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Jane Froman's luck has misled a number of air-yearners.
How
WHEN he came into the office at eleven that morning and asked for Eddie Cantor, the pop-eyed comedian's secretary said her boss wasn't in; in fact, wouldn't be in that day.
The visitor looked disappointed and left. And the girl forgot all about him. But he was very forcefully brought to her attention at 5:30 that afternoon when she went to draw the shades before closing up for the day. For there, perched on the narrow ledge outside the window, a dizzy twenty stories up from the ground, she found the young man of the morning.
When she got help to yank him in, she demanded: "Why did you do such a fool trick?"
Then he told his story. He had hitch-hiked from the mid-west, determined to get into radio and it seemed to him that soft-hearted Cantor, who had helped many another unknown, would be the logical person to ease him onto the airwaves. When the secretary said Eddie wasn't in, he was sure she was fibbing. So he got into a nearby empty office, climbed out on a ledge and then crawled along to the right window, peeping in occasionally to see whether Cantor
Trying to out-smart Fred Waring is an old and tough game, and Fred is still on top. Below — Kate Smith was coming 'round the microphone one day to help a girl, but the girl turned out to be a spindlevoiced cheat.
To Break Into Radio
It takes more than nerve, courage or gall to crash a broadcasting studio but they have all been tried.
By Ruth Arell
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