Radio age (Jan-Dec 1925)

RADIO AGE /or November, 1925 What the Broadcasters are Doing 29 Out Where the Newsboys Sing! It's hardly necessary to tell you, but the above gleaming visages belong to the newsboys* radio quartet, which is one of KNX's surprise features for the impending radio season. Don't they look as though they could wield a lusty lung? KNX Adds "Newsboys' Quartet" As Latest Radio Feature; Ralph L. Power Qives Impressions of California Radiodom RADIO fans who tune in on Southern California broadcast stations with any degree of frequency know that they can expect almost anything from stations in and around Los Angeles. Of course, they have their set musical menus via the ether waves, but they are always offering something new to listeners. For instance, KFI has just put on a series of talks by Dr. William E. Balsinger, famous plastic surgeon who maintains offices in Chicago and Hollywood. Dr. Balsinger, who was a major in the reserve during war days, is the surgeon who re-made Dempsey's nasal appendage and he told listeners-in all about the new nose. Fans had heard lectures on topics ranging from dandruff to birth control, but never anything about how to acquire a new nose as fashions in facial expressions change. The Newsboy Warblers THEN there is the Newsboys' Quartet often heard from KNX in Hollywood. The youthful vendors of newsprint have warbled their Way into the homes of thousands of radio families everywhere and their graduation from the barber shop group to the newsboys' quartet could never have been accomplished without the magic of radio. From singing on the street corner to their present engagements at banquets and clubs, made possible through radio, was a big forward step in their lives. Sefiora Alma Real is an old time favorite in the grand opera field and she has made numerous personal appearances in California this year, notably in the Hollywood Bowl Concerts and at the Theatre of the Stars at Big Bear Lake, where radio KFXD is located at an elevation of more than a mile. Sefiora Real, with her repertoire of Mexican and Spanish love songs has won instant applause in radio fields, and she has appeared at KHJ, Los Angeles, many times. Special programs for the Mexican Day of Independence and separate programs of Spanish folk songs have After seeing Duane Thompson, film star, in this pose, we don't care whether she can sing over radio or not. She appears consistently at KFI — but — what were we saying? been particularly applauded by fan mail and personal telephone calls. Then there is Louise Santschi Katzenberger, Swiss yodeler, who brings to receiving sets everywhere the plaintive melodies of the Alps region. She has been a favorite at KFWB, Hollywood, in solo work as well as with the Tyroler Zither Club, whose soft, sweet music has brought as many as 4,500 applause cards for a single concert. The organization has gathered together a unique library of original melodies from their native land and each program is a gem in artistic and musical setting. Mrs. Katzenberger, in native costume, takes great delight in singing the quaint yodel songs and the soft lullabies brought to us from the land across the sea. The poet laureate of the Los Angeles police department is Sergeant Cyrus Johnson, of the Hollywood station, and he is a frequent orator at KNX. As a purveyor of romantic sonnets and tales of romance, Officer Johnson has made an enviable record and, while he remains a guardian of the law by necessity he is a poet at heart and radioland gains thereby. Duane Thompson Enters Radio \ ND of course you can hear any -£*• number of film and stage stars talk or present some kind of musical talent from Southern California -transmitting stations. Duane Thompson, one of filmland's celebrities, has entertained from various Los Angeles stations. Others who have entertained from the film colony include Lew Cody, Walter Hiers, Creighton Hale, Renee Adoree, Lewis Stone, Monte Blue, Percy Marmont, Marie Prevost John Bowers, Marguerite de la Motte. Johnny Fox, Jr., Baby Peggy. Carmel Myers, Katherine McGuire and scores of others equally as well known.