Radio Digest (May 1931-May 1932)

58 Station Parade seven inches ; parts his light brown hair on the side, has dreamy looking blue eyes, wears spats and is nearly thirtyfour. Glenn weighs more than two hundred pounds. Their chief diversions are golf and automobiling. Each summer the boys take a vacation at Glenn Lake, Mich., where they fish, swim, loaf and grow mustaches. As incongruous as their act would seem in terms of the theater, Gene and Glenn have been a great success in vaudeville. Seattle was her birth-place, and her first stage engagement was in Salt Lake City. Then the big chance — the part of the little cripple girl in Channing Pollock's play, "The Fool" ! Even now, her eyes widen and grow black when she remembers that triumph ! Then came their big break — Mr. Opportunity knocked at their door in no uncertain manner when they made their KFTFB H oily wood "KidsSuccessful TWO engaging youngsters — and two dyed-in-the-wool professionals! Yes, they're one and the same thing — Emerson Tracy and Gay Seabrook, who have made "Growin' Up" one of the most delightful and hearttugging skits on the air. Heard over KFWB in Hollywood every evening except Sunday, at six-forty-five, "Growin' Up" weaves the story of two small town kids who take life as they find it, and who find it very full of excitement ! But the two kids themselves? Well, that's another story ! Blonde, blue-eyed Emerson Tracy, who crinkles his nose when he laughs, first saw the light of day in Philadelphia, and in fact went so far as to attend St. Joseph's College there. Then the stage lured him away from the academic path, and he played as juvenile in the same show with Ann Harding and Eva Le Gallienne, and then toured the New England states with a stock company. John Golden, eminent producer, saw him, and took him to New York to play the lead in that hilarious comedy, "Pigs." It was in "Pigs" that he first began working with Gay Seabrook, the little dark eyed girl who has such an appealing voice and such an infectious laugh. Pa and Ma' Smithers are one of the leading features at KFBI, in sketches which portray an old couple living on the outskirts of Tinkerville. Pa (Dan Hosmer) writes the skits, while Ma (Christine Crans) helps with suggestions. debut over KFWB in "Growin' Up." The heart aches and happiness and sorrows and pleasures of two youngsters going through the process of becoming adults make their story one so human that every listener can think — "Why, that's just the way I felt !" KTM-Los Angeles Welcomes Rader PAUL RADER, internationally famous evangelist, has returned to Los Angeles after a six year absence during which time he preached around the world twice. Paul Rader and his Couriers do a KTM program at 4:30 p. m. each week day and on Sunday nights a two hour broadcast with his musical organization from 10 p. m. to midnight. Rader was one of the first to broadcast in Chicago more than ten years ago, when Westinghouse engineers broadcast from a ten by twelve penthouse room wherein all the studio and technical apparatus was housed in the one space. Rader's missionaries, 100 strong, are likewise radio minded. One group operates a radio station on the Russian-Poland border for daily programs to the Soviet Union. Another group, at Quito, Ecuador, has established a radio station under a 25year agreement with the government. In Chicago, where Rader preached for 17 years, including seven years as pastor of the famous Moody Church, the pastor appeared regularly with his "breakfast brigade' from WLW for twe years. Then he was heard over WHT and via WBBM and the Columbia System. The new KTM series, it is announced, will continue for an indefinite period. The Sunday night time, known as the "Back Home Hour" is expected to make a particular appeal to the home folks. Grace Tabernacle, where Rader preaches, will furnish choir, ensemble, soloists and distinguished visiting clergymen from time to time for the radio periods on the air. KOIN-Portland, Fans Helpful JOHNNIE WALKER, "Host" on the "Isle of Golden Dreams," released from KOIN studios in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday nights 9:30 to 10 o'clock, is in a quandary as to his choice of procedure in playing all the requests