Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

RADIO MIRROR Smith doesn't know how it happened, but during the course of the evening his pocket was picked of the hundred dollar bill! With the $12 that was left they took their Texas pals to dinner next night in a swank Park Avenue joint. It would never do to let the folks back home think they were broke! Broke was hardly the word for it. They were flat busted. Again Fate gave them a gentle steer. This time it was in the direction of a House on East 56th Street which three boys from down home were just about managing to keep going. Misery loves company, so the Ballews were invited to share the sparsely furnished quarters. These lads, then unknown, were Stookie Allen, who later won fame with his Above the Crowd" cartoon; Roger Eden, then an humble piano thumper who was to write "Eadie was a Lady" and other hit songs, and George Kirksey, now a United Press syndicate writer. The only one then regularly employed was Stookie who acted as life guard in the Park Central Hotel pool and who later married Gladys Parker of "Flapper Fanny" fame. A wealth of talent under one roof, but little ready cash. Bohemia in Manhattan. One afternoon Smith rushed home highly elated. He had landed with the Freddie Rich band on the Astor roof. An agent from Okeh heard him sing and had him make a few records, which resulted in a contract. F ROM then on. Smith must have wished he were quintuplets, there was so much demand for his services. The next two years he averaged at least fifteen records a week besides playing and singing at the Harry Richman Club. He and Justine were now riding high. Their suite at the Warwick Hotel cost §400 a month. Clothes galore. The best of everything. Why not? He was making a grand a week. They were set. Or so they thought. Then came the stock market crash. Like everyone else, they were caught in the whirlpool. Still, they were better off than most for their stock had been bought outright. However, those nicely engraved sheets of paper which once would have brought three hundred thousand were now not worth one tenth that sum. They didn't mind. A much more important event was transpiring. Smith wanted his baby born in Texas so Justine traveled to Fort Worth a few weeks before the arrival of her little girl. Smith had planned to follow but his eniployers wouldn't let him. Then a terrible thing happened. He was induced to invest in more stocks in order to recoup his losses. Shortly after, the stocks that couldn't go any lower dropped to just above zero and the Ballew bankroll was cleaned out. A^ a consequence, Smith didn't see little Justine until she was three months old. By then he had saved a little money. Things got slack in New York so he went to New Orleans where he was a great success for two seasons. Something was to happen there which changed the whole course of his career. One night while Smith was singing, a tiny little woman with fine features and a radiant smile, entered the dining room. Later she arranged to have the tall, handsome singer brought to her table. She was Marguerite Clark, once Mary Pickford's leading rival for screen leadership. "You must try out for the movies," she insisted.' "I can always spot a winner. You would be a great picture bet." Miss Clark did more than this. She wrote a letter to one of Paramount's execu BAD10 EXEBff Learn to Make £0*50*75 a Week I will Train You at Home for Good Full Time Heres Proof $80 Monthly in Spare Time Spare lime and RADIO JOBS^ around $8 JOHN B. Silver St., "I work on Radio part time, still holding: my regular job. Since enrolling five years ago, I have averaged every month." — MORISSETTE, 773 Manchester, N. H. Makes $50 to $60 a Week "I am making between $50 and $60 a week after all expenses are paid, and I am getting all the Radio work I can take care of, thanks to N. R. 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