Radio fan-fare, combining radio digest (June-Oct 1933)

©£1B 1983 > THE TALK OF THE AIR By JACK FOSTER formerly Radio Editor and now Feature Editor, New York World-Telegram RECENTLY Budd Hulick, Col onel Stoopnagle's aide-de-crampin-your-side, was talking to WABC's pretty receptionist, Margaret Holland, who said, "Well, I'm going home to Troy this week-end to get away from you comedians. There'll be nothing funnier there than a church social." "Try and get away from us," replied Budd. A quick check-up by Margaret revealed that Budd and the Colonel were due there on the same date to appear at a church jubilee. "Well, would jubilee it?" asked Margie. "That church is just across the street from my house and a friend of mine has invited me to go to hear her sing in the choir. She said nothing about you though. How'd Hulick that?" • • • PHIL REGAN, the handsome Irish tenor, used to be a cop on the beat. The CBS page boys say Phil has lived from hoof to mouth. • • • WHEN the Boswell Sisters were in London a few weeks ago Connie thought she seemed to be getting a bit plump in the face and so she did some heavy dieting for a couple of days. Her face got plumper. It turned out that it wasn't obesity. It was mumps. • • • YOU'LL see Jimmie Melton in the movies soon. He has just dieted away twenty-eight pounds so that the camera will be kinder. BETWEEN performances at a Hartford theatre this week, Lanny Ross, not stopping to remove makeup, hurried over to the Hartford General Hospital to see the wife and brand new baby of a Hartford friend. Waiting in the reception room, he was pounced on by a staff physician who tried to hurry him into the clinic. In the uncertain light the doc took Lanny's makeup for an extreme case of jaundice. After explanations, both had a good laugh and it turned out the M.D. was the father of Katherine Hepburn, Radio Pictures star. IT'S about time these autograph hunters were exposed! If Babe Ruth would like to know where the fly ball is that he hit into the Yankee Stadium stands some while back, please call the CBS studios and ask for Charles Carlile, lyric tenor and rabid baseball fan. Charlie caught the ball and is carrying it around in his pocket until the Babe is booked to appear at the studios. He won't be content until he sees the handwriting on the ball. WHEN they gave a radio demonstration of that famous "truth" serum (which is supposed to make you tell the truth in spite of anything you try to do) they wanted to get an extremely difficult subject for the experiment. Yes, they finally decided on a commercial announcer. LOCAL-BOY-MAKES-GOOD de■J partment : Ben Bernie recalls that Jimmie Mattern, who flew to Siberia for the summer, once played the drums in the Old Maestro's band. Ben says there was nothing the matter with Jimmie's drumming, either. • • • MILDRED BAILEY used to be one of Hollywood's ghost singers. It was Mildred's voice you heard when you watched some of the best known movie stars go through the motions of warbling. Now Hollywood is angling for Mildred in person. e • • MICROPHONE No. 13 in Columbia's New York studios is apparently not jinxed. It has never "blown." The mike stands in the studio used by Alfred E. Smith, Charles A. Lindbergh, John W. Davis and most of the nation's celebrities. R USSELL JOHNS used to go to grammar school in Chillicothe, Ohio, with Clyde Beatty, now of "Beatty and the Beasts." Rus says he thinks it was their eighth grade teacher who drove Clyde into lion taming. • • • WILL ROGERS says the alarm clock he takes to broadcasts with him is used not only to tell him when to stop talking but also to wake the audience up. / Radio Fan-Fare, combining Radio Digest. Volume XXX^No. 5." September 1933. Subscription rates yearly $1.50 in U. S. A.; Foreign. $3.00; Canada, $2.25; Single Copies 15c. Entered as second-class matter October 19, 1932, at the post office at Mt. Morris, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted. 1932, By Radio Digest PublishingCorporation. \All rights reserved. Radio Fan-Fare, combining Radio Digest, is published monthly by Radio Digest Publishing Corporation. Publication Office: 404 North Wesley Avenue. Mount Morris, 111. Editorial and Advertising office: 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or art received by mail.