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January, 1931
RADIO DOINGS
Page Seventeen
l\rCC's TWO EDNA/
Exhaustive research has revealed that KFRC's two charming Ednas, Edna O'Keefe and Edna Fischer, have only one factor in common: they both are very fond of cauliflower.
Of course, they are both very lovely, very charming young ladies and both are loved for the quality of their respective artistic endeavors. This is what keeps them in their jobs. But otherwise — well, here are the satistics:
Edna O'Keefe Edna Fischer
Height 5' 3" 5'
Weight 115 117i/2
Eyes brown hazel
Hair brown golden red
Married no yes
Athletic yes no
Age 19 26
Favorite Vegetable Cauliflower Cauliflower And so you see, as you run your eye up and down the two columns, that the only thing the girls really get together on is cauliflower. I suppose we could look further and find that they are both fond of dogs and cats, both read Cosmopolitan (most women do), and very friendly, and both are crazy about football games, but why spoil a good opener for the story. You see, with cauliflower mentioned in the opening paragraph, all cooks, grocers, seed stores, men and truck gardeners may also be inveigled into reading about the girls in addition to their host of admirers.
Edna O'Keefe threw down her school books one night after a hard day at the San Francisco Girls high school and never picked them up again. She had a job on KFRC Some of her high school chums had dared her to go up to KFRC and try out, and Edna's venturesome spirit couldn't resist. On that horror of horrors (for most candidates) the audition period, she sang "The Desert Song." Why she chose the Desert Song is still one of the mysteries surrounding her. She felt that the wildest African tiger had nothing on that still, non-commital microphone, which threatened at any moment to reach over and bite a chunk out of her right -shoulder.
Edna Fischer
Edna O'Keefe
But even that experience was nothing compared to her first appearance on the Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree. She gave up all hope after the first note.
Edna Fischer walked calmly into the KFRC studios one noon time and played "Soliloquy," by Rube Bloom, for Helen O'Neil, the station's program director at that time, and so impressed Miss O'Neil with the quality of her work that she was engaged on the spot.
Unlike Edna O'Keefe, Edna Fischer's school had been the show business, which she had embraced at the age of 19 when she joined the Topsy and Eva show of the Duncan Sisters in San Francisco. (She was born in Oakland, the other Edna in San Francisco.) Heart trouble with a purely psychological cause was at the bottom of her desire to leave home. The show broke up shortly after acquiring Edna, but undaunted, she sold her beloved grand piano, slipped the slender roll into the pocket of her gingham dress, and departed for New York, seeking fame. If she couldn't have love she could at least have her name in lights.
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