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COAST-TO-COAST HIGHLIGHTS Richard Svihus and Ann Shel- ley, above, who play Pinkie and Joan in One Man's Family, carol their Easter greetings to this program's loyal fans. Al Heifer, above, the 250-pound sports an^ nouncer at WLW, Cincinnati, is Floyd Gib bons' closest rival in rapid-fire delivery Indiana sports enthusiasts have learned to put their faith in the predictions of • John W. Haclcett, above, commentator for WOWO. HOLLYWOOD: If you are a Southern Californian, you can tune in KECA's twice-weekly and KFI's once-weekly Headlines from Home program, and sit back while your home town news trickles through your loud speaker. News coverage for these programs is determined by the old home towns of Southern California's million out- of-staters. If news from your home town is being omitted you only have to write KECA and KFI about it, and they'll be very happy to put some on the air as soon as they can. Des Moines, la.: Not only does it pay to advertise but it pays to know what you're advertising, as Qwen Mc- Cleary, women's radio director for the Iowa Broadcasting System, learned when a local women's shop decided to go on KSO with a stylist. The shop chose Qwen for the job because she had been purchasing all her clothes there and was best acquainted with the merchandise. Ft. "Wayne, Ind: John W. Hackett, WOWO sports commentator, has add- ed the plav-by-play broadcasts of the 1937 Indiana State High School and Catholic High School basketball elimi- nation contests to his long list of micro- phone accomplishments. Coming to WOWO from Erie's WLBW in Pennsylvania, John has an enviable record in various branches of radio. The sports field, however, is his first choice for microphone fodder and his consistently accurate predictions in that field make the choice understand- able. * ♦ * New York: Listening to WNYC's Sunday afternoon musical program from 3 :45 to 4 it is hard to believe these talented artists have never seen the notes they so expertly play. But such is the case. They can only hear them, or feel them when, with their educated fingers, they study their Braille music sheets. Through contri- buted funds, the National Bureau for Blind Artists hopes to present, at a professional salary, every capable blind artist to radio audiences on this weekly series. * * * ADVENTURE A new National Park service venture brought about a new and interesting radio venture. A venture reminiscent of Admiral Byrd's expedition to Little America. In Lake Superior, one hundred and sixty miles northeast of Duluth, Min- nesota, on narrow, rugged Isle Royale, one hundred and fifteen men and two women occupy the winter camp of the national park service. These island in- habitants, who from the close of navi- gation in the fall until it opens in late spring would ordinarily be cut off from all communication with the outer world, can exchange messages with rel- atives and friends elsewhere. And radio, of course, made it possi- ble. The Empress Coffee Isle Royale Broadcast, a half-hour program over stations WEBC, Duluth, WMFG at Hibbing, Minn., WHLB, Virginia, Minn., short wave W9XJL, Duluth, and short wave WSHC, Isle Royale, has es- tablished a two-way communication be- tween the island and Head of the Lakes. The program, sponsored by wholesale grocers Stone-Ordean-Wells, is heard each Sunday from 3 to 3:30 P. M., C.S.T. Although the main purpose of the broadcast was transmission of messages and letters to and from the marooned islanders, other interesting and informa- tive programs originate on the small isolated island. WEBC's staff member, Frank Wat- son, who made periodic trips to the isle during (Continued on page 84) How would your laxative rate with tke doctor? YOUR DOCTOR is your friend. He wants to help you guard your health. And he is just as careful about little mat- ters affecting your welfare as he is about the more important ones. The choice of a laxative, for instance, may not worry you. But it's a definite consideration with the doctor. Before he will give a laxative his approval, he insists that it meet his own strict specifications. Consider the various points listed be- low. Will the laxative you now use meet every one of them? THE DOCTOR'S TEST OF A LAXATIVE: It should be dependable. It should be mild and gentle. It should be thorough. 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Certain- ly there are far too many sixty-minute variety shows on the air, and the effort to keep going and maintain the desired pace for an hour seems to be causing rovny headaches. Radio programs, like >uany recent films, seem to have gone vaudeville in a big way; they are just a succession of specialty acts. After listening for many weeks, 1 feel con- vinced that most of them would be twice as good if they were just half as long. In spite of the enormous sums expended by sponsors and all the ad- vance ballyhoo last fall, programs this year are on the whole less enjoyable than in other seasons. And when I say enjoyable I speak as a listener for whom the superb singing of that distin- guished artist. Nelson Eddy, represents an all-time high in radio entertainment, but who also seldom misses the inspired clowning of such stars as Eddie Cantor and Burns and Allen. In other words as a listener of varied tastes. LvDiA King, Drexel Hill, Pa. 12 HERE'S THE PAGE FOR YOU READERS WHO WANT TO EX- PRESS YOUR OPIN IONS ABOUT RADIO $10.00 PRIZE HAIL TO FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY! Where have they been all these lean years? 1 mean Fibber McGee and Molly. How we ever survived the de- pression without laughs from these in- comparables is a mystery to me. Just when I was becoming so bored with the stale comedy that infested the airlanes, up sprang McGee and Molly with a brand of humor that even keeps grand- pa up past his bed time. 1 actually think it's a radio renaissance. If they're not headlining radio row soon, well, 1 miss my guess. T. J. BOLEND, Kansas City, Kansas $1.00 PRIZE WHAT DOES FATHER SAY? "What will your father say?" You never can tell what Father Bar- bour will say. It is because of his in- consistencies that Father Barbour ap- peals to me as a very human character. The ideal father of books and the movies deals out opinions and judg- ments that are Solomon-like in their wisdom. 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Name Address^ City_ _State . Use Ctupon or Send Na mtand Addrtu on Penny Post Card 13 cAfa^a. YOU CAN LEARN IT FROM THESE YOUNG STARS OF RADIO AND THE THEATER The lovely young actresses who work on the stage as well as in radio must learn how to make up for behind the footlights and on the street, besides. Above, Rita Johnson, of the CBS Workshop show. Another Workshop actress is Eliz- abeth Love, left. From Jane Cowl she learned an eyeshadow trick to harmonize with her golden blonde beauty — a stage practice, but eas- ily aaaptable to your evening use. THE actresses who woric under Irving Reis on the CBS Workshop, radio's experimental drama program that tries anything from a sound picture of the characters in "Gulliver's Travels" to the sound of the human heart in a story like Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart," are versatile young ladies. Beside their radio engagements, most of them ap- pear also on the Broadway stage, and of course they know 14 as much about make-up for both stage and street wear as they do about how to speak into a microphone. Three of the loveliest are Rita Johnson, Elizabeth Love and Tanya Cherenko. Rita makes quite a distinction be- tween the make-up she uses on the street and the one she uses for her part in George M. Cohan's play, "Fulton of Oak Falls." Off-stage, in daytime, she wears very little 'ao^ i JOYCE ANDERSON make-up, just rouge and lipstick and powder. She uses a much darker powder than do most blondes, for she knows that these fundamental cosmetics must be matched to the underlying tone of one's skin, rather than one's hair. Behind the footlights, she wears an even darker grease paint under her powder. Carrying out this same principle, she uses black, ratlier than brown, eye make- up (wax, not cake mascara). And here's one trick of stage make-up magic which you might well borrow from her for your own use — a brush for your lip rouge to give you a delicately modeled line and smoothly blended texture! Elizabeth Love has a trick with eyeshadow that she learned from Jane Cowl. It consists of using two shades, green on the lid and brown under the brow — a very successful combination {Continued on page 85) T Tanya Cherenko, above, also has a double career — radio and the stage. Recently she opened in a new play called "Marching Song." aasB-un aujught! ismypowqbr SHOWim 7€RRIBiy? YOUR FACE lighted by the bright spring sunshine! Does he see it "soft and fresh"? ... Or "all powdery"? The answer is in your powder! Pond's Powder is "glare-proof." Blended to catch only the softer rays of light — never to show up "powdery." True skin tones, they give a soft look in any light. Try Pond's for yourself — in the brightest light. 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And threading her way through the maze of tropical vines, camera equip- ment, and dancers on the set of "Waikiki Wedding" in which she is starring with Bing Crosby, Martha Raye came towards me. A prop boy, like a magician who drags rabbits from a high silk hat, produces a canvas chair from nowhere and snaps it open. Blazoned on the back in bright yellow paint is her name — Martha Raye — in letters that big. Stars, come to watch.icall breezy hellos with the deference-Tlollywood always shows to success. Of all places to find beauty pay- ing homage to talent! Hollywood, where beauty is supposed to be the open-sesame to everything desirable in the world, (Continued on page 82) lEt ON^lW^^^, ym^ TRUE STORY OF MY TOUR REVEALED BY N^ADINE CONNER B Y M DID HIS LOVELY CO-STAR CAPTURE NELSON'S HEART WHEN SHE WENT WITH HIM ON HISi CONCERT TRIP? THE rumors drifted eastward almost as soon as Nelson Eddy and Nadine Conner had left Hollywood on Nelson's concert tour. That's all they were — just rumors. Nobody knew how they had started. No- body would even guess at their truth. But still they persisted. They might so easily be true. A handsome and romantic man, a lovely and charming girl, shar- ing the same interests, thrown together for long hours in the intimacy of Pullman cars while trains whisked them from one city to another, discovering to- gether the delights of strange places and strange cities — they might, one reasoned, so easily have fallen in love. 1 wondered, 1 half believed, myself. Had Nadine Conner captured the heart of radio's most romantic star? Had she done what no other girl has ever been able to do, penetrate the Nelson's tops in singing, as everyone knows, and to Nadine he's tops in everything else. _ By LYNN BURR Her co-starring engagement with Nelson meant the high point of Nadine Conner's career. Below, the famous baritone in costume for his new picture, "Maytime." M-G-M protecting wall which Nelson Eddy has built around his heart? But now I have seen Nadine Conner and listened while she told me the true story of her transcontinental tour with Nelson, and I wonder no longer. Between Nelson and Nadine there is something so much deeper than adoration, something so much finer, and at the same time less tangible. Before I tell you the story of that tour, just as she told it to me, I must give something of Nadine's own background. Knowing it, what comes later takes on new meaning. Nadine's engagement to sing with Nel- son on the Vick's Open House program, and to accompany him as he went from city to city on the concert tour which be- gan in January, came as a sudden, glorious surprise to her. Both of her parents were famous opera stars in their day, and all her life she has known that singing was her destiny; but success has come slowly. Radio producers in Los Angeles knew her as a dependable, cultured singer, yet until she joined the Open House cast her name was scarcely ever heard on the air, except when she made a few guest appear- ances on Hollywood Hotel and Bing Crosby's program. For more than a year she was "Peggy Gardner" on the Shell Chateau, forced by the policy of the program to hide her real name under that fictional tag. Then, when the Chateau went off the air, Nadine found herself out of a job. She plunged into auditions, singing for networks and agencies, sometimes keeping several appointments a day. When her agent rushed her into the CBS Hollywood stu- dios for still another audition she didn't even know what program she was trying out for. She was the picture of composure as she stepped up to the microphone and waited while her accompanist riffled through his music for the right piece. But upstairs in a private office, three men were anything but composed. Nelson Eddy was haggard and worn. Josef Pasternack, the Open House conductor, paced the floor, and the sponsor's representative chewed on a cigar. These men were tired. They were tired of sopranos. For days they'd listened, to good ones and bad ones, to loud ones and weak ones, trying to find a girl to sing duets with Nelson on the program. It seemed hopeless. The {Contimud on page 86) 21 THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR BOBBY BREEN ^ A STAR AT NINE WITH HIS FORTUNE NEARLY MADE, HE WILL SOON FACE A CRISIS THAT MAY END HIS SUCCESS By FRANK LOVETTE ALWAYS," Sally Breen told me, dropping her voice so that Bobby, busy on the other side of the room, wouldn't hear — "always I prayed that something good would happen for us quickly — that we'd get to Hollywood before it was too late. . . ." Even then, when Bobby was five and a half years old, when his sister Sally realized for the first time that he had a phenomenally beautiful voice, there was that shadow on his future. Even then, there was need for haste. The shadow is larger now for the time when his voice must change is nearer. The time when his voice changes ... I can re- member the time, in my own life, when that was funny. My parents, my teachers, everybody I knew, smiled at the ludicrous squeaks and sudden tumbles into basso-profundo my voice indulged in. It will not be funny to Bobby Breen nor will it be funny to the thousands of fans who love his voice. For when that time comes it will take away every- thing he has. For a year or more there will be un- certainty and doubt, while he waits to see if destiny will give him the same chance it gave the greatest 22 Bobby loves baseball, but the picture at the left is a posed shot — he actually has little time to ploy. Above, taking a les- son on the harmonica from his friend, dis- coverer, and foster father, Eddie Cantor. singer who ever lived. It's such a slim, frail hope — but on it Bobby must build all his dreams for the future. Bobby is nine years old. Nine years old, and the possessor of a voice that must be as nearly like the voice of an angel as we will ever hear on this earth. It has brought him fame; it has brought comfort and ease to his beloved family; it has brought him the homage of glamorous grown-ups from coast to coast. And in a few years this immeasurable treasure will be snatched from him by the processes of an inexorable nature, to be replaced by — what? No one knows. No one can tell. No wonder Sally, his sister, was driven by a burning impatience in the days when she took the five-year-old boy on her lap for the bus ride from Montreal to Chicago because she couldn't afford two tickets. Bobby must have his chance, the world must have its chance to hear him, before it was too late! Bobby has had his chance, and he has won — but the years are still to be reckoned with. The great question of his life remains to be answered. Will his glorious boy soprano voice mature into an equally glorious tenor? Will it be baritone, or bass? Will it be no more remarkable than the voices of any dozen competent singers you can name? Or even less remarkable? What will the future hold? Musical and medical history have no way of answering these questions in advance. Before the days of radio, you see, there were almost no famous child singers. Operas had no parts for them. If children possessed the potentialities of stardom, there was no chance that the world would ever know it; and the lack of reliable records from the past makes even an expert's opinion as to Bobby's future largely guesswork. Estelle Liebling, America's foremost voice teacher, who has had such people as Galli-Curci, Jeritza, Hempel and Jessica Dragonette as her pupils, told me that not every boy who has been a great child singer develops an equally great man's voice. "He might be a high soprano in childhood, ending up as a basso — or he might be an alto as a boy, and turn out to be a tenor," she said. "In the case of a boy like Bobby, he has the advantage of an affectionate supervision by Eddie Cantor, a great artist, and once a boy prodigy himself. The chances are he will get the right advice and the right train- ing. But — " and she shrugged her shoulders regretfully — "his chances of coming to maturity with a voice changed to his advantage are not one in (Continued -A GRAND TOTAL OF $750. oo IN PRIZES YOUR 1 ENTRY COUPON 7 ^ A. K A, 7. ft 0 10 The ten opinion, and are Nome songs 1 America's therefore hove listed above are, in my favorite songs of all time, my votes, in the order given. Address — Billy Jones and Ernie Hare HERE'S a contest you won't be able to resist! Can you name America's ten most popular songs of all time? It's worth trying! First prize is $250 in cash and there are thirty-two other prizes for runners up! The Gillette Community Sing program wants you to choose these all-time favorites so it can include them all in a special gala program which will be broadcast after the contest closes. All you have to do is write down the names of those songs you decide are the most popular and fill them in on the coupon provided for that purpose on these pages. Then send the list, with your name and address and a fifty-word statement on what your favorite song means to you, to the judges. Vote for the songs you think will last the longest. Don't pick a current hit. Choose AMERICA'S TEN OF ALL TIME? Comedian Milton Berle the old favorites which have had a chance to prove their popularity, songs like "Old Black Joe" and "My Old Kentucky Home." Now, for a hint. Tune in Sunday nights to any station of the Columbia Broadcast- ing System and listen to the Gillette Com- munity Sing program. Hear the songs sung by Billy Jones and Ernie Hare and the others the studio audience sings under the direction of Wendell Hall. You'll be enter- tained by a lot of grand comedy, too, when Milton Berle steps to the microphone. Of course, not all the songs you hear on these programs will be winners. Perhaps none will be. But listening to these old songs will remind you of others. Best of all, the ten winning songs will be decided by your own votes! The judges will tabulate each vote sent in. That is how they will tell which ten are America's most popular songs. Song Leader Wendell Hal iM^MS&k'^f^MS^^^-ff ■ ,y^^,...yy^ ■,-„■■,■■ ...^ CONTEST RULES 1. Anyoae, anywhere, nay eompot* cxecpt •mpley««« of Glllett* Safety Raxor Company, Radio Mirror, and nttmbors of tlwir familios. 2. Wiiilo if is not nococsary fo fnno in ffco Gilleff* Comnnnify Sing fcroadeatft, lioaring fho old-fime song* nndor ffco loader* ship of Wendell Hall will nndonbfodly help yon In preparing an entry. 3. To compete, prepare a list of the ten old songs which yen R refer beyond all others. Then stvdy yonr list and wrrite I not more than fifty words, on explanatloH of "The song I have named that means the most to me, and why." 4. The ten most popniar songs will be decided by a tabniation of the total votes of the contestants. The entry listing tiM greatest nnmber of the ten most popniar songs, accom- panied by the most convincing statement of preference will be awarded a first prize of $250; the entry listing the next greatest nnmber will bo awarded the second prize of $100; and there will be six prizes of $25 each for those next in line. Each of the twenty^five next best entries will be awarded a $10 Gillette Razor set. 5. List yonr selections on the ofliclol contest conpon clipped from this page. Only lists on the ofiicial conpon will be considered. Paste the conpon on the top of the sheet en which yon write yonr statement of preference. 6. All entries mnst be received on or before Jnne 23, 1937, the closing dote of this contest. 7. Send yonr entry by Hrst Class Moil to Radio Mirror — Gillette Popular Song Election, P. O. Box 556, Grand Central Station, New Yorh, N. Y. 8. Winners will be annonnced in the first available issne of Radio Mirror after the contest closes. THE >1 iWJ wf i^il ■ H ■ i ^1 i^ OF A DAN WHEELER Tarn to page 54 for Phil Baker's broadeasf time ROUGHNECK, ROWDY, GAMBLER! THAT WAS PHIL BAKER AS A BOY- BEGIN THIS HISTORY OF A TOUGH WHO FOUND THE RAINBOW'S END i2 ^Wf^f^^^^^i'f'n'^ ^' ••- Phil knew this tenement, the middle building, as his home. Phil's father, who fed his family on six dollars a week. Wide World PHIL BAKER, aged five and a half, was on his way to deliver his father's lunch. He held the bail of the bat- tered tin bucket tightly in his fist as he stood on the curb and gazed across the twisting, savage traffic of the Bowery. He looked, as his mother complained twice a day, exactly like a ragamuffin, a little bum. His shirt had freed itself from its confinement under the waistband of his pants. His hair, if he'd removed the shapeless cap which covered it, would have turned out to be ragged and uncombed. And his face was very dirty. He was not a cute little boy, although he could have been, with those huge, expressive brown eyes. Even at the age of five and one-half, he was a tough little mugg. He knew how to dodge under the wheels of the lumbering horse- drawn trucks which made the Bowery impassable for more timid souls, and how to shuttle in and out between the seven or eight street-car tracks. He knew how to get his father's lunch to the shop on Bleecker Street before the bowl of hot soup that was in the pail had had time to grow luke- warm. He knew how to keep anyone from stealing the lunch from him. And those were the important things. Simon Baker looked up from his worktable in the dark back room of the Bleecker Street shop, and smiled as he saw his son coming toward him — his only son. He hadn't re- alized it was lunch time; somehow, when you did his kind of work you learned to deaden your mind so it didn't watch the passage of time. You had to. Simon was at the bottom of the fur business ladder. His job was to stand at a table for twelve hours a day, sorting the scraps of fur which came from the fashionable fur cut- ters uptown-. Some of the pieces weren't as large as the palm of your hand; some were of queer and irregular shapes. Simon took them all and felt them and inspected them and put them in the proper bins. Later they would be pieced together, stitch by patient stitch, into low-priced garments. The air in the shop was stale and old, and a thin fume of mixed dust and hair rose constantly to Simon's nostrils from the fur he handled. Six dollars a week was what he earned, and on that sum Rebecca, his wife, managed some- how to feed and clothe the family — Ella, Ethel, Phil and Rose. Simon and Rebecca didn't complain and certainly the children didn't. Their world was small, it was bounded by Stanton Street, where they lived, the Bowery, and Bleecker Street. In all its area it contained no luxuries and if your world contains no luxuries you don't miss them. Life, to Simon and Rebecca, meant simply getting along on what you earned. America hadn't precisely fulfilled all the glow- ing reports that had brought them from the Russian village where they were born, but perhaps it would. Perhaps it . would, for the children. Perhaps Ella, or Ethel, or Phil or Rose — or all of them — could have their chance in this big country to become rich or even famous. Dreams like this don't often come true — but for Simon and Rebecca Baker they did. They have lived to see their boy Phil grow rich and very famous; they've lived to enjoy all the luxurious homes in New York and Florida and all the trips abroad that he has been able to give them; best of all they've lived to know that he and his sisters are happy. It makes no difference to them, now. that the years of pov- erty took their toll — that the thin dust Simon breathed for so long has permanently affected his lungs, or that her task of keeping a tenement flat clean and four children fed. turned Rebecca into an old woman while she was still in her thirties. Those things don't {Continued on page 92) 33 ^a \Vs A STORY THAT CAN'T BE PRINTED OFTEN— SO SELDOM DOES ONE STAR REVEAL HIS AC- TUAL FEELINGS TO- WARD ANOTHER STAR By DICK MOCK "Tell you about Bing Crosby?" Bob Burns tilted back in his chair and pulled at his pipe. A cloud of blue smoke floated towards the ceiling. He hitched his pants, put his hands in back of his head and began a story few are privileged to hear — the story of a star who worships in his heart another star with whom he shares honors on a hit program. "Well, mister," he said, and pulled again on his pipe, "if you've got half a day to spare pull up a chair and we'll scratch the surface of the subject. If you want to cover it thoroughly come around when you have a week to kill." M^ HAT "The Birth of a Nation" is to pictures, Bing is to actors. He's the epic of the profession. He is so dif- ferent from what you would expect a star of his position to be that it's hard for a person who doesn't know him well to realize that the Bing they meet away from the 34 Bob plays while recall- ing reasons for wor- shipping his pal Bing. movie studio or broadcasting station is the real Bing. We go down to his ranch for a week-end and it's very seldom there are any actors in the crowd. There are some fellows around there named Bill and Fred and Joe and they come over and we sit around and gab. A stranger dropping in and listening to the conversation would never know there was an actor in the crowd— although Bing and I would both take bows if anyone called us actors. Bing in a moment of relaxation. Take it from Bob that the jaw- breaking words Bing uses on the Kraft Music Hall aren't just a pose. He really talks that way. One of Bing's chief charms is that you can talk about any- thing in the world to him and he's interested in it. There's only one subject he won't discuss and that's Bing Crosby. You could no more get him to talk about himself than you could get some actors to talk about anything else. Occa- sionally when we sit around the fire at his home in Holly- wood and start spinning yarns about our days in the theater — the days when he was with Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys — Bing will tell about some of his experiences. But he'll never tell about the time he wowed 'em in Keokuk. Oh, no! He'll tell, instead, about the time he went to a town expecting to fill a theater engagement only to find it had been canceled. The manager of the theater he'd played in the week before had wired ahead that Bing had about the worst act he'd ever seen. And he'll tell about the time, in Louisville, I think it was, when he {Continued an page 80) 35 A STORY THAT CAN'T BE PRINTED OFTEN— SO SELDOM DOES ONE STAR REVEAL HIS AC- TUAL FEELINGS TO- WARD ANOTHER STAR MOOK Tell you about Bing Crosby?" Bob Burns tilted back in his clia.ir and pulled at his pipe. A cloud of blue smoke floated towards the ceiling He hitched his pants, put his hands in back of his head and began a story few are privileged to hear— the story of a star who worships in his heart another star with whom he shares honors on a hit program. "Well, mister," he said, and pulled again on his pipe If you ve got half a day to spare pull up a chair and we II scratch the surface of the subject. If you want to cover it thoroughly come around when you have a week to kill." y^H.W The Birth of a Nation" is to pictures, Bing is t" ."--tors, les the epic of the profession. He is so di - to be that Its hard for a person who doesn't know him well to realize that the Bing they meet away f°m the 34 movie studio or broadcasting station is the real Bing. We go down to his ranch for a week-end and its very se dom there are any actors in the crowd. There are some fellows around there named Bill and Fred and Joe and they come over and we sit around and gab. A stranger dropping in and listening to the conversation would never know there was an actor in the crowd— although Bing and 1 wo"'" both take bows if anyone called us actors. One of Bing's chief charms is that you can talk about any- thing in the world to him and he's interested in it. There's only one subject he won't discuss and that's Bing Crosby. You could no more get him to talk about himself than you could get some actors to talk about anything else. Occa- sionally when we sit around the fire at his home in Holly- wood and start spinning yarns about our days in the theater —the days when he was with Whiteman and the Rhythm Bing In a moment of relaxof ion. Take it from Bob thot the jaw- breaking words Bing uses on the Kraft Music Hall aren't just a pose. He really talks thot woy. Boys— Bing will tell about some of his experiences. But he'll never tell about the lime he wowed 'cm in Keokuk. Oh no! He'll tell, instead, about the lime he went to a town expecting to fill a theater engagement only to find it had been canceled. Ilie manager of the theater he'd played in the week before had wired ahead that King had about the worst act he'd ever seen. And he'll tell about the time, in Louisville, I think it was. when he (Contimeil cm page 80) 35 Albion Clough (with Phillips Lord, at leftj came to radio because he was the world's champion woman-hater; Irenee Crites, below, wanted only one thing in New York — ^the spread on her hotel bed. We, The People brings such per- sons as this former negro uave I to the mike. Hejilos treasure^ the ) Confederate flag many -yteors. I ACTUALLY, it's likely to happen to you any ^ minute. Tomorrow or next week, you're likely to find yourself on a streamlined train or air liner, a radio contract tucked in one pocket, liberal expense money jingling in the other, speeding towards the radio networks of New York. You — an unknown — may find yourself being met in New York By a crowd of welcomers, be- ing photographed, interviewed, and taken to a fashionable hotel. For three or four days you'll live the glittering life of a celebrity, wined, dined, j partied, introduced to the stars of radio, re- hearsed, shown the town, an important person in a very important world. Your importance will reach its zenith the night your program goes on the air. A studio audience will be eagerly waiting. For five unspeakably thrilling minutes you'll stand at a microphone and talk about yourself while your home town and a whole nation listens. Millions of people will Mrs. Mollie Ticklepitcher, right, came to the big city from Turniptop Ridge, Tenn., but they had to argue to get her off the Pullman because it was the first "bedded" train she'd ever seen in all of her life. 4^^iSi^ ^Ny 7i >.^i.-^"Sr-.'^, 04Y ^OU ^ohk "Use Op «»o. ^No '■«/p ^*^o^n, ^o tet^ MINUTES By MARY WATKINS REEVES chuckle and turn their dials up in keen absorp- tion. The music will swell to a crashing climax and applause will roar down on you in a mam- moth finale. When the last light has been turned out in the studio, the last autograph seeker turned away from the door, and your last new acquaintance has said goodbye, you'll pick up your bags, step into a taxi and wave a goodbye to New York. You'll have had fame for five minutes — a new, dizzy kind of fame — and you'll be on your way back, a tidy sum in your purse, a thrilling exper- ience to relive a thousand times. A year ago it was the Hollywood guest-star rage and the amateur epidemic. This year radio has a new fad that's spreading among its biggest programs like pink-eye in public school — interest- ing unknowns. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public and family are having their day at the nation's microphones, and, unlike the amateurs, they're having it in a great big (Continued on page 88) JOLSON'S SILVER FOIL— Sid Silvers is five foot three and shops for his clothes in the boys' depart- nnent, but he's married and has a daughter. He's one of the few stooges who ever became a star with his name in electric lights. Brooklyn born, Sid never had time to go to school in the thirty-two years of •his life, but he's had a lot of fun being a foil for famous comedians like Phil Baker and Jack Benny, as well as dancing and spieling his own gags in the movies. You might remember Sid as the stooge who sat in a box and heckled Phil Baker on the stage. Now he's featured on Al Jolson's show. FIBBER'S FIBBING GREEK— Bill Thompson, the popular juvenile of the NBC Red network, known widely for his Nick De Popolus with Fibber McGee and Molly, is Indiana born. Bill takes his dialects so seriously, that he even learns the rudiments of the languages which he later burlesques. Once, in a sketch entitled "An International Broadcast," he spoke ten dialects! His radio career began in 1934 when he won the prize audition conducted by the Century' of Progress Exposition and NBC. Just now he's busy learning Egyptian and As- syrian so he can add their dialects to his list. 38 LUCKY PORTLAND— Mrs. Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa to you, says she has been under a lucky star ever since the day she was born in the Oregon city whose name she bears. She ad- mires her husband, jester for Town Hall Tonight, above ail other men and prefers being on his show to continu- ing the stage career which she began by appearing successfully in two hits on Broadway a few years ago. The fact that she's Fred's wife, she says, is simply proof that she's lucky. Her ambition is to become a household word to radio fans, something she's already gone a long way toward accomplishing, if you judge from the delighted chuc- kles her cry of "Tally-ho!" evokes as she walks on to the Radio City stage. MURINE'S DOTTY— Kay St. Germaine's the femi- nine half of the Johnny and Dotty team that co-$tars on Mutual's popular Listen to This program. This slim, dark haired girl plays golf, rides horseback, and had pluck enough to broadcast while she was suffering from ap- pendicitis. Kay was born in North Dakota and began her radio career as a singer in the An- son Weeks orchestra. She was later the first woman ever to sing with the Sinclair Minstrels. Last spring she left the orchestra to stay in Chicago and take up her present network job. MURINE'S JOHNNY— Kentucky-born Jack Brooks paid his way through two years of college at the Ohio State University by singing with an orches- tra. He's been entertaining people ever since, in vaudeville, movie shorts, and radio. His co- starring part as Johnny in Mutual's Tuesday night Listen to This, was his first big part on the air when he won it after auditions in 1935. Jack is a composer and pianist as well as a singer and actor; his hobbies are golf, tennis, and travel- ing, he is in his middle thirties, and his only pet is his wife, with whom he lives in Chicago. THRILL SPECIALIST MARTIN— The producer of the thrilling real life dramas on the Philip Morris programs is Charles Martin, and although he's only twenty-six, he's known already as one of radio's most brilliant directors. As long as he can remember Charles has wanted to direct plays for a career. In radio, he was one of the authors and producers of the March of Time, and also created Five Star Final. Experi- enced actors admit they've learned many dramatic tricks unaer his guid- ance. He was born in New York and went to City College; and so far he's not married. He inaugurated his new series. Circumstantial Evidence, which is based on actual fact, as a part of his sponsors' new Saturday CBS program. 39 JOLSON'S SILVER FOIL— Sid Silvers is five foot three and shops for his clothes in the boys' depart- ment, but he's married and has a daughter. He's one of the few stooges who ever became a star with his name in electric lights. Brooklyn born, Sid never had time to go to school in the thirty-two years of •his life, but he's had a lot of fun being a foil for famous comedians like Phil Baker and Jack Benny, OS well as dancing and spieling his own gags in the movies. You might remember Sid as the stooge who sat in a box and heckled Phil Baker on the stage. Now he's featured on Al Jolson's show. LUCKY PORTLAND— Mrs. Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa to you, says she has been under a lucky star ever since the day she was born in the Oregon city whose name she bears. She ad- mires her husband, jester for Town Hall Tonight, above all other men and prefers being on his show to continu- ing the stage career which she began by appearing successfully in two hits on Broadway a few years ago. The fact that she's Fred's wife, she says, is simply proof that she's lucky. Her ambition is to become a household word to radio fans, something she's already gone a long way toward accomplishing, if you judge from the delighted chuc- kles her cry of "Tally-ho!" evokes as she walks on to the Radio City stage. FIBBER'S FIBBING GREEK— Bill Thompson, the popular juvenile of the NBC Red network, known widely for his Nick De Popolus with Fibber McGee and Molly, is Indiana born. Bill takes his dialects so seriously, that he even learns the rudiments of the languages which he later burlesques. Once, in a sketch entitled "An International Broadcast," he spoke ten dialects! His radio career began in 1934 when he won the prize audition conducted by the Century of Progress Exposition and NSC. Just now he's busy learning Egyptian and As- syrian so he can add their dialects to his list. MURINE'S DOTTY— Kay St. Germaine's the femi- nine half of the Johnny and Dotty team that co-stars on Mutual's popular Listen to This program. This slim, dark haired girl plays golf, rides horseback, and had pluck enough to broadcast while she was suffering from ap- pendicitis. Kay was born in North Dakota and began her radio career as a singer in the An- son Weeks orchestra. She was later the first woman ever to sing with the Sinclair Minstrels. Last spring she left the orchestra to stay in Chicago and take up her present network job. 38 MURINE'S JOHNNY— Kentucky-born Jack Brooks paid his way through two years of college at the Ohio State University by singing with an orches- tra. He's been entertaining people^ ever since, in vaudeville, movie shorts, and radio. His co- starring part as Johnny in Mutual's Tuesday night Listen to This, was his first big part on the air when he won it after auditions in 1935. Jack is a composer and pianist as well as a singer and actor; his hobbies ore golf, tennis, and travel- ing, he is in his middle thirties, and his only pet is his wife, with whom he lives in Chicago. THRILL SPECIALIST MARTIN--The producer of the thrilling real life Sramas on the Philip Morris progranjs is Charles Martin, and although he i only twenty-six, he's known already as one of radio's most brilliant directors. As long as he can remember Charles has wanted to direct plays for a career. In radio, he was one of the authors and producers of the March of Time, and also created Five Star Final. Experi- enced actors admit they vc learned many dramatic tricks under his guid- ance. He was born in New York and went to City College; ond so far he s not married. He inaugurated his new series. Circumstantial Evidence, which is based on actual fact, as a part of hit sponsors' new Saturday CBS program. 39 SUNNY ITALY'S VIVIAN— Miss Delia Chiesa's grandfather was a symphony conducfor in Italy, her mother an ac- companist. Vivian started her musical training when she was three, and though she's grown blonde, very pretty, and twenty-two, her big ambition is un- changed— she still wants to sing in the Metropolitan Opera Company. She made her air debut in 1935, the win- ner of an audition contest over hun- dreds of other girls. This led to a CBS contract, but a few months ago she became an NBC star, with several programs of her own over the network, in the middle of the past winter she won the coveted solo role on the Car- nation program, broadcast every Mon- day night, and is now well on her way toward seeing her ambition come true. BOY BARITONE EVERETT— By his announcing on NBC's Farm and Home Hour, friendly and sincere Everett Mitchell has won a host of listeners who are loyal to his five broadcasts a week on this show. Born in a Chicago suburb in 1898, he had begun his career of singing before he'd finished high school, by join- ing up with Billy Sunday. Later he tried the insur- ance business, but before he had made more than a promising start, he began singing again — this time in radio. Soon he was writing scripts and later he found himself announcing programs he sang on. He's married and sings in church on Sundays. NBC'S PET VILLAIN— When you hear a villain sneer and laugh on an NBC script program you can bet it's Willard Waterman and nine times out of ten you'd be right. Willard is the favorite bad man of them all. He has never been late to a single one of the thousand broadcasts he's been in since he left the University of Wisconsin. He was born near the campus at Madison, and studied public speaking and music. After col- lege, he went into a summer stock company. This led him to radio and announcing, and then into his present career of acting the part of top villain. 40 m FROM RING TO RADIO— Handsome is twenty-four-year-oid Del Casino, a young singer of whom the CBS network is very proud. He is heard on sus- taining now and soon the sales depart- ment hopes to have him on a big com- mercial program. Del was born in Brooklyn and took to athletics as natu- rally as a duck to water. He won countless trophies in baseball, but box- ing is his favorite. He found work in Wall Street as a runner and later as a stock loan clerk. The depres- sion sent him to the Hollywood Res- taurant Revue on Broadway. Here he waited, singing his heart out, for a break. It came the night a CBS execu- tive found him and signed a contract. Now he's a network feature and is studying voice under a famous teacher. SIX-FOOT TINY— Born in Crowfordville, Indiana, in 1899, genial Tiny RufFner has traveled a long, rocky road to fame and his present jobs as announcer of the Gang Busters program on CBS and the Show Boat broadcasts over NBC. He was christened Ed- mund Birch Ruffner, proving nothing except that he is actually a full six and one-half feet tall. Tiny's been on the air over 9,000 times. In his dark past are days he spent as a radio singer, and also as a stage director and actor. His proudest achieve- ment was getting his wife to marry him, after she'd consistently refused him for years. NBC'S KINGSEY— Annette King was born and brought up in Illinois, which is only fitting since she is now an NBC singing star in the Chicago studios. When she was very young she was put into the church choir. She liked this type of group singing so much that when she went to college she tried out for and won a place in the chapel choir. After gradua- tion, it seemed natural to try for a job on the air, and needing experience, she sang five times a week for a year on a small local station. Her efforts were rewarded when NBC signed her up for the Breakfast Club and other programs. 41 i SUNNY ITALY'S VIVIAN— Miss Delia Chlesa's grandfather was a symphony conductor in Italy, her mother an ac- companist. Vivian started her musical training when she was three, and though she's grown blonde, very pretty, and twenty-two, her big ambition is un- changed— she still wonts to sing in the Metropolitan Opera Company. She made her air debut in 1935, the win- ner of an audition contest over hun- dreds of other girls. This led to a CBS contract, but a few months ago she became an NBC star, with several programs of her own over the network. In the middle of the past winter she won the coveted solo role on the Car- nation program, broadcast every Mon- day night, and is now well on her way toward seeing her ambition come true. 40 BOY BARITONE EVERETT— By his announcing on NBC's Farm and Home Hour, friendly and sincere Everett Mitchell has won a host of listeners who are loyal to his five broadcasts a week on this show. Born in a Chicago suburb in 1898, he had begun his career of singing before he'd finished high school, by join- ing up with Billy Sunday. Later he tried the insur- ance business, but before he had made more than a promising start, he began singing again — ^this time in radio. Soon he was writing scripts and later he found himself announcing programs he sang on. He's married and sings in church on Sundays. NBC'S PET VILLAIN— When you hear a villain sneer and laugh on an NBC script program you can bet it's Willard Waterman and nine times out of ten you'd be right. Willard is the favorite bad man of them ail. He has never been late to a single one of the thousand broadcasts he's been in since he left the University of Wisconsin. He was born near the campus at Madison, and studied public speaking and music. After col- lege, he went into a summer stock company. This led him to radio and announcing, and then into his present career of acting the part of top villain. 1 SIX-FOOT TINY— Born in Crawfordville, Indiana, in 1899, genial Tiny Ruffner has traveled a long, rocky road to fame and his present jobs as announcer of the Gang Busters program on CBS and the Show Boat broadcasts over NBC. He was christened Ed- mund Birch Ruffner, proving nothing except that he is actually a full six and one-half feet toll. Tiny's been on the air over 9,000 times. In his dark past are days he spent as a radio singer, and also as a stage director and actor. His proudest achieve- ment was getting his wife to marry him, after she'd consistently refused him for years. FROM RING TO RADIO— Handsome is twenty-four-year-old Del Casino, a young singer of whom the CBS network is very proud. He is heard on sus- taining now and soon the sales depart- ment hopes to have him on a big com- mercial program. Del was born in Brooklyn and took to athletics as natu- rally as a duck to water. He won countless trophies In baseball, but box- ing is his fovorite. He found work in Wall Street as a runner and later OS a stock loan clerk. The depres- sion sent him to the Hollywood Res- taurant Revue on Broadway. Here he waited, singing his heart out, for a break. It came the night a CBS execu- tive found him and signed o contract. Now he's 0 network feature and is studying voice under a famous teacher. NBC'S KINGSEY— Annette King was born and brought up in Illinois, which is only fitting since she is now on NBC singing star in the Chicago studios. When she was very young she was put into the church choir. She liked this type of group singing so much that when she went to college she tried out for and won a place in the chapel choir. After gradua- tion, it seemed natural to try for a job on the air, and needing experience, she song five times a week for a year on a small local station. Her efforts were rewarded when NBC signed her up for the Breakfast Club and other programs. BROADCAST •^ — « cTOKY FORM IN COMPUTE STOW f" Editor's Note: Because the sponsors of Gang Busters are un- able to grant the requests of thou- sands of listeners who have written in asking to hear the outstanding broadcasts again. Radio Mirror has arranged to bring these pro- grams to you here, complete in story form,. THE rock pile of the State Re- formatory at Granite, Okla- homa, lay a hot, dusty white under the sun. Youthful figures bent over the stones, hitting them with languid strokes. They were just boys, none of them out of their teens, yet among them were many who were destined to grow up and become the gangsters — bank rob- bers, kidnappers, murderers — of the middle west. One of them, who was to be a merciless, conscienceless killer, was thinking just then of nothing more important than how to get out of work. His name was Lawrence DeVol, he was sixteen years old, and he was no stranger to the Granite Reformatory. He'd al- ready served one two-year term there, for burglary, and now he was well into his second. He knew that he would be in and out of penitentiaries most of his life. G)ldly, he realized that his would be a career of crime. He had begun stealing when he was ten; he would go on stealing until he died. Or until he was killed. "I'm not goin' to be put to work every time 1 hit a Pen," he muttered to himself. "I got to fix it so I can't work 42 hard. These other punks — they'd be scared. But I can do it. I got to, if I don't want to be put to hard work every time they lock me up." He laid his left ring finger over the edge of a big rock, looked at it a few seconds. Then, catching his breath, he picked up a stone in his right hand and brought it down with all his strength on the finger — again and again, until the finger was crushed into a bloody pulp. Then he fainted. He accomplished his purpose. They took him to the infirmary for treatment; but he could never use that finger again. For the rest of his life it was deformed, and he could not bend it. It helped get him out of working in prison. And, eventually, it led to his death. In a way, the story of that finger typifies Larry DeVol's life. He had strength of character and intelligence enough to plan a dangerous course of action and stick to it. He planned and carried out the most audacious prison break ever executed. He was a much more dangerous criminal than his friend, Alvin Karpis, member of the Karpis-Bark- er mob which kidnaped Edward Bremer. DeVol was always a killer, while Karpis was only a criminal weakling. Yet in the end, DeVol came to his death through carelessness and over-confidence — and an accident which he should have foreseen. It was in the Hutchinson, Kansas, Reformatory that De- Vol met Karpis. DeVol had been arrested for burglary in Pittsburgh, Kansas, on January 7, 1926, and he arrived at the reformatory on March 25. Karpis was already there — had been there a month. The two became good friends. Karpis was sixteen, willing and anxious to become De- Vol's pupil. As for DeVol, he was twenty-one, and con- sidered himself a veteran of crime. Perhaps he wasn't so far wrong. For three years DeVol and Karpis were chums in the Re- formatory, and then they es- caped. DeVol had smuggled a saw out of the machine shop, and one night they sawed a bar out of their cell window, and dropped down to freedom. A month later, however, DeVol was right back in the Hutchinson Reformatory. He'd been arrested in Chica- go as a suspicious character, identified by his fingerprints, and sent back. But now he'd outgrown reformatories. He was so unruly and abusive that the authorities decided to transfer him to the State Penitentiary at Lansing. At that, he almost escaped again. While he was being moved from Hutchinson to Lansing he jumped from the (Ccmtimied on~ page 99) DeVol raised his glass as if to drink — but un- der its cover he drew his gun. Two shots — and one policeman lay dead. f «,»» A SERIES Of MEM- ORABUEPRO^ ^^^^^^ ASKED TO HEAR AGA"* « THE ACCOOHT OF .e EWST TIME THE A** ^^ .»*ABMG CRIMES ^RV OEVOfS AMAZIHG -i^^^ picked up a stone in his right hand and brought it down with ail his strength on the finger — again and again, until the finger was crushed into a bloody pulp. Then he fainted. He accomplished his purpose. They took him to the infirmary for treatment; but he could never use that finger again. For the rest of his life it was deformed, and he could not bend it. It helped get him out of working in prison. And, eventually, it led to his death. In a way, the story of that finger typifies Larry DeVol's life. He had strength of character and intelligence enough to plan a dangerous course of action and stick to it. He planned and carried out the most audacious prison break IH Editor's Note: Because the sponsors of Gang Busters are un- able to grant the requests of thou- sands of listeners who have written in asking to hear the outstanding broadcasts again. Radio Mirror has arranged to bring these pro- grams to you here, complete in story form. THE rock pile of the State Re- formatory at Granite, Okla- homa, lay a hot, dusty white under the sun. Youthful figures bent over the stones, hitting them with languid strokes. They were just boys, none of them out of their teens, yet among them were many who were destined to grow up and become the gangsters — bank rob- bers, kidnappers, murderers— of the middle west. One of them, who was to be a merciless, conscienceless killer, was thinking just then of nothing more important than how to get out of work. His name was Lawrence DeVol, he was sixteen years old, and he was no stranger to the Granite Reformatory. He'd al- ready served one two-year term there, for burglary, and now he was well into his second. He knew that he would be in and out of penitentiaries most of his life. Coldly, he realized that his would be a career of crime. He had begun stealing when he was ten ; he would go on stealing until he died. Or until he was killed. "I'm not goin' to be put to work every time 1 hit a Pen," he muttered to himself. "I got to fix it so I can't work 42 ever executed. He was a much more dangerous criminal than his friend, Alvin Karpis, member of the Karpis-Bark- er mob which kidnaped Edward Bremer. DeVol was always a killer, while Karpis was only a criminal weakling. Yet in the end, DeVol came to his death through carelessness and over-confidence — and an accident which he should have foreseen. " ' It was in the Hutchinson, Kansas, Reformatory that De- Vol met Karpis. DeVolhad been arrested for burglary in Pittsburgh, Kansas, on January 7, 1926, and he arrived at the reformatory on March 25. Karpis was already there — had been there a month. The two became good friends. Karpis was sixteen, willing and anxious to become De- Vol's pupil. As for DeVol, he was twenty-one, and con- sidered himself a veteran of crime. Perhaps he wasn't so far wrong. For three years DeVol and Karpis were chums in the Re- formatory, and then they es- caped. DeVol had smuggled a saw out of the machine shop, and one night they sawed a bar out of their cell window, and dropped down to freedom. A month later, however. DeVol was right back in the Hutchinson Reformatory. He'd been arrested in Chica- go as a suspicious character, identified by his fingerprints, and sent back. But now he'd outgrown reformatories. He was so unruly and abusive that the authorities decided to transfer him to the State Penitentiary at Lansing. At that, he almost escaped again. While he was being moved from Hutchinson to Lansing he jumped from the (Continued on page 99) S6R»6* OP ME»A- hard. These other punks — they'd be scared. But 1 can do it. I got to, if I don't want to be put to hard work every time they lock me up." . He laid his left ring finger over the edge of a big rock, looked at it a few seconds. Then, catching his breath, ne DeVol raised his gloss as if to drink — but un- der its cover he drew his gun. Two shots — and one policeman lay dead. '\ ^H- %■ ON'F's/q 1 O ff INE HARTLEY I >i4»^' ..^i. Above, Jack and his mother return from Honolulu, where she had an even better time than he did. Left, another characteristic pose. He has many pet names for her, but the one he likes best — and so does she — is "The Spook." \ lis'i^ For broadcast time of Jock Oakie's College, sponsored by Comef Cigarettes, please see page 54, Tuesday column. Radio Pictures Jack can't even read !n peace nowadays because sooner or later he starts worry- ing about his mother. Since she made a picture with him and followed it up with a successful personal appearance, things haven't been the same. And now his bride of a year wants to go on his radio show! JACK OAKIE'S in hot water up to his neck and it isn't going to help a bit to print this story. The whole thing began back in 1932 and when Jack signed for his new Tuesday night radio pro- gram it got worse than ever. The tragedy of it is, life should hold so much joy for Jack. He has this program, his beautiful bride of a year and his new picture, "Toast of New York." But he has, too, the finest, swellest mother in the world. And that is Jack Oakie's secret sorrow, the light- ning that strikes twice in the same place and makes him like it, the fear that haunts him by day and keeps him awake at night. That finest, swellest mother in the world. Her name is Mrs. Evelyn Offield. She has beau- tiful white hair, is plump and sixty-eight years old. To Jack, she's the Spook, or the District Attorney, or the Uptown Branch, or My Little White Mammy. No one ever looked less like a menace. When she smiles, your heart melts. When she laughs, everything is funny. Yet the unescapable truth is. Jack Oakie has Mother trouble. He had it four years ago and now, in the spring of 1937, he has it so bad he's desperate. TTie Spook is threatening to put her son Jack out of busi- ness. She'd be on the air with him every week, she'd have a part in all his pictures, she'd even have a radio program of her own, if only Jack would be more reasonable. Jack doesn't want any part of it. He wants his mother to sit back and enjoy the comforts he can give her now. He wants her home where he can watch over her. He re- members the long years when she had to work for her liv- ing and he wants it to be his turn (Continued on page 62) 45 1 . _-,i>:A&i^fL>J ^G^T $/, ACI A K I E r^^irrrfcr pf^\tt Above, Jack and his mother return from Honolulu, where she had an even better time than he did. Left, another characteristic pose. He has many pet names for her, but the one he likes best — and so does she — is "The Spook." For broadcast Hme of Joclj Oakle's Col/ege, sponsored by Camel Clgareites, please see page 54, Tuesday column. Jack can't even read in peace nowadays because sooner or later he starts worry- ing about his mother. Since she made a picture with him and followed it up with a successful personal appearance, things haven't been the same. And now his bride of a year wants to go on his radio show! JACK OAKIE'S in hot water up to his neck and it isn't going to help a bit to print this story. The whole thing began back in 1932 and when Jack signed for his new Tuesday night radio pro- gram it got worse than ever. The tragedy of it is, life should hold so much joy for Jack. He has this program, his beautiful bride of a year and his new picture, "Toast of New York." But he has, too, the finest, swellest mother in the world. And that is Jack Oakie's secret sorrow, the light- ning that strikes twice in the same place and makes him like it, the fear that haunts him by day and keeps him awake at night. That finest, swellest mother in the world. Her name is iVlrs. Evelyn Offield. She has beau- tiful white hair, is plump and sixty-eight years old. To Jack, she's the Spook, or the District Attorney, or the Uptown Branch, or My Little White iVlammy. No one ever looked less like a menace. When she smiles, your heart melts. When she laughs, everything is funny. Yet the unescapable truth is. Jack Oakie has iVlother trouble. He had it four years ago and now, in the spring of 1937, he has it so bad he's desperate. The Spook is threatening to put her son Jack out of busi- ness. She'd be on the air with him every week, she'd have a part in all his pictures, she'd even have a radio program of her own, if only Jack would be more reasonable. Jack doesn't want any part of it. He wants his mother to sit back and enjoy the comforts he can give her now. He wants her home where he can watch over her. He re- members the long years when she had to work for her liv- ing and he wants it to be his turn (Continued an page 62) 45 t.'^tO?IT*lH«f7Tt^W HTT^*« r 0ta/miL. ^M ^J# ?#^ % Emil Coleman, whose music is broadcast on a late-at-night schedule on NBC's networks, has used this melody as his theme song for seven years. I' tt' I '\i.p''s:'f:(^'ML'Si:i^iM^:'M.M^& ■■vjiQ ' PRESENTIKG COMPLETE WORDS AND MUSIC OF EMIL COLEMAN'S EXOTIC THEME SONG, PUBLISHED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME! ■M^:^iM&:Si.^LS£S^Si^&^MM^MM^iS^'^ 0^ ^ KrJzuJ r 't r i^r~^-r~^ ^ m w PTT 1 ^ ^i T^ E ^ f ^^ >^ i ^TT=f^ ^ "w i s r P ? A ? * ^ Svjjr-^^ <^AiTLfi 0(\fe UsT K'is — Trifev^2w--sy)i^??2ii«5>^ J At home, Gladys Swarthout is a graceful hostess in a costume like the one below. They are really pajamas, but are cut so that the trousers fall into the lines of a skirt when not in mo- tion. The chartreuse sash adds a charming contrast to the pearl gray of the pajama, with gray lacings through silver eyelets. Spring is here — and so is the tailored suit as glamor- ized here by Miss Gladys Swarthout, recent star of Paramount's "Champagne Waltz" and now star of the new radio show for the Country's Leading Ice and Ice Refrigerator Companies. In the above pose, Gladys wears a gray tailored suit with a brown Rodier Linen shirt, a gray suede hat, a pouch bag to match, and brown shoes. The long in- verted pleat is interesting. Photographs through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Inc. 48 The above two-piece suit can be worn way into the summer months with changing accessories. The material is a beige-tweed home- spun with green, brown and beige tnreads. The skirt is of solid beige. A selvage edge serves as a finishing touch to the top. Gladys wears a high crown fedora in beige felt, and a brown bag. LOVELY GLADYS SWARTHOUT RETURNS FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH A WARDROBE THAT GIVES THE SPRING SEASON A BRAND NEW MEANING Travis Banton designed this bil- lowing gown, below, for dinner wear. The skirt is gray-green changeable taffeta, with inverted pleats. The jacket is of a rare, rich brocade from Bianch- ini in Paris. The design was inspired by old Persian docu- ments. The tiny evening bag is fashioned from the same material. f ■ X For traveling, Gladys Swarthout wears a charming sports costume (above) of Indigo blue home- spun striped in beige. The coat has a novel, interesting cut and Miss Swarthout's hat is an amusing version of the pancake beret in brown yarn with an under-chin strap. Brown suede pumps and sport gloves finish the costume. A light and dark gray study — with a dash of brown. Above, another of Miss Swarthout's new spring suits. The fabric is an imported English woolen. The pan- elled treatment of the skirt provides a novel type of flare, and the rounded one- button jacket is quite new. For accessories, Miss Swart- hout has chosen a gray felt hat with dark gray grosgrain band, brown shirt, gloves and shoes, and tops it off with a scarf of sable skins. 49 i At home, Gladys Swarthout is a graceful hostess in a costume like the one below. They are really pajamas, but are cut so that the trousers fall into the lines of a skirt when not in mo- tion. The chartreuse sash adds a charming contrast to the pearl gray of the pojama, with gray lacings through silver eyelets. LOVELY GLADYS SWARTHOUT RETURNS FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH A WARDROBE THAT GIVES THE SPRING SEASON A BRAND NEW MEANING Travis Banton designed this bil- lowing gown, below, for dinner wear. The skirt is gray-green changeable taffeta, with inverted pleats. The jacket is of a rare, rich brocade from Bionch- ini in Paris. The design was inspired by old Persian docu- ments. The tiny evening bag is fashioned from tne same material. Spring is here — and so is the tailored suit as glamor- ized here by Miss Gladys Swarthout, recent star of Paramount's "Champagne Walti" and now star of the new radio show for the Country's Leading Ice and Ice Refrigerator Companies. In the above pose, Gladys wears a gray tailored suit with a brown Rodier Linen shirt, a gray suede hat, o pouch bag to match, and brown shoes. The long in- verted pleat is interesting. Photogrophj through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Inc. 48 The above two-piece suit can be worn way into the summer months with changing accessories. The material is a beige-tweed home- spun with green, brown and beige threads. The skirt is of solid beige. A selvage edge serves as a finishing touch to the top. Gladys wears a high crown fedora In beige felt, and a brown bag. rr For traveling, Gladys Swarthout wears a charming sports costume (above) of Indigo blue home- spun striped in beige. The coat has a novel, interesting cut and Miss Swarthout's hot is an amusing version of the pancake beret in brown yarn with an under-chin strap. Brown suede pumps and sport gloves finish the costume. A light and dark gray study — with a dash of brown. Above, another of Miss Swarthout's new spring suits. The fabric is an imported English woolen. The pan- elled treatment of the skirt provides a novel type of flare, and the rounded one- button jacket is quite new. For accessories. Miss Swart- hout hos chosen a gray felt hot with dork gray grosgroln bond, brown shirt, gloves and shoes, and tops it off with a scarf of saole skins. 49 HALLELUJAH! A NEW WAY TO A NEW FIGURE FROM BEN BERNIE'S SISTER COMES A MESSAGE OF HOPETO ALL WOMEIi WHO ARE SEEKING SLENDERNESS AND BEAUTY By JUDY ASHLEY * \^ * * .2kv*^ Rose Bernie's slim figure, above, re- sults from the sim- ple rules she gives you in this article. Helen Choat, Judy Johnson, and Adele Ronson refuse to let winter weather discourage them. Left below, Rose has changed since this picture with brothers JefF and Herman was taken. |EN isn't the only remarkable member of the Bemie family. I realized that when I met Rose Bernie, his sister. For here is a woman who hasn't been content to bask in her brother's fame, but who has struck out for herself and demanded of life not only one career, but two. More than that, her history contains a chapter which brings new hope to every woman who is overweight, chronically tired, or burdened with more re- sponsibilities than she can carry. Sometimes great things happen in this world, and nobody knows about them until long after they are accomplished facts. For instance, I'll wager that few readers have ever heard of a milk reducing farm — or if they have, they've only the vaguest notion of how one operates — just as few of Ben Bernie's fans know of his sister and the wonderful (Continued on page 102) B Worth stopping for ! SEE THE BEECH-NUT CIRCUS Biggest Little Show on Earth! A mechanical marvel. . 3 rings of performers clowns . . animals . . acrobats . . elephants music 'n' everything! Now touring the country. 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His system isn't sturdy enough for the hurly-burly effects of an "achilt" laxative . . . even when given in "smaller doses." That is the reason why many floftf)rs often suggest Fletcher's Castoria. For, as you know, Fletcher's Castoria is a child's laxative pure and .simple — made espe- cially and 07dy for children. Ft couldn't possibly harm tlie tiniest iiiliiTit system because it contains no harsh "adult" drugs ... no nai-cotics . . . nothing that could cause cramping pains. It works chiefly on the lower bowel. It gently urges the muscular movement. It is SAFE . . .mild . . .yet thorough. A famous baby specialist said he couldn't write a better prescription than Fletcher's Castoria. S0'' & It is also important to remember that a child should take a laxative willingly, i^octors say the revulsion a child feels when forced to lake a medicine he hates can thi'ow his entire nei'vous system out of order. That's why even the taste of Fletcher's Castoria is made especially for children. They love it. More than five million mothers depend faithfully upon Fletcher's Castoria. Why not stay on the safe side and keep a bot- tle handy in your home? You can never tell when you'll need it. You can buy Fletcher's Castoria at any drug store. Ask for the Family Size Bot- tle. It saves you money. The signature Chas. H . Fletcher appears on the red- hordered band on the box. CASTORIA The laxative made especially for babies and growing children ARE YOU FUSSY ABOUT YOUR CHILD'S FOOD? YOU CAN CURE THIS HEADACHE WITH THE NEW STRAINED AND CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IT'S A CINCH TO FEED THE BABY Listen in Tuesdays and Thurs- days at 11:45 a.m. over CBS to Eleanor Howe's program for valuable hints that will help you make your home attractive. % **^^:j(s:)C'**w^«sis^ ,$r«x?'^ -xs^-s DO you have a daily battle with that ole debbil, sieve? In other words, have you a baby whose daily menu is made up of vegetables, fruits and cereals which you must run through a strainer? If you have, you are the person Eleanor Howe is looking for. Miss Howe, whose Eleanor Howe's Homemakers' Ex- change, sponsored by the National Association of Ice In- dustries, you hear twice weekly over CBS, has plunged deeply into the subject of infant feeding and has come up with such valuable information that I can hardly wait to pass it on to you. I am sure )ou'll find it helpful. "The whole business of canned strained foods for babies is a fascinating one," she told me. "The first ones were put up in glass jars and sold through drugstores. "Then came the day when a )oung mother said to her husband, as no doubt many of you have said, 'This business of straining vegetables every day for the baby almost has me licked. Considering the small quantity he needs daily and the length of time it takes to run them through a sieve. it's the hardest job I have. Here, try it \ourself and see if }-ou don't think it's work. {Continued ou page 87) B y MRS. MARGARET SIMPSON 53 R A D I O M TR R OR R A Pin SUNDAY AM time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.M. CB.S: Church of the Air. NEC-Blue: Cloister Bells. NBC-Red: Sabbath Reveries. 10:30 CBS: Romany Trail. NBC-Red: Music and American Youth 11:00 NBC: Press-radio News. 11:05 NBC-Blue: Alice Remsen. contralto. NBC-Red: Ward and Muzzy, piano. 11:30 CBS: Major Bowes Family. NBC-Red: The World Is Yours. NBC-Blue: lodent Dress Rehearsal. 12:00 Noon NBC-Blue: Moscow Sleigh Bells. NBC-Red: Paramount Stars. 12:30 P.M. CB.S: Salt Lake City Tabernacle. MnS: Ted Weems Orchestra. NBC-Blue: Music Hall of the Air NBC-lted: University of Chicago Round Table Discussion. 1:00 CBS: Church of the Air. NBC-Red: Dorothy Dreslin 1:30 CBS: Poetic Strings NBC-Blue: Our Neighbors. NBC-Red- Melody Matinee. 2:00 CBS: Music of the Theatre MBS: The Lamplighter. NBC-Blue: The Magic Key of RCA. 2:30 NBC-Red: Thatcher Colt mysteries. 3:00 CBS: N. Y. Philharmonic NBC-Blue: Captain Diamond. 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NBC-Ued: Manhattan Merry-Go- Round. 9:15 NBC-Blue;Ripoling Rhythm Revue 9:30 NBC-Rcd: American Album of Familiar Music. 9*45 'MtC-I!lue: Edwin C. Hill 10:00 CBS; Gillette Community Sing. NBI'-Rcd; General Motors Sym- phony 10:30 MIC Blue; Romance of '76, MONDAY All time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.M. CBS: Betty and Bob. NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs. 10:13 CBS: Modern Cinderella. NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins. NBC-Red: John's Other Wife. 10:30 CBS: Betty Crocker; Hymns. NBC-Blue; Pepper Young's Family. NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill. 10:45 CBS: News. NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade. NBC-Red: Today's Children. II :00 CBS: Heinz Magazine. NBC-Blue: The O'Neills, NBC-Bed: David Harum. 11:15 NBC-Blue: Personal Column. NBC-Red: Backstage Wife. 11:30 CBS: Big Sister. NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade. NBC-Red: How to Be Charming. 11:45 CBS: Dr. Allan R. Dafoe. NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh. NBC-Red: Voice ot Experience. 12:00 Noon CBS: The Gumps. NBC-Bed: Girl Alone. 12:15 CBS: Ted Malone. NBC-Red: Mary Marlin. 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent. NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour 12:45 CBS; Rich Man's Darling. 1:00 CBS: Five Star Revue. 1:15 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife 1:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories. NBC-Red: Neighbor Nell. 2:00 CBS: Kathryn Cravens. 2:15 CBS: School of the Air. 2:45 CBS: Myrt and Marge. NBC-Red: Personal Column. 3:00 MBS: Mollie of the Movies NBC-Red: Pepper Young's Family. 3:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins. 3:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade. 3 '45 'NBC-Red: The O'Neills. 4:00 NBC-Red: Hour of Charm. 4:30 NBC-Red: Follow the Moon. 4:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light. 5:00 CBS: Junior Nurse Corps. NBC-Blue: Let's Talk It Over. 5:15 NBC-Red: Tom Mix. CBS; Dorothy Gordon 6:30 NBC-Blue: Singing Lady. NBC Red: Jack Armstrong. 5:45 CBS: Wilderness Road, NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie. Six P.M. to Eleven P.M. 6:15 CBS: News of Youth. 6:30 Press Radio News 6:45 CBS; Pretty Kitty Kelly. NBC-Blue Lowell Thomas. 7:00 CBS: Poetic Melodies. NBC-Rod: Amos 'n' Andy. 7:15 CBS: Ma and Pa. NBC-Red; Uncle Ezra. 7:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger. NBC-Blue: Lum and Abner. 7:45 CBS: Boake Carter. 8 :00 CBS; Alemite Halt Hour. NBC-Bluc; Burns and Allen NBC-Red; McGee and Molly, 6:30 CHS; Pick and Pat. NBC-Bluo: Sweetest Love Songs. NBC-Red: Voice of Firestone. 0:00 CBS; Lux Radio Theater. MBS: Gabriel Heatter. NBC-Red; Warden Lawes. 9:30 NBC Red; Studebaker Champions. 10:00 ('US; Wayne King. MBS; Famous Jury Trials. NBC-Red; Contented Program. 10:30 NBC-Red: Krueger Musical Toast. TUESDAY All time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.M. CBS: Betty and Bob. NBC-Blue: Press-Radio News. NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs. 10:15 CBS: Modern Cinderella. NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins. NBC-Red: Johns Other Wife. 10:30 CBS: Betty Crocker; Hymns, NBC-Blue; Pepper Young s ramily NBC-Bed: Just Plain Bill. 10:45 CBS: News. NBC-Blue; Kitchen Cavalcade. NBC-Red; Today's Children. 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor. NBC-Blue: The O'Neills. NBC-Red: David Harum. 11:15 CBS; East and Dumke. NBC-Blue: Personal Column. NBC-Red: Backstage Wife. 11:30 CBS: Big Sister. NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade. NBC-Red; Mystery Chef. 11:45 CBS: Eleanor Howe. NBC-Blue; Edward MacHugh. NBC-Red: Allen Prescott. 12:00 Noon CBS; The Giimps. NBC-Red: Girl Alone. 12:15 P.M. CBS: Ted Malone NBC-Red: Mary Marlin. 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent. NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour. 12:45 CBS: Rich Man's Darling. 1:00 CBS: Jack Berch. 1:15 NBC-RED: Dan Harding's Wife. 1 :45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories. 2:15 CBS: School of the Air. 2:45 CBS: Myrt and Marge. NBC-Red: Personal Column. 3:00 MBS: Mollie of the Movies. NBC-Bed; Pepper Young's Family. 3:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins 3:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade. 3 :45 NBC-Red: The O'Neills. 4:30 NBC-Blue- Dog Heroes. NBC-Red; Follow the Moon. 4:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light. 5:00 NBC-Blue: Your Health. NBC-Rcd: While the City Sleeps 5:15 NBC-Red: Tom Mix. 5:30 NBC-Blue: Singing Lady. NBC-Red; Jack Armstrong. 5:45 CBS; Wilderness Road. NBC-Blue: Breen and DeRose. NBC-Red; Little Orphan Annie. 6:30 Press 6:45 CBS: NBC- 7:00 CBS: NBC- NBC- 7:15 CBS: NBC- NBC- 7:30 CBS: NKC- NBC- 7:45 CHS NBC- 8:00 CBS: NBC- NBC- 3:30 CBS: MBS Nl'.C- NBC- 9:00 CBS: MBS NBC- NBC- 9:30 CBS; MBS; NBC- NBC- 10:30 NBC X P,M. to Eleven P.M. -Radio News. Pretty Kitty Kelly. Blue: Lowell Thomas. Poetic Melodies. Blue; Easy Aces. Red: Amos 'n' Andy. Ma and Pa. Blue; Tastyeast Jesters. Red; Vocal Varieties. Alexander Woollcott. Blue; Lum and Abner Red; Hendrick W. Van Loon. Boake Carter. Red; Fray and Braggiotti. Hammerstein's Music Hall. Blue: Log Cabin Dude Ranch. Red: Johnny Presents Al Jolson. Listen to This. Blue: Edgar A. Guest. Red: Wayne King. Al Pearce. Gabriel Heatter. Blue; Ben Bernie. Red; Vox Pop — Parks Johnson. Jack Oakie. True Detective Mystery. Blue; Husbands and Wives. Red; Fred Astalre. Red: Jimmie Fidler. WEDNESDAY All time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.M. CBS: Betty and Bob. NBC-Red; Mrs. Wiggs. 10:15 CBS; Modern Cinderella. NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins. NBC-Red; John's Other Wife. 10:30 CBS: Betty Crocker; Hymns. NBC-Blue: Pepper Young s Family. NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill. 10:45 CBS; News. KBC-Blue; Kitchen Cavalcade. NBC-Red; Today's Children. II :00 CBS; Heinz Magazine. NBC-Blue: The O'Neills. NBC-Red; David Harum. 11:15 NBC-Blue: Personal Column. NBC-Red: Backstage Wife. II :30 CBS: Big Sister. NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade. NBC-Red: How to Be Charming. 11:45 CBS: Dr. Allan R. Dafoe. NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh. .\BC-Red; Voice of Experience. 12:00 Noon CBS; The Gumps. NBC-Red; Girl Alone. 12:15 CBS: Ted Malone. NBC-Red; Mary Marlin. 12:30 , . ■ CBS: Romance of Helen Trent. NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour. 12:45 CBS: Rich Man's Darling. 1:00 CBS: Five Star Revue. I :I5 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife. 1 :30 CBS: George Rector. 1:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories. NBC-Blue; Neighbor Nell. 2:00 CBS: Kathryn Cravens 2:45 CBS: Myrt and Marge. NBC-Red: Personal Column. 5:00 MBS: Mollie of the Mo/ es. NBC-Red: Pepper Young s Family. 3:15 NBC-Blue: Continental Varieties. NBC-Red: Ma Perkins. 3:30 NBC-Red; Vic and Sade. 3:45 NBC-Red: The O'Neills. 4:00 NBC-Red; Henry Busse Orch. 4:30 NBC-Red: Follow the Moon. 4:45 NBC-Red; The Guiding Light. 5:00 CBS: Junior Nurse Corps. 5:15 NBC-Red: Tom Mix. 5:30 . ^ NBC-Blue: Singing Lady. NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong. 5 :45 CBS: Wilderness Road. NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie. Six P.M. to Eleven P.M. 6:15 CBS: News of Youth. 6:30 Press- Radio News. Ii:45 CBS; Pretty Kitty Kelly NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas. 7:00 CBS: Poetic Melodies. NBC-Blue; Easy Aces. NBC-Red; Amos 'n' Andy. 7:16 CBS; Ma and Pa. NBC-Blue; Tastyeast testers. NBC-Red: Uncle Ezra. 7:30 MBS: The Lone Ranger. NBC-Blue; Lum and Abner. 7:45 CBS: Boake Carter. 6:00 CBS; Cavalcade ot America. NBC-Blue: Beatrice Lillie. NBC-Red; One Man's Family. 8:30 CBS; Ken Murray. MBS; Tonic Time. NBC-Blue: Ethel Barrymore, NBC-Red: Wayne King, 9:00 , ,. , CBS: Nino Martini, NBC-Blue: Professional Parade NBC-Red: Town Hall Tonight, 0'30 CBS: Beauty Box Theatre, 10:00 CBS: Gang Busters, Phillips Lord. vnc-lled; Your Hit Parade. 'O'^O „, . . „ CBS; Sinclair Program, NBC-Red; Gladys Swarthout, USE THIS HANDY GUIDE TO LOCATE THE PROGRAMS ON 54 PROGRAM DIRECTORY THURSDAY AM time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.IVI. CBS: Betty and Boh. KBP-Blue: Press-Radio News. NBC-Red: Mrs. Wigos I0:is CBS: Modern Cinderella. NBC-Blue: Ma Perliins. NBC-Red: Johns Other Wife. • 0:30 CBS: Betty Crocker; Hymns. NBC-Blue: Pepper Young s Family NBC-lteri: Just Plain Bill 10:45 CBS: News. NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade. NBC-Ued Todays Children 11:00 CBS: Mary Lee Taylor. NBC-Blue: The O'Neills. NBC-Red: David Harum. 11:15 CBS: East and Dumke. NBC-Blue: Personal Column. NBC-lted: Backstage Wife. 11:30 CBS: Big Sister. NBC-Blue: Vic and Sade. NBC-Ked: Betty Moore. 11:45 CBS: Eleanor Howe. NBC-Blue: Edward MacHugh. NBC-Red: Allen Prescott. 12:00 Noon CBS: The Gumps. NBC-Blue; Honeyboy and Sassafras. KBC-Red: Girl Alone. 12:15 P.M. CBS: Ted Malone. NBC-Red: Mary Marlin. 12:30 CBS: Romance of Helen Trent NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour. 12:45 CBS: Rich Man's Darling. 1:00 CBS: Jack Berth. 1:15 NBC-Red: Dan Harding's Wife. 1:30 CBS: George Rector 1:45 CBS: Aunt Jenny's Life Stories. 2:15 CBS: School of the Air. 2:30 NBC-Blue: Women's Clubs. 2:45 CBS: Myrt and Marge. NBC-Red: Personal Column. 3:00 HBS: Mollie of the Movies. NBC-Bed: Pepper Young's Family 3:15 NBC-Red: Ma Perkins. 3:30 NBC-Red: Vic and Sade. 3:45 NBC-Blue: NBC Light Opera Co. .NBC-Ked: The O'Neills. 4:30 •IBC-Red: Follow the Moon. 4:45 NBC-Red: The Guiding Light. 5:00 NBC-Red: While the City Sleeps. 9:15 NBC-Red: Tom Mix. 5:30 NBC-Blue: Singing Lady. NBC-Red: Jack Armstrong. 5:45 CBS: Wilderness Road. NBC-Blue: Brecn and OeRose. NBC-Red: Little Orphan Annie Six P.M. to Eleven P.M. 6:30 Press 6:45 CBS: NBC- ?:00 CBS: NBC- NBC - ?:15 CBS: NBC- NBC- 7:30 CBS: NBC- ?:45 CBS: WBS NBC- S:00 CBS: NBC- 9:00 CBS: MBS NBC- 0:30 MBS NBC 10:00 CBS: NBC- 10:30 CBS: -Radio News. Pretty Kitty Kelly. Blue: Lowell Thomas. Poetic Melodies. Blue: Easy Aces. Red: Amos 'n' Andy. Ma and Pa. Blue: Tastyeast Jesters Bed: Vocal Varieties. Alexander Woollcott. Blue: Lum and Abner. Boake Carter. : Pleasant Valley Frolics. Blue: Jerry Cooper. Kate Smith. Bed: Rudy Vallee. Major Bowes Amateurs. ; Gabriel Heatter. •Red: Show Boat. : Melody Treasure Hunt. -Blue: Town Meeting. Floyd Gibbons Red: Kraft Music Hall. March of Time. FRIDAY All time is Eastern Standard 10:00 A.M. CBS: Betty and Bob. NBC-Red: Mrs. Wiggs. 10:15 CBS: Modern Cinderella. NBC-Blue: Ma Perkins. NBC-Red John's Other Wife. 10:30 CBS: Betty Crocker; News. NBC-Blue' Pepper Youngs Family NBC-Red: Just Plain Bill 10:45 NBC-Blue: Kitchen Cavalcade. NBC-Red: Today's Children. ita- min B. It is one of the richest natural foods in this vitamin. RED ROLFE— lusky third baseman of the Yankees — has the strong phy- sique and untiring energy that show he gets his full share of these 4 health-building vitamins. MANY PEOPLE today are the victims of chronic ill health because their everyday meals do not provide enough of these 4 essential vitamins — A, B, D and G. A shortage of even one of these important food elements can undermine your vitality and lower your resistance to disease. But, by adding one SPECIAL food to your ordinary diet, you can be sure of getting a regular EXTRA supply of these 4 vita- mins in addition to lohat your meals supply. That one food is FLEISCH- MANN'S fresh YEAST. It is the only natural food that furnishes such an abundant supply of all 4 of these vitamins at once. Just eat 3 cakes of Fleisch- mann's Yeast daily— one cake about ] 2 hour before each meal. Eat it plain, or dissolved in a little water. Start today to build up your vitamin health this simple way. Order 2 or 3 days' supply from your grocer. Fleischmann's Yeastkeepsperfectlyintheicebox. Copyright, 1937, Standard Brands Incorporated 59 IF YOU DON'T FIND ALL THE INFORMA- TION YOU WANT IN THE STORIES ABOUT STARS AND SHOWS. WRITE AND ASK THE ORACLE FOR HELP Raymond Johnson is one of NBC's busiest Chicago actors, but finds time to help Ruth Lyon, lyric so- prano, translate a Swedish folk tune. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ? ORACLE NOTES — Curley Mahr is the new pianist and arranger lor NBC's Landt Trio. He formerly played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders. He replaces Howard White, who died suddenly a few months ago. . . I'ortland HofTa has her hair freshly set every Wednesday a few hours prior to her broadcast with Fred Allen. . . . Sandra Burns, small daughter of Oracle Allen, is gl(jr>ing in her wardrobe — just like mother's — ranging from lounging pajamas to a skiing outfit. . . . Hollywood I lotel's Frances Langford is looking over property at Lake Arrowhead for the right kind of cabin. . . . Now, for the que^.lions of the month — • 60 Frances H., Berkeley, Calif. — Just write to Benny Goodman in care of the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York City, New York, and see if he won't send you his picture. Billy Idelson who plays Rush in the Vic and Sade broad- casts, can be reached at the National Broadcasting Studios, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, III. In case you might have forgotten to purchase your copy of April Radio Mii?ror — there was a dandy picture of Billy in the scrapbook section. Joseph Bruno, Torrington, Conn. — You gave me a big order, Joe. I didn't know which orchestras you wanted, but I picked some at random: Horace Heidt's Brigadiers, the Columbia Broadcasting Company, 485 Madison Avenue, RADIO MIRROR New York, N. Y.; Ozzie Nelson, in care of the Hotel Lexington, New York; George Olsen, Wrigley Building, Chicago, 111.; Henry Basse's Chez Paree orchestra, Wrig- ley Building, Chicago, 111.; Guy Lombardo, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City; Ray- mond Paige, Columbia Broadcasting System, 7th and Bixel Sts., Los Angeles, Calif. Marie P., Phila., Pa.— The Jello maes- tro is Phil Harris. He was born in In- diana but lived most of his life in Nash- ville, Tennessee. Phil started his musical career as a drummer under his father's training . . . he's five feet eleven inches tall, weighs 168 pounds, has light brown hair and hazel eyes. The theme song of the Jello program is J-E-L-L-0. Remem- ber? S. E. M., Ionia, Michigan — You ve waited a long time, but you promised to be patient. Radio Mirror ran a pic- ture of Kay Kyser in the January issue, in the Facing the Music department. As for Freddie Martin, his picture was in last month's issue. Freddie was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He became an orphan when still a baby and was placed in a foundling home in Springfield where he discovered the first indications of his flair for music. Mrs. James L. D., Fayette, Mo. — "Vaga- bond Dreams Come True," the autobiog- raphy of i\udy Vallee, was not published in the pages of Radio Mirror. Kenny Baker Fans, attention!— A new fan club has just been formed with the personal consent and permission of Mr. Baker. If you're interested, get in touch with Allan L. Smith, 12 Wayside Avenue, Lawrence, Mass. Miss X. Y. Z., Youngstown, Ohio — Didn't you know that the Oracle only answers questions on the network stars? I'd love to be able to help you, but it's really impossible to keep up with ail the local stars. I'm sure if you'll write to the local station in Greensburg, Pa., they'll be glad to send you any information they may have on Ray Pearl's orchestra. AI G., Brooklyn, New York — If you want a picture of Stoopnagle and Budd, write and ask them for one. addressing your inquiry in care of the National Broadcasting Company, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City; for Rudy Vallee, use the same address; Joe Penner and Ken Mur- ray can be reached at the Columbia Broadcasting System, 7th & Bixel Streets, Los Angeles, Calif. J. i;. S., Buffalo, New York— Won t you write to itation WKBW of your city for the information on Peggy Mann? They'll no doubt have her address. Igor Gorin fans, attention — Are you an Igor Gorin fan? Then get in touch with Lillian Bloom, President of the Igor Gorin Club, 822 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Winston-Salem — Lucy Laughlin and Lucy Monroe are the same person. 1 guess at first Lucy wanted to make good on her own and didn't want it known that her mother was the one-time popular actress, Anna Laughlin. And then, when her mother appeared on the same broad- cast program with her. she was proud and wanted e\ery one to know that she was Anna Laughlin's daughter, Lucy Laughlin. Nick T. F., Oneonta, N. Y. — A letter addressed to Mr. Richard Crooks, in care of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, will reach him. Mrs. Betty McC, Phila., Pa. — I've tried to find out the whereabouts of Lawrence Goulds, but to no avail. Maybe some one who -knows may read this little item and will write and tell the Oracle where he is. Such things do happen sometimes. "SURE.'TWASNflNEOF MY BUSINESS, BUT.... COPR. PELS a CO . I£;7 THERE YOU GO again! I WISH I'D NEVER MARRIED you! DARLING, I'M SORRY BUT I SIMPLY WON'T WEAR GRAY- LOOKING SHIRTS I FOREVER I SO THE BRIDE GOT MRS. CASEY'S LETTER '^^Jftju w iff ^ r" MO A FEW WEEKS LATER YOU'RE A WONDER, HONEY THESE SHIRTS ARE SO WHITE NOW I REALLY AM"THE WELL-DRESSED MAN." ZZSSSZSE BANISH "TATTLE-TALE GRAY WITH FELS-NAPTHA SOAP! 61 RADIO MIRROR Have Clearer, Lovelier ukin with these T/SvW^ ^^ Beauty Creams Your skin can better resist blemishes and dryness with Woodbury's . . . and now Vitamin D in this famous Cold Cream helps keep skin youthful! It's far easier today to have a satin- smooth complexion. You have Woodbury's Germ-free Creams, the products of skin scientists, to help you. Fine emollients in Woodbury's Cold Cream help restore dry skin to moist freshness. And when this germ-free cream is on your face, it arrests germ- growth . . . stands guard over tiny cracks and fissures in your skin that have opened the door to the germs which cause so many blemishes. Besides, this famous cold cream now contains Sunshine Vitamin D. In order to maintain its health and youthful vigor, your skin must take up oxygen at a rapid rate, breathe quickly. That is why Vitamin D has been added to Woodbury's Cold Cream ... to coax new life and loveliness into "tired" complexions. Woodbury's Facial Cream forms a flattering base for your make-up. Pro- tects your skin, too, from wind and dust. With all their benefits to clear skin beauty, these exquisite germ-free creams are each only $1.00, 50«f, 25^, 10^ in jars; 25^, 10«!, in tubes. Germ-Free BEAUTY CREAMS %air^eteivM SEND for 10-PIECE COMPLEXION KIT It contains trial lubes of Woodbury's Cold and Facial Creame; guesl-size Woodbury'.s Facial Soap; 7 shades Woodbury's Facial Powder. Send lOfi to cover mail- ing costs. Address John H. Woodbury, Inc., 7477 Alfred Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. (In Canada) John H. Woodbury, Ltd., Perth, Ontario. Name- Address^ His "Spook" Won'! Stop Haunting Jack Oakie (Continued from page 45) to do the supporting. The Oakie pride is hot with resentment over a mother of sixty-eight who won't stay put but goes gallivanting around, causing her son all kinds of worry. It started back in 1932. That's when Jack made his first big mistake. For a long time the Spook had been pestering him to do some picture work. She'd never done any before, but she claimed it wasn't too late to start even if she was sixty- four. "If you come right down to it," she argued, "my hair is no whiter than Jean Harlow's. So why not?" Jack in his innocence thought it would be fun, and when his next picture, "Too JVluch Harmony," came along with a white-haired mother's part in it, he asked the director, Eddie Sutherland, if the Spook could play it. Eddie agreed. "Have her come in at noon," he told Jack. "It'll only take an hour and there's no sense in making her get up early." The Uptown Branch walked on the set promptly at the stroke of noon. Some- where she'd found somebody to make her up just the right way and there she was, her hair waved smartly and the correct shade of grease paint on. She looked wonderful. But Eddie took one look at her and drew Jack aside. "She's grand," he said, "she looks swell . . . but she won't do. She looks too peppy. The mother in this picture's old and tired and your mother looks as if she were about thirty-five." TELL her to calm down," Jack sug- ■ gested. "How you going to calm that down?" asked Eddie. "She couldn't look or act tired no matter how hard she tried." Eddie finally apologized to her and said her scenes would be shot the next day. "Better come in at eight thirty with the rest of us," he said. And privately to Jack, "We'll fix her." At eight-thirty, the Spook arrived, still dapper and full of vigor. Eddie informed her there had been a change in the sched- ule and it would be a long wait until her scenes. Would she mind? Of course she wouldn't. Eddie let her wait all day long. About noon she began to sag, but not enough. Finally, late in the day, she be- gan to doze in her chair. "Okay now, we're ready, JVIrs. Oakie," Eddie snapped, all business. The Spook blinked, meandered onto the set and went through her scenes still half asleep — giving a wonderful impersonation of a tired little old lady. She was so good they didn't have to shoot the scenes twice — which was lucky, because then she might have had time to wake up. As it was, she was right in her stride by the time her work was done. Coming off the set, she sat down in the director's chair, with his name on it. The chair tipped and deposited the Spook on the floor. Before anyone could help her she was up, dusting herself off briskly and saying, "Humph! that chair must have thrown me just because my name wasn't on it." With the District Attorney's fling at picture work out of the way Jack thought he could sit back and breathe easily. His troubles were just starting. Two weeks went by, and the studio told him he was to do a preview of "Too iVIuch Harmony" on the air. Came the day set for the broadcast and Jack, all unsuspecting, was 62 RADIO MIRROR leaving the house, when the Uptown Branch asked: "What time are we supposed to be there?" "What do you mean wef" asked Jack, a horrible suspicion clutching at his heart. "You ain't goin' no place. They don't have an audience for this show." "But I'm going to be on it too,'.' an- swered the Spook. "Call up the studio and ask them." Sure enough, Mr. Oakie's Little White Mammy was expected at the studio. What's more, she trotted through her part like a veteran, loving it. Worse was to come. A week later she calmly announced that she was going to New York to make a personal appearance with the picture. "It's all arranged," she said. "I told that nice man at the studio 1 thought I could give the picture a good boost and he said he thought I could too, if anybody could, so they're going to send me." Jack could have started an argument, but it would have been silly. You can see for yourself it would have been silly. The Spook was going to town, and nobody was going to stop her. Having tasted this thrilling show business, she wanted more. The train Jack put her on, headed for New York, looked like a nice, ordinary, efficient sort of train, good for a safe and quiet trip across the continent. Never were appearances more deceiving. This staid- appearing train had Maurice Chevalier aboard, and Chevalier's chief task in those days was dodging reporters who wanted to know whether or not he was going to marry Kay Francis. AT the first stop a dozen reporters swarmed through the train until they located Chevalier. The Spook had located him long since, and by that time they were well into the middle of one of those life-long friendships you form on trains. What about it, the reporters wanted to know — was he or wasn't he going to marry Kay Francis? At which Chevalier stuck out that under lip of his, grinned, put his arm around the Spook's shoulders, and re- torted; "Zees ees my only sweetheart!" Then he kissed her, and somebody set off a flashlight bulb, and the picture was in every paper in the country the next day. Publicity? The Spook rolled into New York in a blaze of Chevalier glory. She was sixty-four years old, and she'd never had so much fun in all her life. She was at the New York Paramount Theater for two weeks as star attraction. Audiences loved her. All she did was come out and talk about her boy Jackie, only sometimes she forgot and called him Lewis because that's his real name. But it didn't make any difference. She could have gone tongue-tied and silent, and they'd still have liked her, just because she was having so much fun. Back home in Hollywood, of course. Jack was going nuts. The telephone rang at all hours of the day and night, with agents calling from New York to tell him how terrific she was and saying, "Now. you just give me an exclusive contract with her and I can book her into Pitts- burgh next week. Then we'll take her on to Philly, with a percentage of the prof- its . . ." "But this is my Ma," Jack would wail. "1 can't let her go traipsin' around the country like a side show ... I don't care how good a time she's havin'. She's com- in' right back home as soon as that Para- mount date is over." He sent her a series of telegrams and, reluctantly, she returned to Hollywood, getting off the train looking sheepish and pleased with herself at the same time. ^^^^),^ \ USED TO BE AT MY WIT'S END TO KNOW ^i^ 3] WHAT TO GIVE JUNIOR FOR LUNCH untill "' ^'^ discovered Franco -American Spaghetti Children Love This Delicious, Nourishing Dish that costs less than o^ ^ portion A PIPING-HOT platefiil of Franco-Amer- xA. ican Spaghetti, a glass of milk, some fruit— there's a perfect lunch for a husky boy and a lunch to help keep him husky! And so easy for you to prepare. No cooking, just heat and serve. So eco- nomical, too. A can holding three to four portions is usually no more than ten cents— less than ii a portion. It would cost more to buy all your ingredients and prepare spaghetti and sauce at home. Yet Franco -American is a regular "millionaire's dish, "as differentascanbe from ordinary ready-cooked spaghetti, with its savory cheese-and-tomato sauce made with eleven different ingredients. Serve it for dinner tonight in place of potatoes or have this spaghetti meal. Savory Spaghetti Platter In center of hot platter arrange one can heated Franco-American Spaghetti and surround it with ring of crisp bacon strips. At each end of platter put mound of cooked vegetables (peas, carrots or string beans). Serves 4. Cost (according to vegetable used), 40ji to 50fi. FrancO'/lmencan SPAGHETTI THE KIND WITH THE EXTRA &00D SAUCE MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELL'S SOUPS 63 RADIO MIRROR YOU'RE a pretty girl, Mary, and you're smart about most things. But you're just a bit stupid about yourself. You love a good time — but you sel- dom have one. Evening after evening you sit at home alone. You've met several grand men who seemed interested at first. They took you out once — and that was that. WAKE UP, MARY! • • • There arc so many pretty Marys in the world who never seem to sense the real reason for their aloncness. In this smart modern age, it's against the code for a girl (or a man, either) to carry the repellent odor of underarm pcrsi)iration on clothing and person. It's a fault which never fails to carry its own punishment — unpopularity. And justly. For it is a fault which can be over- come in just half a minute — with Mum! No bother to use Mum. Just smooth a l)it of Mum under each arm — and slip into your dress without a minute lost. No waiting for it to dry; no rinsing off. Use it any time; harmless to clothing. If you forget to use Mum before you dress, just use it afterwards. Mum is the only deodorant which holds the Textile Ap- proval Seal of the American Institute of Laundering as being harmless to fabrics. Soothing and cooling to skin. You'll love this about Mum — you can shave your underarms and use it at once. Even the most delicate skin won't mind! Effective all day long. Mum never lets you down. Its protection lasts, no matter how strenuous your day or evening. Does not prevent natural perspiration. Mum just prevents the objectionable part of perspiration — the unpleasant odor — and not the natural perspiration itself. Don't let neglect cheat you of good times which you were meant to have. The dally Mum habit will keep you safe! Bristol-Myers Co., 630 Fifth Ave., N. Y. USE MUM ON SANITARY NAPKINS Know what com- plete freedom from doubt and fear of this cause of unpleasantness can really mean. MUM TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION "This is the end," Jack told her firmly. "No more show business for you. You don't know where to stop, and It's too hard on you." He must have been pretty impressive, because he was able to keep her under control tor a couple of years. "But all that was pictures, and personal appeai-'ances, and now I'm in radio, so the whole thing starts over again," jack complained to me. "See, she was an edu- cator when she was young — she had a school of her own for eleven years, and then she taught in New York. After she stopped teaching she did go on the radio one year, for some candy manufacturers, so you can imagine how it is. She was on the radio then, and she doesn't see why she shouldn't be on it now. She just loves to get up in front of an audience or a mi- crophone, and boy, that night she was on the program_ with me she was all dressed up in a white evening dress, like it was graduation night in Dixie!" Oh, yes, the Spook has beaten down her son's determination to keep her off the air — several times she's beaten it down. The trouble is that Jack gets absolutely no cooperation from sponsors. By going to them over his head she can always get on a program. And no wonder. It may be instinct, but she knows how to make a broadcast twice as funny as it was writ- ten. Once, according to Jack, she read her opening line into the mike, then stopped, chuckled, winked at the audience, and said, "1 rehearsed that line forty times!" And in that little line she made every listener feel that this wasn't just an or- dinary broadcast, but the grand adven- ture she felt It to be. I'M not gonna have her work!" Jack said. "She's worked most of her life and now it's time for her to button her mouth and let little Jackie do the larder filling. "Anyway, she's got her clubs. They keep her busy enough. There's that one she belongs to with Joan Crawford's mother, and Jeanette MacDonald's mother, and Gene Raymond's mother and Woody Van Dyke's mother — oh, a whole passel of them and they call themselves the League of Fallen Women. Not because of what you think, but because they're always tak- ing spills and getting their shins scraped up. 1 don't know exactly what the pur- pose of the club is except to get together and brag about their offspring. And when- ever any one of their children have a picture showing, they all get together for luncheon and then go see it. "And she's got her scrapbooks to keep. Me, 1 never kept a clipping about myself in my life, but she's got enough stuff saved to paper Radio City. She gets 'em from China and Japan and Europe — all over. She's got all her ex-pupils from the Scudder School in New York at work — they're all millionairesses and always trav- eling around — sending her stuff about me from all parts of the world. Every day she spends at least an hour on those books, and she indexes them all according to pictures and programs and it really is something! Quite a clipping bureau 1 got . . . that Scudder School for Girls. Oakie, the debutante's delight, you know!" And at that moment, in the doorway, stood Mrs. Jack Oakie— 'Venita Varden until about a year ago. Very pretty, very young, but at that moment, pouting just a little. "Jack, I've just been over to Co- lumbia, talking to that man from the Camel agency. 1 was asking him what he thousht about that idea of mine — you know, about going on the show with you next Tuesday night, and he said . . ." Jack suddenly collapsed into a chair, covered his face with his hands, and 64 RADIO MIRROR moaned, "Not you too, Pigeon ! Not you !" "But Jack, if you let your mother do it ... I don't see why . . ." It seemed like a good time for me to retire. "Well, thanks for coming up," Jack said at the door. "Keep in touch with me. If anything turns up, I'll let you know." And the despairing look he cast in Venita's direction indicated that something was quite likely to turn up, and soon . . . Venita Varden, none other, on her husband's radio show! PROGRAM DOTS AND DASHES: Jack Oakie's College . . . On the airwaves Tuesdays at 9:30 p. m., over CBS and arch rival for your attention, v/ith Fred Astaire's NBC stanzas . . . The nev^ set-up with cellu- loid-comic Oakie started Dec. 29, replacing Rupert Hughes, who in turn succeeded the old O'Keefe-Casa Loma Caravan for one of radio's strongest sponsors, Camel cigarettes . . . The Oakie College is the only air show that uses two studio audiences, 3,000 miles away from each other . . . The main portion of course, originates in Hollywood before a real professional audience (most movie stars like to see Oakie clown anytime, anywhere ond come out in regiments for the air show) and the eastern onlookers see only swingster Benny Goodman . . . The simultaneous switch you hear when Jack turns the show over to the clarinet king is the last word in engineer- ing technique. They use a double wire line for this perfect switch-over . . . On other net- work shows which divide their programs in East and West, there is usually a few seconds' wait . . . When Oakie isn't talking about the show he's raving about his new bride, Venita Varden . . . Venita goes to all the rehearsals but shuns the actual broadcasts. "I listen to them home," she soys, "Jack makes me nervous when I see him performing in person." On his birthday Oakie's frau gave him a set of electric trains . . . After the show Jack rushes to a phone and calls her: "Well honey, what do I get on my re- port card?" She's yet to give him an "A." . . . Oakie wasn't surprised when sponsors gleefully told him radio listeners easily recog- nized his voice . . . "Hmph, why shouldn't they?" he asked, "I've been in 85 talkies in the last five years.". . . Although he wears a checkered cap and gown for the broad- casts as Professor Oakie, underneath this cloak Jack usually dons a red-colored sport- shirt, sneakers and slacks . . . John Ham- mond of the Wm. Esty ad agency has a most unusual job in connection with this program . . . He hops around the country signing the various college glee clubs and singing talent . . . He has yet to hear the actual broadcasts . . . "I'm always on a train somewhere.". . . Hammond really wor- ries during college semester and examination weeks . . . "When they're 'cramming' they don't feel like singing, and when they have a few days off, they rush home to see the folks," explains Hammond . . . On these oc- casions the graduate University Glee Clubs are substituted . . . Maestro Georgie Stoll gained fame as Bing Crosby's first radio orchestra leader . . . Tall, curly-haired Bill Goodwin is a favorite California announcer . . . Show & Lee, radio's only double-talk act hove been together so long, in vaude- ville and musical comedy, that they even dress alike, live alike . . . But recently at the Santa Anita racetrack, the boys decided to bet on different horses. Imagine their sur- prise when the nags they bet on, finished in a dead heat! . . . Benny Goodman has been playing clarinet since he's been 10, rose to fame on the nation's swing tide . . 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Floyd faced danger enough, but it was a less spectacular kind of danger than that of machine guns and bombs. It came from the intense cold. Field hospitals were full, but not only with men wounded by shells and bullets. Many of the casualties were soldiers whose arms or legs had been frozen, neces- sitating amputations. Marching was torture, but sitting down at the side of the road to rest was fatal. A drowsiness attacked you, and unless a comrade forced you to your feet again, you might never wake up. At night Floyd slept with the army in barracks where the beds were long shelves built along the walls. Steam pipes ran be- neath the shelves. They didn't do any good. Floyd's broadcast from Mukden on the morning of January 20, 1932, was the first war broadcast ever sent to America from a foreign country. It took place from a house on the outskirts of the town at six o'clock in the morning while fighting was still going on in Mukden. THE contract with International News on which Floyd had gone to Manchu- ria ran out the end of January, and his news-getting duties in China were presum- ably over. He should have started home. Instead, he went to Shanghai, entirely upon his own responsibility. And such is the luck of the Irish that upon the very day he came up the Whangpoo River toward the city, the Japanese began to bombard the Chinese settlement, Chapei! Things had been very quiet around Shanghai until then. There hadn't been any sign that the Sino-Japanese dispute would center there so suddenly and dra- matically. The result was that Floyd got a lot of credit in the newspaper world for inside knowledge of just when and where excitement would start. He didn't deserve any credit at all. The only rea- son he'd gone to Shanghai instead of back to the United States was that there was a girl there he wanted to see. The siege of Shanghai made Floyd's Ma'hchurian weeks seem like a high school graduating class picnic. He was in a re- porter's paradise, for one thing. On one side were the Japanese, on the other the Chinese, and he was in the International Settlement in the middle. He could visit either army, and when he came back to write his story he could put it on the cables without fear of censorship. Ominously, the U. S. S. Houston, flag- ship of the United States Pacific Fleet, was standing to in the river — perfectly neu- tral, entirely at peace with all the world while Chapei was being blown to bits. The sight of her, riding there at anchor, worried Floyd. He'd heard rumors that the Chinese were going to mine the river, and it would be so easy for one of these floating mines to bump up against the J-Iouston, instead of the Japanese ships they were intended for. And if that hap- pened, America would be drawn into the war, just as it was drawn into the Spanish- American war when the Maine was blown up. He wrote several dispatches, which were published in his American papers, plead- ing with the Secretary of the Navy to order the I-Jouston out of Shanghai before something awful happened to her. The Houston stayed where she was. And then, two weeks after Floyd had begun to worry about possible bombs in the river, one did go off, right under the stern of a Japanese ship, a quarter of a mile from the Hous- ton. Not long after that the Houston cruised out of Shanghai and went on about her business. Floyd was sitting in his hotel room one morning, banging out copy about the Sino-Japanese war, when a page boy handed him a cablegram. He opened it, stared, and then yanked the paper out of his portable. "This war is over as far as I'm concerned," he said. "Nobody back home IS going to care a whoop about it any more." The cablegram, you see, announced the tragic kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and Floyd was quite right — the Sino- Japanese dispute moved off the nation's front pages. He returned to America, to a relatively quiet period of three years or so — only re- latively quiet, because when Floyd is pre- paring a broadcast his combined home and office resemble General Headquarters dur- ing a war. Secretaries rummage in files, messenger boys arrive and depart on mys- terious errands, telephones ring, and Floyd works in an obscure cubbyhole of a room until three or four in the morning. Italy decided that the blessings of civi- lization should be brought to Ethiopia, and Floyd was off to see the argument. First_ he went to Rome, to interview Mus- solini. The purpose of the interview was not so much to get information from Jl Duce as it was to convince // Duce that America wanted to be told what was happening in Ethiopia. Italy, at that time, was not allowing any foreign newspaper correspondents in the battle area. Floyd's personal charm, of which he has plenty, worked well on Mussolini, and the result was that he preceded other cor- respondents into Azmara, in Eritrea, by several weeks. But the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was too much like the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, except that here the weather was hot instead of cold. The advance of the army was less an advance than a series of skirmishes, none of them individually decisive, but adding up into the same old story — the eventual defeat of a primitive race by a modern war machine. AFTER a few weeks of it Floyd fell ill and returned to Rome. He wasn't feeling well — nobody felt really well in Ethiopia — but he wasn't really ill. It was a diplomatic move, frankly, to get himself out of Ethiopia without raising the sus- picions of the Italian officials. Naturally, while the subjugation of Ethiopia was still incomplete, censorship of news dispatches was strict, and the war office wasn't too anxious to let correspondents who had learned as much as Floyd had, out of their jurisdiction. The illness accomplished its purpose, however, and Floyd returned to the United States — to set out again, the fol- lowing summer, for Spain. He's been in New York all winter. He hasn't been idle, by any means. First there was the Nash Speedshow, and then he added his True Adventures series every Thursday night at ten on CBS — and two weekly radio programs keep a man plenty busy. When he's in New York Floyd lives and works in a midtown hotel. His offices oc- cupy two large suites, and he himself lives in a third. The office suites are bare and business-like, filled with desks, filing cab- inets, bundles of newspapers, and scurry- ing secretaries. Floyd's own apartment is filled with mementoes of countries he has visited, stories he has covered. An ash tray presented to him at West Point. A RADIO MIRROR shawl, cobweb soft, he bought in Spain. A glassed-in colony of live ants purchased at a Manhattan department store. Framed originals of the drawings which illustrated "The Red Knight of Germany" and "The Red Napoleon." In a place of honor, a portrait of Clarence Darrow, one of the particular Gibbons idols. A wicker-work footstool, handmade and sent to him by a fan he's never met. ALL sorts of people come up to this apartment. In one day, while I was talking to Floyd, he had the following callers: a well known playwright, a news- paper woman whom Floyd addressed in terms of affectionate insult as "Sob Sister," an American business man from Spain, and a mysterious, blonde, and very beautiful German girl Floyd suspected of being high up in Nazi councils. All were his friends. He'd worked with them, played with them, done favors for them or asked them to do favors for him — somewhere, sometime, in the past. Downstairs, in the office suites, there is activity all day long and usually far into the night. Floyd's half a dozen secretaries think nothing of working for twelve hours at a stretch. After all, they have Floyd's example in front of them. Floyd likes the True Adventures programs better than anything he has done on the air for a long time. He likes the Speedshow, too, but he was uncomfortable on it at first. "I'm no master of ceremonies," he complained. "I'm just a reporter — a story-teller!" His has been the story of a man who represents, as nearly as any man can, the modern counterpart of the wandering troubadours of old. They went around their little world on foot, gathering news and retelling it in the form of songs. Floyd goes around his big world — though per- haps by this time it doesn't seem so very big to him — by airplane, train, and fast motor-car, gathering news and retelling it in the form of type and brisk, clipped prose over the air. The difference is only on the surface. Down underneath, Floyd and the troubadour are the same — roman- tics, wanderers, restless pryers into what- ever excitement is going on. But though he's having a good time with his two radio shows, he knows and all his friends know that he's been in one place about as long as the Gibbons temp- erament can stand. Almost any day now, something's going to happen, somewhere in this world, that Floyd Gibbons will feel he just has to see. And when it does ^fffffft! — the radio will suddenly be minus a roving Irishman. PROGRAM DOTS AND DASHES: Floyd Gibbons. . . Heard 10 p.m., EST on CBS every Thursday starring staccato-voiced Floyd Gibbons and sponsored by Colgate. This giant company also sponsors Jessica Dragon- ette, Myrt & Marge, and "Gang Busters," all on CBS . . . "Hunting for Headlines" v/as almost rushed into production by advertising agency Benton & Bowles. Though it sounded like a snap-judgment idea, Gibbons and the agency actually nursed the program idea for five years . . . "I've been talking about my- self for eight years and I alv/ays wanted to give the other guy a chance," explains Floyd. The agency always wanted to present the ace reporter on the air, but not until they had a new idea ... A series of conferences between B & B & Gibbons finally resulted in "Hunting for Headlines" . . . Program is de- signed to show that very dramatic and excit- ing things can happen to anyone . . . Follow- ing the current air trend, you, you and you are the stars of the show . . . Three real life adventures are presented weekly. Two are dramatized, the third told by Gibbons . . . Floyd pays $25 for each story used sub- mitted by listeners. The best one used each month is rewarded with a bonus of $250 . . . Gibbons is sole judge . . . Originally it was decided to bring the person to N. Y., along with his story. But when yarns came in from Spokane, Miami, & Pueblo, the sponsors de- cided r.r. fare would be too expensive . . . So actors pinch-hit . . . All Gibbons' scripts are written on a special typewriter which has a much larger type than ordinary ma- chines . . . Regulation typewriters are used for other actors', announcers' scripts . . . Floyd claims he must have larger type be- cause he talks too fast . . . "I'm a news- paperman, not a radio actor," he says con- stantly. Another problem Floyd's lightning lingo offers is script writing. Floyd won't let anyone write his material for him. He claims his tempo is too fast for any one else to attempt . . . Rehearsals and broadcasts for "Hunting for Headlines" are unusual, in- formal . . . Seldom more than 25 people in audience. Most are client's friends, and con- testants . . . Gibbons sits in the middle of the studio at desk. At his side is a secretary and script boy . . . The reporter wears a deep-blue shirt and battered felt hat . . . He wears the hat all through broadcast . . . As soon as Floyd enters studio, he dominates all the action, shouting directions, directing program . . . Opening night, sponsors were really worried . . . Announcer Jean Paul King was missing 10 min. before broadcast time . . . He soon sauntered in, explained he was quite used to radio premieres . . . After broadcast, winners present, step forward to Gibbons' desk, where his secretary writes out the $25 checks, while Floyd congratulates them . . . Most of them are amazed how dramatic their adventure really was, when they have heard it portrayed on the air. IF SHE'S COMING OVER — /;r/ ^o/j/^ our/ WHATb THE MATTER WITH ME ATELY, DOT? ray's NOTTHEONLY ONE WHO ACTS AS IF I HAD BAD BREATH OR SOMETHING /VO(V-^0 BAD BREATH BEHIND HER SPARKLING S/VIILE! MOST BAD BREATH COMES FROM DECAYING FOOD DEPOSITS IN HIDDEN CREVICES BETWEEN TEETH THAT ARENY cleaned PROPERLY. I ADVISE COLGATE DENTAL CREAM. 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Name Address^ City Dear Diary: {Continued from page 26) and efficient as usual. She had just fin- ished interviewing "Popeye" for her column in Liberty Magazine. We both stopped rushing long enough to have an early dinner together and to talk over old times. Then I came back to the hotel to put on a lovely new evening gown I just bought — it's a luscious shade of blue that really does things for my eyes — and has a rhinestone spider on one of the shoulder straps. Rather a creepy idea but I must say it's dramatic ... 1 was all set to go see my friends at the opera from "out front" by the time Clara Bell Walsh and her party arrived to take me to the Met- ropolitan. We got there early but there was already such a crush that we could hardly see the celebrities for the photog- raphers. A terrifying moment came for me after the first act was over. I pushed my way through the ermine wrapped dowagers and their escorts swarming toward the bar from the Diamond Horseshoe, ran down stairs, along the halls and through all the little doors that lead backstage, so that 1 could tell Doris how grand she sounded. We chatted in her dressing room for a few minutes, Doris looking very unreal in her heavy make-up and false eyelashes which all looked so natural from over the footlights, and then I started back. While I was trying to find my way 1 suddenly heard the orchestra tuning up and it seemed to me the curtain was be- ginning to rise. ■ SHUDDERED to think how awful it would be if the curtain really should go up, with me standing there in my evening gown in the midst of all those make-be- lieve trees and giant German singers dressed in their strange costumes! It seemed as though I never would get to that distant exit on the other side of that enormous stage. Luckily 1 somehow stumbled through that incredible maze of scenery and singers and found my way out before disgracing myself and the entire cast. But I certainly had some agonizing moments before I reached our box. After the opera we all went to Reuben's for welsh rarebit. Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Thomas were in our party, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crooks and the Al Tra- hans, and Mrs. Thomas' father, George Dobyne. He had just come up from Palm Beach and spent most of the evening teas- ing his daughter about the sail-fishing and yachting fun she was missing by staying in New York. She's such a tiny little per- son, 1 could hardly imagine her pulling in a seven foot sailfish, but apparently that is the sort of sport she likes best. 1 heard her promising papa Dobyne that sh; ard John Charles would go down to Florida in the spring and she would show everybody she hadn't forgotten how to fish — or to pilot their yacht. Well, it's almost four o'clock in the morning and time I got to bed so that I'll have a little sleep before hopping the morning plane for Washing- ton. . . . Tuesday — I'm sliil breathles: after in- terviewing J. Edgar Hoover, exploring the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation Building, and ending the day with dinner at Senator Hattie Carraway'; house. I think without doubt Hoover is the most interesting person I have ever talked to. He smiled across the desk when 1 came into his ofllce and shook hands in a firm way that immediately makes you feel he's genuinely glad to see you. .Aiter an exchange of greetings he started talk- 68 RADIO MIRROR ing about his favorite subject, crime pre- vention, and of how we should all enter the battle against crime. He talked for about tv\o hours, and I was interested in every word he had to say. 1 promised to broadcast his plea that all of us com- bat the crime that goes on in America. Statistics prove that a crime is committed e\-ery time our clocks tick off twenty sec- onds! When the interview was over and Amer- ica's No. 1 G-Man went back to his job of capturing public enemies, he called a guide to take me through the building. Up and down long corridors we walked until I felt like a regular tourist on a sightseeing expedition, except that I was getting a look into rooms that visitors usually don't see. We went through the identification Division where hundreds of clerks were bending over endless files classifying and comparing the finger im- pressions of criminals. In the technical laboratory 1 watched an expert examin- ing a shotgun shell under the comparison microscope. They have all sorts of scien- tific gadgets to use for testing everything from fabrics to hair — even X-ray equip- ment. Our last stop was in the gun room, stacked with every variety of firearm, from tiny pistols to huge machine guns. My guide was a crack shot and took me to a little alley where you can shoot with- out danger of hitting anybody or even damaging the ceiling or floor. He pushed a button and pop, down came a target at the end of the alley. 1 think he said it was about thirty feet long. He picked up a revolver, and hit the bull's eye. Then the target automatically came down to us on a wire pulley. The whole perform- ance seemed like magic. I GOT pretty excited because I used to ' shoot rabbits in Texas and wanted to see if 1 could still aim straight. Finally my escort let me have a try — he knew I couldn't do any harm anyway. Maybe it was beginner's luck but I came so close to the center that he cried in surprise. "Gee, lady, you sure can shoot!" He. gave me one gun after another and let me end up with a machine gun. You have to hold it against your hip and shoulder, it's so heavy — and then, bang, bang, bang, it shoots six hundred times in one minute! When I looked at my watch I discov- ered it was nearly seven o'clock. I had spent five hours in one building. 1 dashed back to the hotel and just had time to wash and dress before my Con- gressman brother-in-law, Ben Cravens, and his wife came to take me to dinner with them at Senator Caraway's home. She is a sweet and very keen minded person and we had a nice chat together before dinner. I was pleased to see how devoted she and Ben were to each other. He kept calling her "My Senator," and she called him "My Congressman," and they didn't seem to have any of the antagonism you expect between a man and a woman when the woman occupies the more im- portant position ... I guess because they are both very swell and very bright peo- ple .. . Wednesday — Up as usual on broadcast days at 5:30 a. m. to write my script. And then at nine, off on a sad mission. I had promised Mrs. Julius Walsh that 1 would go with her to Bellevue Hospital to see the children she helps with charity din- ners. 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Cor- nelia Otis Skinner and Vincent Lopez were there and the indomitable Nellie Reveli, who herself suffered from spinal trouble, but who came to the party on her own two feet and was one of the gayest per- sons in the room. Emanuel List was there and the two of us had a hard time to keep from laughing at a well-meaning elderly lady who said, "Oh. Mr List, you should have been at the opera last night. It was wonderful." List had sung one of the leading roles in the opera that night! After a while he took me and two other friends to his apartment for tea and a private recital with Fritz Kitzinger play- ing the piano accompaniments for him, and 1 felt even more important than when I had sat in the Diamond Horseshoe. Emanuel really has a marvelous voice, and 't was a special treat when he sang a negro spiritual for me — "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." From List's I went over to have dinner with Paul and Margaret Whiteman and that cute little Margaret had been busy with the paint brush again. She has every piece of furniture in their suite painted white now — even the grand piano is white — and it really does look stunning. The draperies and carpet are powder blue and how they manage to keep it all so clean looking I don't know, because the coa! soot in New York is almost as bad as it is in St Louis. WE sat around and talked about the funds Paul has raised for the Museum at Williams College, about friends in St. Louis and all sorts of things, and before we knew it, it was after midnight and we were ready to eat again — even though Paul has cut down tremendously since his mar- riage. We popped down to a drug store where Paul and I both had large orders of chili con carne, and I was glad to find someone else crazy about the dish that we used to have so often in Texas. Thursday — Today was a real Red Let- ter Day — for today I met President and Mrs. Roosevelt! Believe it or not, 1 was mixing cider and coffee at Hyde Park and chatting gaily with Mrs. Roosevelt, Franklin (how's that for being chummy with the President?) and their pretty daughter, Anna. And then there was Fan- nie Hurst, looking striking as usual, Car- olyn O'Day, Vincent Astor, Henry Mor- genthau, Frances Perkins and a lot of peo- ple like that. I found them all very sweet and charming. I got up early and took a ten o'clock train for Poughkeepsie because I wanted to see all I could. Around noon I was whirling up the long drive that leads to the huge stone house on the banks of the Hudson River, and feeling a bit jittery. When I met the family, though, I was completely at ease because they are the most natural and unaffected people in the world. Mrs. Malvina Scheider, Mrs. Roose- velt's secretary, met me and took me on a tour of the grounds. We visited a new guest house that was just being finished. Workmen were busy plantinfj trees on the terrace, but inside everything was just about ready. The cottage is two stories high and furnished with the maple repro- ductions made rigiit there on the Roose- velt estate. The most modern looking 70 RADIO MIRROR room in the house was the kitchen which glistened with all sorts of new household appilances — another evidence of the First Lady's practicality as well as her artistic sense. After lunch I romped on the lawn with the dogs, and heard all about the state of Sarah Roosevelt's dolls from the four- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt . . . The whole visit was really grand fun. F. D. laughs and jokes and would probably be the most attractive man in any group, even if he wasn't Pres- ident. His mother, eighty-two years old, was there, and was just as quick to laugh as her handsome son. They're certainly a marvelous family, and even though they're as unpretentious and friendly as the folks back home, it was pretty exciting being in the midst of such famous peo- ple .. . Friday — This was another crowded day, with a visit to Mayor LaGuardia and a chat with W. C. Handv, who wrote the "St. Louis Blues" and "Memphis Blues," sandwiched in between my two broadcasts. Stanley Howe, the Mayor's good looking and gracious secretary, arranged the ap- pointment with New York's First Citizen, and I really felt quite privileged, being taken through City Hall to meet the bus- iest man in town. He, like J. Edgar Hoover, is interested in the youth of America, and is always working on some new project for a playground or park or recreation center to make the city's poor boys and girls happy. OUR talk was short as the Mayor had important matters to attend to, and I had the problem of getting uptown through Manhattan's crowded traffic, in twenty minutes. LaGuardia certainly was considerate and helped me out by putting his chauffeured limousine at my disposal so that I was able to get through in the quickest possible time. I stopped in the midtown ofTice of W. C. Handy . . . And 1 recalled my trip to Beale Street in Memphis and of how the rambling thoroughfare had looked at sun- down. It was like a carnival. The air was pungent with barbecued pig and fried fish. Out of the double row of old build- ings came intermingling sounds of gay laughter, of rolling drums, of saxophones moaning, trombones gliding weird notes . . . and from that Carnival land I found myself in a New York skyscraper, meeting the man who had poured out his soul in music. Today W. C. Handv, sixty-three years old, is busy with a book about his strange life that began in a log cabin. He was go- ing to call the story "Fighting It Out," but has since chaneed the title to "From Beale Street to Broadway." He played "The St. Louis Blues" for me while his daughter sang. Then he changed to a negro spiritual while his son sang in a deep baritone, "I've Heard of a City Called Heaven." Well, it's been a busy and exciting week and I must confess I'm a bit tired after so much running around. Tomorrow I'll fly out to St. Louis and spend the week- end quietly at Kome, playing at being a lady of leisure for a change. Being a network commentator is verv thrilling but we always have to pay a price somewhere for the good things we get. 1 hate being separated from Wuss (Editor's -note: Kathryn's pet name for her husband who was "the wuss one in the familv.") but the opportunity was just too good to turn down. . And who knows — maybe we'll he able to have that longed-for trip to Europe this summer — and that will be fun and excitement for both of us. il LET'S BE ON GUARD, MOTHER... a^minw ^ocd // Most mothers are on guard! 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Kathleen Baird, Peerless, Montana. $1.00 PRIZE WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! These many years I've twisted my dials, hoping against hope for something differ- ent. And when Irvin Cobb's Paducah Plan- tation was announced, I thought I'd found it. What a grand show it promised to be! Cobb's inimitable humor and philosophy against a background of cigar box fiddles, banjos, tin whistles and harmonicas, shufflin' feet and close harmony — and authentic negro spirituals. But no. Just the same old thing, the same jazz band, the same jazz singers. Cobb tries bravely for atmosphere but he's licked before he starts. Plantation — night club version! Regretfully 1 come to the conclusion that radio program getter-uppers are exactly like Hollywood movie producers — scared to death to risk being different. Mrs. Marie Blake, San Francisco, Calif. $1.00 PRIZE WON'T YOU PLEASE BE HUMAN. HELEN TRENT? For our sake, for her sake and for goodness sake, will you who are in truth our "Vision" and our hope, instruct us how to go about it to implore Helen Trent's sponsors to employ some one to teach her how to speak. Personally, I am so wearied of hearing her catch her breath and hold it in suspense whether supposedly de- lighted, frightened or chagrined, that I want to shake her soundly and see if she can be made to speak as a human being would under natural circumstances. Taught how to talk, she would be inter- esting but permitted to go on as she does now, she will become such a confounded bore, we all shall simply turn the dial when we hear her. Louise Dauben.meyer, Dearborn, Michigan. $1.00 PRIZE WHY ALL THE FUSS ABOUT POPEYE? The fuss my neighbors make about the Popeye the Sailor progr.ams brings out my temper full blast! They never let their children listen to Popeye — but I do, and here's why. Popeye's adventures are all good, healthy fun. Popeye gets into difficulties, of course, but he always wins out before each eve- ning's broadcast is over. There is no mur- der, no bloodshed, no gruesomeness. For this reason, I think the Popeye pro- grams are the best on the air for children. Mks. Bernice Meehan, Indianapolis, Ind. RADIO MIRROR What's New? {Continued from page 4) Walter, you know, has just finished making a picture, "Wake Up and Live" — in fact, you must know it, because rarely has any picture received so much advance pub- licity. Publicity due entirely to Mr. Winchell and his frequent mention of the picture on his air program and his news- paper column. There ought to be a ready-made audience for that picture right now, and it hasn't even been re- leased yet. * * * THE Chase and Sanborn people have settled on a variety show with Nelson Eddy as master of ceremonies for that Sunday evening hour, but it won't start until next fall. That leaves the problem of what to do with Do You Want to Be An Actor? still unsolved. As I write this, it's long past the time when the spon- sors should have decided whether or not to keep the show on the air through the summer, and they still haven't made up their minds. ^ =k ^ EVERYBODY has been wondering whether or not Fred MacMurray will remain on Hollywood Hotel as its master of ceremonies. It's still too early to be certain, but here's a prediction based on the famous old Hollywood grapevine tele- graph: Fred will remain until early sum- mer and his place will then be taken by Tony Martin. Young Anthony seems to be groomed for big things by his movie and radio bosses. * * * JOHN HELD, JR. . . . Quick, class, ' what do you think of first when you hear that name? Right. The flapper- short skirts, rolled stockings, fuzzy hair, hat on the back of her head. She was the cartoon figure which made her creator famous. And now that her creator is a radio star, master of ceremonies on the Pontiac Varsity Show every Friday night, he swears he'll never draw another cartoon. He's sick of cartooning, says John; never liked it so very well to begin with. He may turn out a woodcut now and then, because he always enjoyed doing them, but most of his time will go into the service of radio and into other projects he's always wanted to do and never had the opportunity. One such project is a little job for Radio Mirror. John still knows what makes a typical American girl, and he's going to pick one from among the scores of lovely girls in radio, and announce his choice in the pages of this magazine. John gets around a good deal, since he arrives on each campus from which a Varsity Show is broadcast four or five days before the Friday night of the broadcast itself. He meets the students, listens to auditions, ar- ranges musical numbers, and whips the show into final shape; so naturally he has plenty of opportunity to look Miss 1937 over and see what he thinks of her. He promised Radio Mirror to come back to New York in a few weeks and jjick the star or starlet of radio who typifies all that's best and most beautiful in modern femininity. We have our favorite pho- tographer tuning up his camera now to take her portrait for us to publish. PORMAL statements flew back and ■forth across the telegraph wires. Bobby Breen was going to appear on the air, o\er NBC, in a dramatic serial called The Sing- ing Kid, written by Mrs. Gertrude Berg. No, he wasn't! Yes, he was! No, he wasn't, because Eddie Cantor had exclu- sive rights to his radio appearances! .About that time this department's head began to swim and lose interest. The whole affair was a good illustration of one of radio's favorite tricks — to issue two sets of con- flicting statements, of which, obviously, only one could be correct. NBC said that its Artists' Bureau had Bobby under con- tract; Bobby's manager, Sol Lesser, said it didn't. Somebody was wrong, but who? Well, in radio there's only one way to tell: as long as Bobby is heard on the Cantor show and no other, NBC is wrong; if he starts an NBC dramatic series, it's Mr. Lesser who is wrong; and if there is a sudden suit for breach of contract, they're both wrong. * * * IN the midst of all the excitement over the Jack Benny-Fred Allen feud, there is one ironical little fact practically every- body has missed. Some weeks before the feud started a gag writer came to Fred and asked for a job. Fred writes his own material, and couldn't use the boy, but he sent him out to Hollywood with a letter of recommendation to his friend Jack Benny. Jack hired him, and it's this gag writer who went to work a few weeks later thinking up insulting things for Jack to say about Fred. HERE are a few things, mostly about Hollywood, we're not supposed to tell you . . . Bill Bacher, famous in radio circles for directing the old Show Boat and the present Hollywood Hotel, has been called in to lend his excellent doc- toring services to Al Jolson's program, which wasn't doing so well . . . And one reason the Al Jolson program wasn't doing so well is that Sid Silvers didn't live up to his advance build-up as a super-colossal comedian . . . John P. Medbury, who used to be a radio star himself, is writing the scripts for Helen Broderick and Victor Moore ... In spite of their frequent chores on the air, most movie stars do not listen to the radio. They aren't in- terested in what comes over the air, and can't be bothered to lend an ear to it. Of course, }'ou can't entirely blame them, because they naturally look on movies as their profession and radio only a sideline, but on the other hand it does seem funny that they shouldn't take every opportunity to learn something about an industry which provides them with nice fat checks every now and then. THEY had another television demon- ' stration up in Philadelphia last month, but it didn't turn out very well. Maybe you read about it in the papers. Some- thing went wrong, nobody seemed to know exactly what, and the televised images blurred and faded alarmingly. But what impressed us most was the same thing that has impressed us, before — the irony of the situation. Here the public is depending for the perfection of television upon the very people who have most to lose from television — the makers of radio sets and the broadcasters of radio programs. Both sets of gentlemen would ha\e to scurry around right smart and revise their present business setups if television should become an actual fact. * * * ■CROPPED in at Rex Chandler's work- " shop the other day. It's a big room in the hotel where he lives with his wife and daughter, and in it he makes all the musical arrangements for his Ford dance program on NBC. 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And the clay was rapidly taking on a hawknosed and completely unflattering resemblance to her father . . . The whole Chandler family speak French among themselves, Mrs. Chandler being a native Frenchwoman and Rex being half French. * * * IF things go on like this, the poor movie ' stars will be forced to sneak out back of the wood shed when they want to smoke. One of the big cigarette com- panies, which has a network radio pro- gram, offered Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone |5,000 each for a three-minute ap- pearance together on the air and signed testimonials praising the cigarettes. All they had to do on the air was to say how nice the cigarettes were, which was an easy chore because they like that brand any- way. Everything was all set when M-G-M, which has Mr. and Mrs. Tone under con- tract, stepped in and sternly forbade them to accept the offer. Maybe it didn't want the Tones' public to get the idea that they smoked — you know how fast the least little bit of scandal gets around. * * * LJARRIET HILLIARD stepped into a ■■ Hollywood-bound Pullman car a few weeks ago, leaving husband Ozzie Nelson and son David Ozzie to their own mascu- line devices in New York — and nobody was any too happy about it, either, al- though Harriet was looking forward to her work in RKO's "New Faces" with Mil- ton Berle, and David Ozzie is pretty fond of the nurse who has been with him ever since he was born. Harriet won't be gone long, though, and this will be the last separation in the Nelson family for some time to come. Harriet will return this spring, she and Ozzie and the baby will spend the summer vacationing together, and then in the fall they'll all go to Holly- wood together to stay. The Bakers Broad- cast is moving West at that time, and Ozzie's new contract provides such a hand- some raise in salary for him that he can sit back and accept or reject dance-spot offers for his band, just as he pleases. * * * ■ CAN'T see any good reason why this radio secret shouldn't be brought out into the open. The trio on Rex Chand- ler's Ford half-hour on NBC is the Landt Trio, well known on other programs by its own name. The Landt boys are also the composers of the song they sing on each Ford broadcast, "The Nut that Holds the Wheel," and they write the new set of lyrics for it each week. The title and lyrics of the song are humorous, but the Landts take the whole thing very seri- ously as a safe-driving campaign. LANNY ROSS has a new hobby— ' though 1 don't imagine it will take so very much of his attention once that baby, due in another month or so, is born. Lanny has been reading up on two varieties of conservation, soil and game, and he's put- ting all he's learned into practice on his New York estate. He wants to make the estate a refuge for all the neighborhood wild life, as well as landscaping and paint- ing it so scientifically that nobody will even dare to whisper "soil erosion" around there for hundreds of years to come. * * * NOBODY gets more fun out of broad- casting than Beatrice Lillie, unless it's the people who broadcast with Beatrice Lillie. At rehearsals in NBC's Studio 8-G, Bea goes in heavily for comfort and in- 'i 74 RADIO MIRROR formality — the comfort of a plain little dark dress and the informality of sitting on the edge of the orchestra platform to go over a song. She may be Lady Peel, but title or no title, she can't help clowning. The only person whose gravity is never ruffled at a Lillie rehearsal is the sound-effects man, who takes his Art seriously and frets if he doesn't slam a door at exactly the right split-second. Ordinary scripts, typed on white paper, have a nasty trick of getting all mussed and mixed up for Bea, so her script is pasted up on hea\'y manila cardboard, and she handles it as if it were a deck of huge cards. ^ ^ =,, THE elopement of Patti Pickens and Bob Simmons, late this winter, was a surprise and it wasn't. Everybody knew they'd wanted to be married for at least two years, but everybody also knew that Patti's mother still thought she was too young to marry. Anyhow, they're mar- ried now and everybody is happy, even Mrs. Pickens. They won't be able to go on a honeymoon until this summer when Bob takes a vacation from the Cities Service Concerts. Meanwhile, Patti is still studying singing and dancing, and has acquired a personal manager with the idea in mind of getting herself a real career of her own. * * * JUST one of the crazy things that hap- pen in radio: Professor Quiz, who started a new sponsored program early this month (8 P. M. Saturday is the time), is a Man of Mystery. Pictures of him show him in make-up or with his face hidden by a microphone, and his real name is a carefully guarded secret. The idea, of course, is that listeners should form their own mental impression of what he looks like. Which would be all very well, except , that there's always a studio audience at his broadcasts, and everybody present gets a fairly good look at him. PROFESSOR QUIZ got his sponsor, I ■hear, because as a sustaining feature on CBS he was on the air at seven o'clock Sunday nights — and the sponsors figured that anybody who could compete with Jack Benny and at the same time establish a record for fan mail was worth their money. * * * DARKER FENNELLY is one of ■ radio's more active gentlemen. He's Pa Baxter in the Ma and Pa sketches on CBS five times a week and Hiram in the Snow Village Sketches on NBC Saturdays, and between radio jobs he somehow found time to write a play, 'Tulton of Oak Falls," which George M. Cohan bought and is presenting on Broadway to considerable handrclapping. But Parker couldn't find time to pay much attention to the play after Cohan had taken it over. It played in Newark, just across the river, before opening in New York, but Parker decided he'd wait until it settled in Manhattan before going to see it. And it had been running in New York a couple of weeks before he dropped in one night to look it over. 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The source of many a ' rousing sea story that's broadcast on the air. in New York, there's a home for retired seamen called Sailor's Snug Har- bor, and you'd be surprised to know the number of radio stars and writers who make a practice of calling on the old salts every now and then to pick up a new yarn. It's an inexhaustible mine of mari- time lore and legend, and radio is making the most of it. Not that the old sailors at Snug Harbor don't make the most of radio, too — and without any arguments over what program to tune in, either! In their big recreation room there are four large open booths — old-fashioned, high- backed benches like those in Ye Olde English Tea Room. Each booth is labeled with the call letters of one of New York's big radio stations, and supplied with a battery of earphones instead of loud- speakers. The four radios connected with the booths are left on all the time. When an old seadog wants to listen to a program coming over WABC, for instance, he sits himself down in that station's booth, slips on a pair of earphones, and listens in peace and quiet. PHILLIPS LORD, busy microphone ■ and loudspeaker man though he is, is like a small boy in a toy shop when it comes to choosing scripts and acts for his two radio shows. Gang Busters and We, the People. Everybody in his well-populated ofTice works overtime to prevent him from seeing more than one good script at a time, because whenever he's faced with the prob- lem of making a selection he wavers back and forth, unable to make up his mind, until casting directors tear their hair. AL PEARCE is one of those long-dis- tance commuters these days. After his Tuesday-night network program, every week, he travels out to Detroit, where his sponsor requires his services as master of ceremonies on a program on the Michigan network. This schedule places a serious handicap on Al's beloved hobbies, which we can lump under the general heading of Food — Cooking it himself, finding new and delightful places where other people cook it, and talking about it. Al's the sort of restaurant patron who Iik§s to poke his way into the kitchen. W. J. CAMERON, who gives those intermission talks on the Ford Sun- day Evening Hour, is a modest man and dislikes publicity. Not long ago a network photographer took some pictures of him and these were sent out to newspapers and magazines. It was a slip-up, the network being under the impression Mr. Cameron wouldn't mind. He did mind, though, and frantic wires were sent out to all the news- papers and magazines asking them not to use the pictures. A few days later one small country newspaper wrote back, re- gretting that it had already printed the picture. But, offered the editor, he'd kept all of that edition in the shop and hadn't distributed it to the subscribers. Wouldn't the radio people like to buy the whole edi- tion at five cents a copy? RADIO MIRROR How Lucille Manners Was Made Beautiful for S+ardonn done, was staggering to Lucille. From the first heights of exaltation, she plunged to the deepest abyss of dejection. Like any more ordinary romance, there was pain as well as joy. There was, in the first place, the matter of clothes. Until that moment when, with shaky fingers, she had signed a contract with her sponsors, Lucille had spent prac- tically all her time on other matters. She had, like you, or almost any woman, bought clothes when she needed them. Had reserved a few days in the fall, a few more in the spring for shopping. %A#ITH Lucille, it was even more diffi- '* cult. Every extra dollar she ever had went for voice lessons. Never, for her, a new pair of stockings until the old devel- oped a run. Never a new coat or hat until the papers carried news of a big sale. It all meant buying first because she had to have something, second because it was a bargain, and only third because the coat or hat or dress was so becoming she simply had to have it. And so, as it would have happened to you, Lucille found herself with a wonder- ful starring contract in her pocket book and at home a very limited, hastily chosen and well worn wardrobe — dresses that had seen many seasons' wear, hats she'd never have bought if she'd had more money, all clothes she bought only because they were practical and could be worn day in and day out. But the wheels that spin to bring the world a new star turned fast and Lu- cille's dejection lasted about as long as it takes two lovers to sit on opposite sides {Continued from page 25) of a bench, then come back to each other's arms. For back at her apartment, waiting, were a living room full of those experts, all ready to wipe out Lucille's doubts, banish her fears, and — with a shout — pitch into the business at hand. There was Betty Goodwin, NBC's Fashion Editor, a representative of the advertising agency handling the program, Eddie Senz, Paramount Pictures' ace make-up man who has been responsible for so many screen successes, and Dorothy Couteaur from Paris. There were, too. ex- perts in graceful walking, health diets, and sane exercises. The romance had really begun! First in order, Lucille's personality. After a look at her golden hair, lovely blue eyes, and slim figure, it did not take these experts long to decide. Henceforth, Lucille was to be an Ail-American girl. With that as a foundation, the rest of the questions were no longer difficult prob- lems. Lucille forgot her first apprehen- sion, cast her doubts to the wind, and entered into the conference whole heart- edly. Next was the type of gowns she should choose. So that her versatility should not be strained, both severe sophisticated gowns and extremely coy gowns were ta- boo. Because she was young, she must not add years to her age by wearing styles that were too mature. Nor must she lose the saucy quality about her turned up nose and wide eyes. Such piquancy is lost with either slinky clothes or fussy ones. Then came the question of photographs. just about the most important in many ways. Already there had come to the publicity desks at NBC a flood of tele- grams and letters from newspapers and magazines all over the country asking for pictures of the new Cities Service star. Every editor was clamoring for Lucille Manners, a year ago a sustaining artist whose publicity could have been pasted up in one page of any scrapbook! The fashion editor ofl'ered to take Lu- cille shopping. "But how much will it cost?" Lucille asked. Fearfully she thought of the ward- robe a complete set of pictures would re- quire. Dinner dresses, formal gov\ns, lounging pajamas, sporting outfits — all the things she had wanted so many times and had never been able to afford. After all, even stars are not paid in advance. THE fashion editor laughed. "Don't ■ worry about that. All sorts of shops and designers have been calling up to know if you'll pose in their clothes. Re- member, you're famous now. One of New York's biggest furriers has called twice. He wants to know if you'd be kind enough to wear his newest ermine coat to your first broadcast." "Kind enough?" Lucille whispered. A week ago she had been scanning the papers for a mid-season sale. Now people were asking her please to wear their ermine coats! The glamor and excitement of the situ- ation swept over her in one \'ast, engulf- ing wave. Without another pause, she (Continued on page 79) «*& Popular Young Things guard against Cosmetic Sicin the Hollywood way— rOVELY girls everywhere keep their ■^ skin smooth and clear the easy Hollywood way. Lux Toilet Soap's ACTIVE lather sinks deep into the pores — frees skin of hidden dust, dirt, stale cosmetics. 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She was tall enough to wear large prints, yet small enough to wear romantic pastel or tulle and chiffon gowns as well. By nightfall, Lucille had her wardrobes. One for which she didn't have to pay — the one to be used for photographs. An- other, m.ore interesting one, the wardrobe she was to ha\'e permanently. With the clothes problem settled, Lu- cille turned to the \astly important ques- tion of make-up. Now it was the turn of Eddie Senz, Eastern make-up director for Paramount. He has his own studio where he puts the finishing touches on the lo\'ely models you see in ijiagazine adver- tisements. No one could have been more qualified for this job. Before his brightly lighted mirrors passes a parade of celeb- rities. LUCILLE was warned in ad\'ance to pay ' strict attention to any of Senz's advice. "If he suggests re-styling your hair," she was told, "listen to him. He's not a hair- dresser, but he designs many of his clients' coiffures. To him hair is a frame for the face, and a face is something to think about in terms of photographic angles. If he thinks the shape of your chin or fore- head or nose calls for a different arrange- ment of your hair, believe him." Lucille came away from this confer- ence with her head brimming with ideas and — best of all — with a new hair style that does wonders for her. She liked it so well from the first day. that she hasn't changed a wa\e or a curl. Senz. with a few deft strokes, parted her hair in the middle, brought it flat and smooth down to the temples, and then up- turned it all around her face in combed out ringlets. If you. like Lucille. ha\'e a slightly broad jaw, you'll find this style happily becoming. But if your forehead is higher than hers, don't have the curls on top of your head. Senz warns you to confine them to the back and sides only. Other pointers Lucille learned from him she feels are worth passing on to you. Don't wear much rouge if you're the fragile, blonde t\pe. Pale rose is best for \'ou and medium lipstick — dark rose rather than orange or purple shades. Wear light blue e\eshadow under artificial lights, but never put it any place except along the edge of your upper lid. Always brush and re-brush your hair after it's been waved. Tight curls are never flattering and are. in the case of delicate blondes, about the worst thing possible. If you're blonde, wear delicate flowers or bows in your hair, but ne\er elaborate ornaments such as birds or jewels. Blonde or brunette, \ary the color of your nail polish. Lucille, when she wears quite a bit of red. uses sih'er irridescent or mother of pearl polish to offset it. Neither a new wardrobe, a new hair- dress, nor new make-up finished the ro- mantic de\elopment of Lucille as a star. There was also the matter of health. Lu- cille thought it silly at first that anyone should be concerned. She felt wonderful. She had new sparkle in her e.ves, new color in her cheeks. The experts thought differently. So did Lucille when she finished her first week of rehearsal. AW the additional work of more lessons, posing for pictures, giving RADIO MIRROR from page 77) interviews left her exhausted. She saw for herself that the six or seven hours of sleep she had been getting were not enough. Now she ne\er has less than eight and more often ten hours of sound sleep. In the matter of food, she was already ahead of the experts. Wisely she sticks closely to a fresh vegetable diet. She has never had any reducing problem and now, upon advice of counsel, she is drinking lots of milk with her food to boost her one hundred and ten pounds a little. Thus the basis for her stardom was es- tablished. Before she could experience any letdown, new frills to complete her were added. She must know how to walk gracefully onto the stage. Luckily, she had been hard at work on that problem since last spring when she was chosen by Cities Service to substitute for Jessica Dragonette while she was on her vaca- tion. So in Lucille's case, it was largely a matter of polishing. Gloriously, one last thrill, completely unexpected. Exclusively designed gowns for Lucille's Friday night broadcasts, gowns no other woman could get by hook or crook, gowns designed by many of the world's leading stylists. Nor did Lucille suspect the problems involved in the designing of these gowns. There w-as the problem of color, for in- stance. The stage of the huge NBC studio where the broadcast takes place is hung with tangerine colored draperies. Back of the orchestra is a huge green and white Cities Service emblem. The orchestra it- self provides a black and white back- ground for the prima donna. .A red dress was out — it would ha\'e clashed with the draperies. Solid black wouldn't do because it wouldn't show up against the background of tuxedos. Purple was eliminated because it's too old for Lucille and not flattering to her golden hair and fair complexion. .A dress that was too tight around the diaphragm might interfere with her sing- ing. ■ A stiff taffeta would make a rustling sound that would be picked up by the microphone. .A beaded gown might lose some of it? beads and if these fell to the floor during a solo they would sound like rain on a tin roof. THIS, obviously, was the time for Doro- thy Couteaur, the only .^merican wo- man to hold an important position with one of the greatest Paris dressmaking houses, to give advice. Dorothy Couteaur first visited the stu- dio and asked Lucille to walk out on the stage as she would during a broadcast. She tested the lights, noted the back- ground colors and then, while Lucille waited on the stage, called in her artist to make water color sketches for exclusive "Lucille Manners designs." When the sketches were finished, they were sent to Lucille's apartment for Lu- cille's selection. Then she was shown samples of new fabrics — silks, satins, and \'elvets. It was more like a dream than e\'er to the girl who had thrown up her job as a stenographer five years ago to de- \'ote herself to a career of singing, who a month before had put a new feather on an old hat so she could spend her Christmas money on more lessons. Many gowns were finally selected. One of the first that were chosen was a blue or rayon satin. Blue matches Lucille's eyes and it doesn't clash with the studio background. The second was a bright colored print, IRRESISTIBLE "it is that. And did you ever stop to consider how much real pleasure there is in a package of Beeman's? Five sticks of chewing gum — pure and wholesome, and loaded with delicious flavor that lasts — and lasts. That air- tight wrapping, they tell me, keeps it fresh and preserves its delicate flavor. 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The one they settled on for wearing during March has shades of sapphire, coral, and yellow against a black back- ground. The edges of the bright colors are blurred as in a water color, giving the whole fabric a soft effect. Another gown is classic simplicity — oys- ter white crepe with a huge bustle bow and long sash of white with brilliant bands of emerald green. As to jewelry, Lucille has adopted the rule that she will wear as few pieces as possible. Never earrings, necklaces, or two rings at the same time. Always simple jewelry — a pair of bracelets and a clip; a ring and a clip. But never many things and never showy ones. The last and the first of the exclusive gowns arrived a few days before Lucille's debut. The romance of preparing for star- dorn was nearly over. The engagement period, when everything is new and so many things happen one on top of the other, was drawing to a close. Friday night and Lucille in a beautiful gown, a spotlight pouring down on her, a breathless audience sitting forward in their chairs in the studio, lifts her voice into song. Her marriage to stardom has begun. Bob Burns Really Talks About Bing Crosby {Continued from page 35) and Harry Baris v\'ere pulling cheesy gags instead of singing and how the manager of the theater, after warning them to cut it down, rang down the curtain in their faces when they were right in the middle of a joke. Those are the things Bing tells on himself. Another of the things I admire most in Bing is the fact that he not only doesn't gossip himself, he hates to hear other people gossipping. More than one person who used to be a frequent visitor at Bing's home has found the Welcome mat drawn in when he arrives because all he did was put people on the pan. Bing never pans anyone. If a person has done something Bing doesn't like, Bing is through with him. And when he's through with a person, he's really through. He wants no part of him. If it's someone who hasn't done anything to Bing who's on the pan, Bing will always find a good word to say about him. A lot of people think that because Bing has a happy-go-lucky nature that he is incapable of deep feeling. At heart he's one of the few real sentimentalists I know. And he has one of the most understanding natures you'll find anywhere. When my wife passed on I wanted to get out of town with my boy for a week and try to forget the ordeal we'd been through. So we went up to Lew Ayres house at Big Bear. When I got back to town you can imagine I was still pretty upset and I was trying, for the boy's sake, to keep my mind off it. As soon as I went into the broadcasting station, everyone began com- ing up and putting his arm around my shoulder, saying, "Gee, Bob, I was sorry to hear about it." Everybody but Bing. I know blamed well that down in his heart Bing was sympathizing with me just as deeply as anyone else but he happened to be understanding enough to see what I RADIO MIRROR was trying to do. He never referred to my ioss at all but started kidding with me, the way we always do with each other — just acted as though nothing had hap- pened. He'll never know how much 1 ap- preciated that. SPEAKING of those rehearsals, we have more fun there than any place we go. Everything is so informal. Of course, nothmg could ever be very formal where Bing is. But we have never had a dress rehearsal. We rehearse on Thursday af- ternoon before the broadcast and that is all there is to it. They ask each member what time it would be convenient to re- hearse. Bing stays there the whole after- noon and just rehearses the part of the program that whoever happens to be there IS in. I work on my stuff by myself and never rehearse it. So even Bing doesn't know until we're actually before the mike what I'm going to say. That's why it so often happens we're both talking at once, trying to get in a word edgewise. That part is all ad libbed on the spur of the moment. He kids around the place all during the rehearsal and all during the performance. That's what gives it such spontaneity. Two of the things I never get over wondering about in connection with Bing are his flow of fancy English and his ear for music. Last week, for instance, for his old song he chose "Kalua" from an old musical called "Good Morning, Dearie." I know Bing didn't see the show and I don't believe he'd ever heard the song before. When he came _ to it in the re- hearsal, someone gave him the lyrics and he sang it with all his boo-boo-boos as though he'd been singing it every day of his life. And his language! Those jaw-breaker words he uses impress me — when I can understand what he's talking about. Of course, he just does it for a gag but he never misuses a word and he never uses a word of one syllable if he can find one of four that means the same thing. If he can't find a long word he arranges the short ones in the fanciest English imagin- able. I remember his mother showed me a letter Bing had written her the first time he was away from home. 1 think he was fifteen or sixteen at the time. He was hoping he could go back to school that fall and expressed the wish that some day he might make his mark in the world. He concluded with, "That, however, is in the laps of the Gods. One can but wait." When we go out to shoot golf, we usu- ally go over to his house for dinner after- wards. When we come in Dixie will ask, "Well, how did you do today?" And Bing will come back with, "Well, my little penguin, on the first nine I shot a stylish thirty-six and on the second nine I had a svelte thirty-five." Those week-ends I've spent on his ranch with him will live with me if 1 reach a thousand. We don't do anything much. JVIaybe go hunting for rabbits or quail or wild pigeons or whatever happens to be in season. Or we might go fishing. Lots of times we take long hikes or fool around the pastures where his brood of mares are. We don't do anything in particular but we have a swell time doing it. You know, it's a funny thing. They apply the term "ham" to actors but there are hams in every walk of life — writers, painters, salesmen, doctors, lawyers — every line of endeavor. The guys who like to show off, be in the limelight and turn on the personality. Bing is farthest from a ham of anyone I have ever met in my life. As I said, he won't talk about himself. He cares noth- ing about occupying the centre of the stage. He can get a lot more enjoyment out of sitting back listening to someone else than he can out of having people gush over him. When he turns down photog- raphers and when he says he doesn't care about interviews, the guy is telling the absolute truth. He doesn't. Those horses of his are something else I can't understand about him. He's crazy about them but he rides like a sack of meal — when you can get him on a horse. Dixie tells a story about one time when he was making personal appearances somewhere up in Connecticut. She kidded him about his riding until one morning in desperation he went down with her to a riding academy, got on a horse and walked him around the paddock a couple of times and got off. "There," he said, "1 guess that'll shut you up. You can very plainly see that I am a most expert equestrian." He went on back to the hotel and when Dixie came in from her ride an hour and a half later, Bing was still in the hands of a masseur. HE has probably done more for old friends, and said less about it than anyone in Hollywood. His loyalty can only be measured by the size of his heart. 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NORFORMS Don't Let Homeliness Break Your Heart {Continued from page 19) I N. P. C. IS«7 Known lo Physicians at "Vafliformj" has capitulated to a girl who has every- thing but looks, whose face, frankly, if it were her fortune, would never permit her to eat three square meals a day. Not even her best friends would call her pretty. Martha herself says she's downright homely. Yet here, in the star's chair, sat this unquestionably plain girl while all around her dozens of other girls, each more lovely than the other, went through their unimportant dance — extras on whom no one wasted a second glance, just props, like the thatched huts, the palms and the tropical flowers. Fame, wealth, admiration — normally trib- utes paid to great beauty — have all fallen into Martha Raye's lap. The ugly duck- ling has in real life, as she did in the fairy tale, stolen a march on her swan sisters. There is an astounding secret of success that this plain girl has found. Not with- out heartbreaks and moments of blackest discouragements, but with such a happy ending all the torment was more than worth the price. It's not easy to ask anyone, especially a movie and radio star, how she found success when her outstanding characteris- tic is homeliness. 1 would resent it my- self if someone asked me, except that 1 haven't yet found such success. BUT Martha's large mouth grew larger in a friendly smile that ended in a rumbling laugh. "How did I put it over?" she said, "with a face like mine?" For put it over she has. Not only is she Paramount's pet find of the year, the girl whose songs and comedy have bright- ened "Rhythm on the Range," "The Big Broadcast" and "College Holiday" but who is the added zest and spice that is making Al Jolson's new program over CBS on Tuesday nights the prize half hour of the spring season. Nor is it hollow fame and fortune. On Martha's fourth finger, as she sat in her star's chair, waiting for her cue, sparkled a beautiful engagement diamond. I knew its donor, Jerry Hopper, of Paramount, one of Hollywood's prize catches. Martha has found not only enviable success in her career, she has made it all worthwhile with a love she talks about only in a whisper. As I write this, a few weeks later, the ring ' is gone, the engagement officially broken because Martha's mother believes her daughter is too young to consider marriage. But Jerry and Martha. 1 know, are still deeply in love, even though they may not be married for some time. The ring was there when I saw her, and one day it will be there again. Certainly, no one better than Martha has the right to say, "Don't let vour home- liness break your heart." What better inspiration if you feel that too many freckles, or too long a nose, or too big a mouth is making your life miserable. If Martha has done it — and you don't need more proof to be sure she has — you can do it, too, because Martha didn't even know she was homely! She didn't learn until she was fifteen, until she thought she was so grown up she tried out for a grown up part and was turned down, not because she wasn't talented but because she wasn't pretty! "Rule one," Martha told me gravely, "for a girl who isn't beautiful is to face the f-'ct that she isn't and then forget about it. That took me a whole year, the toughest year I ever spent, but I learned and it was the beginning of my career." Martha was only fifteen — although a very precocious fifteen — when she first came face to face with the appalling fact that she was definitely a homely girl. It was a bitter realization. Especially bitter because all her life she had fondly nursed a dream that one day she would be a star of the stage. Especially bitter, too, in the hurniliating circumstance under which the realization came to her. Martha was, to employ an overworked phrase, "born in a trunk." She was a child of the theater. Her parents' vaude- ville act took a brief vacation while Mar- tha first saw the light of day in Butte, Montana. It wasn't long, however, be- fore Pete Reed and Peggy Hooper were back on the four-a-day, and infant Mar- tha with them. She learned to toddle in the dusty backstage of numerous thea- ters. She lived in dingy hotels and aboard grimy trains. She took her naps on piles of scenery. What child wouldn't, under those circumstances, dream of one day seeing her name on Ziegfeld's mar- quee, or Hammerstein's or Belasco's? As soon as she was old enough, a part was written into her father's and mother's act for her, and she started toward her goal. When she was fifteen, she decided it was high time she took a step closer to the Ziegfeld — or the Hammerstein or the Belasco — marquee. The act was laying off in New York, so the time was pro- pitious. Without a word to anyone, Mar- tha slipped out and bought an outfit of really grown-up clothes. "I thought 1 looked like a certified check," she recalled. "I had one of those Eugenie hats with a feather and I figured if Earl Carroll passed me up he must be going blind," That was the blithe spirit of the young- ster who made her way into the dank, cav- ernous theater where impresario Carroll was casting his current "Vanities." She felt at home. She even looked pityingly at the dozen or so different girls who were there on similar errands. HER turn came at last. She sang. It was good, and it was hot. She saw Car- roll's white face respond approvingly from the blackness of the theater. But when she finished he shook his head. Show people are blunt. "Sorry, but you don't do," the producer said. "Frankly, kid, you have the goods — but you haven't the looks. Better try some other racket." She stumbled from the stage, and wept noisily when one of the other girls tit- tered. "That nearly broke my heart." she con- fessed. "You know how a kid is. I'd never thought much about my looks one way or another until then. You see, I never went to school with other kids, or played with children much. I guess if I had they'd have told me, and it wouldn't have been such a shock to learn I didn't have the looks. "But I think the thing that saved me was that crack he made about trying some other racket. That made me mad, and when you're in the state 1 was in. the best thing that can happen to you is to get mad. Clean through. Try some other racket! Why the guy was crazy! How could a girl who'd been brought up back- stage ever try any other racket. I think I made up my mind then that I'd show him!" At any rate, broken-hearted little Mar- tha went back with the vaudeville act for another year. She didn't tell her mother and father of her bitter exper- ience until a long while later. During that 82 RADIO MIRROR year, though, she accustomed herself to the idea that she wasn't beautiful, and never would be. "Anyhow, 1 figured there were a lot of people who were'n't exactly beauties but who were managing to get by just the same," she said. "If they could, I could, too. 1 decided if I couldn't be a prima donna, maybe I could be a comic singer. Comediennes weren't supposed to be beau- tiful. "And you know, by golly," she said earn- estly, "just thinking and thinking and thinking about it like that must've made it happen! Anyhow, the first thing 1 knew, 1 got a break with Paul Ash in Chicago. It wasn't much, but it was a start — and I did all right." SHE was still only sixteen \vhen she teamed up with Benny Davis in a dou- ble act. Davis, who had been a famed single, had seen her work with Ash, and saw her possibilities, Jackie Heller, Hal LeRoy, Sonny O'Day, Buddy and Vilma Ebsen were with her in another act. That skyrocketed her, and just as in fiction story, she suddenly found her great ambi- tion realized. Earl Carroll, who had seen her in the act, fell all over himself to sign her for his forthcoming "Sketch Book!" "So there," she said simply, "you are." My eyes fell once more toward the sparkling diamond. "Oh, that," she said again. "Well, by that time I was pretty popular with men. 1 always got along all right with 'em any- how. After ail, any girl can if she will just be herself. Just be natural and don't worry about whether a man thinks you're pretty or not, and things will take care of themselves. "You know, there are a lot of girls who think they aren't popular with men be- cause they aren't beautiful. That's ba- loney. The reason they're not popular with men is because they themselves are so busy thinking about not being beautiful they're not much fun to be with — so the men leave them alone. "Stop and think. How many times have you seen the handsomest and most eligible man, who always runs around with the raving beauties, run off and marry some nice, plain girl who can toss a tasty meal together and who understands him? "Don't get me wrong. 1 don't mean to say that being good looking is any handi- cap. I guess if I'd been consulted about it, I'd be so good looking you'd have to wear smoked glasses whenever you got near me. But what I'm driving at is that being good looking is like being rich. It's nice if you are, but it isn't fatal if you're not. "All a homely g-irl has to do is to be neat and dress becomingly, and not try to hide the fact that she isn't beautiful. Why call attention to your worst fea- tures by trying to hide them? For in- stance, wouldn't I look like a dope if I tried to paint a tiny Cupid's bow over this mouth of mine? 1 use as little rouge as possible, and if boy friends notice I have a mouth that's too big for my face, they must all be doggoned polite, because none of 'em ever says anything. "Another good idea for a homely girl to remember is that if she keeps her boy friend interested enough in other matters, and keeps his mind occupied, he isn't go- ing to have time to think much about how she looks. Personally, I think a man would rather spend his time with a good sport than with a dumb beauty. When a man takes a girl out. he takes her out to have a good time, not to look at her. It's up to the girl to see that he does have a good time. If she's successful, she gets asked again — and I don't care how homely she is. "And it's a cinch to make a man have a good time. It only takes a little thought. For instance, if he's the big out- door type, you be the outdoor girl. Whe- ther you like it or not, act as if you're having a whale of a good time whenever you're with him, and then he'll have a good time, too. Don't be afraid to let him know you enjoy being with him. That flatters him. However, never, never know more about anything than he does. Men like to help vou. That's how Jerry and I—" She caught herself and blushed becom- ingly. But it's no secret that her ro- mance with Jerry Hopper was born on the Paramount lot. Martha was snatched from an engagement at the Trocadero and hastily cast by Norman Taurog into "Rhythm on the Range." Jerry wrote and arranged her songs. He coached her and taught her screen technique. He helped her over periods of the jitters. Martha gives him credit for her screen success. MARTHA'S mother is afraid that mar- riage just now, or even a formal en- gagement, might upset her daughter's career. But Martha doesn't mind waiting. Jerry is handsome and popular. He is much sought after in Hollywood. That doesn't bother Martha. She isn't afraid some Hollywood beauty will steal him away from her. She knows beauty won't get you places. "Why, take that palm tree there," she pointed to the towering trunk. "That palm tree's beautiful, all right. But you never heard of anybody marrying a palm tree, did you?" &R/A//V/A/& J.//CS A MOA/KEY, FOB -A RUA/^ A/O JO^B TO A1E / ^>'Z: Si The Lux Way to Cut Down Runs Lux stockings after every wearing to remove perspiration. Turn stockings inside out — squeeze luke- warm Lux suds through them. Rinse in lukewarm water. Squeeze water out — never twist or wring! Then shape and dry — but not near heat. Don't risk soaps containing harmful alkali, or cake-soap rubbing. These may weaken elasticity — then runs may start. Lux contains no harmful alkali. It saves elasticity — cuts down on costly runs. Saves Stocking Elasticity RADIO MIRROR ^^You are good company now^^ " — how well I re- call the days and long evenings when I felt tired-out and looked it." 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Anyone having communications for island residents is mvited to send them to Duluth's station WEBC. KHJ's HELPING HAND DEPT. SINCE starting our own Helping Hand Department here last month we've learned what pikers we were in our own little way. It took Hal Styles' new Help Thy Neigh- bor program over KHJ in Los Angeles to open our eyes. This new program, based on a sincere desire to bring unemployed men and women in contact with em- ployers, was recently inaugurated at KHJ. The Help Thy Neighbor program, with Hal Styles as mterviewer of applicants, presents the cases of as many unemployed as time permits, and the station telephone lines are held open the entire half-hour to receive calls of those who have work to offer the applicants interviewed. Without an audience, except for the ap- plicants themselves, the broadcasts are conducted with understanding and no em- barrassment to anyone. Living up to its name to the letter, this unusual broadcast has no age limit of applicants, no exploita- tion or building unfortunates up for a let- down. Skeptics applauded it as a grand idea but, they asked, "Will it work? Will em- ployers telephone to offer jobs?" They got their answer. Before the first broad- cast was many minutes old, the case of the first man interviewed, a one-time sergeant- major of the U. S. Marines, received at- tention. The telephone buzzed; "IVliss Cordial" answered, and there was an em- ployer for the former service man. The same happened when a woman was inter- viewed a few minutes later. Some hundred calls were received by "Miss Cordial" during the half-hour broad- cast and the thirty minutes following. Em- ployers asked not only about those heard in interviews but inquired for specialized workers. A mining engineer, a dozen car- penters, a domestic maid, and a chief cook were among those specially requisitioned. And two telephone operators received jobs answering the incoming job-offers. _ But the pay-off came when radio pho- tographer Nate Singer was about to snap a picture of the first successful applicant and Hal Styles. One of the applicants gave Smger a helping hand with the flash-bulb and the photographer asked him his name. He told Singer and added, "I'm a pho- tographer myself when I'm working." "Well," answered Singer, "how would you like to go to work for me?" "Fine." "Okay, it's a deal, come around to- morrow morning." That KHJ Helping Hand Department is what we call a real one. * * * WOWS AT WOW TO tuner-inners of WOW at Omaha, Nebraska, 4:45 P. M. every Weekday is Millie and Tillie time. That of course isn't nevss to you Millie and Tillie fans but what you may not know is that these two favorites were almost childhood friends. That may sound a little confus- ing, and maybe it is, but anyway it hap- pened like this: Violet Manning (Millie) and Jeanne Dixon (Tillie) began their dramatic work at the same place, Elitch Gardens in Den- ver, playing child parts in the same stock company. However, they did not meet until two years ago when a Chicago thea- trical agent suggested they would make a good radio team. All the girls had to do to prove the agent a wise prophet was to ac- cept his suggestion. Result: Millie and Tillie. Both artists have had extensive stage experience. Violet played with Douglas Fairbanks, Ralph Bellamy and other out- standing stage personalities. Jeanne's last big stage show was "Merry-Go-Round" in Chicago. HEAR YE! Charleston, W. Va.: Nicholas Pagliara and D. Clete Lochner have joined the staff of WCHS at Charleston as program director and dramatic director, respec- tively. They were formerly with WHEC at Rochester, N. Y. DON'T LOOK NOW. BUT— In the gossip league there is no tastier dish than the one filled with the past, .^nd being in a particularly gossipy mood let's look around and see what sort of skele- tons are hiding in the closets of radio's big boys and girls. Our first closet reveals the musical score for the original Student Prince. Whose closet? Carlton Kelsey's. He is at pres- ent a musical director at WBBM in Chi- cago and wrote the score years ago. . . . Another WBBMer with a revealing closet is Jesse Pugh of the Sunbrite Junior Nurse Corps program. Jesse was at one time far, far away from a microphone. That was when he was a bank bookkeeper with over six hundred active accounts in his ledger. Way up north in Duiuth, Minnesota, is Hale Byer, WEBC's program director. That is now, but there was a time when Hale was a member of Paul Whiteman's band. And at another time, directing his own orchestra, he was the music maker for Barney Gallant's swanky New York City cafe. Out in Cincinnati, WLW's two hundred and fifty pound sports announcer, AI Hei- fer, has an equally hefty past. Al has been an automobile salesman and mill crane man. In this closet we also find many life saving decorations and medals, Al acquired as a life guard in Pennsyl- vania. . . . And Smilin' Ed McConnell, also a WLW favorite, once operated a 50-watt station in Orlando, Fla. Looking in on WMAQ in Chicago, Nor- man Ross, Penn Newscaster, appears familiar. A peak into his past and here's the reason: Norman is none other than the world's champion swimmer of a few years back. This brawny two hundred and forty pounder at one time held all the world's records from one hundred and fifty yards to a mile. A record yet unequalled by any other world champ. And even programs and stations have their pasts. In the May 9, 1922 issue of the Chicago Daily News, appearing under the heading "Tonight's KYW Program," was this paragraph: "A musical entertainment is given daily from 8 to 9 p.m. by the radiophone to thousands of Chicagoans who have taken 84 RADIO MIRROR up wireless telephony. The program to- night, prepared by Morgan L. Eastman, to be sent out from the Westinghouse Radiophone studio in the Edison building, follows. . . ." Quaint? Well, that was the opening broadcast of the Edison Symphony orchestra concert series, now heard over Chicago's WENR each Sunday evening. It has been broad- cast regularly since and will complete fifteen years on the air in May. And further check on the records tells us this: Morgan L. Eastman, the first conductor, has served throughout the fifteen years in that capacity. We hope to spot more closets for you by next month. ROMANCE, INC. San Francisco: Following a Palm Springs honeymoon, Carlton E. Coveny, KJBS sales manager is back on the job. The bride: Miss Olive Johnson, popular Mills College graduate. Chicago: WBBM announced George Ralston and Miss Fern Freestate were principals in a February altar march. Incidentally, Dan Cupid seems to be working overtime on WBBM's Musical Clock program personnel. George was the tenth announcer or engineer to marry while actively connected with the program. First was Halloween Martin, who donned the bridal veil shortly after the program's debut on KYW nine years ago. Engineers Nick Battenberg and George Thompson, mikemen Earl Tanner and Parker Wheatley followed suit, without the veil, of course, before the program left KYW. Since the clock has been tick- ing off its morning music, time, and weather on WBBM, engineers Frank Lehnert and Emil Waelti and announcers Stan Thompson and Paul Dowth have used the ring. But that's all there is, for the present at least. Paul Luther, who now shares the Musical Clock microphone with Miss Martin and Mr. Wheatley, is married, and a real four-youngster family man. Make-Up Magic (Continued from page 15) with her brown eyes; this is essentially a stage practice, but you can adapt it nicely, with your own choice of tints, for glamor- ous evening wear. Take another tip from Elizabeth, too, when you're preparing to face a battery of brilliant lights (at a dance, for instance). On stage, she wears a grease paint with lots of rose in it be- cause of the tendency footlights have of taking all color out of the face. She wears a darker powder then, too, for the same reason, and makes up her lips larger and brighter — with a brush. Over her grease paint base, she spreads her paste rouge, beginning close to the nose and working it in high on the cheekbones and pretty generally across the cheek. After she has powdered, she takes a powder rouge and touches it to her cheeks with a rabbit's foot. Tanya Cherenko was in a state of first- night excitement, opening in the play, "Marching Song," but took time out to give us a few make-up tips. For her role as a Polish woman, for instance, she has to create the effect of a svv'arthier skin than she actually possesses — a trick that is achieved with her skillful choice of grease paint, carefully carrying out the effect by using a slightly reddish brown eye shadow instead of the green or purple she might ordinarily wear. SHE pointed out how careful an actress has to be of her grease paint base, "Be- cause," she said, "it can change the color of your skin entirely. It forms a sort of mask for your face, wipes out your own skin completely." But she adds that the powder can change the whole effect, if one isn't careful. In one play she appeared in last year, the characters were supposed to be quite sunburned in the second act and then normal color in the last act. This called for a quick change, and there was no time to do a complete new make- up. The thing they did was to change the hue of their powder, a deep sun tan in the second act and then a much lighter shade in the last. One trick that many actresses use is to dust their complete make-up with talcum powder, just plain, ordinary baby's talc. Phis doesn't interfere with the color of the make-up, because it brushes off almost entirely. But it does dull the harsh bril- liance of the cosmetics and keeps the color of the powder from changing the color of the base. These are grand make-up tips in general, but let's look at the question of creams, powders and rouges alone for a moment. The use of these three fundamental cos- metics will either make or break your own "make-up magic." All the skill in the world can not hide the fact that your skin is not well-cared for, has been allowed to become too dry, too sallow, too oily or discolored. Soap-and-water is still a necessity for cleanliness of all skins (un- less there is some condition present which requires medical attention and prescrip- tion), but this should always be supple- mented by use of the proper creams. ^ LEANSING cream should be used to ^ remove all traces of cosmetics before washing your face or applying a new make-up. If your skin is oily, choose a very light-weight, quickly liquefying cleansing cream. If your skin is dry, be sure to use a good nourishing cream, as well; pat it into your skin generously, removing excess with cleansing tissues, and then leave it on over night. If your skin is wrinkled, use a tissue cream and carefully follow the in- structions on the package. In applying creams to the face, all move- ments of the hands should be upward and outward — don't encourage those delicate tissues to droop or sag! "Brisk but gentle" is a good rule to follow; a hard pounding will break down the tissues you're trying to build up, and slow motion will not give your circulation the stimulation which is half the benefit of cream applications. Don't stretch the skin with your finger- tips, and be extra careful around the eyes. If you're cautious about it, you can relax tired eyes wonderfully by running your well-creamed fingertips gently around the eye sockets, starting upward and outward from the nose — but be sure to keep your fingers off the eyeballs. There are many marvelous founda- tion creams on the market today. You will have to decide for yourself which type you like best. Whether you choose a light one or a heavy one, moisture-proof or filmy, you should use some sort of powder base if you want your make-up to ha\e those qualities of pearliness and per- manence which are so important. Nov\' you're ready for your rouge. 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No longer need a gleaming nose embar- rass you at crucial moments, noshine has been created by Elizabeth Arden as a perfect powder foundation for this offending feature. NOSHINE, two sizes, $1 and $2.50 t^llzal?eth iTirc/e True Story of My Tour With Nelson Eddy {Continued jrom page 21) en 691 FIFTH AVENUE • NEW YORK CITY 86 girl they wanted didn't seem to exist. Suddenly a voice came over that loud speaker, rich and clear. Just that sud- denly, the girl they wanted was found. Cautiously, they listened to her sing again and again, and with each new song their conviction strengthened. At last Pasternaci< went down to the studio. "Miss Conner," he said with a smile, "we've decided you're it. How would you like to sing opposite Nelson Eddy?" Nelson Eddy! Somehow it didn't seem true. It didn't seem possible that the one star she'd admired through all the strug- gling years behind her, now stood there in that room, smiling and asking her to share in his glory on the air. Her brain hardly realized she was singing, singing with him her favorite piece, "Only a Rose." It wasn't until she had left the studio and was on her way home that she began to see all the responsibility before her, the irnportance of her task. At first she pinched herself to make sure she was awake — and then she started to get fright- ened. She could feel herself tightening up inside. pUT yourself in her place. Suddenly she ■^had been whirled from obscurity to a position which every girl in America would envy. Her job seemed so big. A thou- sand mental goblins tortured her. Sup- pose she couldn't measure up to Nel- son's and Pasterncck's requirements — sup- pose she failed, or her voice broke, on the first broadcast. She was reckoning without Nelson Eddy. She was going on the assumption that he was a great star, and no more than that. She didn't know what she knows now — that he is also a kind and understanding gentleman. "I'll never forget that first visit to Nel- son's home, where the program rehearsals were always held," she told me. "The house itself sits way up on top of a moun- tain, overlooking Hollywood, and the Pa- cific ocean in the distance. It's so high that the wind blows a continual gale all the time. And that night as I stepped out of the car, the wind howling and screeching through my very bones, the stars were so close, it almost seemed like I could reach out and touch them. At my feet was Los Angeles, all of it, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, stretched out for miles as far as the eye could see, a mil- lion twinkling little lights like some great jeweler's window. "And then suddenly the huge oak door swung open, and Nelson came running out to meet me, all smiles, like someone you know is glad to see you. He led me inside, and pushed the door shut behind him. it was then that I realized how cold and lonely it was out there, how warm and friendly it was inside, behind those strong walls and massive doors. "As he led me into the huge living room, he put his arm carelessly around my shoulders, and a funny lump came in my throat. I suddenly realized I was no longer scared, or nervous, or worried. It was warm in there, the warmth of blazin;.; logs in the big fireplace, the warmth of smiles from friends. There was his moth- er, sitting in her rocking chair by the fire. There was Mr. Pasternack, and Mr. Smith, the program director and announcer. They all seemed to tell me, without words, that I was welcome, welcome to Nelson Eddy's "open house." "But Nelson did more than that to make me feel at home, if you think he's tops in singing, you should see him clown when he's alone among friends. He's the best comedian i know. He was just like a small boy as he showed me around the house, and proudly brought out all his knick-knacks. "The star attraction of the evening was a toy dog someone had given him for Christmas. There was a little house that went with it, with a special spring inside. You put the dog in the house, up against the spring, and then you make a noise, any kind of a noise. The sound vibrations release the catch inside, and the dog jumps out. In other words, if you say, "Here Fido!', out jumps Tido.' We were ail in stitches over that thing. "And when we started rehearsing our numbers, he continued to clown and joke, to do everything to make what we were doing seem like fun, instead of work. He'd purposely sing off pitch and make every- one laugh, trying to show me, in his own way, that if i made a mistake, no one would care, is it small wonder that i sang better than I'd ever sung before? ... I couldn't help it. "When we started on this nationwide tour a few weeks later, the fun really be- gan. But once again it was Nelson who made it fun, changed it from what might have been an endless round of homesick- ness, into something thrilling and exciting. "You see, this is the first time I've ever been away from home in my life, and in Portland, Oregon, 1 was so homesick and blue I was ready to catch the first train for Hollywood. Nelson wasn't with us all the time. There were two units, his concert troupe and the radio show. Nelson made concert appearances during the week, and then met us in the next city on his schedule o\er Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for rehearsals and the broad- cast. "And on this Friday in Portland, Alice, my accompanist, and I were sitting up in our hotel room, alone. Both of us were so lonesome and blue and homesick, we hardly said a word. "And suddenly we heard it! Down the hall, making the very rafters vibrate at twelve-thirty at night, came a booming voice which could only belong to one per- son, singing 'Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life,' at the top of his lungs! We fairly jumped out of our chairs and threw open the door! THERE he was, with his hat on side- ' ways and a large police badge the mayor of Portland had given him, pinned on his coat! And in each hand he had a present for us both. No, it wasn't candy, or flowers or jewelry, it was something far better' than that. It was two huge bags of popcorn! Honestly, I never had a better present in my whole life. "He had his manager and conductor with him and we ordered sandwiches and coffee and had a grand little party right there in the room. But I guess he could see I was still a little homesick, for pretty soon he slipped out. A few minutes later, the telephone rang. It was my mother! Calling from home. "And I didn't know until later that she hadn't called me. Nelson had called her! We must have talked for a half an hour, but he paid the charges, and said nothing. That's the way he is. He doesn't want thanks when he makes someone else happy. "After that night in Portland, our trip was one grand round of thrills and excite- ment. I'll never forget the night we left Portland for Salt Lake. Of course, every- where Nelson went there were women and girls, storming after him in an attempt to get his autograph, but that night in Portland was one of the funniest. "We all got out of our cabs and started leisurely through the station toward our train. But not Nelson! He'd hardly gone inside when we heard a whoop, and saw them coming — women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, waving autograph books and pencils in a mad dash to get there first. "Of course, all we did was to step aside and go on our way, but Nelson was cor- nered. We'd been sitting comfortably in the train for nearly fifteen minutes before he managed to make a dash for it. And he nearly broke his neck trying to jump all the steps in one leap, and lock himself in his compartment without turning the corner. "Our gang, all together, is pretty hard- hearted, and because he knew we'd kid him, he stayed locked in for over an hour. I'd gone out on the observation platform to enjoy the sight of snow for the first time in my life — miles on miles of it. Pretty soon he came out and sat down. We talked a while, and then, to the rhythmic click-click of the wheels, we started singing. "That's the Nelson Eddy few people know, a star who can sit out in the dark and the cold, singing just for the joy of it. "One night we were walking down the main street of Kansas City, and stepped into a drug store for a soda. Nelson has a special pair of glasses he wears, and he can walk down the street without one person in a hundred recognizing him. But in the drug store he stepped over to buy a bottle of brilliantine, and there was one little girl he didn't fool. I could see she recognized him the minute she saw him. "Nelson knew it too, when she dropped the first bottle, but he never cracked a smile, or let on he knew that she knew him. "Yes, there's a little devilment in him too. He had that poor girl nearly crazy, bumping into shelves and dropping bot- RADIO MIRROR ties all over the place. It's a wonder she didn't break her neck. She'd bring out a bottle, and he'd decide it wasn't what he wj.'nted. Then she'd bring out another, only she'd drop that one, and then they'd have to start all over again. 1 nearly bit my lip off trying to keep a straight face. "But he took care of everything. He had his manager slip back after we'd gone, to pay the proprietor for the broken bot- tles, and find out the girl's name. The next day he sent her a great big picture, and wrote across it, 'To the cutest girl in Kansas City.' "Oh, it's been like that all across the country. Laughs, and fun, and good times. But sometimes — " Nadine's eyes clouded with a sympathy that came, 1 knew, from the memory of that evening in Portland — "sometimes we know that he's blue and a little homesick too. Those are the times when he slips quietly away, up to his room, and we know he's telephoning his mother, back in Hollywood." And as Nadine finished telling me her story, I felt a little richer for having known her and a Nelson Eddy few people know. Does she love him? Yes, I guess she does, as everyone must who is close to him. Has she penetrated that wall around his heart? Yes, she has done that, too. She has done it in the only way it may ever be done, by being his friend, close and true and understanding. For 1 knew, without her telling me, how close they have become to each other. To- gether— Nelson for the first time in many years, Nadine for the first time in her life — they have found happiness simply be- cause neither expects anything but friend- ship from the other. Nelson and Nadine both chose, long ago, the path of stardom and fame and bright lights. It's a hard, rocky, lonely path, but to them its thrills are worth all its heartbreaks. Both of them know they must travel their ways alone — yet, know- ing that, they have found in each other happiness, companionship, and understand- ing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a very fine sort of "love." It's a Cinch to Feed the Baby {Continued from page 53) Something ought to be done about it! "Well, her husband took the strainer and went to work. He agreed that it was a tough job and that something should be done about it. And something was. For the husband was a canner, and he immediately began the series of experiments which enables mothers every- where today to buy canned strained vege- tables, cereals and fruits for their babies with the assurance that they are not only saving themselves tim.e and trouble but — and to every mother this, of course, is the vital point — that they are providing for their little ones more wholesome, nu- tritious meals than are possible with old- fashioned methods of preparation. "In the first place," IVliss Howe went on, "there is the question of the absolute freshness of the foods your baby eats. How many of you mothers are sure that the vegetables you are giving your baby are absolutely fresh? Very few of you, unless you have back yard gardens and live in a climate where such gardens flourish the year around. "Yet this guarantee of freshness the canners can, and do, give you. The vegetables for one of the manufacturers of canned strained foods are all grown within an hour's delivery of the plant. This means that they are picked when — and only when — they have reached the exact degree of ripeness that scientists have determined is their most nutritive; that they are delivered to the cannery, and strained, canned and cooked before they have lost any of their goodness by exposure to the air. Why, the whole process, from picking to the canned product ready for your baby's dinner, takes only a couple of hours. "Another condition under the control of the canner is this: Contracts for the raising of the vegetables are let only to farmers fulfilling certain requirements. This means that all vegetables are grown from tested seeds in soil which has proved its ability to produce crops of the high- est quality — and which is treated to as- sure continued high quality — and that during the growing season crops are reg- ularly inspected by supervisors of the canning factory. "I wish you could visit such a cannery. It would delight you to see the hygienic conditions under which these foods are prepared. When the vegetables are de- livered to the kitchens they are washed, washed and rewashed — no sand-in-spin- ach bugaboo here. Handling has been reduced to a minimum, and everyone tak- ing part in the preparation and cooking is as 'germ free,' so to speak, as any doctor or nurse in a hospital operating room. "Along about here," Miss Howe smiled, "some mother is going to ask, 'What ASK ANY YEAR-OLD BABY I IF you want baby's candid opinion on Heinz Strained Foods, just include them in his diet today. Watch him register approval! 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'A third item of importance is that the straining is done when the vegetables are partially cooked, so that no nutritive properties are removed along with the fibrous waste. And if you think you can prepare perfectly strained vegetables at home you should just see the monel metal screens, much finer than the ordinary square-meshed sieve, in use here. "The next question mothers bring up," said Miss Howe, "is, 'What about flavor? My baby is rather fussy and unless \'ege- tables taste just right he won't touch them.' That, too, is a question which is answered far better in the cannery than in the home. "For one thing, the flavor is sealed in, for the vegetables after sieving are placed for their final cooking in the identical cans which you purchase. Either over cooking or under cooking will impair flavor and here again the canner has it over the home cook, for in addition to guarding temperature and cooking time, he cooks the canned vegetables in a rotary container which assures an equal distribu- tion of heat during the cooking process. So don't stay away from canned foods if your baby is fussy; give them to him and watch his fussiness disappear. "We've rather concentrated on vege- tables so far," Miss Howe continued, "but the same exacting methods are used in the canning of strained cereals and fruits — with the same beneficial and flavorsome results. And speaking of flavor, you will find other uses for these strained foods aside frorn your baby's diet. They are ideal for invalid or convalescent cookery, and for purees and desserts for the fam- ily menu. If you've never tasted creamed spinach or prune whip made from these canned strained foods you don't know how delicious they can be. "I could go on and on, talking about these products," Miss Howe concluded, "but, to paraphrase a bit, the proof of canned, strained foods is in the eating. So do try them, for your baby's sake and your own. I am sure you will both be delighted." // you don't already know the names of the canned strained foods I'll be glad to send them to you. Also I have a hook- let giving invaluable suggestions for your baby's care and training, and a list of hooks for children's reading recommended by Ireene Wicker, the Singing Lady, both of which I am sure you will want. Just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Mrs. Margaret Simpson, Radio Mirror, 722 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Fame for Five Minutes (Continued from page 37) way. Radio is bringing Joe Doe and Susie Smith to Manhattan for a one-time ether appearance and Joe Doe and Susie Smith are crowding on the gravy-train. A swell time is being had by all. "What kind of person do you have to be? How do you get your chance on the air? What do you have to do? How much will you be paid? How long can you stay in New York and who'll show you around? Will the broadcasters get your boss to let you off? How much can you spend at night-clubs? Suppose you should get mike-fright and couldn't per- form at the last minute?" These are tlie questions listeners are asking. It's entirely possible that you're an in- teresting unknown and don't realize it. Scores of five-minute stars, shocked by sudden radio offers, have found that they were brought to the attention of broad- casters through hearsay, friends, news- paper or magazine clippings, if something about you is interesting to the general public, if you have an unusually in- teresting job or have had an unusual ex- perience of some kind, j'ou're apt to be sure-fire mike material. Most five-minute stars never dreamed they'd ever broadcast; few had ambi- tions in that direction. All of them have learned what it means to be lifted out of obscurity, made very famous for a very few minutes, then dropped back into ob- scurity again. You can hear these stars you never heard beftjre — and will probably never hear of again — on four of radio's outstand- ing shows: Phillips Lord's We, The People which has brought to the air such personalities as a professional eater, a Confederate slave, a Grand Central Station redcap, a dance hall hostess, a boy hobo; a dwarf, a traveling salesman, a cotton-picker, a bald-headed man, a sailor's wife, a Cen- tral Park bum, a blind woman, a lumber- jack, a dying woman, a lad with enor- mous feet, the mother of a kidnapped child, a girl cripple. Floyd Gibbons' Your Everyday Ad- venture series and Charles Martin's dra- matized thrills on the Philip Morris pro- grams present people who have exper- ienced unusual adventures. Survivors of fires, explosions, floods, shipwrecks, earth- quakes, accidents etc; heroes or heroines or people who have had their lives saved in very unique ways; people who have caught law-breakers, solved mysterious crimes, served prison terms for offenses of which they were later proved innocent, discovered gold or hidden treasure; peo- ple who have been the central characters in odd situations of coincidence. ROBERT L. RIPLEY'S Believe-lt-Or- Not presents living believe-or-nots — persons possessing unique physical or men- tal qualities or unusual bravery — a man who breaks rocks on his head, a man who raises rattlesnakes, a "human adding ma- chine." If you can match any of these, if you believe that you have a worthy contri- bution to make to any of the programs, write direct to Lord, Gibbons, Martin or Ripley. That's the way you get on the air. A Bedford, Indiana, housewife wanted to tell women how to hang out clothes cor- rectly; a mother from the heart of the Ozarks wanted to give the listeners a true picture of life in the backwoods; an aged barge-hermit claimed to be a champion woman-hater. All of them were brought to New York. RADIO MIRROR TUNE IN- TRUE STORY COURT OF HUMAN RELATIONS Unless you are already a listener- in on the True Story Court of Human Relations, sponsored by True Story Magazine, you are miss- ing one of the most absorbingly interesting broadcasts on the air. Each Friday night the True Story Court of Human Relations brings to its listeners a radio drama filled with thrills; drama, suspense. Broadcast over the NBC Red Net- work, a turn of the dial will bring into your home this wealth of wholesome, highly enjoyable enter- tainment. Tune in on Friday night without fail. 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KGW 8:30PMPST Seattle KOMO 8:30PMPST Spokane KHQ 8:30PMPST * Cincinnati WLW 6:30 PM EST •*Minn.-St. Paul KSTP 6:30PMCST * Sunday •♦Thursday TAKE YOUR CHOICE OF THESE STATIONS Every FRIDAY Night With the rage for interesting unknowns catching on like wildfire, the broadcasters need suitable personalities and are spend- ing vast sums of money to seek them out. So your letters are really requested and welcomed. Officials have even gone so far as to in- tercede with the bosses of their prospec- tive performers to let them off from work to make the trip. So anxious was We, The People to secure Roy Reigels, the football player who ran for the wrong goal in the Rose Bow! game a few years back they paid a substitute to take o\'er his job while he journeyed East from California. A New Hampshire school teacher couldn't secure a lea\'e of absence from her classes; Floyd Gibbons drama- tized her adventure story anyway and mailed her a check. From the moment you step on the train in your home town until you step off again, back safe and sound, you are the guests of the sponsor. All your ex- penses are paid. Vou may take your choice of plane or train. If you're minors you may bring a chaperone. Some pro- grams send welcoming committees to sta- tions and airports, others send uniformed messengers to see to it that you're safely guided through the city's confusing traffic. Room reservations are made in advance at hotels convenient to the networks. From the moment you leave until the moment you're back you are also, fre- quently, the headaches of your sponsors. MANY of those who have had fame for five minutes had never traveled be- fore sr been to a big city. A man from Texas thought the money-order that was sent him was a one-way fare and bought a round-trip ticket instead. He traveled three days and two nights without food, arriving in New York too ill to go on the air. A smalltown youth from Missis- sippi got lost in the railroad station, wandered about the city until nightfall looking for the right radio station, and was finally rescued by police. Sergeant Ahin York, the greatest hero of the World War. failed to show up for his first rehearsal. Ripley wired him, asking what the trouble was. York, one i of the world's bravest men, wired back: "Those were airplane tickets you sent me and I'm afraid to ride in a plane." Train arrangements were frantically made and York arrived in the nick of time. An old lady from the backhills of Ken- tucky, who had never been on a pull- man before, was so delighted with the luxuries of what she called a "bedded train" she flatly refused to get off the train in Grand Central. It took several attendants to lure her away with prom- ises of even greater thrills to come. Such incidents as these have impressed program officials with their responsibility in bringing Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Pub- lic to New York. Consequently they take every precaution now to safeguard the health and well-being of their guests. Often they are even prov'ided with con- stant bodyguards in the person of com- panion-escorts. In addition to their all-expense trips, unknowns ma\' earn from twenty-five to several hundred dollars for their mike appearances. Calumets' We, The Peo- ple pays no fees except to New Yorkers who must be deprived of the all-expense trip. Gibbons' '^'our Everjday Adven- ture, pa>s twenty-five dollars and awards a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar prize for the best adventure broadcast each month. The programs headed by Charles Martin and Ripley pay varying fees in accordance with what the performer has to offer. Schedules are so arranged that the five- minute stars will arrive in the city from n:^^' >^^>"^ A\i Alka- Seltzer ?or you. 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Charles Martin him- self took him to Coney Island, walked with him for miles along the deserted icy boardwalk until the ex-convict had had his fill of wonderment at the tall waves. MOLLIE TICKLEPITCHER, an elderly lady from Turnip Top Ridge, Tennessee, was curious about night clubs. Program officials entertained her royally at the swank French Casino but Mollie was not nearly so impressed with her gilded surroundings as she was by the sugar-lumps on the table being individu- ally wrapped in paper. Commented Mollie, watching the nude floor show, "If them was my daughters I'd thrash their hides clean off!" A young girl from the Tennessee moun- tain country was crazy for an orchid and a store-bought blouse. She got the orchid, complete with fern and gold rib- bon; the wife of the sponsor took her to Macy's and outfitted her in a smart hat and dress. Mrs. Irenee Crites, who had never be- fore been out of the Missouri Ozarks, wanted only one thing: the bedspread off her bed at the Waldorf. Of course' she couldn't have it, but she was given an- other almost its duplicate. Program officials and their assistants are kept plenty busy gratifying the re- quests of their visitors. Taking them sight seeing, shopping, to theaters and museums, ocean liners and automats. They'll even go so far as to help them lo- cate forgotten relatives in Brooklyn. At the microphone, unknowns are re- quired to do no more than they are capa- ble of doing. If your acting ability and intelligence is good at the first rehearsal, you'll find yourself cast in the role of yourself in a dramatized scene or play- let from your own life. You may read or recite a speech about yourself. Or you may be reduced to saying a mere "I'm very happy to be her. Thank you," or simply "thank you." The Ripley show once found itself con- fronted with a Greek gentleman who could neither read, write nor speak English. But he could say the one word "no." Hastily the entire script was rewritten so that he'd have to say nothing except "no;" a man was stationed beside him to follow the script; when the moments came for the Greek gentleman to say "no" the man would squeeze his arm and he'd say it. Mrs. Robert Browe, from Detroit, was making a plea for her kidnapped child who had been missing nine weeks. At rehearsals the production men gave up hope of getting her to speak her plea with expression in her voice. But when she finally began to broadcast, and the realization of what that broadcast might accomplish came over her, she sobbed and screamed her words into the microphone with all the expression of her tortured heart. Persons who can't read or pronounce words distinctly are fairly frequent. An old Confederate slave was taught to speak his piece by heart, with a prompter standing nearby in case he should forget. Almost weekly a host of dialects must be I ironed out into pronunciations the radio audience can understand. Mike-fright gets them all to an extent, although every- thing is done to avoid it. In the first place, unknowns are thoroughly and sym- pathetically rehearsed until they can't possibly be in doubt. They're allowed to stand or sit or lean on a table at the microphone in any position they find com- fortable. They wear their own everyday clothes so they won't feel ill at ease in the strangeness of a tuxedo or evening gown. Frequently, they are rehearsed be- fore an audience to accustom them to on-lookers. Many have the support of knowing that an understudy is standing by to come to their rescue in case they fail. And still they get mike-fright. A middle-aged lady was so overcome at hearing her childhood rescue from a ship- wreck she burst into loud tears and hys- teria and had to be carried out of the studio without giving her performance. An ex-lifer from a southern peniten- tiary was brought all the way to New York to say a mere "Thank you" on the Philip Morris show. He opened his mouth and tried his best for several sec- onds to get the words out, but they wouldn't come. A radio actor had to step up quickly and say them for him. A gentleman from Kentucky, hailed as the most rapid mathematical calculator in the world, performed his amazing won- ders of addition and multiplication quite smoothly at the Ripley rehearsals. On the air he went blank, was given several more chances to do his stuff, still went blank. The mike had him so stymied he actually couldn't add two and two. NOR is mike-fright the only item that may fizzle a performance. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public have turned out to have just as much artistic temperament as the big-name radio stars. A "Western law- yer, whose best suit had not come back from the cleaner's on time, had to be sorely prevailed upon by several frenzied pro- gram officials before he would step up to the microphone in baggy pants. A so- ciety matron staunchly refused to broad- cast unless her bull terrier could sit in her lap while she did so. And what began as a friendly little head-butting session between two men with the supposedly "hardest heads in the world" turned into an honest-to-goodness fight. Then there's the ever-present possibility that the unknowns, unaccustomed to the strict punctuality required of radio artists, may be late for the broadcast. A ranch- er's wife who all her life had gotten up at four in the morning and gone to bed at nightfall, fell asleep in a Radio City ladies' room after dinner and was finally found just in time to be put on the air. An unsuspecting farmer got into_ the hands of a shyster who kept him in hiding up until the last minute in an attempt to make Charles Martin pay a ransom or go on the air without any guest-star. Now, the broadcasters corral their talent a good six hours in advance of program time, keep them in the studio and keep an eye on them. On the whole, however, the John Q. Publics are making pretty swell radio stars. They're willing and appreciative and serious about their jobs, they take the tedious rehearsals and the mike-fright and the thrills of their trips in their stride. It's only after they've gone back home that they can't take it— when the fan mail and congratulations stop pour- ing in, when their day as a local celebrity is waning, their fees are spent, and there's nobody left who can listen afresh to the story of their sensational experiences — Then they nearly all write letters to their sponsors and beg to be invited back. 90 New Cook Book Ida Bailey Allen's Mrs. Margaret Simpson, food editor of Radio Mirror, has se- lected this 196-page vohime for printing in a special edition for Radio Mirror readers. 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