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PACIFIC
bH DR. RALPH L POWER
IF this column were giving a medal . '. . which it isn't ... for pluck and perseverance, I think it would go to twenty-three year-old, red-haired, blue-eyed Pat O'Shea for lifting himself out of the Hollywood beer garden tenor class to NBC in San Francisco.
He started on a small New York station, but without pay . . . drove a truck there . . . sang in a beer garden in Hollywood . . . did some good work on KMTR . . . ditto on the old Shell Show . . . toured with the Arnheim band and finally landed with NBC.
MIDSUMMER and the sleepy, langorous days of thought and reverie. Wonder how the public likes Bennie Walker (McLaughlin) and the NBC magazine of the air since they took the former Al Pearce afternoon spot on the Coast? Benay Venuta is known to intimates as Benay Crooks . . . wonder if it's her married, maiden, or professional name? Barbara Luddy, radio drama lady, paints the woodwork in her Hollywood hillside abode . . . to save money or because she is artistic? How do you suppose Pinky Lee and his lisp get along in New York radio circles? And where is June Pur
cell and her uke since they leaped into the KNX limelight years ago and suddenly disappeared? How does Ted (Edward Hueson) Maxwell . . . onetime pharmacist but longtime NBC producer . . . like it in Chicago? And ditto for his wifey, Bobbe Deane, radio actress? But enough of this daytime, summertime dreaming.
|XEN NILES, personable young KHJ mikeman, reverses the usual procedure. Instead of handing out cigars, he accepted 'em on the recent birth of a young son. Says he has to get the baby paid for as soon as possible.
[ETTY BORDEN, member of the exclusive Spinster's Club, but a radio singer for a hobby, couldn't crash the gates at the swank annual Bachelor's Ball. Her brother wouldn't invite her. So she gave him the bronx cheer and ambled in as a vocalist with the band. She has been on NBC from Hollywood.
J»EDRO GONZALES (Eugene
Hawes) once of the Blue Monday
Jamboree, joins KGGC with his own
daily radio carousal which he calls
"Pedro's Pajamarino." How do you like that one?
True Boardman, KHJ staff spieler, breaks down and confesses he was married to Thelma Hubbard, radio drama lady, down at Tijuana, Mexico, early this year.
Baron Long, mine host at the Los Angeles Biltmore, names his new race horses after Jimmie Grier, ork leader, wife and child . . . Jimmie .G., Berta and Dickie Boy.
£ECIL UNDERWOOD, NBC producer in Hollywood, comes from Vienna . . . Missouri. Thelma Brown, colored bay region songster, first saw the light of day in Rome . . . Georgia. Ted White (Frederick Dodson) claims Athens . . . Georgia . : . as his home town. And Thomas Lara, KROW conductor, was born in Castilla La Neuva, where Cervantes wasi born.
J7RANK GILL, JR., and Verna Dolores Hillie Gill . . . though married twice (Tijuana, Mexico and Hollywood) have come to the parting of the ways. Gill, be it known, has been free lancing as a radio comic and producer since leaving {Continued on page 68)
A popular pair is Morey Amsterdam and Mable Todd who were heard over an NBC San Francisco' hookup. Right, Edna Fischer, NBC's diminutive pianist on the Coast, once played in London's famed Kit Kat Club. But she got homesick and ambled back to 'Frisco town.