Radio Stars 1936-07 Vol. 8, No. 4

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ERE’S loveliness i I andyouth—a vision o stop and hold the admiring eye. And er smile, when you see it, should put a inal, flashing highlight upon that youth- ul charm and loveliness. But if it doesn’t . . .if her smile reveals glimpse of dingy teeth and tender gums how quickly that loveliness disappears! “PINK TOOTH BRUSH” Is A SERIOUS WARNING ever ignore “pink tooth brush”—never lismiss as trifling that warning “tinge of pink’ When you see it—see your dentist promptly. It can mean trouble—a serious RADIO STARS [UNTIL SHE SMILES] She evades close-ups ...Dingy teeth and tender gums destroy hercharm... She ignored the warning of “PINK TOOTH BRUSH” gum disorder. But usually it only means gums robbed of exercise and work—the victims of our modern soft foods—gums that will quickly respond to the healthful stimulation of Ipana and massage. Today dental science repeatedly stresses the threat to our gums of our modern soft food menus. Gums grow flabby and tender simply through lack of exercise. And modern dental practice turns naturally to Ipana and massage to supply the exercise they need—the stim- ulation they must have. Ipana Tooth Paste is especially made to benefit your gums as well as your teeth. Every time you clean your teeth, rub a little ex- tra Ipana briskly into your gums, with brush or fingertip. You'll feel them grow livelier, firmer, more resistant. New cir- culation brings them new life. They feel better. They look better. Change today to this simple, easy routine. Give your gums the advantages of this better care. Keep “pink tooth brush” a stranger. Keep the really seri- ous gum diseases far in the background. Build better oral health, find new beauty in your smile, make yourself a more at- tractive person—with Ipana and massage.

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RADIO STARS The M-G-M Lion is the Symbol that signifies Joy on the Screen. Miss Entertainment picks Leo to ride to victory! —_ Ee Joan Crawford Clark Gable Sg ER! _ METRO - GOLDWYN - MAYER So William Powell Myrna Loy oe We're taking space in this magazine to tell you to keep | | your eye on Leo, the M-G-M Lion! @ || He’s had the best year of his career what with grand enter- __ tainments like “Mutiny on the Bounty’, “China Seas”, en “Broadway Melody of ’36”, “A Night at the Opera”, ® | “Rose Marie” and all the other great M-G-M hits! And __ of course there’s “The Great Ziegfeld”, now playing in © selected cities as a road-show attraction and not to be Jeanette MacDonald shown otherwise this season. Fr oe "I Luise Rainer { = | | But (pardon his Southern accent) Leo says: “You ain’t ) seen nuthin’ yet!”...On this page is just part of the | happy M-G-M family of stars. Look them over. You’ll find most of the screen’s famed personalities and great talents on Leo’s list. They will appear in the big Metro-Goldwyn- nt | Mayer productions that are now in the. making and - | planned for months to come. ? ad & Robt. Montgomery “ 8 | Ask the Manager of the theatre that plays M-G-M pic- | tures about the marvelous entertainments he is arranging to show. And when Leo roars, settle back in your seat for real enjoyment! i Robert Taylor Laurel & Hardy Jackie Cooper Lionel Barrymore John Barrymore Spencer Tracy SORRY! WE DIDN’T HAVE SPACE FOR THEIR PHOTOS! MORE M-G-M STARS Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Virginia Bruce, Nat Pendleton, Lewis Stone, Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Hersholt, Ted Healy, Allan Jones, Buddy Ebsen, Joseph Calleia, Maureen O’Sullivan, Una Merkel, Chester Morris, Stuart Erwin, Bruce Cabot, Elizabeth Allan, Brian Aherne, Charles Butter- worth, Madge Evans, Frances Langford, Eric Linden, June Knight, Ann Loring, Robert Benchley, Jean Parker, May Robson, Mickey Rooney, James Stewart, Ernestine Schumann- Heink, Harvey Stephens, etc. Charles Laughton

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RADIO STARS BOARD OF R EVIENW Lester C. Grady Richard Peters Richard G. Moffett H. Dean Fitzer Radio Stars Magazine, Chairman Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn. Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Alton Cook Lecta Rider James Sullivan Vivian M. Gardner N. Y. World-Telegram, N. Y. C. Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas Louisville Times, Louisville, Ky. Wisconsin News, Milwaukee, Wis S. A. Coleman Si Steinhauser Cc. L. Kern Joe Haeffner ‘ ; Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kan. Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind, Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, N. Y. Norman Siegel Leo Miller Larry Wolfers Andrew W. Foppe Cleveland Press, Cleveland, 0. Bridgeport Herald, Bridgeport, Conn. Chicago Tribune, Chicago, III. Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, 0 Andrew W. Smith Charlotte Geer James E. Chinn Oscar H.Fernbach News & Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala. Newark Evening News, Newark, N. J. Evening and Sunday Star, Washington,D.C. San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Cal. HOW DO YOUR FAVORITES RANK IN THE RATINGS? 1. THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCI- ETY OF NEW YORK (CBS):....:-.--: 89.7 Consistently the most popular program with OUR NEW SYSTEM our Board of Review. The Board of Review bases its per- 2. GENERAL MOTORS CONCERTS (NBC) centages on the assumption that all radio ...86.4 programs are divided into four basic parts: Soul-stirring symphonic masterpieces. material, artists, presentation and an- nouncements, each consisting of 25%, and 3. JACK BENNY, MARY LIVINGSTONE, making the perfect program of 100%. KENNY BAKER AND JOHNNY GREEN’S These ratings are a consensus of opinions ORCHESTRA GONE G)i Ay = cis.c.0s0) crate jn oterersians 86.1 of our Board of Review and do not neces- Radio's outstanding comic. sarily agree with the editorial opinion of Rapio Stars Magazine. Programs out- 4. MARCH OF TIME (CBS)...........- 81.6 standing as to artists and material, often Flawless dramatizations of the news of the suffer because of poor presentation or an- world. nouncements. 5. FORD SUNDAY EVENING HOUR (CBS) oS ritles| The Ford program has done much to improve the nation’s appreciation of classical music. Crooks and William Daly’s orchestra. Al- ways im good taste. 6. CITIES SERVICE CONCERT ORCHESTRA = , (NEC) peas ss save od oer eae eee 81.3. 15. BING CROSBY WITH BOB BURNS AND Starring Jessica Dragonette, queen of the air. JIMMY DORSEY’S ORCHESTRA (NBC). Recaro | 7. FLEISCHMANN HOUR (NBC).......80.7 Good-natured, informal Bing. Top-notch guest Rudy Vallee and his guests. Never disappoint- stars, with Bing always making them feel ing. Variety entertainment as it should be very much at home. There's no better humor presented. than Bob’s on the air. 8. TOWN HALL TONIGHT (NBC)...... 78.4 16. ONE MAN’S FAMILY (NBC)....... 76.0 Hilarious Fred Allen who works so hard to Radio’s most popular continued story. make you happy, merrily supported by Port- land Hoffa, the Mighty Allen Art Players 17. WOODBURY PRESENTS PAUL WHITE- and Peter van Steeden’s music, MAN’S MUSICAL VARIETIES (NBC). .75.7 Provided with the Whiteman type of enter- 9. RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA (cry tainment, Radio always will remain supreme, A Britisher conducts America’s favorite dance 18 SBOAKE ‘GARTER (CBS)... cco cee 75.5 band—deservedly best. He doesn’t mind stepping on toes when they eserve it. 10. FRED WARING’S PENNSYLVANIANS os (GESSCONBC)) hakan. See ae mee nae 78.0 19. BEN BERNIE AND ALL THE LADS The air’s most versatile organization. CNC a te Cite «= cic chs ofan temeee 75.0 Truly a memorable personality. Isn't it a 11. LUX-RADIO THEATRE (CBS)... ...% 77.6 shame he can’t give some of his broadcasting Broadway stage plays condensed to an hour's charm to his pal, Walter Winchell? entertainment. Well done, but most of the plays were popular too many years ago. 20. LOWELL THOMAS (NBC)......... 74.5 The world’s news, pointedly told, but no toe- 12. CHESTERFIELD PROGRAM (CBS)..77.5 steppings here. Nino Martini, Lily Pons and Andre Kostelan- ets’ orchestra. They more than satisfy. 21. EDWIN C. HILL—HUMAN SIDE OF THE NEWS) GI ict cies een ee cele «eps 74.4 13: CAMEL CARAWAN. (GBS) 0. é: 5 ssh. 77.0 The hard, cold facts considerably warmed up. Current winner of our Distinguished Service Award. 22. THE MAGIC KEY OF RCA (NBC). .74.2 With which the unbelievable is accomplished. 14. VOICE OF FIRESTONE (NBC)..... 76.8 Margaret Speaks, Nelson Eddy, Richard 23. JACK HYLTON AND HIS CONTI- 25. MUSIC BY RICHARD HIMBER (NBC) ijlowe +. -73.0 Distinctive. Equally enjoyable, danging or sitting out. 26. ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (CBS)........ 73.0 Last month's winner of our Distinguished Service Award. CHESTRA. (CBS). !.238. 352" 2. ee 72.5 Se and Bottle, as well. Variable mate- rial, 28. EASY ACES (NEC). ..... 04 72.5 Jane and Goodman Ace. Laughter guaranteed. 29. AMERICAN ALBUM OF FAM MUSIC (NBC) ......)c dein eee ae Frank Munn, Lucy Monroe and Gus Haen- schen’s orchestra. You've heard all the tunes before, but never quite as delightfully. 30. THE BAKERS’ BROADCAST (NBC) 71.6 Bob Ripley, Hariett Hilliard and Ossie Nel son's music. Once you listen you'll never miss tuning in again. 31. AMOS ’N’ ANDY (NBC)... .o2- cee 71.4 The grandaddy of ’em ail. 32. SALT LAKE CITY TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORGAN (CBS)............ 71.1 Soul soother. Every Sunday, 33. EDDIE CANTOR: (CBS)! .) eee 71.0 Bobby Breen, Parkyakarkus, Jimmy Walling ton and a generous supply of gags. 34. BURNS AND ALLEN (CBS) ....... 70.8 Gracie Allen's as funny as ever with her dumb-dora answers. 35. JOHN CHARLES THOMAS (NBC). .706 Fireside favorite. 36. ED WYNN (CBS) e..<:.:cicctetuisss is eee 70.4 Gags galore. Lennie Hayton’s tunes. 37. HOLLYWOOD HOTEL (CBS)...... 69.8 The movie previews are the big attraction. 38. WAYNE KING’S ORCHESTRA (CBS).69.7 Death for jittery nerves! (Continued on page 81)

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RADIO STARS HER I JUST C-COULDN'T- PIMPLY NOT WITH MY FACE ALL Fy ein Gee: Ae MADE ANN FEEL LIKE A TOTAL LOSS Z AND YOU REALLY THINK 4 1 CAN GET RID OF THESE PIMPLES 2 INDEED I DO, EAT FLEISCHMANNGS YEAST WHY DARLING LL THOSE A DOCTOR WHAT TO DO | NEVER WANT TO SEE ANOTHER SOUL AS PIMPLES DO SEEM TO BE GETTING WORSE. I THINK WE'D BETTER ASK THE ISNT THIS DRESS JUST TOO DUCKY?AND NO PIMPLY FACE ON ME TO SPOIL IT-THANKS TO FLEISCHMANNSS YEAST_ OH, IM SOHAPPY- NOW I KNOW ILL HAVE A GOOD TIME AT AUNT MARYS! 1 ANN IS SUCH YOU SAIO 'T. A DARLING — SHES A SO CUTE LOOKING] WINNER AND SO FULL ALL RIGHT OF PEP! << 7 by clearing skin irritants out of the blood Copyright, 1936, Standard Brands Incorporated Don’t let Adolescent Pimples spoil YOUR vacation plans BROKEN-OUT skin is no help to any girl or boy who longs to be popular and have good times. But unfortunately, many young people are victims of this trouble. After the start of adolescence—from about 13 to 25, or even longer—important glands develop and final growth takes place. This causes disturbances throughout the entire body. The skin gets oversensitive. Harmful waste poisons in the blood irritate this sen- sitive skin. Pimples break out. Thousands have found Fleischmann’s Yeast a great help in getting rid of adoles- cent pimples. It clears these skin irritants out of the blood. Then, the pimples go! Eat 3 cakes of Fleischmann’s Yeast reg- ularly—one cake about % hour before meals—plain, or in a little water—until your skin is entirely clear. Start today.

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WATCHING the breakers go by! That is where you will find those two Merry Maids of the ether waves—Rosemary and _ Priscilla Lane, of Fred Waring’s Pennsyl- vanians—because they are enthu- siatic mermaids of the ocean waves as well. They have the business of sun bathing down to a science and they are perfect models for our lesson on how to win the summer skin game. Now Rosemary is a “sister under the skin” to all of you fair-skinned girls whose skins are very sensitive and apt to burn at the drop of a hat—literally speaking, if we mean the drop of a large sun-protecting beach hat. “Lucky Priscilla!” yearns the fair Rosemary. “Just look at her! She can get the most beautiful tan, without so much as one freckle and without a siege of looking like a boiled lobster or a piece of raw beefsteak !” “Lucky Rosemary!” returns the honey-colored Priscilla. “She al- ways looks a knockout in an eve- ning gown and I look like a cross between an Indian and Haile Se- lassie!” They both were exaggerating a little, I’m afraid, in their usual com- plimentary fashion toward each other. The contrast of Rosemary’s remarkably fair skin with her dark hair and deep blue eyes is one of her most spectacular charms and she is clever enough to enhance it with the right make-up. If brunettes who are lucky enough to have fair skin would only realize the effectiveness of such contrast (it has long been realized and admired by women of the South), there would be fewer yearnings for brunette Indian ef- fects. With Priscilla, on the other hand, we have the type of coloring that finds sun-tan definitely becoming. For if ever a girl tanned to a lovely honey color, it is Priscilla. Some blondes have that faculty to a de- gree. They are the golden skinned blondes in which classification Pris- cilla belongs. The fair, pink- skinned blondes generally go into the burning classification with Rose- mary and even successful sun-tan- ning isn’t becoming to them. It has too coarsening an effect. Moreover, Priscilla’s larkspur blue eyes do not look faded in contrast to her tan skin, as lighter blue or gray eyes are apt to do. (P. S.—Priscilla makes effective use of blue eye- shadow and blue mascara to en- hance the blue of those eyes, too.) One would think that 1 am hold- RADIO STARS Make the most of your beauty under ing a brief against sun-tanning. But I’m only holding a brief against sun-tanning that is definitely unbe- coming, or that is achieved through the burnt sacrificial offering of the skin. As a beauty editor, I know the splendid tonic effects of the sun, but I also know the cruel coarsening effects of that same sun. If you expose your skin, day after day, to the strong sunshine, without protection, it event- ually will assume the appearance of old leather, instead of having a_ gardenia- like softness that is so desirable. If you're Rosemary’s “sister un- der the skin,” you’ll need to apply this protective recipe for your ses- sions under the sun: generous doses of sun-proof lotion or cream, protective long-sleeved beach pa- jamas or a bez ich robe, a large-sized beach hat and dark glasses s. A generous application of a special sunlight glare-proof shade of pow- der is also a protection and should By Mary Biddle be used when going in for a dressy | sitting under the sun. I can rece ommend several sun-proof prep- arations that will actually withstand sun, wind, and salt water. They will not rub off and they’re a real boon to all fair-skinned mermaids. In fact, they’re the nearest things to freckle preventatives that I’ve ever” been able to find. Now if you're a “born freckler,” as Rosemary says she is, you must expect that, if you expose your unprotected skin to the glaring rays of the sun, freckles are going to make their appearance! From the letters you write me, I am led to believe that a great many of you’ think freckles are things that can be “cured,” just like the measles, if} you can find the right remedy. Well, your right remedy is not a cure,” it’s a preventative. You hayes freckles because your skin happens” to be pigmented that way. Just as soon as the sun strikes your un-

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Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, of the Pennsylvanians, present two differ- ent types of coloring and beauty. Both girls enjoy sun and summer sports, but prepare for them in a different fashion. the summer sun protected skin, the pigment-form- ing cells start throwing up pro- tective barriers in the formation of extra pigment. If you're Priscilla’s “sister under the skin,’ don’t let that stretch of inviting sand beneath the sun go to your head. Use plenty of sun oils. Do a sys- tematic job of anointing yourself with oil, as Priscilla does. She oils every exposed inch of her body, pushes her hair back from her face, puts on her dark glasses and then lies in the sun for a given length of time—five minutes the first day, ten the next, and so on. As for make-up on the beach, whatever your type, it seems un- necessary to say that it should be inconspicuous. If you use a rouge, choose one in cream or liquid form. Blondes should con- centrate on lipstick and avoid rouge. Whether the brunettes should follow a like rule depends entirely on their individual color- ing. Surely every beach bag, how- (Continued on page 84) RADIO STARS New! G The full glare of the summer sun throws a New “Sunlight” shades hard light on your skin. catch only the sun’s softest rays—flatter you! GoNE are the old dark ‘“sun-tan” powders! Pond’s has brought out “Sunlight’’ shades—totally new in color—new in effect on your skin when you are out in the hard, blaz- ing light of summer! “Sunlight” shades catch only the softest rays of the sun. . . Give you the flattering light of early spring sunshine itself! Soften your face. Lovely with lightest tan, deep tan, or no tan at all! MONEY-BACK TRIAL—Try Pond’s Sunlight shade (Light or Dark). If you do not find it more flattering than ordinary sun-tan shades, send us back the box and we will refund purchase price plus postage. Pond’s, Clinton, Conn. 2 Sunlight Shades—Light, Dark. Low Prices. Glass jars, 35¢, 70¢. New big boxes, 10¢, 20¢. Copyright, 1936, Pond's Extract Company 9

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Marion Talley sports trousers of brown alpaca, topped by a white coat. BROA Sire Just what you want for a summer ouffit! IT TOOK Hollywood to show us what glamor lurks behind the mi- crophone, what chic stands at the broadcasting end of our radios! For it wasn’t until some of our best radio songbirds took flight to Cali- fornia and screen fame, that we really had a good look at them. Once there, however, all we needed was one glance at such smart stars as Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout, Frances Langford and the more recently screened Harriet Hilliard, to realize that radio can speak up for itself fashionably. And there are dozens of other radio stars, not yet arrived on the screen, who are convincing arguments for the speeding up of television! Most radio celebrities, like stage stars, turn night into day because their work demands that they per- 10 A wicker Coolie hat and a chic white bath-suit for Gladys Swarthout. form evenings. Thus, the daytime side of their wardrobes is stressed less. It’s no wonder then that those who have gone to California to work, revel in the opportunity to wear the casual, comfortable sports clothes that dominate the Hollywood scene. Jane Froman mentioned this to me one day, when we were having lunch. She said that, before going to California, the only clothes she really bothered about were her eve- ning dresses. She had to have so many of them that she let her day- time wardrobe consist of just enough good looking outfits to look neatly dressed. Sports clothes were practically nil with her be- cause she had so little time to play outdoors. However, when she reached (Continued on page 65) Irene Ben- nett looking ideal, in a Jantzen Bra-tuck swim suit. E Sa he Re ye . * Courtesy = Jantsen o < a — = —_

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SMART RIDING TOGS Frances Langford wears a be- coming habit of tan jodhpurs, a well-cut matching vest and a | jacket of tan and white checked | tweed. The neckline is filled in with a flattering scarf of soft white silk. RADIO STARS eae | SUMMER= 6 ZROMANCE Zope NIA Millie hasn’t a lot of money. But she has a lot of sense. And so nothing is ever faded in her wardrobe. Everything is gay and fresh—in the newest Paris colors. Of course she uses | intex! The result— Millie al- ways has a wonderful summer. She meets so many interesting people. Why not keep your wardrobe up-to- the- minute in color with easy Tintex? Naturally, wherever Millie goes her color- {ul sportswear and evening dresses are the envy of the other girls. And men’s eyes follow her, too—romantically! 4 brilliant long-lasting co drug, notion and toilet goods PARK & TILFORD, Distributor

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Her Tennis Stroke Coll —too bad her laxative wasn't! H: SWING is a marvel of precision and timing . . . What a pity she didn’t know that correct timing is vital in a laxative, too! You see, when you take a laxative into your system, you can’t afford to take chances. Look out for harsh, over-acting cathartics that might upset you, nauseate you, cause stomach pains, leave you weak and dragged down. Such laxatives abuse you internally. Their after-effects are un- pleasant, sometimes dangerous. DEMAND CORRECT TIMING Just what is meant by correct timing in a laxative? Simply this: a correctly timed laxative takes from 6 to 8 hours to be effec- tive. Its action is gentle and g-r-a-d-u-a-l, yet completely thorough. Ex-Lax is just such a laxative. It won’t throw your system out of rhythm. No stomach pains, no nausea. No unpleasant after-effects of any sort. Ex-Lax works so naturally that, except for the relief you enjoy, you scarcely realize you have taken a laxative. PLEASANT TO TAKE Ex-Lax is not only kind to your system —it’s kind to your taste, too. Its flavor is just like smooth, delicious chocolate. All druggists sell Ex-Lax in economical 10¢ and 25¢ sizes. Get a box today! When Nature forgets— remember EX-LAX THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE 12 - RADIO STARS In Strange As It Seems John Hix reveals many unbelievable facts By Wilfred Healy ITS A STRANGE WORLD RADIO may appeal to some of you. but it gives Martin Bodker of Enumclaw, Washington, a distinct pain. Strange as it seems, Martin’s body offers terrific resistance to radio waves, so. much so that it actually pained him to- be near a radio. Instead of calling a doctor, Martin summoned an_ engineer. That gentleman grounded Martin by rigging up a_ walking stick wrapped in copper wire, which he placed in a can of water. Now Mar- tin, one hand firmly on the cane, can listen to any crooner on the air and experience no pain at all. Martin Bodker’s case is only one of many strange and_ interesting items plucked from the files of John Hix, whose Strange As It Seems program now is a regular feature of the air waves from coast to coast. Those files right now con- tain some 30,000 items. Using them on two programs weekly, John Hix has sufficient material to last him 163 years. He doesn’t think he'll be using them all. Items come from all over the world, although Hix himself doesn’t believe in traveling around the world after them. He finds it more practical to remain at his office 0 Hollywood Boulevard, where he ea work directly with his staff on t enormous task of checking and re checking each item for proof of it truth. Nothing is ever used on Strange As It Seems program unt John Hix’s files hold written proo that it is genuine. “Take that Bodker item, for it stance,” Hix explains. “Here in 0 files we have a letter from Bodkely and a letter from the engineer ‘cured’ him. The engineer’s lette incidentally, adds that a number € people supposedly suffering fror neuralgia really have a case of radi waves.” So get out your copper-woun walking-stick and a can of wate unless you think it’s simpler to tu off the radio. “Besides my collection of strang items,” Hix admits rather wistfully “T have thousands which I kno are true but which I can’t w simply because I’m unable to obtat definite proof.” Probably the most interesting f of all is one marked Too Strang) In it are weird facts, all of themy. true, which are so fantastic that 1 .

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John Hix and his radio staff rehearse for their broadcast. And here is John Hix (left with Cyril Armbruster, who is his program director. Unfor- one would believe them. tunately, the file must gather dust. One look at the Hix fan-mail }would convince you of the neces- sity of obtaining proof for every item broadcast. The weekly mail |brings in hundreds of letters from eemss all over the country, most of them politely doubting Mr. |Hix’s veracity. Each of these rit letters is answered and personally signed by John Hix. He doesn’t like to have people doubt his word, and it (Continued on page 70) MAYIS RADIO STARS “That Certain S omething — MOAN EVDO US WT Y I'M IN LUCK, MEETING YOU ! ——| REMEMBER, YOU'RE MY GIRL FORTHE DANCE! = wr. got MM! THIS MAVIS IS SO COOL!— 7 AND BEWITCHINGLY FRAGRANT. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MAVIS — IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A ME TO THE DANCE ! | HOPE HE LIKES ME,BUT SO MANY MEN DROP ME AFTER | MUST TELL YOU, BETTY. SOMETHING | LEARNED IN PARIS ..». AN ALL-OVER FRAGRANCE THAT KEEPS YOU FRESH AND ALLURING.... EVEN IN THIS HOT ME THINK OF A FLOWER. YOU'RE ADORABLE ! Be a charmer! .. The secret of fascinating French women —yours!... Be feminine! Clothe your- self in Mavis’ garden-scented glamour. Men adore its fragrant Spring-like freshness — remember how it enhances your charm. Mavis does even more!... It absorbs body moisture, lowers skin temperature, helps you keep cool. So pure and soothing— Mavis protects i 28 ti tN THE RED CONTAINER . Before you dress your skin. Never neglect this feminine witchery every time you bathe, every time you dress. Mavis’ enchanting fragrance lingers all through the day —or evening. Mavis Taleum in 25c, 50c, and $1 sizes at drug and department stores — convenient 10e size at 5-and-10c stores. White or flesh. We invite you to try Mavis—use coupon. V. VIVAUDOU, INC. 580 Fifth Avenue, New York City. I enclose 10c. Please send by return mail the convenient size of Mavis Taleum (white... flesh . )—so I can try its fragrant loveliness. Name__ a === Address ——_s City = = = State. sonpeomanason emma cece cememncercen add this alluring all-over fragrance .. . MAVIS

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RADIO STARS THE RADIO HOSTESS, NANCY WOOD, PRESENTS EDDIE CANTOR “Season your meals with laughter,” says Eddie IF YOU have ever wondered, as I have, what it would be like to be “top man’’ in the show—and not only to get there but to stay there over a long period of time—the very best person I can think of to give you an answer to that question would be Eddie Cantor. For Eddie has been a starred in so many productions and in # so many fields of - entertainment that stardom is an old, old story with him. 3ut if you think that, after the first w De , re eA > Courtesy Borden : Strawberry-Nut Shortcake thrill of accomplishment has worn off, boredom is quite likely to travel hand in hand with ‘stardom, then Eddie? is the very person to prove how wrong you are in your surmise. True, there may be some who find this. busi ness of being on top of the heap, day after day and year after year, a bit tiresome and exacting after a while: Perhaps they even suffer from a sneaking suspicion that it all doesn’t seem to live up to the high hopes they cherished during the long, hard climb. But not Eddie!) No indeed. For even now, after more than fifteen years’ of being a star on the stage, in the movies and over the air, this irrepressible comedian has retained the sam verve and enthusiasm that must have characterized him) in his earliest Ziegfeld days. it He still works up the greatest feeling of enthusiasm over his plans for his next Pebeco broadcast ; he will describe with glee the discovery of a new tune ora “hot jazz player and he shows at ail times unmistakable signs, of being in a most advanced state of chronic parce pride as he recounts stories about his daughters (most of looks forward to mea "Everyone in our = | time," declares Eddi 7 a ee

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which are of a kidding nature with himself as the butt of the joke!) Why he even talks about a supposedly prosaic subject, like eating, with the appreciation of a gourmet and the air of a connois- seur. You can imagine with what joy your Radio Hostess discovered that Eddie was willing to discuss at some length the food prefer- ences of the Cantors and that he also had some amusing and help- ful ideas to divulge on the fine art of dining. “Helpful ideas on dining from a comedian,” did you ask? Well anyone, certainly, who has listened to Eddie’s Sunday evening broad- casts (as who has not?) knows that he has a clear and construc- tive slant on any subject to which he gives his attention. And don’t | forget that it’s often easier to get over a good idea with a laugh—as Eddie does—than with a frown. it Then, too, behind the humorous i, approach we sense, one and all, the ; yp Sincerity of his attitude—whether .\, ,the discussion concerns the plans jy for some charity, the furthering yi, (OL World Peace or simply, as in i :this case, the favorite foods of his .j» family. Whatever the subject may py: (be, there is no denying that this . Cantor fellow is dynamic, on his , {toes and going places. In fact, . @ Judging from this interviewer’s re- { actions, trying to keep up with ~ Eddie is enough to give one the yw Semsations of a Mexican jumping , » Dean in full flight! Not that he’s hard to interview, ., mind you, for Eddie is most friendly, entirely codperative and . swell copy. But getting him cor- nered for questioning is a sort of catch-as-catch-can business. For tn nwt away from the broadcasting ie li tudios and in his own lovely partment overlooking the lakes and drives of New York’s Cen- tral Park, I found that Eddie lives in an atmosphere as full of people and as exciting as a second-act finale. And in no time flat I be- ame part of the surrounding cast s, with pencil poised, I followed ddie from room to room, listen- ng to him, laughing with him and uestioning him between laughs. The Cantor home supplied a pvely stage setting for this per- mbulating conversation. It is one f the most spacious apartments have ever seen. The living-room, verlooking the park, is rather for- lal, as is the dining-room with its anelled (Continued on page 52) os Edd RADIO STARS Cd 9 says BING CROSBY SEE BING crosBY IN RHYTHM ON THE RANGE’ /> ~~ ll A PARAMOUNT PICTURE a wo % SS Me ¢ : se {LADELP Pe EESE w TOAST A 5 5 Preserve 4 yy : = eV s omy > N | QUAKER PUFFED WHEAT | 1S SO DELICIOUS AND CONFECTION-LIKE THAT MANY DO NOT REALIZE HOW IT RANKS IN NOURISHMENT WITH SOLID DINNER DISHES. LOOK: ING CROSBY’S summer breakfast is a grand take-off for hot sultry days. First, appetizingly chilled tomato juice ...then a big bowl of double-crisped, crunchy, ready-to-eat Quaker Puffed Wheat with plenty of ripe red berries .. . followed by Philadelphia cream cheese, preserves and toast. What could be more appealing to a lazy appetite! Your grocer is featuring all the ingre- dients you need to try BING CROSBY’S favorite breakfast. Have it tomorrow to start your day off right! » POTATOES . .34.9 CALORIES PER OZ. PUFFED WHEAT. . 106.0 CALORIES PER OZ. QUAKER PUFFED WHEAT IS A LIGHT AND TEMPTING SUMMER FOOD, YET IT HAS ALL THE NUTRITION OF WHOLE WHEAT. IT IS DOUBLE CRISPED TO __ MAKE IT DOUBLY APPETIZ- a) ING. LOOK FOR THE RED AND BLUE PACKAGE — |) TRIPLE-SEALED 10 cuaro FRESHNESS ! - QUAKER PUFFED RICE IS DELICIOUS TOO. TRY IT! 15

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Above, one of the Parties at Pick- Fair—Mary Pickford and Al Lyon. Below, Bob and Renny, billed as Two Public Enemies, on WABC. 16 RADIO STARS The singing damsels, upper center, are the Campbell Sisters, heard with Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers. And the emotional gentle- man at their right is none other than the old Broadway hill-billy, Walter O'Keefe, of the Camel Caravan. Above, Joan Crawford runs over her script with Bing Crosby while husband Franchot Tone smiles. Ramblings. ... A neat descriptive word for the random impressions that occupy this department this month, Looking ahead. Looking backward. Straying in circles, picking up this and that, as a child gathers gay-colored shells upon the sand, for the moment’s pleasure. 7 And among the many treasures cast upon the shores of time, radio undoubtedly contributes the most colorful, the most intriguing. : Often, indeed, radio is a blessing— and sometimes most blessed when it is silent! This rambler is not one to turn on the radio at dawn and let it shout its wares unchecked till bed- time. We loathe music before break- fast. We detest early-morning ex- ercises. We will not eat the matu- tinal egg to the Lord’s Prayer. The duties to which we are a slave will not let us hear many of the day- time programs. Hence, we find our treasures among the evening hours. a | | But to others, more or less for tunate, all these are cherished ex periences. We know people wh) would not dream of missing Cheerit) And others who observe the dail exercises with almost religious fei vor. We have friends to whom On Man’s Family, which we thus fi) » have been unable to hear, is an it portant part of their radio fare. W) have evidence that countless thot) sands listen raptly to the broadeas| This month's news notes and brief bit) ; : :

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“~-eaaceneee” Star of opera, radio and screen, Lily Pons returns from a concert engagement abroad, to work on a new film for RKO-Radio Pictures. of the Gospel Singer, Edward Mc- Hugh. . . . We can understand that, to people in lonely places, the in- cessant sound of the radio voice is, indeed, a blessing—bringing a sense of contact with all that is going on in the world—a sense of friendship and companionship. . . . ~ Which proves that radio, as it should be, is all things to all men— and women—and children. -o- You hurry home at evening to lis- ten to Amos Andy. . You re- lax, after dinner, to welcome Lanny Ross and the Show Boat to your fireside... . You take in Town Hall Tonight, with Fred Allen and Port- land Hoffa. Burns and Allen, Jack Benny and Ed Wynn help you to forget your burdens, with the healing gift of laughter. Com- mentators bring you the day’s grist of news. - > Among the latter, this rambler es- pecially (Continued on page 18) about broadcasters RADIO STARS NAVGMIAGAMERO FS | DARK BRUNETTE ! NATURAL BRUNETTE See if the Shade You Are Using Is Really the Right One for You! You’re pretty sure about the shade of face powder you use, aren’t you? You’re quite certain it’s the right shade for you. What would you say if you were to find out it was the wrong shade entirely for you? Don’t be so sure that this isn’t the case. As any artist or make-up expert will tell you, many women use the wrong shade of face powder entirely. The result is, they look years older than they really are. The reason so many women use the wrong shade of face powder is that they select their shades on the wrong basis altogether. It’s a mistake to select your shade of face powder according to your so-called “type.” You are not a “type.” You are an individual. One Way and Only One! There is only one way 'to tell your most becoming shade of face powder and that is to try on all five basic shades. Any other method is only theory and guess-work, To make it simple and conclusive for you to ascertain your right shade of face powder, I have invented a game called: “Find Your Right Shade of Face Powder.” It’sas enlight- ening as it is fascinating. Here’s all youneed do: Just send me your name and address and by return mail I’ll send you all five shades of my Lady Esther Face Powder, free of charge. Take the five shades and sit Name - down before your mirror. Start with the shade you think least suited to you and try Address z Bi elite that on. But don’t stop at any one shade. City. State. Y Lily Esther Go through all five and observe the effects in your mirror in each case. You don’t have to be any seer to recognize instantly that one of these five shades is more suited to you than any other. You will see immediately that one shade, more than any other, makes you look your youngest and most attractive. What that shade is, neither I nor any- body else, can tell you. You must see for yourself. A Surprise May Be in Store for You! Maybe the very shade you think least suited to you, the very one you would never think of using is actually your most becoming shade. Thousands of women have been amazed with the results of this test. Decide today that you are not going to be in the dark any longer as to the shade of face powder you should use. Decide today that you are going to know once and for all which is your most becom- ing shade. Mail the coupon today and play the game that tells—my game of “face powder shades.” POCO See E DESO EE ESE OR EE ESOS EES ESOT E ERE ESOSS (You can paste this on a penny postcard.) (24) Lady Esther, 2010 Ridge Ave., Evanston, Ill. Please send me by return mail a liberal supply of all five : shades of Lady Esther Face Powder; also a 7-days’ supply of your Lady Esther Four-Purpose Face Cream. (If you live in Canada, write Lady Esther, Ltd., Toronto, Ont.) PTITeTIere rir rririrrrr irr rrr 17

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Radio Ramblings Here's Tom Howard, droll wise boob, with his eccentric partner, George Shelton, who is goofily wiser still! cherishes Boake Carter—not only for his sound and informative talks on subjects that are, or should be, important to us, but because, while scrupulously honest and sure of his facts, he does not sit neatly on the fence, balancing the pros and cons, but gives strong and impassioned expression to just praise or just indignation, as the subject demands. ve Now, while the radio knows no des- perate censorship, the quality of indigna- tion is at times a healthful thing to broad- cast. We, as a people, have grown too prone to think, not that “whatever is, is right”’—but that whatever is, we must “take it,” and say nothing—forgetting our more fiery forebears, who, rather than suffer unjustly, dumped British tea into Boston harbor! 3 We remember another indignant man on the air—Hendrik Willem Van Loon, who, some time ago, when the immortal Jaf- sie inserted in a theatrical weekly an ad- vertisement asking for vaudeville engage- ments, exclaimed in one of his broadcasts: “Lower than this we cannot go!” ae also be remembered m broadcasts of murder Low or high, it Which might respect 10 some trials and executions... is the people’s choice! o> Among the programs that consistently aim at and consistently achieve a high order of radio entertainment, the delight of this inconsequential rambler’s heart is the Monday evening Voice of Firestone concert, over NBC-WEAF. With Mar- garet Speaks and Nelson Eddy or Richard Crooks, with the Firestone choral sym- phony and William Daly’s string orches- tra, its half hour of rare and lovely music is all too short. It’s not above the lay listener, but also rewards the most critical hearer with its smooth and melodious se- quence of song and orchestra. Last spring’s Metropolitan Auditions of 18 RADIO STARS (Continued from page 17) the Air were another delight and we look forward to next season’s renewal of this unusual radio program. eo Listening to the March of Time pro- grams on the air, we have almost the sen- sation of seeing as well as hearing. For example—a “picture of the Ethiopian con- flict is being presented. John McIntyre, the announcer, is at the microphone. “Ad- dis Ababa, Ethiopia,’ he says. And over the air comes the sound of the beating of tom-toms, gradually increasing in volume. The next voice we hear is that of West- brook Van Vorhees, narrator and ‘Voice of Time.” He describes the massing of the troops, their fervor for their king, while the microphone picks up war cries from a group of unseen actors. The tramp of feet is heard. The narrator speaks of the horsemen, and we hear the sound of J . 5 himself—and he “mad Russian” complicates life for Eddie Cantor on Sunday evening's Pebeco program! The thundering hooves. Shots Screams And the tom-toms rise to a frenzied crescendo. ... Edwin Jerome is the voice of Haile Selassie and as he speaks against the background thus created, we have in our minds a picture so vivid, a sort of men- tal television as been achieved. 2 =e One reason why this program comes over the air so smoothly is that directors, actors, sound effects experts and engineers have worked together for so long that cach knows the others’ characteristics and is ready to meet any situation, however unexpected. On another page of this issue we have some camera shots of the March of Time players in action. Edwin Jerome, in ad- dition to being Haile Selassie on the air, also is the voice of Stalin in these pro- grams, and the voice of Senator Borah. This summer he plans to interview these people, to perfect his simulation of their voices. Ted Di Corsica plays Mussolini. Another veteran March of Time actor is Frank Readick, who has been with the program for five years. He was in its first show. Orson Welles is considered one of the cleverest actors on the staff. To him are assigned the most difficult of dramatic characterizations. To Ted Jew- ett fall the ghostly or macabre roles—a sort of Frankenstein of the air—and many _ of the foreign characterizations. on ant For the mechanical part of this pro- gram, five microphones are in use, all at the same time. One is for the principals in the cast, one for the mingled voices of mobs or crowd effects, a third picks up sound effects. Number four is used by Howard Barlow’s orchestra and the fifth” is for auditorium sounds, when called for in the script. Lines from each microphone © lead to the control room, where the en-— gineer mixes them in their proper rela- tion in one sound circuit oe Dramatic Director Arthur Pryor molds and polishes his cast and tightens up the script till the rehearsal moves without a flaw. It is easy to see why the March of Time sets the pace for radio drama. _—— Being a dog-lover, your rambler was interested, and mildly amused, to learn that Gertrude Niesen, CBS songstress and a Broadway stage favorite, maintains a two-family penthouse—or is it a pethouse? —for her pets, two cats and two dogs. It is located on the terrace adjoining Miss — Niesen’s 19th-floor apartment in New | York and is heated and weather-proofed _ and supplied, we are told, with “every — convenience.” We understand the tenants are model neighbors. Don’t let your ca- nines or tabbies be jealous, however. Any dog or cat that has the whole house and a backyard as his domain is not to be pitied! 4 « 4 ' (Continued on page 83) A broadcast from Studio 7, with Lor- etta Clemens and Dick Harding—Di is Santos Ortega in these programs.

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Waa IRIs pm Above, Walter O'Keefe of the Camel van program. Below, Deane Janis. Left to right, Paul Doug- las, Ted Husing, Walter O'Keefe, Deane Janis, Jack O'Keefe, Vick Ruby, of Camel program. FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO RADIO COMEDY, it seems, is the most difficult form of entertain- ment to broadcast successfully. Comics, if they are to survive, must be surefire. There is no audience for funsters unable to provoke genuine guffaws. In Walter O'Keefe, the Camel Caravan presents a refresh- ingly glib comedian possessed with unerring judgment of what makes people laugh and how best to present it. As a high priest of hilarity, Walter has gathered for himself a tre- mendous listening audience. He's forever concocting new stunts and always represents good cheer and exercise for the laugh muscles. Along with Walter is lovely Deane Janis and her intriguing voice; Ted Husing and his interesting sports topics; and, of course, the tingling tunes of Glen Gray and his Casa Loma orchestra. The entire program bespeaks cheerfulness. It's smartly done. The freshness of the material is a credit to the versatile O'Keefe who is responsible for all skits. The Camel Caravan, whether you're a big-towner or small- towner, is admittedly an easy-to-listen-to program. Because of these qualities, RADIO STARS magazine awards its medal for Distinguished Service to Radio to the Camel Caravan feste-T Ch - —EDITOR.

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MLAS 4 eas RULE WOMEN VOTERS % x “T DON’T know much about radio,” Fannie Hurst ad- their radios to relieve the monotony. . | mitted with characteristic frankness, “but I do know,” “It is to these women, women with brooms and mops) and her soft voice rang with conviction, “that it’s the and irons and rolling pins, women with knitting needles | most important new dimension in the history of politics. and babies’ diapers, that radio is a boon. Mind you, “In the past few years American women have taken an_ in just furnishing entertainment, but a boon in cil : increasing interest in politics, but, with the advent of a woman feel important, in causing her to realize that) : radio that interest mounts toward a tremendous force. she, too, has a voice in running this country of ours. Many. women have no extra money to enjoy theatres longer need a woman blindly follow her husband’s or her i and concerts, so they stay at home and tune in their father’s or her brother’s political opinions. She can form i radios. Or, doing their own housework, they turn on her own opinions—and she does! Because she can ne

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io is the most important ew Retension in the history By Nanette Kutner | penty of political talks. She may not have time to | e papers, but she can’t avoid the air.” Fannie Hurst paused for breath. Then thoughtfully ') she said: “It is to those women at home, that I want to ‘) Say one thing: I want to tell them to remember that radio ‘can be destructive as well as constructive, that very often a candidate has a brilliant record, marvelous principles ‘and a bad microphone voice. “Mrs. Roosevelt is one of the most charming women im the world, but her radio voice does not equal her )personality; it fails to reveal one-eighth of her pao _ “President Roosevelt’s voice is the finest exponent of fadio today. I think he has done more to dignify broad- ing than anyone else. His speeches, with that in- timate touch, have set an unheard of precedent, and given all candidates good cause to worry about their “It’s a funny thing, this radio, it plays tricks! Wom- 'S voices on the air sound as if they were selling gelatine | an exposition. To my mind the only good feminine " tadio voice is that of Martha Dean. But I honestly think | that the queer tricks radio plays with voices are caused ) by the microphone itself. It is nothing we broadcasters tan control. ’ “T once had a chance to make an electrical transcription. Pp gf thought that there was a job suited for me. I studied you, own voice. And I was very conscious of its unpleas- n Wa faults and the faults in the voices of others. So I aie iced. I placed my voice carefully, and really gave os" what I considered an ideal performance. Yet, when I (s" Dlayed back the record, my voice had all the qualities I ao ise and which I had thought were eliminated! p Cal politics, says Fannie Hurst ""No longer need a woman follow her hus- band's, her father's or her brother's political opinions. She can—and does—form her own!" Acme Fannie Hurst, famous novelist “So radio really is dangerous! If you don’t sound right, you can make people dislike you—just by your voice.” She leaned down to stroke a black dog that had come bounding into the double-storied living-room, and was now seated at her feet. Then she raised her dark eyes, eyes that seem to penetrate everything. “Radio needs an authoritative woman’s voice,” she said. “T would like to be that voice! “In my own mind I know that I’m going to talk over the air. It’s the place for me. If I have something I want to say, and that I feel is worth saying, then I want to say it in front of a microphone because radio is the ideal soap-box. Why, for the first time, novels have serious competition. At the very most a novel of mine reaches three hundred to five hundred thousand people. That audience is a mere handful, compared to the size of tadio’s millions of listeners ! “At present I think radio is suffering from an embar- rassment of riches. There should be programs for people who think and who want to think. But radio is in a rut. Of course I have to admit that we, the public, get just exactly what we seek—because we take it! “Radio has reached the heights in music, producing the finest concerts, symphonies, operas, but verbal programs do not come up to the standard of the musical ones. “The public is hungry now. Young people have changed. They are aware of conditions. They are think- ing. When the radio executives and advertising agents were young, people wanted only entertainment. Today boys and girls in their teens want information! Young people today cannot escape thinking. Radio should bring them thinking people, statesmen, (Continued on page 80 )

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L RAD WANGE ne tIs her humor, with its innuendo, too hot for the air? Mae West! i _ For four years, that name has been the biggest news ‘name in Hollywood. A single item about this amazing woman, who swept into Hollywood in a small part in Night After Night, was certain news all over the world. ‘y No woman so wholly captivated the motion picture in- dustry.as did Mae. And yet, today, you hear her name mentioned less and less. Even the Mae West stories—those little say- ‘ings with their naughty twists—have disappeared into Hollywood’s shadows. Her contract has not been re- mnewed with Paramount and no other company has rushed to sign her on the dotted line, at least at her salary. I recently asked a Hollywood executive why Mae West had not signed again immediately. He shrugged. “She ) wanted too much money. There’s a limit to pay, even in Hollywood and when you reach it, you might as well stop hollering for more. She got the most and then she wanted more. “Mae wouldn’t compromise, so she’s out. Of course, if she comes down . . . You can tell Hollywood just so long and then Hollywood starts telling you. And when Hollywood makes up its mind .. . say, there isn’t a single person out here bigger than the industry itself. Mae made a hit. She cashed in. But she reached the top. Artists never know when they’ve gone the limit. This business ran before Mae West came into it. It'll run fter she’s out. Unless she’s sensible, she'll find she’s defiriitely through in pictures.” Perhaps he’s wrong, but as this is written Mae is not || working in a picture and hasn’t for several months— which always is a bad omen for any Hollywood actor. If Mae West has reached the top in motion pictures—what next? Retirement? Personal appearances? Pictures in England? Radio? No one who knows Mae personally can think of her retiring. She once told me her life-story. She explained in detail how she had made herself into an institution, an institution dedicated to success. She once loved a man. Loved him madly. “T learned will power, then,” she said, “I learned de- termination. It took a lot of both—to say goodbye to him. But success takes the same thing. I tell you, I had to talk to myself over and over and over .. . I learned to sell myself to myself, if you get me. I can do it, today. When I see a man I might like and know he might interfere with my career, I can sell myself out of the idea of liking him. From the time of that one man, I have thought only of Mae West. I have thought only of myself—as I am to the public. Men have been im- portant only as they could help me to help that Mae West, the one who belongs to the public.” No, I cannot think of Mae’s retiring, despite the fact that she has much money. Did you know that she has carried her checks personally to the bank every Wednesday morning since she’s been in, Hollywood ? She’s, saved more than any star I know. She lives today in the same apartment house into which she moved upon her arrival. She thought of buy- ing a house but told me: “Decided against it. Can save more this way.” And any- body can call her through the house tele- phone. She might miss a business call, if they couldn't. Personal appearances? Natur- ally, she could make a vast fortune in a very short time. A stop-gap, perhaps. But there is nothing per- (Continued on page 74)

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By Nancy Barrows At the helm of the Show Boat, Lanny Ross, tenor star, and Wini- fred Cecil, bril- liant young so- prano of the Maxwell House Coffee program. The Show Boat's popular star has some thrilling new plans for his future as a singer

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por eo ADVENTURE is his birthright. Not in the sense of Edna Millay’s line: “There isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, no matter where it’s going,” nor that he longs to sail unchartered seas or pursue the unusual down the usual paths. Rather it is, in essence, “Nothing ventured, ‘nothing gained.” Already Lanny Ross has a great deal. He is happily married, his wife, Olive White, being his personal rep- resentative and business manager. He has fame and wealth, from his own efforts, friends, a home in the city, a farm in the country, a gratifying career in radio —possessions that bring privileges, privileges that im- ply responsibility, to himself and to others. Lanny is especially conscious of responsibility to the tradition of courage and initiative in his family. “My people, in a sense, were pioneers,” he said. “My grandfather, my father’s father, was a bank clerk in the Bank of England. He felt that the future there didn’t offer him enough opportunity. So he decided to strike out into fresh fields. He determined to come to America. He got a chance to bring over a ship-load of Portuguese immigrants and he had the courage to undertake the responsibility. When he had completed that charge, he settled in a small town in the state pi Washington and became a banker there. It was a ioneering adventure in an undeveloped country. And € made good. I hope,” said Lanny, “that I have enough f that spirit in me to make good in new fields... . I lon’t want to let it die out in me.” Lanny Ross wants a great deal of life. “It goes so uickly,” he says. “In just a little while you realize that Ou are growing old. . . . And all the things you were oing to do will be forever undone. Unless you now what you want and are willing to strike out, even if it involves sacrifices. .. . “Right now,” Lanny spoke thoughtfully, “I have a farm. There are thirty-five cows on it. We sell the milk. I have a farmer who runs it for me. We go out there week-ends, when we can. “That farm,” Lanny went on, “needs such a lot done on it... . The buildings must practically be rebuilt from the foundations. The ground needs to be reconditioned. It’s a tremendous responsibility and involves a lot of money. Of course I can’t do it all at once... . “It opens a whole new world to me,” Lanny smiled. “And I don’t really need that par- ticular new world—I have so many others in mind. ... 1 want to sing in concert. I rant to sing in opera. I want to make motion pictures. I want to write... . 4 And I’ve got to figure out how to do all these things!” It does sound like a large order, but as Lanny talks you feel that the sensitive mettle of the artist is strengthened by the mettle of the pioneer and responsive to the demand, however it comes. He is not a visionary, dreaming dreams beyond the possibility of accomplish- ment. Rather he is a man with a vision, looking far ahead, but aware of all that is involved to make the dream and its fulfillment one. Music and acting also are a part of Lanny’s birthright. And Lanny’s progress toward his goal in music exemplifies the mettle of the man. His father, Douglas Ross, is an actor, noted throughout — Eng- land for his Shakespearian roles. He wanted the boy, naturally, to follow in his footsteps in a theatrical career. Lanny’s mother, an accomplished musician, once was Pavlowa’s accompanist. His younger brother, Winston, is on the stage, at present appearing in the Theatre Guild produc- tion, [diot’s Delight. “We kid him about playing the title role,” chuckled Lanny. And added: “I wonder that Winchell hasn't picked that up—to ask whether Alfred Lunt or Lynn Fontanne is playing the title role in the Sherwood play. “T started out in the theatre, of course,’ Lanny con- tinued. “I made my stage début when I was six years old, at the old Century Theatre, in a children’s play called Racketty-Packetty House. 1 earned fifty dollars a week, for six weeks. I did other stage work, after that, but I didn’t want to continue in the theatre—it’s so unfair,” he mused. “So much depends on the part you get, on the reception of the play... . “Of course I knew that I had a voice,” he spoke seri- ously, “but I didn’t give up all other considerations for it until I was sure that it was more than just a nice voice. . . .. My grandfather,” he went on, “advised me to study for a business or a profession. ‘You can be happy, he told me, ‘in any line of work, if you are doing it well and making a living.’ “So, when I graduated from Yale, I studied law at Columbia. And, in order to help pay my expenses, I did some singing on the radio. My first broadcast was on January first, 1929, for Ray Bestos. I sang three songs. Then for a year and a half I was on a sustain- nig program, Troubadour of the Moon. I earned ten dollars a performance. Once I got a raise to fifteen. “In 1931 I was on a radio program for Hellman’s. Then I went on to the Maxwell House Coffee program. That was before there was any (Continued on page 86) 25

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music, cr) o r) > >~ a | [a “Swing” as played by Ken Murray. listens toa few bars of and once was John Barrymore's leading tress of the Paris and , charm- ing songs ht Life pro- gram on CBS, former stage screen star lassie. Armida 1s a Nig

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manager, Sh het: 2 Ted Collins, en- _joy a game of . ““Dumogolf” si -together before by _ their rehearsal. Rubinoff gives _ ye .2 ae ‘4 : ! Jack Benny a Ee Ga a ae ni Corel violin lesson, Be . ar A es backstage in a New York Theatre — it's Lope iu Bitene Radio's stars away from the busy microphone George T. Delacorte, publisher of Radio Stars, with Eddie Cantor, a recent winner of our award for distinguished service to radio.

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THEY are new to radio, this famous comedy team, and their ~ inimitable humor is new and different, too, from the regular © radio fare. But these particular stars have shone brightly in § the theatre for years. : “Tt was a long apprenticeship, though, ” Eddie mused and added with an expressive twinkle in his eye: “We didn’t have radio then !” Thus he lightly sums up those years of struggle and heartache. © : He looks backward now with a smile for the youngster who so determinedly set his feet upon the path to fame and who so gamely refused to be discouraged by the many adversities, the | long, hard grind up the rocky road to Broadway! g i For although we know him and his tiny wife, Ray Dooley, as ~ “tops” in the theatre, we realize that it was not always so, that, like everyone else, there had to be a beginning and that with © them that beginning was not easy. We are used to the typical success story of radio, the over- ~ night fame and rapid rise, and I wondered, as Eddie rem- inisced a bit, how many lads, in these days of home-talent — shows and contests—and Major Bowes!—would have the ~ courage to stick to that hard trail as Eddie did, not so many years ago. a Recently inaugurating the Eddie Dowling Revue, on Tues- © ‘ day evenings at 10 o’clock, E.S.T., under the sponsorship ~ B y Miriam Reo gers of the Elgin National Watch Company, Eddie says” modestly that he hopes their new audience will like ~ them. And he admits a fleeting pity for the boy who struggled up the weary route of vaudeville and stock and one-night stands, when, if there had been radio, — the way might have been so much easier. But he- smiles when he says it and adds sincerely : “Youth is the time of optimism, of looking for- ward—we can take hardships in our stride when | we are young . A | And Eddie ought to know, for he learned — almost in his cradle what poverty, heartach and tragedy mean. One of seventeen” children—most of us can’t even imagine what that would be like—his father a] cotton weaver in a small New Eng- i land mill, earning $15.00 a we his mother’s back bowed beneath the burdens of her large fam- 7 ily and the unending strug gle to feed so many hungry mouths — you can’t tell Eddie anything aboutll the seamy side of life! Meet Mr. and Mrs. Dowling (she » is Ray Dooley, of course), of the Elgin Revue, / former vaudeville and musical stage headliners, Irish as the shamrock.

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Radio welcomes two famous stage comics, Eddie Dowling od the impish Ray Dooley (n~? pil -” > =e af RAVIVY oIAKRO But there was more to it than that. There was rain and there was courage and there was hope. The mother, run ning a boarding house for mill workers, cooking for them, washing for them—at $3.00-$3.50 per week apiece !—in addition to working for her own brood, nevertheless in stilled in Eddie and her other children the finest of ideals. Eddie owns a hundred acres now near Providence, Rhode Island, where he was born, and there brothers and sisters and nephews and nieces and cousins live in comfort. Perhaps the greatest joy life has brought to Eddie Dowling is the satisfaction of helping his be- loved mother play her favorite role of Lady Bountiful and how beautifully, how unselfishly she played it no one ever will know in full. But when she died a year and a half ago, people came long weary miles to pay tribute to the beloved woman who had helped them through their times of hardship and despair “Within an hour of her death,” Eddie said pridefully, “she was thinking of a boy, a clerk in a store, whom she had been helping win a-weekly prize for sales. She called me in, asked me to get the money from her purse and pay the bill she owed him, so that he would not miss out on the prize that week, because he had a family and needed that money. In an hour she was dead. She always was thinking of someone else, doing some- thing for somebody. .. .” That is only one of the many stories at the tip of his tongue, for she was the kind who, when she saw some- one in trouble, did not say: “I’m so sorry for him!” In- stead, she went out and bought groceries, or helped the man of the family to get a job. But Eddie does not remind you that it was he who made it possible for her to do these fine things. It is the true son of this unselfish mother who says: “T was lucky in having a talent, something that people liked, that caught on. That didn’t mean I was any better, any more capable, any more deserving than my brothers—” The corollary to that was that Eddie shared his good fortune, as soon as he had any to share! When he was a little boy, not yet out of short pants, Eddie Dowling began his career, not as an actor, but as a “deck monkey,” a “buttons” on a great Cunard ship. His uncle was a steward on the Cunard line and it was a proud Eddie who prepared to follow in his footsteps —bedecked in the glamorous uniform, bursting with pride in his first long pants! Even the town’s little rich girl had more than a passing glance for Eddie in that handsome outfit ! The stark tragedy and poverty of his early childhood had made a pre- cocious, serious boy. When the great Aquitania or Mauretania were (Continued on page 94)

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30 Frances is all set to pierce your heart! If song won't do it, perhaps a foil will servel SONGBIRD} a Tonsils, says Frances Langford, and not a | broken heart, made her a blues singer! SINCE she’s a daughter of the old South, we half ex- pected Frances Langford to greet us, like the gal in Dwight Fiske’s slightly ribald ballad, “with magnolias in 7 one hand and waffle irons in the other.”’ Instead, we meet a diminutive, good-looking young lady with just a shade of accent which might indicate she was born below where Mr. Mason and Mr. Dixon drew the line. Her colonial mansion of the moment was a highly unstable portable dressing-room, which had earthquakes every time someone brushed against it. “The truth is,’ Miss Langford said, “I’m not a daugh- ter of the old South. At least, not the old, old South. Lakeland, Florida, is my home, suh, and you’ve probably never heard of it.” She was right, we hadn’t; but we ad= mitted to ourselves that she was queen of the Hollywood Hotel program and here, right this minute, in the middle of Palm Springs, her first starring picture. Look- ing the little lady over, we noticed first that her hair was done up in a new coif- fure. Sort of rolled back off the ears) with a fine collection of curled bangs m front, and all very nice. Her new make up, too, makes her look more like Lang ford than she used to. In her first couple of screen appearances she looked Oriene tal and she didn’t like it. Neither did her Spanish father nor her Irish mother. The Langford costume of the moment was a heavy woolen scarlet and white ski suit and fur boots—just a dandy little out fit for the desert, about which Pali Springs is concerned. Frances didn’t know why. She was told to wear it and she was going to wear it in the next scene, be it on sand, snow or even Post Toasties. But leave us—as they say on the other side of the tracks—get back to our sube ject. In case you don’t know, it’s Lange ford’s singing. . -

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— a By Leo Townsend “How come,” we asked, “a pint-sized Garbo like you is gifted with such a low, compelling voice, when every- one knows you were meant for a soprano? Tell our readers a broken heart is responsible for those overtones of tragedy in your singing. Tell them you lost someone very dear to you, and woke up next morning a baritone.” “T’d like to tell them that,” said Frances, ‘because what really happened isn’t nearly so romantic. I haven’t a broken heart and all I ever lost were my tonsils. You can blame them for everything.” “You mean you really were once a soprano?” “When I was sixteen I was the sopranoest girl in the Baptist Church choir in Lakeland. I had operatic am- ditions then, too. I would eventually land at the Met, [ told myself, riding on a streamlined high C.” “And then came the tonsils?” “And then went the tonsils. And with them went my yoor little soprano, for when I finally could speak, after the operation, I discovered I was a contralto with no voice atall. I cried for days until my mother took me in hand. She once was a concert pianist and she practised with ne for weeks until I could sing again. You can imagine ny surprise when I turned out to be a torch singer.” “Hurray,” said we, “for the good old tonsilectomy! A scene from the Paramount Picture, Palm Springs, Frances Langford’s first starring picture. David Niven is shown here with her. “SOUTHERN STYLE Her rich singing voice and winsome person- ality are carrying Frances Langford to the top, both in radio and in motion pictures. p? Also hurray for Mrs. Langford Torch singing got Frances her first sponsored radio program. She sang her heart out for a certain brand of Tampa cigar and men all over Florida responded by smoking more cigars and, occasionally, biting them in two, when Langford hit one of her special low notes. Then Rudy Vallee invaded Florida. A latter day Ponce de Leon, he sought there, not the fountain of youth (he’d already found that), but merely a few weeks’ relaxation. Through the good offices of Frances’ cigar sponsor our heroine was introduced to Rudy, who promptly gave her an audition. She appeared as guest star with him in New Orleans, her first national broadcast. After that, high school seemed terribly dull, but Frances stuck it out, graduated and rushed to New York in answer to a hurry call to chant once more for Rudy and dear old Fleischmann’s Yeast. A year as staff artist on WOR followed and then she went to work for Al Smith. That was in 1931, when Al was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and sponsored a series of broad- casts to let the nation know his intentions. Frances furnished the vocal interludes until Al saw the hand- writing on the political wall and discontinued the broad- casts. Mr. Smith, says Frances, is “noisy but nice.” Vaudeville came next, and eight weeks at the Chez Paris in Chicago, where she met a singer named Tony Martin. The friendship has lasted, for today Tony is one of the two men who comprise Frances’ list of escorts. Then back to New York, where she met and became a close friend of George Jean Nathan, the drama critic. For Frances it meant charming company and a chance to know all of Broadway’s chronic first-nighters. For Nathan, who always leaves a bad (Continued on page 69) 31

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IT was during the first rehearsal of a Town Hall Tonight program. ‘The cast was standing around, scripts in hand, wait- ing to run over the dialogue for the second time. Fred Allen was holding his megaphone —he talks into the large end to get the loudspeaker effect for Town Hall News. Waiting for the “go ahead,” Allen’s dry chuckle sounded. “Tt looks pretty bad,” he drawled. “I’ve got twelve more shows to do before we knock off for the summer, and there’s only eleven more pages in my jokebook. It begins to look as though that last show is going to be pretty thin! It was an entirely impromptu remark, but the cast found it so funny that Allen retained it and used it as an ad lib remark during the amateur part of the show. It wasn’t the first funny remark Allen contributed to that rehearsal. In fact, there are dozens of laughs dur- ing a Town Hall rehearsal that aren’t in the script, most of them emanating from the dryly humorous Allen himself. It must be wonderful, you think, to be naturally funny ; to be able to write a script that makes a professional com- edy cast break down mee laugh at their own lines; to get off impromptu gags; gun an apparently inexhaustible source of humor. W all, you think so, don’t mention it to Fred Allen. “Doing the show,’ says Fred, “is the easiest part of it. But that sixty minutes of comedy over the air takes a week’s hard work to prepare. Maybe, if I could sit back and wait for a half a dozen comedy writers to line the script up and just step in in time to rehearse and broad- cast it, it would be easy. But,” he added bitterly, “I can’t.” Allen was speaking at home now, during one hour of the one day in the week when there is any chance of find- ing him in his modest suite at a midtown apartment-hotel. He’s only in at that time because he’s reserved the hour to run over the script before rehearsal “Sure, I like radio. If you pe adjust yourself so you didn’t have to kill yourself—if you could relax a little when you get on top, it'd be apr But you can't, 32 => \ iS \ ~~ ~ # red Allen and Mrs. Fred. | (Portland Hof- ta to you.) Tally-hol ig t Pawan tele ons ¢ Jack Benny, as guest star on if you ; the Allen show. want to keep up to a standard. We've been going over four years—outlasted many of them—but it means always looking for something new. “4 He broke off to take a chew of tobacco. Yes—he chews tobacco, on occasion! It’s a pretty good index to thé Allen makeup. You can’t imagine a man with a chew in his cheek putting on airs, or going high hat! And Fred Allen, as a leading radio comedian, is no moré pretentious than he was as a vaudeville performer. H@€& carries simplicity to extremes, without making an affecta= tion of it. He lives simply, with no chauffeur—no cary T even—no maids, butlers or secretaries. He writes his scripts out in longhand and types them himself; mainly) § he says, because he never could find a secretary wh@ could think of new gags or lines to put in during thé rewrite process. He has been variously mentioned a§ looking like Gene Tunney and James J. Walker and per- haps he does. Certainly, he doesn’t look Broadway and he doesn’t act Broadway. A natural guy, this Allen. “Of course,” he went on in his favorite tone of con® plaint, “there’s nothing really new in radio. But we try to be as original as possible; not to repeat too often, not even to use the same people so much that the show gets standardized. Portland is the (Continued on page 57y

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"It's Town Hall Fo-. night!” And® the fun beginsf” Yne Long Pan what'll you bet 's owlish Fred Allen?) sees Il, knows all! If you think it's easy to be a professional funny man, don't men- tion it to Fred Allen! By Jack Hanley

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catalyst—a new name for commentator—on mun Romberg's Swift program, while Romberg Barrymore grew the beard for a movie he is makii e 2. The recent broadcast of These Three brought f ohare Dick Powell, Merle Oberon, Louella Parse 3. Among the film celebrities who were entertaine by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., at a dinner ¢ at Holywood's Chie soma sate Bing Crosby, filn and radio singer, and his wife, who is Dixie 4. Frank Parker and Bob Hope of The Atla ic Family exchange a gay bit of persiflage as the hearse. 5. The Stewart "Sisters, Julie, Judy ond Joa regularly featured by Rudy Vallee on his hman Variety Hour. 6. Some fancy fencing herel Mortimer, of the NBC office staff, with NBC actres Natalie Parks. 7. And here's that well-known wood gossip, Jimmie Fidler, confiding a choice a on Joel McCrea, Marcia Mae Jones, Bonita Granville. the mike. 8. Gracie Allen in the studio, making yj for Miltiel 9. Announcer Don McNeil with the Jane Withers. 10. Harriet Hilliard, . Seana charrr and Robert L. (Believe-It-Or-Not) Ripley il 9 script during a rehearsal of the Ba koa This month the spotlight falls on many familiar fe ce | at the microphone and away from the studio 1. Lionel Barrymore is rehearsing for his réle a:

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Mrs. tells what it means to Eddie Cantor Eddie to have a boy. A BOY MY HUSBAND has a special rea- son, this year, for being glad that Summer’s on the way. Summer means baseball. And _ baseball, to Eddie, means that for the first time he’s going to have an eager, en- thusiastic small-boy companion at the games, instead of an inattentive and secretly bored daughter. He can sit in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds with this companion, sharing the masculine excitement over home-runs and other events that seem so important to men and boys. He'll have a grimy little hand thrust into his, and a breathless little voice shouting in his ear: ‘Gee, Uncle Eddie, look at that fellow slide home!” You see, after having been the only male in a house- hold of women for many years, Eddie’s now enjoying the thrill of having a boy around. And is he enjoying it! There’s a perpetual smile tugging at his lips and a sparkle in his big brown eyes. Of course, he’s very fond of our five daughters, but there always has been a grain of truth in his radio jokes about his wish for a “little son.” The boy in our home—in case you haven't heard—is a wiry, curly-haired bundle of mischief and _ talent, named Bobby Breen. He has taken Eddie by storm. He’s just eight years old and even at this tender age has quite 36 By Mrs. Eddie Cantor on Bobby Breen AT LAST..! Meet Bobby Breen, Eddie Cantor's delightful “adopted son” a long life-story. For the past sev- eral weeks, he has been appearing Eddie’s broadcasts. He sings divinely—his voice brought tears to my husband’s eyes the first time he heard it—and he plays the radio role of “‘adopted son.” Bobby lives a short distance away from us, with his pretty sister, Sally, but I think he spends more time at our place than he does at home. He’s with us every day in the week, dashing in and out energetically, re- hearsing with Eddie and helping to select songs for the programs. My husband says: “‘Bobby’s a natural-born actor. He needs practically no direction at all. He memorizes his songs in only a few minutes and his voice—why, it’s extraordinary !” And Bobby? “It’s wonderful, working with Uncle Eddie,” he tells anyone who cares to listen. ‘He's so encouraging to me. We're great pals!” They’re full of plans for the future. tion picture together is their mutual dream. And the baseball games, of course. Football in the fall. Why, they’ve even thought so far ahead that they’re hoping to be in California for the Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day, 1937! (Continued on page 90) To make a mo-

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PRESCRIPTION FOR SUCCESS » tlt takes more than talent to account for this man! EDDY DUCHIN was born in a small frame house in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts. And for a number of years life centered around the quiet suburban streets and high school boys and girls and dances at the Town Hall and porch parties on long summer evenings and his father’s drugstore and the upright piano and hours of practising Over. the Waves and The Burning of Rome. Now he lives in New York, in a suite at the Hotel Plaza, with a wife out of the Social Register and a concert grand, and silk hats and tails and a gardenia in his button hole. He has climbed to a high perch on the dizzying pinnacles of fame. And he’s only twenty-seven years old. His talent has made him the favorite popular pianist of true music lovers—the sort who go to concerts at Carnegie Hall and to the Wagner operas and symphonies and who really understand | Toscanini. It also has made the rest of us, who don’t know a toccata from a fugue, consider him the object of our mutual affections. But it takes more than talent to account for Eddy Duchin. Much more. It takes a head on your shoulders and the ability to keep that same head down to the size hat you wore when you started. It takes smartness and common sense and a knowledge of values. Your own values. The debit side of yourself as well as the bright credit side. Even back in the days when Eddy was working his way through the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, by waiting on tables during summer va- cation at a camp in New Hampshire, he was using his head. Most boys of that age, with musical ability, like to get together and start an orchestra. Eddy Duchin started a three-piece orchestra of his own. He differed, even then, from the thousands of boys throughout these United States who belong to amateur bands, in that from the beginning he set out to make himself a professional. “We had a piano, a fiddle and a saxophone,” he said, ‘‘and we really weren’t half bad for beginners. The guests at the camp used to tell us we were as good as any of the smart supper club orchestras they heard over the air.” He laughed and stretched his long legs comfortably. “I liked hearing it, of course, but I knew that their praise came from Elizabeth Benneiche By | Petersen friendliness rather than judgment. “Of all the hurdles the amateur has to over- come, the greatest is the praise of fond friends and families. These mean to be sincere, they think they are, but for the life of them they can’t help letting affection and wanting to approve creep into it. “Now criticism from a disinterested person is constructive. It’s something you can get your teeth into. “We found that out the next year, when we expanded our band to five pieces and began playing for the sorority and fraternity dances. College boys and girls are as hard boiled as they come. They’re not going to fling (Continued on page 61) Eddy Duchin is "tops" among _ band-leaders. cei. a

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WHEN the Pickens sisters break up—and the combina- tion will break up before very long—there will be no careers sacrificed and no hearts broken, For each of these girls has her own plans and am- bitions for the future. Each has her own talent, entirely separate from the others, a hope, a dream, a goal, which makes her happily independent. They smile—Patti, ce Helen, and Grace, who acts as their manager—when someone makes the oft-repeated prophecy that some dark day tragedy will overtake them: a personal ambition, marriage, the desire for a child, will lure one sister from the group and leave the others career-less, with blank futures and broken dreams. The people who make these prophecies don’t know the Pickens sisters. They don’t realize that these girls always have sung together, just for fun. That it never occurred to them to sing for money, to make a career of it, until a quirk of circumstance surprised them by landing a radio contract on their piano. And that now, in their fifth year of phenomenal success, still riding high on the air waves, they consider their singing in trio just a pleas- ant, unexpected interlude. Oh, they’ve worked hard at it. But not one of the sisters considers it her real career, “We’ve always known,” they say, “that sometime the

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uld dissolve—pleasantly and naturally. We have i Jat day and we have never hurried ow what we will do when the break-up 5 gely enough, there is only one of the singing who plans to continue with a musical career— Of the four girls, she has the finest voice. It ane who first left the family home in Georgia to > New York to study music. It is Jane who makes mplicated harmonic arrangements which the trio nd which are in no small way responsible for the iS. success. . : lany also consider Jane the most beautiful of the Tall, blonde, almost statuesquely built and ra- th vitality, she is certainly the most striking. oe a2e . 6s eS ays a ; Jane already has received an invitation from the Metro- nt | an Opera Company for an audition—a dream many zi gMMe Singers never realize. She hasn’t accepted that in- ter | Mate She postponed it. With characteristic enthusi- ‘the d intelligence she began at once to increase her of study, poring over the scores of opera, learn- “More and more about the intricacies of- harmony. the singing trio “dissolves pleasantly and natural- 1e will be thoroughly prepared for that audition. iS re: Patti, Jane and Helen Pickens have definite plans for their sepa- rate futures, when or if they do “break up” By Mildred Mastin THE PICKENS SISTERS “Jane will make it, too,” the other sisters prophesy loyally. “You just watch.. She'll be a star at the Met.” And they’re probably right. For, in addition to her beauty and her voice, Jane has a kind of vital energy, a determination and singleness of purpose, that permit her to sweep aside all obstacles and ride, triumphantly, to success. Entirely different from Jane’s ambitions are the hopes and dreams of Helen. She is the only one of the trio who is married. Her husband is Salvatore Curioni, a young engineer, an artist by avocation. They met in Hollywood and decided almost immediately to be married. Theirs Was a swift, ecstatic courtship. But you can believe, with Helen, that the marriage will be enduring. For Helen is the quiet one, of dark, subtle beauty. With her the roots grow deep and take hold firmly. You feel that she has weighed carefully the values in life and eliminated glory and fame for peace and love. She has a fine mind. But her thoughts spring from her heart. It is Helen of the warm and generous spirit who, with- out thinking of the possibility of publicity or inconve- nience to herself, gives her name to the taxicab driver when he gets in bad with a cop. It is Helen who reaches for a silver coin for a beggar, (Continued on page 92 ) 39

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Ray Noble, distinguished CBS band leader, with Al Bowlly, vocalist with the band, and Connie Boswell, singer on the Refresh- ment Time program. Noble also is famous as .the composer of many popular song hits. RAY NOBLE composed Good Night, Sweetheart, one of the tenderest, sweetly-sad popular ballads that has come echoing down the lanes of melody for many years. This- song has such an appealingly personal note, as though it had been written especially for each one of us in a cer- tain rare mood, that we somehow imagine that we would recognize Ray Noble if we entered a room where he was —since he seems to know us so well. 40 Composer, band leader, Ray Noble is “a regular fellow’ But there we would be mistaken, for Ray is a bundle of surprises. In the first place, he seems so ridiculous} young. His speech is just British enough to be delightfu to the ear. Chopping off his words, rising inflexion always ending with a question, a twinkle of humor in and behing it. And yet-you would never take him for an English man. You would pick out that tall, slender chap, not chalantly conducting the music, his reddish-blond hair 4 ee,” ae ee ee ee eee ee ae ee ey ee

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~ Senter picture, Kay Noble and the writer, Henry Albert Phil- lips, at the Rainbow Room. And next a view of the British Maestro ''warming up" before opening his program. By Henry Albert Phillips Nirifle awry, as a young Swede. You would find him a_ a program in which three of America’s most prominent curious combination in looks, between Leslie Howard and_ dance orchestras were to play alternately during the same the Crown Prince of Germany in his prime. hour, broadcasting from the same studio—Rich ard His humorously-inclined upper lip is ornamented with Himber, Guy Lombardo and our Ray Noble. To further a wisp of tawny moustache. He enters the studio casually, intrigue a nation-wide air audience, a symphony orchestra his well-set shoulders thrown back, perhaps his left hand in his trousers’ pocket, a twinkle in his eyes that crackles into a smile of recognition now and then, and everybody has difficulty—whether they know him intithately or not —in not calling out: “Hello, Ray!” Although he says com- paratively few words to his million-odd audience on the air, he somehow manages to get this gay friendliness over. He has won his wide popularity not only through the extraordinary musical effects he draws from his orchestra- band with astonishing ease, but also through his agreeable way of being impoctant-instead of just seeming to be so. He intrigues his seen and his unseen audiences without clowning, wise-cracking or‘eccentric antics. In other words, Ray Noble is just a regular fellow. Let’s see how Ray Noble works, in one of the most try- ing experiences for any orchestra leader. The occasion is under the direction of Dr. Black was to interpolate ren- derings from the big stage of the RCA studio. More ex- citement was furnished by switching to the set at Holly- wood, where a big musical picture was in process of making. We sat in the glass cage of the control-room, from where we could see the three orchestras arranged along one side of the hall, the symphony orchestra on the stage and the audience that packed the auditorium, including the balconies. A brief “warming up” rehearsal preceded the big show before the audience was admitted. The most interested listeners and spectators were the band leaders themselves, sizing up their competitors and watching their technique during the periods of playing. The large and informal Mr. Himber, the smaller, nattily dressed and sleek Mr. Lombardo, with his (Continued on page 59) 41

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June is the month for wed- ding bells and here are two honeymoon- ers, Graceand Eddie Albert. This popular radio program is written and produced by this young and versatile pair.

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William Johns- tone enacts various roles. JohnMcintyre, announcer, ina dramatic bit. uy Repp po trays a varie of character dwin Jerome frequently is Haile Selassie. Dwight Weist, often heard as Adolf Hitler. Orson VWellas™ the program$S ace-ag@tor. “@ % wy, | & vi Tee Phee | | the Vpice Ziime and Jrrator of Readick ‘(lef play ry réles. “And Ted Jewett — ets foreign characters. © A study in expression, The March of Time cast |

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lt clutches at your heart strings, this story of Benny Fields, SOMETIMES Benny and I sit here in our suite at the Warwick, with bowls of flowers everywhere we look, with telephones ringing and messages coming as regularly as the ticking of the clock and everyone wanting us to go places and do things. And sometimes I feel like erying over it all and then Benny’ll get up and do a crazy little step. ae ” he'll say, “how’ll you have your peanuts to-night? With caviar or champagne sauce or with truffle stuffing ?” And then we laugh. laughing again. Only it’s different from that time when we had to eat peanuts. Those days and days when we ate peanuts and tried to make believe it was fun. We laughed then, too. But we laughed because we were afraid that, if we didn’t laugh, we’d cry. It should be an old story. The flowers, I mean, and the messages and the telephone calls and being able to order anything we want for dinner. For years it had been like that for both of us. But there was that other time. The time the bottom fell out of our world. The time we ran away from our friends and hid ourselves like a couple of hunted things because we were so bewildered and hurt we couldn’t even face sympathy. In the beginning we felt it couldn’t really be happening to us, that to-morrow or the next day or maybe in just ten minutes the telephone would be ringing and there would be an engagement for us. Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley couldn’t be through! Any day now we'd be back on Broadway, in a new musi- cal maybe, or at the Palace singing Melancholy Baby and Benny would be twirling his cane again. All this would be only a bad dream . . bad dream . . . to-morrow. Only there were going to be an awful lot of to-morrows before the real one came. Before we knew it, we weren't Laugh as if we’d never stop . an awfully “Fields: | Minstre! Se ™ Benny Man of Ziegfeld Fol- lies of the Air and Man to his wife, Blossom Seeley. talking about to-morrow any more, but about next week and next month and next year. And it took us just as long to realize that Broadway wasn’t the same old street, with half of its theatres dark and amusement park con- cessions springing up along it and the Palace, God bless it, turned into a motion-picture house! Musical comedies and revues were staggering along for a few weeks and closing and vaudeville was dead. For, you see, along with the depression, had come an- other blow for show people—radio was taking the place | of Broadway. We were in Europe when the crash came. We'd had a few months of grand fun, doing things we’d been promising ourselves for years. Then came a morning in October, one of those grand autumn mornings you find in Paris, with the air so brisk and clear you feel like drinking it and the sun warm on your face and the chest- nut trees turning to gold along the boulevards and the chestnuts crunching under your feet as you walked. Some friends had flown over from London the night before and we’d made a night of it, celebrating. We'd gone to the Folies Bergére -and the Moulin Rouge and Ciro’s and afterwards we saw dawn come up, the way you see it come up in Paris after a night of fun. At Les Halles, with bowls of onion soup in front of us, and watching the farmers driving up in their carts and hearing their sabots clattering as they ambled over to the counter for breakfast. A morning you didn’t want to be whisked through in a taxi. So Benny and [ started to walk to the hotel. At the kiosk, where we always bought our papers, we saw the headlines in the Paris- Herald—screaming at us that the stock market had crashed in New York! I tried to say something and I couldn’t—and when I looked at Benny he was still smiling. Only his smile was different. As if he’d somehow managed to pin the cor- ners of his mouth up. And then, in just a minute, it was his funny old smile again. § a i | & | i rt i] 1

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) written for us by his wife “Well, Baby,” he caught my arm and sort of “swung me around as if we’d had good news, ““here’s where Seeley and Fields start from cratch again. Watch us grow, ladies and gen- ‘tlemen. Watch us grow!” That’s the thing about that man of mine that ‘makes him—well, that makes him just that. Here were the savings we had been thinking meant security and a care-free future swept “away. And he could make a joke of it! _ There are so many swell things about Benny. His generosity, his loyalty, his good portsmanship. They’re the things that make his friends love him. But it’s the other things in him, the silly, foolish, tender things, that would make me pick up and follow him to the ends of the world. __ I knew it was going to be like that, the first time I ever laid eyes on him. . was in Chicago, fifteen years ago, and I was looking for a partner. sSomebody told me about Benny, who was entertaining in a night club out ere, and so I stopped in one night to look over his act. There were two other fellows working with him. Jack Salis- bury, who’s retired to his own farm now, and Benny Davis, whom you all know now as song writer. But Benny Fields was the one who ‘stopped me. He wasn’t so smooth ‘then as he is to-day. But the talent and ability were all there. (Cont'd on page 76) it's happy days nounher Benny "Fields and Blos- som Seeley, now seed hard years are gonel —_ By Blossom

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PRIMA D | N w a. Revealing Marion Talley, a girl who never had any fun! By Gladys Hall SHE has moonstones for eyes. Gray jewels, with a tranced and mystical expression, set in a small and child- like face. I never have seen such eyes before. They seldom look at you. They gaze into distances and reveal nothing. She has auburn hair. Thin silk skin. A slight, beautiful figure. Number-three hands and feet. She was born in Missouri. She has lost twenty-five pounds in the past two years. By the simple expedient of not eating. Which is the only way, says young Miss Talley, by which one can lose weight ‘permanently. Nor does abstinence from food injure the voice, as the rotund opera stars of a bygone, pre-Grace Moore, Lily Pons and Marion Talley day used to claim. They used that apologia, say Marion, for their excess waistlines and tummies. And Marion ought to know. She hasn’t eaten. That is the secret of her amazing slenderness. And her voice is richer, more mature, more full-bodied than it was when, at nineteen, she made her début at the Met. As you must know, if you listen in every Friday night to the Ry-Krisp program coming over NBC from Holly- wood. As you also will know when you both see and hear Marion in her forthcoming Republic Picture, My Old Kentucky Home. She is living with her mother and sister, her inseparable companions since, a child of eleven, she first began to sing in public, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel here in 3everly Hills. The childlike face is deceptive. Aone is entering the second year of her second marriage.) There is a very firm and determined young woman back of the smooth silken face. For the flame which is Marion, the artist, is housed in a body descended from sturdy Missouri and Kansas forebears. And the artistic temperament is nicely balanced and controlled by the breed and blood of salt- of-the-earth farmers, ranchers and homesteaders. Thus, when Marion made her first big money in opera, in concert, on the air, she sank a goodly portion of it in good Kansan soil. She bought a wheat ranch near to her mother’s birthplace. A wheat ranch which is bringing her in solid returns. Good earth to which, she says, if her voice should ever fail, if the stock market should finally collapse, banks fail and bonds deflate, or whatever it is they do, she could return. She could grow her own food, have her own rooftree over her head. She never has lived on the ranch to date, but it is there, waiting for her, if she ever should need it. (Continued on page 71) 46 0 Dh a ab aA ts =

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ILL STICK TO ANNOUNCING IF THERE is anything more thrilling, more genuinely One of my most interesting memories gives a bit of a bsorbing and shot through and through with heart- sidelight on our President. The incident occurred when arming human interest than the announcing husiness, Roosevelt was Governor of New York, long before his Id like to know what it is! The behind-the-scenes . name was associated with the Presidency. I was sitting limpses of the panorama of American life as you get it in his study, waiting to put him on the air. A telephone ver the radio, the close-ups we get of Names-That- call came for him and he had it switched to his study. | Make-News, make our game couldn’t help overhearing his the only game in the world for conversation and from his s. In my ten years before the words it became clear to me microphone there are many . that even then he had his Presi- experiences which still stand Why Ford Bond will dential campaign well under out vividly in my mind. way. I remember a talk I had with ° ° While we were sitting there, )Max Baer before his fight with not tra d e h is JO b Mrs. Roosevelt came in. )Braddock. We were at his “Franklin,” she said, ‘“‘we’re jtraining-camp. I knew him going to play hearts tonight.” well Bese had announced for any other one “But I don’t want to play his fights before. hearts,” the Governor replied. ‘Ford,’ Maxie said, “my “T want to read tonight.” thands are bad. They won't “Now, Franklin, we’re going stand a blow.” to play hearts.” I looked at his hands. They B y Ford Bond “But I have some reading to were so swollen he had to wear catch up on. I have a new book Wrubber sponges over the tape. [ want to investigate tonight.” “How can you fight ? You're Mrs. Roosevelt sat down for Pcrazy to go into it!” a few moments, without saying anything. Then, rising » “Oh, they’ll go down,” he said, hopefully. “The doc to leave the room, she left an irrefutable statement. "looked at them yesterday and said they would be all right. “We'll play hearts tonight, Franklin.” Ti just keep sinking them into Braddock’s belly until The Governor grumbled to himself, then turned to me I’m ready to swing a hard one.’ with his famous smile and said: “Oh, all right. . .. What’s f} The night of the fight, I was sitting at the ringside. the announcement?” Graham and I were announcing for NBC. During the A man can be governor, president, or a king, I ®fourth round, Maxie led with his right to Braddock’s thought, but, if he’s Sraeticd: he takes his orders like the ) head. Nothing happened. He looked down at me and _ rest of us! iT could read his thoughts plainly. In the fifth round, he As I look in retrospect through the years, there is a led a hard one with his left and still nothing happened. poignant moment, a remembrance of a tragic voice over /He looked down at me again. This time there was such a telephone, that always will haunt me. It was the voice awtful despair in his glance that I knew everything was of Colonel Lindbergh. I was in charge of the announcers’ ‘over. And it was over. desk for NBC the night that the (Continued on page 79) Ford Bond chats with Patti Pickens, orchestra leader Ruby Newman and Jane Pickens, atthe Rainbow Grill.

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rIFL KNOWS THE a How to be happy though married! Let Fifi D'Orsay tell you By Miriam Gibson “I BLAME ze women for divorce!” _ This sweeping statement is: made by the scintillating Fifi D’Orsay, star of Fohes de Paree program. Whether or not women agree, we must admit, after hearing Fifi’s beliefs, there is much to be learned about “holding your man.” 7 “Tt is easy enough to get a man you love, but to keep him happy—ah, that is different!” Her bright eyes sparkle and wink, as if they knew that secret. On September 6th, 1933, in Hollywood, Fifi D’Orsay became the wife of Dr. Maurice E. Hill of Chicago. True, two and a half years is not a lengthy marriage but that time is long enough to learn much about a husband. And she has the viewpoint so instinctive to the French woman—that of making love the all-im- portant thing in her life and keeping her husband happy. We were having tea—Fifi, her sister Alyce, who is as blonde as Fifi is brunette, and myself. Fifi had had no breakfast or lunch and for tea she had scrambled eggs with coffee—no fancy dishes, “for I must keep my figure.” This from Fifi, whose figure is the dream of all coutou- riéres! “When you marry it is more important than ever to take care of your appearance. I nevaire go to bed without taking off all my make-up. I use lots of creams and—how you say—lotions. My Maurice wants me to look nice. And you must not get fat. Of course, when women get older, they get a little big,” and her ever-moving hands illustrated her meaning. “But you must not get fat! “And nevaire be jealous.” .She shook her head. Her eyes flashed. Her hands waved.. Fifi believes this to be _ it anyway, SO maybe he have a little fun. the root of all evil. “If a man love you, he does not want any o woman. When your husband come home, must not ask him where he has been. If he tired, mother him and wait until he tells wh ; Neveled think he laiteces i very gold bine: Chaitibe di is very ng— shot to prove to me she was right)—I see w turn and look at him. I like that. It makes feel—how you say—proud. And I lean over t him and ane ‘Darrling, I theenk someone to take home my papa!’ But it is keeding. knows I am not jealous. It makes him f good. It makes him know that I am glad to ha a husband other women notice. I am not j I know what I have. And he knows what have. “T am not beautiful like Loretta Young, but have something he fall in love with—somethi love me for every day,” and she winked and laug “You know what I mean, eh? “Some women, they say, ‘Do not look at that blon If you look at her again, I’ll knock your block off That is no way to talk to a man. Maybe he was looking at anyone, but then he think hay get blamed f hen your husband go away, or you go eA f your husband, do not say: ‘Be true to me, not go out with some other woman.’ Non, no ‘I know you love me, darling, and I shall miss Fie ‘ Fifi believes that a woman (Gontinued on page 6

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Rosita Moreno in “House oF A THousAND CANDLES,” a Repustic Picture ATTRACTIVE! EN find her “doubly attractive” since she learned the secret of lovely, fas- cinating eyes. And it’s the same story over and over again whenever a girl first learns how easy it is to have long, lovely lashes. You, too, can have that fascinating love- liness that invites romance, if you bring out the natural beauty and charm of your eyes with Winx Mascara. It works won- ders. Just a touch of Winx to your lashes and instantly they appear darker, longer and more lustrous . . . your eyes sparkle ... your whole appearance seems improved. Try Winx today and see for yourself why so many smart, well-groomed women use Winx regularly for both daytime and eve- ning make-up. You will particularly like the way its emollient oils keep your lashes luxuriantly soft and natural-looking at all times. Winx Mascara is offered in four colors— black, brown, blue, and green—and in three convenient forms—the new Creamy Winx (which is gaining in popularity every day), and the old favorites, Cake Winx and Liquid Winx. All are harmless, smudge-proof, water-proof, non-smarting, and easy to apply. Your local drug and department stores carry Winx Mascara in the economical large size. You can also obtain the com- plete line of Winx Eye Beautifiers in [n- troductory Sizes at all 10¢ stores. RADIO STARS The Radio Hostess (Continued from page 15) walls, crystal chandelier, Venetian blinds and heavy drapes. The library also is panelled but here the atmosphere of play predominates with the game table set up at all times, waiting for friendly bouts of bridge, checkers or monopoly. Here also is the radio—a huge radio—victrola com- bination console. The walls of this room are lined with shelf after shelf of books while comfortable couches and easy chairs beckon invitingly. The entrance hall of this three-story penthouse, twenty-six flights above the street, has a sweeping circular staircase leading to the family living quarters im- mediately above and to the complete office which Eddie maintains above those. Down these stairs and through this hall, at vari- ous intervals, appeared and disappeared the many members of Mr. Cantor’s large “supporting cast,” consisting of Mrs. Can- tor and several of Eddie’s daughters who turned up at opportune moments to play the victrola, light cigarettes, answer tele- phones and greet guests. Several other characters also made short appearances before going “off stage” into one of the innumerable other rooms of the apartment. Some of these people I recog- nized, or was introduced to, as the musical director of the Pebeco program, a come- dienne in the show, Mr. Cantor’s secre- tary, his accompanist. Then there was a silent and mysterious gentleman who may have been a sponsor (you never can tell about sponsors! Away from the studios they have no. distinguishing marks!) People talked, music was played, phones rang—while Eddie by common consent held the centre of the stage. Then sud- denly, in the midst of all this hubbub, this little fellow with his round eyes, keen mind and grand sense of humor, decided upon a complete change of scene, mood and tempo. At once, as though picking up their cues, the radio group retired into the living-room to rehearse, the members of the family scattered to continue their own pursuits, the telephone miraculously stopped ringing and the actual interview for which I had come, was on! Appropriately enough Eddie led the way to the dining-room to talk about the fami- ly’s favorite dishes, while he ate a late breakfast and his wife Ida and I kept him company and constituted ourselves an amused and interested audience of two. It was probably quite the smallest audience that Mr. Cantor had played to in some time, but certainly a most appreciative one. For Ida very obviously still finds Eddie amusing, which is high praise in- deed from a wife who has been married to a comedian for twenty-two years! While I was delighted to find that all I had to do, after directing the conversation into food channels, was to sit back and take notes. All the Cantors, I soon discovered, love to eat. And Eddie was perfectly willing to be their spokesman for the benefit of the readers of Rapio STARS. “Everyone in our family looks forward to meal time . . . by that I mean dinner,” declared Eddie with emphasis. “Breakfast and lunch are pretty haphazard as to the hour and the number of people who will eat together, because we all have different plans, appointments and schedules. How- ever the servants are used to that and are prepared to serve breakfast or lunch at any old time at all, without kick or com- ment. But with dinner, it’s different. That’s an event—a special occasion which every member of the family anticipates with the greatest pleasure. “Oh boy! We're going to eat in a minute, is our attitude. Actually we are more concerned with the spirit of fun and with the prospects of the laughs we'll have at the table than with the food. “You know,” Eddie went on, quite seri- ously, “if you’re unhappy at meal time, not even the finest wines or the greatest delicacies of a master chef will do you the least bit of good. You'd be far better off with a slice of rye bread and an onion if they were well seasoned with laughter! “Yes, there’s one thing we never serve on our menus—and that’s a grouch,”’ Eddie continued, while Mrs. Cantor nodded in agreement. “Most people, I find,’ declared .Eddie sagely, “eat only because they have to, not because they want to. And far too many folks look upon the dinner table as an open battlefield where family fights can come out into the open for an unpleasant airing. In our family, however, we seem to get together for dinner with as keen an appetite for the laughs we know we will have as for the foods that will be served. We never sit down at the table with less than seven present and generally there are) twelve or more! We all joke a lot, tal a lot and eat plenty! Not fancy foods, mind you. Elaborate dishes have no pla on our menus. “In the first place, I have to be ve careful of my diet when I am broadcast ing. People who work at great tensio have to reduce their risks. I can’t tak any chances on jeopardizing my programs by not feeling fit; or worse still by bei downright sick. Indigestion wouldn’t just an unfortunate happening with me— it would be downright tragic! I have @ sponsor to whom I feel I owe the duty of being at my best for his broadcast—whiek is my broadcast because he has bought th time on the air so that an audience car hear me. The members of that audiencé (and I believe that I’m not boasting it saying that it’s a very large one) tune if to hear a good show and it’s up to me no to disappoint them. So Mrs. Cantor iv structs the cook to serve plain foods wit! simple seasonings. Brown, appetizi roasts, plenty of fresh vegetables, mea balls, of which I am very fond, and des serts that are not too rich. At this tim of year we eat sweets that feature fresl fruits, especially strawberries. As a mat ter of fact we have strawberries all th year around. If we can’t get them wher we happen to be, then we order them sen on to us by air express. (Continued on page 54)

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100% | om ec the day of their birth, “Lysol” has been the only disinfectant used y The very first registered nurse who _. reached the Dionne home, that exciting iw birthday morning in May 1934, had ‘i “Lysol” with her in her kit and went ,; to work with it at once. ce “Lysol” has been used in thousands , jand thousands of childbirth opera- * \tions. For the danger of Infection is high in childbirth; and doctors and ~ ‘nurses know they need a safe, depend- ln ae NEW!...LYSOL HYGIENIC SOAP ist |...for hands, complexion, bath. A fine, ( firm, white soap, with the added de- ;j@ lodorant property of “Lysol.” Protects ; al longer against body odors, without i! after-odor. Washes away germs and il” \perspiration odors. Try a cake, today! i RADIO STARS bp HALEY BUR TTDA SE ° 5: able germicide like “Lysol” to help protect both mother and child. But here is a record for “Lysol” of extraordinary importance. Following the most dramatic childbirth in medi- cal history... in the care of the most watched-over babies in the world... “Lysol” has played, and still plays, a vitally important part. Their clothes, bedding, diapers, cribs, even their toys, the furniture and woodwork of that snug, modern, little Dafoe Hospital... all have been kept clean with “Lysol,” the effective, economical germicide. Disinfectant Photograph copyrighted by NEA Service Inc. ive... Going on Three’ The DIONNE QUINTUPLETS, now safely through their second year Are you giving your baby this scien- tific care? Are you using “Lysol” to clean the nursery, bathroom, the kitchen, laundry, cellar...to disinfect clothes, bedding, telephone mouth- pieces, door knobs, banisters, etc.? The scientific care given to the Dionnes is an example every mother should follow. Full directions for correct uses of “Lysol” come with each bottle. e . . During last winter’s flood disasters, thousands of gallons of “Lysol” were rushed to devas- tated areas, to fight Infection and epidemics. Doctors, hospitals, and Public Health offi- cers know they can depend on “Lysol”. FREE! “Protecting the Dionnes” — the story, with pictures, of their scientific care On the occasion of their birthday, these famous babies have a gift for you! A free book telling their life-story, and how “‘Lysol’’ has helped pro- tect them... full of fascinating facts and photos. Send name and address on a complete “Lysol” carton (any size) to— LEHN & FINK Propucts Corr., Bloomfield, N. J., Dept. RS-7. Sole Distributors of ‘‘Lysol’’ disinfectant. © 1936 Lehn & Fink, Inc. 53

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NASTY GERMS SCARE ME- MOTHER | Bing wae — || want ANTISEPTIC Powder cause it chases Germs away for good. “You ask—why do [ want that Mennen owder that’s Antiseptic? ‘Cause—with a world full of nasty germs, of microbes and such things—a feller who wants to be healthy just can’t be too careful. I know that Mennen Antiseptic Powder scares erms away—chases ‘em out of skin olds and creases where they love to hide Not only that—but it helps prevent most of the skin irritations babies get. Just im agine! No more chafing or rawness! So listen, Mummy—do me just one favor, will you? Buy me some of that Mennen Anti septic Powder today. I'll be an awfully good feller from then on. Sure I willl” America’s first baby powder ss now Ants septic. But it doesn't cost a penny more How foolish to use any other! MENNEN POWDER 54 RADIO STARS The Radio Hostess (Continued from page 52) “Desserts, with our family, supply an element of surprise to a meal that gives it added zest. ‘What do you suppose it’s going to be?’ little Janet will ask as the table is being cleared. ‘Strawberry-Nut Shortcake,’ someone will hazard a guess. ‘Nope, I saw the grocery boy bringing in blueberries,’ another will declare. ‘The ice-box was full of cream,’ a young food- spy will announce. Then when the dessert is brought in, it is greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm—according to the number whose first favorite that particular dessert happens to be. Watching their faces around our long table is a picture I never tire of. “Our cook is Hungarian and we have had her for such a number of years that she knows what we like and how we like it prepared. That’s one reason why we all eat home out of preference. As a mat- ter of fact I could count on my fingers the number of times we've eaten out since we came back from the coast. We also enter- tain extensively but our cook came to us from a small hotel so that when there are a mere twelve or fourteen for dinner it’s still a ‘pipe’ to her—when there are only seven at the table, it’s a lark! Remember that never a day passes without at least thirty-six meals being served in our house, since there are seven in family and five in help to be fed three times a day! Even so, I can’t remember when we have had to change help. That is because Mrs. Cantor warns the servants before taking them into our employ that we not only have a large family but lots of company. Then, too, we take a personal interest in the problems of those who work for us and Ida has a real motherly attitude towards them.” And Eddie fairly beamed on her as he said it. “Another thing that Mrs. Cantor in- | structs the cook to do is to keep the re- frigerator well supplied with such things as cheese, peanut butter, eggs, sturgeon and various sandwich . makings, we all of us like to raid the ice-box, par- ticularly late at night when we come back to the house from a broadcast, rehearsal or theatre party with a flock of guests in tow. Yes, we get a lot of fun out of eat- ing—anyone can, providing they come to the table with a smile and a resolve not to permit the day’s disappointments and the morrow’s problems to creep into the con- — versation at dinner time.” Having delivered himself of those ideas, between bites of a very simple breakfast, Eddie retired from the picture in order to give me a chance to get the family recipes — from Mrs. Cantor and the Cantor cook. However, I confined myself to securing a promise from Ida that she would send me recipes for several of their favorite dishes. In a few days they arrived by messenger and I found to my joy that they included directions for making several seasonal berry desserts—the sort of sweets sure to cause you to add your cheers to the Can- tors’ praises. deliciousness. They its beauty! You'll be surprised and de- lighted to discover how _ beautifully chopped nuts blend with the flavor of the berries and what’s more you'll vote the cake recipe quite the simplest ever. Make it—as does the Cantor cook—in a round ring-mold pan (the kind you can buy in any chain store) turn it on to a platter and fill the center with berries. And pass sweetened whipped cream separately. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Cantor enjoy a snack together in their spacious dining-room with its formal paneled walls and crystal chandelier. because I’m confident that this will” be the case because I’ve tested’ them all — out myself and I’m 100% sold on their — include the Straw- berry-Nut Shortcake, mentioned as being — Janet’s favorite treat, and which I have — had pictured for you in the full flush of © BRaaaegk aewya wa =.: , 2s = ee a _ —

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Everybody loves to eat, at Eddie's house—and Eddie isn't above trying his hand at cooking on occasions! Raspberry Bavarian Cream is another . smooth sweet recommended by the Can- _. tors. Chilled in individual molds and , served with a topping of whipped cream and whole berries, it is a real treat. Blueberries are one of the finest fruits | of the hot season, and served in a Ktichen A | they take on new charms—at least, I’ve \,.. found that that was the case after trying 4» | the Cantor Ktchen. Try this recipe with a spoonful of vanilla ice-cream on top of | it for a new 4 la mode dish that merits an ) Al rating. And last but by no means least, we come to a recipe for Fruit Tarts which gives | you specific directions for making the type of Glacé Syrup which chefs in the finest restaurants and hotels turn out but which you will seldom if ever discover on the dinner tables of private homes. I have learned it from Eddie’s cook. I, in turn, wish to pass it on to you. So just send in your coupon for a copy of the favorite recipes of Eddie Cantor and you will learn not only how to make a Glacé Syrup such as any chef might envy but you'll also dis- cover how to make the Cantor Blueberry Kitchen, Raspberry Bavarian Cream and that deevine looking Strawberry-Nut Shortcake. RADIO STARS' Cooking School RADIO STARS Magazine 149 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Please send me this month’s free ° recipes for Eddie Cantor’s favorite - fresh fruit desserts. RADIO STARS ITS THE BEST SPAGHETTI | EVER TASTED -A REGULAR ‘MILLIONAIRES DISH” AND IT COSTS LESS THAN 3% A PORTION. ISN'T THAT GRAND FOR MY BUDGET! / NO WONDER THIS ¢ ‘SPAGH ETT| I$ GOOD, MADAME. WE USE ELEVEN DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS IN THE SAUCE AND LOOK, HOW EASY FOR THESE HOT DAYS ! NO COOKING OR FUSSING. JUST HEAT AND SERVE Let Franco-American help you serve better meals for /ess money | 2 bate husbands call it a “million- aire’s dish,” they find the flavor so zestful and savory, so superbly satisfy- ing. And thrifty wives rejoice to find something “he” likes that’s so easy on their budget, too. And easy on them, as well. Franco- American requires no cooking or fuss- ing, simply heat. It’s no work at all for you. But we've done a lot of work to get it ready for you! To make the sauce we use e/even different ingredients. We blend the luscious goodness of fine, flavorful tomatoes with golden- mellow Cheddar cheese. We add rare MADE BY THE MAKERS spices and seasonings to give piquancy. You couldn’t duplicate spaghetti and sauce like this at home for Franco- American’s modest price of less than 3¢ a portion, when you consider the cost of buying your ingredients plus the cost of cooking them. And many good home cooks frankly say they couldn’t equal the flavor at amy price! Get Franco-American today... You'll soon see why thrifty women are serving it twice a week or oftener, with meat or without. And you'll find it a grand work-saver these summer days. Order from your grocer now! OF CAMPBELL‘’S SOUPS 55

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eye on the sun” de qos death, @ Warcu Old Sol especially during the summer days, because he does things to your eyes—makes them look pale and squinty when you're in glaring light, play- ing on the beach or winning a golf match. That’s why, if you’re smart, you'll outwit him with KurLAsH eye make-up and bring out the natural loveliness of your eyes. First, slip your eyelashes into KurLAsH. It’s a clever little instrument that curls your eyelashes in 30 seconds and requires no heat, cosmetics or practice. KURLASH is really a beauty necessity, for by curling your lashes your eyes look larger and reveal their full beauty. In the sunlight your curled lashes throw flattering, subtle shadows that make your eyes glamourous! Don’t be with- out Kur asu. Buy one today, at your near- est department or drug store, for only $l. @ Lashtint, the perfumed liquid mas- cara, is ideal for swimming days be- cause it doesn’t crack, stiffen, weep or rub off, Apply it while the lashes are being enter, by touching the little glass rod to them as they are held in the rubber bows of your Kurvasn. In black, brown, green and blue... . $1 @ Shadette, the non-theatrical eye shadow, comes in 12 daytime and evening colors, including gold and silver shades that are grand finishing touches, to be applied alone or over your preferred color. Try Shadetleé some romantic, moonlight night... . 75c @ Try Twissors—the new tweezers with scissor-handles, curved to per- mit full vision. They’re marvelously efficient, and only 25c. Kwlashe Write Jane HEATH for advice about eye beauty. Give your coloring for personal beauty plan. Address Dept. MM-7, The Kurlash Company, Rochester, N. Y. The Kurlash Company of Canada, at Toronto, 3. 56 RADIO STARS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? Told by topnotchers of the air in reply to oft-repeated questions from their fans Do you feel that radio acting and singing have created a technique which differs significantly from stage and concert technique? Bing Crosby: “Radio precludes the use of an audience’s best sense . vision. It must present a per- former through hearing alone. Hence a different technique.” + Ireene Wicker: “The artist of the stage and concert must use a tech- nique somewhat on the lines of a painter of murals, and the artist of radio will acquire the technique of a painter of miniatures. The stage actor must employ broad gestures, and project his voice to keep in har- mony with brilliant lighting effects, costumes, free and easy movements, and the vastness of an auditorium filled with people reaching to far- away galleries. The concert singer must project his voice so that it will be heard in the top gallery. But the Two yards of timidity, known as Kenny Baker, tenor of Jack Benny's Jello Again broadcast. Kenny really isn't timid now. He just acts that way! One of radio's youngest band-leaders, Lennie Hayton now conducts for two programs, Ed Wynn's Gulliver, the Traveler and The Flying Red Horse Tavern, starring Beatrice Lillie. radio actor cannot move his body— he has no costume—no_ lights—no scenery—and more often than not, no visible audience. Therefore his broad gestures, his stage setting, even his appearance must somehow be put into his voice. He must men- tally visualize everything as vividly as imagination and emotion will al- low, and he need not speak in tones louder than those he would use in speaking to a friend—or an enemy— in a small room. In other words, everything must be poured into that voice. His painting is miniature, for if he employs natural gestures, facial and body characteristics so helpful in the delineation of a réle, he must confine them to the area of inches— not a vast stage. “Thank you for inviting me to join your interesting discussion. It’s been stimulating to answer the ques- tions because—well—it’s meant crystallizing my opinions on the sub- ject next dearest to me—first my family, then radio.” (Continued on page 64)

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It's No Laughing Matter (Continued from page 32) only member of the cast who appears in every broadcast.” There’s a story in Portland, too—in the way she looks after Fred in their off- mike relationship of husband and wife— ever since they were married back in 1927. To change the subject I said: “Maybe you'd like to tell me about your love-life!” Allen wouldn’t even bite. “I haven't any,” he said. “I have to prepare, every week, fifty pages of script, supposed to be funny. I read five newspapers a day, to pick up items for the Town Hall News, that can be turned into funny items with- out offending anybody—and if you think that’s a cinch, you’re crazy! We men- tioned insurance one night and a couple of days later I got this letter . . .” He handed over a letter from an in- surance man, who took Allen to task for making him lose two prospects who were silly enough to take a purely funny re- mark over the air as a reason for not signing a policy. “One week I picked up an item that we worked into a sketch, showing how mos- quitoes have been killed through the ages. I hope the mosquitoes didn’t object!” It’s an old story, of course, this matter of taboos on the air. “T read all my fan mail,’ he went on, “and answer many letters myself, because it’s sometimes an indication of the way people react to our show. But the fan mail alone takes two full days a week.” “Why?” I offered brightly, “don’t you get some help in writing the show?” “I’ve tried it, several times. I have someone now, in fact, who turns out, from time to time, a sketch or an idea that I can use. But I’ve got to do the actual script job myself.” My guess is that with all Fred Allen’s willingness to be helped, it always will be his show. It’s the only way he can work; his very trick of sounding off, morosely, about how tough it is, is an admission of how personal he makes his work. He not only won’t—he can’t—sit back and let secretaries answer fan mail, or other writ- ers build his show. He’s been a writer of comedy material as long as he’s been a comedian and even now hardly a day goes by without one of his innumerable friends calling up, asking for a gag line for a certain situation, a “tag” for a sketch, a little help on a new act. And with all his grousing about it, Fred invariably obliges. It’s the hard way that Fred Allen takes ; a painstaking effort to put on entertain- ment, that wholly occupies his time and leaves no open spaces for personal ap- pearances or pictures. “You can’t do it all at once,” he says. “I gotta do one thing at a time. I’ve done pieces for the New Yorker and College Humor not so long ago. And I used to do a lot of guest columns for Winchell and other columnists, but I’m not doing RADIO STARS e “Aw—brace up! Picking flowers isn’t such hard work. Show some of the old ginger! I know it’s 95 in the shade today and we’re both sticky as yesterday’s bib... but just keep going and you won’t no- tice the heat!”’ e “Come on—stop chewing petals and get busy! Imagine finding flowers on the living-room floor— we'll pick the loveliest bou- quet for Mother! We'll tear off all these old leaves and break the stems good and short...” e “Say—wait amin- ute! Your shoul- der’s prickly and red! Nope—kissing doesn’t make it well... We'd better ask Mother to give us a sprinkle of Johnson’s Baby Powder. That soft, downy powder'll make a new baby of you!”’ “Pm Johnson’s Baby Powder...your baby’s friend every day, but most of all when the weather’s hot and sticky! Prickly heat and chafes and rashes stay away when I’m on guard. I’m soft as satin, for ’m made of the very finest Italian talc. And no orris- root. I hope you use Johnson’s Baby Soap and Cream, too—and Johnson’s Oil for tiny babies!” 57

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Sliia hampio| SWIMMER... the XINTS ia Many hours spent in harsh water fails to detract from the gem-like loveliness of her finger- tips — yet it took but five minutes to achieve this lasting perfection with F-O Manicure Preparations. Women everywhere are partial to F-O polish because it does not peel or chip and its lovely lustre is a source of constant satisfac- tion. A variety of heavenly colors of creme or transparent polish provides a shade for every occa- sion. Then, too, you'll find F-O Oily Polish Remover a boon fo brittle nails. Try the Five- Minute F-O Self Manicure today. @F-O manicure prep- arations in liberal 10c packages at all ten-cent stores. FORT ORANGE CHEMICA 58 CO., ALBANY, N.Y | the control | home to wait... RADIO STARS any outside writing any more. I’ve sold to shows a few sketches we did on the air, but most of the time you write it—do it— and it’s gone. Radio is like tattooing the wing of a butterfly!” Maybe by this time you’ve gathered that Fred Allen is not complaining about his job at all! It’s about himself—for being so wholly wrapped up in his job. And it’s been that way ever since he first started in radio. You know, of course, that he started his career by studying a book on juggling while he was working in the Boston Public Library. That he entered innumerable amateur contests, invariably losing, and finally went into vaudeville as Fred James, changed his name to Fred Allen so the booking office wouldn’t hold him down to his old salary and eventually became comedy star of many musicals, among them the hits, The Little Show, and Three’s a Crowd. When radio was still rather new he au- ditioned a few times . . . but let him tell it: “Stoop and Budd were among the few radio comedians then,” he says. “The Funnyboners, The Happiness Boys—were all going strong. There was a fellow in one of the agencies I used to get a call from every time he had a_ prospective sponsor for a comedy show. The first audition I gave went fine. They put me in a studio room, alone in front of the mike and I talked a blue streak to the cold mike for ten minutes. When it was over man came out, said it was swell, shook hands with me and I went and nothing happened. “After awhile I got another call. ‘I’ve got a pen manufacturer,’ the fellow said. ‘We want you to come over and audition again. So I went over to the studio, talked to the microphone again for ten minutes, shook hands with the control man and went home and waited again. Still nothing happened. After this same routine was repeated a few times I wrote up a ten-minute monologue to be ready for more calls.” Fred spoke with his char- acteristic small-town drawl, and chuckled a little. “After awhile I got used to it. When Three’s A Crowd closed, weren't any shows that looked good. My agency man had another account then, looking for a radio show. So we made a recording of the program—the sponsor was too busy even to come and hear it. When they played the record for the sponsor, in his office, the phonograph broke down in the middle and he never heard the balance of the program. He didn’t think much of it, anyway, but he said he thought the man with the flat voice was funny!” Fred Allen chuckled heartily at that. “The guy had never heard of me at all—in case I thought I was famous! “They wanted to know if I could write the show, regularly. So every week, for four weeks, I wrote a new script and brought it into the office—before the show there was ever on the air.” “Just to prove,” I asked, “that you could write it?” “Sure. I’d bring in the script. They’d all sit around and read the script and look at each other solemnly. Then they'd all look at me. I’d go home and write another script. “After a month they hired a fellow to collaborate with me and before we knew The idea was that radio and would it we were on the air. my collaborator knew help on the radio angle. “He would meet me, to work on the script. It would go something like this: “He'd light a cigar and puff furiously until the air in the room was unbreathable. We'd have a sheet of paper, and he’d say: ‘We'll open up with some musical num- ber’ and he’d draw a straight line across the paper. ‘Then an announcement * another straight line, ‘and a vocal selection .. .’ another straight line. ‘Then you come on for about five minutes of good, fast comedy ... in about here. . .’ A lot of straight lines across the paper. ‘Then we'll spot the commercial announce- ment—or maybe another band number first More lines. It would go on that way for maybe an hour or so. Then he’d jump up, pat me on the back and say: ‘Well, we've got that all straightened out, and leave me with a room full of smoke and a paper full of pencil lines, and nothing to do but write the script! “One week he made circles ... sore!” For six months Allen used the radio as a proving ground. “I figured that radio didn’t want outworn vaudeville stuff . . it wouldn’t hold out. So we tried to develop material aimed primarily at the air audience—stuff to fit the medium. I’m still working, so I guess the theory was all right. But it’s tough, just the same. Every Wednesday night is like a new first- night opening in the theatre!” : Fred admits to being always a bit nervous, between delivering his comedy in his easy, natural style, keeping an eye on the clock and worrying about the second half of the show—where there is no script to work from. He doesn’t have any per- sonal hand in auditioning the amateurs and the remarks he makes while introduc- ing them are really impromptu. Huis pro- gram is one of the few that functions as a self-contained unit, being brought into the studio intact; Allen is completely in charge, though naturally suggestions from his agency are not ignored. It does avoid the too common “sponsor trouble.” He finds that everybody works easier on the second—the “repeat’’—broadcast, three hours later. And the same amateurs do not always win the second time, since there is a different studio audience. Everybody in the show seems to get along fine with him and have a lot of fun doing it. In the first rehearsal the script is half again as long as the finished product, before final cuts and changes are made—which Allen does after rehearsal. and I got He has bland blue eyes, the same man- ner of talking you hear over the micro- phone. His nationality—but probably you know he was born John F. Sullivan. He slides his index finger along his nose as he works, in a habitual, subconscious ges- ture, and he laughs at others’ gags. The first time Jack Smart—the man of a thou- sand voices—appeared on Fred’s_ show, Allen broke up with laughter over Smart’s Scotch dialect. As I was about to leave something flick- ered in the air near him. He made a quick sweep of the hand and looked at the insect he had captured. “Tt’s a moth,” he drawled. “No—it’s a miller, I guess. If it’s a Joe Miller I'll use it in my next broadcast!” :

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RADIO STARS Ambassador of os EVERYBODY Good Will and =X “4 SAYS HE NEGLECTS Melody Oh -} HER, BUT... (Continued from page 41) len teed > af .» PERSONALLY, | THINK IT'S HEAVENS, THEY'RE ; : : , : ; HER FAULT. HER BREATH Is—4 TALKING ABOUT ME! shining black hair parted in the middle a — Mes A WELL,SHE OUGHT TO SEE Wi) Pp ~=s COULD THAT BE and faultlessly groomed and our Mr. | a - ” HER DENTIST! Vi | wuy JerRYs stayine }} Noble, nonchalant, debonair and smiling. tat i wot | to Age AWAY FROM HOME {ff Our attention was focussed on Ray —_— on = J| | SO MUCH LATELY... Noble, who both opened and closed the ’ ; ay 'dance-orchestral program with his inter- pretation of Irving Berlin’s fascinating /new music, that never before had been heard on the air. Noble came into the glass enclosure to listen to his boys and get the balance; iving his instructions through the a Be ofocinecied with “they studio ‘be- -MRS.LANE SEES HER DENTIST MY MOUTH FEELS FRESHER yond the glass walls. He gave the sig- BAD aReaae EXACTLY! MOST BAD BREATH IS DUE AND CrEANES nal and they went over a few bars: “Too COMES TO DECAYING FOOD PARTICLES ALREADY! much brass down front!” he called out, FROM TEETH? IN THE CREVICES BETWEEN THE before they had gone through ten sec- */| TEETH. | ADVISE COLGATE DENTAL , onds. “Try again, boys, will you, please?” hes CREAM. ITS SPECIAL vs. Then, to several of the incoming audi- : PENETRATING FOAM nm ence: “Kindly refrain from moving those 7 we REMOVES ODOR-BREEDING «Chairs about—there’s a good people!” he & a fe DEPOSITS. ' said, smiling. Presently Ray emerges at ‘a i drom the glass house and pats his singing : .) trio on the shoulders. ‘‘Rather nice, that,” he compliments them. ond | There is a five-minute breathing spell tit before we shall be on the air, so we join > we ae : I'M HOME EARLY, DEAR! mt the leaders and the technical staff in a THOUGHT I'D TAKE MY BEST SHE ACCEPTS NO OTHER ui | last-minute smoke in the little vestibule. A: WITH PLEASURE, } li | The red warning signal flashes and we ‘ : DARLING! : TOOTHPASTE hurry inside our special loge. : ; Ss 4+) We are on the air! The chief techni- ; @ ig = EVER MADE MY ii? ian stands by, watching, listening anx- Se \ : KT | jously. The time-checker stands up and - a cy A 00 } TEETH SO BRIGHT rom ; 7 P| ie ey : ~ 4 é "gives the signal for each section of the Ce a yA yw DY AB : i broadcast, setting it down on paper. Mil- / \ y} A ’, és ~ AND CLEAN! ton Cross, the announcer, begins the “com- ee 9 es fF? 4 ¢0 y Pie ‘il mercial” talk of introduction, the chief oe it operator seated before banks of dials like a pipe organ manual, his eye always on it the needle indicating the volume and bal- e i) |ance of sound. A huge loud-speaker is Most Bad Breath Begins e with the Teeth! wi) at our side, otherwise we might as well be in Omaha, for no sound can otherwise ie get into or out of the little room. Tann- EADING dental authorities are agreed: “‘Most bad | hauser is played by the symphony orches- breath is caused by improperly cleaned teeth!” il tra, Frank Black conducting. The Yale P Ae : : Bei snes and files out. Our Ra Decaying food deposits, in hidden crevices be- antl Noble j ag : ~@Y | tween the teeth, are by far the most common source ui | Noble is announced. Applause. He rises £ this soem ae inna es aaies i | and walks out front. S ag eee ry Cay. 7 : E : : Colgate Dental Cream has a special penetrating He gives the audience a side glance with | {9am which thoroughly cleans each hidden crevice; a twinkle in his eye. There is whispering | and a soft grit-free ingredient which safely polishes i*@eeeeene audience. They can’t believe it.| the enamel... makes smiles sparkle. * | “This young boy—Ray Noble?” But he “thas clicked already; they like him. He ‘ }does his bit. He conducts almost solely ‘with his fingers and his face. He scarcely * extends his arms at all. He crooks his little finger and the music takes an unex- fic’ | pected turn. He raises a finger as though de 2 , warning and the brasses fade out. He 20¢ (i leans forward making a “moo” of the /mouth and the clarinet lifts its plaintive LARGE SIZE (si | Voice above the other instruments. A shift as ue ne ue |of his hands and the flute shrills out in an fee cae Ree jamazing effect. The trio steps forward 35¢ and he raises his fingers like a broker = Ext So brush your teeth, gums, tongue with Colgate’s at least twice daily. If you are not entirely satisfied, send the empty tube to COLGATE, Jersey City, N. J. We will refund TWICE what you paid.

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DRESS SHIELDS Kleinerti j \ j pee a AS ADVERTISED THEREIN 60 RADIO STARS bidding on the stock market and the whole composition blends. The broadcast over, we go downstairs to the drugstore lunch of Radio City and sit down at a marble-topped table with Ray chafing everybody. For the moment, we go British and join Ray with a “spot” of tea. “How did you get this way?” we ask, after we have finally succeeded in shooing away all the people who want to sit and © talk to Ray. “Curious thing, in London, y'know, a program involves doing light music selec- tions, novelties, light opera. There is a house staff that goes under all sorts of names. But persons like to have a handle to their name, don’t they? So, I said, “Look here, why not put my name to it?” The Victor people had already decided that the concerts were worthy of records. From then on, I began to receive fan mail. Well, at any rate, there began to be in- quiries from this side of the water. I’ve been here eighteen months; one year consecutively on the air. I’ve brought over three of my original band. I spent three weeks in collecting a new _ out- fit. My first band I threw out—you know? We finally got a complete orches- tra together—which is the same you hear on the Coca Cola Hour and at the Rain- bow Room, Radio City.” When we ask him if he would now like to spend all his time in America, he hesi- tates politely, and then says: “Well, you see, it’s this way—lI’d like to spend half my time over here—six months over here and six months over there. I’m strictly a family man—wife, relatives, and all that sort of thing, y’ know. The English are a conservative people, y’know? Tendency over there, on the air, is to educate rather than to entertain, as we are doing over here. That’s one of the reasons I’m over | here; I love to entertain an audience. I never had my band do anything heavier than Johann Strauss, Offenbach and that sort of thing. Never actually made a personal appearance on the other side, ex- | cept once I went to Holland with my play- | ers over a holiday. Now my band and I are going out to make personal appear- ances and fill engagements on a_ well- scheduled tour through Canada and the States. That means laying off the Rain- bow Room for a few months, but we have contracted to return in the fall. My programs on the air will go running along, of course. | “How did I become—this—?” He spread his hands, including with a smile the Ray Noble band family that was sit- ting around at tables. “Well, really—I began, you might say, at Dulwich College. Not a university, y'know. I never got any further. Leslie Howard and P. G. Wodehouse were Dulwich boys. A bit older than I am. I decided to become a journalist right off. I was pretty good at composition. My father was a doctor, but he had done something of the sort on the side—How To Keep Warm In Winter, How To Breathe In A Fog. Id been writing articles myself, but they all came back. So with all my literary talent and heritage, trembling in every limb, I an- swered an advertisement of a firm that was getting out an encyclopedia. ‘What can you do?’ they asked. ‘Oh, a bit of Ger- 2 ot tacos man, French and correct English, [ boasted. ‘Tell me, can you speak Bul- garian?’ the chap asked. ‘We're doing rather a long piece on Bulgaria, and need someone who speaks the language.’” P S. He did not get the job. “You see, I had been trained privately for serious music—strictly serious com- position. Even as a child of six, I did a fair sort of a job on the piano. I wrote my first song at ten. Later I produced the shows at school and wrote the musical pieces for them. I tried for a degree in music but always broke out in a cold sweat and got nowhere in my examina- tion. Then I would cut school and go to see the Darby on a bike. “Father and I figured there was nothing in music, however, so a career in com- merce was planned out for me. I learned shorthand and bookkeeping. I got a job, but the damned books never came out™ right, so I thought best to throw the whole thing up. “I taught myself broadcasting, drawing) on my experience in making many records for the Victor people. So much lies in the arrangement and I am one of the fools’ who spends too much time orchestrating for my own band. The result is that I have only written one song in a year: [f You Love Me. I’ve had marvelous reac tion from all the other men in the busi- ness, who are all putting it in their pro- grams. If it doesn’t go, it is my fault.” It isn’t quite the whole story. There is one other chapter, and that we shal skim through briefly in a visit in New York’s smartest dinner and night clu locale, the Rainbow Room, on the 65t floor of the NBC Building in Radio City. Amidst a faultlessly groomed group of a couple of hundred persons clad in eve- ning clothes, we alternately eat and gaze out of the windows down upon one of the most gorgeous spectacles ever behel —the Metropolis nearly a thousand feet below traced like an arabesque pattern with a million dazzling and blinking lights— Central Park, the bridges across the Eas River, the George Washington Bridge uf the Hudson, the streets of all the five Boroughs and finally, nearby, the talles# building in the world, the Empire State like a lantern in the sky. Ray Noble’ own song, Why Stars Come Out Al Night, which he wrote for Paramount’ Big Broadcast of 1936 and in which hé and his orchestra were featured, came td my mind. By the Fireside, It's All For: gotten Now and The Very Thought 6) You, all hits in the United States as wel as abroad, sang and danced through our heads before we realized that it was Ray’ own orchestra directed by him, on a dais above the great circular floor. It was the same old Ray Noble, of th studio and of the drugstore. He hae come in unostentatiously and stood beforé his band, directing as though it were five-finger exercise. Occasionally he mounted the stool of the piano and lh them, playing with a virtuoso touch. H mingled with the guests, he walked about he smiled, he sat down at a table. Thi band played on; sometimes without hi But everybody in the room was consciou of his presence. He smiled and the smiled. A number of them called out “Hello, Ray!” Yes, Ray Noble is a personality. regular fellow. And

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Pr ctl tion por Guecess rin (Continued from page 37) @ pretty compliments around for the fun of ‘it. Especially when they are paying for - something. {7 “They were used to good music at the ‘smart clubs and hotels where they danced i and they wanted good music for their vw own dances. They weren’t paying for um amateurs and if we wanted to keep on we 1) had to become professionals.” e@) Eddy Duchin learned a lot about rhythm and tempo in those days. And little by little, without even being con- scious of it himself, his playing changed. wn) Became smoother. More polished. De- is veloped the flair of a professional per- {/ formance. '| That year, it was in nineteen twenty- ‘eight and Eddy was in his junior year at » college, he was auditioned by Leo Reis- man in the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel. -) He went back to school—and then came tf opportunity! Reisman wanted him to be fai Qis pianist for his engagement at the Cen- Taeeral Park Casino. > | It was a flattering offer. The opening \\) bf the Casino and Reisman’s orchestra nad created a terrific stir in New York. And here was a college boy getting a thance which musicians with years of ex- yerience would have jumped at. But Eddy Duchin didn’t let it go to his nead. He joined Reisman’s orchestra for ree months and at the end of that time rf he went back to college and completed his course. Young as he was he knew a rocket could come down as quickly as it could shoot up. And he was determined hat a brief experience in a musical career, the thing he wanted above everything else nm the world, wasn’t going to leave him ,) Dut on a limb. So his degree of Graduate Pharmacist decame his ace in the hole, his umbrella , or the proverbial rainy day. And have ‘ou ever noticed that when you're all pre- pared for a rainy day with galoshes and ‘ain coat and umbrella, it never comes? Armed with the confidence brought by hat Pharmaceutical degree, Eddie went yack to Reisman and the Casino. The voungster with eager eyes and a wide smile and the amazing talent that had made him tops, became the rage that year. overs danced to his music and his rhythm , pecame a part of their emotion. Musicians i” lame to hear him. The great Rachmaninoff nimself nodded his approval. Middle-aged “™“ ‘ouples relived the ecstasy of their court- ng days and even the old awoke to dream igain. | That was the year the Park Avenue ‘rowd went Eddy Duchin in a great big way. He played at their cocktail parties ind gave piano lessons and his charm, tl” \dded to his playing, made him one of nn pat inner circle. | One of his first piano pupils was Mar- orie Oelrichs. An amazing girl, Marjorie. Not just any débutante with a family tree pehind her, but one of the two or three jociety girls who are personalities. One ; It i Ce e 0 | RADIO STARS That panicky doubt—that fear of em- barrassment—what woman hasn’t known it? Would you like to banish it forever? Then try Modess—the new and different sanitary pad. J?’s certain-safe! Invisible! You can always be confident—with certain-safe Modess. It stays safe—no striking through— as with many ordinary reversible pads. Notice specially treated material on sides and back. It stays soft—no chafing—the edges remain dry. Wear é/ue line on moisture proof side away from body for complete protection. 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 61

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BAI SAMS DIXVILLE NOTCH, NH. The Switzerland of America In the White Mountains... Here is everything to make vacation happiness com- plete. 4600 acre estate on Lake Gloriette. Golf on 18 hole championship course, swimming, canoeing, tennis, archery, dancing, riding, bowling, movies, shooting. No Hay Fever. $6 a day including meals. Select rooms for 500. Rates from clientele. Fireproof New York Office, 500 Fifth Ave. Phone PEnn. 6-8218 FRANK DOUDERA, President Largest Hotel Estate in the White Mts. 62 RADIO STARS of the glamorous, exciting ones, who al- ways make copy and have almost as many fans as a movie star. It says a lot for Eddy Duchin that a girl like Marjorie Oelrichs became his friend. And from the beginning everything that happened to him had to be told to her before any one else. Things were moving fast for Duchin. Before another year was over he had or- ganized his own band. Shortly after that he was on the radio. His was no meteoric flash. With every year that went on he was so much farther along the road to success. Then came the country-wide tour for Texaco, with broadcasts in the principal cities. He started something on that tour. Ambitious boys and girls, with their own dreams of careers, were auditioned and the most promising appeared on his pro- grams. One boy and one girl were chosen from each city and out of the thirty sing- ers who got their first chance with him, twenty-two have really made good and are professional entertainers today. Kenny Baker was one of them. “T like to think I had something to do with their success,’ Duchin stooped over to pat Kiltie, the little Scotch terrier, whose first dour yelps over the disturbing of his routine subsided in a sigh of con- tentment. “The little bit another person can do, I mean. A first chance is im- portant, of course. Awfully important. But the rest of it is something you can only give yourself. “The amateur has come into the lime- light these days. He's given a chance such as he never had before. Awards and engagements at theatres and things like that. I’d like to talk to those boys and girls, for there’s a danger to them in all this. They are appearing in theatres and on the radio as amateurs now. They are getting a glimpse of an exciting, glamor- ous existence that is new and strange. But they can’t remain amateurs forever. “Some of them never will make the grade between being an amateur and be- coming a professional. And a lot of these boys and girls will go back to their old lives and the unexciting routine of work they thought they had left behind them for ever. Others will be misfits for the rest of their lives, unable ever to adjust to workaday things again. “Some of them will find success. only after they have earned it. “Take these amateurs you are hearing over your radio today. One is a singer, another a piano player, another a one-man band. Ten to one, if they are smart, they are taking lessons to improve their par- ticular talent. But that isn’t enough. “The true performer’s smoothness goes beyond his singing or saxophone playing or whatever his particular forte may be. He has ease in everything he does. His voice, the way he holds his head, the set to his shoulders, his walk across the stage. Every one of these things is a part of his performance. “When I started I never had any thought that I would ever have to talk professionally, but my voice wasn’t as low pitched as I wanted it to be. I took speak- ing lessons, learned to breath properly until my voice was pulled down to the key where I wanted it. I took walking les- sons, too, went to a gym to build up my shoulders. And, you can laugh if you want to, I took a fling at tap dancing! But “Tf an amateur is smart, he’ll do these — things. He'll start when he’s a kid in school to lay a foundation for his future. q Scholarship isn’t the only thing you can learn in high school and college. You can learn poise and social graces by join-— ing clubs and fraternities and mixing with other students. That’s the sort of thing that gives you personality, that helps you professionally, if you make good, and even if you don’t it will be a heaven-sent gift in helping to adjust to another life. 3 “People don’t become stars over night. Success on Broadway or the radio isn’t gained by winning a contest. It’s earned by years of hard work. By studying. By practise. By constant plugging to get the smoothness and technique the true profes- sional has ‘acquired, whether he be a hoofer playing in the sticks or a headliner on Broadway. “A sporting writer I know speaks of that little extra that makes the champion boxer or baseball pitcher or tennis player. ~ It’s that little extra that makes the stage professional, too. And all these things go~ into that little extra. that puts you ahead - of the crowd. “When you see real finesse, you can bet your bottom dollar there are years of a work behind it. Look at Benny Fields and ~ the spectacular success he’s having today. I’ve heard people referring to him as a newcomer. Why, there are hours of prac- tise behind that easy swirling of his cane, behind the stamp of his foot accentuating a note in his song. He headlined at the Palace years ago. It’s the stuff he has, the years of professional performance back of him, that’s responsible for his — comeback today.” Eddy Duchin learned a lot in that trip around the country. More important than anything else, he learned that he was in love. It was six years since he had first met Marjorie Oelrichs and they had been— friends since the beginning. Grand friends. © The sort who always laugh a lot when they are together and always have a lot to say to each other. The sort of friends who can make a room full of people sud- denly come alive for the other, just by happening to walk into it. They didn’t realize, at first, that they” were in love. They had seen other people madly in love, seen the tempestuous out-— bursts, the mad quarreling, the frenzied making up. Everyone said that that was a part of love. Eddy thought it was, too. So did Marjorie. But their friendship knew no tempests. But on that trip, separated from her for the longest time since he had met her, Eddy missed Marjorie terribly, found’ himself thinking of the way her eyes curled up at the corners when she laughed, the tender curve her lips formed in smil- ing. Found himself calling her on long distance because there was so much he had to say to her. There always had been calmness, hap- piness, between them. Now there was a loneliness he had never known before. Eddy found -himself broadcasting the songs she loved—and wondering if she were listening in-and if she knew he was playing then’ fer her. And as soon as he got back to New York he rushed to her apartment to tell her of the discovery he had made. The newspapers played up their mar-

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Band-Leader Marries Society Girl It made the sort of reading the pub- lic loves. Only Eddy Duchin knew the newspaper riage. stories weren’t true at all. He hadn't married a society girl. He had married Marjorie, the girl who had been his friend for six years. “People who don’t know her talk of Marjorie as an aristocrat,” he said. “But if ever there was a working girl at heart, that girl is Marjorie. She’s always worked. First in the shop her mother owned on Madison Avenue and later on her own as an interior decorator. She paints and she’s written short stories and I’ve never seen her idle for a moment since I first met her. Right now she’s making plans for decorating a hotel. “The fact that she is in the Social Reg- ister didn’t give her glamor in my eyes and she*wasn’t thrilled because I was a band-leader. We were two people with a lot in common, who understood each other and what we were doing pretty thorough- ly. We had mutual friends. She had known my professional ones before she met me, just as I had become friends. with her crowd before I ever gave her that first lesson. We didn’t have to cross any bridges to get together. There weren't any to cross. “The day after we were married, Mar- jorie left on the road with me, on a tour RADIO STARS Here’s JOAN BLONDELL caring for a milliqn-dollar skin My beauty care keeps = skin soft and a clear..guards | > against Cosmetic Skin through the middle west, and she loved every minute of it—the one-night stands, the hustling around, the long bus trips when we couldn’t make train connections. Here’s a girl . ‘ like YOU who’s learned en “Marjorie was the only woman in the band, but no one seemed to think anything of it. She was such a good sport that the boys treated her like one of us. “She was so interested in the little towns we went through and it was fun roaming through new streets, visiting shops, buy- ing things we were going to use together. “It’s grand to be married to a girl like that, a girl who finds her own interests and her own work when my work keeps me away from her. A girl who under- stands my work as well as she under- stands me. A girl you always want to talk to!” It isn’t strange that Eddy Duchin has found happiness in his marriage. Any more than that he has found success in his career ! His suite at the Plaza is charming with its English chintzes, its old crystal can- delabras, its bowls of flowers, its concert grand piano. It’s charming with other things, too. With new books and maga- zines, with vivid wool tumbling out of the knitting basket on the divan, with a girl’s bright hat flung carelessly on a chair and Kiltie, the Scottie, growling at any stranger who dares intrude in all his hap- piness. They’re all a part of the thing Eddy and Marjorie have built for themselves, the life which two smart young moderns have fashioned to their own desires. Watch for the August issue of Joan Blondell’s beauty secret bey What a lucky break for Peg when she read how the screen stars guard against unattractive Cosmetic Skin! She began to use their complexion care—Lux Toilet Soap. Its ACTIVE lather removes cosmetics thoroughly. = Use Cosmetics all you wish, but don’t risk Cosmetic Skin T’S foolish to risk the tiny blemishes and enlarged = pores that mean Cosmetic Skin! Peg’s popular now! She’s found out that every man admires a complexion Guard against this danger that’s beautifully soft and clear. with Lux Toilet Soap. Its ACTIVE lather removes thor- oughly every trace of dust, dirt, stale powder and rouge. Don’t take chances with dan- gerous choked pores. Cosmetic Skin develops gradually. Pro- tect your skin this easy way: ; Before you put on fresh make- on R A D I O S TA R S up during the day—ALWAYS ol for fascinating and authentic ~-before you go to bed at night, yo | | Stories of your favorite stars. use gentle Lux Toilet Soap. 63

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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. 64 RADIO STARS Nothing Rut the Truth? (Continued from page 56) Ed Wynn: “Definitely so. The sup- pression of tone made necessary by the mechanism of radio has, in my opinion, brought to the entertainment field a tech- nique which is absolutely of no use to the stage whatsoever.” aa Lucy Monroe: “The legit actor has four weeks and usually an out-of-town try-out to build and establish his character —the radio actor a few hours at most. The fade-ins and fade-outs used to de- pict entrances and exits are a difficult angle of radio technique to master. As to singing . . . the technique of the con- cert and radio singer should be the same —excepting the fact that the mike merci- lessly discloses faults of pitch, breathing and phrasing, often less noticeable in the concert hall!” as Edward MacHugh:~ “J think radio and stage technique are as different as day and night. Radio has and will make great artists. For instance, a singer does not have to worry about his audience in the balcony being unable to hear him. He does not have to work so hard. He can therefore concentrate on pure tonal quality. He is not hampered with makeup. It teaches him control. It gives him full scope to truly interpret a song without making gestures which are sometimes necessary to convey meanings from the stage. In other words, I think only of tonal quality and interpretation.” Do you find that plugging away at the same type of program week after week gradually di- your interest in that program? minishes Harry Reser: “Yes—because it is al- most impossible, due to available talent, agency demands, or sponsor likes and dis- likes to keep from ‘grooving’ your pro- grams.” oS Kate Smith: “Not any more than an actor loses interest in a play that is en- joying a long run. The program may be the same but the songs change and I derive a great deal of enjoyment out of singing new songs.” =~ Boake Carter: “Why should it? Per- haps that’s an unfair answer because I do news—and news is always varying.” —~>- Ozzie Nelson: “I am fortunate enough to work on a very interesting program with charming and interesting people— with the result that I eagerly anticipate each Sunday evening.” + Eddy Brown: “Jf a performer has a definite idea behind his program building, no two presentations can be alike. There- fore his interest should never lag. I find each of my programs equally important. Have you taken sides in the cur- rent controversy between swing music and music of the more con- servative variety? Ray Noble: “Must I be caught on this definition of swing music? Having once foolishly offered to define it in twenty- four words and finally compromised with a two-page essay, which didn’t cover the facts, it seems to me that the only defini- tion left is to say that swing music is just another malignant tumor in the dis- ease of music. Seriously speaking, though, if one con- siders that it’s something to do chiefly with rhythm, then Ravel’s Bolero, most Irish jigs and a good typist on a noisy machine would qualify. And yet the lads in my orchestra are pretty insistent that the tune is strictly secondary (you can take my word for that; if you’re not in at the first chorus, you'll have to ask what we started out with) and that the rhythm is chiefly to blame. I can tell you this, however. You can’t buy swing music—either the boys feel good and we suddenly swing, or they don’t and nothing happens. Personally, I judge by my feet—they don’t need to be told.” we Jimmy Fidler: “Good music of any sort suits me—but I suppose I am not supposed to answer musical questions even though I am a Fidler.” = Abe Lyman: “No. A _ good musical organization can handle both types. I pride myself that my band does. Besides, swing music is as old as popular music itself. I played it with my first band in 1919.” =o “Have called the Bing Crosby: been instigator.”

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Rroadcastin g SG, un Styles (Continued from page 10) Hollywood, she immediately fell for the fashion of wearing slacks and pajamas during the daytime, as do the cinema-ites. She said that she had the time of her life buying sports clothes and that she actually lived in them during the day. With week-end holidays and vacation plans uppermost in our minds these days, I thought you would like to guide your own buying and packing by what some of your smart radio favorites prefer for their off-the-air holidays. Newer than slacks or shorts are the culottes that everyone is adopting for a variety of uses. These are those slick trouser-skirts that were so popular earlier at the winter resorts and now are taking the spotlight for summer sports activities. The culotte is a happy compromise between the mannishness of slacks and the brevity of shorts—it gives you freedom without too casual an effect. Jane Pickens, recently named with Harriet Hilliard and Jessica Dragonette as one of the three best dressed women in radio, wears a culotte costume for bicycling. This costume combines a divided skirt and a matching jacket in light wool. And Grace Moore, when she left for her annual trip to Europe, carried nearly a dozen culotte dresses in her trunk. These were made up in a variety of silks and cottons of different plain colors and prints. Grace likes hers made as a shirtwaist or tennis dress with the culotte as part of the cos- tume, rather than a separate skirt worn with a shirt or sweater. Incidentally, Grace took a complete wardrobe of Hollywood-designed clothes with her this year. She’s a great hand for buying lavishly when in Paris and London. Last summer the house of Molyneux con- tributed a major part of her Paris ward- robe. And right now she probably is busy shopping, despite the full trunks from Hollywood ! Going back to culottes, stores are sug- gesting such a variety of uses for them that we will all have to number at least one culotte costume in our vacation bags. So much interest has been stimulated in bicycling again that the divided skirt dress is the obviously perfect garb for it. Then you, who dash about in your cars, will love the comfort of them. For. golf, tennis and gardening, they’re grand. And trim culotte costumes are being shown for town wear in hot weather. These have the skirt division almost concealed in the full cut and the fabrics change from the light pastels and gay prints of the sports culottes to the dark linens and silks that look best in the city. Gladys Swarthout, voted one of the ten best dressed women in America, as you know, likes practical sports clothes. When in Hollywood, she spends her time away from the studio and microphone in quite active outdoor sports. She has a large swimming pool on her Beverly Hills estate and makes a habit of a morning dip RADIO STARS ou may blush with shame when you make this ‘Armhole If you deodorize only, you will always have an unpleasant, stale “arm- hole odor”’—Test yourself tonight by smelling your dress at the armhole i Odor ‘Test HE more fastidious you are, the more shocked you may be to realize you cannot prevent armhole odor unless your underarm is dry as well as sweet. Tonight, when you take off your dress, smell the fabric under the arm. No matter how carefully you deodorize your under- arm, you may find that your dress car- ries the odor of stale perspiration! This is bound to happen if you merely deodorize. Creams and sticks cannot pro- tect completely, because they are not made to stop perspiration. They do not keep the underarm dry, so perspiration collects on the fabric of your dress. The next time you wear that seemingly clean dress, the warmth of your body brings out an unpleasant ‘‘armhole odor” which is imperceptible to you, but embarrassingly obvious to those around you! Only one way to be SURE Women whocare about good grooming know there is no shortcut to underarm daintiness. They insist on the complete protection of Liquid Odorono. It keeps the underarm not only sweet, but absolutely dry. Not evena drop of moisture can collect on your dress. Odorono is entirely safe . . . ask your doc- tor. It gently closes the pores in that little hollow of the underarm. Perspiration is merely diverted to less confined areas where it may evaporate freely. Women safely use millions of bottles of Odorono yearly. Time well spent—Clothes saved It takes a few seconds longer to use Odorono but it is well worth your while. There is no grease to get on your clothes. And expensive dresses can no longer be stained and ruined in a single wearing. 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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 Company, Norwich, N. Y. NORFORMS aL moderne feminine hygiene CN. P. Co. 1936 Known to Physicians as “Vagiforms 66 RADIO STARS whether or not she is working or holiday- ing. Her choice in swim suits is one of workman-like simplicity, the usual choice of any good swimmer. One day you may find her wearing a form fitting, but skirted, suit such as I’ve illustrated this month, another day she will be plunging in, wear- ing a skin tight one-piece affair of satin woven with elastic. The first suit, shown, is a white closely woven knit with the convenient built-in “bra” detail that figures so prominently in the designs of all the big bathing suit houses this year. This swim suit-innovation does wonders for all types of figures. And an additional innovation is the slick striped cotton wrap she pulls on over her suits. It’s inspired by the Mexican serape and is lined with cotton toweling to absorb the suit’s moisture. It’s as practical as it is decorative and the short length is a nice idea, leaving the legs free for more sun- tanning. With this Gladys wears a slight- ly cock-eyed but fetching sun hat of Chinese coolie inspiration. The wide lat- tice effect of the straw lets in almost as much sun as if she had no hat at all. And the same goes for her beach shoes which are nothing but heels and soles laced to her feet with string—lots of air and sun but a fancy design on the feet if you tan! Besides these trim swim suits, Gladys also has a beach ensemble in a_ bright tropical printed cotton. Shorts and a bras- siere top have a third piece which is one of those draped skirts like the ones worn by South Sea Island natives. These en- sembles should be very popular with you who like to sun rather than swim. While on the subject of swimming and sunning, I mustn’t forget to mention that shorts and culottes of oiled silk are very new to pull on over your wet suit. These are transparent, of course, but they manage to give you a very “dressed” look even so. Rubber bathing suits continue their last year’s popularity, the one-piece being favored. White, yellow, blue, dusty pink and a pinky beige are the leading swim suit colors. Many smart combinations are effected combining two, three and even four colors. Purple suits are seen occa- sionally and a few in wine and violet. For playing badminton and _ tennis Gladys wears one-piece cotton or silk dresses with full skirts that reach just to the knee. She also likes the Hollywood uniform of slacks and shirt—she likes them especially in matching fabrics and colors. There’s one terribly good looking one in | her summer wardrobe that’s made of a rough peasant cotton. The trousers are made with wide belled bottoms and the blouse, which tucks in, is fastened with buttons tied on by cord. Marion Talley, who just recently has ELIZABETH ELLIS, Fashion Editor RADIO STARS MAGAZINE 149 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. made her début on a weekly broadcast program and who is out in Hollywood preparing for a movie début, wears an individual pajama. suit for sports. Her pajamas are tailored like a man’s trousers and are made of tobacco brown alpaca. Over these she wears a short trench coat of white alpaca with a brown Ascot scarf tucked into the neckline. A white hand- crocheted beret topped by a large pom-pom for her hat—and just plain white tennis sneakers on her feet. Since Austrian peasant styles are such a fad, you'll find it fun to wear bandannas and all sorts of gay scarfs with your dresses. Tie your bandannas under your chins, just like a peasant working in the fields, it gives your face a very fascinating look. And carry your beach’ truck about in a big cotton or silk square, tied hobo fashion. These are such inexpensive tricks to make your togs look very up-to-the- minute. Frances Langford, so tiny and feminine looking, prefers boyish slacks with jackets. Boyish but never mannish, and she gets around it by having her slacks cut very full and in wearing tailored but feminine looking jackets. Her favorite slacks cos- tume is one made up of orange flannel slacks, a pale yellow sweater and a jaunty little natural linen jacket. There is a trick accessory set which Frances wears with her white crépe shirt- waist dress. A giddy visor of crocheted raffia-like material is held on by a narrow self band. This is in bright red with a matching belt and envelope bag. Bright-colored gloves for sports and general daytime wear are so popular with all of you that I know you will appreciate knowing a clever way to have a dozen of them to match each color scheme without spending but a fraction what you would imagine! Buy simple white fabric ones and, by means of dye wafers, change them into any color you like. You can dye them bright clear shades or you can mix sey- eral wafers of different colors to get an unusual shade. All you have to do is to dissolve the wafers and dip your gloves in the dye. And even after you have one color scheme, if you tire of it, you can dip your gloves into a de-colorizing rinse that will restore your gloves to white and leave them ready for further color experiments! Here are two dye “recipes” for unusual shades of the season and, if you will write in to me, I will send you more Color Recipes absolutely free of charge! For a stunning deep suntan shade, use one half wafer of dark brown with an eighth of a wafer of scarlet. And for a bright orange-red, use one wafer of orange with an eighth wafer of scarlet. You'll have a picnic experimenting with them Please send me—ABSOLUTELY FREE—your Color Recipes for unusual shades.

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Fifi Knows The Secret (Continued from page 50) must have no doubt of a husband’s love. A wife must realize that she has the qual- ities to hold a love she once won. “And if your husband no longer love you, it is your fault! He fall in love with you for what you have.” (Fifi always says what a woman “has,” not what a woman “is.’’) “If you lose his love, it is because you lose what you have, inside. You change. You get lazy about yourself—how you look, how you act, how you feel.” We all know, of course, that health has a great influence on our actions and feel- ings. This is point number four in Fifi’s advice to women—keep fit. “Tam the only woman who evaire go on a trial honeymoon, Of course we were chaperoned,” the little French girl added seriously. “The first morning, Maurice knock on my door and ask me to go for a long walk before breakfast. I have been in show business many years and I like to sleep late—ten, eleven o’clock. But I know he like to go for a walk. I know it is good for me, so I get up and take a walk with him. We feel great when we get back and eat a big breakfast. The next morning, I try to learn to cook. I burn the bacon but he does not mind.” And that trial honeymoon proved to Fifi D’Orsay and her fiancé that they were suited to each other. There had been a doubt, before their trip. A doubt that they would be happy together, day after day, for she belongs to show business and Dr. Hill comes from an old Chicago family, far removed from the theater world. As in every discussion of marriage, there arose the question of fifty-fifty or seventy-five and twenty-five. Fifi thought a moment. It was the first time her hands had been quiet. “Yes, I think a woman has to give more. But I am only speak- ing of women who marry for love—not those who marry for position or money. And if you love a man, you do not mind doing anything if it makes him happy. “You have to give more because you must mother a husband. A man, he is a little boy grown up and you must under- stand him. Every man, he have faults— some things you do not like—but every- body have faults, so you must overlook these things you do not like. And he must have sex, too. Not too much and not too little of either,’ and her eyes flashed. I had the feeling that she knew how to balance these two essentials. | “When your husband comes home tired, | do not mind helping him take off his i shoes, giving him his slippers, helping him _ into a dressing-robe. Allow him to rest _| —relax, and read his book as he smokes | his pipe. But,” and Fifi was most em- phatic on this point, “do not make the mis- _ take of always doing it, or he will expect it. And let him wait on you, too. Do not order him to do something for you, but say: ‘Please, darling, while you are there will you bring me a drink of water 2’ and when he brings it to you, be sure to RADIO STARS DIVE IN AND COOL OFF... We've managed to add just enough mild menthol to a blend of great tobaccos so that every refreshing puff is soothingly cool to hot throats. Get yourself a pack, save the valuable B & W coupon for attractive, nationally advertised merchandise (offer good in U. S. A. only). Forget the heat, dive into KQDLS, come up smiling! Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., P. O. Box 599, Louisville, Ky. wy °° SAVE COUPONS... MANY HANDSOME NEW PREMIUMS @*. Playing Cards—Initial or fancy back. FREE. Write for illustrated 28-page Silverware—Community plate, 26-piece Best eel, 60 coupons. 2 decks—100 B & W premium booklet No. 11 service for 6 with chest. . 900 coupons RALEIGH CIGARETTES...NOW AT POPULAR PRICES...ALSO CARRY B & W COUPONS 67

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FAMILY POCKETE OOK We've got a neighbor who loves his wife and his kids. Never speaks sharply to them. Tries to provide well for them. But on payday, the household used to be in a state of suspended explosion. Some day I knew a spark would set it off—and my neighbor would be less of a husband, less of a father. Money—or lack of it—might indeed prove to be the root of great evil. The highly charged atmosphere on paydays was due to the fact that things were needed for which there never seemed to be enough money. Friend husband saw no flaws in his way of handling the money. Therefore, he reasoned, the wife required too much for food, clothing, and miscellaneous expenses. e e e THEY DISCOVER Butthe wife? What washerstory? A PLAN, Upon diagnosis, I discovered = 5) her sensible and competent but without plan. Still, she needed the husband’s co-operation if there was to be a plan. I sent one of our budget books. Both of them studied it... and the idea of a plan took root and flourished! Today, that home is a model of domestic felicity. There’s enough money for everything —and no haunting fear of a money shortage on payday. The wife is the “treasurer,” the hus- band the president and counsel. Expenses are a known quantity and it’s easy to control them. e ° se HE LOVED HIS WIFE A THRILLING I’ve often thought there was ADVENTURE more money in a family’s pay NN “ envelope than the family (Me thought there was. A Household S booklet on home money man- eget ole agement has proved in thou- = = “sands of cases that I’m right! It’s a thrilling and exciting ad- venture to plan your campaign for financial freedom . . . so easily, so surely. No dull, tedious Bo Sanlyb FOR FREE BOOKLET The ‘‘Doctor of Family Finances" booklets on home money manage- ment have helped thousands to get a fresh start. Fill in — mail this coupon today for free copy. HOUSEHOLD FINANCE Corporation and Subsidiaries—one of the leading family finance organizations, with 192 offices in 134 cities Hear Edgar A. Guest on Household's ‘Welcome Val- ley” program each Tues. night, NBC Blue Network. MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY in envelope or paste on a penny post card Doctor OF FAMILY FINANCES c/o HOUSEHOLD FINANCE, Room 3039-G, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Please mail me free copy of the Household Finance budget plan booklet written with a sense of humor. It is understood there is to be no solicitations, no follow up. RADIO STARS thank him, to let him know that you ap- preciate it.” All this may sound as though Yvonne Lussier (Fifi D’Orsay’s real name) believes herself to be the shining example of what every wife should be. But this is far from the truth. “I love a fight—non non, I mean—how you say—an argument. And I get very mad sometimes at my Maurice. But after I am all over being mad, I feel better. And it is sooo nice to make up afterwards. I think maybe I get mad just so we can make up!” She realized she sounded slightly childish. Her face screwed up and she laughed as only a vivacious French girl can laugh. “I know it sounds silly but we are so young. My husband—he is still an interne for two more years—and he like the make up part, too.” Women who find it difficult to follow the rules of Fifi might draw the conclusion that she is better able to do so much in marriage because she is much older than her interne husband. This is not so. The fact that Fifi started her career in 1923, as a chorus girl in the Greenwich Village Follies, misleads one to believe she is not so very young. But when the little French-Canadian brunette reached New York, she came straight from the French Convent of the Sacred Heart at the tender age of sixteen. And it was not until 1930 that she made her first picture, They Had to See Paris, with the late and beloved Will Rogers. Furthermore, Fifi is particular as to who is “the boss” of her married life. “Tt is so important that a husband wear the pants in the family. With a little effort and cleverness, a woman can have her husband do almost anything she wants. But,’ she paused a moment to emphasize her point, “nevaire let a man know that it is what you want. It must always seem as if he had suggested it in the first place. “Women do such foolish things. I have heard so many wives find fault and cor- rect their husbands in front of other peo- ple. That is bad. It makes the man feel so cheap. It takes the pants off him and puts them on the woman. And that is terrible! A man, he like to think a woman needs him, that she must depend on him for everything. He must never know that he depends on her. It is such a terrible mistake for a woman to make. “Mrs. Hill, that is Maurice’s mother, is so happily married to Mr. Hill. She is so smart. She knows how to keep young. She has such a nice figure. She go horse- back riding. She do all the things to please her husband. They are so happy after being married so many years. She is a very clever woman.” When asked if her mother-in-law was the inspiration for Fifi’s happiness, she became more serious than I had ever seen her. “Yes and no,’ was her answer. “Ryaire since I have been a little girl, I have said to myself, ‘Fih, when you grow up and get married, you must be happee,’ and I do not believe in divorce!” She has carried this thought with her every day of every year. During her travels to and from Hollywood, on vaudeville and personal appearance tours, when a chorus girl, and then a leading lady with Gal- lagher and Shean, Fifi has known that when she met the right man, she would be happily married. She knew she would be © happy because she was willing to give everything to avert a matrimonial failure. “And I am very lucky to have such a wonderful man for a husband. So many women do not appreciate their husbands.” Fifi D’Orsay was born of French par- entage in Montreal, Canada, one of thir- teen children. In a household of that size, each one has to do his bit toward keeping the household going. It was in this early childhood that Fifi learned to appreciate any good fortune which might fall her way. She learned patience, too. (And we all know that a good wife needs both appreciation and _ patience.) long before she was married, these two characteristics that she had learned in her — family lifé in Montreal stood by her. When she was trying desperately to be- — come a Hollywood star, she was given a test by Fox Films. The comment was that she was too tall for pictures. But, a year later, when they needed her type, a sparkling French girl, she was called and given a very nice contract. Then, in this past year, when she wanted to stay in New York with her new husband, Fifi endeavored to get a radio contract. True, she had been a guest star many times but radio, too, felt they had no permanent place for her “type.” However, she was patient and, when she was about ready to give up the idea of ever becoming identi- fied with the airwaves, Willie and Eugene Howard sold the idea for a Folies de Paree to the radio moguls. And who could -bet- ter fill the rdle of a feminine star in this new program than Fifi D’Orsay? She was called and signed to a _ twenty-six- weeks’ contract. And now she is so “hap- pee” to be definitely associated with radio. Her enthusiasm is a joy to behold. Not long ago she became an American citizen. She believes that this country offers so much, and she is grateful for all it has done for her. “After all,” she says, “everything I have, this country has given to me.” And she is now insisting that all her friends become citizens, too. Even the elevator boys in her hotel are being taken to task by her if they have not al- ready applied for citizenship papers. When Fifi D’Orsay believes, she is not happy until she convinces you, too. And she has excellent advice for all women. All women, that is, who are interested in the universal topic of love—and who isn’t? Watching Fifi D’Orsay is like watching a French doll, but a very lively one. Her large black eyes flash and sparkle, her small upturned nose dares to be called snub, her red lips generous without being large, all topped off with a head of chest- nut brown hair coiffed in a typical Parisian manner with long bangs across the fore- head. Her amazing vitality sweeps you off your feet. Besides her new radio pro- gram, she is doing short subjects in the movies and expects to open in a Broadway play shortly. And yet Fifi D’Orsay has time to learn to cook, to go horseback rid- ing and take long walks—all to please her husband. Perhaps all women should heed at least some of Fifi’s advice, for in her marriage, she has found complete happiness. What if her marriage fails, too? “Tt will be all my fault,” she calmly states. You can’t help liking a girl like that. But | \ .cTEe Pes ra =e Fer =

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a ee Ot RADIO STARS Son gbircd: —Gouthern tyl. @ (Continued from page 31) play at the end of the first act, it meant sitting grimly through to the bitter end, for Frances wouldn’t leave the hammiest spectacle in the world until the last cur- tain rumbled slowly to the stage. (An indication, it might be implied, that the little Langford has a dominating force about her where men are concerned.) “As a matter of fact,’ says Frances, “Mr. Nathan is not the ogre he’s painted. He says what he thinks, but he’s a charm- ing person. He and Walter Winchell often came to my apartment for the midnight lunches my mother always prepared. Cold ham and Winchell turned out to be our favorite nocturnal diversion.” The Hollywood influence turned up at a party for Cole Porter at the Waldorf. Frances sang one of Porter’s tunes and Walter Wanger (he’s producing Palm Springs) heard her. Contracts were signed and Frances headed west, accom- panied by her family and her manager, Ken Dolan, who gave up all his New York enterprises to guide the Langford destinies. Now Frances is doing, as they say down south, moughty well. She has contracts with Mr. Wanger and with Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer and she has Hollywood Hotel, which she thinks is swell. Quits her picture work every Friday at noon, spends afternoons rehearsing songs, and evenings turning them over to you. What about her private life? Sort of quiet, says Frances. She lives in the Hollywood hills with her father, old Kunnel Vasco Langford (a retired con- tractor), her mother, her brother Jimmy and her cousin, Alma Langford, who is also her secretary. Frances is twenty-six (birthday was April 4th) and decidedly unmarried. There have been rumors, but no husbands. She has two regular gentlemen friends in manager, Ken Dolan, Hollywood—her Lum and Abner, the rural comics, dis- cuss one of their scripts. The boys have gained a tremendous following. an enthusiastic greeting for his old friend and stooge, Rubinoff, violin wizard. Cantor has Eddie and Tony Martin. There has been talk of wedding bells for her and Ken Dolan, but Frances will neither affirm nor deny them. Anyway, she thinks marriage in Hollywood is a mistake. “No one makes a go of it out here, so when I marry it’s going to be in some place closer to Lake- land.” She generally goes out one evening a week, and it’s usually to the Trocadero with the lucky Mr. Dolan. She finds it difficult to make friends because—she hates to admit it—she’s shy. She doesn’t worry about that, though, for she has no trouble keeping her old friends. Her special hobby is photography. She owns a 16 m. m. movie camera and con- tinually disrupts everyone on the set by shooting Langford Private Productions. The cast is anyone who happens to be in range and the action is strictly impromptu. “What I want most right now,” she con- fided, “is a vacation. I’d like to go back home for awhile, to see all the kids I went to school with. Another reason is that I’m an honorary Police Captain in Lakeland. Means I can go through Stop signs and park anywhere I care to!” She’s missed only one broadcast since she’s been on Hollywood Hotel. That time she was home in Florida, listening in with a party of friends, and the entire program was a special affair in her honor. Her present contract expires in October, but her sponsors already are waving a new one under her nose. She'll probably sign, because she likes the gang she works with on the program. We asked her if she ever had cast a romantic eye in the direction of Dick Powell, or vice versa. “No,” said Frances, “we've never even been out together. But he’s very nice to sing with.” Came then a knocking on the dressing- room door which jostled the entire con- tents, including its mistress. ‘‘You’re due on the set, Miss Langford,” yelled a guy. “Well,” said Frances, “off to the desert for a bit of fancy skiing. Goodbye, and please tell all your readers I’m sorry it was tonsils—instead of a broken heart.” It takes more than fresh air and exercise to splash your way to physical fitness. A sensible, nourishing diet is essential, too. And crisp, golden-brown Shredded Wheat gives you a good start. For Shredded Wheat is 100% whole wheat—a rich storehouse of vitamins, carbohydrates, mineral salts and proteins. Eat Shredded Wheat every day. Join the mil- lions of Shredded Wheat fans who get energy, endurance and vitality from this delicious breakfast. Put Shredded Wheat and your favorite fruit or berries on your grocery list now. Ask for the package showing the picture of Niagara Falls and a 4 the red N. B.C. seal. NS A Product of NS NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY 69

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Ask your druggist for Yeast Foam Tablets—and refuse substitutes. YEAST FOAM TABLETS Prt 5 | MAIL NOW FOR FREE SAMPLE NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO. MM 7-36 1750 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, III. Send free trial bottle of Yeast Foam Tablets. ee ee ee Se ee SSS J MANY NEVER SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHES This Old Treatment Often Brings Happy Relief Of Pain Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are one of Nature’s chief ways of taking the acids and waste out of the blood. If they don’t pass 3 pints a day and so get rid of more than 8 pounds of waste matter, your 15 miles of kidney tubes may need flushing. If you have trouble with frequent bladder passages with scanty amount which often smart and burn, the 15 miles of kidney tubes may need flushing out. This danger signal may be the be- ginning of nagging backache, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffi- ness under the eyes and dizziness. _Don’t wait for serious trouble. Ask your drug- gist for Doan’s Pills — used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help flush out the 15 miles of kidney tubes. Get Doan’s Piils, 70 RADIO STARS IE 5 a JF; tcange World (Continued from page 13) gives him pleasure—and considerable extra work—to answer his accusers. So here, in case you're in a challeng- ing mood, are a few strange items about radio: ; The largest broadcasting chain in the world is neither NBC nor CBS; in fact, it’s not even a commercial chain. It is owned and operated by the U. S. govern- ment, with 156 stations in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines. Its main purpose is communication be- tween army posts, but in time of emer- gency it can be used for anything. The voice of the U. S. Army is WAR. Those are the call letters of the army signal corps station, and station WAR is head of the government’s official broad- casting chain. There is a short-wave station in Santo Domingo, whose call letters are H/X— but John, who spends a lot of his spare time with his radio, has never been able to tune it in. Station XGOA, in Nanking, China, an- nounces its programs in five languages. Every few hours radio stations in Fin- land broadcast the date as well as ,the time. Due to the long days and light nights, people in Finland never know whether it’s today or tomorrow. Radio tubes were invented before radio. A vacuum tube, invented fifty years ago by Thomas Edison, is used in a number of present-day receiving sets. Alois Havrilla, one of the networks’ ace announcers and winner of the annual Dic- tion Award, spoke no English until he was 12 years old. The longest bark on record was yipped by a dog named Short. Short yowled over WGY in Schenectady, the bark travelled 24,000 miles, was rebroadcast back to WGY and right into the ear of Short himself, who didn’t-like it a bit. The youngest licensed radio operator in the country is Jean Hudson of Laurel, Delaware. Jean received her license at the age of nine. A man in Newcastle, England, made a condenser for his radio entirely out of old razor blades. When WWLIV opened its 500,000-watt station in Cincinnati, the tremendous power transmitted caused lights to glow in every home within a radius of several blocks. This proved very disconcerting to citizens until they discovered they didn’t have to pay for it. George Breakston, Hollywood child actor, once made 9 broadcasts in 9 hours over 9 different stations. Strange as it seems, he was 9 years old at the time. Barnyard Note: Call letters of ama- teur I]V9 stations include HEN, DUC, CAT; DOG, ‘GOWRIHAY; FLY, EGCG and HOG. Station KGFJ in Los Angeles, known as the 24-hour station, came on the air October Ist, 1928, and hasn’t missed a second since. The name “Amos” is Hebrew for Bur- den. “Andy” is from the Greek and means Brave and Courageous. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran- — cisco uses radio for communication be- tween workmen, due to the grand scale of the project. The bridge is 8 miles long. Radio fans in Albania, Andorra, Lich- tenstein, Monaco and San Marino listen to foreign programs exclusively. Reason: their countries have no radio stations. F, E. Meinholtz, manager of the New York Times radio station, was once ordered, by a message which travelled 20,000 miles, to hang up his telephone. Meinholtz was in his home on Long Island listening to news dispatches from the Byrd expedition in Little America and had the phone off the hook so it wouldn’t disturb him. He was needed for an emergency at the Times, so the radio operator there, 10 miles away, radioed the Byrd expedition, 10,000 miles distant, which in turn radioed from Little Amer- ica: “Meinholtz, the Times wants you to hang up your phone.” Meinholtz hung up! The busiest commercial radio station in the United States is the smallest. It’s the United Air Lines station, WUCG, at the municipal airport in Chicago. The longest hop ever made by a flea is 7,000 feet. It happened at the San Diego Fair, and the flea made the hop with Mardoni, escape artist with John Hix’s Strange As It Seems exhibit. Mar- doni, handcuffed, did a parachute jump from a height of 3,500 feet, carrying a rabbit’s foot, and for added good luck, a trained flea from the fair’s flea circus. He freed himself from the handcuffs on his journey to earth, but he sprained his ankle when he landed. The flea was uninjured. “But perhaps the strangest item of all,” concludes John Hix, “happened right here on our own program. We were doing a dramatic description of the massacre at Sarajevo which caused the World War. Our piece was called The Man Who Set the World on Fire. Five minutes after we finished broadcasting, some of the mechan- ical apparatus caught fire and the studio burned to the ground.” John Hix says there’s nothing at all strange about his own life, except for the fact that his average working day takes in 18 hours, and that his hobbies are his cartoons and his radio work. There’s nothing strange, for instance, about anyone being born in Huntsville, Alabama. Right now he’s twenty-eight, highly solvent and, strange as it seems, still single. He studied art for three weeks, did newspaper strips and _ started his Strange As It Seems syndicated cartoon on March 26th, 1928. At the present time it appears in almost 300 papers, with an estimated daily audience of 20,000,000. Strange As It Seems was inaugurated on the air on March 22nd, 1935. It’s heard twice weekly on 60 stations through- out the country, which means that it ranks high in public favor. And if you doubt any of the above enough to do a bit of challenging, John Hix's personally autographed reply will set you right.

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RADIO STARS A Prima Donna Unmasks (Continued from page 46) Many of you must remember the child- prodigy career of young Miss Talley. The little Kansas girl who, at nineteen, took the Met by storm. The little star who, after four fabulous seasons, with the laurels still dewy and unwilted on her brow, announced that she would retire—and did. Why? That is what I asked as we talked to- gether in her hotel suite, talked and ate candied grapefruit rind (her one confec- tionery indulgence). I said: “I’ve never quite understood. . . Men and women in their forties retire, frequently. But to retire at twenty-three, with the applause still storming—why?” Marion’s moon-gray eyes held the far- away expression habitual to them. You are never quite sure whether she has heard what you are saying. She always has. She said, then: “You've heard the expression ‘Tired-of-It-All?’ It’s been said in fun, in irony, in sarcasm. But I was, literally, tired of it all. That is why I retired. That was my ‘secret.’ That was the one and only reason. It seemed to me to be reason enough. “T think I had emotional indigestion. “T’d been singing in public ever since I was eleven years old. I know, by the way, that I was one of the first, if not the first, to sing over the air. The radio and I were certainly ‘infants’ together. For I sang in the days when the screeching and scratching and static were such that it really didn’t make any difference what I sang, or how. No one could make it out anyhow. I made the first Vitaphone Sound records ever made—they were used to accompany the film, Don Juan, in which John Barrymore starred, you know. “T had worked, always, like a little slavey. I had studied, and mastered, four languages by the time I was seventeen. I studied so incessantly that, when I was in New York, I always had to have my mother or sister ride with me on the sub- way so that they could tap my arm and tell me when I had arrived at my station— my nose was so buried in books that I would have gone on and on unknowing. “T’ve never had a ‘date’ in my whole life. I never went beau-ing. I’ve been married twice, but even then there were no dates. I never went dancing with any boy. I never went to movies with boys. I never went to a Prom nor to a football game nor to a house-party. Never! Not once! “T never had a crush on a boy. I never was in love in my life until I married my first husband—after I was twenty-three. My ‘loves’ were opera, concert and radio and they’re jealous, exacting sweethearts. “[’m not speaking regretfully. I’m not for myself. On the contrary. I wouldn’t give up what I[ have had, what I hope to have again, for all of the dates and good times of all the girls in the sorry world. I sacrificed everything which means youth and girlhood to my career and it was worth it. I did what I did because I wanted to do it. But I would like to tell other girls who hope to have careers that sacrifice is necessary. You can’t compromise with a career. You've got to give it everything. “T studied in Kansas City from the age of eleven on. J wouldn’t recommend so early a beginning for everyone. I hap- pened to be in excellent hands and so it was all right. But the ‘hands’ must be excellent or damage is liable to result. I went to New York to study when I was fifteen. I went to Italy to study when I was seventeen. I signed my contract with the Metropolitan while I was in Italy and made my début there when I was nine- teen. I sang for four seasons. And I did radio and concert work between sea- sons. I always studied. “And suddenly I knew that I was through. That I was deadly tired of it all. I loathed hotels. I loathed catching trains. I loathed paint and powder and clothes and publicity. I felt trapped and @® Men say they don’t know which is worse in a girl. Underarm odor. Or offensive deodorants which cover one unpleasant odor with another. Why be guilty of either? Today, there’s anew answer—FRESH. A delicately fragrant cream which gives positive protection against underarm odors. FRESH is different— you can use it right after shaving or a depilatory, with- out fear of irritation, for this cream is not only soothing but antiseptic — safe- guarding against infection in tiny nicks and cuts. And FRESH can’t possibly harm clothes. No harsh ingredients. No grease in it. FRESH dries instantly. Just apply FRESH and go right on dressing. And with this cream, pores stay open, healthy, sweet. FRESH has no medicinal odor, nothing to identify it as a deodor- ant. FRESH just gives you freshness! RESH A DIFFERENT DEODORANT 10¢ FOR TRAVEL PACKAGE Economy Size 50¢. If your toiletries counter hasn’t FRESH, send 10¢ with your name and address to Pharma- Craft Corp., Louisyille, Ky.,forTravel Package of FRESH, postpaid. 71

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At drug and department stores everywhere. 72 RADIO STARS strangled and breathless in a mesh of notes and scores and librettos and orches- trations and contracts and audiences. “Suddenly, one night in our hotel suite in New York, I said to my mother: ‘I am through. I am giving it all up. I never shall sing again. I have made quite a bit of money. I shall retire and live as I please. C'est fini!’ “Neither my mother nor my father nor my sister has ever urged me in any direc- tion. They didn’t then. My mother said only: ‘Think it over. Don’t do anything in haste which you may regret later. Once such a step is taken, it cannot be re- traced! “T said: ‘I know.’ “T did retire. Neither argument nor reasoning, not even being suspected, I’m sure, of insanity, could stop me. “And for several months I felt as though shackles had been struck from my limbs. I was free. For the first time. I could eat and sleep and grow fat if I wanted to. And I did! I could dream and do nothing. Nothingness seemed Nirvana to me. “T did make one radio broadcast in New York after my retirement,” (The Packard Hour, I believe it was) “because I had contracted to do it and because they paid me a handsome sum for half an_ hour. And then, with that money, my mother and sister and I went abroad. I had no intention of studying over there. I planned to see the pleasure spots of Europe, not the studios and ateliers which were all J had known before. “We went to Germany and—I began to study again! I said that it was ‘just for fun,’ because I loved it. But I think I began to know, then, that I could not live with leisure alone. I had given too many hostages to hard work. And besides, I —TI fell in love with my teacher. He was a German. And when, at the end of the year, we returned to New York, he fol- lowed me and—we were married. “Marriage,” said Marion, after a per- ceptible pause, “marriage should be for artists. The fuller the life, the richer the art. But marriage should only be for two artists who are in perfect harmony. For artists, especially for two artists, to marry there should be double the understanding, double the sympatica necessary between two individuals in any other walk of life. “We lived in California for a time— vacationing. And here is another thing which the years have taught me: There can be, really, no wacations for artists. For the artistic urge, instinct, or what- ever you choose to call it, is as much a part of the artist as breathing, eating, sleeping or any other inborn or natural function. You can’t take vacations from eating and breathing—not for long. I couldn’t take a vacation from singing—not for long. “Well, after awhile, we were divorced. I went back to New York and began to study again. With Adolph Eckstrom. He is Swedish. And we—we fell in love!” I laughed. I couldn't help it. I said: “*Pupil and Teacher read no more that day ?’” “Music is the language of love,’ par- ied Marion, with one of her rare, hearty laughs, “it does sound funny, I know. I never thought about it that way until friends began to laugh and say, ‘Not again? Not another Voice Teacher ?’ “T hope,” I said severely, “that you have not found it necessary to engage a teacher out here?” “But I have!” Marion laughed again. “That was he to whom I was talking—in Spanish—when you first came in.” “Great Scott!” I said, with fervor. I added: “I shall wire Mr. Eckstrom to- night !” “Don't make it more difficult,” pleaded Marion, with mock earnestness. “It’s diffi- cult enough as it is. Imagine—our whole first year spent three thousand miles apart! I’ve been under contract to M-G-M out here. Adolph has had to carry on at his studio in New York. I had hoped that he would come out here last summer but he didn’t feel that he could desert things back there. And I dared not try to persuade him. It’s too dangerous to try to inter- fere with a man’s work. And so, I don’t know just how we shall work it out... . “At any rate, there I was in New York, studying again, doing some concert work. And then, through the Artists Bureau of NBC, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered me a contract.. I came to California a year ago and literally sat about for a year, wait- ing for a story to be found. The inac- tivity was deadly. But it did one priceless thing for me, I think. It made me realize that while I have a gift to give, I must give that gift; while I am in demand I must answer that demand. I shall never ‘retrace my steps.’ As my mother so wisely said, that is impossible. There is no going back. The old trails are grown over. New trails must be blazed. And I am taking the new trails—of radio and pictures. “T shall never retire again. Not of my own volition. I could not even retire to be domestic, ‘good wife and home-maker.’ If and when the day comes when I am no © longer wanted, then—yes. Then I could and would retire, without regret, and ~ make a home and have children and all that goes with domesticity and marriage. But not now... not yet... “When my M-G-M contract expired, Republic Pictures signed me. And I believe we will be well on our way with My Old Kentucky Home when this story is printed. It will be my very first pic- ture.” “Scairt?” I asked, “Not in the least. I’ve never had stage fright, I’ve never known ‘mike-fright.’ I’ve - never had the slightest quaver before an audience. The only time I don’t want, and won't have an audience is when I am broadcasting. I must besalone at the mi- crophone. And that condition of aloneness is always ‘so stipulated in the bond.’ I dis- like the applause which comes over the air from a broadcasting station when a singer is performing. There is some- thing raucous and out of key about it.” “Now that you have ‘come back,’” I said, ‘‘tell me, how .. . what is the secret of a successful come-back ?” Marion smiled. “I haven't really estab- lished my come-back quite yet,’ she said. “It takes more time And the only secret is—work. I’ve never stopped work- ing, you see. I’ve tried to improve and never to retrogress. I’ve lived and learned and experienced. And when I began to do concert work again—well, these other things have developed naturally.” “Do you want to go back to Opera?” I “Back to the Metropolitan?” asked.

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hate cher “The Metrapolitan and all that it stood for has come to the air,” said Marion. “No, it is as I have said—there is no re- tracing lost steps. I think that I shall never sing at the Met again. Things change. The Metropolitan is not what it once was. So long as we live it will be a tradition, a legend. But the glory is a past glory. It doesn’t mean, even to sing- ers, what it once meant. Time was when a début at the Met was the crowning glory in a singer’s life. It is all different now. The old glittering Horseshoe Circle is no more. Caruso is dead. Melba... Farrar ... Tetrazinni... Scotti... all gone, one way or another. Schumann- Heink is in Hollywood. It is not, I know, that people care less for fine music, but that they no longer have the means—or the necessity—to pay for it as they once did. “The mighty music of the ages is no longer for the minority, for the Horseshoe Circles, but for all men and women, for the masses . . . thanks to radio. Music belongs to the people again . . . and radio has given music back to its own. “T love concert work. Concert is, in many ways, my favorite medium. You can do such fine things in concert and only in concert, I think. You can give Brahms and Mozart (I am studying Mozart now, thoroughly, for the first time—and I am Mozart-mad) and the German lieder and arias. You cannot give such music on the air. Not very much of it, nor too often. For the people of the Machine Age, I feel, do not want the calm beauty of Mozart. The swiftness of the whole tempo of our times, the movies, radio it- self, the swiftness of transportation, the short cuts leading everywhere, have keyed us too highly for the contemplative things and arts. “T know,” smiled Marion, “that I love to listen to Jack Benny and Burns and Al- len—and I wouldn’t miss Walter Winchell for anything . . . They are, in a way, the voices of the folk-lore of today. “But when people go to concerts, buy their tickets for concerts, they buy them because they want to hear Mozart and Brahms and Chopin. And you know what they want and why they have bought their tickets. When you give the same things on the air you have the very uncomfort- able feeling that you may be forcing some- thing on people, probably against their will. They may tune in on you because there is nothing better to be had at the moment. But it is something like placing a lengthy meal of truffles and pigeon hearts in front of a child and telling him to eat it whether he wants it or not—a child who would rather grab a sandwich and be gone. “But we shall see... I’m arranging my own programs, my own selections for Ry- Krisp at first. Later, perhaps, the radio fans will help me to make my selections. “The songs I really enjoy singing most of all are the old songs .. . My Old Ken- tucky Home, Swanee River, In The Gloaming, Long, Long Ago, Old Black Joe, Annie Laurie. They are the American folksongs. . . They’re yours and mine—we all love them and we’re together, I feel, when I’m singing them. . . “You see,” said Marion Talley, as we rose, “the ‘secrets’ are very simple, really . the inability to stop working with music, the inborn leve of music . . . and a ‘coming back’ down the new trails of music—the radio and the screen.” RADIO STARS om 3} YOU ARE planning a motor trip, or a sojourn fly" Vif Nb ps at the beach, be sure to take two or three pack- go Y Gite tar its Ms — J ages of Linit with you for the Linit Beauty Bath \ el Ne instantly soothes a roughened or sunburned skin. ...AS A MOONLIT POOL When you come in tired, dusty or sunburned—relax in a tepid bath with Linit dissolved in the water. The delightful effect is instant —almost magical. Fatigue is forgotten. The rough touch of the wind and burn of the sun is al- layed by the soothing effect of this refreshing bath. After the Linit bath, your skin feels soft and smooth and there is no damp, sticky feeling to your body. Why not try the Linit Beauty Bath before retiring tonight? Notice what sooth- ing relaxation it affords your entire body. LINIT is sold by your grocer. func Laundering Don’t overlook the directions on the Linit package. . recommending Linit for starching. Linit makes even ordi- nary cotton fabrics look and feel like linen. 73

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Since Helen Vinson went over for last season’s social season at Jubilee time, found Fred Perry and married him, while being paid a huge sum for making pictures, all of Hollywood would like to make one or more pictures in England! But I have just returned from London and Mae is not popular there. The Eng- lishman does not understand her type of humor. He does not consider her vulgar. He doesn’t understand her well enough to know whether or not she is vulgar! If an English company signed Mae it would be for one picture and for Ameri- can release. Our shrewd, money-making cousin, across the waters, would want proof of how much money she would make for him. And Mae is as shrewd as her cousin—so IJ doubt if she will sail. Be- sides, she told me she is a bad sailor! Radio! Ah, there, we come to the great present and future field of entertainment. Mae told me that she preferred motion pic- tures to the stage because she could reach so many more people. Her greatest audience in the world is upon the air. At the height of her popularity she re- fused the highest price ever offered for an air appearance—including Will Rogers’ $5,000 for a few moments and Eddie Can- tor’s weekly $12,000, from which he pays his aids. Why did she refuse it? Because she knows she will make a new Mae West for radio. have to We have few women in America more clever than our subtle, hard-working Mae. She feared radio when these offers were made her. She knew it might take her for a long, slick toboggan ride—one from which At that time, Mae was starring her curves, her walk, the come-hither look in her eyes—as well as her voice. If she went on the air, she would have the use of voice only. It meant acquiring a new technique—and she had no time to de- velop it since she was working continual- ly, either acting or writing her scenarios. It also meant producing a new kind of script. Motion pictures are written and acted, primarily, for the eye; air performances are given for the ear. Mae had insisted upon curves, for motion pictures, because she believed the men of the world liked to look at them. J.-remember when Holly- wood tried to force her to lose them. She had made one picture, when the Holly- wood bosses ordered: “Lose twenty pounds.” Mae was new to Hollywood. She thought they understood their business. Mae went on a diet. What a diet! “I love to eat,” she told me, nibbling with distaste at a lettuce leaf. “I adore it. But if I must lose twenty pounds, I must. If I gave up love, I guess I can give up eating!” She lost them. Then she looked at her- self in a mirror. “And I didn’t like what I saw,” she told me. ‘Not a little bit! Why, Mae West was gone! Mae West stood for a woman with curves. These bean poles we have today for women— they aren’t healthy! A man doesn’t like them. They don’t make healthy mothers. The world likes me as I was. I’m going back to what I was. I’m going to be the little gal the boys like!” She did. And she became the most come-hither woman in pictures. Naturally her voice had the same se- ductive quality as her figure. When Mae says: “Come up and see me sometime,” she says it with several meanings. Most women formerly. used that expression at least once daily and thought nothing of it. But today when one of us says it to a man, we feel ourselves blushing because we remember the meaning Mae has given to it by the very manner in which she Says it. I remember the time her publicity de- partment wanted her to have some pic- tures taken in a gingham apron, working in a kitchen. In telling me about it, she said: ‘The only time I’ve ever been in a kitchen, is to pass through it to meet some man on the back porch!”” A simple statement, but not simple as Mae said it. That back porch became everything from a rose-covered arbor to a boudoir. -We were sitting in an office; she wore a hat with face veil, hiding her expression. So her voice gave the statement its signifi- cance. But would such a statement go over on the air? Could she pass the censors? Re- member that as many censors as there are in motion pictures, there are many more in radio. For each one of us is an in- dividual censor. We can turn off our dials at will. Furthermore, we radio cen- sors write more letters than any other audience. While we must pay a nice little price to see her in a picture, it would cost nothing for us to listen to Mae. Three cents for a letter to tell her how good or how bad she is! And Mae wouldn't en- joy having thousands of us write her about how bad she is. “I have always been tops. I always must be. When I’m not—then I'll retire!” she told me. Can she be tops in radio? I think she can. I have faith in our Mae. Terrific faith. I have studied her career since she began shaking her pow- der-covered body in a Brooklyn vaude- ville theatre as she had seen Eva Tan- guay shake hers. I have known her per- sonally many years. And Mae has a way of climbing over every obstacle. Remem- ber when the newspapers of New York City refused to carry her- advertisements for Sex, the play in which she created a sensation? The theatre managers begged her to change the name. She refused. “Sex is life,’ she told them. “Do you want to change the dictionary? “We'll show them about advertise- ments,” she slurred and covered the city with placards. She told me: to attend to them. I took a car and drove all over town, each Sunday, to see if they were where I had ordered them.” “T didn’t trust anyone else 7

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mI . Ed Wynn confers with John S. Young on his Gulliver the Traveler script. And when they threatened to close her show, Mae said: “Let ’em. It will make business.” She was right. She took her famous ride in the police wagon to Welfare Isl- and, stayed out her time, donated $1,000 to the library there and raised the in- come of her play twenty per cent. Mae has radio in mind, all right. The other day Bertha Brainard, head of the commercial programs for the National Broadcasting Company, gave a speech be- fore The Woman Pays Club of New York City. She told her fellow professional women that the day of human interest is here for the air. As she said it, I re- membered Mae’s prophecy: ‘Sometime I'll have to give human interest to sex on the air!” Human interest to sex! A new Mae West! A voice that gives us wisecracks that are funny rather than suggestive. A voice that makes our blood run a little faster but says words which do not of- fend our finer senses. A voice which brings us her curves, her eyes, her walk —a script which is so subtle that it says nothing which a six-year-old child or a fifty-year-old man-about-town could mis- interpret. It’s a tough order but all of Mae’s life has been devoted to filling tough orders! And will the air pay Mae what she is demanding of Hollywood and not getting? —Of course not, not to start with. But the world forgets that Mae came to Holly- ' wood and played a small part in Night | After Night, George Raft starring vehicle, and accepted a small salary. She knew | her vogue was temporarily over on Broad- | way. She left before it could leave her. “What did I care about money?” she asked me. “I wanted to begin little and | show ’em. It’s always the best way. And when I think I’ve gone about my limit, | Tll be making the most in the business | and then I'll leave ’em. I have to be fops, | but I got to get there my own way.” Any sponsor would pay Mae West a reasonable salary to start on the air, They'll pay her more than ever they paid / anyone else if she succeeds in bringing | human interest into sex, as she’s promised. When she’s tops—well, before you tire of her, she'll leave you. Yes, radio will change Mae West. But she'll probably change a few radio fash- ions, also. I’m betting on Mae—as the next great sensation in broadcasting. RADIO STARS DOUBLE MINT gum enjoyed daily helps beautify mouth and facial contours Every week go to your BEAUTY SHOP CHEWING GUM PEPPERMINT FLAVOR ELLELEGLLLLELIELLLDLLLLE LILES LE LLL LLL LL LLL LL LALLA : 75

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For Benny got a bad cold coming over on the boat and when he reached New York—well, it was weeks before the doc- tors would give me any hope at all. After- wards we went to Lake Placid and I could see Benny was worrying about the money it was taking to stay at the hotel, so I said: “Forget it, Benny. Let’s have fun spending it. Since when have we to stop and think about spending a few dol- lars? Let’s make this a vacation and have fun!” I suppose I remember that so well be- cause it was the first time I had had to pick up Benny’s spirits. It was grand seeing Benny growing strong again, getting brown and _ healthy from the sun, and in no time at all he was his old self again and we felt like a mil- lion dollars when we walked down Broad- way. But it wasn’t Broadway. It was a street we'd never known before. A frightening street .. . One day Benny came home sort of ex- cited. “It’s radio that’s licked us,” he said. “But don’t worry, baby, we're going to catch it by the tail and spin it over our heads!” Radio! Of course! That was the solu- tion! It seemed awfully easy then. Only it wasn’t. We saw people. Just a little condescendingly, at first, I must admit, because we thought that any program would jump at the chance of getting Blos- som Seeley and Benny Fields. After all, weren’t we Palace headliners? Hadn't we been Broadway names for years? I can’t count the times we were close to signing contracts. Looking back at it now, I see a succession of days with hope starting every one of them and defeat finishing them up. We humbled ourselves. Spread ourselves like a mat in front of the door of radio. We were the Welcome on that mat, but nobody realized it then! We weren't getting any place and one day we packed and left for Hollywood. It looked as if happy days had come again. The Paramount Theatre there booked us for a week and I was optioned for an Ed Wynn picture. Then Daryll Zanuck saw my test and, since Lilyan Tashman was ill, gave me her place in a picture. Things were looking up again for Blos- som Seeley. But what about Benny Fields? Musicals were temporarily out in Holly- wood and there was no place for him. Maybe it was because he was so grand about it all, standing aside and cheering me on. Maybe it was just because he was Benny, the man I loved, but anyway, what- ever it was, I couldn’t take my chance at the expense of his. The day the picture was finished we took the train back to New York. Benny never got the idea of radio out of his head. In those days there weren’t the big Broadway names on the air that there are today. But Benny was looking ahead. Was seeing Radio as it was going to be. The way Mondays used to be at the Palace with all the Personalities we loved jamming the bill. We got awfully excited, talking about it on the train, planning, building a new act for the air. But the same old locked door was waiting for us. We _ hadn't found the key yet... Months went by and our money went RADIO STARS i] bg girl who gets the invita- tions is the girl who knows how to please the men! She takes great pains to learn their likes and their dislikes. One of the first things she learns is that nothing so quickly prejudices a man against a girl as the ugly odor of under- arm perspiration on her clothing and her person. And so she runs no risk of this danger. For she knows how easy it is to avoid —with Mum! Just half a minute is all you need to use this dainty deodorant cream. Then you're safe for the whole day! Another thing you'll like—use Mum any time, even after you’re dressed. For it’s harmless to clothing. It’s soothing to the skin, too—so soothing you can use it right after shaving your underarms. Mum, you know, doesn’t prevent natural perspiration. But it does pre- vent every trace of perspiration odor. And how important that is! Use Mum daily and you'll never be uninvited because of personal unpleasantness. Bristol-Myers, Inc.,630 Fifth Avenue, New York. ANOTHER WAY MUM HELPS is on sanitary napkins. Use it for this and you'll never have to worry about this cause of unpleasantness. takes the odor out of perspiration 77

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Even though it meant a new chance and a new stake, I couldn't go. We'd always shared everything to- gether and we were going to share this. So we went to Chicago instead. To Chi- cago and all the new hopes and all the new disappointments. To the days when we ate peanuts and the days when we ate nothing. To the dingy little night club there that offered us a job and that Benny took on alone. “Blossom Seeley isn’t singing in a cheap bar,” he told me and he was so mad he sort of choked on the words. But Benny Fields sang there. And Benny Fields sang in other places like it, too. They were small places, cheap places, that folded up one after the other, but Benny went on just the same, trying to find a place for both of us in this new strange world. But there was that closeness building itself around us all the time. It got so that I could tell what had happened to him that day just by hearing his step on the stairs at night, by the way his key turned in the lock. And somehow when the door opened and he stood there, it wasn’t hard to smile at all. There was that Christmas morning when Benny’s lips twisted at the sight ef his sock hanging from the bedpost with pop- corn spilling out of it and he put his arms around me and sang: “J Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby,” in a way that song has never been sung before. And I’m not excepting the Palace, either. Somehow that was the most beautiful present even Benny has ever given me. And there was the time we thought we were all set again, when we had an offer from a smart night club that was opening in Kansas City. But when we got there Benny was desperately sick with flu—and when the doctor came, he said he’d have to go to the hospital. I couldn’t send Benny to the hospital. His eyes were begging me not to let him go there all alone. I was awfully fright- ened then. We had friends in Chicago and I felt that if I could only get him back there, everything was going to be all right again. The doctor finally consented to letting him go and Charlie Thorpe, who's been our accompanist for years and is with Benny today, helped me to bundle him up and get him on to the train and into the drawing-room we couldn’t afford. Ever since we'd been in Chicago we had been hoping for a chance to get into the Ches Paree, an ultra smart night club. Twice it looked as if we were going to make it, but something always happened. Benny wasn’t even thinking of it any more. When he got over the flu he started work- ing in a little club that had just opened. It didn’t pay much. Enough for a cheap room, for food, for the radio he bought for my birthday. Then one night when Benny was dress- ing to go to the club, I turned on the radio. A news commentator was on and as we listened he announced that the little club had just been raided and closed. It was that old last straw! Something snapped in me then and I began tearing off my dress. “Get into your dress suit, Benny. I’m putting on that grand dress I bought in Paris. The one I’ve never had a chance to wear. We’re going to the Chez Paree!” Benny thought I’d suddenly gone crazy. We had one five-dollar bill left in the world and here I was wanting to go to one of the most expensive places in Chi- cago. But when he saw that I meant it, he smiled and said: “Sure, Blossom. Anything you say.” Mike Fritzell, who is loved by all show people, is part owner of the place and he came over to our table with a big smile and welcome. But as much as I adore that dear friend of ours, I wasn’t going to mince words then. “Listen, Mike,’ I said. “What are you going to do about Benny Fields? You need him as much as he needs you! Your show is crying for a personality like him. Put him to work here!” I knew Mike had been wanting Benny, but he didn’t have full say about the tal- ent. But he smiled and patted me on the shoulder and then he turned to Benny. “Come on over and see me tomorrow,” he said. “Harry Richman is coming here in ten days. Maybe you can fill in, in the mean time.” Somehow I knew then that everything was going to be all right, but we had been fooled so often I didn’t quite dare to hope. But the next night when Benny sang and the place went mad over him I knew he was set. That night *we both broke down. We could break down, now that everything was going to be okay again. It was all right to break down over good luck! Funny, isn’t it, how simply things come after years of waiting and hoping? That engagement at the Chez Paree led direct- ly to Abe Lyman and the Hollywood Restaurant here in New York, to Benny Field’s contract on the radio and his star- ring place on the popular Ziegfeld Follies of the air, for which Abe is responsible. I am glad to say this, because so many people have been taking the bows for it. Since we’ve been back I’ve had offers to sing. Grand offers. But I’m going to wait awhile. To stand by until Benny really gets his success legs under him again. Until he gets the realization that everything is all right again. After all, those last years were a lifetime! Sometimes I choke up when I see Benny Fields out there on the floor, bet- ter than he’s ever been before. For all those things that have happened to him are a part of his voice now, a part of every song he sings. And behind him I see Mondays at the Palace and the Broad- way we used to know... And an Octo- ber morning in Paris .. . And the time he was sick in Kansas City ... And his feet dragging, ever so little, when he had to come home and tell me something else had fallen through... And then I cry like a fool, because that man singing out there, twirling his cane as if he’d never had a care in his life, is my man—my Benny! Silly, isn’t it? The happiest woman in the world crying |!

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2 ~ RADIO STARS Du Stick to flnnouncing (Continued from page 47) Lindbergh ransom was paid. The telephone rang and when I answered, I recognized Lindbergh’s thin, rather high-pitched voice. “This is Colonel Lindbergh speaking,” the voice said. “I’ve just paid the ransom for my boy and I want to know if you ‘have the serial numbers on the bills. If ' you have, I want to ask you not to broad- cast them.” } There was infinite infinite weariness, _ tragedy in the tones of Colonel Lindbergh’s ‘voice. It was the voice of a heart-broken father, for whom everything else in the | world had faded away except the realiza- ‘tion of the loss of his son. My heart felt as though it were smashed into a thousand bits, as I imagined myself and millions of ‘other American fathers in the place of ‘this bitterly-torn, heroic pawn of fate. As long as I live, I sha’n’t be able to for- ‘get Lindbergh’s brief sentence over the telephone. _ But let us skip for a moment to the ‘blinding white sands and gorgeous blue ‘skies of Bermuda. I was sent down there ‘by the National Broadcasting Company in 11932 to “cover” Dr. William Beebe’s first plunge into the sea in the bathysphere. ‘That assignment was one of the most ‘thrilling I have ever had. On the day of ‘the big event, all of us connected with the experiment were in a state of fever- ish excitement. Here was an unknown sphere of research about to be opened to mankind. We did not, therefore, believe that Dr. Beebe knew what he was talking about when he shouted to us: “Boys, don’t pull me up. Let me down—let me down!” He had been lowered almost 1700 feet into the ocean, and was still being lowered! We thought he was just excited. But afterward he explained to us that, at that great depth, since there is no light and all colors of the spectrum are lost, he was amazed suddenly to discover that light was being recorded again on his spectro- scope. The only reason he could find for that was that, instead of being lowered, he was being pulled up again to the sur- face. Then it dawned on him that he had penetrated to a depth in the ocean which was so thick with phosphorescent fish that the light from their bodies made the water bright enough to record light. Of the artists I have come to know well through the years, Jessica Dragonette is one of my favorites. She is a very fine per- son and—here’s something most people don’t realize, she’s a very shy creature, the most timid woman I ever have known in my life. The reserved and rather formal front she puts on is to hide that timidity. I remember that we had been working to- gether on the air for three and a half years before she called me by my first name. When she slipped day and addressed me as “Ford,” she blushed like a school-girl. She exerts tremendous will- power to make herself remain calm during her broadcasts. Though she is a remark- able picture of composure when she faces the microphone, her hands always are icy- cold and she is tense until the last note of her song is off the air. Rudy Vallee is another artist whom I number among my top favorites. I’m crazy about the guy. He has one of the finest minds of anyone I know. He’s truly edu- cated and has a delightful personality. I'll answer your question right now, before you ask it. No, I don’t think he’s conceited. His fault-finders do. He impresses me as a man who has a job to do, knows that he knows how to do it and always has a sure touch. If they want to call that con- ceit, let them. I'll never forget the first time I heard Vallee sing. I was program director at WHAS, in Louisville, Kentucky. 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Dew stops per- spiration—instantly. You can apply Dew any time—just follow the simple directions. Dew costs little; a small bottle lasts for months. Sold at department, drug or chain stores. | that RADIO STARS sational—why don’t you try him out?” Well, I thought it wouldn’t do any harm to give him a trial, so I booked the singer immediately. During his program, I went to the telephone and called Mr. McCelland. “Say, George,” I said. “What do you mean, that man’s a sensation? Why, he’s just a guy singing through his nose!” With that, I hung up the telephone and gave the order to cancel Rudy Vallee at WHAS. But, afterward, I began think- ing it over. The fellow must have some- thing, I reasoned, to have caused such a panic among the women. I decided to listen to him again. Something about his soft, effortless style at the microphone, that I had overlooked before, convinced me he was a sensation! I booked him for the next night. Since then, I’ve been a number-one Rudy Vallee fan. Among the top-notch artists on the air, I think Helen Jepson is one of the love- liest, and greatly deserving of credit for her fine work and rapid rise to stardom. Her husband, George Possell, is a well- known flautist and they have an ideally happy home life. About five years ago, George and I were working together on an NBC program. George was a con- firmed bachelor. One evening he came in, beaming from ear to ear. “Ford,” he said, “I’m going to get mar- ried.” “Go on,” I kidded him, never dreaming he was serious. ‘Where did you find the woman with two million dollars?” “She hasn’t got a cent. She’s just a Will Radio Rule Women Voters? (Continued from page 21) historians. Radio should have a Mes- siah who will talk to people, who will think out loud! I’d like to be that Mes- siah! “I can ture the salt firm shouting for Jones who can play ing: ‘What do we author, anyway ?’ “You know, radio educated to pay wanted me_ to Perkins. I agree with her on a lot of subjects, but I do disagree with her on social security. I wanted to broadcast debate. My first impulse was to say, ‘yes.’ I felt that, between the two of us, we could have sowed some seeds for see the drawbacks. I can pic- coffee company or pepper-and- Mr. Smith or Mr. the banjo, and say- want with a _ lady been They Frances has not yet for writers. debate with thought. But that same speech could be turned into a magazine article. I get paid for magazine articles, while radio thinks a writer should give services free. “Last year I had an excellent radio idea. I wanted to drive all over Amer- ica. I wanted to visit the farms, the min- ing districts, the factories, the big cities and the little villages and broadcast what I saw. I wanted to interpret America for itself. I wanted to tell Alaska about Florida and California about Maine. “IT submitted that idea to a broadcast- but I never knew what hap- pened to it. Do you?” And Fannie Hurst stared at me, puzzled. I told her what happened. was The Columbia Broadcasting ing chain, The chain System, voice student, but she’s the finest girl ie” the world, and, what a voice! She'll be famous some day—you wait and see!” I didn’t have to wait long. After Helen’s marriage, she found stardom on Paul Whiteman’s hour, soon followed by a con- tract at the Metropolitan. I was the an-— nouncer for the Whiteman hour and came to know this beautiful prima donna as one of the most delightful persons I ever have had the pleasure of working with. There are many other stars, with names_ shining glamorously in lights today, whose. early years in radio I’m proud to have” known through close association. Lanny Ross, for instance. Lanny is a swell, un-/ assuming guy. He takes his career very seriously and is one of the hardest-work- ing persons I know. I worked with Lanny for a long time at NBC when we both were complete “unknowns.” He had a fif- teen-minute spot on Saturday nights as The Troubadour of the Moon. “Wouldn’t it be great, Ford,’ he used to say, “if we ever got a break?” There’s that Winchell guy, too. If I ever have palsy in my left arm, it will be a hang-over from the days when Winchell first went on the air, and I would stand with my left hand on his shoulder while I read the announcements. He still gets nervous, but then he shook so at the mike it gave me the jitters, too. Those were the days . . . But today is excifing and tomorrow’s stars are in the making. I wouldn’t trade my job of an- nouncing for anything else in the world! and the idea had been submitted to me, who was, at that time, in their employ. But Columbia was afraid to ask Miss Hurst how much money she might want. To do Columbia justice let me say here that they had once been “burned” by a well-known gentleman writer to whom they paid a thousand dollars a script, only to have him try to fool them by hiring a ghost to do the job for seventy-five dol- lars. He didn’t fool them. His contraet was cancelled. But his antic did hurt other name writers, hurt them to such any extent that a Columbia executive once asked me to ask Sam Hellman, who re ceives thousands of dollars for his scen- arios and magazine stories, to write an hour-long Frigidaire program for one hundred-and-fifty dollars! Another day they offered a writer who gets over five hundred dollars for a short story, twenty- five dollars for a radio script! Such are conditions in the writer broadcasting world. Chains believe that writers should provide them with free bait for advertisers, when nobody else works for nothing. They believe they should pay much less than magazines when they actually make more money thar magazines. As Miss Hurst put it, they're in a rut and don’t know it. “But they'll find out,” Fannie prophesied. “You'll see, and then come improvement.” i I’m waiting for that day, and when if) comes I’ll be the first to listen in, because then Fannie Hurst will go on the air” Hurst will we AND

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hoard of Review (Continued from page 6) 39. ALEMITE HALF HOUR WITH HEIDT’S SS ATER!) (CHS) aps aj sic e eens v vie sos 69.7 Horace Heidt makes the most of a note. 40. PHILIP MORRIS PROGRAM (NBC) .68.6 Leo Reisman and sophistication. Program be- comes irritating in commercial announce- ments, though. 41. AL PEARCE AND HIS GANG (NBC).68.2 The gag-house gang. 42. THE GOLDBERGS (CBS).......... 68.1 Life with its laughs and its tears. | Lan 43. EDDIE DOWLING’S ELGIN REVUE Ne io hae ave eOieds g 4 Eddie is swell. But—— a | 44. FIRST NIGHTER WITH BETTY LOU ‘| GERSON AND DON AMECHE (NBC)..68.1 Original radio playlets, well written, directed | and performed. | 45. BOB CROSBY (CBS)............... 67.3 in | Bing’s popular kid brother, whose voice and orchestra are well worth the dialing. 7 | 46. MELODIANA WITH BERNICE CLAIRE it _AND ABE LYMAN’S ORCHESTRA (NBC) i | eG Tit ? wf Not forgetting Oliver Smith’s fine tenor. il: 47. LOMBARDO ROAD (CBS)..:...... 67.0 oi Guy Lombardo and his brothers. Excellent, he ma of course. PRINCESS PAT PLAYERS (NBC)...67.0 Thetr popularity is gaining steadily. ee EGE SLES (GNEG)\ oie. 5 5,500 c-e:600,0.6 66.8 Harry Horlick and his orchestra continue to delight with sprightly arrangements. SHELE CHATEAU (NBC)......... 66.6 Smith Ballew, radio’s tallest m. c., perform- ing effectively Al Jolson’s former duties. b Many enjoy him more, in fact. Victor Young’s : music. : 51. LANNY ROSS PRESENTS MAXWELL B) HOUSE SHOWBOAT (NBC)........... 66.4 All depends on Lanny. _} 52. GRAND HOTEL WITH ANNE SEYMOUR | AND VINNIE HAWORTH (NBC)....... 66.3 A stimulating change from crooners, swing music and such. | 53. YOUR HIT PARADE (NBC) (CBS).66.3 The bands may come and go, but the fifteen most popular hits of the week go on forever. 54. MAJOR BOWES’ CAPITOL FAMILY RED LOS 65.5 a Sa a eee 66.0 The human interest stories are missing, but “ professional performances make up for them. 55. CHRYSLER AIR SHOW (CBS)..... 65.8 | Lawrence Gray. Mark Warnow’s tuneful mu- sic. id" | 56. FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE “THE such POLITICAL SITUATION IN WASHINGTON "oa MERE (CESS) sos. oc crave eyeusie erere a vo « 65.7 re i With the presidential election fast approach- ie : | ing, Mr. Wile’s listeners are increasing no end. 57. FOLIES DE PAREE (NBC) 65.3 Willie and Eugene Howard and Fifi Dorsay ‘or © are featured. Certain to become an outstand- er A ing favorite, if the quality continues. i | 58. MAJOR BOWES’ ORIGINAL AMATEUR ERS INE Gy ee een 65.1 Are the critics being unkind, or is the Majo rt HAMMERSTEIN’S MUSIC HALL (NBC ) wi. = =» «G51 Reviving the Gay Nineties. LADY ESTHER SERENADE (NBC) .64.4 The charm of Wayne King’s music. . BENAY VENUTA (CBS).......... 64.4 Songstress extraordinary, TITO GUIZAR (CBS) Romance in song. SWIFT STUDIO PARTY (NBC)... .63.7 Lionel Barrymore and Sigmund Romber 3 the attractions. . ens" ye (cBsy FLYING RED HORSE TAVERN Ge Se oe, ROR oe eae 63.6 ted Beatrice Lillie, almost d 7 Ms the stage—which is lich ener _e a RADIO STARS WITH Beech-Nut 81

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SU T (2 A favorite story character steps out of the story book. 129. JUST PLAIN BILL (CBS)......... 47.7 Depicting the small town good Samaritan. 130. VOICE OF EXPERIENCE (CBS).. .47.6 Experience irons out the wrinkles in human problems. 131. POPEYE THE SAILOR (NBC)..... 47.6 You'll like him better in the comic strip. 132. LAZY DAN THE MINSTREL MAN SEMPEMCIetaid ciel as ales s'c ca. © ob ayete. o.0\é 0 elope 47.3 Here’s a man who refuses to be hurried. 133. BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CEN- I RESMCEGES SS Pio rn. uirsy0(e\ 0'.0 0 0.050. 6, yg minip 0,0 \e) sie" 47.3 A peep into a very fantastic future. ac4. SINGIN’ SAM (CBS)............. 46.0 Tunes in the popular vein, 135. HARV AND ESTHER (CBS).......44.8 Amusing and gay. nae. BILL. AND BETTY (NBC)......%. 40.2 Diverting. Radio Ramblin G4 (Continued from page 18) Another recruit to the ranks of pet owners is Frank Munn, veteran tenor star of the air-waves, who has a new silky black cocker spaniel puppy, named Schnapps. Frank says he is keeping an album of Schnapps-shots. Now in _ his thirteenth year of radio work, Frank is on three NBC programs, Lavender and Old Lace, Walts Time and The Ameri- can Album of Familiar Music. -> A recent caller in the office whence these radio ramblings emanate was Phil Spitalny, whose story is told elsewhere in this issue. An interesting-looking dark man, his success with his all-girl orches- tra is not only a gratification to him but to the eager listeners to the Hour of Charm program. His girls, Phil says, represent a miniature league of nations, being of Russian, French, Hungarian, English, German, Canadian, Polish-Italian and American parentage. They come from seventeen different states in the union. ae Jerry Cooper, handsome Southern bari- tone star, apparently is, we are informed, thinking seriously of the movies. Although he has turned down three offers from movie companies, he has enrolled with one of America’s most respected dramatic coaches for a course in diction and stage art. But maybe the CBS singer is think- ing about television. oe When and if television does come we may see Lois Ravel, charming NBC songstress, riding as she warbles. Lois is an expert equestrienne and has won many awards for her skill. In Washington, re- cently, she established a new high for the course over the hurdles. oe Here’s a program that must have a host of attentive listeners, judging by the re- Sponse. Gertrude Berg, author and main character of The Goldbergs radio script Series, recently introduced a new feature one day a week in her program. It is called Mama Talks. Since starting it she has received an average of 3,500 letters each week from mothers, asking her ad- vice regarding problems in their homes and in the raising of their children. Al- though Mrs. Berg dictates her advice per- RADIO STARS WARD ENIA I Oc For trial size FAOEN Gardenia captures the true fragrance of those fragile blossoms to give you pulsating glamour and youthful delicacy ... a perfume ever reminiscent of Spring... and eternal romance. Gives you an elusive sparkle that seems to charac- terize some lovely creature as poignant, beautiful, wistfully perfect and divinely gay. Seek out this marvelous perfume at any 5 and 10 cent store. PARK & TILE ORD F AO EN 83

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On sale at all 5 and 10 cent stores or mail coupon and 10 cents for each full size package. mahal TL THIS COUPON Cleveland, Ohio lam enclosing cents. Please send me | SHEILA Shampoo; pkgs. SHEILA Rinse; SHEILA Wave Powder. Prepaid. NAME... : | ADDRESS & 84 EGG SHAMPOO COLOR RINSE RADIO STARS sonally, she has had to employ three secre- taries to take care of the answers to all these queries. a Speaking of listening, Dorothy Thomp- son, famous woman journalist and wife of the noted author, Sinclair Lewis, touches a subject close to our heart when she refers to us as “lazy listeners.” And not only lazy listeners, but timid thinkers! - Every other Tuesday Miss Thompson analyzes highlights of the news on NBC’s Women's Radio Review. And she has, she declares, “an ulterior purpose.’ She wants people not only to listen, but to think—to do their own analyzing, choose their own highlights and check their choices against her own. oe “As a nation,’ we are the world’s most timid thinkers,’ Miss Thompson says. “We act impulsively. We’re never afraid of action, no matter how unwise. But whenever we suspect a public figure of thinking—then we get suspicious!” = Let’s take Dorothy up on that listening and thinking. . . . We might even find something to be indignant about! We might do something about it... . = Eddie Dowling’s mother was one who “did something about it!” We know youll enjoy Eddie’s story, on Page 28 in this magazine. Mrs. Dowling lis- tened—to many a tale of trouble and dis- aster. ... And she didn’t just say: ‘Isn't that too bad!” Or: “I’m so sorry!” She went out and did something to help—paid the rent, or called the doctor, or bought a ton of coal, or found a job for someone. And she made life a grand story. > The same sort of spirit has characterized Eddie Dowling’s rise to the top flight of stage and radio comedians. His program, The Elgin Review, is worth listening to —though the material could be better. Maybe somebody will do something about that! ae Here’s a novel idea for these days— though it really is old as the hills! Jan Peerce is putting it into practice however. Jan pays his physician an annual fee to keep him healthy, instead of consulting him only when he is ill. As you doubt- less know, that’s an old Chinese custom. -o Something of a different sort has come down through the years to Frances Adair, NBC soprano. Frances’ most cherished possession is a doll, one hundred years old. Her great-great-grandmother made it for Frances’ great-grandmother. And speaking of dolls, Ireene Wicker, The Singing Lady, wife of Walter Wicker and mother of two tall children, looks like a brunette Dresden doll. But far from being a baby doll, Ireene has a truly amaz- ing fund of knowledge on many widely diversified subjects, as her charmingly en- tertaining program, created entirely by herself, demonstrates. Despite which, when the day of television arrives, Ireene is going to find it hard to escape being cast as a Dresden doll—or, at least, a wide-eyed child! oe It’s going to complicate things, isn’t it? —when the program director for a dra- matic script must choose his actors to stand the test of sight as well as sound! Just to be helpful, we offer a few out- standing types: A political campaign leader. Ben Bernie A college professor......... Don Bestor College sophomore (in his first long pants) aa Just time to make note of the report that the romance of Jim and Marian Jor- dan (NBC’s Fibber McGee and Molly) began when Jim was ten years old and Marian eight. They were attending sep- arate schools in the same Illinois town- ship and Molly’s school gave a party, at which Molly performed an Irish jig. Jim never forgot it. Fifteen years later they were married. aa “And now—”’ as Boake Carter would say, “I see that my time’s up... ” So, until another month, the Radio Rambler will gather —and go to press. up these “seashells” Keep Young and Seautiful (Continued from page 9) ever, should contain one special seaside lip- stick. I know of one new lipstick, for ex- ample, ee is indelible and costs a mere pittance. It comes in a handsome swivel case, which makes it all the more con- venient, of course, and the range of sum- mer shades in which it is offered will tempt you to stock up a supply in more than one color. There’s a definite orange shade which is perfect with deep sun tan, and a more vivid red one for the light sun tan. This is the first time that I have ever known a swivel lipstick to be offered at such a price and in such an extensive range of shades. As I have mentioned before, your eyes need some special consideration as you ac quire your tan, for a warmer color of the skin has a way of draining the color from

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has made five trips to Europe. England, in a sense, is home to him, since both his father and his mother were born there. Lanny, however, was born in the United States—in Seattle, Washington, on Jan- uary 19th, 1906, to be exact. ~ “So I am an American. I can be pres- ident,” said Lanny, grinning and sticking his thumbs in the arm-holes of his vest. The restaurant where we were lunching is near Radio City. At the next table to | ours sat Margaret Speaks, of the Fire- stone program, with William Daly, maes- tro of the Firestone Symphony Orchestra, and some friends. F “Quite a popular place for radio peo- _ | ple,” commented Lanny. He went on to speak of the vast audience that a radio star has, as compared with that of great ' stars of the theatre a generation ago. “Take Booth,” said Lanny, “or Otis _ Skinner in his early days, William Gillette _—all those great actors who made the old 'Empire Theatre famous and glamorous— how few people, comparatively, ever saw or heard them. While we of the radio, of far lesser attainments, play to audiences that cover the country.” “And,” I suggested, “although they never 'see you, how much closer to them you ‘are than were those great ones of the stage to their audiences. You come into ‘their homes. They know you and love | you, like a son or a brother or a sweet- ‘heart. They wait each week for your _ home-coming.” || “That makes me feel very humble,” said ",\)Lanny softly. “It’s a very wonderful Bithing.... _ “The movies,” he reflected, “bring you “, even more closely to people. They can "| see you as well as hear you.... , af D, “T’d like,” said Lanny thoughtfully, “to make two movies a year... We all would ‘like to do that. And I’d like to give two concerts a year .. . And have a good radio |program ... And I want to write, too,” ‘he repeated. “I was an editor once, my- \seli—of a college paper!” Again that ‘frank, engaging grin. Serious-minded though he is, Lanny can smile at himself. _ I like to read,” said Lanny. “True stor- “ies about people—how they became what — ‘they are—what hard knocks they took, without quitting. . . And I like romance, 1} adventure, mystery. I like to read: “There was a shot in the darkness.... A ‘hand reached slowly around the door. . . oe then—Continued in our next issue!” _ And he laughed. | One can see why Lanny Ross is in de- - mand socially. A good companion. _ Thoughtful. Kindly. Interested in what jothers are doing. Keenly alive and alert ‘and ambitious. At a glance he looks younger than his thirty years, but as he ; talks one perceives a maturity of under- ‘standing gained from varied experience. Lanny Ross has a sound sense of values. i | Whatever he does, he will do it thoroughly jand well. He is not complacent, not easily " ‘satisfied. His career, thus far, is one to be proud of—but Lanny makes no pose of success. He feels, as Captain Henry of the Show Boat used to say: “It’s only the \beginning, folks—onlee the bee-ginn-ing !” | So, with his birthright of music and adventure and courage, with sincerity and honor and keen zest, Lanny Ross will go _jonward, as his pioneer forefathers went, cn ee ee ! RADIO STARS CANT CHAFE’ KOTEX CAN'T CHAFE 4 RS. The sides of Kotex are cushioned in a special, soft, downy cotton to prevent chafing and irri- tation. Thus Wondersoft Kotex provides lasting comfort and freedom. But sides only are cush- i. ioned —the center surface is free to absorb. Kotex has a special ‘Equalizer’ center whose channels guide moisture evenly the whole length of the pad. Gives ‘“‘body’’ but not bulk —pre- vents twisting and roping. The filler of Kotex is actually 5 TIMES more absorbent than cotton. The rounded ends of Kotex are flattened and tapered to provide absolute invisibility. Even the sheerest dress, the closest-fitting gown, reveals no tell-tale lines or wrinkles. 3 TYPES OF KOTEX—ALL AT THE SAME LOW PRICE 1. REGULAR—IN THE BLUE BOX—For the or- dinary needs of most women. 2. JUNIOR—IN THE GREEN BOX — Somewhat narrower — when less protection is needed. 3. SUPER—IN THE BROWN BOX —Extra layers give extra protection, yet it is no longer or wider than Regular. A SANITARY NAPKIN made from Cellucotton (not cotton) 87 -—— ‘to new worlds of artistic success and of s jample and fruitful living. WONDERSOFT KOTE

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a emt “T interviewed eleven hundred girls be- fore picking out the thirty-two for the orchestra,” Phil told me. “Of course, I wanted to be sure that every girl I se- lected had character as well as musical ability. If I interviewed a girl and was satisfied with her playing, I’d sit and talk to her for a while. Then I’d make another appointment and talk to her again. May- be a third time, or a fourth. I had to be convinced that they were the sort of girls who wouldn’t make trouble, who'd co- operate with the other girls, not permit jealousy to disrupt the organization, play fair, work hard—and above all, realize that the good of the organization as a whole was to their own personal gain, too. I guess my judgment must have been okay, for in three and a half years, I’ve only replaced six girls.” But what were his methods of directing thirty-two girls? How did Phil keep temperament from rearing its ugly head? “It’s perfectly simple,” he explained. “I just forgot they’re girls. To me, they’re just thirty-two musicians—and when I say musicians, I mean musicians. Why, come right down to it, they’re less trouble than men. You never see any of my girls watching the clock at rehearsals. They are more patient and harder workers than men. And you know what makes the dif- ference between a hack and a musician? The degree of perception. Well, that’s where women have the bulge on men, be- cause they’re more emotionally sensitive.” Phil conducted auditions in every state in the union in selecting his band. “And here’s a funny thing,’ he said. “Of the thirty-two girls, nineteen came from small towns. -Why, I found the girl from the small town more up-to-date than the big-city girl. I suppose she has more time to keep up with things. The small-town girl must have more time for practise, too, because the best musicians I found were in the small towns.” Now naturally, when you are inter- viewing a man who has thirty-two pul- chritudinous young women working for him, there is one question, at any rate, that is what you might call a “natural.” I had been watching for an opening. Phil laughed. “When I first signed up the girls, I put a clause in all their contracts, forbid- ding them to marry within two years,” he said, “but that clause is out now. The reason was simple enough. After all, this orchestra represented a $20,000.00 invest- ment before it returned a penny. I had to bring these girls from all parts of the country, pay their expenses, beside living expenses and salaries, before I finally got work for them. Naturally, I didn’t want them running out on me to get married. | chose single girls in the first place because I wanted their minds free from outside interests—or at any rate as free as they could be. Then, at the end of the two years, I omitted the clause.” “Why?” I asked. “Didn’t you care then whether they got married or not?” “No, it wasn’t that,” Phil assured me. “But you see, none of them want to get married now. They’ve had a taste of real independence—earning their own living and holding down a good, pleasant, well- Paying job. You'll find when a girl’s in that position, she doesn’t think so much about marriage.” “And he learned about women from them.” RADIO STARS Why does a girl in love blossom glor- iously? Because she has the thrilling assurance that to one person in the world she is wonderful . . . adorable ... beloved. Why do Blue Waltz cosmetics help the “lonely” girl to blossom into the “only” girl? Because they give her con- fidence; they make her feel desirable. She discovers her own loveliness through the romantic fragrance of Blue Waltz Perfume; the satiny tex- ture of Blue Waltz Face Powder; the tempting colors of Blue Waltz Lipstick. Say “Blue Waltz” when you buy cos: metics. Certified pure, laboratory test- ed. 10¢ each at 5 and 10¢ stores. RELAX A qo MINUTE AND REVEL IN BEEMANS FINE FRESH FLAVOR . . IT CALMS YOUR NERVES AND IT AIDS DIGESTION REMOVES HAIR PERFUMED XBAZIN Simply apply—wash. off. Leaves skin soft and smooth— discourages regrowth. Giant Size Cream or Powder 50¢ Smaller Tube only 10¢ EAM o, POWDER ORUG — DEPT. STORES — TEN CENT STORES _ EASILY: QUICKLY - SURELY

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He beams and remarks: “Tt’s good to have another man at the table, instead of eating three meals a day with a bunch of women!” If we weren’t so fond of Eddie and so pleased to see him happy we might be a little jealous! So far, however, the only member of our household who has been bitten by the green-eyed monster is Janet, our youngest daughter. She also is eight years old—just Bobby’s age—and until he came along, she was the pet. The first sign of hostility on her part came when her father wrote her a long letter about Bobby, just after they met in Hollywood. He was shouting the praises of this unusual and talented young- ster. Janet replied: cause he’s a boy. about any boy!” I think she’s becoming resigned to the situation by now, however. She even grins and blushes when we tease her about her new “sweetheart.” They wrangle amicably and they play together, when there aren’t any adults around. As I said before, Eddie and the Breen child met in Hollywood. My husband was working on his latest picture, Strike Me Pink. By chance, he heard Bobby singing at a benefit show. Impressed by the quality of his voice and delivery, he immediately signed him for the next broad- cast. Bobby sang a _ tearful number, Santa, Bring My Mommy Back to Me, and followed that up, the next week, with Treasure Island. The fan mail began pouring in. When we went to Hollywood Beach, Florida, last winter, Eddie sent for Bobby, who joined him there and became a regu- lar entertainer on his weekly program. When we returned to New York, Bobby and his sister came along, too. The boy is now an established member of the cast of Eddie’s show. Before he joined us, Bobby had suffered plenty of poverty, privations and _ heart- aches. He tells his experiences with un- consciously humorous gravity, speaking just like an adult—though sometimes he lapses into the enthusiasm and the idiom of childhood. “Ves, it’s been pretty tough, these last four or five years,’ says Bobby, “but everything’s just fine, now!” “Vou just like him be- I'll bet you’d be crazy Sally “discovered” her brother’s voice when he was only three. The Breens were then living in Toronto, Canada, where Bobby’s father was a storekeeper. Ambitious for the child’s success, the girl promoted his appearance at local amateur shows and even presented him at a night club, during the dinner hour. “My sister has always given me voice lessons,” the tiny star remarks. “The first song I learned was Cryin’ for the Caro- lines. That went over very well. Then I sang Sonny Boy in black-face. Of all my songs, I guess I like Santa, Bring My Mommy Back to Me the best. It brought Uncle Eddie to me!” Their parents refused to take Bobby’s career seriously, so game little Sally left home with him and went to Chicago, where for a year Bobby sang at local and nearby theatres. The girl worked in night clubs to eke out their slender in- come. They decided New York was their next goal and made the entire trip by bus, Sally holding her brother on her knees to avoid paying a fare for him. The boy was placed in the Professional Children’s School, and Sally went back to work. They lived in dreary rooming- houses, hoping vainly for recognition. Then a big chance came. Bobby was asked to play in a picture, Le?’s Sing Again. Once more they gambled. They spent all their money on the trip to Holly- wood, arriving with great expectations, but no contract. However, luck was with them. The movie was made, with Bobby in a starring role—and then they met my husband. Life in Florida was a grand, glorious lark for both Bobby and Eddie. They played handball and baseball on the beach. Back in New York, Eddie had the thrill of escorting Bobby around the shops and buying boys’ clothes! You should have seen the two of them, when the parcels started coming in— sturdy little brown oxfords, socks, blouses and a very “grown-up” blue silk dressing- gown. Bobby immediately donned the dressing-gown and began striding ner- vously back and forth, imitating his “Uncle Eddie” at home. And then there was the argument over a beret versus a cap. Sally insisted on the beret but both Eddie and Bobby favored the cap. “A beret,” sneered Bobby, “is for sissies!” Bobby looks very cute in his cap! Their favorite game is boy.” boy costumes—chaps, and guns. He delights in wearing them and Eddie, grinning from ear to ear, joins right in the make-believe by pre- tending he’s a vigilante. They also enjoy playing casino and rummy, for pennies or chips. Bobby likes to win, but he becomes absolutely furious if anyone “gives” him the game. He wants an honest victory—or none at all. Sometimes the boy arrives at our home before Eddie is out of bed in the morn- ing. Then what fun the two of them have. Like a small whirlwind, Bobby leaps on to the bed, playfully pummelling “playing cow- The boy has a collection of cow- pistol belt, holster Eddie until he cries for mercy. They stage amateur boxing and _ wrestling matches. Despite his precocity, Bobby’s a real F & ®,

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tH) Beatrice Lillie, hilarious British come- dienne, is the star of The Flying Red Horse Tavern. At first some thought her humor was unsuited for radio. Beatrice proved them wrong! we boy. He’s been playing with the children of the neighborhood and prides himself on being a part of the “crowd”, despite his professional experiences and stage back- ground. “T have a nickname,’ he announced proudly, the other day. “The gang calls me ‘Spikey. They wanted to call me ‘Butch,’ but I like ‘Spikey’ better.” He has several ambitions right now. My husband promised he could go to military academy in the near future. Bobby adores uniforms. He’s not quite sure whether he wants to attend Annapo- lis or West Point, when he’s old enough. However, he’s pretty definite about one thing. “T intend to be a great radio and screen star,” he says positively. “Oh, I know it means a lot of hard work. But I don’t mind. I love to work!” Talk about baseball has been going on for quite a while. They chatter about the Yankees and New York Giants, incurves and outfields and strike-outs and three- baggers. Whenever we venture to utter a timid query, they unite in squelching us with a scornful: “This is men’s talk— you wouldn’t understand!” For years and years Eddie has been trying, hopefully but vainly, to interest the girls in baseball. He started with Marjorie, the oldest, and went down the line. They'd go with him dutifully, but they just didn’t share his enthusiasm. They would yawn and look around for the hot-dog man instead of watching the game. All too obviously, they were bored and glad when the ordeal was over. And so, even if Bobby couldn’t sing a note—even if he didn’t happen to be a skillful actor and a tireless worker—I know Eddie would be delighted to have him around. Summer, a hot sun, blue skies—and a small boy at his side, watching a base- ball game! RADIO STARS Have YOU : found this secret of POPULARITY ? Blonde or Brunette, you can acquire everlasting glamour of soft lustrous hair. BLONDES — Brighten your hair with Marchand’s Golden Hair Wash. Give sunny lustre to dull, faded or streaked hair. Rinse with Marchand’s. BRUNETTES — Want to have your hair soft and alluring too? Rinse sparkling highlights, a peowing sheen into your hair with Marchand’s. Or, using Marchand’s full strength, you can lighten your hair to any lovely blonde shade. BLONDES and BRUNETTES — Use Marchand’s to soften attractively and make un- noticeable “superfluous” hair on face, arms and legs. Keep dainty and alluring all-over with Marchand’s. Start to-day! Get a bottle of Marchand’s Golden Hair Wash at any drug store. Or use coupon below. FREE VISIT TO NEW YORK FOR ATTRACTIVE BLONDE — Full details in your bottle of Marchand’s Golden Hair Wash. At your druggist’s. Or write Marchand’s. MARCHAND’S GOLDEN HAIR WASH ~~ , ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR MARCHAND’S TODAY, OR USE THIS COUPON | MARCHAND’S GOLDEN HAIR WASH, 521 West 23rd St., NEW YORK CITY | Please let me try for myself the SUNNY, GOLDEN EFFECT of Marchand’s | Golden Hair Wash. Enclosed 50 cents (use stamps, coin or money order as con- | venient) for a full-sized bottle. | | |

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And perhaps none of the sisters will make a greater success in her chosen work than Helen. Very often the girls are asked which one is the most popular. Their quick and smiling answer is: ‘Patti.” Patti is the baby of the family, the dar- ling of their hearts. When she was four- teen she substituted at a broadcast for Grace when Grace was ill. Then Patti stayed on as the third member of the trio while Grace became manager. Patti is barely eighteen now, and in love. Deeply, devastatingly in love! Te her, at the moment, the future is a lovely golden haze, with a rainbow halo. Rather indefinite, perhaps, but very beautiful. But to those who know her, Patti’s fu- ture seems fairly well indicated. For she is a natural comedienne. She was born with a gift for making people laugh. Sing- ing with her sisters, she has to be careful, for one funny little gesture by Patti—a toss of her head, a lift of the hand—and the eyes of the audience center on her, amused and waiting for more. Grace, who always is present when the girls sing, says that there are more com- ments about Patti than about either of the other sisters. Women may be envious of Helen’s dark loveliness and jealous of Jane’s brilliant beauty, but they always are disarmed and captivated by the winsome Patti. Many think Patti is Others say it isn’t beauty, Whatever it is, Patti is a charmer! the adored, the well-beloved. When the trio breas up, there is no doubt that Patti will have a chance at act- ing in Hollywood if she wants it. She photographs excellently and works easily in front of a camera. But if she chooses to ignore Hollywood—well, many a Broad- way producer has watched with longing eyes Patti’s ability to steal across the foot- lights into the hearts of an audience. And many a sponsor knows that Patti, all by herself, could enchant a million listeners. Perhaps the hardest working of the Pickens Sisters is Grace, the eldest. She was a member of the singing trio only for the first six months of its existence, under- taking to manage its affairs after Patti proved that she could take Grace's place. The other three say that without Grace very beautiful. but personality. She is they never could have succeeded. But she vigorously denies this. Slender, delicately featured, with soft brown hair and thoughtful wide-set eyes, hers is a quiet, well-poised beauty. Talk to Grace and you feel that, at last, you have met a woman who is just and rea- sonable and at all times calm. When she and Helen and Jane were cat- apulted into their radio work four years ago, Grace had just begun a promising career as a writer. According to critics, she showed exceptional brilliance. Whea the singing trio breaks up and her sisters no longer need her, she plans to go back to her chosen work.- Her ambition is to do fine writing—not the facile, popular stuff that is written swiftly and sold quick- ly, but something of real literary merit. She doesn’t regret that the radio work has postponed the launching of her writ- ing career. She feels that she has added the experiences of those years to her store- house of knowledge and ideas—a store- house to be tapped when she finally is able to retreat to the country and start work on her literary endeavors. Nor does Grace ever regret having given her place in the singing trio to Patti. She never loved the spotlight nor an audi- ence’s admiring attention. And she feels that she is more valuable to her sisters 1s their manager. As a matter of fact, Grace is more than manager. She is critic, advisor, arranger, codrdinator. And that’s a large order when you’re handling a trio! ; Here’s a typical situation: The girls have rehearsed until late afternoon. They’re due at the studio in four hours. Immed- iately after their broadcast, they are to make a personal appearance at a Broadway theater. This means that they must go to the broadcast gowned for the theater ap- pearance and wearing stage make-up. Helen has a six-thirty dinner engagement with her husband and a group of his friends. Patti and her pup, Spankey, were caught in a rain-storm and the shower does awful things to Patti’s hair—all kinky, you know. She has to get to a hair-dresser. Jane, in the meantime, hasn’t had a minute to get over to the costumers to have her white satin gown fitted. She was rehears- ing for her own broadcast on the Jumbo hour when her sisters had their fittings. Jane must be at the dressmaker’s before six or the gown won't be ready for the girls’ appearance the following night. Grace is convinced that they should run over that new song once or twice more be- fore the broadcast. In the midst of try- ing to piece together this jig-saw puzzle of time, the telephone rings. It’s the press agent at NBC. Can he bring a photog- rapher over for an informal picture? It won’t take a minute. He’s promised an important magazine the photograph ut once. The answer of course is: “Yes,”— though Grace knows a photograph always takes an hour! “When only one person is concerned,” she points out, “appointments can be jug- gled in and it isn’t so difficult to make a strenuous schedule fit into a day. But with three, no matter how careful each is, there always are mix-ups and tangles to be straightened out. “There are problems you wouldn't think of!” Grace says. “The matter of clothes, for instance. Each of the girls has a dif- ferent type of figure and different coloring.

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\8 ee oe Yet we have found that, when they sing, it is much more effective if they are dressea alike. Since they are three different heights, the dress must be designed without a belt or any horizontal lines. Such lines give a hodge-podge effect that isn’t pleasing when the three girls are standing side by side. Then, sometimes, a dress that looks beautiful on Jane is unbecoming to Helen. Or if Helen can wear it, Patti can’t. We design all our own clothes now, because through years of trial and error, we've learned the ‘do’s’ and ‘don'ts.’ But it takes a great deal of thought and time, and end- less hours of fitting, changing, and refit- ting. “Life is ten times more complicated for a trio than for a soloist!” So Grace muses thoughtfully. When you consider how very difficult it is and how very different these four girls are, you wonder that the combination has lasted as long as it has. Their life together has been as harmonious as their singing. There never has been a serious argument nor a flash of jealousy. It’s part- ly because of the kind of people they are. For while they are widely divergent types, they all are understanding, considerate and well-bred young women. Each is proud of the others’ successes and each gives the others credit for her own success in their bright career. Furthermore, since none of the girls con- sidered it her life’s work, since each of them had plans apart from it, they’ve been spared the nervous strain of intense com- petition, the hectic scramble to stay on top, that tears at most stars in the entertain- ment world. They sing at the mike with the same ease and assurance that they had always sung when grouped around the piano at home. Some families wile away long evenings playing cards or reading aloud. The Pickens girls spent their evenings singing three-part harmony. Their mother is a good musician. Their father loved music. Their grandfather was a fine violinist. Each of the girls was born with perfect pitch—a quality rare, even among musicians. Each of them could carry a tune when she was a year old. They all learned to sing before they learned to talk. There was a fifth girl in the family, a baby who died on her first birthday. The sisters say they remember that she already had begun to take her place in the family singing, her little treble voice carrying the melody sure and true. They always have sung for the love of singing. They happened to break into radio because, coming to New York to visit Jane, the girls gathered around a piano at a friend’s house and sang some of their old favorites, just for fun. To the girls and their mother it was “just like old times, when we were all home together.” | But to the friend, the intricate harmonies and clear soft voices were the answer to a sponsor’s prayer. 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There were only tiny pockets in his ‘buttons’ uniform, but Eddie managed to make the watch stay in one, and to draw it out upon every possi- ble occasion. “Especially when I met that little girl,” he chuckled. ‘And as if that wasn’t glory enough, when I got back to my ship, my uncle said I needed something on the other end of the chain, to anchor it—and he gave me a gold toothpick!” He laughed heartily over that unforgettable thrill. “A gold toothpick! It’s a wonder I had any teeth left, the way I used that thing!” It seems a big jump, from ship’s monkey to the theatre, but it came about naturally enough. For Eddie had a sweet soprano voice and had his opportunity to sing at the ship's concerts. In the audience one night was George Monroe, the discoverer of Harry Lauder. He was interested in boys’ voices then, planning to take the St. Paul’s boys’ choir of London on tour. Eddie incredulously found himself the head of a choir of sixty boys and on a tour of the world... . “T’d had a taste of it by then, of seeing the world, of touring, of the theatre—it got in my blood. I had to keep on—vau- deville, stock companies—you know how it was in those days before radio!” No quick road to fame, no easy route to success. A long hard struggle—but he woke up one day, found himself on Broad- way ... It has been a satisfying career and he has loved it all the way. He has been actor, manager, playwright and pro- ducer on the legitimate and musical stage, in vaudeville and in moving pictures. He has known success and wealth, been the friend of important people in his own and many other lines. His friendship with President Roosevelt is often commented upon, but it is because he likes and respects the man behind the title that that friend- ship means so much to Eddie, not because he is President. “You'd like him, too,” Eddie said simply. “He’s nice to know—he’s regular!” I like Eddie for that, for his sincerity, for his loyalty to so many people. And because nothing ever has changed him from the self-styled ‘corny’ fellow he was when he first hit Broadway. And he has been fortunate in that he has been able to build his life along the simple lines that mean so much to him—to have a home, to cling to the old traditions. Early in his Broadway days he met Ray Dooley and they were married. “T was lucky,” he said devoutly, “I was lucky!” And added: “She is like my mother.” And what man knows any higher praise? “She is quiet, shy,” he continued. “It’s rare in the theatre—the love of home, of simple things. A bow doesn’t mean any- thing to her, in itself. She likes her work, but then she likes to leave it, to forget about it. She keeps herself apart. For instance, in this hotel where we are living, she’ll slip out the back way and go to an early mass. Nobody knows when she comes or goes or what she does. She wants it that way .. .” She is a tiny thing, Ray Dooley, with dark hair and shining dark eyes. It is hard to imagine her the mother of a twenty-year- old son but she is infinitely prouder of that son than she is of her reputation as the famous ‘brat’ of the theatre. “T guess we were the first of the ‘heck- lers’,”’ Eddie mused, “but she was particu- larly famous for her own line. She was big—she was tops. Why, she played in nine successive Follies! She played with Will Rogers and W. C. Fields—say, some of those skits were immense—do you re- member ?” She saved many a show with her clever impersonations of a brat of a child who was always in the way, always getting everyone into trouble. When they struck any kind of hitch, were in doubt what to do, Ziegfeld used to say: “Send for Ray Dooley !” She comes of an old theatrical and circus family and is a real trouper. But though she has shared Eddie’s triumphs and known repeated triumphs of her own, she still ‘likes home best’. “That’s the nice thing about radio,” Ed- die commented. “It’s just fine for Ray and me—gives us a chance to get back and work together again. She loves it and it is a fine medium for her talent. I like it, too, but the pace is different from what I’m used to. I like the little love stories, the homey songs—like the songs I’ve written myself: White House, Cottage Small, End of the Road, Time Will Tell—” “There is a place for that kind of thing on radio,” I suggested, “the old, enduring type of comedy combined with senti- ment—” He nodded. “There should be. And there ought to be some way of getting around the time limit, when one more min- ute would mean getting one’s message across. It will slow down, we'll stumble into a way to put over our shows at a more leisurely pace. Of course I’m just feeling my way in a new field— “T was limited in the theatre,” he con- tinued. “There was one type of thing I did best. I remember one time—my first play was a success and George Cohan was con- gratulating me. ‘You are young,’ he said, ‘and you don’t need my advice—but recog- nize your own talent, what you do best— and stick to it. Don’t go literary because ~ you think that’s what the critics want!"

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“Tt’s strange, isn’t it, how we can destroy the And he added thoughtfully: thing that makes us? I’ve written a lot of plays since then, successes, too, and I still don’t know just how it is done, but I. know what he meant—and how right he was—” Utterly candid as he is, Eddie readily admits his limitations—and that is a rare and endearing trait! And as Cohan pointed out, good business, too. So, what Eddie hopes to find in radio is the opportunity to do the sort of thing he knows in his heart he still does best. Not so much gags and snappy comebacks as the combination of humor and sentiment that he put over so effectively on the stage. This is not, however, Eddie’s first ac- quaintance with radio. In 1932, he wrote and staged and acted as master of cere- monies for the first Ziegfeld Follies of the Air—with Florenz Ziegfeld in person. It was the first big show of the air, under the sponsorship of the Chrysler Corpora- tion, and introduced among others Jack Pearl, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Jimmy Durante. It was a great success, too, but when Ziegfeld died, the sponsors felt it should be withdrawn. Eddie has no connection with the present revival, un- der different management. His experience has been wide, bringing him success in many fields. In 1930, he made his first picture: Rainbow Man, in which he sang his own song, Sleepy Valley. It was made’on a shoestring and grossed a million! But later pictures were less satisfactory and Eddie decided the movies were not for him. Ray Dooley also was in the movies and Eddie says enthusiasti- cally: “She was great!” (And lest you think him prejudiced, the critics said so, too!) “But,” Eddie adds candidly: “I don’t photograph well—and we like to be to- gether—we like home too well!” Literally, home is Bayside, New York, on the shore and a lovely spot it is. But wherever they can be together and have their young son, Jack, with them—that’s really home. Right now it is Chicago, with their interests centering in the Elgin pro- gram and in young Jack’s new career on a local newspaper. A few years ago, Eddie thought se- riously of retiring. He had all the money anyone needs to have and he thought he might as well sit back and enjoy it. But the New Deal came along, and made a di- rect appeal to his imagination, to his heart. “Y’m not a politician,’ Eddie explained to me carefully over the coffee cups, “and I’m certainly not radical, but I knew there had to be a new order. And I felt some- how that the successful people should tem- per their success with a bit of generosity and consideration. I couldn’t ever recon- cile the east and west sides of New York Avenue A, Ninth Avenue, all the rest— with Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue right next door. The direst poverty and mink and ermine a city block apart! It’s all wrong, you know. And I felt it was up to those of us who were successful to take time out from our busy affairs, our selfish interests, to help—as far as we could.” It was as practical, as simple as that, to Eddie. And so, through all the years of the depression, Eddie Dowling produced plays and gave employment to from fifty to three hundred people every week—and paid them every week. He and his wife RADIO STARS Dont Cut YOUR } ORNS Or CALLOUSES Blood-Poisoning can easily result from it! Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads Relieve Pain At Once and Safely, Easily Remove Corns or Callouses! N EVER use anything on your feet unless you know it is medically safe. Feet can easily be infected. Be on the safe side—apply New De Luxe Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads. They relieve pain of corns, callouses or bunions in one minute; stop nagging pressure on the sensitive spot; prevent sore toes and blisters and ease new or tight shoes. 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Ask for this creme—Golden Peacock Bleach Creme at all drug and department stores. 96 RADIO STARS ; : ig f i 4 u As The Story of Mary Marlin goes on the air—Robert E. Griffin, as Joe Marlin, reads his lines with Joan Blaine, as Mary Marlin. This program remains one of enduring popularity with numerous listeners. drew no salaries themselves but were con- tent to put everything they had into their shows—Big Hearted Herbert, His Dou- ble Life, Thumbs Up were among them —-satisfied that in this way they were doing their bit to lick the depression! “T always had a fear of poverty—natu- rally enough. So we were frugal and al- ways lived modestly—we never felt the urge to splurge, to throw money away. And we felt that by using our money this way, we were working toward a better order of things.” Idealistic Eddie! He was to learn that not one man nor a few can do much to change the existing order of things. “Tt didn’t work out,” he said simply. “Business isn’t run that way.” He had been willing to invest nearly half a million dollars to help make that dream come true, but when the money was gone, Utopia seemed little nearer! However, he has no personal regrets, for he has the satisfaction of knowing that he tried, that he did his best. I mentioned a little while ago that Ray Dooley was shy, unwilling to talk about herself. You couldn’t accuse Eddie of shyness—he is a ready, interesting talker —about everything in the world but him- self! But when it comes to pinning him down, to getting him to talk about Eddie Dowling, it’s another story. He loves to talk about ‘Dooley’—that ‘teensy’ Dooley who incredibly combines the pert humor of that impossible child we know on stage and screen and radio with the enduring charm of a beloved wife and mother. He loves to talk about people he has known, in his travels and in the theatre. Of Kate Smith, whom he introduced in Honeymoon Lane, one of his greatest successes—it ran fifteen months on Broadway; of Benny Goodman, his orchestra leader, who is making such a success of the new swing music; of Clark and McCullough, recent- ly tragically parted by death, who were featured in his recent Thumbs Up and who have been the Dowlings’ friends for years. And of his mother, with her warm heart and great ways... . But Eddie Dowling—why, he’s only one one of the many Dowlings of Rhode Island. “Shoot a gun full of bird shot on Rhode Island,” Eddie laughed, “and you'll hit a Dowling with every shot!’’ He’s had a bit of luck and he’s grateful for it—and his eyes glow as he is reminded of an- other story about his wife or his son... . And then he tells you that when the President asked him how he liked the inau- gural address, he confessed that it had moved him to tears. And the late Secre- tary of the Treasury Woodin said: “That's because it came from the left side, Eddie.” And you know that stories from the heart will always move Eddie Dowling. Know that, in addition to a grand sense of hu- mor, a real feeling for comedy, he has a sentimental, idealistic side that is very near the surface. “You forget a laugh,” he says, “but you never forget a tear.” Perhaps it is because he has a grown- up son, perhaps it is just because he is such an understanding sort of person. Anyway, what Eddie likes best to remem- ber about his New York productions of the last few years is his association with the young folks starting out on the road he himself has traveled. “T handled hundreds of kids,” he said, “but I never sent one out discouraged. What’s a little white lie, in a case like that? Maybe they aren't meant for the theatre, maybe they'll fail—but they'll find it out soon enough. Being curt, abrupt with them hurts them. What you leave with a youngster, that youngster never for- gets. So, when you come in contact with them, when you try to give them advice— never leave them with a note of discourage- You never know what a bit of dis- ” ment, couragement will do to a kid... . What I’ve been trying to say is that he is a grand guy, Eddie Dowling! Tune in on the Eddie Dowling Revue—you'll laugh at that perverse enfant terrible so cleverly impersonated by Ray Dooley, and at the charm and wit of her partner, Mr. D.! | : : :

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RADIO LAUGHS SELECTED SNICKERS FROM YOUR FA- VORITE FUNSTERS DON: Say, Jack—you’re trembling all over. JACK: No, Don, just in New York ... but Don, I didn’t expect such a re- ception on my return here . . . the ap- plause, the cheers, the flowers... DON: What flowers? JACK: Here—in my lapel. JACK BENNY and DON WILSON, Jello Program.) aS EUGENE: At last we're off for France! Willie, what time is 1t? WILLIE: Half past eight bells! EUGENE: What kind of talk is that! What’s one bell? WILLIE: Major Bowes! (WILLIE and EUGENE HOWARD, Folies de Parec.) +> PICK: Boy, where does you reside at? PAT: Oh, I got a swell room over a vacant lot. PICK: Boy, what you talkin’ about? There ain’t mo room over a vacant lot! PAT: There’s lots of room over a va- cant lot. (PICK and PAT, One Night Stands.) CANTOR: You know what a senator is? PARKY: There’s a Matador, a Pica- dor and a Senator. CANTOR: No, stupid—Matadors and Picadors fight the bull. PARRY > OI See: «. throw the bull! A. (EDDIE CANTOR and PARKYA- KARKUS, Pebeco Program.) -e- BOB: My little nephew is very fond of the name “Ben,” and he named his puppy that. However, as the dog grew up tt became evident that he had been misnamed. After a consultation with his mother, the kid changed it to “Ben Hur.” (BOB BURNS, Kraft Music Hall.) 98 Senators just RADIO STARS JACK: Mary, do you think the scenery out West is better than in the East? MARY: Sure, Jack. I think the Pana- ma Canal is wonderful. JACK: The Panama Canal south, Mary. MARY: I know, but it’s good enough to be in Hollywood. (JACK BENNY and MARY LIVING- STONE, Jello Program.) =~ DALE: I know a lot of other monkeys, too. SMITH: I'll have you understand I’m a man who made his mark in the world. DALE: I know you make marks .. . but can you write? (SMITH and DALE, Vallee Varieties.) is down be XGA6 a rivulet is. Look—what comes down out of the mountains and goes on forever? RUBIN: Hill Billies. (BENNY RUBIN, Variety Show.) > You certainly must know what GOOSE: I’ve worked out a use for trained fleas. ANNC’R: You certainly have a large field to work in. GOOSE: Why, I’ve hardly scratched the surface! (Design for Listening.) -- KENNY: I’m still wearing my winter underwear. JACK: Why Kenny, this is June. For heaven’s sake—how long do you wear winter underwear? KENNY: Down to my ankles. (JACK BENNY and KENNY BAKER, Jello Program.) > PORTLAND: I got a tip on the fifth race this afternoon, Fred. FRED: Let’s hear it—is it hot? PORTLAND: Its a cinch. The jockey has halitosis. The horse wins trying to get away. (FRED ALLEN and PORTLAND HOFFA, Town Hall Tonight.) > PHIL: Well, Harry, I see you’ve got your new suit on. HARRY: Yes, Phil. It’s herring-bone. PHIL: It smells like it. HARRY: Yeah? Look at your suit. The pants are so short the cuffs are talk- ing to the shoes. PHIL: What are they saying? HARRY: Why don’t you come up and see me sometime? (PHIL BAKER and HARRY VON ZELL, Gulf Program.) BURNS: That’s like my aunt just from Van Buren, Arkansas; who couldn’t locate her stateroom on a cruise. Finally an officer asked if she could remember the number, but she said no, but would know her room if she saw it, because there was a lighthouse outside the window! (BOB BURNS, on Kraft Music Hall.) + JOE: Vic Young is such a punk golf- er that two ants climbed on top of his ball to keep from getting killed while Vic was making a shot. (JOE LEWIS, Shell Chateau.) -o- PICK: Does you know anything about acting ? PAT: Sho’ I does . ..I played de part of a transfusion in a big movin’ pic- ture. PICK: A transfusion? In what pic- ture did you play de part of a transfusion? PAT: Captain Blood. (PICK and PAT, One Night Stands.) + EUGENE: Gee, I hope I don’t get seasick when we get out on the ocean. If I got seasick I wouldn’t know what to do. WILLIE: It makes no difference— you'll do it! EUGENE: I even get seasick in a rock- ing chair. WILLIE: Listen—it couldn’t get any rougher than the last time I took a cruise. It was so rough the musicians on the boat were afraid to pass the hat around! ~~ EUGENE: Willie, what’s the idea of wearing a woman’s nightgown aboard ship? WILLIE: Suppose something happens to the ship—women and children first, you know! (HOWARD BROTHERS and VIC- TOR ARDEN, Folies de Paree.) Printed in the U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J.

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