Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

SCHEDULE OF PRIZES First Prize $1 -500 Third Prize. 2 @ $500.. Fourth Prize. 6 @ $250. . , 1.000 .. 1.000 .. 1.500 , $5,000 RADIO MIRROR $5,000.00 For True Stories Submitted This Month Macfadden Publications, Inc., will pay $5,000 for the ten best true stories submitted during January, 1937, as per the prize schedule, shown above. This is your big opportunity to cash in handsomely upon a happening in your life or the life of a friend. Study the rules carefully — send for the free booklet mentioned below and proceed to write the story that may make you richer by $1500. Look back over your life and select the episode that is most thrilling, exciting or deeply moving, no matter whether it be a story filled with shadow or sunshine, success, failure, tragedy or happiness. Then write it simply and honestly and send it in. In setting down your story, do not be afraid to speak plainly. Our magazines are devoted to the portrayal of life as it is actually lived, so most certainly you are justified in describing fully and frankly any situation that has really happened. If your story contains the interest and human quality we seek it will receive preference over tales of less merit, no matter how clearly, beautifully, or skillfully written they may be. Judging upon this basis, the person submitting the best story will be awarded the $1500 first prize, the person submitting the second best story will be awarded the $1000 second prize, etc. And in addition, every story entered in this contest is eligible for purchase at our liberal regular rates, so, even if your manuscript should fall slightly short of prize winning quality, we will gladly consider it for purchase provided we can use it. As soon as you have finished your manuscript send it in. By mailing it as soon as possible you can help to avoid a last minute landslide, assure your manuscript of an early reading and enable us to determine the winners at the earliest possible moment. Another big true story contest next month. CONTEST RULES All stories must be written in the first person based on facts that happened either in the lives of the writers of these stories, or to people of their acquaintance, reasonable evidence of truth to be furnished by writers upon request. Type manuscripts or write legibly with pen. Do not send us printed material or poetry. Do not send us carbon copies. Do not write in pencil. Do not submit stories of less than 2,500 or more than 50,000 words. Do not send us unfinished stones. Stories must be written in English. Write on one side of paper only. Put on FIRST CLASS POSTAGE IN FULL, otherwise manuscripts will be refused. Enclose return first class postage in same container with manuscript. Send material flat. Do not roll. Do not use thin tissue or onion skin paper. At the top of first page record the total number of words in your story. Number the pages. PRINT YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS ON UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF FIRST PAGE AND UPON ENVELOPE and sign your full name and legal address in your own handwriting at foot of the last page of your manuscript. You may submit more than one manuscript but not more than one prize will be awarded to an individual in this contest. Every possible effort will be made to return unavailable manuscripts, if first-class postage or expressage is enclosed in same container with manuscript, but we do not hold ourselves responsible for such return and we advise contestants to retain a copy of stories submitted. Do not send to us stories which we have returned. As soon as possible after receipt of each manuscript, an acknowledgment will be mailed. No change or correction can be made in manuscripts after they reach us. No correspondence can be entered into concerning manuscripts once they have been submitted or after they have been rejected. Always disguise the names of persons and places appearing in your stories. Unavailable stories will be returned as soon as rejected irrespective of closing date of contest. This contest is open to everyone everywhere in the world, except employees and former employees of Macfadden Publications, Inc., and members of their families. If a story is selected by the editors for immediate purchase, it will be paid for at our regular rate and this will in no way affect the judges in their decision. If your story is awarded a prize, a check for whatever balance is due will be mailed. The decisions of the judges will be final, there being no appeal from their decision. Under no condition submit any story that has ever before been published in any form. Submit your manuscript to us direct. Due to the intimate nature of the stories we prefer to have our contributors send in their material to us direct and not through an intermediary. With the exception of an explanatory letter, which we always welcome, do not enclose photographs or other extraneous matter, except return postage. This contest ends at midnight, Friday, January 29, 1937. Address your manuscripts to Macfadden Publications Manuscript Contest, Dept. 28C, P. O. Box 490, Grand Central Station, New York, N. Y. WRITE FOR BOOK OF INSTRUCTIONS, ADDRESS: Macfadden Publications, Inc., Dept. R. M., P. O. Box 490, Grand Central Station New York, N. Y. 66 (Continued from page 58) Beatrice N., St. Paul, Minn. — Annadell Kiger is no longer on the Ma Perkins show. I understand she's changed her name and gone to the Coast. Marjorie Hannan plays the part of Fay Perkins. Yes, Frank Fay was Barbara Stanwyck's former husband. No, Bobby Breen is not Eddie Cantor's real son. Kenneth Griffin plays the part of Larry Noble in Backstage Wife and Vivian Fridell plays the part of his wife. M. C, Harrisburg, Pa. — John S. Young is the only NBC staff announcer boasting a doctor's' degree. He was born in Springfield, Mass., in August 3, 1903. Mr. Young weighs 175 pounds, is five feet-eleven inches tall, has brown hair and blue eyes. He plays the violin, piano, guitar, banjo, ukelele and vibraphone; speaks several languages fluently, and has an extensive wardrobe, and Russian pajamas are his weakness. Billy S., Austin, Texas — For pictures of Benny Goodman, and Eddy Duchin, write to them in care of the National Broadcasting Company, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Write to Hal Kemp in care of the Columbia Broadcasting System, 485 Madison Avenue, New York City. Louise M. N., Hartford, Conn.— -Al Pearce is broadcasting again. This time it's over the Columbia Broadcasting System, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, at three o'clock. I guess it's too late to answer your second question — and besides, you must already know the answer if you've been tuning in on Town Hall Tonight, Wednesday nights. James A. C, Jr., Sour Lake, Texas — Sorry, Jimmy, we do not supply pictures of the stars. However, we can tell you about them — without charge. Ben Bernie was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, one of eleven children. Papa Bernie was a blacksmith, but young Benjamin was too frail for a trade so he became a violinist and even gave a concert at Carnegie Hall at the age of 14. Ben's five-feet-ten inches tall, weighs 175 pounds, has brown hair, brown eyes, and is married. He smokes about twenty-five big, black cigars a day. Paul C, Detroit, Mich. — Frances Langford is twenty-three years old so that makes the year of her birth, 1913 (at this writing). The latest report on Myrt and Marge is, that they have been auditioned but nothing definite has been set. Please be assured that Radio Mirror will print the glad tidings when they are all set. Mr. Albert C, Phoenix, Arizona — For pictures of Ben Bernie, Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallee, Lanny Ross, write to them in care of the National Broadcasting Company, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Address Guy Lombardo in care of the Columbia Broadcasting System, 485 Madison Avenue, New York City. A regular reader, Wilder, Minn. — Station WGN is the nearest station on the Mutual Broadcasting System to your town, on which you can hear the Guy Lombardo program. Jerry Cooper and Frank Parker fans attention! — Annette J. Shreiar, 45 Barclay Street, Worcester, Mass., is editor of the club paper, The High and Low Tabloid, and is also the president of the Jerry Cooper-Frank Parker Harmony Club. More members are wanted. Mary T., East Hartford, Conn. — If you'll tell me what stars' photographs you want, I'll be able to tell you where you can write for them.