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Romance ^ ^
* The participants in one of the greatest Romances in the world of Radio — on the opposite page is Ruby Adams, once famed as a singer and dancer. At the right is Coffee Dan himself — cafe operator, humorist, philosopher and lover — Ruby's husband. In the lower right hand corner, Paul Whiteman plays a song of cheer to the crippled humming bird. Read how Ruby became Radioland's greatest sport!
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who had been unable to walk for five years — laughing at life!
Her debut over the air was an instantaneous success. Phones commenced ringing; telegrams poured in; the station was flooded with letters. Hundreds wanted to know if that was the "Ruby Adams who used to be?" Scores of inquiries arrived asking who she was, where she came from, when she would again be heard. KJBS had found a new radio personality.
• And that is the story of Ruby's success.
But there is a greater success; and an infinitely greater romance in the life of Ruby Adams. It is the story of her marriage to Johnny Davis or rather Coffee Dan, as even his wife calls him.
It was but a month before her accident that Ruby Adams promised to marry him. Then came the crash. But it made no difference to Coffee Dan. No sooner had Ruby left the hospital than he again asked her to set the wedding date. She told him it was no longer possible to think of marriage. That she could't see the man she loved tied up to a cripple for the rest of his life. Coffee Dan shrugged, and renewed his proposals.
But it wasn't until Ruby had gone to the warm shores of Southern California to recuperate and Dan had followed that she finally consented.
When Coffee Dan stood beside a woman in a wheelchair and held one of her pale, thin hands while a minister made them man and wife, there wasn't a dry eye in the room. Police Chief Dan O'Brien and his son, George, the actor, strode in and snapped a pair of handcuffs over their wrists. But it wasn't necessary. The bond of love had already fallen across their lives.
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