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ANOTHER GRAND ARTICLE BY CURTIS MITCHELL, SPARKLING IN ITS INTIMATE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE RADIO WORLD
THIS month I want to tell you about some of the radio marriages I've encountered, some of the gossip that has been spread about them and how these couples have risen above it, to know even greater happiness as their careers have prospered or waned. '
Let's start with Ruth Etting and the dynamic, bizarre fellow she married, called Colonel Snyder. Ruth is still the girl who came out of Nebraska's tall corn country ten years ago to conquer the world. In Chicago, she first learned that sweetness arid integrity and a golden voice were not quite enough to combat the dangers of the frayededged world of the cabaret into which she had stumbled.
In Chicago, she met Snyder. No one knows the story of their romance except Ruth and her husband. No one — except Walter Winchell — has ever printed any stories about him because he has forbidden it. Walter Winchell is a friend of the family.
On Broadway or in Hollywood, Colonel Snyder is a fabulous figure. Tremendously energetic, fearless, rough and direct in voice and manner, as tough as they come when the need arises for toughness, he lives and breathes for Ruth Etting. He found her — and she found him — when she needed him back there in the Chicago cellar cabarets. He has fought for her with show producers, with radio producers, with motion picture makers. Watchdog over the rights he considers hers, he challenges anyone who doesn't accord her the full measure of her star's estate. I met him in this roundabout fashion.
Ruth Etting was making her first appearance in a New York theater. Spotlighted on the stage of the tremendous 5,000 seat theater, she looked like an angel. Her singing
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already gave promise of the great career she was to find within another year.. 1 went to the manager of the theater who was also my close friend and said, "I want to meet that girl. Take me back and introduce me."
"Not on your life," he told me. "She has a husband nobody plays with."
That was that.
Almost five years later, during which time Ruth had become a top-flight singer and had been starred in movies and musical comedies, I had to write a story about her. People who had worked with her on radio programs told me, "Watch out for her husband. He's a watchdog you can't trifle with."
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