Radio Digest (Mar 1928-Oct 1929)

79 Everybody IV rites Little Jack ©0 You Remember LITTLE JACK LITTLE, right, and Happy Harry Geise, left, two Radio artists young in years but old in experience, who have an army of followers. LITTLE JACK LITTLE and his mail appeal! Wherever he goes this little giant of the air draws letters by thousands, and if he ever should announce his intention of running for President on the democratic ticket it will be time for the republicans to become alarmed. In the picture shown above, Little Jack Little is answering one of the flood of telephone calls that followed immediately after one of his broadcasts. Happy Harry Geise, chief announcer at KSTP, St. Paul, is helping to open up the letters. "How-do-you-do, Harry," that's what they used to call* him in Chicago, seems to be happy about what he is reading, so we — that means you, too, dear reader — may reasonably suppose that this billet doux has a word or two of mutual interest for the two of them. But, speaking of the telephone calls, Jack and Harry introduced a novelty during the brief visit of the former at the St. Paul station. They put the listeners on the air. Oh, yes, indeed. You will have to get the technical information as to details from the station engineer, but it's true. Somebody called up from Dallas, Texas, and the operator hooked the call into the microphone. If the Dallas fan had been listening to the loud-speaker while he was making his call, he would have heard his voice come back to him — all the way from Dallas to St. Paul and back to Dallas. Everybody else who happened to be listening in at the time also heard the voice from Texas. Then came other calls, one from Lima, Ohio; another from Glendive, Mont.; others from Elkhart, Ind.; Sioux City, Iowa; Milwaukee, Wis.; Aberdeen, S. D., and Bismarck, N. D. But Little Jack Little is a flighty favorite — here today, somewhere else tomorrow. Wherever he goes he is warmly welcomed in return. From St. Paul he hopped down to WLW, Cincinnati, and there he remains to this very day. according to last accounts. ALINE RADIO'S first leading lady, who was playing leads while still in her 'teens, has cemented her claims to this unique title more closely than ever. Rosaline Greene, who was the leading lady of the famous little band of WGY players at Schenectady during her college days in Albany, is now a leading lady of the Eveready Hour, which has been the medium for the introduction by Radio of a long list of stage and concert stars during the five years of its existence. Supported by a regular stock company, which includes a number of actors and actresses known to legitimate theatre goers, she has already received warm critical approval for her work in three recent Eveready Hour continuity productions and will soon be heard in other ambitious undertakings which that pioneer program has scheduled for this new year. Although, in the interim following her work with the WGY players and before her appearance in the Eveready Hour studios, she played in stock and on Broadway, Miss Greene possesses no desire to win triumphs upon the visible stage in preference to her Radio successes. The girl who, as the new star of the Eveready Hour played Joan of Arc in the production of that name, and who was Josephine to Lionel Atwill's Napoleon in the play of the latter title, is firmly wedded to a permanent Radio career. Possessed of a splendid voice, whose clear tones won for her first prize for the best Radio voice at the Radio World's Fair, the Eveready leading lady has more than the average actress' share of beauty and charm. It is easy to imagine her as a popular matinee idol on Broadway. ROSALINE GREENE took to stage in her 'teens and now heads stock company for exclusive Eveready Hour presentations. Rosaline Greene was born on Long Island and attended the New York State Teachers' college at Albany, where she was picked from a number of members of the school's dramatic society by the WGY director, for a Radio try-out. From WGY. after a year of teaching elocution, she went to New York a fewyears ago, to meet with similar successes in a number of Radio productions.