Radio Digest (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)

JAH 59 1931 I ©C1B 102865 ^ Raymond Bill, Editor Henry J. Wright, Advisory Editor THE NATIONAL BROADCAST AUTHORITY O STTNO Charles R. Tighe, Associate Editor Harold P. Brown, Managing Editor BERNARDINE F LYNN ...This is the face that launched a thousand — locomotives. In other words, the charming leading lady of Empire Builders, whose chugchuggingfrom Chicago NBC heralds thrilling drama. A DELE VASA . . . . Too late, you can't have her any more, no matter how much you like her looks. Paul Green, night manager of Columbia studios has the sweet soprano under contract. Perhaps 'twill be a Radio wedding. Including RADIO REVUE and RADIO BROADCAST jebruary, ipjl CONTENTS ARTURO TOSCANINI— Intimate glimpses of Philharmonic Maestro Reveal his Eccentricities. NIGHT CLUBS OF NEW YORK— Frivolities of The Gay White Way Divulged by . . . THAT OLD GANG OF MINE— The Beloved Miketeer Reminisces — as told to Doty Hobart. FALLING IN A CRASHING AIRPLANE— It was the "Thrill of a Lifetime" to Intrepid . . . PREPARING FOR THAT RAINY DAY— Radio Stars are Socking away Savings — and How! BELIEVE IT OR NOT— How The Queeriosity Cartoonist Marshals His Odd Facts. IS A COMEDIAN FUNNY TO HIS WIFE?— Anyway, He isn't Boring, says Mrs. Fred Stone. RADIO DRAMA — About the Man who'd Rather Starve in Dramatics than Feast in Business. BETTER TIMES— Radio Rallies The Nation toward Prosperity to the Tune of Millions of Dollars. THE NE'ER DO WELL— Radio Digest Has Privilege of Unmasking Mystery Star of KROW. STRIKES— LUCKY AND UNLUCKY— of B. A. Rolfe, Ex-Millionaire Radio Celebrity. MAGIC CARPET— Dreams Come True To A Dweller In The Far-away Ozarks Through Radio. STAR-GAZING FOR GRAHAM— Combing The Heavens to Astrologize McNamee's Future. IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED — Tables were turned — Radio Listeners Became Playwrights! SCIENCE AND RELIGION— A Reconciliation of the two Forces, by World Famous Physicist. CARUSOS OF TOMORROW— Your Child may be one — Here's How to Start him Right. TOWN CRIER TALES— Parable of Princeton Grad, Good Samaritan and the Hi-Jacked Watch. RADIO TALKIES — "Scen-air-iozation" of popular Pictures Goes Over in a Big Way out at KH]. LADIES MUST FLY— Says Ruth R. Nichols, Aviatrix, in Heart-To-Heart talk with . . . David Ewen 6 Rudy Vallee 8 S. L. Rothafel—"Roxy" 12 Lowell Thomas 16 Evans Plummer 20 Robert L. Ripley— "Rip" 24 Lillian G. Genn 26 Harriet Menken 29 30 Helen Spaulding 45 Alma Sioux Scarberry 46 Alice Curtice Moyer-Wing 49 Peggy Hull 50 B. G. Clare 52 Sir Arthur Eddington 54 Frank La Forge 56 Alexander Woollcott 57 Dr. Ralph L. Rower 58 Anne B. Lazar 86 Coming and Going (p. 4) Station Popularity Contest (5 and 100) Album (33) Editorials (60) Radiographs (62) Marcella (64) Station News (begins 67) Tuneful Topics (74) Classical Music Simplified (78) Women's Features (begin 82) Hits, Quips and Slips (87) Voice of the Listener (90) Scientific Progress of The Radio Arts (92) Stations Alphabetically Listed (94) Pipes of Pan (106) Radio Digest, 420 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Phone Lexington 1760. Radio Digest will not be held responsible for unsolicited manuscripts received through the mail. All manuscripts submitted should be accompanied by return postage. Business Staff: Business Manager, Lee Robinson, 420 Lexington Ave., New York; National Advertising Representatives, R. G. Maxwell & Co., 420 Lexington Ave., New York City, and Mailers Bldg., Chicago. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Radio Digest. Volume XXVI. ^No. 4,' February, ljufl. Published monthly by Radio Digest Publishing Corporation, 42 0 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Subscription rates yearly. Three Dollars; Foreign Postage, One Dollar additional; single copies, Twenty-five cents, Entered as second-class matter Nov. 18, 1930, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Adtiitional entry as second-class matter at/Chicago, 111. Title Reg. U. S. Patent Office and Canada. Copyright, 1931, by\/Radio Digest Publishing Corporation. / All rights reserved. President, Raymond Bill; Vice-Presidents. .1. B. Spillane, 'Randolph Brown; Treasurer, Edward Lyman Bill; Secretary, Leslie J. Tompkins. Published in association with Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., and Federated Business Publications, Inc. AN N AB ELLE JACKSON is musical to her fingertips . . . even makes the teacups perform melodiously when she hostesses it in Cleveland. Oh yes, her pay check reads, "WTAM . . .for services as concert pianist." DOLORES CASSINELLI . . . A dark-haired Latin beauty who started her education in a Chicago convent, graduated to the silver screen and received her "Ph.D." in Being Charming as an NBC songstress.