  for  a  cry  of  "Shame!" 

We  have  enough  state  jealousy  without 
the  jealousy  of  whole  sections  of  the  coun- 
try. It  was  just  such  a  rivalry  that  pro- 
longed the  Civil  War. 

Would  you  like  to  read  some  of  the 
brilliant  definitions  of  "jazz"  that  have 
come  in?  Must  say  jazz  is  peppy  music 
created  tor  dancint;.  and  must  be  "loud." 

"Jacc  is  the  negro  icav  of  plaxing" 

"Jazz  is  Hell" 


"Jazz  is  classical  music  gone  on  a  spree" 

"Jazz  is  a  form  of  music  played  in  in- 
harmonious ti'ues" 

"Jazz  is  popular  music  played  in  ragtime 
'icith  lack  of  harmony" 

"Jazz  is  music  played  to  the  umcrilti-n 
note  and  to  each  iiulividual  player's  inter- 
I^Fi'iiil ii'ii  of  the  time" 

\\\-  will  discuss  some  of  these  in  detail 
in  I'ulurt'  issues  of  Radio  Stars. 

Hut  from  the  paucity  of  kttcrs  on  the 
subject  of  jazz  and  its  dclinition.     I  can 


onlv  surmi- 

1.  Thai 

readers- 
is  I.  I'm 
}iic  the 

2.  That  th, 


the  followm-: 

;  coluiiiu  in  tins  widely-read 
is  read  hy  ,.,;/v  i;  jeie  of  its 

ill  othor  loonls — as  a  eolitmn- 
aood  haiidL-adrr!  (Better  ,/ive 

r.  Mr.  liditor!) 

sid\ieol  proicil  loo  lough,  once 


you  started  to  ihink  a! 
had  hern  using  :oith  s-i 
'I'liat  you  don't  liko  to 
less  you  can  criticise  so 
or  the  other — or  unh 
something. 


oil  a  leo, 
much  assi 
erile  Idle 
letliiihi  01 


Here's  another  thought  on  Fun  In  The 
Studio:  I  hear  broadcasts  that  sound  as 
though  it  had  been  grimly  agreed  to  put 
on  a  great  big  smile,  to  pep  it  up  and  to 
make  enthusiasm  and  good  cheer.  Now,  I 
have  no  quarrel  with  the  attempts  of  peo- 
ple to  carry  on  when  they  feel  blue  or  ill 
or  unhappy.  That's  the  old  The  Show 
Must  Go  On  tradition.  But  these  jin- 
goists  who  go  off  into  peals  of  demoniacal 
laughter  at  something  mildly  funny  or  who 
take  simple  titles  and  thoughts  to  make 
them  so  important  that  one  feels  like  say- 


ing, in  the  Martha  Raye  tradition,  "Oh 
Boy!" 

-♦- 

Infectious  pep  aufl  that  certain  magnetic 
somctliin?  that  malsc  a  dull  party  or  sliow 
dilVrrcnt  from  a  lively,  liap])_\-  >aw  arc  com- 
pounded of  maii.\-  factors,  chief  of  which 
is  the  (pialit>-  of  the  material.  .Ml  the  jingo 
selling  in  the  world  will  not  make  a  bad 
jiiece  of  material  sound  good.  Then,  too, 
the  artists  theniselxes  iiinst  be  people  who 
have  that  eert.nn  -  imelhiiig  that  distin- 
guishes  the   clod    from   the  genius. 

Xoie  even  when  these  tzvo  ingredients 

are  well  observed  there  may  still  he  lacking 
a  ccrlain  es|)rit  ile  corps,  .S'oiiicl lines  it's  the 
■lecalhcr,  other  times  it  may  be  an  accident 
ill  III,'  stiiilio  thai  jiisl  iloes  sometliing  to 
evcryhody.  making  the  shozv  a  success. 

But  to  resolve  grimly  to  be  funny  or  gay 
reminds  me  of  people  I've  seen  at  parties, 
who  put  paper  hats  on  their  heads,  blow 
horns  and  when  the  music  becomes  lively 
jump  up,  and,  holding  hands,  sing  Ring 
Around  The  Rosy.  Meanwhile  telling 
themselves  by  this  ritual  that  they  MUST 
have  a  good  time.  When  they  leave  they 
tell  their  host  and  one  another  that  they 
had  a  SIMPLY  SWELL  time,  when  down 
inside  they  know  they  didn't  enjoy  it  at 
all.  Getting  drunk  won't  do  it,  either.  I've 
held  the  heads  of  too  many  unhappy 
drunks  who  thought  that  they  could  forget 
by  just  getting  tight.  Troubles  somehow 
have  a  way  of  pervading  even  the  deepest 
alcoholic  daze  and  reminding  the  victim 
that  they  are  still  with  him. 


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ami  said  :  "Wc  may  as  well  go  around,  for 
lanulis,  and  see  what  happens." 

Though  it  was  obviously  a  case  of  mis- 
taken identity,  the  two  boys  walked  armind 
to  the  theatre.  It  was  sumiiKr,  and  the 
iiuge  baggage  doors  on  the  stage  were  open 
to  the  street.  Hesitantl\-.  ihey  stood  look- 
ing in,  Frank  with  a  youth's  natural  curi- 
osity about  the  backstage  world.  He 
hadn't  the  faintest  notion  of  seeing  the 
stage  manager  for  the  proffered  job — wlien 
the  agent  who  had  greeted  him  happened  by, 
saw  him  there,  gave  him  another  effusive 
"hello"  and  took  him  to  the  dance  director. 

Before  you  could  say  "J.  J.  Sliubert,"  he 
was  hired  as  a  chorus  boy  for  Little  Nellie 
Kelly.  "It  was  all  for  lauglis,"  Frank  says. 
"Just  a  big  picnic  for  me.  I  wasn't  a  dancer, 
but  I  managed  to  get  by,  because  most  of 
us  youngsters  had  learned  a  little  waltz 
clog — it  was  during  the  Pat  Rooney  imita- 
tion period — and  a  little  rough  buck.  So  I 
danced  and  had  a  lot  of  fun  doing  it. 

"I  worked  in  several  shows:  No  Other 
Girl.  Marjorie  and  No,  No  Nanette.  I 
wasn't  a  very  smart  picker  though.  When 
No  Other  Girl  came  along,  I  was  also  of- 
fered a  job  in  Rose  Marie.  It  didn't  sound 
so  good  to  me,  and  I  turned  it  dow  n  in  favor 
of  the  other  show.  So  No.'ie  .Marie  ran  five 
years,  and  my  show  closed  in  nine  weeks  ! 

"I  got  minor  parts,  after  awhile,  and  one 
day  a  director  heard  me  singing  and  offered 
me  a  small  singing  part.  That  was  with 
the  late  Kvelyn  Hoey  in  the  Greenwich 
Vilhuie  follies." 

"You  mean,"  I  asked,  "you  didn't  par- 
ticularly strive  for  a  singing  part  ?" 

"No — I  liked  to  sing.  It's  always  been 
natural  with  me.  Ihit  until  then  [  figured 
my  being  in  show  Inisiness  was  a  big  picnic, 
and  I'd  stay  in  until  they  got  wise  to  me. 

"I  wanted  to  travel,  too.  But  practically 
every  show  I  got  into  stayed  in  New  York." 
This,  when  thousands  of  actors,  spending 
years  on  tlie  road  or  in  the  sticks,  long  for 
a  chance  at  a  Broadway  show.  But  Frank 
Parker  wasn't  a  spoiled  \dnn'4sti  r — it  was 
more  the  niirmal  ini|)ulM-  ..|  a  \  ..ung  fellow 
to  get  around  and  sec  the  worhl.  It  didn't 
seem  possible  to  him  that  anyone  took  his 
work  in  the  theatre  seriously  ;  more  of  a 
lark  than  anytiiing  else.  And  some  very 
fine  work  in  many  fields  has  been  done  that 
way.   Frank  did  all  right. 

He  got  into  radio  the  same  sort  of  way. 
A  friend  was  taken  suddrnl\  111  and  asked 
Frank  to  substitute  for  Imn.  I'dithely,  as 
a  friendly  gesture,  Frank  did.  and  bis  first 
radio  appearance  was  singing  opposite 
Hope  Hampton.  He's  never  Ixen  ofT  the  air 
since  for  inore  than  three  weeks,  never  on 
a  sustaining  program,  and— this  alone 
should  make  his  claim  to  fame  secure — 
never  had  a  theme  song  1 

The  La  Palina  program  was  his  first  big 
commercial  and  his  five  years  with  the  A  & 
P  Gypsies  won  him  a  legion  of  radio  ad- 
mirers. Two  years  on  the  Jack  Benny  pro- 
gram left  him  firmly  cemented  as  a  radio 
personality  as  well  as  a  singer  with  a  re- 
markably attractive  voice. 

He's  a  quiet,  amiable  young  man,  un- 


deniably good-looking  and  with  no  signs  of 
that  inflated  ego  that  feminine  adulation  so 
frequently  brings.  Women  like  Frank 
Parker's  voice,  and  I  am  reliably  informed 
that  women  like  Frank  Parker.  He's  boyish 
enough  to  appeal  to  the  maternal  type ; 
handsome  enough  to  palpitate  the  hearts  of 
the  youngsters  and  his  voice  carries  a  ro- 
mantic appeal  to  most  other  feminine  classi- 
fications I  may  have  missed.  You  might 
expect  such  a  young  man  to  be  a  bit  bored 
with  women,  but  Parker's  attitude  is  re- 
markably normal.  He  likes  girls ;  goes 
around  with  them,  but  hasn't  any  particular 
plans  about  getting  married. 

"Nobody,"  he  says,  "wants  to  marry  me." 
\\'hich  is  to  be  taken  with  a  small  barrel  of 
salt,  in  case  it  gives  any  feminine  reader 
ideas.  What  he  really  means  is  that  he's 
young,  working  hard,  making  money  and 
having  fun  and  sees  no  reason  for  attempt- 
ing to  alter  such  a  satisfactory  status,  for 
which  no  one  can  reasonably  blame  him. 
He's  been  in  love — innumerable  times,  by 
his  own  admission.  But  apparently  never 
drastically  enough  to  "take."  So,  as  in  his 
work,  he  takes  what  life  sends  him  and 
manages  to  be  well  content.  And  incident- 
ally, if  I've  given  the  impression  that  Frank 
Parker  doesn't  take  his  work  seriously,  let 
me  hasten  to  correct  it. 

Metaphysicians  have  said  that  there  is 
such  a  thing  as  striving  too  hard  for  some- 
thing;  that  a  too  tight  "mental  grip"  on  an 
idea  or  ambition  sometimes  makes  it  more 
difficult  of  achievement  than  merely  trust- 
ing to  fate  and  a  reasonable  application  to 
the  desire  ;  putting  it  roughly.  And  there's 
the  other  angle,  too,  without  bringing  in 
metaphysics :  Many  persons  strive  fiercely 
for  something,  only  to  find,  too  late,  that 
they  are  better  equipped  for  a  different  line 
of  endeavor.  Well— Frank  Parker  had  his 
first  experiences  with  the  entertainment 
world  when  he  was  still  young  enough  to 
have  no  well-formed  ideas  about  his  future. 
He  was  fortunate  in  that  there  was  no 
economic  necessity  behind  his  career — he 
had  a  home  with  his  folks,  and  was  able  to 
pick  and  choose  a  bit  when  jobs  were  off- 
ered. And  being  relieved  of  the  necessity 
for  taking  any  sort  of  job  to  keep  alive, 


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means  a  great  deal  in  show  business.  Frank, 
himself,  admits  that  that  helped  his  career, 
enabling  him  to  avoid  the  wrong  sort  of 
engagements  that  might  have  got  him  no- 
where, or  dctinitely  injured  his  chances. 

But  when  he  saw  that  singing  was  to  be 
his  life  work,  he  made  the  most  of  it.  After 
his  first  engagement  as  a  dancer,  he  spent 
his  spare  time  picking  up  tap  routines  to 
make  himself  competent.  And  when  he 
had  been  singing  on  the  air  awhile,  he 
studied  voice — again  to  make  the  most  of 
it — to  the  extent  of  a  few  months  in  Italy 
and  many  lessons  with  American  teachers. 
It  hasn"t  been  just  a  question  of  lying 
back,  waiting  for  success  to  drop  in  his  lap. 

There's  another  story  current  about 
Frank  Parker  that  illustrates  his  philosophy 
of  "be  ready" —  as  well  as  a  sidelight  on 
his  character.  He  received,  at  one  time, 
many  letters  from  a  young  man  who  in- 
sisted that  he  could  sing  better  than  Parker 
— if  he  only  had  a  chance.  Finally  he  be- 
came abusive,  and  wrote  that  Parker  ozvcd 
him  a  chance.  Nothing  daunted,  Frank 
wrote  back  that  he  would  absent  himself 
from  the  following  Tuesday's  show  and 
allow  the  unknown  prodigy  to  take  his  place, 
telling  him  to  report  to  rehearsal  at  ten 
o'clock.  And  nonchalantly,  Parker  didn't 
go  to  the  rehearsal. 

At  ten,  frantic  calls  brought  Frank  to 
the  studio.  The  Unknown  Tenor  hadn't 
shown  up.  An  hour  and  a  half  later, 
while  the  rehearsal  was  on,  the  door  slowly 
opened  and  a  very  scared,  slim  young  man 
appeared,  on  shaking  legs,  and  asked  for 
Frank  Parker. 

"Oh — there  you  are,"  Frank  greeted  him. 
"We  were  waiting  for  you." 

"I  j-j-just  came  to  apologize,  Mr. 
Parker,"  the  chap  said.  "I — I  couldn't  do 
it."    And  he  scuttled  out. 

"If  that  fellow  had  been  ready,"  Frank 
says,  "he  would  have  had  his  chance.  But 
he  wasn't." 

Frank  is  five-feet-ten  inches  tall ;  his  hair 
is  dark,  his  eyes  gray  and  his  slow  smile 
shows  very  nice  teeth.  He's  fond  of  spa- 
ghetti, swimming,  dancing,  polo  and  sing- 
ing. He  sings  as  he  likes,  with  no  conscious 
efTort  for  any  special  eflfcct ;  it's  a  natural 
form  of  expression  with  him,  wliich  may  be 
one  reason  why  listeners  find  his  voice  so 
attractive. 

"It's  the  only  thing  I  can  do,"  he  said. 
"My  chances  in  the  theatre  and  in  radio 
just  happened  to  me.  But  if  I  hadn't  had 
them,  I  don't  know  what  else  I  might  have 
done.    Singing  is  the  only  thing  I  know." 

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For  the  first  few  days  of  the  trial.  Dave 
stayed  away.  He  had  a  cold.  When  he  did 
~!m\v   up  he   was   jittery   and  most  un- 

In  court  for  the  first  time,  a  reporter 
tiered  him  a  cigarette.  Rubinoff  fumbled, 
liropped  it,  and  gave  up  in  despair,  saying: 
"l  can't  smoke.  I  can't  do  anything.  I  just 
keep  wondering.;  if  the  people  who  listen 
to  me  over  the  radio  actually  believe  all 
those  things  I'm  being  accused  of  at  this 
trial." 

At  about  this  point  Peggy's  lawyer  pulled 
a  real  tear-jerker.  He  told  ah<iut  Pc.us.x's 
marriage  of  a  >\v^n  time  Ik- tore,  .\iter 
her  sad  experience  with  RuhinutY,  it  seems, 
she  met  a  fine  young  man  who  loved  her 
and  begged  for  her  hand  in  marriage.  Slie 
married  him.  For  five  months  ihcy  lived  in 
bliss  in  their  little  Manhattan  love  nest. 
Then,  one  day,  he  found  out  about  Rubinoff  ! 
His  Peggy  had  known  anollicr  man! 
Peggy  tried  to  explain.  l^iit  her  young 
husband — so  ardent,  so  Iniim,  jii^t  a  lew 
hours  before — was  mad  with  jealousy  and 
shame.  He  would  not  even  li^tnl  to  her. 
He  beat  her  up,  leaving  her  with  a  broken 
nose  and  a  broken  heart. 

Peggy  wept  stiftly  while  her  lawyer  told 
this  story.  She  wouldn't  reveal  the  name  of 
the  disillusioned  young  husband,  however. 
Hadn't  she  caused  him  enough  sorrow  al- 
ready?   He  must  be  left  out  of  it. 

Peggy's  lawyer  turned  to  the  jury  and 


cried:  "Gentlemen,  she  deserves  half  a 
million  dollars  !" 

It  looked  bad  for  Rubinoff ! 

But  even  at  that  moment,  aid  was  coming 
to  the  violinist.    Aid  from  old  \'irginny. 

For  Peggy's  case  to  stand  up  at  all,  of 
course,  she  had  to  swear  that  Rubinoff  was 
the  first  man  she  had  known  intimately. 

Now,  up  from  Virginia,  came  word  that 
Peggy  had  run  off  from  home,  when  she 
was  nothing  but  a  kid,  and  married  a  boy 
named  Tom  duinan. 

At  hrst  Peggy  contended  it  was  her  cousin 
— a  girl  also  named  Pauline  Taylor — who 
had  married  Tom.  But,  under  the  pressure 
of  cross  examination,  faced  with  witnesses, 
she  linally  broke  down  and  admitted  the 
early  marria.ge  was  a  fact. 

According  to  Pegg\-.  it  was  one  of  those 
child  marriages  _\<iu've  been  reading  so 
much  about  latel\-.  Her  mother-in-law  had 
rescued  her  from  the  bridegroom  immedi- 
ately after  the  ceremony.  Peggy  had  been 
sent  hack  home,  her  marriage  never  con- 
summated. And  somewhere  along  the  line 
there  must  lie  ,i  record  of  an  amuilhuent. 

Pegg\'  ;in(l  her  lawyer  were  gi\en  time 
oft'  to  run  down  to  \'irginia  and  look  for  the 
record.  They  couldn't  find  it.  Their  Vir- 
ginia trip  ended  in  a  fiasco  and  they  were 
obliged  to  return  to  New  York  without 
the  proof  of  annullment. 

Back  in  New  York,  Peggy  was  without 
the  important  annullment  document.  But 


she  had  her  father.  A  man  of  the  hills,  tall, 
lank  and  bewildered,  he  had  left  his  job  as 
a  water  carrier  on  a  IVPA  project,  and 
come  up  to  help  his  little  girl. 

Pappy  wasn't  much  help,  actually.  But 
he  lent  a  lot  of  color  and  interest  to  the 
trial.  He  did  swear  to  his  daughter's  inno- 
cence, and  to  the  unfulfillment  of  her  child- 
marriage.  But  he  couldn't  remember  dates 
very  well.  After  all,  Peggy  was  his  eighth 
child,  and  it  was  a  little  hard  to  keep  them 
straight.  At  one  point,  according  to  re- 
porters, Pappy  unwound  his  long,  lean 
frame,  shifted  to  his  feet,  and  said  in  dis- 
gust:    "I   shoulda  brought  my  shotgun!" 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  began  to  seem  that 
Pappy's  presence,  along  with  the  touching 
story  of  the  child-marriage,  might  heighten 
s\-mpathy  and  strengthen  Peggy's  cause. 

Just  then,  however,  another  surprise  was 
sprung  !  Peggy's  second  husband — the  dis- 
illusioned young  man  whose  name  she 
wouldn't  divulge — was  brought  into  court. 

He  was  Michael  LaRocco.  He  was  a 
tombstone  salesman. 

Michael  was  highly  indignant  about 
Peggy's  story  that  he  had  beat  her  up  over 
the  Rubinoff  affair.  Said  he :  "It's  a  lie. 
The  only  time  I  ever  socked  her  was  when 
she  took  my  car,  when  I  was  out  of  town, 
and  got  a  couple  of  tickets." 

LaRocco  then  went  on  to  say  that  Peggy 
had  been  a  big  disappointment  to  him, 
anyhow.     In  the  first  place,  Peggy  kept 


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Iicsrsing  him  to  buy  her  a  piano.  Which  he 
finally  did.  "Then."  says  he  "I  find  out 
she  can't  even  play  !" 

Right  on  top  of  that  disappointment,  said 
I.aRocco:  "I  want  da  beautiful  blue-eyed 
baby,  but  I  find  out  she  couldn't  have  any 
children." 

Listeners  were  particularly  interested  in 
this  comment,  because  Peggy  had  blushingly 
contended  earlier  that  Rubinoff's  love  for 
her  cooled  rapidly  when  she  told  him  that 
she  was  going  to  become  a  mother. 

The  case  was  getting  pretty  complicated 
— now,  what  with  Pappy,  the  tombstone 
salesman,  and  the  child-marriage — and  the 
judge  had  to  rap  more  often  for  order. 

It  was  because  Peggy's  first  marriage — 
down  in  Virginia — was  established  as  a 
fact  and  no  annullment  was  ever  found, 
that  the  judge  finally  directed  the  discon- 
tinuance of  the  case.  Xew  York  tabloids 
carried  headlines  in  tall  letters;  ''RUBIN- 

0/-F  in X Sl- 
it was  all  over  for  Dave. 
But  not  for  Peggy. 

A  worried  little  woman,  with  three  small 
children,  came  into  the  courtroom  to  say 
that  Michael  LaRocco  was  her  husband,  and 
had  been  for  several  years.  Then  came  the 
arrest  of  Mike  and  Peggy  on  a  bigamy 
charge.    Both  were  tossed  into  jail. 

In  jail.  Peggy  wept  because  they  wouldn't 
let  her  pretty  herself  up,  and  because  the 
food  was  so  terrible,  and  wondered  why 
licr  friends  didn't  bail  her  out.  With  plenty 
of  time  on  her  hands,  she  thought  over 
the  whole  case  and  was  quoted  as  having 
made  this  comment  on  it : 

"We  done  it  the  wrong  way.  A  lot  of 
heels  gave  me  some  wrong  advice."  It 


Joe  Penner  as  a  hot  dog  vender! 


seems  she  decided  she  shouldn't  have  sued 
for  breach  of  promise.  She  should  have 
charged  that  Rubinoff  attacked  her  under 
promise  of  a  career. 

Friends  say  RubinofT  isn't  worried. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  Dave  Rubinof? 
would  have  preferred  that  the  case  hadn't 
ended  so — that  instead  of  being  allowed  to 
be  discontinued  by  the  judge,  it  had  actually 
gone  to  the  jury,  and  twelve  of  his  peers  had 
pronounced  him:  "A'ot  guilty." 

There  is  no  man  on  Broadway  who  would 
have  hated  a  case  like  this  more  than  Rubin- 
oti  did.  Sensitive,  highly-strung,  passion- 
atel}-  fond  of  music  and  all  beauty,  the 
sordidness  of  the  case  was  unbearable  to 
him.  He's  never  denied  that  he  likes  lovely 
girls.  Around  Broadway  they  tease  him 
because  he  wants  to  be  seen  with  gorgeous 
beauties.  Friends  say  he  has  a  whole  desk 
full  of  girls'  pictures. 

Xaturally,  there  are  occasional  rumors  of 


his  being  engaged  or  married — unfounded 

rumors  which  alwa\ s  distress  him.  He  has 
I'll  11  m.iMud  tv,  iirst  wife,  whom 

111-  .I'liiud  ,111(1  with  whom  he  was  very 
liapi)y.  (lied.  His  .second  wife  left  him 
when  they  decided  that  they  were  tempera- 
mentally unsuited.  When  it  is  recalled 
that  he  was  sued  by  her  for  not  keeping  an 
agreement  to  give  her  a  quarter  of  his  in- 
come, it  must  be  remembered  that  in  the 
two  >cars  after  it  is  claiinrd  that  he  made 
that  promise.  Da\c'>  iiioomr  leaped  from 
a  modest  sum  to  something  like  a  hundred 
and  tliirly  tltotisand  a  year.  He  reached  an 
agreement  with  lier.  (|nietly,  out  of  court. 
It  is  an  ironic  note  that  while  he  was  in  the 
courtroom  on  Peggv's  charges,  his  ex-wife, 
Blanche  Morcland,  was  tossed  into  jail  in 
Chicago  on  a  careless  driving  charge. 

Those  who  know  Rubinoff  well  say  that 
if  he  ever  felt  a  girl  had  an  honest  claim  on 
him  or  needed  his  help,  he  would  be  prompt 
in  aiding  her.  Certainly  he  has  the  repu- 
tation for  being  one  of  the  most  generous 
men  on  Broadway.  It's  a  well  known  fact 
that  during  the  depression  Dave  came  home 
nearly  every  night  with  three  or  four  un- 
employed musicians  he  had  picked  up  and 
brought  home  for  dinner.  His  cook  was  ex- 
asperated, until  she  got  the  idea  of  just 
regularly  preparing  a  meal  for  four  extra 
people. 

And  a  few  years  ago,  when  Dave  sent 
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need,  let  me  know."  The  old  musician  is 
now  fixed  for  life,  thanks  to  Rubinoff. 

It's  rather  hard  to  imagine  a  man  with  a 
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The  lift  given  Kemp's  band  by  Waring 
didn't  last  for  long.  When  their  Strand 
post  expired,  the  orchestra  tonk  t<i  the 
road  again,  making  another  scries  "f  one- 
night  stands.  "And  starved,  tim!"  Kemp 
grins. 

It  was  during  tliis  period  that  Kemp's 
Orchestra  made  its  first  recorcHng,  and  the 
royalties  \vhich  (h'ilihled  in  were  a  bfe- 
savcr  (hiring  the  dark  days  of  those  dis- 
couraging barnstorming  jaunts.  The  title 
of  the  record  was  Little  (iirl.  Ijttle  Boy, 
Little  Moon.  Neither  Hal  nor  those  mem- 
bers of  the  band  who  are  still  with  bim 
ever  will  forget  that  record  ! 

Kemp's  Orchestra  put  in  three  winters 
at  the  Hotel  Manger,  now  the  Taft,  and 
then  tried  the  Greenwich  \'illagc  section, 
opening  at  the  Daffydill  Chib  in  the  fall 
of  1930.  Don  Dickerman  and  Kudy  \'allee 
also  were  interested  in  this  \cnturc  with 
Kemp,  but  the  fall  of  '.lO  w,is  a  tough 
time  to  start  anything  in  the  entertainment 
field,  for  the  crash  of  the  preceding  xear 
was  just  beginning  to  be  felt.  .\  total 
loss  of  $45.(100  was  incurred  before  the 
project  folded. 

Kemp's  perigrinations  now  carried  biin 
to  the  Coral  Gables  Country  Club,  on  the 
outskirts  of  Miami,  It  was  here  that  the 
band  developed  the  definite  st\le  which 
still  distinguishes  its  playing.  The  musi- 
cal tricks  developed  by  the  hand  helped 
identify  it  among  the  hundreds  of  other 
orchestras  which  were  patrolling  the  same 
beat. 

A  glissando  saxophone  was  the  start. 
Kemp  then  made  some  close  four-part 
harmony  arrangements,  plus  a  fast  moving, 
staccato  brass,  eight  measures  of  one-six- 
teenth notes.  The  trumpet  was  introduced 
for  "sweet"  choruses.  A  piano  solo,  two 
octaves  apart,  was  another  feature.  In 
the  course  of  experimenting,  a  new  effect 
was  introduced  by  cutting  boles  in  the  sides 
of  a  large  megaphone  and  pla\ing  the 
clarinet  through  it. 

Last,  but  not  least,  there  was  the  sing- 
ing of  Skinny  Ennis.  His  singing  was 
delinitely  "different"  and  that,  yjlus  the  fact 
that  Kemp  interpolated  each  new  twist 
into  his  arrangements,  gave  the  orchestra 
a  trademark  that  couldn't  be  copied. 

From  Florida,  Kemp's  trail  again  twisted 
west.  Finally  the  Music  Corporation  of 
America  sent  him  into  the  Trianon  Ball- 
room in  Chicago,  after  a  series  of  travels 
which  had  carried  him  through  the  metrop- 
oli  of  the  South  and  Middle  West,  and 
even  through  Europe — Paris,  London  and 
Ostend. 

It  was  now  the  suirimer  of  1932  and  Hal 
am!  the  boys  were  still  waiting  for  the  big 
break.  The  Trianon  was  the  first  step  in 
that  direction,  although  they  didn't  know 
it  at  the  time.  Otto  Rotli,  manager  of 
the  Blackbawk  Cafe,  booked  them  in 
there.  The  Blackbawk  engagement  also 
gave  Kemp  a  shot  at  radio  broadcasting 
and  they  played  on  Station  II' ON  four  or 
five  times  a  night,  every  night  in  the  week. 

"That  was  our  'break'  right  there,"  de- 
clared Kemp.  "WON  was  the  big  station 


of  that  territory.  By  now  we  had  per- 
fected our  little  musical  tricks  so  that  we 
made  nur  tyiie  of  pl;iying  familiar  through 
that  section.  .\nd  e\ery  time  those  who  had 
beard  us  on  the  air  popped  into  Chicago 
for  a  visit,  they  beaded  right  to  the  Black- 
hawk. 

"The  next  summer,  A  Century  of  Prog- 
ress opened  in  Chicago  and  we  were  made. 
The  Blackbawk  drew  more  than  its  share 
of  the  visitors  and  we  set  a  record  there 
that  still  stands. 

"By  now,  too,  our  popularity  with  col- 
legians was  beginning  to  pay  definite 
dividends,  A  poll  of  the  Big  Ten  colleges 
was  won  by  our  band.  We  landed  first 
place  in  the  voting  in  nine  of  the  ten 
schools.  Being  selected  as  the  favorite 
band  of  the  Big  Ten  led  directly  to  several 
ciinimercia!  programs.  We  were  on  Lucky 
Sliihe's  'Maiiic  Carpet.'  the  Pennzoil 
Paratlc.  Quaker  Oats'  mid-Western  pro- 
gram and  had  a  shot  at  the  Lady  Esther 
program  when  Wayne  King  went  on  vaca- 
tion. 

"Encouraged  by  this  success,  we  took  to 
the  road  in  the  fall  of  1934,  after  the  Fair 
closed  in  Chicago.  And  what  a  different 
story  it  was  this  time  I  We  broke  records 
in  several  places,  and  every  record  we 
broke  had  been  established  either  by 
Wayne  King  or  Guy  Lombardo  I" 

Kemp's  orchestra  finally  came  home  to 
roost  at  the  Hotel  Pennsylvania  in  New 
York  and  the  Penn  promptly  became  a 
gathering  place  for  Eastern  collegians  on 
their  New  York  holidays.  Because  of 
their  popularity  with  the  undergraduates, 
Kemp's  band  broke  all  records — nightly, 
weekly  and  monthly — at  the  Pennsylvania. 

The  Gulf  Gas  program,  which  featured 
Phil  Baker,  finally  landed  Kemp's  Orches- 
tra to  provide  a  musical  background  for 
the  comedian.  The  fact  that  his  band 
didn't  get  enough  opportunities  to  strut  its 
stuff  on  this  program  finally  led  to  a 
switch,  and  Hal  and  the  boys  now  are  on 
the  Chesterfield  Hour  on  the  CBS  system, 
along  with  Kay  Thompson  and  The 
Rhythm  Singers. 

At  present,  Kemp  is  playing  at  no  hotel 
grill  or  night  club,  because  he  finds  it  far 
more  profitable  to  play  at  college  proms. 
Few  colleges  in  the  East,  West  or  South 
have  missed  Hal  at  their  proms.  One  of 
the  notable  exceptions  is  Dartmouth, 
tucked  away  in  the  hills  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, which  repeatedly  has  tried  to  get 
Kemp's  Orchestra  for  its  famed  winter 
carnival,  but  conflicting  engagements  have 
prevented  him  from  getting  there, 

Kemp  listed  from  memory  over  three 
dozen  colleges  at  which  be  has  played.  If 
you're  interested,  here  they  are :  East — 
Yale,  Harvard,  Princeton,  Pennsylvania, 
Cornell,  Colgate,  Syracuse,  Lehigh,  Penn 
State,  Rutgers,  Navy,  Georgetown,  Johns 
Hopkins  and  also  Vassar  and  Lawrcncc- 
ville  Prep.  West — Notre  Dame,  Ohio 
State,  Ohio  I'niversity,  Michigan,  Purdue, 
Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Iowa  State,  Indiana,  St. 
Louis  L'ni\-ersity.  South — University  of 
North    Carolina,    North    Carolina  State, 


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W'asliinstoii  and  Lcc,  \'ir{>iiiia  Military, 
Duke,  Wake  Forest,  Georgia  Tech,  Clem- 
son  and  Sweetbriar,  the  latter  a  girls' 
school.  In  the  Southwest,  he  played  at 
Texas  and  Southern  Methodist. 

.•\lthoiioh  Ilal  sonictinies  sighs  over  the 
ill-fated  barnstorming  trips  he  made,  he 
never  regrets  his  venture  into  the  South- 
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he  received  ?3,(I(HI  for  playing  at  the  debut 
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Hal  was  born  in  ^Marion,  Alabama,  on 
March  27th,  1905.  His  family  moved  later 
to  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  and  it  was 
there  he  went  to  high  school  and  finally 
to  the  university  at  Chapel  Hill.  Young- 
Master  Kemp  was  performing  acrobatic 
didoes  on  the  piano  before  he  was  six 
years  old.  At  that  age  he  started  violin 
lessons. 

His  Charlotte  playmates  didn't  think 
much  of  a  kid  who  tucked  a  violin  under 
his  chin,  and  rather  than  he  called  a  sissy, 
Hal  switched  to  a  cornet.  The  present  of 
a  trumpet  from  his  father  fin-thered  his 
musical  bent  and  he  was  taking  clarinet 
lessons  at  twelve.  From  there,  Hal  went 
right  on  down  the  line,  with  horns,  reeds 
and  drums.  Of  them  all,  he  confesses,  he 
liked  the  clarinet  best. 

Hal  formed  his  first  band  while  at 
Charlotte  High  School.  It  was  known  as 
The  M crry-utakcrs.  He  entered  the  Uni- 
versity in  1922  and  had  a  band  known  as 
the  Carolina  Clidy  Orchestra.  In  the  sum- 
mer of  his  sophomore  year,  he  won  a 
contest  for  college  bands  and  his  team  won 
a  trip  to  England,  to  play  at  the  Piccadilly, 
in  London.  He  played  a  while  under  the 
guidance  of  Paul  Specht,  who  had  booked 
the  band  into  London,  but  soon  returned 
to  school. 

The  restless  Kemp  couldn't  keep  away 
from  music,  however,  and  while  still  in 
school  organized  a  band  which  he  called 
Hal  Kcwf's  Orchestra.  That  was  in  1925 
and  the  band  still  retains  that  name  and 
furthermore,  five  of  the  original  members 
are  still  with  it.  In  addition  to  the  re- 
doubtable Skinny  Funis,  the  others  are 
Ben  Williams,  Saxie  Dowell  and  Bob 
Allen.  The  fifth  survivor,  of  course,  is 
Hal  himself. 

Originally,  Kemp  wanted  to  study  con- 
cert music  but  he  was  sidetracked  into  jazz 
while  in  high  school.  Hal  is  studying 
symphony  music  conducting  now  and  is 
crazy  over  it,  never  missing  a  philhar- 
monic concert  when  his  schedule  permits. 
He  has  a  library  of  concert  records  and 
nuisical  scores  for  them. 

It  is  doubtful,  however,  if  symphony 
conducting  will  ever  be  more  than  a  hobby 
to  the  unpretentious,  gangling  Kemp.  After 
all,  his  orchestra  is  still  the  No.  1  band, 
according  to  I  'aricty's  most  recent  poll  of 
the  colleges,  and  Hal  hardly  will  forget 
his  collegiate  following,  the  thrill  of  that 
tremendous  oxation  at  Penn  .State,  the  way 
the  Big  Ten  Uncked  tn  his  bandwagon 
during  his  stay  at  the  Blackhawk,  the 
Pennsylvania  grill  in  New  "N'ork  packed 
nightly  with  Fasterii  collegians,  or  the 
personal  kick  he  gets  out  of  playing  at 
various  cfdlege  proms.  He's  king  of  rah- 
rah  rlnthm  and  the  concert  music  will 
have  to  remain  merely  a  diversion,  instead 
of  a  profession. 


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FIFTEEN  WASN'T  TOO  EARLY 
FOR  LOUISE- 


(Conliiiiird  from  f^agc  33) 


and  that  was  loads  of  fun. 

"So  you  see.  those  first  few  years, 
when  had  ihinps  might  have  happened. 
I  never  had  a  chance  to  get  bored — " 

"^'mi  vcc  andther  reason  for  the  success 
(.1  the  niairiai^e  when  you  meet  Milt  Ma- 
l)ie.  He  is  one  of  those  men  who,  you 
feel,  must  have  been  just  as  kind,  and 
funny,  and  good-humored  and  easy-going 
as  he  is  now,  from  the  time  he  w'as  out  of 
knickerbockers.  And  big !  He's  even  a  lit- 
tle taller  and  broader  than  the  Masscy 
men,  and  they  begin  at  six  feet. 

That's  just  a  sample  of  the  way  he 
fits  into  the  family — and  it's  a  very  close- 
knit  and  aff'ectionate  family. 

At  home  on  the  Massey  ranch  in  Ros- 
well.  New  Mexico,  in  Lincoln  County, 
everybody  sang  and  played  some  one  or 
two  instruments,  and  they  did  it  together. 

Naturally,  the  older  ones  of  the  seven 
brothers  had  married  and  moved  away 
from  home  on  to  neighboring  Massey 
ranches  to  set  up  for  themselves,  so  it 
was  the  three  youngest  of  the  tribe  who 
played  and  sang  most  together.  Allen, 
long  and  lean  and  a  little  quiet,  plays 
the  guitar  and  banjo.  Louise  plays  the 
piano  and  sings.  Dott,  the  nioustached, 
si.x-foot  baby  of  the  family,  pla\s  the 
violin,  trumpet,  piano  and  guitar.  Their 
lather,  Henry  Massey,  taught  them  a  lot 
of  their  sungs  and  sang  with  them.  So 
when  Milt  Mabic  came  l)ack  from  school, 
with  a  bass  vinl  and  a  nice  tenor  voice — 
and  then  nian  ii.cl  Lnuise — he  was  an  easy 
addition  to  tlic  inscnil)le. 

It  was  an  old  friend  of  Henry  Mas- 
scy's  who  started  the  youngsters  ofi'  on  a 
lirolessional  career.  Charles  Horner  was 
the  head  of  a  Conservator}-  of  Music  in 
Kansas  City.  When  he  came  to  visit  the 
Massey  ranch  near  Roswell,  of  course, 
he  heard  the  youngsters  sing  and  play. 
To  say  he  was  pleased  is  to  put  it  inildly. 
.And  he  also  saw  the  entertaimnent  possi- 
i  bilities  in  the  group.  Chautauqua  was  still 
strong  in  that  part  of  the  country,  as 
well  as  in  the  Middle  West  and  Canada. 
Charles  Horner  booked  the  singing  Mas- 
seys  for  a  season  of  Chautauqua. 

And  being  the  sort  of  .Americans  who 
move  about  freely  and  as  the  spirit  moves 
thetn,  they  went  in  great  glee — father 
Henry  going  along  as  basso  and  chaperon. 

They  were  so  successful  with  their  fel- 
low-.Americans,  including  Canadians,  that 
they  continued  to  appear  in  Chautauqua 
and  on  vaudeville  circuits  until  1928.  In 
between  times  they  went  home  to  the 
ranch,  or  to  Kansas  City  to  study  in  Mr. 
Horner's  Conservatory. 

Then  they  began  to  appear  on  the  air, 
over  a  local  Kansas  City  station.  Mean- 
time, Henry  Massey  got  homesick  for 
the  ranch,  and  decided  they'd  have  to  get 
along  without  him,  now  that  they  were 
all  old  enough  to  know  what  they  were 
doing. 

Just  in  the  nick  of  time,  they  met 
Larry  Wellington,  a  Californian,  who 
sings  bass,  plays  the  accordion  and  fits 


into  the  group  almost  like  one  of  the 
family.  He  was  free  at  the  time,  and 
they  signed  iiini  on. 

Presentlj'  they  went  to  Chicago,  as  a 
feature  of  the  Xalioiial  Barn  Dance  pro- 
gram, and  were  there  until  1934,  when 
Ed  Wolfe,  their  present  manager,  heard 
them  and  persuaded  them  to  come  to 
New  York.  .Almost  immediately  they  went 
on  the  Shmv  Boat  program,  and  stayed 
there  until  October,  19,55,  when  they 
joined  the  Log  Cabin  Dude  Ranch. 

It's  purely  a  coincidence — and  one  to 
which  nobody,  not  even  the  script  writer, 
seems  to  pay  any  attention — that  the  scene 
of  the  sketch  for  which  The  U'esterncrs 
furnish  theme  song,  incidental  music  and 
final  songs,  is  laid  in  the  county  in  New 
Mexico  in  which  they  all  grew  up.  If  the 
writer  is  as  Easterner,  it  probably  seems  to 
him  that  Billy  The  Kid  must  be  a  purely 
mythical  character  out  of  the  far-distant 
past.  Yet  The  Westerners,  since  they 
were  children,  have  listened  to  stories  of 
Billy  The  Kid  from  men  who  knew  him. 
They  have  ridden  their  ponies  up  into  the 
hills  where  The  Kid  hid  out ;  they  know 
his  country. 

"That  cave  they  were  talkin'  about  to- 
night, Dott,"  Milt  Mabie  will  say,  "that's 
right  up  behind  old  man  So-an-so's  place. 
No,  that  one  you're  thinkin'  of  is  the  one 
where  he  went  when  he  broke  out  of  jail." 

And  Dott  -Massey's  pretty,  fragile-look- 
ing little  wife  will  tell  you  a  story  about 
a  maid  of  theirs  who,  as  a  little  girl,  car- 
ried cofTee  and  (kjughnuts  to  The  Kid  every 
day  he  was  in  jail,  and  was  proud  and  em- 
barrassed when  the  outlaw,  later,  asked 
her  for  a  dance.  (She  was  embarrassed. 
Dott  W'ill  explain,  because  The  Kid  swung 
her  so  wide  and  handsomely  that  her  full 
skirts  billowed  up  about  her  knees  while 
the  admiring  crowd  laughed  and  ap- 
plauded. ) 

They're  all  full  of  stories  about  New 
Mexico,  because  that's  home,  and  they  love 
it.  Louise  Massey  and  Tlie  Jl'esterncrs  sing 
real  cowboy  songs — sing  them  as  if  they 
loved  them.    And  they  do  love  them,  too. 

Every  year  their  vacation  is  spent  on 
the  ranch  down  in  New  Mexico,  getting 
back  the  feel  of  the  desert  sun  and  stars 
and  the  way  voices  sound  in  the  prairie 
night. 

Here  in  New  York,  they  live  a  pretty 
free-and-easy,  countrified  life, 

"We're  all  married,  you  know,"  Louise 
Masscy  tells  you,  "and  we  all  live  in  and 
around  Great  Neck,  Long  Island.  Larry 
Wellington,  too.  We're  pretty  clannish,  I 
guess,  and  we  do  everything  together.  Of 
course,  with  that  many  of  us  right  there, 
if  anybody  wants  to  go  swimming,  or 
riding,  or  on  a  week-end  up  to  Connecti- 
cut or  the  beach,  it  only  takes  a  few  min- 
utes to  get  a  party  together. 

"We  have  a  good  time.  We  all  love  to 
ride,  and  we're  crazy  about  iriusic.  so 
that,  even  beside  the  three  hours  or  so  a 
day  we  practice,  we  play  music  just  for 
fun. 


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"But  by  the  time  vacation  time  comes, 
we're  all  ready  to  get  back  home ! 

"Then,  some  night,  they'll  get  up  a 
big  barbecue,  and  everybody'll  come,  from 
all  around.  All  the  family  and  neighbors. 
And  new  cowboys  will  have  ridden  in. 
during  the  year,  from  Utah  and  Arizona 
and  Texas,  so  we'll  Ic.irn  new  songs,  and 
new  \-erscs  to  old  ones,  according  to  the 
way  the  story  was  supposed  to  have  hap- 
pened in  their  part  of  the  country.  They're 
not  shy  at  all,  but  eager  to  sing  us  the 
songs,  and  have  us  sing  them  with  them, 
because  we  belong,  and  always  have,  and 
they  know  us  all  and  all  our  family." 

Listening  to  them  sing  over  the  radio, 
people  all  over  the  land  get  that  deep. 
C|uiet  feeling  of  ballad  songs  sung  in  fire- 
light and  starlight,  with  drowsy  cattle 
and  grazing  horses  moving  softly  in  the 
darkness.  The  bulk  of  their  considerable 
mail  conies  froiii  people  who  say;  "Your 
songs  remind  nic — "  of  places  they  have 
been,  and  of  things  that  have  happened, 
or  of  places  they  have  wanted  all  their 
lives  to  go  to.  The  biggest  proportion  of 
it  comes  from  the  Middle  West:  Indiana. 
Ohio,  Illinois  and  Iowa,  states  where  the 
old  pioneer  restlessness  still  lies  close  to 
the  surface,  and  where  there  is  a  sort 
of  dim  race  memory  of  songs  sung  around 
frontier  campfires.  Pennsylvania  and  the 
states  farther  east  follow;  then  the  West 
Coast.  They  get  very  little  mail  from  Xew 
Mexico  and  Texas,  because,  for  one  rea- 
son, as  Louise  Massey  says ; 

"There  are  an  awful  lot  of  Massey s 
down  there,  and  pretty  nearly  everybody 
knows  us  and  lia^  heard  us,  so  they  just 
never  tliink  tn  write  us  fan  letters — just 
like  }-ou  wouldn't  write  a  fan  letter  to 
one  of  the  family  who  had  done  some 
everyday  thing." 

There's  another  kind  of  letter  that  some- 
times creeps  into  the  mail  of  The  W'cslcni- 
crs,  and,  looking  at  Louise  Massey,  you 
can't  wonder,  for  she's  not  only  good  look- 
ing, but  magneticall}-  attractive.  Of  course, 
everybody  in  the  radio  and  entertainment 
business  knows  she's  married,  but  some- 
times in  her  audiences  there  are  people 
who  don't  know,  or  are  too  smitten  to 
care. 

"To  those,"  she  says,  "we  always  answer 
as  kindly  as  we  can,  but  we  don't  leave 
'em  in  any  doubt  about  how  I  feel.  I  just 
say  that  my  husband  and  I  are  glad  they 
enjoyed  our  songs,  and  hope  they'll  con- 
tinue to  listen,  and  so  on,  and  pay  no  at- 
tention to  whatever  love-making  they  may 
have  tried  to  do. 

"It's  the  same  way  when  we're  out  on 
the  road.  We  almost  always  have  our 
dressing-rooms  on  the  same  floor.  It  used 
to  be  that  I'd  see  anybody  who  wanted 
to  come  in  and  talk  to  me,  but  I  got 
stuck  for  hours,  sometimes,  so  now  the 
boys  answer  all  my  calls,  even  on  the  tele- 
phone." 

One  can  imagine  that  it's  a  little  dis- 
couraging to  a  chap  who  comes  calling 
at  the  stage  door,  with  love  in  his  eyes  for 
Louise  Massey,  to  he  met  by  a  large,  pleas- 
ant gentleman  who  says :  "Whv.  how  do 
you  do.  I'm  Miss  Massey's  husband.  Do 
come  in  and  visit  with  us." 

"Once,  this  telephone  protection  was 
bad.  Some  man  called  up.  and  one  of  the 
boys  whispered  his  name  to  me.  I  couldn't 
remember  ever  having  heard  it  before,  so 
Allen,  or  Larry,  or  whoever  it  was,  said 


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Miss  Massey  wasn't  in.  \Ylieii  the  man 
finally  got  to  see  me,  he  was  wild.  He  was 
my  insurance  man,  and  I'd  known  him  for 
years !  I  had  a  policy  that  was  about  to 
lapse,  and  he  couldn't  get  near  me  to  tell 
me  about  it,  just  because,  for  some  reason, 
I  couldn't  remember  his  name !" 

In  answer  to  a  question  about  why  the 
songs  of  The  ll'cslcnirrs.  as  they  come 
over  the  air,  snund  so  different  from  the 
somewhat  strident,  nasal  rendition  of  cow- 
boy songs  one  sometiines  hears,  Miss  Mas- 
sey said  thoughtfully: 

"A  lot  of  it  does  sound  harsh,  that  way 
you  say,  because  it's  not  real.  The  Ranch 
Boys  don't  sound  that  way,  though — I 
listen  tu  them  \\iienc\er  I  can.  And  real 
c-i)\\bu\s  don't  holler  when  they  sing.  The 
music  is  soft-like — a  kind  of  wail,  that's 
wliat  it  is.  Of  course,  once  in  a  while, 
a  c<]wIioy  will  have  a  voice  that  isn't 
wry  LMHid,  or  there'll  be  one  that  likes 
to  viiiL;  loiid.  But  they  don't  have  to  make 
a  kjt  of  noise,  because  it's  so  still — and 
there's  something  about  tin-  stillness  that 
makes  you  want  to  sing  so  It  .  .  . 

\'<iu.  and  thousands  of  other  people  who 
are  fans  of  'J'hc  ll'rslcni,-rs,  can  feel  that 
\ery  well  as  you  listen  to  them  sing — the 
wailing  voices  blended,  softened  by  an  im- 
mense silence  that  reaches  to  the  stars  and 
is  stirred  only  by  the  whisper  of  the  camp- 
fire  and  the  guitar-accompanied  song. 

.^nd  it's  that  iinmense,  still,  historic  coun- 
try that  I.ouise  Massey  jilans  to  go  back 
to,  when  she  and  The  IV cslcrncrs  have  had 
enough  of  the  East  and  of  radio. 

Right  now,  they're  having  a  grand  tiine. 
Louise  has  a  marvelous  good  time  with 
her  tall,  fourteen-year  old  daughter,  who, 
she  says,  rides  like  a  little  Indian,  and  who 
will  sing  and  play  the  piano  as  well  as 
her  handsome  young  mother.  But  in  a  very 
few  years,  Jo,  the  girl,  will  be  away  at 
school,  and  after  that,  her  mother  realizes 
— as  only  she  could — that  her  daughter's 
life  will  be  her  own  to  live. 

Right  now,  too,  they're  all  excited  about 
the  prospect  of  making  a  movie,  possibly 
in  color,  on  the  West  Coast.  They've  made 


two  shorts,  here  in  the  East,  and  had  such 
fun  doing  it  that  they're  eager  to  try 
again. 

There  are  lots  of  things  to  do,  lots  of 
new  things  to  be  tried,  but  in  the  end : 

"I  want  to  build  me  a  house  down  there 
— my  father  has  given  us  some  land — one 
of  those  adobe  houses,  you  know,  like 
they  make  down  there  out  of  big  blocks 
of  baked  clay,  all  whitewashed.  I'll  have 
me  a  lot  of  rooms,  and  a  lot  of  little 
porches,  all  sprangling  out.  In  a  house 
like  that,  the  things  the  Mexicans  make, 
and  the  Muscolari  Indians,  look  so  pretty 
—the  bright  colored  rugs  and  hangings 
and  pottery,  and  heavy  wooden  furniture. 

"I'll  have  us  a  piano,  and  a  few  horses — 
just  enough  for  the  fainily — and  I  want  to 
have  a  cactus  garden.  There  are  more 
kinds  of  cactuses  .  .  . 

"I'll  grow  me  a  patch  of  alfalfa  to  make 
a  little  money — one  section  of  my  land  is 
under  irrigation,  and  grows  alfalfa  fine." 
(There  spoke  the  practical  woman  of 
ranch  affairs,  to  whoin  a  section  of  land  is 
a  "patch.") 

"And  when  you're  in  New  Mexico,  you 
know,  3()u're  not  very  far  froin  California 
— only  about  a  day  and  a  half.  I  know  right 
well  that  after  I'd  been  down  there  for 
about  six  months,  I'd  start  getting  tny  old 
itching  feet  again,  and  have  to  go  off  some- 
where. Hut  I  could  go  to  California,  or 
Honolulu,  .^^d  after  I'd  been  traveling 
around  for  about  a  month,  I'd  be  ready  to 
go  back  and  stay  for  another  good  while." 

And  there  you  have  a  picture  of  the  fu- 
ture— a  rambling  adol'e  heaven  in  the  sun. 
But  soiTiehow  it's  ini])ossibIe  to  have  any 
feeling  of  grudging  it  to  Louise  Massey, 
because  she's  one  of  those  people  who  know 
the  proper  use  to  make  of  heaven.  And  you 
feel,  too,  that  whatever  success  and  happi- 
ness come  to  her  will  be  taken  in  her 
stride,  because  no  matter  how  much  people 
spoil  her,  she  never  will  be  spoiled.  It 
would  be  impossible  to  spoil  the  straight- 
forwardness of  the  sun.  the  impulsiveness 
of  the  wind,  the  solid  worth  of  the  earth 
itself. 


94 


WHO  STARTED 
THE  FEUD? 

{Coiiinued  from  f^agc  21) 


booking  in  Chicago,  at  $5,000  a  xveek  n'ilh 
U'inchcU,  $6,000  n-ithout  him.' 

"It  went  over  big.  And  that  was  the 
beginning,  tlie  inception,  the  birth  of  the 
feud.    I  blessed-evented  it.    I  am  its  papa!" 

Five  minutes  later  the  Old  Maestro  joined 
me.  He  said,  after  Walter  had  departed  to 
write  his  lead  for  his  column :  "/  started 
the  feud — yowsah.  I  was  playing,  back  in 
1931.- at  the  College  Inn  in  Chicago.  I  heard 
Walter's  broadcast.  Thought  I'd  have  some 
fun  with  him.    So  I  sent  him  a  wire,  say- 


ing: 'Vou  ivcre  marvelous 
offer  you  $5,000  a  urck 


the  air.  Can 
ifh  DiieJiin's 


orchestra.  $6,000  for  orchc.'^tra  alone'  That 
was  the  first  crack.    /  made  it.  Yowjrih." 

I  said  "Yowsah,"  too.  I  wmild  liave 
given  a  great  deal  to  have  tipped  \\'alter 
off  to  the  scoop  I  had  just  got.  Exclusive  ! 
Each  boy,  unbeknown  to  the  other,  claiming 
credit  for  the  birth  of  the  feud! 

It  is  mystifying,  this  feud.  Even  after 
t;ilking,  for  several  hours,  to  both  feudists 
I  still  am  not  sure.  Can  such  feuds,  of 
such  long  standing,  so  studded  with  sar- 
casm and  drenched  in  gall,  be  just  fun, 
publicity,  gags?  Or  is  there  an  underly- 
ing motivation  of  animosity,  perliaps  in  the 
suliconscious  of  the  feudists?  .All  I  can  do 
is  to  present  ynu  witli  the  e\i(lence.  as 
i;rcsented  by  tlie  cliief  C( 'nti-mli  r-.  and  let 
you  draw  your  own  ci  inclu>ii  ais.  For  cer- 
tainly the  tangled  threads  uf  aninn  ^^it\•, 
cracks,  kidding,  sucks,  ironies,  sarcasms 
as  brutal  as  mud  in  \dur  c\e.  cloud  the 
issue,  shroud  what  may  be  in  the  hearts  of 
the  two  men,  so  like  in  origin,  so  unlike  in 
person. 

Both  were  poor  boys.  Neither  had  much 
schooling.  Each — and  here  they  are.  for  the 
first  and  only  time,  in  agreement — each 
claims  to  have  learned  most  of  all  he  knows 
from  fP.-Vs  column  in  the  early  days. 

Bernie,  oddly  enough,  started  out  in  life 
as  a  wisecracker,  a  potential  columnist.  He 
was  a  toy  salesman  in  the  basement  of  a 
big  department  store.  And  his  selling 
"line,"  his  sales  talk,  was  so  packed  with 
merry  quips  and  apt  verbiage  that  he  at- 
tracted the  attention  cif  a  vaudeville  scout 
who  got  him  a  tryout  on  an  amateur  night. 

Walter,  on  the  other  hand,  grew  up  with 
the  ambition  to  be  a  song-and-dance  man 
and  might,  logically  enough,  have  become 
an  orchestra  leader,  if  not  a  Fred  Astaire. 
He  left  school  when  he  was  in  the  6B 
grade,  headed  straight  for  the  theatre  and 
got  a  job  smging  in  a  run-down  neighbor- 
hood "palace."  He  joined  a  trio  known  as 
the  Three  Little  Boys  With  the  Big  I'oices. 
Other  members  of  the  trio  were  George 
Jessel  and  Eddie  Cantor.  And  never  let  it 
be  said  that  the  boy  is  not  father  to  the 
man.  For  the\  are  still  "Three  Little  Boys 
With  Big  \  oices."  Very  big! 

Both  Bernie  and  Walter  are  family  men, 
devoted  husbands  and  fathers,  home-loving. 
Bernic's  only  child,  only  son,  Jason,  now  a 
young  man,  is  always  with  him.  Walter 
said:  "I  never  go  anywhere  without  my 
family."  (His  wife  and  young  son  and 
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suniptuou.s.  in  Florida.  Walter  tells  me  that 
he  is,  so  to  speak,  house-huntina;.  He  wants 
to  buy  a  place  in  the  East,  nnc  in  I'lurida 
and  one  Iiere  in  Hollywood.  W  itlicr  vi 
them  cares  lor  working  in  pict^lrc^.  W  alter 
hands  himself  no  orchids  as  an  actor.  He 
said:  "I  made  myself  sick  when  I  saw  my- 
sclt  on  the  screen." 
j  Tlicy  are  iihysical  opposites.  Walter,  pre- 
iiiaturcl>  white,  blue-eyed,  is  slender,  taut, 
;  swift  in  speech,  swift  in  action,  electric. 
Bernie  is  olive-skinned,  brown-eyed,  dark- 
haired,  growing  bald,  ratlier  heavy-set, 
speaks  slowly,  moves  slowl>-,  smiles  often, 
seldom  laughs. 

They  are  not,  as  has  been  rumored,  in 
any  wa>-  related.  They  are  not  cousins. 
\\'altcr  did  not  marry  Bernio's  sister.  There 
is  no  relationship  between  them  save  the 
bond,  the  tie,  sometimes  as  strong  as  blood, 
of  show  business,  of  remembered  da\s  on 
the  Rialto  when  both  were  hcginning.  when 
Ben  was  itlax  iiig  at  tlie  Palace  and  Walter 
was  doing  his  first  interviews  and  thought 
of  Bernie  ("TJic  hnisc,"  commented  Walter 
iKiw,  witliDUt  affection)  as  a  Famous  Per- 
son. They  have  c<intributed,  the  one  to  the 
other,  to  the  swelling  of  their  coffers.  The 
feud  has  been  the  major  contributor. 

So — do  they  really  mean  it  or  do  they 
not?   That  is  the  (|uestion. 

I  asked  one  of  the  men  on  the  set,  a  man 
wlio  worked  closely  with  them  during  the 
making  of  the  picture,  what  he  thought. 

He  said:  "My  guess  is  that,  underneath 
all  the  banter,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  they 
Umch  together  now  and  then,  there  is  an 
underlying  animosity.  After  all,  when  they 
started  the  feud,  out  of  all  the  men  in  the 
country,  they  picked  each  other.  I  honest- 
1\-  don't  think  they  like  each  other,  really. 
Even  during  the  making  of  the  picture,  they 
were  feuding  furiously.  They'd  trip  each 
other  up  on  their  lines.  Bernie  would,  de- 
liberatel.v,  change  his  tag  line  so  that 
Walter  couldn't  pick  up  his  cue  and  Walter 
would  do  likewise.  Result  being  that  sev- 
eral scenes  had  to  be  shot  several  times  and 
one  day,  wlien  it  got  too  thick,  Sidney  Lan- 
field,  the  director,  fainted.  Went  out  cold. 
An  innocent  victim  of  the  feud,  Ed  call 
him.  Yet  the  very  next  day  Bernie  and 
Walter  and  Lanfield  were  all  lunching  to- 
gether at  the  Derby,  clubby  as  crickets.  So, 
/  dunno  !" 

I  dunno,  either.  I  was  more  confused 
than  ever  when  Walter  told  ine  that  Bernie 
is  retiring  from  all  activities,  save  his 
Tuesday  broadcasts.  Is  disbanding  his 
loyal  old  band  (the  boys  are  staying  on  in 
Elollywood,  I  believe)  and  is  going  to 
Florida  to  take  a  much  needed  rest. 

Said  Walter:  "The  Old  Maestro  isn't  as 
fit  as  he  might  be.  He's  worked  too  hard. 
He's  got  to  take  care  of  himself."  And  if 
tlu  ie  wasn't  gen\iine  roneern  in  Winchell's 
gimlet  e\es,  then  (ioveniment  bonds  are 
paper  dolls ! 

And  later,  when  Walter  was  talking, 
heatedly,  compassionately,  about  the  raw 
deal  recently  handed  an  ace  New  York 
columnist  from  the  paper  he  has  served  for 
over  twenty  years  and  said :  "The  same 
will  hapi)en  to  all  of  us  in  time,  to  me  as 
well  as  the  others,"  Bernie  took  instant  ex- 
ception. He  said:  "It  will  uci'er  happen 
to  you,  Walter.  Why,  it  couldn't!" 

Walter  and  I  sat  on  the  sidelines  while 
the  Old  Maestro,  exhausted  and  with  good 
reason,  went  up  on  his  lines  some  seventy 
mortal  "takes."  Walter  like  to  have  died. 


He  said :  "I'zr  finished  the  picture.  But 
Bernie  hasn't,  you  see!  They  kept  him 
after  school.  He  didn't  know  his  lines!" 

And  when  Bernie,  in  exasperation,  ex- 
claimed :  "I'll  get  it  this  time,  if  I  have  to 
pay  a  forfeit !"  Walter  carolled :  "Lan- 
field doesn't  want  a  forfeit,  Ben,  he  wants 
the  scene !" 

On  the  sixtieth  (mis)take,  Bernie 
groaned:  "I'll  cut  my  throat  if  I  go  up  this 
time !  Why,  I  know  these  lines  back- 
wards!" And  \\'alter  slammed  back  with: 
"We  don't  want  'em  backwards,  Ben !" 

"Okay,"  grinned  Bernie,  after  one  such 
crack,  "Winchell's  smarter  than  I  am.  But 
every  time  he  takes  a  crack  at  me,  my 
salary  f/ocs  !(/>.'" 

"\\  e  have  some  swell  cracks  in  the  pic- 
ture," Walter  told  me.  "Of  course,  Bernie 
has  stolen  most  of  them,  the  rat,  and  used 
them  on  his  broadcasts  I  But  one  or  two 
may  have  escaped  him.  He  couldn't  re- 
member them  all,  as  you  may  observe.  I 
say  to  Ben,  in  one  scene :  'Ben,  I've  said 
a  few  things  about  you  on  the  air  and  in 
my  column  that  perhaps  I  shouldn't  have 
said.'  And  Ben  comes  back  with  :  'I've  al- 
ways tried  to  say  nice  things  about  you, 
\\' alter,  but  I  couldn't  think  of  any.'  And 
I  retort :  'That's  all  right,  Ben,  I  know 
how  hard  it  is  for  you  to  think.' 

"Seriously,"  said  Walter,  after  the  mo- 
ment's silence  dedicated  to  the  Old  Maestro's 
next  (mis)  take,  "seriously,  I'd  give  away 
Bernie's  million  to  put  an  end  to  this  feud. 
He's  made  his  million,  by  the  way,  since  the 
feud  started.  He'll  tell  you  (he  did)  that 
he's  made  a  lot  of  it  on  the  market.  But  the 
fact  remains  that  he  was  pretty  broke  be- 
fore the  feud  and — he's  got  his  million 
now.  And  Ed  give  it  all  away  to  charity 
to  end  the  feud.  I'm  tired  of  it.  He's  tired 
of  it.  We're  both  tired  of  it.  Bored  with 
it.  But  it's  out  of  our  hands  now.  It's  in 
the  hands  of  the  public. 

"And  here's  something  you  may  not 
know — many  of  the  cracks  we  use  are  sent 
us  by  the  fans.  Someone  will  send  me  a 
crack  to  use  on  Ben  and  if  I  don't  use  it 
the  same  person  will  send  Ben  the  same 
crack  to  use  on  me  ! 

"We  don't  know  what  to  do  about  it ! 
That's  the  lowdown.  And  it's  an  angle  I 
wish  you'd  use  in  }-our  story.  Ask  the 
public  what  they  really  want  us  to  do.  It's 
got  us  stopped!  We  have  difTerent  ideas. 
One  day  we  think  we  may  let  it  peter  out, 
die  a  gradual,  natural  death.  Next  day  we 
think  we  ma>-  kill  it  quickly  and  entirel)'. 
We  don't  know  what  to  do  ! 

"I  believe  that  the  majority  of  people 
take  it  seriously,  believe  that  we  really 
mean  it.  And  Em  not  sure  that's  so  good, 
despite  the  fact  that  it  has  gone  on  for  six 
years  and  is  kept  alive  by  oxygen  tanks  sup- 
plied the  public.  There  are  a  few  people, 
of  course,  mostly  around  New  York  and 
Hollywood,  who  know  it  is  all  in  fun.  If 
not  good,  clean  fun,  at  least  fun.  For  we 
can't  pull  our  punches,  you  know.  I  can't 
say:  'I  don't  really  mean  tliis,  but  Bernie 
smells!'  I've  just  got  to  come  out  and 
say  :  'Bernie  smells  !' 

"My  guess  would  be  that  they  don't  really 
like  it,  the  public.  They  tell  me  that  I  have 
the  advantage  of  the  poor  Old  Maestro, 
with  ni\-  column,  when  he  has  none.  They 
send  me.  they  send  both  of  us,  Biblical  ad- 
monitions about  loving  our  neighbor  as  our- 
selves. One  lady  wrote  so  violent  a  letter 
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alarmed  and  he  had  to  make  a  special  trip 
to  Florida  to  soothe  said  sponsor's  honest 
alarm.  I  am  frequently  advised  that  unless 
I  lay  off  Bernie  not  another  drop  of  lotion 
will  be  used. 

"On  the  other  hand,  if  they  don't  like  it, 
why  do  they  keep  on  sending  us  cracks, 
thus  feeding  fuel  to  the  feud? 

"It's  a  problem.  We  wish  the  public 
would  roll  up  its  sleeves^  wipe  the  grin 
from  its  face  and  tell  us,  seriously,  what 
they  really  want  us  to  do,  bury  the  hatchet 
or  keep  on  slinging  it?" 

So,  here  is  your  chance,  fans,  your 
chance  to  tell  IVinchcU  something! 

To  tell  U'iitchel!  something  he  wants  to 
know — Walter,  who  has  told  you  so  mucli, 
opened  so  many  doors,  given  you  a  peek 
through  so  many  keyholes,  pulled  up  so 
many  Venetian  blinds,  revealed  so  many 
hearts  to  you  and,  possibly,  to  themselves. 
Winchell,  who  has  championed  so  many 
causes,  not  only  "  cek-hs"  but  lost  and 
humble  causes,  to(^.  Winchell.  who  cer- 
tainly can  give  it  but  can  take  it,  too.  He 
said  to  me :  "Go  ahead  and  write  anything 
you  want  to  write  about  me.  I  give  you 
carte  blanche.  What  else  could  I  do,  even 
if  I  wanted  to  ?  Can  you  imagine  nie  pro- 
testing anything  written  about  me?  The 
roar  that  would  go  up — 'Ha,  Winchell  can't 
take  it!'  He  added:  "I  just  hope  you  get 
the  gags  right!" 

I  hope  I  have.  I  never  thought  to  have  a 
Winchell-at-my-mercy  feeling.  But,  when 
you  come  to  think  of  it,  no  one  stands  with 
chest  so  defenselessly  bared  to  the  stabbing 
pen  as  the  man  who  signs  off  on  the  air : 
"zvith  lotions  of  love!"  And — I  believe — 
really  means  it! 


Take  your  chance,  fans.  Tell  Walter  and 
the  Old  Maestro  what  they  want  to  know. 

Later  Bernie  said  to  me :  "The  thing  is 
out  of  our  hands,  as  Walter  says.  I  wish 
it  were  out  of  our  lives.  Why,  when  I  play 
at  the  Cocoanut  Grove  nowadays,  or  where- 
ever  I  happen  to  be.  people  pass  by  and 
call  out:  'Hey,  Winchell.  play  this,  will 
you?'  or  'How's  Winclioll?'  It's  never 
'Hulloa  Maestro,'  any  more.'' 

L  said :  "But  seriously.  Maestro,  you  do 
like  Walter,  don't  you?" 

"If  he  needed  bed  and  board,"  said  Ben, 
"I'd  ask  him  to  share  my  apartment,  but 
I'd  lock  up  my  money  I" 

I  persisted:  "Be  serious.    I've  got  to  be." 

"All  right,  then,"  said  Bernie  affably, 
chewing  the  end  nt  his  perpetual  and  un- 
lighted  cigar,  "seriously.  I  do  like  Walter, 
but  I'd  still  tighten  up  my  wallet,  if  I  saw 
him  coming.'' 

And  Walter  said,  when  I  asked  him  the 
same  question :  "Sure.  I  like  him.  Ben's 
all  right,  the  rat.  We've  known  each  other 
for  twenty  years.  \\'e've  been  in  the  same 
racket,  swimming  in  the  same  pond.  It 
breeds  likenesses.  I've  often  thought  that 
this  rumor  about  Bernie  and  me  being 
related  may  come  from  the  fact  that  there 
is  a  certain  resemblance,  not  only  between 
Bernie  and  me  but  between  Bernie,  Jack 
Benny.  Jessel.  all  of  us.  But — a  Winchell 
kin  to  a  Bernie — a  liege  lord  to  a  louse  I  .  .  . 
Yeah.  sure.  I  like  him  all  right.  But  Ben 
doesn't  change.  I  still  think  tlie  manager 
of  the  Palace  Theatre  in  Xew  York  was 
right.  Ben  was  playing  the  Palace,  in  the 
old  days.  He  was  second  on  the  bill.  He 
followed  a  monkey  act.  He  went  to  the 
manager  and  complained.  He  said  he  would 


walk  out  if  he  had  to  follow  the  monkeys. 
The  manager  sympathized  with  him.  He 
said :  'Even  I  don't  want  you  to  follow  the 
monkeys — it  would  look  like  an  encore !'  " 

The  seventieth  take  did  it.  Director 
Lanfield,  limp  and  all  but  licked,  called  an 
agent  and  booked  passage  for  Honolulu 
then  and  there.  Walter  asked  me  if  I  would 
like  to  remain  for  the  "unveiling." 

I  remained.  The  unveiling  turned  out  to 
be,  first  two  secretaries,  Bernie's  and 
Walter's,  staggering  in,  laden  down  with 
packages.  Then  "the  boys"  made  the  pre- 
sentations. Bernie  said  to  me,  aside :  "The 
cutest  thing — I  had  all  I  could  do  to  get 
Walter  to  take  part  in  the  presentations. 
He  went  bashful  on  me — after  the  places 
he's  been !  He  stood  first  on  one  foot,  then 
the  other,  looking  like  a  sick  stork,  and 
said  :  'Ai^\  yon  do  it!'  " 

Eventually.  they  collaborated.  They 
bestowed  handsome,  monosrammed  pajamas 
on  the  cameraman,  a>>istant  director, 
others.  Cases  of  Scotch  were  distributed 
among  the  members  of  the  crew.  To  Sid- 
ney Lanfield  they  gave  the  most  costly 
and  exquisite  watch  I  have  ever  seen. 
Crystal,  paper-thin,  set  in  diamonds. 

And  when  the  presentations  were  all 
made,  Walter  whipped  out  the  gat  he  al- 
ways carries  and  yelled  :  "Hands  up,  every- 
body and — aive  'em  back!" 

And  then,  using  separate  exits.  Bernie 
and  Walter  vanished  into  the  night. 

You  must  draw  your  own  conclusions : 
Do  they  mean  it  or  do  they  not?  That  still 
is  the  question.  My  guess,  for  what  it  is 
worth,  is  this :  That  their  biting  tongues 
and  stabbing  pens  belie  their  hearts,  which 
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ot  an  American  ix'\r\  who  went 
and  ilisc'ucred  it  was  iirctty 
l;.  c\en  though  she  was  doin.t; 
lor  herself.  But  she  never 
reached  the  top  until  Europe  went  mad 
about  her. 

Today,  even  old  vaudeville  enthusiasts, 
tn  reniMiisce  ahont  the  ''1<1  (la\ s, 
--ociate  a  plump  little  i:n-l  in  piu- 
1  ^aiiL;  cnmedx'  sun',;--  with  .i  I  n'r- 
.-nt    in    (  uis    l'.(lwar(K'    rc\  iic  ami 
Ml    as    llUdcnanic,   with   the  tall, 
I  and  >ni)ixT  club  singer  of  toda\% 
lic.irls  racing  with  her  exquisite 
ballads.  \'nu  -ee.  Hildegarde  wasn't  creat- 
ing a  stir  in  those  da\ s. 

She  had  to  win  London  and  Paris  and 
Brussels  and  \'ienna  before  she  could  win 
her  own  country.  That's  the  reasnn  her 
contract  with  NBC  stipulates  that  they 
must  let  her  gn  to  luirope  e\evy  \ear  to 
sing.     That's    her  of    shdwing  her 

gratitude  tn  lunope. 

In  a  few  weeks  Hildegarde  will  be 
going  to  London  for  a  special  Coronation 
engagement  at  the  Ritz.  Strange,  isn't  it, 
that  it's  an  .-\merican  girl  who's  known  as 
the  royal  singer  at  that  ultra-sinart  Lon- 
don hotel,  but  the  fact  reinains  that  it's 
Hildegarde  the  management  sends  for  when 
any  royal  event  is  to  be  celebrated. 

She  sang  there  wdien  London  was  en- 
thusing over  King  George  the  Fifth  and 
Queen  Mary's  jubilee,  and  she's  sung  there 
whenever  there  was  a  royal  wedding  or 
ro\al  birth  or  royal  anything  to  make 
merry  over.  And  she  will  sing  there  when 
the  most  important  royal  event  of  all  is 
taking  place — the  Coronation. 

People  talk  of  Hildegarde's  show-man- 
ship,  but  that  very  showmanship  is  born  of 
her  simplicity.  She  is  a  girl  who  is  es- 
sentially herself,  who  says  wdiat  she  thinks 
and  what  she  feels.  When  she  wants  to 
cry,  she  cries,  and  when  she  wants  to  laugh, 
she  laughs,  and  others  who  have  spent  a 
lifetime  in  curbing  their  instincts  and  emo- 
tions, to  ac(|uiie  the  poise  they  feel  so 
essential  to  modern  living,  look  at  her  with 
envy. 

And  because  they  can't  understand  that 
a  different  kind  of  poise,  an  unstinlied,  art- 
kind,  can  i)e  had  by  sinnily  being 
ihcnisel vcs,  they  put  Hildegarde's  down  to 
showmanship  and  let  it  go  at  that. 

Well,  if.  it's  showmanship,  Hildegarde 
had  it  when  she  was  a  little  girl,  back  in 
Milwaukee.  She  had  it  when  she  went  tear- 
inu  .around  corners  on  her  skates  and  cried, 
snnietinies,  when  she  fell  down,  and 
laughed,  just  as  often,  if  the  situation  hap- 
pened to  be  funnier  tlian  her  hurt. 

She  had  it  when  she  tended  store  for  her 
father,  having  to  stand  on  a  cracker  bar- 
rel so  that  her  curly  head  came  higher 
than  the  counter,  and  when  she  swiped 
chewing  gum  from  the  candy  counter  to 
give  in  exchange  for  the  pictures  a  school 
chum  drew  and  wdiich  Hildegarde  thought 
were  the  most  l)eautifiil  in  the  whole  wide 
world. 

She  had  it  wlien  she  sat  on  the  stoop 
summer  afternoons,  sewing  dolls'  dresses 
out  of  the  bright  scraps  of  silk  she  begged 


from  the  family  dressmaker,  and  she  had  it 
the  times  she  decided  being  a  tomboy  was 
more  fun  than  being  a  perfect  little  mother 
and  went  tearing  around  playing  kick-the- 
can  and  leapfrog  and  tag  and  all  the  other 
games  boys  play. 

Just  as  she  had  it  that  night  in  Brussels, 
when  she  was  singing  in  a  smart  supper 
club  and  fell  as  she  came  back  to  take  an 
encore.  .'\nd  of  course  it  would  happen 
thcit  she  fell  on  that  particular  spot  of  her 
anatomy  which  means  a  laugh  in  any 
language. 

Many  a  girl  would  have  been  so  cha- 
grined by  that  fall,  she  would  have  been 
helpless  to  meet  the  situation.  But  Hilde- 
garde was  the  same  Hildegarde  who  had 
fallen  on  her  roller  skates  back  in  Mil- 
waukee and  she  rose,  frowning  just  a  little, 
as  she  rubbed  the  place  she  had  fallen  on, 
and  said  in  a  plaintive,  little  girl  voice: 
"Oh  my!  That  Inirt!"  And  won  her  audi- 
ence completely. 

Back  in  those  days  when  she  was  grow- 
ing from  a  plump  little  girl  with  pigtails 
to  a  plump  little  girl  in  her  'teens  she  never 
had  given  a  thought  to  her  voice.  Neither 
did  her  family.  They  were  a  musical  lot, 
those  people  of  hers.  Her  mother  has  played 
the  organ  in  church  for  twenty-five  years, 
and  Sunday  afternoons  her  father  used  to 
take  down  his  violin  and  there  was  one 
sister  who  could  play  any  musical  instru- 
ment at  all,  and  who  today  is  managing 
and  playing  in  a  girls'  orchestra,  and  there 
was  another  who,  everybody  knew,  had  a 
fine  voice,  and  who  now  is  studying  for 
grand  opera. 

Maybe  it  was  because  Hildegarde's  songs 
always  came  so  effortlessly  and  she  had 
such  fun  singing,  that  no  one  took  her  voice 
seriously,  herself  least  of  all.  But  she  did 
dream,  sometimes,  of  doing  something  with 
her  piano. 

So  she  always  accompanied  someone  else 
when  she  went  to  parties,  boys  and  girls 
who  had  grown  up  with  her  and  who  have 
gone  along  in  their  own  way  and  prob- 
ably are  singing  at  parties  and  hearing 
their  friends  tell  them  how  marvelous  they 
are.  But  it  was  Hildegarde,  the  girl  no- 
body thought  had  a  voice,  who  carved  her- 
self a  career  with  it. 

The  piano  made  it  possible. 

A  vaudeville  act  came  to  town  that 
took  complete  hold  of  her  imagination.  It 
was  called  Jerry  and  Hrr  Baby  Grands, 
and  it  consisted  of  eight  girls  in  Colonial 
costumes,  playing  on  white  baby  grand 
pianos. 

"It  was  the  most  wonderful  thing  I  ever 
had  seen!"  Hildegarde  laughs  at  herself 
now,  renietnbering.  "All  I  could  think  of 
was  my.scli"  in  niie  of  those  satin  costumes 
and  powdered  wigs,  and,  afterwards,  I 
picked  up  enough  nerve  to  go  backstage 
and  ask-  lor  a  job.  Jerry  was  simply  grand 
to  nic  and  asked  me  to  play  and  I  thought 
that  was  the  end  of  it,  but  a  few  weeks 
later  1  g<>t  ,i  wire  asking  me  to  join  the  act 
in  Springluld,  .Massachusetts. 

"The  wire,  in  itself,  would  have  been 
enough  to  get  me  jittery.  In  those  days 
even  a  letter  addressed  to  me  was  an  event. 


But  actually  to  be  going  on  the  stage  I 
My  mother  and  father  were  terribly  upset 
at  the  thought  of  it.  but  I  finally  convinced 
tliem  that  when  opportunity  comes  you 
must  take  advantage  of  it.  So  there  I  was. 
a  funny  little  girl  in  her  'teens,  going  ofT 
by  herself. 

"I  wasn't  even  afraid  of  what  might  be 
before  me  and  that  shows  what  a  com- 
plete little  ninny  I  was !  Why,  that  first 
night  in  Springfield,  I  sat  down  at  my 
piano  and  there  I  was,  as  completely  at 
home  as  if  I  were  playing  for  the  family, 
and  twisting  my  head  around  to  grin  at 
the  audience. 

"It  was  all  a  game  in  the  beginning.  But 
afterwards  I  found  out  what  being  on  my 
own  really  meant.  It  was  a  crazy,  topsy- 
turvy world  for  a  kid  who  was  still  to  wear 
her  first  pair  of  silk  stockings.  I  found 
out  what  it  meant  to  be  in  and  out  of  en- 
gagements and  to  live  without  eating  and 
all  the  other  things  girls  discover  when 
they  set  out  to  find  a  stage  career  for 
themselves. 

"My  mother  and  father  worried  about  me 
terribly  and  w'hen  I  visited  them,  they 
used  to  beg  me  to  give  up  this  uncertain 
existence  and  come  home.  But  I  begged 
them  to  be  patient  and  understanding. 

"  'Just  wait  and  see,"  I  told  them.  'You'll 
be  proud  of  me  some  day  !'  " 

It  was  while  Hildegarde  was  in  a  Western 
act,  strutting  around  the  stage  in  cliaps  and 
fombrero  and  playing  the  accompaniment 
for  the  cowboy  tenor,  that  she  mn  Anna 
Sosenko,  the  girl  who  is  her  manaser  tnda.\-. 
.■\nna's  mother  owned  a  boanliny-house  in 
Camden,  where  Hildegarde  stayed  during 
a  week's  engagement,  and  one  of  those 
rare  friendships  sprang  up  between  the 
girls. 

Hildegarde  counts  it  one  of  the  luckiest 
things  that  ever  happened  to  her.  In  the 
beginning,  neither  girl  thought  that  those 
long  talks  of  theirs  would  mean  anything 
more  than  a  tightening  of  the  Iwnd  be- 
tween them.  They  dreamed  and  planned, 
as  girls  will,  and  when  Hildegarde  gave 
up  the  precarious  existence  of  vaudeville 
for  a  small,  steady  income  as  song  plugger 
with  the  Irving  Berlin  Music  Publishing 
Company,  Anna  might  have  been  disap- 
pointed but  she  never  let  Hildegarde  know 
it. 

So  there  she  was,  just  as  she  had  been 
on  those  parties  back  in  Milwaukee,  play- 
ing accompaniments  for  singers,  trying  out 
the  new  songs,  and  never  dreaming  she 
would  go  farther  than  any  of  them.  But 
one  day,  when  she  was  alone  in  her  little 
cubbyhole,  she  found  herself  singing  softly 
to  herself  as  she  played  a  song  over  for  the 
first  time — and  it  happened  that  someone 
else  heard  it. 

That  was  the  reason  for  her  engagement 
accompanying  the  De  Marcos,  where  she 
was  given  the  chance  to  sing  the  choruses 
of  popular  songs  while  they  changed  their 
costumes. 

It  was  when  she  was  with  the  famous 
ballroom  dancers  that  Gus  Edwards  saw 
her  and  headlined  her  in  his  revue  for  two 
seasons.  And  then,  just  when  Hildegarde 
was  really  beginning  to  go  places,  vaude- 
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Hildegarde  might  not  have  listened  to 
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of  the  profession  she  had  chosen  for  her- 
self. She  talked  it  over  with  Anna,  as  she 
always  talked  everything  over  with  her, 
and  as  she  listened  to  her  friend's  advice, 
she  suddenly  realized  how  important 
Anna's  advice  always  had  been  to  her. 

"I'll  go,  if  you'll  go  along  as  my  man- 
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ness partnership. 

They  must  have  been  frightened,  those 
two  girls,  setting  ofif  for  Europe  togetlier, 
seeing  the  New  York  skyline  and  their 
own  vast  country  fading  into  a  thin  line 
on  the  horizon. 

When  her  engagement  in  London  was 
finished,  Hildegarde  got  a  dazzling  offer 
from  Paris  and  the  two  girls  were  so 
excited  they  forgot  to  be  seasick  on  the 
rough  passage  across  the  channel.  But  in 
two  weeks  the  cafe  went  liankrupt,  owing 
Hildegarde  ten  thousand  francs  and 
leaving  her  completely  stranded. 

For  she  had  bought  clothes  with  the 
money  from  her  Lijudon  engagement, 
dazzling,  sophisticated  cldtlies  to  set  off  the 
new  Hildegarde.  I'miny,  li..w  fast  she  had 
started  to  i;ni\\  up'  In  those  months  in 
I.niidr.n  she  had  shot  up  into  a  tall,  reed- 
h'kc  L'irl  who  had  left  plumpness  behind 
li<  r  .nid  there  was  the  soft,  long  bob  to 
arci  iitnate  her  new  slimness  and  chic. 

I'Or  a  while  they  lived  on  credit,  and 
Anna  knew,  even  better  than  Hildegarde, 
the  importance  of  keeping  up  appearances. 
They  had  to  live  in  the  best  hotels  and 
wear  the  most  expensive  of  clothes  and  so 
they  watched  their  bills  luounting  with 
alternate  despair  and  hope.  And  there 
were  tiines  when  they  forgot  the  high 
dreams  tlicy  had  held  in  their  hearts. 

Thi  re  was  the  night  tliey  came  back  to 
the  hotel  .ind  found  their  door  locked 
a>/;iiii^i  lliiiii,  with  an  adamant  manage- 
miiii  liol.liii''  their  trunks.  It  was  Anna 
who  went  to  the  cashier  and  pleaded  with 


him,  and  so  strong  w-ere  her  convictions 
that  Hildegarde  would  make  good  that  she 
was  able  to  convince  him,  too,  and  he 
personally  guaranteed  their  credit. 

When  the  breaks  finally  came  and  Hilde- 
garde was  riding  the  crest  of  the  wave,  she 
had  all  those  past  bills  to  pay  back.  That's 
why  they  had  to  economize  so  in  every 
way,  except  as  to  the  place  they  lived  in. 

"I'm  glad  now  it  was  like  that,"  Hilde- 
garde says.  "It  made  those  three  years  in 
Europe  so  colorful.  We  always  were  poor, 
in  spite  of  the  salary  I  was  making,  but 
through  being  poor  we  came  to  know 
Europe  as  only  Europeans  can.  When  we 
traveled  we  took  third  class,  and  our 
amusements  always  were  such  simple  ones. 
Long  walks  in  the  Bois  on  Sunday  morn- 
ings and  bicycle  trips  into  the  country  and, 
after  my  work  at  the  club  was  finished,  I 
used  to  walk  back  to  the  hotel  to  save 
taxi  fare. 

"If  I  hadn't  had  all  those  bills  to  pay  I 
wouldn't  have  sren  the  Seine  as  I  saw  it 
then,  all  niisix  ami  i;r,i\  in  the  early  morn- 
ing, and  I  wdiililii't  lia\e  seen  the  market 
women  coming  in  from  the  country  in  tlieir 
carts,  and  bought  chestnuts  from  them  and 
crunched  them  as  I  walked. 

"And  you  know  those  are  the  things 
I'm  looking  forward  most  of  all  to  doing 
again,  when  we  go  back.  Only  now  I'll 
be  able  to  buy  their  flowers,  too,  that  I 
could  only  look  at  wistfully  before.  And 
they're  so  lovcl\-,  those  country  flowers, 
witli  their  gaudy  colors." 

I'ame  was  overtaking  Hildegarde  and 
she  learned  that  being  successful  meant 
twice  as  much  work  as  being  unknown. 
The  Ritz  Hotel  sent  for  her  to  open  then- 
new  supper  room  and  later,  when  London 
was  all  agog  over  the  marriage  of  the 
Duke  and  Duchess  of  Kent,  it  was  Hilde- 
garde who  sang  for  the  smart  Mayfair 
socialite^  celebrating  the  event,  as  usual, 
at  the  Ritz. 


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Then  the  British  Broadcasting  Company 
engaged  her  and  she  made  the  long  trip 
from  Paris  to  London  twice  a  month  to 
sing  ten  minutes  on  the  air. 

"It  was  all  so  exciting.  '  Hildegarde  says 
now.  "But  sometimes  Anna  and  I  were  so 
homesick,  we  could  hardly  stand  it  and 
we  used  to  wonder  it  wed  ever  get  back 
to  America  again.  We  didn't  see  how  we 
could  go  back  to  the  uncertainty  over  here, 
where  I  was  unknown,  when  in  Europe  I 
had  reached  the  happy  position  of  being 
able  to  choose  among  all  the  engagements 
offered  me. 

"But  it's  funny  how  things  work  them- 
selves out.  John  Royal,  of  NBC,  heard  my 
records  while  he  was  on  one  of  his  trips 
tc  Europe  and  then  came  over  to  Paris  to 
hear  me  sing. 

"He  offered  me  a  contract,  and  Anna  and 
I  were  so  excited  on  the  trip  home  we 
couldn't  stop  talking  about  all  the  things 
we  were  going  to  do  and  see  and  hear. 
For  the  first  time  we  realized  how  much 
we  had  changed  in  those  three  years 
abroad,  that  we  weren't  kids  any  longer  but 
grcwn-up  women  who  had  their  full 
share  of  adversity  and  success. 

"On  my  first  broadcast  I  sang  the  song 
Anna  had  written  while  we  were  away. 
It's  called.  Darling.  Je  Vous  Aiiite  Beau- 
coup,  and  I've  used  it  as  my  signature 
ever  since. 

"We  had  ridden  out  into  the  country 
on  our  bicycles  and  stopped  to  rest  in 
front  of  the  little  British  cemetery  near 
Le  Touquet,  when  Anna  had  a  sudden 
inspiration  and  wrote  the  song  on  the 
paper  our  lunch  had  been  wrapped  in.  I 
sang  it  as  soon  she  finished  it  and  now, 
when  I  sing  it,  it's  almost  as  if  we  were 
back  there,  and  wondering  if  we'd  ever 
get  back  to  our  own  country  and  our  own 
people  again. 

"So  that's  the  way  things  always  have 
gone  with  me — with  work  and  fun  and 
sadness  and  hope  and  uncertainty,  all 
jumbled  together  in  this  thing  that  has 
become  my  career.  Sometimes  romance 
comes  along,  too,  gay  and  exciting,  and 
I've  welcomed  it — for  no  woman's  life  is 
complete  without  a  man's  interest  in  it, 
somewhere.  But,  as  gay  as  they've  been, 
these  little  romances,  and  as  exciting,  too, 
there  never  has  been  one  strong  enough  to 
make  me  consider  marriage. 

"For,  if  I  find  myself  becoming  too  in- 
terested in  a  romance,  I  run  away  from  it 
before  it  absorbs  me  too  deeply.  Because 
I'm  going  to  postpone  love,  tiie  real  endur- 
ing kind,  until  I've  got  to  the  place  in  my 
career  where  I  want  to  be. 

"I've  worked  too  hard  for  it  to  give  it 
up  until  I  have  convinced  myself  that  I've 
got  as  far  in  it  as  I  can.  And  if  I  marry, 
I  will  give  it  up,  for  I  am  convinced  that 
a  career  and  marriage  do  not  go  together." 

She'll  do  what  she  says,  too,  this  girl,  a? 
she  always  has  done  the  things  she  ha> 
wanted  to  do.  And  she'll  be  as  happy, 
giving  up  all  the  fame  and  adulation,  as 
she  was  in  working  to  attain  them. 

For,  essentially,  the  Hildegarde  of  today 
is  the  same  small  Hildegarde  who  used  to 
wait  on  customers  back  in  her  father's 
grocery  store  in  Milwaukee,  the  little  girl 
who  laughed  when  she  wanted  to  laugh 
and  cried  when  she  wanted  to  cry. 

A  girl  who  is  so  grand  because  she 
never  has  wanted  to  be  anybody  else  in  the 
world  except  herself. 


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For  you— the  allure  of 
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SWING  THAT  MUSIC! 


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your  skin  an  olluring,  youthful,  silky 
finish.  Lasts  all  day,  will  not  rub  off 
or  streak.  Shades — Peach,  Rachel, 
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necessary  for  him  to  travel,  to  be  now  in 
the  Kast.  now  on  tlie  West  Coast  as  oppor- 
tunity offered.  Mareia  wiUint;!)-  kept  her- 
self free  to  go  with  him,  to  make  a  home 
for  them  \vhere\er  they  might  have  to  be. 

"She  alwa\s  knows  what  to  do  at  the 
riglit  time,"  Phil  declared  earnestly.  "She 
is  not  only  beautiful,  she's  smart — too 
smart  for  me  !    She  gives  up  everything." 

.^iid  so,  heacuse  Phil  insists  on  it,  credit 
goes  to  Marcia  for  their  ten  years  of 
happy  married  life  —  happy  in  spite  of 
much  junketing  around,  of  never  having 
a  real  home,  of  the  inevitable  slighting  of 
AIarcia"s  own  career.  Occasionally  she  has 
had  a  chance  to  work  in  pictures,  once  for 
six  months  she  worked  with  Phil  as  a 
featured  dancer.  But  all  that  is  secondary, 
it  is  being  together  that  counts. 

"You  must  have  a  lot  in  common,"  I 
suggested,  "to  be  so  happy." 

He  grinned.  "We  get  along  swell,  but 
we  haven't  anything  in  common  !  We  don't 
like  the  same  things  at  all,  don't  even 
have  the  same  tastes  in  food.  She  is  Eng- 
lish, I  am  American.  I  love  horses,  she 
is  scared  to  death  of  them.  She  loves  to 
read,  I  never  open  a  book  except  when 
she  hands  me  some  special  book  —  like 
Gone  the  Wind — and  insists  on  my 

reading  it.  She  likes  bridge — I  like  ping 
pong!  1  attend  to  my  business,  she  at- 
tends to  hers — I  think  it  is  much  better 
this  wa\,"  he  concluded  simply. 

.\nd  how  could  he  help  thinking  so, 
since,  for  these  two,  it  has  wi  irked  out  so 
perfectly?  For,  in  spite  nf  diverging  in- 
terests and  opposing  characteristics,  they 
have  built  a  deeply  satis f\iiig  life  together. 
The  only  lack  they  admit  is  the  lack  of 
cliiUlren.  They've  always  wanted  them, 
the\-  still  hope  to  have  them.  Not  adopted, 
but  their  very  own. 

Meanwhile,  they  work  and  play  with  a 
full  measure  of  enjoyment.  They  ha\e 
many  friends,  mainly  among  musicians, 
music  publishers  and  the  movie  and  radio 
people.  Hut  they  do  little  entertaining. 
Their  tastes  are  simple,  they  work  hard 
;ind  li;ivc  little  time  for  recreation. 

As  far  as  I'liil  is  concerned,  he  does  not 
mind  traveling,  although  he  likes  to  think 
of  (  '.difornia  as  .home  and  dreams  of  set- 
tling iliiwn  there  some  day.  Hut  traveling 
is  as  much  in  his  blood  as  jazz  itself,  for 
his  lather  was  cnnnerted  with  tent  shows, 
and  bis  ImyliiKid,  except  for  school  days, 
was  spent  touring  the  country. 

Inevitably  the  smell  of  sawdnst,  the  lure 
of  the  big  top,  was  felt  1).\-  tin-  growing 
boy — so  much  so  that,  after  a  disagree- 
ment with  his  dad,  he  wrote  to  one  of  the 
bigger  circuses  asking  for  a  job.  But  the 
card  turning  him  down  reached  his  father 
first  and,  alarmed  at  the  possibilities,  Mr. 
Harris  tried  to  impress  his  young  son  with 
the  hardships,  the  misery  attendant  upon 
a  career  beneath  canvas.  And  wisely,  he 
sought  to  divert  Phil's  interest  to  soine- 
thing  else.  Because  he  himself  was  a  mu- 
sician, music  offered  itself  as  a  solution  to 
the  problem  and  Phil  was  put  to  master- 
ing the  fundamentals. 

His  first  professional  engagement  v>as 


as  a  drummer,  and  for  several  years  Phil 
drummed  his  way  around  the  country  with 
dance  orchestras.  It  was  his  drumming,  in 
fact,  which  led  to  his  eventual  engage- 
ment to  play  in  Australia  and  thus  indi- 
rectly led  to  his  marriage. 

It  was  at  the  height  of  the  jazz  craze 
and  Ainerican  bands  were  being  taken  on 
tour  to  the  various  parts  of  the  globe.  Be- 
cause it  was  expensive  to  engage  a  full 
band,  a  leader  who  was  intent  on  taking 
a  band  "cIdwii  under"  picked  up  representa- 
tive musicians  here  and  there,  a  saxophone 
player,  a  trumpeter  and,  of  course,  a 
drummer. 

"For  no  particular  reason  he  picked  me," 
Phil  explained  modestly.  He  was  glad 
enough  to  go — why  not?  He  was  young 
and  fancy-free.  He  did  not  dream  that 
when  they  returned,  a  year  later,  Mrs. 
Phil  Harris  would  be  traveling  with  them! 
But  from  the  time  he  first  saw  Marcia 
Ralston,  he  knew  there  never  would  be 
anyone  else  for  him. 

That  was  ten  years  ago,  and  in  spite  of 
his  \aried  and  colorful  career,  his  popular- 
ity in  the  gayest  night  spots  in  Hollywood 
and  New  York,  liis  ass,  ciation  with  movie 
stars  and  soci.iliu  ilie  main  theme  of  his 
life  has  been  unbrnken.  It  is  the  same 
Mrs.  Harris  who  rccentl\'  has  been  poring 
over  blueprints,  excitedly  planning  their 
new,  and  first,  home. 

They  have  liought  seven  and  a  half 
acres  and  set  out  avacadn,  lime  and  lemon 
trees — and  when  a  bit  of  nniisiial  weather 
hit  southern  California  this  winter,  dump- 
ing into  its  sunny  lap  a  most  unexpected 
freeze,  Phil  hovered  over  his  little  trees, 
phoned  wildl\-  to  e\er_\dne  he  could  think 
of  to  ask  for  ad\ice  and  help,  bemoaning 
the  fact  that  he  had  not  been  prepared 
with  smudge  pots.  Some  damage  was  done, 
but  not  a  great  deal.  The  temperature  rose 
and  Phil  could  breathe  easily  again  ! 

The  house  is  to  be  a  rambling  ranch  house 
of  brick  and  wood,  built  around  a  patio. 
From  Phil's  point  of  view,  the  main  fea- 
ture is  the  bachelor  apartinent  which  he 
decided  upon  in  place  of  the  more  tradi- 
tiiinal  and  often  unused  den. 

"It  will  be  finished  in  knotty-  pine,  with 
a  big  fire-place — there  will  be  twin  beds 
and  a  bath,  so  that  it  will  serxe  as  a  guest 
room  when  needed — and  it  will  have  gun 


Tlierc  was  a  faraway  look  in  Phil's  eyes. 
"I  am  craz\-  about  guns,"  he  admitted.  "I've 
got  ever\  kind  \ou  can  think  of — r\e  car- 
ried them  all  over  the  country,  at  great  ex- 
pense, but  I  never  get  a  chance  to  use  them  1" 
He  chuckled,  "I  am  going  to  have  bird 
t,,ii — tlu>  are  my  favorites.  And 
some  day  I  ma\-  actuall\-  go  hunting  again 
— it's  been  over  two  years  since  I've  hunted 
anything.  I've  been  planning  for  at  least 
two  \ears  to  go  into  Mexico — maybe  I'll 
get  there  yet ! 

"Musicians  can't  plan  vacations  like  other 
people,"  he  explained,  "can't  say  :  Til  take 
a  couple  of  weeks  of?  next  month,'  for 
instance.  For  one  thing,  they  are  always 
afraid  they  might  /i«7r  to  take  a  vacation!" 
He  grinned.    "And  a  long  one,  at  that!" 


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Pa  Baxter  and  Horace  Newcomb 
of  CBS'  Ma  and  Pa  series  are  Par- 
ker Fennelly  and  Harry  Humphrey. 

He  likes  fishing,  too,  and  riding — he  used 
to  play  a  little  polo  when  he  had  the  time. 
"I  wasn't  very  good  at  it,"  he  confessed, 
"but  it's  great  sport.  I  don't  have  time 
now,  of  course  .  .  . 

"I  don't  suppose  wi'll  even  ha\c  a  chance 
to  live  in  our  house,"  Ik  ml;!k(1,  "hut  we're 
having  the  time  of  <air  liuiklini;  it. 

And  my  mother  and  fatlKr  will  enjoy  it — 
it  will  be  fun  when  we  can  come  back  to  it !" 

With  the  ending  of  the  Palomar  engage- 
ment in  January,  the  pressure  was  some- 
what relieved.  Phil  felt  the  bi\vs  needed 
a  rest  and  planned  nnly  occasional  one- 
night  stands  in  nearby  towns.  In  June, 
when  the  Benny  program  closes  for  the 
summer,  he  expects  to  take  his  band  to 
New  York,  to  play  in  theatres  in  the  East, 
opening  up  with  Jack  again  in  Septemlier 
and  returning  to  the  Coast  when  he  does. 
To  the  Coast  and  to  the  r.inch  house  ! 

There  is  ncitliinu  s\\ank\-  about  the  place, 
it  isn't  being  built  lor  show,  but  for  a 
home  for  two  ]ico|ilc  who  have  almost,  if  not 
quite,  had  eiiougli  of  touring,  of  topsy- 
turvy living,  sleeping  by  day,  working  by 
night. 

But  if  it  is  arduous,  Phil  thrives  on  it. 
And  if  you  doubt  his  devotion,  if  you  tliink 
a  musician,  a  bandleaiU  r  wouhl  m.ike  a 
poor  husband,  you  may  change  your  mind 
when  you  learn  that,  after  playing  six 
nights  a  week  until  the  wee  small  hours  at 
a  night  club,  rehearsing  Saturday  and  ap- 
pearing Sunday  on  the  radio  program, 
Phil  Harris  makes  a  practice  of  taking  his 
wife,  not  to  the  theatre  or  to  the  movies  or 
to  spend  a  quiet  hour  with  some  friends,  but 
to  some  bright  spot  for  music  and  (lancing, 
every  Sunday  night  after  the  program. 

"It  is  our  weekly  date."  he  smiled. 

"You  must  like  dancing,"  I  commented. 

"Like  it?  How  could  I  like  it?  I  get 
fed  up  just  watching  it !"  Rut  he  grinned 
again,  a  shy,  shamefaced  grin,  almost  as  if 
lie  were  embarrassed.  "It's  the  only  chance 
Marcia  has  to  get  out,  as  a  rule,  the  only 
time  we  can  go  together — and  after  sitting 
around  the  house  or  working  in  the  studio, 
she  needs  a  change." 

So,  after  all,  the  giving  isn't  all  on  one 
side.  However  different  they  are  in  non- 
essentials, they  are  alike  in  this,  that  noth- 
ing is  more  important  to  either  than  the 
other's  happiness,  than  their  mutual  under- 
standing and  the  permanence  of  their  mar- 
riage. 


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when  the  occasion  or  the  script  calls  for 
comedy,  but  not  all  of  the  time.  He 
would  like  an  occasional  breakilown  into 
seriousness.  To  sustain  comedy  through- 
out an  hour's  program,  he  says,  is  a 
burden  not  to  be  borne  perpetually.  Half 
an  hour  is  enough  for  any  program,  to 
Charlie's  way  of  thinking. 

And  the  chances  are  about  100  to  1  that 
you  will  be  hearing  Charlie  being  a  mas- 
ter of  ceremonies,  come  a  few  more 
moons.  For  all  the  sponsors  are  a-bidding, 
I  am  told. 

"It's  been  great  for  me,"  Charlie  was 
saying.  "It's  got  me  up  on  my  toes  again, 
the  timing,  the  pacing,  the  audience.  Now 
I  have  everything  a  showman  wants.  I 
have  the  immediate  audience,  such  as  I 
used  to  have  on  the  stage  and  have  al- 
ways missed,  and  I  have  the  unseen  au- 
dience, such  as  we  have  in  pictures.  It's  really 
snapping  me  up,  making  a  man  of  me. 
It's  all  very  gratifying.  The  reactions 
have  been  srcat.  (irrat!" 

And  I  tbduglu  of  one  reaction  which  I 
know  gratified  him.  For  W.  C.  Fields 
wrote  from  his  sanitorium.  where  he  has 
been  so  ill,  that  Butterworth  has  saved  his 
life.  He  listens  to  him  avidly.  He  chuck- 
les and  gets  the  only  real  heartening 
"belly-laughs"  he  has  had.  He  can't,  he 
says,  leave  the  sanitorium,  because  he  owns 
the  only  radio  there  and  he  couldn't  take 
it  with  him  and  thus  deprive  the  other  pa- 
tients of  Butterworth ! 

When  I  reminded  Charlie  of  this,  he 
said:  "That  is  the  most  supreme  of  all 
compliments.  For  Fields  is  the  greatest 
comedian  of  his  time,  the  very  greatest. 
Ted  Healy  is  another  great  coinedian. 
Neither  of  them  may  ever  attain  the 
proportions  of  Chaplin,  who  now  is  a 
legend,  but  that  is  because  Cliaplin  began 
in  the  beginning." 

The  radio  work,  Charlie  resumed,  spares 
him  much.  Because,  despite  his  tempest- 
uous nature,  he  really  is  very  timid.  He 
snys  so.  He  dislikes  public  recognition. 
He  hides  behind  napkins  and  menus  and 
things,  when  people  point  him  out  in  cafes 
and  restaurants.  He  resents  and  shrinks 
from  l)eing  asked  what  brand  of  tooth- 
paste he  uses,  how  many  blankets  he 
sleeps  under,  the  color  of  his  —  ah  — 
shorts.  These  seem  tn  liini  t"  lie  private 
and  rather  sacred  niatlcrs  ami  he  does 
not  see  how  anyone  lias  a  ri.uht  to  know 
about  them,  much  less  to  ask.  He  never 
reads  fan  stories  about  himself,  columns  or 
reviews  of  his  own  pictures.  It  gives  him 
the  jitters,  he  declared  without  a  jitter,  to 
see  his  personality  thus  denuded,  his  per- 
sonal life  so  brashly  disclosed. 

It  was  at  this  inopportune  inoinent  that 
I  asked  my  next  impertinent  (|uestion.  In 
the  very  bared  teeth  of  his  resentfully 
^uardcfi  private  life  did  I  hurl  my  (luery 
]>r(■^umptuous.  The  answer  explains  the 
(lue^tion.  For  he  said:  "I  cannot  discuss 
our  separation,  my  wife's  and  mine.  It 
seems  to  me  that  it  is  our  business  and 
ours  alone.  I  can  only  say  that  the  sepa- 
ration is  an  experiment.  Mrs.  Butterwortli 
lias  gone  to  New  York.    I  am  here  in 


Hollywood.  We  shall  see  how  we  feel, 
after  an  interval  apart.  It  is  mostly,  I 
think,  that  one  loses  a  sense  of  proportion, 
a  sense  of  values  here  in  Hollywood. 
There  is  too  much  of  everything.  Too 
much  money,  too  much  luxury,  too  much 
leisure,  too  much  doing  what  one  wants 
to  do  and  not  enough  doing  what  one  has 
to  do.  There  is  too  little  need  to  'put  up 
with  things.'  Perhaps  if  we  had  had  chil- 
dren, as  we  hoped  .  .  .  But  we  didn't. 
And  without  necessities,  roots  do  not 
grow." 

And  I  remembered,  as  he  talked,  how 
tempestuous,  indeed,  this  romance-leading- 
to-marriage  had  been.  I  recalled  Charlie's 
face  when  he  first  told  me  about  it,  the 
bright,  bold  gleam  in  his  pale  blue  eyes 
when  he  said :  "I  fell  in  love  with  my 
wife  at  first  sight.  I  fell  in  love  with  her 
instantaneously,  as  my  eyes  met  hers.  It 
appeared  to  be  mutual."  It  was  mutual, 
present  events  notwithstanding. 

They  were  introduced  at  the  Colony 
Club  in  New  York,  Charlie  and  his  Ethel, 
who  previously  had  been  married  to  Eddie 
Sutherland.  Charlie  made  a  date  with  her 
then  and  there,  for  later  in  the  evenins;. 
He  pushed  the  intervening  hours  ahead, 
he  did  protest,  with  impatient  hands.  He 
thought  they  never  would  get  out  of  the 
way,  the  hours  between.  And  then  they 
met  at  last.  And  drove,  in  a  hansom  cab, 
until  tlie  dawn.  It  was  magnificent  and 
mad.  Three  days  later  Charlie  asked  her 
to  be  his  wife.  \Mthin  three  months  they 
were  married. 

During  that  brief  engagement  Charlie 
was,  in  fact,  the  Great  Lover.  He  wrote 
her  poetry  as  impassioned  as  Swin- 
burne's. He  said:  "I  am  not  too  bad  a 
poet,  by  the  way.  When  Hollywood  closes 
its  gilded  doors  upon  my  unreluctant  back, 
I  know  what  I  shall  do,  or  try  to  do.  I 
shall  retreat  to  my  house  in  the  desert,  in 
Palm  Springs.  It  is  bought  and  paid  for. 
The  taxes  are  moderate.  It  would  cost 
very  little  to  live  there.  I  would  not  need 
to  shop  at  the  more  de  luxe  bazaars.  I 
could  find  dates  and  figs  on  the  desert  it- 
self. And  I  would  write.  There  is  some- 
thing about  the  desert  that  gives  me  peace. 
Even  now,  in  the  thick  of  the  battle,  I 
go  down  every  week.  Tiie  tall  mountains, 
the  golden,  still  sands,  the  c|uietness  which 
never  is  loneliness  because  it  is  alive  with 
a  life  more  everlasting  tlian  yours  or  mine 
— yes,  I  go  down  every  week,"  said 
Charlie,  "after  my  broadcast,  and  stay  un- 
til it  is  time  to  come  back  for  the  next  re- 
hearsals. I  play  tennis  with  Charlie 
Farrell  and  \'irginia  \'alli  and  the  boys 
at  Charlie's  de  luxe  Racket  Club.  I  drowse 
and  dream  and  read.    I  relax." 

Well,  then,  Charlie  wrote  iiis  lady  son- 
nets. He  avalanched  lier  with  flowers  and 
books  and  candies  and  tiieatre  tickets.  He 
even  had  a  private  telephone  installed  in 
his  dressing-room,  at  the  theatre  where 
he  was  playing,  so  that  he  could  talk  to 
her  for  long  hours,  confidentially,  unin- 
terrupted. 

Oh,  he's  one  with  the  ladies,  is  Charlie! 
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He  is  the  type.  Straiglit  for  that  stormy 
petrel,  the  Butterworth  heart,  wing  Cupid's 
sharpest  arrows.  And  this  was  his  first 
love.  His  first  Great  Love.  He  never 
had  been  really  in  love  before.  Not  matri- 
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come  every  spring  when  the  air  is  balmy 
and  then,  come  autumn,  he  always  got 
over  them  again. 

"I  like  the  ladies,"  admitted  Charlie, 
making  another  telephone  call.  He  has  a 
telephone  complex. 

He  added :  "And  when  love  really 
smites  the  Butterworth  breast,  it  is  as 
sudden  and  as  sharp  as  a  knife  thrust. 
I  looked  at  my  wife  and  I  said :  'This  is 
She.    This  is  the  girl  I  must  marry.' 

"I  know,"'  said  Charlie,  with  his  funny, 
deprecatory  little  laugh,  "that  this  must 
sound  funny,  coming  from  me.  You're 
probably  dying  of  suppressed  laughter 
right  now.  But  the  funny  part  really  is 
that  I  am  not  inside  what  I  appear  to  be 
outside.  In  other  words,  my  face  and  my 
heart  don't  watch." 

He  needn't  have  told  me  that.  I  was 
not  laughing  nor  was  I  tempted  to  laugh. 
I  was  more  touched  than  I  had  been  since 
Chaplin  first  told  me,  so  wistfully,  that 
he  would  like  to  play  Hamlet;  since  Ster- 
ling Holloway  told  me  that  girls  always 
laugh  at  him  when  he  makes  love  to  them ; 
since  El  Brcndel  told  me  that  he  would 
count  the  world  well  lost  for  one  touch  of 
Gable's  sex  appeal. 

I  knew  sonicthiiiff  of  the  seriousness  of 
Charlie.  I  knew  about  his  brother's  wife 
and  five  childrt-n,  for  whom  Charlie  cares 
since  his  brother's  death.  I  know  that 
there  are  eleven  persons  totally  depend- 
ent on  Charlie,  obligations  he  might  legiti- 
mately evade — and  doesn't. 

I  know  that  he  still  models  men  by  his 
father,  a  country  doctor  who  gave  his  life 
to  broken  bones  and  mumps  and  eruptions 
of  measles  and  all  the  pains  and  much 
of  the  poverty  to  which  the  flesh  is  heir. 
"I  first  saw  life  tlirough  my  father's 
clever,  patient,  far-sueino  eyrs."  Charlie 
told  me.  "The  vision  still  is  the  truest 
one  I  know." 

Charlie  reads  omniverously.  He  seldom 
goes  to  movies,  to  parties,  to  premieres. 
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openings.  I've  started  to  go,  once  or 
twice,  but  I've  always  turned  back  at  the 
door.  I  can't  stand  the  sight  of  so  many 
rented  Rolls  Royces  and  hired  ermine 
coats  !" 

No,  no,  I  wasn't  laughing  I  You  don't 
laugh  at  Charlie  off  screen  and  air.  Un- 
less he  wants  you  to.  And  then  you  do 
laugh,  helplessly. 

I  have  interviewed  so-called  "comics" 
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clown  with  the  breaking  heart,"  or  he 
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different  from  what  he  appears  to  be  pro- 
fessionally—as in  the  case  of  the  two 
Charlies,  Chaplin  and  Butterworth. 

And  so  I  wasn't  terrilicallv  surprised 
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revealed  himself  to  me  as  a  man  of  strong 
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I  was  even  less  surprised  than  I  might 
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I  mentioned  the  amorous  hidios  and 
their  warmish  conridcnces.  Mr.  Butter- 
worth  l)ridled  ever  so  slightly.  He 
straightened  his  shoulders  t  which  do 
slope  a  little)  and  said,  twirliiis  his  cigar- 
ette with  narrowed  George-Raftish  eyes: 
"Oh,  I've  been  around  a  bit  .  .  ." 

But,  Charlie  explained,  he  is  selfish. 
Always  has  been.  Always  thought  of 
himself  as  a  confirmed  bachelor,  a  .sort  of 
casual  C  asanova.  He  always  wanted  to 
g(i  where  he  wanted  to  go  and  when,  and 
no  (|uestions  asked.  He  liked  all  the  ladies 
too  well  to  supjOTse  that  he  could  e\cr  be 
content  with  one.  He  didn't  hke  children. 
He  said  once:  "I  like  the  kid.lies  well 
enou,s4li  il  tli<  y  -  il'  they  d.in'i  cnie  \<>n 
near  me."  ills  leclini(!ne  w  itli  the  huhi's 
Well,  I  vhonid  call  it  a  Cuiuhination  of  a 
certain  surface  futility  and  the  teiupcst- 
iioUMiess  he  can  show — upon  occasion. 

The  ladies  like  Charlie.  I  pressed  the 
palatable  point.  He  said :  "Well,  well,  it's 
funny  about  all  comedians.  I've  always 
noticed  it.  We  do  seem  to  get  along 
with  the  fair  sex.  With  both  sexes,  for 
the  matter  of  that.  Which  is  fine.  My 
men  friends  are  very  important  to  me. 
The  men  like  us  because  we  have  a 
sense  of  humor.  And  they  are  not  afraid 
of  us,  because  they  are  not  jealous  of  us. 
With  our  pans,  you  know.  The  women 
like  us  because,  at  first,  I  think,  we  ap- 
pear to  be  futile  and  frustrated  and  they 
want  to  mother  us.  Then,  they  don't 
seem  to  find  us  futile  and  frustrated  and 


they  do  find  that  we  have  something  to 
say.  They  discover  that  we  have  more 
to  offer  than  the  handsome  leading-man 
type  who  flexes  his  muscles,  turns  his 
profile  to  advantage  and  smiles  like  a 
toothpaste  ad — "  and  Mr.  Butterworth 
illustrated  by  turning  his  profile  to  ad- 
vantage and  smiling  like  a  toothpaste  ad. 
I  was  devastated  ! 

"You  ladies  want  more,"  Charlie  pro- 
nounced modestly,  "than  a  muscle,  a  pro- 
file and  a  toothsome  smile.  We  comedians, 
if  I  may  say  so,  as  perhaps  I  shouldn't, 
IwTC  more  to  offer." 

;\iid  so.  Charlie  didn't  want  to  marry. 
He  didn't  figure  that  he  helunged  in  Hy- 
men's harness.  He  is  an  extremist  and 
extremists  are  iinconi fortahle,  cactusy  peo- 
ple to  live  with.  When  he  is  tip  he  wants 
to  rip  the  stars  from  tlie  sk\  .iiid  dance 
on  the  Milky  Way,  .ir  something  mad. 
When  he  is  down  he  waiiN  lo  end  it  .ill. 

And  oddly,  he  always  feels  nKjst  suicidal 
when  he  is  having  his  greatest  successes 
on  stage  or  screen  or  air.  He  seems  to 
feel,  keenly,  the  futility  of  it  all.  Per- 
hai)s  it  is  liecausc  he  feels  that  there  is 
nothing  left  to  struggle  for.  And  he 
simply  must  struggle.  It  is  a  law  of  his 
being. 

He  has  known  struggle.  Days  in  New 
York  when  he  lived  on  two  malted  milk 
tablets  a  day,  for  days  on  end.  Days 
when  he  was  jobless,  with  nothing  in  view 
or  in  pocket.  And  was  hajipy  in  a  roseate 
world. 

Not,  explained  Charlie,  that  he  wants 
to  go  back  to  malted  milk  tablets  again. 
He  doesn't  want  to  starve.  He  is  afraid 
of  being  poor  now,  not  for  himself  but  for 


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those  dependent  upon  him.  He  knows,  he 
says,  that  the  day  will  come  when  he  will 
get  tlie  gong.  But  if  he  can  save  enough 
to  meet  that  day  with  sufficient  to  care 
for  those  who  need  him,  he  won't  be 
afraid  of  that.  It's  a  rrickci 
movie  fame,  radio  fame.  It's 
of  pcrsonahtv,  a  fi'lliim  lauuli. 
that's  all.     -Whv,"  Ik-  to  , 


iiihci 


ted,  was  twice  til 
ay.  And  he  marl 
.\  cck  and  wniild 


lars 
much  more  ! 

"I  can't  lose  niucl 
iv'liat  liarc  I  fiot  to  I, 

And  then  he  tol.l 
He  told  me  about  1 
other  night  and  look 
he  is  building-,  the  li 


lie  says, 
I  a  trick 
lick  line, 
bitterlv, 
children 
am.  In 
five  dol- 
ve  made 


said  Charlie,  "for 

e  what  he  meant. 
.  he  went  out  the 
at  the  new  house 
^e  he  was  Iniilding 
H 


for  himself  and  his  wife.  He  looked  at 
the  large,  expensive  lots,  at  the  sizealile, 
substantial  house  rising  two  stories  from 
the  ground  and  he  thought:  "Mine — all 
mine.  I  earned  and  bought  and  paid  for 
all  of  this."  He  thought  of  the  two  swell 
cars  in  the  garage  at  home  (they  were 
living  in  a  rented  house  in  Beverly  Hills, 
with  their  own  furniture,  Charlie  and  his 
wife,  until  their  new  home  should  be  fin- 
ished). He  thought  of  the  servants  and 
the  stocks  of  rich  food  and  wines  and  the 
wardrobes  full  of  clothes  and  shelves 
crammed  with  books  and  every  comfort 
and  every  luxury.  And  he  said  to  him- 
self:  "What  of  it — now?  It's  empty,  isn't 
it?'  I'm  alone  with  things,  things  that 
have  no  hands,  no  hearts,  no  voices  to 
speak  to  me."  The  one  bright  warmth, 
he  thought,  came  from  his  dogs.  He  has 
three  of  them.  And  they  make  him  happy.- 
They  give  him  something.  He'd  like  to 
have  kennels  and  raise  them,  iiave  lots  of 
warm  little  puppies  tumbling  about.  But 
it  might,  he  fears,  seem  too  much  like 
copying  Charlie  Ruggles.  "A  man's  never 
too  lonely,"  said  Charlie,  "when  he  has  a 
dog.  A  dog  never  fails  you,  never  leaves 
you,  never  seems  to  think  you  fail 
him  .  .  ." 

Not  that  he  hasn't  plenty  to  be  thank- 
ful for,  Charlie.  And  knows  it.  He  is 
completely  glad  that  he  is  a  comedian. 
He  has  no  Hamlet  aspirations.  He  hasn't, 
he  says,  any  talents,  any  other  talents. 
He  doesn't  know  what  he  could  be,  save  an 
actor  (unless,  it  might  be,  a  poet?),  and 
so  he'll  stick  to  actoring,  on  screen  or  air, 
time  and  the  public  will  decide  which. 

A  comedian,  he  sa\s,  has  all  of  the  ad- 
vantages and  few  of  the  disadvantages. 
"Even  old  age,"  said  Charlie,  "can't  keep 
me  from  looking  like  a  coddled  egg.  And 
so,  I  hope  to  develop  my  ])ersonality, 
screen  or  radio,  to  the  point  I  have  set 
for  myself.  And  when  the  gong  sounds, 
there  will  be  the  desert  and  a  date  palm 
and  a  book  of  verse  and  nic  .  .  .  \Vhy 
should  I  worry?" 

Why,  indeed,  I  thought,  as  I  walked  out 
of  Luc\'s  with  Charlie — Charlie  tipping 
his  nifty  fedora  to  Carole  Lombard,  to 
Simonc  Simon,  to  this  lovely  lady  and 
that — shouting  masculine  greetings  to  this 
man  and  that.  He  is  immensely  popular 
among  men.  He  has  a  "way"  with  the 
ladies.  He  is  aces  on  the  air.  He  is 
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THE  NICK  DAWSON  I  KNOW 


{Continued  from  page  42) 


the  edge  of  a  building,  but  he'd  go  on  fight- 
ing if  lie  had  to.  So  you  see  he  knows  how 
to  make  it  sound  "true  to  life"  in  the 
scripts. 

.-\s  for  being  afraid  of  a  microphone,  lie 
hasn't  the  least  conception  of  what  that 
means.  Not  that  he  doesn't  understand  it 
in  me  and  other  people,  but  he  never  has 
experienced  niike-fear  himself.  His  under- 
standing, incidentally,  is  another  nice  thing 
about  him  and  lie  looks  so  much  like  a 
business  man,  you'd  never  guess  how  really 
sensitive  he  is.  But  he  says  injured  feelings 
are  worse  than  broken  bones  and  he  never 
does  or  says  anything  to  hurt  anyone.  He 
avoids  arguments  like  the  plague  and  noth- 
ing on  earth  could  make  him  worry. 

He  knows  the  value  of  money,  but  if  I 
said ;  "We're  going  ofif  the  air  tomorrow," 
he'd  answer  calmly :  "That's  too  bad." 
And  if  I  said:  "Nick,  our  salary  has  been 
doubled,"  he  would  answer :  "Swell,"  in 
the  same  tone  of  voice.  He  says  he's  too 
dumb  to  be  emotional.  He  likes  to  let 
people  think  he's  "duinb,"  but  I  wouldn't 
advise  anyone  to  try  it — for  he  gets  a  kick 
out  of  calmly  turning  the  tables  to  his  own 
satisfaction  1 

Nick's  self-control  in  any  situation  is 
marvelous.  Last  year  he  had  an  operation, 
during  which  he  nearly  died,  but  as  soon 
as  he  was  well,  he  never  said  another  word 
about  it.  No  stories  of  "my  operation"  or 
"hard  luck"  or  anything  like  that.  He  was 
deep  in  work — the  unpleasantness  behind 
him. 

Nick  has  a  way  with  children.  He  never 


/  / 


Willie  Morris  is  well  known  to 
radio  listeners  as  the  "7847  Girl." 
She  also  is  heard  on  the  Musical 
Camera  progrann,  which  is  broad- 
cast every  Sunday  afternoon  at 
4:30  p.m.,  EDST,  over  the  NBC- 
Red  network. 


talks  down  to  them  and  consequently,  no 
matter  what  age  they  are,  he  makes  them 
his  "buddies."  They  tell  him  their  secrets 
and  ask  his  advice.  He  says  it's  a  shame 
children  have  to  grow  up — "except  little 
girls,  who  grow  up  to  be  beautiful  ladies," 
he  adds. 

I'm  sure  I  don't  know  how  to  classify 
Nick's  friends,  nor  do  I  know  by  what 
process  he  selects  them.  I  only  know  that 
he  has  them  in  every  walk  of  life.  They 
range  from  ex-burglars  (I  think  "ex"  is 
right!)  and  hoboes,  to  bank  presidents  and 
foreign  diplomats.  I've  tried,  on  several 
occasions,  to  get  him  to  take  me  visiting 
in  what  he  calls  "the  best  sub-cellar 
circles,"  but  he  says  I  inight  not  appreciate 
them  and  he'd  be  embarrassed. 

In  the  three  years  we've  been  working 
together  he  took  me  to  dinner  alone  only 
once.  It  was  the  night  I  developed  scarlet 
fever !  Since  then,  he  says  he  doesn't  dare 
take  me  out  for  fear  I'll  do  a  "repeat." 

Nick  is  an  all-around  boxer,  swimmer 
and  anything  you  can  name  in  the  way  of 
sports.  Whatever  he  decides  to  do,  he  does 
well,  because  of  his  infinite  patience  and 
will-power.  I've  mentioned  his  many  "pro- 
fessions," but  of  course  he  likes  acting  best. 
Working  with  hiin  is  lots  of  fun.  In  spite 
of  our  three  years'  association,  we've  never 
come  to  blows  or  had  any  serious  dis- 
agreements. 

He  says  that's  because  of  my  managerial 
talent.  Well,  I  found  out  long  ago  that 
the  best  way  to  make  Nick  do  something 
he  might  otherwise  not  want  to  do,  is  to 
say  he  can't !  I  guess  Nick  is  like  all  men 
in  that  respect  and  "all  men  are  like 
children!"  It's  the  appeal  to  their  pride 
and  prowess  that  gets  them ! 

But  don't  think  I've  not  had  to  "take  it." 
Right  here  is  niy  chance  to  air  my  pet 
peeve — it's  the  awful  nicknames  Nick  thinks 
up  for  me !  ( No  pun  intended  but  they 
are  strictly  A^;c/c-nanies  ! ) 

He  began  with  "the  boss,"  but  since  he 
said  he  had  three — his  wife,  his  secretary 
and  me — I  didn't  mind  that  so  much. 

The  one  that  he  teases  me  most  with  is 
"hellpot."  He  knows  I  detest  it  and  he 
uses  it  whenever  he  wants  to  get  me  angry. 
He  used  it  iirst,  two  summers  ago,  when 
we  were  at  the  beach  with  our  families. 
The  water  was  cold  and  I  always  go  in  by 
inches — which,  of  course,  you  know,  a 
switumer  detests.  Nick  got  the  bright  idea 
of  "dunking"  me  suddenly,  so  I  fought  him 
tooth  and  nail  and  that's  how  it  all  started. 

Although  I  enjoy  working  with  him, 
especially  in  our  new  script.  Follow  the 
Moon,  I'm  publicly  warning  him  right  now 
that  if  he  doesn't  think  up  something  nice 
to  nickname  me  soon,  I'm  .going  to  live  up 
to  "hellpot."  I'm  .going  to  stock  up  on 
Woodbury  facial  cream  and  let  him  have 
it — jar  and  all ! 

Alas,  since  nothing  frightens  him,  he'll 
probably  have  a  worse  name  waiting  for  lue 
tomorrow— but  at  least  a  girl  can  try! 

In  spite  of  all  this,  I  hope  you've  gath- 
ered that  the  Nick  Dawson  I  know  can  be 
sumimxl  up  in  two  slangy  hut  very  effective 
and  appropriate  words:   "Great  Guy!" 


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THE  ELSIE  HITZ  I  KNOW 


(  Co)itimicd  from  f>ai/c  42) 


telephone.  Elsie's  voice  could  make  a  mere 
man  do  anything  and  tiie  best  proof  of  this 
is  that  her  fan  mail  from  men  has  included 
everything  from  proposals  to  the  offer  of  a 
fifty-foot  yacht. 

Saying  she  is  sixty-eight  different  women, 
I  suppose,  is  just  another  way  of  saying  she 
is  utterly  feminine.  At  her  home,  you'd 
never  guess  you  were  talking  to  an  actress. 
She's  just  a  girl  whose  chief  interest  in 
life  seems  to  be  fixing  up  a  pleasant  place 
to  live  in  and  planning  nice  meals.  She's 
in  her  glory  on  Sunday  nights,  when  the 
maid  is  off  and  she  can  mix  a  salad  her- 
self. That  she  is  a  perfect  hostess  goes 
without  saying.  As  for  interior  decorating, 
she's  a  w  hiz  at  it.  Her  home  is  charmingly 
furnished  with  anticpies  she  has  collected 
and  with  sculpture  that  she's  done  herself. 
Elsie  is  nothing  if  not  versatile. 

She's  a  mass  of  contradictions,  and 
changes  moods  so  often  I  can't  keep  up 
with  her.  One  minute  she's  utterly  in- 
dependent and  so  "new-womanish,"  she 
won't  even  let  me  open  a  door  for  her — 
but  suddenly,  in  the  midst  of  this,  she'll  do 
an  about-face  to  helpless  womanhood  and 
has  me  fetching  and  carrying,  picking  up 
handkerchiefs  and  finding  chairs.  Just  as 
I'm  being  so  chivalrous,  she'll  switch  around 
to  mothering  me — tellini!;  nie  to  be  sure  to 
take  something  for  my  cold,  and  why 
haven't  I  got  enough  sense  to  wear  my 
rubbers  ? 

Elsie  changes  signals  so  often,  I  think 
everyone  but  her  husband  and  I  misunder- 
stand her.  Under  the  impression  that  she's 
just  being  nice,  she's  an  outrageous  flirt. 
Why,  when  she  took  a  trip  to  Nova  Scotia, 
she  had  some  poor  chap  following  her  all 
the  way  back  to  Xew  York,  only  to  be 
sweetly  introduced  to  her  husband !  She's 
got  all  the  men  around  the  studio  so  gaga, 
they  trip  over  themselves  for  a  smile.  One 
can't  blame  them,  for  Elsie's  smile  is  some- 
thing, furnished  as  it  is  with  dimples  and 
the  merest  suggestion  of  a  cleft  chin. 

She  sings  beautifully,  but  is  frightened 
to  death  to  do  it  on  the  air.  When  the 
script  calls  for  it.  slie  sinys.  1)ut  she  has 
fits  of  nervousness  first.  I've  got  to  hand 
it  to  her,  though — never  does  an  airlience 
know  she  has  mike-fright.  I  think  it's 
much  harder  to  have  it  and  control  it  than 
just  to  be  dumb  enough  not  to  have  it,  as 
I  am. 

Elsie  has  two  passion.s — taxis  and  the 
telephone.  To  cross  a  street,  she'll  take  a 
taxi.  As  for  the  phone,  if  I  want  to  speak 
to  her  at  three  in  the  afternoon,  I  have 
my  secrctarv  start  rinsing  her  at  leii^hirty 
in  the  morning — which  gives  vmi  an  ideal 

She  has  excellent  taste  in  clothes,  hut  it's 
a  wonder  to  me  that  she  gets  it  carried 
out,  for  the  way  she  shops  for  other  things 
is  a  riot.  She  bought  a  car  last  year  be- 
cause it  was  light  green  and  had  two  wind- 
shield wipers  on  it.  I'm  positive  that  if  it 
had  had  only  one  windshield  wiper,  the 
man  would  have  lost  that  sale. 

Like  all  women,  she  gets  terribly  excited 
over  new  clothes,  ^\'hen  we  thought  we 
were  going  to  have  audiences  for  our 
evening  broadcasts  last  year,  Elsie  planned 


to  have  a  difi'eri.-iit  cM-iiinj;  dress  lor  each 
one.  When  you  realize  tlli^  nu-ant  iliirt\- 
nine  evening  dresses,  nhu  know  what  she 
had  on  her  mind.  Planning  them  assumed 
the  proportions  of  a  major  project.  We 
would  be  deep  in  rehearsal  and  I'd  imagine 
she  had  forgotten  all  about  clothes,  but  if 
we'd  stop  to  rest  for  a  minute,  I'31sie  would 
plunge  into  a  veritable  orgy  of  verbal 
evening  dresses.  As  soon  as  we  learned 
we  weren't  going  to  have  audiences,  she 
promptly  forgot  the  whole  thirty-nine  at 
once. 

She's  enthusiastic  about  everything 
and  is  a  swell  sport.  Before  our  Folloii.' 
the  Moon  broadcasts  started,  she  went  on 
a  trip  to  Bermuda  and  came  back  laden 
with  expensive  perfumes  for  her  friends. 
She  bought  only  one  bottle  for  herself  and 
kept  it  on  her  dressing-table  for  days,  gaz- 
ing at  it  in  admiration,  before  she  realized 
that  the  bottle  had  cracked  and  that  the 
precious  contents  had  evaporated.  She 
philosophically  told  me  that  she  is  keeping 
the  bottle,  anyway,  as  a  reminder  of  her 
trip  and  her  extravagance. 

She's  just  as  good  a  sport  about  big 
things  as  she  was  about  this  minor  tragedy. 
When  she  had  scarlet  fever,  she  did  her 
broadcasts  from  her  hospital  room  and 
gave  some  of  the  best  performances  of  the 
whole  series.  Unless  you  read  the  papers, 
you  probably  wouldn't  have  known  she  was 
sick — if  the  announcer  hadn't  told  you. 

She's  a  great  trouper  and  a  fine  worker. 
When  things  don't  go  right,  I  might  grouse 
a  bit.  But  Elsie  always  pours  oil  on 
troubled  waters  and  it's  often  her  man- 
agerial talent  that  makes  me  do  things  that 
are  good  for  me.  I've  had  wild  ad- 
ventures in  my  life  and  so  Elsie  gets  more 
of  a  kick  out  of  the  ones  in  our  scripts 
than  I  do,  but  she  has  the  happy  faculty 
of  making  an  adventure  out  of  the  business 
of  everyday  living.  That,  too,  goes  along 
with  being  a  womanly  woman,  I  guess. 

That's  Elsie — a  charming  bundle  of 
femininity,  a  fine  actress  and  a  swell 
person  1 


TIME  IS  SHORT,  BUT  FOOD  IS  TASTY  .  .  . 
YOU  EAT  A  LOT  AND  EAT  IT  HASTY  .  .  . 
IN  CASE  A  CASE  OF  HEARTBURN  COMES, 
WE  HOPE  YOU'VE  GOT  YOUR  ROLL  OF  TUMS; 


FOR  QUICK  RELIEF  FROM 
ACID  INDIGESTION,  HEARTBURN.  GAS 


CO  many  causes  for  acid  indigestion!  Hasty 
eating  .  .  .  smoking  .  .  .  beverages  .  .  .  rich 
foods  ...  no  wonder  we  have  sudden,  unex- 
pected attacks  of  heartburn,  sour  stomach  or 
gas!  But  millions  have  learned  the  smart  thing 
to  do  is  carry  Turns!  These  tasty  mints  give 
scientific,  thorough  relief  so  quickly!  Contain 
no  harsh  alkali  .  .  .  cannot  oj'cr-alkalize  your 
stomach.  Release  just  enough  antacid  com- 
pound to  correct  stomach  acidity  .  .  .  remainder 
passes  z^w-released  from  your  system.  And 
they're  so  pleasant  .  .  .  just  like  candy.  So 
handy  to  carry  in  pocket  or  purse.  10c  a  roll  at 
anv  drugstore — or  3  rolls  for  25c  in  the 
ECONOMY  PACK. 

V|    I^A^  FORTHET^MMY^^^ 


TUMS  ARE 
ANTACID  .  . 

NOT  A  LAXATIVE 


FREE: 


samples  of  Tums  and  t 


-Thermomei 
.bept."25H-74.  St.  1, 


LOTION  ^ 


Baritone  Donald  Dickson  rehearses 
for  a  Saturday  Night  Party  show. 
NBC-Red  network.  8:00  p.m.,  EDST. 


I 


A  special  oil  in  Cutex  Lipstick  he 
make  your  lips  look  smoother,  more 
lurins; — 5  viars  younfjer!  Natu- 

CUTEX  ^^J^ 


RADIO  STARS 


RIIDIO  LHUGHS... 

(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


GEORGE :  Go  ahead.  Grade  .  .  .  Say 
"hello"  to  cvcrvbodv. 

GRACIE:  Sa\  "hello"  to  uhof 

GEORGE:  To  the  audience  .  .  .  See 
them  all  sitting  out  there. 

GRACIE:  Oh—strikers,  huh? 

(BURXS  &  ALLEN  Program.) 

Duffy:  Miss  Lillie,  where  were  you  last 
night? 

Bea :  Was  last  night  Saturday  ? 
Duffy:  Xo! 

Bea  :  Then  I  was  downstairs  in  the  bar, 
behavins;  invscli  like  a  perfect  lady. 
(BEATRICE  LILLIE  Program.) 

CHARLIE:  We  had  a  swell  trip.  Gee, 
Rudy  was  nice  to  me!  I  told  him  about 
how  I  fall  out  of  bed  at  night,  so  he  got 
me  an  upper  berth. 

BERGEN:  Why  an  upper  berth? 

CHARLIE:  So  if  I  fell  out  he  could 
hear  mel 

(EDGAR  BERGEN  and  his  DUMMY, 
CHARLIE  McCarthy,  Vallee  Varie- 
ties.) 

70.1/:  Ilrw  „r.-  \ou  Gror./c/ 

GEOKCi.  ■  oh.  I  on,-t  kifh. 

TOM:  eh.  v-'//  ,./»'//  .l///,v/  be  lum- 
bago .  .  .  I'y  iiiiivh,-  \-,iu  jit.il  ijol  a  cold. 

(TOM  Ildir.IRI)  ami  GEORGE 
SHELTOX,  .s\-.;//r.s7  Program.) 

FRED :  The  last  time  1  saw  Papa  he 
was  working  on  some  new  kind  of  sugar. 

PORTLAND:  Yes— it  was  a  lump  of 
sugar  that  floated. 

FRED  :  That's  right.  It  was  for  people 
that  can't  nnuinlier  whether  they've  put 
sugar  in  t'ltir  c  .ft\  e  or  not.  The  lumps 
bob  up  an<l  rtiiiin<l  them. 

(FRED  ALLEX  and  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

STOOP:  I'm  going  to  explain  about 
my  new  kind  of  calendar.  It's  a  peach- 
erool 

BUDD:  A  peacheroo,  huh?  How's  it 
different  from  an  ordinary  calendar? 

STOOP:  This  calendar  of  mine  has  a 
railing  around  it  so  people  can't  slip  off 
week-ends! 

(STOOPNAGLE  and  BUDD,  Minute 
Tapioca  Program.) 

PHIL:  Go  aiL'ay,  my  nniver.tal  pest. 
Pll  have  you  kuozv  I'm  already  a  success 
in  pictures.  In  fad  I  was  in  The  Good 
Earth. 

BEETLE:  What  ivas  that? 
PHIL :  YoH  heard  me— I  zvas  in  The 
G'xjd  Earth. 
BEETLE:  Oh— a  worm! 
(PHIL  BAKER.  Gulf  Program.) 


DON  :  Yes.  sir,  the  Waldorf-Astoria  is  a 
pretty  high-class  place  isn't  it? 

JACK:  Swanky!  Why,  I  had  to  shave 
before  they'd  let  me  in  the  barber  shop  .  .  . 
but  you  know,  Don,  I  think  their  prices 
here  are  quite  well  balanced.  I  didn't  pay 
a  cent  more  for  having  my  suit  pressed 
than  I  did  for  the  suit ! 

(JACK  BEXXY,  Jell-O  Program.) 

110 


MAC:  Did  you  hear  of  the  opera 
Martha? 

ED:  Oh,  I  wrote  that  .  .  . 

MAC:  Well,  let's  hear  what  you  wrote. 

ED:  As  the  opera  opens  we  see  the  hero- 
ine .  .  .  she's  only  a  miner's  daughter, 
but,  oh,  what  natural  resources!  She's  in 
a  swimming-pool  and  she  is  swimming 
with  the  cashier  of  a  bank.  Two  days 
later  she  floats  alone! 

(ED  WYNN  and  GRAHAM  Mc- 
NAMEE,  Spud  Program.) 


FRED  :  Pre  uczrr  heard  of  UNmailing 
a  Idler,  Porllaud.  Is  that  some  new  ser- 
vice Mr.  Parlex's  installed? 

PORTLAND:  No,  Papa  mailed  a  letter 
to  our  Congressman  and  he  has  to  get  it 
back. 

FRED :  Did  he  forget  the  Congressman's 
address? 

PORTLAND :  No— Papa  just  thought 
of  sotiidliiiifi  else  he  could  call  him  without 
.ipi-iu/iiiii  tlncc  more  cents. 

(FRFU  .ILLEN  ami  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Tozai  Hall  Tonight.) 


CHARLIE :  I'm  a  he-man  from  the  ivide 
open  spaces,  Fred.  A  roolin,  tootin  he- 
man  rancher. 

FRED  :  But  Charlie,  ranchers  don't  zvear 
spats. 

CHARLIE:  Fm  a  dude  rancher,  Fred, 
ll'ahoo! 

(FRED  ASTAIRE  and  CHARLIE 
BVTTERWORTH,   Packard  Program.) 

PIC:  All  right  .  .  .  first  I  try  you  in 
spellin'.  Dis  is  an  easy  word  .  .  .  spell  de 
word  bum. 

P.\T:  Bum}  Dat's  easy  .  .  .  B-M. 

PIC:  B-M?    Dat's  only  two  letters. 

PAT  :  Oh— I  left  vou  out. 

(PIC  and  PAT,  Pipe  Smoking  Time.) 

HENNY:  I  like  to  help  out  once  in  a 
while,  so  I  walked  over  to  the  beggar  and 
asked:  "Can  I  help  you,  buddy?"  He 
said:  "Sure  you  can.  Let  me  have  fifty- 
five  cents,  I  want  to  see  my  family."  That 
struck  me  funny.  Usually  a  beggar  comes 
up  and  asks  for  a  nickel  or  a  dime!  I 
said:  "What  do  you  need  fifty-five  cents 
for?"  He  said:  "I  want  to  see  my  family 
— they're  sitting  in  the  balcony  of  the 
State  Theatre." 

(HENNY  YOUNGMAN,  A  &  P 
Band  Wagon.) 

HENRY:  Grade,  help  me  decide  on  a 
present.  //  vou  zverc  mv  ivife,  ivhat  ivould 
you  lil.'c  around  voiir  neck? 

(, A'. !(//;:    I'onv  Martin! 

iCRAC/F  ALLEN  and  HENRY 
KING,  Campbell  Program.) 

BE.\ :  I'll  never  forget  the  time  I  was 
out  rowing  by  myself  on  Lake  Erie,  and 
came  on  a  man  wlio  couldn't  swim.  Poor 
fellow~lie  was  clinging  desperately  to  a 
beer  liarrel. 

DUFFY:  Mercy  I  Did  you  make  the 
rescue  ? 

BEA:  Oh  yes — but  I  had  an  awful 
struggle.  Why,  I  had  to  hit  him  over  the 
head  three  times  with  an  oar  before  I 
could  get  the  barrel  of  beer  aboard! 

(BEATRICE   LILLIE  Program.) 

WALTER:  By  the  way — you  people  in 
the  studio — I  hope  you  noticed  my  rosy 
cheeks.  It's  the  weather.  The  first  good 
snowfall  finally  came  and  was  I  glad!  Be- 
cause Daddy  bought  me  a  flexible  flyer  for 
Christmas  and  I  was  able  to  go  out  belly- 
whopping  in  the  park  with  the  other  kids. 
I  had  oodles  of  fun  with  my  chum.  He 
stayed  out  a  little  too  long — by  five  o'clock 
he  was  so  frozen  he  looked  like  the  Blue 
Network! 

(WALTER  O'KEEFE,  Vallcc  Varieties.) 

Printed  in  the  U.  8. 


STOOP:  Thanks,  Sir  Whiggby.  I  want 
you  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  my  part- 
ner, Budd. 

VOX  ZELL:  Budd,  huh?  Did  I  repre- 
sent you  chaps  on  an  arson  charge  over 
at  the  Assizes? 

BUDD :  No — must  have  been  two  other 
felons. 

(STOOPNAGLE  &  BUDD,  Minute 
Tapioca  Program.) 

MARY:  I've  seen  all  the  good  shows. 
And,  oh.  Jack,  there's  one  show  that  you 
ought  not  to  miss.  It's  called — gee,  I 
can't  think  of  the  name  of  it.  I  saw  the 
name  stamped  on  the  towel  in  my  hotel. 

JACK:  The  towel  in  your  hotel? 

MARY:  I  got  it — You  Can't  Take  It 
with  You. 

JACK:  Oh,  sure.  Nothing  like  drying 
yourself  with  a  good  show. 

(JACK  BENNY,  Jell-O  Program.) 

ACTOR:  Uncle  Charlie,  have  you  really 
got  a  skillet  at  your  house  that  died? 

CHARLIE  :  A  skillet  that  died?  I  don't 
c/et  it. 

ACTOR:  All  I  kmnv  is  that  Daddy  told 
me  \ou  had  a  dead  pan. 

(CHARLIE  BVTTERWORTH,  Pack- 
ard Program.) 

PHIL:  Oh,  it's  all  my  fault.  That's 
what  I  get  for  owning  two  cars. 

BOTTLE:  What  do  you  mean,  sir? 

PHIL:  Every  time  you  drive  the  Buick 
I  get  the  Willys. 

(PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 

ED:  It  must  be  wonderful  to  be  a  singer 
like  you,  Mr.  Jaegel. 

JAEGEL:  Well,  most  families  have  a 
singer.  Are  there  any  singers  in  your 
family? 

ED:  My  aunt.  My  aunt  is  known  as  a 
"waterproof"  singer.  Nobody  can  drown 
her  out.  In  fact,  whenever  she  sings  my 
uncle  calls  her  Doormat,  because  every- 
body walks  out  on  her. 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

.ACTOR:  Mr.  Allen,  have  you  got  a 
casr"    1  w  ill  open  with  a  writ  of  replevin. 

\  ()|(  i; :  I  lu'u  /  come  in  with  a  writ  of 
habcos  corpus. 

AC  r(JI\  :  Before  Jack  Benny  can  move, 
I  am  on  him  with  a  writ  of  tcmpus  fugit. 

PORTLAND:  You're  certainly  putting 
on  the  writs,  Mr.  Fink! 

(FRED  ALLEN,  PORTLAND 
HOFFA,  Town  Hall  Tonight.) 

by  Art  Color  Print ln«  Conipan.v.  Dunelli'n.  N.  J. 


HoLI.yVi'OODI  Garden  of  glamorous  girlsl  Each  star,  a  flower 
of  rare  beauty  and  coloring.  Cameras  constantly  click  their  love- 
liness . . .  they  are  the  darlings  of  the  world! 

In  this  beautv- conscious  environment,  each  screen -type  — 
whether  Titian,  Brunette  or  Blonde  —  blossoms  forth  into  glow- 
ing gorgeousness  through  that  subtle  but  simple  secret  of  Holly- 
wood -make-up  keyed  to  her  individual  coloring! 

But  no  longer  is  this  secret  confined  to  the  silver-screen  sirens. 
No  longer  need  they  be  mightily  envied!  For  out  of  Hollywood 
comes  to  you  Hollywood  ma.sk    the  Matched  iVIake-Up 
that  matches  you!  —  Make-up  that  has  captured  the 
blending  secrets  known  onlv  to  Hollywood.  There  is  . . . 

\  elvet-textured  Powder  to  softly  accent  skin-color; 
warm,  vibrant  Rouge,  to  merge  with  powder  and  high- 
hght  hair  and  eves;  ripe,  luringlv-luscious  Lipstick,  in 


shades  matching  rouge,  for  kissable  lips  that  stay  so  from  dawn 
till  dawn.  And  all  three,  keyed  to  vnur  indirn/inil  coltinrm! 

Underneath,  the  HOLLYWOOD  mask  Fac  ial  the  .  iiating, 
refreshing  base  of  the  make-up — that  cleaiuses  the  skinl 

Analv/,e  vour  coloring!  Accentuate  it  with  Hollywood  mask 
Mat(  li<'<l  .\lakc-l  p  in  vour  own.  individual  -hades.  Don't  put  otf 
[ifitrct K 111 !  K\|nTit'iirf  this  iiiakf-u|)  imrj;-|t'  now!  You', 
l)AN(iKK  to  cxerv  man!  \sk  l(><l(i\  tor  HOLLYWOOD 
Matched  Make- L  II  at  \oar  favorite  cosmetic  counter! 


spell 

MASK 


MASK 

FOR  INTIMATE  BEAUTY 


■atmenta.  Be  ; 


to  include  HOLLYWOOD  MASr 


Street  .  

City  .  Slalt  

□  HOLLYWOOD  MASK  FACIAL 
UPSTICK  nLiuht  ::]  Medium  ::  Dark  ^  Orange  □  Raspber 

ROUGE  7  Orange  Z  Poppy  Z2  Raspberry  11  Peftchblcwm 
POWDER       K!..-helle-Brunette  Z  Peach   Z  Dark  Ra.-helle 


"I  live  at  the  beach  most  of  the  year  and 
there  is  hardly  a  weekend  that  a  number 
of  friends  don't  drop  in.  Naturally,  1  keep 
several  brands  of  cigarettes  on  hand,  but 
the  Luckies  are  always  the  first  to  dis- 
appear. I  suppose  it's  just  natural  that 
Luckies  would  be  the  favorite  brand  be- 
cause picture  work  certainly  places  a 
severe  tax  on  the  throat.  Leading  artists 
of  the  screen  prefer  Luckies  because 
they  are  a  light  smoke  that  sympathizes 
with  tender  throats." 


FEMININE  STAR  OF  DAVID  O.  SELZNICK'S 
TECHNICOLOR  PRODUCTION  OF  "A  STAR  IS  BORN" 


A  n  independent  survey  was  made  recently  among  professional  men 
and  women  —  lawyers,  doctors,  scientists,  etc.  Of  those  who  said  they 
smoke  cigarettes,  over  87%  stated  they  personally  prefer  a  light  smoke. 

Miss  Gaynor  verifies  the  wisdom  of  this  preference,  and  so  do  other 
leading  artists  of  the  radio,  stage,  screen  and  opera.  Their  voices  are 
their  fortunes.  That's  why  so  many  of  them  smoke  Luckies.  You,  too, 
can  have  the  throat  protection  of  Luckies— a  hght  smoke,  free  of  certain 
harsh  irritants  removed  by  the  exclusive  process  "It's  Toasted".  Luckies 
are  gentle  on  the  throat. 


A  Light  Smoke 


It'sToasted-YourThroat  Protection  *S 


GAINST  rRRITATIOh 
AGAINST  COUGH 


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Inside  Stories  On: 

EDDIE  CANTOR 
SHIRLEY  ROSS 
TONY  MARTIN 
LUM  'N'  ABNER 
EDGAR  BERGEN 
CECIL  B.  DEMILLE 


BE  IRRESISTIBLE-USE  IRRESISTIBJl_£ERFyMi 


RADIO  STARS 


Pretty  lips  cost  her  a  pretty  penny 

but  never  a  second  for  her  tender  gums 


How  often  such  neglect  leads 
to  real  dental  tragedies . . . 
give  your  gums  the  benefit 
of  Ipana  and  Massage. 

LET  her  study  herself  in  the  mirror— 
'while  she  outlines  that  classic  mouth, 
powders  that  pretty  nose.  Let  her  fli- 
vorite  creams  and  cosmetics  add  to  her 
charm.  Then  let  her  smile— smile  that 
dull,  dingy,  shadowed  smile  of  hers— and 
see  how  quickly  her  beauty  vanishes. 

A  minor  tragedy?  Yet  this  girl  might 
possess  a  radiant,  appealing  smile— but 
not  until  she  lavishes  a  fraction  of  the 


care  she  gives  her  lips  on  her  dingy 
teeth,  her  Under,  ailing  gums— not  until 
she  knows  the  meaning  of  that  tinge  of 
"pink"  upon  her  tooth  brush. 

Don't  Overlook  "Pink  Tooth  Brush" 
When  that  warning  tinge  appears  on 
your  tooth  brush— go  at  once  to  your  den- 
tist. Probably  no  serious  trouble  is  in 
store  for  you.  No  doubt,  he'll  lay  the 
blame  at  the  door  of  modern  menus. 
Too-soft  foods— foods  that  deprive  your 
gums  of  necessary  work  and  stimulation 
—have  made  the  gum  walls  lazy,  flabby. 
Usually  he  will  suggest  harder,'"chewier" 
foods— and  often  the  stimulating  help 


of  Ipana  Tooth  Paste  and  massage. 

For  nearly  always,  Ipana  and  mas- 
sage is  a  wise  precaution  against  the 
warning  of  "pink  tooth  brush."  Begin 
today  to  help  the  health  of  your  teeth 
and  gums.  Massage  a  little  Ipana  into 
your  gums  e\  ery  time  you  brush  your 
teeth.  Watch  those  lazy  tissues  grow 
gradually  firmer,  sounder,  healthier. 

Start  today  the  faithful  use  of  Ipana 
Tooth  Paste  and  massage.  Let  your  smile 
do  justice  to  your  charm. 

LISTEN  TO  "Town  Hall  Tonight"- every  Wed- 
nesday night,  over  N. B.C.  Red  Network, 
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a  good  toothpaste, 
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ABRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Editor 

BROADCASTING 

IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION—  ,      „    i    x/  m 

'Rudy  Va;;ee  iranUy  speaA-s  h.s  m.nd')  ^^dy  Vollee  8 

GLAMOUR  IS  HIS  BUSINESS 

iCecil  DeM'.lle  puts  glamour  in  radio  as  he  did  in  morjes) 

by  Wilfred  Healy  10 

SHE  KEPT  HER  CHIN  UP! 

{The  story  behind  Shirley  Ross'  conquest  of  radio  and  screen)  

by  Miriam  Rogers  20 

CANTOR  ON  THE  CARPET! 

'Ida  and  the  i:rls  censor  Eddies  programs  and  his  life)   

by  Nanette  Kufner  22 
NO  WOMAN  COULD  STAND  HIM 

'So  savs  Ton:-  Marzin.  handsorr.e  radio  and  movie  star')   

by  Gladys  Hall  24 
SOMETHING  NEW  UNDER  THE  SUN 

iVentriloquist  Edgar  Bergen  and  his  delectable  dummy.  Charlie 

McCarthy)   by  Noncy  Barrows  28 

AFRAID  OF  HER  LUCK 

(.Why  Lucille  Manrters.  Cities  Service  star,  fears  Fate's  wiles)  

by  Miriam  Gibson  30 

TROMBONE  TROUBADOUR 

'Meet  Jerry  Cooper,  new  M  C.  of  Hollywood  Hotel)  

by  George  Kent  32 

GENTLEMEN  BE  SEATED 

'The  low-down  on  burnt-cork  funsters.  Molasses  'n'  January)  

by  William  Vollee  36 
PINE  RIDGE  GOES  HOLLYWOOD 

'What  Luiri  and  Abr.-r  have  done  to  Chester  Lauck  and  Norris  Coff) 

by  Leslie  Eaton  38 

EASY  GOING  EASY  ACES 

G'-yc-2.T!a/i  and  Jane  defy  the  gossip-mongers)    

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SPECIAL  FEATURES  AND  DEPARTMENTS 


Beauty  Advice   6 

Kote  Smith's  Own  Cooking 


What  They  Listen  To— and 
Why   56 


School   12      Hollywood  Invites  You..  58 

Cornfort  First  in  Ploy  Clothes    14      West  Coast  Chatter   76 


Rodio  Romblings   16 

For  Distinguished  Service 


Nothing  But  The  Troth?..  82 


to  Rodio. 


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I  BeautJi^ 


BY    MARY  BIDDLE 


Badminton  is  another  game 
in  which  Gladys  delights. 


Would  you  know  the  [ 
secret  of  the  famed 
Swarthout  glamour? 
Here  are  her  rules 


Whoever  says  Gladys  Swarthout 
is  "lovely  to  look  at — lovely  to  listen 
to,"  tells  hut  half  the  story,  for  slie  is 
"lovely  to  know."  Gladys  Swarthout 
is  more  than  a  heautiful  voice,  face 
and  figure — she  is  a  real  person  .  .  . 
and  she  knocks  our  conceptions  of 
teni])eramental  opera  divas  ri,t,dit  on 
the  head!  She  is  a  tlioroui^lily  nor- 
mal per^on.  with  a  rafi:;Mn  pcr.s'ni- 
ality.  It  takes  only  a  ft  u  nmnKiits 
with  her  to  feel  her  genuine  interest 
in  people  and  things. 

Interviewing  Gladys  .Swarthout  on 
the  suhject  of  heauty — and  in  ])ar- 
ticular  her  heautiful  figure — I  kej)! 
bumping  into  her  personality  at  every 
turn.  It  seems  Gladys  is  really  in- 
terested in  sports,  exercise,  physical 
activities.  That  she  really  likes 
healthful  foods!  Well — the  idea  of 
a  person  having  a  heautiful  figure  by 
doing  absolutely  nothing  but  what  she 
likes  is  certainly  a  novel  one — one 
that  I  must  pass  along  to  you. 

Just  look  around  you.  Look  at  all 
the  figure- fault  people  you  know. 
Watch  their  activities.  The  slim  ones 
are  always  on  the  go.  Xervously 
jumping  here  and  there.  Dashing 
hecticly  frojn  one  engagement  to  the 
next.  And  the  fat  ones — they  take 
{Continued  on  page  78) 

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BY  ^  ^'^ 


RUDY  VALLEE 


It  was  a  great  day  when  Rudy  Vallee 
set  sail  on  the  lie  de  France  for 
England  and  the  Coronation,  whence 
came  two  of  his  Thursday  night  shows 
featuring  all-British  casts.  Here  he 
is,  obliging  eager  autograph  seekers 
who  thronged  about  him  before  he  left. 


BELIEVING  that  every  man  is  entitled  to  trial  by  ^ 
jury  of  his  peers.  I  woukl  like  to  present,  Ladies  and 
Gentlemen  of  the  Jury,  my  side  of  a  recent  mixup  in 
wliich  T  was  concerned. 

To  nu-  tlic  wliolc  tliini^-.  and  its  .subsequent  newspaper 
ireatnxin.  is  liul  iurllier  pmof  that  there  is  a  crying  need 
tor  a  Saturday-nii.;ht  pul)licati(in  to  l)e  called,  let's  say, 
Tlie  Weekly  Check-U p,  whdsc  sole  function  it  would  be 
to  show  up  the  errors,  omissions  and  misstatements  made 
deliberately  or  otherwise  the  Lress  (i.e.  newspajjcrs, 
magazines,  all  forms  of  printed  material  )  and  radio  ])ro- 
nouncements  made  (hiring  the  jjrcvioiis  live  or  si.x  days. 

The  proof?  The  story  concerniiii^  tlu'  ])icture  of  yours 
truly  and  a  young  lady.  ])hotogra] ihtd  in  lioston.  llere 
are  the  errors  committed  tlie  new  si).-ii)ers  :  I'irst — tliey 
misstated  the  name  of  ihe  Aomig  lady.  (  Tiie  lady  originally 
named  was  in  New  Vcjrk  City  the  night  the  jiicture  was 
taken  in  I'oston).  .Second:  The  gentleman  who  was  with 
me  was  neither  my  "stooge,"  nor  my  ])ress-agent  or  |)ul)- 
licity  man.  (For  the  past  six  years  I  ha\  e  had  no  jiulilicity 
man.  no  press-agent).  He  represents  the  publishing  firm 
of  Irving  Berlin  in  Boston,  lectures  on  chemistry  in  two 
schools,  writes  for  botii  a  Cathf)lic  and  a  drug  maga/ine 
and  has  been  f)Ut  of  my  emjiloy  for  some  six  months. 
When  he  was  with  me,  he  .acted  se<  ret:ir\-  and  aidc-dr- 
eamp.  Third:  friend  merelv  tried  to  secure  the  camera 
])late — he  made  no  motion  to  attack,  bourth  :  1  at  no  time 
took  the  offensive.  1  asked  my  friend  to  release  the  ])late, 
which  he  had  wrested  from  the  ])hotographer,  and  then 
asked  the  photographer,  in  deference  to  the  young  lady 
jjresent,  not  to  ])rint  the  picture  which  included  her,  but 
to  take  as  many  of  me  as  he  wished. 

It  is  a  peculiar  paradox  of  our  American  way  of  living 
that  we  hold  inviolate  and  sacred  the  privacy  of  our  homes, 
through  which  no  one  may  walk  or  search  without  a 
warrant.    Yet,  probaljly  through  fear  of  the  Press  more 


than  anything  else,  our  legislators  have  not  dared  to 
guarantee,  to  celebrities  or  to  anyone,  the  right  to  keep 
his  or  Iier  physiognomy  to  himself  or  herself,  the 
]iliotogra])hing,  the  subsequent  reproduction  of  the 
])hotogra])h  except  when  used  for  commercial  purposes. 
Certainlv  it  is  a  sad  commentary  on  the  state  of  The 
Hii.sion  h'rrord,  th;it,  in  its  desperation  to  increase  circu- 
lation, it  finds  it  necessary  to  photograph  a  man  leaving 
a  theatre  with  a  lady  and  thus  to  use  that  jiersonality  in 
conjunction  with  that  of  the  lady  to  build  up  circulation, 
on  the  assumption  that  it>  readers  secure  a  vicarious  thrill 
in  what  this  particular  ])ersonality  does  or  with  whom  he 
may  associate.  Is  this  news — for  our  Constitution  guar- 
anteed a  one-sided  freedom? 

It  could  not  help  but  amuse  me,  because  as  a  personality 
and  circulation  builder  I  am  really  not  that  important — 
;dtliongh  by  their  snapping  of  the  ])icture  and  the  subse- 
i|neni  re])rinting  of  it,  they  would  have  you  believe  that 
most  of  \du  wait  breathlessly  to  see  who  my  fair  com- 
])anion  may  be ! 

As  laughable  as  tliis  particular  incident  may  seem  on 
the  surface.  The  Juisloii  Record  probably  seriously  thought 
it  was  doing  nie  ,-i  favor  by  ]>rinting  my  i)icture  in  its 
]>;iges.  It  i)robably  seems  incredible  to  its  editors  that  there 
are  those  who  do  not  subscribe  to  that  moronic  morsel  of 
imbecilitv  which  goes  something  like  this:  "/  don't  care 
71. '//(//  yoli  Siiv  (ihoiit  ine  as  loiu/  as  you  nicutinn  my  name." 

IViit  it  was  not  mv  own  feelings  in  this  ])articular  instance 
tb.rit  I  was  considering.  It  is  just  ])ossil)le  that  the  young 
ladv  had  reasons  for  not  wishing  to  lia\f  a  jihotograph  of 
herself  jjublished  without  her  ]>ermission.  Unfortunately, 
the  law  may  not  ofTer  redress  to  a  young  lady  who  may, 
or  may  not,  suffer  as  a  result  of  having  a  ])ictm-e  of  her- 
self spread  throughout  the  press  of  the  coimtry,  and 
])erhans  does  not  permit  another  young  lady,  who  was  not 
even  there,  from  securing  any  {Continued  on  page  64) 


Diverting  and  newsy  are  Rudy's  comments  in  his  sixth  column 

8 


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-SHISA 
WUdCAT! 


WHAT  a  penalty  people  pay  for  being 
mean  and  nasty-tempered!  They  for- 
feit friends  and  romance!  They're  their 
own  worst  enemies! 

Still,  they're  not  always  to  blame.  You 
know,  yourself,  that  you  can't  escape  be- 
ing nervous,  irritable,  crabby,  if  your  sys- 
tem is  clogged  with  ]ioi-(,ni)u^  \va^te-.  So 
if  you  really  want  to  W  light-licurted  .  .  . 
popular,  fresli-lookinii  .  .  .  he  siirr  llial 
your  bowels  move  n-^nlmly.  Ami 
ever  Nature  needs  hclii — lake  Ex-Lux. 

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you'll  be  grateful  for  the  absence  of  the 
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Another  thing — Ex-Lax  tastes  just  like 
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When  Nature  forgets -remember 

EX -LAX 

THE  ORIGINAL  CHOCOLATED  LAXATIVE 


Responsible  for 
over  sixty  film 
successes,  Cecil 
DeMille  now  de- 
votes himself  to 
glamorizing  radio. 


Grade  and  George, 
and  the  Jock  Bennys 
congratulate  De- 
Mille after  a  Lux 
Radio  Theatre  show. 


BACK  in  191.1  Cecil  P..  DeAIille,  now 
director  of  the  Lux  h'adio  Theatre, 
sat  gloomily  with  hcsixctacled  Jesse 
Lasky  in  the  restaurant  of  New 
York  City'.s  Claridge  ilutel.  A  play 
he'd  produced  had  just  failed.  There 
was  little  hi.s  friend  I.asky  could  do 
to  cheer  him  up  since  he,  too,  had 
just  ex]XM-ienced  a  great  failure  in 
the  sudden  closing  of  his  folies 
Ilcrcjcre. 

.Along  came  Samuel  Goldwyn  who, 
at  the  time,  wasn't  doing  so  well  in 
the  glove  business.  With  a  long,  de- 
s]K)ndent  look  on  his  face,  he  joined 
them  at  lunch. 


"How's  business,  .Sam?"  they 
asked. 

"If  it  was  any  better,  it  would  be 
still  lousy!" 

But,  somehow,  tliesc  three  men 
could  not  be  discouraged.  Even  as 
they  sat  there,  telling  each  other 
about  their  respective  failures,  they 
decided  to  become  jiartners  in  a  new 
kind  of  business  which  was  just  get- 
ting midcr  way — ibc  making  of  mo- 
lion  in'clurcs.  .So  Cecil  and  his  pals 
journexcd  out  to  Hollywood  and 
(j])encd  a  studio  in  an  old,  dilapidated 
l)arn  at  what  is  now  known  as  Selma 
Avenue  and   Brvant  Street.  Their 


How  Cecil  B.  DeMille  has  conquered  the 


10 


©fioxTTI  cutam: 


Tell  me  —  honestly,  now  —  what  is  your  real  opinion  about  all  the  many  face 
powders  you  have  tried?  Have  you  ever  truly  found  that  one  heaven-sent  face 
powder  which  brings  to  life  all  the  vivid,  glowing,  natural  skin  charm  and  love- 
liness that  you  have  every  right  to  expect? 

You  aren't  to  blame,  really,  if  your 
search  has  failed.  We  have  all  had  the 
same  trying  experience.  Testing  — 
choosing — never  quite  sure  we  were  the 
lovely  person  we  longed  to  be. 

You — are  the  very  problem  modern 
cosmeticians  studied  year  after  year 
before  LOVELY  LADY  was  created. 
Millions  of  women  go  on  switching  face 
powders,  grinding  hard-base,  sharp-flake 
powders  into  the  skin,  finally  spoiling 
their  natural  skin  beauty. 

Now, — BALMITE  the  exquisite  new 
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B.'VLMITE  all  five  exquisite  new  shades 
of  LOVELY  LADY  blend  out  to  cover 
you  r  every  seasonal  variat  ion  of  complex  ion 
color.  Smooths  away  horrid  lines  that 
have  made  you  look  years  older,  brings 
out  the  flattering  loveliness  of  your 
natural  skin  tone  beauty. 


Don't  punish  your  complexion  any 
longer!  Sit  down  before  your  mirror — 
try  all  five  new  shades  of  my  Face  Pow- 
der. You'll  see  then,  and  only  then,  if 
you  have  been  usinu  tlie  wronu  lace 
powder.  ^'ou'U  see  instanth  which  one 
shade  of  LOVELY  make<  xou 

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Realism  Is  attained 
on  Lux  Theatre  by 


Business 

BY  WILFRED 
HEALY 

fir.st  picture  was  TJic  Sqiiazv  Man, 
with  Dustin  Farnum,  brother  of  the 
more  popular  William,  as  its  star. 
From  that  time  on,  Cecil  B.  (the 
/>'.  incidentally,  is  for  Blotmt)  De- 
Mille  wa.s  ontstandinsl v  successful  in 
directing  and  producing  pictures. 
The  one  clement  he  insisted  upon  in 
all  of  his  productions  was  glamotir. 
More  lavish  productions  have  never 
been  fihned  tlian  his  The  Ten  Com- 
maiidments,  Ben  Hur,  The  King  of 
Kings,  The  Sign  of  the  Cross  and 
Tlie  Plainstno)!. 

When  Lux  hired  DeAIille  as  di- 
rector of  its  (Continued  on  page  60) 

air  as  he  did  the  films 


City  Sttitr  

Paste  this  on  a  postcartl  or  enclose  in  envelope 


On  a  pleasant  summer  afternoon 
at  home,  Kate  Smith  enjoys  a  cool 
drink  of  iced  coffee,  served  on  a 
lawn  table  shaded  by  an  umbrella. 


In  this  article,  and  also  in  the 
recipe  leaflet.  Miss  Smith  gives 
your  recipes  for  this  new  Melange 
salad  and  other  tempting  salads. 


Courtesy  Mazola  Compuny 


Hello,  Everybody! 

This  is  Kate  Smith,  hringing  you 
some  summer  foot!  suggestions  and 
offering  you,  this  month,  recipes  for 
several  of  my  la\oritc  hot  weather 
dishes. 

These  are  the  very  -amc  recipes 
that  I'll  soon  he  f' ill. iw  ing,  myself, 
in  my  island  home  on  Ixauliful  Lake 
Placid,  where  I  expect  to  >pen(l  as 
much  time  as  I  possibly  can  during 
the  coming  summer  months.  Yes 
indeed,  you  can  ju>t  imagine  me. 
folks,  right  after  mv  hrondcasts  (or 
any  other  duties  that  ma\  hring  me, 
reluctantly,  to  Xew  York)  shaking 
the  dust  of  the  city  from  my  feet  and 
boarding  a  train  post-haste  for  the 
Adirondacks.  I  won't  delay  a  min- 
ute, I  assure  you,  because,  when  I'm 
in  my  beloved  mountain  camp,  I 
know  I'll  be  able  to  rest  and  relax, 
to  swim  and  walk,  to  play  tennis  and 
golf  and,  best  of  all,  to  entertain  my 
folks  and  my  friends  in  the  most  in- 
formal manner  imaginable. 

You  can  be  sure,  too,  that  I  also 
shall  spend  long  pleasurable  hours, 
12 


A  summer  cheese 
tray,  featuring 
various  popular 
cheeses,  appeals 
to  our  hostess. 


while  there,  experimenting  and  put- 
tering around  in  the  large  rustic 
kitchen  of  tiiis  country  home  of 
mine,  fixing  up  the  same  dishes  that 
I've  ijeen  telling  you  about  these  past 
eight  months  or  so,  in  my  capacity 
of  "guest  conductor"  of  Radio 
Stars  Magazine's  Cooking  School. 

I  also  intend  to  try  out  new  dishes 
that  I'll  be  able  to  tell  you  about  at 
some  future  time.  For  I'm  saying 
goodbye — or  should  I  say  an  rcvoir — • 
to  my  "cooking  class"  here,  this 
month ;  but  I  want  you  to  know  that 
1  i)lan  to  return  to  "meet"  you  again 
in  these  pages.  Can't  say  just  when, 
at  the  present  moment,  because  I'm 


vacation-minded  just  now  (I'll  bet 
you  are,  too!)  and  I'm  shedding  re- 
s])onsibilities  as  a  duck  does  water! 
"I-^css  work  for  Katherine !"  is  my 
motto  during  the  summer!  But  I 
know  from  experience  that  I'll 
change  my  tunc  when  the  cooler  fall 
days  come  anjund. 

Then,  too,  I'll  be  going  on  the  air 
next  season  for  a  new  sponsor,  Gen- 
eral Foods,  and  I'm  sure  that  will 
make  me  so  food  conscious  that  I'll 
want  to  talk  about  culinary  matters 
once  more.  So,  though  we  part  for 
the  time  being,  let's  agree  that  our 
theme  song  will  be  Till  We  Meet 
Again — with    more    menus,  more 


RADIO  STARS 


SckaU 

Our  Cooking  School 
Hostess  says  good- 
bye with  a  shower 
of  summer  recipes 


recipes  and  inure  of  those  friendly 
letters  from  }ou  to  nie  which  I  have 
so  greatly  enjoyed  receiving  during 
my  "tenure  of  office"'  as  your  Cook- 
ing School  Director.  I  "hope  }ou'll 
write  and  let  me  know  what  you 
think  of  my  coming  back  in  this 
capacity,  when  you  send  in  for  this 
month's  recipes,  the  last  of  the  pres- 
ent series.  I  believe  you'll  find  the 
coupon  that  brings  you  this  free 
leaflet  at  the  end  of  this  article  of 
mine,  for  a  change.  But  just  because 
it  isn't  up  here  in  front  for  you  to 
see  at  once,  don't  overlook  it  or 
you'll  miss  out  on  some  dishes  that 
are  full  of  snnuiicr-appcal. 

But  let's  see  what  they  are,  these 
tempting  foods  for  the  hot  davs, 
when  foods  need  to  be  extra-special 
to  whet  our  lagging  ap]Knites.  Wa'W 
start  right  off  with  salads,  of  course; 
first,  because  1  know  you  like  them, 
and,  second,  because  I  |)ractically  live 
on  salads  and  cold  meats,  myself,  in 
summer,  so  I've  been  particularly 
interested  in  all  the  salads  I've  ever 
heard  about  or  tasted.  \\'hich  means, 
of  course,  (Coiitiinicd  on  page  54) 


BEAUT\  aulhorities  agree  that  thor- 
ough cleansing  is  the  most  important 
step  in  complexion  care.  A  simple  step, 
too,  since  Daggett  &  Ramsdell  created 
Golden  Cleansing  Cream,  with  its  re- 
markable new  ingredient. 

IVow  Kind  of  Cleansins; 
Golden  Cleansing  Cream  contains  colloi- 
dal gold,  which  has  an  amazing  power  to 
rid  skin  pores  of  dirt,  make-up  and  other 
impurities.  You  can't  see  or  feel  this  col- 
loidal gold,  any  more  than  you  see  or 
feel  the  iron  in  spinach.  Yet  its  penetrat- 
ing action  makes  Golden  Cleansing  Cream 
more  thorough  than  ordinary  cleansers, 
and,  at  the  same  time,  tones  and  invigo- 
rates skin  tissues. 

Make  This  Simple  Test 
Apply  your  usual  skin  cleanser.  Wipe  it 


off  with  tissue.  Then  cleanse  with  Golden 
Cleansing  Cream.  On  the  tissue  you  will 
find  more  dirt— brought  from  pore  depths 
by  this  more  effective  cleansing. 

Try  it  tonight.  See  for  yourself  how 
fresh  and  clean  (iolden  Cleansing  Cream 
leaves  your  skin.  You'll  find  this  new 
cream  at  your  drug  or  department  store 
for  just  $1.00. 


GOLDEN   CLEANSING  CREAM 


Daggett  &;Ram9(lell.  Room  1980,  2  I'ark  Avcn.ie,  New  York  City.  Dept.  MM-7 

Enclosed  find  10c  in  stamps  for  which  please  send  me  ray  trial  size  jar  of  Golden  Cleansing  Cream.  (Offer 
good  in  U.  S.  only,) 

Name  

Street  

City  State   CoDr.  1937.  Datrgett  &  RamsdoU 

13 


RADIO  STARS 


WELL  UMHifEU 
WOMEN  NOW  WEAR 

Leading  American  designers  recom- 
mend the  use  of  dress  shields  to  pro- 
tect their  creations  not  only  from 
perspiration  jjut  also  from  strong 
under-arm  cosmetics. 

At  a  recent  Fashion  Show  in  New 
^ork,  every  dress  was  worn  over  a 
carefully  selected  Kleinert  s  Bra-form. 

"Bra-forms  are  smart  uplift  ])ras 
made  in  net,  lace,  hatistc  and  satin 
and  equipped  with  a  pair  of  Klcinert's 
guaranteed  dress  shields. 

They  can  he  laundere<l  as  easily  as 
your  other  lingerie,  and  solve  your 
perspiration  prolilein  ])erfectly  with- 
out the  slightest  hother. 

You  need  hras  and  you  need  shields 
—  Bra-forms  comhine  them  most  con- 
veniently! From  a  dollar  up  in  good 
iN'otion  Departments  everywhere  — a 
tiny  fraction  of  the  cost  of  the  dresses 
they  save. 

The  Bra-form  illustrated  above,  is 
of  fine  batiste,  SI. 25. 


Ask  for  Kleincrt's 
L  <i  u  n  d  e  r  i  t  e 
Shields— 25''  a  pair 
III  Motion  Counters 
cieryuhere. 


By 

ELIZABETH  ELLIS 


483  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y. 
TORONTO,  CANADA... LONDON,  ENG. 


Lily  Pons'  favorite  swim 
suit  is  of  white  satin  end 
woven  elastic,  high  in 
front,  with  deep  sun-bock. 

I'VE  discovered  tliat  it's  the  stars 
wiio  have  to  be  the  most  formal  in 
their  working  hours  who,  actually, 
are  the  most  iuform;il  in  their  ])lay 
time.  Such  is  true  of  tiny,  viva- 
cious Lily  Pons.  UK's  working;' 
life  is  composed' of  costumes  and 
more  costumes.  If  she  isn't  dress- 
ing- up  for  a  screen  role,  she's 
havini^-  fittint^s  for  some  operatic 
l)art.  And  between  times,  she  has 
to  deck  herself  out  futini^ly  for  her 
radio  broadcast  e\ery  Wednesday 
ni.i;lit.  As  you  know,  Lily  is  soloist 
with  Andre  Kostelanctz'  orchestra 
on  the  Chesterfield  pm-ram.  So  it 
is  no  wonder  that  when  she  is  at 
home,  either  in  California  or  Con- 
necticut. Lily  relaxes  com])letely 
and  dresses  for  comfort  above  all 
else. 

Chatting  about  clothes  with 
Mile.  Pons  has  its  conversational 
hurdles!  Althon-li  Lily  speaks 
J^nglisli.  she  nnuh  |)refers  to  talk- 
French.  And  when  she  docs  talk 
luiglish.  her  accent  is  mnch  n-iorc 
a])parent  than  when  you  hear  her 
si)eak  on  the  screen  or  over  the  air. 
At  such  times  .she  has  rehearsed 
what  she  is  .going  to  say  and  the 
results  are  much  smoother  than  ber 
impromptu  conversations  in  person. 

No  frills  for  Lily 
Pons,  when  she  is 
relaxing  at  home 


RADIO  STARS 


For  a  sports  costume  she  chooses  a  slacks 
suit,  strictly  man-tailored.  This  one  is  of 
crush-resisting  linen  in  herringbone  weave. 


ger 


ror  vacation 


printed  seersucker 

travel  or  a  week-end  party.    It  can't  wrinkle! 


You  can  be  right  in  the  midst  of  a 
conversation  with  Lily,  and  thinking 
you  are  getting  along  swimmingly, 
when  suddenly  her  shoulders  move, 
her  hands  give  a  despairing  gesture 
and  she  rattles  the  rest  off  in  French 
to  her  maid,  manager  or  publicity 
agent  nearby.  So  these  fashion  ob- 
servations on  Mile,  P.  are  partly  from 


her  own  English  descriptions,  plus 
volumes  in  French,  relayed  to  me  by 
an  interpreter  who  thought  I  couldn't 
understand  a  word  of  the  language! 

The  first  thing  that  surprised  mc, 
upon  meeting  the  pint-sized  Lily,  was 
that  her  hair  isn't  black.  Didn't  you 
think  it  was?  Instead,  it's  a  colorful 
reddish  brown  whfch  heightens  the 


effectiveness  of  her  typically  Latin 
skin  coloring — a  warm  brunette  tone, 
which  makes  her  ap])ear  jjerpetually 
>tui-tanned.  She  always  wears  her 
hair  the  same,  day  or  evening.  Some- 
times, with  formal  clothes,  she  wears 
flowers  [jlaced  high  uijon  her  head  be- 
cause she  feels  it  gives  her  an  illusion 
{Continued  on  page  68) 


Summer  Brunette 

Sunlight  Flight) 

Sunlight  (oarki 

to  soften  your  face  in  blazing  light  •  •  • 

Now  three  new  "Sunlight"  Shades  —  to  flatter 
you  in  hard  sunlight. 

Pond's  "Sunlight"  Shades  are  new  I  They  catch 
onlv  the  softer  rays  of  the  sun.  Soften  its  lianl, 
unbecoming  glare  on  your  face.  Completely 
away  from  the  old  "dirtv-looking"  sun-tan  pow- 
ders. Try  them  at  our  expense. 

Or,  get  a  box  yourself.  If  you  do  not  find  it 
more  flattering  than  ordinary  sun-tan  shades, 
send  us  back  the  box,  and  we  will  refund  pur- 
chase price  plus  postage.  Low  prices.  Decorated 
screw-top  jars,  35p,  l^i.  New  big  boxes.  10c,  205^. 


Test  them  FREE!  in  glaring  Sunlight 

Pon.r,.  Dept.  9RS-P(;,  Clinton,  Conn.  IM.  ,,-. 
rui.h  mc,  free.  Pond's  3  new  '*SunlighC  Shii>l<-^. 

^   (Tbi3  offer  expiraVept!  1.  1937» 


RADIO  STARS 


In  her  early  radio  days,  she  had  a 
terrible  case  of  microphone  fright. 
At  first  she  insisted  on  broadcasting 
behind  a  screen,  so  that  even  the 
Lonibardo  musicians  could  not 
watch  her. 

About  that  time  Gracie  was  fond 
of  a  new  song  called  A  Little  Grass 
Shack.  She  gaily  sang  it  around 
rehearsals  and,  one  day,  the  Lom- 
bardo  bandmen  improvised  an  ac- 
companiment as  she  sang.  It  sounded 


Meri  Bell,  popular  songbird 
on  CBS.  Her  favorite  dish  is 
black-eyed  peas  and  onions! 

This  tip  may  or  may  not  be  of 
value  to  the  ox'cr-plump  ladies — -but 
one  of  fit  til  .  Izriiuc's  expensive 
reducing  salons  lias  found  Guy 
Lonibardo' s  music  best  for  reducing 
exercises!  Their  reducing  ladies 
usually  exercise  to  the  rhythm  of  a 
Lomhardo  phonograph  record. 

If  the  ease  calls  for  slightly  more 
strenuous  treatment,  a  Hal  Kemp 
recording  is  selected.  His  tempos 
arc  slightly  faster  and  set  the  ex- 
ercisers leaping  and  szvinging  at  a 
livelier  rate. 

A  prank  of  this  same  Guy  Loni- 
bardo, by  the  way,  was  the  push 
that  started  Gracie  Allen  singing 
regularly  on  her  radio  programs. 


Marlyn  Stuart, 
heard  on  Ken 
Murray's  CBS 
show,  d  e  f  i- 
nitely  a  radio 
personality. 


things  turned  out,  it  was  not  so 
terrible,  either  for  herself  or  for 
the  audience.  She  hasn't  missed 
singing  on  a  program  since,  except 
when  occasional  attacks  of  flu  in- 
terfered. 

-♦- 

Easy  Aces  have  a  strange  setup 
for  their  radio  network.  As  far  west 
as  Denver,  their  programs  are  heard 
on  an  NBC  network.  West  of  Den- 
ver, NBC  stations  are  not  available 
at  the  proper  time,  so  the  Pacific 
coast  hears  them  on  Columbia 
stations. 

The  Ace  sketches  on  the  Colum- 
bia stations  are  broadcast  from 
records  and  a  lapse  of  three  weeks 
is  allowed  for  recording  and  mail- 
ing time.  Thus  the  Pacific  Coast 
hears  them  not  only  on  another 
network  but  three  weeks  later  than 
the  Eastern  broadcasts. 

Rubinoff  is  an  enthusiastic 
candid  camera  fan  and  his  enthu- 
siasm really  is  astounding.  He  takes 


The  Bennys  go  to  the  circus. 
Joan  Naomi,  Jack  and  Mary 
pose  with  DoDo,  the  clown. 

well  and  Guy  suggested  that  she 
sing  it  on  the  air. 

"Oh,  I  couldn't !"  Gracie  pro- 
tested. "No  one  would  like  my  sing- 
ing and,  besides,  I'd  simply  die!" 

Guy  conferred  with  George  Burns 
to  see  what  could  be  done  about  it. 
After  dress  rehearsal,  George  an- 
nounced: "Gracie,  the  program  is 
about  three  minutes  short.  Couldn't 
you  ])ossibly  sing  that  song  with 
Guy  ?  We  haven't  time  to  write 
enough  to  fill  those  three  minutes." 
Reluctantly  Gracie  consented.  As 


Joe  Cook  shows  Albert  Payson 
Terhune  the  medal  recently 
presented  him  by  Radio  Sfars. 

roll  after  roll  of  film,  sends  them 
out  to  be  developed  and  they  come 
back  almost  completely  blank.  Hope- 
fully, he  loads  his  camera  and  goes 
at  it  again. 

Impetuous  and  nervous,  Rubin- 
off refuses  Ir^son-^  and  is  impatient 
with    friendly   correction.  Instead, 


RADIO  STARS 


If  you  want  to  be 
in  the  know  on  ra- 


dio doings -here's  | 
the  latest  news 

he  takes  tlie  camera  back  to  the 
store,  insists  it  is  no  good  and 
buys  a  more  ex])cnsive  one. 

He  is  improving-.  The  last  re- 
port was  that  he  had  managed 
to  get  pictures  on  nearly  a  third 
of  a  roll,  so  he  is  working  more 
feverishly  than  ever.  Rubinofif  is 
tireless  and  severe  in  rehearsal 
but  occasionally  he  will  climb  off 
the  stand,  camera  in  hand,  to 
crawl  along  the  floor  and  try  to 
get  an  action  picture  of  a  musician  i 
from  an  odd  angle.  | 

Andre  Kostclanets'  music  con- 
tains all  sorts  of  experiments 
with  putting  queer  sounds  into 
the  microphone.  For  a  ivhile  he 
7vas  getting  a  rhythm  effect  by 
having  a  musician  get  close  to 
the  microphone  and  click  his  ton- 
gue against  the  roof  of  his  mouth. 
The  sound  was  inaudible  a  couple 
of  feet  azcay  but  the  microphone 
picked  it  up  and  amplified  it. 
"Dental  blocks"  Kosty  called 
that. 

He  has  a  new  arrangement  of 
Good  Night  Ladies,  in  which  a 
door  slam  supplements  the  drums. 
A  real  door  is  wheeled  oi'cr  to 
the  microphone  and  slammed  by 
a  musician  2vith  notes  in  front 
of  htm. 


Who  can  hit  the  highest  note? 
Kenny  Baker  and  Morton  Bowe 
engage   in   desperate  rivalry. 


Ji-rom  Paris,  where  life  is  gay  and  glamorous-where  women 
are  fastidious  and  fascinating  --  comes  the  exquisite  perfume  that  gives 
to  Djer-Kiss  Talc  its  enchanting  fragrance  ....  Here  in  America  it 
is  the  daily  choice  of  lovely  women  who  have  discovered  its  ability  to 
enhance  personal  charm,  with  a  haunting  touch  of  magical  allure. 


Buy  Djer-Kiss  Talc  in 
drug  and  department 
stores  at  25c  and  75c. 
New  generous  10c  size 
in   ten  -  cent  stores. 


17 


CPnoruniTioed  DexvrKiu) 

TALC 

KERKOFF    •  PARIS 


RADIO  STARS 


Bandleader  Rex  Chandler. 


fcH  Dc6tud^ai6(ted  Sehvijce  to  Radio 


Baritone  Richard  Boneil 


When  the  comparatively  unknown  Rex  Chandler,  with 
his  Universal  Rhythm,  was  chosen  to  succeed  Fred  War- 
ing and  his  Pennsylvanians  on  the  Ford  Program,  it  was 
generally  thought  that  either  a  lamentable  mistake  had 
been  made  or  another  musical  genius  had  been  found. 
The  latter,  of  course,  turned  out  to  be  true. 

Rex  Chandler  is  not  one  of  those  pompous  conduc- 
tors who  simply  waves  a  baton  and  does  little  else.  On 
the  contrary,  he's  an  accomplished  musician,  person- 
ally supervises  all  musical  arrangements  of  his  orches- 
tra and  conceived  his  Universal  Rhythm  only  after  years 
of  constant  study,  here  and  abroad,  of  the  rhythms  of 
all  nations.  He  is  not  the  temperamental  type,  con- 
serving his  energy  for  the  long,  wearying  hours  of  prep- 
aration and  rehearsal.  His  patience  and  mild  manner 
bespeak  his  culture. 

Richard  Bonelli,  baritone  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
Company,  and  Alec  Templeton,  distinguished  blind 
pianist,  are  Ihe  other  highlights  of  the  program.  Few 
baritone  voices  are  as  pleasant  sounding  to  listeners  as 
is  Bonelli's.  His  mastery  of  the  microphone  enables  him 


to  sing  out  with  the  full  quality  of  his  voice  without 
blasting  listeners'  ears,  as  many  opera  stars  unfortu- 
nately do.  The  playing  of  Alec  Templeton  is  one  of 
radio's  most  unusual  gifts.  His  interpretations  astound 
even  the  most  accomplished  pianists. 

With  three  outstanding  artists.  Chandler,  Bonelli 
and  Templeton,  contributing  their  finest  efforts  each 
Saturday  night,  there  is  little  surprise  that  the  program 
has  become  so  popular  a  favorite.  Because  of  its 
artistry,  precision  and  general  excellence.  Radio  Stars 
Magazine  awards  its  medal  for  Distinguished  Service  to 
Radio  to  the  Universal  Rhythm  Program. 


EDITOR 


Rex  and  Richard  Bonelli  discuss  the  musical  score  in  rehearsal  for  the 
Universal  Rhythm  Show,  heard  Saturdays  at  7:30  p.m.  EDST  on  CBS. 


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YOU  CAN  l&wpt. 


and  Still  Be  Refined... If  You  Use 
This  Talc  That's  Perfumed 
with  Blended  Flowers 

Ah-h-h! . . .  what  madness  you  can  stir  in  the  blood 
when  you  appeal  to  a  man's  sense  of  smell!  Like 
the  cave-man  of  old,  seeking  his  mate  among 
sweet  flowers  of  the  forest,  a  modern  man  is 
primitive,  too. 

His  heart  beats  madly... he  yearns  for  you... 
when  you  thrill  him  with  the  perfume  of  Nature's 
own  flowers.  Lander's  Blended-Flower  Talcs 
have  this  tempting,  exciting  perfume  that  men 
adore.  Try  the  Lilacs  and  Roses  Blend... dust 
your  whole  body  with  this  exquisite  powder... 
smell  sweet  all  over! 

Then,  sund  on  your  toes ...  stretch  up,  up... 
and  whisper,  "I'm  unerly  lovely — thrilling.  I 
can  win  love."  And  you'll  feel  the  power  to  go 
forth  and  conquer.  Lander's  Blended-Flower 
Talc  does  this  for  you  and  more... 

It  guards  your  refinement . . .  makes  a  man  long 
to  protect  you,  because  you're  sweet  as  a  flower. 
There  may  be  fever  in  his  kisses,  but  there'll  be 
worship  in  his  soul.  He  knows  you're  refined. 
Strong- scented  talcums  give  the  wrong  idea. 
Play  safe,  get  Lander's... perfumed  with  a  blend 
of  true  flowers.  Only  10c  each  at  your  10c  store. 


SMELL 


SWEET 
ALL  OVER 


ANOERS  BLENDED-FLOWER  TALCS 


LILACS  AND  ROSES  ■  GARDENIA  AND  SWEET  PE A  ■  CARNATION  AND  LILY 
OF  THE  VALLEY-LAVENDER  AND  PINE-ORCHID  AND  ORANGE  BLOSSOM 


i 


ShtrUy  lltos 


Uy  ... 
ParoMDuill  playtr  and 

blues;  smoer,  \%^^  ' 

Wec^vsdays  ( 
Murrjby's  radio 


Shirley  is  tall  and 
slim,  with  light  brovm 
hair  curiing  softly  in 
a  long  bob,  framing  a 
perfect  camera  face. 


..She 


FIFTEEN  years  in  Hollywood  make  her  almost  a  native. 
She  went  to  grammar  school  there  and  high  school  and, 
briefly,  to  college.  Like  many  another  Hollywood  aspirant 
for  success  and  fame,  Shirley  Ross  found  it  a  handicap  to 
live  in  that  city  of  opportunity.  She  was  too  close  at  hand 
to  be  seen,  her  talents  too  near  the  motion  picture  scouts 
to  be  recognized  by  them.  But.  although  she  feels  she 
might  have  got  ahead  faster  if  she  had,  not  been  a  home 
town  girl,  she  did  manage  to  achieve  her  goal  without 
going  away  from  home. 

And  that  is  because  Shirley  is  a  born  fighter.  You 
wouldn't  guess  it  to  look  at  her.  She  is  tall  and  slim,  with 
light  brown  hair  curling  softly  in  a  long  bob  and  framing 
an  almost  perfect  camera  face,  with  straight  nose,  sensitive 
mouth  and  wide,  long-lashed  gray  eyes.  There  are  beauty 
and  sweetness  in  her  face,  but  the  dominant  characteristic 
is  strength.  You  don't  expect  so  much  will  power  in  a 
girl  as  young  and  pretty  as  Shirley,  bnlrirom  the  time  she 
was  a  little  girl,  she  has  shown  a  forceful,  determined 
character,  a  decisive  personality. 

"H  anyone  waved  a  white  handkerchief  in  front  of  me, 
I'd  fight !"  she  smiled.  "As  for  taking  a  dare,  there  was 
nothing  I  wouldn't  try." 

That's  why,  today,  she  rapidly  is  winning  success  on 
screen  and  radio — you've  seen  her,  perhaps,  most  recently 
in  The  Big  Broadcast  of  1937 ,  Hideaway  Girl  and  Waikiki 
Wedding,  and  you  hear  her  Wednesday  evenings  on  Ken 
Murray's  program,  at  8:30  EDST. 

That's  why  she  is  a  blues  singer,  and  why  she  is  an  air- 
plane pilot.  And  why  she  has  the  courage  to  contemplate 
combining  her  two  careers  with  that  third  and  no  less 
difficult  career,  marriage. 

"I  know  it  won't  be  easy,"  she  confided,  looking  ab- 
stractedly down  at  the  lovely,  tasteful  ring  on  her  finger." 
'Tt  will  be  difficult  .  .  .  Marriage  is  a  business,  like  any- 
thing else  and,  in  Hollywood,  in  pictures,  there  is  every- 
thing against  it,  but  I  intend  to  make  a  go  of  it,  if 
possible." 


Off  for  a  brief  hoii- 
doy  ot  Miami,  Florido. 
Shirley  dresses  simply,  j 
but  she  ')kis  a  flair 
Jw  1tai|gC9<t  tmoitness. 


Uef>i      Chut  Ufi ! 


She  smiled  wistfully.  "1  know  a  career  isn't  everything 
— there  is  so  much  more  in  life.  I  want  to  study  and  I 
want  to  travel — and  1  want  to  lead  a  normal,  rounded-out 
life,  1  know  trying  to  combine  marriage  and  a  career  is  a 
risky  business,  and  1  don't  intend  to  keep  on  working  in- 
definitely, but  1  have  fought  ton  hard  and  too  long  to 
give  up  now." 

Shirley  was  about  fifteen  when  she  first  definitely  made 
up  her  mind  what  she  wanted  to  do.  She  had  studied 
piano  since  she  was  a  small  child  and  her  mother  was  very 
anxious  to  have  her  become  a  concert  jManist.  But  although 
Shirley  played  with  skill  and  artistry,  concerts  terrified 
her.  ^he  realized  that  she  could  not  go  on  with  it,  that 
she  must  find  some  other  objective. 

She  could  not  contemplate  just  growing  up,  just  being 
a  debutante  and  later  a  wife.  Life  meant  much  more  th 
that.  She  had  to  do  something,  be  somebody !  She  never 
has  l)een  able  to  understand  girls  who  lack  initiative,  lack 
ambition,  the  driving  urge  to  accomplish  something,  in 
whatever  line. 

While  she  was  wondering  just  what  her  future  course 
would  be.  fate  flung  down  a  challenge  that  gave  her  the 
direction  she  needed. 

In  Hollywood  High  School  she  had  studied  dramatics 
and  was  prominent  in  the  school  plays.  It  was  while  she 
was  playing  the  lead  in  one  of  these  that  a  talent  scout  saw 
her  and  arranged  for  a  movie  test.  Shirley  was  thrilled, 
as  any  girl  would  be,  and  hope  soared  high.  But  the  test 
was  a  failure. 

Shirley,  however,  showed  her  mettle.  "When  I  learned 
it  was  bad,  that  my  big  opportunity  had  vanished  into  thin 
air,  I  was  determined  to  show  them !'' 

It  was  the  little  girl  who  never  refused  a  dare !  From 
then  on.  one  purpose  dominated  her  life.  Shirley  knew 
her  mother  was  broken-hearted  at  her  relinquishing  a 
career  as  concert  pianist — she  had  her  to  convince,  as  well 
as  producers  and  public.  She  began  systematically  to 
develo])  her   voice,   to  study    (Continued  on  page  84) 


BY    MIRIAM  ROGERS 

That's  why  Shirley  Ross  now 
has  an  enviable  career,  both  in 
the  movies  and  on  the  radio 


makes  a  heavy  schedule, 
but  Shirley  is  young 
and  heaitny,  and  she 
loves  every  bit  of  it. 


Hohtiml  Nine  o'clock!  Time 
to  get  up  ond  go  to  vroHc! 


Does  he  sing  in  his  bath? 
Or  is  it  a  cry  for  help? 


Over  the  morning  coffee 
Ida  offers  helpful  hints. 


BY  NANETTE   KUTNER  # 

WHEN  Eddie  Cantor  told  me  his  family  criticize  his 
radio  programs.  1  didn't  believe  him.    I  know  Cantor ! 

For  all  his  sweetness,  his  simple  way  of  living,  his  many 
charitable  enterprises,  his  reputation  for  being  a  square- 
slKjoter.  he  has  the  shrewdest  publicity  sense  in  show 
l)nsiness. 


Ida  and  the  girls  censor  Eddie's 

1  never  shall  forget  what  he  told  me  one  evening  in 
Hollywood,  as  we  sat,  Ida  and  Eddie  and  I.  in  the  cozy 
walnut-paneled  study  that  opens  of¥  their  huge  living- 
room.  The  older  girls  were  out  on  various  dates,  the 
younger  ones  had  gone  to  bed. 

With  a  motherly :  "They  grow  so  fast,"  Ida  commenced 
to  lengthen  one  of  Marilyn's  dresses. 

President  Roosevelt  was  scheduled  to  speak,  and  Eddie 
twirled  the  radio  dials.  He  always  has  been  a  staunch 
Roosevelt  booster,  feeling  justly  proud  of  having  spent 
Thanksgiving  Day,  a  year  ago,  with  the  President  at 
Warm  Springs. 

"Roosevelt  is  the  most  human  man  I've  ever  met," 
declares  Eddie. 

We  listened  to  the  speech.    After  discussing  its  main 
points,  Eddie,  in  the  energetic  manner  characteristic 
of  him,  suddenly  waved  his  hands  at  me,  announc- 
ing :  "I'll  give  you  a  great  idea  for  an  article. 
,  Vou  know  this  Good  Will  Court?" 

I  nodded.    The  Good  Will  Court  was  then 
^  .at  its  height. 

J  "Write  an  article  on  why  the  public  will 

L      1  tire  of  it.    And  /'//  tell  you  why!" 

J      ^  Thereupon,  Mr.  Cantor  proceeded  to 

furnish  me  with  some  pretty  pallid 
reasons. 

Politely  I  rejected  them.    It  wasn't 
until  I  sat  in  my  own  home  that  I 
saw  the  thought  underlying  his  sug- 
gestion.    The   Good   Will  Court 
played  opposite  Eddie  Cantor.  It 

"Why  did  you  sing  that  song?" 
osked  Edno.  "The  lyric  was 
silly!"  said  Marjorie.  "And 
a  bum  joke  is  always  a  bum 
joke!"  squelched  Natalie. 
'Tou  should  be  good  thirty 
minutes    out    of  thirty!" 


'Now,  Eddie,  fhe  cigar 


IS  not  your 


m  cioar 
•maii!" 


His  doughter,  Morjorie,  is 
Eddio's  capobU  sacrttory. 


Tho  gog  writers  gotiier — 
now  for  the  new  script! 


programs.   But  he  loves  it  and  gauges  his  performances  by  them 


would  have  been  to  his  advantage  if  the  public  tired  of 
the  program.  They  had  the  same  time  on  the  air.  Less 
listeners  for  The  Good  Will  Court  meant  more  for  Cantor! 

I  could  not  help  smiling  at  his  shrewdness.  From  that 
time  on,  all  remarks  of  Eddie  Cantor's  had  me  looking 
for  reasons  behind  them. 

So  when  he  told  me  his  family  censored,  edited  and 
criticized  his  programs,  I  thought:  "A-ha!  You  can't  fool 
me,  Mister !  That's  merely  a  story,  concocted  for  publicity 
purposes."    And  for  awhile  I  refused  to  believe  it. 

Well,  I  take  this  back.    I  eat  my  words.    I  apologize 
publicly,  here  and  now,  right  in  print.    For  unless  the 
entire  Cantor  family,  from  Ida  down  to  baby  Janet,  went 
to  the  inconceivable  bother  of   staging  a  carefully- 
rehearsed  scene  for  my  benefit,  then  with  my  own 
eyes  I  saw  and  with  my  own  ears  I  heard  them 
tear  apart  Eddie's  program,  telling  him  just  what 
they  thought  was  wrong  with  it. 

This  is  the  story. 

Eddie  had  invited  me  to  watch  his  last 
evening  broadcast.    He  gives  three  per- 
formances.   At  noon  he  stages  a  public 
dress  rehearsal ;  in  the  afternoon,  when 
in    California,    he   broadcasts   to  the 
East ;  in  the  evening  for  the  West. 

I  stood  backstage  with  them,  the 
whole  Cantor  gang.    I  watched  their 
joint  antics  and  marveled  at  Cantor's 
enthusiasm,  and  the  way,  after  the 
broadcast,   he  refused  to   let  the 
audience  go  home;  but  stood 

Eddie  gazed  at  the  assembled 
group.  Listened  tensely  to 
the  comments  and  criticisms. 
"Maybe  it  was  your  radio," 
he  alibied.  "Even  President 
Roosevelt  doesn't  sound  very 
.1'' 


the  stage,  entertaining  them  an  extra  fifteen  minutes, 
simply  because  he  loves  to  do  it. 

Finally,  his  performance  finished,  his  forehead  dripping 
with  perspiration,  he  sank  down  upon  a  chair  in  his 
dressing-room. 

"That  one's  over,"  I  remarked.  {Continued  on  page  92) 


good   when  there 


static! 


Anthony  (Tohy)  k4rt!n, 
radio  and  ntovie  star, 
knows    wKot    Ke  wants. 


^%  alwayt  been  lucky!" 
Tony  grins.  "Something 
is  due  to  happ«ff  to  me!" 


Gracie  Allen  gives  Tony 
what  Is  technically 
known    OS    "the  worics." 


says  Tony  Martin-who  thinks  he 
doesn't  want  romance  or  marriage! 

BY    GLADYS  HALL 


HE  knows  what  he  wants  all  right,  this 
dark  young  Tony  Martin,  six  feet  tall, 
weight  one  hundred  and  seventy-five 
ij^^  pounds,  dark  brown  eyes,  crisp  black 

liT^I  hair,  tanned  skin,  flash  of  strong,  white 

"  teeth,    genial,    assured    manner,  lively 

humor— he  is  not  in  love.    He  doesn't 
want  marriage.    He  doesn't  like  clinging 
vines.    He  does  want  music  and  security 
and  travel  and  fun.    And  always,  above, 
^1  beyond,  permeating  all  else,  the  beat  in  his 

Wl^l^k^  blood,  the  systole  and  diastole  of  his  heart, 

^  '^^  wants  music.  Music  on  the  air.  Music  in 

^H^V  the  movies.   Music  with  an  orchestra.  Music 

^^^V  on  the  stage.    He  isn  t  partial,  just  so  long 

^^^m  as  it  is  music  and  he  is  singing  it,  playing  it, 

^^^m  breathing  it  into  his  lungs,  giving  it  forth  again. 

^^Pf  He  always  knew  what  he  wanted,  the  young 

Tony  Martin.  Even  when  he  was  a  tiny  shaver 
of  eight  and  his  stepfather,  to  whom  he  is  de- 

r voted,  oflFered  to  buy  him  anything  he  might 
fancy,  in  any  one  of  the  Oakland  shops.  Tony 
wanted  a  saxophone.    And  not  all  of  the  proffered 
substitutes,  tops,  marbles,  skates,  a  bike,  football 
gear,  books,  or  as  much  soda  pop  as  he  could  drink, 
moved  him  from  the  hard  core  of  his  wanting.  A 
saxophone.    A  saxo])hone  or  nothing.    Perhaps,  then, 
it  would  have  to  be  nothing.    For  the  mother  and  step- 
father of  Tony  were  not  well-to-do  people.    Tony's  step- 
father was  proprietor  of  a  modest  shop  featuring  ladies' 
wear.    A  small-town  merchant  of  just-sufficient  earnings. 
Tony's  own  father  and  mother  were  separated  when  Tony 
was  an  infant,  his  brother  a  few  years  older.    The  father 
(lied  when  Tony  was  .still  very  small,  leaving  all  of  his 
considerable  estate  to  the  elder  brother,  nothing  at  all  to 
Tony.   His  brother.  Tony  told  me,  had.  as  a  lad,  a  fine  flair 
for  imitations.     He  used  to  stand  in  front  of  picture 


theatres  showing  Chaplin  pictures  and  imitate  Chaplin 
more  to  the  life  than  Chaplin  himself.  He  might  have 
gone  far  in  the  theatre,  which  he  loved,  and  still  loves. 
But  it  was  the  love  of  a  dilettante.  He  did  not  want 
the  theatre  with  the  single-minded  intensity  with  which 
Tony  wanted  music.    And  knew  what  he  wanted. 

And  so,  if  it  couldn't  be  the  saxophone,  okay  then,  it 
would  be  nothing,  thanks.  And  then  a  customer  of  Tony's 
dad  couldn't  pay  his  bill.  He  suggested  that  he  pay  with 
a  used  and  mammoth  saxophone.  And  Tony's  good  father, 
remembering  the  fanatic  light  in  the  boy's  eyes,  accepted 
the  saxophone  and — Tony  got  what  he  wanted. 

When  he  was  in  grade  school  he  was  the  drummer  boy. 
He  says  that  in  no  other  capacity  did  he  feel  so  dominant, 
so  important,  so  master  of  his  fate  and  captain  of  his  soul 
as  when  he  beat  that  drum,  rat-a-tat,  rat-a-tat,  and  knew 
that  the  feet  of  his  schoolmates  marched  to  his  drum. 

In  Oakland  High  School  he  organized  and  conducted 
what  he  now  calls,  but  affectionately,  "a  little  ole  orches- 
tra". They  called  themselves  The  Five  Red  Peppers.  And 
the  first  time,  and  the  first  song.  Tony  Martin  ever  sang 
in  public  was  when  he  sang  Yankee  Rose,  against  the  back- 
ground of  that  orchestra  in  school.  The  Five  Red  Peppers 
finally  got  vaudeville  booking,  in  and  around  San  Fran- 
cisco. They  were  paid,  eventually,  sixty-six  dollars  a  week 
for  the  five  of  them.  Tony  kept  meticulous  accounts  of 
all  earnings,  disbursements,  et  cetera.  And  when  they  hit 
the  sixty-six-dollar  mark  he  has  a  notation  in  one  of  his 
jKMiny  account  books:  "In  the  Big  Dough  now." 

Which  was  all  very  exciting,  but  it  didn't  further  the 
daily  stints  of  algebra.  English,  biology  and  so  on.  The 
boy  was  young,  the  hours  were  late,  school  work  was  suf- 
fering and  his  mother,  always  firm  with  this  son  she 
adored,  persuaded  him  to  give  uj)  his  orchestra  and  stick 
to  studying. 

After  high  school  Tony  entered  St.  Mary's  College. 
A  stalwart  six-footer,  he  was  (Continued  on  page  SO) 

25 


Andy  Devine,  of 
the  Jack  Benny 
show,  is  co-owner 
,  of  a  riding  acade- 
my in  Glendale. 


Comics,  choristers. 


Virginia  Verrill.  CBS 
songstress,  visits  on 
indoor  pool  between 
visits  to  the  beaches. 


savants  and  sirens,  bright  stars  of  the  lively  broadcast  lanes 


lIKE  everyone  el?e  who  has  listened  to  Ventriloquist  Edgar 
Hergen  and  his  dummy.  Charlie  McCarthy,  who  first  bowed 
to  radio  on  the  Vallee  program,  we  were  all  agog  to  meet  the 
delectable  Charlie.  W'e  called  at  the  Waldorf,  the  day  the} 
arrived  in  New  York.  To  us  Charlie  was  so  definitely  a  per- 
sonality, it  came  as  a  distinct  shock  to  see  Mr.  Bergen  open 
a  suitcase  and  lift  out  his  famous  manikin,  removing  a  quilted 
wrapping  from  its  head  ! 

Of  course  he  was  alive,  we  felt  absurdly,  as  he  emerged 
from  the  wrapping.  Such  an  aura  of  individuality  was  re- 
vealed with  that  unique  small  figure !  We  felt  excited,  eager 
to  talk  with  him. 

"It  must  be  uncomfortable,  traveling  in  a  suitcase,"  we 
murmured  commiseratingly,  as  Charlie  settled  himself  with  a 
little  shake  on  Mr.  Bergen's  knee. 

"Oh,  yes,  it  is — yes,  indeed !"  Charlie  nodded  his  head. 
"So  hard  on  the  clotlies,  too — my  coattails  get  crushed."  He 
looked  reproachfully  at  Edgar  Bergen  through  his  monocle.  "I 
used  to  travel  in  a  trunk,"  he  went  on  in  his  dry,  beguiling 
voice,  "but  now  I'm  so  valuable  to  Mr.  Bergen,  he  wants  me 
right  with  him — right  in  the  bag,  you  might  say." 

Charlie  McCarthy,  we  learned,  is  seventeen  years  old.  He 
started  life  as  a  ragged  newsboy,  and,  like  many  another  self- 
made  man,  he  regards  his  top  hat,  tails  and  monocle  with  keen 
satisfaction.  It  isn't  exactly  fair,  Charhe  thinks,  to  refer  to 
him  as  a  dummy.  His  father  was  a  Big  Stick,  out  in  Michigan. 

"Whitey  Pine,  they  called  him,"  says  Charlie.  "I'm  a  chip 
off  the  old  block!" 

We  asked  Mr.  Bergen  where  the  name,  Charlie  McCarthy, 
came  from.  Charlie,  he  explained,  was  the_  name  of  a  Httle 
Irish  newsboy  in  Decatur,  Michigan,  Bergen's  boyhood  home. 
And  when  young  Bergen  decided  to  become  a  ventriloquist,  he 
made  a  sketch  of  the  boy's  head,  from  which  a  woodcarver 
named  Mack  constructed  the  now  famous  figure.  He  should, 
they  decided,  have  an  Irish  name.  So  they  christened  him 
Charlie  McCarthy. 


BY    NANCY  BARROWS 


Ventriloquist  Edgar  Bergen  and  his  delectable  dummy,  Charlie 


"( )riginally."  said  Edgar  Bergen,  "Charlie  had  a  sort  of 
gamin  smile— a  grin— but  as  he  grew  up  and  went  into 
night  club  work,  he  took  on  a  more  serious  expression,  m 
keeping  with  his  more  sophisticated  discourse." 

"( )h.  definitely,"  agreed  Charlie. 

"Still,  from  the  timber  of  your  voice,  people  would 
know  you  came  from  the  woods."  remarked  Mr.  Bergen. 

Charlie  cocked  his  head  and  regarded  him  severely. 
"  '( )nly  God  can  make  a  tree,'  "  he  quoted. 

The' metamorphosis  of  Charlie  began  a  little  over  a  year 
ago.  In  January.  1936,  Edgar  Bergen  made  the  painful 
discovery  that  vaudeville,  the 
Charlie  McCarthy  chief  source  of  his  livelihood, 
and  his  stooge  and  was  definitely  dead.  For  the  first 
pal,  Edgar  Bergen,  time  in  his  .seventeen-year  career 
now  broadcast  from  he  had  no  job.  From  his  first 
Hollywood,  Sundays  amateur  efforts  in  school  and 
at  8:00  p.m..  EDST ,  college  shows,  he  had  gone  on 
on  NBC-Red  network.       in  Chautautjua  circuits  and  tent 


grin  tliat  now  seemed  strangely  unniirthtul.  A  top  hat  and 
tails  for  Charlie,  he  mused  ...  A  few  skilful  touches  with  a 
brush,  and  Charlie's  face  took  on  a  new  expression  that  further 
inspired  his  pal  and  stooge.    A  monocle  .  .  . 

"It  was  the  smartest  idea  I  ever  had  in  my  life!"  says  Edgar 
Bergen. 

And  then,  being  ready  for  opportunity,  it  knocked  at  his  door. 
Helen  Morgan's  club  gave  him  an  opening.  And  while  he  was 
playing  there,  the  Shuberts  saw  him  and  signed  him  for  a  spot 
in  the  Ziegfeld  Follies. 

"It  didn't  work  out,"  Mr.  Bergen  says  philosophically.  "I 
was  playing  'in  one,'  before  a  backdrop.  It  looked  too  much  like 
a  vaudeville  act.  They  were  right  in  saying  it  didn't  seem  an 
integral  part  of  the  Follies.  So,  two  weeks  before  the  New 
York  opening,  they  took  me  out." 

He  was  then  in  Chicago,  and,  all  else  failing,  he  agreed  to 
make  a  series  of  appearances  in  a  small  club,  not  frequented 
by  the  class  he  and  Charlie  had  hoped  to  entertain.  But  it  was 
a  job.    And  he  had  no  choice  then. 

An  agent  for  Abe  Lyman  saw  him,  however,  and  asked 
Bergen  to  sign  a  contract  to  appear  as  entertainer  with  Lyman, 
at  his  club.  Bergen  was  delighted,  but  explained  that  he  had 
to  work  out  his  agreement  with  the  small  cafe.  The  agent, 
eager,  says  Bergen,  for  his  fee,  assured  him  that  it  would  be  all 
right.    And  Bergen  signed  the  contract. 

But  on  his  next  to  last^pcrformance  in  the  cafe,  Lyman  chanced 
to  drop  in.  He  was  shocked  to  see  his  prospective  entertainer, 
playing  with  all  his  zest,  in  such  a  mediocre  spot.  The  agent, 
it  seemed,  hadn't  confided  in  Lyman.  He  couldn't,  Lyman  said, 
take  on  an  act  from  such  a  place. 

Philosophically  Bergen  accepted  his  release  from  the  Lyman 
contract  and  finished  out  his  engagement  at  the  cafe,  wonder- 
ing where  he  would  go  next.  And  then,  as  if  to  reward  good 
sportsmanship,  fate  tossed  into  his  {Continued  on  page  70) 

"My  father  was  a  Big  Stick,  out  in  Michigan," 
says  Charlie.  "Whiie'^  Pine,  they  called  him." 
"From  the  timber  of  your  voice,  people  would 
know  you  came  from  the  woods,"  says  Mr.  Bergen. 


wtde^  the  SuH 

McCarthy,  give  us  something  never  before  attempted  on  the  air! 


shows,  to  the  four  or  six-a-day  vaudeville,  and  gradually 
established  himself  in  the  better  vaudeville  houses  through- 
out the  country.  Summers,  he  took  to  the  sea,  serving  as 
entertainer  on 'Southern  ."oi'  European  or  round-the-world 
cruises.    ,    •.  " 

Xow,  on  that  dismal  January  day,  he  sat  in  a  furnished 
room  and  wondered  what  lay  before  him.  For  two  weeks 
he  had  had  no  job.  Where,  he  wondered,  in  this  world 
of  depression  and  change,  could  he  find  one?  What  now 
were  the  chief  fields  of  entertainment?  The  answer  to 
that,  of  course,  was  movies  and  night  clubs.  Movies,  Ber- 
gen reflected,  staring  through  a 

small  window  at  the  icy  rain,  had  Charlie  sits  on  a 

little  to  offer  him.   He  had  made,  high  stool  placed 

at  one  period  of  his  career,  four-  on  a  platform,  to 

teen   one-reelers,   but  they   did  bring  him  close  up 

poorly  by  him.    There  remained  to  the  microphone, 

— night  clubs.    He  looked  at  the  when  he  broad- 

tatterdemalion  Charlie,  with  his  casts  his  glib  wit. 


29 


Atck 


Lucille  Manners  is 
a  sensational  star, 
but  she  is  fearful 
of  Fate's  trickery! 


BY  MIRIAM 
GIBSON 


! 

/ 


Lucille  Manners,  star  of  the  C/>/es  Ser- 
yjce  program,  heard  over  the  NBC-Red 
Network   Fridays  at   8:00   p.m.  EDST. 


She  is  tiny  in 
stature,  but  she 
has  a  voice  of 
great  volume — 
and  she  says 
she  has  the 
constitution  o  f 
an  Amazon  ! 


LUCILLE  MANNERS  is  radio's  contradiction. 

She  is  the  prima  donna  of  the  Cities  Service  program 
each  Friday  night,  yet  she  has  the  soul  of  an  ingenue. 

She  is  confident  when  she  sings  into  a  microphone,  yet 
really  is  nervous  when  talking  to  the  press. 

She  is  not  temperamental,  yet  ever  conscious  of  tem- 
perament. 

She  is  tiny  in  stature,  hut  she  has  a  voice  of  great 
volume  and  the  constitution  of  an  Amazon. 

She  dresses  simply,  yet  paints  her  nails  with  j^latinuni 
polish. 

When  asked  how  she  feels  about  replacing  Jessica 
Dragonette,  she  says  she  has  all  the  confidence  in  the 
world.   In  the  next  breath  she  says  she  is  scared  to  death. 

At  first  glance  it  is  hard  to  realize  that  a  girl  of 
twenty-three  can  be  so  paradoxical,  yet  sincere.  However, 
when  one  knows  the  psychological  ])hases  of  her  life  up  to 
now,  Lucille  Manners  can  be  understood. 

La.st  winter,  Jessica  Dragonette  left  the  Cities  Sen-ire 
program  on  which  she  had  been  star  for  eight  years.  In 
that  time  Miss  Dragonette  had  built  a  tremendous  follow- 
ing. Lucille  Manners,  a  comparative  newcomer  to  radio, 
was  given  this  coveted  spot  on  the  air.  Stardom  was 
thrust  on  her.  Suddenly  she  found  herself  in  tlie  lime- 
light, and  a  very  strong  light  it  was. 

"When  I  was  offered  the  chance  of  replacing  Jessica, 
I  was  delighted — but  scared,"  explains  Miss  Manners.  "Yet 


I  could  not  afford  to  turn  down  such  a  golden  opportunity. 

"I  knew  I  could  sing  well  enough  to  fill  the  role,  but  I 
realized  that  the  position  meant  a  great  deal  more  than 
just  singing.  Jessica  has  a  host  of  admirers.  Fans  resent 
having  their  idol  replaced,"  Miss  Manners  said. 

Then,  too,  the  sponsors  were  accustomed  to  Jessica 
Dragonette — to  her  singing,  to  her  personality.  They  had 
spent  eight  years  in  building  her.  Would  they  be  satisfied 
with  a  new  personality?  Miss  Manners  herself  answers 
tilt'  question. 

"Just  after  I  had  been  signed  to  replace  Jessica,"  she 
said,  "the  chairman  of  the  board  of  directors  of  my  sponsor 
was  having  a  dinner  party  at  his  home.  He  asked  me  to 
sing  for  him  and  his  guests.  'I.  would  like  to  have  my 
friends  see  you  as  well  as  hear  you,'  he  said.  That  night 
1  .sang  for  him  and  his  guests.  Afterward  he  introduced 
me'  to  his  friends,  saying :  'Eight  years  ago.  Cities  Service 
signed  an  almost  unknown  singer  to  their  program,  and 
today  she  is  a  star.  Tonight  I  introduce  to  you  another 
young  lady  whom  we  are  putting  on  our  program.  We 
hope  to'  do  the  same  for  her.  And  as  far  as  I'm  concerned, 
she  can  stay  with  us  even  longer  than  eight  years.  I  believe 
you  all  agree  after  hearing  her.' 

"It  was  only  then  that  I  realized  that  nearly  every 
director  of  the  company  was  among  my  host's  guests 
Naturally.  I  felt  better  after  that,  but  I  still  was  afraid 
of  what  the  radio  audience,  the  (Continued  on  page  86) 


31 


Jerry  Cooper,  toll,  bronzed  baritone, 
is  the  new  M.C.  on  Hollywood  HoHl, 
heard  over  CBS  Fridays  at  9  p.m.  EDST, 


While  sttil  a  boy,  he  mastered  the 
guitar,  as  well  as  the  trombone, 
never  dreaming  then  of  radio  fame. 


BY    GEORGE  KENT 

Unknown,  unbefriended,  Jerry 
Cooper  came  to  New  York  with 


twenty  dollars  in  his 


pocket. 


Now  he  is  ranked  among  the 
best-paid  radio  entertainers 


IN  the  veins  of  Jerry  Cooper  is  more  than  a  drop  or 
two  of  Latin  blood.  His  eyes  glow  darkly  and  his  voice 
has  the  tenderness  of  an  Old  World  serenader  singing 
beneath  a  balcony.  He  sings  through  a  microphone  to 
millions,  yet  to  you,  and  all  the  other  sweet  things  who 
listen,  it  seems  he  is  pouring  out  his  heart  to  one  pair  of 
small  pink  ears. 

This  is  the  great  gift  of  Jerry  Cooper,  who,  not  long 
since,  climbed  out  of  a  box-car  with  twenty  dollars  in 
his  pocket,  unknown  and  unbefriended,  to  conquer  New 
York.  And  this  is  the  gift  that,  in  three  short  years,  made 
that  conquest  possible.  His  voice  is  a  remarkable  instru- 
ment and  he  could  sing  hot  songs,  scat  or  classical — but 
romance  won  for  him.  Being  a  man  who  knows  what  it 
is  to  be  poor,  he'll  stick  to  romance  I 

Terry  Cooper  will  not  betray  the  thousands  who  have 
learned  to  depend  upon  him  for  a  moment  or  two  of 
romantic  happiness.  Bluntly  he  informed  me  that  he 
does  not  intend  to  get  married.  He  will  not  fall  in  love. 
He  will  remain,  so  far  as  you  and  I  are  concerned,  the 
serene  bachelor  balladist,  unattached  and  wistful,  singing 
to  the  unknown  She.  Rudy  Vallee  is  one  of  his  great 
admirations,  but  Jerry  feels  that  marriage  hurt  Rudy 
irreparably,  both  as  a  man  and  as  an  artist.  Jerry  Co(^)er 
does  not  propose  to  make  that  particular  mist£^e. 

A  great  many  performers,  as  you  may  recall,  have 
made  similar  armouncements  and  stuck  to  their  word — 
until  a  winsome  something  in  pink  organdy  bounced  into 
the  studio.  But  none  of  them  came  through  this  lad's 
searing  mill  of  experience.  For  the  sake  of  the  record, 
at  1  to  assure  you  that  he  means  what  he  says,  let  me  put 


Jerry  fries  the  drums,  and  smiles, 
remembering  how  once,  as  "horse"  for 
the  band,  he  toted  the  instruments. 


With  orchestra  leader  Ray  Block, 
Jerry  works  out  a  new  arrangement 
of  a  popular  song  for  a  broadcast. 


down  a  few  of  the  facts. 

He  was  born  in  1907,  in  Bay  Minette,  Alabama,  son  of 
a  railway  mail  clerk.  The  family  moved  to  New  Orleans, 
where  his  father  and  mother  separated.  At  thirteen, 
Jerry's  education  stopped  and  he  became  sole  support  of 
his  mother  and  a  brother  and  sister,  both  younger. 

Railroads  fascinated  him,  but  he  got  a  job  in  a  whole- 
sale grocery  at  twenty  dollars  a  week.  Still  he  wanted  to 
work  on  the  railroad  and,  during  his  lunch  hour,  he  ding- 
donged  at  the  assistant  to  the  chief  clerk  of  the  Illinois 
Central  for  a  job.   The  answer  always  was:  "No." 

Jerry  thumbed  his  way  to  and  from  work  to  save  car- 
fare. There  was  not  enough  left  out  of  his  pay  to  buy  him 
lunch.  He  used  to  go  among  the  men  in  the  grocery, 
asking  each  to  lend  him  a  penny.  At  that  early  age  he 
was  clever  enough  to  realize  that  no  one  would  mind 
parting  with  a  penny,  whereas  any  would  hesitate  to  give 
up  a  quarter. 

Two  years  in  the  grocery,  and  two  years  of  annoying 
the  Illinois  Central,  finally  drove  him  against  the  wall. 
One  day  he  quit  his  job,  walked  up  to  the  chief  clerk's 
desk  in  the  office  of  the  Illinois  Central,  with  the  question : 
"Where  do  I  go  to  work?" 

He  had  calculated  that  the  chief  clerk,  with  three 
hundred  employes,  could  not  possibly  know  all  the  details 
about  each.  The  chief  clerk  stared  at  him,  said  he  never 
had  seen  him  before.  But  Jerry  persisted,  said  that  he 
already  had  quit  his  old  job  and  he  had  to  have  the 
new  one. 

In  the  end,  he  went  to  work.  The  story  is  interesting 
because  it  shows  how  the  young  Jerry  was  able  to  make 


up  his  mind  and  get  what  he  wanted.  The  new  job, 
incidentally,  paid  him  sixty  dollars  a  month. 

Money,  then  as  now,  was  not  the  important  factor  in 
his  life.  This  railroad  job  turned  out  to  be  a  temporary 
one — and  at  the  end  of  six  months,  Jerry  was  out  of  a 
job.  He  went  to  work  for  Western  Union,  getting  his  job 
only  through  a  fib  about  his  age,  being  as  yet  too  young 
to  be  a  messenger.  He  learned  the  tricks  and.  inside  of  a 
month,  was  earning  thirty-five  dollars  a  week — or  twice 
as  much  as  he  had  been  getting  down  at  the  Illinois  Central. 

Wealth  for  a  boy  of  fifteen,  yet  when  the  railroad  asked 
him  to  come  back,  he  quit  the  telegraph  comijany  and 
reported  for  work.  The  change  was  a  break,  for  there 
he  met  Steve  Budreau.  Steve  was  a  truck  driver  who. 
nights  and  Sundays,  operated  a  small  band.  He  used  to 
come  to  Jerry's  desk  to  get  his  bills  receipted  and  it  wasn't 
long  before  Steve  discovered  Jerry  had  a  voice,  and  Jerry 
that  Steve  had  a  band. 

Jerry  had  made  a  hit  in  a  small  way,  singing  at  parties, 
"socials,"  picnics  and  the  like.  He  had  no  professional 
dreams  and  when  Steve  suggested  that  he  come  along  one 
night  to  an  Elks'  "circus"  and  sing,  he  refused.  At  least 
he  said  "no"  until  his  girl  heard  of  it.  This  girl.  Jerry's 
puppy  love,  insisted  he  get  up  and  show  what  he  could 
do — called  him  a  coward,  said  she  would  leave  him  if  he 
didn't.  So  Jerry  sang.  The  applause  was  immense.  It 
gave  Jerry  ideas. 

When  Budreau  suggested  he  sing  with  them  over  the 
radio,  Jerry  agreed,  this  time  without  hesitancy.  This 
radio  station  was  a  small-watter,  with  a  studio  about  the 
size  of  a  packing  case,  and  the  {Continued  on  page  94) 


Kathleen  Wilson, 
(Claudia  of  One 
flan's  Family), 
studies  with  the 
famous  Chinese 
concert  dancer 
King  Lan  Chew 
(Lasf  Orchid). 


This  lovely  lassie  is  Vera  Marsh.  She 
Is  Joe  Penner's  "girl  friend"  on  his 
Sunday  night  CBS  broadcasts.  A  talented 
dancer  as  well  as  singer,  she  has  been 
featured  in  many  musicals.  Here  she 
basks  in  the  sun  at  a  Palm  Springs  pool. 


Between 


Here's  the  real  lowdown  on  Molasses 


BY   WILLIAM  VALLEE 


Molasses  January  are  the  only  pair  of  comics  in  the 
world  who  work  on  two  big-time  radio  shows,  week  in 
and  week  out !  While  they're  Molasses  'n'  January  on  the 
Maxtvell  House  Shoza  Boat,  they're  also  Pick  and  Pat  on 
the  Dill's  Best  SIioiv.  For  this,  of  course,  they  get  paid, 
and  if  you're  interested  in  figures,  they  total  up  to  $1750 
for  each  one.  each  week.    They  find  they  can  live  on  it. 

Indeed,  it's  a  far  cry  from  the  (approximately)  forty 
dollars  they  got  when  they  were  working  in  minstrel  shows 
and  "tab"  shows  of  the  poorer  grade.  Now  these  burnt- 
cork  coons  are  tycoons  of  blackface  comedy. 

Not  that  there's  much  that  can  be  said  against  minstrel 
shows.  They  were  the  theatrical  staff-of-life  for  many 
great  performers,  including  a  fellow  named  Jolson — yes, 
Al  Jolson.  "Gorry,  yes,"  said  Pat.  "minstrel-show  train- 
ing never  did  anyone  any  harm  and  it  sure  entertained  a 
whale  of  a  lot  of  people !" 

Pat,  who  plays  the  part  of  Molasses  on  the  air,  is  in 
private  life  Pat  Padgett,  the  younger  of  the  two.  Pick,  or 

Illustration  by  O.  G.  Storch 


Pat  Padgett  (Mi)  plays  Molasses  on  the 
air.  Pick,  or  January  [righf),  is  Pick  Malone, 
who  was  christened  Andrew  Pickens  Malone. 

Molasses  and  January  prepare  to  celebrate 
in  a  big  way!  Or,  maybe,  this  is  the  latest 
in  duelling,  in  the  best  burnt-cork  circles! 


January,  is  Pick  Malone,  christened  Andrew  Pickens 
Malone, 

They  aren't  spectacular  looking,  each  being  light-weight 
and  small  in  stature.  Pick  is  dark-haired  and  swarthy  and 
Pat  is  sandy-haired  and  fair.  They  never  quarrel  with 
anyone  and  are  called  radio's  happiest  pair.  Their  accents 
are  all  tangled  up  with  the  deep  South 
and  their  dialect  as  Negro  comics  isn't 
vastly  different  from  their  everyday 
chatter.  They're  both  intensely  supersti- 
tious, relying  on  much  finger-crossing  and 


Be  Stated  I 

and  January,  those  burnt-cork  funsters! 


"Every+hing  I  does  jes'  turns  out  wrong!" 
laments  January.  "I'se  a  Jonah!"  "Jonah 
done  come  out  all  right,"  says  Mo/osses. 


They  sit  around  all  afternoon  discussing 
gags  and  situations.  Then,  at  radio  time, 
get  into  costume  and  apply  the  burnt  cork. 


spitting  on  the  crossed  fingers  to  guard  against  bad  luck. 

"It  certainly  is  too  bad  about  the  old-time  minstrel 
shows,"  said  Pick,  sadly,  "though  sometimes  I  do  get  the 
notion  that  a  good  one  might  do  business  today  through 
the  South.  I  understand  there's  an  outfit  run  by  the  little 
old  Guy  Brothers,  which  still  does  a  moderate  business 
down  there. 

"Some  of  the  old  timers  who're  left  make  you  feel  badly. 
Take  Bert  Swor,  who  lives  over  near  me  in  Flushing,  he 
was  a  crackerjack  end  man  in  his  day.  He  used  to  make 
nine  hundred  dollars  a  week,  when  he  was  cracking  the 


bones,  but  he  tells  me  that  he  lost  most  of  his  savings  in 
the  crash." 

"Yeah,"  put  in  Pat,  "look  at  Mclntyre  &  Heath.  They're 
eighty  years  old  now  and  fidgety  because  they're  not  work- 
ing. Do  you  know  that,  even  today,  they  remember  the 
jokes  they  used  to  use?" 

"You  said  it,  Willie!"  (They  call  each  other  "Willie." 
for  no  obvious  reason.)  "They  remember  them  so  well 
that  they  twit  us  about  some  of  ours.  Heath  says  the> 
used  them  when  they  started  fifty  years  ago !" 

Was  Mr.  Heath  referring  to  the  one  they  use  about 
Jonah  ? 

Pick,  as  January,  says  to  Pat:  "Everything  I  does  turn^^ 
out  wrong.  I'se  a  Jonah!" 

Pat  answers  and  says:  "Nebber  mind,  January.  Jes 
remember  Jonah  done  come  out  all  right !" 

Mr.  Heath  was  referring  to  that  Jonah  story. 

And  speaking  of  minstrel  shows,  are  you  old  enough  to 
remember  that  day  in  spring,  when,  through  the  classroom 
windows,  came  the  ootnpah  of  a  bass  horn,  augmented  by 
the  groanings  and  squealings  of  kindred  brass  instruments, 
picked  for  their  carrying  powers?  {Continued  on  page  96) 


How  lam  and  Abner  have  influenced 
the  characters  of  their  creators, 
Chester  Lauck  and  Norris  Goff 


BY    LESLIE  EATON 


"As  a  man  thinks,  so  he  is."  If  that  is  not  an  "old  Ed'ards" 
saying,  it  ought  to  be!  For  their  way  of  thinking  has 
created  not  only  Lum  and  Abner  and  all  the  folks  at  Pine 
Ridge,  hut  it  quite  definitely  has  influenced  and  developed 
the  personalities  of  Chester  Lauck  and  Norris  Goff, 
authors  and  interpreters  of  these  familiar  skits. 

It  is  not  only  that  these  characters  have  become  so  fa- 
miliar and  dear  to  their  creators  that  they  sometimes  are 
inclined  to  forget  they  are  merely  fictional,  but  they  have 
identified  themselves  so  completely  with  their  respective 
roles  that  sometimes  they  are  not  sure  where  Lauck  leaves 
off  and  Lum  begins,  or  how  much  of  Goff  goes  into  his 
characterization  of  Abner.  Day  in  and  day  out,  they  live 
and  think  and  talk  and  act  Lum  and  Abner  and  their 
friends,  and  it  is  hardly  to  be  wondered  at  that  the  line 
between  actor  and  role  becomes  less  and  less  distinct. 

Not  that  Goff  is  slow  of  wit  or  Lauck  absorbed  in  small 
affairs,  by  any  means.  They  remain  two  personable  young 
men,  quite  different  in  appearance  and  dress  from  the  over- 
alled  farmers  they  portray.  They  are  keen  and  witty  and 
highly  imaginative,  and  their  clever  impersonations  have 
brought  them  success  l)eyond  the  dreams  of  anyone  in  Pine 
Ridge,  but  their  wider  travels  and  broader  contacts  have 
developed  and  strengthened  their  fundamental  ideals,  not 
altered  them.  And  they  retain  a  simplicity  of  outlook,  an 
honesty  of  mind  that  is  tyi)ical  of  the  small-town  people 
they  love.  And  gradually,  almost  without  realizing  it 
themselves,  the  once  mythical  Pine  Ridge  has  shaped  their 
characters,  and  its  imaginary  inhabitants  have  directed  and 
.38 


"As  long  as  anyone  wants  to 
hear  about  Lum  and  Abner 
and  their  doings,"  Chester 
Lauck  (left)  and  Norris  Goff 
agree,  "we  won't  get  very 
far  away!"  So  they  take 
their    vacations    at  home. 


RADIO  STARS 


After  ihi  day's  work  is 
done,  the  Lauclcs  and  the 
Ooffs  en|oy  curefi  eo  hours* 
Mrs.  Lauck  (seated)  and 
Mrs.  Soft 'cry  "Swing  it!" 


Lauck  is  Cedric  Weehunf  and 
GrandpappY  Spears,  as  well  as 
Lum.  Goff  is  Dick  Huddleston 
and  Squire  Skimp,  in  addition 
to  being  Abner.  And  the  roles 
they  have  played  so  long  hove 
beconne  very,  very  real  to  them. 

controlled    their   very  dreams 
and  ambitions. 

"We  weren't  either  of  us  born 
on  a  farm."  Lauck  explained, 
"but    we've    talked  about 
them  so  much  that  we'd  like 
nothing  tetter  than  to  own 
one." 

"I'd  like  to  have  a  nice 
horse  farm,"  GofF  con- 
curred. 

It   was   this   desire  for 
broader  pastures,   for  a 
more  open  life  than  was 
possible  in  a  Chicago 
apartment,    that  brought 
these   two   to  California. 
Perhaps  you  wouldn't  think 
of   Hollywood  as  offering 
anything  in  the  way  of  rural 
life.  You  might  think,  hear- 
ing that  Lum  and  Abner  were 
broadcasting   from  the  movie 
city,  that  they  had  "gone  Holly- 
wood," whatever  that  implies,  and 
were  separating  themselves  widely 
from  the  dear  traditions  of  Pine 
Ridge,  Arkansas. 
But  bear  in  mind  that  the  boys  had  to 
be  governed  in  their  choice  of  location  by 
their  work.    And  Hollywood  offered  them 
not  only  simshine  and  the  out-of-door  life 
they  longed  for,  but  ideal  facilities  for  their 
broadcasting.    Nowadays  their  broadcast  for  the 
East  and  Middle  West  is  four-thirty  in  the  after- 
noon and  for  the  Pacific  Coast,  at  eight-fifteen. 
That  means  that  their  work  can  be  concentrated  be- 
tween four  and  eight-thirty  o'clock.    They  have  an 
otfice  near  the  NBC  studios  and,  between  shows,  work 
on  their  script  for  the  following  day,  with  the  assistance 
of  their  pretty  secretary,  Velma  McCall.    (Velma  inci- 
dentally, recently  was  given  a  few  lines  to  read — the  first 
voice  not  Lauck's  or  Goflf's  to  be  heard  on  that  program.) 
The  rest  of  the  day  and  evening  is  their  own,  giving  them 
plenty  of  opportunity  to  enjoy  their  new  homes,  play  golf 
and  otherwise  take  advantage  of  the  warm  climate. 

Within  two  weeks  of  coming  to  Hollywood,  the  l)oys 
had  found  homes  and  established  their  families  in  them. 
Chester  Lauck  (who  is  Cedric  Weehunt  and  Grandpappy 
Spears  as  well  as  Lum),  rented  a  lovely  place  in  Beverly 
Hills,  where  he  now  lives  with  his  wife  and  two  little  girls. 

Norris  Goff  (who  is  Dick  Huddleston  and  Squire 
Skimp,  in  addition  to  Abner),  found  a  ranch  outside  Holly- 
wood, which  is  a  long  step  nearer  his  ideals  than  the  apart- 
ment which  was  home  before. 

"We  fedKiis  if  we'd  been  let  out  of  a  cage!"  Lauck 
laughed. 

And  who  wouldn't,  with  swimming  pools,  tennis  courts, 
citrus  groves  and  what  not,  in  one's  own  backyard ! 

"Don't  think  we  didn't  like  Chicago,"  he  went  on  quick- 
ly. "We  loved  it — I'd  like  to  be  there  right  now.  I  miss 
the  Cubs,  for  just  one  thing!  And  I  miss  I^ke  Delavan 
— we  both  have  boats,  you  know,  and  we  haven't  found  a 
good  place  for  them  here— they  are  small  speed  boats,  not 
suitable  for  the  ocean,  of  course.  {Continued  on  page  90) 


BY      MURIEL  BABCOCK 


JUST  because  they  live  the  simple  life  in  the  heart  of 
sophisticated  New  York  City  and  broadcast  a  home-folks 
kind  of  program,  don't  think  that  Jane  and  Goodman  Ace 
— Easy  Aces  to  you — are  immune  from  the  rumor 
monfjers. 

Xojje,  those  old  davvil  gossip  hounds  have  plentv  to 
say  about  the  Easy  Aces.  Things  like  this : 

That  they're  jealous  of  all  the  big  dough  ($6,500  weekly 
for  radio  broadcasts,  plus  $75,000  per  motion  picture )  that 
their  old  pal.  Jack  IV-nny,  is  makmg. 

That  they  are  going  to  change  their  type  of  show — do 
something  entirely  different. 

That  they  are  going  to  change  their  names — find  a 
monniker  other  than  Easy  Aces  which  they  took  when  con- 
tract briflge  was  in  its  heyday. 

That  their  radio  show  is  slipping. 

That  Cioodman  and  Jane  have  their  eyes  on  Hollywood, 
a  la  liurns  and  Allen,  Fred  Allen.  Milton  Berle.  etc.,  and 
a  Beverly  Hills  mansion  rmd  swimming  pool. 

'1  hat  Jane  is  being  groomed  to  make  her  debut  as  a 
stage  comedienne. 

That— oh,  my  gomlness,  why  go  on  ?  There  are  plenty 
more  lusty  rumors  floating  uj)  and  down  Radio  Row  about 


the  Easy  Aces,  just  as  there  always  is  idle  tattle  about 
anybody  consistently  and  pleasantly  successful.  The  only 
bit  of  gossip  that  never  has  dared  to  raise  its  head  is 
anent  the  private  life  of  Goodman  and  Jane.  Nobody  even 
has  hinted  that  the  Easy  Arcs  are  anything  but  a  very 
hap])ily  married  couple. 

Which  they  are,  very  much  so.  "Took  me  long  enough' 
to  persuade  her  that  I  was  the  right  fellow,"  Goodman 
will  say.    "Guess  it  will  take  a  sight  longer  to  break  us 

People  who  know  them  insist  that  Goodman  and  Jane 
are  two  of  the  swellest  people  who  live  in  New  York. 
That  they  know  what  life  is  all  about,  and  therein  lies  the 
secret  of  their  success  on  the  radio. 

With  the  idea  of  gleaning  some  facts  about  this  swell 
couple  and  giving  Goodman  a  chance  to  deny  or  confirm 
Radio  Row's  rumors,  we  caught  up  with  the  Easy  Aces 
about  an  hour  before  their  broadcast  from  an  Nf>C  studio 
in  Rockefeller  Center  one  fine  spring  evening.  We  .sat 
on  the  edge  of  one  of  those  uncomfortable  modernistic 
chairs  and  listened  to  Goodman,  Jane  and  two  other  cast 
members  go  through  rehearsal  paces,  jireparatory  to  the 
regular  Tuesday  broadcast. 

'!  bey  all  sat  around  a  square,  four-legged  table,  which 
looked  much  like  and  was  the  size  of  your  bridge  table  at 


Let  rumor  rave  and  gossips  gabble,  the  Easy  Aces  continue  with 

4() 


home.  It  had,  however.  unHke  your  Httle  nifty,  a  micro- 
phone huried  in  its  center,  into  which  the  Easy  Aces  talk. 
Another  portable  microphone  stands  at  Goodman's  right 
shoulder,  hut  that  is  for  emergency  use  only.  .Anything 
\  on  say  thus  has  a  double  chance  to  go  out  over  the  ether 
waxes.  (Imagine  having  your  remarks  to  your  partner 
at  bridge  thus  made  available  to  the  world!) 

(Goodman,  hat  tilted  rakishly  on  the  back  of  his  head 
like  a  character  out  of  the  play,  Gentlemen  of  the  Press 
{ he  was  for  twelve  years  a  go-getting  reporter  and  drama 
critic  on  the  Kansas  City  Journal-Post),  lounged  rather 
than  .sat  in  his  chair  and  concentrated  on  the  script,  inter- 
rupting from  time  to  time  with  instructions.  Jane,  looking 
very  j)ert  and  cute  in  a  new  spring  suit,  her  blonde  hair 
prettily  curled,  sat  primly  erect  and  also  concentrated.  We 
sneaked  a  look  at  her  manuscript  and  saw  it  was  ])enciled 
along  the  margin  with  words  such  as  :  "Laugh!"  "Sneeze!" 
"He  vivacious!"  etc.,  about  which  we  will  tell  you  more 
later. 

On  this  particular  evening,  the  Easy  Aces  were  broad- 
casting one  of  their  series  of  adventures  with  a  movie 
director.  You  remember,  don't  you,  the  big  shot  Holly- 
wood megaphonist,  with  the  foreign  accent,  who  was  con- 
ducting a  search  for  talent,  and  Jane's  determination  to 
be  the  winner  of  his  contest?    Well,  this  was  the  evening 


she  was  choosing  her  movie-star  name — in  case  .she  won. 

Rehearsal  of  it  was  a  simple,  easy,  matter-of-fact  matter. 
ICverybody  spoke  his  piece  as  if  it  were  second  nature,  with 
(loodman  doing  a  minimum  of  directing  He's  the  big 
boss.  There's  no  advertising  agency  producer  present, 
(loodman  writes  all  the  scripts,  hires  the  actors  (even  Jane 
and  himself),  directs,  produces  and  clocks  it  off  on  the 
air,  all  in  addition  to  acting,  himself. 

He  also  is  his  own  publicity  director  (what  publicity  he 
will  permit)  and  his  own  business  manager,  but  more  of 
that  later.    Let's  get  on  with  the.se  rumors. 

"Why,"  .said  Goodman,  taking  a  few  minutes  off  to 
talk,  "why  should  I  be  jealous  of  Jack  Benny?  That's 
ridiculous!  He's  one  of  the  Hnest  fellows  in  the  world 
and  one  of  my  best  friends.  Jane  and  I  just  saw  him  and 
his  wife,  Mary  Livingstone,  last  night.  We  had  a  swell 
time.  ' 

"Nor  am  I  the  least  bit  envious  of  his  great  success. 
hVankly,  no,  and  I'll  tell  you  why.  Jack  is  at  the  top. 
He's  one  of  the  very  best,  or  the  best,  in  radio  today  ai^d 
he  knows  it  better  than  anyone  el.se.  Where  do  you  go 
when  you  hit  the  top  of  the  trail  ?  TlTcre's  only  one  way 
to  go — that's  down !  Unless  you  stay  on  top.  It  is  Benny's 
problem  today  to  stay  at  that  i^eak.  He  will,  I  am  sure, 
l)ccause  he's  a  master  showman,  {Continued  on  page  88) 


their  popular  NBC  show  and  follow  the  even  tenor  of  their  life 

41 


OHLfi 


CBS'  Heinz  Magazine  of  the  Air 
breaks  some  traditions  and 
so  delights  its  listeners 


IT'S  primarily  what  is  known  to  radio  as  a  "woman 
appeal"  show,  the  Heinz  Magazine  of  the  Air,  but  I 
got  in,  anyway.  Standing  behind  the  glass  panel  of 
the  control-room,  the  subdued  babble  of  feminine 
voices  sounded,  as  guest  artists  answered  questions 
while  waiting  to  face  the  mike.  Outside,  in  the 
studio,  plump,  rosy-cheeked,  white-haired  B.  A. 
Rolfe  stood  before  his  orchestra,  as  peeps  and  trills 
from  strings  and  brasses  announced  tuning  up.  A 
tall  man,  with  iron-gray  hair,  looked  over  his  script, 
suggesting  a  Shakespearian  actor  waiting  his  cue — 
Bill  Adams,  the  announcer;  at  the  editor's  mike  sat 
Delmar  Edmonson,  a  round-faced,  sandy-haired, 
scholarly  type  of  man,  his  arms  folded  quietly  on 
the  table  before  him.  Dorothy  Lowell  and  Ann 
Elstner  were  laughing  together  near  one  of  the  six 
mikes,  their  scripts  for  Trouble  House  in  their  hands, 
and  it  came  with  something  of  a  surprise  that  on  this 
women's  program  they  were  the  only  women  within 
my  line  of  vision  in  the  studio  at  the  moment. 

Mrs.  William  Harkness,  that  day's  guest  celebrity, 
was  showing  the  scratches  on  her  arm  from  the  baby 
Giant  Panda  which  she  had  brought  back  to  America, 
when  the  aimless  bustle  out  in  the  studio  seemed  to 
crystallize  and  there  was  a  moment  of  tension.  Then 
the  Rolfe  baton  swept  downwards,  and  the  show  was 
on  the  air. 

As  the  musical  signature  sounded,  I  waited  for  a 
coy  and  unctuous  female  voice  to  begin  a  commercial 
spiel,  giving  some  recipe  as  though  it  were  a  deeply 
confidential  state  secret  upon  which  hung  the  fate  of 
nations.  Instead,  Bill  Adams'  friendly,  dignified 
voice  sounded.  True,  he  talked  about  the  sponsor's 
product,  but  it  managed  to  sound  so  appetizing  that 
my  mouth  watered — which  {Continued  on  page  62) 
42 


Carleton  Young  (BUI 
Mears  of  Trouble 
House)  and  its  author. 


Natalie  Hall  and 
Del  mar  Edmondson 
on  the  CBS  show. 


Albert  Payson 
Terhune  (righf) 
and  Edmondson. 


I  LL  BET  YOU'D  HAVE  PLENTY 
OF  DATES.  IF  YOU'D  JUST  DO 
SOMETHING  ABOUT  YOUR 
SKIN  I  WHY  DONT  YOU  SEE 
THAT  BEAUTY  EXPERT 
EVERYONE  IS 
RAVING  ABOUT? 


PAUL  EXPLAINS  WHY 
PALMOLIVE  CORRECTS 
"MIDDLE. AGE"  SKIN! 


"Palmolive  is  made  with  Olive 
Oil,  a  real  beauty  aid  And  Olive 
Oil  makes  Palmolive's  lather 
gentler,  more  soothing  .  .  .  gives 
it  a  special  protective  quality  all  its 
own.  Thus  Palmolive  does  more 
than  just  cleanse.  It  protects  your 
skin  against  the  loss  ot  those 
precious  natural  oils  which  teed 
and  nourish  it... That's  why 
Palmolive  keeps  your  complex- 
ion soft,  smooth  and  young!" 


BECAUSE  OF 
MIDDLE-AGE' 
SKIN! 


NOW  NO  MORE  LONELY  EVENINGS 
...THANKS  TO  PALMOLIVE 


How  Palmolive,  mode  with  Olive  Oil,  prevents 
dry,  lifeless,  old-looking  skin 


IT  creeps  up  on  you  without 
warning  .  . .  this  heart-breaking 
"Middle-Age"  Skin! 

You  may  have  a  soft,  smooth 
complexion  today.  Yet  next  month, 
or  even  next  week,  you  may  look 
in  your  mirror  and  find  your  skin 
dry,  lifeless,  coarse-looking. 

So  right  now  is  the  time  to  watch 
out  ...  to  take  this  simple  precau- 
tion advised  by  beauty  experts. 

Use  Palmolive  Soap  regularly. 
For  Palmolive,  made  with  Olive 
Oil,  does  more  than  just  cleanse. 
Its  gentle,  protective  lather  helps 
prevent  your  skin  from  becoming 


dry,  old-looking;  keeps  your  com- 
plexion soft,  smooth,  young! 

Does  the  soap  yoii  tire  now  usiii^ 
•rire  YOU  this  same  protertion'/  Do 
vou  know  what  ingredients  go 
into  it.'  Are  you  sure  it  is  as  pure, 
as  gentle  and  safe  as  Palmolive.' 

You  ktiou'  that  Palmolive  Soap  is 
made  from  a  blend  of  real  beams 
ingredients  .  .  .  soothing  Olive  ami 
Palm  oils. 

That's  why  Palmoiive,  more  than 
any  other  soap,  promises  to  keep 
your  complexion  young  and  lovely 
through  the  years!  Why  not  start 
using  Palmolive  Soap — today 


YOUR  COMPLEXION  HAS  THE 
SYMPTOMS  OF  WHAT  I  CALL 
"MIDDLE-AGE"  SKIN!  IT'S  DRY 
AND  LIFELESS,  AND  COARSE 
TEXTURED.  I  SUGGEST  Tl;AT 
YOU  CHANGE  YOUR  SOAP 
•-•USE  ONLY  PALMOLIVE, 
BECAUSE-- 


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Beautifully  colored  cut-outs  of  the  Quins,  with  dresses,  coats 
— 63  in  all.  A  lovely  picture  ol  the  Quins  on  cover.  .  .  ideal 
for  framing!  Send  3  Palmolive  St)ap  bands  to  Palmolive, 
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MADE  WITH  OLIVE  OIL 
TO  KEEP  COMPLEXIONS 


•  .  .  YOU'RE  YOUNG 

.  .  .  YOU'RE  SMART-you'll  want  to  wear 


GLAZO'S 


SOUGHT-AFTER  girls...gay  young 
moderns  who  never  let  themselves 
or  their  escorts  down  in  the  matter  of 
smartness... are  climaxing  their  chic  with 
Glazo's  "Misty"  nail  polish  shades. 

Where  else  can  you  find  colors  so  ex- 
citingly lovely?... the  perfect  accent  to 
that  ravishing  new  frock . . .  the  ultimate 


in  fingertip  flattery!  Beguiling  as  their 
names  are  Glazo's  subtle,  misty,  smoky 
hues— Shell  and  Old  Rose,  Thistle,  Rust 
and  Russet, Suntan,Dahlia,Imperial  Red. 

And  Glazo,  as  good  as  it  is  beautiful, 
possesses  all  the  virtues  that  smart  young 
things  demand . . .  satin-smoothness  on  the 
nail. ..stern  prejudices  against  peeling  or 


fadmg...the  rare  ability  to  stay  smooth- 
flowing,  usable  to  the  last  drop  in  that 
economical  20<1'  bottle,  or  in  the  new  and 
larger  25<  size. 

For  a  new  kind  of  Social  Security— 
the  knowledge  of  your  own  loveliness- 
choose  Glazo  in  clear  shades  or  the  so- 
phisticated new  "Misty"  tints. 


GLAZO 


OLD  ROSE 


A  subtle,  smoky  rose. 


Utterly  jeminine  and 
flattering.  Lovely  with  jashion's  new  "off-col- 
ors,  with  pastels  ...No  chipping  ...No  peeling. 


THISTLE  misty  heige-rose.  Per- 

feet  with  sun-tanned  or  pale 
skin.  Excellent  for  wear  with  gray,  beige,  green, 
brown... No  chipping. ..No  peeling. 


RUSSET  ^  ^isty  red  with  subtle  brown 
undertone.  Becoming  to  almost 
enry  type  of  skin.  Enchanting  iiith  light  or 
dark  colors  ...No  chipping  ...No  peeling. 


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WHO  Des  Moines.  Iowa 

WWJ  Detroit.  Mich. 

WTIC  Hartford,  Conn. 

WIRE  Indianapolis.  Ind. 

WDAF  Kansas  City.  Mo. 

KFI  Los  Angeles.  Cal. 

KSTP  Minneapolis— St.  Paul, 
Minn. 

WEAF  New  York.  N.  Y. 

WOW  Omaha.  Neb 

KYW  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

WCAE  Pittsburgh.  Pa 

WCSH  Portland.  Me. 

KGW  Portland,  Ore. 

WJAR  Providence.  R.  I. 

WRVA  Richmond.  Va. 


KSD  St.  Louis.  Mo 

KDYL  Salt  Lake  City.  Utah 

KPO  San  Francisco,  Cal 

WGY  Schenectady  N  Y. 

KOMO  Seattle.  Wash. 

KHQ  Spokane,  Wash 

WRC  Washington.  D.  C. 

WDEL  Wilmington.  Del. 

WTAG  Worcester,  Mass 

NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
BLUE  NETWORK 

WABY  .\lbany.  N.  Y 

WBAL  Baltimore.  Md. 

WBZ  Boston,  Mass. 

WICC  Bridgeport.  Conn 

WEBR  Buffalo.  N  Y. 

WIWT  Cedar  Rapids.  Iowa 

WENR  Chicago.  Ill 

WLS  Chicago.  III. 

WCKY  Cincinnati.  Ohio 

WGAR  Cleveland.  Ohio 

KVOD  Denver.  Colo. 

KSO  Des  .Moines.  Iowa 

WXY2  Detroit.  Mich. 

WLEU  Erie.  Pa. 

WOWO  Ft.  Wayne.  Ind 

WREN  Lawrence.  Kan. 

KECA  Los  Angeles.  Cal 

WTCN  Minneapolis.  Minn. 

WICC  New  Haven.  Conn. 

WJZ  New  York.  N  Y 

KLO  Ogden.  Utah 

KOIL  Omaha.  Neb. -Council 

Bluffs.  la 

WFIL  PhUadelphia.  Pa 

KDKA  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

KEX  Portland,  Ore. 

WEAN  Providence.  R.  I. 

WHAM  Rochester.  N.  Y. 

KWK  St  Louis.  Mo. 

KFSD  San  Diego.  Cal. 

KGO  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

KJR  Seattle  Wash. 

KGA  Spokane,  Wash. 

WBZA  Springfield.  Mass. 

WSYR  SjTacuse.  N  Y 

WSPD  Toledo.  Ohio 

WMAL  Washicgt.  n,  D  C 

NBC-SUPPLEMENTARY 

STATIONS 
(May    be   on    either    RED  or 

BLUE  networks) 

WSAN  AUentown.  Pa. 

KGNC  Amarillo,  Tex. 

WWNC  Asheville.  N.  C. 

WSB  Atlanta.  Ga. 

KERN  Bakersfield  Cal. 

KGHL  Billings.  Mont. 

WAPI  Birmingham.  Ala 

KFYR  Bismarck,  N.  D. 

KGIR  Butte.  Mont. 

WCSC  Charleston.  S.  C. 

WSOC  Charlotte,  N  C. 

WCFL  Chicago.  111. 

WLW  Cincinnati.  Ohio 

WFLA  Clearwater.  Fla. 

WIS  Columbia.  S.  C. 

WCOL  Columbus.  Ohio 

WFAA  Dallas.  Tex 

WEBC  Duluth.  Minn. 

WGBF  EvansviUe,  Ind. 


WBAP  Ft.  Worth.  Tex. 

KMJ  Fresno.  Cal. 

WOOD  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

WFBC  Greenville.  S.  C. 

KTHS  Hot  Springs.  Ark. 

KPRC  Houston.  Tex 

WJDX  Jackson.  Miss. 

WJAX  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

WJTN  Jamestown.  N  Y. 

KARK  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

WAVE  Louisville.  Ky. 

WIBA  Madison.  Wis. 

WFEA  Manchester.  N  U. 

WMC  Memphis.  Tenn. 

WIOD  Miami  Beach.  Fla 

WTMJ  Milwaukee  Wis 


CFCF  Montreal,  Canada 

WSM  Nashville.  Tenn. 

WSMB  New  Orleans.  La. 

WTAR  Norfolk.  Va. 

WKY  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

KTAR  Phoenix.  Ariz. 

KGHF  Pueblo.  Colo. 

WPTF  Raleigh.  N  C. 

KFBK  Sac-ramento.  Cal. 

WSUN  St  Petersburg.  Fla. 

WOAI  San  Antonio.  Te.x. 
KTBS 
KSOO 

KGBX  Springfield.  Mo. 

KWG  Stockton.  Cal 

WEBC  Superior.  Wis. 

WFLA  Tampa.  Fla 

WBOW  Terre  Haute.  Ind. 

CRCT  Toronto.  Canada 

KVOO  Tulsa.  Okla 

KANS  Wichita.  Kans 

WORK  York.  Pa. 

COLUMBIA  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 

WADC  Akron.  Ohio 

WOKO  Albanv.  N.  Y. 

WGST  Atlanta.  Ga 

WPG  Atlantic  City.  N.  J 

KNOW  Austin.  Tex. 

WCAO  Baltimore.  .Md. 

WLBZ  Bangor.  Me 

WBRC  Birmingham.  Ala 

WNBF  Binghamton.  N  Y. 

WEE!  Boston.  Mass. 

WGR  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

WKBW  Buffalo.  N.  Y. 

WCHS  Charleston.  W.  Va 

WBT  Charlotte.  N  C. 

WOOD  Chattanooga  Tenn, 

WBBKI  Chicago  III 

WKRC  Cincinnati.  Ohio 

WHK  Cleveland.  Ohio 

KVOR  Colorado  Springs,  Col 

WBNS  Columbus.  Ohio 

KRLD  Dallas.  Tex 

woe  Davenport.  Iowa 

WHIO  Dayton.  Ohio 

WJR  Detroit.  Mich. 

KRNT  Des  Moines.  Iowa 

KLZ  Den%-er.  Colo 

WKBB  Dubuque.  Iowa 

WDNC  Durham.  N.  C. 

WESG  Elma-Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

WMMN  Fairmont,  W.  Va. 

WOWO  Fort  Wayne.  Ind. 

WGL  Fort  Wayne.  Ind 

WBIG  Greensboro.  N.  C. 

KFBB  Great  Fails.  Mont. 

WHP  Harrisburg.  Pa. 

WDRC  Hartford.  Conn 

KTRH  Houston.  Tex. 

WFBM  Indianapolis,  Ind 

WMBR  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

KMBC  Kansas  City.  Mo. 

WNOX  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

WKBH  La  Crosse.  Wis. 

KFAB  Lincoln.  Neb. 

KLRA  Little  Rock.  Ark. 

KNX  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

WHAS  Louisvrlle.  Ky. 

WMAZ  Macon.  Ga. 

WFAE  Manchester.  N.  H. 

WREC  Memphis,  Tenn. 

WCOC  Meridian.  Miss. 

WQAM  Miami.  Fla. 

WALA  Mobile.  Ala. 

WISN  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

WCCO  Minneapolis.  Minn. 

KGVO  Missoula.  .Mont. 

WSFA  Montgomery  .Ma 

CKAC  Montreal,  Canada 

WLAC  Nashville.  Tenn 

WWL  New  Orleans,  La 

WABC  New  York.  N  Y. 

KOMA  Oklahoma  City.  Okla. 

WDBO  Orlando.  Fla. 

WPAR  Parkersburg.  W.  Va. 

WCOA  Pensacola.  Fla. 

WMBD  Peoria.  Ill 
WCAU      Philadelphia.  Pa. 
KOY         Phoenix.  Ariz. 
WJAS       Pittsburgh  Pa 


KOIN 
WPRO 
KOH 
WMBG 
WDBJ 
WHEC 
KMOX 
WCCO 
KSL 
KTSA 
KSFO 
WTOC 
WGBI 
KOL 
KWKH 
KSCJ 
WSBT 
KFPY 
WMAS 
WFBL 
KVI 
WDAE 
WSPD 
WIBW 
CFRB 
KTUL 
WIBX 
WACO 
WJSV 
WJNO 
WWVA 
KFH 
WSJS 
KGKO 
WORC 
WNAX 
WKBN 

MUTUAL  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 


Reno.  Nev. 
Richmond.  Va. 
Roanoke.  Va., 
Rochester.  .\  Y. 
St,  Louis.  -Mo, 
St.  Paul.  Minn. 
Salt  Lake  Citv.  Utah 
San  Antonio.  Tex. 
San  Francisco.  Cal 
Savannah.  Ga 
Scranton.  Pa. 
Seattle.  Wash. 
Shreveport.  La. 
Sioux  Citv.  Iowa 
South  Bend.  Ind. 
Spokane.  Wash. 
Springfield.  Mass. 
Syracuse.  N  Y. 
Tacoma.  Wash. 
Tampa.  Fla. 
Toledo.  Ohio 
Topeka.  Kans. 
Toronto.  Canada 
Tulsa.  Okla. 
Utica.  N.  Y. 
Wac,  Tex. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
W  Palm  Beach,  Fla 
Wheeling.  W.  Va 
Wichita.  Kans. 
Winston-S.alem,  \  C 
Wichita  Fall<i  Tex. 


Wi 


r,  .Mil..; 
.<.  D, 


KADA 

KVSO 

WRDO 

KPMC 

WBAL 

WLBZ 

WAAB 

WICC 

WIWT 

WGN 

WLW 

WSAI 

WGAR 

WRR 

KFEL 

KSO 

KXO 

KASA 

KCRC 

WSAR 

KTAT 

KFKA 

WTHT 

WHB 

WLNH 

KFOR 

KHJ 

WLLH 

WFEA 

KDON 

KBIX 

WSM 

WOR 

WNBH 

KTOK 

KOIL 

WFIL 

WCAE 

WBBZ 

WEAN 

WRVA 

KFXM 

KGB 

KFRC 

KVOE 

KDB 

KGFF 

WSPR 

KWK 

KGOM 

WOL 

WBRY 

CKLW 


Ada.  Okla. 
.■\rdmore.  Okla 
Augusta.  Me. 
Bakersfield.  Cal. 
Baltimore.  Md. 
Bangor.  Me 
Boston.  Mass. 
Bridgeport.  Conn. 
Cedar  Rapids  Iowa 
Chicago,  in 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cleveland.  Ohio 
Dallas. Tex. 
Denver.  Colo. 
Des  Mi.ines.  Iowa 
El  Centro.  Cal 
Elk  Citv.  Okla. 
Enid.  Okla. 
Fall  River.  Ma.ss 
Ft.  Worth  Texas. 
Greeley.  Colo. 
Hartford.  Conn. 
Kansas  Citv.  Mo 
Laconia,  N!  H. 
Lincoln  Neb 
Los  .\ngeles.  Cal 
Lowell.  Mass. 
Manchester.  N.  H 
Monterey.  Cal. 
Muskogee.  Okla 
Nashville.  Tenn, 
Newark.  N  J 
New  Bedford.  Mass 
Oklahoma  City.  Okla 
Omaha.  Neb 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa, 
Porica  City.  Okla. 
Providence.  R.  I. 


Rich 


nd,  Vi 


San  Bernardino.  Cal 
San  Diego.  Cal 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Santa  Ana.  Cal 
Santa  Barbara.  Cal. 
Shawnee.  Okla. 
Springfield.  .Mass. 
St,  Louis.  Mo. 
Stockton.  Cal. 
Washington,  O.  C. 
Waterburv.  Conn. 
Windsor- DetroitMich. 


45 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


8.00 

NBC-Red:  GOLDTHWAITE 
ENSEMBLE — organ  and  solo- 
ist 

NBC-Blue:  MELODY  HOUR— 
Josef  Honti's  orchestra 

8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHILDREN'S 
(.'ONCERT — Josof  Stopak  s  or- 
chestra, Paul  'Wins,  narrator 
NBC-Blue:  TONE  PICTURES 
—Ruth  Pepple.  pianist;  mixed 
quartet 

9:00 

XBC-Red:  HAROLD  NAGEL'S 
KltUMBA  ORCHESTRA 
NHC-Ulue:  WHITE  RABBIT 
l.l.NE — Milton  J.  Cross 
CBS:  SUNDAY  MORNING  AT 
AUNT  SUSAN'S — children's 
program.  Artells  Dickson 

9:30 

NBC-Red:  CONCERT  EN- 
SEMBLE—Harry  Gilbert,  or- 
ganist 


CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red;  HIGHLIGHTS  OF 
THE  BIBLE 

NBC-Blue:  RUSSIAN  MELO- 
DIES 

CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 
10:30 


JUNE  6—13—20—27 


AFTERNOON 


NBC-Blue:  SOUTHERNAIRES 
— male  quartet 

MBS:  CADLE  TABERNACLE 
CHOIR— music,  talk 


NBC-Red:  UNIVERSITY  OF 
CHICAGO  ROUND  TABLE 
DISCUSSION— guest  speakers 
NBC-Blue:  RADIO  CITY  MU- 
SIC HALL  SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTRA—soloists 
CBS:  SALT  LAKE  CITY  TAB- 
ERNACLE CHOIR  AND  OR- 
GAN 

MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 


NBC-Red:  DOROTHY  DRES- 
LIN.  soprano;  FRED  HUF- 
S.MITH,  tenor 

CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 
MBS;  NEW  POETRY  HOUR — 
A.  M.  Sullivan 


NBC-Blue:  OUR  NEIGHBORS 
— Jerry  Belcher,  interviewer 
CBS:  POETIC  STRINGS 


NATIONAL  VES- 


NBC-Red;  THE  WORLD  IS 
YOURS— dramatization 
NBC-Blue:  SENATOR  FISH- 
FACE  AND  PROFESSOR 
FIGGSBOTTLE — Jerry  Sears' 
orchestra 


MBS: 
BEE 


OLD  TIME  SPELLING 


NBC-Red:     RY-KRISP  PRE- 
SENTS   MARION  TALLEY— 
Josef  Koestner's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:     VARIETY  PRO- 


NBC-Red:  SMILING  ED 
McCONNELL — songs.  Clark's 
orchestra 

CBS:   GUY  LOMBARDO  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA 
MBS:  FORUM  HOUR 


EVENING 


C:00 

NBC-Red:  CATHOLIC  HOUR 
NBC-Blue:  ANTOBAL'S  CU- 
BANS 

CBS:      JOE     PENNER— Gene 
Austin,  Grier's  orchestra 
MBS:     1937    RADIO  SHOW— 
Ray  Knight,  Johnson's  orches- 


ORGAN  MOODS 


NBC-Red:    PEERLESS  TRIO 


NI'.<-Blue:  HENDRIK  WIL- 
LH.M  VAN  LOON— author  and 
lecturer 


■F.lU',-:     VARIETY  PRO- 


Gustave  Haenschen 

46 


CBS:  HISTORY  BEHIND 
THE  HEADLINES  —  Bob 
Trout,  commentator 


NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  KEY  OF 
RCA — Frank  Black's  sym- 
phony orchestra,  Milton  J. 
Cross 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


KEY  MEN— quartet 


NBC-Red:  THATCHER  COLT 
MYSTERIES 

CBS:  LIVING  DRAMAS  OF 
THE  BIBLE — dramatizations 
MBS:  THE  RIGHT  JOB 


NBC-BIuc;  SUNDAY  DRIV- 
ERS—Fields  and  Hall,  Flor- 
ence Adair 

CBS:  EVERYBODY'S  MUSIC 
Howard  Barlow,  symphony  or- 
chestra 


NBC-Red:    WIDOW'S  SONS- 


NBC-Red:  ROMANCE  MELO- 
DIES— Gale  Page,  Charles 
Sears,  Shield's  orchestra 


NBC-Red:  A  TALE  OF  TO- 
DAY—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  GOLDEN  GATE 
PARK  BAND  CONCERT 
CBS:  RUBINOFF— Fred  Keat- 
ing. Walter  Cassell,  guests 
MBS:  FUN  IN  SWINGTIME— 
Tim  and  Irene,  Del  Sharbutt, 
Berigan's  orchestra 

1:00 

NBC-Red:  JELL-O  PROGRAM 
— Jack  Benny,  Mary  Living- 
stone, Kenny  Baker,  Phil  Har- 
ris' orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  HELEN  TRAUBBL 
— soprano 

CBS:      COLUMBIA  WORK- 
SHOP— dramatizations 
MBS:    STAN    LOMAX— sports 
commentator 


NBC-Red:  FIRESIDE  RECI- 
TALS—Helen  Marshall,  so- 
prano; Sigurd  Nilssen,  basso 
NBC-Blue:  BAKERS  BROAD- 
CAST— Robert  Ripley,  Ozzie 
Nelson's  orchestra.  Shirley 
Lloyd,  vocalist 

CBS:     PHIL     BAKER— Oscar 

Bradley's  orchestra 
MBS:   SYMPHONIC  STRINGS 
— orchestra 


Milton  Berle 


1:45 

NBC-Red:  FITCH  JINGLE 
PROGRAM  —  Morin  Sisters. 
Ranch  Boys 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  CHASE  AND  SAN- 
BORN   PROGRAM  —  Don 
Ameche,  Edgar  Bergen,  Wer- 
ner Janssen's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:     GENERAL  MO- 
TORS  "PROM"  CONCERT 
CBS:      1937    TWIN  STARS— 
Victor  Moore,  Helen  Broderick. 
Rogers'  orchestra 
MBS:  JAZZ  NOCTURNE — Hel- 
ene  Daniels.  Connie  Miles,  Bru- 
siloft's  orchestra 

8:30 

CBS:  EDDIE  CANTOR — Bob- 
by Breen.  Deanna  Durbin,  ,Tim- 
my  Wallington,  Renard's  or- 
chestra 

MBS:  MELODIES  FROM  THE 
SKIES 

9:00 

NBC-Red:  MANHATTAN 
MERRY-GO-ROUND  —  Rachel 
Carlay,   Bert   Lahr.   Pierre  Le 
Kreeun,  Lyman's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  RIPPLING 
RHYTHM     REVUE  — Shep 
Fields'   orchestra.   Frank  Par- 
ker, Bob  Hope,  Honeychile 
CBS:     FORD   SUNDAY  EVE- 
NING HOUR 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:30 

NBC-Red:  AMERICAN  AL- 
BUM OF  FAMILIAR  MUSIC— 
Frank  Munn,  Jean  Dickenson, 
Haenschen's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  JERGENS  PRO- 
GRAM— Walter  Winchell.  news 
commentator 

9:45 

NBC-Blue:  CHOIR  SYMPHO- 
NETTE 

MBS:  DANCE  ORCHESTRA 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  SUNDAY  NIGHT 
PARTY — James  Melton.  Don- 
ald Dickson,  Dolan's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  CALIFORNIA 
CONCERT 

CBS:  GILLETTE  COMMUNI- 
TY SING — Milton  Berle,  Wen- 
dell Hall,  Jones  and  Hare, 
Sannella's  orchestra 
MBS:  SURPRISE  PARTY— 
Kay  Keyser's  orchestra  and 
guests 

10:30 

CBS:  MAUREEN  O'CONNOR 
AND  THE  SINGING  STRINGS 

10:45 

CBS:  H.  V.  KALTBNBORN— 
news  commentator 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  HARVEY  HAYS— 
poetry  reading 

NBC-Blue:    JUDY  AND  THE 
BUNCH — vocal  quartet 
CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
11:10 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  ORCHESTRA 


Don  Ameche 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:    MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS—organ  and  songs 


GOOD  MORNING 
ISLAND  SERE- 


NBC-Red: 
MELODIE! 
NBC-Blue: 
NADERS 

8:30 

NBC-Red: 


8:45 

NBC-Blue:  FOUR  MARTINEZ 
BROTHERS — songs  and  music 

9:00 

NBC-Red:  THE  STREAM- 
LINERS— Fields  and  Hall,  or- 
chestra 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB— Don    McNeill.    H  e  U- n 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:     METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 
9:30 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 

9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commenla- 

CBS:    MORNING  MOODS 


9:55 

NBC-Red: 
NEWS 
NBC-Blue 
NEWS 

10:00 

NBC-R 


PRESS-RADl 
PRESS-R.^Dl 


MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     TIM   HEALY  — 

news  commentator 

CBS:    BETTY  AND  BOB  — 

sketch 

10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 

10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 

FAMILY— sketch 

CBS:    BETTY'  CROCKER— 

cooking    expert:    HYMNS  OF 

ALL  CHURCHES 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 

Frances  McDonald 

10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

CBS:     JOHN  K.  WATKINS — 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS — 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe'a 

MBs'^:^GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 

— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR  — In.'z  I.opez 


JUNE  7—14—21—28 


NHC-Red:     HOW    TO  BE 
C-H.\  R.MING— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 

sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 


'  Blue:     EDWARD  Mac- 
;H— The  Gospel  Singer 
:   DR.   ALLAN   ROY  DA- 


AFTERNOON 

2:00  Noon 
NBC-Red:    GIRL  ALONE- 
sketch 

CBS:  THE  GUMPS — sketch 


NBC-Red:   STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  CANOODLERS 
CBS:    YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 


NBC-Red:  THREE  MAR- 
SHALLS 

NBC-Blue:      HELEN  JANE 

BEHLKE— contralto 

CBS:    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 

TRENT — sketch 

MBS:  FOUR  STAR  FROLIC— 

musical  varieties 

■J:45 

NBC-Red:  ROSA  LEE  — so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:  JOE  DUMOND 

AND  THE  CADETS 

CBS:     OUR   GAL.  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

.MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 


NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE— tenor 
NBC-Blue:  LOVE  AND 
L?;ARN — sketch 
CBS:  FIVE  STAR  REVUE — 
.Morton  Bowe.  Meri  Bell.  Bill 
Johnstone.  Sinatra's  orchestra 
.MRS:  LUNCHEON  DANCE 
.MUSIC 


NBC-Red:    D.\N  HARDING'S 


:30 

NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Larry  Larsen.  Ruth  Lyon. 
Charles  Sears.  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATION.\L  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:     ALLE.N  PRESCOTT— 
The  Wife  Saver 
MBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 


NBC-Red:  EDUCATIONAL 
PROGR.A.M 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S    EYES— Kathryn 


2:15 

CBS:  JACK  AND  LORETTA— 
sones  and  patter 
MBS:  ORG.\N  RECITAL 
2:30 

Nr.i--r...,l:      CAROL  WEY- 

.MAX.X  s.ii.ran., 

Nl;^  -l:!-:-    IH'UR  OF  MEMO- 


•L!S: 


Ml. 


SLI.M 


-N  B  C  -  R  e  d  :  JOHNNY 
O'BRIE.X  S  ORCHESTR.\ 
CBS:    ilYRT   AND  xMARGE— 
sketch 
:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
F.A.MILY — sketch 
CBS:     COLONEL  JACK  M.A.- 
JOR  S  V.^RIETY  SHOW 
MBS:     PAULINE  ALPERT— 
pianist,   and  orchestra 


rBC-Red:     MA  PERKINS — 


!:30 

NBC-Red: 


VIC  AND  S.A.DE- 
LET'S    TALK  I' 


NBC-Blu^ 

OVER  — .\nne  Hard.  A  In 
Kitchen 

CBS:    POP    CONCERT— Ho 


3:45 

NBC*-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 

sketch 

4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 

NBC-Blue:  CLUB  M.A.TINEE— 
Annette  King.  Jack  Baker.  Ko- 
gen's  orchestra 

MBS:    TEX.\S   JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  Hillbillies 
4:15 

.NBC-Red:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 


CHIC.\GO 


NBC-Red:    TOP  H.\TTERS— 

NBC-Bliie:  STORY  OF  M.A.RY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:    CLYDE  B.\RRIE— bari- 
tone 


NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 

DARI  DAN— sketch 

CBS:  ETON  BOYS— quartet 

MBS:     STORY  TELLERS 

HOUSE 

5:30 

NBr--Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY — sketch 
NBC-Klue:   SINGING  LADY— 
chil. Iron's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR— songs 
MBS:  MUSIC.A.L  PROGR.\M 

5:45 

NBC-Red:   LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE— children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  JACKIE  HELLER 


EVENING 


NBC-Red:  OLD  TRAVELER'S 

TALES — stories 

NBC-Blue:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 

CBS:    HOWARD  PHILLIPS— 

baritone 


NBC-Red:   JOHN  GURNET— 


Horace  Heidt 


Phil  Spi+alny 


.NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
r,:35 

Nlii'-Red:  THREE  X  SISTERS 
XI:i'''Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS— 
I         ;  ai'i.  i>iirGI..\S — sports 
G :  r. 

VIIIMAIRES 
X  :     -  !  .   ,      :  THOMAS 

i         l'.\rii  i  iiAl'lN — songs 

.Ml;S:  I -11  I  1,1  .KKX  S  .\LBUM— 
Sl.^r>-  l;,,,,k  I.a.ly 
":()(l 

.Xi;i--i:.-,l:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY  — 

x'hi'-P.Iu.-  TICTOC  REVIEW 
—  Hnrrv  McKinley,  Barrett's 
orchestra 

CBS:  POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack  Fulton.  Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack.  Kelsey's  orchestra 

XBC-Red:    UNCLE  EZRA'S 
R.-VDIO    STATION— Pat  Bar- 
CBS:    MA  AND  PA— sketch 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  MIDGE  WILLIAMS 

— songs 

.NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNEK 
— sketch 

CBS:     HOLLACE     SHAW  — 
songs 
7:45 

NBC-Red:  ROY  CAMPBELL'S 
ROYALISTS 

NBC-Blue:  JOHN  HERRICK 
— baritone 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  BURNS  AND  AL- 
LEN— Dick  Foran.  Noble's  or- 
chestra 

CBS:  ALEMITE  H.\LF  HOUR 
— Horace  Heidt's  Brigadiers 
MBS:  ROM.\NCE  IN  RHYTHM 
— Evelyn  Case.  Jack  Arthur 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  VOICE  OF  FIRE- 
.STONE— Wallenstein's  orches- 
tra, guests 

CBS:    PICK   AND   PAT — com- 
edy and  music 
9:00 

.NBC-Red:    FIBBER  McGEE 
AND  MOLLY— comedy  sketch. 
Marian    and    Jim  Jordan. 
Weems'  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:    GOOD   TIME  SO- 
CIETY— all-Negro  revue 
CBS:  LUX  RADIO  THEATRE 
— dramatizations 
9:30 

NBC-Red:  HOUR  OF  CH.ARM 
— Phil  Spitalny  and  his  girls 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  CONTENTED  PRO- 
GR.\JI— Vivian  Delia  Chiesa. 
Black's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  STUDEB.\KER 
CH.A.MPIONS  — Richard  Hira- 
b-r  s  orchestra.  Stuart  Allen 
CBS:  ■\\'.\YNE  KING'S  OR- 
CHESTR  \ 

.MBS:    e'lDER  LIGHTFOOT 
SOLOMO.N    MICHAUX  —  and 
congregation 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  MUSIC  FOR  MOD- 
ER.NS 

.NBC-Blue:     N.\TIO.N.\L  RA- 
DIO FORUM— guest  speaker 
10:45 

MBS:     HENRY  WEBER'S 
PAGEANT  OF  MELODY 
11:00 

NUC-Blue:  ORCHESTR.\ 
CHS:     DANCK  MCSIC 


Gracie  Allen 


47 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  MAT.COLM  CLAIRE 
— i-hildren"s  propram 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:    GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES  „ 
NBC-Blue:    LEIBERT  EN- 
SEMBLE— Island  Serenaders 

"■"riBC-Red:  CHEERIO  —  talk 

and  music 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:    RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
9:00 


Cl.r.  ...  \..U.  H.-un 

Jane    l;.  '  l.'.k  Dennis 

CBS:  DEAR  CULUMBIA— fan 
mail  dramatizations 
9:30 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL— 
songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS— news  commenta- 

CBS:     WALTZES   OF  THE 
WORLD 
9:35 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TIM  HBAL\— news 
commentator 

CBS:     BETTY    AND    BOB  — 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
—sketch 
10:30 

■  NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Hlue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— skclcli 
CBS    ];i;'r  i'V  i  ■ki  m-KER.  cook- 
ing m.\I.\S  UF  ALL 

m"s';"'  ImaUKIACE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MART  LEE  TAYLOR 
MBS:  GET  THIN. TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 

C^S:  QUALITY  TWINS— East 
and  Dumke 
11:30 

NBC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADIO— 
8ketch 

CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
II  :43 

NBC-Red:  ALLEN  PRESCOTT 
—The  Wife  Saver 
NBC-Blue:  EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH — The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:  ELEANOR  HOWES 
HOMEMAKERS  EXCHANGE 
MBS:   MARTHA   AND  HAL— 


songs  and  patt<r 

AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

CBS:  THE  GUMPS— sketch 
1215 

NBC-Red:    STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBfNBlue:    GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY — songs 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
MBS:    HOI-LYWOOD  SUN- 
SHINE GIRLS— trio 
12:30 

NBC-Red:  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
TET 


JUNE  1—8—15—22—29 


NBC-Blue:    ANNETTE  KING 

CBS:   ROJIANCE  OF  HELEN 
TllKXT — sketch 
l'i:4.-) 

XI!C-Rf,l:  JULES  LANDE'S 
ST.  REGIS  CONCERT  EN- 
SK.MBLE 

Ni?c-Blue:  JOE  DUMOND 
.\XD  THE  CADETS  QUARTET 
CBS:  OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 
sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 
1  :flO 

NBC-Red:   SYLVIA  CLARK— 

NBC^B^ue;  LOVE  AND  LEARN 
—.sketch 

CBS:  JACK  BERCH  AND  HIS 
BOYS 

MBS:    DICK  STABILE'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
AVIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TUNE  TWISTERS 
CBS;  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 


NRC-Red:  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC—Ruth    Lyon,    Larry  Lar- 
sen.  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND  HOME   HOUR  —  Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:  THE  MERRYMAKERS 
MBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 


CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE    STORIES — sketch 
2:00 

NBC-Red:  DR.  JOSEPH  E. 
MADDY'S  BAND  LESSONS 
CBS:  TELL  US  YOUR  STORY 
— dramatization 
MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA— Ralph  Ginsburgh 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NBC-Red:    IT'S   A  WO:\IAN'S 
WORLD  —  i-|;,n,iinf  .M;i<,li)n- 
ald,  Levey's  ui cli.  ,sti  :i 
NBS-Blue:      ,\i;c      .\l  i:si(: 
GUILD 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
novelty  trio 
2:45 

-NBC-Red:  COLLEGIANS 
CBS:    MYRT   AND  MARGE— 
sketch 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY — sketch 
NBC-Blue:     U.     S.  MARINE 
BAND 

CBS:  BILL  WRIGHT,  VICE- 
PRESIDENT 

MUS:  RHYTHM  ORCHESTRA 
3:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS:  RADIO  GARDEN  CLUB 
3:. SO 

NBC-Red:   VIC  AND  SADE— 

.sketch 

CHS:  COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
A<  H.S:'   Uu'i''1IESTH  a'""^^ 


3:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:      HAVE  YOU 
HEARD  ? — dramatization 
4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 
— comedy  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  YOUR  HEALTH 
CBS:    SING    AND    SWING — 
Kelsey's  orchestra 
4:15 

NBC-Red:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
4:30 

NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
MOON — Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
son 

NHC-Ulu,-  CT^UB  MATINEE 
—  AiMi.  M-     Kini^,    Jack  Baker, 

Ki.^'  I  .  ~:r.i 

CH.'^      i  !■  i  \  \  l:  1 1  BARLOW'S 
C(iM  i:i:  r  (  >i;i-hestra 
MBS:   N  AHUOTY  PROGRAM— 
Elinor  Sherry,  Freudberg's  or- 
chestra 
4:45 

NBC-Red:      THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
5:00 

NBC-Red:  NELLIE  REVELL 
INTERVIEWS 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:  DEL  CASINO— songs 
5:15 

NBC-Red:  GENERAL  FED- 
ERATION OF  WOMEN'S 
CLUBS 

NHC-BIue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
— sketch 

CBS:    SCIENCE  SERVICE 
SERIES- Watson  Davis 
6:30 

NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 

(IE  -rm-;  na\-y— sketeii 


Martha  Raye 


childr 


program 

LOUIS  SYNCOPA- 
TORS 
5:45 

NBC-Rerl:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE— children's  sketch 
NHC-Hluc:  KA.NCHEROS — trio 
CHS:    DORfiTHY  GORDON'S 
CHILDREN'S  CORNER 


EVENING 


Ben  Bernie 


«:00 

NBC-Red:  SCIENCE  IN  THE 
NEWS 

NH<-:-n:up:  MEREDITH 
WlI.l.SON  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 

.■|;S:   .MCSICAL  AMERICANA 

«;I5 

NBC-Red:  THREE  X  SISTERS 
— harmony  trio 
«:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-  RADIO 
NEWS 

.NHC-BIue:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
(i:35 

NBC-Red:     TOM  THO.MAS— 

NBC-Blue;  TONY  RUSSELL— 
tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS— si)orts 
commentator 


6:45 

NBC-Red:  RHTTHMAIRES 
NBC-Blue:    LOWELL  THOM- 
AS— news  commentator 
CHS:    CEORGE   HALL'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 

Mr.S:    ENOCH   LIGHT'S  OR- 


-\-Br-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 

-NHi'-Hlue:      E.\SY      ACES — 

CHS:     IM  iVri'lc  MELODIE.S— 
Jack    iMilt..,,,    Eranklyn  Mac- 
Corniad;,    K.  ls,.\  s  orchestra 
MBS;  DORKS  SCOTT— songs 
7:15 

NBC-Red:     VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES— choral  singing 
NBC-Blue:  TASTYEAST  JES- 
TERS 

CBS:  MA  AND  PA— sketch 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  HENDRIK  WIL- 
LE.\I  VAN  LOOM— author,  lec- 


NI 


Johnny  Green 

CBS:  ALEXANDER  WOOLL- 
COTT — The  Town  Crier 
7:4.-, 

Xi;c  i;.  1  I  I  \  \-i  I  DUO— Fray 
N  H.-  l':io.  '  TLO  PENCE 
(■|;s;  'l K\  K  i;  i .  arteR— news 


8:00 

.njhc-RimI:  joh.vny  pre- 
sents RUSK  MdRGAN  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA  —  Charles 
Martin.  Phil  Ducy 
NBC-Blue:  HUSBANDS  AND 
WIVES— Sedley  Brown,  AUie 
Lone  Miles 

CHS:  h.\:m.merstein  music 

H.M.L — Lucy   Laughlin,  Jerry 
MBS;  0RCHESTR.\ 
8:.S0 

NBC-Red:  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  —  Wayne  Kings 
orchestra 

NI'.C-Hlue:  EDGAR  GUEST 
111  '  I-r  I 'AX  BE  DONE"— Mas- 

CHS:    AL    JOLSON    SHOW  — 
Martha    Raye,  Parkyakarku.s, 
Young's  orchestra 
MBS:   EDDIE  DUCHIN'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 
0:00 

NH'-l;-!      A  ' '\'    POP— Parks 


Nl 


:rnie  and 


CHS:    WATCH   the  FUN  GO 
HV— Al    I'earce,    Nick  Lucas, 
Marsh's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
0:30 

NBC-Red:  PACKARD  HOUR— 
NBC-Blue:  SWEETEST  LOVE 
SONGS  EVER  SUNG— Frank 
Munn,  Lois  Bennett,  Arden's 
orchestra 

CBS:    JACK    OAKIE'S  COL- 
LEGE— Goodman's  band 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JIMMIE  FIDLER  S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
NBC-Blue:  HARPSICHORD 
ENSEMBLE 

CBS;  YOUR  UNSEE.N  FRIEND 
—sketch 

MBS;  HOBBY  LOBBY 
10:45 

NBC-Red:   VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  PICCADILLY  MU- 
SIC HALL 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:     NIGHT     SKIES  AND 
BEYOND 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

NBC-Rcd:  MALCOLM 
CLAIRE — children's  program 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:      ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:    WILLIAM  MEK- 
DER — organist 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:    FOUR  MARTI- 
NEZ   BROTHERS— songs  and 
music 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC-Blue;  BREAKFAST 
CLUB  — Don    McNeill,  Helen 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:    MUSIC  IX  THE  AIH 


Portland  Hoffa 


9:30 

CBS:    RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commenta- 
tor 

CBS:  FIDDLER'S  FANCY 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:       TIM  HEALY— 
news  commentator 
CBS:     BETTY     AND  BOB— 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:     MODERN  CINDER- 
ELLA—sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  .lUST  PLAIN  BILL 
—sketch 

NBC-Blue:   PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— .-^Ketch 
CBS:     BETTY  CROCKER, 
cooking   export;    HYMXS  OF 
ALL  CHURCHES 
MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

CBS:    JOHN   K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS;  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue;    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING— .sk,-tch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 


JUNE  2—9—16—23—30 


DR.  ALLAN  ROY  D.\FOE 

AFTERNOON 

VixOO  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

CBS:  THE  GUMPS— sketch 
1'2:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MA  RLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  HOMESPUN— Wil- 
liam Hiram  Foulkes 
CBS:   YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
—Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 

XnC-Red;  THREE  MAR- 
SHALLS 

XHC-Blue:     HELEN  JAXE 

BKHLKE — contralto 

CBS;   ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 

TRENT— sketch 

MBS;  FOUR  STAR  FROLIC— 

nuL-iieal  varieties 

NKC-Red:  JOE  WHITE— tenor 
NBC-Blue:  JOE  DUMOXD 
AND  THE  CADETS  QUARTET 
CBS:  OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 
sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red r  RANCHEROS— trio 
NKC-Blue:  LOVE  AND 
LEARN— sketch 
CBS:  FIVE  STAR  REVUE— 
M..iton  Bowe,  Meri  Bell,  Bill 
Johnstone.  Sinatra's  orchestra 
MBS:  LUNCHEON  DANCE 
MUSIC 

'XBC-Rcd:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

XRC-niue:  XF:I0HB0R  NELL 


Andre  Kostelanetz 


1:30 

NBC-Red:   WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Ruth   Lyon,    Larry  Lar- 
sen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:  DINING  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR — food  talk 
IMBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

NBC-Red:  NBC  MUSIC  GUILD 
CBS:    AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES— sketch 
2:00 

NBC-Red:  SAVITT  SERE- 
NADE 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES — Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT    ORCHESTRA  — Ralph 
Ginsburgh 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NBC-Rcd:  CHOIR  SYMPHO- 
NETTE 

NBC-Blue:  AIRBREAKS— va- 
riet.v,  music 
CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM 
2  :45 

NBC-Red:  MUSIC  OF  THE 
MOMENT— Lee  Gordon's  or- 
chestra 


CBS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:      BILL     LEWIS— bari- 
tone, and  organ 
:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue;  DO  YOU  WANT 
TO  WRITE? — Margaret  Wide- 
CBS;  MANHATTAN  MATI- 
NEE 

MBS;  RHYTHM  ORCHESTRA 
:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  CONTINENTAL 
VARIETIES — Stopaks  orches- 


NBC-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue;  INK  SPOTS— Negro 
male  quartet 
CBS;  POETIC  STRINGS 
:00 

NBC-Rpd:  LORENZO  JONES 
— comedy  sketch 
NBC-Blue;  NATIONAL  CON- 
GRESS OF  PARENTS  AND 
TEACHERS  ASS'N 
MBS;  TEXAS  JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  Hillbillies 

NBC-Red:  PERSONAL  COI-- 
UMN  OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 
pez 


<-l!S;  RUSSELL  DORR— GoUl- 
ni.in's  orchestra 
MBS:      VARIETY  PROGRAM 
:45 

NBC-Red:    THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
CBS;     ACADEMY   OF  MEDI- 
CINE 
:00 

NBC-Red:  TOP  HATTERS— 
orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:     ELSIE     THOMPSON  — 
organist 
:15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN— sketch 
NBC-Blue;  YOUNG  HICKORY 
—sketch 

CBS;  FOUR  STARS— quartet 
:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR— songs 
:45 

NBC-Red:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE — children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:    MEET    THE  OR- 
CHESTRA 

CBS;  FUNNY  THINGS— Nora 
Stirling's  children's  program 
MBS;  ORCHESTRA 


EVENING 


NBC-BIue:  HARRY  KOGEN 
AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA— Salt 

Lee 

CBS:  DEL  CASINO— songs 
6:15 

NBC-Red:  CAROL  DEIS— so- 


GEORGE  HALL 
ORCHESTRA 
:  ORGAN  RECITAL 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS;  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 

"NBC-R»d:    CAPPY    BARRA — 
and   his  swing  harmonicas 
NBC-Blue:  FLORENCE 
GEORGE 

CBS;  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 


NBC-Red:  RHYTHMAIRES 
NBC-Blue;  LOWELL  THOMAS 
—news  commentator 
CBS;   SINGING  WAITERS 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES  — 
comedy  sketch 

CBS:     POETIC    MELODIES — 
Jack    Fulton.    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack,  Kelsey's  orchestra 
7:15 

NBC-Red:  UNCLE  EZRAS 
RADIO  STATION— Pat  Bar- 
rett 

NBC-Blue:   MRS.  FRANKLIN 
D.  ROOSEVELT 
CBS;    MA  AND  PA— sketch 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  MEET  THE  OR- 
CHESTRA 

NBC-Blue;  LI'M  AND  ABNER 
— comedy  sketch 
CBS;     TIME     FOR  BUDDY 
CLARK 
-  :45 

NBC-Red;  VIC  AND  SADE  — 
comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue;  MARIO  COZ7.I, 
baritone:  CHRISTINE  JOH.V- 
SON,  soprano 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  ONE  MAN  S  FAM- 
ILY—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  BROADWAY 
JIERRY-GO-ROUND— Bea- 
trice Lillie,  Rickey's  orchestra 
CBS ;  CAVALCADE  OF 
AMERICA— drama  with  mu- 
sic. Voorhees'  orchestra 
MBS;  JIUSICAL  MARDI  GRAS 
8:30 

NBC-Red;  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  — Wayne  Kings 

NBC- Blue:    SICiTind  HUS- 
BAND— H.'l.-,,    .M,. ,1k.  11 
CBS;     LATCH    \V  1  r  H  KEN 
MURRAY  — O.^xv  a  1.1.  Shirley 
Ross.   Gluskin's  band. 


:0<) 

NBC- Re 
NIGHT- 
Hotfa.  \ 


TOWN  HALL  TO- 
re.l  Allen.  Portland 
1    Sleeden's  orches- 


NBC-Blue:  STRING  SY.\I- 
PHONY— Frank  Black's  or- 
chestra 

CHS;  CHESTERFIELD  PR  E- 
SE.NTS— Lily    Pons,  Kostelan- 


Ml 


!S;  ORCHESTRA 

S;  PALMOLIVE  BEAUTY 
X  THEATRE  —  Jessica 
igonette,  Goodman's  orches- 


^"IC  AND  SADK— 


Jessica  Dragonette 


.ROL  WEY- 


CBS.  BABE  RUTH'S  RADIO 
PROGRAM 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
10:45 

NBC-Red:    JIMMY  KEMPER 
— song  stories 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  EMIL  COLEMAN'S 
ORCHESTRA 

CBS;      BUNNY  BERIGAN'S 


49 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  >rALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:1S 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:      LEIBERT  EN- 
SEMBLE— Island  Serenaders 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  —  talk 
and  music 

CBS:    GREENFIELD  VIL- 
LAGE CHAPEL 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:     RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLl'B — Don  McNeill.  Helen 
Jane  Belilke,  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:  AS  YOU  LIKE  IT— 
variety  program 


CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
!):30 

CBS:GREENFIELD  VILLAGE 
CHAPEL 
9:45 

NBC-Red  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commen- 
tator   

-male 


9:55 

NBC-Red: 


PRESS  ■ 
PRESS  • 


DIO 


RAD] 


MRS. 


NEW! 
NBC-Blue: 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red: 
THE      CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:      TIM  HEALT— 
news  commentator 
CBS:   BETTT  AND  BOB  — 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
—sketch 
10:30 

Xi:''-R.-.l:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
Nl;  '-l;  'i-:  I'UPPER  YOUNG'S 


l-raiK.-s  McDcnald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL 
DREN — sketch 

CBS:  JOHN  K.  WATKINS- 
news  commentator 


NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM- 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  ONEILLS- 
sketch 

CBS:  MARY  LEK  TAYLOR 
MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  ilUSIC 


NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez 
Lopez 

CBS:      QUALITY  TWINS— 
East  and  Dumke 
11:30 

NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 
CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red:  ALLEN  PRESCOTT 

—The  Wife  Saver 

NBC-Blue:      EDWARD  Mac- 

HUGH— The  Gospel  Singer 

CBS:  MERRYMAKERS 

MBS:   MARTHA   AND  HAL— 

songs  and  patter 

AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

.NBC-R 
Bketch 


GIRL  ALONE- 


CBS:   THE  GUMPS— sketch 
MBS:  BIDE  DUDLEY'S  THE- 
ATRE   CLUB    OF    THE  AIR 
AND  ORGAN 

'.NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MART 
.MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY— songg  and  patter 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
MBS:   ORGAN  RECITAL 


JhWiScUkUS 

#  w  www  ^l^lfv^^^^^w 


JUNE  3—10—17—24 


12:30 

NBC-Red:  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
TET 

NBC-Blue:  GALE  PAGE— so- 
prano 

CBS:   ROJIANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— .sketch 
1'3:45 

XI!c'-H,..i:     JULES  LANDE'S 
Cli.XCEKT  K.XSEMBLE 
NBC-Blue;     JOE  DUMOND 
AND    THE    CADETS  QUAR- 
TET 

CBS:  OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 
sketch 

MBS:      WE      ARE  FOUR— 
sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  MARGUERITE  PA- 
DULA — songs 

NBC-Blue:    LOVE  AND 
LEARN— sketch 
CBS:  JACK  BERCH  AND  HIS 
BOYS 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  GLENN  DARWIN 
— baritone 

CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
sketch 


MBS:  LA  FORGE-BERUMEN 
ORCHESTRA 
3:30 

NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 

CBS:  DO  YOU  REMEMBER? 
— old  favorite  melodies 
3:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:       THE  CABAL- 
LEROS 
4:00 

NBC-Red:   LORENZO  JONES 
— comedy  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 
Annette     King.     Jack  Baker, 
Kogen's  orchestra 
MBS:    TEXAS   JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  Hillbillies 
4:15 

NBC-Red:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 
pez 
4:30 

NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
MOON — Elsie  Hitz  and  Nick 
Dawson 

CBS:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM — 
Pauline  Alpert,  Sid  Gary,  Wil- 
lard  Amison 


6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
6:35 

NBC-Blue:  CHUCHU  MAR- 
TINEZ— tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS— sports 
commentator 
6:45 

NBC-Red:  RHYTHMAIRES 
NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOMAS 
—news  commentator 

SglsTlfA°'''^^  "^^^'^ 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES— com- 
edy sketch 

CBS:     POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack   Fulton,    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack,   Kelsey's  orchestra 
MBS:  SPRING  RHYTHM 
7:15 

NBC-Red:     VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES— choral  singing 
NBC-Blue:      CYCLING  THE 
KILOCYCLES— Sinatra's  or- 
chestra 

CBS:  MA  AND  PA— sketch 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  HELEN  TRAUBEL 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedy  sketch 
CB.S— ALEXANDER  WOOLL- 
COTT— The  Town  Crier 
7:45 

NBC-Red:  MILLSTONES  AND 
MILESTONES— Eugen  Boisse- 
vain,  commentator 
NBC-Blue:  SOUTHERNAIRES 
— quartet 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 


1:30 

NBC-Red:    WORDS  AND 
MUSIC — Ruth      Lyon,  Larry 
Larsen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND     HOME    HOUR — Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:  DINING  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR— food  talk 
1 :45 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  NBC  MUSIC  GUILD 
CBS:  TELL  US  YOUR  STORY 
— dramatizations 
MBS:    PALMER   HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
- — songs  and  patter 
IMBS:   ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NBC-Blue:  GENERAL  FED- 
ERATION OF  WOMEN'S 
CI-UBS 

CHS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 


Ity 


Kk.tch 
t:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:    NBC  LIGHT  OP- 
ERA COMPANY 
CBS:    BILL   WRIGHT,  VICE- 
PRESIDENT 


4:45 

NBC-Red:      THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
5:00 

NBC-Red:  ARCHER  GIBSON 
— organist 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
5:15 

NBC-Red:  GENERAL  FED- 
ERATION OF  WOMEN'S 
CLUBS 

NBC-Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
CBS:  ALL  HANDS  ON  DECK 
5:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OP  THE  NAVY — .sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
5:45 

NBC-Red:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE — children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  JACKIE  HELLER 
—tenor 

CBS:    DOROTHY  GORDON'S 
CHILDREN'S  CORNER 
MBS:   MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBi'-Red:  NORSEMEN  QUAR- 
TET 

NBC-Blue:    HARRY  KOGEN 
A.N'I)    HIS  ORCHESTRA 
CHS:   PATTI  CHAPIN— songs 


NUr'-Red:  ALICE  REMSEN. 
contralto;  GEORGE  GRIFFEN, 
l)arltone 

CBS:  CLYDE  BARRIE— bari- 
tone 

MBS:  PIANO  RECITAL 


NBC-Red:    RUDY  VALLEE'S 
VARIETIES— guests 
NBC-Blue:      ROY  SHIELD'S 
ENCORE  MUSIC— Clark  Den- 
nis. Robert  Gately,  Gale  Page 
CBS:    KATE   SMITH'S  BAND 
WAGON — Miller's  orchestra 
MBS:     MUSIC     AND  YOU— 
symphony  program 
8:30 

NBC-Blue;    POP   CONCERT — 
Boston  symphony  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  MAXWELL  HOUSE 
SHOW  BOAT 

CBS:   MAJOR  BOWES'  AMA- 
TEUR HOUR 
9:15 

MBS:  TALK  ABOUT  BOOKS 
9:30 

NBC-Blue;     NBC  SPELLING 
BEE — Paul  Wing 
MBS:  MUSIC  FOR  TODAY 
10:00 

NBC-Red:      KRAFT  MUSIC 
HALL  —  Bing    Crosby,  Bob 
Burns,  Dorsey's  orchestra 
CBS:    YOUR    TRUE  ADVEN- 
TURES— Floyd  Gibbons 
MBS:  WITCH'S  TALE— Alonzo 
Deen  Cole.  Marie  O'Flynn 
10:30 

NBC-Blue:  NBC  JAMBOREE 
CBS:  MARCH  OF  TIME— 
dramatizations 

MBS:    HENRY  WEBER'S 
MUSICAL  REVUE 
11:00 

NBC-Red:     JOHN     B.  KEN- 
NEDY— news  commentator 
NBC-Blue:  DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  MALCOLM 
CLAIRE — children's  program 
NBC-Hlue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:     ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:30 

NBC-Rod:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:    WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER — organist 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:     DANDIES  OF 
YESTERDAY— quartet 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS — 
Fields  and  Hall,  orchestra 
NBC-Blue  BREAKFAST 
CLUB  — Don    McNeill.  Helen 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:    METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 
9:30 

CBS:    RICHARD  MAXWELL 
—songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  ADELA  ROGERS 
ST.  JOHNS — news  commenta- 
tor 

CBS:  NOVELTEERS 


Hal  Kemp 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    TIM    HEALT  — 
news  commentator 
CBS:     BETTY     AND     BOB — 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:     arODERN  CINDER- 
ELLA— sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
—sketch 

NHC-Bhie:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
CBS:     BETTY  CROCKER, 
cooking  expert 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS — 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red :  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 


JUNE  4—11—18—25 


11:45 

NBC-Blue:      EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH— The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:   DR.   ALLAN   ROY  DA- 
FOE 

AFTERNOON 

1'2:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  U.  S.  MARINE 
BAND 

CBS:    THE  GUMPS— sketch 
1'2:15 

NBC-Red:    STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:    YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
12:30 

NBC-Red:  THREE  MAR- 
SHALLS 

CBS;    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 
13:45 

NBC-Red:    JOE     WHITE  — 


MBS:     LEO  FREUDBERG'S 

UHCHESTRA 
3:00 

NRC-He.i:  PEPPER  YOU.N'G'S 
F.\.M1I.Y— .sketch 

Nr.c-r.iu.-:  i:.\Dio  guild— 
('i'..^."i  i  i'i.l'.m  hia  concert 

H.M.I, 

MH.S:  IiHYTH.M  ORCHESTRA 
3:15 

NBC-Red:     MA  PERKINS- 


RADIO  GARDEN  CLUI 


NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:    THREE  CONSOLES 
3:45 

NBC-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 
4:00 

NBC-Red:  TEA  TIME  AT 
MORRELL'S  — Gale  Page. 
Charles    Sears,    Don  McNeill, 


CLUB  M.\TIXEE 


Frances  Langford 

CBS:    OUR   GAL.  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  PIANO  DUO 
NBC-Hlue:      LOVE  AND 
LKARN— .-sketch 
CBS:    FIVE    STAR  REVUE— 
Morton  Bowe,   Meri   Bell.  Bill 
Johnstone,   Sinatra's  orchestra 
MBS:    LUNCHEON  MUSIC 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
—sketch 

MBS:  BIDE  DUDLEY'S  THE- 
ATRE CLUB  OF  THE  AIR 
1:30 

NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND  JIU- 
SIC  — Larry    I,  a  r  .s  e  n  ,  Ruth 
Lvnn.  Har\ov  ^a^■s 
NRC-Bliic:  XATKi.N'AL  FARM 
AND    HO.M1-:    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufu.ss'  orchestra 
CBS:  DIXIXC,  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR— food  talk 
MBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES— sketch 
2:00 

NBC-Red:  SHOW  TIME  MAT- 
IXKE 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES- Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT ORCHESTRA 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NBC-Red:  CONCERT  MINIA- 

NBC-Blue:  DOROTHY  DRES- 
LIN — soprano 
CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM 
2:45 

CBS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 


Ireene  Wicker 

Annette     King,    Jack  Baker, 
Kogen's  orchestra 
CBS:   FRIDAY'  MELODY  RE- 
VIEW 

JIBS:  TEXAS  JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  Hillbillies 


CBS:  AMONG  OUR  SOUVE- 
NIRS 

MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM 
4:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 

NBC- Blue:    TOP  HATTERS— 
orchestra 
5:00 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CHS:    S.\LVATION  ARMY- 
STAFF  BAND 
5:15 

NBC-Red:   ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:     SINGING  LADY 
— musical  plays 
CBS:     ETON    BOYS  —  male 

5:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THl-;  XA\'Y — sketch 
CHS:    l)i>i;is  KKRR — songs 
.MHS;  cltcllKSTRA 
5:45 

NHi'-Ti.'.i:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
A  X  .\"  II ;  —  ihiMiiMis  sketch 
Ni;.-i:iu.     i;oY  I'.V  M  PBELL'S 
Iti  .-I'.M.I.^'I'S 

C'H,'^     FIXXV   THTXCS— Nora 


EVENING 

6:00 

XHC-Rc,i:     EPUC.VTION  IN 
TH  i:    .X  i:WS — .liamatization 
NT.i-  l:lu.  .    HAl;UV  KOGEN 
AXi'  Ills  (  u;.  11  i:s  ri!A 

CHS:     lUlWAHL)    IMllLLIPS — 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:     HAROLD  TURNER— 
pianist 
6:35 

NBC-Red:  CAROL  DEIS— so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS— 


NBC-Red:  SINGING  STRINGS 
NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOMAS 
— news  commentator 
CBS:    TIME    FOR  BUDDY 
CLARK 
:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     MARY  SM.\LL— 


Xr.c-P.e.i:      I'XCLE  EZRA'S 
RADII)  ST.VTIOX — Pat  Barrett 
CBS;  .M-\  AXU  PA — sketch 
MB.S;  NOVELETTE 
■!:30 

NBC-Red:     CABALLEROS  — 

NBC -Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— sketch 

CBS:     HOLLACE     SHAW  — 
songs 
7:45 

NBC-Red:  BUG-HOUSE 
RHYTHM 

NBC-Blue;  JEAN  DICKEN- 
SON— soprano 

CBS:     BOAKE  C.\RTER— 
news  commentator 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
8:00 

NBC-Red:     CITIES  SERVICE 
CONCERT  —  Lucille  Manners, 
Bourdon's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:    IRENE  RICH 
CBS:      BROADWAY  VARIE- 
TIES— Oscar    Shaw,  Carmt-la 
Ponselle,      Elizabeth  Lennox. 
Arden's  orchestra 
8:15 

NBC-Blue:     SIXC.IN'  SAM— 
The  Barbasol  Man 
8:30 

NBC-Blue:    DE.XTH  \-.A.LLEY 
DAYS — dram:iti;'.:u  [••n 
CBS:     HAL    Ki:.Ml'S  DANCE 
BAND— Kay  Thompson, 
Rhythm  Singers 
8:45 

JIBS:  CHARIOTEERS 
9:00 

XBC-Red;      WALTZ  TIME— 
Frank  Munn.   Mary  Eastman. 
Lyman's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue     H  .\  r.  I.  i:  M— Arm- 
strong's ei  >  !•  -  •     i:  '  ;  ■  I  ;r;  n 


9:30 

NBC-Red:  TRUE  STORY 
COURT    OF    nrM.\X  RELA- 


YS r  XICHTER— 


ACK  PEARL- 


CBS:     PHILADELPHIA  OR- 
CHESTRA 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

10:30 

NHi'-Hea:  .1 1  M  M  iv;  IMDLER'S 

xli'-'ii'lu'^  :     I>''K1S  ll.VRE 
CHS      H.\l!i;    KI  TH  S  RADIO 
PROGRAM 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:     ELZA  SCHAL- 
LERT  REVIEWS — movie  pre- 
views 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:    DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS;  D.A.NCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


51 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  MALCOLM 
CLAIRK — children's  program 
NBC-Blue:  THE  CHURCH  IN 
THE  WORLD  TODAY— Dr 
Alfred  Grant  Walton 

8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  LEIBERT  EN- 
SEMBLE— Island  Serenaders 

8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

8:45 

NBC-Blue:  RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 


9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall 


Joe  Cook 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB — Don     :McNeill.  Helen 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:  RAY  BLOCK — pianist 

9:15 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
novelty  trio 

9:30 

CBS:    MELLOW  MOMENTS 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  CHARIOTEERS— 
male  quartet 

NBC-Blue:  SWEETHEARTS 
OF  THE  AIR— May  Singhi 
Breen,  Peter  de  Rose 

10:15 

NBC-Red:    THE   VASS  FAM- 
ILY- children's  harmony 
NBC-Blue:     RAISING  YOUR 
PARENTS  —  juvenile  forum. 
Milton  J.  Cross 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 

10:30 

NBC- Red:  MANHATTERS— 
Arthur  Lang,  orchestra 
CBS:   LET  S  PRETEND— chil- 
dren's program 

MBS:  ED  FITZGERALD  & 
CO. — variety  show,  Freudberg's 
orchestra,  Elinor  Sherry 

10:45 

NBC-Blue:  BILL  KRENZ'  OR- 
CHESTRA 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  OUR  AMERICAN 
SCHOOLS — Dr.  Frances  Hale 
NBC-Blue:  MADGE  MARLBY 
— contralto 

CBS:   CINCINNATI  CONSER- 
VATORY    OF    MUSIC  PRO- 
GRAM 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  HOME  TOWN— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MINUTE  MEN— 
male  quartet 

52 


JUNE  5—12—19—26 


NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 

NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ENOCH  LIGHTS  OR- 
CHESTRA 


CBC-Rea:   ALMA  KITCHELL 


NBC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  OF 
SPEECH  —  Vida  Ravenscroft 
Sutton 

MBS:  U.   S.   ARMY  BAND 


NBC-Red:  FITCH  ROMANCES 
— Gene  Arnold  and  the  Ranch 
Boys 

AFTERNOON 


12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:     CHASINS  MUSIC 
SKHIES — Abram    Chasins.  pi- 
anist, commentator 
NBC-Blue:    CALL  TO  YOUTH 
— Anne  Sarachon  Hooley 
CBS;  THE  CAPTIVATORS 


DICTATORS — orchestr 


NBC-Red:    GOLDEN  MELO- 
DIES— orchestra,  vocalists 
N  B(  ■  -  H I  uc  :    I  I R C H  ESTR A 
MUS:    PALMER    HOUSE  OR- 
CHE.STKA 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DOWN  BY  HERMAN'S 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red:  MARTINEZ 
BROTHERS — quartet 
NBC-Blue:  MESSAGE  OF  IS- 
RAEL— guests  and  music 
CBS:     SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SWING    CLUB— Bunny  Beri- 
gan  and  guests 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


i:15 


CBS:  TITO  GUIZAR— songs 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Blue:  STOUT-HEARTED 
MEN — quartet 
CBS:  ORIENTALS 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 

12:30 

NBC-Red:  REX  BATTLE'S 

CONCERT  ENSEMBLE 

NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 


Gladys  Swarthout 


NBC-Red:  WHITNEY  EN- 
SEMBLE 

NBC-Blue;  OUR  BARN— chil- 
dren's program 

CBS:  JACK  SHANNON— tenor 


NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 
Annette     King.     Jack  Baker, 
Kogen'.s  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
4:15 

CBS:   THE  DICTATORS 
4:30 

CBS:  DANCEPATORS 
5:00 

NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:   EDDIE  DUCHIN'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red:  KALTENMEYER'S 
KINDERGARTEN  —  varieties. 
Brute  Kamman.  Elinor  Har- 
riot. Jlarian  and  Jim  Jordan 


NOTE: 

As  we  go  to  press,  this 
program  guide  is  obso- 
lutely  accurate,  but  we 
cannot  be  responsible  for 
last  minute  changes  made 
by  the  broadcasting  com- 
panies, advertising  agen- 
cies or  sponsors. 


CBS:  UNIVERSAL  RHYTHM 
— Re.\  Chandler's  orchestra, 
Richard  Bonelli.  Alec  Temple- 
ton.    Landt  Trio 


NBC-Red:  THE  ABC  OF  NBC 
— behind  the  broadcasting 
scenes 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


CBS:       PROFESSOR  QUIZ— 
Arthur  Godfrey 
MBS:     BENAY  VENUTA'S 
PROGRAM— Willard  Amison, 
Sid  Gary,  Brusiloft's  orchestra 

i-.SO 

NBC-Blue:  MEREDITH 
WILLSON  AND  HIS  OR- 
CHESTRA 

CBS:  JOHNNY  PRESENTS 
RUSS  MORGAN  AND  HIS 
ORCHESTRA— Charles  Martin, 
Phil  Duey 


"lONAL  BARN 


CHS;  NASH  I'RESENTS— 
Grace  Moore,  Lopez'  orchestra 
MBS:  HAWAIIAN  SERE- 
NADES 

:30 

NBC-Red:  SHELL  SHOW— Joe 
Cook,  Watson's  orchestra 
CBS:     SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SERENADE— Mary  Eastman, 
Bill    Perry,    Haenschen's  or- 


CBS:     JACK     AND  VERA— 

songs  and  patter 

MBS:   STEVE  SEVERN'S  PET 

CLUB 


NBC-Red:   CAMPUS  CAPERS 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL 
FARM  AND  HOME  HOUR 
CBS:    BUFFALO  PRESENTS 
MBS    MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red:  YOUR  HOST  IS 
BUFFALO 

CBS:  TELL  US  YOUR  STORY 
— dramatizations 
MRS:  SYLVIA  CIDE,  RAOUL 
NADEAU— songs 


NBC-Blue:  BERT  BLOCK'S 
ORCHESTRA 

CBS:  VOCALS  BY  VERRILL 
MBS:    DANCE  ORCHESTRA 


EVENING 


NBC-Red:  TOP  HATTERS  OR- 
CHESTRA— Jan  Savitt 
NRC-Blue:  VAGABONDS 
CliS:    COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
HALL 


PR  ESS  - RADIO 


10:00 

CBS:     YOUR    HIT  PARADE 
AND  SWEEPSTAKES 
MB.S:    FEDERAL  THEATRE 
NEGRO  CHOIR 
10:15 

MBS:  HOLLYWOOD  WHIS- 
PERS—George  Fischer 

10:30 

MBS:  SATURDAY  SERENADE 
— orchestra,  guests 

10:45 

CBS:  DESIGN  IN  HARMONY 
— quartet 

11:00 

NBC-Red:    DANCE  JIUSIC 

NBC-Blue:    DANCE  MUSIC 

CBS:    BUNNY    BE  RIG  AN' S 

ORCHESTRA 

MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


RADIO  STARS 


THIS  ^^rf  ^^^^ 


DOES  MORE  THAN 
CLEAN  YOUR  SKIN 
-IT  INVIGORATES! 

•  The  freshening  up  before  a  party  that 
does  more  than  clean  your  skin.  That  gives 
it  the  lovely,  vital  look  the  world  admires. 

That's  the  Pond's  method,  whose  fame 
has  spread  around  the  world!  Girls  have 
found  that  it /«y/^ora/cj  their  skin! In  over  50 
countries,  they  use  this  rousing  treatment. 
Every  night,  smooth  on  Pond's  Cold  Cream.  As  it 
softens  and  releases  dirt,  stale  make-up  and  skin 
secretions — wipe  them  all  off.  Now  pat  in  more 
Pond's  Cold  Cream — briskly,  till  the  circulation 
stirs.  Your  skin  feels  invigorated  and  freshened. 
It  is  softer— and  so  much  smoother! 
Every  morning  (and  before  make-up)  repeat  .  .  . 
Your  skin  is  smooth  for  powder — fresh,  vital 
looking! 

Try  this  famous  freshening-up  method  your- 
self. See  your  own  skin  daily  growing  clearer, 
smoother — altogether  lovelier! 


Miss 

Mary  Augusta  Biddle 

Getting  ready  for  a  dance,  for  a  canter,  or 
for  a  morning  out  of  doors  with  her 
spaniel.  Miss  Biddle  always  begins  with 
Pond's.  "A  Pond's  freshening  u 
does  more  than  clean  my  skin.  It 
gives  it  a  vital  look.  I  always 
use  Pond's  before  1  go  out 


Miss  Biddle  has  used  Pond's  ever  since  she  started  using 
creams!  "And  I  found  girls  using  it  in  England,  France, 
Belgium,  Holland— wherever  1  visited  last  summer." 


Send  for  SPECIAL  9-TREATMENT  TUBE  and  3  other  Pond's  Beauty  Aids 


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I'uwder.  1  enclose  lo^ 
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DON  T  YOU  SIMPLY 
DESPISE  COOKING 
IN  THIS  HOT 
WEATHER? 
THE  KITCHEN 
GETS  SO  HOT 
AND  STEAMY... 


NOT  MY  KITCHEN ! 
I'M  GOING  TO  HAVE 
THIS  DELICIOUS 
FRANCO-AMERICAN 
SmOHETTI  TONIGHT- 
IT'S  SO  EASY  TO  FIX 
-DOESN'T  HEAT 
THE  KITCHEN 


HOT  WEATHER  HINT! 

Serve  Delicious,  Nourishing 
Franco -American  Spaghetti 

Ready  in  a  jiffy. . .  costs  less 
than  3i  a  portion 

You  can  make  your  kitchen-work  much 
easier  this  summer.  Several  times  a  week 
give  your  family  delicious  Franco-American 
Spaghetti.  They'll  love  it!  It's  simply  packed 
with  nourishment  — good  for  children  and 
grown-ups,  too,  and  it  is  the  greatest  little 
work-saver  you  ever  saw.  All  you  need  to  do 
is  just  heat  it,  and  it's  ready  to  eat. 

Sometimes  serve  Franco-American  Spa- 
ghetti as  a  main  dish.  It  makes  a  complete 
meal  with  perhaps  a  fresh  green  salad,  milk, 
and  a  fruit  dessert.  Other  times,  use  Franco- 
American  Spaghetti  to  make  your  left-over 
meats  into  savor)^  delicious  meals. 

Please  do  nor  confuse  Franco-American  Spagherti 
with  ordinary  ready-cooked  spagherti.  Franco-Amer- 
ican is  entirely  different.  That  marvelous  cheddar 
cheese  and  tomato  sauce,  with  its  eleven  delicious 
ingredienrs,  makes  Franco-American  what  it  is  — a 
tasty,  delicious  dish,  with  a  flavor  all  its  own. 

Franco-American  is  a  real  help  to  the  budget,  too. 
A  can  usually  costs  ten  cents,  so  Franco-American  costs 
less  than  3  cents  a  portion.  Why  not  give  yourself  a 
break  this  summer,  and  give  your  family  a  treat,  too? 

Franco-^mericaa 

SPAGHETTI 

Made  by  the  Makers  of  Campbell's  Soups 


X_-A  

The  Franco-American  Food  Company,  Dept.  67 

Camden,  New  Jersey 

Please  send  me  your  free  recipe  book : 

"}0  Tempting  Spaghetti  Meals." 

Name  (print)^ — .   

Address  

Cry  State  . 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 


{Continued  from  page  13) 


that  I've  collected  quite  a  large  number 
of  recipes  for  them,  from  which  I've 
chosen  two  or  three  that  I  think  would  be 
must  popular  with  the  majority  of  people. 

One  is  pictured  here,  but  I'm  afraid  the 
photograph  will  not  do  it  justice,  since  it's 
a  substantial,  tast\  salad  rather  than  one 
ol  tlKise  ■■prett\"  ones  that  strive  primarily 
tor  effective  appearance.  Now,  mind  you, 
I  m  not  eriticisins  the  type  of  salads  that 
are  a  delight  to  the  eye  as  well  as  to  the 
palate.  Many  of  them  I  think  arc  swell. 
Just  to  prove  that  I  mean  that,  I'm  going 
to  gi\c  ynu  a  couple  of  those,  too.  But 
there  arc  certain  salads  that  should  be 
served  in  a  large  bowl — all  mi.xed  up, 
shall  we  say.  and  they're  as  delicious  as 
any  you  could  find.  Such  salads  are  the 
popular  French  Salad  Bowl,  which  con- 
sists of  greens  with  a  simple  French 
Dressing  and  a  suggestion  of  garlic,  if  you 
like  it ;  Chiffonadc  Salad,  which  contains 
hard  cooked  eggs  and  minced  beets,  as 
well  as  various  greens ;  and  the  Melange 
Salad,  which  I'm  offering  you  in  this 
month's  recipe  leaflet. 

McUuu/e,  you  know,  actually  means  niix- 
ttirc.  But  also,  you  realize,  there  are  mix- 
tures and  mixtures;  some  good,  some  ter- 
rible. In  mi.xing  various  ingredients  for 
salads,  not  only  taste  but  texture  deserves 
your  consideration.  Something  crisp,  for 
instance,  with  something  smooth.  The  de- 
sired crispness — apart  from  the  lettuce, 
romaine  and  the  like,  which  must  always 
be  crisp,  of  course — can  be  supplied  by 
diced  celery,  thinly  sliced  radishes  or  even 
raw  cauliflower  buds  shaved  paper  thin. 
One  hostess  I  know  added  tiny  cubes  of 
fried  bread  to  her  mixed  salad,  just  be- 
fore serving.  These  little  bread  squares 
were  cooked  in  deep  fat  to  the  palest 
golden  color  and  they  really  were  delicious 
and  effective. 

But  to  get  back  to  our  own  Melange.  This 
one  combines  pineapple,  crisp  raw  cabbage 
and  other  interesting  items.  The  card  not 
only  gives  you  these  in  the  correct  propor- 
tions but  also  a  recipe  for  the  Cooked 
Salad  Dressing  which  supplies  the  final 
note  of  perfection.  Try  them  both — and 
think  of  me  enjoying  this  same  salad 
thoroughly  and  often  ! 

Here's  another  salad  suggestion  that  I 
think  you'll  like,  too.  This  one  has  dis- 
tinct eye-appeal — so  much  so,  in  fact,  that 
it  can  serve  as  a  garnish  for  a  cold  meat 
platter,  as  well  as  a  salad. 

GREEN   PEPPER  SLICES 

Wash  two  or  three  green  i)eppers.  Re- 
move thin  slice  from  stem  end,  IkjIIow  out 
and  scrape.  I''ill  each  pejijier  solidly  with 
a  mixture  of  mashed  li\'er\vurst,  mayon- 
naise and  diced  celery.  Chill  thoroughly. 
Cut  filled  i)epi)ers  into  thick  crosswise 
slices.  If  using  as  a  salad,  place  each  slice 
on  a  lettuce  leaf,  top  with  mayonnaise  and 
sprinkle  with  paprika.  If  using  as  a  garn- 
ish, place  a  slice  of  hard-cooked  egg  on 
top  of  each  pepper  slice,  then  a  slice  of 
stuffed  olive  on  the  egg.  .V  still  more  at- 
tractive color  combination  can  be  achieved 
by  placing  the  peppers  on  thin  slices  of 


tomato,  then  garnishing  them  as  above. 
They  also  can  be  served  more  easily  if 
prepared  in  this  fashion. 

A  creamy  Main  Course  Mousse  provides 
a  filling  salad  that  you're  sure  to  like. 
This  type  of  salad  recipe  is  a  valuable  one 
to  have  on  hand  for  many  reasons.  You 
can  serve  one  of  these  luolded  salads  as 
a  main  course  luncheon  dish,  a  Sunday 
supper  salad,  or  a  buffet  supper  master- 
piece ;  you  can  make  them  up  a  day  or  two 
in  advance  when  you  have  a  busy  week- 
end ahead  of  you.  Best  of  all,  perhaps, 
they  adapt  themselves  to  various  forms 
of  service.  Made  up  in  small  molds,  they 
provide  convenient  individual  servings. 
Made  up  in  ring  molds,  they  present  an 
infinite  number  of  possibilities.  For  in- 
stance, you  can  fill  the  center  with  crisp 
Julienne  potatoes  or  potato  chips.  Yon  can 
place  a  bowl  in  the  hollow  center  of  the 
ring,  containing  the  salad  dressing  that 
goes  with  the  salad.  Or  place  little  "egg 
tomatoes"  there  in  a  nest  of  lettuce  leaves. 
Oh,  there  are  any  luimber  of  things  you 
can  do  with  a  ring  mold,  but  let  me  urge 
you  not  to  put  anything  in  that  space 
which  will  run  out  and  all  over  the  platter 
as  soon  as  a  wedge  is  removed  from  the 
outside  ring!  Bear  that  in  mind  always, 
and  avoid  one  pitfall. 

Another  pitfall,  with  many  people,  seems 
to  be  the  difficulty  they  have  in  getting 
the  mold  into  the  center  of  the  platter — 
where  it  belongs,  of  course.  To  do  this 
successfully,  you  should  place  the  platter 
over  the  mold  instead  of  trying  to  shake 
the  mold  out  on  to  the  platter.  Another 
little  idea  that  .vou'll  find  helpful  is  to 
place  a  lace  paper  doily  over  the  molded 
salad  before  turning  it  out.  The  salad 
will  stick  to  the  doily,  the  doily,  however, 
will  not  stick  to  the  platter  and  can  be 
moved  about  with  the  greatest  ease. 

The  particular  Mousse  I  am  giving  you 
can  be  made  with  chicken,  veal,  lamb  or 
pork.  I  prefer  chicken,  because  it  is  so 
light  and  tempting  on  a  hot  da\ . 

Speaking  of  hot  days  brings  up  the 
thought  of  ice  cream,  of  which  I  am  in- 
ordinately fond.  Especially  Chocolate  Ice 
Cream !  During  the  winter,  when  I'm  in 
town,  I  buy  it  at  the  most  convenient 
restaurant  of  a  well-known  chain  which 
specializes  in  fr()zen  goods,  baked  goods 
and  candy.  In  the  summer,  however,  wc 
make  our  own  in  the  mechanical  refriger- 
ator, up  at  camp — trays  and  trays  of  i(. 
Knowing  how  popular  ice  creams  are  with 
my  guests — as  well  as  myself — I've  been 
experimenting  until  finally  I've  found  a 
recipe  tliat  is  ice  creatri.  Not  mousse, 
mind  you.  but  real  ice  cream,  smooth,  rich, 
creamy,  chocolate-y  .  .  .  but  why  go  on? 
Ti'y  it  out  for  yourself  and  see  if  you 
don't  agree  with  me  that  it's  about  the 
most  perfect  mechanical  refrigerator  ice 
cream  you've  ever  tried.  Tell  your  friends 
who  have  a  mechanical  refrigerator  to 
send  in  for  a  copy,  too.  They'll  thank 
you  and  you'll  thank  ine  for  the  sugges- 
tion ! 

Let's  see  now  ;  wc  have  a  salad  and  its 
{Conlinucd  on  page  66) 


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^1 


•'T  DIDN'T  KNOW  there  was  such  a  per- 
A  son  as  Betty  in  the  world  when  I  went 
on  my  vacation  last  year.  I  met  her  at 
the  Inn,  and  she  was  one  of  the  crowd 
that  went  around  a  good  deal  together 
during  the  two  weeks. 

"Of  course  some  snapshots  were  taken 
—  one  of  the  fellows  shot  this  of  Betty 
and  me  on  a  picnic.  When  I  got  back 
on  the  job,  things  seemed  pretty  flat, 
somehow.  Every  little  while  Pd  dig  this 
snapshot  out  of  my  pocket — then  write 
Betty  another  letter. 

"The  snapshot  wouldn't  let  me  forget 
her.  Boy,  am  I  glad  right  now!" 


By  far  the  greater 
number  of  snaj^sliots 
are  made  on  Kodak 
Verichrome  Fihn  be- 
cause people  have 
foiuid  tliat  "it  gets  the 
picture" — clear,  true, 
lifelike.  Any  camera 
is  a  better  camera, 
loaded  with  Veri- 
chrome. Don't  take 
chances,  use  it  always 
.  .  .  Eastman  Kodak 
Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


The  snapshots  you'll  limit  Tomorrow— you  must  take  Today 


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of  course  men  thrill  to  the  rosy  i^oftnr?*  of 
Tangee  lips!  Men  despij^e  a  "painted  look". 
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the  stick,  Tangee  changes  on  your  lips  to  warm 
blush-rose,  emphasizes  your  charm. ..Use 
Tangee  Rouge  for  lovely  color  in  cheeks. 

USE  TANGEE  LIPSTICK  every  night  before  you 
go  to  bed.  Its  special  cream  base  soothes  and 
sofi,-n-  lips,  give-  them  a  beauty  treatment  while 
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WHAT 
THEY 
LISTEN 
TO-AND 
WHY 


Anna  Morgan,  Oakland,  Cal. 
(School  Teacher.)  "My  especial  fa- 
vorite is  First  Xi(/lttcr.  These  original 
j  plays  are  clean  and  have  heen  made 
famous  by  their  presentation  and  the 
most  unusual,  pleasing  voice,  the 
voice  of  smiles  .  .  .  that  of  the  inimi- 
table Don  Ameche.  I  never  miss  a 
broadcast." 

Mary  Kathryn  Brown,  Miami,  Fla. 
(Stenographer.)  ".My  choice  for 
radio  honors  is  One  Man's  Fainily. 
It  is,  to  my  mind,  the  one  perfect  half 
hour  of  entertainment." 

"Pickles"    Hynes,    New  Rochelle, 

N.  Y.  "Feel  lousy?  Got  the  blues? 
Contemplating  suicide?  Here's  a 
tonic  to  snap  you  out  of  it  and  it 
won't  cost  a  cent.  Catch  'California's 
lirightest  Sunbeam,'  Judy  Garland, 
on  Jack  Oakie's  College.  If  that 
'Sunbeam's'  warbling  doesn't  do  the 
trick,  nothing  will.  It's  better  than 
all  the  medicine  in  the  world." 

Mrs.  C.  Johnson,  Cadillac,  Mich. 

"I  should  like  to  register  my  vote  for 
Girl  Alone.  Why?  It  is  a  normal, 
real  life  story,  expertly  cast  and 
cleverly  written.  It  lacks  the  usual 
blood  and  thunder  and  incorporates 
some  of  the  best  humor  offered  radio 
listeners." 

-♦- 

Helen  C.  Schneider,  Creighton, 
Neb.  (Cashier.)  "Violets  to  Jessica 
Dragonette  !  Listening  to  her  glorious 
voice  is  the  biggest  thrill  I  get  out  of 
radio.     Whatever   the   program  or 


whatever  the  song,  she  is  the  tops. 
-Ma\-  her  lovely  \oice  never  be  lost 
from  the  air  waves  I" 

Jack  Holden,  York,  England. 
(Baker.)  "I  like  the  thrilling  Thatcher 
Colt  Mysteries,  because  thev  are  ex- 
citing to  the  last  minute.  I  listen  to 
Ma^/ic  Key  of  R.C.A,  The  World 
Is  Yours  and  Have  You  Heard.',  be- 
cause they  are  educational.  Knr  really 
stnart  comedy,  Amos  'n'  Andy.  I'lc 
and  Sade,  Stoopinu/le  and  Bndd.  Al- 
though over  3,000  miles  away,  I 
receive  your  i)rograms  as  cleaidy  as 
our  local  ones,  thanks  to  vour  efficient 
short  wave  stations," 

Mrs.  Dorothy  Pinnick,  East  Gary, 
Ind.  (Housewife.)  "Whom  do  I 
like?  \\'hv — doggone — it's  Lum  and 
Abner!  Idiey're  radio's  greatest 
comedians,  I  like  'em  so  well  that 
I'll  take  on  all  comers  interested  in  a 
Ln]n  and  Abner  Fan  Club," 

Ruth  Rosenthal,  Germantown, 
Phila.,  Pa.  (Student.)  "Xo  radio 
program  brings  me  as  much  delight 
as  Soiu/s  by  Jerry  Cooper.  Time 
never  flies  as  fast  as  the  fifteen 
minutes  he  is  on.  His  deep  baritone 
voice  fills  me  with  pleasure." 

Thomas  Biddy,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
(Railroad  Conductor.)  "For  music, 
Shep  Fields  and  his  Rippling  Rhythm 
orchestra  is  tops  with  me.  Next,  I 
like  Al  Pearce  and  all  his  Gang." 

Jane  Lumley,  Pittston,  Pa.  (Stu- 
dent.) "Even  though  I  am  a  great 
radio  fan,  my  favorite  program  is 
T]te  Packard  Hour,  because  of  the 
marvelous  voice  of  Conrad  Thibault. 
His  voice  has  always  been  an  inspira- 
tion to  me." 

Bessie  G.  Nichols,  Essex  Junction, 
Vermont.  (At  Home.)  "If  I  could 
listen  to  but  one  program  a  week,  it 
would  be  to  Jessica  Dragonette's.  She 
has  ruled  the  networks  so  long,  be- 
cause of  her  talent,  graciousness  and 
sincerity.  There  will  never  be  anyone 
who  can  rei)lace  her.  Trulv,  she's  a 
rjuecii  ol"  i^tadio." 

Chaw  Mank,  Staunton,  111.  (Dance 
Band  Leader.)  "Dick  Powell  is  the 
greate>t  MC  of  the  air.  We  need 
tills  sparkling  ])ersonality,  the  voice 
lf)ved  by  millions,  on  the  radio  today. 
This  sentiment  is  expressed  by  the 
Dick  Powell  Fan  Club,  of  which  I'm 
president,  composed  of  over  1,000 
members." 

-♦- 

Luella  Brown,  Lapeer,  Mich. 
(Nurse.)  "I  never  fail  to  listen  to 
any  program  which  has  Milton  Cross 
as  announcer,  loecause  he  has  a  voice 
unequaled.  His  descriptions  are  so 
real  that  1  can  visualize  each  act.  My 
favorite  program  is  the  Sunday 
morning  Children's  Hour,  which  Mr. 


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Cross  originated." 

Mrs.  K.  Popovic,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

(Housewife.)  "I  enjoy  Rudy  Valice's 
Variety  Hour.  ]\Ir.  Vallee  sings  as 
easily  as  he  talks,  without  strain  or 
violent  efifort.  His  cast  of  guest  stars 
is  always  entertaining,  too." 

Eddie  Pirrung,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  "I 

enjoy  many  programs,  l)ut  most  of 
all  Eddie  Cantor's,  because  of  the 
charming  young  singer,  l>ol)l)y  P.rccn. 
He  is  my  favorite  .star  and  I  sincerely 
hope  he  makes  good.  This  is  meant 
right  from  my  heart." 

Mildred  Buck,  Sunnyside,  L.  I., 
N.  Y.,  and  Mary  Munger,  Pittsfield, 
Mass.  "As  presidents  of  two  of 
Lanny's  largest  fan  clubs,  we'd  like 
to  voice  the  joint  oj^nion  of  our 
hundreds  of  members  —  that  THE 
outstanding  star  of  radio  today  is 
Lanny  Ross.  Can  you  name  any 
other  star  with  such  a  grand  voice, 
charming  personality  and  friendly 
manner,  who  has  remained  so  con- 
sistently popular  for  eight  radio 
years?" 

A  Hood  River  Spy,  Hood  River, 

Ore.  "Here  are  my  nominations  for 
the  four  best  orchestras:  1.  Guv 
Eombardo;  2.  Jan  Garber ;  3.  Ted 
Fiorito ;  4.  Bernie  Cummins." 


Edna  Schurmann,  Bronx,  N.  Y. 
(Student.)  "My  radio  favorites  are 
the  following  :  Nelson  Eddv,  because 
of  his  voice  and  jiersonalitv.  Jack 
Benny  and  I""rcd  .Mien,  for  their  drv 
humor  and  wit.  77;r  Lone  luvii/cr 
sketch,  because  of  the  thrilling  and 
daring  acts,  and  Lux  Radio  Tlicatrc, 
because  of  the  interesting  plavs." 

E.  Wagner,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  ( Sec- 
retary.) "l\Iy  favorite  radio  /nter- 
tainment  is  good  organ  music,  with 
Irma  Glen  as  my  first  choice.  I  like 
the  General  Motors  Coueerts,  Jessica 
Dragoncttc,  Frank  Parker  and  Wal- 
ter Winchell.  Also  enjov  One  Man's 
Family.  Why  isn't  there  a  limit  to 
publicity  on  the  Jack  P)ennys,  Fred 
Aliens,  etc.?   We  are  fed  up  with  it." 

Charles  P.  Simon,  Omaha,  Neb. 
(Flower  Gardener.)  "The  stars  most 
popular  with  me  are  luldie  Cantor, 
Jinmiy  Wallington  and  Deanna  Dur- 
bin,  who  is  a  great  singer  for  her  age. 
Also  Bob  Burns  of  the  Kraft  Music 
Hall." 


Have  YOU  registered  your  radio 
preferences?  Just  let  your  fcelini^s 
be  known  in  fift\'  words  cir  less,  and 
be  sure  to  state  \nur  name,  address 
and  occupation.  Address:  OL'i'.RV 
EDITOR,  Raoio  St.\rs.  149  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


•  "Hi-ya,  Fuzzyl  Don't  be  scared  oj  mr—cume  over  here  and  gei 
acquainted!  Where  did  you  come  from  and  why  the  heavy  woolies 
on  a  day  like  this? . . .  You  can't  change  'em? . . .  Say,  that''s  tough H 


•  ^^Mother,  come  quick!  Look  at  this  pour  guy— lias  to  wear  a 
cameVs  hair  coat  the  year  around!  And  he^s  so  hot  it^s  sticking 
tight  to  him— bring  some  Johnson's  Baby  Powder  right  away!" 


•  ^'!\ow  cheer  up,  pal— that  sojt,  cooling  ponder  makes  you  j  or  get 
all  about  prickly  heat  and  sticky  hot  weather.  And  every  time 
Mother  gives  me  a  rub-down,  Vll  get  her  to  give  you  one,  too!" 


•  "Feel  my  Johnson  s  Baby  Powder— Ws  as  soft  as  the  kUty^s  ear! 
l\ot  gritty  like  some  powders.  Thal''s  why  it  keeps  my  skin  so  smooth.^' 
. . .  Smooth,  healthy  skin  is  the  best  protection  against  skin  infec- 
tions. Mothers!  And  Johnson''s  Baby  Powder  is  made  of  the  rarest 
Italian  talc. ..no  orris-root... Don''t  forget  baby's  other  toilet  needs 
—Johnson's  Baity  Soap,  Baby  Cream  and  Baby  Oil! 


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Don't  be  a  Wash-out! 


again  should 
you  come  out  of  the 
surf  looking  less  than 
lovely!  (Lashtixt  Liquid  Mascara  is  the 
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sun  ...  or  to  put  glimmering  highlights  on 
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ten  subtle  daytime  shades  to  match  your 
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That  the  basic  secret 
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Leo  Corrillo  will  give 
a  Spanish  fiesta  in  your 
honor  at  his  famous 
ranch  at  Santa  Monica. 


Glenda  Farrell,  Warners 
star,  also  will  play  host- 
ess at  a  grand  party  for 
you,  given  at  her  home. 


TJiis  program  comes  to  you 
through  the  courtesy  of  Radio 
Stars  Magazine,  ladies  and  geii- 
tleuien,  to  tell  you  liow  this  year 
you  can  enjoy  the  I'ueation  to  eiui 
all  vacations,  the  thrill  to  top  all 
thrills,  a  cross-country  trip  to  visit, 
as  a  unique  ami  privileged  guest, 
the  studios  and  the  stars  of  screen 
a)ni  radioland! 

With  that  grandiloquent  greet- 
ing off  my  chest,  and  before  you 
tune  in  some  other  ])rogram  with 
l)etter  music,  let  me  get  down  to 
cases. 

This  really  is  your  last  chance 
to  get  in  on  something  swell. 
Radio  Stars  has  been  working 
for  months  getting  everything 
ready,  and  all  details  are  com- 
])leted  for  a  stunt  that  you'll  agree 
is  a  truly  grand  idea. 

We're  going  to  start  three 
special  trains  out  of  Chicago  on 
July  11th,  August  1st,  and  August 
15th,  each  carrying  about  a  hun- 
dred people,  on  the  ideal  vacation 
trip  to  the  WfjrM's  iilayground. 
.Southern  California,  h'rom  Chi- 
cago and  hack,  the  trip  takes  iwo 
weeks — and  the  k'lst  trip  will  he 


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made  in  eleven  days, 
for  those  who  have 
shorter  vacations.  All 
three  trips  will  enjoy 
exciting  stopovers, 
en  route,  at  the  parks, 
and  even  the  short 
trip  gives  you  the 
same  length  of  stay 
in  movie  and  radio- 
land. 

And,   of  course, 
when  you  get  there,  the  party  will 
really  get  going. 

By  that  time  you'll  all  be  well 
acquainted  (look  in  your  printed 
booklet  for  the  name  of  that  pretty 
girl  in  Lojver  6 )  and  you'll  dis- 
cover that  this  is  a  houseparty 
with  care  left  behind! 

Rolling  into  Hollywood,  the 
fir.st  event  is  a  trip  to  New  Uni- 
versal Studios  for  lunch  and  to 
see  movies  in  the  making,  a 
I)rivilege  very  few  visitors  can  ar- 
range. And  here's  a  Up — be  sure 
to  see  Top  of  the  Toivn  before 
you  come,  so  that  you'll  know 
what  to  ask  about,  and  who  to 
look  for,  when  you  arrive  at  Uni- 
versal City.  It's  the  year's  higgest 
musical,  and  a  wow  from  start  to 


RADIO  STARS 


BY  JACK  SMALLEY 

Don't  miss  this 
glorious  vacation 
trip,  to  meet  the 
Hollywood  stars  of 
screen  and  radio 


finish.  Gregory  Ratoff,  Hugh 
Herbert,  Doris  Nolan,  George 
Murphy,  The  Three  Sailors  (and 
they  are  a  scream!)  are  just  a 
few  of  the  entertainers  in  this 
Universal  musical  riot. 

Then,  of  covn^se,  we  have  to 
have  a  party  with  lots  of  movie 
stars  present,  and  to  make  it  some- 
thing really  unusual,  three  grand 
stars  have  planned  special  parties 
at  their  homes.  Leo  Carrillo  has 
arranged  a  Spanish  fiesta,  such  as 
his  famous  California  ancestors 
used  to  give  for  distinguished 
guests,  complete  with  barbecue, 
singing,  and  merriment  at  his 
Santa  Monica  ranch.  Glenda 
Farrell  will  be  hostess  at  her  home 
for  the    (Continued  on  page  99) 


...SINCE 
IVE  LEARNED  THIS 
"LOVELIER  WAY" 
TO  AVOID 
OFFENDING  ! 


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This  pure  creamy-white  soap  has  such 
a  gentle,  caressing  lather.  Yet  it  re- 
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smooth,  radiantly  clear! 


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RADIO  STARS 


Which... for  youl 


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Fresh  -i 

.  Formerly  known  to  a  discrirn- 
inating  few  as  simply  Fresh,  this 
cream  deodorant  is  big  news  wher- 
ever  it  is  tried. 

•  For  Fresh  No.  1  has  no  medicinal 
.mell- nothing  to  identify  it  as  a 
deodorant.  Yet  it  positively  elim- 
inates underarm  odor. 

•  And  Fresh  No.  1  is  antiseptic... 
safe  after  shaving.  Not  gunimy 
greasy.  So  ea.y  to  use.  Travel-size 
mbe  10c  at  variety  stores.  Large 
tube,  50c  at  toiletries  counters. 


4^1 


Fresh  ~°-2 

•  Brand-new!  Fresh  No.  2  is  a 
.anishin^  cream,  whieh  dries 
quickly  and  stops  perspiration  lor 
from  1  to  3  days.  Eliminates  odor, 
too.  Greaseless,  stainless. 
•  And  how  quickly  it  dries...  how 
quickly  you  can  go  right  on  wit 
your  dressing!  Once  you've  tried 
Fresh  No.  2,  you'll  never  use 
i;othernon-perspirant.Travel.s.e 

iar  10c  at  variety  stores.  Large 
tubes,  50c  at  toiletries  counters. 


GLAMOUR  IS  HIS  BUSINESS 


(Continued  from  ^ane  11) 


Lovely  Edy+he  Wright  brings  glamour  to  the  air  as  featured  vocalist  with 
Tommy  Dorsey's  Orchestra,  heard  Fridays  on  the  Raleigh  and  Kool  NBC  show. 


PHARMA-CRAFT  CORPORATION, 
LOUISVILLE,  KY. 

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INC. 


Aloiiday  night  Radio  Tlicafrc,  it  was  witli 
the  hope  that  tliis  master  bhownian  of 
glamour  could  inject  it  into  radio.  And 
that's  exactly  vvliat  ho  has  accomplished. 
And  not  by  chance,  either.  DeMille  has 
lieen  a  student  of  glamour  and  showman- 
siiip  since  his  days  at  the  American  Acad- 
emy of  Dramatic  Arts.  He  entered  the 
Academy  only  after  liciiig  lunied  down,  he- 
cause  of  his  youth,  when  he  tried  to  enlist 
for  service  in  the  Spanish- American  War. 

Cecil  comes  from  a  tlieatrical  family. 
His  father  was  Henry  Ciiurchiil  DeMille, 
teacher  and  pl.-iy wriglit,  wlio  wrote  many 
Ijlays  in  aNSDciatinn  with  the  late  iJavid 
Belasco.  His  niDthcr  was  Mathilde  F.ca- 
trice  Samuel,  who  gave  birth  to  Cecil  on 
August  12th,  1881,  at  Ashfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  brother  W  illiam  is  one  of 
the  better  known  names  of  the  stage  and 
screen. 

After  the  father's  death,  Mrs.  DeMille 
turneil  her  home  at  Echo  Lake,  X'ew  Jer- 
sey, iiitu  the  Henry  C.  DoMille  .MeniMri.il 
School  for  Girls.  The  income  from  this 
served  to  give  Cecil  preparatory  training 
at  the  Pennsylvania  Military  Academy  and 
to  send  his  brother  to  Columbia  University. 

t'ecil's  wife  is  the  former  Constance 
Adams  of  Orange,  New  Jersey,  whom  he 
married  while  touring  with  Solhern  and 
Marlowe. 


After  his  graduation  from  the  American 
Academy  of  Dramatic  Arts,  Cecil  natu- 
rally turned  to  the  stage.  He  did  sur- 
prisingly will  in  playing  leading  parts  in 
The  I'riiii  c  Cjiap,  Lord  Chuutlcy  and  sev- 
eral other  popular  plays.  Later,  when 
stock  companies  became  the  rage,  his 
mother  formed  the  DeMille  Play  Com- 
p.iii),  wliu  li  featured  the  old  DeMille-Be- 
l.iscii  i>la\s,  among  others.  The  company 
flnuri>lK(l  for  nearly  twenty  years. 

"1  gave  up  acting,"  he  explained  to  me, 
refusing  a  cigarette  with  a  shake  of  his 
massive,  bald  iiead,  "and  became  its  man- 
ager, m  association  with  my  brother  Wil- 
liam, who  by  this  time'  had  written  several 
stage  successes,  including  Sirongheart  and 
7/ir  (/  am-iis  of  l"ir,iiiua.  It  was  during 
this  luriud  that  I  wrote  The  Stampede, 
and  also  did  Ihe  Royal  Mounted  in 
cidlahoration  with  my  brother  William. 
I  also  wrote  The  Return  of  Peter 
Criiinii:' 

,\s  I  listened.  I  could  not  help  but  re- 
call that  this  same  Cecil  DeMille  has  been 
responsible  for  tlie  success  of  countless 
screen  stars — Wallace  Keid,  Leatrice  Joy, 
Milton  Sills,  Richard  Dix,  Ramon  Novar- 
ro,  Gloria  Swansou,  Lila  Lee  and  Conrad 
Nagel,  to  name  a  few.  The  same  DeMille 
who  always  wears  riding  boots  and 
breeches    while   directing   a   picture;  the 


RADIO  STARS 


same  DeMille  who  glorified  the  bathtub 
in  so  many  of  his  spectacles,  and  yet  has 
no  ornate  bathtub  in  his  own  home ;  who 
still  clings  to  the  old  directorial  habit  of 
using  a  megaphone :  and  who  earnestly 
believes  that  any  woman,  no  matter  what 
she  looks  like,  can  appear  beautiful  if  she 
learns  to  express  beauty  through  her  per- 
sonality. 

The  conversation  changed  to  the  injec- 
tion of  glamour  into  radio. 

"In  bringing  the  gorgeous  Marlene  Diet- 
rich to  the  microphone,  for  example,  it 
entails  giving  an  impression  of  her  gla- 
morous personality.  Only  speech  can  estab- 
lish that  vision.  I  say  :  'A  (/orycous  I'alace 
in  Berlin,  and  the  most  beautiful  iconian 
in  if,'  and  so  on.  I  am  greatly  aided,  how- 
ever, in  the  case  of  such  a  well-known 
person  as  Marlene  Dietrich,  due  to  the  fact 
that  most  of  my  listeners  already  are 
familiar  with  her  appearance,  and  I  merely 
bring  up  the  photographic  image  in  their 
minds. 

"If  we  have  Gary  Cooper  on  the  air,  in 
a  Western  atmosphere,  for  instance,  we 
may  rather  easily  establish  the  Western 
atmosphere  by  means  of  sound  effects,  but 
Gary's  characterization  will  depend  largely 
on  my  word  introduction.  From  that  point 
on,  Gary's  genius  and  the  audience's  ima- 
gination will  take  care  of  the  rest." 

Marlene  and  Gary  co-starred  on  one  of 
DeMille's  programs  in  a  radio  version  of 
Morocco. 

I  made  mention  that  several  motion  pic- 
ture exhibitors  thought  that  his  Monday 
night  broadcasts  were  harmful  to  the  mo- 
tion picture  industry.  In  fact,  ruining 
motion  pictures. 


"Ruining  motion  pictures?  Why.  it  will 
mean  the  rejuvenating  of  the  movies ;  the 
remaking  of  them !  Fancy  missing  this 
great  opportunity  and  the  incalculable 
benefit  of  virtually  taking  the  star,  the 
whole  company  of  players,  into  seven  mil- 
lion homes ;  setting  them  down  by  the  fire- 
side of  twenty-five  million  people.  If  that 
isn't  gilt-edged  publicity  and  advertising, 
then  I  don't  know  the  game  I" 

And   wliat  did  he  have  to  sav  about 


stud 


.-net 


'Till  lii.L;lil\-  ill  favor  of  studio  audiences. 
One  of  my  associates  in  production  felt 
that  the  radio  audience  sliduld  not  be  al- 
lowed to  applaud  or  lauyh  during  the  action 
of  the  play.  I  disagreed.  I  thought 
laughter  or  applause  b>  the  audience  pres- 
ent at  a  broadcast,  increased  tiie  illusion 
of  it  as  an  actual  pla\-,  for  the  listening-in 
audience. 

"We  have  been  flattered,  during  the 
course  of  our  radio  production  cjf  pla>s. 
by  letters  asking  :  'Are  your  people  in  cos- 
tume?' That  means  that  we  had  succeeded 
in  creating  the  illusion  for  the  audience. 

"In  the  production  of  pla\  s  cui  the  radio, 
two  schools  of  method  have  sprung  up. 
One  believes  that  the  listening  radio  au- 
dience should  be  given  no  inkling  of  the 
presence  of  an  audience  in  the  studio.  They 
fear  that  the  thread  o{  ilUisinn  might  he 
broken  by  laughter  aiul  applause  in  the 
studio.  I  am  an  advocate  of  the  ver\- 
opposite.  I  believe  that  nothing  stimulates 
the  player  more  than  a  flesh-and-blood 
studio  audience.  It  gives  him  a  constant 
check  on  whether  or  not  he  is  going  o\er. 
Plays  were  written  to  be  presented  before 
audiences.    This  gives  the  desirable  feel- 


ing of  'theatre,'  to  which  every  player  im- 
mediately responds  and  reacts.  .-\.iid  again, 
when  the  unseen  audience  hears  the  studio 
audience  laughing  and  applauding,  they, 
too,  become  infected  with  the  true  gla- 
mour of  the  theatre.  We  all  know  that 
it  is  not  reality,  but  we  all  respond  to  the 
glamorous  reality  of  the  theatre  and  the 
proper  mood  i>  engriidi.Tc<l  and  -u^tained. 
The  answer  is.  that  tic  it  ^tage,  screen 
or  radio,  it  is  all  tluatrc.    And  the  essence 

of   g  1    tlu'atrc    i~    -lanioiir.     The  only 

differeiici'  i-  thr  coiuiiiti.  u  ,>i  presentation. 
One  on  the  !)iKir(K.  .im  ther  on  the  screen 
and  the  third  .ni  the  air." 

DeMille  helieves  in  hours  of  rehearsal 
until  the  program  i~  letter-perfect.  On 
broadca,--ting  (la\s  t,u  the  I'oast,  his  day 
begins  at  eight  and  he  stops  his  direction 
at  four.  He  rei|uests  ami  considers  advice 
on  inipi  irt.int  detaiN  I'ri'iii  all  around  him, 
irom  the  star  oi  his  production  or  one  of 
the  studio  page  boys.  He  makes  it  a  rule 
never  to  call  down  a  person  in  public.  He 
has  an  ironic  sense  of  humor;  doesn't  mind 
a  good  joke  on  hiniseli:  and  has  the  habit 
of  running  his  hand  over  his  bald  head 
as  if  he  were  running  his  fingers  through 
a  bushy  head  of  hair. 

He  has  four  children.  Cecelia  Hoyt 
(Mrs.  Francis  Kd.gar  Calvin),  Katherine 
Lester.  John  Blount 
two  grandchildren,  P 
ter.  Has  the  record 
and  happiest  niarrias. 
ing  married  to  the  same  wnman 
thirty-five  years,  .So  don't  believe  all  the 
alarming  things  >-ou  hear  about  Hollywood 
marriages.  Cecil  De  Mille  has  glamour  in 
his  home  as  well  as  in  his  theatre ! 


Richard ;  besides 
and  Cecelia  Les- 
Mie  (/t  the  longest 
n  Hollywood,  be- 
ilmost 


UMTiL  HER  DENTIST 
TOLD  HER  WHY... 


^^B^^  "Colgate's  special 
^^^^^^^     penetrating  foam 

^BF  J     8ets  into  ever>-  tiny 

 1     bidden  crevice  be- 

^5  tween  your  teeth 

^^LA^  .  .  ,  emulsifies  and 

MS^^  washes  away  tbcde- 

caying  food  depos- 
'  -  its  that  cause  most 
bad  breath,  dull, 
dinsy  teeth,  and  much  tooth  de- 
cay. At  the  same  time,  Colgate's 
soft,  safe  polishing  agent  cleans 
and  brightens  the  enamel — makes 
your  teeth  sparkle — gi\es  new 
brilliance  to  your  smile!  " 


(d 


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FOR  WOMEN  ONLY! 

(Co)i finned  from  page  42) 


So  you've  just  discovered 
Beeman's?  About  time  such 
a  bright  girl  caught  up  with 
such  a  luscious  flavor!  As  a 
discriminating  person  you've 
noticed  that  airtight  package. 
It's  important  to  those  who  ap- 
preciate fresh  chewing  gum. 
And  Beeman's  is  the  favorite 
among  thinking  people  as 
a  delicious  aid  to  digestion." 


eeman's 

AIDS  DIGESTION... 


was  a  pity,  because  1  hadn't  had  hinch 
>  et  I  Instead  of  the  crooner  you  might 
expect.  Reed  Kennedy  approached  the  mike 
and  deh'vered  a  song  in  the  thoroughly 
inascuHne  baritone  that  I  defy  anyone  to 
dislike.  The  orchestra  phiyetl  insinuatingly 
—a  new  style  for  ]!.  A.  Kolfe.  whose 
"brass  band"  style  on  former  programs  is 
utterly  foreign  to  the  present  "sweet"  ar- 
rangements. Delmar  Edmondson  spoke 
briefly,  in  rounded  pleasant  accents,  and 
tlicre  was  a  momentary  bustle  in  the  con- 
trol room  as  the  guest  speaker  hurried  out 
to  face  him  across  the  mike.  The  inter- 
view, I  thought,  will  probably  drip  a  lit- 
tle. But  it  didn't.  I  might  have  liked  to 
hear  Gretta  Palmer,  the  interviewer,  a  bit 
less  and  Mrs.  Harkness,  the  guest,  a  bit 
more,  but  what  there  was  was  interesting. 

Tronhic  Hon.w,  Elaine  Carrington's 
serial  play,  went  on,  and  though  I  hadn't 
been  following  it,  I  found  it  amusing  and 
well  played.  More  music,  a  song  and 
another  blurb  that  managed  to  be  inof- 
fensive .  .  .  Well,  by  this  time,  you  get 
the  idea  :   I  liked  it ! 

Your  reporter's  recognition  of  a  well- 
balanced,  tasteful  program  was,  truthfully, 
a  bit  late.  All  over  the  United  States 
and  Canada  two  hundred  and  fifty-two 
radio  editors  in  the  recent  Scripps-Howard 
poll  voted  the  Magazine  of  The  Air  first 
place  among  women's  programs,  and  this 
after  only  five  months  on  the  air.  No 
other  program  ever  ranked  among  the 
leaders  in  less  than  a  year's  airing.  Natur- 
ally, everybody  on  the  show  feels  pretty 
good  about  it,  particularly  Delmar  Edmon- 
son, who  presides  as  "editor"  of  this  radio 
magazine.  And  it  is  just  what  its  name 
signifies,  sending  over  the  air  the  same 
blend  of  fact  and  entertainment  that  the 
women's  better  magazines  try  to  achieve 
in  print. 

"It  seemed  funny  to  me,"  Edmondson 
said  later,  "when  I  first  started.  That  is, 
until  I  saw  the  sort  of  show  we  were  put- 
ting together.  I  guess  most  men  feel  a  bit 
dubious  alx)Ut  anything  that's  supposed  to 
be  i)rimarily  for  women.    But  the  idea  of 


present 


women  s 
a  general 


Magazine  Of  The 
an  interesting,  well-lialanced  s 
"You  mean  y(ju  don't  think 
show'  <liffers  essentially  fron 
program?"  I  offered. 

"That's  exactly  what  1  do  mean.  Natur- 
ally, a  talk  about — sa\--pii)es,  or  fishing 
and  hunting,  or  finance  wmdd  har<lly  fit  on 
a  women's  show.  Hut  things  like  that  are 
speciali/,e<l  masculine  subjects;  all  men 
w<juldn't  he  intereste<l  in  I  hem,  either.  And 
I'll  bet  there  woul 


luld  find  such  tc 
ike  to  know^  lu 
some  of  the  recipe 
the  program." 
I  won<lere<l  if  //, 
"Well,  no,"  Del 
around  in  a  kitche 
ci.uld.     lint   to  ge 
ik  flu 


pies  in 
s  Hill 


lime  wiimen  wlio 
feiesling,  just  as 
i\-  men  have  tried 
.\dams  gives  on 


1.  '  l  <lon't  fool 
.  Rut  I'll  bet  1 
to   the  show — I 


distinction  between  masculine  and 
interests  is  much  too  sharply 
drawn.  Men,  almost  invariably,  are  edi- 
tors of  women's  magazines.    And  the  old 


saw  tells  us  that  a  doctor  doesn't  have  to 
ha\e  pneumonia  to  treat  a  case.  There's 
another  one,  of  course,  that  says  to  ride 
horseback,  you  first  have  to  know  more 
than  the  horse !  Well — I  don't  claim  to 
know  more  than  my  audience,  but  I  think 
that  the  things  I  find  generally  interesting 
will  interest  most  other  people,  and  the 
things  I  dislike  on  the  air  most  women 
seem  to  dislike,  too." 

"How  aliout  women's  intuition?"  I 
prodded. 

'T  don't  think  it  would  be  safe  to  build 
a  radio  show  by  women's  intuition,''  Ed- 
mondson grinned.  "And — this  may  get  me 
in  Dutch — but  that's  something  else  I  be- 
lieve is  overrated.  I'm  not  claiming  men 
and  women  are  alike — and  thank  heaven 
they're  not !  But  I  think  men,  perhaps,  are 
as  intuitive  as  women  ;  the  difference  lies 
in  that  women,  being  more  emotional  than 
men,  are  more  prone  to  act  intuitively 
than  men.  I've  never  seen  much  proof  that 
a  woman's  'hunches'  were  any  more  in- 
fallible than  a  man's.  But  your  average 
man  will  reject  a  purely  intuitive  idea  often 
— and  maybe  he  shouldn't — whereas  most 
women  are  satisfied  to  act  on  nothing  more 
than  a  'feeling'  about  something." 

In  spite  of  these  observations,  Delmar 
Edmondson  doesn't  make  any  claim  of  being 
an  authority  on  women.  There's  nothing  in 
his  varied  background  that  suggests  the  ex- 
pert on  femininity.  There  is,  however, 
plenty  that  would  indicate  a  feeling  for  the 
dramatic  and  the  topical. 

That,  perhaps,  is  why  he  manages  to  talk 
interestingly  about  such  widely  different 
subjects  as  symphony  concerts  and  w^rest- 
ling  matches.  And  though  he  gets  a  certain 
amount  of  "mash"  notes  in  the  mail,  his 
voice,  clear  in  diction  without  being  af- 
fecte<l,  suggests  nothing  of  the  Great 
Lover ;  on  the  contrary,  it's  a  voice  that 
most  men  enjoy,  wdiich  would  seem  to  prove 
his  point  that  women  do  not  like  the  suave 
unction  of  those  announcers  wdio  deliberate- 
ly strive  for  "women  appeal." 

His  home  is  in  Hollywood,  though  he 
W'as  born  in  Marion,  Ohio,  right  across 
from  the  house  of  the  late  President  Hard- 
ing. Several  years  later  he  studied  at 
Notre  Dame  University,  where  Charles 
Butterworth,  Walter  O'Keefe  and  Ralph 
Dumke  were  among  those  present.  There 
were,  of  course,  quite  a  few  other  boys, 
but  these  are  some  who  later  rhade  their 
mark  in  radio,  along  with  Del. 

He  took  his  master's  degree  at  Notre 
Dame,  and  his  master's  thesis,  which  was 
on  The  One-Act  Phiy,  was  later  published 
by  flic  Drama  League.  His  first  news- 
paper j(il)  was  on  the  Harding-owned 
Marion  Slur,  ;uk1  Edmondson  worked  on 
various  papers  through  the  Middle  West, 
ending  up  on  the  Lris  Angeles  T.raininer. 
Journalism  and  theatre  shared  his  interest; 
on  several  ])apers  he  served  as  drama 
critic,  and  in  C'alifuniia  he  lectured  on 
<lramaturg\-  at  the  I'niversity  of  Southern 
California.  Later  he  taught  journalism 
f(jr  several  years  at  Glendale.  California, 
disi)roving  the  old  maxim  that :  "Those 
who  can,  do;  those  who  can't,  teach!"  Del 


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liad  done  plentj-,  and  he  was  now  teaching. 

Around  this  time  Marco  and  his  brother, 
Rube  Wolfe,  were  doing  a  newspaper  pro- 
gram on  A'.VA'.  and  Kdmondson  went  on 
as  news  commentator.  A  Game  and  Gos- 
sip program  followed.  Tlicn  he  was  callc<l 
upon  to  do  a  six-or-sevin-niiuutc  ccniimcn- 
tary  on  a  program  about  tlic  local  theatre, 
and  the  reaction  was  s<i  favorable  that  lie 
began  writin,;;  his  own  prcigrani  and  ap- 
peared as  a  siiNtaiiiini.;  artist  on  K I  I . 
won  a  l<ical  sll<,n^o^-  and  a  little  later  Dei 
wa.s  on  the  CI^S  iiet\\< irk— Mistainin,-;  a.uain. 
doing  coinnientar\ .  I'hen  came  a  ^pot  do- 
ing master  ot  eereinonies  on  tiie  Ciilihtrnin 
Mrlodlcs  program,  as  well  a>  general  com- 
mentary— and  back  to  a  fifteen-minute  sus- 
taining i)rogram  again. 

"By  this  time,"  says  Del  Edmondson,  "I 
decided  that  there  wasn't  very  nnich  money 
in  sustaining  shows,  and  I  came  tcj  .\ew 
York — signed  for  the  Hciiiz  Manazine 
show — and  here  I  am." 

Sometimes  an  over-full  program  keeps 
Edmondson  down  to  little  more  than  an- 
nouncements and  introductions  of  guest 
speakers.  And  sometimes  he  is  able  to  speak 
at  more  length,  or  read  a  bit  of  poetry.  I 
asked  about  the  guest  speakers. 

"We've  had  quite  a  few  celebrities  on  the 
show,"  he  .says.  "Some  of  the  biggest  names 
are  the  most  nervous  at  the  mike.  Lillian 
Gish  was  nervous  as  a  kitten,  and  when 
she  heard  that  the  re-broadcast  was  going 
to  California  she  asked  if  she  >hould  talk 
louder!  One  absent-minded  professor  for- 
got all  about  the  re-broadcast  and  when  it 
went  on  he  was  already  on  a  train  to  his 
home  in  Scarsdale !  That  was  a  hectic 
moment !  But  John  Reed  King.  Columbia's 
announcer,  went  on  in  his  place  and  gave 
a  perfect  imitation  of  the  learned  profes- 
.sor.  Theodore  Dreiser's  talk  was  edited 
considerably,  and  the  last  paragraph,  which 
was  something  of  a  political  tirade,  was 
edited  out  completely.  At  the  end  of  his 
talk  he  said:  'And  now  you  are  justified  in 
asking  me  what  I  do  believe  in  I'  That 
was  supposed  to  be  the  last  line  of  his  talk. 
He  stood  up,  glowered  at  the  mike  and 
just  as  the  interviewer  was  about  to  ^ay  : 
'Thank  you,  Mr.  Dreiser,'  he  leaned  for- 
ward and  roared:  'Reality!'  into  the  mike. 

"One  author  of  humor  pestered  me,  be- 
fore the  broadcast,  to  he  sure  and  mention 
his  books.  I  said  that  I  wa^  mentioning 
one,  but  he  wainc<l  me  to  jilug  another 
one  that  was  ju^t  about  to  come  out.  Then, 
when  it  became  necessary  to  cut  a  few  sec- 
onds from  the  script,  he  howled  to  the 
heavens  and  unconditionally  refused  to  cut 
a  single  word.  And  I  must  admit  I  some- 
how forgot  to  mention  either  hook  ! 

"And  another  author,  well-known  lor  his 
adventure  stories,  spoke  in  such  a  thick 
O.xford  accent  that  he  was  almost  unin- 
telligible. A{  reiicarsals  everything  went 
well,  aside  from  the  accent.  But  at  the 
actual  broadcast  he  got  the  sheets  of  his 
script  mixed  up  in  .some  way,  and  read  his 
entire  speeeh  baekicards,  starting  at  pofie 
3  and  working  through  to  page  1.  .\nd 
nobody  noticed  the  difiference ! 

"We've  had  any  number  of  big  'names' 
as  guest  speakers  on  the  show — Fannie 
Hurst,  Amelia  Earhart,  Emily  Post,  Law- 
rence Stallings,  Faith  Baldwin,  Sidney 
Lenz,  Princess  Kropotkin,  Walter  Hamp- 
den, and  many  others.  And  the  bigger  the 
man — or  woman — the  less  difficulty  there 
seems  to  be." 


Bob  Feiler  (right)  of  the  Cleve- 
land Indians,  who  appeared  on  Joe 
Cook's  Saturday  night  Shell  Show. 

"Aren't  many  of  the  guest  speakers 
chosen  particularly  for  their  appeal  to  the 
ladies?"  I  asked. 

"Of  course  they  are.  After  all,  I  don't 
say  the  show  isn't  designed  to  please  the 
ladies — it  is.  When  Miss  Ethel  Cotton,  for 
example,  speaks  on  suital)Ie  subjects  for 
conversation  with  }<iur  husliand  over  the 
breakfast  tabic,  that's  obviously  f(jr  women. 
Or  when  Maury  Paul,  who  writes  under 
the  name  of  Clwlly  Knickerbocker,  tells 
the  audience  about  ex-Qucen  A'ictoria  of 
Spain  never  using  make-up,  that,  too,  is 
slanted  directly  at  a  feminine  audience.  My 
point  is  that  plenty  of  men  might  be  in- 
terested in  what  is  said.  And  that  few 
men  would  take  issue  with  the  way  it  is 
presented." 

I  think  he's  got  something  there!  And 
as  long  as  the  Macjacine  Of  The  Air  can 
take  top  honors  in  its  class,  there's  little 
room  for  argument. 

"For  heaven's  sake,"  Del  finished,  "don't 
be  setting  me  up  as  an  authority  on  women, 
now!  All  Lm  doing  is  trying  to  edit  a 
radio  magazine  of  the  air  as  well  as  I  can." 

"You  do  have  certain  convictions  about 
\\omen,  though." 

"Naturally  —  what  man  hasn't?  But 
they're  not  particularly  original,  ^\'omen 
are  supposed  to  be  able  to  fool  a  man,  any 
time  they  want  to,  whereas  no  man.  pre- 
sumably, can  get  away  with  anything  like 
fooling  a  woman.  Yet  newspapers  are 
full  of  stories  disproving  that,  ^\'omcn  are 
famous  for  being  able  to  a(kl  two  and  two 
and  get  a  tremendous  sum:  for  being  able 
to  make  a  inajor  repair  with  only  a  hair- 
pin, after  some  man  has  worn  out  himself 
and  a  full  kit  of  tools." 

"And  don't  you  think  thev  <lo?" 

"That's  the  bafHing  pa'rt  of  ii,"  he 
grinned.  "Just  often  enou.yb — they  do  I  .And 
maybe  one  reason  why  men  are  not  sup- 
posed to  be  able  to  fool  women  is  because 
women  are  inclined  to  be  more  suspicious 
—and  perhaps  that's  wh}-  the.\  tiiid  out 
things  oftener  than  we  males.  BiU  those 
are  just  generalizations." 

I  asked  Del  Edmondson  if  he  were  a  lit- 
tle cynical  about  women. 

"Me?"  he  gasped.  "I  should  say  not! 
I  like  women  !  " 

And,  after  all  .  .  .  who  doesn't? 


It's  the  main  show  on  millions  of  breakfast 
tables  — crisp,  delicious  Shredded  Wheat  — 
swimming  in  wholesome  milk  — sprinkled 
with  sugar.  Try  it! 


-YES,  JUDGE,  I'll  WELCOME 
HER  BACK  WITH  AIL  MY 
HEART  IF  SHE'LL  JUST  GIVE 
ME  SHREDDED  WHEAT  AND 
PEACHES  EVERY  MORNING!" 


The  season's  perfect  match— Shredded  Wheat 
and  peaches— order  this  grand  flavor  combi- 
nation from  your  grocer  today! 


Shredded  Wheat  is  100%  whole  wheat.  You 
get  all  the  vital  food  essentials  that  nature 
put  into  wheat— the  essentials  that  help  build 
energy  and  keep  you  active  and  alert. 

SHREDDEDWHEAf 


A  Product  of  NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COMPANY 

Bakers  of  Ritz.Uneeda  Biscuit 
\[mt    ^  ^"'l  o'her  famous  varieties 

Than  a  Billion  Shredded  Wheat  Br^cults  Sold  Every  Year 


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IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION- 

(Continued  from  page  8) 


—  then  what's  to 
keep  my  skin 
SAFE  from  germs? 

"What'sthe  big  idea,  Mommy?  You're 
not  going  to  take  a  day  off  from  rub- 
bing me  with  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil, 
are  you?  Not  if  /  can  help  it!  Germs 
don't  take  any  days  off,  do  they?  They 
keep  getting  on  my  skin  all  the  time. 
That's  why  the  nurse  over  at  the  hos 
pital  told  you  to  rub  me  with  Mennen 
Antiseptic  Oil  every  single  day.  Doctor 
says  it  kills  germs  .  .  .  and  leaves  a  film 
of  protection  all  over  the  skin.  He  says 
every  baby  needs  this  protection  and 
I'm  certamly  no  exception!  Oh,  you 
were  going  to  give  me  my  Mennen  An- 
tiseptic Oil  rub  anyhow?  Why  didn't 
you  say  so — hurry  up,  I  need  it — now! 
I  want  to  sleep  in  peace  and  safety." 

Nine- tenths  oj  all  the  hos  fit  at  s  important  tn 
maternity  uork  use  Mennen  Antiseptic  Oil  on 
their  lnil,„t  ,,'ry  ilay   Your  bahy  deuTVei  it.  too 

OIL 


just  redress,  after  she  was  said  to  have 
been  tliere.  wlicn  in  fact  she  was  not  tliere. 

To  the  iiuli\'i(lual  who  thinks  at  all,  this 
must  be  a  ,^ulijcct  aliove  man-made  statutes 
and  laws.  It  certainl\-  goes  deeper  tiian 
man-made  legislation.  It  is  instinctive  and 
basic  that  the  individual  should  have  the 
tight  to  say  whether  or  not  his  or  her 
photograph  is  to  appear  in  the  Press  of  the 
country. 

Of  course,  those  new  photographically- 
inclined  magazines,  Li/r  and  Look,  wouldn't 
especially  like  such  legislation,  but  it  is 
quite  obvious  that,  regardless  of  the  timidity 
that  most  of  our  legislators  exhibit  in 
restrictions  of  this  kind,  it  inii.st  romc 
cirnlually: 

It  certainly  takes  no  great  mind  to  see 
that  this  sort  of  thing  cannot  continue  in- 
definitely in  a  country  that  t/iiarantccs  life, 
iherty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness  to 
f:\-ry  individual.  Surely  there  can  be  little 
justice  or  fairness,  when  it  is  given  to  the 
few,  with  their  cameras  and  presses,  to 
make  monkeys  out  of  the  rest  oi  us  by 
seeking  to  show  us  in  unguarded  momeiUs 
of  rest  and  leisure. 

It  is  to  protect  the  woman  in  the  case, 
if  no  one  else,  that  there  must  come  to  an 
end  the  unrestrained  and  libertine  practice 
of  collecting  and  printing  the  photographs 
of  famous  actresses,  taken  during  various 
periods  of  their  lives,  printing  them  for  the 
salacious  enjoyment  and  morbid  curiosity 
of  thdse  who  crave  that  sort  of  thing,  to 
the  enibarrassmeiU  and  unhappiness  of  these 
women.  Surely  they  deserve  that  pro- 
tection ! 

The  commercial  photograiiher  detnands 
that  his  permission  be  obtained  before  the 
phot  igraphs  taken  hy  him  may  be  re- 
printed or  recopied.  Surely  it  is  not  asking 
too  much  that  the  iihotographic  victim, 
himself  or  herself,  be  accorded  the  right 
of  censorship,  especially  if  the  photograph 
be  out  of  the  dead  past  and  perhaps  em- 
barrassing. .After  all,  there  is  no  one 
aniiing  us — cditdr,  rciMirter,  cameraman — 
but  that  has  features  nf  his  life  best  left 
unsaid,  unprinted  and  drcply  buried. 

Anot!u-r  vioy.ud  of  uijii.ulcc  lluil  comes 
to  my  altcntion  and  a  true  story  at  that: 
It  is  five  o'clock  in  the  morning.  The  yoiiiifi 
end  delicate  wife  of  au  adoroKi  hiishand 
definitely  has  a  l>ad  a  h/^en,lieilis  ease.  A 
doctor,  'at  the  only  h.'s/^ilal  in  the  di.'.tnct 
to  lehich  these  yonna  peo/de  linre  reeentiv 
moved,  informs  the  lni\haiul  that  she  nni.<t 
he  operated  upon  imnirdiat el y .  and  that  she 
is  too  ill  to  he  moi'ed  to  another  hospital. 
]'et  the  hospital  demands  $250  cash  before 
the  operation  can  take  place! 

Entreaties,  pcrsuasi'i'c  pleas,  tearful  sup- 
plications are  all  in  vain,  while  the  yonnii 
lady  li'rithes  in  agony  and  the  hushaml 
scurries  ahoiit  in  the  early  dan-n,  tryimi  to 
find  someone  in  this  U'esteluster  Coinitv 
section  of  .Ve-a'  York  Slate  {lehrre  he  is 
practically  a  total  stnni;/er)  ^^'ho  will  cash 
his  check.  By  the  time  he  has  done  so, 
the  appendix  has  burst  and  peritonitis  has 
set  in. 

Is  it  any  n-ondcr  then,  that  this  young 
man  becomes  rabid  at  the  thought  of  con- 


tributing to  hospitals?  Fortunately,  all 
hospitals  are  not  as  heartless  as  this  par- 
ticular institution  must  be.  It  is  almost  nn- 
believable  that  such  things  can  and  do  hap- 
pen about  us  in  everyday  life.  It  should 
niahe  us  leonder  if  man  is  very  far  ad- 
vanced in  cizdli;:ation,  culture  and  refine- 
ment, after  all! 

Music  publishers,  and  other  authorities 
on  the  things  people  Hke  to  .sing,  insist 
that  songs  be  simple  and  not  tricky — 
claiming  that  the  music  mentality  of  the 
average  person  is  no  better  than  that  of 
an  eleven-year-old  child  and  that  people 
sometimes  have  to  hear  songs  thirty  times 
in  order  to  learn  them. 

Yet,  on  my  occasional  visits  to  the  Para- 
mount Theatre  in  New  York,  where  au- 
diences still  sing  with  the  lantern  slides 
and  the  organ,  I  find  them  singing  a  song 
such  as  De  Lovely  from  Red,  Hot  and 
Blue,  singing  it  with  gusto,  precision  and 
perfect  diction — and  yet  Cole  Porter  has 
never  written  a  trickier  song! 

Not  so  long  ago  I  heard  them  singing 
a  song  from  a  picture  yet  to  be  released. 
The  fact  that  the  audience  was  singing  this 
particular  song  so  perfectly  could  indicate 
only  one  thing — that  it  must  have  been 
learned  by  listening  to  radio  broadcasts  of 
it.  The  song  was  Siving  High,  Swing 
Low.  Even  I  (and  I  dial  in  pretty  often), 
had  never  heard  the  song  over  the  air. 
But  the  audience  had! 

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  true  that  an 
occasional  unnatural  change  in  a  song,  or 
an  added  four  measures  (making  a  song 
36  measures  instead  of  32),  does  seem  to 
upset  the  average  audience  in  what  might 
be  called  perfect  meter.  Therefore,  we 
might  conclude  that  audiences  master 
tricky  songs  but  shun  unnatural  ones. 
♦  - 

In  their  magazine  advertisement  of  the 
picture  U'aikiki  Wedding,  Paramount  has 
featured  the  cavernous  mouth  of  Martha 
Raye.  Almost  every  time  I  see  Miss  Raye's 
name  or  her  face.  I  cannot  help  but  realize 
— perhaps  a  bit  sadly — that  this  is  one  time 
where  Old  Man  Vallee  (The  "Old  A-Ian 
Vallee"  will  tickle  Judge  Bushel!)  slipped 
up.  Yet,  I  think  the  reasons  for  my  failure 
to  have  made  her  a  part  of  our  company 
were  quite  natural  and  obvious.  During 
the  summer  of  1934  we  were  playing  at  the 
Pavilion  Royal  at  Valley  Stream,  Long 
Island,  and  our  second  trumpet  player,  our 
"hot-man"  so-called,  w-as  one  Mickey 
Bloom,  now  with  Ha!  Keiup  and  his  band. 

Now  Mickey  and  Martha  were  "that 
way"  about  each  other  and  Martha  was 
working  at  a  Manhattan  Beach  night  club, 
not  far  from  where  we  were  playing.  On 
Sunday  evenings  she  used  to  come  to  the 
Pavilion  Royal  to  wait  for  Mickey  to  fin- 
ish, and  inasmuch  as  our  Sunday  night  au- 
diences were  pretty  small  at  1  :30  in  the 
morning,  it  was  not  uncommon  for  her  to 
come  up  on  the  stand,  at  Mickey's  and  my 
invitation,   and  do  three  or   four  songs. 

I  always  had  characterized  her  per- 
formance as  that  of  a  "coon-shoutcr."  We 
had  a  pretty  crazy  band  that  sununer,  at 
least  one  of  the  craziest,  with  the  Mad 


Most  hospitals  rub  their 
babies  with  it  daily 


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Checks  Perspiration! 


Monk — in  other  words,  Mr.  Riley  of 
Roiind-and- Round  fame,  the  man  wlio  could 
stand  a  pail  of  water  thrown  over  his  head 
while  playing  his  trombone,  with  the  great- 
est of  urbanity.  It  was  nothing  for  him 
to  receive  a  specially-made  marshmallow 
pie  smack  in  the  face  and  give  nothing  but 
a  horse-laugh  in  answer.  Therefore,  when 
he  and  Martha  got  together  with  the  boys, 
in  a  festive  mood.  I  generally  sat  at  a  table 
and  let  them  have  their  way.  Although  I 
knew  Martha  had  a  great  sense  of  humor 
and  comedy  (the  unusual  quality  of  be- 
ing very  attractive  physically,  yet  able  to 
assume  some  of  the  funniest  of  facial  and 
acrobatic  poses),  it  never  occurred  to  me 
to  keep  her  permanently  with  us  as  a 
comedienne.  Even  after  seeing  her  in  Call- 
ing All  Stars — where  she  practically  stole 
the  show  with  her  drunk-bit.  so  effectively 
used  in  Jl'aihiki  H'cddiiici — even  then  it 
failed  to  suggest  to  me  that  this  girl  would 
be  a  great  bet  for  pictures.  However,  no 
one  is  more  happy  than  I  at  her  well-<le- 
served  success  in  pictures.  An  outstand- 
ing star  already,  the  tremendous  success  of 
11'aikiki  IVcddiua  through.out  the  country 
is,  at  least  in  my  humble  opinion,  due  in 
great  part  to  her  work  and  appearance 
in  it. 

Peculiarities  in  /yrdiiuitciatioii :  Those 
who  say  quite  for  qui-et  {ec'ideiitly  the  de- 
sire to  make  one  syllable  zvhcre  tim  move- 
ments of  the  jaivs  are  really  necessary) . 
Likeivise  pome  for  po-ein.  And  for  the 
same  reason  and  classification  :  ^lorris  be- 
comes Morse. 

Night  clubs — according  to  Variety,  the 
theatrical  weekly — may  be:  1.  Hang-out 
(Kit  Kat  Club)  2.  Real  show  (Cotton 
Club)  3.  Show-off  (El  Morocco)  4. 
Food-and-show  ( Hollywood  Restaurant) 
5.  Extravaganza  (French  Casino). 

Worshippers  and  admirers  of  Mr.  Ar- 
turo  Toscanini  may  be  roughly  divided  in- 
to three  classes.  1.  Those  who  are  thrilled 
because  of  his  interpretations,  artistry  and 
conducting,  but  wlio  do  not  understand 
why  they  are  thrilled.  2.  Those  who  are 
thrilled  and  have  a  perfect  understanding 
of  his  tremendous  command  of  style,  in- 
terpretive ability,  tempo,  rhythm,  metro- 
nomic beat  and  ability  to  instill  into  his 
men  the  feelings  of  his  own  heart,  mind 
and  spine.  3.  Those  who  affect  an  ad- 
miration for  him  because  it  is  the  vogue, 
the  thing  to  do — to  keep  up  with  the 
Joneses  I 

I  believe  I  may  put  myself  in  the  second 
class.  To  be  sure,  on  Thursdays,  I  conduct 
only  some  twenty-five  to  thirty  men,  but 
with  years  of  so  doing,  I  have  come  to 
have  a  tremendous  respect  for  those  who 
not  only  conduct  ninety  or  more  men  but 
who  are  able  to  read  the  score  they  are 
conducting  or,  as  in  the  unique  case  of  Mr. 
Toscanini,  to  have  memorized  every  note 
of  a  ninety-piece-score  (an  almost  incred- 
ible feat,  originally  necessitated  by  the 
weak  eyesight  of  the  maestro).  I  must 
confess  that,  to  my  shame,  I  fell  asleep  at 
the  only  Toscanini  concert  whicli  it  was 
my  privilege  to  attend.  I  may  be  excused 
because  of  the  fact  that  I  was  working 
eighteen  hours  a  day  and  attended  his  con- 
cert while  doing  six  shows  at  the  Brook- 
lyn Paramount  Theatre.  And  the  music  of 
this  particular  symphony  was  so  soporific 
that  it  lulled  me  into  unconsciousness.  This, 


NOW,  at  last,  there  is  a  cream 
deodorant  that  is  absolutely 
non-greasy.  And  checks  perspiration 
immediately  I 

Just  apply  Odorono  Ice  with  your 
finger  tips,  night  or  morning.  In  no 
time,  it  is  completely  absorbed,  leav- 
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A  single  application  keeps  your  un- 
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ODO-RO-NO 

NON-GREASY 


no  odor  of  its  own  to  betray  you  to 
other  people.  Its  own  clean,  fresh  odor 
of  pure  alcohol  disappears  at  once. 

Odorono  Ice  is  made  on  a  totally  new 
j)rinciple.  Its  light,  melting  texture  is  en- 
tirely different  —  refresliing  and  cooling 
on  your  skin.  And  unlike  ordinary 
creams,  it  freo  you  not  only  from  odor, 
but  from  all  dampness. 

This  means  you  need  never  again  worry 
about  ruining  your  lovely  frocks.  You'll 
save  on  both  clothes  and  cleaner's  bills. 

Odorono  Ice  is  so  easy  and  pleasant  to 
use,  so  dainty  and  so  wonderfully  effective 
that  80  per  ct  iit  of  the  women  who  have 
tried  it  i>rcl'tT  it  to  any  other  deodorant 
they  have  c\  er  u>o<l !  Hny  a  jar  tomorrow. 
35c"  at  all  Toilet -(ioods  Dei.artnu-nts. 

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of  course,  in  the  eyes  of  the  extreme  Tos- 
caiiini  worshippers,  will  undouhtedly  make 
me  a  musical  pariah.  Howeyer,  I  do  have 
a  truly  great  admiration  for  the  man's  tre- 
mendous ability,  genius  and  interpretation. 

I  do  believe,  however,  that  there  is  some 
justification  for  the  criticism  directed  at 
Mr.  Toscanini  by  Mr.  Doron  Antrim,  edi- 
tor of  Metronome,  the  musical  monthly. 
Mr.  Antrim  finds  him  rather  an  incon- 
sistent individual,  inconsistent  ii^  the  mat- 
ter of  playing  a  farewell  concert  and  say- 
ing "an  revoxr"  once  and  for  all  to  these 
shores  and  sailing  to  Europe,  supposedly 
never  to  come  back,  only  suddenly  to  accept 
an  A'BC  contract  at  $10,000  a  concert  (or 
broadcast)  for  a  period  of  fifty-two  weeks. 

While  I  believe  that  one  has  the  right  to 
change  his  mind,  it  should  be  somewhat 
embarrassing  to  Air.  Toscanini,  because  of 
the  fact  that  he  permitted  his  managers  to 
make  so  much  hysterical  ado  about  his  last 
concert  at  Carnegie  Hall,  Alost  of  us  re- 
member the  long  lines  of  people  who  took 
their  places  in  line  some  forty-eight  hours 
before  the  concert,  sitting  outside  on  camp 
chairs,  with  lunches  wrapped  up  in  papers. 
We  remember,  too,  the  concert,  itself,  with 
the  rude  photographer,  who  came  as  near 
to  being  lynched  as  a  photographer  ever 
will  be,  by  those  rabid  enthusiasts  who  , 
knew  Mr.  Toscanini's  aversion  to  being 
photographed  (because  the  flashlights  hurt 
his  eyes).  We  recall  the  farewell  dinner, 
after  the  concert,  with  tears,  goodbyes, 
handshakings  and  the  continued  motx]  that 
this  was  the  last  time — that  he  never  again 
would  set  foot  on  these  shores. 

Had  the  about-face  not  been  quite  so 
abrupt,  it  would  not  have  been  quite  so 
difficult  to  accept,  but  all  of  a  sudden — 
BOOM — back  again,  not  for  one  concert 
( to  satisfy  those  who  couldn't  get  in  at 
the  final  concert),  but  for  a  series  extend- 
ing over  fifty-two  weeks  at  $10,000  per ! 

Many  felt  that  all  of  this  much  ado  and 
hoorah  about  the  gentleman  was  overdone 
in  the  first  place — people,  of  course,  who 
failed  to  understand  the  uniqueness  of  his 
gifts — gifts  so  unique  that  it  would  be 
necessary  to  examine  perhaps  one  hundred 
million  men  before  we  should  find  another 
with  all  the  gifts  that  we  find  in  this  very 
sensitive,  comparatively  diminutive,  yet  tre- 


mendously vital  and  dynamic  individual. 

I  give  credence  to  Mr.  Antrim's  criticism 
that  many  of  the  men  who  have  played  un- 
der him  here  in  Xew  York,  presumably  in 
the  Philharmonic,  could  have  been  em- 
ployed, instead  of  unemployed  since  his 
farewell  concert,  had  he  not  returned  to 
Italy  and  Europe — also  that  in  his  National 
Broadcasting  concerts,  he  will  not  use 
these  men  who  have  labored  so  faithfully 
to  establish  him  at  previous  American 
concerts.  While  his  departure  may  have 
worked  a  hardship  upon  those  who  served 
with  him  in  his  early  days  of  New  York 
triumph,  his  departure,  itself,  was  indeed 
his  privilege  and  the  men  he  will  use  dur- 
ing his  NBC  concerts  may  be  the  men 
who  are  on  the  \'BC  payroll  and  who  must 
be  used  as  a  part  of  XBC  policy  and 
terms  of  contract — but  his  sudden  about- 
face,  after  his  tremendous,  maudlin,  tear- 
ful farewell  is  much  less  easily  explained, 
if  there  is  need  for  an  explanation. 


Well,  let's  have  a  little  musical-nonsense 
spot,  ll'e  asked  for  a  definition  of  jaca, 
and  not  zrry  many  of  yon  responded.  Per- 
haps you  zc'ould  rather  talk  about  another 
zcord  that  I'm  sure  many  of  you  use  often 
and  Zi'ith  complete  assurance  in  the  using 
— namely  the  ivord  crooner. 

Of  course  you  knoiv  what  a  crooner  is 
— or  do  you?  Don't  give  me  the  dictionary 
definition  that  says  crooning  is  a  loiv 
moaning  sound  as  produced  by  a  coiv,  hut 
give  me  a  real,  icorkable,  interesting  an- 
alysis of  the  li-ord. 

Maybe  something  about  its  origin.  At 
least  distinguish,  let's  say,  betiveen  a  croon- 
er and  an  operatic  singer.  Why  is  one  a 
crooner  and  the  other  an  operatic  singer? 
Don't  giz'c  me  the  definitions  that  several 
people,  iji  all  serioits)iess,  have  offered.  And 
lliey  were  supposed  to  be  quite  intelligent 
and  sane  at  that! 

Such  definitions  as  these: 

1.  A  fellow  with  wavy  hair. 

2.  One  who  sings  behind  a  microphone. 
Or  even  more  absurd  than  that :  3.  One 

who  sings  with  his  eyes  closed. 

By  your  anszi'ers  I  shall  knoiv  you.  Hoiv 
about  it? 

ADIOS! 


KATE  SMITH'S  OWN  COOKING  SCHOOL 


(Continued  from  page  54) 


salad  dressing  accompaniment,  a  main 
course  dish  and  a  dessert — all  particularly 
well  adapted  to  hot  weather  catering.  But 
there  are  still  other  foods  that  deserve 
mention  in  such  an  article  as  this  is  in- 
tended to  be.  Vegetables  and  beverages, 
in  particular,  must  not  be  overlooked. 

Of  course,  the  summer  presents  an  in- 
finite choice  of  greens  and  vegetables  at 
economical  prices.  Doubtless  of  all  of 
these,  the  most  popular  and  seasonal  veg- 
etable is  corn  and  I  heartily  join  the 
throng  singing  its  prais(.s.  I'll  go  even 
farther  and  give  \ou  my  favorite  recipe 
calling  for  these  golden  kernels.  It's  called 
Cheese  Corn  Souffle  and  is  made  with 
fresh  corn,  grated  from  the  cob — or  whole 
kernel  canned  corn,  if  the  other  is  not 
available.  I  like  to  prepare  this  dish  in 
little  individual  baking  cups.  One  of  these 


can  then  be  placed  on  the  same  dish  with 
your  salad  and  cold  meat,  to  make  an 
appetizing,  attractive  one-plate  meal.  That 
recipe,  too,  will  have  to  go  into  the  leaflet, 
because  I  really  won't  have  any  space  left 
to  give  it  to  you  here,  with  all  the  things 
I  still  have  to  tell  you  about  summer  meals. 

I  just  mentioned  beverages,  you'll  recall. 
The  one  I  like  best  of  all  in  hot  weather 
is  iced  cof¥ee.  I  have  my  own  way  of 
preparing  this,  too.  In  the  first  place  I 
scrupulously  observe  all  the  rules  for  mak- 
ing good  coffee — whether  hot  or  cold ! 
Good  cofTee,  you  know,  can  be  made  only 
by  using  accurate  measurements,  both  of 
the  water  and  the  coffee.  Extra  strength 
can  be  acc|uired  by  using  more  coffee  or 
a  stronger  blend.  But,  please,  oh  please, 
don't  imagine  for  a  moment  that  you  can 
achieve  greater  strength  in  your  brew  by 


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long  boiling,  prolonged  percolating,  or  a 
second  "pouring  through  the  grounds"  in 
a  drip  pot— without  affecting  the  quality 
disastrously !  My  present  sponsors,  the 
A  6-  P  Cowf^aiiy.  list  seven  requirements 
for  Better  Coffee:  A  blend  to  suit  your 
taste :  fresh  coffee  kept  in  a  tightly  closed 
container ;  the  correct  grind  for  the  metiiod 
of   coffee-making   that  you  in  \iuir 

own  home;  accurate  measurements  ;  a\ aid- 
ing the  boiling  point;  watchiim  tlie  tinic 
so  that  too  long  brewing  (whatever  the 
method)  will  not  give  your  beverage  a 
harsh,  bitter  flavor;  a  clean,  well-scoured 
coffee  pot.  Hot  or  cold,  these  arc  the 
rules. 

In  making  iced  coffee,  pour  the  hot  cof- 
fee directly  over  the  ice  cubes  or  coarsel\- 
chopped  ice.  In  order  not  to  dilute  the 
coffee,  it's  an  excellent  idea  to  make  up  a 
tray  of  coffee  ice  cubes  and  use  these  1 
These  fancy  ice  cubes  are  a  cute  idea  for 
many  drinks,  by  the  way.  Tliey  can  be 
colored,  made  of  fruit  juices,  nr  of  yinuer 
ale,  and  are  ver\-  grand,  indeed,  inr  n>ini; 
up  the  s\rnp  often  left  over  from  eanned 
fruits.  Cainied  tomato  jmee  eube>  in 
canned  tomato  juice  will  keep  it  cijld  long- 
er without  diluting  it,  too. 

And  here  I  am,  almost  to  the  end  of 
the  space  allotted  me,  and  I  don't  seem  to 
have  discussed  half  the  things  I  intended 
to.  Haven't  even  mentioned  shortcako. 
for  instance,  and  I  dearly  love  tliosc  !  Of 
course  I  just  use  the  regular  biscuit  don<4li, 
with  a  little  sugar  added.  .Sometimes  I 
cut  the  dough  into  rather  large  biscuits, 
placing  two  together,  one  on  top  of 
t'other,  to  bake — in  a  zrry  hot  oven,  don't 
forget!    Sometimes,  especially  if  there  are 


six  or  more  persons  for  the  meal,  I  make 
the  single  large  shortcake,  splitting  it  after 
it  has  cooked.  I  always  use  mashed  and 
sweetened  berries  between  the  layers  and 
on  top  of  the  cake,  l  lieii  1  top  those  with 
slightly  sweetened  whipped  cream  and 
garnish  this  "skyscraper"  with  some  of 
the  most  attractive  looking  whole  berries, 
reserved  from  the  original  siipiilx-  for  that 
\ery  purpose.  It's  a  pictme  1  I  also  like 
all  sorts  of  .uelatin  desserts  in  snmmer; 
made  with  (|uick-settin'4  ;4elatin  into  which 
I  fold  stiffly  beaten  eu-  whites  and  fresh 
berries,  as  it  starts  to  thicken.  Particularly 
good  with  blueberries,  which  I  sweeten, 
mash  through  a  fine  sieve  and  add  in  pulp 
form.  Lcm< Ill-flavored  jelly  is  best  for 
this  one,  I'xe  found. 

1  )on't  loruet  ebeese  in  summer,  either. 
Why,  a  well  planne<l  (.  beese  Tray  is  one 
of  the  nicest  ■"iiuiek  siiaek"  sUijuestions  I 
can  think  of,  accompanied  b>  one  of  the 
salt\-  crisp  crackers  of  which  _\our  grocer 
carries  such  a  large  and  interesting  stock. 
W  hile  cream  cheese  w  itii  home  made  jam 
pro\  ides  a  dessert  or  hiiicbeon  idea  that 
deserxes  e\-er\oiie's  eoiisideratli  n. 

Well,  friends,  it's  time  to  '•si-ii  off." 
You'll  find  the  recipes  I've  been  telling 
you  about  in  the  leaflet — the  coupon  which 
brings  them  to  you  at  the  bottom  of  this 
paye.  By  sending  in  promptly  for  your 
(■op\-.  1  can  promise  vent  clear  directions 
telling  you  bow  to  prepare  Mrlaiu/c  Salad. 
Ccoki'd  Saliul  I 'rrssiiu/.  Main  Coiirse 
Moiis.u-.  Chrcsc  L.'rii  Smifflc  and  that  per- 
fect Chocolate  Ice  Cream  I  was  cheering 
over.  I,  too,  will  have  the  time  to  pre- 
pare the  very  same  dishes  in  the  very  same 
manner,  perhaps  at  the  very  same  moment 


that  you'll  he  fixing  them! 

Yes,  in  my  mind's  eye,  as  I  write  this.  I 
can  see  my  guests  up  at  Placid,  gathered 
around  the  big  table,  which  on  lovely  sum- 
mer evenings  is  set  up  out  in  the  open. 
Probably  wc  will  have  had  a  picnic  dur- 
ing the  day,  at  the  end  of  the  trail  which 
crosses  my  island.  There  is  an  open  grate 
there,  on  which  to  prepare  corn  and  make 
a  pot  of  coffee  to  «o  with  the  refresh- 
ments that  we've  br nmht  along  with  us. 
But  "now  the  day  is  o\er,"  so  we  are 
back  at  the  camp  again,  tired,  happy  and, 
oh  boy,  how  hungr\ ,  for  these  self-same 
foods  I've  been  talking  about ! 

Think  of  me  up  there,  won't  you.  when 
you  no  longer  meet  me  here?  Remember 
the  little  talks  we  have  had  together 
(.through  the  pages  of  this  magazine) 
when  \i)U  try  some  of  the  many  recipes 
I  have  given  you.  And.  of  cuiirse,  do 
continue  to  tune  in  (in  my  present  proyram 
and  on  my  new  one  later  on,  so  that  I 
can  say  as  always,  frotu  the  bottom  of 
mv  heart:    "Thanks  tor  lislenin'." 


Ka+e  Smith, 

Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Modlson  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me — absolutely  free — 
recipes  for  your  favorite  summer 
dishes. 

Xame   

Street   

City   State  


Break  off  as  much  as  you  need!  Rit  is  In  water 
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of  height.  Reinembcr,  Glad\-s  .^wartliout 
employs  the  same  trick  for  exeiiiiif;.  too, 
although  she  is  inches  taller  tlian  Lily. 
Lily,  by  the  way.  appears  taller  than  she 
is,  due,  I  am  sure,  to  her  \er\-  eie.t  car- 
riage through  shoulders  and  back.  .\nd  in 
evening  clothes  she  looks  inches  taller  be- 
cause she  wears  gowns  which  reveal  a  wide 
expanse  of  bare  shoulders  and  neck — like 
the  charmnig  summer  exening  dress  pic- 
tin-ed.    More  about  it  later. 

Lily's  tace  is  a  long  c>\al,  rather  than 
round,  as  you  probablx-  have  noticed.  And 
her  eyes  are  large  and  dark,  changing 
with  her  moods — which  are  tpiile  change- 
able, indeed,  since  she  isn't  what  you'd 
call  a  static  gal ! 

Our  interview  probably  would  have  been 
considerably  less  hectic  if  it  had  taken 
place  at  Lily's  country  home  in  Silvermine, 
Connecticut.  Instead,  it  was  all  mixed  up 
with  the  hurly-burly  of  the  photographic 
studio.  I  would  yell  a  question  at  Mile., 
as  she  hurried  in  and  out  of  her  dressing- 
room  with  changes  of  costume  for  each 
camera  sitting.  She  wcjuld  stop  to  argue 
the  pose  with  the  photograiiher,  then  turn 
a  smiling  face  to  me,  answering  the  ques- 
tion. Someone  would  hold  up  the  next 
costume  to  be  tried  on  and  Lily  would 
shake  her  head,  saying  :  "Non!  Positively 
I  will  not  wear  that.  Why?  Uiok  at  the 
neck — it's  too  short.  The  s!ee\es.  they  are 
too  long.  And  the  trimming.  .  .  !"  She 
trailed  off  with  some  h'rench  expression  of 
comiiK'te  disgust.  Turning  to  me,  she  said: 
"I  cannot  bear  trimmings  of  any  kind — the 
what  you  call  'garniture.'  " 

She  really  doesn't  like  frills  on  her 
clothes,  yet  with  typical  Gallic  inconsis- 
tency, she  loves  hats  all  tricked  up  with  the 
most  elaborate  of  feathers,  flowers  and 
veils.  It  was  a  cool  day  and  she  wore  a 
trim  black  wool  suit,  very  plain,  with  a 
collarless  jacket,  the  sole  trimming  of  which 
were  three  S-shaped  buttons  of  snede.  Her 
accessories  were  of  the  se\erest — a  tailored, 
saddle-stitched  calf  bag.  suede  pull-on 
gloves  to  match  the  cinnamon  l)ro\\n  of  the 
jacket's  buttons,  and  open-toed  pumps.  'N  et, 
on  top  of  it  all.  was  an  utterly  craz\  little 
lial  of  sliinv  black  straw  bedecked  witli  an 

It  iiidhalily  sounds  (luite  silly,  actuall\-  it 
was  perfect  on  Lily.  She  knows  just  how 
far  she  can  go  on  the  giddy  touches  with- 
out looking  too  fussy. 

A  little  later,  when  she  was  posing  in  a 
draiuatic  and  very  becoming  pale  green 
organdy  dress,  she  insisted  that  she  tnust 
sit  in  a  cli.iir  whli  her  f.u  e  tiii  iied  full  to- 
ward the  eanier.i  The  du  ss  had  lier  fa- 
vorite off-the-shonl(l(  r  ni  ^Tliiie  and  low 
cut  bodice  and  the  skirt  was  enl  \ery  full 
gathered  into  a  green,  jeweled  bell.  She 
knew  she  looked  decorative  in  it,  but  the 
photographer  wanted  her  head  turned 
slightly.  She  fixed  him  with  a  stern  eye 
and  said  stubbornly:  "I  know  my  angles." 
.'\nd  she  woukl  not  change  the  pose. 


The  thing  that  amused  me  most  about 
this  incident,  however,  was  the  fact  that 
the  pose  had  hardly  been  snapped  when  in 
walked  Andre  Kostelanetz.  Lily  turned 
upon  him  the  most  dazzling  and  beguiling 
of  smiles,  asking  him,  in  French,  if  he 
thought  the  dress  looked  well.  And  wasn't 
she  right  upon  insisting  that  this  view  of 
her  face  (tilting  it  up  with  her  hand)  was 
best. 

He  gave  her  the  most  indulgent  of  looks, 
agreed  soletnnly  that  she  was  right  and 
departed.  Frtiin  that  point  on  Mile.  P. 
was  as  mild  as  a  kitten  and  there  were  no 
more  arguments  about  "angles." 

Of  her  play  clothes,  Lily  has  volumes 
to  say.  In  California  she  has  a  house 
which  literally  is  built  about  her  swimming 
pooL  She  spends  every  spare  moment 
there,  swimming.  And  because  she  enjoys 
this  sport  so  much,  she  chooses  a  practical, 
one-piece  type  of  bathing  suit,  which  has  a 
short  overskirt  attached  and  a  "bras"  top 
feature.  Her  favorite  suit  is  pictured.  It's 
inade  of  white  satin  and  woven  elastic — it 
has  a  deep  sun-back  cut,  but  is  high  in  front, 
with  straps  of  the  material.  She  has  re- 
peated this  style  in  other  fabrics,  one  a 
waffle-weave  wool  knit  in  a  soft  pastel 
shade.  This  has  the  iialter  type  top.  Oc- 
casionally she  wears  a  halter  bras  and 
shorts  arrangement  in  wool  knit — the  shorts 
are  navy  blue  and  the  halter  bras  in  white 
with  blue  trim,  an  uplift  line  achieved  by 
means  of  a  bow  directly  in  the  front. 

While  on  the  subject  of  swim  suits.  I 
want  to  remind  you  that  the  July  Shopping 
Bulletin  has  full  descriptions  and  prices  of 
two  excellent  styles  made  by  a  nationally 
known  swim  suit  manufacturer.  Both  of 
these  are  pets  of  screen  and  radio  stars 
this  season.  You  can  buy  these  in  your 
own  stores  at  moderate  prices  and,  there- 
fore, you  will  want  all  this  information 
about  them. 

You'll  find  that  practically  all  of  this 
season's  suits  feature  the  built-in  bras  de- 
tail, wdiether  they  are  made  of  an  elastic 
and  fabric  combination,  of  wool  knit,  or  of 
rubber.  Incidentall}-,  this  year's  crop  of 
rubber  suits  is  n:ore  durable  and  more  gen- 
erally suited  to  all  t\pes  of  figures  than 
ever  before.  They  come  in  all  sorts  of 
attracti\e  color  combinations  and  some  of 
the  cleverest  imitations  of  fabric  weaves 
I've  seen. 

Lily's  favorite  sports  costume  is  a  slacks 
suit,  such  as  you  see  her  wearing  this 
month.  She  likes  these  suits  to  be  strictly 
man-tailored  and  even  has  her  woolen  ones 
made  by  a  well-known  tailor,  so  that  they 
will  have  that  trimness  of  cut.  For  cooler 
days,  she  wears  a  tweed  jacket  with  con- 
trasting slacks.  .Some  of  her  suits  com- 
bine brown  with  gray  or  beige,  blue  with 
white,  an<l  l)r<i\\n  with  white.  For  hot 
weather  the  linen  suit,  i)ictined,  is  a  fa- 
vorite. This  particular  suit  is  made  of  a 
crush-resistin.g  linen,  woven  lo  resemble 
herringbone  tweed.    As  contrast  for  the  all 


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white  of  the  suit,  Lily  wears  a  bhie  and 
white  ciiecked  gingham  shirt,  and  on  her 
feet  she  puts  beach  shoes  with  cork  soles 
and  fishnet  tops. 

I  asked  her  why  she  liked  slacks  better 
than  the  more  feminine  and  colorful  sports 
dresses  She  told  me  that  she  walks  a  lot 
and  finds  them  more  comfortable  and  much 
more  practical.  Also,  like  many  stars  who 
have  been  exposed  to  the  Hollywood  studio 
life  for  part  of  every  year,  she  finds  them 
the  only  wearable  outfit  for  traveling  back 
and  forth  between  home  and  studio. 

Like  Gladys  Swarthout,  Lily  uses  the 
well-known  New  York  designer,  Valentina, 
for  her  clothes.  And,  also  like  Gladys,  she 
frequently  has  one  of  Valentina's  models 
copied  in  several  different  fabrics.  .And 
there's  a  valuable  tip  for  all  of  you  from 
these  famous  screen  and  radio  stars — they 
do  not  hesitate  to  have  a  repeat  perform- 
ance for  a  style  that  they  know  is  becom- 
ing. 

That's  the  way  to  gain  real  individuality 
in  dress.  And  you  girls  who  are  home- 
sewers,  have  the  advantage  over  those  who 
aren't,  because  you  can  duplicate,  again  and 
again,  any  dress,  coat  or  suit  that  you  find 
particularly  becoming  to  you.  And  there's 
no  time  more  ideal  for  smart  copying  than 
in  the  summer,  when  inexpensive  cottons, 
silks  and  rayons  bloom  in  all  manner  of 
colors  and  designs,  so  that  one  good  pattern 
may  be  infinitely  varied.  It's  an  economical 
idea,  which  gives  you  a  chance  to  be  a 
"type." 

And.  before  leaving  Lily,  be  sure  to  study 
that  charming  summer  evening  gown  she's 
wearing.  It's  the  sort  of  thing  all  of  .\ou 
can  copy  for  yourselves.  The  fabric  is  a 
gaily  printed  seersucker,  whicli  doesn't  re- 
(luire  ironing  after  it's  laundered.  And, 
for  that  reason,  it's  a  gem  for  vacation 
traveling  and  week-end  partying.  It  can't 
wrinkle  and  it  can  be  kept  fresh. 

Lily's  dress  is  made  with  a  very  full  skirt, 
lianded  at  the  hem  with  solid  color  bands 
to  match  the  predominant  color  in  tiie  print. 
The  bodice  is  fitted  with  large  puff  sleeves 
and  a  very  low  front  cut.  The  only  trim- 
ming Lily  permits  with  this  is  that  clip  at 
the  V-neckline  and  a  nosegay  of  flowers  in 
her  hair.  It's  as  cool  as  a  summer  ice  and 
as  satisfactory. 

Cottons,  like  seersucker,  pique,  linen, 
gingham  and  many  others,  are  an  inexpen- 
sive yet  colorful  answer  to  the  groaning 
budget.  For  day  or  evening,  they  adapt 
themselves  to  your  needs  with  a  minimum 
of  cost  and  a  maximum  of  service. 

Don't  forget  to  fill  out  the  coupon  below 
for  bathing  suit  shopping  information  as 
well  as  other  items  of  interest  to  your  sum- 
mer vacation  plans. 


Elizabeth  Ellis, 
Radio  Stars  Magazine, 
149  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Enclosed  please  find  a  stamped,  self- 
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went  out  to  Holl}\\ood  for  four  weeks,  re- 
turning for  anotlicr  nine  weeks'  engage- 
ment at  Cltcc  Force. 

It  was  while  he  was  appearing  there  that 
Rudy  Vallce  first  saw  Bergen  and  Charlie 
McCarthy,  and,  astute  showman  that  he 
is,  he  filed  away  in  his  mental  archives  the 
astounding  idea  of  putting  a  ventriloquist 
on  the  air. 

Then  came  the  Rainbozv  Room  engage- 
ment, and,  entertaining  in  New  York's 
smartest,  gayest  spot,  Edgar  Bergen  and 
Charlie  McCarthy  became,  for  the  select 
few,  a  sensation. 

"Put  Charlie  McCarthy  first,"  interject- 
ed Charlie.  "I  am  the  important  member 
of  this  team." 

"Look  out,"  Bergen  warned  him,  "or 
that  smart  top  hat  of  yours  won't  fit !'' 

"Well,"  Charlie  hedged  in  his  engaging 
manner,  "well,  of  course,  Mr.  Bergen — 
perhaps  my  hair  needs  a  little  brushing," 
he  added,  as  a  happy  thought. 

"Perhaps  you  need  a  bath,  too,"  Bergen 
said,  looking  at  him  critically. 

Charlie  gave  him  a  dirty  look ! 

"We  played  for  private  parties,"  Bergen 
went  on.  "All  the  society  folk — we  kidded 
them — they  loved  it." 

Elsa  Maxwell,  famed  entrepreneur  .of 
society  entertainment,  was  impressed  with 
the  sparkling  comedy  of  the  Bergen  act. 
Herself  a  guest  star  on  the  Vallee  pro- 
gram, she  reminded  Rudy  of  the  idea  which 
already  had  suggested  itself  to  him.  Seri- 
ously he  considered  the  possibility  of  a 
ventriloquist  act  on  the  air. 

Some  of  his  associates  and  sponsors 
were  doubtful,  but  Rudy  was  convinced. 
And,  on  last  December  17th,  Edgar  and 
Charlie  made  their  radio  debut  on  his  pro- 
gram. 

Said  Rudy :  "People  have  said  to  me  : 
'Why  put  a  ventriloquist  on  a  radio  pro- 
gram?'" And,  with  true  Yankee  psychol- 
ogy, he  answered  the  question  with  another. 
"The  answer,"  said  Rudy,  simply,  "is — 
why  not?" 

And  so  radio  listeners  got  a  new  thrill. 
It  was  not  only  a  new  thing  in  radio  fare, 
it  was  new  comedy,  from  the  first  briglit 
introductory  greeting  to  the  gay  quip. 
No  stale,  stereotyped  gags  or  situations  to 
disenchant  the  listener.  One  and  all,  we 
moved  closer  to  our  microphones  on  those 
succeeding  TInirsday  nights.  w;uting  ex- 
pectantly lor  Charlie  .\K(  arthy's  delicious 
drawl  and  his  sly.  knowmi^  lunn.)r.  Listen- 
ing with  irresistible  cluiekKs  as  he  crossed 

Sighing  regretfully  when  the  last  woid 
was  spoken. 

"At  first,"  says  Bergen,  "the  sponsors 
on  the  Vallee  show  were  skeptical.  After 
that  first  show,  they  asked  me  if  I  had 
material  enough  for  a  second !"  He 
chuckled. 

.N'aturally,  Mr.  Bergen  had.  And  again 
the  sponsors  inquirefl  if  he  could  do  a 
third.    He  could — and  did.    And  where. 


they  asked,  did  he  get  his  material?  He 
wrote  it  himselL  Well!  And  so  the  duo 
continued  to  appear  on  the  Vallee  hour. 

Edgar  Bergen  writes  all  his  scripts  him- 
self. And,  usually,  at  the  last  possible 
moment !  Till  he  went  on  the  air,  he  never 
used  a  script  in  actual  performance.  Never 
read  his  lines.  His  preferred  method  is 
to  memorize  a  situation  and  then  ad  lib 
the  lines. 

"I  often  surprise  Mr.  Bergen,  too!" 
Charlie  reminded  us,  with  a  chuckle  of 
malicious  mirth. 

"Oh,  yes — yes,  you  do !"  Bergen  agreed. 

"You  really  should  learn  to  read, 
though,"  Charlie  commented  drily,  remind- 
ing Bergen  of  how  he  had  stumbled 
through  a  script  at  one  of  his  rehearsals. 
"There'd  be  no  stopping  us,  then!" 

It's  not  so  easy,  though,  you  can  see, 
watching  Bergen,  as  he  looks  into  Char- 
lie's eyes  when  he  is  speaking,  to  turn 
from  Charlie  to  the  script  and  instantly 
find  the  proper  place.  But  the  smooth- 
ness of  his  broadcasts  proves  that  nothing 
can  stop  him. 

Once  a  writer  sent  in  an  unsolicited 
script,  and  called  to  inquire  if  Bergen 
woiild  buy  it.  Tactfully,  Bergen  pointed 
out  that  the  situations  were  old,  familiar 
routines  and  the  gags  staled  by  usage. 

"Well,"  the  disgruntled  writer  countered, 
"there's  nothing  new  under  the  sun!" 

But  radio  showman  Vallee  refuted  that 
contention  when  he  put  ventriloquist  Ber- 
gen and  his  dummy  on  the  air.  Here,  in- 
deed, was  soinething  new — something  never 
before  considered  possible  for  radio  en- 
tertainment. And  listeners  to  Bergen  and 
Charlie  would  rise  with  one  voice  to  pro- 
test that  there  really  is  something  new 
under  the  sun,  every  moment  that  that 
unique  team  is  talking ! 

"Life  never  has  been  so  thrilling  as  it 
is  right  now,"  says  Edgar  Bergen,  and  his 
deep-set  blue  eyes  glow  and  dimples  show 
in  his  cheeks.    And  Charlie  bows ! 

In  addition  to  the  radio  program,  Edgar 
and  Charlie  filled  a  night  club  engagement 
in  Chicago  during  the  winter  months.  In 
April  they  opened  at  the  Sert  Room  at 
New  York's  Waldorf-Astoria.  On  April 
twenty-ninth,  wlien  Vallee  was  London- 
bound  for  Coronation  festivities,  the  two 
were  a  delectable  dual  master  of  ceremon- 
ies for  the  Vallee  show.  And  on  May 
ninth  they  began  a  new  radio  series — Edgar 
Bergen  and  Charlie  McCarthy — with  a 
cast  which  includes  Don  Ameche  and 
Nelson  Eddy  (after  August  eighth),  with 
Werner  Jansscn's  orchestra  and  guest  stars. 
It's  the  Sunday  night  Chase  and  Sanborn 
hour,  broadcast  froiu  Hollywood. 

In  Hollywood,  Edgar  and  Charlie  will 
make  a  movie  for  Samuel  Goldwyn.  It 
will  not  be  just  a  spot,  or  an  act,  but  an 
integral  part  of  the  Goldzcyn  I- allies. 
Many  other  movie  companies,  that  once 
gave  them  a  cold  shoulder,  now  are  bid- 
ding for  their  services.. 

"Well — if  I  have  time — I  inay  take  them 
up,"  says  Bergen,  and  laughs  with  boyish 
delight  at  the  idea  of  being  able 'to  pick 


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and  choose  what  he  wants  to  do. 

Lyman,  too,  he  relates,  with  amuseinent 
in  which  there  is  no  malice,  sometimes  sits 
in  at  a  broadcast  and  weeps  because  he 
missed  out  on  this  topnotch  sensation. 

"He  asked  me  if  I  would  sign  with  him 
again,"  says  Bergen.  "But  I  told  him  1 
didn't  think  I  could.  I  don't  tliink  it 
would  work  out  ..." 

"We  have  about  all  we  can  do,  rislit 
now,"  interpolates  Charlie  with  a  dry 
chuckle. 

It  was  a  bit  over  seventeen  years  ago 
that  this  bright  career  really  started,  when 
the  younger  Bergen  boy  sent  a  hard-earned 
quarter  for  a  book  on  Magic,  Hyf'uotisin 
and  Ventriloquism.  At  first,  magic  and 
hypnotism  interested  the  boy  most.  It  was 
fun,  doing  tricks  for  schoolmates,  trying 
to  hypnotize  them,  trying  it  out  on  clerks 
in  stores  where  he  worked  through  sum- 
mer vacations. 

He  found  he  could  hypnotize  success- 
fully. And,  absorbed  in  this  strange  gift, 
supplemcntted  by  his  studies  in  psycholngy 
at  Northwestern  University,  Bergen  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  helping  unfortunate  in- 
mates of  insane  asylums.  "Much  could  be 
done  by  hypnotic  treatment,  I  thought,  to 
improve  their  condition,"  he  says  seriously. 
But  entertainment  engagements  prevented 
his  trying  out  his  theory. 

"I  never  got  into  an  insane  asylum, 
either  as  practitioner  or  patient!"  he 
laughed. 

We  suggested  that  making  people  laugh 
in  these  more  or  less  grim  days  was  a 
hypnotic  treatment  that  probably  kept 
many  more  of  us  out  of  insane  asylums. 

"There's   something   in   that,   too,"  he 


agreed.    "It's  good  to  laugh." 

But  he  discovered  that  he  could  "throw 
bis  \oicc"  and  licgan  to  study  ventrilo- 
(|tii>m  Miinii^lv,  practicing  on  his  friends 
and  iK  i.uhl)(M  >,  (h-camiiig  of  a  stage  career. 
Mdgar's  father,  a  godly  man  of  Swedish 
birth,  who  wanted  his  boy  to  be  a  minis- 
ter, frowned  upon  the  idea.  .\\u\  his  older 
brother,  an  accountant,  thoii.iilit  that  Edgar 
was  frivolinu  l]i>  life  awav. 

"I  guess  now,"  Hcrgcn  cliucklcs  "he 
marvels  at  it — as  I  do  I  Rnt,  of  course, 
no  really  intelligent  youth,"  he  maintains 
liowcver,  "would  seriousl\-  tliink  of  taking 
up  \  i'ntrilo(|uisni  as  a  profession.  And 
I'm  no  exception'.  It  just  doesn't  seem 
l)riglit,  when  you  tliink  of  itl" 

But  Bergen's  father  died  when  he  was 
sixteen,  and  the  boy  discovered  that  he 
could  make  a  living  with  his  newsboy, 
Charlie — so  he  started  out  on  the  Chau- 
tauciua  circuits. 

"1  wasn't  very  good,"  he  says,  "but  most 
of  those  people  never  had  seen  anything,  so 
it  was  all  right !  Some  of  them  were 
superstitious  —  thought  it  black  magic,  I 
guess.  Usually  the  first  three  or  four 
rows  of  seats  were  empty  —  they  were 

When  he  was  first  starting  out,  he 
ventured  one  day  liackstagc  at  a  vaude- 
ville house  to  speak  to  The  Great  Lester, 
after  a  performance.  Lester  was  a  Polish 
ventrilo(iuist,  once  internationally  famous. 
The  story  of  The  Great  Gahbo,  which  was 
made  into  a  movie,  was  supposed  to  be 
based  on  Lester's  own  story.  But  Bergen 
contends  it  is  fiction. 

"He  was  a  very  fine  man."  Bergen  says. 
"Very  generous.     He  gave  away  all  he 


had  in  the  world.  He  was  most  kind  to 
me  that  day.  I  told  him  I  was  trying  to 
be  a  ventriloquist.  He  asked  me  to  talk 
for  him,  and,  when  I  did,  he  assured  me 
that  I  would  do  well.  He  made  some  help- 
ful suggestions  on  the  use  of  my  voice, 
suggested  a  type  of  act  for  me,  gave  me 
some  gags — and  encouraged  me  tremend- 
ously. 

"Ever  since — if  any  boy  comes  back- 
stage to  talk  with  me,  looking  for  help, 
as  1  went  to  Lester,  I  try  to  do  all  I  can 
for  him,  in  return  for  what  Lester  did 
for  nie.    I  never  forget  it." 

Dill  he.  we  u  oniU  rc d,  lia\c  many  grim 
experiences?  Or  was  I'liv  fairly  smooth, 
as  he  went  from  Chautauqua  to  vaudeville 
to  cruises  south  or  abroad? 

"\\'ell,"  he  grinned,  "some  people  might 
have  thought  it  grim,  plax  ing  in  barn-like 
threatres  in  the  Mi<l<lK-  West — draughty 
shacks  that  seated  only  two  or  three 
hundred — where  you  had  to  dress  in  the 
boiler  room,  or  in  some  barn  fifty  yards 
from  the  stage  .  .  . 

"Sometimes  I  would  drive  miles  to  a 
theatre,  sitting  on  my  trunk  in  the  back 
of  a  pung,  with  the  temperature  ten  de- 
grees below  zero.  Then,  at  six  a.  m.,  I 
would  get  up,  break  the  ice  in  my  water 
pitcher  for  a  bath,  haul  my  trunk  to  the 
station — and  what  a  station!  I'd  make  a 
fire,  m\self.  in  the  station  stove,  to  keep 
from  freezing.  Then,  when  the  train 
came  in,  I'd  get  my  trunk  c;)n  a  wheelbar- 
row and  run  along  the  track,  pound  on  the 
door  to  wake  the  baggageman,  and  heave 
my  trunk  up  to  him. 

"Once  the  train  went  too  far  up  the 
track.    The  engineer  yelled  at  me  to  come 


.  r,ATP  FOR  FRIDAY? 
,W  ABOUT  A  DATE  FOK 


WISE  girls  everywhere  guard 
against  Cosmetic  Skin  —  tiny 
blemishes,  enlarged  pores — with 
Lux  Toilet  Soap.  Its  ACTIVE  lather 
removes  from  [the  pores  every 
hidden  trace  of  dust,  dirt,  stale  cos- 
metics. To  keep  skin  attractive,  use 
it  before  you  put  on  fresh  make-up 
—  ALWAYS  before  you  go  to  bed. 
9  out  of  10  screen  stars  use  it! 


Sallys  In  i 

. . .  she^s  learned  how  to  guard 
against  Cosmetic  Skin 


RADIO  STARS 


In  spite  of  her  daily  bath 
she's  an 

UNDERARM  VICTIM! 


EVERY  clay  she  makes  the  same  mis- 
take. She  expects  the  bath  she  takes 
at  8  o'clock  in  the  morning  to  protect  her 
from  underarm  perspiration  odor  at 
3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon! 

It  can't  he  done.  All  a  hath  can  do  is  to 
wash  aw  ay  the  traces  of  past  perspiration. 
It  cannot  prevent  perspiration  odor  from 
cropping  out  later  in  the  day.  A  bath 
works  backwards;  never  forwards. 

You  cannot  count  on  your  daily  bath 
to  keep  your  underarms  fresh,  free  from 
odor  longer  than  an  hour  or  two. 

It  takes  more  than  soap  and  water  to 
do  that;  it  takes  special  care. 

You  can  give  your  underarms  this 
special  care  in  just  half  a  minute.  With 
Mum! 

Mum  takes  care  of  you  all  day.  Smooth 
a  quick  fingertipful  of  Mum  under  each 
arm  and  you're  safe  for  that  day,  no 
matter  how  long  and  strenuous  it  is. 
No  trouble  to  use  Mum.  You  wa.stc  no 
time  in  using  Mum.  And  when  it's  on, 
you're  through.  No  fuss  of  waiting  and 
rinsing  off. 

MUM  TAKES  THE  ODOR  OUT  OF  PERSPIRATION 


Harmless  to  clothing.  Mum  has  been 
awarded  the  Textile  Approval  Seal  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Laundering  as 
being  harmless  to  fabrics.  So  don't 
worry  —  if  you  forget  to  use  it  before 
you  dress,  just  use  it  afterwards. 
Soothing  to  sensitive  skin.  Mum  is  so 
cooling  and  soothing  you  can  use  it  right 
after  shaving  the  underarms.  How 
women  appreciate  this! 
Does  not  prevent  natural  perspiration. 
Mum  does  just  what  you  want  it  to  do — 
prevents  the  ugly  odor  of  perspiration 
and  not  the  perspiration  itself. 

Don't  be  an  underarm  victim!  Depend 
upon  the  daily  Mum  habit  as  the  quick, 
easy,  sure  way  to  avoid  repellent  under- 
arm odor.  Bristol-Myers  Co.,  630  Fifth 
Ave.,  New  York  City. 


USE  AAUM  ON  SANI- 
TARY NAPKINS,  TOO. 

:\IuMi  (l;,ilv  pvcs  to 
<-,ninlI<>ss  women 
coiiit'ortinK  assur- 
Miuc  thill  I  hey  can- 
not ofi'cnd. 


Dark  glasses  ease  Rubinoff's  eyes 
OS  he  rehearses  his  CBS  program. 


on  up.  I  couldn't — the  snow  was  too  deep. 
I  yelled  at  bini :  'The  heck  -a'lth  yrui—yoit 
hack  uf!'    W'e  compromised,  liall  wa^-. 

"But  I  didn't  mind  it,"  Bergen  grinned. 
"I  was  doing  what  I  wanted  to  do— and 
having  a  swell  time  !" 

He's  always  ha\dng  a  swell  time,  you 
gather.  His  eyes  sparkle.  He  walks 
with  a  gay  swing.  But  he  doesn't  get  time 
to  go  around  a  lot.  He  likes  a  quiet  time, 
with  congenial  friemls.  He  doesn't  like 
night  chihs.    The\-  are  too  noi^y  ! 

Home  is  wlieie  his  hat  is,  more  or  less. 
Some  ila.\.  he  thinks,  he'd  like  to  own  some 
land  in  Arizona.  He  likes  the  climate 
tliere.  He  tliinks  the  Hollywood  climate 
miserable. 

"But  I  don't  want  a  home  now,"  he 
says.  "I  don't  know  where  I'll  be  for  any 
length  of  time.  Of  course,  there  is  the 
family  home  in  Chicago,  where  my  mother 
and  brother  are  ...  I  own  a  couple  of 
lots  near  Chicago,"  he  went  on,  "and 
they've  already  cost  me  more  in  taxes 
than  I  paid  lor  them  !" 

He  likes  sports  —  likes  to  swim,  ride, 
play  tennis.  \ot  golf.  .olf  tightens 
your  muscles,"  he  sa\  -..  I'.ei  gen's  muscles 
mo\e  in  apjiarently  elTorlle^s  coordination. 
At  times  you  feel  that  he  hasn't  a  bone  in 
his  biidx,  so  supple  and  relaxed  he  seems. 
And  you  realize  that  this  is  necessary  to 
the  flawdess  perfection  of  his — and  Char- 
lie's— voices.  He  never  is  tense,  self-con- 
scious, as  he  speaks  to  you. 

He  talks  freel\-  about  Ilis  experiences, 
interrupting  himself  with:  "Of  course,  I 
hate  to  talk  about  myself,  but — "  and 
laughs  gaily. 

A  man  who  can  laugh  at  himself,  v\  ith 
genuine  mirth,  is  rare,  but  Bergen  does 
it.  There's  nothing  hard  or  cynical  in  his 
reaction  to  life.  It's  a  grand  adventure, 
and  never  more  thrilling  than  now.  He 
doesn't  worry  about  the  future,  any  more 
than  Charlie  docs.  Today  is  the  time  to 
live,  to  laugh.  And  tomorrow  is  another 
day.  He  has  put  some  money  into  annui- 
ties and  government  bonds — but,  whatever 
comes,  he  and  Charlie  will  get  a  laugh  out 
of  it. 

"I  can  always  get  a  laugh  out  of  Ber- 
gen !"  says  Charlie  McCarthy.  '7/(7.'  Ha! 
Ila!" 

"That  will  do,  young  man,"  says  Bergen 
sternl>,  tucking  Charlie  away  in  his  suit- 
case. As  he  closes  the  bag,  he  gives  a 
little  rap  on  the  side  of  it. 

"Cut  that  out,"  says  Charlie,  from  with- 
in, "and  let  me  get  my  beauty  sleep!" 

And  the  interview  with  radio's  brightest 
act  is  over. 


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RADIO 
RAMBLINGS 

(Continued  from  page  17) 


Inquiries  occasionally  come  about  Tony 
Wons.  who  has  disappeared  from  the  net- 
works this  season.  Tony  took  a  good  slice 
of  radio  money  with  him  when  he  vanished. 
He  lives  in  ease  at  a  lake  home  in  Wis- 
consin during  the  summer.  In  the  fall,  he 
comes  into  Chicago  to  see  what  radio  has 
to  offer.  If  there  is  nothing,  Tony  probably 
sighs  luxuriously  and  spends  the  winter  in 
ease.  too.  _^ 

Robert  Armbruster,  orchestra  leader  for 
Gladys  Swarthout,  occasionally  gets  out  the 
old  player-piano  rolls  he  used  to  make. 
That  was  back  in  his  days  as  a  concert 
pianist,  eking  out  a  small  living  with  the 
fees  he  got  for  making  popular  music 
rolls.  He  wishes  he  could  play  that  well 
now.  He  challenges  anyone  else  to  play 
that  well,  too! 

"After  I  finished  a  roll,"  he  said,  "I 
used  to  get  in  extra  effects  by  cutting  a 
few  more  notes  into  the  paper  with  my 
pen  knife.  Some  of  the  playing  in  those 
rolls  is  impossible!" 

The  success  of  Tommy  Dorsey's  orches- 
tra has  a  little  story  of  struggle  against 
discouragement  behind  it.  A  little  more 
than  a  year  ago.  Tommy  and  Jimmy  Dorsey 
were  getting  along  very  well  with  Dorsey 
Brothers'  Orchestra,  riding  to  popularity 
on  the  first  waves  n{  .-wing  music.  Then 
the  brothers  decided  to  part.  Jimmy  kept 
the  orchestra  and  Tc.mimy  was  to  organize 
a  new  one  of  his  own. 

A  couple  of  days  after  the  rupture, 
Tommy  learned  that  Dorsey  Brothers'  Or- 
chestra, now  led  by  Jimmy,  had  been 
awarded  the  Bing  Crosby  program,  nne  of 
the  richest  plums  of  the  season.  Tommy 
was  trying  to  get  a  new  orchestra  in  >iiape 
and,  at  first,  it  was  not  very  good.  All 
through  iiis  wreslliny  with  the  new  band, 
he  heard  his  old  one  running  along  smoothly 
and  succc>siully. 

The  tide  finally  has  turned.  Jimmy's  or- 
chestra, still  an  excellent  one,  has  been 
overshadowed  by  the  amusing  banter  of 
Bing  Crosby  and  Bob  Burns.  Tonuny's 
swing  music  has  risen  to  pi-ominence  on 
Jack  Pearl's  conu-dy  -,liow  and  this  summer 
he  is  to  be  the  featured  artist  in  a  pro.iiram 
of  his  own. 

Friday  evening's  recently  arriv  ed  prni/raiii 
ivith  Louis  Armstrong's  orchestra  leill  help 
settle  one  of  radio's  lii'cly  ar(juincnls.  The 
ivild  colored  szving  bands  aizcays  have  had 
their  follonrrs  but  sponsors  have  shied 
away  from  hiring  them  jar  eonimcrcial 
programs.  The  theory  zcas  that  music  as 
cracy  as  theirs  icoiild  have  only  a  small 
jolloiiing. 

The  colored  hands  have  gone  on  being 
very  siiceessjnl  in  night  clubs  and  on  phono- 
graph records — icith  radio  snul'bnig  thciu 
as  jar  as  its  high-salaried  spots  are  con- 
cerned. This  neiv  program,  zeith  Louis 
Armstrong,  is  the  first  all-colored  siving 
and  comedy  shoiv  on  the  netxvorks. 

The  studio,  during  their  shoiv,  is  a  pic- 
turesque place.  The  program's  producers 
were  afraid  that  the  musicians,  used  to 


RADIO  STARS 


73 


RADIO  STARS 


Personal  Daintiness 

THE  FIRST  RIILEOF  ^1 


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flaying  in  th.c  uproar  oiui  tiinnoil  o/  a  night 
club,  might  feel  subdued  i)i  the  solemn  at- 
mosphere of  a  radio  studio.  Tobies  zeere 
moved  into  one  end.  and  )iieiiil<rrs  of  both 
cast  and  studio  audience  sit  there  to  ap- 
plaud, yell  and  generally  stir  things  up. 
The  studio  show  begins  a  halj  hour  before 
it  goes  on  the  air.  Most  of  the  hot  lieks 
tlu'se  boys  gii  e  arc  not  leritlen  vi  the  music. 
They  are  just  improvised  as  the  band  gets 
hot.  It  fakes  a  half  hour  really  l<>  heat 
them  up.  so  they  co)ne  in  early  to  "noodle 
around,"  iJ}ieli  Is  the  sieing  man's  leay  of 
saying  playi)ig  just  for  the  fun  of  it. 

John  Nesbitt,  the  commentator  whose 
chatty  anecdotes  recently  have  been  pro- 
moted to  a  nationwide  network,  has  an 
amusing  story  about  his  own  entrance  into 
this  business  of  entertaining  people.  His 
father  had  an  office  in  a  theatrical  build- 
ing, and  eight-year-old  John  was  waiting 
for  him  in  the  corridor  one  afternoon. 

"Hey,  kid,"  a  man  bawled  at  him,  "go 
up  into  the  costume  room  and  get  your 
stuff." 

John  had  no  notion  of  what  the 
man  was  talking  about  but  he  dutifully 
scampered  in  the  direction  indicated.  There 
some  other  children  were  being  dressed  for 
a  rehearsal  of  Maeterlinck's  play.  The  Blue 
Bird.  John  was  costumed,  along  with  the 
rest,  and  rehearsed  all  afternoon. 

He  returned  home  to  dispel  his  parents' 
anxiety  about  their  missing  offspring.  After 
some  explaining  and  pleading,  he  was 
allowed  to  return  next  day  and  played  in 
the  production,  a  semi-professional  affair, 
for  a  whole  week.  His  fee,  the  first  money 
he  earned  as  entertainer,  was  ^6.00. 

Oddly  enough,  the  Sal  Hepatiea-I pana 
executive  in  charge  of  Fred  Allen's  pro- 
gram is  named  Allen,  too — Joe  Alien.  He 
and  Peter  \'an  Steeden  liave  a  weekly  con- 
ference about  the  music  to  be  played.  Joe 
takes  a  fiTL-nt  deal  of  pride  in  his  judgment 
iif  ])oi)ular  music.  As  any  orchestra  leader 
would.  Peter  used  to  accept  a  sponsor's 
judmnent  with  misgivin.si'S.  Mr.  Allen  re- 
ceiitl\-  silenced  all  that. 

When  the  Hit  Parade  started  its  guess- 
ing contest,  on  wliicli  were  to  be  next 
week's  popular  songs,  Mr.  Allen  started 
competing.  For  three  weeks  he  submitted 
lii^^  guesses  and,  sure  enough,  the  third  week 
lie  was  among  the  winners  of  a  carton  of 
Lucky  Strike  cigarettes. 

"Well,  Peter,  you  know- — ''  is  sufificient 
to  settle  any  argument  now  on  what  the 
music  for  next  week's  I'red  Allen  show 
w  ill  I.e.  _^ 

After  nearly  ten  years  in  .-Imerica.  Lily 
Pons  still  is  ill-at-ease  in  linglish.  much 
preferring  to  speak  in  her  nalire  Trench. 
It's  not  that  Lily  is  stupid  about  the 
language.  Ihiring  her  early  years  in 
.Inierica  she  hail  small  need  for  learning 
the  language,  l-'oreign  opera  stars  learn 
nearix  ererv  major  liuropean  language,  but 
)iot  Lnglish.  There  are  no  important  operas 
~,vritten  in.  Lnglish. 

Tor  several  years,  most  of  Miss  Pons' 
activities  In  .Inierica  u-cre  leith  the  Met- 
rupiditau  Opera.  I'lilil  recently,  lehcu  a 
ncie  pi'llcx  of  iiilmilling  .Imcilcaii  s'nigcrs 
has  been  inllinocd.  very  lillle  Lnglish  mis 
tiraiil  h,h  b.gaiic  at  the  .Metropolitan.  Not 
iiiilil  she  I'raiichcd  out  into  radio  and 
mnrics  dul  .]tiss  Pons  hai-c  use  for  Lnglish. 
Iler  broadcasts  always  are  visited  by  a 


whole  crowd  of  musical  people — old  friends  1 
('/  the  star.  After  the  program,  Miss  Pons' 
di  cssing-roont  ahvays  becomes  a  miniature 
mob  scene,  as  they  all  rush  back  zvith  greet- 
ings and  congratulations.  The  conversation 
tlicrc  runs  almost  entirely  in  French.  Even 
.Indrc  K ostclanetz,  the  orchestra  leader, 
speaks  Lrcnch  lehen  he  addresses  his  sing- 


You  think  of  these  New  York  radio 
studios  as  palatial  affairs,  the  last  word  in 
modern  equipment.  But  one  of  the 
Columbia  network  theatre-studios  in  New 
York  (right  on  Broadway,  too)  can't  be 
reached  by  telephone  during  a  broadcast. 
The  only  phone  in  the  place  is  located 
backstage.  If  it  rang  during  a  program, 
the  ring  would  get  into  the  microphone 
and  be  heard  from  coast  to  coast. 

To  make  sure  the  phone  doesn't  ring, 
they  take  the  receiver  off  the  hook  as  soon 
as  the  studio  goes  on  the  air. 

One  of  Babe  Ruth's  recent  baseball  chats 
for  the  Columbia  network  brought  up  an 
odd  thought.  Babe  once  was  baseball's  most 
liersistent  holdout  when  contract  time  came 
around  each  spring.  Yet  there  he  was, 
that  night,  lightly  dismissing  the  holdout 
of  Ruffing,  a  New  York  Yankee  pitcher. 

"They'll  get  along  without  him,"  Babe 
casually  reinarked. 

I  was  wondering  what  would  have  hap- 
pened if  the  Babe  had  heard  any  such  radio 
remark  about  himself  in  his  own  holdout 
days.  Can  you  imagine  how  a  huge,  burly 
man  would  look,  ferociously  tearing  a  radio 
set  apart  with  his  bare  hands? 

//  Wallace  Beery  ever  gets  around  to 
working  on  radio  again,  he'll  har'c  no  diffi- 
culty about  finding  plays.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  he  has  a  bulky  envelope  of  them  ready 
for  his  ne.vt  crack  at  the  microphone. 

When  lieery  substituted  for  Al  Jolson  ' 
on  the  Shell  Chateau  program,  tieo  seasons 
ago,  his  success  in  a  number  of  one-act 
plays  coni'inced  him  that  this  was  a  good 
branch  of  shozv  business  for  him.  He 
stepped  into  the  literary  market  and  pur- 
chased radio  rights  to  a  dosen  playlets  that 
he  thought  leould  make  suitable  vehicles 
for  him,  paying  a  good  sum  of  his  own 
money  for  the  rights. 

But  from  that  day  to  this,  movie  ivork 
and  picture  produccr.s-'  objections  have  kept 
H'allacc  off  the  air.  Without  ever  having 
written  a  play,  he  has  accumulated  more 
plays  in  his  trunk  than  an  unsuccessful 
playzcright. 

A  crowd  of  radio  press  agents  (they 
usually  nurse  a  healthy  but  secret  hatred 
of  the  people  they  help  make  famous,  you 
know)  were  talking  about  which  were  the 
most  Elegant  programs  on  the  air.  The 
way  they  mentioned  Elegant,  you  could  be 
sure  it  was  spelled  with  a  capital  E. 

Most  of  the  votes  went  to  Mary  Pickford 
for  her  house  party  series  of  two  seasons 
ago,  where  everyone  was  greeted  effusively 
and  gushed  over.  Tliere  was  one  pair  who 
insistently  held  out  for  NBC's  new  singer, 
Ilildegarde. 

"That  girl,"  their  explanation  ran,  "grew 
up  in  Milwaukee,  went  abroad  for  a  couple 
of  years  and  came  hack  with  an  accent  she 
must  have  picked  up  in  some  mythical 
kingdom  like  (iraustark.  1  never  heard 
anything  to  match  it.  She's  the  top  girl  in 
Llegance !" 


74 


RADIO  STARS 


A  great  change  comes  over  these  press 
agents  in  their  off  hours.  They  spend  their 
working  hours  building  glamorous  atmos- 
phere and  legend  about  the  stars.  Once  the 
work  is  done,  they  get  together  and  abuse 
the  same  people  for  the  rest  of  the  evening ! 

With  all  the  disturbance  going  on  in 
large  studio  audiences,  it  seems  miraculous 
at  times  that  the  program  itself  is  not 
drowned  out.  NBC's  largest  studio,  for 
instance,  is  big  enough  to  seat  nearly  1,500 
persons  and  big  enough  so  that  persons 
in  the  back  can  see  very  little  and  hear 
almost  none  of  the  dialogue.  During  any 
broadcast,  a  few  of  them  get  up  and  try 
to  sneak  around  to  a  better  spot.  The 
usher  tiptoes  over  to  them. 

"I  just  want  to  take  one  good  look,"  the 
restless  one  says.    "Then  I'll  go  back." 

The  usher  has  a  problem.  He  must  be 
quiet  himself  and  keep  the  other  man 
quiet,  too.  The  surprising  thing  is  that 
the  ushers  usually  are  able  to  explain  in 
whispers  and  pantomime  and  keep  every- 
one in  their  proper  seats.  At  the  end  of 
a  program  an  usher  often  is  upbraided 
furiously  by  someone  who  asked  for  a  free 
ticket  and  failed  to  arrive  early  enough  to 
get  a  good  seat. 

They  have  loud  speakers  in  the  studios, 
so  that  persons  in  the  rear  may  hear,  but 
occasionally  the  engineer  forgets  to  turn 
them  on.  Often  they  cannot  be  turned  on 
loud  enough,  anyway,  because  the  sound 
from  the  speakers  would  get  back  into  the 
microphone  and  blur  the  effect. 

The  mode  of  the  double-named  Simone 
Simon  must  have  made  life  much  easier  for 
Carol  Carol,  the  young  writer  who  puts  to- 
gether the  informal  dialog  for  Bing  Crosby 
and  his  guest  artists.  Carol  used  to  arrive 
at  the  studio  every  once  in  a  while  with  a 
story  of  some  foolish  or  unpleasant  incident 
his  name  had  caused.  It  almost  upset  his 
marriage  a  couple  of  years  ago,  while  Carol 
still  was  writing  in  New  York. 

Carol  was  taking  out  a  marriage  license 
in  Brooklyn  and  the  clerk  asked :  "Last 
name?" 

"Carol." 

"First  name?" 

"Carol." 

The  clerk  asked  again  and  Carol  re- 
peated again  :  "Carol." 

Brooklyn  license  clerks  have  no  time  to 
waste  on  nervous  grooms  and  still  less  for 
wise  guys.  This  one  was  about  to  order 
poor  Carol  right  out  of  the  office.  Friends 
managed  to  calm  things. 

"That's  his  name,"  they  replied.  "Carol 
Carol.    He  doesn't  like  it,  cither." 

He  can  like  it  now,  though.  It's  right 
in  the  mode.  So  is  Thomas  Thomas,  the 
radio  baritone  who  has  been  trying  for 
years  to  mask  his  affliction  by  billing  him- 
self as  Tom  Thomas.  He's  the  singer  who 
won  a  place  in  the  Metropolitan  this  year, 
through  XBC's  Mctropolilcin  Opera  Audi- 
tions of  the  Air. 

—By  ARTHUR  MASON 


Coming — an  exclusive  story  on  Helen 
Menken,  star  of  the  new  NBC  serial, 
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RADIO  STARS 


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WHEN  I'uins  and  Allen  moved  over  to 
the  NBC  snulios.  Jack  Benny's  \velc(jniing 
i;!lt  to  Gracic  was  a  box  of  39  brand  new 
pencds — line  to  cbew  on  each  broadcast, 
"it  stciuhes  niy  nerves,"  Grade  explained 
lo  bystanders,  after  thanking  Jack  for  the 
,mlt.  "And  drives  me  crazy  I"  said  George, 
ttarmg  his  hair.  Fifteen  minutes  later 
j.ick  jiresented  George  with  a  similar  box, 
with  a  note:  "Ovcrcowic  your  iirri'cs.  Chczv 
ti.'o  rach  broadcast." 

Graric  .lllni's  altirc  ahcays  looks  like 
the  Inst  fiasp  jroiii  Ihe  fashion  jrout.  She 
may  he  caiu/hl  in  Ihe  same  suit  or  dress 
liciee,  hut  the  hat,  perched  at  a  jaunty  angle 
oz'cr  one  of  the  AUen  hron's,  is  alv.<ays 
different.  Our  spy  finally  imjiiirril  the  other 
day  low  she  e-ocr  found  lime,  let  alone 
money,  lo  Inty  all  those  chapeaii.r.  "Oh, 
I'm  not  so  diimh."  said  (iracie,  dissolz'ing 
into  (jifiolrs.  "This  is  the  "iily  hat  1  oivn 
lo  my  name.  1  jusi  pin  a  different  flock 
i.j  flmoers  on  Ihe  front  every  day  and  feel 
as  ueio-hallcd  as  I  look!" 

Walda  Winchell,  Walter's  thirteen-year- 
old  daughter,  came  with  Mack  Gordon  to 
a  recent  Jack  Benny  rehearsal  to  watch  the 
goings-on.  In  the  middle  of  a  line,  Jack 
spotted  the  little  girl,  sitting  towards  the 
back  of  the  auditorium.  "Hah!"  he  Itch- 
ed, pointing  a  menacing  finger  at  her, 
and  leering  savagely.  "Here  to  get  dirt  for 
your  old  man,  eh?" 

I,um  and  .-Ihner  and  Don  Amechc  got 
toiicthcr  the  other  day  and  decided  to  try 
a  bit  "i  deeji-sea  tishin,<;-,  since  none  of 
iheni  e\er  liad  attempted  that  sport  be- 
I'nre.  W  ith  the  biiiis  nf  their  friends  and 
family  riiiLMnj.;  in  their  ears,  the  three  hired 
a  liiiat  al  Santa  Muniia,  to  the  tune  of 
lifteen  diillirs  fur  the  day,  anfl  set  sail. 
'I'he  pay-otT  to  this  fish  story  is  tliat  they 
eau.i.;lit  enciiuli  lish  to  repay  the  owner  of 
the  l>n;it.  with  plenty  left  over  to  send 
special  <li  li\(  i  \'  til  the  big.iiest  sneerers. 

h'liv  X  . .''/,'•  :eas  taikimi  to  Cconjc  lUirns 
iihoiii  III,'  prooram  ami  offered  to  use  a 
decided  T.uiilisli  accent  if  Ceoei/e  Ihoiu/lit 
It  leould  he  heller.  '■Jicltcrr'  e.velaimed 
0/-ori/e.  "ll'hy,  /  can'l  understand  ludf  of 
'chat  you  say  nozv."  "My  7.^'ord."  said 
Kay.  "this  is  mild.  Sometimes  I  talk  so 
llrilish  I  cnion'l  itnderstand  tnyself."  Kay's 
laken  out  his  frst  citizenship  papers  and 
says  that,  as  soon  as  he's  siire-enoni/h 
.  'nieriean.  he's  (loiiii/  in  e.reliisii'cly  for  Ihe 
I '.  S.  slaiif/nage. 

It's  wedding  bells,  sure  enough,  for  Na- 
talie Cantor  and  Joe  Mctzger,  who  have 
been  contemplating  marriage  for  lo,  these 
nine  years.  Natalie's  given  up  her  job  in 
the  CBS  mimeographing  department,  and 
Papa  Cantor's  setting  Joe  up  in  business. 

I'l<lna  Cantor,  the  co-ed  daughter,  didn't 
lirove  to  be  a  chip  of¥  the  old  block,  re- 
cently.    Scheduled  to  be  on  John  Held, 


Jr.'s  broadcast  from  the  University  of 
Southern  California,  Edna's  teeth  chattered 
at  such  an  alarming  rate  when  she  faced 
the  mike,  that  Charley  Chase's  daughter 
had  to  be  rushed  on  the  air  in  her  place. 

Jl'hen  Amelia  llarhart  appeared  on  Bing 
Crosby's  program  recently,  she  created 
quite  a  furor.  Hi-cryone  in  the  audience 
loas  clamoring  for  her  autograph  before 
and  after  the  broadcast.  Miss  Earhart  gave 
as  many  as  she  had  time  for  and  zoas  very 
cool,  calm  and  collected  about  it  all.  But 
'alien  Bob  Burns  came  up  to  shake  hands 
ivith  her  and  zvish  her  goodbye,  the  gal 
zvho  girdles  globes  became  suddenly  shy. 
"I  zvas  just  loondering,  Mr.  Burns,''  she 
said,  "if  yon  Zi'onid  gii'e  me  your  auto- 
graph?" Bob  blinked  his  eves  zvith  in- 
credulity and  drawled  :  "Well,  can  you  beat 
that!  I  loas  jest  loorkin'  up  enough  nerve 
to  ask  you  for  one!" 

John  Barrymore  still  has  charm,  even  if 
Elaine  Barrie  doesn't  think  so.  When  the 
actor  and  his  profile  guest-starred  on  a  re- 
cent Bing  Crosby  program,  a  pretty  high- 
school  girl  pushed  her  way  through  the 
crowd,  after  the  broadcast,  and  insisted 
on  shaking  hands  with  John.  Then  she 
presented  her  mother,  and  the  Barrymore 
brows  went  up  in  disbelief,  "This  charming 
girl  your  mother?"  he  inquired,  "But  my 
dear,  what  a  delightful  liar  you  are!" 

Barbara  Luddy  had  just  "gone  Holly- 
wood" to  the  extent  of  purchasing  a  home 
in  the  San  Fernando  ^'alley,  when  the 
n.ews  came  that  the  First  Nightcr  would 
be  broadcast  from  Chicago  from  now  on. 
Barbara  refused  flatly  to  move — until  she 
was  offered  exactly  twice  her  present  sal- 
ary and  a  three-year  contract  to  boot.  Fi- 
nancier Luddy  then  turned  around  and  sold 
the  new  house  at  a  neat  profit,  the  day 
before  heading  east  with  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Molly  Luddy,  and  Petey,  "just  dog." 

Marion  Tolley  alzcays  looks  neat  and 
pretty  at  broadcasts,  hut  a  far  cry  front 
stunning.  So  Ihe  other  evening,  when  she 
swished  iiilo  till'  studio,  all  done  up  in  a 
black  lace  go;cn  and  looking  like  a  few 
million  dollars,  she  had  ez'cryone  in  the 
place  agog.  The  men  looked  as  if  they 
could  stand  it  forever,  but  the  women 
couldn't  stand  it  for  another  minute.  "Tell 
us  zvhcre  you  got  it.  please.  Marion,"  they 
bec/(/cd.  Marion  looked  eery  vivsterious 
and  shook  her  head.  "I  /  could."  she 

said  Sillily,  "hut  il's  an  imported  go'wn 
and  mv  eouliinere  loioihl  he  furious  if  I 
breathed  her  name."  lUil  just  before  leav- 
ing, Marion  turned  hack  at  the  door  and 
said:  "It  zoas  imported  from  the  Kaiisas 
corn-fehls.  My  sister  Florence  zvhipped 
it  up  one  evening,  after  milking  the  cozvs!" 

CBS  and  NBC  joining  hands  for  thirty 
minutes,  during  the  second  annual  Radio 
Show  at  the  Shrine  Auditorium  in  Los  An- 
geles, was  an  event  in  itself.    But  the  whole 


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show  turned  out  to  be  something  extra 
special.  There  were  fine  performances  by 
Burns  and  Allen,  Al  Jolson,  Eddie  Cantor, 
Don  Ameche,  Mack  Gordon  and  Harry 
Revel,  Ken  Murray,  Mary  Martin,  Johnny 
Green,  Lum  and  Abner,  Block  and  Sully 
and  many  other  radio  high-lighters.  The 
show  was  emceed  by  Gary  Breckner,  Don 
Wilson  and  Waiter  Winchell. 

Tops,  however,  for  performances  went 
to  Eddie  Cantor  and  Jack  Benny.  Wiien 
Jeanette  MacDonald  and  Nelson  Eddy 
couldn't  appear,  due  to  picture  re-takes, 
Jack  and  Eddie  romped  out  in  Maytitne 
costumes,  so  as  not  to  disappoint  the  au- 
dience. Jack  was  in  a  long  rose-pink  coat 
suit  with  hat  to  match,  while  Eddie  was 
gowned  in  a  delectable  number  of  pale 
blue,  which  set  off  his  dark  beauty  to  per- 
fection. His  hoop-skirt,  however,  nearly 
broke  one  of  Benny's  legs  as  they  swung 
into  a  dance ! 

-♦- 

Presentation  of  Maureen  O'Connor,  thir- 
teen-year-old singer,  as  Queen  of  Radio  for 
1937,  was  another  highlight.  Picked  by 
the  radio  editors  as  next  year's  Baby  Star, 
they  H'ill  look  after  her  career  in  a  grouf^. 
Small  Maureen  Z\.'as  uhiiosl  hidden  on  the 
stage  by  her  escort  of  beauty  ivinners  from 
the  Mid-Western  universities.  These  good- 
looking  gals  iL'ere  picked  out  by  a  jury 
composed  of  Al  Jolson,  Joe  Penner,  Eddie 
Cantor,  George  Burns,  Jack  Oakie  and  Mil- 
ton Berle.  The  boys  call  themselves  the 
"Comedians'  Congress  For  Choosing 
Comely  Co-Eds." 

Eddie  Cantor's  Helen  Troy  is  no  new- 
comer to  the  airwaves.     She  used  to  be 


Sally  of  Cec»7  and  Sally — remember?  20th 
Century-Fox  are  going  to  make  a  picture 
of  Cecil  and  Sally,  so  the  other  day  they 
called  Helen  over  to  make  a  test  for  the 
role.  In  a  few  days  they  sent  her  the 
message:  "Sorry,  you  just  don't  look 
enough  like  Sally."  Helen's  wondering 
who's  crazy. 

When  that  Wake  L'p  and  Live  program 
was  broadcast  recently,  all  the  20th  Cen- 
tury-Fox Players  were  there  in  full  regalia 
— among  them  Alice  Faye,  Walter  Win- 
chell and  others.  Just  before  the  program 
Ben  Bernie  received  a  wire  from  the  spon- 
sor of  the  show :  "Do  you  suppose  that  20th 
Century-Fox  would  allow  us  to  squeeze  in 
a  mention  of  the  American  Can  Company?" 

Little  Ella  Logan  ca)i  do  a  fezi'  more 
things  besides  zvarble  a  l()rch-S(>ihi.  She 
can — and  does — support  some  licciity-eight 
people,  all  of  them  relatives!  Soma  are 
living  here  in  Hollyivood  zvith  her,  but 
most  of  them  are  still  back  in  Scotland. 
"Thanks  be  for  the  iminigration  laics,"  says 
Ella,  "for  oatmeal  comes  considerable 
higher  a  bushel  here  in  the  States!" 

Just  as  the  signal  was  given  to  indicate 
that  the  Community  Sing  program  was 
over,  the  other  day,  a  voice  was  heard  from 
the  back  of  the  auditorium:  "Hey,  Milt!" 
Everyone  turned  to  see  Vince  Barnett 
standing  on  his  chair  and  madly  waving  to 
attract  Milton  Berle's  attention.  "I  was 
just  wondering,"  yelled  Vince,  "if  I  could 
get  my  passes  back!" 

Mary  Livingstone  has  more  relatives 
than  you  can  shake  a  mike  at.  Though 


most  of  then  are  frequent  visitors  at  the 
I3cnny  home.  Jack,  it  seems,  doesn't  get 
much  opp'jrtunity  to  air  his  opinion  of 
them.  But  he  does  at  the  broadcasts. 
There  always  are  three  or  four  of  them 
sitting  in  the  front  row  and  the  half-hour 
rehearsal  before  the  show  is  interspersed 
with  Jack's  remarks  to  them.  "So  you 
think  y>)u'rc  cute,  because  you're  Mary's 
sister,  huh?"  or  "Well,  you  may  be  Mary's 
aunt,  but  you're  just  an  aunt  to  me,"  or 
"Mary's  grandmother,  eh?  Can't  see 
where  she  got  her  good  looks  I"  And  the 
loudest  giggles  come  from  the  relatives. 
-♦- 

When  Tony  Martin  sings  at  the  radio 
station,  there  arc  alicays  plenty  oj  pretty 
girls  turned  aiKtiy.  due  to  Luk  of  luhets. 
But  three  hundred  of  ihein  bad  Ihcir  chance 
to  hear  Tony  at  the  moz'ie  siudio  the  othei 
day — and  received  fifteen  dollars  for  do- 
ing it.  It  zvas  for  a  scene  iu  Sin.u  and  Be 
Happy,  in  zvhich  Tony  oi'd  Leolt  Ray  zvill 
be  radio  stars,  and  the  gals  icere  needed 
for  atmosphere. 

It  was  "Water,  water  everywhere  .  .  ." 
with  Charlie  Forsyth  in  the  middle  of  it! 
Alibi  Ike  airing  was  over.  The  sound-effect 
man  for  the  Lux  Theatre  was  found  up  in 
his  booth,  plying  a  mop  with  all  the  vigor 
of  a  housekeeper,  for  Charlie  had  almost 
swamped  himself  while  supplying  back- 
ground for  Joe  E.'s  and  Helen  Chandler's 
love  scene  in  a  rowboat.  Poor  Charlie  had 
to  paddle  all  that  time  in  a  tub  of  water, 
with  a  flat  stick,  and  engineer  two  hefty 
splashes  when  Joe  and  Helen  got  their 
ducking. 

—By  LOIS  SVENSRUD. 


''WHY  CANT  I 


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Off 

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Avoid 
Offending... 

SOME  GIRLS  are  always  losing 
out  on  friendships— especially  with 
men.  Though  attractive  generally, 
they  offend  others  in  that  one  un- 
forgivable way — through  perspira- 


Popular  girls  never  risk  offending. 
Luxing  underthings  after  each 
wearing  whisks  away  every  trace 
of  perspiration  odor. 

Lux  has  none  of  the  harmful 
alkali  found  in  many  ordinary 
soaps  that  may  fade  colors  — 
wear  things  out.  With  Lux  there's 
no  injurious  cake-soap  rubbing. 
Anything  safe  in  water  alone  is 


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BEAUTY  ADVICE 

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banish  that  "naked"  feeling  when  you  slip 
your  feet  into  bedroom  slippers,  house  or 
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THE  STILLMAN  COMPANY 
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life  easy  !    A  laujih  is  their  biggest  excrtinn. 

Xe.xt  time  ymi  dine  out,  glance  discreetly 
at  your  neighbt)r's  bill  of  fare.  Ten  to 
one,  it  she  is  more  than  pleasingly  plump, 
you  will  find  her  energetically  pursuing 
cream  soup  and  chicken  a  la  kinu,  right 
down  to  a  fudge  sundae  with  marshmal- 
lows  and  whipped  cream!  To  the  left  of 
her  you  will  f^nd  the  "puff  of  wind  will 
Miiw  her  right  way"  Miss,  daintily  picking 
Ikt  way  through  a  lettuce  and  tomato 
salad  with  sliced  oranges  for  dessert! 

How  much  better  both  of  those  neigh- 
bors would  be  if  they  would  exchange 
likes !  And  you  can  develop  likes — there 
is  no  doubt  about  that.  Gladys  Swarthout 
tliiuks  thin !  She  has  cultivated  a  taste 
for  simplicity.  She  says  anyone  who  takes 
just  a  little  trouble  can  learn  how  delicious 
broths,  lamb,  chicken  and  vegetables  really 
are — not  to  mention  the  myriad  combina- 
tions of  fresh  fruit  salads. 

And  you — who  really  need  to  count  cal- 
ories and  hold  them  down  to  the  "merest 
nothing" — should  open  your  eyes  to  the 
delicious  crispness  of  fresh  vegetables  and 
the  lusciousness  of  fruits. 

There  is  a  lovely  Fifth  Avenue  beauty 
salon  that  is  now  featuring  a  "Matiere  \'i- 
vante"  luncheon  that  I  wish  you  could  all 
have — if  just  once.  You  would  never  again 
scorn  the  vegetables  after  you  have  seen 
the  fascinating  possibilities  they  have !  This 
luncheon  is  composed  solely  of  raw  vege- 
tables and  fruits,  and  until  you  see  it  and 
taste  it  you  can't  imagine  how  delightful 
and  soul-satisfying  a  health  luncheon  can 
be !  If  you  would  like  to  have  a  "Matiere 
\"ivante"  luncheon,  I  shall  be  glad  to  give 
you  the  name  and  address  of  the  salon. 

And  you — who  need  to  count  calories  and 
make  them  add  higher  and  higher — would 
be  interested  in  my  weight-gaining  bulletin. 
A  check  on  the  coupon  at  the  end  of  this 
article — a  self- addressed  envelope — and  it's 
yours ! 

Exercise,  you  know,  is  the  great  normal- 
izer.  It  takes  inches  off  the  overweight 
and  adds  curves  to  the  underweight.  Of 
course,  <luring  the  winter  months  you 
wanted  to  cling  to  your  firesides,  but  now, 
with  the  spring  and  summer  here,  do  be- 
stir yourselves  and  make  up  for  lost  time. 
The  outdoor  games  and  sports  serve  a 
double  purpose  by  giving  you  fresh  air  at 
the  same  time  you  exercise.  The  summer 
sun  does  present  some  special  problems  of 
its  own,  though — and  here  is  where  your 
beauty  editor  comes  to  your  assistance. 

I  have  for  you,  this  month,  a  generous 
sample — absolutely  free — of  a  grand  pro- 
tective lotion.  Even  on  cloudy  days  the  sun 
can  give  you  bad  burns,  so  use  it  lavishly 
at  all  times.  This  Iniinn  is  made  nf  iliir- 
teen  fine  imp' nlfl  "il^  and  it  will  snHni 
and  soothe  >nur  skin  at  tlic  same  time  it 
lir<jtc(  ts.    I  \c  it  on  f.K  e  and  all  ex- 

p..scd  p.irts  of  the  body.  In  fact,  this  lo- 
tion is  so  delightful,  you  vv  ill  probably  want 
to  use  it  all  over.  It  is  (|uick-drying  and 
non-greasy  and  gives  your  skin  a  lovely, 
satiny  feeling! 

There  is  no  substitute  for  comfort,  es- 
pecially during  the  holiday  play  season.  1 


am  thinking  you  will  be  wanting  to  keep 
a  large  supply  of  this  grand  lotion  at  hand ! 
So,  lill  out  the  coupon  and  get  acquainted 
with  the  free  sample  now ! 

Now  that,  with  the  aid  of  this  lotion, 
you  can  "take"  the  outdoors  and  exercise, 
let's  turn  our  attention  again  to  Gladys 
Swarthout's  beauty  secrets !  In  addition 
to  her  famous  voice  and  beauty,  Gladys 
Swarthout  is  known  as  being  one  of  the 
world's  best-dressed  women.  Yet,  study 
her  pictures.  Her  clothes  are  in  exquisite 
taste,  it  is  true,  but  they  are  not  startlingly 
difTerent  or  exotic.  It  is  her  own  posture, 
grace  and  dignity  that  glorify  any  costume 
she  might  wear !  And,  so  it  may  be  with 
you.  Whether  you  wear  a  gingham  pina- 
fore or  a  frothy,  filmy  frock,  you,  too,  will 
be  well  dressed  if  you  wear  your  clothes 
with  verve.  How  to  acquire  this  dash? 
Well,  that  takes  us  right  back  to  exercise 
and  bodies. 

Stand  up.  Now  sit  down  again.  How 
did  you  do  it?  Clumsily?  Stiffly — with 
protesting  and  creaking  muscles?  Yet, 
countless  times  a  day,  you  rise  and  seat 
yourself!  And  so  you  could  go  through 
the  whole  movement  list.  How  much  love- 
lier life,  and  you,  would  be  if  you  would 
awake  to  the  possibilities  your  own  body 
possesses.  Your  body  is  always  with  you, 
so  why  not  train  it  to  do  your  bidding? 
Become  posture-conscious.  Not  just  while 
standing  or  walking,  but  twenty-four  hour 
a  day  posture ! 

Gladys  Swarthout's  litheness  comes  from 
her  riding,  badminton,  swimming,  and  ex- 
ercises. You  may  develop  this  same  lithe- 
ness. You  don't  have  to  take  the  exact 
exercises  Gladys  Swarthout  does,  but  you 
should  select  activities  you  enjoy,  so  that 
you  will  really  "put  yourself"  into  their 
execution.  Walking  is  a  grand  form  of 
exercise  all  may  take.  Walk  briskly.  Be 
conscious  of  yourself  and  your  posture 
while  you  are  walking.  You  don't  actually 
have  to  hike  across  the  country  with  a  bas- 
ket on  your  head — just  imagine  that  basket 
is  there  and  hold  your  head  up  as  though 
it  were.  If  this  idea  is  a  bit  too  prosaic 
for  some  imaginations,  then  I  would  suggest 
you  follow  the  "floating  ribs."  This  has 
been  described  as  a  walking  exercise  where- 
in you  visualize  your  ribs  floating  up  and 
out  before  you.  Try  it.  You  will  be  amazed 
at  the  way  you  straighten  up  and  the  jerk- 
iness  vanishes  from  your  movements. 

That  a  straight  line  is  the  shortest  dis- 
tance between  two  points  is  a  geometrical 
fact.  It  also  is  beyond  dispute  that  economy 
and  simplicity  of  movement  make  up  grace 
and  charm.  Eliminate  the  body  twisting  and 
wiggling  and  \ou  have  taken  a  long  step 
forward  in  pursuit  of  the  body  beautiful. 

J-".conoiny  of  movement  may  sinind  like  a 
far  cry  from  summertime  daintiness  and 
freshness,  but  I  do  feel  that  you  will  be  in- 
terested in  hearing  about  a  new  preparation 
that  combines  three  grooming  requisites  all 
in  one  beautiful  Iwttle!  A  combination  eau 
de  cologne,  dusting  powder  and  a  mild  de- 
odorant, all  in  one. 

Likewise — there  is  an  economy  of  efTort 
(as  well  as  of  purse)  in  a  certain  delight- 


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ful  soapless  shampoo  I  know.  There  is  no 
doubt  about  it  being  a  nuisance  to  spend 
hours  over  the  shampoo  on  a  glorious  day. 
But  what  else  are  you  to  do?  Well,  write 
to  me  and  find  out  about  this  time-and- 
cnergy-saving  shampoo.  A  few  drops  of 
the  shamiJoo,  and  you  liave  a  beautiful 
lather.  Massage.  Rinse  the  hair  once. 
Dry.  Xo  bother  about  lemon  or  vinegar 
rinses,  for  there  is  no  alkali  to  banish. 

Now  that  you  are  becoming  so  posture 
and  figure  conscious,  you  will  most  likely 
note  certain  "spots"  that  need  especial  at- 
tention. Give  it  to  them!  There  is  one 
figure  fault  that  many  many  of  you  have 
mourned  over,  and,  now  that  short  skirts 
are  the  style  once  again,  and  frivolous  shoes 
are  claiming  their  own,  you  are  most  anx- 
ious to  do  something  aljout — large  ankles  ! 

Reducing  ankles  always  has  been  a  heart- 
breaking task,  so  I  was  delighted  to  come 
across  a  tested  e.xercise  that  really  gives 
results !  A  simple  exercise,  too.  One  that 
you  can  take  while  comfortably  seated.  One 
that  you  can  surreptitiously  practice  in  the 
movies,  or  while  reading  or  at  work,  as  well 
as  at  definitely  "set  aside"  times.  You 
simply  cross  your  knees  and,  with  the  free 
foot,  describe  a  circle.  Repeat  this  e.xer- 
cise several  times  every  day.  It  would  be 
interesting  to  measure  the  ankles  before 
beginning  and  then  check  your  progress. 
Of  course,  you  know,  you  don't  get  results 
overnight  from  exercises,  but  you  do  get 
results  if  you  will  stick  to  them ! 

You  have  reviewed  the  figure  and  posture 
and  painless  ways  of  acquiring  perfection 
and  grace.  Someone  has  said :  "Happiness 
lies  not  in  doing  what  one  likes  but  in 
liking  what  one  has  to  do."  I  do  hope  that 
you,  my  readers,  will  take  stock  of  your- 
selves and  cultivate  the  habit  of  liking  the 
things  you  should  do.  Then  you  will  find 
the  pot-of-gold  at  the  end  of  the  rainlww — 
"true  beaut)'  of  form  and  spirit." 

There  is  nothing  like  perfume  to  put 
you  in  tune  with  the  time,  the  place,  and 
the  One.  It"s  fun  to  change  your  perfume 
to  complement  your  mood.  The  gay, 
spirited  charm  of  Paris  in  the  spring  is 
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.  acntial  football  materia!  in  the  college, 
which  at  that  time  figuretl  prominently  in 
\\'est  Coast  football  news.  But  athletic- 
did  not  call  the  young  stiKlent  as  did  nm.sic. 
He  preferred  lingering  over  hi-  wind  in- 
strnnients,  .stndying  tlie  theory  ol  ninsic. 
.\nd  when  he  horrit'ied  the  I'lmtlier-.  of  the 
school,  liy  playing  popiil.ir  ttines  on  the 
chapel  organ,  his  mother  agreed  with  him 
that  it  was  ahoiit  time  he  (piit  school  and 
gave  himself  in  hody  to  what  he  alread\ 
had  given  himself  in  heart  and  sonl— his 
music,  an  orchestra.  In  his  jnnior  >ear  lie 
left  college.  When  he  was  sixteen  he  >\.is 
making  $102.60  a  week.  In  eleven  w  .  '.s 
he  had  saved,  the  items  neatl\'  noted  in  his 
account  books,  $850.  h"or,  allied  w  ith  music 
in  this  boy  is,  also,  matter-of-factness,  a 
sound  business  head  derived,  no  <loul>t. 
froin  his  merchant  forebears. 

Tony  keeps  accounts  of  everything.  His 
money,  his  moods,  his  emotions  he  con- 
serves as  he  conserves  his  finances.  His 
main  ambition,  now  realized,  was  to  es- 
tablish a  trust  fund  lor  his  mother  and 
stepfather,  so  that  he  can  know,  and  now 
does  know,  that  they  are  safe. 

The  saxophone,  then,  was  the  beginning. 
Now  Tony  plays  the  sa.xoplione,  the  bas- 
soon, flute,  piccolo,  clarinet,  piano,  with 
any  woodwind  instrument  \-ou  can  name 
thrown  in  for  good  measure.  He  never 
studied  voice.  He  took  only  brief  and 
sketchy  lessons  on  the  sa.xoplione  and 
piano.  Music  oozes  from  the  pores  of  his 
skin.  As  we  sat  at  luncheon  in  the  Cafe 
de  Paris  on  the  20th  Century-Fox  lot,  he 
drummed  rhythms  on  the  tablecloth,  sang 
a  snatch  of  Yankee  Rose — seeined  to  be  less 
3  man  than  a  inusical  instrument,  so  finely 
strung,  and,  like  some  bird  of  song,  melo- 
dies pour  from  him,  spontaneously. 

It  was  when  Tony  was  nineteen  that  he 
knew,  concretely,  what  he  wanted  to  do, 
to  be.  He  had  become  associated  with 
Tom  Gcrrin's  Orchestrti,  jilaying  at  the 
Bal  Tabarin  in  San  P'rancisco.  The  or- 
chestra toured  to  Chicago.  This  was  the 
first  time  that  Tony  ever  had  been  out  of 
his  native  state.  More,  it  was  llie  first  time 
lie  ez'er  had  i/one  to  tlie  theatre.  And 
v\hen  he  saw  his  first  musical  comedy,  he 
knew  that  his  world  was  there,  his  life 
work,  his  career — somehow  up  there  among 
dancing,  color,  song  and,  above  all,  the 
shimmer  of  dancing  notes,  of  music. 

It  was  then  that  he  began  managing  or 
])laying  vvitli  the  better  orchestras,  at  the 
World's  Fair  in  Chicago,  later  over  the 
National  Broadcasting  Company's  pro- 
grams in  San  I"ranci-eo.  In  lO.U  he  was 
broadcasting  over  tlie  In.  try  Mnl,-e  hour 
and  began  to  sing  an  (jet  .isiuiial  s<ing  with 
his  orchestra.  One  of  the  heads  of  the 
music  department  at  M-C-M  heard  Inni 
and  was  so  impres.sed  with  the  thrill  and 
timbre  of  that  young  tnale  voice  th.it  he 
induced  Tony  to  come  to  Hollywood. 

Nothing  came  of  this  trip.  But  four 
years  later,  when  he  made  a  return  trip, 
things  happened  very  swiftly.  Tony  got 
an  agent.  He  signed  a  six-months'  con- 
tract with  RKO.  Somewhere  in  that  in- 
terval, in  1934,  it  was,  he  tested  for  the 


part  opposite  Joan  Crawford  in  Sadir 
MeKee — but  was  counted  out  on  the  score 
"f  >outh.  ^klusicals  were  slackening  while 
iie  was  with  RKO  and  no  picture  present- 
ed itself  for  him.  And  at  the  end  of  the 
>ix  months  he  asked  for  and  obtained  a 
release.  The  release  became  eft'ective 
March  10th.  103(1.  On  .March  11th  he 
si-ned  with  2(lili  Century-Fox.  What 
'lappeiied  was  this  :  On  the  morning  of 
March  11th  his  agent  called  him.  He  told 
the  l)o\'  to  he  ready  to  go  on  that  night  at 
the  Trneadero,  with  a  show  that  included 
liixie  Dmiliar.  "Fats"  Waller  and  other 
w  ell  known  professionals.  Tony  told  mc  : 
"I  was  pretty  scairt.  Most  of  the  singing 
I'd  done  had  been  in  front  of  my  orches- 
tra, into  whose  arms  and  horns  I  could 
erawl  if  the  eggs  and  cabbages  came  fly- 
ing 1  I'd  never  sung  alone.  But  there  are 
times.  }-on  know,  when  you've  got  to  hnmc 
that  you  are  good.  If  you  can't  know  that 
of  yourself,  you're  licked  before  you  start. 
I  knew  I  was  good  that  night.  I  sang, 
among  others,  You  Hit  the  Sltot.  Mr. 
Zanuck  was  at  the  Troc'  that  night  and 
heard  me.  I  must  have  been  good,"  grin- 
ned Tony.  "I  must  have  'hit  the  spot,'  for 
I  signed  a  contract  then,  and  here  I  am ! 

"Speaking  of  knowing  you  are  good, 
you've  got  to  know  that  on  the  air!  If 
you  don't,  it  comes  right  through  the  mike. 
You've  got  to  feel  all  heated  up  and  alive 
or  it  'shows.'  In  pictures,  it's  different. 
There  are  the  face,  tlie  gestures,  the  scen- 
ery, other  players,  all  kinds  of  distractions 
to  help  out.  On  the  air  there  is  only  one 
thing — the  voice.  And  unless  you  are 
all  primed  and  full  of  spring  and  alive, 
you're  sunk.  The  mike  can  scare  a  strong 
man  to  death,  if  he  dwells  on  this.  George 
Burns,  when  I  was  on  tlie  air  with  Burns 
and  .llleii.  told  ine  what  to  do  if  ever  I 
flivved  on  the  air.  Missed  a  note,  you 
know,  forgot  the  words  of  a  song,  any- 
thing like  that.  He  told  me  to  stop  dead, 
say  to  him:  'Well.  Gei>r<ie,  you'll  have  to 
lilt  ymir  dialn^iiie  Lniii/ht,  I'l'C  got  to  be- 
gin all  nz-er  again.'  and  just  go  on  from 
there.  I've  never  done  it  yet — but  I  may 
— an\<ine  niiglit,  at  any  time.  And  there's 
no  cover-up  when  you  fliv  on  the  air.  There 
it  is,  stark,  irrevocable.  All  you  can  do 
is  admit  it  and  begin  over  again. 

"Something  awful  is  due  to  happen  to 
me,"  said  Tony,  "sure  as  fate.  Vor  thus 
far  nothing  has.  I've  always  been  lucky. 
I've  always  had  the  breaks.  I've  always 
had  everything  I  wanted,  done  everything 
I've  wantefl  to  do.  There  have  l)een  no 
stunihling  blocks,  tliorns  or  briers  on  my 
path.  I've  ne\cr  had  a  secret  sorrow,  heart- 
ache, liceii  disillusioned,  had  to  turn  the 
other  cheek.  The  saxophone  incident, 
when  I  was  eight,  strikes  the  keynote  of 
my  whole  life.  I  wanted  a  saxophone.  I 
couldn't  lia\e  one.  No?  What  happens? 
.\  <lelin'|ii' lit  aei  ount  'pays'  with  a  saxo- 
plione.    That's  the  v\ay  it's  been. 

"The  fmly  time  the  breaks  may  have 
Iieen  said  to  work  against  me  was  when 
I  made  my  first  picture  and  was  asked  to 
do  the  'mouthing,'  in  a  sequence  to  match 
another  fellow's  singing.    In  other  words, 


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he  actually  sang  the  song,  made  the  record- 
ing, and  I  just  stood  there  and  made  faces 
as  though  I  were  doing  the  singing.  I  didn't 
mind.  I  think  it's  funny  !  I've  never  tried 
to  keep  it  dark.  The  chap  was  Dick  Webs- 
ter, who  sings  at  the  Biltmore  Bowl  with 
Jimmy  Grier's  orchestra.  We've  had  many 
a  laugh  about  it  since.  My  favorite  song 
is  IV hen  Did  Vou  Leave  Heaven?  which 
I  sang  in  Siiuj.  Baby,  Sing — next,  always, 
to  Yankee  Rose,  of  course." 

Tony  is  not  in  love.  Tony  never  has  been 
in  love.  Tony  has  gone  out.  had  dates  with 
Frances  Langford  (Frances,  Jack  Oakic. 
Fred  -A.staire  and  Fred  .-Mien  are  his  radio 
favorites,  hy  the  way — and  he  says  that  no 
one  yet  born  can  put  over  a  song  like  Alice 
Faye),  Dixie  Dunbar,  and  exclusively,  as 
everyone  knows,  with  .Mice  Faye.  To;iv 
will  not,  he  says,  go  out  with  two  girl>  r.X 
one  time.  He  will  not  submit  to  what  utlur 
rising  young  stars  submit — dates  witii  t\\ii 
girls  at  one  time,  dates  with  this,  that  and 
the  other  girl,  for  the  sake  of  publicitx  . 

Tony  will  not,  he  said,  talk  about  "my 
romance  w-ith  Alice  Faye."  Win  ?  PHcaiise 
there  isn't  any  romance.  There  nc\er  has 
been  any  romance.  And  unless  the  light- 
ning called  Love  strikes  them  now,  there 
never  will  be  any  "romance." 

"We're  fine  friends,"  Tony  told  me.  "We 
always  have  been  and  we  still  are  and  we 
will  continue  to  be,  I  hope.  We  have  a  lot 
in  common,  everything  in  common.  I  like 
Alice  an  awful  lot  and  I  think,  I  hope,  that 
she  likes  me.  But  there  has  never  been  one 
iK'ord  about  marriage  bcticcen  us.  Never." 

Tony  doesn't  want  to  get  married.  Me 
says  no  woman  could  stand  him.  He  is 
moody.    He  likes  to  have  his  time  to  him- 


self, do  what  he  pleases  with  it.  He  likes 
to  go  out  with  the  boys,  play  poker,  go  to 
the  tights — things  a  woman  wouldn't  want 
to  do.  He  doesn't  want  to  marry  for  sev- 
eral years,  if  ever.  He  wants  to  work.  He 
wants  to  sing.  He'd  like,  best  of  all,  he 
admitted,  to  travel  with  an  orchestra  of  his 
own  again.  There  is  something  about  having 
an  orchestra,  traveling  with  it,  meeting  all 
kinds  of  new  people,  conquering  new  terri- 
tories, that  is  in  his  blood.  There  must  be 
something  to  it,  the  adventure  of  it,  perhaps. 
For  the  nostalgia  for  an  orchestra  is  in 
the  hearts  of  all  the  boys  who  ever  had  one 
— Buddy  Rogers,  Fred  Mac  Murray.  Tony — 

^\'he^  I  said :  "But  this  marriage  busi- 
ness— what  will  you  do  if  you  fall  franti- 
cally, head  over  heels  in  love?  Really  in 
love?    What  then?" 

"Then."  grinned  Tuny,  liis  white  teeth 
fla>hin';  in  the  >oniehinv  Italianate  dark- 
ne>s  of  his  lace,  "then  it  W(.inldn't  matter 
what  I  (lid  or  wanted  to  do  or  thought  or 
theorized.  \Mien  you  fall  frightfully  in 
love.  Fm  sure,  everything  goes  black.  And 
you  /(J/'  dissol:\'  right  into  the  front  room 
of  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  pan  slowly 
into  a  tico-shot  of  a  silly-looking  groom 
and  a  bewitching  bride — and  that's  that ! 

"Fd  have  to  find  a  girl,"  said  Tony,  "who 
would  boss  me,  order  me  around,  tell  mc  co 
get  out  of  bed  in  the  morning,  or  else — I 
like  strong-minded  girls.  I  like  independent 
girls.  I  like  militant  girls.  The  instant  a 
girl  says  to  me.  w  hen  we're  dining  ont : 
'Vou  order  for  me.  I  want  to  eat  what  \ou 
want  to  eat,"  I  die  !  Or,  if  she  asks  me  what 
I  want  to  do.  or  begs  me  to  tell  her  what 
to  do — Fm  through.  The  clinging  vine  t>  pe 
has  no  appeal  for  me.  scares  me  to  death. 


I'm  glad  I  was  born  in  this  age.  I  could 
never  have  endured  the  women  who  fainted 
at  sight  of  a  mouse,  had  'fainting  spells,' 
were  weak  and  waily.  A  mother-complex, 
I  guess.  My  mother  is  a  very  strong- 
minded  woman.  She  always  was  plenty 
firm  with  me.  She  told  me  what  to  do  and 
how  to  do  it  and  she  meant  what  she  said 
and  I  knew  it.  And  liked  it.  I  still  like  it. 
I  still  want  a  woman  to  tell  me  what  to  do. 
I'm  used  to  that  kind  of  a  woman  and  I 
couldn't  lie  e. intent,  or  even  in  love  with 
any  otlu-r  kind. 

''.\1>,).  when  ..r  if  I  dn  marry  f which 
same  I  certaiid_\-  am  nnt  Mitt  niiilaling — 
the  cultminist^  have  dnuv  my  eMiiteni] ilating 
fur  niei,  Fil  like  to  marry  a  Hollywood 
girl,  a  girl  in  pictures  or  radio.  Know 
why?  Uli  iu-c  if  a  girl  in  this  business 
falls  in  Imvc  w  ith  a  felluw  and  marries  him, 
it's  heeau^e  she  !ii\e-  liini  and  lor  no  other 
reason.  (..irl>  ni  this  !)usiiie>>  don't  have 
to  marry.  They  can  take  care  of  themselves, 
have  everything  they  want.  That  very  in- 
dependence of  nidtive  appeals  to  ine.  you 
see.  For  when  the\  dn  fall  in  love,  yuu  can 
be  sure  it's  luve  and  nothing  else  but. 

"Right  ni'W  I  have  niy  Imnse  in  Beverly 
Hills.  I  have  a  h'ilipinu  buy  who  takes 
care  of  me.  couk>  me  the  Chinese  food  I 
luve.  the  potato  pancakes  which  are  my  fa- 
vorite vegetables  I  I  even  know  what  I  want 
to  eat.  \uu  see.  Bv  the  time  this  storv  ap- 
pears I'll  be  on  the  HoUyzi'ood  Hotel  Hour 
and  that's  suinething  I  certainly  want. 

"I  was  born  knowing  what  I  wanted,  I 
guess.  And  I  know  that  I've  got  it.  I'm 
one  hundred  percent  happy  and  there's  no 
such  thing  as  one  hundred  and  one  percent 
— is  there?" 


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E  N  D  U  R  A  KEEPS  YOUR 
HAIR    LOVELY,  ALLURING 

PERMANENT  WAVE  THOSE 
STRAGGLY  END  CURLS 


-■es  those  unrulv  end  and  side 
present  permanent  last  twice 


Endura  permane 
curls  and  makes 

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Compare  the  answers  of  your  favorites 


If  you  could  ask  your  fan  audi- 
ence one  question,  what  would 
it  be? 


Harry  \'on  Zell :  "Do  you  \ccl  that  the 
anniuinccr  is  a  drfiiiifc  part  of  your 
favorite  programs,  or  do  yon  loo!^-  upon 
him  as  a  ')icccsary  cvil'f" 

Frank  Parker:  "It  wouldn't  be  a  ques- 
tion.   It  would  be  a  statement — 'Thanks!'" 

Virginia  Verrill:  "Would  you  rather 
hear  me  sing  ballads  or  rhythm  songs— 
and  why?" 

Lennie  Haytoii:  "Jl'hat  is  there  about 
my  orehestra  that  yon  don't  like/  (I  fii/ure 
the  ijood  parts  eon  l>e  left  alone.)" 

Jaek  Pearl:  "Have  you  any  suggestions 
to  make  which  might  help  me  prepare  my 
program  so  that  you  would  derive  more 
enjoyment  from  it?" 

Shep  Fields:  "I  can't  help  but  want  to 
know  what  each  listener  thinks  of  my 
little  brain-child,  Rippling  Rhythm." 

Joe  Cook:  "//  ivouldn't  he  a  qnestio)i. 
Fd  invite  him  out  to  dinner." 

- 

Tom  Hotcard:  "Which  type  of  comedy 
do  you  prefer — gags  or  situations?" 

Abe  Lyman:    "I  would  like  to  know  the 
ten  favorite  songs  of  each  listener." 
-♦- 

Willie  Morris:  "What  type  of  song  do 
you  like  best?" 

Leo  Rcisnmn:    "How  do  you  do?" 

Richard  Himber:  "What  do  you  think 
of  me?  (I'm  only  kidding,  of  course) 
but  incidentally,  is  my  program  just  what 
you  want?" 

Ireene  Wicker:  "II' hat  ean  I  do  that 
ieould  most  improve  my  program — for 
enjovabilitv,  educationally  and  shozvman- 
ship'r  ' 

Meredith  IVillson:  "Why  do  you  stand 
for  the  countless  imitations  of  the  one  and 
only  superlative  Waring  Glee  Club?" 

Horace  Heidi:  "How  much  happiness 
are  we  bringing  you?  Happiness  should 
be  the  goal  of  all  entertainment.  Per- 
formers are  governed  by  emotions — they 
sing  and  play  from  their  hearts,  and  if 
they  make  people  happy,  that's  what  brings 
them  happiness." 

.'\nne  Seymour:  "What  do  I  do  on  the 
air,  in  the  ivay  of  mannerisms  or  tricks, 
that  you  don't  like?" 

Del  Casino:  "Is  my  singing  intimate?" 


Jack  Fulton:  "What  types  of  songs  do 
you  like  best  to  hear?" 

Meri  Bell  :  "/<.-  there  any  change  you 
think  I  could  make  to  improve  my  present 
acticities  on  the  air?" 

Eddy  Duchin:  "What  suggestions  for 
the  improvement  of  my  band  have  you?'' 

Marion  T  alley:  "How  am  I  doing? 
And  do  I  inspire  a  love  of  music  in  you?" 

George  Burns:    "Hon-  are  the  children?" 

Art  ]'an  Harvey:  "Wliat  particular 
moods  or  characteristics  do  you  like  about 
my  character — which  ones  don't  you  like?" 

Joan  Blaine:  "Do  you  like  actresses 
best  when  they  are  simple  and  sincere  and 
quite  natural — or  do  you  prefer  them 
when  they  are  simply  glittering  with 
glamour?" 

Milton  Berle  :  "How  long  udll  you  con- 
tinue to  laugh  at  my  gags?" 

Jaek  Oakie:  "Do  you  think  I'm  getting 
fat,  or  is  the  light  bad  here?'' 

Loretta  Lee:  "Have  you  ever  bought 
any  of  the  products  sold  by  my  sponsors 
because  I  was  on  their  radio  programs?" 

Phillips  Lord:    "Which  do  you  prefer — 
musical  or  dramatic  programs — and  zi'hy?" 
- 

Curtis  Arnall:  "How  do  you  like  tlie 
commercials?" 


Would  you  be  willing  to  give  up 
radio  entirely  for  a  screen  or 
stage  career? 


Edgar  Bergen  :  "/  am  more  interested  in 
radio  because  there  is  so  Utile  stage  -a-ork 
and  so  unrelial^le.  As  a  I'enl riloqnist .  I 
am  limited  in  pieliires  to  luiiig  a  specialty 
or  to  a  short  scene." 

Ed  ll'ynn:  "For  personal  reasons  only, 
I  i)refer  the  stage  to  any  other  medium.  I 
was  on  it  exactly  30  years  before  I  en- 
tered radio." 

Phil  Harris:  "No,  because  in  my  case 
I  feel  that  radio  is  much  more  suited  to 
my  talents  and  gives  one  a  much  wider 
scope  than  the  stage,  or  even  the  screen, 
can  offer." 

Benay  Veinita :  "No — (j^  /  feel  there  are 
so  many  fans  ivho  don't  go  to  the  movies 
but  Tt'//(i  do  listen  to  the  radio.  Radio  is 
the  most  important  lliing  for  any  artist, 
and  pictures  next." 

Russ  Morgan:  "Ra<lio  will  make  me 
more  famous  than  screen  or  stage.  Wlieii 


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I  become  big  enough,  the  screen  and  stage 
will  come  to  me." 

Kenny  Baker:  "Absolutely  not.  The 
value  of  radio  as  an  entertainment  medi- 
um is  greater  than  the  stage  and  screen 
combined." 

Edgar  Guest:  "Am  in  no  sense  of  the 
word  an  actor.  Lack  the  ability  and  the 
art.  Too  late  noz^-  to  learn  a  nczc  profes- 
sion." 

Adela  Rogers  St.  Johns:  "The  first  few 
weeks  I  would  have  given  up  radio  and 
gone  back  entirely  to  newspaper  and  maga- 
zine work.  But  radio  grows  on  you,  and 
soon  you  can't  imagine  being  without  it." 

Johnny  Green:  "The  only  career  for 
which  I  would  be  willing  to  give  up  radio 
entirely  would  be  that  of  composing,  on  a 
respectably  lucrative  basis  and  in  a  spot 
where  I  could  write  the  kind  of  music 
that  I  want  to  write." 

Bide  Dudley:  'Wo.  It's  better  to  be 
heard  but  not  seen." 

Ed  Fitzgerald:  "Give  up  radio?  Sure,  if 
Carole  Lombard  were  in  the  same  moom 
pitcher  with  me." 

Elsie  Hitz:  "No.  I  am  too  fond  of 
radio  work  to  give  it  up  entirely.  It  would 
be  perfect  to  be  able  to  do  a  play  and 
radio." 

Richard  Crooks :  "No.  Radio  isn't  en- 
tirely a  business  zvith  me,  but  a  means  of 
reaching  people,  finding  out  H'hat  they 
want,  and  trying  to  give  it  to  them." 

Allen  Prcscott:  "It  would  depend  on  the 
circumstances,  of  course,  but  I  don't  think 
I'd  ever  give  up  radio,  since  my  kind  of 
work  succeeds  there  better  than  anywhere 
else." 

Ralph  Kirbery:  "No,  I  feel  that  radio 
gave  me  my  first  opportunity  to  fulfill  my 
hopes  of  a  singing  career  and  I  would 
never,  as  long  as  I  am  able  to  sing,  want 
to  give  it  up." 

Helen  Broderick :  "Xo.  The  combina- 
tion makes  for  a  terrific  follozi'ing — that 
is,  if  you  are  good." 

Roscoe  Turner:  "Radio  work  is  more 
like  flying  than  anything  else  I  have  ever 
found.  I  like  it — don't  know  whether  I 
would  have  the  same  feeling  about  the 
screen  and  stage." 

Duke  Ellington :  "/  zi'ould  not  Zi'ant  to 
give  up  radio  entirely,  because  it  means  a 
lot  to  me  and  my  orchestra.  I  am  not  an 
indiz'idual  performer,  so  personal  appear- 
ances on  screen  or  stage  zcould  mean  little 
to  me  li'ithout  a  band  behind  inc." 

Sedley  Bronni:  "No.  Radio  is  the  best 
and  most  direct  medium  of  expression 
•here  is,  as  far  as  I'm  concerned.  Regard- 
\'ss  of  what  other  fields  of  entertainment 
endeavor  I  might  invade.  I  would  always 
want  to  remain  in  radio." 

Shirley  Lloyd:  "It  depends  on  the  con- 
tract offered,  but  I  would  try  to  keep  my 
radio  contacts  and  make  regular  appear- 
ances over  the  air.  Contacts  made  over 
the  air  are  so  much  more  intimate  with 
your  audience." 


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Because  her  parents  wanted  it,  she  start- 
ed college,  at  U.  C.  L.  A.  .At  some  small 
college,  Shirley  might  have  lound  what  -he 
wanted,  for  she  is  a  natural  studcnl,  Imt 
the  vastness  of  this  great  institution  dis- 
couraged her.  She  loathed  the  sorority- 
fraternity  madness  that  dominated  college 
life,  was  unutterably  bored  by  the  endless 
teas,  ami  got  nothing  out  of  sitting  in  some 
vast  aii(lit<u-iuni,  listening  to  the  droning  of 
a  profcsMir  she  could  scarcely  hear. 

Si\  niunihs  of  it  was  all  she  c<juld  bear. 
But  she  liad  worked  with  a  cUege  musi- 
cian, wiio  liad  helped  her  with  arrauge- 
nients.  and  she  felt  increasingly  confident 
that  she  was  getting  somewhere  with  her 
singing.  Putting  school  days  definitely  be- 
hind her.  she  concentrated  on  developing 
her  own  iiersonality  as  a  blues  singer, 
realizing  tliat  originality  would  be  her 
strongest  card.  Cira(luall\-  the  family  was 
won  (i\  er,  urged  her  more  and  more  to  sing 

h  is  a  i)arl  of  .'^hirley's  credo  to  do  her 
liest  al\\a>  s,  under  whatever  circumstances, 
aiid  -lie  worked  as  hard  for  her  family 
and  frieuds  as  she  would  have  for  the  co- 
\eted  audition.  Thus,  when  her  chance 
came,  she  was  ready. 

.\sked  to  sing  at  a  Hollywood  party,  she 
siejiped  forward  simply,  very  nonchalant- 
1\,  and  sauii,  refusing  to  let  herself  become 
nervous  o\er  the  fact  that  Cnis  Arnhcim 
and  Sid  drauman  were  among  the  guests 
listening  to  her. 

.\riiheini.  a  pojiular  West  Coast  orchestra 
leader,  w;is  so  impressed  that  he  gave  her 
an  audition  and  signt'd  her  to  a  nine- 
months'  contract.  She  always  had  abhor- 
red and  foresworn  night  clubs,  but  singing 
in  the  l)est  hotels  with  this  famcjus  orches- 
tra was  just  the  opportunity  she  had  been 
liopiui;  for.  It  ought,  she  thought,  to  give 
her  the  entree  to  ])ietures  that  was  still 
her  ,i;oal. 

And  she  was  right.  M-G-M  scouts  saw 
her  when  she  was  singing  at  a  Beverly 
Hills  liotel,  signed  her,  and  slie  felt  she 
was.  at  last,  definitely  started  on  the  right 
road. 

Bui  tlie  peppy  little  fighter  had  the  hard- 
est battle  of  her  young  life  on  lier  hands — 
site  had  to  play  that  most  exhausting,  most 
discoiu-aging  game — she  had  to  sit  on  the 
sidelines  and  wait.  For,  once  having  rec- 
ognized her  talents  and  ch.arm,  the  studio 
officials  made  the  same  mistake  they  have 
made  with  others,  notably  Nelson  Eddy 
and  Deanna  Uurbin.  Having  bound  her 
to  a  contract,  they  proceeded  to  forget  her. 

When  she  had  sat  arotmd  for  a  year, 
appearing  only  occasionally  in  small  parts. 
New  "^'ork  scouts  saw  a  bit  of  iters,  liked 
it  and  decided  to  put  her  on  Locw's  circuit. 
In  spite  of  her  greenness,  she  was  a  hit, 
and  studio  officials  were  .so  impressed,  they 
wired  for  her  immediate  retinii.  It 
seemed  like  Opportunity  with  a  big  O,  at 
last,  for  they  wanted  her  to  play  the  lead- 
ing role  in  Broadway  Melody.  Shirley  re- 
turned with  high  hopes — oidy  to  find  that 
they  had  changed  their  minds,  converted  it 
into  a  dancing  picture  and  slie  was  out! 


Another  year  of  idleness  followed,  and 
anyone  less  determined,  less  firm  of  pur- 
pose than  Shirley,  would  have  been  ready 
to  quit.  But  she  had  a  good  friend  in 
Piernie  H_\ man,  M-(i-,\!  producer,  and  he 
was  determined  she  should  have  a  ciiance. 
Through  him.  site  secured  ?  part  in  The 
Devil  Is  a  Sissy.  Shirley  was  delighted, 
so  much  so  that  when  Paramount  sought 
her  out  and  offered  iicr  the  leading  role  in 
'J'lie  Bl,;  Broadcast  of  1937,  she  turned  it 
down.  But  they  wouldn't  take  "no"  for 
an  answer,  and,  after  reading  the  script 
and  conferring  w  ith  Hyman,  the  great  de- 
cision was  made,  Shirley  was  released 
from  her  contract  and  cast  her  lot  with 
Paramount. 

It  was  a  chance — and  another  challenge. 
-\iid  this  time  her  ability  was  recognized 
and  a  jiart  iu  Ilidraa'ay  Girl  followed  im- 
mediately, and  Waikiki  Wedding  next. 

At  the  completion  of  this  picture,  she 
was  told  she  could  have  a  part  on  the 
Caiiiphell  program  if  she  wanted  it. 

The  tide  has  definitely  turned.  It  will  be 
a  long  time  before  Shirley  knows  idleness 
again.  Right  now,  between  pictures,  s!ie 
is  able  to  gi\e  a  lot  of  time  to  her  radio 
work.  On  Thursday,  for  instance,  she 
meets  her  co-workers  to  plan  the  next 
week's  program.  She  chooses  her  songs, 
goes  over  arrangements  with  Gordon 
Jenkins,  her  arranger,  and  Lud  Gluskin, 
the  orchestra  leader.  She  rehearses  ardu- 
ously on  Tuesday  and  again  on  Wednesday 
with  the  cast  and  finds  time  to  study  at 
least  two  hours  at  home  on  Monday  and 
Tuesday.  When  the  new  picture  starts, 
she  will  have,  somehow,  to  fit  this  sched- 
ule into  the  other.  She  plans  to  have  two 
pianos,  one  on  the  lot  and  one  in  her  dress- 
ing-room, and  the  rehearsing  will  have  to 
be  done  at  Paramount  instead  of  the  CBS 
studio.  A  heavy  schedule,  but  she  is 
young  and  healthy  and  she  loves  it! 

"I  am  too  newly  arrived  to  relax  for  a 
moment,"  she  said  earnestly.  "Radio,  for 
instance,  is  a  tricky  business.  You  never 
know  who  is  listening  in,  but  you  can  al- 
ways be  sure  someone  important  is.  Some- 
one whose  opinion  matters,  now  or  later. 
Who  will  remember  when  you  gave  a  bad 
performance  or  were  on  a  poor  show.  One 
bad  radio  program,  one  careless  perform- 
ance, can  ruin  two  careers!" 

.\\k\  so  to  her  new  career,  Shirley  gives 
tlie  same  care,  the  satne  concentration  she 
has  gi\i  n  (he  other.  She  has  a  charming 
stage  |)n  seiiic  and  throws  herself  into  her 
song,  is  as  peppy  and  provocative  when 
working  lie  fore  the  mike  as  she  is  before 
the  camera. 

And  I  have  no  doubt  that,  when  it  comes 
to  marriage,  these  same  qualities  will  be 
exerted  to  make  that  relationship  the  suc- 
cess she  wants  it  to  he. 

Meanwhile,  she  contrives  to  lead  a  nor- 
mal home  life  with  her  mother  and  father 
and  \ounger  sister  in  tiieir  beautiful  home 
in  the  Hollywood  hills,  with  one  of  the 
city's  loveliest  \iews  to  add  to  their  de- 
light in  life.  She  plays  golf  with  her 
father,  enjoys  badminton,  likes  just  being 
out  of  doors.  She  is  sensible  enough  to 
be  aware  of  the  difficulties  in  atteiupting 


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to  lead  a  natural,  simple  life  niKkr  the 
stress  and  strain  of  pictures  and  radio 
work,  but  her  family  has  been  a  tremen- 
dous help.  When  she  comes  home  tired 
and  inclined  to  be  temperamental — or 
merely  hot-tempered — they  know  just  how 
to  calm  her  down. 

Can  she,  Shirley  wonders,  count  on  as 
much  understanding  and  sympathy  from 
a  husband  ? 

"I've  always  thought,"'  she  confessed, 
"that  it  would  be  much  wiser  for  me  t 
marry  an  older  man.  perhaps  even  a  nia  i 
who  has  been  married  before.  I  know  I 
will  take  some  handling !  And  two  people 
having  to  learn  how  to  adjust  themselves 
to  marriage  would  be  an  alimxt  iniiiossilile 
situation  in  my  circumstances.  A  man  w  ho 
had  been  marrietl  l.iefore  would  he  able  to 
foresee  difficulties  anrl  to  a\oid  them,  would 
know  how  to  manage  a  wnman  1 

"And  I  have  alway^  thouuht  it  impor- 
tant for  him  to  be  in  a  similar  line  of 
work,  in  order  to  understand  the  demands 
on  my  time.  It  is  the  time  element  that 
presents  the  greatest  difficulty — 1  might 
have  to  work  one  night  and  he  the  next, 
and  he  would  have  to  Ije  very  patient  to 
put  up  with  a  situation  like  that. 

"I  don't  mean  that  I  expect  all  the  un- 
derstanding and  the  giving  to  be  on  his 
side — I  mean  to  do  my  part !  Living  at 
home,  as  I  do,  has  taught  me  a  lot,  has 
helped  me  to  keep  my  feet  on  the  ground. 
Marriage  is  a  very  serious  business  and, 
when  I  marry,  I  am  determined  to  do  my 
best  to  make  a  go  of  it." 

Shirley's  best  ought  to  be  guaranty 
enough  of  happiness.  And  she  has  been 
luckv    in   finding   a   man   who    seems  to 


After  presenting  his  CBS  Amafeur 
Hour,  Major  Edward  Bowes  finds 
relaxation  in  a  game  of  solitaire. 


tiieasure  up  to  her  ideals,  to  fit  beautifully 
the  picture  her  imagination  already  had 
created. 

For  the  man  who  escorts  her  to  broad- 
casts and  rehearsals,  who  keeps  her  sup- 
plied with  gardenias  for  the  shows,  is  an 
older  man.  He  is  a  musician,  an  ex-pilot, 
and  he  has  his  own  well-established  place 
in  pictures,  which  gives  them  a  common 
background,  many  similar  tastes  and  in- 
terests and  a  firm  basis  lor  the  rich  com- 
panionship -Shirley  feels  marriage  should 
be.  He  is  quiet,  rather  shy,  but  his  adora- 
tion of  Shirley  is  for  all  to  read,  and  it 


seems  safe  to  predict  that  the  security, 
the  breadth  of  understanding  that  the 
>oung  actress  needs,  are  hers  for  the  ask- 
in.i;.  .And  that  she  will  appreciate  these 
<iualities  seems  ecjually  evident. 

Shirley  has  moderate  tastes.  Although 
she  dresses  very  smartly,  she  dresses  sim- 
ply, too.  She  drives  a  coupe  of  a  well- 
known  make  and  drives  as  efficiently  as 
she  does  everything  else.  Her  father 
handles  her  finances,  but  she  is  well  aware 
of  the  value  ol  money  and  careful  in  iier 
spending.  There  are  m.iny  doll.ir  hooks 
on  her  library  shehes,  hut  lin  y  an-  el.issics, 
books  of  proven  wortli.  ami  they  are  well 
read.  With  nione\-  sense.  >he  has  that 
larger  sense  of  values  that  will  give  her 
a  proper  perspective  in  love  as  well  as  in 
business. 

When  she  has  enjoyed  success  for  a 
while  and  been  able  to  relax  a  bit,  to  let 
up  on  the  terrific  struggle  she  feels  is  still 
essential  in  order  to  hold  and  better  her 
but  recently  aehiexed  place  in  the  lime- 
light, she  will  want  more  time  for  travel, 
for  stndw  for  her  h(>me — and  for  the  boy 
and  uirl  that  are  a  part  of  that  particular 
dream. 

And  I  feel  that  if  anyone  could  make 
a  go  of  marriage  in  the  hectic  movie- 
town  atmosphere,  Shirley  is  the  one  to  do 
it.  And  just  because  she  will  make  a 
business  of  it,  will  give  herself  to  it  as 
ardently  as  she  gives  herself  to  her  work 
on  the  screen  and  <in  the  air. 

Whatever  is  worth  having  is  worth 
fighting  for — and  when  Shirley  marries, 
you  may  be  sure  her  marriage  will  come 
first  and  her  gallant  fighting  qualities  will 
make  it  a  success. 


WHY  DID  HE  CALL  ME    COLD  WEATHER  GIRL"? 

if 


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ALICE_BUT  YOU  SHOULD  BE 
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N  HOT 
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LATHER- 1  NEVER 
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AFRAID  OF  HER  LUCK 

{Ci'Ulinurd  front  pagi^  31) 


Dragonette  fans  would  say. 

"Of  course  Mother  was  delighted.  She- 
could  enjoy  the  pleasure  of  my  being 
chosen  to  be  star  without  having  the  worry 
of  all  the  other  things.  You  see,  I  realized 
the  job  I  had  to  do.  I  knew  there  would  be 
much  talk  this  way  and  that,  some  good, 
some  bad.  But  I  am  happy  to  say  that  of 
all  the  stacks  of  fan  mail  which  I  have  had 
since  singing  on  Cities  Scrz'icc.  only  two 
letters  have  been  unfriendly.  And  we  all 
figure  that  both  those  notes  were  from  the 
same  person." 

One  of  those  notes  was  a  valentine  sent 
to  Lucille.  Although  she  says  she  does 
not  worry  about  it,  the  comic  valentine 
must  have  made  a  deep  impression  on  her, 
for  she  went  to  great  lengths  to  explain 
what  it  was  and  how  it  did  not  fit  her  at 
all.  She  still  maintains  the  defensive  atti- 
tude about  herself.  She  has  not  yet  learned 
to  take  such  minor  things  on  the  chin,  and 
let  them  roll  off  unnoticed.  She  still  has 
the  outlook  of  an  ingenue. 

Born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Lucille 
Manners  has  had  but  one  thought  before 
her — a  singing  career.  Her  mother  was 
determined  to  make  her  daughter  a  singer. 
When  Lucille  was  two  years  old,  she  was 
taught  nursery  songs,  her  mother  accom- 
panying her  on  the  piano.  That  was  before 
Lucille  Manners  came  into  being.  Her 
name  at  that  time  was  Marie  McClinchy. 
Lucille  was  born  with  a  singing  voice, 
having  inherited  it  from  her  mother  and 
her  grandfather.  Although  neither  of  them 
was  a  professional,  they  sang  in  church 
choirs,  were  soloists  in  charitable  festivals, 
Lucille's  grandfather  sang  with  a  German 
quartet.  But  he  was  over-modest  about 
his  voice.  He  would  not  sing  even  at 
home  where  his  family  would  hear  him. 
Lucille's  mother  was  determined  that  her 
daughter  should  be  a  professional  singer, 
that  nothing  in  the  world  should  stop  her. 

However,  Lucille's  singing  was  inter- 
rupted when  she  was  three.  Literrupted  by 
pneumonia  which  almost  cost  her  life.  Only 
by  tedious  and  unfailing  care  was  she 
saved.  During  her  convalescence  her  lungs 
were  found  to  be  weak.  In  order  to 
strengthen  them,  it  was  necessary  for  her 
to  blow  into  large  tubes. 

"That  really  was  the  beginning  of  my 
singing  training,"  she  laughs.  "My  lungs 
became  unusually  strong,  which  is  a  great 
help  now  when  it  is  necessary  to  have  per- 
fect breath  control.  I  believe  that  early 
strengthening  of  my  lungs  has  helped  me 
as  much  as  any  one  thing  since." 

When  Lucille  was  sixteen,  she  spent  her 
summer  vacation  from  school  working  to 
earn  money  for  singing  lessons.  "I  liked 
the  idea  of  working,  so  much  so  that  I  did 
not  return  to  high  school  for  my  senior 
year,"  she  continues.  "It  was  grand  to  be 
earning  money,  to  be  building  a  fund  for 
future  singing  les.sons.  Of  course,  it  was  a 
shame  that  I  didn't  go  back  that  last  year, 
it  did  seem  too  bad  not  to  finish  high  school 
when  I  ha<l  so  little  longer  to  attend,"  she 
adds  a  little  wistfully. 

The  next  few  years  were  spent  by  Lu- 
cille either  typing  in  an  office  or  singing. 


Every  moment  away  from  the  typewriter 
was  devoted  to  music.  Even  lunch  hours 
were  taken  in  auditioning,  later  in  fifteen- 
minute  broadcasts.  Fired  from  one  office 
because  they  felt  she  spent  too  much  time 
singing,  Lucille  was  undaunted.  She  took 
other  jobs,  keeping  them  as  long  as  they 
did  not  interfere  with  her  beloved  music. 
For  five  years,  her  life  was  spent  in  a  tire- 
less effort  to  become  a  professional. 

During  this  time  she  became  a  member 
of  the  Opera  Club  of  the  Oranges,  a  semi- 
professional  club  of  music  lovers  in  New 
Jersey.  Her  first  operatic  role  was  as  a 
member  of  the  quartette  in  Rigolctto.  It 
is  a  true  saying  that  a  busy  person  always 
has  time  to  do  one  more  thing.  Lucille 
Manners,  at  this  time,  never  refused  to  do 
anything  which  was  connected  with  music. 
It  is  surprising  that  a  slight,  five-foot  girl 
should  have  been  able  to  withstand  such 
a  strain.  Seldom  did  she  allow  herself 
more  than  five  or  six  hours'  sleep  at  night. 
It  was  as  a  member  of  the  Opera  Club 
that  she  met  her  teachers,  Louis  Dornez 
and  his  wife,  Betsy  Culp.  They  became  in- 
terested in  the  tiny  blonde  with  the  huge 
voice.  Mr.  Dornez  was  singing  for  the 
National  Broadcasting  Company  and  he 
procured  an  audition  for  Lucille.  Accepted, 
she  was  given  a  few  guest  spots,  but  there 
was  not  enough  revenue  for  her  to  be 
able  to  give  up  her  daily  job  of  sten- 
ographer in  Newark.  Finally  her  teacher 
realized  that  the  years  of  hard  work  with 
little  rest  were  beginning  to  tell  on  the 
tiny  person.  He  begged  NBC  to  give  his 
star  pupil  a  sustaining  program,  which 
would  mean  a  steady  income.  They  agreed 
to  do  so.  It  was  at  this  time  that  Marie 
McClinchy  became  Lucille  Manners. 

"I  hated  the  thought  of  changing  my 
name.  But  Mr.  Dornez  said  that  McClinchy 
would  be  too  difficult  to  understand  over  the 
air,  that  I  must  have  a  simpler  name.  NBC 
was  adamant  about  my  having  another 
name.  Mr.  Dornez  had  known  a  success- 
ful singer  whose  name  was  Manners,  so 
he  thought  it  would  bring  me  good  luck. 
I  had  taken  his  advice  on  everything  up 
to  then,  so  I  said  to  him:  'If  you  say  so. 
all  right,'  Then  I  was  told  that  I  could 
not  be  Marie  Planners,  that  it  was  not 
euphonious,  that  I  would  be  known  hence- 
forth as  Lucille  Manners.  I  was  heart- 
broken. My  grandmother's  name  had  been 
Marie  and  I  hated  to  give  it  up.  But  again, 
I  bowed  to  Mr.  Dornez'  decision." 

The  next  two  years  were  a  heaven  on 
earth  to  Lucille  Manners.  She  moved  to 
New  York  City,  bringing  her  mother  and 
father  with  her.  Mr.  McClinchy  had 
been  in  the  hat  business  in  Newark  and 
now  he  transferred  his  job  to  New  York, 
to  make  life  easier  for  his  only  and  adored 
daughter.  Lucille  had  her  own  sustain- 
ing program  over  the  NBC  networks.  She 
was  guest  star  on  several  programs.  She 
was  on  Mnrning  Parade,  a  daily  sustain- 
ing program.  She  became  a  featured  singer 
on  tiic  Viennese  program  of  Hugo  Riescn- 
feld,  the  same  man  who  now  is  in  Cali- 
fornia working  on  motion  picture  scores. 
With   guest   appearances   and  sustaining 


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programs,  Lucille  was  happy  —  but  there 
was  a  little  yearning,  too.  She  kept  won- 
dering when  she  would  make  that  jump  to 
the  place  coveted  by  all  radio  artists — the 
sponsored  program.  One  night,  when  she 
was  making  a  guest  appearance  on  the  old 
Pab-0  program,  an  executive  of  that  same 
advertising  agency  which  handles  Cities 
Service,  heard  her  sing  One  Night  of 
Lore.  He  and  his  wife  were  having  din- 
ner and  both  remarked  on  the  beauty  of 
the  voice  which  was  coming  out  of  the 
loudspeaker.  NBC  was  called  on  the  tele- 
phone at  once.  "Who  was  that  girl  sing- 
ing on  the  Bab-0  program?"  the  executive 
asked.  "Can  you  arrange  five  auditions 
immediately?" 

"The  next  thing  I  knew,"  Lucille  relates, 
"was  that  NBC  called  me  for  five  con- 
secutive auditions.  I  was  not  told  the  why 
and  wherefore.  With  a  full-piece  orches- 
tra I  was  put  on  five  different  sustaining 
programs  and  told  I  was  singing  over  the 
air.  It  was  the  strangest  thing  I  ever  had 
heard  of,  but  I  was  willing  to  do  anything 
if  there  were  a  chance  of  a  sponsor.  This 
I  could  only  guess.  Everything  was  done 
with  the  utmost  secrecy. 

"A  week,  ten  days  passed,  and  I  heard 
nothing  from  these  auditions.  In  the  mean- 
time I  was  doing  sustaining  programs  and 
more  guest  appearances.  Finally,  when  I 
thought  I  could  stand  the  suspense  no 
longer,  I  was  told  that  Jessica  Dragonette 
of  the  Cities  Scri'ice  program  was  taking 
a  vacation  and  I  was  to  substitute  during 
her  absence.  Walking  on  air?  Of  course 
I  was !  Even  though  I  knew  that  it  was 
only  an  extended  guest  appearance.  Then 
again,  the  following  spring,  I  was  substi- 


A  Texan  from  "way  down  thor,  Dell 
Sharbu+t,  popular  CBS  announcer, 
clings  to  his  old  ten-gallon  hat. 

tute  for  Jessica."  Lucille  sighed  as  she 
looked  back  at  those  days,  thinking  of  the 
years  and  months  of  waiting  for  something 
big  to  come  her  way. 

Last  fall,  Miss  Manners  was  asked  to 
be  understudy  to  Helen  Gleason  in  the 
current  Broadway  musical.  Frcderika.  She 
was  delighted  with  the  thought  of  getting 
experience  in  stage  work.  Her  ambition 
is  to  be  an  opera  star  and  any  opportunity 
which  helps  her  on  this  road,  Lucille 
grasps.  However,  when  she  was  about  to 
accept  definitely  the  offer  of  stage  work, 
she  was  given  the  important  spot  of  re- 
placing Jessica  Dragonette  on  the  air. 


"It  was  too  important  a  step  in  my  career 
for  me  to  refuse.  In  fact,  1  could  hardly 
realize  my  good  fortune — and  to  think  that 
I  am  signed  for  three  years — "  She  hesi- 
tated. "I  am  afraid  to  mention  that,  though ! 
1  keep  telling  myself  it  is  for  only  one  year, 
that  the  next  two  years  are  optional  with 
tlic  sponsor.  In  reality,  my  contract  reads 
with  options  for  the  five  years  following 
the  "l  iuinal  three."  That  old  contradiction 
auain.  In  one  breath  she  is  confident  that 
everything  is  perfect.  In  the  next,  she  is 
afraid  of  her  goixl  luck. 

So  many  times  her  career  has  been 
threatened,  that  she  hesitates  to  plan  for 
anything  more  than  the  next  tew  weeks. 
When  she  first  started  ^tuil\  ing  voice,  she 
took  lessons  from  a  teacher  lor  ;.ix  months. 
She  and  her  motiier  n<itice(l  that  her  voice 
gradually  was  becoming  hoarse.  She  stop- 
ped lessons  and  practicing  and  waited — 
waited  for  her  voice  either  to  recover  from 
mismanagement  or  to  disappear  completely. 
For  seven  months  she  was  afraid  to  sing. 

Again,  two  years  ago,  the  doctors  told 
her  that  she  must  have  her  tonsils  removed. 
Fearful  of  what  effect  this  might  have  on 
her  voice,  she  postponed  the  operation  un- 
til a  year  ago.  After  recovery,  she  found 
that  her  voice  no  longer  was  a  contralto, 
she  had  become  a  soprano.  But  in  those 
few  weeks,  when  she  was  not  sure  whether 
her  voice  had  changed  or  vanished,  she 
suffered  heartbreaking  suspense. 

Xuw  that  good  fortune  has  come  her 
way.  Lucille  Manners  is  afraid.  She  is 
fearful  of  Fate  tricking  her.  Now  a 
prima  donna  on  the  air,  in  reality  she  is  a 
little  girl  who  dares  not  trust  her  good 
luck. 


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but  in  the  iiK'anwliilc,  tliiiik  <il  tlie  .qricf 
and  the  strain  and  the  worry.  11c  has  tn 
watch  every  little  thing,  fie  has  to  wurry 
al^ont  the  liack-slappers  and  the  slipi'er\- 
toiigued  hangers-(in  \vh..  kcc|i  tclhnt;  him 
he  is  great,  no  matter  what  he  <loes. 

"Now,  we've  got  a  little  show,  a  happy, 
comfortable  little  .show,  that  just  goes  on 
its  even  way.  week  in  and  week  out.  W'e 
try  to  build  steadily  all  the  time,  hut  we've 
got  a  long  way  to  go  to  hit  the  very  top. 
I  hope  we  <lon't  hit  the  top  for  quite  a 
while,  because  we're  doing  all  right  the  way 
we  are. 

"More  money?  \Miat  good  would  that 
be?  The  more  you  make,  the  more  the 
government  takes  I  If  we  earned  more.  1 
figure  we  woiddn't  earn  enough  more  to 
luake  up  for  the  atlditional  grief. 

"Jane  and  1  live  the  way  we  like  to 
live.  W'e  have  a  nice  a|>arlnient  :  high  in 
•,l:e  I-:ssex  Hon-c  in  the  iieart  of  Xew  York 
C'ltx.  It'-  delightfully  Cool  there  in  the 
suninier,  warm  in  the  winter.  W'e  have 
cur  fi  ienils.  \\"e  <\nn\  care  much  for  night 
clubs  or  rushing  around  to  the  hot  spots. 
P)e\-erly  llilU  houses  and  swiiumiiig  pools? 
Balone\  I  W'e'<l  be  out  of  toucli  with  the 
kind  111  people  we  know  and  for  whom 
we  broadcast.  The  psvchologv  of  it  would 
he  wrong." 

Change  the  Ilasy  Aces  program?  Good- 
man shook  his  head  emphaticallv  "no." 

"Why?"  he  asked  again.  "This  show- 
still  has  friends  and  is  going  along  all 
right.  I  will  admit  I  get  a  bit  stumped 
for  story  ideas  now  and  then.  But  every 
time  I  think  there's  nothing  else  for  us  to 
do.  something  else  conies  along. 

"Of  course,  like  everybody  else,  we  have 
'family'  probleins.  "We  have  to  he  careful 
ab<iut  expanding  our  little  grou]).  having  or 
adopting  a  child,  or  letting  an  aunt  or  uncle 
visit  us  for  too  long.  Because,  as  in  real 
families,  the\ 're  apt  to  1)6  too  expensive. 
W-ah,  Mill  -re  we  pay  off  in  salaries! 

ir  instance,  do  you  remember,  a  while 
back  Jane  wanted  to  adopt  a  child?  Well, 
I  was  worried  for  quite  a  wlu'le  how  that 
was  goin.g  to  come  out.  If  we  really 
idopted  a  child,  it  would  have  been  a 
permanent  member  of  the  family.  .A  perma- 
nent cast  addition  with  a  permanent  salary 
and,  worse  than  that,  I'd  have  had  to  think- 
ui)  dialogue  for  it  as  well  as  for  Jane  and 
.Margie  an<l  me  !" 

Like  most  newspai)ermen  who  have  been 
trained  to  write  on  "deadlines."  Goodman 
never  turns  out  his  radio  script  until  the 
very  last  moment.  Two  arc  due  on  Sun- 
day evening  and  that  means  he  has  to 
work  all  day  Sunday.  Another  is  due 
Monday.  No,  of  course,  he  never  does 
'cm  lieforehand ! 

".Sometimes  they  come  right  out  of  the 
typewriter,"  Jane  told  me.  "Other  limes, 
it  takes  hours  for  him  to  get  them  going, 
hours  of  walking  up  and  down,  smoking 
cigarettes,  lying  down  on  the  conch,  <lriiik- 
ing  one  glass  of  water  after  another  — 
oh,  well  you  know  all  the  things  a  writer 
can  tlunk  up  to  do  in  order  not  to  write !" 

"What  do  you  do  aliout  it?"  we  asked 
Jane.    "Can  you  help  witli  the  ideas?" 


She  laughed.  "Mostly,"  she  answered, 
"1  fetch  the  water  or  the  cigarettes.  Some- 
times I  make  a  suggestion  and  he  says: 
'Xo,  no.  that  s  not  it,  hut  still — wait — '  and 
then  he  g(.)es  and  bangs  away.  But  when 
it  comes  out.  it's  nothing  like  what  I  said." 

Goodman  tried  a  couple  of  script  writers 
at  one  time,  he  said.  He  thought  they 
would  give  him  not  only  rest,  but  fresh 

"It  didn't  work,"  he  said.  "The  writers, 
clever  as  they  were,  got  me  off  on  w-rong 
tangents.  Ours  is  just  average  family 
stuff  and  I  usually  get  my  ideas  from 
friends  of  uiirs,  or  amusing  things  that 
actually  hapiien  to  Jane  and  me — drama- 
tizAil,  of  conrsc.  My  hired  writers  tried 
to  he  to<i  clever." 

That  stor\  tliat  Jane  is  such  a  sw-ell 
comedienne  and  that  Goodman  wants  her 
to  go  on  the  stage  or  in  the  movies  and 
develop  her  talents?  That,  it  appears, 
came  out  of  a  spontaneous  compliment  paid 
one  evening  l)y  h'rank  h'ay,  after  he  had 
watched  the  liasy  .  Ices  broadcast.  He  told 
Jane  she  was  simply  swell  and  she  had 
something  definitely  for  audiences.  That 
she  ought  to  do  something  with  her 
ability. 

Pleased  with  the  praise,  Jane  says  frai-ik- 
ly  she  thinks  I'a\'  is  o\er-optimistic. 

"Actresses  know  instinctively  when  to 
laugh  or  cry  or  have  a  little  catch  in  their 
voices,  don't  they?"  she  asks.  "Well,  I 
never  do.  It  never  comes  to  me.  I  have  to 
go  over  my  script  beforehaiifl  and  luark  in 
every  little  piece  of  business  such  as  laugh- 
ing, sneezing,  coughing  or  crying.  Now 
it's  fun,  but  I  want  to  do  nothing  more.  If 
ever  this  program  stops,  I  am  going  to  re- 
tire and  let  Goodman  do  the  work  from 
tlien  on.  I'll  just  be  a  wife.  I  love  to  go 
shopping  !" 

Goodman  .'\ce  is  his  own  publicity  di- 
rector, ioT  two  rea.sons.  First,  he  doesn't, 
at  heart  and  although  a  newspaperman, 
believe  in  publicity  about  the  Easy  Aces. 
He  doesn't  like  to  send  out  fan  pictures. 
He  doesn't  believe  in  personal  appearances. 
He  tliinks  such  things  destroy  the  illusion 
he  and  J.'uie  have  Innlt  up  in  seven  years 
over  the  air.  that  the  liasy  .Ices  are  an 
actual  family  with  wnes,  iKipes  and  happi- 
ness, as  any  other  family.  He  tells  me 
they  get  many  letters  from  fans  who  actu- 
ally worry  about  Jane's  and  Goodman's 
problems,  and  take  them  seriously  as  a 
real  family. 

"WHiy  make  th<jsc  people  think  of  us  as 
performers,  rather  than  real  individuals?" 
he  asks  "W'e  tried  personal  appearances 
mice.  ()in-  fan  reaction  wasn't  good  and 
we  hated  the  per.sonal  appearances  our- 
selves. We  loathed  the  noise,  the  crowds, 
the  pushing,  the  five  or  three  or  four-a- 
day  shows  we  played.  People  stared  at 
us.  We  felt  like  curiosities.  The  way  we 
live  now,  nol)o<l\  knows  ns.  Nobody  stares 
at  us.  We  can  go  about  our  own  business 
like  human  beings  and  keep  our  perspec- 
tive. 

"We  had  a  press  agent  once.  He  got  us 
fine  notices  in  the  paper,  but  when  I'd  pick 
up    somebody's    radio    column    and  read 


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things  like:  'Coodman  and  Jaiir  .  fi  r  arc 
the  t'U'O  bcsl  bcis  or.  the  air  today,'  I'd 
know  it  ^vasn't  anything  we'd  done  that 
had  ohtained  that  notice.  It  was  just  the 
press  agent  doing  liis  joh.  If  you  really 
do  a  good  job,  you  don't  need  press  agents. 
Your  fans  will  talk  about  you. 

"Change  our  name,  just  because  i)ridge 
isn't  as  popular  as  it  once  \va-<?  I  think 
that's  silly,  too.  We're  known  as  the 
Easy  Aces  and  it  is  a  good  name  and  we 
are  going  to  keep  it.  It  would  he  like 
changing  your  married  name.  It  would 
just  confuse  your  fricmh. 

"Go  in  the  iiiM\us?  1  don't  think  so. 
We  tried  makin.i;  xjme  slmrt  snhjccts  once, 
but  we  didn't  like  the  w^irk^  Auain.  it 
destroyed  illusion  and.  aiiam,  it  lo-ik  too 
much  of  our  time  and  kept  iis  ti  Min  lead- 
ing the  kind  of  pleasant,  quiet  hie  we  like. 


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that  it 
over  to 
rue.  It 
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out  of 


He 


school. 


I  think  it's  better 
what  we  look  like." 

About  that  crack 
took  him  a  long  time  to  wni 
the  idea  of  beini;  Mrs.  .\ie. 
took  him  the  better  i>art  <'f  t\\ 

You  nn'ght  call  liini,  this 
Caitlrinri:  of  the  Press,  this 
cisar-snioldn<j.   nonchalant  C< 
a  true,  certaiidy  a  ]>ersistein 
fell  in  love  with  Ijlonde.  per 
they  were  in  the  seventh  gra( 

He  wooed  her  obstiiiatcl}',  throu.nh  sev- 
enth and  eighth  grades,  hiiih  school,  jour- 
nalism work  at  college  and  after  he  be- 
came a  full-fledged  newspaperman,  until 
she  said  "yes,"  twelve  years  later  ! 

She  wouldn't  give  him  the  time  of  day 
at  first.  She  had  lots  of  beaux  and,  to  her, 
Goodman  was  just  that  boy  who  sat  across 
th.e  aisle  in  school. 

In  order  to  see  her  at  all,  he  was  at  one 
time  reduced  to  calling  on  the  kid  sister, 
under  pretense  of  helping  with  school  les- 
sons, but  always  hoping  for  a  glimpse  of 
Jane. 

One  night,  after  he  had  become  a  pretty 
good  newspaperman,  he  called  up  and  said 
he  had  a  couple  of  passes  for  an  .W  Jol- 
son  show.  Would  she  go?  Nobody  else 
had  asked  her  and  it  was  a  good  show. 
She  would. 

Goodman  pressed  his  advantage.  He 
kept  on  getting  more  show  passes  and 
taking  her  out.  He  started  proposing.  Any 
place,  any  time.  At  the  soda  fountain  after 
the  show.  Underneath  the  arc  light  on  the 
way  home.  In  the  movies.  Between  rub- 
bers of  bridge.  She  just  laughed  gaily 
and  Goodman  kept  right  on. 

One  night  there  was  a  full  moon — a  love- 
ly>  hig,  glowing  Kansas  moon — and  Jane 
found  herself  being  kissed.  By  the  time 
papa  got  down  to  the  front  door,  they 
were  engaged.  They  were  married  shortly 
thereafter  and  have  lived  happily  ever 
since. 

Easy  Aces?  Come  to  think  of  it,  it's 
not  such  a  bad  name.  They're  easy-going, 
pleasant  people  with  a  thoroughly  sane 
slant  on  life.  Maybe  that's  why  their  pro- 
gram has  kept  along  at  its  comfortable 
gait  these  past  years,  and  why  so  many 
radio  listeners  think  of  them  as  friends. 


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But  we  love  it  here,  too,  and  we  thought 
it  was  fooHsh  not  to  go  where  we  could 
get  sunshine  and  outdoor  life,  as  long  as 
we  could  afTord  it." 

Just  as  P\nc  R'ni^fc  is  "a  little  wide  place 
in  the  road"  and  Mcna.  the  boys'  home 
town,  a  city  and  the  county  scat,  so  Holly- 
wood is  just  another  pretty  place  in  which 
to  live.  The  fact  that  movies  are  made  here, 
and  that  the  world  at  large  imagines  it 
as  a  rather  hectic  spot,  has  not  prevented 
the  hoys  from  seeing  it  as  an  overgrown 
country  town,  with  much  to  offer  in  the 
way  of  the  quiet  life  they  love. 

"The  people  are  grand — }ou  expect  them 
to  be  different,  maybe,  but  they  aren't. 
They  are  just  the  same  as  in  Chicago  or 
Mcna  or  anywhere.  And  we  have  so  many 
friends  here.  Bob  Burns  and  Don  Aineche, 
for  instance — Don  used  to  live  in  the  same 
apartment  house  with  us  in  Chicago,  and 
now  Goff's  place  is  right  next  to  his." 

Overhearing  Lauck  and  Bob  Burns  ex- 
change reminiscences  is  like  listening  in 
on  one  of  their  programs.  "Did  you  know 
— Iiai'i'  ymi  seen — do  yon  rcuicinbcr — 
Ainaryllis  Jones.  Sadie  iK'lhit's  her-namc, 
that  ijirl  with  the  yelloze  pifilads!"  And 
with  a  drawling  twang  that  grows  richer 
as  the  talk  goes  on ! 

''Back  home"  takes  on  a  deeper  mean- 
ing to  us  all,  as  time  and  space  widen  be- 
tween us,  but  it  seems  that  Lauck  and  GofT 
—and  Robin  Burns ! — are  more  fortunate 
than  most,  for  their  home  town  and  their 
past  are  ever  with  them,  an  integral  part 
of  their  lives  and  of  themselves.  We  can- 
not all  turn  our  memories  into  a  livelihood 
— perhaps  that  is  why  the  little  glimpses 
they  give  tis  on  their  program  have,  in 
addition  to  humor  and  homely  philosophy, 
a  certain  nostalgic  charin. 

As  a  landed  proprietor,  Lauck  has  a  big 
house,  a  swiinming  pool  in  the  rear  and 
an  acre  of  fruit  trees — orange,  lemon, 
tangerine,  kumciuat,  avocado.  And  Goff 
(who  is  "TufTy"  to  his  intimates)  has 
fourteen  acres,  a  swimming  pool,  of 
course,  a  tennis  court,  a  horse  and — less 
usual  on  a  Hollywood  "ranch" — hens  and 
I  a  cow  and  calf.  The  cow  has  obliged  them 
with  four  gallons  of  milk  a  day  and 
the  hens  provide  fresh  eggs  for  break- 
fast. Also,  we  must  not  forget  the  parrot 
or  the  Great  Dane  and  the  dachshund ! 

Evidently  the  odd  combination  of  dogs 
appealed  to  Chester  Lauck,  for  he  pro- 
vided his  famiU-  with  a  cocker  spaniel 
and  a  .St.  Bernard! 

"There  is  nothing  very  startling  about 
our  lives,"  Lauck  commented.  "It  is  all 
very  simple,  but  we  have  a  big  time,  enjoy 
life  a  lot  ...  " 

"We  admire  and  love  that  type  of 
character,"  Gofif  explained,  "and  the  simple 
life  they  represent.  You  might  not  think 
it,  but  we  would  be  perfectly  contented 
to  live  just  that  sort  of  life." 

Mena  sounds  a  far  cry  from  Hollywood, 
but  they  were  unanimous  in  extolling  its 
charms — if  either  suffers  by  comparison, 
it  is  Hollywood  I 

The  cross-section  of  life  and  the  people 
they  present  on  their  program  are  inti- 
mately known  to  them  from  long  associa- 


tion in  their  boyhood  days  and  from  later 
thoughtful  study  and  careful  interpreta- 
tion. They  present  them  with  all  their 
foibles,  but  they  never  mock  or  make  fun 
of  them. 

The  program  itself  came  about  almost 
accidentally.  The  boys  had  enjoyed  ama- 
teur theatricals,  but  had  expected  to  live 
the  same  sort  of  life  that  their  friends 
did,  to  follow  some  more  usual  line  of 
business.  Both  had  been  to  college.  Lauck 
had  studied  commercial  art  and  had  edited 
a  small  magazine  in  Texas,  before  re- 
turning to  Mena,  and,  after  some  time  in 
a  local  bank,  became  manager  of  an 
automobile  finance  company.  Goff  was 
helping  his  father  run  a  wholesale  grocery 
business  and  the  boys,  who  had  known 
each  other  since  childhood,  went  about 
together  and  fell  into  the  habit  of  helping 
with  such  local  entertainments  as  were 
put  on  by  the  Elks  and  the  Lions  Club. 

They  both  possess  a  keen  sense  of 
humor,  as  well  as  insight  into  the  natures 
of  the  people  they  knew  and  dealt  with. 
So,  wdien  they  had  an  opportunity  to  go 
on  the  air  in  Hot  Springs,  they  devised  a 
brief  skit  based  on  the  hill  folk  they  had 
come  in  contact  with.  It  was  in  April, 
1931,  that  Lum  and  Abncr  thus  came  into 
being,  but  the  two  boys,  busy  at  their 
respective  jobs  next  day,  were  far  from 
guessing  what  a  momentous  occasion  that 
had  been. 

Like  a  snowball  rolling  down  hill,  that 
first  broadcast  led  to  nine  more  and  the 
boys  suddenly  were  confronted  by  the 
startling  idea  that  they  might  have  hit 
upon  something  with  real  possibilities.  A 
vacation,  time  out  for  some  intensive  think- 
ing, seemed  in  order.  Radio  was  young 
and  alluring.  An  audition  in  Chicago  was 
the  next  step,  and,  before  they  had  really 
made  up  their  minds,  they  found  them- 
selves signing  a  contract. 

Their  early  experiences  were  not  too 
successful.  They  had  a  succession  of 
sponsors  and,  for  one  reason  and  another, 
though  I'inc  Ridge  and  the  little  coterie 
which  gathered  at  the  Jot  'lint  Down  Store 
were  very  popular  with  their  fans,  the  pro- 
gram still  was  restricted  to  the  Middle 
West.  It  was  not  until  the  latter  part  of 
1934  that,  through  the  interest  and  efforts 
of  the  late  Mr.  Horlick,  they  were  put 
on  a  Coast-to-Coast  hook-up  and  became 
familiar  to  fans  from  Maine  to  Florida, 
from  New  York  to  Hollywood. 

Chicago  had  become  home,  with  the 
Laucks,  whose  household  includes  two 
lovely  little  girls,  Shirley  Mae  and  Nancy, 
and  the  Gofts,  with  their  baby  boy,  Gary, 
established  in  beautiful  apartments  on  Lake 
Michigan.  Their  wives  were  Arkansas 
girls,  both  dark-haired  and  pretty,  both 
quiet,  both  well  content  to  follow  where 
their  husbands  led.  Like  the  boys,  they 
have  been  completely  unspoiled  by  their 
increasing  affluence.  Each  runs  her  big 
house  the  way  they  were  taught  back 
home.  They  like  to  shop  at  the  Farmers' 
Market  and  come  home  laden  with  fresh 
vegetables  and  fruit. 

"Probably  spend  a  whole  lot  more  than 
they  would  if  they  shopped  by  phone," 


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was  Lauck's  amused,  husbandly  comment. 

Naturally,  all  of  them  enjoyed  their  in- 
troduction to  Hollywood  and  a  taste  of 
Hollywood's  famed  night  life.  They  had 
to  go  to  the  Clover  Club,  the  "Troc',"  the 
Brown  Derby,  to  see  their  favorite  movie 
stars  near  to. 

But  otherwise  Hollywood  has  had  no 
more  efTect  on  them  than  Chicago.  Nor  is 
it  likely  to.  They  retain  their  Arkansas 
twang,  almost  that  way  of  speaking,  though 
naturally  not  so  noticeably  as  for  Lum 
and  Abncr.  More  important,  they  retain 
that  way  of  thinking,  that  deep  sense  of 
values. 

"Naturally,  our  way  of  life  has  been 
changed  and  we've  been  changed  by  our 
experiences,"  Gofif  said.  "Just  as  anyone 
is  changed  who  travels,  who  meets  a  lot 
of  people.  But  fundamentally,  we  are  the 
same,  like  the  same  things,  have  the  same 
ideals." 

They  are  essentially  conservative,  put- 
ting their  money  by  in  the  form  of  annui- 
ties and  not  living  extravagantly,  not 
doing  anything  for  show.  They  thoroughly 
enjoy  being  able  to  have  the  things  they 
like,  to  dress  well  and  to  give  their  wives 
and  children  security  as  well  as  pleasure. 
They  like  to  have  a  good  time,  as  anyone 
does,  but  they  see  that  good  time  in  terms 
of  being  together,  of  playing  golf,  of 
swimming  and  boating  and  riding,  and 
perhaps  risking  a  small  bet  now  and  then 
at  Santa  Anita.  They'd  like  to  travel. 

"But  we  are  not  in  any  hurry,"  Lauck 
grinned.  "As  long  as  anyone  wants  to  hear 
about  Lum  and  Abncr  and  their  doings, 
we  won't  get  far  away!" 

Of  course,  being  in  the  movie  capital, 
they  have  given  some  thought  to  the 
making  of  a  movie.  But  not  just  any 
movie —  they  won't  make  one  at  all,  unless 
the  right  vehicle  can  be  found.  Something 
that  will  present  Pine  Ridge  and  its  in- 
habitants as  they  really  are,  as  they  are 
portrayed  to  you  over  the  air.  They  would 
not  risk  spoiling  the  illusion  that  has  been 
so  carefully  created,  destroying  the  picture 
fans  have  built  of  these  likable,  amusing 
people.  Because  they  take  their  work  seri- 
ously and  regard  their  program  not  merely 
as  comedy  but  as  an  interpretation  of  one 
kind  of  American  life. 

And  because,  in  a  sense,  like  Franken- 
stein, they  have  built  something  that  has 
grown  to  tremendous  porportions  and  that 
in  a  very  real,  though  entirely  pleasant 
sense,  controls  their  lives.  They  feel  they 
owe  a  debt  not  only  to  their  fans  but  to 
their  own  creations.  Luin  and  Abner  are 
near  and  dear  to  their  hearts,  and  hardly 
less  real  than  the  actual  Dick  Hiiddlcston, 
who  is  the  only  real-life  character  in  their 
skits.  And  the  others  seem  equally  as  real, 
so  much  so  that  neither  Lauck  nor  Goff 
can  visualize  doing  anything  to  disrupt 
the  picture  they  have  created.  Just  as 
Waters,  Arkansas,  the  little  town  which 
they  picked  as  a  locale  for  their  stories, 
changed  itself  to  Pine  Ridge  in  fact  as 
well  as  fancy,  so  their  fictional  towns- 
people live  their  similar  lives,  share  their 
problems  and  their  small  adventures. 

And  whether  in  Chicago  or  Hollywood, 
Lauck  and  Goff  live  likewise  and  imagine 
themselves  as  really  being  landowners  in 
Pine  Ridge  or  Mena — "back  home" — 
where,  perhaps,  they  will  live  again  some 
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"Not  yet."  said  Eddie. 

"What  do  you  mean?"  1  asked. 

"Come  home  with  me  and  you'll  see," 
lie  said.  "Come  home  and  have  a  bite 
to  eat.  Ida  always  has  supper  waiting 
after  tlie  broadcast,"  he  added. 

.So  I  rode  with  him  to  the  big  white 
house  in  Beverly  Hills,  the  house  Cantor 
has  leased  from  Raoul  Walsh,  the  picture 
director. 

Loudly  he  rattled  his  key  in  the  lock, 
cpened  the  front  door,  marched  into  the 
li\  in.y-room. 

Ida  .s;reeted  him  with  a  kiss. 
"Fhnv  was  it?"  he  asked. 
"On  the  whole,  good,"  said  Ida.  "But  .  .  ." 
"I  don't  like  that  biil,"  murmured'  Eddie. 
He  looked  about  him  at  his  daughters,  who 
sat  around  the  room.     "Where's  Janet?" 
he  demanded. 

"Upstairs,  in  bed,"  answered  Ida. 
"And  listening  to  Jack  Benny !"  supple- 
mented Natalie. 

"I  come  home  from  work  and  my  daugh- 
ter is  listening  to  Jack  Benny !"  Eddie 
grinned.  "Well,  he's  my  best  friend,  any- 
way. You  folks  go  on  in  and  cat.  I  want 
to  say  good  night  to  Janet.  I'll  be  with 
you  in  a  minute."    And  he  raced  upstairs. 

Ida  led  the  way  through  the  dining- 
room  and  into  an  intimate,  pine-decorated, 
many-windowed  sun  parlor,  where  the 
Cantors  eat  their  breakfasts  and  late  sup- 
pers. The  table  was  set  with  cold  chicken, 
home-made  chocolate  cake  and  preserves. 
Ida  piled  our  plates. 

\Vhen  Eddie  came  down  he  turned  to 
the  girls:  "Did  you  hear  Jack  Benny, 
loo?" 

"Most  of  it,"  said  Marjorie.  "He  told 
a  very  ftniny  joke."  Her  manner  was 
both  sad  and  reproving. 

"But  what  about  my  jokes?" 
"You'd  better  eat  first,  Daddy,"  inter- 
rupted Marilyn. 

"Yes,  eat  .  .  .  We'll  talk  about  it  later," 
Mil  idled  lulna. 

"Was  it  as  bad  as  all  that?"  he  asked. 
"It  was  okay,  but  ..."  began  Mar- 
rie. 

The  but  stopped  him  from  eating.  "If 
don't  have  a  good  program,  I  don't  de- 
serve to  eat!"  he  said.     "And  if  it's  not 
good,  it   won't   be  long   before  we  don't 
cat  altogether." 

They  laughed  at  this.  Then  there  was 
a  silence,  an  almost  ominous  silence. 

Then  they  all  hopped  on  him  with: 
'"i'oii  should  be  good  thirty  mintites  out 
of  thirty  1" 

"Why  did  you  sing  that  song?"  asked 
"dna.  ■ 

"^'ou  mean,  lluntjry  IVomcii?" 
"^•cs." 

He  bridled.  "I  sang  it  in  The  Polite.'! 
of  1916.  Audiences  paid  six-sixty  a  ticket, 
and  they  loved  it !" 

"This  is  a  new  generation,"  said  Edna. 
"Besides,  the  lyric  was  silly.  Nowadays 
■-■iris   d')n't   go  anjund   g( ild-digging  men 
inr  meals,"  said  Marjnnc. 

"There  voii're  wrong."  I'Lddie  insisted. 
'Yon  hapjien  to  be  fortunate,  living  in  a 
nice  home,  sure  of  your  food,  but  plenty 
of  girls  gold-dig  for  a  dinner." 


"Then  you  should  educate  them." 

"Educate  them!  Why,  Marjorie,  I'm 
paid  to  entertain!  If  they  want  some- 
body to  educate  them,  let  the  sponsors 
hire  Nicholas  Murray  Butler  !" 

There  Mr.  Cantor  was  right.  But  his 
family  had  not  finished. 

"What  about  that  political  joke  you 
told?"  asked  Natalie. 

"Why,  what  about  it?  I  said  to  Jiinmy 
Wallington  I  had  a  new  dance  called  The 
Repnblican-Denwcratic  SiL'iiig.  He  asked 
me  how  I  do  it,  and  I  demonstrated.  Then 
he  said:  'What  kind  of  a  dance  is  that, 
just  shaking  your  knees?'  And  I  said: 
'That's  why  it's  called  The  Rcpublican- 
Ih'iiiocralic  Stcing — because  they  keep 
knocking  each  other  !'  " 

"We  couldn't  watch  you'  demonstrate," 
admonished  Marjorie.  "We  could  only 
hear  the  story." 

He  alibied :  "Maybe  it  was  your  radio. 
Even  President  Roosevelt's  voice  sounds 
badly,  when  there's  static' 

"But  a  bum  joke  is  always  a  bum  joke," 
squelched  Natalie. 

I  have  tried  to  report  this  conversation 
exactly  the  way  it  occurred,  but  upon  re- 
reading my  efforts  I  see  it  was  impossible 
for  me  to  put  down  on  paper  the  spirit 
of  comradeship  existing  between  Eddie 
Cantor  and  his  girls.  Eddie  listened  at- 
tentively to  their  opinions,  making  them 
unseen  stooges,  a  vital  part  of  his  pro- 
gram. And  through  it  all  Ida  sat  there, 
silent,  patient  and  wise. 

Later,  he  explained :  "I  love  those  post 
mortems.  My  family  is  an  average  family. 
Their  reactions  must  be  the  reactions  of 
the  average  audience.  Therefore,  I  gauge 
my  performances  by  them. 

"They  keep  me  on  my  toes.  I've  been 
twenty-five  years  in  every  branch  of  the 
show  world,  except  the  circus,  ami  that's 
a  long  stretch  for  anyone.  Whenever  I 
am  tempted  to  cut  down  on  m\'  jobs,  I 
stop  and  remember  iny  family  might  think 
1  am  slipping, 

"Marjorie  is  a  typical  American  girl. 
When  my  programs  do  not  appeal  to  her, 
I  know  there  is  something  vitally  wrong. 
They  have  to  please  her — or  else! 

"She  has  a  remarkable  ear  for  what 
the  ptiblic  wants.  She  knows  radio  deals 
with  all  classes  so:  'This  line  is  a  little 
obvious.'  she  says,  or:  'Take  that  one  out, 
it  might  offend,' 

"I'^or  example,  in  one  broadcast,  1  ex- 
plained some  of  the  Bible  stories  to  Bobby 
Hreen.  He  wanted  dramatic  reading  ma- 
terial. I  told  him  the  Bible  is  full  of 
such  tales,  of  mystery,  romance  and  ad- 
venture. I  cited  the  chapter  about  Jonah 
and  the  whale;  I  suggested  he  read  the 
slory  of  Noah  and  the  flood.  He  said  he 
liked  books  about  in\'ention  ;  1  told  him 
how  the  earth  and  everything  in  it  was 
created  in  six  days.  He  asked  for  a  pub- 
lic enemy  yarn ;  I  related  the  story  of 
Cain,  Piililic  I'jiemy  Ntnnber  One.  And 
w  hen  he  demanded  jirize  fights,  I  described 
bow  a  lightweight  beat  a  heavyweight  for 
the  championship  of  the  world. 

"  'David  knocked  out  Goliatli  with  one 
blow,'  1  said,  'and  there  were  no  motion 


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picture    rights    in    those    days,  either!' 

"You  can  readily  see  why  this  was  a 
ticklish  script  to  handle.  So  that  it  might 
not  offend  churchgoers,  Marjorie  edited 
the  entire  program.  Siie  insisted  I  cut 
out  twelve  lines,  a  lot  in  radio.  She  did 
such  a  good  job  that,  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  the  broadcast,  I  received  over 
five  thousand  requests  for  mimeographed 
copies ! 

"Edna  often  chooses  my  songs.  With 
meticulous  care  she  scans  trade  papers  and 
studies  the  weekly  song  ratings.  Then 
she  runs  to  me  with:  'I've  been  playing 
this  over;  it's  coming  up  fast.  Sing  it 
two  weeks  from  now,  when  it'll  be  on 
top !' 

■'I  never  broadcast  a  joke  unless  it  is 
fit  for  my  younger  daughters'  ears,  so 
Marilyn  and  our  nine-year-old  baby,  Janet, 
join  my  preview  audiences. 

"The  girls  invariably  are  right.  They 
did  not  like  my  last  picture.  I  let  them 
see  the  daily  rushes.  They  didn't  like  it 
even  then,  during  the  making. 

"  That's  not  you.'  they  said.    'It's  false !' 

"It  was  hard  for  me  to  admit  I  did 
not  care  for  it  myself,  but  that  my  boss, 
a  man  well-versed  in  the  motion  picture 
business,  thought  it  was  wliat  the  public 
wanted.  So  I  said  nothing.  -As  events 
developed,  my  boss,  with  his  experience, 
was  wrong,  and  my  daughters  were  right  I 

"Constantly  I  learn  from  them.  They 
censor  my  life  as  well  as  my  programs. 
Naturally,  in  the  erratic  pace  of  my  work, 
I  am  liable  to  forget  others.  Natalie,  who 
was  a  typist  for  Coluniliia  Broadcasting  Sys- 
tem, taught  me  to  be  more  tlioughtful. 

"One  evening  she  did  not  arrive  home 
from  the  office  until  half  past  eight.  She 
entered,  pale,  tired,  and  handed  me  my 
forty-one  page  radio  script. 

"  "You  forget  how  busy  the  Columbia 
typists  are,'  she  said.  'I  don't  care,  for 
myself,  but  if  you  could  only  arrange  to 
turn  in  your  final  copies  at  a  reasonable 
hour,  the  girls  wouldn't  have  to  work  over- 
time !' 

"On  account  of  my  family,  I  am  a  bet- 
ter man.  Continually  I  have  to  slioic 
them  my  ability  by  my  performances,  my 
character  by  my  conduct. 

"One  graphic  example,  I  think,  they  have 
not  forgotten.  I  was  invited  to  make  a 
speech  for  what  I  considered  an  important 
cause.  My  friends  told  me  it  would  hurt 
my  popularity  ;  the  thousands  against  that 
cause  would  never  buy  a  ticket  to  see  me 
again ! 

"But  I  believed  in  that  cause.  My 
family  kneiv  I  believed.  Their  eyes  shone 
with  faith  in  me.    So  I  made  the  speech. 

"When  I  stood  upon  the  platform,  ready 
to  talk,  and  saw  Ida  and  the  girls  seated 
out  front,  I  told  the  audience:  'It  may 
hurt  my  pockctbook  to  be  here,  but  if  I 
didn't  do  it,  it  would  hurt  me  more  here!' 
And  I  pointed  to  my  heart. 

"So  you  see,  it  is  not  surprising  that 
1  feel  I  owe  everything,  from  the  success 
of  my  program  to  the  success  of  my  life, 
to  my  family.  I  hair  to  be  wliat  they 
expect  me  to  be.  I  daren't  disappoint 
them  1" 

This  time  I  did  not  need  to  look  for 
a  reason  underlying  Eddie  Cantor's  words. 
Tears  glistened  in  those  big  eyes  of  his. 
And  I  kneiv  the  reason.  It  was  just  one 
word — loi'e. 


LETTERS  TO 
LISTENERS 

{Reversing  the  Usual  Order) 


Dear  Listeners: 

Many  of  you  have  written  to  ask  about 
our  Monday  night  program  over  CBS  for 
Dill's  Best  Tobaeeo,  and  wanted  to  know 
if  it  were  true  that  we  did  our  program 
with  blackface  make-up  on.    Well,  we  do. 

The  reason  for  this  is  that  it  gets  into 
the  spirit  of  things  to  a  greater  extent. 
Our  efforts  seem  to  sound  more  convincing 
and  more  like  the  characters  we  portray. 
Then.  too.  tlie  members  of  the  studio  au- 
dience enjoy  the  programs  more  because 
of  the  visual  illusion. 

On  the  other  hand,  when  we  broadcast 
as  Molasses  'n'  January,  we  wear  no 
make-up  and  costume,  conforming  to  the 
pattern  set  by  the  sponsor. 

We  hope  this  answers  a  question  that 
has  been  asked  us  for  years. 
PICK  MALOXEAND  PAT  PADGETT 

Dear  Listeners: 

It's  a  very  odd  thing,  this  relationship 
between  a  speaker  on  the  air  and  his 
listeners.  I've  never  seen  you  of  the  radio 
audience  who  listen  in  on  the  I'arsity 
.S/ioit'  broadcast,  and  yet.  I  feel  I  know 
pretty  much  what  you're  thinking  on  Fri- 
day nights  at  10:30. 

"Well,"  you  say  to  yourselves,  "here's 
this  fellow  Held  again.  He  may  be  a  fair 
master  of  ceremonies,  but,  say — those  boys 
and  girls  from  the  universities  he  visits 
really  have  what  it  takes  I  " 

Therefore,  I'm  going  to  say  very  little 
for  myself,  but  in  behalf  of  the  student 
performers  who  have  appeared  on  Varsity 
Shozc,  I  want  to  thank  you  for  the  letters 
you've  written  and  for  the  support  you've 
given  to  the  first  l)roa'lca>i  that  has  taken 
the  spotlight  away  from  athlelie-s  in  the 
universities  and  put  it  on  tlie  talented 
musicians  and  actors  found  in  these  halls 
of  learning. 

JOHN  HELD,  JR. 

Dear  Listeners: 

Too  few  of  you  understand  the  correct 
use  of  that  delicate  missive,  the  fan  letter. 
True,  we  artists  look  forward  to  receiving 
them,  but  in  99  cases  out  of  100,  your  let- 
ters are  confined  to  praise  of  our  efforts 
on  the  air. 

Now.  don't  misunderstand.  These  let- 
ters of  yours  are  as  welcome  as  straw- 
berries in  December.  But  what  we  would 
like,  now,  would  be  for  more  of  you 
listeners  to  tell  us  our  faults.  Naturally, 
any  air  artist  tries  to  give  his  or  her  best 
at  all  times.  There  are  instances,  how- 
ever, when  we  might  fall  short  of  the 
mark.  Perhaps  this  week's  program 
wasn't  as  good  as  the  one  we  did  last 
week. 

Won't  you  tell  us  about  these  things, 
too?  We  bask  in  your  praise  and  we  love 
it,  for  we  feel  that  you  mean  it,  since  jou 
have  gone  to  the  trouble  of  writing  us. 
Therefore,  we  consider  you  as  friends. 
True  friends  point  out  one  another's 
faults — won't  vou  do  that  for  us? 

MILTON  BERLE. 


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band's  idea  of  broadcasting  was  to  hit 
everything  as  hard  as  they  could.  The 
mike,  however,  was  one  of  the  old,  tough 
affairs  of  long  ago.  It  had  to  be  shaken 
every  once  and  so  often,  or  tlie  audience 
lieard  nothing. 

Jerry  made  his  radio  debut  over  this 
station.  He  thought  he  knew  the  choruses 
— and  then  discovered,  mid-broadcast,  he 
knew  only  a  few  lines !  Besides,  he  was 
so  nervous,  his  voice  came  throu.uh  in  a 
strange  S(|ueak.  His  friends,  listening  in, 
told  him  candidly  that  he  was  awful  and 
advised  him  to  stick  to  parlor  crooning. 
But  Budreau  believed  he  had  good  stuff, 
got  him  some  copies  of  the  songs  and 
gave  him  another  opportunity.  This  time 
it  was  better. 

Anyone  else  would  have  giver,  up.  Re- 
member this  when  you  discuss  Jerry  Cooper. 
He  caine  right  back.  After  that  he  sang 
regularly.  He  used  to  go  around  with  the 
band.  To  make  himself  welcome,  he  used 
to  carry  the  instruments. 

"I  was  horse  for  the  band,"  he  said, 
laughing. 

For  his  singing  and  for  his  horse-work, 
he  received  no  money.  Wearying  of  this, 
he  asked  Steve  what  he  could  do  to  make 
some  money  out  of  his  music.  Steve  told 
him  to  learn  to  play  some  sort  of  an  in- 
strument. 

But  wliat  instrument?  Steve  could  not 
advise  him.  One  day,  passing  a  dance 
hall,  he  heard  a  solo  of  the  song,  Just  a 
Melody.  He  went  tip,  discovered  it  was 
a  trombone  solo.  The  next  day  he  put 
ten  dollars  down  on  a  5175-tronibone.  'With 
the  instrument  went  eisht  free  lessons. 

The  Italian  teacher  gave  him  a  piece  to 
learn.  Jerry  insisted  on  learning  four, 
knowing,  in  his  shrewd  way,  that  soon 
the  free  lessons  would  be  over,  and  he 
must  learn  all  he  could  quickly.  At  the 
end  of  the  eight  lessons  he  told  the  pro- 
fessor he  could  not  continue,  he  was  broke. 
The  good  soul  agreed  to  give  him  ad- 
ditional instruction  gratis. 

At  the  end  of  eight  weeks,  he  had  the 
temerity  to  apply  and  what  is  more,  get 
a  job.  It  was  with  a  12-piece  band  in 
Bilo.xi,  Mississippi,  a  summer  resort  across 
the  river.  The  leader  of  the  band  said 
to  Jerry : 

"Hey,  stuff  that  horn  with  paper.  And 
when  the  boss  comes  around,  just  act 
wise." 

He  got  away  with  it,  for  the  length  of 
the  band's  engagement— two  weeks — and 
received  one  hundred  and  ten  dollars. 
After  a  while  he  got  to  be  a  fair  trombone 
player,  became  a  member  of  the  50-piece 
Illinois  Central  band,  wore  a  red  coat 
with  yellow  striped  trousers,  and  became 
expert  in  all  the  rousing  la-ra-ra  Sousa 
marches. 

"I  was  that  dumb,"  he  confided,  "I  used 
to  come  home  and  ask  my  mother  how  I 
sounded.  And  me  playing  with  a  fifty- 
piece  band,  and  no  solos,  either !" 

Looking  about  for  something  that  he 
could  use  to  accompany  himself,  he  houfjht 
a  guitar  for  three  dollars  fn.ui  a  blind 
Xegro  and  learned  to  be  pretty  good  at 


it.  With  his  guitar,  he  used  to  sing  for 
two  hours  over  the  old  JVWL  station  at 
New  Orleans,  and  for  the  first  time  ex- 
perienced the  thrill  that  coines  with  fan 
mail.  Letters  came  to  him  from  as  far 
west  as  the  state  of  Washington. 

Work  at  the  railroad  office  was  slack. 
Man  after  man  was  let  go  and  Jerry  was 
reduced  to  piece  work,  some  weeks  mak- 
ing no  more  than  fifty  cents  a  day.  But 
with  his  singing  and  tromboning,  he  made, 
after  hours,  fifteen  dollars  a  week. 

The  next  upward  step  came  in  the 
shape  of  an  offer  to  sing  in  a  night  club. 
The  offer  was  for  thirty-five  dollars  a 
week.  He  was  scared.  He  never  had 
sung  without  a  megaphone.  But  giving 
the  patrons  of  the  club,  Roar,  Iilississit^pi, 
Roar,  he  clicked. 

The  club  was  a  school  in  human  nature 
for  Jerry  Cooper,  an  essential  part  of  his 
education.  He  learned  to  go  about  from 
table  to  table.  He  studied  people,  got  to 
know  them— and  some  nights  made  as 
high  as  a  hundred  dollars.  He  took  down 
the  names  and  addresses  of  these  habitues 
— and  when,  later,  he  changed  jobs,  he 
dropped  them  each  a  card.  They  followed 
him.  It  made  him  valuable  to  all  who 
chose  to  employ  singers. 

One  night  the  master  of  ceremonies 
quit  and  Jerry  got  the  job.  He  told  me 
it  was  just  as  hard  to  speak  for  the  first 
time  in  public  as  it  had  been  to  sing.  And 
then  the  orchestra  walked  out.  Jerry 
picked  up  his  own  band.  In  a  small  way, 
he  had  made  good. 

Among  those  early  jobs  was  one  at  a 
lakeside  resort.  The  band  would  stand 
on  the  porch  and,  when  they  saw  a  car 
coming,  would  rush  inside  and  start  to  play. 
If  the  car  stopped,  they  would  go  on,  but 
if  it  passed,  they  would  come  to  a  sudden 
stop. 

Jerry's  first  hope  of  climbing  higher 
than  New  Orleans  was  kindled  by  Roger 
Wolfe  Kahn,  who  heard  him  sing  and  said 
he  would  give  him  a  job.  But  Kahn's 
dickerings  with  hotels  in  Chicago  and 
Dallas,  Texas,  came  to  naught.  He  had 
nothing  to  offer.  But  the  seed  had  been 
planted  and  one  day  Jerry,  then  master 
of  ceremonies  and  leader  of  the  Cooper- 
Cabrera  Band,  borrowed  a  little  money 
from  his  grandmother,  and  thumbed  his 
way  to  New  York. 

Before  he  went,  he  said  goodbye  to  his 
friends.  They  told  him  not  to  go.  New 
York,  .they  said,  was  a  cold,  brutal  city, 
the  only  people  who  got  by  there  were 
New  Yorkers.  They  prophesied  that  he 
would  be  back  in  a  month.  It's  three 
years  since  he  left,  and  still  Jerry  Cooper 
hasn't  gone  back. 

Those  were  hard  weeks,  those  early 
weeks  in  New  York.  A  rule  of  the  mu- 
sicians' union  forbade  his  iilaying  until 
he  had  been  there  at  least  si.\  months.  He 
could  have  got  work  in  small  night  clubs, 
but,  penniless  and  hungry  though  he  was, 
he  refused  these  opportunities.  He  felt 
that  they  would  hurt  his  future. 

Auditions  he  received,  from  everybody 
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from  all  the  bandleaders.  They  thought 
he  was  good  "but  not  colossal."  Every- 
body heard  him,  nobody  gave  him  work. 
Finally  he  drifted  into  a  recording  studio 
and  did  the  vocals  for  some  dance  records 
at  twenty-five  dollars  apiece — and  for  the 
moment,  the  wolf  was  off  the  Cooper 
doorstep. 

Ben  Selvin,  chief  of  the  recording  stu- 
dios, got  Emil  Coleman,  the  bandleader, 
to  give  him  a  job  and  Jerry  was  hired. 
The  job  was  at  the  Palais  Royale,  huge 
New  York  night  club.  Jerry  learned  all 
the  songs,  his  own  and  fverybo(l\-  else's, 
and  one  afternoon,  durinu  relKai  sal,  when 
there  was  difficulty  witli  aniitlnr  singer 
who  didn't  know  his  lines,  he  Inittcd  in. 

"I  know  the  words,"  he  said. 

When  he  went  on  for  tiie  first  time,  he 
had  to  hire  a  dress  suit,  which  he  de- 
scribes as  "one  of  those  green  ones." 
People  liked  him.  He  was  only  earning 
fifty  dollars  a  week,  but  he  was  on  his 
way.  When  a  juvenile  in  the  floor  show 
quit,  he  stepped  into  the  job  at  a  twenty- 
five-dolIar-a-\veek  increase. 

Always  alert,  a  charming,  unaffected, 
boyish  individual,  he  made  friends  with 
everybody.  Among  them,  the  IVOR  an- 
nouncer, who  found  a  couple  of  guest 
spots  for  him  to  sing  in.  His  songs  were 
heard  somehow,  some  way,  by  the  keen 
ears  of  the  radio  impresarios — and  CBS 
brought  him  in  on  a  sustaining  program. 
The  date  is  important  in  Jerry's  life — 
May  22nd,  1935. 

This  program  was  a  sort  of  death  valley 
for  new  talent.  It  came  at  4:15  in  the 
afternoon.  Fifteen  before  him  had  landed 
there  and  fizzled  back  into  oblivion.  But 
Jerry  Cooper  did  not  fizzle.  Some  ob- 
jected to  him,  because  he  was  said  to 
sound  like  Bing  Crosby.  If  there  is  a 
resemblance,  it  is  unconscious,  pure  co- 
incidence. Years  before,  his  mother  had 
tuned  in  on  Bing  and  remarked  to  Jerry : 

"There's  someone  I  heard  sounds  just 
like  you,  Jerry." 

The  Columbia  executives  were  worried 
over  the  similaritj'.  But  one  of  them  de- 
clared :  "Heck,  let  the  kid  sing  as  he 
pleases." 

After  that  it  was  all  right.  He,  him- 
self, scotched  tiie  legend  of  his  appeal 
being  the  result  of  tlie  resemblance,  by 
singing  on  the  Drciic  Sliampoo  program, 
under  a  dififerent  name — the  name  "Jack 
Randolph." 

Just  recently  Cooper  was  signed  as 
master  of  ceremonies  and  singing  star  of 
Hollyivood  Hotel,  replacing  Fred  MacMur- 
ray.  Now,  for  the  first  time,  he  makes 
his  appearance  on  one  of  radio's  outstand- 
ing, full-hour  broadcasts.  And,  any  day 
now,  a  call  may  come  from  the  movies. 
Cooper  will  go  far,  for  he  is  ready  for  it. 
Good-looking,  beautifully  mannered,  he  can 
travel  with  the  best  company.  His  clothes 
are  tailored  by  New  York's  best,  he  looks, 
acts  and  thinks  as  a  man  in  the  money. 

It's  a  long  pitch,  this,  from  the  days 
when  he  played  horse  for  Steve  Budreau's 
band.  A  long  haul  from  the  bitter,  pov- 
erty-stricken years  of  his  early  life  to  the 
romance  of  his  present  success.  But,  it 
was  no  simple  piece  of  luck  that  brought 
Jerry  Cooper  along.  It  was  his  strength 
and  shrewdness  that  made  the  success  pos- 
sible. Which  is  why  you  can  be  assured 
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and  so  did  every  other  kid  in  school.  Ah, 
those  silk  hats,  those  gold-headed  canes 
twirled  so  elegantly  by  the  natty  gentle- 
men of  the  ensemble  as  they  paraded 
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cahiiest  of  smiles — what  a  god  was  he! 

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seat  in  the  second  row,  from  where  you 
could  see  half  circles  of  beautifully  over- 
dressed gentlemen,  flanked  by  fantastically 
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iKilding  antic  tambourines.  And  the  in- 
terlocutor, all  dignified  but  with  a  tw-inkle 
in  his  eye,  who'd  say  those  immortal 
words:    "Gentlemen — he  seated!" 

Shades  of  George  H.  Prinn-ose,  of  Billy 
l-".mers<in,  of  George  Thatcher,  of  Gus  Hill 
and  all  that  immortal  band !  Can't  you 
•  "Haddy"  Rice  singing  Jim  Crow  and 
/■'/  t7/,.,.,sv  To  Be  a  Daisy}  Why,  it  was 
I'.niniett,  a  minstrel  man,  who  wrote 
I'i.vic.  that  all-time  Southern  anthem.  And 
1  I.LW  Dockstader's  coat,  was  there  ever 
aiiylliiiHi  like  it?  "A  thing  of  shreds  and 
patches  .  .  ."  indeed,  and  as  the  patches 
increased  in  size  and  number,  the  more 
did  Lew  (and  the  audience)  treasure  it. 

Vea,  the  minstrel  show  was  truly 
America's  own ! 

One  of  the  better  known  minstrel  men  of 
the  day  was  a  gentleman  known  as  'Lasses 
White,  who  called  his  minstrel  show, 
'Lasses  White's  Tab  Shmv.  It  was  to 
'Lasses  White  that  Pat  went,  after  an  un- 
willing year  at  Georgia  Military  Academy. 

"Besides  amateur-night  experience  at 
clowning,"  began  Pat,  "Ld  learned  to  pla\ 
the  harmonica  in  the  Sunday  School  baiifi 
and  this  stood  me  in  good  stead  when  I 
asked  'Lasses  for  a  job.  He  let  me  sit  in 
the  ensemble  until,  one  night,  the  end  man 
on  m>-  left  had  the  misery  and  I  got  my 
chance.  For  two  happy  years  I  was  one 
of  'Lasses'  end  men,  at  forty  per." 

T(i  earn  his  forty  per  he  played  the 
harmonica  and  did  specialty  acts,  like 
playing  Negro  girl  parts— easy  enough  be- 
cause his  voice  hadn't  changed.  Another, 
which  called  for  eight  other  men,  took 
thi-  icirm  of  a  skit  called  The  Three 
D'C  li'c/c  Traill,  which  train  was  supposed 
fii  1)L-  Coming  into  a  haunted  station.  One 
crabbv  critic  advised  the  troupe  to  take  an 
earlier  train  than  the  Three  O'Clock,  if 
the\-  really  wanted  to  keep  their  skins, 
but  he  was  a  morose  excejjtion,  for  the 
show^  was  generally  liked  and  when  they 
hit  a  town  and  their  band  swung  into 
Capiscola's  March,  almost  e\ery  kid  in 
town  was  seized  with  violent  pains  which 
necessitated  his  immediate  <iuittance  of  the 
classroom  and  the  vicinity  of  the  McGnj- 
jcy  Fifth  Reader. 

"I  did  more  in  vaudeville  than  in  min- 
strel shows,"  said  Pick,  "hut  I  uot  a  i  rack 
at  them,  too.  I'm  from  I 'alias.  I Cx.as, 
you  know.  That  is  to  say,  I  was  hnrn  there; 
hack  in  '93,  but  when  I  was  a  little  shaver 
of  six  my  daddy  moved  us  out  to  Okla- 
homa, where,  to  my  joy,  there  were  still 
Injuns." 


His  daddy  tried  to  make  a  school 
teacher  out  of  him,  but  it  didn't  take,  so 
he  joined  the  army.  Naturally,  when  the 
War  came  along,  he  did  his  bit  by  enter- 
taining the  men.  He  got  to  liking  it  so 
much  that  when  the  War,  and  his  time, 
were  up  he  went  into  minstrel  shows,  then 
into  vaudeville  and  then  stock.  One  of 
his  big  moments  in  stock  occurred  when 
he  imitated  a  horse's  hooves — bringing  no 
less  than  General  Sheridan's  horse  right 
up  to  the  wings  from  twenty  miles  away. 
He  acted,  too,  he  said. 

"Pick  saw  me  before  I  saw  him,"  ex- 
plained Pat.  "My  brother  and  I  were  in 
a  show  in  St.  Louis,  called  South  and 
West.  It's  ahva>s  been  a  wonder  to  me, 
since,  how  he  was  willing  to  work  with 
me  after  seeing  us  in  that  E-flat  tab." 

An  "E-flat  tab,"  gentle  readers,  is  a 
bad  show.  It's  nigger  talk  and  it  simply, 
and  terribly,  means — lousy! 

But  it  didn't  make  any  difference,  be- 
cause, when  they  were  introduced  in  a 
New  York  Automat,  they  signed  articles 
five  minutes  later. 

"  'Pat,'  I  said,"  Pick  tells,  "  'want  to  go 
up  to  my  hotel  room  and  talk  over  the 
partnership?'  He  was  all  for  it,  so  we 
went  over  to  the  room.  I  took  out  my 
key  to  open  the  door  but  I  couldn't  get 
the  key  in  because  there  was  a  plug  in 
the  keyhole.  'Somebody  musta  broken 
a  key  off  in  the  door,'  I  said,  innocently. 
'Jes'  wait  till  I  phone  the  little  old  man- 
ager on  this  hall  phone,  here.'  So  I  called 
the  desk  and  said:  'Mister,  I  think  you 
ought  to  know  that  there's  a  plug  in  my 
keyhole.'  'Sure,'  answered  the  man  at .  the 
desk,  'ue  know  about  it.  Why  don'tcher 
pay  yer  rent  ?'  " 

"Our  first  plug,"  Pat  said,  and  ducked. 

"Well,  we  talked  it  over,"  continued 
Pick,  "and  I  showed  Pat  to  the  manager. 
I  guess  he  liked  his  looks,  because  he  let 
us  in.    That  was  a  fine  start." 

They  had  adventures  a-plenty  after  this. 
They  were  first  booked  into  a  theatre  on 
125th  Street,  and  to  celebrate  the  engage- 
ment they  bought  much-needed  clothes 
and  had  them  sent  to  the  manager  C.O.D. 
They  even  borrowed  twenty-rtve  dollars 
from  him. 

Then  they  went  over  to  WO  I'  one  day, 
looking  for  work.  "Sure,"  said  the  sta- 
tion manager,  "I'll  give  you  a  job,  if  you 
can  write,  and  act  in,  a  minstrel  show  in 
half  an  hour."  Could  they?  Of  course 
they  could.  An  assigmnent  like  that  was 
duck  soup  for  a  pair  of  old  ininstrel-ians. 

It  wasn't  a  too-bad  show  that  they 
turned  out  that  day,  nor  were  the  suc- 
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eight  o'clock  (in  the  mi}nn'iig)  perform- 
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to  be  lucky  for  them,  as  the  manager  of 
WOR  tuned  in  while  shaving  one  morn- 
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their  gags. 

WOR  kept  them  at  sustaining  for  a 
year-and-a-half  and  there  were  no  more 
plugs  in  the  keyhole,  just  an  occasional 
plug  from  an  admirer.  The  same  being 
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Somewhere,  sometime,  in  the  midst  of 
all  the  hustle  and  hustle,  tluy  ;.;(it  them- 
^clves  married.  Pick  niarrie<l  a  girl  who 
had  been  in  the  profession,  an<l  Pat  mar^ 
ried  a  Follies  girl  he'd  met  in  Montreal. 
She  hated  him  when  they  met  and  he 
hated  her,  but  love  changed  that.  She  died 
tw  o  years  ago,  leaving  their  iiinc->  car-old 
Bobby  and  Pat  to  fend  for  thcniscl\c>. 
Bobby  at  present  is  at  River(lalc-(  )n-'i  hc- 
Hudson,  in  a  military  academy. 

"He's  not  going  to  be  an  aclor,''  Pat 
swears,  "he's  enrolled  in  Georgia  Tech  al- 
ready, where  they're  going  to  teach  him 
engineering  and  perhaps  make  an  artist 
out  of  him.  His  tuition's  paid 
now  all  he  has  to  do  is  to  gmw  up." 

Pick's  two  boys.  Jack  and  Buddy,  arc 
still  in  sclujol.  Pat  asked  him  whether 
he  had  to  whip  his  seventeen-vear-old 
Jack. 

"Onlv  in  self  defense !"  snapped  back 
Pick. 

Vou  c.vj^i-ct  radio  comics  to 
like  that. 

They're  really  hard-workins 
instance,  on  Mondays  and 
their  activities  shape  up  s"n 
this  ;  Rehearsal  at  one  o'clock, 
hearsal )  at  three.  Xo — they 
their  own  stutY.  publicit\-  rek 
contrary.  Xaturally,  they  make  little 
changes  in  their  material,  so  it  will  be  just 
a  bit  more  their  own,  but  that';-  expected. 
The\  sit  around  all  afterno'-n,  (li^cu<sin,<J 
gags  and  situations,  then  at  radio  tunc 
get  into  their  costumes  and  appl\-  the 
burnt  cork.  Thus  yon  have  Mulasscs  'n' 
January  or  Pick  a)id  Pat.  <lepcnding  on 
which  night  you  tune  them  in. 

"(lets  so,"  complained  Pat,  "that  half 
of  the  time  we  forget  which  we're  sup- 
posed to  be  on  that  particular  hour  and 
I  m  apt  to  turn  to  Pick  and  call  him  Janu- 
ary, on  the  Dill's  Best  Shoiv." 

"Huh,"  grunted  Pick,  "I  remembers  one 
little  old  night  when  you  didn't  know  who 
you  were!  Lordy  me,  bin  that  was  funny' 
Pat's  Doc  told  him  to  drink  >ome  wdiiskey 
for  a  cold  he  had,  so  he  asked  me  to 
keep  him  company.  Since  I'm  most  un- 
naturally polite  and  considerate,"  (Pat 
snorted)  "I  jes'  helped  him  do  away  with 
a  pint  before  the  broadcast.  Well,  the 
first  five  minutes  on  the  air  were  okay.  I 
could  jes'  about  make  out  every  other 
word,  and  I  wasn't  complaining,  when  I 
noticed  Pat  was  bavin'  trouble.  I  nudged 
him  and  he  near'  fell  over.  Then  he  threw 
his  script  down  on  the  floor  and  I  did, 
loo.  We  ad  libbed  all  the  rest  of  the 
show!" 

"Vassir,"  added  Pat.  "and  bless  me  if 
the  President  of  the  United  States,  who 
was  supposed  to  follow  us  on  the  air, 
wasn't  fifteen  minutes  late  and  didn't  we 
have  to  ad  lib  that  e.xtra  fifteen  minutes, 
too !" 

They  howled  at  the  memory  of  it.  Pat 
said  people  from  everywhere  told  them  it 
was  one  of  their  best  broadcasts.  Then 


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"We've  come  to  the  conclusion  that  we 
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threw  out  a  hint  that  that  was  supposed  to 
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In  their  eight  years  together  they've  had 
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ley  Grimes  (now  manager  of  the  Brooklyn 
Dodgers),  had  come  out  on  the  day's 
liitching — and  so  consequently  hadn't  taken 
his  bows. 

Then,  under  the  heading  of  "events," 
there  was  the  time  they  left  their  costumes 
in  the  car  while  they  did  a  benefit  at  the 
Hudson  Theatre.  Somebody,  some  dastard, 
stole  them,  and  as  Pick  said,  it  was  a 
tough  thing  to  happen  to  them  when 
they  were  doing  a  good  deed  ! 

Their  only  solace  was  the  thought  of 
the  thief's  face  when  he  undid  the  bundle 
and  found  that  the  costumes  were  of  too- 
bright  a  hue  to  be  worn  and  that  the  shoes 
were  the  kind  clowns  wear — three  feet 
long ! 

"I've  found  a  feller,"  said  Pat,  "who's 
a  real  character.  He's  a  farmer  down 
near  my  home  town  of  Bogart,  Georgia, 
and  I  don't  even  know  his  name,  but  he's 
the  doggondest  man  I  ever  did  see.  He  can 
mimic  anything  there  is.  I'm  going  to 
bring  him  up  for  one  of  the  shows,  pay 
his  fare,  give  him  some  dough  and  show 
him  the  sights.  I'll  bet  he's  never  been 
more  than  twenty  miles  away  from  Bo- 
gart in  all  of  his  life  !" 

However,  the  biggest  interest  the  boys 
have  is  a  210-acre  farm  in  a  town  ac- 
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Court  House,  down  in  old  Virginny. 
There's  a  beautiful  old  mansion  on  the 
land  and  they're  going  to  raise  satldle 
horses,  with  the  help  of  three  Negroes,  one 
of  whom  is  a  ])reacher. 

But  that  isn't  all.  No,  sir,  they're  going 
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RHDIO  mUGHS 

(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


JUDY:  Zeke  played  a  mean  trick  on 
our  parrot. 

AX  NCR:  Wliat"d  he  do? 

JUDY:  The  parrot  was  sound  asleep  ni 
its  cage,  so  Zeke  got  a  great  hig  candy 
Easter  egg  and  sneaked  it  into  the  cage 
with  it.  1  hen  he  woke  the  parrot  up.  The 
parrot  to.'k  one  l"ok  at  this  great  hig  old 
egg  and  ^a^l :  -TH.AT-S  A  LIE!" 
(JUDY  C.\.\'0\'A,  Woodbury  Program.) 

GRACIE:  Why  don't  you  give  yourself 
a  treat  and  coa.x  me  to  give  you  a  kiss? 

GEORGE:  Gracie,  you  wouldn't  want  to 
kiss  Tony  before  all  these  boys! 

GRACIE:  Why,  sure.  ...  I  certainly 
wouldn't  want  to  be  last! 

(BURNS  and  ALLEN,  Campbell  Pro- 
gram.) 

MARY:  I've  been  working  on  my  gar- 
den all  week.  Yesterday  I  put  in  carrots, 
pansies,  cherries,  violets  and  radishes  and 
I  planted  them  in  straw. 

JACK:  In  straw?  Well,  what  are  you 
trying  to  raise? 

MARY:  Straw  hats. 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

PORTL.WD:     Mr.  .V.lcit.  Mr.  AUcn. 

FRED.  Oiiirl.  /-lease!  Tlicrc  is  niily 
one  Mr.  Allen,  i'lrlmialely.  as  suiiie  nj  the 
radin  critics  put  it. 

PORTLAND:  Hello! 

FRED:  Well.  sir.  they  laughed  zchen 
I  said  I  Ti'Oi  (iniiu/  to  brush  »/'  on  my 
hridijC-  They  didn't  knot^  I  was  a  sireel 
cleaner  on  the  Xezc  Trihoro.  If  it  isn't 
Portland! 

(FRED  ALLEN  and  PORTLAND 
HOFl-A.  Town  Hall  Tonifiht.) 

PHIL:  \'ou  know,  niv  screen  test  for 
United  .\rl:-l-  i  :ime  "nt  well,  I  was  of- 
fered a  ji'h       Twcniicth  (.'enlnrv. 

HAKin"  :  'Yon  w  re  offered  "a  joh  hv 
Twentieth  Cemnry :-  Really,  Phil?  What 
did  they  want  yow  to  do? 

PHIL:    Make  up  tlie  hertiis. 

(PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 

JANUARY:  Stop  gabbin'  an'  get  up  to 
bat,  small,  dark  and  repulsive.  Before  he 
pitches  again  I  want  to  take  a  few  trial 
swings. 

MOLASSES:  Oh,  you  don't  want  to 
do  that.  .  .  .  Last  week  my  uncle  had  a 
few  trial  swings. 

JANUARY:  Then  what  happened? 

MOLASSES:  They  hung  him. 

(MOLASSES  and  JANUARY,  Show 
Boat  Program.) 

HENRY:  Bui  those  incnine  ta.r  col- 
lectors .  .  .  it  uvs  n  ciiich.  All  I  hail  to  do 
■was  (jive  them  mv  last  didlur  ami  a  ini'rl- 
f/ac/e  on  my  tcifr,     /   slill  n-.en   my  father 

onlrif/ht  Inil  ;ehal  serriee  lliey  had 

there!  On  the  zi'ay  out  a  man  '/i'ecs  you  a 
mirror,  so  you  can  watch  yourself  starve  to 
death! 

(HENNV  YOUNGMAN,  A  &  P  Band 
Wagon.) 

MOTHER:  I'm  so  glad  you're  all 
right,  Joseph,  my  son.  Here,  drink  iliis 
hot  lemonade.  Then  we'll  pour  you  a  hot 
bath. 

JOE:  But  mother,  if  I  drink  this  lemon- 
ade, I  v/on't  have  any  room  for  the  hath ! 
(JOE  PEXXER,  Cocomalt  Program.) 
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MILTON:  Judge,  this  is  your  director, 
Cecil  B.  deMoody.  Cecil,  I'd  like  you  to 
know  Judge  Hugo  Straight,  a  very  repul- 
sive friend  of  mine. 

MACK:  Director?  He  couldn't  direct 
a  jackass. 

GORDON:  Yes,  I  can— we'll  get  along 
fine.  Not  only  am  I  a  great  director,  I 
am  also  a  very  fine  camembert. 

MILTON:  Wait  a  minute.  Moody — 
you  don't  mean  camembert — you  mean 
cameraman. 

GORDON:  I  said  camembert  and  I 
mean  camembert. 

MILTON:  But  you're  wrong.  Camem- 
bert is  an  imported  cheese. 

GORDON:  What  are  you— a  native? 

(MILTON  BERLE,  Gillette  Program.) 

PAT:  Eddie  Cantor,  zvid  his  five  gals, 
thinks  de  stork  is  de  ivorst  postman  in  de 
ivorld. 

PICK:  Why  does  Eddie  Cantor,  ivid  his 
five  gals,  think  de  stork  is  de  xvorst  post- 
man in  lie  lenrldf 

PAT:  Laiise  it  never  delivered  any 
male  to  him. 

(PICK  and  PAT,  Pipe  Smoking  Time.) 

BIXUi:  This  doesn't  happen  to  be  your 
l)irthday,  does  it,  Bob? 

HOB:     That  depends,  Ring. 

lilXti:    Depends  on  what? 

BOB:  If  it  was — would  you  give  me  a 
present? 

BING:    But  of  course. 

BOB:    Then  it's  my  birthday! 

(BING  CROSBY  and  BOB  BURNS, 
Kraft  Program.) 

BERGEN:  Robbie  never  gave  up  the 
idea  of  going  to  sea  and  wanting  to  be  a 
sailor,  so  one  day  he  got  a  position  on  a 
boat. 

CHARLIE:  Yeah— after  all,  that's  the 
best  place  to  be  a  sailor. 

(EDGAR  BERGEN  and  Dummy  Char 
lie,  Vallee  Program.) 

CLERK:  I  hope  your  plants  will  be 
thrivinn  i^'hen  von  reach  Southampton. 

MARY:     ll'hen  I  reach  where.' 

CLERK  :  Sruthamf-lm,. 

MAR)':  lime  dull  of  you!  Everyone 
knoies  SinilhiiinlUini  is  on  Long  Island, 
and  I  waul   In   i/o   to   I : li  i/lauil . 

(MAR)'  HO  LAND,  Saturday  Night 
I'artx.) 

JUDY:  It's  a  nice  heavy  material,  all 
righl,  but  e\er\-  time  Annie  inits  on  that 
rin-^-,,  it  ni  ikes  her  feel  sad. 

.WNC'R:  Why  d(jes  it  make  you  sad, 
.'\nnie? 

ANNIE:  I  keep  a-thinkin'  about  that 
poor  horse,  goin'  around  without  liis 
blanket ! 

(THE  CANOVAS,  Woodbury  Pro- 
gram.) 

PHIL:  Bottle,  another  crack  like  that, 
and  on  tlie  I'ourth  of  July  you'll  be  with- 
(jut  a  punk. 

P.OTTLl'::  Oh,  Mr.  Baker— don't  leave 
me. 

I'Hfl.:  N'ou  know.  Bottle.  I  tried  to 
remove  a  ring  for  five  years  and  I  finally 
got  it  off  with  soap  and  water. 

BCJTTLE:  Oh,  I  .say,  sir,  didn't  you 
wet  your  collar? 

(PHIL  BAKER  and  BOTTLE,  Gulf 
Program.) 


BUDD:  You  knozv.  Pop,  ive  could  go 
even  furlhcr  ivilh  that  abbreviation  stuff. 
For  instance — )/  /  wanted  to  say  that  Al- 
bany is  the  capital  of  Nezv  York,  I'd  just 
sav  Alb  is  the  cap  o'  Nezv. 

STOOP:    Nczrr  mind  the  Greek  fra- 
ternities .  .  .  Slick  to  the  text  here. 
_  (.STOOPNAGLE    &    BUDD.  Minute 
lapioca  Program.) 

GR.A.HAM  :  Well,  did  your  aunt  have 
the  dinner  party,  Ed? 

ED :  Oh,  yes,  Graham  .  .  .  and  my  aunt 
never  stopped  talking  the  entire  evening. 
She  said  to  my  uncle:  "I  believe  my  voice 
is  getting  husky."  And  my  uncle  said : 
"Well,  if  I  got  as  much  exercise  as  your 
voice,  I'd  be  husky  too!'' 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

- 

MARY:  I  even  found  a  way  to  grow 
mashed  potatoes. 
JACK:  How? 

MARY:  First  I  put  vanishing  cream  on 
the  skins. 
JACK:  Yes? 

MARY:  Then  I  plant  them  with  a 
hammer. 

JACK:  Oh,  go  away,  Gracie! 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

FRED:  I  though!  your  mother  got 
your  father  in  a  raffle. 

PORTLAND  :  iVhen  Papa  zvas  court- 
ing Mamma,  he  came  lo  the  house  every 
niiilil.  and  Mamiiia'il  cook  him  pot  roast. 

FRED:    ()l,--oirl  MEATS  boy,  eh? 

(I'RIil)  .ILLL.N.  Tinvn  Hall  Tonight.) 

MOLASSES:  Strike  one! 

JANUARY:  Strike  one?  You  idiot  .  .  . 
the  ball  hit  me  on  the  head. 

MOLASSES:  Well,  it  struck  you,  didn't 
it?    That's  two  dollars'  fine  for  you. 

JANUARY:  Two  dollars'  fine?  What's 
the  two  bucks  for? 

MOLASSES:  To  buy  a  new  ball. 

(MOLASSES  and  JANUARY,  Show 
Boat  Program.) 

-♦- 

HENRY:  I  stepped  into  the  barber 
shop,  .  .  .  there  was  a  sum  on  the  wall  sav- 
ing: SII.iri:S  I  ITTLEX  CENTS  AND 
A  QU.lRfFR.  I  said  lo  the  barber: 
"What's  the  difference .'"  He  said:  "With 
the  quarter  sluree  you  gel  bandages." 
Just  tlieii  a  bald-headed  man  rushed  in, 
took  off  his  toupee  and  .■said:  "Give  me  a 
haircut  and  shampoo — /'//  be  back  in  half 
an  hour!" 

(HENRY  YOUNGMAN,  A  &  P  Band 
H  'agon.) 

WALTER.  But  it's  on  March  15th— 
income  tax  day — that  every  one  starts  tak- 
ing things  off.  I  took  so  much  off  that  the 
government  sent  me  one  of  Sally  Rand's 
fans.  l'"or  what  I  paid,  you'd  think  they'd 
send  me  Sally  Panel ! 

(WAL'iER  O'KEEFE,  Vallee  Pro- 
gram.) 

-♦- 

ANNC'R:  "What  in  so  rare  as  a  day 
in  June?" 

JUDY :  Hey,  Zeke,  zvhat  is  so  rare  as  a 
day  in  June? 

ZEKE:     A  red-headed  Chinaman. 

(THE  CANOVAS,  Woodbury  Pro- 
gram. 


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The  New  "Smoky"  Nail  Shades 
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Canada 

Nancy  Harrar  puts 
her  tennis  opponent 
very  much  off  his 
game  with  her  new 
above-the-knees  out- 
fit in  2  shades  of  blue 
accented  with  a  rose- 
colored  sash  and 
Cutex  Old  Rose  nails. 

*'OId  Rose  is  lovely 
for  blonde  types," 
Nancy  says,  "and 
especially  with  pastels 
for  both  sports  and 
evening." 


Rainbow  Room 
Rockefeller  Center 
New  York 

Nancy  Harrar  is  the 
particular  star  of  the 
evening  in  gleaming 
white  satin  boldly 
splashed  with  prima- 
vera  bouquets  and 
belted  with  chartreuse 
.  .  .  worn  with  naiis 
in  the  startling 
Cutex  Burgundy. 


En  route  to  London 

For  tea  with  the  Cap- 
tain of  the  Aquitania 
—  Nancy  Harrar 
chooses  distinguished 
gray  and  white  sheer 
jersey  with  lovely 
dusky  nails  in  Cutex 
Rust. 

Nancy  says  Rust  is 
gorgeous  with  green, 
beige  and  copper,  as 
well  as  gray.  "And 
it's  absolutely  the 
nail  color  when  you're 
sun-tanned!" 


NO  GATHERING  of  the  smart 
younger  .set  i.s  conii)letel\'  lovely 
without  the  willowy,  hlue-eycd  Nancy 
Harrar— one  of  the  outstandiiif;  Xew 
York  debutantes  of  this  last  season. 

Whether  she's  doing  18  holes  of  golf 
or  playing  Chopin  for  her  friends, 
Nancy  has  the  knack  of  making  a 
charming  color  picture  of  herself. 

Part  of  this  glamour  picture  are  her 
tapered  nnisician's  hands  that  she 
makes  still  more  interesting  with  the 
new  Cutex  "smoky"  polish  shades. 
"Even  the  deep  shades  are  .soft  and 
smoky,"  she  says.  "You  can  do  a  lot 


more  with  them  as  color  accents  than 
with  ordinary  glaring  poli 

Sec  just  how  she  uses  three  of  tiie 
("utex  "siiioky"  shades  hy  <  iittiiif;  out 
tlie  (iiTures  al)i)\c.  Xdw  work  out  sc\-- 
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bottle,  won't  fade! 

Start  right  now  to  accent  your  per- 
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The  train's  the  thing,  this  season.  And  New  Haven  train  travel 
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can railroads  in  1937. 


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RHDIO  STHRS 

LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 

ETHEL  M.  POMEROY,  Associate  Editor 
ABRiL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Editor 


See  lovely  JEAN  PARKER  in  Columbia 
Picture    ■■Life    Begins    With  Love''.' 

Likes  Both -Prefers  "Y" 

Jean  Parker  tries  both  powders  in  plain  white 
boxes.  She  chooses  "Y" — the  new  MAVIS, 
mildly  scented.  Other  lovely  stars  choose 
"X"— the  original  MAVIS,  fully  scented. 
MAVIS  flatters  your  skin  like  a  glamorous 
face  powder.  Spreads  evenly — clings  for 
hours— leaves  a  bewitching  fragrance  that 
lasts!  MAVIS  cools,  soothes  and  refreshes. 

NEW!  MILDLY  SCENTED  MAVIS 

Created  for  the  woman  who  prefers  a  lightly 
perfumed  talcum.  33- hole  needle-spray  top 
showers  body  with  light  film  of  powder  more 
effectively  than  old-fashioned  powder  puffs. 

r  n  r  r  Generous  size  trial  package.  Ask 
rnllL  for  either  regular  or  mildly 
scented  MAVIS.  Write  to  Vivaudou,  Dept. 
71,  Long  Island  City,  N.  Y.  Offer  not  good 
after  Aug.  25th.  Get  your  free  mavis  now! 


Two  lovely  MAVIS  Talcums. 
Both  will  flalier  you. 
Which  one  suits  your  lype? 


PROTECTION 


BROHDCRSTinC 


A  FAMILY  AFFAIR 

(Myrt  and  Marge  make  careers  {or  the  whole  iamily'i 

by  Jack  Hanley  8 

IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION- 

(Rudy  Vallee  opens  his  heart)   by   Rudy  Vollee  18 

MRS.  BING  CROSBY  GETS  CONFIDENTIAL 

{How  radio  favorite  Bing  Crosby  rates  with  his  wife) 

by  Gladys  Hall  20 

THE  BABE  IS  STILL  KING! 

( Baseball's  former  star  now  is  radio's  No.  1  baseball  man ) 

by  Tom  Meany  22 

HER  SECOND  HUSBAND 

(.Like  Brenda  in  her  radio  serial.  Helen  Menken  made  a 

second  marriage)  by  NoHCy  BorPOWS  24 

WE  HELP  DISTRACTED  LADIES! 

(So  say  East  and  Dumke,  doughty  Sisters  of  the  Skillet) 

by  William  Vollee  28 
WOMEN  WANT  TO  BE  TIED  DOWN 

(.You're  only  free  if  nobody  wants  you,  says  Olga.  Countess 

Albani)  by  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen  30 

A  BULL  IN  A  CHINA  SHOP 

(Why  cowboy  Dick  Foran  prefers  horses  to  glamour  girls) 

by  Faith  Service  32 
ISN'T  THIS  A  FINE  ROMANCE! 

(Meri  Bell  and  Dell  Sharbutt  hated  each  other.     So  they 
married  and  lived  happily  ever  after!) 

by  Mildred  Mostin  36 

"GRAVEL  VOICE"  ANDY 

(Andy  Devine  took  a  tumble  and  became  a  star) 

by  Leo  Townsend  38 
MARRIAGE  MADE  A  DIFFERENCE 

(Success,  says  Walter  Cassel,  has  no  point  but  to  help  those 

you  love)  by  Miriam  Rogers  40 

IS  FATE  AGAINST  ME? 

(Mary  Eastman  has  good  reason  to  ask  that  question!) 

by  Harriet  Menken  42 


PGHTURGS  RRD  DGPHRTmeniS 

Radio  Ramblings   6 

Radio  Stars  Cooking  School   10 

Beauty  Advice   12 

Uncle  Jackie  Berch-^ Washday  Warbler   14 

West  Coast  Chatter   16 

For  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio   19 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   26 

Between  Broadcasts   34 

Down  on  "Swing"  Farm  :  44 

Coast-to-Coast  Program  Guide  ,  45 

Nothing  But  the  Truth?   56 

Letters  to  Listeners   80 

Radio  Laughs   92 


4 


RADIO  STARS 


^1 


J 


GARLAND, 


-singing  discovery ! 


A/so  in  the  Big  Cast: 

Binnie  Barnes 
Charles  Igor  Gorin 
Raymond  Walburn 
Robert  Benchley 

Willie  Howard 
Charley  Grapewin 
Robert  Wildhack 
and  hundreds  more 

Directed  by 

Roy  Del  Ruth 

Produced  by 

Jack  Cummings 

Dance  direction  by 

Dave  Gould 

A  Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer 
Picture 


The  mamkioth  M-G-M 
musical  t^t  picks  up 
where  "Grelyt  Ziegfeld" 
and  "Born  to  Vance"  left 
off !  .  .  .  Scores  of  stars ! 
Gigantic  spect^le!  Gor- 
geous girls!  Thriving  ro- 
mance! Swingy  tories!... 
It's  M-G-M's  gayesV  star- 
jammed  entertaini^nt! 

BIG 
SONG  HITS 

'Yours  and  Mine" 
"I'm  Fe«lin'  Uke  a 
Million" 
"Sun  Showers" 
"Your  Broadway 
and  My  Broadway" 
"Got  a  New  Pair  of 

Shoes" 
"Everybody  Sings" 
and  others 


RADIO  STARS 


Tenor  Nino  Martini  rises  In  the  world!  The 
Metropolitan  Opera  and  radio  star  turns 
elevator  boy  in  a  San   Francisco  hostelry. 


That  unique  manikin,  gay  Charlie  McCarthy, 
with  Ventriloquist  Edgar  Bergen  (right)  in 
Q  scene  fronn  Warner  Brothers'  Double  Talk. 


Two  lovelies,  Cynthia  Westlake  and  Dorothy 
Fisher,  glorify  connedian  Victor  Moore  in 
the  new  RKO-RadIo  picture.  Meet  the  Missus. 
6 


Don  Ameche,  master  of  ceremonies  of  The 
Chase  and  Sanborn  Hour,  and  Loretta  Young, 
In  a  20th  Century-Fox  film,  Love  Under  Fire. 


RADIO 

W.  C.  TIELDS  sudden  and  extremely  successful  entry 
into  Sunday  evening  radio  took  a  large  chunk  out  of  Eddie 
Cantor's  audience.  Through  most  of  the  country,  the 
Cantor  and  Eields  programs  are  on  at  the  same  hour.  The 
odd  thing  about  the  situation  is  that  Eddie  himself  is 
jiartly  responsible  for  this  new  program  that  is  taking  so 
many  li.steners  away  from  him. 

The  story  goes  back  some  fifteen  years  when  \V.  C. 
Fields  was  strictly  a  ])ant()mimic  comedian,  never  speaking 
a  word  on  the  stagr.  i  le  and  Eddie  had  worked  in  shows 
together  and  become  friends. 

Ainnscd  by  the  paiifouiiiiiist's  gruff  humor  and  queer, 
pompous  manner  of  speaking,  Eddie  urged  him  to  add 
comie  lines  to  the  pantomime.  Finally  Fields  began  speak- 
ing, largelx  at  Eddie's  behest. 

This  spring,  Eddie  must  have  looked  back  on  those 
days  many  a  time  and  wondered  whether  he  shouldn't 
have  been  just  a  little  less  insistent. 

-♦- 

Radio  people  as  a  whole  are  such  a  flamboyant  lot,  it  is 
asl(ini>liing  to  find  a  group  like  the  Lomlxirdos,  who  sneak 
around  doing  things  that  another  star  would  recognize  as 
material  for  good  publicity.  They  bought  a  Connecticut 
h(inic  for  their  parents  a  couple  of  years  ago  and  installed 
a  littli'  Imnie  movie  projector.  When  the  band  is  in  town, 
the  buys  al\\a\s  try  to  get  up  there  for  Sunday,  or  the 
week-end.  Tb.e\-  never  go  without  picking  up  film  for  a 
whole  movie  show — feature  picture,  cartoon,  news  reel 
and  shorts. 

Guy  keeps  that  a  secret,  ei'en  from  his  press  agent, 
because  he  doesn't  think  a  inan  should  try  to  get  publicity 
about  being  friendly  ivilh  his  mother  and  father.  Just  by 
accident,  I  ran  across  Carmen  Lombardo  going  into  the 
camera  store  one  Friday  to  rent  the  filin.  Carmen  aFivays 
goes  because  he  is  not  so  liable  to  be  recognized  as  Guy. 

I  was  sworn  to  secrecy  about  this  but  it's  so  seldom  you 
have  such  nice  things  to  say  {Covt'tnued  on  page  89) 


RADIO  STARS 


International  Photo 

Seen  at  a  recent  movie  premiere:  Radio  com- 
mentator Floyd  Gibbons  (left)  with  movie 
stars  Anna  May  Wong  and  Edward  G.  Robinson. 


iride  irortd  Photo 

Rumor  whispers  romance!  Bob  Burns,  of  Bing 
Crosby's  program  and  Paramount  Pictures, 
with   his   charming   secretary,   Harriet  Foster. 


RHmBLinGS 

Highlights  and  happenings,  last-minute  news  flashes  from  the 
radio  lanes,  to  keep  you  posted  on  your  favorite  entertainers 


Flatter  you  in  hard,  blazing  light 

Summer  Brunette 
Sunlight  (light) 
Sunlight  (Dark) 

Pond's  new  "Sunlight"  Shades  catch  only  the 
softer  rays  of  the  sun  . .  .^a«er  your  face,  soften 
its  look  in  the  hardest  glare!  Three  glorifying 
shades  completely  away  from  the  old  sun-tan 
powders — Try  them  at  our  expense. 

Or  buy  a  box.  and  if  you  do  not  find  it  more 
flattering  than  ordinary  sun-tan  shades,  send  us 
back  the  box,  and  we  will  refund  purchase  price 
plus  postage.  Low  prices.  Decorated  screw- 
top  jars,  SSe.  70c.   New  big  boxes,  lOf^,  20{i. 


Test  them  FREE!  in  glarinq  Sunlight 

I'ond's.  Dept.  9RS-PH,  Clinton,  Conn. 
Please  rush  nie,  free.  Pond's  3  new  "Sunlight" 
Shades,  enough  of  each  for  a  5-day  test. 
(This  offer  expires  Oct.  1,  1937) 


Myrtle  Vail,  Myri  of  the 
long-popular  radio  team, 
Myri  and  Marge,  started 
her  career  at  fifteen, 
when  she  ran  away  from 
home  to  go  on  the  stage. 


In  private  life  Myrtle 
Is  Mrs.  George  Damerel. 
Here  she  Is  with  her 
daughter.  Donna  Damerel, 
who  plays  young  Marge 
in  their  radio  serial. 


RADIO  STARS 

Valiant  is  the  word  for  Myrtle, 
of  Myrt  and  Marge 
BY   JACK  HANLEY 


Photos  by  Ben  Pinchot 


fl  PflmiLV  RFPfllR 


PI- RSOXALLY.  I've  always  been 
inclined  to  be  dubious  about  families. 
"The  Family"  U'-ually  su!:;i(csts  a 
t^roup  of  dulli^li  jicrsniis.  smu,i;l\-  sclf- 
centered  and  ])r(sj<U.d  nxcr  by  "Ala- 
ma."  who  issuer  (irdcrs  and  always 
wants  sometbinL,^  briiui,dit  to  her. 
"l-'amilies"  ^ct  in  ni\-  hair. 

But  not  .Myrtle  Vail's  I'ann'lv  ! 

I  don't  ha\e  to  tell  you  about  the 
veteran  radio  team  of  Myrt  and 
Marge;  for  almost  six  years  radio 
listeners  have  been  followinf(  their 
interesting  and  amusing  adventurts 
in  and  around  the  world  of  \hv 
theatre.  But  about  Myrtle  \  ail  and 
her  gang — I'd  rather  say  thai  than 


"family" — there's  plenty  to  tell. 

'i'bey  keep  going,  these  friendly 
]ie(ii)le.  Three  gener;iti< ms  (if  them, 
ciiunting  " Alar^n^e's"  \cv\  \- o  u  n  g 
family,  and  all  u\  I  hem  on  the  move 
since  infanc\-  or  cliildlK lod. 

Alyrtle  Wail  started  it  all  when  she 
ran  away  from  home  to  go  on  the 
stage  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  With  the 
same  determination  tliat  lias  carried 
her  through  many  a  tight  s])ot  since, 
she  achiexcd  her  objeetuc  and  landed 
a  job  as  a  cliorns  gn'l.  Then,  when  she 
fell  in  love  with  handsome  (  ieorge 
Damerel,  the  tenor  lead  of  the  show, 
it  lo(,ked  |.vetl\  lio|K  le-s  for  the  little 
chorus  girl.  There  \\a>  one  inimber 


in  the  show  in  which  Myrtle  had  to 
carry  a  girl  twice  her  size  ofif  the 
stage.  Damerel  saw  her,  felt  sorry  for 
her,  and  it  wasn't  long  after  that  be- 
fore they  were  engaged.  In  the  show's 
second  season,  Alyrt  l)ecame  Mrs. 
Damerel,  bitt  that  didn't  slow  her  up. 

Damerel,  a  little  later,  landed  the 
])art  of  Prince  Ihuiilo  in  the  Merry 
U'iildA'.  and  while  the  show  was  play- 
ing in  Chicago,  "Marge" — ])roperly 
Doiuia  Damerel  —  was  born.  Shortly 
al'terw  ;ird,  Damerel  left  for  New 
^'ork  to  play  the  same  i)art  in  the 
Manhattan  com])any,  then  went  on 
tour  w  ith  it.  As  soon  as  little  Donna 
was  able  to  travel,  Myrt  took  her 


RADIO  STARS 


Donna  Damerel  is  the 
wife  of  Gene  Kre+zinger, 
who  once  was  a  member 
of  a  popular  singing 
team  on  the  air.  They 
have  two  sons,  Charles  and 
Richard  Gene. 


along  to  New  Orleans,  where  TJic 
Merry  ll'idozc  was  currently  appear- 
ing, and  joined  Damerel.  A  tremend- 
ous hit  like  The  Mcrr\  Uldozi.'  could 
play  for  years — and  did.  Myrt  and 
her  husband  and.  later,  daughter 
Donna  (who  was  still  quite  a  baby, 
of  course)  travelled  with  the  Jl'idoc^' 
almost  seven  years,  with  a  few  inter- 
ruptions. At  first  Myrt  danced  in  the 
show  and,  several  seasons  later,  she 
played  the  title  role,  opposite  Damerel. 

Xow  Donna — or  Marge,  if  you  like 
— had  been  on  the  move  as  soon  as  she 
was  old  enough  to  be  moved.  And 
she,  too,  had  the  stage  bug  at  an  early 
age.  five,  to  be  exact. 

]\Iyrtle  Vail  and  her  husband  were 
appearing  at  a  Texas  theatre,  in  one 
of  their  vaudeville  interludes,  when 
Marge  made  her  first  appearance,  un- 
heralded, unbilled.  The  hotel  was 
right  next  door  to  the  theatre,  and 
little  IMarge  had  been  put  to  bed  before 
the  night  show.  This  night,  however, 
she  got  out  of  bed,  went  out  the  win- 
dow and  down  the  fire  escape  to  the 
theatre  roof  and  somehow  made  her 
way  backstage.  Her  mother  and 
father  were  on  stage  at  the  moment, 
so  little  Marge  ran  right  on  also — her 
dress  on  backwards.  She  received  a 
big  reception  from  the  audience — and 
a  spanking,  later,  from  ^fyrt ! 

It  wasn't  until  she  was  fifteen  that 
Marge  really  did  go  into  show  busi- 
ness. She  wrote  her  mother,  from 
school,  that  she  was  determined  to 
leave  and  join  the  act  of  Vail  and 
Damerel.     ^Continued  on  page  65) 


Utile  Peggy  cut  her  thumb, 
the  thumb  began  to  sivell, 

And  it  ^cas  nearly  sevemceeks 
before  her  thumb  got  tvelU 

to  the  tin  est  scratch  ...  ana  arf 


COTTON  ■  GAUZE  -  BANDAGES 


9 


RHDIO  STRRS  COOKiRG 


BY  NANCY  WOOD 


u    Lily  Pons  suggests  some 
>^  ^    dainty  French  dishes.  They 
are  essentially  light  and 
thus  splendid  summer  fare 


Tomatoes  Cote  d' Azure  are  as 
appetizing  as  they  appear. 
They're  stuffed  with  crabmeat. 

THIS  is  vacation  time,  when  all  of 
us  travel  far  afield  in  spirit  or  in 
fact.  So  come,  take  an  imaginary 
trip  with  me  to  France,  that  land  of 
beauty  and  romance;  a  voyage  that 
starts  at  one  of  the  many  CBS  play- 
houses-of-the-air  and  actually  never 
gets  any  farther  than  Silvermine, 
Connecticut !  But  which,  none  the 
less,  turns  out  to  be  just  as  French 
as  the  X ormaiidic,  as  the  vins  du 
pays,  as  Crepes  Suzettc  (of  which 
more,  later  on).  Quite  as  French,  in 
fact,  as  Lily  Pons,  our  delightful 
guide  on  tliis  culinary  pilgrimage, 
thanks  to  whtjm  we  will  learn  some 
of  the  secrets  that  have  gained  for 
France  an  enviable  and  well-deserved 
reputation  for  fine  foods. 

From  this  charming  person  we  will 
collect  a  noteworthy  group  of 
recipes  for  the  dishes  she  favors  and 
serves  in  her  own  home  in  America 
— many  of  them  dishes  we  would 
be  sure  to  order,  were  we  really  to  be 
fortunate  enough  to  visit  Miss  Pons' 
native  land.  Fortunately  for  us,  how- 
ever, since  Miss  Pons,  when  in  this 
country,  must  shop  at  the  local 
grocery  store — «ven  as  you  and  1 — 
her  dishes  are  adapted  to  our  tastes 
and  purchasing  aljility.  >o  that  I  do 
not  hestitate  to  rcn  nnincnd  them  for 
average  homes,  wIktc  tlu'  lady  of  the 
hou.se  takes  pride  in  serving  a])])eti/.- 
ing  and  somewhat  different  meals. 

I  can  imagine  no  more  delightful 
introduction  to  the  little  singing  star, 
who  is  to  act  as  our  guide  here,  than 
that  given  at  a  recent  Wednesday 
evening  Chesterfield  broadcast  by 
popular  announcer  David  Ross.  In 
these  smooth,  rich  tones,  which  have 
made  him  such  an  outstanding  fa- 
vorite, Ross  recited  the  opening  line 
10 


Lovely  Lily 
Pons,  Gal  lie 
songstress  of 
ever  widening 
fame  in  opera, 
concert,  radio 
and  movies,  is 
o  true  epicure 
in  her  taste 
for  food.  She 
gives  us  here 
enchanting  but 
simple  recipes 
for  several 
food  favorites. 


RADIO  STARS 


SCHOOL 


"It  was  worse  than 
a  slap  in  the  face" 


Whitewashed  walls  and 
a  tiled  floor,  casement 
windows,  rough-hewn  beams 
in  the  ceiling,  frame  the 
charming  dining-room  in 
Lily  Pons'  country  home. 

of  Shelley's  To  a  Skylark :  "Hail  to 
thee,  blithe  spirit,"  just  before  Miss 
Pons  appeared  on  the  stage  for  her 
opening  number.  Then,  as  Kostela- 
netz  and  the  members  of  his  fine 
orchestra  applauded  and  smiled,  Lily 
came  into  the  spotlight.  A  tiny  crea- 
ture; tense  yet  smiling.  Dark  hair, 
topped  with  blue  flowers,  dainty 
girlish  form  floating  in  flowered 
chiffon  in  a  chic  combination  of 
bright  blue  and  soft  rose  on  a  cream- 
white  background.  There  was  an 
intriguing  "swish"  of  taffeta  petti- 
coats as  she  walked  and  a  flash  of 
jewels  on  her  arms  and  at  her  throat 
— that  golden  throat  soon  to  pour 
out  the  clear,  unbelievably  high  notes 
of  her  first  aria. 

As  I  sat  and  watched  her  and 
listened  to  her,  my  spirits  seemed  to 
soar  with  her  song  and  I  found  my- 
self looking  forward  to  our  scheduled 
meeting  with  even  greater  interest. 

Xot  that  I  hadn't  both  seen  and 
heard  Miss  Pons  many  times  before, 
in  movies,  over  the  air  and  at  the 
Metropolitan  Opera  House.  But 
soon  I  was  to  see  her  in  person,  for 
a  long  heart-to-heart  talk.  A  talk  on 
cooking,  of  all  things !  Somehow,  at 
that  moment,  it  was  difficult  for  me 
to  associate  this  dainty,  hundred- 
pound  prima  donna  with  the  sup- 
posedly prosaic  subject  of  food. 

Fortunately  for  me,  and  for  the 
followers  of  this  Cooking  School, 
however,  I  had  overlooked  one  thing. 
Miss  Pons  is  French!  And  to  the 
true  Frenchman,  with  his  native, 
highly  developed,  gastronomic  ap- 
preciation, it  would  not  be  considered 
amiss  to   {Continued  on  page  54) 


A  few  weeks  ago,  my  little  Ann 
came  running  home  crying  as  if 
her  heart  would  break.  She  said 
her  playmates  had  been  making 
fun  of  her  clothes. 


When  the  poor  kid  turned  around, 
I  almost  dropped.  Somebody  had 
pinned  one  of  your  ads  about 
tattle-tale  gray  on  the  back  of 
her  dress. 


It  was  worse  than  a  slap  in  the  face.  Where  did  those  youngsters 
get  the  idea?  Had  they  heard  their  mothers  criticizing  my  washes? 
I  felt  like  tearing  that  ad  to  bits.  But  luckily,  I  read  it 
instead  and  found  how  the  best  housekeepers  get  tattle-tale  gray 
in  their  clothes  if  they  use  a  soap  that  leaves  dirt  behind. 


So  right  away  quick  I  changed  to  Fels-Naptha  Soap  —  and  am  I 
GLAD!     How  those  gentle  suds  of  richer  golden  soap  and  lots  of 
naptha  hustle  out  every  speck  of  dirt!     My  clothes  lost  that 
horrid  tattle-tale  gray  in  no  time!     So  I  made  a  big  freezer- 
full  of  ice  cream  and  gave  those  kids  a  "thank-you"  party. 


BANISH  "TATTLE-TALE  GRAY' 


WITH  FELS-NAPTHA  SOAP 
11 


RADIO  STARS 


BGHUTV 
HDUICe 


BY    MARY  BIDDLE 


Irene  is  a  San  Francisco  girl 
and  former  stage  star.  She  is 
as  clever  as  she  is  beautiful! 


TLM  AND  IRKXK  and  the  orecn 
parrot  live  'way  u\)  in  a  pe-nthonsc — 
and  'wav  up  in  llie  clumls.  These  two 
are  ju>t  a>  hilari(in>  at  hdnir  as  they 
are  on  the  ::\v  and  -cn-vw.  When  I 
asked:  "'Tini.  do  \mu  Imx'  Irene."" 
Irene  dichi't  e\fn  wait  for  the  rmswer, 
but  jumi)ed  riL^lit  in  with:  "Ves!" 
Well,  after  that,  we  liad  to  ehase 
Irene  otit  to  the  terrace  to  watch  tlie 
flowers  grow,  so  that  Tim  could  speal< 
for  himself. 

Now,  you  may  wonder  what  the 
"carryings  on"  of  this  ])0])n]ar  coui)le 
have  to  do  with  a  beauty  article,  hut, 
you  see.  they  arc  as  fanmns  around 
the  town  for  hcin;,^  liajtpih-  married 
couple  th('\-  arc  well  known  on  the 
air  as  comedians.  <  )f  cunr-e,  1  wanted 
to  find  Mut  lioth  '-ides  of  the  storv  ,and 
see  if  1  could  ]K-rsuade  Irene  to  jjart 
with  any  of  her  charm-anchhcauty 
secrets  for  you.  After  all,  when  a 
woman  keeps  a  man  excited  over  her 
for  years,  she  certainly  has  something 
worthwhile  to  teach  the  rest  of  us! 

Tim  was  mo.st  helpful.  He  beamed 
while  he  talked  of  Irene.    He  .said 


that  she  is  wonderful  and  then  pro- 
ceeded to  tell  me  how  charming  she 
is  (even  with  cold  cream  on)  and 
what  a  gr.and,  ga\'  companion  she 
can  he,  and  how  interested  she  is  in  all 
they  do — and  how  clever  she  is,  and 
how  beautiful  her  hair  is  .  .  .  And  then 
Irene,  who  had  been  hiding  behind  the 
door  listening  all  the  time,  couldn't  be 
still  anv  longer  and  called  out :  "That's 
lo\ely — tell  me  some  more!"  So,  we 
let  her  come  back  in  again  and  ex])lain 
how  she  h:,(l  so  bewitched  the  man. 

Irene  doesn't  disajjpoint  us,  either. 
She  gives  us  a  very  worlhw  bile  cliarni 
formula:  "He  iiilcrcslcd  and  you  will 
be  inlci-csliiifi !"  Irene  ai)])ears  so 
sparkling  and  vivacious,  because  of 
her  interest  ni  e\-er\thing  that  goes 
on.  How  could  a  girl  be  dull,  as  long 
as  she  is  trul_\-  intei-ested?  Tlu'  s]jirit 
is  contagious,  too  ...  In  fact  we 
can't  feel  lackadaisical  ;nid  colorless 
when  we  are  around  such  a  gay  little 
s|)rite. 

Xow  to  discuss  Irene's  silkv  hair. 
It  is  as  soft  as  a  brd)v's,  w  ilb  thrilling 
highlights  that  gleam  nii 
odd  moments.  I  just  ti 
I  asked  Irene  about  I 
glory.  I  was  so  alrai 
take  the  hojjc  and  heart  from  me,  by 
saying:   "It   just   grew!"     But  my 


die 


at 

when 


worry  was  all  futile,  for  she  con- 
vinced me  that  those  soft  ringlets 
were  iiermanently  waved  !  She  also 
convinced  me  that  those  highlights 
were  largely  due  to  the  "elbow  work" 
and  good  intelligent  care  she  gives  it. 

Irene  says  there  just  isn't  any  sub- 
stitute for  scalp  stimulation!  The 
health  of  the  hair  absolutely  demands 
it.  So  dust  of¥  ( or,  to  be  literal,  wash 
off  )  the  hairbrush  and  get  to  work ! 
Incidentally,  your  daily  brushing  will 
help  keep  the  hair  clean,  too.  You 
mustn't  feel  too  virtuous,  after  all 
this  brushing,  and  call  it  a  day,  for 
you  are  just  one-half  way  through! 
The  next  stc])  is  massage.  There  is 
no  comparison  between  a  massage 
71'///;  and  Ti'ilhoiil !  Irene  means  zvifli 
a  tonic!  A  hair  tonic  conditions  the 
scalp  and  grooms  tlu'  li;n'r. 

The  most  etTecti\e  w;i\-  of  applying 
your  tonic  and  iiiassaL;e  is  to  direct 
both  to  the  scalp!  ^'ou  don't  have 
to  satnr.ate  the  hair  with  hair  tonic. 
I'art  the  hair  and  ap|)ly  the  tonic 
directly  to  the  .seal]).  Continue  in  this 
mruiner  until  the  wliok'  scalji  has  been 
treated.  Xow  for  the  massage.  One 
of  the  best  methods  of  massage  is  the 
rotating  linger  mo\ement.  Place  the 
thumbs  at  tlie  back  of  the  head  and 
s])read    the    fingers — placing  them 


Irene,  of  Tim  and  Irene,  offers  you  some  valuable  hints  on  how 


RADIO  STARS 


Tim  and  Irene,  that  gay  pair 
of  the  MBS  Sunday  evening 
progrann,   Fun   in  Sw'ingfime. 


firmly  on  the  scalp.  Xow,  liolcling  tlie 
thumbs  firmly  to  the  scalp,  rotate  the 
fingers,  witlmul  moving  them  from 
the  sjxit.  W  lun  this  area  has  been 
massaged,  shift  the  fingers  to  another 
jiosition.  The  whole  scalp  may  be 
massaged  in  this  manner. 

Irene  has  a  favorite  hair  tonic,  and, 
if  you  will  write  me  for  the  name,  I 
shall  be  glad  to  tell  vou  about  it. 
Incidentallv,  there  is  a  grand  intro- 
ductory offer  of  this  tonic  that  will 
let  you  get  acquainted  with  it  and  a 
gorgeous  foamy  oil  shamiKio,  all  at 
the  same  time,  for  a  verv  s])ecial  price. 
A  special  feature  of  this  sham|)(i(i  is 
that  it  leaves  the  hair  so  soft  and 
manageable.  There  is  none  of  the 
wildness  fine  hair  is  usually  afflicted 
with,  or  the  wiriness  that  usuallv  fol- 
lows the  shani])(>(i  for  coarse  hair. 

Irene  has  ver\-  fine  hair,  ^'ou  can 
see  that  in  this  i)icturc.  ."^hc  gi\es  a 
tip  on  the  arrangement  of  this  t\pe 
of  hair.  .She  >a_\  s  to  gt-t  an  "all-o\  i-r" 
permanent.  The  all-(iver  i)ermanent 
gives  body  to  the  hair.  Xow  that  the 
{Conliinicd  oil  piujc  60  » 

to  keep  your  man! 


WHICH  IS  YOUR  LUCKY  SHADE 


Only  ahout 
5  out  of  10  women  ever  find 
tJieir  lucky  shade  of 

face  powder. . . 
This  is  your  chancel 


Ten  new — absolutely  new — 
shades  of  face  powder!  You 
have  never  seen  the  like  of 
them  before. 

They're  new  in  color. 
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They  do  things  for  women 
never  before  known. 

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One  of  these  shades  will 
prove  the  right  one  for  you! 
It  will  prove  your  "lucky"'  shade 
A\  ill  show  you  a  new  "you" 
'you" 


MID-NIHTE  SUN 


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You  don't  have  to  take  my 
word  for  this.  You  can  prove 
it  to  yourself!  Just  mail  the 
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portant step  in  the  care  of  your  complexion 
is  thorough  cleansing.  It's  a  simple  step, 
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Jack  Bench,  that  merry  old  soapsuds  sleuth,  rehearses 
his  CfiS  harmony  hounds  for  his  fe/s  Naptha  broadcast. 


Conductor  Mark  Warnow,  Announcer  John  Reed  King,  Bill 
Rousseau,  producer,  and  (right)  Jack  Berch,  CBS  baritone. 


Berch,  featured  on  Tuesdays  and  Thursdays  at  1 :00  p.m., 
EDST,  opens  his  program  with  conductor  Mark  Warnow. 


RADIO  STARS 


UJRRBLBRi: 


WHEN  FINGERS  AND  TOES 
UST  LOOK  THEIR  BEST... 

GLAZO'S 


Announcer  John  Reed  King 
does  his  bit  with  Jackie. 


Jack  has  uncanny  knowledge 
of  what  "home  folks"  wont. 


BEWARE,  YOUNG  WOMEN!  Unscrupu- 
lous flatterers  of  any  hand  are 
Glazo's  beguiling  modern  "Misty" 
shades.  Old  Rose, Thistle,  Rust  and  Rus- 
set, Suntan,  Dahlia,  Imperial  Red 
...these  Complimentary  Colors 
have  a  way  with  them... a  way  of 
adding  new  beauty  to  your  mani- 
cure—your  pedicure. 

GLAZO 


But  flattery  from  Glazo  means  honest 
admiration  from  beaus  and  escorts.  So 
why  resist  its  blandishments.'  You'll 
never  suspect  how  fascinating  your  fin- 
gertips can  be  until  Glazo's  misty,  smoky 
shades  persuade  you.  That's  why  smart 
girls  e\-erywhere  are  losing  their  hearts 
and  pledging  their  hands  to  Glazo. 

A  smooth  article,  all  right,  is  Glazo— 
satin-smooth  on  the  nail,  for  several  extra 
days  of  wear.  But  for  all  that,  a  "sun-f-;st" 
friend,  whose  charm  doesn't  fade, 
whose  flattery  doesn't  grow  a  bit 
"thick"  with  lingering  in  the  bot- 
tle. And  one  that,  at  25  cents,  has 
a  care  for  your  pocketbook. 


RADIO  STARS 


WEST  COAST  CHATTER 

Typical  tidbits  and  tidings  of  your 
favorites  among  Hollywood  broadcasters 


NOW  that  Helen  Troy  is  no  more,  no 
more — or  rather  is  Saymorc  Sayinorc — 
the  Eddie  Cantor  office  can  heave  its  iirst 
sigh  of  relief  in  niontlis.  In  fact,  the  first 
sigh  of  any  kind,  since  none  of  the  force 
has  dared  to  breathe  for  fear  of  scatter- 
ing those  300,000  contest  letters  piled  up 
in  every  corner  of  the  office.  Susie  McKay, 
14-year-old  winner  of  the  Hollywood  trip, 
wrote  friini  the  hum  town.  X'aldosta.  Geor- 
gia, i.i  a-k  if  Mr.  Cantor  would  object  to 
her  s:r.iduatine  from  high  school  before 
takiii-  -tf  I.  r  Hollywood.  Eddie  wrote 
Su>ic,  a>-uring  her  that  Hollywood  could 
wait  until  after  the  big  event. 

Jack  Benny  icii.f  at  Ihc  XBC  studios, 
one  day.  zclicn  rcLcarsals  for  the  Chase 
and  ."^anborn  H'lur  leeie  ;ioiii<i  on.  "Say, 
Jack.'  said  ir.  C.  l-'ields.  meetuui  him  m 
the  hall  and  not  in,/  that  he  looked  rather 
loii.esoinc,  ":ehy  not  eonie  in  and  loateh 
rehearsals  for  otc/ii/c/  There's  Ann  Hard- 
ing, IVcrncr  Janssen,  Dorothy  Lainour, 
Edqar  Berqen — " 

Jaek  suddenly  hri„htened.  "And  Charlie 
MeCarthyf  he  asked.  Jl'lwn  IW  C.  nod- 
ded, .raek  mode  a  rn.di  for  the  rehearsal 
room.  Charlie,  yon  knoie,  is  I'entriloquist 
Bergen's  dummy. 

Hal  Raynor,  that  rotund  and  jolly  gen- 
tleman of  the  cloth  who  writes  all  the  Joe 
Penner  songs,  was  at  a  rehearsal  the  other 
day  when  a  photographer  came  in  to  get 
some  shots  of  the  principals  in  the  show. 
"Hey,"  shouted  the  Reverend  Raynor,  "how 
about  taking  a  picture  of  me?"  The  cam- 
era-clicker eyed  him  slowly  up  and  down, 
then  from  side  to  side.  "Brother,"  he 
said,  at  last,  "I'd  have  to  take  a  panorama 
of  you." 

Jack  Oakie  is  back  on  the  banana  and 
skimmed-milk  wagon,  to  stay  until  he  gets 
that  boyish  figger  back.  It  all  started  the 
other  day  because  of  two  small  boys  at  a 
preview.  Jack  came  out  of  the  theatre  and 
heard  one  'a.\- :  "Hey,  that's  Jack  Oakie!" 
"Xaw,"  sai'i  the  •ither,  "'I'his  one's  a  fatso, 
all  right,  but  he's  not  a^  fat  as  Oakie.  He 
waddles  I" 

Joan  Crawford's  "mike  fright"  is  no  idle 
rumor.  For  a  fact,  the  Craiefonl  knees 
have  always  pro:rd  .\,>  7,'M/'/'/y  -,ehen  tlwir 
owner  was  conjmnled  l>y  a  nnei-ophoiie 
that  they've  never  been  trusted  to  stand 
on  th/^ir  own.  Never,  that  is.  unlit  this 
last  Lux  airing  when  Joan  forstiok  her 
customary  seat  at  a  table  and  stood  right 
up  there  center-stage  and  braved  the  mike. 
Supporting  actors  in  Mary  of  Scotland 
cheered  lustily  ivhen  she  tonk  her  I'luce 
at  the  mike,  and  husband  FranAo'i  'I  ,oie 
planted  a  kiss  on  the  couraijemis  little 
ivoman. 

Perfection  is  the  thing  Joan  strives  for 
on  every  airing.  And,  unhke  many  other 
radio  performers  with  the  same  idea,  Joan 

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is  willing  to  work  for  it.  In  addition  to 
both  afternoon  and  evening  rehearsals  for 
Mary  of  Scotland  she  and  Franchot 
worked  on  the  script  with  the  technical 
director  at  extra  sessions  in  their  Brent- 
wood home.  They  totaled  40  hours  of  re- 
hearsal— a  record  for  the  air  theatre  and 
Hollywood  performers.  Perfection,  too, 
was  the  outfit  in  which  Joan  appeared  for 
the  broadcast.  Her  simple  black  dress  was 
splashed  with  print  flowers  in  brilliant 
colors.  A  black  cap  atop  her  red  hair 
was  topped  with  a  bunch  of  posies  in  the 
same  colors,  and  ruby  and  emerald  brace- 
lets carried  out  the  color  scheme. 

Claudette  Colbert  is  another  whose  knees 
are  none  too  dependable  when  it  comes 
to  microphoning.  At  every  broadcast  she 
sits  atop  a  high  stool  and  goes  through 
her  dramatics  for  the  mike.  But  this  doesn't 
interfere  in  the  least  with  the  Colbert  his- 
trionics. She  may  have  the  cast  and  audi- 
ence on  the  point  of  nervous  collapse,  with 
every  wild  gesticulation  which  threatens 
to  land  the  star  directly  into  the  mike, 
but  it's  evidently  impossible  to  shake  the 
Colbert  poise  or  perch  ! 

Claudette,  ineidenlally.  is  credited  zvith 
being  the  besl-hiiinored  aelress  ever  to  ap- 
pear on  the  Lux  programs.  Her  good 
spirits,  in  fact,  often  dehiy  reliearsals  and 
sometimes  seriously  threaten  the  actual 
broadcast,  for  she's  apt  to  dissolve  into 
giggles  on  the  slightest  provocation.  At 
the  Hands  .Across  the  Lable  broadcast,  Joel 
MeCrea  keft  a  teaming  eye  on  her  through- 
out. Claudette  :eould  look  at  him  loith 
pursed  mouth,  leitli  lOily  her  slioki)ig  shoul- 
ders to  .J/iiu-  that  she  -,<ns  enjoying  a  good 
private  niogle.  .bid  tin-  ondienee  is  al- 
loays  affeeted  l>y  the  good-lime  atmosphere, 
for  Colbert  applause  rocks  the  theatre  tim- 
bers. 

Didja  Know:  that  Clarence  Muse  want- 
ed to  be  a  lawyer  and  studied  for  this  pro- 
fession at  Dickerson  University  in  Balti- 
more? .  That  Francia  White  was  just  a 
dubbed-in  voice  for  Virginia  Bruce's  Jenny 
Lind,  until  a  radio  producer  tried  to  sign 
up  Virginia  and  her  vocal  chords  and 
found  the  latter  was  Francia?  That  Ed 
Wynn  might  have  been  manufacturing 
hats,  instead  of  wearing  them,  since  Papa 
Wynn's  business  was  whipping  up  chap- 
caux?  .  That  Haven  MacQuarrie  was  the 
first  person  in  San  Francisco  to  establish  a 
used  car  lot?  .  .  .  That  Don  Wilson 
couldn't  smile,  much  less  laugh  in  his  now- 
famous  manner,  a  few  years  ago,  being 
the  possessor  of  an  inferiority  complex? 

Werner  Janssen,  Ann  Harding's  brand- 
new  husband,  was  introduced  to  the  Holly- 
wood press  at  a  cocktail  party  the  other 
day.  Mr.  J.  received  the  ofificial  stamp  of 
apijroval  from  one  and  all,  in  spite  of  being 
very  bored  with  any  conversation  concern- 
ing  himself.     But  animation  and  charm 


were  suddenly  turned  on  when  Mrs.  Jans- 
sen was  mentioned.  He  refers  to  Ann  as 
"my  dear  wife"  and  referred  to  her  con- 
stantly until  the  party  finally  broke  up  1 

Ann,  incidoitally,  is  looking  prettier  than 
ever  and  claims  she  doesn't  even  have  an 
eye  out  for  moiie  offers.  Just  ivants  to 
live  atop  the  Hollyieood  hills  in  her  old 
home  Kdlh  the  husband  and  daughter — and 
be  plain  Mrs.  H'erner  Jans.u^n. 

W.  C.  Fields'  radio  debut  was  the  most 
sensational  success  in  town.  He  not  only 
took  the  audience  by  storm,  but  took  the 
sponsor  for  a  five-year  contract!  Fields' 
only  previous  airing  was  on  a  testimonial 
program  to  a  movie  producer — which  he 
swore  was  not  only  his  first  airing  but  his 
last.  All  this,  however,  was  in  the  days 
before  the  long  Fields  siege  with  hospitals 
and  rest-homes.  "The  only  day,"  says  W. 
C,  "that  I  seriously  considered  passing  out, 
was  the  day  my  radio  went  dead,  which 
accounts  for  my  now  being  right  in  there 
rooting  for  dear  old  radio." 

-♦- 

The  first  shopping  Virginia  Verrill  did 
when  she  arrived  on  the  Coast  was  for 
a  dog.  Having  formerly  owned  thorough- 
breds which  developed  into  vets'  pets  more 
than  hers,  Virginia  confined  her  pooch- 
shopping  to  the  Los  Angeles  pound.  Here, 
for  one  dollar,  she  picked  up  a  soiled  num- 
ber whose  only  charm  was  a  friendly  eye. 
Deciding  to  spend  one  more  dollar,  she  took 
him  to  the  vet's  for  a  shampoo.  But  with 
the  grime  washed  ofif,  the  purp  proved  a 
bad  bargain.  Virginia  found  her  mongrel 
was  a  throughbred  schnauzer ! 

The  audience  for  that  first  airing  of  the 
Chase  and  Sanborn  program  comprised 
most  of  the  Jl'ho's  H'ho  in  Hollyzoood.  And 
the  rest  -a'cre  at  the  XliC  doors  trying  to 
crash  the  program.  Tnthusiasni  leas  kept 
at  high  pitch  follozving  the  l>roadeast,  zoith 
a  cocktail  party  out  at  Hon  .hneelie's  En- 
eino  home.  All  in  all.  the  neio  radio  pro- 
gram got  off  to  a  fast  start. 

At  a  rehearsal  of  the  Kraft  Hour,  a  news 
scribbler  was  interviewing  Bob  Burns.  Bob 
was  reminiscing  about  some  happening  and 
drawled:  "Now,  let  me  see — that  must  have 
been  about  the  time  I  started  blossoming 
out."  Bing  Crosby,  sitting  by  and  quietly 
smoking  a  pipe,  interrupted  with:  "Bloom- 
ing out,  doncha  mean,  Bob? — when  you 
first  started  to  be  a  blooming  idiot?" 

Hearts  and  Flowers  Dept :  Judy  Garland 
thinks  Bill  Goodwin  is  so-o-o-o  swell.  Not 
that  half  the  girls  in  Hollywood  don't 
think  so,  too,  but  Judy  makes  no  bones 
about  her  open  adoration.  At  every  re- 
hearsal she  is  either  talking  to  Bill  or 
sitting  spellbound  just  looking  at  him.  But 
there's  eternally  the  triangle!  And  in  this  j 
case  it's  Jimmie,  Judy's  big  sister,  who's  ] 
causing  the  trouble.  For  Rill  llnnks  jim- 
mie is  so-o-o-o  swell,  and  niakrs  iu<  bL'iies 
about  it  either. 

More  Hearts  and  Tlozvers  Dept:  Marlyn 
Stuart  and  Ihister  Keaton  are  seen  cvcry- 
zoliei-e  loiielher  these  days.  Ken  Murray 
and  Tlorniee  Heller.  Nezv  York  sassicty 
gal,  may  head  for  Yuma  any  minute.  Jerry 
Cooper  hasn't  giz-en  the  Hollyivood  girls 
a  ehanc/?  yet — /;/.s-  Main  Interest  is  Joan 
Mitchell,  Ilastern  chorine.  Frances  Lang- 
ford  and  Tony  Martin  are  sposcd  to  be 


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that  xcay  about  each  other. 

Hunting  for  Grace  Moore  between 
broadcasts  is  like  hunting  a  needle  in  a  hay- 
stack. For  Grace  and  husband  Valentin 
Parera  might  be  anywhere  between  Seattle 
and  Ensenada,  Mexico.  Valentin  presented 
the  little  wife  with  a  gray  and  tan  auto- 
trailer  and  they  take  off  immediately  after 
every  broadcast.  Grace  does  all  the  cook- 
ing and's  even  whipped  up  dotted  swiss 
curtains  for  all  the  windows.  Just  a  haus- 
frau  at  heart. 

Carlton  Morse,  author  of  One  Man's 
Family,  took  off  for  Hong  Kong  aboard 
the  Pan  American  Clipper  Ship,  for  his 
vacation.  We  iiear  that  his  baggage — the 
fifty  pounds  allowed  him — was  comprised 
of  still  and  motion  picture  cameras  and 
a  thousand  feet  of  film.  No  laundry,  Carl? 

At  NBC  there  are  all  kinds  of  plans 
underfoot  for  vacations.  Jack  Benny  and 
.Mary  Livingstone  unll  set  sail  for  Europe, 
Charlie  Butterzvorth  has  Budaf^i-st  on  the 
brain,  Ben  Bernie  zcill  head  for  I-lorida  and 
the  racetracks,  Conrad  Thihaiilt  is  going 
to  Haivaii,  or  else,  and  Biioi  Crosby  is 
going  to  his  ranch.  I-rcd  .Isloirc's  only 
ansii-cr  to  our  question  on  liis  plans  ivas: 
"What  is  a  vacation 

Hollywood  Host  No.  1  has  turned  out 
to  be  Joe  Penner.  He's  rigged  up  a  loud 
speaking  system  on  the  grounds  of  his 
Beverly  Hills  home,  which  enables  him  to 
shout  a  last  farewell  to  guests  as  they  go 
out  the  gate.  But  what  the  guests  don't 
know  is  that  Joe  has  also  rigged  up  at  the 
gate  a  trick  transmitting  set  which  relays 
back  to  the  house  any  opinions  which  they 
may  express  concerning  the  Penner  party. 

On  meeting  Ella  Logan,  everyone  thinks 
that  such  a  baby- faced  girl  shouldn't  be  out 
in  the  cold,  cruel  woild  of  tlie  woiking  gal. 
Someone,  they  feel  sure,  should  adopt  the 
little  Logan.  But  the  news  has  just  leaked 
out  that  it's  Ella  who  does  the  adopting. 
To  date  she's  collected  two  little  girls  of 
her  own — aged  three  months  and  four 
years.  And  says  she's  in  the  market  for 
more ! 

There's  a  story  back  of  that  ballad  zchich 
Grade  fields  rendered  on  the  Hollywood 
Hotel  program  recently.  Bill  Baclicr,  zohcn 
he  heard  of  Grade's  idea,  said :  ".Vi'.  no,  a 
thousand  times  no."  But  Grade  si  ill  felt 
like  rcnderin<j  a  ballad.  .So  she  told  Fo.v 
publicity  director,  Harry  Brand,  about  hoiv 
she  felt  and  Harry  told  Bill  hozv  he  felt 
about  Bill  not  feeling  that  zvay  about 
ballads.  In  fact.  Bill  zvas  told  in  no  un- 
certain tones  that  unless  Grade  zcas  allozved 
to  rendi^r,  no  more  Tzventirlh  CcntwyJ-'ox 
stars  would  ever  appear  on  IbiUwM 
Hotel.  JVe  just  thought  you  niii/lit  appre- 
ciate that  ballad  more  if  you  knczc. 

The  Prince  and  the  Pauper  broadcast 
was  interesting  on  several  counts.  For  one, 
the  Mauch  twins,  who  are  a  couple  of  the 
best  troupers  in  town.  Bobby  was  so  stirred 
by  some  of  his  lines  that  he  had  to  hastily 
wipe  a  tear  or  two  away  and  get  in  a  quick 
sniffle.  Also  interesting  was  the  fact  that 
Simone  Simon  was  sitting  right  up  front — 
with  eyes  only  for  Errol  Flynn.  Seems  the 
little  French  girl  thinks  Errol  is  divine 
divine. 

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International  Photo 


Rudy  Vallee,  surrounded  by  a 
crowd  of  British  admirers  on 
his  orrivol  at  Waterloo  sta- 
tion fora  London  engagement 
during  Coronation  festivities. 


Hlldegarde,  famous  cabaret 
and  broadcasting  star,  an- 
other Coronation  entertainer, 
posed  with  Rudy  for  London 
newspaper  photographers. 


HUmBLG 

opinion- 


BY  RUDY  VALLEE 

Once  again  Rudy  Vallee  opens 
his  heart  in  a  free  and  frank 
commentary  on  divers  subjects 


Iiuisli  you'd  be  luy 
f/itcst  liiiKj  cnoufili 
to  join  iiic  ill  (I  dis- 
cussion of  the  as- 
sorted thiiit/s  that, 
during  the  past 
ninnlh.  hii'ee  amused 
vie,  phujiied  uie  and 
struck  me  as  being 
worthy  of  scrutiii\. 


If  you've  accepted  my  invitation, 
then  sit  back  in  your  biggest,  soft- 
est arm  chair  and  turn  your  atten- 
tion, with  me,  to  Mr.  John  McCor- 
mack. 

I  was  surprised  at  Mr.  McCor- 
mack's  recent  blast  at  radio,  lia\'in^-  a 
tremendous  admiration  for  the  artist- 
ry and  intellij.(cnce  of  this  Irish  min- 
strel, who  for  years  has  hrou;.,dit  so 
much  enjoyment  to  so  many  ])eo]jle 
with  his  glorious  voice.  Surprised,  be- 
cause I  know  him,  having  had  the 
pleasure  of  entertaining  him  shortly 
after  one  of  our  broadcasts. 

I  cannot  believe  that  Mr.  McCor- 
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mack  was  blasting  radio  generally.  It 
seemed  rather  that  his  especial  objec- 
tion was  a  certain  program.  His  com- 
plaint was  that  paint  manufacturers 
were  not  the  proper  judges  of  an  ar- 
tist's ability.  But  inasmuch  as  these 
gentlemen  pay  the  bills,  and,  assum- 
ing that  they  are  laymen-common-de- 
nominators, it  is  qiiilc  possible  that 
their  reactions  might  be  much  better 
Ijarometers  of  ]nil)lic  oi)inion  than 
even  those  of  critics  and  opera-goers. 
It  is  unfortunate  that,  one  minute,  a 
beautiful  aria  is  to  be  beard,  and,  the 
next,  cold-blooded  advertising  of 
such-and-such  a  ])roduct,  but  if  the 
public  knew  that  the  cost  of  an  hour 
br(;adcast.  such  as  our  own,  is  ap- 
jjroximately  $17,000  for  each  broad- 
cast and  that  this 
expense  must  be 
met  some  way,  sure- 
ly there  could  be  no 
objecti(jn  to  short, 
well  -  worded  com- 


Tommy 
Dorsey 


m  e  r  c  1  a  I  s  mter- 
s])ersed  not  more 
than  three  times 


li-2dc  World  Photo 

during  the  hour.  Experience  has 
proven  that  it  does  take  repetition  to 
impress  people,  so  let's  be  fair  to  the 
much-abused  sponsor,  shall  we? 

Many  of  us  are  watching  the  bill 
proposed  in  Michigan  requiring  pun- 
ishment for  libel  over  the  air.  It 
seems,  at  the  present  time,  that  libel 
over  the  air  is  less  easy  to  prove,  and 
consequently  to  punish,  than  libelous 
statements  appearing  in  the  Press. 
This  legislation  may  start  some- 
thing! 

Not  to  give  Mr.  W.  Winchell  too 
much  cause  to  accuse  me  of  lingering 
in  the  first  person  singular,  or  to  re- 
peat too  much  of  what  was  said  last 
month  concerning  the  Boston  photog- 
rapher episode,  but  now  that  I  have 
been  adjudged  guilty  of  assault,  those 
who  followed  the  coiu'se  of  events  will 
recognize  it  as  an  issue  of  whether  a 
person  may  or  may  not  object  to  hav- 
ing his  picture  taken. 

Although  Mr.  Ex-Justice  Van  De- 
{Continued  on  page  62) 


Bottling  Bill  Fields  squares  off  with  a 
scowl,  in  his  rodio  feud  with  that  Casonova 
of  Hollywood,  dummy  Charlie  McCarHiy.  And 
even  Ventriloquist  Edqor  Bergen  seems  a 
trifle    perturbed    by   tttat   fearsome  frown! 


After  a  broadcast  of  the  CAose  and  Sanborn 
Variefy  Hour,  Don  Ameche,  master  of  cere- 
monies, watches  comedian  W.  C.  Fields  write 
his  autograph  for  a  fan.  The  program  is 
heard  Sundays,  over  the  hfdC-Red  network. 


Never  did  a  radio  program  whiz  so  quickly  to 
top  ranking  as  the  Chase  and  Sanborn  Variety 
Hour,  featuring  W.  C.  Fields,  Don  Ameche,  Edgar 
Bergen  and  Charlie  McCarthy,  Dorothy  Lamour 
and  Werner  Janssen.  It  would  be  unfair  to  single 
out  one  particular  member  of  the  cast  as  the  out- 
standing reason  for  the  program's  success.  Ail 
have  been  exceptionally  entertaining. 

Many  rabid  listeners  are  shouting  from  the 
housetops  that  without  W.  C.  Fields  the  hour 
would  be  quite  ordinary;  but  there  are  equally  as 
many  who  rally  to  the  cause  of  Edgar  Bergen  and 
his  delectable  dummy,  Charlie  McCarthy,  insist- 
ing that  this  inimitable  pair  is  the  program's 
highlight.  Furthermore,  the  Don  Ameche  fans  are 
positive  that  without  their  Don  all  would  be  lost. 
And  so  it  goes. 

When  you  have  so  able  and  acknowledged  a 
group  of  performers  that  it's  impossible  to  select 
any  one  as  the  best,  then  you  most  decidedly  have 
an  outstanding  radio  program. 


POR 

DISTIRGUISHGD 
SGRUICG  TO 
RHDIO 

The  Chase  and  Sanborn  Hour  got  off  to  such 
a  fast  start  that  the  skeptics  thought  the  pace 
could  not  be  maintained.  If  anything,  the  pace  has 
quickened.  The  script  writers  have  not  let  the 
comedians  down.  The  high-salaried  guests  stars 
have  fitted  nicely  into  the  pattern. 

The  sponsors  are  spending  a  tremendous  amount 
of  money  to  present  this  show  each  week.  But  it  is 
money  well  spent,  and  certainly  the  sponsors  may 
feel  assured  that  with  few  exceptions  every  dialer 
in  the  land  is  tuned  in  on  their  program  each 
Sunday. 

To  the  Chase  and  Sanborn  Variety  Hour, 
sixty  minutes  of  sparkling  variety  entertainment, 
RADIO  STARS  magazine  presents  its  award  for 
Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


—EDITOR 
19 


How  radio  favorite  Bing  Crosby  rates  with  his  wife,  Dixie  Lee 


"I  OFTEN  think,"  said  Bing  Crosby's  young  wife  (the 
only  girl  Bing  ever  "went  with" )  "that  Bing  made  his 
money  too  fast — and  too  young.  He  made  more  money 
that  first  amazing  year  of  his  big  success'  than  he  ever  has 
made  since.  And  when  you  stop  to  realize  that  he  was  a  poor 
boy,  one  of  a  big  family,  and  had  had  to  hustle  for  every 
two-bit  piece  he  had  to  spend — well,  it's  a  real  wonder  of 
the  world  that  it  didn't  inflate  his  ego  till  he  burst!  Any- 
one, in  those  days,  would  have  been  justified  in  prophesy- 
ing that  Bing  would  go  berserk.  But  he  didn't.  It  worked 
just  the  other  way.  with  Bing.  Fame  and  money  didn't 
make  him  conceited,  careless,  reckless.  He  takes  them  as 
a  grave  responsibility,  a  trust  to  be  executed,  a  burden  to 
be  borne,  almost  like  a  heritage  which  he  must  administer 
carefully  and  well.  He  acts  like  a  trustworthy  steward  of 
his  own  success.  His  haywire  days  were  all  when  he  was 
a  nolxxly,  with  nothing. 

"From  the  time  he  first  began  to  be  really  successful, 
from  the  day  he  first  set  eyes  on  me,  he  began  to  be  an 
Old  Man  of  the  Sea,  with  the  weight  of  the  world  on  his 
shoulders.  Why  /  should  have  had  that  effect  on  him," 
laughed  Dixie.  "I'll  never  know!  I'm  really  not  the  type. 
I'm  the  one  who  wants  to  go  places,  go  to  parties,  give 
parties,  have  a  lot  of  fun.  I  hate  to  be  alone.  I  love  to  have 
crowds  of  people  around  me,  things  going  on. 

'"I  say  so,  too,"  grinned  Dixie,  ridiculously  child-like. 


in  her  pale  blue  corduroy  shorts,  white  shirt,  golden-brown 
bob,  young  scarlet  mouth.  "I  say  so,  but  Bing  never  'hears' 
me.  He  doesn't  pay  any  attention  to  what  I  say.  He  never 
tells  me  anything!  He  never  tells  me  about  his  business 
problems,  what  goes  on  at  the  studio  or  anything.  It  makes 
me  furious !  I  don't  like  it,  because  it  makes  me  feel  un- 
important and  I  like  to  feel  important.  But  he  says  I'd  be 
bored  to  death  if  he  came  home  and  told  me  everything 
that  goes  on  at  the  studio,  business  details,  problems  and 
so  on.  Maybe.  I'll  probably  never  know.  Bing  is  old- 
fashioned.  He  believes — and  Bing  acts  on  his  beliefs — 
that  a  woman's  place  is  in  the  home,  with  her  children,  and 
here  he  keeps  me  very  well,"  grinned  Dixie. 

The  home  of  the  Bing  Crosbys  in  North  Hollywood, 
in  the  Toluca  Lake  region,  is  spacious  and  white.  And 
Southern,  sub,  in  architecture,  in  "feelin'."  It  is  white- 
columned  and  gracious  and  set  in  wide  green  lawns,  lux- 
uriantly green,  and  walnut  trees  in  majestic  groves  croon, 
the  winds  playing  among  their  leaves,  beneath  the 
Crooner's  white-curtained  windows.  A  Negro  butler,  with 
a  family-retainer  courtesy,  had  admitted  me  when  I 
arrived,  and  ushered  me  into  the  playroom,  panelled  in 
pale  pear-wood,  furnished  with  rag  rugs,  drapes,  chairs 
and  divans  in  shades  blending  from  palest  rose  to  deepest 
crimson.  A  bar,  facing  the  room  obliquely,  is  lined  with 
tiers  of  glasses,  from  enormous  brandy  sizes  to  tiniest 


B  Y 


GLADYS 


HALL 


1  Bing  and  his  wife, 
known  to  the  movie 
fans  as  Dixie  Lee. 


cordials,  and  all  in  shades  of  blue,  royal  blue  to  pale 
spriiii,'  blue.  I'Voni  the  wide  entrance  hall,  as  I  entered. 
J  caujjfht  a  glimpse  of  the  dining-room — Duncan  Phyfe 
table,  pale  blue  i)a])ered  walls,  formalized  draperies — 
mute  testimonial,  all  of  it,  to  what  a  Spokane  boy  with 
a  heart-catch  in  his  voice  has  done. 

Xow,  from  above  came  the  patter  of  little  feet, 
descending  the  stairs.  Six  little  feet.  The  little  feet  of 
the  sons  of  the  Crooner — Gary  Evan,  aged  four,  Phili]) 
Lang  and  Dennis  Michael,  aged  three.  The  nur.sc  came 
in  with  the  three  little  boys,  fresh  from  their  naps. 
Three  blond  little  boys :  Gary  Evan,  a  small  and  almost 
exact  replica  of  Bing;  the  twins,  not  at  all  identical 
save  for  blond  hair  and  blue  eyes,  the  hair  of  Dennis 
Michael  wavy,  that  of  Philip  Lang,  Bingishly  straight. 

I  asked  Gary  Evan  if  he  liked  to  hear  his  father  sing. 
The  four-year-old  commented,  discriminatingly :  "Yes. 
'specially  in  the  shower.  And  'specially  Little  Buckaroo 
— that's  our  favorite.  My  Daddy  sang  it  for  me  over 
the  radio  last  week."  The  little  boys  shook  hands 
politely,  scrambled  over  their  mother,  who  looks  ridicu- 
lously like  their  not  too-much-older  sister,  and  went 
forth  to  swim  in  the  pool. 

"Bing  calls  them  his  Three-Man  Circus,"  Dixie  told 
me.  "I  call  them  my  Four-Man  Circu.s — for  Bing  is  one 
of  the  kids  when  he's  playing  with  them.  D'you  know 
what  he  did  on   his  last  (Continued  on   page  73) 


init?li1j)illli1 


secono 


As  Brenda,  in 
her  first  mi- 
crophone role, 
Helen  Menken, 
noted  stage 
star,  faces 
many  perplex- 
ing problems. 


Miss  Menken 
b  r  o  a  d  casts 
her  serial, 
Second  Hus- 
band, each 
Wednesday  at 
8:30p.m.£DSr 
over  the  NBC- 
Blue  network. 


IN  THE  theatre  Helen  Menken  has 
been  an  outstanding  figure  for  so 
long,  one  quite  naturally  thinks  of 
her  as  an  old-timer.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  she  has  been  playing  on  the 
stage  for  nearly  thirty  years.  But 
don't  let  that  mislead  you.  She 
started  her  theatrical  career  at  the 
age  of  four,  playing  with  the  late 
Annie  Russell  in  Midsumutcr  Night's 
Dream. 

On  the  air,  however,  Miss  Men- 
ken is  in  the  novice  class.  She  has, 
on  occasions,  made  guest  appear- 
ances, playing  scenes  from  some  of 
her  Broadway  successes.  But  this 
spring,  for  the  first  time,  she  em- 
barked on  a  career  as  a  radio  actress, 
in  the  NBC  .serial.  Second  Husband, 
broadcast  Wednesday  evenings  un- 
der the  auspices  of  The  Famous 
Actors  Guild. 

Miss  Menken's  radio  serial 
matches,  in  .some  resj)ects,  her  own 
experience — for  she  has  been  mar- 
ried twice.  Her  first  husband  was 
Humphrey  liogart,  well  known  to 
the  stage  and  screen.  Recently  he 
played  with  liette  Davis  in  the  film, 
Marked  Woman.  He  was  starred 
in  The  Black  Legion,  and  has  been 
featured  in  a  numljer  of  other  suc- 
cessful movies. 

"We  grew  up  together,  "  Helen 
said.  "I  knew  Humphrey  when  he 
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was  in  short  pants!  But  marriage, 
for  us,  was  a  failure  from  the  start. 
We  lived  together  only  two  months. 
He  has  been  married  again,  since, 
and  divorced  again.  But  we're  still 
friends.  My  husband  likes  him  very 
much,  too.  We  see  him  occasionally. 
And  when  I  see  him,  I  think:  'I'm 
glad  I'm  not  married  to  you — but 
I'm  glad  you're  doing  so  well  in  your 
career !'  " 

Miss  Menken's  present  husband, 
a  Texan,  is  an  eye  specialist  in  the 
city. 

"I  met  him  five  years  ago,"  she 
told  me.  "I  liked  him  at  once.  But, 
just  after  we  met.  he  sailed  for 
Paris  with  another  doctor." 

Not  long  afterward,  however, 
Helen  and  her  mother  and  sister 
went  abroad  for  a  summer's  holiday. 
Eventually  they  arrived  in  Paris. 

"And,  of  course,  I  thought  of 
him,"  she  says.  "I  kept  thinking 
about  him — kept  finding  pretexts  to 
bring  his  name  into  the  conversa- 
tion. At  last  a  friend  .said  to  me : 
"Why  don't  you  call  up  this  man 
you're  always  talking  about,  if  he's 
here  in  Paris?'  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
I  knew  his  telephone  number!  I'd 
been  saying  it  over  and  over  to  my- 
self, .secretly!  But  I  hedged.  Then 
she  taunted  me — dared  me  to  do  it. 
And  one  day  I  did.  .  .  ." 


And  so  the  young  doctor  came  to 
call  on  Helen  Menken.  And  for  the 
next  few  weeks  that  European  holi- 
day was  a  season  in  paradise. 

"Then  I  had  to  go  home,"  she  said. 
"Before  he  came,  I  had  been  im- 
patient to  go — eager  to  get  back  to 
work.  But  then  I  hated  the  thought 
of  it.  And  then  he  said  to  me:  'If 
you'll  marry  me — I'll  go  back  with 
you.'  That,"  she  smiled  reminiscent- 
iy,  "was  the  way  he  proposed! 

"So  we  came  back  together — and 
we  were  married  here,  by  Jimmy 
Walker.  That  was  five  years  ago — 
and  I  had  known  him  just  two 
months." 

Their  marriage,  we  gather,  has 
been  a  completely  happy  one,  al- 
though much  of  the  time  their  hours 
have  been  at  odds. 

"It  has  been  hard  on  him.  I  know," 
she  said  understandingly.  "At  first 
our  hours  were  utterly  topsy  turvy. 
He  has  to  start  his  day  at  seven - 
thirty  in  the  morning.  When  I'm 
working  in  the  theatre,  I  don't  get 
home  till  twelve.  Then  I'm  all  keyed 
up — I  never  get  to  bed  till  three  in 
the  morning — and  I'm  sleeping 
when  he  starts  out.  Then,  when  ho 
is  through  work,  ready  to  relax  and 
enjoy  himself,  I'm  just  starting  my 
work !  And  Sunday,  the  day  when 
most  people  plan  some  sort  of  social 


HUSBHRD 


BY  NANCY 
BARROWS 


The  picture  below  shows  Helen 
Menken  as  Queen  Elizabeth  in 
Mary  of  Scotland,  in  a  recent 
broadcast  from  that  stage  play. 


Helen  Menken  hopes 
that  Brenda,  of  her 
NBC  serial,  will  be 
happy,  as  she  is,  in 
her  second  marriage 


diversion,  is  my  one  day  to  rest  and 
relax — let  down  niy  hair  and  put 
cold  cream  on  my  face !  Sometimes, 
of  course,  we  go  out  together,  but 
often  he  stays  at  home  with  me.  It 
isn't  fair  to  him,  but  he  is  dear  and 
understanding  —  interested  in  my 
work  —  and  helpful.  Last  summer 
he  and  I  had  our  first  vacation  to- 
gether since  we  were  married.  We 
went  to  a  farm  my  family  have,  up 
in  New  York  state,  near  Tuxedo. 
It's  a  real  farm,  in  real  country.  We 
loved  it! 

■'Radio,"  .she  said,  and  her  dark 
eyes  glowed,  "gives  us  more  time  to- 
gether.   I  like  radio !" 

She  lighted  a  cigarette.  "I'm  al- 
ways jittery,  right  after  a  broadcast, 
though.  And  before  it,  too!  You'd 
think,  having  grown  up  in  the  the- 
atre, I'd  have  more  assurance.  But 
it  isn't  so.  I  know  the  technique,  of 
course — I'm  completely  at  home  in  it. 
But  I  still  have  the  jitters !  Most 
actors  I  know."  she  went  on.  "work 
— and  then  relax  afterwards.  I  can 
only  relax  when  I'm  working!  Both 
before  and  after,  I'm  terribly  tense !" 

Although  she  grew  up  in  the 
theatre,  her  family,  Helen  says,  were 
not  theatrical  jjeople.  The  proverbial 
backstage  trunk  was  not  Helen 
Menken's  cradle.  Her  mother  was 
a  friend  of  ( Continued  on  pacje  68) 


A  summertime 
silhouette  — 
Ina  Ray  Hutton, 
popular  girl 
orchestra  lead- 
er of  Miami, 
Florida,  caught 
at  the  seaside. 


IHTHe 


Picking  out  some  of  the 


Lovely  and  lissome,  little  Durelle  Alexander, 
sweet  singer  who  now  has  her  own  CBS  program, 
makes  a  charming  study  for  the  photographer. 

Don't  look  now.  but  we  think  Foo  Foo  is  yawn- 
ing! Alice  Frost,  of  CBS'  Big  Sister  broad- 
casts,   tells    her    pet    the    camera   won't  bite! 


RHDIO  SPOTLIGHT 

stars  of  the  summer  season's  radio  roundup  in  mirth  and  musk 


"Momo!  Oh,  Mama!  That  man's 
here  again!"  chirps  comely 
Marlyn   Sfuart,    CBS  favorite. 


Fibber  McGeeand  Molly  ( Marian  cmd 
Jim  Jordan)  Hollyvrood-bound,  with 
Kothryn  and  Jim,  Jr.,  to  make  a  nrtovie. 


A  favorite  radio  star,  Charlie  McCarthy  (righf)  of  the  CAose  and 
Sanborn  Hour,  turns  in  surprise  as  his  stooge  and  pal,  ventriloquist 
Edgar  'Bergen,  introduces  a  minioture  n>annikin  in  his  very  own  inuige! 


Bert  L^r,  as  star  of  Manhaffan 
Merry-Go-Round  broadcasts,  finds 
hinrtself  in  plenty  of  trouble. 

Bobby  Breen  and  Jolly  Gillette 
giggle  during  ground^-breaking 
cerenfH>nie$  for  CBS'  new  studio. 


Ed  East  and  Ralph  Dumke,  those 
doughty  "Sisters  of  the  Skillet/' 
tell  their  beguiling 
true  life  story! 


UJG  HELP  DISTRHCTeO 


IN  1924  Ed  East  and  Ralph  Dumke  were  vaudevillians, 
playing  the  small-time  Keith  circuit.  While  stalled  in 
Niagara  Falls,  with  a  three-day  layoff,  just  prior  to  break- 
ing into  New  York  and  the  big-time,  one  of  their  fellow 
actors  gave  them  a  tip. 

"Now  listen,  fellers,"  he  drawled  (his  name  was  Jack 
Benny  and  drawls  even  today— drawls  down  a  big  salary 
check),  "I  know  this  Keith  gang  in  New  York.  They're 
a  high-pressure  bunch  and  if  you  show  up  there  just  in 
time  to  go  on,  and  you  sign  the  contract  then,  you  may  get 
fifty  dollars  more  than  you're  getting  now — but  no  more. 
Take  an  old  soldier's  advice,  beat  it  up  there  while  you 
have  a  chance  and  demand  a  big  increase  in  dough." 

"Aw  gee.  Jack,"  they  moaned  in  something  like  unison, 
"we've  only  got  thirteen  dollars  between  us !" 

"If  that's  all  that's  worrying  you,  take  this — "  and  Jack 
Benny  handed  them  a  roll  of  bills  that  totaled  just  a  little 
over  five  hundred  dollars. 

But  East  and  Dumke  didn't  go  to  New  York  to  demand 
more  money,  because,  well,  frankly,  they  were  scared  of 
the  big  officials.  Yes — they  got  a  measly  fifty-dollar  raise, 
just  as  Jack  had  said  they  would. 

This  happened  in  the  formative  days  of  the  present  stars 
of  the  Knox  Gelatine  show  and  the  Kellogg  Corn  Flakes 
show — the  two  behemoths  of  flesh  who  coyly  call  them- 
selves The  Sisters  Of  The  Skillet,  and  who  are  about  as 
effeminate  as  two  Jack  Dempseys!  Ed,  for  instance, 
weighs  about  two  hundred  and  sixty  pounds  and  stands 
six  If  PA,  one  and  one-half  inches  tall.  Ralph  is  exactly  six 
feet  tall  and  might  weigh  a  half  pound  less  than  Ed,  but 


I  doubt  it.  Can  you  picture  them  doing  the  cartwheels 
a  recent  act  of  theirs  called  for  ? 

But,  to  get  on.  Much  water,  indeed,  has  since  flowed 
under  the  water  wheels  that  make  the  electricity  that  runs 
the  radio  stations  these  funsters  have  patronized — on  such 
shows  as  Kolax  Shaving  Cream,  Lomax  Twins'  Ginger 
Ale,  McLaughlin  Manor  House  Coffee,  Procter  &  Gamble 
Soaps,  Armour  Meats,  Pontiac  Cars,  Texaco  Gasoline, 
CItaris  Corsets,  Krueger  Beer  and  others — not  to  forget 
the  two  present-day  shows. 

When  I  talked  to  them,  they  were  just  about  to  do  their 
Knox  Thursday-morning  show,  and  they  stopped  talking 
to  me  long  enough  to  rush  to  the  mike  and  open  the  show 
with  a  duet.  Ralph  once  sang  in  a  quartet  with  Herr 
Walter  O'Keefe,  and,  as  a  consequence,  he  rather  fancies 
himself  as  a  singer,  but  Ed,  actually,  is  every  whit  as  good. 
At  any  rate,  after  fifteen  minutes  of  Knox  sparkling 
whimsy,  they  wiped  brows  and  said  "Let's  go  eat !" 

Over  plates  heaped  high  with  food,  they  relaxed  and 
time  turned  abruptly  backward  in  its  flight. 

"  I  was  born,"  b^an  Ed  East,  in  answer  to  a  question, 
"in  April,  the  fourth  day  of  the  year  18 — er — 18-- — " 

"1^4,"  sang  out  Ralph,  the  man  with  the  face  of  a 
cherub.  "I  know  more  about  you  than  you  do  yourself, 
Ed.  You  were  born  in  Bloomington,  Indiana,  and  for 
several  years  you  were  a  little  boy.  You  grew  fast  and 
you  went  to  school  with  Hoagy  Carmichael  and  you  both 
played  piano  by  ear.   He  taught  you  how." 

"/  taught  him,  if  you  don't  mind !  Say,  do  you  remem- 
ber how  Hoagy  fainted  one  day  when  a  trumpet  player 


On  Tuesdays  and  Thursdays  at  11:15  a.m.  EDST,  they  broad- 
cast as  The  Quality  Twins,  over  the  CSS  network.  And 
on  Wednesdays  and  Fridays,  on  WJZ  only,  in  their 
fanniliar  roles  of  The  Sisters  of  the  Skillet, 
they  ore  on  the  air  at  7:45  p.m.  EDST. 
But,  Twins  or  S/s/er$,  they  continue  to 
be  irresistibly  funny  in  their  more 
or  less  dubious  advice  to  harried 
housewifes.    Their  fan  mail  is, 
we   are   told,  tremendous! 


LflDiesT 


took  a  'break*  particularly  well?  Gosh,  how  that  boy 
loves  music !  And  how,  ^ears  later,  when  he  was  staying 
at  the  Ritz  Tower  here  m  New  York,  we  found  him  by 
yelling  from  the  street:  'Hoagy!  Hoagy  Carmichaell' 

Ed  is  something  of  a  composer,  himself,  havii^  turned 
out  some  five  hundred  songs,  including  a  litde  number 
called  Swing  Waltz,  whic^  you  must  have  heard  unless 
you  live  in  a  barrel. 

"Then  you  ran  away  from  home  with  a  carnival,"  Ralph 
continued  Ed's  history,  "where  you  played  nursemaid  to  a 
bilious  elephant  named  Abner/' 

"It  wasn't  an  dephant,  it  was  a  man.  His  name  wasn't 
Abner,  it  was  Dare-DevU  Foster — and  he  wasn't  bilious, 
be  was  a  high-diver  and  I  announced  him." 

That  left  Ed  gasping  for  breath ! 

"Well,  elephant  or  high-binder — I  mean  diver — they  got 
you  back  honie  again,"  Ralph  continued,  "and  somehow 
you  were  sixteen  and  you  enrolled  at  Indiana  University. 
During  school  you  were  an  ei^ne  wiper,  a  soda  clerk,  and, 
oh,  yes,  you  1«1  a  small  and  very  l»d  dance  band.  Then 
you  went  into  blackface  and  then  law,  then  blackface  once 
more,  and  then  law  again — right,  pal  ?" 

"Right,  pal — and  now  how  would  you  like  to  hear  your 
life  story,  pal  ?"  There  was  more  than  a  hint  of  malice  in 
Ed's  tone.  He  didn't  wait  for  an  answer.  "You  were 
bom,  I  don't  know  why,  in  South  Bend,  Indiana,  in  1899. 
You  weren't  of  much  importance  to  the  world  when  your 
school  put  on  The  Mikado  and  vou  played  'Nanki  Poo,' 
and  you  weren't  »nuch  mor^  after  Uiatl  Then  you  ran 
away,  same's  I  did,  didn't  you  ?  You  stole  a  steam-roller. 


By   WILLIAM    L  YALLEE 


wasn't  that  it?" 

"I  ran  away  because  my  banjo  art  ^demanded  expres- 
sion," answered  Ralph,  witii  some  heat,  "and  not  because 
I  swiped  a  steam-roller.   I  weirt  into  vaudeville,  mister!" 

"Yeah,  and  you  wanted  your  (oiks  to  think  that  you 
were  selling  insurance,  so  you  wrote  IxHne  on  borrowed 
insinance  stationery." 

"Would  you  want  to  stay  home  and  design  plows,Just 
because  your  father  had,  before  you,  for  fortj*  years  ?  de- 
manded Ralph. 

Ed  was  nonplused.  He  did  the  first  thing  that  came  to 
mind — he  fell  to  eatii^. 

It  developed,  however,  that  Ralph  returned  home  and 
entered  Notre  Dame  University,  akmg  with  Charlie  But- 
terworth  and  Walter  OlCeefe. 

The  waiter  brou^t  on  another  course  and  for  several 
minutes  silence,  as  the  cliche  has  it,  reigned  supreme. 

When  everything  but  the  design  was  eaten  from  the 
plates  it  came  out  that  Ralph  and  Chariic  Butter  worth 
worked  in  the  same  clothing  shop  while  at  school,  Charlie 
selling  boys'  wear,  and  R^ph,  naberdashery.  It  was  a 
strongly-worded  hint  of  t3ie  manager's  that  aided  them 
in  tl^ir  decision  to  forego  commerce  and  to  try  their 
luck  t<^her  on  the  local  stages. 

One  of  their  "angels"  at  this  time  was  the  late  Kmite 
Rockne.  It  appears  that  the  gentry  in  and  about  South 
Bend  had  a  very  low  regard  for  the  Notre  Dame  boys  and 
even  less  for  the  athletes — so  Knute  considered  the  pair 
good-will  ambassadors,  tQ  the  extent  of  a  r^;ular  five-dol- 
lar bill  from  his  own  pocket  to  (Continued  on  page  76  ) 


ujomen  ujhht  to  bo 


The  candid  camera 
gives  us  various 
glimpses  of  Olga, 
Countess  Albani, 
as  she  rehearsed 
recently  for  the 
Ford  Sunday  night 
Universal  Rhythm 
program.  Countess 
Albani,  a  native 
daughter  of  Spain, 
came  to  America 
to  pursue  her  ca- 
reer as  a  singer. 
She  really  has  a 
double  career,  for 
she  is  wife  and 
mother  and  home- 
maker,  as  well  OS 
opera,  concert  and 
radio  singing  star. 
Career  women,  she 
thinks,  give  even 
more  attention  to 
their  homes  than 
does  the  stay-at- 
home  wife,  and  win 
far  richer  reward. 


The  only  really  free  person, 
says  Olga,  Countess  Albani, 
is  the  one  whom  nobody  wants! 


BY  ELIZABETH  BENNECHE  PETERSEN 


"WHEN  a  woman  sets  out  to  make  a  career,  she  thinks 
she's  mapping  out  a  job  for  herself.  But  she's  wrong!  She's 
taking  on  two  jobs,  and  she  might  as  well  know  it  from 
the  very  beginning." 

The  Countess  Albani  smiled.  Looking  at  her,  you  found 
it  hard  to  believe  her  a  career  woman.  P'or  all  the  intelli- 
gence of  her  wide  forehead,  the  humor  in  her  brown  eyes, 
the  aliveness  of  her  voice,  she  doesn't  look  like  a  woman 
who's  made  her  own  way  in  the  world.  Here,  if  ever  there 
was  one,  is  a  man's  woman — so  feminine  she  looks,  with 
her  small,  slimly  rounded  figure  and  her  warm  skin  and 
thai  \  ital  something  that  shows  in  her  laugh  and  in  her 
talk  and  the  very  eagerness  with  which  she  looks  at  you. 

Only  a  happy  woman  can  look  like  that,  a  woman  who's 
proved  herself  to  herself  and  to  everyone  important  to 
her.  Maybe  it's  that  sense  of  happiness  and  of  complete 
fulfillment  that  denies  her  the  look  of  the  career  she's 
worked  for  so  hard. 

For,  in  her,  there's  none  of  that  restlessness  you  see  in 
so  many  successful  and  near-successful  women.  None  of 
that  feverishness  of  voice  or  searching  of  eyes  you  see  in 
so  many  women  who  have  gained  the  success  they  thought 
they  wanted. 

But  then,  you  see.  Olga  Albani  is  smarter  than  most 
women ! 

She  knew  what  she  wanted,  from  the  beginning,  and 
she  never  lost  sight  of  all  the  values. 

"Funny  thing  about  women."  she  looked  taller  somehow, 
sitting  so  straight  in  the  high-backed  chair,  "they  can  give 
up  their  lives  to  independence,  to  the  hard  grueling  work 
that  goes  into  the  making  of  a  career ;  they  can  give  uj) 
parties  and  fun  and.  sometimes,  even  love — only  to  dis- 
ct)\  er.  in  the  end.  that  the  thing  they  want  above  everything 
else  in  the  world  is  the  thing  they've  been  running  away 
from. 

"For  women  want  to  be  dependent.  They  want  to  be 
tied  down !  Yes,  for  all  their  brittle  tongues,  they  want 
the  .same  things,  in  their  hearts,  that  their  stay-at-home 
sisters  want,  a  husband,  a  home  and  children. 

"They  prove  it  over  and  over  again.  l{  they're  living 
in  a  hotel,  or  a  furnished  room,  they're  forever  buying 
things  of  their  own  to  put  around  it.  Curtains  or  candle- 
sticks, or  bookshelves,  things  that  take  the  very  edge  off 
their  independence,  little  things  to  tie  themselves  down  to. 
And.  as  soon  as  they  can  afford  it,  they  usually  move  into 
an  apartment  of  their  own  and  cheerfully  rise  an  hour 
earlier  to  put  it  in  order,  and  stop  on  the  way  home  to  buy 
things  for  dinner,  when  they  could  just  as  well  be  waited 
on  in  a  favorite  restaurant. 

"Thev  talk  about  being  free,  and  yet,  all  the  time,  thev're 
tying  themselves  down  more  and  more.  Sometimes  it's  a 
(log.  or  a  cat.  or  a  canary,  that  holds  to  earth  tho.se  fine, 
brave  wings  they've  won  for  themselves.  Sometimes  it's 
only  a  geranium  that  makes  them  refuse  week-end  invita- 
tions and  stay  in  town  over  Sunday  to  see  it's  watered  and 
taken  care  of.  Women  really  are  funny  that  way ! 

"The  woman  who  never  has  wanted  a  career  beyond  the 
care  of  her  home  and  family  is,  in  a  sense,  the  hap])iest. 
For  she  hasn't  known  what  {Continued  on  page  S6) 

31 


Dick  flirts  with  his  horse,  "Smoky. 


'What  do  you  want  me  to  sing?' 


in  H  CHinR  SHOP 


"I  AM  a  cowboy  actor,  making  Westerns,"  said  Dick 
Foran.  "ami  I  want  to  remain  a  cowboy  actor  making 
Westerns.  Yep.  forever !  They  are  talking,  here  at  the 
studio,  of  'promoting'  me.  taking  me  out  of  Westerns, 
putting  me  into  musicals,  dramas,  and  so  on.  I  don't  call 
it  promotion !  I  hate  the  idea !  I  want  to  remain  a  cowboy. 
I  want  to  work  with  horses,  not  with  'glamour'  girls.  I 
want  to  wf)rk  out  of  doors,  on  the  ranges,  on  the  trails, 
not  on  stuffy,  suffocating  sound  stages  with  overstuffed 
furniture.  I  want  to  shout  and  yell  and  be  ntjisy — the 
'vip-ec'  kind  of  thing!  1  can  be  as  noisy  and  boisterous  as 
1  like,  out  of  doors.  And  as  awkward  and  rough.  I  like  to 
sing  cowboy  songs  on  the  air.  I'm  no  good  indoors.  Don't 
belong.  Don't  know  what  tt)  do  with  myself.  I  can't  make 
professional  love,  polite  or  imi)olite.  I  hate  to  wear  Bond 
Streetish  clothes,  with  a  gardenia  in  my  buttonhole!  A 
handful  of  sagebrush  behind  the  ear  goes  better  with  the 
Foran  face!  I  have  no  illusions  about  the  way  I  look.  Fm 
no  Gable  or  Taylor.  I  can't  dance.  I  can't  slick  my  hair 
and  give  'em  this  uli-ult ! 


"I  want  to  keep  on  working  in  Westerns,  because  I  like 
the  fellows  I  work  with.  That's  the  real  reason.  They're 
swell  as  they  come,  all  of  them  I  1  have  fifteen  champions 
working  with  me,  most  of  the  time — bull-doggers  ( mean- 
ing steer  wrestlers),  broncho  riders,  bareback  broncho 
riders,  calf  ropers,  buck  ropers,  all  of  them.  Fd  hate  like 
hell  to  work  without  them.  I'm  at  home  with  them.  I  have 
fun  with  them.  I  speak  their  language.  I  admire  and  respect 
them  and  Fve  got  to  admire  and  respect  the  people  1  work 
with,  to  be  happy.  And  as  for  the  money — and  that's  what 
Fm  after — well,  Tom  Mix.  Bill  Hart.  Buck  Jones,  Gene 
Antry  and  about  twenty  others  have  done  and  are  doing  all 
right  for  themselves.  Their  pictures  are  making  the  monev. 
.So  are  Dick's.  Bailing  in  the  fan  mail.  .  .  .  They're  tof>s\ 

"I'd  like  to  keep  on  doing  Westerns  for  the  rest  of  my 
life.  But,  if  the  studio  takes  me  out  of  them,  that's  that.  I 
know  better  than  to  buck  a  corporation,  fight  a  lone  hand 
against  an  organization.  It  can't  be  done. 

■'There's  some  talk  now  that  I  may  play  the  Red  Shado^i.-. 
in  The  Desert  So}ig.  That's  okay.  (Continued  on  page  84) 


Warner  Brothers  made  Dick  a  s+a 


want  horses,  not  glamour  girls! 


ISITT  THIS 

H  Pine 
RoniHnce! 

BY    MILDRED  MASTIN 


WHEN  Dell  Sharbutt  first  glared  at 
Meri  Bell,  and  she  stared  back  coolly, 
the  best  fortune  teller  in  Manhattan 
couldn't  have  convinced  either  of 
them  that  love  was  about  to  bloom ! 

That  was  a  little  over  two  years 
ago — before  Meri  Bell's  velvety  voice 
had  scored  a  hit  on  the  Five  Star 
Revue,  and  when  Dell  was  just  be- 
ginning to  make  a  name  for  himself 
in  radio,  as  an  ace  announcer. 

It  was  a  nice,  quiet,  sunny  after- 
noon. Dell  had  finished  up  for  the 
day  and  was  walking  down  Sixth 
Avenue  toward  home,  happy  and  con- 
tented and  not  expecting  anything  to 
happen.  Then,  all  of  a  sudden,  he 
spotted  an  old  pal  of  his,  from  down 
home  in  Texas — a  fellow  named  Hal. 
And  Dell,  far  from  home  and  lone- 
some, was  tickled  pink  to  see  him. 
Sixth  Avenue  never  witnessed  a 
gladder  reunion. 

Dell  asked  Hal  to  come  on  up  to 
his  apartment.  Hal  pointed,  and  said : 
"C'n  I  bring  her  along?"'  Then  Dell 
noticed  the  girl !  He  looked  at  her 
and  scowled.  The  girl  scowled  back. 
She  was  tall  and  lanky  and  yellow- 
haired. 

"Yes,"  said  Dell,  with  a  what-else- 
can-7ve-do  air.  "She  can  come,  too." 
So  Meri  Bell  tagged  along. 

Neither  of  them  knew  it,  but 
nothing  short  of  a  cataclysm  of  nature 
could  have  shaken  Meri  Bell  loose 
from  them.  Because — Meri  Bell  was 
hungry!  She  had  come  to  New  York, 
just  the  day  before,  to  seek  her  for- 
tune and  a  job.  She  had  come  with 
exactly  seven  and  a  half  dollars.  Five 
36 


dollars  she  had 
spent  getting  her 
hair  fixed.  (How 
can  a  girl  get  any- 
where if  her  hair 
looks  stringy?) 
Two  of  it  had  gone 
for  her  room  at  the 
hotel.  (There'd  be  two 
more    due    tomorrow ! ) 
She  had  spent  a  quarter 
for  food,  and  had  twenty- 
five  cents  left.  (Those  fel- 
lows wouldn't  get  rid  of  Meri 
Bell — not  till  she  was  fed!) 

Dell    Sharbutt   was  pretty 
proud  of  his  apartment.  It  was 
different.  For  one  thing,  he  had 
ruby  red  and  cobalt  blue  light 
bulbs  in  the  fixtures.  He  pressed  a 
light  button,  flooding  the  room  with 
a  soft,  deep  glow. 

"Ah."  said  Meri  Bell  witheringly. 
"The  oriental  influence !  You  must 
know  a  Turkish  dancing  girl !" 

But  the  men  ignored  this.  They  pulled 
up  two  big  comfortable  chairs,  lighted 
their  pipes,  and  were  deep  in  happy, 
nostalgic  conversation,  leaving  Meri  Bell  to 
think. 

After  a  while  Meri  Bell  suggested:  "Let's 
play  a  game- — "  But  nobody  heard  her.  Any- 
how, thought  Meri,  you  couldn't  see  the  spots 
on  the  cards  in  this  dump — it's  so  dark!  The 
lights  were  giving  her  the  whim-ivhams !  A  few 
minutes  later  she  rose,  told  the  men  she'd  be 
back,  and  walked  down  the  stairs,  out  into  the 
bright  sunshine  of  the  street.  After  all,  a  quarter 
won't  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door  long  enough  to 
matter !  When  she  came  back,  she  held  carefully  in 
her  hand  a  sixty-watt  bulb. 


Meri  Bell  and  Dell  Sharbutt  hated  each  other! 
So  they  married  and  lived  happily  ever  after! 


roday  Meri  Bell  admits:  "I  have  never 
heard  Dell  squawk  the  way  he  did  that 
afternoon,  when  I  came  back  and  took 
out  a  cobalt  blue  light  bulb,  substituting 
a  nice,  bright,  sixtv-watter !" 
And  Dell  defends  himself:  "Well,  I 
didn't  want  her  up  there  in  the  first 
place!  And  there  she  was — just  like 
a  dame — changing  my  apartment 
around,  when  she  hadn't  been  in 
it  ten  minutes !" 

"Let's  play  a  game,"  Meri  Bell 
suggested  again.  She  said  it 
every  fifteen  minutes.  Finally 
the  men  told  her  that,  if  she'd 
be  good  and  quiet,  so  they 
could  talk,  they'd  take  her 
out  to  dinner  soon,  and, 
after  dinner,  they'd  buy 
her  another  sixty-watt 
bulb — and  she  could  put 
it  in  any  lamp  she 
wished,  and  they'd  all 
play  a  game.  So  Meri 
Bell,  being  reason- 
able and  patient, 
curled  up  and 
snoozed  till 
dinner  time. 
After  dinner, 
when  they 
asked  her 
what  she 
wanted  to 
play,  Meri 


Bell  .said:  "1  don't  know  any  game, 
except  one,  a  little  bit — that's  Russian 
Bank."  So  they  played  Russian  Bank. 
When  the  game  started,  Meri  Bell 
said :  "I  don't  know  how  to  play  it 
free.  I  learned  to  play  it  with  money." 
So  they  played  for  money. 

At  the  end  of  the  evening,  Meri 
Bell  had  enough  cash  to  pay  her  room 
rent  and  eat  frugally  for  three  more 
days.  The  boys  laughed  at  "beginner's 
luck"  and  took  Meri  Bell  home. 

A  few  days  later  Dell  called  Meri 
Bell  and  asked  her  to  go  out  to  dinner. 
He  didn't  know  exactly  why  he  called 
her.  Maybe  putting  the  cobalt  blue 
light  bulbs  in  again  had  reminded  him 
of  her.  He  suggested  taking  her  to  a 
theatre,  but  Meri  Bell  didn't  want  to 
see  a  show — she  wanted  to  play 
Russian  Bank. 

For  the  next  three  weeks  Meri  Bell 
played  Russian  Bank  with  Dell  Shar- 
butt every  chance  she  got,  and  man- 
aged to  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door. 
She  was  too  proud  to  tell  him  that 
she  was  broke.  He  never  knew,  until 
after  they  were  married,  that  she  had 
been  living  oflF  these  slim  winnings — 
chicken  feed  to  him — and  that  if  she 
had  lost  a  game,  she  couldn't  have 
paid  off ! 

Mr.  Sharbutt  still  thought  that 
Meri  Bell  was  just  a  lanky,  yellow- 
haired    (Continued    on    page  71) 


You  could  search  New  York 
with  spotlight  and  spy- 
glass and  never  find  a 
happier  couple  than  radio 
announcer  Dell  Sharbutt 
and  CBS  singer  Meri  Bell. 


GRHUGL  UOICG 


SOME  years  ago,  when  Andy  Devine  was  no  bigger  than 
this,  he  fell  on  his  face  in  a  gravel  pit — or  so  the  story 
goes.  What  that  gravel  did  to  his  face  is  common  knowl- 
edge. The  man  on  the  street  can  tell  you  that  Andy  isn't 
beautiful.  Chances  are  he'd  never  have  grown  up  to  look 
like  even  a  distant  relative  of  Robert  Taylor,  anyway,  so 
perhaps  the  gravel  ])it  incident  never  really  did  make  anv 
startling  change  in  Andy's  personal  jnilchritude.  But  it 
had  a  lot  to  do  with  his  voice,  according  to  the  legend.  It 
seems  .Andy  talked  a  lot  as  a  kid,  so  it  was  only  natural 
that  his  mouth  was  open  when  he  tell  into  the  pit.  What 
he  got.  besides  the  possible  changes  in  his  facial  contour, 
was  a  mouthful  of  gravel. 

To  this  day  Andy  swears  he's  still  carrying  that  gravel 
around,  and  that's  whv  his  voice  sounds  like  someone 
sandpa])ering  a  rock.  (  )r  Poiiahl  Duck  with  a  sore  tliroat. 
Vou  might  not  like  to  own  it  yourself,  l)ut  to  And\-  it's  the 
secret  of  his  success  on  the  air,  and  the  reason  he's  still 
looked  upon  with  favor  by  his  employers  out  at  Universal 
Studios.  And  that's  why  he  regards  that  dive  into  the 
gravel  pit  as  the  luckiest  moment  of  his  life,  even  though 
it  took  radio  some  twenty-five  years  to  get  wind  of  it. 

"Evidently,"  I  said,  after  Andy  finished  his  story  and 
woke  me  up.  "you  arose  from  that  gravel  pit  a  new  man, 
with  visions  of  a  radio  and  picture  career  vour  ultimate 
goal" 


"Well,  no."  said  Andy.  "At  the  time,  I  figured  that,  if 
everything  went  well,  I'd  eventually  get  to  be  a  cowboy. 
I  was  in  Arizona  at  the  time,  and  in  Arizona,  when  you 
grow  up.  you're  either  a  cowboy  or  just  passing  through." 

The  reason  Andy  was  in  Arizona  at  the  time  was  that 
a  few  years  prior  to  the  incident — in  1905,  to  be  exact — 
he  honored  FlagstaflF.  Arizona,  by  choosing  it  for  his 
birthplace.  His  father  and  mother  called  him  Andrew  and 
told  liim  that  if  he  wanted  to  be  a  cowboy  he  could  go 
ahead  and  i)e  one.  But  they  didn't  offer  to  buy  him  any 
cows — and  without  cows,  a  cowboy  looks  ])retty  silly  I 

"1  think  my  family  had  ideas."  said  Andy.  "1  mean, 
they  .sent  me  to  school.  Dad  moved  to  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  went  into  the  hotel  business,  so  I  took  a  whack  at 
education,  and  vice  versa.  It  didn't  seem  to  take,  even 
though  1  was  what  you  might  call  a  four-letter  man  at 
school." 

"iMshing.  boating,  bathing  and  football?" 

"i\'ot  quite,  althougii  1  did  play  football.  You  see,  I 
went  to  four  schools,  and  I  got  a  letter  from  each  of  them 
— a  letter  suggesting  that  maybe  I  was  in  the  wrong  field 
of  endeavor." 

Andv's  list  of  schools  sounds  like  a  stock  company's 
road  show  schedule.  He  started  off  at  Harvard,  and — he 
always  pauses  a  moment  before  he  adds  :  Military  Academy 
in  Los  .-Xngeles.  From  there  he  {Continued  on  paqe  70) 


y 


Here's  Andy,  who  rode  to  radio  fame  with 
that  hard-riding  hombre,  Buck  Benny,  of  the 
Sunday  night  Jell-0  program.  Andy  works 
six  days  a  week  in  the  moom  pitchers,  too. 


Andy  Devine  (center)  with  Slim  Summerville 
(left),  and  Larry  Blake.  Maurice  Murphy  (be- 
hind Slim),  Noah  Beery,  Jr.,  and  Henry  Hunter, 
as  they  appeared  in  Universal's  The  Road  Back. 


nnov 

By    LEO  TOWNSEND 

Andy  Devine,  who 
sounds  like  Donald  Duck 
with  a  sore  throat,  re- 
gards a  fall  into  a  gravel 
pit  his  luckiest  moment 


1+  took  radio  a 
long  time  to  dis- 
cover Andy,  but 
the  gravel  voice 
pays  dividends 
now,  both  on  the 
air  and  in  the 
movies.  He  first 
appeared  on  Bing 
Crosby's  program. 


(nHRRiHGG  mHDG 

H  DiPFGRence 

Success  has  no  point  but  to  do  things 
for  those  you  love,  says  Walter  Cassel 


1 


BY  MIRIAM 
ROGERS 


Mary  Martha  Cassel, 
ogea  six  whole  months, 
refuses  to  be  cajoled 
by  Mother  and  Daddy 
and  the  cameraman!  She 
just  naturally  hates 
publicity  photographs! 


CoimI  hot  mode 
Lady  Lwck  and 
GoUnDawH  for 
\^oni#f  Bfoth#ft« 


IF  you  see  a  fellow  ahead  of  the  crowd,  successful  and 
prominent  in  whatever  line,  aren't  you  inclined  to  say : 
"Lucky  guy!"  or  words  to  that  effect?  And  not  stop  to 
ask  by  what  painful  route,  by  what  sacrifices,  by  what 
grit  and  determination  he  has  reached  that  point  ? 

It  is  human  to  assume  that  our  favorite  stars  of  screen 
and  stage  and  radio  are  lucky,  born  with  silver,  if  not 
golden,  spoons  in  their  mouths.  But  facts  seldom  l)ear 
out  our  casual  assumption. 

To  Walter  Cassel,  whose  glorious  voice  has  but  recently 
won  for  him  an  enviable  position,  rich  with  promise  as 
well  as  with  the  first  sweet  fruits  of  achievement,  the 
struggle  is  still  too  close  to  be  taken  lightly,  to  be  forgotten. 
Not  that  he  is  the  least  bitter  about  it — just  that  it  makes 
for  a  deeper  appreciation  and  enjoyment  of  what  he  now 
has  and  what  he  hopes  to  have  in  the  future. 

"I  am  not  sorry  for  any  of  it,"  he  said  heartily.  "It 
was  all  good  experience — even  wiping  engines  so  that  I 
could  go  with  the  Union  Pacific  band." 

For  Walter's  first  efforts  toward  fame  were  confined 


to  trumpeting  with  high  school 
and  other  bands. 

A   Council   Bluffs,    Iowa,  boy, 
Walter  was  brought  up  chiefly  by 
a  doting  aunt  and  uncle.  His  father 
died  when  he  was  a  baby  and,  when 
he  was  about  three,  his  mother  mar- 
ried again.    Though  the  family  was 
not  particularly  well-to-do,  they  saw 
to  it  that  Walter  never  lacked  for  any- 
thing he  needed  or  wanted. 
In  those  days  he  took  everything  pretty 
^  much  for  granted,  had  no  particular  am- 

F  bition   or   urge   to   accomplishment.  He 

learned  to  play  the  trumpet,  because  his  aunt 
wanted  him  to,  and  he  had  a  good  time  traips- 
ing around  with  the  local  bands,  but  it  was  not 
until  he  went  to  college  that  life  was  given  a 
more  serious  turn. 

The  turning  point  for  him  was,  quite  simply,  meeting 
girl — a  pretty,  sweet  and  ambitious  youngster,  who 
was  studying  voice  and  had  bright  particular  dreams 
of  her  own.  But  from  the  time  she  met  Walter,  her 
dreams  centered  about  his  blond  head,  as,  in  turn,  she 
gave  new  meaning  to  life  for  him.  With  that  brave 
impatience  that  has  urged  him  on  and  on,  he  prevailed 
upon  Nadine  Blackburn  to  elope,  and  after  marriage  and 
the  brief  ecstasy  of  a  one-night  honeymoon  in  a  little 
hotel  in  Logan,  Iowa,  life  began  in  earnest. 

Parental  wrath  had  to  be  faced,  they  had  to  prove 
they  knew  what  they  were  doing,  were  able  to  cope  with 
everyday  problems  and  new  responsibilities.  For  Walter, 
all  doubts  were  resolved.  He  had  Nadine  to  work  for 
now ;  he  had  to  succeed,  to  amount  to  something. 

Having  a  natural  gift  for  drawing,  Walter  turned  first 
to  sign  painting  and  lettering.  Later,  he  studied  type- 
writing and  secured  an  office  job  in  a  local  flour  milling 
business.  But  Nadine  was  not  satisfied.  She  was  de- 
termined that  he  should  do  something  with  his  voice. 
Walter  felt  uncertain,  not  sure  the  voice  was  worth  the 
obvious  sacrifices,  inevitable  if  he  were  to  embark  upon 
that  precarious  career.  But  he  turned  tentatively  to  radio, 
played  his  trumpet  with  a  dance  band  three  nights  a  week, 
was  soloist  in  church  on  Sundays  and  presently  had  an 
evening  commercial,  which,  in  some  measure,  increased 
his  self-assurance. 

A  lot  has  been  written  linking  Walter's  name  with 
Lawrence  Tibbett's.  It  has  been  natural  enough,  partly 
because  Walter  bears  a  certain  superficial  facial  resem- 
l)lance  to  his  idol  and  friend,  partly  because  his  rich 
baritone  is  shown  to  best  advantage  in  the  type  of  songs 
Tibbett  sings,  and  partly  because  the  final  impetus  to  his 
choice  of  a  career  was  given  Walter  by  an  actual  contact 
with  the  famous  singer.  {Continued  on  page 

41 


IS  PHTenGflinsTmG? 

Whenever  opportunity  beckons  her,  Mary  Eastman  must  turn  away! 


SOMETHING  always  seems  to  happen  to  Mary  East- 
man, at  the  crucial  moment,  to  prevent  her  from  achiev- 
ing the  success  she  has  dreamed  of.  Mary  undoubtedly 
has  a  rare  voice,  one  of  the  really  distinguished  voices  in 
radio.  You  feel  it  when  you  hear  her  each  Friday  night 
over  XBC,  singing  with  Frank  Munn  in  Waltz  Time. 
You  thrill  to  it  each  Saturday  night  over  the  Columbia 
network.  But,  even  though  slie  has  the  success  these  pro- 
grams afford,  Mary  might  have  gone  much  farther  up 
the  ladder  of  luminaries  if  something  hadn't  happened 
each  time,  to  keep  her  from  taking  her  place  in  the  top 
rank  of  radio  stars. 

What  were  those  happenings? 

Is  fate  against  beautiful  Mary  Eastman? 

And  if  it  is.  what  is  she  going  to  do  about  it? 

"Things  always  have  happened  to  mc,  to  seem  to  pre- 
vent my  landing  at  the  top  of  a  singing  career,"  said  the 
girl  with  the  hazel  eyes,  the  perfect  features  and  the 
sunny  smile.  "Don't  misunderstand  me.  I'm  not  whin- 
ing. It's  just  an  amusing  fact  that  something  always  has 
happened,  just  as  I  seemed  all  set  for  real  success.  This 
began  in  my  earliest  childhood.  I  was  born  in  Kansas 
City,  of  a  musical  family.  My  mother  played  and  sang, 
and  my  sisters  and  brothers  all  were  musical.  1.  myself, 
could  j)lay  the  piano,  without  having  had  a  lesson,  when 


I  was  seven  years  old.  But  I  always  wanted  to  sing. 
That  was  my  special  dream.  Accordingly,  it  was  planned 
that  I  should  have  vocal  lessons  as  soon  as  I  was  old 
enough.  But  when  that  time  came,  the  first  thing  hap- 
pened to  sto])  me,"  Mary  explained.  "The  family  for- 
tunes wouldn't  permit  my  taking  these  lessons.  Well,  in 
time.  I  got  over  that  first  hurdle.  My  uncle,  my  mother's 
brother.  apj)eared  from  South  America.  He  was  alxDut 
to  make  his  home  in  Chicago,  and  he  offered  to  take  me 
along  and  give  me  the  advantages  of  a  musical  education. 
The  long  and  short  of  it  was  that  I  went. 

"My  real  name  was  Mary  Hewitt,"  she  told  me.  "But 
when  I  went  to  live  with  my  uncle.  I  took  his  name  and 
became  known  as  Mary  Tippett.  At  his  request.  I  called 
my  uncle  'Father.'  In  fact,  hardly  anyone  knows  to  this 
day  that  he's  not  my  real  father,"  Mary  continued.  Years 
later,  before  Mary  Hewitt-Tippett  had  become  Mary 
Eastman,  and  while  she  still  was  using  her  uncle's  name, 
she  appeared  as  a  guest  artist  on  a  program  with  Law- 
rence Tibbett.  Mary  told  me  that  Tibbett  twitted  her 
al>out  the  similarity  of  their  names. 

Mary  studied  hard  at  her  singing  lessons,  and  her 
lessons  in  harmony  and  counterpoint,  at  the  Chicago 
Musical  College.  When  they  had  a  contest,  she  won  tin- 
second  prize.    She  secretly      {Continued  on  page  78) 


Mary  Eastman,  of 
the  lovely  voice, 
heard  over  CBS 
and  NBC  networks, 
d  reanns  secretly 
of  greater  fanne. 


BY  HARRIET 
MENKEN 


4^ 

I 


SwimmiiK^  is  the  favorite  sport 
of  this  vivid  Park  Avenue  matron 

aboard  S.S.  Conte  di  Save i a 


YOUNG  Mrs.  Hainmoiul,  daii-liter-in-la 
sador  to  Spain,  is  an  international  liiiiir 
She  was  educated  in  Rome.  Made  her  drhu 
extensively.  Mrs.  Hammond  is  an  enthusiast 
As  she  herself  remarked,  when  photo^rapl 


of  tiie  former  Amhas- 
in  tilt-  world  of  society, 
in  New  York.  Traveled 
•  traveler  and  swimmer. 
"(1  (ripht)  at  the  Conte 


di  Savoia  pool:  "I'm  on  hoard  my  favorite  liner:  I'm  enjoying  my 
favorite  sport;  I'm  smokinj;  my  favorite  cigarette  —  a  Camel!  So 
I'm  happy.  Camel's  delicate  flavor  always  tastes  good,  but  espe- 
cially so  after  a  swm.  Camels  give  m    energy  a  cheering  lift!" 


These  distinguished  women 

also  prefer 
CameVs  mild,  delicate  taste: 

MISS  Ji.)AN  BKLMONT,  .\>„.  y„rk 
MK>.  Mi:HiH,AS  Blimi  i:.  PlnlaMpUa 
MHS.  PdWKLLCAHCi  r.  lU.ston 
MliS.  I  HOM AS  M.  CAKMCIL,  Jli..  \,-n  Yn,k 

MUS.  J.  (GARDNER  CddlJlKiL  Jr,n.  l:...,.m 
MRS.  AN  rill  IN  V  J.  llRl,\l:i.  M.\.  l'h,i„Jrl,,hia 
MRS.  CHISW  KLI,  DAIiNEY  I„\N( '.I  IclRNE,  lirpinia 
\IR>.  J  \M'I:R  MIlRl.AN,  V,.„  York 
MRS.  NICIIl  II  \^  i;.  PKNNIM  \N  III.  Hnlnm,„e 
MRS.  milN  W.  Rdi  Kl  I  I  n  I  l;.  JR..  A,-,.  York 
MRS.  HI  I  I  S  I'MNE  .-r.M.DlNC  111.  I'as.uiena 
MRS.  LOL  IS  SWUT,  JR..  Chicago 


Good  digestion  at  sea  too!  Clear-skinned,  radiant,  Mrs.  Ogden  Hammond 
is  a  vision  of  charm  and  well-being.  "Camels  certainly  help  digestion,"  she 
says,  adding,  "I've  smoked  Camels  for  six  years,  and  they  never  get  on 
my  nerves."  Throughout  the  dining  rooms  of  the  Conte  di  Savoia,  Camels 
are  much  in  evidence.  Smoking  Camels  speeds  the  natural  flow  of  digestive 
fluids  —  alkaline  digestive  fluids  —  so  indispensable  to  mealtime  comfort ! 


COSTLIER  TOBACCOS -Camels  are  male 
from  finer,MORE  EXPENSIVE  TOBACCOS... 
Turkish  and  Domestic ...  than  any  other  ])opular  brand 


Tommy  Dorsey, 
CBS  orchestra 
leader,  whose 
band  plays  thai- 
hot  swing  music, 
spends  all  his 
spare  time  in 
a  placid  rural 
existence  on  his 
New  Jersey  farm. 


Meet  the  Dorsey  fam- 
ily — Mrs.  Tommy, 
who  is  called  "Toots," 
Tommy,  young  Thomas 
Francis  3rd,  aged  six, 
known  as  "Skipper," 
and  Patsy  Marie,  who 
is  eleven.  They  all 
are  listening  to  a 
recording  of  one  of 
Tommy's  Raleigh  and 
K  oo I  Broadcasts. 


RADIO  STARS 


Coasi-t<^-Coasi 

PROGRAM  GUIDE 


THE  regular  programs  on 
'  the  four  coast-to-coast 
networks  are  here  listed  in 
a  day-by-day  time  schedule. 
The  National  Broadcasting 
Company  Red  Network  is 
indicated  by  NBC-Rcd;  the 
National  Broadcasting 
Company  Blue  Network  is 
indicated  by  XBC-Bliie; 
the  Columbia  Broadcasting 
System  by  CBS  and 
Nlutual  Broadcasting  Sys- 
tem by  MBS. 

All  stations  included  in 
the  above  networks  are 
listed  below.  Find  your 
local  station  on  the  list  and 
tune  in  on  the  network 
specified. 

ALL  TIME  RECORD- 
ED IS  EASTERN  DAY- 
LIGHT SAVING  TIME. 
This  means  that  for 
Eastern  Standard  and  Cen- 
tral Daylight  Time,  you 
must  subtract  one  hour. 
For  Mountain  Daylight 
and  Central  Standard  Time, 
subtract  two  hours.  For 
Pacific  Daylight  and 
Mountain  Standard  Time, 
subtract  three  hours.  And 
for  Pacific  Standard  Time, 
subtract  four  hours.  For 
example  :  11:00  a.  m. 
EDST  becomes  10:00  a.  m. 
EST  and  COST;  9:00 
A.M.  MOST  and  CST ; 
8:00  A.M.  POST  and 
MST;  7:00  a.m.  PST. 

If,  at  a  particular  time, 
no  network  program  is 
listed,  that  is  because  there 
is  no  regular  program  for 
that  time,  or  because  the 
preceding  program  c  o  n  - 
tinues  into  that  period. 
NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
RED  NETWORK 


WFBR 

WNAC 

WBEN 

WMAQ 

WSAI 

WTAM 

KOA 

WHO 

WWJ 

WTIC 

WIRE 

WDAF 

KFI 

KSTP 

WEAF 

WOW 

KYW 

WCAE 

WCSH 

KGW 

WJAR 

WNIBG 

KSD 


Balliinore,  Md. 
Boston.  Mass. 
Buffalo.  N.  Y. 
Chicago,  111 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cleveland.  Ohio 
Denver.  Colo. 
Des  Moines.  Iowa 
Detroit,  Mich 
Hartford,  Conn 
Indianapolis  Ind. 
Kansas  City,  .Mo. 
Los  .^nseles,  Cal 
Minneapolis — St  1 

Minn. 
New  York.  N  Y. 
Omaha,  Neb 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa 
Porfland,  Me 
Portland.  Ore. 
Providence.  R  I. 
Itichmond.  Va. 
t?t  Louis  .Mo 


KDYL  Salt  Lake  Citv,  Utab 

KPO  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

WGY  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

KOMO  Seattle.  Wash 

KHQ  Spokane.  Wash 

WRC  Washington,  D.  C. 

WDEL  Wilmington.  Del. 

WTAG  Worcester,  .Mass 

NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
BLUE  NETWORK 

WABY  Albany.  N  Y 
WBAL  Baltimore.  Md 
WBZ        Boston,  Mass 

Bridgeport,  Conn 
Buffalo,  N.  Y 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa 
Chicago.  Ill 
Chicago.  111. 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cleveland.  Ohio 
Denver,  Colo 
Des  .Moines,  Iowa 
Detroit,  Mich. 
Erie.  Pa. 
Ft  Wayne.  Ind. 
Kan.sas  City,  Kan; 
Lus  Angeles,  Cal. 
Minneapolis,  Minn.' 
New  Haven.  Conn. 
New  York  N  Y 
Ogden,  Utah 
Omaha.  Neb  -Council 

Bluffs  la 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Portland.  Ore 
Providence.  R  I. 
Richmond,  Va. 
Rochester.  N.  Y. 
St.  Louis.  Mo 
San  Dicgo,  Cal 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
Spokane,  Wash 
Springfield  Mass 
Svracuse,  N.  Y 
Toledo,  Ohio 
Washington.  U,  C. 

NBC-SUPPLEMENTARY 
STATIONS 

(May    be    on    either    RED  or 
BLU£  networks) 

,\lbuquerque,  N  .\t. 
Allentown.  Pa. 
Amarillo,  Tex, 
Asheville,  N.  C. 
Atlanta,  Ga. 
Bakersfield,  Cal. 
Billings  Mont 
Birmingham,  .-Via. 
Bismarck,  N  D. 
Butte,  Mont 
Charleston,  S  C. 
Charlotte.  N  Cj 
Chicago,  111 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Clearwater,  Fla 
Columbia,  S  C 
Columbus,  Ohio 
Dallas.  Tex 
Duluth,  Minn 
Evansville.  Ind 
Fargo,  N.  D. 
Ft   Wayne,  Ind 
Ft  Wo'rth  lex. 
Fresno.  Cal 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
Greenville.  S  C. 
Hot  Springs,  .^rk. 
Houston.  Tex. 
Jackson.  Miss 
Jacksonville,  Fla 
Jamestown.  N.  Y; 
Little  Rock.  Ark. 
Louisville.  Ky 
Madison.  Wis 
Manchester.  N.  H; 
Memphis,  I'enn 
Miami  Beach,  Fla. 
Milwaukee  Wi^ 


WICC 

WEBR 

WMT 

WENR 

WLS 

WCKY 

WGAR 

KVOD 

KSO 

WXYZ 

WLEU 

WOWO 

WREN 

KECA 

WTCN 

WICC 

WJZ 

KLO 

KOIL 

WFIL 

KDKA 

KEX 

WEAN 

WRTD 

WHAM 

KWK 

KFSD 

KGO 

KJR 

KGA 

WBZA 

WSYR 

WSPD 

WMAL 


KOB 

WSAN 

KGNC 

WWNC 

WSB 

KERN 

KGHL 

WAPI 

KFYR 

KGIR 

WCSC 

WSOC 

WCFL 

WLW 

WFLA 

WIS 

WCOL 

WFAA 

WEBC 

WGBF 

WDAY 

WGL 

WBAP 

KMJ 

WOOD 

WFBC 

KTHS 

KPRC 

WJDX 

WJAX 

WJTN 

KARK 

WAVE 

WIBA 

WFEA 

WMC 

WIOD 

WTMJ 


CFCF 

WSM 

WSMB 

WTAR 

WKY 

KTAR 

KGHF 

WPTF 

KFBK 

WSUN 

WOAI 

KTBS 

KSOO 

KGBX 

KWG 

WEBC 

WFLA 

WBOW 

CRCT 

KVOO 

KANS 

WORK 


Montreal,  Canada 
Nashville.  Tenn 
New  Orleans,  La 
Norfolk.  Va. 
Oklahoma  City,  Okla 
Phoenix.  Ariz 
Pueblo.  Colo 
Raleigh,  N  C 
Sacramento.  Cal 
St.  Petersburg,  Fla 
San  .Antonio,  Tex 
Shreveport  La 
Sioux  Falls  S  D 
Springfield.  Mo 
Stockton,  Cal 
Superior.  Wis 
Tampa.  Fla 
Terre  Haute.  Ind 
Toronto.  Canada 
Tulsa.  Okla 
Wichita  Kans 
York  Pa 


COLUMBIA  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 


WADC 

WOKO 

WGST 

WPG 

KNOW 

WCAO 

WLBZ 

WBRC 

WNBF 

WEEI 

WGR 

WKBW 

WCHS 

WBT 

WOOD 

WBBM 

WKRC 

WHK 

KVOR 

WBNS 

KRLD 

woe 

WHIO 

WJR 

KRNT 

KLZ 

WKBB 

WDNC 

WESG 

WMMN 

WTAQ 

WBIG 

KFBB 

WHP 

WDRC 

KTRH 

WFBM 

WMBR 

KMBC 

WNOX 

WKBH 

KFAB 

KLRA 

KNX 

WHAS 

WMAZ 

WREC 

WCOC 

WQAM 

WALA 

WISN 

WCCO 

KGVO 

WSFA 

CKAC 

WLAC 

WWL 

WABC 

KOMA 

WDBO 

WPAR 

WCOA 

WMBD 

WCAU 

KOY 

WJAS 

KOIN 


Akron,  Ohio 
Albany,  N  Y 
Atlanta.  Ga. 
Atlantic  City,  N  J 
Austin.  Tex 
Baltimore,  ,Md 
Bangor,  Me 
Birmingham,  .Ala 
Binghamton.  N  Y. 
Boston,  Mass- 
Buffalo,  N  Y 
Buffalo,  N  Y, 
Charleston,  W.  Va 
Charlotte,  N  C 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 
Chicago  III 
Cincinnati  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Colorado  Springs. Coli 
Columbus.  Ohio 
Dallas  Tex 
Davenport.  Iowa 
Dayton.  Ohio 
Detroit.  Mich 
Des  Moines.  Iowa 
Denver.  Colo 
Dubuque,  Iowa 
Durham,  N,  C. 
Elma-lthaca,  N  Y, 
Fairmont.  W,  Va. 
Green  Bay.  W  is. 
Greensboro.  N.  C. 
Great  Falls.  Mont. 
Harrisburg.  Pa 
Hartford.  Conn 
Houston.  Tex 
Indianapolis  Ind 
Jacksonville,  Fla, 
Kansas  City,  ,Mo. 
Knoxville,  Tenn, 
La  Crosse,  Wis 
Lincoln,  Neb 
Little  Rock.  Ark. 
Los  .Angeles,  Cal 
Louisville,  Ky. 
Macon.  Ga, 
Memphis,  lenn. 
Meridian,  .Miss. 
Miami,  Fla 
Mobile,  Ala 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Minneapolis.  Minn. 
Missoula  Mont 
Montgomery.  .Ala. 
Montreal,  Canada 
Nashville,  Tenn 
New  Orleans,  l.a 
New  York.  N  Y 
Oklahoma  City  Okla 
Orlando.  Fla 
Parkersburg.  W  Va. 
Pensacola,  Fla 
Peoria,  111 
Philadelphia  Pa. 
Phoenix.  Ariz 
Pittsb.irs-'h  Pa 
I'orilai.ct  Ore 


WPRO 

KOH 

WDBJ 

WHEC 

KMOX 

WCCO 

KSL 

KTSA 

KSFO 

WTOC 

WGBI 

KOL 

KWKH 

KSCJ 

WSBT 

KFPY 

WMAS 

WFBL 

KVI 

WDAE 

WIBW 

CFRB 

KTUL 

WIBX 

WACO 

WJSV 

WJNO 

WWVA 

KFH 

WSJS 

KGKO 

WORC 

WNAX 

WKBN 


Providence.  R  1; 
Reno,  Nev. 
Roanoke.  Va.. 
Rochester.  N  Y. 
St.  Louis.  Mo. 
St.  Paul.  Minn. 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 
San  .Antonio,  Tex 
San  Francisco.  Cal 
Savannah.  Ga 
Scranton.  Pa 
Seattle.  Wash, 
Shreveport,  La. 
Sioux  City,  Iowa 
South  Bend  Ind 
Spokane,  Wash 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Syracuse.  N.  Y. 
Tacoma,  Wash, 
Tampa.  Fla 
Topeka,  Kans 
Toronto,  Canada 
Tulsa.  Okla 
Utica.  N.  Y 
Waco,  Tex 
Washington.  D,  C. 
W   Palm  Beach  Fla 
Wheeling.  W.  Va 
Wichita.  Kans. 
Winstoii-Salem.  N  C 
Wichita  Falls  Tex 
Worcester.  Ma.^s 
Yankton.  S.  I>. 
Voungstown.  Ohio 


MUTUAL  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 


KADA 

KVSO 

WRDO 

KPIWC 

WBAL 

WLBZ 

WAAB 

WICC 

WMT 

WGN 

WLW 

WSAI 

WGAR 

WRR 

KFEL 

KSO 

KXO 

KASA 

KCRC 

WSAR 

KTAT 

KFKA 

WTHT 

WHB 

WLNH 

KFOR 

KHJ 

WLLH 

WFEA 

KDON 

KBIX 

WSIW 

WOR 

WNBH 

WNLC 

KTOK 

KOIL 

WFIL 

WCAE 

WBBZ 

WEAN 

WRVA 

KWK 

KFXM 

KGB 

KFRC 

KVOE 

KDB 

KGFF 

WSPR 

KGDM 

WOL 

WBRY 

CKLW 


Ada,  Okla 
Ardmore,  Okla 
Augusta.  .Me 
Bakersheld,  Cal 
Baltimore,  .Md 
Bangor,  Me, 

Bridgeport,  Conn- 
Cedar  Rapids  low; 
Chicago,  111 
Cincinnati,  Ohm 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Cleveland,  Ohio 
Dallas  Tex 
Denver,  Colo. 
Des  Moines,  Iowa 
El  Centro  Cal 
Elk  Citv,  Okla 
Enid,  Okla 
Fall  River,  .Ma.'^s. 
Ft.  Worth  Texas. 
Greeley.  Colo 
Hartford.  Conn. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Laconia.  N  H 
Lincoln.  Neb 
Los  Angeles.  Cal 
Lowell.  Mass. 
.Manchester.  N  H 
Monterev.  Cal 


New  Bedford.  Mass 
New  London  Conn 
Oklahoma  City.  Okla 


San  He 
San  Di, 
San  Fr: 


Cal 


i-aiita  Harbara.  Cal. 
Shawnee,  Okla 
Springfield,  Mass 
Stockton  Cal 
Washington,  D.  C, 
Waterburv.  Conn 
Windsor- Detroit  Mi. 


45 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

XnC-Red:  GOLDTHWAITE 
ENSEMBLE — organ  and  sulo- 
ists 

NBC-Blue:  MELODY  HOUK— 
Josef  Honti's  orchestra 


8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHILDREN  S 
CONCERT — Josef  Stopak's  or- 
chestra. Paul  Wing,  narrator 
XBC-Blue:  TONE  PICTURES 
— Ruth  Pepple.  pianist;  mixed 
quartet 

9:00 

NBC-Red:  HAROLD  NAGEL  S 
RHU.MRA  ORCHESTRA 
NRC-HUip:  WHITR  RABBIT 
LI.Xi:— .\ir.lo:i  J.  Crnss 
CBS:  SUNDAY  MliRXIXO  AT 
AUNT  SUSAXS— cliildrens 
program,  Artells  Dickson 

9:30 

NBC-Red:  CONCERT  EN- 
SEMBLE—Harry  Gilbert,  or- 
ganist 


9:55 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  XEWS 


Bob  Hope 


Jane  Frorman 


Bert  Lahr 

46 


SumU^ 


NRC-Blue;  HELEN  TRAUBEL 
— soprano 

CBS:      COLUMBIA  WORIv- 

SHOP — dramatizations 

MRS:    STAN    LOMAX— sports 


JULY  4—11—18—25 


NBC-Red:  FIRESIDE  RECI- 
TALS—Helen  Marshall,  -so- 
prano; Sigurd  Nilssen.  basso 
NBC-Blue:  BAKERS  BROAD- 
CAST— Robert  Ripley,  Oz/.ie 
Nelsons  orchestra,  Shirley 
Lloyd,  vocalist 


CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  ATF! 


NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  KEY  OF 
RCA — Frank  Black's  sym- 
phony orchestra.  Milton  J. 
Cross 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


MBS:  B  E  N  A  Y  V  E  N  U  T  A  • 
I'HOGRAM— Willard  Amisoi 
Sid  Gary,  Brusiloffs  orchestr 


NBC-Rpd:  FITCH  .FINGL 
PROGRAM  —  Morin  Sisters 
Ranch  Boys 


MBS:  THE  RIGHT  JOI 


NBC-Red:  CHASE  AND  SAN- 
BORN PROGRAM  —  D(.n 
Ameche.  W.  C.  Fields,  EdK;ir 
Bergen,  Dorothy  Lamour.  Wer- 
ner Janssen's  orchestra 


CBS:    ORGAN  MOODS 

MBS:   REVIIOWING  STAND- 

world  problfins 


NBC-Red:  WARD  AND  MUZ- 
ZY—piano  duo 

NBC-Blue:    ALICE  REMSEN 


NBC-Blue:  SUNDAY  DRIV- 
ERS—Fields  and  Hall.  Flor- 
ence Adair 

CBS:  EVERYBODY'S  MUSIC 
Howard  Barlow,  symphony  or- 
chestra 

MBS:  MARTHA  AND  HAI^ 
songs  and  patter 


NBC-Red:  WIDOWS  SONS- 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  INTERNATIONAL 
BROADCAST  FROM  LONDON 


Renard's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  MANHATTAN 
MERRY-GO-ROUND  —  Bert 
L.ahr,  Rachel  Carlay,  Pierre  Le 
Kreeun,  Lyman's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  RIPPLING 
RHYTHM  REVUE  — Shep 
Fields'  orchestra,  Frank  Par- 
ker, Bob  Hope,  Honeychile 
CBS:  UNIVERSAL  RHYTHM 
—  Rex  Chandlers  orchestra. 
Alec   Templeton,    Richard  Bo- 


■Blue:  CHUCHU  MARTI- 


vARiETY  PRO- 


AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  THE  HOUR  GLASS 
— Jerry  Brannon,  Paul  Gers- 
man 

NBC-Blue:  SOUTH  ERNAIRES 
— Negro  male  (4Uartet 
MBS:   CADLE  TABERNACLE 
CHOIR— music,  talk 

12:30 

NBC-Rpd:  UNIVERSITY  OF 
CHICAGO  ROUND  TABLIO 
DISCUSSION— guest  speakers 
NBC-Blue:  RADIO  CITY  MU- 
SIC HALL  SYMPHONY  OR- 
CHESTR A— soloists 
CBS:  SALT  LAKE  CITY  TAB- 
ERNACLE CHOIR  AND  OR- 
GAN 


NBC-Red:  DOROTHY  DRES- 
LIX,  soprano;  FRED  HUF- 
SMITH.  tenor 

CHS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 
.MI'.S;  \KW  POETRY  HOUR— 


NBO-Blut-;  : 
CBS:  SUE 
Harry  Hage 


NBC-Red:  THE  WORLD  IS 
YOURS— dramatization 
NBC-Blue:  SENATOR  FISH- 
FACE  AND  PROFESSOR 
I''IGGSBOTTLE— Jerry  Sears- 
orchestra 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


MBS:  FORUM  HOUR 

EVENING 

6:00 

NP.C-Rrd:  CATHOLIC  HOUR 
Nl'.i'-ll 


GATIO 
PRO- 


MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
!):30 

.VBC-Red:  AMERICAN  AL- 
BUM OF  FAMILIAR  MUSIC— 
l''rank  Munn,  Jean  Dickenson, 
Haenschen's  orchestra 


MBS:   OLD  TIJIE  SPELLING 


MBS:  DANCE  ORCHESTRA 
10:U0 

XBC-Rpd:  SUNDAY  NIGHT 
PARTY — James  Melton,  Jane 
Pickens,  Donald  Dickson,  Do- 
lan's  orchestra 


-F.TTE  SUMMER 
II. .n  Berle,  Wen- 
mnella's  orchestra 


MBS:  ORCHi;STRA 
10:45 


11:00 

NBC-Red:    DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:    JUDY  AND  THE 
iiUNCH— vocal  quartet 
CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 


CBS:      POETIC  STRINGS 


CBS:  ORCHESTRA 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 

8.00 

NBC-Hed:  MALCOLM  CLATRB 
— children's  progniin 
NUC-Blue:    MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:13 

Xnc-Red:  GOOD  MOKNING 
MK  LOUIES 

NUC-Blue:     ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:»0 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  —  talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:     WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER — organist 
8:4-> 

NBC-Blue:      X  O  R  S  E  M  E  N 
QUARTET 
»:U0 

NBC-Red:  THE  STREAM- 
LINERS—Fields  and  Hall,  or- 
chestra 

NBC -  Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLl-B— Don    McNeill.    H  <>  1  e  n 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:     METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 
9:.{0 

CBS:     RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
8:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
U:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:    MORNING  MooUS 
9 : 55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS- RADIO 
NEWS 
10:UU 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     TIM   HEALY  — 
news  commentator 
CBS:    BETTY  AND  BOB  — 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS — 
sketch 

CBS:     HYMNS    OF  ALL 
CHURCHES:  BETTY  CROCK- 
ER, cooking  expert 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY'— sketch 
CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:     H  K  L  E  X  JANE 
BEHLKE— (  I. nil  :tl:o 
CBS:     JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 

lUQO 

XBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS;  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 

—sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  ATR— TnezLopez 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
11 :30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE — 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER — sketch 
11:45 

.N'BC-Blue:     EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH— The  Go.spel  Singer 
CBS:   DR.   ALLAN   ROY  DA- 
FOE 

AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE  — 
.sketch 

CBS:  THE  GUMPS— sketch 
l-i:15 

.NBC-Red:   STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:      GRACE  AND 
SCOTT Y— songs  and  patter 
CBS:    YOUK  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 

NBC-Red:  THREE  MAR- 
SH ALLS 

NBC-Blue:  JOE  DUMOND 
.\ND  THE  CADETS  QUAR- 
TET 


JULY  5—12—19—26 


CR.';:    R0:MANCE  of  HELEN 
TI;i:NT.i-sketch 
MBS:    BILL  LEWIS— baritone 
and  organ 
1-2:45 

NBC-Red:    ROSA   LEE  — so- 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE  SEX- 
TETTE 

CBS:     OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 

.sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE— tenor 

NBC-Blue:      LOVE  AND 

LE.\RX— sketch 

MBS:    LUNCHEON  DANCE 

MUSIC 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
MIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
—sketch 


NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Larrv  Larsen.  Ruth  Lyon. 
Charles  Sears.  Harvev  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  .\'.\'rii  i-\'.\L  FARM 
AND    H(  i-Mi;     II' 'UK- Walter 
Blaufuss'  or.-l.i-stn. 
MBS:  OKGAX   .MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES 
::00 

NBC-Red:  EDUCATIONAL 

PROGRAM 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES — Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT ORCHESTRA  —  Ralph 
Ginsburgh 

CBS:  JACK  AND  LORETTA— 
songs  and  patter 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
!:30 

NBC-Red:  BENNETT  AND 
WOLVERTON — piano  and  gui- 

NBC-Blue:  HOUR  OF  MEMO- 
RIES— U.  S.  Navy  Band 
CB.-;      M*XTAXA  SLI.M 
MBS:      THE      C'UIET  SANC- 
TUARY 


CAROL  WEY.MANN 
.~<"liiKY  OF  MARY 
•1>K  BARRIE— barl- 
-PIXE  VILLAGE 


5:15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN- sketch 
NBC-Blue:  YorXG  HICKORY 
— sketch 

CBS:  ETON  BtJYS— quartet 
MBS:     STORY  TELLERS 
HOUSE 
5:30 

XBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY — sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR— songs 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
5:45 

NBC-Red:   LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE— children's  .sketch 
CBS:    FUNNY  THINGS— Nora 
Stirling's  children's  program 


EVENING 


NBC-Red:    JOHN   GURNEY  — 

basso 

CHS    FOUR  STARS— quartette 
MH.'<:     STUDIES    IN  BLACK 
AND  \VHITE 
1:30 

XBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS  -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RAPTO  NEWS 
ilBS:  ORCHESTRA 
:35 

NBC-Red:  THREE  X  SISTERS 
— trio 

NBC-Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS— 
tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS— sports 
commentator 


Ci;s     PICK  AND  PAT— com- 

f'l      iihI  music 

mi;.-      LET'S    VISIT— Jerry 


M.  lir,  n    .in. I    Jim  Jordan. 

" 'D   TIME  SO- 
<  !  -  ro  revue 

'  i  ilO  THEATRE 

MBS;  Air.-lc  A  1.'  PROGRAM 
9:30 

NBC-Red:  HOUR  OF  CHARM 
—  Phil  Spitalny  and  his  girl.» 
N  BC  -  B  1  u  e  :  MELODIC 
STRIN(1S 

MBS:   CBSARE   SODERO  DI- 


RECTS 


10: 


CHS:  WAVXE  KIXG'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 

MBS:     ELDER  LIGHTFOOT, 
SOLOMON    MICHAUX  —  and 
congregation 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  MUSIC  FOR  MOD- 
ERNS 

.BC-Blue:     NATIONAL  RA- 


DI< 


F(")Rr:\i- 


lE  W' 


NBC-Red:  ORCHESTRA 
NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 


Ray  Noble 


NBC  -  Red:  JOHNNY 
O  BRIEN'S  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:   MYRT   AND  MARGE— 

sketch 


XBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY' — sketch 
CBS.     COLONEL  JACK  MA- 
JOR'S VARIETY  SHOW 
MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM 


MA  PERKINS- 


NEC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    LET'S    TALK  IT 
OVER— Alma  Kitchell 
CBS;    POP    CONCER  r— How- 
ard Barlow 

MBS;  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
TRA 


NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 
—cnme.lv  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  CLl'B  MATINEE— 
Annette  Kint,  .lack  Baker,  Ko- 
gen's  orche.stra 

.MBS;  TEXAS  JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  cowboys 


NBC-Red:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
:30 

NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  T  H  p: 
MOON— Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
son 

CBS:  CHICAGO  VARIETY 
HOUR 

MBS:  VARIETY  PROGRAM— 
Leo  Freudberg's  orchestra 


CBS:  HO  L  LACE  S  H  A  W— 
songs 

MBS:  CHILDREN'S  ALBUM— 
Story  Book  Lady 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:     BAP.RY  McKlX- 
LEY— Bari  ett  s  ore  hestra 
CBS:     POETIC    .\1  E  l,c  iDl  KS— 
Jack    Fulton,    Franklvn  Mac- 
Cormack.  Kelsev's  nrehestra 
MBS:    PALMER   HOUSE  EX- 
SEMBLE 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  UNCLE  EZRA'S 
RADIO  STATION— Pat  Bar- 
rett 

CBS:    MA  AND  PA— sketch 
!:30 

NBC-Red:  MIDGE  WILLIAMS 
— songs 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— sketch 

CBS:  JACK  SHANNON— tenor 
i:45 

NBC-Red:  ROY  CAMPBELL'S 
ROYALISTS 

NBC-Blue:  JOHN  HERRICK 
— baritone 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
1:00 

NBC-Red:   BURNS   AND  AL- 


-Dick  Fo 


Not 


:30 

NBC-Red:  VOICE  OF  FIRE- 
STO.N  E  —  Margaret  Speaks. 
Walleiistein's  orchestra,  guests 
NBC-Bluc:  PAUL  MARTIN 
AND   HIS  MUSIC 


Vivien  Delia  Chiesa 


Fibber  McGee 
47 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 

g:00 

NBC-Red;  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
- — children's  program 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— orsan  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:     DICK  LEIBERT 
ENSEMBLE 
8:S0 

NBC-Red;    CHEERIO   —  talk 
and  music 
8:43 

NBC-Blue;    RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
9:00 

Nni--r,..l  PTRRAMLINERS— 

F  !  '  ' 

X  ■  :  A   K  F  A  S  T 

CI'..-     I  ' : :  \  1 ;  I  ■ ,  i  1 . F  M  u lA— fa n 
mail  aiaiiiatiz;aK>ns 
9:30 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL— 
songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:   LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:      WALTZES   UF  THE 
WORLD 
9:35 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:     PRESS-R  A  D  I  O 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TIM  HEALY— news 
commentator 

CBS:     BETTY    AND    BOB — 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— .sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

Cl;.^:     H  V  M  .\  S     OF  ALL 
<■  H  r  i;  c-  II  i:  .-^  :      BE  T  T  Y 
<  l:'  "  K  I :  l;,    ''"'king  expert 
10:30 

NBC-P.od:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
CBS;  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 

MBS:     MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:43 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  ANNETTE  KING 
— contralto 

CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NRC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS- 
sketch 

CBS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
MBS;  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 

— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 

CI3S:  QUALITY  TWINS— East 
and  Dumke 
11:30 

NBC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red;  ALLEN  PRESCOTT 

—The  Wife  Saver 

NBC-Blue:     EDWARD  Mao- 

HUGH— The  Go.spel  Singer 

CBS:  RHYTHMAIRES 

MBS:   MARTHA   AND  HAL— 

songs  and  patter 

AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue;  TERRI  FRAN- 
CONI — tenor 

CBS:  THE  GUMPS— sketch 
MBS:    PARENTS'    CLUB  OF 
THE  AIR 
12:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY— songs 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
MBS:  HOLLYWOOD  SUN- 
SHINE GIRLS— trio 

48 


JULY  6—13—20—27 


BARRY  McKIN- 

.Ti>B  DUMOND 
.VPI'-.TS  QUARTET 
v.XCE  OF  HELEN 


;>  d;  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
Uue:    VIENNESE  SEX- 
OUR   GAL.  SUNDAY- 
IRE  FOUR — sketc: 
NBC-Red:     CLEO  BROWN— 

NBC-Blue:  LOVE  AND  LEARN 
— sketch 

CBS;  JACK  BERCH  AND  HIS 
BOYS 

MBS;  OHCHESTRA 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TUNE  TWISTERS 
CBS;  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 
1:30 

NBC-Red:   WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Ruth   Lyon,    Larry  Lar- 
sen.  Harvey  Havs 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND   HOME   HOUR  —  Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS;  THE  MERRYMAKERS 
MBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE    STORIES— sketch 
2:00 

CBS:    ROMANY  TRAIL— 
Emery   Deutsch's  orchestra 
MBS:    PALMER    HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA—Ralph  Ginsburgh 
2:13 

CBS:    JACK    AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NRC-Red;  IT'S  A  WOMAN'S 
WiiRLD    —    Muriel  Draper, 

NBC-Blue:  NBC  MUSIC 
GUILD 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
novelty  trio 

MBS:   THE   QUIET  SANCTU- 


NBC-Red:  COLLEGIANS— 
quartet 

CBS:    MYRT   AND  MARGE— 
sketch 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue;    AIRBREAKS— va- 
riety program 

CBS:    THEATRE  MATINEE 
MBS:  RHYTHM  ORCHESTRA 
3:15 

NBC-Red;  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS;  RADIO  GARDEN  CLUB 
3:30 

NBC-Red:    VIC   AND  SADE— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:  KIDOODLERS— 

quartet 

CBS:    COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
HALI. — Story   of   the  Song 
MHS  ORCHESTRA 


NRC-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:      HAVE  YOU 
HEARD?— dramatization 
4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 

— comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:    CLUB  MATINEE 

—Annette   King,    Jack  Baker. 

Kosen's  orchestra 

CBS:    SING    AND  SWING — 

Kelsey's  orchestra 

MBS:    TEXAS   JIM    LEWIS — 

and  his  cowboys 


4:30 

NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
MOON— Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
CBS:  HOWARD  BARLOW'S 
CONCERT  ORCHESTRA 
MBS;  VARIETY  PROGRAM— 
Elinor  Sherry,  Freudberg's  or- 
chestra 
4:43 

NBC-Red;      THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
5:00 

NRC-Red:  NELLIE  REVELL 
IXTIOHVIEWS 

NFC -F.luo:  ,-;tory  of  MARY 


NBC-Red;  GENERAL  FED- 
ERATION OF  WOMEN'S 
CLUBS 

NBC-Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
— sketch 

CBS:   SCIENCE  SERVICE 
SERIES— Watson  Davis 
5:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OP  THE  NAVY— .sketch 
NBC-Blue:  SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS:     ST.   LOUIS  SYNCOPA- 
TORS 
5:43 

NBC-Red:   LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE — children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:    KING'S  MEN 
QUARTET 

CBS:  DOROTHY  GORDON'S 
CHILDREN'S  CORNER 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-Red:  SCIENCE  IN  THE 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue;  MEREDITH 
WILLSON  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
TRA 


rmo 


trio 


STUDIES    IN  BLACK 
AND  WHITE 
6:30 

NBC-Red:     PRESS-  RADIO 

NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 

NEWS 

CHS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MliS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Blue:  TONY  RUSSELL— 


CHS;    GEORGE    HALL'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NRC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES - 
comedy  sketch 

lETIC    MELODIES — 
Iton.    Franklyn  Mac- 
<'ormacK-,   Kelsey's  orchestra 
MHS;    THE  FASHION.^IRES 
7:15 

NBC-Red;  VOCAL  VARIE- 
T1E.S— choral  singing 


Jack  Fu 


CBS;  MA  AND  PA— sketch 
MBS;  ORCHESTRA 
7:30 

NBC-Red;  CHARIOTEERS- 
quartet 

NBC-Blue;  LUM  AND  ABNER 

—  comedy  sketch 


7:45 

NBC-Red:  TOP  HATTERS 
ORCHESTRA 
NBC-Blue:  FLORENCE 
GEORGE— soprano 
CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  JOHNNY  PRE- 
SENTS RUSS  MORGAN  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA  —  Charles 
Martin,  Phil  Duey 
NBC-Blue:  HUSBANDS  AND 
WIVES — Sedley    Brown,  A 


Mi 


Mr 


MBS:    LOVE    SONGS— Sylvia 
Cyde,    Raoul    Nadeau.  Brusi- 
loff's  orchestra 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  —  Wayne  King's 
orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  EDGAR  GUEST 
In  "IT  CAN  BE  DONE"— Mas- 
ters' orchestra 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  VOX  POP— Parks 
Johnson,  Wallace  Butterworth 
NBC-Blue;  BEN  BERNIE  AND 
ALL  THE  LADS 
CBS:  WATCH  THE  FUN  GO 
BY— Al  Pearoe,  Nick  Lucas, 
Hoft's  orchestra 
.MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:30 

NBC-Red:  PACKARD  HOUR- 
Trudy  Wood,  Jimmy  Blair. 
Johnny  Green's  orchestra. 
NBC-Blue:  SWEETEST  LOVE 
SONGS  EVER  SUNG— Frank 
Munn,  Lois  Bennett,  Arden' 
orchestra 

CBS;      CAMEL  CARAVAN- 
Benny   Goodman's  band. 
10:30 

NBC-Red;  JIMMIE  FIDLER'S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
NBC-Blue:     PAST  M.\STERS 
PROGRAM — harpsicord  ensem- 
ble 

CBS;  YOUR  UNSEEN  FRIEND 
—sketch 

MBS:  HOBBY  LOBBY 
10:43 

NBC-Red:   VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  PICCADILLY  MU- 
SIC HALL 

CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


Meredith  Willson 


Trudy  Wood 


Edgar  A.  Guest 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

XBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRR 
— children's  i>rosram 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:      ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:    WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER — organist 
8:45 

NHC-Blue:     DANDIES  OF 
YESTERDAY— male  quartet 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB  — Don    McNeill.  Helen 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Dennis 
CBS:  MUSIC  IN  THE  AIR 

g::{u 

CBS:    RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:  FIDDLER'S  FANCY 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:       TIM  HEALY— 
news  commentator 
CBS:     BETTY     AND  BOB— 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:    HYMNS    OF  ALL 
CHURCHES:  BETTY 
CROCKER,  cooking  expert 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:   PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
CBS;    MODERN  CINDER- 
ELLA—sketch 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:       HELE.N  JANE 
BEHLKE — contralto 
CBS:    JOHN   K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:    DAVID  HARUM— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:    THE  O'NEILLS— 

sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS;  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE 
■H'IFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS;    BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red;      THE     OLD  RE- 
FRAIN— instrumental  group 
NBC-Blue;      EDWARD  Mac- 
H.UGH— The.  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:  DR  .A  LL.VN  ROY  DAFOE 


Walter  O'Keefe 


ln/edttesduf^ 


JULY  7—14—21—28 

AFTERNOON 


NHI'-Blue:  TERRI  FRAN- 
CO XI— tenor 

CHS:     THE  GUMPS— sketch 

'xi'c.Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
.M.VItLIN  — sketch 
NHC-Hluc:  HOMESPUN— Wil- 
liam Hiram  Foulkes 
CBS;  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
12:30 

NnC-R.d:  THREE  MAR- 
SH.A.LLS 

NBC-Blu.-     JOE  DUMOND 
A.VU  TH1-:  CADETS  QCAKTirr 
CBS;    RO.MAXCE   OF  HELEN 
TI^,  i  :.\'T— sketch 
.Mi;.S;    i>i;i;aX  RECITAL 


CB.S;  OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 
sketch 

MBS;  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:    THREE  RANCH- 

EROS 

NBC- Blue:    LOVE  AND 
LEARN— sketch 
CBS;     MAKE   BELIEVE— Bill 
Perrv,    Ruth  Carhart 
MBS;    LUNCHEON  DANCE 
MUSIC 
1:15 

NBC-Red;  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL, 
CBS;  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 
1:30 

NBC-Red:   WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Ruth   Lyon,   Larry  Lar- 
sen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue;  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR — Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS;  DINING  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR — food  talk 
MBS;  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS;    AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES — sketch 
2:00 

NBC-Red;     FANTASIE  IN 

RHYTHM— Jan  Savitt 

CBS;     .\EWS   THROUGH  A 

WOMAN'S     EYES— Kathryn 

Cravens 

MBS;  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT    ORCHESTRA- Ralph 


Ginsburgh 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK    AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
2:30 

NBC-Red:  CHOIR  SYMPHO- 
NETTE 

NBC-Blue:  BENNETT  AND 
WOLVEUTO.X  — piano  and 
guitar 


ARY 
2:45 

NBC-Red:  MUSIC  OP  THE 
MOMENT — Lee  Gordon's  or- 
chestra 

NBC-Blue;  PEGGY  WOOD 
CALLI.XG 

CBS:     MYRT  AND  MARGE— 


.MBS;       BILL     LEWIS— bari- 
tone, and  organ 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG  S 
FAMILY— sketch 
CBS:     MANHATTAN     At  ATI- 
NEB 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
3:15 

NBC-Red;  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

XBC-Blue;  CONTINENTAL 
VARIETIES — Stopak's  orches- 
tra 
3:30 

NBC-Red;    VIC   AND  SADE— 


3:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  POETIC  STRINGS 
4:00 

NBC-Red;  LORENZO  JONES 
— comedy  sketch 


.XBC-Red;  PERSONAL  COL- 
r.MN  OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 

CBS:    DANCE  TIME 
4:30 

NBC-Red;     FOLLOW  THE 
MOON— Elsio  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
CBS;  RUSSELL  DORR— Gold- 
man's orchestra 
MBS:     VARIETY  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red;    THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
CBS;     ACADEMY   OF  MEDI- 
CINE 
5:00 

NBC-Red;  CHICK  WEBB'S 
ORCHESTR.A 

NBC-Blue;  STORY  OF  MARY 

M.AiRLIN— sketch 

CBS:     ELSIE  THOMPSON— 

MBS;  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
THA 
5:15 

NBC-Red;   ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
— sketch 

CBS:  FOUR  STARS— quartet 
5:30 

NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue;   SINGING  LADY  — 
children's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR— songs 


5:45 


NBC-Red:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE — children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue;    .MEET    THE  OR- 
CHESTRA—novelty  music 
CBS;    FU.N'NY   THINGS— Nora 
Stirling's   children's  program 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-Red;  OUR  AMERICAN 
SCHOOLS 

NBC-Blue:  HARRY  KOGEN 
AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA— Salr 
Z<ee 

CBS:  DEL  CASINO— songs 


GEORGE   HALL  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
G:30 

NBC-Red;  PRESS-RADIO 

.xinvs 

Xl!i'-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 

.XF,  \VS 

'■|;s     I'RKSS-RADIO  NEWS 

APPY  BARRA— 
harmonicas 
I  FLORENCE 


NBC-l;ii 

CBS;  SI 
:00 

NBC- Re. 

sketch 

NBC-Bli 


l;il  V  I  I  I  .M.V  IRES 
I.'  THOMA 

ilXi;  W.VITERS 
A.MOS    N'  ANDY- 
EASY  ACES- 


NBC-Red;  UNCLE  EZRA'S 
RADIO  STATION— Pat  Bar- 
rett 

NBC-Blue:    MRS  FR.\NKL1N 
D.  RO<  iSKX'KLT 
CBS;    MA  AXD  P.V  — sketch 
MBS:     LKS   CAVALLIERS  de 
LA  SALLE 
7:30 

NBC-Blue;  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedv  sketch 
CBS:     TIME     FOR  BUDDY 
CLARK 
7:45 

NBC-Red;  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue;  MARIO  COZZI. 
baritone;  CHRISTIXE  JOHN- 
SON, soprano 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red;  ONE  MAN'S  FAM- 
ILY— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  BROADWAY 
MERRY-GO-ROUND— Bea- 
trice Lillie,  Rickey's  orchestra 
CBS:  CAVALCADE  OF 
AMERICA— drama  with  mu- 
sic, Voorhees'  orchestra 
MBS;  MUSICAL  .MARUI  GRAS 
8:30 

NBC-Red;  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  — Wayne  King's 
orchestra 

NBC-Blue;  SECOND  HUS- 
BAND— Helen  Slenken 
CBS;  LAUGH  WITH  KEN 
MURRAY  — Oswald,  Shirley 
Ross,  Gluskin's  hand 
MBS;  U.  S.  M.\RIXE  B.\.XD 
9:00 

NBC-Red;   TOWX   HALL  TO- 
NIGHT— Waller   O  Keefe.  Van 
Steeden's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:     NBC  STRING 
SYMPHONY  —  Frank  Black's 

CBS;   CHESTERFIELD  PRE- 
SENTS— Frank  Parker.  Koste- 
lanetz'  orchestra 
MBS;  ORCHESTRA 
9:30 

CBS;  PALMOLIVE  BEAUTY 
BOX  THEATRE  — Jessica 
Dragonette,  Goodman's  orches- 
tra 

MBS;  ED  FITZGERALD  &  CO. 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  YOUR  HIT  PA- 
RADE—  ' 


Jane  Ace 


Ken  Mu 


rray 


S     BABE   RUTH'S  RADIO 

I  If,  i:  a,m 

;s     MLSICAL  PROGRAM 


XBC-Red:  D.\? 


MBS:  DANCE  -MUSIC 

49 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 


NBC-Re.i:  MALCOLM  CLAIHK 
— chililrens  program 
NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS—organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

XBC-Blue:     DICK  LEIBERT 
ENSEMBLE 
8:30 

NBC-Red:     CHEERIO  —  talk 
and  music 
8:43 

NBC-Blue:     RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
9:00 

NBC-Red  :   STR  K  A-M  LIX  ICRS— 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC- 


■LUl 


-Don 


Ja 


le   Behlke.   Clark  Dennis 
;S:     AS     YOU     LIKE  IT- 
riety  program 


CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:30 

CBS;GREENFIELD  VILI-AGE 
CHAPEL 
9:45 

NBC-Red:   LANDT  TRIO 
C3S;   SONG   STYLISTS— male 
quartet 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THK  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

XHC-lilue;  TI.M  HEALY  — 
ens      BETTY   AND  BOB- 


MA  PERKINS— 


NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 

—sketch 

'    NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY — sketch 
CBS:  MODERN  CINDERELLA 
— sketch 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  GALE  PAGE— so- 
prano 

CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 


I  I  :00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:   THE  O'NEILLS- 
CBS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THK  AIR— Inez 
Lopez 

CBS:      QUALITY  TWINS— 
East  and  Dumke 
11:30 

NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 
CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red;  ALLEN  PRESCOTT 

—The  Wife  Saver 

NBC-Blue:      EDWARD  Mac- 

HUGH— The  Gospel  Singer 

CBS:  MERRYMAKERS 

MBS:   MARTHA   AND  HAL— 

songs  and  patter 

AFTERNOON 


NBC-Ii 


GIRL  ALONE— 
TERRI  FRANCONI 


CBS:   THE  GUMPS— sk.-tch 
MBS:  LUNCHEON  MUSIC 
12:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY   OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:    GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY— songs  and  patter 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 


JULY  1—8—15—22—29 


Bob  Burns 


TET 

CBS:  ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 
I'i  :45 

NBC-Red:  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
TET 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE  SEX- 
TETTE 

CBS:     OUR   GAL,  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

JIBS:      WE      ARB  FOUR— 


1:00 

NBC-Red:  MARGUERITE  PA- 
DULA — songs 

NBC-Blue:    LOVE  AND 

I>KARN— sketch 

CBS:  JACK  BERCH  AND  HIS 

BOYS 


NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

XBC-Blue:  HAL  GORDON— 
CHS:   PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 


NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND 
MUSIC— Ruth  Lyon.  Larry 
Larsen.  Harvey  Havs 
NBC-Blue:  NATIO.NAL  FARM 
AND  HOME  HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:  DINING  WITH  GEORGE 
RECTOR— food  talk 


1:45 


2:00 

NBC-Red:  NBC  MUSIC  GUILD 
CBS:  RAMBLES  IN  RHYTHM 
MBS:    PALMER   HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK    AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
JIBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 

2:30 

NBC-Red:  IT'S  A  WOMAN'S 
WORLD — Claudine  Macdonald, 
Levey's  Orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  GENERAL  FED- 
]•;  R  A  T  I  O  N  OF  WOMEN'S 
CLUBS 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
novelty  trio 

JIBS:     THE     QUIET  SANC- 
TUARY 
2:45 

NBC-Red:  MEN  OF  THE 
WEST — quartet 

NBC-Blue:  PIANO  RECITAL 
CBS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

3:00 

NBC-Red:  PP^PPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:    NBC  LIGHT  OP- 
ERA COMPANY 
CBS:  THEATRE  MATINEE 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
3:15 

NBC-Red:      MA     I'ERKINS — 


comedy  sketch 

CBS:  DO  YOU  REMEMBER? 
— old  favorite  melodies 


NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS- 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:       THE  CABAL- 
LEROS 
4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 

NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 
Annette     King,     Jack  Baker. 
Kogen's  orchestra 
JIBS:    TEXAS   JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  cowboys 
4:15 

NBC-Red:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 
pez 


CBS:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
JIBS:   VARIETY  PROGRAM- 
Pauline  Alpert.  Sid  Gary.  Nor 
man  Lrokenshire 


NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
JIARLIN— sketch 
JIBS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
TRA 


NBC-Blue:  YOUNG  HICKORY 
—sketch 

CBS:  ALL  HANDS  ON  DECK 
5:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY — sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
5:45 

NBC-Red:    LITTLE  ORPHAN 
ANNIE— children's  sketch 
NBC-Blue:     KING'S  MEN 
QUARTET 

CBS:  DOROTHY  GORDON'S 
CHILDREN'S  CORNER 


EVENING 


NBC-BIue:    HARRY  KOGEN 
AND    HIS  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    PATTI   CHAPIN— songs 


NBC-Red:  VLADIMIR  BREN- 
NEH— pianist 

CBS:    CLYDE  BARRIE — barl- 


NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
JIBS:  ORCHESTRA 
6:35 

NBC-Red:  BERT  AND  LEW— 

NBC-Blu'e:"''cHUCHU  JIAR- 
TINEZ— tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 
G:45 

NBC-Red:  RHYTHMATRES 
NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOMAS 

CBS:    GEORGE    HALLS  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AJIOS  'N'  ANDY— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES— com- 


MBS:  SPRING  RHYTHM 
7:15 

NBC-Red:      VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES—choral  Singing 
CBS:  MA  AND  PA— sketch 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  JIARY  DIETRICH— 
NBC-Blue:  LUJI  AND  ABNER 


NBC-Red:   EUGENE  BOISSE- 
V  A  IN— commentator 
NBC-Blue:    CABIN    IN  THE 
COTTON— Southernaires  quar- 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  ROYAL  GELATIN 
PROGRAJI  —  Rudy  Vallee. 


JIBS:     MUSIC     AND  YOU— 
symphony  program 
8:30 

NBC-Blue:  BOSTON  POP 
CONCERT — symphony  orches- 


JIBS:  ORCHESTRA 


9:. SO 

NBC-Blue:  JI I  D  N  I  G  H  T  IN 
MAYFAIR— English  dance  mu- 
sic 

MBS:  MUSIC  FOR  TODAY 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  KRAFT  MUSIC 
HALL— Bob  Burns,  Dorsey's 
orchestra,  guests 

■    NBC-Blue:     NBC  SPELLING 
BEE— Paul  Wing 
CBS:    YOUR    TRUE  ADVEN- 
TURES—Floyd  Gibbons 
MBS:  WITCH'S  TALE— Alonzo 
Deen  Cole,  Marie  O'Flynn 

10:30 

CBS:  MARCH  OF  TIME— 
dramatizations 

JIBS:  HENRY  WEBER'S 
MUSICAL  REVUE 


NBC-Red:  DANCE  JIUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  NBC  NIGHT  CLUB 
— Morey  Amsterdam 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


Roy  Shield 


SO 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 


NBC-Rcd:  MALCOLJI  CI.AiniO 
— children's  progrHm 
NUC-Hlue:   .MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIKS 

NBC-Blue:     ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
H:SO 

NBC-Red:  CHEERIO  — talk 
and  music 

NBC-Blue:    WILLIAM  MEE- 
DEK— organist 
H:45 

NBC-Blue:     DANDIES  OF 
YBSTERDAT— quartet 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall,  orchestra 
NBC-BliiP-     r.  It  v.  A  K  F  A  S  T 
CLUB  — p.. II     M,  X-  111.  H.'lon 
Jane  Bohlk.-.   (  lark  l>cnnis 
CBS:    mi;  rKolHU-ITAN  PA- 
RADE 
!»:30 

CBS:    RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-  RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    TIM    HEALY  — 
news  commentator 
CBS:     BETTY     A.N'D  BOB— 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  .\IA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:     BETTY  CROCKER, 
cooking  expert 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG  S 
FAMILY — sketch 
CBS:      MODERN  CINDER- 
ELLA— sketch 

MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE  SEX- 
TETTE 

CBS:    JOHN    K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARL'.M— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch.  Rolfe  s 
orchestra 

MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHAR.MING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER — sketch 
11:45 

NBC-Red:     THE     OLD  RE- 
FRAIN— instrumental  music 
NBC-Blue;      EDWARD  .Mac- 


JULY  2—9—16—23—30 


HUGH— The  Gospel  Sinser 
CBS:    DR.   ALLAN    ROY  DA- 
FOE 

AFTERNOON 

li  -.ao  Noon 

NBC- Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  U.  S.  MARINE 
BAND 

CBS:    THE  GUMPS— sketch 
l'>:13 

NBC-Red:    STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:    YOUR  .NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
l'J:30 

NBC-Red:  JOE  DUMOND  .\N1) 
THE  C.\.I>ETS  gUARTET 
CBS:    RO.MANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 
liAa 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE  — 
tenor 

CBS:    OUR   GAL,  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

-MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  PI.\NO  DUO 

NBC-Blue:     LOVE  AND 

LEARN — sketch 

CBS:    M.\KE    BELIEVE — Bill 

Perry,    Ruth  Carhart 

.MBS:    LUNCHEON  MUSIC 


.NUr-Recl:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS;  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 

MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
1:."10 

NBC-Red:  WORDS  A.ND  MU- 
SIC—  Larry    Larsen.  Ruth 
Lvon.  Harvev  Havs 
NBC-Blue:  NATIO.\.\L  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaiifuss'  orchestra 
cr.S:  lUXINi;  WITH  GEORGE 
i;i;('T(  II!  —  fond  talk 
.MBS:  uUG.V.V  .MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES— sketch 
2:00 

.NBC-Red:  SHOW  TIME  MAT- 

I.VEE 

CBS:  .NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES  —  Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  P.A.LMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT ORCHESTRA 


•^:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
'^:30 

.VBC-Red:  CONCERT  MINIA- 
TURE 

NH(  -Blue:  BENNETT  AND 
WOL\  ERTO.X— piano  and  gui- 

CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM 
MBS:     THE     QUIET  S.\NC- 
TUARY 
2 :45 

NBC-Bluc;  PEGGY  WOOD 
cAi.i.i.xi; 

(  H.s;  .\IVHT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:  LEO  FREUDBERG'S 
ORCHESTRA 


Les  Tremayne 


xnc-r:.  .i:  im:pper  you.ng'S 

I' A  Ml!,',  —sketch 

Xia    l;ln.      l;.A.DIO  GUILD— 

('■lis':'''  Cu'll'.MBI.\  concert 
H.A.1.L 

.AIBS;  RHYTHM  ORCHESTRA 
3:l.-i 

.NBC-Red:      M.\  PERKINS— 

sketch 

.MBS:  RADIO  GARDE.N  CLUB 
3:30 

NBC-Red:   VIC   AND  SADE— 

CBS:    THREE  CONSOLES 
MBS:  ORCHESTR.\ 
3:45 

NBC-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 
4:00 

NBC-Red:    LOP.KNZO  JONES 

— comc.U-  sketch 

NBC-Bluc:  CI.UH  M.VTIXEE  — 

Annette     Kinf,-.     .lack  i;;ik.r. 

Kosen's  i.n  lustra 

CHS;    FIMHAY   .MELODY  HIO- 


;  W 


\S    JI.M  LEWIS- 


4:30 

NBC-Red:  FOLLOW  THE 
MOO.N— Elsie  Hitz,  Nick  Daw- 
CBS:  A.MONG  OUR  SOUVE- 
NIRS 

MBS:      VARIETY  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red:  TOP  HATTERS 
NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  .MARY 
M.VKLIN— sketch 
CPS:    S.\I.  \'ATION  AR.MY 


:15 

NBC-Red:   ADVENTURES  OF 

D.\RI  DAN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     SI.NGI.XG  LADY 

— musical  plays 

CBS:    ETO.X    BOYS  — male 

quartet 


:.10 


:RC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
i|"  rill':  N.\VY — sketch 
•PS:    DORIS  KERR— songs 

;Pa--Red:    LITTLE  ORPHA.N 


EVENING 


:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-  RADIO 
.NEWS 

.XBC- Blue :  PRESS  -  RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  .NEWS 
.MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
:35 

NBC-Red:  CAROL  DEIS— so- 
N  Pi '-Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS— 

CPS    I'.\UI.  DOUt;i..\.S — sports 


NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  A.XDY  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:    M.\RY  S.MALL— 


.\NU  Pi:.\(i- 

— sketch 
JS:  NU\ELETTE 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  CAB.\LLEROS  — 
songs 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABXICH 
— sketch 

CBS:     HOLLACE     SHAW  — 


HHYTIIM 


BUGHOUSE 
LOUISE  FLOREA 
K  E    CARTE  R— 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  CITIES  SERVICE 
CONCERT  — Lucille  Manners. 
Bourdon's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  IRENE  RICH 
CBS:  BROAD\V.\Y  VARIE- 
TIES— Oscar  Shaw.  Carmcia 
P.^nselle,  Elizabeth  Lennox, 
.Vrden's  orchestra 


DEATH  VA 

'kpmi's  1> 


8:45 

MBS:     CH.\RIOTEERS— quar- 
TET 
y  :O0 

.X  Pl'-Ko.l  :  W.\LTZ  TI.ME— 
I'raiik     .\lunn,     Lois  Bennett, 

.n'iu-'-'i'!1uc  -"ii\\  k'l  I".  M  — Arm- 
strong's iirchcst  ra  ,  IM.lic  c;r. cn 
CBS:  HOLLVWduli  1 1 1  i  r  I-;  L 
Jerry  Cooper.  Frances  l.aiii;- 
ford,  Anne  Jamison.  Igoi'  Oo- 
rin,  Paige's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:30 

XRC-Keii:      TRUE      S  T  <T  R  Y 


:  —  L>  1 


riubi 


Virginia  Verrill 


Jerry  Cooper 


MBS;    SY.MPUO.XY  OUCHES- 
TR.\ 
10:00 

xm^-Pci:  FIRST  NIGHTER— 
.ir.mia  t  r/.ati.m.   Les  Tremayne. 

.X''lVc-'\Vl'uc:'  WaLEIOH  and 
KOOI.  SHOW — .lack  Pearl. 
Clift  Hall.   .Morton  Howe.  Dor- 

CBS':    FEKPe'  llROFE'S  OU- 
CH ESTHA—E.lwin  Sinalle 
M  HS:  ORCHESTRA 
I(l:;f0 

X  PC-Red:  JIMMIE  FIDLER'S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
CHS:    BABE   RUTH'S  RADIO 
PROGRAM 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:  ELZA  SCHAL- 
LERT  REVIEWS— movie  pre- 

1 1  :00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC- Blue:  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  .MUSIC 

51 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 


.NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
XIULODIES 

NBC-Bluo:  DICK  I.ElIiERT 
ENSE.MBLE 


IHYTHM  RAS- 


NBC-Red:   STRRA  MLIN  i:Ri- 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC- Blue:        H  K  i:  A  K  l"  A  H 
CLCB— Don      .M .  N.iH.  H.I 
Jane  Behlke.  Clark  Doiiiiis 
CBS:  RAY  BLOCK— pianist 


'J:  30 

CBS:    MELLOW  MOMENTS 


JULY  3—10— 


Mary  Eastman 


Phil  Duey 


LAXDT  TRIO 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 


NBC-Red:      REX  BATTLE'S 
CONCERT  ENSEMBLE 
NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:     GEORGE    HALL  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 
Annette     King,     Jack  Baker, 
Kogen's  orchestra 
CBS:   THE  DICTATORS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  CHARIOTEERS— 
male  quartet 

N  BC-  HI  U(- :  S  \V  I;FT  H  K  A  HTS 
OF     THI-;     All:— .M:.\  SiiiKhi 


NHC-Rcd:    THE   VASS  FAM- 
ILY—il.ildrens  harmony 
M;'--l;h]-.      RAISING  YOUR 


NBC-Red:  WHITNEY  EN- 
SEMBLE 

NBC-Blue:  OUR  BARN— chil- 
dren's ])ro(,'rani,  Madge  Tucker 
CBS:  JACK  SHANNON— tenor 


CBS:  BOB  AND  VERA — songs 


tlCHARU  MAXWELL 


Ml 
5:00 

NRC-BIup:  ORCHESTRA 
CHS:  ORCHESTRA 
MHS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHI 
TRA 


I'.C-Blue:  ANIMAL  NEWS 
AIB  —  children's  program 
th  Lou  Rogers 


10:30 

NBC-Red:  MANHATTEKS— 
Arthur  Lang,  orchestra 
CBS:    LET  S  PRETEND— chil- 
dren's program 

MRS:  ED  FITZGERALD  & 
CO. — variety  show,  Freudberg'8 
orchestra.  Elinor  Sherry 

10:45 


NBC-Red:  OUR  AMERICAN 
SCHOOLS — Dr.  Frances  Hale 
NBC-Blue:  MADGE  MARLEY 
—contralto 

CBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 


NBC-Red:  HOME  TOWN— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MINUTE  MEN— 
male  quartet 

1 1 :30 

.\'BC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  OF 
SPEECH  —  VIda  Ravenscroft 
Sutton 

CBS:  COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
H  \I,L 

MBS:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 


AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

.NBC-Blue:    CALL  TO  YOUTH 
— Anne  Sarachon  Hooley 
CBS:  THE  CAPTIVATORS 

12:15 

NBC-Blue:  THREE  RANCH- 
EROS 

CBS:  ORIENTALS 


1:30 

NHC-Red:    CAMPUS  CAPERS 
—orchestra,  vocali.sts 
NBC-Blue;  NATIONAL 
FARM  AND  HOME  HOUR 
CBS:    BUFFALO  PRESE.NTS 
MBS    MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


NBC-Red:  YOUR  HOST  IS 
BUFFALO — orchestra,  soloist.s 
CBS:  MAUISON  ENSEMBLE 
MBS:  SYLVIA  CYDE— soprano 


CBS:   ANN  T-EAF— organist 
2:.S0 

NH<'-Roil;    cril.DION  MELO- 
DIIOS— .,1-clH-stra.  v.)calists 
NHC-Hliii-:  OHCHKSTRA 
MBS:    PALMER    HOUSE  OR- 


NHC-Red:  KALTENMEYER'S 
KINDERGARTEN  —  varieties. 
Bruce  Kamman.  Elinor  Har- 
riot 


CHESTRA 
2:45 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DOWN  BY  HERMAN'S 
MBS-  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


NOTE: 

As  we  go  to  press,  this 
program  guide  is  abso- 
lutely accurate,  but  we 
cannot  be  responsible  for 
last  minute  changes  made 
by  the  broadcasting  com- 
panies, advertising  agen- 
cies or  sponsors. 


NBC-Blue:  BERT  BLOCK'S 
ORCHESTRA 

CBS:    VOCALS  BY  VERRILL 


EVENING 

6:00 

NHC-R(.-1:  TOP  HATTERS  OR- 

NHC-Hlu.-:  VLADI.MIR  BREN- 
NER—pianist 

CBS:  COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
HALL 

6:15 

MBS:     HAROLD  TUR.NER— 


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NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

6:35 

NBC-Red:  ALMA  KITCHELL 
— contralto 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS— sports 
commentator 

6:45 

NBC-Red:  RELIGION  IN  THE 
NEWS— Walter  W.  Van  Kirk 
CBS:  BEN  FELD  S  ORCHES- 
TRA 

7:00 

NBC-Red:  EL  CHICO  SPAN- 
ISH REVUE 

NBC-Blue:   MESSAGE  OF  IS- 
RAEL— guests  and  music 
CBS:     SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SWING    CLUB— Bunny  Berl- 
gan  and  guests 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  EN- 
SEMBLE 

7:15 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  JI.MMY  KEMPER— 
Song  Stories 

NBC-Blue;  UNCLE  JIM'S 
QUESTION  BEE— Jim  McWil- 

7:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  ABC  OF  NBC 
— behind    the  broadcasting 

scenes 

MBS:  IT'S  A  RACKET— dra- 
matization 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  NBC  JAMBOREE — 
Kogen's  orchestra,  guests 
NBC-Blue:    THERE    AVAS  A 
WOMAN — dramatization 
CBS:       PROFESSOR  QUIZ— 
Arthur  Godfrey 
MBS:  SYMPHONIC  STRINGS 

8:30 

NBC-Blue:  MEREDITH 
WILLSON  AND  HIS  OR- 
CHESTRA 

CBS:  JOHNNY  PRESENTS 
RUSS  MORGAN  AND  HIS 
ORCHESTRA— Charles  Martin. 
Phil  Duey 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  SNOW  VILLAGE 
SKETCHES— Arthur  Allen  and 
Parker  Fennelly 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  BARN 
DANCE— Joe  Kelly 
MBS:  HAWAIIAN  SERE- 
NADES 


9:30 

NBC-Red:  SHELL  SHOW— Joe 
Cook,  Watson's  orchestra 
CBS:  SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SERENADE — Mary  Eastman. 
Bill  Perry,  Haenschen's  or- 
chestra 

MBS;  LOUISIANA  HAY-RIDE 


10:00 

NBC-Blue:  CONCERT  PARTY 
■ — English  music  hall  program 
CBS:  YOUR  HIT  PARADK 
MHS;  OTILIO  REVARRO 
AND  HIS  MEXICAN  OR- 
CHESTRA 

10:15 

MBS:  HOLLYWOOD  WHIS- 
PERS— George  Fischer 

10 :30 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:  SATURDAY  SERENADE 
— orchestra,  guests 

10 :4.'i 

CHS— PATTI  CHAPIN — songs 
11:00 

NHC-Red;    DANCE  MUSIC 

NBC-Blue:    DANCE  MUSIC 

CHS;    BITNNY  BERIGAN'S 

ORCHESTRA 

MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


RADIO  STARS 


•  By  far  the  greater  number  of  snapshots 
are  made  on  Kodak  Verichrome  Fihn  be- 
cause people  have  found  that  ''it  gets  the 
picture" — clear,  true,  lifelike.  Any  camera 
is  a  better  camera,  loaded  with  V^ericlirome. 
Don't  take  chances  .  .  .  use  it  always  .  .  . 
Eastman  Kodak  Company,  Rochester,  N.  V. 

Accept  nothing  but  the  film  in  the  familiar  yellow 
box — Kodak  Film — which  only  Eastman  makes. 


WHEN  I  left  the  old  home 
town,  Helen  was  just  a 
little  girl.  Her  brother  Dick 
was  one  of  my  pals,  and  she 
was  always  tagging  us  around. 
But  it  never  occurred  to  me 
that  she  was  anything  except 
a  nice  little  nuisance. 

"After  I  landed  a  job  a  thou- 
sand miles  away  from  home, 
getting  back  wasn't  easy.  I  let 
several  years  go  by,  and  had 
forgotten  all  about  Helen  until 
one  day  my  mother  sent  this 
snapshot.  She  wrote  on  the 
back  —  'Do  you  remember  your 
little  playmate  Helen?" 

"I  could  hardly  believe  my 
eves.  Believe  me,  it  wasn't  long 
before  I  found  a  way  to  get 
home — and  when  I  came  away 
again,  Helen  came  with  me  .  .  . 
I  wouldn't  take  a  thousand 
dollars  for  this  snapshot." 

snapshots  you'll 
want  Tomorroiu 
—you  must  take 
Today 


53 


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I 


n  Paris,  the  woman  of  glamour 
turns  instinctively  to  Djer-Kiss  to  in- 
crease her  charm  ...  To  her  cousins  in 
America  this  precious  French  perfume 
is  now  available  in  Djer  -  Kiss  Talc. 
To  make  yourself  fascinating,  use  this 
exquisite  Djer  -  Kiss  Talc,  every  day. 

In  drug  and  department  stores 
at  25c  and  7  5c.  New  generous 
10c  size  in  ten -cent  stores. 


RADIO  STARS  COOKING  SCHOOL 


(Couliiiucd  from  pane  11) 


write  about  foods  as  lyrically  as  did 
Shelley  of  the  skylark  !  \\'hik'  to  talk  of 
foods  is  never  considered  tiresome  I 

Ves,  as  I  siibse(|uently  discovered,  when 
Miss  Pons  and  1  discus>ed  the  matter  in 
her  deliuhtlul  l-"rench-\ormaii(l\  Imme  in 
its  New  l',n,t;land  countr\ side  ^(ltlll^, 
coi.kiiii;  is  a  subject  of  the  most  vital 
mterevt  to  her,  as  it  is  to  all  wlm  I'roiidly 
claim  la  bcUc  l-'raiice  as  their  birthplace. 

"Xii  I'renchinan,  you  know,"  my  ho-!e^s 
assured  me,  as  we  seated  ourM.'l\"es  c<im- 
fortahly  on  the  stone  terrace  ontsidr  the 
yreeii-aiid-white  dininj;-rnnm,  "has 
any  iiatience  with  bad  or  tastele-.>  IikhU. 

"The  famous  ISrillat-Savarm,"  she  con- 
tinued, "this  famous  chel  cmce  s.iul  :  '//;,• 
invitation  of  a  i/iicsl  incnis  hruin  r, 
sible  for  his  coinpU-tc  ioiilciiliiiriil 
he  liiu/crs  under  your  roof.'  Therefore, 
seeing-  that  the  guest  is  well  fed  should 
be  considered  one  of  the  most  important 
wa.\  s  to  cater  to  his  comfort." 

he  I'Tcnch,  according  to  Mi-ss  Pons, 
believe  that  if  you  love  to  cook  you  will 
be  a  good  cook !  They  also  pay  much  more 
attention  to  seasoning  than  we  do.  They 
taste  as  they  cook. 

In  that  respect,  I  remember  once  reading 
that  when  directions  say  :  "season  to  taste," 
tlie\'  mean  certain  definite  proportions  of 
uid   pepper.     Just   salt  and  pepper! 
"llerhs    and    si)ices,"    ->ai<l    I-ily,  "such 
things  as  tarragon,  iiarsley,  >ha]lots,  chives 
mushriKims,  must  nut  he  overlooked. 


ston- 
■;c/n7c 


1  am  s 

ire  that  if  1  sh.aild  i 

lasle. 

1    should    think  n{ 

these    and  I 

should 

make  sure  of  the  Im.i 

desired  elTect 

in  the 

only    way  possible- 

hv  hisliiin! 

■■Xo 

l-'renchmau  is  a  glut! 

,U.    Vnu  kllMW, 

hut  all 

are  epicures,"  Miss  1 

oils  reui.arked. 

•■Our  t 

M„ls  are  economical. 

t,iu.  h'eiiuin- 

luiirr. 

nuthiiig    is  ever 

sted,    nut  niie 

s/rap  1 

\nd  tile  pride  w  e  lakt 

dishes 

(.1   ntir   liart   ..f   tlie  . 

iuntr>'  1     (  )ur 

are  passr.l  down  Ir, 

atinii  t 

1  the  next  1  My  nn  ilh 

er,  whuin  you 

met  to 

lay,  told  me  how  t(i 

preiiare  some 

things 

she   was   taught  to 

make   by  her 

motlier 

.\llsS 

she  ha 


Polls  (K  scrihed  some  i 
,   ser\e(l.      She   also  r 
some   of   her  own  preference 

Luncheons,  in  the  country 
or  at  her  town  apartment  in 
erally  consist  of  a  soup  and  a  s 
meal,  in  fact,  is  complete  will 
soup  and  salad,  in  her  esiim.- 
whereas     they     merely  siipiiler 


the  dishes 
ade  kuiiwn 
in  menus, 
in  sunmier, 
villter,  gell- 


lUt 


other  course, 
between  them, 
an  entire  luiicl 

delightfully  c 
these,  eilher  a 


the' 


t  the 
snpi)ly. 


•II  IllH 


at  (imnei 
enough  nourishment  for 
leun.  W'getahle  salads  and 
e.xtiemeh  pupular  in  that 
ulurlul  huiisrlK.ld.  With 
simple  h'rc'iich  dressing  or 
served. 

11  easy  ma\'onnaise  recipe  at 


tlu- 


be 


leiitly  with  the  ijictmcd  'iCiiKilnes  Cole 
d'Acur  (tomatoes  stuffed  with  crabnieat 
and  other  things  in  an  interesting  com- 
bination).   The  recipe  is  in  the  leaHct. 

You  can  also  use  this  mayonnaise  with 
the  Oeufs  Laknie  (eggs,  to  youj,  which 


happens  to  be  one  of  the  nicest  jellied 
salads  I've  ever  come  across.  This  one  is 
in  the  leaflet,  too. 

Some  may  prefer  a  simple  French 
dressing  with  all  salads.  The  proportion 
generally  usr.l  l,v  Miss  Pons  is  4  table- 
siioiuis  ot  oil  tu  1  tablespoons  of  vinegar, 
with  salt  and  peiiper  '•to  taste."  But  at 
the  risk  ot  ha\ing  my  previous  words 
thrown  up  to  me,  let  me  suggest  ■  1>  tea- 
spoon salt  and  '4  teaspoon  pejiper  for 
this  .amount  ol  dressing.  "  1  he  dia-ssing 
must  he  addi'd  just  hetore  eating,"  cau- 
tKiiis  Miss  Pons.  "Not  fifteen  minutes 
ahead  of  time,  not  even  two!''  The  addi- 
tion (It  linel\-  minced  chives  is  suggested; 
rubbing  the  howl  with  garlic  recommended! 

There  )ust  isn't  rooin  here  to  tell  you 
an\-  oi  the  interesting  things  Miss  Pons 
had  to  sa\  about  the  French  methods  of 
vegetable  iireparation.  But  I  do  suggest 
that  you  try  the  Mushrooms  a  la  Borde- 
laise,  for  which  she  gave  me  the  recipe. 
Nor  can  I  go  into  the  subject  of  meats, 
but  then,  that's  no  hardship  at  this  par- 
ticular season  of  the  year,  when  "going 
light"  on  meats  is  wiser,  cooler  and  more 
economical.  .\s  a  substitute,  I'm  giving  you 
.Miss  Pons'  recipe  for  Cliccse  Souffle.  With 
this  no  sauce  is  required. 

The  subject  of  desserts  is  always  a 
fascinating  one  and  it's  most  particularly 
so  when  one's  zns-a-z'is  is  from  France, 
where  desserts  are  so  entirely  difYerent 
from  our  own  idea  of  sweets  and  so  foreign 
to  what  we  generally  think  the  French 
like.  Xo  l-renrh  paslry,  I  assure  you,  will 
be  found  among  Miss  Pons'  suggestions — 
those  are  for  the  restaurants,  not  for  the 
home.  heating  lightly  as  she  does  — 
although  she  is  one  prima  donna  who  is 
suiiposed  to  consume  a  certain  amount  of 
food  e\er\-  ila>-  in  order  to  f/aiu  weight — 
Lill\-  Polls  fa\ors  sweets  that  are  not  too 
heavy  nor  loo  rich.  Like  all  French  folk, 
she  |)articiilarl\-  likes  cooked  fruit  or  fruit- 
tlavorcd  desserts.  \'ery  often,  too,  just 
plain  raw  fruit  aiul  an  assortment  of 
cheeses  taki  s  the  place  of  the  sweets 
entirel\-.  Sometimes,  however.  Crepes 
.V//5C//.-  apiiear  on  the  menu.  The 
sauce  for  these  w  a fer-tli in  pancakes  usual- 
ly is  ]iiepai-ed  al  the  table  in  a  chafing 
dish  o\er  a  spirit  lamp.  (You  can  do  just 
as  well  at  the  family  range).  In  this 
month's  leallet  Lily's  recipes  for  Crepes 
and  the  sauce  are  given  you  in  detail 
.\lso  a  simpler  fruit  sauce  to  serve  with 
the  Crepes,  as  a  substitute,  if  you  can'i 
(|uite  "go"  the  Cointreau  and  brandy  sauce 

(iracious!  If  I'm  going  to  leave  room 
for  some  of  Miss  Pons'  recipes  here,  I 
can  onl\-  skim  over  the  other  fine  dishes 
included  in  her  leaflet.  Briefly  then, 
they  include  two  Conipoles — or  Stewed 
l-ruit,  but  with  .1  difference!  .\nd  Oranties 
h'ii/olcllii,  which  combine  fresh  fruit,  sher- 
bet, meringue  and  a  surprise  element,  to 
luake    a    summer-time    seiis.ition  ! 

Now,  liowe\'er,  wa'  must  !ea\e  this  corner 
of  l'"rance  in  rural  (oimecticut!  Just 
time  lor  a  farewell  pat  to  Panouche,  Lily's 
Skye  terrier,  and  a  stroke  of  the  head  for 
White  Socks  the  new — and  to  Panouche, 
unwelcome — fcliui'  addition  to  the  family. 


TALC 

3u     KERKOFF    •  PARIS 


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A  French:  "An  plaisir!"  to  Miss  Pons' 
mother,  a  word  of  thanks  to  our  hostess 
herself,  and  we  return  to  familiar  Ameri- 
can surroundings,  but  with  fine  French 
recipes  as  a  welcome  reminder  of  the  trip. 
Vou,  too,  can  have  copies  of  these,  you 
know,  for  the  asking.  Those,  that  is, 
that  you  do  not  find  here;  which  should 
also  be  tried  out  at  your  leisure.  The 
summery  Salads  and  S'a'cets  that  the 
coupon  brings  you  will  be  well  worth 
adding  to  your  collection  of  delicious 
and  unusual  recipes.    Send  for  them  now ! 

MAYOXXAISE  SUPREME 
yi  teaspoon  dry  mustard 
J4  teaspoon  paprika 
1/2  teaspoon  salt 

i  egg 

1  cup  salad  oil 

1  tablespoon  lemon  juice 
Mix  dry  ingredients.  Add  lemon  juice 
and  blend  thoroughly.  Add  egg.  Slowly 
add  salad  oil,  a  teaspoon  at  a  time  until 
one-half  of  the  oil  has  been  added,  beat- 
ing constantly  with  rotary  beater.  The 
remaining  half  of  the  oil  may  be  added 
in  larger  amounts,  to  make  a  stiff  dres- 
sing. If  not  stiff  enough,  add  more  oil. 
If  too  stiff,  thin  with  a  little  additional 
lemon   juice.     Chill  thoroughly. 

CONSOMME  BIARRITZ 
Place  in  a  saucepan  a  lump  of  butter 
(about  2  tablespoons)  equal  quantities  of 
finely  minced  carrots,  turnips,  lettuce  and 
cauliflower — 2  cups  in  all.  Add  1  pint 
beef  stock  {canned  bouillon  will  make 
on  excellent  substitute)  salt  and  pepper 
"to  taste"  and  simmer  gently  for  1  hour. 
Just  before  serz'ing  stir  in  the  beaten  yolk 
of  1  egg. 

.MUSHROOMS  A  LA  BORDELAISE 
Peel  a  dozen  large  mushrooms,  cutting 
the  stems  off  short.  Place  mushrooms, 
stalks  uppermost,  in  a  deep  frying  pan 
containing  hot  salad  oil.  Cook  5  minutes; 
add  1/2  clove  of  garlic,  minced  fine,  also 
some  finely  chopped  shallots  (scallions) . 
Cook  5  minutes  more,  turn  mushrooms 
and  continue  cooking  sloivly  for  another 
5-8  minutes  or  until  tender.  Place  mush- 
rooms on  a  zrry  hot  dish,  season  ivell 
'ivith  salt  and  pepper,  pour  over  them  a 
little  of  the  hot  oil  containing  garlic  and 
shallots.  Sprinkle  icifh  parsley  and  serve 
immediately. 

CHEESE  SOUFFLE 
Melt  2  tablespoons  butter,  add  3  tea- 
spoons flour,  blend  thoroughly.  Add  V2  cup 
scalded  milk;  cook  and  stir  until  smooth 
and  thickened ;  stir  in  ]4  '""/'  grated  cheese. 
Remove  from  heat,  cool  slightly,  add  beat- 
en yolks  of  3  eggs.  Fold  in  beaten  ivhites 
of  eggs  carefully.  Turn  mi.vture  into 
buttered  baking  dish  and  bake  in  moderate 
oven  (375° f.)  until  puffed,  broicn  and 
firm  to  the  touch  (about  25  minutes). 
Serve  immediately  on  removal  from  oven. 

CAFE  DIABLE 
To  each  cup  of  hot,  strong  coffee  add 
2  li'hole  cloves,  a  lump  of  sugar,  a  2-inch 
stick  of  cinnamon,  ^  orange  peel, 
]/i  lemon  peel.  Bring  to  a  boil.  Put 
IVi  jiggers  of  brandy  in  a  ladle,  hold  it 
over  the  coffee,  ignite  it  and  stir  gradu- 
ally into  coffee.  Serve  immediately.  Very 
attractive  to  look  at  if  made  at  the  table 
over  a  lighted  alcohol  lamp,  but  equally 
tasty  and  "spicy"  if  prepared  in  a  ten- 
cent  saucepan! 


KEEP  OUT  OF  THAT 
HOT  KITCHEN! 

Serve  the  Delicious  Spaghetti  that 
makes  quick  Summer  Meals  Possible 


BUT  be  sure  it's  Franco-American  Spaghetti 
you  use.  There  is  a  real  diflference  be- 
tween Franco-American  and  ordinary  ready- 
cooked  spaghetti.  Well,  there  ought  to  be! 
First,  in  taste!  There  are  eleven  savory  in- 
gredients in  that  world-famous  cheese-and- 
tomato  sauce  —  there's  no  imitating  that! 
Second,  in  nourishment.  The  seleaed  top 
quality  durum  wheat  that  Franco-American 
is  made  from  — rich  in  proteins  and  carbo- 
hydrates—there's no  improving  on  that! 
Franco-American  is  an  appetizing,  delicious 
food  that  saves  you  money.  It  usually  costs 


only  ten  cents  a  can  —  three  cents  a  portion! 

When  a  hot  day  comes  along  and  you  dread 
cooking— don't!  Just  serve  that  delicious 
Franco- American  Spaghetti  as  a  main  dish  — 
with  a  crisp  green  salad,  milk,  and  fruit.  It's  on 
the  table  in  no  time.  And  your  family  will 
say:  "  Gee,  this  is  swell,  Mother!  "  Or  if  you've 
leftovers  you  want  to  use  up,  Franco-Amer- 
ican's rare  and  tasty  flavor  makes  a  dish  of 
leftover  meat  taste  like  the  proud  creation 
of  a  French  chef.  Ser\e  Franco- American! 

Ffonco-flmericon 

SPAGHETTI 

Made  by  the  Makers  of  Campbell's  Soups 

r  1 

The  Franco-American  Food  Co.,  Dept.  68, 
Camden,  New  Jersey 
Please  send  me  your  free  recipe  book: 
"30  Tempting  Spaghetti  Meals." 


Name  (print* . 

Address  

City  


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Pick  and  Pat 


•iVoT.'. 


//.  /'.  Kaltcnhoyn:  "When  I  reached  that 
point  of  financial  independence  where  I 
cut.ild  tell  editors,  sponsors,  program  man- 
agers and  radio  executives  to  go  to  what- 
ever place  it  would  have  pleased  me  to  send 
them." 

Don  McNeill:  "Right  now.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Neill is  well,  the  two  little  McNeills  are 
well,  things  on  the  air  for  fall  look  well — 
well!" 

Bide  Dudley  :  "]]'hcn  a  uiil  I  ivas  in  love 
at  /ti'Dj/.v  kissed  uw." 

Elsie  Hila:  "Just  hefore  I  opened  as 
leading  lady  in  a  New  York  play,  but  that 
rosy  feeling  was  very  short  lived — the  play 
was  a  failure." 

Ed  Fitzgerald:  "It  hasn't." 

Johnny  Green:  "The  uiiiht  the  PhiUiar- 
iiionic  Syiiiplioiiy  Society  phiyrd  my  Night 
riub  Suite  at  the  Leu'isolui  Sladiinii  under 
tin:  baton  of  Paul  Whileinan." 

Russ  Morc/aii:  "The  day  I  walked  into 
the  Brunswick  Recording  Company." 

Betty  Winkler:  "When  I  went  on  the 
air  in  my  first  starring  show — five  days  a 
week." 

Conrad  Thibault:  "Roses  bloomed  jor 
yours  truly  Zi<heii  I  won  a  scholarship  at 
the  Curtis  Institute  of  Hhisic.  !/ii'in(/  me  an 
opportunity  to  learn  and  prepare  for  all 
that  followed — opera,  radio,  euneerts." 

Nick  Daivson:   "When  I  was  married." 

Ted  Hammerstein:  "When  I  was  a  kid 
— between  the  ages  of  fifteen  and  twenty- 
one — because  then  I  didn't  have  to  worry 
about  contract  renewals." 

[''dgar  Rergen  :  "//  has  never  been  more 
Ihrillin;/  than  it  is  nozv." 

Adela  Roijers  St.  Johns:  "I  like  life  so 
much,  being  an  incurable  optimist,  that  it 
alwa\s  seems  rosiest  right  where  I  am." 

Richard  Crooks:  "When  I  married  my 
school  days  sweetheart,  who  is  still  my  best 
girl  and  my  best  pal." 

Roscoc  Turner:  "Life  has  never  been 
dull  lhou</h  it  has  never  been  easy,  so  per- 
haps I  should  say  it  has  always  seemed 
Itrifiht  since  I  have  really  eiijnyed  lite  hard 
-work  il  lakes  to  make  a  career." 

Lud  Gluskiiis    "When  I  came  from  New 


York  to  assume  the  position  of  Musical 
Director  for  CBS  on  the  Pacific  Coast." 

Welcome  Lewis:  "When  I  received  my 
first  big  commercial — I  walked  on  air." 

Duke  Ellington  :  "Life  seemed  rosiest  lo 
me  duiiiia  Ihe  iiood  old  days  at  the  Cotton 
Club  in  Harlem — allhomjh  I  have  no  com- 
plaint reyardbui  my  lot  today,  and  still 
am  enjoying  my  -work  and  friends." 

Homer  LiodiJicaver :  "From  the  public 
standpoint,  my  greatest  experience  was  in 
the  great  Billy  Sunday  revival  campaigns, 
where  I  had  the  privilege  of  singing  to 
and  directing'  the  largest  crowds  that  were 
being  gathered  anywhere  in  the  world." 

Gabriel  Heatter:  "When  I  got  my  first 
sponsor." 

Helen  Broderick  :  "Rifiht  noiv.  I  have  a 
sieell  firown  son,  am  makiiuj  money  and 
at  last  have  a  permanent  home." 

Jack  Benny:  "When  I  was  first  recog- 
nized as  a  radio  personality  and  realized 
that  this  was  a  new  and  very  important 
phase  of  show  business." 

Rubinoff :  "During  the  days  of  study — 
artistic  days." 

Kenny  Baker:  "The  first  pay  check  that 
brought  me  out  of  the  red  also  tinted  my 
life  a  rosy  shade.  The  date — t'a'O  years 
ago  I  hi 


Bernice  Claire:  "When  I  stepped  into 
the  prima  donna  role  of  The  Desert  Song 
— my  first  break,  and  first  professional 
job." 


Do  you  consider  it  a  necessity 
to  follow  your  script  exactly? 
How  do  you  react  to  ad  libbing? 


Jack  Benny :  "//  od  lib  is  natural  and 
fits  the  situation,  I  can  see  no  objection." 

Rex  Chandler:  "It  is  best  to  do  one's  ad 
libbing  in  writing  the  script,  rather  than 
afterwards,  for  95%  of  the  actors  or  an- 
nouncers." 

Don  McNeill:  "I  never  follow  the 
script  exactly  as  ad  libbing  is  my  forte.  In 
fact,  on  The  Breakfast  Club,  I  don't  use 
a  script  at  all." 

h^rancia  White:  "When  1  hair  a  script 
I  usually  follow  il.  Of  leu  -when  reading 
dialoi/ue,  especially  %eilh  comedians,  one 
has  lo  expi:cl  ad  libbing,  zvhich  is  usually 
a  lot  of  fun  but  makes  me  nervous  as  a 
cat." 


RADIO  STARS 


Morton  Bowc:  '"As  much  as  possible  I 
stick  to  tlic  script,  to  avoid  enibarrassins? 
others.  If  there  are  changes  to  be  made  to 
fit  a  personality,  they  sliould  be  made  in 
rehearsal." 

Ted  Hammcrstein:  "I  think  one  should 
follow  one's  script  closely  because  of  the 
timing  element.  All  programs  are  timed  so 
that  any  change  will  throw  everyone  off." 

Conrad  Thibault :  "\'o,  it  is  not  a  neces- 
sity, but  icry  helpful  to  one's  air  person- 
ality to  be  abk'  to  ad  lib  fairly  z.ell.  I 
don't  mind  ad  libbing  at  all." 

Berniee  Claire:  "Ad  libbing  is  a  little 
out  of  my  line,  and  the  artists  who  can  ad 
lib  cleverly  are  few.  I  have  personally 
never  done  any  on  the  air." 

Cab  Calloway:  "It  is  not  only  unneces- 
sary but  it  is  difficult  for  me  to  follow  a 
script  exactly.  I  feel  that  I  am  much 
more  natural,  both  on  the  air  and  screen, 
when  I  am  ad  libbing  my  lines." 


•./</ 


Edgar  Bergen :  "/  di 
but  depend  on  ad  libbin,j  winch  is  <;<';- 
ern^d  by  the  audience's  reaction.  I  find 
it  diffuult  to  ad  lib  ivith  other  players,  but 
easy  for  the  dummy  to  anszirr  any  im- 
promptu remark,  and  it  sazxs  me  the  em- 
barrassment." 

Nick  Da'a'so)i:  "In  Follow  the  Moon 
we  rarely  present  a  script  as  originally 
written.  Intelligent  and  carefully  timed  ad 
libs  contribute  sparkle  and  reality  to  al- 
most any  program." 

Ethel  Blume:  "It  depends  with  whom 
you  are  working.  Some  people  must  get 
direct  cues  or  they  are  lost.  If  you  work 
with  someone  who  ad  libs,  you  usually  fol- 
low suit." 

Clem  McCarthy  :  "Folloi'.nni]  the  script 
makes  for  smoother  xcork  by  others  on  tlir 
program.  If  doing  a  mottoloouc ,  wnllcn 
by  myself,  no.  Some  find  certain  f^hrascs 
or  li'ords  in  a  script  n-hich  they  cannot 
speak  naturally.  I  think  these,  if  f^K^sihlc, 
should  be  altered." 


J'ictor  Moore: 
follow  script  closel\ 
good." 


"Would  much  rather 
Ad  libbing  is  okay,  if 


Johnny  Green:  "I  have  always  followed 
my  end  of  the  script  exactly  and  have  left 
the  ad  libbing  to  the  star.  Ad  libbing  is 
swell  if  it  happens  to  be  funny." 

Lucille  Manners  :  "/  think  it  is  best  to 
follow  the  script.  There  is  an  exception — 
sometimes  a  com.edian's  ad  libbing  often 
adds  spontaneity  to  the  program." 

James  Melton:  "Yes,  unless  an  emer- 
gency arises.  In  informal  conversation  ad 
libbing  is  not  confusing,  and  sometimes  it 
is  effective." 

Lanny  Rass:  "It  is  better  to  follow  the 
script  when  working  with  others.  Ad  lib- 
bing is  necessary  if  there  is  a  slight  slip- 
up for  one  reason  or  another." 

- 

Jimniie  Fidler :  "Breaking  ai^'ay  from 
scripts  might  provide  one  laugh,  but  if 
the  habit  became  general,  there  would  he 
too  many  sour  ad  libs  on  the  air.  There 
are  7'ery  few  conversationalists  'who  are 
consistently  funny." 


•  ^'Excuse  mcjor  getting  personal— but  haven't  you  gone  pretty  far 
tcith  this  nose  idea?  Enough  is  enough,  I  always  say. . .  It's  none  of 
my  business,  of  course— but  what's  a  nose  like  that  for?'' 


•  "You  don't  tell  me!. .  .You  fill  it  full  of  uater  on  a  hot  day— yes, 
yes,  go  on...  Then  you  throw  it  up  over  your  head  and  give  yourself 
a  shower?  Boy!. . .  Well,  I  must  say  you've  got  something  there!" 


•  "Don't  try  to  sell  me  one  though!  Mope— I've  got  my  own  system. 
A  soft  cooling  sprinkle  of  dotvny  Johnson's  Baby  Poicder.  .  .  no 
prickly  heat  or  rashes  or  chafing  after  that  kind  of  shoiver!" 


•  "Take  one  Jeel  of  Johnson''s  Baby  Potcder— you'll  see  tchy  it 
keeps  my  skin  so  healthy  and  smooth!"  Healthy  skin.  Mothers, 
is  the  best  protection  against  skin  infections.  Johnson''s  Baby  Pow- 
der is  made  of  finest  Italian  talc— no  gritty  particles  and  no  orris- 
root  .  . .  Remember  Johnson^s  Baby  Soap  and  Baby  Cream,  too. 
And  for  tiny  babies,  try  the  new  Johnson's  Baby  Oil— stainless,  not 
sticky,  and  cannot  turn  rancid. 


57 


NEW  BRUNSWICK 


NEW  JERSEY 


RADIO  STARS 


I  WANT 

AN  ANSWER 

YES  OR  NO?:: 


MARRIAGE  MADE  A  DIFFERENCE 


(Continued  from  pane  41) 


"it's  yes,  of  course! 
You  know  I  go  for  this 
Beeman's  flavor.  I  like  the 
neot  and  nifty  airtight 
package  that  keeps  it  so 
absolutely  fresh-tasting. 
And  of  course  every- 
body knows  Beeman's  is 
good  for  digestion." 


For  a  long  time  Walter  had  been  wish- 
ma  he  could  know  definitely  whether  lie  had 
something;  or  not.  whether  Xadine  was  right 
and  he  slioidd  mve  up  everything  hut  sing- 
ma.  risk  his  all  on  one  throw  of  the  dice. 
Thronah  Ins  studio  affiliations,  he  was 
given  a  chance  to  sing  for  Tihbctt.  The 
aieat   smaer  listened  and  was  impressed. 

niih  contributions  to  Walter's  career 
wcic  Ills  assurance  that  the  ho\-  had  a  voice 
— and  the  reminder  that  lieiiig  a  singer 
meant  a  whole  lot  of  work  ! 

\\  alter  was  not  afraid  oi  work,  not  afraid 
ot  amthmg.  now  that  he  knew  he  had 
somethina  more  than  a  pleasing,  a  micro- 
phone, voice. 

Rut  tor  all  that  Tihbett  spoke  the  de- 
ciding word.  It  is  not  fair  to  Walter  to 
regard  him  as  Tibhett's  protege.  He  never 
has  traded  on  that  name  but  always  has 
stood  determine<lly  on  his  own  feet,  made 
his  own  wav,  and,  against  heavy  odds,  has 
put  his  name  in  bright  lights,  on  impor- 
tant contracts. 

It  never  has  been  easy.  And  it  has 
meant  hard  work  and  many  sacrifices,  not 
only  on  his  part,  but — what  hurts  him 
much  more — on  Xadine's  part. 

I  have  used  the  word  "career"  several 
times  and,  before  going  further,  I  ought 
to  explain  that  it  is  a  word  W  .iltcr  hates. 

"It  is  essentially  a  srlfish  \voi<l,"  he  ex- 
plained. ".\s  if  you  set  _\diii  si.l f  and  what 
you  were  doing  apart — a  sort  of  dini't- 
touch-mc  word.  As  if  you  said :  'This  is 
niy  career — it  has  nothing  to  do  with  you 
or  anyone  else — '"  Tie  leaned  forward 
earnestlx'.  "I  <lnn't  feel  thai  way  about  it, 
at  all.  .Singing  is  my  Kuirk.  tliat  is  all- 
like  the  milling  business  or  sign  painting, 
or  anything  else.  It  is  what  I  do  to  make 
a  living  for  my  family.  Naturally,  I  want 
to  succeed,  to  do  things  for  them,  to  liuy 
them  the  things  they  need  and  want — suc- 
cess has  no  point,  no  meaning,  except  as  it 
enables  you  to  do  things  for  the  ones  you 
love. 

"Nadiiie  has  a  lovely  voice.  Perhaps  she 
might  have  done  soinething  with  it — per- 
haps now  and  then  she  feels  a  twinge  of 
regret  that  she  gave  up  a  career  of  her 
own— but,  although  we  were  very  young 
when  we  were  iiiarrie<l,  we  knew  what  we 
were  about  and  we  wanted  it  to  last — for 
always.  Xadinr  felt  that  wdiat  she  wanted 
most  was  to  be  wife  and  mother  and  home- 
maker.  Her  ambitions  were  transferred  to 
me,  centered  in  me.  Without  her,  I 
wouldn't  have  done  anything,  hut  she  had 
confidence  in  me  and  in  my  dreams,  and 
whatever  I've  done  has  been  through  her 
and  because  of  her." 

When,  in  the'r  youthful  impatience  to 
get  started  in  the  new  work — we  won't  call 
it  career ! — Walter  gave  up  his  radio  and 
ofifice  jobs,  everyone  said  he  was  crazy. 
It  was  too  great  a  risk,  they  said,  for  a 
young  man  with  a  wife  and  f.imily.  Be- 
sides, they  argue<l,  be  was  young  -niiich 
better  to  wait  until  opiiorliinity  knocked 
on  his  door  than  to  go,  unknown  and  un- 
prepared, to  Xew  York,  that  city  of  broken 
dreams,  and  hazard  everything  in  an  ef- 
fort to  create  his  own  opportunity. 

Hut  Walter  felt,  as  all  young  jieople  do. 


that  youth  is  fleeting  and  that  it  was  im- 
portant to  get  started.  Xadine  agreed. 
With  high  h,, pes— and  f.M'ty  dollars— Wal- 
ter said  ano(lb\c  \,>  his  wife  and  two  babies 
and  set  furth  fur  Xi  w  York. 

The  trip  cast  was  an  or<leal  in  itself. 
He  traveled,  transportation  free,  on  a  freight 
train,  as  escort  lor  a  load  of  steers.  He 
had  man\-  and  somewhat  harrowing  experi- 
ences, but  exentnally  he  found  himself  in 
Xew  York.  Friendless  and  alone,  with  less 
tlian  forty  dollars  in  his  pocket  now,  but 
in  Xew  York! 

He  had  letters  of  introduction,  but  none 
proved  helpful  in  actually  getting  him  any- 
thing to  do.  But  he  found  an  inexpensive 
place  to  live,  made  a  few  friends,  wrote 
optimistically  to  Xadine,  who,  to  help  tide 
them  over,  had  taken  over  his  church  posi- 
tion and  also  was  clerking  in  a  store. 

Briefly,  he  thought  the  struggle  was  about 
to  end,  life  to  be  made  easy,  when  a  night 
club  position  with  the  princely  stipend  of 
$250  a  week  was  dangled  over  his  head. 
He  was  all  ready  to  send  for  his  wife  and 
liabies  when,  for  wdiat  reason  he  never 
knew,  the  job  vanished  into  thin  air,  Dis- 
couraaed.  determined  never  again  to  let  his 
hiipes  run  away  with  him,  Walter  wearily 
went  the  rounds  once  more.  Even  the 
sign  painting  kit  came  out  now.  There 
was  only  one  thing  the  boy  was  certain 
of — he  couldn't  (|uit !  There  was  no  turn- 
ing back. 

At  last  an  audition  at  NBC  led  to  a 
guest  appearance  on  Ernest  Cutting's  Air 
Breaks  program,  and  a  return  engagement. 
.Soon  he  had  a  sustaining  spot,  and  finally 
four  (if  them,  whicli,  with  a  new  church  po- 
sition on  Sundays,  jinshed  his  income  up 
to  a  living  wage.  Xow,  instead  of  going 
without  food  tc)  pay  pianists  to  accompany 
him  at  auditions  ("I  must  have  made  a 
thousand  auditions!"  he  exclaimed),  he 
could  pay  up  his  debts  and  send  for  his 
little  family. 

He  had  been  alone  for  nine  months — 
and  of  all  their  hardships,  Nadine  and  Wal- 
ter regard  separation  as  the  worst.  But 
they  were  together  again,  at  last,  in  a 
pretty  apartment  in  Forest  Hills,  and  Wal- 
ter definitely  was  getting  somewhere. 

His  first  guest  appearance  was  on  Ted 
Hammerstcin's  program,  next  on  Paltii- 
olii'e  Beauty  Box.  Slunv  Boat  followed, 
with  five  guest  appearances  in  a  row — he 
sang  on  tliat  program  nine  times.  Then 
came  a  performance  with  the  General  Mo- 
tors spring  concert,  followed  by  his  first 
conimercial  series  with  the  Sealt^st  Satur- 
day Xi./lil  Party. 

Then  Warner  Brothers  steinied  in,  dan- 
gling a  line  ((iiilrait.  and  Walter  asked 
for  a  camellation  of  his  Sralle.^l  contract 
and  embarked  for  the  G<dden  West. 

It  meant  another  separation — and  there 
was  another  baby  coming !  But  Nadine's 
eyes  were  bright,  the  words  on  her  lips 
were:  "(lo — you-  must  no!"  It  was  what 
she  had  been  dreaming  of,  hoping  for,  for 
longer  than  Waller  knew. 

It  began  with  wires  and  a  rush  to  get 
a  plane,  but,  true  to  form,  having  fetched 
him  out  in  a  hurry,  the  movies  began  the 
f.imiliar  waiting  game.    However,  Walter 


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has  been  busy.  His  tests  were  very  sood 
— incidentally,  he  is  six  feet  tall,  blond  an<l 
very  goo*l-looking.  and  he  keeps  in  fine 
physical  trim  with  handball  and  tennis  and 
riding.  He  has  appeared  in  two  pictures, 
a  straight  dramatic  part  in  Lady  Luck  and 
a  nice  singing  role  in  a  technicolor  ojier- 
etta,  Golden  Daxim.  He  also  has  made  live 
guest  appearances  on  the  Chc:>oli-t  Pro- 
f/ram, during  Rubinoff's  stay  in  Hollywood. 
The  studio  has  big  ideas  for  him. 

"I  want  him  to  do  that,  to  be  success- 
ful in  the  movies,"'  Nadine  said  softly,  "and 
I  want  him  to  have  a  radio  program  of  his 
own.  .'\nd  then — concert  work — and  the 
Met!  But,  oh,  I  hope  it  doesn't  mean  more 
long  separations !  I  hate  them  so — I  miss 
him  so!  I  get  so  lonely,  it  just  seems  as 
if  I  couldn't  bear  it !" 

And,  much  as  she  would  like  to  travel 
with  him,  that  is  out.  "I  couldn't  leave  the 
children,"  she  said  simply.  "I'd  be  wor- 
ried sick  if  I  had  to  be  away  from  them 
one  night !" 

The  little  family  now  consists  of  John 
Walter  Cassel.  Jr.,  aged  six,  Catherine  Jean 
— better  known  as  Jeanie — aged  five.  Mary 
Martha,  aged  six  months — with  Marjorie,  a 
charming  young  girl  who  accompanied  them 
from  New  York  and  helps  take  care  of  the 
babies.  For  Nadine,  the  trip  west  meant 
the  end  of  another  separation ;  each  w'hirr 
of  the  wheels  sang  that  they  were  that 
much  nearer  Hollywood,  nearer  \\'alter, 
nearer  home! 

Walter  had  found  for  them  in  Hollywood 
a  lovely  furnished  house  on  a  palm-lined 
street  near  the  foothills.  There  they  live 
very  simply,  but  happily.    Nadine  does  her 


own  cooking  and  I  not  only  have  her  hus- 
iiand's  testimony  that  she  is  a  grand  cook 
but  I  sampled  her  delicious  spaghetti,  mv- 
vel  f . 

One  of  Xadine's  personal  hardships  was 
the  necessity  of  wearing  old  clothes,  so  that 
W'alter's  wardrobe  could  be  all  that  of  a 
man  in  public  life  ^liould  hi- — that  wardrobe 
which  had  its  early  painful  bcjiiniiinijs  when 
a  week's  salary  went  fur  a  <liniicr  coat  or 

where  Walter  wa-  t-  ,.r  ni.  rt  --iiie.nie 

important!  Hut,  ii.iw,  wuli  iiu  rea--iiv.:  pr.--- 
perity,  Nadine  docMi't  <le-ire  a  I^t  <it  luw 
clothes.  Her  wants  remain  feu,  her  tastes 
simple. 

Walter,  of  course,  shares  her  ambitions 
for  himself,  and  is  coaching  in  dramatic 
art,  studying  and  practicing  faithfully  at 
his  music,  so  that  he  will  be  ready  t<.)r  an\- 
eventuality.  His  voice  has  dejith  and  power 
and  beauty  enough  to  take  him  far  and  it 
has.  also,  a  depth  of  feeling  that  derives 
from  his  varied  experience  and  from  his 
own  emotional  resix)nse  to  life  and  love. 
His  little  family  means  everything  in  the 
world  to  him,  and  when  he  sings  a  love 
song,  you  will  know  he  is  thinking  of 
Nadine  and  all  the  things  she  has  made 
possible,  all  he  owes  to  her. 

"Of  course  there  is  a  satisfaction  in  sing- 
ing to  an  audience,  in  feeling  their  re- 
sponse. And  there  is  a  satisfaction  just 
in  the  work  itself,  in  perfecting  one's  per- 
formance— I  never  feel  satisfied,  always  feel 
sure  that  I  w-ill  do  better  next  time  !  And 
I  think  being  an  artist  means  being  an 
artisan,  giving  as  capable,  as  careful  a 
performance  as  possible.    To  do  that,  to 


give  a  workmanlike  performance,  you  need 
to  be  versatile,  to  have  had  a  varied,  com- 
prehensive experience — a  balanced  diet!" 
He  smiled,  and  added :  "To  live  fully,  to 
feel  deeply — it  all  shows  in  your  voice. 
That  is  why  I  am  glad  I  have  been  a  sign 
painter  and  worked  in  an  oflice,  been  nurse- 
maid to  stecr^  and  \\iiie<l  <1m\\  n  engines! 
.And  why  I  w.ant  t'>  >hi.l;  <ui  the  radid,  in 
the  tuovie-.  in  concert.  It  is  all  a  part  of 
life  an<l  it  ui\es  ine  a  deci)cr  understanding, 
a  breailtli  .if  ^xiniiathy.  that  is  as  impor- 
tant a--  aetual  \  •  icaliziny  I 

■'Hnt,  in  the  :.iial  an,il\ >is."  he  continued, 
"it  jn-t  ni>-  \\  .  irk.  and  the  wdiole  point  of 
it  i>  to  ni.ikc  life  jilea^ant  and  happy  for 
Nadine  ami  the  children.  That  is  the  im- 
l)nrtant  thnm — havin;.;  someone  to  work 
iVjr,  and  having  faith.  .  .  ." 

After  a  niunient  he  went  on  :  '"Naturally 
I  want  it  easier  than  it  has  been  for  Nadine, 
but  we  like  simple  pleasures,  a  simple  way 
of  livmg.  \\'e  have  fun  just  in  being  to- 
gether, doing  things  together — if  it  is  only 
goitig  to  the  movies." 

"Or  stopping  at  the  nnlbcrgcr  stand," 
Nadine  laughing!}-  contributed.  She  looke<l 
at  me  swldenl)-.  "You  haven't  asked  inc 
any  questinn>  I  " 

I  said:  "Well — arc  }0U  sorry  you  gave 
up  your  own  career?" 

She  answered  quickly:    "Of  course  not!" 

"And  how  about  the  movies?  Are  you 
afraid  Walter  will  be  changed — are  you 
afraid  to  tru^t  him  with  all  those  pretty 
girls?  ■ 

'"I  wish  people  would  stop  trying  to 
make  me  jealous."  she  cried.  "I'm  not 
jealous — not  a  bit !" 


WOMAN  HATER? 


THAT'S  WHAT  MEN  THOUGHT 
—BUT  emu  KNEW  BETTER  !. , , 


WHAT  A  man!  by  THE  WAY. 

SIS,  what's  the  low-down  on 

HIM?  IS  HE  A  WOMAN-HATER 


GUY  TAKES  THE  HINT 


YES,  6UY,  TESTS  PROVE  THAT  76'^o  OF  ALL 
PEOPLE  OVER  THE  AOE  OF  17  HAVE  BAD  BREATH, 
TESTS  ALSO  PROVE  THAT  MOST  BAD  BREATH 
COMES  FROM  IMPROPERLY  CLEANED  TEETH 
ADVISE  COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
BECAUSE... 


A/OU/^NO  BAD  BREATH 

behind  his  Sparkling  Smile! 


20^  LARGE  SIZE 
35^  GIANT  SIZE 
OVER  TWICE  AS  MUCH 


...AND  NO 
TOOTHPASTE 
EVER  MADE 
MYTEETH  AS 
BRIGHT  AND 
CLEAN  AS 
COLGATE'S! 


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RADIO  STARS 


OTH  the  same  person 


^  U  1  M  the  same  person  —  you'd 
hardly  believe  it,  would  you?  A  few  simple  brush-strokes  of  Maybelline 
Mascara  make  all  the  difference  in  the  beauty-world.  Pale,  scaut\  ,  uiiat- 
traciive  la^hes^or  the  long,  dark,  luxuriant  fringe  that  invites  romance- 
let  your  mirror  help  you  choose. 

No  longer  need  you  risk  the  bold,  artificial  look  of  lumpy,  gummy  nias- 
car^i-..  when  you  can  so  easily  have  the  /;<//!(;-(;/ appearance  of  beautiful  dark 
lasho  w  ith  Ma>  liclline  Mascara.  Either  the  popular  Cream-form  or  famous 
Soli<l-t(jnii  lasts  all  day — and  through  the  romantic  hours  of  evening.  Tear- 
prcxil ,  non-sniarting,  harmless.  Obtainable  at  your  favorite  cosmetic  counter. 
1  r\  \la\h(  lline  —  and  see  why  11.000,000  beauty-wise  women  prefer  it. 

1  r>'  Maybelline's  exquisite,  creamy  Eye  Shadow.  Blend  a  delicate 
harmonizing  shade  on  your  lids  —  to  accent  the  color  and  sparkle  of 
your  eyes. 

Form  \  ()ur  brows  into  swift  curving  lines  of  beauty — with  Maybelline's 
smooth-ni. li  king  Eyebrow  Pencil. 

Generous  introductory  sizes  of  the  world's  largest  selling  eye  beauty 
aids  are  obtainable  at  all  10c  stores.  Introduce  yourself  to  thrilling  new 
loveliness  —  insist  on  Maybelline! 


THE    WORLUb    LARGE^,r    SliLLING    EYE    BEAUTY  AIDS 


"She  needn't  be,"  Walter  interposed 
quietly.  "There  is  no  one  out  here  any 
prettier  than  she  is." 

"And  the  domestic  life  is  agreeable?" 

"Of  course.  I  love  cleaning,  I  love  taking 
care  of  the  children.  (She  bathed  Johnnie 
and  Jeanie  herself,  the  night  before  Mary 
was  born!)  I  love  buying  furniture,  furnish- 
ing a  house — but  I  hate  cooking!"  She 
flashed  me  a  quick  look.  "I  don't  have  to 
lie,  do  I?  I  really  loathe  it !  What  else  do 
you  want  to  know?"  she  laughed. 

She  didn't  have  to  lie — especially  since 
I  already  knew  what  a  grand  cook  she  was. 
Besides,  she  didn't  really  have  to  answer 
any  questions  at  all.  I  had  learned  all  I 
wanted  to  know,  all  I  had  come  for,  and 
when  she  said :  "What  else  do  you  want 
to  know?"  I  could  have  said:  "Nothing 
you  haven't  already  told  me ;  nothing  more 
than  I  see  in  the  way  you  hold  your  baby, 
the  way  you  speak  to  your  children,  the 
way  you  look  at  Walter — and  the  way  he 
looks  at  you." 

That's  the  story — two  youngsters  against 
the  world.  And  the  world  is  with  them 
now  and  forever,  because  they  are  so  real 
and  so  sincere  and  so  ardent,  as  much  as 
because  of  the  glorious  baritone  that  goes 
out  over  the  air  and  that  will  some  day 
heap  many  gifts  at  their  feet,  but  never 
anything  more  precious  than  what  they  have 
today  in  mutual  love  and  understanding. 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 

(Continued  from  page  13) 


sleek-on-top  and  softly  waved  coiffures 
are  all  the  rage,  she  frequently  brushes 
it  to  a  smooth  cap  on  the  sides  and  back 
and  wears  just  a  few  soft  waves  at  the 
front,  with  the  ends  of  the  hair  in  soft 
curls.  A  good  permanent,  given  when  the 
hair  is  in  good  condition,  is  most  adaptable 
and  will  enable  you  to  style  your  hair  in 
numerous  ways,  without  waiting  to  train 
it  to  a  new  style. 

We  are  all  interested  in  highlighting 
the  hair — for  unfortunately  not  all  of  us 
have  richly-colored  hair.  If  you  would 
like  to  know  about  a  tint  that  does  this 
in  a  beautiful  manner,  and  at  the  same 
time  contains  oil  for  reconditioning  the 
hair,  a  letter  to  me  will  bring  you  the 
necessary  information. 

When  you  have  your  hair  waved,  and 
must  sit  under  the  dryer,  then  do  take 
a  jar  of  cold  cream  along.  You  will  find 
that  a  generous  slathering  of  cream  will 
counteract  the  unpleasant  tight-drawn  feel- 
ing the  heat  gives  to  your  face,  and  you 
will  emerge  with  a  complexion  soft  and 
supple. 

There  are  all  kinds  of  tricks  for  apply- 
ing perfumes,  hut  one  of  the  most  pleas- 
ing is  to  (lash  just  a  few  drops  of  your 
favorite  i)crfunie  in  the  water  when  you 
rinse  your  liair  !  Yuu  will  feci  especially 
lovely,  knowing  that  \cnir  hair  has  a  faint 
fresh  whisiKT  ol  f1(jwers.  Write  to  me 
and  I  will  tcH  aliont  nn  inexpensive 

line  of  perfumes.  \ n\)  will  want  to  use 
this  perfume  on  ymir  hankies,  wrists,  and 
thrnat,  too,  t<j  complete  the  fragrant  en- 
semble. 

There  is  another  trick  for  daintiness, 
too— and  this  time  I  have  a  free  sample 


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— it  will  bring  you  a  dainty  little  packet 
of  lipstick  tissues,  to  tuck  in  your  hand- 
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from  the  comfort  of  your  private  dressing- 
table. 

Lipstick  smears  can  spoil  the  clear-cut 
line  of  your  mouth.  You  know,  too,  the 
trick  of  applying  lipstick  indelibly  is  first 
to  apply  the  lipstick,  then  wipe  it  off. 
Apply  lipstick  again,  and  this  time  dust 
with  powder.  Apply  lipstick  a  third  time, 
just  delicately  retouching  the  lips  to  give 
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you  will  find  it  a  simple  matter  to  follow 
this  three-step  routine  at  any  time,  any 
place. 

Lipstick  stains  on   the   fingertips  have 
an  awful   way  of   turning  up  again  on 
the  hat  brim,  handkerchief,  bag  and  even 
favorite  frocks.    These  tissues  make  noth- 
ing of  that  problem.    If  you  are  one  who  j 
likes  to  apply  make-up  before  slipping  in- 
to your  dress,  you  will  save  yourself  lots  i 
of  grief  if  you  will   form  the  habit  of  ] 
pressings  one  of  these  tissues  between  your  j 
lips  (the  tissue  will  cover  all  lipstick)  and 
then  whisk  the  dress  over  your  head.  No 
stains  then  on  your  lovely  frocks.    I  could 
chant  the  uses  for  these  tissues  far  into  the 
night,  but  you  will  be  discovering  soon 
for  yourself  what  indispensable  items  they 
are! 

Here  are  two  new  things  for  summer 
sunning:  Whether  you  sun  on  a  penthouse 
terrace,  the  beach,  or  in  your  own  back- 
yard, you  will  be  interested  in  a  fragrant 
and  lovely  oil  that  promotes  smooth,  even 
tanning.  Or  perhaps  you  have  decided  not 
to  tan,  but  want  to  stay  white  and  fair  this 
summer — then  you  will  want  to  tuck  the 
creamy  lotion  into  your  bag  to  protect 
and  soothe  your  skin.  These  two  lotions 
are  reasonably  priced ! 

If  you  acquire  your  tan  synthetically, 
through  the  use  of  a  dark  powder,  don't 
forget  to  powder  the  eyelids.  Powder 
right  up  to  the  hairline.  Powder  the  neck. 
The  new  summer  shades  of  powders  are 
beautiful,  and  one  of  the  finest  and  smooth- 
est powders  steps  out  in  Summer  Brunette. 
Worth  investigating,  whether  you  are  fair 
or  tan,  for  the  shade  is  so  subtle.  j 

Twinkling  toes  just  make  you  feel  young 
and  beautiful!  Give  yourself  a  pedicure 
every  week,  just  as  you  give  yourself  a 
manicure.  Use  the  same  flattering  shades 
of  polish  on  your  toes  that  you  do  on  your 
fingers.  If  you  are  looking  for  a  long- 
lasting  polish,  non-streaky,  and  that  will 
not  dry  out  in  the  bottle,  I'll  be  glad  to 
give  you  the  tip.  You  will  be  thrilled  to 
find  this  polish  has  the  newest  of  new  in 
shades,  too! 


Mary  Blddle 

RADIO  STARS  MAGAZINE 
149  Madison  Avenue 
New  York,  New  York 

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I  TREATMENT  HAS  PUT 
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IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION- 


FORTHOUSANDS  OF 


>RTHC 

•^SKINNY 
^PEOPLE 


Normal. 


iplv  lit  Vitamin 
lU'W  discoviTV 

refnilar  eliniina- 


and  theri-by  niiniiciti' 
health  and  Kvmvth  cans 
fur  adequate  ^  itamin  H. 
This  is  the  third  purpose. 


QUICK  GAINS  OF  I0to25lbs. 
REPORTED  WITH  NEW 
IRONIZED  YEAST 


Now  thousands  of 
.skinny,  rundown  men 
and  women  can  say  good- 
bye to  bony  anKle.s  and 
unsightly  liollow.s  that 
rob  them  of  natiir; 
tracti veness.  1<  or  wita 
this  new  ea.sy  ,',-way 
treatment,  hosts  of  peo- 
ple who  never  could  gain 
an  ounce  before  ha  ve  i)ut 
on  pounds  of  solid,  nor- 
mally good-looking  fle.sh 
—Ml  just  a  few  ti'Ci 

Why  it  builds  up 
so  quick 

Doctors  now  know  that 
the  real  leason  why 
many  do  not  gain  weight 
is  that  they  don't  get 
enough  \  itamin  B  and 
iron  in  their  daily  food. 
Without  tlie.se  \<>n  may 
lack  appetite  .-ui'l  not  get 
the  most  hod  \ -building 
good  out  of  \'.  hat  \  i)U  cut. 


Ill  uiiiircly  different 


No  matt<  r  r 
Jack  of  siifii 


[>;(L'k  mnirantee 


the  manelous  (  lian^'--.  ii        \  'inn  t  aid  in  huiUliiiK 

ynu  up.  as  ttifv  ha\(;  ln^lpt-d  tliou^ainis.  It  not  dellKlited 
wirh  the  results  of  the  very  first  package  .vour  money 
ln.stanily  refunfled. 

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tli<-  verv  first  pafkao- — or 
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Dept.  .iS.  Atlanta.  Ga. 


vanter,  of  recent  times,  objected  to  liaviiis 
his  picture  taken  and  was  said  to  have 
smashed  a  camera,  and  poor  Mr.  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  accortUng  to  Time,  after  an  eii- 
cuunter  with  a  photographer,  said:  "Thev 
won't  leave  me  ;ilone.  And  tlmse  flashlights 
scare  me  to  death!" — no  (Uie.  excepting 
perhaps  the  Press,  has  seemed  to  realize 
what  is  at  the  basis  of  it  all. 

/  could  not  help  being  mmised  at  the  fact 
ll'.at  i\oi,'liere  has  a)iyoiie  dai-ed  to  point 
out  tlic  specific  fact  that  the  trial  n'as  a 
test  of  human  rights! 

Even  the  Boston  Globe,  which  has  been 
overwhelmingly  fair  and  generous  in  its 
treatment  of  my  difficulties  in  that  city  and 
which  quoted  about  two-thirds  of  a  radio 
speech  which  I  made  in  Boston  the  eve- 
ning of  the  day  of  the  trial,  quoting  me 
accurately  and  carefully — even  the  Globe 
recognized  that  it  was  wise  to  omit  any 
mention  that  might  open  up  this  question 
for  discussion. 

I  have  a  hunch  that,  some  day,  in  the 
not  too  distant  future,  and  in  spite  of  our- 
selves, this  subject  will  be  aired  and  brought 
to  a  head.  This  world  of  ours  has  a 
peculiar  way  of  solving  injustices.  I  am 
sure  that  most  of  the  fair-minded  editors 
and  publishers,  while  of  course  fighting  for 
what  are  the  basic  features  of  their  busi- 
ness and  lives,  have  thus  far  congratulated 
themselves  on  the  fact  that  no  one  has 
ciuestioned  legally  this  right,  and  have 
probably  hoped  that  no  one  ever  would. 
While  cases  have  been  won  where  photo- 
graphs have  been  used  for  commercial  pur- 
poses (in  advertisements),  yet  no  judge 
has  dared  the  wrath  <if  the  Fourth  Estate 
by  taking  the  word  "commercial"  to  in- 
clude any  means  of  increasing  circulation 
and  thus  increasini/  profits. 

To  date,  in  the  smoke  of  hallle  het'ioccn 
those  Zi'ho  bctici'e  radio  hrotnlcasts  of  pic- 
ture tunes  hurl  a  picture's  gross  and  those 
who  back  the  opposite  -i'ieiopoint,  that  when 
the  picture  has  gotnl  songs  the  airing  of 
Ihem  helps — the  picture  Tup  of  The  Town 
lots  come  through  with  rrrv  satisfactory 
results.  That  Top  of  The  Town — not  gen- 
erally fa-oored  by  critics — did  excellent 
grosses  in  its  first  shoivings,  seems  to  point 
lo  the  side  that  sivears  that  the  broadcast- 
ing of  its  tunes  before  the  appearance  of 
the  picture  helped  it  considerably. 

While  we  are  marking  time  waiting  for 
your  definitions  of  the  word  crooner,  let 
me  take  time  to  express  myself  on  the  sub- 
ject of  jazz — since  enough  of  you  have 
asked  me  to  state  my  ideas  on  it.  In  the 
first  place,  I  have  always  preferred  to  be 
specific,  rather  than  to  take  short  cuts  and 
time-saving  methods  in  such  discussions. 
In  other  words,  it  is  my  belief  that  the 
word  jazz,  itself,  has  no  specific  definition 
and  means  little  or  nothing. 

-♦- 

It  is  .said  to  have  originated  in  New 
Orleans  and  it  is  generally  believed  that  it 
originated  with  a  Negro  instrumentalist, 
whose  first  name  was  Charles  and  wluj 


was  generally  called,  by  admirers,  "Chaz," 
and  that  eventuall}'  this  evolved  into  jacz. 
At  least,  although  the  public  may  not  be 
able  to  give  a  clear-cut  definition  of  the 
word,  I  believe  the  average  person  has  a 
reasonably  good  idea  ol  the  word  itself. 
It  must  be  obvious  that  it  deviends  on  the 
viewpoint  of  the  individual  in  (|uestion.  To 
the  dyed-in-the-wool  opera-goer  all  else 
but  opera — with  the  possible  exception  of 
symphony — is  jazz.  To  the  singer  of  bal- 
lads of  a  semi-classical  type,  nearly  every- 
thing else  is  jazz,  although  I  suppose  such 
an  individual  would  recognize  the  field  of  ; 
operatic  and  s\mphonic  music  as  "good" 
music. 

]'ou  7eill  recall  that,  in  my  questions  to 
ynu  concerning  jazz,  /  asked  wliethcr  it 
was  a  question  of  material — that  is,  compo- 
sition itself — whether  it  ivas  the  type  of 
orcliesfra,  sirjc,  instrumentation — or  the 
place.  It  is  quite  obvious  that  the  defining 
of  the  word  on  these  three  landmarks 
presents  a  knotty  problem. 

-*-- 

If — for  example — Mr.  Paul  Whiteman's 
orchestra  of  thirty-five  pieces  plays  Rimsky 
Korsakoff's  Song  of  India  for  dancing  at 
a  night  club  and  calls  the  composition 
Song  of  India,  is  it  jazz — or  not — and 
why?  I  would  describe  it  as  symphonized 
syncopation,  played  at  a  night  club  for 
dancing.  Why?  Because  an  orchestra  of 
thirty-five  pieces — while  not  a  symphony 
orchestra  by  the  standards  as  we  know 
them — does  have  much  of  the  quality  of 
a  symphony  orchestra  and  since  the  com- 
position is  played  for  dancing,  and  since 
dance  music  always  has  some  sort  of  syn- 
copation, this  would  seem  to  cover  it. 

7(7  the  dyed-in-lhe-'-wool  lover  of  the 
classics  and  the  higher  forms  of  music,  all 
music  played  in  night  clubs,  ballrooms  and 
the  like,  t'cconies  /'(/;:;;■. 

It  must  be  apparent  that  music  which  is 
specifically  rhythmic  is  not  necessarily  jazz, 
because  many  of  the  higher  forms  of  music 
are  in  strict  dance  tempo,  and  there  are 
operas  where  ballet  and  other  forms  of 
dancing  are  interpolated.  Therefore  music, 
merely  because  it  is  played  for  dancing,  is 
not  jazz.  Nor  is  it  called  jazz  due  to  the 
place  where  it  is  played.  Night  clubs, 
palais  de  danse  and  other  places  of  public 
enjoyment  do  not  necessarily  give  the 
stigma  to  jazz.  Such  things  as  glissandos, 
synchronization,  broken  chords,  arpeggios 
and  such  variations  arc  used  by  dance 
musicians  and  also  by  studied,  legitimate 
performers  of  line  music.  ^'et  the  lay- 
man, when  hearing  many  of  these  things 
performed  by  pianists,  would  invariably 
say  they  are  "pejiping  things  up"  or  "jazz- 
ing it."  h'rankl.w  1  prefer  doing  things  the 
laborious  and  dilficult  way,  because  there 
is  much  ot  the  stoic  in  me  and  I  delight 
in  seeing  myself  work  hard.  Tliereforc,  in 
speaking  1  ])reler  maii\'  niii\-ements  of  tlic 
jaws,  emmcialing  .and  descrihing  specificillx 
what  is  hap]ieiiing,  to  sa\ing  leisurely,  "It 
is  y.i/y."  an<l  going  back  to  my  highball 


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That  Old  Maes+ro,  Ben  Bernie,  sly, 
suave  and  sophisticated,  an  example 
of  versatility  for  "all  the  lads,"  and 
a  pain  in  the  neck  to  Walter  Winchell! 

Log-rolling  among  air  performers  has 
been  rather  maudlin,  according  to  critics, 
in  the  last  several  months.  I  believe  our 
program  was  one  of  the  first,  in  a  spirit 
of  general  camaraderie,  to  do  this,  because 
I  have  always  preferred  saying  kind  and 
pleasant  things  about  people.  I  can  see 
no  discredit,  however,  in  starting  the  idea 
of  pleasing  others  for  no  ulterior  motive, 
until  others  have,  evidently,  hoped  to  find 
some  magic  in  such  a  procedure. 

-♦- 

Good  trombonists  are  scarcer  than  the 
proverbial  hen's  teeth.  Is  it  because  the 
trombone  is  a  more  difticult  instrument 
than  the  average  brass  instrument?  The 
answer  is  no.  Good  tronihoni^ts  are  scarce, 
because  the  men  with  tiie  best  sense  of 
pitch,  the  greatest  talent  tor  phrasing,  style 
and  physical  aptitude,  invariably  take  up 
a  more  distinguished-appearing  instrument, 
such  as  the  violin,  the  saxophone  or  the 
trumpet.  Quite  obviously,  if  the  men  with 
the  most  talent  play  the  latter  instruments, 
leaving  only  the  second  and  third  raters 
to  take  up  the  trombone,  thi>  would  explain 
the  fact  that  the  outstanding  trombdue 
players  in  New  York  City,  that  is,  men 
with  the  artistry  of  Tommy  Uorscy  and 
Charley  Butterfield.  could  be  counted  on 
the  fingers  of  one  hand — at  least  not  more 
than  two. 

Pet  Peeves  Dcfarlnicut :  Do  you  ever 
(/riiul  your  teeth  at  tjic  tliiii<is  some  f^eof'Ie 
do?  If  you're  a  tceth-yriiidcr,  step  in,  this 
is  right  i(/>  your  alley. 

Don't  you  detest  people  idw  hang  up 
your  coat  and  hat,  zvhen  you  have  deliber- 
ately left  them  across  a  chair  {to  make 
them  easier  to  grab  up  zvhen  you  intend 
staying  only  a  moment),  and  ivho  in- 
variably {excuse  me,  always,  is  what  I 
mean)  disappear  at  the  time  you  must  leave, 
necessitating  a  frantic  search  through  all 
of  the  closets  and  resulting  in  general 
consternation  until  finally,  much  later, 
someone  finds  them  under  Coitsiii  f.cttic's 
coat — Cousin  Lettie  ?i.7(o  In  tends  sinyiinj  at 
least  tico  months  even  though  she  has  been 


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People  who  scrutinize  everyone  in  ele- 
vators— as  Gilbert  and  Svillivan  would 
have  it!  "I've  put  them  on  the  list!"  I 
am  aware  that  it  is  the  job  of  a  detective, 
but  there  can't  be  that  many  detectives  in 
the  world!  You've  seen  those  people,  the 
ones  who,  the  minute  they  enter  an  ele- 
vator, must  turn  a  rude  stare  on  everyone 
present.  Not  because  I  fall  under  the 
heading  of  a  celebrity  and  prefer  to  re- 
main incognito,  btit  just  because  I  believe 
that  in  an  elevator,  or  anywhere,  a  stare 
is  uncalled  for  and  most  annoying  to 
everyone  with  a  degree  of  culture,  refine- 
ment and  breeding. 

What  is  your  pronunciation  of  a  word 
\i.r\-  mnch  in  nse  today,  since  a  celebrated 
Son,u  started  rilisins— tlie  wurd  aiiuilciir.' 
Arc  ynii  careless?  Do  you  say  -aniachoor  r" 
Or  do  you  feel  extremely  pleased  witli 
\-oursell  and  considerably  above  tbe  com- 
mon herd,  when  you  patronizingly  correct 
the  individual  who  pronounces  it  "ama- 
choor,"  and  tell  them  in  icy  tones  that  it  is 
■"amatoor."  if  you  please'  Then  bend  low 
for  a  swift  kick  yourself  l)cc:',nsc  it  slmuld 
be  iinuioiinced  "amalei  r  I"  Likew  ise  "mas- 
seur" and  "masseuse"  are  not  "massoor" 
and  "massoose"  but  "mass-sir'  and  "mass- 
serze,"  accents  very  lightly  on  the  last 
syllables. 

Time  rarrirs  the  iiitci  csliii(!  item  that 
the  name  Lockhcad  H'os  cVi>l:\'d  as  a  result 
of  piihlie  insistence  and  /^ei-sislenee  in  pro- 
nonneiufi  Longhead  as  Luck-head. 

Reading  a  criticism  of  a  fellow  who  does 
an  impression  of  Charlie  Chaplin,  drove 
home  the  point  that  an  impression  of  a 
personality  is  successful  in  the  rendition 
in  proportion  io  the  number  of  people  in 
the  audience  who  have  heard  the  real 
personality!  Speaking  of  Frank  Carn- 
ville,  who  does  impressions  of  Charlie 
Chaplin,  this  critic  said  it  was  good  for  the 
old  folks  but  that  the  young  ones  think 
it  is  just  a  character  get-up! 

We  eall  them  PA  systems,  the  apparatus 
that  amplify  7;iiees.  There  are  fiord  and 
had.  expensive  and  ine.vpensi-ee  ones.  1  eeh- 
nieally  they  are  knoien  as  puhlie  address 
or  amplifyini/  systems. 

They  have  been  used  for  years  in  the 
banquet  rooms  of  a  very  few  New  York 
hotels,  for  speakers  at  banquets.  The 
quality  of  these  early  systems  was  atroci- 
ous, which  probably  accounted  for  their 
not  being  used  for  amplifying  singing 
voices  or  the  instruments  of  a  live  or- 
chestra. 

I  believe  that  we  were  the  first  to  use 
a  public  address  system  with  music  and 
the  singing  voice.  I  had  one  built  in  1929, 
when  the  Paramount  management  sug- 
gested that  we  use  one  at  the  Nt'w  York 
Paramount  Theatre,  for  a  unit  called 
Xtreellies.  It  was  considered  really  a 
novelty  for  me  to  sing  in  the  wings  and 
for  my  voice  to  come  out  of  the  walls  of 
the  theatre.  Yet,  for  almost  a  year,  mo- 
tion pictures  had  been  shown  with  the  sound 
coming  through  the  movie  screen.  As  I 
contemplated  a  dance  tour  in  1930,  Paul 
Whiteman,  visiting  me  at  the  Filla  Vallce, 
mused  as  to  how  we  should  be  able  to  fill 
some  of  the  large  dance  halls  which  we 


would  meet  on  tour — The  Connecticut 
Yankees  then  numbered  eight ! 

/  told  him  I  had  no  fears  as  7ee  7eere 
earryin;/  an  amplijyinii  system.  When  I 
think  of  hoze  it  must  have  sounded.  I  can- 
not Iielp  but  lauijh  at  my  naivete! 

For  speakers  (loud  speakers)  we  used 
two  Victor  radios,  an  old-fashioned  carbon 
microphone  (the  ultimate  in  "mikes"  in 
those  days),  and  a  little  control  box,  which 
was  not  as  big  as  a  typewriter. 

While  it  was  better  than  nothing,  it  must 
have  been  prett>'  bad.  It  picked  up  the 
voices  in  front  of  the  band  platform,  as 
well  as  the  instruments  nearest  it  in  the 
orchestra,  and  there  was  always  a  notice- 
able hum  which  made  it  really  difficult  to 
put  over  the  \-oice.  When  I  compare  that 
early  system  with  the  $5000  Western 
I'-lectric  system  we  carry  today  wherever 
we  go,  with  four  large  horns  bigger,  in 
each  instance,  than  a  good-sized  dressing- 
table,  and  the  control  bo.x  five  feet  high 
and  three  feet  wide,  I  am  indeed  grateful 
for  those  scientific  researchers  who  have 
p.iven  us  such  perfect  amplifying  apparatus. 

ll'e  liaie  played  in  an  auditorium  to 
12.000  people,  some  of  them  daueinij,  others 
seated,  yel  ei  ei  y  leord  lias  been  heard,  even 
at  the  extreme  ends  i\f  the  auditorium  re- 
quired to  take  siieh  a  eapaeily.  It  is,  indeed, 
fo.tlisli  eeoiiomy  Io  haze  a  cheap  public 
address  system.  I'eeaiise.  zeherever  the  place 
may  be,  the  bond  belieeeii  the  entertainer 
and  the  patron  is  the  amplifyiiii/  system! 

Yet  there  arc  pUces  and  theatres  that 
pay  artists  thousands  of  dollars  for  an  ap- 
pearance before  an  audience,  that  has  like- 
wise paid  thousands  for  tickets  or  convert 
charges — but — often  as  not,  the  performer 
is  badly  handicapped  and  badly  presented, 
in  just  such  a  case,  by  a  second-rate  pub- 
lic address  system  costing  less  than  two  or 
three  hundred  dollars. 

Even  our  best  night  clubs  in  New  York 
City  rarely  have  the  proper  amplifying 
apparatus.  I  cannot  stress  too  strongly 
that  this  is  indeed  being  penny-wise  and 
pound- foolish. 

Cheap  eeoiiomy— hut  al  least  there  is 
hardly  a  place  today  that  does  not  have 
some  kind  of  a  sound  system,  so  that  I 
can  only  say  "thanks.'  because  if  has  made 
possible  the  savina  of  the  liuman  voice 
and  the  possilde  periiioiieiit  iinury  of  many 
a  larynx  and  pharynx  zeliieli  zeould  have 
strained  to  n/rrr  /.;/■  eoniers  of  many  a 
room  over  the  loud  eonversation  and  hnb- 
Imb  of  a  number  of  people. 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  1929  to  today,  or 
from  today  to  1929,  when  at  most  there 
were  probably  four  places  in  the  entire 
United  States  wluie  ,iny  sort  oi  a  public 
address  ampli f>  in?;  system  w  as  being  used 
— and  a  happier  (la\  fur  the  man  who  sings 
for  liis  supper. 

Applause-getters  in  order: 

1.  Acrobatic  and  eccentric  dancers — es 
pecially  of  the  Ray  Bolgcr,  Gloria  Gilbert 
type — high  kicks — spinning. 

2.  Comedians. 

3.  Popular  song  hits  of  the  day. 

4.  Patriotic  mentions — flag  waving. 
So,  'till  next  month — 
Cheerio! 


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A  FAMILY  AFFAIR 

{Couli}iu^d  from  pai/e  9) 


So  there  was  only  one  thing  for  Myrt  to 
do — slie  wrote  her  daughter  into  the  act, 
where  Marge's  Charleston  dance  scored 
nicely. 

But  before  this,  young  George  Danicrcl. 
Jr.,  had  been  born — in  1917,  to  be  exact. 
Not  that  the  advent  of  her  second  child 
held  Myrt  down.  When  he  was  fourteen 
days  old  Myrt  was  in  rehearsal  with 
another  show  !  .And,  like  his  sister.  Marge, 
young  George  decided  last  year  that  he'd 
had  enough  prep  school  and  college  an<i 
wanted  to  go  to  work.  So  Myrt  began 
writing  him  into  Myrt  a)id  Morijc,  and 
put  him  on  the  air.  Young  (ieorge  sings 
well  and  fits  very  nicely  into  the  program. 

By  the  time  young  George  was  going 
into  the  show,  another  generation  was  on 
the  way.  Donna  "Marge"  Damerel  had 
met  Gene  Kretzinger,  married  him,  and 
became  the  mother  of  little  Charles.  And 
on  May  14th,  this  year,  another  youngster, 
who  was  named  Richard  Gene,  was  born 
to  Al.irge.  So  just  about  the  time  M\rt 
was  "writing  in''  her  young  son  she  had 
to  "write  out"  Marge  for  awhile,  to  give 
her  a  chance  to  have  her  second  baby. 

Xo,  they  don't  stay  put  very  long.  But 
neither  do  they  stay  down.  Back  in  '29, 
before  Myrt  went  on  the  air,  she  and  her 
husband  had  left  show  business  to  settle 
down  and  they  operated  a  real  estate 
business  in  Chicago.  They  were  doing 
very  nicely  when  the  crash  came  and  wiped 
them  out.  Things  didn't  look  so  hot  there; 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  they  z^'crcn't  so  hot. 
After  years  of  hard  work,  all  their  stability 
snd  well-earned  security  had  vanished  and 
Myrt  didn't  like  the  idea  of  going  back 
to  innumerable  economies,  cheap  clothes 
and  scrimping.  And  that  was  when  she 
decided  she  was  going  into  the  radio,  with 
P.  K.  Wrigley  picked  as  her  sponsor.  The 
fact  that  she  knew  nothing  about  radio — 
never  even  had  been  in  front  of  a  mike — 
didn't  stop  her.  She  sallied  forth,  to  sell 
her  idea  to  Mr.  Wrigley,  rushing  in  where 
agencies  feared  to  tread.  But  that  storv 
has  been  told  before,  many  times.  The 
net  result  was  Myrt  and  Marge,  as  success- 
ful a  script  show  as  anyone  could  ask. 

Afrer  five  years  on  the  air,  they  fniished 
up  their  contracts  last  .-Xpril,  1936. 

"Now,"  Myrt  sighed  with  a  breath  of 
relief,  "we  can  take  it  ea.sy  awhile  and  do 
some  of  the  things  we've  been  wanting  to 
do  for  years." 

"Me,  too,"  said  Marge,  who  had  been  a 
bride  for  some  time  and  had  in  mind  a 
home  with  her  husband  and  otTspring.  So, 
when  the  contract  (inished.  Marge  and 
Gene  Kretzinger  built  a  lovely  eleven-room 
cabin  in  the  San  Jacinto  hills,  right  on 
the  spot  where  her  "radio  baby"  was  sup- 
posed to  have  been  horn.  She  was  having 
fun  W'ith  Gene;  riding,  shooting  and  get- 
ting her  home  read}-.  .\nd  slie  wrote 
Myrt,  in  Chicago,  how  much  fun  it  all 
But  there  was  an  undertone  of  wistfiilness 
to  the  letter;  in  spite  of  herself  there  nuist 
have  crept  between  the  lines  a  hint  of  sad- 
ness at  the  cessation  of  so  many  years  of 
happy  work  together  on  the  air. 

She  might  have  saved  the  effort.  Because 


—a 


it's  yourself!" 


see  a  tall,  handsome,  dark  man.  He 
thought  a  great  deal  of  you  at 
first — but  he  has  been  estranged. 

"I  see  merry  gatherings,  parties — but 
you  do  not  seem  to  be  present. 

'''/  see  a  trip  for  you  —  but  you  are 

going  alone, 
"jf  see  an  enemy.  She  is  a  lovely  blonde. 

It's  you,  yourself,  my  dear!" 


The  most  dangerous  enemy  a  woman 
ever  has  is  herself.  For  it  is  her  own  fail- 
ings which  defeat  her  —  of  which  she  too 
often  is  completely  unaware. 

It's  a  common  experience  to  meet  a 
girl  who  seems  to  have  everything  — 
beauty,  brains,  personality.  And  yet  one 
personal  fault  holds  her  back  —  a  fault 
with  which  the  social  and  business  worlds 
have  no  patience.  The  annoying  odor  of 
underarm  perspiration  on  person  and 
clothing. 

It  is  the  harder  to  excuse  because  it  is 
so  easy  to  avoid.  With  Mum! 
So  quick  and  easy  to  usel  It  takes  only 
half  a  minute  to  use  Mum.  Just  smooth  a 
quick   fingertipful  under  each  arm  — 


that's  all  there  is  to  it!  No  waiting  for  it 

to  dry ;  no  rinsing  off. 

Harmless  to  clothing.   Use  Mum  any 

time,  before  dressing  or  afterwards.  For 

it's  harmless  to  clothing.  Mum  has  been 

awarded  the  Textile  Approval  Seal  of 

the  American  Institute  of  Laundering  as 

being  harmless  to  fabrics. 

Soothing  to  skin.  You'll  like  this  about 

Mum,  too  —  you  can  use  it  on  the  most 

delicate  skin  right  after  shaving  your 

underarms.  It  soothes  and  cools. 

Lasts  all  day.  Use  Mum  in  the  morning 

and  you're  safe  for  all  day  long! 

Does  not  prevent  natural  perspiration. 

And  this  is  important!  You  can  always 

count  on  Mum  to  prevent  every  trace  of 

unpleasant  body  odor  and  yet  it  doesn't 

interfere  with  natural  perspiration. 

Protect  that  niceness  of  person  which 
is  such  an  important  part  of  success,  by 
the  daily  Mum  habit.  Bristol-Myers  Co., 
630  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 


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New  Kind  of  Eye  Lotion  Wins  Thousands 

AmazinR  new  formula  .  .  .  with  an  ingredient  found 
in  no  other  eye  lotion  .  .  .  acts  in  seconds  to  make 
eyes  clear-white.  Makes  tired,  overtaxed  eyes  feel 
so  refreshed  .  .  .  almost  instantly.  With  just  a  couple 
of  drops  of  EYE-GENE!  Stainless  as  water.  Now 
used  by  thousands  for  clear,  sparkling,  wide-awake 
eyes.  At  all  drug,  department  and  ic 


EYE-GENE 


LOOK  10  YEARS  YOUNGER -BRUSH  >*W/*y 

GRAY  HAIR 

#  Quickly  and  safely  you  can  tint  those  streaks  of 
gray  to  lustrou.s  shades  of  blonde,  brown  or  black. 
BROWNATONE  and  a  small  brush  does  it.  Used  and 
approved  for  over  twenty-four  years.  Guaranteed 
harmless.  Active  coloring  agent  is  purely  vegetable. 
Cannot  affect  waving  of  hair.  Economical  and  lasting 
— will  not  wash  out.  Simply  retouch  as  new  gray  ap- 
pears. Imparts  rich,  beautiful  color  with  amazing 
Bpeed.  Easy  to  prove  by  tinting  a  lock  of  your  own 
hair.  BROWNATONE  is  only  50c— at  all  drug  and 
toilet  coimters — always  on  a  money-back  guarantee. 


e  searching  glare  of  summer  sun 
— on  golf  links,  tennis  court,  hikes — 
and  in  fhe  moonlit  evening  that  fol- 
lows— more  than  ever  is  your  skin  on 
p-jrade.  Keep  it  looking  flawless  with 
tvliner's  LIguId  Make-Up.  Apply  to 
foce.  neck,  arms,  legs.  How  smooth, 
how  lovely  Miner's  makes  them!  Stays 
on  all  day,  won't  rub  off  or  streak.  50« 
at  drug  &  dep't  stores.  Trial  size  at 
I0<  counters,  or  mail  coupon  with  I0#. 

M I N  ER^40rE~To~  StT~N.~Y.~C.  '\ 
Encloted  find  lOc  (stamps  or  coin)  fori 
trial    bottle    Miner's    Liquid    Make-Up.  j 

NAME     .j 

ADDRESS  Shade  ! 


Myrt  already  was  on  the  train  to  New 
York,  a  new  set  of  Myrl  and  Marge 
si.'rii)ts  in  her  bag  ! 

1  lie  resuh  was,  of  course,  the  present 
.l/v;7  and  Maru^  series,  an<l  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Iviciznmcr  h.ui  tn  lor>ake  tiieir  ideal  new 
home  to  come  lo  New  York. 

"W  e  iiad  trucked  all  our  nn  nitiirc  up  to 
the  cabin  ourselves,"  Donna  said  ruefully, 
'and  had  just  about  got  set  when  we  had 
to  leave." 

"What  she  didn't  .say,"  Myrt  chuckled, 
"was  that  moving  up  there  was  such  a 
problem.  Marge  bought  a  truck!"  (Myrt 
often  calls  Donna  "Marge.")  "And  they 
loaded  the  truck  up,  made  their  move,  and 
then  sold  the  truck  for  more  than  it  cost 
them !" 

This  was  at  Myrt's  new  home  in  Forest 
Hills,  New  York.  It's  on  a  quiet  street  in 
the  Long  Island  town ;  white-painted,  grass- 
bordered  and  utterly  homelike.  We  were 
sitting  in  the  bright,  enclosed  sun  porch, 
and  Donna  and  Gene  Kretzinger  had  just 
arrived.  They  have  an  apartment  nearby. 
Young  George  Damerel  was  lounging  on  a 
sofa  after  a  ride — horses  are  his  hobby 
and  he's  a  two-goal  polo  player.  Working 
in  the  show,  now,  there's  little  time  for 
polo. 

When  George,  Jr.,  is  on  the  air,  Myrt 
watches  his  every  move,  in  contrast  to  the 
nonchalance  of  her  own  performance.  When 
he  speaks  his  lines,  or  sings,  her  lips  move 
with  his  and  she's  obviously  wrapped  up  in 
this  nice-looking  youngster,  who  is  the 
family's  most  recent  addition  to  the  pro- 
gram. And  while  he  has  had  a  few  bumps 
— young  as  he  is — the  way  will  be  a  great 
deal  smoother  for  him  than  it  was  for 
Myrt.  The  crash  that  destroyed  Myrt  and 
George  Damerel 's  stability  took  young 
George  out  of  prep  school,  where  he  was 
a  class  officer.  But  when  Myrt  re- 
members. .  . 

"I  ran  away,"  she  says  "and  got  that 
first  job  in  the  chorus.  With  the  job  se- 
cure, I  put  all  my  money — what  there  was 
of  it — into  renting  a  room,  forgetting  that 
I'd  have  to  eat.  And  I  was  slowly  starv- 
ing to  death  until  the  other  girls  nmiced 
how  wan  I  was  looking,  so  they  chipped 
in  and  fed  me  until  I  could  collect  some 
salary."  And  she'll  laugh  at  the  memory, 
hut  there's  a  iiit  oi  wistfulness  behind  the 
laugh.  "Then  there  was  the  time,  in  those 
(lav^.  when  ICaster  was  coming  and  I 
iui<l((l  :i  new  pair  of  shoes.  It  had  been 
\(r\  raiin-,  and  my  shoes  were  almost 
cnni|)l.'telv  gone.  So,  since  I  couldn't 
att(jr<l  a  new  pair  of  shoes,  I  bought  a  new, 
shniy  pair  of  rubbers.  And  I'Laster  .Sunday 
dawned— bright  and  sunny.  }'ui  I  had  to 
wear  those  rubbers  just  the  same.  .  . 
Mvrt's  gray-green  eyes  look  faraway.  "I'll 
never  forget  liow  those  rubl)ers  felt,  draiv- 
iiK/  on  me,  that  hot  day.  .  ." 
j  "Do  you,"  I  ventured,  "miss  those  days- 
traveling  in  the  theatre?" 

"Mc?  I  should  say  not!"  .Myrt  explodes 
vigorously.  "Regret  losing  sleei)less  nights 
in  miscralilc  hotels?  Miss  cracked  china 
wash-sian<ls,  ((jld  water  aiKl  bathrooms  at 
the  end  of  a  chilly  hall?  One  and  two- 
night  stands  and  layoffs  and  hunting  for 
l)o(jkiiigs?    No— I  don't  miss  a  bit  t)f  it !" 

But  Myrt  doesn't  indulge  in  reminiscence 
easily;  she  doesn't  live  in  the  past.  Just 
as  she  looked  ahead  to  the  new  field  of 
radio,  when  lier  whole  world  crashed  six 


years  ago,  so  does  she  face  present  and 
future  now;  brightly,  with  ciuiet  confidence 
and  youthful  buoyancy  that  keeps  a  bright 
sparkle  in  her  eyes  and  a  smile  on  her 
lips.  She's  not  very  happy  about  the  time 
of  her  show ;  it  means  quite  a  different 
audience  to  reach  at  2  :45  p.  m.,  from  that 
she  used  to  reach  in  the  evening.  But  she 
merely  wrote  the  type  of  program  that  she 
thought  would  appeal  to  the  more  feminine 
listeners  at  that  time  of  day.  Her  writing 
habits,  too,  have  been  completely  upset. 

Formerly  Myrt  used  to  write  her  script 
from  10 :00  a.  m.  to  3  :30  p.  m.,  then  re- 
hearse in  the  afternoon  and  broadcast 
But,  with  the  show  on  the  air  in  the  after- 
noon, rehearsals  begin  in  the  morning  and 
carry  on  right  up  to  the  time  of  the  broad- 
cast. Which  means  that  Myrt  has  to  get 
her  writing  done  at  night — three  thousand 
words  a  night,  five  days  a  week.  She's 
still  in  the  process  of  getting  used  to  it. 
And  when  there's  trouble  working  out  a 
script,  or  last  minute  changes  to  make,  it 
means  an  all-night  job.  Not  very  long 
ago  young  George  raced  his  Auburn  to 
Manhattan  at  6:30  in  the  morning,  to  de- 
liver the  day's  script  to  the  agency,  after 
Myrt  had  been  burning  the  midnight  oil. 

But  Myrt  can  take  it.  Not  only  that,  she 
undoubtedly  loves  it.  No  one  who  has  led 
as  active  and  busy  a  life  as  Myrtle  Vail 
has,  can  sit  back  and  merely  watch  the 
world  go  by,  even  though  she  says  she'd 
like  a  nice  job  fitting  shoes,  or  something. 

They're  settled  down  snugly,  for  the 
moment,  in  Long  Island ;  Myrtle  and  son 
George  and  Ellen  Johnson,  the  colored 
maid  who  was  with  Myrtle  back  in  her 
theatre  days.  Donna  and  Gene  and  their 
boys  are  near  by.  Gene,  incidentally,  who 
was  half  of  the  brother  singing  team  of 
Goic  and  CJiorlic,  no  longer  is  iierformiug 
on  the  air.  He  now  holds  an  executive  posi- 
tion with  an  advertising  outfit ;  not  the  one, 
however,  handling  Myrl  and  Marge.  When- 
ever they  have  a  chance,  Gene  and  Donna 
go  out  on  what  Myrt  calls  "graveyard 
tripping,"  touring  through  New  England, 
poking  about  churchyards,  investigating  an- 
cient taverns  and  such.  Donna  will  tell 
you  about  seeing  the  Witches'  Dungeon  at 
Salem;  the  graves  of  John  Alden  and  Pris- 
cilla;  the  wonderful  old  beams  in  Sea  Horse 
Inn  at  Marblehead,  and  her  velvety,  dark 
brown  eyes  glow  with  interest  while  Gene 
grins  affectionately  and  says :  "Isn't  she 
pretty?" 

From  the  varied  and  sometimes  hectic 
experiences  of  this  gang  of  Myrt's,  you 
niigiit  expect  to  find  them  resembling  the 
stage  families  in  Three  Cornered  Moon  or 
]'ou  Can't  Take  It  With  Von.  (No  adv't). 
But  they're  not.  They're  interesting  and 
amusing,  without  being  at  all  eccentric. 
Experiences  have  enriched  their  lives  with- 
out warping  them  ;  they  work  and  play  to- 
getlier  in  warm,  friendly  fashion,  loving 
one  another,  kidding  one  another  and  al- 
ways understanding  one  another.  With  all 
the  ties  binding  them  together,  they  each 
have  lives  of  their  own  and  interests  of 
their  own.  And  while  they  have  the  friendly 
informality  associated  with  stage  families, 
their  conversation  is,  unlike  that  of  many 
stage  f<ilks,  not  exclusively  about  their 
work  or  themselves. 

M\  rt  w  ill  tell  how  Donna  won  a  prize  in 
a  (khatiiig  contest  in  her  seventh  grade. 
"1  can  uiulerstand  that,"  Gene  nods.  "She 


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could  still  win  it !"  And  tlicy  don't  take 
tliemselves  too  seriously,  either. 

"I  was  traveling  in  the  West,"  Gene  says, 
"and  Myrt  and  Marge  were  appearing  on 
the  Kate  Smith  show  as  guests.  The 
nearest  station  carrying  the  program  was 
KDKA.  in  Pittsburgh,  and  I  managed  to 
tune  it  in.  Everything  came  through  fine; 
until  Myrt  and  Marge  came  en.  Then 
I  was  amazed  to  hear  the  most  terrific 
burst  of  applause  I'd  ever  luard  mi  the 
air.  The  funny  part  of  it  was,  the  applause 
kept  right  on  through  their  part  of  tlie 
program.  And  by  then  I  began  to  realize 
it  was  static !" 

"We  had  a  terrible  time,  at  first,  on 
that  show^"  Donna  smiles.  "We  weren't 
used  to  working  hcf<ire  a  studio  audience.'' 

"Xot  that  we  couldn't  face  an  audience 
Myrt  explains,  "but  working  to  an  audience 
while  holding  a  script  seemed  wrong.  .  ." 

"I  felt  I  was  hol<ling  a  paper  and  making 
faces!"  Donna  picks  it  up.  "So  we  dropped 
the  script  and  went  on  ad  lib." 

"Incidentally,"  young  George  speaks  up 
mildly,  "I'm  afraid  there  are  going  to  be 
some  surprised  cops  out  this  way." 

Myrt  looks  up.  "Why?" 

"Well — you  know,  I — uh — meet  them 
and  sort  of  mention  my  connection  with 
the  Myrl  and  Marge  show,  and  I've  given 
quite  a  few-  of  them  passes  to  the  broad- 
cast." 

"But  you  have  no  studio  audience,"  I 
offer. 

"That's  just  it,"  George  grins.  "Will 
they  be  surprised  !" 

"Would  you  like  to  see  a  picture  of 
Chuck?"  Donna  asks.  "Gene — show  him 
the  picture."  Gene  obligingly  produces  a 
photo  of  young  Charles  Kretzinger  on  the 
proverbial  photographer's   Shetland  pony. 

"I  think  it's  the  same  pony  I  had  i)iy 
picture  taken  on,"  Myrt  grins. 

"Chuck  has  been  waking  us  up  early 
every  morning,"  Donna  sa\>.  "Always  with 
some  different  excu-e." 

"And  this  morning."  Gene  cuts  in,  "he 
ran  out  oi  reasons  tor  waking  us  ...  so 
he  just  came  in  and  kissed  us,  which  was 
supposed  to  make  everything  all  right." 

"Did  it?"  I  ask. 

"Of  course !"  Donna  smiles. 

Very  normal,  very  happy  people,  this 
family.  Each  with  enough  outside  interests 
to  balance  the  hard  work.  Myrt  would 
like  to  write — outside  of  her  scripts — and 
she  probably  will,  sometime  soon;  Donna 
is  interested  in  her  historical  moseyings, 
in  photograph}-  and  sports;  Gene,  too,  likes 
to  ride  and  shoot,  both  with  gun  and  cam- 
era. George  is  an  ardent  horseman  and 
quite  in  love  with  his  car. 

It's  a  gratifying  achievement.  Myrtle 
Vail's,  I  think.  Still  at  the  peak  of  a  long, 
interesting  career,  she  has  sacrificed  none 
of  the  more  human  attributes.  .SIk-'s  found 
time  in  her  busy  life  to  rai-e  two  grand, 
likable  children  and  heli>  them  become 
established  in  work  they  love.  She  has 
manage  to  weld  a  busy  workaday  life 
with  a  happy  home  life  and  stay  amazingly 
young  and  buoyant  in  the  process,  taking 
the  bumps  as  they  come  and  coming  out 
invariably  on  top. 

It's  definitely  a  fann'ly.  this  group,  and 
Myrt  is  the  guiding  spirit.  But  I'd  hesi- 
tate to  call  her  matriarch  ...  or  even 
maternal.    She's  one  of  the  gang. 

Valiant  is  the  word  for  Mvrtle! 


Don't  let  Summer-Drought  get  You! 


Fields  that  were  fresh  and  green  in  the 
springtime  become  parched  and  dry  as  sum- 
mer sun  burns  up  their  life-giving  moisture. 

In  this  same  way,  the  tender  skin  of 
your  face,  exposed  to  hot  sun  and  drying 
wind,  loses  its  fresh  radiance  and  youthful 
attraction.  Don't  risk  this  tragedy!  There's 
a  way  to  guard  this  vital  skin  moisture. 

Protect  your  allure  this  magic  way — with 
Outdoor  Girl  Face  Powder,  which  brings 
you  the  tried  and  true  beauty  aid — Olive  Oil! 


Olive  Oil  is  a  "Fountain  of 
Youth" for  your  Skin  .  .  . 


Just  as  thirsty  plants  welcome  drops  of  rain,  your 
complexion  craves  the  protecting  touch  of  olive  oil. 
Guard  against  destructive  "Skin-thirst"'  with  Outdoor 
Girl  Face  Powder  —  each  fine  flake  carries  a  tiny 
particle  of  Olive  Oil  to  keep  it  from  "sponging-up" 
the  natural  moisture  so  essential  to  a  youthful  skin. 


'.OUl'DODR  GIRL 


TJ'ke  ^aee  poiinle^  IdeMded  unik  OLIVE  OIL 


Six  luscious  shades  of  clinging  love- 
liness,approved  by  beauty  experts,  at 
your  nearest  drug  ond  depart-  _ 
ment  store,  in  the  large  size  .  .  OUC 

For  perfect  make-up  color  harmony 
use  Outdoor  Girl  tipstick  and  Rouge. 

Generous  purse  sizes  at  10c  stores. 


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THE 

History  is  crowded  w  itK  i-oncluests  liy  w  omen 
wko  were  famous  lor  their  lascinatin^  hair.  It 
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using  Colorinse,  a  f)ure,  harmless  rinse  that 
brings  out  the  natural  sheen  and  highhghts  of 
your  jjarticular  coloring.  I  ry  it  and  you'll  he 
amazed  at  the  new  glint  and  sfiarhle  Colorinse 
brings  to  your  hair.  In  1  2  shades.  See  the 
I^estle  Color  Chart  at  1  oilet  Goods  counters. 

SO  SIMPLE  TO  USE    .     .    .  . 

Shampoo  your  hair,  then  rinse  thor- 
oughly and  rub  partly  dry  with  a  towel. 


Dissolve  Colorinse  in  wa 


i-ater  and 


pour  the  rinse  over  your  head  with  a  cup. 

Dry  hair  thoroughly,  brush  it,  and  see 
the  sparkle  that  comes  to  your  hair.  jS^JiliilS. 


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5  rinses  at  drug  and  dcpt 


25c  for 


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Mercolized  Wax  is  a  complete  beauty  treatment 


Start  using  Mercolized  Wax  tonight.  Win  new 
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REMOVE 

HAIR  without 
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paste  or  powderfc  vc 


puff 


•kin.  Satiifaction 
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Toucii  Pad^.  Baby 


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BABY  TOUCH  HAIR  REMOV 
2325  Olive  St. 

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face — quickly 


Odorless,  painless,  bitter 
a  razor.  Baby  Touch  leaves 
tores  >outh  and  beauty  to  the 


HER  SECOND  HUSBAND 

{Continued  from  page  25) 


Mrs.  Taliaferro,  mother  of  Edith  and 
Mabel  Taliaferro,  long  prominent  on  the 
stage.  Mrs.  Taliaferro,  a  theatrical  agent, 
suggested  that  Helen's  older  sister  try  out 
for  the  part  in  Midsummer  Xifjht's  Dream. 
But  the  sister  proved  to  be  too  tall  for 
the  role,  and  Helen,  aged  four,  who  had 
tagged  along,  was  chosen. 

At  five,  she  was  playing  with  Gus  Ed- 
wards. At  six  she  danced  with  Adelaide 
Genet.  And,  in  succeeding  \  ears,  she  played 
a  wide  variety  of  roles,  ranging  from 
comedy  to  tragedy.  She  was  the  original 
Diane  in  Seventh  Heaven.  In  a  fantasy 
called  The  MecropoJis  Secret,  she  played 
a  339-year-old  flapper — a  role  she  loved. 

"This  perennial  flapper,"  she  recalled, 
"had  lived  countless  lives.  And  out  of  all 
that  past,  she  remembered  only  her  love 
affairs !  Every  time  she  met  a  man,  she'd 
say:  'I've  seen  you  before — someivhereV  " 

Once  Miss  Menken  was  arrested  and 
haled  to  jail  because  of  her  performance. 
It  was  while  she  was  playing  in  The 
Captive,  a  drama,  translated  from  the 
French,  dealing  with  a  sex  theme  of  which 
we  are  supposed  to  be  ignorant.  But  the 
complaint  was  withdrawn  and  the  play  en- 
joyed a  successful  run,  during  which  she 
received  the  unique  gift  of  a  genuine 
Chinese  slave  bracelet  sent  her  by  a 
Chinese  prince. 

In  all  her  years  in  the  theatre,  her  per- 
formances have  been  outstanding  successes. 
This  young  old-timer  has  a  genius  for 
creating  unforgettable  roles.  She  played  in 
Three  Wise  Fools.  In  The  Pied  Piper. 
More  recently  we  remember  her  as  the 
impressive  Queen  Eli;:abelh,  with  Helen 
Hayes  in  Mary  of  Scotland.  And  hers  was 
the  title  role  in  the  Pulitzer  prize  winner 
of  a  s,'as<.n  ago.  The  Old  Maul. 

"Queen  Elizabeth,"  she  says,  "is  an 
absorbing  study.  I've  read  every  word 
that's  been  written  about  her.  Her  char- 
acter, like  that  of  Chatty  in  The  Old  Maid. 
is  the  embodiment  of  conflict." 

Such  roles  thrill  her,  and  her  interpre- 
tation of  them  thrills  the  siKctator. 

Rut,  as  if  all  her  work  in  the  theatre 
were  not  enough  work  for  any  one  person 
— or,  i)erhaiis,  with  a  canny  business  sense 
that  seeks  <_ \]irt  ssion,  this  slim,  vivid 
young  woman  owns  and  <ii)craUs,  with  her 
sister,  a  thriving  dress  shop  in  New  York. 

"We've  just  opened  a  Hollywood  branch, 
too,"  she  told  me. 

"But  ymi  (liin't  iicrsonally  o]nTate  your 
shop,  of  ctaii  sc,"  \\c  sn.ugcstcd. 

"Oh,  yes.  .  .  .  Even  when  I'm  playing 
in  the  theatre.  Every  day  I'm  there,  at  one 
o'clock.  It's  great  fun.  I  love  meeting  the 
flifferint  t>'pes  of  people  who  come  in — 
tile  nncs  will)  si)end  five  hours  looking  at 
cvcr\ lliiiiL;  and  buy  nothing.  And  the  ones 
who  know  exactly  what  they  want,  and 
!)uy  it  in  fifleen  minutes.  This  dress  I'm 
wearing,"  she  added,  "is  one  of  ours." 

It  was  a  smartly  tailored  dark  blue 
frock.  And  the  pert  little  hat  perched  atop 
her  red-gold  hair  had  a  twist  of  red  in 
it. 

"I'm  always  working,"  she  said.  "I  al- 
ways have  worked.  There's  always  some- 


thing I  must  be  thinking  about  for  the 
theatre.  A  play  I  should  be  reading,  per- 
haps. In  the  next  room,  my  desk  is  literally 
buried  in  play  scripts  !  They've  even  crept 
over  the  floor  into  my  closet,  crowding  my 
clothes !  You  have  to  keep  reading  them— 
you  never  know  when  you'll  come  on  some- 
thing tremendously  fine. 

"And  when  I'm  not  playing  in  New  York, 
I'm  usually  either  touring  the  country  in  the 
season's  play,  or  making  a  vaudeville  tour. 
Once,  for  several  seasons,  I  toured  in 
vaudeville  with  Jack  Benny.  He's  one  of 
my  oldest  friends.  He  used  to  go  on  in 
his  act,  with  his  violin.  Then  I'd  play  my 
act.  Then,  when  we'd  changed  into  street 
clothes,  we'd  go  on  'in  one,' — before  a 
backdrop — and  do  a  skit  together." 

People  in  the  theatre,  Miss  Menken 
thinks,  become  too  absorbed  in  themselves. 

"For  example,"  she  said,  "just  recently 
my  sister  came  on  for  a  visit.  She  is 
married  to  Bert  Lytell  and  has  been  living 
in  Hollywood.  I  met  her  at  the  train.  We 
rushed  into  each  other's  arms.  And,  while 
I  was  embracing  her,  I  asked :  'Did  you 
hear  my  broadcast?  Hozv  teas  If  Not  a 
word  about  her — how  she  was — and  I  hadn't 
seen  her  for  two  years  ! 

"There's  a  classic  story  in  that  line,  of 
Alfred  Lunt  and  Lynn  Fontanne.  It  was 
after  The  Guardstnan  opened.  He  was 
walking  up  and  down  the  room,  telling 
her  just  how  he  had  played  certain  scenes, 
asking  her  if  she  had  noticed  this  or  that — 
how  he  had  put  it  over.  And,  when  he 
finished,  she  said :  T  wonder  if  my  lip 
rouge  was  on  straight  ?' 

"We're  sensitive,  too,"  she  mused,  "to 
what  is  said  about  us  I  The  kind,  the  flatter- 
ing thing,  we  may  forget — but  anything 
that  hurts,  we  always  remember ! 

"After  my  first  broadcast,  one  of  the 
critics  said:  'After  all  tlic.u-  years  of  fine 
achievement,  Helen  Menken  has  stooped 
to  appear  in  trash!'  I  don't  think  Second 
Husba)id  is  trash !  It's  not  the  usual  Cin- 
derella story.  The  characters  are  adult.  The 
woman,  Brenda,  has  two  fairly  large 
children  and  the  probleins  and  situations 
require  mature  understanding.  I  think  the 
development  of  Brenda's  second  marriage 
is  going  to  be  very  interesting.  What  is 
all  that  money  going  to  mean  to  her? 
There  are  going  to  be  crises  and  conflicts 
that  will  be  difficult  for  her  to  handle.  It's 
an  intriguing  psychological  situation. 
There's  promise  in  it  —  and  there's 
menace  ..." 

Marriage,  Miss  Menken  thinks,  demands 
balance,  understanding,  tolerance.  "My 
philosophy — in  so  far  as  I  have  any — "  she 
says,  "is  tolerance.  But  you  have  to  have 
experience,  to  acquire  it." 

Despite  her  own  divorce  and  second 
marriage,  she  does  not  believe  in  divorce, 
in  the  frequent  marriages  that  some  indulge 
in. 

She  said:  "When  I  married  the  second 
time,  some  of  my  friends  said  to  nic  :  'Wliy 
did  you  marry  again?  How  will  this  v>-ork 
out?'  Well,  I  told  them:  'This  time,  it  will 
be  my  fault  !'  " 

There  is,  she  thinks,  a  sort  of  special 


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affinity  lictween  people  of  the  llicatrc  and 
those  whose  professions  are  meiHcine,  or 
the  church.  Which,  slie  maintains,  augurs 
for  success  in  marriages  between  them. 

"In  a  sense,"  she  explained,  "the  minister 
and  the  doctor  are  playing  roles— they  arc 
the  spiritual  adviser,  the  ounifortcr.  tlic 
healer.  They  must,  to  a  certain  extent, 
dramatize  themselves  and  tlie  situation  be- 
tween them  and  the  jiatient  or  parishioner. 
I  find  th;it  liarnion\  between  ni\-  husband's 
profession  and  mine.  It  makes  for  mutual 
understanding  and  synipath)'." 

"W'oidd  you."  we  asketl  iicr.  "like  to 
retire?  To  have  more  time  for  home  life?" 

"Well — some  day.  of  course.  But  I  want 
to  grow  old  gracefully  in  the  theatre  .  .  . 
Lee  Shubert  says  a  woman  isn't  old  enough 
to  play  an  ingenue  till  she's  forty  !  I  think 
around  thirty-six  or  thirty-seven  are  a 
woman's  best  ages  in  the  theatre. 

"I  w-ant  to  do  some  movies,  too.  I  was 
going  to  do  one  for  Universal,  this  sum- 
mer, called  Delay  in  the  Sun — but  it  got 
delayed !  The  scene  was  laid  in  Spain — 
and  the  Spanish  situation  made  them  decide 
to  postpone  it. 

"Then — of  course,  one  doesn't  look  more 
than  a  day  ahead  in  this  business — but  1 
want  to  do  more  in  radio  ..." 

Radio,  Helen  Menken  thinks,  that  already 
gives  us  the  best  in  music,  can  and  will 
give  us  the  best  in  drama — eventually,  per- 
haps, with  television,  supplanting  the  stage. 
She  doesn't  agree  with  those  who  think 
the  average  mental  age  of  the  radio  listener 
is  twelve  years.  She  doesn't  believe  in 
writing  down  to  that  supposed  age. 

In  one  script,  recently,  she  wanted  to 
say;  "That  was  very  gracefully  put."  But 


the  form  deeidcd  upon  wrfs  :  "That  is  Just 
ivhat  I  thought  you'd  say."  "Colorful" 
words,  she  thinks,  make  dialogue  more 
arresting  and  intriguing. 

"1  believe  radio  listeners,"  she  said,  "are 
ureeisely  the  same  pe  .iile  wlio  go  to  the 
tluatre  .  .  .  People,"  slu>  niusjd,  "pan 
radii  I,  iH-e.iu-e  it  eosl.  n,,tbin,y.  The  theatre 
is  (.  xiu  iisu  I  .  iiiM\ ii  s  are  elieap,  and  radio 
is  free,  llieriioie  we  jian  it!  We  never 
apiireeialc  thint,'>  w  e  ,uet   for  nothing  I" 

I'ursuinu  the  thoiiiibt.  slie  acUlcd  :  "Pres- 
ident Roosevelt  wants  to  raise  more  money. 

(iMe.sn'l  he  tax  each  of  us  one  cent 
a  da_v  inv  ow  radios?  No  one  would  feel 
such  a  tax — the  poorest  jierson  could  pay 
it.  .And  three  dollars  and  sixty-five  cents 
a  year  from  over  one  hundred  and  twenty 
million  peo])le  would  be  a  lot  of  money!" 

lint  we  shied  away  from  the  grim 
thought  (if  further  taxes! 

"Would  you  like,"  we  asked,  "if  radio 
does  supplant  the  stage  and  you  are  not 
tied  to  town,  to  live  in  the  country?" 

"Perhaps  ,  .  .  "  She  was  a  little  doubtful. 
"I  love  the  country — but,  in  a  small  town 
you  haven't  the  freedom  you  have  in  the 
city.  You're  more  conspicuous  there  .  .  . 

"New  York,"  she  said  enthusiastically,  "is 
the  grandest  city  in  the  world.  You  can 
live  in  a  tiny  furnished  room,  or  in  an 
attic,  though  your  friends  may  live  in 
palaces.  No  one  asks  where  you  come 
from  or  what  you  have.  You  can  go  out 
an\\vhere,  without  an  escort.  One  evening 
Judith  Anderson  and  I  decided  to  have 
dinne-r  at  the  Ritz  and  go  to  a  movie.  We 
went  to  the  Ritz  in  the  tailored  suits  we 
happened  to  be  wearing.  Everyone  else 
was  in  evening  dress — but  no  one  stared. 


No  one  cared.  You  couldn't  do  that  in 
London,  or  in  Paris.  f)n  tlie  Continent  it 
wouldn't  e\-en  he  safe.  Sn,  thmmh  I  may 
some  day  li\e  in  the  cnuiilr).  1  shall  always 
love  Ni-w-  \'nrk,  1  lii\'e  r\er\ thing  about 
it — and  I've  been  pmu-  in  it,  tim." 

The  hard  h.md  i.f  pnverty,  h.iuever.  iiad 
no  ]i;irt  in  sh,i|iing  tlie  -uiiiii  in  which  we 
sat.  It  had  .i  cnn],  funiia!  lie,iul\ ,  an  ;i- 
tellectual  rather  tlian  a  sinsumis  chaiin. 
Nevertheless  it  was  di  l'mitel>  hunie-like  and 
hospitable.  The  s,,f;  -r.ix  tiuu  i,f  the  walls 
and  the  white  wu-  (Kvnrk  was  l  el  eated  in 
the  gray  velvet  niu,  fringed  with  white. 
Twin  sofas  of  gray  velvet,  with  small  white 
velvet  cushions,  stood  out  from  each  side 
of  a  green  bronze  fireplace.  Between  tliem 
a  low  white  table  with  a  mirror  top,  on 
which  were  trays  and  cigarette  containers 
of  silver  and  crystal.  .\  similar  table  stood 
across  the  room,  ni  front  of  a  green  silk 
sofa,  flanked  by  two  small  chairs  covered 
in  pale  yellow  silk.  Behind  theiii,  on  the 
wall,  a  wide  lilack  mirror.  White  can<lles, 
set  in  silver,  with  glittering  crystal  drops. 
White  peonies  on  the  ebony  piano  .  .  . 

"Well,"  w^e  murmured,  glancing  about 
the  room,  "this  is  close  to  the  sky — but 
hardly  an  attic !  Did  anyone  help  you,"  we 
asked  our  hostess,  "in  your  career?  Was 
there  a  fairy  godmother,  to  change  a 
Village  attic  into  a  Central  Park  salon?" 

Helen  Menken  laughed.  "No  one.  I  never 
had  anyone  to  help  me.  I  often  wished  1 
had  .  .  .  Except — "  her  voice  was  suddenly 
soft,  breathless,  "my  husband  .  .  .  He  helps 
me  .  .  " 

And,  as  we  said  goodbye,  she  added :  "I 
hope  Brenda  is  going  to  be  as  happy  with 

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pursued  education  across  the  plains  to  St. 
Benedict's  College  in  .Atcliisoii.  Kansas. 
Xe.xt  on  the  list  was  Santa  C  lara  Universi- 
ty and  then,  for  some  reason  or  other, 
he  wound  up  at  .-Xrizona  Teachers'  College, 
where  he  was  a  better  football  player  than 
a  potential  teacher. 

"Dad  died  in  Los  Angeles,  in  1926,"  Andy 
continued,  "and  I  came  back  here  for  the 
funeral.  E.xpected  to  stay  only  a  week,  but 
somehow  I've  been  here  ever  since,  .\bout 
that  time  I  iieard  that  Univers.il  was  mak- 
ing a  k)otball  series  called  I'lw  Ci>llc!iiaiis. 
so  I  went  to  Carl  Lacmmle.  Jr.,  and  told 
him  I  was  .Arizona's  greatest  football  play- 
er. Hed  never  heard  of  cither  me  or 
.Arizona,  .so  he  gave  me  a  jub.  It  lasted 
for  a  while,  then  talkies  ari  i\e:l  and  I  was 
through.  They  told  me  it  was  ou  account 
of  my  voice." 

So  .Andy,  whose  voice  got  him  his  first 
break  in  radio,  was  fired  from  pictures.  He 
got  himself  a  job  as  lifeguard  on  the  beach 
at  Venice,  California,  but  the  damsels  in 
distress  never  gave  him  much  of  their  time. 
There  was  a  handsome  lifeguard  on  the 
same  beach,  so  most  of  the  alleged  drown- 
ing was  done  in  the  other  guy's  territory. 

Finally,  in  1930,  Andy  went  back  to 
Junior  Laemmle  at  Universal.  Laemmle 
listened,  and  decided  .Andy's  strange  voice 
might  be  okay  for  sound.  So  he  drew  the 
comedy  lead  in  The  Spirit  of  Notre  Dame, 
with  Lew  .Ayres  and  Sally  Rlane.  The 
result  of  that  is  that  he's  still  under  contract 
to  Universal,  and  that  gravel  pays  dividends 
every  week. 

.Andy's  first  radio  experience  was  with 
his  old  friend  and  counselor,  I'ing  ('rn^^liy. 
The  criioner  has  been  a  pal  .Xmly's  fur 
years,  which  accounts  for  the  laet  that  the 
I)e\  ine  \dcal  phenomenon  (irst  rent  the  air- 
wa\es  in  19,35,  when  he  ai)peared  as  guest 
on  I'ling's  program. 

"About  a  year  after  that,  while  I  was 
still  waiting  for  offers,"  said  .Vndy,  "I  was 
playing  golf  one  day  with  Jack  Benny.  I 
beat  him,  and  he  asked  me  if  I'd  like  to  go 
on  the  air.  I  told  him  sure,  so  nothing 
happened." 

Nothing,  that  is,  until  Jack  started  that 
terrific  and  colossal  epic  of  the  West,  Buck 
Bejiny  h'ides  Atjain.  Jack  remembered 
.And}',  and  that's  why  his  rasping  voice  has 
been  a<kling  laughs  to  Benny's  program 
ever  since. 

"Jack,"  says  Andy,  "is  one  of  the  greatest 
guys  in  the  world.  Heck,  he's  the  greatest ! 
He  wanted  me  to  come  to  New  York  with 
him,  a  few  months  ago,  when  the  program 
was  being  broadcast  from  there.  Invited 
my  wife  along,  too,  and  he  was  going  to 
pay  all  our  expenses.  But  I  was  working 
at  the  studio,  in  The  Road  Back,  so  Buck 
Benny  had  to  ride  alone.  And  that  was 
a  tough  break  for  a  guy  who's  never  been 
east  of  Detroit." 

Andy's  schedule  is  a  tough  one.  He 
works  six  days  a  week  in  iiictures,  and 


when  he  was  on  the  Benny  show  he  re- 
ht  arsi'd  Saturday  night  and  Sunday  morn- 
in-  and  spent  the  rest  of  Suiidav  at  NBC's 

ilMll\wood  Studio. 

•■Outside  iif  the  actual  hro.adcast,"  said 
.Aii(l>',  "we  got  niiist  of  the  Liiighs  at  the 
Saturday  night  reliearsal.  .AH  of  us  sit 
around  the  room  in  a  circle,  and  Jack 
stands  in  the  center  with  the  script.  You 
may  not  believe  it,  but  he  does  the  whole 
program  for  us,  all  by  himself.  Reads  all 
the  jiarts,  including  Don  Wilson's  plugs 
for  Jell-0.  It's  a  howl,  only  I'm  afraid 
that,  if  the  sponsor  ever  heard  it,  the  rest 
of  us  would  lose  our  jobs  and  they'd  put 
Jack  on  as  a  one-man  show!" 

Funniest  incident  Andy  can  recall  hap- 
pened one  night  during  the  regular  Sunday 
broadcast. 

"We  were  doing  Buck  Benny  Rides 
Afiain,  and  the  sound  man  was  whacking 
two  cocoanuts  on  a  table,  to  get  the  sound 
of  horses  hooves.  Right  in  the  middle 
of  the  thing  he  dropped  one  of  the  cocoa- 
nuts.  Everyone  but  Jack  was  sort  of  petri- 
fied. He  just  stepped  up  to  the  mike  and 
said;  'Hold  on,  thar!  My  horse  fell  don'ii!' 
A  second  later  the  guy  found  his  cocoanut 
and  Buck  Benny  rode  again!" 

.Andy  hasn't  any  definite  plans  at  the 
moment,  but  he  hopes  when  fall  comes 
around  he'll  be  back  on  the  airlanes  again. 
He  really  wants  to  go  back  with  Jack 
Benny,  but  there's  talk  around  that  some 
sponsor  will  grab  Andy  for  a  featured  spot 
on  his  own  program.  In  that  case,  there'll 
be  more  gold  dug  out  of  that  ancient  gravel 
pit. 

Right  niiw  .And\'  has  three  possessions 
he's  iiiight\'  priiud  (if.  They're  his  wife, 
w  ill  mi  he  married  in  l''3,\  his  son,  Timothy 
.Andrew  Devine,  better  known  as  Tad,  and 
his  trailer.  .Aiid\'s  so  fmid  of  his  trailer, 
he  takes  it  with  him  to  the  studio,  and 
his  bosses  have  been  kind  enough  to  let 
him  wheel  it  right  on  to  the  set  wdiere  he's 
working,  so  he  can  use  it  for  a  dressing- 
room.  .At  the  moment  it's  sort  of  crowded, 
because  he's  sharing  it  with  Slim  Sum- 
merville.  On  a  clear  day  .Andy  tips  the 
scales  at  two  hundred  and  seventy-five 
pounds,  and  Slim  stands  six  feet  six  in 
.Andy's  socks — so  conditions  are  slightly  less 
than  ideal. 

The  apple  of  his  eye,  of  course,  is  young 
Tad,  who  will  one  day  grow  up  to  be  quite 
a  wealthy  guy.  The  reason  is  that  every 
week  Tad's  old  man  slips  a  hundred  bucks 
into  his  bank  account.  .At  the  moment  Tad 
is  going  on  three,  wliieii  means  that, 
when  he's  twenty-(inc,  iie'll  be  C|uite  a 
solvent  catch  for  the  ladies.  I'ut  .Andy  is 
worried  about  him,  just  the  s.anie.  It  seems 
something  terrible  is  emniiig  i.iver  Tad. 

"I  don't  know  whether  1  ought  to  tell 
it,"  said  .\ndy,  sadly,  "but  I  found  it  out 
over  a  year  ago,  when  Tad  first  learned 
to  talk.  It's  pretty  awful — but  he  sounds 
just  like  me!" 


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youngster  with  impudent  eyes.  A  nice 
kid.  a  swell  voice,  but  no  appeal.  Then, 
one  night,  he  went  up  to  see  her,  and 
there  were  two  other  fellows  there.  Dell 
wasn't  jealous.  He  just  felt  sorry  for 
Meri  Bell.  They  were  typical  Broadway 
boys — loud  shirts,  screaming  ties.  Dcsc- 
dosc-dem  boys,  that  a  nice  girl  shouldn't 
know. 

To  protect  her,  Dell  decided  he'd  out- 
stay them.  When  they  finally  left,  Meri 
Bell,  tired  and  gallant,  explained  that  they 
were  vaudevillians — she  had  met  them 
while  traveling  once  with  a  show,  and  they 
had  been  kind  to  her,  so  she  wanted  to  be 
kind  to  them. 

Dell  says,  now,  he  felt  real  sorry  for 
her.  She  really  was  sort  of  sweet  and 
very  innocent.  He  rose  to  go — then  turned, 
and  kissed  her  softly,  just  once.  And 
then  he  was  gone. 

Meri  Bell  thought  about  that  kiss  several 
times,  the  next  day.  After  all,  Dell  Shar- 
hutt  was  different — in  more  ways  than 
light  bulbs! 

He  came  again,  a  few  nights  later,  and 
they  had  dinner  together  and  played 
Russian  Bank.  \\'hen  it  was  time  for  Dell 
to  go.  he  went  to  the  door,  as  usual.  Said : 
"Well,  good  night,"  and  left. 

But  Meri  Bell  called  him  back.  She 
said :  "Last  time  you  came,  you  kissed 
me  when  you  left !" 

Dell  looked  at  her  and  groaned :  "Is 
that  any  reason  why  I  should  kiss  you  this 
time?  Danics  are  nuts!"  And  the  door 
slammed  after  him. 

He  was,  Meri  Bell  decided,  a  funny 
fellow.  Probably  hard  to  manage  .  .  . 
Then  she  forgnt  about  it.  There  were  too 
many  other  things  to  think  about. 

The  next  week  she  was  offered  a  job. 
touring  with  an  air  shciw.  So  she  packed 
her  bag,  said  gnodbye  to  Xcw  York  and 
Dell  Sharbutt—  and  for  cigiit  months  she 
didn't  hear  from  him  and  seldom  thought 
of  iiim. 

When  she  finally  did  hit  New  York 
again,  on  her  way  to  Xew  England,  she 
happened  to  be  near  tlie  studio,  and  gave 
him  a  ring  to  say  "Hello."  He  asked  her 
to  go  to  dinner  with  him.  Her  train  left 
that  evening.  It  was  a  winter  night  and 
New  York  was  locked  tight  in  a  blizzard. 
They  had  an  early  dinner  and  he  went 
to  the  train  with  her.  The  town  was 
blanketed  with  snow,  and  he  teased  her 
because  she  was  licading  north  in  a  bliz- 
zard, and  told  her  there  was  no  cfilder 
place  on  earth  than  a  small  New  England 
hotel  in  midwinter. 

The  next  night  she  knew  he  was  right ! 
She  filled  the  tub  full  of  hot  water  and 
jumped  in,  to  thaw  out.  The  teleplione 
rang.  It  might  be  something  about  an 
early  rehearsal  call.  So  she  jumped  out 
of  the  lovely  hot  bath,  wrapped  herself  in 
a  towel  and  robe,  and  went,  shivering, 
dripping,  to  the  phone. 

It  was  Dell  Sharbutt — calling  from  New 
York,  to  tell  her  gleefully  that  he  was  sit- 
ting in  front  of  an  open  fire  in  his  New 
York  apartment,  with  plenty  of  steam  heat 
and  a  hot  toddy  by  his  side— and  didn't 


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!  she  wish  she  was  there?     She  says  she 
was  mad— until  she  learned  that  he  liad 
I  phoned  every  hotel  in  town  until  he  located 
j  her.     Then   she   figured    there    must  be 
something-  to  it.  only  he  was  really  cni:y 
—and  she  didn"t  like  him  much,  anyhow  ! 
;      To  this  day  they  don't   know  exactly 
how  they  happened  to  ^ct  married.  But, 
three  weeks  after  the  blizzard,  Meri  Bell 
was  back  in  New  York,  and  Dell  Sharbutt 
was  going  up  to  see  her  every  night,  in- 
stead of  just  once  in  a  while,  and  staying 
late  to  make  sure  that  nobody  else  called 
after  he  left.    Then,  all  of  a  sudden,  one 
:  night  he  said:  "What  would  your  mother 
{  say.  if  we  got  married?"'  And  Meri  Bel! 
j  said  casually :  "Oh,  I  don't  know  ...  I 
j  guess  maybe  she'd  like  it."    So  the  next 
day — it    was    a    Friday — they    called  up 
everybody  they  knew  and   said :  "We're 
going  to  get  married  tomorrow.    Want  to 
come  around   Sunday  and   help  us  cele- 
brate?" 

Then,  having  made  it  official  by  announc- 
ing it,  they  had  to  do  it.  They  were  mar- 
ried down  at  City  Hall,  in  New  York,  and 
pretty  sore  they  were,  too,  because  the 
city  eiuployees  were  so  matter  of  fact 
about  It.  Couldn't  they  see  that  this  was 
a  real  romance?    And  different? 

Today  you  could  search  New  York  with 
spotlight  and  spyglass  and  never  find  a 
happier  couple.  Of  course,  Dell  knows 
now  that  Meri  Bell  is  not  a  tall,  lanky, 
yellow-haired  kid,  but  a  slim  and  lovely 
young  woman  with  natural  blonde  hair 
and  a  peaches-and-cream  complexion  any 
girl  would  envy.  And  Meri  Bell  realizes 
that  a  calm  and  casual  lo\er  can  turn  into 
a  most  romantic  husband. 

Just  recently  they  took  a  big,  roomy 
house  out  in  Forest  Hills,  Long  Island, 
where  they  are  living  happily  ever  after. 
Their  pride  and  joy  is  a  bright-eyed  black 
Scotch  terrier  named  Stinky.  When  they 
aren't  working  or  entertaining  an  appar- 
ently endless  procession  of  guests,  you'll 
find  them  on  the  golf  course.  Dell  is  a 
proud  member  of  the  I folc-in-One  Club. 
and  won  their  tournament  last  year. 

Love,  home,  dog,  success,  golf — yes,  life 
is  smooth  as  high  quality  satin  now  !  And 
both  of  them  have  hit  enough  rough  spots 
in  the  past  to  appreciate  its  smoothness. 

Dell  can  remember,  a  few  years  back, 
the  lonely,  bitter  days  when  he  had  to 
make  good,  or  else.  When  he  chose  to 
go  into  radio,  Dell  was  compelled  to  leave 
home  and  cut  himself  ofif  completely  from 
his  family.  That's  always  a  heart-break- 
ing thing  for  a  youngster  to  do.  And 
especially  hard  when  life  at  home  always 
has  been  pleasant  and  happy  and  full  of 
deep  afYections. 

Dell  was  the  only  son.  From  the  time 
he  was  a  tiny  child,  his  parents  planned 
that  someday  he  should  be  a  fine  lawyer. 
Throughout  childhood  and  youth,  his 
training,  his  parents'  hopes  and  dreams, 
[jointed  him  for  that  profession.  He  was 
in  his  third  year  of  law  school  when  he 


was 


^tni'.; 


— studs  mil;  law  by  day,  sinuing 
At  the  end  of  the  month  he  si 
lather  his  check  from  the  l)ri 
company.  It  was  for  a  hundred  and 
seventy-five  dollars.  His  father  looked  at 
the  check,  then  said  shari)ly  to  his  boy  : 
"That's  too  nnich  inoney  for  a  young  fel- 
low \ijur  age  to  be  making.  i'"orget  radio 
and  get  back  to  your  books." 


But  Dell  couldn't  forget  radio.  Es- 
pecially he  couldn't  when  he  found  that 
some  young  lawyers,  who  had  graduated 
years  before  him,  considered  themselves 
lucky  if  they  earned  a  hundred  a  month. 
He  had  luade  almost  twice  that  much  in 
his  spare  time.  Still,  it  wasn't  the  money 
that  lured  lum,  really.  It  was  the  job — 
singing  songs  you  liked,  the  exciting  mo- 
ment of  quiet  tenseness  before  you  went 
on  the  air,  the  pleasant,  friendly  "let 
down,"  when  the  show  was  over — the  at- 
mosphere of  the  studio.  As  night  followed 
night.  Dell  realized  more  and  more  that 
he  never  could  be  happy  in  a  law  ofifice.  He 
put  the  problem  up  to  his  father  and 
mother.  But  they  were  firm.  Law  and 
home,  or  radio  and  no  family !  Dell  chose. 
He  couldn't  stay  in  Texas  after  the  break 
with  his  family.  He  came  to  New  York 
and  g(U  a  job.  not  as  a  singer,  but  as  an 
announcer.  He  is  announcer  now  for  Guy 
Lombardo,   for  and  I'a,   for  Pun  in 

Szcinf/tinic,  with  Tim  and  Irene,  and  for 
Broadivay  Varieties.  His  successful  rise 
is  a  well-known  story  in  radio  now. 

It  wasn't  until  Dell  was  on  national 
hook-ups,  and  the  home-town  folks  were 
lavish  in  their  praise,  that  his  parents  for- 
gave him  for  disappointing  thein  so  bit- 
terly. They  are  very  proud  of  him  now, 
of  course,  and  everybody  is  happy. 

While  Dell  was  fighting  loneliness  and 
struggling  for  a  firm  hold  on  the  air,  Meri 
Bell  was  having  battles,  too.  She  had  her 
first  fling  at  radio  in  Indianapolis  singing 
over  a  small  station.  Everybody  liked  her 
voice,  but  sumehow  there  was  no  sponsor 
who  needed  her  at  the  moment,  and  she 
was  off  the  air  again  in  a  few  weeks. 

She  got  a  job  as  a  stenographer,  and 
might  have  given  up  singing  altogether, 
if  she  hadn't  dropped  by  the  studio  one 
day  to  say  "Hello"  to  her  friends,  and 
there  she  met  Guy  Lombardo.  He  asked 
her  to  sing  for  him.  No,  he  didn't  give 
her  a  job.  But,  a  short  time  later,  up  in 
Chicago,  he  mentioned  Meri  Bell  and  her 
voice  to  Gus  Arnheim.  It  was  Arnheim 
who  brought  her  to  Chicago  and  gave  her 
a  job.  After  that  she  toured  the  country, 
singing  in  most  of  the  better  night  clubs, 
and  even  taking  a  brief  fling  at  pictures, 
doubling  in  singing  sequences  for  Kay 
Francis,  Joan  Blondell,  Jean  Harlow  and 
other  stars. 

Like  most  ambitious  kids.  New  York 
was  her  goal.  And  even  if  she  came  with- 
out money,  she  had  plenty  of  talent  and 
bright  hopes  and  lots  of  grit.  Still,  if 
Dell  Sharbutt  had  been  any  good  at  Rus- 
sian Bank.  Meri  Bell  might  be  back  in  the 
Middle  West  instead  of  singing  with  Ray 
Sinatra's  orchestra  on  the  Kara  hour. 

Plans  for  the  future  loom  high  and  shin- 
ing. Success  came  to  Dell  as  an  an- 
nouncer, and  he's  pleased  with  it.  But 
it  isn't  enough.  People  who  know  him 
well  predict  that  greater  fame  will  come 
(o  him  when  he  gets  back  to  his  singing. 
And  Meri  Bell?  She's  happiest  just  be- 
ini^  Mrs.  Dell  Sharbutt.  She's  been 
turning  down  auditions  for  new  shows,  be- 
cuise,  if  she  had  more  work,  she  couldn't 
l:ikv  care  of  I 'ell.  Slie  acts  as  his  secretary 
anil  -encral  nianat^er.  .And  it's  a  big  job. 
She's  still  in  her  early  twenties,  and  Dell 
is  only  three  years  her  senior.  So  they 
ha\'e  lots  of  time  and  lots  of  talent,  and 
should  go  far  together. 

But,  aside  from  all  that,  isn't  it  a  fine 
romance  ? 


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MRS.  BING  CROSBY 
GETS  CONFIDENTIAL 

(Co)i!lii!u-d  jrom  pj;ic  21) 


birthday?  Well,  Bing  never  likes  any  fuss 
made  over  his  birtluiay,  you  know.  Or 
any  holiday,  for  that  matter.  He  thinks 
it's  all  a  lot  of  nonsense.  I'ven  Christmas. 
He  says  that  Christmas  is  a  rcliumus  festi- 
val and  that  people  have  completely  lost 
track  of  that.  Anyway,  on  Bing's  last 
birthday,  we  thought  we'd  make  a  little 
fuss  over  him.  I  ordered  a  big  cake,  with 
candles  and  all.  I  invited  a  few-  people 
in  for  the  6zy.  And  do  you  know  what 
he  did  ?  He  took  the  kids  to  the  zoo.  Tliat's 
the  way  he  celebrated  his  birthday  !  He's 
crazy  about  the  kids.  Wrestles  with  them. 
Sings  to  them  all  over  the  place.  I  tell 
him  that  if  he  must  sing  to  them  like  that, 
he  might  at  least  sing  nicely  and — and 
crooningly.  He  doesn't — he  shouts.  Gary 
has  a  voice  just  like  his  Dad's  I  don't 
mean  a  singing  voice.  It's  too  early  to  tell 
about  that  yet.  But  his  speaking  voice  is 
exactly  the  same  as  Bing's.  Did  you  notice 
that  ?" 

I  said  I  had.  I  said  that  he  was  exactly 
like  Bing  in  every  way. 

"Bing  is  a  pretty  good  disciplinarian,  too," 
Dixie  went  on  confidentially.  "He  never 
spanks  them.  But  you  know  that  voice  of 
his  when  he  lets  it  go — all  he  has  to  do  is 
yell:  'Hi,  there!'  at  the  children  and 
there's  instant  obedience.  He  plays  Hide 
and  Seek  with  them,  and  Cops  and  Rob- 
bers. He  rides  their  scooters  and  kiddie 
cars,  and  I  must  say  that's  a  pretty  sight ! 
He  swims  with  them,  ducks  them,  has  water 
fights  with  them.  He  hears  their  prayers 
and  tells  them  bedtime  stories  and  is  up 
with  them  at  the  crack  of  dawn  every  morn- 
ing. 

"You  know,"  Dixie  meditated,  "I  never 
thought  Bing  would  be  the  way  he  is. 
Never!  He's  so  serious.  He's  so  quiet. 
He's  often  worried,  but  he  never  says  that 
he  is.  He  never  tells  me  anything  about 
his  worries  or  problems.  But  I  know  him 
so  well,  I  ran  tell.  And  he  gets  more 
serious  and  more  dignified  and  quieter  and 
quieter  as  time  goes  on.  When  he's  with 
the  kids  is  practically  the  only  time  he 
ever  lets  loose  and  acts  crazy.  We  never 
go  anywhere,  you  know.  We  almost  never 
go  to  parties.  Bing  won't  go  to  the  Troc' 
or  any  other  night  clubs.  He  says  that 
when  he  goes  to  a  night  club  he  feels  just 
like  he's  going  to  work.  He  sang  in  places 
like  that  for  so  long,  you  know.  About 
once  or,  at  most,  twice  a  year,  I'm  able  to 
drag  him  out  and  we  go  stepping.  And 
when  we  do,  he  stays  till  the  last  trumpet 
blows.  He  is  always  the  last  to  go  home. 
Bing,  who  was  the  craziest  Indian  alive 
when  he  began,  you  know,  in  the  old  days 
(I  think  of  them  as  'the  old  days'  now) 
when  he  was  one  of  the  Rhythm  Boys,  with 
Paul  Whiteman! 

"I  think,"  said  Dixie,  di.scerningly,  "that's 
the  real  reason  why  Bing  won't  go  out. 
He  knows  himself  too  well.  He  know^s 
that  he  likes  to  have  some  drinks,  and 
then  some   more   drinks.     And   he  just 


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doesn't  go  any  place  where  he  miglit  be 
tempted.  He  never  takes  a  drink,  not  even 
beer,  during  the  week.  only  on  very 

rare  occasions,  on  a  Saturday  night,  can  he 
l>e  induced  to  have  one  or  two  highballs. 
-So,  we  just  stay  at  home,  go  to  bed  every 
night  at  ten  o'clock — and  I  mean  ten  o'clock. 
Tlie  only  places  he  ever  goes  to  are  the 
homes  of  our  few  intimate  friends,  the 
.\n(i\-  Dcx-ines,  tiie  Dick  .Arlcns,  the  homes 
of  some  of  the  bovs  who  are  on  the  air  with 
him. 

"He  has  absolutely  no  personal  vanity. 
It's  almost  unbelievable,  even  to  me.  I 
can't  understand  it.  I've  given  up  trying. 
Ring's  mother  told  me,  ages  ago,  that  I'd 
better  not  try  to  understand  Bing.  She 
never  had !  But  it  really  fascinates  me," 
said  Dixie,  seriously,  "to  watch  a  man  who 
has  come  through  all  the  adulation  Bing 
has  had,  all  the  girl-crush  and  fan-crush 
avalanche  to  which  he  was,  and  still  is, 
subjected,  and  to  realize  that  he  just  isn't 
eonscious  of  it.  Maybe  he  isn't  conscious," 
laughed  Dixie,  mischievously,  "maybe  that's 
the  explanation  of  it ! 

"I  told  Bing,  by  the  way,  that  you  were 
coming  over  to  interview  me,  Gladys.  I 
asked  him  if  he  wanted  me  to  tell  you  the 
real  truth  about  him.  He  said:  'Snre, 
why  not?'  And  I  said:  'If  I  do,  my  good 
man,  you  have  sung  your  last  song  over 
the  air!'    It  didn't  faze  him! 

"But  honestly,  he  really  is  unbelievable. 
He  never  looks  decent.  When  Harold 
Grieve  'did'  our  dining-room  for  us — you 
saw  it,  kind  of  formal  and  elegant  and  all 
— I  said  :  'Imagine  the  Crooner  dining  in 
that,  in  his  sweat  shirt!'  Which,"  sighed 
Di.xie  dolorously,  "is  the  very  thing  he  does 
dine  in !  Aw]  nothing  I  can  say  has  any 
effect.  I  tell  him  I  like  the  Herbert  Mar- 
shall type,  sort  of  dignified  and  wearing 
niorning  coals  and  striped  trousers,  the 
kind  who  'dress  for  dinner' — and  Bing  just 
laughs  and  says  :  'Yeah — want  to  get  your- 
self another  boy?'  and  goes  into  dinner  in 
the  sweat  shirt !  He  makes  nic  furious ! 
Even  when  he's  broadcasting — well,  have 
you  ever  sern  him?" 

I  said  that  I  had. 

"Then  you  know,"  sighed  Dixie,  "that  he 
stands  up  there  in  front  of  that  audience, 
wearing  a  shirt,  a  pair  of  trousers,  no  tie, 
his  hair  guiltless  of  a  hair  brush  since 
early  mornmg.  When  we  go  to  the  races 
or  to  tennis  or  golf  matches — almost  the 
only  places  he'll  go  at  all — he'll  trot  off 
with  me,  wearing  an  old  polo  shirt,  an 
ancient  pair  of  flannels,  looking  like  some- 
thing that  should  be  on  relief!  And  when 
I  speak  my  piece  about  it,  he  says :  'No 
one's  going  to  look  at  they're  going 
to  look  at  the  horses.'  And  he  believes  it. 
I  tell  him  that  /  might  like  to  feel  proud 
of  him,  tliat  I  like  to  know  that  people 
arc  looking  at  us  and  saying:  'There's 
Bing  Crosby  and  his  wife.'  He  still  doesn't 
get  it.  Tilings  like  that  are  just  unim- 
portant to  Bing. 

"I  tliink  one  explanation  is,"  laughed 
Dixie,  "that  I'ing  really  doesn't  like  -vnmen. 
1  Ic's  typically  and  entirely  a  man's  man. 
His  two  major  passions  in  life  are  horses 
and  golf.  Tlie  sport  of  kings,  the  sport 
of  men.  I  don't  mean  that  he's  a  woman- 
lialcr.  I'ing  would  never  think  of  such  a 
thing.  He  wouldn't  be  that  dramatic  al)out 
.-mylhing,  lie  just  isn't  aware  of  wnnien. 
lie  isn't  'noticing'  when  it  comes  to  women. 


He  thinks  we  are  all  very  well  in  our 
way  and  in  our  places.  Wives  and  mothers 
are  necessary,  of  course,  and  very  nice. 
But  beyond  those  spheres — no.  He  never 
notices  what  women  wear.  He  never 
knows  what  I  have  on.  I've  spent  an  eve- 
ning out  with  Ihng — one  of  our  rare  eve- 
nings— and  I'll  be  all  done  up  in  some 
brand  new  totsy  little  number,  and  when 
we  get  home  Bing  won't  even  be  able  to 
tell  me  what  color  I've  been  wearing!  I've 
never  once  heard  him  make  a  remark 
about  any  girl,  one  way  or  another.  I've 
never  seen  him  even  attempt  a  mild  flirta- 
tion.   It's  wonderful ! 

"He's  absolutely  without  any  self-con- 
sciousness at  all.  He  proves  that  by  the 
way  he  behaves  when  we  do  go  out.  When 
you  can  get  him  into  a  night  club,  for 
instance,  he'll  take  over  the  whole  show. 
He'll  sing  all  evening  long,  because  he  en- 
joys it.  Because  he's  having  a  good  time. 
You  can  tell  that  it  never  strikes  him  that 
Bing  Crosby  is  singing.  He's  completely 
unaware  of  any  connotation.  He's  just  hav- 
ing fun,  as  Joe  Doakes  or  any  other  citizen 
might  do  on  an  evening  out.  One  time,  in 
New  York,  we  went  to  the  movies.  They 
had  one  of  those  'sings,'  where  the  words 
of  songs  are  flashed  on  the  screen,  an  organ- 
ist plays,  the  audience  joins  in.  And  Bing 
just  stood  up  there  and  sang  at  the  top  of 
his  lungs.  It  never  occurred  to  him  that 
everyone  in  the  place  would  know  that 
Bing  Crosby  was  singing — you  couldn't 
rniss  that  voice — and  would  mob  him.  He 
thought,  if  he  thought  about  it  at  all,  that 
he  had  just  as  much  right  to  stand  up 
there  and  sing  as  any  Rotarian  visiting 
New  York.  And  would  attract  about  the 
same  amount  of  attention,  no  more.  1 
nearly  died.  I  had  to  take  him  by  his  coat- 
tails  and  pull  him  back  in  his  seat  and 
shush  him  up.  Before  we  were  surrounded. 

"He's  crazy  about  his  work.  But  it's  a 
business  with  him.  He's  interested  in  it, 
just  as  a  banker  is  interested  in  banking,  a 
chain  store  grocer  is  interested  in  his  chain 
stores  and  their  success.  He's  in  it  for  the 
do  rc  nil  that's  in  it,  as  any  business  man 
is.  That's  all.  He  never  reads  his  fan 
mail,  unless  we  push  some  of  the  letters 
right  under  his  nose.  He  never  goes  to  his 
previews.  He  just  doesn't  pay  any  atten- 
tion to  the  'glamour'  part  of  it  at  all.  It's 
nice,  of  course,  that  he's  the  way  he  is, 
with  all  the  'ham'  left  out.  But  it's  too 
bad  for  him,  I  think.  He  misses  all  of  the 
kick  he  might  get  out  of  it,  out  of  being 
Bing  Crosby. 

"He  always  gets  up  at  six  every  morn- 
ing, when  he's  working,  when  he's  not 
working.  When  he's  making  a  picture  he's 
off  to  the  studio,  of  course.  He's  always 
on  time,  punctual  to  the  minute.  When 
he's  not  working,  he  just  putters  and 
potters  about  the  house.  He's  the  neatest 
man  about  his  possessions !  The  most  or- 
derly man  I  ever  knew.  He  cleans  out 
cupboards  and  puts  bureau  drawers  in  or- 
der. He  mosies  about  the  garden,  examin- 
ing the  flowers  and  shrubs  and  trees.  He 
sort  of  looks  things  over.  About  once 
every  six  months  he  goes  on  a  sort  of 
head-of-the-house  rampage  and  asks  why 
the  books  aren't  better  taken  care  of  !  And 
that's  the  end  of  that  for  six  months  more. 
He  isn't  a  bit  fussy  about  his  food.  So 
long  as  his  tummy  is  filled,  he  doesn't  care 
what  he  eats. 


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"What  has  happened  to  us,  Dear? 


"Tic  doesn't  worry  about  putting  on 
woiglit.  We  have  to  do  that  worrying  for 
him.  Thougli  he  did  come  home  one  day 
last  week  and  say:  "I  want  a  glass  of 
orange  juice  for  lunch.'  'Wassa  matter, 
Crooner,'  I  said,  'dieting?'  He  looked 
kind  of  sheepish  and  said:  'I  saw  my 
rushes  this  morning.  I  looked  like  Walter 
Hiers.    Orange  juice.' 

"Another  thing  alumt  Ring."  said  Ring's 
wife— and  all  the  time  -ho  talked  lightly, 
amusingly,  one  could  delect,  without  doing 
much  detecting,  the  strong,  underlying 
note  of  affection,  of  admiration,  slightly 
amazed  admiration,  for  the  carefree 
Crooner  who  has  "grown  up"  to  be  so 
solid,  so  substantial  a  citizen — "another 
thing  about  Ring  is  that  when  he  tells 
anyone  he  will  do  a  thing,  he  does  it. 
Tliat's  what  I  mean,  again,  when  I  say 
that  I  never  dreamed  Ring  would  be  like 
this.  Even  when  he  was  a  little  boy,  he 
w^as  wild,  his  mother  tells  me.  He  was 
always  into  something,  always  in  hot 
water — and  now  look  at  him !  You  re- 
member how  he  got  the  name  of  Ring — 
the  old  story  about  how,  when  he  was  a 
kid  in  Spokane,  he  used  to  ride  a  broom- 
stick horse  and  romp  about  playing  Cow- 
boy and  Indian  and  shouting  :  'Bing!  Bing'.' 
louder  than  any  other  six  boys  put  to- 
gether. Bing  it  was  then,  and  Ring  has 
stuck— the  Harry  Lillis  Crosby  they  gave 
him  at  his  christening  is  all  but  forgotten. 
He  refuses  to  admit  to  the  'Lillis'  at  all.  / 
still  call  him  'Crooner,' "  laughed  Dixie, 
"and  that  burns  him  up,  too ! 

"Perhaps  playing  Cowboy  was  also  a 
part  of  being  father  to  the  man — for  all 
Ring  really  likes  to  talk  about  now  is  the 
race  track,  his  horses.  You  know  that 
he  first  had  the  idea  of  our  Del  Mar  race 
track?  That's  the  only  thing  Ring  ever 
consulted  me  about — buying  his  first  horse. 
He  thought,  then,  that  he  would  buy  just 
that  one,  no  more !  Xow  I  couldn't  tell 
you  how  many  we  have.  We're  breeding 
them  at  our  Santa  Fe  ranch.  I  was  scared 
when  Bing  first  got  this  craze.  It  eats 
up  money.  Then  I  saw  it  was  no  use  and 
I  just  said  to  him:  'Okay,  Crooner.  We 
can  always  work  in  the  stables  and,  if 
worse  comes  to  worst,  we  have  three  po- 
tential jockeys  in  the  fainily.'  Now  I'm  as 
keen  about  the  horses  as  he  is.  You  can't 
help  it — watching  little  wobbly-legged 
colts,  being  with  them  from  the  moment 
they  are  born,  figuring  that  some  day  they 
may  win  a  race.  There's  a  kick  to  it,  no 
doubt  about  that.  And  it's  swell  for  the 
kids.  Being  with  horses  is  supposed  to 
teach  boys  something  about  human  nature 
and  character  and  stamina  and  all  that, 
isn't  it? 

"Horses,  racing,  golf — these  are  Ring's 
hobbies.  He  hasn't  any  other  hobby.  He 
has  no  other  extravagances.  He  drives 
his  own  car.  He  wouldn't  have  a  chauf- 
feur. He  would  die  if  he  ever  had  a 
valet  to  'lay  out  his  clothes.'  He'd  think 
someone  was  playing  a  joke  on  him,  not 
a  very  funny  one.  He  doesn't  read  much. 
He  doesn't  care  about  traveling.  Neither 
of  us  has  ever  been  abroad,  and  we  have 
no  desire  to  go. 

"I  guess  I  could  sum  it  all  up  by  saying 
this,"  said  Dixie  thoughtfully — "I  get  much 
more  kick  out  of  being  Bing  Crosby's 
wife  than  Bing  gets  out  of  being  Bing 
Crosby." 


How  could  he  answer  frankly?  How 
could  he  tell  her  that  one  serious 
neglect  — a  lack  of  proper  attention 
to  feminine  cleanliness  —  had  made 
her  almost  repulsive  to  him? 


IF  UNHAPPY  COUPLES  WOuld  consult 
doctors,  instead  of  divorce-lawyers, 
many  a  wife  would  be  surprised  to  learn 
why  her  husband's  love  had  cooled. 
Often  it  is  due  simply  to  ignorance  about 
the  proper  precautions  to  insure  inti- 
mate personal  daintiness. 

A  wholesome  method  of  feminine 
hygiene  is  important  not  only  for  your 
ozvn  sense  of  personal  cleanliness  and 
comfort.  It  is  often  still  more  important 
for  the  sensibilities  of  your  husband.  For 
no  man's  love  can  long  survive  neglect 
of  this  obligation  that  marriage  brings 
to  every  woman.  Many  doctors  recom- 
mend "Lysol"  disinfectant  as  a  cleanly 
aid  in  feminine  hygiene,  as  a  means  of 
assuring  freshness  and  daintiness. 


The  fact  that  "Lysol"  disinfectant  is 
used  by  many  doctors,  nurses  and  hos- 
pitals—for many  exacting  antiseptic 
needs  —  is  your  assurance  that  "Lysol", 
in  the  correct  solutions,  does  not  hurt  or 
harm  normal  tissue.  There  are  many 
other  valuable  household  uses  for  "Lysol". 
• 

The  6  Special  Features  of  "Lysol" 

1.  NoN-CAUSTic. .  ."Lysol",  in  the  proper  dilu- 
tion, is  gentle  and  efficient.  It  contains  no 
harmful  free  caustic  alkali. 

2.  Effectiveness. .."Lysol"  is  active  under 
practical  conditions ...  in  the  presence  of 
organic  matter  (such  as  dirt, mucus, serum, etc.). 

3.  Penetr.\tion... "Lysol"  solutions  spread 
because  of  low  surface  tension,  and  thus  vir- 
tually search  out  germs. 

4.  Economy... "Lysol",  because  it  is  concen- 
trated, costs  less  than  one  cent  an  application 
in  the  proper  solution  for  feminine  hygiene. 

5.  Odor... The  cleanly  odor  of  "Lysol"  dis- 
appears after  use. 

6.  St.;\bility.  .  ."Lysol"  keeps  its  full,  depend- 
able strength  no  matter  how  long  it  is  kept, 
no  matter  how  often  it  is  uncorked. 

• 

FACTS    ALL   WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

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linancc  their  neighborhood  appearances. 
"Like  all  pood  things,  that  came  to  an 
n-1.  "  I'd  went  on  telling  Ralph  about  his 
i\\n  hl'c.  "Vuu  joined  Charlie  Davis'  band, 
inu   l)anjo,  and   then   what  important 
hing  bajipened  ?" 
"W'U  mean,  I  met  you?" 
"Ot  Ciiiirse,  of  ciuirse,  man — are  ye  daft?" 

'    ks   .^we<lish  but  is  not,  was 
facetiously  Sdlcli. 

")'oii're  telling  the  story  n\  ni\'  life,  so 
tell  it,  laddie!"  Ralph  went  on  eating  pie 
"I'm  not  sure  whether  1  thought  of  tlie 
combination,  or  whether  Ralph  did,"  Ed 
said,  "but  I  think  it  was  inevitable  that 
we  should  wind  up  as  an  act.  It  took  us  a 
while  to  shape  it  up  to  the  point  where  it 
was  really  presentable,  and,  of  course,  we 
made  mistakes. 

"In  fact,  one  reason  why  we  didn't  dare 
to  take  Jack  Benny's  advice  was  that,  early 
in  our  career  as  an  act.  we'd  taken  the 
counsel  of  a  pal  of  ours  named  Tink,  and 
had  tried  a  similar  trick  with  a  vaudeville 
booker,  .'\ccording  to  the  plan  outlined  to 
us  by  Tink,  we  promptly  turned  down  the 
booker's  offer  of  sixty  dollars,  and  marched 
off  to  the  elevator,  Tink  had  assured  us 
tiiat  the  agent  would  stop  us,  before  we 
could  reach  the  car,  and  plead  with  us  to 
take  more  dough  We  walked  as  slowly  as 
we  could — we  even  let  three  elevators  go 
])y  before  we  took  one — but  the  man  didn't 
stir  from  his  desk.  We  vvait('<l  two  hours  in 
the  lol)by  and,  finally,  slunk  hack  and  took 
tlie  ^ixty  bucks!  So  you  see — " 

They  had  a  lot  of  fun  in  vaudeville,  be- 
fore they  tired  of  it.  On  long  trips  they'd 
greet  each  other  at  railroad  stations  as 
thers  and  attract  cro\v<ls  witli 
'■//oTi'  (tic  r<»)(— /^||■;^'■-^■  .///!)' 
/(■v.vir  .And  so  on,  through  hnndreds  of 
iniagni.iry  relatives.  Once  I'.d  fettered 
Ralph  with  handcuffs,  and  Ralph  worked 
on  the  -ynii)athies  <if  the  station  crowd  so 
successfullv   that   tliere  was   a  ntovement 


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AT  5  AN  D  \Oi  STORES 
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strnig  u])! 

first  taste  of  radio  came  to  them 
1  for  a  charitable  act  the\'  had  per- 
The_\'  were  playing  in  Xt'w  Orleans, 

when  that  section  sniTrrcd  one  of 
,dir    Ik.ods^    The    ho\s  ..rganized 


I  lir\-  (Iclnnlely 
Cliicago's  //■ 
ri  ijular  ])r<igr,im  but  they  dl  In' 
impress  the  listeners,  so  li.'n  k  ll 


and  a  couple  of  them 
he  local  ra<lio  station, 
ihe  taste. 
,ave  llu-m  a  crack  at  a 
si.niehow. 
,.  so  liaik  ihcy  trudged 

"ilnl  we  were  serious  about  clowning  on 
the  i.iilio,  so  we  saved  up  some  dougli,  went 
back  to  II'CX  and  offered  our  scimccs  free. 
The\-  took  us."  said  Ralph, 

They  de(  ided  to  lnirlesc|ue  the  currentl\- 
popiilar  ri  ci))e-gi\ ing  tyjie  of  air  show  and 
it  went  over  with  a  bang — or  r.ither  with  a 
tliud — the  thud  of  overllowiiig  mail  bags, 
stuffed  with  letters  from  amused  women  lis- 
teners, by  the  thotrsands !  (4,861  women 
wrote  in,  during  their  first  year,  to  ask 
about  a  method  of  moth  prevention  advo- 
cated in  an  unguarded  moment  by  tlie 
duo ! )  And  the  station  began  to  take  heed. 

The  lads  went  back  on  the  payroll  and 


each  sold  his  trunk  marked  Theatre. 

There  has  been  some  talk,  recently,  of 
changing  the  name  they  adopted  for  their 
gag-recipe  show.  Sister.^  Of  The  Skillet, 
but,  because  almost  everyone  now  knows 
them  by  this  name,  and  because  as  astute 
a  radio  man  as  George  Engles  of  XBC  has 
adviserl  them  to  hold  on  to  it,  you  prob- 
ably will  continue  to  hear  these  gents  an- 
nounced as  such — silly  as  it  may  seem. 

Over  the  C'A'.S'  network  they  broadcast  as 
The  Quality  Tzi'iiis. 

You  may  even  hear  one  or  the  other  play- 
ing such  rok's  as  (,'n'ciul,'lyu,  the  (inr- 
f/eous  Dish  U'lishcr,  /Vr.f.wc,  the  Beautiful 
Barbecue  Girl,  or  Pet  Plcntx,  Love  ll.vpcrt 
E.x-traordiuairc. 

"We  advised  farmers  to  save  worn-out 
btittonholes  and  to  use  them  for  postholes," 
said  Ed,  "and  the  next  and  subsequent 
mails  brought  us  tons  of  'em.  Even  today 
we  occasionally  get  a  buttonhole  from  a 
farmer  with  a  long  memory." 

"Yeah,"  mumbled  Ralph,  chasing  the  last 
minute  speck  of  pie  around  the  plate  with 
his  fork,  "we  helped  distracted  ladies!  We 
told  them  how  to  prevent  their  husbands 
from  annoying  them  with  their  snoring, 
how  to  stop  their  husbands  from  leaving 
the  cellar  light  on  and  how  to  get  rid  of 
the  icicles  on  the  back  porch.  I  really  don't 
know  what  they'd'a  done  without  our  help!'' 

Had  any  of  the  good  ladies  taken  them 
seriously  it  would  perhaps  have  been  a 
question  of  what  the  husbands  would  have 
di;;ne  with  them!  Because — to  prevent  snor- 
ing from  annoying,  the  boys  described,  and 
illustrated  fully  over  the  air,  a  way  of  at- 
tachin.g  a  midget  harmonica  to  the  snoring 
hrshaiKl's  mouth,  thereby  rendering  him — 
would  \()u  say — sonorous?  To  prevent  the 
thoughtless,  heedless  gents  from  leaving  the 
cellar  light  on.  they  outlined  a  highly  dubi- 
ous method  of  attaching  a  bell  to  a  moth. 
The  motli,  on  seeing  tlie  light,  would  fly 
about  ringing  the  bell  and  the  good  wife 
w<  iild  nnirinur  sleepil.\- :  "Joe — ummm — 
Joe—,/,'  back  and  put  out  the  cellar  lif/hl— 
.liiibrosc  is  a-riuiiin' '."  To  get  rid  of  the 
icicles  on  the  back  porch,  no  such  elaborate 
niriho<|  wa~  necessary — yoii  iir.'i'el_\-  burned 
down  the  porch  and  there  were  no  more 
icicles  tliere ! 

Ed  got  up  to  take  a  phone  call  for  him. 

"Ed's  a  swell  guy."  said  Ralph,  eyeing  a 
tray  of  I'rcncli  pastry  but  struggling  man- 
fully, "we  ,ucl  along  fine.  Did  you  know 
that,  a  while  ago,  he  fell  from  his  back 
porch  and  wrenched  his  ankle  severely? 
But  it  didn't  iirevent  him  from  working  on 
the  show  that  day  !" 

That's  ;i  fact — he  did  work,  even  though 
it  toiik  three  of  (  7>'.S  '  strongest  men  to  su])- 
I.ort  hiin  wliile  he  .lid  it!  They've  both 
b  en  throi,..:;!  cuongli  in  show  business  to 
kiKAV  th.it  tlure's  a  reason  for  this  "show 
must  go  on"  talk — it  must  go  on,  or  there's 
a  new  act  in  \  our  place,  iironto ! 

They've  aKu  brcn  througli  enough  peri- 
patetic show  liuMiiess  ti.  .appreciate  tiieir 
homes,  too.  I''.<1  married  a  L;iil  he  has  known 
since  the  eighth  gra<le  and  they  have  an 
attractive  datighter,  Jeanne,  now  twenty 
years  old.  ]\alpli  married  (ireta  Edner,  a 


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pianist,  whom  he  started  courting  in  his 
freshman  year  at  higii  school.  They  have 
two  strapping  sons,  Jimmy  and  Billy,  seven 
and  nine.  (Ralph  wonders  why  the  fathers, 
not  the  sons,  aren't  the  strapping  ones ! ) 
Both  men  have  boats,  and  big  lawns  that 
they  can  mow,  when  cameramen  come  for 
publicity  stills,  but  it's  Ed  who  has  George. 
George,  kind  people,  is  one  of  those  im- 
mense, shaggy  English  sheep-dogs,  the 
kind  you  see  with  the  movie  stars.  Wits 
are  prone  to  ask  Ed  if  that  isn't  Ralph, 
wrapped  in  a  fur  robe !  George  doesn't 
mind. 

They  wanted  to  talk  about  their  new 
Kellogg  show. 

"It's  this  way,"  said  Ed,  who  does  most 
of  the  writing,  "we're  going  to  pretend  that 
we  don't  want  to  be  sponsored  and,  in  argu- 
ing with  us,  they  will  be  able  to  spot  the 
commercials  witli  the  smallest  amount  of 
pain,  we  think.  We'll  have  our  usual  house- 
hold-aid department,  of  course." 

Meanwhile,  they're  not  worrying  about 
television,  although  there  has  been  some 
talk  about  a  wider  screen  to  accommodate 
their  images.  There  even  has  been  lots  of 
loose  talk  about  diets  and  exercise,  but 
Monday  lunch-time  sees  an  end  to  such 
chatter !  They've  tried  exercising,  but  the 
appetites  so  developed  have  more  than  over- 
come any  benefits  derived  from  the  bars, 
so  they  are  going  on,  for  the  present,  at 
least,  in  the  jolly,  well-fed  way  so  ably 
maintained  by  this  very  lunch. 

They've  tried  the  movies  and  even  though 
Ralph's  wife  complained  that  he  didn't 
look  enough  like  Clark  Gable,  they  plan  to 
continue  making  shorts. 

"We  had  lots  of  fun,  out  there  in  As- 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bob  Simmons  (Patti 
Pickens)  and  Terry.  Bob  is  tenor 
with  the  NBC  Revelers  Quarfef. 

toria,  making  our  last  short,"  chuckled  Ed. 
"We  were  supposed  to  wear  tails  for  the 
picture,  but  we  didn't — we  couldn't  get  into 
ours." 

"We  were  so  fat  the  tails  stuck  straight 
out!"  laughed  Ralph. 

"Anyway,"  Ed  continued,  "the  light-col- 
ored suits  we  wore,  worked  out  better. 
Ralph  and  I  are  supposed  to  be  surrounded 
by  a  pack  of  faithful  bloodhounds,  who  are 
to  help  us  find  a  lost  collar  button.  Actu- 
ally the  dogs  refused  to  give  us  so  much  as 
hello,  but  they  slobbered  all  over  the 
cameraman.    Finally  Ralph  and  I — " 


"Held  pounds  of  sliced  ham  in  our  hands, 
so  they'd  come  to  ns  in-tra<!  of  to  the 
canieraniaii,"  intcrrniitcd  Ixalph.  "Tlu'y  did! 
They  knncked  iiir  (I..\miI  I'.y  ihi-  time  they 
had  decided  they  liked  u-.  \vc  '^lA  down 
to  business.  The  director  diiijud  ihc  collar 
button  in  rabbit  grease  and  threw  it  under 
the  bed.  The  ten  Mm,  „lli.  ,iin,K  linked  all 
afternoon,  but  couldn't  Imd  it.  When  we 
looked  for  it,  oui  -l1vcn  ;.  v  r.  .iildii't  locate 
it!  So  we  were  ahuut  tn  ^eiul  a  jilaiie  back 
to  New  York  for  aimtlier  cellar  button, 
when  one  uf  tlie  girl  players  calmly  strolled 
ii\er  (ri  a  corner  and  picked  it  up." 

A-ide  from  such  technical  difficulties,  and, 
the  7:30  a.m.  call  and  the  job  of  getting 
anyone  to  work  while  Ralph  was  being 
fitted  to  a  woman's  blonde  wig,  their  shorts 
are  doing  very  well,  thank  you,  throughout 
the  country.  One  of  them,  in  fact,  is  listed 
as  the  second  best  seller  in  the  United 
States.  This  is  very  encouraging  to  men 
harassed  by  lunatic  bloodhounds ! 

"The  manager  of  the  movie  theatre  in 
Ed's  home  town,"  said  Ralph,  "wrote  to 
Educational  Pictures  and  asked  if  he 
couldn't  have  the  world  premiere  of  our 
first  short.  The  movie  crowd  was  so  tickled 
by  the  idea  of  a  world  premiere  for  a  short, 
that  they  rushed  it  out  air  mail  with  good 
wishes. 

"They  made  quite  a  thing  out  of  it.  Had 
Ed's  ma  at  the  premiere  and  a  band." 

The  boys  couldn't  get  there,  themselves, 
but  they  sent  a  cute  wire  to  the  theatre 
manager,  who  promptly  posted  it  in  the 
lobby : 

"A  has  avcc  le  Gable!" 
Ma  East  is  mighty  proud  of  both  of 
them.  .  .  . 


OH,  JANE, 
I  CAN'T  GO.  m 
SKIN'S  SO  ROUGH 
FROM  RIDING  IN 
THE  RUMBLE  SEAT 
THAT  I'm  a  sight 


DON'T  BE  SIIXY 

I  KNOW  A 
SPECIAL  CREAM 
THAT  MELTS 
SKIN  SMOOTH 


THAT  WAS  A  SWELL 
STEER  ABOUT  POND'S 
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NOW  My  SKIN'S  SMOOTH 
POWDER  STAYS  ON 


FLAKINESS  AWAY 
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IS  FATE  AGAINST  ME? 

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Ixlicvcs  she  would  even  have  won  the  first 
inize.  if  sheM  been  nll.)we<l  to  warhle  the 
soul;-  she'd  pers. mallv  selected.  '■jUU  tliev 
wnuldu-t  let  me,"  ^lary  deelared.  "That 
was  another  thin,!;  that  happened  to  hinder 
nie.  e\en  thon-h  it  was  a  very  little  one," 
^1k'  said.  "However,  this  time,  it  didn't 
really  matter.  I"or  I  was  progressing 
wondertully  at  the  musical  college,  I'm 
iiappy  to  say.  I  was  the  hahy  i^'  the  place, 
and  everyone  made  a  great  ;iiss  almiit  my 
talent.  I  was  snjiposcd  to  he  ,i  phenomenal 
child.  My  dearest  amlntion  w.is  to  get 
into  the  Chicago  Oper.i  (.  ompany,  and  I 
think  I  would  have  made  it  in  a  year  or 
two.  I  was  all  set.  But  again  soinething 
happened.  My  uncle  had  to  move  to  New 
York,  for  business  reasons,  and,  naturally, 
I  had  to  go  along.  So  there  went  my 
chance  at  the  Chicago  Opera  Cc  impany, 
and,  soon  after  I  left,  my  teacher  at  the 
college  became  a  coach  ,it  the  Opera 
House!     Wasn't  that  ironic?" 

In  Xew  York,  Mr.  Tippett  took  Mary 
to  Frank-  La  I-'orge.  who  was  so  impressed 
with  her  voice  th.it  he  took  her  as  a  pupil 
of  his  own  at  oiue,  instead  of  letting  one 
of  his  assistants  teach  iier,  as  had  been 
originally  planned.  "In  fact,  Mr.  La  Forge 
w.is  so  interested  in  me  that,  .after  a  while, 
he  had  me  gi\e  :m  audition  for  Otto  Kahn," 
Mary  told  me.  ".Mr.  Kahn  was  also  much 
impressed  with  my  voice.  To  my  intense 
<lelight,  he  arranged  an  audition  for  me 
at  the  Metropolitan.  I  w.is  thrilled,  hope- 
ful and  expectant.  I  felt  thai,  because  Mr. 
i\ahn  really  admired  my  \oiee,  I'<1  prob- 
.■il)l>  not  have  much  trouble  getting  into 
ibi'  Metropolitan  Opera  Company.  So 
another  great  moment  of  my  life  ap- 
proached, lint  something  tra.gic  happened 
.  .  .  Mr.  K.ihn  died  !" 

Time  passed,  and  Mary  continued  her 
studies.  Her  teacher  believed  that  she 
shoidd  have  some  operatic  exiierience,  and 
,arrange<l  for  the  singer  to  go  into  a  little 
oper.a  eomp.au}-.  .She  ,a])peared  ,is  X'ioletta 
in  V'n/r/ii/i/,  in  St.amfoid,  (_'oiiuectieiit, 
singing  in  the  .\rmory  tluie.  Curiously 
enough,  that  .\rmory  w.is  jusi  two  doors 
away  from  a  certain  iiromiiieut  giaitlem.in's 
business,  'i'liat  gentleman,  .\lr.  Lee  h'.ast- 
man,  whom  she  hadn't  met  ,is  yet,  was  des- 
tine(l  to  become   .Mary's  husb:mil. 

"I  sang  at  the  Armory  th.ii  nigbi,"  Mary 
went  on,  "and  an  NKC  offu  i.d  b,ip]iened  to 
be  in  the  auflience.  He  came  to  see  ine 
,afterwai<l,  and  told  me  th.it  be  liked  my 
voice  immensely  and  felt  tb.il  I  could  have 
a  great  future  in  radio,  'riiiough  him  I 
was  given  a  chance,  some  lime  later,  to 
appear  as  ;i  guest  .artist  on  ,i  eoiumen  ial 


m\- 


ver\  mil.  h  <  lalrd  brcaUM  I  I.  ll  that  this 
night  nii'dit  o]i(ii  up  enoruion-  |iossihilities 
f,,r  nic  111  llir  r.adio  field.  .Ml  kinds  of 
dreams  llo,]|e<l  tbrough  m\'  mind  as  I 
stood  waiting  for  my  number.  'i"hen  just 
before  my  number,  the  annouiucr  look  the 
stand  with  my  music  on  it,  ;iiid  i.arried  it 
to  a  (lifTerent  position.  The  music  was 
eight  pages  long.    It  fell  to  the  ground  and 


scattered  all  over  the  floor.  Of  course  I 
couldn't  get  it  together  at  once.  I  had  to 
sing  7a,  la.  la'  lor  the  first  four  or  five 
bars!  You  can  imagine  how  it  upset  me. 
Naturally,  I  didn't  sing  my  best,  and,  con- 
sequently, I  <lidn't  get  any  other  radio  offers 
at  the  time. 

"Another  little  hindrance  occurred  right 
afterwards,"  Mary  said.  "Although  it  wasn't 
so  important,  it  seemed  bad  at  the  time, 
because  I  had  just  had  such  a  big  disap- 
pointment. Mr.  La  Forge  arranged  for  me 
to  be  heard  by  one  of  his  famous  pupils,  a 
celebrated  singer  who  was  known  for  her 
helpfulness  to  young  artists.  The  day  I 
was  to  sing  for  her — I  developed  a  cold !" 

Next  came  an  oflier  for  Mary  to  under- 
study the  star  in  Earl  Carroll's  Vanities. 
Rut  her  foster  father,  Mr.  Tippett, 
wouldn't  permit  her  to  do  it.  Alary  feels  that, 
although  she  nn'ght  have  soared  to  musical 
coined)  heights  iiad  she  accepted  this  offer, 
she's  really  glad  now  that  her  uncle- 
father  refused  to  permit  her  to  appear. 
However,  at  the  time,  she  felt  that  she'd 
recei\ed  another  blow  to  her  career. 

".\11  this  time  I'd  i)eeii  gi\ing  recitals 
around  tlie  country,"  M,ir\  said.  "One 
day  ;i  friend  of  mine  asked  me  to  g,-,  out 
on  a  blind  date,  with  her  brother  and  an- 
other man.  I  coukln't  go  because  I  was 
sailing  for  Havana.  But  when  I  came 
back  and  this  girl  asked  me  again,  I  said: 
'.\11  right.'  Her  brother  was — Lee  East- 
man.   I  married  him!" 

But  it  really  was  six  months  after  they 
met,  that  Mary  married  the  president  of 
the  Eastman  Motor  Car  Company,  whose 
father  is  president  of  the  Packard  Motor 
Car  Company.  Just  before  they  were  to 
be  married,  Mary  got  an  offer  to  sing  with 
an  opera  company  in  Australia.  It  might 
have  led  to  great  things,  but  soinething  was 
happening  now  to  prevent  it — something 
outside  of  her  career,  that  Mary  wanted  for 
her  happiness — the  ringing  of  we<ldiug 
bells! 

".Since  then,  there  is  one  happening  that 
has  recurred  several  times,"  Mary  said. 
"h"rei|uently  l'\-e  been  at  the  point  of  land- 
ing a  really  big  commercial,  only  to  find 
that  it  was  an  auti>ini>J'ih'  commercial! 
And  when  it  was  discovered  that  I  was 
Mrs.  Lee  Eastman,  everything  was  over. 
I've  sung  as  Mary  I'^astman  for  four  and 
a  half  years  now,  ever  since  my  marriage," 
Mary  said.  "I  did  apjjear  on  Buick,  it  is 
true,  but  how  they  kidded  me! 

"Well,  anyway"  Mary  Eastman  related, 
"a  few  months  after  my  marriage,  I  signed 
up  with  Cohimbia.  My  friend,  Julius  See- 
bach,  who  w.is  with  CKS  then,  signed  me 
and  took  infinite  ji.iins  and  trouble  with 
me,  giving  me  ;i  wonderful  build-up.  CBS 
wanted  me  to  be  tlieir  Jessica  Dragonette. 
Miss  Dr.agoiiette  was  with  \BC  at  the 
time.  1  hit  llial,  .It  last,  something  big 
was  comiim  to  me  In  radio.  And  then — 
I  found  lh.it  1  w.is  going  to  have  a  baby! 
Clad  as  I  w.is— ,111(1  I  was  very  glad,  as 
you  may  imagine— I  definitely  felt  that  this 
was  the  end  of  my  career  as  I  left  Colum- 
bia." 


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But  such  was  not  to  be  the  case.  Mary 
Eastman  was  at  Iionic  alxnit  live  months. 
She  was  very  \irv  ill.  I-'.vlii  her  life  was 
in  danger.  But  ^llc  rcc<i\cre<l  and,  in  time, 
Columbia  got  in  touch  with  her  and  asked 
her  to  do  a  sustaining  program. 

"But,  in  February,  a  year  ago,  they  told 
me  that  they  (li<ln  t  have  a  i>lacc  for  my 
sustaining  hour,"  .Mar>-  said.  "1  was  heart- 
broken. I  felt  that  this  time  I  was  really 
finished.  For  Fm  not  the  sort  of  person 
who  can  sell  herself.  I  can  only  sing. 
Well,  I  went  to  Miami  with  my  husband  for 
the  winter.  When  I  came  back,  however,  I 
did  get  a  guest  performance  on  Paul  White- 
man's  show.  The  following  October,  I 
had  an  audition,  with  thirty-si.x  other 
sopranos,  for  Pel  Mi!k.  They  knew  me 
only  as  .\iniib<-r  24.  And  I  got  the  job  to 
broadcast  fur  tlicin  on  Saturday  nights. 
Another  cnmiiicicial  came  along  for  Fri- 
day nights — Waltz  Time.  I  am  very  happy 
in  these  programs — very  ! 

"And  on  reflecting  on  it  all,  I  believe 
that,  if  it  hadn't  happened  that  I  had  a 
nice  home,  that  I  knew  Fd  always  be  taken 
care  of,  I  might  have  had  more  gumption 
to  get  out  and  do  things  for  myself." 

Mary,  who  is  one  of  the  prettiest  girls 
Fve  ever  seen,  feels  that  another  thing  to 
hinder  her  success  was — her  appearance ! 
"It's  always  been  against  me,"  she  said. 
"Fve  never  looked  old  enough,  at  any  age, 
and  I  don't  look  a  bit  like  a  singer!  I 
don't  look  tall  and  regal,  as  a  singer  should  I 
And  then,  perhaps,  another  thing  that  hin- 
dered me  was  that  I  was  born  to  enjoy  too 
many  things,  instead  of  having  the  ability 
to  devote  myself  to  one  thing.  Also,  I 
married  a  man  who,  in  his  heart,  prefers  a 
home  woman.  Oh,  he's  sweet  about  my 
singing,  he's  wonderful,  even  helpful.  But 
I  know,  deep  down,  he  wishes  that  Fd  give 
up  my  career.  But  whether  or.  not  all 
these  things  really  have  delayed  my  suc- 
cess, I  think  anyone  will  agree  that  every 
time  I  was  ready  for  my  biggest  chances, 
something  happened  to  stop  me. 

"Is  fate  against  me?  I'm  a  very  happy 
:)erson — but  I  can't  help  feeling  that  it 
s!"  Mary  even  feels  that  it's  possible  that 
;he's  not  destined  to  become  an  immortal 
lame  in  the  singing  world.  Perhaps  fate 
lasn't  intended  it.  She  hopes  this  is  not 
rue. 

"But  I'm  going  to  do  something  about  it," 
^lary  said  to  me.  "I'm  going  to  give  my- 
elf  just  two  years  more  to  become  a  cele- 
irated  singer  in  radio,  or  at  the  Metropoli- 
an Opera  House.  I  have  got  a  manager, 
've  got  a  publicity  agent.  I'm  studying 
lard.    And  I'm  going  to  try  harder  than 

ever  have  before,  to  reach  the  top.  I'm 
oing  to  give  niysilf  these  next  two  years 
3  do  it.  In  that  time,  if  I  haven't  scaled 
ne  heights,  I'll  give  it  all  up.  I'll  believe 
lat  I  wasn't  meant  to  be  a  great  singer. 
i.nd  I'll  accept  Fate's  verdict,"  Alarv  said. 

Two  years!  Well,  lovely  ^rary  "of  the 
eautiful  voice,  I  hope  that  in  two  years 
•om  now,  you  will  have  }<iur  fhcani  nf 
reatness  !  I  hope  that  Cindcrrlla's  fairy 
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(Reversing  the  Usual  Order) 


My  dear  Radio  Fans: 

One  of  the  peculiar  tilings  about  radio 
is  the  fact  that  no  three  \K"p\c  will  agree 
oil  what  tlu'v  like  ah. mt  a  program.  I  be- 
lieve this  is  especially  true  of  musical  of- 
ferings. 

In  my  own  case,  the  first  comments  I 
usually  get  after  a  show  are  from  profes- 
sional musicians,  and  these  are  usually  con- 
tradictory. Some  will  say  that  the  balance 
of  the  orchestra  was  excellent,  others  that 
il  was  bad;  some  that  the  string  section 
was  too  prominent,  others  that  the  strings 
weren't  loud  enough.  And  so  on. 

The  public,  of  course,  is  not  so  techni- 
cal in  its  approach.  You  either  like  us  or 
you  don't — for  more  general  reasons.  I 
make  it  a  point,  personally,  to  sound  out 
forty  or  fifty  people  every  week  for  frank 
opinions  of  the  show.  If  there's  one  item 
in  the  program  that  receives  a  preponder- 
ance of  criticism,  the  only  sensible  thing 
to  do  is  to  revise  or  delete  it. 

The  public,  after  all.  has  the  final  word 
in  our  success  or  failure,  and  we're  always 
hospitable  to  criticism  from  one  and  all. 

Let  us  have  your  criticism,  but  don't  pull 
your  punches.  Let  us  know  why  you  like  or 
dislike  a  broadcast.  If  we  know  how  we 
can  make  broadcasting  better,  we'll  do  so. 

REX  CHANDLER 

Dear  Listeners: 

For  some  time  now,  you've  been  sending 
me  letters  requesting  that  I  sing  this  song 
and  that,  and  once  in  a  while,  when  yours 
wasn't  on  my  schedule,  you  became  peeved. 

Let  nie  explain,  therefore,  why  your  re- 
quest was  not  included. 

In  the  first  place,  requesting  a  number 
does  not  mean  that  it  definitely  will  be 
featured.  Far  from  it.  I  submit  the  song 
you  request,  providing  it  is  a  baritone  selec- 
tion or  one  that  can  be  transposed  easily, 
to  our  production  chief.  It  is  his  duty  to 
check  with  the  networks  to  see  how  many 
times  the  same  song  is  to  be  featured  on 
the  same  network  the  same  evening.  If  it 
is  already  scheduled  over  the  ASCAP  limit, 
I  have  to  wait  until  there  is  an  evening 
without  a  full  schedule. 

Even  then  it  might  n(jt  be  heard.  There 
might  l)e  spfinsorial  objection  or  it  might 
not  fit  in  with  Russ  Morgan's  musical  plans, 
an<l  if  I  feel  the  number  is  not  suited  to  my 
style,  it  is  automatically  eliminated. 

So  you  see  that  accommodating  every 
person  who  writes  in  requesting  songs  isn't 
the  easiest  task  in  the  world.  Bear  with  me, 
dear  listeners,  and  perhaps  I'll  be  able  to 
get  around  to  your  tune. 

PHIL  DUEY 

Dear  Listeners: 

Like  most  musicians  who  have  spent  their 
early  _\ears  in  another  land,  one  of  my 
greatest  enthusiasms,  ever  since  I've  been 
in  America,  has  been  the  wealth  of  musi- 
cal possibilities  in  your  folk  music. 

It's  one  of  those  things  you  take  for 
granted,  and  I've  discovered  that  the  size 
of  the  country  has  kept  native  songs,  in 
too  many  instances,  completely  within  their 


original  locality. 

Radio,  it  seems  to  me.  is  the  ideal  medium 
for  paying  just  tribute  to  the  charm  of 
this  uncxpliiited  musical  field,  and  of  bring- 
ing national  recognition  to  the  melodies 
of  the  various  parts  of  the  country. 

Of  course,  much  has  been  done  with 
hillbilly  mountain  songs  and  cowboy  songs, 
yet  only  a  small  portion  of  these  are  the 
true  songs  of  the  people  in  those  districts. 
Too  many  are  clever,  but  synthetic,  prod- 
ucts of  professional  song  writers. 

You  radio  listeners  are  the  largest  re- 
search staff  any  musician  could  possibly 
hope  to  have,  so  I  wish  those  of  you  who 
have  been  hearing  or  singing  local  melo- 
dies for  years  would  bring  them  to  our 
attention. 

I  know  you  radio  fans  like  songs  such  as 
Oh,  Susanna  and  Good  Niglit,  Ladies, 
because  you've  told  me  so.  I'd  like  to  bring 
you  some  you  haven't  heard  yet.  And  be- 
lieve me,  I  will ! 

ANDRE  KOSTELANETZ 
-♦- 

Dear  Listeners: 

I  appreciate  your  interest  and  am  sin- 
cerely thankful  for  your  kind  comments 
on  our  work.  But  I'd  like  to  explain 
why  it's  really  impossible  for  me  to  send 
you  broadcast  tickets.  We,  on  the  pro- 
gram, are  given  only  a  limited  number  of 
them,  which  are  gone  as  soon  as  received. 

I  am  quite  sure  that  if  you  write  to  the 
sponsor,  your  request  will  be  granted. 
Again,  on  behalf  of  the  boys  and  myself, 
many  thanks  for  your  letters. 

HAL  KEMP 

Dear  Listeners: 

This  is  the  first  public  opportunity  I 
have  had  to  thank  you,  on  behalf  of  Marge 
and  myself,  for  the  wonderful  manner  in 
which  you  have  received  our  Myrt  and 
Marge  offerings. 

Writing  five  scripts  a  week  is  a  difTcuIt 
task,  and  it  requires  intensive  concentra- 
tion on  the  part  of  all  members  of  our 
company.  It  is,  therefore,  with  a  feeling 
of  the  utmost  sincerity  that  I  thank  each 
and  every  one  of  you  who  have  taken  the 
trouble  to  let  me  know  you  like  our 
offerings. 

I  only  hope  that  you  continue  your  in- 
terest in  il/_\T/  and  Marge.  You,  dear 
listeners,  can  make  or  break  a  radio  pro- 
gram. If  you  feel  you  can  give  any  con- 
structive criticism,  please  do  so.  I  shall 
give  every  opinion  serious  consideration. 

MYRTLE  VAIL  DAMEREL 

Dear  Listeners: 

A  great  many  listeners  write  to  ask  aid 
in  securing  auditions  and  engagements,  but 
unfi  >rlun.it(  l\'  tiiere  is  very  little  that  a 
ra(hn  aitist  can  do  beyond  giving  advice. 

That  advice  is  the  result  of  experience. 
Frankly,  we  advise  would-be  radio  artists 
against  coming  to  New  York  to  seek  their 
fortunes.  Competition  is  too  heavy,  jobs 
are  scarce  and  it  takes  more  than  enthusi- 
asm to  get  along.    It  is  hopeless  to  expect 


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even  tlie  smallest  amount  of  success  unless 
jou  are  able  to  support  yourself  for  a  year, 
at  least,  have  experience  at  some  other  kind 
of  work,  or  have  responsible  friends  in 
Manhattan  who  can  look  after  you. 

There  is  usually  some  way  in  which  to 
air  your  talents  in  your  own  town — a  com- 
munity theatre,  a  radio  station.  Try  them, 
and  if  you  are  capable,  your  talents  will 
soon  be  recognized  and  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  right  people. 

LAXDT  TRIO 

Dear  Listeners: 

In  all  my  radio  experience  I  have  con- 
stantly noticed  one  peculiar  tiling  about 
criticisms  of  programs,  whttlicr  oral  or 
written,  and  that  is  the  yrcat  number  of 
times  people  deplore  the  lack  of  serious 
music  on  the  majority  of  broadcasts. 

Xow  here  is  the  interesting  paradox  : 

We  do  hear  from  those  listeners  who 
want  popular  melodies.  They  know  what 
they  want  and  just  which  selections  are 
their  favorites.  And  they  are  just  as  posi- 
tive about  the  popular  songs  they  no 
longer  want  to  hear. 

But  the  letters  of  those  who  say  they 
like  serious  music  are  much  fewer  and. 
while  they  condemn  popular  music,  they 
just  as  often  don't  bother  to  mention  what 
they  do  want  to  hear. 

We,  on  the  air,  want  to  please  you  who 
listen,  so  let's  hear  more  often  from  those 
who  like  classical  selections  so  that  we  can 
balance  our  musical  fare.  If  you  want 
both  I've  Got  My  Love  to  Keep  \L- 
Warm  and  Indian  Love  Lyrics — we'll 
give  them  to  you. 

Best  wishes  and  thanks  for  the  many 
kind  letters  from  those  of  you  who  know 


what  you  like  and  sav  so  when  vou  hear  it. 

LAXXY  ROSS 

Dear  Listeners: 

N'o,  we're  not  a  real-life  family!  In 
fact,  not  a  single  menilicr  nf  I'epl^er 
Young's  Family  is  even  renintel.N-  related  to 
another,  and  until  the  program  went  on  the 
air,  none  of  us  knew  the  others  ! 

Jack  Roseleigh  is  my  radio  husband, 
"Mr.  Young."  Betty  Wragge,  a  pretty  19- 
year-old  girl,  is  cast  as  "Peggy,''  and  the 
hero  of  the  script,  "Pepiior,"  is  played  by 
Curtis  .-Vrnall,  whom  yun  iiia_\  rciiH:mlii.T  as 
Buck  Rogers  in  tiie  script  ni  that  iKinie. 

Strangely  enough,  in  real  life  wc  closely 
resemble  any  happy  Aim  rican  family,  .-\fter 
broadcasts  we  gather  f.jr  little  sucials,  share 
each  other's  troubles. 

I  hope  you  will  continue  to  correspond 
with  us.  We  enjoy  every  letter  received. 
This  letter  is  intended  for  a  double  pur- 
pose— to  make  it  clear  that  we  are  not  a 
real-life  family,  and  to  thank  you  for  all 
past  correspondence. 

MARIAN  BARNEY  (M/rj.  Young.") 

Dear  Listeners: 

I'd  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  clear 
up  a  popular  misconception.  Everyone 
seems  to  think  that  it's  the  collegians  who 
set  the  pace  for  hit  songs  witii  the  public. 

It's  true  that  they're  discriminating,  and 
when  we  introduce  a  new  song  I'm  always 
very  interested  to  hear  their  reactions  to  it. 

But,  among  the  radio  audience  are  many 
who  no  longer  care  particularly  to  go 
dancing  regularly,  week  after  week,  as 
the  school  boys  and  girls  manage  to  do. 
Among  these  are  many  of  the  fathers  and 
mothers  of  those  voungsters  who  tell  me 


week  after  week  what  they  think  of  the 
latest  songs. 

I  believe  that  the  older  generation  hasn't 
received  nearly  enough  credit  for  being  able 
to  single  out  a  hit  song.  Time  after  time, 
when  a  new  number  has  been  introduced, 
the  first  letters  saying:  "I  like  that,"  are 
from  parents  of  enllegians. 

The  Ixiy-  ami  uirls  may  keep  a  hit  song 
going,  lint  1  t'i'  '  ■  .  n-ht  to  add  their 
thanks  to  niin.  nragement  older 

folks  L;i\^  t  writers  and  or- 

chestra nnisu  i,ni-  \  .  ,,i  -  ,.-o  the  old  folks 
at  lionir  sai-l  :  "  riiat  aw  fnl  jazz!"  Now 
thev    sav  :     '  >ti  ike   up  the  band." 

GUY  LOMHARDO 

Dear  Listcm-rs: 

Recently  all  of  us  pot  together  to  choose 
our  pet  radi'i  iue\e,  and  the  unanimous 
decision  was  "peoiile  who  play  bridge  and 
talk  while  listening  to  the  radio." 

Xow.  (lonig  tins  wonkl  ta.\  the  brain  of 
an    Einstein.      \'oii    don't    do    the  game 

tion  to  what  your  nemhli/ir  is  sayini:  :  and 
finally,  you  hear  jiractically  nothing  uf  what 
is  broadcast. 

Bridge,  radio  and  social  conversation  are 
three  separate  entities  and  should  never  be 
mixed.  The  purpose  of  any  type  of  radio 
program  is  to  afford  you  enjoyment  from 
yeiur  radio.  Trying  to  do  something  else 
while  listening  to  it  completely  nullifies 
the  pleasure  you  might  get.  Talking  while 
listening  to  the  radio  should  he  as  taboo 
as  talking  in  the  theatre  or  at  a  movie. 

See  if  you  don't  get  more  solid  pleasure 
out  of  radio,  bridge  and  social  conversation 
if  you  treat  them  as  individual  happenings. 

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can  well  stand  a  broadcast  such  as  that  of 
Ruth,  for  the  game  has  not  yet  taken  full 
advantage  of  the  air  waves.  There  are  daily 
broadcasts  of  baseball  games  in  most  major 
league  cities,  to  be  sure,  but  the  evening 
baseball  hours  on  the  air  aren't  much,  lack- 
ing authoritative  comment,  and  being  little 
more  than  a  recital  of  that  day's  scores. 
Babe,  on  the  otlier  hand,  is  a  true  expert 
and  his  observations  on  baseball  are  cer- 
tainly more  enjoyable  to  the  fans  than  the 
mere  Hsting  of  that  afternoon's  results. 

Rutli  is  no  stranger  to  the  microphone. 
He  was  on  the  Quaker  Oats  program  in 
1934,  a  thirteen-weeks'  venture  in  which  he 
appeared  thrice  weekly  at  $1,000  per  broad- 
cast, or  $39,000  for  the  entire  series.  There 
was  a  dramatization  of  some  incident  in 
Babe's  career  on  each  broadcast,  followed 
by  some  qtiestion-and-answ-er  dialogue  be- 
tween Ruth  and  Norman  Sweetster,  with 
Sweetster  asking  the  questions  and  Ruth 
making  the  comments.  The  script  was  one 
of  the  l)est  any  athlete  ever  had  on  the  air 
and  Babe,  through  constant  rehearsals  with 
Sweetster,  delivered  it  fairly  well. 

The  program  was  such  a  success  that  the 
contract  was  not  renewed,  which  sounds  like 
a  gag,  but  isn't.  Baseball  gloves  and  bats 
were  awarded  to  those  sending  in  package 
tops  of  the  products  advertised,  and  so  many 
package  tops  were  sent  in  during  the  thir- 
teen-week program  that  the  sponsors  de- 
cided the  saturation  point  had  been  reached. 
It  was  obvious  that  once  a  youngster,  lis- 
tening in,  had  obtained  a  glove  or  bat,  there 
was  no  further  incentive  for  him  to  save 
carton  tops  for  another  glove  or  another 
bat.  Another  factor  which  mitigated  against 
an  extension  of  Ruth's  contract  was  that 
these  broadcasts,  whicli  went  over  the  NBC 
network,  didn't  start  until  8:45  p.  in.,  a  time 
at  which  tnany  of  the  youngsters,  at  whom 
it  was  aimed,  w'ere  asleep. 

In  his  Sinclair  program,  Ruth  again  has 
the  advantage  of  a  fine  script.  It  is  written 
at  the  direction  f>f  Joe  Hill  and  gives  Babe 
plenty  of  opportunity  to  make  intelligent 
coiiiiiKiit  on  li.iNeliall  affairs.  J<jhn  Reed 
Kiiii;  ^i\es  I')al)e  the  (|uestions  in  this  broad- 
cast and  >ets  the  stage  for  some  keen,  ex- 
]:ert  answers  by  Ruth.  F<  r  this  series, 
wliirli  emanati  s  from  the  C7)',S'  studios  on 
.\la(I)son  .\venne,  the  Babe  receives  $750  a 
bn.;,.l.ast,  which  will  net  him  $19,500  for 
the  entire  proi^ram.  His  current  contract 
e.\tends  through  July  8th. 

Once  the  major  league  season  opened, 
i\nth's  broadcasts  perked  up,  just  as  his 
]ilayinu  used  to  in  the  old  days  when  the 
chilis  were  <lo\\n.  'I'he  I'abe  goes  either  to 
N'ankce  .Stadium  or  the  Polo  Grounds  on 
the  afteriKJon  of  each  broadcast,  with  tiic 
irsnit  that  he  is  in  a  ])c)siti<iu  to  comment 
on  that  day's  -ame.  He  UMi.illy  has  a 
guest  star  on  eadi  piooram,  so  f.ii-  incclini; 
with  only  our  refusal  and  that  not  fn,ni 
•Li-    r  liimself,  but  from  the  player's 

li  st  stars  on  Ruth's  program  get 
■VlOK  lor  their  tiu'n  before  the  mike.  I'.abe 
tried  to  get  Dick  I'.artell,  i>ei)iiery  short- 
stop of  the  Giants,  for  one  of  his  April 


broadcasts,  but  Bill  Terry,  dictatorial 
manager  of  the  Giants,  refused  to  allow 
Bartell  to  accept,  apparently  believing  that 
$100  wasn't  enougli. 

That  one  refusal,  through  the  short- 
sightedness of  Terry,  didn't  hamper  the 
program.  Ruth  has  had  Buddy  Myer, 
Jewish  star  of  the  IVashington  Senators 
and  the  batting  champion  of  the  Ameri- 
can League  in  1935.  Other  baseball  figures 
whom  Babe  has  had  as  guest  stars  include 
Tony  Cuccinello,  second  baseman  of  the 
Boston  Bees,  Buddy  Hassett,  the  Irish 
tenor  who  plays  first  base  for  the  Brook- 
lyn Dodgers,  and  Tiny  Parker,  one  of  the 
National  League  umpires. 

Since  Ruth  is  on  the  air  from  10:30 
(EDST)  until  10:45  each  Wednesday 
and  Friday  evening,  his  program  has  a 
distinct  edge  on  the  other  baseball  pro- 
grams, other  than  the  boost  it  gets  from 
his  name  alone.  Whereas  the  others  have 
to  content  themselves  with  the  results  of 
that  day's  games,  and  sometimes  not  the 
complete  results,  the  Babe  has  a  chance 
to  study  those  results  and  comment  on 
them  in  relation  to  each  other,  to  editorial- 
ize, as  it  were,  rather  than  merely  report. 
An  added  feature  is  the  introduction  of 
up-to-the-minute  summaries,  the  leading 
pitcher,  leading  hatter,  leading  scorer,  and 
so  on,  something  which  couldn.'t  possibly 
be  compiled  in  time  for  the  earlier  broad- 
casts. 

Don't  think  from  all  tlic  foregoing  that 
the  Babe  is  an  accomplished  radio  per- 
former. He  isn't.  The  Babe  is  reading  his 
lines  fairly  well,  hut  he  staggers  every  once 
in  a  while.  And  every  so  often,  too,  the 
big  fellow  ad  libs,  which  causes  his  script- 
writers to  stagger  with  fright.  So  far 
the  results  have  not  been  fatal.  From  the 
viewpoint  of  the  !isteners-in,  Ruth's 
ad  libbing  lends  the  program  an  authen- 
tic toucli. 

The  Babe  is  inordinately  proud  of  his 
radio  work,  like  a  kid  with  a  new  toy. 
Ruth  has  a  genuine  love  of  the  game  he 
helped  to  build  up  and  sincerely  believes 
that  his  broadcasts  are  an  aid  to  baseball. 

"I  don't  think  baseball  gets  enough  pub- 
licity over  the  air,"  said  Babe,  in  his 
apartment  in  the  upper  hjghties,  one  after- 
noon. "If  there  were  more  programs  like 
this,  the  game  would  profit.  I  don't  say 
this  because  of  my  own  program — it  could 
be  anybod\'s  |)ro,L;rani,  as  long  as  it  took 
regular  hi;;  K.i,i;ners,  whose  names  are 
known  to  the  tans,  and  let  them  cliat  about 
that  day's  hall  -:nne.  It  eives  the  listeners- 
in  a  chance  to  luar  lirst-h:nKl  information 
about  the  game,  and  I'm  -ine  it  builds  up 
their  interest.  1  like  this  Imsiness  of  broad- 
casting, swell— everythniL;  lint  the  rehear- 
sals! But  1  guess  we  lia\r  t..  through 
s.inie  har<lsbii!S  t<.  have  some  Inn'  1  loved 
plavin.u  baseball,  to..,  bnt  1  hated  tlioM;  re- 
dnc'ing  sessions  I  had  to  thron-h  at 
.\rtie  Mcfiovern's  ni  e\ery  winter,  to 
get  in  shape  for  the  season.  Yet  1  couUln't 
ha\e  idayed  without  'em,  and  it's  the  same 
way  with  rehearsing.  I  can't  broadcast 
unless  1  first  rehearse." 


82 


RADIO  STARS 


At  a  recent  flood  benefit  Irvin 
Cobb  (left)  and  Walter  Winchell 
contributed  their  services  on  an 
NBC-Re6  Cross  radio  broadcast. 


Should  Ruth's  current  Sinclair  program 
contimie  to  he  well  received,  it  would  seem 
there  iiiiulit  l>e  a  -ix.t  fnr  I'.ahc  an  actual 
l)roa(lcar^lcr  i.i  liall  uaiiK-^.  Xi>t  in  Greater 
New  York,  of  course,  since  the  Vankctrs, 
Giants  and  Dodgers  have  a  five-year  agree- 
ment not  to  broadcast  from  their  jiarks. 
The  Babe  wouldn't  care  to  iz,,  out  of  town 
to  broadcast,  but  he  might  lie  worked  in 
next  fall  at  the  \\  orld  Series,  wherever  it 
may  be  played. 

The  Babe's  resonant,  booming  voice 
should  go  well  in  the  broadcast  of  a  ball 
game,  better  than  it  does  in  mere  reading 
from  script.  Aside  fruni  the  glamuur  nf  his 
name  and  his  fame,  Ruth  could  present  an 
accurate  and  expert  picture  of  exactly  what 
was  taking  place,  with  no  guessing,  hem- 
ming or  hawing  and  no  phony  enthusiasm 
of  the  "Oh-boy-Oh-boy"  type. 

Ruth  has  mellowed  with  the  years.  No 
longer  is  he  the  rough,  tough  kid  wh(jrr 
the  late  Jack  Dunn  chrisit-ncd  "P.ahe." 
when  he  was  with  the  Bullniuirr  Ori.^l.-s. 
No  longer  is  he  the  turbulent  swa^hhnclc- 
ler,  whose  nights  of  riotous  carousing  and 
afternoons  of  amazing  basel>all  perform- 
ances alternately  kept  the  late  little  Miller 
Huggins  between  a  scowling  frown  and  a 
wide  grin.  The  $5.0()(J-fine,  slapped  on 
him  by  Hug  and  collected  by  tlie  ]'i!i}L-,\\<. 
started  Babe  on  the  path  of  <lecornni,  and 
his  marriage  to  Claire  Hodg^,  m,  in  April, 
1929,  romi)lete<l  tin.-  reforniati' m. 

The  Balje  is  out  of  'la-cljall  now,  out  of 
it  officially,  but  not  sentimentally.  He  goes 
to  the  ball  park  whenever  he  can,  and 
probably  would  be  there  daily  if  he  could 
go  incognito  and  not  be  mobbed  by  his 
admirers.  He  talks  baseball  all  the  time, 
not  alone  on  his  radio  broadcasts.  And 
they  do  say  that  the  Babe  may  some  day 
be  back  in  the  game  again,  as  manager  of 
a  big  league  club.  Colonel  Tillinghast 
L'Hommedieu  Huston,  who  was  Colonel 
Ruppert's  partner  when  the  Yanks  were 
purchased  in  1915,  is  eyeing  the  attractive 
Brooklyn  franchise  as  the  spot  to  install 
Babe  as  manager.  And  by  1938,  you  may 
find  the  Babe  in  Flatbush  l 


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Hollywood,  romantic  capital  of  the 
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A  BULL  IN  A  CHINA  SHOP 


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\-  is  imtliing  ])ut  a 
I  vlifct  instead  of 
across  the  desert, 
ranges.  But  this 
not    for   me — not 


Alter  all.  the  Rai  Shad 
Cdwboy,  wrapped  up  in 
a  tlannel  shirt  I  He  ride 
instead  of  riding  the 
draw  ing-ru(,ni  stuff  is 
withdiu  a  \elp!" 

Xo,  not  lor  him!  Looking  at  Dick  Foran, 
I  had  to  agree  with  him.  I  had,  also,  to 
deplore  the  idea  of  cramping  this  splendid 
specimen  in  conventional  cutaways  and 
capers.  For  he  would  be  a  bull,  restive,  in 
any  china  shop.  A  flame-headed  bull, 
smashing  his  head  against  Sevres  sentiment, 
porcelain  passion,  Dresden  desire  and  do- 
dads.  He  is  six  feet  three  in  height.  He 
weighs  one  himdred  and  ninety  robust, 
muscular  pounds.  He  has  blazing  red  hair, 
blazing  blue  eyes,  sometimes  hot,  when  the 
fighting  Irish  is  up  in  them ;  sometimes 
cold  and  slightly  contemptuous,  a  little  cruel 
in  their  appraisal  of  mice  and  men.  He 
didn't  tell  me  that  he  likes  dogs  and  horses 
better  than  men.  He  didn't  need  to.  And 
health  glows  in  him  so  splendidly,  so 
abundantly,  that  it  is  like  a  physical  impact 

Nor  does  he  talk  quite  so  glibly  as  it 
may  sound,  written  down.  For,  character- 
istic of  the  man  who  is  his  own  man  with 
men,  with  horses,  with  the  out-of-doors, 
he  is  shy  and  somewhat  inarticulate  when 
it  comes  to  prattling  on,  fluently,  about  him- 
self. He  would  constantly  interrupt  himself 
while  talking  and  say :  "Aw,  but  you  don't 
want  to  hear  about  that !"  or :  "Say,  we're 
not  getting  anywhere,  are  we?" 

The  boy  was,  indeed,  father  to  the  man. 
For,  back  home  in  Flemington,  New  Jersey, 
(Dick's  father  was  Collector  of  the  Port 
of  New  York,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
of  the  Republican  politicians)  is  a  fine,  old 
Colonial  mansion,  the  Foran  homestead,  set 
staunchly  among  century-old  elms.  And 
here  the  five  Foran  brothers  were  lustily 
born  and  lustily  grew  to  manhood— Dick 
("christened  John  Nicholas  Foran),  Arthur, 
Jim,  Walter  and  Billy  (now  aged  nine)  in 
the  order  of  their  personal  appearances 
upon  this  earth.  They  went  to  public  school 
there  in  Flemington,  the  Foran  boys.  And 
the  fine  old  house  was  stout  harborage  for 
five  rough  and  always  ready  boys;  for 
their  wrestlings  and  noisy  growing,  for 
tlicir  fiinlball  gear  and  baseball  gear  and 
iiikcs  .-md  skates  and  music.  They  grew  up 
in  a  solid  world,  the  Foran  brotlicrs,  with 
a  mother  gentle  and  undcrst.unling  and 
firm,  with  a  father  they  could  iidiKir  and 
respect  and  be  pals  with. 

Dick  went,  later,  he  told  me,  to  most  of 
the  prep  schools  in  the  country.  And — ah — 
left  most  of  them!  They  didn't  agree,  Dick 
and  the  schools,  as  to  what  boys  and  schools 
should  do  together.  This  may  be  a  slight 
(•.xaL'L'i  rati'Di,  since  his  nftici.il  liiiigraphy 
gi\<.  Kxrsl.urg  Academy  and  the  Hun 
Schocil  as  liis  two  schools  preparatory  to 
Princeton. 

But  before  and  during  his  school  life, 
Dick  and  his  brothers  spent  most  of  their 
time,  week-ends,  long  vacations,  on  the 
huge,  2600-acre  hunting  preserve  which 
their  father  owned,  and  still  owns,  in  New 
Jersey.  An  immense  game  j)r(  -erve,  with 
lakes  and  streams  and  timber  lands.  And 


there  Dick  and  his  brothers  and  their  pals 
hunted  and  fished  and  rode  horses,  bare- 
back. Western  saddle,  on  their  heads,  on 
their  hands,  on  their  knees.  They  played 
they  were  cowboys,  steer  wrestlers,  Indians. 
They  hewed  wood  and  cooked  and  slept  out 
of  doors.  They  grew  familiar  with  the 
rough  earth  as  their  bed  and  the  stars  and 
the  winds  as  their  blankets.  And  here  Dick 
grew  to  his  vigorous  proportions  and  here 
he  learned  to  love,  as  his  natural  habitat, 
the  "all-out-doors."  Love  it  with  the  pas- 
sion that,  today,  makes  him  eager  to  cleave 
to  it,  forsaking  all  other  film  roles. 

Later  still,  Dick  went  to  Princeton.  He 
majored  in  geology.  He  played  football 
and  baseball  and  lacrosse  and  ice-hockey. 
He  shipped,  for  two  successive  surnmers,  as 
an  able  seaman  aboard  freighters  visiting 
most  of  the  South  .American  countries,  and 
the  West  Indies.  While  in  college  a  rich 
baritone  voice  was  discovered  to  be  lodging 
in  the  deep  barrel  of  the  Foran  chest.  And 
he  studied  voice,  with  opera,  the  Met.  as 
his  objectives.  He  intended,  academically, 
to  become  a  geologist.  He  said  to  me :  "I'm 
glad  I  didn't.  There  are  more  rocks  in 
Hollywood  than  in  all  tlie  ancient  excava- 
tions of  other,  and  perhaps  more  polished, 
civilizations!  And  it's  the  rocks  I'm  after! 
There's  no  other  place  in  the  world,  no 
other  business  or  profession  in  the  world, 
where  a  young  man  of  my  age  can  make 
the  money  I  make  here.  And  that's  what 
I  want.  I've  gone  hungry.  I  didn't  like  it. 
I  went  hungry  after  I  came  to  Hollywood. 
I  learned  how  to  eat  'on  the  cuff.'  Song- 
writing  pals  of  mine  supplied  the  horrid 
gaps  in  my  diet.  I'd  paid  two  months'  rent 
in  advance,  or  it  would  have  meant  the 
park  bench  for  the  first  of  the  five  Forans  ! 
I  learned  a  lot.  I  also  learned  that,  despite 
the  few  charitable  exceptions,  thumbs  are 
down  and  doors  closed  and  faces  averted 
from  the  fellow  who  is  down  and  out.  The 
world  isn't  kind  to  failures.  I  have  no 
illusions  about  that!  Well,  that's  all  right, 
too.  The  law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest 
is  a  hard  law.  But  it  is  the  law  of  the 
herd — and  I  mean  the  human  herd,  too." 

Dick  never  made  grand  opera.  "Not  good 
enough,"  he  told  me,  grinning.  "Rotten,  in 
fact !  But  that  didn't  keep  me  from  singing. 
For,  next  to  being  a  cowboy,  I  like  to  sing. 
I  like  to  sing  on  the  air.  on  the  range,  in 
the  iiathtub,  in  church,  anywhere  and  every- 
where !" 

He  did  some  radio  work.  Mostly  for 
experience,  or  as  a  courtesy  for  friends. 
And  then,  after  matriculating  at  Princeton, 
he  went  to  work  as  a  special  investigator 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  And  one 
of  these  investigations  brought  him  to 
Hollywood,  to  Los  Angeles.  In  Hollywood 
he  met  Lew  Brown,  of  the  musical  comedy 
producing  organization  of  De  Sylva,  Brown 
and  Henderson.  They  persuaded  him  to 
take  a  screen  test.  And  a  contract  with 
Fox  was  the  result.  He  had  a  small  part 
(of  course  they  didn't  let  iiim  sing!)  in 
Stand  Up  And  Cheer.  C'Stand  Up  and 
Lca-i'c."  said  Dick,  "should  have  been  the 
title  of  that!") 

Then   Warner   Brothers  borrowed  him 


RADIO  STARS 


to  play  a  leading  role  in  Gciillcmen  Arc 
Born,  and  he  did  such  an  excellent  job  that 
he  was  cast  in  the  role  of  Midshipman 
Gifford  in  Shipmates  Forc.rr.  It  was  while 
this  production  was  under  way  that  a  series 
of  tests  were  conducted  for  a  cowl)oy  star 
for  six  Westerns,  to  be  made  by  Warner 
Brothers.  Dick  took  the  test.  And  a  new- 
cowboy  star  was  made,  then  and  there. 
Now,  on  the  Warner  Brothers  lot,  without 
benefit  of  ballyhoo,  publicity  or  any  of 
the  customary  star-manufacturing  methods, 
Dick's  fan  mail  is  third  in  bulk  of 
anyone  on  the  lot.  And  when  you 
consider  that  Bette  Davis,  Errol  Flynn  and 
Kay  P>ancis  also  are  on  that  lot,  you  may 
dimly  perceive  the  value,  the  box-office 
value,  of  Dick  Foran.  He  has  since  ap- 
peared in  Lottery  Lover,  One  More  Spring. 
Moonlight  on  the  Prairie.  Song  of  the 
Saddle,  Petrified  Forest,  Treachery  Rides 
The  Range.  Public  Enemy's  Wife,  Pony 
Express  Rider,  Guns  of  the  Pecos  and 
Blaek  Legion.  And  Burns  and  Allen  have 
staked  their  claim  on  him  for  radio,  as 
you  know. 

Dick  said:  "If  I  could  have  things  just 
as  I  would  like  to  have  them,  I  would  like 
to  contniue  to  do  Western  pictures  and 
nothing  else  but.  And  I  would  like  to  sing 
cowboy  songs  on  the  air.  At  least,  part  of 
the  time.  I'd  like  to  know  what  the  radio 
fans  would  most  like  me  to  sing,  though. 
I  wish  you  would  ask  them  for  me.  in 
this  story.  I  wish  you'd  ask  them  whether 
they  prefer  me  to  sing  \\'estern  songs  ex- 
clusively, such  as  Little  Buckaroo  or  Home 
On  The  Range,  or  whether  they'd  prefer 
me  to  vary  the  broadcasts  with  popular 
songs  such  as  When  My  Dreamboat  Comes 
Home,  and  such  classical  standards  as 
operatic  arias  and  Drink  To  Me  Only  With 
Thine  Eyes,  and  so  forth.  I'd  really  like 
to  know.  Ask  them  to  write  in  and  tell  me, 
will  you? 

"For  my  part."  said  Dick,  lounging  back 
of  the  luncheon  table  in  the  Green  Room 
on  the  Warner  Brothers  lot,  seeming  much 
too  large  for  his  chair  and  decidedly  un- 
comfortable in  it,  waving  an  acknowledg- 
ing hand  to  Bette  Davis,  Pat  O'Brien, 
Humphrey  Bogart,  Archie  Mayo,  Harry 
Joe  Brown  and  others  who  came  into  t!ie 
Green  Room  and,  one  and  all,  called  con- 
gratulations on  his  broadcast  of  the  night 
before,  "for  my  part  I  like  to  sing  the 
kind  of  songs  that  just  gush  out — Ai,  Ai, 
Ai  is  my  favorite  song,  by  the  way.  I  like 
to  sing  the  kind  of  songs  that  just  come 
out  spontaneously,  as  well  on  a  horse  or 
on  the  prairie  as  in  a  broadcasting  station 
or  on  a  sound  stage.  I  like  everything 
that's  natural.  Riciiard  Tauber  is  my  fav- 
orite singer.  And  Jack  Benny  and  Fred 
Allen  are  my  favorite  comedians  on  the 
air.  Just  because  they  all  are  so  natural 
and  human.  Burns  and  Allen,  of  course.  I 
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or  anywhere  else !  Yep,  I  like  things  and 
people  natural.  I  like  an  actor  who's 
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WOMEN  WANT  TO  BE  TIED  DOWN 


(Co)itiinicd  from  page  31) 


It  means  to  be  rent  between  two  interests, 
to  t)e  torn  between  deciding  which  of  her 
emotions  is  the  most  important  to  her.  It's 
different  when  women  have  an  urge  to  do 
things  on  their  own.  The  restless  wife 
would  be  better  off  for  having  interests  of 
her  own. 

"Years  ago,  before  women  were  allowed 
to  take  their  place  in  a  world  of  men,  those 
who,  today,  would  have  made  careers  for 
themselves,  had  to  stifle  any  urge  for  life 
outside  of  the  home.  So,  for  the  most 
part,  they  made  restless,  dissatisfied  wives, 
women  who  wrote  scraps  of  poetry  no- 
body ever  saw,  women  who  spent  secret 
hours  playing  the  piano  or  lost  in  day- 
dreams of  what  might  have  been.  Women, 
who  would  have  made  a  name  for  them- 
selves in  the  business  world,  nagged  their 
husbands  because  there  was  no  outlet  for 
their  talents  and  the  men  they  married  be- 
came as  unhappy  as  they  did. 

"Of  course  there  were  other  women, 
wiser  women,  who  used  their  e.xcess  energy 
in  a  constructive  way  and  hcli)e(l  their  hus- 
baiifis  t"  achieve  things  they  weren't  al- 
lowed to  will  for  theinselves.  These  were 
the  women,  who,  if  their  husliaiuls  were  the 
right  type,  helped  to  build  great  fortunes, 
or  paint  great  pictures,  or  write  great 
liook^.  These  were  the  women  who  bun- 
dled the  most  precious  of  their  belongings 
into  covered  wagons  and  went  with  their 
husbands  on  the  new  trails  leading  west- 
ward and  who  helped  them  till  alien  fields 
and  begin  a  lionie  in  a  new  country. 

"I  was  ])robal)ly  meant  to  be  a  hoine 
woman.  All  my  heritage  p.nnts  that  way. 
After  all,  I  was  born  in  the  Spain  that 
used  to  be,  the  country  of  possessive  men 
and  sheltered  women.  But  I  was  brought 
up  in  .AiiKTica.  I  saw  the  girls  I  had  grown 
up  with  making  their  own  way  in  the  world, 
s(j  that,  when  the  time  came  for  me  to 
make  my  way,  t(jo,  it  was  exciting  to  me 
rather  than  depressing. 


"A  cousin  of  mine,  in  Spain,  really  has 
an  amazing  voice  and,  though  her  parents 
have  spent  a  small  fortune  in  having  it 
trained,  it  is  nothing  more  to  her  now  than 
a  pleasing  talent.  Her  teacher  said  to  her 
once :  'What  a  pity  you  don't  have  to  sing 
for  your  living !  Your  voice  would  bring 
so  much  pleasure  to  so  many  people.' 

"I  had  to  sing.  My  husljand's  business 
went  wrong  and  it  was  the  only  talent  I 
had  to  work  with.  Afterwards,  after  my 
marriage  went,  too,  I  had  to  keep  on,  to 
support  my  small  son. 

"There  wasn't  any  choice  for  me,  then, 
about  the  things  I  had  to  do.  I  had  to 
make  a  home  for  my  small  son  and  I  had 
to  make  the  money  to  keep  it  going.  May- 
be that's  where  I  was  luckier  than  most 
women,  who  have  to  choose  between  do- 
mesticity and  a  career." 

It  was  then  that  work  became  more  than 
work,  and  success  more  than  success,  for 
Olga  Albani.  It  was  in  those  days  that 
she  really  began  growing  up.  For  all  that 
she  had  fallen  in  love  and  married  and 
borne  a  child,  she  really  didn't  know  much 
about  the  world  she  was  living  in.  It  was 
only  when  disillusionment  came,  that  she 
found  that  life  wasn't  the  pretty  story  she 
always  had  thought  it.  It  was  only  when 
she  found  work,  that  she  realized  how  easy 
it  would  have  been  to  become  bitter  when 
the  fragile  bubble  of  happiness  broke  in 
her  hands. 

Work  ...  It  became  awfully  important 
to  her,  then.  She  found  in  it  a  thing  sepa- 
rate and  apart  from  the  rest  of  her  exis- 
tence. Somehow  it  had  nothing  to  do  with 
her  small  son,  or  the  life  they  shared  to- 
gether. It  had  nothing  to  do  with  her  love 
for  him,  or  the  fun  the  two  of  them  had 
together. 

It  was  something  that  stood  on  its  own 
firm  feet,  something  that  she  could  control 
as  she  couldn't  control  other  things.  Love 
could  come,  and  could  change,  and  could 


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GOODBYE 


During  a  Sealfesf  Sunday  Night 
Parfy  rehearsal,  Tom  Howard  tries 
the  piano  for  M.  C.  James  Melton. 

go — but  work  wasn't  like  tliat !  Her  work 
was  tani;il)ly  part  of  herself.  It  \\as  some- 
thing that  could  grow  and  becdme  more 
exciting  with  the  growing.  It  was  the 
only  thing  she  could  count  on,  as  she  could 
count  (in  herself. 

So  >hi_'  >a\v  lu-r  n,-inie  g.)  up  in  lights 
over  the  theatre,  where  the  successltil  oper- 
etta, A  £':e  Mddii,  was  playing,  and  she 
knew  the  thrill  of  reading  enthusiastic 
reviews  of  her  role  in  the  play. 

Life  was  exciting.  It  couldn't  be  any- 
thing else,  with  the  flowers  that  began  ar- 
ri\iivg.  the  homage  that  was  given  her,  the 
offers  that  came  her  way.  There  was  only 
one  thin<^  she  wotikl  have  changed  then 
and  that  was  her  life  with  her  son.  Star- 
ring on  Broadway  didn't  give  her  as  much 
time  to  spend  with  him  as  she  wanted  to 
have. 

So,  when  the  time  came  for  her  to  make 
a  decision,  it  was  the  National  Broadcasting 
Company's  offer  that  she  accepted.  For 
radio  was  different  from  the  other  arts. 
Different  from  the  stage  or  movies  or  opera. 
Radio  was  a  home  institution.  Its  appeal, 
unlike  that  of  any  of  the  others,  was  pri- 
marily designed  for  the  home,  not  only  as 
far  as  its  listeners  were  concerned,  but  for 
its  artists  as  well. 

When  she  went  to  Chicago  for  that  en- 
gagement, '  )lga  .\lh,(ni  thought  her  life 
and  her  future  were  prett>'  well  mapiied 
out.  lint  then  something  happened  that 
she  couldn't  possibly  have  foreseen.  She 
fell  in  love. 

Only  it  was  different  this  time.    Once  be- 
fore a  girl  had  fallen  in  love.    That  had 
-been  all  romance  and  ignorance  and  moon- 
light and  \  outh.    Now  it  w;is  ;i  wnm.-in  who 
fell  in  love.     .\   u,.man  u  hose  eyes  were 
wide  open  ;nid  who  h.ul  grown  wise  thr^ 
living.     .\iul  s,i  she  c.-nne  to  know,  .-i 
many  women  liel'ore  her  had  conie  to  k 
that  seeo,i,l  l,.\e  was  re.il  luxe.     X,>  K's. 
citing  heciuse  it  was  .vhjh  nui]  underst 
ing;    no    less   thDlhiv.;    hecaiise   tliere  was 
peace  mixed  up  in  it,  ton. 

Life  was  beginning  i,ver  again.  Once 
it  had  been  spring,  then  winter  had  come— 
and  now  it  w.is  spring  .-inain. 

But  f.-dlinij  in  love  hi-on-ht  iis  own  prob- 
lem, h'or  ike  tn  st  time  sh,-  h.ad  to  decide 
between  ;i  home  and  a  career. 

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who  preferred  that  his  wife  shouldn't  work. 
But  Wallace  Caldwell  was  an  unilerstaiuling 
man,  too,  and  felt  that  it  was  his  wife's 
privilege  to  make  her  own  decision. 

Alaylie  that's  the  rca>on  their  marriage 
has  been  so  successful.  That  understanding 
Imth  of  them  have  for  each  otliur.  I'. ir 
when  Olga  Albani  decided  that  .she  had 
worked  too  hard  for  her  career  to  gi\e  it 
up,  she  saw-  her  hu^^alK^.s  side  of  the 
pr(il)lem  as  well  as  her  own. 

"That's  when  I  disco\-ercd  that  career- 
wiiiiKii  really  choose  two  jobs  for  them- 
selves." She  laughed,  "l-'or  it  isn't  fair 
to  a  man,  who  wants  a  home,  to  have  to 
take  half  measures.  Women  with  careers 
have  to  give  even  more  attention  to  their 
homes  than  the  stay-at-home  wife  must 
give  to  it. 

"^\■hen  I  came  to  New  York  for  my 
Friday  niglit  broad.ast  (.1  I'liizrrsal 
Rliythiti,  I  had  to  iilan  things  so  that 
the>-  would  run  smoothl>-  while  I  was  away 
from  home.  That  me.'int  menus  for  those 
days  must  be  worked  out  before  I  went, 
and  that  I  must  have  trained  my  household 
help,  so  that  everything  went  on  as  effici- 
ently as  if  I  were  there. 

"Aly  career  is  separate  and  apart  from 
my  home  life.  And  I  find  joy  in  both  of 
them.  The  cook's  night  out  is  an  event 
we  all  look  forward  to  in  our  home,  for, 
on  that  night,  I  cook  dinner  and  my  hus- 
band and  the  two  children  have  just  as 
inuch  fun  helping  me  as  I  have  in  cooking 
it.  And  my  cooking  is  one  of  the  things 
I  brag  about  shamelessly  ! 

"I  think  the  woman  who  runs  both  a 
career  and  a  home  gets  her  biggest  reward 
in  the  different  attitudes  her  family  have 
toward  her.  Why,  you  would  almost  think 
a  c|ueen  had  condescended  to  cotne  into  the 
kitchen,  from  the  fuss  they  make  over  me ! 
Instead  of  taking  things  for  granted,  they 
think  it  is  wonderful  when  I  do  things 
for  them. 

"And  a  husband  and  children  love  brag- 
ging about  a  woman  with  a  life  of  her  own 
apart  from  them.  Often  I've  heard  the 
children  talking  about  me  to  their  play- 
mates, telling  them  of  this  thing  I've  done, 
and  that  thing,  and  I  wouldn't  be  human 
if  it  didn't  give  me  a  terrific  kick  !  I've  seen 
Wallace  beam,  too,  when  friends  of  his 
have  told  him  they've  enjoj'ed  my  singing 
over  the  radio. 

"For  the  most  part,  I  keep  my  business 
details  away  from  him.  It  doesn't  seem 
fair  to  saddle  him  with  my  responsibilities. 
I  make  my  decisions  for  myself  and  would 
no  more  think  of  asking  him  for  advice 
than  he  would  think  of  .giving  it. 

"That's  the  reason  my  career  has  never 
conflicted  with  our  life  together.  When 
I've  inade  mistakes,  he  would  no  more 
think  of  mentioning  them  to  tne  than  he 
would  to  a  friend  who  had  done  the  same 
thing. 

"It's  important,  in  marriage,  to  give  each 
other  the  same  courtesies  you  wiiuld  give 
to  a  friend.  It's  so  easy  to  sa\'  to  a  wife 
or  to  a  husband:  'I  told  >nu  so!'  or  :  'Why 
didn't  you  do  this  or  that?'  To  keep  love, 
you  have  to  earn  it,  just  as  much  as  you 
ha\c  to  earn  friendshii).  It's  when  inti- 
mate assoeiation  makes  men  or  women 
feel  they  own  their  partners,  that  married 
ha])piness  goes. 

"You  have  to  work  to  earn  happiness  in 
anything,  and  a  successful  marriage  isn't 
a  fluke.    It's  something  you've  worked  as 


hard  to  attain  as  success  in  any  other  field. 
And  there's  no  other  success  that  brings 
such  complete  satisfaction. 

"I  felt  some  of  that  satisfaction,  the 
other  evening,  when  Wally  turned  to  me 
and  said  :  'You  know,  I  can't  really  believe 
I've  married  a  working  gal  !  My  friends 
aren't  so  sure  of  tinding  their  wives  at 
home,  waiting  for  them,  when  they  leave 
the  office,  as  I  am — and  }-ou  always  have 
time  to  do  things  I  want  to  do.' 

"He  really  sounded  surprised,  as  if  he 
hadn't  expected  a  career-woman  would  be 
like  that,  and,  somehow.  I  felt  it  was  the 
greatest  compliment  anyone  ever  had  given 
me. 

"In  the  beginning,  I  think  Wally  thought 
he  was  being  an  exceptionally  understand- 
ing husl)and,  by  not  interfering  with  my 
career.  But  that  was  only  in  the  begin- 
ning, before  be  had  the  chance  to  see  how 
it  all  workeil  out.  Now  he  knows  my  work 
takes  nothing  away  from  him.  After  all, 
most  of  it  is  done  while  he  is  working,  too. 
It  only  means  that  I  have  less  leisure  for 
play  than  most  women  have,  less  time  for 
lunches  and  theatres  and  bridge  and  shop- 
ping. If  I  have  stolen  time  from  anyone, 
it  is  only  from  myself  that  I  have  stolen 
it.  But  my  work  is  so  absorbing  to  ine,  I 
couldn't  begrudge  any  of  the  things  it 
might  have  taken  from  me. 

"And,  if  anything,  my  home  encroaches 
on  my  career  more  than  my  career  en- 
croaches on  my  home.  Sometimes  it  is 
something  I  am  doing  for  Wally  that  takes 
some  of  the  time  I  had  planned  for  business 
details.  Sometimes  it  is  the  children.  Some- 
times it  is  the  dog. 

"The  other  day  he  was  gone  for  hours. 
I  was  worried  when  I  called  up  a  neigh- 
bor whose  dog  is  a  pal  of  ours,  and  dis- 
covered that  his  dog  was  safe  at  their 
hoine.  I  had  a  business  engagement  that 
day,  but  I  had  to  put  it  off,  and  spent  the 
afternoon  running  around  in  the  car  to  all 
the  places  a  dog  might  possibly  have 
gone. 

"None  of  us  could  eat  dinner  that  night 
and  the  children  didn't  even  try  to  hide  their 
tears  as  Wally  and  I  had  to,  because  we 
were  grown  up  and  not  supposed  to  go  to 
pieces  over  a  lost  dog.  But  I  couldn't  hold 
them  back  any  longer  when  I  heard  that 
familiar  scratching  at  the  door  and  flung 
it  open  to  take  a  muddy,  tired  animal  in 
my  arms  and  make  a  cotriplete  and 
thorough  fool  of  myself  over  him! 

"Maybe  that's  the  reason  I'm  so  devoted 
to  that  dog,  because  he  does  tie  me  down, 
just  as  my  children  tie  me  down,  and  my 
husband  and  home  tie  me.  Because  I  ivaiit 
to  he  tied  doicii!  And  the  only  person  in 
this  v\'liole  world  who  is  free  is  the  person 
nobody  needs  !  That  must  be  really  tragic, 
mustn't  it  ?  Not  being  needed,  being  free, 
because  there's  no  one  to  care  enough  about 
you  to  hold  you  flown  !" 

Olga  .'Vlliani  smiled,  in  the  way  that 
really  happy  women  smile,  witli  her  eyes  as 
well  as  lier  lips,  and  then  she  gasped  as 
she  looked  down  at  her  wrist  watch. 

"I've  only  fifteen  ininutes  to  make  my 
train  !" 

There  was  a  mad  dash  to  the  taxi,  for 
Olga  Albani  was  on  her  way  to  Chicago, 
back  to  the  husband  and  the  children,  and 
the  dog,  and  all  the  other  things  that  go 
to  make  up  the  home,  tying  her  down  to 
happiness. 


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about  people,  it's  hard  to  resist  running 
out  and  blurting  the  secret  to  everyone 
you  know. 

Here's  another  secret  deal  that  proliahly 
will  have  taken  shape  on  A'BC  networks 
by  tiie  time  \  ini  read  this.  Lanny  Russ  has 
a  brother,  Winston,  from  wlKtni  he  had 
been  separated  since  hoyho. id.  Their  parents 
parted  when  the  t\\i>  1><>_\>  were  small. 
Lanny  stayed  in  America  with  his  mother 
and  Winston  went  to  England  with  his 
father. 

While  Lanny  i^vs  at  Vale  beeoming  a  star 
milcr  {he  jitst  missed  going  on  an  Olympic 
team,  you  know)  and  the  star  tenor  of  the 
Yale  Glee  Club,  Winston  teas  in  England, 
studying  for  the  theatre.  He  sang.  too. 
Winston  returned  to  the  United  States  a 
year  or  so  ago.  Entree  into  radio,  theatre 
or  the  moi'ies  zt.'ould  haiu-  Ih^n  made  ea.-;y 
on  Lanny's  stardom  and  inflnenee.  Xeither 
brother  teas  leilling  to  do  anything  of  that 
sort.  Both  are  proud,  dignified  and  honest. 

Winston  went  his  own  way  and  played 
all  of  the  past  season  in  Idiot's  Delight, 
during  the  show's  Broadway  engagement 
"and  on  the  road.  Independent  of  his  brother, 
he  caught  some  radio  attention,  also.  A'BC 
has  just  signed  Winston  Ross  as  a  tenor 
and  he  is  to  start  singing  on  a  program 
regularly  in  the  late  spring  or  summer.  But 
his  name  won't  be  Ross. 

-  ♦  - 

These  two  brothers  are  keeping  the 
whole  affair  so  secret,  I  can't  tell  you 
what  his  name  will  be.  But  if  you  hear  a 
new  young  tenor  voice  under  the  name, 
So-and-so  Winston,  listen  carefully  and 
see  what  you  think  of  Lanny's  brother. 
He  has  decided  to  keep  Winston  as  his 
last  name. 

- 

It  took  radio  quite  a  while  to  >c;tle  >n 
"listener"  as  the  word  to  describe  a  nicnihcr 
of  its  audience.  Now  comes  television  de- 
manding a  new  word  for  the  member  of 
the  audiences  it  will  create.  Just  as  hints  of 
words  to  come:  "viewer"  is  the  word  the 
English  use ;  .American  engineers  who 
watch  television  broadcasts  speak  of  one 
another  as  "observers.'' 

Lott  Holts  ivas  full  of  negotiations  about 
radio  programs  all  spring.  Conferenees 
went  on  about  his  stepping  into  various 
programs  for  the  summer. 

"It's  the  craziest  business,"  Lou  insists, 
"all  this  talk  and  what's  happening." 

Radio  always  seems  to  take  crazy  turns, 
as  far  as  Lou  Holtz  is  concerned.  Before 
a  program,  he's  usually  so  nervous  he  sits 
backstage  sipping  at  a  bottle  of  sherry  to 
nerve   himself  to  go  on. 

Then,  after  a  recent  appearance  with 
Ben  Bernie  was  over,  he  came  into  the 
control  room  for  a  few  minutes  and  men- 
tioned nothing  except :  "Boy,  wasn't  I 
good?  I  killed  them,  didn't  I?" 

After  each  guest  star  appearance,  he 
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who  don't  grab  him  at  once.  He  walked 
off  the  Slum'  Boat  stage  and  suggested: 
"Every  time  I  go  on  the  air,  it's  a  success. 
I'm  great!  Everyone  tells  me  that!  I  do  it 
every  time!" 

-♦- 

This  hravc  szcaggcrcr  zi'ill  make  anolhcr 
::itrst  radio  af^pcaraiicc  hcfon'  lonii.  Just 
:\'ioir  hroaih-ast  tiiiir.  Ihr  ihaihTS  arc  you'll 
'■;;,/  hiiii.  small  bolllc  of  shrrry  in  hand, 
iiiu-asy  and  depressed.  Jiopuui  he'll  have 
nerz'e  enough  to  get  through  tlie  coining 
microphone  ordeal. 

"How  can  I  be  good?"  he  probably  will 
ask.  "That  director  cut  out  one  of  my 
best  jokes.  Crazy  people  you  work  with 
around  here!" 

One  of  the  sights  of  Xew  York  this 
spring  has  been  Jimmy  Melton  driving 
around  in  an  automobile  old  enough  to  be 
a  nnisenm  piece.  The  car  is  a  1910  White, 
high-backed  seats,  small  doors,  no  top, 
horn  with  a  rubber  bulb,  gear  shift  out  on 
the  running  board.  It  doesn't  go  very  fast, 
the  brakes  don't  work  well,  it  is  uncom- 
fortable— and  Jimmy  takes  it  out  and  drives 
aronn<l  every  chance  he  gets. 

.Is  llie  car  linnbcrs  along  crowded  Neiv 
York  streets,  people  howl:  "Get  a  horse!" 
(;;;(/  .Hiniiiy  holds  back  "Kubi)erneck  I" 
The  only  trouble  is  that  lehru  the  car  pulls 
up  to  the  curb,  passersby  are  so  intent  on 
its  iintage,  they  oirrlook  the  fame  oj  the 
driver.  Jimmy  is  a  man  -who  doesn't  like  to 
have  his  fame  overlooked,  hut  with  liis 
good  old  gas  buggy,  he  doesn't  iniiul  even 
that. 

"I  didn't  want  just  any  old  car,"  he 
recounts.  "It  took  me  years  to  find  this 
one.  My  uncle  had  a  car  like  this  when 
I  was  a  kid.  It  was  one  of  the  first  I  ever 
saw  and  I  wanted  one  like  it  more  than 
anything  in  the  world." 

By  the  time  Jimmy  could  have  a  car 
like  that,  he  could  have  a  much  better  and 
more  modern  one.  He  still  wanted  a  1910 
White  touring  car.  He  started  an  advertis- 
ing campaign  in  the  country  newsjiapers, 
h<}ping  tu  find  sunie  <jld  ciinntr\-  t;cntleman 
who  still  ha<l  an  old  White  sitting  out  in 
the  shed.  When  he  finally  located  the  right 
White,  it  hadn't  been  running  for  goodness 
knows  liow  many  years.  Fixing  it  cost  Jim 
aniniul  $1,000.  But  there  it  is  now,  all 
lainlcd  red,  and  the  engine  ready  to  say: 
"'J  teenty-thrce  skidoo!"  at  a  twist  of  the 
crank.  It's  all  just  like  the  luxury  Jim's 
uncle  had  back  in  1910. 

The  White  company  ii'unled  to  borrow 
the  car  for  an  c.rhibit  at  the  Cleveland 
e.rpnsition  this  summer.  They  had  been  so 
nice  about  fi.ving  it,  Jimmy  couldn't  say 

no. 

"I  told  them  they  could  have  it  just  for 
a  couple  of  weeks.  It  cheers  me  up  to 
drive  this  old  buggy  around.  Whenever  I 
have  to  go  anywhere  I  don't  want  to  go, 
I  drive  this  good  old  buggy  down  there. 
You  can't  imagine  what  a  feeling  it  gives 
me." 

If  Joe  Ci^Kik  liadn't  so  many  more  im- 
portant (li^iiu  linn-,  \-ou  might  ]inl  him 
down  as  the  man  abuut  \o  Tres- 

passing sigii^  oil  his  country  ]ilare.  Instead 
of  the  usual  "penalty  of  the  law"  threat, 
Joe's  signs  merely  read,  A^'^  /  i  rspiisstmi, 
Please.  It's  surprising  how  asliaiiied  the 


"please"  makes  you  feel,  after  you've  been 
out  on  a  hike  that  wandered  mostly  through 
private  grounds. 

Perhaps  this  accounting  is  a  little  belated, 
but  Xelson  Fuldy  paid  an  astonishing  sum 
jor  a  minor  ('peration  on  his  throat  and 
nose  la.<t  leinler.  The  din'tor  bill  leas  minor. 
Cancelled  bi;n,dcasts  and  concerts  rolled  up 
a  li'SS  b,-l:eccn  S2l>.llil0  and  $J5.llllll.  no 
trifle  e:en  to  a  youn,/  man  leith  .\clson 
Eddy's  income.  B/:si<les.  he  lecut  through 
the  Zi'hole  latter  half  of  his  radio  season 
and  concert  toui  feeling  miserable,  ll'hen 
it  ended  this  spring  he  zeas  on  the  verge  of 
a  breakdozon.  both  z'ocal  and  nervous. 

The  operation  was  not  an  emergency, 
either.  He  was  advised  he'd  feel  more  com- 
fortable with  the  thing  out  of  the  way.  so 
he  submitted  right  in  the  middle  of  his 
season.  Things  seemed  to  be  going  well  in 
the  first  few  days  of  his  convalescence. 
Then  the  medically  incalculable  happened 
and  complications  arose. 

By  the  time  the  season  was  over,  he 
realized  he  probably  had  had  the  highest 
priced  tonsillectomy  on  record. 

Over  the  lemonade  the  other  night,  a 
friend  spoke  in  scientific  spirit :  "You  know 
a  lot  of  comedians.  What  is  it  they  have,  a 
colossal  brass  that  gives  them  nerve  to 
get  up  with  those  old  jokes,  or  are  they 
so  ignorant  about  jokes  they  don't  know 
the  gags  arc  old?" 

Right  on  the  spot  I  made  a  memorandum 
about  asking  a  jezc  comedians — but,  on' 
second  thought,  it's  not  the  sort  of  question 
you.  can  ask.  is  it'  1  zvish  someone  zvith 
either  ignorance  or  colossal  brass  z^'ould 
go  around  asking  and  settle  that  question! 

After  the  strain  of  getting  a  radio  pro- 
gram together  for  a  whole  season,  most 
comedians  insist  on  a  couple  of  months' 
rest  to  refresh  minds  and  stave  off  collapse. 
An  exception  is  Bob  Burns.  He  has  become 
important  enough  now  to  demand  almost 
any  sort  of  rest  period  he  pleases.  So  he 
took  a  mere  two  weeks  off  this  spring. 

Bob  struggled  through  so  many  discour- 
aging years  in  small  time  vaudeville  and, 
after  that,  years  still  more  discouraging  as 
a  Hollywood  extra,  he  is  taking  no  chances 
about  losing  any  cracks  at  the  big  money 
he  now  commands.  His  tastes  are  simple 
and  he  saves  nearly  every  cent  he  makes, 
minus  that  ol'  debbil  income  tax.  His  suc- 
cess came  so  suddenly,  it  still  seems  too 
incredible  to  last. 

"/'//  have  a  good  rest  zvheii  this  thing 
blozcs  up,"  he  remarks. 

Other  exceptions  to  the  vacation  rule 
are  George  Burns  and  Gracie  Allen.  Their 
only  extended  vacation  in  five  years  of 
broadcasting  was  the  summer  two  years 
ago  when  they  made  a  tour  of  Europe. 
Gracie  relishes  a  holiday,  but  not  George. 

George  simply  loves  jokes— telling  them, 
hearing  llieiii  nr  siinph'  discussing  them. 
He  laughs  easily  and  heartily  over  little 
remarLs  that  crop  up  in  conversation. 
That's  jiist  talk.  A  joke  is  something 
different.  Over  gags  for  the  program,  he 
n.iils  s(ileninl>-  in  aiipreciatioii.  with  the  air 

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a  program  and  George  sits  with  them, 
assembling  it,  gag  by  gag,  much  as  a  crowd 
of  old  gentlemen  might  sit  putting  together 
their  stamp  collection.  One  may  laugli 
occasionally,  but  someone  usually  repri- 
mands :  "Come  on,  lct"s  get  back  to  work." 


Whai  good  icoiild 
George,  taking  him  arii 

Ben  Bernie  is  ono  \ 
a  permanent  vacatidii. 


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<lccided  on 
II  doing  his 
broadcast  every  week.  Inn  I'nr  \cars  and 
years  Ben  has  been  on  the  .ijo,  week  in 
and  week  out,  theatres,  hotels,  ball  rooms, 
summer  casinos,  any  spot  that  wanted  Ben 
Bernie's  band  at  a  good  fee.  He's  a  rich 
man  now  and  doesn't  need  to  work  so  hard. 

"But,"  he  protested,  "one  broadcast  a 
week  is  not  enough  to  keep  a  band  like 
mine  going.  I  couldn't  afford  to  pay  them 
all  week  for  just  one  broadcast." 

Ren  solz'cd  that  f^roblcni  by  dropping  his 
band.  He  simply  cnj/aacs  some  good  band 
for  the  evening,  eirry  Tuc.<doy.  when 
broadcast  time  rolls  arouiul.  To  a  man  wlio 
has  zvorked  as  hard  as  Bcniic.  all  these 
years,  one  broadcast  a  ii.'eck  is  practically 
relirrmcnt  into  leisure. 

His  preparation  f^T  ,i  racHo  program  is 
almost  rela.\atii>n.  'J  Ik  I'luid  comes  to  re- 
hearsal and  Ben  sits  and  listens  for  a 
counlc  of  liours,  occasionally  suggesting  a 
tune.  He  can't  be  sure  which  tunes  he  will 
u-'C  on  tlie  program  that  night.  Often  as 
not,  Hen  has  not  written  his  script  before 
rehcirsal  and  you  can't  arrange  a  band 
program  until  you  have  the  script. 

It's  no  way  to  run  a  business  as  big  as 
the  Bernie  enterprise,  but  there's  a  quality 
about  running  it  that  way  that  has  kept 
Ben  in  the  prominent  radio  ranks  for  ten 
years.  After  you  mention  Amos  'n'  Andy, 
who  else  has  held  first  rank  popularity  as 
long  as  Ben  Bernie? 

Ajter  running  into  radio  artists  for  a 
long  time,  here  are  some  of  the  queer  and 
characteristic    things   you  remember: 

Tom  Howard  is  the  man  who  never 
bothers  about  his  clothes,  except  when  he 
has  a  new  suit.  He  goes  the  whole  hog 
then  and  gets  new  shoes,  too.  A  couple  of 
years  ago,  he  even  tried  gray  suede  shoes 
with  a  gray  summer  suit.  "All  dolled  up, 
ey?"  he  asked  everyone.  He  took  great 
ride  in  that  outfit  at  first,  hnt  after  a 
while,  tile  suede  shoes  did  nut  appear  any 
more.  Tom  just  laughs  it  off  now  when 
you  ask  him  how  he  ever  happened  to  buy 
gray  suede  shoes. 

Paul  Whiteman  is  the  man  who  came 
back  from  Texas  with  spurs  made  of 
delicate  filigree  work.  They  are  the  apple 
of  Paul's  eye.  At  a  casual  glance  they 
look  as  though  they  would  break  if  a 
determined  rider  jammed  them  against  a 
horse,  but  Paul  hoots  at  that  idea. 

Lily  Pons  is  the  only  girl  who  wears  a 
fabulously  valuable  diamond  bracelet  at 
broadcasts. 

Ken  Murray  has  a  syndicated  column 
and  it  interrupts  rehearsals  zvhen  the  man 
who  li'ritcs  it  comes  rushing  in  for  Ken's 
OK  and  then  rushes  off  again  to  get  it  to 
the  syndicate  office. 

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RHDIO  LHUCHS... 

(SELECTED    SNICKERS    FROM    POPULAR  PROGRAMS) 


MILTOX:  (I ".-//.  Tony  Martin  did  come 
along  icilh  Miss  Fnyc  and  wxsclf.  hut  I 
only  took  him  aloiU7  to  help  zcith  the  car. 

SEYMOUR:  What  do  you  mean  .  .  . 
help  Zi-ith  the  car? 

MILTON:  Well,  while  Tony  danced 
lifith  Alice,  I  watched  the  car.  But  later 
in  the  afternoon  it  was  different. 

SEYMOUR:  What  do  you  mean,  dif- 
ferent.^ 

MILTON:  Yes  .  .  I  ivatched  the  car, 
and  Tony  danced  n-ith  Alice. 

(MILTON  BERLE.  Gillette  Program.) 

PILKINGTON:  Just  now  Ermintrude 
confessed  to  me  that  yesterday  she  kissed 
the  plumber. 

BEATRICE:  Oh.  she  did?  I'll  kill  her! 

PILK:  Oh,  now,  ^^liss  Lillie,  you  mustn't 
be  too  hard  on  her.  After  all,  the  fact  that 
she  confessed  shows  she's  sorry. 

BEATRICE:  That's  not  the  point  .  .  . 
Why  -limild  >lie  kiss  the  plumber,  when 
we  <'\M-  till.-  laiiillord  three  months'  rent? 

(  Bi; a  :  RIC!-:  lillie,  Broadway 
Merry-Go- Round.) 

ED:  Hello,  Sheila  Barrett.  What  are 
you  going  to  do  for  us  this  evening? 

SHEILA:  Well,  you  know  I'm  a  mimic. 

ED:  I  don't  care  about  the  condition  of 
your  blood.  I  want  to  know  what  you're 
going  to  do. 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

FR.  IXK :  1  hear  your  shoiv  had  a  great 
run  in  Chicano. 

BOB:  ]'rah  .  .  ha.  ha  .  .  .  the  man  in 
the  bo.r-ojTuc  died  of  heart  failure,  and 
nobody  kne-:e  it  lor  n  week! 

(BOB  IIOI'L  and  I'RANK  PARKER. 
Rippling  Rhythm  Program.) 

EDGAR:  I  want  you  to  personally  carry 
them  all  on  so  there  is  no  damage  done 
.  .  .  there  are  38  pieces  of  luggage  and 
then,  of  course,  my  town  car  is  also  to  go 
on. 

CHARLIE:  Well,  I'll  need  a  little  help 
with  thatl 

(EDGAR  BERGEN  and  CHARLIE 
McCarthy,  Vallee  Varieties.) 

BOB:  They  was  so  poor  the  cockroaches 
usedta  snub  'em.  .  .  .  They  set  such  a  poor 
table  the  mice  usedta  eat  out!  .  .  .  Why,  it 
finally  got  so  bad  the  rats  usedta  run  around 
the  basement  with  tears  in  their  eyes.  .  .  . 
I'm  jest  tellin'  ya  all  this  to  show  ya  what 
a  poor  environment  my  Uncle  Tweedle  was 
brought  up  in. 

(BOB  BURNS,  Kraft  Program.) 

PICK:  I  Zi'as  runnin'  dozvn  the  street  to 
get  here  on  time,  when  something  fell  on 
my  head. 

PAT:  It  did?  What  fell  on  your  head? 

PICK:  Me!  Boy,  I  fell  .w  hard  I  almo.H 
hypnotised  myself. 

PAT:  Hypnotise?  What's  hypnotise? 

PICK:  Hypnotise  is  gettin'  a  man  in 
your  power  an'  makin  him  do  whatever  you 
want. 

PAT:  Boy,  dat  ain't  hypnotism — dot's 
marriaqe  I 

{PICK  and  PAT,  Pipe  Smoking  Time.) 

GEORGE :  What  do  you  mean,  you  can't 
drive  a  bargain? 

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lOM  :  Well,  I  bought  a  used  car  last 
week — it  was  a  bargain — but  I  couldn't 
drive  it ! 

(TOAI  HOWARD  and  GEORGE 
SHELTON,  Sealtest  Program.) 

STOOP:  Imagine,  Hollywood!  A  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars.  Bosh! 

BUDD:  Hollywood!  A  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars!  And  you  turned  it  down? 

STOOP:  I  wouldn't  pay  a  hundred  thou- 
sand  dollars  for  all  the  orange  groves  in 
California. 

(STOOPNAGLE  &  BUDD,  Minute 
Tapioca  Program.) 

-♦- 

PHIL:  Harry,  zvhal's  the  idea  of  in- 
troducing me  as  the  son  of  a  horse?  That 
calls  for  an  apology. 

BEETLE:  Yeah— to— the  hor.^e! 

PHIL:  You  keep  out  of  this.  Beetle. 
IV hy,  Harry,  the  idea  of  associating  me 
zvith  a  horse.  Especially  a  horse  that  only 
runs  zi'cll  in  rainy  zveather. 

HARRY:  Well,  Phil,  isn't  this  mud- 
der's  day? 

(PHIL  BAKER,  Gulf  Program.) 

BERT:  Here!  Now  /  gotta  complaint. 
MGR:  Yes? 

BERT :  Yeah  ...  the  woman  in  the  room 
next  to  mine  is  raising  chickens. 

MGR:  What's  the  matter— do  the  chick- 
ens make  too  much  noise? 

(BERT  LAHR,  Manhattan  Merry-Go- 
Round.) 

JIMMY:  Don't  be  so  modest,  Eddie, 
you've  made  many  stars.  Why,  I  know 
of  at  least  one  great  star  you've  made. 

EDDIE:  Who  is  that,  Jimmy? 

JIMMY:  Well — until  I  met  you  I  was 
nothing! 

(EDDIE  CANTOR,  Texaco  Program.) 

PORTLAND:  Mama  sent^  me  out  to 
look  for  Papa,  so  I  thou<;hl  I'd  look  in. 

FRED:  Is  your  father  missinq? 

PORTLAND:  Yes  .  .  .  Mama  read  that 
they've  closed  all  the  burlesque  theatres, 
and  she's  afraid  Papa  is  locked  in  somc- 
zvhere. 

(FRED  ALLEN,  Tozvn  Hall  Tonight.) 

FRED  :  I  suppose  the  Count  entertained 
you  with  a  bit  of  shooting  .  .  .  tlmroughbrcd 
pointers  and  all  that. 

CHARLIE:  He  planned  to,  Frederick, 
I)ut  I'm  too  well  bred.  I  kn<iw  you  should 
never  point  except  at  French  pastry. 

FRI£D :  Say  .  .  .  you  must  Ije  a  real  blue- 
blood,  Charlie. 

CHARLIE:  Blue-blood?  Why  just  last 
week  I  gave  a  transfusion  to  a  fountain 

'''^(FRED    ASTAIRE   and  CHARLES 
BUTTERWORTH,  Packard  Program.) 
-♦- 

MARY:  Well,  what  about  our  play,  Jack 
— are  we  going  to  do  it? 

JACK:  No — I'm  in  no  mood  for  a  play 
.  .  .  Kenny's  gone  home,  Phil's  sore  .  .  . 
things  look  pretty  black,  believe  me! 

MARY:  Then  let's  do  a  minstrel  show. 

(JACK  BENNY  and  MARY  LIVING- 
STONE, Jell-O  Program.) 

■ 

GRACIE:  That's  my  brother.  And  the 
funniest  thing — George — he  thinks  he's  a 
ghost. 

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GEORGE:  Your  brother  thinks  he's  a 
ghost? 

GRACIE:  Sure — he  zvas  going  around 
the  house  this  morning,  singing:  "I  Ain't 
Got  No  Body"  .  .  . 

(BURNS  and  ALLEN,  Grape  Nuts 
Program.) 

TEACHER :  Now,  Molasses,  we're  going 
to  take  up  words  ...  I  want  you  to  use 
the  word  "Miscellaneous"  correctly  in  a 
sentence. 

MOLASSES:  Miscellaneous?  Here  it  is 
— Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  is  the  head  man 
in  this  country  and  miscellaneous  the  head 
man  in  Italy. 

(MOLASSES  and  JANUARY,  Max- 
well House  Show  Boat.) 

MILTON:  You'd  better  be  careful  that 
I  don't  lose  my  temper. 

JOLLY:  If  you  do,  your  job  will  go 
with  it. 

MILTON:  Is  that  so?  Jolly — do  you 
know  what  would  happen  if  I  were  your 
daddy? 

JOLLY:  Yes  .  .  .  and  it  certainly  would 
annoy  my  mother. 

(MILTON  BERLE,  Gillette  Program.) 

PILK:  Oh — here's  another  letter — a  de- 
mand for  money  from  our  creditors.  They 
even  enclose  a  stamped  envelope. 

BEATRICE:  Splendid!  Send  them  back 
the  stamp  on  account. 

(BEATRICE  LILLIE,  Broadway 
Merry-Go-Round.) 

ED  :  Could  I  show  you  something  in  a 
bathrobe  ? 

GRAHAM:  Yes— 

(ED  WYNN,  Spud  Program.) 


BOB:  C'mere,  screwball 


who 


your 

FRANK:  Frankie  Parker.  Such  lan- 
guage! Whatever  school  did  you  come 
from? 

BOB:  Me?  I  went  to  Bedford  Reforma- 
tory. 

FRANK:  Bedford  Reformatory?  Why, 
that's  a  school  for  girls. 

BOB:  Yeah  .  .  .  that's  why  I  liked  it. 

(BOB  HOPE  and  FRANK  PARKER, 
Rippling  Rhythm  Program.) 

F,D:  In  the  ne.vt  reel  the  zvife  dies  and 
tii'o  months  later  the  husband  put  an 
epitaph  on  her  tombstone. 

GRAHAM:  Is  that  so?  Hozv  did  it 
read? 

ED:  "The  Light  of  My  Life  has  gone 
out  .  .  .  hut  1  struck  another  match." 
(ED  JFYNN,  Spud  Program.) 

ACTRESS:  WhaT makes  Jack  act  so 
grouchy  ? 

MARY  :  Oh,  he's  teething. 

ACTRESS:  Teething? 

MARY  :  Yes  .  .  .  they  keep  slipping  out! 

(MARY  LIVINGSTONE,  Jell-O  Pro- 
gram.) 

GIRL:  My  father  heard  your  program 
and  he  nearly  choked  to  death. 

EDDIE:  But  tny  dear — no  matter  how 
funny  it  zcus,  he  didn't  have  to  choke  to 

death ! 

GIRL:  No?  Well,  you  try  holding  your 
nose  for  a  half  hour! 

(EDDIE  CANTOR,  Texaco  Program.) 

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False-face!" — your  powder  may  scream  out 
if  you  chose  it  a  month  ago  or  chose  it  to 
suit  you  m  a  certain  light.  "She  belongs  in 
the  circus!" — friends  may  whisper  behind 
your  back — all  because  your  skin  is  a  vastly 
different  color  in  sunlight  than  in  the  shade. 
It's  still  another  color  in  yellow  or  blue 
nightlights.  Winter's  blasts,  summer's  infra- 
red rays,  diet  and  general  health  all  change 
your  skin  color  constantly. 

But  if  you  tried  to  escape  that  "false- 
face"  powdery  look  by  buying  enough 
HARD-BASE  shades  to  keep  up  with  all 
your  changing  skin  colors,  you'd  be  spank- 
ing your  face  with  a  dozen  different  shades 
every  month. 

How  Can  "Balmite"  Help  You? 

No  beauty  counselor  could  give  you  more 
sincere  advice  than  this: — "Never  choose  a 
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shades  of  Lovely  Lady.  See  which  one  shade 
is  the  shade  you  can  depend  on  in  any  light, 
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"BALMITE"  shade  reveals  you  at  your 
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"Types"  and  "Name-Shades" 
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Avoid  the  risk  of  choosing  powder  by  "name- 
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And  often  a  "Brunette"  type  needs  a 
"Blonde"  shade,  and  a  "Blonde"  type  a 
"Brunette"  shade.  With  all  this  confusion 
it's  no  wonder  people  might  think  of  your 
face  powder  as  your  "false-face." 

Don't  "Mask"  Your  Natural  Charm 

Don't  "mask"  your  face  any  longer  with  a 
HARD-BASE  face  powder  that  "matches" 
your  skin  in  one  light  and  may  give  you  a 
"false-face"  in  another  light.  Send  for  all 
five  FREE  shades  of  Lovely  Lady  Face 
Powder  containing  "BALMITE" — my 
SOFT-BLEND  BASE  that  brings  out  so 
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color  beauty  and  charm  that  is  yours  alone. 


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When  Americans  gather  in  Paris,  Cannes  or  Elstree, 
the  first  question  is  often:  'Who's  got  a  Lucky?'  Here 
and  abroad  I  prefer  Luckies  because  my  work  demands 
that  my  throat  be  in  good  condition,  and  a  light  smoke 
helps  keep  it  up  to  par.  I  was  'converted'  to  Luckies 
five  years  ago  by  their  flavor,  but  found  that  my  throat 
appreciates  a  light  smoke."  — ^  ^ 

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Notice  how  many  professional  men  and 
women  —  lawyers,  doctors,  statesmen, 
etc.,  smoke  Luckies.  See  how  many 
leading  artists  of  radio,  stage,  screen 
and  opera  prefer  them.  Their  voices 
are  their  fortunes.  Doesn't  it  follow 


that,  if  Luckies  are  gentle  on  their  sen- 
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Pampers  her  skin  with  costly  lotions 
but  she  ignores  her  tender^  ailing  gums 


How  often  such  neglect  leads 
to  real  dental  tragedies . . . 
give  your  gums  the  benefit 
of  Ipana  and  Massage. 

PAT,  PAT,  go  her  deft  fingers— attend- 
ing to  the  imponant  business  of 
beauty.  Creams  and  lotions  to  aid  her 
skin— a  hundred  brush  strokes  nightly 
for  her  hair— those  are  details  she  never 
overlooks.  Arid  rightly  so!  Yet  how  little 
they  count,  when  her  lips  part  in  a  dull 
and  dingy  smile— smile  that  ruins  her 
loveliness,  destroys  her  charm. 

Yet  hers  might  be  a  smile,  radiant  and 


captivating— but  not  until  she  learns  the 
importance  of  healthy  gums  to  sound 
teeth— not  until  she  knows  the  meaning 
of  —  and  does  something  about  —  that 
warning  tinge  of  "pink"  on  her  tooth 
brush! 

Never  Ignore  "Pink  Tooth  Brush" 
"Pink  tooth  brush"  is  only  a  warning. 
But  if  ever  you  notice  it,  see  your  dentist. 
You  may  not  be  in  for  serious  trouble. 
Probably,  he'll  tell  you  that  modern  soft 
foods  are  to  blame— foods  that  deprive 
your  gums  of  necessary  stimulation. 
"More  work  and  exercise  for  those  ten- 
der, ailing  gums"  is  the  likely  verdict 


—and,  vet)'  often,  "the  helpful  stimula- 
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For  Ipana,  with  massage,  is  designed 
to  help  the  gums  as  well  as  keep  teeth 
bright  and  sparkling.  Massage  a  little 
extra  Ipana  into  your  gums  every  time 
you  brush  your  teeth.  Circulation  quick- 
ens in  the  gum  tissues  — gums  become 
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Don't  wait  for  the  warning  tinge  of 
"pink"  on  your  tooth  brush.  Start  today 
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LESTER  C.  GRADY,  Editor 

ETHEL  M.  POMEROY,  Associate  Editor 
ABRIL  LAMARQUE,  Art  Editor 

BROHDCflSTinC 

HOW  DICK  HIMBER  STEERS  CLEAR  OF  LOVE 

(Once  he  almost  committed  suicide  over  a  girl!  But  now — ) 

by  Mary  Watkins  Reeves  6 
il'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION— 

(Some  gay  reminiscences  of  Rudy's  Coronation  visit,  and  other  tales) 

by  Rudy  Vallee  16 
THE  GIRL  WHO  MIGHT  HAVE  OWNED  HOLLYWOOD 

(The  strange  story  ol  Virginia  Verrill) 

by  Faith  Service  22 

TALES  FROM  THE  REDWOOD 

( The  inimitable  W.  C.  Fields   explains  some  curious  circum- 

''^"<="'  by  Leo  Townsend  24 

GIRL  OF  THE  GOLDEN  WEST 

(What  is  the  secret  of  Nadine  Conner's  unfailing  success?) 

by  Nancy  Barrows  26 
THE  PHILOSOPHER  ON  THE  FLYING  TRAPEZE 

(The  Irish  wit  of  Walter  O'Keefe  in  a  bright  barrage) 

by  William  Vallee  30 
TOP  FLOOR,  PLEASE— AND  STARDOM! 

(What  happened  when  Fate  tapped  Dorothy  Lamour  on  the 

shoulder)   by  Miriam  Rogers  32 

PATTERN  FOR  LIVING 

(How  the  James  Meltons  solve  the  career  and  marriage  problem) 

by  Elizabeth  Benneche  Petersen  34 
SIR  GALAHAD  WARING 

{Fred  demands  of  his  Pennsylvanians  high  ideals  and  standards) 

by  Gladys  Hall  38 

A  TEMPERAMENTAL  GENIUS 

(Werner  Janssen — brilliant  genius,  or  living  discord?) 

by  Leslie  Eaton  40 

IRON  MEN 

( The  endurance  feats  of  radio's  Frank  Munn  and  baseball's 

Lou  Gehrig)  by  Tom  Meopy  42 

A  MOST  IMPORTANT  WOMAN  IN  HIS  LIFE 

(Concerning  the  friendship  of  Don  Ameche  and  Bernardine 

p'y"n)  by  Miriam  Gibson  44 

PGHTURGS  HHD  DGPHRTinGnTS 

Radio  Ramblings   8 

Radio  Stars  Cooking  School   10 

Around  the  Clock  with  Harry   12 

Beauty  Advice   14 

A  Date  with  Jerry  Cooper   18 

For  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio   21 

In  the  Radio  Spotlight   28 

Between  Broadcasts   36 

Coost-to-Coast  Program  Guide   47 

West  Coast  Chatter   56 

Ra'lid  Shirs  piiblislH'd  monthly  and  copyiitiliti'd.  I!i:i7.  hy  Dell  I'ublisliinf;  Co., 


resp()nsil>illty  fur 


of  unsolicited  material. 


TALC 

du     KERKOFF    •  PARIS 


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RADIO  STARS 


THE  MOVIE  SKY! 


Of  course,  the  brightest 
lights  announce  great 
M-G-M  attractions  com- 
ing soon  to  your  local 
theatre.  Here  are  just  a 
few,  starting  the  greatest 
New  Season  Hit  Festival 
in  amusement  history! 


RADIO  blARb 


W HOU)  DICK 
HimBeR  STBGRS 
CLGRR  OP  LOUB 


"I  don't  believe  in  love!" 
laughs  Dick  Himber,  to  Anne 
Graham.  "It's  a  combination 
of  moonlight  and  nonsense!" 

FIVE  years  ago  an  aslien-faced, 
hollow-eyed  yf>ung  man  shut  himself 
into  a  New  York  hotel  room,  dis- 
connected tlie  telciihoiie,  and  sat  for 
long  hours,  hi-^  luad  in  his  hands, 
staring  da/.edl  \  at  the  walls  and  carpet 
and  windows.  l''i\c  (la\s  he  closeted 
himself  in  that  room,  scarcely  s])eak- 
ing,  refusiiiL;  to  see  anyone.  lie 
wouldn't  eat  and  lie  couldn't  slcc]). 
His  two  lu-st  friends,  afi'aid  of  what 
he  might  do  if  lie  were  not  guarded, 
never  left  him  day  nor  night.  Me 
was  dangerously  beside  himself  with 
grief  and  des])air. 

The  lovely  girl  to  whom  he  had 
been  engaged  to  be  married  had 
eloped  with  someone  else,  just  a 
week  before  the  April  wedding  date 
they  had  set.  That  was  his  illness. 
And  it  had  gasherl  and  eaten  far 
deeper  into  his  flesh  than  any  sur- 
geon's knives  or  bacilli  could  ever 
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Handsome  Richard  Himber 
commands  his  life  as  efficient- 
ly as  he  commands  one  of 
radio's  top-notch  orchestras. 

invade.  Because  everything  in  the 
world  had  existed  for  him  in  that 
girl,  it  seemed  as  if  everything  for 
him  was  suddenly,  unexpectedly,  de- 
stroyed. 

On  the  sixth  day  Ivichard  Himber 
squared  his  slioulders,  walked  to  the 
windows  overlooking;  the  park,  and 
took  a  deep  breath  ui  the  gra\-  spring 
morning. 

"().  K.  fellows,"  he  said  cpiietly  to 
iiis  friends.  "Thanks  for  sticking 
with  me."  He  laughed  a  bitter  laugh, 
attemi)ting  banter.  "Boy  loses  girl! 
Take  a  lf)ok  at  the  ali-tinie  sucker!" 

Turning  fmalh'  from  the  windows, 
his  e\es  were  fexcrisli  with  a  new 
determination.  "It's  <  ).  K.  now,"  he 
repeated  dully,  "but  it'll  in  i'cr  liappcn 
again." 

The  other  afternoon  I  sat  in  a  sky- 
scrajjer  suite  of  offices,  talking  with 
a  red-headed  and   very  personable 


young  man  who  banged  a  pencil  on 
a  glass-topped  desk  and  answered 
pliones.  The  most  outstanding  thing 
about  this  man  was  not  that  he  com- 
mands one  of  the  top  radio  orches- 
tras, nor  that  his  eyes  were  gray  and 
laughing,  nor  that  his  shirt  sleeves 
were  rolled  U])  in  an  attack  on  moun- 
tains of  freshly-inked  music  that  he 
was  rapidly  dotting  with  notes  and 
clefs,  finishing  a  complicated  or- 
chestration while  he  did  a  dozen  other 
things  at  the  same  time.  The  most 
outstanding  thing  about  him  was  his 
utter  and  complete  cynicism.  A  cyn- 
icism so  a])])allingly  castial,  so  marked 
in  everything  he  said,  so  definitely  a 
part  of  him  that  it  might  as  well  be 
liis  ear  or  his  hand  or  his  smile. 

"If  you  write,"  Richard  Himber 
i^aid  to  me,  "that  1  almost  committed 
suicide  over  that  girl,  a  lot  of  people 
might  take  mc  for  a  sap.    But  it's  the 


ft  will  nev 
happen  again!" 
says  Himber 
stoutly  ^ 


guys  who  do  commit  suicide  over 
girls  that  are  saps  !" 

With  so  many  of  radio's  long-time 
bachelors  marrying  within  the  past 
year  or  so,  the  question  has  often 
been  raised  as  to  why,  or  how,  Dick 
Himber  has  remained  single  until 
thirty.  It  would  be  foolish  to  say 
that  a  man  of  Dick's  intelligence  is 
still  pining,  five  years  later,  over  a 
beautiful  society  heiress  who  cruelly 
jilted  him.  He's  not  pining.  He's 
quite  the  man-about-town. 

But  he's  taking  great  pains  to  see 
that  he  stays  the  man-about-town — 
unattached  and  fancy-free.  Ever 
since  that  joker  turned  up  in  the 
deck,  Dick's  been  playing  his  cards 
close  to  his  vest. 

"Look,"  he  said  to  me,  "one  of  the 
first  things  a  student  learns  in  psy- 
chology is  that  if  you  ring  a  bell 
every  time  {Continued  on  page  68) 


RADIO  STARS 

CINDERELLA  FROCKS  inspired  b 


New    Universal    Pictures'  Sta 


THEY'RE  IVORY-WASHABLE 

Back  to  school,  looking  pretty  as  a  pic- 
ture in  Deanna  Durbin  Fashions!  And 
they're  sensible,  too!  Every  print,  every 
gay  trimming  has  been  Ivory-Flakes 
tested  for  washability.  Follow  the  wash- 
ing instructions  tagged  to  every  Cinder- 
ella Frock  to  be  sure  colors  stay  bright 
as  new  through  a  whole  school  year. 

Psychologists  say:  'Teen-age  girls  should  look 
their  best.  It  creates  a  sense  of  well-being  .  .  . 
makes  studies  easier."  Give  your  daughter  lots 
of  these  delightful  Cinderella  Frocks.  Keep  them 
sparkling  with  frequent  Ivory  Flakes  tubbings. 


Ivory  Flakes  keep  fabrics  new  .  .  . 
colors  bright  .  .  .  because  they're  pure 


RADIO  STARS 


Char\es   >^  Lee,  Don 


J  Sanborn  re- 


RHDIO 
RHfnBLinCS 


Lily  Pons  recently  zvas  awarded  a  gar- 
meiif  designer's  prize  as  opera's  best- 
dressed  woman.  If  there  7cere  a  similar 
azvard  for  radio  studio  'zvardrohes,  in  gen- 
eral, the  fair  Lilv  zvould  find  sj^irifed  com- 
petition from  Jessica  Dragonetle.  These 
two  are  the  most  gorgeously  and  tastefully 
go2vned  stars  of  the  air  zvhcn  they  arrive 
for  a  broadcast. 

Miss  Dragonette  does  not  stay  too 
closely  to  any  one  style  of  dress,  but 
usually  she  wears  fluffy,  girlislilv  feminine 
creations,  admiral )ly  suited  t(j  set  off  her 
delicate  beauty  and  tiny  size.  Miss  Pons 
leans  toward  styles  in  kcei)inq  with  her 
Gallic  vivacity — l)rilliant  and  ,<^av  colors 
and  frerincntly  an  abundance  of  sjiectacu- 
larlv  ,<^litterin;4'  jewelry.  ( )ccasi(inall\-  she 
wears  a  heavy  diamond  hracelel,  ils  \alue 
rvuming  well  into  the  thousands.  That 
always  is  the  cynosure  of  all  feminine 
eyes  in  the  studio 
uulience. 


Mischa  Auer,  De- 
anna  Durbin  and 
Adolphe  Men- 
jou,  in  the  Uni- 
versal nnovie,  700 
Men  and  a  Girl. 


Incidentally,  nearly 
all  laurels  for  well- 
dressed  women  of 
radio  would  go  to  the 


RADIO  STARS 


Along  the  airlanes 
from  coast  to  coast 
gathering  gossip  and 
last-minute  news 


stars  in  New  York  studios.  Holly- 
wood studio  dress  is  much  more 
casual  and  informal.  Many  a  Holly- 
wood studio  audience  watches  song- 
stresses and  actresses  work  in  slacks. 
Some  sort  of  sport  clothes  is  the  rule 
out  there. 

Kate  Sniitli's  manager  and  an- 
nouncer, Ted  Collins,  sat  in  a  con- 
trol-room listening  to  his  charge,  as 
she  sang  as  guest  star  on  Richard 
Himber's  program.  For  the  last 
chorus  of  one  song,  Kate  swung  into 
a  livelier  tempo  zvhich  she  beat  for 
the  orchestra  herself,  adding  a  huskv 
note  to  her  voice — and  there  you  had 
a  good  example  of  the  style  of  sing- 
ing zi'hich  used  to  be  called  "coon 
shoutin'."  Collins  looked  surprised 
and  then  burst  into  laughter. 

-♦- 

"Kate  loves  to  sing  that  way,"  he 
explained,  "but  we  very  seldom  let 
her  do  it  on  her  own  program.  Her 
real  appeal  is  in  her  ballad  singing 
and  we  steer  away  from  that  shout- 
ing style.     (Continued  on  page  86) 


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to  have  Smooth, Supple  Skin 


with  Tomi 
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Tee  Cold  Cream?  » 


A  FEW  WEEKS  AFTER: 

"EDITH,  you're  one  girl  I 
can  always  count  on  to 
look  lovely.  Your  skin's 
so  soft,  I'm  tempted  to 
kiss  you  here  and  now!" 

This  Germ-free  Cold  Cream  Helps 
Guard   from   Blemish,  Dryness 
.  .  .  now  contains  Vitamin  D  to  Aid 
Skin  Breathing 

YOU'LL  know  that  Woodbury's  Germ- 
free  Cold  Cream  is  best  for  your  com- 
plexion by  the  flattering  results.  You'll  see 
your  skin  become  smoother,  freer  from 
blemishes  .  .  .  more  radiantly  alive. 

The  special  ingredient  that  keeps  this 
cream  germ-free,  destroys  germs  on  your 
skin  ...  the  cause  of  many  blemishes. 

And  now  Woodbury's  Cold  Cream  con- 
tains Sunshine  Vitamin  D  to  stimulate  the 
skin  to  breathe.  Quick-breathing  skin  is 
young  skin.  While  the  cells  take  up  oxygen 
at  a  rapid  rate,  the  day  when  aging  lines 
show  up  in  your  face  is  being  postponed. 

Use  this  lovely  cold  cream  at  night  to 
soften  your  skin.  During  the  day  use 
Woodbury's  Germ-free  Facial  Cream  to 
hold  make-up  smoothly.  Each  cream  $1.00, 
50c.  25c,  10c  in  jars;  25c,  10c  in  tubes. 

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RHDIO  STARS  COOKIHG 


GEORGE  and  Gracie  and  Sandra 
and  Ronnie!  Therc'^  a  "fmirsonic" 
for  you.  to  warm  the  nu  klcs  nf  your 
heart — a  happy,  loxin-  laniily  .^rou]), 
which  would  sctw  Xn  rcrslahli.sh  the 
faith  of  even  the  ni(j>t  conlirnied 
skeptic  in  the  vahie  of  the  home  as  an 
institution. 

If  you  could  step  willi  me  across 
the  threshold  of  the  P.urns  and  Allen 
white  Colonial  house,  you'd  under- 
stand imniediatel\  wliat  I  mean. 
You'd  feel  at  muc  that  the  very  at- 
mosphere is  charged  with  a  joyous, 
friendly  spirit.  One  a  trille  luetic, 
too,  I  found,  for  everyhodv  talked  at 
once  and  everybody  lau^lied  a  lot. 
There  was  a  gay  rushing  hitlier  and 
yon.  which  finally  pro\  ided  this  food- 
conscious  interviewer  with  the  swell 
picture  you  see  here,  and  with  lots 
of  data  on  the  vastly  important  part 
children  play  in  creating  a  happy 
home.  It  all  seemed,  however,  to 
portend  a  rather  meagre  crop  of 
recipe  material — the  real  purpose  of 
my  visit.  But,  nevertheless,  I  did 
collect  for  my  files,  and  for  yours,  too, 
of  course,  a  marvelous  mousse  recipe, 
a  grand  milk  shake  suggestion  (or 
frosted  drink,  if  you  prefer),  and  a 
tapioca  treat — which  I  have  aug- 
mented with  a  quick  des.sert  sugges- 
tion of  my  own.  A  wonderful  crop 
of  hot  weather  sweets,  all  of  these 
— prepared  in  a  jiffy,  with  a  mini- 

A  delicious,  summery  dessert,  long 
a  favorite  with  George  and  Gracie, 
this  Grape-Nuts  Mousse,  for  which 
our  hostess  supplies  the  recipe. 
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mum  of  effort,  which  is  sure  to  make 
them  popular.  For,  after  all,  it's  not 
only  ])ardonable  but  sensible  to  do 
things  "the  easy  way,"  when  the  ther- 
mometer starts  climbing  to  record  and 
enervating  heights. 

I'm  gi\ing  \uu  all  of  these  rccijies 
farther  ahmg — on  page  to  l>e  exact 
— and  I'll  also  tell  ynu  more  about 
them  before  I  "sign  off."  But  just 
ne)w  I  want  to  get  back  to  our  little 
family  gathering,  out  in  Beverly 
Hills. 

Long  known  as  one  of  the  most 
devoted  couples  in  the  entire  radio 
])rofession,  (]eorge  Burns  and  Grace 
Allen  also  are  considered  the  most 
loving  of  parents.  So  great  is  their 
affection,  so  sincere  the  joy  they  find 


in  the  companior.ship  of  the  darling 
boy  and  girl  they  have  adopted  (now 
aged  two  and  three  respectively)  that 
they  don't  go  in  extensively  for  enter- 
taining, though  certainly  they  are 
equipped  for  the  most  elaborate 
parties,  with  their  beautifully  fur- 
nished house,  its  lovely  gardens  and 
delightful  swimming-pool.  But  they 
really  get  most  of  their  fun  and  rela.x- 
ation  out  of  their  life  with  Roiuiie 
and  Sandra — eating  with  them  out-of- 
doors  in  the  i)atio,  where  xou  see  them 
picttnx'd  ;  joining  with  them  in  noisy 
games  in  the  garden  playhouse,  or 
romping  with  them  in  the  nursery, 
with  its  si)ccial  sleei)ing-porch  and 
playroom  combined.  Young  sovereigns 
of  all  they  survey  are  these  fortunate 


RADIO  STARS 


George  and  Gracie  delight  to  eat 
with  their  children,  Ronnie  and 
Sandra,  out  of  doors  in  the  patio 
of  their  charming  Hollywood  home. 

BY  NANCY 
WOOD 

By  popular  demand. 


Burns  and  Allen  play 


a  return  engagement 


SCHOOL 


youngsters,  with  the  two  famous 
Grape-Nuts  of  the  Air  happily  assum- 
ing the  roles  of  their  court  jesters, 
amusinsj  them,  catering  to  their  child- 
ish wishes  and  finding  their  pleasure 
and  reward  in  watching  their  children 
develo]-)  along  natural,  healthv  lines. 

Other  parents  will.  I'm  sure,  think 
of  this  as  an  added  hond  between 
themselves  and  this  justly  popular 
pair  of  radio  favorites.  And  though 
few  of  us  can  provide  the  special  ad- 
vantages that  screen  and  I'adio  stars 
can  give  to  their  children,  those  are 
really  only  the  extra  trimmings.  The 
fundamental  requirements  are  what 
really  count,  and  these  are  the  .same 
the  country  over,  regardless  of  climate 
or  income. 

This  is  especially  true  with  children 
who,  like  Sandra  and  Ronnie,  are  still 
under  school  age.  The  rules  that 
govern  their  lives  in  these  early  but 
important  and  formative  years,  fortu- 
nately, are  extremely  simple.  So.  if 
there  is  a  young  child  in  your  familv, 
give  your  careful  consideration  to 
these  rules  the  year  around,  and  pay 
particular  attention  to  them  in  the  hot 
weather. 

First:  Observe  a  regular  routine. 
That  means  meals  at  specified  hours. 
A  daily  bath  in  the  morning  in  winter, 
with  a  sponge-off  at  niglit ;  supple- 
mented, in  summer,  by  three  or  four 
sponge  baths  for  small  babies.  A 
special  time  for  play  and  exercise  and 
for  sun  baths  is  important.  Also 
plenty  of  unbroken  sleep  at  night, 
with  a  daily  nap  period  besides. 

Second:  Give  your  children  plenty 
{Continued  on  page  59)  j 


aa^^vely  ""f  sunshine.  Lacy  ever- 

sKngle.  ^^^-•'.f  "  r.in^o.s.  T.0  tail  el.s 

srnatnrr.a:.r.r..a.n.s.... 


  Those  who  enter 


criticized  m 


INSIDE  —  ■^'"°^l""^„::s'were  charmingly  deco- 
^l^^lri:^^^  perfect  taste 


rated.  Colonial  furna 


r;sron%rsS  :arra.-;as  ..on., 


»lndo».  Quaint 


instead  of  spoiling 
and  see  how  easy  it  is  to. 


COPR.  PELS  »  CO  ,  1937 
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RADIO  STARS 


TESTS  2  TALCUMS 


See  vivacious  KATHERINE  DE  MILLEin 
•  The  Cahlornian" — 20th  Century-Fox 

Finds  "X"  More  Flattering 

Katherine  de  Mille  tries  both  powders  in 
plain  white  boxes.  She  likes  both,  but 
prefers  "X" — the  original  MAVIS,  fully- 
scented.  Other  lovely  stars  choose  "Y" — 
the  new  MAVIS,  mildly  scented. 
MAVIS  flatters  your  skin  like  a  glamorous 
face  powder.  Spreads  evenly— clings  for 
hours — leaves  a  bewitching  fragrance  that 
lasts.'  MAVIS  safeguards  summer  daintiness 
and  makes  clothes  slip  on  much  more  easily. 

NEW!  MILDLY  SCENTED  MAVIS 
Created  for  the  woman  who  prefers  a  subtly 
perfumed  talcum.  33-hole  needle-spray  top 
showers  body  with  light  film  of  powder  more 
effectively  than  old-fashioned  powder  puffs, 
rnrr  Generous  size  trial  package.  Ask 
r  nLL  for  either  regular  or  mildly 
scented  MAVIS.  Write  to  Vivaudou,  Dept. 
72.  Long  Island  City,  N.Y.  Offer  not  good 
after  Sept.  25.  Get  your  FREE  MAVIS  now! 

Finer  Than  Most  Face  Powders 


RROUHD  THE  CLOCK  UIITH 

Streamlined  hours  with  M.  C.  Von  Zell 


Ho-Hum!  Another  day!  Harry  Von  Zell  risks  one  eye  at  the  clock 
as  he  sleepily  turns  off  the  alarm.  Time  to  be  up  and  doing, 
if  he  would  shoot  that  eighteen  holes  of  golf  before  rehearsal. 


With  a  nifty  gadget  to  hold 
the  morning  paper,  Harry  gulps 
the  news  with  his  breakfast. 


And  now,  a  change  of  clothes  in 
his  bag,  he  kisses  Mickey,  (Mrs. 
Harry  Von  Zell)  a  fond  goodbye. 


His  partner  in  the  match  is  one 
Harry  MacNaughton,  known  to 
radio  as  Phil  Baker's  man,  Boffle. 


Then  to  his  desk,  in  the  CBS 
studio,  where  he  studies  script 
and  score  for  the  broadcast. 


RADIO  STARS 


HflRRV.  .  . 

of  the  Gulf  Program 


Scrape!  Scrape!  goes  the  razor. 
For  a  man  must  look  his  best, 
even   if  he   is  already  married! 


Off  to  the  links  in  his  stream- 
lined car  for  a  session  at  golf 
at    his    favorite    country  club. 


"Cut!"  warns  orchestra  leader 
Oscar  Bradley,  and  Harry  looks 
at  his  watch  and  mops  his  brow. 


How  could  he 
tell  her 


How  could  he  say— "You've  been 
careless  about  feminine  hygiene"? 
Husbands  can't  be  expected  to 
know  about  "Lysol". 

IT  WOULD  be  SO  much  easier,  she  thought, 
if  he'd  burst  into  a  rage,  instead  of 
tiiis  indifferent  kindness  that  hurt  her  so. 

Family  doctors — and  too  many  hus- 
bands—know that  one  of  the  causes  of 
discord  between  husband  and  wife  is 
neglect  of  the  feminine  hygiene  that 
is  so  necessary  for  intimate  cleanliness. 

If  you  are  in  any  doubt  regarding  a 
wholesome,  cleanh'  tnt-rliod  ot  temmine 
hygiene,  ask  your  doctor  about  "Lx  soi" 
disinfectant.  It  is  recommended  b\  many 
physicians  and  is  used  in  many  hospitals, 


for  many  antiseptic  needs.  Here  are  good 
reasons  why: 

THE  6  SPECIAL  FEATURES  OF  "LYSOL" 


the 


It 

2.  EnKCnVFNI 
gcrmuidr.  activt 
in  tin-  prt  si  ncc  ( 
mucus,  si  l  urii,  c 
int'cctaius  mav 


proi 

.■tt'ict 


ysol"  sol 
tension,  aiul  tin 


spread 


tii:ill\-        r,  .':       ■  m  t  ins. 

4.  I;cii\  i\i-i  ■' I  \  s'll",  because  it  is  concc-n- 
ttarcil,  ci>sis  li  ss  rh.in  one  cent  an  apiilicatlon 
in  the  ptopet  solution  lor  leminine  hygiene. 

5.  Odor  .  .  .  Cleanly,  disappears  after  use. 

6.  Stmui  ri  V. .  ."Lysol"  kee|)s  its/w// strength 
no  niattei  how  long  kept, or  how  often  uncorked. 

FACTS    ALL    WOMEN    SHOULD  KNOW 

1    I  MN    \    llSK    l'l,.  l,,,t.    Cu.p.,  Dcpt.y-R.S. 


.ISC  siiul  n.c  the  hook  called  "LYSOL 
vs.  GERMS",  with  facts  ahoiit  leminine 
hysiene  anil  other  uses  of  "Lysol". 


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13 


Beauty  authorities  agree  that  the  most  im- 
portant step  in  the  rare  of  ycjur  eoinplexion 
is  thorough  cleansing.  It's  a  simple  step, 
too,  since  Daggett  &  Ramsdell  created 
Golden  Cleansing  Cream. 

For  this  new  cream  contains  colloidal 
gold  ...  a  substance  with  a  remarkable 
power  for  toning  and  invigorating  the  skin. 
You  can't  see  or  feel  this  colloidal  gold, any 
more  than  you  can  see  or  feel  the  iron  in 
spinach.  Yet  its  penetrating  action  not  only 
makes  (iolden  (Heansing  Cream  a  more 
efficient  cleanser  .  .  .  but  aids  in  keeping 
the  complexion  clear  and  youthful. 

Try  (iolden  Cleansing  Oeam  tonight. 
See  how  fresh  and  vitally  alive  it  leaves 
your  skin.  At  leading  drug  and  department 
9tores-$1.00. 


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BBRUTV  HDUiCe 

Suggestions  for  solving  the  fag- 
end  of  summer  beauty  problems 


SOME  say  that  l)lessins^s  come  sint^dy — l)ut  I'd  say  they 
come  in  thirties !     Witness  the  FhW  Spitalny  All-Girl 
Orchestra!     These  l)eautiful   and  talented   girls  stepped 
riyht  down  from  their  dais  just  in  time  to  save  one  poor, 
weary  beauty  editor  from  a  nervous  breakdown! 

You  know  only  too  well  that  the  seasons  divide  them- 
selves into  their  own  problems — and  that  there  is  no  .season 
as  vexatious  as  the  "taq-end  of  summer."  You  tell  me  you 
are  bored  and  disijusted  and  feel  that  you  are  looking 
com])k'tely  frazzled.  F.ut  until  the  thirty  girls  of  the  Phil 
Spitalny  Orchestra  came  to  my  rescue  it  seemed  impossible 
to  cover  all  the  (|uestions  perj^lexing  you. 

But.  here  I  have  a  g,  ou])  of  girls  with  problems  such  as 
yours  or  mine,  concerning  the  round  face  or  the  long,  the 
olive  complexic.i  or  the  magnolia,  the  skinny  or  fat  figure, 
curlilocks  or  s.raight  hair!  Ilere  is  a  group  of  girls  with 
evcrv  kind  of  c'\ rryday  ])r(ibk'iii  already  solved!  (Booking 
agents  and  sponsors  rate  the  attractiveness  of  the  members 


The  Hour  of  Charm 
girls  live  up  to 
their  name.  Lovely 
Gertrude  Bogord  is 
a  typical  example. 


Gertrude  Bogard, 
flower  of  Texas, 
attributes  her 
petal-bloom  skin 
to  cream,  inside 
as  well  as  out. 


14 


B  Y 

MARY  BIDDLE 


of  The  Hour  of  Chann  as  one  of 
its  biggest  assets  ! ) 

A1)out  the  most  striking  asset 
of  tb.is  group  is  its  complexion! 
Collectively  and  individually  these 
girls  have  lovely  skins.  I  asked 
that  flower  of  Texas,  Gertrude 
Bogard,  who  plays  the  electric 
guitar,  piano,  xylo])hone  and 
banjo,  how  such  ]ietal-blossom 
skins  are  acquired.  Slie  speaks  for 
the  group  and,  although  her  words 
are  drawled,  the  effect  of:  "We 
believe  in  cream  inside  and  cream 
outside,"  is  startling  enough — un- 
til she  exi:)lains  further  that  this 
means  cold  cream  outside  and  un- 
skimmed milk  to  drink.  Milk  with 
cream,  taken  internally,  works 
miracles  with  the  skin. 

Maxine  Marlowe,  the  band's 
vocalist,  and  considered  one  of 
outstanding  beauties  of  the  group, 
(Continued  on  page  66) 


RADIO  STARS 


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Don't  be  a  Chrysanthemum! 


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It  isn't  enough  just 
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.  .  .  the  glamour  girls 
all  have  that  well- 
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ike  wings  .  .  .  lonj 
LENE  is  a  scientifi 


Spell  eye  beauty, 
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To:  Jane  Heath,  Dept.  D-Q 

The  Kurlash  C  o.,  Itwhester,  N,  Y. 

The  Kurlash  Co.  of  Canada,  at  Toronto.  S 

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1\ 

BV 

RUDV 
URLLGG 


WINCHELL  goes  to  Hollywood. 
Flash!  Comes  his  column  from 
Hollywood !  Louis  Sobol  goes  to 
Hollywood  or  Palm  Springs.  Boom! 
Comes  his  column  from  the  West 
Coast.  Ed  Sullivan  goes  to  Wash- 
ington or  Florida  or  Ireland  and  his 
column  is  date-lined  from  one  of 
those  places. 

]\'hcn  this — aJicin — coluuinisl  set 
sail  for  London,  he  was  well  aT^'arc 
that  ffcryoiic  expected  liiiii  to  date 
his  column  from  London,  or  at  least 
to  talk  about  it.  At  first  he  -mis  (joing 
to  he  different,  but  on  second  thought 
decided  to  follozv  the  sanctified  pro- 
cedure of  his  fellow  conspirators  and 
to  render  a  few  observations  and 
opinions  on  the  British  Isles. 

The  trip,  to  me,  was  more  than 
just  a  casual  trip  to  Europe.  Filled 
as  it  was  with  the  prospect  of  pro- 
ducing two  major  broadcasts  from 
London  to  America,  during  one  of 
the  greatest  coronations  in  English 
history,  it  was  also  by  way  of  being  a 
personal  triumph. 

Some  of  you  may  have  read  that 
I  played  in  London  several  years  ago 
at  the  Savoy  Hotel.  The  Savoy  is  a 
favorite  rendezvous  for  .^nlericans 
and  many  Continentals.  There  is  no 
hotel  in  the  world  (luite  like  it.  In 


Rudy  pictured  at  the  beach 
with  former  New  York  City 
Magistrate,  Hyman  Bushel. 
Besides  being  Rudy's  lawyer, 
Hymie  comes  in  for  a  lot  of 
kidding  about  his  "old  age." 


Neighbor  Gladys  Swarthout 

fact,  it  is  more  than  an  hotel — it  is 
an  institution. 

You  may  haz'c  read  that  I  went 
there  7i'ith  a  college  band,  during  a 
summer  -c'dcation.  For  the  sake  of 
the  record,  let  me  relate  the  facts 
concerning  my  engagement  at  the 
Sirz'oy  Hotel  back  in  1924 — some 
thirteen  years  ago.  The  musical  di- 
rector of  the  six  bands  under  tlie 
mdiKigemeut  of  the  directors  of  the 
Sii7'()\'  Hotel  heard  of  me  through 
some  lUtslon  musicians  then  playing 
in  London,  and.  on  the  strength  of 
these  recommendations,  made  me  a 
handsome  offer  of  $150  a  week.  As 


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RADIO  STARS 


opinion 

Gay  reminiscences 
of  days  in  London, 
the  Coronation,  and 
other  experiences 


soon  as  they  discovered  that  my 
heart  zvas  set  on  transferring  from 
the  University  of  Maine  to  Yale,  they 
countered  zi'ith  the  suggestion  that  I 
could  study  at  London  U nivcrsity. 

I  could  not  help  but  feel  mighty 
pleased  with  this  offer — in  view  of 
the  fact  that  I  had  played  the  saxo- 
phone for  only  one  year.  However, 
I  remained  steadfast  in  my  desire  to 


enter  Yale  and  did  so  in  the  fall  of 
1922,  After  two  years  of  hard  study, 
complicated  by  many  musical  en- 
gagements at  Yale,  and  upon  again  be- 
ing pressed  to  accept  the  Savoy  en- 
gagement, I  decided  to  do  so.  My 
plans  were  to  take  a  year  out  of  Yale 
to  visit  the  places  I  had  only  read 
about  in  English  literature;  to  save 
what  I  could  of  my  salary  to  return 
to  Yale;  to  take  fewer  dance  engage- 
ments upon  my  return  to  New  Haven 
than  I  had  felt  obliged  to  accept 
before,  in  order  to  meet  expenses; 
to  be  able  to  attend  extra  lectures 
and,  once  in  a  while,  to  chum  around 
with  some  of  my  classmates. 

{Continued  on  page  90) 


Neighbor  Bea  Lillie 


Looking  not  at  all  as  they  sound  on 
their  Lum  and  Abner  programs,  Ches- 
ter Lauck  and  Norris  Goff  adopt  a 
pair  of  stogies,  instead  of  the  corncob 
pipes  you  expect  to  see  them  smoking. 
They  are  heard  at  7:30  P.M.  EDST 
on  NBC — Blue. 


Glare-PnsofI 


to  flatter  pu  in 
hard  sunlight 


Summer  Brunette 
Sunlight  (lighti 
Sunlight  (dark) 

This  year  Pond's  has  three  "Sunlight" 
shades!  Choose  your  shade  according  to 
your  tan.  Blended  to  catch  only  the  softer 
rays  of  the  sun.  Pond's  "Sunlight"  Shades 
soften  the  hard  glare  of  the  sun  on  your 
face.  Flatter  you  outdoors  and  in! 
Try  them  at  our  expense.  Or  buy  a  box, 
and  if  you  do  not  find  it  more  flattering 
than  ordinary  sun-tan  shades,  send  us 
hack  the  box,  and  we  will  refund  purchase 
price  plus  postage.  Decorated  screw-top 
jars,  35i,  70L  New  big  boxes,  10?,  20?. 


Test  them  FREE!  in  glaring  Sunlight 

Ponil's.Climon, Conn. .Dept.  9RS-PJ.  Hleine  ru3:i  iiu-.lr 
Pon.i'9  3  now  "Sunlight"  Shades,  enough  ul"  .  arh  f..r  a  ; 
day  test.  (This  offer  expires  .\ov.  1.  1937) 


CopyriKht.  1937.  Pond's  Extract  C 


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RADIO  STARS 


H  DHTG  UllTH 
JBRRV  C00P9R 

Jerry  Cooper,  Hollywood  Hotel 
baritone,  gives  a  girl  a  whirl 


Af  last  she  comes! 
Joy  Hodges,  singing 
star  of  Joe  Penner's 
SundayCSS  programs, 
greets  Jerry  at  the 
famous  Brown  Derby. 

Inside,  two  hungry 
singers  order  their 
luncheon,  as  the 
waiter  offers  tempt- 
ing suggestions  for 
a  succulent  repast. 


Afterward,  Joy  re- 
linquishes the  wheel 
to  Jerry,  to  back 
the  car  out  of  the 
parking  lot,  and  the 
two  start  off  again. 

They  decide  to  take 
in  a  matinee  at 
Grauman's  famous 
Chinese  Theatre.  The 
ticket-taker  recog- 
nizes the  two  stars. 


It  was  a  grand  show! 
In  high  spirits  Joy 
and  Jerry  come  out, 
arm  in  arm.  "A  grand 
guy  to  have  a  date 
with!"   thinks  Joy. 

But  all  good  dates 
must  come  to  an  end! 
Jerry  grins  goodbye 
at  Joy,  as  she  drops 
him  at  the  door  of 
CBS  Radio  Playhouse. 


C  1937.  N.K.  A.  S.Tvic.-.  In."  ^ 

TO  KEEP  YOUR  OWN  COMPLEXION  ALWAYS  LOVELY.  ^ 
USE  THIS  BEAUTY  SOAP  CHOSEN  FOR  THE  QUINS  flBj 


DRESSED  UP  AND  READY  TO  GO 

...BE  SURE  YOU'RE  WEARING- 

G  L  A  Z  O'S  -  yiz/^M^'^/M 


FOR  that  Memorable  Moment ...  that 
Occasion  demanding  yourmost glam- 
orous gown,  your  carefullest  grooming, 
let  one  of  Glazo's  "Misty"  nail  polish 
colors  climax  your  charm. 

Choose  one  of  these  debonair  new 
shades ..  .Thistle,  Old  Rose,  Russet  and 
Suntan,  Rust,  Dahlia.  Imperial  Red,  or 


Shell,  Flame,  Natural.  Among  them  there 
are  bound  to  be  the  perfect  colors  for 
}o«...to  flatter  your  own  skin-tone,  to 
blend  with  your  choser^  fabrics. 

Watch  your  hands  bloom  into  new, 
exciting  beauty!  Discover  how  poised, 
how  sure  of  yourself  you  feel... con- 
scious that  you  are  looking  your  love- 


liest. Wearing  Glazo's  misty,  smoky  tints, 
you're  Right  to  your  Fingertips! 

Smooth  as  a  debutante's  chatter  is 
Glazo  on  the  nail.  Its  satin  lustre  doesn't 
fade,  doesn't  peel.  And  how  Glazo  does 
solve  that  "thickening"  nuisance!  The 
last  drop  in  that  thrifty  2  5 -cent  bottle 
goes  on  as  easily,  as  perfectly,  as  the  first. 


GLAZO 


RUSSET  ^  rnisty  red.  with  subtle  brown 
undertone.  Becoming  to  almost 
every  type  of  skin.  Enchanting  with  light 
dark  colors  ...No  chipping  ...No  peeling. 


I 


c 


Hollywood,  and  you 
immediately  conjure 
up  a  picture  of  the 
celebrated  columnist, 
Walter  Winchell, 
who  airs  his  Flashes 
over  the  NBC-Blue 
network  each  Sunday 
at  9:30  p.m.,  EDST. 
under  sponsorship 
of  Jergens  Lofion. 


POR  DiSTIRGUISHGD 
CGRUICe  TO  RHDIO 


As  a  newspaper  columnist,  Walter  Winchell  created  a  distinct  style  for  being 
both  informative  and  entertaining.  He  did  the  same  thing  when  he  became  a  radio 
commentator.    And,  as  before,  he  had  many  imitators. 

In  person  or  in  print,  he  never  is  ordinary,  never  bores,  always  has  a  new  slant, 
never  fails  to  get  the  inside  track  and  never  is  without  his  sense  of  humor  and 
fair  play.  That  "imitation  is  the  sincerest  form  of  flattery"  should  be  consolation  to 
him.    Columnists  may  thank  him  for  the  prestige  their  position  now  enjoys. 

His  broadcast  always  abounds  in  fact  and  enthusiasm.  Flash  is  certainly  its 
keynote.    It's  the  quickest  fifteen-minute  program  you  can  listen  to. 

Walter  Winchell  is  much  more  than  a  good  reporter  and  commentator.  He  is 
a  genuine,  topnotch  crusader.  He  has  started  more  sensible  movements  than  the 
average  reader  or  listener  realizes.  And,  what's  more,  he's  seen  his  efforts  rewarded. 
His  pointed  humor  and  sarcasm  have  been  belittled,  but  they  have  accomplished  big 
things.  Every  ounce  of  him  a  Broadwayite,  he  definitely  is  a  sentimental  small-towner 
at  heart.  He  has  worked  tirelessly  for  his  success.  And  he  still  has  the  drive,  pep  and 
vitality  that  put  him  on  top.    It's  especially  evident  in  his  dynamic  broadcasts. 

News  always  is  interesting  on  the  air.  Walter  Winchell  has  the  gift  of  high-light- 
ing it  in  dramatic  fashion.  He's  been  misunderstood,  misquoted,  ridiculed,  maligned 
and  even  assaulted,  but  he  courageously  refuses  to  be  anybody  but  Walter  Winchell. 

To  Walter  Winchell,  an  outstanding  credit  to  radio  and  journalism,  Radio  Stars 
Magazine  awards  its  Medal  for  Distinguished  Service  to  Radio. 


r  It 


EDITOR. 


SHE  looks  like  a  smaller,  darker  edition  of  Myrna  Loy, 
in  La  Loy's  more  exotic  moments.  Everywhere  she  goes 
she  is  taken  for  Myrna,  and  no  one  will  believe  different. 
She  was  dining  at  the  Brown  Derby,  on  one  occasion,  with 
Bums  and  Allen.  John  Barrymore  and  his  Ariel  sat  in 
an  adjoining  booth.  Virginia  beheld  a  determined-looking 
woman,  autograph  book  in  hand,  barging  in  her  direction. 
Modest,  she  supposed  that  the  autographophile  was 
Barrymore-bound.  But  no.  The  woman  stopped  at  the 
Verrill  table,  said  briskly:  "Miss  Loy,  may  I  have  your 
autograph,  please  ?"  Virginia  explained,  with  suitable  and 
sincere  regrets,  that  she  was  not  Miss  Loy.  "Oh,  yes, 
you  are,"  said  the  woman,  very  crossly.  Virginia  pro- 
tested. Burns  and  Allen  rallied  to  the  defense.  The 
woman  expostulated.  And  the  probable  result  was  the 
loss  of  one  Loy  fan.  For  the  lady  flounced  away,  in- 
dignant and  unconvinced. 

She  is  twenty,  is  Virginia.  She  lives,  with  her  mother, 
here  in  Hollywood.  And  she  never  has  been  in  love.  Nor 
even  thought  she  was  in  love.  She's  never  had  so  much 
as  a  crush.    Her  heart  has  never  gone  pit-a-pat.  She 


doesn't,  she  says,  think  that  love  is  "very  pretty."  SI 
has  read  the  poets  but  she  has,  also,  gazed  upon  a  fen 
facts  and  finds  them  rather  horrid. 

She  is  a  compound  of  a  child  of  twenty  and  a  wc 
twice  twenty.   And  somehow,  and  quite  without  meanit 
to,  she  quickens  pity  in  the  heart. 

She  is  a  child  who  loves  to  go  to  the  movies  (Myrna 
Joel  McCrea,  Miriam  Hopkins  and  Bette  Davis  are  he 
"favorites")  and  get  an  ice-cream  soda  afterwards.  And 
have  her  chum,  Flo,  the  only  chum  she  has  ever  had,  to 
spend  the  night  with  her.  She  gets  a  big  kick  out  of 
having  a  new  car  "of  my  own"  and  she  is  thrilled  whenj 
she  can  buy  a  "little  import."  She  thinks  Jack  Benny] 
is  "simply  wonderful,"  and  her  other  favorite  radio  pro-j 
gram  is  the  March  of  Time.  She  never  takes  a  drink. 
And  smokes  infrequently  and  rather  amateurishly. 

And  she  is  a  woman  who  has  looked  on  the  face  of  Life! 
without  its  pretty  chiffon  veil  and  has  found  it  sadly  dis- 
illusioning.   She  is  completely  without  vanity,  finding 
hard  to  believe  that  people  are  attracted  to  her  for  her- 
self alone. 


THG  GIRL  lUHG  miGHT 


Virginia  Verrill 
looks  like  a 
smaller,  darker 
edition  of  Myrna 
Loy.  She  lives 
witn  her  mother 
in  Hollywood. 
She  has  sung  { 
for  night  clubs 
and  "dubbed  in" 
for  movie  stars, 
as  wel  I  as  on 
radio  programs. 
Now  she  is  on 
the  Show  Boaf. 
She  was,  she 
thinks,  born 
knowing  music. 
She  is  twenty,  i 
and  never  has 
been  in  love! 
"I  won't  fall  in 
love,"  she  says. 
"I  won't  marry 
for  at  least 
five  years!  I 
may  not  have 
inherited  Holly- 
wood, but  I  hove 
inherited  mv 
own  heart!' 


'  I  And  she  might  have  owned  Hollywood !  Whereby 
lings  a  story  as  strange  as  any  teller  of  fiction  tales  ever 
lis  told. 

I  For,  many  years  ago,  her  maternal  grandfather,  B.  C. 
I  dwards,  came  into  Hollywood,  then  a  desert,  in  a  covered 
I  agon.  He  came  from  Mississippi,  having  been  driven 
lut  by  the  floods.  With  him  were  his  wife,  his  children, 
lis  household  goods  and  fifteen  Negro  slaves.  He  settled 
I  n  the  very  site  now  famous  as  the  Hollywood  Bowl.  And 
lie  staked  out  his  undisputed  claims  to  what  is  now  most 
Itf  Hollywood.  C.  E.  Toberman,  later,  and  still,  I  believe, 
l)ne  of  Hollywood's  most  multi-multi-millionaires,  was  his 
nffice  boy.  He  built  his  ranch  house  on  the  very  site  of 
|;he  Bowl.  And  there  Virginia's  mother  was  born.  Time 
[passed.  The  town  began  to  develop.  And  came  the 
rumors,  disastrous  for  Grandfather  Edwards,  that  the 
I  movies  were  coming  to  Hollywood.  For  Grandfather 
Edwards  was  a  hard-shelled  Baptist.  Vocals  by  Verrill 
would  have  been  veritable  voodoo  to  him !  He  wanted  no 
truck  with  "theatre  folk."  And  when  C.  E.  Toberman, 
in  whom  he  had  great  and    (Continued  on  page  80) 


HHUG  OUinGD 


She  is  Virginia  Verrill- 
and  the  tale  is  as  strange 
as  any  that  ever  was  told 
by  a  fiction  story  writer! 

HQLLVUJOOD 

BY    FAITH  SERVICE 


TflLGS 


BY     LEO  TOWNSEND 


"YOU  can  quote  me,"  said  the  great  Claude  William 
Dukinfield,  "as  saying  that  Charlie  McCarthy  is  the  finest 
piece  of  timber  I've  ever  known.  In  fact,  nothing  would 
give  me  greater  pleasure  than  an  evening  here  bv  my  fire- 
side with  a  good  book,  a  couple  of  lemonades,  and  Charlie." 
"Just  the  two  of  you,  eh?" 

"Yeah.  Me  here  in  my  easy  chair,  and  Charlie  in  the 
fireplace." 

Many  long  years  ago,  the  great  C.  W.  D.,  then  an  itin- 
erant juggler,  gazed  fondly  at  a  theatre  marquee  and  real- 
ized that  it  could  never  support  the  lugubrious  name  of 
Dukinfield.  So,  with  remarkable  consideration  for  the 
theatre-going  public,  he  immediately  became  W.  C.  Fields. 
.A.nd  it's  just  as  well  for  his  present  association.  Charlie 
McCarthy  would  probably  get  splinters  trying  to  sa> 
Claude  William  Dukinfield.  As  who  wouldn't? 

But  we  digress.  Which  means  we  are  deviating.  Leave 
us,  as  they  say  at  Old  Harvard,  get  back  to  our  fireside 
chat.  We're  in  the  spacious  living-room  of  the  Fields 
mansion  atop  a  hill  in  Bel  Air,  and  a  far  cry  from  the  pianc 


The  Fields  explains  his  roseate 


Come  down  off  your  high  horse,  Bill! 
You're  only  going  in  circles  on  that 
fiery  steed!  But  you're  going  places 
in  radio,  with  your  well-known  wit! 


W.  C.  Fields,  himself,  ace  funster  of  the 
Chase  and  Sanborn  Hour,  heard  Sundays 
at  8:00  p.m.,  EDST,  over  the  NBC-Red 
network,  with  Don  Ameche  as  the  M.  C. 


PROm  TUe  RGDUIODD 


box  which  young  Claude  William  once  called  home.  Just 
three  of  us  are  present — W.  C,  a  Scotch  highball,  and  your 
correspondent.  The  Scotch  is  ours,  for  Bill  Fields  has 
renounced  the  demon  rum.  He's  switched  to  lemonade,  all 
on  account  of  Charlie  McCarthy. 

"He  alludes  to  my  proboscis  as  being  fashioned  of  red- 
wood," said  W.  C.  "He  was  referring,  of  course,  to  the 
slight  tinge  of  carmine  which  graces  my  nose.  Purely  a 
result  of  my  allegiance  to  the  outdoor  life,  and  having 
nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the  stigma  of  alcoholic 
beverage j." 

"You  mean,"  I  asked,  "that  you  didn't  acquire  it  from 
years  of  worship  at  the  altar  of  Bacchus?" 

"Never!  Its  ruddy  glow,  I'm  proud  to  say,  is  a  gift 
from  Dame  Nature.  What  a  woman  !  Why,  with  nothing 
but  my  nose  to  guide  me,  I  once  lighted  the  way  for  Stan- 
ley through  darkest  Africa.  It  was  through  me  he  was 
able  to  stumble  upon  that  great  explorer  and  pronounce 
those  now  historic  words:  'Doctor  Livingstone,  I  pre- 
sume?' You  wouldn't  believe  that,  would  you?" 

"No,"  I  re])lied. 

"Neither  would  McCarthy."  said  W.C.,  ruefully.  "But 
he's  a  nice  little  chap,  in  spite  of  his  sly  innuendos.  And 
he's  a  great  improvement  over  my  last  partner,  in  that  he's 


all  bark  and  no  bite.    My  last  colleague,  as  I  have  inti- 
mated, used  to  bite  me." 
"Your  last  colleague?" 

"Yes.  An  arch-fiend  disguised  in  infant  s  wear.  A 
villainous  monster  working  under  the  cognomen  of  Baby 
LeRoy.    He  bit  mc." 

"You  said  that." 

"Yes,  and  I'll  say  it  again.  I  was  associated  with  the 
little  tyke  in  the  moving  picture  industry.  The  industry 
had  progressed  from  its  infancy,  and  I  regret  that  I  can't 
say  the  same  for  my  little  friend.  Every  time  I  spoke  a 
line  of  dialogue  in  his  presence,  he  bit  me.  Could  he  have 
I>een  a  critic,  at  his  age,  or  just  vicious?" 

"Well,"  I  said,  "you  could  have  bit  him  back." 

"I  did  exactly  that,"  replied  W.C.  "And  spent  a  year  in 
the  seclusion  of  a  sanitarium." 

Behind  all  Bill  Field's  kidding  there's  a  story  as  dra- 
matic as  you'll  find  in  fiction.  His  year  in  the  sanitarium 
was  a  valiant  fight  for  life  again.st  heavy  odds.  It  was  a 
struggle  which  his  friends  frankly  thought  he'd  never  win. 
But  he  won  out,  because  he'd  dealt  with  tough  j^roblems 
before.  Life  has  handed  Bill  Fields  many  a  left  to  the 
chin,  but  he  always  has  kept  that  chin  up.  and  that's  where 
it's  going  to  stay.  {Continued  on  page  76) 


proboscis,  and  how  an  arch-fiend  bit  him,  and  other  matters 

25 


What  is  the  secret  of  Nadine  Conner's  striking  success  in 
everything  she  attempts?    Is  it,  as  she  insists,  just  luck? 

BY    NANCY  BARROWS 


"SHE'S  lovely  to  look  at,  lovely  to  listen  to — this  little 
girl  of  the  Golden  West,"  said  I.anny  Ross,  introducing 
to  his  Shmv  Boat  audience  the  young  California  singer, 
Nadine  Conner.  And  we  recall  that,  last  season.  Nelson 
Rddy,  too,  presented  her  to  his  Vick's  Open  House 
listeners  in  a  similar  fashion. 

She  is  lovely  to  look  at — small  and  slim,  with  star- 
tling sea-green  eyes  and  auburn  hair.  And  that  she  is 
lovely  to  listen  to  seems  proved  by  the  ease  with  which 
she  has  won  coveted  places  on  important  programs — 
Shell  Chateau.  Vick's  Open  House,  The  Show  Boat. 

It's  luck.  Nadine  insists,  curling  up  on  a  couch  and 
gazing  at  you  with  soft,  wide  eyes  that  seem  still  to 
wonder  and  marvel  at  success.  Whenever  she  auditions 
for  anything,  she  gets  the  job!  "I'm  just  lucky,  I  guess," 
she  laughs  softly. 

"When  Nelson  Eddy  was  giving  auditions  for  a 
soprano  for  the  Vick's  program,"  she  mused,  "a  friend, 
who  just  happened  to  hear  of  it,  said:  'Why  don't  you 
try  out  for  that  program?'  I'd  never  met  Nelson  Eddy 
—hadn't  even  known  about  the  auditions,  but  I  went 
over  to  the  studio.  They  had  just  finished  a  broadcast. 
Nelson  Eddy  and  Josef  Pasternack  were  on  the  plat- 
form. I  asked  if  I  could  audition  for  them.  They  .said 
they  had  practically  decided  on  someone,  but  to  go 
ahead  and  sing.  Before  I'd  got  half  way  through  my 
song,  Nelson  Eddy  came  running  down  to  the  piano. 
'You're  the  girl!'  he  said." 

Nadine  still  feels  surprised  about  it. 

"I  loved  working  on  that  program!"  She  smiled 
reminiscently.  "Nelson  Eddy  is  so  encouraging,  so 
generous.  Whenever  there  was  anything  especially 
good,  in  a  song,  or  in  the  script,  he'd  say:  'You  take 
that.  Everyone  knows  me  now — I  don't  need  it.'  And 
after  the  broadcast,  he'd  give  me  a  hug  and  tell'  me 
I'd  sung  beautifully!" 

Nadine  enjoyed,  loo,  the  cross-country  trip — her 
first  journeying  outside  her  native  state — during  Nelson 
Eddy's  spring  concert  tour.  "We  weren't  traveling 
with  NeKson,"  she  explained.  "We  just  planned  to  stop 
in  places  most  convenient  to  his  concerts,  for  re- 
hearsals and  for  our  Sunday  night  broadcasts.  Then 
we'd  all  get  together  and  liave  such  good  times — 
dinners  and  dancing,  sometimes,  in  the  hotel  dining- 
room.  Often,  though,  we'd  have  dinner  upstairs — 
sometimes  in  the  hotel  manager's  room — for  Nelson 
likes  to  be  where  he  can  relax  and  enjoy  him.self,  and 
in  a  puljlic  dining-room  the  attention  always  embarrasses 
him. 


"Once  we  were  dining  downstairs,  and  Nelson  and 
I  were  dancing  together.  There  was  a  woman  who 
kept  demanding,  every  time  we  passed  her  table,  that 
he  sing  a  certain  song.  It  was  one  of  Grace  Moore's 
songs.  Each  time  Nelson  would  say,  quietly  and  cour- 
teously :  "That's  not  one  of  my  songs — I'm  sorry.' 

'Finally  the  woman — she  had  been  drinking  too 
much,  I  guess — called  out:  'You  big  sissy!'  And,  as  we 
passed  her  table,  she  swvmg  up  her  arm  and  hit  Nelson 
in  the  face !  The  onlookers  gasped — but  Nelson  only 
smiled,  and  ignored  it.  We  left  the  dining-room  at 
once,  and  didn't  go  into  it  again." 

Nelson,  naturally,  is  hurt  by  such  experiences, 
Nadine  says.  He'd  like  to  be  able  to  go  about  casually, 
like  anyone  else,  and  enjoy  himself.  "OfT-stage,"  .says 
Nadine,  "he  is  a  natural  comedian.  He  has  a  great  sense 
of  humor.  I  think  he  gets  it  from  his  mother.  She's 
extraordinarily  like  him.  She  has  the  same  hair  and 
coloring,  too — though  she's  very  small." 

But — to  get  back  to  Nadine  .  .  .  Her  first  appearance 
in  radio  was  about  five  years  ago.  She  began  to  study 
voice  at  the  age  of  nine.  At  eighteen  she  won  the 
Euterpe  three-years'  scholarship  to  study  singing  at  the 
Southern  California  School  of  Music.  During  those 
years  she  was  .soloist  with  the  Russian  Club  choir,  and 
appeared  in  light  operas  throughout  the  state.  She  was 
singing  in  the  Hollywood  Bowl,  when  a  network 
manager  heard  her  and  immediately  gave  her  a  com- 
mercial assignment  on  the  air. 

Following  that  she  was,  for  three  years,  on  the 
California  Melodies  program,  with  Raymond  Paige. 
That  program  was  the  first  to  interview  movie  stars  on 
the  air,  and  was  the  forerunner  of  H oU\<7Vi>od  Hotel. 
When  Raymond  Paige  left  California  Mclcdies.  the 
Hollywood  Hotel  hour  show  came  to  the  air.  Nadine 
sang  several  times  as  guest  star  on  that  program. 

l"'or  a  time  Nadine  was  an  XRC  staff  singer,  and  .sang 
on  two  or  three  commercials  for  them.  Then  she 
became  the  finst  Pcggv  (,'ardiiier  of  Shell  Chateau.  She 
remained  on  this  ])rogram  over  a  year  and  a  halt,  with 
Al  Jolson.  Smith  Ballew,  Wallace  Heery  and  Fldward 
Everett  Horton  as  successive  masters  of  ceremonies. 
Then,  briefly,  with  the  Signuind  Romberg  Swift  pro- 
gram, followed  by  guest  api)earances  on  the  Bing 
Cro.-,ijy  hour — after  which  came  Vick's  Open  House, 
and  then  Show  Boat. 

Nadine  enjoys  the  Shozv  Boat  jirogram,  too.  In 
auditioning  for  this,  the  Conner  luck  held  true  to  form 
again.  And  after  her  first     (Continued  on  page  60) 


At  the  extreme  left  is 
diminutive  Janet  Logan, 
black-haired,  blue-eyed 
and  extremely  charming. 
Janet  plays  the  role  of 
a  modern  Circe  in  T/ie 
Romance  of  Helen  Trent. 
Maestro  Johnny  Green, 
popular  young  composer- 
pianist  -  conductor  of 
The  Packard  Hour,  exer- 
cises his  two  spaniels. 
Above,  Show  Boat's  new 
baritone,  Thomas  Thomas, 
greets  his  friends  from 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 
after  his  Metropolitan 
Opera  debut  in  Pagliacci. 


inTHG  RRDIO 


0 


Mugger  extraor- 
dinary, Martha 
Raye,  tries  out 
her  rubber  face 
in  a  Figure  8. 
Martha  is  a  big 
favorite  on  the 
air  and  on  the 
silver  screen. 


Three  fair  faces! 
(Left)  Harriet 
Milliard,  of  ra- 
dio and  movie 
fame,  with  Low- 
ell Thompson 
and  Lorraine 
Kreuger  in  New 
Faces   of  1937. 


Having  completed  his 
work  in  a  20th  Century- 
Fox  filnn  (You  Can' f 
Have  Everything) ,  Rubin- 
off  plays  a  farewell 
to  four  of  the  show's 
chorines,  before  start- 
ing East  to  resume 
his  Sunday  night  broad- 
casts from  New  York. 
Fair  Jessica  Dragonette, 
lovely  lyric  soprano  of 
The  Beauty  Box  Theatre 
(Heard  Wednesdays  over 
CBS,  at  9:30  p.m..  EDST) 
gathers  a  basketful  of 
blooms  from  the  flower- 
ing shrubs  and  vines  in 
her    penthouse  garden. 


CPOTIIGHT 


^^^^  Im^^H^y^ 


s  no  gamble! 
Radio  fovorHe 
Bing  Crosby  is 
starring  in  the 
new  Poronrtounf 
picture,  Double 
or  Nothing.  Mary 
Carlisle  is  his 
leading  tody. 

Milton  Berle, 
of  the  Gillette 
Summer  Hotel 
nrrakes  his  debut 
in  RKO- Radio's 
New  Faces  of 
1937.  Between 
scenes  he  takes 
a    hasty  snack. 


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fhotos 


BY  WILLIAM  L.  VALLEE 


"VOW  take  my  little  boy,  Michael."  began  Walter 
U'Keefe  for  the  fifth  time,  "he  is  the — " 

"Please,  Mr.  O'Keefe,"  I  broke  in,  "I'm  dying  to  hear 
more  about  Michael,  but  first  let's  talk  about  you.  I've 
heard  that  you're  a  pretty  independent  fellow;  that,  if  the 
thing  you're  doing  strikes  you  as  being  wrong,  you  just 
don't  do  it  any  longer — whether  it's  playing  tennis  or 
holding  down  a  $1 5,(XX)-a-week  air  show.  Is  that  true?" 

"Well.  I'll  tell  you."  he  cast  a  speculative  eye  at  the 
menu,  "this /^om/JaHO  looks  nice.  What?  Oh,  oh,  yes — let's 
see  now — I  didn't  exactly  walk  out  on  Lucky  Strike,  but 
1  didn't  renew  my  contract  with  them  because  I  didn't 
like  their  idea  of  what  O'Keefe  should  do." 

To  get  away  from  the  Plaza  Hotel's  most  replete  and 
absorbing  menu  and  to  be  more  s})ecific.  Lucky  Strike 
wanted  this  radio  wit  to  be  a  second  Walter  Winchell, 
whom  he  was  following.  They  insisted  on  staccato  chatter, 
such  as  Winchell  goes  in  for.  but  O'Keefe  just  doesn't 


work  that  way — so  he  thanked  them  politely,  shook  hands 
and  was  off.  There  aren't  many  like  that  in  what  V ariety 
calls  "show  biz."  you  know — or  did  you  ? 

"Another  little  walk-out  of  mine  took  place  up  at  Yale 
University.  I'd  been  on  the  stage  for  years,  but  I  wanted 
a  little  disciplinary  reading  on  histrionic  subjects,  so  I 
signed  up  with  Professor  Baker's  class,  which  has  turned 
out  some  astoundingly  good  playwrights.  But  the  good 
professor  insisted  that  I  go  in  for  all  the  persiflage  that 
rank  amateurs  need,  and  mentioned,  in  i)assing.  that  I 
must  be  in  class  by  eight  in  the  morning.  Now  that  meant 
taking  a  train  out  of  New  York  at  about  five  in  the  morn- 
ing— I  never  did  dare  to  figure  out  exactly  what  time  I'd 
have  to  get  up  to  make  it — and  I  felt  that  I  didn't  need 
to  be  taught  a  simple  thing  like  making  an  entrance — so 
—  I  showed  him  how  /  made  an  exit!" 

He  ordered,  after  much  deliberation,  pompano  amandine 
{pompano  cooked  with  lots  of    {Continued  on  page  83) 

31 


Hers  is  the  type  of 
beauty  that  lends 
itself  to  glamorous, 
exotic  roles.  She 
is  small  and  slender 
and  quite  unspoiled. 


IF  you  had  been  piloted  up  or  down 
in  her  elevator,  you  probably  would 
not  have  noticed  her  particularly. 
There  are  so  many  pretty  girls,  neat 
and  attractive  in  their  neutral  uni- 
forms, and  the  casual  observer, 
package-laden,  would  probably  not 
have  noticed  anything  that  set  her 
apart  from  the  rest,  would  even  have 
been  surprised  to  learn  that  she  had 
won  a  beauty  prize,  was  Miss  New 
Orleans  of  1931. 

For  Dorothy  Lamour's  beauty  is 
not  the  flamboyant  type.  She  is  quiet 
and  inconspicuous,  the  sort  of  shy 
little  girl  who  would  sit  on  her  stool 
and  manipulate  her  levers  and  pay 
little  more  attention  to  her  passengers 
than  they  paid  to  her.  And  they  could 
not  be  blamed  for  not  remarking  the 
sheer  i>etal-loveliness  of  her  skin,  the 
soft  and  velvety  eyes,  the  perfect 
figure,  for  it  isn't  our  habit  to  see  the 
people  who  wear  uniforms  as  indi- 
viduals, and  those  who  came  in  contact 
with  Dorothy  accepted  her  services 
as  a  matter  of  course. 

Dorothy  herself  accepted  her  jx)si- 
tion  as  a  matter  of  course,  gratefully 
rather  than  otherwise.  Her  father 
had  been  tragically  killed  in  a  plane 
accident  a  few  years  previous  and 
Dorothy  was  anxious  to  earn  her  own 
living.  She  had  taken  a  secretarial 
course,  but  jobs  were  hard  to  come 
by  the.se  days  and  this  work  was 
plea.sant  enough,  and  infinitely  better 
than  nothing. 

She  could  not  guess  that  there  was 
anything  symbolic  in  the  swift  rise 
of  her  car,  that  some  day  Fate  was 
to  tap  her  on  the  shoulder  and  say : 


by  MIRIAM  ROGERS 

rhe  story  of  lovely 
[Dorothy  Lamour, 
[who  rose  from 
elevator  operator  to 
radioand  movie  fame 


Reunited,  after  a 
separation  due  to 
contracts,  Dorothy 
and  her  husband, 
bandleader  Herbie 
Kay,  greet  each 
other  rapturously. 


"Your  floor,  miss — you'll  find  star- 
dom one  aisle  to  the  right." 

For,  though  Dorothy  little  dreamed 
it,  fame  and  fortune  were  already 
rushing  toward  her.  And  not  only 
fame  and  fortune,  but  also  love. 
Everything  that  a  girl  could  want  or 
dream  of  were  to  be  hers,  almost 
without  the  asking.  The  horn  of 
plenty,  to  mix  my  metaphors  some 
more,  was  tipped  in  her  direction,  its 
precious  gifts  ready  to  be  poured  into 
her  lap.  Dorothy  would  have  laughed 
at  the  very  suggestion.  Why  should 
Fate  single  her  out?  She  had  no 
theatrical  ambitions,  no  desire  to  trade 
on  her  brief  reign  as  beauty  queen. 
Least  of  all  did  she  have  any  idea  that 
she  could  sing,  that  within  her  slender 
throat  lay  the  key  to  undreamed  of 
success  and  popularity  on  both  radio 
and  screen. 

And  so  she  ran  her  elevator  up  and 
down  in  Chicago's  Marshall  Field's 
department  store  and  only  reluctantly 
agreed  when  beautiful  Dorothy  Dell, 
so  soon  to  be  tragically  killed  at  the 
beginning  of  her  own  movie  career, 
insisted  that  she  take  part  in  the 
theatrical  night  performance  of  a 
Chicago  hotel.  The  two  Dorothys 
had  been  friends  since  school  days  in 
New  Orleans  and  it  had  been  entirely 
due  to  Dorothy  Dell's  influence  that 
the  other  Dorothy  entered  herself  in 
a  beauty  contest  and  later  left  New 
Orleans  for  the  wider  opportunities 
up  north. 

So  now  she  yielded  to  Dorothy 
Dell's  persuasions  and,  at  her  in- 
sistence, learned  a  song  to  sing  at  the 
entertainment.  (Continued  on  page  74) 


She  sings  on  the  Chase 
and  Sanborn  Hour 
(Sundays,  8:00  p.m. 
EDST,  NBC-Red  net- 
work). Don  Ameche  is 
master  of  ceremonies. 

33 


BY  ELIZABETH  BENNECHE  PETERSEN 


IT  WAS  nine  years  ago  that  James  Melton  first  met 
Marjorie  McClure,  at  a  party  in  Akron  given  by  his 
sponsor.  He  was  soloist  on  the  Sieberling  Program  then 
and  everylx)dy  was  making  a  great  to-do  about  the  tall 
young  Southerner,  and  it  was  pleasant  to  have  all  the 
pretty  young  girls  clustering  around  him  and  asking  him 
if  he  wouldn't  sing. 

Only  Marjorie  didn't  ask  him  to  sing.  In  that  moment 
of  meeting  him.  she  couldn't  have  said  anything  if  her  life 
dei)ended  on  it.  Of  course  she  had  beaux  and  there  even 
had  been  times  when  her  heart  liad  skipped  a  beat  or  two, 
dancing  at  the  country  club  with  some  handsome  lad.  But 
never  like  this!  For  a  moment  she  wondered  if  something 
were  not  wrong  with  her.  Really,  it  was  ridiculous  the 
way  she  was  feeling — with  her  hands  and  feet  like  .stray 
icicles  that  .somehow  had  attached  themselves  to  her,  and 
her  face  as  hot  as  it  was  that  awful  time  when  she  was  a 
kid  and  had  got  so  terribly  sunburned  !  .She  even  hoped 
she  might  be  having  a  fever.  At  least  that  would  l)e  .some- 
thing she  could  understand. 

That  tall,  young  James  Melton,  smiling  down  on  her, 
was  feeling  sort  of  c[ueer,  too.  This  lovely  blonde  girl's 
father  was  one  of  the  most  important  automobile  execu- 
tives in  Akron  and  her  mother  was  a  well-known  novelist. 
But  Jim  Melton  didn't  know  that.  He  only  knew  that 
she  was  the  loveliest  girl  he  ever  had  seen  in  his  life.  He 
never  had  been  at  a  loss  for  words  before ! 

\'(iu  don't  think  of  .Southerners  as  go-getters,  but 
.Melton  always  had  been  one,  ever  since  he  was  a  kid. 
When  he  had  discovered  that  the  only  way  he  could  get 
t(j  college  was  by  working  his  way  through,  he  had 
organized  a  band  and  made  enough  money  to  .send  ten 
i)oys  to  college!  But  this  was  difYerent.  It  wasn't  only 
that  she  was  wearing  a  dress  of  his  favorite  red.  He'd 
seen  pretty  girls  wearing  red  dresses  before,  and  his  heart 
hadn't  started  turning  cartwheels. 

That's  how  they  had  met,  these  two,  sitting  now  across 
from  each  other  at  the  breakfast  table,  with  their  words 
34 


"He  proposed  the  second  nighty 
end  I  didn't  wait  two  seconds 
to  accept!**  IcNighs  Marjorie. 


coming  eagerly,  as  if  there  would  never  be  time  enough 
for  them  to  tell  each  other  all  the  things  they  had  to  say. 
That  kind  of  excitement  is  rare  in  a  marriage  that's  gone 
on  ff)r  eight  years. 

She  dropped  the  cover  from  the  pottery  jug  as  she 
started  to  pour  the  coffee. 

I  ler  husband  laughed.  "What's  the  matter,  honey  chile, 
nervous  ?" 

■'Oh,  Jimmy,  you  know  you  always  affect  me  like  that !" 
And  her  answering  laugh  came  as  tea.singly  as  his. 


But  that  night,  nine  years  ago,  they  hadn't  i)een  al)le  to 
say  mucli  to  each  other,  even  when  they  found  that 
deserted  U])stairs  study  and  he  sang  I'm  Falling  In  Love 
With  Someone  to  her  and  she  tried  so  hard  to  look  un- 
concerned, witli  his  dark  eyes  looking  at  her  that  way. 

"Listen  in  on  my  next  program."  He  tried  to  say  it 
casually,  hut  his  eyes  weren't  casual,  nor  was  his  smile. 
"Then  I'll  sing  it  again.    For  you!" 

That  night  Jim  Melton  bounded  into  his  hrother's  room 
and  woke  him  up. 


"I'm  going  to  marry  that  girl !"  he  shouted. 

And  almost  at  that  very  moment  Marjorie  McClure's 
mother  was  looking  at  her  quizzically  and  saying:  "What 
are  you  going  to  say  to  that  young  man  when  he  asks 
you  to  marry  him?" 

"You're  just  going  fictional  on  me  again  !  Looking  for 
a  plot  for  your  new  novel !"  Marjorie  gibed.  And  tried 
to  tell  herself  that  mothers  who  wrote  books  were  just 
too,  too  romantic  and  their  reactions  shouldn't  really  be 
counted  on.  But,  just  the  same,  it  heli>ed  that  her  mother 
thought  there  had  been  something  special,  too.  about  the 
way  that  young  man  had  looked  at  her,  when  they  made 
that  date  for  his  next  visit  to  Akron,  three  whole  weeks 
awa) . 

The  next  week  she  listened  in  to  the  Sieberling  Program 
and  it  was  as  he  had  said.  He  was  singing  that  song.  But 
not  to  her,  Marjorie  told  herself,  over  and  over  again. 
These  tall,  handsome  Southerners,  with  their  soft,  slurring 
words  and  their  special  way  of  looking  at  a  girl,  they 
couldn't  fool  her!  No,  indeed,  they  couldn't! 

"He's  singing  that  song  to  a  million  people,"  she  told 
herself,  but  again  there  was  that  feeling  in  her  heart,  like 
wild  wings  beating,  and  her  mother  smiled  as  she  looked 
at  her. 

"I  was  never  one  of  these  impetuous  men,"  James 
Melton  smiled  as  he  buttered  a  popover.  "The  cautious 
Meltons,  that's  what  they  call  us  down  South,  where  I 
hail  from,  so  I  waited  until  the  second  time  I  saw  Marjorie 
to  propose  to  her !" 

"And  I  didn't  wait  two  seconds  to  accept!"  His  wife 
laughed.  "But  I  was  only  eighteen  and  my  mother  had 
set  her  heart  on  having  me  go  to  Bryn  Mawr.  so  I  went 
for  a  year.  But  I'm  afraid  six  months  of  that  year  was 
taken  up  in  shopping  for  my 
trousseau." 

"And  then  we  went  to  Paris 
for  our  honeymoon  and  Mar- 
jorie floors  me  by  saying  she 
hasn't  a  thing  to  wear  and 
starts  shopping  all  over  again  !" 
James  Melton  gave  her  that 
special  fond  look  happy  hus- 
bands seem  to  have  a  monopol)- 
on.  "And  I'll  tell  you  I  got 
more  than  a  speaking  acquaint- 
ance with  Paris  shops." 

"Oh,  now  you're  being  un- 
fair," Mrs.  Melton  reproached 
him.  "You  see,  it  was  in 
1929,"  she  explained,  "just  the 
time  when  skirts  scooped  the 
stock  market  by  a  few  months 
and  decided  to  go  down.  There 
1  was,  with  all  those  new 
dresses  I  never  had  worn, 
except  for  fittings,  all  ending 
somewhere  just  below  my 
knees — and  Paris  appearing  in 
ankle-length  dresses !  Wearing 
those  trousseau  dresses  was 
like  having  one  of  those  ter- 
rible nightmares  people  have, 
in  which  you  suddenly  find 
yourself  in  public  wearing  a  .smile  and  nothing  much 
besides!"  She  stopped  suddenly.  "Jimmy,  that  isn't 
another  popover,  is  it?" 

it  was  another  popover.  a  huge,  brown  flaky  one,  and 
there  was  no  quibbling  about  the  butter  that  was  going 
on  it,  either ! 

"This  is  the  reason  1  go  in  for  dieting  in  a  big  way." 
James  Melton  said.  "Po])overs  and  all  such  things.  I'm 
a  fall  guy  for  good  food  !  So.  in  order  to  have  them  a 
quarter  of  the  time,  1  go  in  for  a  {Continued  on  page  72) 


PRHGRn 
FOR  LIUIRG 

The  young  James  Meltons  now  have  eight 
happy  years  of  married  life  behind  them 


35 


Dressed  for  his  roL 
of  Valenfine  in  Fausf, 
Donald  Dickson  speeds 
to  the  Met  when  the 
Sealfesf  Sunday  Night 
Party  rehearsal  ends. 


Here  $  Jock  Benny,  as  ever  was.  in  a  most  romantic 
moment.  The  charming  lady  is  Jessie  Jenard.  and 
!Zi  'uH^  i'*  Paromount  picture.  Arfhts 

and  Models  m  which  radio's  peer  of  persiflage 
once  more  takes  o  whirl  at  acting  for  the  moviw. 


And  here  s  that  Canova  gal.  Judy,  of  the  hill- 
billy Canovas.  practicing  her  hawg  calling, 
along  with  the  hillbilly  hop.  Judy's  last 
stance  in  her  athletic  dance  is  as  esthetic 
and  exquisite  as  is  her  melodious  whooping! 


HE  doesn't  smoke.  He  doesn't  drink.  He  is  respectful 
to  women.  He  takes  off  his  hat  at  the  name  of 
Mother  and  when  the  flag  goes  by.  He  will  not 
permit  the  members  of  his  band  to  be  smokers  or  drinkers. 
He  prefers  that  the  girl  members  of  his  band  have  their 
mothers  travel  with  them.  He  always  stays  at  the  same 
hotel  with  his  band.  He  always  travels  in  the  same  Pull- 
man with  them.  His  band  never  has  played  a  night  club 
engagement.  May  be  just  happenstance.  May  be  ideali.sm. 
I  dunno. 

He  once  played  an  engagement  in  Washington.  D.  C, 
for  the  Press  men  of  the  city,  I  believe.  Just  before  the 
band  started  to  play,  he  requested  the  audience  to  stop 
smoking.  It  interfered,  he  .said,  with  the  best  work  of  his 


band.  And — he  was  being  sponsored  by  the  famous  Nol 
A  Cough  In  a  Carload  makers  of  cigarettes!  Two  cin- 
ployees  of  the  cigarette  company  were  in  the  audience  and 
were  their  faces  red!  The  wires  burned  with  indignant 
sponsor  messages. 

The  next  day  Fred's  press  agent  gave  forth  the  tastily 
and  hastily  concocted  tale  that  Mr.  Waring  had  made  the 
request  because  of  the  fact  that  the  floor  was  covered  with 
priceless  rugs  and  he  had  feared  that  damage  would  be 
done. 

Nothing  of  the  sort,  of  course,  but  it  checked  the  rapid 
rise  of  the  sponsor's  blood  pressure. 

And  that  is  Fred  Waring.  He  would,  one  is  convinced, 
protect  his  standards,  his  ideals,  in  the  very  teeth  of  any 
sponsor,  any  audience,  any  mass  opinion,  at  any  cost  to 
himself,  or  any  loss.  In  show  business,  as  he  is,  he  never- 
theless keeps  his  'scutcheon  clean  and  brightly  polished, 
his  lamp  trimmed  and  burning. 

He  has  been  twice  married.  Is  married  now,  and  very 
happily,  to  Evalyn  Muir,  formerly  a  dancer.  He  met  her 
when  she  joined  his  own  novelty  number.  Dancing 
Dominoes.  He  has  two  children,  Dixie,  aged  two  and  a 
half,  and  Fred  Junior,  aged  six  months.  He  lives,  while 
in  Hollywood,  in  an  isolated  home  in  the  hills.  He  refuses 
to  talk  for  pubHcation  about  his  family.  "It's  bad  taste," 
he  says  briefly.  But  his  pride  in  them,  his  love  of  them, 
speak  articulately  in  his  eyes. 

Cars  are  his  hobby.  He  is  said  to  own  five.  He  drives 
for  relaxation,  after  work.  Drives  with  satanic  speed  but 
also  with  complete  caution.  He  believes  in  clean  living  and 
in  physical  fitness  as  a  concomitant  thereof.  He  carries  a 
trainer,  Albert  Greenway,  with  the  troupe  at  all  times. 
Under  Greenway's  direction  Fred  and  the  male  members 
of  his  band  work  out  daily,  at  weight  machines,  Avith 
medicine  balls  and  so  on.  Two  softball  teams  are  main- 
tained among  the  members. 

He  collects  miniature  orchestras — orchestras  made  of 
wood,  of  gold,  ivory,  jade,  porcelain,  metals.  Teentsy- 
weentsy  orchestras,  middle-sized  orchestras,  larger  ones. 
Even  as  Roland  Young  collects  penguins  of  wood,  ivory, 
jade,  and  so  forth. 

He  never  will  sleep  in  a  lower  berth.  It's  his  one  phobia. 
His  favorite  .songs  to  sing  are  Sleep,  Pinlandia  and  The 
Night  Is  Young  And  You're  So  Beautiful.  He  is  a  sound 
business  man.  He  is  heavily  insured,  for  the  band  as  well 
as  for  his  family.  And  each  member  of  the  band  is  insured 
for  him.  Probably  some  $1,000,000  in  insurance  is  repre- 
sented in  the  band.  He  is  an  executive  as  well  as  a 
maestro.  He  has  a  business  manager  who  has  been  with 
him  for  over  seven  years.  But  it  is  Fred  who  does  all 
the  interviewing,  hiring,  training,  creating  of  ideas,  plan- 
ning. In  New  York  City  an  immense  organization  is  main- 
tained to  take  care  of  the  details  of  the  l)usiness.  An  entire 
floor  of  a  Broadway  office  building  is  given  over  to  the 
offices,  rehearsal  rooms  and  music  library  of  the  troupe. 
Two  Pullmans  and  a  baggage  car  are  needed  to  transport 
the  troupe  on  the  road. 

He  is,  if  anything,  a  little  too  serious.  He  is  also, 
admittedly,  moody.  His  brother  tells  me  that,  up  to  very 
recently,  Fred  didn't  know  how  to  relax.  This  is  l)ecause, 
Tom  says,  he  had  to  work  too  hard  and  too  early.  He  is, 
his  brother  also  told  me,  a  stickler  extraordinary  for 
exactness,  for  precision,  for  fine  detail.  Like  Fred  Astaire, 
nothing  an  inch  short  of  perfection  will  .satisfy  him.  Also 
like  Fred  A.staire,  he  believes  in  doing  one  thing  at  a  time 
and  doing  that  one  thing  supremely  well.  To  do  two  one- 
half  hour  radio  programs  weekly,  Fred  and  his  band 
rehearse  some  nine  hours  daily  for  six  days. 

He  is  i)robably  the  only  entertainer  known  to  man  and 
the  masses  who  ever  voluntarily  left  a  sjxmsor  while  said 
sponsor  was  in  the  very  act  of  waving  a  new  contract 
in  his  face.  But  he  did.  He  voluntarily  left  two  sponsors. 
Old  Cold  Cigarettes  and  the  (Continued  on  page  77) 


SIR 
GHLHHHD 
(UHRinC 

By    GLADYS  HALL 

"I  believe  that  only  the 
pure  in  heart  should  be 
allowed  to  sing  great 
religious  music  or  the  old 
songs  we  love/'  says  Fred  , 


AO' 


AS 


LeH,  Ann  Harding,  Mrs. 
Werner  Janssen,  with 
daughter,  Jane  Bannister. 
Center,  Werner  Janssen. 
/?/g/i/,  Ann  with  John  Boles. 


WHEN  news  of  Ann  Harding's  marriage  to  Werner 
Janssen  broke  in  Hollywood,  the  general  feeling  was  one 
of  rejoicing.  Ann  deserved  happiness,  if  anyone  did.  It 
was  good  to  know  she  had  found  a  man  who  might,  in 
some  measure,  make  up  to  her  for  all  she  had  undergone 
in  the  past.  A  man  whom  she  might  admire  and  respect 
and  love.  For  Ann's  previous  experience  of  marriage  had 
been  so  bitter,  you  knew  instinctively  she  would  not  have 
married  again  in  haste,  not  without  feeling  sure  that  this 
was  a  man  she  could  trust,  with  whom  she  could  find 
peace  and  security,  for  herself  and  for  her  little  daughter, 
Jane. 

Interest  in  Ann  spread  out  and  enveloped  Janssen.  Who 
was  he  ?  What  sort  of  a  man  ?  The  name  was  new  to  the 


BY    LESLIE  EATON 


movie-going,  dial-twisting  public.  Where  had  Ann  met 
him  ?  How  long  had  they  known  each  other  ? 

Nobody's  business,  perhajjs.  But  the  feeling  behind 
those  questions  was  real  and  warm  and  friendly.  Ann's 
fans  quite  simply  wanted  to  know  Ann's  husband. 

A  natural  enough  desire,  and  one  our  Hollywood  stars 
are  used  to  and,  for  the  most  part,  ready  to  answer.  A 
certain  amount  of  privacy'  is  unquestionably  their  right, 
but  if  jjeople  choose  to  live  in  the  limelight,  they  must 
realize  that  their  fans  have  their  rights,  too.  No  star  can 
last  without  their  interest  and  affection,  however  great  her 
art.  And  no  musician  can  get  far  without  his  public,  how- 
ever much  he  may  disdain  it. 

And  the  public  was  stirred  to  new  interest  when  Werner 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Werner  Janssen  take  a 
stroll  together  on  their  return  to 
California  after  their  marriage  in 
Europe.  Upper  right,  a  glimpse  of 
Ann  on  the  set  in  an  English  studio, 
where  she  made  a  movie,  Love  from 
a  Stranger,  with  Basil  Rathbone. 
Right,  that  musical  genius,  Werner 
Janssen,  who  has  conducted  many 
of  the  world's  finest  orchestras. 


Janssen  was  signed  to  conduct  on  the  new  Chase  and 
Sanborn  Hour  and  Ann  herself  appeared  in  a  dramatic 
role  on  the  opening  program.  On  this  occasion  the  press 
was  well  represented  in  the  studio  audience.  The  members 
of  the  despised  Fourth  Estate  liked  the  whole  set-up,  were 
impressed  with  Janssen's  ability,  agog  for  information 
about  the  man  himself,  ready  to  forget  the  snubs  that  had 
been  dealt  them  on  his  arrival. 

But  Janssen,  a  dynamic,  a  forceful  person,  fiercely  re- 
sents the  publicity  that  has  dogged  his  steps  since  he 
arrived  in  this  country  with  his  wife.  He  resents  all  prying 
into  his  personal  history,  all  curiosity  about  his  marriage, 
He  resents  being  Mr.  Ann  Harding — and  he  resents  the 
public  personality,  the  silver  screen  presentment  of  his 


beautiful  wife,  whom  he  infinitely  prefers  to  regard  as 
Mrs.  Werner  Janssen. 

As  far  as  his  own  past  is  concerned,  he  says  quite 
simply :  "It  is  completely  unimportant.  All  that  matters  is 
what  I  am  trying  to  do  through  the  medium  of  radio. 
What  I  have  done  before  is  about  as  important  as  a  prize- 
winning  essay  in  high  school.  The  boy  who  wins  a  medal 
finds  it  no  asset  when  he  goes  into  business,  and  he 
forgets  it  as  quickly  as  possible.  Why  does  anyone  care 
what  I  have  done  ?  It  is  what  I  am  trying  to  do  now  that 
counts  ..." 

Granted  that  he  is  right,  nevertheless  what  Werner 
Janssen  is  trying  to  do  derives  from  the  kind  of  man  he 
is  and  from  his  varied  but  always  (Continued  on  page  62) 


iRon  mw 


Lou  Gehrig,  first  baseman  of  the  New  York 
Yankees,  is  known  as  baseball's  Iron  Man, 
because  he  has  been  at  his  post,  day  in 
and  day  out,  since  June  first,  1925.  Lou 
says  his  goal  is  2.500  consecutive  games. 


erf  . 

of? 


CONSISTENCY,  apparently,  is  one  oi 
those  virtues  which  brings  its  own  re 
ward !  For  instance,  look  at  the  career 
of  Frank  Munn  in  radio  and  that  o 
Lou  Gehrig-  in  baseball. 

Lou  Gehrig,  brawny  first  baseman  of  j 
the  world  champion  New  York  Yatikces,  \ 
is  known  as  baseball's  Iron  Man,  because  \ 
he  has  been  at  his  post,  day  in  and  day  ' 
out,  since  June  first,  1925.     He  has  ; 
played  1,808  consecutive  games,  which  ! 
doesn't  take  into  computation  his  World  ' 
Series  or  spring  or  fall  exhibition  jjer- 
fonnances.  It  is  a  remarkable  achieve- 
ment, one  whose  very  consistency  blurs 
its  glory — for  it  no  longer  is  considered 
news  that  Gehrig  is  at  first  base  for  the 
Yankees;  the  real  story  would  be  if  he 
were  not  there ! 

Similarly  it  is  no  news  that  Frank 
Munn  is  singing  on  the  radio.  Munn 
started  his  endurance  streak  a  year  be- 
fore Gehrig  began  his — going  on  the 
E.  A.  White  Hour,  with  Virginia  Rea. 
in  1924.  Since  that  time  stars  have 
blazed  high  in  radio's  finnament.  faded 
and  fallen.  But,  with  the  exception  of  a 
cold,  in  January,  1925,  which  caused 
him  to  miss  four  performances,  Munn 
never  has  been  oflF  the  air  in  twelve  and 
a  half  years. 

It  is  only  when  you  hark  back  to 
June,  1925,  and  recall  all  that  has  hap- 
pened since,  that  you  come  to  a  complete 
realization  of  the  endurance  of  Lou 
Gehrig  and  of  Frank  Munn  and  the 
remarkable  feat  which  each  has  per- 
formed in  his  respective  field. 

In  June,  1925,  Calvin  Coolidge  had 
started  his  first  full  temi  as  President 


it  these  United  States;  Alfred  E.  Smith 
i  iad  yet  to  be  diibl)e(l  The  Happy  VVar- 
\nor;  Jack  Dempsey  was  heavyweight 
[champion  of  the  world  ;  talking  pictures 
[were  the  liazy  dreani  of  an  imi>ractical 
visionary ;  Wall  Street  was  known 
vaguely  to  the  public  at  large  as  a  sec- 
tion of  downtown  New  York  where 
men  called  brokers  dealt  in  things  called 
stocks  and  bonds ;  Notre  Dame's  fabled 
football  heroes,  The  Four  Horsemen, 
were  receiving  their  diplomas  at  Notre 
Dame,  and  Frank  Munn  was  establish- 
ing himself  as  a  radio  singer. 

Swing  now  into  the  present :  Calvin 
Coolidge  is  dead,  Al  Smith  is  poiitically 
finished  and  Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt, 
the  man  who  first  called  Al  The  Happy 
Warrior,  is  in  his  second  term  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States ;  Jack  Demp- 
sey is  a  restaurateur  and  there  have  been 
five  heavyweight  champions  since  he 
lost  to  Gene  Tunney ;  talking  pictures 
are  so  firmly  established  that  the  old 
silents  are  only  a  faded  memory ;  the 
whole  nation  has  learned,  to  its  ever- 
lasting sorrow,  all  about  Wall  Street,  all 
about  brokers  and  nothing  at  all  about 
stocks  and  bonds ;  Notre  Dame's  Four 
Horsemen  have  grown  jxirtly  or  dis- 
tinguished, three  are  coaches  with 
national  reputations,  one  succeeding  the 
master,  Knute  Rockne.  at  Notre  Dame, 
and  the  fourth  is  a  Mid- Western  lawyer 
>if  no  small  repute — and  Frank  Munn's 

nor  voice  still  comes  over  the  ether! 

For  Munn  has  become  the  Iron  Man 
of  Radio,  even  as  Gehrig  is  the  Iron 
Man  of  Baseball.  In  his  time,  Frank 
has  faced  as  (Continued  on  page  92) 


Two  whose  careers  in  their  respecti 


fields  are  endurance  feats-Lou  Geh 


of  baseball,  and  Frank  Munn  of  rad 


BY    TOM  MEANT 


Frank  Munn  may 
well  be  called 
radio's  Iron  Man 
He  began  in  1924 
and  has  been  off 
the  air  but  four 
times  in  twelve 
and  a  half  years. 

Photo  by 
William 
Haussler 


Sweetheorts  of  the  films — 
leff)  Don  Ameche,  with  Ann 
them  in  Fifty  Roads  fo 
Town.  [Right]  Don  with  Janet 
Soynor  in  Ladiet  in  Love. 


H  mOST  imPORTHHT 
UIOIDHn  in  HIS  LIPG- 

The  story  of  Bernardine  Flynn's  long 
friendship  with  handsome  Don  Ameche 


"IF  IT  hadn't  been  for  Bernardine  Flynn — - 
Such  is  the  thought  that  recurs  to  Don 
Ameche,  screen  and  radio  star,  when  he  re- 
views the  success  which  is  his.  And,  being 
an  honest  and  just  young  man,  Don  gives  credit 
where  credit  is  due. 

Seven  years  ago,  Don  Ameche  was  an  actor 
out  of  a  job.  There  was  nothing  unusual 
about  this,  for,  after  the  financial  crash  of 
1929,  very  few  actors  we're  in  any  other  po- 
sition. Don  was  twenty-one,  good  looking,  a 
college  graduate  and  had  a  year's  experience 
in  small  parts  on  the  Broadway  stage.  These 
were  his  apparent  assets.  But — and  it  is  a 
mighty  big  but — he  also  had  the  friendship  of 
a  girl  who  had  been  his  leading  lady  in  dra- 
matic productions  at  the  University  of  VVis- 
consin.  Her  name  was  Bernardine  Flynn.  You 
know  her  better,  perhaps,  as  "Sade  Gook,"  of 
radio's  Vic  and  Sade. 

What  had  such  a  friendship  to  do  with  Don 
Ameche's  professional  success?  That  friend- 
ship oi)ened  up  the  road  for  him.  It  was  that 
friendship  which  broke  (Continued  on  page  70) 


Bernardine  Flynn,  who 
chose  Don  Ameche  for 
her  leading  man  on 
the  air  and  thus 
started  his  radio 
career.  Later  Don 
helped  Bernardine. 


By  MIRIAM 


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PROGRAM  GUIDE 


I 


THE  regular  programs  on 
'  the  four  coast-to-coast 
networks  are  here  listed  in 
a  daj  -by-day  time  schedule. 
The  National  Broadcasting 
Company  Red  Network  is 
indicated  by  NBC-Red;  tiie 
National  Broadcasting 
Company  Blue  Network  is 
indicated  by  NBC-Bluc; 
the  Columbia  Broadcasting 
System  by  CDS  and 
^lutual  Broadcasting  Sys- 
tem by  MBS. 

All  stations  included  in 
the  above  networks  are 
listed  below.  Find  your 
local  station  on  the  list  and 
tune  in  on  the  network 
specified. 

ALL  TIME  RECORD- 
ED IS  EASTERN  DAY- 
LIGHT S.-\\TNG  TIME. 
This  means  that  for 
Eastern  Standard  and  Cen- 
tral Daylight  Time,  you 
must  subtract  one  hour. 
For  Mountain  Daylight 
and  Central  Standard  Time, 
subtract  two  hours.  For 
Pacific  Daylight  and 
Mountain  Standard  Time, 
subtract  three  hours.  .And 
for  Pacific  Standard  Time, 
subtract  four  hours.  For 
e.xample  :  11:00  a.  m. 
EDST  becomes  10:00  a.  m. 
EST  and  COST;  9:00 
A.M.  MOST  and  CST; 
8:00  A.M.  POST  and 
MST;  7:00  a.m.  PST. 

If,  at  a  particular  time, 
no  network  program  is 
listed,  that  is  because  there 
is  no  regular  program  for 
that  time,  or  because  the 
preceding  program  c  o  n  - 
tinues  into  that  period. 

NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
RED  NETWORK 

WFBR  Baltimore.  .Md. 

WNAC  Boston,  Mass. 

WBEN  BufTalo.  N.  Y. 

WMAQ  Chicago.  lU. 

WSAI  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

WTAM  Cleveland.  Ohio 

KOA  Denver,  Colo. 

WHO  Des  Moines.  Iowa 

WWJ  Detroit.  Mich. 

WTIC  Hartford,  Conn. 

WIRE  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

WDAF  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

KFI  Los  Anseles,  Cal. 

KSTP  Minneapolis-St.  Paul 
Minn. 

WEAF  New  York,  .N.  Y. 

WOW  Omaha.  Neb. 

KYW  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

WCAE  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 

WCSH  Portland.  Me. 

KGW  Portland,  Ore 

WJAR  Providence,  R.  I, 

WMBG  Richmond,  Va. 

KSD  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

KDYL  Salt  Lake  Citv.  Utah 


KPO  ;>an  i'ranciseo,  Cal. 

WGY  Schenectady.  N.  Y. 

KOMO  .Seattle,  Wash. 

KHQ  Spokane.  Wash. 

WRC  Washington.  D.  C. 

WDEL  Wilminston.  Del. 

WTAG  Worcester,  .Mass. 

NATIONAL  BROADCAST- 
ING COMPANY- 
BLUE  NETWORK 

WABY  Albany.  N  V 

WBAL  Baltimore.  Md. 

WBZ  Boston.  Mass. 

WICC  Bridgeport.  Conn. 

WEBR  Buffalo,  N.  Y 

WMT  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa 

WENR  Chicago,  lU. 

WLS  Chicago.  111. 

WCKY  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

WGAR  Cleveland.  Ohio 

KVOD  Denver,  Colo. 

KSO  Des  Moines,  Iowa 

WXYZ  Detroit,  Mich. 

WLEU  Erie,  Pa. 

WOWO  Ft.  Wayne.  Ind. 

WJTN  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

WREN  Kansas  City,  Kan 

KECA  Los  Angeles.  Cal. 

WTCN  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

WICC  New  Haven,  Conn. 

WJZ  New  York.  N.  Y. 

KLO  Ogden,  Utah 

KOIL  Omaha.  Neb.-Council 

Bluffs.  la. 

WFIL  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

KDKA  Pittsburgh.  Pa. 

KEX  Portland,  Ore. 

WEAN  Providence,  R.  I. 

WRTD  Richmond,  Va. 

WHAM  Rochester.  N  Y. 

KWK  St.  Louis.  Mo 

KFSD  San  Diego,  Cal. 

KGO  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

KJR  Seattle.  Wash. 

KGA  Spokane,  Wash. 

WBZA  Springfield.  Mass. 

WSYR  Svracuse.  N.  Y 

WSPD  Toledo.  Ohio 

WMAL  Washington.  D  C 

NBC-SUPPLEMENTARY 

STATIONS 

(May  be  on  either  RED  or 
BLUE  networks) 

KOB  .Mbuquerque,  N.  M. 

WSAN  Allentown,  Pa. 

KGNC  Amarillo.  Tex. 

WWNC  Asheville,  N.  C. 

WSB  Atlanta.  Ga. 

KERN  Bakersfield,  Cal. 

KGHL  Billings.  Mont. 

WAPI  Birmingham.  Ala. 

KFYR  Bismarck.  N.  D. 

KGIR  Butte.  Mont. 

WCSC  Charleston,  S.  C. 

WSOC  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

WCFL  Chicago.  III. 

WLW  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

WFLA  Clearwater,  Fla. 

WIS  Columbia,  S.  C. 

WCOL  Columbus,  Ohio 

WFAA  Dallas.  Te.t. 

WEBC  Duluth,  Minn. 

WGBF  EvausviUe,  Ind. 

WDAY  Fargo.  N.  D. 

WGL  Ft.  Wayne.  Ind. 

WBAP  Ft  Worth,  Tex. 

KMJ  Fresno.  Cal. 

WOOD  Grand  Rapids,  .M.ch. 

WFBC  Greenville,  S.  C 

KGU  Honolulu,  Hawaii 

KTHS  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 

KPRC  Houston,  Tex. 

WJDX  .lackson.  Miss. 

WJAX  .Jacksonville.  Fla. 

KARK  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

WAVE  LouisviUe.  Ky. 

WIBA  Madison.  Wis. 

WFEA  Manchester,  N.  H. 

WMC  .Memphis,  Tenn. 

WIOD  .Miami  Beach.  Fla. 

WTMJ  Milwaukee.  Wis. 

CFCF  .Montreal  Canada 


WSM  Na.-hviUf,  leun  KOH 

WSMB  New  Orleans,  La  WRVA 

WTAR  Norf.-lk.  Va.  WDBJ 

WKY  Oklali.iina  Citv.  Okia  WHEC 

KTAR  Phoenix.  Anz."  KMOX 

KGHF  PiK-hi...  C,,!..  WCCO 

WPTF  H;i1pil-Ii   N.  C.  KSL 

KFBK  .-uiraiiiei.t...  Cal  KTSA 

WSUN  .-t  IViershuru.  Fla  KSFO 

WOAI  <aii  Am, ,111...  Tex.  WTOC 

KTBS  Shrcvcp,.rt.  La.  WGBI 

KSOO  .-10U-,  Falls.  S.  O.  KOL 

KGBX  Springfield.  Mo.  KWKH 

KWG  Stockton.  Cal.  KSCJ 

WEBC  Superior.  Wis.  WSBT 

WFLA  Tampa.  Fla  KFPY 

WBOW  Terre  Haute.  Ind.  WMAS 

CRCT  Toronto.  Canada  WFBL 

KVOO  Tulsa.  Okla  KVI 

KANS  Wichita.  Kans  WDAE 

WORK  York.  Pa  WIBW 

COLUMBIA  BROADCAST-  S^^? 
ING   SYSTEM    STATIONS  WIBX 

WADC  Akron,  Ohio  WACO 

WOKO  Albany  N  Y  WJSV 

WAIM  Anderson.  S.  C.  WJNO 

WGST  Atlanta.  Ga  WWVA 

WPG  Atlantic  Citv.  X  .1  KFH 

KNOW  Austin.  Tex:  WSJS 

WCAO  Baltimore.  Md  KGKO 

WLBZ  Bangur.  Me.  WORC 

WBRC  Birmingham.  Ala  WNAX 

WNBF  Bin.„'hamton.  N  Y  WKBN 

WEEI  B.,st..n.  Ma.^s. 

WGR  Buffalo.  \  V. 

WKBW  Buffal...  N.  V. 

WCHS  Charleston.  W.  Vj 

WBT  Charlotte.  N.  C.  KADA 

WOOD  Chattanooga.  Tenn  KVSO 

WBBM  Chicago.  111.  WRDO 

WKRC  Cincinnati,  Ohio  KPMC 

WHK  Cleveland.  Ohio  WBAL 

KVOR  Colorado Sprinsis  Col  WLBZ 

WBNS  Columbus.  Ohio  WAAB 

KRLD  Dallas.  Tex  WICC 

woe  Davenport.  Iowa  WMT 

WHIO  Davton.Ohio  WGN 

KLZ  Denver,  Colo  WLW 

KRNT  Des  Moines,  Iowa  WSAI 

WJR  Detroit.  Mich.  WGAR 

WKBB  Dubuque,  Iowa  WHKC 

WDNC  Durham,  N.  C  WRR 

WESG  Elma-Ithaca,  N  Y.  KFEL 

WMMN  Fairmont.  W.  Va.  KSO 

WTAQ  Green  Bay.  Wis.  KXO 

WBIG  Greensboro,  N.  C.  KASA 

KFBB  Great  Falls,  Mont:  KCRC 

WHP  Harrisburg,  Pa.  WSAR 

WDRC  Hartford  Conn.  KTAT 

KGMB  Honolulu.  Hawaii  KFKA 

KTRH  Houston.  Tex.  WTHT 

WFBM  Indianapolis.  Ind.  KGMB 

WMBR  Jacksonville.  Fla.  WHB 

KMBC  Kansas  City,  Mo.  WLNH 

WNOX  KnoxviUe,  Tenn.  KFOR 

WKBH  La  Crosse,  Wis  KHJ 

KFAB  Lincoln,  Neb.  WLLH 

KLRA  Little  Rock,  Ark.  WFEA 

KNX  Los  Angeles.  Cal  KDON 

WHAS  Louisville,  Ky  KBIX 

WMAZ  .Macon,  Ga.  WSM 

KGLO  .Mason  Citv,  Iowa  WOR 

WREC  Memphis.  Tenn  WNBH 

WCOC  .Meridian,  Miss.  WNLC 

WQAM  Miami,  Fla.  KTOK 

WALA  .Mobile,  .\la.  KOIL 

WISN  .Milwaukee,  Wis.  WFIL 

WCCO  Minneapolis,  .Minn.  WCAE 

KGVO  Missoula.  Mont.  WBBZ 

WSFA  Montgomery.  Ala  WEAN 

CKAC  Montreal.  Canada  WRVA 

WLAC  NashviUe.  Tenn  KWK 

WWL  New  Orleans,  La.  KFXM 

WABC  New  York,  N  Y.  KGB 

KOMA  Oklahom.i  City.  Okla  KFRC 

WDBO  Orlando,  Fla.  KVOE 

WPAR  Parkersburg,  W.  Va.  KDB 

WCOA  Pensacola,  Fla  KGFF 

WMBD  Peoria,  III.  WSPR 

WCAU  Philadelphia,  Pa.  WNBX 

KOY  Phoenix,  Ariz.  KGDM 

WJAS  Pittsburgh.  Pa.  WOL 

KOIN  Portland.  Ore.  WBRY 

WPRO  Providence.  U  I.  CKLW 


Reno,  Nev 
Richmond,  Va 
Roanoke.  Va 
Rochester.  .N  Y. 
St.  Louis.  M« 
St   Paul  Mmhi. 
Salt  Lake  C.tv.  U 


South  Bend. Ind 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springfield.  Mass 
Syracuse.  N.  Y. 
Taconia,  Wash. 
Tampa,  Fla 
Topeka,  Kans. 
I  oronto.  Canada 
Tulsa,  Okla 
Utica.  N  V. 
Waco  Tex. 
Washington.  D  C. 
W.  Palm  Beach,  Fla 
Wheeling.  W.  Va 
\\'ichita.  Kans. 
Wiiiston-Salcm,  N.  C 
Wichita  Falls.  Tex 
Worcester.  .Mass 
Vankf.n.  S  D. 
Voun^stowii.  Ohii 


MUTUAL  BROADCAST- 
ING  SYSTEM  STATIONS 


Ada.  Okla 
.\rdniore,  Okla 
.\ugusta.  Me. 
Bakersfield.  Cal. 
Baltimore.  Md 
Bangor,  Me. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Bridgeport,  Conn 
Cedar  Rapids.  Iowa 
Chicago,  111. 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cincinnati.  Ohio 
Cleveland.  Ohio 
Columbus.  Ohio 
Dallas,  Tex. 
Denver.  Colo 
Des  Moines.  Iowa 
El  Centro.  Cal. 
Elk  City.  Okla 
Enid.  Okla 
Fall  River,  .Mass. 
Ft.  Worth.  Tex. 
Greeley.  Colo. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Honolulu.  Hawaii 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Laconia,  N.  H 
Lincoln,  Neb. 
Los  .\ngeles,  Cal. 
Lowell,  Ma.ss 
Manchester,  N.  H 
Monterey.  Cal. 
Muskogee.  Okla. 
Nashville,  Tenn 
Newark,  N.  J 
New  Bedford.  Mass 
New  London.  Conn 
Oklahoma  City,  Okia. 
Omaha,  Neb. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Ponca  City.  Okla 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Richmond.  Va. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
San  Bernardino,  Cat 
San  Diego,  Cal. 
San  Francisco,  Cal 
Santa  Ana.  Cal. 
Santa  Barbara.  Cal 
Shawnee.  Okla. 
Springfield.  Mass 
Springfield,  Vt. 
Stockton,  Cal. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Waterbury,  Conn. 
Windsr-Detroit.Mch 


47 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


XBC-Red:  GOl-DTHWAITB 
EXSEMBLE — organ  and  songs. 
NBC-Blue:  MELODY  HOUR— 
Josef  Honti's  orchestra 


NBC-Red:  CHILDREN'S 
COXCERT— Joset  Stopak's  or- 
chestra, Paul  Wing,  narrator 
NBC-Blue:   TONE  PICTURES 
— Ruth  Pepple,  pianist;  mixed 


.1:  HAROLD  NAGEL'S 
;a  oKCHESTRA 
no:  WHITE  RABBIT 
.MUt<'7i  J.  Cross 
.'XDAY  MORNING  AT 
S  U  S  A  N  ■  S — children's 
1.  Artells  Dickson 


9:55 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 


AUGUST  1—8—15—22—29 


James  Melton 


NBC-Red:  HIGHLIGHTS  OP 
THE  BIBLE 

NBC-Blue:  RUSSIAN  MELO- 
DIES 

CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 


NBC-Red:  DOROTHY  DRES- 
LIX.  soprano;  FRED  HUF- 
SMITH.  tenor 

CBS:  CHURCH  OF  THE  AIR 


NBC-Red:  THE  WORLD  IS 
YOURS— dramatization 
NBC-Blue:  SENATOR  FISH- 
FACE  AND  PROFESSOR 
FIGGSBOTTL.E — Jerry  Sears' 
orchestra 

MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


MBS:  RAINBOW  HOUSE— 
children's  program  with  Bob 
Emery 


CBS:    ORGAN  MOODS 


XBC-Red:  WARD  AND  MUZ- 
ZY— piano  duo 

NBC-Blue:    ALICE  REMSBN 


AFTERNOON 


NBC-BIue:  SOUTHERNAIRE3 
— Negro  male  quartet 
MBS:  CADLE  TABERNACLBJ 
CHOIR— music,  talk 


NBC-Red:  UNIVERSITY  OP 
CHICAGO  ROUND  TABLE 
DISCUSSION— guest  speakers 
NBC-Blue:  RADIO  CITY  MU- 
SIC^ HALL  ORCHKSTRA— 

CBS:  SALT  LAKE  CITY  TAB- 
ERNACLE CHOIR  AND  OR- 
GAN 


CBS:  POETIC  STRINGS 


2:00 

NBC-Red: 


NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  KEY  OF 
RCA — Frank  Black's  sym- 
phony orchestra,  Milton  J. 
Cross 

CBS:  ST.  LOUIS  SERENADE 
MBS;  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  CHAUTAUQUA 
LITTLE    SYMPHONY— Albert 

Stoessel 


CBS:  EVERYBODY'S  MUSIC 
Howard  Barlow,  symphony  or- 
chestra 


3:15 

MBS:  JUST  BETWEEN  US 


NBC-Blue:  INTERNATIONAL 
BROADCAST  PROM  LONDON 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  ROMANCE  MELO- 
DIES— Ruth  Lyon,  Edward 
Davics.  Shield's  orchestra 


!DAY  VESPERS 
XG     BEE— Dr. 


NBC:Red:  PAUL  MARTIN'S 
ORCHESTRA 

NBC-Blue:    THERE    WAS  A 
WO.M  AN— dramatizations 
CBS:    OUR  AMERICAN 
NEIGHBORS— Vincent  Sorey's 
orchestra 

5:30 

NBC-Blue:      ROY  SHIELD'S 

ENCORE  MUSIC 

CBS:   GUY  LOMBARDO  AND 

HIS  ORCHESTRA 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-Red:  CATHOLIC  HOUR 


CBS:  CHICAGOANS 
MBS:      DANCING     MOODS — 
Elinor  Sherry.  Walter  Ahrens. 
Stanley's  orchestra 

6:30 

NBC-Red:  A  TALE  OP  TO- 
DAY—sketch 

NBC-Blue:     GOLDEN  GATE 
PARK  BAND  CONCERT 
MBS:  FUN  IN  SWINGTIME— 
Tim  and  Irene,  Dell  Sharbutt, 
Berigan  s  orchestra 

7:00 

NBC-Red:  JELL-O  PROGRAM 
— Jane  Froman.   Donald  Ross, 
D'Artega's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  HELEN  TRAUBEL. 
— soprano 

CBS:      COLUMBIA  WORK- 
SHOP— dramatizations 
MBS:    STAN    LOMAX— sports 
commentator 


7:30 


NBC-Red:  FIRESIDE  RECI- 
TALS—Helen  Marshall.  so- 
prano; Sigurd  Nilssen,  basso 
NBC  -  Blue:  FLEISCHMANN 
PROGRAM — Werner  Janssen's 
orchestra 

CBS:  SUMMER  STARS— Harry 
von  Zell,  Oscar  Bradley's  or- 
chestra 


7:45 

NBC-Red:  FITCH  JINGLB 
PROGRAM— Morin  Slaters. 
Ranch  Boys 


48 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  CHASE  AND  SAN-  *■■ 
BORN    PROGRAM  —  Don 
Ameche,  W.  C.   Fields.  Edgar 
Bergen.  Dorothy  Lamour.  Arm- 
brustcT's  orchestra 
CBS:     GILLETTE  SUMMER 
HOTEL — Milton    Berle.    Wen-  • 
dell  Hall.  Sannella's  orchestra  - 
MB.S:  ORCHESTRA 

8:30  |: 

CBS:  TEXACO  TOWN— Jimmy 
Wallington.  Pinky  Tomlin.  Igor 
Gorin.  Ella  Logan.  Helen  Troy, 
Renard's  orchestra 
MBS:  OLD  TIME  SPELLING 
BEE— Bob  Emery 

9:00  I 

NBC-Red:       MANHATTAN  1 
MERRY-GO-ROUND  —  Rachel  1  . 
Carlay.     Pierre     Le     Kreeun,  i- 
Donnie's  orchestra  \ 
NBC-Blue:  RIPPLING 
RHYTHM     REVUE  — Shep  r 
Fields'   orchestra.   Del  Casino, 
Bob  Hope,  Honeychile  |i 
CBS:    UNIVERSAL  RHYTHM 
— Frank  Crummit.  Rex  Chand- 
ler's   orchestra.    Alec   Temple-  p 
ton.  Richard  Bonelli 
MBS:  HI  THERE,  AUDIENCE  , 
—Ray    Perkins.    Helene    Dan-  ' 
iels.  Sid  Gary,  Willard  Amison, 
Stanley's  orchestra 

9:30 

NBC-Red:  AMERICAN  AL- 
BUM OF  FAMILIAR  MUSIC— 
Frank  Munn,  Jean  Dickenson, 
Haenschen's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  JERGENS  PRO- 
GRAM— Walter  Winchell,  news 
commentator 

9:45 

NBC-Blue:  CHOIR  SYMPHO- 
NETTE 

10:00 

NBC-Red:  SUNDAY  NIGHT 
PARTY— James  Melton,  Jane 
Pickens.  Donald  Dickson,  Tom 
Howard,  George  Shelton,  Do- 
lan's  orchestra 

NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  MUSIC  I 

CAMP     AT  INTBRLOCHEN, 

MICH, — concert 

CBS:    LEWISOHN  STADIUM 

CONCERT 

MBS:  SURPRISE  PARTY— 
Kay    Kyser's    orchestra  and 

guests 

10:30 

CBS:  H.  V.  KALTENBORN—  | 
news  commentator 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
10:45 

CBS:    VIRGINIA  VERRILL— 
songs 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:    JUDY  AND  THE 
BUNCH — vocal  quartet 
CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  'music 


11:10 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  ORCHESTRA 


Ray  Perkins 


RADIO  STARS 


MORNING 


NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:    MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
:I5 

NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— -hil.lren's  progrjiin 
NBC-Blue:  ISLAND  SERE- 
NADEItS 
:30 

NBC-Red:     HOME     SONGS  — 
John   Winters.   Alden  Edkins. 
Gertrude  Forster 
NBC-Blue:      WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER— organist 
J:45 

NBC-Blue:  NORSEMEN 
QUARTET 
B:00 

NBC-Red:  THE  STREAM- 
LINERS—Fields  and  Hall,  or- 
chestra 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB— variety  program 
CBS:    METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 
0:30 

CBS:     RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
•  :40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:    MORNING  MOODS 

9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:    PRESS -RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:   JUST  PLAIN  BILL 

— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY — sketch 
MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE  EN- 
SE.MBLE 

11:00 

NBC-Red:   DAVID  HARUM— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:   THE  O'NEILLS — 

sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR— talk,  sketch.  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIPE 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lopez 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 

11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADB — 

sketch 

CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
MBS:  MARTHA  AND  HAL 

11:45 

NBC-Red:  IMANHATTKRS 
ORCHESTRA 


Patricia  Norman 


AUGUST  2—9^16—23—30 


Margaret  Speaks 


NBC-Blue:     EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH— The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:   AUNT  JENNY'S  REAL 
LIFE  STORIES 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 


AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TERRI  FRANCONI 

CBS:  SWINGING  THE  BLUES 
12:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY — songs  and  patter 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
■ — Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
12:30 

NBC-Red:  THREE  MAR- 
SHALLS 

NBC-Blue:  JOE  DUMOND 
AND  THE  CADETS  QUAR- 
TET 

CBS:    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 
MBS:  BILL  LEWIS— baritone 
and  organ 
12:45 

NBC-Red:  ROSA  LEE  — so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:     HELEN  JANE 

BEHLKE — contralto 

CBS;     OUR  GAL.  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE — tenor 

NBC-Blue:      LOVE  AND 

LKARN — sketch 

CBS:    BETTY  AND   BOB  — 

sketch 

MBS:  LUNCHEON  DANCE 
MUSIC 

1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:  HYMNS  OF  ALL 
CHURCHES:  BETTY  CROCK- 
ER, cooking  expert 

1:30 

NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Larry  Larsen,  Ruth  Lyon, 

NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:     ARNOLD  GRIMM'S 
DAUGHTER— .sketch 
MBS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:  JOHN  K.  WATKINS— 
news  commentator 

2:00 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WOMAN'S  EYES— Kathryn 
Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT ORCHESTRA  —  Ralph 
Ginsburgb 

2:15 

CBS:  JACK  AND  LORETTA— 
songs  and  patter 
MBS:     ORGAN  P.ECITAI^ 
Louise  Wilcher 


Bernardine  Flynn 


2:30 

NBC-Red:  BENNETT  AND 
WOLVERTON— piano  and  gui- 

NBC-Blue:  HOUR  OF  MEMO- 
RIES— U.  S.  Navy  Band 
CBS:    MONTANA  SLIM 

8:45 

CBS:   MYRT  AND  MARGE— 

sketch 

3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
CBS:     COLONEL  JACK  MA- 
JOR'S VARIETY  SHOW 
MBS:  BEXXY  DAVIS'  STAR- 
DUST REVUE 
3:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS — 
sketch 

3:30 

NEC-Red:   VIC  AND  SADE— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:    LET'S    TALK  IT 
OVER— Alma  Kitchell 
CBS:    POP    CONCERT— How- 
ard Barlow 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
8:45 

NBC-Red:    THE  O'NEILLS— 

sketch 

4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 

— comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 

variety  program 

CBS;  BOB  BYRON— piano  and 

patter 

MBS:  TEXAS  JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  cowboys 

4:15 

NBC-Red:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 

CB3:  DICTATORS 

4:30 

CBS:  CHICAGO  VARIETY 
HOUR 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
4:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT — sketch 

5:00 

NBC-Rcd:  CAROL  WEYMANN 

— mezzo-soprano 

CBS;    CLYDE  BARRIE — barl- 

MBS:  ALPINE  VILLAGE 
CONCERT 

6:15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
DARI  DAN— sketch 
NBC-Blue;    ESCORTS  AND 
BETTY 

CBS:  ETON  BOYS — quartet 
5:30 

NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADT— 
children's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR— songs 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
5:45 

NBC-Blue:  JACKIE  HELLER 

OBS:  FUNNY  THINGS— Nora 
Stirling's  children's  program 


EVENING 

e:00 

NBC-Red:  .TOHN  GURNET— 
basso;    MARY  DIETRICK.  so- 

N^HC^Blue:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
CBS:    HOWARD  PHILLIPS— 
baritone 
6:15 

CBS:  FOUR  STARS— quartette 
MBS:    STUDIES    IN  BLACK 
AND  WHITE 
6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
6:35 

NBC-Red:  THREE  X  SISTERS 
— trio 

NBC-Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS — 
tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 
6:45 

NBC-Red:   TOP  HATTERS 
NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOMAS 
— news  commentator 
CBS:  ORCHESTRA 
MBS:  CHILDREN'S  ALBUM — 
Story  Book  Lady 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY- 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:   HUGH  IE  BAR- 
RETTS     ORCHESTRA— John 
B.     Gambling.     Jean  O'Neill. 
Barry  McKinlev 
CBS:     POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack   Fulton,    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack.  Kelsey's  orchestra 
MBS:   PALMER   HOUSE  EN- 
SEMBLE 
7:15 

NBC-Red:  UNCLE  EZRA'S 
RADIO  STATION — Pat  Bar- 
rett 

CBS-  HOLLACE  SHAW — 
songs 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  MIDGE  WILLIAMS 

— songs 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 

— sketch 

CBS:  JACK  SHANNON— tenor 
7:45 

NBC-Red:  ROY  CAMPBELL'S 

ROYALISTS 

NBC-Blue;  JOHN  HERRICK 
— baritone 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  BTTRNS  AND  AL- 
LEN'—Tc.ny  Mirtin.  Noble's  or- 
cli.-strn 

NB-'-Blu.v    .TUAX  HERNAN- 
DEZ   AXD    THK    l-.'MiD  TIME 
SOCIETY— Hll   X.  u-r..  r-vue 
CBS:  ALI^MI  I-::  II  At.F  HOUR 
Horace  !]■  i  !  •      < ,  -i,  ^-  ,  :i 

MBS:    JAZZ    X' i.- rri'.x?: — 

Helene   Dan  .  ;s.    (  Mniiie  Miles. 
Brusiloft  s  orciL-slra 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  VOICE  OF  FIRE- 
STONE —  M  a  r  g  a  r  e  t  Speaks. 
Walleustein's  orchestra,  guests 
XBC-Blue:  MUSICAL  PRO- 
GRAM 

CBS:    PICK    AND  PAT— com- 

edv  and  music 

MBS:    LET'S    VISIT — Jerry 
Danzig,  Dave  DriscoU 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  FIBBER  McGEE 
AND  MOLLY— comedy  sketch. 
Marian    and   Jim  Jordan. 

CBS:  SHAKESI^EARE  CYCLE 
JIBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 
0:30 

NBC-Red:  HOUR  OF  CHARM 
—  Phil  Spitalnv  and  his  girls 
NBC-Blue:  EUGENE  O'NEILL 

CYCLE 

MBS:  SYMPHONIC  STRINGS 
10:0» 

NBC-Red:  CONTENTED  PRO- 
ORAM— ViM.-n     Delia  Chiesu, 
Black's  orchestra 
CBS:     \\AYNE    KING'S  OR- 
CHESTRA 

MBS:     ELDER  LIGHTFOOT, 
SOLOMON    MICHAUX  —  and 
congregation 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  MUSIC  FOR  MOD- 
ERNS 

NBC-Blue:     NATIONAL  RA- 
DIO FORUM— guest  speaker 
CBS:    YOl'R    NECK    O'  THE 
WOODS— Carl  Carmer 
MBS:     HENRY  WEBER' 
PAGEANT  OF  MELODY 
11 :00 

XHi'-rxed:  ORCHESTRA 
Nl!i--HIue:  (iKCHESTRA 
CHS:     DAXii;  MUSIC 
MBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 


49 


MORNING 


HMO 

NBC-Ked:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:13 

NBC-Red;  MALCOLM  CLAIRB 
—children's  program 
NBC-Blue:     DICK  LEIBERT 
ENSEMBLE 
8:30 

NBC-Red;    MOMENTS  MUSI- 
CALE 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:    RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
9:00 

NBr-Ro.l:  STIlKAMI.lNRr.S— 


CBy-   DKAl;   CULl  .MBIA — fan 
mail  dramatizations 
9:30 

CBS;  RICHARD  MAXWELL— 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS;      WALTZES   OF  THE 
WORLD 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue;     PRESS-R  A  D  I  O 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH  — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN—  sketch 
CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue;     MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
JIBS:     MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red;  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     VIENNESE  EN- 
SEMBLE 
11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue;  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 


NBC-Red;  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 

CBS:  CAPTIVATORS 
11:30 

NBC-Red;  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
Bketch 

CBS:   BIU  SISTER— sketch 
Mi;--:  1;IIVT1IM  ORCHESTRA 
ll:4.-> 

Nl'.r-i;,  ,1    AT.LKN  PRESCOTT 

Nl;'-i:iu.-:    'kuWARD  Mac- 
Hl  i;il  -Tl,.;  i;.,spel  Singer 
Cl'.S:    ACN'I-   JIONNY'S  REAL 
LUJ;    S'r<Jl:li:.S— sketch 

AFTERNOON 

12 :00  Noon 

NBC-Red  GIRL  ALONE— 
Bketch 

NBC-Blue:      TERRl  FRAN- 

CONI — tenor 

CBS:  HHYTHMAIRES 

MBS:    PARENTS'    CLUB  OF 

THE  AIR 

12:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MAR? 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY— .songs 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
—Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
MBS:  HOLLYWOOD  SUN- 
SHINE GIRLS— trio 

12:30 

NBC-Red:  BARRY  McKlN- 
LEY — baritone 

NBC-Blue;  STROLLERS  MAT- 
INEE 

CBS:  ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 
MBS:  ANDY  AND  VIRGINIA 
— songs  and  patter 


RADIO  STARS 


Tuesday 


AUGUST  3—10—17—24—31 


Wayne  King 


12 :45 

NBC-Red:  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
TET 

CBS:     OUR   GAL.  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red;  CLEO  BROWN— 
songs 

NBC-Blue;  LOVE  AND  LEARN 
— sketch 

CBS:  BETTY  AND  BOB — 
sketch 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
1:15 

NBC-Red;  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TUNE  TWISTERS 
CBS :     HYMNS    OF  ALL 
CHURCHES;  BETTY 
CROCKER,    cooking  expert 
1:30 

NBC-Red:   WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Ruth   Lyon.   Larry  Lar- 
sen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue;  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND  HOME   HOUR  — Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS :     ARNOLD  GRIMM'S 
DAUGHTE'R — sketch 
MBS;  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:15 

CB.S:  JOHN  K.  WATKINS— 
2:00 

NBC-Red;  MATINEE  MUSI- 
CALS 

CBS:    ROMANY  TRAIL— 
Emery  Deutsch's  orchestra 
MBS:    PALMER   HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA—Ralph  Ginsburgh 

2:15 

CBS:   JACK    AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:     ORGAN     RECITAL  — 
Louise  Wilcher 

2:30 

NBC-Red:  IT'S  A  WOMAN'S 
WORLD— Claudine  Macdonald, 
Muriel    Draper,    Sears'  orches- 

NBC-Blue:  NBC  MUSIC 
GUILD 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
novelty  trio 

2:45 

CBS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE- 
sketch 

MBS;  RHYTHM  ORCHESTRA 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC- Blue:    AIRBREAKS— va- 
riety program 

CBS:  THEATRE  MATINEE 
8:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS:   RADIO  GARDEN  CLUB 


NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  KIDOODLERS— 

CBS^:    COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
HALI., — Story   of   the  Song 
MI5S-  ORCHESTRA 
8:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 


NBC-Blue:      HAVE  YOU 
HEARD  ? — dramatization 
4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 

— comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:    CLUB  MATINEE 

• — variety  program 

CBS:  BOB  BYRON— piano  and 

patter 

MBS:    TEXAS   JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  cowboys 
4:15 

NBC-Red;  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 

CBS:  NOVELTEERS 
4:30 

CBS:    SING    AND  SWING — 
Kelsey's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
4:45 

NBC-Red:      THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 
5:00 

NBC-Red:  NELLIE  REVELL 
INTERVIEWS 

NBC-Blue:      LUCILLE  AND 
I-ANNY — songs   and  patter 
CBS:  DEL  CASINO— songs 
MBS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
TRA— and  soloists 
5:15 

NBC-Red:  CHOIR  SYMPHO- 
NETTE 

NBC-Blue:  ESCORTS  AND 
BETTY 

CBS;   SCIENCE  SERVICE 
SERIES — Watson  Davis 
6:30 

NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue;  SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS;     ST.   LOUIS  SYNCOPA- 
TORS 
5:45 

NBC-Blue;  KING'S  MEN 
QUARTET 

CB.S;  ADVENTURES  IN  EX- 
PLORATION 


EVENING 


6:00 

NBC-Red:  SCIENCE  IN  THE 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue;  MEREDITH 
WILLSON  AND  HIS  ORCHES- 
TRA 

CB.S;     MARGARET  DAUM— 
soprano 
6:15 

NBC-Red:  THREE  X  SISTERS 
— hnrmonv  trio 
MHS:    STUDIES    IN  BLACK 
AND  WHITE 
6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Blue:  TONY  RUSSELL- 
CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 
6:45 

NBC-Rpd:    TOP  HATTERS— 

orchestra 

NBC-Blue;  LOWELL  THOM- 
AS— m-ws  commentator 


CBS;    GEORGE  HALL'S 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red;  AMOS  'N'  ANDY 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY 
comedy  sketch 
CBS:    POETIC  MELODIES 


7:15 

NBC-Red;      VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES—choral  singing 
NBC-Blue;     BBNNO  R.\JU- 
NOFF— violinist 
CBS:    SONG    T  I  M  E— Ruth 
Carhart.    Bill  Perry. 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:.30 

NBC-Red;  BONNIE  STEW- 
ART— songs 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedv  sketch 
CBS:  ORCHESTRA 
7:45 

NBC-Red;  TOP  HATTERS 
ORCHESTRA 

NBC-Blue:  FLORENCE 
GEORGE — soprano 
8:00 

NBC-Red:  JOHNNY  PRE- 
SENTS RUSS  MORGAN  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA  —  Charles 
Martin 

NBC-Blue:  HUSBANDS  AND 
WIVES— Sedley  Brown.  AUie 
Lowe  Miles 

CBS;  HAMMERSTEIN  MUSIC 
HALL— Jerry  Mann,  guests 
MBS:   MUSIC   BY— guest  con- 
ductors 
8:30 

NBC-Red:  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  —  Wayne  King's 
orchestra 

NBC-Blue;  EDGAR  GUEST 
In  "IT  CAN  BE  DONE"— Mas- 
ters' orchestra 

CBS:     GRANT     PARK  CON- 
CERTS—guest  conductors 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
0:00 

NBC-Red;  VOX  POP— Parks 
Johnson.  Wallace  Butterworth 
NBC-Blue:  BEN  BERNIE  AND 
ALL  THE  LADS 
CBS:  WATCH  THE  FUN  GO 
BY — Al  Pearce.  Nick  Lucas. 
Hoft's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


MBS:    CONSOLE   AND  KEY- 
BOARD—Louise  Wilcher,  Pau- 
line Alpert 
9:30 

NBC-Red:  PACKARD  HOUR— 
Trudy  Wood,  Jimmy  Blair. 
Johnny  Green's  orchestra. 
NBC-Blue;  SWEETEST  LOVE 
SONGS  EVER  SUNG — Frank 
Munn.  Lois  Bennett.  Arden's 
orchestra 

CBS:      BENNY  GOODMAN'S 
ORCHESTRA— guests 
10:00 

NBC-Blue:     THE  OTHER 

AMERICAS— Edward  Tomlin- 

son.  comnientator 

CBS:  YOUR  UNSEEN  FRIEND 

—sketch 

MBS:  SINFONIETTA 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JIMMIE  FIDLER'S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
NBC-Blue:     PAST  MASTERS 
PROGRAM — harpsicord  ensem- 
ble 

MBS:  HOBBY  LOBBY 
10:45 

NBC-Red:   VIC  AND  SADE— 
comedy  sketch 
11:00 

NBC-Red;  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  NBC  NIGHT  CLUB 
— Morey  Amsterdam 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS-  ORCHESTRA 


Lois  Bennett 


Pauline  Alpert 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 
8:15 

NBC-Red  :  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:      ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 
8:30 

NBC-Red:    HOME  SONGS— 
John   Winters,    Alden  Edkins, 
Gertrude  Forster 
NBC-Blue:     WILLIAM  MEE- 
DER — organist 
8:45 

NBC-Blue:     DANDIES  OF 
YESTERDAY— male  quartet 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall 
NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB — variety  program 
CBS:  MUSIC  IN  THE  AIR 
9:30 

CBS:    RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 
9:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:  FIDDLER'S  FANCY 
9:55 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue :  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN — sketch 
CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:     MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:   PEPPER  YOUNG'3 
FAMILY— sketch 
MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 
10:45 

NBC-Red:  TODAY'S  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE  EN- 
SEMBLE 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HARUM — 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe's 
orchestra 

MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:    BIG  SISTER— sketch 
MBS:      RAOUL      NADEAU  — 
baritone 
11:45 

NHf^-Red:  HELLO  PEGGY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH — The  Gospel  Singer 


Phillips  Lord 


AUGUST  4—11—18—25 


AFTERNOON 


12:00  Nofl 

NBC-R« 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TERRI 
CONI — tenor 
CBS:     CHER!  AND 
THREE  NOTES 
12:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 

MARLIN— sketch 

NBC-Rlue:  TRAIL  FINDER- 


GIRL  ALONE— 
FRAN- 
THE 


Dr. 


L-he 


CBS:   YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
12:30 

NBC-Red:  THREE  MAR- 
SHALLS 

NBC-Blue:    JOE  DUMOND 
AND  THE  CADETS  QUARTET 
CBS:   ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT — sketch 
MBS:    ORGAN  RECITAL 
12:45 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE— tenor 

NBC-Blue:    HELEN  JANE 

BBHLKE — contralto 

CBS:    OUR    GAL.  SUNDAY— 

sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR— sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  THREE  RANCH- 
EROS 

NBC-Blue:    LOVE  AND 

LEARN— sketch 

CBS:     BETTY     AND  BOB— 

sketch 

MBS:  LUNCHEON  MUSIC 
1:15 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NtHGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:    HYMNS    OF  ALL 
CHURCHES:  BETTY 
CROCKER,  cooking  expert 
1:30 

NBC-Red:   WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC— Ruth   Lyon,   Larry  Lar- 
sen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR — Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:    ARNOLD  GRIMM'S 
r>  A  U  G  H  T  E  R — sketch 
MUS:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 


NBC-Red:     FANTASIE  IN 

RHYTHM— Jan  Savitt 

CBS:     NEWS  THROUGH  A 

WOMAN'S     EYES— Kathryn 

Cravens 

MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  CON- 
CERT    ORCHESTRA  — Ralph 
Ginsburgh 
2:15 

CBS:    JACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
2:30 

NBC-Red:  GENERAL  FEDER- 
ATION OF  WOMEN'S  CLUBS 
NBC-Blue:  BENNETT  AND 
WOLVERTON  —  piano  and 
guitar 

CBS:  MONTANA  SLIM 


Harry  Von  Zell 


PEGGY 


2:45 

NBC-Blue: 
CALLING 
CBS:    MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:   EMBASSY  TRIO 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAJIILY — sketch 
NBC -Blue:  SuUTHERNAIRES 
CBS:     MANHATTAN  MATI- 
NEE 

MBS:   MEMORY    SONGS— Key 
M..-n  Quartet 
3:15 

NBC-Red:      MA  PERKINS — 


MBS:     RUTGERS  HOME 
ECONOMICS  BUREAU 
3:30 

NBC-Red:   VIC   AND  SADE— 
sketch 
3:45 

NBC-Red:     THE  O'NEILLS — 


ind 


cov 


4:00 

NBC-Red;    LORENZO  JONES 
— comedy  sketch 
NBC- Blue:    CLUB  MATINEE 
— variety  program 
4:15 

NBC-Red:    PERSONAL  COL- 
UJIN  OF  THE  AIR — Inez  Lo- 
pez 
4:30 

CBS:  RUSSELL  DORR— Gold- 
man's orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
4:45 

NBC-Red:    THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT — sketch 
CBS:     ACADEMY   OF  MEDI- 
CINE 
5:00 

NBC-Red:  RHYTHMAIRES 

NBC-Blue:     ANIMAL  NEWS 

CLUB — Lou  Rogers 

CBS:     ELSIE  THOMPSON— 

organist 

MBS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
TRA 
5:15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  Of 
DARI  DAN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:     MUSICALS  AD- 
VENTURES 

CBS:  FOUR  STARS— quartet 
6:30 

NBC-Red:      DON  WINSLOW 
OP  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS:  DORIS  KERR — songs 
5:45 

NBC-Ulue:    ilEET    THE  OR- 
CHESTRA—novelty  music 
CBS:    FI:NNY   THINGS— Nora 
Stirling's   children's  program 


NM<--Red:  CAROL  DEIS — so- 
prano 

CBS:  ETON  BOYS — quartet 
MBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
6:35 

NBC-Red:    CAPPY  BARRA— 
and  his  swing  harmonicas 
NBC-Elue:    JACK  BAlvER— 
tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 
6:45 

Ni!'  11..1:  TOP  HATTERS— 
N  1  '.I  - 1 1!  1 'e  :  LOWELL  THOMAS 
CBS:    SINGING  WAITERS 


NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES  — 
comedy  sketch 

CBS:     POETIC  MELODIES — 
Jack    Fulton,    Franklyn  Mac- 
rorniaek.  Kelsey's  orchestra 
Mils      PALMER  HOUSE  EN- 

si;mi;.i.i: 


CBS:  SONG  TIME— Patti  Cha- 
pin.  Howard  Phillips 
MBS:    LES   CAVALLIERS  de 
LA  SALLE 
7:30 

NBC-Red:  CHARIOTEERS 
NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedv  sketch 
CBS:    GEORGE    HALLS  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:45 

NBC-Blue:  MARIO  COZZI. 
baritone:  CHRISTINE  JOHN- 
SON, soprano 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER— news 
commentator 


NBC-Red:  ONE  MAN  S  FAM- 
ILY—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  BROADWAY 
MERRY-GO-ROUND — Bea- 
trice Lillie,  Rickey's  orchestra 
CBS :  CAVALCADE  OF 
AM'ilRICA — guests.  Voorhees' 

MBS:'fOR  FRIENDS  OF  MU- 
SIC 
1:30 

NBC-Red:  LADY  ESTHER 
SERENADE  — Wayne  King's 


orchestra 
NBC-BlUf 
BAND— I 
CBS:  L.- 
MURRAY 


HUS- 


Id,  Gluskin's 
band,  guests 

MBS:  U.  S.  MARINE  BAND 
:00 

NBC-Rcd:   TOWN'    HALL  TO- 


lESTKA 
CLINIC 


:hcstr 


EVENING 


MBS: 
9:15 

MBS:  CRIMI 
9:30 

CBS:  PALMOLIVE  BEAUTY 
BOX  TH  EATRE  — Jessica 
Dragonette,  Charles  KuUman. 
Goodman's  orchestra 
.MBS:  ED  FITZGERALD  &  CO. 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  YOUR  HIT  P.\- 
RADE 

NBC-Blue:  HEAI.ANI  OP 
THE  SOl'TH  SEAS 
CBS:  (.'.AXi;  i',i  sri:its— crime 
dr:imat.zHtions.  I'lnlliius  Lord 
.M  HS :  F  I  i:  i.  U  MUSEUM 
URAM.VS— yu.sts 
10:15 

NBC -Blue:     CAROL  WEY- 
MANN — mezzo-soprano 
10:30 

NBC-Blue:  NBC  MINSTREL 
SHOW' — Gene  Arnold,  Short's 
orchestra 

CBS:  TIME  FOR  GOGO  DB 
LVS 


Beatrice  Lillie 


CBS:  DEL  CASINO- 


DANCE  MUSIC 


51 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MELODIES 

NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 

8:13 

NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 

— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:     DICK  LEIBERT 
ENSEMBLE 

8:30 

NBC-Red:      MOMENTS  MU- 
SIC.-VLE 
8:15 

NBC-Blue:     RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 
0:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 

Fields  and  Hall 

NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 

CLCB — variety  program 

CBS;     AS     YOU     LIKE  IT— 

variety  program 

9:30 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL— 
songs 
&:40 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
9:4.-> 

.\li("-R.  a:    LANDT  TRIO 
rB.S:    SONG    STYLISTS — male 


9:,-,.-. 

XBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

XBC-Blue:    PRESS -RADIO 
N  EWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE      CABBAGE  PATCH— 

XIU--l;lu.  :   ST(.)RY  OF  MARY 
MAHLIN  — sketch 
CHS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
sketch 
10:15 

NBC-Red:  JOHN'S  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:     MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JUST  PLAIN  BILL 

—sketch 

NHC-Hlue:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
.\1HS:    MAP.KIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDona-ld 


M!C-P,ed:     TODAY'S  CHIL- 

DHKN— sketch 

NliC-Hlue:    VIENNESE  EN- 
SEMBLE 
11:00 

NBC-Red:   DAVID  HARUM— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

CBS:  MARY  LEE  TAYLOR 
MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE  WIFE 

—sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PERSONAL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez 
Lopez 

CBS:  CAPTIVATORS 


XI  !  1  n MDLERS THREE 
N  I       I     -         1 1  -  AND  SADE— 

••l:-  SiSTRH— sketch 

Mi;s.    (.l;i;.-vX  RECITAL 

1  1  :45 

ST.r-lK-^:  ALLEN  PRESCOTT 
— Tlifc  AVife  Saver 
XHi-i;iu<-:      KDWARD  Mac- 
Hr<;n— The  Cospel  Singer 
(■I;S:    AIXT    .TIOXXY'S  REAL 
Lil'i:    STOI'.IE.S— sketch 

AFTERNOON 

l'>:00  Noon 

NBC-Ited:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  TERRI  FRANCONI 

CBS:^  MERRYMAKERS 
MBS:  LUNCHEON  MUSIC 
1-4:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
NBC-Blue:  GRACE  AND 
SCOTTY — songs  and  patter 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
1-4:30 

NBC-Red:  BAILEY  AXTON— 

tenor 

NBC-Blue:  STROLLERS 
MATINEE 

CBS:  ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 

TRENT— sketch 

MBS:    LEN  SALVO— organist 

52 


AUGUST  5—12—19—26 


1-4:45 

NBC-Red:  ARMCHAIR  QUAR- 
TET 

CBS:  OUR  GAL,  SUNDAY— 
sketch 

MBS;  WE  ARE  FOUR— 
sketch 

1:00 

NBC-Red:  MARGUERITE  PA- 
DULA— songs 

NBC-Blue:  LOVE  AND  LEARN 
—sketch 

CBS:  BETTY  AND  BOB  — 
sketch 


NBC-Red;  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue;  HAL  GORDON— 
tenor 

CBS:  HYMNS  OF  ALL 
CHURCHES:  BETTY  CROCK- 
ER, cooking  expert 

1:30 

NBC-Red:    WORDS  AND 
MUSIC— Ruth     Lyon.  Larry 
Larsen,  Harvey  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND     HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:       ARNOLD  GRIMM'S 
DAUGHTER— sketch 
MB^:  ORGAN  MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 


:45 


2:00 

NBC-Red:  NBC  MUSIC  GUILD 
CBS:  RAMBLES  IN  RHYTHM 
MBS:  PALMER  HOUSE  OR- 
CHESTRA 

2:15 

CBS:    JACK    AND  LORETTA 
- — songs  and  patter 
MBS-      ORGAN  RECITAL— 
Louise  Wilcher 

2:30 

NBC-Red:    IT'S   A  WOMAN'S 
WORLD— Claudine  Macdonald. 
Sears'  orchestra 
CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS — 
novelty  trio 

2:45 

NBC-Red:    MEN    OF  THE 

WEST— quartet 

NBC-Blue:   PIANO  RECITAL 

CBS:    MYRT   AND  MARGE— 

sketch 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:    NBC  LIGHT  OP- 
ERA COMPANY 
CBS:  THEATRE  MATINEE 


8:15 


NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS:  LA  FORGE-BERUMEN 
RECITAL 


8:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  O'NEILLS— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  CABAL- 
LEROS 

4:00 

NBC-Red:   LORENZO  JONES 

— comedy  sketch 

NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 

variety  program 

CBS:  PIANO  TEAM 

MBS;    TEXAS   JIM  LEWIS— 

and  his  cowboys 


4:30 

CBS:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

4:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 

5:00 

NBC-Red:  ARCHER  GIBSON 
— organist 

NBC-Blue;      LUCILLE  AND 
LANNY — songs  and  patter 
MBS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 
TRA 

6:15 

NBC  Red:  TURN  BACK  THE 
CLOCK — Alice  Remsen,  George 
GrifTin 

NBC-Blue:  STUART  GRACEY 
■ — baritone 

CBS:  ELSIE  THO.MPSON— 
organist 

6:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  NAVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:   SINGING  LADY— 
children's  program 
CBS:     PATTI  CHAPIN— songs 


NBC-Blue:  KING'S  MEN 
QUARTET 

CBS:  DOROTHY  GORDONS 
CHILDREN'S  CORNER 


EVENING 

6:00 

NBC-Red:  NORSEMEN  QUAR- 
TET 

NBC-Blue:    HARRY  KOGEN 
AND    HIS  ORCHESTRA 
CBS;  ALL  HANDS  ON  DECK 

6:15 

MBS:  STUDIES  IN  BLACK 
AND  WHITE 

6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 

NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 


6:35 

NBC-Red:  BERT  AND  LEW— 
songs  and  patter 
NBC-Blue:     CHUCHU  MAR- 
TINEZ—tenor 

CBS;  PAUL  DOUGLAS— sports 
commentator 
6:45 

NBC-Red:  TOP  HATTERS 
ORCHESTRA 

NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THOMAS 
— news  commentator 
CBS;    GEORGE   HALLS  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'N'  ANDY— 

sketch 

NBC-Blue:  EASY  ACES— com- 
edy sketch 

CBS:     POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack   Fulton.    Franklyn  Mac- 
Cormack,   Kelsey's  orchestra 
JIBS:  EVENING  PRELUDE— 
organ  and  piano 
7:15 

NBC-Red:     VOCAL  VARIE- 
TIES—choral  singing 
CBS:    SONG    TIME  — Doris 
Kerr,  Del  Casino 


NBC-Red;  HELEN  TRAUBEL 

NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— comedy  sketch 
CBS — CLYDE    BARRIE— bari- 
tone 
7:45 

NBC-B!ue:  CABIN  IN  THE 
COTTON— Southernaires  Quar- 


NBC-Red:  ROYAL  GELATIN 
PROGRAM  — Rudy  Vallee. 

guests 

NBC-Blue:  ROY  SHIELD'S 
ENCORE    MUSIC  —  orchestra. 

soloists 

MBS;  INTERNATIONAL 
SALON— Corinna  Mura,  Raoul 
Nadeau,  Stanley  s  orchestra 
8:30 

MBS:      GUY  LOMBARDO'S 
ORCHESTRA 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  MAXWELL  HOUSE 
SHOW  BOAT— Charles  Win- 
ninger,  Tom  Thomas,  Jack 
Haley,  Nadine  Conner,  Patricia 
Wilder.  Virginia  Verrill,  War- 
ren Hull,  AVillson's  orchestra 
CBS;  MAJOR  BOWES'  AMA- 
TEITR  HOUR 
MBS:  HOBBY  LOBBY 

9:15 

MBS:  TALK  ABOUT  BOOKS 
9:30 

NBC-Blue:  MIDNIGHT  IN 
MAYFAIR— English  dance  mu- 


Ml 


MUSIC  FOR  TODAY 


10:00 

NBC-Red:  KRAFT  MUSIC 
HALL — Bob  Burns,  Dorsey's 
orchestra,  guests 
CBS;  YOUR  TRUE  ADVEN- 
TURES— Flovd  Gibbons 
MBS:  WITCH'S  TALE— Alonzo 
Deen  Cole,  Marie  O'FIynn 

10:30 

CBS:  MARCH  OF  TIME— 
dramatizations 

MBS:  HENRY  WEBER'S 
MUSICAL  REVUE 

11:00 

NBC-Red:    FOOTNOTES  ON 
HEADLINES — John    B.  Ken- 
nedy, commentator 
NBC-Blue:  DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  MUSIC 
MBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


Florence  Freeman 


Tom  Thomas 


Dorothy  Lowell 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 


8:00 

NBC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
.MELODIKS 

NBC-Blue:  MORNING  DEVO- 
TIONS— organ  and  songs 

8:15 

NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Blue:      ISLAND  SERE- 
NADERS 

8:30 

NBC-Red:     HOME  SONG.«— 
John   Winters.    Alden  Edkins, 
Gertrude  Forster 
NBC-Blue:     W  ILLI.^M  MEE- 
DER — organist 


9:00 

NBC-Red:  STREAMLINERS— 
Fields  and  Hall,  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:  BREAKFAST 
CLUB — variety  program 
CBS:    METROPOLITAN  PA- 
RADE 
9:30 

CBS:  RICH.4.RD  MAXWELL 
— songs 


9:45 

NBC-Red:  LANDT  TRIO 
CBS:  NOVELTEERS 

9:53 

NBC  Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 


10:0 


NBC-Red:  MRS.  WIGGS  OF 
THE  CABBAGE  PATCH— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN — sketch 


NBC-Red:  JOHNS  OTHER 
WIFE — sketch 

NBC-Blue:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

CBS:  PRETTY  KITTY  KELLY 
— sketch 

10:30 

NBC-Red:  JVST  PLAIN  BILL 
— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  PEPPER  YOUNG  S 
FAMILY — sketch 
MBS:    MARRIAGE  CLINIC— 
Frances  McDonald 

10:43 

NBC-Red:  TODAYS  CHIL- 
DREN— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  VIENNESE 
ENSEMBLE 

11:00 

NBC-Red:  DAVID  HA  RUM— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  THE  O'NEILLS — 
sketch 

CBS:  HEINZ  MAGAZINE  OF 
THE  AIR — talk,  sketch,  Rolfe  s 
orchestra 

MBS:  GET  THIN  TO  MUSIC 
11:13 

NBC-Red:  BACKSTAGE 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:    PERSON.AL  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  AIR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
11:30 

NBC-Red:     HOW     TO  BE 
CHARMING — sketch 
NBC-Blue:  VIC  AND  SADE— 
sketch 

CBS:  BIG  SISTER— sketch 
MBS:   MARTHA  AND  HAL 

11:43 

NBC-Red:  HELLO  PEGGY— 
sketch 


AUGUST  6—13—20—27 


NBC-Blue:     EDWARD  Mac- 
HUGH — The  Gospel  Singer 
CBS:    AUNT  JE.NNY  S  REAL. 
LIFE  STORIES — sketch 
MBS:  RHYTH.M  ORCHESTRA 

AFTERNOON 

13:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  GIRL  ALONE— 
sketch 

NBC-Blue:  U.  S.  MARINE 
BAND 

CBS:    WINSTON    AND  SUT- 
TON— twin  pianos 
13:15 

NBC-Red:  STORY  OF  MARY 
MARLIN— sketch 
CBS:  YOUR  NEWS  PARADE 
— Edwin  C.  Hill,  commentator 
MBS:  LEN  SALVO — organist 
13:30 

NBC-Red:  JOE  DUMOND  .4.ND 
THE  CADETS  QUARTET 
CBS:    ROMANCE  OF  HELEN 
TRENT— sketch 

13:45 

NBC-Red:  JOE  WHITE  — 
tenor 

CBS:  OUR  GAL.  SUNDAY — 
sketch 

MBS:  WE  ARE  FOUR — sketch 
1:00 

NBC-Red:  PIANO  DUO 

NBC-Blue:     LOVE  AND 

LEARN — sketch 

CBS:     BETTY     AND  BOB— 

sketch 

MBS:    LUNCHEON  MUSIC 
1:13 

NBC-Red:  DAN  HARDING'S 
WIFE— sketch 

NBC-Blue:  NEIGHBOR  NELL 
CBS:      BETTY  CROCKER. 
— cooking  expert 
1:30 

NBC-Red:  WORDS  AND  MU- 
SIC—Larry    Larsen.  Ruth 
Lvon,  Harvej-  Hays 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL  FARM 
AND    HOME    HOUR— Walter 
Blaufuss'  orchestra 
CBS:       ARNOLD  GRIMM'S 
DAUGHTER— sketch 
MBS:  ORGA.\  .MIDDAY  SER- 
VICE 
1:45 

CBS:    JOHN   K.  W.\TKINS— 
news  connientator 
2:00 

NBC-Red:  SHOW  TIME  MAT- 
INEE 

CBS:  NEWS  THROUGH  A 
WO.M.^N'S  EYES  — Kathryn 
Cravens 


2:15 

CBS:    J.ACK   AND  LORETTA 
— songs  and  patter 
MBS:      ORG.\N  RECIT.\L — 
Louise  Wilcher 
2:30 

NBC-Red:  WALTER  LOGAN'S 
MUSICALE 

NBC-Blue:  BENNETT  AND 
WOLVERTON— piano  and  gui- 

CBS:  MONTAN.A  SLIM 

2:43 

NBC-Blue:  PEGGY  WOOD 
C.\LLI.NG 


CBS:  MYRT  AND  MARGE— 
sketch 

MBS:  SID  G.\RY— baritone 
3:00 

NBC-Red:  PEPPER  YOUNG'S 
FAMILY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:    RADIO  GUILD— 
dramatization 

CBS:    COLUMBI.\  CONCERT 
H.\LL 
3:15 

NBC-Red:  MA  PERKINS— 
sketch 

MBS:  RADIO  G.\RDEN  CLUB 
3:30 

NBC-Red:  VIC  AND  SADE— 

sketch 

CBS:    THREE  CONSOLES 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
3:45 


4:00 

NBC-Red:    LORENZO  JONES 
—comedy  sketch 
NBC-Blue:  ClA  B  M.^TINEE— 
variety  program 
CBS:      AMONG      OUR  SOU- 
VENIRS 

MBS:  TEXAS  JIM  LEWIS— 
and  his  cowboys 

NBC-Red:    PERSOX.\L  COL- 
UMN OF  THE  .\IR— Inez  Lo- 
pez 
4:30 

CBS:    BON  VOYAGE 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

4:45 

NBC-Red:  THE  GUIDING 
LIGHT— sketch 


.•BC-Red:  .ARTHUR  LANG— 
aritone 

sliC-Blue:    MILDRED  FEN- 

■OX — songs 

BS:      M.\RION   CARLEY  — 


5:15 

NBC-Red:  ADVENTURES  OF 
D.4RI  DAN — sketch 
CBS:    ETON    BOYS  —  male 
quartet 
5:30 

NBC-Red:     DON  WINSLOW 
OF  THE  N.AVY— sketch 
NBC-Blue:     SINGING  LADY 
CBS:    DORIS  KERR— songs 


EVENING 


NBC-Red:     EDUCATION  IN 
THE  NEWS — dramatization 
NBC-Blue:    HARRY  KOGEN 
AND  HIS  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    HOWARD  PHILLIPS— 
baritone 


NBC-Red:  B.\RRY  McKIN- 
LEY— baritone 

CBS:  DEAN  OF  HOLLYWOOD 
—  Hobart  Bosworth 


RADIO 
RADIO 


6:30 

NBC-Red:  PRESS- 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS- 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
6:33 

NBC-Red:  CAROL  DEIS— so- 
prano 

NBC-Blue:  CLARK  DENNIS— 
tenor 

CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 
6:43 

NBC-Red:  TOP  H.\TTERS  OR- 
CHESTRA 

NBC-Blue:  LOWELL  THO.MAS 
— news  commentator 
CBS:  FR.\NK  DAILEYS  OR- 
CHESTRA 
7:00 

NBC-Red:  AMOS  'X' 


A.XDV- 


sketc 

NBC-Blue:  MARY  SMALL— 
songs 

CBS:    POETIC  MELODIES— 
Jack    Fulton.    Frankly  n  Mac- 
Cormack.  Kelsey's  orchestra 
7:15 

-NBC-Red:      UNCLE  EZRA'S 
RADIO  STATION — Pat  Barrett 
NBC-Blue:  FRAY  .AND  BRAG- 
GIOTTI— piano  duo 
CBS:  SONGTIME — Gogo  de 
Lys,   Jack  Shannon 
MBS:  NOVELETTE 
7:30 

NBC-Red: 
songs 


CABALLEROS- 


NBC-Blue:  LUM  AND  ABNER 
— sketch 

CBS:      HERBERT  FOOTE'S 

ENSEMBLE 

MBS;  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red: 
RHYTH.M 
NBC-Blue: 
• — soprano 

CBS:  BOAKE  CARTER  — 
news  commentator 


BUGHOUSE 
LOUISE  FLOREA 


NBC-Red:     CITIES  SERVICE 
CONCERT  — Lucille  Manners. 
Bourdon's  orchestra 
NBC-Blue:    IRENE  RICH 
CBS:      BROAD  W.AY  VARIE- 
TIES— Oscar    Shaw.  Cannela 
Ponselle,     Elizabeth  Lennox. 
Arden's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
8:15 

NBC-Blue:  ROY  CAMPBELL'S 
ROYALISTS 
8:30 

NBC-Blue:    DE.ATH  V.ALLEY 
D.\YS — dramatization 
CBS:     H.\L   KEMPS  D.\NCB 
B.AND— .Alice  Faye 
8:45 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
9:00 

NBC-Red:  W.\LTZ  TIME— 
Frank     Munn.     Lois  Bennett, 


Rolfe 


;hest 


CBS:     HOLLYWOOD  HOTEL 
Jerry   Cooper.    Frances  Lang- 
ford,  Anne  Jamison.  Igor  Go- 
rin.  Paige's  orchestra 
MBS:  ORCHESTR.\ 
9:30 

NBC-Red:      TRUE  STORY 
COURT    OF    HUM.AN  REL.\- 
TIONS — dramatization 
MBS:    SYMPHONY  ORCHES- 
TR.\ 


NBC-Red:  FIRST  NIGHTER — 
dramatization.   Les  Tremayne. 
Barbara  Luddy 
NBC-Blue:     R.ALEIGH  A.ND 
KOOL    SHOW — Tommv  Dor- 
sey's  orchestra,  Morton  Bowe 
CBS:    FERDE    GROFES  OR- 
CHESTRA—Edwin  Smalle 
MBS:    THE  LISTENER 
SPEAKS 
10:30 

NBC-Red:  JIMMIE  FIDLER  S 
HOLLYWOOD  GOSSIP 
NBC-Blue:  LIEDERSINGERS 
CBS:     HOLL.\CE     SH.AW  — 
songs 

MBS:    C  U  R  T  .A  I  .V  TIME— 
dramatization 
10:45 

NBC-Blue:  ELZA  SCHAL- 
LERT  REVIEWS — movio  pre- 


viev 


11: 


Alice  Faye 


Ray  Block 


Irene  Rich 


NBC-Red:  GEORGE 
HOLMES 

NBC-Blue:  MUSIC 
CBS:  DANCE  .MUSIC 
IIBS:    DANCE  MUSIC 


RADIO 


STARS 


MORNING 

8:00 

XRC-Red:  GOOD  MORNING 
MKI-ODIES 

8:13 

NBC-Red:  MALCOLM  CLAIRE 
— children's  program 
NBC-Bluo!     DICK  LEIBERT 
ENSEMBLE 

8:3U 

NBC-Rcd:  .MOMENTS  MUSI- 
CALE 

8:43 

NBC-Blue:  RHYTHM  RAS- 
CALS 

U:00 

NHc^-l;.  ,1:  STREAMLINERS— 

Fie:. is  :,iul  Hai: 

N  1!.  ■  l;,u  H  It  10  A  K  F  AST 

CBS    KAY  BLOCK— Diunist 
9:13 

CBS:  DALTON  BROTHERS— 
8:30 

CBS:    MELLOW  MOMENTS 
9:45 

NBC-Red;    LANDT  TRIO 
9:35 

NBC-Red:  PRESS-JIADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
10:00 

NBC-Red:  CHARIOTEERS— 
male  quartet 

NBC-Blue:  SWEETHEARTS 
OF    THE    AIR— May  Singhl 
Breen,   Peter  de  Rose 
CBS:    YOUR    GARDEN  AND 
MINE — Ruth  Cross 

10:15 

NBC-Red:    THE   VASS  FAM- 
ILY— children's  harmony 
NBC-Blue:     RAISING  YOUR 
PARENTS  —  juvenile  forum. 
Milton  J.  Cross 

CBS:  RICHARD  MAXWELL 
— songs 

10:30 

NBC-Rfd:  MANHATTERS— 

Artlinr  L:.nR,  orclieslra 

NH      l;lu.        I-  H  A  FT  A  VQ  IT  A 

li.irr.      '        '  '  ^  '^''*' 

CBS;  LETS  PRETEND— chil- 
dren's proRram 

MBS:  VARIETY  J'ltOCRAM  — 
Freu.li).-rg-s  orchestra,  Norn. an 
Brokcnshire 

10:45 

CBS:  FRED  FEIBEL  AT  THE 
CONSOLE 

11:U0 

NBC-Blue:  SUE  MITCHELL — 
so.igs 

CBS:  ORGAN  RECITAL 
11:15 

NBC-Red:  NANCY  SWANSON 
—songs 

NBC-Blue:  MINUTE  MEN— 
male  quartet 

11:30 

NBC-Red:  MYSTERY  CHEF 
NBC-Blue:  MAGIC  OF 
SPEECH  —  Vlda  Ravenscroft 
Sutton 

CBS:  COLUMBIA  CONCERT 
HALL 

MBS:  U.  S.  ARMY  BAND 
11:4.-. 

NBC-Red:   DIXIE   DEBS— trio 


AFTERNOON 

12:00  Noon 

NBC-Red:  CONTINENTALS— 
Jo«f;f  Hontl.  director 
NBC-Blue:    CALL  TO  YOUTH 
CBS:  THE  CAPTIVATORS 

54 


AUGUST  7— 14— 21— 28 


HAROLD     TURNER — 


NBC-Red:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

NBC-Blue:  PRESS-RADIO 
NEWS 

CBS:  PRESS-RADIO  NEWS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


Richard  H 


Ford  Bond 


NBC-Blue:  THREE  RANCH- 
EROS 

CBS:  ORIENTALS 


NBC-Red:      REX  BATTLE'S 
CONCERT  ENSEMBLE 
NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:     GEORGE    HALL  AND 
HIS  ORCHESTRA 

12 :45 

MBS:  SONGS 


NBC-Rcd:  WHITNEY  EN- 
SEMBLE 

NBC-Blue:  OTP.  T'.ARX— chil- 
dren's proKriiMi,  Ma.lue  Tucker 
CBS:  JAVi<  Sll  A.WdX  — tenor 


CBS:  JIMMY  SHIELDS— tenor 
MBS:    STEVE  SEVERN'S  PET 


:30 

NBC-Red:    CAMPUS  CAPERS 
— orchestra,  vocalists 
NBC-Blue:  NATIONAL. 
FARM  AND  HOME  HOUR 
CBS:    BUFFALO  PRESENTS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Red:  YOUR  HOST  IS 
BUFFAI..O — orchestra,  soloists 
CBS:  MADISON  ENSEJIBLE 
MBS:  SYLVIA  CYDE— soprano 


ANN   LE.\F— organist 


NBC-Red:    GOLDEN  MELO- 
DIES— orchestra,  vocalists 
NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
MBS:    PALMER   HOUSE  OR- 


NBC-BIue:    RICARDO  AND 
HIS  CABALLEROS 
CBS:     DEPARTMENT  OP 
COMMERCE  SERIES 


NBC-Blue:  CLUB  MATINEE— 
variety  program 
CBS:   THE  DICTATORS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

4:30 

CBS:  DANCEPATORS 
MBS:  ORCHESTRA 

5:00 

NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 

CBS:  ORCHESTRA 

MBS:  RADIOLAND  ORCHES- 


TRA 


NBC-Blue:  ANIMAL  NEWS 
CLUB  —  children's  program 
with  Lou  Rogers 


NBC-Red:  KALTENMEYER'S 
KINDERGARTEN  —  varieties. 
Bruce  Kamman.  Elinor  Har- 
riot 


CHESTRA 


NOTE: 

As  we  go  to  press,  this 
program  guide  is  abso- 
lutely accurate,  but  we 
cannot  be  responsible  for 
last  minute  changes  made' 
by  the  broadcasting  com- 
panies, advertising  agen- 
cies or  sponsors. 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:  ETON  BOYS— quartet 


NBC-Red:  ALMA  KITCHBLL 
— contralto 

NBC-Blue:     WHITHER  MU- 
SIC?—John  Tasker  Howard 
CBS:  PAUL  DOUGLAS — sports 
commentator 


NBC-Red:  THE  ART  OF  LIV- 
ING—Dr.  Norman  Vincent 
Pe  lie 

CBS:  JEAUREEN  O'CONNOR 
AND  THE  SI.NGING  STRINGS 


NBC-Red:  EL  CHICO  SPAN- 
ISH REVUE 

NBC-Blue:   MESSAGE  OF  IS- 
RAEL— guests  and  music 
CBS:   TED  LEWIS'  ORCHES- 


TRA 


7:15 

MBS:  ORCHESTRA 
1:30 

NBC-Red:  JIMMY  KEMPER- 
Song  Stories 

NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:      JACQUES     JOLAS  - 
pianist 

7:45 


NBC-Red:  NBC  JAMBOREE— 
Kogen's  orchestra,  guests 
CBS:     SATURDAY  NIGHT 
SWING  CLUB 


CBS:  JOHNNY  PRESENTS 
RUSS  MORGAN  AND  HIS 
ORCHESTRA— Charles  Martin. 

guests 


CBS:       PROFESSOR  QUIZ— 

Arthur  Godfrey 

MBS:  LOUISIANA   HAY  RIDE 


9:30 

CBS;  LAZY  MELODY 
MBS;  ORCHESTRA 


NBC-Blue:  CINCINNATI  SUM- 
MER OPERA  ASSOCIATION 
CBS:  YOUR  HIT  PARADE 
MBS;  OTILIO  REVARRA 
AND  HIS  MEXICAN  OR- 
CHESTRA 


CBS:  TOURS  IN  TONE 
MBS:  BIDE  DUHLEV'S  TTI 
ATRE  CLUB  OF  THE  AIR 


EVENING 


NBC-Blue:  ORCHESTRA 
CBS:    DOWN  BY  HERMAN  S 
MBS:  MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


6:U0 

NBC-Red;  TOP  HATTERS  OR- 
CHESTRA — Jan  Savitt 
NBC-Blue:  VLADIMIR  BREN- 
NER— pianist 
CBS;  ORCHESTRA 

6:05 


10:45 

CBS— PATTI  CHAPIN— songs 


NBC-Red:  DANCE  MUSIC 
NBC-Blue:  DANCE  MUSIC 
CBS;    BUNNY  BBRIGAN'S 


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MARTHA  RAVE  is  move  than  (jrinning 
from  car  to  car  these  days.  She's  the  lial^pi- 
est  (jirl  ill  town,  since  lakin,/  off  on  that 
surprise  ch>pcnienl  :cilli  />;/</(/v  ll'cslmorc. 
Surprise  if  certainly  icas — and  anything 
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and  more  amhitious  plans  for  her  famous 
dauohter.  Ticice  before  she's  defourcd  the 
altar-hound  Martha,  but  lUuldy  U'estmore 
isn't  a  man  to  icaste  time  on  ai;inmcnts. 

That  foud  between  Alartha  and  Ella 
Logan  is  still  going  strong.  The  air  was 
charged  with  icicles  at  the  recent  cocktail 
party  given  by  Hoagy  Carmichael,  when 
the  two  girls  met  for  the  first  time  in 
Hollywood.  They  were  the  only  guests 
who  declined  to  contribute  any  entertain- 
ment to  the  affair.  Seems  it  all  started 
back  in  the  Ziegfcld  Follies  days,  when 
Ella  claimed  Martha  stole  her  stuff  and 
Martha  was  equally  vehement  that  La 
Logan  swiped  everything  from  her,  with 
the  possible  exception  of  the  brogue 

Best  dressad  man  around  town  these  days, 
bar  none,  is  Charlie  McCarthy.  When 
he  first  came  to  Hollywood,  Charlie  im- 
mediately laid  in  a  supply  of  berets,  slacks 
and  camels-hair  coats.  And  now  a  new 
coat  of  sun-tan  paint  has  been  added  to 
his  sartorial  splendor.  Edgar  Bergen  and 
Charlie  jammed  them  in  at  the  Cocoanut 
Grove,  Los  Angeles'  famous  night-spot,  on 
their  recent  engagement.  In  fact,  one 
movie  producer  was  so  impressed  with  the 
act  that  he  called  them  over  to  his  table. 
"It's  a  great  act,"  he  said,  "it's  a  shame  it's 
not  picture  material."  Charlie  looked 
blandly  at  the  producer.  "Say,  that  is  a 
shame,"  he  agreed  sadly,  "just  a  dirty 
shame!  Particularly  since  we've  already 
made  twenty-four  shorts  for  the  screen." 

Edgar  Bergen  says  his  -cent riloquial  art 
lias  got  him  in  zi'ro]ig  hut  once  in  his  life. 
That  zoos  ivhen  a  pal  of  his  in  college  icas 
struck  dunili  l>v  the  pi-ofessor's  (luestions. 
.If  an  appealing  glance  from  his  friend, 
lulgar  oldigingly  supplied  the  answers — 
and  all  of  thciii  wrong. 

Elaine  Barrie  Barryniore's  biggest  am- 
bition has  just  come  to  light.  Xcver  one 
to  seek  publicity,  it  may  surprise  her  that 
this  has  reached  print.  But  l-Ilaine,  it 
j  seems,  aspires  to  become  the  Eirst  Strip- 
Tease  of  Television.  This  aim  is  the  re- 
sult of  her  successful  movie  sliort.  The  Art 
of  Huiv  to  I'ndrcss  in  b'ront  of  ]'our  fins- 
band.  The  lass  evidently  lias  decided  tn 
put  the  BarryuKjre  name  down  in  histnry 
— way  down. 

Frances  Langford  out-Garbos  Greta 
when  it  comes  to  "vanting  to  be  alone." 
Yet  she's  had  more  publicity  than  any 
other  radio  personality,  between  rumors 
of  matrimony,  that  recent  suicide  over  her 
charms,  and  parting  company  with  her 
appendix.  But  the  surprising  item  is  that 
Frances  really  wants  privacy.  She's  the 
I  most    bashful    girl    in    town — shies  from 


people,  mikes,  cameras  and  her  own  re- 
flection in  mirrors,  for  all  we  know.  At 
the  Hollywood  Hotel  rehearsals,  La  Lang- 
ford  is  never  seen  on  the  stage  except  when 
practicing  her  own  numbers.  The  rest  of  1 
the  time  she  sits  in  her  dressing-room, 
never  joining  in  the  merriment  of  the  cast. 

Gertrude  Nicscn's  recent  housc-zvanning 
was  helped  along  by  some  three  hundred 
guests  icho  arrircd  in  response  to  the  cue 
Itiiiidred  iiiz'itat ions  sent  out.  The  neiv 
Holiiiby  Hills  house  turned  out  to  be  very 
attractiz'c,  and  the  hostess,  too.  But  the 
main  attraction  at  the  party  zvas  Pie  Face, 
Gertrude's  monkey.  Pie  Face  is  directly 
from  the  African  iungles  and  has  never 
sren  an  organ-grinder  in  his  life — in  fact, 
didn't  knozk'  zvhat  to  do  zcith  the  pennies 
handed  him.  But  he  knezi'  exactly  zvhat  to 
do  zcith  .Seotcli,  sampling  cz'cry  glass  that 
passed  his  'way. 

Bob  Burns'  new  28-room  house  in  Bev- 
erly Hills  isn't  bad,  either,  for  a  small 
place.  Bob  and  the  new  Mrs.  Burns  are 
leading  a  quiet  and  happy  existence,  with- 
out a  bazooka  in  the  house.  Mrs.  B., 
formerly  Harriet  Foster  and  Bob's  secre- 
tary, was  the  most  intimate  friend  of  the 
first  Mr's.  Burns. 

Hollywood's  first  Swing  Concert,  spon- 
sored by  Bing  Crosby,  was  an  overwhelm- 
ing success.  The  hall,  accommodating 
over  4,000  people,  was  a  complete  sell-out, 
which  resulted  in  a  goodly  sum  for  Joe 
Sullivan,  in  whose  honor  the  affair  was 
given.  Number  one  femme  show-stopper 
was  Ella  Logan,  that  half  pint  o'  Scotch, 
who  swung  Scotch  ballads  within  an  inch 
of  their  lives.  Jimmy  Grier,  Louis  Prima, 
Jimmy  Dorsey,  Ray  Noble,  Victor  Young, 
Ted  Fio-Rita  and  Earl  Hines  were  all 
there  with  the  boys,  while  vocalists  were 
Joy  Hodges,  Dorothy  Lamour,  Irene  Tay- 
lor, Tommy  Harris  and  many  others. 
Among  the  emcees  were  Dan  Toby,  Don 
Wilson,  Ken  Carpenter,  Ken  Niles,  Bill 
Goodwin  and  Tiny  Ruffner.  All  in  all, 
the  concert  looked  like  the  Who's  Who  in 
Radioland. 

.-/(((/  //  vi'/(  had  looked  closely  ivhile 
purchasing  your  ticket,  you  might  have 
recognized  the  ticket-seller  as  Herbic  Kay, 
Chiciigii  (irehestra  leader  and  husband  of 
Dorothy  Lamour.  Hcrbie  zvas  visiting 
Horofhy  (or  a  month  on  the  Pacific  Coast, 
I'cfore  faking  up  the  Initoii  at  the  Trianon. 
I  hey  spent  crery  minute  betzocen  Doro- 
thy's radio  and  moz'ic  engagements  soaking 
in  the  rays  of  Old  Sol  dozen  at  Palm 
Springs. 

Another  one  of  those  long-distance-mar- 
riage couples  was  reunited  when  Ozzie 
Nelson  came  to  Hollywood  recently,  to 
visit  Harriet  Hilliard.  They  spent  most 
of  their  time  going  over  plans  for  the  new 
home  which  is  to  be  built  in  Beverly  Hills 
and  which  they  hope  to  make  a  permanent 
(Continued  on  page  64) 


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RADIO  STARS 


•  By  far  the  greater  number  of  snapshots  are 
made  on  Kodak  Verichrome  Film  because 
people  have  found  that  "it  gets  the  \nc- 
ture" —  clear,  true,  lifelike.  Any  camera  is 
a  better  camera,  loaded  with  Verichrome. 
Don't  take  chances  .  .  .  use  it  always  .  . . 
Eastman  Kodak  Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Accept  nothing  but  the  film  in  the 
familiar  yellow  box— Kodak  Film— 
which  only  Eastman  makes. 


"TTl  THEN  he  went  away,  we  both  promised  to  write. 
'  '  But  you  know  how  letters  are — you  don't  say 
what  you  intend  to,  or  the  other  person  misinterprets. 

"Before  we  knew  it,  our  letters  were  mostly  spats, 
explanations,  and  apologies.  We  were  getting  farther 
apart  all  the  time.  One  day  I  was  awfully  blue,  and  on 
impulse  sent  this  old  snapshot.  I  wrote  on  die  back, 
'We  didn't  quarrel  then,  did  we?' 

"I  wish  you  could  read  the  letter  I  got  back.  It  was  the 
old  Pete  again,  not  trying  to  write,  just  telling  me  how 
much  he  cared.  He  said  he'd  always  write  with  this 
snapshot  in  front  of  him  —  he  could  talk  to  die  girl  in  it 
so  she'd  never  misunderstand." 

The  snapshots  you'll  want  Tomorrow 
—you  must  take  Today 


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A  Food  Children  Love- 
Good  for  them-EasY  for  you! 

— and  costs  only  3^  a  portion! 

WOMEN  bought  millions  upon  millions  of 
cans  of  Franco-American  Spaghetti  last 
year,  because  they  found  out  that  it  was  one  of 
the  greatest  time  and  money  savers  that  ever 
came  into  their  kitchens!  For  example,  there's 
no  finer  lunch  or  supper  for  school  children 
than  Franco-American,  served  piping  hot, 
with  milk  and  fruit.  For  dinner  serve  Franco- 
American  as  a  main  dish,  or  use  it  to  make 
left-overs  taste  like  a  million  dollars.  It  usually 
costs  only  10^  a  can — less  than  ii  a  portion. 

Be  sure,  however,  that  you  get  Franco- 
American  Spaghetti  —  the  kind  with  the  extra 
good  sauce.  It's  entirely  different  from  all  other 
ready-cooked  spaghetti.  Its  delicious  cheese- 
and-tomato  sauce  is  made  with  eleven  savory 
ingredients  —  the  secret  recipe  which  was  the 

freat  discovery  of  a  famous  French  chef.  Get 
ranco- American  today  at  your  grocers  —  it 
will  save  you  no  end  of  time  and  trouble. 

Fronco-^mericon 

SPAGHETTI 


Made  by  the  Makers  of  Campbell's  SouJjs 


The  Franco-American  Food  Company,  Dept.  69. 
Camden.  New  Jersey.  Please  send  me  your  free  recipe 
book:  "30  Tempting  Spaghetti  Meals." 


Name  (print)  — 

Address  

City.  —  State- 


RADIO  STARS 

RADIO  STARS  COOKING  SCHOOL 


GRAPE-NUTS  MOUSSE 

Yi  cup  sugar                             1    cup  cream,  ichippcd  I 

54  cup  water                             Yz  teaspoon  vanilla  I 

2    egg  ivhitcs,  stiffly  beaten             a  pinch  of  salt  I 

%  cup  Grape-Nuls  * 

Bring  sugar  and  water  to  a  boil  and  continue  boiling  until  syrup  spins  a  thread 
when  dropped  from  tip  of  spoon.  (232°  F.  on  a  candy  thermometer).  Remove  from 
heat  and  when  mixture  stops  bubbling,  pour  it  slowly  over  stiffly  beaten  egg  whites, 
beating  constantly.  Continue  beating  until  mixture  is  cool  (about  3  minutes).  Fold  in 
whipped  cream  and  vanilla.  Add  salt  and  Grape-Nuts.  Place  in  freezing  tray  of  auto- 
matic refrigerator  and  let  stand  3  to  4  hours,  or  until  firm.  Or  turn  into  mold — filling 
it  to  overflowing — cover  with  waxed  paper,  press  cover  tightly  down  over  paper  and 
pack  in  equal  parts  of  ice  and  salt.  Let  it  stand  3  to  4  hours,  or  until  firm.  Makes 
about  \Y  pints  of  Mousse,  or  enough  for  approximately  5  servings,  because  of  its 
richness. 


"S-MINUTE"  PRUNE  WHIP 

1    egg  zchite  1    teaspoon  lemon  juice 

%  cup  sugar  Yi  cup  cream,  zcliipped  stiff 

1  (5  oc.)  can  Strained  Prunes  (approx.  Y2  cup) 

Beat  egg  white  until  stiff.  Gradually  add  sugar,  beating  constantly.  Add  lemon 
juice,  then  fold  mixture  into  stiffly  whipped  cream.  When  thoroughly  blended,  fold 
in  Strained  Prunes.  Pile  lightly  into  sherbet  or  parfait  glasses.  Chill  thoroughly 
before  serving.    Serves  3. 

Because  of  its  richness,  this  is  not  recommended  for  children  under  6.  It  can  be 
served  with  a  garnish  of  whipped  cream,  or  with  a  soft  custard  sauce  made  with  the 
remaining  egg  yolk. 


FLUFFY  FRUIT  TAPIOCA 

%  cup  Minute  Tapioca  Vi  cup  orange  juice 

Yi  cup  sugar  1  egg  ivhitc,  stiffly  beaten 

Y&  teaspoon  salt  I  can  {AY2  oz.)  Strained  Apricots 

1  egg  yolk  ivith  Applesauce 

IY2  cups  milk 

Combine  Minute  Tapioca,  sugar,  salt,  egg  yolk  and  milk  in  top  of  double  boiler. 
Stir  with  fork  enough  to  break  egg  yolk.  Place  over  rapidly  boiling  water,  bring  to 
scalding  point  (approx.  7  minutes).  Cook  5  minutes  longer,  stirring  frequently. 
Remove  from  heat.  Add  orange  juice.  Fold  slowly  into  stiffly  beaten  egg  white. 
When  thoroughly  blended,  fold  in  Strained  Apricot-with-Applesauce  mixture.  Chill. 
Serve  in  individual  dessert  dishes,  with  garnish  of  whipped  cream  and  orange  segments. 

A  delicate  fruit  flavor  and  an  appetizing  pale  golden  color  gives  real  summertime 
appeal  to  this  novel  version  of  an  old-time  favorite. 


BANANA  BEVERAGES 
1  fully  ripe  banana*  1  cup  ice-cold  milk 

Slice  banana,  very  thinly,  into  a  bowl  and  beat  with  rotary  beater  until  creamy. 
Or  press  through  strainer  or  ricer  first,  then  use  beater.  Add  milk  gradually,  beating 
constantly.    Serve  cold. 

An  excellent  drink  for  youngsters  of  school  age.  May  be  given  in  smaller  amounts 
to  younger  children,  too,  soon  after  they  have  passed  the  infant  stage.  The  Dionnes 
were  given  mashed  banana  before  they  were  a  year  old. 

*A  fully  ripe  banana  is  one  zvhose  yelloiv  peel  is  flecked  ivilfi  brown. 

VARIATIONS 

For  grown-ups,  the  addition  of  Y2  teaspoon  of  Angostura  to  the  above  gives  this 
beverage  a  distinctive  flavor  that  adds  to  its  appeal. 

For  a  welcome  frosted  summer  drink,  proceed  as  above,  beating  in  a  scoop  of  vanilla 
ice  cream  at  the  last. 


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(Continued  from  pac]c  11) 

of  fresli  air  and  sunshine.  One  baby 
doctor  specifics  four  hours  in  the  fresh  air 
as  a  daily  minimum,  seven  hours  as  an 
ideal  period  of  time! 

Try  counting  up  the  time  your  youngster 
actually  spends  out  of  doors.  The  results 
may  surprise  you — and  none  too  pleasantly  ! 

THIRD:  See  that  your  child  wears 
the  right  amount  of  clothing.  Not  too 
much  in  summer;  not  too  little  (yet  never 
restricting)  in  winter. 

FOURTH  ;  Be  sure  that  you  provide  a 
well-planned  diet  of  the  ri^ht  lo.  xls.  Sup- 
plemented, in  most  caM>,  co(l-li\cr  oil, 
espcciall\-  (hin'nt;  ili  ■  w  inter  months  when 
Vitamin  D — the  -nn>hnic  \itaniin — must 
be  supplied  alnuivt  entirely   in  tlii>  way. 

And,  of  course,  don't  toruet  freqneiit 
and  regular  visits  to  the  lial)\  doetor  (pe- 
diatrician) or  Bah}  (_  Hnic,  -inee  changes 
and  modifications  of  the  rules  outlined 
above  must  be  carrie<l  oiu  under  compe- 
tent and  careful  supervi>ion. 

In  the  matter  of  dii-t.  milk,  of  course,  is 
the  first  rei|uirenient.  It  used  to  be  con- 
sidered the  only  need  for  a  far  longer  pe- 
riod of  time  than  is  now  <leenied  advisable. 
In  fact,  as  early  as  the  third  week,  now, 
the  diet  frequently  is  supplemented  by 
orange  juice  and  tomato  juice.  Then, 
from  the  fourth  or  fifth  month,  other  foods 
are  gradually  introduced  into  the  diet, 
notably  strained  vegetables,  cooked  cereals 
and  strained  fruits — at  the  doctor's  dis- 
cretion, of  course. 

This  places  upon  the  mother — who  is 
housewife,  cook  and  baby  nurse  as  well — the 
burden  of  a  far  longer  period  of  time  in 
which  it  will  be  necessary  for  her  to  pre- 
pare and  strain  foods  with  the  extreme 
care  required  for  baby  feedings.  If  you've 
ever  tried  it  you  will  appreciate  what  a 
task  it  really  is,  this  day  in,  day  out 
fixing  of  an  ounce  or  two  for  a  feeding — 
which  continues  well  over  a  year. 

Nowadays,  howe.er,  women  in  growing 
and  grateful  nnnihers  avoid  this  fuss  and 
bother  by  the  use  of  prepared  baby  foods. 
These,  as  you  know,  come  (all  strained 
and  ready  for  use)  in  a  wide  variety. 

Yes,  they  certainly  solve  a  difficu't  prob- 
lem in  scientific  fashion.  For  they  are  truly 
"scientifically  prepared";  far  more  so  by 
actual  test  than  would  be  tiie  efforts  of  the 
average  woman  in  her  own  kitchen  witli  her 
more  limited  knowledge  and  eciuipnient. 

In  prepared  baby  foods  you  have  the 
pick  of  the  crop ;  cooked  and  fine-strained 
in  such  a  way  that  the  precious  vitamin 
and  mineral  contents  are  preserved. 

■When  you  purchase  them,  therefore,  you 
are  also  buying  a  sense  of  security  at  a 
small  cost ;  added  to  which  is  the  fact  that 
prepared  baby  foods  effect  a  tremendous 
saving  in  waste  and  work.  A  boon,  cer- 
tainly, for  mothers  any  day  of  the  year — 
a  godsend  in  hot  weather ! 

The  recipes  I  promised  are  across  the 
page.  A  couple  of  them  make  good  use  of 
the  baby  foods  we  were  just  discussing,  in 
desserts  that  are  intended  to  appeal  to 
grown-ups  and  older  children.  So  try  the 
Prune  Souffle  and  Fruit  T(i/>ioca  im- 
mediately. 

Gracie's  R[ousse  is  here  for  you  to  try, 
too.  And  other  desserts  calling  for  fruit — 
appropriate  for  summer,  especially  where 
there  are  children  in  the  home. 


•  "Gee,  I'd  hate  to  be  you,  Jocko!  That  get-up  may  be  peachy  for 
collecting  pennies,  but  you  couldn'^t  hire  me  to  wear  it  on  a  day  like 
this.  The  prickly  heat  breaks  right  out  on  my  neck  to  think  of  itP' 


•  "Boss  won't  let  you  take  it  off,  eh?  Well,  that's  life, . .  many's  the 
time  I've  been  rammed  into  a  sweater.  Only  thing  makes  ''em  bear- 
able is  Johnson's  Baby  Powder.  It  alivays  fixes  those  prickles!" 


•  *'/  could  stand  a  sprinkle  myself —this  carpel's  itchy. . .  How  about 
some  soft  silky  Johnson's  Baby  Powder  for  both  of  us.  Mother? 
Jocko  tvill  do  his  best  monkey-shines  for  you.  And  I'll  do  mine!" 


•  "Did  you  ever  notice  how  fine  Johnson's  Baby  Powder  is?  Just 
like  satin  !  It  keeps  my  skin  like  satin,  too!". . .  Clear,  unblemished 
skin  is  the  best  protection  Ofitiinst  skin  injections.  Mothers!  John- 
son's Baby  Powder  helps  prevent  prickly  heat,  rashes  and  chafes. 
It's  made  only  of  finest  Italian  talc— no  orris-root.  Try  Johnson's 
Baby  Soap  and  Baby  Cream,  too— and  for  tiny  babies,  the  new 
Johnson's  Baby  Oil,  which  is  stainless,  pleasantly  fragrant,  and 
cannot  turn  rancid. 


KJ  new  BRUNSWICK       (/     NEW  JERSEY 


RADIO  STARS 


GIRL  OF  THE  GOLDEN  WEST 


(Continued  from  page  27) 


says  MAGGY  ROUFF  of  Paris 

"ALWAYS  we  women  seek  to  entice  the 
iV  masculine  eye.  In  thi.s  you  will  suc- 
ceed when  you  give  your  skin  the  warm 
glow  of  Windsor  Rose.  This  shade  of 
Woodbury's  lovely  powder  is  magically 
flattering  to  almost  every  complexion." 

Maggy  RoufF  advises  her  mannequins  to 
wear  Woodbury's  Facial  Powder  for  its 
becoming  shades  and  germ-free*  quality. 
This  germ-free  face  powder  helps  guard 
the  skin  from  blemishes.  See  Windsor 
Rose  and  the  six  other  youth-blend  shades. 
Sl.OO,  SOp,  25c,  10c. 


MAIL  FOR   10-PIECE  LOVELINESS  KITI 

For  generous  samples  of  Woodbury's  Scientific  Aids 
to  Loveliness,  enclose  10c  and  mail  lo  John  H. 
Woodbury,  Inc.,  9181  Alfred  St.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
In  Canada,  John  H.  Woodbury,  Ltd.,  Perth,  Ontario. 


broadcast  with  the  company.  Lanny  Ross 
congratulated  her  warmly.  Another  mem- 
ber of  the  company  told  her:  "That  means 
more  than  you  might  think — Lanny  usually 
doesn't  say  mucii,  even  when  he's  pleased  !" 
But  Lanny  has,  thinks  Nadine,  a  charming, 
sincere  iiersonality — even  tliough  he  is  more 
reserved,  less  spontaneous  in  his  friendship 
than  is  Nelson. 

When  she  auditioned  for  the  Shoiv  lioal 
program,  Nadine  had  several  other  tempt- 
ing offers — one  a  52-\veeks'  engagement 
with  a  noted  opera  star  in  a  projected 
program  of  the  Vick's  type.  There  were 
movie  offers,  too — and  by  the  time  you 
read  this  she  may  have  signed  her  name 
to  an  interesting  contract,  for  a  brief  stop- 
over in  movies.  Her  aim,  of  course — as  is 
natural,  with  that  clear,  entrancing  voice — 
is  grand  opera.  But,  with  a  mixture  of 
Irish  canniness  and  Scotch  caution,  she 
will  go  slowly  and  not  reach  too  soon 
toward  those  glittering  heights  so  con- 
fidently predicted  for  her  by  critics  as 
well  as  lay  listeners. 

The  Irish  canniness  and  Scotch  caution 
are  part  of  Nadine's  birthright,  along  with 
music. 

Her  great-grandparents  came  around 
Cape  Horn,  from  England,  in  1842,  to 
settle  in  the  little  California  town  of 
Compton,  thirteen  miles  from  Los  Angeles. 
Now,  in  the  courtyard  of  the  old  San 
Juan  Mission,  that  little  great-grand- 
mother's grave  is  a  family  shrine.  And 
twenty-seven  years  ago  Nadine  was  born 
in  the  house  which  her  gieat-grandfather 
built  in  1850 — a  low,  rambling,  hacienda- 
type  of  house,  on  a  sixty-acre  ranch. 

The  family  all  are  musical.  Nadine's 
father  and  mother  belonged  to  the  little 
town's  Literary  Club,  which  supplied  the 
community's  sole  entertainment,  as  there 
were  no  movies  near  and  no  theatre  or 
vaudeville.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Conner  sang 
in  the  operettas  the  club  presented.  Nadine's 
three  brothers  and  two  sisters  also  sing. 
The  younger  brother,  she  thinks,  will  go 
far,  musically.  She  is  helping  to  educate 
him  in  music. 

The  old  house  still  is  the  family  home, 
though  the  ranch  now  consists  of  only 
two  and  a  half  acres,  the  rest  having  been 
sold.  The  brothers  and  sisters  are  married, 
too,  and  have  homes  of  their  own. 

Nadine  wants  to  marry,  too.  She  is  the 
only  one  of  the  family  unmarried,  at  pres- 
ent— though  she  was  one  of  the  first  to 
succumb  to  Cupid's  arrows. 

"I  was  just  a  child,  then,"  Nadine  says. 
"Just  out  of  high  school — I  didn't  know 
what  it  was  all  about.  We  were  both  too 
young  ...  It  just  couldn't  last.  So — we 
were  divdrccd,  shortly  after. 

"I  think,"  iiiiiMil  Xadine  thoughtfully, 
"after  Nnu've  liad  such  an  experience, 
you're  m<jrc  sk)W  almut  falling  in  love 
again  .  .  .  I'm  not  in  l(i\i'  but  I  dd  want 
to  get  married  again  some  da\ .  'i'o  liave  my 
own  home-  and  babies  ...  1  n'less  I'm 
just  tlir  ■l.iiiuslu:  t.\])c.  at  hearl.  And  1  feel 
life  wouldn't  he  coniplele  without  all  that 
.  .  .  1  want  it  all  !" 

Lacking   the   babies,   now,   Nadine  has 


various  pets.  She  loves  dogs — but,  in  Cali- 
fornia, dogs  aren't  permitted  in  apartment 
houses,  says  Nadine — and,  because  of  her 
work,  and  to  be  near  the  studios,  she  has 
to  spend  much  of  her  time  in  a  small 
apartment  in  town. 

She  had  a  dog  once — a  bull  terrier, 
named  Pooch,  that  still  makes  all  other 
dogs  seem  stupid  by  comparison. 

"He  knew  everything  I  said  to  him," 
says  Nadine.  "I'd  be  sitting  on  a  couch, 
reading,  and,  without  looking  up,  I'd  say  : 
'Well,  would  you  like  to  go  out  now?' 
And,  even  if  he  were  asleep,  he'd  jump 
up  and  come  to  me,  all  a-quiver.  Then  I'd 
say :  'Get  the  keys,'  and  he'd  run  around 
looking  for  them.  He'd  shake  my  coat,  to 
see  if  the  keys  rattled  in  the  pocket.  He'd 
stand  up  on  his  hind  legs,  to  look  for  them 
on  the  table.  Then  he'd  find  my  purse  and 
bring  it  to  me ! 

"One  day  I  drove  out  to  see  my  family. 
I  only  expected  to  stay  a  minute,  so  I  left 
my  purse  in  the  car.  But  I  stayed  hours — 
and  when  I  got  in  my  car,  the  purse  was 
gone  !  We  hunted  everywhere,  but  couldn't 
find  it.  Finally  my  father  said:  'I  wonder 
if  Pooch  knows  where  it  is?' 

"Then  I  had  an  idea — I  got  an  old  purse 
of  mine,  put  some  keys  and  a  few  things 
in  it,  and  got  in  the  car  with  Pooch  and 
drove  around  the  block.  Then,  back  at  the 
house,  I  got  out,  leaving  the  purse  in  the 
car,  as  before.  We  all  hid  and  watched 
Poochie.  In  a  minute,  he  got  out  of  the 
car,  with  the  purse  in  his  mouth.  He  ran 
up  to  the  door  and  scratched  to  be  let  in. 
No  one  stirred.  We  hadn't  heard  him 
before — talking  and  laughing — so  we  pre- 
tended not  to,  this  time.  After  waiting, 
and  whining  and  scratching  again,  at  last 
Pooch  started  off  for  the  garden,  the  purse 
in  his  mouth.  We  all  watched.  He  found  a 
place  under  some  bushes  and  carefully 
buried  the  purse,  patting  down  with  his 
nose  the  earth  he'd  dug  up ! 

"  'Well !'  said  my  father,  'that  gives  mc 
an  idea !  I  noticed  another  place,  when  I 
was  out,  a  while  ago — I  thought  a  gopher'd 
been  there — '  And  we  all  dashed  out  to  the 
spot — and  dug — and  there,  about  a  foot 
deep,  really,  was  my  other  purse !  Poochie 
wasn't  going  to  let  anything  happen  to  it!" 

When  Pooch  died,  later,  Nadine  tried 
canaries.  But  she  felt  it  was  desolate  for 
them,  whenever  she  was  away  and  the 
place  was  shut  up  and  still,  so  she  gave 
them  to  her  mother.  Now  she  has  acquired 
a  passion  for  tropical  fish ! 

"They  really  are  fascinating,"  she  says. 
"There  are  so  many  different  kinds  and 
colors  ...  I  have  a  big  tank  on  top  of  my 
radio,  and  whenever  I  listen  to  the  radio, 
I  sit  and  watch  the  fish.  If  1  tap  on  the 
glass,  they  come  to  it.  One  of  them  will 
eat  from  my  hand.  He  sticks  his  nose  up 
out  of  the  water  for  the  food — if  I  put  it 
in  the  water,  he  won't  take  it. 

"I  like  fish,  anyway!"  she  laughed.  I 
love  to  go  fishing — I  often  go,  in  a  live- 
l)ait  iishboat.  I  love  the  wind  in  my  face, 
and  the  sun,  and  the  sea  ...  I  think  it 
does  you  good  to  get  out  that  way.  I  don't 
get  a  lot  of  exercise,  otherwise.  A  young 


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RADIO  STARS 


Gabriel  Heat+er,  one  of  radio's 
outstanding  commentators.  MBS. 


surgeon  I  used  to  go  with  told  me  that  I 
had  a  chronic  appendix — and  any  strenu- 
ous exercise  would  make  trouble.  So  I 
don't  ride  or  play  tennis  now. 

"But  fishing  is  grand  fun.  I  like  to 
catch  yellow  tails,  and  tuna.  I'm  lucky 
at  that,  too — I  often  catch  a  15-pound  fish. 
Even  if  no  one  else  is  catching  any — I 
catch  'em!  I  just  have  fisherman's  luck, 
all  around,  I  guess !"'  says  Nadine. 

Lucky?  Perhaps  .  .  .  But  luck,  we 
venture  to  point  out,  might  be  analyzed  as, 
say,  three  parts  patience,  three  parts  per- 
sistence, and  three  parts  knowing  how— 
with  one  part,  maybe,  chance !  It's  not 
something  handed  to  you  on  a  platter. 

"I  know!"  Nadine  nods  seriously.  "I'm 
not  business-like,"  she  went  on.  "Aly  ac- 
companist, who  is  also  my  secretary,  takes 
care  of  all  business  matters  for  me.  I 
want  to  knoiK-  about  them  all — know  why 
one  move  is  wise,  or  another  foolish — and 
then  I  want  to  forget  about  them !  I  don't 
want  to  keep  thinking  about  money  and 
contracts  and  what  nut  .  .  .  She  has  a 
gift  for  those  thing;,,  and  she  is  most 
helpful  to  me.  I  want, "  said  Xadine  earn- 
estly, "to  be  able  to  look  back  and  feel  that, 
at  each  point,  I  made  the  right  decision, 
if  it's  possible  .  .  .  But,  most  of  all,  I 
want,  always,  to  sing  better  than  I  ever 
have  before!'.' 

She  works  hard,  this  little  Conner  girl. 
She  speaks  and  sings  seven  languages. 
And  she  hasn't  had  a  vacation  in  four 
years.  Though,  she  says,  her  trip  East  was 
like  a  vacation,  as  she  never  had  been  East 
before.  She  loved  New  York,  but — Cali- 
fornia born  and  bred — she  was  glad  to 
start  West  again. 

Home  is  where  the  heart  is — and  some 
day  she  will  have  the  home  of  her  heart, 
and — she  hopes — the  babies.  "I  couldn't 
be  satisfied  with  just  a  career,"  says  Na- 
dine Conner,  her  flower-like  face  thought- 
ful. 

Nevertheless,  if  the  Conner  luck  holds, 
she  will  rise  to  the  starry  heights,  this  lit- 
tle girl  of  the  Golden  \\'est,  who  is  "lovely 
to  look  at,  lovely  to  listen  to — "  and  a  very 
nice  person  to  know,  too! 


OF  LOSING  HER  MAN ! 


Isn't  it  a  shame  she  doesn't  know 
this  lovelier  way  to  avoid  offending? 


EFORE  EVERY  DATE,  wise  girU  bathe 
with  Cashmere  Bouquet.  For  this 
deep-cleansing,  perfumed  soap  not 
only  keeps  you  sweet  and  clean 
but  also  alluringly  fragrant.  No  need 

,o  worry  about  body  odor,  when 
you  bathe  with  Cashmere  Bouquet. 


YOU  FEEL  MORE  GLAMOROUS 

you  guard  your  daintiness  this  love- 
,,-er  way.   Long  after  your  bath 
Cashmere  Bouquet's  flower-l.ke  per- 
fume still  clings  lightly      vour  sUm 
-keeping  you  so  completely  safe 
from  any  fear  of  offend.ng! 


rn  MEN — Coshmerc 

so  ALLURING  TO  MEN 

Bouquet's  lingering  fragrance!  But 

remember  that  on'v  «  ^'^^^^'^'t 
,iWe  Cashmere  Bouquet  s  has  that 
special  lingering  qual.ty.  Only 
Cashmere  Bouquet  Soap  brings  you 
,he  lovelier  woy  to  avoid  offend.ng. 


NOW  ONLY  IQc 

at  all  drug,  department, 
— •^^""'■^    and  len-cen!  stores 


MARVELOUS  FOR 
COMPLEXIONS,  TOOl 

This  pure,  creamy-white  soap  has  such  a 
gentle,  caressing  lather.  Yet  it  removes  every 
trace  of  dirt  and  cosmetics — keeps  your  skin 
alluringly  smooth,  radiantly  clear! 


TO  KEEP  FRAGRANTLY  DAINTY— BATHE  WITH  PERFUMED 

CASHMERE  BOUQUET  SOAP 

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RADIO  STARS 


DRY  DEAD  SKIK 

Made  Her  Look  4-0 

 MEN  NEVER  NOTICED  HER 


TEMPERAMENTAL  GENIUS 


(Contitnicd  from  (jugc  41) 


Now  Its  Smooth, 
Younger  Looking 


SHES  ENGAGED 


MAYBE  THIS  GIRLS  EXPERIENCE 
WILL  HELP  YOU  TOO_  - 

  7^^^^^^^'^- 

Here's    The    Amazing     Beauty  Cream 
That's  Thrilling  All  America 

." .  .  At'  last   science  fniinil   :i    \\:\s    to   help  nature 

restore  smooth,  solt.  ''i  -  ■)  Ih.Iim-  iwi  Like  the 
otU  of  youth,  this  n.  i  \  .  i.r  s  <  |tl■;A^^ 

releasei  precious  Intrr-i  i      i  uhlpped 

«n<l  quickly  aid  naiu:  |i  K  u-hnesi. 

LInea.    Premature   Wiinkn       i;i,,-ki  i     .imi  I'iniplcs. 

Melts  away  dry.  scaly.  <Jlm'I  -km.  .SllrIlulaI(•^  iindcrskin. 
Rouses  oil  glands.  Frce!>  cl<jgF;e(l  (>ores.  Cleanses.  Lubri- 
cates, Smooths.  Brings  out  new.  live,  fresh  skin.  Beauty 
editors  are  writing  about  It  I    Thousands  praise  It  I 

Make  This  Guaranteed  3  Day  Test 

GIre  your  skin  these  thrllllnK  new  beauty  benetlts.  Use 
TAYTOX'S  CREAM  to  cleanse  with  and  also  as  a  niKht 
cresm  for  3  days.  It  must  make  your  skin  softer,  smoother, 
look  younscr  and  satisfy  completely,  or  your  money  will 
be  refunded. 

Ask  for  TAYTON'S  CREAM  at  drug,  department  and 
10c  itorea.  If  your  dealer  ran  not  as  yet  supply  you.  In- 
sist he  order  for  you  from  his  wholesaler  or  headrjuarters. 

At  Drug,  Dept.  And  10c  Stores 


ilTAYTOni 

yin  OLd  English  Name" 


purposive  experiences.  From  the  time  he 
was  a  small  boy,  he  knew  wliat  he  wanted 
and  held  to  his  cour>e.  Diniculties  were 
only  somethinjf  to  he  surnn  iunte<l.  Look 
at  the  man;  thin,  nervous,  liaw  k-imsed,  gim- 
let-eyed, his  body  constantl\-  in  motion, 
e\ery  movement  tense  ami  jeiky,  and  you 
will  undei-stand  that  here  is  a  man  who 
iks  no  interference,  wh.i  carves  out  his 
<iwn  career,  who  is  master  ol  his  fate  and 
captain  of  his  soul  ! 

He  uses  every  nerve,  every  fibre  of  his 
being  in  conducting;  is  more  dramatic  to 
watch  than  Stokowski.  But  you  do  not 
feel  that  he  is  consciously  putting  on  a 
show.  He  is  too  intense,  too  completely 
absiirbed  in  what  he  is  creating,  in  the 
nding  of  sound,  the  building  of  harmon- 
ies to  be  aware  of  his  audience  while  he 
is  in  the  throes  of  projecting  his  ideas. 

The  man  is  real  and  the  man  is  sincere, 
aiifl  right  now  there  is  nothing  so  important 
to  him  as  proving  that  radio  is  a  perfect 
me<lium  for  music  on  a  grander  scale  than 
has  been  ofifered  the  radio  public  before, 
.At  his  insistence,  thirty-six  musicians  wait 
on  his  gesture,  his  mood — thirty-six  person- 
ally chosen  men  and  women,  selected  with 
exceeding  care  in  order  that  his  dream,  his 
ideal  of  music,  might  be  given  form  for  the 
music-loving  public. 

His  effects  are  carefully  planned,  the 
placement  of  the  microphones  studied,  so 
that  with  a  few  violins,  for  instance,  the 
same  tone  can  be  produced  as  with  many. 
He  wears  earphones  at  times,  so  that  he 
can  cluck  up  on  how  the  music  sounds  to 
the  liiK-  who  listens  in.  In  Budapest,  at 
line  time,  he  even  directed  his  orchestra 
throimh  tlie  window  of  the  contml-room,  so 
ih.it  he  could  hear  the  effect  he  was  getting 
over  the  air. 

When  you  know  that,  at  sixteen,  he  not 
cmly  knew  Beethoven  by  heart  but  could 
play  the  notes  backwards,  you  can  guess 
something  of  the  driving  purpose,  the  sin- 
gle-mindedness  that  governs  Janssen's  life. 
Since  lie  returned  from  Europe,  he  has 
put  in  twenty  hours  a  day  on  his  work, 
developing  ideas,  making  plans,  rehearsing. 
He  is  a  iiuman  dynamo  and  he  is  driving 
himself  to  the  limit.  There  could  scarcely 
be  left  iiatience  or  understanding  of  any- 
thing that  niiglit  seem  to  threaten  to  come 
between  him  and  his  work. 

But  if  there  is  anything  radio  is  impa- 
tient of,  it  is  temperament.  It  is  the  boast 
of  producers  and  stars  alike  that  there  is 
no  room  for  temperament  on  tiie  air.  The 
exigencies  of  the  medium  are  such  that 
there  is  no  time,  no  room  for  personal  idio- 
syncrasies. And  Werner  Janssen  is  as 
temperamental  as  a  prima  donna.  To  do 
what  he  wants,  to  get  the  results  he  wants, 
he  will  ride  roughshod  over  anyone.  At  one 
moment,  he  will  seem  to  have  an  infinite 
l)atience  in  coaxing,  coercing  his  orchestra. 
At  the  next,  upon  some  slight  interruption, 
he  will  seem  bereft  of  reason,  a  screaming 
madman.  One  wonders  how  his  system  can 
stand  the  strain — let  alone  the  systems  of 
those  thrown  into  contact  with  him.  It  is 
like  coming  into  contact  unexpectedly  with 
a  live  electric  wire! 


But  Hollywood,  as  well  as  radio,  has  a 
rugged  impatience  of  individualism,  of  any- 
thing that  even  looks  like  "putting  on  a 
show."  If  you  come  to  Hollywood,  you 
have  to  accept  it  on  its  own  terms,  meet  it 
halfway ;  you  must  conform  to  the  pattern, 
in  some  ineasure  at  least.  When  all  is 
said  and  done,  it  is  a  small  town  with  a 
small  town's  critical  attitude  toward  the 
newcomer  and  a  resentment  of  anyone  who 
is  different  or  aloof.  There  are  things 
done  and  things  not  done,  and  a  way  of  do- 
ing them  .\nd  being  rude  to  people,  ig- 
noring thcni,  insulting  them,  is  not  a  good 
w;i.y  to  make  friends.  In  his  first  three 
weeks  in  the  film  city,  Janssen  revealed  his 
dark  distaste  for  Hollywood  and  all  it 
stands  for,  and  for  the  Press  and  its  an- 
noying persistence  in  trying  to  find  out 
something  about  him,  to  introduce  hiin  to 
his  audience. 

Janssen  is  an  .American— New  York 
born,  educated  at  Dartmouth.  But  in  three 
years  abroad,  he  has  forgotten  American 
ways,  or  else  he  has  coddled  and  developed 
a  fine  disregard  for  them. 

During  these  years  abroad,  he  profited 
by  a  wide  and  varied  experience,  conduct- 
ing here  and  there  on  the  Continent,  leading 
the  world's  finest  orchestras  in  a  manner 
that  roused  favorable  comment  everywhere 
But  even  then  he  was  aloof,  indifferent  to 
publicity,  and  the  Press  comments  were 
brief  and  few. 

When  I  heard  that  he  had  met  Sibelius, 
greatest  of  living  composers,  had  conducted 
for  him  three  titnes  and  won  the  guerdon 
of  that  line  genius'  praise,  I  felt  awed  and 
thrilled.  It  was  like  "seeing  Shelley  plain." 
But  I  couldn't  tell  Mr.  Janssen  that,  be- 
cause I  was  denied  an  audience.  I  had  a 
feeling  that  the  master  himself  would  have 
been  more  gracious. 

But  somewhere  in  this  strange  and  diffi- 
cult individual  is  a  streak  of  sentitnentality, 
for  he  dedicated  his  lovely  arrangement  of 
Stephen  Foster  melodies  to  his  wife. 

.And  the  only  person  allowed  within  the 
sacred  walls  during  rehearsals  is  that  lovely 
blonde  lady,  shy  and  sweet  and  unassuming. 
.A  lady  who  sits  enraptured  by  the  music 
and  by  the  man  whose  skilful  conducting 
makes  the  most  difficult  classical  music 
intelligible  to  the  average  audience.  A 
lady  who  saw  beneath  the  prickly  exterior 
of  the  conductor  to  the  man  himself,  and 
liked  what  she  saw. 

It  was  love  of  music  that  brought  these 
two  tugcthcr,  in  the  first  place.  They  met 
at  a  concert  in  l.os  Angeles  s^mc  lime  ago 
and  a  kindly  fate  brought  them  tngetlier 
again  in  Europe  last  year.  Ann  never  had 
heard  him  conduct.  The  first  time  she  saw 
him  on  the  rostrum  was  when  he  conducted 
a  Sibelius  concert  in  Helsingfors,  Finland, 
after  their  marriage. 

Ill  .all  his  previous  experience,  Janssen 
was  a  guest  cniidnclMr,  mccliiiL;  his  musi- 
cians ,is  strangers  and  yet  possessing  the 
power  and  .skill  t(i  draw  fnnii  them  greater 
music  than  tluy  liad,  perhaps,  ever  played 
before.  When  the  Chase  and  Sanborn  Hour 
.started  its  present  series,  on  May  9th, 
Werner  Janssen  became  musical  director 


RADIO  STARS 


for  that  program,  with  his  own  orchestra 
of  thirty-six  pieces.  Now,  in  his  own  new 
series,  sponsored  by  Flcisclniiaiiii's  )'cast, 
he  presents  an  augmented  orchestra  in  pro- 
grams of  popular  music.  The  programs  are 
heard  regularly  on  Sundays,  from  7 :30  to 
8  :00  p.m.,  ilDST,  over  the  NBC-Bluc  net- 
work. 

To  the  popular  music  of  the  day,  he  will 
lend  interpretations  that  made  his  name 
well  known  in  Europe  before  he  returned 
to  America  as  a  symphonic  conductor. 

The  man  is  a  genius,  undeniably,  and  his 
awareness  of  his  gift  is  only  one  of  the 
reasons  for  the  way  in  which  he  has  forged 
ahead  in  recent  years.  If  he  doesn't  like 
to  remember  walking  the  streets  looking 
for  work,  if  he  wants  to  forget  that  he 
played  the  piano  in  the  orchestra  of  the 
Z'xegfcld  Follies,  not  so  many  years  ago, 
that  is  all  right.  But  not  even  a  genius 
should  lose  the  common  touch. 

Hollywood  is  divided  into  two  camps 
now.  One  side,  having  seen  A\m  Harding's 
eyes  as  they  rest  on  her  husband,  having 
seen  the  beatific  smile  that  lights  her  lovely 
face  as  she  watches  him,  predict  the  mar- 
riage will  be  a  success.  The  others  say  it 
cannot  last.  Even  though  Ann  has  said 
that  her  husband's  career  comes  first,  even 
though  she  sweetly  suggests  that  he  is  now 
her  whole  concern — even  though  she  her- 
self believes  that,  and  he  does.  U>o — the 
doubters  ask  pointed  questions.  In  lier  own 
home  she  may  be  Mrs.  Werner  Janssen, 
but  the  fact  remains  that  she  is  Ann 
Harding,  that  she  is  famous  in  her  own 
right,  a  splendid  actress,  a  beautiful 
woman,  with  a  public  of  her  own.  .^t 
present  she  plans  to  continue  her  acting. 


They  say  that  her  career  will  inevitably 
come  between  these  two.  For  compromise 
is  obviously  impossible  for  her  fiery  hus- 
band. In  spite  of  a  five-year  contract  with 
radio  and  motion  picture  companies,  he 
hates  Hollywood  and  all  it  stands  for, 
with  a  hate  he  refuses  to  modify  or  con- 
ceal. He  carries  too  manys  chips  on  his 
shoulder  for  even  blase  Hollywood  to  ig- 
nore. Either  he  will  have  to  step  down 
from  his  pedestal  and  be  human — or  Holly- 
wood will  rise  between  them  like  a  wall. 
Compromise  is  the  only  possible  solution. 
One  doubts  that  Mr.  Janssen  knows  the 
meaning  of  the  word. 

He  sits  spiderlike,  long  legs  and  arms 
entwined,  head  down  bent,  in  a  silver  web 
of  dreams.  An  idea  presents  itself,  he 
darts  forth,  seizes  it,  imprisons  it,  en- 
folds it.  When  he  is  ready,  it  is  projected, 
as  perfect  musically  as  ho  can  make  it. 

Black  notes  on  a  page  are  given  new 
meaning,  new  life  beneath  his  inspired 
direction.  That  is  his  excuse  for  being, 
tliat  is  what  gives  meaning  to  his  life. 
But  even  music  shares  the  moods  and 
emotions  of  humanity,  and  a  musician,  by 
the  same  token,  needs  to  be  human,  needs 
to  know  how  to  laugh  as  well  as  to  cry, 
to  give  as  well  as  to  take. 

There  always  are  exceptions  to  the  rule 
and,  in  Hollywood,  a  lew  have  defied  con- 
vention, refused  to  cimform.  Katharine 
Hepburn  tricks  the  Press  and  laughs  a 
Puckish  laugh — they  may  not  like  it,  but 
they  have  to  take  it.  Marlene  Dietrich 
wraps  herself  in  veils  of  mystery.  And 
Garbo  won't  talk.  With  this  small  group, 
Werner  Janssen  allies  himself.  You  can 
take  it  or  leave  it.    All  he  cares  is  that 


the  tonal  quality  of  the  music  that  goes 
out  over  the  air  under  his  direction  is 
equal  to  that  produced  by  a  full  sym- 
phonic orchestra,  that  his  interpretation  of 
ancient  and  modern  masters  is  as  near  what 
the  composers  conceived  as  is  humanly 
possible  to  achieve. 

The  thirty-six  human  beings  and  the 
thirty-six  instruments  are  as  respfinsive  to 
his  gestures  as  if  he  manipulated  them 
with  a  fine  wire.  He  is.  iiiniself.  a  sensi- 
tive instrument,  a  sort  of  human  sounding- 
board  that  mellows  and  blends  the  varied 
notes  into  the  fullness  and  richness  of  com- 
plete musical  harmony.  Whether  he  is 
yielding  to  public  taste,  as  his  sponsors 
conceive  it,  to  the  extent  of  playing  the 
sii-called  popular  music,  or  losing  himself 
ill  his  beloved  Sibelius,  in  creating  music 
lie  is  a  completely  integrated  person.  But 
down  from  the  rostrum,  he  is  a  living  dis- 
cord, as  dissonant  as  a  violin  with  loosened 
strings. 

Perhaps  Ann  is  the  one  who  can  draw 
those  strings  together,  keep  them  in  tune, 
in  harmony  not  only  with  the  music  of  the 
spheres  but  with  the  practical  and  curious 
world  in  which  even  Mr.  Werner  Janssen 
has  to  live.  Perhaps  she  can  show  him 
that  the  people  he  is  striving  to  reach  with 
his  music  are  the  very  people  whose  friend- 
ly interest  he  repudiates. 

Perhaps,  in  their  secluded  hillside  home, 
they  will  enjoy  together  not  only  the  fine 
music  they  both  love  but  that  deeper,  equal- 
ly enduring  harmony  of  mutual  under- 
standing and  sympathy  and  love. 

Perhaps  all  this  seems  no  problem  at 
all  to  Ann,  for  she  is  warm-hearted  and 
generous,  and  deeply,  completely  in  love. 


.  HER  SMILE  WON  HIM 


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Now  tlieres  a  girl  tvIio 

KNOWS  HER  WAY 


AROUND" 


"That  girl  has  something," 

"And  plenty  of  it.  I've  seen  pret- 
tier girls  and  known  smarter  ones, 
hut  Janet  will  manage  nicely  with 
what  she  has." 

The  girl  who  knows  her  way  around 
men — what  is  her  secret? 

It's  the  happy  art  of  pleasing,  of  tak- 
ing care  always  to  consider  masculine 
likes  and  dislikes. 

She  knows  that  one  of  the  things 
men  admire  most  in  a  girl  is  a  fresh, 
sweet  daintiness  of  person.  And  that 
they  dislike  nothing  more  than  the  odor 
of  underarm  perspiration  on  her  cloth- 
ing and  person. 

And  so  she  takes  no  chances.  For  she 
knows  it  is  easy  to  avoid — with  Mum! 


Takes  only  half  a  minute.  Just  half  a 
minute  is  all  you  need  to  use  this  dainty 
deodorant  cream.  Then  you're  safe  for 
the  whole  day! 

Harmless  to  clothing.  Another  thing 
you'll  like  —  use  Mum  any  time,  even 
after  you  re  dressed.  For  it's  harmless 
to  clothing. 

Soothing  to  skin.  It's  soothing  to  the 
skin,  too  —  so  soothing  you  can  use  it 
right  after  shaving  your  underarms. 
Doesn't  prevent  natural  perspiration. 

Mum,  you  know,  doesn't  prevent  natural 
perspiration.  But  it  does  prevent  every 
trace  of  perspiration  odor.  And  how  im- 
portant that  is!  Remember— nothing  so 
Quickly  kills  a  man's  interest  in  a  girl  as 
disagreeable  perspiration  odor.  Don't 
risk  it — use  Mum  regularly,  every  day. 
Bristol-Myers  Co.,  630  Fifth  Ave.,  N.  Y. 


MUM 


\ 


ANOTHER  WAY  MUM  HELPS 

is  on  sanitary  napkins. 
Use  it  for  this  and  you'll 
never  have  to  worry 
about  this  cause  of  un- 
pleasantness. 


takes  the  odor  out  of  perspiration 


WEST  COAST 
CHATTER  l| 

(Continued  from  page  56) 


home  for  themselves  and  Ozzie,  Jr.  Har- 
riet, incidentally,  still  says  her  marriage 
comes  miles  ahead  of  any  career  in  the 
movies.  She  even  annoys  the  antograph 
hounds  by  signing  her  name  "Harriet 
Nelson.'' 

Al  Jolson  is  inordinately  proud  of  that 
son  which  he  and  Ruby  Keeler  adopted. 
"Why,  you  know,"  he  says  proudly,  "that 
baby's  so  smart.  He  sits  at  home  and 
listens  to  my  broadcasts.  And  every  time, 
he  recognizes  my  voice  right  away.  Starts 
a  blood-curdling  yell  the  minute  I  come 
on  the  air!" 

Dayliiiht  Saz'iiif/  Time  not  only  mixed 
up  plenty  of  tiiners-in.  hut  some  of  tlie  en- 
tertoinrrs.  I  hc  first  day  that  the  Ken  Mur- 
ray sh(r-,e  7eeiit  i>n  an  hour  earlier,  Marlyn 
Stnart  Teas  )io:ehere  to  be  seen.  Frantic, 
Ken  ealled  Marlyn  s  home,  all  her  friends 
and  the  poliee  department.  No  one  had 
any  news  of  her.  .So.  at  the  last  minute, 
Diana  Bourbon,  teehnieal  assistant  on  the 
show,  -cirut  on  the  air  with  the  Stuart 
scrip/  clutched  in  her  shahino  Inmds.  Loud- 
est applause  for  Diana's  pcrfornmnce  came 
from  the  wini/s  at  the  end  of  the  shoiv, 
for  Marlyn  had  decided  to  come  a  "little 
early  for  rehearsal" — and  arrived  in  time 
to  see  the  last  fii'c  minutes  of  the  shozi.'! 

The  broadcast  of  The  Plainsman 
sounded  like  just  another  of  those  smoothly 
performed  shows  for  which  the  Lu.v  The- 
atre is  famous.  The  audience  never  sus- 
pected that  tlie  entire  hour  was  a  nightmare 
to  the  cast  until  the  final  word  was  safely 
in  the  mike.  For  Gary  Cooper  had  been 
ordered  to  bed  by  his  physician  just  twen- 
ty-four hours  before  the  broadcast,  and 
Fredric  March  agreed  to  play  the  role  of 
Wild  Bill  Hikok.  The  Marches  had 
planned  a  gala  celebration  that  evening  in 
honor  of  their  tenth  wedding  anniversary, 
but  they  called  of?  the  party  and  stayed  up 
all  night  rehearsing  Fredric  for  the  first 
Western  role  he  had  ever  tackled  in  his 
long  career.  You  wlio  listened  in  know 
what  a  good  job  the  Marciies  did. 

There's  fun  in  sudden  fame  and  for- 
tune, but  Chester  Lauck  ("Lum"  of  Lum 
'n'  Abner)  is  beginning  to  see  some  draw- 
backs. The  Laucks  have  rented  a  magnifi- 
cent estate  out  in  San  Fernando  Valley — 
complete  with  swimming  pool,  tennis  courts 
and  all  the  regular  fi.Yings.  The  estate  is 
surrounded  by  high  walls  and,  to  be  ad- 
mitted, one  must  go  through  a  massive, 
electrically  operated  gate,  after  phoning 
up  to  the  house.  Lum's  always  thought 
this  pretty  fancy,  until  the  evening  he 
came  home,  phoned  up  to  the  house,  and 
kept  phoning  for  over  an  hour  without 
any  answer.  He  knew  Mrs.  Lauck  had 
gone  to  San  Francisco  that  week-end  to 
visit  friends,  but  he  didn't  know  that  the 
servants  had  decided  to  take  off  an  eve- 
ning, too,  thinking  the  lord  of  the  manor 
had  a  key  to  the  gate.  Lum  finally  ended 
up  by  spending  the  night  with  the  Abners 


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and  talking  of  the  advantages  of  that 
"single"  back  in  Arkansas. 

But  Nancy,  the  jour-year-old  daughter 
of  the  Norris  Goffs,  thinks  California  is 
the  most  ivonderful  place  in  the  tvorld.  Her 
faith  in  its  unlimited  possibilities  was 
proved  the  other  evening  tvhen  she  ex- 
plained to  some  guests  of  her  parents:  "We 
have  all  kinds  of  fruit  trees  in  the  hack 
yard.  Oranges  and  figs  and  lemons  a)id 
grapefruit.  IVe  haven't  any  orange-juice 
trees,  but  1  think  Daddy  will  get  some." 

Everyone  who  is  anyone  in  Hollywood 
radio  and  film  circles  was  on  hand  to 
throw  rice  at  Jeanette  MacDonald  and 
Gene  Raymond.  Ginger  Rogers,  Fay 
Wray  and  Mrs.  John  Mack  Brown  were 
among  Jeanettc's  attendants,  while  Harold 
Lloyd,  Allan  Jones  and  Basil  Rathbone 
ushered.  Nelson  Eddy  and  Lily  Pons  sang 
for  the  ceremony.  Lily  was  in  New  York, 
but  that  doesn't  interfere  with  Hollywood 
wedding  plans.  The  Pons  voice  was  sim- 
ply piped  into  the  church  for  the  occasion. 

It  spite  of  Gene  Raymond  being  the 
person  most  anxious  to  have  his  picture 
at  RKO  speedily  finished,  it  was  he  who 
caused  the  majority  of  production  delays. 
All  the  love  scenes  between  him  and  Har- 
riet Milliard  had  to  be  "shot"  a  couple 
of  times,  since  Gene  persisted  in  calling 
his  leading  lady  Jeanette! 

When  Another  Language  was  presented 
on  Lux  Radio  Theatre,  May  Robson  was 
noticed  looking  all  over  the  stage  for 
something  during  a  rehearsal.  It  developed 
that  she  wanted  a  large  piece  of  brown 
paper,  so  the  whole  cast  started  looking 
with  her.  After  fifteen  minutes'  fruitless 
search,  Bette  Davis  asked  just  what  Miss 
Robson  wanted  it  for,  anyhow.  "Why," 
said  the  elderly  actress,  "I  want  it  for  the 
sound  effect  of  opening  that  package." 
When  she  was  told  about  Charlie  Forsyth, 
High  Priest  of  Noises,  Miss  Robson  was 
so  astounded  that  she  had  to  meet  him  at 
once.  And  Charlie  demonstrated  every 
one  of  his  117  dififerent  contraptions  for 
sound  effects  via  the  mike. 

Didya  Know  That:  Betty  Furness  and 
Johnny  Green  are  going  to  make  '7  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Green,  sure  uuff  .  .  .  Raymond 
Paige  is  winning  all  the  yachting  contests 
on  the  Coast  .  .  .  Dick  Foran's  brother, 
James,  is  now  a  mooni  pitcher  actor,  and 
spotted  at  Princeton  ivhere  he  was  study- 
ing to  be  a  doctor  .  .  .  Ann  Harding  says 
she's  lost  interest  in  a  career  .unce  marry- 
ing Werner  Janssen  .  .  .  There's  a  feud 
on  between  Walter  Winchell  and  Andy 
over  at  NBC,  about  'who's  going  to  play 
the  nC7v  orc/aii  bctzvcen  broadcasts  .  .  . 
Grace  .Moore  spends  all  her  spare  time  in 
a  trailer  zvilh  I'alcntiu  Parera.  louring  up 
and  dozm  the  California  hi(ihzcavs  .  .  . 
Cliff  Clark,  barker  of  the  Giliuore  Circus, 
found  his  pet  lion  cub's  bite  ims  worse 
than  his  growl  .  .  .  W.  C.  Fields  is  talk- 
ing to  Dr.  Da-ry,  the  tree  surgeon,  about 
doing  something  about  Charlie  McCarthy's 
sassiness  .  .  .  Judy  Garland  alzvays  starts 
a  song  -with  Ihr  indc.v  and  middle  fingers 
of  her  hands  crossed  for  luck  .  .  .  Ron- 
ald (Wen)  Drake  (Niles)  has  bought  an-\ 
other  plane  after  that  crackup  .  .  .  Tony  I 
Martin  is  maa-ad  about  Alice  Faye.  ...  I 
—By  LOUIS  SVENSRUD.  I 


helps  a  lady 
in  distress 


"A  relative  of  mine  back  East  wrote  me 
that  his  daughter,  whose  engagement 
had  just  been  tragically  broken,  was 
visiting  the  coast.  Would  I  help  her?... 


"I  took  her  to  dinner.  She  was  a  pretty 
girl,  but  her  self-confidence  had  been 
shattered  by  her  bitter  experience.  1 
encouraged  her  to  tell  her  troubles... 


"Her  fiance's  love  had  cooled  until,  in 
despair,  she  finally  sent  back  his  ring. 
It  occurred  to  me  that  her  appear- 
ance could  be  improved  and  I 
couldn't  resist  just  one  bit  of  advice  ... 


"'Remember',  I  said,  'a  girl's  most  al- 
luring feature  is  her  mouth.  No  man 
is  attracted  by  dry,  cracked  lips.  To 
keep  always  lovely,  there's  a  special 
lipstick  with  a  Beauty-cream  base.'"... 


THAT  ADVICE  ABOUT  KISSPROOF  HAS  MADE 
LIFE  WORTH  LIVING  AGAIN./  NOW  JOHN'S 

RING  IS  BACK  ON  MV  FINGER.  THE 
BEAUTV-CREAAA  BASE  OF  KISSPROOF  IS 

A  girl's  most  precious  beautxaid./^ 

Kissproof  protects  your  tender  lips  from  drying 
and  chapping  while  It  gives  warm,  lasting  color. 

Tdssproof 

J^ybdjl^MlL  LIPSTICK  ' 


5  luscious  shades  of  Kissproof  C(\f, 
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with  Kissproof  rouge,  made  in  two 
and  Cheek  (creme)  or  Compact  (dry), 
trial    sizes   at   all    10-cent  stores. 


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1. 


Quest... is  completely  effective 
ON  SANITARY  NAPKINS 


•  Why  take  chances  now  that  complete 
protection  is  so  easily  obtainable?  The 
makers  of  Kotex  bring  you  a  new  deodor- 
ant powder  named  Quest  that  positively  de- 
stroys all  t)'pes  of  napkin  and  body  odors! 

Quest  is  utterly  effective.  Even  on  sani- 
tary napkins  it  makes  personal  daintiness 
a  reality.  It  prevents  perspiration  offense; 
assures  all-day-long  body  freshness,  yet  it 
does  not  irritate  the  skin  or 
clog  the  pores. 

Try  Quest  today,  for  the  per- 
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treasures.  Use  this  cool,  sooth- 


ing powder  on  sanitary  napkins.  Also 
after  the  bath,  under  arms  and  for  foot 
comfort.  Quest  is  unscented,  thus  it  does 
not  cover  up  the  fragrance  of  lovely 
perfume. 

And,  surprising  as  it  may  seem.  Quest 
costs  no  more  than  other  kinds  .  .  .  only 
35c  for  the  large  two-ounce  can  at  your 
favorite  drug  counter.  Buy  it  today. 


BEAUTY  ADVICE 

{Continued  from  page  15) 


places  her  faith  in  a  homely,  old-fashioned 
aid  for  cleansing  the  skin.  A  coating  of 
cooked  oatmeal,  allowed  to  dry,  and 
covered  by  an  outer  layer  of  raw  egg. 
Leave  this  on  for  thirty  minutes,  once 
a  week,  and  follow  with  a  good  cold  cream. 
She  says  this  makes  her  face  feel  as  if 
it  had  had  a  cocktail.  The  best  results  from 
a  facial  are  obtained  if  you  relax  com- 
pletely while  it  does  the  work.  The  best 
way  to  relax  is  to  think  pleasant  thoughts. 
Now  it  may  be  hard  to  imagine  beauty 
while  your  face  resembles  something  that 
should  be  in  the  frigidaire,  but  you  can 
think  about  how  lovely  you  will  look  and 
feel,  once  it  has  been  washed  off ! 

This  crowd  takes  the  sun  in  moderation 
and  their  sun-tan  from  boxes  and  jars  of 
cosmetics !  In  this  way  they  have  their 
cake  and  eat  it,  too.  All  the  fashionable- 
ness  of  a  tan,  with  no  danger  of  excess 
burning.  A  tan  that  will  come  on  and  off 
absolutely  at  will !  Lotions  are,  of  course, 
applied  lavishly  before  exposure  to  the 
sun,  and  quantities  of  lubricating  creams 
are  used  afterward.  Bleach  creams  are 
used  by  the  girls  who  don't  want  to  tan. 

These  girl  musicians  have  to  dress  alike, 
in  order  that  costumes  may  not  distract 
their  audience,  but  they  fought  as  one 
for  the  privilege  of  individual  coiffures. 
They  insisted  on  individual  coiffures,  be- 
cause they  know  the  hairdresser  is  the 
beauty  surgeon  who  can  slenderize  or 
broaden  the  face,  extend  the  throat  line, 
make  ears  decorative  or  conceal  them  en- 
tirely. Now,  even  with  thirty  identical 
frocks,  with  thirty  figures  of  uniform 
weight  and  size,  they  are  thirty  individuals 
— each  lo\ely  in  her  own  right. 

Except  that  all  the  girls  demand  neat 
coiffures  and  shining  lustrous  locks,  there 
is  a  great  variety  in  the  thirty  hair  styles. 
Having  discovered  what  a  comb,  a  little 
wave  lotion,  and  bobby  pins  or  other  curl- 
ing gadgets  will  do,  they  find  they  can 
practically  change  coiffures  with  dresses. 

When  it  comes  to  protecting  the  hair, 
the  girls  have  a  uniiiue  mctliod  that  sounds 
so  simple  you  will  be  interested,  too.  An 
orange  stick,  dipped  in  oil,  is  used  to  apply 
oil  to  the  roots  of  the  hair  and  prevent 
its  becoming  dried  by  the  sun.  Of  course, 
when  the  hair  has  been  exposed  to  salt 
water,  it  always  is  shampooed  immediately. 

While  we  are  on  the  subject  of  hair 
shampoos,  I  am  going  to  digress  for  a 
moment  from  the  girls  and  tell  you  about 
a  grand  shampoo  1  have  tried.  This  sham- 
poo may  be  given  at  your  favorite  beauty 
salon,  or  you  may  give  it  to  yourself  at 
home.  It  is  a  shampoo  that  completely 
dissolves  dandruff  and  then  washes  it  away. 
It  rinses  clean  in  hard  or  soft  water.  Xo 
special  rinse  is  necessary  after  using  this 
shampoo.  It  is  equally  good  for  blondes 
and  brunettes.  Now,  tiie  first  step  in  ban- 
ishing dandruff  is  dissolving  the  dandruff 
and  keeping  the  scalp  clean,  so  this  shampoo 
is  a  trcatincnt  as  well  as  a  cleanser.  I  shall 
be  glad  to  ,i;i\c  yon  the  name  of  this  sham- 
poo, if  \<ni  will  write  me. 

Now,  to  return  to  the  girls — they  are 
busy  making  faces  !  Lovely  faces  for  them- 
selves.   It  always  is  fascinating  to  watch 


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NO  OTHER  NAPKIN 


make-up  being  skillfully  applied  to  a 
pretty  face — and  when  there  are  thirty 
pretty  faces  to  watch,  it  is  just  that  much 
more  intriguing. 

The  first  little  girl  is  applying  her  lip- 
Stick  to  her  open  mouth  and  then  grimacing 
while  she  blends  it.  Applying  lipstick  in  this 
manner  assures  her  that  the  color  is  evenly 
applied,  and  that  when  she  opens  her  mouth 
to  talk  or  laugh  there  will  be  no  sudden 
and  unattractive  line  where  lipstick  is  not ! 

(Editor's  Note:  Don't  folloii'  this  tip  in 
public — /'i<^  then  it  isn't  the  thing  to  apply 
lipstick  in  public  anyaay!) 

The  next  little  girl  is  making  doubly 
sure  that  her  lipstick  and  rouge  are  the 
identical  shade — and  incidentally  practic- 
ing a  bit  of  economy.  With  a  tiny  bit  of 
cream  on  her  cheeks,  she  finds  she  can 
apply  her  lipstick  as  a  cheek  rouge.  The 
cream  enables  her  to  blend  the  color 
smoothly.  The  absurd  two-fingered  rubber 
gloves  that  some  of  the  girls  are  wearing 
are  gloves  especially  designed  to  prevent 
paste  rouge  from  staining  the  fingers. 

One  girl  is  using  her  cream  rouge  as  a 
lipstick.     She    applies    it   with   the    flat,  j 
rounded  end  of  an  orange-wood  stick.  She 
explains  that  this  is  especially  good  for 
evening,  where  artificial  lines  are  allowable. 

Here  is  a  little  brunette,  busily  accent- 
ing a  ver>-  slight  widow's  peak  with  a  dark 
eyebrow  pencil.  It  will  look  like  a  very 
real  widow's  peak  when  she  is  finished. 
Next  to  her,  another  girl  is  working  at 
her  widow's  peak,  using  mascara.  She  has 
a  natural  widow's  peak,  but  it  is  made  of 
ven.-  light  fine  hair. 

Right  in  line  with  all  these  beauty  aids 
is  the  sample  I  have  for  you  this  month. 
This  is  a  very  fine  and  lovely  face  powder 
that  banishes  shine — and  you  would  never 
suspect  it,  but  it  also  treats  your  com- 
plexion! This  is  a  prescription  face 
powder  that  all  will  like — and  especially  the 
acne  and  oily  skin  sufferers,  for  they  will 
find  it  a  wonderful  help  in  banishing  blem- 
ishes and  preventing  the  formation  of  more 
blemishes.  I  hope  every  one  of  you  will 
send  for  your  free  sample  of  this  powder 
and  learn,  first-hand,  how  you  may  improve 
your  complexion  at  the  same  time  you  are 
improving  your  appearance. 

Now  the  same  company  that  makes  this 
powder  has  a  volatized  sulphur  cream, 
that  is  especially  designed  for  oily  and 
blemished  skins.  This  cream  is  greaseless 
and  is  antiseptic.  It  clears  the  skin,  by  de- 
stroying the  germs  that  enter  the  skin  from 
the  outside,  and  promotes  healing.  Isn't 
this  just  what  you  have  been  looking  and 
hoping  for?  The  name  of  this  cream  will 
be  sent  to  you  when  you  receive  your  free 
sample  of  the  powder. 


Mary  Biddle 

RADIO  STARS  MAGAZINE 
149  Madison  Avenue 
New  York,  New  York 

I  would  like  to  know  the  name  of 
the  cream  and  would  like  to  have  an 
absolutely  free  sample  of  the  face 
powder.    I  would  like  the  shade  to 


be  Xatura 
Name :    . . 


Brunette. 


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I  LIKE 

SOMETHING 
DIFFERENT 


"I've  got  it!  Biggest  lot 
of  flavor  ever  sold  for  a 
nickel!  A  smooth,  zesty 
flavor  that  slides  along 
your  tongue  as  satisfy- 
ingly  as  cream,  yet  re- 
freshing as  a  cold  shower. 
You  get  this  flavor  fresh 
—  in  scientific,  airtight 
packages  —  in  Beeman's, 
the  gum  so  many  people 
buy  to  aid  their  digestion 
but  chew  often  because 
it's  so  downright  good." 


Beeman's 


AIDS  DIGESTION... 


HIMBER  STEERS  CLEAR  OF  LOVE 


(Continued  from  page  7) 


you  feed  a  cat,  the  cat  will  soon  lap  at  an 
enipt\-  bowl  whenever  it  hears  a  hell  rini;. 
It's  thi'  ulil  (iiir  al)Min  respwiifjini;  to  things 
in  tlic  same  way.  And  in  the  same  way. 
even  the  nuist  hard-liitten  fellow  in  the 
world  can  fall  again  for  a  pretty  face  .  .  ." 

So  when  Hiniher  feels  he's  in  danger  of 
falling,  he  runs.  Only  last  winter,  sitting 
at  dinner  with  a  young  lad\-  in  a  niidtown 
restaurant,  he  looked  <lo\\n,  amazed,  to 
see  his  own  hand  reaching  for  hers  across 
the  table.  He  didn't  know  why.  Perhaps 
It  was  the  dark  Ian  of  eyelashes  that  swept 
her  check,  or  something  very  dear  she'd 
said — and,  just  like  the  bell  ringing  for 
the  cat,  he  had  responded  against  his  will. 
Being  an  impulsive  fellow,  he  quickly 
jerked  a  ten-dollar  bill  from  his  pocket, 
laid  it  on  the  table  to  cover  the  check. 
Then  he  rose  and  said  (|uite  calmly,  bow- 
ing a  little:  "If  you  will  excuse  me, 
please,"  and  walked  out.  He  never  allowed 
himself  to  see  that  girl  again. 

Richard  Himber  is  a  bachelor,  because— 
since  lie's  certain  love  is  a  lot  of  over- 
rated hokum — he  has  mastered  the  fine  art 
of  staying  out  of  love. 

"What  do  I  need  a  wife  for?  I  have 
an  apartment  upstairs  that's  run  for  me 
like  clockwork.  I  couldn't  have  a  better 
cocik  than  the  chef  who  ncikIs  my  meals 
up  by  roiiiu  service.  I  have  cuinplete  free- 
dnin.    1  have  friends,  com|ianinnship  .  .  ." 

l-'i\c  >ears  ago  such  a  remark  would 
ha\f  l)i'cn  as  alien  to  Dick  as  it  is  now 
entirely-  t\pical  nf  him.  Because  five  years 
,igo  he  had  Inrnished  that  same  apart- 
ment njistairs  for  the  girl  wIm  promised  to 
he  hi^  bride.  He  met  Inr  at  a  debutante 
hall,  where  he  was  playing  ,i  fiddle  in  the 
tinheslra.  F<n-  a  year  thi'\-  loved  each 
o'dier  madly. 

"I  should  have  known,"  he  told  me, 
"tliat  I  didn't  have  the  backgnmnd  or  edu- 
cation to  match  hers.  .Siie  sjiiike  fnur 
languages  and  she'd  been  e\er\\v]iere  in 
the  wiirld.  But  I  was  jusi  ,mi  iunorant 
kid,  M,  rv.i/.y  in  love  I  conl<ln't  see.  If  r<l 
known  then  what  I  know  imw,  I  think  I 
conld  h;i\'e  held  her  ...  A  little  longer, 
an\-way,"  he  added. 

"Well,  it's  (lead  and  buried  now.  I've 
ne\er  seen  her  since  she  married,  but  if  I 
did,  I'd  iirobahly  tell  her  she  did  the  right 
thing.    In  fact.  I  owe  her  a  debt." 

hor  Dick  makes  no  secret  of  the  fact 
that  iiiit  of  liis  heartbreak  came  his  success 
•  is  ,a  inaotro.  He'd  been  a  singer  in  vaude- 
vdlc  with  .Sophie  'flicker,  a  iiit  fnldler  in 
f.roadway's  P;iram<iunt  Theatre,  ,nul  Rudy 
\'alke',s  l)iisiness  manager.  He  knew  the 
music  business  inside  out  and  lor  a  long 
time  his  one  .iml)ition  had  been  a  band 
of  his  <iwn,  'fhe  sudden  need  to  drown 
himseli  in  work,  his  realization  that  a 
band  to  sla\f  for  day  and  night  would 
mean  blesst'.l  obliteration  to  everything 
else,  was  the  tiling  that  furiously  wlii])ped 
him  on  until  he  achieved  his  ambiticjii.  It 
was  known  at  first  simjily  .is  the 
Kilz-Carllon  Or,  //c.v/n;.  and  it  was  a  small 
unit,  but  it  played  a  slower,  softer,  suaver 
type  of  music  than  any  other  orchestra. 


Dick  tells  an  amusing  story  about  his 
first  orchestra  and  Paul  Whiteinan.  For 
years  the  Wdiitemans  had  occupied  the 
apartment  directly  over  his,  on  the  floor 
above,  and  several  limes  Dick  tried  to  use 
his  neighborly  piill  to  land  a  job  with  the 
King  of  Jazz,    With  no  success  whatsoever. 

One  morning  the  two  were  ridnig  down 
on  the  elevator  together, 

"Heard  a  swell  band  on  the  air  last 
night,"  commented  Whitemaii,  "New  out- 
fit opening  at  the  Carlton.  Mark  my  word, 
it's  going  places." 

"Yep,"  said  Dick,  "I  know." 

"You  heard  it?"  asketl  the  King  of  Jazz. 

"Mr.  Whitenian."  Himber  grinned 
broadly,  "I'm  the  leader  man  in  that  band." 
Dick  leaned  back  and  roared,  recalling  the 
incident.    "Paul  nearly  fainted!" 

Whiteman's  prediction  was  true.  The 
band  did  go  places.  Because  it  was  a  good 
band  with  a  different  idea  behind  it,  and 
because  its  maestro  spared  himself  nothing 
that  could  spur  it  on  to  success.  For 
three  years  Himber  took  not  a  single  va- 
cation. With  a  day  staff  and  an  evening 
staff  to  assist  him,  he  lived  and  breathed 
his  orchestra  and  nothing  else. 

At  the  end  of  those  three  years,  the 
band  firmly  established  at  the  top  in  radio, 
Dick's  closest  friend  came  to  him. 

"Look,  fellow,"  he  suggested,  "you  need 
to  get  out.  Relax.  See  some  people  and 
have  some  fun.  You  don't  realize  it.  but 
your  nerves  are  shot.  You  tighten  up  at 
broadcasts  like  you're  walking  to  a  gal- 
lows! Better  save  yourself  a  breakdown 
and  knock  off  now  aiul  then." 

Dick  thou.ulit  it  over  and  decided  that 
his  friend  was  n.-ht.  .\ftcr  all.  all  work 
and  no  play  might  make  a  bandleader  ve-y 
successful  but  it  would  also  make  him  a 
flop  as  a  personality.  He  necflcd  to  see 
new  faces,  get  new  iilcas,  meet  ;i  difl'erent 
world  outside  the  narrowed  rut  of  radio 
studios  and  hotel  ballrooms  and  footlights. 

.So  he  called  in  .a  decorator  to  make  his 
apartment  a  suitably  attractive  place  for 
him  to  entertain.  Mirrored  walls.  Low 
white  coffee  tables  and  cushicuied  chairs. 
A  blue  glass  bar,  ipiilted  with  crystal  stars 
that  light  up  at  the  touch  of  a  button, 
liridgc  etpiipment,  backganmion,  p'ng- 
piing,  .Monogrammcd  glassware,  the  gift 
of  liis  musicians,  .Ml  the  gracious  trap- 
pings be  would  need  in  order  to  return  the 
invitations  he  accepted, 

.\iid  once  more  he  stepped  back  into  the 
world  of  eligible  and  successful  young 
men,  lUil  this  time,  definitely,  he  wasn't 
going  to  be  the  wide-eyed  boy!  Idiere 
would  be  parties,  fun,  people — }'es.  There 
w<-)uld  be  women,  of  course,  for  com- 
panionshi]).  I'.nt  notliing  serious,  \' o  love! 
The  instant  he  began  being  serious  about 
any  girl,  he'd  imt  ,a  slop  to  it. 

"//'//  ;;,■;'/■)•  /m/^/r;/  (hitii)i!"  Dick  Himber 
asserted  and  he  b.asii't  forgotten  yet. 
Although  M.aying  oiu  ol'  love  has  not  al- 
w;i\s  been  as  simple  as  he  expected. 

"Well,"  be  .isked  me.  revealing  again 
his  cynicism'  "what  is  love?  I  don't  believe 
m  it.    You're  taken  in  by  a  combination 


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of  moonlight  and  nonsense,  and  in  the  end 
you're  a  sucker.    A  chump !" 

Dick  has  the  idea  that,  some  day.  when 
he's  tlirough  with  the  music  business,  he's 
going  to  be  a  motion  picture  director. 
He  has  a  movie  camera,  sound  equipment 
and  all.  that  he'd  rather  spend  the  evening 
with  tlian  all  the  girls  in  New  York.  And 
he's  preparing  himself  for  his  ultimate 
future  in  pictures  with  all  the  intense, 
feverish  work  with  which  he  prepared  to 
established  a  successful  orchestra. 

"All  the  time.  I'm  restless."  he  explained. 
"The  minute  I  stop  working.  I  have  the 
feeling  that  I'm  not  getting  anywhere. 
That's  why  the  one  kind  of  evening  I  en- 
joy with  a  girl  is  going  to  the  movies.  I 
feel  I'm  not  wasting  time  tlicn.  At  least. 
I'm  keeping  up  with  wliat's  new  in  pic- 
tures and  picture  technique. 

"So  what  happens,  nine  times  out  of 
ten?  In  the  first  place,  my  work  is  such 
that  I  never  can  tell  in  advance  just  when 
I'll  be  free.  I  make  a  dinner  date  for 
seven.  At  seven  I  have  to  call  her  and 
tell  her  I'm  tied  up  but  I'll  be  there  at 
eight.  At  eight  I'm  still  tied  up  but  I 
phone  her  to  taxi  to  such  and  such  a  res- 
taurant and  have  her  dinner  and  I'll  be 
there  "to  meet  her  before  she's  finished. 

"By  the  time  I  do  meet  her.  about  nine- 
thirty,  she's  not  in  a  very  good  humor. 
So  what'll  we  do?  Well,  I  suggest  a 
movie ;  so  we  go  to  one  and  get  out  about 
eleven-thirty.  What'll  we  do  then?  I 
suggest  another  movie  that's  being  pre- 
vued  at  some  midnight  show.  By  two 
o'clock  in  the  morning  the  girl  is  usually 
ready  to  kill  me.  She  has  expected  a 
glamorous  evening  of  tnitting  from  club 
to  club.  Instead,  she's  had  a  dull  time. 

"That's  the  usual  Himber  routine.  And 
women  don't  like  it.  I  know — because  the 
next  time  I  call  Miss  Blank,  siie's  out!" 

An  associate  of  Dick's  told  me  about  a 
pretty  girl  who  has  been  pursuing  the  red- 
headed maestro  for  months.  Xobody 
knows  how  she  manages  to  get  tickets  for 
his  two  weekly  broadcasts,  but  she's  there 
every  time,  sitting  close  to  the  front  of  the 
studio.  Invariably,  after  each  performance, 
she  tries  to  catch  up  with  her  idol  before 
he  ducks  out  of  a  side  door,  but  he  de- 
terminedly c\a<les  her.  She  telephones 
his  office  every  <la> .  His  secretary  has  in- 
structions to  insist  that  he's  out. 

"Any  other  bandleader  would  fall  for 
flattery  like  that."  Dick's  friend  explained. 
"She's  a  nice-looking  girl,  and  if  she's  per- 
sisted all  these  months,  she  can't  be  just 
a  dopey  crackpot.  It  must  be  sincere  ad- 
miration she  has  for  him.  But  not  Him- 
ber!  He  despises  being  chased — more  than 
any  man  I've  ever  known." 

So  there  was  Richard  Himber,  sitting 
across  a  desk  from  me,  surrounded  by  the 
symbols  of  his  success.  A  busy  staff  of 
assistants  darting  in  and  out.  Four  phones 
that  jangled  constantly.  Mountains  of 
music.  A  photographer  from  a  newspaper, 
snapping  candid  camera  shots.  And.  in 
the  thick  of  it  all,  a  poised  young  man  with 
a  most  likeable  personality.  Cynical,  out- 
spoken, too  bitter  for  thirty  years,  perhaps. 
But  no  airs.    A  very  legular  guy. 

He  sat  there,  telling  me  that  life  was 
good  to  him,  that  he  had  everything  he 
wanted.  Everything.  He  almost  con- 
vinced me. 

Until  he  caught  up  a  bunch  of  keys  and 


stood  bihind  his  desk.  "I'd  like  to  show 
you  my  apartment  upstairs,"  he  said.  "I 
had  it  redecorated  last  year  and  spent  sev- 
eral thousand  dollars  on  it. 

"When  I  first  came  to  New  York  I  was 
fourteen  years  old."  he  continue<l.  while 
we  walked  along  the  carpeted  hallway, 
"and  I  lived  in  a  threc-dollar-a-week  room 
at  Forty-sixth  and  Broadway.  I  always 
said  that  some  day  I'd  have  a  beautiful 
place  to  live  in.  in  this  town — "  (he  opened 
a  door  twenty  stories  above  the  noisy  pave- 
ments of  Manhattan)  " — this  is  it." 

It  is  more  than  a  beautiful  place.  It  is 
almost  spectacular.  Uni(|ue  and  rich,  but 
not  too  rich,  to  the  last  item.  Pale,  odd- 
shaded  pastels,  set  off  hy  vivid  streaks  of 
color.  A  whole  end  of  the  living-room, 
nearest  the  windows,  fashioned  into  an 
exact  replica  of  a  rustic  Alpine  sun-porch, 
filled  with  fresh  flowers.  And  everywhere 
about,  bachelor-fashion,  siiiny  new  gym 
equipment.  On  the  walls — boxing-gloves, 
Indian  clubs,  dumbbells,  fencing  swords, 
exercising  bars.  In  the  corners — a  punch- 
ing bag.  a  rowing  machine,  a  stationary 
bicycle,  an  electric  horse.  Himber  de- 
signed the  decorations  himself  and  very 
proudly  he  displayed  every  gadget,  every 
detail. 

.Altogether  it  is  a  stunning,  breath- 
takingly  sumptuous  suite.  But  it  isn't  a 
home.  It  lacked  the  one  thing  that  makes 
a  home — :personality.  Rooms  have  to  be 
lived  in  to  have  personality,  the  intangible 
warmth  to  be  found  in  the  scars  on  a  table- 
top,  the  curve  of  a  chair  cushion,  the  look 
of  windows  that  look  in  as  well  as  out. 
Dick  Himber's  apartment  might  as  well 
be  several  model  rooms  in  a  swank  furni- 
ture store.  Because  nobody  who  loves 
the  place  lives  there.  It's  just  an  apart- 
ment where  he  hangs  his  hat,  entertains, 
comes  in  late  at  night  to  sleep  and  get  up 
early  the  next  morning  and  go  down  to 
work  again. 

"How  do  you  like  it?"  he  wanted  to 
know. 

"Beautiful,"  I  said.  "How  do  you  like 
it?" 

Suddenly,  away  from  the  bustle  and 
pressure  of  his  headquarters,  Dick  Himber 
was  a  different  person.  Xot  so  cynical, 
somehow,  not  so  hard.  He  sat  down  on 
the  step  of  the  .\lpinc  porch  and  ran  his 
fingers  reflectively  throu.yh  his  red  hair. 
"Oh.  I  like  it  .  .  .  all  right,"  he  said.  "To 
tell  you  the  truth,  I  don't  stay  here  much. 
You  know,  I  sort  of  get  restless  by  myself. 
If  I've  got  any  reading  or  work  to  do,  I 
go  down  to  the  office,  where  I'll  have  com- 
pany. There's  always  somebody  down 
there  at  night,  working  .  .  ." 

And  then  I  knew  that  the  shell  of  his 
cynicism  had  a  soft  spot.  For  all  his 
disillusioned  talk,  for  all  his  statement 
that  life  has  already  given  him  everything 
he  wants,  whether  he  realizes  it  or  not — 
Richard  Himber  is  lonely.  That  is  his 
Achilles  heel.  Some  day  he'll  meet  a  girl 
who  will  miraculously  take  all  his  loneli- 
ness away.  An<l  i<<v  the  first  time  in  a 
long  time  his  fiuv  rnli^  f n'  staying  out  of 
love  won't  work  I  lU  11  im  Liet  he  said  no 
more  serious  affairs,  that  romance  was  a 
lot  of  hokum.   He'll  forget  as  sure  as  sure  ! 

And  I  hope  the  girl  will  move  all  those 
athletic  gadgets  out  of  his  living-room 
and  make  it  look  like  a  home  instead  of  a 
model  gymnasium ! 


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down  those  first  barriers,  the  most  difficult 
part  of  starting  a  career  in  the  field  of 
entertainment. 

"Dun  catnc  into  radio  in  1930,"  says 
Bern— as  Miss  Flynn  is  called.  "NBC 
was  auditioning  for  the  Umpire  Builders 
program,  and  I  had  won  the  feminine  dra- 
matic lead.  The  men  who  auditioned  for 
the  male  lead  were  not  satisfactory,  so  I 
called  Don,  who  was  in  Kenosha,  Wiscon- 
sin, at  the  time.  I  knew  he'd  succeed 
where  others  had  failed.  I  believed  in  him 
as  an  actor  and  as  a  person.  Time  and 
events  have  justified  this  belief." 

It  was  a  golden  opportunity  for  the 
young  man  who  knew  he  must  be  an  actor. 
-At  his  lowest  hour,  he  received  the  chance 
he  so  badly  needed.  That  call  was  the 
turning  point  in  his  career. 

"Don  and  I  were  co-starred  on  the 
Empire  Builders  program  for  two  years," 
Bern  continues.  "A  few  months  later,  we 
were  given  the  leads  on  the  Riii  Tin  Tin 
Thrillers  program,  in  addition.  Both  of 
these  programs  lasted  for  two  years,  and 
they  were  two  of  the  happiest  years,  pro- 
fessionally, in  my  career. 

"Don  and  I  had  appeared  in  several  plays 
at  the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  I  had 
had  plenty  of  opportunity  to  study  his 
work.  And  secondly.  I  knew  he  would 
be  a  great  help  to  me.  I  worked  better 
with  him  opposite  me,  particularly  in  ro- 
mantic leads,  and  I  was  an.xious  to  have 
this  new  program  turn  out  successfully. 
It  was  my  first  important  chance  in  radio. 
.•\s  everybody  knows,  in  acting,  there  is 
action  and  reaction.  In  other  words,  some 
people  take'  the  initiative  and  act,  and 
others  merely  respond.  Tliey  need  that 
motivating  force  of  the  more  imaginative 
portrayer  of  character  to  bring  out  emo- 
tion which  is  passive  by  nature.  Don 
taught  me  to  'play'  a  role  rather  than  work 
at  it.  I  didn't  want  to  help  him,  really, 
as  much  as  I  wanted  him  to  help  me.  And, 
in  proof  of  the  fact  that  this  isn't  just  re- 
turning one  kind  word  for  another,  I  have 
not  played  a  successful  emotional  role 
without  him!" 

Bernardine  Flynn  always  has  labored 
under  the  handicap  of  "working"  at  acting. 
.She  first  went  on  the  stage  merely  to 
please  her  father.  She  came  to  New  York 
when  she  was  twenty-five,  but  she  was 
not  particularly  happy. 

"I  liked  the  acting,"  she  explains,  "but 
nothing  else.  I  hate  glamour.  I  didn't 
like  the  rest  of  the  life,  at  all.  .'\n<l  I  felt 
that  I  was  not  young  enough  to  try  to  be 
a  star.  In  other  words,  I  realized  that 
the  benefits  and  happiness  and  success  I 
(•<iul<l  get  from  the  stage  would  not  make 
up  for  the  sacrifices  I  must  make. 

"I  am  not  the  type  of  person  to  be  will- 
ing to  give  up  a  personal  life  for  success 
in  a  profession.  I  wanted  a  home,  and 
babies.  I  felt  that  they  were  much  more 
important  to  me  than  any  glamour  which 
might  be  mine  from  the  theatre." 

'i  his  is  a  typical  statement  from  Bernar- 
dine h'lj  nn.    She  has  no  desire  to  be  hailed 


as  a  second  Duse.  She  is  much  happier 
as  she  is — happily  married,  with  a  private 
life  as  the  wife  of  one  of  Chicago's  leading 
doctors.  Dr.  C.  C.  Dolierty.  Don,  too,  is 
happily  married  and  is  the  proud  father 
of  two  small  sons. 

"Don  has  shown  such  appreciation  for 
my  calling  him  for  that  first  audition.  He 
has  given  me  undeserved  thanks  in  all  his 
publicity.  He  always  gives  me  credit  for 
his  start."  The  statements  have  to  be 
dragged  from  Miss  Flynn  because  it  is 
against  her  nature  to  pat  herself  on  the 
back.  She  prefers  to  give  credit  to  the 
other  fellow.  "And  Don  did  the  same 
thing  for  me  in  the  movies,  as  I  had  done 
for  him  in  radio.  He  had  his  agent  come 
out  to  see  me  about  motion  pictures.  But 
my  present  pleasant  connections  with  the 
Vie  and  Sadc  program,  and  other  matters, 
put  me  in  no  position  to  accept. 

"My  marriage  is  the  most  important 
thing  in  the  world  to  me.  If  I  went  to 
Hollywood,  I  couldn't  be  near  my  hus- 
band. I'd  miss  my  home  life.  I  wouldn't 
be  happy  that  way." 

Her  sincerity  impresses  itself  upon  you 
as  you  listen  to  her  clarify  her  attitude 
about  life,  private  and  professional. 

Such  true  happiness  and  contentment 
seldom  are  found.  Bernardine  Flynn 
knows  what  she  wants  out  of  life. 

One  of  a  family  of  seven  children,  Bern 
was  born  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  on  Janu- 
ary 2nd,  1904.  Yes,  she  is  one,  of  the 
minority  in  professional  life,  who  gives 
her  exact  birth  date.  Her  dramatic  train- 
ing was  achieved  in  amateur  theatricals  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin.  And  it  was 
through  this  work  that  she  gained  her 
first  opportunity  to  appear  on  the  Broad- 
way stage. 

-  Zona  Gale,  creator  of  stories  of  Wis- 
consin life,  became  interested  in  the  young 
college  student,  after  witnessing  one  of 
her  performances.  She  recommended  her 
to  Brock  Pemberton,  the  New  York  pro- 
ducer, for  a  part  in  Seven-Year  Love,  then 
being  cast  for  a  New  York  presentation. 
Bern  won  the  part  and  made  her  debut 
in  1929.  She  studied  diction  under  Laura 
Elliott.  She  later  was  understudy  to 
Muriel  Kirkland  in  Strictly  Dishonorable, 
played  in  Joseph  with  George  Jessel  and 
was  cast  for  a  part  in  Strange  Interlude. 
.Ml  this  happened  in  a  year.  To  most 
.ulicsses,  it  would  mean  that  the 
future  was  assured.  But  at  the  end  of  the 
year,  Bern  went  to  Chicago.  She  had 
had  enough  of  show  business.  She  had 
stuck  out  the  year  to  please  her  father 
But  she  was  too  unhappy  to  continue.  Then, 
too,  her  mother  had  died.  Bern  felt  that 
she  would  be  happier  caring  for  her 
younger  brothers  and  sisters. 

Back  in  the  Illinois  city,  she  learned  that 
iXBC  needed  an  actress  with  a  French  ac- 
cent. Bern's  mother  was  French,  and  her 
daughter  had  learned  to  speak  the  lan- 
guage perfectly.  She  was  given  the  spot. 
SIic  loved  it.  Here,  at  last,  she  found  the 
niediiini  which  brought  lier  true  happiness. 


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She  had  to  be  professional  only  during  her 
working  hours. 

"When  I  was  given  the  lead  in  Empire 
Builders,  it  was  the  most  natural  thing  in 
the  world  lor  nie  to  think  of  Don  as  lead- 
ing man,"  says  the  star  of  I'ic  and  Sade. 
"Since  we  first  played  opposite  each  other 
in  Lilioui  at  college,  he  was  the  perfect 
leading  man  for  me.  Not  because  of  any 
romantic  interest.  Goodness,  I  always 
thought  of  Don  as  my  younger  brother — 
he  is  so  much  younger  than  I."  , 

To  hear  Bern  talk,  one  might  think  she 
was  well  on  to  middle  age,  but  such  is  not 
the  case.  .Although,  according  to  the  caler. 
dar  she  is  thirty-three,  by  actions  and  nji 
pearance  one  would  judge  her  to  be  well 
under  the  thirty  mark. 

Perhaps  her  pet  exercise,  w-alking,  ac- 
counts for  her  extremely  youthful  ap- 
pearance. Perhaps  her  contentment,  the 
greatest  enemy  of  aging  lines,  is  re- 
sponsible. But  my  guess  is  that  her  minil, 
active  and  young ;  her  thoughts  which  are 
only  of  happiness ;  her  ideals ;  these  are 
the  parts  of  Bernardine  Flynn  which  keep 
her  a  girl.  She  wastes  no  time  on  the 
less  important  things  of  life. 

"That  is  w-hy  I  am  so  happy  with  radio 
work.  I  don't  have  time  to  gossip,"  she 
laughs.  "If  I  were  not  occupied  with  my 
work  every  day.  I  would  have  to  attend 
bridge  parties — and  I  hate  bridge !  I  love 
to  read,  walk,  or  go  to  movies.  And  I  love 
to  fuss  about  my  home." 

One  night,  when  her  maid  was  away, 
Bern  decided  to  ctxjk  a  special  dinner  for 
her  husband.  She  planned  and  worked 
over  it  all  afternoon.  "I  was  having"  a 
grand  time,"  slie  related.  "There  were  to 
be  five  courses,  each  one  a  favorite  of  my 
husband's.  But  when  he  reached  home,  he 
decided  to  fix  himself  a  salad  with  a  special 
dressing  which  he  alone  can  make.  Since 
then,  I  have  learned  to  curb  my  domestic 
tendencies  to  a  great  extent." 

How  many  wives  would  have  been  furi- 
ous at  such  a  reception  of  their  dinner! 
But  Bernardine  Flynn  is  too  open-minded 
to  waste  energy  over  such  trifles.  "I 
laughed,  and  ate  the  dinner  I  had  cooked, 
while  my  Ini^liand  ate  his  salad.  After 
all,  what  real  difference  did  it  make?"  And 
she  is  one  of  tiiM^c  rare  women  who  feel 
just  that  way  ahdiit  the  incidents  of  each 
day.  Her  heart  is  tun  lull  of  love,  her 
mind  too  occupied  with  the  more  important 
matters  of  life,  to  have  room  for  worry 
over  the  incidentals  of  living. 

Stage  work,  nn  .t'leriiv,:-  \-niin^rr  hrothers 
and  sisters.  ra<liii  -lard.  im.  niarna,ue--tlie-e 
are  the  things  wliieh  have  made  Bernardine 
Flynn's  life,  helping  others  as  well  as  her- 
self. And  she  has  been  repaid  for  her 
efforts  by  happiness  and  contentment — 
and  gratitude  from  the  young  man  to 
whom  she  gave  his  first  real  chance. 

A  couple  of  years  ago.  Miss  Flynn  and 
Don  Ameche  were  doing  their  first  tele- 
vision work  together. 

"It  had  been  some  years  since  I  had  had 
to  memorize  my  work.  When  we  started 
doing  television  work,  I  was  unused  to 
speaking  a  part  without  a  script,"  Bern 
explains.  "I  completely  forgot  my  lines. 
But  Don  carried  on,  in  his  own  efficient 
and  calm  way.  Ljivino  my  lines  as  well  as 
his.    I  just  stu.Kl  and  Inokcd  at  him." 

When  he  needed  assistance.  Bern  had 
given  it  to  him.  When  she  needeil  it.  Don 
helped  her.    Of  such  is  friendship  made. 


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GRAY 
HAIR 


AND  LOOK  10 
YEARS  YOUNGER 

0\i.  without  any  risk, 
you  can  tint  those 
strc.iks  or  patches  of  gray 
or  failed  hair  to  lustrous 
shades  of  blonde,  brown  or 
black.  A  small  brush  and 
KROWNATONK  does  It. 
Provclt.  byapplylngthetint 
to  a  lock  of  your  own  hair. 

Used  and  approved  — 
for  over  twenty-flve  years 
by  thousands  of  women. 
liROw.MATONE  Is  safe. 
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table.  Cannot  affect  -..jvIhk-  "f  liiiir.  Is  econornleal  and 
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BROWNA TONE  is  only  .TOc— at  all  drug  and  toilet 
counters — always  on  a  money-back  guarantee. 

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starvation  diet  the  other  three  quarters. 
I'd  hate  to  go  through  life  in  a  monotonous 
way,  always  denying  myself  the  things  I 
love  to  eat.  I'd  much  rather  have  it  this 
way,  feast  or  famine,  even  if  the  feasting 
has  to  be  kept  on  the  short  end  of  the 
schedule.  But  I  stick  to  it  when  I'm 
dieting.  Men  can't  afford  to  lose  their 
figures,  any  more  than  women  can  I 

"So,  for  a  week  this  sort  of  thing, 
popovers  or  pancakes  for  breakfast  and  all 
tiie  things  I  like  best  for  dinner.  Then  I 
go  on  the  Hollywood  Diet  for  the  other 
three  weeks  and  at  the  end  of  the  month 
the  scales  balance  and  my  conscience  is 
clear." 

"Jimmy  has  a  horror  of  a  bulging  waist 
line  or  a  bulging  anything  else,"  his  wife 
explained.  "Anyone  as  meticulous  and  as 
fond  of  clothes  as  he  is,  would  have.  He 
told  me,  once,  it  stems  back  to  the  time 
when  he  was  a  little  boy  and  grew  so 
fast  that  his  clothes  never  did  fit  him. 
He'd  get  a  new  suit  and  in  a  few  weeks 
he'd  be  growing  out  of  it  again.  He  hit 
six  feet  at  sixteen,  and  he  was  sure  he  was 
through  with  growing  then,  but  he  added 
two  inches  more  before  he  really  stopped." 

There's  another  childhood  dream  he  has 
made  come  true.  This  one  has  to  do 
with  his  favorite  uncle,  one  of  the  Melton 
kin.  This  uncle  was  young,  brilliant  and 
successful,  everything  Jimmy  wanted  to  be 
when  he  grew  up.  And  he  had  a  White 
car,  a  huge,  important-looking  car,  that 
could  outshine  every  other  car  he  had 
ever  seen,  in  every  way.  It  gleamed  with 
the  care  lavished  on  it  and  had  every 
gadget  on  it  that  had  been  invented  then. 

The  highlights  of  Melton's  boyhood  were 
built  around  that  car.  The  picnics  they 
were  taken  to  in  the  car,  with  great  bas- 
kets of  fried  chicken  and  biscuits  and  cake 
tucked  in  the  rear,  and  all  the  Melton 
youngsters  trying  to  crowd  as  close  to  the 
driver's  seat  as  possible,  and  Jimmy 
usually  making  the  seat  of  honor  right 
next  to  his  uncle,  because  he  wanted  it 
most  of  all.  They  went  to  circuses  in  it, 
too,  driving  miles  to  whatever  town  the 
tents  were  pitched  in,  and  sometimes  they 
went  on  fishing  trips.  It  was  no  wonder 
that  car  seemed  the  the  most  marvelous 
thing  in  the  world  to  this  boy.  When  he 
grew  up  he  was  going  to  have  one  exactly 
like  it! 

That  first  huge  modern  car  of  his,  long 
and  shiny  and  the  last  word  in  everything, 
was  a  big  kick,  of  course,  to  anyone  as 
mechanically  minded  as  Melton,  who 
shows  as  fine  an  appreciation  of  beautiful 
workmanship  as  he  does  of  music. 

"My  uncle  must  have  felt  like  this 
when  he  first  got  that  White,"  he  said  to 
his  wife  as  they  stepped  into  it  for  that 
first  drive. 

Rut  even  that  car,  and  all  the  other  cars 
that  have  followed  it,  weren't  enough  to 
appease  that  childhood  longing.  For  years 
Melton  was  on  the  lookout  for  a  car 
cxai  tly  like  his  uncle's,  and  every  second- 
hand car  agency  in  the  country  had  in- 
structions from  him  to  keep  an  alert  eye 
out  for  one.  And  finally  he  found  it,  the 
old  1910  White  car,  that  is  his  pride  today. 


By  the  time  he  got  that  car,  it  had  cost 
him  almost  as  much  as  the  finest  car 
on  the  market,  and  then  began  another 
long  search  for  all  the  old  gadgets  his 
uncle's  car  had  boasted,  and  another  small 
fortune  was  spent  in  fixing  it  up— which 
included  tires  that  had  to  be  made  to 
order  for  it,  and  acetylene  gas  lights.  But 
today  it's  his— that  car,  in  all  its  old- 
time  glory. 

It  was  a  happy  childhood,  that  child- 
hood of  James  Melton's  He  was  born  in 
Georgia,  but  when  he  was  only  a  young- 
ster, his  father's  business  took  him  to 
Florida  and  it  was  there  he  grew  up.  They 
were  a  big  family,  the  Meltons,  and  they 
lived  in  a  big  house,  and  sometimes  his 
father's  saw-mill  prospered  and  there  were 
other  times  when  it  didn't,  so  that  the 
Melton  youngsters  went  through  enough 
of  a  hardening  process  to  insure  them 
that  certain  quality  that  makes  for  success. 

James  Melton  laughs  now  as  he  tells 
how  he  used  to  make  money  for  himself 
when  he  was  a  kid.  Sometimes  he  raised 
pigs,  his  father  lending  him  the  money 
to  buy  the  young  ones  and  buying  them 
back  from  him  at  the  market  price,  after 
he  had  taken  care  of  them  until  they  were 
full  grown. 

When  he  was  ten  he  used  to  get  up 
almost  at  dawn  to  take  the  hands  down 
to  his  father's  mills  and,  in  the  spring,  he 
helped  as  they  harrowed  the  soil,  and  in 
the  summer  he  helped  with  the  haying. 

Sometimes,  on  Saturdays,  he  used  to  go 
down  and  help  the  native  farmers  load 
watermelons  on  their  trucks. 

"Just  about  every  half  an  hour  we'd 
drop  one !"  he  laughed.  "And  of  course 
it  would  always  be  the  biggest,  juiciest 
one.  I  can  still  see  them  lying  ther^ 
cracked  wide  open,  with  all  that  pink  meat 
inviting  us  to  eat  them.  No  watermelons 
ever  have  tasted  so  good  since!" 

This  was  the  boy  who  started  his  own 
band  to  pay  his  way  through  college,  and 
who  decided  to  be  a  singer  when  his 
whole  family  had  set  their  hearts  on  mak- 
ing him  a  lawyer.  But  he  always  knew 
what  he  wanted,  that  lad  from  Georgia, 
and  so  he  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
to  study  with  Gaetano  De  Luca,  the  best 
singing  teacher  in  the  South,  and  paid 
his  expenses  by  conducting  an  orchestra 
in  one  of  the  city's  smart  hotels. 

He  was  ready  for  action  then,  and  he 
came  to  New  York  and  for  three  months 
he  was  starred  in  the  Roxy  Theatre  stage 
shows.  Then  he  was  invited  to  become 
one  of  the  Reirlers,  the  quartet  that  had 
taken  the  country  by  storm. 

It  was  a  terrific  honor  for  a  young  man 
just  beginning  his  career,  being  one  of 
the  Rnrlcrs.  Even  the  rhost  rabid  music 
lovers  talked  about  that  quartet  with  the 
same  respect  they  used  in  talking  of  Bach 
or  Toscanini,  and  the  price  of  admission 
to  their  concerts  was  as  high  as  that  of 
the  most  popular  Broadway  musical 
comedies. 

He  started  on  radio  with  the  quartet 
and  then  came  stardom  on  the  Sicherliug 
Hour,  and  all  the  programs  after  that 
down  to  his   present  one,    The  Sealtest 


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Sunday  Night  Party,  in  wliich  he  acts  as 
master  of  ceremonies,  as  well  as  singer. 

There  were  concerts  during  that  time, 
too,  and  two  different  trips  to  Hollywood 
to  make  three  pictures. 

"I  loved  making  those  pictures,"  Janus 
Melton  says  now,  "and  I  know  that  sonu 
time  I  will  go  to  Hollywood  again.  Rut 
I'd  never  want  to  devote  myscli  txrlu 
sively  to  picture  work.  The  work  is  too 
hard  and  strenuous  for  a  lifetime  job. 
Hollywood  takes  too  much  fun  out  of  life. 
Of  course,  my  career  is  mighty  imixirtant 
to  me,  but  it  still  isn't  as  important  as  my 
life." 

His  wife  agrees  witli  liini  on  tliat.  They 
take  life  pleasantly,  tlioc  two.  and  live  in 
the  charming,  .yracimis  \va\-  that  spells 
true  contentment.  They  tlon't  care  for 
late  parties,  for  rusliing  ariniiid,  seeing 
this  place  and  that  one.  Xeithcr  one  of 
them  is  drugged  with  the  excitement  that 
so  often  comes  with  a  professional  career. 

We  went  into  the  living-room.  .Sinilight 
streamed  throngli  I'rencli  doors,  plieasants 
trailed  bright  teatliers  over  the  shelves 
on  which  they  stood,  lo, iking  as  if  you'd 

come  upon   them  in   Mmie   w  1.  F^ooks, 

a  whole  wall  (.f  hu(ik>,  all  the  fascinating 
new  ones  \iiu'\e  lieen  wanting  tii  read  and 
old  ones,  too,  worn  some  eil  them,  a  few 
even  a  little  shabby,  as  books  w.11  lie 
when  the  people  who  own  them  love  them 
and  read  them  over  and  over  again.  A 
leather  portable  phonograpli,  opened  on  a 
small  table  and  scattered  records  near  it; 
the  fireplace  and  the  portrait  of  the  lovely 
girl  hanginu  o\rr  it  and  the  great  vase  of 
apple  blossiims  mi  the  grand  piano. 

And  a   small    Boston   Bull,  sleeping  in 


Edward  Everett  Horton,  with 
Louise  Campbell,  in  the  new 
Paramount  picture,  Wild  Money. 


the  sunlight,  and  stretching  and  coming 
over  with  none  of  that  suspicious  reserve 
dogs  usually  have  for  strangers  and  mak- 
ing you  doubly  sure  you  liked  his  folks — 
because,  after  all,  animals  do  take  on  the 
characteristics  of  people  they   live  with. 

They  are  nice,  those  xoung  Meltons. 

James  Melton  taking  you  out  on  the 
terrace  to  show  that  lovely  view  of  the 
East  River,  that  he's  as  proud  of  as  if  he 
had  made  it  himself,  and  his  breast  ixicket 
bulging  with  all  those  snapshots  of  the 
place  in  Coimecticut  he's  just  bought. 

And  Marjorie  Melton's  incredibly  blue 
eyes  getting  even  bluer  as  she  told  how 
lucky  they  were  to  have  lilac  bushes  there, 
right  near  the  door  of  their  Connecticut 
home,  so  they  wouldn't  have  to  wait  all 


those  long  years  experts  say  it  takes  for 
a  newly  planted  lilac  bush  to  flower,  and 
a  hackberry  tree  spreading  its  great 
branches  over  their  roof-top  and  the  apple 
orchard  running  its  wayward  length  along 
Xew  England  stone  walls. 

"I  hate  giving  up  this  apartment, 
though,"  James  Melton  said  suddenly. 
"I'm  going  to  miss  that  river." 

"Just  wait  until  the  first  morning  in 
Weston,  when  you'll  walk  otit  in  the 
garden  and  know  it's  yours.  Your  own 
soil !"  His  wife  smiled.  "\'ou  w(m't  miss 
it  then." 

"Ma\be."  He  looked  doubtful  for  a 
moment.  "Yes.  I  will.  I'll  always  miss 
it.    Do  you  mean  to  say  you  won't?" 

"What  d"  \()U  su]>iiose  kept  me  awake 
all  niidit'"  sl;e  asked  miserably.  And 
then  she  laughed.  "I  know  what  you're 
doing,  Jim  Melton!  You're  starting  a 
camjiaign  to  keep  this  apartment  and  the 
house,  too.'' 

He  looked  surprised,  as  husbands  always 
do  when  their  wives  call  their  shots  that 
way!  But  he  needn't  have  looked  that 
way.  After  all,  when  a  husband  and  a 
wife  are  as  close  as  these  two  are.  with 
eight  happy  married  \ears  behind  them 
and  all  the  hopes  of  the  future  before 
them,  each  gets  to  know  the  things  the 
other  is  thinking. 

Two  grand  young  people,  taking  suc- 
cess in  the  way  it  should  be  taken,  thank- 
fully, of  course,  but  casuall\,  too.  with  a 
true  perspective  on  its  place  in  their 
scheme  of  things. 

That's  how  they  are,  those  young  James 
Meltons.  You  couldn't  help  liking  them, 
either  ! 


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This  luxurious  Beauty  Bath 


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It  was  part  of  Fate's  still  unguessed  plan 
that  Herbie  Kay  should  see  and  hear 
Dorothy  Lamour  that  night.  Perhaps 
Herbie  did  not  recognize  it  as  love  at  first 
sight,  but  he  did  know  that  Dorothy  was 
beautiful  and  he  did  realize  that  there  was 
something  in  her  voice  worth  developing. 

"I  didn't  know  I  could  .sing!"  Dorothy 
laughs  about  it  now.  "And  when  Herbie 
suggested  that  I  sing  with  his  orchestra, 
travel  with  them,  I  told  him  I  couldn't 
possibly !    Travel  with  all  those  men !" 

Shy  little  Dorothy,  touring  the  country 
with  fifteen  masculine  strangers !  That 
thought  was  frightening  enough,  without 
the  added  terror  of  having  to  sing  for  an 
audience !  She  had  been  able  to  do  it  as 
a  lark,  but  as  a  career?  She  shook  her 
dark  head.  Impossible! 

But  Herbie  was  persuasive  and  there  was 
something  about  this  tall,  good-looking  man 
that  Dorothy  knew  instinctively  she  could 
trust.  Herbie  is  six-feet-three,  light-brown- 
haired  and  very  good-looking  ("I  think  so, 
anyway,"  Dorothy  confessed,  "and  my 
friends  do,  too,  unless  they  are  kidding 
me!"),  but  it  was  something  more  than 
physical  attraction.  They  did  not  recognize 
it  immediately  as  love,  but  something  very 
definitely  drew  them  together  that  night 
and  established  a  friendship  that  was  to 
ripen  surely  and  steadily  into  a  fine  and 
lasting  love. 

"He  taught  me  everything  I  know  about 
singing,"  Dorothy  explained  softly.  "And 
it  was  fun  traveling  with  the  band,  too — 
I  loved  it." 

For  Dorothy  definitely  is  the  clinging- 
vine  type  and  Herbie  made  her  feel  safe 
and  protected.  And  he  was  eager  to  de- 
velop the  voice  which  had  so  moved  him 
and  give  her  every  opportunity  to  win  the 
fame  he  knew  she  deserved.  She  was  a 
ready  pupil.  They  worked  hard  together, 
and  had  a  glorious  time  doing  it. 

Tills  year  Dorothy  celebrated  her  second 
anniversary  of  marriage  with  Herbie  Kay 
and  her  fifth  anniversary  of  joining  his 
hand.  But  Dorothy  has  more  anniversaries 
than  most  people,  anyway.  Even  after  two 
years  of  marriage,  they  have  a  monthly  an- 
niversary upon  which  they  exchange  gifts. 
Then,  besides  their  regular  wedding  anni- 
versary in  May,  they  have  a  second  in 
October ! 

It  happened  like  this:  For  a  long  time, 
Herbie  had  been  asking  Dorothy  to  marry 
him,  and  she  had  been  eager  to  accept,  but 
the  manager  she  had  at  that  time  was  very 
much  against  it.  The  best  way  out  of  that 
situation,  they  decided,  was  to  elope.  So, 
instead  of  returning  to  her  hotel  after  the 
broadcast  one  night — they  were  in  New 
York — Dorothy  registered  at  another  and 
in  the  morning  she  telephoned  Herbie  and 
asked  him  tt)  bring  her  some  clothes.  She 
really  coukln't  elope  in  evening  dress  and 
she  was  afraid  to  send  for  her  own  things, 
lest  the  ubiquitous  manager  follow  and  dis- 
rupt their  plans.  Herbie,  with  masculine 
obtuseness,  cheerfully  went  shopping  and 
showed  up  with  a  size  18  suit  and  a  size 


42  sweater  for  his  pint-size  bride-to-be! 
So,  swathed  in  clothes  sizes  too  large  for 
her,  but  too  excited  and  happy  to  care, 
Dorothy  flew  to  Chicago  with  her  sweet- 
heart. There  her  mother,  who  had  flown 
up  from  New  Orleans,  met  them  and  they 
hastened  to  Waukegan  and  were  married. 

But  Dorothy  and  Herbie  belonged  to 
the  same  church  and  both  felt  the  need  of  a 
religious  ceremony.  So  in  October,  they 
were  married  again,  in  church,  with  music 
and  attendants. 

"It  is  a  funny  thing,"  Dorothy  reminisced 
softly,  "but  we  were  both  scared  to  death, 
the  second  time,  and  terribly  flustered.  We 
couldn't  even  decide  how  to  march  into 
the  church  and  finally  Herbie  insisted  on 
my  going  in  with  my  attendant  and  he 
followed  with  the  best  man.  I  kept  turn- 
ing back  and  saying  he  ought  to  be  with 
me,  and  he  kept  nudging  me,  to  make  me 
go  ahead !" 

And  now  it  was  over  and  they  were 
married  for  the  second  time,  and  still  they 
couldn't  take  a  honeymoon !  Haven't,  in 
fact,  had  a  real  one  yet.  And  the  career 
that  Herbie  was  so  anxious  for  Dorothy  to 
have  keeps  thrusting  itself  between  them, 
holding  them  apart,  threatening  them  with 
all  the  dangers  of  prolonged  and  repeated 
separations. 

For  a  long  time,  Dorothy  sang  on  a 
sustaining  program  in  Chicago,  then  in 
New  York.  Then  she  was  haled  to  Holly- 
wood to  make  some  movie  shorts.  Out 
here,  her  success  has  been  astounding,  one 
of  those  Cinderella  or  Aladdin's  lamp  tales, 
where  you  feel  someone  must  have  rubbed 
a  magic  lamp  or  whispered  a  magic  word. 
With  no  theatrical  ambition  or  training,  she 
stepped  into  the  film  world,  made  her  shorts, 
achieved  fame  with  her  first  long  picture. 
The  Jungle  Princess,  was  borrowed  from 
Paramount  by  Goldwyn  to  make  Hurricane. 
She  also  appeared  in  Siving  High,  .Swing 
Loic,  with  Carole  Lombard,  and  is  now 
scheduled  for  a  sequel  to  her  first  picture, 
as  a  full-fledged  star. 

Her  radio  success  is  equally  thrilling. 
For  some  time  Dorothy  had  hoped  for  a 
commercial  spot,  but  NBC  was  afraid  the 
time  was  not  ripe,  holding  her  back  rather 
than  to  risk  featuring  her  too  soon.  But 
the  horn  of  plenty  was  not  yet  empty — 
two  nice  opportunities  were  tossed  into 
Dorothy's  lap  and  she  chose  the  spot  on 
the  new  Chase  and  Sanborn  Sunday  pro- 
gram, with  Don  Ameche,  W.  C.  Fields, 
Edgar  Bergen,  and,  a  little  later.  Nelson 
Eddy. 

Those  who  said :  "Dorothy  Lamour  is 
going  places!"  can  now  sit  back  and  crow 
contentedly  over  their  foresight.  Dorothy 
herself  is  still  pleasantly  bewildered  by  it 
all,  and  just  as  thrilled  as  any  girl  would 
be.  She  knows  she  owes  it  to  Herbie's 
faith  and  determination,  rather  than  to  any 
fairy  godmother,  and  she  is  happy  to  be 
able  to  justify  that  faith.  She  finds  both 
careers  equally  absorbing.  It  has  been  ter- 
ribly exciting  to  find  that  a  movie  career 
was  open  to  her  and  she  loves  it,  has  ad- 


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justed  herself  to  it  so  completely  that  she 
is  already  worrying  about  being  typed,  fear- 
ing two  jungle  princess  roles  would  be  a 
mistake.  The  present  role  in  Hurricane  is 
more  to  her  liking. 

Hers  is  a  kind  of  beauty  that  lends  itself 
to  typing,  to  glamorous,  e.xotic  roles.  She 
has  regular  features,  long  black  hair  that 
reaches  to  her  waist — she  usually  wears  it 
madonna-fashion,  parted  in  the  middle  and 
drawn  straiglit  back  into  a  knot  at  the  nape 
of  her  neck — and  lovely  hazel  eyes,  shaded 
by  long  dark  lashes.  As  if  that  were  not 
enough,  she  has  a  sensitive,  luscious  mouth 
that  parts  readily  in  a  smile,  revealing  per- 
fect teeth.  She  considers  herself  tall — is 
about  five-feet-four  without  her  heels — 
and  is  small-boned  and  very  slender,  so 
that  a  size  12  is  ample  for  her.  By  nature 
she  is  docile  and  unassuming,  apparently 
unspoiled  by  her  sudden  succo-^  ami  the 
attendant  publicity  that  makes  everything 
she  does  news  and  means  that  reporters  and 
magazine  writers  are  dogging  her  foot- 
steps, clamoring  to  know  her  story,  the 
secret  of  her  success. 

For  a  long  time,  an  effort  was  made  to 
conceal  her  marriage  and  Kay's  influence 
on  her  career.  Dorothy  is  glad  now  to 
have  that  veil  of  secrecy  lifted.  The  words 
"my  husband"  roll  trippingly  from  her 
tongue  and  she  is  proud  and  happy  to  give 
him  the  credit  that  is  his  due. 

She  lives  simply,  drives  herself  around 
in  a  little  Ford  convertihle.  lives  in  a  semi- 
detached twt)-fl(H)r  sttKlio  aiiartiiicnt,  one 
room  of  which  has  been  C(jiiverted  into  an 
Hawaiian  playroom. 

Because  her  husband  has  to  be  away  so 
much,  her  mother  lives  with  her  and  the 
family  circle  is  completed  by  a  Scottie  she 
adores — sent  her  by  a  fan  when  it  was  a 
tiny  puppy,  it  crept  into  her  heart  and  is 
well-established  there. 

Since  Herbie's  greatest  success  has  been 
in  Chicago  and  Xew  York — he  was  Chi- 
cago born  and  raised — he  feels  that  to  stay 
there  with  his  band  is  wiser  tliaii  to  try  to 
transplant  it  to  the  Pacific  C^Ki-t.  tic  t'lurs 
a  goixl  deal,  but  for  the  m^i^x  part  is  tri  he 
found  in  some  popular  CliicauM  sjiot,  like 
the  Trianon.  This  nKan^  lUMl.in-ed  >epara- 
tions,  but  both  the  Ka.\  s  u  el  that  it  is  only 
temporary.  Thiii<;s  will  work  out  so  that 
the\-  can  lie  tngelher  all  the  time.  Mean- 
while, they  sunnil_\-  make  the  best  of  the 
situation.  Dorothy  goes  to  Chiea.eo  when- 
ever she  can  slip  away,  making  the  tiresome 
trip  to  have  even  five  days  with  her  iiiis- 
band.  And,  just  recently.  Herl 
himself  a  vacation,  the  first  in 
and  spent  several  weeks  in  Holls 
his  wife. 

Of  course,  she  was  working  in  a  picture 
and  they  could  not  do  all  the  things 
they  would  have  liked  to  do.  A  day's  trip 
to  Ensenada  had  to  do  for  a  sort  of  hone\- 
moon  in  celebration  of  their  being  together 
again.  And  when  she  is  working  Dorothy 
has  to  be  in  bed  by  ten,  in  order  to  he  up 
and  fresh  and  ready  for  the  fray  early  in 
the  morning,  for  siie  has  to  be  at  the  studio 
at  seven. 

So  you  see.  being  a  glamorous  movie 
star  has  its  drawbacks,  too.  And  achiev- 
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radio  for  years  means  harder  work,  not  less. 
For  Dorothy  takes  her  career  very  seri- 
ously. She  sings  with  a  quiet  sincerity  tiiat 
is  impressive.  Contrary  to  most  blues 
singers,  she  does  not  put  on  any  show,  but 


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upon  her,  some  at  birth,  some  later.  But 
when  with  her,  you  can  readily  see  that 
it  is  her  love  and  her  marriage  that  out- 
shine them  all.  These  are  the  worthwhile 
things  and  she  will  be  no  less  happy  as  a 
housewife,  as  a  mother,  than  she  is  now  in 
the  first  glow  of  success. 

With  the  right  people,  she  thinks,  a  pro- 
fessional and  domestic  life  can  be  success- 
fully managed.  And  Herbie  has  proved 
himself  an  understanding  and  unselfish  hus- 
band, in  his  fostering  of  her  career,  has 
shown  his  mettle  as  an  absentee  husband. 
Dorothy  is  proving  hers  now,  retaining  her 


simplicity,  her  sane  outlook,  in  spite  of  the 
furore  created  by  her  sudden  rise  to  fame, 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  big  movie  and 
radio  moguls  are  clamoring  for  her  and 
the  white  light  of  publicity  shines  pitilessly 
down  on  her  every  act.  All  of  this  fright- 
ens her  sometimes  and  it  is  sheer  relief  to 
go  home  at  night,  to  the  quiet  understand- 
ing and  companionship  of  Herbie,  when  he 
can  be  there,  and  her  mother  always,  and 
the  amusing  capers  of  her  dog. 

Later,  she  likes  to  think — and  not  too 
much  later,  either — there  will  be  a  real 
home  and  babies. 

"We've  been  married  two  years  now," 
she  repeated  wistfully  in  that  soft  and  mov- 
ing voice,  "and  we  still  celebrate  our 
monthly  anniversaries — I  hope  it  will  go 
on  like  that !" 

It  ought  to.  For  Dorothy  has  sincerity 
and  a  sense  of  proportion.  H  she  can 
retain  these  two,  she  has  nothing  to  fear 
in  Hollywood. 


TALES  FROM  THE  REDWOOD 

(Continued  front  page  25) 


To  give  you  a  better  slant  at  the  man, 
let's  dip  into  biography  for  a  minute.  Back 
in  Philadelphia,  when  Claude  William 
Dukinfield  was  eleven,  he  suddenly  made 
a  decision.  He  had  been  reared  in  rather 
squalid  surroundings,  and  his  early  years 
had  been  inarked  by  unhappiness.  So  one 
day  he  packed  his  meager  belongings  and, 
stopping  only  long  enough  to  smack  his 
father  over  the  head  with  a  large  wooden 
box,  he  departed.  To  this  day  he  regrets 
neither  the  departure  nor  the  conking  of 
his  old  man.  He  still  thinks  the  old  boy 
had  it  coming. 

Bill  Fields  says  he  didn't  really  run 
away  from  home — he  just  never  came 
back.  He  stayed  in  Philadelphia,  living  in 
barns  and  livery  stables,  and  occasionally 
permitting  himself  the  luxury  of  an  empty 
piano  box.  He  kept  himself  alive  by 
swiping  fruit  from  grocery  stores  and 
begging  nickels,  with  which  he  invaded  the 
corner  saloon,  bought  small  glasses  of 
ginger  ale  and  feasted  on  the  free  lunch 
—until  the  bartender  caught  him. 

At  one  time  he  found  himself  holding 
the  dubious  rank  of  secretary  of  the  Or- 
lando Social  Club.  The  Orlando  Social 
Club  was  a  group  of  strong-nosed  indi- 
viduals who  had  quarters  over  a  livery 
stable.  As  secretary,  Fields  was  allowed 
to  live  in  the  clubroom. 

When  he  was  fifteen  he  saw  a  juggling 
act  at  a  cheap  vaudeville  house,  and  was 
fascinated.  With  apples  and  oranges, 
stolen  from  nearby  markets,  he  spent  his 
waking  hours  practicing  the  art,  and 
finally  became  so  efficient  he  was  able  to 
command  a  salary  of  five  dollars  a  week 
at  a  local  amusement  park. 

A  year  later  he  was  working  at  an 
Atlantic  City  pavilion,  dividing  his  time 
between  juggling,  at  twenty  shows  daily, 
and  being  rescued  from  the  Atlantic.  The 
"rescue"  was  part  of  the  act,  for  the 
crowds  always  followed  Fields  to  the 
pavilion,  and  they  often  stayed  to  buy 
beer. 

Next  came  a  period  in  a  circus,  and  then 
Fields  boosted  his  income  to  twenty-five 


dollars  weekly  in  burlesque.  From  there 
it  was  but  a  step  to  cheap  vaudeville,  and 
then  to  the  bigger  time,  with  a  hundred 
and  twenty-five  dollars  every  Saturday 
night.  It  was  during  this  period  that  he 
began  touring  Europe  and  acquiring  an 
education.  He  acquired  the  education  by 
walking  into  a  bookshop  with  an  empty 
trunk  and  asking  the  startled  dealer  to  fill 
it  up  with  educational  tomes. 

The  next  step  for  Bill  Fields  was  mu- 
sical comedy.  He  was  a  Ziegfeld  star,  at 
five  thousand  per  week,  for  seven  years. 
Then  came  pictures,  and  then,  as  every- 
one knows,  came  Charlie  McCarthy. 

Here's  the  way  W.  C.  describes  his  rise 
to  fame :  "In  the  circus  they  knocked  you 
over  the  head  with  a  tent  stake.  In  bur- 
lesque, they  didn't  even  speak.  In  vaude- 
ville, there  was  a  little  politeness,  in  mu- 
sical comedy,  they  were  very  polite,  and 
in  pictures,  they  were  kinder  still.  And 
now,  in  radio,  I  don't  know  whether 
they're  kidding  me  or  not.  I've  never 
been  handled  so  gently." 

Right  now  Bill  Fields  is  laughing  back 
at  Life — Life  which  has  juggled  this  jug- 
gler for  so  many  years.  He's  healthy 
(weighs  165  and  is  completely  recovered 
from  his  illness),  he's  happy  and  he's  in 
love— with  radio.  What  more  could  a 
guy  want,  except  perhaps  a  Scotch  and 
soda  ? 

"Sometimes,"  said  W.  C,  "I  get  a  letter 
complaining  about  the  insinuations  I  make 
regarding  Charlie  McCarthy's  parentage, 
but  I've  got  a  plan  for  that.  In  the  future, 
I'm  going  to  ask  that  all  complaints  be 
accompanied  by  ten  empty  packages  of 
Chase  &  Sanborn. 

"Listeners  get  the  feeling  that  Charlie 
is  human,  and  so  does  everyone  around  the 
studio.  Sometimes  I  get  it,  myself,  when 
I  catch  Edgar  Bergen  and  Charlie  off  in 
a  corner  enjoying  a  heart-to-heart  talk 
with  themselves.  All  1  know  is  that  the 
more  I  hate  him  the  more  I  love  him. 
But  I  won't  know  he's  human  until  he 
bites  me!" 


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SIR  GALAHAD 
WARING 

(Continued  from  page  38) 


Ford  Hour.  He  expects,  however,  to  be 
back  on  the  air  come  October.  A  contract 
is  now  being  readied  for  a  fall  radio  ap- 
pearance of  the  P/:)iiisyk'a)iians.  After 
Varsity  Slwn;  in  which  he  and  his  band 
are  starring  with  Dick  Powell  on  the  War- 
ner Brothers  lot.  shall  be  completed.  He 
likes  Hollywood.  He  says,  with  his  char- 
acteristic caution,  that  he  will  not  say  how 
he  likes  pictures  until  after  he  knows 
whether  or  not  /  'arsily  is  successful. 

He  is  a  rabid  golf  fan.  He  shoots  in 
the  low  eighties  and  plays  at  every  oppor- 
tunity. In  the  East  his  golfing  partners 
are,  frequently,  Tommy  Armour  and  Gene 
Sarazen.  The  candid  camera  and  making 
amateur  movies  are  his  other  hobbies. 

There  is  something  firm  and  something 
fine  about  Fred  Waring.  There  is  the 
quality  of  inflexibility  of  character.  He  is 
on  the  small  side,  five  feet,  eight  inches  tall, 
weighs  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  well- 
knit  pounds.  He  has  w;ivy  brown  hair. 
His  eyes  are  very  blue  and  even  when  he 
smiles  his  eyes  seem  to  be  remembering 
other  things — things  to  which  smiles  did 
not  belong — perhaps  his  brother  who,  sur- 
viving the  World  War,  twice  gassed  and 
several  times  wounded,  returned  home  alive 
only  to  be  killed  by  a  railroad  train  within 
eyeshot  of  the  Waring  home.  Such  things 
would  leave  their  ineradicable  scars  on  the 
sensitiveness  of  Fred  Waring. 

He  attributes  his  standards — quaint,  old- 
fashioned  word,  "standards,"  in  a  world 
which  has  pretty  well  mocked  them  into 
the  waste-basket — to  his  Methodist  up- 
bringing. To  his  devout,  gentle  niotlicr,  the 
example  of  hi<  hrni-charactfred  father.  To 
their  Methodist  home,  w  here  cards  were  not 
allowed,  dancing  accounted  a  sin,  the  world 
of  the  theatre  nwre  remote  and  more  un- 
real and  more  dreadful  than  fabled  Baliy- 
lon.  He  also  attriliutes  his  stan.lar>K  to 
the  Boy  Scouts,  of  which  he  became  a  pas- 
sionately loyal  member  at  an  early  age. 
To  such  standards  as  these,  to  their  pre- 
cepts of  honesty  and  decency  and  good 
citizenship  and  good  deeds,  he  gives  credit 
for  whatever  there  is  wirthwliile  in  his 
pattern  of  life  today.  "He  i-;,"  his  hrotlier 
Tom  told  me,  affectionately,  "a  grown-up 
Boy  Scout,  Fred,  and  always  will  be." 

He  is  the  little  Father  Confessor,  Scout 
Master,  Big  Brother,  mother,  counselor 
and  physician,  to  the  thirty-eight  members 
of  his  band.  The  day  I  talked  with  him, 
I  watched  him  on  the  I'arsity  set,  while 
Johnny  Davis  ("the  only  white  edition  of 
Cab  Calloway,"  said  Fred)  was  scat  sing- 
ing his  throat  raw  and  our  ears  off.  I 
watched  Fred  busily  rubbing  and  bandaging 
the  sprained  foot  of  Frank  Perkins.  He 
knows  every  one  of  his  boys'  personal  his- 
tories, all  of  their  problems.  He  has  seen 
them  through  all  of  their  romances,  offi- 
ciated at  and  blessed  all  of  their  marriages. 
Of  the  thirty-eight  members  of  the  band, 
only  two  are  unmarried.  Fred  believes  in 
marriage,  in  early  marriage.  When  two  of 
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their  own  blood  kin.  They  call  him  Fred, 
the  members  of  his  band. 

There  are  three  requirements  which  a 
candidate  for  Fred's  P cnnsylvamans  must 
meet:  (1)  They  must  play  their  instruments 
well.  Not  perfectly,  not  even  professionally, 
but  with  feeling,  with  a  love  of  what  they 
are  doing.  (2)  They  must  have  voices 
which  can  be  trained  the  Waring  way.  Fred 
prefers  that  they  have  had  no  previous  vocal 
training  at  all.  He  prefers  to  take  good 
raw  material  and  train  it  his  own  way. 
Xor  does  he  permit  them,  once  they  are 
P cnnsylvamans,  to  take  any  lessons  "out- 
side." And,  with  uncanny  instinct,  he  can 
tell  if  anyone  disobeys  this  edict.  And  (3) 
they  must  be  of  good  moral  character. 
This  is  by  far  the  most  important  of  the 
three  requirements.  It  really  is  all- 
important.  It  is  the  pass-key  to  becoming 
a  Pcnnsylvanian.  Morale  matters  more 
than  music. 

Fred  said  to  me :  '"I  can  train  a  girl  or 
boy,  musically,  my  way,  given  any  natural 
material  at  all.  But  you  can't  change  the 
stuff  of  ivhich  a  man  is  made." 

I  said,  then,  to  this  serious  young  maestro 
who,  having  visioned  a  Grail,  has  the  cour- 
age to  pursue  it :  "But  why  ?  Why,  speci- 
fically, do  you  consider  these  standards  so 
necessary?" 

"Do  you,"  countered  Fred  immediately, 
"enjoy  hearing  the  Ave  Maria  sung?  Do 
you  get  a  thrill  when  you  hear  The  Lord's 
Prayer  sung?" 

I  said  that  I  did,  indeed. 

"Then,"  said  the  maestro,  "you  must 
want  to  hear  thein  sung  from  the  heart. 
You  must  want  to  hear  them  sung,  as  they 
should  be  sung,  with  conviction,  with  rever- 
ence, with  truth.  And  no  man  can  sing 
them  with  reverence  and  truth  if  that  man 
has  been  out  on  a  spree  the  night  before. 
For  I  believe  that  the  man  comes  through 
his  music.  At  the  risk  of  sounding  too 
elegiac,  I  also  believe  that  only  the  'pure 
in  heart'  should  be  allowed  to  sing  the 
great  religious  music,  or  the  old  songs 
which  are  dear  to  all  of  us,  sacred  to  us 
because  of  time  and  association.  Old  Black 
Joe,  In  the  Gloaming,  The  Lost  Chord  .  .  . 
We  heard  our  mothers  sing  them  in  the 
morning  of  our  life.  And  so  they  should 
remain  fresh  and  fair  and  beautiful  and 
untainted.  They  cannot  remain  so  if  the 
instrument  who  gives  them  to  us  is  the 
very  antithesis  of  the  simple  virtues. 

"That  is  one  major  reason  why  I  try  to 
engage  the  members  of  my  band  on  charac- 
ter rather  than  on  musical  facility  alone. 
I  never  have  been  signally  fooled,  so  far  as 
I  know.  I  have,  occasionally,  been  disap- 
pointed. Many,  years  in  show  business  do 
train  a  man  to  read  character.  I  may 
pride  myself  unduly,  but  I  believe  that  I 
read  it  pretty  well. 

"I  am  not  too  prudi.sh,  I  hope.  I  don't 
make  it  a  hard  and  fast  rule  that  my  boys 
can  never  smoke  a  cigarette,  nc'\er  take 
a  drink.  I  prefer  that  tlicy  do  neither.  But 
I  insist  that  they  do  neither  in  front  of 
nic,  or  when  they  are  working.  When  we 
were  doing  scenes  for  Varsity,  at  Pomona 
College  last  week,  for  instance,  I  would 
have  felt  very  badly  had  any  of  my  boys, 
and  more  especially  the  girls,  of  course, 
been  seen  smoking  or  taking  a  drink.  I 
never  smoke  myself,  never  have.  I  seldom 
take  a  drink.  I  won't  say  that  I  never  do. 
I  do  take  a  glass  of  wine  now  and  then, 
a  very  occasional  cocktail  before  dinner. 
I  never  do  even  this  much  in  front  of  the 


boys.  They  know  that  I  take  a  drink, 
infrequently.  But  having  given  orders  that 
they  must  not  smoke  or  drink  in  front  of 
me,  I  must,  naturally,  abide  by  my  own 
rules.  I've  never  been  intoxicated  in  my 
life,  so  have  no  knowledge  of  that  'special' 
state  of  being." 

Well,  it  must  be  successful,  this  standard- 
bearing  of  Sir  Galahad  Waring.  For  there 
hasn't  been  a  replacement  in  the  band  in 
the  past  seven  years.  Fred  doesn't  ad- 
vertise. He  has  a  perpetual  waiting  list 
of  applicants,  running  into  the  hundreds. 
He  adds  to  his  band  from  time  to  time. 
There  have  been  two  deaths.  And  as  the 
band  has  been  successful  in  its  own  body, 
so  to  speak,  so  it  has  been  successful  pro- 
fessionally, as  the  public  knows.  Three  of 
the  original  foursome  are  still  Pennsyl- 
vaniaiis.  Fred  himself,  his  brother  Tom 
(who  looks  like  Chester  Morris  and  wrote 
the  popular  song  hits  So  Beats  My  Heart 
For  Vou,  IVay  Back  Home,  Desire  and 
others),  and  James  Roland  (Foley)  Mc- 
Clintock.  Fred  Buck,  the  fourth  of  the 
original  foursome,  passed  away  some  years 
ago.  Out  of  the  band,  out  of  this  life,  but 
not  out  of  the  memories  of  Fred  and  the 
boys. 

"His  presence,"  said  Fred,  "is  always 
with  us.  And  materially  with  us  in  the  in- 
numerable arrangements  he  contributed  to 
the  band's  musical  library. 

"Perhaps,"  Fred  said,  "it's  because  I'm 
not  an  actor,  that  I  still  'do  business'  from 
the  point  of  view  of  the  Methodist  Boy 
Scout  from  Tyrone,  Pennsylvania,  where 
I  was  born.  People  tell  me  I'm  not  an 
actor,  often  enough,  goodness  knows.  Per- 
haps this  picture  will  settle  that  point.  I 
certainly  never  intended  to  become  an 
actor,  nor  even  a  bandleader.  I  intended 
to  become  an  architect  or,  possibly,  a 
banker  like  my  father.  I  became  a  band- 
leader only  because  they  wouldn't  let  me 
join  any  of  the  dramatic  societies  at  col- 
lege. Only  because  /  didn't  make  the  Glee 
Club!  That  made  me  so  fighting  mad  that 
I  told  the  other  fellows,  Tom  and  Foley  and 
Fred,  who  didn't  rate,  either :  'Some  day 
we'll  show  them  what  music  and  acting 
really  are !  We'll  organize  a  dance  band 
and  give  performances,  too.  The  very  fel- 
lows who  are  turning  thumbs  down  on  us 
now  will  be  applauding  us  one  of  these 
days,  thumbs  up.' 

"Perhaps  I  am  just  a  Boy  Scout,  grown 
up.  That's  all  right  with  me.  I  wouldn't 
want  a  prouder  title.  Perhaps  I  haven't 
changed  much  from  the  kid  I  was  when 
Tom  and  Fred  and  Foley  and  I  called  our- 
selves the  Scrap  Iron  Quartette,  back  in 
Tyrone,  and  sang  on  our  front  porch  in  the 
evening,  sang  Old  Black  Joe  and  Bring 
Back  My  Bonnie  To  Me.  While  the  neigh- 
bors sat  and  rocked  on  their  front  porches, 
back  of  their  screens  of  honeysuckle,  wav- 
ing their  palm  leaf  fans,  applauding  us. 
And  the  fireflies  were  our  only  lights  and 
the  crickets  and  the  tree  toads  our  only 
orchestration. 

"There  was  something  sweet  and  fine 
and  folksy  and  satisfying  about  it.  I  know 
that  our  hearts  swelled,  fit  to  burst  our 
skinny  little  chests,  as  we  sang.  And  it's 
the  kind  of  music  I  still  believe  in,  the 
kind  of  an  audience  I  still  want.  We  were 
singing  from  our  hearts,  from  the  bottoins 
of  our  heels,  from  the  depths  of  our  young 
souls.  We  didn't  need  alcohol  or  any  other 
stimulant  to  give  it  all  we  had.    We  were 


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5ung,  we  were  Galahads,  if  you  like. 
lAnd  we  still  sing  from  our  hearts,  my 
Iband  aiid  I. 

"We  were  working  hard  in  those  days, 
[too.  Another  habit  we've  never  outgrown. 
I  We  were  saving  for  college  e<lucations.  We 
I  all  wanted  to  go  to  Penn  State — which,  by 
the  way,  my  great-grandfather  founded.  And 
I  worked  in  the  village  bakery,  Tom 
worked  in  the  village  haberdashery,  Poley 
drove  a  milk  wagon  and  Fred  Buck  worked 
on  the  local  news  sheet.  We  did  all  kinds 
of  odd  jobs,  in  between  times,  too. 

'And  now,  and  always,  I  have  tried  to 
train  the  boys  to  do  all  kinds  of  musical,  of 
showmanship  jobs,  so  that  they  can  be 
ready  for  anything.  And  they  arc  ready 
for  anything.  We've  put  on  dramatic  shows 
on  the  air.  We've  been  on  the  stage,  in 
musical  comedy,  in  vaudeville. 

"Now,  we're  doing  a  picture.  And  in 
this  picture  the  boys  and  girls  are  not  just 
band,  vague  impersonal  faces  and  hands 
behind  their  instruments.  They  are,  for 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of  a  band,  I 
believe,  playing  individual,  name  parts. 
They  always  have  been  individuals,  distinct 
personalities,  with  distinct  abilities.  Ferne 
is  famed  for  her  muted  violin  solos.  Frank 
Perkins,  composer  and  arranger,  wrote 
Stars  Fall  On  Alabama,  Cabin  In  the  Cot- 
ton, Emaline,  Sentimental,  and  other  songs. 
You  know  what  Tom  has  done  and  is  do- 
ing. Johnny  Davis,  our  trumpeter  and  scat 
singer,  wrote  That's  What  I  Learned  in 
College.  Rosemary  and  Priscilla  Lane, 
Lola's  sisters,  you  know,  are  certainly  per- 
sonalities. George  and  Arthur  McFarland, 
our  identical  twins,  are  saxophonists,  clari- 
onetists  and  singers.  Arthur  is  the  one 
who  heckles  me  on  (and  off)  the  program. 

"Yes,  we're  ready  for  anything!'  Fred 
smiled,  the  thoughtful,  slightly  anxious 
smile  of  one  who  has  worked  hard  and  fast 
and  long  in  order  to  be  "ready  for  any- 
thing.'* "We're  even  ready  for  television, 
when  it  comes  in." 

"We  have  always  experimented,"  Fred 
was  saying,  over  his  apple  pie  and  iced 
coffee,  "and  we  still  are  experimenting, 
trying  out  novelties,  changing  the  pace  and 
the  mood  as  often  and  as  variously  as  pos- 
sible. We  have  always  gone  in  for  variety, 
the  boys  going  goofy  on  a  tune  like  Annie 
Doesn't  Live  Here  Any  More,  then  follow- 
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handled  with  as  much  delicacy  as  we  can 
give  it,  then  a  hot  number,  a  sweet  instru- 
mental, a  potpourri.  We  can  change,  if 
the  public  wants  us  to.  I  have  several  new 
ideas  right  now." 

Fred  Waring  speaks  as  he  works,  as  he 
sings,  as  he  plays,  as  he  lives — from  his 
heart. 

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growing  confidence,  predicted  that  the  com- 
ing of  inoom  pitcher  actors  would  be  the 
death  knell  of  real  estate  values  in  Holly- 
wood, Grandfather  Edwards,  a  grand  old 
pioneer  but,  manifestly,  a  very  poor  busi- 
ness man,  up  and  left.  He  left  Hollywood 
to  its  heathen  idols  and  thus  passed  up  a 
fortune  that  would  have  left  his  descendants 
gold  and  to  spare  in  these  hyar  hills. 

"He  had  no  business  sense,  my  grand- 
father," X'irginia  told  mc  "and  it  was  all 
rather  tragic — especially  the  burning  of  the 
ranch  house.  For  just  about  the  time 
when  he  was  wondering  what  was  best  to 
do,  a  discharged  Negro  slave  poured  kero- 
sene over  the  ranch  house  one  night  and 
burned  it  to  the  ground.  Tliey  never  got 
over  it.  Grandmother  and  Grandfather.  He 
died  soon  afterwards  and  Grandmother  de- 
veloped melancholia.  She  is  still  living, 
though  in  some  remote  half-world,  in  a  sani- 
torium  near  here." 

Virginia's  mother  and  her  sister  used  to 
stand,  in  childhood  days,  one  on  either  side 
of  what  is  now  the  Bowl  and  whistle  to 
each  other  across  the  space  which,  today, 
echoes  with  symphonies  under  the  stars. 
Virginia  feels  perfectly  at  home  in  the 
Bowl,  she  says.  She  has  a  sense  of  "com- 
ing back."  She  never  goes  there  now,  she 
says,  to  the  symphonies,  that  she  doesn't 
think  she  hears  the  thin,  reedy  little-girl 
voices  of  her  mother  and  her  Aunt  Vir- 
ginia, in  the  days  when  the  Bowl  was  the 
Edwards  Ranch  and  all  Hollywood  lay 
in  the  hollow  of  her  grandfather's  hand. 

A  very  strange  story,  this  story  of  one 
of  the  founders  of  Hollywood,  who  left  it 
because  he  didn't  like  the  idea  of  the  movies 
coming  in.  Whose  "hard-shell"  bones  must 
quaver  now  as  his  grandaughter  sings  and 
dances  to  stardom  on  the  very  ground  he 
was  among  the  first  to  claim. 

Virginia  said :  "I  always  seemed  to  have 
a  si-xth  sense  about  music,  somehow.  I 
<l()n't  kiKK^'  how.  But  I'd  make  my  own 
arrangements  and  they'd  always  be  right. 
I  must  have  been  born  knowing."  Or  she 
may  have  inherited  this  strange  sixth  sense 
from  the  father  she  never  saw.  For  Vir- 
t;ini,t's  own  father  was  Charley  McLean, 
ihf  I'nnl  Whitenian  <jf  his  day.  He  had, 
hi-,  (laughter  reminded  me,  one  of  the  swell- 
est  bands  of  his  time,  or  any  other  time. 
.Mie  Lyman  was  his  drummer.  Cliff  Friend 
his  vocalist.  .\ud  Harry  Richman  his 
jiianist.  Just  a  month  before  the  small 
\'iryinia  was  b(jni,  her  mother  and  father 
sei)aratc<l.  ,\n(l  when,  in  her  'teens,  she 
was  on  her  way  to  see  him  for  the  first 
time,  he  died  before  she  could  reach  him. 
But  the  legend  of  his  charm,  of  his  good 
looks,  of  his  brilliant  ability  has  been 
handed  down  to  her.  He  was  too  charm- 
ing, it  seems,  to  too  many  people.  Too 
restive  and  too  romantic  for  domestic 
chains  to  hold. 

"Mother  took  care  of  me,  of  course,"  said 
Virginia.  "And  there  has  been  an  entire 
misconception  about  my  life  when  I  was  a 
child.  Almost  everything  written  about  it 
has  been  wrong.    I'll  tell  you  how  it  really 


was.  Mother,  at  first,  turned  to  the  only 
profession  she  knew  at  all,  the  stage.  And 
as  Amy  McLean  she  was  as  well  known 
in  her  way  as  my  father  was  in  his,  on  all 
the  Western  vaudeville  circuits. 

"During  the  time  she  was  on  the  road  I 
lived  with  my  aunt,  Mother's  sister.  Be- 
cause Mother  felt,  wisely,  that  I  needed  a 
home,  should  not  be  left  to  the  care  of 
servants.  I  was  a  funny,  rather  an  un- 
satisfactory little  thing,  I  should  imagine. 
Something  was  always  wrong  with  me.  I 
had  to  have  a  major  operation  when  I 
was  just  a  few  w'eeks  old.  I  had  every 
childhood  disease  on  the  clinical  calendar- 
mumps,  measles,  whooping  cough,  every 
one  of  them.    And  all  of  them  dreadfully. 

"When  I  was  eight  or  so  I  had  an  acci- 
dent which  just  about  finished  me  for  life. 
I  was  swinging  on  the  school  playground. 
I  came  down  hard  on  the  hob-nailed  boot 
of  another  child.  The  nail  tore  a  ligament 
and  a  blood  vessel  right  under  my  heart 
and  the  loss  of  blood  or  something  resulted 
in  a  paralysis  from  the  waist  down.  So 
that,  for  nearly  two  years,  I  couldn't  walk 
a  step.  Later,  I  had  a  facial  paralysis 
which  twisted  one  side  of  my  face  horribly. 
Even  now,  when  I  am  very  tired,  one  eye 
droops  a  little.  It  isn't  noticeable,  I  guess, 
to  anyone  but  me. 

"I  was,  also,  very  quiet,  very  unafifec- 
tionate.  I'm  not  affectionate  now.  Don't 
know  how  to  be.  I  always  kept  to  myself 
in  school.  Never  played  with  the  other 
children.  And  I  had,  as  I  have  now,  only 
one  chum — Flo.  We've  been  chums  ever 
since.  She's  a  swell  girl.  She  works  for 
Walt  Disney. 

"After  a  time  Mother  gave  up  vaudeville 
and  went  to  work  for  Alexander  Pantages, 
as  his  private  secretary.  Later  she  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  head  booker 
for  all  the  Pantages  Theatres.  There  isn't 
anyone  in  show  business  Mother  doesn't 
know,  few  she  hasn't  helped  and  nothing 
at  all  she  doesn't  know  about  the  business 
itself.  Mother  pretty  nearly  gave  me  an 
inferiority  complex  for  life.  She  is  so 
very  handsome,  so  vital,  so  efficient.  I 
naturally  got  to  feel  that  anything  I  did 
would  be  done,  first,  with  Mother's  hands 
and  'pull.' 

"Her  chief  reason  for  leaving  the  stage 
and  taking  a  local  position  was  so  that  we 
could  have  a  home  together.  And  there  is 
where  the  misconception  comes  in.  People 
seem  to  believe  that  Mother  'pushed  me' — 
on  to  the  air,  on  to  the  screen.  It  isn't  so. 
She  never  wanted  me  to  be  a  professional. 
She  didn't  want  me  to  work  at  all,  at  any- 
thing. 

"After  she  became  connected  with  the 
Pantages  Theatre  enterprises,  we  had  a 
lovely  home,  cars,  servants,  everything.  I 
went  to  Holl.\  woiid  High  for  a  time,  didn't 
like  it,  and  went  to  the  John  Marshall 
School.  I  finished  my  education  with  a 
tutor.  I  was  as  sheltered  as  a  small  nun 
I  never  met  any  theatrical  people.  When 
Mother  and  my  stepfather  had  guests,  1 
always  excused  myself  and  went  to  my 


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room.  I  was  so  sort  of  religious  and  ideal- 
istic that  I  cried,  I  remember,  the  first  time 
I  saw  my  mother  take  a  cocktail  and  real- 
ized what  it  was.  Instead  of  inheriting 
HoIIvwockI  from  Grandfather  Edwards,  I 
guess  I  inherit  some  of  hi>  'hard  shell,"  " 
laughed  Virginia. 

"I  just  didn't  know  what  it  was  all  about. 
I  think  that  part  of  the  way  I  feel  now, 
about  falling  in  love,  you  know,  and  men 
and  dates  and  all  that,  must  come  from 
the  way  I  was  disciplined  and  suppressed 
as  a  child — mostly  by  my  stepfather.  He 
loved  me,  in  his  way,  I  know.  And  he 
adopted  me  legally,  which  is  the  'why'  oi 
the  Verrill.  But  he  firnilv  believed  that 
children  should  be  .-een  and  imt  heanl.  He 
wouldn't  pernnt  nie  to  s"  "in  wiili  ImN's. 
1  acquired  a  premonition  that  dire  (li>aster 
would  befall  me  if  I  ever  so  nuich  went 
to  the  mo\ies  alone  with  a  boy.  It  was 
all  very  unhappy.  I  never  went  out  with 
a  boy  alone  in  my  life  until  alter  I  was 
eighteen,  when  I  went  t<i  Xew  York. 
Mother  went  with  me.  and  separated  from 
my  stepfather.  \\\-U.  things  like  that  leave 
marks.     Ineradicable,  perhaps." 

Virginia's  very  flr^t  public  appearance 
was  of  an  aIm!^in^  nature.  Charley  Chase 
was  a  very  good  friend  of  Amy  McLean's. 
One  day  they  were  planning  to  go  to  Tia 
Juana,  with  a  small  party.  Small  \^irginia 
was,  as  usual,  to  be  left  at  home.  Charley 
sensed  the  loneliness  behind  the  immense 
star  sapphires  which  are  \'irginia's  eyes. 
He  said :  "Let's  take  the  cliild  along.  She 
can't  be  shut  away  like  a  jewel  in  a  velvet 
case  forever,  Ani_\-.  She  needs  to  meet 
and  mix  with  people." 

As  a  result  of  Charley's  intervention,  \'ir- 
ginia  went  to  Tia  Juana  with  the  party. 
.\nd  while  there  her  mother,  she  says, 
laughing,  was  in  agon\  lest  the  child  realize 
that  it  was  not  lemonade  they  were  drink- 
ing. Later,  a  floor  show  was  improvised. 
Everyone  sang,  danced,  strutted  their  stuff. 
Small  \^irginia  pulled  Charley's  sleeve  and 
whispered  that  she  weiuld  like  to  sing  for 
them,  that  she  could  sing  ver\-  well,  that 
she  had  even  made  her  own  arrangements. 

Amy  McLean  \\a>  anni>ed,  and  not  too 
pleased.  She  said:  ",\on>ense:  What  is  the 
child  talking  about?  She  has  never  had 
a  lesson.    She  can't  sing  in  public." 

But  the  child  could,  and  did.  She  sang 
to  repeated  encores.  She  sang  to  a  house 
brought  to  its  feet  and  cheering.  And  per- 
haps sensed,  then,  that  Grandfather  Ed- 
wards had  sacrificed  the  Hollywoods  in 
vain.  For  theatrical  Hollywood,  haughty 
and  reviled,  was  striking  back  at  the  old 
pioneer,  with  his  own  blood. 

And  so  it  began.  But  Hollywood,  her 
own,  her  native  land,  was  not  like  the 
"house"  down  in  Tia  Juana.  \'irginia 
sang,  it  is  true,  over  practically  every 
radio  station  in  Los  Angeles.  She  once 
sang  with  Paul  Whiteman,  when  he  was 
playing  a  local  engagement.  It  was  then 
and  there  that  she  first  met  Bing  Crosby, 
still  her  good  friend.  She  sang  with  Or- 
ville  Knapp's  band  at  the  Grand  Hotel 
in  Santa  Monica.  She  sang  over  the  XBC 
network,  on  the  Slirll  >liow. 

But  the  movies  wonlil  have  none  of  her 
— visually.  The  very  first  thing  she  ever 
did  in  movies  was,  sight  unseen,  to  dub  a 
song  for  Barbara  Stanwyck  in  Ten  Cents 
a  Dance.  Her  ne.xt  movie  "blind  date"  was 
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father  Edwards  so  abhorred  were  wreaking 
vengeance  into  the  second  generation.  And 
then — then  Columbia  Broadcasting  Sys- 
tem signed  her,  featured  her  on  the 
Mobile  Magaciiir  for  a  time,  sent  her,  fin- 
all},  to  New  \ork,  where  she  appeared  for 
nianv  months  on  the  Flyiiui  Rrd  Horse 
f oi'i-ni  hour,  with  Johnny  Green's  orches- 
tra and  Christopher  Alorley.  She  was  a 
featured  vocalist  with  Green's  orchestra  at 
the  Biltmore  Hotel  in  Xcw  York.  And 
she  sansi  tor  many  months,  the  longest  en- 
[  .gagement  of  its  kind  e\cr  played,  at  the 
Paradise  Restaurant.  And  then  she  had 
:  her  own  show.  Vocals  by  Verrill,  on  the 
I  Columbia  network.  And  now  she  is  a 
member  of  the  Slw7t'  Boat  crew,  captained 
by  Charles  W'inninger. 

.Ml  of  which  .\ou  may  know.  What  you 
do  not  know  is  what  New  York,  that  ex- 
perience, did  for  the  girl  practically  no- 
body knew  up  to  that  time — the  girl  who, 
more  importantly,  did  not  know  herself. 

"For  right  here,"  said  Virginia,  "is  where 
the  other  misconception  abnut  me  rears 
its  ugly  little  head.  People  have  got  it  all 
wrong  when  they've  said  that  I  had  to  go 
to  New  York  to  be  'discovered,'  that  the 
movies  would  have  none  of  me.  The  truth 
of  it  is,  the  movies  could  have  none  of  me. 
No  producer  in  his  right  mind  would  have 
signed  me  up,  even  for  a  bit  part.  To  be- 
gin with,  I  was  fat.  I  weighed  more  than 
one  hundred  and  thirty  pounds.  My  face 
was  pufTed  out  like  a  pouter  pigeon's  with 
the  mumps.  My  hands  and  feet  were 
enormous.  My  arms  were  thick  and  fat. 
I  didn't  know  anything  about  life — and 
looked  it.  I  was  awkward  and  unprofes- 
sional. I  learned  about  life  in  New  York  !" 
smiled  Virginia— not  too  happily,  I  thought 
— "I  lost  weight,  of  course,  until  I  was 
diiwn  to  ninety-eight  pounds.  But  that 
w.-isn't  the  most  of  it.  I  learned  about  show 
business  I  went  through  what,  to  be  sort 
of  contrary,  we  will  call  a  'refining'  process. 
I  was  bucking  up  against  the  biggest,  fierce- 
est,  most  competitive  city  in  the  world  and 
somehow,  I  can't  quite  explain  how,  it 
changed  me.  It  changed  me  in  every  way. 
My  figure  changed.  Even  my  face  changed. 
My  hands  and  arms  and  feet  changed.  The 
expression  in  my  eyes,  the  way  I  wore 
clothes,  I  became  'knowing.'  I  was,  actu- 
ally, sadder  and  very  much  wiser.  You 
see,  there  is  no  show  business,  per  se,  in 
Hollywood.  There  are  very  few  night 
clubs.  I  had  to  learn  the  patois,  in  New 
York,  the  pattern  and  how  to  fit  into  it. 
I  believe  that  I  did.  I  had  my  edges 
smoothed,  the  rough  surfaces  sand-papered 
by  experiences  of  all  kinds. 

"I  went  out  with  boys,  with  men,  for  the 
first  time  in  my  life.  I  was  wined  and 
dined.  I  was  proffered  champagne  and 
orchids  and  ermine  wraps !  I  didn't  take 
them  but  I  learned  what  it  was  all  about, 
how  it  was  done  and  why.  I  heard  other 
girls,  girls  at  the  Paradise,  tell  almut  their 
dates,  their  experiences.  And  I  learned 
from  them  what  seemed  to  me  to  be  their 
bitterly  sad  experiences.  I  knew  that  I 
wanted  none  of  that — but,  you  si'c,  I  knciv. 
That's  what  showc'd  in  my  eyes,  in  the  way 
1  walked  and  talked  and  behaved. 

"I  didn't  fall  in  love.    As  I've  told  you, 


I've  never  been  in  love.  Perhaps  because 
I  never  have  believed,  and  can't  believe 
now,  that  a  boy  likes  me  for  myself  alone. 
When  I  was  in  school  and  was  the  head  of 
my  class  and  boys  asked  me  to  go  out  with 
them,  I  wouldn't  go  (I  wouldn't  have  been 
allowed  to,  anyway)  because  I  thought  they 
just  wanted  to  be  seen  with  the  'head  of 
the  class,'  not  with  me,  Virginia  Verrill. 
After  I  w-as  on  the  air,  and  boys  asked  me 
for  dates,  I  thought,  and  still  think,  they 
just  wanted  to  say  that  they  had  "been  out 
with  \^errill — she's  at  the  Paradise,  you 
know.'  I  saw  so  much  of  that  sort  of 
thing.  I  went  on  dates,  lots  and  lots  of 
them.  With  all  kinds  of  men,  young  and 
middle-aged.  I  like  boys  of  my  own  age 
best,  really.  I  went  everywhere,  saw  every- 
thing. I  learned  all  the  answers.  And  the 
one  I  always  used  was :  'Goodnight,  thank 
you  so  much,' — at  the  door  of  the  car.  The 
only  man  I  really  enjoyed  going  out  with 
was  a  young  doctor  in  New  York,  a  very 
clever  one.  I  liked  him  because  he  was 
quiet,  because  he  was  nice,  because,  though 
he  enjoyed  going  out  and  dancing  and  hav- 
ing fun,  he  never  got  tight,  liked  to  talk, 
was  dignified  and  intelligent  and  awfully  ' 
decent. 

"I  suppose  it's  a  case,  too,  of  having 
ideals.  I  hope  to  fall  in  love  five  or  six 
years  from  now.  I  want  to  marry.  I  love 
children  and  hope  to  have  some  of  my  own. 
But  when  I  marry  I  shall  leave  show  busi- 
ness and  make  my  home  my  career.  I 
wouldn't  want  to  marry  the  kind  of  a  man 
who  would  ivant  to  be  married  to  a  pro- 
fessional woman,  if  you  know  what  I  mean. 
And  I  just  haven't  met  the  other  kind,  as 
yet,  that's  all.  Or  I  haven't  fallen  in  love 
with  one  of  them,  anyway. 

"The  only  man  whose  approval  I  care  for 
right  now  is — Mr.  Goldwyn.  He  is  paying 
me  my  salary.  He  gave  me  my  contract. 
What  he  thinks  of  me  is  the  only  important 
thing.  I  want  to  prove  to  him,  but  even 
more  to  myself,  that  I  can  make  good.  I 
want  money,  yes.  But  mostly  for  what  it 
can  do  for  others.  I  know  that  sounds 
sappy  and  sort  of  gormy  and  has  been 
said  ten  thousand  times  before.  But  I'm 
selfish  about  it.  I  like  to  do  things  for 
others  because  of  the  way  it  makes  me  feel, 
swell  inside.  I  wired  Mother  the  other  day 
(she  was  in  New  York,  reading  scripts  for 
me)  :  'All  right,  yon  supported  me  in 
luxury  for  the  first  eighteen  years  of  my 
life.  No'W  I'll  support  you  in  lu.vitry  for  the 
ne.vt  eighteen  years  and  after  that  it  ivill 
be  every  man  for  himself.'  Mother  got  a 
big  laugh  out  of  that. 

"I've  signed  for  two  grand  commercials 
on  the  air.  I've  just  made  Vogues  of  1938 
for  Walter  Wanger.  I'm  under  long-term 
contract  to  Mr.  Goldwyn  and  am  now 
making  his  Goldwyn's  Follies.  All  in 
color,  thank  goodness  1  I've  staked  my 
claim  on  Hollywood,  at  last.  And,  unlike 
Grandfather,  I'm  going  to  stay  with  it. 
I  won't  be  sidetracked.  I  won't  get  mar- 
ried for  at  least  five  years.  I  won't  fall  in 
love.  I  have  my  emotional  nature  well 
under  my  thumb.  I  may  not  have  inherited 
Hollywood,"  laughed  Virginia,  that  low, 
"blues,"  somehow  melancholy  laugh  of 
hers,  "but  I  ha\e  inherited  my  own  heart." 


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PHILOSOPHERonthe 

FLYING  TRAPEZE 

(^Continued  from  page  31) 


almonds  in  lots  of  butter),  sat  back  for  a 
moment  in  deep  thought  and  then  said: 

"I  must  tell  yuu  aluuit  Michael,  he's  my 
son.  He  knocked  an  Astor  down  the  other 
day.  This  Astor  boy  tried  to  take 
Michael's  Teddy-bear  away  from  him,  so 
Michael  was  forced  to  slug  him.  All,  the 
lighting  Irish !" 

"Fighting  Irish"  is  right,  for  many  a 
fisht  did  little  Walter  O'Keefe  have,  hack 
there  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  where  he 
was  born  in  The  son  of  an  adver- 

tising man,  who  was  (couldn't  >ou  guess 
it?)  an  irrepressible  amateur  ciunic,  and  a 
mother  whose  wit  was  a  hxword,  he 
sparkled  so  well  himself  that  an  uncle 
hustled  him  off  to  school  at  Wimbledon, 
England. 

"My  father  had  had  me  taught  singing, 
so  that  I  wouldn't  go  in  lor  jokes  and 
trespass  on  his  field,  but,"  he  smirked,  "T 
used  to  tell  one  now  and  then  when  he 
wasn't  looking!  He  said  it  wasn't  proper 
for  a  mere  chit  to  be  wisecracking,  espe- 
cially when  he  was  the  comic.  But  when 
the  boat  and  I  headed  for  England  and  I 
left  the  folks  behind,  I  started  right  in 
telling  jokes  to  sailors,  stewards  and  the 
more  unfortunate  passengers  who  couldn't 
avoid  the  imp  that  I  was.  Finally,  at  the 
ship's  concert  (they  couldn't  keep  me  out 
of  it),  I  got  up  to  tell  my  prize  joke — 
and  forgot  the  point  completely — I  was  so 
excited !" 

It's  amazing  that  this  young  man — who, 
on  reading  that  a  man  who  marries  a 
beautiful  girl  and  a  good  housekeeper  has 
an  ideal  marriage,  is  reputed  to  have  said : 
"It  sounds  like  bigamy  to  me!"  should 
ever  want  to  give  up  the  fascinating  job  of 
coining  boa  mots  of  that  calibre,  but  this 
O'Keefe  did — he  wanted  to  become  a  priest. 
Of  course,  it  may  have  been  the  reception 
accorded  that  joke  that  gave  him  the  idea 
of  quitting  the  cares  and  troubles  of  this 
world,  but  at  any  rate  he  enrolled  at  -St. 
Thomas  Academy,  Hartford,  Connecticut. 

This  didn't  last,  however,  so  he  tackled 
Notre  Dame  with  a  well-worded  letter.  The 
response  was  encouraging,  so  lie  hit  lor 
South  Bend,  and  history  has  it  that  he 
tapped  on  the  door  of  tlie  Knute  Rockne 
home,  looking  for  shelter,  and  was  brought 
into  the  bosom  of  the  family.  Air.  O'Keefe, 
history  continues,  was  not  one  of  Xotre 
Dame's  Four  Horsemen.  He  did  meet 
Charlie  Butterworth  and  the  meeting  has 
left  its  mark  on  him — a  mark  you'll  ha'.e 
to  hunt  for — as  Charlie  took  advantage  of 
an  opportunity  when  Walter  was  fixing  an 
untied  shoelace. 

The  World  War  interrupted  O'Keefe's 
bright  college  career — and  how  Walter 
entered  the  Marine  Corps  is  still  a  vivid 
memory  to  his  Hartford  friends.  Walter 
announced  that  he  was  leaving  for  New 
York  to  enlist,  and  half  of  Hartford,  bands 
and  all,  turned  out  to  bid  him  GodsiK>ed. 
But  in  New  York  he  was  turned  down  be- 
cause of  his  youth — he  was  just  seventeen. 
Walter  rushed  to  a  newspaper  stand,  bought 
all  the  Hartford  papers  and  spread  them 


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on  the  recruiting  sergeant's  desk,  pointina: 
out  headlines  announcing  his  enhstnient, 
crowds  at  the  station  and  O'Keefe  smiling 
all  over  the  back  platform. 

"I  can't  go  home  after  that,  Sergeant," 
remarked  O'Keefe.  "You'd  better  take 
me."  And  the  sergeant  did. 

Clustered  out  of  the  service  without 
reaching  France,  ^^'alte^  turned  his  at- 
tention to  a  theatre  that  could  be  shown  a 
few  things,  that  is,  by  a  bright  young  man. 

"I  wrote  a  play,"  he  said,  between  mouth- 
fuls  of  the  fish,  which  looked  pretty  good, 
"that  was  considered  in  the  John  Golden 
play  contest.  But  the  contest  didn't  work 
out,  so  I  sent  a  funny  telegram  to  Tex 
Guinan  and  she  signed  me  up,  on  the 
strength  of  it,  to  sing  and  talk  to  her 
'suckers'  in  Florida.  Then  I  worked  with 
Ben  Hecht  and  J.  P.  McEvoy,"  {That  must 
have  been  an  unholy  trio!)  "in  promoting 
Key  Largo.  I  spent  six  weeks  swatting 
mosquitoes  and  listening  to  Hecht  talk — and 
what  a  command  of  the  President's  English 
he  has ! 

"Then  I  sold  more  real  estate,  or  tried  to, 
.ind  eventually  landed  with  Barney  Gallant 
in  Greenwich  Village.  I  had  fun  there  for 
three  years — because  I  could  do  anything  I 
wanted  to  and  generally  did.  Then  I  wrote 
a  musical  show  called. .  .  .  Or,  shall  we  for- 
get it?" 

The  eerie  call  of  Hollywood  sang  in 
his  ears  and  he  and  Bobby  Dolan,  the 
young  orchestra  leader  from  Barney's, 
hit  for  the  Golden  West.  This  serves  as 
another  authentic  example  of  the  O'Keefe 
pride  being  a  thing  perched  far  above  a 
lust  for  money.  Because,  you  see,  he  de- 
cided that  Warner  Brothers  had  underpaid 
him  the  first  year,  and  so,  when  the  second 
came  along,  and  an  imposing  man  in  pince 
ne::  tried  to  renew  his  contract,  he  just 
laughed.  He  did  do  several  pictures  and 
even  played  in  one  {The  Sophomore) ,  for 
which  he  wrote  a  smash  tune  called  Little 
By  Little — you  may  have  heard  the  Frcres 
Lombardo  do  it. 

"I  was  having  lunch  at  the  Roosevelt,  one 
day,  with  Kenyon  Nicholson,  the  writer," 
he  said,  toying  with  an  immense  plate  of 
French-fried  potatoes,  "and  he  said  to  me : 
'Walter,  in  this  man's  town,  you've  got  to 
make  $1000  a  week,  or  you  just  don't 
count.'  That  impressed  me — it  really  did! 
Right  away  I  could  see  the  logic  of  it. 
However,  at  the  moment,  I  had  practically 
just  finished  telling  the  man  with  the  pince 
lie.:  that  I  wouldn't  renew,  and  so  I  didn't 
quite  see  what  I  should  do  to  make  that 
$1000  weekly. 

"At  any  rate,  I  dressed  up  and  went  out 
to  a  party,  where  someone  said  you  could 
meet  someone  who  knew  someone  who  had 
an  'in.'  I'd  only  been  there  a  little  while 
when  Bobby  called  up  and  said  that  the 
William  Morris  agency  wanted  to  see  me 
right  away.  I  borrowed  a  Packard  from 
one  of  the  guests  and  hopped  off  to  their 
office.  There  was  a  parking  place  next  door 
and  I  drove  in. 

"  'Quarter  now,  Buddy,'  the  attendant 
said. 

'T  mumbled  things  and  drove  out  and 
down  eight  blocks  before  I  could  find  a 
I)lace  to  park.  In  the  office  I  signed  a 
contract  for  seven  weeks,  at  $750  a  week 
— but  I  hadn't  had  a  quarter  to  park  a 
car  with !" 

He  refused  to  admit  or  deny  that  a  wise- 
crack credited  to  him  had  been  included  in 


that  $750-act — someone  mentions  a  night- 
club habitue  who  had  diamonds  set  in  his 
teeth  and  O'Keefe  says  :  "Aiv,  nothing  but  a 
flash  in  the  pan!" 

The  tour  over,  he  found  himself  back  in 
New  York.  First  thing  he  did  was  to  dig 
up  The  Man  On  The  Plying  Trapeze,  re- 
furbish it  and  make  a  national  best-seller 
of  it.  This  catapulted  him  with  ease  into 
the  Third  Little  Shoiv,  alongside  Beatrice 
Lillie  and  Ernest  Truex.  He  was  now  m 
the  ?;l000-a-week  class. 

Since  then  the  air  waves  have  been  full 
of  the  gentleman.  Camels,  Luckies,  Nestles, 
Sealtcst  and  hundreds  of  guest  jobs  with 
big  shows,  big  enough  to  make  his  income 
tax  an  occasion  for  copious  tears. 

"You'd  love  my  wife !  She  was  Roberta 
Robinson  of  the  Band  Wagon,"  he  said. 

"Oh,  you  mean  the  mother  of  Michael?" 

"Yes,"  he  was  suspicious,  "but  how  did 
you  know  my  boy's  name?  Remind  me  to 
tell  you  about  him  sometime.  He's  one 
reason  why  we  go  up  to  Maine  so  much. 
My  wife's  folks  have  three  hundred  acres, 
up  near  Bar  Harbor,  away  from  noise  and 
traffic  and — telephones. 

"Matter  of  fact,  if  you  want  to  phone, 
you  have  to  go  a  mile  to  the  fish  hatchery, 
and  then  all  the  natives  listen  in,  because 
it's  one  of  those  party  lines,  you  know, 
twenty  or  thirty  people.  I  once  sent  a 
wire  to  my  mother-in-law,  asking  her  to 
meet  us.  She  was  out  when  the  man  from 
the  fish  hatchery  sent  over  the  message, 
but  three  shopkeepers  told  her,  so  we  were 
met  at  the  train." 

This  gave  the  man  O'Keefe  an  idea  for 
a  joke.  He  sent  a  night-letter  to  his  wife's 
folks,  from  New  York.  It  went  something 
like  this: 

"JVatler  has  just  signed  neiv  contract  for 
big  money  stop  has  given  vie  a  sixteen- 
passcngcr  Sikorsky  amphibian  and  zve  are 
flying  up  to  the  lake  arrii'ing  Saturday 
stop  bringing  Eddie  Cantor.  Jl'allace  Beery, 
Gary  Cooper,  Clark  Gable  and  possibly 
Marh'ne  Dietrich  so  have  spare  rooms 
stop  don't  tell  anyone.  Love." 

And  he  signed  his  wife's  name  to  it. 

Can  you  imagine  what  happened?  Sure 
— every  farmer  for  miles  around  was  there 
— cars  lined  the  small  roads  two  deep  a!id 
no  one  dared  say  anything  because  it  was 
supposed  to  be  a  secret.  Only  the  local 
paper,  to  be  ready,  printed  an  early  edi- 
tion with  a  stock  picture  which  showed 
Cantor  and  O'Keefe  shaking  hands,  prob- 
ably in  Hollywood.  He  still  has  the  clip- 
ping and  Maine  still  has  an  unsolved  major 
mystery. 

"I  worked  in  Maine,  back  in  1925,"  he 
says,  "played  a  split-week  in  Lewiston  and 
Bangor.  That  was  the  time  the  papers 
were  full  of  cartoons  of  the  late  President 
Coolidge  on  his  electric  horse.  I  thought 
that,  maybe,  they'd  heard  something  about 
it  up  there.  At  any  rate,  I  composed  a 
song  about  my  electric  horse  that  never 
;icted  up  and  I  had  a  fake  one  made,  to 
look  like  Mr.  Coolidge's. 

"On  the  opening  day,  at  Lewiston,  1 
mounted  the  horse  and  sang  my  song.  No 
one  laughed,  so  I  quit  the  song  and  gave  the 
pre-arranged  signal  for  the  stage-hands  to 
start  hauling  me  back  into  the  wings.  Un- 
fortunately they  had  put  casters  on  the 
bottom  of  the  thing,  so,  insead  of  going 
straight  back,  I  swerved  and  landed  in  the 
footlights  trough !  They  did  laugh  at  that, 
but  I  didn't — I  was  just  getting  over  an 
attack  of  infantile  paralysis." 


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He  changed  his  act  immediately  and  got 
a  slick  notice  in  the  local  daily,  whereupon 
he  bought  fifty  copies  to  take  back  to  the 
hotel.  A  man  stopped  him  in  the  street  and 
bought  one.  He  says  he  knows  how  he 
can  earn  his  living,  if  .  .  . 

"You  don't  look  very  sick,  right  at  the 
moment,"  I  said,  eyeing  the  empty  dishes 
around  him. 

"No,  thank  heaven!  I  got  over  tlie 
paralysis  all  right.  I  was  laid  up  eleven 
months  with  it,  but  I  didn't  mind.  (Hice  I 
knew  it  was  going  to  work  out  all  rig'nt. 
I  had  a  swell  time  catching  up  with  writ- 
ing that  had  piled  up  on  me.  I  know  now 
that  I  want  to  stop  acting  at  forty  and 
write,  because,"  he  leaned  close  and  whis- 
pered, "writing  begins  at  forty !" 

He  wants  to  tavel.  too.  Michael,  he 
says,  needs  travel  to  broaden  him,  even  ns 
it  broadened  his  daddy.  Besides,  he  and 
Mrs.  O'Keete  like  nothing  better.  Travel 
and  a  home  of  their  own,  either  in  Maine 
or  Connecticut.  They  rented  an  estate 
in  Connecticut,  the  last  year  or  so,  but 
found  that  a  lack  of  trees  made  a  serious 
difference  in  the  climate.  Therefore  he  will 
not  build  until  he  is  sure  of  the  terrain, 
even  if  it  means  living  there  a  year  in  a 
pup  tent. 

"I've  heard  you  were  able  to  read,"  I 
said,  prodding  his  sense  of  humor. 

"Got  my  a-b-c's  down  fine,  but  get  all 
nn'xed  up  beyond  that.  Seriously,  Esther 
Forbes'  new  book  has  been  making  me  burn 
the  midnight  oil — it  really  has !  Have  you 
read  it?  It's  called  Paradise  and  it  has 
stuff  in  it  that  you'd  like  to  write  down 
and  learn,  in  the  hope  that  you  could  say  it 
sometime  for  your  own.  I've  read  and  re- 
read John  Gunther's  Inside  Europe,  and  all 
Kenneth  Roberts'  stuff  fascinates  me.  Uo 
you  like  him?  He  lives  up  there  in  Maine, 
y'know." 

I  told  him  that  I  did,  that  I  had  even 
compared  notes — by  mail — with  Roberts, 
on  the  inability  of  the  average  English 
author  to  write  an  American  as  he  really 
talks. 

He  went  on,  adding  to  the  literate  trend 
of  the  conversation :  "I  once  made  a  little 
money  through  one  of  Roberts'  books.  He 
wrote-up  the  Abernaki  tribe  of  Indians  and 
1  was  so  taken  with  the  name  that  I  u^ed  it 
in  one  of  the  shows.  After  rehearsal,  that 
morning,  I  was  having  lunch  with  Ted 
Husing,  when  he  said:  'Walter,  there's  a 
nag  named  Abernaki  running  at  Belmont 
today.'  Now  I  never  gamble,  but  this 
seemed  foolish  to  pass  up,  so  I  slapped 
five  dollars  on  the  horse.  It  won,  and  I 
collected  $300!  Who  says  reading  doesn't 
pay  ?" 

A  waiter  gathered  up  the  few  dishes  I 
had  attended  to,  the  many  surrounding  Mr. 
O'Keefe,  and  we  rose  to  go. 

"This  may  interest  you,"  he  said.  "My 
little  boy,  name's  Michael,  is  a  little  city 
slicker  and  knows  practically  notliing 
about  the  country.  Well,  sir,  the  other 
Sunday,  we  got  into  the  car  and  drove  out 
of  town  looking  for  chickens — because  he 
never  had  seen  one !  Last  time  he  was  in 
Maine  he  wasn't  old  enough  really  to  take 
in  animals,  but  now  he's  out  to  learn.  We 
have  a  date  next  Sunday  to  go  looking 
for  a  cow." 

If  anyone  knows  of  a  good  pig  that 
doesn'f  mind  two  people  invading  its 
privac)-,  kindly  notify  W.  O'Keefe  or  M. 
O'Keefe  and  say  Bill  sent  them. 


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RADIO  RAMBLINGS 

(Coniiuticd  from  page  9) 


"She  didn't  rehearse  the  song  that  way 
this  afternoon,  but  she  just  couldn't  resist 
the  temptation  to  let  out  when  she  knew 
I  was  back  here  and  couldn't  do  anything 
about  it!" 

Kate  had  finished  the  soiiij  and  stood 
beaming  and  smiling.  "Look  at  her  noiv," 
Ted  began  laughing  harder  than  ever. 
"She's  as  happy  as  a  kid  that  got  into  the 
cookie  jar  unthout  being  caught!" 

By  the  way,  it's  three  years  since  that 
amateur  hour  craze  started  and  there  still 
is  not  a  single  graduate  of  the  amateur 
ranks  who  has  amounted  to  anything  in 
radio. 

A  press  agent  for  one  of  radio  drama's 
rising  young  ingenues,  Nancy  Kelly,  re- 
cently compiled  a  story  about  the  girl's 
advance  to  stardom,  describing  her  as  the 
seventeen-year-old  prodigy  of  the  air.  In 
due  time  it  appeared  in  various  papers 
around  the  country  and  the  press  agent 
was  pleased  with  a  job  well  done. 

//('  was  pleased  until  clippings  began 
arrii'ing  at  the  Kelly  home.  Then  an 
angry  call  came  from  Nancy's  mother.  She 
and  her  husband  had  just  celebrated  their 
sixteenth  ivcdding  anniversary.  The  pub- 
lished error,  setting  her  daughter's  age  at 
seventeen,  had  all  their  friends  roaring 
with  laughter. 

Radio  circles  used  to  speculate  about 
music  with  a  part  for  the  sound  effects 


man  written  right  in  the  score.  Without 
any  great  to-do  aliout  it,  Andre  Kostelan- 
etz  has  been  playing  exactly  that  sort  of 
music  the  past  couple  of  years.  Almost 
every  week  he  has  some  sort  of  a  novelty 
number,  with  the  sound  effects  man  taking 
part. 

He  made  a  trick  arrangement  of  Good 
Night,  Ladies,  ending  its  final  bar,  "We're 
going  to  leave  you  now,"  with  the  slam  of 
a  door — a  real  door  wheeled  up  to  the 
microphone  and  slammed.  For  another 
tune  he  wanted  a  factory  whistle,  but  to 
fit  into  the  harmony  it  had  to  hit  a  B 
above  high  C.  The  sound  man  had  no 
such  whistle,  so  ten-cent  stores  were 
combed  until  one  with  the  proper  pitch 
and  quality  was  found. 

By  filling  si.v  bottles  tvith  varying 
amounts  of  water,  2'arious  pitches  ivere 
achieved  as  musicians  blew  into  them. 
Kosty  managed  to  get  a  tune  out  of  those 
for  a  Silly  Symphony  medley.  There  ivas 
a  piece  called  Church  Mouse  on  a  Spree. 
To  conclude  that  realistically,  he  had  a  real 
mouse  trap  snapped  alongside  the  micro- 
phone. 

He  indulges  an  expensive  fancy  for  queer 
musical  instruments.  One  musician  draws 
a  salary  for  about  three  minutes'  work 
a  week.  He  is  the  bongocs  player  in 
rhumbas.  The  instrument  is  a  Cuban  tom- 
tom, open  on  the  bottom,  which  must  be 
warmed  over  an  alcohol  lamp  before  it 


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used.  Another  musician  puts  on  canvas 
gloves  and  plays  a  bed  spring — actuallv  a 
real  bed  spring — because  Andre  occasion- 
ally wants  to  use  the  heavy  zoom  a  plucked 
bed  spring  gives  off ! 

At  the  end  of  a  recent  Fred  Allen 
broadcast,  an  old  schoolmate  walked  up 
to  Fred.  They  had  not  met  for  twenty-five 
years  but  Fred  called  him  by  name  at 
once.    The  man  was  astonished. 

'IVhy  that's  nothing  at  all,"  Fred 
drazvled.  "Some  of  these  jokes  I  use  are  Izvo 
hundred  years  old!  What's  a  mere  twenty- 
five  years  for  a  memory  in  this  business?" 

Lanny  Ross'  private  life  is  so  private 
hardly  anyone  knew  when  bitter  tragedy 
descended  upon  him  this  spring.  He  has 
been  boyishly  excited  all  winter  and  spring 
about  the  prospect  of  his  pretty  young- 
bride  (they  don't  celebrate  their  second 
anniversary  until  fall)  becoming  a  mother. 
The  close  friends,  who  shared  the  secret, 
shared  his  excitement.  All  the  qualities  that 
belong  in  a  good  father  seem  to  be  summed 
up  in  Lanny  Ross. 

The  day  of  the  great  event  arrived.  It 
was  a  girl.  But  a  few  hours  later,  the  tiny 
stranger  was  dead.  Lanny  dragged  him- 
self back  to  the  work  of  rehearsing  bright 
and  gay  songs  for  the  program. 

Almost  overnight,  Charles  Martin  has 
become  one  of  the  most  prolific  of  radio 
playwrights.  Singlchanded ,  each  ivcek  he 
zvrites  and  directs  tzvo  radio  dramas  for 
the  Philip  Morris  programs;  Thrill  of  the 
Week  on  the  NBC  nctzvork,  Tuesdays,  and 
Circumstantial  Evidence  on  Columbia, 
Saturday  evenings,  all  zcilh  their  basis  in 
some  actual  event. 

Success  sort  of  jumped  suddenly  and  un- 
expectedly right  down  Charles'  throat.  Phil 
Lord  was  engaged  to  do  a  three-minute 
thrill  spot  on  a  Philip  Morris  program,  a 
couple  of  years  ago,  but  other  work  quick- 
ly forced  him  to  give  it  up.  Martin  seemed 
to  be  an  industrious  young  writer,  so  he 
was  given  a  crack  at  carrying  Lord's  thrill 
dramas.  They  caught  on  so  well,  the  thrill 
was  expanded  to  fifteen  minutes  instead  of 
three  and  the  Circumstantial  Evidence 
series  was  started  on  IV ABC. 

This  sudden  success  story  has  left 
Charlie  a  little  comical,  though  still  like- 
able figure.  Overwhelmed  by  the  im- 
portance of  all  his  tasks,  young  Martin 
rushes  pell  mell  through  life  these  days, 
bawling  orders,  barking  into  long  distance 
telephones,  furiously  dictating — a  dynamo 
of  youthful  uproar.  He's  intensely  earn- 
est about  all  his  pandemonium — proud  of 
its  results,  too,  and  rightly.  Since  his  ar- 
rival on  the  scene,  the  program  has  made 
a  substantial  advance  in  popularity. 

Right  on  schedule,  the  Rudy  I'allee  hour 
has  come  up  zvith  a  nczv  comedy  protege. 
This  lime  it's  Joe  Laurie,  a  headlincr  in 
old  vaudez'ille  days  but  a  misfit  in  radio 
since  z'audcvillc  disappeared,  joe's  gentle, 
Zi'hiuisical  sf^irit  of  mirth  caught  on  at 
once  in  the  I'allce  atmosphere  and  certainly 
must  have  set  a  lot  of  sponsors  zvondcring 
zvhy  this  ingratiating  man  had  not  been 
"discovered"  before.  It  is  hard  to  c.vplain, 
too.  Joe  certainly  has  been  cla)uoring 
loudly  enough  for  a  chance  to  be  "dis- 
covered." 


GRIFFIN  ALLWITE 


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famous  war  correspondent,  tireless 
headline  hunter,  is  one  of  radio's 
most  vivid  personalities.  Thus  his 
program,  Voor  True  Adventures, 
broadcast  over  the  CBS  network, 
Thursdays,  10  p.  m.,  EDST,  features 
thrilling    and    unusual  experiences. 


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Nevertheless,  Rudy  and  his  sponsors  man- 
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stature,  every  five  or  six  months.  Just  in 
the  past  couple  of  years,  the  program  has 
graduated  Bob  Burns,  Tom  Howard  and 
George  Shehon,  Frank  Fay,  Edgar  Bergen 
— all  starting  from  complete  obscurity  as 
far  as  radio  was  concerned. 

An  impressive  list,  isn't  it?  Perhaps 
the  explanation  lies  in  the  fact  that  the 
Vallee  hour  is  willing  to  give  a  newcomer 
a  chance  at  a  microphone,  instead  of 
merely  bidding  for  the  star  someone  else 
has  developed.  Incidentally,  Fibber  Mc- 
Gee  and  Molly  are  the  only  comedians  who 
have  come  up  in  the  past  couple  of  years 
without  making  it  via  the  Vallee  route. 

No  program  has  a  more  interesting  pre- 
paratory stage  than  The  March  of  Time. 
After  its  broadcast  Tlnirsday  night,  ieork 
starts  bright  and  early  1-riday  inorning  on 
ue.vt  z^'eck's  program.  All  week  long,  neiv'S 
cz'ents  lire  drai]iati::ed  as  fast  as  they  occur 
and  a  coniniiltec  of  Time  editors  fiddles 
around  zeilli  them,  reivriling,  touching  up 
here  and  there.  The  program  itself  doesn't 
use  more  than  a  third  of  the  things  written 
for  it.  The  rest  are  erozvded  out  before 
the  zeeric  is  oi'er,  zeilli  neiv  material  popping 
up  in  the  neios  ei'cry  day. 

Nearly  all  of  it  goes  into  rehearsal, 
however,  and  a  couple  of  days  is  spent 
deciding  what  goes  in  and  what  goes  out. 
Most  of  the  decision  is  made  by  a  com- 
mittee sitting  around  a  long  table  in  an 
audition  room,  away  from  the  studio.  Noth- 
ing can  be  regarded  as  final  until  Thursday 
night.  New  headlines  may  appear  in  the 
last  couple  of  hours  before  broadcast  time, 
and  more  script  is  frantically  dashed  off 
and  rushed  into  rehearsal. 

The  actors  in  the  program  have  a  lot  to 
do  besides  rehearsing  and  broadcasting. 
They  must  see  all  the  newsreels  they  can 
and  practice  imitating  the  voices  that  fall 
within  their  range.  When  obscure  per- 
sonalities suddenly  become  prominent,  an 
actor  must  scurry  around  interviewing 
people  who  can  tell  what  the  newly  famous 
person's  voice  is  like.  March  of  Time's 
producers  have  found  that,  somewhere 
around  New  York,  someone  who  knows 
the  new  voice  in  the  news  nearly  always 
can  be  discovered. 

In  its  files,  March  of  Time  lias  hundreds 
of  records  of  voices  that  might  be  e.v- 
pected  to  make  headlines  sooner  or  later. 
The  records  are  taken  mainly  from  radio 
broadcasts  and  neivsreels. 

-4- 

Some  of  the  network  programs  still 
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RADIO  STARS 


So  far,  comedy  tvritcrs  have  been  about 
the  only  ones  to  break  into  the  big  money 
class.  The  trend  may  spread  into  other 
branches  of  radio  H'riting.  Radio  is  con- 
stantly losing  some  of  its  most  capable 
script  men  to  the  more  remunerative  movie 
and  magazine  fields.  That  is  helping  to 
force  up  radio  salaries. 

Color  and  personality  usually  are  vital 
to  a  radio  program  but  Lucky  Strike's  Your 
Hit  Parade  completely  violates  that  rule. 
It  is  the  most  popular  band  program  on 
the  air  and  it  deliberately  plays  down  the 
name  and  individuality  of  its  bandleaders. 
The  leader  is  hardly  mentioned,  never  al- 
lowed to  stay  on  very  long  and.  each  one 
must  play  according  to  the  same  simple 
formula — straight-forward  melody  with 
ery  little  adornment. 

Yet,  through  all  its  years  on  the  air, 
Your  Hit  Parade's  radio  ratitig  has  out- 
ranked such  famous  and  popular  bands- 
men as  Guy  Lombardo,  Hal  Kemp,  Rich- 
ard Himber,  Wayne  King,  etc. 

Radio's  magazines  and  journalists  are 
much  more  courteous  about  stars'  infirmi- 
ties than  are  the  press  agents  of  Holly- 
wood. In  all  the  years  that  Connie  Bos- 
well  sang  zvith  her  sisters  in  radio,  it  was 
an  unwritten  law'  that  her  crippled  condi- 
tion never  be  mentioned.  Since  her  recent 
arrival  in  Hollyn'ood  as  soloist,  however,  a 
couple  of  stories  hair  appeared,  based  on 
the  fact  that  she  cannot  icalk.  (hic  z^vs 
about  a  movie  notable  rescuing  the  poor 
crippled  girl  from  a  fire.  Connie  is  e.v- 
tremely  sensitive  and  hates  it  spoken  of. 

Jane  Froman  managed  to  overcome  her 


stammering  during  her  singing  for  the 
microphone,  but  it  was  very  apparent  in 
her  conversation.  That  was  another  un- 
mentioned  topic  in  radio.  When  she  made 
her  first  picture — bing!  Out  of  Holly- 
wood came  a  deluge  of  press  releases  about 
the  steps  being  taken  to  cure  Jane  al- 
together of  stammering. 

Nazimova,  the  great  Russian  tragedi- 
enne, came  to  Radio  City  for  a  guest  star 
appearance  in  a  melodramatic  playlet.  As 
rehearsal  began,  Ed  Gardner,  the  program 
director,  carefully  explained  the  outline. 

"Let's  play  the  first  part  of  it  softly,"  he 
said,  "gradually  building  up  until  in  tliis 
last  scene  you  really  go  to  town." 

In  her  heavy  Russian  accent,  Nazimova 
asked  wonderingly :  "Go  vcali.'" 

W.  C.  Fields'  sudden  and  solid  success 
in  radio  has  led  to  a  strong  possibility 
that  the  old  comedian  might  become  a 
radio  fixture,  broadcasting  about  forty 
weeks  a  year  and  cutting  his  movie  work 
down  to  one  or  two  pictures  at  most.  For 
the  past  year,  Fields  has  been  a  very  sick 
man  and  at  his  age  complete  recovery  takes 
a  long  time.  He  likes  radio  with  its  re- 
hearsals and  four  or  five  days  of  leisure 
every  week. 

Not  all  comedians  get  that  much  time 
to  loaf,  because  some  of  them  work  on 
their  own  scripts.  Writers  supply  all  of 
Fields'  material,  the  comedian  himself  of- 
fering only  an  occasional  suggestion  for 
changes  during  rehearsal. 

Fields  remarks  on  the  polite  atmosphere 
that  prevails  around  a  radio  rehearsal.  In 


the  theatre  or  in  pictures,  rehearsals  almost 
invariably  are  very  brusque. 

-  ♦ 

Dell  Sharbutt,  CBS  announcer,  still 
reigns  supreme  as  radio's  table  tennis 
king.  George  Hicks,  NBC  announcer,  is 
the  only  threat  to  his  throne. 

Jimmy  Melton  commands  a  good  price 
fur  radio,  but  ju>t  tlic  dther  week  or  so 
he  fell  down  omipk-tciy  as  a  tenor  for  a 
.sninkins-riioni  (juartet.  It  was  on  a  train 
and  a  trio  of  jol]\-  gentlemen  were  hunting 
a  tenor  to  complete  tiicir  quartet.  Un- 
ceremoniously they  asked  Jim:  "Vou  sing 
tenor,  don't  you?" 

-♦- 

"A  little,"  he  admitted,  pleased  that 
someone  apparently  had  recognized  him. 

Without  further  ado,  the  trio  bundled 
lim  off  to  their  compartment,  completely 
unaw'are  of  w-hat  a  tenor  prize  they  really 
had.  lim  had  a  concert  next  day  and 
diJu'l  i^aiit  to  tire  his  voice  singing  all 
iiiolit.  He  leas  afraid  to  explain  that  diffi- 
culty, because  then  the  jolly  gentlemen 
might  have  become  really  insistent. 

They  struck  a  chord  to  try  their  new 
find  and  Jim  joined  in  with  a  completely 
sour  note.  They  tried  a  couple  of  more 
and  Jim  still  was  sour. 

Finally  one  of  them  contemptuously 
said:  "What  gave  you  the  idea  you  could 
sing  tenor?   Get  out  of  here." 

-♦- 

Jill}  icalkcd  back  to  his  own  place  in  the 
train,  eonsoliiia  himself  Zkith  the  thought: 
"Maybe  the  Revelers  zvould  let  me  sing 
tenor  with  them,  if  I  z^vntcd  to  get  into  a 
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IT'S  MY  HUMBLE 
OPINION- 

(^Continued  from  page  17) 


That  IS  precisely  u-hat  I  did.  I  sailed  in 
the  jail  of  1924  to  fill  the  first  saxophone 
chair  zvith  the  Savoy  Havana  Ihind,  i^hich 
comprised  eight  other  men,  all  I'diijIisIi- 
men.  ]\'e  played  for  dancini/  in  Ihc  eve- 
ning and  at  tea  lime  ei\'ry  other  aj  leriioon, 
and  besides  this  made  phonograph  records 
in  sludii'S  lehich  adi  iseil,  by  sign  :  "Gentle- 
men, yoH  may  not  smoke.'' 

I  also  gave  saxophone  lessons  to  some 
thirty  pupils,  worked  very  hard  at  every- 
thing, made  a  few  friends  and  saved 
enough  money  to  make  it  unnecessary  for 
me  to  take  every  engagement  offered  me 
on  my  return  to  Yale. 

I  returned  in  the  spring  of  1925,  with 
many  happy  memories.  Had  I  stayed  for 
two  months  longer,  it  would  have  been  my 
good  fortune  to  have  instructed  the  then 
Prince  of  Wales,  as  the  company,  for  which 
I  taught  and  sold  saxopliones,  had  fur- 
nished his  instructors  with  ukuleles  and 
drums  and  the  Prince  had  notified  them 
tliat  he  wished  an  instructor  (in  the  saxo- 
phone upon  his  return  from  Africa. 

/  also  accompanied  (on  the  sa.vophone) 
Beatrice  Lillie  and  Gcrlnidc  Lazerencc  on 
their  first  record.  JJ\-  all  zeeie  treniend- 
ously  thrilled  about  it.  After  the  recording 
at  the  J'ictor  plant,  some  tzeenty-six  miles 
out  of  London,  it  was  necessary  for  me  to 
get  back  to  London  quickly  to  play  the 
evening  session  at  the  .S'avov.  Hearing  me 
ask  one  of  the  musicians  ]or  a  lift.  Miss 
Lillie  offered  to  take  me  in  her  car.  I 
accepted,  only  to  discover,  after  the  record- 
ing, that  several  of  the  executives  of  the 
company — inasmuch  as  this  ivas  their  first 
recording  and  a  gala  occasion — had  decided 
to  present  Miss  Lillie  with  floivers  and  to 
ride  back  zvith  her  in  the  car.  We  were 
embarrassed  when  we  reached  it  to  discover 
that  there  -lcos  scant  room  for  us  all.  flow- 
ever,  !  2eas  more  than  happy  to  sit  up  front 
loith  the  chauffeur,  holding  a  tremendous 
armful  of  fiozecrs.  When  ive  reached  the 
.uibicay  slutiou  in  London,  I  hopped  off 
and  icachcil  the  Savoy  just  in  time. 

Miss  Lillie  and  I  have  had  many  laughs 
about  it  since.  When  she  played  New 
Haven,  in  the  fall  of  1926,  in  Oh,  Please! 
I  stopped  backstage  and  was  tickled  that 
she  remembered  me.  By  the  way,  Miss 
Lillie  lives  in  the  same  apartment  house 
as  do  I  and  Miss  Gladys  Swarthout. 
Whenever  Miss  Lillie  and  I  are  introduced, 
she  invariably  says:  "Oh  yes,  we  live  in  the 
same  building  but  nothing  ever  happens!" 


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bear 

had 

pick 

souv 


bile  in  London,  in  1925,  I  returned  to 
room  one  day  to  find  that  it  had  been 
;larized.  I  have  never  recovered  the 
■n  articles.  During  my  first  few 
ths  in  London,  the  Prince  of  Wales 
c  at  a  luncheon  I  attended.  After  the 
heiin,  I  fciund,  near  his  scat,  an  envelope 
iiig  his  crest  and  the  S])cech  which  he 
delivered,  torn  into  four  parts.  I 
cd  it  up,  intending  to  keep  it  as  a 
x-nir,  only  to  have  it  stolen  I 


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Charles  Kullmann  sings  wifh  Jessica 
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America — /  ivas  fairly  busy! 

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know  that  my  first  boss  and  associate  of 
Heigh-Ho  days,  Bert  Lown,  accompanied 
me  as  friend,  secretary  and  general  buffer. 

Several  weeks  before  sailing  I  had  been 
asked  to  participate  in  a  broadcast  to  Lon- 
don, on  the  Saz'oy  }fentories  Hour,  which 
inchidcd  all  the  banilsnicn  in  luigland  who 
played  at  the  Sa\')\-  in  its  many  years  of 
musical  history,  .\cci  irdiiio  ly,  at  3:30  in  the 
afternoon,  from  an  .\7)'C"  studio  here  in 
Xew  Y(u-k,  I  made  --e\eral  little  speeches, 
played  a  saxophone  sulu  an<l  sang  a  medley 
of  songs,  all  of  whicli  reached  Londtm  at 
8  ;30  in  the  evening,  a  time  when  London 
listeners  are  estimate<l  at  cigiit  millions, 
and  my  part  of  the  liriuulcast,  which  I  since 
ha\e  heard  on  records,  was  as  clear  in  its 
receinioii  as  though  I  had  Ijroadcast  in 
London  itself.  So  my  coming,  which  1  have 
mentioned  in  this  bmadcast,  was  well 
known  to  English  radii.>  listeners. 

All  of  the  orchestra  leaders  of  London 
zvere  invited  by  an  old  friend  and  saxo- 
phonist, Ben  Daz'is.  zehom  I  haz-e  enter- 
tained here,  to  a  loz'cly  midniiihl  snack 
party  in  my  honor.  Jessie  Mallhczes  zeas 
kind  enough  to  giz'C  a  tea.  so  lliat  I  could 
meet  the  Press — an  occasion  as  interesting 
as  luy  hostess  zeas  charming. 

So,  before  I  knew  it,  it  was  time  to 
punch  the  time  clock  at  the  Holborn 
Empire  and  the  Finsbury  Park  Empire 
theatres  and  my  professional  activities  were 
under  way.  Jack  Hylton  had  cabled  me, 
while  we  were  en  route  on  the  lie  de 
France,  asking  me  to  make  a  guest  appear- 
ance at  the  Paladium  Theatre,  where  he 
nightly  stages  his  show,  Swing  Is  In  The 
Air.  He  also  had  asked  me  to  be  his  guest 
at  a  Rugby  game  of  a  Saturday  afternoon, 
preceding  my  appearance  with  him  at  the 
Paladium.    I  accepted  both. 

The  Rugby  game  (with  SO.OOO  spectators 
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interesting.  It  is  la^l,  clean,  ^peilacidar 
and  requires  great  skill  on  the  part  of  the 
players.  The  ball  is  rarely,  if  ever,  touched 
by  hand,  being  kept  in  motion  by  the 
players'  feet.  What  they  do  with  their 
feet  is  almost  uncanny. 

{Continued  on  page  94) 


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many  microphones  as  Gehrig  has  pitchers 
and,  hke  Lou,  has  managed  to  maintain  an 
impressive  batting  average. 

His  one  absence  was  clue  to  his  intense 
love  of  football.  Alunn  sat  through  the 
Army-Xavy  game  in  Philadelphia,  on  De- 
cember 1st,  1934,  in  a  blinding  rainstorm. 
For  a  month,  Frank  fought  of¥  the  cold 
which  resulted,  but  finally  had  to  take  to 
the  covers  in  January  for  two  weeks. 

Being  a  man  of  logical  reasoning,  Munn 
doesn't  even  consider  that  a  break  to  his 
chain,  inasmuch  as  the  sponsors  paid  him 
for  the  four  performances  he  missed,  as 
well  as  paying  Frank  Parker,  who  sub- 
stituted for  him. 

When  you  consider  the  rapidity  with 
which  radio  performers  pop  on  and  off  the 
air,  these  days,  the  suddenness  with  which 
they  burst  into  prominence  and  then  fade 
into  oblivion,  Munn's  achievement  really 
is  phenomenal.  With  the  exception  of  the 
lapse  already  noted,  Munn  has  been  on  the 
air  for  fifty-two  weeks  a  year  for  a  twelve- 
and-a-half-year  period.  He  was  on  one 
program  alone,  the  Palmolivc  Hour,  for  a 
period  of  four  years  and  three  months,  a 
total  of  221  consecutive  weeks. 

There  is  an  amazing  resemblance  be- 
tween the  baseball  durability  of  Gehrig  and 
the  radio  longevity  of  Munn,  who  at  present 
is  on  the  Waits  Time  program,  with  Mary 
Eastman  and  Abe  Lyman's  Orchestra,  the 
S'a'icctest  Love  Songs  Ever  Suitg,  also  with 
Lyman's  Orchestra,  and  the  American  Al- 
bum of  Familiar  Music,  with  Jean  Dicken- 
son. The  similarity  of  their  performances 
consists  of  the  fact  that  neither  of  the 
Iron-  Men  has  any  desire  to  attempt  to  be 
what  he  isn't. 

Near  the  fag  end  of  the  1934  season,  I 
was  on  a  Western  trip  with  the  Yankees 
and  chanced  to  be  chatting  with  Gehrig. 
We  both  knew  that  it  was  Babe  Ruth's  last 
year  with  the  Yankees  and  I  asked  Lou 
if  he  thought  that  Ruth's  passing  would 
make  any  dif¥erence,  so  far  as  his  status 
with  the  Yankees  was  concerned. 

"I  don't  see  why  it  should,"  answered 
Gehrig  honestly.  "I  know  that  everybody 
says  that  the  Babe  has  more  color  strik- 
ing out  than  I  have  hitting  a  home  run. 
And  I  guess  that's  so.  When  Babe  goes, 
I'll  be  sorry  to  see  him  go,  but  you  can 
bet  I'm  not  going  to  bid  for  his  color.  I'm 
going  to  do  my  job  the  best  I  can,  as  I 
always  have,  and  let  it  go  at  that.  Colonel 
Ruppert  is  paying  me  to  play  first  base 
and  I'm  not  going  to  try  to  fill  any  void 
left  by  the  passing  of  the  Big  Guy.  In 
the  first  place,  I  couldn't  and  in  the  second 
place,  it  wouldn't  suit  me." 

So  it  is  with  Munn.  For  years  he  has 
stuck  to  one  type  of  song,  the  type  he  sings 
best.  His  sponsors  have  tried  time  and 
again  to  lure  him  into  singing  an  operatic 
aria,  but  only  once  did  he  weaken  in  his 
resolve.  That  was  on  the  Philco  program 
and  it  took  nine  weeks  of  persuading  be- 
fore ]"r;]nk  yielded.  His  operatic  aria  was 
well  rcHcived,  hut  Munn  didn't  kid  him- 
bclf  into  repeating  the  performance. 

"I  love  grand  opera,  and  I  listen  to  it 
at  c\er\  available  opportunity,"  explained 
Munn,  "but  I  know  niy  limitations.  I'm 


strictly  a  ballad  singer  and  I  want  no  part 
of  grand  opera. 

"Grand  opera  is  only  for  a  few  and  I'm 
not  one  of  that  select  company.  It  takes 
a  really  great  singer  to  do  justice  both 
to  himself  and  to  grand  opera.  It  also  has 
broken  down  some  really  fine  voices,  be- 
cause they  attempted  something  to  which 
they  were  not  suited." 

Another  similarity  between  the  Iron  Man 
of  baseball  and  the  Iron  Man  of  radio  is  the 
unvarying  routine  pursued  by  both  Gehrig 
and  Munn.  Munn  follows  a  set  system 
on  the  day  of  his  broadcast.  He  reports 
to  the  A'BC  studios  at  Radio  City  for  his 
afternoon  rehearsal,  then  takes  in  a  movie 
at  a  nearby  neighborhood  house,  has  a 
light  snack  and  is  back  at  the  studio  that 
evening  for  his  broadcast. 

Gehrig's  routine,  for  154  days  of  the 
baseball  season,  is  simple  and  unvaried.  He 
arises  at  about  eight,  so  as  to  eat  at  eight- 
thirty,  the  idea  being  that  his  usually  heavy 
breakfast  will  have  a  chance  to  be  digested 
before  the  ball  game.  If  there  is  a  single 
game  that  day,  Lou  partakes  of  a  light 
lunch  before  leaving  for  the  park,  where 
he  usually  arrives  at  noon.  If  there  hap- 
pens to  be  a  double-header  that  day,  Lou 
arrives  at  the  park  an  hour  earlier  than 
usual,  skips  lunch  and  contents  himself 
with  a  sandwich  and  a  bottle  of  pop  be- 
tween games. 

Neither  Munn  nor  Gehrig  has  any  il- 
lusions about  his  endurance  record,  any 
more  than  they  have  delusions  of  grandeur 
about  their  talents.  Lou  recently  declared 
he  would  like  to  play  2,500  consecutive 
games  (the  best  previous  record  was 
1,306),  but  he  admits  that  he'll  snap  his 
endurance  string  the  first  time  he  has  any 
intimation  that  it  is  affecting  his  work. 
On  the  other  hand,  Munn,  too,  admits  that 
he  can't  go  on  forever. 

"A  singer  is  good  for  only  a  certain 
number  of  years,"  declared  Frank.  "It 
doesn't  matter  how  much  or  how  little  he 
sings  in  that  period,  either.  After  a  cer- 
tain age,  a  singer  starts  to  lose  his  stufif, 
just  as  an  athlete  will. 

"There  are,  of  course,  notable  excep- 
tions, such  as  the  late  Mme.  Ernestine 
Schumann-Heink,  wdio  still  was  a  great 
singer  at  eighty-five.  But  there  aren't  many 
Schumann-Heinks  in  the  game.  Compare 
some  other  singers  of  today  with  phono- 
graph records  you  may  have  of  them, 
which  were  made  ten  or  fifteen  years  ago, 
and  notice  the  difference.  It  won't  sound 
like  the  same  voice." 

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hand,  it  takes  the  curse  of  artificiality  or 
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How  long  is  Munn  going  to  remain  on 
the  air?  How  long  is  Gehrig  going  to  stay 
at  first  base  for  the  Yankees'^  How  far 
are  these  Iron  Men  going  to  go  before  they 
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his  health.  Munn  himself  says  he  will  call 
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good  job,  once  he  feels  that  he  is  hurting 
either  himself  or  his  reputation  by  singing. 

"Most  of  what  I  have  made  in  radio,  I 
have  been  fortunate  enough  to  keep,"  de- 
clared Munn.  "Therefore,  I  hope  that  I 
will  be  able  to  step  down  gracefully  when 
I  start  to  slip,  instead  of  having  to  hang 
on  desperately  for  financial  reasons. 

"I  said  before  that  I  wasn't  in  the  habit 
of  kidding  myself,  and  I  don't  think  that  I 
am.  Naturally,  I  want  to  stay  in  radio  as 
long  as  I  can.  My  work  doesn't  tire  me 
and  I  don't  feel  that  I  need  a  rest.  There 
is  no  strain,  either  mental  or  vocal,  at- 
tached to  my  radio  performances.  At  the 
same  time,  I  don't  wish  to  stay  on  the  air 
after  I  can  no  longer  please  my  listeners. 
I  hope  I  have  the  good  sense  to  call  it 
quits  before  people  are  able  to  say  :  'Poor 
Munn!  He's  not  tltr  sini/tT  lir  iisni  to  he!'  " 

When  Munn  docs  stci)  down  from  the 
air,  which  his  thousands  of  listeners  hope 
will  not  be  until  t!ie  distant  future,  just 
as  the  Yankee  fans  hope  to  see  Gehrig  still 
at  first  base  in  1945,  the  tenor  will  have 
few  recordings  of  his  own  voice  on  hand  to 
play.  At  present,  Munn  owns  no  more 
than  a  half-dozen  of  his  own  records,  al- 
though he  has  made  inany  more. 

Asked  why  he  hadn't  maintained  a  com- 
plete library  of  his  recordings,  Munn 
grinned  goodnaturc<lly  and  explained  :  "It's 
this  way — when  I'm  through,  I'm  through. 
I  certainly  don't  intend  to  sit  at  home  by 
the  fireside  in  carpet  slippers  and  listen 
to  a  phonograph  inform  me  that  I  once 
had  a  pretty  fair  voice.  Instead,  I'd  sooner 
flick  the  dial  on  the  radio  and  listen  to 
somebody  sing  who  can  sing." 

From  which  you  may  gather  the  idea 
that,  in  addition  to  being  an  Iron  Man, 
Frank  Munn  is  pretty  much  of  a  man,  any- 
way you  take  him.  And,  you're  right — he 
is.  Like  Gehrig,  he  lias  dedicated  his 
career  to  frankness  aiul  built  it  on  the 
foundation  that  llic  cisicst  and  the  most 
dangerous  person  to  kid  is  yourself. 


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RADIO  STARS 


IT'S  MY  HUMBLE  OPINION- 

(Continued  from  pOfie  '^1) 


Scati-d  bi-hiiul  iiu-  zcas  a  rabid  i-iitlnisiast 
li'lwst'  c.x-claiiHitioiis  struck  iiie  as  unique — 
JO  /  jotted  dozen  a  fciv  of  them  for  you. 
Where  k-c  iK'ouId  say;  "Nice  nvrk!"  he 
ti'ould  shout:  "Xicely!  Nicely!"  Also, 
liking  th^e  Zi.'ork  of  one  Dugal,  he  would 
vocally  pat  htm  on  the  back  zcith:  "Noic 
then,  Dugal!"  and  u'hen  a  player  named 
O'Gorinan  made  a  nice  play,  he  ivould 
yell:  "Typical  O'Gornian  clearance,  that!" 
And  icih-ii  he  frit  tluit  the  other  team  wa.i 
about  lo  he  shouted:   ■'Briii,/  on  the 

idiites!"  Bv  "lehites"  I  presume  he  meant 
Ulics. 

On  our  w  ay  out  to  the  cup  finals  at  the 
tremcnd' UN  \\'emhlcv  Sta<Huni.  we  <Jr<:)ve 
throuj^li  strect-^  liiK.l  with  thuu^aiKls  of 
people  walchin.a  fur  tiie  King,  who  was  to 
be  present  at  the  game.  I  couldn't  help  but 
humorously  compare  this  scene  with  one 
that  I  had  observed  in  Boston  on  Patriot's 
Day,  April  19th.  I  was  appearing  there 
in  a  ballroom  and,  on  this  particular  day, 
was  riding  with  the  governors  of  several 
New  England  states,  to  a  place  where  we 
were  to  address  a  large  Massachusetts 
crowd.  As  we  rode  along,  we  saw  an 
individual  attired  in  Colonial  costume, 
topped  off  with  a  wig  and  mounted  on  a 
horse,  surrounded  by  a  posse  of  mounted 
policemen — all  riding  like  mad.  It  was  the 
famous  Ride  of  Paul  Revere  which  is 
yearly  reenacted  with  riders  dashing  over 
the  very  same  course  Paul  took,  back  in 
1776.  Those  Boston  streets,  likewise,  were 
lined  with  people.  The  same  expectant 
air  was  apparent  in  both  the  Boston  and 
English  street  audiences,  but  the  Boston 
scene  was  a  reenactment  of  a  deed  which 
would  be  a  prelude  to  the  freeing  of  a 
people  from  a  King,  whereas  the  English 
street  spectators  were  looking  for  the 
descendant  of  that  very  same  King. 

Our  theatre  appearances  xvcre  a  happy 
triumph.  Using  only  nty  pianist,  Eliot 
Daniel,  a  Harvard  boy  {through  no  fault 
of  his  oivn),  and  leilh  occasional  assistance 
on  the  part  of  the  pit  orchestra  { typically 
vaudevUlian  in  style  and  tonal  ability), 
the  shoies  icerc  a  pleasant  cvpcriciiCL  for 
me,  thoitiih  it  urcessituled  a  mad  dashing 
back  and  forth  to  and  from  the  theatres, 
from  seren  o'clock  in  the  cz'cniui/  until 
10:45,  and  then  on  to  Ciro's  for  my  stint 
until  Izco  in  the  morning.  Yet  it  gaze  me 
an  insight  into  Jinglish  audiences,  their 
psychology,  their  likes  and  dislikes. 

I  once  read,  in  an  American  column, 
that  Charles  Laughton  had  paid  a  nice 
tribute  to  my  diction,  but  I  had  discounted 
it  until,  during  the  course  of  our  English 
broadcast  rehearsal,  he  told  me  that  he 
and  his  wife  had  come,  quietly  and  in- 
conspicuously, to  one  of  our  shows  at  the 
Holborn  Empire  and  that,  while  he  had 
particularly  liked  my  interpretation  of 
Boots  And  Saddles,  he  had  been  even  more 
impressed  by  the  fact  that  I  used  no  ges- 
tures, and,  in  a  most  unorthodox  and  un- 
showmanly  fashion,  had  failed,  indeed,  to 
use  any  of  the  usual  artifices  which  singers 
employ  to  hold  the  attention  of  the  audi- 
ence. I  felt  that  I  had  received  perhaps 

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the  greatest  compliment  I  would  ever 
receive  from  anyone  whose  opinion  was 
really  worth  something.  It  is  such  com- 
pliments as  this  one,  coming  as  it  did 
from  one  whose  sincerity  is  above  ques- 
tion, that  revives  one's  faith  in  one's  self. 
Yes,  there  are  times  when  the  number  of 
uncomplimentary  letters  do  make  me 
wonder  whether  I  have  any  right  to  con- 
tinue to  attempt  to  sing  on  and  try  to 
entertain  people.  So  such  a  compliment 
as  this  cannot  help  but  make  me  feel 
encouraged  to  continue  to  try  to  please  at 
least  some  of  my  audiences. 

Of  course  I  visited  the  places  I  had 
known  when  I  lived  in  London,  and  re- 
newed old  acquaintanceships.  I  found  Lon- 
don comparatively  unchanged,  except  for 
the  hectic  activity  and  the  tall  stands 
erected  for  the  Coronation.  London  was 
more  crowded  than  ever  with  visitors  from 
all  the  Empire. 

The  autograph  fiends  leerc  as  numerous 
and  as  insistent  as  here  in  America,  except 
for  the  fact  that  nearly  each  one  volun- 
teered a  coiirteoits  " 'keze"  (English  for 
"thank  yi'u").  But  for  this.  1  might  have 
iinafiiiicd  it  loas  the  stage  door  of  the  Neiv 
York  Paramount  Theatre. 

To  pause  a  moment  in  our  travelogue 
and  explain — for  the  benefit  of  those  readers 
who  have  asked — the  reason  for  the  men- 
tion of  Judge  Bushel  in  last  month's  writ- 
ing. I  had  assumed  that  most  of  my 
readers  knew  that  my  legal  representative 
is  Hyman  Bushel,  former  New  York  City 
magistrate.  "Hymie,"  as  we  know  him, 
pretends  to  be  sensitive  about  his  gray 
hair  and  age,  when  actually,  I  think,  he 
realizes  that  he  is  no  spring  chicken.  He 
is  constantly  making  allusions  to  the  sup- 
posed fact  that  I  am  as  old  as  he  (which 
is  hardly  the  case),  and  constantly  in- 
sinuating that  I  look  older.  L  of  course, 
seize  every  opportunity  to  heckle  him  on 
the  subject  and  so  I  knew  that  when  I  re- 
ferred to  myself  as  "Old  Man  Vallee,"  it 
would  provide  the  good  Judge  with  con- 
siderable amusement. 

-♦- 

/  must  mention  tivo  humorous  incidents 
loliich  annoyed  Mr.  Bushel  no  end.  Coming 
out  of  the  Brass  Rail  (a  Nczv  York  eating 
place),  the  coat-check  girl  helped  Mr. 
Bushel  on  zoith  his  coat  first,  saying  (and 
mind,  I  didn't  put  her  up  to  it):  "Age  be- 
fore youth!"  The  Judge  swears  that  he 
never  w-ill  go  there  again! 

Then,  several  years  ago  when  I  was 
working  at  the  Hollywood  Restaurant,  I 
gave  a  Sunday  evening  birthday  party  for 
the  Judge  there,  and  a  young  lady,  slightly 
tipsy,  having  heard  my  announcement 
that  it  was  his  birthday,  walked,  not  too 
steadily,  to  his  table  and  volunteered  to 
drink  a  toast  to  him.  With  the  best  of 
intentions,  she  made  the  following  remark: 
"I  only  hope  that  I  live  to  be  as  old  as 
you!"    Was  his  face  red! 

Before  closing  I  would  like  to  tell  you 
about  a  bit  of  BBC  intelligence. 

With  my  contract  to  do  the  sustaining 


broadcast  in  London,  I  received  the  fol- 
lowing slip,  which  indicates  the  thorough- 
ness of  the  English. 

"ARTISTS'  MATERIAL 
Variety  Department 

Artists  arc  reminded  that  they  must 
not  mention  during  their  broadcast 
performance : 

The  name  of  any  production  tn 
Zi'hich  they  are  appearing 

The  theatre  in  zohich  they  arc  per- 
forming or  the  Management  to  which 
they  arc  under  contract 

Any  such  reference  or  acknozvledg- 
ment  zvill  be  made  by  the  BBC  an- 
nouncer, ivhen  necessary. 

Artists    are    asked    to   keep  their 
broadcast  material  free  from  any  men- 
tion of  the  follozving  subjects: 
Proprietary    articles    and  Business 
Names 

Religion  (including  Spiritualism) 

Scriptural  quotations 

Public  personalities 

Marital  infidelity 

Effeminacy  in  men 

Immorality  of  any  kind. 

Physical  infirmities  and  deformities 
(including  blindness,  dumbness,  stam- 
mering, loss  of  limbs,  cross-eyes,  etc.) 

Painful  or  fatal  diseases  (including 
cancer,  consumption,  tncntal  deficiency, 
etc.) 

Unnecessary  emphasis  on  drunken- 
ness 

Reference  to  Negroes  as  "Niggers" 
and  Chinese  as  "Chinks" 

The  above  instructions  are  issued 
zi'ith  a  view  to  assisting  artists  in  the 
choice  and  composition  of  their  mate- 
rial and  to  prevent  the  inconvenience 
of  last-minute  alterations. 

No  change  must  be  made  in  a  pro- 
gram after  it  has  been  passed  at  the 
final  rehearsal.  (This  was  in  red  ink 
— R.V.) 

Personal  messages  must  not  be  trans- 
mitted through  the  microphone. 

VARIETY  DIRECTOR 
The  British  Broadcasting  Corporation" 

With  all  their  efficiency  and  development, 
neither  NBC  or  CBS  has  ever  mailed  us, 
as  an  artist,  a  concise  form  of  what  must 
be  avoided  in  our  material.  I  think  the 
slip  is  extremely  interesting. 

About  the  Coronation — yon  have  seen  it 
in  your  nezvs  reels  and  knozv  almost  as 
much  about  it  as  I  do.  The  parade  zvas 
glorious  from  start  to  finish.  In  spite  of- 
the  crozvds  zvhich  zvaited  on  the  curbstones, 
all  already  in  a  gay  holiday  mood,  n'lV/i 
automobile  tops  up  and  people  sitting  on 
them,  as  returning  heroes  do,  and  the  main 
line  of  parade  barricaded  in  such  a  zvay 
to  re-route  the  crozvds  from  the  center  of 
London,  it  zvas  something  long  to  be  re- 
membered. 

I'll  tell  you  more  about  the  British 
Broadcasting  Corporation,  its  make-up  and 
its  effect  on  the  English  people,  next 
month —  See  you  then! 


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BEECH-NUT  GUM 


•I'ENNIS-Mr.s.  W'arLurton 
s  a  man's  f;ariie  of  tennis 
—  liard-dri villi;,  strategic. 
Her  a[i])earance  draws  a  gal- 
lery, whether. she  is  playing 
at  I'alni  Beach  or  in  South- 
ampton. As  for  smoking, 
"All  I  want  to  smoke,"  says 
Mrs.  Warhiirton,"is  Camels. 
Camels  are  so  mild,  they 
never  gel  on  iiiv  nerves!" 


WHAT  TO  W  EAR  -  Mi .  W  ai 
burton  ( forcgroutid  abiiri') 
charmini;ly  cool  ni  while  ^lullk- 
skin,  alter  a  hard  game  ot  teuins. 
The  pleated  shorts,  knee-top 
length — the  new  long  ;r  type — 
are  preferred  by  this  unerring 
stylist.  "It's  like  a  woman  to  eiijov 
costlier  things.  So.  natiiraliv,  I 
smoke  costlier  tohaccos.  says 
Mrs.  Warburtoii.  Smoking  Cam- 
els perks  up  my  energy  . . .  gives 
me  the  grandest  lift!" 


COSTLIER 
TOBACCOS 

Camels  are  made  from 
finer,MORE  KXI'ENSIVK 
TOBACCOS  .  .  .Turkish 
and  Domestic  ...  than 
any  other  popular  lir.ind. 


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K A — Mrs.  Haiclav  Warburtoii,  Jr.  entertains  fre- 
qiiciiii\  at  Saiidlilowii.'" her  Southatnpton  place, 
and  at  .Saracen  Fann. "  the  family  estate  near  Phila- 
delphia. "An  appetizing  dish,"  she  remarks,  "has  a 
liiller  flavor  when  a  Camel  keeps  it  company. 
'I'licte's  no  denying — smoking  Camels  at  mealtime 
hcl])s  digestion!"  As  you  smoke  Camels,  the  flow 
(it  diii<  siive  fluids  is  increased.  Alkaline  digestive 
liiiid-  lliat  mean  so  much  to  mealtime  enjoyment! 

Otln'r  Homen  prominent  in  society  who  also 
prefer  Camel's  mild,  delicate  flavor 

MI.SS  JOAN  llKl,M()NT,A'<-i*  York  .  MKS.  NICHOLAS  B\DDl. K,  Philadelphin 
MH^.  I'llWKIJ,  CAHOT.  Il:isl<m  .  MHS,  THOMAS  M.  CARNEGIE,  JR.. 
\.,.  )„,;,  .  Mlis.  I.  I^AKDNEIi  COOI.IDGE  2nd,  Boston  .  MRS. 
V\  I  llllN'l  J.  llliKXKJ,  .ir.l.  I'hila.Mphia  .  MRS.  OGDEN  HAMMOND,  JR.. 
A.M  \,„k  .  MRS.  JASPER  MORGAN,  New  York  .  MRS.  NICHOLAS  G. 
I'ENNIMAN  in.  Baltimore  .  MRS.  JOHN  W.  ROCKEFELLER,  JR., 
New  York  .  MRS.  KUFUS  PAINE  SPALDINCJ  III,  Pasadena 
MRS.  LOUIS  SWIKT,  JR..  Chicago 


K.  J. 


>lem.  N. 


FOR   DIGESTIONS  SAKE 


SMOKE  camels! 


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