Radio Digest (Mar 1928-Oct 1929)

52 Sejuty knows No Border Lines MEAN people sometimes have a habit of slurring, and making scurrillous remarks pertaining to the physical charms of Radio artists. It all is manifestly unfair, because, just look, here on this page we have four very beautiful young women who are particularly popular with Radio audiences. , And, turn right or left, you will find many charming faces through our album and our feature pages. The lady in broad brimmed hat and fairly bubbling over with good spirits is Ethel of the Ethel and Harry team at WHK. Her full name is Ethel Hawes. Any Ohio listener will tell you that Ethel and Harry have a very precise faculty of getting down to the everyday life of the average married couple. They have little tiffs, m a ke wise cracks to each other, go through the domestic mill with i t s daily grist of trials, t ribulations and rifts of sunshine. It's all so natural and convincingthat thousands of listeners have written to WHK asking if Ethel and Harry are really married, or are they just play-acting. Well, are they? Hush, don't tell a soul. They are married. Oh, positively, but NOT to each other. Ethel writes the little stories that they broadcast every day. And that Ethel giggle — lots of girls try to imitate her! Just to hear that one little giggle is enough to drive an ordinary case of blues to the bottom of the sea where all blues belong. Did you ever hear Ethel and Harry do a job of papering the house over the Radio? It's better than any vaudeville sketch you ever saw on the stage, and some listeners have been known to laugh themselves into hysterics. The sweet senoritas at the bottom of the page are visitors to American audiences from our neighbor republic below the Rio Grande. They are famous in their own country as El Trio Garnica Ascencio. In fact, they attracted so much attention that an American impresario heard of them, made inquiries and engaged them to come to New York for a series of phonograph records. On their way to the great American metropolis they visited Cuba and sang at the principal theatres throughout the island, winding up their tour with one triumphal engagement at the Encanto theatre in Havana. Among the many Spanish airs which they have brought to American audiences is "Ojos Triestes" (Sad Eyes), which promises to become a national hit in a very short time. While in New York they have been heard over the National Broadcasting company stations. The Trio Garnica Ascencio do their share to refute such ill mannered imputations that vocal artists do not lean toward excess pulchritude. That women have a place in the Radio picture and are as versatile as men is apparent when one considers that Ethel can write playlets, home and human interest stories in addition to Radio continuities. She has been active _ in newspaper work in Cleveland, is a home loving body and a popular Radio entertainer. The Mexican maids inject the dash and _ fire of Old Mexico into their singing, and have been such popular Radio artists that a long time engagement is before them in the United States. Already we are much indebted to our sister republic to the south for many new queens and nobles in the revered circles of our screen royalty. Our great opera companies and our orchestras from the wildest jazz to symphonic bear the names of Mexican artists. Is it not time that we should reasonably expect something extraordinary for Radio audiences? Welcome to the United States and welcome to the American Radio broadcast studios, senoritas of El Trio Garnica Ascencio. Your voices and your pretty faces are your country's ambassadors (or should we say "ambassadresses") of the air to a friendly nation that recognizes no border lines for beauty. We never weary of your La Paloma and other soulful melodies of your country. _ v ' V' El Trio Garnica :' Ascencio, Mexican N^ / senoritas, who are heard over the NBC net. Ethel Ethel at WHK, Hawes of the and Harry Team Cleveland.