Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

ried the children to school and their daddy to the station. But the monthly garage bill became depressing evidence that Fords don't run by magic, so they sold it to buy coal. Lois, for the first time in her life, did all the housework for a family of six, heavy washing included. The two older boys, aged eleven and eight, were assigned to a routine of chores, to looking out for their four and one year old brothers. For months Reed made the rounds of radio and show business and got nowhere; Manhattan, he found, was jammed with excellent, experienced baritones doing the same thing he was and meeting the same rebuffs. Finally, worst of all, he had to forego the expense of his vocal lessons. Luckily, a singer named Julius Huehn heard about him and came to his rescue. Years before, when Huehn had been struggling for recognition himself, his friend Kennedy had generously given him financial assistance. In return he was instrumental in securing for Reed the very coveted job of soloist at St. Bartholomew's church. For the first time in ten months he began to earn some money. It was a grim and hopeless year— a little more than a year — that he waited for his break. Lois was critically ill once for four weeks, two of the children were hospitalized for a while. His almost daily rides on overheated commuting trains, followed by a six-mile walk out of doors, managed to lock Reed's vocal chords with colds a good half of the time. "1 was the perfect counterpart," he told me, "of Calamity Jane!" But no matter how discouraged he became— and seeing his family living as they were he wanted to give up and go to work so many times — there was always 'Lo' smoothing out things, refusing to let him quit — persuading him to keep trying two more weeks, six more weeks. So they stuck it out month after lean month together. AND finally the breaks did begin to come. His first job was to have been a solo on one of the last broadcasts Will Rogers performed before he was killed. That Will Rogers talked overtime and Reed's number was consequently omitted was not nearly the tragedy it might have been for another singer. At least, Reed figured, he had been inside a studio. Too, he entered radio's amateur Metropolitan Opera auditions of last season under the name of Dale Jones; he didn't win but he got as far as the semi-finals. And that distinction brought him several guest appearances with Ray Noble and with the Pittsburgh Symphony broadcasts. Entrenched a-s Reed has become in radio now, the matter of living is at last a less pressing affair. He has established his family in a modest but comfortable Central Park apartment, the boys are in private school, Lois has a servant, and her husband is studying under the best dramatic and vocal teachers, with a Metropolitan Opera audition scheduled for the early spring. 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