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AND HE BRINGS A WHIFF
OF REAL SALT AIR WITH
HIM INTO YOUR PARLOR
RADIO'S one and only salt is back in dry dock, safely warped to the pier of the CBS radio studios on Madison avenue, after another summer of exciting adventure on the high seas. That old tar of the bulging muscles is well on his way into another season of broadcasting, a can of spinach in one pocket and a box of Wheatena in the other to keep him going.
Look at the picture above, if you doubt that there's a real Popeye loose in radioland. That flesh and blood sailor is impersonated by
Floyd Buckley. And look at the page of cartoons opposite, drawn especially for Radio Mirror by Seegar, Popeye's creator. The young man with the mustache is another of the crew which entertains you three times a week. He's Vic Erwin, who directs all that swell music.
Behind the Popeye make-up and the Popeye frog-voice is a personality who's had as many adventures as the Sailor Man himself. Floyd Buckley was born on a ranch in Texas, and toured with an old-time medicine show before
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Above left, Floyd Buckley in his make-up for Popeye looks as if he'd just stepped out of a cartoon. Above, music director Vic Erwin.
he was out of his teens. Later, he joined an expedition to the jungles of Yucatan, to look for rosewood and mahogany, spent twenty-eight months in the, Klondike panning for gold, and worked in Hollywood during the days of spine-tingling serials.
The Hollywood work was the most thrilling, he'll tell you today. He played villains in such early masterpieces as "The Perils of Pauline" — remember Pearl White? — and a broken collarbone was just something to be taken in his stride. Once he narrowly escaped falling off a steel girder eight stories above the ground.
He left serial work to form an independent movie company with B. A. Rolfe, now the noted band leader; appeared in films with Harry Houdini; and entered radio in 1930. Since then he has played all sorts of roles, including Yiddish, although he's Irish.
Floyd lives with his wife and three children on Long Island and practices his frog-voice astride a polo pony or on the deck of his boat on Long Island Sound. Vic Erwin, Popeye's musicmaster, and his Cartoonland Band supply the incidental music on the radio show — and do the same chore, incidentally, for the Popeye cartoons you see in the movies.
Olive La Moy, a diminutive blonde with six years of stage experience and five of radio, is the owner of the voice you hear as Olive Oyl, Popeye's best girl. Charles Lawrence is Wimpy, and nine-year-old Jimmy Donnelly, also heard in Columbia's Wilderness Road, plays the part of Matey . . . And that's Popeye's crew!