Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

HAPPY and Lucky Sees All-Knows All (Continued from Page 1 1 ) watch, but a broadcast of a slugging fest makes poor material for the radio audience." Benton has broadcast other sporting events beside fights. However, his real interest is in boxing, on which subject he is perfectly informed. Once he broadcast a wrestling match. For several minutes he attempted to describe the grunts and groans, the perspiring brows and the bulging shoulders of the combatants. It was dull stuff. So he started to burlesque it. His audience went wild. It was great. But Benton looks on wrestling very much as a polo player might look on lawn croquet. His heart lies in fighting. Born in Toledo, Benton has been an actor, a writer and an announcer. He is married and has a daughter, of whom he is extraordinarily proud. Next to his family comes his garden of prize winning gladioli. He spends hours weeding and tending his flowers. An interesting man — Curtis Benton. (Continued from Page 15) She came up to the station to try out because her girl friends dared her to. Her song was "The Desert Song." Tommy Harris and Charlie Carter began their radio careers with the Happy Co Lucky Hour and are still with it. They are Al Pearce's special discoveries. Tommy had done some vaudeville work and had once won a cup for imitating Al jolson. That was years ago and he's only 19 now. Charlie is 16. He still goes to school but his heart is in radio. Edna Fischer had already made a name for herself before radio claimed her. Her uncanny skill in * Many requests have come in asking what has happened to "Bing" Crosby and the Rhythm Boys, who have been broadcasting nightly from the Cocoanut Crove, at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. It seems "Bing" and his two pals were forced through breach of contract, to walk out and off the air. If you've missed them, that's the reason. playing popular music had taken her around the world in vaudeville and into the recording studios. Edna married Milton Hayes, purser on a trans-Pacific liner about two years ago. Although Baby Jean Clairmook is only five years old she is a veteran of the entertainment world. Two and a half years ago she broadcast for the first time. Plump, vivacious, wide-eyed and full of interest in everything going on she keeps things lively on or off the air. Her especial beau is Cal Pearce. Lord Bilgewater, who is Monroe Upton by rights, and Simpy Fitts on some occasions, joined the hour about a year ago by accident. Al was home ill and he wandered on to try and keep things pepped up by springing a few gags with an English accent. The people in the studio liked it and so he kept coming back. Now he is a regular with his riddles. He has been on the KFRC staff for about three years, in the capacity of announcer, comedian, writer and book reviewer. Before radio he followed the sea as a radio operator. RADIO and SOUND EQUIPMENT WEBSTER ELECTRIC CO. POWER AMPLIFIERS PHONOGRAPH PICKUPS RACON TRUMPETS AIR COLUMNS AND DYNAMIC UNITS SHIELDED CABLE UNIVERSAL MICROPHONES MACNAVOX DYNAMICS RADIO TUNERS NATIONAL SHORTWAVE RECEIVERS FULL LINE OF TRANSMITTING PARTS RELAYS KEYS BUGS NATIONAL GTO XMITTER KIT WESTON METERS NATIONAL RECTO BULBS PYREX SYLVAN I A TUBES PILOT UNIVERSAL SHORTWAVE KITS AND PARTS NATIONAL MB29A AND MB30 TUNERS DE FOREST TUBES RCA AND CUNNINGHAM TUBES REMSEN BLANK RECORDS HAMMARLUND HIQ31 PACENT RECORDOVOX SILVER MARSHALL 714 AND 724 SUPER HETERODYNE KITS OR WIRED RECEIVER Hear a Webster Demonstration in Our Sound Proof Room ANY PART, ANY TIME, FOR RADIO RECEPTION OR TRANSMISSION OR FOR SOUND EQUIPMENT Catalogs or Any Information Mailed on Request See W6FBI's Transmitter in Our Store RADIO SUPPLY CO. 912-914 S. Broadway VA 3170-3178-3179 H. A. DEMAREST, President Wholesale LARGEST RADIO PARTS JOBBER WEST O F Los Angeles CHICAGO Page Thirty-three