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Fred Zimbalist, recent addition to KHJ, is one, and a darn good one. He specializes on Russian Folk music, which is singularly adaptable to the acid notes of a chromatic harmonica.
WHEN ED LYTTON, who reads poetic Inspirations over KTM, came to the station as announcer and inspires-, he brought in a flavor of European royalty. During his long and varied career as first fiddle with a great string-quartet, he was decorated by their late majesties, the Czar of Russia and the Kaiser of Germany.
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BUT ARTISTS are not the only interesting people on the air. For instance, Naylor Rogers, station manager at KNX. In an unguarded moment he confided to me once that he had been educated for the ministry, but had successively become a newspaperman, a Major in the British Tank Corps, and a radio executive.
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NEW DISCOVERY! Olga Snap, who wastes her blonde beauty plugging a switchboard at KHJ, is revealed as a blues singer. She was given a chance the other day, and now the KHJ staff is divided into two warring camps. The Enthusiasts claim she's great and ought to go on "regular." The Misogynists aver that she's terrible and shouldn't even be allowed to answer phones, on account of scaring people at the other end of the line.
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ADELINA THOMASON, NBC actress, is the wife of Colonel Henry D. Thomason, U. S. A. re
tired, who as a medical officer in the army during the SpanishAmerican War, contributed invaluable aid in the fight against yellow fever in Cuba.
There's a chance to get famous over night. Prize musical compositions are being sought to fit in with the broadcast of La Fiesta de Los Angeles. The affair, celebrating the city's 150th birthday, takes place September 4. The winning numbers will be put on the air at Hollywood Bowl.
DON'T get the idea that red hair is necessarily a sign of a fiery disposition. Ruth Clark, music librarian for KFI and KECA, has one of the mildest temperaments on record. She keeps track of thousands of scores, ranging from Mother Coose solos to full Wagnerian orchestrations, and does it without a ruffle.
"Just One More Time''
ONE of the few women ever to hold a regular job as announcer is Karena Shields, who is now the Tell-Me-A-Story Lady at KTM. She "told 'em" over WDAF, Kansas City.
JUST to prove that they are real cowboys, the KTM Ranch Boys are going to stage their own rodeo next month, in Clendale. There'll be steer-roping, broncho-busting and so forth.
CUY BONHAM, one of the three Tastyeast Jesters, who are heard three times each week over an NBC network, would like to be a great fisherPage Thirty-one