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RAD1 O REV U E
Life Insura
Herbert L. Westfall
Special Agent
99 Warren Street
New York City
Suite 122
'Phone— BARclay 7169
Main Street Sketches Set Record
(Continued from page 11) Angeles to Daytona Beach, Fla.
Leonard went to Xew York next, but could find nothing to do there, so he hurried back to the Pacific Coast. Back in Los Angeles, he got a job as an extra with the old Kaleni Motion Picture Company and worked with them and also with the Vitagraph, 101 Bison, Fox, Essanay and Triangle companies for three years.
In 1914 he enlisted in the Canadian Engineers in Vancouver and was immediately sent to France. In a short while he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was wounded in battle at Liege, where he had gone to school, and was sent to a hospital in Greenwich. England, to recuperate. When he was stronger, he was sent to Arizona, where he entirely regained his health.
Leonard then went back to shipbuilding. After a few weeks on the job, a huge bilge fell on him and he was sent back to the hospital. When he was discharged this time, he went to Arizona and started to work in the copper mines. After two days on the job he was buried for 72 hours in the cave-in of a shaft that was 1.475 feet underground. And so he was carried to the hospital again.
Shortly afterward he became a travelling salesman, selling automobile accessories and electrical appliances. However, he soon tired of this. His next venture was automobile racing, trying to beat the Overland Express in high-powered racing cars.
He again set out for Xew Yorl ton as a salesman for radio sets. He travelled throughout the southern states and settled in St. Petersburg, Fla., for a while. Later he became radio editor for the St. Augustine News. Next he opened a radio shop on board a motorboat, with which he travelled from one river town to another, trying to interest people in radio.
After a few years he again went to Xew York, where he got a job as part time announcer with Station WJZ. Later he handled production work. He spent a year at this post and then went to WABC, where he was made studio director. This station was the laboratory in which he worked out the first successful and unusual radio productions; using sound effects to create the desired atmosphere. It was here that he originated "Nights at Tony Pastor's." a program of vaudeville sketches reproduced as they had been presented 40 years previous.
In December, 1027. Leonard joined the sales department at WOR. Here, after he had created "Main Street Sketches" and several other striking programs, he was made program director. He is constantly striving for new effects and is ever alert for original program ideas, but the "Main Street Sketches' remain his particular pet.
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"Behind the Mike" on Palmolive Hour
(Continued from page 29) holds his arm up in warning for several seconds, and then with a throw of a switch drops his arm. Another gnu lightens his face as he releases the audience from its bond of silence with the cheerful call: "Party's over!"