Radio Stars 1936-05 Vol. 8, No. 2

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ee domed tae. LUXURY... Lc jewels at her finger tips her sciniillating nails flash their mes- sage of exquisite grooming. With F-O on her dressing table she is equipped to change the tone of her nail polish at a second's desire, to complement her costume, or her whim, F-O makes possible those gor- geous new tones, soft or vivid, you have longed to wear. Six shades, and ycu will want every one of them, for the spicy variety and in- terest they iend your hands. And you mcy have either creme or transpcrent, Do ss wealthy women do — use F-O Polish Remover, Cuticle Remover and Folish—know the luxuriousness of a superb cnd effortless manicure. The professional look, yet applied by you alone. @F-O manicure prep- arations in liberal ten cent packages at all 10c stores. FORT ORANGE CHEMICAL CO., ALBANY, N. Y. (SE ee a a cc ee SS EE 4 ODS EES ee ee RADIO STARS a ar | ABRIL LAMARQUE, Art Editor ETHEL M. POMEROY, Associate Editor LESTER C. GRADY, Editor 26 STORIES, FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS — STORIES . BOAKE CARTER REVEALS HAUPTMANN FACTS ............... Jerry Maxwell 22 ENTER HELEN JEPSON 9 (The modern prima donna)............ Nancy Barrows 24 NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE IT (Bob Ripley’s secret) ..Ruth Biery 26 HONEYMOON BY HARLOW (it was Johnny Hamp’s)...Mary Watkins Reeves 30 A TOAST TO THE LADIES _Mildred Mastin 32 — LIFE IS HER SONG = (Countess Olga Albani). . Miriam Rogers 34 | A HOME RUN FOR RADIO (Ford Frick on baseball broadcasts).......om Meany 38 | BAZOOKA BOY MAKES GOOD (Bob Burns) Leo Townsend 407 FIGHTING IT OUT ON THE AIR (The Husbands and Wives broadcast) NO WONDER HE'S TOPS! (Fred Waring) CAN A MARRIAGE STAND TWO CAREERS? (Debated by Portland Hoffa and Mrs. Phil Baker)... BACK TOGETHER AGAIN (Ethel Shutta and George Olsen) PLEASE STAY OUT OF MY LIFE! (Says Carmela Ponselle) (From John Boles) Evelyn Edwards 42 | ‘Henry Albert Phillips 467 Helen Hover 48°91 i Ruth Geri 497) Anne Waring 50 SPECIAL FEATURES and DEPARTMENTS Radio Ramblings................005 6 Portrait of Gale Page............ Keep Young and Beautiful (Walking In the Radio Spotlight............ Any PRI sha «+ bss + SR Portrait of Phillips Lord.......... . Board of Review..... . ssesseras 10 Portrait of Marie De Ville........ 37 The Radio Hostess... .. Fhe eee 14 Station . Wate Gees ee Nothing But The Truth?........... 16 Portrait of Rosemary Lane........ 2 For Distinguished Service to Radio.. 19 Radio? Laughs. os0% .skaweh weno 100 Cover by EARL CHRISTY Radio Stars published monthly and copyrighted, 1936, by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Office of publication at Wi ington and South Avenues, Dunellen, N. J. Executive and editorial offices, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N Chicago advertising office, 360 North Michigan Ave. George Delacorte, Jr., Pres.; H. Meyer, Vice-Pres.; J. 3 Henry, Vice-Pres.; M. Delacorte, Sec’y. Vol. 8, No. 2, April, 1936, printed in U. S. A. — Single copy price cents, Subscription price in the United States and Canada $1.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter Augusl 1932, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the act of March 8, 1879. The publisher accepts no responsib) for the return of unsolicited material.

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~hok RADIO STARS THE MOTION PICTURE THAT IS EAGERLY AWAITED THE WORLD OVER Z q Romeo ad Juliet with JOHN BARRYMORE EDNA MAY.OLIVER + VIOLET KEMBLE-COOPER Poesia RAT HB ON Eh - CcQ@N WAY TEAR LE Reerenee DD =D ENN Yok AOL P H. FO RB ES C. AUBREY SMITH - HENRY KOLKER - ANDY DEVINE To the famed producer Irving Thalberg go the honors for bringing to the screen, with tenderness and reverence, William Shakespeare’s imperishable love story. The director is George Cukor. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE. ci

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RADIO STARS RADIO RAMBLING OPERA ASPIRANTS Of course you have been hearing the Sunday afternoon Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, broadcast over the NBC network. They were well worth tuning in on. Conducted by Edward Johnson, the new and creative head of the Metropolitan Opera House, they won deserved ac- claim from the musical world and radio listeners, and will bring to the opera’s roster a new star. From every state in the Union and from England, Canada, Bermuda and Italy, came eager and ambitious young singers, hoping to win a place on these auditions. Hundreds applied, but only a few, of course, could win the coveted hearing. And of those heard, four or five achieve the award of a Metropolitan contract. As they sang, Mr. Johnson listened to each note and watched each gesture—for aside from the singer’s voice, the question of appearance and operatic presentation was important. Another watcher, unseen by the auditioners, was Mary Garden, opera’s most famous diva. As head talent scout for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she was looking for picture possibilities among those talented opera aspirants. One of the first to sing on these auditions of the air, Willie Morris, soprano, already has received an interesting contract on the strength of her performance on this pro- gram. Miss Morris has been signed as a permanent fea- ture singer on the Fireside Recitals program. MORE ANENT PROGRAM MAKERS “Tf you don't get what you want, just ask for it and I'll do my best to please you.” That is Paul Whiteman’s invitation to the listeners of his Sunday night Musical Varieties broadcasts. Proving again, as we have pointed out before, that it is we, ourselves, who are the program makers. So if we are dissatisfied with any of the radio programs we tune in, it’s up to us make them better. Charles Previn, conductor of the Life Is a Song orches- tra, does not agree with people who say that programs ought to be improved but that the radio audience will not accept better things. Musical taste in America (Continued on page 71) Bob Nolan, star of radio's musical show, We Bring You Loveliness, with the charming De Vore sisters. Comment concerning pop-_ ular broadcasts and stars > “4 ‘ Gulliver, the Traveler, of two hundred years ago, is reincar- nated in our Ed Wynn, on Thurs- day evenings.

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Below, lovely Grace Moore, with handsome Franchot Tone, in the new Columbia Pictures’ Musical, entitled: The King Steps Out. Center picture (left to right) Rad Robinson, Ken Darby, Bud Lynn and (with the moustache) John Dodson —The King's Men. And at the bottom of the page, (left to right) announcer Ted Husing, Walter O'Keefe, Deane Janis, of the Camel program. RADIO STARS THIS 1S THE WOMAN WHO SA/D: Weal the difference, all laxatives are alibe!” HE LADY above made a mistake. A grave "Tae ..- yet lots of people make it. She said, “What’s the difference—all laxatives are alike.” And that’s where she was wrong! One day she was constipated, and took a laxative. Picked it at random. It happened to be a harsh, quick-acting cathartic that raced through her system in a couple of hours. It upset her. Nauseated her. Sent pains shooting through her stomach. Left her weak —weary. . . - Such drastic remedies should never be taken, except on the advice of a physician. DON’T SHOCK YOUR SYSTEM When you need a corrective...and who doesn’t every now and then? .. . don’t make the mis- take of assuming that all laxatives are alike. They’re not! You'll feel a whole lot better when you take a correctly timed laxative. One that won’t rush through your system too quickly. And yet, one that is completely thorough. Ex-Lax is just such a laxative. It takes suf- ficient time—6 to 8 hours—to work. Hence, your system is not thrown “out of rhythm.” You aren’t upset, disturbed, nauseated. You don’t suffer from stomach pains. Ex-Lax action is so mild, so easy, you scarcely realize you’ve taken a laxative—except for the complete relief you enjoy. Another thing . , . Ex-Lax will never embar- rass you with ill-timed after-effects. A PLEASURE TO TAKE With Ex-Lax you say farewell to bitter, nasty- tasting purgatives and cathartics. Because Ex-Lax tastes just like delicious chocolate. It’s a real pleasure to take, not a punishment. Get a box today—only 10c at any drug store. You'll also find a still more economical family size for 25c. When Nature forgets = remember EX-LAX THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE Taeay TRY EX-LAX AT OUR EXPENSE et (Paste this on a penny postcard) Ex-Lax, Inc., P. O. Box 170 MM-56 | Times-Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. I | I want to try Ex-Lax. Please send free sample. I I I : : - | (If you Bs e is, Canad, write Ex-Lax, Ltd., | 736 Notre Dame St. W., Montreal) ee Oe ee = Tune in on “Strange as it Seems,” Ex-Lax Radio Program. See local newspaper for station and time 7

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lr Perspiration KiE2 (ie me OP me / a WA — you’d JUMP to pro- tect yourself from its ravages! Yet the insidious corroding acid of perspiration can destroy the under-arm fabric of your dresses as surely, as completely, as the scarifying claws of a tiger’s paw! Answers to thousands of question- naires revealed the astounding fact that during the past year perspiration spoiled garments for 1 woman in 3! What appall- ing wasteful extravagance, when a pair of Kleinert’s Dress Shields would have saved any one of them at trifling cost. And this surest form of perspiration protection is now the easiest also! Kleinert’s Bra-form is a dainty uplift bra equipped with shields—always ready, without any sewing, to wear with any dress at any moment. A supply of two or three solves the perspiration problem for the busiest woman and they’re as easily swished through the nightly soapsuds as your stockings and lingerie! Just ask for “‘Kleinert’s” at your favor- ite notion counter —shields, 25¢ and up; Bra-forms, $1.00 and up. ‘Kleinerts T. M. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. DRESS = — Ss H I E L DS Yuu aanleed GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is AS ADVERTISED THEREIN RADIO STARS BY MARY BIDDLE Irene Rich meets a windy chal- lenge of an April day. APRIL SHOWERS may bring May Flowers, but if they bring us Irene Rich walking in the rain, bubbling over with enthusiasm and laughter, they have done their good deed for the month so far as we are concerned. When Irene Rich walks in the rain, “it isn’t raining rain” to her—it’s raining health and peace and beauty, and a goodly . share of imaginary violets as well. The idea for this story on “Walking in the Rain” came as the direct result of a very rainy ) day in New York, and an inter- view with Miss Rich. The weather was as drearily wet as only weather in the gray caverns of New York can be, and I arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria feeling as forlorn as a wet cat. p In spite of Irving Berlin’s song, it wasn’t a lovely day to get am caught in the rain. Miss Rich’s . cheery reception, and the warm i charm of her apartment soon ) shut the wet grayness of New York outside. My hostess had 9 but a few minutes before come i in from a walk in the rain and she was glowing with exuber- ance. She had taken off her rain togs and slipped into wine red lounging pyjamas, a color that made her sparkle like the vintage itself. We had a cozy chat to a cin- namon toast and hot tea accom- paniment, the perfect appetizers to conversation on a rainy day.¥ “Tt may sound a little strange,” Jj said Miss Rich, nibbling at her toast thoughtfully, “but Td@

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RAIN ‘That's the way to Keep Young and Beautiful,” says Irene Rich rather walk in the rain than in the sunshine. Sunshine has a sort of lazy quality to it; rain is more of a challenge.” She went on to explain that to her rain is symbolic of fer- tility and fruitfulness it brings refreshment while the sun_ brings drought. “But I will admit,” she added with her infectious laugh, “‘it’s important to keep your sunny side up when it rains.” Miss Rich loves to put on her old- est raincoat and hat and galoshes, and then go striding through the rain, until the blocks patter into miles. Shop windows appear all the more entrancing to her when seen through the mist of rain. And just to walk on and on, breathing deeply of all the damp, earthy smell of spring is joy enough in itself. A brisk walk in the rain whips up the circulation into a rosy glow. It is important, however, to meet the rain on friendly terms. Don’t hunch up your shoul- ders against it, as though you ex- pected it to smite you down when you turned the next corner. “It’s a challenge,” says the courageous Irene. “Meet it with your head up and your arms open.” It is Miss Rich’s experience that walking does more to iron out her mental kinks than any other exercise or recreation. It gives her mental and physical refreshment. She makes it a point, moreover, to practice deep breathing exercises as she walks, in- haling and exhaling in rhythm with her steps. She doesn’t feel that she is just breathing in air. She is breath- ing in health and grand spirits as well. Deep breathing gives impetus to circulation, as does walking. It warms the body with a deep glow as one’s capacity for it is increased. And even more important, it relieves nerve tension and encourages relaxation. It can and does cure “a case of erves.”’ People whose professions depend on (Continued on page 64) RADIO STARS Jus ity fhincole. EHIND the scenes in broadcasting studios, off the set in Hollywood... everywhere girls get together they are talking about Marvelous... the Matched Makeup! For here at last is makeup that matches . . . face powder, rouge, lipstick, eye shadow and mascara in true color symphony. And it’s makeup that matches you ... scientifically keyed to your per- sonality color, the color that never changes, the color of your eyes! Eight out of ten girls who try Marvel- ous Makeup are lovelier, immediately more glamorous. It’s gorgeous to wear Cricks with RAP 10 STARS For gray-eyed Marie DeVille (above), Marvelous Matched Makeup Patrician type. For brown-eyed Lois Ravel, Marvelous Parisian type makeup is right. ... easy to buy. At your drug or depart- ment store now ... guaranteed for purity by the world-famous house of Richard Hudnut. Full-size packages . . . 55 cents each. Ask for Marvelous Dresden type face powder, rouge, lipstick, eye shadow and mascara if your eyes are blue; Parisian if your eyes are brown; Patrician if they are gray; Continental if they are hazel. Take a tip from the movies, from the radio stars, from lovely girls everywhere. Discover Marvelous the new Eye-Matched Makeup, look your prettiest and thrill the man you like best... . tonight! COPR. 1936, RICHARD HUDNUT MARVELOUS 7: /ici./ MAKEUP 4 RICHARD HUDNUT Te Pan ee x ~ yl ~ ted eve ce Gri | ae

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RADIO STARS BOARD OF 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, 0. Andrew W. Smith News & Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala. HOW DO YOUR FAVORITES RANK IN THE RATINGS? 1. THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK (CBS).....87.5% Continues as first choice of the critics. 2. GENERAL MOTORS CONCERTS aba) Which proves radio critics are definitely eat phony-minded. 3. JACK BENNY, MARY LIVINGSTONE, KENNY BAKER AND JOHNNY GREEN’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). .......cecccceues 86.9 It certainly must be an amusing program to be without a symphony orchestra and yet rate this high with the critics. 4. FORD SUNDAY EVENING HOUR CR? It seems you simply must have a symphony program to succeed. 5. FRED WARING’S PES LY A (CBS) (NBC) ....----sececceceseens Versatility plus. 6. CHESTERFIELD PROGRAM WITH NINO MARTINI AND LILY PONS ON ALTER- NATE NIGHTS (CBS) ...--+-+s++s+0- 83.4 Metropolitan favorites singing your favorites. 7. LAWRENCE TIBBETT (CBS)...... 82.6 Champion of American composers. 8. THE MAGIC KEY OF RCA (NBC)...80.3 Current winner of our Distinguished Service Award. 9. TOWN HALL TONIGHT (NBC)...... 80.0 Marvelous material, marvelously presented by Fred Allen and troupe. 10. LOMBARDO ROAD (CBS)......... 78.8 Guy Lombardo and the sweetest dance music on the air. 11. EDWIN C. HILL—HUMAN SIDE OF THE NEWS NBC) 0 iii ces wsite sie oatasielasiels 78.7 Human interest in the news items, 12. LESLIE’ HOWARD) (CBS)... «+ 00% 78.5 Matinee idol of the air. 13. BURNS AND ALLEN (CBS)........ 78.2 Gracie Allen, vadio’s chief comedienne. 14. MAJOR BOWES’ ORIGINAL AMATEUR HOUR. (NBC). (cic ki tan chr ae t cA The commercials and tributes are getting too heavy. 10 Richard Peters Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn. Lecta Rider Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas Si Steinhauser c. L. Kern Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. Leo Miller Bridgeport Herald, Bridgeport, Conn. Charlotte Geer Newark Evening News, Newark, N. J. ) 2 ; ff FILE Y A | 7A OUR NEW SYSTEM The Board of Review bases its per- centages on the assumption that all radio programs are divided into four basic parts: material, artists, presentation and an- nouncements, each consisting of 25%, and making the perfect program of 100% These ratings are a consensus of opinions of our Board of Review and do not neces- sarily agree with the editorial opinion of Rapio STARS Magazine. Programs out- standing as to artists and material, often suffer because of poor presentation or an- nouncements. 15. BOAKE CARTER (CBS)... 0 -c 0 caus 76.8 Convincing comments on current history. 16. VOICE OF FIRESTONE (NBC)....76.8 Margaret Speaks, with Nelson Eddy and Richard Crooks as alternate guest stars. 17. FLEISCHMANN VARIETY HOUR hr RING RUDY WALLEE (NBC)... 5ccsen> Frank Fay and always an entertaining A of quest stars. 18. GRACE” MOORE «(NBC)). ...%i\. 5 amale 76.4 Informal artistry. 19. PAUL WHITEMAN’S MUSICAL VARI- ETIES (NBG Wrwte hs ate.c sv a0 6. pattie wig ie 76.1 Genial Paul and no dull seconds, thanks to his own group and special attractions. 20. RICHARD HIMBER AND THE ayers BAKER CHAMPIONS (CBS).......... Glorifying the popular dance tune. 21. ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF THE AIR (CBS) vie TOL The inimitable Fannie Brice. 22. HOLLYWOOD HOTEL (CBS)....... 76.5 Featuring screen stars in previews of forth- coming flickers. 23. PHIL BAKER—HAL KEMP’S_ OR- CHESTRA’ AGES ym ks sts ccs ona des meee 75.7 Gags, stooges and tunes. 24. RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA (CBS)). sx stcamiatem tunes ss vb spe elbte orks 75.4 Connie Boswell, vocalist. 25. CITIES SERVICE CONCERT ORCHES- Richard G. Moffett Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. James Sullivan Louisville Times, Louisville, Ky. Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind. Larry Wolfers Chicago Tribune, Chicago, III. James E. Chinn Evening and Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. H. Dean Fitzer Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Vivian M. Gardner Wisconsin News, Milwaukee, Wis. Joe Haeffaer Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, N. Y. Andrew W. Foppe | | Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, 0. Oscar H. Fernbach = San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Cal. ‘ TRA: JESSICA DRAGONETTE (NBC). .74. Year in and year out, consistently good with Jessica always outstanding. | 26. RUBINOFF AND HIS VIOLIN (NBC) eae Virginia Rea, Jan Peerce assisting. 27. BEN BERNIE AND ALL THE LAD&§ (NBC) 5 06.05. case tna ciel cage Onna 73. Gags, no matter how old, always sound funny when Ben springs them. 28. AMERICAN PAGEANT OF YOUTH (NBC) od cab os alels's eelnie restorers <o.8.s Oe Juvenile amateur hour. 29. ONE MAN’S FAMILY (NBC).......73s Radio’s favorite continued story. 30. AMERICAN .ALBUM OF FAME MUSIC. (NBC) \ ivw's 's cicte she le Winte STEN Frank Munn, Lucy Monroe ‘singing * Somali airs unusually well. 31. THE GOLDBERGS (CBS)ix .. ss ccn5 Heart throbs mostly, but genuinely done. 32. ALEMITE HALF HOUR WITH se BRIGADIERS ((CBS)\./:.cs' sss sire peelce Stimulating. 33. LOWELL THOMAS (NBC)........ Highlighting the news. 34. FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE: “T POLITICAL SITUATION IN WS TONIGHT” (CBS) iveaa's siete wis cient The forthcoming election has brought shoal noticeable listener-increase in Mr, Wile’s marks. 35. SALT LAKE iN TABERNACLE cus AND ORGAN: (EBS) 0. Vex e ae eee ey Solace for the ak 36. AMOS AND ANDY (NBC)...... ene Shake hands with the “eternity” boys, 37. ON THE AIR WITH LUD bauer (CBS). ..s..ark.c eos oir Se Gluskin arrangements bring out every sible bit of melody in a number. 38. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA A TIONS OF THE AIR (NBC)...... . 7¢ One of the finest programs ever broadcast with a definite purpose. (Continued on page 12) ‘ a Ln eee

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THE WORST SKIN IN TOWN! Now It’s Smooth, Lovely ences, advertisement is based on an wit | experience reported in an jwasolicited letter. Subscribed aind sworn to before me. : decseser Crit a . Bn EA wte © NOTARY PUBLIC kin «<7 had the worst s ess Everything I tried failed to help. <<] simply didn ’tknow what to do. _ then my husband brought cin some Yeast Foam Tab- } lets. ““Now my skin’s so smoothandclear—I" m not afraid to dress up and go outanywhere.* 3 Beata advertising claims—is what you want if you’re one of the thou- sands embarrassed by ugly skin blemishes, eruptions and pimples. So take heart from the true experience shown above. For it is typical of countless grateful letters from women who have used these pleasant-tasting Yeast Foam Tablets to conquer stubborn skin trouble and regain alluring beauty. If poisons in your system have robbed you of beauty, too—marred your skin with ugly blemishes—try Yeast Foam Tablets at once. The vital corrective elements they supply rid the body of these poisons easily, quickly, naturally—remove the real cause of lost beauty. And give you again the clear, alluring skin that men admire Ask your druggist for Yeast Foam Tablets today —and re- fuse substitutes. Send for Free Sample. NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO., 1750 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill. i I i] : Please send free introductory package of | Yeast Foam Tablets. M.M.5-36 I I I l ! I RADIO STARS Roarcd of Review (Continued from page 10) In his modern apartment on Riverside Drive in New York, Rubinoff, maestro of the Chevrolet program heard each Saturday at 9 p.m. EST, over NBC, tunes his violin. The famous violinist spends most of his spare time in study- ing the scores of musical masterpieces for use in his weekly programs. 39. CAMEL CARAVAN (CBS)......... 70.8 Walter O’Keefe, Deane Janis, Casa Loma or- chestra. Walter can be so funny, at times. 40. HELEN HAYES (NBC).........0... 70.7 Radio hasn't had a pleasanter voice. 41. JOHN CHARLES THOMAS (NBC)..70.5 Fireside favorite. BING CROSBY WITH JIMMY DORSEY’S ORCHESTRA UNIEL CT ie Balewcmeee ae 70.5 Bob Burns, bazooka boy, also on hand, AS Aw Gee CNBC)... 0052's c.a ele oe 70.1 Harry Horlick’s brilliant conducting is the secret of this program’s success, 44. THE BAKERS BROADCAST (NBC) 70.0 Bob Ripley with his amazing “‘believe-it- or- nots;’ Harriet Hilliard, Ozsie Nelson and his boys. Should be full hour program. 45. YOUR HIT PARADE WITH CARL HOFF’S ORCHESTRA (NBC).......... 69.9 The fifteen most popular tunes of the week, conscientiously collected. 46. WAYNE KING’S ORCHESTRA (CBS) -. .69.9 Smoother than silk. 47. JOSE MANZANARES AND HIS SOUTH AMERICANS MIDIS) Wale st n'leolna gic. ay a abarte 69.6 The real McCoy. 48. BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS (CBS). .69.3 Ted Malone attempting to instill his own ap preciation of books into his listeners. 49. SHELL CHATEAU (NBC)......... 68.6 Al Jolson as head man, Victor Young's musits Guest stars from all walks of life. 50. EDDIE CANTOR (CBS)..........55 68.4 Winner of last month’s Distinguished Servict award. 51. FIRST NIGHTER WITH BETTY LOU GERSON AND FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN CNBC). 35x: 0.sie.5 oiels sree 0,0 step green ea 68.1 Original radio plays, expertly presented an@ acted, 52. SWIFT STUDIO PARTY (NBC)....680 Deems Taylor, Siamund Romberg and som@ times more informality than you can stand, 53. LUM ’N’ ABNER (NBC)........; . 675 Even city slickers are beginning to enjoy tht Pine Ridge humor and philosophy. 54. VOX POP. (NBC) oc eis stews one orcs 67.3 Unusual, fascinating—human nature on pe rade, 55. MAJOR BOWES’ CAPITOL FAMILE (NBC) Many prefer this to the Major's amateurs a then there are those, who can’t tell the dife ference,

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= 56. MELODIANA WITH BERNICE CLAIRE, OLIVER SMITH AND ABE LYMAN’S OR- SEERA MOINES) civic Cavey wsvele tive asec 67.1 Bernice Claire, lovely of voice and face. Re- member her on the screen? 57. LIFE IS A SONG—COUNTESS OLGA ALBANI: CHARLES PREVIN AND HIS MROHESIRA (NBC) ...ceccusceaheces 66.9 Few have been blessed with the richness of voice which is Olga’s. 58. WALTZ TIME (NBC) Frank Munn and Bernice Claire ideal, as usual, 59. ENO CRIME CLUES (NBC) For those who enjoy a bit of a baffle. 60. JUMBO FIRE CHIEF SHOW (NBC)..66.1 Script trouble just abous finished this show, but the voice of Donald Novis and Eddy Duchin’s music saved the situation. 61. LADY ESTHER SERENADE (NBC)..66.1 Wayne King’s music, which, as you know, is just what the doc ordered for your nerves. 62. PHILIP MORRIS PROGRAM (NBC)..65.7 Leo Reisman, Phil Duey, Sally Singer and Johnny. Smart stuff. 63. SINCLAIR GREATER MINSTRELS oe) tala Chote Fun from the cake-walk Gus Van featured. era. 64. WARDEN LAWES (NBC) .......... 65.2 | True life crime stories, The warden being played by Mr. Lawes, himself. 65. LANNY ROSS PRESENTS THE MAX- WELL HOUSE SHOWBOAT (NBC)... .64.8 Engine trouble has been taken care of and the Showboat is now steaming ahead. 66. THE FLYING RED HORSE TAVERN OES SB Bee +++ 64.6 Walter Woolf King and Beatrice Lillie doin their best to make us forget the ailing Eleanor / Powell. BIR ENE, RICH (NBC)! 2. .05c eee. ae 64.0 Dramatic moments with the former screen favorite. 68. HUSBANDS AND WIVES (MUTUAL) } ..-64.0 | Domestic problems for your solution. 69. GRAND HOTEL WITH ANNE SEYMOUR AND DON AMECHE (NBC) .......... 63.8 Adventuring in hotels the world over. 70. IDA BAILEY ALLEN (NBC) Cooking made tasty. 71. MUSIC BY RICHARD HIMBER (NBC) «- 62.7 Rhythmic sophistication. 72. ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE—DOG BICANNDAS! CNG) ita aiatdete cece citavecess 62.4 You don’t have to be a dog lover to enjoy Terhune’s thrilling tales. 7s. U. S. ARMY BAND (CBS)........ 62.2 Lots more than marches, 74. JERGENS PROGRAM WITH WALTER BELEN T ae QINESG,) Wrelcya a o\s'e1e 2 <lobie cles <i 61.8 Old Mr. Snooper whose alarming voice makes everything sound like a scoop. m5, GANG BUSTERS (CBS) ........... 61.7 Phillips Lord, of Seth Parker fame, does his share to stamp out crime. memrasyY ACES (NBC). .0.2.0..22- + 61.2 Jane and Goodman Ace, in somewhat the Burns and Allen manner. 77. MANHATTAN MERRY -GO-ROUND RCS SE SSS eee eee 61.2 Georges Metazxa, Rachel Carlay, Andy San- nella’s music and a lively time for all. 78. CAVALCADE OF AMERICA (CBS)...61.2 Highlights of history in effective dramatic presentations. 79. AL PEARCE AND HIS GANG (NBC)..61.0 Exactly what your sense of humor needs. 80. HAMMERSTEIN’S MUSIC HALL (NBC) sae OL Glorifying the good old music hall days. 81. VOCAILS BY VERRILL (CBS) ...... 60.6 Virginia Verrill. 82. ECHOES OF NEW YORK TOWN (NBC) 760.5 The history of New York in drama and music. 83. NATIONAL BARN DANCE (NBC)..60.2 Swing your partners! (Continued on page 95) RADIO STARS Does VW OMANGI 2 TOM FORGOT TO KISS ME GOODBYE AGAIN. | GUESS OUR SWEETHEART DAYS ARE OVER. MMM! IT'S LOVELY TO START THE DAY WITH MAVIS. | LOVE ITS FRESH FLOWER- GARDEN FRAGRANCE.WONDER 1F TOM WILL NOTICE 2 OH,TOM! FLOWERS! BUT IT’S NOT OUR ANNIVERSARY— OR MY BIRTHDAY! CLAIRE, HOW DO YOU KEEP MEN INTERESTED? TOM TAKES ME FOR GRANTED ALREADY. | LEARNED ASECRET FROM FRENCH WOMEN, MY DEAR. THEY KNOW THE CHARM OF ALL-OVER FRAGRANCE. MEN ADORE IT. IT'S SO FEMININE! TO BE FEMININE NO, IT'S JUST TO TELL YOU HOW SWEET YOU ARE, YOU'RE LOVELY AS THESE FLOWERS, Before you dress! —use the secret of all-over fragrance — MAVIS! Keep lovely with Mavis. At least twice a day ... before you dress . . . after every bath . . . smooth your skin all over with Mavis Talecum. Mavis is so pure and soothing. It guards the youth of your skin . . . protects it from drying ... keeps it velvety and soft. And the use of Mayis is so Parisian! Its subtle IN THE RED CONTAINER fragrance clothes you in glamour. And protects your feminine daintiness .. . gives you a fresh adorable charm that lasts the day or evening through. Mavis Talcum in 25¢, 50¢ and $1 sizes at drug and department stores—convenient 10¢ size at 5-and-10¢ stores. We invite you to try Mavis—use coupon below. V. VIVAUDOU, INC., 580 Fifth Avenue, New York City. T enclose 10¢. Please send by return mail the convenient size of Mavis Taleum—so I can try its fragrant loveliness. Name Address : City. 4 State ; MM-5 3 ae acs eS a ee a

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THE RADIO HOSTESS, NANCY WOOD, PRESENTS ~ ook Sony SINCE the earliest days of his- tory we have records which prove that people always have celebrated successes, victories and particularly happy occasions with feasts at which extra- special foods were served. You know the sort of thing I mean . the fatted calf of the Bible, the nightingales’ tongues of the Roman banquets and the New England delicacies of the Pil- grim Fathers’ Thanksgiving feasts. So when Jack Benny, for the third year in succession, won the Radio Editors’ poll as the best comedian of the air waves (with almost three times as many votes as his nearest com- petitor, incidentally!) I decided that such an outstanding victory surely should call for something pretty fancy in the line of foods. Therefore I set out to satisfy my food-conscious curiosity concern- ing Benny. And did I hear about foreign sauces, exotic viands or rare and expensive delicacies? Certainly not! Instead I discovered (as I RADIO STARS Wide World Photos ee LS Jack Benny, star of the Jello broadcasts, with his wife and stooge, Mary Livingstone. had suspected I would) that suc- cess is an old, familiar story with Jack Benny and that his celebra- tions simply consist of eating the same foods that he always has liked, in the company of friends of long standing in the theatrical profession. The dishes may change with the season and locale, but all are characterized by a thoroughly American simplicity—the sort of © things, in short, that men all over the country like to eat. In the West, the successful com- li

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zz RADIO STARS “T made a bet with Mom...” A culinary trip with the Bennys ““Say, Mom, I bet I'd help you wash if you'd treat me to an ice cream cone.”’ from Hollywood ‘Bobbie, I’d givea couple of cones if somebody’d to Broadway, via Guigedege what miakes these clothes so gray, even hough I rub and scrub Waukegan, Ill. He ES “ sister, Bill, and see if she knows what's wrong with my mother’s washes.”’ “TI wish you’d ask your / . if “TI bet I don’t have toask. I hear women discussing things in the grocery store where I work and I know plenty about washing.”’ ‘*Your mother’s clothes have probably got tattle- tale gray—'cause her soap doesn’t wash clean. Why doesn’t she get wise and change to Fels-Naptha Soap? Everybody raves about the snappy way it gets out ALL the dirt!”’ Courtesy Jello | "Limon" salad— a tempting treat | _ pletion of a picture or broadcast is | the signal for a buffet supper in the Bennys’ Hollywood home. But in the East the chances are that Benny would be found feasting on or near the Broadway he knows and loves (Continued on page 56) AND | GOT RID OF TATTLE-TALE SO 1 TOLD MOM GRAY! FELS-NAPTHA’S GRAND ABOUT GOLDEN SOAP AND LOTS OF FELS-NAPTHA SOAP NAPTHA WASH CLOTHES SO AND GOT MY CONES CLEAN THEY SIMPLY SHINE ! | LIKE FELS-NAPTHA BECAUSE IT’S GENTLER, TOO. WONDERFUL FOR SILK THINGS ! EASIER ON MY HANDS! ©) 7 4 yi >| a 4 ©1936, FELS& CO. Banish “Tattle-Tale Gray” with FELS-NAPTHA SOAP!

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--NOTHING BUT TH Once more the artists of the air reply to questions Loretta Lee, WAEC singer, a native of New Orleans, has dark red hair and blue- green eyes. mene assreeregn ANE TS a NS c oo tees eee” ee ‘A {7 _ toa) Does Your Art Suffer Periodic Letdowns, Dependent on Your Mood or Health? Jane Froman: “T cannot say that it does, since, once in the midst of my work, I almost always can conquer any emotions which might conflict with my ability to perform.” Milton T, Cross: “I feel that one’s work is materially affected by health and mood.” Betty Lou Gerson: “TI do believe my performances on the air are sub- ject to the mental condition I am in. With the voice as a medium of ex- pression the difficulty of cloaking one’s real emotions assumes serious proportions.” Margaret Speaks: “It used to do so... but not any more.” Anne Jamison: “I think every singer has short lapses of ill health which of course hinder his or her per- formance from being quite up to scratch.” Jerry Belcher: “We all have our ‘ups’ and ‘downs’, but I usually go to a show keyed to do my very best. We must be alert and be prepared to take advantage of every situation that arises. I seldom suffer from any ‘let-down.’” Fritzi Scheff: Ted Malone: “Never!” “My programs in Here's Ted Husing, radio's famous sports announcer. every case depend upon my changing moods for the day. My readings are accordingly selected at the last minute.” Countess Olga Albani: “Yes, de- pendent on both mood and health. . . but they never last long.” Dorothy Lamour: ‘Naturally it does, I being of the rather moody type.” Lucy Monroe: “Certainly—sing- ing is just like a looking-glass—your voice reveals your true condition.” Myrtle Vail: “No one can do her best if she is unhappy or sick—al- though I think all of us in the busi- ness put forth every effort.” Donald Novis: ‘““Yes—one’s voice depends on one’s disposition as well as one’s health.” John Barclay: “Naturally there are times when health or mood makes you feel that you can’t possibly give out a thing. But when you get ‘out there’ you've too much to concentrate on to remember how you feel. Per- formance should be a flow from the subconscious habits made in rehearsal —therefore moods of the moment don’t affect it.” Ted Hammerstein: “No. One cannot afford to have let-downs.” Andy Sannella: “No. I do not allow my mood or health to interfere with my radio work. There have been, however, times when, due to Helen Marshall, talented and beautiful NBC soprano.

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Ss the pat IO eased TRUTH 2 from their fans pS great mental stress or temporary illness, I’ve had misgivings in the anticipation of what was ahead of me; but somehow or other, in the actual atmosphere of the studio, ‘my instinct always has pulled me through, the work at hand taking on the greatest importance.” | Freddie Rich: “Yes, and why ‘mot? We are all human.” | Harry von Zell: “T have felt at times that it has . . . but I don’t think that I, myself, am in a posi- ‘tion to judge, since when I feel low I naturally assume that my work is not up to par . . . whereas my audience might notice no ichange.”’ Ted Husing: “But why not?” Niela Goodelle: ‘Nothing ever ‘seems to affect my singing ; in fact, T have heard that my voice is much better when I am tired.” | Don Mario: “Yes. I believe this to be true of almost every per- former. When you have a bad cold in the head, or ate the wrong thing the night before, you are bound to be affected by it. How- sever, you don’t have to be a scien- itist to apply some of the old ‘mind Over matter’ on such occasions and carry on.” ) June Meredith: “I will admit I ave (Continued on page 81) Andre Kostelanetz, conductor of the Chesterfield programs. RADIO STARS € oO ROLL UP TO A PACK OF KOOLS and see how much more you get for your money! A blend of tobaccos to win your tongue, mildly mentholated to cool your throat, cork tips to save your lips. And a valuable B & W coupon to save for handsome premiums. (Offer good in U.S. A. only.) Let’s go! Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, P.O. Box 599, Louisville, Kentucky. i E ptr cee ) | Bridge Table Cover—Washable suede. FREE. Write for illustrated 28-page Lady’s Umbrella—in several colors; | Comes in red orgreen. .. 100 coupons B & W premium booklet No. 11 matched Pyralin handles. 375 coupons RALEIGH CIGARETTES...NOW AT POPULAR PRICES...ALSO CARRY B & W COUPONS 17

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Achieving a popular program, admittedly new and different, has been, for most sponsors, discouragingly difficult. Yet, with its varied resources, the Radio Corporation of America in its Magic Key hour has given listeners a presen- tation quite unlike all else on the air. Endowed with unlimited facilities and artists, it has been privileged to present programs no other sponsor dare attempt. To present smoothly a program which skips, not only from city to city, but from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific and from America to all parts of the world, is praiseworthy performance. Against the musical back- ground of Frank Black and his NBC symphony orchestra, the Magic Key has brought us cele- brated artists from all over the world, broadcasting, invariably, from their native city. And so to the Magic Key program, because of its originality, its remarkable accomplish- ia alge ments, its world famous artists and their superb Magic Rey entertainment, Radio Stars magazine presents " its award for Distinguished Service to Radio. — Editor.

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Lovely contralto soloist of the Climalene Carnival, Gale also has her own program and is active in Chicago's Junior League. She first sang with Ted Weems in the Em- pire Room of the Palmer House in Chicago.

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Bruno Richard Hauptmann, leaving Flemington jail for New Jersey's State Prison at Trenton. GOVERNOR HAROLD HOFFMAN’S dramatic re- prieve of Bruno Richard Hauptman on January 16, 1936 just as the German carpenter was about to walk the last mile to pay the penalty as the convicted slayer of the Lindbergh baby—officially reopened the case which un- officially never was closed. When, on February 13th, 1935, a New Jersey jury sentenced Hauptmann to death, the crime of the century, so far as the books of the State went. was closed. But so far as the mind of the public was concerned, it never was closed, and probably never will be, regardless of the ultimate fate of Hauptmann. [veryone not officially connected with the case has a definite opinion on the guilt or innocence of Hauptmann, »» Flemington Court House for the trial: as well as theories on how the crime was committed a on how the trial and inyestigation should have be handled. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick mah and the man on home relief all have their theoriesy 1 Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, entering of which agree. Of the “outsiders” probably no man in Ameri¢a is well informed on the case as is Boake Carter, ace ne commentator. Carter was working on the cage af hours after the alarm. He conscientiously kept at | through all its phases, covering the search for the missil i infant, the shocking discovery of the body, the arrest amp trial of Hauptmann and the reprieve of the - Man. — . é

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BOAKE CARTER REVEALS HAUPTMANN FACTS..! Not all the evidence against the prisoner was intro- duced at the trial. Here are additional, pointed facts @ x 7h 3 BY JERRY MAXWELL Wide World Photos Bruno Richard Hauptmann (on the left) chats with his wife (sitting at the right) in the courtroom where he ‘was on trial for his life for the crime of Sores and murdering little Charles A. Lindbergh, Junior. All of the officials connected with the case and every — |indbergh indicated that he preferred to work with the ) principal in it have discussed it at length with Carter. State Police. Carter has a definite theory as to when the alleged “Now, then, get this picture in mind—here’s the inter- { bungling in the case started. est of the entire nation, of the whole world, in fact, cen- “Right at the outset,” he declared, “Frank Hague, the tered on Hlopewell and Trenton. Letters came in by the Democratic boss of New Jersey, wished the investigation basketful. That’s literal, too, not a figure of speech. } to be conducted by the Jersey City police. Governor Necromancers, star gazers, crystal gazers, clairvoyants. } Moore, a Democrat, tried to follow Hague’s wishes. omen and women, young and ER eet sadly wrote in with Thus, there were three police bodies working on the case — theories and solutions. Detectives, amateur and otherwise, —the Jersey City police, the New Jersey State Police and — sought to help. the Government agents. “This resulted in a flood of material so great that Col- *There was much bickering hetween the different forces — onel Schwartzkopf. head of the New Jersey State Police sand a great deal of inter-departmental jealousy. Colonel was forced to set up a clearing (Continucd on page 66) 23

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RADIO OT so very long ago, although those days seem quaint and far away, we grew familiar with a certain type of opera prima donna. On the stage and screen, in books and countless stories the woman who had become a famous star of Grand Opera paraded regally before us. She was temperamental. She was tempestuous. She was torrid and torrential. Managers quailed before her moods, lovers catered to her whims, servants trembled before her wrath. Wherever she came, she made an impressive en- trance with her familiar retinue—“Enter Madame,” with her maid, her companion, her humble relatives, her ador- ing admirers, and, last of all, her husband, carrying the prima donna’s poodle! Well, it’s quite a different story today. Grand Opera Carmens, who once were “bigger than the bull;’ now are slim and young and lovely. Prima donnas who once catered to sensation with their bewildering moods now are noted only because of the beauty of their song. Today the lovely singer whose voice charms you in opera or concert or on the air is a modest, unaffected young woman, living a natural, happy existence with her family, just as are any of you who listen to her song. For example—here’s Helen Jepson. Helen is the young singer who, when Grace Moore suddenly was taken ill, took her place with the Metro- politan Quartette—all artists of the Metropolitan Opera Company—then touring the west. She is the girl who sings sometimes with Paul Whiteman’s Varieties pro- gram and also has sung with the Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre. She is the girl who, still in her twenties, made a notable début last winter at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, in the newest American opera, “In the Pasha’s Garden,” singing opposite Lawrence Tibbett. According to Gatti-Casazza, then the director of the Metropolitan, who engaged her after her first audition, Helen was the first important feminine star to gain the coveted berth with the Metropolitan through the medium of radio. No fairy wand, however, brought her to that brilliant eminence. Helen’s story is a record of hard work, from early girlhood. When she was thirteen she was singing in a church choir in her home town, Akron, Ohio, and in the High School Glee Club. For two years she worked for fifteen dollars a week as a clerk in a music store, listening to operatic records as she played them over and over, dreaming of the time when she, too, would be an opera star. And for the fulfillment of that dream she saved her money and went, in the summer, to the James- town, New York, Chautauqua, where she studied with Horatio Connell of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. It was Connell who suggested that she try for an audition at the Institute, where he taught. It is characteristic of Helen Jepson that she never misses an opportunity. When her cue comes, she is ready for it. And in that suggestion she heard her cue. Since her family’s means were limited, she determined to pro- vide the necessary funds for herself. Organizing a girls’ quartette and procuring an ancient car, she toured the country with them, covering over six thousand miles and singing in concerts and chautauquas. And in the fall, STARS with her share of the proceeds of that tour, Helen went to Philadelphia. Her audition won her a scholarship not only for one year but for five. And she worked and studied earnestly, seeing the bright dream coming ever closer to fulfillment. She lived with another girl student in a tiny room on the outskirts of the city. ‘We were so poor,” she said. ““No one could be poorer. 3ut it was fun!” : That is another characteristic of Helen’s—to find fun, whatever the circumstances—to make happiness for her- self and for others. One could write a book, she says, } about those days. But the bright reward came at the end, % when, after graduating from the Curtis Institute with)

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RADIO STARS honors she was engaged by the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company, and later sang prima donna roles for two years with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. She made her début with the latter company as Nedda in “Pagli- acci,”” singing opposite John Charles Thomas. But hard work and fun and bright rewards were not all of life for Helen Jepson. There was romance, too. Helen had met him that first summer when she was studying at Chautauqua. His name was George Possell and he was—and still is—a flutist with the New York Symphony Orchestra. All through those years of study they drew closer and closer together, and after her graduation they were married. They had a_ heavenly honeymoon in Europe and then came back to dream of An intimate view of a bright star of Metropolitan Opera, of popular radio programs, and a noted concert artist BY NANCY BARROWS greater glories for Helen. But first, like all who are young and in love, they wanted a baby—before Helen’s career should demand too much of her. And when little Sallie Patricia came to the Possell home it seemed as if life were just spilling its richness into their hearts and hands. And then the depression suddenly checked that lavish flow. There was no more money to sustain the Phila- delphia Grand Opera Company and Helen’s work was gone. Back in New York there were no engagements to be had. Helen kept house and studied and sang to her baby and tried not to hope when hope walked hand in hand with despair. ; And then a friend of her (Continued on page 96) Relaxing for a quiet hour in her home. Helen Jepson autographs her portraits for her many fans.

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17 Robert L. (Believe-It-or-Not) Ripley POPULAR, wealthy, fabulously famous, extremely attractive to women—and still not married! Behind that picture of Bob Believe-It- Or-Not Ripley lies a story. The story of Bob and a woman. It is an untold one. And it is the secret spring to the soul of one of the most interesting men of our generation. Believe-It-Or-Not-Ripley has dug out more strange truths about this old world in which we live than has any other human being. He has given them to us in car- toons, books, newspaper columns, mu- seums, motion pictures and on the stage, and now is giving the radio world one of The secret that j | is behind the | odd career of RobertL. Ripley BY RUTH BIERY its greatest thrills through the National Broadcasting Company. And yet he has given us no truth stranger than the one? which lies buried in his heart to control his? own being. Recently I spent a week-end at his mag= nificent estate at Mamaroneck, New York, Naturally this house, with all its luxury) and its collection of the most unusual things from every country, impressed mej Yet it was the man who owned them wh stirred my real curiosity. There weré)§) other women there that week-end. Most of them were in love with Ripley. Wome have a way of falling in love with Ripley And yet, to date, he has loved just on Feo es] 2 we = - > ie

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woman—and that woman was his wife. Yes, believe it or not, Bob Ripley has been -married and to quote Bob: “She is the best friend I have in the world.” _ When I asked him to tell me his secret— | for I knew there must be a secret behind the ceaseless energy and simple aloofness of this -man—he looked like a small boy and said slowly: “No one would believe it.” _ I did not laugh. There was something /very touching about hearing the man who |makes us believe such unbelievable truths say- ing that we would not believe his own story. Nevertheless he told it to me. “T never have talked about my personal affairs,’ he said. “Any story which you )may have read about them didn’t come from Here is the real story, and you will be They were so young. She was seventeen. Bob was not wealthy and famous. They married. | Although they lived together as man and wife for a long time, yet they did not live in ithe same house or apartment. Bob says he )Was too temperamental. He doesn’t use that ‘word but it is the one which expresses to us This dynamic, restless, always pulsing-for- ward energy. It is the word the world has dearned to accept as an explanation of genius. Real genius. | The girl had expected a husband in the ‘conventional sense. A man who would come home on time. A husband who would be dependable as are the rank and file of hus- be She didn’t find him. No woman speaking conventionally. am going to pause to prove that state- He was to go to a dance as one of | party I was entertaining. He had promised hot to forget for this once. Then—he for- Someone came to town. He wanted to show this friend a good time. It was Saturday but he didn’t remember it was Sat- urday. Fortunately we had provided extra escorts because we know and _ understand and like Bob Ripley, even on the Saturdays he has forgotten. And yet, he is dependable in the uncon- ventional sense. One afternoon a girl had an appointment with him for four o’clock. Cock- tails. He turned up at 8:30 to take her to dinner. He didn’t remember to call her. She had to call him. Why? He had been sued for breach of promise. It was the third or fourth of such suits. He never pays out of court. He hires a lawyer to fight and the suits dwindle into inaction. On this after- noon, he had been straightening out the bills of this particular suit with his lawyer. And I suppose what happened while he was doing this could happen only to Believe-It-Or- Not Ripley. A cable arrived at his rooms at the New York Athletic club just as he was signing the check to the attorney. It was from the same fair lady. She had lost her purse in Europe. She was penniless. She didn’t know what she would do if Believe-It-Or-Not didn’t help her. And Believe-It-Or-Not for- got all about cocktails at four and another fair lady, while persuading his lawyer to cable that girl money. The lawyer said it was a “frame.” If Ripley sent the money, she would renew her suit. Bob said it was hon- est. It took Bob until eight o’clock to win the battle. The lawyer’s cable was generous. And Bob told his dinner companion: “I just know she really needed it. I believe it!” I know he meant that. I hope the girl never lets him know if she didn’t. But what young wife, not yet out of her adolescence, could have been wise enough to know that a husband who didn’t keep a con- ventional promise might be the most depend- able of men in other ways? Youth always is conventional. It (Continued on page 54)

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e IN ' THE, RADIO New views of old friends — As Above, Olga Albani, of "Life is a Song.” — Below, Helen Jepson, James Melton, with Al Goodman at his program's first meer > | whose broad- casts reward | the listener : fre eo radio | peaker in the a cam- Orit fae é: Boral Armida, tiny Mexican ; 4 movie star, contributes 28 gay songs to the ''Paris Night Life" program.

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Above, Lucille Manners of “The Melody Lingers On." Below, Virginia Clark of “Romance of Helen Trent,"’ and her son. Charles Gaylord, maestro of the Pent- house Serenade, heard Supdays over the NBC network, serenades tenor Jack Fulton and the torch singer Dale Sherman. - Above, Joe and Mrs. Penner athome. Below, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingstone, Dale Miller, Don Wilson, Jack Benny and Johnnie Green. An old-time vaudeville headliner, and more recently screen writer and actor, Frank Fa Rudy Va made his bow on the air with he's Fleischmann Variety Hour.

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BY HARLOW Long famous as a siren on the screen, Jean Harlow rescues a modern Romeo and Juliet a 23-day honeymoon with Johnny Hamp, you wouldn’t be dialing those smooth Hamp dansipations these nights. That’s really just the darndest statement—but then, this is the darndest story! It’s a true love story, the swellest just-uncovered romance on Radio Row. It’s a story about a boy, a girl, Jean Harlow and a band that could play only in the key of C. It’s the strange tale behind the Johnny Hamp’s Orchestra you hear today, whose founda- tion happens to be built on the love and far- sightedness of the screen’s famous siren. All big orchestras aren’t born behind micro- phones or planned over the midnight oil of some ambitious young musician. Johnny Hamp’s band was born—of all places—in a girls’ dormitory, one June night when three pretty boarding-school students got together in a pyjama-clad session to plan their summer vacations together. The girls were Jean Harlow, Ruth Miller and Peg Mahoney. The school was Chicago’s fash- ionable Ferry Hall. Peg’s parents had just wired an invitation to Jean and Ruth to spend two months as their daughter’s guests at their summer home in Atlantic City. And because the three girls were inseparable roommates and_ school would be gloriously over the very next week, they huddled together long after the dorm lights had been extinguished and made excited plans for all the adventures they were going to have at the beach. Jean gazed out at a slice of orange moon and said she intended to cop off a big bronzed life- guard. So did Ruth. But Peg pressed a jewelled frat pin close against her heart and sat silent, letting them rave on. Peg was secretly engaged to a drummer in an orchestra called the Kentucky Serenaders. His name was Johnny Hamp. He was divine, as Peg often reiterated to the other two. And wonderful, most wonderful of all, the 30 F JEAN HARLOW hadn’t gone on ; ji Kentucky Serenaders were booked for the summer at Atlantic City’s Hotel Ambassador ! A few weeks later the girls were having the time of their lives at the resort—although their romantic schemes hadn’t turned out so well. Jean had her life-guard—but Ruth had Peg’s Johnny! Ruth didn’t know what to do about that. You don’t go to visit your roommate and promptly walk off with her husband-to-be, no matter if you do feel as if you’d abso- lutely die if you couldn’t have him for your own. Johnny Hamp hadn’t intended to fall in love with his fiancée’s best friend. But there was something about her slim, tanned little figure, her wind- blown brown bob and misty-fringed, gay gray eyes that did things to his heart and hands when he held his drumsticks on the bandstand in the Rainbow Grill. Every night the three girls came there to dance, but to Johnny, looking out across the crowded floor, there was only one girl—petite, vivacious Ruth. Ruth, floating by, 9 within the tuxedo arms of other men. Ruth, dark against ivory tulle, pearl-pale and fluffy. Ruth, in paprika satin looking Up at him now and then to flutter her hand in greeting and curve her red lips in a bright smile. Johnny didn’t mean to fall but he did. Desperately. And didn’t know what to do about it, either. You don’t just ask a frat pin back because your fiancée’s roommate suddenly is most adorable thing you ever met. Jean Harlow was the one to whom he went with his problem Jean was a man’s girl. She’d be good-fellow enough to undémy stand... . “What’ll I do?” he asked her. “I can’t hurt Peg. But time... Ruth... This is the real thing this time . . .” Jean advised him wisely and simply: (Continued on page

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A new portrait of Jean Harlow, whose famous platinum locks now are a light brown shade. Be- low, orchestra leader Johnny Hamp, whose honeymoon Jean saved from disaster. BY MARY WATKINS REEVES

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- Gladys Swarthout = Lily Pons, Kate Smith ‘and Jessica Drago- Z _nette are among the singers who are ad- mired by John Boles gore WU to give the lad ing whose o ‘their dues than is John Boles. Singing hero “voice has quickened thogsasds. of fem Boles is one gentleman w ho. sn’t all. So, sing high, 5 “But, ‘ says Mr. a woman’s voice can reac 1 and while I can apprec as well as one of op a woman’s singing unles the song. “Recall the singing of Gladys. ; what I mean by a ‘story’ behind explains. “She has a Loge 8 something more than just vo € a single note and behind it you —a human story of joy or sor ness. No matter how simple a ‘ riched by this quality, invested with | eal k of power. I believe, to be truly great, a singer r must h this in her song.’ From the standpoint of tone, Mr Boles thinks the r important quality in a voice is richness ‘Many people have the idea that tich wi low-pitched and throaty. That is a eee richest voices that ever came over the air is — of soprano, Lily Pons. Notice, the next time ou Sy! broadcast, that no matter how softly or light no matter how high a note Se takes, her voice oy mell

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John Boles loves radio work. He would, he says, enjoy broadcasting every night. full, rich. It never thins.” Proving that his tastes are varied, John Boles next toasts Gracie Allen. As a matter of fact, Gracie is a favorite with the entire Boles family. “Gracie Allen’s speaking voice has an irritating quality that makes it winning,” he says. “Its high, eager, child- ish quality amuses you. She can recite the alphabet and make it sound very funny. Perhaps, as you have listened and laughed, you never were conscious of the fact that her voice captured and held your attention partly because it was slightly irritating. But that is true. “However, when Miss Allen sings, there is no trace of the laugh-provoking shrillness or flatness. Her sing- ing voice is soft and musical. Any subtle irritation that may have intrigued you before is gone, as she sings. And she charms you with a singing voice that is altogether pleasant. There is a delicate balance to be maintained there. And Miss Allen’s long popularity over the air waves is proof that she has wisely maintained that bal- ance.” Mr. Boles admits that among the air queens he most admires is Jessica Dragonette. | “I think it takes more ‘stuff’ to become a success on ithe air than on the stage or screen,” he explains. “The }iradio artist stands before an impersonal gadget known as a microphone. Binding her to her audience is only a little thread of sound. She has none of the advantages of ake-up, scenery, trick shots, clever costuming, that the girl on the stage or screen may use. She has no props, © camouflage. She must hold her audience, fire its im- a) John Boles and his wife, Marcelite, on their arrival in New York for a vacation. agination, with sheer talent and the force of her per- sonality. “When Miss Dragonette made her radio début, the listeners-in did not know her. They never had seen her on the screen, nor heard of her name in connection with the stage or opera. They did not even know what she looked like. She captured their attention and admiration solely with her.voice and the personality behind that voice. “Kate Smith is another radio favorite who has reached the top of the ladder by sheer force of talent and personal magnetism. Able to invest the simplest songs with warmth and humaness, she has sung her way straight into the hearts of millions. You have to have more than a good voice to do that. For broadcasting a song is, after all, a mechanical process. If a song reaches you, comes out of your loud-speaker enriched with personality, warm with meaning—you know there must be a soul behind that song, a human story behind that singer. ‘Don’t ever believe that radio work is ‘easy,’ that all you need is a voice, Radio is the most trying of all mediums.” At the same time, Mr. Boles thinks it is the best me- dium for the ambitious actress or songstress. He points out that the woman who finds success in Hollywood is inevitably in the limelight all the time. Her family is publicized, her every move written about and commented upon. Under these circumstances, it is very difficult for the screen actress to live a normally free and happy life. The woman who chooses the stage, while publicized less than the movie queen, is constantly limited by the problem of finding suitable (Continued on page 70)

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A new studio photograph of Countess Olga Albani, lovely Spanish mezzo- soprano of the weekly program, Life is a Song.

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be free! WHAT does a pretty lady think about, as she sits medi- tating before the fire? Rain may fall or chill winds blow outside, but she is cozy and warm in the book-lined room. She is aware of the lovely old books, with their beautiful bindings and satisfying contents, aware of the fine oil paintings on the wall and the gorgeous Chinese chest, of which she is particularly fond—things that belong to her husband and to her and that together make this home. But her dark, lam- bent eyes rest on the leaping flames and highlights of red and gold are re- flected in the dreamy orbs. “T could sit here by the hour, medi- tating, lost in reverie—’ she mur- mured. “It is so lovely—and I am so happy—never before have I been as happy as I am now!” _ There is depth and sincerity in her low voice, the same depth and sincerity that give character, emotional power, to the sweet mezzo-soprano voice you hear with Charles Previn’s orchestra on Sunday nights, on the Real Silk Hosiery Company’s program, Life is a Song. She has sung sweetly for years, in concert, on the stage, over the ‘radio, this charming and lovely girl whom you know as ‘the Countess Albani, but never ays the power, the full- “ness that have so enriched her voice this year. ' But it is not idle dreaming of some romantic castle in Spain, no unfulfilled longings or vague visioning of past ‘grandeur or future greatness that inspire her now, that give her that added sweetness and appeal which so many jhave noticed and commented upon. Rather, it is the rich satisfaction of dreams come true. . . She always has sung easily, naturally, without effort. From earliest childhood, music was familiar and dear to her. For music always was a part of her family life, had be Before the mike with announcer Charles Lyon. ‘ pay é, RADIO STARS . egderning a lovely lady who thinks herself lucky not to BY MIRIAM ROGERS Whose songs reflect her joy—Countess Albani. in fact been in the family quite far back, though always unprofessionally. Her father, mother and sister all play beautifully, an aunt has a fine mezzo-soprano voice and a cousin in Spain possesses a voice of rare quality—if she had been poor, critics have said, she might have been famous. But, as a lady in the igid and formal society of old Spain, she had no outlet for her song, except in church. But the little Olga, herself born in Barcelona, of Spanish parents and deeply imbued with Spanish ideals and customs, was to know a wider, fuller life—to be carried, on the wings of song, to far places and new ways. She was five when her parents brought her to America, to New York. There she attended a convent and later the Horace Mann High School, but the family friends were largely Spanish and the traditions of old Spain were deeply cherished, part and parcel of their lives. They still are cherished in Olga’s heart, but rather as a memory, a precious heritage, for, as she herself puts it, with an expressive movement of her sensitive hands: “I am an American girl, I think that way!” “A New Yorker?” I suggested. She threw back her head. her bright eyes gleaming. “Of course I am—a real New Yorker! After all, I opened my eyes there!” And now that she has exchanged the glamorous aristo- cratic title of Countess Albani for the more democratic one of Mrs. H. Wallace Caldwell and adjusted herself to the typically pioneer-American family of her husband. she feels that she has proved herself to be more American than Latin, in spite of the flashing dark eyes, the jet black hair and smooth olive (Continued on page 75) 35

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Baseball magnates now are realizing the importance BASEBALL, like so many other forms of enter- tainment, is about to submit to a total conquest by radio. The daily broadcast of major league ball games, still bitterly opposed by the die-hards, soon will be a regular thing in all official major league cities. Regardless of a metropolitan agreement, which prohibits broadcasting from the Polo Grounds or Yankee stadium in New York, or from ‘Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn, and regardless of the stand taken by the owners in Washington and Pitts- burgh, the handwriting is on the wall. And it is in black ink, a color which rests easily on the eyes of the baseball magnates. Radio will win over baseball without the aid of the depression as an ally. The club owners have weathered the worst of the depression and attend- ances in both leagues were on the up-swing in 1935, with prospects of a bigger season this summer. It is not a cash shortage, but common sense which eventually will bring the microphones into the ball parks of all the majors. Due to the stubbornness with which radio is op- posed in four of the ten major league cities, it is next to impossible to get definite statements from league heads on the situation. Ford Frick, presi- dent of the National League, summed up the situa- tion for me in his office at Radio City the other day: “Our position on radio is similar to our stand on night baseball,” declared Frick. “We are bound by a sort of gentlemen’s agreement to take no definite stand on the matter. It is entirely within the province of the club owners to decide whether they wish broadcasting from their own parks and I have no authority to speak for them. If an owner decides to broadcast his home games, that’s his business. And if he decides that he does not wish his home games on the air, that also is his business and his alone. There is nothing for me to say. Since Frick, in a manner of speaking, catapulted into the presidency of the oldest major league, on the strength of the radio, it is but natural that he should have definite feelings on the subject of baseball broadcasts, whether or not he is allowed to air them officially. The rise of Frick to the office which John A. Heydler held for eighteen years was one of the most rapid in the history of the game. Ford Frick came to New York as a baseball writer in 1922, to work on the New York American. He trans- ferred to the New York Evening Journal in September, 1923, and remained there as a baseball writer until the summer of 1930, when he was given the job of sports commentator on WOR, continuing to write a sports column on the Journal. Frick was made head of the National League Service Bureau on March Ist, 1934, and was elected to the league’s presidency on December 10th, 1934, after being BY TOM MEANY

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RADIO Y of broadcasting the games connected with the league less than ten months. His pro- grams at that time had been commercially sponsored by the Dodge Company and by Chesterfield cigarettes, among others, so that he continued to broadcast throughout that year. Frick’s final contract was as master of ceremonies on the Chesterfield hour and that did not expire until De- cember 31st, 1934, so that for three weeks he was both National League president and radio announcer. In- deed, when the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America gave Frick a dinner at Leone’s on his elevation to the presidency, he had to ex- cuse himself during the ceremonies to handle the Chester- field program. Sounding out Frick on radio as an attendance inflator, I asked him what its effect was on other sports and learned that he has given it considerable study. “The chief benefits of radio to a sport seem to be ac- cumulative,” said Frick. “For instance, I question just how much radio means to boxing. Boxing is a one-shot sport. The enjoyment a listener receives from hearing a broadcast of a big fight does not necessarily mean that he will become so interested as to go to the next fight. “On the other hand, I think that the growth of inter- est in football may be traced almost directly to the radio. Until football games were broadcast, they held little in- terest for the man in the street. College graduates or those who had followed football (Continued on page 58) Above, Ford Frick, (left), president of the National League, with base- ball czar, Judge K. M. Landis.

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— GUESS you can say that everything I am, , everything I hope to be, can be blamed on the I bazooka,” said the First Citizen of Van Buren, Arkansas, reaching for the luncheon check and beating us by a good six inches. (We weren't, honestly, even trying.) “For if I hadn’t mastered it,” he explained, “I’d probably still be playing trombone in Professor Frank McClain’s Van Buren Queen City Silver Tone Cornet Band.” Van Buren, Arkansas, is one of those places you wouldn’t look for without bloodhounds, but its First Citizen, Bob Burns, can be found any Thursday night you happen to adjust your dials to Bing Crosby’s Kraft Cheese Hour. To the 5,122 inhabitants of Van Buren, Bob is the funniest guy in the world and they can’t be far from wrong, for the annual radio editors’ poll has just selected him as the most important new radio star of 1935. . To Bob Burns, Van Buren is the only city in Arkansas. There is some talk of a rising community called Little Rock, but good Van Burenites discount it. “Just a rumor,’ says Bob Burns. “If there was any truth in it, my uncle Enoch would have got wind of it by now. He hears everything.” Bob’s career actually began when he was six. His real name is Burn, and his family ina gay moment had tagged him Robin—so Robin Burn took to playing the mandolin, probably to forget. “Show me a good mandolin player,” he says, “and I'll show you a man who has forgotten.” Bob’s musical education was rapid and almost before any- one knew it, he was playing the trombone in maestro McClain’s sterling aggregation. “From the mandolin to the trombone is considered BY LEO TOWNSEND Bob Burns, of Van Buren, Arkansas, tootled his way to high fame upon a piece of gas-pipe

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progress in some circles,”’ says Bob. “In others it isn’t even mentioned.” “But what about the bazooka?” “Well, it all happened one night during band practise. Nowadays they call it rehearsal, but we just practised. Professor McClain had just whipped the cornet section into what could pass for a frenzy when I picked up a section of gas pipe and blew into it. A sound came out. ‘Bob,’ said the artist on the French horn, ‘you've got something there.’ ” What he had was the birth of the bazooka, on whose mellow notes Bob Burns has traveled from vaudeville in a honky tonk joint in New Orleans to fame as America’s new comic sen- sation on one of the nation’s biggest radio programs. The bazooka, in its present form, is a triumph of the tinsmith’s art. It consists of two lengths of gas pipe, one within the other, a former _whisky funnel and a wire which manipulates the inside pipe. Not exactly a musical instru- ment, it’s more a business of mind over matter. You blow through here, sort of, and with luck, the music goes ’round and around. Bob Burns was probably the laziest kid in Van Buren. He hated school and after two years at the state university he decided he’d had his quota of classrooms, so he packed up his bazooka and his brother, Farrar, and headed for New Orleans. “In Van Buren,” he explains, “if a lazy man makes If he doesn’t, he’s still lazy.” Thus, the début of the Burns brothers, billed as Jimmy Come and Jimmy Leave, at the Canal Airdrome in New Orleans, was one of the decidedly minor events of 1911. They worked seven nights a week, and received a dollar A dollar a night wasn’t good, he’s a dreamer. a night apiece for their efforts. good even in those days. Then Bob struck out on his own, working up a rube character for vaudeville which he considered just about He opened his act in Philadelphia, the home of the Frozen Face, and the only reaction he got from his sallies was from a drunk in the audience trying to make his getaway. “Don’t go, brother,” “You’re the only friend I’ve got here.” _ A cop and the house manager tossed out the drunk and _ Bob Burns, in the order named. (Continued on page 60) the funniest thing on the stage. pleaded our hero. BAZOOKA BOY MAKES Shorty, famous movie chimpanzee, listens intently as Bob Burns plays his bazooka. “If a lazy man makes good, he's a dreamer. If not, he's lazy,” says Bob. (Above) Bob and Don Wilson elevate Dixie Dunbar. 41

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Above is Sedley Brown, who handles the masculine quota of the Husbands and Wives broadcasts. Mr. Brown has been a suc- cessful musician, composer, ae and actor and as a gift of sympathetic understanding. Right, a studio scene during a broadcast. The men sit on one side of the studio and the women on the other. BY EVELYN EDWARDS ‘YOU'VE got a gruage against marriage, madam—if your husband eae money on other women, if the guy who used to be your Thrill sits around on Sundays with a beard like Rasputin and a crotchety disposition, if the old boy thinks he’s the deb’s delight and tries to act the part every time he sees a blonde, if your soulmate has turned out to be a tightwad, a viper, a rat, a slipper-snoozer, a jealous dodo or just a plain inconsiderate meanie—if you've got a grudge against marriage, that’s perfectly swell! If you’ve found a few flaws in the blessed matrimonial State yourself, sir—if your Sweet has a weakness for tall- dark-and-handsomes, if she wears her bathrobe and bob- curlers till mid-afternoon and puts unwashed milk bottles on the back porch, if she goes for purple sheets and expen- sive charge accounts and eating crackers in bed, if the little flower you married has blossomed into the common garden The Husbands and Wives program offers you a place to 42 variety of a shrew and the ache in your heart that used to be romance oe turned into a chronic pain in the neck that’s lovely! Go ahead and let it get you! Because there’s a new way to get your grudges off your chest these days. It's different. It’s ten times as powers ful. It’s been known to make Romeos of Rasputins an sirens of shrews, it keeps loud language out of the living room and saves the rolling pin for biscuits. It’s the Husbands and Wives program on the Mutu network, every Wednesday night at ten. You can tell you troubles to the world without getting a single sassy com back. And in case you’re mike-shy—well, you won't —not for long. There'll be plenty of other young an old marrieds right there with you, orating on their expé riences and discussing their problems. It’s a wonderful idea, really. The women sit at one ée of the studio and the men at the other. The place alway} | m5 h

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—e— / is crowded and often people wait weeks for their chance at the air, but it’s something worth waiting for. How else, unless you bind and gag your spouse, can you go to ' town on your favorite grudge without interference? Seriously, you'll learn a lot besides. You'll learn things that may send you home with a fresh and valuable slant on marriage and life. For invisible at all these programs sit courage, despair, humor, tragedy, love, defeat, joy, cruelty and fun. You see them when you scan the faces of the people around you. It’s like looking at husbands { ; : and wives the. world over—some have the eager breath- lessness of a bride and groom, some have faces pathetically | twisted. with misery and heartbreak, some have the kindly | wrinkles of experience and mellowed understanding that | come from years of inner growth. It’s a real. experience to attend a Husbands and Wives { broadcast. - Mrs. Allie Lowe Miles, above, originated this increasingly popular radio program, heard every Wednesday evening on the Mutual net- work. In her various careers as writer, actress, personal executive and wife and mother, Mrs. Miles has dealt with many of the problems of wives. Left, a broadcast of Husbands and Wives. Wide World Photos ON THE AIR.. The program was originated by Allie Lowe Miles, an attractive, sympathetic woman who for years, in her va- rious careers as writer, actress, personnel executive, mother and wife, has dealt with the problems of wives. Her business partner, Sedley Brown, handles the mascu- line quota of the broadcast. Mr. Brown has been a suc- cessful musician, composer, producer and actor; his expe- rience in the latter career comes in particularly well because actors must cultivate the ability to put themselves in other people’s shoes and often they’re able to cause a laugh where tears might have been shed. The other night before the program began I sat in the studio talking to these two interesting persons. “How did you happen to think of a program like this?” [ asked Mrs. Miles. “Well, it was an outcome of my other programs, the Allie Lowe Miles Club and the (Continued on page 91) tell your troubles to the world without any comeback 43

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“Ta é STATION) = ’ os | 4 , X, ' | Believe-it-or-not, Bob Ripley is mighty fond of Gracie Allen and George Burns look ould: “a that pensive collie pup. He enjoys raising them. but the pup seems posed in patient tolerance. a Al Jolson, of stage and screen, greets the family "Now, really,” says the prize ager Peke, of his Great Dane, “Madame Butterfly." "what manner of a man is this noff?" A ‘) ~ ‘ e" 5 a a of : ¢ i pee fC Tot .

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What do the barkers broad- cast? Loyalty and devotion! And all they ask of us is comradeship and kindness e's Great Hal Kemp, at home, persuades the kitten to eat full g says with Woof—but Mr. Woof courteously retreats. o \ ? Pal, the taiking dog, does his stuff before the mike with Portland Hoffa and Fred Allen.

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The Pennsylvanians re- hearse, playing a piece over and over. "What's the meaning of this amateur performance?" Fred asks. "That was awtull’’ Then he smiles. “I have my own ideas about expression,” says Fred Waring. "Our method of rendering a piece of music is wholly interpretative. It's the way | feel." 46

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FROM the top of his head to the tip of his toe, Fred Waring is certainly no more than five feet-seven. Napo- leon was five feet-five. And yet, Fred Waring is so big actually, that he had to or- ganize himself. His organ- ization spreads over an entire floor in one of the great broadcasting centers of New York. The Pennsylvanians re- ceive the tidy little sum of $15,- 000 every Saturday night in their pay envelopes. This goes for 52 weeks a year. In addition to that there are the remark- ably remunerative concert tours. And occasionally someone within hearing hires Fred and his orchestra for a ball or what not and pays $2,500 for the evening, f. 0. b. New York. But away back behind the cash register of Fred Waring there is another side that should be taken into consideration.. Stand by! Take it away, Broadway and _ Fifty-third Street ! We enter an elegant waiting-room on the seventh floor. This is Fred Waring, Inc. A telephone oper- ator challenges and then announces us. We glance timidly into a richly furnished office beyond, where a sedate gentleman is sitting. Then a door is opened and we are admitted back-stage where the real Fred Waring and Com- pany carry on. We sit down for a moment beside Ronnie Ames, Fred’s press agent jand general publicity director. Ronnie’s desk is piled high with letters, photographs and plans. One telephone after another rings, and the answer is always the same tenor: “Can’t do a thing until I see Fred about it... . ~ I'll speak to the Big Boy myself and see what can be done... . Fred War- ing’s the only one who can O. K. tate.” Messenger boys and delivery boys come and go; stenographers with letters to be signed; a newspaper reporter for some “dope” on Fred; the production manager with a sketch for the new set. Musicians, members of the artist en- semble—Snoony, the blonde comedy queen; Poley, the frog-voiced man; the property man. In passing, they all pause for a moment or two; for a word, a light, a joke, all impressing themselves upon us as being people of importance around the place. “By the way,” we ask, “will Fred Waring be coming in soon?” Ronnie has to laugh at this: one. “Didn’t you see him? He’s been in and out several times!” Oh, that modest little fellow who— well, that was Fred Waring all over! He doesn’t try to efface himself, or get out of people’s way, or act high-hat When he is needed he shows up in a big way and does something important. He is not only the man behind the works, he is the works. Rehearsal has been going on all the while, somewhere deep in these mam- moth caves of the “organization.” We accompany Fred. There are rooms on all sides flanked by cabinets and files, sliding doors, the library over-lorded by a librarian who keeps the 10,000 orchestrations (Continued on page 88) 47

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CAN A MARRIAGE STAND TWO CAREERS 2 ae s BY HELEN HOVER WO careers in a home? By all means! I ARRIAGE,” said’ Mrs. Phil Baker, “is 4 don’t think our marriage would have been so : twenty-four-hour job in itself. It can’t b happy if I didn’t work with Fred on his pro- MI treated casually or shoved in the background gram.” These were the emphatic words of ‘4, I don’t see how a woman can be a wife and Portland Hoffa. Portland, as you all know, mother, and careerist besides. For my part, | is Fred Allen’s “little woman” in private life, as well am entirely content to let Phil be the breadwinner and as his right-hand woman on his Town Hall Tonight the shining light of the family. programs. “Everyone, at some time or other, has reached a point The question as to whether a marriage has a chance of in his life where he must make a vital decision. Upon surviving with both partners enjoying a career has _ that decision rests the whole future. We make it as puzzled thousands of women all over the country. I choose a fork in the road upon which we must travel, ani talked it over with two famous radio wives—Portland the more we tread that road the farther away we get fror Hoffa, because she has kept up her career though mar- the other. In later years, we may wonder what woul ried—and Mrs. Phil Baker, (Continued on page 74) have happened if we had taken (Continued on page 74) § Portland Hoffa, who is Mrs. Fred Allen, works with = her husband. ————— oe tlt finds a 24-hour #

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George and Mrs. Olsen (Ethel Shutta), George pl foe BACK TOGETHER AGAIN George Olsen and Ethel Shutta can’t getalong—apart! BY RUTH GERI IKE the flowers need the sunshine,’ moaned the saxophones, while the strings crescendoed a paean of heart-throbbing melody, “—that’s how I need you!” aS ys The boyish bandleader turned his blond head away from the orchestra to flash a swift, confiding smile at one of the tables grouped near the bandstand of the smart rendezvous. “|. . like a baby needs it mother . . .” the music went on. The slim, golden-haired girl at the table sent back an _ answering smile, her blue eyes swam with adoration, and her lips silently framed the refrain: “. . . that’s how I Fr? need you It’s just one more old song, gathering dust on the shelves of music libraries, forgotten to the denizens of the dancing places who used to thrill to its sentiment—but to George Olsen and Ethel Shutta, it never was and never will be just a popular ditty that long since has enjoyed its brief place in the repertoire of popular orchestras. It’s even more than the intimately personal theme song of two people in love, more than just the song with which a bandleader sentimentally wooed his young bride. To them, the song has become an eternal verity, a leitmotif inextricably woven into the pattern of their lives and their careers. For two people who can’t—and won’t—get along with- out each other, the circumstances of the first meeting of George and Ethel furnish an ironic paradox. Shortly after organizing his band, George had been summoned from the coast by a telegram from Ziegfeld, who wanted him in Kid Boots with Eddie Cantor. Subsequently George was featured in other Ziegfeld shows, notably in Sunny. It was during a rehearsal of Kid Boots that the blonde featured singer suddenly stopped abruptly.. To the stage manager she complained bitterly : “He’s playing my music too (Continued on page 62) 49

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wide ¥ IT’S strange about the Ponselle sisters, Carmela and Rosa. You notice it first when you walk into their swank Riverside Drive penthouse. Half of it is fur- nished in brilliant streamlined moderne, all chromium and or- ange and black and rich soft carpetings. The setting for a movie star. That’s Carmela’s. The rest, jealously shut off to it- self by a grilled iron door, is like a wing from an old Venetian palace. High-ceilinged walls muralled in dusky colors, bare parquet floors, rooms crusty to overflowing with rare antiques and the mellow tapestries and trappings of the Italian Renaissance. That’s Rosa’s half—but you don’t go in there. You're calling on Carmela. Accordingly you're shown through the door on the right and a maid quickly closes it behind you. You’re a higher-up in the world of music, society, the theatre. You're planning a dinner party or reception. 50 a PLEASE STAY OF MY LIFE..4 Why are Carmela and Rosa Ponselle strangely divided in their public life? [f you know the Ponselles well enough to include them on your guest list—you don’t. Not both of them. One if you can manage it tactfully, or neither. Both woulda come together to the same party. They couldn't. You interview Rosa, for instance. Perhaps you me tion: “Do you and Carmela—?” but then you ae , and quickly break the question off unfinished. There # a standard answer, nicely put and to the point: “MB dear, I can speak only for (Continued on page 89)

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The fast pace of Modern Living puts an extra strain on Digestion Natural Digestive Action People in every walk of life get “keyed up.” The effects on digestion are known to all! In this connection, it is an : Notably Increased interesting fact that smoking a Camel during or between ‘ meals tends to.stimulate and promote digestion. Enjoy by Camel’s mildness ... the feeling of well-being fostered f by Camel’s matchless blend of costlier tobaccos. Camels Smoking Camels set you right. Smoke Camels for digestion’s sake! © 1936. R. J. Reynolds Tob. Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs. ERnEst Du Pont, Jr. of Wilmington, Delaware is justly proud of her charming house with its beautiful gardens —one of the historic landmarks of Delaware. Both Mr. and Mrs. du Pont are enthusiastic ahout yachting. And they are famous for their hospitality. Mrs. du Pont says: “I always enjoy Camels— all through the day—and during meals especially. They never seem heavy, and I like their flavor tre- mendously. They make the whole mealso much pleasanter. I’manat- urally nervous person. That’s an- other reason why I prefer Camels. They never get on my nerves, no matter how many I smoke.” Mrs, du Pont, photographed recently in the luxurious Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center, 65 stories above the streets of New York Among the many distinguished women who prefer > . COSTLIER Camel’s costlier tobaccos: at Mrs. Nicholas Biddle, Philadelphia Mrs. Henry Field, Chicago T O B A Cc C O S: Miss Mary Byrd, Richmond Mrs. Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, Virginia Camels are made from finer, Mrs. Powell Cabot, Boston Mrs. James Russell Lowell, New York MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr., New York Mrs. Jasper Morgan, New York T cl d 2 Mrs. J. Gardner Coolidge, II, Boston Mrs. Potter d’Orsay Palmer, Chicago ---Turkish and Domestic... Mrs. Byrd Warwick Davenport, Richmond Mrs. Langdon Post, New York than any other popular brand. Mrs. Brookfield Van Rensselaer, New York

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ROSEMARY IL JANIE, Ever since Fred Waring introduced the charming Lane sisters to the air-waves with his Pennsylvanians, their popularity has grown apace. Here is Rosemary, whose lovely singing voice is a feature of the Tuesday and Friday evening broadcasts.

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Usepearpae wa esas Skin faults start belo surface — Cells, glands, blood vessels under your skin. When they fail, un- der tissues grow thin — the outer skin folds into lines! Skin faults start! A Sign that UNDER TISSUES are Shrinking! HOSE mean little lines that creep in around your eyes, your mouth ... You are only 25. But people see them— “She’s every bit of thirty!” Or, you are over thirty ... but not a sign of a line. And everybody takes you for years younger than you are—‘“‘Not a _ day over 20!” _Do you know what those same little lines say to a dermatologist? He sees right through them to the under layers of your skin, and says: “It’s the wnder tissues at fault!” Keep away Blackheads, Blemishes —with Under Skin treatment Skin faults are not always a matter of ears. Look at the skin diagram above. hose hundreds of tiny cells, glands, fibres under your skin are what really make it clear and satiny—or full of faults! Once they fail, skin faults begin. But keep them active—you can, with Pond’s rousing “deep-skin” treatment—and your skin blooms fresh, line-free, as in your teens. Pond’s Cold Cream contains specially processed oils which reach deep into the pores. It floats out all the dirt, make-up, skin secretions that are starting to clog. Already, your skin looks fresher! More. . . You pat this perfectly bal- Miss Esther Brooks, much admired in New York this past winter, says: “Pond’s Cold Cream takes every speck of dirt out of my pores, keeps my skin clear of blackheads.” anced cream briskly into your skin... Start the circulation pulsing, oil glands working freely. Do this regularly—day after day. Be- fore long, cloggings cease. Pores grow finer. Blackheads, blemishes go . . . And a i iti ad ala AT Mrs. Eugene du Pont iI whose fresh, glowing skin just radiates youth and beauty, says: “Pond’s Cold Cream freshens me up right away ... It takes away that tired look and makes *late-hour” lines fade completely.” those myriads of little fibres strengthen! Yourskin grows firm underneath—smooth, line-free outside, where it shows. Here’s the simple Pond’s way to win the clear, glowing skin that never tells of birthdays. Follow this treatment day and night. Two things to remember Every night, cleanse with Pond’s Cold Cream. Watch it bring out all the dirt, make-up, secretions. Wipe it all off! ... Now pat in more cream briskly. Rouse that failing underskin. Set it to work again —for that smooth, line-free skin you want. Every morning, and during the day, re- peat this treatment with Pond’s Cold Cream. Your skin becomes softer, finer every time. Powder goes on beautifully. Start in at once. The coupon below brings you a special 9-treatment tube of Pond’s Cold Cream. SPECIAL 9-TREATMENT TUBE and 3 other Pond’s Beauty Aids POND’S, Dept. E-128. Clinton, Conn. Rush special tube of Pond’s Cold Cream, enough for 9 treat- ments, with generous samples of 2 other Pond’s Creams and 5 different shades of Pond’s Face Pow- der. I enclose 10¢ to cover postage and packing. Name Street State Copyright, 1936, Pond’s Extract Company City. 53

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EYE MAKE-UP yw MAYBELLINE EYE BEAUTY AIDS The Choice of Fastidious Women Of course you want the finest eye cosmetics that money can buy. It is generally accepted that Maybell- ine mascara has advantages not found in others. This pure and harmless eyelash darkener is preferred by discriminating women the world over, notonly because it is pos- itively non-smart- ing and tear-proof, but because it gives the most natural ap- pearance of long, dark, lustrous lashes, instantly...eye make- up done in good taste. Maybelline Mascara’s pure oil base does for your lashes what no ordinary mas- cara can do...it keeps them soft and silky! Always neat, compact, and easy to use, it comes in a beautiful red and gold metal vanity case, for just 75c, at allleadingdrug and Gs department stores, Refills for this case are only 35c, Try it today... you'll be de- All Maybelline preparations have this approval Generous introductory sizes of all Maybelline Eye Beauty Aids may be had at leading 10c stores MASCARA... EYE SHADOW EYEBROW PENCIL... EYELASH TONIC CREAM AND SPECIAL EYEBROW BRUSH 54 RADIO STARS No One Would Believe Jt (Continued form page 27) takes wisdom to understand that the finest men and women may be those who do not live according to the ritualistic “thou musts” and “thou must nots.” The wife wanted a divorce because she thought she could find normal happiness by living with a normal person. Bob gave it to her. She passed from his life. He heard she was married. He did not forget but plunged all of that driving, unconventional force into creating oddities for other people while silently nursing his own oddness. He had made up his mind that he could never make a wife happy. He still be- lieves it. And here comes the part of the story he thinks no one will believe. Bob has traveled in 181 countries. He says he is going to see all of them before he dies. I believe he will. He was on a visit to the Maya lands of Mexico. One of his friends arranged for him to travel with a sea captain who has been plying those waters for thirty years; who has taken part in many revolutions ; who knows thoroughly that land even to its Believe- It-Or-Nots. The captain urged Bob to stay in the Maya country with friends of his—a Spaniard and his American wife. An American wife could make an Ameri- can visitor more comfortable. The Captain talked much of this wife. When Bob took off in his plane from the ship’s destination, he asked his pilot about this family. The pilot knew husband and wife well. He talked freely. And before they had landed, Bob knew. A sixth sense had told him. He went to a native hut-hotel and sent the Spaniard’s wife a note. He signed it “Roy.” There was only one woman who would recognize that “Roy,” since his mother was dead. His real name is Rob- ert LeRoy Ripley. His mother called him “Roy.” And his wife. He could not ac- cept even prearranged hospitality if his sixth sense was right. A note came back immediately. He was right. Would he call at the home of a certain friend? The wife of a Spanish gentleman could not meet another gentle- man by appointment but if they chanced to call at the same house at the same time . .. Bob does not describe that meeting. The girl, who had been his wife when she was seventeen, faced him, surrounded by the conventionality she had been seeking. High- born Spaniards have more of it than most people. He faced her—a man who had become more and more unconventional; more and more famous and more and more certain that no woman ever could live with him. These two must have looked an en- tire novel into the eyes of each other. For they had loved once and loved madly. Nor does Bob tell the rest of that story, concerning the other side of him which is so dependable. Her husband had been dying of a dread disease. If there had been also poverty, I would bank my tiny account against Bob Ripley’s entire for- tune that the husband died in plenty, was buried with the ceremony with whichgwell- born Spaniards should be buried and that the wife lives in comfort today. And could anyone live happily today as the wife of Bob Ripley? Ah, believe it or not, I do not know. It would have to be a very unusual woman. It would have to be one who loved him so much that he and he alone counted. If he should disappear for three or four days and not even telephone her, her love would have to be so great that she would forgive him at once and never ask him a question. And she could not pretend to forgive. For he would see through a pretence as quickly as he sees through the strange freakish pretences and truths of the world about him, Yet she would have to be intelligent and bright enough to have an outlet of her own so that she would have something to occupy her mind and her heart while he ~ was wandering down those strange, unex- — plored paths known only to himself and which would never be known to her. Of course, he is not happy. Genius seldom makes a man or a woman happy. He wonders what keeps him going. “I still wish I were in Paris on the Left Bank, in a garret, watching a woman's thin arm reach out for the milk bottle or whatever | it would be that would keep us from starving,” he told me. “Success is so much | responsibility. And what—just what— does it get you?” The little boy who was born in Santa ~ Rosa, California, and lived in a house with | only a kitchen because there was not enough money to build a front to it ... The little boy who dreamed of making five hundred | dollars to pay off the mortgage and finally made it before it was paid. The little boy who dreamed of becoming a real artist in a garret in Paris, with a wife who would get thin because she loved him enough to/ dream and starve and work with him. That little boy still lives—in a palatial home. And you can believe it or not but this is the untold true story of a strange’ man whose business is dealing with strange} people. Mathew Crowley, original Buck Rog ers, resumed the popular role after ¢ acting career on the Broadway stag

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~ RADIO STARS The most tragic triangle of all— HUSBAND...WIFE anv/ FEAR | Back of most marriage failures, | say family doctors, is woman's fear, born of ignorance and half- truths. ‘Lysol’ would help to pre- vent many such needless tragedies. BEN ORANCE of proper marriage hygiene, and the ‘‘incompat- ibility” it brings, is estimated to be the cause of more than half the divorces in America today. The nervous fears of a wife... her Natural reluctance to be frank about such a delicate subject...a husband’s puzzled resentment. These are the | rocks on which thousands of mar- | Tiages crash. How stupid—how sad—that this tragedy should go recklessly on — when there is one simple method which has earned the confidence of millions of women who use it regularly... the “Lysol” method. There are two important ‘properties of ‘‘Lysol’? which make it valuable in antiseptic marriage hygiene. (1) It has an exceptional spreading quality; it reaches germs where many ordi- nary methods can’t reach. And, (2) it remains effective in the presence of organic matter (mucus, serum, etc.) when many products don’t work. Yet in the proper solution, “‘Lysol” is dependable and harmless to sensi- tive tissue. So dependable and harm- less, it is used in the delicate opera- tion of childbirth. The use of “Lysol” gives a reassur- ing sense of antiseptic cleanliness. But, far more important, it gives you peace of mind, free from that tension of suspense that leads to so many needless heartaches. The 6 Special Features of “Lysol” 1. Sarery...“Lysol” is gentle and reliable. It contains no harmful free caustic alkali. Disinfectant 2. EFFECTIVENESS...“Lysol” is a true germi- cide, which means that it kills germs under practical conditions...even in the presence of organic matter (such as dirt, mucus, serum, etc.). Some other preparations don’t work when they meet with these conditions. 3. PENETRATION...“‘Lysol” solutions, because of their low surface tension, spread into hid- den folds of the skin, and thus virtually search out germs. 4. Economy...“Lysol”, because it is concen- trated, costs less than one cent an application in the proper solution for feminine hygiene. 5. Opor...The cleanly odor of “Lysol” dis- appears immediately after use. 6. Stasiuity...“Lysol” keeps its full strength, no matter how long it is kept, no matter how often it is uncorked. New! Lysol Hygienic Soap...for bath, hands, and complexion. Cleansing and deodorant. FACTS MARRIED WOMEN SHOULD KNOW Leun & Fink, Inc., Bloomfield, N. J., Dept. RSS Sole Distributors of “‘Lysol’’ disinfectant Please send me the book called “LYSOL vs. GERMS”, with facts about Feminine Hygiene and other uses of “Lysol”. Name. Street Coy eee SS a SS Stappe oe © 1936, Lehn & Fink, Inc. wn on

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: Do CANDLELIT dinner tables appear in your When-to-be-Beautiful Chart these early spring months? Then make this simple, amusing experiment: First, make up your face. Then, with Kurtasn, curl the lashes of one eye. Add LAsuTInT to these lashtips and touch the eyelid with SHapETTE. Now light a candle and look in a mirror. Notice how the side of your face with the eye un- beautified “fades away”... but how the other seems more delicately tinted, glow- ing and alive. It’s the best way we know to ° discover how eyé make-up and curled and eee lashes can make your whole face ovelier. KurtasH does it without heat, cosmetics or practice. ($1 at good stores.) Naturally, the candlelight test will show up straggly, bushy, or poorly marked brows. And that will be your cue to send for TwEEzETTE, the automatic tweezer that whisks away offending hairs, roots and all, painlessly! Probably you'll want a LasH- PAC also, with a unique stick of mascara, like a lipstick, to darken lashes and mark brows. It has a clever little brush for groom- ing too! Each, $1—at good stores. e Have you tried Twissors—the new tweezers with scissor handles—marvel- ously efficient—25c, Write Jane Heatu for advice about eye beauty. Give your coloring for personal beauty plan. Address Dept. MM-5. Kurlasle The Kurlash Company, Rochester, N. Y. The Kurlash Company of Canada, at Toronto, 3. 56 Pes ee “oe > ee, a el Oe RADIO STARS The Radio Hostess (Continued from page 15) so well—at Lindy’s or Dave’s Blue Room or at Jack Dempsey’s famous restaurant over by Madison Square Garden, for the two Jacks are old friends. But I seem to be getting a little ahead of my story so let’s start at the begin- ning—'way back at the moment when I decided to find out about the food pref- erences of Jack Benny and his almost equally famous stooge and wife, Mary Livingstone—for that’s where the fun be- ‘gan! And if you think getting a Benny interview isn’t as much fun as listening to a Benny program, you're tuned in on the wrong station! First I informed Jack’s sponsors that in order to do justice to my subject I really felt that I should go to one of his { broadcasts. To my complete surprise my little scheme worked! And with some ten thousand people clamoring for tickets I found myself the proud possessor of a pair of passes to the famous Jello Sunday evening broadcast—watching Jack with his long black cigar sharing a mike with Mary—seeing as well as hearing the amazingly youthful Kenny Baker (visit- ing New York for the first time, through his connection with this program)—gaz- ing with rapt attention at Johnny Green’s fingers flying over the piano keys and laughing with jovial Don Wilson. The next requirement was to corner the Bennys in a free moment and in their own home. During their present short stay in New York, before returning to Hollywood, this famous couple are living in the Burns and Allen apartment atop one of New York’s swankiest hotels. Here I caught Jack and Mary on the wing—half way between an afternoon re- hearsal and an evening theater party— trying to crowd into a couple of spare hours a hurried dinner and the usual be- fore-bed-time visit with their adopted daughter. “Gosh!” said Jack, while drinking the tomato juice first course of their dinner, as the photographer prepared his camera, “No one has any idea how busy we are! You shoot questions at us and we'll sup- ply the answers while we eat.” “Fine!” said I, pencil poised. “What do you like to eat?” “Anything!” was the quick rejoinder. “Mary and I are the original Jack Spratts in reverse. I eat too much of everything and Mary eats too little of anything.” It was not, however; difficult to pin Jack down to special preferences—all typically American and extremely simple as I said before. Meat dishes and pies came in for Mr. Benny’s highest praises while Mary favors salads, especially one she told me she first had tasted on her latest trip to Hollywood. “Tt’s called Limon Salad,” said Mary. “Did you say Lime or Lemon?” I in- quired, pencil poised in uncertainty. “Neither—but both,” replied Mary. “I'll spell it for you. L-i-m-o-n. Cute?” And the accompanying giggle was given in her best radio manner. “Somebody else invented it, but I named it,’ she continued. That’s one up on Don Wilson—he’s never mentioned it on the air. But give the boy time, he will!” Well, perhaps he will, in time. But I’m beating him to it, for I obtained the “ex- clusive rights” to Mary’s recipe and if Don Wilson wants to broadcast it he'll have to send for one of the Radio Host- ess’ recipe leaflets! Of course, you'll want to do that, too, for you'll find a coupon at the end of this article which is easy to fill in, a cinch to mail and a guarantee that you'll receive Mary’s famous Limon Salad recipe to gether with some other Benny favorites about which I am going to tell you. One is a fruit pie that you'll love serv- ing at seven some Sunday night this Spring. (Sounds like the title for a song, doesn’t it?) The filling for this particula pie was new to me. It seems that the idea originally came from Waukegan, Illinois ~ —like Jack Benny! It’s name, Strawberry i Rhubarb Pie will give you a clue to the ingredients but only a hint of its delicious ness. You'll find that the directions in the leaflet, for making this pie, are simple. For the next recipe we'll have to travel farther West—to Hollywood, in where another dish graces the Bennys’ a fact i buffet as a party dessert. : “It’s an ice-box-cake sort of thing,” said Mary, ‘a combination of oranges, — lemon juice, lady fingers and whipped — cream. I suppose you'd like me to give you a name for it as well as the recipe Well, let’s call it California Compan Cake,” she suggested. “Why not ‘California Here I Com-pan Cake?” punned Jack. With that I beat a hasty retreat and went on to my next destination, Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant, where they had promised to give me a couple of recipes for the dishes that Jack Benny always orders when he goes there. I consider the i} 1 | . | two I secured there quite a feather in my ~ cap. For, besides being great favorites of — Jack Benny’s and of many other radio” stars, these dishes are the original crea tions of Jack Dempsey’s famous chef, Gus Halletz, and cannot be found in any coo book. Despite Mr. Halletz’ Viennese origin they are typically American they would have to be to appeal to Benny. The first, which I am giving you at the end of this article is for Jack’s Delight. You'll find it listed under that very name on the menu over at Dempsey’s Restau rant—where celebrities in fields of spo letters and politics, as well as those o radio and the stage, rub elbows with thi out-of-towners. And where the out-of towners write their names in the three foot-high book from which they are copie¢ and sent direct to their home town papers The second recipe—which you'll be able to get all neatly printed by sending fo the Benny leaflet-—is for Lamb Stew. It’s called Bachelor’s Special on the bill-ot% fare, but many’s the married man, beside Jack Benny, who will cheer over its good . ness and flavor. While the women-foll will be amused and delighted with the: q . - ~ x - ~~

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lines included in Mr. Halletz’ recipe di- rections : “After you have tied the ingredients se- curely in vegetable parchment,” he writes, “set the alarm clock 45 minutes ahead. Sit down with your favorite cigarette and your newspaper. Forget about the Lamb Stew until the clock rings. Then lift the package out carefully and place it in a heated bowl. Untie the string and in your airtight package you will find everything nature has to offer in the line of a health- ful meal with delicious, appetite-arousing flavor.” What more could you ask—except the chance to prove the truth of Mr. Halletz’ statement by trying out his recipe your- self? Included with the three other Benny favorites (Waukegan Strawberry-Rhu- barb Pie, Limon Salad and -California Here I Come-pany Cake), this well-liked specialty from such a famous New York restaurant supplies extra distinction to this month’s recipe leaflet. So send for _ your free copy of the recipes, now. : There is still another reason why I urge you not to delay. It happens that Jack’s sponsors, the Jello Company, have sent us just 1,000 copies of their new _ booklet for distribution to our readers and _ naturally these booklets, together with our own recipe leaflet, will go to the first thousand who write in. Attractively print- | ed in color and containing many new rec- | ipes for desserts and salads, they are well worth having. And when you think that you do not even have to enclose a stamp or envelope—just your coupon from the Radio Hostess Department—it is indeed a generous offer. Included in the book, also, are some simple rules for molding and unmolding, for adding fruits and vegeta- bles so that they do not slip (there to remain, alas!) to the bottom of the mold, and for making professional looking whips and creams. So Don’t Wait! Meanwhile to be sure to try out the fol- lowing dish, too. Only by a special trip _ to Dempsey’s could you taste its counter- part. “JACK’S DELIGHT (per person) 2 thin slices cooked Virginia Ham 2 eggs Y4ecup heavy, sweet cream 2 (Y%-inch thick) slices of Idaho potatoes, fried Place slices of cooked Virginia Ham in buttered earthen dish (the kind that can be placed over direct heat). Heat for a few minutes. Pour cream over ham and heat slowly until cream reaches the boiling point. Poach the eggs slowly in this mix- ture. Add slices of potatoes which have been placed, raw, in deep, hot fat and fried until done. Serve immediately in same dish. THE RADIO HOSTESS DEPARTMENT, RADIO STARS MAGAZINE, 149 Madison Ave., N. Y. C, Please send me recipes for Jack Benny’s favorite foods—at abso- lutely no cost to me. BhOLG.eke ee b)S.CheT vein es cveve fs 9 010 'w ece RADIO STARS 3¢ A PORTION WE TRY TO LIVE ON A BUDGET BUT MY FOOD BILLS ALWAYS RUN OVER —— EER ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DISCOVERY. IT COSTS LESS THAN my husband says it’s a “MILLIONAIRE’S DISH” “‘ TOHN’S fussy about food and season- J ings. It’s not often he gets enthu- siastic. But I don’t think I ever serve Franco-American Spaghetti that he doesn’t say, ‘This is positively the fin- est spaghetti I ever tasted!’ Helps me save “Franco-American not only costs very little itself, but helps me save on other dishes, too. It makes inexpensive cuts of meat so tasty and tempting. It combines wonderfully with left-overs. And I often have it for lunch or sup- per in place of meat. It’s the biggest help I know in planning ‘economy’ meals we really enjoy eating!” Far and wide Franco- American is becoming known as “the spaghetti with the extra good sauce.” The cheese and ‘tomato are combined in exactly the right proportions. The seasoning is so skilfully done. There’s plenty of zest, but no strong over-seasoning; instead, you find a subtle blend of flavors, a delicate piquancy that de- lights you anew every time you taste it. Yet a can all ready to heat and serve is usually no more than ten cents, actually less than 3c a portion. You couldn’t prepare spaghetti at home for so little. Think of all the different ingredients you need for the sauce (Franco-American chefs use e/even/), the cost of cooking them, the time and troubleit takes. It’s decidedly more economical to buy Franco- American. Order several cans today. MA DEVRY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELL’S SOUPS 57

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If it does not satisfy you better than any powder you have ever used, keep the flacon of La Richesse Perfume worth 75c and mail us the partially used box of Luxor face powder. We will send you our check for the 55c you paid, plus the postage. Thus with the 75c gift ap efame, plus our check for 55c you get 24% times what you paid for Luxor if you are not satisfied. Act now! 90° moisture-proof FACE-POWDER Coupon brings 4-piece make-up kit! Luxor, Lrp., 1355 W. 31st Street Chicago, Illinois Dept. J-3 Please send me your 4-piece make- up kit including generous amount o Luxor Moisture-Proof Powder, Lux- or Rouge, Luxor Special Formula Cream and Luxor Hand Cream. Here is 10c to help cover re ( Offer not good in Canada). Check, Try Amazing Powper: Rose Rachel O Rachel 0 New Luxor Flesh O Hand Cream Roucg: Radiant 0 Medium O This marvelous SunglowO Pastel O new skin softener Vivid O RoseblushO keeps hands soft, white, smooth, tis Nisteees .iccccsee seston cmetenesteacuvoclepaaesiene is guaranteed non- sticky and dries instantly. At all cosmeticcounters. Address .. CSIP Tovicccsircsaseazte reside tvcocsasmaqreenencanaia reste 5 58 * RADIO STARS yy 7 , +"? om “* : ata ee ike Sys res J ra Home Run por Radio (Continued from page 39) in high school were the principal cus- tomers for football games. Now the gen- eral. public is interested, due to the fact that broadcasts have popularized the game. “In all ball parks, opening day games are broadcast. All World Series games have been broadcast in recent years and the All-Star game has been broadcast since it was instituted in 1933. I can’t honestly say that I have seen any de- crease in the attendance as a result. “There is no doubt that the broadcast of baseball games has a harmful effect on the attendance on’ days when the weather is bad. Fans, uncertain whether or not the game will be played, prefer to save themselves what may be a futile trip to the ball park. Instead, they’ll take their game in comfort over the loud speaker. Some cities now issue a noon broadcast, a ten-or-twelve word announcement, tell- ing whether or not the game has been called off.” In Mid-Western cities, where the games have been broadcast daily for sev- eral years, Frick admitted that there was more interest shown by women fans. “In cities where games are broadcast daily, I have noticed that about 20 per cent. of the paid attendance is composed of women fans,” he said. “Here in the East, women rarely constitute more than 2 per cent. of the cash admissions.” That radio wins the fair fans to the games, there is no doubt. I once saw 25,- 000 women throng Wrigley Field in Chi- cago to see a game between the Cubs and Dodgers in 1930, on a Ladies’ Day. Both clubs were in the pennant fight and the women fans, having listened to the daily broadcasts, stormed the ‘park on the day when they were to have free admission. Chicago, which was the first city to es- tablish daily broadcasts, is the No. 1 city for women fans. So many used to come to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs that now, instead of a certain day each week being set aside for them, they have to write in for special Ladies’ Tickets, which admit them free to one week-day game. This precludes a jam such as that of 1930, when cash customers had to be denied ad- mission, while the women swarmed over the park and on to the playing field. The new converts to radio are the two Philadelphia clubs. Both sold to a break- fast food company the radio rights to their games and got a good price, a sum which figures to take up the slack in at- tendance there, particularly in the Amer- ican League. Cincinnati has sold to an oil company the rights to broadcast its Redland Field games. Although Powell Crosley, the radio mogul, is president of the Cincinnati Club and that city has been a radio sports cen- ter, games there were not broadcast on a full-time basis last season. It was the custom to announce the progress of the game at fifteen-minute intervals through- out the afternoon. This practice frequently led to some humorous situations. On a rainy Sunday last May, the Giants were scheduled for a game there but the weather was such that it seemed impossible for the game to be played. So many tickets had been sold in advance that the club decided to make every effort to play, postponing the start of the game for over an hour until the — field was in shape. Some of the New York baseball writ- ers with the team hung around the hotel, waiting for the fifteen-minute announce- ments as to the condition of the field. Finally the loud speaker blared: “The game is on here at Redland Field, folks. It is the first half of the first in- ning, New York at bat and the score is 0 to 0. There are two out, the bases are filled and Mel Ott is at bat. The count is three balls and two strikes. We will now return you to the studio and will have another announcement from Redland Field in fifteen minutes.” You can bet that the truant baseball writers wasted no time in piling into a cab and dusting out to the ball park. With the Reds now on a_ full-time broadcasting basis, situations such as the one described in the preceding paragraph no longer are possible. Incidentally, the Cincinnati Club was one if the first to realize the value of broadcasts during the spring training season. Bob Newhall, a former baseball writer who now has be- come one of the best known sports com- mentators on Mid-Western air waves, travels to Tampa, Florida, the spring base of the Reds, to broadcast nightly. Red Hartmann, another radio announcer from Cincinnati, also bas taken up the practice. Both Chicago clubs also have broad- casters accompany them to spring training. Hal Totten was the first from the Windy City, making a transcontinental tour in 1931, which carried him to Catalina Island, across the bay from Los Angeles, and to San Antonio, Texas, before he returned to Chicago. Morning comments on the game of that afternoon are made at various intervals in St. Louis. In that city the National League team dropped daily broadcasts for one summer, but promptly returned to the air waves. The stations there hold base- ball programs at night once or twice a week when various stars of the home team are brought to the microphone. St. Louis’ National League team re- turned to the air waves because President Sam Breadon appreciated the tremen- dous appeal daily broadcasts carried to fans within a two-or-three-hundred-mile radius. On Sunday games there, the Cardinals attract fans from the neighbor- ing states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Arkansas. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and De- troit have found radio to have some “dis- tance-appeal.” Sunday games in those cities are patronized by fans living hun- dreds of miles away, who come in on ex+ cursions to see in action the teams that they have been hearing about via the radio % through the week. ; This is particularly true in Detroit. The a) Vane Ld Ra .

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Sundays on NBC, in Personalities in the News. success of the Tigers in the last two sea- sons has resulted in fans from various _ Michigan and Canadian cities making reg- ular pilgrimages to Navin Field to see their heroes perform. Detroit’s home games are broadcast daily by Ty Tyson and Harry Heilmann, the latter one of the greatest outfielders in Detroit’s baseball history, co-star of glamorous Ty Cobb. Heilmann is one of the few ball play- ers who was able to make a name for himself as a broadcaster after his retire- ment. Jack Graney, in Cleveland, is another. Tris Speaker had some success for a while in Chicago but soon dropped sports announcing. Curiously enough, Frick himself did lit- tle actual broadcasting of baseball games. _ He broadcast a Cardinal-Dodger series from Ebbets Field in September, 1930, when both teams were neck-and-neck coming down the stretch in the pennant drive, and also handled the World Series _ that fall, which was between the Athletics and Cardinals. Frick made a series of synthetic broad- casts in September, 1933, when the Giants battled their way to a pennant under Bill Terry. It happened that all of the Giants games during that month were played on the road, otherwise he might have made the actual broadcasts from the Polo Grounds. As it was, Frick worked from the Journal office. His close knowledge of the teams and the players, coupled with the graphic and minute play-by-play de- scription wired in from Boston, Pitts- _ burgh and way stations by Garry Schu- macher, the Journal correspondent, en- abled Frick to give so excellent a broad- cast that it was only the station announce- ments which allowed the listener to dis- cover that he was not on the scene. Radio has proved to a majority of big league club owners that it has not af- fected attendance, but serves, instead, as a stimulus. No city which permitted daily baseball broadcasts has reversed itself. And, besides, commercial sponsors stand ready to pay cold, hard cash for the privilege. Is it any wonder, therefore, that the day is not far off when the last of the baseball die-hards will have been won to the field of radio? RADIO STARS COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS AGAIN! THAT MEANS HE HASN'T A JOB YET! = E | SO DO I...BAD BREATH! t qi) HE'S SUCH A NICE BOY, TOO. WHY HE'S STILL THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF A JOB! TOHELP HIM.eee yg xq mci Br JIM INVESTIGATES YES, IMPROPERLY CLEANED TEETH ARE BY FAR THE COMMONEST CAUSE OF BAD BREATH. BECAUSE ITS SPECIAL PENETRATING FOAM GETS TEETH REALLY CLEAN! \ —— 550s AE J PLL CHANGE VA | TO COLGATE'S |SS ra TEN DAYS LATER HERE’S A REALTIP OH, THANK YOU, FOR YOU AT LAST, ANN! MR. ROGERS! PVE GOT A SWELL NO OTHER TOOTHPASTE EVER MADE MY TEETH SO BRIGHT AND CLEAN! rad fugy te oe Ar = | Most Bad Breath Begins with the Teeth! ILLIONS realize how true this is, and use Colgate Dental Cream for real protection. Its special penetrating foam removes decaying food deposits lodged between the teeth, along the gums, and around the tongue—which dentists agree cause most bad breath. At the same time, a unique, grit-free ingredient polishes enamel— makes teeth sparkle. Try Colgate Dental Cream—today! Brush your teeth, your gums, your tongue, with Colgate’s. If you are not entirely satisfied after using one tube, send the empty tube to COLGATE, Jersey City, N. J. We will refund TWICE what you paid. OLGATE RIBBON DENTAL CREAM LARGE SIZE Giant Size, over | twice as much, ? .

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You would see some of the fields where the vegetables for Gerber’s Strained Foods are grown—fertile gardens under our own control to produce the finest possible specimens for feeding your baby. Raising “Home Grown” vegetables is not enough. Harvested exactly when they offer the high- est food value, they are rushed to our kitch- ens to prevent the loss of vitamins that occurs when vegetables are exposed to the delays of transportation and storage. And every one of our farms is less than an hour’s trucking distance away! Add to this care in growing, a process that protects the essential vitamins and minerals, and you have the reasons why Gerber’s wins the praise of experts on baby feeding. Ask your doctor about Gerber’s. Gerber’s Are Shaker-Cooked For the same reason that you stir food as you heat it, every can is shaken during the cooking process to insure thorough, even temperature throughout the can, thus per- mitting a shorter cooking time and giving Gerber’s a fresher appear- ance and flavor, Gerber Shaker-Cooked Strained Foods “= j STRAINED TOMATOES, GREEN BEANS, BEETS, CARROTS, PEAS, SPINACH, VEGETABLE SOUP, ALSO, STRAINED PRUNES AND CEREAL. See eee ee ee - ‘ Your Baby Will Enjoy ¥ soy the New Gerber Doll i Send 10¢ and Three Gerber ae | labels for this little sateen, , stuffed Doll. Specify whether WF boy or girl doll is desired. GERBER PRODUCTS COMPANY 105 FREMONT, MICHIGAN (In Canada: Grown and Packed by Fine Foods of Canada, Ltd., Tecumseh, Ont.) NAME _ spt a en : ADDRESS CITY SSA ee AGE OF BABY. “Mealtime Psychology”, +a 1 booklet on n infant feeding sent free on request. “Baby Book”, on general infant care, 10c additional. 60) RADIO STARS Laz00ka Roy Makes Good (Continued from page 41) From frustration in Philadelphia to suc- cess in Atlantic City was but a stone’s throw for Bob. It was in Atlantic City that he packed the rube character act in moth balls and opened a couple of con- cessions on the pier. It was here also that he met the comely concessionaire who now is Mrs. Burns. They cleaned up $8,500 their first summer in the carnival business, and invested it in a dance hall. Their net loss on this enterprise was $8,500. With no money and his wife expecting an heir to the Burns misfortunes, Bob joined the Lew DuFour Exposition Shows in South Carolina, where he became known as the only honest concessionaire in carnival business. During the off sea- son he wintered in Greenville and kept his new son in Grade A by making hu- morous speeches at Rotary Club luncheons and other such gatherings. But the siren call of the stage sounded once more, and Bob returned to vaudeville, this time with a partner, doing a blackface act known as Burns and West. “But why blackface?” we “T guess mainly so they wouldn't rec- ognize me in Philadelphia,’ said Bob. For eight years Bob spent his winters under charcoal and his summers under canvas. Vaudeville all winter and car- nival all summer gives a guy an insight into human nature which few persons have the opportunity to absorb and what Bob learned in those years accounts for his type of humor being so popular with all classes of audiences today. In 1930, during the height of the Amos n’ Andy rage, the movies were grabbing off all the available blackface comedians asked him. ——_ June Walker, clever comedienne of Sigmund Romberg's Swift Studio Pa and former star of many Broadway productions, chats with Deems Taylor master-of-ceremonies of this merry musical program heard each Thursda ? in the country, so Bob found himself in_ Hollywood with a year’s contract at Fox ~ studios. When he reported for work the | first day, an executive told him to go” home and practice negro dialect. For three months Bob you-alled around the house until at last the great day came. The studio had a part for him. He rushed over and discovered himself cast as a captain in the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob’s still trying to figure that one out and,” even now, when you ask him about the movies, he thinks of the gallant mounti¢e with the plantation drawl. For the next two years Bob made a liv- ing playing banquets and small night” clubs around Hollywood. It got so that” every time he saw more than two people at a table he began making a speech. Radio station KFI heard about him, and™ he was given a sustaining program called | The Fun Factory. After a year the sta- tion decided to wreck his amateur stand- ing by paying him $7.50 per broadcast. After his first paid program, the studio discovered it- had exceeded its budget, so | Bob was dropped. “I thought all the time | that $7.50 was a little high,’ he said, “but } I didn’t want to say anything.” At that point another program hired him, and for two and a half years Bob was Goodwill Ambassador for the Gil- more Oil Company. Then came a year on KHJ’s Sunday night Hi Jinks program —and then came restlessness, for Bob had_ his heart set on the Rudy Vallee Hour. Armed only with a letter to Gordon Thompson, the program’s production man- ager, Bob stormed New York, told 4 Thompson he was from Arkansas and | wanted an audition. ~~.

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“From Arkansas? Then where are your boots?” demanded Thompson, whose daily existence is haunted by hill billy howlers seeking radio fame. “People from Arkansas don’t need boots to prove it,’ answered Bob. “Only the Ozark mountaineers from Brooklyn use ’em.” Bob got his audition and startled the program directors by telling them his folks back in Van Buren would probably be disappointed when they heard him on the Vallee program. | “You see,” he said, “I told everybody 'in Van Buren I was coming east to get on Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour. Then I found out you’ve got to be known to ' get on that program, so I guess I'll just “have to take what I can get.” | That cinched matters for Bob, and he was signed for one appearance on the Vallee program. The morning after the broadcast he rushed into Mr. Thompson’s ‘office and slapped a pile of papers on his | desk. “What's that?” asked Thompson. | “My script for next week,” replied Bob. | He got the job. Four appearances on ‘the Vallee Hour and eight with Paul : Whiteman brought such a deluge of fan mail that Whiteman’s sponsors signed him | to a 26-week contract for their Bing | Crosby program. And today he’s one of the most popular performers on the air | waves and the only major comic discov- ery of the past two years. ' On his way back to Hollywood to start the Crosby series Bob stopped off in Van Buren to receive the most terrific welcome ever accorded a native son of that com- | munity. December 9th was designated by \the mayor as “Bob Burns Day,” and when |The Cannonball rolled in for a special ‘stop at Van Buren that morning, four | bands and the entire town were at the ‘station. School was out, banks were ‘closed, lamp posts were festooned with ‘pine and cedar (so the decorations could ‘be held over for Christmas!) and the 'Press-Argus printed a_ special edition which announced, among other things, that '“Bob Burns believes in long woolen under- wear in the winter. He’d sooner be warm than stylish.” Right now Bob Burns is sitting pretty. His salary, as the saying goes, runs into four figures, but he still lives in the same '$27.50-a-month apartment he had before he became successful. His humor is spon- taneous and he works up all his own ma- \terial. His wife is his try-out audience. “She has Indian blood in her,” Bob ex- Plains. “She’s part Choctaw, which is 'about as low as an Indian can get. When I read her one of my jokes and she says nothing I throw it out. But if she says ‘Ugh! I know it’s a smash.” And that’s Bob Burns, one of the most unassuming and likable persons it’s been ‘our pleasure to know. He’s big, good- natured, comical, and, if you'll excuse the word, homespun. It’s hard not to sound press-agenty about a guy whose prize pos- session is a large signet ring on which is engraved $7.50.” “That $7.50 was my first radio salary,” says Bob, “and the ring is just a reminder )—in case my hat starts getting tight.” But success will never touch Bob’s head. It’s our suspicion that the Burns fedora, Same size as it is now, will always rest comfortably on the Burns brow. —" “os was Oo : RADIO STARS e “Listen—yowre my twin and best pal—but it'll be a cold day when I go traveling with you again! Crab—whine —boo-hoo...all the way home! I know what you need though—watch me unpack our suitcase and get it!” e “Now stop your whimpering! I know you’re chafed and hot and cranky—I don’t feel any too comfortable myself, I am hurrying, aren’t I? I'll find it if I have to dig clear through to China!” e “There you are! Now will you take back what you said about me? Sprinkle yourself with that soft downy Johnson’s Baby Powder and smile for a change. And then give some to Sister!” e “I’m Johnson’s Baby Powder—Vll defend your baby’s skin from chafes and rashes . . . I’ll keep it soft and satin-smooth—I’m that way myself! No gritty particles in me as in some powders—and no orris-root. I’m made of the purest, finest Italian talc. (Your baby will like Johnson’s Baby Soap, Baby Cream, and Baby Oil, too! )’’ 61

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A com Showers Tuere’s glorious fragrance — the perfume of youth —in April Showers Talc. There’s luxury supreme in its soothing, smoothing touch. Yet the cost is low for quality so high. No wonder it’s the most famous and best loved talcum powder in the world! RADIO STARS Rack Together Again (Continued from page 49) loudly !” She pointed to the flustered Olsen. “I can’t get along with him!” That night Olsen was waiting outside when Ethel left the theater. “Now suppose we talk over this music,” he suggested. They’ve been talking it over since—but Ethel never has repeated that original complaint—that she can’t get along with George! To say that George Olsen needs Ethel Shutta, and that Ethel Shutta needs George Olsen is to voice but a half-truth. Ethel was a star before she ever set eyes on the handsome bandleader; Olsen had attracted such wide attention before they met that the late Florenz Ziegfeld engaged him for Kid Boots by wire without ever having heard his music. So not by the wildest stretch of the imagination can it be said that George has depended in the slightest degree upon Ethel for his success, nor vice versa. Nevertheless, without each other, the urge to achieve is gone. George without Ethel finds success more or less monotonous; Ethel without George can’t see any use in bothering to work. All the fun’s gone out of it. Let memory carry you back to Ethel’s earlier commercial program, in which she was featured with Walter O’Keefe, and on which she sang her inimitable songs in her inimitable style. She was as they say on Broadway, tops. But listen to her now, singing with her husband’s band, on eee Bic their own program from Chicago, and you'll realize that here is a different girl The same goes for George. If you will remember, while Ethel was on the O’Keefe program, George went off on tour, play- ing theaters and night clubs. “For the love of Pete, get a vocalist, George,” managers implored him. But did not heed their advice. He had a vocal ist—Mrs. George Olsen, better known as Ethel Shutta, and at the moment she was) engaged on a radio program. So, unti that contract expired, George vowed he'¢) get along without a vocalist—and he did) much to his own financial loss: When Ethel had completed her radi contract, with the Broadway hill-billy, she was deluged with offers to sing on othej programs. Because of her microphone charm and her unique style, she was great ly in demand. But one and all, she turne the offers down, for all the sponsors wh sought her were tied to some other o chestra. Ethel would sing with George Olsen’) band—or she wouldn’t sing at all. Thay was her answer to one sponsor after a other. In the end she wound up by sing) ing with George but not on the radio, co mercially. She and George went to Chicago’s Co lege Inn, where, so great was their pop larity, they remained from October, 193) to April, mer vacation, spot last October, \ ; ; : 1935. Then, following a s ry they returned to the nigh} and have been thery, | 2 ——EEEE ©. B. Hanson, Chief Engineer of the National Broadcasting Company, the world's smallest Micro-wave transmitter, capable of flinging the hu t voice a distance of four miles. It operates on wave-lengths of one meter less at a power of .2-watt and was developed under Mr. Hanson's directi# }' Exquisite... hut rot i

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since. From all appearances, it looks as though Chicago night life might continue to leave out the “welcome” mat for the charming couple indefinitely. But to return to their radio activities. All the while they’d been in Chicago, George, too, had been having sponsor ‘trouble. Not sponsor trouble in the gener- ally accepted sense of the term—for that means usually that sponsors are remaining ‘tantalizingly aloof. George’s trouble was in having to say ‘no’ to would-be sponsors. It happened that the radio offers that came his way involved only the engagement of George and his band. In each case the ‘prospective patron had ideas concerning the program set-up that precluded the sing- ‘ing of Ethel. So if they didn’t want Ethel '—they didn’t get George. “Tf we never get another program, so ‘what?” they reassured each other. From 1932 to 1936 is a long time in radio. The industry itself isn’t a great ideal older than that. How many programs, for instance, that were on in 1932, can ‘you remember now? | A sponsor, however, never forgets a (program that sells his product, or that of ‘anyone else. That is why, search as they ‘would, talent scouts never could quite ‘imitate that Olsen-Shutta combination last theard on the network back in ’32. ‘There was but one answer. Bring George Jand the missus back to the airwaves. That’s ‘why, today, they’re back together again ‘and getting more fun out of their work ‘than they have had in four long years. “T’d rather be Mrs. George Olsen than anything else on earth,” Ethel explains. “Of course, I’d hate to give up work; ‘indeed, I wouldn’t as long as George and I ‘can work together. But on the other hand, working without George is just work, and work with him is fun. There’s a lot of difference. “You see, I'm not likely ever to lack for omething to occupy my mind. I have to run the house, you know. Then there are the boys—George, Junior, is six now, and Charles is eight. They go to school, of ourse, but ask any mother of two boys, six and eight, if she feels she is likely ever o have too much time on her hands! Oh, ‘yes, there is one more job I forgot to mention. Not many wives have this one! T have to buy all George’s (I mean George, Benior’s) clothes. Why? Well, if I didn't, /[ hate to think what he’d let himself look jike !” | So what with her manifold duties as wife and mother, plus rehearsals, broad- |pasts, café work, frequent arduous and mportant conferences with George and ‘their managers, and the other multiple |Jobs attendant upon being the wife of a jpuccessful bandleader and at the same ime his vocalist, you have the picture of a very busy young woman. George, to interviewers, is slightly less 'foherent. In the first place, when you try 0 interview him on the subject of George Disen, the first thing you know you find hat instead you are interviewing him on lhe subject of Ethel Shutta. The reason is imple. George prefers to talk about Ethel iphutta rather than about George Olsen. “She’s—oh, she’s—why she’s just—well, Hou know how swell she is.” Of course, if you press him, you might 4 “Oh, boy!” he will tell you. “Is this ywonderful—to be back together again!” RADIO STARS Force...or understanding? ES... you can make your child take a nasty-tasting laxative by sheer physical force. But is it wise? Is it good for him? Doctors say forcing a child to take a bad-tasting laxative can upset his en- tire nervous system. @ >> The easy way is to give him a laxative with a pleasant taste—a laxative he'll take willingly—FLETCHER’s CASTORIA. FLETCHER’S CASTORIA is made espe- cially for babies and little children. Thereisn’t aharsh or harmfulthing init. FLETCHER’S CASTORIA is safe—and gen- tle, too. Its one and only purpose is to thoroughly clear the wastes from your baby’s system, Use only FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. For your baby—for your other children... all the way up to 11 years of age. We Which is best for your child? suggest that you get the Family-Size bottle. Not only because it lasts longer ... but because you get more for your money. More than 5,000,000 mothers depend upon FLETCHER’S CASTORIA. Get a bottle today at your drug store. CASTORIA The Children’s Laxative 63

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GtE- WONT ANYBODY GIVE ME A MENNEN OIL RUB like otherkids get ? | “Most hospitals give it to their babies. | want it too!” “Other kids seem to get the breaks. When I see 'em—nice and comfy—covered with that wonderful Mennen Antiseptic Oil—I could just holler. Why—you'd think I never got sore and wet in my folds and creases! And the germs! Am I de eet to stand off all the germs in the world all by myself? Why should I—when I might be getting the help of this Mennen Oil that’s antiseptic? It does the germ-fightin’ automatically and it’s swell for the skin. Most a// the hospitals* use it—so won't somebody please tell Mummy I want this antiseptic protection and comfort, too? I sure am the feller that needs a friend!"’ * Nearly all the hospitals that are important in maternity work use Mennen Antiseptic Oil on their babies, daily. Your baby de- serves it, too. W gy > MENNEN OIL 0 pe en eee > : ae RADIO STARS Walking in the Rain (Continued from page 9) their voices know that tension can utter- ly destroy tonal quality. That’s why deep breathing exercises are so important to every singer and actress. You know your- self how when it’s very important to you that you say just the right thing on some special occasion, your throat gets con- stricted and your voice plays tricks on you that it wouldn’t do otherwise. Voices that are shrill or sort of “swallowed up in the throat” are that way because they are tense voices. The lovely voiced Irene has the art of relaxation down to perfection. She can take a blanket and a pillow, and flop down in the middle of the living-room floor— with the telephone practically tucked under her ear so that she won’t have to get up to answer it—and with the pillow under her stomach, face downward on the floor, she can drift off to sleep» for ten or fifteen minutes, or for however much time she can allow herself. She puts her trusty alarm clock near her, set at the exact minute she wants to awaken. She knows exactly how to let herself go limp as a rag, her mind cleared of all irrele- vant details. In fact, it is her ability to relax—to recoup her forces of energy in a short space of time—that she credits with being one of the chief sources of her vitality. She couldn’t possibly accomplish as much as she does if she didn’t have the ability to “let herself go” completely dur- ing the few spare moments she can cull from the day. “Ragged nerves can cause the whole world to be pulled awry, and your face with it,” says Miss Rich. “Ten- . sion and nerve strain—that feeling of bes ing all tied up in knots—can be the ugliest enemy of charm.” Another of Miss Rich’s favorite means of © relaxation is a warm bath. She is as fond of bathroom showers as she is of April showers, although for downright steeped= into-one’s-bones relaxation she votes for the bathtub, rather than the shower. She believes that a fragrant, luxurious bath oil is important for the good of the soul) as well as the skin. She likes showers of fragrant talcum powder, too, after the bath. At this point in our toast-and-tea dis. ; cussion, Miss Rich brought out her bath) oil to show me and she put a small drop) of it on my purse. She told me the amus=)) ing story of how it put one of the hotel) elevator boys “on the scent” of her los dog. Of course it wasn’t a real dog, bu just a woolly toy dog, about three inches” in size. She carried it in her purse as a mascot and one day she discovered that she had lost it, as one is apt to do with mascots. She didn’t think much more’ about it until a day or so later, when t ie elevator boy said that he thought one of) the boys had found her dog. Puzzled for | a moment, she laughingly responded that she hadn’t any dog to lose. Then he ex-) plained that he only meant a toy dog a d the reason he felt pretty sure that it was hers was -because it had her “kind of pe fume.” Thus the bath oil she uses has become so individually her own expres=) sion of personality that people recognize) it on her belongings when they are los

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ne ten Sy ee I ep RADIO STARS , Miss Rich is something of a devotee of creams and oils. She believes that the skin needs all the replenishment of oils that it can get in view of the combination of steam heat and the modern pace of everyday living that work together to dry it out. Going back to our original topic of walking in the rain, Miss Rich ventured the thought that rain is a tonic to the complexion, too. It is something of an accepted theory that the characteristically lovely complexion of the Englishwoman may be accredited in part to the moist English climate. The famous London fog has other uses than as a coverage for mystery stories. It is a blessing in dis- guise for England’s lovely ladies. Instead of the soft air of woods and meadows here, we shut ourselves up in a heated box all through the winter—a box from which the moisture has been exhausted. Moist air absorbs very slowly the water given off by the skin. Dry air draws it off in a hurry. Always after her walk in the rain, Miss Rich gives her thirsty skin a further tonic in the way of soft cleansing cream. And she has a truly glowing com- plexion. : The famous-figured Irene’ keeps a _ weather eye out on her diet. Walking isn’t _her only means of keeping a slim figure. She believes that most women eat more | than they need, but she also believes that ) starvation diets are ridiculous. There is a happy medium. After fasting, generally | comes the deluge of feasting. Digestive | storms are the result. Why not hold to a | safe, sane, and sensible schedule? ) Miss Rich credits part of her success | to “telling her right age and keeping her | hips just so.” And she has been good / enough to make out for me—and more important, for you—a sample “Irene Rich” diet. It lists the foods that she chooses most, and the foods that she avoids. It ‘includes her own breakfast, luncheon, and _ dinner menus and adds some amusing com- ments on foods and beverages in general and I’m going to have it multigraphed so that each of you can have a copy of it. IT know that you will all want a copy of the diet that keeps so famous a slim, | svelte figure as Irene Rich’s in condi- tion. You can make a notation to that effect on’ the coupon (for your conveni- ence) at the end of this column. Maybe because I’m writing about Irene | Rich, or maybe because April puts me in a mood for “showers of blessings,’ I’m going to make you a special Easter gift this year. It’s a generous-sized can of talcum powder, a powder so smooth that it reminds you of a flower petal, and a fragrance so lovely that it reminds you of flower gardens after a warm spring rain. The coupon will entitle you to it, with my best wishes for a happy Easter. Mary Biddle RADIO STARS 149 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. Kindly send me your gift of talcum I would like to have Irene Rich’s diet, too, for which I enclose a stamped addressed envelope. aS It’s a fear that every woman dreads— that fear of embarrassment. Over and over again, you’ve said—“‘T wish I could ih be completely safe! And now at last—you can! Modess— the new and utterly different sanitary pad—is here! J?’s certain-safe! It stays soft! It stays safe! Yes—say goodbye to “accident panic” — once you discover certain-safe Modess. : No striking through—as with many or- dinary reversible pads. Notice the spe- cially treated material on sides and back. Modess can’t chafe—the edges stay dry. Just wear 4/ue line on moisture-proof side away from body—and complete protec- tion is yours! End “accident panic” — ask for Certain-Safe Modess! The Improved Sanitary Pad Try N-O-V-O—the safe, easy-to-use, douche powder in its new Blue and Silver Box. Cleanses! Deodorizes! (Not a contraceptive.) At your drug or department store

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But when you ask for Tangee...be sure to ask for TANGEE NATURAL. There is another shade called Tangee Theatrical, but it is intended only for those who insist on vivid color and for professional use. Worlds Most Famous lipstick ANGSS We: ENDS THAT PAINTED LOOK ee f FACE POWDER forace color princisle %* 4-PIECE MIRACLE MAKE-UP SET THE GEORGE W. LUFT COMPANY MM56 417 Fifth Avenue, New York City Rush Miracle Make-Up Set of miniature Tangee Lipstick, Rouge Compact, Creme Rouge, Face Powder. I enclose 10¢ (stamps or coin), 15¢in Canada, heck ["] Flesh [[] Rachel [_] Light Rachel Name Address City Please Print eg a Te RADIO STARS Roake C, acter Reveals Hauystmann Facts (Continued from page 23) >. house at Trenton. Form letters were sent to all working on the case with the re- quest that all clues and information be sent to State Police headquarters. Ellis Parker received one of these letters, ask- ing him to turn over to Schwarzkopf any evidence he might have in his possession. He was irked at receiving a form letter instead of being handled with powder puffs and kid gloves. That may partly explain his determination to unearth evidence which State police are supposed to have overlooked. “The information which Governor Hoff- man became interested in is all old stuff, the answers to his questions already being in the files. Most of it was based on pure rumor—the same kind of stuff which poured in from everywhere at the begin- ning of the case. “The police surprised me by doing as well as they did with the footprints and, as a matter of fact, with the whole case. The ground surrounding the house was a sea of mud-tracks, due to the invasion of photographers and reporters as soon as the alarm was given. “Everybody was under suspicion. One of Colonel Lindbergh’s closest friends was given an examination which amounted to a second-degree, almost. Dr. Condon’s story was checked, double-checked and triple-checked. The background of Ollie Whatley, the butler, was checked and it stood up. Certainly no gang was in on the job. “One thing, which never leaked out, was discovered after Violet Sharp had committed suicide. It was found that she had been a ‘party girl’ and frequently at- tended parties in the Bronx, which were largely German in their make-up. Haupt- mann, as you know, is a German and lived in the Bronx. His wife was in Europe at the time. But no matter how diligently the police investigated, they could unearth nothing to link Violet Sharp with Haupt- mann. “After Violet Sharp was found a sui- cide, an examination of her room dis- closed ashes in the hearth which indicated that she had spent an hour burning papers before taking the fatal dose of poison. The girl, of course, may have been driven to suicide by the fact that she feared nothing more serious than the loss of her job, The papers she burned could easily have been letters which were personal, rather than evidence of anything criminal. But as a rule human nature doesn’t act that way on such slight provocation. “From the beginning, it was obvious that the suspect in this case was a German. The shaping of the letters and the phrases in the ransom notes were distinctly Teu- tonic. Long before Hauptmann was ar- rested, the police were hunting for a German. “That Hauptmann wrote the ransom notes, I don’t doubt. The evidence of the hand-writing experts on that point was overwhelming. “It is utterly impossible that the case against Hauptmann could have _ been framed. To do so would have involved Lindbergh, his wife, Schwarzkopf, Con- don, Breckenridge, Kohler, the wood ex- pert, who had been a Government man for years, and probably hundreds of others. The police would all have had to be im- plicated in it and if it had been framed, so” many people would know about it that ~ there surely would have been a leak some- whére by now. “T agree with some who insist that the State failed to place Hauptmann definitely at the scene of the crime. It rests on the word of Amandus Hockmuth, as against that of Hauptmann. Hockmuth, eighty- seven years old, is reputed to have failing eyesight—but I visited him at his home, and he showed me where he stood when he saw the car which he says contained Hauptmann. I held up a newspaper and he was able to read the masthead at twenty © feet, a vision certainly strong and clear” enough to,see the face of a man in a car which passed as close to him as he says the car containing Hauptmann did.” ; Another revelation by Carter was that <i) the actual arrest of Hauptmann almost was | bungled. After Hauptmann had been traced ~ to his Bronx home, detectives set up a vigil in a vacant house across the street. a “Lieutenant Finn, of the New York City | Police Department, almost spoiled the plans by his insistence on making a premature arrest,’ said Carter. “There were New York City Police, New Jersey State Police and G-men in the raiding party. Finn was | all for crossing the street to arrest Haupt- mann then and there. 5 “Lieutenant Keaton, of the Jersey State force, advised against it. There was a heated argument before Finn was convince it was better to play the waiting game a bit longer. After the decision was made the watchers saw Hauptmann drive up, put — his car in the garage and go into the house. Had the house been raided when Finn desired, Hauptmann might have been able to get away. “It was decided to pick Hauptmann ug the next morning at eight o’clock. A car=| load of New Jersey State Police, one of Federal men and one of New York City) Police, took positions down the block from Hauptmann’s house in the direction op posite to that which Bruno would take i going to work. The plans were to ove take him and arrest him in his car. .« “Finn was late in arriving. Before reached the scene, Hauptmann had starte to drive away from his home. As Haupi mann’s car swung down the street, the ca with the New Jersey State Police office swung out of concealment and followe The car with the Government men ca next and then the car with the New Yo City Police. Finn arrived just as that ca was preparing to pull away. “The three cars were trailing Haupt mann’s machine in single file, but Fi ordered the car in which he was riding to pull out of line, pass the car with G-men and draw abreast of the New Jersey car. “Where are you going?’” shouted Fin in a voice that could have been heard o Long Island. i ; a _———- ee a ee oe eS

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t Little star, Joyce Walsh, sings, plays character rdles and tap dances on a number of NBC programs. She is seven years old and made her radio début when she was two and a half. “Hauptmann apparently saw the dis- turbance in his mirror, for he increased his | speed and started to draw away. He was doing a pretty good job of giving the police the slip when his flight was blocked by an ash-truck. | “The New Jersey car pulled alongside . Hauptmann’s halted car and Keaton slipped | into the seat alongside of Hauptmann. “You’re under arrest,” he told Haupt- | mann. “What for?’ demanded Bruno. “For passing a red light!” said Keaton, slipping handcuffs on him. Thus was Bruno Richard Hauptmann taken into custody for the murder of Baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh.” For the information of those who never heard of Carter before he became widely known through his connection with the Lindbergh case, he was born in Baku, Russia, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, } in the days of the czars, when Russia was more conservative in its policies than it is today. He is of English-Irish descent. | His father was British consul at Baku when Boake was born. He has been broadcasting for six years from WCAU and is now on the air every night but Saturday and Sunday on a news program sponsored by Philco. Before becoming a radio news commen- tator, Carter was a newspaper man and a good one, too. He worked on the Phila- delphia News and also the Bulletin in that city. He also did a turn on the Tulsa World and on London dailies. 2 radio editor of the news, Carter appeared be- fore the microphone frequently and_ his crisp, resonant British accent made him a favorite overnight. A commercial con- tract was the natural aftermath. Carter worked on the Lindbergh kid- Napping exactly as a good reporter should work. When Colonel Schwarzkopf in- structed all of the New Jersey State Police working on the case to maintain silence, RADIO STARS Every woman should make this ‘Armhole Odor lest If you deodorize only—because it is easy and quick—you will always have an unpleasant, stale “armhole odor’ —test yourself tonight by smelling your dress at the armhole HE more fastidious you are, the more surprised and shocked you may be when you realize that you cannot prevent “armhole odor” unless your underarm is kept dry as well as sweet. Tonight, as soon as you take off your dress, smell the fabric under the arm. No matter how careful you are about deodor- izing your underarm, you may find that your dress carries the embarrassing odor of stale perspiration. This is bound to happen if you merely deodorize. Creams and sticks are not made to stop perspiration. They do not keep the underarm dry, so perspiration collects and dries on the fabric of your dress. And the very next time you wear that dress, the warmth of your body brings out an unpleasant, stale odor. Only one way to be SURE Women who care deeply about good groom- ing know that there is no short cut to true underarm daintiness. They insist on the complete protection of Liquid Odorono. WOMEN who want to be sure their dresses are free from “armhole odor” gently close the underarm pores with Liquid Odorono. lar RUTH MILLER, The Odorono Co., Inc. Dept. 5-E-6, 191 Hudson St., New York City. (In Canada, address P. O. Box 2320, Montreal) I enclose 8¢ for sample vials of Instant and Regu- Name With Odorono, not even the slightest drop of moisture can collect on your dress to spoil the pleasant impression that you would otherwise make. Odorono’s action is entirely safe... ask your doctor. It works by gently closing the pores in that little hollow of the underarm. Perspiration is merely diverted to less con- fined parts of the body where it may evaporate freely and inoffensively. No more ruined frocks It takes a little longer to use Odorono, but it is well worth your while. In the end you save, not only embarrassment but your lovely clothes as well! You do away forever with those horrible underarm stains that even the cleaner cannot remove, that can ruin expensive frocks and coat linings in just one day’s wearing. And there is no grease to stick to your clothes and make them messy. Odorono comes in two strengths. Regular Odorono (Ruby colored) need be used only twice a week. Instant Odorono (Colorless) is for especially sensitive skin or emergency use—to be used daily or every other day. On sale at all toilet-goods counters. If you want to feel the utter security and poise that Odorono brings, send for the two sample vials and leaflet on complete under- arm dryness offered below. Odorono and leaflet on underarm dryness. Address = | 67

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The confidence mother has always had in S.S.S....which is still her stand-by when she feels run-down...convinced me I ought to try this Treatment...it is great to feel strong again and like my old self, Much more could be said...a trial will thoroughly convince you that this way, in the absence of any organic trouble, will start you on the road to feeling like yourself again. You should soon enjoy again the sat- isfaction of appetizing food...sound sleep ...Steady nerves...a good complexion... and renewed strength, There is no guess work in the S.S.S. Tonic Treatment...decades of popular accept- ance and enthusiastic words of praise by users themselves speak even louder than the scientific appraisal of the progressively improved S.S.S. product which has caused millions to say to their friends— Makes you feel like yourself again © S.S.S. Co. 68 RADIO STARS under penalty of losing their jobs, the troopers became targets for the newspaper- men. The reporters kept seeking informa- tion on various angles, but the troopers remained mum. The upshot was that the reporters, through the papers, found fault with the police. Carter sized up the situation quick- ly and was friendly in his radio comments about the New Jersey State Police. As a result, he occasionally received important tips on angles of the case. “T played ball with the State Police and they played ball with me,” explained Car- ter when J interviewed him in his offices in Station WCAU in Philadelphia. “It’s the old story—you can catch more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar. “Because of this, I saw the famous ladder when it was brought from Hope- well to Trenton about March 6th or 8th, long before anybody else saw it. I was working in the State Police headquarters at Trenton—everybody had been barred from the Hopewell home of the Lind- berghs, immediately after the kidnapping. “A police official, whose name I think it best not to reveal, came into my office and said: ‘Now, Boake, follow me up- stairs and walk into a room up there. Go to a closet, open the door, shut it behind you and take a look for yourself. Remem- ber, I know nothing about it.’ “T did as I was instructed and saw the ladder in the closet. There was a light there and I was able to examine it carefully. I then distinctly saw the four nail-holes in what became the famous ‘Rail 16’ of the ladder, which the defense insists were planted there just before Hauptmann was brought to trial.” That revelation indicates how close Carter was to the police. The following incident should make plain the respect in which the commentator was held by others connected with the case. After the jury had rendered its verdict of guilty in the first degree, it was brought back, closely euarded, to the third floor of the Fleming- ton hotel where it had been shut up in- communicado for the forty days and forty nights of the trial. Naturally there was a determined effort on the part of the reporters and news com- mentators to interview the jury. Everybody wanted to know what facts had inclined it to its verdict. But five State troopers guarded the stairway leading to the third floor. Carter, who worked on the second floor with the radio equipment of WCAU, was among those barred. Finally the jury sent out word that it wished to see Carter, and permission was given Boake to visit the jury. Thus he be- came the first person, not officially con- nected with the trial, who spoke to that panel in forty days. “TI really was embarrassed,” declared Carter, “when word was brought to me that the jury wished to see me, but I didn’t allow my embarrassment to keep me from making the visit! They told me how they vainly had tried to eavesdrop on my broadcasts by putting their ears to the floor of their rooms—and they expressed great relief that the strain of the trial was over. “One juror, No. 7, I think, had held out for life imprisonment, but finally swung around to the view of the other eleven and the final verdict was unanimous for the death penalty. They told me that they held a meeting each night and went over the evi- dence presented, arguing about different points and finally accepting only such facts as seemed irrefutable, always with the understanding that if anything turned up later in the trial to disprove any facts)” they ‘already had accepted, they would” discard the previous evidence. In other words, they worked with open minds andy} I, for one, am convinced that their honest and integrity is beyond question. Bs “T think that Dave Wilentz went a bit © hay-wire- in his summation, but I believe the reason was that the State had so much evidence that it did not need to use all o it. One of the most suspicious of all” Hauptmann’s acts, not brought out at the trial, was to re-plaster an attic entrance i the center of his bedroom and then cut another entrance to the attic in the ceiling” of his closet. “Hauptmann is definitely of the ego maniac type. This complex may have prompted him to kidnap the Lindbergh baby so as to prove that he was a greater man than America’s best known publi¢ hero. ; “Remember, the man made three efforts to get into this country before he finally succeeded, an indication of fierce deter= mination. He went through the World” War, certainly an embittering experience, | and then returned to the misery of post= | war Germany, forced to resort to stealing to survive. “He is a hard man and a cold one. For example: During one of the recesses at his trial, he preceded the sheriff throug a passage where the photographers daily had snapped pictures of Hauptmann and his guard. On this particular day, the sheriff § lagged a little behind and Bruno turned | to him and called: ‘Hurry, sheriff, or you won't get your picture taken to-day! That's pretty cool stuff for a man who i§§ on his trial for his life. & “Hoffman says that a ‘staggering’ sum> was spent by the State Police in conduct= | ing the investigation. The Governor trieS§ to spread a _ false impression. From March, 1932, until September, 1934—from the day the baby was kidnaped until Hauptmann was arrested—the expenditures were less than $38,000 more than its nor= mal budget would have been for that period. In other words, the State Poli spent only an additional $1,250 per month in its investigations. It’s ‘staggering’ im its modesty ! “Major Schoeffel, who was sent to Europe to check on stories, traveled from America to London, to Berlin, to Vienna; back to London and then returned heré His expenses were only $900. I mention that to show that the State Police were n@ throwing money about recklessly. “Here's something else to bear in mine —Wilentz is a Democrat and Hoffman a Republican. Schwarzkopf and Hoffmat grew up together. Both are of Germa descent and both can be stubborn, “When Hoffman was Motor Vehic Commissioner of New Jersey, he attempté to set up a separate police force to hand traffic violations, patrol the roads, ete Schwarzkopf maintained that this woul take away from the State Police duties which rightfully belonged to them 5 there would be no sense to it. The ih never got to the floor of the State Senat “Then Parker wanted to establish a Ne Jersey Scotland Yard to conduct criminal investigations. Again ee ¥ ee ee cl el a, nam aie &

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Stuart -Churchill, young tenor, fea- tured for several years with Waring's | Pennsylvanians, now is starred in the | new Musical Reveries, on WABC. | Kopf fought the idea, and this bill like- jwise never reached the Senate floor. | “Schwarzkopf founded the New Jer- sey State Police fourteen years ago and has been the head of it ever since, but it thas been no bed of roses. Colonel Mark O. Kimberling, who was his assistant, re- opened the famous Hall-Mills case the day before Schwarzkopf returned from a Wvacation in South America. When that fizzled, Kimberling got out of the State ‘Police and later was made Superintendent ‘of Prisons. “Schwarzkopf always has been reap- ‘pointed head of the State Police by every governor, regardless of political affiliations. He’s up for reappointment again in June and it is doubtful that he will be removed. Any other name which is submitted can be vetoed by the Senate and efforts are being made to pass legislation to continue him n Office upon the Senate’s say-so.” Another amazing revelation by Carter was that Colonel Lindbergh received over 30,00 letters the first month of the kid- aping. Boake says the letters, which joured in at the rate of 10,000 a day, are h great example of a cross section of America’s mind at work. “From bankers to hoboes, everybody "Wrote with advice on the case,” said Varter. “These letters would make an tmazing book if they ever were published. [They contained tens of thousands of ‘clues,’ including those of people who in- erpreted their own dreams to reveal the ‘hiding place of the baby. | “I have thought for a long time, like overnor Hoffman, that there might have "jeen two more people involved in the “Time—a man and a woman. Perhaps "he man might be the dead Ollie Whatley. "if so, the chances are it never will be de- if nitely known. Perhaps the woman could "Nave been Mrs. Hauptmann—this, of urse, is pure conjecture—against whom auptmann could not give testimony, nee a husband is restrained by law from stifying against his own wife, and vice rsa.” The End RADIO STARS Ann knows it pays to guard against Cosmetic SKIN TALE rouge and powder not dust, dirt, stale cosmetics. During thoroughly removed cause the day, too, before you renew your Cosmetic Skin—dullness, tiny make-up, use this gentle soap to blemishes, enlarged pores. keep skin soft and smooth. Use cosmetics all you wish! But ae — never go to bed without using Lux 3 Toilet Soap. Its ACTIVE lather Te- moves every trace of pore-choking ae OF COURSE | USE COs: = / x l MeTics! BUT THANKS > Biverra To Lux Toicer Soap | HAVEN'T ANY FEAR OF a GETTING COSMETIC SKIN

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reoveieN EN E ast eee IN E NOTHING COULD BE EASIER Nerforms are small, conven- ient, antiseptic suppositories completely ready for use. They require no awkward apparatus for application. They leave no lingering antiseptic smell around the room or about your person. They are dainty and feminine, soothing and deodor- izing. Many women use them for this deodorizing effectalone. Every DAY, more and more wo- men are adopting Norforms as the most modern, convenient and satisfactory form of feminine hygiene. Norforms are easy-to-use antiseptic suppositories that melt at internal body temperature, and spreada protective, sooth- ing film over delicate internal membranes —an antiseptic film that remains in effec- tive contact for many hours. @ Adistinctive and exclusive feature of Nor- forms is their concentrated content of Para- hydrecin —a powerful yet harmless antisep- tic developed by Norwich, makers of Un- guentine. Parahydrecin kills germs, yet Nor- forms are positively non-injurious. There is no danger of an “‘over-dose”’ or “‘burn.” MILLIONS SOLD EVERY YEAR Send for the Norforms booklet “The New Way.’ It gives further facts about modernized feminine hy- giene. Or, buy a box of Norforms at your druggist’s today.12 in a package, with leaflet of instructions. The Norwich Pharmacal Co., Norwich, New York. NORFORMS for We od ern fe VALLI hygiene ’ On.P.co. 1936 Known to Physicians as ‘’ Vagiforms’ 70 RADIO STARS roles, good plays. Even the finest actress today often faces two or three seasons in a row without a successful part or a long run. And few actresses are cast in more than one play a year—even though that one show may run only a few weeks. The radio star, however, is confronted with neither of these disadvantages. She doesn’t find herself in the blinding white- light of publicity that the movie star must constantly face. And with as many as two hundred radio programs listed for a single afternoon and evening, there is small danger of the star of the air being unable to find roles or suitable vehicles. “It wasn’t always so easy for the ladies in radio, though,” says Mr. Boles. “At first, the men played a mean trick on them. Men made a microphone, a mechanism, that broadcast male voices well but didn’t transmit feminine voices successfully. “T think right now that ladies deserve more credit than men for the present high development of the radio mechanism. For when the sopranos squeaked, the ladies squawked. And the engineers got busy! “Because of imperfections in the mech- anism, until quite recently a woman had to have a certain type of voice in order to enjoy radio success. The low, croony voice was popular then because the mike was kindest to it. But today there are no such limitations. And the exquisite voices of sopranoes like Grace Moore and Mar- garet Speaks travel over the air-waves as truly as the contraltoes.” Every member of the Boles family is an ardent radio fan. In their California home, there is a radio in every room. “Even have one in the kitchen pantry for the cook,’ says John. “That way, everyone connected with the household can listen to his or her favorite program. My own favorite way, however, is to get in the car, turn on the radio and drive slowly through the country while I listen.” It is interesting that this man, who to- day lives almost constantly with music and drama, started out to be a surgeon. Unlike most radio artists, however, John Boles did make the college glee c lub. But nobody except his girl, Marcelite, thought his voice particularly good. Marcelite thought everything about John was won- derful! (She still does.) In 1917, just before John was to grad- uate from the University of Texas, the United States declared war. And John en- listed. Overseas as a doughboy, it was dis- covered that he had a talent for languages and could speak French, Italian, German and Spanish fluently. He was transferred at once to the intelligence department and spent twenty-two precarious, exciting months with the A. E. F. as a spy. In a Y. M. C. A. hut in Havre, Boles discovered that people liked to hear him sing. The hut was filled with a tired, dirty crowd just back from the front. The boys yelled for a song. Shyly and with misgiv- ings, John rose to his feet and obliged. When the song was ended, a soldier came up to him and said: “You have a fine voice, a great talent. If this war ever ya Toast to the (Continued from page 33) adies y ends, go back and make use of it.” John” found out later that the soldier who spoke to him had been a famous singing teacher © in London. When the war finally ended, John got back to Texas and Marcelite as fast as | he could. He asked Marcelite to marry him and told her that he wasn’t going to” be a surgeon after all, he was going to be i a singer. Marcelite said she thought it would be wonderful to marry a singer. i Broadway was hard to crack. But when , John finally landed a role in the musical | comedy, Little Jesse James, he was an over-night sensation. Radio, as a medium _ of entertainment, was unknown then. So, | when the show closed, John turned to? movies. He got into silent pictures on the’ strength of his looks. But he never was | really happy in silents. Even today, while? gathering laurels in dramatic films such as A Message to Garcia, he admits he'd” rather combine singing with his acting. | He was delighted recently when he had) three songs to sing in the Lux Radio| Theater’s version of the drama, Green} Grow the Lilacs. He has a gorgeous voice and he wants to use it. He loves radio work. And when in New! York recently, on a vacation, he found it) difficult to refuse the radio offers of: “guest artist performances” that were made him. He would have enjoyed broad- casting every night! But he had Marcelite here with him, to remind him that this was a vacation—) their first in several years,—and let’s gol dancing ! Don’t forget, that when John Boles toasts the ladies, his first and prettiest speech goes to Marcelite, and Marcelitey Jr., and little Janet. For this favorite among the ladies may) tune in a singer and listen, enraptured te her song. But, privately, he lives pretty much within the charmed circle of the three important ladies who make up hi very happy family. Lucille Wall, NBC dramatic actress, The Boss's Secretary i in Nine to Fiv.

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RADIO STARS Radio Ramblings (Continued from page 7) today is excellent,’ Previn says. “Few dance bands can compete successfully with @ symphony orchestra. And radio can claim credit for popularizing good music. My own Sunday night program has given all types of music a chance and I know that classical selections win as large audiences as do our most popular tunes.” A RADIO ROLE MADE REAL _ An evidence of radio’s practical benefit to humanity may be seen in Helen Hayes’ current activities. Helen transferred into actual practice her fictitious activities as guardian of foundling babies, in her re- cent role of Penelope Edwards in The New Penny. She has become a member of the Child Placing and Adoption Com- mittee of the New York State Charities Aid Association. Through her radio work this popular young actress has become intensely inter- ested in the welfare of orphaned young- ters and has volunteered to participate in the campaign to raise $50,000 to help care for the orphaned children while homes are being sought for them. NEW STAR | Frank Fay, who made his bow on the ‘Rudy Vallee Fleischmann Variety Hour, clicked so solidly with the listening pub- tlic that he was signed for thirteen weeks fwith that program and, in addition, for Al his own series, to start in July, for Stand- ard Brands, Inc. Frank, long a headliner in and, more recently, in motion was chosen by the radio editors’ the leading new star of 1936. Oddly enough, the “outstanding New Star” award in the annual poll of radio editors every year has gone to a per- former who first appeared at the micro- phone in the Vallee Variety Hour. Joe Penner was the winner in 1933, when vot- ing in this category was initiated, Helen Jepson in 1934 and Bob Burns in 1935. These artists made their radio débuts with Vallee. vaudeville pictures, poll as SHE REMEMBERED THE TUNE Marie De Ville, that charming young lady whose portrait appears on another page in this issue, got her start in an un- usual way. Marie was employed in the Music Rights Division of WGAM in Cleveland, which is affiliated with WJZ. One day in Radio City an argument arose a certain song. To settle it an offi- cial of WJZ phoned WGAM. Marie answered. She couldn’t remember the name of the song but she remembered the tune and sang it over the wire. Impressed with the quality of her woice, the listening official promptly invited Marie to come to over Radio City to sing on the air. So now you may hear her lovely contralto on Thurs- days and Saturdays over the NBC net- work. PINCH HITTING FOR JESSICA Lucille Manners, mezzo-soprano soloist with Leo Spitalny on The Melody Lingers On, has taken Jessica Dragonette’s place with the Cities Service Orchestra for six weeks, beginning March 6th, while Jessica is on vacation. She also has several solo spots on both networks. TAIL-WAGGERS Two new additions to the recently or- ganized “doggy” club, known as the Tail- Wagger Foundation of America, are Dick Powell’s wolf dog, Ranger, and Frances Langford’s Skeets. Thousands of dogs less famous than Ranger and Skeets are being enrolled as Tail-Waggers. The purpose of the organization is to prosecute dog-poisoners, and other enemies of man’s best friend. TAKING THE AIR Lucy Monroe, lovely soprano star of NBC’s American Album of Familiar Music, continues to refuse all offers of film réles in Hollywood productions. Also she has refused a straight dramatic réle and another in a musical production. PIEGESTION 71

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SY A 4 ‘Yes THE TIME OF MONTH CAN’T DICTATE TO MODERN GIRLS: The modern girl doesn’t decline an invitation just because of the time of month! She knows how to keep going, and keep comfortable — with Midol. For relief from painful periods, this is all you have to do: Watch the calendar. At the very first sign of approaching pain, take a Midol tablet and drink a glass of water, and you may escape the expected pain altogether. If not, a second tablet should check it within a few minutes. Midol’s relief is lasting; two tablets should see you through your worst day. Yet Midol contains no narcotic and it forms no habit. But don’t be misled by ordinary pain tablets sold as a specific for menstrual pain! Midol is a special medicine, offered for this particular purpose. You will find Midol in any drug store, it is usually right out on the counter. So, look for those trim, aluminum boxes that make these useful tablets easy to carry in the thinnest purse or pocket. 72 STARS One reason is that Lucy has been act- ing on the professional stage ever since she got out of High School. Another reason is that she thinks radio work is “more regular.’ And, most important of all, she likes radio best. GOOD SPORT Ray Jones, who plays the part of the hard-boiled electrician in Molly of the Movies, recently took a trip to Kentucky to shoot quail. Instead of shooting them, however, he helped the local farmers to feed the birds, who were starving because of unusually severe weather and heavy snowfalls. SPEAKING OF SPORTS Matthew Crowley, CBS's Rogers,” is a crack tennis player. “Buck + Irving Kauffman, “Lazy Dan,” is a vet- eran fisherman and has caught some enor- mous brook trout. + Phil Baker and Walter O’Keefe both lay claims to championships in quoits and javelin throwing. +o Jerry Cooper, newest of the romantic singing stars, once held down first-base on a semi-pro baseball team in New Orleans. Also he never misses a big fight at Madi- son Square Garden. a Frank Crumit ... Well, when you think of Frank, you think of a golf course, ac- cording to his wife, Julia Sanderson. He shoots a score in the low seventies. a ae Nino Martini, handsome CBS singing star, was the ace man of a Rugby team in Verona, Italy. He also is an expert gymnast, bicyclist and horseman. a ae Leslie Howard, romantic matinee idol, is a polo enthusiast. He keeps a string of polo ponies and gives a very fair ac- count of himself on Hollywood playing fields. + Frank Parker also is a polo fan and plays with a prominent team on Long Island. > Ted Husing has played football, bas- ketball, tennis, baseball and soccer. The Husing bones having aged a bit, he now confines his interest in sports to reporting them at the mike. Occasionally he takes a fling at tennis. "THIS IS LOWELL THOMAS—" “The policy of my program always has been to cover every slant, the important things, the major happenings of politics, war and the phenomena of nature, the sidelights of personality, romance, adven- ture and comedy. “T was not long on the air when I be- came aware that my fan mail was from many kinds of people—it is so diverse in tone and feeling and concerns so many topics so far apart.” AND THIS IS FRANK MUNN Who cherishes these aphorisms, clipped from an old calendar: “Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Goldsmith.) “The ripest peach hangs highest on the tree.” (James Whitcomb Riley.) “An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.” (Howell.) “Fortune does not change men, it only unmasks them.” (Mme. Riccoboni.) BOYS' HERO To a certain extent he changes with the seasons—as baseball, football, winter sports and other notable events capture the imagination of youth. But Captain Tim Healy, founder and leader of NBC’s Stamp Club, remains a constant idol to the boys who make up the bulk of his audience. Hundreds of requests for personal ap- pearances pour in upon Captain Tim, and whenever he accepts one there is an un- usual quality of mutual friendship and mutual interest when the boys and their hero meet and talk together. On one such occasion, while appearing at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, a boy brought Captain Tim his stamp book. The book, Captain Tim discovered, was an old family album, in which the famil births, deaths, marriages and other i portant family data were recorded. The blank pages were filled with stamps. A he turned the pages, Captain Tim sa that they were filled with rare and- ya uable old stamps. The boy’s father an mother confessed their complete ignor ance of the value of the stamp collection which they regarded only as a pastime for their son—and they were amazed wher Captain Tim told them that the stamps in the book were worth several thousands. of dollars. BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS Have you heard the “goofus” in Dow Bestor’s orchestra? It's an instrument shaped out of bone, with holes on the sid and is played by shifting the finger-tip: over these perforations. It sounds like a cross between a harmonica and a kazoo — Those dizzy recipes which Tissie Lish dispenses on the Al Pearce and His Gang) program are written only four hours be-) fore broadcast time. Tizsie writes th in long-hand and reads them on the a from the original copy. oe Jerry Belcher believes that there coul be such a thing as too much popularity Jerry, who interrogates with Parks Joh son on the Vox Pop program, says: “Sup pose everyone stayed at home to listen our program. Where should we find t Man-in-the-street to answer our que tions?” -@- The “four Esses and Mitsi’ are fou footed members of the Norsemen quarte “Stiffy,” “Skippy” and “Spook” are wirt haired terriers. “Spot” has one of tho. scrambled pedigrees. “Mitsi” is a coll BITS ABOUT BROADCASTERS Although she prefers French cookir to her native Spanish, Countess Olga bani, star of Life Is a Song, is fam among her friends for her preparation a Spanish style chicken and frequent gives post-broadcast parties, at which prepares great pots of it. —- Rachel Carley, French singing star Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, is considere one of the best-dressed women in radi She says her wardrobe consists of twel evening dresses, six sports dresses and si demi-dresses. (Sorry, but we are un lightened as to what a demi-dress is!) ——= A filling station attendant, filling gas tank of Maestro Freddie Rich’s one day, noticed the violin in his , aoe 2 oe i ee oe 2) ok Tee |

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“TI used to play one myself,” said he, “but now I work for my living.” + Celia Branz, contralto, came to America as a Russian emigrant and earned money working as a factory hand to pay her tui- tion fees at the New England Conserva- tory of Music. a Walter O’Keefe, Columbia comic and pride of Hartford, Connecticut, noticed the name “O’Keefe” on the license card of a Manhattan taxicab driver. “Got any folks in Connecticut, driver?” asked Walter. “Yeah, and even that’s too near!” came the reply. Walter leaned back to read his paper. -o- Betty Lou Gerson won her Thespian spurs at an amateur night performance in Birmingham, Alabama, long before Major Bowes began giving amateurs their chance. Another who got her start in an ama- teur contest is Durelle Alexander. It was in Dallas, Texas, when Durelle, then five years old, won first prize. Three years | later she made her professional début with the Hollywood Junior Follies in Los An- geles. Now, at seventeen, she is a stage veteran of nine years’ experience, and is personality singer with Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties. as E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye, the Sailor, was a paperhanger before he be- came an artist. He originated the comic strip in 1926, after taking a correspond- ence course in cartooning. A native of Chester, Illinois, he now lives in Santa Monica, California—while Popeye lives in | the newspapers, in the movies and on the | air, earning handsome dividends. / SOUND AND SENSE Because Kenny Baker sounds that way } in his dialogue with Jack Benny, he is | billed as “the timid tenor.” Physically he belies that, being a robust six-footer. ‘ a ae Lawrence Tibbett believes that the ) future of American music lies in the hands } of instructors in high schools and col- leges. The famous baritone is backing a movement to send leading singers to give instruction at such institutions, free of charge. SHOES Nobody is going to step into Ed Wynn’s shoes—no, indeed! Old Gulliver, the Traveler, (Ed Wynn), | has been wearing this pet pair for twenty- nine years and he means to keep on wear- ing them. Ed bought them for five dollars )in 1907. Since then, he says, he’s spent jabout two thousand dollars to keep them in repair. They're size 16 and comfort- ‘able, and they’re lucky, Ed thinks. —AND ALL THE KING'S MEN Most radio stars are satisfied with one program on the air—or maybe two. But here’s a group of singers featured on four separate programs. They are known as The King’s Men, The King’s Merry Men, The King’s Guard—and so on. As The King’s Guard, they shine on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the Aspirub program. On Thursdays they are a bright feature of the Ed Wynn pro- gram. On Fridays you may hear them with the Socony show. And on Sundays, as The King’s Men, they are in Paul Whiteman’s Musical Varieties. Their names are John Dodson (his last name is Blunt, but he doesn’t use it), Rad Robinson, Ken Darby and Bud Lynn. RADIO STARS e's NEW CLOPAY (Ynlone *3 OUT OF 4 MISTOOK IT FOR @ost/y CLOTH THIS WINDOW SHADE [51 e Wu NEN ? WINDOW SHADE Now Replace All Your Shabby Window Shades... BUY 10 FOR THE PRICE OF ONE *« Here’s startling proof that you need no longer pay high prices to get beauty and dignified appearance in win- dow shades. A remarkable new process called ““Lintone”’ now givestoCLOPAY fibre shades the actual appearance of gen- uine linen! In actual test 3 out of 4 seeing a new CLOPAY LINTONE beside a $1.50 shade only four feet away thought the LINTONE was the cloth shade! If no one can see any difference in the looks, why pay the big difference in price? Millions of women have found New that CLOPAY 15c shades wear as well as cloth shades. Now they Jook as well, too. A 15c LINTONE will never crack, ravel or pinhole. It will soil no quicker than the costliest shade and when it does you can afford to change at once —always have spic and span shades at a cost you will hardly notice: See the CLOPAY LINTONES, 15c (rollers 10c ad- ditional) now in all “5 and 10’’and most neighborhood stores. Write for FREE SAMPLES of material. The CLOPAY CORP., 1555 York St., Cincinnati, O. WINDOW SHADE rie LEnitone CLOPAY

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TARS Can «a Marriage Stand Two Careers? because she gave hers up the day. she took the Lohengrin leap. Both of these girls are wives of ace comedians. Both are young, with a modern young woman’s view- point on life. Both met their husbands while working behind the footlights. Both are still pretty and talented. But the big dif- ference between them is that one says “yes,” the other “no” to the question: “Can a marriage successfully stand two ca- reers?” So let’s hear both sides. "Yes!" Says Portland Hoffa Portland, dressed in a chic tailleur, sat on her modern white couch in her smart apartment high up in one of New York’s smart skyscraper hotels. “Because I work with Fred, I understand his moods, the pressure his work inflicts upon him, the thousand and one little duties it imposes upon him,” Portland said. “Careers sometimes prove to be stern taskmasters. For instance, Fred will leave in the morning and promise to be home at a certain time for dinner. Very often he won’t come home until hours after he’d been expected, without even phoning me. “A stay-at-home wife might fuss and fume, might grow jealous, might misun- derstand or grow resentful of this career that takes up so much of his life. Doubts may form. She will start to nag him, a quarrel will follow and in the end there is a wide rift between them. “But because I know so well what his work requires of him, I understand com- pletely. Perhaps he got immersed in some program idea—perhaps there was an over- flow of amateurs to interview—perhaps, well, I know all of the perhapses that might have detained him. You see, with me there are no doubts or fears, or jealousies. “There have been many pleasures we have had to forego because of the program. For instance, the summer before last, we were on the air every single week. That meant we had to be in the city every day. No vacations, no week-ends in the coun- try, no escaping the horrible heat of the city. We couldn’t even rent a house in the country because we had to stay within beck and call of the studio. Most of our friends were away, sending us picture post- cards to torture us some more! Staying in the sweltering city was no fun. But I stood it, and gladly, because our work required us to be here. “But speaking frankly, I wonder what would have happened if I weren’t on the program with Fred. If I had nothing to do but knit—and. complain. I might have gone to the country and left Fred alone in the city to swelter by himself, or I might have become so irritable that I would have killed, ‘by nagging, his incentive to work. After all; we’re all motivated by circum- staiices and that would have been the hurhan way to act. But, working along with Fred and being cheerful about it, I know I lessened the burden for him. “The important factor for career-minded wives to remember is this: Don’t let the interest in your own career overshadow your interest in your husband or his job. That is the only pitfall that endangers a 74 (Continued from page 48) marriage of this kind. My career hasn’t prevented me from finding time to prepare a home-cooked dinner many evenings. “Look at the marriages of some of radio’s most famous couples. Jack and Mary Livingstone Benny. Jane and Good- man Ace of the Easy Aces. Gracie Allen and George Burns. You'd have to look far and wide before you could find more devoted couples than these. Mary and Jane and Gracie all understand their hus- bands through working hand in hand with them. “After a hard day’s rehearsing, Fred is tired—but then, so am I. We both are perfectly content to spend a quiet evening at home. The day after the program, there’s a load lifted off our minds. We both feel like going out to celebrate. You see, neither one of us has to give in to the other. But you know what happens in so many other homes. The husband has been working all day and wants to come home to any easy chair and slippers. But wifie has been cooped up at home all day and in the evening she wants to go out. The result is a round of arguments, ending with one giving up to the other. “Fred and I play and work together. We've been doing it throughout the eight years of our married life, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Neither would he. Two careers seem to go well with our marriage—and long may it continue!” "No!" Says Mrs. Phil Baker (Continued from page 48) the other road. “So it was with me. When I first met Phil, I was Peggy Cartwright, a dancer and actress with—I was told—a promis- ing future. I had just come over from London where I had appeared in several important productions. Here in New York, I had hoped to realize my stage ambitions. After we were married, I came to the crossroads of my life. On one side was my career, with perhaps fame, glory and personal success. The other road led to a home with children, leading the life of millions of other wives and mothers who live in the glory of their husbands and children. Which road should I take? “Tt didn’t take me long to decide and I never have regretted my choice.” We were sitting in the living-room of the Bakers’ beautiful country home in Mamaroneck, in the heart of Westchester County, New York. The house is circled on all sides by tall trees. Mrs. Baker is a beauty of the Dresden-doll variety. Tiny, fragile and flower-like. It isn’t difficult to believe that she might have achieved great fame and success on the stage. She looked out of the window to watch “Miss Muffet,” their little three-year-old girl play- ing on the lawn with Stuart Henry, two. “Vou see,” she said, with a wave to her children, “one can’t be a careerist and a conscientious mother besides. If I had pur- sued my ambitions, I never would be able to live out here. Too far away from New York. I’d have to make my home in the heart of the city so that I would be with-' in easy reach of the theatrical district, and my children’s activities would be limited to strolls in Central Park. But here — they can romp and play unrepressed, like © the active, healthy children they are. “And Phil loves his home, too. Phil, you know, has been a part of Broadway ~ so long that he had forgotten what it was to sit down to a cozy family dinner, com- pletely relaxed and at peace with the world. Before this it was restaurants, — hotels and a hasty bite snatched here and — there. He’s been on the go all the time. No — real home, but a hotel room. And hotel rooms, let me tell you, can be very cheer- — less and lonely. But if I didn’t devote all of — my time to make this house a home, Phil — wouldn’t have the enthusiasm that he has to be here with the children and me. I received one of the most flattering com- pliments the other day when Phil’s sister told me that she never had seen him look ~ so happy as he has these past few years since we’ve been married. I can only credit — it to the fact that now he has restful, nor- mal surroundings which few theatrical folks have. “But don’t you see, if I were pursuing — my own career, how impossible all that would be? Instead of harmony, there would be friction. Instead of calm, there would be jitters. There might be a clash of ambitions. Jealousies might arise. I would be pursuing my own career, wrap- ped up in my own dreams, having very little time or sympathy to spare for Phil’s work. My career might lead me in one direction, Phil’s in another. I always have been with Phil. When he was broadcasting: in Chicago, there was L When he suddenly had to come to New York, I packed up and came with him. If I were tied down to a career, it might say: ‘Don’t go here! You can’t go there? I‘m happiest when I’m with Phil and the babies and I want to feel free to go with them anywhere—at a moment’s notice. “Why do you read of so many divorces) resulting from the union of two independ ent careerists? Hollywood divorces, they’re called. Temperament, for one thing. There is no temperament problem in our home. I am busy with my work; Phil with his But my work is concerned with making Phil happier, for I am busy creating a peaceful atmosphere in the home so that he can smooth out the tangles of the day. “You know of dozens of marriages be tween a famous man and woman, both of whom have clung to their careers. Wh percentage of these couples has childre Very few, you'll admit. Making Phil happy, keeping the children healthy, mak ing our house a home in every sense 6 the word, is my career. And if I've. sue ceeded, it means more to me than seeing mj name up in lights. For as far as a care and marriage go, I repeat the famous qué tation: Never the twain shall meet.” So there we have the words of Pegg Cartwright Baker, whose marriage to Ph like that of Portland and Fred, is held vy as being one of the happiest in the rae world. You've heard both sides, now what wou you say?

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RADIO STARS Life is Hex Song 4 (Continued from page 35 complexion of her race—and the romantic title that refuses to be discarded! For “Countess Albani” has become a nickname, almost a first name. It was un- der that name that she won fame, estab- lished herself. Her sponsor seems more than justified in asking her to keep it professionally. Privately, her American mame is infinitely sweeter, dearer to her. But life has not always been easy for the little Spanish girl. She came through 'disappointment and sorrow to her present /place in the sun—perhaps that is why she ‘appreciated it, with a deep and abiding gratitude and joy. | In the beginning, she had no idea at all of singing as a career. As a little girl, she dreamed of going on the stage, but jalways as a dramatic actress. However, she sang as naturally as a bird, in a high, clear soprano, a light falsetto voice, and briefly studied singing, under Gabriel | Sibella, who was a famous teacher of fa- /mous students—Bori and Alda were num- bered among his pupils. Under his tute- lage, Olga sang the Bell Song from Lakme. The high point of her girlhood was her meeting with Sophie Breslau, concert and opera singer, who was to be her first men- tor, her greatest critic, her dearest friend. ‘The death of Madame Breslau this past Winter was a great shock, an irremediable loss. But her teachings, her counsel, her Olga, Countess Albani, has an- other name that is dearer to her— Mrs. H. Wallace Caldwell. ideals, have become a part of Olga’s life, a part of her very self. “It was she who taught me that if you have a lovely voice but nothing to give, no mind, no depth, the voice won’t mean very much, or for very long,’ Olga ex- plained, and added, with controlled emo- tion: “She herself gave so much, so much !” it was her first deep, personal loss and adjustment was not'easy. Scheduled for a trip to Florida, she flew instead to New York, to the funeral of her dearest friend. Heartbreak and inexpressible sorrow were hers that night as, just before leaving, she sang, with tears in her voice, Schubert's Ave Maria. A month of intensive study with Madame Breslau had started her on her career, a month spent in her teacher’s home, work- ing ardently, tirelessly, under her under- standing direction. The result was Olga’s first theatrical engagement, in the leading role of Sigmund Romberg’s opera, New Moon. And after New Moon, it was Sophie Breslau again who introduced her pro- tégé to George Engles of N.B.C., through whom Olga embarked upon her present career. ‘ New York was still home, still the cen- tre of all her interests and ambitions, but although her voice was winning renown and her small aristocratic feet seemed se- The 7JAroagé Tested Cigarette Scientific research has, at last, enabled Philip Morris to re- place personal opinion with this scientific fact: Philip Morris Cigarettes have been PROVED by actual tests on the human throat measurably and definitely milder than ordinary cigarettes. A fact ethically presented to and accepted by the medical profession. NO OTHER CIGARETTE CAN MAKE THIS STATEMENT! AMERICA'S FINEST I5¢ CIGARETTE ‘Callfor PH JLT P

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F Addeetin «sion as cdg dsvncdabe svatehusceesccnuuse RADIO STARS curely set upon the ladder of fame, her heart was heavy. She had been married very young to the Italian Count Albani and had a young son, Guardo, whom she passionately adored—it was after Guardo’s birth that the range of her voice changed, the lower notes gaining strength and sweet- ness. But the marriage was a failure and, bewildered and unhappy, she sought solace, forgetfulness in work. So, when finally the opportunity came to go to Chicago, she welcomed it gladly, even though it meant leaving home and friends. She was singing on the Cities Service program when she was first asked to make a guest appearance on the Real Silk program. After two such appear- ances, she was invited to sing regularly on this program for a period of thirteen weeks. These weeks stretched into thirty- nine. She had dreaded the break but recognized the wonderful opportunity and her own need of a change. “And I found such nice people here, I feel so at home!” she exclaimed en- thusiastically. “Of course I felt lonely at first but in a little while, I was having the time of my life—I felt as if I were eighteen again!” In Chicago, thus, she found a new satis- faction in her work, and soon was to find also a newer, deeper satisfatcion in her private life. “T am such a lucky girl,” she declared fervidly. “I have such a happy home life, such fun, such a darling husband—hand- some, brilliant, young—” Her voice trailed off, but her eyes glowed radiantly. He comes of an old Chicago family, her husband. His name is H. Wallace Cald- well, he is tall and fair, with light blue eyes—as Nordic as she is Latin! His father is a bank director, his mother a former St. Louis society girl. He him- self is an engineer, a graduate of Cornell, and, during the war, an aviator and the inventor of a bombing device. And now, to the amazement of his conservative par- ents and the delight of his sympathetic bride, he is intensely interested in politics. During the winter he worked hard and long for the Republican nomination as Governor of Illinois—the April primaries will decide the winner, but, Olga declares: “Whether he wins the nomination or not, it has been grand experience and a lot of fun!” She is enormously interested in her hus- band’s political career, finds this new game completely fascinating. “Of course, it is hard work and, right now, I see so little of Wally. We can’t entertain or go places together, he is so busy, so tied down. I wait up for him— night after night, it is anywhere from two to three-thirty when he comes home. Then we sit the rest of the night talking!” She laughed. “It’s such fun—but we'll both need a good rest when it is over!” All her own ambitions depend on the outcome of the April primaries and the subsequent elections. Nothing, of course, would be allowed to interfere with her singing. “Wally” is as interested in her career as she is in his and as proud of her and as anxious for her to continue her own work as an unselfish young husband could be. But her vague plans for a trip to Hollywood and the making of a musical picture are to be held in abeyance until she knows whether or not her husband is’ to run for governor. The Lady in Black, a musical short which she made last year was very suc- cessiul and it is to be hoped that she eventually will find time for a full length picture, whether she is to preside over the Governor’s mansion or not! : But absorbed as she is in her husband’s career, present and future, Olga is not neglecting her own. As a matter of fact, she is studying harder right now than she ~ has for several years. The sweet voice which she always has used so naturally, ~ without effort or forcing, is now being ~ intensively trained for an opera role. It is natural, inevitable, that she should think ~ of singing the title rdle of Carmen, her favorite opera—and what a vivid, glowing, ~ alluring Carmen she would be! With her dark Spanish beauty, her expressive eyes, mobile features and quick, graceful body, she is well equipped to reveal with emo- tional intensity her dramatic conception of the part, as well as to interpret it with her warm, lovely voice. And like everything else in which she interests herself, she is finding this work fun, in spite of the demands already made upon her time. Her part on the Real Silk program re- quires a rehearsal on Friday and a second brief rehearsal on Sunday, followed by the two regular broadcasts, one at nine | P. M., eastern standard time, and the ether at midnight, eastern time, to covert eastern and western outlets. In addition, © she comes into Chicago from her Oak ~ Park home three or four times a week for ~ her music lessons and frequently practice at home in the evening, with her accom- panist. She finds her study of the opera ™ 1 absorbing and is looking forward eagerly | ik to studying the dramatic side of her role #e with Mary Garden, before her appearance ; k on the opera stage next season. As Meanwhile plans also are shaping for a t concert tour through the middle west. This} is not a new departure, for a few years) ago she gave a series of concerts, traveling at that time in the north and south, the middle west and east. And enjoying thoroughly. Asked if she thought the classical tren now noticeable on radio programs wouk last, she answered: “I say ‘yes,’ because hope so, devoutly! There is so mud beauty in the fine old things—they hay survived because they are worth whil they have proved themselves. I love then I love all old things—sometimes, for if stance, it seems to me I absorb somethi just from being in the room with the fine old books in.our library .. .” She speaks several languages fluenth loves to read in French and Italian loves to include in her concert prograr the familiar German songs and the Russia which she sings in French. But she lo too, the simpler songs, old and mode lyrics, the best of the modern popu songs, some of which she has translat into Spanish. “Lullabies, perhaps, suit my voice best she commented in that soft speaking vo that is very like her singing voice—so } it that recently a telegraph operator, had listened to the Sunday night prograr recognized her over the phone, from speaking voice alone, before she gave : t & fe . le & be k & Ts ae ILO E RS ow BS Jerez e2g = ZAFIRA TAS £ Yur , A

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name. (She does not speak, under the pres- ent program arrangement and her fans miss that warm, low voice—the only lack in an otherwise delightful program. ) “Of course you don’t mind an audience,” I suggested, “with your stage experience—” She shook her head. “I don’t pay the slightest attention to the audience. I love to work. I could rehearse all day and be happy. No one means a thing to me at the time of singing!” “And you never had ‘mike fright’?” I queried. “Fright—personal fright—yes. But not of the ‘mike’. To me, it is warm and ‘friendly. I don’t think when I stand in front of it. I just feel—I want to pour out everything that is lovely and beautiful to it. I am singing my song—that is all that matters. I sing with the same fervor, the same intensity at rehearsal as I do when an audience is present. It is the act of singing that counts—the love of it!” But before concert or movie plans ma- ture, Olga and ‘Wally’ plan a restful va- cation in Honolulu. They will leave when the program ends, this spring—and after the primaries—and will, before they re- turn, visit the coffee plantation of Olga’s father in Puerto Rico. There, too, they twill see for the first time the new home built of Olga’s dreams, from the proceeds of her success in her own career. For she has acquired five acres of her own and has built a lovely Spanish house—a delightful jretreat for these two ambitious, hard- working people! _ “Tt has a patio, of course,” she described it eagerly, “and I have mango trees and alligator pears—and I am going to have a grapefruit orchard, too.” | She was enthusiastic, but that is only for vacations. A deeper enthusiasm is re- served for the beautiful, spacious Caldwell thome in Oak Park, an attractive Chicago suburb, where she now lives. She is more han contented there. And busy, too. “Tt doesn’t run itself,’ she murmured, smiling. “But it is such a lovely place— it has been in the Caldwell family for thirty-five years—and there is a great yard or the children—” For there are two children now. The Latin Guardo has a lovely little Nordic playmate, a blonde, blue-eyed stepsister. he is older than he, but they get along Deautifully together. And they have two dogs, a Scottie and a miniature Schnauzer, hich their mother enjoys as much as they i have such a rounded out life,” Olga ‘said softly, “everything that makes work orth while. I feel there is substance to Her lips curved softly in a smile. or he who was free as air, free to come and go as I pleased) am now questioned: ‘Where are you going? When are you coming ack? Where can I get in touch with you hile you are gone?’”’ A deep note of satis- faction was in her low laugh and she added Auickly, “But I love it! And it doesn’t mean hat I have relegated singing to the back- ground, but that I have an added incentive to do things. My children, my husband— hey are so proud of what I do! It means 50 much! I can put something back of my song that perhaps I never had before— ow shall I express it?—a certain rich ontentment, sincerity, depth, truth! I ive these things every day and everything RADIO STARS Wie Mags Sa) wart ae ae? Pb 2 it i wise, in ti it is fat from certain times 4 oe be unrestrained before female eyes, sa Or say what you really want to Be a With adequate words in a colo till like dogs; try to pretend that you $ SEE; : That Hee isn e Sunday tog ta tear in th a down your vest, cted . . pull e calm... colle ae : Let the yellow package put ae : It costs you no more to enjoy he best, #0.-- Beech-Nut the QUALITY gun A \\ \\Yat Wid \ NYS cwnw’

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Honeymoon by Harlow (Continued from page 30) And the girl whose sweet, lingering notes reach you over the air each Sunday night is the same girl who often sits at 7 the piano and sings softly, tenderly, with” her stepdaughter and son—and you car imagine how the children love these inti- mate hours with their gifted mother. I had asked her her favorite songs. She would not name any, but described’ them thus: “lyrical—sentimental—with © dramatic sweep.” And, I thought, how aptly her progr is named! For life is a song for Olga © Albani—just the kind of song she loves” best. . y “Listen, Johnny, if you love Ruth enough, nothing else matters. Now go to it!” Johnny went to it. He went to it thoroughly that the girls’ vacation came to an abrupt end. For Peg was openly heart- broken and Ruth felt terribly about the whole affair and Jean couldn’t have much fun with two weepy playmates. So they agreed to separate. Jean took Peg home to visit her in New York and Ruth re- turned to her family in Philadelphia. By all the laws of compensation things should have gone smoothly for Johnny and Ruth after that. Philadelphia was only at! hour from Atlantic City and the two could be together almost every day. Af- ternoons Ruth would drive over for a swim and a snack of supper before Johnny so went to work with the orchestra. Week- ends Johnny came to stay at Ruth’s parents’ palatial home. But things didn’t go smoothly—because Ruth’s mother put her foot down on the budding romance. Mrs. Miller didn’t ap- With all the eyebrow- with which well-bred “theatrical people’ she that she didn’t calling around prove of musicians. raising indignation mamas can scorn instructed her daughter want that Johnny Hamp any more. She wasn’t being a bit mean about it—she’s a darling person, really. She was simply anxious because her board- ing-school enfant wanted to wrap her whole future around a snare drum and a couple of cymbals. Ruth was despondent, as only seventeen can be despondent when a glorious, thrill- ing romance is pressed down by the stern thumb of parental disapproval. The fact that her Johnny was a college man didn’t seem to impress mama at all. He'd gone to Tome, and Franklin-and-Marshall, and played’ football and got swell grades and distinguished himself in campus musical activities. He wasn’t going to be a drum- mer all his life, either. Some day he was going to have an orchestra of his own, He’d be famous some day, too, Ruth argued earnestly. But mama _ remained unimpressed. Things came to a head on the night be- fore the Kentucky Serenaders were wind- ing up their engagement at Atlantic City. Johnny had invited Ruth down for that last evening. He had everything planned. They’d walk to a romantic spot far up the beach, sit together on the sand under a The night sky would” be powdered with yellow stars and the moon would be low and full. He would ” ask Ruth to marry him. A girl couldn't | say “no” at a time like that. At nine o’clock Ruth was three hour late. At ten o’clock Johnny frantically rang at her door in Philadelphia. The butler informed him crisply that Miss Mil ler was no longer at home to Mr. Hamp. Mama had written fiutis to a drummer’s love story. It might really have been the end if Jean Harlow hadn’t happened to run into Johnny two months later in Chicago. He poured out his unhappiness to her and} again she understood. The reason, they figured, why Johnny had received no an- swers to his letters to Ruth was that her mail was being intercepted at home. “So what'll I do, Jean?” Johnny asked | again. “C’mon,” she answered and walked him) up the street and into the lobby of they Palmer House. Jean sat down and ad dressed a batch of empty hotel envelopes to Ruth. Three days later Johnny had proposed) and been accepted by special delivery. It was eight months before they saw each other again, the two young lovers. They planned the Great Day for the fifth of July. Johnny moved to a cheap board=) ing-house and ate in hash joints and tumbled-down jetty. her saved up four hundred dollars. Ruth wore her fur coat another season and made over her dinner dresses and_ secretly) pocketed two hundred and fifty out of hei clothes allowance. And one summer morning Mrs. found a note at the breakfast table stead of her only daughter. The note had been hastily scrawled and read: ‘ Py a gone to Chicago to marry > Please don't I have Johnny Hamp, mother. worry. Worry! That was Foolish Request Ni 8,992. In less than an hour mama h boarded a west-bound express and wi the Chicago police. That was how f mama could work when she got reall} worried! all

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‘plans, had completely overlooked some- thing very important. It takes three days to get a marriage license in the Windy City and they couldn’t exactly afford any waiting around right then. So they hopped a train for Minneapolis, where a permit may be obtained in twenty-four’ hours. They made their application and jubilantly returned to their hotel for dinner, only to find a telegram from Johnny’s closest pal in the band stating that mama had hit Chicago in a great big way and was prac- tically due to descend on them in Minne- apolis at any minute! And then Ruth lost her nerve. Disappointed and excited and scared-to- death she sat right there in the dining- room of the hotel and bawled, as droopy and jittery a little bride as ever changed her mind at the very last minute. Johnny was frantic. He had to do something heroic and do it quickly, or he’d lose the girl of his dreams forever. He thought again of Jean Harlow, be- cause she’d helped him in two other crises. Jean lately had been married to Chuck McGrew, a wealthy young playboy, and | was living in Los Angeles. That gave | him an idea. “Ruth, honey, please don’t cry that way,” he begged, handing his best breast-pocket handkerchief across to the little ball of | brown hair and tears on the other side of ‘the table. “If you’ve decided you don’t want to marry me, O. K. But I’ve al- ‘ready got five weeks’ vacation for our \honeymoon and we're going to be to- | gether those five weeks, you and I, whether you’re Mrs. Hamp or not! We’re } going to go visit Jean and Chuck in Cali- ‘fornia if you will—will you, Ruth?’ )} Ruth would. And a couple of hours ‘later Johnny had an answering telegram ‘from Jean. It read: Welcome is on the doormat stop Besides I love weddings stop I speak to be matron of honor or I won't play stop Hurry you two crazies Stop Love. JEAN. | The plane couldn’t get there fast enough }for Johnny. As soon as it landed he left } Ruth with Chuck, hurried Jean around be- hind the nearest hangar and told her the whole story. When the chauffeur stopped at a pretty jwhite bungalow outside Pasadena a little \later, Ruth thought she was stepping into es house. Instead she stepped right jinto the presence of a nice beaming Justice jof Peace who was good at tying knots }quickly. In a few minutes it was all over \but the honeymoon. | The Hamps’ wedding trip was to be a lfoursome instead of a rendezvous a deux. Jean and her husband were sailing that |night for New York via the Canal; they jinsisted that the Hamps join them. Johnny and Ruth, fully expecting an onslaught of }mama any minute, relished the idea of al- lowing her a 23-day cooling-off period |while their steamer made its way to | Manhattan. So the Hamps and the McGrews sailed | j/ together, and Johnny and Ruth and Chuck jand Jean never had more fun in their jlives. It was Jean’s foresight and affection for the two on that trip that formed the real foundation for Johnny Hamp’s Orchestra. RADIO “STARS X the Linit Beauty Bath provides Yostant Results cx The alert girl or woman today in her quest for beauty, through the cultivation of charm, personality and good health, should not overlook the first requisite of loveliness—a perfect skin. Ax The smart woman will be glad to know of this simple way to attain a beautiful skin—the way so many fastidious women of today are acquiring it. 7x One of the most remarkable skin beauty aids is the Linit Beauty Bath. Imagine stepping into a bath as soft and luxurious as rich cream, bathing as usual and, after drying, finding that your skin is soft and satiny smooth as a rose petal. “x To enjoy the refreshing luxury of the Linit Beauty Bath, you merely dissolve some Linit in a tub of warm water and bathe. It is such a simple means of keeping the skin alluringly soft, that there is no excuse for any woman, who takes pride in her personal charm, to have anything but a clear, soft, smooth skin. x Once you try Linit, you will be happy to make it the daily fea- ture of your bath. Parents will be glad to know that Linit is a valu- able aid in bathing the baby and children, for in many cases of irritation the Linit bath is most soothing to the skin. YOUR DAINTY UNDERTHINGS LINIT IS SOLD BY ALL GROCERS will be refreshed and restored to their original loveliness when laundered with Linit. Just follow the simple directions on the package. The Bathway to a Soft, Smooth Skin 79 5 =

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Nothing Rut The Tcuth (Continued from page 17) suffered let down several times. I have used every artifice I ever learned to work over situations of this kind but many times they get the better of me. When- ever I have to act in a script that is poor, the most awful feeling of self-conscious- ness comes over me. Sometimes I feel so humiliated that I could just fly away from the studio!” Elsie Hits: “Yes.” Frances Langford: “I always have to be in the mood to do my best.” Donna Damerel: “I try always to give a good performance—it has been hard several times—but I never let moods af- fect me.” Major Bowes: “No.” Ozzie Nelson: “I refuse to be drawn into calling my endeavors ‘art’. . . but mood and health certainly make things more difficult at times.” Eddie Cantor: “Naturally my work suffers if I am in poor health and so I try to avoid working at such times. But we Cantors don’t have moods where per- formances are concerned.” Odette Myrtil: “I have been too long on the. stage to let anything like that bother me.” Harriet Hilliard: “Health, yes—moods, no. Singing is largely physical, I believe. (Watch me start a war with that state- -ment!)” Deems Taylor: “(A) I would hardly call what I do an art. (B) Every week, the sponsor says.” Ed McConnell: “No, because my: physi- cal condition has nothing whatever to do with my attitude toward my public.” Benay Venuta: “You can’t be inspired every time. you sing—naturally your work suffers when you’re in a low mood or physically ill.” Glen Gray:-“Of course; no.one can perform as well when he doesn’t feel quite right.” Dale Carnegie: “Mood? Nonsense.” Julia Sanderson: “People-tell me that, regardless of my feelings, my perform- ances never let down.” Bing Crosby: “Naturally.” Parkyakarkus: “My ‘art’. only suffers by the quality of my material, if bad. The work is not hard if the jokes are funny.” Ray Perkins: “Rarely; I’m-healthy as a pup and save my moods. for between broadcasts.” Bob Crosby: “Very much.~ so as any entertainer must be inspired for a good performance.” David Ross: “A performance can easily be marred by poor health or broken spirits. I have felt the effects of both.” Deane Janis: “Health, yes. Moods? When the show is on, it’s on with me.” Lennie Hayton: “No. I believe I’m still enthusiastic enough about my work to overcome any such feelings.” Helen Marshall: “I believe any person in any creative field is subject to moods . . - and health plays a very important RADIO STARS WHICH IS YOUR LUCKY NUMBER? | You May Think It is is No.3; Or No.2 The Wrong Shade of Face Powder Will Make You Look Years Older Than You Really Are! eS acl, Cather Are you using the right shade of face powder for you? That sounds like a rather needless question, doesn’t it? 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The voice immediately shows fatigue.” Phil Duey: “I’m sure sciously or unconsciously.” Bernice Claire: “Not very often—but of course it is kind of hard to do one’s best singing when one has a ‘gold id da dose.’ ” Kate Smith: “My spirits usually are gay and, as a result, my songs carry that feeling over the mike. Of course, I have requests from ailing and unfortunate people whose troubles do affect me.” Parks Johnson: “As to moods .. . yes. However, on our particular program the crowds around our microphone offer a never-failing tonic. That twenty to thirty minutes of chatting with a good-natured crowd before each Vox Pop broadcast not only is extremely interesting but it is most helpful. As to health for- tunately I’ve had no worries along that line.” Francis X. Bushman: “T don’t allow it. As far as the above is concerned, strange as it may seem, one more often gives one’s very best performances when not feeling so well,” Dick Powell: Do You Find That You Perform as Well in the Informal Surround- ings of the rehearsal as in the More Intense Atmosphere of the Actual Broadcast? ” it does, con- “No.” Dick Powell: “Yes Although I do feel more at home with an audience.” Lud Gluskin: “It makes no difference to me.” Francis X. Bushman: “TY always turn on the real works in the actual broad- cast. Some directors demand so much in rehearsals that the actor is left flat and spiritless when he finally gets to the real thing.” Parks Johnson: “In our Vox Pop pro- gram there is no rehearsal. It’s all infor- mal and without tenseness anywhere. We're fortunate that our particular radio program is just about as nearly natural, informal and ‘human’ as a program could be. It is ‘of, by and for’ the people, and rehearsals would take away 90% of the snap.” Kate Smith: “Ted and I try to keep our broadcasts as informal as possible. There really is very little difference between re- hearsal and the actual broadcast, other than the timing.” James Melton: “Better.” Bernice Claire: “An actual perform- — ance is always better, in my estimation, for there is an electric something about a performance that makes you give with more inspiration.” Phil Duey: “Lack of ease during an actual broadcast is more ‘than counter- balanced by increased concentration and effort.” Virginia Verrill: “No, and not only that, but I feel that I always perform bet- ter in front of an audience.” Jimmy Durante: “No, I don’t get seri- ous till the broadcast starts.” Conrad Thibault: “Just about the same . although I must say I wish for more informality at broadcasts.” Helen Marshall: “No. At the broadcast you are under fire and must do your best.” Lennie Hayton: “No. I always try to conserve not only my own energy, but that of my orchestra for the actual broad- Castiee 4 Deane Janis: “I go through rehearsals just as carefully as through a show.” _ David Ross: “While I prefer the in- formal surrounding of the rehearsal, I be- lieve the tense atmosphere of the actual broadcast induces just the proper nervous excitation to call forth a more spirited performance.” Bob Crosby: “I am more relaxed at a rehearsal, but find that being nervous is conducive to giving an inspired program.” Ray Perkins: “No, indeed. I never can perform well at rehearsals.” Nick Dawson: “Always much better in the actual broadcast—in fact I always make it a rule to save something during rehearsals.” Parkyakarkus: “No an audience does key one up to a very high pitch that doesn’t prevail at a rehearsal.” Bing Crosby: “I work a little harder in the broadcast.” Julia Sanderson: “A rehearsal is an attempt to perfect a performance—and so the two are treated alike by me.” Benay Venuta: “Better in the ‘intense © atmosphere’—much, much better.” Ed McConnell: “No. It is impossible — to forget your surrounding in a rehearsal, a thing I invariably do once my broad- cast begins.” Deems Taylor: “I do not. I’m bad at rehearsals, and I’m not so hot in the pres- ence of a studio audience, either. I like to talk to people on the air, but I loathe being overheard.” Harriet Hilliard: “I’m what is known as a bad rehearser.” Peter Van Steeden: “I think I perform better during the actual broadcast, as I feel that so much more is at stake.” Eddie Cantor: “I think I do; at least I make every effort to give as good a show at rehearsal as at the actual broad- cast, for I believe enthusiasm can have a stimulating effect on the surrounding play- ers. In this manner we manage to give a good rehearsal performance, and have enough left to give an even better actual broadcast.” Ossie Nelson: “We through the rehearsals.” Major Bowes: “Just as well in the re# hearsal.” Donna Damerel: “We rehearse for tim- ing more than for anything else .. never with much feeling.” Frances Langford: “I perform much better on the actual broadcast.” always clown

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Patti Pickens: “In rehearsal we go over and over our songs until they become me- chanical, while on the broadcast, after a rest, we feel fresh and the songs sound better.” June Meredith: “Try as I will I just can’t feel at rehearsals that certain some- thing that comes over me when the mike fs open.’ I do know that when I give a rehearsal that satisfies the director, my performance on the air never satisfies me. It seems as though the show already has been given . .. an old superstition from the theatre, I guess.” Don Mario: “Rehearsals usually are like a ‘once over’ in a barber’s chair. The broadcast itself is the real shave. The realization that ‘you are on’ makes you more careful and observant of the little things that are forgiven at rehearsals.” Ted Husing: “I hit such consistency anywhere; it’s amazing. Or isn’t it?” Harry von Zell: “T think it is better not to put everything into a rehearsal. It is best to reach up on the air show.” Freddie Rich: “Immaterial.” Al Pearce: “My gang doesn’t go in much for rehearsals—we don’t know what a dress rehearsal is.” John Barclay: “Always better in the broadcast. In rehearsal your mind is fig- uring out a dozen things to improve the work—your thoughts are scattered.” Myrtle Vail: “I seldom act during re- hearsals.” Lucy Monroe: “I am usually better on the air—that extra something you have to give you know.” Dorothy Lamour: “No, because I save all my feeling for the actual broadcast.” Olga Albani: “It really doesn’t make much difference: I love to rehearse and “POW De Ee mee Pipes ete Se yf RADIO STARS when actually broadcasting, am perfectly oblivious of everything but my work.” Ted Malone: “Between the Bookends never has undergone the agonies of a re- hearsal. It would destroy its atmosphere of spontaneity.” Fritsi Scheff: “I prefer the broadcast—I thrill at the silence going on the air.” Jerry Belcher: “We have no rehearsals. I seriously doubt my ability to do a show that requires intense rehearsal periods. The atmosphere of the show itself simply lifts me out of myself, and I can do my best under the pressure of the moment.” Anne Jamison: “In the main, I would say that I feel much the same whether singing informally or before a vast au- dience .. . just so long as I sing.” Betty Low Gerson: “Instinctively one picks up and gives a live performance when on the air. There is a tense nervous- ness which goes to energize one’s work while actually broadcasting.” actual before Is the Fear of Making Some Sort of Error During Your Broadcast Constantly With You or Do You Always Manage to Exude Con- fidence? Glen Gray: “No. The only time we feel that way is on the first program of the season. We're all relaxed now, though. After six years together, we should feel at home on a bandstand.” Dale Carnegie: “Making an error occa- sionally makes the broadcast more human in my estimation. Doesn’t bother me.” ened to death for fear of making mis- takes.” Bing Crosby: “Never think of it... just do the best I can and hope.” Parkyakarkus: “I have never been troubled with the fear of making an error —since I know my part thoroughly before going on the air.” Nick Dawson: “I don’t know what I exude and I sometimes make mistakes, but never worry about them before or after. I guess, perhaps, I’m too stupid to be nervous.” Ray Perkins: “Never worry about errors. When I make them I manage to cover up.” Bob Crosby: “The fear is there, though not dominant and is sometimes lost in the excitement.” Abe Lyman: “I have no fear of errors because half the people won’t notice one.” David Ross: “lf I exude confidence on the air, it is because I have struggled desperately these many years to conquer my fears. 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BROWNATONE is only 50c—at all drug and toilet counters—always on a money-back guarantee. 84 Now, without any risk, RADIO STARS Helen Marshall: “There is always a little ‘stage fright’ before I begin, but the minute I start it vanishes.” Conrad Thibault: “Never let fear come in—although sometimes last minute changes in the program allow the rascal to sneak up on me.” Helen Jepson: “The fear is always with me. It is strange that radio always is nerve wracking for me—a whole opera is easier than one broadcast.” Jimmy Durante: “I always hope for the best and try not to worry about errors.” Jose Manzanares: “When appearing in public I feel always confident. But there is fear of making an error when broad- casting.” Paul Pearson: “An inward feeling sometimes—but never outward—as it tends to make the rest of the performers uneasy.” Igor Gorin: “TY always have confidence.” Andre Kostelanets: “No fears.” Virginia Verrill: “I memorize my num- bers, use no music, and hence have no reason to fear.” Josephine Gibson: “I always am fear- ful of error—that is why broadcasting is difficult . . . a slight error seems so ter- rible to oneself.” Bernice Claire: “I try to be very care- ful, of course—but I don’t fear making an error, as I am generally too busy watching notes, words—and Abe Lyman —to think of fear!” James Melton: “I have confidence in myself.” Kate Smith: “No. If an error is made, best of it. songs before you just have to make the However, I try to know my I sing them.” Parks Johnson: “Never fear, because I’m doing what I love to do and enjoy- ing it thoroughly. The nature of our Vox Pop program is such that a listener never is certain whether an error, when made, is not deliberate . it’s grand to have that protection.” Francis X. Bushman: “lf the script is badly written, words in juxtaposition dif- ficult to articulate, then, yes, I have the fear of stumbling. I never think of it when playing a dramatic part, but fre- quently on my daily Movie Personalities program I have felt the fear. However, rarely does anything happen to justify it Dick Powell: “No fear at all.” Frank Crumit: “No trouper ever is so sure of himself that the fear of making an error isn’t always present.” Jane Froman: “I do not think I exude confidence; however, I am at no time in fear of making any sort of error.” Milton J. Cross: “Normally ‘exude confidence,’ but there always is a lurking fear of the ‘tongue twister’.” Betty Lou Gerson: “In the first few months of broadcasting I was conscious of a fear of fluffing a line. I never am now—though, when I occasionally make an error, it has a tendency to make me a little nervous.” Margaret Speaks: “I try to ‘exude con- fidence’-—I hope I succeed.” Anne Jamison: “To face a mike fear would indeed be fatal for me. forget it.” Jerry Belcher: “We are very careful to avoid error ... an error would be a very easy matter on the Vox Pop pro- gram ... this is a matter of experience and that Parks and I have worked out with So I together. Personally, I have no fear of anything that may arise in the course of our show.” Fritsi Scheff: “I do not fear while I broadcast, but I shiver a little in anti- cipation, just before going on.” Olga Albani: “Only when I know that I am not up to par, have I any fear dur- ing a broadcast.. And during recent years I have learned to feel confident, even when not in-extra- prime condition—hay- ing learned -that there are many -things besides a brilliant voice that make for a ~ good broadcast.” : Lucy Monroe: “Am always nervous, but don’t think I show it—at least - they say not!” : Myrtle Vail: “I always try to laugh off a blunder, but never to rectify one.” John Barclay: “The fear of making an ~ error is a form of- self-consciousness, a lack of concentration on the part or song you are trying to perform. How can you think how you are feeting yourself, if you are try ing to be someone else. There's - no time.’ Ted Hammerstem: “After years ‘of practice and attempt I have, I think; finally got to the point where I can broad- cast without any particular fear or loss of confidence.” Al Pearce: “Both.” , Andy Sannella: “Well; I sort -of get set, aS a runner at a track meet does just before the gun goes off . .. but after that I’m perfectly at ease.” Freddie Rich: “This is an embarrassing question.” Harry von Zell: “I never am perfectly at ease before the mike. I don’t think it’s” fear of a mistake, but rather a natural ~ tension resulting from the realization of responsibility.” Richard Himber: “It’s always with me> —but I never let it show!” Ted Husing: “The latter.” Niela Goodelle: ‘“‘My fans tell me that I exude confidence, but I really do have a horror of making mistakes.” Don Mario: “If I am sure of what I’m doing I have no fear. It is only when I haven’t been properly rehearsed that I’m uncertain and a bit of fear creeps into my work.” Patti Pickens: “We usually know our songs so well that I never worry about making an error. Whether I ‘exude con fidence’ or not, I certainly feel it.” Frances Langford: “I have strict con- fidence in myself until the broadcast i over and then I get nervous about what I might have done wrong.” Ossie Nelson: “Fear bothered me the first couple ef years but now broadcast ing’s a lot of fun and I never think of mistakes unless I am not properly pre pared.” Eddie Cantor: “I decided that if couldn’t read large type correctly from 4 sheet of paper, I ought to go back té being a singing waiter at Coney Island. So far (knock wood), I haven't had t consult a Coney Island time-table.” Odette Myrtil: “Ask those who listen in,” Harriet Hilliard: “Fear? Yes—and | you had cases of ‘twisted tongue’ as I & —you wouldn’t be so confident yoursel, | I can say the most awful things—by mis take, of course.” Deems Taylor: “I wouldn't say that ‘exude’ it, because I keep it.” oo. pe t

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Please Stay Out of my Like (Continued from page 50) myself. If you would like to see my sister at some other time .. .” Or perhaps you’re a casual friend or visiting celebrity. You're asked to dinner in the sumptuous peach-and-prune-colored dining-room that is Carmela’s own. Rosa doesn’t sit at table. Naturally you inquire about her. “Rosa had a previous engage- ment for this evening,” you're told, “she was terribly sorry not to be able to join us.” And that’s that. It goes on. The closer you scan the lives of these sister stars the more unre- lated you find they live. Separate servants, separate telephones, separate dressmakers and managers and publicity representatives and even hairdressers. Never are the two seen in each other’s company; they move _ in entirely different circles of friends. Their | tastes are as opposites, their habits, their ' ambitions. It does seem strange! So, inevitably, the myth has sprung up— | particularly among those who are ac- _ quainted with the early years of the sisters ' Ponselle, the years of struggle and hunger when the two fought side by side for each Other because there was no one else to |help them but themselves—the myth has sprung up that since the Ponselles have _ become international figures, they’re deadly _ jealous of each other, bitterly eaten with envy by every ounce of added fame or progress that comes to the other. That _ explains their odd behavior. It’s a perfectly logical conclusion for _ people to make but at the same time it’s so perfectly a wrong conclusion that it’s almost funny—from the inside. Because the Ponselle sisters, in their really private lives, happen to be utterly, completely, in- separably devoted to each other! For that very reason they have agreed between themselves to stay out entirely of each other’s professional and semi-pro- fessional existences. 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To get the story we'll have to go back. It’s Carmela’s story, this. She’s the sing- ing star of the Friday night Broadway Varieties program—slender, dark, a fash- ion-plate prima donna from the tip of her saucy little bonnet to the toes of her bizarre French shoes. Twenty-five years ago, on a warm spring midnight, she silently slipped into her best white cotton shirtwaist and serge skirt, braided her thick black hair up under a stiff-brimmed straw, tiptoed down the back stairs to leave an envelope un- der the kitchen lamp, then walked four miles through the woods to the railroad station. She was doing what country girls with dreams have done ever since a street called Broadway became the hub of show business. She was running away to New York to go on the stage. Papa and Mama Ponzillo, much as they loved music, had strongly objected to all her talk of a career. The respectable hard- farming Italians around Meriden, Connec- ticut, looked with some scorn on profes- sional girl singers. Carmela hadn’t wanted to grieve her folks by slipping away while they slept—they were such a happy fam- ily even if they were desperately poor, Papa, Mama, little Rosa and Tony—but she couldn’t make them understand how desperately she simply had to go. A taste of amateur theatricals in Meriden, singing solos and duets with Rosa for banquets and church entertainments, had given her a yearning her sixteen-year-old heart could hardly contain. And even Papa himself always said you didn’t live this life but once. If you wanted something terribly badly, you found a way to get it. So Carmela sat up all night in the cin- dery day-coach and wept. She didn’t know a soul in New York but she was going there anyway. First off she landed a job on Broadway, caged in the cashier’s booth of the old Lorber Restaurant just across the street from the Metropolitan Opera House, mak- ing change and selling tobacco for the nifty salary of fourteen dollars a week. With her very first pay envelope she fi- nanced what seemed to her the most glam- orous, eventful evening she ever had spent. She bought a gallery seat to hear the great Caruso sing. Unable to sleep afterwards from the thrill of it, she sat up for hours writing her first long letter to the folks back home. “Believe me—some day I'll sing at the Metropolitan too.” Then, “P, §, Papa, tt wouldn’t be so lonely for me if you'd let Rosa come.” Rosa didn’t come for a year. The stage-bug hadn’t bitten her quite ferocious- ly enough to give her the impetus of a runaway from home. But in the meantime Carmela was forging ahead with the res- taurant work on weekdays and a choir job for Sundays. After a while she wangled a position for her little sister at the same church and Rosa joined her in New York. In mortar boards and vestments the Pon- selles embarked together on their musical careers. “Sometimes I look back now,” Carmela told me, “and I can hardly believe some of the things I lived through. Hunger. Hunger’s a horrible thing. Weeks and weeks without work. And failure, and be- ing snubbed, and loneliness. And some of the jobs we had... .!!” Two-bit vaudeville first. A tour in two- bit vaudeville, no less. One-night stands. Dirty dressing-rooms. Second-hand cos- tumes. “Actors” boarding houses. Can you imagine the Carmela Ponselle of to- day wearing a tawdry spangled gown, danc- ing out behind the footlights of every jerkwater train-stop between Manhattan and the Mississippi, performing often to the tobacco-juiced jeers of yokels who didn’t like their music “highbrow?” She did—years of it. She sang. Rosa played. That was their “act”’. The Yale boys decided they were good. The Yale boys used to crowd Malone’s café in New Haven night after night and applaud the cabaret that featured the Pon- selles. At the close of a long engagement they were signed for another tour but this time it was big-time. They returned to New York via the famous stage of the Palace Theatre. And the stage of the Palace in those days meant one thing to every struggling vaudevillian in the United States. When you got there you'd got. to the top! The top? Not for Carmela. Vaude- ville never had been anything more to her than a means to an end—vaudeville was money and contacts and opportunities. She studied voice under the best teachers she could afford, she studied French and Ger- man, she studied piano. And finally she ~ left the five-a-days to triumphantly tour this country and abroad in concert. Fifteen years later—almost to the day— from her initiation into the cashier's cage at Lorber’s she débuted sensationally in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera House Carmela Ponselle had got to the top. Since then her career has, taken her on to the most celebrated stages in the world, has lured her once weekly to a microphone that sends her full glorious voice to every corner of a continent. This would be a different story if that were that alone—but the same thing has hap- pened to Rosa, too! The fulfillment of their ambitions, as you know, has been al- most identical. And instead of its being a happy ending for them both—well it’s really sort of ter- rible. There they are—Carmela and Rosa Pon-" selle. Both are international figures in the same fields, opera, concert, radio. They — have the same background, they have the ~ same last name, their voices are by no _ means dissimilar, they even look alike. u “It’s almost,” as Carmela told me, “it’s almost as bad as being twins!” Because it just won't work. It won’t work in a world that wants its” celebrities to be one-of-a-kind models. No | duplicates, thank you. You know your- — self how true that is. The actress who © looks too much like Joan Crawford, the singer who sings exactly like Kate Smith, ~ the orchestra that copies Guy Lombardo’s | —they’re licked before they start. They're” constantly compared and it keeps them from making the grade. They’re imita- tors. They're second editions. They “aren’t as good as.” The public demands fresh individuality of its heroes and” heroines. ; The Ponselle sisters realized that yea ago. They realized what they were going © to be up against just by the very fact that they were sisters. For both of them ‘¢ survive in identical careers it would be ab- solutely essential that they be distinct sep- t f 4 |

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| | | I | } arate personalities no matter what the cost. Else one would inevitably succeed at the expense of the other—and they were de- termined not to let that happen. They’d been through too much together, they knew what perfect happiness each had found in singing, they loved each other too much. It hadn’t mattered in the old days when they were unknowns, But as soon as they landed in the spotlight of fame .. . it began. From the big scale of the public to the small scale of their friends people started to compare, to liken, to make choices between them. It couldn’t go on. It meant the sure tragedy of one, perhaps both of them. So they made a pact and determined to stick to it: each, to the best of her ability, would stay out of the other’s professional life. But that’s just half of the secret behind the Ponselles’ strange way of living. Carmela Ponselle is difinitely Carmela Ponselle, and so far as she is outwardly concerned Rosa is simply another prima donna who happens to share her pent- house. Carmela entertains independent of any obligation to her sister, works, lives and plays entirely as a separate unit. She won't allow a friend to entertain for her and her sister at the same time, she won’t accept an invitation that includes both of them. Down to the smallest detail she does everything to keep herself herself and to keep from infringing on any of Rosa’s territory. Rosa upholds her end of the bargain as strenuously, too. “Well then—why do they even live to- | gether?” people ask. That’s the other half of the secret. Car- on) te AY “DYE” 7 Y RIT! NUN p Ril RADIO STARS mela and Rosa Ponselle are so completely devoted they’ll never live any other way as long as they can successfully manage it. They’re best friends, worst critics and inseparable pals. They don’t enjoy a bit having to go to the extremes they do but it just seems to be necessary. All of their real companionship—and they have lots of fun together—they have to have on the sly. At home alone or among their family and very intimate mu- tual friends. When there are no house guests they always breakfast together on their terrace overlooking the Hudson, a lovely huge terrace brimming with begonias and nasturtiums of Carmela’s culture, gay with the pulsing slap of a fountain at each end. Every morning when the weather’s wintry they take their walk together up the Drive—bundled in a mink coat nobody can tell whether you’re a Ponselle or the lady next door. Sometimes brother Tony comes to visit and the three of them steam up a pot of ravioli, sit around the kitchen table together and talk till dawn. When one broadcasts the other is invariably tuned in; when one sings at the Metropolitan the other is invariably in the audience. Then before bed there’s plenty of frank sisterly criticism exchanged. There’s another very mutual interest that they have at home too, and it deserves mention because it gives a valuable side- light on the characters of the two. That interest is a dear little old lady named Miss Annie Ryan, who has lived with them for fifteen years. It was she, the Meriden organist, who took the little Ponzillo girls under her wing when they were too poor to pay for singing lessons, taught them this new dyeing really is. @ Dissolves Instantly! Rit is a powder wafer—easier to meas- ure, won’t sift out of the package like loose powder dyes. IT TINTS & DYES © White Rit Color Remover—the safe way to take OUT color, remoye stains, whiten fabrics—harmless as boiling water! their do-re-mis gratis, encouraged them in seeking careers and loaned them the use of her piano. They have never forgotten. 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We see Rosemary and Priscilla Lane practising a song in a pri- vate studio, rout out soloists rehearsing alone in padded cells, take a peep into a large studio where Stella and The Fellas try out a bit of harmony, and presently we wind up in Studio No. 2, near the en- trance of which are the wardrobes for the band uniforms and instrument closets. We find the Pennsylvanians going over and over a piece under the direction of the as- sistant-conductor. “Nothing really counts until Fred takes them on,” whispers Ronnie. Fred simply stands there a few minutes as though he were the stranger, just look- ing around. At length he takes his place before the conductor’s stand. “Terrible!” he remarks, sorting over and turning to a piece of music. Then he tells the boys in no uncertain terms that they have it com- ing to them. Have they gone sour? Do they think they are so good they can’t be any better than that! What's the idea of this amateur performance anyway? Then Fred Waring goes ahead with the job in a way that can only be compared with painting a picture. Before, it had been just a pleasant landscape, so to speak. Fred creates his own interpretation. Like all his compositions, it is vocal in parts. With the voices over to the right he makes a soft blur of color and with the clarinets draws a wispy haze of lines round it; with the saxophones he shades in a fore- ground for the whole ensemble to rise and softly brush in their varying tints of a to- be-remembered sunset effect fading out with something sweet and sad followed by a lilting comic streak from the trombone muted, giving a final chromatic touch with the voices of the girl trio in chrome shades of treble. A slight pause, then with both hands upraised he brings the whole or- chestra to their feet, dotting in sky notes by pointing his fingers at solo singing mem- bers, like twinkling stars, bringing them falling downward in a pyrotechnical show- er of a finale, by the mere slow descent of his outspread hands, each finger quiy- ering as though in ecstasy. The picture was finished. Fred framed it with a golden smile that was reflected like a ray of sunlight over the faces of his musical family, where a cloud the size of a boss-conductor’s hand had hung be- fore. They were all mopping their brows and buzzing happily. Nearly an hour later we were seated in Fred’s private office, very ornate with mod- ernistic furniture. “Oh, the furniture?” he remarked. “Not exactly my idea—but I let them go ahead with it.” Then as though talking half to the. pile of photographs to be autographed and fin- gering over the mountain of fan letters, he observed, “After all, the best music is —just music, cold composition on paper. Different people do altogether different things with the same piece. I have my own ideas about expression. I suppose that’s really the whole thing.” He paused a moment thoughtfully. “Our method of rendering a piece of music is wholly interpretative. Perhaps one might compare the way in which I try to blend our voices, with pastel shades as opposed to primary colors. Pastels have soft tones that lend themselves more read- ily to blending groups, while primary colors are harsher and have sharp edges that cut — a picture into individual parts. My way is purely interpretative, as I said—the way I feel. “Accomplished singers? I wouldn't take one on a bet. I’d much rather they didn’t know too much about singing, otherwise this blend I talk about would be impossi- ble, because they have their own ideas of the composition before they start and want to do it alone. We have our own tech- nique. “T work harder on the vocal than on the instrumental. Or, perhaps I should say, I consider every voice as an instrument as well. I can rely on instruments always producing the same note; voices are more treacherous. Being a glee club as well as an orchestra, throws a certain respon- sibility on my shoulders. Our work has always got to be good for many laughs.” (Visitors behind the Waring scenes soon become conscious of a phrase: “Has tt got a laugh in it?”) “You will notice that most of our boys | are young. We try to get them young— 7) before their ideas are too grown-up. We can watch them grow in personality, trait and character and we encourage them. In that way we have built up a family group. Sometimes—like today—I beat hell out of the boys when they need it. They ex- pect it, and they know I don’t mean a word of it. “Ours was one of the first bands to broadcast, away back in 1921. I learned that audiences on the air—I mean the mil- lions, not the thousands—prefer music they don’t have to study. Music easy to listen to—like Wayne King’s for instance. When it comes to vocal numbers they like ensembles and silly numbers. “For the past three years, we have been broadcasting before big audiences in per- son. There used to be criticism about that. As though the performers played only to and for the visible audience and neglected the air. Personally, I think visi- ble audiences have done a great deal fo radio. They are stimulating and inspira- tional and make shows seem more like the real thing. “We work hard, but we always have fun while giving a show, and we try to let o audiences in on our fun. For this purpose a laugh is a very valuable thing. Snickers don’t mean enough, we are out for hearty belly laughs. There is all the difference between being mildly amusing and do right funny. We are expected to be fun and most of our fun is impromptu and just can’t help laughing ourselves som times. We pass it on the air by means of comedy sound effects and intonation thath don’t have to be seen to be appreciated: “Me? Well, that story’s soon told. Ag 34. Married. One girl child, 14 month old. I don’t really dance or sing. Neve even got through college. I couldn't see

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LE ee ee A A to get anywhere in those days. Then I got wise to myself, that I could only accom- plish things when somebody dared me to do it or told me I couldn’t do it. When they had two strikes on me! They put me out of the college glee club. They said I wouldn’t make good in radio. “Well, anyway, that sort of first-failure has run all through my experience. It has given me a lot of bitterness, but there has been compensation. “We started out as the Waring-McClin- tock Snap Orchestra. Some of those orig- inal boys are still with us, after fifteen years. They were all Pennsylvanians once, but now half the States in the Union are represented and five foreign countries.” Another pow-wow on Fred’s Luncheon followed, about which we had been hearing all morning. We were invited to attend. There was an air, of promise, of great im- portance, surrounding Fred’s Luncheon. We expected great things, as, with Ronnie Ames, Fred Waring we set out in the di- rection of the Hotel Astor, fancying lunch- eon would be in one of the lovely private dining-rooms of that caravansary. As we sauntered along, we kept think- ing that Fred Waring did not belong to the usual Broadway sector of flashily- dressed smart alecks of vawdveel, on the air, or on the hoof, who strutted up and down the Rialto and Tin Pan Alley with exaggerated ideas of their earning powers and own importance. Fred was still a modest Pennsylvanian who didn’t seem to give a darn about all that blah, walking along unostentatiously with his unstylish blue ulster covered with white hairs, as though he had been playing with the hound dog before leaving home. His pearl gray hat with black band at a safe and sane angle, a last year’s style muffler, a solid pattern blue suit that was noiseless, com- mon sense shoes such as the Justices of the Supreme Court probably wear, soft white self-collared oxford shirt and a dark tie with noiseless stripes in it. And then suddenly, we ducked into Horn & Hardart’s Automat Restaurant! What was the big idea? Well, it seems, that it was Fred’s brilliant idea, conceived about a year ago. Music publishers from Tin Pan Alley just around the corner used to bother him to death peddling their wares every day of the week. Why not form a Club and have them all meet him there, say, every Wednesday? It had the coveted laugh in it. From the first, it was Kate Smith greets James Farrell, bari- tone, after the broadcast of his pro- gram, heard over WABC, on his first anniversary on the air. RADIO STARS a girl bb OAN is pretty. She is smart. And she is asked everywhere. Barbara looks at Joan with secret envy. For Barbara, too, is pretty. And she is smart. But evening after eve- ning, she is left at home alone. Why? What makes one girl “click” socially and another fail, when both are equally good-looking? The truth is, Barbara could be just as popular as Joan if it were not that she is careless—careless about some- thing no girl can afford to overlook. You can’t blame people for avoiding the girl or woman who is careless about underarm perspiration odor. It’s too unpleasant to tolerate in anyone, no matter how pretty she may be. What makes There’s really no excuse for it these days when Mum makes it so easy to keep the underarms fresh, free from every trace of odor. Just half a minute is all you need to use Mum. Then you're safe for the whole day! Use it any time—after dressing, as well as before. It’s harmless to cloth- ing. It’s soothing to the skin, too—so soothing you can use it right after shaving your underarms. Depend upon Mum to prevent all unpleasant perspiration odor, without preventing perspiration itself. Use it daily, and no one will ever have this reason to avoid you! Bristol - Myers, Inc., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York. ON SANITARY NAPKINS. Guard against this source of unpleasantness with Mum. No more doubt and worry when you use Mum! takes the odor out of perspiration 89

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We arrived early and watched the forty- odd members come rushing in. Fred him- self collected the checks and presented them to the winner. And was there a _ big laugh! The manager reserved all the tables in the front of the restaurant. It turned out to be.a regular Believe-it-or- not Ripley Feature. Nearly fifty of Tin Pan Alley’s most famous song pub- lishers and writers, radio artists, hoofers, singers and guest artists. A great audi- ence was attracted, looking on as they dallied over their hot dishes, home-made apple pie and coffee. The impromptu show was as rare as the Flea Circus down in 42nd Street, and as amusing as Jumbo that was jamming the Hippodrome. Every- body laughed and chaffed and whooped it up. For example—of Tin Pan Alley— a very pretty young girl entered, escorted by a typical White Way denizen. “Hello, Sugar!” they called out on every side. She came up to Fred who greeted her with acclaim. So that there could be no mistake, she wore a brooch of gold wire twisted into the word, Sugar. “Sugar?” we asked incredulously. “Sure,” laughed Ronnie. “That's Sugar Kane—one of the most popular little sing- ers in radio.” The song marketing began. One pub- lisher brought over a freshly-written manu- script entitled, There’s Many a Turn in the River of Love. “Are you going to give me the same break you gave Rudy, and make a phono- graph record of it?” asks Fred. The publisher grinned and produced the record from beneath his coat. Others came over and whispered the sweet words of mellifluous songs in his ear. Still others hummed them, beating time with an Auto- mat fork. Fred just sat and listened, smil- ing and chaffing as he sipped his coffee and ate his mixed fruit dessert. This went on for an hour. Then they flocked around him like crows in a cornfield, all the way down Broadway, back to his offices, where he plunged into the all-day rehearsal. That night, we accompanied Fred to his Ford broadcast. The Columbia Broadcast- ing Company allots 1,200 tickets, carefully selected out of 12,000 applicants. The house was the Hudson Theatre, where many of Broadway’s greatest successes had been attended by some of New York’s most brilliant audiences. Times have changed—with the radio as one of the greatest entertainment factors. 9.20—Backstage behind the curtain, the Pennsylvanians percolate in, one by one, and take their places in the semi-circular platforms on the stage. There is no con- fusion; no funny-business. Each one anx- iously looks over his music that has just been distributed. Some begin to tune up. 9.23—Deep concern seems to grow on them. They pull down their natty uniform mess jackets and brush imaginary specks off their gray trousers and arrange their striped ties. 9.26—Fred Waring casually appears in the wings. There is a sigh of relief. He walks around without appearing to notice anything. He alone seems unconcerned. 9.27—The stage manager gives us an ~where the famous Poor Richard Advertis- ominous signal and we hurry out the stage door and take our seats in the auditorium. Every seat in the house, up to the top gal- lery, is filled. The huge audience has sunk into silence, its eyes on one of the many clocks in prominent places, with huge red hands, clear across the faces, ticking off the seconds. The visible crew in the control room—that was formerly the stage box— are moving nervously and soundlessly about behind glass in a garish light, like finicky fish swimming around in a huge fish bowl. 9.281%4—The curtain rises. The Penn- sylvanians are all set. Without ado, a smallish, youngish, goodlooking fellow cas- ually walks on, pauses half way as though he had changed his mind, and says non- chalantly, “H’lo.” It was good for a “laugh,” because everybody was taken by surprise. He is wearing the same staid clothes of the Automat. The only change is, he is chewing gum. That also gets a laugh that becomes a howl of merriment when he sticks the wad of gum under the music stand at the last moment. “Regular guy! ... Ain’t he funny! ... I like him!” whispers the audience, chuckling. 9.29—“Any of you folks who want to cough or choke, better do it now,” begins Fred, casually. “It isn’t allowed when we are on the air—and the doors are locked. Now, come on! Everybody! Let’s give one good cough!” And everybody coughs and roars with laughter. 9.291%4—“Too late!” remarks Fred, his eye on the clock. 9.2934—The boss of the control room raises his hand and four fingers. Fred glances at the clock and then at him. The studio announcer has taken his place. The control room man drops the hat. A little sign in red says, We are on the air. Fred wheels around, raises his open hands like a salvation singer and slowly lowers them. Music softly exudes as though from the ends of his fingers. The announcer begins his} Spielss. dear But we listeners-in know the rest. And this was all repeated to another S. R. O. audience at 12, for the West Coast Broadcast. “Oh, that was an easy day,” boasts Ronnie. “I'll give you a sample of a busy day—tomorrow. Well, we set out on the road, leaving Penn Station by special car at 10 a. M., with engineers, technicians, Waring and staff and two secretaries. Ar- rive at Philadelphia at noon. 12.30 to 1.30, luncheon. 2 sharp, begin rehearsal and keep it up intensely, with engineers getting sound balance until 5. 5, we hurry to hotel to wash and brush up. 6:30, return to the Arcadia Restaurant where 4000 Ford Dealers and agents are throwing a special dinner for Fred. 7:15 Fred hustles to a second dinner at the Belleyue-Stratford, ing Club is holding its annual dinner and will present honor medals for outstanding publicity services during the past year. The recipients will be Alfred P. Sloan, Presi- dent of General Motors, and Fred Waring. 8.30 Fred is due back at the Arcadia, where until 9.26% he will warm up the orchestra. 9.30 sharp he will go on the air. 10.30, he will return to the Poor Richard Club where ® the orchestra will interpolate during the™ Annual Dinner. This will be over by 12, © perhaps. 1.30 to 3 A. M. we will get to- gether for the usual orchestra pow-wow over the day’s work.” Fred Waring calls it a day! é ~ nzweitie wea a et & a

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Figh ting it Out on the fir (Continued from page 43) Household Hints program. You see, wo- men used to come to me, or write in, ask- ing about a new recipe for a cake, for instance. Perhaps they tried to bake the cake while hubby was out gambling one night. So they would ask what they should do about the cake and what they should do about hubby. It began that way. “Mr. Brown, on his music programs, often would give a few minutes’ talk on the air on various subjects between num- bers. Men, as well as their wives, discuss things, and Mr. Brown soon found him- self as swamped with masculine letters as I was with feminine ones. So we de- cided to put Husbands and Wives on the air and let people be their own judges.” “What do you mean by letting people be their own judges?” I wanted to know. “Tust that,’ Mr. Brown explained. “You see, we never give advice. We never ex- press an opinion or take sides in any of the problems that come before us. We simply put the questions on the air and after they’ve been presented to the radio listeners we often hold a meeting in the studio to permit the attending audience to make suggestions. We believe that the best way to help people is to let them help themselves—” At that moment we were interrupted by a very breathless, frightened young lady. She spoke excitedly: “Mrs. Miles, I can’t go on the air under my real name! Oh, I don’t dare! My hus- band found out I was to be on your pro- gram tonight and he said that if I said anything at all detrimental to him—well, his door would be locked to me forever! And, Mrs. Miles, that’s not all, that was just his mildest threat!” Mrs. Miles’ voice was soothing. “Never mind, my dear. Perhaps it would be bet- ter for you to forget the whole thing. We'll get somebody else to speak in your place. You mustn’t worry about it.” “Oh, no, I don’t want to do that!” the frantic wife continued, “I just want to assume another name for the program. You see, I want to tell other wives about my experience. And besides I—I guess I want to get it off my chest, too. I’ve al- ways done everything exactly the way my husband wanted it done, ever since we were married—but I haven’t noticed that it’s got me anything. Not anything! He still spends money on other women and neglects his children and home—and me.” “T understand,’ Mrs. Miles said quite simply. Somehow you knew that she did understand. Allie Lowe Miles has genuine graciousness in her makeup. Perhaps it’s part of her Alabama background, her un- mistakable Southern womanliness and gentility. In a few moments she deftly had calmed down the excited young wife. Then I had a chance to ask her if her pet program idea ever had caused a sep- aration or divorce. “No,” she laughed kindly, “but we have had some narrow escapes. A husband and wife may get mad for the moment, but RADIO STARS Sad and blue with “time on her hands” and nothing to do. 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We’ve had thousands of let- ters of thanks from our audiences.” The studio clock soon rolled around to air time and the distressed wife, who by then had thought up an alias for the pro- gram, was the first to speak. “When my husband and I were married ... her thin voice was being carried to innumerable homes over Mutual and per- haps into her own apartment where her husband, so short a time before, had threatened her. “he was in show business. He still is. I knew his attitude and aptitude for show girls but at first I didn’t think anything about it. Maybe it was because I didn’t want to and maybe I was just young and in love. Anyway, as time went by, I was forced to realize that the only thing he shared with me was his bed. Our children arrived in the world unwanted by him, and I was—I still am—trapped. “So many times I’ve thought of leaving, but what can I do with three small babies to support? I’ve finally resolved to stick it out until the children are old enough to take care of themselves. Then I’m going to start a life of my own, a new-life. I don’t know what I'll be able to do and it will mean starting over at a late age, but I can’t help but feel that, as long as I give my children care and love now, I'll be able to find something for my own happiness later on. That’s all—” her voice faltered, “that’s all any woman can do in my situation, I guess.” She was followed by a gentleman who claimed that he had deduced a fine phil- osophy from his wife’s artistic affinity for colored bed linen. He objected strenuously to being forced to sleep between pastel sheets and he wrote in to Husbands and Wives to forewarn the rest of his sex. Mr. Brown invited him to go on the air and give his ideas on the proper tactics to be used toward color-conscious wives. “T remember going into the bedroom that night,” he began, “and spying the colored sheets—the first ones, I mean. They were a deep purple but she called them orchid. When I looked at them I said: ‘For the love of Mike, honey, do you expect a man to sleep between those things?’ She was sort of hurt; she insist- ed they were the very latest mode—she’s nuts about styles anyway. “That was just the beginning. The idea of colored linen has practically got to be a fad around our house now.” Mr. Brown hopefully interrupted him, “But don’t you think they’re very good looking ?” “Well, I guess so,” the gentleman finally admitted,” but all I want in a bath towel is just something to dry myself on. Can you imagine what her newest craze is? —fingertip towels! Have you ever seen those things? They’re about as big as a handkerchief—not even a man’s handker- chief—a woman’s handkerchief! They used to call them guest towels. And they caused the first fight we ever had. “That night I went into the bathroom to wash my hands and found one of those little gadgets on the rack. 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into the kitchen where my wife was and ‘I said: ‘Darling what in—well—what is _ this?” and she said: ‘Don’t be absurd, that’s a guest towel. Some people are com- ‘ing in for dinner.’ And I looked at the towel and said: ‘Who? Singer’s midgets il “Then the fight started. It was a riot while it lasted but we got over it. I got ‘to thinking . . . After all, whether sheets are white or black or striped is a pretty small matter and if a fellow’s going to ‘get mad over small things he won't have ‘a happy married life or much happiness ‘of any kind. Besides, a wife’s got rights ‘too, so I believe!” Many of the questions that come up on ‘the Husbands and Wives program could ‘be answered by using a little of the phil- ‘osophy handed out by that smart husband. You must understand your wife’s or your husband’s temperament and by putting them both together find your own answers. NAt least that’s the way Mrs. Miles and Mr. Brown feel about so many of the hings that come before them. x “Tt’s the young couples that visit us most often,’ Mrs. Miles had explained to me a short time previously. “With years ‘of marriage behind them, older people seem to mellow and their tales or ques- ions usually are along humorous lines. But young brides and grooms think the tnd of the world has come when they argue over some trivial matter—they re ‘he ones Mr. Brown gets to work on. “He puts them on the air, makes them lalk about their difficulties. Somehow it works like magic; the trouble is cleared ap and the funny part of it is that they )ften don’t realize that Mr. Brown hasn't lone a thing except make them talk their vorries off their chests. It never fails.” | Most interesting among the features on he program the night I attended were wo talks given as the result of a letter ent in by a young unmarried girl. She'd vritten to ask Husbands and Wives what hey really considered the ideal mate hould be; so a wife and husband (not ved to each other) were selected to an- er her. The wife, middle-aged, slim and pretty Yegan: “I think the average husband ex- i Mrs. Miles’ curiosity got the better of er at that point. “Amelia Earhart, who as broken so many flying records? hy?” she asked. “Because a man thinks the ideal wife nould do so much work during the day tat the only way she could accomplish ' would be to fly! He expects her to be nmune to age, to keep the figure of a irl athlete by bending over a stove, a undry tub or an ironing board. He ex- scts her to bear him children without 1owing the marks of maternity. If a ife is young, her husband expects her to ess like a Schiaparelli mannequin by aking over last year’s dresses with some ided touches of five-and-ten-cent store cessories. She should have inexhaustible rgiveness, complete understanding and ji psolute discipline over her children. She for ftould be a tireless worker with the sooth- ‘yp Sg demeanor of an _ excellent trained bltarse and the appeal of a Cleopatra. ‘PlSt“And if I kept this up for the next two yurs—that still wouldn’t be half of it!” Flushed she sat. down. There was a | eee * Sone ) ae. RADIO STARS moment of silence, then one giggle, then a roar of fun from both sides. The wife herself finally laughed heartily, too. That’s one of the nice things about the Husbands and Wives program—everybody feels completely at ease and there aren’t any hard feelings. The husband who spoke following her was briefer but none the less emphatic. “The average wife thinks her husband should be very successful in his own busi- ness but he also should be an expert child psychologist, a first-class plumber, elec- trician, interior decorator, house-cleaner, carpenter, and upon occasions a dish- washer and short order cook—and above all, a man of great physical and mental endurance, with a rugged constitution and unbounded patience. And one thing more —he never should forget anything but his wife’s mistakes!” After both sides had analyzed the two speeches they arrived at a smart conclu- sion: Without such viewpoints, where on earth would be romance? Wouldn’t it be uncomfortable, really, to have to live with a super-human god or goddess? And any person who doesn’t expect or believe that his or her mate is or can be far above what he or she is, certainly isn’t even ap- proaching being ideally in love. That was the part I hoped the young girl who had written in had been sure to get. Plenty of good, original ideas are aired by their authors on Husbands and Wives. There was the pretty little Canadian girl whose husband refused to shave on Sun- day mornings. One dose of her potent home-made remedy cured him—she sat opposite him at breakfast one day with her face completely unwashed and devoid of makeup, her long hair uncombed and her pyjamas tousled. It made him so un- comfortable that he left his toast and coffee and shaved and dressed — and has kept on doing so ever since. Another wife made her traveling salesman husband happy by running their home like a Pull- man car—meals at odd hours, everything was done for him and he had uncriticised liberty. Of course it was a full-time job for the wife, but by doing it she kept her man in love with her. Consequently, her advice was: “See to it that your husband has a good time at home and he’ll never want to leave you.” Once the Miles-Brown team put a real wedding on the air. It was a Presby- terian ceremony. The studio was beau- tifully decorated with spring flowers, soft with candlelight. After the broadcast there were refreshments. They’ve concocted lots of other things to interest their listeners, too. A Moham- medan priest, a Zulu priest, Father Cough- lin, several denominational ministers and Rabbi Feinberg have spoken on the pro- gram. The strange thing about the com- ments of all these eminent men has been that each of them preaches the same prin- ciples in regard to matrimony. Love, kindliness and understanding, and love of children and home form the basis of happy marriage all over the world. The deserted mother, the forlorn bride, the brutal husband—you hear all their stories on Husbands and Wives. Some- times their problems can be made into funny situations. 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But we were talking about prima don- nas. Let’s see what Helen Jepson is like in her home. I went up to see apartment building where she lives is a vast castle-like pile of gray stone, covering an entire city block and enclosing a lovely garden courtyard. But within the Possell apartment is no mood of grandeur, rather the friendly simplicity of a family home. Its spacious rooms are furnished with the charm and dignity of rare taste, its chairs and tables and sofas for use and not dis- play. And upon the velour upholstery Dickie, the white Persian cat, sharpens his claws without rebuke. Helen wasn’t there when I arrived, so Mr. Possell, who was at home nursing a grippe germ, chatted with me. “She is so popular, it’s hard for her to get away from people,” he said. “If we accepted all the invitations that come, there would be no time for anything else. We try not to accept too many—but of course. there are some we can’t refuse— a reception, or a tea, or a cocktail party. Helen doesn’t drink—but her one afternoon. The she gets just talking, if I don’t watel ” tired, out. “Can you get away from that for rea relaxation, for sports and outdoor life? I asked. “Oh, yes,” he spoke eagerly. “We lov all that sort of thing. In the winter w love skiing and coasting. We love ft skate, but I am afraid of it for her there’s always a danger. . . . In @& spring we go fishing. Helen is an expet at it. Get her to tell you about some ¢ the huge fish she has landed. . . And W love to ride, and swim, and go picknickiny And walking. Helen walks evet day, after her two hours of studying ar practise with her accompanist. And ¥ often walk in the afternoon.” He broke off as the outer door opent and a lovely voice called a soft: “Hello “Hello, Beauty!” And he sped to # door to greet her. And then—enter Helen Jepson, the mo ern prima donna. Here was no studi stage entrance, just an unassuming youl woman, frankly glad to be home after busy afternoon, with a friendly welcot even for an interviewer. But even so, unusually striking young woman. Lovyé in a smart brown suit that echoed ft glowing brown of her eyes. Helen Ji son’s taste in dress is exquisite. She to off her small smart hat and her p blonde hair made a lovely halo about ] face. Three-year-old Sallie Possell flewy to greet her mother, babbling of her ¥ to the barber's, displaying a balloon had given her. 4 “She like her mother,” I saie@ looks

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RADIO STARS 0,000 IN CASH PRIZE ENTER SELECTION SWEEPS. might as well be you! WHO’S BEHIND THIS? This great Selection Sweepstakes is sponsored by the National Conference on Legalizing Lot- teries of which the nationally-known society leader and humanitarian, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, is President —a National Organization for a Na- tional Cause. It is being conducted in order to secure additional members to aid in legalizing lotteries; to familiarize the American public with the aims of the movement; and to obtain the judgment of its members on the best uses for lotteries if legalized in this country. The National Conference on Legalizing Lot- teries has the. support of many of the most influ- ential men and women —namies you respect and honor —an absolute guarantee of the integrity of this “sweepstakes”. If it’s good for them, it’s certainly good for you. Remember, when you join them you not only give yourself a chance to win BIG MONEY but you also help a great, important national movement. WHAT LOTTERIES HAVE DONE! France adopted a lottery-to reduce its national debt; Italy to build railroads; Denmark to ad- vance art and music; Holland to advance the sciences; Ireland to finance the building of hos- Pitals; Spain for charitable institutions ; Germany to finance public improvements, etc. England used to support its navy by public lotteries; early American colonies permitted lotteries to build schools, churches, and public works and improve- ments, such as canals, bridges, roads, etc. The Revolutionary War was in part financed with the proceeds of lotteries. Early buildings of Yale, Columbia and Harvard were built with the pro- | ceeds of lotteries. HOW YOU ENTER! : It costs you only a dollar to become a member— and your dollar contribution entitles you to enter this entirely legal “sweepstakes” contest. Here is all you have to do to be officially entered: | 1, On the entry blank are listed 16 ways in which the money raised by legalized lotteries might be used. Everybody has an opinion as to which are the best ways. Simply indicate your opinion by writing the numbers 1 to 16 in the squares—No. 1 | after what you think the best way, No. 2 after | the second best, and so on until you have a number | in each square. We suggest before you do this, however, that you read again the paragraph above which tells how legalized lotteries have been used before for the public welfare. 2. Print your name and address plainly on the coupon. 3. Mail the entry blank and coupon together with $1 membership fee. The entries which, in the opinion of the judges, list in the best order of importance the ways of In Case of Ties Duplicate Prizes Will Be Awarded TO LEGALIZE LOTTERIES! 3 MINUTES TIME MAY BRING YOU $20,000.00 IT’S EASY—NOTHING TO WRITE! Think what you could do with so much cash! Buy a home... travel wherever you wish .. . have an assured income for the rest of your life ... Start in business for yourself... enjoy life with all the fine clothes and good times you want! Here is your big opportunity. Someone will win $20,000.00 in this Selection Sweepstakes . . . someone will win $10,000.00 ... someone will get $5,000.00... and there’ll be over 280 other big cash prizes. All this money is going to somebody — and it using money raised by lotteries will be awarded the big cash prizes. Within 10 days you will be sent your own membership certificate and acknowledgment of your entry. ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! Don’t confuse this Selection Sweepstakes with any other kind of contest. It is sponsored by a national non-profit-making organization—an hon- est contest and “sweepstakes” honestly conducted. This is a contest of judgment and skill, not of chance. You don’t have to write any letter or essay. You certainly can form an opinion as to how the money raised by legal lotteries should be used. Your judgment is just as good as anyone else’s... you have just as great a chance to win as anyone, But you can’t win if you don’t enter. DON’T DELAY! Fill out the entry blank and coupon and mail them now with your dollar membership fee. Don’t put it off until tomorrow — you may forget. Think what you could do with $20,000—more than most people save in a lifetime. Someone will get it for just a few strokes of a pen. Re- Jnember that there are aver 285 cash prizes...over 285 chances for you to win. Do it now — don’t wait until tomorrow. Remem- ber, only those who send in the coupon and are members of the Conference are eligible to enter this contest, LOOK! 285 BIG CASH PRIZES 1** PRIZE - 20,000 2" PRIZE $10,000 3" PRIZE - -+5,000 4™ PRIZE - - 52.500 5™ PRIZE - - $1,000 10 PRIZES - +500 each 20 PRIZES - $200 each 250 PRIZES - $50 each © Copyright 1936, National Conference on Legalizing Lotteries, Inc. CONTEST CLOSES MAY 30™ 1936 (PRIZES AWARDED BEFORE JUNE 15-. | YOU CAN USE THIS AS YOUR ENTRY BLANK | I | | | | | | | | | 1 | I | | | | | Mrs. Oliver Harriman (on right), President of the National Con- ference on Legalizing Lotteries, Marie Harris, Yonkers, is shown congratulating Mrs. Y., winner of the $10,000 prize in the 1935 Sweepstakes Contest conducted by this organization. Second prize winner was Miss Maude King, Chicago, Ill. There were 66 other big cash prize winners. Complete and addresses of winners mailed on request, PUT A NUMBER IN EACH SQUARE Below are listed the various ways in which the proceeds from legal- ized lotteries might be distributed. Read them carefully. Then number them in what you consider the order of their importance and merit. Write the number 1 in the square after what you con- sider the best way; number 2 after the second best; and so on, until you have a number in each square. Use ink or pencil [| Pay for public works [| Funds for social service Give money to or etal charities institutions Provision for unemploy- Provide for better tea ment relief schools rs) Promote art and music [] Finance medical Reduce state deficits Reduce Federal a research Money for hospitals Pay soldiers’ bonus Support widows and deficits orphans Reduce municipal i To ted ioe ce [| deficits Provide for old age fh Sapporeasryendinmag [] pensions If you desire you can add any other suggested uses and place them in their order of merit, but this is not a requirement of the contest. In such cases you may submit your entire entry on plain paper, if you prefer. MAIL COUPON TODAY! AND ENTRY BLANK 5 MRS. OLIVER HARRIMAN, Pres. MM National Conference on Legalizing Lotteries, Inc. 630 Fifth Avenue, New York City I herewith enclose one dollar (check, cash or money order) as my membership fee. Also enclosed is my entry in the Selection Sweep- stakes Contest. 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Sallie laughed. “I sing Thais, and La Boheme,’ she said. And, running after her balloon, she sang—not for ex- hibition but just as a bird might carol for sheer joy. “Sallie,” said Helen Jepson, “do you want to take my new scarf out to Grand- ma? And here’s my new hat!” And she put it on the child’s head. And proudly Sallie skipped out of the room, followed by her father. Madame, of old, I thought, would have summoned a servant to remove the child— if, indeed, she would have permitted a child to be seen! But here was a mother who frankly adored her baby and knew how to handle her. “She’s taking dancing lessons,” Helen said. “And next year she will begin piano lessons. She loves music. oi Mr. Possell’s mother and sisters live with them, Helen “One of the sisters takes care of Sallie, and the other helps me with my mail, really does the work of a secretary for me. It’s a tremendous help.” There is the background of the prima donna of today—not temperament, not tyrannies, but a happy family life built on mutual understanding and affection, mutual help. We spoke presently of clothes. is important,’ said Helen Jepson. “One must try to look well. To me the quality of clothes is of greater value than their quantity. Color and line must be in- spired by the best taste one can muster. o. I have my own ideas about my clothes, but I like to go to a professional designer and talk them over with an open mind. One gets the best results that way. “Jewelry,” she mused, “should be worn sparingly.” his two explained. “Dress And I noticed her slim graceful hands, with only the small circlet of her wedding ~ ring upon one finger. And I reflected that her taste in these matters was char- acteristic of her taste in all aspects of her life. It is a busy life. Beside her opera engagements and her radio broadcasts she is singing in concerts in various parts of the country. This spring Toronto will hear her, and Flint, Michigan, Maryville, Tennessee, Chicago and Canada. And in the near future there is a movie engagement looming up. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, Mr. Possell said, has offered her a contract. A year ago she went out to Hollywood, but the company with which she then was under contract was unable to get the story they wanted for her, so she came back to New York. But before many more months we shall be seeing and hearing Helen Jepson in a pic- ture. But however busy the days may be, however filled with triumphs and_ the heady joys of operatic success, none shall lack the time for companionship with her husband and her little girl. As I left, Helen called Sallie to say goodbye. “I didn’t know you were coming to see) Mamma,” Sallie little hand. The big white Persian rubbed against her legs. “How do you like Dickie?” said Sallie. “He’s a very fine cat,” I said. “Do you think he’ll like your new balloon?” Sallie giggled and raced Dickie on to a couch. Helen Jepson stood looking down at them, and in her dark eyes pride and glory mingled. “She’s a darling!” I said softly. And the light in the brown eyes blazed in sudden splendor. said, holding out her Today’s prima donna, I thought, as I said? goodbye, has a sound sense of values as” well as a golden voice. She doesn’t mis= take the ephemeral for the real. Sallie Possell sings with her famous mother, Helen Jepson. .

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RADIO LAUGHS... (SELECTED SNICKERS FROM POPULAR PROGRAMS) RADIO STARS Grier AFOUND_ | WANNA BE JOLSON: Victor, there’s one thing I got to tell you... yowre the one guy im all the world Greta Garbo could be with . and still be alone. VICTOR: Why—am I that terrible? JOLSON: Victor, if I didi’t know you and somebody described you to me... 1 wouldn't believe it. (AL JOLSON and VICTOR YOUNG, on Shell Chateau.) ——— BAKER: I think I’ll drop Lincoln a line. BOTTLE: Don’t be silly . . . how could you? BAKER: I’ve got his Gettysburg address. (PHIL BAKER and BOTTLE, Gulf Program.) -o GRACIE: My sister’s husband used to have a habit of walking around the house in a sheet .. . and he used to frighten her +... on account of she’s afraid of ghosts. GEORGE: Walking around the house in a sheet? GRACIE: Yeah... he used to have the sheet all wrapped around him. GEORGE: Is he spiritualistic? GRACIE: No .. . just modest. (BURNS AND ALLEN, Campbell Pro- gram.) ~o- BENNY: What’s the thermometer to- day? WILSON: Forty Jell-o zero. BENNY: What’s A T & T? WILSON: One seventy-one. BENNY: Buy me twenty shares of ther- mometer and keep the window shut... so it'll go up. (JACK BENNY, Jello Program.) 100 BAKER: I ought to be a great fighter, now that my nose is broken. BOTTLE: Why? : BAKER: Now I can stop Schmeling. (PHIL BAKER, BOTTLE on Gulf Program.) +o GEORGE: Gracie . . . you remind me of that book, Anthony Adverse. GRACIE: On account of I’m subtle and interesting? GEORGE: On account of you’re thick, too! GRACIE: You know, one dark night a murder was committed and in one hour my sweetheart went out and got his man. GEORGE: He got the murderer? GRACIE: No... he got the man who was killed. (BURNS and ALLEN, Campbell Pro- gram.) a ae EDDIE: All right, I'll come. . is the party? PARKYAKARKUS: The Waldorf As- toria. EDDIE: The Waldorf? Say... that’s a swell place! PARK: Sure ... we all meet there. Then we got only eight blocks to walk to the party. (EDDIE CANTOR and KARKUS, Pebeco Program.) —>— . where PARKYA- BOTTLE: Oh... it’s beginning to rain. BAKER: Sh-h-h .. . it never rains in Miami. BOTTLE: Oh... then iswt there a little dew on your suit? BEETLE: Yeah .. . about twenty dol- lars! + BAKER: I thought I met you in Miami . didn’t you go around with Cuban heels? GIRL: Yeah... but I don’t remember you! (PHIL BAKER, BEETLE and BOT- TLE, Gulf Program.) — JACK: Miss Barefacts, are you married? BEULAH: No. JACK: Then how do you know so much about all these things? BEULAH: I was a telephone operator at th e Elks. (JACK BENNY, Jello Program.) + GRACIE: My daddy . . . he was so drunk once he fell through the ice. GEORGE: Was he drowned? ... I hope. GRACLE: Nove e.. diluted. (BURNS and ALLEN, Campbell Pro- gram.) _s BEETLE: I hear you won a lot of money. BAKER: Yes... at the dog track. I won three races. BEETLE: Boy—I’ll bet you were tired after all that running. 2 BOTTLE: Yes . . . when I went fishing I used an onion for bait. BAKER: An onion! trying to catch? BOTTLE: Pickled herring. (PHIL BAKER, BEETLE and BOTTLE Gulf Program.) ~~ PORTLAND: Papa says his face is his fortune. ALLEN: Is that why he’s on relief? (FRED ALLEN, PORTLAND HOF- FA, Town Hall Tonight.) but he was badly What were you ’ Printed in the U. 8, A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dune? “] JOE E. BROWN: I’m afraid we bot! got stung betting on that horse . . . ye know, I bought him for a song. BING: It must have been “The M Goes ’Round and ’Round.” (KRAFT MUSIC HALL.) + PICK: Hey, Pat . . . what you doi , i with all them colored ribbons tied to your fingers? PAT: Man, I’m so absent-minded I has _ to tie a ribbon on my pyjamas to remi me to go to sleep. || PICK: Tell me, Pat... what is gherkin PAT: ‘Gherkins? Did you ever see wart hog? PICK: No—never. PAT: Well, that’s not a gherkin. PICK: Then what is a gherkin? PAT: A gherkin is a pickle . . . th got into society. Ls (PICK AND PAT, One Night Stands.) on . STAFFORD: What's the difference b tween you and a mouse? | 1ST. PLOTTER: All right fellows meet you later in the billiard hall. ; i pee PLOTTER: Why the billit rall; i ELSIE: What is? Well—a mouse harms the cheese . you charm the he’s. (N. B. C. DESIGN FOR LIST ING.) IST. PLOTTER: I gotta give you yor cues. (CUCKOO CLOCK PROGRAM.) ~~ . ,

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