Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Green and BLUE From a Family of Troupers Comes Jane Green, KFRC Blues Singer by Margaret Queeney She tried out for big time and they turned her doun . swore she would someday be a headliner, and she was. JANE GREEN, star of many revues and musical comedies, now scintillating before a KFRC microphone, came by her talent for entertainment honestly. It was right in the family. Her mother had played Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin hundreds of times. Her father was a musician. She had uncles in the circus business. So little Jane wasn't compelled to blaze any new trails when she became interested in the show business in Los Angeles at the tender age of ten. Her home previous to that time had been Louisville, Kentucky. During grammar and high school days Jane was active in musical and theatrical activities. After high school she walked into her first job, singing the popular songs of the day in a Los Angeles cafe known as "McKees." She smiles now when she confesses that she was only sixteen at the time. It was experience she wanted and shortly afterward she tried out for the Orpheum circuit and was turned down. Right then and there Miss Jane Green decided she should headline over the Orpheum circuit before she was through just to show them a thing or two. And Miss Jane Green did, for quite a few seasons, just that little thing. Determination is also one of her qualities. While she was still at the cafe, Irene Castle and Anna Held saw her there there and persuaded her to go to New York. The war happened along and Jane played the army camps of the country from coast to coast. It was Leon Errol who recommended her personable talents to Mr. Zeigfeld who booked her for the Zeigfeld Roof where she played a solid year. From then on engagements came thick and fast. Here are just a few to give you an idea: with John Murray Anderson in ''What's in a Name;" on the Century Roof: with Fddie Cantor for three seasons; with Schubert's Bernard Collier Revue; at the Tent Cafe, in New York: headlined over Keith Orpheum for several seasons; played at the Kit Kat Club in London: was starred in the Greenwich Village Follies and was featured in several cafes in New York. Miami and Los Angeles. Now she has setled down to the quiet life of the radio. Speaking of settling down, she was playing a radio engagement some two years ago when a young gentleman by the name of Ron Wilson presented himself as her accompanist. Well, to phrase it in the rustic manner, the upshot of the whole affair was they got married soon after. Mr. Wilson, in addition to being a piano player, is also an aviator and has earned him the title of the "flying piano player." They have a Scotch terrier named "Jigger" who is being measured now for a parachute. Jane calls him "Jigger" because he is full of the old pep — the kind she puts into her songs. She is just a little thing, five feet three inches tall (including French heels) and weighs in the vicinity of 118 pounds. Her eyes are brown, her hair reddish-blonde. She likes to be active. She is fond of golf and swimming, also horseback riding. She has driven her own car for the past ten years. Now she is going in for aviation and the next thing we expect to hear is that she is commuting between San Francisco and Los Angeles for her programs on KFRC. The two weekly affairs in which she is featured are the Golden State Blue Monday Jamboree and the Thursday night Manhattan Reflections. RADIO DOINGS Page Nineteen