Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

^-o ^^e ^-q CHATTER Imagine the consternation of Lloyd E. Yoder, manager of the Press Relations Department of NBC's Pacific Division, when he found a car full of money parked in his garage! The only drawback was — it wasn't Lloyd's car nor his money. Three bank bandits had held up a nearby bank, and when pursued, drove into his garage and abandoned their car. The bank recovered the money, and all Lloyd got was the surprise. • Jack Joy. production manager of KFWB. indulged in his secret passion for Chinese things again recently. He attended an auction — and came home triumphant with a silk Cambedian scroll, a golden glass lantern, a miniature Buddha, and a teakwood table. And if he should whisper the price of the articles in your ear, you'd turn green with envy, and then faint with surprise! • Charley Forsythe, KHJ's soundeffects man, has just perfected a new thunder apparatus which he claims will out-thunder any device yet invented. This new boom-boom affair is another addition to Charlie's room full of thing-a-ma-jigs designed to produce various assortments of noise. He is a "nut" on creating new and unusual effects, and his hobby consists of increasing the number of instruments to torture and trying them out on the unsuspecting ears of KHJ listeners. This new thunder drum is a huge skin, framed something like a regular bass drum, and mounted on wheels. • Two baby robins just hatched on a window ledge of the second floor artists' waiting room at KOA, Denver, have a dozen godfathers in the station's announcing and control room staffs. Never was a mother so protected as the mother of these new babies. Walter Morrissey discovered her nesting, and tacked down the window shade tightly. Then began a vigil by the engineers and announcers. It has been declared a fighting offense for anyone to go near the window until the little robins are ready to fly. • Jane Green, musical comedy and revue star, has been permanently added to the KFRC staff, says Harri You've heard 'em often — The Three Co-Eds. Meredith G r e g o r, Theresa Aezer and Marian Peck. son Holloway, manager. And from her recent work in the Blue Monday Jamboree and other programs, the permanenter the better. • At last! We have discovered who really doubled for Richard Barthelmess' voice in the picture, "Weary River." That has bothered us for a long time. But it was Johnny Murray, KFWB's popular young tenor. He came to California in the "Good News" show, was with Gus Arnheim at the Cocoanut Grove, played in several pictures for First National Studios, was Master of Ceremonies at the Roosevelt Hotel, "and now is back at KFWB. He likes radio, and radio likes Johnnie. • Of all things! Edna Fischer, KFRC pianist, recently received a letter from Anne Burrell Jones, Los Angeles, asking: "Are you the Edna Fischer who attended a typhoon with me in the Indian Ocean some years ago?" But the funny part of it is, Edna answered in the affirmative. It happened the two of them were shipmates while Edna was on her 'round the world vaudeville tour. They really did experience a typhoon. • Earl Burtnett and his orchestra are now laying 'em in the aisles at the famous Lincoln Tavern. Chicago, and incidentally, broadcasting their fascinating western brand of music over WGN, the Chicago Tribune station on the Drake Hotel. And the well-known "Biltmore Trio" is doing its share of captivating the Middle West. 9V The near death of "Ruby Taylor" a short while ago during an Amos 'n' Andy program, brought great numbers of inquiries from anxious listeners who were greatly concerned about the welfare of Amos' beloved. Among these was a woman in Rochester, N. Y., who called station WHAM there, and asked if Ruby was going to die. She was told that only Amos 'n' Andy knew that answer. With tearful voice, the woman exclaimed that Ruby's death would be too much for her. "Do you think." she asked, "if I sent them a telegram they would save her?"