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.Iii^ust lb Radio Doings 9
Studio News
Edwin John Albright is his "full time" name, but to thousands and thousands of KNX fans he's plain "Eddie," friend to every one of the folk he daily addresses at 10 o'clock with "Hello, everybody, it's ten o'clock this morning!"
"Eddie," then, is one of the old-timers in Southern California radio. He made the very first announcement to be put on the air when the 500-watt station that preceded the present 5000-watter came to life. He's been with KXX ever since.
Born in New York state, "just a few years back," Albright was reared in Oil City, Penn. Later he gravitated to Chicago, when he studied singing with a view to taking his baritone voice into grand opera.
The chance finally came, but when it did Albright was "out on the road" in Lyceum work, and to have left the company would have put others out of work, so Eddie stuck.
There followed years of studying and roaming, including five years on Orpheum time in a musical act.
At any rate, he arrived in Los Angeles in 1920 pretty much "fed up" with music. So much so, in fact, that when he was offered a position ju.st vacated by the great Lawrence Tibbett. who had gone East, Eddie refused and turned to — selling life insurance ! !
However far away this sales effort seemed from radio and music, it led Albright right to it.
The concern he worked for wanted to put on radio programs. Eddie was the only man in their employ who knew anything about music or programs, and so he was elected.
His work on this insurance hour attracted the attention of the new owners of KNX — The Los Angeles Evening Express — and he was offered the chance to announce the inaugural program. Eight thousand telegrams came in. Eddie was offered a permanent "man of all work" job — and took it.
To list all Eddie's accomplishments or activities would take too much space. However, he conducts the original radio "family" club, now six years old; he is the "Mr." of the original "Mr. and Mrs." skits, now three years of age; he is now reading his 82nd full-length novel to his afternoon audience; he has sent out in the past 18 months 250,000 free copies of poems he has written and read on the air — and he announces most of the day time programs from KNX's main studios.
Hobbies: Golf, "Pitch and Putt" and deep sea fishing.
Description: Medium height; sparkling black eyes; thick black hair; kindly smile, and a "regular chap."
'Eddie" Alb
Harold Horton, KFRC announcer, once played the part of the doctor in "White Cargo," the sensational play that is now sweeping over the country as a "talkie." It was during his histrionic career in Chicago. Harold has
had a wide and varied expeiience in dramatics all over the world. His latest assignment on KFRC has been to the "Feminine Fancies" program, heard each morning, except Sunday, from 9:30 to 10:30 o'clock, over the Don Lee chain.