Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Murder Will Out And as each episode appeared, the plot developed stronger and stronger until, about the seventh episode, the producer and I had a REAL show on our hands. From then on it was easy sledding, and I sailed into the last hree episodes for as smashing a climax as vou could ask for. In the present serial. "Dead Men Prowl."' I knew what the end of the [Continued from Page 40\ story was before I started writing. As I write this, just two of the ten episodes are on paper. And if I were to do my best I still would be unable to tell you exactly what is going to happen in the other eight episodes — except the tenth and final one. That's pretty well fixed. From this conglomerate mess of incidents and ideas you may or may not get a fairly good idea of a radiowriter's frame of mind. But whether you have or not, it has been a swell opportunity for this particular one to unload. And if you should be one of those who follow with us through "Dead Men Prowl" here's hoping that you get thrill for thrill with us who are at the other end of the ether wave. Amos arrested for murder! What sort of picklement will those two find themselves in next? Since Jack Dixon, the mysterious financier, was found dead and the blame laid on Amos, letters have been coming to NBC thick and fast. One of them was from a firm of lawyers in Kentucky, stating, "We would be pleased to defend Amos for Dixon murder in Harlem." Helen Charleston, the only feminine member of the Lofner-Harris dance programs, has been singing professionally since she was 16 years old. Ted Lewis, high-hatted prophet of the jazz age, saw Helen and her brother, Milton, dancing together and suggested that they accompany him and his band on tour. Then Helen began singing with the Lewis band, then joined the Harry Carroll Vanities, and later Ken Murray. Helen is a native daughter of Chicago. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ^ MUSIC COMPANY ^ Chattercttes John Wesley Holbrook, voted the best voice on the air in 1931, is the most surprised young man in America. He started out as a ski-jumper, drifted into banking and business instead, and skidded into radio by a ruse. He went to a Boston advertising agency and offered to become its radio expert. Naturally, he was thrown out. But he kept trying, and finally rose from the ranks and joined the staff of NBC. And now he holds the American Academy of Arts and Letters medal for good diction. The Mills Brothers, that quartet of singing negroes who play hot orchestral numbers without instruments, using only vocal tricks and a guitar, came into their own because of a hunch. When they asked for a tryout, Ralph Wonders, director of the Columbia Artists' Bureau, who has his share of unannounced visitors, played a hunch and gave them a chance. They sang only one number — Wonders didn't wait to hear a second, but rushed them into the president's office. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCULATION. ETC.. REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of Radio Doings, published monthly, at Los Angeles, California, for October 1, 1931. State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Wallace M. Byam, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Publisher of the Radio Doings, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912, embodied in Section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. 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