Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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Just slip your lashes into Kurlash, a neat little gadget that, in 30 seconds, has your lashes curled for ah day — without heat, cosmetics or practice. $1. MAIL THIS TODAY To: Jane Heath, Dept. E-4 The Kurlash Company, Rochester, N. Y. The Kurlash Company of Canada, at Toronto, 3 Please send me, free, your booklet on eye beauty, and a personal coloring plan for my complexion. Eyes Z7#/r___ Complexion , Name . Address^. City _State_ iPUase print plainly) Coast-to-Coast Highlights {Continued from page 10) The boys are broadcasting six half-hours a week for Kellogg's cereal, and three quarter-hours a week for the Ford Dealers of Iowa. And besides, they are broadcasting through WCCO in Minneapolis. In other words, Gene and Glenn are busy, but no busier than we've been, trying to keep from under the mail the article started our way. * * * SWINGING BACK HOME St. Louis: It really isn't news any more when a local boy makes good, but when the boy returns and takes the old home town by popular storm, that's news. That's what happened when Eddie Dunstedter, nationally known organist, returned to his native St. Louis and KMOX with his Swing Session, sponsored by the St. Louis Ford dealers. Introducing a new combination of instruments for the air, an electric organ, violin, clarinet, bass fiddle and guitar, Eddie's new swing ensemble is giving KMOX listeners a thrice weekly treat, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:30 P. M. CST. All numbers are special arrangements by Dunstedter and each program features a number by the console artist himself. Stuart Johnson is the vocal soloist. Dunstedter, who just completed a long engagement at the Park-Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, has headed his own orchestra throughout the country, and along with his present Swing Session is heard several times weekly on the CBS network from KMOX. ^ ^ % THE BRIARHOPPERS Way down South in Charlotte, N. C. everybody agrees upon one thing. That is an old saw which, when set with new teeth, goes like this: Versatility, thy name is Briarhopper. And to prove it, in case you seem skeptical or perplexed at their assurance, they simply tell you to tune in WBT at four o'clock any afternoon and judge for yourself. And then is when you agree they are right. At five o'clock, we mean, after you've spent an enjoyable hour listening to WBT's Briarhopper Band. Led by Dad Briarhopper, Johnny "Mac" McAllister, these eight hill billies just don't give a hoot which instrument they happen to fish out of the pile before the program starts, because any Briarhopper can play any instrument well, and does before the program is over. And if that isn't proof enough of their versatility, they all sing in the same gifted manner. The mature-voiced male members can step to the microphone and do a pleasing job whether the script calls for a twanging hill billy rendition, a quartet part, solo, or opera. While the girls' voices are surefire in any type of song, in both solo and combination singing. Who are these talented Briarhoppers? Well, there's Dad and Minnie and Billie and Homer and . . . but why not take a peek at the picture and really meet the folks. Fans, the Briarhoppers. ^ ^ ^ HOBBY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN If you are a hobby hound, and who isn't, you will enjoy Fort Wayne, Indiana's WGL Hobbies Program at 8:00 P. M., CST, each week day. At this hour WGL gives you a chance to bring your hobby out for an airing, because you may be one of the persons selected by the announcer to explain the whys and wherefores of your particular hobby. And what a radio get-together that would be if WGL could gather all of its brothers and sisters of the microphone from coast to coast, who are hobby enthusiasts. Among them would be Chicago's WBBM entrants: Eric Sagerquist, musical director of Gold Medal Feature Time programs, whose hobby is wrestling. No, Eric wouldn't be grunting and groaning before the mike, his hobby is only watching the wrestlers do that. He claims he inherits it from his father who was a wrestler . . . And WBBM's announcer Paul Luther goes in for saving 1936 dimes, which sounds like a hobby we could all use. Over at WLW in Cincinnati having a hobby even seems to be a hobby. Actor Franklin Bingman enjoys one that, if it were a holiday instead of a hobby, would be known as a busman's. Franklin's hobby is radio. Radio engineering, to be exact. And what's more, he can step into a studio control room and handle a program expertly. . . . Betty Lee Arnold, heard in WLW's True Detective Mysteries, writes short stories. Now if Betty can make a hobby of selling them, she's really got something. . . . Larry Lynn of WLW's vocal duo, Larry and Sue, raises chow dogs at his home in Dayton, Ohio. Why couldn't it have been horses, Larry, so we could have gotten in the one about hobby horses? Hollywood would of course be a little different and there KNX's chief announcer Tommy Freebairn-Smith leans toward inventing for his hobbying. Just to give you an idea of Tommy's interest in the well-being of mankind, his latest is a device to insure all day smoking in a telephone booth without asphyxiation. The invention consists of a four foot rubber tube, one end of which is slipped under the door and the other end has a mouth piece through which you exhale the smoke. When rolled up the contraption fits in the owner's pocket inconspicuously, which is what we especially like about it. Although being a collector may not come under the classification of hobbies, it has always rated as a second cousin in our book, and that makes a couple of the boys at WBT in Charlotte, N. C. eligible. There, station artist Jack Phipps is a stamp collector, but where Jack stops, announcer Arthur Whiteside begins. Arthur collects anything that ever has been, or ever will be collected by anybody, anywhere. Rocks, buttons, pins, books, Stopand-Go signs, horseshoes, anything, not to mention hundreds of arrowheads he has picked up here and there. There's a hobby that should break a fellow of the habit of paddling around the house bare-footed in the dark. And that, WGL, concludes our small offering to your Hobbies Program. You get them all to the microphone and we'll promise to listen. * * * PROSPERITY NOTES Raleigh, N. C: WPTF broke all its previous station fan mail records in 1936, the postman delivering more than 65,000 cards and letters to their door during the year. It was also the most remunerative year in WPTF's history, and 1937 started out with commercials increasing hourly. Los Angeles: That Ben Sweetland, Your Friendly Counsellor over KHJ, is a radio artist in prosperity's clothing cannot be denied. Ben's sponsor, the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, increased the number of their officers by two (Continued on page 61) 58