Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Bing Crosby [Continued from Page 13] tiful Hollywood film actress. He admires Doug Fairbanks, Jr., with whom he is well acquainted, and likes the work of Sylvia Sidney and Jackie Cooper on the screen, and delights in listening to the Boswell Sisters. He is 27 years old, five feet nine inches tall, weighs 165 pounds, and has blue eyes and brown wavy hair. Peculiarly enough, Bing likes both classical and popular music. His favorite music is that of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Walter Damrosch, and in the popular field, he is found of Paul Whiteman's and Guy Lombardo's bands. It might be well to mention that all of the musical ability in the Crosby family isn't confined to Bing. His brother, Bob Crosby, can be heard every Monday night with Anson Weeks' Mark Hopkins Hotel orchestra from San Francisco. And although Bing Crosby has "gone national," with a whole nation listening to his songs, he still belongs to the West, and admits that it is the greatest place in the world. Three Doctors [Continued from Page 11 ] was going to happen in between. And nobody really knew. The rest just "came to them." The hardest-boiled operators laughed as the gags rolled forth. They timed the station break to the dot. These men have been playing together so long, and know one another so well, that they can sense how the crosstalk is going to turn out. Each one knows just how much to say and when to say it. By mutual consent they manage to finish in time for the announcements. Their New York broadcast was intended to stop at 9:28:15. and it actually finished at 9:28:12. A matter of three seconds in a half-hour program. They spent their spare time in New York buying toys and trinkets for the youngsters at home. Joe plays baseball, and they're all three bad at golf. Lawyer to Actor [Continued from Page 15} fetto had a solid background of theatrical training before he came to NBC. Acting always has been a hobby of his, and while he was a student at the University of California, he was director of student dramatics. He appeared in many of the Greek theater plays in Berkeley, and between the time that he entered college and was graduated as a doctor of jurisprudence, he had played in a number of productions directed by Irving Pichel and Sam Hume. Between his junior and senior years, he went to Honolulu, where he worked on the Honolulu Advertiser as Automobile Editor and joined the Footlights Club, famous amateur theatrical group of the Islands. He spent six months in Hawaii ,then went to Los Angeles, where he played with Bebe Daniels in "A Kiss in a Taxi" and with Gary Cooper in "Only the Brave." "I played the part of a lieutenant and looked like an Armenian," he insists gaily, when you ask him about his picture experience. Returning to northern California, the embryo attorney went back to his law studies with serious intent, and was graduated with a brilliant scholastic record. He believed he had forgotten all his footlight ambitions until he wrote "The Arms of the Law." "Some day I may go back to law, but — I doubt it!" he says. "I always loved theatrical work, but I never felt it would be mv life-work until I came to NBC." One of the factors which makes Raffetto feel at home in his new career undoubtedly is his charming wife, who is Pauline Traylor on theatrical programs. She and the NBC actor met at the University of California, and their romance grew out of a firm school-friendship. Mrs. Raffetto appeared in the New York company of "The Show Off," and has played major roles in several coast productions. There are two little Raffettos, Sara, two, and Gina, five. The two little girls inherit a colorful family history. Their great-grandfather was a forty-niner who came to California to seek gold. The son of the pioneer, who was the NBC artist's father, founded the famous Placerville Inn which still stands today. Raffetto is a member of the Bohemian Club, San Francisco's world-renowned organization of celebrated artists and writers. He was chosen to write the club's annual Christmas play last year, and the Low Jinks production at Bohemian Grove this summer. Radio PATENTS TRADE MARKS Secured in the UNITED STATES and FOREIGN COUNTRIES R. S. BERRY PATENT ATTORNEY 707 BLACK BUILDING 4th and Hill Streets MUtual 6935 LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA The RADIO EXCHANGE, INC. The Largest Surplus Radio and Parts House on the Pacific Coast Full line of Manufacturers' Guaranteed Parts as well as full stock of Radios of all kinds. Large Stock of tubes of all makes. Le Bell Guaranteed Radio Sets. ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PRICES IN THE SOUTHWEST 729-731 So. Main St. TUcker 3347 Los Angeles RADIO DOINGS Page Thirty-nine