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A New Kind
of GIRL
Tiny, Piquant, and Vivacious, Nora Schiller Puts All She Has Into Her Work, Sings, Burlesques and Acts With the Same Intense Interest That She Takes In Her Hobbies, Knows Her Own Mind — and Incidentally Refuses Marriage As a Part of Her Career
by
Betty
AVERY unusual girl is diminutive Nora Schiller, KFRC comedienne. Here are a few items to prove it.
1. Was on the Pantages circuit in a singing and dancing act, doing impersonations of famous stars when eight years old.
2. Entered a high school in San Diego when eleven years old, the youngest student to ever enter the school.
3. After high school took a business course so she would have something to fall back on when she was through with the stage.
4. Weighs one hundred and two pounds; lacks one and a half inches of being five feet tall; has brown eyes, and is in her very early twenties.
Nora, to put it bluntly, is a "snappy little number." In her caracul fur
Sheldon
jacket, brown derby with a French accent and a list to starboard she is a sight to increase any man's faith in life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
This little lady puts just a little bit more than "everything she has" in her radio work. Her blues singing is outstanding. But perhaps she is destined to go farther in the radio world with her comedy and impersonations than with her singing.
Twice she literally "stopped" the Golden State Jamborees with her burlesque of the small town soprano. The studio audiences were determined that she should do another number, which is a very rare thing, as all Jamboree fans know. Encores just aren't on the bill of fare.
Nora is a girl who has always known what she wanted to do. From the time of her Pantages debut at the age of eight, her life has been wrapped up in
the stage. After high school she took a business course and then, at the age of sixteen, worked as a private secretary to get some experience. But she was just preparing herself for the possible need of a job when she was old and the stage couldn't use her any more. She still has a score or more years to go before that, however. And now radio will add another score to that — yes, we know about television but that won't make any difference.
After the secretarial experience Nora got a job in a San Diego musical show. Sid Grauman saw her and gave her work at Los Angeles Million Dollar Theatre. She was featured with Paul Ash in San Francisco, over Fanchon Marco, in the Publix Theatres, with Ash in Chicago, fourteen months at the Publix houses in Chicago and New York and then back to the West Coast with Fanchon and Marco again. Between times she made a number of shorts for Warner Brothers. KFRC is her first steady radio engagement.
Nora is very fond of swimming. She likes to go out into the country. She always takes her dog along, an Alaskan Malemute that would chew people up if she didn't watch him.
She had aspirations to be a concert singer at one time and she likes to go to symphonies and concerts. The young lady has never married. Asked why she replies: "I can't say yes-sir" to any
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RADIO DOINGS