Radio Stars 1937-01 Vol. 9, No. 4

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SUS JANUARY >. THE LARGEST ’ CIRCULATION OF ANY RADIO MAGAZINE ~ CENTS KATE SMITH THE TRUE STOR THE JOAN BLOND DICK POWELL ROMANC

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GIFTS FOR CHRISTMA OVELY to look at, delightful to give, and — perfect for the budget that must stretch over — many holiday gifts. A combination hard toresist, especially when it is “IRRESISTIBLE”, the name that is synonymous with “‘allure”’ i in cosmetics... with quality and ee value. .

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~lakiing [UNTIL SHE SMILES] RADIO STARS She evades close-ups... Dingy teeth and tender gums destroy F ONLY this lovely I girl could stand for- ever as you see her here—serene, beauti- ful, goddess-like! But when she smiles— when lovely lips part and reveal dull teeth and dingy gums—how quickly and tragically the spell of beauty is broken. NEVER NEGLECT “PINK TOOTH BRUSH” It may not seem dangerous—that first warning “tinge of pink” on your tooth brush. It may seem trivial, unimportant. But your dentist will tell you it can be and has been the prologue to many a dental tragedy. Remember —“pink tooth brush” is a distress signal, and only a distress signal. But when you see it, play her charm...She ignored the warning of “Pink Tooth Brush” safe—see your dentist. The chances are that it does not mean a serious gum disorder —but your dentist should make the decision. Usually, however, it only means gums that have grown tender and flabby under our modern soft food menus—gums that need more exercise, more stimulation— and as so many dentists will often advise —gums that need the help of Ipana and massage. For Ipana, with massage, is designed to help benefit your gums as well as clean your teeth. Rub a little extra Ipana onto your gums every time you brush your teeth. Lazy gums awaken. Circulation stimulates gum tissues. You'll soon sense a new, healthy firmness in the gum walls them- selves. Ipana Tooth Paste and massage is ap- proved by many modern dentists, taught by many modern teachers in classrooms all over the country. Don’t take chances. Even before you see that “tinge of pink” on your own tooth brush, even before you have this first warning of danger—sched- ule yourself for this modern dental health routine with Ipana and massage. Don’t risk being a “dental cripple.” Change to Ipana and massage, and help keep your smile lovely, bright, sparkling—and safer.

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YOU MUST HAVE A SOFT, ALLURING SKIN ... FREE FROM PIMPLES MOOTH, satiny shoulders—lovely skin “‘all over’’—a radiantly clear, youthful complexion—men admire them and modern style demands them. To be truly lovely, you must rid your skin of ugly pimples on face and body. And thousands are doing it, with complete success. The real cause of disorders resulting in ugly pimples may be nothing in the world except a lack of the yeast vitamins B and G. When these elements are not present in the human diet in sufficient quantities, the intestinal tract becomes weak and sluggish. Its function is badly impaired. Constipation is likely to ensue and this, in turn, often shows up in pimply skin. Countless men and women have found that in such cases, Yeast Foam Tablets work won- ders. This pure dry yeast supplies vitamins B and G in abundant quantities and thus tends to restore the intestinal tract to normal in those instances of vitamin deficiency. With the intestinal tract again in healthy function, pimples should quickly disappear. Start now. Try Yeast Foam Tablets and give them the chance to give you the same welcome relief they have brought to so many others A sk your druggist for Y east Foam Tablets today—and refuse substitutes. rf Mail Coupon SEE: for Trial Sample ! I NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO } | 1750 N. Ashland Av., Chicago, Il. I | Please send FREE TRIAL sample of Yeast | : Foam Tablet Only 1 sample per family.) | MM 1-37 | ! I ! Name | l ! : Address ! : City State 4 RADIO STARS RADIO STARS Dell Publishing Company, Inc. ABRIL LAMARQUE, Art Editor Copyright 1936 by ETHEL M. POMEROY, Associate Editor LESTER C. GRADY, Editor FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS STORIES THE TRUE STORY OF JOAN AND DICK (How did Miss Blondel! and Mr. Powell know it was love?) Elizabeth Benneche Petersen 20 . AND THEY CALL HOLLYWOOD CRAZY! (Film star Bob Montgomery cracks down on radio)............-.00.eeeeeee Jack Hanley 22 YOU DON'T KNOW FRED LIKE | DO (Mr. Allen’s wife and stooge, Portland Hoffa, heckles hubby).. INDISCRETION, AS YOU LIKE IT— in the eyes of Ethel Barrvmore)........ 26% STORIES, i cee Mrs. Fred Allen 24 (Life and love, then and now, Nancy Barrows 28 LADIES’ MAN! (When will romantic Harry Richman settle down to one woman?)............ Tom Meany 30 KEEPING KISSES ON THE DAILY DIET (Bette Davis’ marriage menu really works)...........0:00ceeceeeeeevcennes Gladys Hall 32 SEX SPECIALIST (The Voice of Experience, mender of lives, tells all)........ 0.2.6... 000 ee Mildred Mastin 36 LONG DISTANCE LOVE (According to Benay Venuta, wedded life is commutable)................ ROBERT TAYLOR, BEWARE! ‘Gene Harvey 38 (Us heart-breaker Don Ameche threatening Mr. T’s popularity?)........... Miriam Rogers 40 NO PITFALLS FOR BETTY (Little Miss Winkler waits for love to bowl her over)........-.-..00eeeeee00s Leslie Eaton 42 MY FAVORITE AGE! (The Misses Dragonette, Jepson, Smith and Hayes choose theirs)...... F Harriet Menken 44 LIFE WAS TOO EASY (How James Hall pulled a fast one on tricky Fate)............66.0 0c e ee ee eens Ruth Geri 47 YOU MUST GIVE UP SOMETHING (Did Vivian Della Chiesa sacrifice love for a career?).. “MAMA, THAT MAN'S HERE AGAIN!” (Comedian Ken Murray wonders if women like funny men)................ Jack Hanley 50 SPECIAL FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Distinguished Service Award...... 19 Miriam Rogers 48 Dress to Your Height.............. 6 Keep Young and Beautiful........ 8 In the Radio Spotlight........ Bete ae ls) Board of Review............+06- 10 Between Broadcasts................ 34 Kate Smith’s Own Cooking School.. 12 Plainsman Paul............-.-+-++. 43 Radiomhamblingsricwers.<10¢ «5.0.05 cr 14 Stars and Starlets............ Petia What They Listen to—and Why.... 16 Nothing But the Truth?............ 52 Cover by EARL CHRISTY Office of publication at Washington and South Avenues, Dunnellen, N. J. Chicago advertising office, 360 North Michigan Ave. M. Delacorte, Sec’y. Vol. 9, No. 4, January, 1937, printed in Single copy price 10 cents. Subscription pr n the United States and Canada $1.00 a year; Foreign Sub- Entered as second-class matter August 5, 1932, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the The publisher accepts no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Executive and editorial offices, Radio Stars. George Delacorte, Jr., 149 Madison Avenue, New York, Pres.; H. Meyer, Vice-Pres.; J. Fred Henry, Vice-Pres OSs aA scription $2.00 a year act of March 3, 1879.

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RADIO STARS

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Alice Frost wears an eve- ning wrap of gray trans- parent velvet, the collar convertible into a_ hood. BY ELIZABETH ELLIS HEIGHT seems to be the big bug- aboo and fashion stumbling block with so many of you girls. You short ones yearn to find some magic garment that will make you look dramatically tall, while you taller girls hope to shave off several inches by some artful dodge of costuming. Of course, the answer is, you can't. there are certain tricks to your 1 will make you feel more at ease, whether you are tall or short. Since you tall gals have been beg- ging me to help you out of late, I hiked up to CBS to talk with two of their stars who frankly admit to be- ing tall and have a reputation | WIL1O STARS RADIO For dinners, Kay Thompson takes off the tunic-length jacket of her black vel- vet and sequins costume. for looking extremely smart at all times. If what they have to say isn’t reassuring to you and doesn’t make you feel proud that you are tall, I shall consider my idea a complete dud! Alice Frost was my first prey. Alice, whom you hear Mondays through Thursdays on the Rinso hour in the serial Big Sister, and also on the Chesterfield re-broadcast, is defi- nitely tall. As her husband describes her, she’s the tall, willowy blonde type and he likes to have her dress up to that personality. In exact meas- urements she is five feet, eight inches tall. Her beautiful natural blonde Has your height complicated your clothes 6 A startling gown for special oc- casions, chosen by Alice Frost, is this of fuchsia-red taffeta over a bright green petticoat. hair is long and she wears it in a braid about her head. Remember my writing to you tall girls and begging you not to try to look shorter? You know, none of that stoop-shouldered, slouch busi- ness? Well, Alice Frost’s first pre- cept for looking smart is to enjoy your height—don’t, above all things, try to look shorter, rather revel in the grace and dignity a few added inches give you. That’s what she does and she says that there is only one time that her height actually has been a handicap—and that is when she tries out for stage roles. She has lost several engagements this problem? You'll find

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RADIO STARS “COLD WEATHER chaps my skin. Wa- tery lotions don’t smooth it, either!’’ Hinds isn’t watery. Every creamy drop does chapped skin good, It’s a vitamin lotion, too—con- tains Vitamin D! OUTDOOR WORK can ruin your looks! The cold bites into your skin, chaps it red, almost raw. But Hinds puts softness back again. Its creamy lubricants soak into the roughness. Chapped Alice Frost likes this black velvet dinner gown with. its high neckline encircled with shining white silk flowers. way, because the leading men were shorter than she. Recently she lost out on a Broadway play because she was taller than the star who was to play her mother in the story. In radio she doesn’t have to worry about height at all, in fact, it is an advan- tage to be tall. I asked her about the new high- crowned hats because they are such a giddy topic of conversation these days. She said: “T usually wear rather tailored hats with brims because I think they suit my type best. Now and then [ do buy a more formal style of hat but never one with a really peaked crown. Those very high crowns make a tall girl look ridiculous. How- ever, [ do have some height to my crowns because it suits my type of face better and gives me head room for my braids. I must confess that I do have a little trouble finding hats to fit (Continued on page 66) valuable hints here Copyright, 1936, Lehn & Fink Products Corporation HINDS skin softens up faster. FREE on.2: DES’? EWN, Sah R At last! The new perfect one- piece lotion dispenser—free on the Hinds 50c-size bottle. Ready to use. Nothing to take apart or put together. Works instantly. Turn bottle upside down—press—out comes Hinds quicker-acting lotion! Every drop creamy— not watery. Hinds comes in $1, 50c, 25c, and 10c sizes. DAILY RADIO TREAT: Ted Malone ..-inviting you to help yourself to Happiness and to Beauty. Monday to Friday, 12:15 pm E. S. T. over the WABC-Columbia Network.

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RADIO STARS KEEP YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL INTRODUCING Miss Perfume Personality of 1937 —Miss Bernice Claire! At the recent conference of Perfume and Cosmetic Buyers in New York City, the Melodiana songbird not only was awarded, by unanimous choice, the title of Miss Perfume Per- sonality of 1937, but she also was awarded a beautiful silver cup, with her unique title engraved on it. Petite, slender, with soft blonde curls, eyes as blue as lark- spur and an entrancing smile, she is a very believable picture of Miss Perfume Personality, too. Somehow the title seems as appropriate to her blonde loveliness as do her program titles, Melodiana and Waltz Time. Miss Perfume Personality of 1937 has come a long, long way since she left her home in Oakland, Cali- fornia, in 1929, with a definite five-year plan burning fiercely but steadily in her heart to become a national figure in the entertainment world. How well she suc- ceeded in her five-year plan, her achievements will testify. She has been starred in five motion pictures, including the top-hit, No, No, Nanette, and has won both concert and radio success. From an unknown to a favorite songster of the air is quite a long leap to make, even on a five-year plan. Miss Claire often is called, teasingly, the five-year- plan-girl. And when I was present at the silver cup award, I was reminded of my intention of several months previous to interview the five-year-plan girl on a five-week plan for beauty. About this time of the year, we are especially prone to go into conferences with ourselves and decide on a lot of good beauty resolutions. Oh, yes, we are going to do something about ourselves; but too often our resolutions, like perfume, are hard to hold and they Bernice Claire of '"Melodiana" was awarded the title of ''Miss Perfume Person- ality of 1937." Bernice examines the silver cup which has her name and the unique title engraved on it. fade away into an aura of forgotten, but dimly remem- bered, good intentions. It is one thing to make good resolutions and quite another thing to keep them, so we need a plan to bolster up our will power. Naturally, before going into a discussion of a plan for beauty, it was only fitting that we should ask the new Perfume Queen something about her ideas on perfume. And Miss Claire had an interesting and intriguing angle to give us on this glamorous business of selecting one’s perfume. What perfume expresses you best? Well, ac- cording to Miss Claire, the perfume that expresses you best 1s the one you like best—the one that you feel does the most for you. Don’t worry so much about your per- fume fitting your personality. It is Miss Claire’s sug- gestion that if you are shy and unsophisticated, perhaps the very thing you need is an exciting, thrilling perfume that will make other people sit up and take notice. Or if you're sleek and sophisticated, the very thing you need, probably, is a suggestion of mo-e femininity and gentle- ness in your perfume. In fact, Miss Claire’s suggestions are practically twins to those given in the little perfume booklet I have for you this month, Winning Ways with Perfume. The book- let is a complete guide to the art of perfumery. It tells you the secret of how perfume may be most potently applied; it describes how you can give yourself a per- fumed shampoo and it gives lots of other timely perfume hints for this fragrant season. Incidentally, it might be amusing to mention in passing that Miss Claire is a good friend of Dick Merrill—the famous aviator with the round-trip-ocean-flight record— and Miss Claire helps him to choose perfume—for him- self! No one can accuse Merrill of being a “sissy” cer- A five-week plan for beauty and how to select perfume suited

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BY MARY BIDDLE tainly, so you can tell that to your husband. As a matter of fact, Merrill likes to use it to make the gas fumes from his plane more bearable, which is surely one good reason for using it. Of course, he chooses fresh, crisp masculine-appealing odors. All of which is a point to bear in mind when it comes to choosing the gift for the man who has his fill of gadgets and hates ties that women pick out for him. For example, there is a special Christ- mas gift set for men that comes with a smart new wood shaving bowl, a delightfully crisp, re- freshing after- shaving lotion (also grand for body rubs), and a generous can of talcum in the same tangy odor ... all for the man who is both masculine and discriminating in his tastes. Sut not to let the men inter- fere with our beauty plans let’s get down to the business of mapping out a five-week plan of beauty for you. We can’t get very far without a plan. Men are right when they say that women need more system in their lives. However, Miss Claire suggests (Continued on page 64) to your personality RADIO STARS gs I m most certainly grateful HE bride carried orchids, wore white velvet with old lace’— a charming picture, but then what a lovely Rade! For Mrs. Edward Clark, Junior, has joyous blue eyes, hair like blond satin, a complexion that’s as fresh, as fair, as spring itself! And she keeps it so (just as you should yours) by daily care with deep-cleansing Camay. It's exhilarating! —the mere touch of Camay’s grant lather! And how clear, how CAMAY deliciously fra- 1 Comey SAYS THIS CHARMING WISCONSIN BRIDE satin-smooth it makes your skin, even in coldest skin-trying weather. Camay’s so soothing for Camay’s so mild—provably milder than all other beauty soaps, by actual tests on womens skins. Begin Camay care of your skin today. The price is very low! Let Camay bring your loveliness to light.

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’ BOARD OF REVIEW on an 1 o 19. 20. 21. 22. ce lit . CHESTERFIELD - ANDRE ere re aE SS THOMP- - LUX RADIO THEATRE...........+...- - MEREDITH WILLSON ORCHESTRA.. - THE MAGIC KEY OF RCA...... Lester C. Grady Radio Stars Magazine, Chairman Alton Cook N. Y. World-Telegram, N. Y. C. S. A. Coleman Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kan. Si Steinhauser Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. James E. Chinn Evening and Sunday Star, Washington, D Leo Miller Bridgeport Herald, Bridgeport, Conn. H. Dean Fitzer Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. Richard G. Moffet Norman Siegel Cleveland Press, Cleveland, O. Andrew W. Smith News & Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala. Richard Peters Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn. FORD SUNDAY EVENING HOUR... .85.0 CBS Sun. 9:00 P.M. EST . TOWN HALL sete A FRED ALLEN 84.4 NBC Wed. 9:00 P.M. ES . JELL-O PROGRAM— TACK BENNY .. .84.0 £ NBC Sun. 7:00 P.M. EST, 8:30 P.M. PST . PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY OR- Teli od espe ee oe rete cos oaoe to kts CBS Sun. 3:00 P.M. EST PRESENTS NINO MARTINI WITH KOSTELANETZ OR- CHESTRA 83 CBS Wed. 9:00 P.M. EST . WARING’S PENNSYLVANIANS........ 83.1 CBS Tues. 9:00 P.M. EST, 9:00 P.M. PST; NBC Fri. 9:00 P.M. EST, 9:00 P.M. PST SON, RAY HEATHERTON . . 83.0 CBS Fri. 8:30 P.M. EST . GENERAL MOTORS CONCERT—ERNO tN 21 Ol See aoe ee ot CeO S NBC Sun. 10:00 P.M. EST . ROYAL GELATIN PROGRAM— RUDY VALLEE . NBC Thur. 8:00 P.M. EST CBS Mon. 9:00 P.M. EST - RUBINOFF, JAN PEERCE............. 80.8 CBS Sun. 6:30 P.M. EST . 79.0 NBC Sat. 8:30 P.M. EST, Mon. 9:30 P.M. EST ..77.6 NBC _ Sun. 2:00 P.M. EST . CITIES SERVICE CONCERT—JESSICA DRAGONETTE NBC Fri. 8:00 P.M. EST . BEN BERNIE AND ALL THE LADS. NBC Tues. 9:00 P.M. EST . STOOPNAGLE AND ahaa tga ORCHESTRA... NBC Sun. 5:30 P.M. ES . PHIL BAKER WITH HAL KEMP’S OR- CHESTRA . 7 CBS Sun. 7:30 P.M. EST - GABRIEL HEATTER. .. 75.9 MBS M-T-W-T 9:00 P.M. EST KRAFT MUSIC HALL—BING CROSBY, BOB BURNS. He 75.6 NBC Thur. 10:00 P. M. EST WOUR HIT. PARADE 3 A..0.). cone 75.4 NBC Wed. 10:00 P.M. EST; CBS Sat. 10:00 P.M. EST CAMEL CARAVAN—RUPERT HUGHES: GOODMAN BAND... CBS Tues. 9:30 P.M. EST a LOMBARDO AND HIS ORCHES- Riot cite 7 CBS Sun. 5:30 P.M. EST . 76.6 Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. c. L. Kern indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Ind. Larry Wolfers Chicago Tribune, Chicago, III. Joe Haeffner Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, N. Y. Andrew W. Foppe Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, 0. Chuck Gay Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio 23. THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE—MAR- GARET SPEAKS...... : NBC Mon. 8:30 P.M. EST, 8:30 P.M. PST 24. THE BAKERS BROADCAST—ROBERT RIPLEY, NBC _ Sun. 7:30 P.M. EST 25. STUDEBAKER CHAMPIONS — RICH- ARD HIMBER...... . 73.6 NBC Mon. 9:30 P.M. EST, 9:30 P.M. PST 26. AMERICAN ALBUM OF FAMILIAR MUSICESE aac ns ite 73.2 9:30 P.M. EST 27. BURNS AND ALLEN................... 73.1 CBS Wed. 8:30 P.M. EST, 8:30 P.M. ae 28. AMOS "N°? VANDY?.. 20.06. css bee NBC M-T-W-T-F(7: :00 P.M.E ST, 8:00 P. M. PST Z9NEASY ACES. oo ce: NBC T-W-T 7:00 P.M. EST 30. THE SINGING LADY. NBC M-T-W-T-F 5:30 P.M. EST 31. SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY—WALTER OIKEEFER cca. eho 5 72.4 NBC Sat. 8:00 P.M. EST~ 32. VICK’S OPEN HOUSE—NELSON EDDY. 72.3 CBS Sun. 8:00 P.M. EST 33. IRVIN COBB PADUCAH PLANTA- oe 721 TION. oats tee NBC Sat. 10:30 P.M. EST 34. SHERLOCK HOLMES NBC Thur. 11:15 P.M. EST 35. WE, THE PEOPLE—PHILLIPS LORD. .71.8 NBC Sun. 5:00 P.M. EST 36. ae ees CITY SYMPHONY ORCHES- ‘ i ar (| NBC Sun. 12:30 P.M. EST" 37. ONE MAN’S FAMILY _..... NBC Wed. 8:00 P.M. EST, Sun. PST 38. LOWELL THOMAS. NBC M-T-W-T-F 6:45 P.M. 9:30 P. Mil EST 39. HELEN HAYES IN ‘“‘BAMBI’’.......... 70.8 NBC Mon. 8:00 P.M. EST 40. SPORTCAST—TED HUSING........... 70.6 CBS T-T-S 7:15 P.M. EST AV EDDIEIGANTOR iepecitelosicleic is tne canes ee 7 CBS Sun. 8:30 P.M. EST, 8:00 P.M. PST 42. LANNY ROSS PRESENTS THE MAX- WELL HOUSE SHOW BOAT........... NBC Thur. 9:00 P.M. EST, 9:15 P.M. PST 43. BOAKE CARTER....... CBS M-T-W-T-F 7:45 P.M. EST 44. Fe REE SYMPHONY ORCHES- 45. EDWIN CREI CIE e 7 NBC Sun. 10:00 P.M. EST; Mon., Thur. 7:30 P.M. EST NELSON ORCHESTRA....... 73.8 .. 70.3 46. 47. 48. EXPLAINING THE RATINGS The Board of Review bases its percentages on the assumption that all radio programs are di- vided into four basic parts: material, artists, presentation and announcements, each consisting of 25% and making the perfect program of 100%. These ratings are a consensus of opinions of our Board of Review and do not necessarily agree with the editorial opinion of RApio Stars Magazine. Programs outstanding as to artists and material, often suffer from poor presentation or exag- gerated commercial announcements. There have been many changes in programs for the winter months. The Board reviewed as many of the cur- rent major programs as it possibly could before this issue went to press. ALEMITE HALF HOUR — peace BRIGADIERS |! Siveon nen i Fo eee 69.6 CBS Mon. 8:00 P.M. EST, 9:00 P.M. PST WOODBURY PRESENTS PAUL WHITE- MAN’S MUSICAL VARIETIES......... 69.0 NBC Sun. 9:15 P.M. EST, 8:30 P.M. PST SHELL CHATEAU — SMITH BALLEw, YQUNG*ORCHESTRA.: ©. 4-20 eee 68.7 NBC_Sat. 9:30 P.M. EST 49. HOLLYWOOD HOTEL................. 68.6 CBS Fri. 9:00 P.M. EST 50. REVUE DE PAREE—FANNIE BRICE. .68.2 NBC Wed. 8:00 P.M. EST 51.A & P BAND WAGON—KATE SMITH 67.9 CBS Thur. 8:00 P.M. EST 52. LEO REISMAN’S ORCHESTRA........ 67.6 NBC Tues. 8:00 P.M. EST §3. U..S.“ARMY,_ BAND: 5... nace 67.5 NBC Mon. 6:00 P.M, EST 54. HEINZ MAGAZINE OF THE AIR... .67.4 CBS M-W-F 11;00 A.M.EST, 12:00 Noon PST . NASH-LAFAYETTE SPEED SHOW — FLOYD GIBBONS, LOPEZ ORCHES- TRA CBS Sat. 9:00 P.M. EST - LUM AND ABNER... 03 coc ne cee cena ene 67.0 NBC M-T-W-T-F 7:30 P.M. EST, 8:15 P.M. PST 57. Soe es RECITALS — WILLIE MOR- widvalee vvellay uscd dcr egtotars Satie Er Stone Ocean 66.7 NBC Sun. 7:30 P.M. EST 58. SALT LAKE CITY TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORGAN... co /20 2, oe 66.6 CBS Sun. 12:30 P.M. EST 59. CONTENTED PROGRAM.............. 66.5 NBC Mon. 10:00 P.M. EST 60. MELODIANA — ABE LYMAN.......... 66.4 NBC Mon. 8:30 P.M. EST 61. SEARS—THEN AND NOW.............. 66.1 CBS Thur. 10:00 P.M. EST - MAJOR BOWES’ CAPITOL FAMILY. .66.0 CBS Sun. 11:30 A.M. EST - PACKARD HOUR—FRED ASTAIRE, GREEN ORCHESTRAS 2a r uf 65.9 NBC Tues. 9:30 P.M. EST - WALTZ TIME—FRANK MUNN, BER- NICE CLAIRE, LYMAN ORCHESTRA. .65.8 NBC Fri. 9:00 P.M. EST HAMMERSTEIN MUSIC HALL........ 65.2 CBS Tues. 8:00 P.M. EST WAYNE KING’S ORCHESTRA......... 65.1 CBS Mon. 10:00 P.M. EST; NBC T-W 8:30 P.M. EST 67. GILLETTE’S COMMUNITY SING— MILTON BERLE, JONES & HARE... .65.0 CBS Sun. 10:00 P.M. EST 68. CAVALCADE OF AMERICA............ 64.8 CBS Wed. 8:00 P.M. EST

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RADIO STARS GISVGANGMBUSTERS, 600. cence edie eee 64.7 CBS Wed. 10:00 P.M. EST 70. LOG CABIN DUDE RANCH............63.8 NBC Tues. 8:00 P.M. EST 71. PORTRAITS OF HARMONY — TED YLETDIDT) LOR: 2 Reais a ei ii nie ae 63.7 NBC Tues. 10:30 P.M. EST 72. FIBBER McGEE AND eat Coed NBC Mon. 8:00 P.M. ES 73. HORN AND HARDART’ S CAUEDREN: SS) FUR nak sccm ee man Se 63.0 CBS Sun. 10:30 A.M. EST 74. FIRST NIGHTER— DON AMECHE... .62.8 NBC Fri. 10:00 P.M. EST 75. VEE LAWNHURST AND THE CHAR- IOTEERS.. ee .62.7 CBS Thur. 7:30 P.M. EST" 76. JOE PENNER—GRIER ORCHESTRA. . 62.6 CBS Sun. 6:00 P.M. EST 77. PEPPER YOUNG’S FAMILY........... 62.5 NBC_M-T-W-T-F 3:00 P.M. EST SOOKGAR Me MIVELECALG Wnt oh, oo be oo eis ws . 62.4 NBC M-T-W-T-F 9:45 A.M. EST 79. CLEM McCARTHY—SPORT SHOTS... .62.3 NBC T-T-S 11:05 P.M. EST 80. RY - KRISP PRESENTS MARION SAAN ANSE ME Peps tora) og avai cra Teisicasiare 6 aie hitcoiawe Gack NBC Sun. 5:00 P.M. EST EOS, 2) 200) DOS Ce Spe ie aie ne cee 62.1 NBC Tues. 9:00 P.M. EST 82. THE CARBORUNDUM BAND.........62.1 CBS Sat. 7:30 P.M. EST 83. TODAY’ s CHILDREN. Ga wana OL NBC M-T-W-T-F 10:45 A.M. EST 84. NATIONAL BARN DANCE............. 62.0 NBC Sat. $:00 P.M. EST, 8:00 P.M. PST ENS C1 UNO) See eee .61.9 NBC_M-T-W-T-F_ 12:15 P.M. EST 86. MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND. .61.6 NBC Sun. 9:00 P.M. EST 87. ETHEL BARRYMORE................. 61.2 NBC Wed. 8:30 P.M. EST 88. MYSTERY CHEF. apes iO Lek NBC Tues. Sat. 11:30 A.M. EST 89. KALTENBORN EDITS THE NEWS... .61.0 CBS Sun. 10:45 P.M. EST 90. ROMANCE OF HELEN: TRENT...... 60.8 CBS M-T-W-T-F 12:30 P.M. EST 91. TWIN STARS — ROSEMARIE BRAN- NBC Fri. 9:30 P.M. EST 92. GRAND HOTEL—ANNE SEYMOUR... .60.5 NBC Sun. 3:30 P.M. EST ELS OS OE) oe 60.2 NBC Fri 8:00 P.M. EST 94. VIVIAN DELLA CHIESA............. 60.1 NBC Tues. 7:45 P.M. EST 95. CROSLEY FOLLIES................. .60.0 MBS Mon. 11:30 P.M. EST 96. COME ON, LET’S SING................ 59.2 CBS Wed. 9:30 P.M. EST 97. KALTENMEYER’S KINDERGARTEN. .58.6 NBC (Sat. 5:30. P:M. EST 98. LAUGH WITH KEN MURRAY...... 58.5 CBS Tues. 8:30 P.M. EST, 8:30 P.M. PST 99. TED MALONE’S BETWEEN THE BOOK- DL So anced AER ese eG ha Eee ae 58.4 CBS M-T-W-T-F 12:15 P.M. EST 100. THE JERGENS PROGRAM — WALTER WINCHELL. . . 58.3 NBC Sun. 9: 00. P.M. EST, 8:15 P.M. PST ROUNGTISTALL ONE. foie csseyacsic adh ibislask slo vien © 58.2 NBC MLW TE 12:00 Noon EST 102. HUSBANDS AND WIVES.............. 58.0 NBC Tues. 9:30 P.M. EST 103. UNCLE EZRA’S RADIO STATION... .57.9 NBC M-W-F 7:15 P.M. EST 104. GOOD WILL COURT.................. 57.7 NBC Sun. 8:00 P.M. EST’ 105. THE WONDER se eet ae CORGUE SERA i ciseton fae coaches asia as MBS Sun. 9:00 P.M. EST BOG RAVID HARUM) cos orcs cae ces esa .57.4 NBC M-T-W-T-F 11:00 A.M. EST 107. HAROLD “‘RED’’ GRANGE........... 57.3 Lee Fri. 10:30 P.M. EST, Sat. 7:00 P.M. a4 F i eee 7 ; a \ Chevrolet presents AND HIS VIOLIN Columbia Network C. oait-to- C. oait EASTERN & | iu mm STANDARD w & @ Time 108. QUALITY: Wee ee DUMKES7.2 CBS T-T 11:15 A.M. ES 109. MAJOR BOWES’ AMATEUR HOUR. .57.0 CBS Thur. 9:00 P.M. EST 110. GREATER SINCLAIR MINSTRELS ...56.7 NBC Mon. 9:00 P.M. EST (Continued on page 59) 11

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Kate mixes the hard sauce which adds flavor to her new steamed fruit pudding for the Christmas table. ee ee ee = ©. 4S em Courtesy None Such Mincemeat KATE SMITHS OWN COOKIN HELLO, EVERYBODY! This is Kate Smith wishing you all a Merry Christmas and resuming my role as Cooking School Di- rector for Rapio Stars Magazine —my second “Command Appear- ance” in that capacity. And say, folks, from the letters I’ve been getting, you seem to be almost as glad to see me here as I am happy to be here! And with Christmas Dinner to talk about this month, believe me that’s some happy! I’m so full of the Holiday spirit, anyway, that I’m simply bubbling over with enthusiasm for everything connected with this joyous season. I just can’t de- scribe to you how much I look forward to seeing the lighted Christmas trees in the parks and in the windows of homes and apartments in the city and suburbs . the children crowding around the toy displays of the big de- partment the shops, both large and small, filled with stores Presenting Kate in 12 delightful gifts to buy and foods to eat. These are the things I’ll be seeing and enjoying this year, for my family is coming north to join me in New York for the Holidays. And my, it won’t be long before they—and Christmas —will be here. But old Santa won't be able to spring any sur- prises on Kate this year. For I’m all prepared; my Christmas gift list is made out, my Christmas plans are decided upon and— which is probably of more interest to you Cooking School followers —my Christmas Dinner menu is complete, down to the last raisin. You know, planning the dinner ahead of time will save you much last-minute rushing around! I think I'm going to give you that menu, too, straight off, so that you can get an idea of the meal as a whole before we start talking about all the dishes indi- vidually. So here ’tis: CHRISTMAS DINNER Cream of Mushroom Soup Roast Capon Chestnut Stuffing Apple Sauce Pan Browned Potatoes Baked Squash String Beans Sweet Cider Cranberry Ring Mold Salad Steamed Yule Pudding, Hard and Southern Sauce Coffee Marshmallow Nut Fudge Muts Nuts Fruit Raisins Now, there you are! And doesn’t it sound like the kind of a meal long to be remembered? I know just writing it down for you brings back to me _ fond memories of other Christmas din- ners, with Grandmother Hanby proudly presiding over a_ table fairly groaning under the burden of just such a meal as this. So do please give the menu more than a casual glance before we discuss each item together. Because, you the second of her series of exclusive

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lye tke & the doctor's judgment about laxatives These rich spice cakes are topped with marshmallows holding candles. OU choose your family doctor because trust. Today it is used by more people you have confidence in him. He will than any other laxative in the world. never take chances where your welfare is : 5 “ 5 CONVINCE YOURSELF OF THE FACTS concerned. Even with a little thing like a laxative, doctors have a definite set of Your first trial of Ex-Lax will be a new : eGo ki standards which guide them in their and pleasant experience. For Ex-Lax is Ee T intend to Bp ap Ot COOntnE choice. They know the dangers of using mild and gentle. It is thoroughly effec- directions for practically all the the wrong kind. Before they will give a __ tive. It does not over-act. Does not disturb dishes I’ve mentioned. Some of laxative their approval, it must meet their the digestion. It allows your food to be the recipes I'll have room to give requirements on these specific points: Beene. Se ee ce hese we you right here and the others you ities that ma ce EXx- ax SO 1¢ ea or adu ts will an tee ye eatin cuhich this WHAT DOCTORS DEMAND OF A LAXATIVE are doubly important in their relation to 5 5 : ; Its : children. magazine will send you free of i: seule 4 roe 1 ; t should be mild and gentle. A REAL PLEASURE TO TAKE charge. I understand there will : It should be thorough. always be a convenient coupon for Its merit should be proven by the test of veryone likes Ex-Lax—particularly the you to fill out and that you'll re- a youngsters. It tastes just like delicious ceive your leaflet without delay It should not form a habit. chocolate nyyoe Bane been es ere and without having to send post- It should not over-act as bop ey ceetingy oes (2 ad ieee 3 ; : for the pleasant flavor of Ex-Lax. At all age. (Editor’s Note: Coupon ap- It should not cause stomach pains. lie storesda ibe arn 252 ee Sr ato o arth It should not nauseate, or upset digestion ends stores yin) Pe ane 06 Sie eee pears at the end of Kate’s article.) = aor UP om like to try asample, mail the coupon below. What recipes to put in the leaflet ? EX-LAX MEETS EVERY DEMAND Well, I think the Cranberry Salad Now, here’s a fact that’s significant— GUARD AGAINST COLDS! ...Remember Mold deserves that special atten- Ex-Lax checks on each of these specifica- these common-sense rules for fighting tion and the Steamed Yule Pud- tions. Not merely on two or three. But on colds: get lots of sleep, eat sensibly, ding, with both Hard Sauce and all these points that doctors look for in a dress warmly, keep out of drafts, keep Southern Sauce thrown in to make laxative. your feet dry, and keep regular — this dessert the best you ever No wonder so many physicians use with Ex-Lax, the Chocolated Laxative. tasted. The Marshmallow Nut Ex-Lax in their own families. No wonder : Fudge included on my menu—and millions of careful mothers give ittotheir = ----. TRY EX-LAX AT OUR EXPENSE!----- the Spicy Cup Cakes not men- children with perfect confidence. For over (Paste this on a penny postcard) 30 years the dependable, satisfying per- formance of Ex-Lax has created universal Ex-Lax, Inc., P. O. Box 170 MM-17 Times-Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. tioned here before—will also go into the leaflet. With those recipes (Continued on page 67) When Nature forgets — remember cooking articles EX-LAX THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE ee ee nee en ene Sense ee enenee ene I want to try Ex-Lax. Please send free sample. Address ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' le ae 1 Name... i ' 1 1 i ' ' ' ' 13

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RADIO STARS RADIO RAMBLINGS "Adventures of Ace Williams," on the air with Jane Parsons, Ace Williams, himself, announ- cer Edwin Burke and Dick Holt Thirteen - year-old Deanna Durbin was warmly wel- comed on Eddie PICTURESQUE and amusing sto- ries about Bob Burns seem to pop up endlessly. A New York radio man, vacationing at the old home in Beaufort, S. C., found Bob a big favorite there and started telling the folks about radio’s newest comic star. “T didn’t get far,” he relates. “They knew him -better than I did. Bob was in the Marines, stationed down near there, and used to play with a Marine Band that came to the hotel once a week for dances. “He played the trombone some, but even then he was monkeying around with that bazooka of his, blat- ting away on it while the band was trying to play dance music. But his main stunt was to get a couple of friends sitting down in a corner and then tell whopping big lies about his relatives back in Arkansas. “A couple of his old pals down Cantor's program. there tell me he hasn’t had a story on the radio yet that he didn’t tell them back in the war days. Nobody ever thought of him as a comedian. He didn’t himself. Just a good- natured screwball it was fun to have around.” == When Eddie Cantor started his program for Texaco, they had life- size cut-outs of Eddie made to stand in front of every filling station. Ed- die sent one to every radio editor, too, creating an acute disposal prob- lem. One young man wrote he took his home for a pistol target and the very idea of shooting at Cantor im- proved his marksmanship immensely. -o- Sheila Barrett called Fred Allen to ask permission to do an impersona- tion of him and Fred drawled: “It’s all right with me, but you’d better in the very act of thrilling you. ask Rudy Vallee. He has been doing an imitation of me so long, I think he’s established rights to it by now. I’ve been going to call him to ask if he minded if I went on doing Fred Allen myself.” ee Walter O’Keefe’s new Saturday night hour shows signs of developing into one of radio’s more amusing sessions of idiocy. Of course, the people he talks to in the studio audience are almost all rehearsed and salaried stooges. But that’s the only way he could get diverting replies to the silly questions. Most people be- come tongue-tied when suddenly con- fronted with a microphone. “Plants” in the audience were an old custom in vaudeville, so I don’t suppose there’s any reason why radio can’t pick up the tradition. Walter (Continued on page 62) Your news hound tracks down the latest gossipy tidbits 14

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RADIO STARS This energetic gentleman is Homer Rodeheaver bringing to a close a “Come On, Let's Sing" broadcast. Announcer Tiny Ruffner stands close by. This would-be cowboy is none other than maestro Paul Whiteman receiving Radio Stars' medal from Governor Allred of Texas. Edward Everett Horton loses his blank expression before the mike. This super comedian is heard Saturdays at 9:30 p. m., EST, on "Shell Chateau." “empen rae REP? * Wes

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"The glorious voice" of Nelson Eddy thrills his fans of screen and radio. Edith Bauder, Teaneck, N. J. (Student.) “Because he presents all types of music from serious to sub- lime, I like Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. And I especially enjoy the singing of Rosemary and Priscilla Lane! One Man’s Family, for depiction of true family life with humor and pathos. Jack Benny, for good fun and dry humor. Nelson Eddy, for his rendition of ballads, operas and musical scores from his various pictures.” wre Doris Baker, Elmira, N. Y. (Maid.) “| listen to The Good Will Court, because it 1s better than any other program on the air. It is both interesting and helpful. To Fred Allen’s Town Hall Tonight, because I like the music, jokes and the ama- teurs. I also listen to The Voice of Experience, for the advice he gives to his audience.” ~~ Mildred E. Riley, Little Rock, Ark. (Typist.) “I tune in on the Cities Service programs for the incompar- able Revelers Quartette and excellent orchestra. Vick’s Open House, for the glorious voice of Nelson Eddy. Guy Lombardo, because his is the sweetest music this side of heaven; in fact, the best on the air. The American Album of Familiar Music, to hear the superb voice of Frank Munn, Rubinoff and his magic violin, the lovely voice of Virginia Rea and the grand orchestra. Wayne King and Abe Lyman for their soothing waltz music with no jazz and Jack RADIO STARS. HEY LISTEN Page Gilman, 18, piays Jack Barbour in popular One Man’s Family cast. Benny for good, clean comedy and entertainment.” =e Leo Enger, Detroit, Mich. (Spe- cialty Food Merchant.) “March of Time ranks as an ace program to me, because it brings world events in a new and interesting manner. My second choice is Snow Village Dry humor jokester Jack Benny is a favorite with our Radio Stars readers. Sketches, which present fascinating human interest stories of rural Amer- ica when she was yet a young na- tion.” ~ Mary Rosenthal, E. St. Louis, Ill. (Student.) “The two programs I like best are One Man’s Family and Lux Radio Theatre. I enjoy the first be- Which radio programs are your especial favorites and why? 16

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Deanna Durbin, aged 13, sings with Eddie Cantor and is set for films. cause it is so much like our own home life and the second because it is a pleasure to listen to plays, espe- cially when the actors and actresses are famous movie stars.” + Mary Atwood, Lincoln, Neb. (Teacher) “My favorites are the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, which presents sixty minutes of first-class music with no tiresome advertising ; Nelson Eddy, because he is a truly fine artist, though I would prefer not to hear the soprano on his pro- gram. Eddie Cantor, who always manages cleverly to weave in some good advice with his good humor and fun. Lux Radio Theatre, because it always has good talent.” oe H. G. Stiles, Indianapolis, Ind. (Coal Salesman.) “I listen to and enjoy Lum ’n’ Abner, because the parts are all so well taken and it is clean, wholesome fun. Also enjoy Bob Burns on the Kraft Music Hall, for his fine backwoods humor, and the modern music of Paul Whiteman and Horace Heidt.” we Mrs. Mabelle Welsh, Waterloo, Iowa. (Housewife.) “Major Bowes, because he has done so much for the hidden talent. Dr. Dafoe, because his is an instructive program for young mothers. The Good Will Court, since it is most instructive and there is much for the average citizen to learn from it.” =u Charlie Vinal, South Weymouth, RADIO STARS Lovely and popular song- bird, Rosemary Lane, of Waring's ' ‘Pennsylvanians." Mass. (Musician.) “I listen to dance bands more than anything else. My favorite commercials are the Benny Goodman part of the Camel Caravan, Kay Kyser’s show, Horace Heidt’s program and the Gulf hour. You can see that these are all musical pro- grams, with the possible exception of the last mentioned.” + Louis D. Hurd, Clayton, Dela. (Grocer.) “I listen to the following programs: March of Time, The Magic Key of RCA and Lowell Thomas, because they are educa- tional. For good musical programs I prefer the U.S. Marine Band, Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians and The American Album of Familiar Music. For wit and fun, Amos ’n’ Andy, Carefree Carnival, Fibber McGee and Molly, Pick and Pat and Vic and Sade fill the bill.” we Lura B. Triplett, Mooreland, Okla. (Teacher.) “Cheerio and Breakfast Club give me a good start for the day. For my inner self, each of the following gives me what I need: Be- tween the Bookends, Farm and Home Hour, One Man’s Family, Wayne King’s and Meredith Willson’s or- chestras, Show Boat, WLS Farm Dance Party, The Magic Key and Malcolm Claire stories.” -o Verna M. Ewing, Cicero, Ill. (Mil- liner.) “I like human interest pro- grams such as Good Will Court, Vox Pop and Traffic Court, interesting and educational dramas ; Helen Hayes Meet Helen Hayes’ radio husband, James Meighan, co-star of serial Bambi. in Bambi, One Man’s Family and First Nighter, because they are well written and excellently acted. For interesting selections and good or- chestral music I prefer the Edison Symphony and for soothing rhythm, Wayne King. My favorite singers are Nelson Eddy, Frank Munn ‘and Tiny Ruffner.” ae Mrs. A. G. Stannard, Kansas City, Mo. (Housewife.) In the order of my choice, I always listen to: Mary Marlin, Betty and Bob, Eddie Can- tor, Bob Burns, Major Bowes and Phillips Lord’s Gangbusters. Mary Marlin is by far my favorite and seems to be equally popular with all my neighbors. I presume the reason I like all these is because, with the exception of Gangbusters, they are appealing to human sympathy.” Sf Miss L. M. Berry, Chicago, Il. (Student.) ‘My choices are: Bishop and the Gargoyle, a subtle mystery at last; Rudy Vallee, Shell Chateau, Camel ‘Caravan and Fred Astaire for A-1 variety; Fred Allen, Pick and Pat, Stoopnagle and Budd for really clever comedy; Lux Radio Theatre, Helen Hayes, Widow’s Sons, One Man’s Family, Radio Guild, Bache- lor’s Children, Irene Rich and First Nighter, because they are all excel- lent dramas.” ae Letha A. Behr, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. (Housewife.) “Mark Hawley’s news reports at 8:00 a.m. on WOR to get the latest news first thing in the morning; (Continued on page 59) Address: Query Editor, Radio Stars, 149 Madison Ave., New York.

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E sing, we sing, we sing of Lydia Pinkham,” so go the words of an old song known on every college campus. Old grads reunions. sing it at their class The young people sing it when they gather around the piano at home on their college vacations. And mother, book aside and joins in the chorus. “How the human race— listening, puts her she saved, she saved, she saved % pane sihes the words of the parody? From laughing young lips that have never known the twist of pain it comes with gay abandon. Just a funny old school song everybody knows. But to silver haired mothers who have run life’s gauntlet, to women who have lain on the rack in childbirth, known the fiery ordeal of the “change” —these words bring grateful memories. To them it is much more than just a funny song. Lydia E. Pinkham was areal woman But Lydia E. Pinkham was a very real person. In fact The song is a parody. hers is one of the best known names in the history of American women. She began her work in the light of little knowledge. Her laboratory was a kitchen. Her compounding vat an iron kettle on a New England kitchen stove. But today her work is being carried on under the banner of modern science. And now her product is made in a great plant occupying six modern fac- tory buildings. Gia ee Not a Patent Medicine You may be surprised to know that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound not a patent medicine. On the contrary it is a standard pro- For three generations one woman has told another how to go “smiling through” with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts* which must be endured, especially during The Three Ordeals of Woman 1. Passing from girlhood into womanhood. 2. Preparing for Motherhood. Approaching “Middle Age.” *functional disorders prietary compounded to aid women in facing the three major ordeals of their sex. It is to be found in every reputable drug store. We who carry on the work of Lydia Pinkham do not offer this Vegetable Compound as a panacea or a cure-all. We do know it has been tested and approved by women of three genera- tions. We do know that a million women have written to tell us it has been helpful during the three most difficult ordeals of their sex: adoles- cence, motherhood and “‘middle age.” More than a Million Letters of Grateful Testimony Lydia FE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound has been advertised these many years. But no advertisement we have ever printed could compare with the word-of-mouth advertising from one grateful woman to another. In our files are more than one million letters from women in every walk of life —letters on scented notepaper or on torn wrapping paper—letters from women who have known pain and have writ- ten to us without solicitation to tell us how helpful Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been to them. . If you are in need of help we can honestly advise you to give it a fair trial. We know what others. We have every reason to believe it will do the same for you. The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, U. S. A. it has done for One woman tells another how to go “Smiling Through” with Lyla E. Linkban 18 7 Vegetable Compound

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FOR SERVICE TO RADIO We Malm There is nothing more comforting, more soul-satisfying and enjoyable to radio listeners than Wayne King the mellow strains of. Wayne King's music. His smooth arrangements, his unerring judgment of pleasing selections, his delightful sense of rhythm, his saxophone solos and original compositions are among the qualities which have singled out Wayne King from radio's maze of maestros and merited for him the place of honor and distinction he so justly deserves. No matter what your mood at the time of dialing, his music invariably casts its spell and you enjoy a pleasurable half-hour of relaxation. Wayne's is the music of love, of solace, of peace of mind, of quietude. Lullabies for grownups. When life seems to have overlooked you, when it has been STARS magazine presents its award for Distinguished Service to Radio. See Se ee —EDITOR.

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Brothers THERE they were, a mile up towards the sky, in the tower of one of New York’s smartest hotels. They had seen all the shows everybody was seeing, they had been to all the night clubs everybody was talking about. They had been to all the smart shops that are always somehow more enticing with the coming of the first, brisk autumn days and they had endless credit at all of them. It was their honeymoon and yet neither of them looked par- ticularly happy. Joan Blondell looked almost defiant as she ‘stood gainst the wall in the slim black satin dress that made white camelia of her face and brought out the gold in turvy halo of her hair, Her blue eyes, the color of the lupines that grow along the California countryside, looked steadily at the opposite wall in something that might have been resentment and some- thing that might have been despair. And Dick Powell, laid low with a bad attack of 20 the topsy Joan Blondell, popular Warner star, and a_ favorite with radio and with film fans. grippe, watched her from the bed on which he was lying, his eyes seeming all the more gentle for the storm that was gathering in hers. Somehow you knew that he felt the things she was feeling, too, but had put them away from him in his concern for her. No doubt of Dick Powell’s love for Joan when he looked at her like that, almost as if you could hear him saying: “Don’t let it bother you, kid. Don’t ever let anything bother you again.” That was the feeling you had about the two of them. That for all their talent, for all their years of trouping, they had grown up for the first time in their lives. Really grown up. Suddenly and without warning, as people will when they have been thoroughly disillusioned. They must have met disillusion before. After all, they both had gone through an unsuccessful first marriage, they both had taken love and seen it turn to ashes in their hands. 3ut people can face a thing like that if they have to.

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nf Nero wert EN ee Here's the story you've beenaching to read—the never-before- told story of the romance of Joan Blondell and Dick Powell Joan and Dick were married aboard the Grace Line steam- er, S.S. Santa Paula. Captain Nielsen, skipper of the ship, helped cut the wedding cake. Disillusion like that, composed in equal parts of sorrow and knowledge, carries its own salve of dignity. When that sort of trouble comes, human beings can creep into their own little sanctuaries and look into their hearts and come out the greater for it. But there’s another kind of disillusion that can warp and change a whole life, if a man or woman isn’t equal to combatting it. A disillusion that knows neither dignity, nor pride, nor honor, that is made up of ridicule and unkind laughter. That’s the kind Joan Blondell and Dick Powell were to know at a time that should have been the happiest in their lives. They were so happy, these two, back in Hollywood. This new love that had come to them was so different from anything they had known before. It had grown so slowly, spread its roots so sweetly into their hearts, that they were scarcely conscious of the growing. And here is bridegroom Dick, otherwise Richard E. Powell, of the films and of "Hollywood Hotel" radio program. Dick seems to find life pretty good! First they had worked together and seen each other as only fellow workers can. Respect for each other had come then, and admiration for all the things they saw and liked in each other, good sportmanship, graciousness, kindness Dick saw Joan go over to a little extra girl who had been given a part for the first time. He saw her take that girl into her dressing-room, giving up a luncheon appoint- ment to do it, and go over her lines with her until the girl gained enough confidence to go before the camera and give a good account of herself. Joan heard about the boy who had failed in a radio audition because of .technical flaws in an untrained voice and how Dick was paying for singing lessons for that boy with the naturally fine voice, who might conceivably be his own rival some day. Giving him more than that, for Dick was coaching him himself, giving him all the most professionals (Continued on page 81 21 pointers

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... AND THEY CALL "Radio," says Robert Montgomery, "is, with few exceptions, bogging itself in inexcusable mediocrity." But don't think that Bob doesn't like radio. He's been successful on the air as on the screen, and he hopes to do more radio work. oa | | BY JACK .. HANLEY Te a & 4 + Be ~ és a3 A, =] rt a; a et 3 arty +l ea th a ia Suds Screen star Robert Montgomery WHEN somebody squawks about radio, that’s not news. Sit around in the drugstore or lunch counter near any broadcasting station and the complainers’ chorus will take radio apart and rebuild it to perfection quicker than you can say “chocolate soda.” You'll hear anguished cries of “favoritism” and “stupidity” and “‘incompetency” and why so-and-so got where she is. And you'll also find that, while some of the squawks are legitimate, the majority usually come from the flops and the frustrated. They’ve been doing it in the theatre for years and every train from the West Coast brings a fresh assortment of » razzes for Hollywood. But when a performer who can demand, and get, four - figures for a single appearance, sounds off, that’s an- | other story. Particularly if that performer’s appearances _ have been successful and he happens to be a singularly well-balanced and intelligent person. Robert Montgomery, as one of the big names in pic- tures and with a thorough background in the theatre, is such a person. So, when I asked him the conventional question about how he liked radio, I expected the usual platitudes. He had been sitting with his long legs stretched across the sofa, being quietly bored by an inter- view, but he unwound with startling suddenness and leaned forward.

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LLY WOO D CRALY! makes a few pertinent—and impertinent—remarks about radio “Pl tell you what I think of radio,” he said earnestly. “T think that, with the exception of comparatively few worthwhile programs, radio is bogging itself in in- excusable mediocrity. The average program, from the sponsor through contact men, advertising agency men and directors of programs, doesn’t have a single person of real professional background!” Blinking at the bombshell, I murmured that those were harsh words, pardner. But Bob Montgomery, for all of his extremely likable amiability, has very definite con- victions and they’re usually based on more than idle con- jecture. “They say Hollywood and picture people are nuts! It’s my personal opinion that there is more unnecessary waste of money and talent in radio than there ever was in pictures—and you can quote me on that. “A lot of things have been said and are being said about the nutty things that go on in Hollywood. And a lot of it is true,” he went on. “But making pictures is a highly specialized business and without defending some of the more flagrant exasperations, the fact remains that a lot of the things that strangers condemn as idiotic are neces- sary to picture production. And that’s the real distinc- tion—regardless of mistakes and slips, most of the people in pictures have a real knowledge of their jobs and a background for their work. But I’ve found that, in radio, there are, building programs, all too many persons who have the magnificent eccentricities of genius without the genius !”’ That sounds like someone very excited talking, but Bob Montgomery wasn’t excited; he was merely saying what he thought, which seems to be a habit of his. “What would you think,” he grinned, ‘of a show with a $14,000.00-talent bill, exclusive of air time, that didn’t have so much as a script ready as late as two hours be- fore the broadcast ? “That’s only one example of the sort of thing I mean. In the early days of radio they had trouble finding talent willing to go on the air, just as the movies did. Then, when radio grew into a large, respectable institution, they turned up their noses at Broadway and Broadway talent. What they ignored was the fact that radio needed show- manship—and you have to go to Broadway for that. Radio did that, too, with the result that some of the most suc- cessful programs are those that enlisted the aid of per formers who knew their business. “But radio still needs production men who understand showmanship and entertainment. Being an advertising man, or a successful manufacturer, doesn’t qualify any- J one to put on a show—and a (Continucd on page 55) 2 4

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Portland Hoffa, ta- vorite stooge’ and wife of comic Fred Allen of ‘'Town Hall Tonight.’

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_NEW VIEWS OF POPULAR FAVORITES OF THE AIR A Penner for your thoughts! Gay ones, too, they will be, when you are listening to Radio Clown Joe Penner, Sundays, CBS. Maestro Xavier Cugat, favorite of movie celeb- rities on the Coast, lights a cigarette for dazzling, dark- eyed movie star, Dolores Del Rio. Thursdays at 8 E.S.T., Kate Smith gets aboard "A&P Bandwagon," with her heroes, heroines and other ; guests. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Each Sunday (prizefighter) Canzoneri oe hear were recent guests of Kate. Miss Francia White's flaw- less voice— on the "Vick's Open House" program with Nelson Eddy. Nelson Howard

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vyoin the UBS Gillette “Community Sing" audiences and carol your troubles away! Here's one group of gay singers going on the air. In the Tom Waring hits a high one dur- ing one of the weekly broadcasts of brother Fred's "Pennsylvanians". WABC, Tuesdays. Lovely Frances Ste Kansas City has a for radio, movies, A pupil of Raggini, she a novel method of presenting songs for radio audien Fred Astaire is Allen Prescott, NBC's popular on the set of "Wife Saver,'' believes in RKO-Radio Pic- giving the Little Woman a tures, when not lift! It's NBC's Fashion working on his Editor, Betty Goodwin, here "Packard Hour" being saved so dramatically! radio program. Frances Langford, bewitching blues singer, popular with radio and movie audiences, and Tony Martin, another popular radio singer.

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4id Where there's smoke, there must be fire, is not true,’ declares Ethel Barry- more. What do you think? EOPLE,” said Ethel Barrymore earnestly, “are just e same today. I know them. I’ve toured this country yver and over. They haven't changed. . .” We had been speaking of Miss Barrymore’s radio pro- gram, in which, under the auspices of The Famous Actors’ Guild, she presents each week a condensed version of in which she starred in her early years Dated, they would seem, I had fancied, Life, I suggested, today has one of the play in the theatre to younger radio listeners 28 esmtiatae ail "Night clubs,"’ says Miss Barrymore, "may have been substituted for the glamor- ous gardens of my girlhood, but people still are hungry for beauty and for romance. "In England," Ethel Barrymore, tells us," “you could walk down Piccadilly in your nightgown and there would be no comment." less of glamour, more of grim reality—as plays and newspapers and even radio continually reiterate. 3ut Miss Barrymore did not agree with me. “Cinderella’s coach may have turned into a pumpkin ..-Night clubs may have been substituted for the glamorous gardens of my girlhood . . . But people are still the same, still hungry for beauty, for romance, for security.” “And. for “What about the scandal ?” offered. lal?” I offered

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ened ae _| with their sensational headlines, tabloids, world the whole sad story of blighted beauty and wrecked romance ?” We laughed. Miss Barrymore mused: ‘“That’s where telling the the difference lies—in the newspapers. that’s indiscreet—not the people. _ “Indiscretion,” she said with a touch of Barrymore irony, “isn’t so much what people do as what is said about it! “People have the same emotions, the same desires, yes, and the same standards, as they always have had. The only difference between people of the hoop-skirt era and the streamlined 1937 model is that it’s much easier to get talked about today. In fact,” she smiled, “it’s prac- tically impossible not to get talked about! “Today the newspapers peep and pry—and gossip and tattle to the whole wide world. Sensation is their breath of life and because of that they make a great story out of something that otherwise would dave amounted to nothing. “We don’t always act with balanced judgment—but, because of the newspapers, some little lapse from con- It’s the press ‘thing sensational, shocking. ventional standards that, in the ordinary course of events, would be ignored and soon forgotten—if not entirely un- known—becomes a screaming headline, a sordid scandal “People want to be discreet. Given the chance, every- body would be. It’s the newspapers that refuse to per mit it—theirs is the indiscretion! “And there’s nothing more untrue than that saying: “Where there’s smoke, there must be fire.’ If you have won a little-fame or fortune, something must be printed about you—and that you are happy, that you love your home and your children, isn’t news. It must be some It doesn’t have to be true— not here. In England there are strict libel laws. You could walk down Piccadilly in your ,nightgown— not that anyone would!” she laughed. “‘And there would be no comment about it. But here, what news often implies something that has no relation to truth.” There’s some justice in what she says. If, for in stance, Joe Goofus’ sweetie had chased him across the continent, no one would have been intrigued. But when John Barrymore runs from his “Ariel,” newspapers an (Continued on page 71 passes as their readers follow the chase. 0

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Richman is the center of the biggest one-man popularity wave New York has recently had. When will Harry Richmarr HARRY RICHMAN is one of those troubadors whose name invariably is linked with that of some current beauty. New flames replace old flames from year to year but the fire never dies. An occasional reader of the Broadway gossip columns could be pardoned for hazarding a guess that Richman has had as many wives as Bluebeard, or maybe Solomon. Every time you read a tattle tidbit, it carries the item that Harry is arm-and-arming it with this beauty or that cutie. Some of the names have been famous, all have been glamorous. Harry once was engaged to Clara Bow, when the “It Girl” was at the height of her popularity in 1930 and at another period was seen so constantly with Lenore Ulric that rumor had them married, which they never were. Currently, he is seen around New York with Joyce Johnson, just to keep the records straight. As a matter of fact, Richman was married once, so long ago that few remember the mar- riage, or the name of the first and only Mrs. Rich- man. She was Yvonne Steghman and it hap- pened in California, in 1918, right after the World War. They parted amicably, but definitely, shortly afterward, and Harry has been footloose ever since. : Maybe Harry isn’t the marrying kind, you say? Maybe Harry wouldn’t like to give up his free- dom and settle down as the husband of one woman, instead of the sweetheart of many? If that’s what you think, you don’t know Mr. Rich- man. Or if you think, perhaps, that there aren't plenty of girls who are willing to become Mrs. Richman, then you haven't seen Harry at the present crest of his new wave of popu- ar cs eect ih

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: RADIO STARS marry? Does this popular star larity, singing in the Hollywood Restaurant on Broad- way, nightly besieged by hordes of women, young and old, slender and buxom, beautiful and not-so-hot, clamoring for his autograph on their dinner menus. [It’s the biggest one-man popularity wave New York has seen since Rudy Vallee discovered that a mega- phone could be utilized by some one besides a college *heer leader. Richman, himself, his face a little creased with the years, has no illusions about marriage but a profound respect for it. “Certainly I intend to get married,” he declared in answer to a question. “And furthermore, [ will get married, but not until I’m out of the entertainment busi- Whether it’s the stage, the radio or the screen, an entertainer has a tough time making a marriage stick. “T’ve shied away from marriage while l’ve been working as an entertainer, be- ness. | cause so few marriages ‘take’ in the show business. And | when I get married, it’s going to be for keeps. That’s why I’m waiting. “Show business is a different world. If you marry another entertainer, the chances are the husband and wife hardly ever get to see each other. And if you marry somebody outside the profession, it’s worse, if that is possible. “What fun would there be for my wife if I were mar- ried now? I do a dinner show here at the Hollywood, for which I must show up by 6:30 in the evening. It’s ten when I’m through and then there’s a supper show after midnight, with maybe a radio broadcast in between. It’s three by the time I get started for home and _ there’s usually a radio rehearsal in the late morning, say 10 or 11 a. m., with the possibility of a rehearsal for new songs Richman as star of the Columbia picture, ''Music Goes ‘Round."' BY TOM MEANY crave domesticity or applause ? here at the restaurant in the afternoon. What kind married life would that permit? “Tf both people are in show business, it’s bad enough but suppose the other party happens to be a \fes Then the misunderstandings are multiple, for there is no chance of sympathy from someone outsicds é racket. “No, sir! My mind is definitely made up on the n riage question. There'll be a Mrs. Richman, all right, but it won’t be before I am out of this busines and ready to settle down to an ordinary, regulated home life.” Richman probably is one of the most non-pre sional ? some (ta. misunderstood entertainers of the day. He invariably becomes a storm center, through no fault of his own. Take, for instance, his September flight to Europe and back with Dick Merrill. It marked the first time in aeronautics any heavier- than-air machine had crossed the Atlantic both ways, regardless of the fact that each flight fell short of its destination. It was a signal achievement, yet Richman’s motives were misconstrued from the first. When the proposed flight was announced, Harry was dubbed a publicity-seeker. No credit was given him for his sincere love of aviation. It was reputed to be merely a desire to land on the front page. It was a subject for gagsters. To make it worse, a story came out that Richman and Merrill had quarrelled. When the flying pair finally: arrived in New York, Harry, blazing at the injustice of the rumors, fueled the fire by taking a punch at a ques- tioning reporter at Floyd Bennett Field, a mistake for which he later apologized. As proof of the fact that (Continued on page 73) Another scene from ''Music Goes ‘Round," with lovely Rochelle Hudson.

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Attractive and clever Bette makes a success of marriage and career. E KEEPING ‘Be a stranger,” said. Bette unexpectedly, “if you want to keep romance in your life, alive and thrilling and sweet. Be something of a stranger—even to your sweetheart or your husband. Not only is it death to romance to sink to the cold-cream-on-face, hair-in-curler stage of bodily exposé, but it is even more death to romance to let your poor little soul be seen in kid’curlers and with cold cream.” 3ette and I were tea-ing at a beach café on the gray Pacific. It was the gray Pacific that day. Gulls were beating their platinum wings against a head wind. In the distance fishing boats were black hulks tearing holes in the horizon. Bette leaned her tweed elbows on the rough deal table. Her blue eyes held the gray glint of the sea. Her words were, as always, crisp and em- phatic and straight from the shoulder. Later 1 was to think how truly does Bette keep the bright strand of romance inter- woven with the business of her life. For after she “walked out” on Warner 3rothers, the differences between what her studio felt she should do and what Bette felt she must do, me momentarily, at least, irrecon- cilable—when Bette went to England and was then enjoined, or whatever you call it, from .* Bette Davis, charming actress, is BY GLADYS HALL Mr. and Mrs. Harmon O. Nelson Jr., are a perfect combination. Hubby is a popular band leader and the little woman ranks high as a dramatic actress. KISSES a surprise package to her- making pictures there or from appearing on the stage—what did she do? What she didn’t do was just what nine out of ten girls would cer- tainly have done: Nine out of ten girls would have sat, closeted with lawyers and business managers and agents, one hand on the trans- atlantic telephone, the other hand clasped to an aching brow. Not Bette. No. Bette and Har- mon went on a honeymoon! Leisurely and in love, as though love and leisure were the only businesses of Bette’s stellar life, they honey- mooned. And if that isn’t keeping the god of love alive in the very jaws of Mammon, then I don’t know what you’d call it. Not even the Greeks could have a name for it. But on this day Bette was saying: “Be a touch inexplicable, always. Have a dash of Nora who, at any moment, might, just might, vanish into the night. Be a good companion, of course, but one who might turn before ac- customed eyes into an odalisque or something. Familiarity should not breed contempt but too much familiarity may very well breed the com- monplace. “TI can, of course,” said Bette, ordering a hamburger, “speak only for myself. These are my ideas. I am telling you, for what it is

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worth, how I order my life. I can tell you only the things | do. For that you have to do things about keeping romance alive is the truth. It’s fatal to make the mistake of supposing that romance just stays alive of its own passionate propulsion. It doesn’t. A plant dies without care. Without sunlight and watering, flowers wither and die. So does the most fragile plant that grows in any human life—romance. “Perhaps personal prejudice enters into this,” smiled Bette, “but I should say—marry your childhood sweetheart, if you can. I did. Ham was my first beau. We went to Cushing Academy together, back in Massachussetts. | used to sit across the aisle from him and watch his Adam’s apple. It fascinated me. We used to go out together then. He was the very first boy I ever went with. I was engaged twice, later on, but with all due respect to my other beaux, I can honestly say that I was never in love with anyone but Ham. Even after we came to Hollywood and I’d go out on dates now and then, I’d come home and grit my teeth and say to Mother: ‘Why did I ever meet Ham? He spoils every other boy and man for me. I might have liked the boy I went out with to- night, if it were not for Ham. Why did I ever meet him?’ “T used to say, too: ‘I’m going to get him!’ He wouldn’t, at first, pay any attention to me. ON THE DAILY DIET husband. What is her successful formula for keeping romance? "When you and your husband have a big date to go out together, dress up like nobody's business," says Bette. "Knock his eye out! Make him think: 'Criminy! Have | expected her to darn my socks?’ " Not romantically. He was all wrapped up in his music. He was ambitious. He didn’t want to fall in love. He didn’t want to marry. But I made him notice me,” said Bette, fiercely. “I made him fall in love with me. J got my man ! “T think,” she went on, more gently, “that there is nothing so really romantic as first love, no one ever so really romantic as the first sweetheart. It’s all mixed up with your youth, you see, with being young. It’s all a part of awakening, of first wonder about every- thing. It’s the loveliest kind of love. And so I would certainly advise girls to marry their school- day sweethearts whenever possible, when that first love is founded, not only on sex attraction, but also on the qualities which last forever.” Bette’s mother told me, later, when I went to have tea with her, while Bette was abroad, that Bette always had been the romantic type of girl. She always kept all of her love letters—and tied up with pink ribbons. She has kept every one of Ham’s letters, thousands of them. When she was in her ’teens, she was perpetually imagining herself in love with one lad or another. “One boy,” smiled Mrs. Davis, “was so in love with Bette that he used to drive to our house, get out and walk around the house every night at midnight. Just because he liked (Continued on page 70) "Broadcasting makes me nerv- ous—1 have the jitters," says Bette.

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Frances Langford, surrounded b rehearsal of a "Born to Dance super-musical Frances has a gran Mary Jane Barrett, a recruit Veteran actor Fred Stone and his An_ exciting moment during the from the stage, joins actors daughter, Paula, appeared together 1936 World's Series broadcasts. and actresses in the Saturday as guest artists on one of the CBS Gabriel Heatter (top), Bob Elson, dramas of "Columbia Workshop.’ "Sears—Then and Now" programs. Tony Wakeman broadcast for MBS. If you want to see what your radio favorites are doing these 34

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4 bevy of chorus girls, halts an informal pamper to give you a smile. In this M-G-M »pportunity to make use of her talents. ) 5. eee The Dexter twins in the popular radio drama “Bachelor's Children," broadcast over the Columbia network, are played by charming young Marjory Hannan and Patricia Dunlap. days, here's a brief news pictorial Seeing isn't believing, in this case! For Jacques Renard, Eddie Cantor and Parkyakarkus don't really broadcast as a barber-shop trio. When a microphone needs a friend! "The King’s Men," Dud Linn (left), Jon Dodson, Ken Darby and Rad Robinson, snapped in action. It's all very smooth on’ the ears, nevertheless! review from coast to coast

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The Voice of Experience replies to thousands of appeals every day, with advice born of tireless study and understanding. BY MILDRED MASTIN

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Cl ALIS] Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor, known to a host of radio listeners as the Voice of Experience and mender of broken hearts and lives MARION SAYLE TAYLOR will discuss sex with a frankness that makes the most brazen young modern blush, and tell her facts of life she didn’t know existed. There is nothing of the prude about the Voice of Ex- perience. Yet Taylor, who has fought more taboos than you'd want to shake a stick at, says one main cause for the alarming increase in the divorce rate and the multiplica- tion of broken romances is immodesty. And he means immodesty in men as well as women It’s all a part of Mr. Taylor’s theories on how to hold a husband or how to win a wife. Theories based to a large extent on the belief that a draped figure is much more exciting to a man than a nude one, and that some bloom of romance is lost the first time a girl sees her hero brushing his teeth. Mr. Taylor’s theories are based on facts. For every day approximately five thousand appeals for help are made to him. Anguished, true-life stories from wives who can’t hold their husbands; husbands whose marriages are being wrecked by other men; lovers who have been jilted, and girls who love men they can’t win. An end- less procession of broken hearts which The Voice of Ex- perience examines, then tries to mend. Says he: ‘““Men and women today have let down too many bars; swept away too many reservations. In so doing, they destroy the glamour, the shining romance of love. “A woman comes to me in tears because she finds her husband has fallen in love with his secretary. She is a business woman, successful, attractive. She says to me: ‘What has happened? I look just as young as I did when we were married. I’m just as attractive. Our home is charming. I have never nagged or demanded things of him. I treat him just as I did when we were first in love. But he wants a divorce so he can marry another woman.’ “I asked her a few simple questions. Among them: ‘Do you make your toilette in your husband’s presence? Are you guilty of letting him see you in the morning, clad in a wrinkled night-dress, your hair rumpled? Has he ever watched you pluck your eyebrows? Her answer to these and a dozen similar questions was ‘Yes.’ “Now let’s look at the secretary. She comes into this man’s office each morning looking her loveliest. The man sees only the finished product. He has never seen her face smeared with cream, her hair pinned down and flattened with wave-set lotion. He has never seen her scowling into a mirror, a tiny raw-red line above the eyes marking the tweezer’s progress. He has never watched her rush through the hurried, awkward gestures of dressing in the morning. To him, the secretary is at all times lovely, graceful, poised. She never looks a trifle ridiculous or unattractive. But his wife does. And he leaves the wife each morning to face the secretary. “Now it doesn’t occur to this man that if he marries this perfect creature he may be disillusioned. All he knows is that he wants her. She is desirable. His wife is not. And this is only one of many, many similar cases brought me by people who find divorce confront- ing them. “The modern wife could well take a lesson from her genteel grandmother, who never presented herself in the morning before she had donned a wrapper and neatly combed her hair. Modest little Grandmother, who de- manded privacy and knew that chamber doors were meant to be closed. Modest, yes; but very wise! “Lessons in modesty are needed for husbands as well as for wives. Any man looks silly shaving and few men are as handsome in the nude as they are dressed. “As a matter of fact,” says the Voice of Experience, “the modern flair for nudism has been a blow to ro- mance. For nature in the raw is seldom beautiful. And most human beings find it advantageous to wear clothes in order to camouflage their physical defects.” Mr. Taylor points out that all (Continued on page 78) { hee ‘ =

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7 Benay Venuta is heard on the Mutual network Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30, also one afternoon each week. Benay Venuta, Mutual's singing star, is a regular commuter be- tween her work and her husband Benay has a bicycle. Early risers may see her any morning, pedalling through New York's Central Park. One way to keep that svelte figure. Going over a song with Freddie Rich, when Benay was singing over the Columbia network in Freddie Rich's "Penthouse Party."

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DISTANCE LOY | ; [It was a waste of energy! Remembering the bubbling-over blonde of the gay musical, Anything Goes, your reporter put slickum on his hair, broke out the new pink necktie, wore the trousers with the pressed crease and set out, with sharpened pen- cils and high heart, to see Benay Venuta. But it was a waste of energy. Benay was there all right, in the tastefully furnished little apartment that she decorates herself, predominantly in white. And a svelte, streamlined Benay that might make any radio listener pray for the quick advent of tele- vision. Miss Venuta, in Anything Goes, you remember, was more than a wee bit buxom, but that’s all past. She was lovely, she was slim, she was charming and hos- pitable . . . and she talked about her husband! “I’ve always been reducing,” she said. “By strenuous efforts I managed to lose fifty pounds, but there were about fifteen more pounds I wanted to get off and it seemed hopeless. Ken”—that’s her husband, Dr. Ken- neth Kelley—‘suggested I take a_ basal metabolism test, just to see if that had anything to do with it. And it showed a thyroid deficiency! By taking the right dose of thyroid extract I melted off those pounds and keep a normal weight with no trouble at all.” And here let me hasten to mention, at Miss Venuta’s suggestion, that except under your physician’s order, thyroid extract is very dangerous, as are any patent preparations contain- ing it. It’s of value only when a doctor’s tests show a Benay trims her Christmas tree and plans ex- citing surprises for her Christmas celebra- tion with her husband, Dr. Kenneth Kelley. - gether ; deficiency and when administered under a doctor’s pre- scription. “Ken,” she added, “is in Chicago now—I ‘commute’ there every other week to see him and we go out to- in New York I lead the quiet life and keep out of the cblumns.”’ Of course, it’s not news that Benay Venuta is the wife of Dr. Kenneth Kelley. Though they kept the marriage something of a secret for a while, after a three- year courtship, Walter Winchell broke it in his column— the news, not the marriage. “Walter came up to me one night in a hotel dining- room,’ she says, “‘and said: ‘I understand you’re mar- ried to Dr. Kelley,’ ‘How did you know that?’ I gasped. Walter grinned and said: ‘So it’s true!’ and he ran it in the column the next day.” Benay Venuta was singing in a Chicago night club when Jules Alberti, her present manager, who was then a bandleader, heard her and told her he thought she should be on the air. Characteristically, Benay laughed and said: “I suppose I ought to be in pictures, too?” “Yes,” Alberti agreed, she should. “Listen,” Benay advised him, “I’ve been in show busi- ness since I was fourteen and I’ve sung in night clubs in Hollywood and San Francisco, where stars and mana- gers come on their nights off. If I was any good I would have made the top by now.” Alberti refused to be sidetracked. “Let me take some of your pictures to New York,”’ he insisted. ‘All right,” shrugged Benay. “What can I lose? you’re wasting your time.” “You'll be hearing from me.” “T doubt it,” she laughed, “but thanks for trying.” That was on a Tuesday; the following Friday Alberti called her long distance to say that he’ d shown Ralph Wonders, of CBS , her pictures and that he was inter- ested. So she hopped a train to New York and went to work for Columbia. 3ut it was no sudden rise to fame for Benay. She literally had been in show business since childhood. Born in San Francisco about twenty-five years ago, she’s the daughter of the late Ernest Crooke and niece of George Cameron, publisher of the San Francisco Chrenicle. Her paternal grandmother, Molly Crooke, was a well- known painter; her mother is Italian, descended from Benvenuto Cellini, and it was she who named Benay “Venuta,” which means “welcome.” All of which brings us to the point that Miss Venuta is Social Register and, as she herself says, so what? “That’s silly,’ Benay will tell you. “I remember sound- ing off to an interviewer at one time, mentioning that I thought a girl should have some interests of her own. And the story- said I was ‘social register’ and that I thought society girls should go to work. But I’m not in society—my family is, but I’ve never had a début, never been ‘brought out’.” When she was thirteen, Benay was singing in a Fan- chon and Marco presentation out on the Coast, after being captain of the Hollywood High School swimming team and appearing in several school (Continued on page 58) But 39

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ROBERT Don Ameche, radio favorite, the screen's newest sensation, WHAT is it that plucks one fellow out of the crowd and makes him famous, successful—is it luck, is it just a question of the “breaks,” of happy but entirely fortui- tous circumstance? Some say glibly that it is all luck— and others say that there is no short road to success, that it takes courage and _ stick-to-it-iveness, as well as some special fundamental talent. But, to confound them, there always is some fellow ahead of the crowd, who won his high place with seemingly little effort, on whom fate smiled and for whom chance built a straight and easy fame and fortune, Like Robert Tay- lor, for instance—and like Don Ameche. Don was not really born with a silver spoon in his mouth and yet a lucky star must have been brightly shin- ing in the that night in May, 1908, when oift or road to heavens on 40 little Dominick Felix Ameche arrived ‘in Kenosha, Wis- consin, Of middle-class parents, the second of eight children—four boys and four girls—you wouldn't rec- ognize in those factors the elements of fame or fortune. Nor in his early boyhood in Kenosha, nor during his years at school, would you have seen more than a likable lad with good features, dark hair, glowing dark eyes and an amiable smile that disclosed even white teeth. Don himself in those years did not know what he wanted, never dreamed that some day his respectable but hitherto unknown name would shine in bright lights over a thea- tre marquee, that his dark good looks would be a pleasant foil for the beauty, the charm of such Hollywood lovelies as Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor. .. Oh, he dreamed, as boys do, of success and fame and romance—but he did

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a BY MIRIAM ROGERS TAYLOR, BEWARE | modern matinee idol, is causing a lot of heart flutterings! not dream that they were all within his grasp, that their roots went deep into the town where he was born and that other town where he went to school. From the time he went away to boarding school, in his ‘teens, he had them all, his good looks, like his talent—hidden still but undeniably there—and love. He didn’t know that. Of course he knew he was attracted to the slim even. blonde Prendergast girl. From the time he met her, when he first went to school in the town where she lived, he liked her. But he went out with other girls and no gypsy, her palm crossed with silver, told him that some day he and Honore would share a life that was full to the brim of health, happiness and prosperity ! [t sounds so easy, all of it, to hear Don tell it! You'd think being singled out by fate in such a manner would have made him vain, would assuredly have spoiled him a little, but apparently it hasn't. He is still simple, sin- cere, straightforward—just the sort of man he would have been, probably, if he had practised law instead of going on the stage. Do you suppose that that is the ex- planation of his success—and not luck, after all? “T thought I wanted to be a lawyer,’ Don said and added with his swift, easy smile: “I’m sure I don’t know why! But of course it wasn’t time wasted—you couldn’t call any education wasted, could you?” [ think he would have been a persuasive advocate, not only because of dramatic and appealing delivery but be- cause he is so deeply sympathetic, has such a rare gift for seeing the other fellow’s point of view, for under standing his emotions, the (Continued on page 60) +]

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BY LESLIE EATON DON’T ask me why, but in the case of any pretty young girl, the first question asked is: “Is she married?” And if not, not? And who is the love interest in her lif why Betty Winkler is pretty and she is young—and she is unmarried, heart whole and fancy free! That is, at the moment. My own personal opinion is that she is too pretty and too full of pep and personality to be that way Betty’ are dark and luminous—romantic eyes— eves but merry twinkle lurks in their depths. Her com- plexion is the kind the ad men rave about. Her hair is dark brown and she wears it parted in the middle and brushed back from a high, intelligent forehead. Her nose is straight, her mouth wide and generous. She is small, but so full of vim and vivacity that she seems taller than she actually is. She likes dark tailored clothes but is essentially feminine from the crown of her perky NO PITFALLS fon BETTI Betty Winkler is in great de- mand at the radio studios and the movies are said to be inter- ested in this glamorous girl. Betty was leading lady of a stock company at eighteen and at nineteen was a radio star. hat to the tips of her high-heeled shoes. Altogether, a vivid and charming person. How is it, then, that she has escaped matrimony?’ Pressed for a reason, Betty dimpled and shrugged. “I’ve been waiting bowl me for that something called love to over,’ she answered my query, her velvet- brown eyes twinkling. ‘Oh, I suppose I’ve been in love. I’ve had moments, though I don’t really know whether you'd call it love or not!” Her laugh was warm ayd gurgling. Life for Betty is a grand and glorious adventure just as it is, and not to be taken too seriously. Right now she is excited, thrilled over the possibilities of a movie contract, but whatever developments there may be along that line, her contract with the Girl Alone program comes first, and there also her main interest lies It may be partly because it is her first really import- ant role, it may be because of (Continued on page §0) You can't trip up lovely Betty Winkler, Radio's “Girl Alone” 42

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famous women reveal why Four IF someone were to ask you to name your favorite age, what would you say? Would you name some child- hood year when you played about light-heartedly, little dreaming of the struggles and obligations of a tired world? Would you choose, perhaps, the year when you first fell in love with that reckless. mad devotion, “for we never can recapture that first fine careless rapture?” Or would you choose some more mature year when suc- cess and accomplishment had come your way, or when you'd attained that inner poise, understanding and serenity that makes life complete? What is your favorite age and why? I asked four famous women that ques- tion. Each is a woman whose name is heard in the far corners of the world. Each is a woman who is sought by auto- graph hunters and followed by camera- men. Each is a woman who has songs written to her, perfumes named after her, crowds gathered for her. I asked diminutive Helen Hayes, operatic Helen Jepson, golden-haired Jessica Dragonette and kindly Kate Smith: “What is your favorite age and why?” “T honestly believe that if I could go back to eighteen, that would be» my favorite age,’”’ Helen Hayes, whom many people consider the greatest living actress, said to me. “Eighteen seems to me to be a magical age. For the first time a girl then seems to come into the full 44 BY HA Y FAVORITE Helen Sagem thinks thirty-five would be the peak of life. certain years seem to them to possession of her faculties. Somehow or other, almost” over night, the eighteen-year-old becomes a woman. She’s © ready to take her place in the world. Life seems to — open up. She’s on the tips of her toes, all expectancy. — Childhood fancies are suddenly replaced by mature thoughts. Everything seems to take on a new meaning. As she looks forward—really for the first time in her life—the eighteen-year-old begins to envision some of the real values of life—a home which she will create and inspire, marriage, children, career. Before eighteen, I don’t think I gave much serious thought to such things. True, I had been on the stage, off and on, for ten years, fitting in schooling between engagements, — but being in a show meant little more than ‘play acting.” Then came the transformation. I saw the significance of the theatre—not merely as mimicry, but as holding a revealing mirror to life. I became less interested in the professional excitement of the stage. Instead, I wanted to turn whatever talent I had to something creative, something permanent, and above all, to some- thing worth while. Not that I hadn’t taken my work seriously—on the contrary, I think I had been pretty conscientious about it—but I wanted my efforts to be purposeful. ’ “T suppose I was fortunate because, before my eight \ RRIET

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; Kate Smith votes for twenty-seven, her present age. AGE | hold life's richest meaning eenth year was out, I had signed a contract to be in a play with William Gillette. It meant that for the first time I would see my name in lights. You have to be in your ‘teens to get the greatest thrill from such a turn of events. Perhaps it was the natural enthusiasm of very young womanhood—or perhaps it was that innate streak of vanity that makes actors actors—in any case, it gave me confidence and incentive to continue. If my first important success had come at a later age, I prob- ably would have been content to rest on my laurels. But at eighteen, it gave me a great lift. “Of course, there have been many years in my life that I would like to relive,’ Miss Hayes reminisced. “One of them would be my eighth. That was the year I first appeared on Broadway. | remember it so well. Mother and I had come up from Washington, trying to find me a job. Eventually I got one. I played in Lew Fields’ production of Old Dutch. Victor Herbert him- self conducted the orchestra and Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell were in a box.’’ Miss Hayes mused thoughtfully: “Part of 1932 would certainly be another year I'd like to pick. That was the first year I spent in Hollywood. Lullaby was my first try in the movies and all during its making I was terribly unhappy. I was certain the picture was a flop. When it was finally shown, the critics were most kind and the Academy members were good (Continued on page 69)

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J are: STAR E and SB STARLETS The Horn and Hardart “Child- ren’s Hour’ presents ’ , Ze sie nko > fat d Dickie Monahan. Tomorrow's stars Bob Crosby and Charles Peck compare their radio voices. e) i & : Po McClintock, Benny Fields with F Waring's ; rs Pinkie Mitchell of ae . sounds off Ge is “The American — : . f roggié Froes. , if = : Pageant of Youth."

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BY RUTH Scene from "Hell's Angels," the United Artists’ picture in GERI which Jimmy Hall was featured at the height of his earlier success. Fate played a sorry trick on James Hall, but he found out a sure way to defeat Fate! LIFE WAS Announcer James Hall, whose climb to success, after failure, is one of the fascinating stories of show business. RADIO STARS 100 THERE is, in the heart of every woman who loves a man, a pronounced mother-instinct. The woman may be cruel to the man she loves, but always afterward she is sorry—like a mother who has spanked her little boy and made him cry. She wants to dry away his tears, to draw his head upon her shoulder and console him. There is Irene Hall, for instance, and there’s Jimmy. Two years ago James Hall sat in a dreary hotel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a fugitive from justice, broke, all washed up after a success so meteoric and seemingly so lasting that even Hollywood had marvelled. There came a knock at the door. Jimmy didn't want to see anyone, but he answered mechanically: “Come in. The door opened slowly. Jimmy, his head sunk moodily and his despairing eyes upon the faded pattern of the worn carpet, did not even glance up. He no longer was curious about anything. It did not matter, now, what happened. Everything was all over. Life was behind him. The woman who walked slowly into the room was older than her years. Gray streaked the red hair that once, obviously, had been gorgeous. Her face was lined with sorrow and worry. “Jimmy,” she whispered. Jimmy started. He looked like a man who sees an apparition. He leaped to his feet and stepped slowly backward as if to escape from this ghostly reminder of a happier day. But the woman spoke again—and he stopped. Her voice was firmer. “Jimmy—lI’m sorry,” she said. “I never meant to cause you all this pain—to wreck your career. I was so miserable and unhappy, Jimmy. Don’t you understand? I guess I still—loved you, Jimmy.” The woman’s voice broke and she sobbed: “Oh, Jimmy, I still love you!” She mistook his silence for anger. She held her hands out in supplication, her palms turned pleadingly upward. ‘Oh, Jimmy, I’ve told those lawyers to drop that awful suit. I only did it because I hoped it would bring you to your senses. I didn’t know it would hurt you—like this!’ She made a gesture that took in the little hotel room. “And Jimmy, if it will make you happy—you can have your divorce!” (Contined on page 74) 47

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RADIO STARS What sacrifice has Vivian Della Chiesa, sensational new NBC “IT USED to dream of being a success overnight. Of waking up and seeing my name in lights . ..” She laughed, a warm, excited little laugh. childish and impossible, I thought. pen like that...” But they did happen like that, with the unexpectedness of a fairy story. And if she had not possessed wisdom and balance beyond her years, her head well might have been turned and she might have awakened to find her magic coach a pumpkin again. But Vivian Della Chiesa’s success was no flash in the pan. She had that something that makes all the differ- ence between forgotten contest winners and a real success. Vivian’s already notable career began with an unknown singer contest in Chicago, a little over a year ago. It was the last day of the contest and over two thousand girls already had been tried out. Vivian had had no intention of competing, but a friend, a woman interested in the girl’s lovely lyric voice, urged her to try. Diffidently, sure that it was futile, that the winner probably already had been chosen, Vivian sang. She was under twenty, but her voice had depth, power, sweetness that brought the judges to their feet. Here was a find, a voice of great potentialities for radio, for opera 2 el “Tt was silly, Things didn’t hap- Vivian studies at least three hours a day. "And the less you know, the more you think you know!" she laughs. “But I've learned something!" BY MIRIAM ROGERS Vivian’s eyes glowed, her cheeks were scarlet, her hands trembled with excitement. It was all beyond belief— singing over a microphone, singing on the stage of a Chi- cago theatre, her name in bright lights over the marquee. She, Vivian Della Chiesa, of East Chicago, Indiana! “They wanted me to change my name,” she murmured. “They said no one could pronounce it—it sounded like cheese or something!” She laughed merrily, was in- stantly serious. “I couldn’t do it. It was my father’s name—he had no son and I always said I would carry on the name—would make it famous!” She was right. Unwieldy, awkward to the impatient American ear and tongue, it nevertheless is a beautiful name and one that will look very well on an opera bill- board, before the Metropolitan! z For Vivian still is dreaming, still far from satisfied. “That has always been my goal,” she confessed. “Opera —it is in my blood! My grandfather was a symphony conductor in Italy, my mother a fine pianist. Before I was born, my mother went almost nightly to the opera, to hear the great singers .. .” A passionate love for song, for the best in music, is in her blood, as the love of music is in the blood of all Italians. And Vivian is a true Italian, although not the dark Latin type with which we are most familiar. In- stead, she has the blonde hair and blue eyes of the people of northern Italy, and with her smooth olive complexion she is very striking looking. She is girlishly dissatisfied with her fine Roman nose, but it suits her type. She is tall, well developed, and has a natural gift for wear- ing clothes well. She is vivid, colorful, aglow with life, sparkling, vivacious. It does not take a vivid imagina- tion to see her as Brunhilde, as Elsa. as Min... If she had not been stubborn about her name, she might have missed a friendship that means much to her!

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star and opera star, made for her career? Did the brightly twinkling lights that spelled out Della Chiesa beckon romance? Was it love that found its way to her dressing-room that night? Or merely friendship, as Vivian would have you believe? For a tall and handsome Italian officer, a lieutenant in the cavalry division of // Duce’s great army, saw the name and responded to its call. He was but recently from Rome; he had known the Della Chiesas there “He is very interesting, very intelligent,” Vivian said softly. “He speaks several languages well. Mussolini sent him over to study radio in America, but he already knew more than most men in the business!”’ She shook her head emphatically. ‘‘No, there is no romance. That is just a story—a pretty story, but not true.’ She smiled, her eyes dreamy. ‘‘We correspond, but there is no more to it than that.” She is very young, but newly embarked on a fascinating career—but she was brought up on fairy stories at her mother’s knee. And she still is young enough to dream of the fairy prince! One precious dream already has come true—she has known the thrill of waking up to find herself famous. The other dream—well, whether it is a handsome cavalry officer or a young radio announcer, Vivian will know him for her prince when the time comes! Meanwhile, she admits that she loves to dance and that she envies girls who have more time for such amuse- ments. Her officer has gone back to Italy, but Vivian does not lack for escorts. Her favorites right now are RADIO STARS Was it love? two young announcers, near her own age and with many interests in common with her. During the summer, one of these friends went with her and her parents to a vaca- tion camp in Wisconsin on frequent week-end trips. “We rowed on thé lake, rode horseback—it was lots of fun,” Vivian exclaimed. “I love the out-of-doors and I love going places, doing things, but there isn’t time for that sort of thing now. I study at least three hours a day, you know—my mother says I sing all the time! You see, I’ve learned something this last year. ... At first I thought I was the tops—you know how it is! Winning the contest, appearing in Chicago theatres, being on three commercial programs almost before I knew what it was all about. The less you know, the more you think you know!” She laughed again. “I thought I was Rosa Ponselle, I guess!” From the time she was seven and first heard a Rosa Ponselle record, the opera singer has been Vivian's ideal. She has met many famous people, but not yet this one whom she idolizes above them all. But one night. at 56) an Italian gathering, she sang (Continued on page Lor? xhe \ove ,o9° “\ \ov® ond 2oY, . xh e t rt now . fot

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at ati “Any girl who goes around with a comedian must have a sense of humor,’ says Ken. Ken Murray and Stooge Oswald pick New York's ‘Ideal Bachelor Girl" of 1936. WE were sitting in a tiny dressing-room of ‘the CBS Radio Playhouse. Outside, on the stage, Russ Morgan was rehearsing his band in a swing arcetigenet. Murray sucked gloomily at his pipe. “Don’t you feel well?’ I asked. “Me? I feel swell,” Ken said. “Why?” ee “You didn’t look very happy.” 13, 5K x oes “Oh—that,” he said. “Aren’t all comedians eupptoed to be somber off-stage ?”’ I said I had heard as much. BB “Well, being traditional, sort of, I’d hate to ae ‘te, tradition,” Ken said. “I am a comedian—I ict ” And he looked anxiously for possible refutation. ae should | I be funny?” es Dela v. tee ia “MAMA THAT MANS HERE AGAIN! Ken Murray finds that a sense of humor is a woman s greatest asset BY JACK HANLEY “It might help,” I admitted. “But don’t you find it wearing, being funny all the time?” “When I started in show business,” he | grinned, “I felt called upon to be a funny man all the time. Wisecracks and gags emanated from Murray in an endless stream; it must have — been pretty wearing on my friends.” j “How about women—do they like a funny . man?” “T don’t know whether they like it or not,” he _ said ruefully, “but any girl who goes around © with a comedian must have a sense of humor. It doesn’t matter very much whether she laughs at you or with you—so long as she can laugh.’ “And how about wives?” I asked. — “Well—you be the judge. Back in the days when I | felt called upon to be constantly funny, I was married. — The lady who was then my wife heard plenty of alleged « humor from me, I’m afraid. And one day she looked ~ me in the eye and said: ‘Ken, you may be a funny man — _to your public, but you’re a pain in neck to me.’ And,” Ken finished, “I’m still wondering whether that — ‘showed she had a sense of humor or one!” Ken Murray has, of course, been, a single man again for several years. “On the other hand, sometimes a ane humor in

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Do you think that marriage is a difficult proposition for two people with careers? Art Van Harvey: “Yes, I do think so. Both, naturally, are interested in their careers, which often separate them for long periods of time. They naturally are thrown in contact with others of the oppo- site sex, and temptation to fall in love Rubinoff, noted Russian violin- ist, conducts his 32-piece or- chestra in a new series over CBS network Sunday evenings at 6:30. with someone else is too great.” a Ireene Wicker: “All good things in life are earned only through intelligent effort, and a happy marriage is no exception. It is difficult for two people, with or without careers, and possible only when deeply and earnestly desired by both parties—career or no career—but well worth the effort!” a ae Jimmy Farrell: “Being a bachelor, I wouldn't know definitely. My opinion, however, is this: Marriage itself is the greatest of all careers and two people properly mated would subordinate their interest in professional careers to that in marriage. There is room for both and they can be harmoniously reconciled.” = Virginia Verrill: “Yes, indeed. Each Winsome Lucy Monroe, contin- ues to enthrall audiences with her luscious so- prano voice on the NBC networks twice a week. RADIO STARS Leading lights of the airwaves “cross their hearts’ and answer fans’ questions being self-centered—which is absolutely necessary to a successful career—prevents, in most cases, a happy married life.” > Major Edward Bowes: ‘‘There’s no rea- son why it should be difficult. True love is helpful and unselfish.” The answer to an amateur's prayer, Major Bowes, has lost none of his pop- ularity since he changed spon- sors and hours. Rosemarie Brancato: “As yet I have had no cause to change my mind about the im- possibility of combining a successful mar- riage with an equally successful career. When both partners of the matrimonial venture have careers to consider, I feel it will remain just a venture. Marriage and career alike are full-time jobs and one will suffer because of the other.” ; ah Leo Reisman: “It depends on the ar- rangements, the understanding of the people involved, and whether or not your career is somewhat dependent upon the romantic interests of other members of the opposite sex.” a Helen Jepson: “Decidedly not! But it takes a proper combination of one helping the other to develop an understanding in all situations.” Virginia Verrill, Vee for short, now has her own program, called Vocals by Ver- rill, heard on Wednesdays over CBS at 10:45. Ray Heatherton: “Marriage is a career in itself and may easily be incompatible where two have separate careers. Little by little their individual careers will draw them apart. To pursue a career, a man is so immersed in his work that he needs the understanding of one who is not beset by her own problems.” + Vaughn De Leath: “It would depend Between opera, concert tours and her Show Boat broadcasts, platinum-haired Helen Jepson is excoaditile busy these wintry days. upon the careers the two people had. If they are allied arts it may be to advantage. If they are the same vocation it may also be satisfactory. But whether it be a pro- fessional or business career, after all, the most important thing is the dispositions of the individuals, and whether or not their lives may be blended into a harmonious existence depends upon the unselfishness of both.” oo Tim Ryan: ‘“No—equal independence, to my way of thinking, is a great balance and makes marriage twice as interesting.” a Ann Leaf: “Marriage is a difficult prop- osition for two people without careers, and well-nigh impossible when both have Mr. Kostelanetz, rumored fiancé of opera singer Lily Pons, com- mutes between Hollywood and his CBS Chester- field orchestra. careers. Being an artist is a nerve-wrack- ing existence at best, and living with one can be very trying to any ‘better half? I believe that there have been cases of happy marriages between career people which have lasted indefinitely—but they have been exceptions.” = Billy Jones: “Human nature is very strange, and it all depends entirely on the individuals involved.” o> Lucy Monroe: “Indeed, not. I believe that similar hours and interests are most important. Artist plus artist should be a better combination than artist plus business person.” a oe Ted Malone: “Marriage is a difficult proposition for two people with or without careers, but like almost all of life’s really

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difficult things, it’s more than worth what it requires.” + Andre Kostelanets: “Not any more than for people who have all leisure hours.” + Charlie Barnet: “Definitely difficult, as there will be a consistent clashing of tem- peraments.” EAS Curtis Arnall: “Jt’s apt to be difficult if either is inclined to ‘lean’ too much on the other.” oe Loretta Lee: “Certainly not. I believe it would be more difficult when one has a career and the other hasn’t. When both husband and wife are actively seeking fame and the spotlight, they can appre- ciate each other’s problems and be more tolerant when difficulties arise.” a ae Eddy Duchin: “No, not when both people are intelligent and understanding. Every individual likes an avenue of self- expression, I have found.” —o— Patti Chapin: “Jt is according to what the careers are. If it does not necessitate a long separation, there is no reason why it should be difficult, providing the indi- viduals understand and are sympathetic toward each other’s work,’ a Milton Berle: “Yes, I do. Marriage means a home and the raising of children. That is a difficult task when two people are directing all their time and energies to their professional careers.” What is your attitude toward se- rial or continued-story programs? Jimmy Farrell: “Most people are very much interested in the experiences of others and find pleasure in matching their own personal joys and sorrows with those of others. Serial story programs gen- erally are based upon such human experi- ences and bring pleasure to those who hear them. For this reason, I approve.” os Virginia Verrill: “I think serials are marvelous and most certainly hold a listen- ing audience better than one-time pro- grams. Proof of my theory is the most popular radio program—Amos ’n’ Andy.” ae Art Van Harvey: “Jnasmuch as I am in one myself, I may be prejudiced.. But the fact remains that serial shows have out- lasted practically all other types of shows. Ours has been on the air five years and surveys show it to be more popular now than at any previous time.” = Ireene Wicker: “They have a definite and joy-giving place in the lives of shut- ins and those who can afford little for books, magazines and outside entertain- ment. The acting in those I have heard is excellent, though I think there is room for improvement in the writing.” 23 Leo Reisman: “I don’t like them for the following reasons: radio, in my life, and I suppose in most other people’s lives, is a means of casual entertainment. And for casual entertainment it is too much of a job to carry in mind not only the current performance, but also the story preced- ing. Also, at each single performance one (Continued on page 66) RADIO STARS It wasnt the Cold that froze him ‘twas the sight of \ her Rough Chapped Hands film, I NEARLY CRIED when Dave com- plained about my hands. | hated them myself—all harsh and red. They stayed rough all winter, no matter what | put on them.. THEN -—A FRIEND TOLD ME Jergens Lotion softens hands in no time. | turned to Jergens— and a few days later Dave whispered .. . “I love your hands. They feel so soft.’” but Jergens brought about an early Thaw! ANDS can be thrilling when they’re soft and smooth. But cold, wind and water take the natural moisture from hand skin— make it likely to chap and roughen. And most women wash their hands eight times a day, they say — have them in water eight times more. But Jergens Lotion heals and softens dry, harsh hands amazingly Perth, Ontario). Name Jercens Loon FREE/ GENEROUS SAMPLE Prove for yourself how swiftly and thoroughly Jergens goes into the skin, conserves and renews the girlish softness of your hands. The Andrew Jergens Co., 1625 Alfred Street, Cincinnati, O. (In Canada — fast. Why? ... Because- Jergens goes into the skin cells more effec- tively than other lotions tested, and swiftly puts back lost moisture. Be- sides — Jergens contains two special ingredients, used by doctors. Red, rough, chapped skin is;made soft, white and fine in just a few applications. Jergens is never sticky. Use Jergens faithfully. At all drug, department, 10¢ stores. Address. PLEASE PRINT 53

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MAMA, THAT MAN’S HERE AGAIN! of beautiful show girls around. I used to take one or another of them out occa- sionally. There was one, though, who had more than good looks—she had a sense of humor and she’d been ribbing me all evening. Finally I said I thought she didn’t like me very well—always knocking me. ‘Don’t be silly, Ken,’ she laughed. ‘I think you’re a swell fellow and a great comedian. But what's my opinion against thousands of others?’” “You used that,” I reminded him gently, “in your program.” “IT didn’t say it was new,” Ken grinned. ‘But it demonstrates what I mean. And speaking of humor in a woman, I remem- ber the late and beloved Nora Bayes— [ learned how to be nonchalant from her. At that time I was getting my first real break in vaudeville and I was watching Nora from the wings. She was singing her unforgettable ‘Mandy,’ standing in the center of the stage with the full glare of a double spotlight on her . . . when her underskirt fell to her feet! “A titter, that could have turned into a roar, ran through the audience, but Nora never batted an eyelash. She continued to the very end of the song, then casually hoisted the offending skirt off over her head. ‘Don’t tell your friends that this is part of the act,’ she said, to the audience, ‘because it won’t happen again.’” “Then you think humor is valuable in a woman?” “In a case like that it’s a godsend. And not long ago I had reason to be glad women could take things with a laugh, or I might have to be hiding out. I go around with a young lady named Florence Heller. Naturally, she has to have a sense of humor—since she can stand me. It hap- pened that, after auditioning a lot of girls for the part, we picked little blonde Mar- lyn Stuart to do the ‘Wama... that man’s here again’ signature in the show, as well as sing. And shortly afterward I took her to Atlantic City with me, to play a per- sonal appearance, using her in the act. “One of the Broadway columns ran a squib that Ken Murray’s romance with Florence Heller was dead and that Mar- lyn was the new heart. I went to Marlyn to try and straighten it out—incidentally, she happens to be one of the prettiest girls in radio—she’s the only one on the show who can come late without getting bawled out. I expected to find her angry, but she just laughed and said: ‘It’s all right, whatever they say—so long as they spell the name right!’ Not new—but I was glad to get a gag instead of a sock in the eye, I laughed for five minutes.” “Do you expect to get married again?” I asked. “Well, you know last summer my spon- sors decided that I was the only comedian who didn’t have a wife: Jack Benny has Mary Livingstone, Cantor has his Ida, Fred Allen has Portland...So we did that ‘Find a Wife for Murray’ series. Fun was fun—but they wanted me to climax the broadcasts by getting married.” “That doesn’t answer my question,” I said sternly. 54 — aS pa eee as a = RADIO STARS (Continued from page 50) “Well,” Ken shrugged, “I didn’t—then. But if you stop heckling me I'll give you a picture of what my home life might be like. Let’s say, for instance, that I am married—we can call my wife ‘Florence.’ ” (I thought that sounded like a hint, but let it lay.) “Let’s pretend it’s just after breakfast— it would go something like this: Florence: Hurry, Ken dear—breakfast is waiting. Ken: Oh—TI didn’t know it was ready ; I didn’t hear you scraping the toast. Florence: Your eggs are waiting. Ken: Waiting without? Florence: Without what? Ken: Without bacon! Ha, ha, ha! Say—these eggs don’t look so good, where did you get them? Florence: Don’t you recognize them? They're the ones you laid last Tuesday night. ’ Ken: Say—I’m the funny man in this family. Florence: Be careful—you'’re getting egg on your tie. Ken: That’s all right—I look well in everything I eat. Haw!—Some yolk, eh ewe “eek isk, ine Florence: (Sighing) How many lumps will you take? Ken: Two—say, once in a while I feel like a waffle—and no wise cracks! Florence: Well, you'll have to get me a waffle iron. Ken; Don’t be silly—who irons waffles ? Haw! By the way—what are we having for dinner tonight? Florence: A big stew. Ken: Shucks—is your father coming over again? Florence: Yes—his lodge is giving a minstrel show and he wants to borrow some jokes. Ken: Huh—for a minstrel show all he needs are a few old, broken-down gags. Florence: Well, darling, why don’t you give him your last week’s script? Ken: I’m using it now. But I better get to work, I’m behind on my fan mail. Florence: Haven’t you read it yet? Ken: I haven’t even written it yet >—By the way—how much longer is your mother going to stay with us? Florence: Why she just got here. And at least, you must admit, Mother is out- spoken. Ken: know. Yeah—but not by anybody I Oh—hello, mother ! Mother: Hello. Florence: Ken was just talking about you, Mother—weren’t you, Ken? Ken: Yeah—I was just saying what beautiful hair you have. Mother: Oh, thank you. Ken: That is your hair, isn’t it? Haw, haw! I certainly crack ’em off, don’t I? Mother: (coldly) Do you? Ken: Sure—get this gag—it’s the open- ing joke on my next program, and it’s brand new—I made it up myself this morning. Wanna hear it? Mother: No. Ken: Okay—Fred Uttal says to me: ‘Have you anything set aside for a rainy day?’ And you know what I say? Mother: “Yeah—‘A couple of um- brellas.’ Ken: You know, Florence, Ireland must be heaven, ‘cause your mother’s over here. Mother: What are we having for din- ner? Florence: I have a nice stew. Mother: I’m tired of stews; now that Ken’s option has been renewed we can afford something better. How about duck? Florence: Oh—yes, I know you love duck, Mother. Mother: Yes—I’d give my life for a duck! Florence: Oh, Ken—where are you going? Ken: I’m going out to get Joe Penner! Which may or may not prove anything about how Ken Murray feels about mar- riage. But he does come by humor nat- urally enough, his father having been an old-time comedian. When Murray pére recognized the symptoms in Ken he tried to dissuade him from the stage. “At least, learn a trade,’ he said, “so you'll have something to fall back on.” So, heeding the parental advice, Ken set out as a musi- cal instrument salesman. “The only sale I made,” Ken says, “was to myself. I bought a clarinet. It turned out to be a good investment. I can’t sing or dance, but I can keep my audience awake by squealing the daylights out of that clarinet!” ; ; The clarinet led to a few small-time vaudeville dates, which gradually im- proved and increased until Ken was a headline act in the two-a-day, and he played the New York Palace Theatre more times than any other comedian, as master of ceremonies, in the days when the Palace was vaudeville tops.. He’s been in silent pictures, talkies and movie shorts and recently made a recording for Victor called Mama—That Man’s Here Again! which is a comedy dialogue between him- self and Oswald, his stooge. It’s the first record of its kind Victor has made since { the popular Two Black Crows, record- : ings of Moran and Mack. He played seven months in Earl Carrol’s Sketch Book and did the Lee Tracy part in Louder, Please, on the Coast. He writes a newspaper column called Ken Murray Says, which is syndicated to seventy-five papers and he’d like to do more writing. And now, with a successful radio show added to his other appearances, Ken figures he’s tried about every angle of show busi- ness except Aeolian Hall. A distraught young man stuck his head in the door and said: ‘‘They’re waiting for you, Ken.” : “Okay,” Ken said, and as we left I asked: ere “Why did you call your imaginary wife ‘Florence?’ ” “Why not?” Ken chuckled. the matter with Florence?” And as far as I know, there’s nothing the matter with her. 4 . ohne “What's ea) al

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RADIO STARS .. AND THEY CALL HOLLYWOOD CRAZY! (Continued from page 23) idio program is just as much a show as stage production or a picture. There’s 10 much of the attitude that only ‘radio 2ople’ understand radio, when there’s ery little basic difference between the ssential principles of entertainment on ie air or the screen. I’ve seen a radio ramatic director toss aside a script that yas especially written by one of the best ialogue writers in Hollywood for a par- icular actress, with the comment: ‘It isn’t adio. And he hadn’t even read the cript—what's more, the only qualifications his fellow had were a stock of temper- nental tricks that impressed his agency mployers. “As I see it, good writing and good tories have the same necessary requisites, 10 matter for what medium they are in- ended. I realize that radio, like pictures, las. certain taboos. And that there are -ertain requisites to writing an air show tor the ear that are different from writ- ng a play or picture that appeals to the sye. But those differences are purely me- chanical, that any competent writer can earn and allow for. “Drama, naturally, interests me most, since I am an actor. And it’s in the field of drama that radio seems to fall particu- larly short. It takes more than a stop- watch and familiarity with studio routine to make a dramatic director, but that’s all the equipment a lot of them have for the job. Drama should be one of radio's strongest bets and the answer to that is the Lux Theatre of the Air, which is among the most popular radio programs. And it is one of the most ‘professional’ in its handling, from the sponsor’s contact man to the director.” Montgomery has made three successful appearances on the Lux show, which squelches any idea that his remarks are prompted by personal rancor. “Sponsors and agencies spend fortunes hiring big ‘names’—and then give them nothing to do. ‘These names will make them tune in, is the attitude. But the point is, will they stay tuned in when the ‘names’ drool through ten minutes of puerile material and incompetent staging? That’s where drama suffers worse than musicals; the public will listen to bands and singers, even if the show is badly put on. And they can always dance to dance music. But the great success of the few good dramatic shows on the air proves that the public appreciates real drama.” It's apparent that Bob Montgomery takes drama seriously, But there’s little of the zealot’s fire in what he says; he’s not fanatic or impassioned about it. “Sure,” he said, when I mentioned that his remarks might let him in for con- siderable criticism, “I realize that plenty of people will say: ‘Ah, these tempera- mental movie actors! What do they know about radio?’ But I don’t consider myself a ‘movie actor—I don’t think anyone is. I’m an actor—and if you're a good actor, it doesn’t matter whether you're acting on the stage or screen or air.” Montgomery has the right to consider himself an actor. While his rise to fame on the screen was sudden, it was based upon several years of hard work and ex- perience in stock companies and_ the Broadway stage, where he was a name be- fore going into pictures. When he was just beginning to click on Broadway, he received a Hollywood offer to appear in silent pictures. He turned down the offer, being hesitant to take a chance in what to him was an untried medium. He scored heavily in the play Possession and Metro- Goldwn-Mayer offered him a contract to come West and appear in the talkie So This is College, with Elliot Nugent—and this time he accepted, playing the second role. Hollywood has a way of ignoring new- comers who haven't arrived and Bob, who had reason to be proud of his record on the stage, was a bit annoyed at the cold shoulder the movie town gave him. He set about learning “pictures ;”’ not merely acting, but all the allied angles of movie- making. He popped up in monitors’ NOBODY IN THIS WHOLE COLLEGE LIKES ME... SO I'M GOING HOME ! YOu’LL HAVE TO LET THE DEAN KNOW, RUTH -AND NO «+eAND TODAY JIM ASKED ME TO THE PROM! 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booths, talked to electricians, sound men and cameramen, and accumulated a con- siderable fund of knowledge about the new medium. And the things he learned enabled him to apply his knowledge to his own performances, with the result that, in a short time, comments began to come in about the new young man named Mont- gomery. The same intelligent interest he showed in pictures is manifest in his comments on radio. Whether you agree with him or not, you can’t help realizing, when you talk to Bob Montgomery, that what he says springs purely and simply from an im- personal appraisal. He is singularly free of any conceit or actorish mannerisms, and, instead of dramatizing himself, he pokes fun at himself. The naturalness that marks his screen performances is even more marked in person; he sprawls his six feet over chairs and sofas, makes no attempt to turn on charm and talks simple English in a pleasant voice with- out any Oxford accent. He is supposed to be hard to interview, but that springs mainly from the fact that YOU MUST GIVE UP SOMETHING Ponselle’s favorite Songs My Mother Taught Me and, afterwards, a man came back and told her: “Miss Ponselle was in the audience. She enjoyed you very much.” A compliment to be treasured— you can imagine how much harder Vivian worked after that. “Social life and a career don’t mix,” she explained simply. “Not at this stage. at any rate. I make my first appearance with the Chicago Opera Company this fall and I am coaching with Forrest Lamont—I’ve got to succeed!” Got to for the sake of her own dreams and ambitions, got to for the sake of the parents who are so proud of her already, and who started her on the way to her career when she still was unsteady on her little feet. They gave her every advan- tage. She was taught to play the piano, the violin, taught to know and love the best in music and never to be satisfied until her own performance was the best she could give. But they were wise parents as well as dreamers and lovers of music. They saw to it that Vivian led a normal, simple life with her older sister, that she went to parochial school and had her friends, her simple good times. They wanted no infant prodigy. They were building for something bigger than that. And Vivian, singing day in and day out as naturally as a lark, dreamed her dreams, too. For a long time she thought she would be a nun. Did not her name mean “of the church?” That should be her destiny, then! Her eyes glowed with bright visions. But the wise nuns smiled tenderly. Her voice was meant to be given to the world. “You have to give up something for everything in this world,’ Vivian echoed the words and you wondered if she fully understood the meaning. She is so young and success has come so easily. What 56 ER ee ees RADIO STARS he feels his private life should be his own. He'll talk readily enough about his work and about less personal things. “T spend about twelve hours a day in the studio,’ he says, “and in those twelve hours I'll do anything within reason that my job demands; whether it’s acting, posing for stills or giving interviews. I figure that the other twelve hours ought to be my own.” He thinks that anybody who says he doesn’t enjoy making a lot of money is crazy and he turns the greater portion of his salary into a trust fund for the years when his popularity will have passed. He wants to direct and write and he has sold several stories, written under pen names. He’s very popular in Hollywood for his amusing amiability, his piano playing and wicked tenor to Sweet Adeline. Liking him on the screen, you’d probably like him more in person—and that goes for men as well as women. Between pictures he spends his time on his farm in upper New York State, living the simple life. In Hollywood his home is unpretentious and he drives his own (Continued from page 49) sacrifice has she made in the name of her career? Was she thinking, perhaps, of a young dark officer in Italy? Emotion is part of the Italian heritage, tao... “T am very much Italian,” she admit- ted. “They are so sincere, so warm-heart- ed, such excited, noisy people! I love it. I am noisy, too, and I talk far too much— that is my greatest weakness. Even in school, the Sisters punished me for it.” But, her dreams diverted from thoughts of the church, Vivian’s eager young mind fastened again on the opera. She always was a_hero-worshipper. Rosa _ Raissa, Lucrezia Bori, Mary Garden, Lawrence Tibbett—and always Rosa Ponselle. To sing for and with them a glorious, im- probable dream! To meet any one of them was ecstasy. “Mary Garden has such an infectious personality.” She leaned forward eagerly. “And Lawrence Tibbett is so simple, so unaffected—I wanted so terribly to meet him, but when my chance came I was too frightened to talk. I could only stam- mer and blush! I said finally, so stupidly: ‘Mr. Tibbett, I enjoyed your singing—I want to tell you—.’ He laughed and said: ‘Go ahead, I love it!’” She looked at me, her eyes shining. “When he had shaken my hand, I wanted to wrap it up in tissue paper—I couldn’t talk, I was so thrilled.” I thought how dangerous it is for her to feel so intensely. To go about, wide- eyed, eager, totally unarmed. She will be hurt, inevitably. But character can be made in no other way. And because she is una- fraid, meeting life more than half way. she will learn, if she has not already, to take the bitter with the sweet, the grief with the joy. And the measure of her suc- cess will be not the voice of a girl but the voice of a woman, rich with emotion, with that rare understanding that brings to a song so much more than is on the car. Making no pose of intellectualit Bob has a keen interest in current litera ture and does a great deal of reading. And while the records show that he was bor to comfortable affluence, he came into fame the hard way, after the family for tunes had melted away. As I was about to leave he unfolded himself from the couch and stood up to shake hands. “I gather,’ I observed “that you don’t care very much about the radio.” “On the contrary,” said Bob, “I like the idea of radio very much; I’d love it and be glad to work on the air. The onl thing I want is the chance to do something besides stand in front of a microphone. There are good shows on the air—lI’ve been privileged to appear in some of them —and I justify my attitude by the fact that every program I’ve encountered that was handled competently and profession- ally has been a show the public liked as well. And I hope to be in more of them.” So you'll probably be hearing him! (Next Month: Eddie Cantor answers Bob Montgomery in no uncertain terms!) written page. Nothing succeeds like success—and no success is possible without self-assurance, without pride in one’s work, whatever it may be. It is exciting, at twenty-one, to find oneself famous, in demand, earning much money. Vivian is barely twenty-one and she has every right to be proud of what she has accomplished in so short a time. But she has much of the saving grace of humility and one suspects both the gracious nuns who taught her, and her wise parents, of being responsible for that trait. Honor thy father and thy mother are not empty words in an Italian family and Vivian ungrudgingly tenders her parents the respect and the devotion they deserve. The depression altered many things for the Della Chiesa family. They lost their fine home, had to build life anew in a new and uncongenial environment. Here was Vivian’s first big opportunity to help and it steadied her, made her realize the value of money, the relative importance of success. But her heart brimmed with pride that she could help. Her family needed her and she stood staunchly by. They have an apartment now in Chicago and, with the Della Chiesa zest for living, you may be sure they are happy there and not wasting time dreaming of the past. “Temperamental?” Vivian repeated my question. “I don’t think so, though Mam- ma says I am! I have ups and downs. But I’ve learned not to be temperamental in my work! I tried it once—I was annoy- ed and snapped out what I thought. But it made hard feeling, unpleasantness. You can do much more with honey than with vinegar!” she concluded airily. An ideal man? She would not commit herself too far. “Domineering, superior— someone to look up to!’ And she added girlishly: “Boys are scared of a girl who

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loes things, a singer—I enjoy them more when they don’t know what I do. I like ariety in friends. A radio career is nar- ‘ow, you lose a contact with the outside world if you are not careful, get absorbed n your own rut. I think one needs to get uway from people in one’s own line of work, to meet different people. Some- times,” she added wistfully, “I wish I were an office girl, a clerk in a store. They don’t have to worry about perfecting this and that, always studying, always working harder and harder!” Only a few years ago, Vivian was a carefree schoolgirl, absorbed in _ roller- skating, bicycling, school parties, the movies. But singing became more and more important and eagerly she wedged her vocal studies into her crowded school days, attending the Chicago School of Music and going to high school at the same time. It made a heavy program and, by the time she graduated, she was on the verge of a breakdown. But she came of good stock, had a healthy, robust con- stitution. And she had learned the lesson that health is important, must be cons:d- ered. She struck a more even balance— then found herself plunged into a career for which she had not considered herself ready. She had her voice, a natural, God- given, glorious voice, with a wide range. But she was young and needed more training. The answer was work and more work. With less singleness of purpose, she would have been discouraged, would have slackened, contented herself with a nearer, easier goal. But she had, after all, more than a sweet voice, more than a casual ambition. “So many people with talent never get a chance,” she said earnestly. Her eyes widened, darkened as she saw herself among that unhappy number. But she was both lucky and sensible enough to realize that success might slip away as easily as it had come. Chance might have put her where she so longed to be—she well knew she would have to work hard to stay there. In the first thrill of her radio success, she went to the manager of the Chicago Opera Company for an audition. Signor Longone listened to the lovely voice and was impressed. But he was a wise man and gave her wise advice. Perhaps her singing muscles were not fully developed. Perhaps the strenuous demands of opera might prove too much, might wreck the promising career. Patiently, diligently Vivian practised, day in and day out. She went on with her commercial programs, her personal ap- pearances, her occasional concerts, but she never let up on the essential practising. And, finally, she went to Signor Longone again—and won the coveted contract. She will make her début this fall as Mimi in La Boheme. She has her own program each Friday over the NBC network at 9:30 EST. You may hear her Tuesdays at 6:45 p. m. EST and again on Thursdays at 7:30—8:00 p. m. EST with the Roy Shield Revue. The wings of song have carried her far already and will carry her much further or we are greatly mistaken in Vivian, in her dynamic personality, her glorious voice. And if it is cupid’s wings we hear whirring in the offing, he will have to bide his time, be content to wait backstage. For Vivian has all she can attend to right now! RADIO STARS NO WOMAN WON A MANS HEART WITH WASHBOARD WAVES : PRODUCES WAVES OF SHIMMERING SOFTNESS teas ie .. NATURAL AS CURLY HAIR! machines with hair- ERE’S news every woman will welcome! Frederics pulling wires. has perfected an amazing new permanent—a Wireless Permanent! No hair-pulling wires or heavy electrical gadgets are used. No insufferable chemical heat is necessary. Light, pre-heated aluminum wayers are put on to cool off—not heat up. Quickly, magically, comfortably, your straight hair is trans- formed into deep, beautiful, soft waves that shim- mer with lustre. A wave so natural—so alluring—so enduring and so easy to manage that you will really think you have naturally curly hair. If you want your permanent to win admiration— make you more beautiful and always attractive, say to your permanent waver: ‘“‘I want a Frederics No more harsh, harmful Wireless Permanent. The most natural and most chemical heat. comfortable of all Permanent Waves.”’ AX AMAZING NEW FREDERICS WIRELESS PERMANENT E. FREDERICS, Inc. 235-247 East 45th St. New York City Kindly send me a list of salons in my neighbor- VITA-TO ii q C anadX" ITRO NJ hood who give Frederics Wireless Permanents. (@)IRELESS |e Addresms<atee eee. feces tee tee ans eee Ceremanent? Waves

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There followed three years of one-night stands in minor theatricals, until Grandfather Scalmanini stepped in and put a stop to such shenanigans by hust- ling her off to Europe and putting her in finishing school in Geneva, Switzerland. When the market crash came, Benay returned to Hollywood and show business to earn her living. She played under- study to the lead in the Coast production of Tip Toes, appeared in vaudeville and picture houses and, in 1930, was doing her first radio work at KFRC, San Francisco, singing and writing continuity. At the same time she sang at the Embassy Club, a San Francisco night spot, from 8:30 to 4:00 a.m., writing her continuity between numbers. Then she’d get up for a morn- ing program at 8:30 a.m. Benay could take it—but the going was too tough and she was forced to drop her radio work and concentrate on night clubs, whence she came to WABC in New York. “T was in a rut at Columbia,” Miss Venuta confesses. “In all the time I was on the station, I was never submitted for a commercial. So, in July, I was glad to go over to Mutual, where I could have a chance to do the sort of thing I want to do. I am mistress of ceremonies, too, and I don’t try to be funny—but I do like a friendly, informal way of working and it seems to be going over.” It would, I think. Benay Venuta has an attractive speaking voice, young, vibrant and alive, with an almost boyish directness and absence of affectation. The radio audience seems to like it, too, for Miss Venuta gets many fan letters telling her so. “One of them,” she says, “ended up ‘love to you, Miss Venuta, and to the dear Docton ena. There it was again! I sighed resignedly and with a gleam of hope in the repor- torial eye, asked: “Uh—the doctor—your husband, does he mind your work?” Benay chuckled. “His friends have kidded the life out of him over some of the publicity stories about us. But he takes it all as a joke and I really think he’s terribly proud of me.” “Oh,” I muttered. “Vou see,” she went on, “Ken isn’t practising medicine—he’s working toward a psychiatry degree and is interested prin- cipally in research, Since he’s never had to work for a living, he gets a great kick out of my going out and making money.” 3enay Venuta and Dr. Kelley met in San Francisco, where the Doctor was finishing medical school at Stanford. In order to be near her, he transferred to Northwestern U., when Benay went to Chicago to work, and he graduated from there. And probably the only reason they didn’t get married immediately was be- cause Dr. Kelley was awaiting a final divorce decree from a youthful and unsuc- cessful marriage. The divorce was final PP Pe eee last September, 1935, and on October 20th they were married. “Do you,” I ventured, “think that your work is the most important thing in life to you?” “T take my work seriously,” Benay said. “It’s important to me because I love it; I suppose it’s just natural ego—all profes- sional entertainers are egotists, I guess. Anyway, I’m just as much ‘ham’ as any- one; I’d cry if I didn’t get four bows and I like people to like me. That’s one reason I’ve been working so hard on this show. I’m gonna make people like me!” Miss Venuta, for all the light candor of her remarks, obviously meant it. “I never liked night club work; I hope to do a show that there’s some talk about putting on. But radio is my favorite and I’d be miserable if I gave it up. I’m not going to give it up—at least, not until I can get to the very top. “But—important? I said it was, to me. Still, when you look at it objectively, what I’m doing isn’t really important, unless in the sense that entertaining people is im- portant.” I said that I thought that could be very worth while. “Yes—I suppose it is, if you can bring some pleasure to people. On the other hand, marriage goes on all your life—at least, I expect mine will—and that’s really important, to a woman. Or _ science— medicine—the work Ken is doing .. .” And there it was again! Benay is ter- ribly interested in her husband’s work. She’s interested in so many things—she takes beautiful photos with a cheap little camera; and I don’t mean snapshots; and she colors them herself; she likes to paint furniture, play tennis, knit, and she has a large musical library which she is con- stantly enlarging. She has been a guest on Joan Lowell’s yacht in the West Indies and hooked a shark, and another time the boat she was on was driven aground on a coral reef in a storm, with sharks bob- bing hungrily around. Once, cruising the Mediterranean with a party of friends, their yawl was becalmed, holding Benay and her friends without food or water. She likes sport and tailored clothes and is as pleasant to look at as to listen to. She speaks French and Italian like a native and has trouble getting up in the morning. She may—by the time you read this— be going to work on a picture with Myrna Loy and William Powell, a sequel to the famous Thin Man. And on her present Sunday afternoon show she has inaugu- rated the “talking song” idea, which seems to be very popular . . so much so that the idea lifters have gone to work on it. One girl actually sang almost the exact arrangement Benay used, she says. She'd like to know more about cameras and photography, and she'd like to study medicine, being so interested in what Ken is doing . ; “T gather,” I groaned, “that you are, then, in love with your husband?” “But definitely!” Benay shot back. So I guess that’s that. ” fe ee ee ee

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SANTA! HELP ME FIGHT OFF GERMS Give me the MENNEN GIFT BOX that are antiseptic “Mummy—please tell Santa to come across with a Mennen Gift Box this Christmas— ‘cause it sure will help protect my skin against germs. Just look what’s in it—a bottle of Mennen Antiseptic Oil—the kind most all the hospitals* use daily in caring for babies’ skin. Besides, there's Mennen Antiseptic Powder—it also keeps germs away. Gosh, there can’t be a better gift than that, can there? So, Mummy, tell Santa to bring me a Mennen Gift Box.” *Nine-tenths of all hospitals important in maternity work use Mennen Antiseptic Oil. Doctors endorse it. . . as well as Mennen Antiseptic Powder. Get both products in a Mennen Gift Box. $] and $159 at your druggist MENNsn 60 RADIO STARS ROBERT TAYLOR, BEWARE! (Continued from page 41) highlights and shadows, every facet of his character. You see that in his characteri- zations on the radio and on the screen. It is, in fact, what makes so real and moving his portrayal of the varied roles he plays. You see it even at rehearsal where, in an instant, at a single cue, he loses himself in the part he is seeking to interpret. He has to have this understanding of the character he represents before he can read the lines, but his insight is swift and un- erring and, given that fundamental, intui- tive analysis of the role, his reading of the lines is masterly. Six years on NBC pro- grams have been excellent training! It was while he was in school that his interest in dramatics was first aroused. And when he was still wavering between Blackstone and Thespis, weighing the | world of make-believe against the hard matter-of-factness of the law, he had his first opportunity in stock. The manager of the local company, deprived of his leading man by an ill-timed automobile accident, sent an SOS to Don, whom he had seen in school performances. It was as easy as that! All Don had to do was cut classes, learn the part and ap- pear on the stage that same afternoon! But if it was luck that singled him out, it was something more than that which carried him through. Don had what it takes. He played the part—beautifully. And won a twenty-week contract on the strength of his performance. Thus Don, half Irish and half Italian, began his ro- mantic career, with the luck of the Irish and the dark looks of his Italian heritage | to speed him on his way. It was Bernardine Flynn, of Vic and Sade, who introduced him to radio. They | had known each other in college and, in It contains the oil and powder her own deep liking for the work which seemed to have solved her own personal problems so pleasantly, she thought it would be an excellent field for the talented Don. Bernardine was right. Since the early days of Betty and Bob, with Don in the title role, his popularity has increased steadily. As leading man in the First Nighter dramas and Grand Hotel, Don has become high favorite with radio fans. And it speaks well for the kind of chap he is that he has always been high favorite with the other members of his company, too. I have met a number of them and, one and all, they sing Don’s praises, on the slightest provocation. ‘“He’s grand—he’s so real and so sincere and so unassuming— he’s wonderful to work with.” They all boil down to that and, as purely sponta- neous expressions of opinion, they’re pretty nice, aren’t they? From favorite of the air lanes to movie triumphs was an inevitable step for one with Don’s good looks. And like his two years in stock and vaudeville and the six in radio, Don looks upon his latest adventures with delightful lack of conceit. “T suppose I always wanted to be in the movies,” he admitted, “the way anyone in this sort of work does. They have a ro- mantic appeal, a glamour—and so when I had a chance to make a test about a year ago, I was thrilled. But the test wasn’t good.” He said it quite matter-of-factly. I must have looked sceptical, for he ex- plained earnestly: “No, really—I saw it myself and it wasn’t any good. But after I had gone back to Chicago, an agent saw it and thought it had possibilities. He got some movie people interested in looking at it and they saw something in it, too. The next thing I knew, I was on the way to the Coast to make a picture, with the under- standing that if it was any good, they’d give me a contract within thirty days.” While Don was in the throes of this first picture, the First Nighter series was trans- ferred to the Coast, the entire company, in- cluding Betty Lou Gerson as leading lady, deserting Chicago for the time being. Now that Don is established in Hollywood, it is being broadcast, with a new cast, from the local NBC station and is known now as the Little Theatre on Hollywood Boule- vard instead of the Little Theatre Off Times Square. For the first picture—Sins of Man with Jean Hersholt—was good. So good that Don was immediately cast in Ramona, and Ladies in Love and One in a Million fol- lowed in swift succession. So now Don serves two masters and serves them very well, indeed. He is re- luctant to say which he likes better, but the scales weigh perhaps a little heavier for the newer world of the movies, which accepted him so readily and made him feel immediately at home. “T was never frightened, nervous.” Don dismissed the idea with a laugh. “They’re such grand people to work with. They’re big. Maybe it’s because they’ve arrived, be- cause they don’t need to worry about their own positions, I don’t know. But anyway, they seem so real and sincere and friendly —I love working with them. And there doesn’t seem to be the pressure, the driv- ing urge to lead, to dominate, that you find in other fields. Of course, if one actor outplays another, that’s different. But there is no mean rivalry.” And Don said that, if you please, just after finishing his part in Ladies in Love with those four lovely firebrands, Con- stance Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young and Simone Simon! At my exclamation of surprise, he grinned. “I know—everyone expected fire- works. I think even the director was sur- prised. But it didn’t seem in any way forced or unnatural. They were just them- selves—not cold or too polite, but warm and friendly. They are four lovely girls. Janet Gaynor (Don’s scenes are with her) is just grand to work with!” And it seems the movie folk feel the same way about Don. He likes people. He meets them easily. He is just himself and they like him for it. And before the cameras, as in front of the microphone, his work reflects that sincerity, that simplicity. For the most part, Don has had to meet his movie public in disguise. Even the ap- pealing part of Alessandro in Ramona, with Loretta Young, did not reveal the real Don. So he is particularly pleased with his role in One in a Million, with Sonja Henie, which is a straight dramatic part.

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But with all this constant association with the lovely ladies of radio and screen —what about that romance we spoke of? “We have been married four years this November, Honore and I,” he explained with his quiet smile. “And we have two boys, Donald Junior, who is three and Ronny, who is ten months .. .” He is very inarticulate when it comes to describing his wife, his marriage, but it is a bright and shining fact that theirs is one of the happiest marriages in Hollywood. Honore is a quiet, home-loving girl. She majored in dietetics, and manages her home and her babies efficiently. And in her chosen career she is as outstandingly suc- cessful as Don is in his. For there is no slightest hint of jealousy in her make-up and she brings to her marriage a sweet sincerity, a forthrightness that is rare in moviedom. Don and her babies and her home are her pride and joy. “There isn’t any reason in the world why a marriage shouldn’t be as successful in Hollywood as anywhere else,” Don pro- tested earnestly. “As a matter of fact, we live the same sort of life here that we did in Chicago. “There’s so little to say about it,” he went on in response to my query. “We have a little place—a ranch, they’d call it out here—with a swimming pool. We don’t do anything—we swim, of course, we play cards. We haven’t many friends, just a small group that we see often. Now and then we go out, to dine, to dance, or go to the park and try out the concessions ” he shrugged. “You see how it is— there’s just nothing to say about it!” Except this—that it is sane and normal and entirely delightful and very admirable | in these hectic days of out-doing the Joneses! And it is grand to meet young people with such a clear and steady out- look on life. The Don Ameches have a sense of values. Some part of his not in- considerable wages is put by each week, | for annuities and insurance. The rest goes for household expenditures, on a reason- able scale, for clothes and simple pleasures. And both have a sense of humor. They love to joke, to rib each other, get a kick out of pretended squabbles in public—get a kick out of it because they never quarrel, really, because they understand each other so well. Honore calls for him at the studio after broadcasts, she sits quietly on the set where he is playing. And her gaze is steady, serene when she meets him. There is no question in her eyes, no fear. He may have just come from a tender love scene with some other pretty girl, but Honore isn’t worried. Don is the matinee idol type—but don’t forget, she knows the real Don. She knows that if ever anything, anyone, came between them, she’d hear about it first from Don himself, not from some scandal-monger, some gossip-sheet. And she rests secure in the deeper knowledge that there is no hint of the philanderer in Don. He is the same boy that he was ten years ago, simple, steadfast, sincere. If it was luck that placed him beneath the white glare of the Klieg lights, it is something more than luck that keeps him there. She knows the white glare of publicity will not turn his head, that fame and success will not break up their home. For the funda- mental tenets of his life, his character, as of hers, are love and loyalty, honesty and devotion. RADIO STARS Gg amorous of, ‘Che aha When the night is calling for ro- mance you must be loveliness itself .+. a vision of dramatic enchant- ment... possessed of that exquisite charm that comes only when you use Blue Waltz Perfume. A fragrant scent that lingers for hours, Blue Waltz is a creation to blend with your own exquisite self. A touch on your hair... a touch on your throat... gives you an exotic and haunting loveliness. 10e at the leading 5-10e stores BLUE WALTZ PERFUME PERFUME e LIPSTICK FACE POWDER ® TALC ™ 4 © ba. is a, =. a = x ® x Ss TUNE IN ON WEDNESDAY MATINEE ROMANCE ON THE AIR! Every Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, E.S.T., MODERN ROMANCES presents a thrilling half- hour of real-life drama .. . the true stories of actual people, their problems and their solutions, brought to life in these weekly dramatizations on the air. This exciting radio program comes to you over six powerful stations: . NEW YORK WTAM . . . CLEVELAND . BOSTON KDKA . . . . PITTSBURGH . SPRINGFIELD WMAQ . . . CHICAGO Tune in your favorite station next Wednesday at two o'clock and be thrilled by MODERN ROMANCES . . . ON THE AIR!

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CALLING ALL STARS! aeoagea oe w oh geasaenraeuo gy a a | a a L | a a Long a favorite with radio headliners, the Savoy-Plaza has earned this preference through its atmosphere of warm hospitality, its superb cuisine, and its cheerful service. Overlooking Central Park, the Savoy-Plaza is close to CBS and NBC studios and to the finest shops and theatres... The Cafe Lounge and Snack Bar at Cocktail Hour and after the theatre is the meeting place of smart New Yorkers and visitors who come to dance and be amused by the season's outstanding entertainers... Rooms at the Savoy-Plaza provide spacious luxury with truly home-like comfort. Single rooms from $6. Double rooms from $8. Suites from $12. SAVOY PLAZA Henry A. Rost, Managing Director George Suter, Resident Manager FIFTH AVENUE © 58th TO 59th STS * NEW YORK . RADIO STARS RADIO RAMBLINGS (Continued from page 14) really is a much better comedian than his past two seasons on the air indicated. He had to write his scripts two weeks in ad- vance, so they could be sent down south to his sponsors for approval. Once the approval was stamped on, Walter couldn’t change so much as a comma, no matter what new things suggested themselves in rehearsal. Most comedy shows take on a good deal of extra zip in the rehearsal rewritings. Anyway, the new O’Keefe show has been lively and in tune with this season’s style of keeping the microphone in the audience part of the time. It also estab- lishes a custom of paying people for being members of a studio audience, and who says that’s not a good idea? DG In the studio, when Fannie Brice came back to the air Wednesday evenings, re- cently, was a veteran radio press-agent. He had been there on the night, a decade ago, when Fannie made her very first radio appearance. As they talked about it, she recalled how nervous the thing made her. “You didn’t seem nervous,” he said, “I remember the microphone was set too low for you and in the middle of your bit you kicked off your high-heeled shoes, which brought you down to just the right height. I thought that certainly showed compo- sure.” “Composure!” and Fannie laughed. “My dogs were aching.” ae Thursday Night Studios: In the Rudy Vallee studio you'll find an air of digni- fied, theatrical polish. Rudy presides with the quiet sincerity of an earnest class president and guest stars make entrances from the wings or rear of the stage, tak- ing bows professionally before starting at the microphone . . Slipping over to Show Boat, in an adjoining studio, there’s a program conducted in a scene of wild confusion, a stage full of what seems to be bedlam. People dash out from the control-room with hurried messages and dash back again. Actors sit in a bank of chairs on one side and singers on the other, with constant movement back and forth to microphone for brief bits. Ap- plause signs are waved wildly . .. Out in Hollywood, Bing Crosby’s hour has the most casual light-heartedness imaginable. No one dresses formally. Bing usually comes around in slacks and sweater, and so do most of the others. Bob Burns dolls all up, though, fancy waistcoat and everything .. . If you could get over to Columbia’s Thursday evening shows at the same hour, in the Kate Smith studio, you’d run into an atmosphere of grim earnestness, amaz- ingly in contrast to the smooth ease of the show. Kate is a formidable lady at the mike, casting quick, anxious glances here and there to make sure everything is running properly. She does have play- ful moments, though. The other night, right in the midst of a song, I Want to Lead a Band, she prankishly snatched the baton from her leader’s hand and con- ducted the rest of the song herself. Many a singer has an actor to read spoken lines for him, but this one tops that business. MNBC’s news commentator, Gilbert Seldes, has been having an actor read his comments on world affairs. Still better, the actor chosen to simulate the Seldes voice is Bill Adams, much of whose fame rests on his perfect radio imitation of the voice of President Roose- velt. —~?o Hard to explain why girl singers have such a fragile hold on radio popularity, isn't it? Missing from the air this season are such ladies as Jane Froman, Annette Hanshaw, Ethel Shutta, Mildred Bailey and Connie Boswell, mentioning just a few. And only last season, or the season before, all of them were at the peak of radio success. i ae Strange, too, how quickly Benny Fields faded from the radio picture. After his long and prosperous theatrical career had declined to a point where he was ac- tually dependent on friends for the rent, he suddenly zoomed back last season to new stardom in Chicago and Broadway night clubs and was featured soloist in the radio version of Ziegfeld’s Follies. A summer in Hollywood and he returned to New York radio to find no takers this fall. Just a few sustaining shows to fin- ish out an old contract with Columbia. oe Blustering, hearty, bad-tempered, beam- ingly amiable, in quick succession, Paul Whiteman always is lively company at work or play. After a program, the other night, he came storming into the control- room for the regular Sunday night con- ference. Immediately he started again, with the remark: “Wait here a minute. I didn’t call my wife to see how the pro- gram was.” At the control-room door, he stopped and grinned sheepishly. “You know, I just had a big fight with the sponsor because he brought up his wife’s opinion of our show. And I can never wait to get to the phone to see what my own ball and chain thinks of it!” a Eddie Cantor is one man who never has trouble with the sponsor—at least, not the kind where he loses the argument. When differences arise, Eddie tells them plenty, so much plenty an opponent gets little to say. At one period of his radio career, Eddie was working for radio’s most for- midable sponsor. In this story, we'll call him Mr. Zinn, because, frankly, I'd be afraid to have him catch me taking his real name lightly. Everyone in the radio business stands in awe of him—except this Cantor. Mr. Zinn once contemplated doing a ra- dio program with Helen Hayes and was complaining to Eddie about the high sal- ary. “She wants $2,500 a week,’ he ob- jected. “There isn’t a woman in the world worth that much money.” “Listen,” said Eddie with an air of settling things, “she’s worth that and I'll tell you why. We could walk through this office building and in a few floors I'd find yf Nu ie <i

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RADIO STARS you a dosen Zinns. But in the whole | iblace, I-couldn’t find you a single Helen Hayes. That's why she’s worth that much money.” -@ Did you get this odd note in the return of Ed Wynn and Jack Pearl to radio this month? In their radio heydeys, a couple of years back, Ed and Jack were the leading rivals for that dunce cap repre- senting top honors in radio comedy. Now they return to work for two leading rivals in the medicated cigarette field. -_?o- Radio certainly hasn't picked up the Hollywood and Broadway tradition of briet marriages and frequent divorces. There are a few, but strikingly in the minority. As a sample of how well mar- Tiage goes in radio, there are those Paul Whitemans mentioned a few paragraphs back. People who run across Fred Allen and Portland in a restaurant always come away remarking about the rapt attention her husband of some nine years still gets and the way her laughter rings out at nearly everything he says. Jane Froman has se- riously interfered with her own radio career, rather than be separated from Don Ross when his picture, radio and stage singing takes him afield. Jane and Goodman (Easy Aces) Ace are . ¥ 7. “ inseparable at race tracks or of an eve- _ Seeger c F . A) 1938 F.W.E ning over racing form sheets, Friends of ae ado Jack Benny catch him and Mary slipping 8 shamelessly into baby talk at odd moments. With Soft LUST ROUS HAI R Phil Baker looks obviously disappointed if you don’t make at least a little fuss over his wife. Lanny Ross had a story-book aes teat longs Ee bs es Ros Cen sort of romance that ended in marriage to sott, alluring hair, so lovely that men turn Olive White, the charming and attractive THE TRUTH ABOUT their heads in admiration and other women girl who as press-agent and manager had SOAP SHAMPOOS sigh with envy. | guided him to success. These are typical 1. Miccbknkttece ~ . ict e . . | radio couples, taken at random. hair shampooed with To bring out the natural silken texture and ae ordinary soap and " . iaht f our hair, u Goldie and Dusty, once radio’s most poce cae ros ee han ee Gh si iar popular singing team as the Gold Dust posit left by soup to itch s Dandru Snover, ampo. Togu- | Twins, dropped in on their old friends and he cok luster of larly each week. Fitch Shampoo does not fellow pioneers, Billy Jones and Ernie : Soap Shampoo fagye g single trace of undissolved de- | Hare, at one of the Columbia Sunday eve- Fick oe = posit to dim the natural luster of your soft, ; ning community SINGS. It was Surprising hair rinsed twice. glossy hair. As good for blondes as bru- to hear they were still together after all Note Fitch Shampoo . . l J : ne removes all dandruff nettes. It rinses out instant y and removes these years. Their radio career as great and undissolved de- 3 S 4 soc inevitably “brief. With fame posit, and brings out all dandruff, dirt and foreign matter with i 3 5 - “AP ola! the natural luster . . ° v8 ) resting on the name, Gold Dust Twins, the hair Fiteh Shampoo the very first application. Fitch's is the naturally no other commercial. sponsor only shampoo guaranteed 100° soluble could use them to advertise his product. / in hard or soft water. = | As the engineers were lounging between After and between Fitch Shampoos, Fitch's Ideal broadcasts, one of them was telling about Hair Tonic is the ideal preparation to stimulate , = = hai ts and give new life, luster and his two favorite ladies, whose broadcasts DANDRUFF REMOVER SHAMPOO pape an Pre i he handled. ee THE F. W. FITCH CO., DES MOINES, IOWA........ . ss. TORONTO, CAN. “Helen Hayes,” he was saying, “is as Sweet a little person as you’d find. Never much to say, though. Not that she’s uppish. She'll usually be sitting by herself, very quiet, and looks up a little startled when someone speaks to her, as though she was thinking of something else. And the little meanings she can get into a line as she reads it—it’s wonderful! __ “Now Ireene Wicker is a different type,” he went on, “always bright and lively. Hard worker, too. She writes all her Singing Lady scripts herself and even does a good part of the work on the music and arrangements. She doesn’t do the arranging herself, but she picks some the tunes and indicates exactly what e@ wants in the other spots. A very ever little girl, very clever.” —ARTHUR MASON Win a Week’s Vacation at the Miami-Biltmore A week of Miami magic .. . that’s what is in store for two first prize winners . . . a week crowded with recreation and fun that will run the gamut of glorious resort life. With the Eastern Air Lines in the role of the magic carpet. you will be whisked away to this Land of Flowers. Don’t miss reading the details of this ex- citing contest based on the Samuel Goldwyn picture, “Come and Get it!” See page 32 in the January issue of Screen Romances Magazine. KNOW ALL THE HITS! READ SCREEN ROMANCES JANUARY NOW ON SALE 63

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RADIO STARS KEEP YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL —_——___ (Continued from page 9) that we call it “rhythm” instead of system. The radio and swing bands have popular- ized rhythm as it never has been popu- larized before. But rhythm can be ex- pressed in life, as well as music. It can mean easy, gracious, planned living. Get rhythm into your five-week plan for Have a certain nightly cleansing and bath routine and a daily make-up and that will be carried on like rhythmic clockwork. Have certain ap- pointed days or nights of the week for looking after your other important beauty rites—shampoos, manicures, deodorant ap- plications and so on. beauty. exercise routine There is an excellent new deodorant on the market now that is very much like a fragrant vanishing cream. It is as fragrant as your favorite beauty cream, and as easy to apply. You simply pat it on and it disappears almost instantly. And the amazing thing about it is that it is a non-perspirant, as well as a deodorant. Remember, too, that even though you are not making appearances at the beach this nippy weather, nevertheless you are wearing sheer chiffon hose, which makes it imperative that the superfluous hair prob- lem be treated in the regular weekly rou- tine, winter or summer. It doesn’t matter what hour of the day out of the twenty-four you have your bath. Get rhythm with your bath brush. A bath doesn’t mean just lolling around—soaking. Don’t forget that your skin is an organ of respiration. It needs to breathe, and it can’t breathe with dead skin cells and for- eign impurities choking up the pores. Work up a good circulation with your bath brush (or a rough bath mit) and soap and water. Scrub until your skin is pink. The roughness of the skin and the funny little bumps we call goose pimples should disappear with a regular bath brush treat- ment. (I know of an excellent bath brush —not too expensive and not too stiff.) To make the treatment doubly effective, mas- sage with olive oil or muscle oil first, and then get to work with the bath brush, el- bow grease, and soap and water. More than half our skin problems are due to poor circulation. After a thorough cleansing and circula- tion treatment, you are ready to relax. There are all sorts of bath aids to make your bath an aid to the spirit, as well as to the flesh. First in importance is a good fragrant water softener, for hard water can do harsh things to the skin. Then there are bath oils and bath salts—what- ever and whichever you like best. There is, incidentally, a nice pine-fragrant bath oil that is perfect for this, or any, season of the year. Remember the old song, “I’m forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air?” There is a brand new product that has you singing that song right in the bathtub. The product has the utilitarian use of banishing the ring around the tub, but its most de- lightful and amusing use is its wholesale bubble production. Honestly, it produces literally a million bubbles—a fragrant, soft, airy blanket of bubbles. You just pour the contents of one of the little individual cellophane packages in which it comes, right near the closed drain plug. Then you turn on the hot and cold water full pres- sure, and before you know it you are coy- ered with a blanket of bubbles. Don’t you think the bubbles package idea a grand one to stick in the toe of every child’s Christmas stocking? Note for your shopping list—a grand Christmas gift for that difficult friend you've been puzzling over is a_ bath set in “neptune” green in a unique color- ful jeweled case, complete with dusting powder, bath salts, and Eau de Cologne Decorative and different! Of course you will want to finish your own bath with a lavish, airy sprinkling of fragrant smooth dusting powder or talc. And don’t forget, especially this harsh weather, that thorough vigorous drying with with a huge turkish towel is a very important after-bath essential. If your skin is inclined to be dry, a quick massage with a creamy skin lotion (with special atten- FOR PETES SA /T5 TIME 70 QUIT. SO RUN-DOWN HIS JOB NEARLY HAD HIM LICKED UP. THE BLOOD SUE-YOLS KNOW MY BROTHER'S A DOCTOR AND HE SAYS THAT TIRED FEELING GENERALLY COMES WHEN YOUR BLOOP GETS UNDERFER. HE SAYS FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST IS FINE TO HELP TONE Wp elsiaialr sy ACK ON THE WAN HOME— C You

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) shine. tion to knees and elbows) will be a desir- able after-bath cocktail. One of your ' favorite hand and skin lotions is now put out with a special dispenser gadget, which lis almost as good as having a mechanical hand to measure out the lotion for you. You simply press in the plunger, and out flows the lotion . . in just the right amount you need. It’s a smart idea to have one certain day out of the week when you can arrange to have an extra hour or so to devote to beauty. Five hours out of five weeks will accomplish a lot. There are all sorts of helpful rites to include in your hour of beauty. Give yourself a musical scalp massage (turn on the radio), and brush your hair at least ten minutes in the sun- Give yourself a manicure and a pedicure (cuticle remover is excellent for callouses, too), and paint your toe-nails a wicked red. If your fingernails are brittle, soak your nails for a quarter of an hour in warm oil. A manicuring house is now offering a long-needed reconditioning oil for brittle nails. (If your nails are very brittle, you should give them an oil bath every night—or at least, several times a week.) Let the oil stay on, and wear a pair of old cotton gloves for the rest of your morning or afternoon work, so that the oil can work in, too. Better give your hands a rich cold cream massage before you put on the gloves, so that oil and cream can work. together.- Talk about getting things organized and planned for you! A very smart manicuring concern has put on the market a complete set of hand cream, brittle nail cream, and gloves RADIO STARS —a complete beauty treatment for hands at a special, low price. And now to get right down to the busi- ness of a five-week plan of corrective treat- ments. There are figure, complexion, and hair problems that haven’t been taken into consideration in our five-week plan, and because they call for such detailed in- formation, I am going to leave it up to you to start your five-week plan by writ- ing in for the special corrective treatment bulletins that I have for you. Five weeks should show a lot of good results in the way of corrective work. If you are overweight, send in for my special Wife Saving Diet, and follow it for five weeks, which should mean a loss of from eight to ten pounds, other condi- tions—especially of exercise—favorable. You will need my exercise bulletin to go along with the diet, so that you won't get flabby, and so that you can concentrate on needed spot-reducing, too. If you are under- weight, I have a Program for Gaining for you to follow out for five weeks, and when you see (and feel) the good results, I hope you will follow it for another five weeks, and another, if necessary. You will need exercises, too, to build you up, as your underweight sister needs them to slim her down. Of course it is understood that all underweight and overweight conditions call for “seeing your doctor” first. You can’t work out any kind of a beauty plan if you have physical. maladjustments which must be taken care of first. If you have oily skin, cut out all rich, greasy foods; cut out the use of all beauty creams for the time being (not to apply your oil on.oil), and concentrate on plenty of soap and water and complexion brush cleansings ; and send in for my bulletin on Loveliness, and the name of the corrective powder to use for your make-up. If you have dry drink plenty of water; use a lot of oil in your salad dressings; use plenty of cleansing creams and protective creams (especially the latter this nippy weather), but don’t neglect soap and water cleansing, and send in for my bulletin on Comple-rion Loveliness. Treatments for both oily skin and dry skin are worked out in detail in the bulletin. And do you need the Care of the Hair treatment for advice on oily hair, dry hair or dandruff? Just send a stamped addressed envelope for each two bulletins you want. Personal questions are always gladly answered. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—on a twelve-month plan! And here’s my special Christmas offer for you. (Just pin the coupon to the piece of paper on which you have jotted down your five-week-plan bulletin re- quests. ) Complexion skin, too; Mary Biddle RADIO STARS 149 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York Please send me the booklet “Win- ning Ways with Perfume.” Name Addressites tc oo coors «aa ICK— DONT YOU KNOW YEP-SsS HE CAN'T LEAVE. Y'KNOW I’M WORRIED ABOUT THAT GUY—-HES IN A BAD SLUMP-CAN'T GET THINGS THROUGH=-THE , BOSS IS BEGINNING TO JACK — JACK —- YOU = 1 MUST GET UP—YOU'RE LRROwW Et a EVENINGS - INE NENER KNOWN HIM TO BE SO WORK OUT. 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For FREE full day’s supply, write DENNISON’S Dept. BA-192 Framingham, Mass, RADIO STARS DRESS TO YOUR HEIGHT (Continued from page 7) me, since I wear a large headsize. “Clothes this fall are just made for tall girls—we are fortunate because broad shoulders and tunic styles are very flatter- ing. I love broad shoulders and would like to look rather athletic but my husband likes me to look willowy and feminine.” Alice said that she even carries her love of tailored simplicity into her formal clothes. This is quite evident in the cos- tumes shown in the pictures. For instance, there’s the ice-gray satin evening gown which is designed with a graceful full skirt and a bodice gathered in front—the unusual pin, caught in a tie of the satin, being the only trimming detail. This gown is girdled with a sash of the satin, tied in a bow at one side. Over this gown Alice wears one of two velvet wraps. The one pictured is soft deep gray transparent velvet which has a self collar and with the sleeve fullness achieved by means of cartridge pleats laid in just above the elbow. The other wrap is of wine red velvet with a collar which can be con- verted into a hood on chilly nights. Both are stunning with the pale gray gown— gray is a color which Alice loves to wear and finds very becoming to her coloring. Her love of nice lines in skirts and shoulders is apparent in the fuchsia red taffeta dress in which she is pictured. The wide taffeta skirt laps over, but when she sits or dances, the bright green petti- coat beneath appears just enough to give a very effective contrast. These wide NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? (Continued from page 53) never gets a complete sense of satisfaction because the story does not come to a satis- fying resolution until the very end.” -}- Rosemarie Brancato: “/ must confess my preference for programs which are complete in themselves and not part of a serial or continued story.” BE Tim Ryan: “T think they are a very necessary part of radio. Serials, if good, make for splendid variety.” aa Vaughn De Leath: “I detest a serial broadcast. My life is too involved and too complicated to be able to sit at one period from day to day and hear a story continued from yesterday. They may be suited to housewives and shut-ins, but I do feel that there are too many sketches of this type on the air today to please the average person.” -*- Curtis Arnall: “They popular with radio audiences. my attitude is favorable.” seem to be most Therefore, + Lucy Monroe: “‘What will happen to poor Joe Zilch tomorrow—and Mamie, will she recover? Be sure to listen in, etc.’ I admit it. I love ’em!” lapels are wired arid’ the tiny collar at back has stiffening to keep it in place. She never wears a deep front décolletage but likes her dresses cut low at back. She wears little jewelry—mostly rings and especially her old-fashioned wrought sil- ver wedding band and an antique silver ring set with garnets. The good looking evening bag was a present from ‘Wal- ter O’Keefe with whom she has broadcast. Speaking of colors she said: “I hardly ever wear pastels as I do not care for them on me.” (This is unusual coming from a blonde, for usually blondes feel they must wear pastels to accent their fragile colorings.) “White and gray are about the only light shades I wear,’ she continued. “Tn summer I occasionally wear dusty pink. And I like deep shades, like a Dubonnet red, also that deep purple | blue, and black and brown. I think I can wear vivid and deep. shades because my brows and lashes are naturally dark and my skin is more yellow than that of the average blonde. “When I was in high school, crazy about black—I still wear it.” When she had come in from the street she was wearing a black wool tailored dress, the wool had a fine all over pat- terning in the weave. It was~ very simply styled with a brief pleated flounce around the hemline. A wine red velvet scarf was tucked into the neck line. With this she wore a black felt off-the-face hat. (Continued on page 68) I was Ray Heatherton: “I believe they are un- fair to the dialers. People become irri- tated and feel that they are being played with when they become engrossed in a vital situation and are suddenly told to ‘hold everything’ until next week.” ge Abe Lyman: “Okay, to listen to the entire serial. people haven't enough tune.” ae Ann Leaf: “I don’t approve of them unless each program is compact and self- sufficient. If the listener is forced to miss one or two sequences, the thread of the story—and the audience—has been lost.” ae Ted Malone: ‘They could be an ideal form of entertainment—but if you are re- ferring to the present catch-as-catch-can, meaningless, pointless, drivel that makes up most of the continued stories filling a half dozen quarter-hours of every day, I think they are a blot on radio and an insult to the intelligence of the audience.” if you have time But most =~ Loretta Lee: “J believe they're swell. They create a sustained interest that’s help- ful to radio. When people tune m on daily serial programs, the chances are | they'll continue to listen to other programs.”

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RADIO STARS KATE SMITH'S OWN COOKING SCHOOL“ yeapacue: (Continued from page 13) in your kitchen files and this article on from the Bandwagon and fix up a meal your library table to refer to, you should myself, I generally stick to the old stand- have the grandest Christmas dinner ever— bys. But you know how it is, you can see Those of you who saw my Thanksgiv- at a glance that you're going to like a ing Menu last month will notice that these recipe and that’s how I felt about. this : : : : two meals are considerably different from one. And I sure wasn’t mistaken this time, | eet 7 elem se eo dle ike = each other. And that’s what I think they so I’m all prepared to give my family | time to turn to FEEN -A- MINT. Because should be! Yes, I know lots of people be- something new in sweets. But they'll get | FEEN-A-MINT is diferent; it’s the delicious lieve that the two occasions—Christmas the same Hard Sauce and Southern Sauce | Chewing gum laxative, and what a difference oabebe.-t - ; ‘ P ; that chewing makes! FEEN-A-MINT acts and Thanksgiving—call for almost identi- that we’ve always served with other steam- | | é : gently, yet thoroughly, in the lower bowel — cal foods. But I think that’s monotonous ed puddings, for they can’t be beat! not in the stomach. and sort of a confession of laziness or Whichever pudding you decide on having, lack of imagination. You can have turkey be sure to try these sauces with it. Recipes for both meals, of course, if you insist, for both are in the leaflet. but I’m recommending changing that. The dessert course should be followed I start off the meal with soup; but not by—or accompanied by—coffee. And mints too much of it, for you don’t want to spoil and fudge should be on hand to eat both people’s appetites. Serve the soup ina cup, then and later on in the afternoon or = 3 . > 4 and spoon a little lightly whipped cream evening. My favorite fudge has both : on top. Sprinkle the cream with both pap- marshmallows and nuts in it. Can’t eat | @ Your life can be go different when you’re rika and finely chopped parsley for a much of anything as rich as this after | free from the chains of constipation! FEEN- Christmasy red and green color scheme. such a dinner, of course. But there always | A-MINT, the modern laxative brings relief so U y favorite Chestnut Stuffing in are people dropping in later c¢ and | pres e e agee gs halen cbt be ee se your 8 peo] pping in later on, and | stomach. No weakening after-effects. No dis- the capon, or use the Turkey Stuffing I just you wait till you see what an appetite | turbance of sleep when taken at night. Forget gave you last month. Some people like they can raise for home-made fudge! | oople whe bove chanoed t. 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Then I stick a tiny can- individual-size pieces, if you prefer) and dle into each marshmallow and light them. Re ARapio EXPERT remove seeds and spongy parts. Place Well, that brings us to the end of our pieces in a greased baking dish, skin side day—speaking from the standpoint of Learn at Home-Make Good Money ce i moderate oven until : ¢ ivgieatoleed 2h Ms ci ee cooking. But before I get back to rehears- Many men I trained at home in spare time make $30, soft. “(About 40 minutes.) Sometimes Tals for next Thursday's broadcast, let me | Ua RET takinSlaty Mane i MB", ass put a thin slice of bacon on each piece, remind you that Christmas is a day of | scribes Radio's opportunities and how you can become . : a ¢ 2 an os Se ae a a | a Radio Expe 1rough my practical home training. just a little while before the squash is giving as well as receiving. So won’t you | Television training is faces Money Back Agreement done. But my pet idea is to bake the squash — give some of your time, folks, to provide | Protects ¥ou- Mail coupon today for copy of book FREE. 4 j c > A . e “ | —_—_——|——— tt i | with a little pat of butter and some maple- greater happiness for others less fortu- | [ J. E. SMITH, President, Dept. 7AM7 flavored syrup in each cup-like depression. pate? I’m thinking especially of the boys in National Radio Institute, Washington, D. C. — ‘ s ’ ; a ry oe 5 ear Send me, without obligation, your 64-page book ‘‘Rich Gives it a flavor Mots Il love. ? the hospitals—“Our Boys’ still—many of | Rewards in Radio” | REE. (Please write plainly.) String beans don’t need any particular them spending their eighteenth Christmas | , NAMB................ ede > AGES mention except to say that I slice them away from home surroundings and family | | ADDRESS | very thin with my electric slicer. I'm about joys. 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A crys- tal and rhinestone buckle finishes the belt. “My pet extravagance is shoes,” she said. “I buy them all the time.” And Alice does not think tall girls have to | wear low heels. In fact, she never does. By the way, so many of you write to me about what fabrics you can use for your more formal shoes. Alice had a slick idea for her black evening sandals. She bought deep black suede ones to wear with her black velvet evening dress and they also double for afternoon dresses because at a distance you can’t tell whether or not they are velvet or suede. It’s a way to economize on dress shoes because strictly formal velvet shoes could only be worn for the one occasion. Alice has no patience with tall girls who think that, because of their height, they must feel awkward. She _ thinks every tall girl can dress to look stunning and that they are especially lucky in be- ing able to wear almost any style of dress. And she is a perfect example to copy because she moves with a free, easy step, her whole appearance being both smart and graceful. Kay~- Thompson, whose voice is heard with her Rhythm Singers on the Chester- field program Friday nights, actually is not a very tall girl but she gives that impression. Of herself, she says: “T know that I give the impression of being tall, so I avoid stripes especially. When I have my shoes on, with their higher heels, I am about five feet six and one-half or seven inches. As a mat- ter of fact, the clothes I like best of all are very simple, with good lines and in plain, solid colors. “The black and white combination is my favorite; it seems to me to sum up all the things I like about clothes—it’s simple but sophisticated; smart but not screaming, and striking but not silly.’”’ ( Pic- tured is the black velvet and sequins gown, part of a dinner suit. The jacket is tunic length and flared.) “Blue is another of my favorite colors and one which becomes me because of my blonde hair and light coloring. Pinks and oranges and lavenders are simply color poison to m®.” (This is interesting when compared with our other blonde, Alice Frost. Alice said quite emphatically that she avoided most shades of blue, felt that it was too obvious with her coloring. This is where each one of you has to make your own very definite decisions about what becomes you as an individual.) “The most essential items of my ward- robe are sweaters and skirts,’ Kay con- tinued. ‘They’re so comfortable—and for a girl who works as hard as I do, com- fort is an important consideration. Sweaters and skirts, if bought with some thought, lend themselves to combinations that are fun and very attractive, too. “Combined with this preference for sweaters and skirts, my passion for dress- ing up sounds contradictory. But I love to dress up, and, if I could, I would dress for dinner every night. It’s not really contradictory because it means that I be- lieve in dressing for the occasion. When I work, I like practical, comfortable things —when I play, I like to be gay. “T get lots of opportunity to dress up professionally, as you know, on my radio shows. It’s absolutely necessary for a radio singer to be just as meticulous about her appearance on the stage as it is for a stage star. More so, really. Because stage people do not have to dress for an audience that is likely to repeat itself. “You have no idea how particular the radio audiences are! I used to have a pair of blue satin shoes with little rhine- stones in a row up the instep. “The first night I wore them, it hap- pened that one of my girls had laryngitis and couldn’t sing. She went to the show and sat in the balcony. One of the re- marks she reported back to me came from a woman who sat next to her, and who said: ‘Just look at those terrible shoes!’ “For years I used to believe what sales- people and friends told me about the kind of hats I should wear. They all insisted that, because my features were not on the dainty side, I must always wear those conservative felts—you know, the kind with brims way down to the bridge of your nose. But now I’ve rebelled. And I buy hats that are very extreme. They have unusual lines and I wear them at out- landish angles. My appearance in one of these hats is a constant source of fright to my friends; sometimes they even frighten me!” One of these very hats is a tiny velvet skull cap which she wears way back on her head so that the huge rose that trims it at front, sits up on top of her head. A wide veil flares out over her face—it isn’t the least bit frightening, it’s flattering. And as a _ parting admonition Kay Thompson said she has two musts in clothes. “Be sure you wear just the clothes that suit you—and then get some fun out of choosing and wearing them!” Write in and tell me about your clothes problems; I will be glad to help you. Also don’t fail to send for my January Shop- ping Bulletin—it has invaluable tips for each of you. I like to hear from you and like even better to help you! Elizabeth Ellis, RADIO STARS, 149 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. Enclosed, please find a stamped, self- addressed envelope for the Radio Stars’ January Shopping Bulletin.

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RADIO STARS MY FAVORITE AGE (Continued from page 45) enough to pick me for their gold medal that season as a result of the film. The name of it had been changed to The Sin of Madelon Claudet.” Helen Hayes says that the age to which she looks forward most is fifty. “Whether I will prefer it to eighteen, when I get there, remains to be seen,’ Miss Hayes said reflectively. “Beside my Bambi broadcasts on Monday nights, I am now appearing in Victoria Regina on the stage, you know. I am Victoria from the time she’s eighteen until she reaches the mag- nificent old age of ninety-four. It seems to me, as I go through the years every night, that fifty must have been a most satisfying age to the beloved British Queen. The philosophers tell us that at the half-century mark, we are in the prime of life. Certainly we are at the height of our intellectual powers. At the same time we develop a certain smooth mellowness. We can forget—well, if not forget, at least not worry so much—about our daily troubles. We can enjoy repose. To be sure, at fifty, it is too late to start over again. On the other hand, we can get tre- mendous satisfaction out of such things as we might have accomplished and _ partici- pated in—our work, our families, seeing our children grow up and, most of all, feel- ing that, even in a minute way, we have tried to do something to make the world a better place to live in. If all these hopes come true at fifty, it would be very difficult for me to choose between that age and eighteen. But as it is, I'll still say that eighteen is my favorite age.” * * * Thirty-five is another Helen’s favorite age—Helen Jepson. “Yes, I choose thirty- five as my favorite age, although I’m only thirty now,” the platinum-haired prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera and feminine star of Show Boat told me. “The reason I say that, is that I believe that in five years from now my career will be at its highest peak,’ Miss Jepson mused. “Then, I have always thought that a woman is most charming at thirty-five. And five years from now, I hope to have surrounded myself with the people I really want around me— great people, gifted people. Then, too, my little girl, Sallie Patricia, will be older. She’s only four now and when I’m thirty- five, Sallie will be more of a companion,” said the beautiful, brown-eyed opera singer, who is married to the renowned flutist, George Possell. “Another reason thirty-five is my favorite age is that my husband says women are most beautiful at that time,” gorgeous Helen Jepson de- clared laughingly. “Really, though, I think a woman is about as perfect as she’ll ever be at thirty-five, in poise and charm and beauty and professional ability. So thirty-five is my favorite age. “Of course, I did enjoy other ages,” said the girl born in Pennsylvania, who sang in an Ohio church choir and. got the money for her musical education by sing- ing at a benefit. “I had a good time at seventeen, when I sold corsets in an Akron adored life at thir- the choir. Twenty- age, because I first entered radio then. Many years have been good to me, but I expect thirty-five to exceed them all.” * * * “Tl have to say that I choose the years between twelve and sixteen as my favorite age,” limpid-eyed, golden-haired Jessica Dragonette declared. “Those years really are the bridge between child- hood and adolescence, nature’s preparation for the life to come. In those years, the world seemed an ideal place to me,” the girl born in the Orient explained. dreams you have at that time really mould your future. because you haven’t yet been forced to compromise with the material world and its difficulties. I spent those years in a perfect way, at the convent in Lakewood (Georgian Court, you know,) studying music with Sister Beatrice and planning my future as a singer. Those years were full of expectancy, full of poetry, full of the charm that period of life can produce. I think that the years between twelve and sixteen have a great mystic significance, in that they are the spiritual preparation for all that is to come. In a way, I can liken that period to the time in a knight's career, in the days of chivalry, when he had to become a page. Being a page was a preparation for his knighthood. Yes, the years between twelve and sixteen are my favorite age because only the best will satisfy then and obstacles don’t exist,” said ethereal Jessica Dragonette. department store! I teen when I sang in five seemed a fine * * * Strangely enough, the only radio celeb- rity who declared that her present age was her favorite, was that lady of the big heart and avoirdupois—I mean Kate Smith. “My favorite age is twenty-seven. That’s the age I am now,” Kate declared, as she sat next to me in a flowered silk dress and chatted between numbers at the rehearsal of ~her Thursday night broad- cast. “Of course, I don’t know what's in store for me in the future, but I’m happier now than I’ve ever been before in my life. I have the kind of show I want. I have the people that I want with me. Then my present age is my favorite age because, I’m able to bring additional happiness to people this year,” said Kate—and she really means it! “That’s something I’ve always been ambitious to do. You know, three people are nominated for heroism on our programs each week,” Kate explained to me. “Their deeds are presented to the radio audience in dramatic form, as you probably know. Then we leave it to that audience to vote on the most heroic deed. check to $100 each two checks two the winner and to the other heroines. Then three more people are nominated, for next week. 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I don’t care what she is or what she does, whether she is a movie star, a radio star, an authoress, a business executive, what- ever—she must be her husband’s wife first of all. Or romance goes down to defeat. You can’t upset the apple-cart of Nature and the way Nature meant man and wo- man to be, and expect her to keep her banners flying.” And I know that Bette’s life was as good as her word. The little modest brown-shingled, vine-covered house on a quiet street in Hollywood, secluded by a white picket fence, the path leading to the front door bordered with petunias, gera- niums potted in the windows—it is a little bit of old New England, this house. In- side there are lamps with painted china shades and old mahogany card tables and an old-fashioned couch with an afghan and low shelves of books, Emerson and Lowell and dog-eared Alcotts and pots of trailing ivy; a snug, comfy clutter which spells home. I have never before seen a movie star living in such a house. And in this modest, most un-Hollywoodish home, Harmon Nelson is the lord and the master. In this house Bette Davis is Mrs. Harmon Nelson. When you call the house on the phone, the colored man servant says: “This is the Nelson residence.” And if you say: “May I speak with Miss Davis, please?” the voice answers: “I'll call Mrs. Nelson, madam.” At the picket gate of that little house Bette Davis drops her screen, her radio, her careerist personality. No one ever enters there for business purposes. Not ever. Ham’s friends are there often, if not more often than Bette’s. It is the home of Bette and Harmon Nelson. It is tight and secure against the waves of ether, the pervasive odors of greasepaint. Firelight, not limelight, warms it. Bette said: “Not that Ham and I don’t talk business. We do, of course. I am intensely interested in Ham’s band. I love to hear him sing and play. I used to go down to the Cinegrill, when he was play- ing there, a couple of times a week. I would have gone oftener except that I didn’t want it to look as though I were being the Little Woman ‘keeping an eye on him.’ I loved to watch the girls and women applauding him and to think to myself: ‘He is mine.’ “Ham is interested in every phase of my work. He was right behind me, one hundred per cent, when I had differences with the studio. He was more thrilled over Of Human Bondage than’ I was. When J have a broadcast—I did Just Sup- pose on the Shell hour, you know, and Cheating Cheaters on the Lux program and The Lion and the Mouse on the Lux hour, too, broadcasting from New York— well, Ham always listens in to me. And it gives me courage. Because I’m as ner- vous as a whole family of cats when I go on the air. I don’t know why, but I’m always terrified. I never know whether I am speaking too loud or too soft. I never feel sure that I am getting, or giv- ing, the right emotional reactions, because I can’t look at the man who is playing the scene with me. I just have the plain plumb jitters, that’s all. And the fact that Ham and Mother and my sister are always standing by, even though they may be actually miles away, nips me up. “When I broadcast The Lion and the Mouse from New York, I had a really charming experience. Arthur Byron was, you know, the first actor ever to play The Lion and the Mouse. 1 think he first played it some thirty years ago. Well, we were stopping at the same hotel, Mr. Byron and I, and he attended my broadcast with me. I got more thrill out of that than out of many things I have done. He was delightful to me. When I was on the air with Bing, on the Kraft program, when Bing interviewed me, Ham was with us. He played and sang—do you remem- ber? That was the one _ broadcast,” laughed Bette, “during which I didn’t have an attack of gooseflesh. “Yes, we talk over everything together. But we do not allow radio agents or movie agents or photographers or interviewers to make our privacy public—unless, of course, they are also our personal friends. And then we keep to personal subjects. “Another jolly way of keeping romance alive is to do the things you used to do before you were married or when you first went together. For instance, Ham and I are with my mother and sister and her husband a lot. We always have Sun- day night supper together, as we did when we were ‘courting. And there is some- thing about being with the family that keeps girlhood alive. You don’t feel mar- ried. You feel like the girl who was being courted and who brought her ‘young man’ home to supper. “We go on fishing trips together. We go on picnics. We play jokes on each other. There’s nothing so revivifying to romance as a good horse laugh together. Kind of keeps the bloom on love, the sheen, the fun of it. “Never settle down. There’s something so dreary, so finished about ‘settling down.’ When you settle down, you settle right on top of romance and squash it. “Dogs are a great help to romance, too,” said Bette. “Sounds silly and I don’t know that I can explain what I mean, but I know that it is so. I’ve noticed that people who have and love dogs usually love each other. Maybe there’s something about the whole-hearted fidelity of a dog that shames human _ infidelities. Makes them show up pretty shabby. Anyway, there it is. Ham has a Doberman and I have a Scotty and a Sealyham,” laughed Bette. “We are well protected. “T don’t think,’—and Bette shoved her small, gray tweed hat to the very back of

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her blonde curls, “I don’t think that being dolled-up and made-up to the nines every minute is necessary at all. It isn’t neces- sary with Ham, I know. But here’s what do say: wear slacks and house dresses and whatever you feel most comfortable in nine days out of ten if you want—but when you and your husband have a big date to go out together, to dine or dance, dress up like nobody’s business. Knock his eye out. Make him ask whether he has met you before, and where. Make him feel that he is taking an alluring stranger out on an exciting date. Make him think: ‘Criminy, have I been expect- ing her to darn my socks!’ “Be a surprise package,’ grinned Bette, “it pays dramatic dividends. “Try and give little surprises to each other, too. I don’t like to talk about my- self (then why am I here?) but on Ham’s last birthday I pulled a real rabbit out of the hat. I gave him a stag dinner. At the end of the dinner all of us, wives and sweethearts of the men who were there, came in, dressed in jazzy costumes and put on a show for the boys. We weren't their wives or sweethearts that night. We were cabaret entertainers! It went over big. Those boys saw us girls that night as they’d never before seen us. “Now and then,” said Bette, ordering her second hamburger, “I like to have a good, rousing fight. I actually pick a fight with Ham, about anything, about nothing. The marriage equivalent of ‘lovers’ quarrels,’ you know. I don’t get very far because Ham won't fight back. He’s likely to walk out on me. A very firm person, my Ham. He takes no non- sense. But I do my best. It’s such fun to fight because it’s so thrillingly romantic to make up.” Bette and I began the drive home, in Bette’s little Ford. The California fog was rolling in. It clung in veils around the fair, alert head of the girl who was driving. She said: “I usually drive a Ford. I went around town in a tin can for years, RADIO STARS you know. I haven't, as you know, one of those movie star mansions de luxe, with swimming pool and fixin’s. I don’t know that the best things in life are necessarily free, but I’m pretty darned sure that the best things in love are free. You can't do better, romantically, than the moon and the smell of honeysuckle. A kiss tastes just as sweet in a Ford as in a Rolls. You don’t have to pay for moonlight and roses. Ham and I live simply and save money so that we will be free, free to choose what we will do and will not do, where we will go and not go. I think that money, too much of it, luxury, too much of it, is like the old Midas touch. It turns everything to cold, metallic gold— even hearts. Even love. “There’s something commercial about a huge palace of a house and a staff of for- mal servants and a life lived in sables and limousines. There’s something cozy and sweet and romantic about a little house with the things you love in it. You feel closer together. You feel more bridey and groomy. You seem to stay at the beginning of things... “T never,” said Bette, ‘ask Ham where he has been, if he is late for dinner. As he almost always is. I don’t want to know —well, not too much. I really don’t want his life to be a neat little checkerboard laid out before me with all the moves marked. If he stayed away for two or three days, I’d say to him: ‘Did you have a good time?’ I wouldn’t say: ‘Where have you been?’ “T don’t learn to play golf, I don’t sit in on Ham’s occasional poker games, be- cause [ believe that he should have his games with other men. If you keep the masculine and feminine interests a_ bit separate, it’s so much more thrilling when they do come together. “Be a little stranger in your own home,” laughed Bette, as she dropped me at mine, “sive romance the sunshine of a few sur- prises, the spray of the unexpected and sure as pop, it will flourish like the green bay tree...” INDISCRETION, AS YOU LIKE IT—|: ea ee from page 29) And when Ethel Barrymore falls in a train and injures her leg, a whisper goes around. Miss Barrymore is well acquainted with the tongues of whisperers. She didn’t even trouble to explain that, coming down along the winding Hudson River, standing up to gather her things together, a sudden lurch of the train flung her violently against the edge of the seat, breaking her knee. Calmly she went on with her work, keep- ing all. her engagements, the injured leg for weeks in a plaster cast from hip to ankle. “T don't mind it for myself,” said Miss Barrymore. “I’m used to it. But it’s hard on the children. ““Ethel Barrymore's Son Arrested!’ That's news, in big headlines. Arrested! He must be no good! What has he done? Murder? Embezzlement? No—in small type, further down the page, you read that he drove thirty-five miles an hour, instead of thirty, through some town. But the headline is all that half of the people see— and assume the worst.” She sighed. “It’s a pity that some of us are satisfied to get so much of our educa- tion from newspapers, movies, the radio— to live by clichés, without thought or un- derstanding. And we can’t depend on the schools to educate us. It’s in our homes that we get our real education. “T never had much schooling, myself,” said Miss Barrymore. “I went to work when I was twelve. 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I could find plenty to occupy me, if I were not work- Ieee “But I must work,” she said frankly. “I have to earn money.” She glanced through the window, across the wide lawn. “Taxes * she murmured with a faint smile. “Tt takes money to live! “However, I don’t want to stop work- ing!” she smiled. “I’ve always worked. Even when I was ill, with a temperature of 104°. Not with ‘the show must go on’ idea —that’s a lot of nonsense. It’s just your job. You have to do it. It’s your life.” And Ethel Barrymore’s life has been, one must grant, rich and full and varied. There are some people, I thought, look- ing at her as she sat across from me, who never grow old. Who belong to today as vividly as they belonged to yesterday. People whose lives march on, like some of our modern novels, through time and gen- erations, with never a dull page. Such a person, it seems, is Ethel Barry- more. Darling of an earlier day in the theatre, still today, at fifty-seven, finding new outlets for her art and energy, she is an unsually vital and fascinating woman. We were sitting in the library of the three-hundred-year-old white house that has been her home for over a quarter of a century. A spacious, friendly house, stand- ing in a lovely park, sloping down to the Sound. A perfect place, I thought, to re- tire—when one grew weary of the world. But Ethel Barrymore is not retiring. “On the contrary,” she told me, “I’m starting now the biggest jobs of my career. One is my school, in which I hope to help a new generation of stars to advance the art of the theatre... . “You should have seen this place—” she glanced through the window across the tree-shaded lawn with its winding drive- way, “the day after my plan was an- nounced. They came in hordes! And the letters Telegrams We were swamped with them! “My original plan,” she explained, “was to select from among the hundreds of ap- plicants about fifty who seemed most promising as pupils, and give them per- sonal instruction here in my home—with some special help, of course—a fencing master, and so on. I planned to teach them languages, speech, music, to study plays with them—help each one to find the best means of expressing his or her individual talent. “But as I worked out the idea,” she went on earnestly, “I began to realize that I couldn’t accommodate everyone satisfac- torily here. So, when Leighton Rollins, director of the Studio of Acting in New York, asked me to cooperate with him, I was very glad to do so. “The classes meet twice a week in the ballroom of Beekman Tower. And during | the winter we shall present the students to the public in a number of plays. I’m tre- mendously enthusiastic about it.” You felt the reality of her enthusiasm as she spoke. Here was no tired, world-weary woman, seeking solace for dwindling glory in the theatre. The matchless Barrymore voice held youthful lilt and fullness, as she spoke and her soft brown eyes glowed with intense interest. Across the chair where she sat, bright morning sunlight streamed through long French windows and she sought no friendly, concealing shadow. She wore no make-up and her skin was smooth and fair. Even her throat, her hands, always the first to show Time's hateful traces, are lovely still. You find it easy to understand the rush of eager applicants for the gifts that are hers to give. “And, of course,” said Miss Barrymore, “there is my radio program, which I am enjoying greatly. I love presenting again those fine old plays.” It’s no easy task, either, one may im- agine, to condense into the limits of a half hour program on the air a play that occupied a good two hours on the stage. But thus far the radio versions of these famous plays in which Miss Barrymore rose to her enviable position in the theatre have been most successful. Her schedule includes Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, with which she opened her broadcast series, Sunday, Alice-Sit-by- the-Fire, Trelawney of the Wells, The Constant Wife, The Lady of the Camel- lias, Déclassée and other successes of an earlier day in the theatre. These plays, to a growing and appreciative audience, have proved a genuine delight, justifying Miss Barrymore’s reputation as an artist. “T may do a movie, too,’ Miss Barry- more went on. “I’ve been asked to do one. Of course I can’t go out to Hollywood, on account of my other work, but if it can be done in the east—out at Astoria—I should love to do it.” Ethel Barrymore hasn’t appeared on the screen since she played in Rasputin and the Empress, some years ago. But earlier she had made a dozen or more successful pic- tures, The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, Lady Frederick, Our Mrs. McChesney and Peter Ibbetson among them. And her career in the theatre covers more plays than even she can remember. When I asked her how many, she laughed: “T haven’t the slightest idea! I began when I was a child, you know. And that’s a long time ago!” She made her first important appearance on the stage in 1894, as Juliain The Rivals. In 1897 she made her English début, with William Gillette, in Secret Service and fol- lowing that she was engaged by the late Sir Henry Irving for his Lyceum Theatre company. For years she enjoyed unrivalled popularity on the stage in England as well as in America. And socially she was a great favorite in both countries. Suitors of wealth and nobility vied for her favors in many a moonlit garden on both sides of the Atlantic. But she chose to marry an American business man, Russell Griswold Colt, arms manufacturer. There are three Colt children, Samuel, Ethel and John. “They are all interested in the theatre,” said Miss Barrymore. “Sammie, the eldest, more as a writer. Jack hopes to be a star s6me ‘day and Ethel is playing on the stage now, with a little group of Jitney players.

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—_— But I hope,” said her mother, “that Ethel can study for opera some day. She really has an unusually lovely voice. It ought to be trained for opera.” Miss Barrymore’s marriage with Mr. Colt was dissolved when the children were quite young and they have since lived with their mother in the Mamaroneck home. But between Mr. Colt and his family exist understanding friendship and respect. “He took us to the World Series base- ball games last fall,” said Miss Barrymore. “And he often offers us the use of the Colt family home in Bristol, Rhode Is- land. But the children love this place, as I do. Whenever they go away anywhere, they write me: ‘I miss you—I miss home— I’m coming home sooner than I planned.’ Or I get a cable, saying: ‘Sailing today instead of next month.’ ” And you feel that the house is one that is lived in and loved. In the sunlit library where we sat, the furniture, like the house, shows scars of time, of comfortable living. Open bookshelves line the walls, filled with books that suggest a wide range of read- ing. “T’ve always read, whenever I had a chance,” said Miss Barrymore. “Every night, after I go to bed—no matter how late it is—I always read. Have you read Gone With the Wind? I’ve just finished it for the second time. It’s fascinating! “Among other things,” she said thought- fully, “I was impressed with the way the people in the book talked about the Civil RADIO STARS War. To some it was idealistic, glorified —for principle, for State’s Rights. But some, who thought more deeply, saw it as the reverse of ideal—ugly—for money, for power. ‘Even if we win, we lose!’ one said. It’s just the same today! People,” she reiterated, “are still the same... .” Together we walked out on to the wide porch. Standing there, while she pointed out a lovely picture made by trees and sunlit lawn and bright blue water, you un- derstood and shared her conviction of the essential beauty of life, with its changeless hunger for what is good. In such a setting, scandal seemed, indeed, ephemeral and unimportant. “Scandals, sensational such as the papers love, can never,” said Miss Barrymore, “become treasured memories. But great music, great art, great drama, will never be forgotten. They make life rich and lovely, however little else one has “That isn’t news. It will never make the headlines! But it’s true. ““Everything changes, everything re- mains the same,’” she quoted with a smile as we said goodbye. “Perhaps that is why the newspapers must be indiscreet—to lend a little variety and spice to the common- place!” And maybe Miss Barrymore is right And maybe the reason for the daily indis- cretion of the press is that, we, too, like it, just as we always have, ever since the first rumor was spread about Eve and the ser- pent ! stories, LADIES’ MAN! (Continued from page 31) Richman and Merrill still are friends, and were friends throughout their hazard- ous flights to Europe and back, it need only be mentioned that the combination is still operating and plans entering two big air contests in the near future and that their entry was the first received for each event. One is the trans-America flight, for which there is a $75,000 prize, and the other is the Paris flight next spring to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the great feat of Charles A. Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis. The rumors of a falling out between Merrill and Richman cropped up on the eve of their return from England. They planned a take-off for New York at three in the morning and were sleeping upstairs in the officers’ quarters at the Liverpool Airport. That they might get a good rest for their venture, all visitors were barred by a Captain Austin, of the R. F. C. A persistent reporter for an American news service vainly sought to break through the lines. And, when repulsed, put two and two together and made eight, not through indignation, but through imagina- tion. If Richman never learned the value of radio before, he learned it on those flights across the Atlantic. Eastbound to Europe, lightning disabled the radio, the biggest single handicap of the trip. And returning, from within 1,500 miles of New York, Harry, working the radio, was in constant communication with this side of the ocean. “T wired our position to the Eastern Air Lines about 2:30 in the morning and in three minutes heard them issue a bulletin on it over WOR,” said Richman. Richman had hardly reached New York when he discovered more about radio than he had learned during his trans-Atlantic flight. He found himself in demand as a radio performer, as well as for personal appearances. Harry signed a two-months’ contract at the Hollywood, so that he would be able to remain in New York and handle his broadcasts as well. Richman made twenty-six electrical transcriptions for the Florida Citrus Com- pany and then appeared with Ken Murray thrice weekly on the Dodge program. Conoco Gas sponsored him also and he was on with Jack Dempsey. To be brief about it, he became the third busiest broad- caster in September and October of this year. The first two were President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Governor Alfred M. Landon. Radio is no novelty for Harry. he was familiar with radio long before he was with airplanes. As long ago as 1923, when commercial radio was in its second year, he appeared with Nils T. Granlund, or N. T. G, as he was known to the listeners-in of the headset era. At that time, there were exactly two radio stations in Greater New York, WHWN and WJZ, which gives you an idea of how early Harry pioneered over the ether. Richman also appeared at the first pub- lic broadcast, the first time in radio history when spectators were admitted to a studio. 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He has held an ordinary pilot's license since 1930. Richman became interested in aviation through a friend, George Daufkirch, and at one time owned seven planes and had his own hangar at Flushing, L. I. And yet, when Harry announced his desire to fly to Europe and back, it was labelled as a publicity stunt. His own explanation of the reason for the flight is simple enough. “It never had been done and Dick and I thought it could be done,” explains Richman. “We realized all we needed was the proper plane and we had a chance to grab the blue monoplane, Lady Peace. We knew we could do it, so we did. I say ‘we,’ but don’t get me wrong. I still think Dick Merrill is the greatest pilot in the world today.” Though he probably is labelled a typical New Yorker, Richman was born in Cin- cinnati, in that section known as “over the Rhine,” on August 10th, 1895. He went to Ohio Mechanical School, where he first learned the art of motor tinkering, but at the same time he also was playing the piano by ear and keeping one eye on mechanics, the other on entertaining. And he hasn’t changed since. When Richman was eleven, he sold tickets at Chester Park, a famous Cincin- nati amusement center and his first contact with the stage, such as it was. He ran away from home when he was thirteen and went to Chicago, singing in nickel- odeons to the accompaniment of what amounted to magic lantern slides. At the outset, no theatre was too dingy for Harry to sing in, provided he was paid. During the winter of 1913-14, he first adopted a theme song, although there was no such thing as a theme song in those days. Richman was _ singing Snookic-ookums for no other reason than that his audiences liked it and de- manded it. A reason, by the by, which Harry has found it profitable to follow ever since. In the George White Scandals of 1927, Richman crashed to new heights singing The Birth of the Blues. The next win- ter, the peak of all time for after dark entertainment in New York, as well as throughout the nation, found him in his own night club, Club Richman, a verit- able gold mine. Harry made more money that winter than he has in a similar period before or since and there still is a sneak- ing suspicion that he would like to open another night club, this time with a radio tie-up. It was at the Club Richman that Harry made a hit with Muddy Waters. During the depression, he tried Paris, bringing back a song, Chez Vous, which was one of his most popular numbers. He turned to the movies in 1930, with Putting on the Ritz, still an old favorite with his fans. Almost annually, Richman has managed to identify himself with one song or an- other, a tie-up which should be a great boon to him, now that he definitely is launched as a radio personality. The songs range through the years from I Love a Parade down to To the Beat of My Heart. Currently, he is offering a parody, J’m Singing Your Praises, Dick Merrill. Richman is kept on the floor twice his alloted time during his cabaret perform- ances, by customers demanding he sing some of his old favorites. And when he retires to a secluded corner for dinner, he finds himself an island in a sea of auto- graph seekers. His philosophy toward these demands on his talents and his time is sound. “When the customers stop hol- lering for more songs and cease asking for my autograph, then it will be time for me to settle down and get married,” says Harry. Even as Harry expounds his theory, however, you have a hunch that he hopes that time won’t come too soon. Much as he may crave domesticity, he still tingles to the applause of the crowd. Did you ever know a_ performer who didn’t? Neither did anyone else! LIFE WAS T00 EASY (Continued from page 47) Jimmy Hall strode purposefully across the shabby carpet. His arms enfolded the sobbing woman. She looked wonder- ingly up into his careworn face. What she saw there brought a smile of happi- ness to her who had not smiled in many years. The man spoke one fervent word: “Darling !” That was in 1934. Till then Jimmy Hall had not set eyes upon Irene, his wife, in eleven years. They had quarreled and parted. He had gone his way—not a nice way, he admits now. She had tried to for- get. They met again amid the wreckage of his career—a career as brilliant as any that ever had flashed across :the_ silver screen. This, then, was the begihning of | a new climb—together. How far they | have climbed back toward the peak, how they have striven, is attested today by James Hall’s radio success. The story of their parting, their sor- row, their reconciliation and Jimmy’s sub- sequent success is another chapter to add to those incredible romances of show busi- ness. “Every morning when I awaken to the realization that Irene has come back to me, that I have a job, another chance to make good, I bow my head and thank God for His compassion,” Jimmy told me devoutly. Here, briefly, is the story of how life buffeted these two, and how they came, at last, to the pathway at the foot of the hill: whence, hand in hand, they can strug- gle to the top, together again forever. James, Hall was a laughing, irrespon-

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ear « sible, irresistible youth when he married Irene Phillips in the cold dawn of a win- ter’s morning in 1921. The very circum- stances of their courtship form an illumi- nating sidelight on the two people. Jimmy had come back from overseas and had gone into a revue that was tour- ing the midwest. Titian dancer Irene was in charge of all the show’s dance pro- ductions. She and Jimmy quarreled be- cause she called him a “fresh, conceited lout.”. For two months they worked to- gether daily—but they never spoke to each other. Any necessary communication was carried on through a third party. One day Jimmy brushed against Irene in a dark backstage corridor. She stum- bled. He caught her. They talked—per- force. They went out together to dinner. They sat until nearly dawn. At six o’clock the next morning, they awakened the pro- ducer of the revue, roused a justice of the peace in Sioux City and were married. For two years they were ideally happy. But James Hall was restless and ambi- tious. He couldn’t be content to remain the leading man in Cash’s All-Girl Revue, touring the midwest. He quit. They came to New York and Irene retired from the- atrical work to become plain Mrs. James Hall, housewife. That should have tipped Jimmy off—but he was young and not wise. Success brought discord. Jimmy was engaged for the Passing Show of 1923. It was to be just a short engagement. In fact there were many wiseacres along Broadway who predicted that it would be a very short engagement, indeed. That was fine with Irene. She was tired of living in a trunk—and Jimmy had prom- ised that after the Passing Show he would give her a home of her own. He would quit show business and settle down. By way of showing his good faith, he took some of the money that had begun to roll in and bought a chicken farm in Joplin, Missouri. The Broadway wiseacres were, as they often are, wrong. The Passing Show of 1923 became The Passing Show of 1924. Then of 1925 and 1926. Jimmy, playing leading man to such noted beauties as Muriel de Forrest and Nancy Carroll, was making big money. When you make big money on Broadway, more often than not something happens to you. It happened to Jimmy—and Irene didn’t like it. She had waited too long for that promised home. “T was a conceited young squirt. Irene was right when she called me that, the first day we met,” Jimmy confessed ruefully. “T guess success went to my head. I thought I was a big shot. You know how they tell you you are on Broadway? Well, I believed ’em. I thought it was smart to drink, to throw big wild parties, to have my name coupled by Broadway gossips with this woman and that one—even though I was married. It flattered my vanity. I even encouraged such publicity. Of course, I’m ashamed of all that now,” Of course, they quarreled. Irene re- proached Jimmy for not keeping his prom- ise to her. He retorted that she was jealous. She accused him of being un- faithful, of squandering their money, of wrecking their marriage. In the end, Irene left. She went to the chicken farm in Missouri and lived there—alone. »! If this were a story book, Fate: would RADIO STARS intervene at this point by administering a well merited kick to Jimmy’s trousers. He would thereupon be brought to his senses, rush to the chicken farm, enfold Irene in his penitent arms—and they would live happily ever after. But this is not a story book. This is real life. Or perhaps Fate plays even grimmer tricks than story books would have us believe. At any rate, when Irene left, went on to new and undreamed of cesses. Women lionized him. He more money. His popularity increased. Hollywood called him—and he went west to make movies. More success. He be- came leading man for Bebe Daniels. He built a huge house and staffed it with nine servants. He had enough big cars to operate a garage. He was noted for lavish hospitality—even in lavish Holly- wood. Money poured in faster than he could spend it, even while going at Hollywood’s fastest pace. Paramount loaned him out for pictures. He starred with Clara Bow and Colleen Moore. In 1929 he received the Motion Picture Academy Award for his performance in Four Sons. He was chosen to play in Hell’s Angels. In Holly- Jimmy suc- wood, when fortune smiles, she laughs out loud. Jimmy fell in love. Madly, tempestu- ously, head-over-heels in love. At least, he thought it was love. She was a bril- liant star. So was he. They went every- where together. Hostesses didn’t raise their eyebrows when Hollywood gossip columns. linked his name and hers. There was one fly Jimmy’s ointment. He could not marry his inamorata. His and Irene’s religion forbade divorce. The end came like a bombshell. Irene sued Jimmy for non-support. It provided a newspaper sensation, to put it mildly. It came just at a time when such pub- licity on Page One would ruin the bright- est star. The public was demanding that its screen heroes and heroines be impec- cable. Irene’s lawyers instituted extradi- tion proceedings. Jimmy crashed from the pinnacle he had built on the shifting sands of Hollywood. He fled. He fled to protect the name of the Hol- lywood star—but he soon discovered that Hollywood forgot his chivalry as it for- got him. His money was going fast. He was wandering furtively from city to city, unable to work, hounded. His own law- yers demanded larger and larger sums. “T sat in a hotel room, wondering what to do,” he recalled, as he unfolded the story to me. “I think, for the first time in my life, I was face to face with reality. Life had been too easy for me. There had never been any bumps. When they came—I didn’t know how to take them. Success had come without work—un- earned. 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If only I could have Irene back! If only I might have a chance to make it up to her for all the hurt and pain I had caused her !” Jimmy paused. There was a faraway look in his eyes. I knew he was thinking of that night in the hotel room in Baton Rouge. “Think of it!” he resumed. “There I sat, thinking all those horribly bitter thoughts. My life was over, I supposed. Of course I never for a moment imagined I'd ever see Irene again. Then came that knock on the door. And, ten minutes later I was a new man! The old Jimmy was dead. I was beginning life anew— with Irene!” On the credit side of Jimmy’s ledger was no money whatever, but a great deal of understanding and love. On the debit side was his crash into oblivion. He faced the most gruelling of all trails in show business—the comeback trail. Many try it, but few succeed. Usually, when a man is down in show business, he is out. Irene advised him to try radio. It was a new field for him and the ordeal of starting all over again would be softened. But Jimmy didn’t take her advice at first. For months he tried to get a job—until what little money he had left was all gone. Then he organized a band and started playing in night clubs. He hoped that the night club broadcasts might lead to some radio work, get him started in the new field. This hope was rewarded! From playing over station KTVL in Oklahoma City, Jimmy landed a chance to go to Chicago and take a local radio com- mercial. That was the start. But Jimmy didn’t want to be an orchestra leader. He disbanded the orchestra and landed a job doing a gossip series on KYW. It was a flop—so he slipped back into leading an orchestra. One day Fifi D’Orsay, playing an engagement in Chicago, stopped to lunch at the Medinah Club, where Jimmy was playing. They had been pals in Jimmy’s Hollywood heyday. “Go back to New York,’ she advised him. “No matter what sacrifice it means— go back to New York! You will never have success on the radio anywhere else.” Jimmy admired Fifi and respected her judgment. He took her advice. He came to New York—with Irene. The first week in the city he auditioned successfully for his present coast-to-coast series. “Do you wonder,” he asked, “why I tell you that each morning, when I wake up, I thank God?” Funny thing about the new Jimmy. When he was tops before, they used to say he was conceited. The way he’d tell you, cockily: “I can’t miss!” used to annoy those who heard him. He isn’t conceited any more. He says: “I can’t miss!” but somehow, it doesn’t annoy any- one now. What used to be conceit is con- fidence. They’re a lot alike—yet they’re vastly different. It would be hard to de- fine, unless you wanted to put it that, with Jimmy Hall, the difference between conceit and confidence is Irene. “Goodbye,” he called after me cheerily. “Good luck,” I returned. “Thanks—I’ve got it!” “Irene brought that, too!” he exulted. 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But I couldn’t convince myself on that score, either. Fred had been on the stage a few years then and was doing a single in vaudeville and of course he’d seen me, from the be- ginning, for what I was—a naive high school girl, who should have been at home studying her lessons! But, afterwards, he told Ethel, and Ethel told me, that that was exactly the thing he liked in me. There was nothing glamorous about our courtship, no obstacles or family opposi- tion to be hurdled. But it was fun. Even though our time together had to be limited to fit into both our schedules, the moments we were together were filled to the brim with laughter and happiness. Maybe it was that way because we had so little time to see each other. My family were entranced with Fred from the very beginning and when he’s with people he feels close to, Fred can be even funnier than he is on a_ broadcast. You'll have to let me do a little bragging about him here. I’ve never known anyone with such a consistent sense of humor as his, or with such a flair for twisting the most commonplace happening into,a situa- tion that leaves you gasping with laughter, or by lifting a trivial phrase, with a word Fred was glad my family liked him, be- cause my mother invited him often for dinner and Fred loves to eat. To him a good home-cooked dinner is what dining at the Ritz would be to most people. My mother’s roast beef and mashed po- tatoes and lamb stew and roast chicken with stuffing and giblet gravy played very important parts in our courting days and they still do. On Sundays, when Fred is up to his ears writing material for the next broadcast, I go out to spend the day with my family on Long Island. The comedy you hear in Town Hall Tonight is a very serious business with Fred and while he’s in the throes of writing it, it’s just as well to be out of the way. So I leave early in the morning and come home in the evening, when Fred has finished his stint and is a human being again. And I never get such a welcome from him as I do then. For the knitting bag I carry on these visits is full of little jars and the jars are full of all the things Fred likes to eat— which Mother packs for him after dinner. There have been times when I’ve looked like a last-minute Christmas shopper, prac- tically juggling a lemon meringue pie or a chocolate cake on my nose, when there have been too many things to pack them all in the bag.

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Our kitchenette isn’t big enough really to cook in and that dismays me as much as it does Fred. I love to cook but, while we're in New York, breakfast is about the only meal I can manage. I’m afraid the space that is laughingly called a kitchen- ette in our apartment was designed for drinkers rather than eaters! But I have my innings in the summer. There is the tiny house in Maine we’ve gone to for the last three summers and I revert to domesticity with a bang. I do all the housework and shopping and plan- ning and love it! I pick blueberries in the pasture back of the house and use them for muffins and pies. Fred gets caught up on reading all the books he’s been hoarding since winter and spends most of the day with them in a hammock. And in the eve- nings we walk down to the pier or the beach and chat with the friends we've made there. Maybe it’s all the years he’s spent on the road that make Fred such a home lover. Maybe it’s because I’m a homebody myself our marriage is such a happy, con- genial one. One of the things that en- dears radio to us most of all is that it enables us to live such a normal existence and to keep regular hours. It’s fun be- ing able to drop in at the neighborhood movie house after dinner and go to the fights or a show once a week. Neither of us cares about dressing up or about for- mal parties or first nights and we don’t even know where the night clubs are lo- cated. We're always asleep about time the corks start popping in any them. All of which makes it seem very funny now that there was a time when I was worried about the life I’d lead as the wife of an actor! I really was appalled at the thought of having to change my way of living to fit into the pattern of the theatre. Our family always had been such a close-knit one and we were always together. Why, the first trunk I ever owned was the one Fred gave me when we were going to be married. What a thrill it was! I packed and un- packed it ten times that first day it ar- rived and bought all sorts of gadgets to make my trousseau look more imposing in the of it. Linen bags for my shoes and sachets for my lingerie and travelling kits of everything under the sun, including an electric iron, a whisk broom and a laundry rack ! Fred had a week’s lay-off, so we were married and the next week he was booked for Waterbury, Connecticut, and we spent our honeymoon there—with Fred appear- ing at the vaudeville house there and me sitting in our hotel room until it was time to meet Fred after his last show. There was a year of that sort of thing, a year for me of twiddling my thumbs in strange cities and wandering about new towns in that awful loneliness that comes from having nothing to do and not know- ing a soul to turn to in empty hours. Fred knew how I felt and though he didn’t have much to say about it he set about changing the situation. He wrote a part for me into his act. It was grand of him, taking a chance like that with an act that had been successful as a single. One of the grand things he’s always doing’ for me, as well as for anyone else that hé* is fond of, and the grand things he does be- coming so much grander because there is RADIO STARS never any fanfare or fuss or talk about doing them. Fred booked as a single for an engage- ment at Nipmuc Park near Milford, Con- necticut, planning to sneak me into the act after the first day. The house was playing to very poor business as it was Labor Day week and most of the summer people had gone back to the city. The next day, after I was all ready to go on, I found myself putting on an extra layer of make-up, in an effort to bolster up my courage, when the old man who owned the theatre appeared at our dressing-room door. “Jest a minute folks!” He drawled in the nasal twang Fred steals from him to this day when he is portraying a rube character. “I’m jest going down to the cor- ner to meet the next trolley car and see if there are enough folks to make it worth while opening the theayter.”’ There weren’t—and Fred insisted that the town had had word that I was appear- ing. That’s the reason I made my début in New York at the Coliseum. I was stand- ing in the wings, waiting for my cue to go on and watching Fred out there on the stage and envying him his absolute lack of self consciousness, when I was suddenly swept off my feet by the laughter and ap- plause of the audience. Fred never had had such an ovation before. It was just one of those things that happen in show business. Suddenly, after years, you click and you know in that moment that vou have clicked. That you’re set from then on. I began to cry from sheer happiness and then it was my turn to go on and somehow I managed to hold back my sobs. But Fred was terribly disturbed when he saw that my eyes were red and blurred and was so sure somebody back stage had insulted me that he was ready to tear into everything and everybody, until we had made our bows and I could tell him what it was all about. That was the beginning of the swell years that followed, the beginning of Fred’s reputation as a stellar comedian and his engagements in The Little Show and Three’s a Crowd. It was teally when Fred’s success came in a big way that I began realizing how simple his tastes were. Even when we were appearing in revues on Broadway, having to keep the topsy-turvy hours stage people do, we lived as simply workers. 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Our first evening out ended in our walking up the back stairs in our borrowed clothes, an hilarious Cinder- ella with her wisecracking prince! And I never had a chance to wear my grand dress again until we went to Europe, a couple of years later. We've been married nine years now, Fred and I, and they have been full, excit- ing years that haven’t had to depend on ar- tificial entertainment to make them joyous ones. It’s as thrilling now to slip into a movie theatre with Fred, and sit there hold- ing hands through the feature, as it was in our courting days. Fred wouldn’t like it at all if you were to think I’m trying to make him out the ideal husband. And in some ways I sup- pose he isn’t. The perfect husband al- Ways remembers anniversaries and_holi- days with appropriate gifts and messages of sentiment, doesn’t he? Well, if Fred remembers an anniversary, he gives me a check and tells me to buy what I want with it. Once he brought me four pink roses on my birthday and I was so touched I knew that I was going to cry! But I didn’t dare to in front of him, so I had to shed my tears in the bathroom. Fred isn’t sentimental. Christmas doesn’t mean any more to him than any other day, and in the first years when we were married I know he thought it was silly of me to make such a fuss over it, buying all sorts of silly, useless things and decorating our living-room with holly and poinsettias. Then, one year, I didn’t do anything about it at all. Somehow it didn’t seem much fun, with Fred not caring about it. Fred didn’t say a thing, but, late on Christmas Eve, he came home with a for- lorn looking holly wreath—that was the only one the store had left—and tacked it up on the door himself. It’s things like that that make Fred what he is. He sort of felt that he had taken something away from me by his lack of interest in holidays and it hurt him to see that I wasn’t making preparations as I had done in other years. And I’ll always re- member the thing he did for Ethel Shutta’s birthday, back in those days when we had first met. He invited us up to his hotel room after the show and both of us choked when we saw the preparations he’d made. A table was set for three and on each plate was a paper hat made from newspaper and in the center of the table was a coffee ring with three thick utilitarian candles stuck in it. He insisted he’d done it for a gag but I don’t believe it any more today than I did then! For, although Fred isn’t the least bit sen- timental, he has an awful lot of sentiment where anyone close to him is concerned. That’s the reason he’s always so gentle with the amateurs that appear on his pro- gram, the reason he never hurts them with wisecracks or glib remarks. Fred feels very close to those youngsters, because he started out as an amateur himself and knows all the fears and_ stage-fright they’re going through. He’s loyal to his friends and though he doesn’t make friends as easily as most people do, he holds them longer and will come through for them when they need it. And he can’t stand seeing anyone, even an almost total stranger, in trouble—can’t pass a panhandler on the street. Fred doesn’t send me corsages of big, fat expensive Park Avenue gardenias, but every once in a while he'll pull out of his pocket a cluster of those little, cheap ones, beginning to go brown and curly at the edges, and give them to me. And some- how they mean so much more than those huge grand ones possibly could—for I know the bill he slipped into the hand of the woman selling them on the corner was twice as much as the one he would have given the fashionable florist on the Avenue. You see that’s the way Fred is. SEX SPECIALIST (Continued from page 37) of us lose interest in a thing after it is thoroughly familiar. ‘Watch a man work a crossword puzzle,” he suggests. “That man, or woman, will work with great interest until the last square has been filled in, the last word discovered and written down. Then the puzzle is tossed into the scrap-basket. It’s as old and uninteresting as last week’s news. The psychology is the same in relationships between men and women. “Tf you want to hold your mate, you must remain something of a puzzle to him. He must never think that he knows all the answers. There must always be some- thing more to learn about you, something to be desired. You cannot achieve this by tricks, by surprising him with the unexpected. It isn’t as simple as) that. Its secret lies in making your’ husband feel that, though you are secure in each other’s love, you must constantly be won again. There should always be small reserves to overcome, small reticences for him to conquer. He wins you today— but there is always tomorrow.” The Voice of Experience believes, too, that the girl who wants to attract men, the girl who would like to marry, will benefit by taking a leaf from her grand- mother’s notebook. Sex is screamed from the printed page, from stage and screen. Feminine pulchritude is paraded brazenly before men constantly. It’s become com- monplace. “Tf every day were Flag Day,” says Mr. Taylor, “we wouldn’t yell ‘Hooray!’ when the flag passed by. Soon we’d hardly notice it. Women have flaunted their charms so constantly, so boldly, men scarcely turn to look. The girl who cul- tivates a few old-fashioned reserves will find she has a charm for the average man that her ultra-modern sister lacks.” ?

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or > 3 Mr. Taylor believes that in this era of “freedom for women,” and “self-expres- sion,” the girl has handicapped herself by adopting too many of the petty vices of the male sex. Neither does he limit these “petty vices” to immodesty and boldness. He says: “One of her most serious mis- takes was in developing male loquacity. “Men love to talk and most of them are bored listening. A man is happiest when discussing his own exploits. But the modern young woman—eager to im- press with her own wit and cleverness— fails to capitalize on this fact. “Most girls think that, in order to in- terest a man, they must be wise-cracking, quick with ‘snappy come-backs.’ But they are wrong. The boy out on a date doesn’t want to go home with the thought: ‘How clever she is!’ but with the conviction: ‘How clever J am!’ “A wise girl will recapture the art of listening that her Victorian grandmother found so valuable. One question is usu- ally sufficient to start her beau off on a long dissertation. He will tell her of his achievements, his conquests, his hopes and ambitions. In what ways he is superior to his fellow men and how that superi- ority marks him for success. She will look amazed, astounded, impressed, in- terrupting his monologue only to breathe an occasional ‘oh’ and ‘ah.’ If, by chance, the speaker lags or runs out of material, she will refresh his imagination with an- other question—and he’s off again. “He leaves her that evening feeling that he is, indeed, a fine feller! That, while others don’t appreciate him, there, cer- tainly, is one person who does. What an interesting girl!” The Voice of Experience warns, though, that after you’ve won a hus- band with this technique, you can’t sud- denly stop playing the game. You must continue to “oh” and “ah” over his yarns of self-exploitation. Many a wife has started a trip to Reno when she was scorn- ful to a bragging mate. “Tf you aren’t willing to listen to your husband talk, remember some other woman is. If he thinks his stories aren’t appre- ciated at home, he’s sure to find a pair of sympathetic ears elsewhere. It’s far easier to avoid a triangle than to square one.” As to triangles, however, Mr. Taylor believes that married people are apt to take them too hard. If a woman finds her husband is involved with another woman, tf a husband discovers his wife is inter- ested in another man, immediately divorce .S_ considered. The Voice of Experience will even go so far as to say that he believes many situations, not legally recognized, are more reasonable grounds for divorce than is the existence of a triangle. And he also believes that if the “wronged” part- ner would keep his or her head and at- tempt calmly to discover the cause for the triangle’s existence, then, if possible, to eradicate that cause, many marriages would be saved. “If you suspect that your mate is in- terested in another person,” he says, “adopt a policy of watchful waiting for a while, free from any signs of jealousy or sus- picion. The fancy may pass. But if, and when, you feel that the matter must be brought into the open, discuss it with your mate and act as if the situation were RADIO STARS entirely your fault; that your erring hus- band, or wife, was doing the natural thing in seeking attention and love elsewhere than at your side. I cannot too much the importance of this attitude. As soon as you begin to blame, get hysterical, criticize, or cry your story to friends and neighbors, you are lost. If you must tell somebody, confide in your priest or minis- stress ter, your doctor, or any other impartial third party.” It’s as this “impartial third party” that the Voice of Experience has done his greatest work. The work began, long be- fore radios were invented, when Marion Sayle Taylor had to discontinue his chosen career of surgery because his hands were smashed in an auto accident. He went to work as a bacteriologist in the City Health Department of Seattle. There he became interested in juvenile delinquency, causes of degeneracy, and other problems of be- havior. Psychiatry then was just a foolish no- tion. People closed their eyes to sex problems and met delinquency with moral talks. There were no laboratories where a young scientist could experiment with social problems. So Taylor found his own laboratory. He went into the toughest section of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. He lived in these slums, used the red-light district as his experiment station, made friends with crooks, degenerates and pros- titutes who confided in him. He says that during his years there he asked everyone with whom he came in contact: “Where did you first learn about sex?” And all but a few answered bit- terly: “In the gutter!” He recorded and charted all his infor- mation with the care of a true scientist and emerged after four years’ hard work with a mass of facts, evidence and the- ories and an intense desire to fight the existing ignorance of social problems. From his itinerant preacher father he had inherited a fine voice and the gift of eloquence. So on the lecture platform he began his fight for sex education and a better understanding of social needs. He saw a microphone for the first time in 1921, when the owner of a small sta- tion in Spokane invited him to speak. Dur- ing the years that followed he talked frequently over local stations throughout the country. He was immediately won by the medium of radio because he, as a voice rather than a person, could dis- cuss intimate problems without embarrass- ing his audience. It wasn’t until 1932, when WOR put him on a sustaining program, that he got a whack at Big Time radio. From the large independent New York station it was but a short step to a national hookup. Today, in response to his program spon- sored by Wasey products over NBC, he receives about 50,000 letters a month. each letter is a cry for help. Sometimes it's help that can be furnished by the Voice of Experience Charity Fund, into which Taylor. puts all profits from the sale of his books and pamphlets. However, most of the time it isn’t fi- nancial aid the writer seeks, but the an- swer tosasquestion. “My husband has left me—My wife is in love with another man—I’ve been jilted—I’m too lonely— What shall I do?” And to each question the Voice of Experience gives an answer. And os What Do You Do with Your Little Finger? —when you pick up a glass or cup? .. . You know from watching others that charm and poise can be destroyed instantly by the misuse of hands. And by the same token, she correct use of your hands can become a tre- mendous social and business asset. Great actresses accomplish much of their poise by proper hand action. The makers of Frostilla—the famous skin lotion that keeps hands, face and body smooth and lovely—asked Margery Wilson, the international authority on charm and poise, to tell @ how to hold a cigarette e@ how to pick up cards e how to shake hands e@ and how to make hands behave to the best advantage on all occasions Margery Wilson gives the authoritative answers to these and other questions in an illustrated booklet on How to Use Your Hands Correctly. Although this booklet is a at 50c, we have arranged to Petes it without charge to Frostilla users in the United States and Canada until May 30th, 1937. 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In any case, au- thor and actress have become warmly attached to each other and each sings the other’s praises ardently and_ sin- cerely. And when Fayette says: “Betty is Pat, exactly as I have imagined her,” you may be sure she means it. And so, quite naturally, Betty feels the same way about it. The heroine of Girl Alone is a young heiress, Patricia Rogers, who, wearied of society, takes the name Pat Ryan and be- comes a newspaper reporter. Pat, in addition to her many adventures, has two suitors. Her main object in living in- cognito is to win an honest, unselfish love and now she is in a quandary—how shall she choose between Scoop Curtis, fellow reporter, and John Knight, older, more settled, completely charming? It is a problem beloved of fans the world over— an intriguing triangle against the varied background of the newspaper world. When Girl Alone was taken off the NBC network last summer, left stranded with only a local outlet, a terrific outcry was heard through the land. Consider- ably surprised, the powers that be saw that something had to be done about it— and something was. The fans heaved a sigh of relief and took up their pens again, this time in thanksgiving. Girl Alone was theirs again, at the twist of the dial. Perhaps it is that record-break- ing fan mail that brings the added glow to Betty’s cheeks, the bright sparkle to her eyes, perhaps it is just her own in- terest in the gay adventures of Pat Ryan. “You can’t do anything well that you don’t like,’ Betty says simply. And this is her favorite part, but there are others you hear her in, and she does them equally well. It is a long time since she decided that she liked to act, in fact so long that she is not quite sure when she made the mo- mentous decision. Her parents are non- theatrical people, but at an early age Betty displayed a talent for reciting and they saw no reason for not fostering it. So Betty spoke her little pieces and sang her little songs. And went to kindergarten and grammar school and high school. And whenever a play was put on, Betty was in it. She took it all very seriously, was thrilled to be chosen to play. the lead in the senior play and worked on her role like a trouper. The next step was stock. At seventeen, she was playing leads in the Cleveland repertory theatre. And the next step, inevitably, was radio. Radio has proved to be youth’s golden opportunity. It offers an exciting life, glamorous, profitable—and no one sees the drudgery. To the uninitiated, it seems that success comes easy. But in reality, it is exacting work. You have to be on your toes, you have to conserve your health and strength, you have to put your work first and fit pleasure and relaxation into your crowded program of rehearsals and broadcasts as best you can. To the average pleasure-loving young girl, it would soon be boring, far from exciting. Consider, for instance, the case of Betty. She works nine hours a day. In the last three years, a three-day vacation is the longest she has had. She lives quietly at home with her father and mother, en- joys a week-end in the country, was excited over her initiation as a fisherman under the tutelage of Mrs. Krum. Her first radio part was in The Trial of Vivian Ware, broadcast from Cleveland. After a few months, she went to Chicago and decided to try her luck at the NBC studios. Luck was with her and she was soon cast in the Betty and Bob series. She has played a variety of parts since then, among them the telephone operator in the Grand Hotel program, and Esther Ferguson in the Welcome Valley program. The busier she is, the better she likes it. For if it is hard work, it has its com- pensations. Some day, she says, she may reach a sense of completion in her work, may feel a desire for new fields to conquer. But she admits candidly that day is far off. “T am not setting up a goal,” she in- sisted. “I am afraid to—afraid I might not attain it!” Betty is in great demand at the studio these days and has been sought out by the movies, too, but she still does not call it success, still feels that she has just started and still works indefatigably to attain the goal she doesn’t dare define. The fact that she is an only child and that life has always been easy, pleasant, has proved no handicap to Betty. To her parents must go the credit that she meets life squarely and asks no favors. In spite of—or perhaps because of— the fact that she has no brothers and sisters, Betty adores children. “They are my favorite people,’ she said softly. “They are so real and sin- cere, so unaffected .. .” Those are her favorite characteristics in people of any age—and that is the sort of a girl she is herself. And, per- haps because like attracts like, that is the kind of people she has found in radio. Radio people work with each other, she explained, and not against each other. “There isn’t room for jealousy or tem- perament,” she went on. “At least, I’ve seen very little of either. And it is grand, working day after day with people you like and respect.” i But. beneath the dark waves of her hair must. be thoughts of something besides work, besides career. Betty is definitely le. cers

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the romantic type, the dreamer. She has lots of imagination—which is one reason why she is such a good actress. And in spite of her denials and her ready, spark- ling wit, she must have some moments of sentimental dreaming. But just try to pin her down as to what those dreams might be, or whom they might concern! Marriage? Of course, some day—and lots of children! But— “T am restless,” she confessed. want to be tied down just yet.” As to the kind of man she likes best, she smiled whimsically. ‘Ugly, attrac- tive men—I’ve passed the stage where I just like to look at them!” When she was fifteen and just embark- ing upon her career, a kindly friend warned her against life in the theatre, of the dangers lurking backstage and around stage doors for a pretty, unsophisticated girl, “You are too nice for that sort of life,’ he insisted. “T was all agog,” Betty laughed, “look- ing for pitfalls, expecting temptation— but I am afraid I must not be attractive, alluring enough! There weren’t any pit- falls!” She looked at me, her dark eyes merry. “I would have liked just one “T don’t RADIO STARS pitfall—one big temptation to conquer!” | But, seriously, she is too nice a girl to | have to worry about that sort of thing. | If her counsellor had been truly discern- ing, he would have seen that she did not need his advice. For she is steady, serene, well-balanced. She has beauty and brains and a sense of humor—and you can’t very well trip up a girl like that. Seeing her before the microphone, intent on reading her lines, herself submerged in the character of Pat, or seeing her a few moments later, relaxed, gay, the nervous tension that precedes each broad- cast dismissed with a laugh, you see what | artists and writers mean when they paint | or describe the “typical American girl.” Radio fans have sensed it and taken her | to their hearts. She is the daughter older | ones wish they had had, sister and sweet- | heart of the younger. She is well content with things as they | are and at the same time eager for the adventures yet to come. It is a bright road that lies ahead of her—she won't take the wrong fork or make any silly blunders. And when the “ugly, fascinat- ing man” steps into the picture, she will find a newer, more complete happiness than any she has known! THE TRUE STORY OF JOAN AND DICK (Continued from page 21) guard so jealously from others. That was the way they got to know each other. As loyal, grand people, as good troupers and generous friends. But it was only after trouble came to Joan in her marriage that they really be- came friends. Dick, always so vulnerable where other people’s unhappiness is con- cerned, felt drawn to Joan in hers. He knew how happy she had been in that marriage, and he knew, too, the joy that had come to her when her baby was born. The joyous, carefree girl he had known was changing there before his eyes. He saw her creep into her dressing-room between scenes and, for all the lavish make-up she had on when she came to the set again, he saw the traces of the tears she could not wholly remove. He heard that ready tongue of hers stilled and missed the laughter that had always come so spontaneously before. And the quick flashes of humor, the smart comebacks, the raillery that had always been on her lips were gone. But as much as he missed all those things and as much as he missed _ that carefree girl he had liked so much, he liked this new girl even better than he had the old one. He saw all the new things that had come to take the place of all the old ones that were gone. The unex- pected seriousness that showed all the hidden depths in her, the sympathy she might have been using on herself going out, instead, to anyone else who was troubled. Dick understood the thing she was feel- ing. Knew the pain of learning those things Joan was learning now. After all, he had been through it all himself. Al- ways sympathetic, Dick had become doubly so with Joan, having had to walk before her, that same, torturing path she was walking now. There weren't many people outside of his friends in his own home town who knew about Dick’s first marriage. It had crashed before he had started his career. But he told Joan about it then. She was grateful for that confidence. It made it easier, somehow, knowing that Dick had once felt the way she was feel- ing now and that years had gone by and in the end laughter and all those other lost things had come back again to him. All right for other people who never had gone through it themselves to tell her: “Oh, come now, Joan. Buck up. It’ll pass. In a year or so you'll forget all about it.” It was different when Dick could say so quietly: “Tt will pass, Joan. In the beginning, when it happened to me, I thought I’d never get over it. 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wood. Whose words had always come so lightly and_ effortlessly. And she liked this new Dick better, too. This Dick whose words came so slowly now in_his effort to find the right ones to help her. This Dick, who didn’t run after her as other friends did, when she felt she just had to have a minute with herself to find the courage to go on again. No, it was never Dick who found her when she crept into a corner, who took her hand and said gaily: “Come on now, Joan. So-and-so’s telling the most mar- velous story. You'll laugh and laugh!” And it wasn’t Dick who chided her when her eyes looked as if she'd been having a pretty bad time with herself or who looked uncomfortable when she didn’t have much to say. All Dick did was to talk to her when she wanted to talk, and sit quietly there beside her when she didn’t. So it does seem inevitable that they should have become friends, doesn’t it? Inevitable that they should have fallen in love. Out of all Hollywood Dick wanted Joan for his wife. For years he had been looked on as a super play boy, a gay bachelor who specialized in hearts. There were all the whispers about his romance with Mary Brian. There were all the other names coupled with his, too. There was hardly a night when he wasn’t at the Trocadero dancing with some lovely young thing. But when it came to marriage, it wasn’t one of those gay girls Dick Powell chose to share his life. It was a young mother Dick fell in love with. A woman who had known her own measure of disappointment and pain. A girl who was gallant and knew how to take life on the chin. She was such a grand girl, that Joan, who discovered she was in love with Dick. For there was the old Joan and the new Joan all mingled together in a girl who had found that lost laughter of hers again and there were all the old kidding words coming back to her lips, together with all the wise, new ones she had learned for herself. Everyone in Hollywood was so happy with them. Every eye in the studio would follow them wistfully and maybe envy them just a little, the grand time they were having together. And when Dick went on his broadcast of Hollywood Hotel, every- body talked about how well he was singing. Well, why shouldn’t he be singing bet- ter than he ever had before? Didn’t Joan love him! Wasn’t he sitting on top of the world! The day they went for their marriage license in the Los Angeles County Court House, Dick and Joan looked happier than any two people had a right to look. “Gosh, sonny, I can’t,” Joan said shakily when a youngster thrust an autograph book at her. “It’s going to take all I’ve got to put my autograph on that license when I get upstairs.” And she laughed and the crowd laughed with her. She appeared with Dick on his broad- cast a few evenings later and that same night they were married on the ship that was taking them to New York on their honeymoon. And all the other passengers seemed drawn together in a great con- spiracy to make that honeymoon of Joan and Dick the most perfect any boy and 82 SRD TO”. Shae ee ee: girl ever had. Much as people love to gape at celeb- rities, much as they adore clustering around movie and radio stars and seeing their idols close up, they restrained them- selves and gave two people in love a chance to be together. They were awed as nice people always are before a genuine emotion. They were so perfect, those days and nights at sea. A boy and a girl who had made make-believe love under a_ studio moon were making real love now under a real moon. The last few days before their mar- riage had been a turmoil—with a picture to be finished and a trousseau to be bought. But now there was only that peace of endless days of being together, of forget- ting clocks and calendars and a_never- ending routine of broadcasts and cameras. They talked, and always there was still so much left to say—and New York must often have crept into that talk, for both of them loved it. Hadn’t they chosen it above all other places for their honey- moonland ? New York in autumn. Those first crisp days. That feeling of vigor in the air. They couldn’t wait to feel its pavements under their feet again. A terrific welcome awaited them in Havana. Warm-hearted Latins took them into their hearts as they walked down the gangplank. A dark-haired, sloe-eyed little Cuban girl dropped Joan a shy curtsey as she thrust a bouquet in her hands. Dark eyes looked at them as they sat in the café together and friendly lips smiled with them in their happiness. Oh, there isn’t any doubt about it. Latins understand love and respect it! It was a happy boy and girl who went back to their ship that evening. Then New York. Joan and Dick had expected reporters to meet them, of course. They would have liked to have run down that gangplank, the way they could if they had been un- important honeymooners, and get into a taxi and hold hands on the way to their hotel. But they knew they couldn’t. After all, they weren’t unimportant. People wanted to know all about them. So they met that crowd of newspaper- men as cordially as two well-bred people will meet anyone. And Joan saw to it that long tables were set up in the draw- ing-room of their suite, with scrambled eggs and crisp bacon and tantalizing sau- sages and thin buttered toast and plenty of coffee for those who wanted breakfast, and with sandwiches and Scotch and soda and champagne for those that didn’t. And she and Dick met their questions and tried not to mind the huge open car they were ushered into and not to miss the friendly taxi they would have pre- ferred. That evening they read the papers. The papers stunned them! Those news- papermen, whom they had treated as guests, had had a marvelous time with them! Joan and Dick were splashed all over the front pages of the New York papers like a three-ring circus. Para- graphs jeered at them in cutting ridicule. The love that had come to them, ay sweet- ness they had known, was mocked at. They hadn’t been human beings to those reporters. They had been movie stars, ee Te suspected of acting even this genuine emo- tion. They had been a radio crooner and — his bride. Someone to be torn into little pieces for the mirth of newspaper readers. Joan and Dick must have been so humiliated they couldn’t even meet each other’s eyes when they read those papers. Couldn’t talk about it even to each other, in those first awful moments. After that, it wasn’t fun to see those plays they had looked forward to so eagerly, with everybody craning their necks to see them and the memory of those ridiculing words still burning in their minds, so that they thought even friendly admiration was mockery. It wasn’t fun to walk down Fifth Avenue, either, or to go into all the smart shops, feeling that the girl behind the counter was remember- ing those stories, too, and laughing at them. But neither Joan nor Dick are quitters and so they did the things they had planned to do. They went to night clubs and tried to look unconcerned at the glances turned at them and to laugh and be gay. People couldn’t be able to say, then, that they hadn’t been able to take it and: “See if J care!” was the unspoken challenge in Joan’s eyes. Dick became ill up there in that grand honeymoon suite of theirs and somehow all the bitterness Joan had managed to conceal before couldn’t be concealed any longer. ; She was mad. Fighting mad. Ready to fight the whole world because Dick had been hurt. So she stood there defiantly beside his bed and said in a small tense voice: “What is there to say about our ro- mance? We're married, aren’t we? Why do people usually get married? Well, that’s the reason for our getting married, too. We're no different from anybody else.” And somehow in her hurt and bewilder- ment she couldn’t bring herself to say the word “love.” Joan has learned a lot of things in these last few years. Learned that love can come and that love can go, that sorrow can come, too, and go. She has stood up to life and in standing up to it has learned things she never could have learned in any other way. She’ll learn through this experience, too, for she’s that kind of a girl. Hard as it may be to face it now, she'll find in the end that she will be the richer for it, just as she is the richer for the other things that have happened to her. She’s hurt now and because of that hurt, suspicious of everyone except old and tried friends. For a long time she won't be able to see a smile on a strang- er’s face without flinching and she'll read ridicule in words where no ridicule is meant. But in the end she’ll discover that ridicule passes even as sorrow passes, that in time she will forget that this unfor- tunate honeymoon incident ever happened. And she’ll find, too, that because of it nothing will ever hurt quite so much again. Joan has proven her mettle before and she'll prove it this time, too. She’ll come through this thing with the same courage that has seen her through all the others. For the girl Dick Powell loves is like that, and that’s what Joan Blondell wants to be more than anything else in the world. Printed in the U. S. A. by Art Color Printing Company, Dunellen, N. J.

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