Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

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If You Like Them, Let Them Know It By MYRA MAY WHAT is it like to play to an unseen audience? How do famous artists, used to applause and adulation, feel when they perform before a "tin can" as their sole spectator? • Charles B. Popenoe, director of WJZ, has watched hundreds of seasoned stage stars make their radio debut. He says nearly all of them get radio fright. "Practically everyone is self-conscious before the microphone," he explained. "Professionals during their first concert by radio are always as nervous as amateurs on their first appearance. The only exception I ever saw was the Hasty Pudding Club, of Harvard. These boys, dressed in feminine attire, came up to the studio prepared for a good time. Nothing in the world could phase them. Even the 'little tin can', as the microphone is disrespectfully called, failed to dampen their enthusiasm. "They cracked their jokes and sang their E. H. SOTHERN AND JULIA MARLOWE Who are almost as well known to radio audiences as they are to inveterate Shakespeare play-goers