Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Swellest Kids (Continued from Page 29) Artie — So what I'm driving at is what in can we tell you? J. R. — You've used a bad word. Remember what happened to General Butler. Jeannie — Why don't you let your readers guess? It'd be fun. (The Langs join in a hand-clapping act) . • J. R. — Oh, very well. I promise not to tell 'em you're married. Jeannie and Artie (in unison) — You're so clever! J. R. — Well, Artie, tell me something about yourself. Artie — I hate to talk about myself, but to oblige you— only for that, mind you — I will. I was born in New York and went to school in Allentown, Pennsy — Muehlenberg college it was. I sang in the glee club there and studied in Philadelphia. Erno Rappe heard me sing in my teacher's studio and he grabbed me as baritone soloist in 1926. Then Roxy heard about me and hired me — although he and Erno were on the outs at the time. I stayed with Roxy about three years and then came West. j. R — And— • Artie — Wait a minute! I forgot that was with NBC as the Old Colonel in the Maxwell House program, and I did the singing for the Lindbergh welcome to Washington. He flew across the Atlantic, you know. J. R. — I heard a rumor about that. Artie — When I came West, I did a few chores in pictures and a few concerts until KFI-KECA decided that they couldn't stay on the air without me. So here you have me, sir. I Lovers of Popular Music TUNE IN K F W B Sundays 11 to 11:30 a. m. Jean Leonard Will Entertain You A Musical Treat J. R. — I'll speak to the cashier for you. And Jeannie, what about you? Jeannie— Well, I ditched high school to do a turn in a picture prologue in St. Louis. And there I was, already a two-week veteran in the show business when Brooks Johns of the Follies — the Ziegfeld Follies — saw me and lured me away — to work with him as a team. J. R— You were the team? Jeannie — No. Him and me. It takes two to make a team, unnerstan'? J. R. — Not on most of the ones I seen. Jeannie — Saw, not seen. And you a writer! • J. R. — Well, go ahead with your biography. Jeannie — Let me think — hm! From the Johns act I went to Hollywood to do a part in Paul Whiteman's "King of Jazz," then I went to Roxy for a week, then I had the lead in "Ballyhoo" at the Hammerstein in New York, then I did several shorts for Warner's in New York and then I came to KFI-KECA. J. R. — It that all? Jeannie — So far, pal. Only so far. J. R. — Oh, you're going to do more! Tell me, then, what do you want to do ultimately? Jeannie — Be a musical comedy star! Oh yes, and stay one. J. R. — Ever get a fan letter? • Jeannie — Millions of 'em. And say, you should see the darling ones I have gotten from West Point and from Annapolis. Those stern military gentlemen prefer this brunette. J. R. — What do they say? Jeannie — Oh, they want to take me places — football games, mostly. Some of 'em want to marry me, too. Artie — You could play a football game with a big gate if she accepted all her football bids at the same time. J. R. — Jeannie, ever fall in love with a cadet or a midshipman? Jeannie — Depends on the uniform. Which is cutest? Artie — Don't wisecrack. This is serious. Jeannie — Well, have I? Artie — How do I know? Jeannie — I thought you were going to attend to those things for me. • J. R. — Children, children. How can I write a serious, sympathetic yarn about youse if you quarrel like that? Remember, Radio Doings is an important publication. I want to tell 'em about your devotion to your art, about your splendid comradeship, about the future of broadcasting, about the Boulder Dam and the Union Terminal. I had forgotten that they considered "art" as something to be done and never to be talked about. Gospel on the Air (Continued from Page 25) one standing in a home or foreign pulpit today who is more discussed than is she. The press has commercialized one side of her story, but every story has two sides so there must be another. There is, and part of it you have read. Opinions of her and her work are as numerous and variable as is human nature. Her methods of Evangelism and operating a church have been criticized and commended from practically every angle. Prodigious quantities of mail pour into her office every week — some letters good, some bad, some quite indifferent. But whatever view skeptics or scoffers of her work may hold, there is no other evangelist, man or woman, living today who has more to show for his work in the ministry than Aimee Semple McPherson. When it comes to meeting this voice behind the "mike," the surprise is great, for nowhere in the world is there another woman quite so vivacious, ambitious and enthusiastic. In taking cognizance of the attributes that have made her famous we see a vivid, sparkling personality of rich mental, artistic and spiritual endowment possessed with a keen sense of humor. Ask Aimee Semple McPherson of herself and she points to Angelus Temple. And yet even without Angelus Temple, which is the tangible actual proof of the clarity and effectiveness of her teaching, Aimee Semple McPherson would be great. Her illustrated sermons, her writings, her personality make her the most noteworthy evangelist of the day. Her ability to create the oasis of religion in a comprehensive presentation could have been turned into commercial value, but she chose rather to shower humanity with all the richness of her enthusiasm and artistic appreciation from a pulpit. "I have only one dissatisfaction — and that is that I have only one pair of hands, one woman's strength, only one brain and one heart to share with the teeming multitudes that need the gospel. To accomplish my purpose I have given up life as a personal thing — life, the most exquisitely personal of all things. I have poured into my plan a fortune that would have kept me in ease and luxury. I have given up solitude, that most precious of all refuges, for days and nights never free from interruptions whether petty or tragic. "I have faith in the ultimate progress of the gospel and I ask of the world only the privilege of working in the service of its great need of Cod." "Radio As You Go" Clark Auto Radio Embodying 6 Tubes, including 4 Screen Grid, with Full Dynamic Speaker, Single Illuminated Dial Control. Applicable to any make of automobile, without the customary instrument board defacement. Complete Ready $CQ50 To Install y R. P. McClain SOLE DISTRIBUTOR 8678 W. Pico OXford 1116 Los Angeles Police Signals May Be Had If Desired Dealers: A Few Territorial Franchises Still Open. Write, Phone or Call Page Forty-five