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LAKE RADIO KISSES?
Not Any More! They're the TEAL THING!
I\ot So Long Ago. a Radio Kiss — While It Sounded Great — Was Accomplished By Kissing the Back of One's Hand — But Today, the Smack That Thrills a Thousand Hearts Is Real Authentic Osculation !
"His Heart's Desire," drama by Reginald de Whoops, written especially for radio —
Which is the way they used to do it. in the good old days when Sound Effects were All.
But things are different, now. Spectators crowd galleries and corridors outside the glass-walled studios, to watch broadcasts, and there isn't much thrill, after following a warm love scene through increasing degrees of temperature, all the way to its climax, to see the handsome leading man imprint a loud, echoing kiss upon his own palm, or even the hand of the leading woman. It may sound like a real kiss through the loud-speaker, but the visitor who once sees it done never hears a radio kiss without visualizing that scene.
So, at least, producers in the NBC studios at San Francisco figure. Moreover, television's shadow is on the wall, and osculation without two persons actually taking part in it wouldn't get very far in a television broadcast. Imagine Romeo without a balcony to climb — and Juliet without a real kiss!
That's why. if you should stroll into one of the studios in NBC's Pacific Division headquarters and find Ted White. NBC tenor, and Mary Wood, NBC soprano, very much engaged in a scene like the one pictured — don't back out. coughing loudly — they're just rehearsing "Footlight Fantasies. ' their musical romance broadcast Wednesday afternoons through the NBC-KPO network. They do their love-making to music — and to the lines of their continuity, all before the microphone.
Another prize oscillator — before the microphone — is Michael Raffetto. handsome leading man of the NBC National Players. He and Ruth Matteson. pretty blonde radio leading woman might even be found in a scene like the one which the camera caught — and it wouldn't mean a thing, except that when you sit before your speaker these spring evenings and hear the lovers in the nightly ether drama twittering like a couple of love-birds, the action isn't altogether verbal, any more!
In the days when sound effects were everything, he r e's Iww Bernice Berwin and Ted Maxwell used to kiss.
HERO: Ah. Violet, do you mean it? Are my hopes to be answered at last, my dear one? Cross your heart, huh?
Heroine: I Simply) Kiss me! Hero: Ah! I He holds his left hand, the one not busy with the continuity, tenderly before the microphone and kisses it, a long, lingering smack. A-ah! A-a-ah! I Another schmutzer on the
Louise I andis
Heroine: Ah!
Announcer: Yon have just heard
RADIO DOINGS
^age Thirteen