Radio mirror (Nov 1937-Apr 1938)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? The Three Marshalls, Peggy, Kay and Jack, have a new style of swing harmony all their own. These youngsters from Alabama are heard regularly over the NBC network. Jerome in Pepper Young's Family. He also appears frequently in Radio Guild productions. Cheer up, R. R. Siegler, and you other Sherlock fans. There is always the possibility that even if Mr. Gordon has abandoned Sherlock, some other fellow may don gumshoes and monocle and bring Holmes out of retirement. A. Josephine Gees, Baltimore, Md. — The Voice of Experience, silent these past months, will be heard again, starting September 27, over forty stations, including WLW, as a transcription program, sponsored by Lydia Pinkham. Five quarter-hours weekly is the present plan. Mr. Joseph Carey, Freeland, Pa. — Rudy Vallee has been married twice. His first wife, who has since remarried, was Leonie Cauchois McCoy. Myrtle M. Bennett, Galveston, Tex. — Vinton Haworth, who captured the radio audience's affections as the original Jack Arnold of Myrt and Marge, is under contract to RKO Pictures. He has made six pictures for this company, "China Passage" and "Riding on Air" the most recent. You can write him care of RKO, 780 Gower Street, Hollywood, California. C. P. Lunneen, Aurora, 111. — The Major Bowes Amateurs are interviewed before the program and the information obtained used by the Major in planning his broadcast, but scripts are not employed during the actual broadcast. Mrs. Williams, Maiden, Mass. — Rita Johnson appearing in Columbia Workshop plays as a member of the cast — not as monologist. The Workshop is an experimental theater of the air but is a regular program, not a class for would-be actors. Miss Johnson was on Broadway this past winter in George M. Cohan's play, "Fulton of Oak Falls." The Leland Powers School is a popular training school for the stage, in Boston. Janet Leland, New York City — There's no Conrad Thibault fan club registered with this department, but I'm printing your request in the fan club section in hopes of luring one into the open. If you have been reading your Radio Mirror {Continued on page 72) MOTHBALLS for the famous false whiskers of Sherlock Holmes, my dear Watson! That sums up the verdict radio actor Richard Gordon pronounced in a recent newspaper interview when he declared he would never again give his popular radio portrayal of the No. 1 sleuth of fiction. "I'm typed in producers' minds as 'that fellow who plays Holmes,' " said Gordon. But, if the radio audience can't have Sherlock, it can have Gordon. This versatile actor is now playing the title role in the Thatcher Colt Mysteries, Tetlow in Follow the Moon, and Mr. Answers to Professor Quiz' Twenty Questions on Page 3 1. Gracie Allen — it's a rivalry, even if it is a friendly one. 2. Two pianos. 3. A juggler. 4. He's bet $2,000 that his next child, which is on its way, will be a girl. 5. Harriet Foster, formerly his secretary. 6. Any salesman with a good stock of canary-yellow sweaters. 7. His camp, The Lodge, on Lake Kezar, Maine. 8. Frank Black, Francia White, Rosaline Greene, Johnny Green, and Glen Gray. 9. Les Tremayne — leading man of First Nighter. 10. None — they're both Eddie Cantor. 11. Charlie Winninger, in his role of Show Boat's Cap'n Henry. 12. "Have You Forgotten?" by Dana Suesse. 13. "Folks." 14. "She's" really a man. 15. His Crossley popularity rating went above Winchell's recently. 16. Because the end of the drama is never put on the air. 17. Rudy Vallee's. 18. Thirteen — it always brings her luck. 19. His mother, Mrs. Evelyn Offield. 20. His wife — she used to be Dorothy Wesley, swimming star. 56