Radio Stars 1936-01 Vol. 7, No. 4

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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANT KAVDIO MAGAZINE SLIE HOWARD -WALLACE BEERY- GLADYS SWARTHOUT

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IN LOVE WITH HER SLAVE e » » What happened when beautiful aristocratic Arabella Bishop became the captive of the man she had once pur- chased at the slave block for ten pounds? Admiration for his proudly insolent manner and for his refusal to be humbled by those supposed to be his masters, coupled with a strange inner)feeling, had prompted her to bid ten pounds for this man when he was auctioned off. And although his manner toward this girl, who had bought him as she would buy a horse, was one of scorn, Peter Blood could not dismiss the face of Arabella from his mind. . . . Even the hardship and torture of a slave’s life could not do this.... You will enjoy reading the thrilling romance of Captain Blood—an exciting story of slavery and piracy in the Car- ibbean. The complete story of “Captain Blood,” Warner's new picture, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, appears in the January issue of SCREEN ROMANCES. Other complete stories in this issue include “Riffraff,” with Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. ... Jack Oakie, Joe Penner and Frances Langford in “Collegiate.” ... Paul Muni in “Enemy of Man.” ... Gene Raymond in “Seven Keys to Baldpate.” ... Also previews of “Hands Across the Table,” with Carole Lombard. ... Shirley Temple in “The Littlest Rebel.” ... “Mary Burns, Fugitive” with Sylvia Sidney... . “Transatlantic Tunnel” with Richard Dix and Madge Evans. THE LOVE STORY MAGAZINE OF THESCREEN @® JANUARY ISSUE NOW ON SALE EVERYWHERE™

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RADIO STARS \ JUST LIKE A ; MAN.TO CHOOSE | A PRETTY FACE . J > mV. ~~ WISH MY SKIN WAS CLEAR { I WOULD HAVE HIRED | LIKE HERS — BUT THIS IS NO mmm THAT BLONDE GIRL JUST BEAUTY CONTEST- BET NOW. FINE REFERENCES- Yet in her : ILM TWICE AS GOOD AT SOUNDS CAPABLE ~ BUT HER SKIN / } heart she knew her bad skin was no i ie iil | {| | x + | | asset for any job © LUCK TODAY EITHER~IF I 2 WEEKS LATER Don’t let oes ead COULD BE THESE OH, IDLOVE 70 Go/ adolescent pimples _ CALL ME AT THE OFFICE } keep YOU out of a job! WHY NOT TRY IOMORROW AT 5:00. YES FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST I'M WORKING Now! 515, LIKE IM ALWAYS TELLING YOU —THEYSAy ITS DEATH ON Between the ages 13 and 25, important glands develop. This causes disturbances throughout the body. The skin becomes over- sensitive. Waste poisons in the blood irritate this sensitive skin —and pimples are the result. For the treatment of these ad- olescent pimples, doctors pre- scribe Fleischmann’s Yeast. This fresh yeast clears the blood of the skin irritants that cause pimples. Eat Fleischmann’s Yeast 3 times a day, before meals, until your skin is entirely clear. by clearing skin irritants out of the blood Copyright, 1935, Standard Brands Incorporated = o

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Radios Stan ETHEL M. POMEROY, Associate Editor LESTER C. GRADY, Editor ABRIL LAMARQUE, Art Editor TRUE STORIES DF POPULAR PERSONALITIES We ee. ss a _alits «nf Scns aelel ee CTE aie Cee Pe Po te hs ene Tom Meany ..........Anne Castle WILL LILY PONS REGRET HER PROMISE? 4 promise that changed her life....................Nancy Barrows 24 HOLLYWOOD GLORIFIES OUR GLADYS Jew triumphs for Gladys Swarthout..... THE UNCONVENTIONAL MR. HOWARD Who smashes traditions. . Yn arts ahers Mildred Mastin APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING Wallace Beery speaks his mind Bt ss eee Gladys Hall 30 _...... Elizabeth Benneche Petersen A MAN MISUNDERSTOOD? Lawrence Tibbett, artist and man THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE PRINTED SUCH LIES! Vivienne Segal wants the truth known............. Ruth Geri _Dr. R. E. Lee STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING | Revealed by the scientist on the Vallee program “FOR OLD LANG SYNE” The significance of the Lombardo theme song..............-4+. Seb te Helen Irwin STAR-SPANGLED BRITON John Barclay of the Palmolive Beauty Box RSD ee se eS te ae Jack Hanley 46 BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO THE AMATEURS? True stories of Mayor Bowes tyros ie Dorothy Brooks 48 SHAKE HANDS WITH THE CHAMPIONS Kate Smith introduces “tops” in every field .............\ DEPARTMENTS AND HREWS FEATURES Keep Young and Beautiful... . 30.0... rec siee 6 Portrait of Margaret Speaks............00eeeeeee 28 Radio: ‘Ramblings... « <i.’ scree eteetctaniianias are Seite 8 Portrait tof Jane! Fromeitisiicsies os «sols « saint ene 29 Board .of. Reviews is:cis is s.ce sicinre sbteemisrtes ae eterna 10 Radio: Stars’ Gallleryi. cre cve.crie sce 0-0 sie 0:0: 5 cae 36 Portrattof ‘Gale Pages < eutepiaeriae oe -h ceise 18 News? Pictutesicn’«siosstereaisisisiciate sic «nin viejo eeeenere 44 For Distinguished Service to Radio............... 19 Radio Stars» Cookingsochooles .< -|. 6.5/0. cies namie 50 In ‘the Radio. Spotlights. sco. stemugeterettivninie o )01< Nothing But the Trath?; oc... 0+ -. Mere eerie reer Cover by EARL CHRISTY Radio Stars published monthly and copyrighted, 1936, by Dell Publishing Co., Ine. Office of publication at Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, N. J Executive and editorial offices, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. Chicago advertising office, 360 North Michigan Ave. George Delacorte, Jr., Pres.; H. Meyer, Vice-Pres.; J. Fred Henry, Vice-Pres.; M. Delacorte, Sec’y fol. 7, No. 4, January, 1936, printed in | S. A. Single copy price 10 cents. Subscription price in the United States, $1.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter August 5, 1932, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the act of March 3, 1879. The publisher accepts no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material.

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RADIO STARS THE FUNNIEST PICTURE SINCE CHAPLIN’S ‘SHOULDER ARMS’ And that— If your memory is good ... Was way back yonder! Kk ok We've gone a long way back We admit. But then, consider what * NIGHT AT THE OPERA” has— And you’ll see why We feel safe In making This comparison. It has The Marx Brothers— Groucho . . . Chico And Harpo— Every one of them a comic genius, And together the funniest trio That ever played on stage or screen In this Or any other country. Ki) ik * And it was written by Two famous comedy dramatists— George Kaufman And Morrie Ryskind (George is the fellow who wrote “Once in a Lifetime,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” And Morrie collaborated With George on “Of Thee I Sing” and other hits). This is their first joint job Of movie writing. Their stage successes were Laugh riots— Imagine what they do With the wider range Of the screen— And three master comics ao eat To do their stuff. C3 = d x xk x Bes ’ Then Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Put $1,000,000 into Making this picture. Yes, sir! One million dollars For ninety consecutive minutes Of entertainment. Which, So our Certified Public Accountant says, Is $12,000 worth of laughs Per minute (and that, we think, Is an all-time high). x~ * * And lest we forget, That new song—‘‘Alone” By Nacio Herb Brown And Arthur Freed (The tunesmiths who gave you Five happy hit numbers in And there’s lots of > Music and romance For instance Allan Jones’ rendition Of “II Trovatore” (Watch this boy, he’s A new singing star) And watch Kitty Carlisle — She is something To watch! “RA NIGHT AT THE OPERA’ Starring the MARX BROTHERS with KITTY CARLISLE and ALLAN JONES e A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Directed by Sam Wood ®¢ Story by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

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RADIO oto eJ yckson Ph ee Jz The type of evening gown worn by Vivienne Segal (upper left), simple, well-cut, sophisticated black, fits the conception of an evening gown that can be worn in any setting. The black and white notes are the ones to strike if you would dine and dance smartly. (Center picture) Gladys Swarthout wears an effective gown of white, under a monk's cowled cape of black. (Upper right) Harriet Hilliard is a picture of slender and graceful loveliness in black velvet. (Right) Leo Reisman, of the Philip Morris program, leading his popular orchestra in Central Park Casino. STARS . —— A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE FOR GLAMOROUS GATHERINGS “I HATE fat women,” declared Leo Reisman vocifer- ously, grasping his pencil almost as though it were a baton. I seized my own pencil with jubilation, for here at last was a man who would say what he liked and didn’t like about women, and who wouldn’t be wishy-washy about it. A man, moreover, who long has been in a position to observe women at their best and at their worst .. . danc- ing, romancing, dining, wining, primping, preening under the glare and glitter of night club lights. As an outstanding dance orchestra conductor, Leo Reisman has set the musical stage for many glamorous gatherings, including those on the old Waldorf-Astoria roof, which 6 was “the tops” with the Four Hundred ... and in more recent years the Central Park Casino, where he has been setting a long-time record. Mr. Reisman expressed amazement over the fact that out of an entire assemblage of women there are so few who have figures to measure up to anything like Ziegfeld (or even television) standards. He believes that a wo- man’s figure is her biggest asset or liability, the biggest contributing factor to her attractiveness or unattractive- ness. He finds women in general too neglectful of their weight. Nobody loves a fat woman on the dance floor. We have almost the same temptations to stick pins in her as we do in a balloon on New Year’s Eve. A

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woman who wants to step to the gay and exciting places should watch her step when it comes to her figure. The interesting angle which Mr. Reisman gave to this question of feminine avoirdupois is the matter of a man’s psychological reaction to a heavy dancing partner. His re- action to her is rather like that to a lodestone ’round his neck, which he would hate to think of dragging around for a lifetime. It’s a weighty problem to think of her at all ro- mantically. He wants the light and joyous touch in his life. He wants an unencumbered, carefree future. The woman with the slim, light, and lithesome figure has all the psycho- logical advantage when it comes to matrimonial thoughts. Take it from Leo Reisman, the psychological’ ad- vantage is an important one. Maybe it is sort of taking advan- tage of your good humor to talk about the problem of plumpness when the season of good cheer and feasting is upon us when hot mince pie seduces even the most ardent sylph. Christmas comes but once a year, and who is a beauty editor to cast a spirit of gloom over the festive board? But if you feast at dinner, you can fast at breakfast, you know. A breakfast of fruit (citric) juices will be grand for you. And a three-day fruit or milk diet, after the holiday “stuffing” is over, would be excellent for dispositions, digestions, and figures. The milk diet 1 offered you last month is still available. Just drop me a line if you would like a copy. When a girl is invited to a party, the first thing she immediately be- gins to figure out is what to wear. According to Mr. Reisman, we ought to do more figuring in black and white when it comes to dressing for the evening. He believes that a wo- man’s costume should blend in with its setting. As an artist, Reisman is annoyed by offenses against the beauty of line and proportion (“J hate fat women!’’), and by offenses against color harmony. Color and line are important to him, and he be- lieves that they should be more im- portant in the feminine scheme of things. Supper clubs in recent years have gone in for modernistic color schemes in a big way. We are apt to find ourselves against a background of red and green and blue, or almost any other conceivable, or inconceivable color combination. We never know. Then again the walls may be done in a blend of pale pastels and silver. So we may be flaunting a red dress against a delicate background of pink and lavendar, or a pink dress against black and orange background. The same (Continued on page 73) RADIO STARS Ue OHOCOLATE wey 5 oe Ex-Lax is so pleasant to take... so gentle—so effective OU can, if you want to, swal- low some nasty-tasting stuff while your whole self rebels against it. You can strain your system with some violent harsh cathartic. But... why? Why—when you can take a laxative that tastes like a piece of delicious chocolate. And enjoy the mildest, most pleasant and painless relief from that dreaded old enemy to health and Jove- liness . . . constipation. More women take Ex-Lax than any other laxative. And so do more men, and children, too. It’s America’s favorite laxative... 46,000,000 boxes were bought in this country last year alone. Follow the leader... and you can’t go wrong! Tune in on "Strange as it Seems’’, new Ex-Lax Radio Program. See local newspaper for station and times Ex-Lax comes in 10c and 25c boxes at all drug stores. Insist on the genuine! GUARD AGAINST COLDS!...Remember these common-sense rules for fighting colds —get enough sleep, eat sensibly, dress warmly, keep out of drafts, keep your feet dry, and keep regular —with Ex-Lax, the delicious chocolated laxative. =e || MAIL THIS COUPON—TODAY! EX-LAX, Inc., P.O. Box 170 Times-Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. MM16 || Please send free sample of Ex-Lax. | Name | \ I | Address | | Cf you live in Canada, writ Laz, Ltd., ou liv - ite Ez-Laz, | 736 Notre Dame St. W., Montreal) When Nature forgets = remember EX-LAX THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE 7

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RADIO STARS RADIO. RAMBLINGS JUST TO GIVE YOU WORDS AND MUSIC Boake Carter, famous news com- mentator, speaks 2,200 words in each of his fifteen minute broadcasts. wes Hal Kemp has added two new in- struments to his orchestra, an electric organ and an electric guitar. You'll be hearing them on the Phil Baker show, Sunday nights, over CBS A short story by Gabriel Heatter, NBC week-end commentator, was selected by Arthur T. Vance, editor of Pictorial Review, as the year’s best short story, and as we go to press it is being put in dramatic form for the air-waves. oe Kostelanetz, whose orchestra, augmented by an chorus, forms a brilliant musical tapestry for Nino Martim on the Andre 18-voice the singing of Lily Pons and orld (Above) A doughnut race at the Boys' Club of New York—Jimmie Durante, Benny Croce (the winner) and Frank ''Bring-'em-Back-Alive" Buck. (Below) Jesse Block (left), Lou Holtz (right) guests of J. Edgar Hoover (center) and "'G Men." W ide Wide World THE LOWDOWN! LATEST NEWS OF oS eel se STUDIOS, STARS, AND PROGRAMS. Chesterfield program, is one of radio’s leading maestros. What skil- ful artists do with colors and talented orators and writers do with words, Kostelanetz does with music. His is one of the largest and most versatile orchestras on the air—a 45-piece en- semble, drawn from the finest sym- phony orchestras and dance bands in the country. + Leslie Howard’s radio audience mail includes a large percentage of letters from his English fans, who are short-wave listeners. +> Paul Whiteman has a budget of $6,000.00 per program, under his new contract—which means that the Woodbury soap program will have some starry guest talent. oe Jessica Dragonette, Cities Service soprano, who recently Sour" Miss Virginia Verrill helps Mark Warnow trim a gay Christmas Tree for little two- year-old San- dra Warnow. any

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RADIO (Top Picture) Here are the "Three Little Words.” Billie Severance, Frances Joy and Beth Raborn, a charming trio, singing Tuesdays and Saturdays. (Middle Picture) Meet the new radio firm of Benny and Bartlett. Michael Bartlett, the new singing star, will broadcast with the comedian. (Bottom Picture) Mr. and Mrs. Ozzie Nelson, after their wedding at the home of Ozzie's mother. Ozzie is the noted orchestra leader; his wife (Harriet Hilliard) a popular radio singer. observed her tenth anniversary on the air, recalled her first microphone experience. “I was terrified! I wanted to run away, and never come back,” she said. “But how glad I am now that I didn’t!” = When broadcasting, Lawrence Tibbett, CBS celebrated baritone, won't have an audience. But when he is learning mew songs and réles at home, he asks for listeners. He says he works harder if there is someone to hear him. -@- Guy Lombardo has added a new member to his Royal ‘Canadians, making an even dozen musicians. The new- icomer is Wayne Webb, a trombonist from Cleveland, ‘Ohio. ea Phil Baker, “Great American Tourist,” plays golf. Dur- ing a round on a Connecticut course last week he sliced miserably off the fourteenth tee and landed deep in the rough. After a long search he found the ball and said to ‘the caddy: “Well, son, what do I do now?” | “JT dunno, sir,” replied the youngster. “Nobody’s ever been here before.” oo Vivienne Segal’s voice has a range of two and one-half octaves, which enables her to sing in a contralto range, although she is a soprano. in? Billy Halop, radio’s “Bobby Benson,” is now having Hhis fling at Broadway's legitimate stage. The popular }) juvenile star is playing a role in “Dead End,” new play of Sydney Kingsley. 5 + SCHOOL DAYS } Phil Baker was the laziest pupil in the Philadelphia | Public School system. . . . Mike Bartlett was once a )} chorus-girl in a Princeton Triangle Club musical. Helen Hayes was an honor student at the Sacred Heart School in Washington, D. C. During vacations she came to New York for featured parts on Broadway. ... Jack | Benny was called “Mouse” by his school-mates at Waukegan, Illinois, because he was so shy and quiel... . Lawrence Tibbett failed to make the High School Glee Club.... Hal Kemp organized his now famous orchestra on the campus of the University of California. Johnny Green majored in economics at Harvard. : ) Agnes Moorehead, who is “Mrs. Crowder” in Helen } Hayes’ radio serial; “The New Penny,’ studied for a ) Master's degree at the Uniwersity of Wisconsin. ... Don Voorhees was leader of the Allentown, Pennsylvania, High School Band. ... Sigmund Romberg was educated to be | an engineer. ... PHILOSOPHY “There is no lasting happiness. Joys come and go, and in between the heartaches fall. He only can find it good to live who has determined in ail tests to do his best.” —Edgar A. Guest, poet-star of the Welcome Valley program. + “A woman’s tongue would make excellent shoe leather. It never wears out.’—Fred Allen. (Continued on page 82) STAR Pert Law Saamees S son ld

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RADIO STARS RATINGS At present, there are so many excellent programs on the air the judges found it quite impossible to single out the best five. Prac- tically every important program has been considered, but, unfor- tunately, space does not permit a complete listing. The ratings are as follows: **xk* Excellent *** Good ** Fair The ratings of the Board of Review are a consensus of opinion of radio editors throughout the country and do not necessarily agree with the editorial opinion of Radio Stars Magazine. There has been an amazing general improvement in radio pro- grams. Today there is scarcely a program on the air which is without merit. H. Dean Fitzer Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Vivian M. Gardner Wisconsin News, Milwaukee, Wis. Joe Haeffner Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, N. Y. Andrew W. Foppe Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, 0. Oscar H. Fernbach San Francisco Examiner, San James Sullivan Loulsville Times, Louisville, Ky. R. B. Westergaard Register & Tribune, Des Moines, la. c. L. Kern Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind. Larry Wolters Chicago Tribune, Chicago, III. James E. Chinn Evening and Sunday Star, Washing- Lecta Rider Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas Si Steinhauser Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. Leo Miller Bridgeport Herald, Bridgeport, Conn. Charlotte Greer Newark Evening News, Newark, N. J. Richard G. Moffett Lester C. Grady Radio Stars Magazine, Chairman Alton Cook N. Y. World-Telegram, N. Y. C. S. A. Coleman Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kan. Norman Siegel Cleveland Press, Cleveland, O. Andrew W. Smith News & Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala. kkk AMERICAN ALBUM OF FAMILIAR MUSIC WITH FRANK MUNN, VIVIENNE SEGAL AND GUS HAENSCHEN’S OR- CHESTRA (NBC). ra Current winner of Ravio Stars’ Distin- guished Service to Radio Award. LUCKY STRIKE HIT PARADE WITH FRED ASTAIRE, AL GOODMAN, KAY THOMPSON AND CHARLES CARLISLE (NBC). Aa Recent winner of Rapto Stars’ Distin- guished Service to Radio Award. HOLLYWOOD HOTEL WITH DICK POW- ELL, LOUELLA PARSONS, FRANCES LANGFORD, GUEST SCREEN STARS AND RAY PAIGE’S ORCHESTRA (CBS). A preview of a forthcoming movie with the original cast as its outstanding feature. EDDIE CANTOR WITH PARKYAKAR- KAS, JIMMY WALLINGTON AND GUEST ORCHESTRA (CBS). Eddie’s gags are funnier and the tunes more melodious than ever. COLUMBIA SYMPHONIC HOUR — VIC- TOR BAY, CONDUCTOR (CBS). The classics as you would have played. FLEISCHMANN VARIETY HOUR WITH RUDY VALLEE AND GUESTS (NBC). No wonder it’s tops. Practically every well known entertainer has guest-starred for Rudy. ONE MAN’S FAMILY (NBC). So realistic that you feel yourself a mem- ber of this popular radio family. CITIES SERVICE CONCERT WITH JES- SICA DRAGONETTE (NBC). Jessica's lovely voice and a distinctive sup- porting symphony. MAJOR BOWES’ (NBC). The whole country listens, and why not? VOICE OF FIRESTONE WITH WILLIAM DALY’S ORCHESTRA, MARGARET SPEAKS, NELSON EDDY, RICHARD CROOKS AND MIXED CHORUS (NBC). There is no finer soprano voice on the air than Margaret Speaks. them AMATEUR HOUR Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. ton, D. C. JELLO PROGRAM STARRING JACK BENNY, MICHAEL BARTLETT AND JOHNNY GREEN’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). Originality, humor and music prevail. WALTZ TIME—FRANK MUNN, TENOR; VIVIENNE SEGAL, SOPRANO; AND ABE LYMAN’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). Presenting the waltzes you love in the way you won't forget them. FORD SUNDAY EVENING SYMPHONY— VICTOR KOLAR, CONDUCTOR (CBS). Giving symphonic music a large atr follow- ing. LESLIE HOWARD DRAMATIC SKETCH- ES (CBS). Broadcasts with the same restraint and charm which made him so popular on stage and screen, GRACE MOORE (NBC). Beautiful music from one of radio’s most beautiful stars. WALLACE BEERY AND THE SHELL PROGRAM (NBC). Wally sets a new style for masters of cere- monies. GENERAL MOTORS CONCERTS (NBC). Dignified throughout. RCA MAGIC KEY (NBC). A wide world galaxy of guest stars on every broadcast. WORLD PEACEWAYS (CBS). A winning argument against the stupidity of war with Deems Taylor in charge. HELEN HAYES (NBC). Helen is far superior to her script. CHESTERFIELD PROGRAM (CBS). Two superb stars, Lily Pons and Nino Martini share honors on alternate nights. TOWN HALL TONIGHT (NBC). Fred Allen, of course, and with his usual sly, hits-the-mark humor, FORD PROGRAM WITH FRED WAR- ING’S PENNSYLANIANS (CBS). Fred's band and chorus offer melodies in unusual fashion. Francisco, Cal. LAWRENCE TIBBETT, BARITONE, WITH DON VORHEES AND HIS OR- CHESTRA (CBS). Powerfully good. CAMEL CARAVAN WITH WALTER O’KEEFE, DEANE JANIS AND GLEN GRAY AND THE CASA LOMA ORCHES- TRA (CBS). Smartness throughout. PHIL BAKER WITH BEETLE, BOTTLE AND HAL KEMP’S ORCHESTRA (CBS). Phil’s supporting cast is almost as amusing as himself. LUX RADIO THEATRE (CBS). Perfectly presented dramatisations with popular picture players. KATE SMITH’S COFFEE TIME WITH JACK MILLER’S ORCHESTRA (CBS). Kate is still second to none in putting over a song. MAXWELL HOUSE SHOW BOAT (NBC). Although changes are taking place, Lanny Ross is still headman. i ah hae BEAUTY BOX THEATRE ( ). Dynamic John Barclay and guest stars in well-known operettas. CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (CBS). A stirring historical picture of our coun- try. PAUL WHITEMAN’S (NBC). Featuring Helen Jepson, the Metropolitan star, JUMBO FIRECHIEF SHOW (NBC). Something entirely different in air enter- tainment with Jimmy Durante, Donald Novis and many others, MUSIC HALL THE BAKERS’ BROADCAST WITH ROB- ERT L. RIPLEY; OZZIE NELSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA WITH HARRIET HIL- LIARD (NBC). Featuring fascinating in dramatic form. Believe-It-Or-Nots GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN (CBS). Ted Husing, Jacques Renard’s orchestra and some fun!

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kkk RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL SYMPHONY OR- CHESTRA (NBC). The classics by master musicians. BOND BREAD WITH FRANK CRUMIT AND JULIA SANDERSON (CBS). Homey informality. MAJOR BOWES’ CAPITOL FAMILY (NBC). The Major's professionals are not as enter- taining as lis amateurs. NATIONAL AMATEUR NIGHT WITH RAY PERKINS (CBS). Competition (?) for the Major. ASN tc SERENADE—DON MARIO ( Ve Charles Gaylord’s sophisticated music with two tenors—Don Mario and Jack Fulton. LADY ESTHER PROGRAM WITH WAYNE KING AND ORCHESTRA (CBS). Soothing. FREDDIE RICH’S PENTHOUSE PARTY (CBS). Dance lovers’ delight. MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND WITH RACHEL CARLAY AND ANDY SANNELLA’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). A fast-moving show with a fascinating French songbird. BOAKE CARTER (CBS). Clear, unbiased opinions on current problems. ONE NIGHT STANDS WITH PICK AND PAT (CBS). Minstrel stuff. JERRY COOPER, BARITONE (CBS). A comparatively new voice which continues to gain more and more listeners. SILKEN STRINGS WITH CHARLES PRE- VIN’S ORCHESTRA (NEC). Countess Olga Albani is starred. NEILA GOODELLE (NBC). Miss Radio Stars. ey ae OPPORTUNITY MATINEE ( ). An amateur show in which the amateurs have a swell time. ROSES AND DRUMS (NBC). Actual Civil War happenings blended with a stirring romance. BROADWAY VARIETIES (CBS). Headliners from vaudeville and musical com- edy. LAZY DAN (CBS). But an ambitious program. SOCONY SKETCHBOOK (CBS). Johnny Green is missed. A AND P GYPSIES (NBC). Harry Horlick and his orchestra. vorites. SINCLAIR GREATER MINSTRELS (NBC). Proves that the old gags are the best. Old fa- Carlton E. Morse, who writes the scripts of "One Man's Family.’ He works in a cubby in NBC's program department. RADIO STARS PHILIP MORRIS PROGRAM (NBC). Phil Duey, ‘Johnny’ and Leo Reisman or- chestra. VIC AND SADE (NBC). Humor and human interest in a swell family. CAMPANA’S FIRST NIGHTER WITH JUNE MEREDITH AND DON AMECHE (NBC). A new show each week from the mythical little theater off Times Square. GABRIEL HEATTER (NBC). A commentator with well selected and con- scientiously prepared material. HAMMERSTEIN’S MUSIC HALL (NBC). A new and novel way of presenting stars and melodies. EVENING IN PARIS (NBC). The Pickens Sisters on ze boulevards, ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT (CBS). Either you like him a lot or not at all. LUM AND ABNER (NBC). Life at Pine Ridge, if you’re interested. MYRT AND MARGE (CBS). The girls are better than ever. and new characters. SINGIN’ SAM (CBS). Songs, mostly. SALT LAKE CITY TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORGAN (CBS). Comfort for the soul. New situations Lovely Deane Janis, a new singer, who is winning great favor with the radio public on the Walter O'Keefe program. SISTERS OF THE SKILLET (CBS). Ed East and Ralph Dumke, clowning around with housewives’ problems. MELODIANA (CBS). Music by Abe Lyman, with songs by Bernice Claire and Oliver Smuth. JERGENS PROGRAM WITH WALTER WIN- CHELL (NBC). g Flash! The week’s gossip in fifteen minutes. LOG CABIN (NBC). Conrad Thibault heads the cast. LIFE SAVERS’ RENDEZVOUS (NBC). Melodies from a mythical night club with com- mercial references galore. RICHARD HIMBER’S STUDEBAKER CHAM- PIONS (CBS). Sweet music and commercial plugs are cut to the minimum. TOM POWERS (NBC). ap ger One of Broadway's finest actors in inimitable true characterizations. WARDEN LAWES (NBC). : : . 20,900 thrills from 20,000 years in Sing Sing. THORNTON FISHER SPORTS REVUE (NBC). Fisher and his mile-a-minute chatter; also sport celebrities. ATLANTIC FAMILY (CBS). Frank Parker and radio country. Guest stars. relatives tour the Hal Totten, veteran NBC sports an- nouncer, who comments on sports, past and present, on Elgin Campus Revue. MARCH OF TIME (CBS). Five times a week and five times as thrilling. LOIS LONG’S WOMAN’S PAGE (CBS). The ladies’ delight. AMOS ’N’ ANDY (NBC). And all of their well established characteri- sations. LOWELL THOMAS (NBC). The news while it’s still news. DANGEROUS PARADISE (NBC). A perfect blend of rcmance and adventure. BEN BERNIE’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). Ben and his lads. Wisecracks and snappy tunes. SWIFT STUDIO PARTY (NBC). Sigmund Romberg and Deems Taylor head an informal musical half hour. HARV AND ESTHER (NBC). Songs, stories, laughs, and commercial plugs. ATWATER KENT PROGRAM (CBS). Wiliam Daly handles the baten. HOUSE OF GLASS (NBC). Gertrude Berg’s new dramatic offering, but not as good as her “‘Goldbergs.” JOHN CHARLES THOMAS (NBC). A voice that will delight you. EDGAR A. GUEST IN WELCOME VALLEY (NBC). Down to earth philosophy and story telling. N. T. G. AND HIS GIRLS (NBC). Bringing Breadway right into your home. LUD GLUSKIN PRESENTS (CBS). Continental tunes from a conductor who really knows them. LAVENDER AND OLD LACE (CBS). As romantic and nostalgic as the title implies. Frank Munn again. VOICE OF EXPERIENCE (CBS). Friendly advice which has helped thousands. IRENE RICH (NBC). Starring in quarter hour dramas. BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY (CBS). Adventures into space. BOBBY BENSON AND SUNNY JIM (CBS). Beyhood adventures in the great outdoors. ESSO MARKETEERS PRESENT LOMBARDO ROAD (CBS). Genial Guy Lombardo and brothers. RUBINOFF AND HIS VIOLIN (NBC). Separated from Eddie Cantor, but doing nicely. REFRESHMENT TIME WITH RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA (CBS). This English orchestra has captivated Amer- ican listeners. FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE (CBS). The truth about the Washington situation, THE CARBORUNDUM BAND (CBS). Stirring marches and romantic melodies from operettas. political (Continued on page 89) 11

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RADIO STARS BEETLE TELLS ALL THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT PHIL BAKER IS REVEALED IN THERE comes a moment in the life of every man, beast anc Beetle when, at peace with the world and his sponsor, he finds at last that Truth is stranger than friction! ... And the Whole Truth about Phil Baker has never been told! . Phil and I have been together 4 CARLA2 for many a long century—or maybe it only seems that way— to Helen and during that time I’ve im- & Harris On THIS GAY STORY patiently been trying to get in a word edgewise, parallel, vertical, sitting-standing and standing-sitting (and very pretty, too!) and I guess I know him better than anyone else —even without his accordion. Our friction started long ago when, from a theatre box, and without any charge at all, I volunteered some choice synonyms for the colorful adjective “pe- diculous.” Phil, who had been playing variety for years without having a fan, was so excited that someone was still awake in the audience, he invited me to his dressing-room. Throwing on a fedora, a spring coat and a light moustache, I ran around to the stage entrance and found a door with a star on it. Not believing my own eyes— for I’ve seen stars, often—I climbed up and looked through the transom. Sure enough, there was Phil! And I’ve been the invisible man ever since, throwing discretion and my voice to the four Phil Baker is still the little boy who went to school in Philadelphia, and be- came a Ziegfeld star. There's a warmth about this man that makes you realize just what a swell guy he really is. winds — eastern, central, mountain and western. One of the funniest things about this funny man, Baker, is that he stil has faith in mankind. And after all our years to- gether, too! You don’t have to know him very well, or for very long, to discover he'll befriend anyone who happens to get into a mix-up. I know. I’ve seen him hire lawyers, send money and do some very per- sonal worrying, recently, for a couple of Brooklyn lads he scarcely knew, whose family was in serious trouble. Up to this moment he has never known J knew about that—and many other individual charities of which the world, and his intimates, have never heard. (Could anything be funnier with all the broadcasting that goes on over a roast-to-roast hook-up ?) Jack at the very beginning, Jack Benny and Phil were pals. They still are. Both of them had been doing singles in vaudeville. Phil, I remember, had fallen for a pretty little Irish girl and he was doing his best to forget her. His best was looking at her picture all day and dreaming about her all night. Calf love, of course. . It was summer, and Phil and Jack de- cided to team up and go West. Playing an engagement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Phil ate at a nearby restaurant each day. It was pa- tronized chiefly by picture people and there was always an assortment of pretty girls toying with a lettuce leaf and a slice of

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If they thought they could escape Beetle by leaving Chicago, they were doomed to disappointment. As Phil and his butler, Bottle (Harry McNaughton) posed for this picture, Beetle rose up behind them. tomato. But Phil couldn’t see any of them for his little colleen. Not, that is, for twenty-four hours. Then he started to notice a beauty who was constantly accompanied by the director, Louis Gasnier. Realizing that those nip-ups his heart was taking had nothing to do with an earthquake, he decided that wouldn’t do either— so they started East, stopping off at Chicago. It was here that the most beautiful creature Phil had ever seen—for a day and a half—turned up. Soon they became good friends, and although Phil had left his bankroll in California, that didn’t stop him from inviting the young lady out to dinner next day. No, she didn’t think she’d accept, it was a bit too informal—but she would call for him at the hotel and drive him to dinner at her home in South Bend. Phil decided Jack and he had better put on a little dog, so they rang for the maitre d’hotel and swapped in their $2.50 room for the best suite—$8.00 per diem. After ali, it was only for one day, and even if they didn’t have enough money for a trunk, it was something to usher the young lady into spacious quarters—large enough at least so that one could turn around while shaving without committing hara-kari. But Phil was still wrestling with the problem of what to do about his soiled clothes—without a trunk. The fresh ones went into the suitcase just fine, but the crumpled shirts, socks, collars and pyjamas took up a lot of room. “T can’t tote around a laundry bag,” Phil explained patiently to Jack. “I haven’t had time to grow a pigtail!” Jack shook his head. Suddenly he exclaimed: “T’ve got it! Dll borrow a violin case from a guy I know !” Life began to look as though it were sponsored by Heaven, Inc., as Phil dressed for his Big Moment. I nearly fell off the transom as I hollered: “Don’t for- RADIO STARS Wide World Phil fell in and out of love more than once, until he met Peggy Cartwright, and real love signed up for a long contract. They have two children now, Margot and young Stuart Henry Baker, called "Algy." get your violin case, Philip. Somebody may take you for a musician!” Those words, as I see them now, were prophetic. Sure enough, up rolled a Rolls Royce and pretty soon Phil and his baggage—including the violin case—were headed for dinner at one of the swankiest mansions in little ol’ South Twist. After dinner Phil, the girl, and her parents were sitting around indulging in cordials and light conversation when the girl mentioned Phil’s “violin.” She asked him if he played. “Oh sure,” he casually assured her, “for years.” She shyly mentioned that she had “always wanted to marry a musician.” Mama and papa nodded their ap- proval. Her favorite, she confided, was the “Meditation from Thais,” would he play it—now?” It was sheer good fortune, when his anguished eyes sought the clock, that there was little time left to make the train for Pittsburgh. The girl accompanied him to the station and Phil gathered up his baggage as the train drew in. There wasn’t a second to spare! She hurriedly whispered: “Darling, call me up to- morrow !” Without time to reassure her, he grasped his “violin” and started for the train on a run. Pitilessly the case opened and emptied itself of Phil’s laundry. In full view of his inamorata, the self-appointed Kreisler had to turn around and pick them up, piece by piece. Grabbing both his belongings and the case in his arms, he made the train, though how he never knew. ... And that was the end of the “romance.” When Phil sent the case back to Benny he put a note in it which read: “I hope you're buried in this.’ (Continued on page 68) 13

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RADIO STARS FOOTBALLS AT THE ARMY-NAVY GAME FRANK MUNN, STAR OF THREE BIG PROGRAMS, ALL BUT RUINED HIS CAREER ky Tom Meany PICTURE vourself at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on the last Saturday of the 1934 football season. The grid- iron is a morass from a three-day rain. When the Midshipmen parade around the field, prior to the meet- ing between the Navy team and Army, hundreds of rubber overshoes are sucked from the wearers’ feet into the mud. It isn’t a downpour, but a cold, incessant drizzle, a penetrating winter rain. You si¢ in your seat and wonder why you came. If you're lucky, the least you can get is pneumonia. And right away you take a mental inventory of how much of a wallop a disabling cold will hit your pocketbook. You calculate the number of days you may be forced to miss from the office and wonder whether or not there will be a deficit in the weekly pay-check. Somewhere in those stands that cold, gray, wet day was Frank Munn, the golden-voiced tenor of radio, star of “Waltz Time,” “Lavendar and Old Lace,” and the “American Album of Familiar Music.” If you were run- ning the risk of the loss of a day or two at the office, and a subsequent penalty in the pay-envelope, consider the risk Munn was running. You could go to the office hoarse, but Munn couldn’t stand before a microphone with a frog in his throat. And each of his absences from the microphone would cost him several hundred dollars. There is no catch in this story. Munn did incur a cold, a cold which he fought for a month but which eventually forced him from the air in January, 1935, the first time he had missed a broadcast in eleven years. He was out for three weeks, a total of nine programs, and, to be vulgar about it, he also was out plenty of money. 14 And above is Frank Munn, himself, radio's "'golden-voiced tenor." I knew Munn was a football fanatic. I’d seen him out at Farmingdale, L. [.,in September when N.Y.U. took its pre-season work there under Coach Chick Meehan. I'd seen him at Ohio Field when the Violets returned to town later in the year and had seen him peering intently at football games from those 50-yard line boxes in front of the working press section at Yankee Stadium, operat- ing a pair of binoculars large enough to follow the America’s Cup races from the Newport shore. Knowing his intense love of football, | asked him if he ever had missed a broadcast so he could see a game which had particularly attracted him. “No,” answered Munn, simply. “That would be foolish.” Foolish? How about the guy sitting in the rain in Philly for three hours, risk- ing one of the greatest voices on the air? “That’s different,” smiled Frank. “I never thought I’d catch cold watching a game. I hadn’t had a cold in ten years and how was I to know I was going to start then? In 1931, I sat on the Notre Dame bench with Hunk ALL-

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Anderson watching the Army game in New York. There was snow on the field and a series of cold showers throughout the game, but I caught no cold.” Make ne mistake about Munn’s love of football. It is an actual force, almost a mania. And he doesn’t try to cash in on the fact that he is “among those present” at the big games in the East. Some stage, screen and radio stars go to major sporting events for no other reason than to be seen. And they take precious good care to be noted, even to the extent of sending couriers to the press-box to convey the news of their arrival. For thirteen years, Munn didn’t miss a foctball game on a Saturday until this year. Orn September 24th, he quietly married Miss Margaret Deffaa, moved from the Bronx where he’d lived till then and estabiished a home at Merrick, Long Island. The business of getting settled, of opening and examining the furniture as it arrived, to be sure it was as ordered, caused him to miss the first two Saturday games of this season. He was back on RADIO STARS AMERICAN TENOR Wide World Photos Center picture, Harry Stuldreher, coach of Villanova, and formerly one of Notre Dame's flashing Four Horsemen. Above, Coach Lou Little and Captain Al Bara- bas of Columbia. duty again at the Vanderbilt-Fordham game at the Polo Grounds on October 19th. Fortunately for both of the newlyweds, Mrs. Munn is as enthusiastic about football as Frank. Otherwise marital bliss would be impossible. Frank talks football all through the Fall, draws diagrams on table-cloths in res- taurants (but not at home, you bet!) to illustrate pet plays, crouches on the floor to show the proper stance for a lineman and has all the hundred-and-one odd foibles that stamp your real football bug as a man apart. Strangely enough, Munn played little football. He left nis books to go to work in his last year in grammar school. His only football was with the Locust Field Club on Saturday afternoons on the old Westchester golf links. On that same Locust team was another youngster who did pretty well in football, Harry Blodgett, a halt- back who later played at Annapolis and was a better than ordinary punter. A casual acquaintance with (Continued on page 58) 15

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RADIO STARS gLORIFIES Ou OPERA DISGUISED GLADYS SWARTH- Cc” a UP until yesterday Gladys Swarthout might just as well have been as ugly as a mud Z fence. It wouldn’t have influenced her suc- Sb cess one whit. For, in opera they disguised ak her feminine beauty in boy’s clothing, and on the air her loveliness was, of course, invisible to her audience. But that was yesterday. Today all is different. For Gladys is in the movies now. And Hollywood—wise appraiser of beauty’s value—is gowning her in graceful frocks and ruffles, piling her curls on top of her head and showing the world what it’s been missing for the last ten years by hiding this lady’s loveliness. It is ironic that she—one of the most beautiful women in America—should have made her operatic début as a shepherd boy. That one of her most successful roles should be in “Romeo and Juliet,’ not as Juliet, but as Stephano, the page boy. That when they finally did cast her as a woman, it should have been as the blind old mother in ‘La Gioconda,” her beauty hidden beneath a mask of ugly make-up. Ironic, too, was her first statement when, after her broadcast, someone asked her how she liked singing over the air. “I love it,” she answered, “I can dress ‘like ai girl.” Singing in a lovely gown—even if her audience couldn’t see her—was a big ‘thriil for Gladys. Today she says: “One of the most fascinating features about Hollywood, to my mind, is the opportunity it pro- vides to wear the type of clothes most suitable to every hour of the day and to every mood which overtakes one.” Hollywood never had an easier job of “glorifying” a star, nor a more helpful model! Others may weep at the changed hair-dress, the re-costuming and new make-ups that Hollywood forces on them, but Gladys has welcomed with delight every change, every suggestion. A very beautiful woman before Holly wood ever saw her, she is glamourously gorgeous now. And she won't believe it! Take her by the hand, lead her to the full length mir- ror in her dressing-room at the Paramount studios, and say: “Look!” She laughs and answers: “Life is so full of surprises!” As a matter of fact, her life has been full of surprises. Ever since she first opened her eyes, on a snowy Christ- mas morning in Deep Water, Missouri, strange and lovely things have been happening to Gladys Swarthout. Probably the biggest surprise in the Swarthout family is Gladys, herself. For the Swarthouts, living plainly in the little Missouri mining town, never had dreamed that a musical genius was born in their midst when Gladys let 16 OUT. RADIO MADE HER INVISIBLE. . NOW MOVIES REVEAL HER BEAUTY. Ly inne Castle loose that beautiful voice of hers for the first time in a loud, new-born baby squall. The family always had loved music. One of Gladys’ earliest memories is that of her mother playing the piano in the evening and herself trying to sing. Then there was Roma, a sister just two years older than Gladys, who began picking tunes out on the piano as soon as she was tall enough to reach the keys. She would teach the little sister to follow the melodies, scolding her if she sang them wrong, patiently making her repeat if the little voice didn’t quite reach a high note or went a bit flat on a lower one. Ask Gladys now whom she studied under and she an- swers: “Roma. My sister. She taught me all my life. And what she couldn’t teach me I learned from people she discovered to teach me.” When Gladys was twelve, she and Roma decided she was ready for her first public appearance. The Swarth- outs had moved to Kansas City by then, and both girls were taking piano and voice lessons from a woman in the neighborhood. Roma talked the teacher into giving a recital at which Gladys would be presented. Gladys says that first public appearance was her most important one. All went well until the fourth song on her program, a song in which it was necessary for the twelve-year-old child to reach, and hold, high C. “T reached for the high C,” she says, “but it wasn’t there! I felt funny all over. My teacher, accompanying me, went on as if nothing had happened. But my shame had turned to anger. I ‘turned to the teacher and said: ‘Please start that song over again.’ She couldn’t very well argue on the concert stage! I began the song again, and that time I reached the C and held it, and the audience applauded. I’ve never had sweeter applause!” People who heard the child at that concert and admired her grit as well as her talent, offered to lend the Swarth- outs money for her musical education. The very next day, a grand piano arrived at their home to replace the old upright. And Gladys’ training began in earnest. Just a year later, when she was thirteen, she pinned up her hair, put on one of Roma’s long-skirt dresses, and went forth to get a job. At a Methodist church, she told the choir master that she was nineteen, sang a few bars of music for him, and was hired. “One reason I went to that particular church for job,” she now confesses, “is because I had attended ser- vices there and always objected to the stiff, unbecoming way the soloist held her music. I didn’t think I could sing better music than she, but I did think I could hold the music better !” Gladys sang there for a year, (Continued on page 86)

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RADIO STARS Gladys Swarthout enjoys a game of tennis with her husband, Frank Chapman, who also is an opera singer. And at the right, she poses in one of the lovely gowns chosen from her personal ward- robe for formal evening wear. It is made of stiffened brocaded lamé. 17

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RADIO STARS You of the radio audience know her as soloist of the Climalene Carnival. Gale's personal friends know her as Mrs. Frederick Tritschlar, wife of a Chicago investment banker, and the proud mother of a three-year-old boy.

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Conductor Gustave Haens- chen of the “American Album of Familiar Music." Lovel Vivienne Segal, su soprano of this widely popular program. Frank Munn, whose golden voice has made the "Album" an outstanding half hour. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO RADIO UR medal for Distinguished Service to Radio is this month awarded to the “American Album of Familiar Music,'' charmingly presented each Sun- day evening by Bayer Aspirin. No pro- gram has been more thoroughly con- sistent in offering so high a quality of musical entertainment. The “American Album of Familiar Music" has given its legions of listeners a definite appreciation of how soul- stirring are favorite American musi- cal compositions, no matter how familiar to the ear. This, of course, is due chiefly to the masterly ef- forts. of Frank Munn, Vivienne Segal and Gustave Haenschen and his orchestra, who've con- fined themselves to those num- bers which» may be enjoyed not alone by students of music, but by all listeners, whether they know one note from another. The program demonstrates what a_ beautiful blessing is sweet, simple music, appealing to the heart rather than to the mind; that songs, although heard often before, always will be glad- ly heard again and again so long as they are sung or played as touchingly or as spiritedly as they are by the talented artists of this program. And so, to Bayer's ‘American Album of Familiar Music,"’ fea- turing Frank Munn, Vivienne Se- gal, Gustave Haenschen, Ber- tram Hirsch, Arden and Arden and the others who have con- tributed to the program's suc- cess, Radio Stars Magazine, not only because of its own but its readers’ opinion as well, pre- sents its award for Distinguished Service to Radio. —Editor.

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RADIO STARS IN THE RADIO SPOTLIGHT STARS OF THE AIR- WAVES, CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA, IN AND OUT OF THE STUDIOS.

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~~ Frances Langford poses with Gertrude Niesen, at the Club Lamaz.

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The exciting rhythm of Loretta Lee's singing forms an attractive fea- ture of the ''Good Eve- ning Serenade" show. si.

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Lanny Ross (above) with the girl whose singing merits. unlimited praise, Louise Massey of "The Westerners,” new feature of the Maxwell House Show Boat program. A bitter dose, but it must be taken! The “Sisters of the Skillet" (above) show us how it's donel Boake _ Carter (below) brings us the day's news highlights.

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ee | WLa 4a IF SHE COULD SING, AS THE MAESTRO a way DOES a promise mean anything? Sometimes a person makes a promise with, perhaps wholly unconscious) mental reservations! “I will—or I will not—do so and so. ...” Bue deep in the subconscious lurks unguessed an “if” or an “unless” that some day will confront the promiser with such force that inevitably the promise fades into insignificance. And some faithfully keep their word to others, but are faithless t@ themselves when the test comes. We've all of us made such promises —made them and broken them and made new vows. Here is the story of a girl who broke one promise she had made to someone else, because to keep it would involve being faithles§ to a greater promise, one that she must keep if she would nog fail more tragically in all the relationships of life. It is the story of Lily Pons, who promised herself that to music she would give all that she had to give—that nothing should come between her and her purpose, which was to develop to its fullest capacity the singing voice in which her teacher had such faith—that in her life marriage had no place, for she had nothing to give it. In her school days, in France, Lily may have read® in translation some of the plays of England§ great poet, who said: “This, above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man,” Lily Pons is true to herself I met her recently, to find @ very lovely young perf son, frank and friendly, with. out conscious reserves A scene from Lily Pons’ first motion picture, coll- ed "| Dream Too Much." . =<

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Mage bie polorase 7 ‘PREDICTED, LILY THOUGHT, SHE COULD ASK NO MORE OF LIFE. Slim, small and gracious. with honest dark eyes in a mobile face, with eloquent, slender hands, you know her at once for a veritable artist. Not from any studied pose. Rather from the obvious singleness of her purpose, from the unaffected simplicity of her speech, her integrity, scornful of compromise. Looking at her, talking with her. vou feel definitely conscious of her as the symbol of that clear, immortal beauty that is her exquisite singing voice. That voice that, on her début in January, 1931, at the Metropolitan Opera House, stirred listeners to enthusi- astic acclaim that has not been the reward of any singer since Adelina Patti sang. The voice that, since that day. in radio, in concert and opera, has thrilled uncounted listeners in all the world’s great centers and in its humblest homes. I asked her when she first discovered that singing voice, having read variously that it was while singing to soldiers in a French hospital, and that it was her hus- band who first realized its possibilities, its promise. “Oh, not in thé nospital!’” She laughed “Then I am too young. I am just a child. I sing for the sol-diers, because my mothers is—comme on dire—chief nurse. But it does not mean anything. It is later—after I am married... .” Born in Cannes, in Southern France. of Franco-Italian parents, the young Lily, growing up in a family of com- | fortable means and gracious standards, looked forward like any other young girl to the conventional career o! _ wife and mother. She received a musical education at the Paris Conservatoire, where only the most talented are accepted as pupils. She became a proficient pianist, grad- | uating at the age of thirteen with highest honors. But a possible career as a pianist faded into msignifi- | cance when, a few years later she met and married August Mesritz, a former music critic. And shortly afterward her husband, fated to procure his own defeat, recognized the rare quality of her singing voice. It was. he saw, hy N. ancy Rawrows a crime to use it merely for her own pleasure, and his, and that of their friends. He tock her to a celebrated Parisian teacher, Alberti de Gorostiaga, who was immediately impressed with the girl’s rare talent And as he trained her flexible, rich voice, Alberti taught her to understand the inevitable sacrifices that must be exacted if the promise of that voice were to be fulfilled. And‘ working, studying, singing with ever growing ardor, Lily Pons absorbed the all-encompassing ideal. If she could sing as. the maestro predicted, she could ask no more of life. “If the voice is all,” she said, her eyes soft with re membered dreams, “it is perfect R Reluctantly, at Jength, her husband read the hand-writing on the wall. Divorce, when it came, severed them: with no sharper blade than that of the career which voice already had set their lives apart. But he recognized the superior claim. He _ had . known that Lily possessed a voice. Now he understood that the voice. in realitv, was the possessor. ~ Not coldly, not indifferently, did Lily watch the end of that first bright dream of happiness. But— “How could I be married?” she asked, dark eyes deep with feeling. “I had to go here, there, everywhere— London, Paris, Vienna, South America—and he could not leave his affairs to follow me.... And | had to work, to study long hours, practise, rehearse—where was there any time for marriage?” Where. indeed? To one of Lily’s standards, marriage was in itself an absorbing career. The cultured, con- ventional young French wife does not live a life apart from her husband. There is his house to keep, his children to bear and raise, his friends to enter- tain—the thousand and one social amenities to be observed. And Lily Pons is too honest to cheat herself or another. She could not be married (Continued on page 64)

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RADIO THE UNCON IV IS logical that Leslie Howard should be the first great actor to become a regular radio performer. And that, in going on the air, he should be the one to introduce a new technique in radio drama. For Mr. Howard is one of the most daring oung men in the theatre. He has smashed age-old traditions on the stage and startled all Hollywood by loing the unexpected. And if your picture of Mr. Howard is that of a conventional Englishman, drawing- room type, flawlessly attired, sauve, and carefully court- eous, discard it. The description doesn’t fit. It isn’t big enouegn, [In England they call him “that American actor.” In \merica they call him “the great English star.’ Mr. Howard considers both flattering. But call him “a matinee idol”’ and he'll throw the nearest thing at hand—and hit ou, too! or he is too modest to tolerate a title, and too sincere bout his work to let a descriptive phrase type him. ly the same token, he refuses to allow tradi- tions or conventions of the theatre to interfere with his work and how he does it. [here was the time, for example, when, clad in an old. dress- ing-gown, he ippeared vefore a large STARS VENTIONAL audience and dashed the famous the-show-must-go-on 9 tradition right smack out the nearest exit. It was an opening night in Chicago. Howard had a sore throat® which had been growing steadily worse all day. He had asked the manager to postpone the opening, but the® manager only said: ““The show must go on!” Since he had no understudy, the show couldn't go on without Leslie Howard. He struggled through the first act, suffering with every word he uttered, and growing hoarser speech by speech. At the end of the act, he® called the manager, told him it was ridiculous for the play to continue under such circumstances, that is was) unfair to the audience. The manager reminded him again that always the show must go on, and the rest of the cast agreed with the manager. When, at the end of the first scene of the second act, HE SMASHED THEATRE AND MOVIE TRADITIONS, AND HAS~ A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR RADIO. Ry Mildred Mastin SE,

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RADIO STARS ISTER HOWARD .. . Howard's voice had dwindled to a hoarse laryngitic whisper and the manager still refused to call the show, Mr. Howard slipped into his makeup, stained dressing- gown, and stepped in front of the footlights. He told the audience it was being cheated. That he was suffering, and because of that, those in the theater were seeing a rotten performance. He advised them to leave at once and demand their money back. “The audience applauded,” says Mr. Howard. ‘They rose as one man, and a lot of women, and demanded and received their money at the box-office. .. . You may have noticed that the time-honored tradition ‘the show must go on” applies only to lead players. An electrician, a member of the chorus, a scene-shifter, even the manager himself, may stay at home if he is ill or his wife is sick or his father is dying. The receipts at the box office will not Four characteristic shots of Leslie Howard. The first, a scene with Kay Francis, from the movie "British Agent.’ And next a domestic scene, show- ing Leslie and his wife, Ruth, arriving at the NBC Broadcasting Studio in Hollywood. And here is a very characteristic shot—according to Leslie: "The whole family is horse-mad." And polo is one of their greatest interests. Here are (left to right) Claudette Colbert, Leslie and Mrs. Howard, at the Uplifters Polo Club. And, last but not least, our Leslie with one of his mounts, at the Riviera Club. be affected by his absence leading woman—the big name of the play—suggests miss- ing a performance, everyone exclaims: ‘But don’t vou realize? The show must go on! Why, it’s ridiculous!” The fact that he was criticized later in the press and by theatrical people for breaking the “sacred” tradition that night in Chicago never worried him. Leslie Howard also has conceived a rather unconven- tional “cure” for an actor or actress who goes upstage on him. In his pocket he keeps one of those rubber balls with a face painted on it and a tongue that sticks out. When another member of the cast begins moving slowly upstage, taking the eyes of the audience with him or her, Howard has given fair warning that he’ll turn his back to the audience, take the rubber ball in his right hand, put it behind him, and begin making faces with it, for the benefit of the audience. “The warning was effective,” Leslie remarked. And it must have been. Certainly no one has ever tried to get upstage with Leslie Howard. It was entirely unconventional, in the first place, for Leslie Howard to become an actor. He never had even consid- ered it until he was dismissed from the Army, after the Armistice was signed It always had been assumed that “ Continued 80) But if the leading man or on page

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This young American soprano continues as soloist of the Voice of Firestone's new winter series of radio programs, along with William Daly's orchestra and the Firestone Choral Symphony. Richard Crooks and Nelson Eddy” also will star on the new program. Margaret Speaks, ona began her singing career in vaudeville and musical com- edy, is a niece of the famous composer, Oley Speaks. She & comes from Columbus, Ohio, and is a popular hostess. ®

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A charming new photograph of Jane Froman, who num- bers countless radio fans among her host of friends. Jane has recently returned from Hollywood, where she was engaged in filming a new picture. She comes from a musical family. Her mother, Anna Froman, was pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Jane attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she studied all branches of music. She is an accomplished pianist. . 29

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RADIO STARS A MAN MISUNDERSTOOD & HERE’S A REVEALING STORY OF A GREAT ARTIST AND A VERY + 1 HUMAN MAN WHOM FEW OF US REALLY KNOW—LAWRENCE TIBBETT Three stars of radio, movies and op- era meet in Hollywood. Gladys Swarth- out, Lawrence Tibbett and Lily Pons. “IT’S GOOD for you to be misunderstood !"" There you have it in Lawrence Tibbett’s own words. And he should know. For Tibbett is probably the most misunderstood man in’ Radio Misunderstood pictorially, too. For seeing Tibbett is to realize how unkind photog- raphers and moving picture cameras can be to a truly handsome man. A man whose bronzed skin makes the blue of his eyes the more intense. Whose tallness accen tuates his ease and charm of manner. The drawing-room of Tibbett’s apartment overlooking J. 3 + Wide World Tibbett, a tennis enthusiast, poses) with his wife, after a strenuous |) session at the net on their estate the East River was designed for a man who is first of al a human being. A man who likes companionship, Chat are drawn together in groups. Great, comfortable divans face each other from diagonal walls. A warm, graciou room in which even a concert grand piano becomes 1 formal. A room a small boy can run into breathlessly and ask¥ “Do the eggs go, too, dad, or only the tomatoes ?” And Lawrence Tibbett laughing as he says: “Only thi tomatoes,” and explaining that they had just come in from] their farm in the country, with the usual loot to be dis® . «

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tributed among their friends. Tibbett’s laugh is as warm, as tolerant as the man himself. “When you get down to facts, being misunderstood is really being unjustly criticized,” he went on. ‘Fair criti- cism helps, too. For all our defenses and our outward quibbling, I'll wager most of us have a pretty good mental picture of ourselves. I know I have! “Tm fully aware of my good points and try to gloss over the bad ones. They’re there and I know it but I try to kid myself that no one else sees them. Then somebody RADIO STARS Ry Elizabeth Kenneche Petersen One of America's finest baritones, Lawrence Tibbett offers a colorful parade of drama- tic songs every Tuesday evening on the Columbia network. Movies, concert and op- eraclaimhim, too. Luis Alberni, George Marion, Sr., and Lawrence Tibbett, in a scene from Tibbett's film, "Metropolitan." comes along and points out a thing I’ve been congratulat- ing myself .I was getting away with. Then I know | haven't been so smart, after all, and set about really getting rid of the fault instead of just covering it up. “But it’s unfair criticism that’s really good for the soul. In other words, being misunderstood. Nothing makes me so mad as to be unjustly set upon. And noth- ing does this old brain of mine so much good as getting mad. Fighting mad. “For years I go along stuffing things into my brain. Most of us do that. Little bits (Continued on page 56) 33

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“THEY SHOULDNT HAVE PRINTED SUCH LIES!" VIVIENNE SEGAL has red _ hair. She will commit aggravated assault and battery upon the very next writer, | male or female, who prints, publishes, or otherwise disseminates misinfor- | mation concerning her. Therefore the following interview, transcribed from-short- hand (rather rusty shorthand, to be sure, but shorthand, nevertheless), is set down precisely as she gave it out while striding up and down the luxuriously appointed living-room of her New York apartment—very peeved she was, too. “Of all the tommyrot!” she protested vigor- ously. “I think it’s high time some of the things people have written about me were set straight. | What’s the matter with you writers, anyhow? Why on earth do you have to take simple facts and distort them so? Why, I wish you'd read | all this junk—” She pointed to a fat, well-filled | scrapbook lying on a console table, “and then give me your honest opinion. Know what you'd say Vivienne Segal, in one of the scenes from the famous motion picture, "Bride of the Regiment," with actor Walter Pidgeon. if you’d tell the truth? You’d say the stuff in that book was just exactly what I called it— tommyrot. Or else you'd say I was a candidate for a nice room with quilted walls and bars on the windows!” You would gather that vivacious Miss Segal took issue with some of the interviewers who had attempted the task of dishing out a few inside facts to her public. She sat down and opened the scrapbook at random. “Now look at this,” she directed. “Just read that. See what it says? My mother and father were divorced because father didn’t approve of my going on the stage. Maybe that makes a better story than the correct version, but it’s silly rot, just the same ! They were divorced, that's true. ut not because 1 went on the stage. And look!” Her finger pointed out the offending para- graph. “Good Heavens! Why, that makes me look like some monster! It actually says that I never Long a popular soprano of the air-waves, Vivienne broadcasts each Friday and Sun- day evening over the NBC networks.

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“LIFE‘S WONDERFUL.” SAYS VIVIENNE SEGAL. “IT’S ALWAYS HAD MORE SWEET THAN BITTER.” ky Ruth Geri went near my father even when he was dying! I don’t care whether that makes what you call a story or not. It’s a downright lie—that’s what it is! Now, as a matter of fact, my mother and father always were the best of friends, even after their divorce, and as a matter of more fact, my father signed papers as my legal guardian, permitting me to take my first stage job. That’s how much he was against my going on the stage.” Vivienne thumbed through the book, talking as she glanced idly at clipping after clipping neatly pasted in the pages. “T never will forget the time we had with dad then, though,” she recalled. “Mother brought me to New York to make the rounds of casting offices, and she told dad we were going on a shop- ping trip, because he really didn’t ap- _prove of my going into the theater professionally. 1 sang in a dozen offices. and if there ever was a hotter day in New York, I can’t remember it. Finally one of the men who heard me told me I had some promise, but he advised me to go back home and wait until I was a little older. “Well, I did, and a couple of weeks later, right out of a clear sky, a wire came from him asking me to come to Atlantic City right away. Was I excited! It was like a fairy tale. The leading- lady had been taken suddenly ill, and they wanted to try me out for her part. Imagine! 1 had one day in which to learn the part, and mother and I sat up all night in our hotel room while | studied it. We tried out the show in Atlantic City and then went to New York for the opening there. Think of it! Imagine the thrill, for a little, inexperi- enced girl who had always dreamed of being on the stage! Opening on Broad- way! Well, the day before we opened, I had to sign a contract, or rather mother had to sign it, because 1 was a minor. She thought her signature would. be enough—but it wasn’t, as we found out when it came (Continued on page 72) 39

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Pretty red-haired Mildred Baker is a Southern girl, but in a long and successful stage career she never has played a Southern réle. She plays Katie McDonald, the northern rebel, in the ever- popular radio drama, "Roses and Drums." ae ee

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RADIO STARS Rudy Vallee, who, with his Connectict Bx me, Yee Yankees and guest artists, makes the Fleisch a mann Variety hour one you won't mi > a “THERE IS NO DR. LEE! SKEPTICS SAY. “WELD, I'M WRITING THIS T TELL YOU THERE IS!! fy Dx. R. E. Lee Cee ee

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RADIO STARS Wide World Above, a glimpse of Rudy in action, in the NBC studios. And (at the right) Dr. R. E. Lee confers with two of his corps of twenty specialists, who assist him in his laboratory of applied research. FOR twenty years I have held a position in the scientific department of a large organization, and until six years ago I was hidden away in the laboratory, hospital, and office, and my circle of acquaintances was small. And then I went on the air! 1 was coaxed up to a | microphone and bullied into speaking for one minute. i That is all. Sixty seconds of talk on health, no more. But it was enough to perform a great miracle—the mir- acle which | have learned to accept as the every day job of radio. What can be done in a minute? Think about it—what ican you do in the time it takes the second-hand to tick its way around the small dial? In ordinary life—nothing. In radio, everything—or almost everything. At least, so it seems to me after six years of broadcasting. Il remember that first time at the mik it was a | horrible ordeal. There were about a hundred invited | guests sitting there terribly silent. There was Rudy, perched on his stool, smiling and nodding his head sym- | pathetically, the orchestra with their instruments at rest— and in the center—the black circle of the microphone. I felt cold all over and my jaw .was strangely stiff and numb. The voice that issued from my throat was a voice I had never heard before. Since then, I have discovered that everyone feels much the same as I did, when they first come to the microphone, In fact, I have yet to hear of anyone who doesn’t gibbet a little at his or her début. Marie Dressler wrung her hands and rolled her eyes and moaned: “Oh why did I ever get into this?” that little black box!” hands got as cold as ice My début, it seemed to me, was a ghastly experience, yet it accomplished the incredible At that time I knew altogether about a thousand people I received about twenty letters in my business and per- sonal mail each day. One minute on the air—and what happened? In the week that followed, I received 22¢ letters, close to a hundred telephone calls from strangers, and fifteen telegrams. People | did not know nodded when they were introduced to me and said: “Oh, the D1 Lee who broadcast on the Rudy Vallee program?” I broadcast again the following week, again for one minute—and I have been doing it every Thursday since ever since November, 1929. Three hundred weeks—three hundred minutes. Five hours in all. Short enough as time goes, especially when spread out over six years— yet these five hours have caused 250,000 letters to be written to me, on personal and health matters, that neve1 would have been written. And if it is true that for every letter writer there are three others who would have liked Katherine Hepburn spat: “I hate And I recall that Irene Bordoni's to write but lacked the courage or the energy to do so then this means that a million men and women were helped materially by some of the things | said during thes five hours Nothing that I said was especially remarkable. I have made it a practice to dish up the knowledge which every doctor knows. J spoke and still (Continued on page 70 AY 1

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Edythe Wright is the name of this most personable young songstress. Hers is the voice you hear with Tommy Dorsey's distinctive new orches- tra over the Columbia network each Monday and_Friday night. Edythe, as you may notice, is one of radio's most attractive young ladies, and the coming of television will hold no terrors for her. What's more, it has been rumored about that a few of the major film companies are interested in signing up Edythe's charm to enhance their pictures.

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Does motion picture work add to or detract from a performer's work on the air? Well, Eddie Cantor's show on the air never has been better, as you know if you've been listening lately on Sunday eve- nings at eight o'clock. The scene above is from Eddie's new film, "Shoot the Chutes," and the tall guy in the natty striped suit is none other than Parkyakarkas (Harry Einstein). Standing on tiptoe, Eddie rolls an inquiring eye at Elaine Johnson, one of the "Gor- geous Goldwyn Girls,” but Elaine's smiles seem all for Parkyakarkas.

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eS ‘SPANGLE BRITO hy Jack Hanley Although radio listeners as yet cannot see Barclay in costume for one of his characterizations, his imaginative genius and his flexible voice create the illusion. JOHN BARCLAY, SINGER-ACTOR OF THE PALMOLIVE BEAUTY BOX PROGRAM, IS THIS story about John Barclay is unorthodox. To go a little farther, John Barclay, singer-actor of the popular Palmolive Beauty Box show, is unorthodox. Let’s go still farther, and begin at the beginning. When your reporter learned he was to do a piece on John Barclay he was a wee bit disgruntled, not to say chagrined. Frankly, | had pleasantly anticipated a charming chat with some lovely and utterly feminine honey like Gladys Swarthout or Francia White. Knowing that Mr. Barclay was born in Bletch- ingly, England; had taken a B.A. at Pembroke College, Cambridge; was on intimate musical terms with Bach and Brahms and had sung with various oratorio societies and symphony orchestras, didn’t especially whet the enthusi- asm, if you know what | mean. Or maybe you've never met English actors. The first surprise came in meeting Mr. Bar- clay at the N.B.C. studios, right after the Beauty Box broadcast, to arrange for the in- terview. The effect was somewhat like shaking hands with the statue of Liberty. It is common knowledge that John Barclay is six feet five inches tall and not very wide. But confronted suddenly, your reporter felt, for the first time in years, like one of Singer’s Midgets. We set a time and discussed a place for the inter- view. John Barclay lives on Long Island with his wife and young daughter. With visions of a busy day all broken up by a trip to the country I made a suggestion. Just to get the 46 A VERY UNUSUAL PERSON. reaction, I tentatively pushed forth the idea that we might meet at my place. “Fine!” Barclay said. “Splendid. Be glad to stop in... any time you say.” That was the second shock. The third came when he arrived exactly on time, without tele- phone reminders, folded himself like a car- penter’s rule into a low chair and began to talk about everything but John Barclay. And talked, mind you, not in the exaggerated Ox- ford drawl that most. English actors regard as their birthright, but in a singularly pleasant stvle that combines the best ‘features of the English and American languages. At my comment on his speech he referred to his engagement with Winthrop Ames’ Gil- bert and Sullivan revivals from 1926 to 1928. “In the company,” said Mr. Barclay, “were sopranos, tenors and baritones from all parts of America and England and no two accents were alike. Mr. Ames stressed the necessity of coordinating the various accents into a sort of common denominator. We worked very hard to achieve a pure vowelization that was neither English nor American. The idea ap- pealed to me and I’ve kept at it always.” “You mean,’’ I said incredulously, “that you don’t consider British speech the only correctly spoken English?” “Of course not!’ His dark eyes reflected earnestness. “Oxford English is just as much a local accent as Brooklynese. An actor should strive for a pure speech, a diction that is pleas- ing to the ear and readily understood, both in

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Famous as a singer, Barclay achieves new laurels as an actor. (Upper Left) John Barclay himself, lean and tall and bearing a resemblance to the younger Lincoln. (Upper Right) A sympathetic camera study of the actor in his home, with his little six-year- -old daughter, Mary Cornelia, to whom he is devoted. drama and song. London English is no more pure than Nashville English.” From the way he said it I had a sneaking suspicion that he really meant it, heretical as it sounds. I made a noise like a reporter, poised a sharpened pen- cil and made one more attempt to let John Barclay revert to type. “Do you find many things wrong with \merica?” I murmured. ‘America?” he said, brightening up visibly. ‘I’ve always been terribly enthusiastic about America. I came to New York in June of 1921, after a season of opera in the south of France. I’ve been here ever since and I haven’t the slightest desire to go back.” ‘You mean you ke the United States?” “I think it’s swell,” he said. “Here nobody depends on background for a living. The man himself counts. He’s judged by what he can do, not by who he is. The man who can pro- vide something that meets with popular ap- proval, something that the public wants, is a success. The hifalutin artist starves to death.” Chere was no question about the sincerity in John Barclay’s lean, deeply lined face ; his eyes were lighted with interest in a favorite topic. ‘Perhaps the main reason I’m fond of America is because I’m interested in the future rather than in the past. I think “You're the Top” is vastly more important and interesting musically than the bleary old sob ballads that used to be the favorite repertoire of the song recitalist.. Highbrows say ‘you can’t do this’ —I say let’s have a modern idiom that the man in the street can appreciate and enjoy.” Mr. Barclay continued enthusiastically “George Gershwin or Jerome Kern are doing far more for music than—well, say, those who cling tenaciously to the past. Popular music of today has a genuine beauty, a real melodic quality and the lyrics (Continued on page 54) 47

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BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO THE AMATEUR 2 STORIES OF SOME WHO WON A CAREER—OR GOT THE GONG. Ry Dorothy Brooks MAJOR EDWARD BOWES, the man of the (amateur) hour, supervises a new, fascinating in- dustrv—the manufacture of stars. The star-mill grinds away each Sunday night. and the trail of the amateur hour is strewn with star-dust. Out of the mint come a. few brilliant, flawless prod- ucts and a host of minor satellites. But the star- dust when sifted yields golden grains, equally precious in their own way, rich in laughter, tears and consolation. Perhaps only a few of the hundreds of ama- teurs will parallel the success of Doris Wester, who is being tested by several companies for a screen career; of Clyde Barrie who is now a regular ether star broadcasting on a coast-to- coast network. For some the climb may be long and tortuous. For others. hopeless. But win or lose. in one way or another hundreds of lives, have been brightened by the golden opportunity accorded by the Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour. The story of the three young Youman Brothers is a modern variation of the delightful Cinderella theme, emerging from the amateur hour wheel of chance. The brothers are George, Jack and Seymour, known as Skippy—nineteen, eighteen and seven- teen respectively—three brilliant youngsters who, with the aid of an accordion, a violin and a clarinet, demonstrated their uncanny ability to imitate a dozen of the best known orchestras on the air. To these youngsters has come success so dazzling that their future is clearly marked for stardom. Fresh from the schoolroom they have been catapulted (Contimued on page 76) Here are the Youman Broth- ers, George and Jack and Seymour, who recently made a sensational hit in their imitation of five of radio's leading bands. x ~~“

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KATE SMITH WRITES OF THE WINNERS AND HOW SHE WON THEM FOR HER MIKE PARADE Above) Champion of pe champions— iss Kate Smith. {Above} James J. Braddock, Kate Smith, and the wood-choppers. (Left) With "Big (Above) Kate and Bill Tilden,"’ one Dizzy Dean indulge of the best of the in a bit of clown- raquet wielders. ing after the show. SHAKE HANDS ITH THE CHAMPIONS Ry Kate Smith i LIKE the new title some folks have given me. They thecase might be—to millions of people.” It’s not so. We, all me the “champion champion-getter,’ and to be kind of the broadcasting studios, entertain only one and two, bt honest and frank about it—I really think I’ve earned oor three, four cr five persons at a time as they sit in Fhe label. Why? I’ll tell you—and I hope you find it as their homes before the radio, Those millions aren’t massed peresting as I have. together. They’re each separate individual units—and the When I returned to the airwaves,.in September, a year radio programs come to them in their: homes—not in ago, with my fall program, I wanted to do something theatres or large auditoriums. that was “different.” [Everybody in radio, and in show We figured that something with a quality of human business, also, for that matter, is always in search for interest should be injected into our programs. Amateurs hat quality—and if one can find it, and deliver, too, then weren’t the answer. This, | thought, was being overdone, fhe or she really has got something. So Ted Collins and and besides, was unfair exploitation of earnest people 4 began going into huddles, but, as a result, we didn’t seem — who needed a real “break,” and not a laugh at their ex- © gain any yardage. (You can see I took in some of pense. But Ted and I just couldn’t seem to find what we ithose football games this past season!) Anyway, although vaguely had in mind. = did have an idea of what we wanted, we didn’t quite Although we had a wide variety of entertainment ‘know how to get it. scheduled on our first program, nevertheless that certain Here was the situation. We both agreed that listening “human interest” feature was missing. Cars were a bit dulled by elaborately staged radio shows The day of the first broadcast came around. That that lacked a certain friendliness and informality. After morning | read in the newspapers that right here in the all, an entertainer can’t say: “I sing—or make jokes, as_ city a Miss Elinor Murdoch (Continued on page 74) 49

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A MAD AND MERRY VISIT TO THE BURNS AND ALLEN KITCH IT IS my great pleasure this month to extend hearty Christmas Greet- ings to you all from George Burns and Gracie Allen. It is my further pleasure to take you with me for a mad, merry visit to these famous stars in their lovely New York apartment. Once there we'll kid with the irrepressible George and romp with Gracie from the huge two-story-high living-room into their diminutive but complete kitchen, to learn all about the good things to eat that will be served to George, Gracie and their friends during the nmi...” ~~ he. 2. Fn | RADIO STARS COOKING SCHOOL RADIO STARS MAGAZINE | A dish to add to the | 149 Madison Avenue, New York City, N. Y. che “i the eran of your Christmas table. | Please send me BURNS & ALLEN’S favor- | The coupon on the left | ite recipes. will bring to you the recipe for this tempt- | Name ing steamed Honey Bran | pudding on the right, as | Street | well _as_ other equally : m ; intriguing recipes. ity SOTPORU cs ic okie ae (SRC welos rs oe" LR Y MN. ancy Wood coming holidays —delicious foods which you too will be able to enjoy. And there we'll also meet Sandra —the fifteen months old blonde darl- ing who is the apple of their eye and queen of all she surveys. Before we are through perhaps you will feel that you too know “Burns and Allen” better “Are they mad and crazy away from the mike, too?” did I hear you ask? Well, yes, they are—‘‘mad” about their home and their two adopted children (Sandra and an in- fant boy still too young to be intro- Courtesy Kellogg Company duced to outsiders) and “craz about each other. You’d look and wide before you’d find a mo devoted couple or prouder parem than these two and it would difficult indeed to discover a mé charming or better run home. For Gracie, despite her giggle, really an efficient little homebody a George, although he kids her off tf air as well as on, is mighty prot of his “Googie’’. “Gracious! What a pet namé I objected when first | heard M Burns use it. (Continued on page 6

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“BAD SKIN ~ mae ~~ < eat ss Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel 11 Not a single flaw in the skin of this beautiful young Society woman! She says: “The last thing before bed—every morning, too—I use Pond’s Cold Cream. It stimulates and tones up my skin... Blackheads and blemishes just never come!” Miss Helen Mitchell Stedman, of an old Boston family, says: *Pond’s Cold Cream makes my skin much finer. Pores don’t show!” RADIO STARS means“ | azy Under Underlying glands, nerves, fibres... need rousing with this deep-skin cream ODAY, stand close to some girl you know. Gaze right at the skin on her nose, on her chin. Isn’t it awful?—the way coarse pores and blackheads stand out! Your own face gets the same “third degree’’every time you're at arm’s length. People think, Why don’t you do some- thing about your skin? Yet it’s not the skin they see that’s at fault. It’s your lazy underskin! Tiny glands are overtaxed.... The oil they give off is thick . . . clogs the pores on its way out. What follow are the blackheads, coarse pores that ruin your good looks! Even heartbreaking lines and sagging contours are just the outward signs of an underskin “‘let-down’’! Stop Skin Faults... But you can quicken that underskin— rouse it, set it to work. Yes, you can!— with this deep-skin cream of Pond’s. Pond’s Cold Cream contains specially processed oils which go straight to the underskin. Even as you smooth it on, you see it go in, come out—thickened with grayish dirt, stale make-up. Now your skin is clean. Clear to its depths! BLACKHEADS, BLEMISHES SAY: *‘Something’s blocked below!” STRETCHED PORES SAY: “Clogging skin-oils did it!”’ Now smooth on more Pond’s Cold Cream. Pat it in sharply with firm finger tips. This way you rouse that lazy underskin. Nerves, glands and fibres “step lively” .. . flush your skin with new fault-fighting vigor! Keep this up. See how quickly bad skin be- comes “a good complexion.” Tip-ends of blackheads loosen. Deep- lodged matter comes out .. . fine texture takes the place of every blemish. Even critical eyes can’t find anything wrong! For a Beautiful Skin Every Night, pat in Pond’s Cold Cream. Watch it bring out dirt, make-up, secretions. Wipe off. Pat in more cream briskly. Your underskin fee/s it... gets awakened. Your outer skin shows it... blooms fresh, unblemished! Every Morning, and always before make-up, renew this newly-won freshness with Pond’s Cold Cream. See it brighten your skin—soften it. Now powder can’t possibly catch or flake! Try this cream without delay. Pond’s Cold Cream is pure. Germs cannot live in it. SPECIAL 9-TREATMENT TUBE and 3 other Pond’s Beauty Aids POND’S, Dept. A-128, Clinton, Conn. Rush special tube of Pond’s Cold Cream, enough for 9 treatments, with generous samples of 2 other Pond’s Creams and 5 different shades of Pond’s Face Powder. I enclose 10¢ to cover postage and packing. Name Street = City — State 2 Copyright, 1935, Pond’s Extract Company 51

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RADIO STARS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? RADIO FAVORITES DO THEIR BEST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS— Helen Hayes in ''The New Penny," a dra- matic ‘serial written for the radio appear- ances of this famous stage and screen star. What Has Been Your Most Disturbing Experience While Broadcasting? John Charles Thomas—“A few minutes before having to sing the Belgian National Anthem on a Chicago program, I discovered the words had slipped my _ mind. Working against time, the boys in the studio whipped through the big fat phone book and rang up everybody in town whose name gave the slightest suggestion of Igor Gorin famous concert and operatic : singer from (CF er Vienna, who Pe gts soon will make Ss his motion “ picture debut a with M.G-M. Belgian ancestry. Luck was with us. We unearthed a patriot. I sang the song.” Connie Gates—“This was one time when nobody laughed when I sat down at the piano. The music of the song I was to sing wasn’t on the rack and knowing only the melody and piano accompani- ment, I had to fake the lyrics .. . with a tra-la-la and a heigh-non- ny-nonny and a lump in my throat.” Jessica Dragonette celebrates her tenth radio anniversary this year. She has made more than 700 radio appearances. Sigmund Romberg—“If you find anything exciting in a few crossed wires, I'll tell you my story. I was broadcasting from a New York studio with California clamoring on the phone . . . that’s the set up. The movie studio wants a new song immediately. My audience wants to hear the rest of the broadcast. I take an eleven-minute leave of absence from the mike, give birth to a tune, whistle it to Hollywood, and then go on with the broadcast.” John Charles Thomas celebrated American bari- tone, star of musical com- edy, opera and radio, sings each Wednesday. N.T.G.—“Way back in the early days of radio, all programs were under the censorship of the navy and the sailors were plenty strict. It happened one night that an admiral was speak- ing at a convention banquet in honor of police commissioners from all over the world. I was master of ceremonies. Law, or- der, and censorship all assembled in one room. Auspicious—and then the admiral starts telling off- color jokes. Rather than put the Frances Langford tiny contralto crooner with “Hollywood Hotel,"’ may be heard in the M-G-M_ show, "Broadway Mel- ody of 1936." sailors in the awkward position of having to censor their own ad- miral, I dragged the mike over to the other end of the hall and then went back to get in on the rest of the jokes.” George Burns—‘“T had a new pair of glasses which seemed to be on the bum. Well, the more they bothered my eyes, the more I insisted on wearing them. Yeah, I wanted to get adjusted. So one night Gracie and I are broadcast- ing and all of a sudden the script begins to blur. The rest of the Rosario Bourdon musician and conductor of The Cities Ser-~ vice Orchestra, is a native of Canada. Born in Montreal, March 6, 1881. aes program is me ad libbing and poor little Gracie wondering what it’s all about. To make a long story short, it seems that the optician had got my glasses mixed up with those of a guy by the name of Brown.” Curtis Arnall (Buck Rogers )— “T remember one time when I went through what I thought was a dress rehearsal, taking it real easy, making a few breaks here and there. When the rehearsal was over, I sat around waiting Benay Venuta California's songbird, made her début in radio about five years ago and now stars in radio and musical comedy. for the real thing to begin. When I finally came to and realized it had been the real thing, I felt the way you do when you're going down a flight of stairs in the dark, expecting one more step and it just isn’t there.” Gabriel Heatter — “Not all broadcasts issue from the clois- tered walls of the studio. A cer- tain assignment took Jeff Sparks and myself twenty-five stories skyscraper. page 79) up the side of a The (Continued on

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Star-F, yaangled Rriton usually tell a more interesting story than the old sob ballads. You can’t ignore it or pass it off as unimportant. After all, many of the masters wrote contemporary music —they weren’t writing for posterity. The old time singer at recitals would do ballads with informality, but if he sang Brahms it called for a top hat and tails. They forgot that Bach’s best compositions were origi- nally written only as music for Sunday services.” This, remember, wasn’t a crooner speak- ing. Nor an unschooled blues singer de- fending his music. John Barclay studied Ray Lee Jackson RADIO STARS (Continued from page 47) music three years with Jean de Reszke and later with Raymond von zu Muhlen. He sang “Samson and Delilah” at the Drury Lane in London, toured America under the auspices of Arthur Judson for five years in concerts and recitals; appeared with Leo- pold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the New York Phil- harmonic, the Detroit Symphony. He sang oratorio with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Apollo Club Choir, the New York Oratorio Society, and at many other music festivals and ensembles equally well known. He is married to Madame Dag- Charming Jean Yewell discovered, one day, that she possessed a singing voice of lyric loveliness. Singing, Jean concluded, was better than teaching school. So she resigned her position as a school-teacher in Kansas, and came to New York. She now adds her talents to the sophis- ticated harmonies and lilting lyrics of NBC's Roy Campbell's Royalists. 54 mar Rybner, pianist and composer. “T have no use for the professional high brow,” he went on, and told a story in tha connection about the old waiter who hac served most of his life in a London club The waiter’s son had achieved a brillian success as a lawyer and one of the gentle: men at the club spoke to the old mar about it. “Tl wager you’re proud of your boy today,” the man said heartily. | “Yus,” the waiter nodded mildly, “Ah’r proud of ’im, orl roight. But Ah ’ad tc) keep ‘im till ’e was forty!” Incidentally, John Barclay does an ex- cellent cockney dialect, as well as many other foreign dialects. That was one of the reasons Deems Taylor was very kine in one of his criticisms of Barclay’s work with the Winthrop Ames Gilbert and Sul- livan company. And speaking of criticism; the biggest kick John Barclay ever got out of a notice was when the D’Oyley Carte company brought another revival of Gil- bert and Sullivan to America recently. Four of the reviews harked back to Bar- clay’s performances in the same rodle—§,, favorably—after a lapse of seven years. Another thing Deems Taylor liked was the Barclay ability to paint a picture with song, his talent for dramatizing a number. Barclay doesn’t believe in standing with folded hands and spraying an audience with merely the melody of a song. Back in the days when he did recital work he played’ as many as twenty different characters in an evening, through the medium of the songs he did. That’s one of the reasons why he’s an actor on the radio today. “IT believe in bringing out the inherent drama in a musical composition,” he says. “Whether it’s popular or classical music, the public is interested in the story of it, as well as the melody. That's why people go to hear Lucienne Boyer, or Yvette Guil- bert. They have the same ability to create a scene in the listener’s mind that Ruth Draper has in her monologues. Take the Doppelgaenger of Schubert; there’s a per- fect example. It’s the story of a man who sees his phantom double. You've got to put yourself into the scene see the street, dim in the flickering lamplight of the old town . .. show the man approach- | ing the house where he had once lived. As | he approaches he sees someone standing outside and he realizes that he is seeing himself as a youth—his phantom double. | There’s plenty of drama there and you've | got to have it in your mind and get it} across. Or take ‘Two Cigarettes in the? Dark.see. cs “Tt illustrates exactly what I mean,” | said Barclay. ‘People don’t get bored with | popular music if it’s presented properly, | The Two Cigarettes number is more than | a pleasant melody. A man goes outside to | find his sweetheart, and sees the glow of | two cigarettes . .. realizes that she is with} another man. That’s essentially drama. / And the singer must realize that drama—/ get it across to his audience. That's the interesting thing about radio work; through | the single dimension of hearing, a per-9

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former can project the other dimensions ind build a fully rounded picture in the istener’s mind.” Personally, I feel that all performers lon’t. It’s the difference between a radio yerformer and a radio artist. But John Barclay was tremendously in- erested in the topic. He’s utterly sincere yn his appreciation of popular music. And iimazingly enough, it doesn’t make him ‘tuffy. There was the time he appeared at 1 music festival in Chicago before an wudience of six thousand. His part called ‘or him to step out dramatically and de- ‘laim the lines: “A Grecian poet, I—but ,0rn too late!” To an actor before a ion-highbrow audience, those are lines to hudder at! It’s the sort of a speech that s apt to produce the American phenome- 10n known as the belly-laugh. But Bar- ‘lay sank so completely into his part and lelivered the lines with such simple lack of affectation that there wasn’t a giggle. “What a chance,” I said, “for a razz or snicker. What would you have done in that case?” “T wasn’t thinking about the audience,” ae said. “For the moment I was the "Jcsrecian poet. And if the audience hap- ened to find it funny—why, nuts to them!” ' Which is a good old British expression, if ‘ight out of Cambridge! You can’t hate * guy like that! Wi6ith more reason than Jo to be snooty about his background “Wohn Barclay isn’t so at all. He isn't * Americanized—he’s American. His ances- jors founded many branches of the Bar- vy AY family in America, though some of ‘hem returned to England. Barclay Street ln Philadelphia was named for a direct an- iTpestor of his. He’s done many interesting ththings and skips lightly over them in the felling, except those which are not par- icularly complimentary. When he was "seven years old he had the opportunity to ™3ing for John McCormack. McCormack listened attentively to the number until it “was over. Then he said: “Johnnie, why yjdo you sit on your voice, instead of letting (your voice sit on you!” i Barclay took the advice from the re- inowned tenor seriously. He never learned i} to sing—that was a natural gift. But he studied hard to find out what was right ) and wrong in singing, to develop technique. i} He first appeared on the air in 1929 and tihas been Le Dandy in the D’Orsay Pa- i) risian Romances, played on the Fada, Lyric, 0 True Story, True Detective and Philco «/programs. He is best known, perhaps, for i/the long succession of acting and singing + leads in the Palmolive musicals. s| One of his first professional appearances sjwas for Sir Nigel Playfair and Arnold ; Bennett in Hammersmith, England—the - place where John Drinkwater’s play, ’ ¢ “Abraham Lincoln,” was first produced. As {a matter of fact, John Barclay bears a :}striking resemblance to the younger Lin- coln, though he has never played the réle. He spreads his legs wide apart when broadcasting, to come down to microphone jlevel. He thinks advertising art is, at its best, a fine art form; that Ford cars and electric locomotives are beautiful in fact, : that in all modern civilization the strictly utilitarian can be as beautiful as the purely fjartistic. He is devoted to his work, his } wife, his little six-year-old daughter, Mary Cornelia. He's a pretty swell person. The End RADIO STARS MAKE YOUR NEXT SELECTION “KOOLS’—That note of mild menthol refreshes every throat, those cork tips save every lip, and those valuable B & W coupons in each package are good for mighty worth-while premiums. Hot throats need KQDLS. Get a pack and sing for joy, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky. Parker Pen and Pencil Set. Choice FREE. Write for illustrated 24-page Detecto Scale. White, bathroom-type. of three smart colors. 250 coupons booklet of B & W premiums Guaranteed. 400 coupons RALEIGH CIGARETTES...NOW AT POPULAR PRICES...ALSO CARRY B&W COUPONS 55

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4A Man Misunderstood of philosophy, chunks of culture, a smat- tering of this ism and that one. Some of it is good, of course. Some bad. But, bit by bit, my brain becomes like an over- crowded room. My thoughts go knocking up against all the choice knickknacks I’ve stored there, the mental counterparts of the spindly chairs and fussy lamps and ernate little tables that can make a hodge- podge of any room. “Then somebody comes along and takes an unjust crack at me and I’m grateful for it. Because I get mad! “What happens when you get fighting mad? You start kicking things around, don’t you? Well, your brain is doing that, too. Kicking out all the little pastel thoughts and petty fancies you’ve been hoarding. All the gimcracks, the super- ficialities go flying. Only the strong things, the stable things are untouched. After all, you can't kick a grand piano out of the window when you get mad! “First thing you know your thoughts are clear again. Why shouldn't they be, with your brain cells cleared again for action? That’s the reason I say it’s good to be misunderstood.” Lawrence Tibbett talks as forcefully as he sings. Singers know the importance of good enunciation. Tibbett goes further RADIO STARS (Continued from page 33) than that. His thoughts are as clear cut as his words. It takes a lot of knowing to think that way. A lot of understanding. A lot of experience. “T know what people say about me,” he admitted candidly. “That I’m conceited.” “The first time I heard it I was be- wildered. How could people say such things about me when I knew the con- flict, the mental turmoil, the unsureness that lurks inside my mind? “Then, because they were wrong, I got mad. “It is probably my very unsureness of myself that has created that impression. Sometimes when I come out on the stage, or before the microphone or the camera, I am so filled with misgivings about my- self and my voice and everything else that I’m sure I’m going to stand there like an awkward dolt afraid to open my mouth. “But I can’t do that. Singing is my business and I have to sing. So I force myself to go through the paces. I pull myself up and in my frenzy I probably push my head back more than I should and stick my chest out further. I don’t want people to see how scared I am, so I overdo it. “Now if I were conceited I wouldn’t Mr. and Mrs. Mario Chamlee enjoy a hearty laugh at some nonsense they have been reading on a quiet evening at home. Mr. Chamlee, on Sunday evenings, provides many a laugh for radio fans, as Tony, of the Tony and Gus program. 56 do that. I wouldn’t feel the need for coy ering up. And in being so thoroughly sure of myself I’d probably give the impression of downright shyness. “The same thing happens when stranger recognizes me on the street and comes over to shake hands or to ask for an autograph. Of course I’m grateful for the compliment but I get so covered wit confusion my first instinct is to run. Now, I like people. More than the average per son does, I think. Being naturally gre garious, I don’t think there is anything much more fun than talking or exchang- ing ideas with someone I’ve just met. It’s always an adventure to meet a new person, “But it’s something else to be stopped by a stranger and be told how good yot are. No matter how sincere the praise is, it’s embarrassing. I love hearing it, o course, who wouldn’t? But the satisfae tion comes later. At the moment I feel so awkward and so at loss for adequate) words that I respond stifly. And I don’t h blame the person for going away thinks” ing I’m swell-headed and a prig. ii “There are so many ways a person in j the public eye can be misunderstood. Lite” tle things most of them. But annoying. | eS er “aS eae” ee a an 2. Cm © ot teow | “Not long ago a newspaper quoted me as saying that the greatest music in the world at present was coming from Tin Pan Alley. It was being misquoted on the term ‘Tin Pan Alley’ that I objected” to. I don’t like the phrase and I never use it. “The essence of the statement was true. America is making the music the world is dancing to. Great songs are being written, songs that a certain type of person ignores because they are popular. “Now take Bach, or Wagner or Beetho- ven or any of the other musical geniuses of the world. All of them have been guilty of passages unworthy of them at some time or another. They’ve all had their trite moments, their banal ones, their stupid ones. And take George Gershwin or Jerome Kern or Vincent Youmans or Irving Berlin—to mention only a few of our popular composers—and you'll find that all of them have written music that— is really great. “People consciously acquiring culture are too prone to be afraid of their own judgment, afraid to express themselves until they first run to a little book and look up the things that should be ap- plauded and the things that should be frowned upon. No matter how bored they may be by passages in a symphony or in an opera they would as soon cut off their right hand as admit it. It’s the thing to like that certain composer and so they like him in everything he does, “These are the people who would be ashamed to admit a popular song thrilled them. And it is people. like these who have criticized me for including these songs in my Radio and Concert programs, “It would be impossible for me to please everyone I sing for. After all, I have three distinctly different types of audi- ences. 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i ogical that in adhering too closely to ne audience’s demands I would be dis- leasing the other two. “So I sing the songs I want to sing. The songs that have meaning and beauty for me. For I know that only by being true to myself can I be true to the people who have paid me the great compliment ot liking my voice.” Lawrence Tibbett has come a long way from where he was born. A long way and a hard way. A long way from the grandfather who came to California in the gold rush of ’49. From Bakersfield ‘and the kid whose father was killed by an outlaw. And from Los Angeles and the hotel out of which his mother tried so valiantly to make a living for herself and her children. He has come a long way, too, from the youngster who started his career singing in the prologues of the movies shown at Sid Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. But all these things came with him: The adventurous spirit of his grandfather. The courage of his sheriff father. The eternal hope of his mother. The fortitude of that boy who was himself. They are the things that carried him from the bleak sun-baked town in Cali- fornia to the Metropolitan Opera House ‘and to Radio and his success in the | Movies. Lawrence Tibbett has drunk deeply of /life. He has known poverty and fear. He has known young love and what it means ‘to marry with no security except the hope ‘in his heart, and he fathered twin sons | when he was little more than a boy him- ; self. | And he lived to know the breaking up ‘of that marriage and the disillusion that /comes with the end of love. To know success. And mature love, he came to know that, too, and a second marriage that has endured. He gives you all this when he sings ) for you, all the frustration and the hope and all the fullfillment. In return he asks | for the thing that is more important to him than success. The right to a life of his own. “Of course my life story is generally known,” he said quietly. “But the details are my own. No one else has a right to them. My voice is public property and my audiences have a right to demand cer- / tain things of it. And when I sing I try to give them the things they demand, the emotion they want. “What the public doesn’t understand is this: That it’s my life, the things I’ve done and the things I haven’t done, the mistakes I’ve made and all those other de- tails that make that emotion possible. For if I hadn’t lived as I have, I wouldn’t be feeling these things when I sing. “Strange, isn’t it, how quick the public is to damn the very things they demand of any creative person, whether they be writer or actor or artist or singer. That they don’t understand that the very things they are ready to tear a person apart for are the qualities that have gone into mak- ing the emotion that gave them pleasure.” Lawrence Tibbett has come a long way along the Glory Road he loves to sing about. Success has come, greater than any he dared dream about in those other years. Another success, too. A success at being a human being. THe Enp RADIO STARS Fa I "AND THEY USED TO PITY HER AT PARTIES POOR PEGGY- ANOTHER YOU CANT FOOL ME, MISS ALLEN, I'D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE! WHY MUST SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GIRL HAVE SUCH A BREATH! HE WAS HORRID TO ME-! HATE HIM! AND WHY DO YOU TALK ABOUT MY TEETH- YOU KNOW HOW CAREFULLY | BRUSH THEM! JUST THE SAME, THEY SAY BAD BREATH COMES FROM IMPROPERLY CLEANED TEETH IT WON'T HURT TO ASK DR. MOORE. .:.YOU SHOULD SEE PEGGY NOW COME ON, PEGGY... JUST ONE DANCE! GO ‘WAY... THIS 1S MINE! THANK HEAVENS FOR COLGATE'S. I'LL NEVER : BE CARELESS 7am AGAIN! i. YES, MOST BAD BREATH COMES FROM IMPROPERLY CLEANED TEETH. USE COLGATE DENTAL CREAM-ITS SPECIAL PENETRATING FOAM REMOVES THE CAUSE.,.AND MAKES THE TEETH BRIGHTER, TOO! LL TRY 17, DOCTOR. ILL PARTY SPOILED IT'S WONDERFUL HOW NICE AND CLEAN COLGATE’S MAKES YOUR MOUTH FEEL, GET SOME COLGATE DENTAL CREAM Most Bad Breath Begins with the Teeth! AKE sure you don’t have bad breath! Use Colgate Dental Cream. Its special penetrating foam removes a// the decaying food deposits lodged between the teeth, along the gums and around the tongue— which den- tists agree are the source of most bad breath. At the same time, a unique, grit-free ingredi- ent polishes the enamel—makes teeth sparkle. Try Colgate Dental Cream—today! Brush your teeth... your gums... your tongue... with Colgate’s. If you are not entirely satis- fied after using one tube, send the empty tube to COLGATE, Jersey City, N. J. We will gladly refund TWICE what you paid. 20‘ LARGE SIZE Giant Size, over twice as much,

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RADIO STARS z —_ 2 me on” es Dick Powell, star of the "Hollywood Hotel'’ program which you hear every Friday evening, caught chatting with Joan Blondell, Warner Brothers star, who is reported to be Dick's favorite Hollywood actress. Rumors are to the effect that there's definitely a romance, but there are also contradictory rumors which lead you to believe Dick and Joan are just the best of friends. You never know exactly what to think. Cupid plays lots of tricks out in Hollywood. Football 1 Qll-AQmerican Tenor (Continued from page 15) Meehan, when the latter came to N. Y. U., ripened into a friendship which resulted in Munn eventually meeting every coach of importance in the nation. Lou Little, Harry Stuhledreher, Mal Stevens, Jimmy Crowley, the late Knute Rockne, Hunk Anderson, Herb Kopf—all of the im- portant gridiron greats. Munn used to spend the training season with Meehan at N.Y.U.’s_ Farmingdale Camp. Driving fifty miles into New York to broadcast and driving back again aft- erward was worth the effort, in Munn’s opinion, because of the football knowledge he acquired. Frank sat in on the “skull- watched the workouts, noted the blackboard drills—in short, became one of the squad. His knowledge of football is sound. Munn has the grid fanatic’s knack of re- calling incidents in games played a dozen years ago. He remembers the famous Columbia-N.Y.U. game at South Field, in 1922, when Jack Weinheimer, now on the N.Y.U. coaching staff, played so bril- liantly that the Violets were able to bottle the great Walter Koppisch and leave the gridiron with a 7-6 victory, one of the 58 sessions,” most startling upsets in football history in the metropolitan district. Imagine the chagrin of the Violets to discover next day that the referee, reaching the sanctity of Philadelphia, decided that he had in- terpreted the rules incorrectly in giving N.Y.U. its touchdown, that it should have been a safety and that the proper result was: Columbia 6; N.Y.U. 2! It is the only game in the annals of football that the team which won on Saturday after- noon, lost on Sunday morning. Munn considers the greatest game he ever saw was the N.Y.U.-Carnegie Tech battle at Pittsburgh in 1928, when the Violets defeated a great Tech team, which already had conquered Notre Dame by 27-13. He also looks back with fond mem- ories on a Dartmouth-Penn game at the Polo Grounds, which resulted in a tie-game of 14-14 in 1921, and another game at the same ball park the following year when a great Lafayette team, which had held Navy and Boston College without a first down on successive Saturdays, was hum- bled by Greasy Neale’s Washington and Jefferson team by 14-13. “There were many odd features to that game,” explains Munn, with the joy of a story-teller who has a subject warm to his heart. “Lafayette led at the end of the first half by 13-0 and W. & J. hadn’t made a first down. Then they came on in the second half to tie the score. Every- body was waiting for the try-for-point when Erickson flipped a forward-pass to Herb Kopf in the end-zone to win the game. That was the first year, '22, that the rules permitted a conversion by a run or pass, as well as a kick, and that was the first major game decided by the new rules.” Asked what football player he consid- ered the greatest, Munn answered with- out hesitation, “Ken Strong. I thought so when he was at N.Y.U. and now when I see him playing pro football with the Giants, I’m sure of it.” While Strong’s collegiate and _ profes- sional records bear out Munn’s estimate of his ability, Frank’s choice of a lineman doubtless will be subject to dispute. He named Bing Miller, who was a tackle at N.Y.U. contemporaneous with Strong. “Of course, I'm naming only the players I’ve actually seen,” said Munn. “I liked

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Ailler because he was a sixty-minute play- Give me those kind of guys on my lam, men that are in there from whistle p whistle and never let up. } “One season, before the first game, iller collided with Dave Myers, the great Negro guard of N.Y.U. There was a inix-up on signals and they came out of the line, heads down, running in opposite Jirections. Bing got the worst of the in- jury, sustaining a severe cut on his fore- Instead of quitting, he had Charley orter, the trainer, construct a_ special neadguard, and he didn’t miss a minute all season. Miller played a little pro foot- used to go over there on Sundays to hee him.” Munn was too wary to be trapped into icking out one football mentor as the ation’s best. “I know too many of them,” brinned Frank. “Take fellows like Lou Little, his assistant Herb Kopf, and Mee- nan. They all know plenty of football, Know as much as any man in the country. But football is a lot like cards. No matter ow smart a bridge player you are, you an’t take an ace with a deuce. If the oach knows his business, and is interested in it, he’s a good coach, regardless of the lrecord his team may make. The schedule Although football is Frank’s first sport- ing love, it isn’t his only one. He rarely imisses the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, or the IC4A track meets, whether they are held in Boston or New York. Oddly enough, /Munn isn’t a great baseball fan, although jhis father helped organize the first nine DOES NOT CLOG THE PORES ~ RADIO STARS in the history of the New York Police De- partment, back in 1882, together with J. W. Apple, who is still alive. Frank never has seen a world series game, although of the last fifteen world series no fewer than nine have been played in New York. Less publicity is sent out on Munn than any other star of similar magnitude. There is a rumor that Frank refuses to have his picture taken because of his ample bulk. “Tm stout and that’s all there is to it,” grins Munn, in denying the story. ‘The only time I ever squawk about pictures is when they are poor ones. And anybody’ll do that, whether you're a singer or a butcher’s clerk. I’m no Clark Gable, but I like my pictures to look like me.” Because Munn has eschewed personal ap- pearances during his long career as a radio star, it has been hinted that Frank pre- fers people to visualize him as they hear him over the air, rather than see him as he is. Again the studio gossips are 100 per cent. wrong. “T believe my place is at the microphone, that’s all,’ says Munn. “I’m making my living through singing over the air, not through touring the country, making four or five appearances a day and being con- fined to the theatre from eleven in the morning until eleven at night, putting up with the inconveniences of Pullman travel, hotel rooms and living out of a trunk. “My life is as well regulated as that of any business man. I come to the studio for rehearsals and broadcasts and then go home, the same as though it were my office. JI took a Chicago trip with Abe Lyman while A Century of Progress was on the lake-front out there. I enjoyed it, son LOVELY new face pow- der that stays on your cheeks and nose for hours. That spreads farther* than other popular-priced pow- ders and does not clog the pores—the new Woodbury’s Facial Powder. Spread a pinch of Wood- bury’s on your arm. Close to it, a pinch of the face much as a business-man would enjoy a vacation. “The biggest thrill I get out of radio is when visitors come to the RCA building, particularly during the holidays when the tourist trade is heavy. They'll come up to me, introduce themselves and say that they’ve been listening to me for years and feel as though they’ve known me. I get a real bang out of that.” It has been a long step for Munn, since the days when, with a bundle of songs un- der his arm, he’d show up at WOR, WEAF or WMCA and sing gratis for an hour, just in the hope that somebody might hear him and sign him. As a matter of fact, it was while making phonograph records for the Brunswick Co., not singing for radio, that Frank was discovered and signed up. Gus Haenschen, musical director for the record company, heard Munn making records, arranged an audition for him, and finally got him a spot on a commercial, the E. A. White hour, with Virginia Rea, who later was to play Olive Palmer, while Frank played Paul Oliver on the Palm- olive hour. Munn received less than fifty dollars for his first commercial work on the air. Munn grades his progress, not by the increased remuneration, but by the fact that it has enabled him to enjoy more football than would otherwise be possible. He knows now that he can sit on the fifty- yard line instead of the dollar bleachers. And he does, sitting in midfield, not to be seen, but because from there he can see more football. THe EnpD Le powder you have been using. Compare the areas the two powders cover. Woodbury’s is so far-spreading because it stays on the outer surface of the skin. It does not work down into the pores. It leaves your pores free to breathe. Six smart shades. One of them will flatter your com- plexion. $1.00, 50c, 25c, 10c. % Determined by Gar-Baker Laboratories, Inc., New York TRY ALL SIX SHADES— FREE? 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RADIO STARS Flppeatances atte Deceiving (Continued from page 31) “It’s like this—I’m on my last lap in the picture business, or I ought to be—I’ve been on the stage and screen for twenty- seven years. Thanks to this pan of mine, no doubt. Prettier fellows last about five, as arule. And it’s about time I gave some of the others a break. And that’s just what I figure on doing. The movies here are overcrowded. You can’t do much for folks in this field but there’s a lot of air— “And so, each week, on my hour, some newcomer is going to be introduced—or some old-timer who never got to first base. “Folks have asked*me whether I have any ‘theories’ about radio work. I looked up ‘theories’ in the dictionary and my an- swer is—no! I’m just going to announce the others, be master of ceremonies like Al was last year on the same hour. “T’m not a bit scared of the mike, though. Don’t know why I should be, since I’ve been talking into one since talkies came in. But some actors tell me they get terrible broadcast fright when they first stand up to the mike. They get all jittery and affected and feel like kids feel, when they speak their first pieces at school. I don’t. I just figure I’m talking to the folks—and why feel funny about that? “Tell you what, Carol Ann taught me a lesson. On our way home from Europe last Fall, while the Ile de France was in Quarantine, I was asked to say a few words over the radio. I did. They esti- mated that about 50,000,000 people were listening in. When I got done what I had to say, Carol Ann piped up and asked if she could speak, too. They said she could. I kind of shuddered, as you never know what the little tyke is liable to say. But I said: ‘Sure, honey, you go right fONite: Connie Gates came to New York several years ago, after making her radio début in her home town of Cleveland, Ohio, and promptly became one of radio's favorite blues singers. She recently signed a new con- tract with NBC for two regular weekly programs, Tuesdays and Thursdays. 60 “And she just stood up there and said into the mike: ‘Hello, everybody! I’m glad I’m coming home and I’m going right out to California to see my Mama!’ “And then she turned to me and said: ‘Did I do all right, Daddy?’ And I said: ‘Tl tell the world you did!’ “And she did, too,’ said Wally, one broad grin of paternal delight, “she did the way I’m trying to do. She just told — her friends what was on her mind and in her heart—and that’s the only way to do, too. “And that will be about all there is to it, so far as I am personally concerned. The rest of it will concern other folks.... “See,” said Wally, “it works something like this—the hour is divided into five parts, or sections. Victor Young’s orches- tra will take off. Then will come the dramatic section—about fifteen minutes for that—and I'll give scenes from my different pictures. The first one was from ‘Viva Villa’ and then there was ‘O’Shaugh- nessey’s Boy’ and then ‘Min And Bill’ and so on. “Then follows the singing part—think that Jack Stanton will take care of that part of the broadcast. “And after that the comedy part and someone like Polly Moran, is always fea- tured in that. “And last of all I introduce some in- teresting personality in the world’s news today—or yesterday. “I’m explainin’ the routine of it to show you how I figure on working it. The big point is that each week I introduce some new personality, or some old one that’s new to the public because of being for- gotten in the shuffle. There’s a whole lot of forgotten men and women around the studios of Hollywood and I’m going to do my bit toward seeing that they begin to be remembered. “One week I'll introduce someone with me while I do the scenes from my pic- tures. Another week it'll be someone in the singing section. Another week in the comedy part—just as I happen to select them. “When I do the scenes from ‘Min And Bill’, for instance, I'll probably introduce some unknown character woman and she'll play the part opposite me—the part M’rie played when we did the picture together. “T got my eye on someone for that part right now. A woman, not young any more. A woman who’s been working around the studios for years. She’s good. She’s got courage and_ stick-to-itiveness. She’s never said die. But—somehow, in the subway scramble of the screen, she never got a seat. Well, I'll give her one, right on the cushiony air, with me. That's the kind of woman I hope to cast opposite me. M’rie would like it, too, for me to do, this <. “And I figure this way—that if I give such a woman the part—the part opposite me—it should mean something. It should be the means of attracting attention to her, getting her somewhere. And_ that,” said Wally, wiping the beaded earnestness

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from his brow with the sleeve of his coat, “that’s what I'll be hoping. “Then, another week, I’ll introduce some- ' one in the singing section. There’s a kid right now, name of Marjorie Lane, sing- ing down at the Trocadero. Kid of about ) seventeen. Lots of ability. But she’s never had the Big Chance. Well, I'll give her the chance on my hour and maybe that'll / give her a boost in the right direction.” I said, interrupting: “But who will do your casting for you, Wally? I mean, who'll be delegated to find these people?” _ “Pm delegated,” said Wally, grinning. _“T’ve appointed myself as delegate. I ) don’t have to hunt for ’em. It was my ' idea to begin with and I know how to go /about it. I know everyone in Hollywood. _I know the extras and the bit players and the whole kit and caboodle of ’em. I like folks, plain, working folks and I know where they are. “Well, then, for the last part of the program I introduce someone that every- one knows—or has known. I introduced Mabel Starke first. Mabel had been in the papers on account of how she was gored up by her big cats again. I natur- ally feel sympathy for Mabel, remember- || ing my own circus days and the way the | rubber cows—as they call the elephants in | circus lingo—used me for a baseball once or twice. : “It's going to be worth doing, I think,” said Wally, “it’s going to be something new, too, something new for me and something new, I hope, for the others. “And it’s a chance for me, too, in an- ' other way. It’s a chance to make new |) friends, which is something I always like to do. I’ve often thought I’d like to be a ' Small Town guy and now I’ve got a chance _ of going, not only into the small towns _—the movies do that—but into the small town homes. V'll be right in the parlor with the home folks, Maw and Paw and Grand-maw and little Willie—the folks _ that don’t get out, for one reason or an- other, to go to movies. “Do you know that by actual statistics only fourteen per cent of the people are movie fans and the other eighty-six per cent are radio fans? I never knew it un- til recently. But it’s so. And such being the case, I figure I can make several thousand new friends and that’s a heart- ening thought, any way you look at it. “After I did ‘The Old Soak’ on the air I had a bunch of letters—and the writers said that they had never seen me on the screen, not being movie fans, but now they had heard me on the air they would watch out for my pictures and go to see ‘em. So, you see, it’s sort of mutually beneficial, the radio and the movies. “And that’s what I’ve wanted the chance _to be,” laughed Wally, shooting his cuffs and straightening his trouser legs as Di- rector Clarence Brown summoned him to the set, “mutually beneficial. And now I’ve got it.” Yes, now he’s got it. And others will “have it” too. Those others—those for- gotten men and women who have never been forgotten by Wally Beery .. . those youngsters burning with ambition, those older people cold with frustrated hope— new-comers and old-timers who can take heart of hope because a good Samaritan is on the air. Tue Enp RADIO STARS - j -frosteG : onut-fro ood, delicately coc Evaporate BA \@ But remember ea ene @ Dee ticious: o easily made* @ e. You must use ss oa) : : ss ? believe 1t : is recip No one will succeed in th Eagle Brand. *¢—can me ai ilk Just remember the na — Conaen. SEREEIONew Cook Booklor Wendéts?! REE! New Cook Book of Wonders! I New! New! NEW! Just off the press! ‘Magic Recipes” is a thrilling new successor to ‘Amazing Short-cuts.” Gives you brand-new recipes—unbelievably | quick and easy—for pies, cookies, candies, frostings! Sure-fire custards! Easy- to-make refrigerator cakes! Quicker ways to delicious salad dressings, sauces, ] beverages, ice creams (freezer and automatic). Address: The Borden Sales Co., Za I Inc., Dept. MM-16, 350 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. \) cic SN wcies ] Name ae | Street Sar Quality | City - (Print name and address plainly) This coupon may be pasted on a penny postcard. ee ee ee eee ee 3 es : = 4 Se. : en es Four experts referee a billiard match between Ben Bernie and Joe Sanders. (Left to right) Augie Kieckhefer, Sanders, Willie Mosconi, Bernie, Allen Hall and Ralph Greenleaf, 13-times former world pocket billiards king. 61

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RADIO STARS "Fon Old Lang Syne (Continued from page 43) They’re grown-up business men now. Guy has exchanged his violin for a full- time baton, Carmen has given up the flute for the saxophone. And De Enemy still pounds the piano. But the music they play isn’t a hobby. It’s their vocation, their avocation, their life. After the appearance at the Mothers’ Club they played various places, gradually enlarging the orchestra to include other London boys they knew and liked. By 1920 they had a full-fledged dance band of nine and were playing engagements in Ontario and occasionally in the United States. It was then that they developed the slow, romantic tempo that character- izes the Lombardo music. And it was then their early dreams of success were born—and shared. . . “But a lot of boys start young,” I pro- tested to Guy, “and they don’t stick to- gether. They join other orchestras or drop out for one reason or another.” “We like each other,” Guy said definitely. “When we started enlarging we picked It's always someone new with whom Mary Livingstone is in love! boys we liked rather than good musicians. We figured we could make ourselves good by working hard. The important thing was to have fun and get along together. An orchestra—or any group—founded on real liking has the best chance of success.” There’s no doubt that they get along. When they’re on the road there are no petty jealousies, no cliques. One night the drummer shares his bed with the banjo- player, the next with the trumpeter. They’re all brothers—the four Lombardos actually, the others practically. When they’re not working they play to- gether. There are golf and tennis tourna- ments in the band. Or they’re gathered at somebody’s house or on Guy’s speed- boat, “Tempo.” They’d have to like each other to stand the rehearsals. Once, in Cleveland, they needed another saxophone player. They engaged Larry Owen, the only American in the orchestra. Larry went to his first rehearsal. During the second number there was disagreement—violent disagree- At least, that is what she claims, in the Jack Benny program, on which she is heard with hubby Jack and Johnny Green and his orchestra, Sunday evenings. Which confession doesn't make it any easier for her husband, Jack Benny, in his attempts to play "Love in Bloom," on his somewhat stubborn violin! 62 ment—as to how it should be played. Guy said one thing, Carmen another. Liebert sided with Carmen, and so did Freddy. Guy argued. “You're crazy!’ Carmen shouted. “Go away.” “T’m not crazy! This is the way to play that number “4 “Now look, Guy. Anybody in his senses a “No, no, no! This is the way—— “Throw him out!” urged Freddy from the piano. Carmen and Liebert rose, and in a gentle but very businesslike way, the protesting Guy was ejected bodily from the room and the door locked. Larry Owen went home to his wife that night. E “Gosh,” he said, “I’m sorry I teamed up with that outfit. They had an awful fight today. They won't last a week. May- be you’d better call up tomorrow and see if they’re going to keep the engagement.” Mrs. Owen called. She came _ back, puzzled. “They said of course they’re go- ing to keep the engagement. They fight like that all the time.” I once sat in on a rehearsal for one of the Esso programs. The dulcet strains of “Dancing Cheek to Cheek” filled the dark- ened theater and I relaxed in the soft mood of the music. Suddenly Carmen stamped his foot and the music stopped jarringly. He whirled around in his chair. “For heaven's sake,” he shouted at Lie- bert, “You going to hold that note all day?” Liebert, the serious-minded one who al- ways arrives for rehearsals ten minutes early, looked injured. “That’s the way it goes,” he said. Carmen glared. “Take it again.” They took it. It sounded grand to me. Carmen jumped out of his seat. “You're still doing it!” he yelled. “You're holding it!” Victor put down the big saxophone and rose to join the argument. Guy came out from the sound control booth. Larry Owen shouted something unintelligible and joined the fray with the gleam of battle in his eye, while Freddy asked plaintively from the piano: “Is there a musician in the house?” Voices were raised, chairs were pushed back, and I looked around for the nearest exit. “They'll never get that program ready for tonight,’ I thought gloomily. Then abruptly there was silence. Every- body went back to his seat. And in a moment the soft melody of “Dancing Cheek to Cheek” pulsed again through the theater—this time without a hitch. It’s like family squabbles that flare up and blow over... . Thinking of that I said to Guy: “It takes a closely knit group to survive that sort of thing. But that can’t be the whole answer. What else is it—this bond that holds you?” “Well, another Guy said, “is because we have no rules. There are no laws in the orchestra about drinking or reason,”

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being late for rehearsal or that sort of thing. Each man is his own boss.” “But that wouldn’t work unless they each felt the interests of the band came before their own.” “These boys do. They all put the band first. And there’s one more reason.” He | knocked wood to make sure. “That's luck.” It’s all those things—but it’s more, too. | They started young, they like each other, | there are no rules, and they’ve probably been lucky. But the intangible thing that has held that band so long—is Guy himself. Running, like the melody of their signa- ture, through everything the Royal Cana- | dians do is the strain of their loyalty to their leader. You need only to talk to him | to see why. A great warmth of human | response goes out from him that attracts ' you, holds you. It’s the warmth of a per- son who has simplicity, naturalness, gener- | osity. Success has never bothered him. He | would rather tell you about the time they couldn’t get the bass horn together before an important audition than about the time they packed them in at Granada in Chicago or the Roosevelt in New York. The boys / come to Guy when they’re in trouble, when | they want advice. He’s the leader, off and on the platform. It isn’t only the band he evokes loyalty from. He has, for instance, a chauffeur —one Fred, a giant Negro. Fred has the facility for getting on the wrong roads at crucial times, for turning up late for im- portant appointments, for doing many things a chauffeur shouldn’t. Fred has been fired probably a hundred times in the five years he’s been with Guy. But he won't stay fired. He always comes back _ —or rather he never leaves. Guy will fire him, come back an hour later, and find Fred sitting glumly in the kitchen, an ‘“explana- tion” ready. “T thought I fired you,” Guy says stern- ly. “Vessuh. But I cain’t go.” “Why not? You can get another job.” “Vessuh. But—honest, now, Mr. Lom- bardo them signposts was wrong. I didn’t aim to get on the wrong road. Aw, Mr. Lombardo, let me stay. I wouldn’t be happy away from you... .” And Fred sticks. Old associations, family ties mean a lot to all the Lombardos. Guy spent his first vacation away from the rest of the troupe last summer. Two days—and he began wondering what Carmen was doing, wheth- er Liebert had got over his cold, how Victor’s baby was. Another two cays— and the Lombardos were having a joint vacation. There they are—eleven men among the tops of their profession. They’re heard by millions on the air. Sophisticated New York comes nightly to throng wherever they’re playing and dance to their ultra- smooth music. But when they swing into the familiar strain of “Auld Lang Syne,” the chromium and the mirror decorations fade. The smartly dressed dancers dis- appear, the drinking and the laughter and the noise. And with the melody comes the shadows of three little boys—Guy and Carmen and De Enemy—who, twenty years ago this December, played “When You Wore a Tulip” for their mothers. THE Enp RADIO STARS NEW : BIG - SPECTACULAR TUESDAY NIGHTS Seana N. B. Cc. (See your newspaper listing for correct time) \ \? RADIO “..«° PROGRAM eb é BRN ih * ay, THRILLS ... LAUGHS... MUSIC ... ROMANCE! Featuring a star-spangled cast of 90 performers! .: . headed by JIMMY DURANTE, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton and Arthur Sinclair! ... an orchestra of 30 musicians ... a chorus of 32 male voices ...a dramatic, romantic, comic story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur... original songs by Rodgers and Hart! BIGGER THAN A SHOW -BETTER THAN A CIRCUS! Broadcast from the mammoth stage of the New York Hippodrome ENTIRE PRODUCTION SUPERVISED BY BILLY ROSE oT EIVO00 a tt eae 4 A happy family reunion resulted from the Youman brothers winnirg the first prize on Major Bowes' Sunday night Amateur Hour. (Left to right) Skippy, seventeen; Mrs. Pauline Sandler, aunt of the boys; Major Bowes, Mr. Morris Youman, the boys’ father; Jack, nineteen, and George, eighteen. 63

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RADIO STARS Will Lily Pons Regret Her Promise? (Continued from page 25) and not be completely the wife. She could not be the singer she clearly was destined to become, and be married. And so, freed from that first promise, she gave herself to be the medium of that exquisite song, that—who knows—took on a richer splendor from the sacrifice. Her operatic début was made in Alsace, when she was in her early twenties. The epera was “Lakme,” still one of her favor- ite operas. Followed engagements in minor opera houses in France and Italy. It was while singing at Montpelier, a university town in Southern France, in 1930, that a former Metropolitan Opera tenor heard her. And at once he cabled to Gatti-Casazza, then the Met’s director, that he had heard that rarest of voices, the perfect coloratura, with a range from middle C to A above high C. As a result Lily Pons was summoned to New York for an audition. And the re- sult of the audition was a five-year con- tract with the Met, to begin the follow- ing season. Also a concert bureau and a phonograph company, whose executives had listened to her, put her under con- tract. Dazed with the thrilling vista now cpen- ing before her, Lily Pons sailed back to France. Eleven months later she returned to America, unknown, unheralded, for the début that was to make operatic history. On the night of January 3rd, 1931, she sang the title rdle in Donizetti’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor.” The great audience in the Metropolitan, silent under the spell of her flawless voice, rose at the end in sen- sational acclaim for this young singer. The ovation given her was the greatest to be accorded any new singer at the fa- mous opera house in many years. Over- night Lily Pons became known as the world’s foremost coloratura soprano. Her career since that notable occasion has been a succession of triumphs. She became the most sought-after artist in the concert field, here and abroad. Guest appearances on the air further extended the sphere of her conquests. At the Metropolitan new operas were added to the repertoire—great and seldom sung coloratura rdles, such as those in Bellini’s “La Sonnambula,” Delibes “Lakme,” “Linda di Chamounix,” originally written for such voices as that of Lily Pons, had been obsolete for years because there had been no such voice to sing them. “Linda” had not been heard in New York since 1890, when Madame Patti last sang it at the Met. During these years since her début Lily Pons has sung tirelessly. Thirty per- formances in a Metropolitan Opera sea- son. Thirteen weeks on the radio last year. And again this season. Concerts. es ee ® LER "Sing, Bing, si ng!"" pleads Rubinoff, to whom a sour note is just plain agony. He might retaliate by singing, himself—whereupon Bing, no doubt, would plead with him to play. 64 But Bing is feeling soulful! She has travelled throughout the United States, becoming well acquainted with American cities and towns, and American people. “T love America,” she says earnestly. “When I am away from it, in France or England, I am homesick for America. I. love to go home, to see my people, my friends—but always I am homesick for America!” “It has been hard work,” I suggested. “Tt is hard work,” she agreed. “Re- hearsals.. .. Performances. . .. Study ... Practise. ... Every day Alberti— he has been my only teacher—comes to me. Wherever I am, he comes to me, and we work together for two hours, every day. Hard, yes—but I am well, strong. I have the energy, the—comme on dire— the pep. I do not tire easily.” I inquired what she did for rest, for recreation. She never had had a real vacation, she said. But next year she has promised herself one. She outlined her schedule: On December 23rd, the Metropolitan Opera House opens its season under its new director, Edward Johnson. It will be a splendid season, Miss Pons believes. “He will be a fine director,” she said enthusiastically. “He is the artist, and the understanding man.” This season, instead of thirty perform- ances, she will sing but eight times, and in four operas—‘Lakme,” “The Barber of Seville,” “Lucia,” and “Rigoletto.” She will, she admits with a little smile, spare herself a little, this season—but, you per- ceive without asking, in the number of appearances only, not in quality, not in concentration. So, December, January and February will be spent at the Met. In March she sings in Monte Carlo. Paris in April, in both opera and concert. In May she will sing in Covent garden, in London. And, later that month, in Germany, and in Vienna. June, July and August will be the months of the promised vacation. Then in September she will return to Hollywood, to make her second motion picture, for RKO-Radio Pictures. That will occupy three months—September, October and November. And in December her next Metropolitan season begins. This year she had her first picture ex- perience in Hollywood, making the pic- ture “I Dream Too Much.” The work occupied three months, June, July and August. “And it was so hot—so terribly hot!” Miss Pons sighed. “Even at home, on the Riviera, I cannot bear the heat! And the long hours—sometimes nine or ten hourspeucsys eset Nevertheless, she loved making the pic- ture, she said sincerely. All her associa- tions there were most agreeable. “The people are lovely!” And she looks for- ward to making her next movie—‘But not in the summer! That will be my vaca- tion!” Her thirteen-weeks’ radio contract,

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Pahich started October second, has given her a pleasant respite, however, after the long, hot Hollywood summer. Once the broadcast is finished, she leaves the city for the charming Connecticut cottage she has rented—the cottage where she plans to spend the anticipated vacation next sum- mer. There she relaxes and rests and stores up new energy. There, every day, comes Alberti to practise with her for two hours. There her mother has spent the Fall months with her—returning in December to her home in Paris, where she has two other daughters, one married, the other a young girl of twenty, at home. And there Lily thas her saddle horse, or, in slacks and sweater and comfortable brogues, walks the country-side with her Skye terrier, Panouche. “Panouche,”’ if you translate it, means “dirty rag,’— which, Miss Pons explains, refers to his coat of griz- zled gray, and not to any lack of esteem ‘for his dignified personality. “IT love the country,” Lily Pons says \dreamily. “I love the woods, the hills, the iquiet. . . . In New York I cannot rest. I love to walk—and ride—and read. ‘I am going out to the cottage in Con- necticut this evening,’ she says. And her expressive face lights with eagerness. “What else is there to look forward to,” I hazard, “when one has reached the top— except rest and relaxation?” “But, no—” Lily Pons smiles. “It is necessary to work harder than ever—to stay where you are!” And—will she, perhaps, some day, marry again? “But that question already is answered,” she said. “How can I marry?” But don’t get the idea of Lily Pons as ‘the sacrificial heroine of music. She is truly happy in her career. The song is the thing. Always the song. . .. And ‘her singing is agreeably varied. “T sing all kinds of music,” she said. “The popular song, the classical, oper- }ettas, and the opera.” “Do you enjoy them all?” I wondered. “All.” She nodded emphatically. “You really like singing the popular peones of the day?” “I love them. . . . Oh, not the—the heavy moderne—but the American popu- ee song, I think it is beautiful!” said . Lily Pons. || So, to the question, “Will Lily Pons ‘| regret her promise?”, the only pertinent answer is: Lily Pons has fulfilled her ia promise. And she is an honest person. _| She does not compromise with herself, ‘mor with life. The woman and the song “are one, in an established harmony that "| knows no discord. She has success, and _ she has friends. She has an integrity of , | purpose, and a happy heart. "| “She has such a capacity for happiness,” a friend of hers—one who has known her intimately ever since she came to America —told me. “It makes you want to keep her always happy. She is so responsive. . . .” Lily Pons has given to music what it asked of her—and music has given her what she wants most of all. You can’t have anything worth while without paying for it—but, having discovered what you want, only a stupid nature could cavil at the price. How could Lily Pons regret? THE Enp Oe RADIO STARS EYE BEAUTY AIDS MASCARA...EYE SHADOW...EYEBROW PENCIL...EYELASH TONIC CREAM...EYEBROW BRUSH Another scene from that continuously popular ‘House of Glass'' program, showing Gertrude Berg (Mrs. Glass) and Joseph Greenwald, (Mr. Glass). 65

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Radio Stars Cooking School “Why, he’s called me that for thousands of years,” Gracie informed me proudly. But let’s get back to the beginning, ride up to the twenty-first floor of a smart New York apartment hotel, ring the bell and step into the Burns’ comfortable living-room, done in shades of tan and soft green with tremendous windows over- looking the city skyline to the south. “Did you come here to interview Gracie on cooking?” inquired George Burns after introductions had been completed, a look of complete scorn on his face, but a tell- tale, proud little twinkle in his eye. “Why, when it comes to cooking,’ he continued, “Gracie is non compos mentis!” “Oh, George, there you go again!” gig- gled Gracie in her best mike manner. “Al- ways saying nice things about me!” “Gracie!” interrupted George in a tone reminiscent of his broadcasting technique. “Gracie, what I said was that as a cook you haven’t any brains!” “You don’t need brains to cook,” re- plied the not-easily-stumped Miss Allen brightly. “To cook you need good recipes or a can opener! I know! For I’m one of the most skilled can openers there is. I can get an entire meal myself—and a good one—out of cans. Or I can change an inexperienced servant into a good cook by giving her simple recipes for the things we like to eat. RADIO STARS (Continued from page 50) “It takes a long time to learn to cook by the trial and error method,’ declared Gracie with conviction, “but anyone should be able to follow a first class, simply worded, fool proof recipe! So when I discover something George likes to eat I get directions for making it—whether the person who is responsible for its goodness is my own servant, a friend’s cook or a restaurant chef. Then we're all set and can have that same dish any time we want, whether we’re in my native California or George’s native New York or points be- tween!” “Tell me more,’ I begged, surprised and pleased to find the supposedly “dizzy” Gracie so sensible about culinary matters. “Say,” interrupted George, “the next thing you know Gracie will tell you why she likes old-fashioned telephones best!” “Well, I'll bite,” I replied in as good an imitation of a stooge as I knew how to give. “Why does she like old-fashioned telephones best, Mr. Burns?” “Gracie says that with an old-fashioned telephone you can always use the mouth- piece as a cookie cutter in making cup- cakes !” “Husing, Watson, Renard!” I cried re- provingly, “you don’t make cup-cakes with cookie cutters!” “You don’t talk sense with George in this mood, either,” said Gracie. “But "Phooey for Society!" said pretty Marjorie Oelrichs, when she abandoned ] her social register friends to marry orchestra leader, Eddie Duchin, last June. 66 speaking of cookies, come on out into our two-by-four kitchen and we'll raid my recipe files for cookie and other recipes.” “Just now you are interested in Christ- mas stuff, aren’t you?” she went on, lead- ing the way into the kitchen, leaving George flat. Everybody’s thinking of Christmas these days. I know we have the grandest plans we’ve ever had, for Sandra is old enough this year to enjoy a tree. And already George has started buying presents and rehearsing his réle as Santa Claus. Sandra will get a big kick out of it all, I know. “Of course, she’s still too young for the rich Christmas foods we like—things like puddings, tempting hot sauce for ice creams and Fruit Cake—two kinds of Fruit Cake! One Fruit Cake comes all mixed, complete with the pan in which it is to be cooked—you just add the liquid and bake it according to directions on the box. That’s my speed! The other is made in small frosted squares. ‘Samples,’ George calls them and, my! how he does sample them! Then there is my own fav- orite cookie. .. .” “Googie,” called George. “T said ‘cookie,’” laughed Gracie. “Well, I said ‘Googie,’” came back Mr. Burns’ voice in joyous accents, “Googie, here’s Sandra!” And that brought us out of the kitchen on a dead run. Don’t expect me to give a coherent description of the rest of that interview or to tell you much more about the two people I had come to see. For from that moment on, it was Sandra on whom the spotlight of attention was fo- cussed, Sandra, who was placed in the middle of every picture we posed; San- 7 dra, with whom we returned to the kitchen for a glass of tomato juice; Sandra, whose food preferences, though not discussed, were evident in the form of one very crushed cracker grasped in a chubby fist. But adored and adorable child notwith- standing, I had come for one definite purpose and nothing could distract me for long. So, in odd moments, I collected the desired number of recipes. They sounded good—Gracie declared they were good and George said they were better than that! (Sandra said “Ah-boo,”’ approvingly.) But in order to make sure that it wasn’t just another Burns and Allen joke I tried ‘em out myself to make sure. I’m giving you the results of my first two attempts here together with my solemn assurance that comedy is all very well on the air but Gracie, I discovered, realizes that it has no place in the kitchen. And has taken her can opening and recipe col- lecting seriously. Certainly if the foods I tried out are George’s favorites, I’m will- ing to broadcast the fact that he is a man of culinary discernment as well as so she keen humor. Your husband, too, will like the Frosted Fruit Cake Squares and the Steamed Honey Bran Pudding which Gracie’s recipes taught me how to make. You will share his enthusiasm for those sweets, I’m~ sure, although possibly you will prefer 7 > a

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the Chocolate Nut Cakes included in the leaflet, or the Maple Nut Chewies given below. And any children in your family will certainly cheer over the Fudge, But- terscotch and Peppermint Sauces which will make “bought’n” ice cream taste like home-made. With the exception of the Maple Nut Cookies, which I am giving you shortly, you'll find recipes for all these delicious treats in this month’s Burns and Allen recipe leaflet. Then, in order to get away from sweets, I’ve given you at the end of this article, ene of Gracie’s can-opener specialties. You won't have to wait for the Holidays to have this dish make its welcome appear- ance. ’Smatter of fact, none of the recipes given me by Gracie-Googie-Allen-Burns needs to be saved for festive occasions for they'll make any occasion festive! Do send for the free Cooking-School leaflet now, at once, and forthwith—there- by adding some grand dishes to your menus. Remember, Gracie claims anyone can cook well with a good recipe and here you have, offered to you without cost, several of her own good recipes with which to test out the truth of her statement. Puddings, Cakes, Fruit Cakes and Sauces —all Burns and Allen favorites—all for the price of a stamp! (Be sure to try the following recipes, too, and cut them out or copy them to add to your collection.) This is. Nancy Wood signing off. I'll be back on the air next month with a new star, new recipes and some new culinary data. Meanwhile, if you are not already numbered among the thousands of women who have taken advantage of this service, here’s your chance to become a regular RADIO STARS COOKING SCHOOL follower by sending for this month’s in- teresting, helpful leaflet. MAPLE NUT CHEWIES 1 can (1-1/3 cups) sweetened con- densed milk 2/3 cup maple syrup 2% cups graham cracker crumbs Y% cup nut meats, chopped fine 1%4Z teaspoon vanilla Combine sweetened condensed milk and maple syrup. Cook over low heat in heavy saucepan, until mixture thickens (about 5 minutes), stirring constantly. Cool. Pass graham crackers through food grinder or roll out to make 2% cups fine crumbs. Add crumbs, finely chopped nut meats and vanilla to cooled syrup mixture. Mix to- gether thoroughly. Drop by spoonsful on to greased cookie sheet. Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven (350°F.). CORN A LA ALLEN tablespoons butter small onion, minced fine small can mushrooms can whole kernel corn can condensed tomato teaspoon salt few grains pepper soup IAIN Melt butter in saucepan. Drain mush- rooms, slice thin, combine with minced onion and add to butter in pan. Cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Add drained whole kernel corn, soup, salt and Heat thoroughly. pepper. RADIO STARS FACTORY TO YOU LATEST MODEL REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS RAND-new, latest model Remington for only 10¢a day ! Here is your opportunity togeta perfect writing machine at an amazingly low price direct from the factory. 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How could she know that one last fling could end in disaster for herself and all who loved her? His hand slid along the laughed tremulously to hide her perturbation. “Moonlight does tricks with one’s emotions,” he said huskily, as though he had not noticed her gesture. Standing there beside him, so tall, so capable of carrying all her burdens, she felt an almost ungovernable desire to tell him the truth and let him decide what she must do. Suddenly she was crying softly. tearlessly. held close in his arms. It swept over her just how glorious it could be if she dared relax, dared let herself be attracted by this man who so obviously was attracted to her. She closed her eyes to stifle the thought of the beauty of what might have been and what never could be now! What desperate thing stood between Iris and Don? What dark secret of her past was forever to darken their lives, their love? 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RADIO STARS Sy Ss Radio's decidedly handsome James Melton surrounded by a bevy of beauties who appear with him in the Warner Brothers picture, "Stars Over Broadway." They like our James so well out in Hollywood that he's to be starred in a re-make of "The Desert Song." K eetle Tells All (Continued from page 13) Benny back : wrote it'll be all right—as of me!” “When I am, long as yowre alongside the boy who plays two Phil and Ben Bernie, a black cigar, teamed up for 3en did all the talking, yowsah, and made years. all the announcements. Phil practically played in pantomime. Finally, one day, he did make an announcement and Jake Shubert sued him. It was a unique arrangement. called at the closed doors, Vanderbilt with Judge presiding. and twelve each day, unmention- The case was Hotel behind Philip Sullivan of There, between nine Jake called Phil everything able. Then, at twelve, they lunch together, engage in general conver- sation, be the greatest of pals. Back to the hotel then, where, from one to five, an orgy of recriminations would make it unnecessary for me to do any plain or fancy heckling. And then five would find them railing against each other —at the hotel bar—the best of friends! The fact is that nobody can be really angry with Phil for more than five con- 638 Chicago would go to o'cl ck warmth and down secutive minutes. There's a humanness about him that under your shell and you soon find your- self thinking what a swell guy he is. When it comes to his family, Phil be- comes unusually He’s really de- voted to them—and for his mother he has a little boy’s idealistic adoration. His sis- ters, too, he admires—especially the one “who is single’—about whom he'll talk enthusiastically at the slightest provoca- tion—with no provocation at all! But to get back to the Shuberts. Phil appeared in “A Night in Spain,” a musical hit which set them back a hundred thousand. But Phil wasn’t happy in the part and withdrew. He was out of pocket an actual $15,000.00. Yet, when all the tumult and shouting subsided, he was handed a Shubert contract, that permitted him to pass on the people who were to ap- pear in his show—even who were under contract to the management ! The team of Bernie and Baker was one of the oddest in all business. Bernie loves to sleep. He would sleep for hours in his dressing-room, right up to the introduction of their act, when he would alert and puffing hard at gets serious. those show walk on his stogie. Together Ben and _ Phil cleaned up the grand total of $200.00 a week at the Palace, under the expert han- dling of Max Gordon. When they: split for singles Ben went back to the Palace $6,000.00 and Phil didn’t do so badly for himself at the Capitol at $5,000.00 and a percentage—$11,000.00 plus, rung up by the old team of Bernie and Baker, disin- corporated. Of course I don’t like to get personal, but it really was my genius that put Phil over. people might have thought Phil was pretty good until they heard me. Then they ! Some knew! Phil hasn’t changed any boy who went to school in and became a Ziegfeld star. And he can’t anyone taken seriously who doesn’t want to be. When Charles Lind- bergh completed that epochal flight in 1927 he was tendered a huge dinner. There an electric-lighted from the little Philadelphia bear to see was a giant horseshoe, aeroplane cake—and a lot of stuffed shirts. Everyone worshipped the young flyer like a tin god and the affair gave all the promise of being a colossal flop. Phil stepped out to sing a song and felt that it would be but a matter of time be-

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| fore the party blew up. It was dying on its feet. Right in the middle of his song he stopped. “What seems to be wrong?” he asked, in a conversational tone. “This fellow wants a good time—he doesn’t want to be a hero. For heaven’s sake treat him like a human being.” It seems nobody had thought of that and from then on everyone went to town— and had a swell time! Phil has been in and out of love a good many times but real love settled down for a long engagement only once—when he set eyes on pretty little Peggy Cartwright. It was in “Americana” they met and for the first time Phil tried ‘“Lohengrin’s Wedding March” on his hand piano. It sounded mighty pretty. Peggy accom- panied him—to a Justice of the Peace. A couple of years ago Margot was born, and in January, 1935, little Master Stuart Henry Baker, suh, broke into the Florida season with a lusty yell. Bottle is his godfather, poor child. And Beetle, he tells me, is his favorite flower. Phil was terribly excited when Stuart was born. He wanted to go right down to Florida and give him his first accor- dion lesson, but he was appearing in “Call- ing All Stars,” and the box-office lane was busy. So he flew down the following week-end. Phil was thrilled with his young son, but Stuart took me aside and said if there wasn’t anyone understudying I suggested he go me, he’d like the job. Here are the Three Brown Bears (Carl Brown, George Strayer and Glenn | Christopher), whose voices have been on the airwaves for several years. The boys have known each other since early school days in Springfield, Ohio. They're all talented musicians, besides, and formerly had their own dance orchestra. But it seems there was more fame and money for them to be gained singing as the Three Brown Bears, and the dance orchestra was wisely disbanded. RADIO STARS on the early morning shift—which has kept Phil pretty busy. Last winter Phil purchased some land in Mamaroneck and proceeded to build a house with an oil burner, refrigeration, and air-cooling system and a mortgage. This house, a surprise for Peggy, he fur- nished all by himself, with some profes- sional heckling from me—a First Class Heckler in good standing with Local 624. It’s authentic Colonial, with antiques which include spinning wheel, highboy, spinet, and, if the deal we’re negotiating goes through, the Plymouth Rock for Phil’s garden. .. . As you can see, every- thing’s right up to the minute! As a mat- ter of fact, Phil, ‘Bottle and myself may even throw in a minute man for a fourth at bridge! But no medium of entertainment can quite equal the regard in which he holds radio. He makes a complete recording of each broadcast and plays the records over and over to learn more about what the wild air-waves are saying. He also admits he finds it the most fascinating way of making money. But from where I sit, up here on the transom, it seems to me that millions and millions of people are laughing with and not at Phil Baker when he appears as “The Great American Tourist” over a CBS nation-wide hook-up on Sunday eve- nings. It’s discouraging—it means I have to work twice as hard! THE Enp ... let Gerber’s worry about the strained foods for your baby... You can safely leave all that to us. Your baby’s other needs, and your family’s and your own, are too important to permit you to waste hours and hours in the kitchen—pushing spinach through a sieve! Besides—and we say it with all modesty—we think we can do it better! Many baby-feeding specialists agree with us, too. That is because we are specialists. We use methods and equipment, and exercise a precision of scientific control, that the most complete home kitchen could not even approach. 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RADIO STARS Over the "back-fence network" come bits of gossip to the listening ears of Clara, Lu 'n' Em, those delightful small-town housewives whose kindly, ingenuous chatter entertains you daily, except Saturdays and Sundays, over the NBC-WEAF network. In real life they are (left to right): Em—Mrs. Helen King Mitchell; Clara—Mrs. Louise Starkey Mead; and Lu—Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer. And—Special Extral—we have a treat in store for Next month, in our ou. February issue, on sale January first, you will find a most delightful story of the three girls pictured above, by a writer who recently interviewed them for RADIO STARS Magazine. Strange Things ate Happening (Continued from page 41) speak on only one small phase of the vast subject of health and it is wonderful how much benefit people get out of it. Not because of me, but because of radio which carries the information to people who otherwise could not obtain it. Think, if you will, what might be ac- complished if. this one minute a week could be multiplied by a hundred and di- vided among other and greater physicians than I am. The possibilities are enor- mous. Yes, imagine one minute of good, hard-boiled health talk inserted on every popular radio program, sandwiched be- tween the jests of Eddie Cantor, the skits of Jack Benny, the orchestral pieces of Fred Waring, and so forth. Medicine, in a short time, could cut down the death rate appreciably by elim- inating all the diseases caused by ignorance. We could diminish most of the dangers of child birth, tuberculosis, prevent the deaths of thousands of infants, and a score of other things. People need to be told the facts about hygiene, diet, exercise, sanitation. The ignorance that exists is appalling. A beginning has been made by the city and state Board of Health, who are now broadcasting health information. The American Medical Association is co-oper- ating by a series of talks on “medical emergencies.” But it is only a beginning g : y < rey 2. 70 The importance of radio to medicine is not yet realized; when it is, we will find our- selves in a new era. We will find our- selves then in a position to halt an epi- demic before it has a chance to get started, by the simple device of a daily radio broadcast instructing people what to do. If you seek definite proof of what radio talk can accomplish, consider what it has done for sailors and fishermen on the high seas, occupants of lighthouses and others remote from the services of a physician. Ailments have been diagnosed and cured. Operations have been performed on pitch- ing windjammers by amateur working with ear phones strapped to their heads. Thousands of lives have been saved. We have today the International Radio Medical Service with its ninety- three well equipped stations prepared to broadcast medical advice to ships on all the oceans. Eventually, there will be a chain of these stations around the world, each staffed with competent physicians. The job of the radio doctor covers a wider territory than mere physical health. I know from the letters I receive that thousands look to the physician, especially one who broadcasts, as the repository of all wisdom. Many of my correspondents seek advice on problems which are of an intimate and a non-medical nature. They write to me the kind of letters they write surgeons, to Dorothy Dix, of newspaper fame. For example, there is a girl who has fallen in love with her employer who is a married man. What should she do? There is the married woman whose husband de- serted her three years ago. She made a new life for herself, is happy, completely out of love with him—but now he has re- turned and wishes to resume the old re- lationship. Another woman has_ found her husband kissing her girl friend. “Please, doctor, what shall I do?” And so it goes. I answer these letters as best I can. I mention them here to show that the job of a radio doctor is broader than health—it is real social service. When we speak of radio, we have in mind the narrow group of air waves which enables us to transmit talk. But there are other waves which are also radio— which hold possibly greater promise for the welfare of humanity than the talk band does. The X-ray, for, example, is a form of radio. And we all know how im- portant this is in enabling doctors to see inside the human body, how effective it is in the curing of certain forms of skin dis- ease. But we are only at the beginning, so far as this valuable instrument is con- cerned. We also know a little about the ultra- violet rays which are the rays of sunlight, which tan our skins, and help make good

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teeth and strong straight bones. We can | reproduce them by means of lamps and so feed sunlight into milk and bread and to- mato juice and so produce a healthier race. | These rays are also part of the radio » miracle. Again, there are the infra-red rays— | which are the heat rays. And these have a special curative value all of their own. _ A fairly recent development is the use | of short waves to raise the temperature of the human body. In this way they produce the so-called artificial fever which has | brought about some miraculous cures. These are really wireless waves because | there is no immediate contact with the patient undergoing treatment. It is also well known that waves of cer- tain lengths are specifically deadly to cer- tain microbes while leaving others un- harmed. This whole field is unexplored but the time may come when treatment of many infectious diseases will be carried out by exposing the patient to the proper wave length to kill the harmful bacteria. And it may turn out that the action of cer- tain important glands may be controlled by the use of radiation of the proper wave length. In surgery, the radiologists have de- veloped the radio scalpel which multiplies the skill of the doctor performing an operation, diminishing the danger of ex- cessive bleeding, lessening pain, and re- moving the risk of an unguarded move- ment. There are whole bands of waves which at present have no practical value. And what these unknown regions promise in the future for our health no one can say. But so swift, so spectacular is the march of science that almost anything may come out of them. If you are of a fantastic turn of mind, you can spend a happy half-hour visualiz- ing the home radio installation of the fu- ture. This will be an instrument built to make possible the broadcast of the entire radio band. The waves which bring our entertainment will be only a small part of those that enter this receiver. Through it, we will receive waves to heat or cool our apartments, waves for banishing fatigue and others for inducing rest or sleep. Waves for growing children and waves for the aged. Fantasy, of course, but enough progress has been made in this general direction to place something of this sort within the realm of probability. To return to reality, I would like to take this opportunity to answer the ques- tions which are asked of me so frequently. These talks of mine so quickly given are often the result of considerable labor. They average about 200 words, one side of a sheet of typewriting paper—but they have often taken me hours to prepare. Now and then I dash one off in a few minutes. Others have taken me five and six hours. The average time has been an hour. When Rudy is in Hollywood or on the road, you hear my voice on the program exactly as if we were all together in New York. How is that done? I simply go down to the studio, get to a microphone and at a signal I am cut in. I talk my minute—and I am through. When I, in turn, have to travel, I go to the NBC sta- tion of the town I am in and am cut in on the program in the same way. I got into broadcasting by a strange RADIO STARS twist of circumstances. It happened that I objected to the advertising blurb that was being read at that time by the an- nouncer. My superior snapped back: ‘“Sup- pose you try one yourself.” I did my best to draw back but I was trapped and no amount of pleading could help me. So I went on the air, as I have already told you. Curiously enough, I took up medicine much the same way, almost by accident. 1 had no great yearning to be a doctor, be- ing, like a great many other youngsters, un- certain and undecided about my future profession. But when one of my best friends matriculated at Harvard Medical school I went along too. We chose Har- vard because it was near Boston where we lived. My first job was with the government, working under Harvey Wiley, the great pure food crusader. Today I am the di- rector of the department of applied re- search of a large corporation with twenty specialists of cne sort or another under me. I also supervise research projects in twenty universities, all of which have been endowed by the corporation. The fact that I am not a regular med- ical practitioner has not relieved me of the trials that go with being a doctor. I have been called all too often from my seat in a theater to answer the call: “Is there a doctor in the house?” I have been yanked from my Pullman berth more than once. I recall riding with my wife, when the conductor asked me to do what I could for an hysterical woman in the next coach. By administering a sedative, talking in a gentle voice and patting her hand, I man- aged to calm her. I admit I was a little flustered when my wife walked in and be- held me sitting there with a strange wo- man, patting her hand, my arm about her shoulders. Strange as it may seem, I have never been called on to attend any of my fellow radio performers. These men and women of the air take good care of themselves. Especially of their throats. I know one man who never travels without his at- omizer. Graham McNamee always has a box of throat lozenges handy. They all have their tricks for ensuring a clear throat. Lou Houltz, for example, starts the broadcast with a swig of sherry. As a radio doctor, the most profound emotion I have had since beginning my air career was the night an appeal for blood donors was broadcast in New York City. This was for a little girl who was dying of a streptococcus infection. Sev- eral thousand offers of blood were received at the hospital within a half-hour. After that, let no one say that New York is lack- ing in spirit and generosity. My most amusing experience concerns a theory some people have that Dr. R. E. Lee does not exist, that the voice they hear is simply that of an announcer. It happened that one of these skeptics vis- ited the studio on an evening when, due to the crowded condition of the stage, I was obliged to broadcast from the wings. “See, I told you there was no Doctor Lee,” growled the skeptic. Well, I am writing to tell you that there is, that I am real, that nothing that you have ever heard on the air as coming from me has ever come from anyone else. THe Enp Is THERE some one for whose benefit you'd like to look especially lovely, evenings, in your lamp- lit living-room? Then this simple experiment may give you a brand-new idea on how to do it: Just arrange your lamplight—make up your face as usual (omitting all eye make-up to start with). Then take your Kurtasn and curl the lashes of one eye. Touch them with Lasutint. And shade the same eyelid with a little SHapetre. Now—inspect your face closely in a hand mir- ror, as the light falls across it. One side will seem softer, clearer, more subtly colored. Because the eye you have beautified looks larger, brighter, with longer, darker lashes. That's eye beauty! You'll never neglect it—or Kurrasu—the little gadget that curls lashes without heat, cosmetics, or practice. ($1 at good stores.) Lasutint, the liquid mascara, may be applied while the lashes are being curled. Touch the little glass rod to them as they are held in the rubber bows of Kurtasu. Lasutint will darken the tips delicately and it doesn’t crack, stiffen, wash or weep off—in black, brown, or blue, $1. Another clever trick is to rub KurLENE on the lashes before you curl them, so they'll be silken and full of dancing rainbows. KurRLENE is a scien- tific formula for eyelash luxuriance. soc and $1. @ Have you tried Twissors—the new tweezers with scissor handles—marvel- ously efficient—25c. Write JANE HEATH for advice about eye beauty. Give your coloring for personal beauty plan. Address Dept. MH-1. Klis The Kurlash Company, Rochester, N. Y. 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RADIO STARS Benny Baker got a fan letter! If you look closely, you can see it, framed for posterity, leaning up against his proud chest. Benny brought it over to the Paramount lot, to show it to Bing Crosby and Grace Bradley. That's Andy Devine, of course, in the nifty sailor togs. (Continued from page 35) Andy is acting as bodyguard for the fan letter. time to sign the agreement. Dad didn’t know a thing about it yet, and when mother learned he would have to sign the contract, too, she nearly had hysterics. We wired him to come to New.York in a hurry, and he came, but when he found out what we wanted him for, he was furious. At first he refused point blank to sign, but we finally persuaded him, and then he was swell about it. “Dad was my best audience. He used to come to see the shows I was in so often he usually knew them better than I did. We were the swellest pals.” Vivienne’s eyes flashed anger as she re- called that paragraph about the breach be- tween herself and her father. “Never go near him, indeed!” she cried. “Why, for the last three weeks of Dad’s life, he wouldn’t take food, or medicine, even, from anyone but me,” she declared. Her brown eyes, glittering like dark car- nelians, clouded. “For three whole weeks 1 never stepped cut of the house. I used to read or sing to Dad. I think I was his favorite daughter. “Oh, yes, indeed, I have two sisters. I know it says in that book that I’m an only child, but that’s like a lot of other stuff in that book. In fact, two very distinguished sisters. Vera is married to Maurice Sterne, the famous painter and sculptor, and she’s pretty handy with the brush, herself. Louise is the wife of the son of the Cuban minister to Vene- zuela, and is one of the diplomatic set’s most brilliant hostesses.” Once more Vivienne pointed to a para- graph on the page open before her. “Here,” she said, “is the prize of the 72 I have two sisters. lot. Of all the malicious pieces of idle gossip ever printed, this tops them! See what it says? Robert Ames and I were reconciled and were about to be re-married when he died! Why the person who wrote that ought to be horse-whipped! It’s so unfair! And it must have hurt a grand person. You know Robert was to have been married to Ina Claire when he died. And think how Ina must have felt when she read that! “Bob Ames and I were always the very, very best of friends—before we were di- vorced and afterward, too. It’s true we couldn’t seem to hit it off as husband and wife—but this is 1935, and nowadays when a man and woman are divorced, it doesn’t necessarily mean they hate each other. Why I'll never forget Bob’s words when he heard that Bill Boyd and I were— well, practically engaged. ‘I hear you're running around with a swell guy,’ he said, ‘and I'd like to meet him.’ That’s the kind of man Bob Ames was. “Well, we fixed it up for Bob and Bill to get together, and that night, the night they were to have met each other, was the most tragic in my life. I don’t think the story of it has ever been told be- fore—not correctly, anyhow. What hap- pened was this: Bill and I and another couple were going to a boxing-match. Bob had been invited, but he couldn’t go. How- ever, he invited us to stop in at his apart- ment for cocktails before the fights. When we got there, we found Bob—” her voice broke, then she went on: “we found him— dead.” There was a long silence. “T can’t even talk about it now,” Vivienne said at length. Then her vibrant, vivacious self reas- serted itself. Once more laughing good humor shone from her dark eyes. “What I’ve been driving at,’ she ex- plained, “is that if you’d read through this scrapbook, what would you see? What picture would you get? Why, you'd see a Vivienne Segal that isn’t me at all. A bitter, morbid, disillusioned person. Now I ask you—do I look like a bitter, morbid, disillusioned person?” I gave the obvious answer. “T’m not bitter,” she continued. “Why should I be? How could I be? True, I’ve had some tough breaks. Who hasn't? 3ut all in all, I’ve been a pretty lucky girl. I’m young, alive and healthy. Life’s won- derful. And when the right man comes along, I guess I’ll marry again. Maybe I'll be right this time, and maybe I won't. You have to take the bitter with the sweet, I suppose. But for me, there’s always been more sweet than bitter—nothing morbid about that, is there?” I said there wasn’t, and rose to go. “But wait,” Vivienne reminded me. You came here to interview me.” “T did,” I said. For a moment, her big brown eyes ex- bewilderment, then she laughed pressed gleefully. “So, that was an interview, was it?” she said. “My raving away like that! But if I have one more piece of printed misinfor- mation to add to this collection—” she pointed to the scrapbook, “Ill be after you with a shotgun!” So I hope I’ve got everything straight. THe ENp They Shouldn t Have Printed Such Lies!

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is true to a lesser degree when we go to parties at our friends’ homes. Thus Mr. Reisman believes that the smartest choice /we can make is a costume in black, or white. Not only is it the smartest choice, but it is also the most sophisticated. You'll ‘find black or white worn by the best dressed women on the dance floor. The type of evening gown worn by Harriett | Hilliard and Vivienne Segal—simple well- cut sophisticated black—fits the concep- tion of an evening gown that can be worn in any setting. The black and white notes are the ones to strike if you would dine and dance smartly .. . to Leo Reisman’s orchestra. As an artist, Leo Reisman is offended by discordant color clashes; as a_ fastidious gentleman of the world, he is offended by anything that clashes with the dictates of good breeding. The old Victorian slogan of “Be a Lady” is one that Mr. Reisman believes ought to be re-popularized. His | pet peeve is seeing a woman planked up | against a bar, her foot on the rail. He is | an ardent believer in the principles of ap- propriateness and suitability. A woman just doesn’t belong at a bar. It isn’t the right setting. Men still like women to fit RADIO STARS Keep Young and Seautiful (Continued from page 7) The lipstick along with the matching rouge has just appeared on the holiday market in a stunning new compact, the lipstick of which has a separate little metal case that fits right into the compact. You can get this lipstick in a darker shade for evening if you wish . . . the metal top will fit it, too, so you can alternate your lipsticks by day and by night without spoiling your compact arrangement. You'll really be tempted, though, to expose the compact to the public gaze... it’s such a “smoothie” for looks. Perfume shouldn’t be any more obvious than make-up. There are special day- time and evening perfumes that will help you to make a subtle choice. The art of perfuming is so important when it comes to the proximity of the dance floor and the overcrowded, close night club atmosphere. Dance maestro Reisman believes that there is nothing more indicative of poor taste than heavy perfume used too lavishly. Now I have a list of inexpensive but lightly intriguing perfumes that may help you to strike the right note in fragrance, too. Do you want one that is warm and vibrant or fresh and elusive? One that is young and gay, or wise and sophisticated? RADIO Crawford—Joan of the movies, FANS! Some very special treats await you in the next issue of RADIO STARS— the February issue, on the news stands January first-—don't miss them! There will be an extremely fascinating and informative story about Joan and Joan as a radio actress—and what she thinks of radio broadcasting. Warden Lawes, whom you know on the air through his "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing’ program. James Melton also has a place in the next issue—and other popular radio stars will be featured in new stories. Watch for the February RADIO STARS Also a most unusual story of in with their ideals of her, maintains Reis- man, their own gallant conceptions of what is feminine and what isn’t. The dance maestro says that placing him in an embarrassing spot is the one thing a man can’t forgive a woman. Women who indulge in raucous laughter and loud talk are an embarrassment to their escorts, says Reisman. Good breeding, beautiful man- ners, and a low, soft, well modulated voice are all as much attributes of beauty as the more obvious items of figure and com- plexion. Study the voice of the woman who gives the beauty talk on the Lady Esther pro- gram. It has a lovely quality that is un- usual in feminine voices, even on the radio. Reisman voiced the feeling that seems common to most men in expressing an- noyance over a woman’s applying make- up in public. In spite of, or maybe be- cause of, the artificiality which must nec- essarily surround a dance maestro, he hates artificiality in make-up. Right here I made a note to myself to remind you of the lipstick that contains no pigment or paint, but that magically changes color to match your complexion. Spray a bit of perfume around the hem of your dance frock, and you'll float in a cloud of fragrance. For the. rest, just touch a bit of perfume to your wrists, your ear lobes, your throat. One glamour secret for the dance is to take a tiny pad of cotton, apply several drops of perfume to it, and then pin it securely into the neckline of your gown. I’m offering my make-up guide to help you achieve color harmony in make-up. If you want your party face to be a success, you won’t want your rouge to clash with your lipstick. The right make-up can make the right things happen, and there’s psychology in that, too! Mary Biddle RADIO STARS 149 Madison Avenue New York City, N. Y. 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RADIO STARS Shake Hands with the Champions (Continued from page 49) had outplayed the country’s leading bridge experts to win the Individual Masters Bridge Championship—the highest honors in Bridgedom. A little later I got a telephone call from Ted Collins. “Say, Katherine,’ he said excitedly, “did you read in the news- papers about that young woman beating thirty of the best bridge players in the country last night?” I told him I had read the story. “Well,” he went on, “that gives me an idea. Let’s get her on the program. After all, she’s a champion—and since she can do one thing better than anyone else, that makes her interesting to the public. And ” she’s fresh in the news, too. Well, after a lot of hurried telephone calling, we finally got in touch with Miss Murdoch—just two hours before the broadcast. Although she was fatigued from three days of strenuous tournament play, she generously consented to appear on our program. We interviewed her for six minutes and everything turned out splendidly. The reaction to our interview with Miss Murdoch was very encouraging. People seemed to like to hear the story of a per- son who was “the tops’—who possessed an ability that made her the best. And in this particular case, it was a woman sata ee spas Here is Kate Smith, herself, with her mother and her manager, Ted Collins. It was Ted Collins who "discovered" Kate for radio, when she was appearing as singing comedienne in Broadway musical comedies. Kate was born in Greenville, Virginia, twenty-six years ago, but she grew up and went to school in Washington, D. C. She made her entertainment début singing ballads for soldiers encamped near Washington. Kate hates to buy clothes. 74 who won a championship in a field in which millions sought perfection. The next week it happened that the annual rodeo championships at the Madi- son Square Garden produced some real cattle-roping, rough-riding champions. Here were some interesting individuals, I thought. We called Ted Deglin, contact man for the Garden, and through him ar- ranged for them to be interviewed on the next Thursday’s program. They were grand, with their western drawls, and we had a jolly time together. Then Ted and I realized that we had stumbled on that human interest feature for which we had been seeking. We de- cided that each week we would bring a champion to the microphone—it didn’t make any difference what kind of champ —Jjust as long as they were deserving of the title of champion. We knew it would be a difficult task to ferret one out, week after week, but we were set on it. As a result, ever since then—on our Matinee Hours, our night-time hour pro- grams, and on our current A. & P. “Coffee-Time” broadcasts, we've had champions—more than fifty of them al- together. Think of that—fifty champs, and all types, too! And I want to tell you that they are grand people—and everyone of them as interesting as can be. The world’s champion speed typist, Mr. George V. Hossfeld, did a speed drill be- fere the microphone of more than 220 words a minute. Big Bill Tilden and Mr. Lott, professional tennis .champs and about the best racquet-wielders on the courts today, were interviewed on sepa- rate programs. Separate, because at the time Mr. Lott was making his professional début, and because of their scheduled match there wasn't the best of feelings between them. Afterwards, I certainly got a kick out of watching them burn those balls across the net. I’ve had ice-skating champions on the radio—Mr. Irving Jaffee, Olympic speed titleholder, and ten year old Robin Lee, who was the National Senior Figure- Skating champ. A mite of a kid who out-figured the best men on the ice. Major James A. Doolittle and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War Ace, were among our champion aviators. Major Doolittle had just broken the country record the day before the broad- Captain Rickenbacker, who raced automobiles and airplanes, and shot enemy planes during the war, was so nervous that he couldn’t hold his notes. It’s hard to imagine a man like that appalled by a little microphone—but the mike does that Elinor Smith, the aviatrix, also was a guest. She, on the other hand, performed like a radio veteran. Speaking of the ladies, I’ve had an un- usual array of feminine champions. There was Mrs. Floretta McCutcheon, who won the world’s bowling championship—she even knocked down more pins than the top men only four years after she saw her first alley. You probably read about two girls from Idaho who George cross- cast. sometimes. bowlers those

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| | | chopped down a bull pine tree in a little ever a minute—to come out No. 1 in a tree-chopping contest that won them a trip to Manhattan. They were our guests, and told how they did the trick. They seemed almost as tall and rangy as the bull pine trees themselves. And here’s something interesting. Mr. James J. Braddock, who, that very day, had been signed for his match with Max Baer, was on the same program with the | woodchopping experts. We had a double- header that broadcast. He was very at- tentive to what the girls said, and when they finished he told me on the air that he was going to “chop down a six-foot bull in just about the same length of time on a night in June.” The night of the fight I said: “And now I’m going out to see a new heavyweight champion of the world win the title.’ There was some- thing very determined and sincere about Mr. Braddock when we interviewed him, the day the match was signed, that im- pressed me. And by the way, I was the first to present him on the radio as the “World’s champion’ a week later. He was the guest of honor at a sports dinner at a New York hotel, and arrangements were made for us to talk back and forth from studio and hotel over the radio. We both wore headphones to hear what the other said, and it worked out very well. Talk about tricky champions. I’ve in- terviewed at different times, Mr. Charles | Jacobson, the champ puzzle solver of the | country ; Mr. Frank Marshall, who can outsit and outplay any one else at a chess board; Mr. Edward Cashin, a good | last name for a fellow who won the na- tional cross-word puzzle championships to “cash in” on $10,000; Mr. Willie Hoppe, of the billiard tables who certainly knows his p’s and cues; Miss Clara Mohler, the little girl who won the title of the best grade-school speller in the land; and a group of pinochle champions from differ- ent parts of the country who came to New York for the final round. And I never met a more rabid group of people in my life. They put bridge fans to shame! Mr. Dizzy Dean—the wonder pitcher himself-—-was another one of our guests. Mr. Dean is a very cordial person, and, take it from me, besides having a lot on the ball, as they say, he’s got a lot in his head. At the time he was peeved with a certain radio comedian, who, by the way, tried to carbon copy our champion fea- ture some months after we had inaugu- rated it. This comedian interviewed Mr. Dean on the radio and, according to the ball-player, took his “gag” lines, in- structed the studio audience to applaud only his (the comedian’s) remarks, and then heckled him extemporaneously dur- ing the actual broadcast. “As though this wasn’t bad enough,’ Mr. Dean told me, “that guy had the nerve to ask me for two passes to the ball game the next day !” Did you ever hear of a “stowaway Champion?” Weil, I did—and two of them, too. I read in the newspapers that a Mr. Sepple Popfinger, the “champion of stowaways” had stowed away in autos, ships, trains and even airplanes, to thirty- five different countries. After a lot of detective work we finally were able to communicate with him and arrange for his appearance on the air. Naturally, RADIO STARS since he had done all this, I introduced him, without fear of contradiction, as the “champion of all stowaways.” Well, the next day I received a letter from another man, who called himself George Tyler, and claimed that Mr. Popfinger hadn’t popped up in as many places as he had. The other, he said, was just a rank ama- teur compared to him—he, who _ had stowed away to forty-four different countries on every one of the seven con- tinents. Mr. Tyler wasn’t his real name, as, since he had settled down, he didn’t want to lose the respect of his Man- hattan neighbors. So we gave him his say on the radio the following week. You can understand my predicament, I hope. After all, there just aren’t any annual stowaway championships or anything like that, staged in the manner of boxing, or wrestling—so I let the listeners decide who was the real titleholder. Danno O’Mahoney, the champion shoulder-downer of the wrestling world, replied to our questions with a nice, thick brogue that one could almost cut with a knife. It was the wearing of the green that evening, all right. And speaking of greens, another guest of ours was Mr. Horton Smith, one of the best golfers that ever sunk a putt on a green patch. Women swimmers—the speediest in the world—Leonore Knight, Eleanor Holm and others, also were subjects of our interviews. And these bright-eyed mer- maids were good radio material, too, and cur air talks went along swimmingly. Society was well-represented among our champions. Mr. Richard C. Dupont, a quiet, handsome young man, scion of the famous Dupont family, came from Wil- mington, Delaware, to make his first radio appearance on our program. He is the national gliding champion, and he told us some very revealing facts about this dangerous and little-known sport. Mr. Francis H. Low, Yale graduate, caught the biggest fish ever hooked with a reg- ular line—I think it weighed more than a thousand pounds—and since that was the champion catch of all time, it made him a champion fisherman for us. Mr. Jay O’Brien, the noted society sportsman, an- swered our questions about bob-sledding— he’s the Olympic titleholder—and when we finished, I decided that here was one sport I was going to stay away from at a respectful distance. It’s too breath- taking for me—and I need my breath for my singing. There have been many others on the microphone parade of champions—I wish I had time and space to name them all— and it’s been good fun. I enjoy meeting them, and they seem to like the idea of our radio chats. And a funny thing, too, but I certainly have learned a lot from them. After all, when a person can do one single thing better than anyone else, their prowess in their line is certainly worth “airing.” They say that when a man can build a better mouse-trap than his fellow-men, the world will beat a path to his door. Well, folks, you don’t have to go to all that trouble—because I bring my champions right through your deor into your homes—and when I find that champion mouse-trap maker—well, I'll be the one who'll do the catching— and you'll hear from him, too. The End BID THAT COLD BE GONE! Oust it Promptly with This Fourfold Treatment! Ba of a cold — even a slight cold — ) and any cold! A cold can quickly take a serious turn. What you want to do is treat it promptly and thoroughly. Don’t be satisfied with mere palli- atives. A cold, being an internal infection, calls for internal treatment. That’s common sense. A cold, moreover, calls for a cold treatment and not for a cure-all. Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine is what you want foracold. First ofall, it is expressly a cold tablet and nota preparation good for halfa doz- en other things as well. Secondly, it is internal medication and does four important things. Fourfold Effect First, it opens the bowels. Second, it checks the infection in the system. Third, it relieves the headache and fever. Fourth, it tones the system and helps fortify against further attack. All drug stores sell Grove’s Bromo Quinine—and the few pennies’ cost , may save youa lot in } worry, suspense and expense. Ask firmly for Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine and accept no substitute. A Cold is an Internal Infection and Requires Internal Treatment GROVE’S LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE 75

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COMPLETE NOVELS IN EVERY ISSUE ADVENTURE You people who like wings can have the adventures of an around-the-world flight by fol- lowing Caution Jones, hero of The Sky Crasher, L. Ron Hub- bard's new air thriller. SPORT Get set for the hockey season and William Bruner’s Double Cross-Check—hockey with speed, zest, drama, and the authentic flavor of battle on the ice. WESTERN Tom Curry takes us West with Gun Rule, the stirring story of Vince Hill, who risks his neck plans ferreting out outlaws’ and then. sets about beating the range pirates at their own game. MYSTERY While the police are trying to track him down as Public En- emy No. 1, Raymond London tries to solve the mystery of Who Killed Gilbert You'll thrill to this novel by E. Hoffman Price and Foster? mystery Ralph Milne Farley. ROMANCE In Vikings Go Alone, Walter Marquiss’ absorbing romance, Steve Ricker, an outcast, puts up a lone, valiant battle for a Lake Placid’s social and winter sport place in the sun of activities. January Now on Sale Everywhere Five Novels : RADIO STARS Rut what does it Mean to the Amateurs? (Continued on page 48) to theatrical and movie careers. Just how lucky these boys are to find themselves set in careers they love, at an age when most young people have to look about them and question helplessly, “What shall I do?” “Where can I find a job?” “What chance has a young person in this topsy- turvy world?” is something they perhaps are too young to understand. For them indeed, opportunity has been golden and their careers have been established by the amateur hour. Then there is the story of their father. Much has been written and said on the subject of mother-love. Just why father has always taken a back seat when laurels were handed out is one of those inexplic- able mysteries that seem to abound in this mad whirl called life. Surely thousands of fathers, who have slaved and _ sacri- ficed to give their best to their families, must have thrilled to the joy of Mr. Youman, a simple tool and die maker. The love of music had burned as brightly in his heart as in those of his three sons. But when one has to earn enough to & i . : ad ke po Oh 3 ers is the firs keep a wife and five kiddies one doesn’t often have the leisure or inclination to indulge expensive hobbies. So Mr. You- man, like so many other unselfish parents, concentrated his frustrated hopes in his sons, delighting in their obvious musical talent. Not long ago he quit his job, scraped together every available penny and decided to drive them east to give them their chance. And now he can sit back, contented in the knowledge that his sacri- fices were not in vain and know through his sons the success and happiness which he passed up for their sakes. The third story belongs to a person who remains unnamed by request—a per- son who passed casually into the lives of the Youman family but left an indelible impression. He met them at a tourist camp in Pennsylvania. The brave little quartette, father and sons, were stranded on their way east with but forty-five cents between them to get them the rest of the way to New York. The stranger heard them play in their little tourist cabin, struck up an acquaintanceship and had so ge ~ + picture to be snapped of Joan Crawford broadcasting. It was made while Joan was rehearsing for her radio début in the lead- ing rdle of ‘Within the Law," for the Lux Radio Theatre anniversary.

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much faith in the boys that he lent them enough money to take them to New York. The “good Samaritan” received ‘his loan back as soon as Major Bowes heard from the lips of the young brothers this strange tale of unexpected kindness. For interest he can cherish the knowledge that he set the feet of three people on the path to fame. And as a fitting climax to this fairy- tale of happiness, a reunion between Mr. Youman and a sister, lost for twenty-seven years and believed dead, was effected, when she heard the broadcast. She and her children have been rescued from the relief rolls and are assured of security. Then take the case of Mrs. Ida Levine. Comely, for all of her forty-five years, she appeared for an audition, dis- traught and on the verge of a nervous ‘collapse. Her voice cracked pitifully, as she started to sing for the audition and she broke down wracked by hysterical tears. After regaining composure, she poured out her tale of a blasted marriage, how she had left her husband after almost twenty-five years of alternate bliss and sorrow and fled from Miami to a mar- ried daughter in New York. Home in Miami, she had conducted a beach-wear ‘shop. Her husband had been unemployed for some time. His enforced idleness had frayed the nerves of both of them, result- jing in futile, bitter quarrels. On the night of her silver wedding an- niversary, she appeared on Major Bowes’ amateur hour, singing, “The Things You \Used To Do,” extemporizing the lyrics ‘to convey her message of repentance to ‘her husband, should he be listening in. ‘He was. So what mattered her failure to score in a winning place! As this is being ‘written, after several weeks of corres- )pondence, Mrs. Levine left for Miami to ‘rejoin her husband. “I'll never be able to repay the Major for the happiness I found again through his amateur hour!” Her eyes shone with new hope. Although one would hardly suspect a radio program of being a Court of Do- mestic Relations, the marital difficulties of the Brennas were ironed out by Major Bowes, too. Married six years, their ro- mance was beginning to wear a bit thin. Frank Brenna lathered faces in a barber shop all day, but in the evening he in- sisted on playing the role of Petruchio to ‘his wife’s Katherine. Inasmuch as Mrs. Brenna did not fancy herself as a shrew, nor did she think she needed taming, their domestic life teetered on a precipitous cliff of destruction. Frank Brenna appeared on one of the programs and his fine, operatic voice easily 'won him enthusiastic acclaim. But his victory did little towards contributing peace to the Brenna domicile. As Mrs. Brenna confessed in a letter: “There was no living with the man.” In desperation, his wife. petitioned for an audition. On the following Sunday night, she, too, emerged a winner in the voting, so on the third Sunday, the Major recalled them both as a singing team. Their duet was even a greater success than either of their solos. And so, after signing a con- tract with one of the vaudeville units, they bought a car and drove to California on a second honeymoon. They have just returned and are preparing to leave with Unit 6, in which they will work as a team. | RADIO STARS Needless to say, peace and harmony have been fully restored. Paul Reagan won enthusiastic acclaim on one of the amateur programs with his uncanny impersonations of notable people. Who can measure the happiness which he brought to his parents when he treated them to a trip to New York with his first salary earned in one of the units? Perhaps only people who have struggled for twenty-eight years and faced all kinds of privation to give their best to a flock of seven children could tell you that. All their lives, Mr. and Mrs. Reagan had lived in Medford, Massachusetts, without ever finding the leisure or the extra money for a holiday. A long time ago, when they were first married, Mr. Reagan promised his wife a real honeymoon trip to New York. But instead of the trip, at the end of their first year of marriage, a new baby arrived. Thereafter more ba- bies came. In the years that followed, there was always so much needed and so little to go around that wistfully they saw the honeymoon they’d never achieved fade into oblivion. In the end, they stopped thinking about it. But their son, Paul, didn’t, and when he met with success on the amateur program, he asked Major Bowes for an advance on his first salary to treat mom and pop to their long- deferred honeymoon. Undoubtedly that precious week-end when they were the guests of Major Bowes in New York was the high spot of their lives—unless it was the week that their boy played Boston with his vaudeville unit. Mary Perry, an eighteen-year-old col- ored girl from Miami, may never achieve any great measure of theatrical success, but whether she does or does not, Mary has achieved the big ambition of her life through the grace of the amateur hour. She stepped before the microphone, flash- ing a 14-karat laugh and a gold front tooth. Her good humor was so infectious that Major Bowes twitted her about both the smile and the gold tooth. She con- fessed she was very proud of it, but the ultimate in gold teeth would be the pos- session of one set with a diamond, like that owned by a friend of hers, whose blazing bicuspid she long had _ envied. A Mr. Cross of Portland, Maine, who said he’d turned up his boy-scout badge for the day, donated the diamond in the worthy cause of keeping little Mary Perry eternally laughing. The Major himself contributed the gold cap and the dental service and today, Mary Perry’s diamond tooth is flashing merrily behind footlights of western theatres. Who knows, perhaps one day it may flash across the footlights of Broadway? Even Ethel Waters hasn’t a diamond tooth. - And then there is the poignant drama which was played behind the curtain of a Sunday night broadcast. Back of the application of Israel Margolies, operatic tenor, who wanted to sing an operatic aria, lay a passionate struggle between father and a son, the old against the new, the church against the theatre. Israel was the son of a famous rabbi. Although he, too, was a student of the rabbinate, his real and fervid ambition was to be an opera singer. His father, fatally ill, looked with longing eyes upon his son, hoping he would carry on the family rabbinical tradition. When Israel sent in his ap- > FAOEN No. 44—Warm, vi- brant, floral and afluring. "aa F AGEN No. 3 = Oriental, exotic, clinging. ye PARK & ¥/ TILFORD. nol i2 @ FAOEN No, 12— Delicate, { refreshing, fragrant. FAOEN No. 19> Fresh, elusive, intnguing. 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ERIN | IN =r a MEMORABLE VISIT TO NEW YORK MPs Enjoy living at the Savoy- SP, Plaza with its spacious ... tastefully furnished rooms... outstanding service ... delicious cuisine... and exciting entertainment facilities. With Central Park at its door and the fine shops, theatres and subway near-by, this hotel is con- venient to all parts of the city. The Savoy-Plaza awaits your arrival to tender you with all those attendant harmonies of fine living that have made this hotel the favorite of New Yorkers ... Single rooms $5, $6, $7... Double $7, $8, $9... Suites from $10 Savoy Room e Dancing and Entertainment e MEDRANO and DONNA World's Greatest Exponents of Spanish Dancing e DICK GASPARRE and his Orchestra (fe Led AND SNACK BAR The Inimitable DWIGHT FISKE in his Stories at the Piano e BASIL FOMEEN and his Internationals SAVOY- PLAZA Henry A. Ro George Suter, Resident Manager FIFTH AVE e 58th TO 59th STS e NEW YORK TIAA HNN 78 st, Managing Director RADIO STARS Jimmy ' ‘Schnozia plication to Major Bowes, Rabbi Mar- golies pleaded with Israel, urging him to sing one of the traditional Hebrew chants. But Israel, with the obstinacy of youth, had insisted on his operatic aria. At the last moment, before the phone, Major Bowes, ignorant of the sick man’s wish, but with a typical sense of the fitness of things, and sensitive sym- pathy, prevailed upon the boy to sing the micro- beautiful Hebrew traditional chant, “Adu Dala:” At home, tears streamed down the seamed, ravaged face of the dying rabbi as he heard his son’s voice intone the holy cadences. The emotion and excitement proved too much for him and he was put back to bed. A few days later he died, but not before an unprecedented avalanche of votes had attested to the triumph of his son. The question of what happens to those who “get the gong” is raised frequently and many speculate about the effect on the unfortunate losers. The story of Rosalind Penkinson is an excellent example. This young woman, who termed herself “The Blacksmith’s Daughter,” immediately won the sympathy of the audience with her story of her mother, who, widowed quite young, carried on her husband's black- Durante, as Claudius B. (''B" for ''Brainy'') Bowers, the high-pressure press agent for the Jumbo-Fire Chief show, produced as a stage spectacle at the New York Hippodrome, and serialized on the radio. smith business with the help of her chil- dren. Rosalind’s job was driving horses to and from their destination. However, when she started to sing, she was rewarded only with the gong. Im- mediately protests began to pour in—in fact over three thousand of them—and the Major resolved to recall her the follow- ing week and give her another chance. At broadcast he questioned her, asking her whether she thought she had She replied: “Yes, but my mother Miss Penkinson sang her song again, this time all the way through and no better. Nearly all of the people who had protested wrote in agree- ing that the Major was justified in giving her the gong in the first place. Several weeks later Rosalind’s mother wrote in her sequel to the story. A letter to Major Bows thanked him profusely for having set her daughter’s feet on the right path. Rosalind had, as her mother phrased it, “come down to earth.” Her experiences on the amateur hour had dis- mind of the idea that there was theatrical fame in store for her, and now she was content once more, willing to take what life offered and shape from it her own happiness. Tue ENb, the second sung well. didn’t think so!” abused her

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‘fourth sister, Grace. Normandie was coming to New York harbor for the first time and we were re- porting her progress. We lost sight of her for a second and I took a notion to crawl along a narrow ledge to a better vantage point. Half way along something fwent wrong with my equilibrium. I called to Jeff to grab my legs. ‘Right with you,’ ‘says Jeff, and then: ‘If you fall, remember, hold on to the mike and tell us what it feels like!’ ” Vivienne Segal—‘‘They’ve given the ‘barefoot boy a lot of publicity, but here’s fone about a barefoot girl you may not jhave heard. Singing on a program one night I couldn’t seem to get to feeling at home . . . I slipped off my shoes and in two shakes of a lamb’s tail everything was fine and dandy.” Mark Warnow—“All set to start a number when the announcer makes a slip and calls the wrong tune .. . ‘Stardust,’ I think it was. For a second my baton poised motionless in the air. I looked |meaningly at the gang. Then, as the baton jcame down, every man in the band swung ‘into ‘Stardust, playing from memory. I ‘blew kisses with my free hand.” Jane Pickens—‘“This happened in the ‘days when we were singing -with our Grace fell ill; so RADIO STARS Nothing but the Truth (Continued from page 52) Helen and I, knowing she’d be unable to perform, yanked Patti out of school and taught her the routine practically over- night. At the broadcast, Helen and I were extremely nervous. We _ stood on each side of Patti to support her in case she faltered. As it happened, Patti was the coolest member of the trio, and held her two sisters up. She sang so well she’s been in the trio ever since, while Grace has become our manager.” Portland Hoffa—‘Life may be full of ups and downs for the average elevator man. My brief life as an operator came to a sudden standstill right between two floors. It happened that I was on my way to a broadcast, with only a few seconds to go. So, without waiting for first aid, I squeezed out on to the upper floor, and went about my business. breathing the sweet air of liberty.” James Melton—‘I suppose you know that I always carry a twenty and a five dollar gold piece in my pocket .. . for luck. Well, that day I was in a hurry to get down to the broadcast. I forgot my gold. Don’t get the idea I didn’t pay for that little omission. Two taxi wrecks! Stepped right out of one into the next. Made the broadcast, though.” (Continued on page 84) Here she is—ithe one and only ZaSu Pitts—ZaSu of the tired voice and the self-conscious hands—who appeared on the Lux Radio Theatre program in the title réle of the famous S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly stage play, ‘Dulcy." Even without television, ZaSu is almost as delightful on the air as in movies. . “Yes,Madam- NOT ONLY THAT, THEY GIVE ADDED PROTECTION, AND ™. ARE SO CONVENIENT ‘h AND DEPENDABLE.” PAR--0-GEN (Pronounced PAR-I-O-JEN ) °TABLETS- Sound reasoning and common- sense recommend the form, the con- venience, and the dependability of PAR-I-O-GEN Tablets, features which are often so difficult ade- quately to describe. They are neatly packaged in tubes almost as small as the dainti- est fountain pen, each tube contain- ing twelve tablets, and may be con- veniently carried in one’s purse or hand-bag, for use while traveling or at home. A tablet dissolves in a few mo- ments and the solution thus formed has been found by thousands to be entirely adequate and dependable without the use of water or other accessories. PAR-I-O-GEN Tablets caustic, stainless, greaseless. are non- They provide an effective deodorant al- though practically odorless. It is a long-acknowledged fact that they offer the practical, comonsense answer to the problem of FEMININE HYGIENE, The Price of the Regular Size Tube of 12 Tablets Is $1.00 FREE OFFER: If you can find a Drug- PAR-I-O-GEN Tablets when you ask for them, send us gist who does not have his name and address and we'll send you a trial package FREE. Simply address: AMERICAN DRUG & CHEMICAL CO. Dept. 912, 420 S. Sixth Street Minneapolis, Minn.

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WHAT GOOD COFFEE HAS TO OO WITH Oh, so you think good coffee and romance have. no connection. You just try being “the one and only’ and serve your friends or him coffee that is weak, carelessly made. Follow the simple instructions supplied with every Drip-O-lator and you will be sure of perfect coffee every time. Like most good things, it’s imitated. Remember the name and LOOK for the name DRIP-O-LATOR stamped in the bottom for your protection. THE ENTERPRISE ALUMINUM CO., MASSILLON, O. NEW <a IKEED WIRES SY 74 OFF FLOOR A.neat job instantly. No dam- age to woodwork. No tools needed. Set of eight colored clips to match vour cords, 10c. PUSH -CLI At Kresge’s YUSTRITE Now a New Christmas Shopping Convenience DEUBENER'S Basketlyke Carrier and the old RELIABLE No. 1 LEATHERLYKE Shopping Bag 5c Make Christmas Shopping easy at your favorite store. These good-looking, strong, handy Deubener Bags are great for shopping—serve you for knitting and many other uses every day, ALL the year. MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR DEUBENERS SHOPPING BAGS GARFIELD PARK, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 80 RADIO STARS The Unconventional Mz. Howard (Continued from page 27) he would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a broker. But after the horrors of war, the make- believe of the stage seemed much more in- viting to the boy than the cold facts and figures of his father’s brokerage firm. So he changed his name from Stainer to Howard, and offered himself to the foot- lights. Without any experience and, according to most producers at that time, without any talent, his early years in the theatre were bitterly difficult. There was a baby son at home now, Ronald, and many things were needed in the little household. But his wife, Ruth, wouldn’t allow him to give up his stage ambitions and turn to other work, He finally got his first real “break” in “Peg O’ My Heart,” on the London stage. And his rise to success from then on is theatrical history. Some say he is the only person who ever stole a show from the late Jeanne Eagles, and that Howard outshone the famous actress when he played opposite her in “Her Cardboard Lover.” In Hollywood he amazed the movie colony by turning down a good role op- posite Greta Garbo. His reason for re- fusing to play with her was that the role was designed, not for him, but for Garbo. “Besides,” he added, “though Miss Garbo is the most fascinating of actresses, a trail of ruin has been left behind in the ranks of her supporting casts.” The very fact that he has been married to the same woman for twenty years would make him a strangely unconventional figure in Hollywood. But no screen star in moviedom ever had a more romantic or exciting wedding, nor a happier, more ideal marriage. He met Ruth Martin during the war. Three weeks after their meeting, he got one day’s leave, rushed her down to a little church and married her. He remembered to get a ring and a parson, but he forgot about witnesses. He asked two scrubwo- men who were cleaning the church to serve as witnesses. A few hours after the cere- mony he left for France and the front. When Howard isn’t busy with stage, screen or radio work in America, he, his wife and their two children return to their country place, Stowe Maries, in Surrey, England. The lovely old house was built more than four hundred years ago, and the land lies in the lea of a spur of the North Downs. Charles Laughton is their only close neighbor. And among the theater’s famous who come frequently to visit at Stowe Maries are Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Lunt and Howard reminisce on the lean years, long ago, before either of them was famous, when they first met in New York. And Lunt loves to tease Howard about the time they started to art school together and Leslie was so em- barrassed at the sight of a nude model, he couldn’t draw. Bob Burns, a leading comic of the air, with his musical bazooka—two pieces of iron pipe and a whiskey funnel.

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eee | chatting, and had a pleasant time. ‘ RADIO STARS Frank Black, General Music Director of the National Broadcasting Com- pany, is featured each Sunday afternoon as conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra on the "Magic Key" hour. Frank started piano lessons at the age of six and made his début in recital when only ten. At home, Howard is the artist, his wife the manager. Only once did Mrs. Howard leave the practical details of a situation to her husband. She regretted it. It was two years ago when they were sailing on the Berengaria for England. Howard agreed to go to the bank, draw out the money needed for the voyage, and meet her on the boat. He boarded the ship at the last moment. Mrs. Howard sighed her relief, and said: “Where is the money, Leslie?” “Good Lord!” he gasped, “I forgot it! I went to the bank, spent half an hour But I never did ask for the money!” They had to borrow from the purser to make the | trip. Next to his work and his family, his | greatest. interest in life is horses. Espe- “The whole family is says, ‘breeding them, cially polo ponies. horse-mad,” he | training, riding—the house is always full of talk about horses. When we returned to England this last time, we took five polo | ponies back with us.” His interest in radio became active after he broadcast “Berkeley Square,” last win- ter on the Lux Radio Theater hour. “There was more zest attached to the broadcasting of ‘Berkeley Square’ than there was in filming it,” he said. “I suppose that was because of the continuity of the script.” Like many stage stars, he never has be- come used to the lack of continuity in movie making, the filming of a last scene first. The aew technique which he has intro- duced in radio drama—that of the soliloquy —in his weekly series for Hinds Honey and Almond Cream, is considered a most important contribution to dramatic art on the air. It eliminates the need of a narra- tor for setting the scene, time and condi- tions of episodes. Thus no outside medium breaks in on the action or atmosphere of the play. It is to radio drama what the sets are to a stage play, what the camera’s “eye” is to the movies. While continuing with his radio serial, “The Amateur Gentleman,” Mr. Howard is producing a new stage adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” on Broadway this winter. He will play the title role. “It is necessary,” he says, “for an actor to leave the movies and come back con- tinually to the stage. Pictures are good training because there is no _ need for exaggeration before the camera, and consequently they make for a subtlety and restraint. But in making movies, you have to depend on memories—memories of how an audience reacts. Consequently, you must return to the stage to refresh those mem- ories.” In spite of his own tremendous success in the theater, he discourages young people who want a stage career. Asked once to talk on “Advice to Those About to Go on the Stage,’ he wrote and read a three- page “speech.” Page one said simply: “Don’t!” Page two was: “Life is more im- portant than Art.” Page three: “Art is more wmportant than Broadway.” He probably didn’t mean the “Don’t.” But he was deadly serious about those last two statements. And in them lies the essence of his philosophy toward his work, and much of the magic of his success. Tue Enp T’S no secret out in Hollywocd that more than one famous star has lost her job because of constipation. Movie directors simply can’t stand for lack of pep, dull eyes, pimples, sick head- aches caused by constipation. That’s why you should follow Holly- wood’s example and not let a second day pass without coming to nature’s aid with a beauty laxative. Olive Tablets are popular in Los Angeles, and everywhere else, because they are de- pendable, mild and non-habit-forming. 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: army, the cleaning women. Kneeling where, so short a time ago, stood Lily Pons, or Lawrence Tibbett, or Gracie Allen, they mop and scrub, mop and scrub . .. as if to erase from the scene the last vestige of those vanished great ones. What do they think of the glamor, the magic, the charm that so recently has filled these deserted studio rooms with glory? Dropping back, to sit on her heels, push- ing aside a strand of drab hair, one answers: “Ves, I like to listen on the radio. I turn it on every day. I like to hear the pretty voice of Lily Pons, and the others, like Mr. Tibbett. But I can’t listen late at night—I have to come down here to- go to work. ... Yes, I like all the big singers, and Eddie Cantor, and Gracie Allen, too. They make me laugh. No, I’ve been working here five years, but I’ve never seen a radio star.... But my little boy is taking accordion lessons. Some day he’ll be a radio star. He says he will...” She picks up her mop again. .. . Mop and scrub. Mop and scrub. . . humming under her breath a little ditty CURIOSITY Into Fred Waring’s office come weekly hosts of letters offering things for sale— insurance policies, suits, books, auto- mobiles, stocks and bonds, motor boats, trailers to transport the Pennsylvanians, tickets to amateur entertainments, chances on a floor lamp, a quilt and a sedan, a half interest in an invention, a share in a treasure hunt expedition, and an automatic letter-opener. P. S. He bought the auto- matic letter opener. OVERHEARD Harriet Hilliard, singer, who recently married Ozzie Nelson, nationally known dance-band leader, was christened Peggy Lou Snyder. —= For his radio broadcasts Lawrence Tib- bett wears a Wiliiam Tell (pull the bow and hit the apple) tie. It’s easy to rip off, during a song, if his collar grows tight. Teddy Bergman acted as judge of the Home State Food Competition at RADIO STARS Conrad Thibault, of NBC’s Log Cabin program, loves to wear a battered felt hat. He is always planning to take syste- matic exercise, but compromises on pitch- ing quoits. Likes jigsaw puzzles. Enjoys both Grand Opera and Harlem rhythms. + ‘ Abe Lyman loves to dance. He will drop the baton at the slightest excuse, to trip the light fantasic. > To keep fit, Amos ’n’ Andy skip rope daily... . Irene Rich was a realty broker in San Francisco, before going to Holly- wood and movie stardom. ... Al Jolson lulls himself to sleep with a phonograph record of rain pattering on a tin roof... John Charles Thomas made his first pub- lic appearance as a member of a trio at Methodist camp-meetings. Mario Chamlee flies his own plane. . . . George Barere is known as the world’s greatest flutist... . Jack Benny, frustrated fiddler, won his reputation as one of the country’s foremost pigskin experts—as water boy for four years on the Waukegan, Illinois, High School team. . . . Michael Bartlett, of opera, movies and radio; was chris- tened Edwin Alonzo Bartlett. . . . 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Composition Mention your favorite instrument. | Vlce and Speech \ . . Culture Write NOW. Instruments supplied when needed, cash or credit. U. S. SCHOOL OF MUSIC 3951 Brunswick Bidg., New York City 84 Drums and Traps Automatic Finger Control RADIO STARS Nothing but the Truth? (Continued from page 79) Guy Lombardo—‘My most disturbing experience while on the air happened sev- eral years ago in Chicago. During one of my broadcasts from a night club a shot rang out and a man only a few feet away from me crumpled up—dead. I think I must have beat double time the rest of the evening.” What Is Your Favorite Radio Program? Ted Hammerstein—Ben Bernie Al Pearce—Fred Allen Conrad Thibault—Philharmonic certs Rudy Vallee—March of Time Patti Pickens—Ed Wynn Helen Pickens—Paul Whiteman James Melton—A and P Gypsies Jack Benny—Ed Wynn Eunice Howard—Burns and Allen Frances Langford—Lucky Strike Parade Frank McIntyre—Show Boat with Win- ninger (His Predecessor) Red Nichols—Fred Waring Don Novis—Bing Crosby Frank Parker—A and P Gypsies Ray Perkins—Ben Bernie Edward Reese—March of Time Willard Robison—Deep River (his own) Elliot Shaw—Amos ’n’ Andy Con- Hit Gladys Swarthout—Paul Whiteman Benay Venuta—Connie Boswell John Barclay—Boake Carter Teddy Bergman—Jack Benny Jack Arthur—Lanny Ross Rachel Carlay—Frances Langford Buck Rogers—Vic and Sadie Burns and Allen—Jack Benny Pick and Pat—Molasses and January Does a Studio Audience Help or Hinder Your Broadcast? Phil Baker—“We comedians can’t work without an audience.” Frank Black—“An audience makes me feel at home. I like having lots of people around me.” Rosario Bourdon—‘T’ve always thought of the people in my studio audiences as - my “test tubes”. Their reactions give me an excellent and an immediate cue to the reactions of listeners all over the country.” Nick Dawson and Elsie Hicks—‘We'd rather not have an audience at our broad- casts. No scenery, no costumes, and a technique that’s swell for the mike, but maybe not so good for the stage... we just wouldn’t be giving the poor folks a break.” Edgar every time. (Continued on Guest—‘‘Give me an audience I like to work to people.” page 88) Here fre The Scrambled Stars Contest Winners ELECTING the winners in the Scrambled Stars contest from the thousands of entries received proved quite a difficult task for the judges. Each entry was given careful in- spection. There were contestants from all the states, with the feminine readers somewhat outnumbering the mighty males. Following is a list of First Prize $250.00 William H. 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RADIO STARS Elsewhere in this issue you will read a delightful story of Wallace Beery, a revealing portrait of Wally as Master of Ceremonies for his new radio sche This picture shows Wally, who is an aviation enthusiast, with is new Bellanca monoplane. It is equipped with the latest devices known to aviation, including a directional radio compass, horizon indicator, mani- fold pressure, directional gyroscope, and what not! The ship will carry six passengers at a top speed of one hundred and eighty miles per hour. years to lure her into taking a screen test. With her beauty and great talent, she was a “natural” for the screen. “J didn’t pay much attention to the movie offers,’ she said, “because I didn’t think there was any use in it. It never eccurred to me that I could pass the screen test.’ That—coming from a woman who was named by three distinguished artists as the artists’ ideal in American beauty! In Hollywood they say she is one of the few actresses who isn’t the slightest bit temperamental. “Temperament makes it hard for a per- son to sing,” she says. “It is much better to be calm and quiet. Getting excited just makes it all the more difficult to reach the high notes. Besides, people have to do things with temperament when they don’t do it with the voice, to show they are artists.” She says that, at home, if she shows any tiny sign of temperament, her husband leads her to the family rowing machine and sentences her to a few minutes of hard labor. Her husband, Frank M. Chapman, is an opera singer himself, and he, too, believes that it is foolish and harmful for an artist to be temperamental. The Chap- mans will celebrate their third wedding anniversary in April. Ecstatically happy and: very much in love, they can’t under- stand why people are sometimes surprised because two artists can live happily and peaceably together. Having finished “Rose of the Rancho” for Paramount, Miss Swarthout starts now on “Give Us This Night,” in which she will be co-starred with the famous European singer, Jan Kiepura. “After that,” she says, “I’ll go back to the Metropolitan, for a while at least. I guess it is really sentiment that brings me back. The Metropolitan did the most for me in the way of a career, and singing there gives something to my heart and mind that nothing else can. While I’m in New York I hope to make some guest appearances on the air, but I won’t be able to resume regular radio work. I love Hollywood, and I certainly hope to con- tinue my motion picture career. But I guess every one who ever has stood on the stage at the Met and felt the thrill’ of facing the audience and seeing the con- ductor lift his baton for the cue, wants to go back.” Wonder if the Met will again dress the glamorous Gladys as a boy? Let us hope not! THE END COUGH STOPPED quicker by “Moist- Throat’ Method p= you know that when you catch cold the thousands of tiny moisture glands in your throat and wind- pipe dryjor clog? Thick phlegm irritates your throat, making youcough. It is necessary to stimulate those glands wal £4. ‘ to pour out their natural moisture. Pertus- sin does this. It “unclogs’” the glands— loosens phlegm— soothes your cough away. Over 1,000,000 doctors’ pre- scriptions for Pertussin were filled in one year, according to Prescription Ingredient Survey issued by American Pharmaceutical Assn. ° e e* ...**Pertussin stopped Jackie’s bad cough next day!’’ writes Mrs. = apes Provi- dence, R. I. Geta bottle. PERTUSSIN “MOIST-THROAT” METHOD OF COUGH RELIEF Holds tight. Mends most anything. ¢ New larger bottle. I, Patented end lock is a beveled disc. . . not a ball. Locks curler without stop- ping air-circulation. 2, Ends of curler never close. Ample air flow is assured. No other curler has these features. 3, Per- forations increase ventilation. This complete “air-conditioning” in- sures rapid drying. Curls set swift- ly. Hair dress takes less time. . . and curls are softer, lovelier, last aaies JANE HAMILTON * RKO Player ~CORLER 5 AT 5¢ AND 10¢ STORES AND NOTION COUNTERS 87

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RADIO STARS LAUGH EDDIE CANTOR: How do you like my pretty knees, Jimmy? WALLINGTON: Oh, I can see you're crazy about your legs. CANTOR: Well, I am sort of attached to them. (EDDIE CANTOR, Pebeco Program.) MRS. PENNYVMBATHER: “. .. In other words, he invented the bustle be- cause American women had nothing to fall back on. Why not drop into your neighborhood store and buy a bustle? For, dear ladics, bustles are coming to the front again.” (Cuckoo Clock Program, N. B. C.) -o- GIRL: (In rowboat): Take this oar. RAY KNIGHT: Or what?... (Ray Knight, Cuckoo Clock Program, Ni B.Gy) ws BILL WIRGES: How do you like this new check suit? I don’t think I made a mistake in buying it. ERNEST TRUEX: I don’t think you made a mistake in buying it either. WIRGES: Thanks. TRUEX: Your mistake is in WEAR- ING it! Se PATIENT: You want $55 to take my tonsils out? Why, a doctor yesterday offered to take them out for $35. DOGRAR: (BRNEST VERGE Aha! Cut throat competition! (Highlights and Harmonies, N. B. C.) -o 1ST MAN: Didja hear about my mother-in-law? She gave a sick guy a pint of her blood for a transfusion. 2ND MAN: How generous of her! And did the patient recover? 1ST MAN: Naw—he froze to death! (Design for Listening N. B. C.) 90 LAZY DAN: Mah overcoat’s done got insomnia, Boss. JIM: Insomnia? You must be wrong, Dan. Insomnia means you can’t sleep. LAZY DAN: Das right—mah coat ain’t had a nap in five years. oe JIM: Dan, is your wife happy? LAZY DAN: Mister Jim, she sure is. Mah wife can have a good time jes’ think- in’ what a good time she’d be havin’ if she was havin’ a good time! > LAZY DAN: Honey, Ise goin’ out to de golf course. DAN’S WIFE: You wastes so much time out there you ts drivin’ me out of my mund, LAZY DAN: Drivin’ you out of your mind? Honey—dat ain't no drive—dat’s jes’ a putt! (Lasy Dan, OLD ENGLISH Program.) O'KEEFE: You know, I dered why Russians wear beards. had a beard like yours, and when I re- alized it was hiding my face, I cut it off. often won- I once RUSSIAN: Yeah. I once had a face like yours. When I realized I couldn't cut it off I grew this beard! (WALTER O’KEEFE, Camel Cara- van.) -o VICTOR YOUNG: I went to a party the other night and they had incense burning. Incense is one thing I can’t stand, so I told the butler to get rid of that punk . .. and he threw me out! (VICTOR YOUNG, on Shell Chateau.) PORTLAND: What’s a faux pas? FRED ALLEN: Faux pas is a French expression—it means four fathers. Have you mastered another tongue besides your embryonic English? PORTLAND: I heard the druggist talking in Latin to papa and I learned a few words. ALLEN: What are they? PORTLAND: The druggist said that if Papa didn’t pay for his Ipana toothpaste he’d give him the Hobo Ejectus. That’s Latin for the Bum’s Rush. (FRED ALLEN, Town Hall Tonight.) -e- BOB BURNS: One day Paul Whiteman was standing out in the yard when it started to rain, and his wife told him to come in and let it rain on the lawn. That made him mad, so fhe went on a diet—and today Paul ain’t any bigger than a house. Its funny how we're all built different. I got an aunt down Arkansas who's so skinny she wouldn’t have any shape at all if she didn’t have an Adam’s apple. (BOB BURNS, on Kraft Music Hall.) - MAN: Well, my business is quarrying. I own a stone quarry. MARTY MAY: That's taking a lot for granite! -e- CAROL DEE: You don’t wnderstand paw. Wasn't you ever romantic? MARTY MAY: Yeah—about a year ago. It settled in my right leg—mighty painful ’twas. (MARTY MAY, Columbia Broadcasting System) Eas JACK: Hello, Mary—what are you do- ing now? MARY: I’m a tap dancer now. JACK: A tap dancer? And where are you employed? MARY: In a tap room. JACK: In a tap room—hmm. are you a good tap dancer? MARY: I’m the taps. JACK: Well, I suppose you know Fred Astaire. MARY: Of course—I know the whole flight. JACK: I don’t get it—the flight, Mary? MARY : Flight Astaires, dope. (JACK BENNY, Jello Program.) And Printed in the U. 8. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J. : * & ‘ . ~ XN a Ss 2

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