Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

With apologies to Hearst, RADIO DOINGS has employed a candid camera man to shoot the notables unawares. He has caught Max Dolin, musical impresario and director of the National Broadcasting Company, "whooping 'er up" with the "lowbrows" after midnite at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco how I can get the low-down on them. Big Boss: Well, that's not bad, at that. Go ahead and dish it out. Studio Editor: Oke! (Curtain) And that, dear ladies and gentlemen, is the raison d' etre of this new department. We shall be delighted to dig down in the past and the future of your favorite's life and let you in on the secret. And to start the ball rolling, here's a few letters that have been languishing in our files awaiting just this moment. 0 A. L. M., SANTA MONICA — If I had answered your letter more promptly, I would only have aroused short-lived hopes for Kenneth Niles was married just a few weeks ago to an exotic girl with enormous dark eyes and the glamorous name of Nadja. She is a violinist, so they have their work in common and are very happy. You'd want them to be that, wouldn't you? (There's further mention of the marriage in another part of the book.) 0 S. O., SAN JOSE.— Couldn't you really tell that Jack Carter is a "genu-wine Englishman? I am sure you could if you saw a picture of him. He is aristocratically English in appearance, slender, medium complexion, blue eyes and quite often he is replete with monacle and all. He was born in London, studied in the London College of Music, toured in opera for a year and then forsook that for the musical comedy stage. Vaudeville next claimed his attention, and for several years he played the legitimate stage. He's a very traveled gentleman, only having crossed the Atlantic sixteen times. Dorothy Dee, the globe-trotting organist at KTM H D. A. R. BEVERLY HILLS.— You're right the first time, Don or is it Dan? Jeanne Dunn is lovely to look at and I am surprised you haven't seen some of the many highly decorative pictures we have published of her. She has limpid, brown eyes, mop of wavy dark brown hair, and even, regular features. So you see her looks do match her voice. She's very young, too. Ain't dat sumpin? 0 ANNE J., LONG BEACH.— I'm sorry that you think Charlie Hamp isn't worth his purported 150 thou a year "which you don't believe he gets, anyway." He really does, Anne, and while we'll agree that radio salaries are becoming as out of proportion as movie stars,' still Charlie's sponsor knows he can sell tooth paste and that's all he's really interested in. Of course you could have turned the dials on those programs that annoy you, but after April first, you won't have to even do that, for Charlie Hamp is taking the 50,000 or what ever remains of the 150,000 and going back to Chicago to convert the gangsters and racketeers, not perhaps, to all ways of right living, but at least to one according to Charlie; and that's the right kind of tooth paste. £ This is offered for what it is worth. Whenever you really want to feel elegant, get someone to introduce you to Kenneth Allen who has just joined the trio at KHJ. He has recently returned from an extended engagement at the Cafe de Paris in London, where he hob-nobbed nightly with kings, princes and queens, too. ^ The other night the Biltmore Trio of California set off for New York. That, ladies and others, is the whole caption that they carry with them to New York: The Biltmore Trio of California: such austere dignity . . . such subtle sophistry. Imagine, please, the Biltmore Trio of Sunshine and Orange Juice fame in the midst of George White's Scandals. £ June Parker, who had an unfortunate accident last fall, is back on the air and we hope we will hear a lot more of her. And now we have the "Lady Hill Billies" — the Murray Sisters over KMTR RADIO DOINGS Page Forty-*!*