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Above — "Curly" and "Charlie" piled up barrels of fan telegrams at KSTP recently.
Right — Harry and
Joe, popular WJAY
funsters.
Two Chicagoans in the quartette (left). Top, Jack Doty, featured in NBC "First Nighters," and Bobby Brown, WBBM program boss and announcer.
Bottom, two Clevelanders. Fred Ripley, assistant manager of WGAR, and Stanleigh Davis, who wields a musical saw at WHK when he isn't smoking a pipe.
Harold attended the University of Illinois, where he majored in mathematics and coeds, taking a Bachelor's Degree in science which possibly accounts for the fact that he is not married. . . . Another new comer to KYW is Bernice Yanacek — pianist and — a redhead! . . .
THE people who produce the Little Theatre plays have interesting "dramatic" backgrounds. June Meredith, who is the leading lady in the "First Nighter" productions, an NBC feature, is from the legitimate stage, and Jack Doty, featured on the air with Miss Meredith, was also drafted from Broadway where he was a popular leading man for several seasons with Jane Cowl. The author of these plays is a blond, winsome little miss, Miss Catherine Abels by name, no mean actress in her own right. She was graduated from the Department of Dramatics of the University of Wisconsin. And just a word about Charles P. Hughes, the producer. Mr. Hughes has been doing clever Radio production work, principally over WIBO, for some time, but has recently come from behind the scenes to assume the Radio personality of the genial "First Nighter."
Personality Bits from
Cleveland
'By Marvell Lenoir
ABOUT that happy pair of funsters, Joe and Harry of /\ WJAY ... Off the air Joe O'Toole is as Irish as his I % name. His blue eyes, curly hair, and Irish ways make him as popular as any bit o' green ever made a body yet. Harry Royale is taller, darker, and more dignified but even he packs plenty of smiles and spreads them around generously. The boys began their work together in that casual way so common to Radio Folk. You know — one man is rehearsing in a studio, when another strolls in. heaves a sigh that plainly says. "I want to rehearse in this studio, must you always be underfoot?" "A" looks disgusted, but doggedly keeps thumping away, and to show how nonchalant "B" feels he begins singing a late popular song. "A" stands impatiently tapping his foot on the rug, which "B" doesn't hear at all. Finally liking the tune and forgetting his grievance in true temperamental style, "A" begins the second chorus and sings it with "B". "B" looks at "A" and "A" looks at "B", then they both grin broadly, friends again. They make up and shake on it. outline a program, hunt up the powers that be and beg an audition. Granted and they click and there they are. That's how Joe and Harry met and clicked and still continue to click for sixty minutes every day.
FRED RIPLEY, one of Cleveland's premier Radio men and a newspaper man of note, is now assistant manager of Cleveland's youngest Radio station. WGAR. (His picture appears here.) He is tall and dark, with a deep, resonant bass voice that fits him perfectly. He first sang bass solos over Cleveland's pioneer station WHK. And later created the very popular character of Black Bill, singing more bass solos in dialect over WTAM. Several times Mr. Ripley has left Radio to devote his entire time to newspaper work, but the lure of the "mike" has been too much for him and each time he comes back.
Mr. Ripley gives special attention to auditions and despite his many other duties insists on hearing them all himself. Every Sunday afternoon he gives his audiences a treat with two new voices never before heard over the air.