Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

" A Great Guy" when, not long ago, Guy obtained permission to allow the fourth son, Victor, to join the Royal Canadians. Carmen was tooting a flute by the time he was eleven years old. Not more than four blocks away from the Lombardo home was another eleven-year-old establishing something of a name for himself on the piano. He was Mrs. F. W. Kreitzer's little boy, Freddy, and it wasn't long before Guy and Carmen enlisted him in the fledgling orchestra. The Lombardo and Kreitzer families almost went crazy with the children's rehearsals — and, bringing the story suddenly up-to-date, the same situation prevails today — should one focus one's attention on a rehearsal in the CBS studios for the Robert Burns Panatela Continued from Page 21 Program. The band, composed of those same neighborhood boys, quarrel frequently and good-naturedly about the arrangement of music. Guy is now, as he was then, the dominating element, and cocking his ear sympathetically to the music, listens to the distracting voices of "Carm" and "Lieb" and finally puts an end to it by his own judgment. But more of that later. The boys took their orchestra very, very seriously. Guy, Carmen and Freddy needed a fourth to play the drums and set up and real jazzy racket. They bought an old kettle and bass and taught Liebert, the third, aged nine, to manipulate the sticks. "Lieb" now plays the trumpet, and is a vocalist as well, while his place at the traps is filled ade quately by George Gowans, who was later annexed by the orchestra. Their first appearance was before the Mother's Club in London, Ontario, and from that brief debut, the young men were in great demand at all dances and gatherings in the surrounding country. Guy held out from the first for slow, soft music — and it is that which brought him his final laurels. It is amazing that they should have stumbled across a technique in childhood which was to bring them recognition later on in Cleveland, Chicago, and finally New York. "Do you like modern young people?" we asked Guy. His face broke into another smile. "Well," he said without weariness — "Naturally!" Chicago, worked in the early movies at Culver City and fought in the American army during the World War. He was attached to the American embassy in Berlin following the Armistice; at the same time he pursued his musical studies under German instructors. Miss Warner always wanted to be a singer, but they told her that her voice wasn't strong enough, so she became a trained nurse instead. Then radio came along and made her a star. Ronald Graham, baritone, sings on Tuesdays. He is just twenty, and is married to Edna O'Keefe, also of KFRC. He was born in Scotland and wore kilts when he came to this country as a lad of 6. He recently won the California Atwater-Kent audition. Friday is Robert Olsen's day. This KFRC tenor holds a unique place in western radio. His unusual voice has kept him a favorite with radio fans for the past five years, and many of his songs have been recorded. The Buccaneers are heard on Thursdays. So much for the music — now for the speakers. There's "Wyn", Mrs. Winifred Louthain, who is heard on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, talking about household tricks and culinary topics. Mary Lewis Haines who speaks on household affairs on Tuesdays and Fridays. Fay Fraser speaks on Mondays and Tuesdays, on interior decorating. Rita Murray reveals household sec I or Ladies Only! Continued from Page 22 rets on Fridays. And Arthur C. Navlet's garden talk is broadcast on Wednesdays. Wyn is a married woman in her late thirties with a wide range of interests from gardening to boating. She has been speaking over KFRC for the past five years and talks interestingly on most any subject, wtihout ever referring to a note. Mary Lewis Haines conducted classes in cooking long before the radio came along. Before that she was an actress on the stage in musical comedy, and in the movies. She played with John Bunny and many other of the early stars. Fay Fraser is also a married woman. Her work on the air fits right in with her hobby, which is interior decorating. Her friends all call on her for advice in such matters. Rita Murray is a San Francisco business woman who sees a great future for radio as an educational factor. Arthur C. Navlet comes from a family which for many years has had large gardening interests in the ba yregion. It would be difficult to find a man who is better informed on all aspects of flower gardening than he is. He was recently married. "Pedro," the lazy Mexican, who offers his "Hopeless Hints for Helpless Housewives" each Thursday afternoon, learned to understand the Mexican soul while delivering milk to their back doorsteps when he was a small boy in Barstow. Calif. His real name is Eu gene Hawes. He has been a railroad man and a business man, but would rather work before a microphone than do anything else he can think of. Jack Hasty, who writes the short story which Earl Towner reads each Monday, and the serial play, "Dangerous Girl" on Tuesdays, is the same man who writes "Eb and Zeb" for the Jamboree. Jack has long been on KFRC's continuity staff. Before that he was in the advertising business and prior to that made his living writing fiction for the magazines. Fred Lane, whose mystery story is heard each Thursday, is new to the writing game. He is a KFRC staff announcer, a young man of 27, who devotes all of his leisure time to writing and studying. Eleanor Allen, who provides organ and piano accompaniment for many of the solos, was at one time organist of Loew's State Theatre in New York City. Her father wanted her to be a violinist, but she had ideas of her own and studied piano and organ. Eugene Eugbanks directs the dramatics. He was a stage and screen actor for many years, and has appeared in scores of feature pictures, both silent and talkies. And so each day, a cross section of Feminine Fancies reveals something different— music, informative talks, exciting drama, interesting stories, touching poetry — and guiding it all is the friendly voice of William H. Wright, chatting with his neighbors up and down the Pacific Coast. Page Thirty-two RADIO DOINGS